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SHERIFF ASKS * FOR REELECTION -V Announces Candidacy Thursday For Re-Election In May 30 Primary C. Davis Jones, who has served as sheriff of New Hanover county for ten years, Thursday formal ly announced his candidacy for re election to the office in the May 30 primary. In making his announcement Sheriff Jones said he advocates close cooperation and coordina tion between all federal, state county and city law enforcement agencies. Sheriff Jones was born and rear ed in this county. He worked in the general offices of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company and served five years in the National Guard prior to World War No. 1, and entered the U. S. Army in July, 1917, serving overseas one year in a Combat Unit as First Sergeant in Trench Artillery. He was recommended as a lieutenant of Artillery from the ranks. After the Armistice, Sheriff Jones re turned and was honorably dis charged from the Army. In a few months he was com missioned as First Lieutenant of C.A.C. and helped to reorganize the Wilmington Light Infantry Company of the 252nd Coast Ar tillery of National Guard. After the reorganization was completed, Sheriff Jones resigned and took a position traveling in the Eastern Carolinas for a commercial house out of Wilmington, which position he held until elected sheriff in 1932. Sheriff Jones has served as president of the North Carolina Sheriff’s association and is now chairman of its Executive commit tee. He was among the leading of ficers in North Carolina to set up the law enforcement officer’s Ben efit and Retirement Fund fo? all law enforcement officers, and served on its Board of Directors. He received this appointment from Governor Hoey. He has attended several Federal Bureau of Investigation and Insti tutes of Government schools held in North Carolina for law enforce ment officers. 2 Galphin Will Recruit Laborers To Harvest County Lettuce Crop To harvest the lettuce crop, ne gro laborers will be recruited at the Castle Haynes migratory camp early next week, County Agent R. W. Galphin announced Thursday. Seventy-five shelter tents have been completed at the camp and will house about 300 colored lab orers to assist in harvesting truck crops in this area. Built by the Farm Security ad ministration, 150 tents were for merly scheduled to be built, but because of the late beginning of construction and the War Produc tion Board’s freezing order on con struction, the size of the camp is smaller. Donald S. Stubbs, of Farm Se curity administration, is manager of the camp and will be in charge of maintenance and upkeep of mo rale. Dennis Smithwick and J. Hardin Lee, of U. S. Employment Serv ice, will be ^t the camp to recruit the workers and place them on jobs. Mr. Lee will be at the camp during the heavy harvesting sea son. Mr. Smithwick is a year around farm placement man for the service. Present indications point to the peak season for lettuce during the week of May 8-15. The heavy let tuce season is expected to extend through May. Th first job of the colored lab orers will be to harvest lettuce, and afterwards May peas, string beans and lima beans. 4 -V Former Wilmingtonian Gives Library Pictures Former Wilmingtonian Lieut. Mayo Stuntz of Fort Riley, Kansas, has donated pictures, depticting scenes in Wilmington in former days, to the city library, Miss Em ma Woodard, librarian, said Thursday. A feature of the collection is a number of pictures of the old side wheelers that formerly operated on the Cafe Fear river out of Wil mington including the Wilmington, the A. P. Hurt, the City of South port and the Thelma. •-V Galphin Urges Planting Of ‘Victory Gardens’ New Hanover residents were urg ed to plant corn, beans, sweet po tatoes and tomatoes for “Victory Gardens” Thursday by County Agent R. W. Galphin. "Although a complete check of “Victory Gardens” has not been made, many families have planted, especially in suburban areas. Many of them will realize a profit from these types of gardens this year,” Mr. Galphin said. Those who have not planted these vegetables should do so immediate ly, if they expect a good crop this year, he added. -V Save your anti-freeze solution. It may be impossible to obtain it next winter since some of. the in gradients will be commandeered for the manufacture of explosives. A recent poll showed that 54 per cent of motor car owners felt that depriving them of the use of their car in war time would make no fjTMt difference to them. _ 2 Kansas City News Workers Reject CIO KANSAS CITY, April 30.—(A*)— Editorial employes of the Kansas City Star and Times rejected by a vote of 115 to 68 a proposal to designate the CIO American News paper Guild as their collective bargaining agent, Joseph Watson, field examiner for the National Labor Relations board, reported tonight. The election was held April 10 under the supervision of the NLRB. Of 186 employes eligible to vote, only one failed to cast a ballot. One ballot was void, another spoiled, Watson said. James River Shipyard Project Is Abandoned WASHINGTON, April 30.—®— The Navy announced today that a projected shipyard building proj ect on the James river at Rich mond, Va., had been abandoned. A contract which the Navy had made with the James River Ship building company was being can celled, a Navy spokesman said. “It has been found,” he explain ed, “that existing facilities can take care of the work that would have been done down there. “Because of that the Navy de cided to save for other uses the materials which would have gone into that yard.” Bootleg Tire Recap Organization Set Up CHARLOTTE] April 30.—(A>)— Three Charlotte men were held for federal authorities today aft er a hearing in Mecklenburg coun ty recorder’s court on a charge of setting up a bootleg tire recap ping plant in a rural area near here. The three were booked as Ralph Williams, Forrest Green, and Ralph Plumlee. Green and Plum lee were described as employes of a vulcanizing company. At the hearing Plumlee and Green testified that they decided to set up the recapping outfit and that Williams agreed to operate it. 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