The Alleghany Times Subscription Price a year V* in advance DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume 9. SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA,THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1934. Number 39. This Week In Washington Washington, Feb. 13 (AS).—If these weekly reports on the state of the nation seem .somewhat one sided, the answer is that there is only one side to the picture pre sented here. Everything bears the Roosevelt brand, and that goes for Congress as well as for all the long list of alphabetical commissions, bureaus and “ad ministrations,” beginning with AAA and running down to PWA. Thus far there has developed only one disagreement, and that a comparatively slight one, be tween the President and the Con gress. Congress wanted to keep the CWA going and the Presi dent wanted to “taper off” this Government-supported employment of millions of men and women in what are vaguely termed “Civil1 Works.” Voice of the Voter* The word that comes to Sena tors and members from the folks back home is that while business men generally don’t think much of CWA and many farmers are complaining that they can’t hire help at reasonable wages be cause they (the farmers) want men to do real work and not merely look at a shovel' for 30 cent.1/ an hour, the voters are for it. But while Congressmen do not want to vote against anything which might cost them votes next election, they are still less eager to take an attitude which would certainly cost them their seats. And they are convinced, prac tically every man Jack of them, Republicans and Democrats alike, that to oppose the President’s policies in any respect would do just that. Let any one of -them, even a Republican from a rock ribbed Republican district, or what used-, to be regarded as such, open his mouth in criticism <of the Roosevelt program, or vote against a Presidential meas ure, and the mails and telegraph ; wires make his life a burden for the next week. They Wait on F. R. Men with long; experience, among them some of the foremost leaders in Congress, who usually can tell in advance what is going to happen next, are utterly at sea. All they can say, in answer to questions as to the legislative program, i,s, “We haven’t heard yet what the President wants.” Thus, a short time ago it was be ing predicted by no less a per sonage than Speaker Rainey that there would be no legislation to regulate stock and commodity ex changes, at this session. Since then Mr. Rainey has talked with the President. Now he thinks there will be some such bill. Con gress is not drawing it up, how ever; it is waiting for the Ad ministration officials to draft it and send it to the Hill. A11 attempts to organize oppo sition to the Administration and -the Democratic Party have prov ed futile so far. Former Secre tary of the Treasury Ogden P. Mills is the only important voice that has been raised in protest. Mr. Mills’ speech was expected, by old-line Republican party work ers, to be a sort of rallying-cry which would bring an instantan eous response from the four cor ners of the Nation, and crystal lize Republican sentiment into something like effective Oppo sition. It had no such effect. The very men who were relied upon to back up Mr. Mills and encourage the effort to reorganize the Republican party not only failed to come to the rescue but some of them thought it was ill advised for Mr. Mills to make such suggestions at this time. Ly«s on renn»yiv«nia Nothing could illustrate Setter how far the fortunes of the Re publican party have sunk in National affairs than the belief, which is growing here among the most cold-blooded political ob servers, that Pennsylvania will elect a Democratic Senator next November. Pennsylvania has al ways given a majority of any where from a million votes up ward to the Republican party. It sounds incredible, but it really looks as if those days were gone forever. There is beginning to be talk among those who, while admitting Mr. Roosevelt’s complete suprem acy, are not in accord with the policy oP making the individual subservient to the government, of a completely new party organi zation, to be built not alone on the ruins of the Republics party, though some of the most pliable of that old timber would be used, but upon the ancient principle of individual rights and, especially the rights of the taxpayer. Those who are active in pro moting the new party idea point out that the great “middle class’’ of small business men, small property owners, independent and undistressed farmers, professional men and the like, is being ground (continued on page 2) Rep. Doughton Has Busy Days Looldng After Many Duties “Farmer Bob” Is Reputedly The Hardest Working Congressman In Washing ton Washington, Feb. 13.—Speaking of hard work, anyone interested in the subject shoud have looked in last week on “Farmer Bob” Doughton, Chairman of the pow erful Ways and Means Committee of the House. Reputedly, the hardest work ing Congressman in Washington, Mr. Doughton, who has repre sented the ninth North Carolina Congressional District for 23 years, has completed one of the Busiest and most productive weeks in his career. His activities for the week included: Completion of the 1934 Reve nue bill, following six months of exhaustive study and investigation ay the Ways and Means Com nittee, of which he is Chairman, rwo of the outstanding provisions af the bill are:' First, repeal of ;he bank check tax. Second, low ?ring the rates of second class nail matter, whereby newspapers, nagazines and distributors of ad rartising matter will benefit by ;he return of the rates prior to 1932. Both of these provisions vere sponsored by Mr. Dough- i on; in fact, they were his “hob-! aies.” The new revenue measure, j oy plugging loopholes and leaks i n the tax system of the country, j vill increase the revenue of the i Government approximately $300,-! 100.000 without the imposition of j iny new taxes. Introduction of the 1034 Reve nue bill in the House. Attended conferences and deliv ered an address Tuesday in Bal ;imore before the National Park Service Association and effec :ively urged the construction of ;he Southern Appalachian High way as proposed by the North Carolina Highway Department. Mr. Doughton, accompanied by Governor Ehringhaus) conferred vith President Roosevelt in con nection with the proposed park :o-park scenic highway in West ern North Carolina, presenting :he President with a huge bound ilbum containing pictures of the natural beauty along the route proposed for the park-to-park highway. Conferred with Presi ient Roosevelt and Secretary of he, Interior( Ickes, urging the ro ;ation of the work of the CWA rnd PWA in North Carolina. Aside from matters of state, VIr. Doughton, with Mrs. Dough ion, attended a social function at ;he White House upon the invi tation of President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Mr. Doughton, in addition to presiding over the daily sessions >f the Ways and Means Com mittee, also performed his official luties on the floor of the House, ield daily conferences with repre sentatives of the press, received various delegations from North Carolina with respect to different State projects ,as well as groups »nd individuals from all over the country in connection with the new tax bill and proposed or pending legislation and visited the Departments daily in behalf if the interests of his constitu ents. Personally dictated answers [o his daily avalanche of mail. And at the close of the week, despite the fact he had put in more than 15 hours of strenuous work daily—he wasn’t even tired. BOARD NOT TO RECEIVE WORE PWA APPLICATIONS Raleigh, Feb. 43.—Frank Page, chairman of the North Carolina advisory public works board, said today the board was receiving no- new applications for loan of federal funds but it is “cleaning up its work” and has probably a dozen more applications to for ward to Washington. The board received orders from Washington that no more appli cations should be received as the PWA now has applications for "more projects than we can pos sible hope to get money for.” Mr. Page said 143 applications had been filed in this state to involve about $17,000,000 or $18,000,000. A great deal of this is still before the public works administration in Wash ington for approval. G. O. P. Convention April 4 Is Probable Presept indications are that the Republican state convention, a bi ennial session, will probably be held in Charlotte Wednesday, April 4, although the formal call has not yet been issued by State Chairman James S. Duncan. Business of the convention will include the election of a state chairman and a state vice chair man for the next four years. Many Republicans predict that Chairman Duncan and Mrs. C. B. Winn, the state vice chairman, will be re-elected. The conven tion will name a ticket, including nominees for three places on the Supreme court, state utilities com missioner, state treasurer and nine Superior court judges. Death Toll Heavy In Civil War Now Raging In Austria Strife Between Fascism And Socialism Continues To Swell Casualty List. Dead Nears 2,000 Mark Civil war raped t hroughout Austria Tuesday and casualties mounted toward 1,000 dead as aimed Socialists in the provinces defeated government troops and reformed their forces for a “march on Vienna,” in a des perate attempt to unseat the Fas cist Heimwehr controlling Chan cellor Engelbert Dollfuss, The army and Heimwehr strug gled to crush the “second wave” of the Socialist revolt against fas cism, and the first Austrian Naai uprising was reported from Bur genland. With anywhere from 500 to 2,000 unofficially estimated dead in the civil war, Austrian Gov ernment troops Tuesday night made their most spectacular at tempt to crush the Socialist re bellion. They crossed the Blue Danube in the heart of the city on pon toon bridges while loyal artillery men shelled the foe encamped on the farther side. Already the greatest Socialist stronghold in Vienna, the Karl Marx apartment building, had been wrecked by Government howitzer shells. No one could estimate the exact number of dead. Police said officially that 123 civilians lay deal in the Vienna General Hospital alone. They admitted 11 police had been killed and 38 seriously wounded. The rage of war painted other sections of the country red. Conditions were reported be coming steadily more serious in the Tyrol. Every available fight ing man, including war veterans, was called to arms by Chancellor Dollfuss. The large majority of those slain were killed in the Vienna working-class district. Frau Sever, widow of the form er Socialist Governor of Lower Austria, was killed there. How many other women were victims in other districts is not yet known. No one can tell how many died when Government artillery shelled- the huge Karl Marx Apartment House, where 2,000 Socialist families once lived. It was feared that women and children might have been trapped when two floors of the huge building collapsed under the dead ly rain of shells fr-o-m howitzers. At the same time it was con sidered possible that the Socialists fighting there had withdrawn the women and children from the area wrecked by the shells. CWA PAYROLL IN STATE SHOWS SLIGHT INCREASE Raleigh, Feb. 13.—North Caro lina’s civil works pay roll' last week aggregated $678,398.48, a slight i.icrca*2 over the $602,335 paid the preceding week, Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, state adminis trator, reported today. Last week 75,903 persons were at work, compared with 74,306 the preceding week. Today Miss Lorena Hickok, who is making a national survey of civil works and relief works for the federal government was here. Miss Hickok said she expected to spend several days in the state. She explained her work consists of a general sprvey and said she considers no complaints. President’s Mother in Typical Roosevelt Greeting * • -- ■ —--— IMIlfti-l.'-lHWW.'W’- — —— NEW YORK: . . . Herewith is shown a most unusual and most interesting’ picture of the President’s mother, Mrs. James D. Roosevelt, in a typical Roosevelt greeting. The picture was taken at one of the three birthday parties which she attended here in honor of her son’s birthday and for the Warm Spring Foundation fund. With Mrs. Roosevelt, as host, is shown Maj.-Geti. Dennis E. Nolan. Town Council To Hold Special Meeting To Consider Water And Sewer Systems A meeting of the Town Council of the Town of Sparta "will be held at the Court House on next Monday night, February 19, at 7:30 P. M., for the purpose of discussing plans to put in a water system and sewage disposal’ plant for the town. All interested citizens are invited to attend the meeting. Mayor R. F. Crouse hopes that some plan can be worked out whereby the labor and a part of the materials will be furnished through the CWA. Observers Expecting Changes At Duke U. Durham, Feb. 13.—According to observers, Duke university’s little rebellion the other day is the forerunner of another. They say there is a movement to get a “progressive” as president. The observers say that the demonstra tion last week was long overdue. For a year or so the progressives in the great university have been looking toward Dean Justin Mil ler of the law school. The dean has made a big hit in North Carolina. He makes a fine speech any time he is jump ed up and is regarded as a fine lawyer by the legal' brethren. He is acceptable to the new sociolog ists and is agreeable to the younger church folks. There is not now even a surface move ment against President William P. Few but the youngsters are looking toward the day when Dr. Few will be an emeritus and they might hurry the time along. A lot of writing has been done about Duke. But there is as much “free thinking” there as one finds anywhere. Always Duke was broad religiously. The late Bishop Kilgo thundered his phil'lipics at the broad theologians, but the bishop did nothing about it. If a Methodist preacher went out and abused the Dukes the bishop low-rated him, but one might hold to quite a few theo logical irregularities and the bishop would not buck. What else is to come immed iately nobody seems to know, but it is in the air that there are going to be changes at Duke. The most modern university structure in the world will be modern in its teaching, the couriers from the campus say. The boys desire it so for Duke boys believe in the sort of economics and religion that students of other institutions believe in. The fuss isn’t foot ball. President Few, who trained under Bishop Kilgo, had his own mind about football. The bishop probably would have put in bull fighting as quickly as he would have accepted football, but when the bishop left the presidency youth took hold. GAJHE WARDEN* HAS FUNDS ON HAND FOR BOUNTY FEES Dick Gentry, Game Warden, has announced that he now has funds for the payment of boun ties on hawks, crows and wild cats. The bounties allowed by lav on hawks are 25 cents; crow; 15 cents, and wildcats, $1.00. Farley Will Attend Durham Celebration _ | Washington, Feb. 13.—Post master General James A. Farley and several members of the North Carolina delegation in Congress, including Senators Bailey and Reynolds, are expected to at tend the formal opening of the new Federal postoffice building at Durham. R. M. Gantt, chairman of the Durham county Democratic committee, came here yesterday to invite the members to be pres ent at the opening. Mr. Gantt was accompanied by Representa tive Um.stead. According to present plans, the Durham cele bration will be brought to a close by a banquet in the even ing of the day on which it is held. Senator Clark, of Missouri, to day informed Senator Bailey that he would be glad to accept the invitation extended to him to speak on the occasion of the meeting of the young Democrats [at Raleigh the latter part of March,. Mr. Clark is one of the younger members of the senate, and has acquired fame as a par liamentarian, he having spent much of hi,s time in the house while his father, the late Champ Clark, served as speaker. He was the first president of the Ameri can legion. Senator Clark will be intro duced at the party gathering at Raleigh by Senator Bailey. i “DEATH ROW” IN RALEIGH CONTAINS 21 CRIMINALS Raleigh, Feb. 13.—Twenty-one men, another new high total, sit 1 today in the little cells on “death I row” at state’s prison facing i electrocution^ William (Bunk) Deal, Robeson county man, took hi,s place on “the row” late yesterday to push the list of men under death sen tence to an all-time record. None of the occupants of “the row” are scheduled to die before the middle of March, and the date for most of the executions is still uncertain as appeals are pending in the state and the United States Supreme courts in a number ol cases. STATE BONDS SELLING AT j HIGHEST PEAK IN 2 YEARS j Raleigh, Feb. 13.—Governoi ■ Ehringhaus smiled yesterday ant ! showed newspapermen a quotatioi i list for North Carolina bond, showing every issue now on tht market to be selling for a prem ium. One issue of five pe*r cen funding bonds was quot«fl a 106.12 while its par is 100. Thi : bonds are at the highest peak ii two years. Wagoner Case Sent To Superior Court At a preliminary hearing held here Thursday, Folger Wagoner, of the Bull Head community, was bound over to the Superior Court charged with the murder cf Rul'.? Watson, who died in the Elkin hospital ten days ago from a fractured skull, alleged to have been caused by a deadly weapon in the hands of Wagoner. Wagon er was ordered held without bond and was returned to the Winston Salem jail i'cr safekeeping. Wagoner had just finished serving a term on the roads and had been at liberty only twenty days when he was arrested for Watson’s death. CWA Expenditures In Alleghany Co. Amount To $25,200 Three New Projects For County Approved. Wage Rates For Various Classes Of Workmen Announced Announcement has been made that three new CWA projects for Alleghany county have been ap proved by the Raleigh office and signed by Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, State Director. The first project provides for the digging of a well at Whitehead school; the second jfor road improvement from Glade j Creek bridge, near Glade Valley, ;to Vox, and the third for road improvement and surfacing from jStratford to Hill’s store on the | Sparta-Piney Creek road. j The total amount spent for CWA work and CWA service jwork in Alleghany county from November 30th up to and includ ing February 10th, is $25,220.03. Of this amount $866.95 is for administration and the balance for work done on the different projects in operation. This does not include the amount spent for tools and materials. ; The local office has received new suggested wage rates to be paid on various projects as fol lows: Highway Projects Unskilled labor, 30c; skilled labor, 40c; truck drivers (1 K-> ton and under), 30c; truck driv ers (over \2 ton), 40c. (Wags rate is determined by the nature cf work which work er is performing). Unskilled labor, 45c; brick lay ers, $1.10; brick layers, appren tice, 75c; mortar mixer, 50c; carpenters (finish), $1.10; car penters (rough-framework, etc.), 75c; plasterers, $1.10; plasterers, apprentive, 60c; plasterer, mortar mixer, 50c; lathers( metal), 60c; roofers and sheet metal workers, $1.10; roofers and sheet metal' apprentice, 60c; plasterer, mortar $1.10; steam fitters, apprentice, 60c; painters, $1.10; painters (primers, etc.), 75c; cement fin ishers, 75c; mixer operator (small), 60c; mixer operator (large), $1.10; truck driver (1% [ton and under), 45c (see ton nage); truck driver (over 1 Va tons), 75c; skilled foreman, $1.10; semi-skilled foreman, 60c-80c; unskilled foreman, 50c. GOVT. FUNDS FOR PRIVATE BUSINESS SOUGHT IN N. C. Washington, Feb. 13.—While inquiries continue to be received here from business people in North Carolina and other states relative to government loans to private industry, it was said to day the administration had not as yet formulated definite plans. There has been some delay which may be attributed, prob iably, to the continued illness of I Jesse Jones, of the RFC, who generally reflects the views of the President on matters pertaining to credit and finance. The ap pearance of Mr. Jones is expected shortly before the house com mittee on banking and currency. Members familiar with such matters expressed the belief to day that the bank insurance, or guarantees provisions, which ex i pires July 1, will be continued i for another year. If not con ■ tinued or revised bank deposits in much greater amounts would be insured, but the view is largely • taken that the present arrange : ment fully protects the great ma ! jority of the depositors and the i proposal now is to continue thii temporary law for another year “Tige” Found Not Guilty On Charge Of Killing Sheep j Attorneys Gambill And Crouse Argue For And Against Dog, Respectively, At Unusual Trial i _ A trial of unusual interest was held at Sparta Saturday after noon when the life or death of a [certain defendant was entrusted to C. W. Edwards, local Justice j of the Peace. Several witnesses [testified, some for the defendant, I some against him. Attorneys [argued, one for death, one for [life. The court deliberated and [the defendant was acquitted. The defendant in question was a large police dog owned by Mrs. Y. N. Cooper, of Glade Valley. The canine was charged with killing sheep belonging to a Mr. Ayers. Under a local statute passed by the last Legislature any dog found guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction may be condemned to death and the Sheriff becomes the executioner. Circumstantial evidence was strong against the flog. Valuable sheep had been killed. Snow was on the ground and tracks of the size of those of the police dog led near the home of the owner. The dog looked ‘'full*' when examined. A small dog could never have torn the bodies of the sheep so much nor have eaten so much meat. But there were other dog tracks galore. The defendant had no wool in his teeth, no blood on his body. [Tracks leading through th - snow [showed one bleeding foot, but [the feet of the defendant were [free from scars. Measurements [of the imprint of the dog’s tail [where it had wallowed in the I snow failed to compare with the 'length of the defendant’s tail, but this was explained in that it was the nature of dogs when wallow ing to kick with their hind feet and move forward, making a longer imnrint than the actual length of the tail. Attorney Crouse asked for the death penalty, arguing that there was ample evidence to convict. Attorney Gambill contended that the same degree of proof should be required as was necessary to convict a person of any serious crime and that the prosecution had failed to come up to this standard. “Tige” was acquitted and is happy and free again with his mistress; he has probably learned a lesson, and wil. be more care ful hereafter about making tracks in the snow. DIVIDENDS APLENTY ON THIS FARMERS’ TRADE Raleigh, Feb. 13.—Here’s a “stock” trade that paid dividends to both parties: One fanner traded a sow to another farmer for a female col lie dog, the exchange being ef | fectfcd through the Agricultural , Review of the state department of [ agriculture. ! Scon after the trade, the sow [gave birth to a litter of eight pigs while the dog had a litter of five puppies. “That’s what I call dividends,” said W. H. Richardson, editor of the Agricultural Review. —f 'fg- ^ "Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, hut a reproach to old age." FEBRUARY -/12—Abraham Lincoln, Great jlfc. Emancipator, born 1809. 13— Emperor Pu Yi abdicate* the Chinese throne, 1912. 14— Great gold discovery in / Australia startles world, 1851. y. a .(•//15—Battleship Maine is sunk ^*^<<1 >n Havana Harbor, 1898. 16—Hawaii is annexed to United States by treaty, 1893. ’St 17—War of 1812 with England ended by treaty, 1815. 16—300th automobile regis tered in United States, 1895.
