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The Alleghany Times TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHAN Y COUNTY Volume 9. SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA,THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1934. 6 PAGES Number 49. DEVOTED Subscription Price $1 a year in advance ThisWeek In Washington Washington, April 24 (AS).— Adjournment of Congress by May 15th is the definite program, agreed upon by House leaders and the President. But there is still a fair chance that the Sen the Mip may upset this, unless some ditioty the things upon which a num farm£r 0f Senators have set their Tnal%earts are agreed on before that til date. * Most important of the items which the President insisted upon in his conferences with Congres sional leaders on his return from his fishing trip is an appropri ation of a billion and half dol lars to continue Federal relief work. More unemployed are now on the Government relief rolls than at any previous time; nearly twelve million persons in all. The expected new funds will be add ed to those already available for public works, direct Federal re lief and aid to states and munici palities. Next on the President’s pro gram of essential legislation is the Stock Exchange regulation bill. This had been amended so that it will not put the stock ex changes out of business, as the original measure was calculated to do. The vital importance of maintaining an open market in which anyone who wants to buy t or sell stocks and bonds can al ways do so, at a price, is assured by the bill as it stands, and the drastic provisions which would compel the liquidation of billions in outstanding bank loans have been modified. There are still plenty of teeth in the bill, how ever, to discourage wild specu lation, which is its main purpose. Congress and the Administration stil; believe that all of our pres ent troubles started in Wall Street. The Security Act The President also is insistent upon the passage of amendments to the Securities Act of last year. It has been learned, from nearly a year’s experience, that it is im possible to get honest men to take the risk of offering new securities for sale, when under that law they might be sent to jail because some salesman of whom they had never heard, long after the securi ties had passed, out of their hands, did not tell the whole truth about them, and any time within ten years anyone who bought them and was sick of his bargain could claim his money back from the original issuers. Since there is only one way whereby private capital can in vest in business and industry, and that is by the purchase of bonds and shares of a business corpor ation, and nearly every industry is constantly in need of fresh capital, particularly so at the present time, the idea is to make k safe for the industries to float new bond and share issues, and so put private capital at work as well as Government funds. The understanding here is that the President would be satisfied to have Congress pass those three major pieces of legislation and then go home. But the indications are that Congress is going to take mutters into its own hands and pass another inflation measure This will be the Dies silver bill, as modified by amendments draft ee. by Senator Thomas of Okla homa, and on which the “farm bloc” and the “silver bloc” are in agreement and are certain they can get enough votes to pass the bill. This would raise the price of silver, put $50,000,000 a month of new silver certificates into circulation, and put a prem ium on silver used by foreign buyers for American agricultural products. The Labor Legislation There is less likelihood as time goes on of the passage of the Wagner bill to limit hours of labor to 30 a week. The pro posals for unemployment insur ance under Federal control will go over to the next session—that is to say, to the next Congress, for this is the final session of the 73rd Congress. For the first time since the latest amendment to the Constitution was adopted, the Congress elected next Novem ber will take office early in aJn uary and begin its work—with out any "lame ducks" or mem bers Who. have been defeated for re-election but still hold over, among them. Another major piece of legis lation, however, which probably will be law by the time this is printed, is the new income tax bill, which takes a good deal of the burden off the shoulders of the poorer class of taxpayers and piles more of it on the rich, especially upon inherited estates. As to other Administration plans whieh do ‘'not require ad ditional legislation, chief interest centers upon the efforts to re organize the NRA to make its provisions under the codes en forceable. There is a good deal of confusion inside the NRA of fices, and a growing volume of (continued on back page) Cannons Trial Is Expected To Reach Jury On Thursday Attorney M. J. Fulton, Counsel For Miss Bur roughs, Is Native Of Grayson County, Va. Washington, April 24.—Trial of Bishop James Cannon, Jr., and his former secretary. Miss Ada L. Burroughs neared its cli max today as two weeks of evi dence-taking ended and attorneys in the case began their arguments over instructions to the jury. The arguments in the conspiracy case against the two will con sume most of tomorrow and the jury, composed of eleven men and one woman, is expected to begin its deliberations Thursday. Following the adjournment of court today, Bishop Cannon told newspapermen of his disappoint ment in not getting to leave to night to attend the quadrennial general conference of the Me*) o dist Episcopal Church, South, which wil'l convene Thursday, about the time that Justice Pey ton Gordon is expected to g’ve the jurors their instructions, in Jackson, Miss. “Bishops should bs there on the first day, ’ he said. The conference is expected to last about two weeks. In the last hours of the testi mony taking today, the bisnop returned briefly to the stand to tell how records of contributions i ame to be missing. He said they disappeared while ston-d at his office in the Baud of Temperance and Social So viet, presumably because the “sat chels” they were in were want ed for something else. 1*1 iss nurrougns nan an nnui on the stand before her cross examination was finished. 'ihe last witness for the defense was Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, fo’mer United States senat-v from New Jersey, who gave .“j‘20 - 000 to Cannon’s fight against Smith. Frelinghuysen testified that he had given Cannon the money in two contributions of $10,000 each after meeting the bisli-op through C. Ba,scorn SI imp, Ret ublican national committee men for Virginia. For hours Justice Gordon and counsel worked over the ferns the court’s instructions to the jury should take The government’s opening ar gument will be made by John J. Wilson, the chief prosecutor, and District Attorney Leslie C. Gar nett, who, like Cannon is a Vir ginian, will conclude. Robert H. McNeill of Washington, and M. J. Fulton, of Richmond, attorneys respeilively for Cannon and Miss Burroughs, will argue the defense side of the case. Attorney M. J, Fulton, who is counsel for Miss Burroughs, is a native of Grayson county, Vir ginia, being a 9cm of the late Captain Samuel Monroe Fulton and wife, who resided near Elk Creek, and is an uncle of Prof. Kyle T. Cox, superintendent of Grayson county schools. He is also a nephew of the late Rev. Creed Fulton, noted Methodist minister and founder of Emory and Henry college, Emory, Va. Commencement At Sparta Opens Friday The 1935 commencement ac tivities for Sparta high school, of which Prof. C. R. Roe is prin cipal, will open on Friday night, April 27, at 8 o’clock, when the Senior play, “Marrying Mar garet,” is presented. On Saturday night, April 28, another Senior play, “Introducin’ Susan,” will be given. Dr. S. D. Gordon, a Presbyter ian minister of Winston-Salem, will deliver the baccalaureate ser mon on Sunday morning, April 29, at 11 o’clock. Oij Monday morning, April 30, at 10 o’clock, contests in Reading and Declamation will be held. Graduation exercises will . be held Monday night at 8 o’clock and the commencement address will be delivered at this time by Congressman R. L. Doughton, PINES; THEN OPENS FIRE Charleston, W. Va.—Rising from a diner table, James L. Hill, superintendent of the State School for Negro Deaf and Blind, drew; a revolver, killed one faculty member, wounded three others and then ended, his life. All were Negroes. Table-Tennis Champion Ruth Hughes Aarons, 15-year old high school girl' of New York i City, is the new national table ; tennis champion for 1934. She won the women’s singles cham I pionship in three straight games in Cleveland, Ohio, recently, beat ing Jay Purves, defending cham pion. Only 3 Fatalities Mar Entire Period Of CWA In State Fourteen Counties Have No Lost-Time Accidents While Ashe Has Only 2. Other Figures Given Winston-Salem, April' 24.—Dur ing the time the CWA operations were in progress in North Caro lina, only 693 accidents entail ing loss of time for workers and three fatalities occurred in the state, according to a recent state ment made by E. G. Padgett, saf ety director for North Carolina. Mr. Padgett is sending out a complete summary of the safety work to administrators, field representatives and engineers in the state and is also making a complete report to authorities in Washington, D. C. These accidents occurred dur ing an exposure of 22,257,263 hours and gave the state an ac cident frequency of 21.1 lost time accidents per million hours worked. This will not only com-' pare favorably with other CWA state records but is considered a very low frequency. This is particularly true, it is reported, when it is considered the various and sundry types of dangerous work carried on in the state’s various CWA projects. Wnile it is entirely regreiutme that three of . the CWA em ployees lost their lives through accidents, the report states, Mr. Padgett and his safety workers throughout the state feel that this number would have been greatly increased had it not been for the active interest and support given the safety program. Much im portance is placed on the fact that schools of first aid train ing were carried on in various sections, 2,500 people taking this training and passing their first aid requirements. These first aid schools were conducted by the CWA safety directors and the Red Cross, instructors being only those qualified to teach first aid under Red Cross rules. Fourteen counties went through the entire period of the CWA without a lost-time accident. Ashe county had only two lost-time accidents and Surry and Wilkes counties, three each. Mr. Padgett, who was loaned to the CWA by the North Caro lina industrial commission, of which he is safety director, will continue in the safety work on the emergency projects through the FERA. The CWA enfled on March 31 and the FERA im mediately took up the 'work. So far as the safety work is con cerned, Mr. Padgett states, his work will continue with the FERA in the same manner as with the CWA." / DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME TO GO IN EFFECT SUN. Daylight saving time will be come effective in many cities in the country at 2 a. m. Sunday, according to a irecent announce ment. As a result of this change in time, practically all radio pro grams will be broadcast one houi earlier. Project Supervisor Makes Report Of CWA Work Undertaken In County More Than $36,000 Paid To Workers In Alleghany^po., Exclusive Of Administration Personnel, Etc. r B. C. Thompson, Alleghany county CWA Project Supervisor, has made public a report of proj ects undertaken in the county, showing location, percentage of completion, ^tan hours and ex penditures on each. The total amount expended does not include building materials, supervision and administrative personnel. The report follows:' The CWA work program in Alleghany county was closed last week after an expenditure of more than $36,000.00 p^l out to workers in the county in U. S. Government treasury checks. This amount was exclusive of adminis trative expenses and direct relief in the way of food and clothing, medical aid, He. For the latter, $1,779.39 was spent in Decem ber, $2,534.57 in January, $1, 684.64 in February, $2,014.63 in March, and more than $4,000.00 will be spent in the month of April. On the CWA program $6,274.80 was spent on the Piney Creek, road project, $519.10 on the New! Hope to Cranberry road, $665.501 on the Stratford to Hill’s Store | road, $3,561.40 on the Pine i Swamp road, $809.70 on the; Stratford road, $5,298.20 on the\ Glade Valley road, $5,522.50 on the Nile road and $2,311.10 was spent on the Mt. Zion road. The amount of $2,339-25 was spent for labor on the Piney Creek Gymnasium and about $2,500.00 for materials. On the Sparta high school Gymnasium $2,205.85 was spent for labor and about $2,500.00 was spent for materials. These projects were not completed, but will be ; fiinis'hed at once under the new FERA program. Other expentHtures were $160.20 '■ for nursing, $810.00 on a sew ing room project, $896.80 for clerical and professional work in different offices in the Courthouse and high schools of the county, $128.20 in digging a well at the Whitehead 'school, $895-90 on a dam at the Roaring Gap Fish Hatchery, and $493.32 in the con struction of sanitary privies. C. A. Miles, Local Administra tor, is now engaged in getting in motion the government’s plan of permanent rehabilitation. He has leased about seventy-five acres of land from different owners in the county, which is now ready for planting in beans, cabbage, potatoes, corn, etc., to be dis tributed to relief families this fall. The plan is to have every family in the county off of relief by December 1st and that each family be supplied sufficiently to last through the winter. Seed and fertilizer is being furnished to those who have no able-bodied man at the' head of the house hold. Food and clothing orders have been discontinued except in rare instances. Families now located in poor and unproductive places are be ing moved out on more produc tive farms so that they can start life all over again. Eleven such families have already been mov ed. In some instances they are required to leave every thing behind, even to their clothing and furniture. They are being fur nished with land upon which to grow this year’s crop, food, a few chickens, a pig, new cloth ing, furniture, etc. Mr. Miles ha,s just returned from Raleigh where he obtained an allotment of $4,300.00 to be spent this month, $2,000.00 of which is to be spent for ferti lizer. Alleghany was one of four counties in the State to obtain as large a grant for fertilizer, the other counties getting a grant of only $100.00 each for such purposes. Amount expended on road im provement and gymnasiums, $31, 051.61; amount expended on ser vice projects, $2,250 10; total, $33,301.71. Project No. 1009—Piney Creek road: Percent completed, 33% ; man hours used, 15,114;’ money spent, $6,274.80. Grade and right-of-way improved and sur faced partially with crushed stone. Project No. 1010—Glade Val ley road: Percent completed, 26%; man hours, 11,269; money spent, $5,298.20. Right-of-way was improved and stone distribut ed for crushing. Crusher is now (continued on back page) Father, Son Being Tried For Murder Henry F. Bausell and his son, Bernace, went on trial Monday morning in the circuit court of Wythe county, Virginia, at Wy theville, for the murder of Mrs. Virginia Cornett Bausell, estrang ed wife of the younger defend ant, in a gun battle at the home of her father, T. Eugene Cor nett, who also was killed, near Rural Retreat. The tragedy oc curred on Saturday, January 13. Judge Horace Sutherland, Ga lax, is presiding at the trial and W. P. Parsons, Common wealth’s Attorney of Wythe county, is being assisted in the prosecution by former Congress man Joseph C. Shaffer, Wythe ville. Attorney M. J- Fulton, Richmond, who has been in Wash ington as an attorney in the Bishop Cannon case, was expect ed to arrive Tuesday to assist in the prosecution, but, for some reason, had not arrived when court adjourned that day. The Bausells are being defended by Attorneys Stuart B. Campbell and Thomas F. Walker, Wythe ville, and Wilson, Burns and Wil son, Lebanon. The tragedy is said to have arisen over the custody of a child of the estranged couple. The father and daughter were killed in an upstairs room when the ,Bausells are said to have forced the door, which was lock ed, jto gain entrance. On Monday the jury was select ed and the opening statements of attorneys for both sides were made. When court adjourned Tuesday, the prosecution testi mony was nearing completion. Great throngs are packing the courtroom during the trial ses sions and old-timers believe in terest in the trial is second only to that of the Allen clan, who shot up the court at Hilisville in 1912. The Allens were tried in Wytheville under a change of venue. I Alleghany Court To Open May 1 The Spring term of Alleghany County Superior Court will open here on Monday, May 7, with either Judge Felix Alley, or Judge McElroy presiding. Sev eral cases of importance are scheduled to be heard at this term. Among these are the trial of Ransome Brooks and Ves Doug las, against whom there is a multiplicity of charges, and the trial of Folger Wagoner, charged with the murder of Rufe Watson. Jurors have been drawn for this term of court as follows: Piney Creek: Talmage Phipps, Floyd Warden, Fred Osborne, Tom Gambill, R. T. Landreth. Prathers Creek: Charlie Mit chell, Floyd Perry, Eugene Mit chell, W. G. Petty, S. A. Irwin, and Glenn Warden. Gap Civil: Garfield Edwards, John Choate, Eugene Transou, W. M. Richardson, John Maines, J. M. Wagoner, Rufus Richard son. Glade Creek; M. A. Higgins Posey Richardson, Berry Evans Kennie Truitt, Arthur Murphy J. Mack Wagoner. Cherry Lane: Bob Smith, J. B Caudill, Mack Roberts, A. V Millsap, A. J. Bryan, J. W. Dun can. Whitehead: Bert L. Edwards Morris Evans, J. M. Brown. Cranberry: Jones Tilley, Free Miller, J. F. Roberts. Sidney Gambill Is Not In House Ract Sidney Gambill, local attorney has announced that he is deft nitely out of the race for thi House of Representatives, sub ject to the June primary. Attorney Gambill thanks al those who have insisted that h make the race, but says that h cannot run at this time. Nosegay Holder of '65 Seventy years ago a belle of | Pike County, Illinois, flourished the dainty sterling nosegay hold er as shown by Lucille Jenkins, (above). In competition in Chi cago recently it won second prize in the personal adornment con test. . , Note the silver ring and chain to prevent dropping. Glade Valley “Hi” Finals Will Open On Sat., April 28 Rev. John Jordan Douglas To Deliver Baccalaureate Sermon. Rev. H. J. Worn eldrof To Be Speaker Commencement exercises fori the 1933-34 term of Glade Valley ' high school will begin on Satur-' day, April 28, and continue! through Monday, April 30. The opening exercises will be held on Saturday night at 8 | o’clock in the form ol' a music (recital by music pupils and the ; glee club. On Sunday morning, April 29, at 11 o’clock, Rev. John Jordan Douglas, pastor of the Newton Presbyterian church, and a form er pastor of the Glade Val ley group of churches, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class, and on Sunday night at 8 o’clock, a sermon to the Young People’s league will be delivered by Rev. j R. H. Stone, pastor of the Jeff erson Presbyterian church. Graduating exercises will be held on Monday, April 30, at 10 o’clock and the literary ad dress to the graduates will be delivered at this time by Rev. H. J. Womeldorf, Franklin, W. Va., a former principal of the Glade Valley school. Following the address by the Rev. Mr. Womeldorf, presentation of Bibles and diplomas will take | place. Recitation and declamation I contests will be held Monday ! afternoon at 2 o’clock. The commencement program will be concluded on Monday night at 8 o’clock, when the play, “Here Comes Charlie,” will be presented by members of the Senior class. All of the exercises will be j held in the school auditorium. New Prison Camps To Be Constructed — | Raleigh, April' 24.—At a spee ioal session of the advisory bud get commission held here today, voted to use a $400,000 bond i issue to fireproof central prison, i for construction of six new prison 1 camps and improvements of oth ! ers in the state. The bond issue originally was authorized by the 1927 General Assembly. The question of diversion of $1,000,000 from the highway I fund bo the general fund was not discussed, according to Assistant Budget Director Frank Dunlap. The general fund overdraft of approximately $1,700,000 ,is be ing taken care of temporarily by the highway fund. The Governor was authorized by the 1933 legis lature to divert $1,000,000 from ■ the highway fund to the general fund, if necessary. , Dunlap said that under present ■ circumstances, no additional paj « cuts for state employees were • contemplated, at least before July 1. I A total of $125,000 out of the ! $400,000 will be used to fireprooi ; and repair the central state prisoi here. N. C. Member Of House Is Opposed To Discharge Rule Democratic Leaders Seek To Abolish Power Of 145 Members To Bring A Bill To A Vote Washington, April 24.—De mocratic leader? in the House of Representatives are now de manding abolition of the ilberal house rule which permits 145 members to sign a petition and bring a bill to the floor for a vote. This demand is being voiced here by party leaders after hav ing assailed Republican “gag rule” for many years. Representative Warren, North Carolina, who is chairman of the House Accounts committee, says: “I have always thought that this iool discharge bill that we have here in the House is an abomina tion; that it is an ever-present threat to orderly procedure, party responsibility and leader ship, and that it will finally club off the heads of its proponents and those who would seek to per petuate it.” Representative McDuffie, Alaba ma Democrat, who is chairman of the House insular affairs com mittee, joins with Warren in condemning the discharge rule. He said: “I am glad the gentleman from New York (Mr. O’Connor), who is a prominent member of the rules committee is present, be cause I shall ask him if he thinks there is a possibility of having his committee report a resolution that he has introduced, not repealing the discharge rule, and I do not think the House wishes to repeal the discharge rule, but to amend it so that when a majority of members of this House signify their intention or suggest by signing a petition for the discharge of a committee, even the rules committee, from further consideration of a bill, such a bill can and should be presented to tnis Mouse tor con sideration. May I say, as the gentleman from North Carolina has so well said, I know of noth ing that this House could do that will interfere more with orderly procedure than to continue to operate under the present dis charge rule. ... It is wrong for 145 members of this House to force 435 members to consider and vote for bills that may not be approved by a majority.” The discharge rule forces mem bers of Congress to go on re cord regarding many highly con troversal issues and therein may be found the real reason for the effort to change the House pro cedure. Democrats forced adoption of this rule. At the time they argued that any bill which 145 members desired considered should be brought to the floor of the House rather than let a few committee men choke it to death. But in spite of this, Democratic leaders in the House are demand ing that it be repealed. -I Corn-Hog Farmers To Meet On May S A meeting of the' farmers of Alleghany county who signed the Corn-Hog contracts will be held at the Court House in Sparta on Saturday, May 5, at 9 o’clock, according to an announcement made recently by W. B. Collins, Alleghany county farm agent. It is necessary, according to Mr. Collins, that every farmer in the county who signed the con tract be present at this meet ing, in order that the county committee may be chosen and all contracts completed. All farmers who have not yet signed and wish to do so, will have to sign on or before Satur day, May 5. All supporting evi dence should be brought in on that date unless it has already been turned in. N. C. MUSIC CLUBS ARE MEETING IN 'WILMINGTON Wilmington, April 24.—The an nual three-day convention of the North Carolina Federation of Music cluhs met here today with the president, Mrs. Eugene Davis, Statesville, presiding. Visiting delegates were enter tained at a tea this afternoon, . followed by a choir festival to night under the direction of Max Noah, director of music at Guil ford college. «