HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR HITLER ORDERS NEGOTIATIONS TO RESDME Hoey Urges Leasing A. & N. C. Railroad To Some Other Line Drove Death Car S?SjB. Mildred Gaydon, 25-year-old ciga rette girl, is pictured in bed after auto accident which resulted in death of the Count of Covadonga, eldest son of former king Alfonso of Spain. Miss Gaydon was driving the car which crashed into a pole. Dismissal Sought For Hines Case Defense Moves for Non-Suit in Rackets Charge Against Tam many Leader New York, Sept. 8— (AP)— Defense Counsel today urged dismissal of con spiracy charges against James J. Kines, 61-year-old Tammany district leader, asserting that even on the basis of the State’s allegations, Hines was only one of the players on the team —not a “master mind” of the $20.000,000-a-year Dutch Schultz policy racket. By his legal strategy, Lloyd Striker. Hines' attorney, sought to prevent the four weeks old trial from reaching the “blue ribbon” jury. Stryker asked Justice Ferdinand Pecora for dismis sal of the indictment in a 27-page typewritten brief. He cited three ma jor legal points in moving that the 13 counts of the indictment against Hines be thrown out. He also cited 36 cases in support of his thesis, and in a pre-count interview, the ch cf de fense lawyer was emphatic in stating that it was no mere “defense tactics’ of a routine formal nature, but that he sincerely believed the case should be quashed “on the law and the facts.” District Attorney Thomas Dewey has indicated that in contrast to the three hours Stryker said he would require for oral argument on his brief, the prosecution would need only “about fifteen minutes” to answer it. The state rested late yesterday. / SHERIFF AND MAYOR RESIGN IN ONSLOW Both Are Accepted by Separate Boards and New Officials Appoint ed to Office Jacksonville, N. C., Sept. 8. —(AP) — Sheriff D. W. Russell, Jr., confined in bed at a New Bern hospital, has tendered his resignation to the board of county commissioners. The resigna tion was accepted and the board ap pointed B. F. Morton, the sheriff nominate, to fill the unexpired term. At Tuesday night’s regular meeting of the Jacksonville board of commis sioners, Mayor E. L. Freeman tender ed his resignation, saying that per sonal business affairs made it neces sary that he resign. He was serving his third term and had been unop posed at each election. The board accepted his resignation with regrets, and named a member, W. D. Aman, temporary mayor. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight and Fri day; cooler tonight and Friday. limitersrm Uatlij Utsjratrff LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Directors Meet In Goldsboro; State Would Like To Sell at Fair Price Raleigh, Seut. B.—(AP) —Governor Hoey recommended today to board of directors and stockholders of the State-con(tro)lted AyJfintU & North Carolina railroad that the line be leased to the Southern Railway system, or some other organization or that an agreement for its opera tion be reached with the Southern. The stockholders and directors met in a postponed session at Goldsboro, and Governor Hoey had Attorney General Harry McMullan outline his plan. R. O. Self, chief clerk of the Utilities Commission, cast thd State’s proxy for the majority of the stock. Hoey asked the governing bodies of the railroad to adjourn their meet ing for 30 days or so to permit de finite working out of plans if they approved of lease of the line or se curing its operation. The Southern was interested in the proposition, said Hoey, upon joint re quest of the State and the railroad administration in Washington. He emphasized that the railroad was not seeking to lease, acquire or operate the line, but “had expressed a willingness” to consider taking over operations for a period of three years “to see just what can be done.” There are also “two separate groups of North Carolina citizens who have been considering the matter of or ganizing companies and making a proposition for the lease of the road, said the governor. The railroad administration at Washington “will cooperate financial ly in helping the road get on its feet,” said Hoey, as “Washington is inter ested both in the.-.railroad and the port, and has shown a fine spirit of cooperation.” Election of officers of the Atlantic & North Carolina will not take place until disposal is made of the proposal. Dally Dispatcn Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Goldsboro, Sept. B—Governor Clyde R. Hoey today moved toward un loading the State-owned Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad, preferably by teasing it to some railroad interest ed in operating the old Mullet Line between here and Morehead City. Through his personal representative Attorney G’aneral Harry McMullan, the governor recommended to the road’s board of directors that careful and sympathetic study be given any feasible plan to lease the road. No definite prospective lessee was named by Mr. McMullan for publica tion, but the attorney general came here this morning almost direct from a trip to Washington, D. C., where he conferred with a number of rail offi cials and with governmental agencies charged with supervision of railroad operation. Inasmuch as the State owns approx imately two-thirds of the stock in the A. and N. C., the governor’s recom mendations amounted to directions and considerations and consideration of plans for leasing the road, or at least devising some new form of ope ration were immediately begun. R. O. Self, chief clerk of the Utili ties Commission, attended to vote the State’s stock as proxy for the gover nor. There were strong intimations that (Continued on Page Four.) WPA Leader Attacks Plea Local Relief Princeton, N. J., Sept. 8. —(AP)— Nells Anderson, director of the sec tion on labor relations of the Fed eral WPA, charged today that pro posals for local direct relief were “really a part of a larger drive a gainst any kind of Federal participa tion for the welfare of the people.” Anderson made his statement in a speech prepared for the -annual con ference of the Governmental Research Association. He replied to a plea for local direct relief made by Carl Her bert, of St. Paul, who presided, and signed by 18 member agencies of the GRA before the special United States Senate committee to investigate re lief and unmployment last March. “In 1931 and 1932,” Andrewson said, “wt heard the same voices cry against the dole, fearful lest the American worker be demoralizd. When we got Federal work relief, the time chang ed, and now they are calling for the dole, but it must be a local dole. We have heard the same voices in hue and cry against the social security act and the Wagner labor relations act.” _ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Victory Smile H; Jr x * Senator Pat McCarran, of Nevada, is pictured above, as he completed his campaign in the hot three-cornered Democratic senatorial race. M::Car ran, who has opposed several Roose velt measures, won over two avowed New Dealers. Lady Postal Head Helps Tydings Foe Senate Committee Finds Salisbury, Md., Postmistress Guilty of Charges Washington, Sept. 8. —(AP) —-The Stenate Campaign expenditures Com mittee expressed the opinion today in a formal statement that Mrs. Maude Toulson, postmistress of Salisbury, Md., had violated Federal law Ly as sisting Representative Lewis, Demo crat, Maryland, in his campaign for the Democratic senatorial nomination. The committee said it would turn its findings over to the Justice De partment and the postmaster general. The committee’s statement said re ports of its investigators “do not su strain the charge that the CIO is fi nancing the campaign of Representa tive Lewis.” Lewis, who is President Roosevelt's choice in the Maryland primary against Senator Millard F. Tydings, asked the committee to investigate newspaper advertising which indicat ed the CIO had helped finance his campaign. Lewis charged the ad vertising was paid by Tydings sup porters . The committee’s investigation of the activities of Mrs. Toulson was under taken at the request of Tydings. Evi dence presented by the investigators, the committee said, did not confirm a report that Morris Schapiro, presi dent o-f th e Boston Iron & Metal Com pany and of the Globe Brewing,.Com pany, had contributed $5,000 to Sena tor Tydings’ campaign fund. Other developments: The PWA reported 370 non-Federai projects under construction in the I&SS program. Simultaneously, Ad ministrator Ickes announced approval of 51 additional non-Federal projects having an estimated construction cost of about $8,700,000, toward which PWA authorized nearly $4,000,000 of (Continued or. { age six) Early Drop In Stocks Halted New York, Sept. B£ (AP( —Light buying support helped stem an early slide in today’s stock market, and closing quotations, while generally lower, displayed no particular weak ness. A handful of rubber, building material automotive equipment and specialty issues provided the main comeback stimulation. Transfers ap proximated 550,000 shares. American Radiator 16 1-8 American Telephone 143 3-4 American Tob B 38 1-4 Anaconda 33 7-8 Atlantic Coast Line 1-4 Atlantic Refining .... 23 Bendix Aviation 22 7-8 Bethlehem Steel 39 Chrysler 74 1-2 Columbia Gas Co 6 1-2 Commercial Solvents 10 1-4 Continental Oil Co 8 7-8 Curtis Wright 5 DuPont 134 Electric Pow & Light 10 3-8 General Electric 41 3-4 General Motors 48 1-4 Liggett & Myers B 98 1-2 Montgomery Ward & Co 47 1-2 Reynolds Tob B 42 1-2 Southern Railway )2 3-4 Standard Oil N J 54 1-4 U S Steel 9 1-4 HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 8, 1938 Hitler at Nuremberg for Nazi Congress Adolf Hitler (left), German Fuehrer, is greeted by General Goering, his “right hand man,” outside the convention hall at Nuremberg, where 800.000 Nazi stalwarts massed for their tenth party congress. The whole world tuned in for the Nazi leader’s expected declarations of policy in regard to his European pre gram of—War. or Peace Plans Are Started For Farm Vote On 1939 Crop Control $210,000 Projects Approved By Coan Raleigh, Sept. B.—(AP) The WPA Administrator George Coan. Jr., today approved eleven projects to cost ab»ut $21.0,©00* and give work to 455 persons. Allotments, with persons to be worked, include: Hyde county, $4,- 104, school bus garage at Swan Quarter, 14 persons; Perquimans county, $21,871, paving sidewalks in Hertford, 37 Washington coun ty, $28,072, community sanitation program, 30; Richmond county, $43,308 for road work, 117; Wake county, $11,262 for sewers in Wen dell, 65. Farm Bureau Again To Aid Control Vote Raleigh, Sept. B.—(AP)—E. F. Ar nold, executive secretary of the State Farm Bureau Federation, said today he would confer with P ederal agri cultural officials in Washington this week-end on plans for a 1939 tobacco cr' Tj control program. 'ißc executive committee cf tl.f federation last night instructed Ar nold to pursue the matter of a con tinuation of crop control at once, and to report back to a series of meetings in tobacco counties starting next week. Continuation of control is needed to assure farmers of a reasonable price, Arnold said. Reports given to the ex ecutive committee at a meeting in Wilson were that opinion lor continu ed control did not seem unanimous, but was overwhelmingly above the necessary two-thirds majority of the growers, Arnold said. The committee adopted a resolution opposing any changes in regulations which would permit tax free sale of any tobacco, scrap or otherwise, in excess of quotas, Arnold said. He said some pressure was being exerted to allow sale of scrap tobacco outside of quota limits on a tax free or re duced tax basis. HOEY MAKES PLEA FOR EXTRADITION Raleigh, Sept. B.—(API- Hoey sent to Governor Herbert Leh man of New York today extradition papers which said that Eddie Pope listed in them as under arrest in New York City, was wanted in Robe son county to face charges of as sault with a deadly weapon with in tent to kill and forcible robbery with a deadly weapon, and asked that the man be turned over to North Caro lina officers. .. New Referenda To Be Had in December To Allow Growers To De ter m i n e Regulation Next Year; Some Farmers Have Ex pressed Dissatisfac ~ tion Washington, Sept. 8. —(AP) —Cotton and tobacco farmers will get an op portunity soon to vote on continuing for another year the crop control pro gram approved last spring for the 1938 yields. Federal farm officials said today they had begun arrangements for submitting the question at new re ferenda, probably in December, since there was little doubt that cotton and tobacco supplies would be excessive. Officials said :they regarded the forthcoming referenda as important tests of the farm legislation. It will be the first opportunity for farmers who have tried out the control pro visions to express themselves. Some farmers have expressed dis satisfaction with the act, particularly with respect to provisions giving the government authority to levy crop quotas and assess penalties. Two-thirds of the growers of each crop participating in an election must approve the programs to make them effective. Cotton and tobacco farm ers gave overwhelming approval in the first referenda. The Census Bureau reported 1,331 - 745 bales of 1938 growth of cotton had been ginned prior to September 1, compared with 1,874,320 to that date last year, and 1,374,247 two years ago. The acreage remaining for harvest condition of the crop on September 1, and acre yield of lint cotton and indicated production, by states in clude: North Carolina, 902,000; 61 percent; 240, and 153,000. Total ginnings to September 1, as reported by the Census Bureau by States, included: North Carolina 1,714 Cotton Shows Little Change New York, Sept. B.—(AP) Cotton futures opened one point higher to three lower. Higher Liverpool cables were offset by hedge selling and pre bureau liquidation. December was 8.09 late in the first hour, when the list was unchanged to three points net lower. December advanced from 8.08 to 8.17, and was within a point of the best in mid-afternoon, when the list was four to six points net higher. Futures closed one point higher to two lower; spot steady, middling 8.19. Open Close October 8.07 8.07 December •■ • • 8.10 8.11 January 8.07 8.08 March 8.05 8.08 May S-07 8.07 , July 804 8 - 07 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Strikers Defied By Frisco Stores San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 8. — (AP) — Department store owners and their thousands of striking clerks tightened their battle lines today as their verbal skirmishing presaged a long struggle in San Francisco’s newest labor battle front. A spokesman for the 22 af fected stores and their eight bran ches said: “The stores will stay open; we have not yielded; we do not yield, and we will not yield to any group of union officials the control of who our employees will . be.” The A. F. of L.-affiliated strik ers received pledges of A. F. L. and C. I. O. union support, and set up «a committee to conduct their cam paign. Larry Vail, union secretary, said 7.000 workers responded to yesterday’s strike call. Store exe cutives set the number at 4,000. Another War Would Make Times Worse By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Sept. B.—Republicans seem to me to be making a mistake in trying to combat the Democratic charge that the last few years of American hard times date back to the Hoover era. They can do better than that. They can argue that the hard times seed was planted during a Democratic ad ministration —when President Wilson permitted tire United States to be drawn into the World war. Thus they would be in a position to blame the Democrats instead of having a Repub lican president blamed —and an of fensive attitude always is preferable to a defensive one. The G. O. P., however, entirely overlooks this bet, which, it appears to me, could be made a pretty good one. Chaos Follows War. A big war invariably is followed by a long period of economic distress among the peoples who were involved in it. It is of historic record that an era of extended hardship has succeeded every great conflict. It was a cen tury before Europe recovered from the seven-year struggle in an earlier age. Statisticians demonstrate that participants in Napoleon strife were not economically sound again for an other century. The late President Mel vin A. Traylor of the First National Bank of Chicago spoke to me of our own panic of 1893 as the “last thun derclap” of our War of Secession in the 1860’s. It stands to reason that the effects of a major war don’t pass in a hurry. The World War’s bad effects may still be felt in the year 2000, even though considerable peace reigns in the meantime. Wilson To Blame? That being the case, the World War ■tfas a firs'F-'class war to keep out of. Yet Woodrow Wilson allowed Uncle Sam to be entangled in it. Possibly he could not avoid it, but it occurred with him in the White House, The Republicans can plausibly charge his regime with responsibility for our participation. Now, our recent depressions un questionably have been, at least in 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Gesture For Peace Made By Fuehrer French From Their Side of Border Watch German Troop Move ments; French Army High Command Strengthened by Shift ing of Its Ranking Generals Nurnberg, Germany, Sept. 8. —TAP) —Adolf Hitler, who yesterday order ed Sudeten Germans to discontinue their negotiations for self-rule with the Czechoslovak government, ’.oday instructed the minority leaders to re sume didn’t. I interviewed him when he wa ■ commerce secretary, and he said w s were living in a “new age of th s world”—good times forever. Morgan Short-Sighted. Secretary of the Treasury Andre' f W. Mellon knew better. I interviewed him in early Hoovei • (Continued on Page Five)