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A total of 1,298,598 pounds have been sold during the week through Thursday, for $277,400.46, at an av erage of $21.36, which carries the season's poundage to 7,593,911, re ceipts to $1,620,817.65, and the av erage to $21.34. Optimism was evidenced by the farmers and a better spirit prevailed this week as a greater demand was indicated by better prices put on the medium grades, with good grades continuing strong. Black and green tips are finding few friends, and growers are being advised to use their sorry grades as fertilizer. Heavy rains interfered with the movement of tobacco towards the market Wednesday and Thursday, but a good sale is being experienced to day, with prices reported as high as any day this week. In comparing the Farmville mark et with others in the Bright Belt it was found that tobacco brought here is bringing better prices than 6n many of the other markets, and that grade for grade, it is holding its own with any in the State. Federal Budget Can Be Balanced Roosevelt Says A - ???IWI1ITM IT - President Dwells at Length On National Debt and National In come?He Speaks to Thousands in Pitts burgh Pirates Baseball Park?Enthusiasm Forbes Field, Pittsburgh," Pa., Oct. 1.?President Roosevelt stood under brilliant floodlights in Forbes Field here tonight and told an audience of thousand* that if the National income continued to rise as it has been ris ing, the government's annual budget could be balanced "within a year or two' without additional taxes.' He dwelt at length on the National debt in the second major address in his campaign for re-election and as sured his listeners in the jammed ball park of the Pittsburgh Pirates thpt the deficit was not going to be met by "oppressive taxes on future generations." Back in 1983, the President said, National income and government revenues were spiraling downward pry* the government had to care for a growing army of destitute and un employed. Leveling off at his Republican up position, he said he cast aside a "do nothing or a wait-and-see policy" ?Tvj "reversed the policy of the previ ous administration." It cost money, he sail, but the peo ple knew in 1988 that it would. "I had promised," he said, "and my administration was determined to keep the people of the United States from starvation." In combatting the depression he aauj| the administration had boosted the public debt eight billion dollars. "Some people," he added, "will tell you that the increase in the Na tional a * is thirteen billions instead of eight.'* Then, in a remark which was gen erally believed to have been indirect ly referring to Col. Frank Knox, Re publican Vice-Presidential candidate, he added that the thirteen billion computation is "technically and mor ally just as correct as telling you good people here in Pennsylvania that nr ne of your bank deposits or in surance policies were sound." A half-mile away, Knox had just concluded.another assault on the New Deal It was Knox who, in Allen town, Pa., September 5, declared no insur anle policy was secure nor bank de posits safe under New Deal mone tary policies The President was greeted by thousands along the three-mile route from the depot to the baseball parki In downtown Pittsburgh the crowds were packed almost to the middle of the streets and motorcycle police hsd difficulty moving them back. A huge electric sign with a picture o Roosevelt sad the words, "The Man Who Saved. America," swung high over the procession as it neared the Field. A great cheer went up from the throng cranuaed in the park and out on the diaswafL aa Mr. Roosevelt rode onto the mMd and took his place on the flag-corered rostrum. Applauaa and cheers greeted the President's remarks from the very outset when he compared the Admin istration with a baseball team and said the present-day boxscore show ed the new "lnwainweat" voted into office in 1982 was "winning the game.'* ^ Miller ?o Describe State Fair Exhibits F. E. Miller, of the State Depart ment of Africa]tore, will describe to the radio audience Saturday, October 3, the general agricultural exhibits at the State Fair, which opens Octo ber 12 an<f end? October 17. In his diacuaeioat which will be heard on the regular Carolina Farm Features program, Mr. Miller wiL1 tell of prises to be awarded and the requirements for entering exhibits. Cash awazda have been increase* in practically every department, Mr Miller say* This should result in t larger number of exhibits than eve: before displayed at a State Fair. Some at the finest livestock ani .poultry in,North Carolina will h viewed by those attending the Far this year, Superintendent of Exhib its Miller declares. Both plant an animal breeder* can greatly improv their strains by making arrange ments to purchase Ugh grade see and tnimMr from exhibitors at th Fair. 4-H Cloh boys and. girls from a parts at North Carolina have planne and this iHfihiMi.il should be one c the moat attractive at the celebration r, >{ Fair on the Carolina Farm Feature a. program Saturday, October 10. if Saturday Mr. Miller will tell hi 1- great radio audkuce about "The Ea ? hibita at the State Fab.": Tu ColMons I Set State Record Federal Revenues Climb to $83,749,398 for Quar ter for All-lime High Greensboro, Oct. 1.?Establishing I an all-time record for Federal tax col-1 lections in North Carolina in anyl quarter, Collector of Internal Reve-I nue Charles H. Robertson and his as-1 sociates in the district of North Car-| olina procured $83,749,398.93 for the! Federal Government in the quarter ending September 30, 1936, the first! quarter of the fiscal year. Figures disclosed show that intern-1 al revenue collections for the quarter just terminated constitute a gain of $9,832,407.44 over the same period I last year, collections for the quarter ending September 30, 1935, having J aggregated $73/16,991.49. During the month just closed the I total receipts were $28,308,177.60, constituting by comparison with col lections of $24,609,813.01 in Septem ber, 1935, an increase of $3,693,364. 63. In July $30,661,566.73, the big gets amount of money ever collect ed in one month in the district of North Carolina was paid in. Incime tax collections for the quar ter aggregated $4,485,065.18, an in crease of $543,125.15, or 13 per cent over the collections for the quarter ending September 30, 1935. Federal taxes are collected on vol ume of business transacted and net profit from the transactions and the continued increase in internal reve nue collections in North Carolina is regarded as an unmistakable indica tion that the State is making rapid progress in all lines of commerce. Fanners Urged Not to Sell Their Cotton at Gins Unbusinesslike and the Practice Costs Growers Plenty, Says Manager j of (Jo-Op. Cotton Grow I ers of the State The unbusinesslike practice of selling cotton at the gin on the day of ginning is costing North Carolina farmers thousands of dollars a year, i according to M. G. Mann, general manager of the North Carolina Cot ton Growers Co-operative Associa tion. Mr. Mann quoted figures from the State Experiment Station showing that approximately one-half of the cotton grown in North Carolina is sold in this manner. 3 Mr. Mann made it plain that he' was not attacking the ginners. "They are business men and render a val uable service through proper ginning. Many of them do not want to buy cotton but are forced to do so-by the farmers." He warned farmers of the folly of spending months of hard work in raising their crop and then dumping it out to the first man who makes them a price. "No farmer should sell his cotton until it has been grad ed and stapled under the supervision of a government-licensed classer for that is the only way that he can , know its true value," he said. Pointing out that farmers usually pride themselves on being thrifty buyers, Mr. Mann said: "Why I do ( not know of a farmer who would buy ' a piece of farm machinery?not ev j en a pocket knife?without first ex , amining it carefully and comparing it with others to see for sure that it j is worth the price asked for it. "And yet many of these same t farmers have been dumping their cot r ton out to the first man they see al the gin or the first cotton buyer thej j meet on the street, for just what h? 8 offers, knowing not what it is wort! r ?nd nothing about its grade an< _ staple or the premium it should com j mand. e "If only these farmers would re alize that- it is just as important foi d them to get the high dollar for wha e they have to sell as it is to get th< most for the dollar they spend, thi D deplorable practice would soon b 3 ('corrected." Pipms Oflwi for October Wort Be Helpful to Farmers Who Must Do More Soil-Building to Get Full Payments Under the soil-improvement pro gram, payment will be made for a number of soil-building practices that can be carried out during the month of October. These practices will be especially helpful to farmers who must do more soil-building work if they are to re ceive the full amount of payments for which they are eligible, said Dean I. O. Schaub, of State College. Over the State, he added, there are many farmers who have acreages of soil-conserving crops that make them eligible for more payments than they have yet earned with soil-building practices. -t ij i_ Tnese growers snouia caeca uvci their farms at once to see what else they must do to obtain the full am ount of their payments, the Dean pointed out. He also stated that the payments are only an additional inducement for growers to do these things which im prove their lands. The soil-building value of these practices is worth far more than the payments. For this reason, he said, growers will benefit themselves by carrying out more of these practices than they | will be paid for. The rates of payment for practices I that may be conducted up to October j 31, are as follows: Seeding Alfalfa, $2 per acre. Seed ing red or mammoth clover, $1.50 per acre. Seeding Alsike, white, or vrimson clover, Austrian winter peas, or vetch, $1 per acre. Plowing or disking under the fol lowing crops as green manure, after at least two months' growth: soy beans, velvet beans, cowpeas, sweet clover, lespedeza or crotalaria, $1.50 per acre. Terracing with a sufficient amount of properly constructed terraces to give adequate protection against ero sion, 40 cents per 100 linear feet of terrace, but not to exceed $2 per acre. Liming, $1 per 1,000 pounds, up to $4 per acre. Most vacationists have now gotten over their vacations and are begin ning to work again. Destroy Cotton Stalks Before Winter Sets In Every day that cotton stalks are left standing in the field after pick ing is completed increases the pos sibility of boll weevil infestations next year. Weevils feed on the stalks, and the longer they are allowed to feed, the stronger they become and the better chance they have of surviving the winter, said C, H. Brannon, extension entomologist at State College, But if the stalks are cut and plaw ed under early, the weevils will be hungry and emaciated by the time winter sets in and they will have but little chance of living until spring, 15th DM. Meat < MmLA AJI Uami (Ma Mr MI. Gathering to Be Held in Methodist Church on Tuesday, October 27. The club women of Um Fifteenth , District of the North Cerolina Feder ation of Clube will meet In Farmville, Tuesday, October 17, with Mrs. C. W. Bessiejr, of Colersin, president of > the Fifteenth District, presiding. The ? meeting will be held in the Method ist Church, beginning at ten o'clock, i Mrs. George E. Marshall, State ? 'president, and Mrs. John D. Robin- ? son, second vice-president, will be ! present, with Mrs. Marshall, Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Beasley taking All club women of the District are urged to attend the meeting, for the : District meetings are really Federa tions in miniature; they are the back bone of the State work?as goes 1 your district meeting, so goes the 1 State meeting. Each woman attend ing the meeting will not only have a , day of real pleasure, but will gain ' much inspiration and realize much i help for the coming year's work, part on the program, which promises to be of unusual interest and full of information. , Brannon continued. It is especially important that < ?talks be destroyed before the first 1 killing frost, at the latest. Destroy , them sooner if possible, Brannon , urged. t ' Cotton opened early over most of , the State, and this is an ideal season for early picking and early destruc tion of the stalks. Brannon emphasized that by de struction he means cutting and plow ing under. Never burn the stalks, as i burning destroys plant food that should be left in the soil He also pointed out that plowing under the stalks is a good farm prac tice even where there are no weevils, as the stalks will rot under the ground and add organic matter to the soiL In view of this fact, plowing under stalks for boll weevil control is really no extra trouble, is it should be done anyway by all good cotton farmers. To get the best results in weevil control, he added, whole communities should co-operate. If one grower leaves his stalks standing, weevils from his fields may infest his neigh bor's land. "ZIEGFELD" IS THE GREATEST SHOW; EVER SCREENED A GROUP OF GLORIFIED GIRLS FROM "THE GREAT ZIEGFELD" Tremendous Musical Production Unfolds Stirring and Dramatic Fictional Romance of Showman Who Glorified American Girl in a Sweeping Calvacade of Scenes of Breath-Taking Beauty and Splendor?Coming to Paramount Theatre, Farmville, Oct 4th, 5th, 6th. i ? . V ? ' ? * .. . . . s At last, the perfect entertainment picture his been achieved! It is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's mu sical extravaganza, "The Great Zieg feld," at the Paramount Theatre, t Farmville, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, ? October 4, 5 and 6. It is a picture ; that possesses all, and even more, r than its advance notices have claimed > for it t i This -giant musical suggested by 1 the life, of the world's greatest show - man, the late Florenz Ziegfeld, can be termed The Greatest Show on - Earth.' Not alone is it crammed with r drama,'that tugs, at your heart t strings^ but it overflows with com ; edy, music and beautiful girls. s First, there is the star combina e tion of. William Powell as Ziegfeld, Myrna Lay as Billie Burke, and Luise - Rainer.as Anna Held, and right there s let us predict for its vivacious Vien nese star a future as great as Greta s Garbo's. Within two American pro (factions shehas leaped to the top as tba moat sensational star of the screen in the past ten years. Sharing honors with the three stars iis a veritable army of first-rate en tertainers?Fanniie Brice, queen of mimicry, singing the song that made her greater than she ever was, "My Man;" Harriet Hoctor, America's own famous ballerina, in the most spec tacular musical number possibly ever filmed; Virginia Bruce, former Zieg feld beauty, in another musical num ber, "A Pretty Girl Is like a Mel ody," that challenges description; Ray Bolger, spectacular dancer of the Broadway stage, in another dazzling nmhber, "You." I ? Besides these stellar entertainers, "The Great Ziegfeld" has Frank Mor gan is Zieyfeld's friendly enemy; Nat Pendleton as the great Sandow, strongest man in the world; Reginald Owen as Ziggy*s business manager. Not only does this amazing film un fold the life of Ziegfeld, but it pre sents a cross-section of the Ameri can theatrical world. for the past} quarter of a oratory. I The settings, alone, designed by Cedric Gibbohs, are unsurpassed in film history. They begin with the World's Fair of 1898 and include gorgeous theatrical settings of the many theatres that served as Zieg feld's glamorous world. In no picture to date have so many beautiful girls been assembled as was done for "The Great Ziegfeld." As Ziegfeld would have glorified them, so have they been glorified in the film. The direction is superb with Robert Z. , Leonard reaping the laurels for the! dramatic sequences and Seymour Fetx for the dance and musical spec tacles. "The Great Ziegfeld" adds another triumph to Hunt Stromberg's long list of successes and to him goes a bigi hand for his courage in produc ing! a musical picture on such a stu pendous scale and malring every foot Of It entertainment in the highest de ffta. Beurty fipint Catarful Event Woman's Oub Sponsorsi Show?Miss Gray Car-: raway, Miss Julia Sat- < terthwaite and Miss j Mable Barrett Select- ; ed As Winners I } A colorful entertainment, in which ( the extensive and varied types of ( beauty and talent here in Farmville ^ were presented to the public, was the ] beauty pageant and amaateur show of Friday evening, the event being spon lored by the Woman's Club and re ported as a Bplendid success. ( To Miss Gray Carraway, a lovely ; and attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Carraway, and winner in ] the beauty contest, will be given the privilege of attending the all-State Contest, to be held in Durham, No rember 15, and a screen test, i Picked from among the Shirley remple paraders as the most win some, was little Miss Julia Satter thwaite, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Satterthwaite, who would also fit the role of Goldilocks, if Hollywood wishes a cast for^the production of "The Three Bears." Julia was crowned "Shirley Temple," and re ceived a beautiful dress in Temple a la mode. In the amateur event, Miss Mable Barrett was voted the best, winning top position with her splendid con tortionist act. One could well im agine her bally-booed as Bomona, the Boneless. Miss Barrett will also en ter the all-State contest, which may mean the winning of further recog nition for her fine performance. Among the entertainers in this di vision of the show were: Dottie Brown, Esther Lou Albritton and Nell Whitehurst, lovely dancers from SnoW Hill; Evelyn Webb, dancer; Marion Ward, clog dancer; Roland Modlin, singer; Marguerite Drake, blues singer; Connie Rollins, Nancy Gates, Ann Oglesby and Janet Stan sill, singers and dancers. There were several other outstanding entrants, according to the judges, Mrs. R. A. Fountain, Jr., Mrs. L. P. Yelverton and Mrs. H. B. Mayo, of Fountain, to whom was allotted the difficult task of selecting the winners. Mrs. D. R. Morgan, president of the Woman's Club, was in charge of the entertainment, the events of which were announced by Mayor John B. Lewis. Assisting on the various commit tees connected with the pageant were: Mrs. D. E. Oglesby, Mrs. J. B. Joyn er, Mrs. J. Sterling Gates, Mrs. J. M. Wheless, Mrs. Charles Mozingo, Mrs. E. C. Carr, Mrs. B. S. Sheppard, Miss Bettie Joyner, Mrs. R. A. Parker and Mrs. J. B. Cutchins. | Wake Primary Votiig Judge Is Seafepd Henry P. Eary Qiven Four Months Term and Fined $200 ? Freely Admits Irregularities Raleigh, Oct. 1.?Henry P. Earp, 88, election judge at the Aulurn pre cinct in Wake County, pleaded guilty in Wake Superior Court today to an indictment charging he permitted "gross irregularities" in this July 4 primary and was sentenced! to four months in prison and assessed a $200 fine. Judge Walter L. Small adjudged Earp guilty of attempting t> commit a felony, after the man hail freely admitted he "stuffed the v< ting box for candidates for State positions and listed the names of nine p>rsons in thd poll box as having voted though they did not appear at thi polling plaice. "I did it because I was >ver-zeal ous and wrapped up in the election," Eafp told the jurist . - Solicitor William Y. Bickett said he i would not press similar charges -against Registrar Exum Sturdivant and Judge D. R. Johnson, who were co-Jefendants in the case, as Earp testified they knew nothing about the ballot hex stuffing. ? i As this is a-political year, there wilh be ?,907,619,4*8 more lies toB than usual in the apnea -of twelve month* ? - 'vl.---' '. * - L- ? v-v >* - - , ... '.j- ?- - jt,- -si r France's Senate Approves Article to Devalue Franc '??? ?? ? i m*. By Vote of 137 to 127> Body Joins Chamber of Deputies in Passing Measure Sponsored by Government of Prem ier Blum. Paris, Sept. 30.?The French Sen site tonight approved Article One, of the government's monetary bill, deal ing with the principle of devaluation [>f the franc,' by a vote of 137 to 127. The article suspends provisions of the monetary law of June 25, 1928, which set the value of the franc at B6 milligrams of gold of .900 fineness, and obligated the Bank of France to guarantee the exchange of paper money in circulation for gold. To-night's narrow government vic tory came after a barrage of criti cism had been heaped against the in clusion of "social measures" in the financial proposal. Abel Gardey, reporter for the fi nance committee of the upper cham ber, told the members there was no question of rejecting Premier Blum's suggestion to align the franc with the British pound and 'the United States dollar. He did insist, however, that auxil iary projects?such as the govern ment's price fixing clause?should be divorced from the monetary bill, pending careful study during the transition period. Radical-Socialists insisted the price fixing clause would be protected by a preiimiinary check rather than thrust directly into the hands of the Blum cabinet. The specific proposal first was sub stituted by the government after the original suggestion for adjustment of salaaries of public functionaries, un der the devalued franc, met opposi tion from deputies. Further revision was made in the paragraph levying a tax on holders of gold. In the senate text, merch ants, bankers and jewelers were ex empted upon proof they used the metal in ordinary business transac tions. ' The stock market remained closed with no set figure for the value of th" projected reduced franc. Farmville Chorus Is Organizing ??? Is Part of Eastern Caro lina's Symphonic Asso ciation ? Directed by Lewis S. Bullock. The newly formed Farmville Chor us is a part of the Eastern Carolina Symphonic Choral Association, under the direction of Lewis S. Bullock. Mr. Bullock came to North Caro lina two years ago as one of the di rectors of the North Carolina Music Festival Association. It was last spring after the North Carolina Mu sic Festival Association disbanded that this new organization was form ed, so that this section might go on receiving the benefits the organiza tion has to give. Mr. Bullock is a well-trained musi cian. He took his public school mu sic course at Western State Teach ers' College, Kalamazoo, Mich. Then he filled a long engagement playing and singing on the "Man About Town Hour," from Station W.H.A.M., Ro chester, N. Y. While in Rochester he studied at the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School. Then he studied four years at the Westminster Choir School, Princeton, N. J. Mr. Bullock is trained in voice, pi ano, organ and conducting, having travelled through fifteen European countries, and giving over forty con certs with the world -famous West minster Choir. He has sung the role of "Devilshoof" in the opertu "The Bohemian Girl." He studied' voice with Harper C. Maybee, John Geas Baumgartner, John 'Milton Kelly and Dr. John Finley Williamson. At Princeton he was an organ pu pil of David Hughes Jones, noted or ganist and composer. Before coming - south he was minister of music at St. Marks Church, Trenton,. N. J., and director of the Milltown Community Chorus at Milltown, N. Y. In addition to the Farmville or ganization Mr. Bullock is now con ducting choruses in Goldsboro, Mt. Olive, Snow Hill, Ayden and Winter ville. He is Minister of Music at the First Baptist Church, of Goldsboro. The Farmville Chorus meets every Monday evening at 7:80 in the Pres byterian Church. Everyone in Farm ville and community is cordially in vited to attend. ' " J.