The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-16
Checks TOTALNC ITO MILLION
ready FOR COTTON Farmers
Government From Planters Who Destroyed
Is to 50 Per Cent of Crops
q FREDERICK c. OTHMAN
r',i,,d Press Staff Correspondent

nAh'hAAANN II N'Ahs AhN,s w. - '
,rsrica's cotton farmers will re-
,srs &IIO.OOO.OOO from the gov
.,rmerr Immediately, it was de-
,i5sd ate yesterday at a long
4 White House conference of The
osuper cabinet"
The checks. which probably wild
10 in the mails today are PreSj-
don, RooSsvelt's reward to those
cotton planters who promised to
Destroy from % to so per cent OF
then crops i'm the interest of his
agricultural recovery program.
Most farmers will be able to
,,sb their checks without delay,
ne presidents cabinet advisory
hoard decided, despite the debts
wanv owe the government. These
debts are the crux of problem
which has been worrying admins
ration leaders for weeks.
4 law passed in 1875 specified
that the government could make
no payments to any individuals
without first deduCting what that
Individual owed the government.
Experts feared the ancient sta
.1te might tend to ruin the whole
farm relief program simply be-
cause the farmers need cash in
tead of receipted bills.
The United Press learned that
Attorney General Cummings ruled
the law ineffective, because of
later amendments. The attorney
generals decision now is on the
desk of Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace, but has not been made
public
In view of Cummings opinion
the super cabinet decided to waive
al Of the debts owed by the cot
ton farmer to the government,
with exception of those seed. crop
and other loans which had private
endorSerS.
The cotton farmers owe the
government about $40,0OO,OOO.
Officials of the agricultural ad-
iustment administration estimate
that about three-fourths Of these
loans can be waived.
The whole complicated eXplana-
'ion as released by the agricultur-
Al credit administration means
simply that only about 100000
100 of the $19O,0O0,O0O process
ing tax funds going to the farm
srs must be used arbitrarily in
payment of their federal debts.
The cotton payment decision
vas only one of a number of i'm
DOrtant developments which cen
tered the administrations atten-
ton on President Roosevelt's vast
program to bring prosperity back
to the American farmer.
Decision of the Chicago Board
Of Trade to drop its emergency
rlle pegging the price of grain
at the closing levels Of July 81
brought from Secretary Wallace
announcement that the govern
ment would make no attempt to
Interfere.
Wallace threatened to dump
American wheat on foreign mar
kets if other wheat producing ma
ions persisted in refusing to re
tuce acreage. He said he pre-
terred to say the government
would make Subsidized exports
Of grain, rather than to use the
word dumping
Wallace also revealed a pork
Processing tax program, which he
said may go into effect October l
10 pay for what is known pOpu-
larlv IS the governments birth
control program for pigs" de-
signed to reduce pork production.
The governments plan to sell
whea. abroad at sub-standard
prices were discussed by Wallace
and Henry Morgenthau, Sr., Uni
ted States delegate to the London
wheat conference which adjourn
ed recently.
Norgenthau reported that of all
the wheat importing countries
only Great Britain and Austria
showed any genuine Willingness
to help solve the problem. He said
thai none Of the wheat exporting
countries except those on the Dan
ube and possibly Russia showed
any attempt to control produc-
ton.
Wallace appointed Frederick Z.
Murphy American expert at the
wheat conference to represent the
United States when the confer
Snce recOnvenes in London August
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