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DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY
9.
SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1934.
Number 37.
This Week
In Washington
Washington Jan. 30 (AS).—
Old-time watchers of events in
the National Capital are begins
ning to revise most of their fore
casts of what was going to hap
pen to President Roosevelt and
the New Deal when Congress
came back from the long vacation
with the latest verdict of the
people back home. They came,
and they found the President had
been keeping his own extremely
keen ear so close Jo the ground
that he had to brush the stubble
Cut of it. And what the Presi
dent had heard direct from the
folks in the back districts was
just what the Senators and Con
gressmen had heard.
“Stand by the President!”
It is a,s clear anything ever
can be in this city where party
politics has been the principal
topic of interest for generations,
that party politics cuts less ice
with this Administration than most
people have thought; and it cer
tainly cuts little ice on Capital
Hill, when all but two Demo
crats and two-thirds of the Re
publican members of the House
of Representatives voted for the
President’s new money program,
without even bothering to criti
cise it—much.
It is a revolutionary change in
the nation’s currency and banking
system,' and these Republican
gentlemen who voted for it have
got to stand for re-election next
November, but the message that
came to them from the grass
roots back home was that there
was, an almost unanimous feeling
among the people, regardless of
party, that Mr. Roosevelt is lead
ing them somewhere. They don’t
pretend to know nor are they
greatly interested in knowing
just where the great adventure
of the New Deal will land them
and the nation; but it is action,
and it is having visible results
almost' everywhere, so weighing
personal considerations against
party advantage, a good many
members of the Opposition decid
ed the balance was on the Presi
dent’s side and they’d better trail
along if they expected to be re
elected.
Two Unusual Phases
That is one phase of the fail
ure of party politics to cut much
ice in Washington this winter.
Of course, the utter collapse of
the Republican party in its na
tional aspect leaves the Oppo
sition without much to oppose
with. But leaving that aside,
there hasn’t been an Administra
tion since that of John Quincy
Adams that had such unanimous
popular siyjport.
The other thing that has sur
prised the observers who are ac
customed to look at everything
from a party point of view is the
President’s request that members
and officers of the Democratic
National Committee cease capi
talizing their political prestige for
their private benefit. That is
something quite unheard-of in
Washington. What’s the use of
being a member . of the central
committee of the party in power
unless you can get some law
clients, or rich folks who want
income taxes adjusted, or business
men who want favors, to pay you
for representing them in Wash
ington.
But Mr. Roosevelt has an
nounced that he wants nothing of
the sort undertaken from now
on. To party workers holding
Government jobs, he gave the
choice of quitting their Govern
ment posts or resigning their
party offices. Among the ones
who have quit the party organi
zation are Robert Jackson, Secre
tary of the Democratic National
Committee; Frank C. Walker, its
treasurer, who is Chairman of
the President’s Economic Council,
and even Jim Farley, the Post
master General, has announced
that he is going to resign as
National Chairman of the party.
New Deal All Around
The fact seems to be that Mr.
Roosevelt has become annoyed by
the constant repetition of the
charge that nobody can get a
look-in at a Federal job, no mat
ter how capabla( unless he is an
active worker in the Democratic
Party, what is. called here an
FRBC, which means “For Roose
velt Before Chicago.” There
isn’t any question that that was
the spirit in which Farley and
other party leaders approached
their task of selecting men foi
office; and a good many men and
women have been appointed foi
no other reason than that thej
had good Democratic credentials
But that was in the beginning.
Nobody but Democrats were
suppotsed or expected to be ir
sympathy with the New Deal al
the start. But with the oppo
sitkm fading throughout the coun
try and party lines being almosl
(continued on back page)
Rep. Doughton To
i Seek Reelection
To Seat In House
Statement Issued By Con
gressman Sets- At Rest
Various Rumors Concern
ing His Political Future
Ail speculation as to whether
or not Congressman R. L. Dough
i ton, representative of this dis
trict in the national House of
Representatives, plans to ask for
| another term in the lower house
! of Congress was set at rest by
la statement issued recently by
j the Congressman. In the state
| ment he indicates that he will
again seek reelection to the
1 House, where he is at present
Chairman of the powerful Ways
and Means committee, one of the
most important committees in
Congress.
For the past several weeks
i rumors have spread that the ap
pointment of Congressman Dough
ton to a position on the United
'States Tariff Commission by Presi
dent Roosevelt was expected al
most any time. A position on the
! tariff commisssion would carry a
I larger salary arid higher national
I prestige than does his present
| seat in Congress. A number of
j probable candidates for the oon
igressional seat in the event of
his appointment to the tariff body
were mentioned. Among these
I were Judge T. C. Bowie, West
iJefferson; Zeb Long, Statesville,
land Walter Woodson, Salisbury.
It has also been predicted that,
if Congressman Doughton makes
the race for reelection to the
House, at the completion of his
term in 193G he will be a can
didate for Governor of North
Carolina.
The statement issued by the
Congressman in regard to his
!political plans is as follows:
| “The only plan I have is again
I to be a candidate for congress,
j 1 have had no other. I know
[nothing about the vacancy on the
tariff commission, if one is to
; take place, being filled, and have
not discussed it with anyone in
official circles’. It has not been
offered me, ar.d I do not know
whether I could get it if I wanted
it.
I “In regard to the governorship,
the nomination does not take
| place until 1936, and that is too
i far away for anyone to reckon
upon. No one can say definitely
what he can do that far away.
“Just at this time, I am work
[ ing day and night in an effort
i to carry out our President’s pro
Igram. The meetings of the Ways
and Means committee, of which I
am chairman, have been continu
ous and arduous, and requires
every moment of my time when
I am not serving the people of
the district. I am deeply sen
[ sible of the honors that the peo
iple cf the district have bestowed
upon me, and my duty is first
to represent them, which I have
earnestly endeavored to do in
season and out since I first came
here a member of the sixty
second congress.”
Sixty-Four Pass Bar
Examination Monday
Sixty-four applicants for li
censes to practice law took the
written examination of the North
Carolina State bar in Raleigh
Monday, according to an an
nouncement made recently. Three
applicants for licenses under
comity also were present.
Heretofore the Supreme court
has given the tests and the exami
nation given Monday was the
first given by the newly incor
porated lawyers’ organization.
All of the 64 applicants who
complied with all rules appeared
for the examination but 14 ad
ditional persons who had filed
notice of intention to take the
tests did not complete their cre
dentials.
Three women and a negro were
among the 64.
GOOLSBY JURY UNDECIDED
Wentworth, Jan. 30.—The jury
in the case of V. Henry Goolgjjy,
charged with slaying last October
. of Lee Waynick, was locked up
. last night after having deliberated
for more than 48 hours without
reaching an agreement.
Testimony and argument in the
case was concluded Saturday.
I
Heart-Breaker
FA*
Undergraduates at Louisiana
State University, Baton Rouge,
have twice elected Virginia Kil
bourne the school’s champion
“heart-breaker.” Other honors
also bestowed are cheer-leader, a
movie bid . . . and a newspaper
job.
Claude Doughton,
Miss Turner Wed
In Winston-Salem
Great Centenary Methodist
Church Is Scene Of Nup
tials. Ceremony Perform
ed By Dr. G. Ray Jordan
A wedding of much interest in
Alleghany county was solemnized
Saturday afternoon at 4 .'30 o’clock
in Centenary Methodist church,
Winston-Salem, when Miss Pauline
Turner, ol that city, became the
bride of Claude Thompson Dough
ton, also of Winston-Salem.
Dr. G. Ray Jordan, pastor of
Centenary church, heard tfie vows
in the presence of a thiong of
guests which crowded the great
church.
The bride is the only daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William Harrison
Turner and is a graduate of Salem
college, Winston-Salem. She also
attended Columbia University,
New York. She is a talented
pianist and has been connected
with the music department of
Winston-Salem schools. The groom
is a son of Representative and
Mrs. Robert L. Doughton, of
Laurel Springs, and Washington,
D. C. His family and the bride's
are both of prominence in the
state and the wedding has at
tracted wide attention.
The bride wa.s escorted by her
father, William Harrison Turner,
and attended by a maid of honor,
Miss Doughton, sister of the
bridegroom. Flower girls were
Nancy Ann Makepeace, of San
ford, and Frances Jane Kelly,
of Winstor.-Salem. Jesse Milli
ken, of Silver City, was ring
bearer. Horton Doughton> of
Statesville, attended his brother
as best man. Ushers were Me
iname Turnei and Joe Turner, of
Winston-Salem, brothers of the
bride; Albert Stevens, -of Greens
boro; Capt. Douglas Crane, of
Fort Bragg; Floyd Crouse, of
j Sparta; William Absher, Jr., of
North Wilkesboro, and Dr. J. C.
Pass Fearrington, ot Winston
Salem.
The bride wore her travel suit
of wool in a new spring blue
with navy accessories and carried
a colonial bouquet of white roses
and .valley lilies. Miss Doughton,
as maid of honor, wore a floor
length afternoon gown of dark
blue thread drawn marquisette,
ruffles in the back sweeping into
a short train. Her navy hat was
closefitting with halo veil and she
carried an arm bouquet of sun
kist roses and violets. The flower
girls were in long pink taffeta
(continued on back page)
New CWA Projects
Are Now Under Way
Two new road projects were
begun Tuesday morning by the
local CWA, giving employment to
about fifty additional men. One
of the projects is on the road
leading from the State highway,
one mile east of Stratford,
through the farms of L. E. Ed
wards, Walter Irwin and others,
to old Stratford.
The other project is on the road
which leads from New Hope
church to Cranberry church.
These roads will be widened,
regraded and surfaced with
crushed stone.
VALEDICTORY
Having terminated our work of publishing the
Alleghany Times, we wish to express to the people
of Alleghany county our heart-felt appreciation for
the many courtesies and liberal support extended us
during our short stay in the county. We enjoyed the
associations with all the people, as well as the work,
and had hoped that we might make our permanent
home in the county, but certain changes seemed
advisable; so we turn over the work of publishing the
paper to one more competent than we. The new
owner has facilities for publishing a better paper than
we could ever have hoped for; so we have no mis
givings as to his ability to serve Alleghany people.
We hope you will continue to extend to him the same
courtesies and liberal support that you gave us.
Alleghany county deserves a good paper, and we feel
that from now on the county will get a paper that
will deserve the support of all the people.
When we. started work on the Times we were
inexperienced in the newspaper field, and we realize
that we made many mistakes, but we tried to profit
by them. If we offended anyone in our work, we
did not do so intentionally. Obviously, in a work
like that, we could not possibly please everyone, but
we tried to be liberal in our views and tolerant of
opinions at variance with ours.
We look forward to the time when we can visit
the county again and renew friendships and until
then “Auf Wiedersehen.”
Sincerely,
ERWIN D. STEPHENS.
Civil Works Head
Praised In Letter
From Mrs. O’Berry
Work And Cooperation Of
Alleghany County CWA
Organization Greatly Ap
preciated by State Admr.
C. A. Miles, Alleghany county
CWA administrator, has this
week received a very complimen
tary lettei from Mrs. Annie L.
O’Berry, State Administrator of
CWA work, expressing her ap- j
preciation for the cooperation, and |
work of Mr. Miles and his or- ;
ganization in the county.
The letter follows:
Raleigh, N. C.,
Jan. 30, 1034.
C. A. Miles,
CWA Administrator,
Sparta, N. C.
Dear Mr. Miles.'
I appreciate more than I can
tell you the Christmas greetings
of you and your organization
which helped to make my Christ
mas a very happy ohe. Your co
operation and loyalty has been a
grea* inspiration to me.
I want tc assure you that I
am deeply interested in your
work and appreciate the fine ser
vice you and your staff have
I rendered the Administration. Your
:work has spread much joy among
I the people of your county.
| With best wishes to each mem
ber of the Alleghany County Ad
! ministration and hoping that the
1 present year will bring you a
\ full measure cf happiness and
success, I am,
Very truly your,
ANNIE L. O’BERRY,
State Administrator.
Wagoner Removed
To Winston-Salem
Folger Wagoner, who has been
confined in the Sparta jail since
last week on a charge of assault
ing Rufe Watson with a pair of
steel “knucks,” was removed by
authorities Thursday to Winston
Salem for safe keeping.
The removal of Wagoner was
deemed advisable when informa
tion was received here that Wat
son was thought to be dying.
It was feared that an attempt
would be made to forcibly re
move him from the local jail in
the event of Watson’s death.
TO ELECTROCUTE NEGROES
FOR PERSON CO. MURDER
Roxboro, Jan. 30. — Walter
Thaxton and Tom Williams,
negroes, were sentenced last week
to be electrocuted March 23, by
Judge W. A. Devin, following
their conviction of the murder
robbery of Butler Gentry, a high
way camp steward, in Person
county last November.
Neither defendant gave notice
of appeal. The jury had recom
mended mercy for Williams.
To Hold Hearings
On Skyline Drive
Early In February
Proponents Of Alternative
Routes To Have Chance
To Present Arguments.
N. C. Hearing Feb. 6
Washington, Jan. 30.—Federal'
officials, in conference here re
cently, decided that, in view of the
fact that preliminary surveys of
the Skyline Drive extension are
well under way in the Shenandoah
National Park area, the next step
in the direction of locating the
highway farther to the South
should take: the form of hearings.
Proponents of alternative routes
will be given an opportunity at
these hearings to present their
arguments.
Chairman E. B. Jeffress, of the
North Carclina state highway and
public works commission, Monday
announced that Regional Director
Ratcliff, of the federal public
works administration in Balti
more, will hear proposals for rout
ing the park-to-park scenic high
way thiough North Carolina Feb
ruary 6.
Virginia ideas on the parkway
will be heard February 5 and
Tennessee’s plans will be discuss
ed February 7.
The chairman said Director Rat
cliff, representatives of the fed
eral bureau of roads, national
park service, and landscaping
architects in charge of the work
will hear the state groups in
Baltimore.
Highway departments of the
three states concerned will be
asked to assemble all proponents
of routes in their respective states
to appear at the hearings.
■ It is anticipated That one of
the interesting phases of the hear
ing accorded Virginia will be
antagonistic arguments over the
location of the drive after it
emerges from the Peaks of Ot
ter, one group contending for
continuation more or less directly
south and another group advocat
ing a southwesterly route that
will run through Southwest Vir
ginia. Congressman John W.
jFTannagan, it might be mentioned,
'sought some weeks ago an op
portunity to present arguments in
I favor of a southwestern route,
i but was bold his group would
| be afforded a chance later to pre
sent its case.
Before the conference as the
basis of discussion was the pre
liminary review of the whole
Skyline Drive project by Major
Clarke, the eminent consulting
architect engaged by the park
service. Major Clarke recently
returned from a trip that took
him over much of the area to b«
traversed by the great sceni<
i highway.
Kidnapped Banker
Edward G. Bremei, St. Paul,
Minn., abovej the kidnapped bank
er held for $200,000 ransom,
about whom so much national
concern was felt due to early
clues on a bloodstained auto
mobile which' indicated a strug
gle when kidnapped.
Childress Case Is
Linked With Death
Of Man Near Elkin
Mrs. Clyde Tilley Charged
With Girl’s Murder. Hus
band And Stanley Held
In Eldridge Death
! Elkin, Jan. 30.—After having
been released under bond follow
ing a former arrest at the time
her husband and her brother in
law, Clyde Tilley, were arr .-ted
on January 20, Mrs. Luther Tilley
was arrested again Sunday night,
charged with the murder of -Leoda
Childress on December 30. The
arrest was made following the
swearing out of a warrant by
Mrs. Hill Cox, Mrs. Tilley’s sister
in-law, and daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Tilley, foster-parent:
of the Childress girl.
Warrants have also been served
on Luther Tilley and Winfield
Stanley in Wilkesboro jail charg
ing them with the murder of
Andrew Eldridge, whose body was
found in Klondike lake, near here,
May 24, 1927, two weeks after
his mysterious disappearance from
the home ot his parent.;. The
warrants were sworn out by auth
ority of J. G. Eldridge, fatr.cr of
Andrew.
Investigating authorities are
confident they have identified the
author of the note found in the
Childress girl’s pocket but have
not disclosed • the name. That
the two murders are linked is
ithe general belief.
Solicitor John R. Jones, assist
ed by a private detective, F. G.
Sides, Attorney Parks G. Hamp
ton, of Elkin, Policeman Church
and Deputy C. S. Foster, are
working day and night investi
gating clues to solution of the
two murder mysteries.
Winfield Stanley was arrested
I last week after it was learned
that he had stated Eldridge was
not drowned. “They” hanged
him, then threw his body in Klon
dike lake, he told several, it is
said. He refused to state who
“they” were but said they- only
meant to frighten Eldridge but
allowed him to hang too long.
Taft Norman, arrested soon
after Leoda’s death and held
since, was released Monday and
turned over to Surry authorities
on a former charge of law break
ing.
Hundreds of people who had
gathered at the Ronda school on
Wednesday afternoon of last wTeek
to hear continuation of the in
quest into the mysterious slaying
(continued o-n back page)
More CWA Projects
In State Approved
Raleigh, Jan. 30.—Twenty-on<
new civil works projects to giv<
jobs to 369 persons on pay roll:
to aggregate $52,199.50 with tota
cost to be $79,878.17 were ap
proved yesterday by Mrs. Thoma:
O’Berry, state administrator.
State employes who shivered ii
cold offices in several building:
as a cold wave gripped the cit;
yesterday morning gladly heart
that $17,681.68 had been al'lottet
to use 70 men in constructing i
concrete steam tunnel to enabl
more efficient heating of the capi
tol, Supreme court and revenu
'buildings on Capitol Hill.
Amount Spent For
Direct Relief In
State Decreases
Number Of Families Aided
I r» Alleghany County
Totals 156 At A Cost
Of $2,030.94
Raleigh, .January ■'!().—Although
the nuitiher of North Carolina
families give a direct relief dur
ing thi moi.-th of !>fO‘nber show
ed an i:vr a*e of 3,104 over
November, the amount of money
spent during the past month was
; $74,059.30 li-- than in Novem
ber, according to figures made
public today at the’.office of Mrs.
Thomas O’Berry. Administrator of
(the North Carolina Emergency
Re lief Administrate n.
Fifty-two thousand nine hun
dred thirty-eight families receiv
led direct relief during November
but at the end of the month only
43,138 were on relief rolls. Dur
ing December 56,042 families
were given direct relief. with
47,635 on the relief rolls at the
I end of the month.
During November a total of
$611,362.83 was sp at for direct
relief. During December $537,
303.53 wa expended. The de
crease in the amount' of money
spent was due to many of the
relief cases receiving aid through
Civil Works Administration jobs,.
Usually the December expendi
ture for direct relief shows a large
increase over the November ex
po iiturer
Reports from Alleghany county
i show that the numb ! of families
aided there was • 156 and that the
total cost was $2,030.04.
Congressman Denies
Endorsing Simmons
Wnsnington, Jan; .'JO.—Reports
that Repr • it five Robert L.
Dougin:"!. o.i the Ninth North
Carolir.a distric t, J expressed him-,
self' while in Winston-Salem dur
ing the past week end to attend
the wedding or his soil, Claude,
as favoring the nomination of
former Senatoi Simmons for the
house, a suggestion that has been
made by some of the eastern
friends ol Mr. Simmvns, was
characterized by the congressman
here yesterday as ah a mistake.
Mi. Doughton declared that he
had been misunderstood, that
i whereas, he regarded Mr. Sim
| rnons as a good and capable man,
jwho would serve the - people of
the .state in any capacity for
which he might be chosen, he
was confining his attention to the
affairs of hr own congressional
j district, and certainly had no
intention of making suggestions
about the nomination of Candi
dates in other districts.
REEMPLOYMENT OFFICE
LOCATION IS MOVED
The local National Employment
office, of which J. E. Joines is
manager, has been moved from
the Sparta court hou e to a new
location in the Woodruff-Duncan
; building over the Cash and Carry
i store.
The change of location was
made in order to give more room
j to the CWA and Relief offices.
!
"Disputing and borrowing cause grief and
sorrowing.’
JANUARY
5
zy—William McKinley, Z5tn
President, born 1843.r •'?
30—France recognizes United
States’ independence,,
1778.
31—Canada’s War Time Pro
hibition Act in force, 1918.
FEBRUARY
1—Watch for the groundhog
and his shadow tomorrow.
2—U. S. ends its war with
Mexico victoriously, 1848.
3—Woodrow Wilson, war
time President, dies 1924.
4—Charles Lindbergh, great 4
Lone Eagle, bom 1902; '