HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR TOBACCO CONTRACTS ARE EXTENDED FOR 1935 LABOR ORGANIZER MAKES DENIAL OF CHARGES BY MILL J. Dooley Says He Did Not Pose as Roosevelt Agent in Roanoke Rapids Strike DENIES DISPLAYING OF AMERICAN FLAG Was Not On His Automo bile and He Did Not Order It on Cars of Strikers, He Tells Labor Board; Rose mary Case Ended Before Washington Group WVrtiington. Doc. 22.—(API— The Textile Labor Board today heard J. Dooley, organizer for the United Tex tile Workers, deny he ever represent ed himself as a government repre sentative or th U. T. W. as a govern ment-backed organization. Testimony was given at the con clusion of a re-hearing on charges of discrimination brought against the Rosemary Manufacturing Company t»f Roanoke Rapids. N. C.. by U. T. C. The union held the companv fail ed to give jobs to 73 union members who engaged in picketing during the September textile strike. Dooley was quoted by mlil wit nesses yesterday as saying in organi zation speeches that he had the per sonal backing of President Roosevelt He denied he in any way represent ed the United Textile Workers as a government agency or as having the support of the nation's chief execu tive. He also denied lie had given orders that the American flag be displayed on picket automobiles. He said some cars did diplay this flag, but that his did not. \ The organizer also denied he order ed pickets to keep Rosemary officials from entering the mill, and admit ted that if such were the case it would have constituted unlawful pick eting. Dooley said the Rosemary strike was in the hands of a local commit tee. and he was acting merely in hie capacity as organizer. He estimated the union membership in Roanoke Rapids at 2.200. The hearing was concluded today Mother Has Story About Girl’s Life Tells How Johnston County You n g Woman Was Lured To New York Den •StniLhficld. Dec. 22.—(AP>— Mrs. Eppie Smith, mother of one of the three young Johnston county woman it is alleged were kidnapped and forced to enter a life of immorality by nine persons on trial in superior court here, testified today that Mrs. Sarah Beasley Crane, one of the de fendants, had told her that Alex Beasley, another defendant knew what kind of an apartment Mrs. Crane operated in New York, and helped get girls for it. Mrs. Smith said she had talked to Mrs. Crane while she was held in jail, and Mrs. Crane had told her she understood her father was go ing to try and lay the blame for (Continued on Page Two) Government Plans Fourth Insull Prosecution Soon, Despite Recent Failures Chicago, Dec. 22 22 (AlM—The Bear of Oakland. > Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's " supply ship, was expected to leave - Dunedin Thursday for the explor ’ er’s base at Little America. Ice conditions were reported fav orable for the rtip. for Martin on January 15, and for Samuel. Sr., freed last month along with his son and 16 associates in Federal court of mail fraud charges, on January 9. But their reputedly strongest cases had collhpsed—the mail fraud indict ments, the Middle West Utilities em bezzlement charge against Martin and the first Insull case, which re sulted in acquittal of Marshall E. Sampsell, of an embezzlement count, had been acclaimed the prosecution’s heavy artillery. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Start Drive For Enactment Os Farm Mortgage Measure Washington, Dec. 22.—tAP)—Sup- porters of the Frazier-Lemke bill to re-finance farm mortgages, a measure which has just been revised to set a three billion dollar limit on expansion of the currency, started a drive to day to have the next Congress enact it. The three billion dollar limit was an attempt to smooth its way to pas sage. One criticism aimed at it in the last Congress was that it would per- Closed Bank DividendsTo Bring Cheer State Bank Depart ment Sending Out Hundreds of Thou sands of Dollars Daily liis|»afeh flarena. In tke Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. Itaskerville. Raleigh. Dec. 22—The State Bank ing Department is working night and day these days in order to finish get ting out as many dividend checks to depositors in closed banks before Christmas. Commissioner of Banks Gurney P. Hood said today. For these checks, even though many of them are small, will probably mean the difference between a drab or a merry Christmas to thousands of peo ple over the State, he pointed out. Commissioner Hood spent most of yes terday and today helping the cleri cal force write and sign these checks, so that they can be sent to the vari ous banks for distribution to the de positors as soon as possible. He sign ed approximately 3.000 of these checks yesterday and was working on an other batch today. “So far we have written and sent out about 151.000 dividend checks during the last two or thre months’’ Hood said. “And of this number, 34.- 000 will be sent out during this month. In fact, we hope to finish sending all these 34.000 checks out by Christmas, if possible” On Thursday of this week, the Banking Department sent out more than 15,000 checks for a total of about $571,000. Commissioner Hood said. All of the clerks and stenographers (Continued on Page Six.) BELLCOMPANY 10 APPEAL RATE COTS I Telephone Slash To Be Fought Out in Courts, Commission Is Told Raleigh, Dec. 22.—(AP)—The South ern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company today filed notice with the State Utilities Commission that it would appeal to superior court in an effort to prevent its rates in North Carolina from being reduced on Jan uary 1. Willias Smith and J. H. Pou. Jr., Raleigh counsel for the company, said a petition requesting a restraining order would be presented to a su perior court judge within the next week. , Shortest Day The shortest day this year will be Monday, Deci. 24—the day before Christmas —with nine hours and 13 minutes of theoretical daylight, win ter, however, begins today, Saturday, Dec. 22, at 7:50 a. m., eastern stand ard time 6:50 a. m. central time; 5:50 a. m., mountain time; 4:50 a. m.. Pacific’- time. _ _ _ _ HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, DECEMBER 22, 1934 t mit inflation up to eight orn ine bil lon dollars through new' money ssu ed tores nance mortgages. Representative Lemke. Republican. North Dakota, said today he would toss the revised measure into the hopper on opening day. He said he was confident of enactment because sentiment for the measure is strong er than it ever has been and a good many congressmen were elected be cause thy promiesed to vote for it. N. C. Quota 2,335 In CCC Listings Washington, Dec. 22 (AP)—Near ly half the replacements to be re cruited In January b> the Civilian Conservation Corps will come from the eastern and southern States in the first, second, third and fourth corps areas. The replacement program begins January 1 and runs through Jan uary 13. North Carolina’s quota Is 2,335. Auto License Sales Behind Last Season Dailr Dispatch Uareai, tn the Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. llUMkerville, Raleigh, Dec. 22.—0n1y some 50,000 new 1935 automobile license plates have been sold sitjee they went on sale December 1. leaving only six more business days in which more than 400.000 car owners have to get their licenses, Director L. S. Harris of the motor vehicle bureau of the State Department of Revenue pointed out today. Up to this morning only 45,515 new licenses had been sold as compared with 58,562 up to the same date last year. Harris said. He also estimated that about 5;000 additional sets of li cense plates would 'be sold today, leaving fully 400.000 sets of plates to be sold the last week if all of those who are supposed to get licenses do not get them by January 1. “It will, of course, be impossible for us to issue 400.000 sets of license platess this last week in December, especially with Christmas day and two Sundays intervening,” Harris said. “But we have been prepared since December 1 to issue at least 50,000 licenses a day and we will pro bably be able to increase this number somewhat. So we can still take care of most of those who have not yet purchased their licenses, provided they will get them immediately or mail in their application cards and checks at once. But those who insist or persist in waiting until tile lasi day or two are going to have a lot of inconvenience and delay.” LEGAL LIQUOR PUT ON SALE IN MAINE (Portland. Maine, Dec. 22 (AP) — Legal liquor today made its debut in (Maine* ending of a century of prohibition. Prices as low as 40 cents for a half a pint of new whisky were in effect as State stores opened for business. White Man, Negro Badly Hurt When Train Hits Truck Wilson. Dec. 22 (API—Two men. a white man and a Negro, were seri ously hurt here today when an At lantic Coast Line extra express north bound. crashed into their truck loaded with wood. Claude Strickland, of Spring Hope, the driver, 19. and his 40-year-old Ne gro helper, Walter Terrell, were taken to local hospitals, where it was found Strickland had suffered a crushed juries. It was believed his skull was fractured. The truck was demolished and drag ged half a block with its load. The front of the locomotive was damaged and the train service was delayed 45 dhest and Terrell severe head in minutes. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, slightly colder tonight; Sunday fair. Weekly weather for South At lantic States: Generally fair, pre ceded by rain Monday and with rain over central and south, and rain or snow over extreme north portion about Friday; much cold er Monday night or Tuesday; warmer latter hall of week. Lempke said three billion dollars used for a revolving fund would be more than enough to re-finance mort gages. He estimated farm mortgages amount now to around eight billion dollars, of which six billion dollars are in a bad way. Last session a petition signed b‘y 145 House members forced the bill out of the agriculture committee to tile floor. It did not reach a vote, however. Vance Baise Seems Sure As Engineer He and R. G. Brown ing More Seriously Considered T ban Any One Else Dally UhiiiiU'k Itnreaa, in the Sir Walter Hotel, Bv J C, Haakerville. Raleigh. Dec. 22. —Acting Chiet j Highway Engineer W. Vance Baise and Chief Locating Engineer R. Gett> Browning, of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, are regard ed in many circles here as having the best chances for being selected as chief highway negineer when Assis tant Chairman Capus M. Waynick and the members of the commission decide to select a chief engineer. Not that other names have not been sub mitted. For it is known that some pressure has already been brought to bear upon Assistant Chair man Waynick ever since he took over tile active direction of the highway department in favor of several other candidates for the post of chief en gineer. It is also generally understood the selection of the new chief en gineer will be very largely up to Way nick. and that he has been assured he would be given very wide latitude in the selection. It is generally known for instance, that a very strong campaign has been under way for several months in fa vor of the appointment of Charles M. Upham, former chief highway en gineer back in the days when the State first started its big road build ing program. For the past ten years or so Upham has been connected with the American Road Builders Asso ciation with offices in Washington, D. C., where he has been one of its chief representatives. Since Waynick has been appointed assistant chairman it is understood that the agitation for tile appointment of Upham has been (Continued on Page Four) TWO BANKS ROBBED OF $17,000 TOTAL Six Masked Men. Operating In Oklahoma Town Then Make Their Escape Okemah, Okla., Dec. 22 AP) —Six masked men robbed two of Okemah’s thre banks of an estimated $19,000 at 9 a. m. today and escaped, leaving 13 employees bound and gagged in the First National and Okemah National Banks. At each bank three men lay in wait and trused up employees, one by one. as they entered the bank, cleaning out the vault when the time lock opened. A. B. S. Bontty, vice-president of the First National Bank, said: “They told us once they were going to rob all three banks in town, but we found later when we turned in an alarm that they had robbed only two. The Citizens State Bank was not rob bed. T1) Shopping cniirU^(|| PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Mystery Cloaks Woman’s Slaying Columbus, Miss. Dec 22 AP)— Mystery today surrounded the slaying of Mrs. Ottie Baba Kelly, attractive 27-year-old divorcee, whose bullet-torn body was found in a ditch near here yesterday after she had been missing from her home since Monday. Officers launched a search for a “mysterious man” driving a small black sedan, who was reported to have picked Mrs. Kelly up Mon day night after she protested against getting into the automobile. eSfcoiion CONTROLRETURNEO In Carolinas and Through out Belt Growers Have Spoken Overwhelm ingly for It FLOYD ESTIMATING 97 PCT. FAVORABLE Complete Returns Won’t Be Available for Several Days, However; AAA Officials Pleased With Results of Balloting in the Flue-Cured Territory (By the Associated Press.) An overwhelming majority in favor of continuing the Kerr-Smith tobacco control act for another year was re corded today in incomplete returns from a poll of the nation’s tobacco growers by the Agricultural Adjust ment Administration. After surveying early returns from their second crop referendum, AAA officials said they believed the com pulsory program woujd be applied to tobacco again next year. Last week cotton growers voted heavily in fa vor of continuing the Bankhead con trol act .foi* that crop. , Under the Kerr-Smith act, farmers controlling at least 75 percent of the total tobacco acreage must approve the proposal to make it effective next year. The percentages thus far noted (Continued on Page Six) Mob Threatening Triple Lynching In Man’s Slaying Andalusia, Ala., Dec. 22. —(AP) —South Alabama officers today kept a close guard over two white men and a Negro who were rush ed here after mobs threatened to lynch the three men, taken into custody in connection with the slaying of a filling station opera tor at Laura Hill, Fla. The three were captured after a chase across swamp lands in this section, and as word of their arrests spread, feeling ran high. Mobs formed early yesterday and made threats to take the men from jail, and they were spirited away quickly. The situation here was quiet early today, with no sign of any approaching disturbance. Further Desertion From Washington Naval Treaty Now Looms Upon Horizon (By ihe Associated Press.) Further deseration from the prin ciples of the Washington naval limi tations treaty was seen today with the decision of the French govern ment to repudiate the pact on its ex piration in 1936. France’s attitude became known as Japan made final arrangements for formal deunciation of the treaty, ex pected to be made in Washington next Thursday. Tokyo— Foreign Minister Hirota telegraphed instructions to Ambas sador Saito in Washington for Jap an's formal abrogation of the treaty. Simultaneously the Japanese foreign minister outlined to Ambassador Mat sudaira in London the suggestion to be advanced in bi-lateral conversa tions with Great Britain looking to ward an eventual agreement on a basis for naval limitations. Paris The French government made kjiown its intention f with 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY WALLACE ORDER IS REFERENDUM VOTE Action Affects Weed Grow ers in Virginia, Both Carolinas, Georgia And Florida CHANGES ARE MADE FOR 1935 CONTRACT Acreage Allotments And In* itial Production Allotments Increased from 70 Percent to 85 Percent of Base; Rental Payment To Follow Compliance Washington. Dec. 22.—(AP)—Secre tary Wallace today continued for 1935 the crop adjustment contracts signed by producers of flue-cured tobacco la tswntier. The action affects tobacco growers in Virginia. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The following changes were made in the contract for next year. The acreage allotment and initial production allotments were increased from 70 percent of the base acreage in production to 85 percent. Rates of adjustment and deficiency payments were reduced 50 percent in line with the 50 percent increase over last year. The adjustment payments next year will be made at the rate of 6 1-4 percent of the net sale value of the crop and deficiency payments will be made on the basis of one cent per pound. The rental payment, which remains fixed at $17.50 per acre, will be made after compliance is checked, instead of after acceptance of the contract. Under an administrative ruling ac companying the extension, the secre tary declared growers may plant up (Continued on Page Six) Cigarettes Code To Be Postponed NRA Will Take No Action on New Set- Lip Until After The Holidays Washington, Dec. 22.—(AP) — The NRA indicated today no action would be taken on the proposed code for the cigarette! industry until after the Christmas holidays. The administrative board, whichi now is handling the issue, was said to havel considered the proposed code but in the absence of three members did not take any action. The board is composed of seven members, but Clay Williams, the chairman, has withdrawn from con sideration of the cigarette code be cause of his former connection with the industry. Williams formerly was president of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company of Winston-Salem. drawing from the terms of the naval treaty on its expiration in 1936. The policy was prompted, it was explained by France’s desire to insure its free dom of action after the treaty had lapsed. Washington While withholding comment on the French attitude to ward the Washington pact, high gov ernment sources were described as being hopeful that a naval arms racei would be avoided. The United States, it was emphasizd, favors an equit able reduction in naval armament which will not impair the security of Japan or any other country. London—American and British delei gates tot he adjourned naval limitar* tions conversations expressed surprise)* at France’s announced determinationi to repudiate the Washington They had previously been assured that France woui.l permit Japan to! assume the entire responsibility foil of the p