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The Alleghany Times Subscription Price $1 a year in advance DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume 9. SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA,THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1934. 4 PAGES Number 52. Looking At Washington REPUBLICANS PLAN BATTLE LIBERALS AND OLD GUARD GOVERNMENT STUPENDOUS ELECTION PROSPECTS LABOR PLANS CAMPAIGN „ BUSINESS MEN CRITICAL NEW NRA BLUE EAGLE TAXES THE LARGE INCOMES AIR MAIL BIDS SAVE MONEY Since its overwhelming defeat in the fall of 1932 and in the face of national problems which overshadowed partisan politics, the Republican party has been strangely quiescent, but the inter est being taken in electing the successor to Everett Sanders in dicates that it is reviving into a more spirited existence. Friends of President Hoover, following his recent auto tour into the Midwest, declare that he h:is little idea of being a candi date in 1936, but that he has a keen interest in reorganizing the party along not too conservative lines. That he will have strong aid from the West is certain, and the Old Guard faces extinction, but the fight is not over and one can hardly ever tell what might happen. In fact, there is talk of post poning the fight over reorgani zation, which will' open up in electing a new chairman of the national committee until after the election this fall. Senator James E. Watson, of Indiana, is mentioned as a candidate for Mr. Sanders’ post, but his election will r.ot suit the new liberal element in the party that is determined to wipe out- the old leaders and build up a new conception of the party’s principles. Unless the matter is postponed, it may be taken for granted that Senator Borah and other Progres sives will' bitterly resist party domination by the faction which has recently controlled it. Borah, something of an irregular, but always on the stump for his side, feels that the party is "pretty close to the brink,” and must have an organization free from influences which brought about the present plight. Like the Democrats in 1924 and 1928, the Republicans face the necessity of fighting to exist. With Democratic strategy frankly aimed at permanently retaining the support of the West, the G. O. P. strategists must recognize the peril if progress is made along this front. However, there are potential reserves for the party in the East, where it has always counted upon great strength. Whether an organization can be perfected which will satisfy both the liberal Republicans of the West and the more conservative element in the East remains to be answered by what takes place. It can be settled in no other man ner. Nobody can look at the huge buildings housing the various ac tivities of the government with out wondering whether anybody knows what is being accomplish ed by the vast number of work ers employed. Nor for that mat ter, can any individual, within a short time, comprehend the scope of the stupendous undertakings. Even members of Congress have difficulty in learning the rami fications of the varied govern mental affairs. A sensible move, it seems to us is the proposal in the House to’ repeal all permanent appro priations so that all money spent by the Federal Government will be by direct appropriation. The House appropriations committee has discovered 370 items whereby certain sums are expended auto matically, or set aside for cer tain uses, without specific appro priation bills. The Supreme Court will pass on whether Senator Long is liable to Gen. Ansell for damages in a civil suit as a result of circulat ing through the inails copies of his speech violently assailing the general. The Senator set up as a defense that the constitution granted immunity from arrest, except for treason, felony and breach of peace, and this in cludes protection from service in civil cases. Just what the high tribunal will say about the mat ter remains to be seen. Discussion about the results of the election this fall continues, with the Democrats reconciled to losing some thirty seats in the House, where they have a pres ent majority of close to two hundred. In the Senate the Democrats maintain they will gain, mentioning as possible the (continued on back page) BauseU On Trial For Alleged Part In Death Of Man Father To Be Tried Later On Joint Indictment. Re ports Of Threats Reach Judge Sutherland tsernace Hausen went on trial Monday morning in the Circuit Court of Wythe county, Va., in Wytheville for the alleged mur der of his father-in-law, T. Eu gene Cornett, in the latter’s home near Rural Retreat on January 13. The accused man’s father, Henry F. Bareli, Lebanon news paper publisher, who was indicted jointly with his son, will be tried later for the part he is alleged to have played in the fatal trag edy. Tried jointly on a charge of killing the younger Bausell’s estranged wife, Mrs. Virginia Cornett Bausell, Cornett's (laugh ter, during the affray, the father and son were acquitted in the Wythe court on April 27. Judge Horace Sutherland, Ga lax, who is presiding at the trial, ordered the courtroom cleared Monday and no one except court attaches and counsel, who had not been searched for arms, be permitted to enter. The action of the judge was based on al legations in a motion for change of venue offered in chambers, which was overruled and which was said, among other things, to have contained reports that threats had been made against the defendants, the defense coun sel and the court itself. Judge Sutherland warned any one who threatened or may threaten to think twice before acting and added that he had taken ordinary precautions to pro tect the court. He said he was there with an honest purpose to make every effort to see honest justice done to every defendant, and added, somewhat gravely, that he will be on the bench and anyone who wants to ,shoot may find a target easy to hit. (The judge is large of stature). Testimony of the prosecution ended Tuesday. In a large meas ure the testimony offered by the state was a repetition of that given in the former trial. A new factor, came into the proceedings Tuesday to heighten spectator interest when M. J. Fulton, prominent Richmond at torney and relative of the Cornett family, entered the case as an examiner for the first time. He has been associated with the prosecution since the latter days of the first trial, into which he could not actively enter because of being detained in Washington as counsel for Miss Ada Bur roughs in the Cannon trial. He proved an astute and incisive interrogator and tarried Henry F. Bausel'l on cross-examination through a more of less minute examination of his version of the tragedy and what led up to it. Attorney Joseph C. Shaffer, Wytheville, former congressman and former United States (list, at torney for the Western District of Virginia, is also assisting Commonwealth’s Attorney W. Paul Parsons in the prosecution, while defense attorneys are S. B. Campbell and T. F. Walker, "Wytheville, and B. T. Wilson, Sr., B .T. Wilson, Jr., and Clar ence Bums, Lebanon. President Wants Congress To End Session By June 5 Washington, May 15.—Disput ed legislation demanded by or ganized labor faced discard today when President Roosevelt set June 6 as his new goal for con gressional adjournment. Both the Wagner labor dis putes and the Wagner-Lewis un employment insurance bill are likely to be dropped by the ad ministration, it was indicated af ter Mr. Roosevelt surveyed the legislative jam with advisers. The President has backed both bills, but apparently does not want to jeopardize adjournment prospects by pressing them. Leaders meantime maneuvered to prevent a vote on the Connery 30-hour week bill, which the President opposes. DREAM GIVES IDEA London.—Charles V. Boys, Bri tish scientist, gives a dream credit for his latest invention—a device for measuring public consumption of gas for light and power. “Old R. F. D.” To Be Given Again In H. S. Auditorium “Old R. F. D.,” or “Civil Ser vice.',” the play presented some time ago by Twin Oaks Dramatic cl'ub in Sparta high school audi torium, will bo presented there again on Saturday night, May 26, i at 8 o’clock. The play is to be j repeated because of the requests of many people who saw it, and who wish to see it again, and in Order to give those who were unable to see it before an op portunity to see it. The play is a three-act com edy, playing a full evening and abounding in humor. Carl Ir win gives a splendid portrayal of “Old R. F. I).,” that will be long remembered. An evening of clean, inspiring entertainment is assured all who see the perform ance. The entire proceeds will be donated to the Sparta high school and used for the- gymnas ium. Doughton Elected Internal Revenue Committee Leader Succeeds Senator Pat Har rison As Chairman Of Joint Congressional Group. Is Veteran Washington May 15.—Repre sentative Robert L. Doughton, of | the ninth North Carolina Con-1 gressional district, and whose home is in Alleghany county, was j elected chairman of the joint; congressional committee on in- j ternal revenue taxation at a meeting of the committee Friday : morning. Representative Doughton j will succeed Senator Pat Harri-; son, of Mississippi, who has serv ed as chairman of the group since March 4, 1933. The joint committee on in ternal revenue taxation is com posed of the ranking members of the committee on finance of the United States Senate and the ranking members of the com mittee on ways and means of the House of Representatives, three from the majority and two from the minority party from each of those committees. At present the membership consists of Senators Harrison, King, George, Reed and Couzens, from the committee on finance; and Representatives Doughton, Hill (of Washington), Cull'en, Treadway and Bacharach, from the committee on ways and means. Since 1926 this committee has made investigations and reports on tax subjects, and has kept closely in touch with the Treasury Department; and in the present administration the Treasury De partment often secures the bene fit. of the counsel of Congress through this committee. The studies of the staff have covered all of" the subjects of revenue legislation in recent revenue acts, including the provisions incor porated in the revenue act of 1934 looking to the prevention of tax avoidance. As a' veteran member of the committee, Representative Dough ton has helped to direct the re searches made, and as chairman of the mays and means commit tee since the advent of the Rcosevelt administration, he has been a close adviser to the White House, having been responsible fo.r the conduct of all of the revenue recovery legislation through the House of Representa tives. Man Arrested On Charge Of Firing Forests In County Platt Waddell, who lives about seven miles southwest of Sparta, was arrested and held in jail here on a charge of setting fire to forests in several places between the Whitehead and Ara bella sections^ The arrest followed continued reports of fires starting in the section as the original Roaring Gap and Mitchell’s River fire burned itself out. - MOTHER TORTURES CHILD Lakewood, N. J.—Mrs. Mar guerite Lyda Reed, 25, was sen tenced to thirty days in jail for burning tha leg of her daughter, Esther, 6, with a red hot poker to make her mind. Brooks Is Sentenced To “Pen” And Douglas Given 12 Months On Roads For Highway Robbery and Thievery May Term Of Alleghany County Superior Court Ends Fri. Case Of Wag oner Continued To Sept. Ransom Brooks, ringleader of an outlaw band which operated in Alleghany county and other parts of Western North Carolina, was sentenced to serve from six to eight years in the state peni tentiary by Judge P. A. McElroy in Alleghany County Superior Coui't here la.st week. Brooks pleaded guilty to a charge of highway robbery with firearms, two charges of impersonating an ofTicer and one of assault. Ves Douglas, another member of the Bull Head Mountain gang, was given twelve months on the state roads for breaking and en tering a store at Sparta and steal- i ing a large quantity of sugar and some cash. He also faced charges o.f highway robbery with firearms, along with Brooks. The case of Bland Wagoner, also of Bull Head Mountain, charged with breaking and en tering a store at Sparta, was con tinued untit the September term of court, a true hill being re turned against him. Folger Wagoner, who was tried i on a charge of murdering Rufe Watson was sentenced to serve from five to seven years in the penitentiary. Wagoner is a brother of Bland Wagoner. In addition, the following criminal cases were disposed ot: Guy Osborne, assault, fined .$50 and costs; Freel Bryant (color ed) assault, sentenced to four months on roads; Joe Lineberry, driving automobile under influence of whiskey, fined $50 and costs;! Lonnie Pugh, forgery, judgment suspended on good behavior and payment of costs; Paris Todd, larceny, sentenced to eight months on roads; M. F. Pruitt, assault, fined $10 and costs; Joe Bryant (colored), assault, found not guilty; Alex Bryant (colored), assault, found not guilty; Vearl Wagoner, . driving automobile un der influence of whiskey, fined $50 and costs; John . Washington (colored), driving while intox icated, fined $50 and costs; Roy j McMeans, abandonment, sentenced I to two years on roads; George Upchurch and Vass Lane, sen tenced to eight months on roads for assault with a deadly weapon. Most of these cases did not go to a jury, they being submitted and the judge hearing the evidence. Several important civil cases were disposed of, including that of Odell Andrews against D. C. Duncan, based on injuries su stained by Mr. Andrews when he fell from a scaffold in the con struction of the Hardin-Duncan building in Sparta last fall. Andrews was non-suited at the j end of his evidence, Judge Me-1 Elroy holding that the plaintiff had failed to produce sufficient j evidence for the ease to go tc the jury. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Inskeep, Roaring Gap, recovered $3250 from an insurance company for damages growing out of a wreck at Winston-Salem several months ago. Kemp Duncan, son of G. L. Duncan, recovered $1800 from (continued on back page) Dillinger Did Not Visit Elkin As Was Expected Last Week Elkin, May 10.—John Dilling er, who is wanted by government men for a number of crimes and who escaped from the Crown Point, Ind. jail several weeks ago, and party, who were thought to be headed in the direction of Elkin Thursday afternoon of last week, failed to show up here and members of a self-appointed reception com mittee who volunteered to sacrifice a night’s sleep in order to give the hunted outlaw the welcome to which they thought he was entitled, remained in a state of expectancy until the be lief that he reversed his course after turning in this direction, was confirmed. A telegram dispatched from Asheville on Thursday by Lieu tenant Fisher, of the state high way patrol, and addressed to Corporal W. B. Lentz, of this city, bore the exciting informa tion that one supposed to be Dillinger, traveling in a sedan equipped with a Tennessee license plate with the serial number 176-003 and accompanied by a woman driver with head bandag ed was headed in this direction interest was tense and passing cars, those with Tennessee license plates, in particular, were’ carefully scrutinized. Dillinger, possibly delayed by car trouble, “or something,” did not arrive. Galax Will Have Live Stock Mart At An Early Date Work was started Monday morn ing remodeling the stock pens at Felts park, Galax, and erecting new ones and an office building, preparatory to the inauguration of a live stock market for Galax. If present plans carry, the first sale will be held early in June. J. T. Horney, auctioneer, has stated that he will conduct sales at Galax each Monday, operating throughout the year with the ex ception of one week during the Great Galax Fair and possibly a few weeks during the winter months when the weather is likely to be too uncertain for farmers to take their stock. Mr. Horney has signed a con tract with the Galax Business Men’s club leasing the market pens and buildings. WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH Rutherford, N. C.—Pouring kerosene on wood in an open fireplace in her home cost Miss Nancy Logan, 48, her life. Record Set For Drunken Driver Arrests In N. C. Raleigh, May 15.—An all-time record was established during April for the arrests of drunken automobile . drivers in North Carolina by highway patrolmen, it was revealed yesterday in re ports made by Captain Charles D. Farmer, commandant of state patrolmen. A total of 126 intoxi cated autoists were arrested by highway police, Captain Farmer said, expunging the record of 119,' which was established last December. Thirty-three persons, in addi tion, were arrested for being drunk on state roads, the captain said. The report disclosed 736 ar rests by patrolmen. Of the num ber, 213 were charged with driv ing without license: reckless driving, 24; improper lights, 31; other faulty equipment, 78 In 105 accidents investigated, 24 deaths and 105 injuries were reported. Warnings given drivers totaled 5,082. Ten stolen machines were recovered and evaluated at $6,267. Patrolmen answered 648 complaints during the month, stopping 1,261 machines and extinguishing five fires. Ten funerals were attended by pa-1 trolmen, the lengthy report con tinued. As a result of the arrests, fines amounting to $7,703.55 and court costs of $6,801.16 were assessed. Convictions totaled 722; acquittals, 16. Patrolmen collected in state revenues $46,500.43 and traveled 128,299 miles, using 4,659 gallons of gasoline and 6,074 pints of motor oil. Roosevelt Seeks $1,322,000,000 For Relief Fund Washington, D. C., May 16.— President Roosevelt yesterday asked Congress for recovery and relief appropriations aggregating $132 for every one of the 10, 000,000 persons still unemployed. He wants $1,322,000,000 to re inforce the billions already pour ed into public works, relief and farm aid. That is half as much as the Government has received from taxes in the fiscal year soon to close. Yet staggering as the new appropriation will be, it repre sents the President’s determi nation to steer the course he (continued on back page) r Bishop Kern Asked To Establish Home In Winston-Salem A letter has been dispatched to Bishop Paul B. Kern, new bishop of the four Methodist annual con ferences in North and South Carolina, by the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce inviting him to make his residence in Winston-Salem. A similar letter has also been sent to the church man by the official board of Centenary Methodist church in that city, of which Dr. G. Ray [ Jordan is pastor. It is understood further that j numerous individuals have wired and mailed personal invitations to Bishop Kern to select the twin city as his place of abode while administering the affair's of Methodism in the two states. Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon, whom 1 Bishop Kern will succeed, resid- j ed in Charlotte. Bishop Kern was elected a; bishop in 1930 and is a com paratively young man. He has had charge of the Methodist work | in the Orient for the past four years. Default In Paying Teachers Helps To Get Federal Grant Schools Of State Will Re ceive $500,000 From U. S. Government. Postpone ment Removes Hindrance Raleigh, May 15.—North Caro lina will receive a grant of $500,000 from the Federal gov ernment Which would not have been obtained had it not been for; having the school teachers of the state wait from two to four weeks for their salaries for their last month ol‘ teaching and by certifying- salaries of the required number of teachers to the Fed-! eral government, it became known here recently. The federal school fund was so hedged about that it was- to be paid only to teachers whose districts or units could not pay them for the full amount for the usual school period. North Caro lina guaranteed an eight-month term and pay for all teachers forj that period. This state could not, normally, participate. State Superintendent A. T. Allen pre sented North Carolina’s position I and a plan was finally worked out by the federal agency by which this state would get $500, 000. The plan included a quasi i default to its teachers on the j part of the state, under which i the federal agency could then come in with the half million promised. The state even suggested that it get the funds necessary and pay the full amount to the teach ers when their schools closed, and that the grant be used to re place. But the federal agencies said no, that payment would have to wait, in order to get the fund. That is why some teach ers will have to wait a month, others for shorter periods, be fore they get their salary checks for the last month. In Mecklenburg, for instance, the schools started early in Sep tember, continued uninterrupted and closed April 27. Those teach ers will have to wait about a month, probably two weeks long er, for pay for the final month, due to the time it takes to set up a federal agency to handle the pay. Other schools started about the middle of September, or suffered interruptions, and are closing along now. These teach ers will have to wait probably two weeks longer. Some of the schools started later still, or were interrupted, and will close in about two weeks. Teachers in the latter groups will get their pay when their schools close. The state would have paid them as their salaries fell due for the last month, but if that had been done, the half a mil lion would not have been grant ed. It was a problem of in conveniencing teachers from one to four weeks or doing without the federal aid that was finally obtained for schools in the state. FLOOR FALLS, 3 HURT St. Joseph^ Mo.—Just before the funeral services for Richard Person, 11, were to begin, the floor of the house collapsed, in juring three and throwing a score or more into a panic. Po lice and firemen extricated the casket from among the splinter ed timbers. New Scenic Road Route Survey To Begin On Friday Weather Delays Survey Work. Highway Officials Of Va., N. C., and Tenn. To Be In Party Washington, May 15.—Plans for another survey of the pro posed routes for the parkway connecting the Great Smoky and Shenandoah National parks have been made, according to A. E. Demaray, assistant director of the National Park service, and the survey is scheduled to begin on Friday of this week. A late winter has delayed the park service from completing the survey work necessary to locate the route of the parkway. But now with fair and warm weather prevailing Demaray is hoping that the surveys can be completed at an early date and some of $16, 000,000 allocated by the PWA for the parkway can be put to work in providing- jobs for the unemployed. The survey party which is slat ed to begin work Friday will be composed of Thomas H. Mac Donald, chief of the United States Bureau oi Public Hoads, Thomas C. Vent, chief landscape architect of the park service, Stanley Ab bott, assistant to Gilmore Clarke, noted landscape architect, who is now employed by the park ser vice, officials of the Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee Highway Commission, and others. Demaray said it has not been decided whether Clarke will be in the party. The more time that is given to surveying the proposed routes for the parkway the better the chances are, it is said, for adopting the route proposed by the North Carolina Highway Department which takes in the famous scen ery of Western North Carolina. North Carolinians interested in the project are confident that if the parkway is to be a real scenic highway then it must follow the route proposed by the North Carolina Highway Department. They believe the more time the park service gives to making the surveys -of the various proposed routes the more the officials will be impressed with the scenery, of Western North Carolina. CONDEMNED MAN SAVES HIS HOME FROM FORECLOSURE Raleigh, May 15.—A man doomed to electrocution Friday today took last-minute precautions to save his mortgaged' home for his wife and children. James Sheffield, convicted on a murder charge, signed papers that were rushed here by the Federal Home Owners’ Loan Cor poration approving a loan of $2,098.01 to raise the mortgage. This completed, he said he was resigned to die, even while relatives fought desperately to obtain reprieve. GARDEN SEEDS AVAILABLE C. A. Miles, Local Relief Administrator, gays there are several packages of garden seeds for families on relief that have not been called for. They may be obtained by call ing at the relief office here. ”A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar. ” ewjiu AY 14— Lewis & Clark start fa mous exploration trip, 1804. 15— First regular air mail service in U. S., 1918. 16— "Peek-a-boo” shirt waist* first appear, 1900. 17— First Wild West show visits New York city, 1883. 18—California becomes a province of Mexico, 1822. 19—Henry VIII’s wife, Ann* Boleyn, loses head, 1536. 20— United States gives Cuba, its full freedom. 1903.
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