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Washington . . .- Miss Diana
Rogovin (above), is the sole sur
vivor of the staff of 5,000 NBA or
Blue Eagle workers who oeased on
the Supreme Court decision. She
has beear working on a book of the
historx of the NBA, now almost
finished.
ALLEN TALKS ON
COURT PROPOSAL
Explains Both Sides of Con
troversy at Meeting of
Kiwanis Clul^
HEAR BAND PROPOSITION
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A talk oiv President Roosevelt's
proposal to increase the member
ship of the United States supreme
court, by W. M. Allen, Elkln at
torney, was the principal feature
of the Elkin Kiwanis club meet
ing held at Hotel Elkin last
Thursday evening.
Mr. Allen explained
tude taken by those on each side
of fche»controversy that has arisen
as a result of the President's pro
posal, explaining at the beginning
that the Congress can pass any
law it sees fit, and such acts re
main laws unless declared uncon
stitutional by the supreme court,
although that body never makes
laws itself. j
Those favoring the President's
proposal do so because of a liberal
president, a liberal congresA and
a liberal people, as evidenced by
the vote in the last election, and
claim *the present membership of
the nation's* highest too
old and behind the times fo*eep
pace with the present needs of
the country. They believe that
supreme court justices should
mingle with the people and learn
what's going on instead of killing
laws designed to aid the masses
of the people.
On the other hand, the speaker
pointed out,'those opposed to Mr.
Roosevelt's plan of court reform,
state-that the justices should not
mingle or discuss the various laws
which come before it, with the
people; that they should keep an
open mind and rule only on the
constitutionality of any act and
not let their own personal opin
ions, likes and dislikes, enter into
it.
Mr. Allen stated, in the course
of his talk, that the membership
of the supreme court had been in
creased and decreased six times in
the past. He stated it is his be
lief that the question of court re
form will eventually be decided
by a vote of the people.
Mr. Cox, a music teacher, who
has been teaching here and in
this section, appeared before the
club and asked that the Kiwan
ians sponsor a band here with
himself as director. This matter
was to be brought before the di
rectors of the Elkin Merchants
association at its next meeting.
Lee Phillips, state highway pa
trolman, located here, was a guest
of Kinwanlan Alex Biggs. E. A.
Sutherland, manager of the J. C.
Penney company store here, was
the guest of Kiwanlan Garland
Johnson.
Hugh Royall will be in charge
of the program at tonight's meet
ing of-the club.
FIVE ARE INJURED
IN SUNDAY CRASH
Five persons were injured, one
seriously, late Sunday afternoon,
near Cherry Lane when a truck
driven by Wiley Johnson, of Spar
ta, failed to make a curve, plung
ed from the highway and crash
ed into a pine thicket.
The injured, who were rushed
to the hospital here, were as fol
lows: Johnson, the driver, broken
leg and internal injuries; Miss
Mary Johnson and Miss Octavia
Combs, facial lacerations; Bar
nett Nichols and Porter Wagoner,
minor bruises.
George Reeves and R. D. Gen
try, first to reach the scene of the
accident, gave first aid and' as
sisted to getting the injured to
the Elkin hospital.
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ESCAPED CONVICT
IS CAPTURED
Morgan ton, March 9.—Ralph
Page, 28, life-termer who es
caped with six other convicts
in a wild flight from Caledonia
prison farm February 15, was
recaptured this afternoon in
Burke county, five miles from
Dreid, his home town.
Three officers, members of a
searching party formed when
it was reported that he came
to the oounty during the night,
found him asleep in a clump at
pine trees a hundred yards
from a rural road with one
hand resting on an automatic
pistol in his belt. He offered
no resistance when aroused to
confront three shotguns.
SURRY SCHOOLBOY
FATALIST INJURED
Mount Airy, March 9.—Rob
ert Murray, Jr., 10, died in
Martin Memorial Hospital here
early this morning from injur
ies received when he was hit
by a truck after stepping from
a Bannertown school bus on
the Winston-Salem highway
two miles south of this city
yesterday afternoon.
The youngster alighted from
the bus on the right hand side
as it stopped on the brow of
Belton Hill at a road intersec
tion and darted from behind
directly into the path of an
approaching truck. Both front
and rear wheels of the ve
hicle passed over his body and
he had been given little chance
to live.
N. Y. DEFEATS
RATIFICATION
Albany, N. Y., March 9.
Ratification of the • federal
child labor amendment by
President Roosevelt's home
state was overwhelmingly re
jected today by the assembly
after bitter debate that raged
nearly four hours.
The final vote of 42 ayes to
102 noes split party lines wide
open, 41 Democrats joining 61
Republicans in opposing the
proposal despite repeated ap
peals by Democratic Gov. Her
bert H. Lehman and the Pres
ident.
EDITH MAXWELL
LOSES IN FIGHT
Wise, Va., March Edith
Maxwell, twice convicted on
charges of murdering her fath
er, lost a new effort to escape
a jury prescribed prison term
late todafy when Judge Ezra
T. Carter denied her motion for
a third trial.
Her attorney, Charles Hen
ry Smith, of Alexandria, im
mediately noted an appeal and
was granted a period of 90 days
to perfect the appeal. Miss
Maxwell's $15,000 bond was re
newed.
JUDGES ALLOWED TO
SUSPEND SENTENCES
Raleigh, March 9. The
House of Representatives en
acted into law tonight a meas
ure allowing judges of criminal
courts in North Carolina to
suspend the sentences of of
fenders, except in capital and
life imprisonment cases.
The bill, introduced Febru
ary 12 by Representative Ward
of Craven was passed yester
day by the Senate and return
ed to the lower body for con
currence in amendments.
SURRY CHILD DIES
AS RESULT OF BURN
Anna Chappell, seven-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
Chapell, of the Green Hill school
community in the northern part
of the county, was fatally burned
Thursday when her clothing
caught fire as she was standing
before an open fireplace at the
home of her grandmother, Mrs.
Jennie Chappell. Only a small
brother and sister Of the child
were in the room at the -time of
the tragedy. She lived only a
short time after she reached a
Mount Airy hospital, where she
was rushed for treatment. Her
body was practically burned to a
crisp from her face to her knees.
Funeral serviced were held from
Mount Carmel church. The rites
were in charge of Rev. Frank
Weatherman of this city.
Survivors in addition to her
parents, are a six-year-old sister,
H&sel, arid s two-year-aid broth
er, Charles, ana her grandmother.
Resigns Air Post
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Washington . . . Sefoslnr to
resign for more than a year, Eo
cene L. Vidal (above), has now
vacated the poet of Director of
the Bureau of Air Commerce be
cause of criticism heaped upon
the Bureau as result of recent air
line crashes.
TYDINGS WONDERS
WHY ALL THE FUSS
Gives Interview Concerning
His Speech at Raleigh
Victory Dinner
ICKES IS TO SPEAK
Washington, March B.—Sena
tor Millard Tydings, the Maryland
Democrat who has created such a
furore in North Carolina because
of failing to praise President
Roosevelt at a victory dinner in
Raleigh last Wednesday night, de
fended his speech here today, and
said if his opinions be treason
"make the most of it."
Interviewed at the capital, Sen
ator Tydings said he was sorry if
his speech gave offense to anyone
but in that it had provoked dis
cussion and thought he consid
ered this all to the good.
Reminded that his speech was
being criticized as not being in
good taste because at a Victory
Dinner, celebrating the re-election
of President Roosevelt,, as he had
not seen fit to commend the
President, Tydings said taste was
a rather broad word and had
wide meaning. Then after paus
ing for a moment, he replied:
"I had rather be right than
pleasant."
Secretary of • Interior Harold
Ickes will address a second Victory
Dinner at Raleigh Friday night,
which has been called in a spirit
of indignation against Senator
Tydings for his failure to praise
the President and indirectly criti
cized him.
"My visit to North Carolina was
very enjoyable and the people
were extremely hospitable- and
kind," the Marylander said today.
"So far as I am concerned I have
only the most pleasant recollec
tions of the trip. If what I said
provoked discussion and thought,
that is all to the good."
MRS. DARNELL DIES
IN HOSPITAL HERE
Funeral Services Held. Tues
day Afternoon From Cool
Springs Church
VESTAL CONDUCTS RITES
Mrs. Mattie Alice Darnell, 79,
widow of George Darnell, passed
away at the local hospital Monday
night, following a brief critical
ilness from abdominal complica
tions. Mrs. Darnell was a daugh
ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Wall of Wilkes county, and a
member of Cool Springs Baptist
church.
Surviving are two sons, Click
and Roy Darnell, of Elkln; two
brothers: A. H. Wall, Winston-
Salem, and R. L. Wall, Elkln, and
three sitters, Mrs. T. H. Eidson
and Miss Laura Wall, Elkln, and
Mrs. Scott Alexander, of Roaring
River. Five grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren also
survive.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
from Cool Springs church. The
rites were in charge of Rev. Isom
Vestal and interment was in the
church 'cemetery.
RIVERSIDE CAFE
J HAS SMALL BLAZE
A Haze which firemen attrib
uted to a faulty flue Monday
morning about 7 o'clock threaten
i ed destruction of the Riverside
: Cafe here on South Bridge street,
:P When local firemen reached
' the scene, the flames were licking
uo the Outside of the rear wan.
pti injpt action extinguished the
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ELKIN. N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1937
SAYS G. 0. P. IS
SEEKING REPEAL
NOVEMBER VOTE
Farley Makes Talk in Chapel
Hill Tuesday
3 SPEECHES IN STATE
Says Republicans, Beaten by
Voters, Seeking Win in
y Congress Now
FAVORS F. D. R.'s PLAN
Chapel Hill, March 9. —Post-
master General James A. Farley
charged the Republican party to
day with "seeking the repeal of
the 1936 election" by opposing
President Roosevelt's Supreme
Court reorganization plan.
"The Republicans lost before
the voters," the chairman of the
Democratic national executive
committee said. "Now they are
trying to win in Congress."
Speaking under the auspices of
the University of North Carolina
Political Union, a non-partisan
organization, Farley said the ju
dicial plan was the only way out
of the "blockade that has result
ed from the present economic
complexion of a majority of the
Supreme Court."
Two thousand persons packed
into the university's Memorial Au
ditorium and another 600 in the
foyer heard the address, which
also was broadcast over a nation
wide radio hookup.
Farley said there was "no doubt
in the world" that is the Presi
dent's Supreme Court plan "could
be put to a popular vote, the
President would be sustained and
those people of his own party
who oppose his plan would find
themselves as lonesome as did the
others who cast their lot with the
Liberty League last November."
FULTON CASS IS
TAKEN BY DEATH
Passes Away Friday Night at
Home of Francis Cass,
His Brother
HAD PARALYSIS STROKE
Pulton Cass, 07, died Friday
night at the home of his brother,
Francis Cass, east of Elkin, where
he was visiting. Mr. Cass, a na
tive of this vicinity, went to Kan
sas many years ago and returned
to North Carolina some time ago
for an extended visit, following a
serious impairment to his hea'th.
He had partially recovered from
a stroke of paralysis when he de
veloped a heart condition which
hastened his passing.
Mr. Cass was married in Kan
sas and his immediate survivors
there include his wife, Mrs. Dar
lie Mitchell Cass, five sons, Vance,
Clark, Paul and Fred Casr, and
one daughter, Miss Virgie Cass,
all of Hoxie, Kansas. Suivlvors
in his native state are two broth
ers, Francis Cass and Loyd Cass,
both of near Elkin, and one stster,
Mrs. L. C. Myers, of Union Grove,
Iredell county. Another sister.
Mrs. Laura J. Mullis, of Water
loo, Ind., also survives.
Funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock
from Friendship Baptist church
and interment was in the church
cemetery. >
TWO INJURED BROUGHT
HERE FOR TREATMENT
Max Key, 2-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. H. A. Key, of Cycle, was
brought to Hugh Chatham Hos
pital here Sunday for treatment
for a painful injury caused when
a sharp stick with which he was
playing was pushed through the
roof of his mouth. He is making
satisfactory recovery.
O. W. Brim, of Hamptonvllle.
was also brought to the local hos
pital as a result of a badly man
gled foot which was cut when he
lost his balance and fell against
a running wood saw.
OBSEQUIES HELD FOR
MRS. SALLIE BRYAN
Obsequies were held Wednes
day morning at Glade .Valley
Presbyterian church for Mrs. Sal-
Hfi Bryan, 79, wife of Andrew 3.
Bryan, who succumbed to a heart
attack after am extended illness
at her home at Glade Valley.
Surviving are her husband, tiro
daughters, Mrs. E. B. Eldridge,
wife of the superintendent of
Glade Valley srbooi, Mrs. Richard
Gentry, and three ,-jana, DeWltt,
William ami Howard Gentry, all
of OlMe Valley.
Twice A Mother At Thirteen
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Birmingham, Ala. . . . Although only IS ytears old, Bin. Mary Kel
ler (above), wife of 26-year-old Tnumaa Keller, Bessemer coontty
farmer, la now the proud mother of two sons, one 21 months old aind
the other born recently. Mary was 11 yean oM when her first son
waa bora and the second arrived aa she was neartny her 13th birth
day.
G.C. GLEE CLUB
TO APPEAR HERE
Will Present Program in
School Auditorium March
19, at 4:00 P. M.
NOW ON SPRING TOUR
The Greensboro College Glee
Club, an outstanding organization
of the college, under thtf direc
tion of Walter Vassar, head of
the voice department, will appear
here March 19, at 4:00 p. m. at
Elkin school auditorium.
The glee club, which has been
received favorably throughout
North Carolina, is noted for its
excellence and superiority in sing
ing. In the fall of the year, it ap
pear in concert at New Bern, be
fore the annual North Carolina
Conference of the Methodist Epis
copal Church, South; it also had
appearances in Greenville,. Snow
Hill and Smithfield. Combined
with the Meistersingers, the
Greensboro male chorus, the glee
club presented most successfully
a Christmas cantata, "The Story
of Christmas" (Matthews), last
December 13, before a large and
appreciative audience.
The club will begin its spring
tour, which will last six days, Sun
day, March 14 and will give con
certs at the following paces: Sim
day afternoon, Hickory; Sunday
night, Newton; March 15, Monday
afternoon, Cherryville; Monday
night, Kings Mountain; March
16, Tuesday afternoon, Ruther
fordton; Tuesday night, Ashevllle;
March 17, Wednesday afternoon,
Marlon; Wednesday night, Mor
gan ton; March 18, Thursday af
ternoon, Valdese; Thursday night,
Lenoir; March 19, Friday after
noon, Elkin. and Friday night,
Mount Airy. The club also expects
to visit several of the high schools
on the trip.
FUNERAL IS HELD
FOR PEARL GRAY
Funeral services were held Sat
urday afternoon at 2 o'clock
from PleasantJ Grove Baptist
church for Pearl Gray, 13, of Bal
timore, Md., who died on Thurs
day. The child, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gray, form
er residents of this section, died
at Johns Hopkins hospital, fol
lowing an operation for mastoids
The rites were in charge of Rev
Noah Jarvis and Rev. Mr. Wil
liams, the latter of Ronda.
Surviving in addition to the
parents, are two sisters and two
brothers, Audrey, Ina, Russell and
Jackie. Mrs. Gray was formerly
Miss Ina Par due.
LEGION AND AUXILIARY
MEETING ON MARCH 16
A joint meeting of the George
Gray Post of the American Le
gion and the Woman's Auxiliary
of the Legion will be held at Ho
tel Elkin Tuesday evening, March
16. The event will be in celebra
tion of the birthday of organiza
tion of the Legion and all mem
bers and eligible members are in
vited to attend. An interesting
program is being planned and an
outside speaker has been invited
to attend. The meeting will con
vene at 7:45.
GIRL SCOUT TROOP
IS ORGANIZED HERE
A girl scout troop, with a mem
bership of twelve, has recently
been organized for girls in the
Methodist church. Mrs. W. &
Newsome has been chosen as lead
er, It is hoped, that members will
soon have earned their wmderfcot
badges.
Clean Out Well
And Find Catfish
Making Home There
It's not known whether or
not Mrs. Joyce Myers, of Cycle,
decided to have her 55-feet
deep welt cleaned out a couple
of weeks ago because she heard
meowing, just the same when
Thomas Jennings, Clint Myers
and Radford Cook, also of Cy
cle, descended into tht depths,
one of the first things they got
hold of was a five and one
half inch catfish which appar
ently had taken up abode
there.
The fish, when brought to
the surfeoe, was placed in a jar
of water in Mrs. Myers* home
and exhibited to all who dis
believed. And no doubt the
catfish would have lived in
luxury longer than the 10 days
he stayed there if Mrs. Myers*
kitty, in a feeling of love and
kinship, hadn't up and eaten it.
SURRY DEMOCRATS
VICTORY DINNER
Hon. Fred Hutchins, of Win
ston-Salem, Makes Prin
cipal Address
E. C. JAMES IS SPEAKER
1.1 I i
Hearty endorsement to the
Roosevelt proposal to retire the
justices of the United States su
preme court at the age of 70 years
or increase the membership of the
high tribunal to a maximum of
fifteen, was given by Hon. Fred
Hutchins, Winston-Salem attor
ney, as he delivered the princi
pal address at the Victory Din
ner of the Surry county Demo
crats held at Mount Airy Thurs
day night.
More than 100 Democrats from
all parts of Surry County, repre
senting many walks of life, were
at the Blue Ridge hotel for the
meeting, which was one of hun
dreds of similar gatherings in all
parts of the United States to cele
brate the Democratic victory at
the polls last November.
In addition to Mr. Hutchins, a
number of prominent Surry Dem
ocrats also spoke briefly on va
rious subtects of interest to mem
bers of the party. Among them
were: E. C. James, of Elkin; Dr.
J. T. Smith, Westfield; Dr. Roy C.
Mitchell, Mount Airy; and Mrs.
Charles E. Hiatt, Pilot Mountain.
THREE CARS DAMAGED
IN COLLISION HERE
Three cars were slightly dam
aged here Saturday night at the
intersection of Elk Spur and
West Main street in a collision
which caused minor injury to
Warren Burcham, a passenger in
one of the machines.
The cars were driven by A. R.
Morrison, Jack Phillips and Roy
Myers. Burcham was an occu
pant of the Phillips ear.
At a magistrate's hearing Mon
day, Myers was charged with
reckless driving and Phillips with
failure to ob**fve a stop sign. No
blame was charged against Mor
rison.
TO PRESENT PLAY AT
ROARING RIVER FRIDAY
"Hokus Pokus Lochlnvar," a
comedy in three acts, will be pre
sented at Roaring River high
school Friday evening at 7:30 p.
m. A nominal admission will be
charged BOTOW J» InvibHi «o
attend. W
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
DENIES INTENT TO
PACK COURT; ASKS
SWIFT ENACTMENT
President Roosevelt, in Fire
side Chat Tuesday
DELIVERS HEAVY BLOW
Would Save Constitution
From Court and the Court
From Itself
HE WANTS ACTION NOW
Washington, March 9.—Presi
dent Roosevelt called for swift en
actment of his court re-organiza
tion bill tonight to "save the Con
stitution from the (Supreme)
Court and the court from itself."
In outsopken fashion, the Chief
Executive asserted the high trib
unal had "improperly set itself
up" as a "super legislature," and
had read into the Constitution
"words and implications which
are not there and which were
never intended to be there."
At the same time, he disavowed
any intent to "pack" the court
with "spinless puppets who would
disregard the law" and decide
cases as he might wish them de
cided, and asserted the processes
of constitutional amendment were
too slow for the pressing problems
of the day.
His address, a "Fireside Chat"
delivered from the small oval
room in the ground floor of the
White House, was the second de
voted to a fighting appeal for
passage of his bill to permit the
enlargement of the court unless
justices over seventy retire.
Justice Demanded
"We must find a way to take an
appeal from the Supreme Court
to the Constitution itself," he
said. "We want a Supreme Court
which will do justice under the
Constitution —not over it. In our
courts we want a government of
laws not of men.
"I want—as all Americans want
—an independent judiciary as
proposed by the framers of the
Constitution. That means a Su
preme Court that will enforce the
Constitution as written, that will
refuse to amend the Constitution
by the arbitrary exercise of judi
cial power—amendment by judi
cial say-so. It does not mean a
Judiciary so independent it can
deny the existence of facts uni
versally recognized."
38TH CHILD BORN TO
AGED FLORIDA NEGRO
Brooksville, Fla., March 7. A
thirty-eighth child a girl—was
born today to Ambrose Hilliard
Douglas, 97-year-old Negro ex
slave, and Minnie, his thirteenth
wife.
The child, apparently healthy
and robust, was born without
medical assistance. A layette was
furnished by the city welfare
board.
Douglas, oldest child now is 66.
Dignified and still active, the
aged Negro, who was born in
slavery in North Carolina May 5,
1845, lives in a shack at the edge
of town. He ekes out a living for
the 12 children living with him by
gathering Spanish moss and rais
ing a few chickens, a goat and
razor back hogs.
GOVERNOR TEACHES CLASS
Raleigh, March 7. Governor
Hoey again became the regular
teacher of a Sunday school class
toduy, and 600 men and women
gathered in the auditorium of
Edenton Street Methodist church
here to hear him talk on "Life
Here and Hereafter Through
Christ."
A total of 2,976 languages are
spoken throughout the world.