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DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY
Volume 10.
SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1934.
6 PAGES
Number 12.
Looking At
Washington
NEW POLITICAL DRIFT
AAA UNDER HEAVY FIRE
NEW MOVE FOR PEACE
SHYSTERS HELP GANGSTERS
ROOSEVELT COMES HOME
JAPAN’S SURPRISE MOVE
DRIVE ON BOOTLEGGERS
By Hugo Sims, Times Special
Washington Correspondent
Something of the drift in na
tional political lines is seen in
the recent open attack of Secre
tary Walace upon “Republicans”
who assail the AAA program. The
Secretary of Agriculture is a
former Republican and the son of
a former Republican cabinet mem
ber, but 'he allied himself with
Roosevelt on the farm relief
issue. The political strategy of
the President as most peoples
believe, includes the winning of
agricultural Progressive Republi
cans to his support and astute
Democrats believe that afterwards
they will stick to the Democratic
party.
Hitherto the administration has
taken pains to seek “New Deal”
rather than party support and its
appeals have included not so much
attacks upon Republicans as upon
enemies of the new order. In
fact, the President was said to
favor a campaign policy of avoid
ing direct attacks upon Republi
cans, realizing that party attach
ment might cause many believ
ers in the New Deal to with
hold support. However, along
comes Mr. Wallace to make di
rect assault upon the “short
sighted leadership of the Repub
lican party from 1921 to 1932”
and accuse its high command of
using the drought as an- excuse
to attack the policies of the Agri
cultural Adjustment Administra
tion.
There is little reason to doubt
that a new political line-up is
threatening in the United States,
although it is too early to pre
dict just how far it will extend.
The policies of the administration
have the approval of many who
are normally Republican and meet
stern opposition from a minority
faction in the Democratic party.
Logically, the situation demands
that “New Deal” supporters get
together and that its critics co
operate. The only effective meth
od of accomplishing this is through
party organizations and it may
be taken for granted that the
process is underway however
slowly leaders acknowledge the
facts. Secretary Wallace’s atti
tude is one of the first indica
tions of such an acknowledge
ment.
Another indication is the in
tense political bombardment of
the AAA all along the line. Re
publicans go so far as to assert
that benefit payments to farmers
are being timed to aid the politi
cal campaign in November and
this arouses Mr. Wallace’s ire.
Neverthelessi no one denies that
millions in benefit payments to
farmers will have a favbrable ef
fect upon the candidacy of pro
Roosevelt men or that the farm
er is not expected to react favor
ably to the AAA program when
the money arrives. The capture
of the agricultural vote is what
opponents of the “New Deal”
fear and this is the reason for
the barrage now being laid down.
A new move toward peace in
South America, where Bolivia is
credited with plans for a new of
fensive to relieve the pressure of
Paraguayan armies around Fort
Ballivan, has been taken by the
Pan-American Union, which here
tofore -has limited its activity to
cultural and commercial relations.
A resolution invites members of
the Union to join in a call to the
belligerents to cease the fighting
and arbitrate the dispute. Con
flicting opinions were .expressed
by Latin-American diplomats al
though ministers of both warring
nations expressed approval.
One of the most difficult prob
lems facing the Department of
Justice officials in their drive up
on criminals is the politico-legal
crime nests which afford shelter
and protection to gangsters in
certain sections of the country.
Attorney-General Cummings ad
mits that he has been “amazed”
at the commotion kicked up by
notorious racketeers using the in
fluence of political friends or the
device of well-conceived propa
ganda.
The experience of the Depart
ment is that the “shyster lawyer,”
the “shyster-physician” and con
niving public officials are sinister
barriers to any effective crack
ingudown on the criminal element
Jn this country. Some definite
move to go into this subtle prob
lem will probably be made at the
next session of Congress.
Negotiations with the coffee re
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Eight Jurors Are
Chosen On 1st Day
Of Tilley Hearing
Trial Opens In Wilkes Court
With Judge Oglesby On
Bench. Yadkin County
Venires Summoned
North Wilkesboro, Aug. 7.—On
the first day of the trial of the
five Tilleys for the alleged
murder of Leoda Childress, 18,
at the Tilley home on December
30, in Wilkes court eight jurors
were selected from a special
venire of 125 men summoned
from Yadkin county. The list of
prospective jurors was exhausted
today at 4 p. m. at which time
Judge John M. Oglesby ordered
an additional venire of 100 men
from Yadkin county to report
tomorrow at 2 o’clock, when
court will reconvene.
The original order for a
Yadkin county venire was issued
on complaint of defense attorneys
that the case had been so widely
publicized in Wilkes county that
it would be impossible to select
an unbiased jury from that
county. Attorneys for the pro>
secution made no objection to the
order.
The five facing charges in con
nection with the death are Mr.
and Mrs. Warwick W. Tilley,
foster parents of the dead girl;
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Tilley and
Clyde Tilley, all of whom resided
near Ronda.
A preponderant number of the
rejected veniremen were those
who stated on examination that
they had expressed an opinion
that the defendants, or some of
them were guilty. A number
stated as an answer by a direct
question prepounded by defense
counsel that they had formed or
expressed an opinion that Luther
Tilley is guilty.
The defendants sat at the bar
throughout the day, calmly
watching the proceedings.
Selection of the remaining four
regular jurors and the thirteenth
juror to sit with the others and
act in case one of the regular
jurors becomes sick or is unable
to complete the case, is expected
to consume the entire court ses
sion tomorrow afternoon and it
is improbable that evidence will
be given in the case until Thurs
day morning.
Court was adjourned until ^
o’clock tomorrow because it was
deemed impossible for the addi
tional venire of 100 to be sum
moned from Yadkin to report
before that hour. Sheriff C. G.
Reavis, of Yadkin, will summons
the j'urymen.
A total of approximately 200
witnesses have been subpoenaed
to give evidence in the trial.
Of this number more than 100
are state’s witnesses.
In anticipation of a long drawn
out trial, Solicitor John R. Jones
announced this afternoon that the
remainder of the calendar for
this week is continued. Jail cases
will be called at the completion
of the Tilley trial.
Solicitor Jones is leading the
prosecution. He is assisted by J.
H. Whicker, of this city. The de
fense counsel today had one new
member, Attorney David L. Kel
ley, of Yadkinville. A. T. Grant,
J. H. Burke and his son. Harold
D Burke are representing the
elder Tilleys and J. F. Jordan,
of the local bar, and J. E. Holt
houser, of Boone, are retained
by Mrs. Luther Tilley.
Examination of jurors- today
for the state was made by
Solicitor Jones and J. H. Whick
er. A. T. Grant questioned jurors
for the defense.
With Solicitor Jones convinced
that the defendants are guilty and
firm in his determination to
secure a conviction and with the
defense protesting innocence and
fighting the case with all their
legal ability, the outstanding legal
battle of recent years in North
western North Carolina is fore
cast.
MINOR AUTO ACCIDENT
HAPPENS IN SPARTA
A minor auto accident happen
ed Sunday afternoon at the street
comer at the ball park when the
“pick-up” truck driven by John
Andrew Osborne, who was com
ing from the direction of the
convict camp, collided with a
truck which was leaving town,
driven by Wiley Lowe. None of
the i occupants of the trucks were
injured, but a pedestrian, a small'
boy, was injured on the leg
when struck by Osborne’s truck.
The trucks were damaged to
some extent.
To Formulate Plans
For Celebration At
Meeting Mon. Night
There will be a meeting held
at the Court House as Sparta
on Monday night, August 13, at
8 o’clock, to formulate plans for
the Road Celebration to be held
some time in September some
where near Laurel Springs, cele
brating the completion of the
Sparta-North Wilkesboro highway
and the location of the Scenic
highway.
The celebration is to be held
near the place where the Scenic
highway is expected to cross the
Sparta-North Wilkesboro road.
Every one is invited to attend
the Sparta meeting Monday night.
Homey Expects An
Up-Turn In Prices
Of Lambs, Cattle
Special Horse And Mule
Sale At Galax Monday
Attracts Many Buyers;
Prices Are Good
The special horse and mule
sale that is held every first Mon
day in connection with the weekly
livestick sales at the Galax live
stock market brought out a con
siderable number of horses and
mules Monday and all sold ex
ceptionally well. Prices were said
to have been very satisfactory.
The top price on a single mule
was $180 while its mate brought
enough to put the price at which
both sold at $320.
Homer Calloway, Galax, bought
all of the lambs and Charles M.
Knight, of Louisville, Ky., bought
all of the veal calves and a num
ber of cattle. This is the first
sale that Mr. Knight has attend
ed at Galax although he is a
regular buyer on the Abingdon
market operated by J. T. Horney.
He is reported to have purchased
a total of 22 decks of lambs at
sales he attended last week.
At Monday’s sale top lambs
brought $6.05 a hundred, top
veal calves brought $5.60 a hun
dred and the top pen of stock
ewes brought $6.25.
The fact that Monday was
special horse and mule day at
the Grayson-Carroil market did
not seem to interfere with the
sale of all other classes of live
stock, as a large number of
lambs, cattle, veal calves and
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Von Hindenburg Is
Claimed By Death
Tannenberg, Germany, Aug. 7.
—President Paul von Hindenburg
rested tonight in a tower room
of the national shrine erected in
memory of his greatest military
victory while thousands of his
fellow countrymen waited patient
ly In flickering torch lights for a
glimpse of his coffin.
The old general died Thursday
after an illness which had caused
physicians to despair of his life
for several days. Funeral services
in Which his successor, Chancel
lor Adolf Hitler, with deep feel
ing, said von Hihdenburg “opened
the door” to the present regime,
delivered the old soldier into his
monumental shrine.
The final rites, brief and simple
as the field marshal had wished,
were conducted on the very spot
where 20 years ago he stopped
the Russian invasion.
After the coffin had been
brought here from the von Hin
denburg estate at Neudeck, along
60 miles of torch-lighted road,
there was prayer, music, a short
talk by an army chaplain and
Hitler’s fervent speech in which
he declared, that the name of von
Hindenburg cannot be allowed to
die. *
The immense iron gates of the
tower room had been removed
for the 14-day period of national
mourning during which the cof
fin may be viewed by the public.
After that period the room will
be rebuilt into a formal
mausoleum.
Tonight’s procession, seemingly
endless, was evidence of the na
tional grief.
While the 6,000 spectators who
had places in the monument for
the services were returning to
their homes, other thousands re
mained, determined to wait
through the night if necessary to
see the coffin.
Doughton Talks On
Taxation In North
Wilkesboro Friday
Cites Figures To Show
Fluctuation Of Revenue
From Various Sources.
Mentions Three Principles
North Wilkesboro, Aug. 7.—
Representative (“Farmer Bob”)
Doughton> in an address delivered
before the North Wilkesboro
Kiwanis club Friday, outlined re
quirements of a just taxation.
Equitably imposed, honestly col
lected and wisely and economical
ly expended were the three
principles relating to taxation
mentioned by the famous national
figure, who is chairman of the
powerful ways and means com
mittee in the national house of
representatives.
He cited figures to show how
revenue from* various sources
fluctuates. The income tax,
greatest yielder of all federal
taxes, declined from $2,400,000,
000 in 1928 to a comparatively
meagre $750,000,000 for 1933.
The second largest revenue pro
ducer pointed out by the speaker
was tobacco taxes, which do not
fluctuate so much and which
during the past year sent in to
federal government tills $402,
000,000.
The third largest source of
revenue are tariffs with $240,
000,000 for the past year and
which amount is only about 50
per cent, of normal, he said.
Excise taxes, which are levied
only in a time of emergency,
yielded $38,000,000 to the federal
treasury during the past year,
according to the speaker.
Commenting on the system of
finding revenue “Farmer Bob” I
said that his committee in vaca
tion time was able to dig up
$417,000,000 in revenue that had
previously escaped' through loop
holes in the previous laws.
He stated that as a citizen of
North Carolina he was interested
in state taxation and that he
suggested that a committee similar
to his in the House of Represen
tatives get together between ses^
sions of the legislature and work
out an equitable scale of taxation
and have it prepared without a
swarm of lobbyists. This, he said,
was the system used in Wash
ington.
The latter part of his address
was devoted to roads, and more
especially the scenic parkway
which will follow the Blue Ridge
mountain in northern Wilkes,
Alleghany and Ashe. He stated
that this project was the greatest
thing that had ever been pro
posed for this part of the coun
try.
Whitetop Festival
To Be Held Fri.,
Sat., Aug. 17-18
Champion fiddlers from Penn
sylvania and several other states
are making preparations to parti
cipate in the fourth annual White
top Folk music festival to be held
on Whitetop mountain, in Grayson
county, near the North Carolina
line, on Friday and Saturday,
August 17 and 18. Some twelve
o,r fifteen fiddlers, 80 to 90 years
of age, with members of the
executive committee of the Old
Fiddlers’ association of Chester
and Lancaster counties, Pennsyl
vania, and visitors from Mary
land and Delaware, will attend
the Whitetop festival, according
to recent reports, with the idea
of fostering a fraternal spirit,
renewing old acquaintances and
comparing some of their own
tunes with the Southern folk
music. Many of these tunes will
be the same such as' “Soldiers’
Joy,” “Devil’s Dream,” “Pop
Goes The Weasel,” and “Turkey
In The Straw,” called the key
note number of the association,
and the lineal descendant of the
eleventh-century tune, “Old
Mother Oxford.”
The festival, which has at
tracted the interest and atten
dance of Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, has become a gather
ing place each year for hundreds
of folk musicians from all parts
of Virginia and surrounding
states. The summit of Whitetop
mountain affords a view into five
states.
TO CLEAN CEMETERY
Antioch cemetery wilt be
cleaned on Thursday, August 23.
All persons interested in its
care and preservation are asked
to assist in the work.
Veteran Surry Co.
Minister Commits
Suicide At Elkin
Was Widely Known Baptist
Pastor And Was Featured
In News Stories Through
out United States
Elkin, Aug. 7.—Rev. J. Wel
born Bryant, 63, committed
suicide in a room in hLs home
two miles out of Elkin about
7 o’clock last Thursday morning,
August 2, by firing a load from
a shotgun into hLs forehead,
blowing off the entire top of his
head. The deceased was a
Baptist minister of the old
school and was widely known.
His lifeless body was discovered,
it is said, by his wife and foster
son upon their return from the
barnyard, where they had been
feeding poultry.
A suicide verdict was reached
when a coroner’s inquest was
held following the tragedy. The
gun had been fired by means of
a stick wedged against a
window frame near hLs chair, it
was brought out at the inquest.
The tragedy was a shock to
the many friends of the veteran
minister. He had served as
pastor in rural communities
since he w’as ordained to the
ministry in 1904.
During his ministry he had
served churches over a radius of
fifty miles, filling as many as
seven appointments a week. Be
cause of the fact that he was
the only minister in Western
North Carolina who regularly
rode a mule to fill his numerous
regular appointments, he had
been featured in news stories
all over the United States. He
always carried an umbrella to
protect him from the elements
since suffering a sunstroke four
teen years ago. No pastor in his
section of the state was in such
constant demand for funeral
services and wedding ceremonies
as he.
The Rev. Mr. Bryant had
served as pastor of Pleasant Hill
Baptist church, near Elkin, for
more than a quarter of a
century. He was the son of
the late Rev. Billy Bryant, a
Northern Methodist minister of
Yadkin county.
Surviving are the widow and
a foster son, Noah Bryant, whom
they adopted when he was a
small boy.
Funeral services were con
ducted Saturday morning at 11
o’clock at Pleasant Hill church
by Rev. J. L. Powers, Elkin, and
Rev. D. G. Reece, Jonesville.
Officials Plan To
Hold Agricultural
Fair Here In Oct.
Officials are now going ahead
with plans bo hold a County
Agricultural fair at Sparta on
October 6 and 7. The merchants
and business men of Sparta have
promised to contribute liberally
to the support of the fair, and
plans are being made to visit
towns adjacent to the county,
during the coming week, to get
merchants in these towns to as
sist with the premium list.
It is hoped that it may be
possible to make the premium
list about the same as the one
last yedr.
Most crops in the county are
the best they have been in a
number of years, and the farmers
and their families should now
begin to collect some of their
best farm products for making
a good exhibit at the fair.
There, says the officials, will
be one change in the fair pro
gram that should help in getting
more livestock exhibited this
year. It is planned to have all
livestock brought to the fair
on Saturday morning. By chang
ing this program so that the
livestock will not have to be kept
here over night, it is hoped that
more farmers will bring out their
good livestock and put it on
exhibit.
COMBINATION HUNTING AND
FISHING LICENSE ON SALE
Those interested in hunting and
fishing will be interested to learn
of a combination of hunting and
fishing license that is now on
sale. This new form of license
may be obtained from Ben Reeves
or R. D. Gentry, Sparta, air J.
T. Inskeep, Roaring Gap.
This is a state-wide license and
is good from August to August,
i. e. the year around. The price
of the combined license is $8.00.
Farley Sees Gains
For Party In Fall
Election Contests
Washington Aug. 7.—Chair
man Fletcher, of the Republican
National committee “is whistling
in the dark,” Chairman Farley
of the Democratic National com
mittee^ said today of his rival.
Back from a month’s political
survey of the West, the post
master general seemed exuber
antly enthusiastic over his party’s
fall election prospects. He smil
ingly professed sympathy for
Fletcher and said the Republican
campaign against “the new deal”
has fallen flat.
Roosevelt Talks
To Nation Sunday
Night In Montana
President And Family Spend
Sunday At Glacier Na
tional Park. Indians Ini
tiate Executive
Glacier National Park, Aug. 5.
—The nation was told tonight by
President Roosevelt in an address
delivered here that the govern
ment’s fight to save agricultural
and industrial resources from
“the selfishness of individuals”
was only begun. The chief exe
cutive spoke at the end of a
Sabbath day swing through this
national playground, dotted with
ice and snow, near the Canadian
border. His address was broad
cast to the nation’s farthest bor
ders from picturesque two-medi
cine chalets. It was the first
time he had so addressed the
nation since the start of his ter
ritorial inspection tour. The
president was greeted with a tre
mendous welcome when he ar
rived on the continent again Fri
day at Portland. Ore. He was
met there by Mrs. Roosevelt,
theirs sons, James, Franklin and
John, and members of his official
family. A 21-gun salute hailed
Mr. Roosevelt as the Houston
moved slowly into Portland har
bor. The chief executive stood
on the bridge waving his Panama
hat in acknowledgement of the
cheers as the ship docked.
“We have won the greatest
part of the fight to obtain and
to retain these great public prop
erties for the benefit of the pub
lic,” the president said in his
address tonight. “We are at the
threshold of an even more im
portant battle to save our re
sources of agriculture and indus
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Lea Mowed To Be
At Funeral Of Son
Raleigh. Aug 8.—Bowed down
by grief and guarded by prison
officials, Colonel Luke Lea at
tended the funeral of his sOn,
Percy, in Nashville, Tenn., who
was killed Friday in an automo
bile accident near Danville, 111.
The father left the North
Carolina state prison at noon
Saturday under a temporary
parole.
Young Lea’s funeral was held
Monday afternoon and the father
was under $10,000 bond to sur
render himself at the prison by
noon Thursday, paying all ex
penses of himself and his guards
for the round trip.
A temporary parole for Colonel
Lea was requested by his wife
in a telephone call to Parole
Commissioner Edwin M. ’Gill.
A short time later Governor Hill
McAllister, of Tennessee, formerly
Lea’s political enemy, telephoned
his request that the parole be
granted.
Gill declined to act until learn
ing the wishes of Governor
Ehringhaus who was aboard a
yacht off the North Carolina
at Ocraooke Island and agreed to
the parole if Tennessee authorities
pledged the prisoner’s return.
Convicted of violating state
banking laws, Lea and Luke Lea,
Jr., entered the North Carolina
prison in May, the father for
a six-to-ten year sentence and
the son for a two-to-six year
term. Luke Lea, Jr., was paroled
on advice of physicians, only a
few days before his brother’s
tragic death.
HARVESTERS KILLED
Nioirt, France.—Eight wheat
harvesters were killed when a
threshing machine engine blew up.
Two In Greensboro
Jail After Arrest
Near Mt Airy Sun.
Taken Into Custody On
Charges Of Counterfeit
ing. Over $1000 In
Spurious Bills Found
Mount Airy, August 7.—Cap
tured at a tourist camp five miles
north of here early Sunday
morning, Everette Wiles, 34,
outlaw, and Bass Absher 29,
reputed to be a companion of
Wiles, were transferred from the
jail here, where they have been
kept under guard since their
capture, to Greensboro, yesterday
under heavy guard. The convoy
ot three guards left here at 3
P- m. with L. 0. Padgett federal
operative, credited with the
capture, driving the first car; the
two captives, E. M. Lomax and
u M- Huffman, deputy marshalls,
and Henry Thomas, head of the
Charlotte bureau, in the second
car, and another driver bringing
up the rear in the seized automo
bile. Mrs. Bass Absher, wife of
one of the prisoners, went with
the group but waa not under
arrest
Rumors that the two prisoners
were part of a larger gang
engaged in passing counterfeit
money throughout the South
Atlantic and surrounding states,
could not be verified but it waa
understood that Dewey Wiles,
,r°ther of the outlaw, who was
arrested the same night in
Salisbury and taken to Lexing
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A. S. T. C. Summer
Schools Have Many
Students Enrolled
Boone, August 7.—Appalachian
State Teachers’ college is having
a record enrollment in the sum
mer schools. The number for the
first term, including the auxiliary
summer school at Dobson, waa
895; for the second summer
school it is 614. Practically all
of these are experienced teachers.
In the second term 74 contiea
are represented in the student
body. 37 hold Bachelor’s degrees,
and one student has a Master’s
degree. There are 40 applicants
for the Bachelor of Science de
gree at the close of the summer
school quarter, Thursday, August
23. This will bring the total num
ber of degrees conferred this
year to 120. Most of the class
is already placed in teaching
positions.
The commencement speaker for
this occasion will be “Governor”
R. A. Doughton, one of North
Carolina’s distinguished public
servants.
Alleghany county is represented
at Appalachian State Teachers’
college by Odell Andrews and
Wilma Wagner, Sparta; Leona
Church, Scottville; Rebecca
Choate and Zelma Richardson El
lison, Stratford; Mrs. Lovill
Grayson, Whitehead; Rachel Hal
sey, Piney Creek; Blanche Joines,
Edwards Cross Roads; Donna
Jones, Furches; Biddie Miller,
Nancy Miller, Robert Taylor and
Thelma Osborne, Laurel Springs;
M. F. Parsons and Edna Warden,
Piney Creek; Glenn Tolliver,
Ennice, and Bert Weaver, Peden.
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break?
Most men can find that hoodoo by looking
at the mirror.”
AUGUST
•—Gertrud* Edcrle, Amort
can, swims English chan
nel, 1926.
' T—Ann Harding, brilliant
screen star, born 1900.
•—First steam railway in U
S. starts operation, 1(29.
•—Iraak Walton, greatest of
& fishermen, born ISM.
^ 10—Missouri is admitted Is
‘7WP” Union, U21.
V
11—“Rosary” is sung for fint
time in public, IMS.