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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 10. SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA,THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1934. 4 PAGES Number 9. Looking At Washington CAPITAL SEEMS QUIET MOFFETT WANTS BUILDING THE PRESIDENT’S WORKSHOP ELECTION TO BE A TEST REPUBLICANS EXPECT GAINS PLANNING FOR SECURITY ROOSEVELT’S COMMISSIONS OCEAN MAIL CONTRACTS With President Roosevelt away from Washington and many of his key' men out of the city, things have quieted down so that the national capital is no longer the maelstrom it has been for many months. The departure of the President as if by prear rangement, siowed down every thing. Following his last day of work, in which he set up devices for handling stock exchanges, wire and radio communications, a na ional housing program, a new board to mediate labor troubles, a commission to formulate a na tional plan for aeronautics, nam ed a coordinator of relief ac tivities and signed the bills pro viding a railway pension system and relief for oppressed farm mortgagors, the President took sail with his desk completely clear. Moreover, he apparently wished to divert attention from govern ment for a while, thus giving the people and business relief from the nervous tension that inevit ably follows strenous legislative action. The conference display ed in the period of rest is some thing like a tonic to the country at large. James A. Moffett, who recently took up his task as Housing Ad ministrator, says that normally annual construction in this coun try is aroupd $11,000,000,000, of which $3,000,000,000 is spent for homes. This latter figure has declined during the depression approximately ninety per cent. Inasmuch as more than 3,000,000 people are employed when the construction industry is function ing normally, the importance of his campaign to encourage a na tion-wide building program is evi dent. Incidentally, Mr. Moffett is convinced that the home-build ing and modernization plan is sound and believes that losses will be small. Work on the White House of fice building is expected to re quire four months in order to provide facilities for the rapidly growing staff of the ■presidents of the United States. The Execu tive Office was first buil't in 1902 by President Theodore Roosevelt, at a cost of $63,000, and pro vided what was considered an ample workshop for many years to come. Nine years later, President Taft added an extension that cost $53,500 and President Hoover ordered an enlargement to coat $100,000. In 1929, after a fire, improvements and remodeling cost $50,000. The present ad dition, which includes a forty foot extension on the East and an added story, set back from the western and northern sides so as not to be noticeable from the street, will cost around $135, Q00. How the work has grown is seen by the size of the presi dential staff, less than twenty five under Colonel Roosevelt, about eighty under President Hoover and now numbering more than one hundred fifty persons. Congressional elections this fail will be something of a test of the administration’s program, revealing to what extent the vot ers are behind the President’s policies. In stressing support of the New Deal rather than asking for a party label, the President has opened the way for Repub licans to declare themselves fav orably and thus make their elec tion a victory for his New Deal program. Whether there will be many Republicans to follow the course adopted by Gov. Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, in his recent pri mary race against Senator Reed, remains to be seen, but if any do so the net gam will be for the administration. However, the odds so far as the House is con cerned are with the Republicans in that they are expected to make some gains, although no respon sible commentator expects them to gain control and some optimis tic Democrats even N hope to hold or enlarge the present huge majority. Viewed from the standpoint of party battle the outlook for the Republicans is encouraging be cause the party has nothing to lose. The Democrats are in the position of all-bo-lose-nothing-to gain. Only a landslide to the >few Deal could be construed as meaning anything to the party in power as it would indicate a (continued on pageS) Work Of Housing Commission Seen As Boon To State Hancock Expresses Belief That 25,000 Skilled Lab orers Will Be Employed Before Next May Washington July 17.—Repre sentative Frank Hancock, of the fifth North Carolina Congression al district, after conferring here today with officials of the hous ing commission, expressed the be lief that the work of the com mission will be a boon to the entire construction trade, and predicted that before May of next year over 25,000 North Carolina carpenters, brickmasons, plumbers, painters anci other skilled laborers will be employed as a result of the home moderni zation program. The Congressman conferred with the officials concerning the commission’s program and dis cussed specifically the type of organization which will be set up in North Carolina to enable home owners of the state to benefit from this new federal enterprise. Hancock said he was assured that a state manager to take charge of the housing program in North Carolina would be ap pointed within the next few days. Under the plans being worked out it will be a simple matter for home owners desiring to remodel their dwellings. To secure loans they will have to secure an esti mate on the cost of the work to be done. This will be submitted to banks who will make the loan, but 20 per cent, of the amount will be underwritten by the hous ing commission. Loans will be limited to a home owner in such a manner that the monthly in stallment will not exceed one fourth of hi* income. Hancock arrived in Washing ton this morning and will remain here for several days. The fifth district solon also conferred with officials in the Treasury Department procure ment division regarding the ex tension to be made to the post office building in Winston-Salem. He said he was assured that con struction would get under way with little delay. An allotment of $350,000 is available for the extension as well as remodeling of the *ld building. Temporary quarters for the post office will be rented while the work is being done. M. E. Young People Are Now In Assembly At Lake Junaluska “Dare We Be Christians?’’ is the theme of the Young People’s Assembly of the Methodist church in the Western North Carolina conference, which is now in progress at Lake Junaluska. The program at the assembly includes worship periods, confer ence hours, vesper services, class es and platform addresses, in ad dition to directed recreation per iods. Outstanding events featur ing the gathering are lectures by Dr. W. A. Stanbury, pastor of West Market street Methodist Church, Greensboro, and an il lustrated lecture on the Oberam mergau Passion play by Dr. Her bert Yeuell, of Washington, D. C. The assembly opened Monday and will come to a close tomor row (Friday). METHODISTS TO CELEBRATE IN SEPT. IN WINSTON-SALEM Winston-Salem, July 17.—What will undoubtedly be the most pretentious and impressive cere monies ever engaged in by Wins ton-Salem Methodism will take place in September when all the Methodist churches of the city will unite in celebrating both the sesqui-centennial of Methodism in America and the centennial of Methodism in Winston-Salem. In •addition to these two epochal anniversaries, it will have been fifty years since the building of the Centenary church, which stlnds on the comer of Sixth and Liberty streets, and the third anniversary of the Centenary congregation entering their new church on West Fifth street. * FARLEY ON TRIP Postmaster-General Farley is off on a trip which will inevit ably carry him to the Pacific Coast, where he will meet the President on his return from' Hawaii. Widow Of Bishop Rondthaler Dies In Winston-Salem Final rites for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Rondthaler, 87, widow of the late Bishop Edward Rond thaler, who died early Sunday in Winston-Salem, where she had lived for many years, were held Monday afternoon, A brief service at the home with Rev. R. Gordon Spaugh, pastor of Home Moravian church, was followed by the funeral prop er at the church where the pas tor was also in charge. Rev. Walser Allen, pastor of Kerners ville church; Rev. W. F. Grabs, pastor of Bethania church, and Dr. Edmund Schwarze, pastor of Calvary church, assisted in the services. Mrs. Rondthaler’s husband, who died about three years ago, was widely known for having con ducted annually for so many years the famed Easter sunrise service in Winston-Salem. The deceased woman is sur vived by a son, Dr. Howard Rond thaler, president of Salem college, Winston-Salem, who is also well known practically throughout North Carolina and many parts of Virginia and other states. Tilley Trial Set For August 7 In Wilkesboro Court Five Members Of Family Face Charges In Connec tion W i t h Death Of Leoda Childress North Wilkesboro, July 17.— Solicitor John R. Jones, of the seventeenth judicial district, an nounced yesterday that ths noted Tilley case will be called for trial in Wilkes court on Tuesday; Aug ust 7, that being the second day of the regular August term of criminal court in Wilkesboro. Five members of the Tilley fam ily await trial on charges of murder, conspiracy and acces sory in connection with the death of Miss Leoda Childress. They are Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Tilley, foster parents of Miss Childress, who was slain on December 30, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Tilley and Clyde Tilley. Luther and Clyde Tilley are sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Tilley. A statement issued by Solicitor Jones here yesterday said that the jury would be selected on August 7 and that on the following day all state witnesses will be re quired to be present for the be ginning of testimony. About 100 witnesses were subpoenaed by the state at the last term. They will be required to attend the trial with re-subpoenae. The elder Tilleys and their two sons have been held in jail since a coroner’s hearing on Feb ruary 3. At that time they and Mrs. Luther Tilley were all re manded to jail. Under a habeas corpus pro ceeding before Judge Wilson Warrick several weeks later Mrs. Luther Tilley was released under bond of $2,500. On the afternoon of December 30( Leoda Childress's, age 20, was killed by a bullet ftom a .22-cali bre rifle in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Tilley, with whom she was making her home. The elder Tilleys were Reported to have been in Elkin at the time neighbors rushed to their home on receipt of a call for help over the telephone from the Til'ley home and found the girl dead and the home ransacked. The first motive advanced for the crime was robbery, since it became known that the Tilleys kept a large amount of money about the home. The discovery of a note in the pocket of the apron the girl wore when she was killed revealed the whereabouts of the money, which was placed in a tobacco cellar. The note was first thought to (continued on back page) ALLEGHANY REPRESENTED ON HONOR ROLL AT A. S. T. C. Information has been received that 119 students at Appalachian State Teachers’ collegei Boone, made the honor roll for the spring term. These honor students represent forty-three counties and three states. Alleghany county is represented on the list by Miss Clarice Thompson, Glade Valley and Eugene Fender, Whiteheaa. New New* About Gnus Is News To C. E. San Francisco—George Bis tany, superintendent of San Fran cisco’s Fleishhacker zoo, inform ed the city editor by telephone: “We have some news about the gnus.” “Do you mean it’s new news?” asked the city editor. “Yes,” replied Bistany, “new news about the new gnu.” “But all news is news,” pro tested the city editor. “Oh, we have some old gnus ! here,” responded Bistany, “but I want to give you some new gnu news about the new gnu that our old gnus have.” “Will you please,” pleaded the city editor, “write it and send it in?” Bistany did and his note said:' “I was trying to give you some gnu news about two old gnus that have a baby gnu. Both the ol'd gnus and the new gnu are doing very well.” Labor Acts To End Big San Francisco Strike; City Tense General Walk-out Of Union Workers In City Is Result Of Sympathy For Long shoremen San Francisco, July 17.—Defi nite steps were taken tonight by union labor to end the great San Francisco general strike, which has held the city in its grip for the past several days, paralyzing the entire metropolitan area, which includes a population of approximately 1,300,000 persons. The strike executive committee of 25, “brains” of the greatest tie-up in West Coast history, sub mitted arbitration. The general strike committee, after a wild and stormy session endorsed and accepted the recom mendation. The vote was 207 to 180. National guardsmen swarmed into the city yesterday to aug ment the 2,000 militiamen who had patrolled the waterfront since July 5. With the additional guardsmen came tanks, field pieces and ma chine guns to strengthen the war like appearance of the siege-torn district. A crowd of 1,500 twice attack ed a grocery store at 23rd and Mission streets, smashed the win dows and made off with food stuffs. Others in the city sought vainly to obtain fresh fruits and meats, and their supplies of staples were dwindling. Two policemen and two alleged communists were injured in a raid on communist headquarters in Oakland. Four persons, in cluding two women were arrested. Officers invaded International Labor Defense headquarters, only to find the place deserted. Rec ords of the organization were confiscated and the furniture wrecked. San Francisco, July 16.—Prob ability of martial law throughout San Francisco and Oakland loom ed tonight, as National Guard troopers poured into San Fran cisco and Governor Frank Mer riam at Sacramento considered demands that the military im mediately “take over.” Mayor Angelo J. Rossi tonight wired Governor Merriam, asking still more troops—“as many as may be necessary to protect the lives and property of citizens.” It was anticipated that the reopening of the Municipal Rail way_ bitterly resented and oppos ed by the militant marine strike faction, might precipitate the an ticipated warfare. The announced intention of caravans of food trucks from nearby farming communities to (continued on back back) METHODIST W. M. S. HOLDS REGULAR MEETING JULY 13 The Woman’s Missionary society of the Methodist church held the regular meeting at the home of Mrs. Will Pugh on Fri day, Jifly 13. The president. Mrs. J. T. Inskeep, presided. Scarfs and table covers have been made and donated to the Elkin hospital by the members. Mrs. Rex Mitchell had charge of the topic for study and a very interesting discussion was given on Brazil and the work being done there by the mission aries. After the program the hostess served refreshments to fifteen members and two visitors, Mis. George Ed Carson and little daughter, Ann. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. T. J. Carson with Mrs. Carson and Mrs. C. W. Higgins as joint hostesses and the members of the Inde pendence society as guests. Sutherland Orders Carroll Co. Jury For Bausell Trial Sheriff Instructed To Sum mon 50 Veniremen From Carroll To Appear In Court This Morning A jury from Carroll county, Virginia, will hear the evidence and decide the fate of Henry F. Bausell. 58, Lebanon, Va.. news paper publisher, whose trial on a charge of participating in the murder of T. Eugene Cornett, in a gunfight at Cornett’s home near Rural Retreat on January 13, was scheduled to begin yesterday in Wytheville with Judge Horace Sutherland. Galax, presiding. Cor S nett was the father-in-law of ! Bausell’s son, Bernace, whose | punishment for his part in the death of Cornett was fixed at 32 years in the penitentiary by a Wythe county jury in May. Both Bausells were tried joint ly before a Wythe jury in April on a joint indictment charging them with the murder of Mrs. Virginia Cornett Bausell. Ber nace’s wife, who was also killed during the affray, which is said to have arisen over the disputed custody of Jean, four-old daugh ter of Bernace. They were ac quitted on this charge. Both Bausells were also wounded in the fight. Alter Odense counsel made a; motion for a change of venue, | which was taken under advise ment by the court, and after 33 veniremen had been examined by the court without obtaining a panel, Judge Sutherland entered an order directing the sheriff of Carroll county to summon 50 veniremen from that county to appear in the Wytheville court this (Thursday) morning. W. P. Parsons, commonwealth’s attorney of Wythe county is being assisted in the prosecution by Joseph C. Shaffer, former U. S. district attorney for the western district of Virginia and by M. J. Fulton, of Richmond. S. B. Campbell and Thomas F. Walker, of Wytheville, and the firm of Wilson and Burns, of Lebanon, are the defense counsel. A change of venue was request ed on the ground that a disinter ested panel could not be obtained in Wythe county. Bausell was arraigned with his son, when the latter was tried and his plea of not guilty, entered then, stands. While the courtroom was com fortably filled, there was no such jam of standees and corridor waiters as appeared at the two former trials. * Sentence was suspended in young Bausell’s case pending ap peal and the trial of the elder Bausell, and the defendants have been in Bristol, Va., jail since a day or two after the conviction. They were returned to Wythe ville jail last Friday to take their roles in what is expected to be the final chapter in the trag edy, so far as the Wytheville court is concerned. The slain man was a native of Grayson county and a member of a prominent family near Elk Creek, where his mother, Mrs. Amelia Cox Cornett, still lives. He had many relatives in the county. PROF. HORACK NAMED DEAN OF DUKE U. LAW SCHOOL Durham, July 17.—Professor H. Claude Horack has been ap pointed dean of the Duke Univer sity law school for the coming year to take the place of Dean Justin Miller who has been grants ed a leave of absence for the year it was announced here recently. Professor Horack is one of the country’s best known specialists in the law school administration fieldt and for several years was advisor to the council on legal education and admission to the bar of the American Bar associ ation. Surry Hailstorm Does Much Damage To Growing Crops The area embraced in a two mile wide strip of territory be tween Mount Airy and Pilot Mountain was struck by one of the most severe-.hailstorms in re cent years Tuesday. The storm leveled thousands of acres of corn and tobacco in that section. Hailstones a,s large as electric refrigerator cubes were reported as having fallen during the storm which started about 2 o’clock in the afternoon and lasted for two hours. Farmers in the area visited by the storm estimated that 1,500 acres of corn and between 500 and 1,000 acres of tobacco were crushed to the ground. The dam age was placed at $25,000. The storm reached its worst in Long Hill and Eldora townships. It stretched from about a mile out of Pilot Mountain nearly to Mount Airy. A hard rain followed the storm, covering a much wider territory, but beating down with such force as to do damage where.. hailstones had not fallen. Tops of automobiles attempting to travel in the storm or standing\ on city streets were cut to pieces by the ice and roofs of many buildings were ruined. Chickens caught away from shelter were beaten to death by the icy pellets and other livestock was reported injured. To Hold A Special Stock Ewe - Ram Auction At Galax _ i Market Management Wants 2,000 Ewes Entered On July 30. Top Lambs Bring $7.05 Mon. At the weekly livestock auc tion held Monday at Galax by the Grayson-Carroll Livestock market, of which J. T. Horney is president, top lambs sold for $7.05 per hundred pounds and were purchased by Glenn L. Dun can, Sparta. A number of head of other stock were also bought by Mr. Duncan at Monday’s sale. Top veal calves sold for $4.85 per hundred; top fat heifers, $4.85; top fat cows. $4.40, and top fat steers, $5.45. The cash prizes, totaling $55, which were offered for the larg est number of entries of live stock of various kinds for sale Monday, will be awarded at the beginning of the sale next Mon day, July 23. On Monday, July 30, at 11 a. m., what is said to be the first stock ewe and purebred ram sale ever held by any of the livestock markets in Virginia, will be held by the Grayson-Carroll market at Galax. Fifty purebred Hamp shire, Dorset and Southdown rams will be sold, according to Mr. Horney, and the management of the market hopes to have at least 2,000 stock ewes entered for the sale, as they will have buyers present for that many. Short talks on the value of sheep breeding and the choice of breed will be made at 11 a. m. by Kenneth E. Litton, of the animal husbandry division, V. P. I., Blacksburg, Va.; D. T. Painter, Grayson county agricultural agent, and J. T. Horney, president of the market. The special sale will be sponsored by the Virginia State department of Animal Hus bandry and the county agents and agricultural teachers in the sec tion surrounding Galax. The special stock ewe and ram sale will not interfere in any way with the regular sale of all kinds of livestock to be held at 1 p. m., as is done every Mon day. SERIES OF EVANGELISTIC SERVICES TO BEGIN AT VOX A series of old-time revival meetings will begin tonight (Thursday) at Vox under the auspices of the Wesleyan Methodist church. Services will be conducted in a tabernacle each night at 7:30 o’clock under the direction of Rev. B. H. Phaup, East Radford, Va. V. S, Rushing, Lawrenceburg, Tenn., will be present as pianist and D. M. Cox, Sparta, will be song leader. Interested . persons urge the public to attend the services and hear these young men deliver their unctious gospel messages in both sermon and song. Ickes Expected To Approve Parts Of Scenic Road Soon Will O. K. Uncontroversial Sections Of Park-To-Park Highway Above Linville Gorge In Few Days Washington, July 17.—Secre tary of Interior Ickes will, with in the next few days, approve location of the route to be fol lowed by the proposed parkway connecting the Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountain national parks in certain sections where there is no, deep-seated contro versy, it was learned here yester day from an authoritative source. This means that action on locat ing the scenic highway below Linville Gorge will be delayed tor several weeks. Secretary Ickes expects, to leave for a va cation the latter part of this week and he is expected to head directly to some of the national parks in the west. He will meet President Roosevelt upon his re turn from his cruise and will ac company him on an inspection tour of .-some of the PWA con struction projects. After Ickes returns to Wash ington he is expect d to make a personal inspection tour to view the scenery in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee and determine for himself which of the two proposed routes the parkway should follow. One calls for the parkway to enter North Carolina ^ around Roaring Gap and continue down through the Grandfather Mountain sec tion and to Linville Gorge and then over into Tennessee and into the park near Gatlinburg. The other route, which is proposed by the North Carolina Highway Department, is the same to Lin ville Gorge but continues down the North Carolina side, taking in the wonderful scenery around Mount Mitchell, Asheville and Pi.sgah and entering the park in the Balsam Mountain section. The fact that Secretary Ickes is delaying decision on the south ern end of the parkway i. con sidered as a victory for Ashe ville and North Carolina. It is pretty well known here that the special^ committee appointed to decide on location of the park way recommended that the route cross over into ‘ Tennessee at Lin ville Gorge. It seems that a feel ing that the parkway had to be divided between North Carolina and Tennessee rather than locat ing it along the best scenery, was the deciding factor in the reported decision on the parkway route. When North Carolinians heard that such a report was in they immediately protested to Secre tary Icke.s. Apparently they made an impressidn. At first he agreed for a hearing but this was called off. Ickes is understood to have stated that he wanted to look over both routes before he reached a decision. This was highly pleasing to North Caro linians, as they have the utmost confidence in the outcome if the secretary views the two routes. Scenery and scenery alone is expected to constitute the basis for his decision. Keeping faith with its part of the bargain, the public works ad (continued on back page) VoudoTit need When you laugh at your ills you safe on doctor's bills." JULY r 16—A destructive frost hits 0 Pittsfield, Mass., 1849. 17—First photograph of stars is completed, IsSO. 18—Nero busy fiddling while Rome is burning, A. D„ & M. F 18—Start of the German re 3 treat across Marne, 1918. .20—Franklin suggests the jL idea of a phonograph, 1768. ► |h 21—British defeat the great I Spanish Armada. 1588. 22—Petain says "Tenacity, audacity, victory," 1918. ira
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