HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
twenty-fifth year
ROOSEVELT PLEDGES IIBERALIZED” PARTY
Reserves Called To Colors
By France As An Emergency
Germany Has
Sent 60,000
MenToßhine
Troops Man Fortifica
tions on French Bord
er; Number and Loca
tion of French Soldiers
at Front Kept Secret;
Public Given Assur
ances
Paris, Sept. 5.—(AP) —An official of
the war ministry announce*! today
that France had called “certain
serves” to *he colors as a “precau
tionary measure.”
The call went out last night, the
official said, after Germany had mov
ed an estimated 60,000 troops into her
new Siegfried line of fortifications,
just across the Rhine from France’s
famed Maginot line.
“We can give no information con
cerning the number or location of
these reserves,’’ the official said. “We
are watching the situation closely,
and will cotinue to do so.”
He emphasized that there was no
immediate cause for Alarm on the
part of the French public.
Havas News Agency said the re
serves had been called to bolster for
tifications near the German frontier
against “eventualities” which may re
sult from Hitler's pronouncement at
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Prosecution
In Hines Case
Nears Close
New York, Sept. 5. —(AP) —The end
of a long parade of prosecution wit
nesses in the policy racket trial of
James J. Hines was sighted today as
District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey
piepared to complete his case against
the Tammany district leader.
The trial will resume tomorrow
morning and in the next two or three
days Dewey is expected to call his re
maining major witnesses. None of
them is as widely known as those
Dewey put on the stand during the
first three weeks of the trial.
The Labor Day week-end brought
an extendde recess.
With the State’s case nearing com
pletion, plans of the defense took
shape. It was generally agreed that
the defense would seek a directed ver
dict of acquittal when the State rests
and, failing in this, would summon
Hines to deny prosecution conten
tions.
Insurgents
Push Loyal
Troops Back
Hendaye, France, Sept. 5. —(AP)
Insurgent dispatches today said gov
ernmenta lines >had been pushed back
an average of four miles by Generalis
simo Francisco Franco’s new 1 offen
sive on the Ebro front in eastern
Spain.
The government admitted the streng
th of the attacks, but said insurgent
gains had been limited to the capture
two hillg between Gandesa and
Corbera, in the center of the 25-mile
Hont. The insurgent week-end ad
vances, which they reported, included
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Hmtiirrsmt Hatltt Hisiratrh
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hitler Opens Nazi Meet
At Numberg, And Speech
May Bare Future Plans
Nearly 300
Deaths Over
The Holiday
200 Die In Auto Crash
es, With Many Drown
ings, Suicides, Homi
cides
(By The Associated Press.)
The nation’s list of violent
deaths over Labor Day week-end
swept toward the 300 mark today.
At least 200 persons’died in motor
crashes on highways carrying
peak loads of holiday travelers.
There were also many drowntngs,
suicides and homicides.
Victims of unusual accidents
included a parachute jumper in
Pennsylvania, a mountain climber •
in the Adirondack mountains in
New York, an auto racer in New
Jersey and a man who suffocated
in a homemade diving helmet in
Missouri.
Five persons in a light sedan
were killed and 28 persons were
injured when the sedan and a
Greyhound bus collided near
Charlotte, N. C.
Five members of a New Jersey
vacation party died in a car-train
crash near Meredith, N. H.
ROCKY MOUNT MAN
DECLARED SUICIDE
T. A. Hartley, Jr., 31, Evening Tele
gram Circulation Manager,
Is Found Dead
Rocky Mount, Sept. 5. —i(AP) —T. A.
Hartley, Jr., 31, circulation manager
of the Rocky Mount Telegram, was
found dead in his apartment here last
night with a pistol wound in his head.
Dr. J. G. Raby, Edgecombe county
coroner, termed it a case of suicide,
although no motive was given. A na
tive of Winston-Salem, Hartley had
been connected with newspapers there
before coming here two years ago. He
is survived by his wife and two chil
dren, his parents, two sisters and a
brother.
Plans for the funeral, which will
be conducted in Winston-Salem, had
not been completed.
Election Fight Believed
Certain In Legislature
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel, j
Raleigh, Sept. s— Counterfeit hor
ror growing out of a belated discovery
that North Carolina’s election laws
are among the few State institutions
which have yielded little to marching
time, is everywhere attended in this
State by demands that the General
Assembly of 1939 do something re
volutionary about these antiquated
late Dennis G. Brummitt, at
torney general from 1925 to 1935, aften
declared that North Carolina had the
worst election laws in the country and
he participated in some of the purges
of 1932 and 1934 following the pri
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Der Fuehrer Widely
Acclaimed at Station
As He Arrives From
Munich; Crucial Stage
Reached in Czech Mi
nority Problem Nego
tiations at Praha
Nurnberg, Germany, Sept. 5. —(AP)
—Chancellor Adolf Hitler came to
Nurnberg today to open the tenth an
nual rally in his Nazi party’s history,
and, in the light of world events, per
haps one of the most important.
The fuehrer arrived by train from
Munich at 11 a. m., and was widely
acclaimed at the station and during
the short ride to his headquarters.
Today was filled with gala fes
tivities. Tomorrow will begin more se
rious business with the anual read
ing of Hitler’s keynote proclamation,
which assumes special importance be
cause of the possibility it may outline
Germany’s course of action on the
Sudeten German minority’s dispute
with its Czechoslovak government.
The proclamation usually outlines
aims of the future as well as achieve
ments of the previous year, and so
presumably will deal with the join
ing of Austria to Germany.
CRUCIAL STAGE REACHED
IN CZECH MINORITY ROW
Praha, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 5. —
(AP) —Negotiations on the minority
problem entered the crucial stage to
day in the first meeting between Pre
sident Eduard Benes and Sudeten
German representatives since Adolf
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Man Questioned
In Brutal Killing
Os Little Girl, 8
Portsmouth, N. H., Sept 5. —(AP) —
A blood-covered stone “as big as a
man’s two fists,” anda few strands
of hair were the only clues unearth
ed today by police investigating the
brutal slaying of eight-year-old Bar
bara Driscoll, whose body earlier was
found stuffed under a building in
Portsmouth railroad yards.
An ex-convict, held for questioning,
steadfastly denied any connection
with the crime, but admitted, Rock
ingham County Attorney Stephen
Wheeler said, that he had been in the
railroad yards during the night.
Wheeler said he was convinced the
child was attacked “with intent to
commit criminal assault.”
maries. But beyond rhetorical ac
activisism Mr. Brummit did not go.
He was a member of the 1915. 1917
and 1919 General Assemblies, speaker
of the House in 1919 and active in
the enactment of the absentee ballot
act of 1917. Likewise he was prom
inent in primary legislation of 1915, in
the school legislation affecting to in
troduce democracy into school ad
ministration. and helped to work out
the legislation necessary for the en
franchisement of women.
But in all that long legislative ser
vice Mr. Brummitt did not feel mov
ed to wipe off the books the State’s
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MARYLAND’S SENATE RACE IN POLITICAL GLARE
Advertisement prepared by Democrats at Tyding's
"prefers” DOTid^ V *Lewi« I>avld J. Lewie Millard E. Tying*
.. . prefers David J. Lewis .. r , ~. **** b, F . D. R» .7. on presidential “purge” list
Torrid Democratic senatorial primary in Maryland,
Sept. 12, takes the national political spotlight with
President Roosevelt’s invasion of the state for a
speech at Denton, Sept. 5, in favor of Representa
tive David J. Lewis, stirring talks of boycott by
Democrats who resent presidential interference.
Meanwhile, political advertisements sponsored by
campaign headquarters of the “purge-listed” Sena
Rejects U. S. Request
T President Lazaro Cardenas
... replies to Hull
to a message opening a new ses
sion of congress, President Lazaro
Cardenas of Mexico served notice
that Mexico would reject Secre
tary of State Cordell Hull’s re
quest that expropriation of Amer
ican-owned farm lands without
immediate compensation he halt
ed. The government will continue
its agrarian program, Cardenas
said.
Hot Contest
For Fletcher
Post Likely
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotet
Rajjeigh, Sept. 5. —Nomination of
Forest H. Shuford, new commission
er of labor to succeed Major A. L.
Fletcher, is expected to be a simple
ministerial act of the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee which
will confirm Governor Hoey’s appoint
ment.
But the 1940 contest, when Mr. Shu
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Japs Expect To Capture
Hankow By Early October
New Victories Report
ed Along Y angtze
River in Drive for Pro
vincial Capital of Chi
nese; 10,000 Chinese
Estimated Killed In
Week
Shanghai, Sept. 5. —(AP) —Reports
said to have originated in Japanese
official circles, said today the Jap
anese army high command expected
to capture Hankow, the Chinese pro
visional capital, before October 1.
The. army officials were reported to
be convinced that Japanese forces, ad
vancing along both hanks of the
Yangtze river, would be able to take
Hankow within three weeks, even
Without support of the navy, which
was not expected to keep pace with
the advance.
The Japanese, reporting new vic
tories along the Yangtze, estimated
that 10,090 Chinese had been killed
during a week of the deadliest fight
ing since the fall of Shanghai, almost
ten months ago. Seven squadrons of
Japanese planes flew over the Lus
han mountains, south of Kiukiang, all
day yesterday, blasting Chinese de
fenses along the Nanchang railway
with one of the greatest aerial bom
bardments of the Hankow offensive.
Three Japanese pursuit planes ma
chine-gunned a tri-motored Junkers
transport of the German-Chinese-op
erated Eurasia Line, forcing it to land
at Liuchow, in Kwansi province, with
ten bullet holes in its fusillage. The
attack followed a similar incident in
which 14 persons lost their lives
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Tuesday;
' cooler in north central and north
east portions Tuesday.
tor Millard E. Tydings, anti-New Deal Democrat,
became an issue. The ads were to appear in news-*
papers throughout Maryland. When the ads were
brought to the president’s attention, he said that
his first impression was one of amusement, his next,
one of sadness that anyone should put out what he
denominated an hysterical statement. Lewis
Tydings and the president are pictured.
Farmers Approve
Control Os Crops
»
Raleigh, Sept. 5. (AP) —Crop '
control today had approval of a
majority of the Eastern North Car
olina tobacco growers who attend
ed eight regional meetings to dis
cuss the decline in tobacco prices.
The farmers met at Greenville, Wil
son, Kenansvilie, Tarbo ro. Nash
ville, Snow Hill, Kinston and War
renton Saturday anil adopted re
solutions advocating continuance of
a crop control program.
E. F. Arnold, executive secretary
of the Farm Bureau F<-deration,
announced today that the organize
turn's executive comm itt< e of 16
members has been called to meet
at Wilson Wednesday nlghst “to dis
cuss the tobacco si'aiafci on and
make further plans (or continua
tion «f crop control.”
Glass Winner
In Argument
With lekes
By CHARLES P. STEWART 1
Central Press Columnist '
Washington, Sept. s.—Senatjor Car
ter Glass of Virginia seems to me to
have had decidedly the better of In
terior Secretary Harold L. rckes in
the recent controversy between the
two.
That is to say, Glass called Ickes a
considerably greater number of ugly
names than Ickes called Glas».
Practically all that Ickes said about
Glass was that the Virginian is a
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Tydings Is
Attacked In
Denton Talk
President Praises New
Deal Record of Lewis,
Opponent of Senator
in Coming Maryland
Primary; Makes Labor
Day Speech in Mary
land
Denton, Md., Sept, 5. —(AP)—-Presi-
dent Roosevelt pledged his personal
effort “to try to keep” the Democratic
party “liberal” in an address today
praising the legislative record of the
New Deal’s senatorial candidate in
Maryland, Representative David J
Lewis.
By name, Mr. Roosevelt mentioned
in his prepared address neither Lewis
nor Senator Millard F. Tydings, whom
the White House has marked for de
feat in the Democratic primary.
But the President’s praise for Lewis
yas unmistakeable, while many hear
ers recalling that Mr. Roosevelt once
said that Tydings "wants to run with
the Roosevelt prestige and the money
of his conservative Republican friends
both on his side,” interpreted these
words as directed at the senator:
“Any man, any political party, r.os a
right to be honestly one or the other
(conservative or liberal). But the na
tion cannot stand for the confusion of
having him pretend to be one and act
like the other.”
The President spoke to eastern
shor e farmers gathered with their
families in a county fair atmosphere
on and about the court house lawn.
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Woman Freed
By Kidnapers
Now Very 111
Marysville. Cal., Sept. 5. —(AP)
Mrs. William R. Meeks, 55, was un
der the care of a physician at her
home today after being held captive
for 56 hours by kidnapers, who kept
her • blindfolded, threatened continual
ly to kill her, and bedded her down a
hillside covered with poison oak
growth.
Dr‘. P. B. Hoffman, the Meeks fam
ily physician, said she Was dangerous
ly near pneumonia. She returned to
her home early yesterday. Her ab
ductors, she said, became fearful of
discovery and abandoned her. Her
husband said none of the $15,000 ran
som the kidnapers had demanded had
been paid.
$45,000 Pot
In Prize List
At Air Races
Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 5. —(AP) —In
the brief space of 75 minutes eight,
men will divide a pot of $45,000 this
afternoon, the world’s richest purse in
one of the world’s most dangerous
sports—air racing.
Eight men will split it, if eight men
finish a flight over a closed ten-mile
course at speeds approaching 300
miles an hour.
One member of their fraternity,
Russell Chambers, of Los Angeles,
has died in six days of qualifying
and competitive flights at the na
tional air races, aviation’s annual big
show. Another was crtically injured.
A third, at the point of juming from
hfs plane as fire ate into his cock
pit 1 and streamed back under hi I
fustillage, managed to somehow land.
The final race of the three-day mee:
today’s Thompson classic, is over i
route of 300 miles cut into segment *
of two and one half miles, the di: -
tance between the pylons markin'
the course.