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VQLtJME VI, NUMBER 4
Senate Passes Bonus Bill
House Must Voice Approval
Again Before President
Gets Measure
| CAN OVERRIDE F. D’s. VETO
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A soldiers’ bonus bill, calling for
payment of full 1945 maturity value
in SSO bonds, was shoved to within
a step of the White House Monday
night as the Senate passed it along
to a receptive house by a top-heavy
. vote of 74 to 16.
’ The nearly five to one majority
rolled up for the Democratic-Re
publican two billion dollar proposal
was easily more than enough to
< pass it over a veto. The house al
ready has approved immediate
» ». payment by an even greater ma
jority—Bs6 to 59—but without spe
ib cifym**the payment method. Some
predicted a veto, but even
Democratic leaders said it would be
► 4 overridden.
L Speaker Byms said the “baby
i bonds” bill would be taken up in
* the house Wednesday, allowing
members a day’s notice. Bonus
I leaders predicted house acceptance
I of the senate substitute by an over-
V whelming ballot.
| A double defeat in the senate for
»I payment of the Wbrld War adjust
ed service certificates in new cur
rency was expected to influence
J house supporters of the inflationary
Patman bill, vetoed last session, to
refrain from pressing this issue.
Highlights of the bonus bill pass-
■( ed Monday by the senate are:
Bonds would be issued in SSO de-
| nominations to pay in full next
June the 1935 maturity value of the
20-year bonus certificates issued in
"J 1925. Cash would be paid for odd
| amounts.
(Bonds would be for full value,
minus loans against certificates and
(unpaid interest accrued before Oct
1, 1931. Interest after that is can
celled.
Veterans may cash at any local
I all or part of his bonds,
1 but if they do so the first year they
* receive no interest. If they hold the
| bonds to maturity they receive 3
■ per cent simple interest annually.
Veterans who haven’t applied for
j the bonus may continue to do so.
Ultimate estimated cost: $2,491,-
000,000 composed of an appropria
\ tion authorization of $2,237,000,000
and $254,000,000 in convertible
bonds in the adjusted service certi
ficate fund.
t Dr. Highsmith And
Miss Devers To Be
At Teachers Meet
j Teachers Urged And Requested
i To Attend Meeting Friday
At 2:30 In Jefferson
Dr. J. Henry Highsmith and Miss
Nancy O. Devers, of Raleigh, ex
’ pect to be in Jefferson Friday after
noon to address the county-wide
I teachers meeting that will convene
in the courthouse at two-thirty
o’clock. Both Dr. Highsmith and
? are well known to the
teWhers in this section as they have
visited here on many previous oc
casions.
County Superintendent J. Ivan
Miller urges and requests all teach
lers in the county system to make
a special effort to be present Fri-
I day.
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Presbyterian Men
Attend Winston Meet
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t Thursday of last week, Messrs,
j E. A McNeill, J. O. Blevins, Victor
Clark, Lee Sheets, Ernest Carty,
. Walter Osborne, Robert Barr, J. W.
j Luke, and R. H. Stone, attended a
* meeting in Winston-Salem held in
the First Presbyterian Church. The
I meeting stressed the goals of the
I Diamond Jubilee and began at
LJthree o’clock. At 6:30 the group
[ Wnited with the men of the church
| a supper and a continuation of
I the program.
Kl .AR"* week » January 19-26, is be-
I * unobserved by the Southern Pres-
I i.hyterians as a week of self denial
11 and prayer for Home Missions. The
I 1!®,541 churches are asked to have a
I flnart in this.
<The IJost
SI.OO A Year In Ashe County »
Bank Os Ashe Holds
Annual Meeting Os
Directors Saturday
AU Old Officers Re-Elected;
Joe Worth Added To List
Bank Os Directors
The directors of the Bank of
Ashe held their regular annual
meeting in the offices of the bank
on Saturday, January 18, in Jeffer
son.
W. H. Worth, president, was in
charge of the meeting and all the
old officers were re-elected as fol
lows: W. H. Worth, president; Joe
Worth, cashier; T. K. Miller, J. L.
Miller, R. F. Day, W. H. Worth, and
Joe Worth, directors. Mr. Joe
Worth, a newly elected member of
the board of directors, fills the
platfe left vacant by the resignation
of J. S. Brown. Mrs. Langdon Scott
is also assisting in the bank work
this winter.
Mr. Worth, president of the bank,
is very much pleased over the prog
ress the bank is making and re
ported that a good year had just
passed with prospects bright for
another successful year in 1936.
Congress Has
Tough Week
Fleeting Legislation Necessary
According To White House
Conference Report
Bonus, neutrality, and farm aid
legislation is claiming the attention
of Congress which started its third
full week Monday.
Administration chiefs predict
bonus legislation will be enacted
before the month is out, notwith
standing possible presidential ob
jection, and committee in both
branches are pushing forward in
framing permanent legislation to
steer the nation clear of future for
eign conflicts.
The senate has two committee
approved farm bills before it. One,
by Republican Leader McNary, of
Orgeon, would authorize an appro
priation of $300,000,000 to pay
farmers for acreage reduction con
tracts entered into before the Su
preme court decision invalidated
AAA. Another by Chairman Smith,
Democrat, South Carolina, of the
agriculture committee would autho
rize the customary annual appro
priation of $60,000,000 for seed
loans.
A third farm measure which
some have hinted might be labeled
the administration bill may be in
troduced Tuesday by Senator Bank
head, Democrat, Alabama. This
would amend the 1935 soil conser
vation law and appropriate $350,-
000,000 to resume in some respects
a control principle not unlike the
old AAA.
Following an hours’ conference
at the White House Thursday,
Speaker Byms told news men the
necessity of enacting farm legisla
tion “is so immediate that it has got
to be done at the earliest possible
moment, and there won’t be time
for permanent legislation.”
Administration leaders who par
ticipated in the conference said
that, while detaials remained to be
worked out, the general plan was
this:
1. Crop production would be ad
justed through retirement of acre
age as a soil conservation anad ero
sion prevention measure.
2. Farmers would be reimbursed
for land thus retired through Fed
eral “rental” payments.
3. Such authorization as is neces
sary will be sought through amend
ments to existing laws, rather than
new ones.
4. An appropriation of $3,000,000
to $400,000,000 will be requested to
reimburse farmers under the inval
idated 1935 adjustment contracts.
6. A “permanent” program might
be sought later this session or de
ferred until next year.
7. Provisions of the AAA un
touched by the Supreme Court’s de
cision would be strengthened and
more fully utilized.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1936, WEST JEFFERSON, N. C.
LATE NEWS
BULLETINS
BUILDING IN STATE
SHOWS BIG GAIN
Building projects planned in
North Carolina cities of more
than 18,600 population during
1935 had a total value of $9,143,-
830, according to figures compiled
by the statistical division of the
state department of labor.
Four cities in the state issued
permits for more than a million
dollars in new construction.
The total, larger than the fig
ure for anyone year in nearly a
decade, represented an increase
of $5,649,421 or 123 per cent, over
the $4,103,409 spent during 1934
on construction ip the 21 cities
listed.
F. D. R. CHIEF SPEAKER
AT TEDDY’S MEMORIAL
New York state’s $3,500,000
memorial to Theodore Roosevelt
was dedicated Sunday with cere
monies in which President Roose
velt and other speakers took
their texts from the words of the
“Rough Rider” President.
The President, a distant cousin
of the man whom high officials,
diplomatic representatives of for
eign countries and other distin
guished guests had assembled to
honor, eulogized “T. R.” for his
“passion of righteouness” and
“strong sense of justice.”
ENGLAND PLANS
DEFENSE IN AFRICA " .
Within the shadow of the pyra
mids, reliable sources have re
revealed, Great Britain has con
centrated her most powerful war
machine since the world war.
The Egyptian area, informed
persons stated, now holds nearly
half the regular combat army,
between forty and eighty thou
sand troops. They are supported,
recent reports indicate, by one
hundred and fifty-seven warships
and between 700 and 800 military
planes.
This in itself is the greatest
naval and air force the nation
has ever massed along its eastern
empire route to India and Aus
tralia.
LOST AVIATOR FOUND
AFTER 3 MONTHS
Lincoln Ellsworth, American,
and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon,
Canadian, explorers, lost since
last November, have been found
alive and well in Little America.
That was the word sent back
from a British relief expedition
in the Antarctie Friday.
The explorers, missing about
two months, had landed there in
November when their fuel ran
out on a projected flight across
the south polar regions and a
damaged radio transmitter kept
them silent.
500 CALIFORNIANS
TRAPPED BY RIVER
Approximately 506 persons
were trapped Thursday as the
rampaging Sacramento river
flooded Butte City in California,
and spread over more than $30,-
006 acres.
Only boats could reach Butte
City and the immediate area,
where people were trapped in
their homes by from three to five
feet of water. They were not be
lieved in immediate danger.
Fears of famine in their little
dairy and trading community
were expressed.
Hundreds of head of livestock
were driven to higher land.
Most of the land inundated was
pasture but considerable crop and
orchard acreage was included.
Damage from water and land
slide occurred in other parts of
California.
The breaks climaxed sev
eral days of rising water.
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A remarkable picture of an Iceberg formation, made near the South polo
,by Photographer Ponting, a member of Capt. Robert F. Scott’s Antarctic ex
pedition of 1912. The picture, recently found among the effects of the late
Captain Ponting, never has been published before.
Equipment For Work On
Scenic Highway Arrives
32 Are Known Dead
In Southern States
170 Deaths Reported From Cold
And Exposure In The
United States
A week-end of freakish winter
weather—off-season tornadoes,sleet,
snow and bitter cold—took the
lives of at least 32 persons in the
South.
Many were injured by destruc
tive stongStJhat killed 18 persons
and widespread damage in
Florida, Georgia and Alabama.
Motor accidents on ice-coated
highways were responsible for ten
fatalities, four deaths were attrib
uted to the cold and one man was
killed by lightning.
At Cleveland, Tenn., George Ault
declared his wife was killed acci
dentally when the wind slammed
a door, knocking down his shotgun
and sending the discharge into her
left side.
The toll of the tornadoes was sev
en in the vicinity of Chipley, Fla.,
five at Edison, Ga., four near Fort
Payne, Ala., and one each at Skip
perville and Ashford, Ala.
At least 170 deaths were tabulat
ed in the nation. Most of them were
attributed to traffic accidents on icy
streets and highways. Others were
laid to gales on land and sea, fire,
exposure, over-exertion and other
causes attendant upon the weather.
Rural Presbyterians
Plan Special Services
On next Monday at 2:30 p. m. in
the Gillespie Presbyterian Church
the first of a series of five confer
ences will .be held. Rev. J. K. Flem
ing, of Mt. Airy, will preside and
speak on the Diamond Jubilee
plans and goals. Dr. McNeill, of the
First Presbyterian Church, of Win
ston-Salem, will speak about the
organized work of the Southern
Presbyterian Church. Rev. R. T.
Baker, of Ellenboro, N. C., will talk
about the thing of which he is an
authority—“ The Lord’s Acre.” Mr.
Baker and his congregations have
attracted almost a church-wide at
tention because of their venture in
to this phase of church support.
The elders of the churches are
making an effort to have every
member present. The public is most
cordially invited to attend all of
these services.
On Monday night a similar ser
vice will be held in the Foster Me
morial Church—beginning at 7:00
p. m. Tuesday services are as fol
lows: Glendale Springs at 10:30 a.
m.—serving the churches at Low
Gap, Ebenezer, Big Ridge and
Obids; Bethel (Wilkes county) at
2:00 p. m.—reaching Bethel and
Miller’s communicants; and Laurel
Fork at 7:00 p. m.—The Peak Creek
members being expected to attend
these services.
$1.25 A Year Out Os County
Mr. King, Os State Highway
Department Pleased With
Shape Os Ashe Roads
New equipment for beginning the
construction of the scenic highway
link between Laurel Springs and
Roaring Gap has arrived by rail in
West Jefferson, and work will be
started today to move it to Laurel
Springs where it is understood that
it will be used in beginning the
construction of the road in Alle
ghany.
Mr. Ford King, assistant district
engineer in this section, who was
in the city the first of the week
stated that the state would cooper
ate with the federal forces in mov
ing the machinery. Mr. King also
stated that he was particularly
well pleased with the way the
roads on the bus routes in the coun
ty were holding up under the rains,
freezes, and thaws that have been
prevelant for the past two months.
Although several of the schools
closed for a few days, they are all
back in session again and buses are
running as usual.
Traffic Deaths In
Carolina 11 Per
Cent Over 1934
Motor Vehicle Bureau Releases
Figures Showing 1,095
Killed In 1935
Deaths in traffic accidents in
North Carolina in 1935 reached a
total of 1,0095, an increas of 109 or
11 per cent over the record for 1934,
which was 986.,
e The annual compilation by the
Motor Vehicle bureau in Raleigh
showed that in addition to the 1,095
killed 6,950 were injured in 5,358
accidents. The figures compared
with 6,273 injured in 4,552 accidents
in 1934—an increase of 667 in the
number injured and 806 in the num
ber of accidents.
The record for last December,
anounced the past week with the
annual totals, showed 115 persons
killed and 722 injured in 561 acci
dents, compared with the Decem
ber, 1934, record of 117 killed and
550 injured in 478 accidents.
The December, 1935, fatalities,
115, showed a sharp increase over
the record for November, 1935,
which was 92, a sharp drop from
131 in last October.
Farm Income Doubled
In Carolina Since 1932
Dr. G. W. Forester, agricultural
economist of North Carolina, esti
mates that the cash income of the
farmers of the State in 1935 was
$134,842,000 greater than in 1932.
He says that in 1932 their gross
cash income was $97,628,000 and in
1935 it was $232,470,000.
The net cash income last year
was $167,606,000 as compared with
$54,000,000 in 192, Dr. Forester says.
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PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY
Expects Many
To Attend Ball
70 Per Cent Os Funds To Stay
In County For Help Os
Local Cripples
G. B. Gambill, chairman of the
President’s Ball which will be held
at the Colonial Hotel in West Jeff
erson on Thursday, Jan. 30th, states
that plans are moving forward to
ward staging the best celebratioif
that has been sponsored by the
Young Democrats- since the organi
zation was initiated into the county.
An orchestra has been secured
and posters are being sent out an
nouncing the time and place. A
special invitation has been sent to
Alleghany since there is no ball be
ing sponsored there. Bridge, rook,
or setback, will begin at eight
o’clock, and dancing at nine-thirty.
Those expecting ,to play cards are
asked to let Mr. Gambill know
ahead of time so tables may be ar
ranged.
Seventy cents of every dollar, in
stead of fifty as previously an
nounced, is to remain in the local
community for the treatment and
rehabilitation of resident Infantile
Paralysis sufferers under the direc
tion of the local Birthday ' Ball
Committee; 30 cents of every dol
lar will be turned over to the Na
tional Committee for delivery to
the President to be presented by
him to Warm Springs Foundation
to be used in its national fight
against Infantile Paralysis.
Large Crowd Os
Farmers Expected
To Attend Meet
Production Credit Association
Expects Representatives
From 11 Counties
A very large crowd is expected
to attend the annual meeting of the
Winston-Salem Production Credit
Association, serving the counties of
Stokes, Forsyth, Davie, Davidson,
Surry, Wilkes, Yadkin, Caldwell,
Watauga, Ashe, and Alleghany
which will be held at the court
house, Winston-Salem, Saturday,
January 26, at 11 a. m., according to
Mr. L. E. Francis, secretary.
At this meeting Mr. E. Y. Floyd,
who has charge of the tobacco pro
gram, is invited to present a brief
discussion of the Triple A and the
present outlook for the farmer.
The annual reports of the officers
will be made and two members of
directors will be elected. One of the
speakers will be Mr .Ernest Graham,
president of the Production Credit
Corporation of Columbia.
Not only are all of the members
invited and expected to be present
at this meeting, Mr. Francis said,
but a most cordial invitation is also
extended to all non-members who
are interested in securing a short
term credit for production pur
poses.
“Our association is anxious that
every fanner in our territory shall
have the opportunity of knowing Os
the credit service which we have to
offer,” said Mr. Francis, “and we
also are anxious that they shall at
tend this annual meeting to see how
the business of the association is
conducted.
“We will have complete reports
of our year’s work at the meeting
and our members will be acquaint
ed with all of the details of our op
eration. It is the policy of our asso
ciation to keep our members thor
oughly posted.
“We feel proud of the record
which we have made in the two
years in which we have operated.
Our business the second year show
ed a very substantial increase next
year as more and more farmers
learn of the service we have to
offer.”
Funeral Services For
Maggie Parker Today
Funeral services will be held to
day, Thursday, at eleven o’clock at
the West Jefferson Methodist
Church for Miss Maggie Parker
who died at her home near Smeth
port Wednesday morning.