North Carolina Newspapers

Agree Upon Plan to Keep Tobacco on Staple Basis ?_ ? Three Primary Object ives Outlined by Con gressmen for Tobacco States; Cooley Desig nated as Committee Head Washington, Feb. 4.?Members of Congress representing tobacco-grow ing districts today agreed upon three objectives and appointed a commit tee to see that they are carried out The objectives are: Securing at least $50,000,000 for use in a tobacco program under the administration's soil conservation bill now pending in both the House and the Senate; adoption by the Department of Agriculture of a precedent for giving of subsidies to tobacco growers for the planting of only a fixed percentage of base production; and the use in the to bacco program of poundage as a basis instead of acreage. The group as a whole conferred -T B. Hutson, chief of (>VU?kJ ?? *. . . ? the division which includes tobacco under the old AAA, and tomorrow the committee will hold its first meeting. The committee will con fer with legal advisers of the de partment on the question of whether the power desired is conferred under the bill as now written, "We think the power is undoubt edly there, but we want to make sure that it is there, and we want to make sure before the bill is passed and not afterwards," de clared Representative Harold D. Cooley, a member of the House Committee on Agriculture who pre sided at the conference today and j who was made chairman of the committee which was named. "We hope to accomplish all of our purposes without any legisla tion of our own and under the gen eral bill, but if special legislation is required, we will proceed along those lines; and it is possible we will have to offer an amendment to the pending bill, but we do not think so. "We are all satisfied that the bill! will help the farmers and what we I want to do now is to see to it that it will help the farmers."' The committee includes in addi tion to Mr. Cooley, the following-: Representatives Vinson of Ken tucky, Cox of Georgia, Kerr and Umstead of North Carolina, Burch of Virginia, and Gaso.ue of South - Carolina. Members of the commit tee hold positions on the key House I committees of ways and means, rules, appropriations and agricul ture. j Following a talk made before the I Tyron Rotary Club by the Farm | agent, a business concern gave ?30 to be used in buying a registered bull for use in the county. WPA To Dismiss 500 of Teachers Funds Curtailed For Emergency Education Program In North Carolina Raleigh, Feb. 5.?Curtailment of the emergency education program was announced yesterday by State WPA Administrator George W. Co an, Jr., after conferences with C. R. Braun, assistant WPA regional field representative, and Dr. L. R. Alder man, national director of the educa tion program. Reduction of the funds available for the program will require elimi nation within two months of ap proximately 500 of the 1,520 teach ers now employed on the poogram, said Mr. Coan. The State WPA received $80,000 for education work in January, has been alloted $70,000 for February "but will receive only $60,000 or $65, 000 for subsequent months. Records of the emergency edu cation teachers will be investigated and those with the greatest need will be retained, said Mr. Coan. ?Teachers who have members oi ?? their families employed and car secure support will be the first re leased. Operated for two years prior tc last ?anmwr by the BRA, the emer gency education program in thf United States employed 43,OOP teach ers and extended educational opfl portunities to 500,000 adults. C. Ad Mcintosh, State NYA direc ton and F F. Jones, assistant direc I tion program i? fM* State. Alderman, the national direc Fear Tobacco Prices Will Be Low In 1436 A flue-cured tobacco crop 260,000, 000 pounds in exeess of the amount! that can be sold at a reasonable price has been forcast for this year unless growers restrict production. After studying the situation, the North Carolina Tobacco Growers Ad visory Committee estimated that if growers carry out their intentions, as now indicated, the crop will run ' to 900,uou,uuu pounds. i, The committee also found that all credit agencies, including warehouse men, fertilizer dealers, and govern ment sources, exercise extreme cau tion in extending credit for tobacco ] production this year. I All growers should attend the pro- i gram planning and discussion group i meetings now being conducted in their counties, the advisory commit- 1 tee recommended, and should put ; themselves in position to take ad- I vantage of the proposed coil conser vation program or any new program i offered by the Federal Government, j The proposed soil conservation pro- i gram would be very helpful to those farmers who comply with its terms, the advisory committee stated, but it can hardly offer tobacco growers as effective a means of production control as the AAA. For this reason, said Claude T. ( Hall, chairman of the committee, all growers should be wary about in creasing their tobacco production, as j there is a big chance that they may not be able to sell their leaf for any thing like a fair price. Only Two Schools In Pilt Open This Week According to the report of County Superintendent D. H. Conley, all schools in the county, with the ex ception of Farmville and Winterville, have been closed this week, continu ing a five day holiday period, which began January 30, when a heavy snowfall made transportation of rural pupils impossible. The reason for opening the Farm ville school was said to have been that of having the advantage of having four hard surface roads lead ing into town, making the school more accessible than the others in the county. The attendance during week is reported as being about 85 per cent of the enrollment. Wednes day's attendance dropped to 75 per cent on account of false reports that the school had declared another holi day, but it picked up again on Thurs day when between 90 and 95 per cent was reported by Supt. J. H. Moore. However, with a snow storm in progress Thursday afternoon and weather reports orhinous, Supt. Moore thought is wise to suspend school until Monday, February 10. The Winterville school was opened this week because the unit had lost three weks previous to this time and authorities expressed themelves as wishing to avoid further delay in the final closing. REGARDS BUSINESS OUTLOOK AS BRIGHT New! York, Feb. 2.?The current ? . .. 1 If 1 1 1 Xl issue of "Banting," puDusnea oy uie American Bankers Association, says "business prospects for the imme diate future are fairly bright. "The uncertain course of Con gress and the budget dilemma are elements of doubt. There is also a somewhat all-embracing question, having to do with when and how the Federal Reserve Board and other regulatory agencies will exercise their powers of control to check inflation," the publication states. "Indications are that the improve ment in heavy private construction vwill continue, while the increase in private residental construction which characterized the later part of 1935 will probably carry on to a new high level of activity this year. "Plants for replacement, re-equip ment and expansion of railways, ? steel companies, oil concerns, and i thousands of small, business institu f tions, are growing in number and . extent "A steadily increased demand for l machine tools rejects - present in ? dusriab activity jutd also is evi dence of confidence in the future. i "M?n?ViAitdiaf? and other inven ? tones are low. Btpi&g for the spring y trade has started ifciee weeks ahead - of the usual sch^ule," the wview - declared. 1 . . ? - Use of copper Sulphate on eastern - Carolina soils, as one qjf the import - ant minor elements jn fertMxer, it . zeJaing wide attention. Recently the t Experiment Sta&m " had aw|i^ y from Germany fair farther informs 92SEJ&9$ the rente secured. ' ' ? 1 $sk illplg4 . , - ? League Embodies Meteiy Bloes Democratic Chairman Labels Liberty League As Ally of Republicans Miami, Fla., Feb. 5.?In a direct and sharply-worded attack on the American Libeity League, C airman James A. Farley, of the Democratic National Committee, tonight termed that group *the center and soul of the predatory powers." Making not a single reference in bis prepared text to Alfred ?. Smith, who recently denounced the New Deal before a league dinner and threatened to "take a walk" out of the Democratic convention, Far ley did, however, label the league an "ally" of the Republican na tional committee. The Democratic committee chief, -K- lino Kaon vrnifltinnliur in Florida. WliU HOO wvu ^ spoke before a Roosevelt dinner at the Miami Biltmore hotel here. He devoted a major part of his address to lashing at the league, which numbers among its members many prominent Democrats, includ inz both Smith and John W. Davis, the 1928 and 1924 Democratic Presi dential nominees. If allowed its way, he said, the league "would perpetuate the sorry business of the Mellons and the Morgans in reducing 95 per cent of the people to the status of serfs." Although never mentioning Smith by name, Farley spoke of the "wide ly-heralded dinner" staged by the league in Washington two Satur days ago, at which Smith was the principal speaker. At it, the former New York governor declared Presi dent Roosevelt had thrown most of the 1932 Democratic platform "in the wastebasket," and lodged a charge of socialism. Tonight, Farely asserted that critics ignored the fact that the Roosevelt administration had "car ried out many of the most import ant planks of that platform." In addition, he asserted the league would "do much to advance Social ism and Communism." "The Liberty League," said Far ley, "is the organization of those Bourbons who learn nothing and forget nothnig ... It would rule America. It would squeeze the worker dry in his old age and cast him like an orange rind into the refuse pail. And it would continue the infamous policy of using the agencies of government to create a plutocracy that would perpetuate the sorry business ofjthe Mellons and the Morgans in reducing ninety five per cent of the people to the status of serfs at the mercy of the exploiters at the top. "The American Liberty League speaks as conclusively for the re actionaries and their party as does Mr. Hoover, the United States Chamber of Commerce and the Na tional Manufacturer's Association. "Indeed, the league is composed in large part of the representatives of that big business which brought the nation to the outer rim of riun." At another point, Farley termed the organization "The American Lobby League." Its members, he said, had "made so much noise that they have perhaps convinced them j selves that the racket of their own raising is a voice of the business community." "I feel obliged to undeceive them," he added. "They will find when it comes to the showdown next November that for every capi talist or industrialist who wishes to bring back Hoover days there will be ten of his own economic group who appreciate that the New Deal, of which these eminent persons are so critical stopped the panic and gave them, each of them, a chance to recover. "? ?' . "They know it is absurd to charge the Roosevelt administration with being the enemy of business Its whole successful effort has been to save and restore business and it has accomplished that very thing, just as it has removed the 'great mass of our people from the jepo ardy of economic destruction." Farley asserted the league was composed of representatives of "very big business and the very enormous fortunes," as well as cor doration. lawyers "who are being : : Itfd to belong?." ; y ? *?*? ^ Coagrttt, ???: Inftrimvillq Farm Federation Head Will Address Easterif North Carolina Grow? ers Monday, Feb. 10 . Greenville, Feb. 6. ? Plans fof what is hoped to be the biggest farm rally in Pitt County and pos sibly in Eastern North Carolina are j rapidly nearing completion. The , event will be held on Monday, Feb- j ruwy IV. Edward O'Neal, President of thejj American Farm Bureau Federation, ? has accepted an invitation to ad dress the farmers of Pitt and 25 < other counties. The general meet- 1 ing will be held in the college audi- < torium. i Officials of the affair have declar ed they expect at least 2,500 farm- ] ers to hear the national farm lead- ? er. Invitations are being sent to j each person who held an agricul- < tural adjustment contract. i J. E. Winslow, chairman of the , Pitt County board of agriculture, < has written farm leaders in each ] of the counties asking them to make arrangements to inform the farm- i ers of the meeting and urge them < to attend. j The expressed purpose of the j meeting is "to get squarely behind i the farm administration program." j Mr. O'Neal is president of one of j the most aggressive farm organiza- j tions in the United States. He is now located in Washington fighting for substitute legislation for AAA. The American Farm Bureau Board boosts a membership of more than a million farmers in 38 states. At present there is no branch of the organization in North Carolina. I Thief Is Kilted With Stolen Goal Coroner's Jury Exoner ates Greenville Man For Shooting of Night Raider Greenville, Feb. 5.?Buster Dun can, Negro, was instantly killed late last night by W. J. Wingate, when the Negro was caught stealing coal from the bin located in Mr. Wingate's backyard on Ridgeway Street. A coroner's jury met imme diately and Mr. Wingate was com pletely exonerated. Mr. Wingate stated that he was in his bathroom when be saw some one at his coal bin. He said he went into the adjoining room, se cured his pistol and went on the "back porch and commanded the man to halt The thief started to run and Mr. Wingate find, , The bullet entered the Negro's head, causing instant death. The Negro fell on one side of the fence and a sack of coal he had stolen fell on the other side. Finding the Negro dead, Mr. Wingate reported I to authorities and the coroner's in* (quest was called. J Mr. Wingate stated he had been missing coal from his pile for some time, and declared the culprit had made a path to his bin. FARMVILLE STUDENT ON U. N. C. HONOR ROLL # ? i ?? On the fall quarter honor roll for the University of North Carolina, re leased Wednesday, Farmville citizens will be interested to learn that T. E. Joyner Junior's name was among the 350 listed, and among the 55 fellow classmates attaining this honor in the commercial branch of the Uni versity, - Additional information furnished by the preceptor of N, C.,Beta of Phi Delta Theta, revealed 'that Eli was rerentlv nresentad with an award of 110, for distinction in scholarship, offered respectively to the student of the senior, Junior and sophomore classes, whose average for the quar ter showed the greatest Improvement over that of the previous quarter. Eli won first place in the junior group, 1 The awards were presented at a banquet given by the fraternity hon oring the tjiree winners, who were entertained again at dinner the fol lowing day by Dr. T. P. Hickerman, a chapter alumnus, who ia a member of the University faculty. ? ; .....1 Moonshine corn liquor used in ra diators of the tevrasing tractors in OrsqgeCounty served as ah adequate anti-freese mixture during the recent -uwaflbar.!' ?8 ?? 518elKy ?j ; AMnAAl# Ralli Belling Presi Battle; Issue Will' Hinge Upon Tax foo: ? llll .? j Washington* Feb. 5. ? Organized 1 labor rallied Its forces behind ftwfy J lent Roosevelt tonight as inflation- i ista warned Pqmocrftiic Congreafii?n- < >1 leaden that they would opdptheir 4 fight to pay the tioldier bonus in i 'greenbacks* within a fortnight. ' I The inflationists hintvi^ how iVer, that they would withhold i their fire if Mr. Roosevelt did' hot < i em and new taxes to finance the < veterans' debt payment >" i m - ? ? ? -a a. Into the battle tomgnt stroco ? Prudent William Green, of the I ^fricaa $&?*?. He( i issued a statement on behalf of the ; arganization's. "executive " council i warning vthat inflation would 'serf-' 1 susly "affect the economic and so- i :ial welfare' of the masses of the, 1 people.'" ? < "If prices are to be driven up- 1 ward through currency inflation," -i Green said, "the very limited, buy* < ing power of the masses will be' 4 further curtailed ... As a mat-, < ter of sound public policy, as well < as justice, an increase in wages' should precede an increase in com- 1 modity prices." 1 .1 Earlier, President Roosevelt, ap parently unworried by the inflation i agitation on Capitol Hill, reviewed < bis.tax plaps with fiscal advisers. 1 It was said after the House < conference that another weekj < would be required to whip the pro-, < gram into shape for Congress, Dis cussion today, it was . understood,|i centered on levies to finance the administration's new 1600,000,000! < farm program. Other developments during the day included) 1. The Commerce Department re- < ported continued business improve- I ment in January. Activity in the l ] first month of the new year ex-' ceeded those of the corresponding 1 period last year by 10 per cent 2. Movement of gold abroad to, bolster the American dollar weak- -1 ened by threats of initiation was," stemmed, ' " < 3. President Roosevelt arranged, 1 to confer tomorrow with heads of. ? Federal spending agencies to get 'i latest reports oh government ex- i penditures. ' 1 4. Congressional leaders endorsed i the President's cancellation of ] $1,000,000,000 in loan authorizations to various government agencies, 6. The current Federal deficit to i February 3 was $188,228,634,47 more < than the previous year. The Treas ury's cash balance was $342,785,* 310.47 below that of the same period | in the last fiscal year. ' 6. Interest on the public dety daring the coming fiscal year will be $63,000,000 more than last year, the Appropriations Committee re ported to the House. !i 7. Speaker Joseph W. Byrns stat ed emphatically that the House would reject the highly inflationary Fraxier-Lemke farm mortgage re finance bill. 8. House inflationists indicated their drive would be withheld if President Roosevelt did not seek new taxes to pay the bonus. 1 SERIES OF MISFOR TUNES BEFALL FAMILY OVER WEEK END Arthur Barber, Sr., connected with A C. Monk & Co., here, received bad news relative to his family over the week end. Mr. Barber left Sunday for Tuske* gee, Ala., upon receipt of a message from his wife, who had received in juries in an automobile accident there, while en route to California with her son, Arthur, Jr., and daugh ter, Betty Lou, The Barber car is said to be badly damaged* While In the Alabama town Mr. gaffeer was advised that his son. Jack, 21, was in the Bellevue hospi tal, New York, as the result of a re-, ported attempt to commit suicide by slashing his wrist and swallowing ?*i'u ; four poison tablets. According to Awoetated Press re ports young Barber was found ial bis room in the New Yoricer hotel after his moans disturbed persons In an adjoining room. The report also stated that a sealed letter, addressed to his father, was found in the reomJ Mr. Barber returned today, Thurs day, and late reports from the bed-; side of his wife and son state that both are improving. ?, . ? i u - - The annual meeting of the North Carolina Jersey Cattle Club will be held at Bttrilagtoi on February SI $ .... ?2? ,' ' . " ; ff. ? J; 'f- jc..V?r'i'i- ' .'v^r!?'. ? '?1 ?''? - 'iwgiwyg'ijjf :cg ttteHMrt X-I liTOBimg I UogUdyj At the regular meeting of the I rown Aldermen Tuesday evening, A.I G. Cayton appeared and presented! a QK&sr, whEchliad been under con; I ^deration by the various members I For some months, action on which at I this time wig i^sult in an investiga-j Jon by the street committee of a| jurvey ofthe town for the purpose I il marking'me streets and number- J ng the homes, in preparation forfreel nail delivery service, which citizens J iere hope to secure at an early date! I A ruling made at this meeting, rel-1 itive to skating, prohibits the use!; >f skates in the fire district, on eith-1 "? etiiet or sidewalk, and will per-1 nit skating only on the sidewalks in ither sections of the town. The ' 'our business blocks of the town are' ncluded in the fire, district In reporting the progress made n laying sidewalks, it was observed hat a distance of three quarters of* ? l mile had been completed in the last several weeks, sections being laid m Wilson, Pine, Belcher, Glimmers- ; jurg, George and Contentnea street, he last named now being in process >f being laid and much needed, from Srimmersburg street to Forest Hill lemeiery. The grading of several iirt sidewalks was reported together with the preparation of the alley lack of Harris' store for immediate paving. The relief situation, which is grow ng more desperate daily, on account if the long spell of extreme weather, was discusFed, and the Board re- 1 quests that citizens, who can give )Ven one day's employment to a man >r woman, cooperate and advise the rown Glerk, R. A. Joyner, of their leeda, CHECKFLASHER GYPS GREENVILLE STORES rf : f r \ Greenville, Feb. 5. ? A neatly iressed man giving his name as N. S. Clifton is being sought by local police for giving a number of bad checks in the city last Saturday, it teas made known today by Chief of Police George Clark. The man went to a number of business houses and asserted he wished to make a purchase provid ed the firm would cash a check for iim, upon examining the check, clerks found that it was drawn on ah insurance company as a rebate for payment on insurance declined by the company, lite checks bore a seal and in every respect ap peared to be authentic. They were drawn on the R. S. Harrison Insurance Company and In each case were for amounts around $10, , .; v ? Ml Advises Steady Publicity ? ?r Telia Merchants That Newspaper Advertis ing Should be Constant and Simple Tarboro.?Willard L. Dowell, ex ecutive secretary of the North Caro liiia Merchants' Association and prin cipal speaker at a semi-annual ban quet of the Tarboro Merchants As sociation and Chamber of Commerce here recently told his hearers that newspaper advertising' should be con stant and not spasmodic, assiduously truthful, plain, simple and direct He urged the large number of merchant present to increase their advertising lineage as the surest means of increasing the volume of their business, , to provide Jot ad vertising in their annual budget and to advertise sieauuy <uiu cally. ? i "In this trading area," he said, "old people are dying and a new generation is coming"onT The mer chants' who want to keep in touch with' the hew crop of customers to counterbalance the loss of thfeY old crop must never let up in their ad ?, ..??v- r? ? -.... T % *<|f r - 'r ? ?r t . " ? T . vertiaing. "If httsfnees is good, advertise to make it bettor. If It is bad, advertise to build It hp. " "Be truthful always and never use language anyone' cannot understand." #r.'Doweil praised' efforts of lead en here to organise a baseball club! midOTed matjahts to lend Jfeeir! support- He^Ja^^i t^e Tarboro eh) Zi merchants would hive to pay nine in tax p -V.*' ? ,Vv" ' r-; : V?* " . ?. ?i :: V ' : i": .i. " /? \ ? ?1 . * ? ;'.v. . -J;: Si '\ J-.'v .. t Chief Executive Trims ' * Approximately a Bil lion From Potential Loan Total '?; ? ? u: Washington, Feb. 4> ? President Roosevelt tonight trimmed $1,000, 000,000 from potential government loans, declaring the new move was justified by the nation'a continued economic recovery. " Simultaneously, he disclosed he had summoned heads of the govern ment's spendinng agencies to a White House conference on' Thursday to j obtain an up-to-the-minute check on i federal expenditures. * These steps, he said, did not mean necessarily -a "tightening" of the government's purae-stringa. They wprp rlosplv scrutinized, however. ?J" " ~ ' /T. i-fj...',i * in the flight of inflation agitation, weakness of the dollar abroad and a rebellion in Congress against im position of new taxes to finance the new $50,000,000 farm program and the $2,237,000,000 soldier bonus. Mr. Roosevelfs disclosures came at His press conference after he had spent an hour with heads of the government's lending agencies. The conferees were Secretary of Treas ury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secre tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal lace, Chairman Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion, Housing Director Stewart Mc Donald, AAA Administrator Chester Davis and Cyril Up ham, treasury advisor. As the conference began, the treasury announced shipment of an other $7,200,000 in gold to France and Holland to bolster the dollar. This brought the total of gold re leased for export in the past 48 hours to $12,000,000. 1 Previously, it had been learned that Frank Dietrich, foreign ex change expert, had been engaged to aid in the direction of the gov ernment's $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund. Dietrich had previously been associated with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In curtailing the government's lending program by $1,000,000,000 Mr. Roosevelt carried out a pledge made to the American Bankers' As sociation that the federal agencies would withdraw from this' field whenever private enterprise show ed its ability and willingness to as sume these responsibilities. He explained to newspapermen that no money actually disbursed to the lending agencies was being pulled back, but the cancellation order involved only authorizations for money. Some of these authori zations, he said, now are abaolete. For example, the President said, the time limit of HOLC loans was reached last June and that agency will not be required now to go into the market for additional millions which it once fras anticipated would be necessary. The HOLC now be comes a collecting instead of a lending agency, he explained. Mr. Roosevelt made it plain tftat his action would not clip $1,000,000, 000 from the national debt or the I deficit. These authorizations have not been carried as government debts or obligations, and were not included in the figures contained in the President's recent budget mes sage. Sum of 79 P. C. Paid To Bank Deposito rs , x r.f r Greenville, Feb. 4.?Checks total ing $18,343.41 were being distributed Monday by State Bank and Trust Company to 1,600 depositors of the old National Bank of Greenville, representing a dividend of 4.01 per cent and bringing the total received by depositors to 79.01 per cent. The | checks being distributed Monday | represent a dividend above the original 76 per cent guaranteed by the State Bank and Trust Company at the' comptroller of the cur rency for the bank to take over the affairs of the old National Bank, which closed its doors here on De ? ?A ?AAA c<^De r iu, RALPH WINDERS Wilson.?Ralph Winders of Kenly, aged 34, died Saturday at the Caro lina General Hospital after an illness of only a few days. He is sur vived by his wUkrp, formerly Hay Wilh?raon of Rspft and one little daugher, JAnyce Winders; his mother, Mrs] G. A. Winders, of Parmville; one sister, Mrs.- A. B. Gauthorp, of Greensboro, and three brothers, Lester Winders of Wake Forest, Paul Winders of Goldsboro and Hal Winders of Parmville. The ftmenal was held at the resi M ?Kii?a&??i no^t Burial; was in the Kenly ceme tery. V| ?