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The Alleghany Times Subscription Price $1 a year in advance DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume 9. SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA,THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1934. 4 PAGES Number 40. This Week In Washington Washington, Feb. 20. (AS).— ''or the first time since he began o* put the New Deal into effect, ’resident Roosevelt faced a storm >f open and public criticism as a ■esult of his drastic order sum narily cancelling all existing air nail contracts and turning over he air-mail service to the mili ary aviation forces. Telegrams and letters fiom all orte of people in all parts of the :ountry expressed the view that he President had acted too im mtsively in wrecking a great in lustry merely because there had men disclosures before a Senate :ommittee that a few men had nade a great deal of money out >f Government contracts for ilanes and engines. Telegrams came from such im >ortant and respected figures as Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Jthers of equal fame in the world jf aviation; from thousands of nvestors in the shares of aviation :ompanies; from communities whose air-mail services were threatened, and from plain citi zens who warned that the mail service is not one to be entrust ed to flyers who have specialized in quite another branch of aero nautics. This arbitrary action oi tne President started a good many people, too, to using the word “dictator" in their more or less private conversation. The word has been heard a good many times in Washington recently. Mostly it has been used by the President’s political opponents, whenever they have deemed it safe to indulge in words at all. The President’s friends have pointed out that a dictator is one who seizes power without the consent of the legislature> and who maintains that power by the use of military force. Civil Power Supreme President Roosevelt has been punctilious to ask Congress for such powers as he is exercising, and has never asked until he was assured in advance that the pow ers would be granted. And, up to now, there has been no sug gestion or disregarding the Con stitutional provision that the mili tary shall always be subordinate to the civil power of the Govern ment. Incidentally, it is that pro vision in the Constitution that prevents the President from nam ing an Army officer as Secretary of War or a Navy officer as Secretary of the Navy. There are some, however, who are beginning to point out that Mussolini, who certainly ranks as a dictator in his own Italy, is careful to go through the form of consulting the Italian Parlia ment and obtaining permission to do what he wants to do. These same critics of the Administra tion also point out that Musso lini did not have the official Ital ian army behind him in his March on Rome, but only his Fascist “militia,” and they are viewing with some distrust the sugges tion which is being talked about, more or less openly in Adminis tration circles, that the young men who have been enrolled in the CCC, the beneficiaries of CWA who do not find other employ ment, and numerous other groups ought to be regimented into a permanent “work reserve corps.” Some of the more bitter enemies of the New Deal profess to see in this a military implication, sug gesting the possibility of the or ganization of a fighting force which might be used, in unscrupu lous hands, much as Mussolini used his Fascists. There probably is nothing in that idea, but those who hold it are frank in saying that the use of Airmy and Navy aviators to perform a civil function, such as carrying the mails, sets a prece dent under which soldiers, sailors and marines might be used as letter-carriers, or even as workers in other lines of industry. No Furniture Factory It nearly escaped notice when Congress turned down one Of Mr. Roosevelt’s proposals to put the Government into competition with private business, the other day. The question v/as on an appro priation for the building of a furniture factory in West Vir ginia, where one of the Adminis tration’s pet schemes for a colony of “subsistence homesteads” is to be tried out. Secretary Ickes, in charge of public works, had allotted $525, 000 to build a factory which was to provide employment for the “subsistence” settlers, and the factory was to make furniture for the Post Office Department. Rep resentative Louis . Ludlow of Indiana, in whose district there is a factory making Post Office supplies, arose in loud protest and off eared an amendment tp the Post Office bill prohibiting the use of any Government funds to build furniture factories. Other mem bers said nothing, but not a single vote was cast against Mr. (continued on back back) Adopt Charges For Banking Services At Meeting Tues. Clearing House Association Committee Fixes Schedule Uniform In 'State, To Be Effective March 1 At a special session of the executive committee' of the North Carolina Clearing House associ ation held in the O. Henry Hoifel in Greensboro Tuesday, a -uni form schedule of minimum charg es for banking services through out the state, effective March 1, was adopted. The schedule was adopted -as a clearing house regulation rather than a code, but the committee announced that it would be sub mitted to the bankers’ national code colmmittee. It includes uni form regulations as to hanking 'hours, interest on time deposits, (analysis of accounts, sendee charges on certain types of check ing accounts and charges for trust services, safe deposit and miscel laneous services rendered by banks -and trust institutions. In this schedule no basic charge is made for deposit transactions. Members of the committee stated that the action taken is in conformity with the procedure being followed by state and local clearing house associations throughout the country in fixing local schedules instead of attempt ing to adopt a uniform schedule for the nation as a whole. The former schedule, announced last December as providing for uni form practices in competition un der the bankers’ code of the NRA, was changed in a number of respects. The new schedule, committee members said, pro vides for a lower .scale of charges than proposed under the national code. No further action in necessary to put the regulations into effect, it is said. The executive com mittee of the North Carolina Clearing House association is act ing for the banks throughout the state, and the .schedule goes into effect March 1 in the various sections of North Carolina. The bankers’ code for the en tire country has been approved by the national recovery adminis tration at Washington except in the matter of service charges, the NRA officials have referred the question of service charges back to bankers in their regional' groups in order that appropriate charges might be suggested for the various regions by the bank ers in those areas. It is in line with this idea that the schedule was adopted although, as stated, the schedule in North Carolina is a matter of regulation rather than code. The following schedule of charges for “unprofitable check ing accounts” was adopted: Accounts averaging less than $100 against which more than three checks are charged in any one month will pay a fee of $1. Payment of this $1 charge will entitle the depositor to 10 checks, and an additional charge oif four cents each will' be made for checks in excess of 10. Accounts (continued on back page) MINSTREL AT SPARTA H. S. SAT. NIGHT IS SUCCESS The minstrel presented Satur day night, February 17, at Sparta high school, was a decided success. The thirty or more dark comedians in their gala attire presented a very striking appear ance and represented a wide range of talent. Mr. Estep, as interlocutor, maneuvered the show in a smooth and clever manner. The end men, Burton McCann, Carl Irwin, Ulus Irwin, Tam Bledsoe and Mr. Jackson furnish ed plenty of laughs with their live jokes, local quips, and amus ing antics. The colorful song hits, which, interspersed the min strel, were exceptionally well rendered. Mildred Black deserves special mention for her execution of “Swing Low Sweet Chariot.” A lively clog dance by Walter Hines was another feature of special interest. USE POISON ARROWS Nairobi, Africa—One police 'man wa3 critically wounded when policemen crashed . with native outlaws using poisoned arrows. The fight Oiecurred in a deep forest and two natives were killed. j Stratford Youth Is Killed By Tree Limb James Williams, 20, of Strat ford, was instantly killed on Thursday morning, February 15, when struck oh the' head by a decayed limb of h tree, which he was helping to cut down to be sawed into lumber at a sajvmill operated by Robert Cummings. It is reported that the dead branch, which was very small, struck an other tree in falling and was de flected from its original course, fatally injuring Williams. j The deceased youth, whose fath j er and mother are dead, made his home with his grandfather, Monroe Estep. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Elzie Rey : nolds. I Burial took place at Antioch. CWA in State Is Reduced By 23,984 In Demobilization Reduction Of Alleghany County Force Of Workers To Total 90. Other Fig ures Given Raleigh, Feb. 20.—North Caro lina’s civil works payroll was cut by ,23,984 workers yesterday as state CWA officials completed i two days of work in the first j step to demobilize the federal j job program by May 1. Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, state | administrator, late last night re-1 leased figures showing the re duction by counties. The retire- . ments become effective Satur day, cutting the number of CWA workers in the state from 78,984 to 55,000. Meanwhile, it was announced in Washington that .$000,000 had been allotted North Carolina for the purchase of material's and for other purposes than CWA pay rolls until May 1. It was not immediately determined what effect this will have on the state civil works program during its last days of life. Doubt was expressed in some quarters that North Carolina’s industries and the public works program in this state could ab sorb the 78,984 workers to be let off CWA pay rolls by May 1. “Industry is beginning to take up the slack in unemployment, but it cannot be expected to care for that load by May 1,” said Capus M. Waynick, state ra-em pl'oyment director. Mecklenburg was the heaviest loser among the counties, 1,256 being dropped there. The reduction for Alleghany county, according to the figures released by Mrs. O’Berry, was 90. Among the figures for the other counties of the state are the following:' Ashe, 170; Surry, 252; Wilkes, 248; Yadkin, 149, and Stokes, 179. Cbrn-Hog Meet To Be Held Saturday In Court House Here Announcement has been made by W. B. Collins, County Agent, that another corn-hog meeting will be held at the Court House at Sparta on Saturday, February 24 at 10 a. m. for the purpose of explaining the reduction contract. Every farmer in the county, who has teen keeping one or more brood sows during the years 1932 and 1933, should hear this con | tract explained so they can de ' ci-de for themselves whether it will pay them to reduce the num ber of pigs on their farms. The following is a brief ex ample of the payments made for pig reduction: A farmer who has been keeping during the years 1932 and 1933, 2 bread sows which have produced 2 litters of pigs each for both years, and averaged 8 pigs to the litter, would have produced an average of 4 litters and 32 pigs for the two years. By agreeing to re duce his pigs by 1 litter and 8 pigs for the year 1934, he will be paid $5.00 per head on 24 pigs which would be $120.00 for making the reduction. This payment will apply for one or more sows and it will ap ply where the reduction has al ready been made by killing sows. George Washington 1732 - 1799 EDWARD EVERETT said of him, “He knew no glory but his country’s good." In this is a pattern for real Americanism that can and should be applied today . . . to submerge self-interest to that type of patriotism upon which the prosperity and destiny of our country depends today. i Big Blizzard Hits Northern Seaboard Tying Up Traffic Trains Between Boston And New York Forced To Abandon Trips Tuesday. Sr.- <v Blankets Territory What is reported to be the worst winter weather in years clamped down over the northeastern sea board Monday night, crippled ships on the Atlantic and on Tuesday left several hundred thousand New Yorkers without transportation for hours, tied up the railroads throughout New England, delayed the air mail, and caused deaths and intense suffering. Sixty-mile-an-hour winds put coast-wise .shipping in distress. Thick ice locked doors in New York City and made skating rinks of streets. The New' York Stock Exchange opened an hour late, and thousands of workers were much l'ater at offices, shops and : factories. Whistling gales swept snow ranging in depth from six inches 1 to a foot into drifts that trains i between Boston and New York, and in many other sections of. New England, could not negotiate. Ships were battered by high winds, ice floes, and pounding waves. Lives of crews aboard were endangered. Long Island and its thousands of residents who work in Manhat tan were virtually isolated. Long Island railroad traffic was almost at a standstill, tracks and third rails piled under great drifts of snow, but by late afternoon spec ial crews were beginning to open some of the lines. AH railroad communication be tween Boston and New York and Springfield and New York was halted. Not a single train got through from Boston to New York during the day. The Pennsylvania railroad an nounced that traffic on its main line to Philadelphia and Washing ton was normal. From points in New Jersey and other suburban centers the traf fic was slow, with trains, those that moved at all, being from 15 minutes to hours late. The storm started with rain Monday afternoon but it turned into snow that blew and drifted through the night as the tempera ture dropped, finally reaching 9 degrees at 11 a. m. Tuesday. The weather bureau said the snowfall varied from four to 13 inches. There were three deaths in which the weather was a factor. Equipped with shovels and picks an army of 35,000 men worked in New York City to clear the streets. The Rockaway peninsula was isolated by drifts five to six feet deep. Johnson Asks For NRA Criticism In Place Of Attacks Administrator Makes Radio Speech In Preparation For Public Hearings To Start February 27 Washington, Feb. 20—In a radio speech delivered here tonight pre facing general hearings beginning next week in which operation of codes is to be studied as a basis for remaking administration pol icy, General Hugh S. Johnson made an appeal to the country for criticism of NRA, by letter or in personal appearance. The recovery administrator at tached just -one condition: NRA will not, he said, receive “un supported assaults” and it will take “academic conjectures not backed by facts x x x only for what they are worth.” “We want your help,” he said, “whether you are on the indus trial, labor or consumers’ side of the argument. Tell' us on Feb ruary 27 where the codes are not working right, where they bear unjustly on you, where they could be improved. Come to Washington to engage in the dis cussion if you can. Write to us giving us facts and figures if you can’t.” Johnson termed his message the most important one from NRA since last summer’s blue eagle campaign appeal. He spoke over a combined network of the National and Columbia radio chains. Mistakes and flaws in codes were admitted freely by the ad ministrator, who pointed out how hastily his organization was thrown together, started on an uncharted path and had, since July, placed 300 industries under codes and nearly completed codes for 200 more. Of course many things were wrong, he said, but: “The important thing is that 3,000,000 people have been put to work, that $3,000,000,000 has been added to their purchasing power, and that if we had sat around like buddist lamas contem plating a lily bud to attain per fection by conjecture before ac tion, none of these results would have been achieved, x x x The ultimate aims to have the indus trial control organization spread out like the keyboard of a piano whereon by concerted action eco nomic harmony can at last be had.” Johnson said his plan for a “first economic conference of NRA”—a succession of a week’s hearings open to public critics from February 27 on, and another week of meetings of code au thorities to act upon the accumu lated reactions and independent studies of NRA—was unprece (continued on back page) Worst Criminal Gang In Alleghany For Years Apprehended In Recent Raid Jail Keys, Policeman’s Outfit And Parts Of Stolen Cars Among Articles Found In Possession Of Men Arrested The State Highway Patrol, assisted and directed by Walter M. Irwin, Alleghany County Deputy Sheriff, swooped down in Alleghany and Surry counties last week and frustrated what is thought to be one of the worst gangs of criminals heard of in Western North Carolina for many years. The raid came as a complete surprise to the people of the county and w*as so carefully planned that even county officers did not know that it was coming. As a result, Ransom Brooks, 29, and Odell Hol brook, 18, of the Bull Head section of Alleghany county, and Vess Douglas, 30, of the Mitchell’s River section of Surry county, are lodged in the Winston-Salem jail charged with several serious crimes ranging from high way robbery to impersonating officers of the law. Trial Of Tilleys Is Expected To Be Held During March Solicitor Jones Expresses Belief That State Has Suf ficient Evidence To Con vict Girl’s Murderer After a week spent in tracing down clue^ in Wilkes, Surry and Yadkin counties, Detective F. G. Sides stated Tuesday that there was abundant evidence to con vict the murderer of Leota Childress. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Tilley, the girl’s foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Tilley and Clyde Tilley are being held in the Wilkes county jail in Wilkes boro in connection with the girl’s death. Mr. Sides stated that the past week had been one of the most fruitful of the many weeks the officers have devoted to the case, although he declined to reveal the nature of the latest evidence. Th» detective intimated that he had obtained information which will throw a stronger light into the mysterious death of Andrew El'dridge seven years ago. as well as into tne Childress death which occurred on December 30. Solicitor John R. Jones, who has headed the investigation, and conducted the many inquests which have been held in the case is now busy with a prosecution in anorther county but has stated that he feels sure he has enough evidence to convict the murderer of the 20-year old orphan girl. The case is expected to come up at the March term of Wilkes county Superior Court. The Til leys have waived preliminary hearing. Cora Sue Collins Has Important Film Role In “Queen Christina” Little Cora Sue Collins, grand daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Richardson, Baywood, has step ped into the limelight again. This time she “doubles” for no less a personage than Greta Garbo. Cora Sue takes an important part in the new picture “Queen Christina” which has just been released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and which will be shown at the Colonial theatre, Galax, in the near future. In a large photo reproduction jin Monday’s Baltimore News, ! little Cora Sue is shown alight ing from a coach drawn by six ponies as she attended the first shewing of the picture at Grau man’s Chinese theatre in Los Angeles. The caption under the picture aays “Little Cora Sue Collins, star at six, creates a sensation (no easy thing in Holly wood) when she arrives in royal state with coach and six ponies, footmen and all, for the first showing of new Metro-GoMwyn Mayer production “Queen Chris tina.” Little Cora Sue seems to be traveling with motion picture celebrites for mention is made in the caption under another photo reproduction in the same paper that “Nearly all the rest of Hollywood’s Who’s Who was on hand." FIVE FIREMEN KILLED Trenton, N. J.—Five firemen were killed in a collision between a fire engine and a heavy motor truck. several thousand dollars worth ; of stolen property has been re ! covered and it is expi cted that |a series of hold-ups, automobile jthefts, store breakings, etc., will | be explained. Douglas has ad mitted his part in the crimes and has implicated the other parties | being held. For several months this gang | has been preying upon the people 1 of this section. Several motorists have been stopped on the Sparta : Elkin highway and relieved of their automobiles and valuables. | Several people have been stopped iand allowed to go on unmolested I after having been identified by members of the gang. They have made a specialty of liquor laden cars, and in all cases where liquoir Was found on the car the driver was allowed to escape and the car and liquor confiscated. In Brooks’ home was found a complete patrolman’s uniform, in cluding cap, badges, a John Brown belt, hand cuffs, etc. A complete set of perfectly .fitting keys to the Alleghany county jail was in a dresser drawer in the home of Brooks. The search also revealed burglary tools, a large [amount of dynamite taken from the road camp near Independence, a stolen gas lamp taken from a nearby church and a set of chains taken from the car of Mack Edwards, of Whitehead, the night before the arrest of Brooks and Holbrook, when the car of Mr. Edwards was towed four miles from his home and stripped of tires, lights," tools, etc. Brooks and Holbrook were ar rested in Sparta Wednesday night of last week in a carefully arrang ed plot. In their automobile were found a sawed-off shotgun, one other shot gun, two high powered rifles> burglary tools and a coil for starting cars without a key. The car was equipped with ! a police siren. A pistol was taken from the person of Brooks, which he attempted to use when arrested by Sergeant Guy Duncan !of the State Patrol. Te trio are ;also charged with breaking into the Cash & Carry Store at Sparta in November when six thousand pounds of sugar, a cash register, etc., were taken, and Douglas has admitted his part in this theft. .The body of the car of J. M. ; Parsons that was stolen from Independence last fall' was found | within a few feet of Brooks’ ! residence, hidden under some brush. The car which Brooks was driving when arrested con (continued on back page) "Beauty without virtue is a rose without fragrance.'’ FEBRUARY Ohio is admitted to the Union as a State, 1802. _20— First through train from cna| East reaches Chicago, 1852. 3t 21—EWorld famous Washing* ton Monument i< dedi cated, 1885. ^4, 22—G eorge Washington, war* c=3Jf x- rior and statesman, bom 1732. / 23—Manufacture of the first telephonecompleted,1875. zt* OWKU 24—U. S. President Johnson impeached by Senate, 1868. 25—CoL Clark captures Via* Indiana, 1770.
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