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2,500,000 Cotton Bags
Change by A & P Fro?
Jute to Cotton But
Sacks CUM Example
of How Business Can
Help Move Big Sur
plus Crop
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A "major victory in the 1939 cam
pafrn to boost domestic consumption
of cotton" was hailed today by Pa
B. Haisteed, secretary and treasury,
of toe Cotton Textile 1natatate? with
the announcement of an order tor
I more mm??
the Great Atlantic A Pacific Tea
Company.
The A & P order, which will re
I quire an estimated W>00 acres of
cotton and provide a full week's work
for approximately 18,000 persona,is
one of toe first of many which cot
ton producers and processors hope
to obtain from American indostry
this year, Halstead said. Firms
changing from the use of jute and
other materials to cotton, he point
ed out, "not only help reduce our
national surplus, but fulfill an ad
ditional patriotic purpose in provid
ing jobs for thousands of workers in
the American textile industries.
"The A & P order is a dramatic
example of how this Works,' Hal
stead continued. "Htaeeforth toe
company will use eotton instead of
I jute bags for toe 1,50*000 barrels
of flour consumed annually by its
bakeries. This involves more than
2,500,000 large baga, made from oy
er 2400 bales of eotton, which m
i !??? gre the product of approxi j
mately 5,000 acres of land. The la
bor required for this order, includ
ing that of raising the cotton, mak
ing it into cloth and making the cloth
into bags, totals about 725,000 hours j
?or, on a 40-hour week basis, a
week's work for approximately 18,
000 persons." 1
Hie order follows intensive sales
aid given cotton producers by food
chain stores and other retailers dur
ing National Cotton Week last May,
Hatetetd added. Extensive newspap
I er advertising, window and interior |
displays and other sales efforts were
utilized by the participating stores
to -?"T*"*?- tike importance of
cotton in our national economy, he
saiiL A ft P and other food chains
< explained, featured mer
chandise made from eotton and cot
tonseed products, or packaged in
cotton doth, and "brought home to
the fact that wider use of
this product means increased em
ployment and greater prosperity."
"As an effective and appropriate
climax to the National Cotton Week |
campaign, tins present action by one
of toe nation's leading chain store
organisations deserves highest
I praise," he said.
While cotton bags such as hose
ttffe toed for A A P fkmr coat more
of burlap and other
materials, they have several ad^n
tagee which offset higher it tod
outlay, he commented. Halstead
| pointed out that cotton bags jum
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However, Economy
Coalition Claims B9H{
Will Suffer Defeat On
F1 o o r ; Adjournment
Plans Made for Sat
urday
Washington, Aug. 2.?*?
toward sine die adjounaoesit efGon
gress was halted momentarily to
day when House leader* v! suddenly
decided to call up PiuAfest Roose
velt's new $800,000,000 housing-slum
clearance program which they had
junked earlier in the day.
The measure, an integral part of
the administration's lending program
killed in the House yesterday, would
authorize the United States Housing
Authority to increase its bonded in
debtedness to $1,608,000,000. The
President defended it as an aid to
recovery.
Approved weeks ago by the Senate
with virtually no debate, the pro
posal is being fought by conservative
Democrats who want to curb Feder
al spending; by agrarian Democrats
who protest that the money will be
spent in urban communities and none
will go to aid farmers, and by Re
publicans.
The same coalition scrapped the
lending bill yesterday by voting dew*
the rule under which it would have
been considered. Experts tonight be
lieved the housing rule would en- ?
counter the same fate.
A check by house leaders several i
days ago forecast .defeat of the'rule.
Some believed that this was the only
reason the hostile rules committee,
which is dominated by anti-New Deal !
Democrats and Republicans, allowed
it to go to the floor.
The tide was running so strong
agrnmai the measure that it waa de
cided at a conference among Demo
cratic leaders this morning tSb'sfcen
don it. Chairman Adolph Sabbath,
Democrat, Illinois, of the ruleseora
mittee, announced he move to report
ers in a hitter attack on 'the forces
of reaction which are drunk with
power.'
?If the President does not bec?wr
a candidate for a third term, it fti&t |
means that all of the achievement#!
of the last eight years in behalf
the common
myp will be killed as|
soon as the rssctinaries can get "fcf!
their work," he"said. C Si
This waa interpreted as the death
knell for the housing program, but
late in thelddy reports circulated
that New Dealers were trjring to
pump new 1J^ into it. They succeeds
ed. Shortly before the chamber ad
journed for the day, House
Leader Sam Raybmra, Detupcsat, of j
Texas, said the rule would be called
It was-'fajpfldseat to newsmen
who interviewed ?? hrter thrt-he
Wis not optimistic over its chances.
Proponents of the measure, It was
expect ft loeslflr T?
a lot^eTother-peopto^^
?Sa| committee gave the amend
Bftdi* ngj|
without 4 ' CQtiiO' r UOe.'1 wO
tive Eugene Cox, Democrat,
? vftg Ttftf tfyiftg to X0IC6 Li. "
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Greenville, Aug. L-J. H. Cotrard,
Pitt County Auditor, revealed yes
terday that in the county budget for
Bthie year 1988-89, the appropriations
exceeded the actual expenditures by
$1*91327, 4utd the collections ex.
ceeded the actual expenditures by
eluded: General fund: appropriation,]
$111,676; expenditures, ^10(^754^91; J
collections $117,937,53; County Home!
B?appropriation $10466; expendi
tures $7,77847; collections $12,
168.63; Outside poor and relief $11,
491; expenditures, $1343395; col
lections, $13,338.50; pension appro
priation, $34,226; expenditures, $32,-1
419.48; collections $28,189.37; Pitt
Health Department appropriation j
$17459.79; expenditures $16353.13;
collections $14,618.02; and bonds and
interest appropriation $190,020; ex-l
pcuttHium $178460.83; collections
$177,993.74; in the general fund, the
collections exceeded the expendi
tures by $748*82; County Home
collections exceeded ^*tijpefeditures
by $4j946*fco?*kfe relief and poor,
collections exceeded expenditures by I
ceeded 'the colleetfe** by $4*230.11; I
heath departm||^MBtMiitures ex
ceeded collections by $1,36046, and
$357,690.52; and collections $364,-1
1&6.79. The general fund is derived |
from fees,- coBectitma and the ABC
Board; county home, sale of produce; I
pensions, four cents tai levy; heatthf
department, state and federal aid add!
the ABC, mid bonds an interest from |
fl*(63-eents tax levy.
In school maintenance a supple
mentary items budget, derived from |
poll and dog taxes, court fines a
seven-cents tax levy, and state aid
to* vocational education, the appropri-1
ations was $49,469.40; expenditures
$5142193; collections $48,772.56.
The slate aid amounted to <$13495.41.
The 7-centa tax rat* waa derived
from the 7-eents, 55-eents and 8
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*tofcite**ailor, sUtaan XS'w!
Worshau, 22, lowered 'himself from
yTi'Hr" ,i?
the. track. After walk
At least two trains zipped over him
before he was noticed and awaken-1
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v-r?cr and Spwct {ion*
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The United States Conference**
m ember or the House and ^ ontte, de
propriates additional funds .gam*
modifies the requirement that loqal
govrnments assume twenty-five per
cent, of the costs of projects by the
end of the year.
The Mayors' Association has beep
vigorous in urging large appropria
tions for relief. The chief executives
of some of the largest cities in the
^nation assert that the relief quotas,
are too small and that many, eligible
for work relief, cannot get jobs^The
cities, they explain, are unable to
take care of the unemployed or to
provide the twenty-five per cent, of
the cost of projects, as required un
der the recently enacted measure.
The mayors, it is understood, did not
ask for abadonment of the stiplation
that all WPA employes work 130
hours a month for their security pay.
-It is easy to understand the inter
I est of the mayors in relief appropri
ations. In toge dties, the unem
ployed constitute a serious problem.
If the Federal Government provides
[adequate appropriations to give than
IfVployment, the city officials are re
lieved of a thratening problem. Not
only will they face the needsifty of
taking some steps to provide food for
the unemployed, but they do notirel
ish the idea of having thousands of
<<fisgruntled inhabitants within their
boundaries. Faced with the alterna
tive of bearing the expense of relief
or of appealing to.the Federal Gov
ernment, it is easy to understand the
fervid appeals made by the mayors.
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President Bobsevelt and Postmast
er-General Jamfcs A. Farley. held a
much-publicized conference at Hyde
Park last week, but wben the parley
was over, there was no news. Per
sistent reports pf a rift between, the
two men, said to be caused by Mr.
Farley's reluctance to support a Bta
term and his alleged political ambit
General remained cordial and, after
the conference, the Chief Executive
seemed to emphasize that their dis
cussion on public issues had been on
the same balds as their previous get-"
togrth.?.
';:;jT!?e Httteb Bill, rg?&licly4endorsed
by Vice President Garner, provides
penalties varying from fines and. im
prisonment to removal from office if
these on the public payroll, except
elected officials and executive policy
coercion of voters in a Federal elec
tion: interfereroe in such Section;
Stttart jobs or other Compel
'tton so a reward for political ^aid;
1 t6re^h*priw
Ue^ because 0,fr^^r^tg?^0C?^
> Warfiington, Aug. 1 The Senate
ed tobacco growers in the southern
states an opportunity to hold art Im
mediate fanner election on invoking
mtofaihig dootaa o?their -1940 sale*
It approved debate,
gent to the White Hotae, amend
ments to the 1938 farm act which
Wttild authorize Secretory Wallace to
call a referendum at any time dur
ing the marketing season instead of
waiting until November 15 as pro
vided in existing law.
Marketing of flue-cured tobacco
started last week in Georgia and;
Florida/ and begins Thursday in
South Carolina, and a few North
Carolina markets.
Tobacco growers meeting here
yesterday expressed belief; air early
referendum' would help holster de
pressed prices on the Georgfe mar
kets. >
Flue-curttf grd#ew in an election
last winter -rejected imposition of
twftrkpting quotas on their 1939 crop,
the largest on record.
The amendment also would; change
the basis. from sales quotas from
poundage to acreage and increase
penalties which may be imposed for
selling ill excess of allotments from
three to 10 cents per pound.
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Douglas, Aug.. 1.?Georgia bright
leaf tobacco growers were cheered
today by a .possibility of a confer
ence of buyeri ahd producers next
week; to seek"better priceB for this
year's billion-pound, buipper crop.
Growers at the 15 Georgia market
centers last week sold 27,024,786
pounds of bright leaf -for an average
of 14.75 cents.
First week sales last year brought
farmers a 26.75 average for 14,
097,350 pounds.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 1.?
Growers of flue-cured tobacco look
ed today to the, possibility of a
meeting, with "buyers to seek an
agreement which might increase the
price being paid for the crop this
year.
Representatives of growers in
Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina* Georgia and Florida unani
mously-approved sueh a course late
yesterday at a -meeting with AAA
officials.'. ,Vr..
- Claude Hall of Roxboro, N. C.,
chairman of a growers' advisory
committee, expressed hope a confer
ence could 4>e arranged with buyers
for Wednesday or Thursday of next
treek to determine whether prices
might be .boosted if farmers agreed
to withhold some of their tobacco
from the market.
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Roosevelt ?
. Berlin, Aug. 2.?Germany if .pre
pared to strike "with lightning speed
and- undreamed of forpe" if she is
driven to war again, the- army, navy
and air force ware told today in pro
clamations marking th 26th anniver
sary of Germany's entry into the
World War.
The proclamations were issued by
Field Marshal Hermann W. Goering,
commander-in-chief of the air. force;.
Admiral Marshal Eric Raeder, -com
mander-in-chief of the navy, and Col.
Gen. Walther von Bruchitsch, army
leader, as the Reich's 2,000,000 men
under arms observed a nation-wide
holiday.
"Born of the* spirit of the German
flers in the World War and sworn
to the ideals of- our Fuehrer and com
mander-in-chief, the German air
force stands today ready to carry
tHrougfci with- lightning speed and
undreamed of force every order of
the Ftiehrer," Goering's manifesto
BfjBd.; ?
Meanwhile, the air force which ?
Wwrid War Ace Goering built to
what he contends is the greatest aer
ial strength possessed by any natibn,
Carried out large-scale maneuvers
over northwestern Germany across
15,000 square miles i of territory.
He maneuvers, described officially
as having revealed "an enormous de
gree of efficiency,*' were in the form
K?? an imaginary war between an In
vading ' aBlue" force and its defeat
by a "Bed" force east of the River
Elbe.
Playing War
Between the two aerial forces,
?(tended by the rivers Weser and JE51
be, is a neutral "green" state whose I
neutrality thus far has been respect
ed by both feortbatants in the man
?MjfcrutO continue until Thursday. A
"neutral yellow state?* in SdilesvHg
Holstein, however/ was flown over-by
the defending "Red" forces. Arid as
KM?ult the "Blue" planes - also flew
over it
It was announced that anti-air
craft guns had downed, theoretically,
large numbers of the "enemy" planes.
I | Today's anniversary /was celebrat
ed in cities-, towns and villages and
and band concerts, Tta^rdere for
Fuehrer Adolf ffitler.
While the proclamations to the
amy, navy and; air ferw bitterly
denounced the attemptsof theWest
^^ po^ Reich,
cium&rly bm boowsaiiy. wjviftowBss,
it is oasv for us to nndteitiiimd this
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; Session inLocal School
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Citizens of the Farmville School
Diatrict ?f^IHtt County, who are
qualified voters, having registered
anew, will go to the. polls here be
tween 7:00 -Ai M. and 7:00 P. M. and
vote, on the two proposed additions
to the .F?mville graded school
namely, a twelfth grade and a.ninth
The twelfth grade will necessitate
the levying in this District of a
special tax of not to ex*eed'?e <**
the $100 valuation, which will be
used for supplementing State and
County school standards in providing
for'the expenses of the proposed sat
dition. _ . ?
To meet the expense of * ninth
month for the Farmville. School, a
special tax will, be levied not to- ex
ceed 12 l-2c on the $100 valuation,
the proceeds, of which witt be need
for supplementing State and County
school standards.
The proposal will require a separ
ate vote and one may be favored
the other disapproved if the voters^ '
desire.
If hpth propositions shall cany,-a
tax not to exceed 20 l-2c wilLba lev
ied on all taxable property within
this School Diatrict sufficient for the
payments of the costs.
A new registeration was ordered
for the election to he held between
July 8-22, with exception of Sundays
and holidays, and no Qne will be per
mitted to vote unless registered dmr
big that priod. AQ persons failing to
vote after registering will be count
ed against both proposals.
The store formerly, occupied .by tha
Pitt Furniture Col will be the polling
place, with W. M. Rollins as Regis
trar, and R. A. Fields and C. A. Ty
son as Judges.
The election was called -after .the
Farmville School Board had petition
ed the County Board of Education,
which in return secured .ahd:gwttd
approval of the State School Com
mission. The Board of County Com
missioners then authorized the spec
ial election.
The Farmville school will have the.
same system of the Greenville
schools if both of-the proposed im
provements are favored by a major
ity of the registered voters.
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Huge Loss To Growers
In Wilson fa Reported
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Wilson, Aug. 2,?Non compliance
of about 60 per cent of Wilson Coun
ty's tobacco fanners this: year with
tha Soil conservation, program of the
government, coupled with overplant
ing id costing farmers around $200,- \_
600 this year, R was estimated by of- -V
ficials of the office of Farm Agent J.
O.^Anthony yesterday^''I'i7^/
1' though abdut 97; per cent -o< A|
cotton farmers of the county arc
signed fee the soil conservation
program, only about 60 percenf are
doing so, it was said.
tUs means, it tfaf. estimated, t$uit ?|j
about" $200,000 & parity mone?$riil J#
be lost to Wilson County farmers
ibis' yeari<;. W,
i Ttj was also estimated that farmers
ti^o^coteity'. .^mfeaom?^^^^
more acres thte y^ttem^^y ?d
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