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VOL. TWENTY-FIVE FAMIVIIiUt HTTtXJONTY, NORTH CAftOiXHA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1M4 NUMBER TWENTY-NINE
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Sales Today Reaching Way Into Afternoon; Prices Remain High
M HiTE^IUSY'tMYMD^M7CAMPAIGN ifFUIX SWING; MNl THE BIG RACE
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FIRST COUNT FUBUSHED TODAY
ROOM FOR MORE GOHTESTARTS
The Farmville Enterprise Contestants are Start
ing Off Closely in Neck-and-Neck Race; Still
Time for Entries from All Districts; Effort Is
Now the Only Essential to Real Success In This
Mammoth Prize Distribution?Be a Real Hust
ler and Win a Fine New Automobile
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The Farmville Enterprise Contest
ants are starting Off Closely in Neck
and Neck Race; Still time for En
tries from All Districts; Efforts Is
now the Only Essential to Real Suc
cess in Mammoth Prize Distribution
?Be a real Hustler and Win a Fine
New Automobile.
It is evident from the few entries
that the public does not understand
the possibilities of this campaign.
With just a little effort a new con
testant can easily jump to first place.
Always in a campaign there are
wiered stories concerning contest
ants as to their relative standing.
Just figure this out for yourself, you
have as many friends as the next
one, so why not make the start to
day. A determination to win the
biggest prize you will make it "easy
for you to lead the field. Call at
The Enterprise office today and ask
for information.
The names of candidates who have
entered in The Enterprise's big auto
mobile and prize campaign, and the
number of votes cast for each up til
Wednesday evening, published today.
It is quite puzzling to the manage
ment why more do not take advan
tage of The Enterprise big giving
campaign. While The Enterprise
has been commended on all sides for
its generosity bat comparrtively few
people have entered. More active
candidates are wanted and friends
should urge their choice for candi
dates who are not entered to do so
at once.
NOMINATION STILL OPEN
There may be some who would like
to enter who may be of the opinion
that it is too late; that those already
entered have too big a lead. Glance
at the vote schedule. Just one or
two good subscriptions will give you
s enough votes to lead the procession.
There is plenty of roon. and time
for new leaders to be developed.
There are many districts in which no
one is working and no place but that
there are numerous opportunities for
new contestants to get the few sub
scriptions necessary to put them in
the lead. Read the notice appearing
in this paper "How to Jump Into
First Place." ? -
VALUABLE RKWAMJ
I Think of the value in hard cash
I represented in the mammoth list of
I gifts to be gives away absolutely
I One beautiful Terraplane, and
I several cash prizes, and hnndrjda of
dollars in commissions is ^plainly
I substantial pay for you?f odd mo
I meats of spare time during the next
I Someone is going to he driving
I their own motor car, someone else I
is-going to have added $200 to their I
I aeconnt at the bank and others are I
I going to be richer by many dollars I
each, while yet many others will re-1
I calve large commissions, and just fori
I using their spare time. Will youl
I nrnhe up your mind mm to be onel
I of 4m above someone*? Clip the!
I conpon and mail or bring it to thel
I Enterprise office today. That starts I
I yeu with 5,000 votes and puts you in I
I line'for any one oi the prises you!
I malm up your mind to work foe. I
I WHO WILL LEAD NEXT WEEK
I While several of the more aggiwe-l
swe candidates have started in thel
race with a good number of votes!
I to 4wir credit, the leaders of today!
^HOMT GET DISCOURAGED I
OMv XOf tntt QmVMw could not,
jMt g few dftysk
easily you forge your way to the
top.
VOTE COUNT MORE NOW
Now is the time to get all the re
newals and subscriptions you can.
They have larger vote value now
than later on. A single year's sub
scription now counts 10,000 votes,
while during the last week of the
camgaign it counts only 3,000, or
iess than one-third. A six year's
subscription now counts 200,000
votes besides the extra club votes,
and during the last week such a
subscription would count but 90,000
votes.
Get all the subscriptions possible
now. The present vote schedule is in
effect till December 1st. Then it be
gins to decline.
TO NEW AND OLD ENTRIES
If you will display some enthusi
asm, see your friends, put forth some
earnest efforts, you can count on
your friends to help you. They are
interested in your success in the
same measure as you try yourself to
win a prize. They can be counted
on to help you if you will help your
self. Work fast now. You must
get votes to win.
OFFICE OPEN EVENINGS
All during the campaign the En
terprise office will be open every
evening to answer inquiries and re
ceive votes, and etcj
Bear in mind that it will not take
long to win any prize in the entire
list and the campaign will be short.
At its close, the votes will be counted
by a committee of prominent busi
ness men and they will name the
prize winners.
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Wayne Slayer
Confesses At
State Prisoo
Rufus Satterfield Tells
Goldsboro Officer He
Killed Herbert Grice
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Goldsboro, N. C., Nov. 20.?I* O.
Rhodes, Goldsboro detective, today
said Rufas Satterfield, confessed to
himself and two other officers in
Raleigh last night that he fired the
shot that fiilled Herbert Grice here
October 22, 1933.
Grice, shot down at his home here
allegedly from ambush, was an iron
worker.
Satterfield had been condemned to
the eleetric chair for the slaying,
but was reprieved following a state
ment last month that Donald Saaser,
brother of Mrs. Grice, actually was
the slayer, but that the shooting
was accidental.
Rhodes said Satterfield wrote him
he still had the case on his mind
and wanted to talk it over. Rhodes
went to Raleigh and said Satterfield
made his statement before himself,
H. B. Gardner, a deputy sheriff, and
Bewail Dorsey, at State Prison.
Funeral Services
Held Wednesday
For R. T. May
R. T. May, 73, a prominent Pitt
co&nty fanner, died at* his home
near here, Tuesday night at 6:3C
o'clock after a short illness.
Mr. May was born December 6
1861, and spent his entire life in thb
Funeral services were conducted
at his lata home at three o'clocl
I WflJoMdsy eveninjr by Rev. 1a H
Ennis, pastor of the Famvffle Bap
jtiat CV1"*!* and interment was mad<
in the cemetery at Fannville.
J He is survived by his wife an<
4 one brother, R. H. May. both gf nea
Famine Gin
Reports Good
Quality Cotton
61% Grades Middling
and 46% Staples One
Inch and Longer
Weather conditions have been
very bad during the "cotton-picking"
season this year, but farmers in
this section produced a larger pro
portion of middling cotton than
most other sections of North Caro
lina. They have also produced a
j large proportion of inch cotton.
Farmville Oil and Fertilizer Com
pany has cooperated with the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, and the
N. C. Experiment Station in getting
out a report on cotton quality in this
community. This company will be
glad to furnish farmers with the
class on each bale of cotton ginned
at the Farmville Oil and Fertilizer
Company's gin.
The class furnished by the U. S.
Department of Agriculture is arriv
ed at by a board of Cotton Classers
in Atlanta, Ga., worikng under gov
ernment direction and supervision
and is reliable.
The percent of each grade and
staple ginned at the above mention
ed gin through November 12, 1934 is
as follows:
GRADE
White and Extra White %
Middling 61
Strict Low Middling 34
Low Middling 1
Spotted
Strict Middling 3
Middling _. 1
100
STAPLE %
7-8 in. and 29-32 in. 24
15-16 in. and 31-32 in. SO
1 in. and 1 1-32 in. 35
1 1-16 in. and 1 3-32 in. 9
1 1-8 in. and 1 5-32 in. 1
1 3-16in. and Longer 1
100
This large amount of one inch and
longer staple is due to the use of
improved varieties of cotton seed.
Cokers' No. 5, Cokers' No. 884, and
Farm Relief are gaining in populari
ty ..and these varieties also give a
good turn out at the gin and in the
field.
It is hoped that a large number
of farmers will find out the class of
their cotton from the Gin office.
Distributing Beef
To 10 CoootiBS
Local FERA Abattoir
Shipping Fresh Beef,
Livers, Brains, Ton
gues to Eastern Coun
ties Weekly for Relief
Wilson, Nov. 21.?Fresh beef, liv
ers, brains and tongues are being
shipped weekly from the local
FERA abattoir to fourteen Eastern
North Carolina counties where they
are distributed as a surplus com
modity to relief families according
to an announcement made today
by James T. Bournes, Wilson County
FERA ruiministrator.
Shipments of the FERA beef,
slaughtered at the local abattoir of
Brown and Crawley, is made by
truck and is delivered to FERA
heads in the fourteen counties furn
' ished from this city. The counties
neceiving shipments are Sampson,
; Duplin, Wayne,- Lenior, Greene, Pitt,.
* Johnston, Cumberland, Halifax, War
l ren, Nash, Franklin, Vance and Wil
son counties.
The abattoir continues to slangh
5 ter FERA cattle at the rate of from
110 to. 125 daily and furnishes the
1 local FERA cannery with the beef
r. necessary to kee^p the plant running
on a 24-hour basis seven days a
. week.
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Reports from all parts of eastern
I North Carolina indicate that a heavy
Common Ms
Predominate But
Prices Hold Firm
Monk's Warehouse
Reaches Goal on Mon
day and Force Antici
pates Florida Trip
The Farmville tobacco market
continues to add to its poundage
total daily,w though sales have been
very light this week since Monday,
when 118,428 pounds were sold for
131,81" 71, at an average of $26.87.
Common grades are -predominat
ing on the warehouse floors now
that the end of the season is in sight,
but good prices are maintained, con
sidering the inferior and damaged
types offered, with medium and
good tobacco reported selling as
well this week as at any time this
season. .
The official sales report of the
Sales Supervisor, J. T. Bundy, shows
that 260,024 pounds of the weed has
been sold here this week, through
Thursday, for $61,047.64, at an aver
age of $23.48, which has boosted the
season's total poundage to 18,521,
660, receipts to $5,674,041.29, and
the average to $30.63.
Sales are classed as medium heavy
here today With satisfactory prices
prevailing., . - " -
Members of the force at "Monk's
warehouse, expressed themselves as
elated Monday, over passing the set
goal of 10 million pounds, which:
assures them of the trip to Florida,'
promised by tfie proprietor, J. Y.
Monk, if this amount of weed was ,
sold on his floor diving the season.
Growers Slow
Filing Cards;
Only About A Third Of
Marketing Cards Re
ceived At The Local
Farm Office
Greenville, Nov. 21.?Only about
a third of the marketing cards held
by Pitt County farmers who took
part in the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration's production control
campaign had been turned in to the
farm department today, it was re
ported by E. F. Arnold, director of
the department.
Mr. Arnold several days ago urg
ed farmers to turn in their cards at
his office as soon as they are com
pleted, but he said today growers
apparently, were is no rush about
filing their cards.
Mr. Arnold impressed upon holders
of the cards that it would be impos
sible for them to receive their bene
fit payment from the government
until th cards have been okeyed by
the local office and forwarded to
Washington for final consideration.
As soon as 60 per cent of the
cards are on file at the f$rm office,
Mr. Arnold said he would forward
them to Washington and that benefit
payments would begin moving im
mediately afterward.
The Farm Director said growers
who did not get their cards in the
first batch will have to wait until
the other 40 per cent are in before
they will receive their benefit pay
ments.
The majority of farmers have com
pleted selling their crops, it was be
lieved at the Farm Office, although
the marketing season is not over,
and it was for this reason growers
were asked several days ago to file
their cards sa soon as they are
filled.
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Pill Cotton Growers
Meet In Greenville
Monday, Dev. 26
Farmers Urged To At
tend Open Meeting to
Discuss Cotton Adjust
ment Program
An*open meeting for a discussion
of the cotton adjustment program
and an explanation of the plans for
1935 will be held in the Pitt County
court house Monday, November 26,
at 2 p. m.
The discussion will follow an ad
dress by I. F. Criswell, of State Col- j
lege, on the cotton situation in the
South and what will be the probable
result if the Bankhead act is continu
ed, or if it is discarded.
The coming referendum on the
Bankhead act will be explained, so
the growers will know exactly what
they are voting for when they cast
their ballots. , . .
Dean I. O. Schaub, of State Col
lege, has said: "I aim hoping that
all cotton growers will attend these
meetings, which are to be held in
each cotton county of the State, and
take part in the discussions. We
would like to know their viewpoints,
and we will send them to the cotton
section of the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration.
"Helpful suggestions made at
these meetings will be considered in
the development and administration
of the adjustment program in 19S5,
for we want to make the program as.
beneficial as possible to the cotton
growers."
PLAN INCREASE IN
TOBACCO PRODUCTION
OF 100,000 POUNDS
Washington, Nov. 20.?An in
crease in flue-cured tobacco produc
tion next year of 100,000 pounds is
planned by the Farm Administra
tion.
This was learned yesterday from
authoritative sources which said
AAA tobacco .^experts had decided
the market could consume 650,000,
OiK) pounds of the flue-cured type
next sason and that production
would be loosened ujf to that ex
tent Flue-cured is the principal in
gredient of the big-selling cigarettes.
It was estimated that about 550,
000,000 pounds of this year's crop
would fir.d its way into channels of
commerce* before the markets close
sometime after, January 1.
To Honor
Dr. Wright
Memorial Service For
Late College President
To be Held Sunday,
December 16
Greenville, Nov. 22. ? Memorial
services for Dr. Robert Herring
Wright, former president of East
Carolina Teachers College who died
last April, will be held in the Camp
us building at the college Sunday
afternoon, December 16, at 3 o'clock.
The service ufill be marked by a
special musical program and address
by Dr. Frank Graham, president of
the University of North Carolina.
Friends of Dr. Wright and the col
lege have been issued a special invi
tation to attend the services and heTp
pay tribute to the splendid life of
Dr. Wright, who was one of the lead
ing educators not only of this State,
but of the nation. '
Dr. Wright was the first president
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of the college, taking over* his duties
the year the institution began work.
He saw the college develop into one
Of the leading teacher-training insti
tutions of the South with recogni
tion coming from the leading educa
tional bodies of the nation.
Accepts Appoint
ment as Chief ef
Famine Police
J. C. Pittman, Former
Wilson Detective, To
Take Over New Duties
December 1st
Notice of his acceptance of the
office of ohief of police by J. C. Pitt
man, former detective on the Wilson
police force, has been received by
town authoritis here, and announce
ment has been made that he will
take over his new duties here on
December 1st.
j Mr. Pittman was a member of the
Wilson police force for about seven
and a half years, during which time
he served both as a patrolman and
a detective. He resigned from the
department during the summer and
Since that time has been employed
as a special guard in a Wilson bank.
| Chief Pittman was chosen to sec
Seed Chief J. L. Taylor at a meeting
of Farmville's Board of Aldermen
two weeks ago, and has had the ap
pointment under consideration since
that time.
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ASSAILANT APPREHENDED
?*j After an unusually peaceful Sun
day, local police experienced simul
taneous calls about 8:00 in the eve
ning, and spent a busy night search
ing for James Reeves, young Negro,
who shot his sweetheart, Delia
House, in the back, and for Herman
Eborn, 17, Negro, who cut the throat
of Joe Jefferson, another youth of
his race, in an almost fatal slash,
narrowly missing the jugular vein
and' cutting the windpipe, making
eleven stitches necessary to close
the wound.
Jefferson is reportd as recuperat
ing and' his' assailant apprehended
and placed under a $200 bond.
| The whereabouts of Reeves has
dot been ascertained as yet, accord
ing to Chief Taylor, of the local po
lice department. The young woman,
rounded near the backbone, is re
ported as recovering rapidly.
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The Farraville Enterprise will give $25.00 to the person
nominating the winner of the' TERRAPLANE in TheEn
terprise Expansion Campaign. The nominee must be a New x
'iaafcstant, irhoie name does not appear in the present
Send in the name and address of your nominee today, n II
Enfer the Winner and receive $25.00. j
Mr. Roosevelt
Resumes Work
On Recovery
President Back at Desk
at Little White House,
Seeking to Improve
Conditions
Warm Springs, Ga., Nov. 22.?
President Roosevelt resumed study
today for America's future, and was
devoted primirily to improving
working and social conditions.
So far as recovery campaign is
concerned, there v/as every indica
tion here that things were pro
gressing satisfactorily and "all is
well." Out of the reports flowing
over the President's table in the Lit
tle White House, there was definite
promise of very interesting develop
ments, but these indicated to be
making better ways for American
life along the course now in prog
ress.
Today's calendar called for no of
ficial callers, although in the coming
week Mr. Roosevelt intends to talk
with Congressional leaders, partic
ularly Senator Robinson, of Arkan
sas, the Senate pilot, and Senator
Harrison, of Mississippi, the chair
man of the Finance Committee.
Also government leaders are Coming
here.
Richberg Gives Essentials
of New NRA Plan
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Also Outlines Six-Point
Course Along Which
Permanent NRA Leg
islation Would Be Di
rected? Defends Sound
Principle of Sec. 7A
New York, Nov. 21.?A six-point
program of essentials for permanent
NRA legislation, including a new
conception of the antitrust laws, was
advanced tonight by Donald R. Rich
berg, director of President Roose
velt's Executive Council.
Ricliberg, in an address here,
pointed also toward strong admin
istration opposition to organized
labor's demands for a national 30
hour. week. His statemetns were
considered of unusual significance,
despite repeated assertions that he
expressed only his own views, which
"may not be generally accepted."
Although Richberg did not segre
gate his six points pertaining to a
permanent NRA, he did, in an ad
dress before the. Associated Gro
cery Manufacturers, which also was
broadcast, lay stress on 4he follow
ing:
Six Points.
1. Preservation of the "flexibility
of code making," both as to com
mercial practices and labor condi
tions. v
2. "I believe there is a demon
strable soundness in the fixing of
minimum wages and maximum
hourse for each trade and indus
try."
3. "Admittedly, hts honest busi
ness practices should be proscribed."
4. "Exact reports of production,
prices, wages, employment and
such fundamental knowledge of eco
nomic conditions ... is necessary
for economic security in an indus
trial civilization."
5. "We must change one miscon
ception . of the anti-trust laws. . . .
They were not intended as re
straints upon agreements to com
pete fairly. ... It seems to me
reasonable to provide that all trade
associations should do business
openly and furnish full information
concerning ? their activities to a
body which might combine some of
the functions a/id authorities of the
administration of NRA and the Fed
eral Trade Commission."^
Sound Principle.
6. "I am proudly convinced that
as orignnally written and presented
to the Congress, is (Section 7-A,
guaranteeing labor's collective bar
gaining rights) expressed clearly a
sound principle for the maintenance
of satisfactory labor relations."
Considerable interest attached to
Richberg's suggestion for a changed
conception of the anti-trust laws,
He said:
"Certain activities could be le
galized by statute and other forbid
den, with provision that in the twi
ligHt zone of interpretation a na
tional code administration would be
empowered to authorize or prohibit
concerted action. Its decisions shopld
be made reviewable?not by an ordi
nary lawsuit, but by an appeal for
a declaratory judgment by a court
of competent jurisdiction."
Richbjrgs reference to fixed work
demands was made iricidential to his
advocacy of code flexibility.
"Apply the experience of NRA,"
he said, "in considering the effect
of reducing all hours of work to a
fixed number and requiring an in
crease in rates of pay to provide
for the maintenance of daily .earn
ings. According to such 'a rule, la
bor costs might be increased In one
industry or in one shop 10 per cent
and in another 50 per cent...
Practical Results
"The individual worker would earn
no more money; but theoretically
more workers would be employed.
In practical results, however, a gen
eral increase of labor costs is likely
to dislocate large numbers of work
ers through, transferring production
from individual plants, and Indntries
to their competitors, or by increas
ing greatly the advantages of highly
mechanized industries over thai?
competitors."
Richberg reiterated his own be
lief that "as a general proposition, ?
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