-^"ry.P^E . ^ FARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUCTST il, ^ ^ ^ XDMBEK SEVENTEEN
The FarmvUte Market Swings Into Perfect Pace Mkmday With Two Sets Of Buyers On Floors
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GROWS FROUTSUTiSECTIONS of Ifsm CAROLINA PAffiONIZlNC 1HS Mm
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One Warehouse On This
Market Averaged $29.51
For Big Break Monday
Pain Holds Down Vol
1 lime During the Week
With Heaviest Break
of Season Experienced
Today; Some Tobacco
Selling as High as $80 ?
Medium breaks marked the sales,
of the two days of opening week on
the Farmville market, and the pur
pose of the early opening of this belt,
j a more orderly marketnig of the
weed, is apparently being realized
by the farmers.
I Official figures in comparison of
last season are as follows: Opening
day 1934?poundage 199,366, brought
farmers $56,384.92, averaged $28.28,
1938?poundage 533,764 brought
$55,888.06, average $10.46. Total
sales first week this season; 408,212
pounds sold for $111,599.21, average
$27.38, for the same period 1933;
768,872 pounds brought $89,619.92,
average $11.66.
Average $29.03 Monday.
With the placement of two seta
of buyers on the Farmville market
Monday, a perfect schedule was ef
fected and the appearance of mid
season - activity was assumed, and
though rains interfered with the
movement of tobacco to market in
the early morning a break of 342,164
pounds was sold for $99,316.52,
reaching the highest price level of
the three day's sales, the average
soaring to $29.03.
Threatening weatner Drought hgnt
er sales dn Tuesday and Wednesday,
with a' quantity of black tips show
ing up which dropped the average
to around $28. Common and medium
tobacco is selling from two to three
times higher than last year, and the
better grades show a substantial in
crease with the tendency going
steadily upwards.
Bidding is spirited and considering
the quality, tobacco is selling much
higher than the averages indicate.
No tags are being turned and a gen
eral atmosphere of satisfaction is
prevailing on the Farmville market.
Thursday's sales increased ijt vol
ume with more than three hqhdred
thousand pounds on the floors. Al
though a great deal of low grade
tips are now being offered many
farmers are averaging from 80c to
40c- for their entire lots.
Growers from the surrounding
counties of. Sampson, Wayne Jones,
Johnson, Duplin, Martin, Edgecombe
and Greene were selling on the mar
ket Thursday, and were well pleased
with receipts.
Tobacco poured in in a steady
stream from noon Thursday until af
ter sales opened this (Friday) morn
ing, and the heaviest receipts of the
present season, which is rapidly get
ting under full swing, is on the floors
here today, with farmers expressing
elation as all grades are selling
strong..
Next week's sales are expected in
considerable greater' volume and a
big break is expected on Monday,
though a decided tendency towards a
more orderly marketing among the
fanners is being observed.
Answers Timely
Farm Questions
At State College
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' QUESTION:- If I cut my lespe
deza by September first, will it make
sufficient growth to produce seed?
ANSWER: Yes, the common,
Kobe and Tennessee .76 varieties wflL
August 15 is about the last date for -
cutting Korean for hay if you expect
the crop to reseed ituelf. Leave a
stubble about three to four inches
high.
QUESTION: I have some pullets
out in April that are beginning to
lay. Should I change these from the
developing mash to a laying maah, ^ V
or should this be done later ? M:,
ANSWER: These pallet's ware
hatched rather late and it would be
best to.continue them on the develop
ing, inasb. until at least 25 percent
pro^i(^on is^re^ied. iughej
Farmers Not Permitted. I
To Sell Allotment Cards
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Must Be Returned To
County Office In Order
That Same May be Ap
proved for Adjustment
Payments : ?
County Agent, ?. F. Arnold, re
ceived the following1 instructions, rela
tive to sale of allotment cards to
speculators or other persons, which
is as follows:
"A producer is permitted, in ac
cordance with the provisions of Ad
ministrative Ruling No. 29, to sell
tobacco of" another contracting grow
er under his allotment card (s) but
he is not permitted to sell _ such
cartffs)
Each contracting tobacco grower
was advised, in the statement which
was handed to him with his ? market
ing and allotment cards, that it would
be necessary to surrender his -allot
ment card(s) at the County Office
before his adjustment payment could
be approved.- >
In- view of the foregoing, growers
should be cautioned to return their
allotment card(s) to the County of
fice in order that their marketing
card may he approved for payment
Farmers are hereby warned that
unless ? allotment cards are returned
to tfcis office after all tobacco soles
have been completed, it will be im
. possible for them to receive an ad
justment payment Farmers who
have received more than one allot
ment card and have turned same over
to their tenants, should require the
return, of there csxds-'ufter tbeL-4eB>
ant. has finished his sales of tobacco
in order that he may return same to
the. Cqunty Office.
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5 large number ol l&ffliell BS*B
inquired as to whether -a ' farmer
who takes advantage of the ten-per-.
cm* increase in acres, and who ex
p#fita to take the advantage of the
twa^tmnt increase: 011 hia allotment
card would be required to return otnfr
re** *?* ^ be redpc
?d in his adjustment paymsnt from
twetag and one-half percent to eight
parcent
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Police Shoot If
Out With Robbers
One Bandit KiDed and
Another Wounded In
Attempted Post Office
Robbery
Newport News, Va., Aug. 28.?
Police shot to death one member
of an alleged mob of safe robbers
and sent others to a hospital early
today .in following an -attempted
robbery of the Dendron, Va, post
office.'" * - ...
A -cordon of officer*, surrounded
the little one story building in which
the postoffice is situated and shot
it out- with the robbers as they
emerged.., ... ...
A man identified as E. W. Aus
tin, believed to be from Norfolk, died
from slugs pumped into him by po
lice. He died after emptying his re
volver at the police firing his final
shot as he lay in' a cornfield across
the road from the postoffice. The
wounded, carried to a Norfolk hospi
tal were identified as Jack Bernard,
badly shot ~ when be undertook to
elude . the police net, and Jack
Creekmore, said to be from Phoe
bus, Va. Creekmore,, after being
shot twice, ran but was finally cap
tured. . ? *. '? U
The exchange of gunfire resulted
in Detective H. C. Gornton, of Nor
folk, receiving a minor flesh wound.
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Dr. Willis, Bdoved
I Physician, 111 in Rocky
Mount Hospital
. Thia entire community is grief
stricluh by the critical illness of
Dr. W. M. Willis, beloved pteftctan
of Farmville, who is well known and
he.d in higtest esteem throughout
Eastern 'GiUoBtta.
Stricken suddenly- at the dinner
table Thursday he was taken to a
Rocky Mount amnuna
tions have not been complied and no
from' in* sea
son. Ha says peaches are more de
pendable as a cash \crqpT than to
bacco. . iiW&r
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Farm Prices Are
Within 5 Percent
Of Pre-War Parity
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Richberg' Makes Plain
His Figures Include
Benefit Payment Re
ceived B y Farmers
Throughout AAA.
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Washington, Aug. 29.?Donald H.
Richbery reported to President
Roosevelt today that farm prices
have risen to within 5 percent of the
famous "pre-war parity" which the
administration has been straining to
reach.
The head of the President's ex
ecutive counsel made plain his fig
ures include benefit ' payment re
ceived by -farmers through the A. A.
A. He also stressed that the drought
slashed sopie major crops and "'there
fore the high prices do not mean a
fully corresponding increase in farm
incomes."
He warned that for complete farm
recovery "it is essential that there
be more of a revival in industrial
production and more extensive re
employment."
In his first report last Sunday
Richbery claimed marked industrial
gains and in particular the reem
ployment of 4,120,000 persons. Pre
war parity, meaning the real price
level of 1910 to 1914, as measured
in terms of purchasing power often
has been cited as a goal for the
Roosevelt agricultural program.
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North Carolina Main
tains Position in South
east; 3 Million Folks
Washington, Aug. SO.?North Car
olina continues to maintain its posi
tion^ the most populous state in
the Southeast.
The state's population on July 1
was estimated today by the census
bureau _ at, SJ101,QOO compared with
3,170,276 shown by the official cen
sus of^ApriKly lOSO. r
Georgia, the state's nearest rival in
the Southeast, fell further behind,
having an estimated population of :
2,911,000 od August 1 compared with
an officii 1980 oensus .of 2,908,506. .
Until 1930, Georgia,?"the .South's
Empire State"?was the most popul
ous in the Southeast.;]^S^^: .>
Census bureau estimates of popu
lation in Southeastern states on July
1 follow;
North Carolina 3,301,000
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Wilson, and Mi* k. O. Lang'were
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j nornmg 10 cue owBue 01 mra. ff we
IHaw tVu? nTVArnncr flaw i\f tho fnhn/vn
I gather with B. 0. Turnaget Jfr., were
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Sent Leltn Tt
Mrs. Roosevelt
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Arrest Man for Threat
ening To fHarm The
President |tnd Kidnap
Grandchildren
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New York, Aug. 80.?Benjamin
Franklin Vam, 33* waa arrested to
night under the Linbergh law for
allegedly writing Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt a letter ; threatening harm
to the President ttnd kidnapping of
his grandchildren unless she paid
him $168,000. !
The letter went to the White House
and was investigated in a routine
fashion by the secret service.
Vam, who said he lived at (765 j
Rutledge Avenue) Charleston, S. C.,
and described himself as a former 1
machinist in"' the naval aviation j
corps, was arrested at the William
Sloane House branch of the Y. M,
C. A. He is being held at police (
headquarters for arraignment to- |
morrow. j
The letter, received a week or 10 I
days ago, said bodily harm would \
be done to "Buzzie" 8nd "Sistie" ]
Dull, children .of the President's j
daughter, the former . Mrs. Ctiitls B, <
Dall, or the child of his son, Elliott, j
unless the money was paid. I
Made Threats, <
The letter, it was said at police i
headquarters, said -tfiat'lf- the Preul- j
dent's wife did not "string along"]';
the "gang" might even take steps ?
to harm the President The letter 1
also said that any ?ne or all of the p
President's grandchildren might be
klSr'directing that the 'money be j*
paid in $1, $5, $10, $50 and $100 bills,
the letter informed Mrs. Rooaevelt
she would be told by telephone
when and bow to deliver it.
"By Order of Zangara" was the
signature attached to the threaten- 1
ing letter?recalling that- it was, <
Giuseppe Zangara who attempted
to assassinate Mr. Roosevelt in Mi
ami before his inauguration and who
was executed in Florida for the slay
ing of Mayor Anton J. Cermack Of
Chicago, who was with Mr. Boose- jj
velt at the time the shots were fired. ?.
The letter gave the telephone num- 1
ber of the Sloane House, and it was j
the. clew on which federal operatives
and police opened their investigation
which lead tothoarrwt ot Vara.
Bistector John P. Griffith., 1n '
charge of detectives at- New York
police headquarters, said that no
information concerning the .easel
would be given out by .the police.
The prisoner, he said, would be
held, incommunicado. ?
"I am in full possession of the. de? .
tails in this case, but I regret that
1 cannot mate aay-Statemeot con
cerning. it. It is not the policy of
the 'United States Secret Service to
place emphasis on its work." j
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ington and wan investigated in regu
lar manneri - No concern was felt
hwe over the totfdent .it waa the
expressed opinion of Jervis , after
talking with chief Moijp of the se
-Marvin H. Mclntyw, presidential ,
secretary; hare, talked with the ,
President's mother. They spoke their ,
Legion Head
j Calls fir Wir
On CofflmtHiism
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Daniels Says Undercur
rent Against Govern
ment At Work in This
State
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Greensboro, Aug. - 28.-?Retiring.
State Commander Tom C. Daniels of
the North Carolina Department of
the American Legion in hi* annual
report before the legion convention
at the National Theatre this morn-;
ing, made a heated attach upon pom-,
monists activities and called upon
eveay legion poet in the.*tate engage
activity in the task of exploding, the
theories of that type of propaganda
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Commander Daniels declared it
eras. the. outstanding primary duty
of every legion poet to wage war;
to the death on communism which he
said was being - promoted quietly
but intensively under the name of,
the Civil Liberty Union, He; said the,
primary objective of this commu-t
aists at the moment is to break
iown the national recovery act and;
to that, end they- are- endeavoring
to worm- their way--into the CCCJ
:amps and the ranks of the CWA,
ind other federal workers. Commu
ustic groups, Daniels continued,
ire working within the state School
system end are using other effea
;ive- methods, of. curculating their proi
laganda,
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Tighten Up j
On License*
Vo Licenses For Oui>of
Town Bought Cars Urn
|$fc?Tax Paid
Raleigh, Aug. 80.?L.- S., Harris, \
lirector of the Motor Vehicle Bureau, 1
rhuraday announced that he had bean \
nstructed by A. J.. Maxwell, Revenue ,
Commissioner, not. to issaA.-autamo
)ile license for motor vdMde? pur- !>
:hased outside the State until the
mrchasers show that the cars were
iot purchased outside the State mere- >
y to evade payment of the three per:.
Mmt general , sales- tax.
Automobile dealers in border coun
ies, Mr. -Hdiis said, have complain-;
id "that they are unable to com-.j
>ete with dealers of the bordering
:ounties of neighboring states in the.
isle of new automobiles, on. account;
if. the widespread of evasion or at
empt to evade the North Carolina
isles?. : \;f?- .: ? ?
As a resold hereafter no license,
for a new motor vehicle wfli be is
lued until Harris ia"fully tfcnvinced
hat the purchase was not made for
die purpose of evading the sales
;ax."
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Four .purebred . Hampshire rams
ve? purchased last, week by farm
irs of Alleghany county.
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The Bank of Fawarille .today re- <
the official signs which will bant i
iyi(^ee^tn^,depoSo^ ??? !
^-Ttiib Bank of Farmville it- one o| )
nore than ,14,000 licensed banks in
the country which are receiving these J
signs is fo 11
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sd, depositors- have had' no easy
tteans of idetntifying them,
"If, by any unforeseen curcum
itance, an insured bank should su
ipend, the Insurance Corporation
vculd begin paying off the deposir
^ 8000 ? ?? ? receiver . was
appointed for the closed institution,
rhe depositors would iwedve thely
none|tfer f/ew days instead of
ng months or yean as was the case
ISSSK8SBSS
Two Women Chosen
For Parly Jobsi
Morganton Newspaper
| Woman Selected To
Pill /Vacancy on Na
tional Committee
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\ Raleigh, Aug. 28.? Miss Beatrice
Cobb, Morganton newspaper woman,
is North Carolina's new Democratic
National Committee woman. Miss
Cobb was elected on the third ballot
last night by the State Executive
Committee from a field of four candi
dates. The contest was between her
ind Mrs. Marshal Williams of Faison
after the aecond ballot. The final
Vote was Miss Cobb 68, Mys. Wil
liams 58.
> The committee again selected J.
Wallace Wlnborne cf Marion, as its
chairman. . ?
i Governor Ehringhaus, addressing
the committee briefly said his ad
ministration is striving? to give the
state a frugal, honest and efficient,
conduct of governmental affairs and:
provide for the citizenship of North
Carolina a fair deal at the hands of
thoae dealing with the citizenship
through public utilities and in oth
er ways.
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MISS BELAMAN ENTERTAINS \
?rX lovely affair of the week was
that of Thursday evening, when Miss
Mary Alice Beaman waa hostess to 60
pf her friends at a delightful bar
becue supper, given in honor of her
house guests, Misses Anna Jackson
Preston, of Winston-Salem, and
Martha .DfVis, of Goldsboro.
The supper was served picnic style
on- the spacipus lawn. From the
table?:; bearing bowls of garden flow-;
era Mm E. & Beaxnxm, mother of
t^ hafteas and Mrs. R? A. Fields
served barbecue,. Mrs. T. W. Lang,
corn sticks and daw, and Mis. ?lato
Monk and Mrs. & Smith pouring
tea, with pickles, cookies and fancy
dikes being passed.
Operate on
Jeftress
Richmond Surgeon Ext
pects Highway Chair*
man To Recover
Richmond, Va., Aug, 80.?Edwin B..
Jeffresa, chairman of the North
Carolina Highway Commission, was
reported resting easily at Memorial
Hospital late today after a brain
operation. Hospital officials termed
his condition "fair" and Dr. C. C;
Coleman, the surgeon, said he en*
pected him to recover. . . j
Jeffresa waa. rushed hers from hiij
Greensboro home by. airplane for thti
operation,
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