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Offerings Monday
Established Poundage
Record For FarmviUe
? ?
?20.11 Per Cwt Paid for
Entire Break; Heavy
Sales Continued This
Week.
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Frequent rains, cloudy and threat
ening weather did not retard ? the
movement of tobacco toward* the
Farmville market during the week
end, and as a consequence the pound
age offered and sold on Monday
broke all former records, and the up
ward trend in prices resulted in an
average of nearly $20 per hundred
more than the previous sale of Fri
day, the official figures disclosing a
total of 667,196 pounds, which sold
for $134,183.54, an average of $20.11.
Blocked sales were cleared upon
the four floors Tuesday'when 580,
A heavy break was experienced
again on Wednesday when 534,356
pounds were sold for $99p429.50, at
an average of $18.94.
Low grades of tobacco, which
predominated the sales Tuesday and
Wednesday together with much dam
aged tobacco showing up were blam
ed for the average falling downward.
The better grades are bringing more
satisfactory prices.
Estimates of today's sale (Thurs
day) were around 400,000 pounds
* with prices said to be ranging
around the same levels.
Total sales for the season on the
Farmville market are 5,922,424
pounds, which brought $1,157,255.63,
an average of $19.54.
The four large warehouses here
with their experienced operators and
unsurpassed facilities, continue to
attract growers from a wide terri
tory and new patrons are soon on
the market daily.
Heavy Docket In
Mayor's Court Mon.
The docket of Mayor Lewis' court
* of Saturday and Monday, September
1 and 9, wa? fair'to medium heavy
according to the report of charges
and judgments, which reads as fol
lows:
Jack Creech, white, drunk, paid
cost.
Wilber Brewer, white, operating
car while drunk, speeding and reck
less driving, fined $75 and cost, li
cense revoked for a period of 6
; months. "
Cleveland Price, white, drunk on
. streets, paid cost. V
John Mozingo, white, drank on
streets, fined cost
C. P. Haskins, white, charged with
speeding, paid cost
Herbert Ward, colored, engaged in
fray, disorderly conduct pleaded
guilty, sentenced to 9 days in jail,
suspended 6 months on good behavior
and cost.
Lucille Powell, colored, disorderly
conduct, found not guilty.
Fred Hobbs, . colored, drunk on
streets, fined cost
Herbert Joyner, colored, assault
on wife, sentenced 90 days in jail
assigned to work on the public roads.
Jarvis Tyson, colored, engaged m
fight pleaded guilty, sentenced 30
days , in jail, assigned to work on the
roads, sentence suspended upon pay
ment of cost
Bennie Joyner, colored, charged
with fighting, sentenced to 30 days
in jail, assigned to work on roads,
sentence suspended upon payment of
cost
Ernest Tyson, colored, drunk on
streets, SO days on roads, sentence
suspended upon payment of cost
Zell Joyner, colored, violation of
traffic ordinance, paid cost
Will ILwawm, - colored, shooting
firearms ih city limits, paid $5 and
cost
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New Effort In Law
| Enforcement Started
Traffic officer, W. A. Martin and
other member* of the local police
fore* are making a great effort to
see that the State's traffic laws are
enforced here hi order that accidents
| may be kfji * minimum and the
hvea and happiness of the citizens
and children of the eommumfr <pra
tected and safeguarded. ? ??
Knowing that the town anthoritiee
are interested in the^ safety of motor
of Pamville, to the extent tfcittSj
'f: will invest in a motorcycle and de
tail a special officer to this job, witli
operation. 1
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^ nml SDAAdiiicr
iLeaf Growers
Ask 35 Percsit
Acreage Git
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Report of Committee
men Shows 99 Per Ct
of Growers Already
Signed
Greenville, Sept. 11?Pitt county
tobacco growers today had signed a
petition catting on the tobacco crop
control administration to apply the
maxamum 35 per cent redaction in
tobacco acreage in 1986, it was re
vested in a seport . released this
morning by E. F. Arnold, director
of the Pitt county Farm Department j
Under the terms of the new four
year federal control contract already
signed by 99 per cent of the tobacco
growers of this county, the tobacco
administration is authorized to cut
acreage to 35 per cent if conditions
in the industry at anytime are found
unfavorable to the growers.
In the petition signed by 1,407 far
mers in 11 townships of the county,
it is declared that the signers feel
"that growers are not receiving a
just price for this crop" and that by
making a cut 'you could permit grow
ers to sell at their poundage made
under their contracts without driving
prices below a fair and equitable re
turn to the farmers.
It was said at the farm depart
ment along with issuance of the pe
tition that more than two thousand
growers are expected to sign the pe
tition urging J. B.*Hutson, tobacco
code administrator, to make suffi
cient deductions in acreage to create
an active market and thereby se
cure equitable prices for tobacco of
fered. ?
The petition follows:
"To The Hon. John-B. Hutson,
Tobaco Administrator,
Washington, D ,.C. -
Dear Sir:
We, the undersigned, have signed
1936-89 tobacco contracts and do here
by petition and urge that you apply
the maxamum tobacco acreage in
1936.
We feel that the growers are not
receiving a just price for this crop,
aqd feel that by making a maximum
cut, you could permit growers to sell
all their poundage made under their
contracts without driving the prices
below a fair and equitable return to
the farmers. *
Respectfully submitted."
Baptist Revival
To Be Missed
Through Sunday
The series of meetings, which be
gan in the Baptist church here, last
Thursday, with Dr. J. W. Kincheloe,
Cr of the first Baptist church,
/ Mount, as the preacher, will
be continued through- Sunday/ the
15th, according to the pastor, Rev.
L. R. Ennis( who is conducting the
revival^ and leading the inspiring
Tim attendance is reported as in
creasing steadily and the interest and
enthusiasm constantly growing,
which bespeaks a successful termina
tion.
,.The entire community is'again ex
tended a cordial invitation to attend
by the pastor and. the congregation,
and receive the blesings of the Gos
pel messages delivered twice daily,
at 9:00 A. M. and 7:80'P.-'It ".P;
IfeV NEW DEAL CLUB ; J :
"?.D3 Morgan
entertained ner contract duo ; and
two additional tables of friends on
Monday afternoon, the four being
arranged in a setting of lovely fall
m At the eenchiston of six progres
sions, the hostess presented Mrs.
f Bert McCullum, hig]| scorer for the
tehib, with an amber flower container,
And Mrs. I. E. Satterfield with' a set
: of attractive coasters as guest
i prize, lira Alton Everett James, a
i recent bride, was remembered with
we^ril
Italy's Camouflaged Tents in East Africa
Enemy plane* would have a difficult tlmp spotting these Italian tents which are camouflaged the color of the ter
rata. The tents are erected in Eritrea, not far from the Ethiopian border. The men are awaiting Mussolini's "Go"
before starring their Invasion. ? ! < i ?<? i.;:! -l^lr.y''1 11: ! 1 'r 1 '
Britian Warns Leap It Mist Enforce
Poacafil Settlement Of Dispute
"
Sir Samuel Koare Will
Back the League Cove
nant In Its Entirety;
He Suggests That Ad
vanced Peoples Should
Lend Helping Hands
To Backward Nations.
? . m
According to a news dispatch from
the Associated Press, Great Britian
has given! warning to the world
through her foreign secretary, Sir
J Samuel Hoare that the League of
| Nations must enforce a peaceful set
tlement of the Italo-Ethiopian dis
pute.
i. He said that League failure would
wreck the "main bridge" binding
England to the continent.
Great Britian, stated the diplomat
wiH back the League covenant "in
its entirety. He suggested that ad
vanced peoples should lend helping
hands to "backward nations."
In his speech he said:
"We believe that backward na
tions are without prejudice to their
independent and integrity, entitled
to expect that assistance will be af
forded them by more advanced peo
ples in development of their re
sources and the building up of their
national life."
Those who heard Sir Samuel in
, trepreted his speech as a friendly
| warning to Premier Mussolini, of
j Italy, that Great Britian would be
| opposed to an unprovoked war
j against Ethiopia.
Meanwhile Italian preparations for
war went steadily ahead as 60,000
more men were called to the colors
in a draft believed to be the last
necessary to complete mobilization
this month of 1,000,000 men.
I Ethiopian women too took up?tbe
colors and began mobilizing "bat
talions of death" for active service
at the front should hostilities with
Italy breakout ???
Leaf Signup In PHI
Near Ending Today
| Greenville, Sept 11?The thirty
eight township committeemen en
gaged in the new tobacco control
sign-up in this county made their re
port to County Agent E. P. Arnold
last night *hie report revealed that
more than 99 per cent of the farmers
.living in the townships had signed
the new 1986-89 tobacco ontract
When the fact is taken into consid
eration that 2,438 farmers, on re
ceipt of notices that their contracts
were prepared and in the hands of
their local committeemen, voluntarily
went to them and signed within four
days, it iB evidence beyond question
that the rank and file of farmers id
Pitt county are enthusiastically be
hind the AAA program. j
The few remaining contracts of
absentee landlords will be secured by
the committeemen by the last of
the week and it is the belief of the*L
committeemen that by Saturday
night Pitt county will have a com
pete sign-up of all growers in the
county. v ? 4
All of the committemen express
ed themselves as being highly pleas
ed with the response made by the
Huey Long Died
? Tuesday Morning
Louisiana Senator Suc
cumbed to Injuries In
flicted b y Assassin
Sunday
v
Baton Rogue, La.?Senator Huey
P. Long died Tuesday morning at
the height of his opwer and both '
friend and foe. of his political creed
| throughout the nation deplored his
assissination. Long was 42 years
old and for 31 hours he and his phy
sicians had fought against death from
wounds inflicted "by Dr. C. A. Weiss,
Jr.,. eye specialist, who shot the
Senator with a pistol as he stepped
from the House chamber into a cor
ridor of .the Capitol building Sunday
night
-
? A bullett from Weiss' gun struck
the Senator in the right side, pene
trating the colon in two places, in
jured a kidney and passed out of
hi bo3y in the back. An emergen
cy operation and five blood trans
fusions failed to save him. Weiss
was killed at the scene of the shoot
ing by members of Long's body
guard who were armed with sub
matchine guns.
The imposing 33-story state capi
tal, setting for his greatest triumphs,
was chosen for the Senator's last
rites. Until four o'clock Thursday
afternoon tRe body lay in state in
the rotunda of the building. Funeral
services were held at 4 o'clock. In
terment was made in the Capitol
grounds.
In Washington widespread regret
echoed through the city along with
universal condemnation of' his as
sassination. J-v"- *
An ?ast Baton Ts igue coroner's
jury returned a veraict saying that
the man who dominated the public
life of Louisiana for eight years
came to his death from gunshot
wounds of a homoddal nature.
Meantime, the inquest into the death
of Long's assassin against was post
poned. It was stated Monday morn
ing and adjourtftd until Monday aft
ernoon after examination of two|
witnesses. Failure ox ctner witnesses
sad Long's bodyguards, who killed
'Weiss, to attend the hearing caused
postponement until Tuesday. TTie
hearing has been postponed indefi
nitely. i , . -
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Legion Post Elects
New Officers
r,;; ? > vs*? ?
The regular meeting of the Farm
vOle Post American Legion No. 151,
held on Friday evening in the Legion
home and presided over by the re
tiring commander, O. G. Spell, was
featured by the election of officers
and the appointment of committees
as follows: Alton W. Bobbitt, com
mander; Leon Janes, 1st vice com.;
C. S. Keel,v2nd vice com.; Zeb M.
Whieehurst, 3rd vice com.; Wiley 1).
Dildy, adjutant and. finance officer;
John H. Paylor, service officer; Mil
ton'.L. Eason, sergeant at arms;
Chas. F. Baucom, chaplain; Dr. W.
M. Willis, child welfare officer; B.
LeBoy Rollins, ? grave registration;
James W. Joyner, employment offi
cer.
The membership committee will be
zomposed of John H. Paylor,- chair
man, C. T. HickTs, James W. Joyner,
L. P. Yelverton, J. L Creech; execu
tive, R. LsRoy Rollins, Arthur F.
Joyner, J. H. Bynum, D. G. Alien;
I vays and means, Dr. Paul E. Jones,
jr. L Creech, Frank Harper, W. D.
The local post has had a most sue
Resettlement
Plan la Boon To
Tenant Farmer
Government Will Loan
Money to Worthy Per
sons With Which To
Purchase Or Lease
Farm Lands In This
And Other States.
Farm families in North Carolina
who are aided by the Resettlement
Administration will be advanced
funds-for the purchase or lease of
land, livestock, equipment and sub
sistence goods, according to Homer
H. B. Mask, of Raleigh, Director of
Rural Resettlement for Region IV,
which is made up of Kentucky, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and
West Virginia.
?r "AH advances will be properly se
cured by mortgages on real prop
erty, on personal property or on
crops, and are payable within a rea
sonable period," Mr. Mask declared.
*The Resettlement program has
two' .main phases," Mr. Mack said,
rehabilitation, the temporary phase,
and resettlement, the permanent
phase." ' :
"Rehabilitation," Mr. Mask ex
plained, "was inherited from FEIiA,
which had taken 290,000 families
Under care during the year ending
July 1, 1935. These families had
been -taken from direct relief, and
helped to become, in part, at least,
self-supporting. A- farm and home
program had been laid out for each
such family. Agricultural extension
workers have now assumed joint re
sponsibility with the Rural Resettle
ment Division for planning and sup
ervising the program, which is be
ing continued as the temporary phase
of the Resettlement Administration
activities. ? ,
"Resettlement deals with four
main groups, as follows:
"h Farmers living on lands
?L:-L ????/>?. Kn nntfivotnl tn the
wiui; ii uuuiivw w vuivi.MvwM
advantage of the farm family or the
B Nation. A preliminary survey By
the National Resources Board indi
cates that about 460,000 farms, in
cluding 75,000,000 acres of land,
should be devoted' to uses other than
araWe?farming in order that both the
natural and the human resources of
the Nation may be conserved.
"2. Those among our 2 1-2 mil
lion tenant, farmers who are capa
lb? of rehabilitation.
"3; Young married couplec with
farm experience.
"4. The more capable and indus
trious of the 'rehabilitation' families.
."The purpose of Resettlement is
not only to help the farmer himself
but to help the Nation as a whore
by Stabilizing that Segment of the
Nation's population which has been
shifting back and forth between
cbfintry and city?comprising in
l^ttnes of depression a large percent
age 6f the total of unemployed.
"A good many rdiabilitation and
resettlement families will be placed
on individual tracts. However, a
number of group settlements have
also been planned, a few completed
and occupied, and others are under
construction. Projects begun under
FERA and the Department of the
Interior have been turned over
Resettlement Administration.
;^t is the heart of the resettlement
program to rectify many of the
mistakes made during this nation's
great, unguided rush for farm lands:
But not everything the Resettlement
Administration is going to attempt
'is in correcting errorB made by pre-,
vious generations. Thousands of
families are now living in what were
not disadvantageous locations at t#
J$ne they were settled, but the eco
nomic scene has so shifted since the
day . of their settlement that the*
areas are no longer capable of pro
viding a satisfactory living."
FarmviUe High School
Has Auspicious Opening
New Superintendent J. H. Moore Presided ? Dr.
T0 E. Browne Delivered Inspiring Address;
Building'Presents New Appearance
Children Must
. \ . ' ' v' '?
Attend School
Welfare Department
Announces All Child
ren Prom 7 to 14 Must
Enroll
This notice is to inform the general
public that all children between th?
ages of seven and fourteen years are
required by law to attend the public
school in the community in which
they reside while the school is in ses
sion in their respective communities.
Parents and guardians of children
that fall within the provisions of
the compulsory attendance law will
please take notice to the end that
children be provided with the neces
sary '??bihing and books for them to
attend the pqblic school.
The principal or superintendent of
the school may excuse any child com
ing under the provision of the law
for temporary non-attendance for
various reasons. The Rural schools
open on Thursday, September 12, and
every child between the ages of
seven and fourteen will be expected
to enroll during the first five days
of' school. Principals and teachers
have been asked to report the non
attendance of all children who come
within the provision of the law to
the atendance offieer at the close of
the first week.
It is hoped that full cooperation
will be given in the several commu
nities to the end that no children
will be deprived of their right to
attend school.
K. T. FUTRELL,
Attendance Officer.
See Early Slut I
I On Port Project
I At Morehead City
Senator Bailey Says
Only Remaining Tech
nical Detail Stands In
Way of Release of
I Federal Funds.
Washington?An early start of
construction on the . proposed $2,000,
000 public works port terminal de
velopment at Morehead City, N. C.J
waa predicted today by Governor Eh
ringhaus and Senator Bailey. , '
Bailey said only one remaining
techical detail stood in the way of
release of federal funds for the work
and afserted this would be cleared
jup shortly.;
Governor Ehringha^s said the
state was prepared to take over
management of the Atlantic* and
North Carolina Railroad which itl
controls and which will connect the
port with the interior of the stage.
J. T. Crowell, former manager of
the Belfast and Moosehead Railway
in Maine has been chosen manager
of the North Carolina line.
is a detail in connection with
state operation of the railroad the
two state officials said which iiaj I
holding up release of $466,000 in
PWA funds to the Morehead City
Port Commission for construction
of terminal facilities and $1^500,-1
000 to the war department for har
bor improvement..
The 3,000 foot jetties which are
to be built will be constructed of
graniti) and Ehringhaus expressed
Hope the state will be operating the
and Jff. C. rairoad in" time to
jet the business of transporting tils;
material to Morehead City. 1
"That revenue will mean much to
us" he said "end I think we are en
titled to it"
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With what appeared to be the
largest .enrollment in the history
of the Farmville high school, and
certainly with one of its most aua
V picious openings, the doors of the
local school were flung ajar this
morning at 8*45 o'clock 'for the
1935-36 session.
* Following the assembly in Per
kins Hall, the invocation was giv
^ en by Rev. L. R. Ennis, and the
S Scripture lesson read by Rev. H.
. M. Wilson under the subject of
"The Workman's Ambition."
J. W. Holmes, chairman of the
school board, introduced the new
superintendent, J. H. Moore, who
presided over the exercises. May
or John B. Lewis extended a wel- m
?come to the teachers, which was fol
i lowed by a group of songs by Miss
Mary K. Jerome, music and expres
sion instructor, accompanied by Mrs.
Haywood Smith, piano teacher.
John T. Thorne, of the. County
Foard of Education, introduced his
friend, Dr. T. E. Browne, of Raleigh,
State Director of Vocational Educa
tion, the speaker of the occasion, as
a man, "who is just as big as the
State of North Carolina." V
Placing the proper amount of re
sponsibility for a successful session
on the shoulders of the Board mem
bers, superintendent, teachers and
children, as a preface to his talk, Dr.
Browne presented the Farmville high
school as an investment by the State
of North North Carolina, the county
of Pitt and the Town of Farmville,
in good citizenship, in which tile
habits and attitudes instilled in the
next generation will be reflected in
its ability to control the affairs of its
state and country. ?
Listing as the most important ana
valuable attitudes to be developed in
the individual child by the school as
Good Sportsmanship, Dependability,
Tolerance, Appiyciation of the finer
things of life and Occupational Effi
ciency, the speaker urged each child
to play the game of life fairly, to so
conduct .himself as to be relied upon
in any situation; to have a great re
gard for the rights and property of
others; to "fill every chamber of the
structure of your life with beautiful
and useful ideas, which will crowd
out baser thoughts," and to be pre
pared to carry out his part in this
business of living, by developing a v
skill of performance in doing -some
one thing well and turning out a
worthwhile product.
He concluded with a summary of
these objectives of public education,
and assured his hearers that an ef
fort to make them living attributes
would make North Carolina proud of
its investment
Greetings and informal messages
were brought by the two members of
the Board of Trustees, J. I. Morgan
and' Dr. P. E. Jones, in addition to
that of J. W. Holmes, chairman, and
by G. A. Rot^se, editor of the Farm
ville Enterprise.
The school building presented a
fresh and inviting appearance, hav
ing been renovated and put in ex
cellent condition during the summer
months, the most notable improve
ment being the newly painted walls.
$40,001,01)11 Must
Cover Projects
Officials Face Problem
of Making That Sum
Meet the State's Fede
ral Works Relief Pro
gram Which Already
Totals $96,000,006.
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Washington?North Carolina today
faced the problem of making $40,
000,000 meet its federal works relief
program which already totals $96,
000,000 in proposed PWA and WPA
projectc.
A deelgation from the state was
told by Works Progress Administra
tor Harry L? Hopkins that the state
proportionate share of the $4,000,
000,000 federal fi-fund was $70^)00,
000 while $30,000,000 of that amount
already had been allocated for CCC
camps, federal highways, rural re
settlement, and ? subsistence : hom$ J
the state office at Chapel Hill cajjqft
Cle land ha *
certiiicauon ct ownKIW