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Minimum Acreage In Tobacco Compact Bill ? # in ? I I^.I. I.^uwnii ,nm ???! Sub-Committee Doe To day; Wilson Objects to Deletion Of Ceiling Limitation Raleigh, Jan. 27.?A minimum of 3.2 acres, provisions for advertising contract facts and "fair and reasona ble" safeguards for the little man were siilteu into the tobacco com pact bill yesterday when the sub committee accepted "with a few changes" the amendment offered by Representative Enoch W. Wilson of Sampson County and added a rider to leave control in hurley tobacco to the Commission. Representative W. E. Fenner of Nash County, chairman of the House agriculture committee and the sub committee, stated last night that he hoped to report back to the joint House and Senate committee today but that he would not set a meet ing time until conflicting meetings were adjusted. As the sub-committee's amendment affects the compact, a minimum of 3.2 acres would be established be low which no "historic base" would be reduced, and each county admin istrative unit would be required to publicize in each township the fol lowing information: (1) The name of each tobacco grower in that town ship, (2) the number of his tenants, (3) his total cultivated acreage, (4) his total tobacco acreage, and (5) the per cent of his cultivated land represented by his tobacco acreage quota. The amendment will be reported as that of Representative Wilson of Sampson, but last night Wilson de clared that the "few changes" had taken the teeth out of his amend ment and that he would not accept it. At the same time, representatives considering a similar compact in ' the South Carolina legislature de clared it "utterly impractical" to attempt tobacco control, for that State until North Carolina establish es the law. Representative W. C. Graham of Florence, S. C., said he believed the bill was doomed to fail ure until a like statute was first passed in North Carolina. North Carolina's bill, as it now stands amended by the sub-com mittee's recommendations, would leave control of burley .tobacco to the State Commission, Chairman Fenner said. In the light of Ken tucky's recent enacted compact law, the states of North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Indiana and Ohio must ratify like pacts before March 1 to make the measure effec tive for the 1937 crop year. Indiana and Ohio were not required to enter into burley control under the "model" bill drawn up by farm ex perts in Washington, and the crop year was established as beginning 1 May 1 of each year instead of March 1. While yesterday's agreement plac ed sub-committeemen on a common ground, indications were that a mi nority report would come out of the < joint committee to start a fight on the floor of the House when a vote is taken. Representative Wilson of Sampson declared that he would not sanction the recommendations and that if necessary he would press his contentions on the House floor. The sub-committee struck out his proposal that quotas be established with respect to "the number of de pendent persons in the families who will be engaged in the production of the tobacco for which the allotment is desired." It further deleted his provision for a maximum: "nor shall any allotment be given to any grow er for an acreage greater than 36 per cent of his total cultivated acreage in 1936." This maamntm allotment had beea suggested to the group also by Representative Troy T. Barnes oi Wilson Ceupty, who is a member of the sub-comittee. Barnes said it has been taken out of the amend ment upon the advice of James Thifpen, of Washington. assistant to 1. R. Hutaon, former chief of the tobacco section under the AAA. Barnes said he agreed to the de lation. The set up by the change w31 not fix 3.2 acres as a suck for every farmer who has that much land The minimum provides that the tomsr whose base acreage {determined by the AAA on the IjteV to bar so production daring the years 1981, 19B2 and 1983) wa? acres or less shaftl not be xe^ to make any farther reduc-1 hi view^ of the imeesing demand ?tsje^aad ^s^Q^tmres ?lit' IMI ovMrittoft to - f ?' * ' "" ?*' I j from various counties congratu lating them upon their agreement end upon the safeguards contained in the compromiae amendment Aj delegation from Fanner's home coun ! ty of Nash left the capital yesterday after assuring the committee chair man that the compact met with re quirements set by farmers in Nash. The group included J. & Sugg, county agent; W. F. Woodruff, presi dent of the Nash Farm Bureau and vice-president of the State Farm Bureau; Millard F. Morgan, former county commissioner; C. S. Bunn, member of the county tobacco ad visory committee, and J. Henry Vaughan, advisory committeeman and county commissioner. On the other side of the picture, Representative Wilson of Sampson pointed out, there were 25 fanners in Sampson and adjoining counties who had the interest to write him yesterday and urge him to hold out for the maximum allotment which was deleted from his amendment. "Nash, Wilson and Pitt are all right," Wilson said. "But in Samp son, we are not. There are hogs who are planting 10 to 12 acres of tobacco on a 15-aere farm, and we want to see their allotment lopped off. I came to the Legislature for that purpose, and I intend to fight it out" Revised Amendment. The revised amendment, except for provisions touching' upon hurley tobacco, reads as follows: "Representative Wilson of Samp son submits the following amend ments to House Bill No. 20: "L (a) Amend Section 5, Para graph (d) by inserting after "there of" in line 43 the following: "The percentage of total cultivated land in tobacco and in other cash crops": "(b) Amend Section 5, Paragraph (d) by adding at the end thereof the following: "The acreage quota for farms in a county shall not ex ceed such maximum percentage of the cutivated acreage as shall be fixed by the Commission as fair and reasonable for farms in such coun ty." ? "2. Amend Section 5, by adding two new paragraphs at the end as follows: "(h) In each county there shall either be published in one local newspaper the following information for each township of the county, (1) The name of each tobacco grow er in that township; (2) The number of his tenants; (8) his total culti vated acres; (4) his total tobacco acreage; (5) the per cent of his tobacco acreage quota; or else there shall be posted in at least five public places in each township a report for that township showing this infor mation. One copy of such informa tion shall be fifed in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court in the county. "(i) No reduction shall be re quired in the flwccured tobacco acreage quota established for any farm if such quota is &2 acres or less: Provided, that if the operation of the farm reduces the acreage of tobacco grown on the farm in any year below the acreage quota, a pro portinate reduction may be re quired in the marketing quota for the farm." Many Given Work Again General Motors And Fisher Call 40,000 Back To Factories Detroit, Jan. 27.?Nearly 40,000 employes were called back to work today in ten Chevrolet plants in In diana and Michigan which have been closed as a consequence of strikes in other units of ^General Motors Corporation. ^ Another subsidiary, the Fisher Body Corporation, has recalled 5JKJQ more to work in Michigan tomorrow. Before the world's largest auto mobile-producing company started this beck-to-work movement mom than 126*900 of its employes wees idle. Seventeen plants ware closed by strikes in them, and the company has said it would not reopen them until the dispute is settled. Two oi these the Fisher Body plant at Flint, Mich.?have been held by "sit down" strikers since Doe. 30. Although more than forty Gear eral Motors factories from coast to [coast wore closed at tfesdr opera tions curtailed as a consequence ci [the strikes called by " the United Automobile Workers of America. The refusal a* the **?? to wifr oat. the -MaWF" ? Jflfet ?a? bad*) negotiation, for * aatti* meat of the strikes, ^ths ^coiyrar the company* property, '-'7S1 ffiSg "? 1 1 ' III ' ' u IT ?!?" ? ' ? ?HIIIftjl VIII ? I ii IIII IV^ei.1 n ? x ' I WPTF, Raleigh, Will Broadcast Part of Pro-1 gram on Wednesday J. B. Hutson, director of the AAA Mat central region, has accepted an invitation to address the seed ex position and third animal conference! of the N. C. Chop Improvement Aj-| ?ociation, to be held in GoldsboroJ February 9 and lOt. He has been asked to discuss de tails of the 1987 soil-conservation {program, said A. D. Stuart, exten sion seed specialist at State Col-1 j lege, who is helping arrange for the exposition. D. S. Weaver, extension agricul-J tural engineer at the college, is J scheduled to speak on rural electri-j ocation, Stuart added. Both talks! will be delivered Wednesday morn- j ing, February 10. j Radio station WPTF, Raleigh, will! broadcast part of Wednesday's pro gram from 12:30 to 1:30 p. m. This J will include a short address by W. Kerr Scott, State Commissioner of Agriculture, and the announcement J of 4-H and vocational student win ners in the seed-judging contests. Tuesday's program will center on the work of the Crop Improvement Association in encouraging the pro duction and use of better seed in I North Carolina, Stuart pointed out Address will be delivered Tuesday by O. S. Fisher, extension agronom ist from Washington, D. C.; Dr. R. Y. Winters, director of the N." C. Agricultural Experiment Station; and E. Y. Floyd, tobacco specialist at State College. Farmers of the State are invited to enter exhibits of certified and un certified seed, Stuart continued, and one of the biggest and best collec tions of crop, seed ever assembled in the State is expected to be on dis play. I, Growers who wish to enter seed I in the exhibits may forward it to C. I S. Mints, county agent at Goldsboro. Expect Repvt On Road Adjustments By February IDth Fact Finding Commis sion To Recommend Course for Legislature : on Road Ref unds i Information at hand would indi- 1 cate that the Fact Finding Commis* sion in connection with the Road 1 Board Adjustment campaign, will ? make its report to the Legislature ' on or about February 10th, accord- | ing to a statement given out by Judge Guy Elliott, Chairman of the Steer* 1 ing Committee representing these 1 counties, this week. ^ The representatives from these respective counties will await the report of this Commission with a great deal, of interest because what ever is done by this legislature with reference to the refund to the va rious counties will be reflected in the tax set-up in these counties for ' several yean to come. } Honorable ; Carl L. Bailey of Plymouth is chairman of the Fact Finding Com- ; mission and it reported that his ' Commission will meet, in Raleigh for ? a final session daring tin current | week, at which time the report of the Commission report will be formulat ed for the Governor to be transmit ted to the legislature at his pleasure. ; Twenty-five counties have appoint ed a Steering Committee for the pur pose of seeing this movement through the 1987 General Assembly. The further activities of the Committee will be determined by the final re port which the Fact Finding Com mission Trill make afterr its meeting in Raleigh this- week. 1 * J ? " ? Poultry Selection b Important Task "ft- ' tJ. . North Carolina poultrymen are expected to start approximately 20, 000,000 baby chicks this year, ac cording to ~T. T. Brown, extension pouttrymafl at State College, Selecting* the breed and variety is one of the. important decisions which the gtony most make. If he wLAes to keep poultry for egg production, the prowfr will choose one at the lighter brtyds such as Leghorns. However if he wishes ty market his birds a# meat, he wW raise one of the feftvfer breeds, suoh as Bar* red BodpC. Then he can MS Utility birds, auch xi Rhode Island Bids, which are good for both egf produc tion and meet, ??*? gins, ? .;*? *< !*** , ?'* ??* ' ' I,*'" -I'Hs S"?? 1 ?' FmMtizair flnnatai flmroHit ' Uultfllc Lifidfdliy Chairman Le v i ? Ex i presses Appreciation For Spontaneous Re sponse To . Call ; The Need Is Great and Far ther Donations Asked Am temporary chairman of the Bed Croat drive for flood relief fund*, I wish to express my appreciation to those aaaUtanta who helped to ac cept and ton in the funds now in hand; and to those listed here htlow, who so generously and even anxiously donated for this cause, I wish to say that Farmville and the surrounding community has done herself proud. The response was spontaneous. With in a little over twenty-four hours a sum of over five hundred dollors was turned in. The funds came in so fast at times, that it was hard to keep an absolute check on the exact names and amounts; and it appears that two or three dollars art on hand and unac counted for, so anyone whose name has been left off, or the amount op posite 'your name is wrong plowc advise the chairman or the Farmville Enterprise and a correction will he made in the next issue. While we have done tine, raising five times our original quota, I feel that yre have not done half enough; let ua think just how much would we give to have prevented this flood; well, they need much more +han they would have needed if we could have prevented. Let only your generosity and your ability to give limit the amount of your donation. Let Farmville re spond by making her contribution one thousand dollars. Nearly every* one has made a contribution, and has done so without solicitation or re quest Let us take inventory, review the needs of our fellow countrymen, put ourselves in their place (if we can) and see what we can really do. Do not wait for someone to call on you; however, if you cannot send your contribution in to the chairman or one on the committee listed below, just call 283-1 or 257-6 and someone will be sent to your home or place of business for your original or ad ditional donation. If you can bring it in just deliver to the undersigned Chairman, or to one of the following: J. T. Thome, Irvin Morgan, Jr., Bev. Dave Clarke, Geo. W. Davis, Manly Liles, R. A. Joyner, or Rev. C. B. Mashbura. Again I wish to express my pride in and appreciation for the generous and unselfish citizenship of Farm ville, but again I urge you to make an additional contribution; we need just double the amount we have? our fellow man is in danger of the loss of his life?he has already lost his property; let's give a little more of our property and thereby try to save him from disease and death. JOHN B. LEWIS, Temporary Chairman Red Cross Flood Relief Drive. FARMV1LLE DONATIONS TO RED CROSS FOE FLOOD SUWI|LERS Member* of Rotary Clab: Geo. W. Davis $10.00 John T. Thome 10.00 R. J. Wainright 10.00 Paul E. Jones ?_. 6.00 j. L Morgan, Sr. 6.00 J. L Morgan, Jr. : 6.00 G. A. Rouse 6.00 r. E. Joyner 6.00 W. J. Rasberry 6.00 P. P. McGregor 1.00 Jams* Wheless 1.00 Dave Clarke 1.00 J. H. Moore 1.00 R. A. Joyner ? ,* 6.00 W. A. McAdams 6.00 B. F. Lewis , 6.00 W. M. Willis 6.00 Arch Flanagan . 6.00 D. E. Oglesby ; . 6.00 John B. Lewis ',u y 6.00 Manly Iiles 6.00 Charles Edwards 1.00 Ed Williams 1.00 A. C. Monk 26.00 A. C. Monk * Co. !___ 100.00 J. L. Parker 1.00 E. G. Avery .60 Joe Moore 1.00 Holmes Bros. 26.00 C. C. Coppedge 2.00 Bobby Smith .60 H. Q. Gardner ? 1.00 W. J. Teel 1.00 W. A. Martin 1.00, Farm vi lie Fire Dept 10.00 W) ? l M Pollard Auto Co, ? 5.00 Fred Moore 3.00 Dr. Dennis Keel ; 6.00 J. E. OaiR : 1.00; F. C. Travathan 1.00 tDss Blankenship 1.00 Wt A. Mlm Jr. ? . n.5.00 ? h*-*-???' Leon Grumpier ? .60 r. :? ??v.: -' ' . - Greesvilte All Set For PresiM Bill Cake Weighing 40-Lbs. To Be Auctioned Offat Dance Friday Night Greenville, Jan. 27.?Billy Nesbit, chairman of the bell room committee, and hig corps of assistanta today be gan decorating the Campos building at Bast Carolina Teachers College for -the Roosevelt birthday ball to be held Friday night, Jan. 29. Nesbit, display and advertising manager of Blount-Jlarvay company, is being aided in the task by the Junior Woman's Club of the city. Additional funds will be raised by the event through the sale of a 40 pound birthday cake presented by I Morton's Bakery. The cake will be auctioned off at the ball and the pro ceeds added to the fund. The cake ia on display at the Pitt Theatre. Seventy percent of the profits de rived from the dance and Boor show will be retained in Pitt County for the aid of cripples. The remaining 80 per cent will be sent to the Warm Springs foundation, organised to cqmbat infantile paralysis. Tickets for spectators as well as dancers, are on sale at drag stone and smoke shops in Greenville and at centrally located places at other towns hi the oouptj?. Two complete floor shows will be offered as added entertainment fea tures of the Wall. Would Raise Levy Limit Finance Group Ponders Proposal,For Sales Tax Start At 15 Cents Raleigh, Jan. 27.?Two of the most objectionable features of North Caro lina's three per cent general sales tax likely will be removed if pro posals of a finance committee group are heeded by the joint committee of the House and Senate and the ma jority of members of the legislature. The sub-committee has recom mended that the exemptions on ne cessities of life be restored and that the tax levy start at 15 cents instead of 10 cents, as now provided by the measure. Hie so-called necessities are flour, lard, milk, meat, meal, molasses, salt, sugar and coffee. Seven of the nine members of the sub-committee voted for restora tion of the exemption. They were Senators Rodman of Beaufort, Webb of Lenoir, Blackwelder of Ca tawba, and Ingram of Randolph, and Representatives Burgin of Hen derson, Fenner of Nash and Mar tin of Surry. There was no second to a mo tion made by Representative King of Scotland, that the levy be re duced from three to two per cent, with no exemptions. Revenue Com missioner A. J. Maxwell said he believed the proposed revision of the sales tax would result in an nual revenue of about $9,000,000. The bill in its present form will produce possibly eleven millions during the present fiscal year. Ingram said that recommenda tions of the sub-committee, of which he is chairman, were to be given to the full finance commit tee Wednesday afternoon, and said he hoped and believed his commit tee's suggestions would be adopted. King said he was not certain if he would continue on the floor of the House his fight for a two per cent rate. Other Amendments. Other amendments upon which the sub-committee acted favorably would: 1. Fix the maximum tax on any purchase at $15 instead of the pres ent $10. 2. Exempt from the tax "used" articles or articles upon which the tax was formerly paid. 8. Povide for a $10 wholesaler's license, plus. A. tax of one-twentieth of one per cent or gross sales. froposed amendments upon which the sub-committee voted unfavorably would: r 1. Disallow taxation of funeral equipment costing less than 1100. 2. Provide for a $10 maximum tax. 3. Place a flat two per cent tax on aU sales. 4. Allow the merchant to retain three per cent of the total tax col lected as reimbursement for trouble, time and bather. 5. Exempt meals costing lees than 50 capita. 6. Add to the list of exemptions provided in the proposed rsvenor set ? ' - Mrs. T. L. Renfro, of Green Moun tain, Tsnesp^Oonnty, makes Ave trips; a day to a spring located 100 yardsi ^ thSf tailed will savo her vfies of! NOTICE! CITIZENS! ??????(??MBm All people who wish to con tribute fa.the Bed Cross fund, supplying;!**; B*ed wfww, please send any -old clothing, bedding and cash donations to Mayor John .& JLewis or to, ParmviUe Graded School in care of Supt. J. H. Moore, in Mediately. ? ?? .- . ;[ Find Relief BiivttyUMl Urgent Appeal Made by Mayor John B. Lewis Here For Cash Dona tions Urgent appeals for funds and clothing were issued here the first of this week by Mayor John B. Lewis and local Bed Cross officials as word came that die list of homeless as a result of rampaging flood waters was increasing hourly. National headquarters advised that while clothing and supplies were needed and acceptable, that the great est need' from the outlying points at this time was cash contributions to aid in the relief work. Farmville citizens, always ready and willing to do their part in such a crisis were called on Wednesday by a committee from the Rotary Club with very satisfactory results. Anyone wishing to make a dona tion can do so through Mayor Lewis, acting chairman of the local chapter of the Red Cross or J. H. Moore, superintendent of the school. team Levy Being Collected New Commis&.an Has Received About $25, 000 from Employers Raleigh, Jan. 27.?Approximately $25,000 in checks had been received by the North Carolina Unemploy ment Commission Tuesday afternoon as contributions from employers of labor in the State for the calendar year 1986, Charles G. Powell, chair man of the commission, announced today. In addition, more than 500 em ployers had made status reports, or "Report to determine liability un der the North Carolina Unemploy ment Compensation Act," which covered the employment of about 12,000 workers, Mr. Powell report ed. These status reports have been going out to employers in the State since early last week and a few more of them are yet to be sent out. They are due to be returned to thecom missionbyFebruaryl. Checks covering the workers for the year 1936 are being received with filled in copies of "Employers Summary contribution report for the calendar year 1986" which are are due to be returned to the com mission by February L A force of 15 to 20 girls have been engaged for about 10 days in getting out the blanks to the employers of the State to cover their 400,000 employees, and the work is to be completed within the next day or two, Mr. Powell said, rrrr Dr. J. D, Barclay Delivers Address Here Wednesday On Wednesday morning Dr. John D. Barclay, of the Christian Church of Wilson, discussed for the Fann ville High School faculty, students and friend* the Spanish Rebellion. After reviewing the causes and the progress of the rebellion, the politi cal divisions in Spain, and the in terests shown by other world powers, "Captain John," as Dr. Barclay pre fers to be called, conducted for half an hour an open discussion. At this time members of the audience were permitted to ask questions concern ing any aspects of the revolution that .interested them. Dr. Barclay Is chairman of the dis ! trfct .committee, of the Federal Edu cational Forum. The committee, composed of superintendents of vari ous schools throughout the seven counties comprising this unit, plans to present in fifty places a series of lectures called the Publie Fornm. At these Public Forums, much like the: Town Meetingsef old, the dtieene ot the comnwpi*y HdH be given an onportujiitF to learn more about andto dtew t(?rtte probtomaeon (or Pok . r.-\ lie Forums have been made, and, since only fifty of them may he ac cepted, the decision nests upon the j attendance of the first lectures. Those towns having a hundred in attendance, or.those having the larg est attendance will secure the'Forum series, which will begin in February ?nd last through June. The. date, the. speaker, and the topic for discussion will be announced in the Sunday newspapers. Farmville will probably have ite first lector? in tee school auditorium on Monday or tebe hoped tint totOTrt *tn bo Mbu ? U i wwH ior one ox w nity units* Waters of Ohio River ReachHigherMatks ? ?,???? ?, mi - ^ ^ -- ; .; Army of Honda* Is S'**i J? ?P . Death ToUStanding at 142 Known Dead With Hundreds R e p o r t e d Mtaang in Nation's Worst Tragedy Since World War The sullen flood waters of the Ohio river sprawling over a.. 1,000 mile graveyard oi almost boded towns, villages and farm lands flow ed on to threatened new heiiditr of disaster today in America's greatest emergency Bince the World war. / With the army of hprnnlem swell ed to 750,000, the toll of known dead by drowning reached 142?hundreds more were missing?and .estimates of property damages seared far be yond the 0800,000,000 mark* com pletely overshadowing the havoc of the 1927 Mississippi river disaster. At Louisville, Ky., Health Commis sioner Dr. Hugh LeavelL said at least 200 victims had died of dis ease, attributed lirectly to flood conditions. Twenty more bodies found float infl in the streets of Louisville lay in the morgue today. As the flood waters momentarily paused in their four-day rise to record-breaking heights in the Ohio river valley, army engineers at Cairo, HI., directed the labors of 1,000 vol unteers hastily throwing a three-foot wall against the on-coming assault of the Ohio's crest. Below Cairo is the line of approach residents of Tiptonville, Tenn., and New Madrid, Mo., were told to evacu ate the river side region at once. At Memphis the Mississippi rose to within two feet of an all-time high. Louisville fought floor, Are and disease with three-fourths of the city under water. Three separate fires added about $760,000 to the damage already placed in excess of $100,000,000 is unofficial estimates. Cincinnati watched hopefully as the river inched from the high stage which had halted its power and water plants, spread fire, priva tion and the threat of disease. The mass movement of refugees from flood stricken cities in Indi ana gained impetus as the Evansville and other cities prepared for the crest expected within 48 hours. More than 76,000 had been driven from their homes. 17 Are Drowned In BusTragedy Thirty-One Aboard Bus When Vehicle Hurdles From Highway Into Stream Miami, Fla., Jan. 26.? Seventeen persona were drowned yesterday when a large motor bos left the Tamiami trail in the Florida everglades and toppled into a canal paralleling the highway. The boa company, Tamiami Trial Tours, Inc., said 31 ' persona were aboard the westbound bus which left here for Fort Myers and Tampa on the Florida west coast First reports indicated 12 survived although sev eral were seriously injured. Robert Singleton, Negro porter, said thoee who lost their lives were trapped within the coach in 12 or 16 feet of water. ' He said be broke a window in the one corner of the bus and crawled out. Then, he said, he helped all he could to get out through-this one exit. Ambulances and police recue squads rushed to the scene, 80 miles west of here. Passing motorists aid ed in recovering the victims. Singleton raid. the right front wheel broke, the Mg bus hutted from side to side, rolled oyer twiceuaad toppled into the deep canaL . < Only one corner of the bus, re mained above water. V \" V ?