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Volume 9.
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Number 45.
This Week
In Washington
—Washington, Mar. 27. (AS).—
The labor question is at the top
in Washington’s official problems
as this is written. A great deal
hinges on the outcome of the
union situation in the automobile
industry. It is not yet clear
whether the Administration in
tends to back up the American
Federation of Labor, which has
shrewdly taken the best possible
advantage of the provision for
collective bargaining in the Na
tional Recovery Act, or whether
it will content itself merely with
seeing to it that organizations of
employees are not dominated by
their employers.
The Federation is engaged in
a vigorous attempt to establish
the principle that no union is a
good union unless it is an A. F.
L. union. Employees in many
industries have organized their
own unions. In every case the
Federation has set up the claims
that these “company” unions do
not give the employees the right
to choose their own spokesmen
for bargaining purposes with their
employers. In some instances
they are doubtless right. In
other instances they have been
able to get a few hotheads, dis
contented and dismissed em
ployees to set up the claim that
they havfc been discriminated
against.
General Johnson, administra
tor of NRA, has accepted the
company union in one of the
most important cases, in which
he is 'satisfied the employers kept
their hands off and still the work
ers voted to organize inside the
company. That doesn’t please
the Federation, which wants its
own men to act as employees’
spokesmen.
Usual Labor Reaction
One result of this situation is
a larger number of strikes, and
larger strikes, than have been
known for many years. Some of
the cooler heads in Washington
regard this strike situation calm
ly. They point out that every
period of recovery from past
depressions has been marked by
labor strikes and disturbances.
Any revival in business looks
like a good time for workers to
demand a bigger slice of the pre
sumptive profits. So, the.se ex
perienced oldsters say, the recov
ery must . be under way, else
these labor leaders would not be
making such a disturbance.
It seems pretty clear from the
point of view of Washington
that recovery is progressing, not
steadily but by fits and starts.
March has been a better month
than February was, so far. The
outlook for April is even better.
But there is nothing clear yet as
to how things will be going in
May and June, and some new
doses of inflationary stimulant,
in one form or another, may be
necessary before Summer is well
under way. The Administration
has still' a good many medicines
in its saddle-bags that haven’t
been tried on the patient yet.
Capital for Industry
There seems little doubt that
some form of legislation per
mitting “capital loans” to indus
try, from RFC funds in part
and in pairt by authority to Fed
eral Reserve Banks to rediscount
long-time paper, running three to
five years, will be enacted before
Congress adjourns.
What is holding back indus
try is shortage of capital funds.
Those are usually raised in
normal times, by new stock and
bond issues. Under the Securi
ties Act private capital is afraid
to invest and corporations are
afraid to offer new securities
Commercial banks cannot and
should not make long-term loans.
So the Government must come
to the rescue in a new direction,
and in addition to providing for
these long-term loans the ex
pectation is that there will be
some changes in the Securities
Act to enable the obtaining of
capital funds from the huge re
serves of private capital which is
anxious to find investment in
Industry but has been hampered
in doing so.
Cabinet Changes Rumored
Washington gossip has it that
at least three members of the
Cabinet may be replaced before
long. The feeling that Secretary
Dem of the War Department is
letting the generals run things
is said to be worrying the Presi
dent. There is a growing belief
that the attorney-general, Homer
Cummings, is too easy-going and
too easily influenced into hasty
action. And even in the Presi
dent’s own intimate circle a great
deal of dissatisfaction is being
expressed about the Postmaster
General, Mr. Farley. This is to
some extent based upon the feel
ing that he put the President
in a hole on the «ur-mail matter
and let it develop so that the
blame is on the President instead
of on Farley. And the air-mail
situation is still a major topic
of interest here.
Nobody knows just who Cap
tain Eddie Rickenbacker, famous
(continued on page 2)
Doughton Seeking
Tariff Power For
Chief Executive
N. C. Congressman Opens
Fight To Give President
Authority On Reciprocal
Agreements
Washington, March 27—Chair
man Robert L. Doughton, of the
House Ways and Means com
mitteei opened the fight Friday
to give President Roosevelt power
to make reciprocal tariff agree
ments. Chairman Doughton told
the House that the measure of
fended “the only practicable and
feasible method for restoring a
normal amount of world trade to
the United States.”
“We are trying,” said Dough
ton, “to provide in this bill some
machinery whereby we can suc
cessfully compete with other
countries, practically all of whom
have delegated similar authority
to their executives. Unless we
do this, our foreign trade un
questionably will decline and fin
ally will be reduced to a neglible
quantity.
“Those who oppose this bill
insist it is unconstitutional and
express grave fears that it will
work untold injury to American
industry, agriculture and labor.
They tell us that that there is
no necessity for expanding our
foreign trade; that we are on a
wild goose chase in search of
export markets that do not exist.
“My opinion is that they have
an exactly opposite opinion of
the bill. Their real fears are
that it ia constitutional and that
it will work. Our Republican
friends realize that the old prac
tice of exchanging high tariff
benefits for campaign funds is
at an end and that they no long
er will be able to dry the fat
out of certain favored industries
to lubricate the G. O. P. machine.
This is the fear that tortures
and torments them.”
Speaker Henry T. Rainey pre
dicted that the bill would be
passed exactly as reported by the
committee. House Democratic
leader Joseph W. Byrns 9aid the
majority party would defeat any
attempt to limit the President’s
powers under the bill.
Rep. Allen Treadway (R),
Mass., led the attack on the meas
ure by saying that it opened the
way for a dictatorship in America.
“To all intents and purposes,”
he added, “this message does
away with further need of a
House and Senate, completing
the administration’s program of
assuming complete authority over
governmental functions. This sur
render of legislative power is
the method which has been fol
lowed in setting up dictator
ships.”
The bill would empower Presi
dent Roosevelt to raise or lower
tariff orates by 60 per cent, of
the present schedules. Republi
cans will seek to amend the bill
to place a definite time limitation
—probably three years—on the
measure.
DR. M. A. ROYALL, ELKIN,
TO HEAD MEDICAL SOCIETY
Dr. M. A. Royail, Elkin, was
elected Tuesday as President of
the Eighth District Medical
society, at the convention of the
organization held in the Robert
E. Lee hotel, Winston-Salem. Dr.
Royail will succeed Dr. P. A.
Yoder, Winston-Salem, as head
of the society during the coming
year.
Other officers elected for the
ensuing year were: Dr. Hugh
Parks Elkin, Vice President, and
Dr. F. C. Hubbard, North
Wilkesboro, Secretary-Treasurer.
It was decided that the next
semi-annual meeting will be held
in Elkin next fall, the definite
date to be arranged later.
W. M. S. OF METHODIST
CHURCH HOLDS MEETING
The Woman’s Missionary soc
iety of the Methodist church held
its regular monthly meeting Fri
day afternoon, March 16, at the
home of Mrs. Marvin Doughton.
After the business session a num
ber of interesting talks and pap
ers were given on the day’s sub
ject for discussion.
Following the program, delic
ious refreshments were served
to a majority of the membership.
Mrs. Henry Gorham was present
as a guest and Mrs. Rex Mit
chell’s name was added to the
list of members.
Federal Officials
Visit Sparta Friday
A group of Federal officials
and Highway Engineers passed
through Sparta Friday afternoon
on an inspection trip of the pro
posed Blue Ridge route of the
Skyland park-to-park highway.
The party traveled by automobile,
coming into Alleghany from Galax
via the Low Gap road. They
made a short stop here and talk
ed briefly with Governor Dough
ton and R. F. Crouse.
The group was headed by Theo
dore Strauss, special advisor to
Secretary of the Interior Ickes,
and George L. RadclifFe, Balti
more.
They went from here to West
Jefferson and continued on to
Asheville. They planned, also, to
visit Blowing Rock, Mt. Mitchell,
Little Switzerland, Mount Pisgah,
Balsam mountain and other scenic
points in Western North Caro
lina. They spent Friday nightl
in Boone.
Bond Is Sought By
Woman Being Held
In Childress Case
Governor Ehringhaus Ex
pected To Be Asked To
Call Special Court Term
For Tilley Trial
North Wilkesboro, March 27.—
A hearing on a writ of habeas
corpus has been obtained by
Mrs. Luther Tilley, one of the
five members of the Tilley fam
ily indicted for the murder of
Miss Leota Childress at the Til
ley home, near Elkin, on Decem
ber 30, according to her counsel.
Attorneys Eugene Trivette and
J. F. Jordan, of the local bair,
and Attorney J. E. Hoshouser,
of Boone, have been retained
as counsel for Mrs. Luther Til
ley.
The application for a hearing
was obtained from Judge Wilson
Warlick, at Mocksville, recently
and the hearing will be before
Judge Warlick, at Bakersville, at
noon tomorrow. Attorney Tiriv
ette stated that an effort will be
made to have Mrs. Tilley re
leased under bond.
It has not been learned wheth
er or not W. W. Tilley, Mrs. W.
W. Tilley, Luther and Clyde Til
ley the others indicted in the
case, will make an effort to get
out ’of jail through habeas cor
pus proceedings.
The case was calendared for
trial in the term which ended
in Wilkesboro recently, but was
continued until another term by
consent of both the state and
the defense. It is understood
that Governor Ehringhaus will
be asked to call a special term of
Wilkes court in June for the
trial of the Tilley and Stanley
cases which are peculiarly linked
together, due bo the fact that
Luther Tilley will be tried for
his life in both cases and certain
similar instances in both deaths
Rabid Dog Invades
Sparta Prison Camp
And Bites Prisoner
Considerable excitement was
created at the Sparta prison camp
one day last week when a rabid
dog rushed into the camp and
bit one of the prisoners over the
eye. One of the guards was go
ing through the front gate when
the strange dog rushed in, snap
ping at him. The dog attacked
other dogs confined in the yard.
The prisoners were just being
released in the yard, when the
dog rushed through an open door
into one of the cells and bit a
prisoner, who was still in bed.
The dog was shot by guards
and its head sent to Raleigh by
Dr. J. L- Doughton, prison
physician, for examination to
determine whether or not it had
hydrophobia.
A telegram was received sun
day by Dr. Doughton saying the
dog was rabid.
The prisoner bitten by the dog
is being treated against rabies.
It is thought that the dog bit
several other dogs in town be
fore going to the camp and all
owners are keeping their dogs
confined, pending developments.
The town council promptly call
ed a meeting and passed a local
ordinance making it a misdemean
or for anyone to let their dog
go unattended on the streets of
Sparta, either day or night.
Restrictions Are
Placed On Relief
Of County's Needy
Extension Of Aid To Able
Bodied Persons Who Are
Depending Upon Relief
To Cease
Instructions have been receiv
ed from Raleigh by the local
Relief office to cease extending
aid to all persons who are de
pending upon relief and are able
to work. The officials will buy
seeds and fertilizer and make
arrangements to rent land and,
where a team is not available,
arrangements will be made for
■one. Every family on the relief
rolls is expected to plant the |
necessary acreage to supply them j
with food for the next year.
Relief families that have ob- j
tained land, or will be able to, I
will not receive any seed or ferti- j
lizer from the local Relief office j
until it has been checked by the j
Supervisor or one of his assist-1
ants, to see that the ground is |
ready foir planting.
Amos Wagoner has been ap-!
pointed Farm Supervisor for Alle-,
ghany county and will be glad to J
assist any family in obtaining
land for cultivation and in mak
ing arrangements for this year’s
crops.
It has been emphasized that
seed and fertilizer is not to be
given away, except to widows,
and this rule will' be strictly
adhered to. Where there is a
stout, able-bodied man in the
family, he will be required to
work and pay for the seed and
fertilizer.
No family that is not listed as
a relief family will be entitled
to seed and fertilizer. Each re
lief family and land owner will
enter into a written contract,
forms to be furnished by the local
office. It has been suggested
that families that do not have
land, and are unable to obtain
it fbr this year’s garden and
crops, get in touch with the of
fice of C. A. Miles, local Relief
administrator, immediately, and
enable the officials to perfect
their arrangements.
Instructions have been received
by the office here to discontinue
payment of bills for medical aid
furnished to those receiving di
rect relief, this ruling to go into
effect on April 1.
“WHOOPS” KILL INDIANS
Ilford, Manitoba. — Whooping
cough, reaching epidemic propor
tions, is said to have caused the
death of twenty Indians near
Oxford House, east of here. ,
Rehabilitation Of j
Rural Sections Is
Planned At Meet
C. A. Miles And Amos
Wagoner, Sparta, Attend
Meeting Held Saturday
Afternoon In Boone
Plans for a state-wide program
of rural rehabilitation for North
Carolina were laid before a meet
ing of county Relief Administa
tors of this district by Roy M.
Brown, Assistant to Mrs. Thomas
O’Berry, State Administrator, at
Boone Saturday afternoon. C. A.
Miles, Alleghany Administrator,
and Amos Wagoner, newdy ap
pointed farm and garden work
supervisor, were present at the
meeting.
. The civil works administration
will be replaced, Mr. Brown said,
by an entirely new program with
two divisions, one of them deal
ing with work for urban centers
and the other with rural rehabili
tation. The primary aims of the
new rural program as outlined
by the speaker were to have
every farm family self-support
ing by the end of the present
year; to begin by the end of the
year a program of permanent
rehabilitation by home ownership
and the development of small
industries in rural areas.
Dr. Brown said he could see
no reason why a farm family
should not produce its own food.
A total of five acres of land, he
pointed out, is sufficient for pro
ducing food enough for a family
of five or six persons for an en
tire year. If necessary, crops
can be cultivated by hand, Dr.
Brown asserted. The speaker dis
cussed the methods of obtaining
land and preparing it for culti
vation. He also urged the Ad
ministrators to see that all agree
ments between landlords and ten
ants are fair to both parties.
Plans are, he said, for every
family to have a garden. For the
family living on the farm the
garden will be supplementary to
the crops. Seeds will again be
furnished this year, and these
seeds are to go only to relief
families.
Dr. Brown urged the forming
of advisory councils and appoint
ment of directors of farm and
garden programs for carrying out
the administration program. The
Telief administration, he empha
sized, is interested not so much
in temporary measures but rather
in a long-time program leading
to permanent rehabilitation.
Farmers Asked To
Employ The Needy
If any farmer in Alleghany
county, who is having trouble in
obtaining farm help, will notify
C. A. Miles, local- Relief Adminis
trator, an effort will be made to
arrange for the placement of
some family on the Relief roll
unable to obtain land for this
year’s crops.
Any person who is now get
ting relief from Mr. Miles’ of
fice, and refuses to work for
farmers of the county at pre
vailing prices, will be taken from
the relief rolls at once,
Mr. Miles asks the cooperation
of the farmers of the county to
ward arranging for families now
on relief to obtain land upon
which to plant and cultivate crops 1
this year.
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Owners Of Trucks
Protest Action Of
Virginia Officers
- i
Alleghany Business Men
Express Dissatisfaction At
Demand For Va, Licenses
For Traffic In That State
Alleghany county truck owners j
and business men are entering
strong protests against the action
of Grayson county, Virginia, of
ficers in demanding that all truck
owners hauling to and from In- \
dependence and Galax be required |
to purchase Virginia State 1 icen- i
ses.
Several Alleghany county driv- j
ers have reported that they have
been stopped by the Virginia of- j
fleers and Virginia licenses de
manded. Their action has been
communicated to the State auth
orities of both states in the hope
that this practice may be stopped.
It is thought that if it con
tinues, the North Carolina officers
will take similar action against
Virginia trucks being operated in
this state.
Several merchants of Sparta
have threatened to withdraw the
business they have been giving
to Galax and other Virginia towns
if the Virginia officers continue
their demands.
MORGAN BRYANT DIES FROM
EXPOSURE MON. MORNING
Morgan Bryant, of Edmonds,
colored, about 50 years of age,
died Monday morning while being
brought to Sparta by Deputy
Sheriff Richardson after having
been found near Edmonds beside
the road in a critical condition ;
from exposure.
His clothes were frozen, he
having lain out all night in the
rain and sleet.
To Conduct Drive
For Improvement Of
Roadsides In State
The period from Sunday, April
8 to Saturday, April 14 har been
designated as Roadside Improve
ment Week in North Carolina.
The Roadside Improvement cam
paign will last until July 1 and
will be under the direction of
W. J. ’Cartier, Director of High
way Beautification for the Caro
lina Motor club.
Mr. Carter outlines the plans
as follows:
“Chairmen are being appoint
ed in each county. After this is
done, the county chairmen should
appoint a representative from
each township, who in turn may
select four or five to w<ork with
him in the township. When the
county committee is complete, a
meeting will be held and a pro
gram mapped out.
“One of the thing's we couia
do is to see what improvement
could be made on the rural and
surburban mail box. To this ex
tent the Carolina Motor club is
offering a small prize for the most
artistic and practical treatment
of an individual mail box and a
prize for the best treatment of
a group of boxes.”
Mr. Cartier says further:
“As I see it, this is an individ
ual problem to be worked on by
everyone, those who own property
or rent, and those who just ride.
Everyone can do their bit to
keep the highways clean and to
make them, safer. We should
work out a program which can be
put over without benefit of CWA
labor, and if we can get some
of this, so much the better. If
everyone puts his shoulder to the
wheel, it can be done."
Governor Defends
Taxation Policy
Of Administration
Says He Will Stick By
Sales Tax Until Other
Source Of School Reve
nue Is Found
Raleigh, March 27.—Governor
J C. B. Ehringhaus, in an ad
dress delivered Saturday at the
closing- session .of the North Caro,
lina Education association’s con
vention here, declared that “When
the day came when 1 had to
choose between the sales tax and
the schools, I chose the schools.”
The governor defended his admin
istration’s taxation policy and
said he would stick by the sales
tax until some other source of
revenue was found to finance
the schools.
Clearly in a fighting mood, the
Chief Executive roundly criticized
“some merchants” for “mis
statements” concerning the sales
tax.
“I know some of. them,” he
said( “tell you when you make a
purchase that you pay so much
for the article and so much for
the Governor. I have no respect
for any merchant who couples
with his sales any such misstate
ments.”
His remark drew hearty ap
plause.
Continuing the Governor said
64 cents of every dollar collect
ed for the state general fund
goes to support schools and as
serted the $6,000,000 estimated
annual sales tax revenue could
not be abolished without putting
something else in its place.
“There has been talk that some
•of these policies might lead me
into political oblivion,’’ he said.
“Political obliviondoesn’t bother
me at all. It would be much
better that I pass out of the pic
ture, rather than the state’s
schools and governmental agenc
ies be destroyed.”
The Chief Executive invited
the help and suggestions of teach
ers on the problem of salaries
and educational appropriations,
saying he favored more money
for education and teachers’ pay
as soon as the revenue for it
can be found.
Sixteen resolutions, presented
by W. P. Grier, Gastonia, chair
man of the resolutions committee,
were adopted at the closing meet
ing.
They commended the Gover
nor for his fight in support of
the eight-month school term law
enacted in 1933; requested the
legislature without resort to ad
valorem taxes, to liberalize the
law providing for school supple
ments and to increase education
appropriations.
BOYS MAY SIGN UP FOR
CCC CAMP ENROLLMENT
C. A. Miles, local R dief Ad
ministrator, has just received in
structions from Raleigh to sign
up five boys, from 18 to 25, for
enrollment in the CCC camp. He
requests any interested boys to
j sign up not later than Friday,
I March 30, at 12 o’clock in his
i office. Mr. Miles expects to
leave here Saturday for Ashe
■ vilie, where the boys will be
examined.
"He is the bat dressed whose dress no one
observe. ”
MARCH
'26—Ponce de Leon claims
Florida ior Spain, 1512.
27— Rontgen, inventor of the
X-Ray, born 1845.
28— Foch made General of all
allied troops, 1918.
29—Capt. R. F. Scott reaches
the South Pole, 1913.
30—Ether is first used as an
/kjijS anesthetic, 1842.
31—224th “NickCsrter" Dims
Novel is published, 1894.
APRIL
1—Bismarck,Germsny’sltott
Chancellor, born ISIS.
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