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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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 <the talks.
The reason for this change, it was
said, was the desire of the chancellor
and self-styled protector of Sudeten
Germans to convince the world he
was leaving nothing undone to find a
peaceful solution to the Czech-German
crisis.
Informed quarters said “with this
additional evidence of a conciliatory
spirit to the Sudeten Germans’ credit,”
Hitler could “all the more press upon
the British to demand maximum con
cessions from the Czechoslovak ad
ministration.
German efforts will now be concen
trated upon getting the British t j act
and decisively, these sources added.
Konrad Henlein, Sudeten German
leader, returned to Nurnberg this
morning after a hurried overnight
journey to Czechoslovak, which ha
took at Hitter’s behest. An informed
source said the Sudeten Fuehrer ord
ered his followers to refrain from
intensifying the conflict while his ne
gotiations with Hitler, and Hi'.ler’3
with Britain, are in progress.
Henlein hastened home after receiv
ing reports that the “horse-whipping”
of Sudeten deputy by a Czech police
man in a border town had caused a
rupture of the Sudeten-Prague govern
ment negotiations. Henlein told his
followers to reopen those negotiations,
informed persons said.
FRENCH SOLDIERS WATCH
GERMAN TROOP MOVEMENTS
Sarreguemines, on the French Ger
man Frontier, Sept. 8. — (AP) —
France’s air and land armies in the
Maginot zone watched movements of
German troops across the frontier to
day and awaited developments in
Czechoslovakia.
Citizens of Metz awoke to see a
large army observation balloon float
ing from a cable highabove the city.
Two observers in the basket scanned
the northern horizon with field glass
es and kept in constant touch by tele
phone with a ground crew.
French observation and pursuit
planes roared over valleys of the Magi
not line of fortifications long before
the morning fog had lifted.
During the night trops in the fort
ress were strengthened by thousands
of trained reserves. Constant watch
was kept in the garrisons and at e»;
trances to the underground fort fica
tions.
Little parish churches of the fron
tier zone wore lighted this morning by
hundreds of candles placed before the*
altars by devout Lorraine women.
FRENCH ARMY STRENGTHENS
HIGH COMMAND PERSONNEL
Paris, Sept. 8. —(AP) —The French
army strengthened its high command
today with a rapid shift of ranking
generals and experts on the German
frontier zone.
All officers assigned to the fortified
area in northeastern France were or<V
ered to “take their posts without de
lay.”
Two changes involving members of
the superior war council and nine in
the army general staff were announc
ed in the official journal. Three
shifts affected frontier commands.
large part, post-war depressions.
Harding No Statesman.
War times always are boom times.
So are immediate post-war times.
Times, under President Harding
President Coolidge and in early Hoov
erian days, looked like extraor
dinarily good times but they
weren’t so in reality.
I think that Presidents Coolidge and
Hoover might have seen what wac
coming—and, maybe, have done some
thing to modify the sequence. Bu
they didn’t. One can’t blame Hard •
ing; he was a lovely chap, personal-,
ly, but no statesman. Coolidge wasn’
a super-intelligence, either! He, tot,
evidently thought that his admink
tration’s supposed prosperity was th ;
genuine article. Hoover, possibly,
should have had more sense, but h >
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 •
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