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11KNPERSON RATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR CAROLINA TOBACCO GROWERS TO FAVOR TAXING HOLD-OUTS Meeting in Raleigh Goes On Pecord for 40 Percent Levy on All Noin. Signers excess of signers LIKEWISE COVERED Leeway of Three or Four Percent Would Be Allowed Counties To Accommodate Those Who Wish To Sign; Kerr Bill Levy Is Held Too Small ILilrigh. March 6. —(AP> Repre .'iitntives of 60,000 flue-cured tobacco growers of North Carolina, in a meet ing at N. C. State College today, vot ed to petition Congress to place a 40 piici'iit tax on tobacco sold by far nit'is who refuse to sign reduction contracts. Thr vote was cast by the county committeemen designated sometime iiro at meetings in each county, when plans were being launched for ttie tobacco and cotton reduction cam paigns. County farm agents were pre sent. but were not allowed to vote, is the purpose of the ballot was to determine sentiment of farmers only. The proposed tax would also cover tobacco grown by contract signers pi excess of the 70 percent which they are allowed to produce. News of tue North Carolina to bacco growers will be presented to Congress by J. B, Hutson, chief of the tobacco section of the AAA in Wash ington. who participated in the meet ing. The representatives also voted to allow each county leeway of three or loin percent of the total county al lotment in order to permit the growth of tobacco by growers who wish .to sign the contracts or who were in eligible. Sentiment expressed at the meeting was that the 25 percent tax as pro vided in tiie Kerr bill now In com mittee would not be enough to pre vent non-signers from increasing then crops. A resolution was adopted to make permanent the North Carolina. To fCnrMntiMl oi« Page Five.) 7 Strikers Are Jailed At Spindale 100 Extra Deputies Stationed at Mill To I’revent Possible Disorders '"piiidale, March 6.—(AP)— Seven f'dting textile operatives were jali cd here today on charges of forcible bcspHss and assault as 100 extra dc- P'lties gathered about the Spindale aiill in, prevent potential disorders ’"suiting from activities of pickets. Die strikers were jailed after they attempted to prevent non-striking workers from entering the mill. v employees on the single shift "cv operating came to work, pickets crowded about the plant gates ana ■ought to prevent their entry, but offl ""'s ordered the protestants back. Die pickets retreated, but only ntn-i seven had been arrested. Diet e was no violence at the mill, white approximately 250 workers are "lb th»> number having been swelled hom 75 who struck several weeks ago "i protest against alleged workrng condition!*. Daisy women strikers seemed more boisterous than the men, hut disor 'b is were limited to jeers, catcalls ana mumbled threats. 1 here were no fights as occurred Yesterday when several strikers ano ; '"tive workers came to blows. Ihe Cinderella Ro-» mance of the New est of Queens An intriguing four-story scries 'hat tells the whole story of the Dvr match of ihe new King and 'Vueen of the Belgians is furnish "l with the Central Press Night hawk today. The drama of As ,r "J. who stepped from the kitch *o to the throne makes splendid fading excellent illustrations combine to afford smash feature Play. -L. l if PERRY MEMORIAL HENDERSON, Satlit Btspatth Lindbergh Book Out Ji / mmm'. *<y: HUp: Wmmm Major Gordon Dorrance Major Gordon Dorrance, Phila delphia publisher, is photographed with copies of a book written by the late Charles A. Lindbergh, father of the famous flyer, which has been published at Philadel phia under the title “Your Coun try at War”. Written in 1918, the book originally was entitled “Why Is Your Country at War?” and at that time was suppressed by the government while the first edition was being printed. It con tains an attack on industrial mo uopolies, wartime profiteers and capitalists. Six Robbers Hold Up Big Dakotaßank l ake Four Women Employees as Host ages and Beat Off Their Pursuers Sioux Falls, S. D., March 6. —(API- Four women employees seized as host ages in the hold-up of the Security National Bank today were releasee four miles south of the city. They were not harmed, although they were forced to stand as shields as the rob bers opened fire on pursuing posse men and forced them to give up the chase. Six daring daylight bandits, headec by whom some believe to be John Dillinger, held up the Security Na (Continued on Page Two.) WYNEKOOP DEFENSE IN LAST ARGUMENT Aged Woman Doctor’s Law. yer Claims She Confess, ed To Save Son Chicago, March 6. —(AP) —The "lit tle book that doesn’t lie," wa cited today by Attorney Milon Smith in his closing arguments for Dr. Alice Lind sey Wynekoop in the operating table murder case. He pointed out the part which he hoped a stenographer’s notebook would play in saving his 63-year-old client from conviction on a charge of murdering her daughter-in-law, FLheta. It was the notebook from which the stenographer read to the jury last week a transcript of a news paper story which she said Dr. Harry Hoffman, Cook county psychiatrist, dictated to her shortly after Dr. Wyne koop had signed a statement admit (Contiuued on Page Two.) WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ONLY DAILY Denies Airmail Deal y. I wK Ip|| \ / JS f; L 1 . Hfp 1 <: |i|hS«| \ iwii f : i flwpii! sm m Lehr Fes* Lehr son of u. S. Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, has is sued a firm denial of assertions, made in testimony presented be fore the senate committee investi gating aii mail contracts in Wash ington, that he had any part in the dickering of air line compan ies ior contracts. Young Fess was named, together with Julius Kahn, son of Representative Florence R. Kahn of California, and ‘Young - ’ Philp, son of John Rhilp, former fourth assistant postmaster general, iri the testi mony of Harris M. Hanshue, o.v ecutive of an air line, cs r»v. ... political werk for vav.Vis • lines. DISADVANTAGES IN If State Accepts Federal Money, It Must Also Take Dictation MUST SHARE CONTROL Government Not “Putting Out" With out Strings Tied to Its Dona tions, Is View Held At State Capital Dully Di :patfb Hureaa. In fin- Si. %Vniter Hotel BV J. O.^ASKEHVILL. Raleigh, March 6.—Do the people of North Carolina and do Ihe school people want Federal participation in the support of the schools in the State? Would the State actually get any more money for schools and would not Federal participation mean Federal control and supervision in its expenditure? These questions are being discussed more and- more since Dr. A. T. Allen, State superintendent of public instruc tion, last week told the House Com mittee on Education that he persnai ly lavored Federal participation in the support of the public schools and that North Carolina needed at least $4,000,000 a. year for this year and next, year, in addition to the $17,000,- 000 a year since the State is providing. (Continued on Page Two.) TWO ARE KILLED IN HEAD ON COLLISION Dubuque, lowa, March 6.—(AP)— Two men were killed and six others seriously injured this morning when two Chicago, Milwaukee, \St. Paul and Pacific railroad trains collided head on ten miles north of nere. The collision involved a. passenger and freight train. 95 Percent Os Flue-Cured Farms Have Been Signed Up 65,000 Acres Pledged In Reduction Campaign In State; Price Equalization Payments $2,010,000 to Over Over 30,000 Producer s in North Carolina Washington. March 6.—Gompila-’ tion of the results of the sign-up of the flue-cured tobacco adjustment con tracts indicates that producers have offered contracts to cover approxi mately 95 percent of the eligible farms, it was announced by the Agri cultural Adjustment Administration today. The sign-up represents more than 100,000 contracts from the flue-cureu area, according to officials of the to bacco section. The distribution of con tracts, by states, is as follows: Vir ginia, 11,000; North Carolina, 65,000; South Carolina, 16,000; Georgia 12,500; and Florida, 1,000. Approximately 1,500 flue-cured con tracts have been received in Wash ington and are now being passed up on for rental payments at the rate of $17.50 pm acre for each acre taken NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VI*INIA. HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 6, 1934 1933 STATEMENTS SHOW BLACK NOW BLOTTING OUT RED Corporation Reports Tell Impressive Story of Im provement for Year Just Ended INDUSTRIAL GROUP PULLED OUT OF RED —*- Rails Almost Made Switch from Loss to Profit; Utili. ties Stay in Black, as in 1932, but With Slightly Less Earnings in the Past Year New York. March 6. (API Black is blotting ,out. red on corporation ledgers. Annual Statements now ap pearing tell an impressive story for 1933. Industrials as a group got out of the vermillion... .R.ails almost made the switch from loss to profit. Utilities the only one of the three major groups that showed black figures for 1932, reported moderately reduced, al though still substantial, earnings last year. Here’s the story in figures as Stan dard Statistics Company shows it. A tabulation of annual statements ol 701 corporations comprising indus trials, rails and utilities shows aggre gate net income of $704,884,000 for 1933, as against $259,152,000 for 1932. This is an increase of nearly 195 per cent. A total of 589 industrial companies showed net earning of $391,600,000, as against a deficit of $20,194,(MM) in 1932. Fifty-five railroads which had a de ficit of $lO6 55,000 in 1932 showed a group loss of only $11,199,000 in 1933. Fifty-seven utility companies report ing net of $365,364,000 in 1932 had net income in 1933 of $324,483,000. This was a decline of little more than 11 percent. tKmde Meeting To Be Held In Ra leigh NexT Saturday For That Purpose Dully Di.H|tal<-ti llnreas. In tin- Sir Walter Hotel. HY J. C. HAKKERVILL. Raleigh, March 6. The master print, ers of North Carolina will meet here Saturday morning, March 10, at which the various provisions of the new graphic arts code \lvill be explained and discussed. Jerry Wfelsh, secre tary of the Washington, D. C., Typo thetas, who was active in the develop ment of the code and who is now secretary of the fourth zone code fed eration. will be one of the chief speak ers on the program and will explain the code The North Carolina. Master Print (Continued on Page Two) TWO MORE FORGED N. C. CHECKS SEEN Raleigh, March 6. -(AP)—While a one-armed former bank employee who served a sentence in State Prison for forgery was being blamed by offi cers with circulating hundreds of dol lars worth of forged vouchers on the State Treasury today, four new spurious checks, which were cashed here Saturday by two women, reached the State treasurer’s office. out of tobacco production under the contract terms. Applications for price equalizing payments accompanied a number of these contracts and checks covering these applications will go out with the first payment checks. Thus far, the only contracts acceptea in the State offices and sent to Wasn ington for acceptance and payment were those in which the 1933 produc tion was substantiated by acceptable documentary evidence and in which the signer selected 80 per cent of the 1933 acreage and production as the base acreage and production for his farm. Because of the over-run in botn acreage and production in 1931 ana 1932, and in production for some coun ties in 1933, adjustments must Be (Continued on Page Two) NRA s Immediate Goal Is For Industry To Furnish Jobs To Million Workers NRA ASKS CRITICISM—AND GETS IT Jags General Johnson Seeking to improve the effective ness of recovery moves, NRA offi cials staged a conference on criti cism and invited citizens to record their complaints. Scores accepted the invitation and gave their criti cisms of the recovery administra HOUSE COMMITTEE FOR SHORT WEEK It Is Long Way From Enact ment, But Significance Is Not Minimized NRA MEETING LIVELY Code Review Kings With Charges of Non-Observance and Opposition To Further Cuts in W’ork ig Honrs. Washington, March 6 (AP)—While the President’s advocacy of shorten ing work hours to spread employment, was before the NRA code conference, the House Labor Committee today un animously approved the Connery bill designed to effect a 30-hour week in NRA industries. It was a long way from congres sional enactment, but significance of the action was riot minimized. Mem bers of the committee evidenced hope that the revised measure would meet objections raised to the original by administration spokesmen on grounds that it was too arbitrary. Tactics to get the hill considered soon in the House remained to be de veloped. One controverted measured ahead of it is the Bankhead cotton reduction bill, given special priority today by the rules committee. Also the Philippine independence bill was unanimously approved in com (Continued from Page Two.) Open Road On Cotton Tax Given Washington, March 6.—(AP)— The House Rules Committee today voted to give the Bankhead com pulsory cotton control bill legisla tive right of way in the House. Chairman Jones, Democrat, Texas, of the agriculture commit tee, said he would seek early ac tion. The measure, giving the mea sure privileged legislative status, allows eight hours of debate, with amendments to be offered from the floor. The bill would limit cotton pro duction this season to 10,000,000 hales, and is designed to aid the farm administration’s voluntary reduction program. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Wednesday; little change in temperature. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. William Collins tion. This photo shows General Hugh S. Johnson, seated, at one of the conference sessions in Washington, listening to com plaints registered by William Col lins of the American Federation of Labor. Roosevelt Party Arrives In Cuba Muczitas, Cuba, March 6.—(AP) (By Way of Pan-American Air ways Radio.—The American Clip per, bearing Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and a party of friends, arrived here today half way from Miami to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where they will spend the night. BREVARD BANKERS TO SUPREME COURT Jockeying Much" ITike Luke Leas In Effort To Dodge Prison Terms Dully Dispafeb llttrean. In the Sir Walter Hotel BY J. C. lIASKEItVILL. Raleigh, March 6.—While the “Bre vard bankers" from Transylvania county did not succeed in getting their writ, of habeas corpus yester day from Judge T. B. Finley, in Hen dersonville, they have succeeded in postponing the start of their prison sentences for three weeks, since the Judge granted their attorneys until Wednesday to perfect an appeal to the State Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari. This further follows out the methods of circumventing the law used by Colonel Luke Lea and his son of Tennessee, who have so far resisted all efforts to put them in the State Prison here by circumventing their sentences through legal loop holes and technicalities. If the “Brevard bankers”—Thomas H. Shipman, Joseph Pickelsimer, C. R. McNeely and Ralph Fisher, of whom only two were bankers—do per fect an appeal to the Supreme Court, as they are expected to do, they can undoubtedly defer the beginning of (Continued on Page Two.) RAILROADS DEFAULT ON MORGAN’S LOANS Washington, March 6. —(AP) —A re port filed with the Federal Trade Commission shows that two large com panies in the Van Sweringen railroad group have defaulted on loans by J. P. Morgan and Company and a group of New York bankers. FIND FRESH CLUES ABOUT DILLINGER Chicago, March 6. —(AP) — Two fresh clues pointed today to the pos sibility that John Dillinger, escaped desperado, is lurking in Chicago. The motor car in which he and a Negro companion fled after walking ou of the “escape-proof" jail at Crown Point, Ind., has been found in front of a North Side apartment buila ing. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY STATISTICS SHOW 30 PCT. INDUSTRY ABLE TO JOIN IN Probably Willing To reduce Working Hours With out Cutting Amoulnt of Wages Paid JOHNSON PROPOSES BLANKET HOUR CUT Thinks Even More Than 30 Percent of 600 Code Indus, tries Can Cooperate; Sur vey Completed as Over hauling of NRA Makes Further Headway (Copyrighted by The Associated Press) Washington, March 6 (AP)—Gene ral Hugh S. Johnson seeks the im mediate re-employment of at least one million mor men in private in dustry. This is his minimum and im mediate goal for the overhauling of NRA, which is now in progress. As the assemblage of mass code au thorities resumed its a/ring of clash ing opinions today, it was learned on high authority that, this objective was based on a, survey just completed by Johnson’s economic staff. The survey was reported to show to the NRA chief’s satisfaction that fully 30 percent of the more than 600 code industries now are able and probably willing to make a further cut in work ing hours without reducing the amount in pay envelopes. Such a work week reduction was figured wide enough to absorb ap proximately a. million men. Johnson hopes to get even more code groups to going along. He has tentatively proposed a ten per cent blanket hour reduction, balanced by a ten percent, increase of wage rates, with provisions for immediate exemp tion for all industries unable to stand the gaff. CWA Plans To Drop All Men Mar. 30 Workers In Cities of 5,000 Up To Be Put on Local Working Divisions Washington, March 6 (AP) —The Civil Works Administration will dis band the remnant of ith 4,000,000-man work army by March 30. Arrangements were made for all OWA employees in communities of of 5,000 population or more to be! transferred April 1 to work divisions set up by state and local relief ad 'ministrations. This will involve some 1,500,000 persons. Disbandment of workers in the ru ral sections already is far advanced, on the theory that most will have been absorbed by the end of this month by farme or other seasonal oc cupations. A date has not been set for their complete demobilization, previously planned for May 1. In announcing the new move, Ad ministrator Harry L. Hopkins said all persons who could show need would be given assistance under the new set-up. I ! Cinderella of Royalty! Great, great granddaughter of an army sergeant becomes queen. Prince in disguise sekes hand of demure princess. She sets a tasty meal before him. The whole story of the real love match of the new King and Queen of the Belgians is told in an intriguing series of four stories—the first of which appears today.