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The Alleghany Times Subscription Price $1 in advance DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume 9. SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1934. 4 PAGES Number 43 . This Week In Washington Washington, Mar. 13. (AS).— Summing up the results of Presi deryt Roosevelt’s first year in of fice, the general feeling here is that it has been about an even break between the Administration and the Depression. If the Gov ernment hasn’t succeeded in lick ing Hard Times, neither has that Big Bad Wolf got the Adminis tration licked. And that, these observers point out, is all to the good, because the underlying causes of the depression, at home and abroad, have pretty nearly ceased to function, while the Government still has plenty of weapons left in its arsenal. There are a lot more experiments that can be tried. One of the most important of these, in the view of many, is that of giving the President power to alter the tariff -schedules at will. This appeals not only to those who favor tariff reduction but to those who believe that it is a sign that the Administration has come around definitely to the realization that the Depres sion is not a local affair but world-wide, and that it has its roots in international conditions. Wallace, Clear Thinker There has been a good deal of uneasiness over what seemed like moves toward a policy of narrow nationalism in the United States, just at a time when several of the other nations of the world were beginning to abandon their nationalistic policies. Some of the most vocal of the President’s advisers have been outspoken in their advocacy of building a wall around the United States and proceeding to try to .straighten our affairs out as if there were no other people in the world but us. It is regarded here as a vic tory for the sane and well-con sidered analysis of our situation by Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, whose reputation for having the clearest, most logical and best informed mind in the whole Administration group is growing. In his widely-circulated article, “America Must Choose,” Mr. Wallace pointed out that Nationalism, pursued to its logical conclusion, could lead only to either Fascism or Communism. He did not think America was ready for either. International ism, he agreed, has its dangers, as has any other policy. If America were to continue in its international relations on the principle that other nations must buy our goods but we would not buy any of theirs then we would be laying Up plenty trouble for ourselves and destroying all the foreign markets, on which so much of our income from natural products, farm products and factory products depends. Wallace’s conclusion is that the Nation should follow a middle-of the-road policy, neither wholly Na tionalistic nor wholly Internation atistic. And that, his admirers say is what Mr. Roosevelt has in mind in asking Congress for authority to elevate or reduce tariff schedules by Executive or der without having to submit them to revision by Congress nor wait upon the slow “studies” by the Tariff Board necessary under the existing law. The Roosevelt Courage Mr. Roosevelt’s friends call this the greatest display of courage he has given yet. For there i,s no political topic which carries so much dynamite in itself as the tariff. More than one Adminis tration has been wrecked on the tariff rocks. One promising can didate for the Presidency, Gen eral Winfield Scott Hancock, who ran on the Democratic ticket against General Garfield in 1880, probably would have been elect ed had he not incurred the hos tility of Eastern manufacturers hy his perfectly truthful but politically tactless statement that “the tariff is a local issue.” It is just because the tariff is a local issue that.it is'so danger ous. It can stir up more sec tional animosity than anything else in politics. There is nothing for which the average Congress man will fight so bitterly as for tariff protection for the indus tries of his home district, for not only .votes but campaign funds depend upon his record in that respect more than in any other particular. There is a pretty general agree ment among Republicans as well as Democrats that the tariff in creases provided in the two tariff laws enacted by the Republicans in 1921 and 1930, ran the im port duties on most of the list up to unworkable peaks, and by inciting other nations to set up defenses against American ag gression in their markets, while shutting them off from our mar kets, had a great deal to do with (continued on page 2) To Regin Work On Reconstruction Of Highway 21 Soon Official Announces That Highway From Roaring Gap To Twin Oaks Is To Be Rebuilt An announcement that is wel come—an announcement that has been awaited for a long time was made here Monday to the effect that work on the reconstruction of highway No. 21 from Roaring Gap, through Sparta, and on to Twin Oaks i.s scheduled to begin within the next sixty days. The announcement was made by H. A. Noel, District Engineer for the State Highway Department, who was in Sparta Monday. Surveying of the route has been completed and, while here, Mr. Noel posted a blue print of the route in the Court House. The new road is to be of the same type and width *as the road up the Blue Ridge to Roaring Gap, and will be practically straight. The old route was fol lowed in the survey wherever it was practical to do so, but in many places the new road will entirely leave the present route. A.11 sharp curves, will be eliminat ed and wherever curves are found in the new location, they will be so gradual that fast driv ing will be safe. Those who 'have been looking forward to the construction of this road are immensely pleased with the news that work is to segin soon, realizing that it will mean much to Alleghany county ind will add to the convenience, as well as safety, of highway :ravel in this section. To Hold Jackson Day Dinner A t Raleigh Raleigh, March 13.—Plans have been approved by the North Caro lina State Executive Committee of the Democratic party for a Jackson Day dinner to be held in the Raleigh auditorium on Saturday night, March 31. The affair is to be sponsored by the North Carolina Clubs of Young Democrats. The plans call for the rally to be divided into three parts—a get-together meeting from six to seven o’clock; dinner, seven to ten, and a dance from ten to twelve. The get-together will be in the form of an informal re ception. The outstanding feature of the dinner hour is expected to be an address by Senator Bennett Champ Clark, of Missouri. There will be speeches by Governor Ehringhaus, for the state; Ed Hudgins, for the organization sponsoring the affair, and greet ings from Chairman Winbome, Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, vice chair man, Mrs. Jerman, National Com mitteewoman, and others. Tickets for the event may be obtained from Carlisle Higgins, Sparta. BROOKS HOLBROOK AND DOUGLAS GIVEN HEARING Ransom Brooks, Odell Hol brook and Ves Douglas were given a preliminary hearing on Wednesday, March 7, at Sparta, N. C., before Justices Roup and Edwards, on charges preferred against them in connection with a series of thefts and highway hold-ups in Alleghany and Surry counties. The men were appre hended a few weeks ago during a raid conducted by State High way Patrolmen and county of ficers. Douglas waived hearing or evidence and Holbrook was dis missed because of lack of evidence. Several witnesses tes tified against Brooks on a num ber of charges and he was held for the action of the Alleghany county grand jury at the May term of Superior court. Both Douglas and Brooks were returned to the Forsyth county jail in Winston-Salem where they will be he'd under bond of $10,000. Brooks has retained Attorney R. F. Cnouse, of Sparta, to de fend him and the defendants are being prosecuted by Attorney Sidney Gambill, also of Sparta, j Douglas has not yet employed ' counsel. Master Teacher Fred R. Kirby, of the Hilte ville High School, has been desig nated as the outstanding teacher of vocational agriculture in Vir ginia during the session 1932-33. Mr. Kirby won this distinction in competition with 118 Virginia teachers of agriculture^ Mr. Kirby’s record will be sub mitted in the Southern regional contest in which the oustanding teachers of agriculture in the twelve Southern states will be reviewed and the master teacher of the South selected. Marvin And Ralph Holbrook Murder Each Other Friday Pistol Battle, Result Of 111 Feeling, Is Fatal To Dis tant Cousins. Several Relatives Survive' Elkin, March 13.—Marvin and Ralph Holbrook, 25 and 27, res pectively, are both dead as a re- j suit of a pistol battle which took place Friday night at the home of Mrs. Amanda Holbrook, an aged relative by marriage, who is 90 years of age. Marvin died about fifteen minutes after the shooting and Ralph died late j Monday in the Elkin 'hospital. The two, who were distant cousins, are said to have met at; the 'home of the aged woman to settle a matter which had been the source of repeated fights be tween them, Marvin having been a patient in the local hospital j last October, suffering from knife wounds said to have been inflicted by Ralph. According to reports, Marvin fired the first shot, the bullet entering Ralph’s chest and passing through the spinal col umn. Ralplh is said to have then fired two bullets into Marvin’s body, one of which entered his neck, and the other his side. Ralph is survived by the widow, Mrs. Sallie Vestal Holbrook; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hol brook, Trap'hil'l; two small sons and several brothers and sisters. Marvin leaves the widow, Mrs. Leota Owens Holbrook; two sons, Fred and Sonny; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Minton Holbrook, Ben ham; a brother, Clyde; and two sisters, Mrs. Ira Dowell and Mrs. Bud Holbrook, Traphill. Funeral services for Marvin were conducted Saturday after noon at Round Hill Baptist church, three miles south of Trap hill, and those for Ralph were held yesterday (Wednesday) at the same place. To Hold Republican Conventions In Co. Announcement has been made by Cart W. Cook, Chairman of the Alleghany county Republican Committee, that the Alleghany county Republican convention will be held in the Court House in Sparta on Saturday, March 24, at 2 p. m., for the purpose of selecting delegates to attend the district and state conventions and such other business as may come before the meeting. Mr. Cook 'has also called meet ings of the Republican voters at their various voting places to be held on Saturday, March 17, at 2 p. m., to select delegates to the county convention in Sparta. The district Congressional con vention is to be held in Taylors ville on Friday, March 30, and the state convention will meet in Charlottesville on April 4. Postpone Trial Of Tilley Family To Later Court Term Judge Warlick Advises That Special Term Of Court Be Called, Possibly Dur ing June North Wilkesboro, March 13.— Decision war. reached Friday af ternoon, when Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Tilley, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Tilley and Clyde Tilley were arraigned before Judge Wilson Warlick, to postpone the trial of the defendants for the murder of Leota Childress until a later date. Judge Warlick advised that a special term of court be called on the first open date to try the case, possibly the two weeks fol lowing the regular June term of civil court. After the defendants were formally arraigned and entered a plea of not gmilty the question of whether or not the case could be started today arid con-, eluded this week was taken up. The fact was brought out that there are more than 100 witness-1 es for the state and that five days might not bo enough for the ! trial and that Judge Warlick is j scheduled to begin court in' Mocksvil! * on Monday, March 19. Attorney A. T. Grant, of Mocks- j vill'e, a defense attorney, stated that he must attend to business J before the supreme court on Wed-j nesday and asked for a con- j tinuance. However, Solicitor Jones, the j private prosecution and the do- j fense attorneys, expressed theni selve i as being ready for im- j mediate trial and Judge Warlick ordered that a special venire be i summoned from Caldwell county | to report Monday at 10 o’clock. Attorneys theri conferred with t each other and again Attorney j Grant requested a continuance, j Judge Warlick then ordered the j case to be continued by consent j of both the state and defendants.! The defense asked that the ; defendants be given bail, but Solicitor Jones refused to con sider it for the present. It was j intimated that habeas corpus ; proceedings may be instituted. ’ Luther Tilley and Winfield Stanley, indicted for the mur der of Andrew Eld ridge in 1927, were not arraigned Friday. Report Is Submitted By Textbook Group Raleigh, March 13.—Follow ing its week-end meeting here, the committee on high school textbooks submitted, in its re port to the State Board of Edu cation, a multiple list of three books in each of eight courses of study in the field of social sciences in the high schools of North Carolina. The elementary commission had previously made its report on history students, except in the field of North Carolina history, which is expected soon. When this is in the State Board of Education will meet and plan for receiving bids from the publish ers of both elementary and high school textbooks with a view of adopting new textbooks, always on condition that the prices are satisfactory. The high school committee an nounces that it will proceed with its additional work of selection and recommendation of supple mentary textbooks and work books for the social science im mediately after the adoption of the basal books by the State Board of Education. The supple mental books are to be included in the provisions of textbooks, that the state board select them from multiple lists recommended by the commissions, and award contracts to publishers on the low bid basis. Formerly these were bought on county unit con tracts. "CIVIL SERVICE" TO BE PRESENTED HERE SOON The play entitled “Civil Ser vice” or “Old R. F. D.” will be presented soon at Sparta high school by talent from the Twin Oak« community. Announce ment of the date and further details will he made soon. The proceeds wilt be used for the benefit of the school, Doughton Is Only North Carolinian To Oppose Bonus All Other Members Of Delegation Support Pat man Bill, Except Pou, Who Was Absent Washington, March 13.—When the House voted yesterday on the measure providing for the im mediate cash payment of the soldier/ bonus, Representative Robert L. Doughton, of the fifth North Carolina district, was the silly member of the state’s dele gation who voted against the bill. Under the Patman bill, which was passed by the House by the tremendous vote of 295 to 125, the veterans’ compen sation certificates would be re deemed at their face value with i new issue of treasury notes. Representatives Abernathy, Hancock, Weaver, Kerr, Umstead, Lambeth, Bulwinkle and Clark upported the bill. Representative Pou did not vote but he left word at the desk that he wished to be paired for the measure and had Representative Bulwinkle state on the floor that if he were present he would vot for pay ment of the bonus. The strength mustered by the inflation-veteran bloc in the North Carolina delegation as well as in the entire House came as a surprise in view of the frank statement made by President Roosevelt that he is opposed to :he Patman bill and will veto the measure if and when it reaches nia desk. If the proponents of :he legislation can hold their tines, they have sufficient strength to override the veto with 81 votes to spare. The measure now goes to the Senate where the chances are that it will' pass. The bill will then be sent to the White House and if Mr. Roosevelt disapproves it Congress will vote on the ques tion of sustaining the veto. In explaining his vote this afternoon, Doughton said; “I started out with the President and 1 am going to continue to stick ivith him.” He added t “Everyone knows the passage of the bill is just an idle ges ture. The President has stated he will veto the bill and there is not a chance in the world to pass it over his veto. The Presi dent says it will interfere with his recovery program and that was sufficient for me to vote against the legislation.” Doughton also expressed op position to what he termed “print ing press and fiat money provis ions of the bill'.” Proponents of the bill took an opposite viewpoint. Representa tive Hancock, who was one of the leaders in the bonus fight, said the treasury notes which the bill provides will have a 100 per cent, gold backing and the measure will provide some “con trolled inflation” which he says the country badly needs. He said he knows of no better way to get money into circulation than by paying off the adjustment com pensation certificates. During the debate in the House it became quite obvious that the Patman bill received its greatest support because of the inflation ary provisions in it. Speaker after speaker called for an ex pansion of the currency. TO OBSERVE ARBOR DAY IN NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh, March 13.—Exercises commemorating Arbor Day, March 16, will be built around planting programs to be held by most of the public schools of the state, although civie clubs, patri otic organizations and other bod ies will take part in such com memoration, State Forester J. S. Holmes announces. To further '.such programs Mr. Holmes has promised to furnish seedlings from the state forest nursery to schools wishing to plant trees in forest formation on school property, but they can not be furnished for ornamental planting, and not less than 100 nor more than 1,000 can be sup plied under the offer, conditioned upon recipients paying shipping costs. Seedlings available now are locust, loblolly and short leaf pines. More than 20C schools have taken advantage of similar offers in previous years Furniture Too Much *1 Kay Francis,, of the screen, testified that her third husband, Kenneth McKenna, assumed a | superior and sarcastic air; wouldn’t even let her arrange the furniture to her liking in their home and tried to tell her how to dress. She was granted j a divorce in Los Angeles recently. Papent Of Bonus Voted Tuesday By House, 295 To 125 Measure Now Awaits Senate Action In Face Of Threatened V e * o By President Roosevelt Washington, March 13.—After suffering a crushing defeat in passage of the soldiers’ bonus bill, which passed the House yes terday by a vote of 295 to 125, Administration leaders in the House today decided to risk an other blow by forcing the issue j on modification of the veterans’ economy act and restoration of i the Federal, pay cut. The Appropriations Committee j decided to seek a “gag” rule, if necessary, to send the independ ent offices supply bill' to confer ence with the Senate in the hope of effecting a compromise on the veterans’ issue. Under, the program unanimous j consent will be asked to send the ! independent offices bill, which contains the veterans’ and pay-cut: provisions, to conference. Fail ing, a special rule to accomplish this will be asked, and a vote sought in the House tomorrow. Meanwhile, the bitterly contest ed soldiers’ bonus issue was laid I on the doorstep of the Senate after the House, in its first re bellion against President Roose velt, passed the measure by a vote of 295 to 125. The bill, Administration spokes men predicted, will not become law during the present session. They foresaw either defeat in the Senate or upholding of a | promised Presidential veto. Leaders of the “veterans’ : bloc”, in the Senate appeared re-! luctant to make a fight for the j bill pending settlement of the i btattle over the veterans’ economy 1 act. The most militant Senate back ers of the bonus-inflation bill, in cluding Robinson (Republican) of: Indiana, Long (Democrat) of I Louisiana and Thomas (Demo crat) of Oklahoma, were expect ed to unloose fireworks, which may cause the 'session to end in a spectacular fight over the old issue. The Senate only recently voted 64 to 24 against the bonus, but its backers said the unfavorable vote reflected the desire of the Senate to avoid com plications in the veterans’ economy contro versy. N. WILKESBORO FIRE SUN. CAUSES $15,000 DAMAGE North Wilkesboro, March 13.— Fire, which swept the Horton Drug company 'here Sunday caus ed a damage of $15,000, it is said. The stock and fixtures of the firm were destroyed by the flames. Insurance is said to have par tially covered the loss. CHANGE IS MADE IN SUN. MAIL SCHEDULE HERE Due to a recent change in the local Sunday mail schedule, the mail will arrive an hour earliei than' in the past. According tc the new schedule, the mail will arrive on Sundays at 11:30 o’clocl and leave at 12 o’clock. Mrs. Roosevelt Is Royally Received By Puerto Ricans First Lady Greets Many Natives At Reception Giv en In Her Honor At Gov ernor’s Palace Ponce, Puerto Rico March 13. —Mr.--,. Franklin D. Roosevelt rounded O.ut her. stu-die- of hous ing. condition.-, child feeding, and need! • work in rhi - island today, but found time in a busy day to think of home. • Returnin'- front a two-day inspection tour of Puerto Rico, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt .pre sided at a public reception at the Fort Ai'eza, this afternoon. Inhabitants called it the largest gathering in San Juan “since Ponce de Leon came to town.” More than 2,000 persons at tended the reception, which was the most .important social function this city has witnessed in years. Mrs-. Roosevelt stood in the mir rored hall of the '.governor’s 'resi dence," shaking the hands of those who ,came to greet her. Gov. Blanton Winship, newly appointed to rule h re, received with.Mrs. Roo-evelt, and the first person to greet the First Lady as she descended the staircase was a young woman seeking treat ment at Warm Springs. Ga., made famous by President Roosevelt. Mrs. Roosevelt barely had time to change her clothes for the re ception following her six-hour drive from San German through hilly tobacco country, during which she was delayed in pass ing four funerals on the road. Her car also was forced to ford two streams. But she did not appear tired. Women attending the reception took careful note of her gown, a blue, flowered costume. It (continued on back back) Corn-Hog - Reduction Progresses In County Announcement has been made recently by W. B. Collins, Alle ghany County Agricultural Agent, that eighty farmers of the county have signed the Corn-Hog Reduc tion contract and have had their work sheets correct d. Mr. Col lins requests that those who have not had their work sheets cor rected come to his office on or before Monday, March 19, so that he may go over the sheets and make necessary corrections. Farmers who sign the contract are urged to obtain their support ing evidence of sales of pigs as rapidly as possible in order that the reduction campaign may be closed at any time the officials may be called upon to do so. Reduction blanks can be ob tained at Mr. Oollins’ office in Sparta and 'are available to any fanner wishing to sign up. The farm agent expresses the belief that any farmer in the county who has raised more than a doz en pigs in the last two years can make money by signing the contract. He also expresses a hope that every eligible farmer will take advantage of the liberal payments and get the money which is due him. , TTour mini hdVC -©. hK yoM- htflt Up "When children stand quiet they hare dont some mischief." MARCH 12—U. S. Gram made general w www in chief u s Army 1864. 13—First man wounded in Revolutionary War, 1775. sy 7 14—First blackhander threat i&r'mY ensJuliusCaesartB.C.44. *5—Czar Nicholas ol Russia is forced to abdicate, 1917. 'j/. 16—James Madison, 4th Pres ident of U. S., bom 1751. \ No I 17—Boston bars pasturing of CoV*$( cows on Commons, 1830. ft *'a 18—Grover Cleveland, 24th U. W ". €>WNU ,W\ S. President, born 1W7.
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