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SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA,THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1934.
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Number 11.
Looking At
Washington
REPUBLICANS CAMPAIGN
NYE PREDICTS DEFEAT.
HOW THE MONEY COMES
PLANES FOR THE ARMY.
MOTION PICTURE FINANCES.
JAPAN’S PACIFIC PROGRAM.
CITY HOUSES RUN-DOWN.
OCEAN MAIL SUBSIDIES.
Both Liberal and Conservative
members of the Republican party
will be asked to take the stump
in a nation-wide speaking cam
paign for the congressional elec
tions and concentrate every effort
toward regaining seats in the
Midwest 'and Northwestern states.
That the New Deal will be
vigorously attacked, the Consti
tution extolled and the growth
of bureaucracy denounced is ap
parent from past events. Last
week, Senator Daniel O. Hastings,
co-chairman of the Republican
congressional committee, enlarged
the offensive by charging that
the millions of dollars now be
ing spent by the New Dealers
was “in effect a campaign fund
and that that spending will be
augmented by hundreds of mil
lions of dollars before the next
election.’’
Along somewhat different lines
came the prediction of Senator
Gerald P. Nye, recently returned
to Washington from the drought
stricken Northwest, that the Re
publicans would suffer “another
crushing defeat at the polls” in
1936. Nye, an outstanding critic
of the NRA, says that the Repub
licans will nominate Ogden Mills,
Senator David Reed or Represen
tative Wadsworth on an “ultra
Conservative platform,” opposing
the New Deal' achievements.
He denies that dissatisfaction
over some phases of the New Deal
means a return of Conservatism.
Other outspoken statements by the
North Dakotan was that the NRA
had failed as a recovery agency
and that farmers were opposed to
making the AAA a permanent
feature of agricultural life al
though grateful for crop reduc
tion checks. He insisted that it
must not be scrapped, however,
until a substitute unit is provid
ed for adequate relief machinery
to agriculturalists.
For the fiscal year which ended
June 30th, the Internal Revenue
collections of the Government
amounted to $2,672,239,194, an
increase of $1,052,399,970 over
the year before. Included in the
total is $349,661,945 collected on
cigarettes, which indicates that
fag users are paying something
to the support of the Government.
Cigars and other tobacco paid a
tax of almost $67,000,000.
Corporation taxes amounted to
$397,515,851 and individual in
come taxes $419,509,487. From
estate taxes was obtained $103,
985,288, the capital stock tax
netted $80,168,344 and the divi
dends tax $50,229,122. Interest
ing is the jump in gasoline taxes
which amounted to $202,575,034
as against $124,929,412 during
the year before.
While receipts from almost every
source showed increases, in some
cases substantial, it is interesting
to call attention to a few items
showing declines. They included
taxes on yachts, club dues, admis
sions to theatres, etc., brewers’
wort, malt, etc., and telephone,
telegraph, radio and cable facili
ties. Other declines were noted
in taxes on adulterated and pro
cessor renovated butter, mixed
flou/r and filled cheese, although
the amount collected on these
commodities was less than $15,
000.
The so-called processing taxes
for the year amounted to $371,
422,886. This included $144,
767,232 on cotton $117,621,174
on wheat, $77,634,611 on hogs,
$17,088,426 on tobacco, $4,496,
193 on field com, $9,244,830 pn
certain paper and jute fabrics
and $170,416 on sugar cane and
sugar beets.
The report of the War Depart
ment’s special aviation committee,
headed by ' Newton D. Baker,
former Secretary of War,. and
composed of eleven civilians and
generals, declares that “in gener
al" aviation the United States
“leads the world,” being superior
in commercial aviation, “stronger
than any other power” in naval
aviation and suggests that with
greater financial support army
aviation can be raised- to a world
position equal to that held by
our navy. It declared against
consolidation of the army and
navy aviation services into a
single unit and maintained that
strengthening the aerial forces is
essential to adequate national
defense.
The report recommended an in
crease in army aviation strength
from the present 1800 planes to
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FERA To Set Up
Thirty Canneries
In North Carolina
Two-Million Dollar Program
For Conversion Of Cattle
Into Food For Needy
Approved
Washington, July 31.—Head
quarters of the North Carolina
federal relief administration at
Raleigh was notified recently that
a two-million dollar program had
been approved for the processing
of 75,000 head of cattle (from
the drought area) in North Caro
lina canneries, to be established
by the FERA within 30 days. Not
more than $200,000 is to be in
cluded in the outlay for con
struction of thirty canneries for
the conversion of the cattle into
boiled beef, hamburger and stew
for distribution among the needy
during the coming winter.
The committee of five Which
went from Raleigh to Armarillo,
Texas, early this month has re
turned and reported to George
Ross; in charge of the undertak
ing.
It was originally intended the
cattle would be pastured for the
time being, but the program has
been changed, so that now they
are being loaded at St. Paul,
Minn., concentration point, and
12,000 are due shortly. They
will be placed on well watered
pastures immediately, but only
until the 30 canning factories are
ready to go. When slaughtering
is to begin on a “rush” scale.
It is estimated the factories will
be ready within 30 days.
Complete instructions have been
sent to the office of Mrs. Thomas
O’Berry, state relief administra
tor, whose committee of five new
ly trained experts are to take up
the plans.
At the state line, officials are
to inspect the cattle for tuber
culosis and Bangs disease, little
of which now exists in the state.
Col. James Smith, in charge here
of the North Carolina job, ex
plained that all processing would
be under direction of the bureau
of animal husbandry of the De
partment of Agriculture. Virtually
all the cattle are from modified
accredited areas of the bureau of
animal industry, but they are to
be inspected closely nevertheless.
To Hold Purebred
Ram Sale Here On
Monday, August 6
A purebred Ram sale will be
held at Sparta on Monday,
August 6 at 10 a. m. At this
sale, according to w. o. '^omns,
Alleghany county farm agent,
will be twelve or more purbred
Hampshire rams, and possibly
sdme rams of other breeds, for
sale. Every farmer in the county
who does not have a purebred
ram is urged by the county
agent to attend this sale and
obtain a good one for his flock.
Farmers who have purebred or
high grade rams, and wish to
exchange them for other rams,
are' invited to bring them to
Sparta on the above date and
sell, swap or buy.
Sheep have paid better than
most any other kind of livestock
in the county during the last
few years, according to Mr.
Collins, and the farmers who have
kept good purebred rams have
made more money from their
sheep than those who have kept
scrub or low grade rams. Good
lambs are now bringing the
highest prices per pound and are
weighing better than the low
grade lambs. Any farmer, the
county agent says, can have good
lambs and make a good profit
on his sheep by obtaining a good
purebred ram and giving his
sheep the proper care.
Mr. Collins says it is now
time for Sheepmen to begin
drenching their sheep for stomach
worms. He says that sheep
drenched during the months of
August, September and October
will winter in a much better
condition than sheep which have
not been drenched.
EDWARDS CEMETERY TO BE
CLEANED ON SAT., AUG. 11
Edwards cemetery will be
cleaned on Saturday, August 11,
at 1 p. m.
All persons who are interested
in the care and preservation of
this cemetery are urged to be
present at the time mentioned
above and assist in the work of
cleaning it. '
AIDS IN GETTING ROAD
Congressman Robert L. Dough
ton, of Laurel Springs, who gets
much credit for having obtained
the location of the Park-to-Park
scenic highway through Alleghany
county and Northwestern Noifh
Carolina.
Road Celebration
In September For
Alleghany Planned
Proposed Event Would Cele
b r a t e Completion Of
Highway No-. 18 And Lo
cation of Scenic Parkway
Preliminary plans are being
made for the holding' of a big
celebration in Alleghany county
in September, the occasion to be
in observance of the completion
of highway No. 18 between Laurel
Springs and the location of the
scenic parkway and North Wil
kesboro. Directors of the North
Wilkesboro Kiwanis club have
advanced the idea. At a recent
meeting of the club J. R. Finley
stated that he had been asked
by a number of prominent Alle
ghany county citizens to submit
the proposition to his club.
The finishing touches are ex
pected to have been put on high
way No. 18 by September. The
road is now hardsurfaced and is
open for travel, although it will
not be completed for several'
weeks.
In connection with the com
pletion of this road, the occasion
would celebrate the location of
the great scenic parkway through
Alleghany and other North Caro
lina counties. The proposed cele
bration would be held at or near
the intersection of highway No.
18 and the park-to-park road
location.
The matter was recently taken
up by the North Wilkesboio civic
group and, after some discussion,
was referred to the good roads
and public affairs committee for
action. In the discussion it was
brought out that the celebration
would not be sponsored wholly by
the club but that Alleghany and
Wilkes counties and North Wilkes
boro would all work together to
ward making the occasion one of
much joy and inspiration to all
concerned.
FEAR GERMAN PRESIDENT
IS NEAR DEATH’S DOOR
Berlin, Germany, July 31.—
President Von Hindenberg,
sturdy idol of the German people,
was under the constant care of
physicians today, and the public
was warned by an official of his
palace here that it may “fear
the worst.’’
Medical bulletins from the bed
side of the 86-year-old field mar
shal in Neudeck, his east Prus
sian estate, were not greatly
alarming in tone, but the fact
that formal bulletins are coming
frequently, the palace official
pointed out, “indicates his con
dition must be regarded as criti
cal.”
TWIN OAKS BALL CLUB WINS
FROM ELK CREEK, VA. SAT.
What is said to have been the
most interesting baseball game
in the history of the Twin Oaks
ball club, was played on Satur
day, July 28, with the Elk Creek,
Va., team. ’ The game was a
pitcher’s duel, neither side scor
ing until the beginning of the
ninth inning.
The final count was 1-0 in
favor of Twin Oaks.
George Sheppard pitched for
Twin Oaks and Kyle Ward for
Elk Creek.
Roosevelt Plans
Industrial Meet
For Near Future
Plans For Decentralization
Of Industry, Long Cher
ished By Him, To Be
Discussed
Washington, August 1.—Gov
ernment officials here have been
informed by President Roosevelt
that after he returns to Washing
ton he intends to call a confer
ence of leading industrialists to
discuss plans that he has long
cherished for the decentralization
of industry. This decentralization
aims at the gradual transfer of
many factory units from congest
ed city areas to semi-rural sur
roundings. The subsistence home
stead experimentation carried on
by the administration has this in
mind. Along with it goes giving
men who will work at the trans
planted factories an opportunity
to own their homes and raise
food for their own use.
The date for the White House
parley was described as indefi
nite. It may follow the meeting
with Vice-President Garner and
other political strategists in Sep
tember.
Men who represent between 60
and 70 per cent of the nation’s
industrial output will be repre
sented at the White House in
dustrial conference if it goes |
through as tentatively scheduled.
Henry I. Harriman, president
of the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States, may be asked
to head a committee of indus
trialists to aid in drafing the
program.
Harriman is in accord with Mr.
Roosevelt’s views that industry,
in many instances, has massed
itself to its own disadvantage and
its employes.
The chamber president has said
a transfer of small factory units
to suburban surroundings where
the disadvantage of its employes,
to expect in the way of work
employes would have better liv
ing conditions would, in his own
opinion, do much to bring social
security.
One of the things under dis
cussion at the conference will be
the possibility of budgeting fac
tory productin so employes may
have some idea in advance what
to expect i nthe way of work
during the course of a year.
The results of the discussion
probably will be seen also in the
social legislation which adminis
tration experts are already draft
ing for next session.
This program includes unem
ployment insurance and old age
pensions; conservation of land
and water resources and housing.
The decentralization of industry
and the related activity of sub
sistence homesteading is closely
allied to all three.
The president, himself has esti
mated that $400,000,000 yearly
could be expended annually over
a term of years on a land and
water use program.
This expenditure might include
funds to aid stranded city work
ers and farmers on sub-marginal
lands to relocate on subsistence
homesteads near small factories.
Eventually, some experts believe,
between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000
city families will have to be
moved.
The subsistence homestead unit
and the relief administration al
ready have established a score of
experimental projects bearing on
decentralization. The administra
tion is studying what they have
revealed.
Officials said the changes in
mind would come gradually and
would extend over a period of
years. It may take 20 years, if
all goes well, to carry out the
program being formulated.
HEALTH KING AND QUEEN OF
NORTH CAROLINA NAMED
College Station, Raleigh, July
31.—Blonde, blue-eyed and pret
ty, Ida Elizabeth Johnson of the
Sanders Chapel Club, Smithfield,
route 2, Johnston county, and
stalwr.rt, tanned S. W. Lee, of
the Burnsville Club, Polkton,
route 2, Anson county, were
crowned recently Queen and King
of Health over the 30,000 club
members of North Carolina.
Crowning of the two health sov
ereigns was a feature of the pag
eant of progress held on Riddick
field in celebration of 26 years
of 4-H Club work in North
Carolina.
Ram-Stock Ewe
Sale At livestock
Market Successful
I
Receipts At Monday’s Auc
tion Are Greater Than At
Any Previous Sale Held
By Galax Market
Receipts at the Grayson-Carroll
Livestock market auction at Galax
Monday exceeded those of any
previous sale, more than 700 head
having been received.
Every pure bred ram and stock
ewe entered was sold during the
first part of the sale, which start
ed at eleven o’clock. The
highest price at which a pure bred
ram sold was $25.25, while the
26 head entered averaged a little
better than $18. each.
Among those who entered pure
bred rams were: R. S. Moss and
Son, Burke’s Garden, 8; F. B.
Kegley, Wytheville, 7; L. J.
Crowgey, Wytheville, 3; Mrs. C.
M. Phipps, Independence, 4; John
Woods, Grant, 1; Tom Green
and E. H. Ring, Elk Creek, 1;
John S. Cox, Galax, 1; and Alex
Kirk, Jr., Independence, 1.
The best pen of pure bred
stock ewes brought $6.65 a head;
the top on lambs was $5.75 per
hundred, top hogs sold at $5 per
hundred, and calves brought $4.45.
Top fat heifers sold for $4.50
and the top cow brought $3.90.
J. T. Horney, president of the
market, and W. C. Roberson,
manager, were greatly pleased
with the number of head entered
and Mr. Horney stated that he
felt that the prices brought were
exceptionally good. The lamb
market, he said, had dropped
considerably, reports from Jersey
City indicated, thus causing some
what lower prices on lambs at
the Galax market. He said furth
er that receipts of hogs were
greater than at any prev
ious sale, 153 head being enter
ed.
Another special horse and mule
auction will be held on Monday,
August 6, at 1 p. m., in connection
with the regular sale of all kinds
of livestock, as is customary on
the first Monday in each month.
This will be the second special
sale of this kind to be held by
the Galax market.
Mr. Horney announced from
the auction ring Monday that a
mixed carload of pigs, shoats and
butcher hogs would also be sold
next Monday.
The largest crowd yet to at
tend one of the weekly sales
was present Monday, it being
estimated that 5,000 persons, were
on the grounds. Mr. Horney,
president of the market, and W.
C. Roberson, manager, are both
urging all who have butcher cat
tle which they expect to sell to
take them to the market at once
as the market price on them is
going down every week, due, in
part, to so many drought cattle
being thrown on the market. They
are expecting a sharp drop in the
price of butcher cows and heif
ers when fat steers come on the
market a little later.
CONFERENCE OF GOVERNORS
NAMES McNUTT NEW HEAD
Mackinac Island, Mich., July
31.—Governor Paul V. McNutt,
of Indiana, was elected chairman
of the conference of governors
today. The action was taken at
a session of the 1934 annual
meeting of the organization.
Governor S. V. Wilson, Ver
mont, was elected treasurer.
Governors John G. Winant, of
New Hampshire; Alf M. Langdon,
of Kansas; Sennett Connor, of
Mississippi; and Henry Horner,
of Illinois, were elected to the
executive committee.
Biloxi, Miss., was chosen for
the 1935 meeting.
NEW GARAGE IS NOW UNDER
CONSTRUCTION IN SPARTA
Duke Bledsoe, owner of the
Alleghany Motor sales, compris
ing the Ford agency and garage,
has recently bought a lot on South
Main street and commenced the
erection of a new building.
The new structure, located next
to the Baptist church, is to meas
urt 58 by 113 feet and will be
of field stone. It promises to
be a sightly addition to Sparta’s
business houses. The owner has
planned for the new building to
house a showroom, a garage and
a stockroom for parts and sup
plies.
P. O. DEPARTMENT PAYS
For the first time in fifteen
years, the Postoffice Department
is reported “ouh of the red.”
Tobacco Growers
Can Sign Contracts
For Another Month
All growers of Burley tobacco
in Alleghany county who have not
signed a tobacco reduction con
tract will be given an opportunity
to -do «o in the office of W. B.
Collin?., county agent, in Sparta
until Tuesday, August 28. Tho-o
farmers who sign tobacco cm
tracts now, according to Mr.
Collins, will sign up on the same
basis as growers who signed
earlier in the year.
Farmers who fail to sign
the tobacco contract, the county
agent .said, will probably be
taxed from 25 to 33 ppr cent
of the value of their 1934 crop.
Any farmer who has not sighed
is urged to investigate the .nat
ter and determine whether or
not it will pay him to sign the
contract.
Rep. Doughton Has
Important Part In
Parkway Location
Was In Washington Last
Week In Interest Of Road
For Third Time Since Ad
journment Of Congress
Congressman R. L. Doughton
was in Washington again last
week in the interest of the
Park-to-Park Scenic highway. This
is the third trip that Mr. Dough
ton has made to Washington in
the interest of thi~ proposition
since the closing of the last ses
sion of Congress. The location
of this parkway through this sec
tion is due, perhaps more to the'
untiring efforts of Congressman
Doughton than any other individ
ual. He was in a most strategic
position to influence the location
of the highway, having served on
the Committee of Roads for a
great many years with Mr. Mc
Donald and others who are in
charge of the Bureau of roads.
During his long years of ser
vice in Congress. Congressman
Doughton has perhaps done noth
ing that will mean so much to
this part of his district and this
section of the state as the ser
vice he has rendered in bringing
about the location of this scenic
highway through North Carolina.
He is confident that the con
struction of the road will be ex
pedited so as to provide jobs for
a great many people now on re
lief ,rolls in the counties through
which the road is located. Work
is expected bo begin on or about
the first of September.
Mr. Doughton has had the co
operation of both the United
States- Senators and the Congress
men representing the western part
of the state, in obaining the
favorable location of the road.
Marie Dressier,
Screen Veteran,
Dies Saturday
Santa Barbara, Calif.. July 31.
—Marie Dressier, veteran actress
of the stage and screen, succumb
ed here Saturday at the age of
62 to a long illness caused by
cancer, heart trouble and uremia.
Death came at 3:25 p. m., for
the self-styled “ugly duckling”
who became a swan of laughter
during a career replete with
both hardship and glory. Under
care of two physicians and sev
eral nurse9, she died at the C. K.
G. Billings estate to which she
went from Hollywood three
months ago because of a physical
breakdown.
Funeral services for Miss Dres
sier, who was one of the most
popular players in Hollywood, and
the beloved comic character in
such screen triumphs as “Anna
Christie,” “Min and Bill,” “Re
ducing,” “Tugboat Annie,” and
“The Late Christopher Bean,”
were held today at the Wee Kirk
o’ the Heather, in Forest Lawn
cemetery in Glendale. A loud
speaker carried to the outside
the voices of the Rev. Neal Dodd,
Episcopalian minister, who read
the service, and of Jeanette Mac
Donald, concert and screen star,
who sang “Face to Face” and
“Abide With Me.” The hearse
containing the body, in a sealed
bronze casket, was brought into
the cemetery at 7 o’clock, two
hours before the service, to avoid
congestion at the gates.
Program For Fall
Gardens In County
To Be Undertaken
Work To Be Sponsored By
Relief Office, In Coopera
tion With Agricultural
Teachers
Fall gardening is to be en
couraged in an active manner in
Alleghany county, the work to
begin immediately under the
supervision of Amos Wagoner,
Farm Supervisor in cooperation
with the agriculture teachers, R.
E. Black, Piney Greek, and F.
H. Jackson, Sparta, and Miss
Lena Early, the Home Demonstra
tion agent, C. A. Miles, Relief
Administrator of the county, has
announced.
A series of community meet
ings is to he held in each com-*
munity for the purpose of plan
ning and carrying out this work.
Every- family in the county is
urged to attend the meeting
scheduled at the most convenient
place.
This program is a statewide
program and it is to be under
stood that rt is a definite part of
the relief, work. Any family that
expects any kind of assistance
from the local relief office is
expected to attend thesse meet
ings and enter into this work.
It i< true that he program, to
have been of most benefit, should
have been started at an earlier
date, but nevertheless there are
many vegetables and small grains
that can yet be planted. Necessary
arrangements for seeds and
fertilizer will be taken care of
by the Relief administrator.
The planning, planting and
care of these gardens, as well as
the proper use and preservation
of the products grown, will be
discussed at the meetings. A list
of these meetings and dates of
each follow:
Toliver school, August 2 10 a.
m.; Rock Creek school, August
2 2 p. m.; Turkey Knob school,
August 2, 4 p. m.; Meadow Fork
school, August 3, 10 a. m.; Air
Bellows school, August 3, 2 p.
m.; Pine Swamp school, August
3, 4 p. m.; Wolf Branch school,
August ■ 4, 10 a. m.; Sparta
school, August 4, 2 p. m.; New
Hope school, August 6, 10 a.
r.i.; Rock Ridge school, August
0, 2 p. m.; Piney Creek school,
August 6, 4 p. m.
Elk Spur school (Roual),
August 7, 10 a. m.; Rich Hill
-chool, August 7, 2 p. m.;
Cherry lane school, August 7, 4
p. m.; Belleview school, August
8, 10 a. m.; Irwin Grocery school,
August 8, 2 p. m.; Elk -Creek
school, August 8, 4 p. m.; Little
Pine school, August 9, 10 a. m.;
Saddle Mountain school, August9,
2 p. m.; McMillan school, August
10, 2 p. m.; Blevins Gross Roads,
August 11, 10 a. m.; Chestnut
Grove school, August 11, 2 p. m.
BAPTIST WOMEN TO SERVE
PICNIC SUPPER ON AUG. 9
A picnic supper will be given
by the ladies of the Baptist
church from 5:30 to 7:30 p. m.
on Thursday, August 9, on New
river. Tickets are now on sale
at a minimum price.
String music and games will
be features of the occasion.
Proceeds will be used toward
the financing of the installation
of a heating plant in the church.
If you.vould make an enemy, lend money
and Oik it again."
JULY
30—Pneumatic tires for auto
mobiles first psed, 1892.
— _. -1 31—Six nations enter war to
end all war. 1914.
AUGUST
1—Columbus sees U. S. con
tinent for first time, 1498.
2—Alexander G. Bell, tele
phone inventor, dies 1922.
3—Judge Landis fines Stand
ard Oil 29 millions, 1907.
4—Special Delivery service
started by P. O.. 1889.
S—Cornerstone of Statue of
Liberty is laid, 1884.
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