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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, APRIL 19, 1934. 4 PAGES Number 48. This Week In Washington Washington, April 17 (AS).— It is becoming clearer every day, not alone to members of Con gress and to many of that some what ill-defined group usually re ferred to as “members of the ,^Administration,” but to impar . Rial' observers like newspaper men, that Mr. Roosevelt has come to the fork of the road, where he _ must choose openly and irrevoc ably whether he will take the right fork or the left. There is little doubt in the impartial observers’ minds which fork he will choose, once he de cides that the time has come to make the definite decision. He will choose the road leading to the right. But until he does, by positive word and act, demon strate that he is not going to follow that alluring left trail toward which some of his coun selors and aides have been subtly trying to shunt him, the uncer tainty which now beclouds the future course of the Nation will continue to act as a heavy brake upon industrial and business re covery. Recovery Here, Capital Timid Recovery is under way. Of that there is no doubt. But it is tardy and timid, because of the fear of owners of capital, banks and institutions of credit, that if they put their money or their’ credit to work in produc tive enterprises—which every one of them, to the last man, is eager to do—Washington may spring some new and unexpected restric tions upon the industries and projects in which they have in vested. Most of that fear is exagger ated, but capital is notoriously timid, and the banks have had a sharp lesson in the folly, not to, say wickedness, of lending' other people’s money, their depositors’, on insufficient security. And there has not only been so much “Left” talk from the “collec tivists” in public office here, but ■so many evidences of “Left” in fluence in various legislative pro posals which have been put up to Congress with the word “the President wants this to pass as it is,” that conservatives can hardly be blamed for wondering whether Mr. Roosevelt has turned from all the influences and prin ciples of his own past. Still On Main Line Let it be said right here that there is no foundation for such a suspicion. And let it be added that, even among those who har bor such fears, there has been little or no -diminution in the President’s personal popularity And that is true of the Nation •at large. The great mass of the people, while not professing to understand everything that is be ing done here to try to improve conditions, even though many are doubtful about the ultimate suc cess of some of the frankly ex perimental methods that have been and are being tried, still be lieve that Frank Roosevelt will pull us through, somehow. This is not being set down to instill distrust of the President, but rather to show the reasons for such distrust as exists and to point out that it is on the way to being removed. For, whether the statements made to Professor Wirt of Gary by some of the young men who have such an active finger in the pie here were intended to be taken seriously or not, no intell^, gent person accuses Dr. Wirt of faking them- And a critical examination of much of the New Deal legislation that has been enacted and of the new so-called "Administration bills” yet to be acted on by Congress, discloses subtleties of phrasing which, while not making them mean pre cisely the opposite of - what they seem to mean, could have pre cisely the effect which Dr. Wirt’s informants predicted, that of making it so impossible for capi tal to do business as to wreck all the recovery plans. Some Misunderstanding* There has been a tendency, both in and out of Washington, to accept every legislative meas ure without questioning it, if it was labelled as emanating from the Administration. That label has -been taken to mean that Mr. Roosevelt has personally drafted or read the bill or dictated its details and that it is therefore sacred down to the last comma. But now it turns out that this has been true in only a few in stances. Mr. Roosevelt has ap proved the principle of some of the major bills, delegated the drafting of them to men whom he trusted, who have sometimes, in turn, delegated the task to clever, deft young lawyers who have let their idealism run away with their judgment. And some of these bills which the President himself never read have gone to Congress and before the public as “Administration measures.” The general feeling here,, and not by any means solely among the President’s personal or po litical opponents, is that Dr. Wirt (continued on page 3) Wilkes Bar Seeks Special Term For Trial Of Tilleys Prosecution And Defense Attorneys Join In Asking Governor To Call Court . Session For June 18 North Wilkesboro, April 17.— Solicitor John R. Jones and the other members of the Wilkes Bar association are seeking a special term of Wilkes county Superior Court for the trial of the noted Til'ley and Stanley cgses. A petition has been forwarded to Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus at Raleigh, requesting him to call the special court term for Mon day, June 18, by Attorney Eugene Trivette, president of the Wilkes Bar association and a member of Mrs. Luther Tilley’s counsel. The two cases were calendared for trial in the last week of the March term but after it was de cided by Judge Warlick and counsel" for state- and defense that it would probably take more than one week to dispose of the two cases, the cases were con tinued and a special term was recommended. In the Tilley case, five mem bers of the Tilley family, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Tilley, Luther and Clyde Tilley and Mrs. Luther Tilley, face indictments of first degree murder in connection with the mysterious death of Miss Leoda Childress, 20, at the home of W. W. Tilley on December 30. With the exception of Mrs Luther Tilley, who was released under bond of $2,500 in a habeas corpus proceeding recently, all of the defendants are in jail. In the Stanley case Luther Til ley faces another indictment for first degree murder in connec tion with the death of Andrew Eldridge seven years ago in the Benham community, where the Childress murder took place. In dicted with Tilley is Winfield Stanley, who is said to have told of how “they” hanged young Eldridge in an attempt to scare him into not telling of their liquor manufacture activities. The two cases are linked to gether in a most peculiar man ner and have gained nation-wide attention. Republicans Of Co. To Hold Mass Meet In Sparta May 3rd A mass meeting of Republicans from every township in Alleghany county will be held in Sparta on Thursday, May 3, at 1 p. m. for the purpose of selecting the best available candidates to file for the various Alleghany county offices to be filled at the Novem ber election, according to C. W. Cook and T. W. Landreth, Chairman and Secretary, re spectively of the Alleghany County Republican Executive committee. All Republican voters, both men and women, as well as in dependent voters, are invited to attend the meeting and take part in the selection of the candidates. A Republican county chairman and members of the county executive committee will also be chosen at this meeting, and any other business that may properly come before the meeting will be transacted, also. Joseph M. Prevette, Republican nominee for Congress from this district, will deliver an address at the meeting on issues of the coming campaign, and perhaps, there will be other addresses. Number Of Persons Bitten By Mad Dogs Five persons in the Choate Ridge community, near Saddle Mountain, are reported to have been bitten by mad dogs last week within a period of two days. Among those said to have been bitten were Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Wilson, a person named Wright and an Andrews boy. The names of the others could not be learned. Another scare was added to the series Monday when a rabid dog appeared near Carpenter’s filling station by the New River bridge, >near Brush creek in Vir ginia. ’ One person, a child of Ollie Crouse, and a number of dogs were bitten. The dog went toward the farm of Johnnie Gambill and it has not been learn ed whether or not the dog was killed Santford Martin To Address Seniors Of Nathans Creek “Hi” Commencement exercises began Tuesday night at Nathans Creek 'high school> of which Prof. A. B. Hurt is principal, when the play, “Silas Smidge From Tur nip Ridge,” was presented by the Dramatic club. Last night an operetta, entitled “The Wed ding Of The Flowers,” was pre sented by the grades. Seventh grade diplomas and reading circle certificates were also awarded last night. The fifth, sixth and seventh grades will present a pageant to night, the title of which is “Our United States,” and a play, “We Climb, Though The Rocks Be Rugged.” On Friday night, the Seniors will present a play, entitled “That’s One On Bill.” The graduation exercises will be held on Saturday night and at this .time the Literary address to the graduating class will be de livered by Dr. Santford Martin, editor of the Winston-Salem Jour nal and Sentinel. Dr. Martin is a man of wide reputation as a journalist and speaker. Congressmen From N. C. Prominent In Washington Mon. Doughton Busy Conferring In Regard To Revenue Bill. To Be News Center For Several Days Washington, April' 17.—Mem bers of the National House of Representatives from North Caro lina occupied very conspicuous places in the proceedings of the House yesterday. Rep. Doughton was very busy in conference with his colleagues concerning the 1934-35 revenue bill, which is now in conference. President Roosevelt has given the conferees, headed by Doughton, a free hand in ironing out the wide differences that exist between the House and Senate bills'. The Senate has added a number of highly controversial amendments to the i^evenue bill and, as chair man of the powerful House Ways and Means committee, Doughton is expected to be a news center for a number of days. Representative Doughton is scheduled to be in his home coun ty of Alleghany on Monday night, April 30, to deliver the annual Literary address to the graduat ing class of Sparta high school. Representative Bulwinkle took the floor yesterday morning and apologized to Dr. W. A. Wirt, the man who fears a revolution against the “social order,” for intimating in the House last week (continued on back page) Alleghany Student Is 1New Editor Of “The Rhododendron” Many Alleghany county people will be interested to learn that Eugene C. Fender, of White head, has recently been elected Organization Editor of the 1935 Appalachian College Annual', “The Phododendron.” Mr. Fender is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fender of Whitehead, and is at present a junior at Appalachian State Teachers’ college, Boone. He is president of the Alleghany Club, president of the Y. M. C. A., secretary of the Appalachian Lit erary Society, and secretary of the Democratic League. He will assume his new official duties as editor of the College Annual upon his return to Boone in September of this year. Mr. Fender hopes to be able to have a superior annual for the coming year, with the aid of the other members of the Annual staff. Mr. Jesse Houck, of Dan ville, Va., was elected Editor and Chief of the staff. FISHING SEASON IN COUNTY OPENS ON APRIL 15 R. D. Gentry, Alleghany county Game Warden, has announced the opening of the fishing season, on April 15, for any kind of fish with the exception of small-mouth bass. Fishing licenses are on sale at the Sheriff’s office in the Court House here and at Ben Reeves’ store. County licenses cost $1.10 and State licenses, $2.10. Miss Berry Sees Need Of Funds For Road Maintenance Charges Greensboro Man With Advocating Propos al That Would Wreck State Highway System Raleigh, April 17.—Miss Har riet M. Berry, Secretary of the North Carolina Good Roads as sociation, charges Clifford Fraz ier, Greensboro, with advocating a proposal which would wreck the state highway system on the altar of political ambition, and maintains that the state road maintenance fund is now far below the danger point.. Miss Berry’s charges were made in reply to a speech made by Mr. Frazier before the Re publican stale convention, in which he advocated a flat $5 license fee for all cars in the state. Miss Berry analyzes Mr. Fraz ier’s proposal in a statement to the press. Including a proposal by Jake Newell that the auto license fee be cut to $3, she says, “the average price now charged for all motor vehicles is $14-64. Mr. Frazier would cut this ap proximately to a third and Mr. Newell much more. The revenue derived from this source was ap proximately $5,500,000; from gas tax $14,500,000, totalling $20,- j 000,000 per annum.” Mi.ss Berry enumerates trie dut ies and responsibilities now im posed on the highway commis sion as; Maintenance of 10,430 mil'es of state highways; mainten ance and betterment of 48,000 miles of county roads; care and use so far as possible of ap proximately 8,000 prisoners; en gineering service for construc tion of federal aid projects or any new projects that may be authorized from federal state funds.. “The counties spent $9,000,000 per year on the county system alone,” Miss Berry continues. “The state considered adequate maintenance fund on 6,000 miles of state roads $3,500,000. “The legislature of 1933 re duced the maintenance fund for both state and county highways, care of the entire prison popu lation, to $7,500,000, less by $1,500,000 than the counties used on the highways alone. The re sult in the last year has been that many of our expensive high ways have lost rapidly in their surface values. For every dollar saved, I should say that the state has lost $10 in the value of the roads- A continuance of this policy would, in three to. five years, mean absolute disruption of our highway system and a dirt road would be a boulevard in comparison to broken down concrete and asphalt .roads. “For Mr. Frazier’s information, I would say the amount of bonds issued by the state for highways amounted to $115,000,000 instead of $85,000,000 as he was quoted as saying. He is also reported to have advocated no more con struction until the bonds are paid. With uninterrupted payment this will occur in 1965, 31 years hence. Perhaps Mr. Frazier has all the roads he needs in Guil ford, but is he so unfair, having been served first, as to deprive his friends in Wilkes or Avery or Mitchell or Cherokee a like advantage? With an anticipated increase in revenue for 1934, we should be able to match fed eral aid and gradually extend road service to those who are now clamoring for it in each of the 100 counties. ‘■‘When all is said and done, Mr. Frazier, this is an economic question, not a political one, and the person or party responsible for bringing about such an un thinkable state of affairs would be regarded by this and future generations as public enemy No. 1, once the people came to .realize that they had sold their birth right for a few paltry dollars.” MEN HOLD “FISH FRY” AT FISHING CAMP THURS. On Thursday night, April 12, a “fish fry” was held at Farm er’s fishing camp. Those attend ing made up a stag party and a feature of the occasion was string music by the “Red Fox Chasers.” Those present were: C. A Miles, Emory Joines, Amos Wago ner R. D. Gentry, B. C. Thomp son Herbert Estep, F. H. Jack son) Ralph Gentry, Page Thomp son, Duke Bledsoe, Paul Miles, Troy Irwin, Bill Robbins, J. T. Inskeep and Wayne Spicer. Motion To Direct Cannon Acquittal Denied By Gordon McNeill And Fulton, After Impassioned Argument, Resume Task Of Present ing Defense Witnesses Washington, April 17.—Justice Peyton Gordon today refused to direct a verdict of “not guilty” in the trial of Bishop Janies Can non, Jr., and his former secre tary, Miss Ada L. Burroughs. The refusal followed heated argu ment, including references to “the mangiest yellow dog on the meanest street in Washington” and charges of “common, garden variety check-kiting.” Most of yesterday’s court ses sion was taken up in the hearing of testimony of E. J. Armbrus ter, accountant-detective of the Justice department, who appear ed as the star 'witness for the prosecution. His testimony, stripped to es sentials, was to the effect that one official bank account of the bishop was overdrawn $81 and that another had only about $600 in it, when time came for Can non to report to the House of Representatives clerk the expen ditures of the anti-Smith Demo cratic committee. The prosecution charged today that the Methodist churchmen and his co-defendant, Miss Bur roughs, were guilty of conspiring to violate the corrupt practices act because they had engaged in a long series of “phoney” deals in their 1928 campaign against election of Alfred E. Smith. The defense countered with the assertion that not even a yel low dog could be convicted on such flimsy evidence as the gov ernment had presented. Coun sel for • the bishop and his ex secretary therefore asked Justice Peyton Gordon to direct the jury to bring in a verdict of “not guilty.” After listening to nearly four hours of such argument and ask ing pointed questions from both sides, the justice ruled that the! case was one for the jury to de- j cide. Government attorneys were jubilant. United States District Attorney Leslie C. Garnett fid dled with a patent combination bottle opener and corkscrew, which the Anti-Saloon League members in the court room eyed ! dubiously. Garnett’s chief assist-1 ant, John L. Wilson, who has presented most of the evidence so far, smiled happily. The defense attorneys, Robert H. McNeill and M. J. Fulton, who had almost shouted them selves hoarse in theLr impassioned arguments, resumed the prosaic task of presenting witnesses in favor of the churchman and the secretary who had served him 25 years. First of these was J. C. Berk eley, Newport News, Va., lawyer, who told of his part in the anti Smith campaign. The next wit ness, L. P. Powell, of Richmond, still was on the stand when court adjourned for the day. As a member of the Anti-Saloon Lea gue, he said he had worked against election of Smith. The bishop and Miss Burroughs are expected to testify. Grant Bauguss In Solicitors Race Grant Bauguss, West Jefferson attorney, announced his candi dacy Saturday for the office of Solicitor of the eleventh Judicial district of North Carolina on the Republican ticket. The announce ment came in the wake of Harry L. Fagg’s withdrawal from the race “because of pressing liti gation.” Fagg was named a candidate for the office at the Republican Congressional and Judicial meeting held in Winston Salem on Wednesday of last week. Attorney Bauguss is a graduate of the University of North Caro lina. FORD AGAINST PRICE; RISE Detroit.—Henry Ford fears that the rising tide of retail pric es will retard business recovery and expresses the belief that the “craze” to raise prices is the at tempt by financial interests to slow up the resurgence of busi ness. Ford insists that the purpose of higher prices is to “kill . off competition because lower prices were 'stimulating business-” Commencement At Piney Creek “Hi” To Open Tonight Announcement has been made by Prof. L. K.- Hal'sey, principal of Piney Creek high school, that commencement exercises, which will bring the 1933-34 term of the school to a close, will begin tonight at 7:30 o’clock wherf an ■operetta, “In the Land of Dreams Come True,” and “Jum bo Jim,” a short play by the grades, are presented. Friday night at 7:30 o’clock, the graduating exercises will be held and the Literary address to i the Seniors delivered by Hon. R. A. Doughton of Sparta. Saturday night at 7:30 o’clock, the Seniors will present the play, “The Girl In The Fur Coat.”n These programs will end what is said to have been a very successful year for Piney Creek high school. During the term, new apparatus has been added to the Science, Home Economics and Agricul ture departments and several hun dred books have been added to the library. Many improvements have been made to the building and grounds besides the new brick-veneered gymnasium that is now under construction. Fifty-Five Acres In Co. To Be Used For Relief Work Land Already Plowed For| Planting Of Potatoes And i Corn. Will Be Operated By Relief Workers. The Alleghany County Emer gency Relief administration has announced that fifty-five acres of land have already been plowed in the county for the planting of potatoes and corn for relief pur poses. This land is to be oper ated by relief workers of the county. State certified seed will be used in the way of an experi ment and a portion of the po tatoes will be stored next fall for seed in order to continue similar relief work in 1935, if necessary. D. C. Duncan and E. W. Thompson, owners of the land upon which the work is to be done, will receive a share in whatever craps are produced. Another team of mules has re cently been shipped from Georgia for work on this relief farm project. On a recent trip to Raleigh, C. A. Miles, who has served as Alleghany County Relief adminis trator, obtained a promise that the recreation park and ball ground for Sparta, which was scheduled to be constructed un der the CWA, will be completed under the Relief administration. Va.-Car. Seniors To Hear Sermon By Rev. A. C. Meadows Rev. A. C. Meadows, pastor of the Galax Christian church, will deliver the Baccalaureate sermon to the 1934 graduating class of Virginia-Carolina high school, Grassy Creek, of which Prof. F. C. Nye is principal, on Sunday afternoon, April 29, at 3 o’clock. The Virginia-Carolina commencement will begin on Fri day night, April 27, at 8 o’clock when class exercises by the Jun iors and Seniors will be held. Miss Ada Wagg, of the Senior class has won the honor of being valedictorian of her class and Miss Gladys Sturgill, that of Salutatorian. On Saturday night, April lv>, \ at 8 o’clock, the Senior play, I “The Clay’s The Thing,” will be | presented. A small admission charge will be made for the play Graduation exercises will take place on Monday night, April 30, at 8 o’clock and the Literary address will be delivered to the Seniors by Prof. Chappell Wil son, of the Appalachian State Teachers’ college, Boone, N. C. The twenty-six members of the graduating class will receive their diplomas at this time and cer tificates will be awarded to seventh grade students having completed grammar grade work. MUSIC CLASS TO BE PRESENTED IN RECITAL Miss Lambert will present her music class of Sparta high school in an annual recital tomorrow | (Friday) night at 8 o’clock. The public is cordially invited * to attend the recital. Commencement At Sparta “Hi” Will Begin On April 27 Two Senior Plays To Be Outstanding Feature!. Baccalaureate Sermon By Dr. S. D. Gordon Sparta high school commence ment exercises will begin on Fri day night, April 27, with the Senior play, “Marrying Mar garet.” This is a modem farce comedy in three acts. In it, Harrison Hunter has been both father and mother to his three daughters. Leila and Winifred are nineteen and twenty-one years •old, respectively. Both are ultra modern and engaged to be mar ried to two nice boys, brothers, just their own ages and just as modern. Margaret, the oldest sister is twenty-five. She is quite different from her sisters. She is very plain and matter-of-fact, uninterested in men or clothes She is a confirmed bookworm. Mr. Hunter will not allow the young est girls to marry until' Mar garet is married and men are never interested in plain Mar garet, nor sne in tnem. in an these eccentricities, she is aided and abetted by Aunt Harriet, a confirmed spinster. To marry off Margaret will be no easy task but Leila and Winifred decide to do just that very thing. They arrange a masquerade party in honor o-f Margaret’s birthday and invite every eligible male avail able. In addition to this, they insert an advertisement in the newspaper for a husband for Margaret, little realizing into what deep water they would find themselves as a result. Aunt Harriet inserts an advertisement in the same paper for a man of all work. When the “handy men” and would-be husbands be gin making applications, the situ ation becomes screamingly funny. The would-be husbands are fin ally rounded up and induced to mask for thf party, during which they are supposed to propose to Margaret. Those responsible for the play say there is a way to find out if the scheme was a success and that the way is to see the play. For an evening of clean, unadulter ated fun, they say anyone can not go wrong in seeing “Marry ing Margaret.” On Saturday night, April 28, at 8 o’clock, the second Senior play, “Introducin’ Susan,” will be presented. This is the way it happens: Dick Heatherby, a young college professor, and his wife, Susan, quarrel. She leaves the house, threatening to go to Reno. This causes Dick great distress because his aunt Cor delia Quackenbush, who is a lecturer on the evils of divorce and who is also contributing materially to the upkeep of the Heatherby home, is coming. Dick cannot let the truth be known. He must have a wife. Buddy made a deal with Dick to pose as Susan. Dick also asks the cook and an ex-sweetheart to help him out. Auntie finally ar rives and, to Dick’s consternation, three Susan’s appear. The real Susan returns and finds a house full of Susans and sweethearts. According to a recent an (continued on back back) If you would earn fame, let not the mn find you in bed.*' PRIL 16— Cffarlic Chaplin, greatest screen comedian, borp 1889. 17— Sunbonnets worn with new style bathing suits, 1905. .18—Great earthquake and fire , at San Francisco, 1906, , 19—Shower of snails covers : town of Tiffin, Ohio, 1889. 20—First Russian troops a*' rive on Western Front. 1916. 21—McGuffey starts hisseries of famous “readers,”1836. 22—Poison gas is first used in World war. 1515. 1
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