Warehousemen And Merchants
FARMVILLE MARKET ALL SET
FOR AIL-TIME RECORD SEASON
Tobacconists and Merchants
Ready To Serve
Growers and Extend to
Them A Right Hand of
Welcome
The fall of 1944 marks the 40th
anniversary of the founding of the
FarravQle Tobacco Market. Prom the
year of its birth, there has been a
growing demand for larger warehouse
space, the employment of more men
and the supplying of more of the
varied facilities adequate to care for
an increased volume of sales.
Warehousemen have made extensive
preparations for the market
opening and movement of the graded
tobacco towards the sales houses, remodeling,
renovating and clearing
premises and floors, getting ready
' for operation on a full day basis, awl
all is in readiness for the chant of
the auctioneers.
The tobacco sales season in Farmville
is starting witl^ a great show
of virility again this year with the
two tobacco leaf sales firms running
two houses each as in the past
three seasons. Monk's Warehouse,
composed of J. T. Monk, Jt, J. C.
Carlton and Robert D. Bouse, ie«a
firm of experienced and popular
warehousemen with two houses, and
Knott's No. 1 and No. 2, is again
under the management of R. H.
Knott, Grover H. Webb, John Fountain
and Jack Moye, who make a
_temm at four erf the most prominent
and successful tobacconists in the
bright leaf belt. •
Farmer Friends!
All bwiiieerlwew in FamviQc
are wide open to yon and their
forces Tying with one another in
extending you a cordial welcome.
Unusual displays and prices will
be offered yon and your family
each day you visit the FARMVILLE
TOBACCO MARKET.
viding comfort- for them while in
Farmville.
Tobacconists in this section believe
the crop in Eastern North Carolina
to be very good, with curings declared
excellent, and a brighter color
than usual, giving rise to an optimistic
outlook for better prices. They
have been in the fields at intervals
since housing began and have visited
the paclthouaef and grading rooms
to give their friendly advice and
counsel to the farmers regarding special
care in grading and handling,
which always oounte heavily in dollars
and cents when it is placed _on
the warehouse floor, and makes it
possible for the warehousemen to demand
and get a better price for it
on the aala.
The hundreds of thousands of dollars
to be loosed hen among tobacco
grow erg within the next few weeks
will stimulate the entire section and
the increase in trade and collection®
will pot new spirit into all classes.
Polio Total Rising
Daily In The State
With new cases of infantile paralysis
reported daily to the State
Board of Health the total continues
to rise, with 682 since June 1 being
recorded Wednesday of this week.
Most of the countie* reporting new
cases also announce an immediate
ban upon the gathering of children
under the age of 18 in public places
such as Sunday Schools, moties and
upon the streets. This baa prevails
in most «f the <W counties, which
have reported from 1 to 70 cases.
Catawba has the highest total, 70,
with Burke next, 42.
While North Carolina has about a
fourth o£ the total eases reported in
the nation this summer, this section
has been fortunate so far in keeping
almost free from the epidemic, there
tein* in the
County yVKnii
combe 1; Wilson 1; Wayne 2.
Emergency centers have been
established at Charlotte, Hickory and
Gastonia. Red Cross nurses have
been recruited from ail over the na
tion mad the
women
has paroled SO
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ten equipment, physio-therapist, epidemolofist
and phyaicUna
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Tobacco Farmer
Encouraged By'43
Record of Demand
Strong Demand For
Leaf Results In Large
Crop; Favorable Prices
In Prospect
The picture presented to the American
tobacco farmer by the present
conaumptii a and demand for hia
product has pot new heart in' him
and he will bring the 1944 crop of
flue-cured tobacco to market with
high hopes of reaping a fair compensation
for the arduous labor he has
invested in growing this commodity.
Economists and statistical and business
experts have asserted that tobacco,
since its increased consumption
began, has brought farmers more
money than any other crop.
Despite a late spring and drought
in many southern tobacco areas during
May and June, the largest crop
of tobacco since 1939 is in prospect
Jfcis year, according to U. S. Dept. of
Agriculture survey. Crop conditions,
as of July 1, point to a 1944 tobacco
production of one thousand four hundred
and eighty-four million pounds,
6 percent over last year's crop. The
exceptionally strong demand tor leaf
tobacco has led farmers to plant the
largest acreages since 1989. The yield
per sere is placed at 880 pounds compared
with 966 last year, and 806
pounds for the 5-year period 1939-48.
The combined acreage of all types is
placed at 1,686,000 acres, an increase
of 16.4 percent over last year's harvested
acreage of 1,449,000 adres. The |
indicated acreage is above last year
for all classes except fire-cured, which
is down 4 percent.
Price Regulation
The 1944-45 flue-cured marketing
season began July <1, with the open- ,
ing ol the Geor-gia-Florida markets, i
A strong demand and favorable prices (
for the leaf prevailed throughout. The.
1944 crop of flue-cored has been
placed under a maximum price regulation
which provides for a maximum
weighted-average purchase price of
48-1/2 cents for tied tobacco and 89
cents for untied tobacco. Crop con-,
ditions on July 1 indicated a 1944
floe-cured crop of 833.7 million pounds |
—an increase of 6 percent over 1943 j
and 6.5 percent above the 10-year (
(1988-42) average production. The
acreage as indicated by tie report is'
somewhat smaller than the allotted
acreage for this type, and the indi-1
cated yield of 843 pounds per acre is
below that of 1948. Owning to the!
high level of domestic manufacturing
and exports, stocks of flue-cured on'
July 1st were lower than last year I
by approximately 181 million pounds,
but this 1
_ in the carry-over is'
the indicated fni mam 1
..Jllion pounds in the'
1948'
supply as «f July l#t]
of a year ago by about
for
is
the
WAR IN BRIEF
Eastern Front: Romania quite war
against United Nations, announces it
will fight against "enemy," invade
Traagylvanlan territory ceded to Hungary;
capitulation come* aa Russians
report slaughter of 26,000 Nazis and
Romanians in new offensive, Russians
report fighting between Romanian
and German troops.
Western Front: Paris falls to
French interior forces as American
divisions camp in suburbs; Germans
reel bade along 170-mile front along
Seine; German radio ^claims two million
troops on both sides locked in
battle.
Southern Front: Marseille captured
by French troops of Seventh
Army; Americans drive through
Grenoble, J40 miles inland.
Pacific Front: Mac Arthur's bombers
hit Davao again, Nimits announces
sinking enemy ships at Chichi Jima
in Bonina, Carolines and Halmahera
also attacked
Asiatic Front: Allied planes batter
Japanese craft along Burma
rivers;. Chinese capture one-third of I
Tenchung.
Pitt Court Adjourns
As Help To Farmers
Judge R. Hunt Parker of Roanoke
Rapids Tueaday adjourned, the civil
term of Pitt County's Superior Court
after nearly a score of divorce.decrees
had been granted and a number
of motions heard.
The Halifax Jurist, Solicitor Dave
Clark and Court Clerk J. Frank
Harrington at a conference Tueaday
decided to postpone many oi the cases
scheduled to be tried at next week's
criminal term of court.
"We want to permit the farmers
to remain in the fields and at the
curing barns to house the rapidly,
ripening tobacco crop," Judge Parker
who is riding the Fifth Judicial district
the last half at the year, stated.
by the Flue-Cured Tobacco Advisory
Committee and other representatives
of the industry.
In addition to price ceilings at the
grower's level, the 1944, regulation
provided for control of all sales ot
the crop from producer to manufacturer.
The Office of Price Administration
stated that the new price ceilings
will have no immediate effect on
retail cigarette prices.
Became of the exceptionally strong j
demand tor flne-eurad tobacco this)
season and neceeejty tor its esta
lishment of ceiling prices, officials of |
the War Food Administration, to insure
a fair disiributiar of the crop,!
have deemed it advisable to limit the i
" isee of the W44 crop of floe-|
tobhacco by mamrfactareni m
The 1944 production has also
allocated fay the War Food
tration as to domestic and foreign
use. On the basis of current^erop estimates
it was that 482
million pounds may be u«
cally, and 362 million pounds used to!
meet the requirements of the United]
World Peace
Being Planned
Parley Between U. S.,
Russia and Britain Began
This Week
The eyes and hopes of the world's
2,000,000,000 war-weary people are
focused on a peaceful Washington
estate—Dumbarton Oaks— where the
United States, Russia and Britain are
discussing plans which may determine
whether there shall be lasting peace
or another war for this generation.
The long-heralded meeting of the
hig powers to plan a pest war" in-1
ternational security organisation—a
new League of Nations—started at
10:30 a. m., Sunday, when Secretary
of State Oordell Hall made a welcoming
srirtrssa to the delegates representing
the three nations.
On the eve of the momentous conference,
the newly-arrived Soviet
delegation said it waa "most optimistic"
about the chances at the three
powers creating a world organisation
to keep the peace. Thus did the
Russians echo the sentiment of their
American and British colleagues.
Even before the parley started the
United States, Russia and British
were agreed upon the general framework
of such an organisation. But in
their meeting they are thrashing eat
ways of guaranteeing the use of joint
force, if necessary, to suppress aggression.
The long strides toward victory by
Allied force* in Europe and in the
Pacific gave added urgency to the
talk*. The Dunbarton Oak* talk* are
exploratory rod probably will be followed
this fall by a fulldreee conference
among all the united and
other peace-loving natfea*.
Some official* openly have expressed
hope that a treaty embodying
a new League of Nation may be
ready for signatures by late autumn
ao that a working world peace organization
can be operating even before
this global war wide.
be the la*fe World War, arrivaiftwn
Moscow at noon Sunday in a big
transport plane painted with the Bed
Star of the Soviet Union. The Russian
delegate* were me* at Wash
Farmville's Chief Asset Was
Developed By And For The Public
. —
Half "Holiday" Over
The half haliday pcrtod, eh•erred
by Mmm firms km ea
Wednesdays daring the Maimer
■moths f®r several yean, has
oome to a clow and doors will
be Men with "twrimm mm* oiuT
Mch WtdnemUy daring the Fall
and Winter Mentha
after his address Monday rosponaes
from Cadogan and Gromyko. TTwri
he turned the gavel over to his yomnjj,
silver-haired assistant, Stettinius.
General Points.
All three countries are in sgre^
ment on these points:
1. Hurt the worid organization
shall have: An assembly ci all nations;
a council of the "Big Pour"
and certain other nations elected annually
by tiie assembly; a world
court; agreements and arrangements
for maintaining adequate forces to
prevent war by Joint action.
2. That the full responsibility for
keeping the peace must rest with the
"Big Four" said not be distributed
among the «0-odd nations o{ the
world.
S. That the decision to use collective
force to put down aggression
must be unanimous among ti« United
States, Gnat Britain, Soviet Russia
and China. ' ' 3
Mobs of Patriots Best
Germans In Fierce
Fight* Ending Over
Four Years of Nazi
Bondage
of
Gaulle's
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Ul, 60,00
•Mad by
Unified Support of Community
For 40 Yean
Cited In Remarkable
Advancement
Use and distinction to Its na
Witfcoat hesitation may E:*krni
citizen will answer your qiastto
four wonds, -TBS FASMflOLE
BACCO MARKET." It has been
glorification.
During' these forty years of
market's existence a wonderful
almost unbelievable improvemea
thought
thi, trwt
There can be do
mutually beneficial