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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
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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.
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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.
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HENDERSON,
Satlit Btspatth
Lindbergh Book Out
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.