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DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHAN Y COUNTY
Volume 9.
SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1934.
4 PAGES
Number 45.
Washington, April 3 (AS).—
The present outlook ir-that Con
gress will be in session for two
months longer, adjourning about
the first y»f June. Major legis
lation that seems to be scheduled
for passage includes a modified
bill for/ the regulation of stock
and commodity exchanges, a sil
ver bill designed to put more
money into circulation, a meas
ure to enable Federal Reserve
Banks to lend on long time for
capital requirements of industry
and some new laws governing
aviation, probably one putting
all military flying under one com
mand, and another providing a
new system of air-mail contracts.
There is also a practical certainty
of the adoption of the Bankhead
bill to enforce, reduction of the
cotton acreage. Some of the
other proposals of the Adminis
tration seem doubtful of pas
sage at this time.
RooiMTelt Not Worried
The best evidence that Presi
dent Roosevelt is not worrying
about plans to put the skids un
der him and replace him with a
real dictator is that he went on
a week’s fishing trip while the
subject was a red-hot topic of
discussion. William Wirt, the
superintendent of schools of
Gary, Indiana, wrote a letter to
James Rand, Jr., big industrialist
and head of the Committe for
the Nation, and Rand read it
before a committee of Congress.
Professor Wirt—who is not given
to loose talk—wrote to his friend
Rand that several of the young
men of the “brain trust” had told
him that their effort was to ,so
influence affairs in Washington
that there could be no real re
covery. This would bring about
such a condition of revolt, they
thought that the people would
rise and follow a new communist
leader and establish a Russian
system in America. The Presi
dent, they told Mr. Wirt, was in
the middle of a powerful current
and could not get to either
shore. He was merely Kerensky
of the revolution; the real Lenin
would appear later.
The letter created a sensation,
even though many people did not
take the threat seriously. Any
one who has listened to some of
the young men of the “brain
trust” crowd, however, can easily
believe that they said such things
to Mr. Wirt. There is certainly
aj$str»ng- Communist urge under
the surface of the activities of
some of the folk who have a
finger in the Federal pie just
now. But that they will succeed
in their plan is not far a moment
believed possible. The sanest
view of the whole episode seems
to be that perhaps Mr. Wirt
and Mr. Rand have done a public
service by directing attention to
* condition which many have be
lieved to exist, if by doing so
£h< y subject every new proposal
■ reforming everything to much
ser scrutiny than some parts of
Administration program have
received.
The New Labor Lineup
The outstanding novelty
jut the labor situation in the
'omobile and other industries,
not that there should be dis
agreement about the method of
jurying out the law regarding
ective bargaining, but that the
deration of Labor should have
.septed the old I- W. W. idea
, "vertical” unions, taking in
rbody employed in a given
_.i(>n, instead of the old
craft” unions on which the Fed
ration has been based.
The “one big union” idea ds
rhat the “Wobbles” were fighting
or, before the war, while the
'operation insisted that there
hould he as many unions as
here were trades; if a shop em
loyed blacksmiths, plumbers,
arpenters, steamfitters and brick
lyers .then there should be a
eparate union for each trade,
low they are trying to organize
.11 automobile workers in a
ingle union, and so on. Some
bservers see the seeds of Com
lunism in that, since that is the
my the Russian workers were
rganized for their revolution.
Agriculture end Bu*»ne*»
Evidence increases of dissatis
faction among farmers with the
results of the Agricultural Ad
justment Administration thus far.
There are signs of open revolt
among some of the cooperatives
set up under the Act, notbaly
in the milk industry. The feel
ing that something more needs
to be done to get money into
circulation rapidly ' is spreading
into the ranks of business and
industryt who are chafing under
restrictions imposed by the NRA.
The demand that they pay higher
wages, work their help shorter
hours and charge more for their
goods, when not accompanied by
any increase in the spending
power of the public or any means
of getting the additional capital
necessary to carry on while re
covery proceeds, is getting under
the skin of many business men,
both large and small. These men
(continued oh page 2)
New Deal Critics
Denounced By Sen.
Bennett C. Clark
Son Of Late Speaker Champ
Clark, Of Missouri, Ad
dresses Young Democrats
In Raleigh Sat. Night
Ral'eigh, April 3. — United
States Senator Bennett Champ
Clark, of Missouri, son of the
late Speaker Champ Clark, of
the national House of Representa
tives, in an address delivered Sat
urday night at the Jackson Day
dinner of the Young Democratic
Clubs of North Carolina, here,
vigorously denounced the critics
of the new deal, referring to
them as “old battle-scarred vet
erans of the army of privilege.”
Senator Clark was introduced to
the audience of more than 800
young Democrats from the 100
counties of the state, and elder
party leaders, by Senator Josiah
W. Bailey, of this city.
Speaking from the banquet
table in Raleigh’s Memorial' Audi
torium, Senator Clark, whose
contact with public life extends
from boyhood through the days
when he was a parliamentarian
in Congress, delivered a compre
hensive review of the recent
trend of United States history.
From the World War days, he
led through 12 years of Repub
lican rule and the era of specu
lation, to the immediate causes
of the panic of 1929, and thence
into the depression and the new
deal.
Attacking critics of the ad
ministration, but at the same time
upholding the right of senators
and congressmen to exercise their
constitutional prerogative of vot
ing their own convictions, Sena
tor Clark said:
“Old battle-scarred veterans of
the army of privilege, men who
unctuously defended every in
famy of the Harding administra
tion, men who cheerfully sup
ported the Hoover-Grundy tariff
bill, men who ballyhooed the stock
market inflation which led to 'Our
present deplorable state, men who
even had the hardihood to de
fend Hoover as a great President
who had fulfilled his extravagant
campaign pledge and brought un
paralleled prosperity to the United
States, now have the effrontery
to stand upon the floor of the
American Congress, both in the
House and Senate, and in ban
quet halls throughout the coun
try and abuse the President of
the United States like a pick
pocket for his every act and his
every recommendation.”
Senatoir Clark, discussing the
tariff question, scored from stem
to stern the Hover-Grundy tariff
of -Republican days which he said
had isolated the United States
in world trade and declared he
supported the bill to give Presi
dent Roosevelt power to make
reciprocal tariff agreements with
foreign nations.
Speaking for fifteen minutes,
preceding Senator Clark’s ad
dress, Governor J. C. B. Ehring
haus discussed the work of the
Democratic party in North Caro
lina.
Mrs. May Thompson Evans,
High Point, State Chairman of
the Young Democrats, presided
at the banquet.
Several outstanding Democrats
were recognized, including State
Democratic Chairman, J. Wallace
Winbonie, C. LeRoy Shuping,
Greensboro, and Mrs. Palmer
Jerman, Raleigh,, national com
mitteeman and committeewoman,
respectively; Mrs. Thomas
O’Berry, Goldsboro, state vice
chairman and Congressman Rob
ert L. Doughton, Frank Hancock
and John Jeer.
ALL CWA WORK IN COUNTY
CLOSES ON MARCH 29
Telegrams were received here
on March 28 ordering that all
CWA projects be closed on the
following day, except Federal
projects. The closing left 150
workers in Alleghany county
without employment.
It is hoped that the FERA will
perfect a plan to take over these
workers and finish the uncom
pleted projects, of which there
are several, the two school gym
nasiums being the most import
ant of these.
Plans and details concerning
the FERA. are rather vague at
present and no definite announce
ment can be made at this time
as to how future relief work in
the county will be carried on
Select Speakers For
Sparta “Hi” Finals
Representative Robert L.
Doughton, Washington, D. C.,
has been selected to deliver the
Commencement address to the
graduating class at the closing
exercises of the 1933-34 term of
Sparta high school', according to
a resent announcement.
Dr. S. D. Gordon, a Presbyter
ian minister of Winston-Salem,
will deliver the Baccalaureate
sermon to the graduates.
• Further details concerning the
commencement exercises will be
announced later.
One Of Defendants
In Tilley Murder
Freed Under Bond
Mrs. Luther Tilley Released
Unddr Bond Of $2,500
At Hearing Before Judge
Wilson Warlick
North Witkesboro, April 3.—
At a habeas corpus hearing held
before Judge Wilson Warlick at
Bakersville Wednesday, Mrs.
Luther Tilley, one of the five
members of the Tilley family
being held in the Wilkes county
jail for the murder of Miss Leota
Childress on December 30, was
granted her freedom under a
bond of $2,500. Late Wednesday
night, Mrs. Tilley had not made
the bond but her attorneys stated
that they expected her to be re
leased early Thursday morning.
Mrs. Tilley was represented at
the hearing by J. T. Holthouser,
Boone attorney; Eugene Trivette
and J. F. Jordan, members of the
local bar. Solicitor John R.
Jones introduced evidence at the
hearing that a note found in the
apron pocket of a garment the
slain girl had worn and purport
ing to be written by her, was
in reality written by Mrs. Tilley.
Attorneys for Mrs. Tilley at
tacked this evidence and succeed
ed in obtaining the release of the
woman on bond. Motion for the
hearing was heard by Judge War
lick recently when he was presid
ing over a term of court in
Mocksville and the case had been
set for Wednesday.
Other members of the Tilley
family, including the slain girl’s
foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. W
W. Tilley, their sons, Luther Til
ley and Clyde Tilley, are still be
ing held in the Wilkes jail and
attorneys have not indicated
whether they will seek their free
dom by a similar means.
Luther Tilley and Winfield
Stanley are being held on charges
of murdering Andrew Eldridge in
1927 when they attempted to
frighten the youth after he had
discovered their distillery. This
case has been linked with the
Childress case by a number of
circumstances, including notes
written interested parties in both
cases and supposedly written Dy
the victims in the two deaths.
The Childress murder case was
scheduled for the March term of
court but was continued at that
time and is expected to be heard
at a 'special term to be called by
Governor Ehringhaus in June.
The Eldridge murder case will
probably be heard at the same
time, as a number of the same
witnesses will be heard in this
case.
Solicitor John R. Jones 'has
spared no efforts to construct a
strong case around the Tilleys
and has indicated his irftention to
have the case brought to trial at
the earliest possible time.
CROP LOAN APPLICATION
BLANKS AVAILABLE HERE
W. B. Collins, Alleghany County
Agricultural agent, has announc
ed that Seed Loan blanks are now
in h^s oifice here and that farm
ers who wish to borrow money
for planting a crop this year may
make application for loans at his
office. These applications can be
made on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday of each week until
May 1.
Mr. Collins emphasizes the fact
that the loans have been late in
getting started, and advises farm
ers, who wish to borrow, to make
their applications as soon as pos
sible.
Every farmer who plans to
increase his Irish potato acreage
this year should read the “Irish
Potato dutlook for 1934," which
appears elsewhere in this issue
of the TIMES, according to Mr
Collins.
As Spring Brings April Showers
They were beautiful . . . and not dumb, this trio of young:
lambs which sought shelter as the April showers began to fall.
An old umbrella in the yard caught their attention and, knowing
what' it was for, they calmly kept their tails dry. Spring, beautiful
Spring.
NRA To Abandon
Plan To License
Industiial Units
General Johnson Says He
Will Ask No More Legis
lation. Would Let In
dustry Guard Itself
Indicating relaxation in the
Federal drive to regiment busi
ness, NRA Administrator Hugh
S. Johnson said yesterday he
would not ask Congress to extend
the licensing provisions of the
recovery act.
This drastic section, considered
the most powerful NRA weapon,
has never beei^ employed. It ex
pires June 16, one year before
expiration of the emergency act.
Johnson said: “I am satisfied
to let the licensing power die. I
have no intention of asking
special legislation to modify the
act.”
In his first talk to newspaper
men in over a month, during
which the recovery program was
confronted by some of its great
est obstacles, Johnson said:
“I believe industry should be
allowed to regulate itself. That
was the basis of the auto settle
ment.”
Sketching the reorganization
which has been going on at re
covery headquarters during the
transition between code-making
and code compliance, Johnson
then challenged critics of the
Blue Eagle. Statements the NRA
has decreased purchasing power
are “bunk,” he said.
There has been marked prog
ress in the consumers’ goods
industries, he said, calling at
tention to business charts.
Revival is needed particularly
in the durable or heavy goods
industries, he said, adding:
“We are seeking to activate
capital goods through a com
prehensive program.”
The NRA head explained the
Federal program for housing,
■slum clearance and building will
be placed under the direction of
the Recovery Board, but he said
plans still are in the formative
stage.
Johnson aggressively promised
to reply to the Federal Trade
Commission report which charged
the steel* code permitted price
fixing and stifled free competition.
He said:
“In my opinion, many facts
were overlooked- However, I am
not satisfied with the code by
any means. It is experimental,
and it states so in the pream
ble.”
MARRIAGE LICENSES
ISSUED HERE RECENTLY
Marriage licenses have been
issued during the past few days
by V. W. Reeves, Alleghany
county Register of Deeds, as
follows;
March 28—Stanley R. Shep
herd and Lucille Cullum, both of
Alleghany county.
March 29—Cleve Ross, Alle
ghany county, and Ruby Hart,
Ashe oounty.
March 30—Bryan Rector and
Cleme Edwards, both of Alle
ghany county, and Orley Stamper
and Lida Shaw, both of Alle
ghany county.
One Of Every 200
Persons Work For
U. S. Government
Civil Service Board Survey
Shows That More Than
600,000 Individuals Are
In Federal Employ
On.' out of every 200 persons, j
cr more than 000,000 individuals, :
work for the Federal Government j
in executive departments and in
dependent offices.
The figures, made public yes
terday by the Civil Service Com
mission, show that 011,752 per
sons were on the payrolls on
February 28.
This was the first time since
the postwar period of 1020 that
the number exceeded 000,000. J
Total in the District was 70,913,
of .which 71,023 were on perman
ent basis, and 8,200 were on a
temporary basis. Throughout the
rest of the country 531,830 were
employed, of which 474,767 were
in permanent positions and 57,072
in temporary.
These figures, do not include
the legislative and judicial de
partments or the District mu
nicipal government.
The total for February was
more than 20,000 above that for
January 31. Field forces in Agri
culture and Interior engaged in
emergency conservation work
were put on the rolls for the
first time, thereby accounting for
the gain. Nearly 17,000 of these
were in agriculture.
In Washington there was a
gain in February of 1,662 per
manent employes and a loss of
three temporaries. In the field
gain of permanent personnel was
2,495 and loss of 1,960 tempo
raries.
The executive pay roll for the
month was $79,712,047.
Principal permanent additions
here were- Navy, 430; agricul
ture, 282; PWA, 165; NRA, 175;
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation,
308. Temporary additions were:
War, 113, and Veterans’ Ad
ministration, 193.
Principal permanent additions
outside of Washington were:
Treasury, 159; War, 145; Navy,
149; Interior 139; Agriculture,
346; TVA 1,085; HOLC, 1,276,
and PWA, 91.
Post Office Department had
reductions of 636 permanent em
ployes, and the Veterans Adminis
tration lost 518.
The CCC had an enrollment
of 279,058.
Peak of government executive
employment was on July 31,
1920, when a total of 691,116
employes were listed. Within a
year of that time the total had
dropped 100,000.
The commission also reported
that 125 positions had been filled
in Washington from the reemploy
ment register for the week end
ing March 31.
PRESBYTERY TO MEET ON
APRIL 10 AND 11
Announcement has been made
by the Rev. O. W. Marshall, pas
tor of the Glade Valley Presby
terian church, that the Winston
Salem Presbytery will meet in
the George W. Lee Memorial
church in Winston-Salem on
Tuesday and Wednesday, April
10 and 11
Man Injured When
Thrown From Auto
Hiram Edwards, of Sparta,
Route 2, was seriously injured
Sunday afternoon when thrown
from an automobile, driven by
Breece Caudill.
Mr. Edwards was sitting: on the
back of the car, a roadster, with
his feet braced against the spare
tire, and when the car rounded
a curve, he was thrown off.
He was thought to be injured
internally, as he was raising
blood, but Is reported to be out
of danger now.
Congressman Pou
Claimed By Death
Sunday Morning
Funeral Services Conducted
In House Chamber By
Dr. James Shera Mont
gomery, Chaplain
Raleigh, April 3.—The death
of Representative Edward W.
Pou, 71, which took place in
Washington, D. C., Sunday morn
ing at 7:20 o’clock, is mourned
by the state of North Carolina,
as the passing of one of its most
distinguished citizens. The de
ceased Congressman was represen
tative from the, fourth district
of the state and was dean of the
National House of Representa
tives and Chairman of its power
ful rules committee under both
Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt.
The aged Congressman, who
had served in the national legis
lative body continuously since
March 4, 1901, passed away in
the Ward man Park hotel in Wash
ington. Death was the dir.ect
result of' a heart attack which
followed an illness from influenza,
although the Congressman had
been in bad health for several
months.
Funeral .services were conduct
ed yesterday afternoon at 1
o’clock at a joint session of the j
House and Senate in the House I
chamber. The Supreme Court
and the Senate marched in a
body to join with the House in
its services for its departed mem
ber. The funeral was attended
by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The President, who was cruising
in Southern waters, wired Mrs.
Pou and her family a message
of sympathy.
Dr. James Shera Montgomery,
pastor of the Metropolitan Metho
dist Episcopal Church, Washing
ton, and Chaplain of the House
of Representatives, was the of
ficiating minister at the services.
“Brother Pou was so kindly and
there was such a dignified sim
plicity in his manner,” Dr. Mont
gomery declared. The only others
who spoke were Speaker Rainey
and Republican Leader Snell'.
Speaker Rainey, in his tribute
to Pou, said, “His death removes
from this body the last of its
members who were here when I
came, 30 years ago.
“During that long period of
time,” Rainey said, “I have been
closely associated with him in the
work of the Congress and I have
learned to admire and respect
in the very highest degree his
qualities as a man, a statesman
and a citizen. He will be missed
here in the House as few men
are missed. Tomorrow, accom
panied by the official committees
of the House and Senate, by his
family and by his personal friends
his body will complete its journey
back to the people he loved and
who loved him.”
Speaker Rainey in conclusion
made this touching statement:
“Over the grave of Edward
(continued on back page)
FORMER CWA WORKERS
ASKED TO RE-REGISTER
C. A. Miles, local Relief ad
ministrator, has requested that
all persons who are on relief
and who do not have onions to
plant, or teams with which to
do their plowing, report to his
office at once. Mr. Miles says
that such people will be supplied
with onion sets and that arrange
ments will be made for their
plowing if they will comply with
the above request.
The local administrator also
requests all people who have been
employed on Alleghany county
CWA projects and expect to ob
tain more, work, to come to his
office and re-register. He em
phasizes the fact that this is
very urgent.
Garden seed and fertilizers
have been ordered by the Relief
office and announcement will be
made when they arrive. «
Republicans Back
Solicitor Jones
For Renomination
j Seventeenth District Prose
cutor Gains State-Wide
Prominence In Connec
tion With Tilley Case
—
North Wilkesboro, April 3—
j Every county in the seventeenth
| judicial district of the state has
! given its endorsement to Solicitor
I John K. Jones in his race for
renomination by the Republican
party, according to recent reports.
In the Republican convention
! held here Saturday, Wilkes county
J Republicans expressed great oon
! fidence in Solicitor Jones. He
| was given the solid endorsement
| of precinct primaries in twenty
i ix townships. Resolutions were
I passed in several precincts urg
| ing his renomination and point
i ing with pride to his record in
the past.
The Republicans in Davie,
Alexander, Avery, and Yadkin
counties endorsed him, while Mit
! cheli county, with 15 delegates,
is reported to be solidly behind
him although they have not gone
on record as yet.
Solicitor Jones has become
prominent throughout the state
in recent months for his wotfk
in connection with the arrest of
five members of the Tilley family
for the murder of Leoda Childress
at the Tilley home in Wilke3
county. Four of the Tilleys are
.-till in jail facing trial in the
death while the fifth, Mrs. Luther
Tilley, is out under bond.
Republicans of the seventeenth
district feel that if there is any
thing in endorsements Solicitor
Jones will be nominated by the
Republicans as their choice for
the post for another term.
EMERGENCY SCHOOL FUNDS
NO LONGER AVAILABLE
Raleigh, April 3.—Information
has been given all country and city
school superintendents in the
state by Dr. Arch T. Allen, State
Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion, that the allotment of $45,000
per month to North' Carolina for
emergency schools, made last
November, was no longer avail
able under the new relief set-up
of the Federal government.
It becomes necessary, there
fore, Dr. Allen said, to close the
emergency school. He expressed
regret at this step and said he
had received no notice from
Washington until yesterday noon,
hrough his own efforts, that all
relief monies had been placed in
one fund to be administered by
the state director of relief.
“We, therefore( have no more
funds at our disposal for this
purpose,” he said.
“I want to thank each and
every one of you personally and
very sincerely for your fine co
operation in this matter," Dr.
Allen told the superintendents.
“The organization program had
been gone through with and many
of these schools were prepared
to do> a splendid piece of work.
I regret beyond measure their
closing.”
NEW BANK HOURS
The Bank of Sparta has an
nounced ‘a new schedule of hours,
which will call for the bank t»
cpen at 9 o’clock in the morning
and close at 3 o’clock in the af
| ternoon.
-Who undertakes many things at onto,
sddom does anything treU.”
APRIL
7%*?) 2—Flour now $1,000 ebeml
* W in Richmond, V*., IMS.
tk/fifafn 3—Congress vote* to
'**"-' cipatc the slaves, IMS.
4— Henry Clay and John
Randolph duel bloodless
ly. 1126.
5— Romantic Pocahontas
marries John Rolfs, 1616.
6— Admiral Peary first to
reach the North Ptla
1909.
j/ 7—Sauer Kraut re-named
Liberty Cabbage. 1617.
fi—Ponce de Leon founds Si.
Augustine. Fin, IMA
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