North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. TWENTY-FIVE ./ , FARM LE, ^ ^ ^ - ? Warehousemen Preparing Far Big Season In The FarmvitteTob, Market (tee New Warehouse Erected on Old Bell Warehouse Site; Two Other Houses Enlarg ed And a New Firm Added For the Coming Season; Imperial Plant Here to be Re-Opened All of Farmville's warehousemen are ever thinking and working for the best interest of the farmer and the market and are present busily engaged in preparing for the open ing on August 26. The buyers, rep resenting the large and various com panies, high type men with years of expert training, are also zealous in their efforts to bring success to this market. Buyers on the Farm ville market have always cooperated with the warehousemen and the growers, and a mutual feeling of good will has prevailed here for many moons. Monk's Warehouse Building an additional hundred feet to the front section of Monk's warehouse, one of the oldest and best known tobacco houses in the State, on the floor of which was sold more than 10,000,000 pounds of the weed last season, and announce ment in the beginning of its 28th season that it is behind the AAA program 100 per cent, take the fore most position i? its progressive pro gram for tins season. The additional 7500 square feet now being built to the warehouse will make room for more than a day's sale and makes the front section an improvement which has long been desired by the proprietor, J. Y. Monk, one of the best known ware housemen in the auction industry who has successfully operated for twenty-two years, a warehouse on the same identical site. Associated with "J. Y." this year in the manage ment of sales will be Johnnie Carl ton and R. D. Rouse, also experienc ed tobacconists. The announcement of the full co operation with the AAA program is an expression by this house of its appreciation to President Roosevelt for the improved condition of the farmers brought about by his admin istration, and his recognition of the needs of the fanner. Knott's Warehouse "Hie Fanner's Interest Our First Consideration," is the announced slogan of Knott's warehouse this year, a slogan which has been prac ticed in spirit and in truth through out the twenty-one years of its ex istence. R. H. Knott and J. M. Hobgood, veteran and expert warehousemen have been connected with the market for many years, and have helped personally to win the recognition the Farmville tobacco market now en joys, of being the livest, fastest growing and steadiest market in the Carolinas. Bob Edmtmdson, who this firm declares to be the best auc -* -- r.mi;na w-ni || nonBCT-nr-Baseenr^eeEBHF^** I serve them again in this capacity this year. I Knott's already a tremendous I warehouse, is being enlarged in order ? to take care of a day and a half sale, I and will be, when addition and im I provements are completed, one of I the largest and best lighted ware- II I Bell ft Bobbitts' Warehouse J I Encouraging indeed to this com-1 I m unity is the realisation of the vision 1 I of the promising future of the Farm-1 ville tobacco market, and faith in its 1 I continuous growth, held by sagaci-l I ous heads of the selling industry, as I seem in the construction of another I huge warehouse here during.the late I spring and summer months, Bell aiull Bobbitts' New "Warehouse. The commodious bride building I corns about an acre and a quarter,! with 52,000 feet of floor space, and is said to be the only house in the I I State with soft scattered lights I I and without sun spots, these ad-1 up Its color andvquality in any place I I an the floor. The warehouse has! no building or trees near it to cast I Occupying the same site of Bell's | years ago, this house is &e only one! in the Southern section of town and! is easily accesmbleto all highways gad Particularly, that at the Snow! . son will be announced later. Ferret) & Webbs' Warehouse Marshall C. Ferrell, well known tobacconist and warehouseman of Wilson, and a former buyer on the FarmviHe market, and Grover H. Webb, also widely acquainted in this section, where he has been connected with lofcal warehouses for some years, are to be associated together as a team of experienced tobacconists in Farmville's new tobacco ware house firm, Ferrell and Webb, which is expected to become one of the strongest organizations in Eastern Carolina, have adopted as their poli cy, a combination of courtesy and service, such, as will insure satis factory results for their customers. Mr. Ferrell is the former owner and operator of Fen-ell's warehouse, Wilson, and knows the selling end of the business thoroughly. Mr. Webb was proprietor of a Pinetops warehouse, was connected with a Tarboro house for three years, and has been in business here for the past six years, being recognized here and elsewhere as a successful tobac conist. All arrangements and necessary renovation of the former Planter's Warehouse, modern and completely equipped for the sale of the weed, have been made, and everything is being put in shape for the opening. Plants Being Put In Order. The plants of Liggett and Myers, Export, -American, R. J. Reynolds, W. B. Lea, and A. C. Monk & Co., are all being renovated, painted and put in excellent condition for the opening. Imperial To Be Operated. The modern and well equipped plant of the Imperial Tobacco com pany, which has not been in operation for several years, is in process of being prepared and put in readiness for the approaching season. The Farmville plant, whicn is to be under the management of Bernard G. Fields, of Wilson, a man with many years experience in the tobac co industry, contains complete redry ing facilities for cleaning, stemming, heating, packing in hogsheads, will be pressed, marked for shipment and shipped to manufacturing centers of the Imperial company. The plant will employ a large amount of local labor and many of the colored residents are looking for ward to this additional source of em ployment. WPATo Take Over NCERA Raleigh, July 31.?The North Car olina unit of the Emergency Relief Administration will probably con tinue to function until about October 1, when it will have been entirely liquidated and absorbed . by the Works Progress Administration, It was learned here today. If the WPA get to the place where it can take over the ERA activities before Oc tober, it. is expected to do so. . But present indications are that the NCERA will continue to function xa a limited capacity, at least, for an other 60 days. ? r When the NCERA passes out of the picture, Mra Thomas 0'Berry, NCERA administrator, is also ex pected to pass out of the picrture with it, unless, she is trapffqrred to. some post in the WPA. Bat accord ing tn present indications, especially ?Am V4J political, that is not now expected I to happen. For the dominating jinflnences in the NCERA have been predominantly state influences, re volving around Governor J. C. B. Eh ringhaus and his political followers and advisors. The dominant political influences in the WPA are Congres sional and revolve around Senator Josiah W. Bailey and at least eigfit of the eleven members of national House of Representatives. And while the WPA has taken over some of the wheels, running gear and other parts of the ERA organization, it has been designed and set up along very dif ferent lines. . So wi$e State WPA^dministra tor George W. Coan, Jr., of Winston Salem, has already taken over a good portion of the old NCERA personnel, especially the portion that coald be most helpful politically and "Wo would fc* willing to track along with the new o^amsation Jt is not ex " ' | elm vcrv Hl<rh witix National i wgmm i Sales In Pitt OBSaWay Land Office Business Done. At All Three Stores of The County Opening Day Legal liquor stores opening at Farmville, Ayden and Greenville last; Saturday did a land-office business, it was revealed Monday by figures released bjr Chas. 021. Houre, head of the Pitt County Alcoholic Bever age Control Board. It was said that approximately $2,600. was taken in at all three stores, which opened at 9 o'clock and closed rt 6, hours which will be of? served every day of the week except Sunday. Greenville, the largest of the three towns, recorded the heaviest sales. The store served a total of 1,240 cus tomers who purchased 1,884 bottles for a total sum of $1,331.75. The store in Ayden was reported to have said approximately $466 worth of the stock and Farmville went some better with $643.75. ' The store at Fountain was not opened Monday, as previously stated, but probably will be during the week or as soon as the building there has been completed and stock transferred from the storage warehouse in Greenville. : \ New Electric Survey To Be Made In PIN ? 1 Rural Dwellers To Be Given Another Oppor tunity to Take Part in Federal Plan Greenville, July 30.?A new sur vey will be made in communities of Pitt county not included in the fed eral rural electrification survey com pleted here some time ago, it was made known today by I. 0. Schaub, director of the State College Exten sion Department. Persons desiring this service have been asked to obtain blanks at the local Farm Department and file them for consideration of the Federal Gov ernment, which is planning extensive electrification of rural communities throughout the nation. ' "It appears," said Dean Schaub, in a communication received from him by the Farm Department today; "that this will be the only oppor tunity of this sort that the various communities will have to have their conditions looked into by the Rural Electrification Survey Committee, so I trust that you will coooprate with your county in every way." E. F. Arnold, director of the Farm Department, said today he had re ceived a batch of blanks and urged persons desiring to take part in the Burvey to visit the office aiuLobtain copies. ^ * . Although -the survey had been complted here, Mr. Arnold made known that some sections of the county, had not been, included, and believed that those regions will take advantage of the. new survey now being started. * Considerable publicity is being given the survey throughout the State in an effort to give every rural dweller an opportunity to take part in the Federal movement if he de sires. . . fie - ?Proposed New Tu I -llnlnn iin^ ilnhliA I Hates Maoemlic Washington, July 80. ? Proposed new tax rates, tapping incomes as low as 860,000 and takinp away 3-4 of that portion of an income over $6,000,000 were made public today by the house ways and means com mittee* lively approved by committee de mocrat* who previously had agreed both. to. levy additional taxes on in come under $150,000 and to supply the maximum 76 percent rate only tp inconaer over $^0,000,000.. > :! O f: At present the ^on ? $56,000 income is $9,500. The proposed new schedule would make it -9,560. f The present tevy on^ $1,000,000 however, is $688,000 whereas the new tax would amount to $641,000. The propose? new individual in come tax schedule was made public as chairman^ Doughton*^ democrat, ? "lJ vi#?w* UVAA*VVA ?*?7 th full committee to consider the bill drafted to carry out President |R^ev?5t's Idea of wealth distribu Prepare lint I Game Laws Seasons For Shooting Wild Gape Set Forth Today by County War den. Greenville, July 80.?The new} game lawB as passed by the last General Assembly are being printed I and will be ready for distribution inj th e next several days, it was made I known .today, by Cecil Jones, Pitt county game warden. Along with this awuw^caipenM Jones stated that combination hunt-! - 1 *1 fvriiK/J ? i-'" " iTx i < ~ ? J ing. and fishing . licenses had been! placed on sale in various places } throughout the county, and urged} sportmen to buy at once so they will} have no run-in with the . law. - ? - I The seasons for shooting of van-1 ous types, of wild game as set forth | by the new law follows: Bear?October 1 to January 1. Deer (male)?October 1 to Janu-} ary 1. Mink, muskrat, otter? November} 1 to February 15. ' Opossum, raccoon (with gun or dogs)?October 1 to February 1. Opossum, raccoon (trapping) ? November 1 to February 16. Quail?Thanksgiving day of each} year to February 15. Rabbit?Thanksgiving day of each year to February 15. Turkey?Thanksgiving day of each year to February 1. Woodcock?December 1 to Decern- j ber 31* i Ruffled grouse?November 20 to December 15. ' Wildcat, weasel, skunk?no closed season. Beaver, buffalo, elks, doe deer and pheasants?no open season. Dove, ducks, geese, brant and other migratory water folws?Federal reg ulations. Snipe, sora, marsh hens, rail?, gal- . linules?Federal regulations. Fox?county regulations. , Squirrel (exceptions) ? October \ 1 to January 15. ? < Squirrel?in all counties west of . on concluding Rockingham, Stokes, ] Surry, Wilkes, Caldwell, Burke, and ( Rutherford?September 15 to Janu- I ary 16. J IPS!;! Been Suggasled Advises Postponement oi<jm? mmtvm j OctoberKfstasXafenr % Paralyste Precau tioiv ?I. .:????? . . :? ? i : Faleigh, July 31.?Postop<$amf$t qf public school openings schedules! fpr September was ndriaed ywftqrdfty by Dr. J. C. Knox, state epidemolq gist, who said .the expected ?hMQnsJ decline of infante j?r?lyjie may be slow as to make.it advisable for the institutions not to begin their fall terms until October.,1. . Dr. Knox also adxteedth&, circus es and fairs scheduled .for the state in August and Septenabe^ rearrange their itineraries, in order to lessen the danger of spreading : the disease. Poliomyelitis, he. explained, makes a rapid rise in hot month^ and, bas ed on experience .in other epidetpics, starts a slow decline in A,ugupt ..or September. Since it is impossible to tell now when , or how the decline will start, Dr. Knox said, it is wise, to taks every., feasible precaution to protect childma. in, North Carolina. Dr. Knox sounded his advice as the State Board of .Heal til listed nine cases of infantile paralysis, bringing the total this year to 473, divided as follows: July 216 to date; June 106; May 44, and 16 prior,,to May. Already split season schools slated to start, in late .July and August with a fall holiday to aliow children in the . rural areas to aid with harvest ing, have...deferred their, openings. Around 50,000 children in the south ern and piedmont sections ..of the state attend these,, summer school I sessions. Many requests regarding the feas ibility of opening schools in Septem ber have been receive^ The question as to the advisability isbeing refer red to. the State Boaipd of Health by he State School fommjsaipn because if the paralysis situation. Dr. Knox empbnai^ed he was not proposing an official ban on school jpenings and shows in August and September, but merely was giving m advisory opinion on the matter. Tobacco Warehousemen Adopt New Agreement I Greenville, July 30.?A meeting of t the Board of Directors of the Ea$t \ Carolina Tobacco Warehouse Asao- t ciation was held in this city last night for the purpose of setting up r the machinery necessary for the t proper enforcement of the voluntcy J warehouse agreement Inasmuch as f the required ninety per cent of the! members of the Association had IJ signed the agreement, it was declar- J i *1 to be in full force and effect and f t striding upon all signatory parties. 11 The Board approved the following ft nember warehousemen of the As$p-1' lation as the Governing Council who I vill be charged with the duty of se- 8 uring compiance with the thems .ofl0 he agreement: W. S. Moye, Green-le ille; M. C. Ferrell, Farmville; J. J. I V Jibbons, Wilson; B. H. Bunn, Rocky |? fount; and E. V. Webb, Kinston. *he first meeting of tb Council \is Jl cheduled to be held in Greenville onl1 ext Tuesday night, August 6, at Ic 'hich time one of its members will j-8 e appointed as Chairman to preside I1 t subsequent meetings of the Cogn-1. L An Administrator will also be l ? ppointed to administer the provis-1 ? ns of the agreemnt I I The following resolution was IB lopted by the directors: WHEREAS, the Agricultural Ad- j J stment program offered by our Gov- J nment, sponsored by our Governor I J id supported almost unanimously J 9 r the warehousemen and the tobac-1J farmers, has proved most bene- J ial to the tobacco industry by a|9 ore equitable distribution of the! J ofit derived from tobacco and itsj j oducts; and H WHEREAS, the Tobacco Ware- J (I use Code contributed materially to 11 is result by safeguarding the in-jrl rests of the growers in the safe of jcl tobacco at auction by eliminatingjin-1 i fair competitive practices which were t detrimental to the buyer, the ware-ji housemen and the grower, and by j providing a more orderly market for the sale of tobacco, through requir-l by warehouse employees, and1 by the < I correction of practices harmful!* to the growers; and 1 WHEREAS, the entire bodjt. of ! Eut Carolina warehousemen, with-a N few exceptions, realising the benefits h that followed from the Code, JtaveH voluntarily adopted contraband! i . - - v. . f t ? i, ontinr .v to operate .under suck pro isions for leas than ten per cent to ?petate under the agreement, thus, ilacing the contracting warehouse nen at the mercy of unfair compe ition and cut-throat trade practices nimical to the best interests of thai armers; and ' WHEREAS, it is the desire of this Association that all warehousemen a this Belt become parties signatory a this contract and thereby be ilaced on an even footing, in order O; serve, our fanner customers in the eat possible manner NOW, THEREFORE, be is rer olvied that the .Board of Directors f this Association do hereby eapir Stly: request the few, remaining warehousemen who have, not acceptr d this. agreement to do so at once nd .thereby, comply with the ex pressed desire .of the President, of he. .United States and the Governor f North; Carolina to continue fonn r codes by means of voluntary greements. 1 "?wlK&W " Wilaop, July 29.?X&e aajfajg "hon: r an^ng ^eyee!' was blasted fqr :ood and all in tke.eounty jail taja laturdpy night,. . ? ; Owpr.Bgpt,. negro, was, arrested on L td?nkgnv charge, and, lodged in tips ocal bastile until court Monday norning. He. went to.: sleep w% !l?,in bills in his pocket in,the ne-, re bull pen ,of the: jaiL This raorp ng he woke up and his hard earp dT wealth was .gone. - He appealed to t>eputy Sheriff A t ^?nIvwho ion into the."robbery." After a fqvr of se^ apd interrogation ?f the other prisoners !p the cfll ?oom he found the stolen money in he collar bands of Ashley Wiispn ind Eddie Graham, two negrpes jin ail for robbery. PRACUS CAUSES FATAL - STROKE? '' ^ A^steoke, which resulted in pie . ? .. _ # _ SS#* Near Lonisbitrg Louisburg, July 81. ? Goven "Sweat" Ward, 26-year-old negro axe slayer of C. G. Stokes, Franklin county fanner, was lynclied yester day. by a mob which took him from officers and hanged him to an oak tree, half a mile from the scene of the killing. ? While state highway patrolmen and national guard and county offi cers sought the mob in an effort to prevent the lynching, its members hanged the negro, described by Sher iff J. T. Moore as "crazy" to a huge oak, half a mile down the road from wheer he chopped off Stokes' head with an axe yesterday morning. His body was filled with pistol and shotgun wounds, but whether he was shot and then hanged, or the slugs fired into his body after it was tied by the rope, could not be determ ined. Ward ,a medium-sized, ginger cake. negro, was taken from the sheriff and Deputy T. M. Bean ten miles from here, shortly before noon as they were hurrying fom the coun ty with him as a precaution against violence. The sheriff said there were about 25 men, some negroes and anma vlilfo In flip 0TOUt> wfcjch StOD ? O JT. ped the car and took Ward. Immediately after the mob went o^f. with tie negro, the sheriff noti fie^i hia office. When word of it reached Governor Ehringhaus he or dered all available members of the State.. Highway Patrol here and also ,had Company C 120th Infantry na tional guards of Henderson, called out The negro was hanged before the [patrolmen or the guardsmen could I reach the scene. ?' Ward killed Stokes and decapitat ed hiip. wi?h an ,a*e yesterday morn ing wh^n the farmer sought to calm the negro who had attacked a negro woman and Farmer Sturgeon Ayscue in what, apparently was a mad frenzy. Officers who brought the negro to Louisburg after the killing, aaid witnesses told them that Ward suddenly went amuck about 9 a. m., at the home of his sister, and struck her down with a rock. Ayscue who 'was passing by, intervened and was knocked down with a bottle. Stokes was working across the road from the woman's home and started to the, assistance of Ayscue. As he tried to reason with the enraged negro Be was knocked Unconscious with a rock. Ward then .seized an axe and, severed, the ^armor's head. Other negroes wording nearby, overpower ed Ward and held him until officers arrived. CoAStittiUonat^ Of AAA Measure liphBld io Two ?Federal Jurist Holds, Congress Has Fixed linnets To Be Taxed unaer aq? Memphis, Tenn., July 29.?Process ion. taxes are legal under the welfare ?clause of the Constitution, District Federal Judge John D. Martin ruled in upholding the validity of the Ag ricultural Adjustment Act ? Ha*< ? .Martin, a life-long Democrat ami Ijtepfiident of the Southern Baseball Association, only recently was ap pointed to the Federal judgeship by ^President Roosevelt. The Judge, in his oral decision late. Saturday night, took cognizance that "certain district judges have pro nounced the act unconstitutional and the United States Court for the flnt district in a two-to-one decision has so held," but that his court feels free despite such decisions "to pro nounce independent views." I ^ He held Congress haR fixed the products to be taxed under the a/ct^ set up a scale of prices and theje-' [tyre did not detegate taxing authpr> ity to the. Secretary of Agriculture; that it was a tax. and not a revenue mmn... . , : . iecision dismi^edj Conducting Widespread Investigation On Alleged ^ AAA Contrgct Violations -r j ?? ? One Planter Ordered ta Plow Up 50 Acres To bacco and Make Pari ty Adjustments With Tenants | Wilson, July 30.?A widespread investigation into alleged agricul tural, Adiustaient Administration crop contract violations is underway in Wilson and adjoining counties with five investigators from the AAA forking out of this city. He., investigation launched ten days ago is revealing contract vio lations and today under orders of the Federal investigators a fifty-acre tract of tobacco on lands owned by Josephs Parker, former chairman of the Wilson County Board of Com missioners, and his son, J. D. Par ker, was being plowed up. The tobacco being plowed under was valued at $10,000 and it was said by representatives of the government that the Parkers would be required to make parity and adjustment set tlements with tenants on their lands" that would probably cost $4,000 which is the amount due for the 1981 crop but payment of which has been withheld by the government. Breach of contract will also coBt the Parkers about $1,500 in rental and parity payments on this year's crop as the government will confis cate these payments. The federal investigators are also conducting an exhaustive inquiry in to the AAA contracts handled by Miley C. Glover, trust officer of the Branch Banking and Trust Company. Field investigators have been busily engaged working on these records are the past week and indications are that the inquiry will be a long drawn, oujt affair. The government men would not comment on the Glover case today, saying that it would n6t be possible to issue a statement of the condition of the contracts with in a week .or two. Before the investigation closes government men said they expected to investigate every contract in the county. In an interview with Mr. Glover this morning he had the following to say regarding the investigation: "In handling so many accounts and estimating the acreages of land it is very difficult to be exact There mpy be small variations of allot ments in some instances which may be long or short, but if there are any in any contract, they will be gladly and promptly adjusted." Pitt Tobacco Crop Best Id Recent Years * . ? ? r ; Quality Described As Par Abpye Average. This Year; Curings Excellent The . Pitt County tobacco crop is .described as the best in many years ;by persons who have visited ^various sections of the county during the last several day* ? Althpugh rain two weeks damaged the. crop somewhat, it was said wit titer? .was still enough tobacco left to go well above the federal allot ment, and that.it is curing up splen didly. . - ' ' One nan said it was the finest cigarette tobacco he believed he ever saw in any single crop year. The leaf was reported,.as generally uni form; throughout the county, and be cause of its fine quality is expected to make up for any loss which grow ers suffered from the rain. It was reoprted that the rain let Friday night would probably result in considerable damage, but observ ers ?aid today the rapidly ripening leai had been, retarded by the.wet weather, enabling farmers to get if out. of the velds without loss. Faimeys were harvesting and cur ing their crop at full speed shead to day and were said to be overjoyed by the excellence of their cures, describ ed as the best in years. Although the rainfall Friday night was heavy, growers were able to go into their fields again the next day to resume housing the crop which last year was valued at *10,6<K>,WH). ^ M. S. Cox of eBaufort ^ will