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A2 TV A MOVEDENIED BY STOCKHOLDERS Rates of Alabama Power Cempany Upheld by Group of Owners. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Benator Norris of Nebraska said the | other day that he suspected some of | the power companies were behind the court litigation seeking ‘to biock the T. V. A, and this has called forth 8 vehement protest from a group of preferred stockholders in Alabama, whose chairman is Al C. Garber of | Birmingham. “Your article,” telegraphs Garber to the writer, “quotes Senator Norris as stating he suspects some of the utility companies are back of the Jiti- gation to enjoin sales by power com- panies and other means employed by the administration proposed in fur- therance of the T. V. A, program. “So far as the Alabama suit is con- cerned that suggestion is unwarrant- ed. More than 1,000 stockholders of Alabama Power Co. have authorized this committee to join their names as plaintifis in pending stockholders’ gult., “Obstacle to Recovery.” “And if there were anything to be | gained, this written endorsement of | the suit could be obtained from & large majority of the 15,000 stock- holders, representing an investment of $35,000,000, which is being muti- lated by this program. That program has no remote relation to reccvery. It is the most serious obstacle to re- covery, since recovery must be based upon confidence in the administra- tion. “There can be no confidence in the face of ruthless duplication and eco- nomic waste. No person is unem- ployed or suffering or hungry on ac- count of rates charged by Alabama Power Co. Those rates have been publicly acknowledged by T. V. A. as ‘cheap and low rates’ justifying the use of electric appliances in the humblest homes. The power company has announced that, with the same taxes and interest rate, it could cut T. V. A. rates by 30 per cent. “Senator Norris' statement that a fair price was offered for the Knox- \ ville property, even if it were true, is misleading, since, the price to be paid cannot be distributed, but must be impounded to meet deficits in street railway operations. So far as Ala- bama Power Co. is concerned, the T. V. A. has not attempted to jus- tify the price and the company has repeatedly asserted its manifest in- Jjustice. Its 15,000 stockholders, with- out exception, consider that the com- pany's passive acceptance of this pro- gram is indefensible and have no in- tention of submitting to its waiver of the basic right to resist this il- legal seizure by the Federal Govern- ment of utility markets and proper- ties from this company. Price Held Damaging. “The sworn testimony of the officers and engineers of the power company before Alabama Public Service Com- misison, given in response to orders by « the commission, demonstrated that the cost of reproduction, less observed de- preciation of the properties taken by the T. V. A., is more than $1,000,000 in excess of the price offered by T. V. A, without allowing one dollar for the element of going business and with 10,000 attached customers, and -that the damage to the remainder of the system resulting from making idle ex- isting generating capacity and uni- versally allowable as severance dam- age amounts to over $3,000,000. “In short, this transaction will force on these stockholders a present dam- age of $4,000,000 with the certainty that the operation will be repeated in- definitely and that their entire invest- ment will be annihilated unless this usurpation of Federal function by the ‘T. V. A. and this assault on recovery is declared illegal. “There can be no doubt of the fact that the intention of T. V. A. to use the power of navigation to monopolize power production in the Tennessee Basin, both on navigable and non- navigable streams, and take the ex- isting and prospective market for this power from existing public service companies destroys their values. “Everybody knows that the sugges- tion that this program is in aid of navigation and interstate commerce is deceptive. Recovery cannot be based on injustice and deception. The confusion referred to by Senator Nor- ris In your interview is not due to this litigation. It is due to the fact that Senator Norris and the admin- istration have driven forward with this power program without considera- tion for its effect upon regulated utili- ties and because the belated con- sideration which is now given the matter was not given before the pro- gram was announced, a vast amount of taxpavers’ money was wasted in its execution anc these suits demon- strated its 1llegality. Delay Laid to T. V. A. “The delay in reaching a show- down is not due to the plaintiffs (the stockholders) but to the T. V. A., which has in every manner sought to avoid and postpone the prompt de- termination of these test cases. “It is also pertinent with reference to Senator Norris' complaint of de- lay and confusion to ask why the plaintiffs in this suit have been sub- Jected to an inquisition by Federal Trade Commission, why the ice com- panies complaining of this appliance peddling with Federal funds are now being subjected to an_investigation of their wage scales and their employes are beinz asked by Department of "Labor agents if they are satisfied with their pay, although heavily increased N. R. A. wages are being paid and no complaint is pending and why within the past few days Secret Serv- ice agents of the Internal Revenue Bureau have instituted investigation of those objecting to the T. V. A program.” The foregoing is given in full text because the views of Senator Norris were given equal space earlier this ‘week and because the controversy be- tween the stockholders of electric light and power companies on the one hand and the T. V. A. on the other is becoming of increasing pub- lic importance. (Copyright. 1934.) _— -E. P. I. C. SPLIT DENIED Binclair Disclaims Revolt After Co-operative Bill Fight. LOS ANGELES, December 14 (#), ~—After an exchange of charges be- tween Culbert Olson, chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, and Richard S. Otto, president of the End Poverty League, Upton Sinclair, defeated Democratic gubernatorial candidate, said last night, “There is no revolt inside the End Poverty League.” The verbal fireworks began when Otto announced the league, & Sinclair organization, would oppose an initia- tive measure, drawn by State Senator- elect Olson, which would provide for operation by the State of co-opera- tives to aid in handling the unem- ployed. ' What’s What Behind News In Capital President Is Credited With Ten-Strike in War Profits Move. BY PAUL MALLON. current White House promo- tion campaign to take the prof- its out of war is being scored by all politicians as another 10- strike for President Roosevelt. Friend and foe alike agree it proves that the President has as good an eye the political rack. inside on this, ask Senator Nye. strike was right down his alley. The W\ 0, d= NS Q- ‘The peace-loving Senator from North Dakota had been knocking the munitions makers right and left. He had just stepped back to aim at the war profits pins. They were to have been set up before his Senate Investi- gating Committee Thursday. But on Wednesday he saw the White House ball rolling down the alley for another sweep. There was nothing left for Nye to hit except the ceiling, and he did that immediately. Johnson Here Sunday. The inside facts seem to be that Mr. Roosevelt got into this war profits game rather hurriedly four days be- fore he made his announcement. Last Sunday, Bernard Baruch and Gen. Hugh S. Johnson were slipped into the White House secretly for a luncheon | conference on the subject. The bare news about Johnson's presence leaked out later. But the nature of his visit was kept out of the papers, as was the participation of Baruch. Some say the President was anxious to get the war profits ballyhoo started for several more important reasons than the mere fact that the Senate Committee was going into the subject. For one thing, the pending install- | ment of his fireside talks radio serial | has been put off from time to time. He expected to deliver it immediately after his return from Warm Springs, but the Warm Springs conferences apparently failed to iron out details of important matters sufficiently to permit him to talk about them. He needed something to fill the gap. Another consideration was the fact that there is bonus trouble coming up with the American Legion, and the war profits idea is the Legion's own primary issue. The Legion discov- ered it 12 years ago, long before even Nye. Legion officials may be in more conciliatory mood on the bonus now that the White House has taken up their pet war profits project. The phrasé “take the profit out of war” _i§ conceded to be one of the best slogans of this advertising age. Like many slogans, it is not exactly accurate. Some Profit Will Remain. What the New Dealers now are really trying to do is to curtail war profiteering. There will still be plenty of profit left in war. Because it cannot en- tirely be taken out. You can get an enlightening insight into that situation by digging into the report filed by the War Policies Com- mission. It went into the suject thor- oughly for Mr. Hoover in 1932 and its report has been untouched in the i files éver since. This commission proposed that | corporations and individuals be taxed 195 per cent of all war-time income above a previous three-year average | “with proper adjustment for capital expenditures for war purposes by | existing or new industries.” |~ The normal profit, therefore, would be undisturbed. Legion Comdr. O'Neil testified a fair normal profit would be 7 per cent. In war, then, a firm could earn 7 per cent normal profit and 5 per cent excess war profit, or a total of 12 per cent, ‘without con- sidering the numerous “capital ex- penditures” loopholes. The result will be much better than the 100 per cent and even 1,000 per cent profits made occa- sionally from the last war. Yet it could hardly be called “taking the profits out of war.” The most abused man in Washing- {ton right now is Interior Secretary Ickes. His toes seem to offer the most | popular carpet in town. Every one is enjoying a stroll on them. The latest unpublished incident centers around a recent ruling by Controller General McCarl. Loses on Own Building. Mr. Ickes cut through the red tape in his P. W. A. to get a few million | dollars allocated for his own new | Interfor building. He thought he should control the construction of his own building, so he set himself to the tasks. But the Treasury decided it should and would supervise the con- | struction of all Federal buildings, in- *| cluding those of Mr. Ickes. When Mr. Ickes declined to agree, the Treasury took the case to Mr. McCarl. Letter-of-the-Law McCarl wrote a letter to Mr. Ickes laying down the law and siding with the Treasury. The result is that, while Mr. Ickes can tell every P. W. A. borrower what kind of building to build and where to hang the pictures, the construction of the Innterior Department building is now in the hands of Admiral J. C. Peeples of the Treasury's procure- ment section. Some Senators have suggested pri- vately that Nye should be recom- mended for the Nobel Peace prize be- cause of his work in the munitions hearing. It is apparently true that the war profits move was not inspired by pre- paredness. That is, it is true in the sense that no officials here expect us to get into a war anytime soon. Never- theless, it is long range preparedness. (Copyright. 1934.) Student Hurt in, Crash. TUSCALOOSA, Ala., December 14 #)—R. W. “Billy” Crawford, Univer- sity of Alabama junior, was critically injured late today as his plane crashed near the airport here. He is from Boscobel, Wis, as any bowler who ever lifted a ball off | If you want the| THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1934. HOUSE l[A"[RSH'P Follow Santa Claus Tomorrow toa Star-Waroer Bros.” Show iz,[m’[m V[mNG FIGHT 1S RAGING Spokesmen From Various States Make Claims for Their Favorites. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Spokesmen from various States were making claims for their favor- ftes in the House leadership contest today, while the elbowing of the un- precedented Democratic majority to climb on the “Byrns for Speaker” bandwagon continued. “It's all in Santa Claus’ sack for Byrns” is the general conviction about the Capitol today regarding the speakership left vacant by the death last July of Speaker Rainey. The action of Illinois and other State groups in following the lead of Penn- sylvania and declaring organized sup- port to promote the Tennesseean from floor leader to Speaker seems to leave no doubt about that office. Other candidates who have climbed on the Byrns' bandwagon, crowding each other to make withdrawal announce- ments include Representatives Bank- head, Alabama; Rayburn, Texas; Rankin. Mississippi; Green, Florida, and Jones, Texas. Only two an- nounced candidates now remain, Mead, New York, and Crosser, Ohio. Support Claimed for O'Connor. Simultaneously the candidates in the leadership race are gathering momentum. The cheer leader for Representative O'Connor of New York, Representative Martin J. Ken- nedy, says: “O'Connor has substantially the unanimous support of the New York delegation, together with the support of several other delegations from large States, with pledges of support volunteered from all sections of the country—practically enough votes to secure his election.” Representative Connery of Massa- chusetts, leader of the boom for Rep- resentative McCormack, says: “We are starting with a solid dele- gation from New England, with vol- unteered support from all sections of ‘the country—including both North and South—and from nearly every State in the Union—and we expect to win." Representative Ludlow of Indiana, carrying a solid delegation from In- diana for Representative Greenwood, says: “Greenwood will have 100 per cent home support with the total 10 votes in the State delegation.” Bankhead Promised Votes. Representative Bankhead of Ala- bama, who starts with the handicap of being from the South at a time when there is so much talk of not allowing both speakership and House leadership to go to that section, claims he has been promised “a con- | siderable number of Northern votes,” and that at least one man in the New York delegation hopes to be able | to vote for him, Representative Mead, while still | announced for the speakership, is an outstanding candidate for leader. He has been in New York rounding up organized support, and his Iriends claim he will be a formidable con- tender. To win the leadership a candidate must have a clear majority of 162 votes. It is claimed that O'Connor is to be the Tammany candidate, but it 15 expected that Mead will split the vote of the New York delegation. Mead has a strong scattering support from all parts of the country, JACK KEARNS' DENIAL OF FATHERHOOD UPHELD'! Miss Williams Loses Suit for $150 & Month in Behalf of 9-Year- Old Daughter. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 14 —Jack Kearns, boxing manager, is not the | father of the 9-year-old daughter of | Miss Elizabeth Williams, Judge Myron Westover held yesterday in Miass | Willlams® paternity suit seeking $150 a month. Denying he was the parent, Kearns testified he knew Miss Williams only casually, meeting her when she was & hotel cigar counter clerk in Phila- delphia in 1918. Miss Williams, who came to Los Angeles later, testified, however, she had associated with Kearns ever since they met. “For 17 years I lived like a hermit,” Miss Williams said. “I associated only with Kearns.” COUNTY WARD OWNED 7,000,000,000 MARKS Defaulted German Bonds Found in Safe Deposit Box in Nebraska. By the Assoclated Press. OMAHA, Nebr., December 14 —More | than 7,000,000,000 marks in defaulted German bonds found yesterday in the safe deposit box of Benjamin R. Te- | bault, formerly a real estate dealer, who died December 5 a county ward, will be looked over today by a local bond firm to determine if they have any value. Tebault, who once dined with Queen Victoria while on a European tour, and who was a friend of Chauncey M. Depew, lost much of what remained of a shrunken fortune by investing in | German bonds during the inflation of 1922 and 1923. Woman Weakens After 4 Days of Continuous Yawns Doctors Unable to Halt Gasps—Opiates Bring Brief Respites. By the Associated Press. ROUND GROVE, 111, December 14— Mrs. Harold McKee, 35, is approach- ing her fifth complete day of pro- tracted yawning. She has been yawning continuously since 4 p.m. Sunday, except for brief respites induced by opiates. Doctors are at a loss to know how to make her stop. Dpr, H. L. Petit. her physician, could assign no reason for the yawning other than extreme nervous strain due to caring for an ill husband and a 9-year-old son who is & diabetic. ‘The case is unmatched in medical history known to Dr. Petit and his consultants. She yawns 10 to 12 times a minute. She 15 able to obtain nourishment when she is aroused from _her artificially-induced naps, but Dr. Petit is concerned over her ability to endure the protracted strala. | dren of Washington they have ever |among them Charles Zeid, who has ! nals ever seized here. L Tov k| MATINEE ADMISSION G Ne 7 ‘Tomorrow's the day when you can all play Santa Claus to the poor children of Washington. Bring one new toy or article of clothing, or be a generous Santa and bring a bag full. SHOWS TOMORROW GIVE ALL CHANCE TO | HELP PLAY SANTA (Continued From First Page.) overlooked: too important to “e me- glected. It is brought to the door- step of every parent, of every person who loves children. and of every one who has the barest semblance of a heart within him. Remember your own Christmases of years gone by and what they have meant to you. Some of you may have known want and privation in child- hood and your memories will leave | you no lack of sympathy for these little ones handicapped by misfor- | tune. Others of you may have been blessed with a generous share of the| world's goods in your growing years. | and your memories should warm your hearts toward those less fortunate. All Can Help. All of you, whoever you are, must want to keep faith with these chil- dren who are depending on you. Thel appeals are many, the need is very great. All of you must want to help. All of you can help. Let your generosity stir you toward doing something really worth while Let the Christmas spirit inspire you. Open your hearts and your purse- strings. Tomorrow is your chance to play Santa Claus to the poor. The Christmas Toy Matinees await your attendance. Come prepared to further their cause and to make them the biggest boon to the needy chil- been. The doors open in Warner Bros. neighborhod theaters* at 9:30, the shows start at 10 o'clock. These are the Ambassador, Tivoli, Colony, Ava- Follow the crowd to any one of the 11 theaters where The Star-Warner Bros' Christmas toy matinees will be held and make sure that there will this Christmas. 230 IN PRIZES FOR WASHINGTON BOYS AND GIRLS. ‘Tomorrow s the last day, boys and girls, to write your letter, “Why I know there is a Santa Claus and why every poor child in Washington should receive gifts this Christmas.” DON'T DELAY, send it in NOW to the Santa Claus Editor of The Star. The contest closes tomorrow at midnight. It will be fine to win that prize of $15 offered by The Star for the best letter, and maybe little brother or little sister will win one of the other awards. Don't forget, you must not be more than 12 years old if you write your letter. ‘The best letter will win a prize of $15, second prize is $10 and the third prize is $5. Your letter must be at the office of The Star not later than mid- night of Saturday, December 15. their letters, will be made one week Announcements of the winners, with later. Please write on one side of the paper only, and get your letter in early. lon, Apollo, Avenue Grand, Home, | Savoy and York. At the Mflrfipnli-; tan and Earle downtown, the doors open at 8:30 and the shows start |at 9. | Every one of these 11 theaters are | prepared to offer you the very finest | of entertainment; carefully planned programs including outstanding pho- | toplays featuring the best known stars, | leading new comedies and animated cartoons, popular short subjects and supplementary features. Special | shows, each one of them, that you could not see every day. Toys Admit You. And to all of this, in any one of the theaters. one new toy, or one new | article of child’s clothing will admit you. Reward enough for your effort? Maybe. But there is far greater reward for you than this. It is the priceless | satisfaction you will have in knowing | that you will have helped to bring | happiness to some poor boy or girl this Christmas. Whatever you bring will reach those who need it most. The Council of Social Agencies, which is working night and day in co-operation with the Star and Warner Bros.' to complete the long list of needy children will collect the contributions from the hampers in the theater lobbies and distribute your gifts as you would wish them to be. One toy will admit you. But one toy may not be the measure of your generosity. And you need not limit yourself in the slightest degree. You may bring an armful, an sutomo- bile full, or & truckload. All will be well taken care of. And remember that the more you bring the more certain will you make it that there will be no forgotten child in Wash- ington this Christmas. Tomorrow's Showings. So come to a toy matinee tomorrow. Assure your own Christmas happiness by remembering those who are most in need. Here is the list for you to choose from: List of Shows. Here is the full list of theaters be no forgotten child in Washington | where The Siar-Warner Bros." Christ- | mas toy matinees will be held: | TIVOLI—Shirley Temple in “Baby | | Takes a Bow,” a Laurel and Hardy comedy, “Busy Bodies”; “The Night Before Christmas” and the Flying Trapez comedy. | AMBASSADOR—Jackie Cooper and | Wallace Beery in “Treasure Island,” “The Shanty Where Santa Claus| Lives” and “Can You Take It?” a| Popeye comedy. SAVOY—Joe E. Brown in “The Cir- cus Clown,” “Bedtime Worries,” an Our Gang comedy; “Touchdown Mickey,” a Mickey Mouse comedy, and } “Let’s You and Him Fight,” a Pop-| eye comedy. COLONY—Shirlev Temple in “Little | Miss Marker,” “Wild Poses,” an Our | Gang comedy, and “The Night Be- | fore Christmas” a Silly Symphony. YORK—Joe E. Brown in “Son of a | | Sailor,” “Dirty Work,” a Laurel and | Hardy comedy, and “Touchdown Mickey,” a Mickey Mouse comedy. AVENUE GRAND—Shirley Temple in “Little Miss Marker,” “Dirty Wurk."l‘ a Laurel and Hardy comedy, and | | “Sockabye Baby,’ a Popeye comedy. | Shows Include Comedies. APOLLO—Joe E. Brown in “The Circus Clown,” “His Neighbor,” an Our {Gang comedy, and “Mickey’s Good | Deed,” a Mickey Mouse comedy. | HOME—Bruce Cabot in *“Midship- | man Jack,” “His Neighbor,” an Our | Gang comedy. and “The Three Lit- | tle Pigs.” METROPOLITAN—George O'Brien in “The Last Trail” “Oliver the Eighth,” & Laurel and Hardy comedy, | jand “The Big Bad Wolf,” a Silly| | Symphony. EARLE—Charlotte Henry in “Alice | in Wonderland” and “Shanty Where | Santa Claus Lives.” AVALON—Jackie Cooper and Wal- | lace Beery in “Treasure Island,” “Santa’s Workshop.” a Silly Sym- | phony, and “Shoein’ Horses,” a Pop- eye comedy. MAIS AND LEGENZA INPOLIGE GUNFIGAT Officers Say Escaped Pair Left Scene of Phila- delphia Raid. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 14— Police today expressed belief that & raid last night on an uptown house yielded the solution of at least three crimes, one of them the kidnaping of William Weiss, local night life figure. Reporting that Weiss may have been drowned by his abductors, they planped to drag the Delaware River today. Four men and a woman were seized, been sought in the killing of William Feitz, a Camden, N. J., detective. In the house the police found one of the most elaborate underworld arse- Three Others Held. Others arrested, they said, are Frank R. Wiley, who escaped from the East- | ern Penitentiary last July by crawling | through a sewer; Harry Seidel, a man | who described himself as George Bar- | rett, and Mrs. Beatrice Wilkinson, also known as Walker, said to be Zeid’s companion. The woman's three small daughters | were turned over to a police matron. Detectives who had been watching the house “shot it out” at the Wayne Junction Station of the Reading Rail- road with several men who, they say, included Robert Mais, gunman, who | shot his way out of a Richmond, Va., jail, where he was awaiting execution. The detectives followed a man who left the house carrying a suitcase. He rode a cab to the central city, where two men joined him. They then went to the railroad station where through some confusion the officers found themselves on the plat- form opposite the three men. Return Gunfire. The latter spotted the detectives and started running along the tracks. The officers fired and the trio answered in kind and then vanished in the darkness. Along with Mais, the detectives said they believe, was Walter Legenza, his pal in the September 29 prison break when three guards were wounded. A third ®man is believed to have been Willie Davis, another gangster. In their flight the gunmen aban- doned their luggage, which police found was & portable arsenal. called for reinforcements and raided the house they had been watching. —_— Badio Is Monopoly. made & State A B | standing. | store now has the largest number of Fourth Large Capital Store Joins Yuletide Raise List Further evidence of returning pros- perity to Washington was given to- day in an announcement by Lans- burgh & Bro. that & major group of the store's employes will find an in- crease in salary in their pay envelopes on Christmas eve. The raise in pay will be effective beginning next week and will affect most of the veteran employes of the store and newcomers whosé work during the past year has been out- A second large group will receive cash Christmas bonuses, Ralph Gold- smith, manager, announced. The employes in its history. ‘The Hecht Co, also joined the parade of department stores to share their improved business with their employes. Sales employes—numbering about 1,000—will receive an extra com- mission on December sales as their Yuletide present, and employes in all other departments—close to 1,500— will be given an extra day’s pay, it was announced. Yesterday Woodward & Lothrop and the S. Kann's Sons Co. an- nounced the resumption of cash bo- nuses. The gifts will be graduated accord- ing to length of service. those em- ployed for more than 10 years re- ceiving the maximum. Woodward & Lothrop has resumed the plan which they used up until two years ago, Life’s Like That AL 0 “YOU SAY YOU SAW THE DARLINGEST DRESS ‘Broadessting in Rumania hes been | DAY—PUT IT ON AND LET ME SEE HOW YOU LOOK IN IT." | TO- (Copyright, 1034.) )/ } ABDUCTORS FREE CHIEF OF POLICE |Officer, Held 14 Hours, Silent on Suspected Mo- tive for Kidnaping. By the Associated Press. ARKANSAS CITY, Kans, Decem- ‘ber 14.—A widespread search for Art Calkins, Herington, (Kans.) chief of police who was kidnaped yesterday by | two gunmen, ended early today with | his release after 14 hours in the hands of his abductors. | Calkins, kidnaped yesterday when he sought to question one of the men regarding the purchase of revolver ammunition, was released unharmed four miles east of Kildare, Okla. early today. The chief declined to go into details of the kidnaping. “I have a hunch why I was picked up but I won't say why,” he said. The chief said he could not identify his abductors. —y REJECTS JURY SERVICE | Citizen Objects to Remarks of | Prosecuting Attorney. | OMAHA, Nebr., December 14 (#).— | John P. Ridgway of Omaha, yesterday | declined to serve on & jury hearing a criminal case in District Court here as an aftermath of a statement by County Attorney Henry Beal that juries “are afraid to convict.” Ridgeway, asked the conventional question as to whether he would be fair and impartial in the case, said “In view of Mr. Beal’s attempt to pass the buck to jurors, I feel it would not be fair to the State if I served,” Ridgeway said. He was excused by Judge J. Wyeager. ON COTTON CURB Continuance Question to Be Decided by Farmers of 16 States. By the Assoclated Press. Cotton farmers of the Southland were writing a momentous decision to- day on the future of fron control of crops in America. Two million of them in 16 States were called upon to say “yes” or “no” on a proposal to continue the Bank- head compulsory cotton control act in 1935. The act seeks to hold the crop down by a drastic tax on cotton mar- keted above 10,400,000 bales. To keep the act in force a two-thirds majority is necessary. Guide on Other Crops. Indirectly, more than the Bankhead measure is involved in the election Officials acknowledged it would be a guide on voluntary, and perhaps com- pulsory, control of other crops. Some officials of the Agriculture Ad- | justment Administration indicate na- tlonalism in other countries may drive the United States to severe, long-time restraints on other lines of farm goods Secretary Wallace, however, is still against compulsion for other major crops, though acknowledging the cot- ton plan worked “better than I had expected.” Officials said ginners, handlers and others interested in quantity produc- tion had been campaigning against the act in the cotton belt. Seen Best Method. The administration took steps to makes its own beliefs known. Presi- dent Roosevelt expressed the beliet retention of the act was the best method in sight to meet the situation. He announced he would seek legisia- tion exempting from taxation the proven production of small growers up to two bales. Small farmers had eomplained the act often gave them quotas of frac- tional bales which were unginnable. COLORED VOTES INVITED, Mississippi Referendum Contrast to Regular Elections, JACKSON, Miss., December 14 (&) | —Colored people in Mississippi, who scarcely know what a ballot box is, will get a chance to cast votes in today’s poll on the Bankhead cotton control act As a matter of fact, they may out- number the whites, and, queerest of all, they are being invited to partici- pate. It will be @ new experience for them, as Democratic primaries are not open to them and the general elections, in which merely a few vote, are only formalities. The matter of timidity of the col- ored voters is one problem to be reckoned with since, despite the ex- planations that have been offered, some of them still feel they may be challenged if they attempt to cast ballots. BATTERY MAKER FINED INN.R. A. PAY VIOLATION $1,500 Assessed Against Penn- sylvanian, Who Appeals to U. 8. Circuit Court, By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa., December 14.— Fred C. Perkins, York, Pa., battery manufacturer, today was fined $1,500 for failing to pay the minimum “Blue Eagle” wage in his plant. The maximum penalty is $5,000. Appearing in Federal Court, where | he was convicted last week, Perkins withdrew a motion for a new trial in order to speed a test of the con- stitutionality of the N. R. A. Harold B. Beitler, chief defense counsel, filed notice of an appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appesls in Philadelphia and Judge Albert L. Watson fixed Perkins' bail at $2.000, pending a decision on the appeal. — NEW AIR SERVICE Schedule Between Chicago and Miami Is Announced. CHICAGO, December 14 () —In- auguration of a Chicago-to-Miami air passenger, mail and express serv- ice on December 20 is announced by Eastern Airlines through Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, vice president. The line will operate a round trip daily, in addition to night mail serv- ice begun three months ago. Douglas 14-passenger, twin-motored ships will {be used on a 9-hour schedule. . vy In Norwoy lighted condles ore watched throughout Christmos night shopping days to Christmas NORWAY “During Christmas time,” says an old Norwegian proverb, *“one must quench one’s thirst for a whole year and eat one’s fill until next Christmas.” Among the dishes served at the repast is Norwegian cream porridge el SRR Car Added to Zephyr. CHICAGO, December 14 (#).— Ralph Budd, president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, made known yesterday an additional car had been ordered for the road's Diesel streamiined train, the Zephyr. This will make the train a four-car unit. Shooting Held Accidental. SPARTANSBURG, S. C., December 14 UP).—Mrs. Colyer B. Tanner, whose husband, 40-year-dld manager of & foundry, was fatally shot at their home Sunday, testified at a coroner’s in- quest yesterday that the shooting was accidental. The jury returned a ver- dict of death from an accidental gun- shot wound and recommended that no one be held. ) made of sour cream and flour, Ih earlier times it was the custom in some parts of the country to place porridge on the table on Chfist- mas eve. At the moment when the pot was carried into the room one of those present had to fire a salute both as a salutation and to drive away the evil gnomes and sprites who were believed to hover about waiting te"seise the beloved por- ridge. Tall, thick Christmas candles were lightetl and were tended care- fully to make them burn through Christmas night. If a candle went out before dawn it was considered an evil omen. A person in the household had to watch all nigh$ without touching the candles with his fingers. A