I |[i;M)I,KSUN Y !\TKWAY TO central cvROI.INA TWENTY FIR a . - - y aiA-UJU*"!’ NUInJJ Ax m ***" ViJiiiU vw*.* JAPAN FORMALLY SCRAPS NAVAL TRF.ATY All Defendants In Smithfield Case Convicted And Given Long. Terms TOKYO AGAIN ASKS NEW PACT TO GIVE HER NAVAL PARITY Would Be Willing To Scrap Half Her Navy Along With Others To Get Equality not much alarmed about naval race Peoples Concerned Are All Intelligent and Their Gov ernments Rational, Japa nese Ambassador Says on Presenting His Govern ment’s Decision to Hull Wa.-hiiijiton. Dec. 29. — . fl,u automobile manufacturing * o us to compel corporations in icse to recognize collec ' >argaining would be discussed by ".- executive council of the American w! bu 1,1 January at " W ° wi " h Hve the biggest strike IContinuefl on Page Eight) Get Mad, Motorists; Stop Highway Fund Diversions ” Gr.orgc Ross Pou Putting Out Literature lAcquainting nblic With Uses to Which Motorist’s Money Is Be ing Put at His Own Increasing Expense U " llv >*l*P D ."' 2:, -—" f -»«t mad. motor way n,,,,. ' s,op dm,rsi ™> of high ii.g on th „ , f rintfid >o bold letter i» mo , M,llt of a. folder now < L .. p " u ,y tlle thousands by tight againTt >T\ Wh ° KS leadln & the foi thelV V « hway fund diversion of North g^, ay Protectlv « League w *y r'.oteetive lf ao thH w*h ■ ague are becoming xltnhvtKtni Batin Btstrafrli ,7 U „ — sum victt o» ‘H® A3BOCIATBD PRESS. Legislature Won ’f Increase Expenses Over Six Millions Wins Treasury Post i . Thurman Hill Appointed special counsel in charge of corporate reorganiza tion of the United States treasury, Thurman Hill, above, Wichita, Kas., attorney, becomes chief of a department created to bring about a new deal in the bank* ruptcy laws, and permit adjust ments of credit-paralyzed busi ness concerns without changes in management. It will be the coun ' sel’s job to investigate financing and to protect creditor*. Waynick Is * Given Post Os jeffress Highway Head Re signs Formally and ‘ Waynick Placed In Full Charge Now Raleigh. Dec. 29.— —Capus M. Waynick today was named chair man of the State Highway and Pub lic Works Commission. B. Jeffress, chairman of the ! commission for some three years, per i sonally gave his resignation to Gov ernor Ehringhaus yesterday in Greens boro. Mr. Jeffress has been seriously ill since late in August and the chief executive called on him at his home. This morning the governor an nounced the resignation and the nam ing of Waynick. who has been serv ing as assistant chairman for a month with all of the executive pow ers of the chairman vested in him. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, probably occasional rain tonight and Sunday; slightly cold er on the coast tonight. increasingly active and the opinion in most circles here is that this lea gue of motorists and others opposed to diversion are preparing to put up a tremendous battle in the forthcom ing General Assembly against any move to divert any more of the high way fund to other than State pur poses. This pamphlet, which is being dis tributed to motorists by mail and being placed in parked cars, goes op (Oittifiued on Fage F»UT) ONLY DAILY NLWbPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA Sharp Figures Believe That Much Additional Reve nue Can Be Ob tained In State REMOVE EXEMPTIONS FOR THE SALES TAX Improved Business Expect ed To Increase Income Tax Payments and Franchise Tax Revenues; Would Re store Part of 1933 Salary Slashes Daily Dispatch Hureaa, In the Sir Walter Hutel, Br J. O'. Bnnkerville. Raleigh. Dec. 29. —Tile forthcoming General Assembly will probably in crease thep resent appropriations for the public schools. State institutions of higher learning and all other State departments and institutions between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 a year, but not more than that, according to those here who have been studying the situation for the past two years and looking ah'ead to the next two. Despite the fact that the various State departments and institutions have already appeared before the Act visory Budget Commission and put in request which would increase the State general fund budget more than $10,000,000 a year in excess of the present budget, and with the school forces alone asking that the school appropriation be increased $9,000,000 a year above the present figure, op inion in informed circles here is that the forthcoming General Assembly will do well if it can find a maximum of $6,000,000 a year of additional re venue for the next two years. This estimate is not based on mere guesswork, but upon a careful and thorough study of the State’s revenue receipts the past two years and the prospects for getting additional re venue during the coming two years. It is also predicated upon the reten tion of thep resent three per cent (Continued on Page Four) SIX CONVICTS FREE VETERINARY OOCIOR Abducted by Fugitives from Georgia Chaingang Dur ing Day Friday Augusta, Ga„ Dec. 29. —(AP) — The Richmond county sheriff’s office was notified today that Dr. T. M. White, veterinarian, abducted by six con victs who escaped from a Middle Georgia chaingang had been released in Kathwood, S. C., 16 miles from here. Deputy Sheriff J. L. Watkins said Dr. White called by telephone and notified local officers that he had been released by the convicts, who took his automobile and exchanged his civilian clothes for a suit of pri son garb, one of the priosners was wearing. Dr. White was forced to accompany the convicts, who ejected the veter inarian’s wife and\ two children from their automobile 13 miles from Macon yesterday after the prisoners over powered the guard. The convicts, two white men and four Negroes, were members of a crew of nine working on a road pro ject. One of the prisoners, a Negro, was captured several hours later with the aid of track dogs. Phone Hearing By | Utilities Board Is Again Postponed Rafeigh Dec. 29.—(AP>— A sche duled hearing here today before the State Utilities Commission at which some 18 of the major independent telephone companies were cited to show cause, if any, why their rates on “French type” telephones should . set at 25 cents per month for a limited'period of 18 months has been nrv^t.DonGd indefinitely. P Stanley Winborne, chairman of the Utilities/ Comm/lssion, is ill ait. his home with influenza, and also a num , f t he companies cited to appear b Hfipd the commission they had not Tad" Z* * -I** * prepare their case. HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 29, 1934 Attacked in Saak iSwiP jagg S . JB grttviir-Mi MB f 4 pIISS™ Occupation of Saar Valley by League of Nations army for plebis cite period is making Britain feel easier, following incident created by beating of Capt. Harry Justice, English officer of Saar international police. He was btaten in riot fol lowing auto accicknt. in which an other Britoi figured. 'Central Press) 10 ASK JOES FOR ALL EMPLOYABLES ON RELIEF ROLES Roosevelt Administration Is Shaping Its Plans To Be Laid Before New Congress ELASTIC PROGRAM BELIEVED IN MIND Washington, Dec. 29. —(AP)— The Roosevelt administration, some high officials said today, will ask Congress to “put all employables” on the re lief rolls to work. At present their number is estimated to be 3,500,000 to 4.000,000. It was believed, however that an elastic program would be sought with the government leaving to private business as much of this job-creating task as it can assume. Though there were indications that (Continued on Page Four) Auto Tag Sales Heavier In State: As Year Ebbs Out Raleigh, Dec. 29 (AP) —With only one more shopping day left for 1935 automobile license tags before motor ists must park any machine bearing 1934 licenses, sales were brisk at most license plate offices over the State today. L. S. Harris, director of the motor vehicle bureau, said he had reports that long lines were in front of the license windows at Charlotte, Dur ham. Greensboro, Rocky Mount and other places. Though the tags have been on sale since December 1, only 90,336 pairs have been sold. More than 470,000 cars were licensed in 1934. After sunrise Tuesday it will be un lawful to operate a car on the high ways if it bears a 1934 North Caro lina license. Expect $750,000 From Sales Taxes Daily Dispute* Harena. In the Sir Walter Hotel, Bv J C, Baskervllle. Raleigh, Dec. 29— Officials of the Department of Revenue are still hoping that sales tax collections this month will amount to at least $750,000, although they admit that for the past few days the receipts from the sales tax have not been as large as they had hoped. They declined to state today how much the collections are to date, but in dicated they were already In excess of $700,000. t Sales tax collections in November amounted to $739,555, as compared with only $595,391 in November, 1933. Departmental officials have esti mated that th edepartment would collect at least $750,000 from the sales tax in December and $1,000,- 000 from it m January. Roosevelt Facing Sure Defeat With Bonus Opposition Presidential Veto Likely To Be Overridden if At tached to Veterans' Measure ADMINISTRATION HAS HANDS FULL ALREADY Committed to Social Experi ments That 'Will Cost Plenty Without Bonus; Op ponents of Bonus Will Vote For It To Tie Roosevelt’s Hands Elsewhere By (HARI.ES p. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Dec. 29. —The soldiers’ bonus will be a tremendous issue on Capitol Hill, beginning very soon aft er the first meeting of the new con gress on Jan. 3, and continuing Tlntil the controversy is settled, one way or another. It will be a ‘big issue “per se”—ln trinsically. It will be still bigger, counting it plus the collateral issue it promises to involve. F. D. R. FACES DEFEAT? It is the one issue on which, as most folk doubtless know, the White House is mighty likely to be beaten, and to have the presidential veto overridden, too. notwithstanding- the administration's overwhelming party majorities in both congressional cham bers. The strong probability that it will end in an administration defeat makes the impending fight highly in teresting to contemplate, regardless of its additional implications. WHY THERE’S OBJECTION The administration’s objection to immediate bonus settlement is under standable. It already is committed (as is no secret, either) to a considerable num ber of extremely expensive social and economic experiments, and is loath to (Continued on Page Eight) I # Lindberghs Will Again Live Over Terrible Ordeal Flemington, N. J„ Dec. 29.—(AP)— , Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind- J bergh are destined to re-live as wit nesses in Bruno Richard Haupt mann's trial the ordeal of their first son’s kidnaping and death, but John Hughes Curtis, of Norfol, Va., will probably be denied a part in the drama. Curtis, the shipbuilder who once was convicted of obstructing justice by posing as a “Lindbergh interme diary.” offered to testify against Hauptmann. Prosecutors, apparently intent on other aspects of their case against the Lindbergh kidnap suspect, were cool to his suggestion. Had Plan To Set Up Dictators Washington, Dec. 29— (AP) — An army captain’s testimony that Jackson Martindell, New York counsel, had described plans to en list 50,000 /young men in an or ganization designed to take over the United States government and set up a dictatorship was made public today by the House com mittee investigating un-American activities. • The officer, Captain Samuel Glazier, of Baltimore, said Mar tindell told him he controlled $700,000,000 in funds that would back the move. The testimony was given at a closed meeting of the committee in New York last month. Glazier said he had met Mar tindell when the latter visited a CCC camp at Elkridge, Md., which the captain commanded, and that they talked about the possibility of establishing an organization similar to the CCC in industry. Later, Glazier testified, he visit ed Martindell’s estate in New Jersey, and learned there of the proposal to set up an organization of 500,000 persons as “American Vigilantes.’ PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, Dry Warrior l -HI! JHHb Wmx 4HV WSSp ~ H. L. Anderton, Birmingham, Ala., is leading newly reorganized pro hibition forces aiming to keep Ala bama in dry column when state legislature takes up repeal measure, January 8. Drys won victory in Mississippi and intend carrying new prohibition fight into other southern states. (Central Press) GRANGEAND LABOR BOTH ARE AGAINST OLD AGE PENSIONS Burden Would be too Heavy Under Towinsend S2OO --Month Proposal, They Claim ITS COST WOULD BE 19 BILLIONS A YEAR Buyers’ Strike In Revolt Against Necessary Sales Tax To Carry the Load Foreseen if Such a Venture Is Imposed on the Nation In Excises By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer New York, Dec. 29.—80th the Na tional Grange and the American Fed eration of Labor have turned their guns on the Townsend revolving old age pension plan (payment of S2OO a month to persons 60 or over, provided each cent is spent during the month). The Washington representative of the . Grange, Fred Brenckman, tells why his own organization opposes the plan: “Assuming that approximately 8,- 000,000 people would make applica tion and receive S2OO a month, it is only necessary to invoke the aid of multiplication to find that the total (Continued on Page Four) Tobacco Exchange Will Discontinue Activities New York, Dec. 29.—(AP)— The board of governors of the New York Tobacco Exchange voted today to dis continue trading at once and dissolve the exchange as soon as the necessary papers can be prepared. While official comment was with held immediately following the action of the board, it was understood in well informed quarters that the de cision to close the exchange, which has been in operation since Septem ber 39. was due to the lack of sut 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY TWO TO 20 YEARS ’ GIVEN THREE MEN AND IFIVE WOMEN Bonds For Appeal Range from $5,000 to $15,000 Each as Fixed by Judge Daniels THREE WHITE GIRLS DECLARED KIDNAPED Alleged To Have 'Been Taken to New York and Forced into Life of Immor ality; State Charged Nine Persons at Outset But One Was Ordered Freed Smithfield, Dec. 29.—(AP) — Eight Johnston county and New York men and women were convicted here today of kidnaping three young girls and taking them to New York for im moral purposes, and Judge Frank A. Daniels immediately imposed long prison sentences on each defendant. Four charged with the kidnaping of Camelia Price were given terms ranging from ten years to as high as 20 years, while five, who were in volved in the kidnaping of Josephine Smith and Ogolia Barbour, were given terms ranging from as low as two to four years to as high as 15 to 20 years. Where two sentences were imposed on a single defendant, they will run concurrently. Defense counsel immediately served notice of appeal to the State Supreme Court. Convicted of kidnaping Camelia Price and the sentences imposed on theme were: Clinton Beasley, 22, given 12 to 15 years; Sarah Beasley Krane, (Continued On Page Four.) Relief Cases In ! This State Show 9.8 Percent Gain Washington, Dec. 29.—(AP) The Federal Emerge.iicy Relief Administration announced today families on relief in North Caro lina increased from 54,481 in Oc tober to 59,836 in November, a gain of 9.8 percent. Obligations incurred for relief totalled $1,683,962 in November, compared with $1,212,819 in Oc tober an increase of 38.8 percent. American Girl Held InGermany Waldmohr, Germany, Dec. 29 (AP) —Miss Elsa Sittell, of New York, was under arrest here today as a result of derogatory remarks the young wo man is alleged to have directed at the Hitlerite storm troopers and picked Nazi guards. Miss Sittell disappeared while trav eling in Germany near the French border. It was learned she stopped at Schoenenberg en route to Gang loff, and entered a restaurant, where she had the conversation which ap parently resulted in her arrest. While she was waiting for her train at the Schoenenberg station, police placed her under arrest. They ao~ cused her of uttering slanderous re marks. The woman is held awaiting pos sible transfer to the “Sondergericht” a special cour tat Frankenthal, police said. The date for her hearing haa not been fixed. ficient business to continue operations profitably. It was reported in commodity brok erage circles that tobacco trading might be revived on one of the other already established exchanges at some future date. The exchange was established by fl group of men long associated with! commodity futures markets for th« purpose of providing hedging ancf trading facilities in America’s third largest crop.