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The Alleghany Times Subscription Price $1* in advance DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume 10. SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA,THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1934. 4 PAGES Number 13. Looking At Washington ROOSEVELT SEES DISTRESS HUGE RELIEF FUND OLD PRACTICES DENOUNCED BANKERS BETRAYED PUBLIC PROFITS AND FAVORS WILL IMPROVE HOMES MILLIONS NEED REPAIR NECESSARY REORGANIZA TION ROOSEVELT STATES HIS AIM Last week President Roosevelt passed through some of the states suffering from the dr&ught which has afflicted twenty-four states, or sixty per cent of the area of the United States, and affects 27,000,000 persons! While un able to make definite promises, the President told the people of the seared plains that he would not give up but would attempt to solve the problems. On the train. Lawrence West brook, assistant Relief Adminis strator, told the Chief Executive of plans to give emergency re lief to nearly 400,000 families al ready ruined by the devastation. Some of them, who have no pros pect of ekeing a living out of their farms, will be assisted to ward rehabilitation. Those who have not seen the suffering land can hardly imag ine the extent of the suffering or the financial' loss sustained. Prairies have been parched brown, trees are few and desert growth replaces grass. In many places, the thin top soil has been blown away and the wind-driven dust has filled ditches and bank ed against scattered buildings. The relief task is enormous but. fortunately. Congress pro vided ample funds and expendi tures are being watched carefully in anticipation of greater need, next winter. The Federal -Emer gency Relief Administration has $275,000,000 for direct drought relief but in one month has us ed $35,000,000. In view of the fact that many farmers will have no crop income whatever until next June, the burden is expect ed to become heavier. The FERA has allotted its fund as follows: $125,000,00 for direct relief; $100,000,000 for processing and distributing cattle; and $50,000,000 for land pur chases to rehabilitate families. In addition, the Farm Credit Ad ministration has $100,000,000 for emergency loans to farmers the AAA has $100,000,000 for the purchase of cattle, and the CCC camps have $50,000,000 to pro vide employment and improve the land in the drought area. Purchases of cattle will run up to between seven and ten mil lion head, with nearly two mil lion already bought by the first of August. This is practically one-fourth of the cattle in the United States but the average purchase is around thirty per cent of the seller’s herd. With at tempts being made to preserve breeding stock and milch cows not less than two million head of sheep and goats is also plan ned. The practices of American in vestment bankers come in for scathing criticism in the second installment of the report of the investigation of banking “and the stock exchanges by the Senate committee on Banking and Cur rency. The first part of the re port dealt with the Stock Ex change and the third, to come later, will take up commercial banking. The flotation of foreign securi ties developed “one of the most scandalous chapters” in the his tory of banking) marked by viola tions of “the most elementary principles of business ethics.” Roughly stated there were many instances in which promoters of bonds were interested only in the profits they would make and evi denced no concern as to the in vestor’s money and made little in quiry into the soundness of the securities they offered. -1 ' _ In handling domestic issues the bankers “readily forfeited the good-will of the corporations to swell their profits” except when they expected another cut through further refinancing. That “colos sal” losses were sustained by the investing public, which depended upon the investment bankers’ rep resentations and reputation, is now admitted and the activities of these financial crooks so “shock ing” as to place “beyond contro versy the urgent need for legis lation such as the Banking Act and the Securities Act of 1933.” The report gets down to brass tacks, names individuals and con demns the “preferred lists” through which prominent persons were given opportunities to parti cipate in special issues upon terms more advantageous than those ac (continued on page 2) Repair Loans For Home Owners May Be Available Soon North Carolina Housing Ad ministrator Elated Over Opportunity Afforded The State By New Program Washington, Aug. 14.—Theo dore Sumner, housing administra tor for North Carolina, declared last night that loans will be avail able to home owners of the state for repairing and modernizing their homes within the next two weeks. Sumner, at an interview at his hotel room after an all day conference at the office of the housing commission, said headquarters for the new organi zation will be established at Ashe ville the latter part of this week and expressed confidence that banks would begin making loans to home owners before the month is' out. Sumner was careful to point put that there is to be no “red tape” in the granting of loans for remodernization of homes. Millions will reach the state and “I sincerely believe the housing bill will mean more to the home owners, laborers in the build ing trade and the industry as a whole than anything which has been done since the new adminis tration took office.” Explaining the operation of section one of the housing bill which is now attracting the main attention of the housing com mission, Sumner said: “If a home owner desires to repair or remodel his home and is reliable all he has to do is to go to the bank and file an ap plication. He can borrow from $100 to $2,000, depending on his income and the amount of work he wants to do. The bank makes the necessary investigation and handles the transaction. No bor rower will be charged more than $5 a year for each hundred dol lars he borrows. The loan can run from one to three years.” Asked if he thought the bank ers of North Carolina will co operate, Sumner said he was sure they will. “There is no risk for them to run,” he declared. “The government guarantees 20 per cent, of the aggregate amount loaned by a bank, not 20 per cent, of each loan as some have been led to believe. Statistics show that the average loss on these types of loans is only three per cent. In addition to this, arrangement is made whereby a bank can convert its loans for home repairing into cash if neces sary. This makes the loans liquid.” Immediately upon his return to North Carolina, he will confer with the* leading bankers of the state in regard to the housing program and may have group meetings over the state. Sumner is elated over the op portunity which the new housing program affords to North Caro lina and is entering upon his work with a great amount of zeal. He was drafted as state director and said his organization will be absolutely free from poli tics. He has his own real estate business in Asheville. w M. nissEn, prominent WINSTON-SALEM MAN, DIES William Madison Nissen, 78, widely known wagon manufac turer and prominent citizen of Winston-Salem, died early Tues day morning, August 14, in Wins ton-Salem. ' Mr. Nissen, in ad dition to his activities as a manu facturer of the well known Nis sen wagon, was also active in civic affairs in Winston-Salem. Funeral services were conduct ed Wednesday afternoon at 5:30 o’clock in the apartment of the deceased on the eighteenth floor of the Nissen building in Winston Salem. The services were con ducted by Bishop J. Kenneth pfohl, of the Moravian church. The funeral was private and the family requested that no flowers be sent. Burial followed in Salem ceme tery. GROUP SPENDS WEEK-END CAMPING AT AIRBELLOWS A party left here Saturday, to spend the week-end camping near Airbellows Gap. The group was composed of Mr. and Mrs. James Capps, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hub bard and small son, Billy, Miss Sallie Alexander, Miss Dot Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Wick Snelson and daughter, and Charlie Koontz. GOVERNOR IS FLYING TO ENGAGEMENTS THIS WEEK Raleigh, Aug. 14.—Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus took to the air this week, because that is the only form of transportation fast enough to allow him to fill two speaking engagements. Elmer Myers, crack flyer and manager of the Raleigh airport, piloted a plane, in which the Governor was riding, to Wil mington today. From there the chief executive and his party went to Charlotte, w’here Gover nor Ehringhaus addressed the an nual convention of the State Firemen’s association, in session there. Cattle From Dry Areas Arrive At West Jefferson To Be Distributed In Alle ghany, Ashe And Watau ga Counties. Alleghany’s Quota 3,000 More than 2500 head of cattle from the drought-stricken sections of the West have arrived at West Jefferson, and are being given blood and tuberculosis tests be fore being distributed over Alle ghany, Ashe and Watauga coun ties for pasturage. These cattle are of all sorts and range from young steers to old dairy cows. Many are poor and show signs of having been near starvation in the dry West. Expensive and permanent stock pens of strong materials, equip ped with running water, strong gates and other conveniences, have been constructed at West Jeffer son and it is expected that sev eral thousand head of these cat tle will be brought into this sec tion and distributed from the West Jefferson station. Wednesday, after a large por tion of the thirsty cattle had been unloaded on Tuesday night, found the town of West Jefferson with out an adequate water supply, as the cattle drank all the- water of the town system, emptying the reservoir. It became necessary to hurriedly construct a water line from a nearby creek in order to provide sufficient water for the cattle to drink. North Carolina has agreed to pasture 75,000 head of the,se cattle as her quota and Alle ghany county has agreed to a quota of 3,000 head. Doughton Speaks At Labor Meeting In Asheville Mon. Asheville, Aug. 14.—Congressman Robert L. Doughtonj of Alle ghany county, in an address de livered here yesterday morning at the State Federation of Labor meeting, praised the interest mani fest by labor in good government and its efforts to improve living conditions for workers. The ses sion yesterday afternoon was feat ured by a debate on the propos ed new state constitution, with Dr. Clarence Poe, of Raleigh, editor of the Progressive Farmer and the Southern Ruralist, taking the affirmative, and former Lieu tenant Governor Richard T. Foun tain, the negative. Fountain outlined that the new constitution removes all limi tation from taxation by the legis lature and abolishes all local constitutional offices, giving the General Assembly the right to authorize that the Governor name these officers. It also gives the Governor veto power, he objected, and would centralize education at Raleigh. It permits the state judicial council to make rules for the superior court instead of the legislature. Poe figured that those oppos ing the adoption of the proposed now constitution were working into the hands of special inter ests desirous of keeping the old laws. Mayor Wickes Wambolt, Ashe ville, formally welcomed the dele gates yesterday morning at the opening session. HOOVER WRITES BOOK Former President Hoover has written a book on human lib erty, taking up the question from a world standpoint. Tilleys Go Free As Judge Allows Non-Suit Action Luther Tilley And Winfield Stanley Also Set Free In Eldridge Case When So licitor Takes Nol-Pnos North Wilkesboro( Aug. 14.— Five members of the Tilley fam ily on trial' in Wilkes Superior court for the murder of Leoda Childress were set free at 5:40 o’clock Saturday afternoon when Judge John M. Oglesby> who was presiding at the trial, allowed a defense motion for non-suit. By reason of the jurist’s action four of the defendants walked from the courtroom to liberty. Luther Tilley was returned to the county jail to face a first-degree murder charge for the alleged slaying of Andrew Eldridge seven years ago but this case was also erased from the records of the Wilkes court Monday when ' Solicitor Jones took a noi'-pros in the case and Tilley, together with Winfield Stanley, who was also charged with implication in the alleged slaying( was also set free. The two defendants had spent six months in jail, having been com mitted to jail in February fol lowing a hearing in Wilkesboro when evidence tending to show , that they were responsible for the mysterious death of Eldridge j was presented. The state rested its case against the Till'eys at 4:40 o’clock Satur day and J. Hayden Burke> of defense counsel, began argument on a motion for non-suit, first on the count of conspiracy and then on the charge of murder. Be fore he had finished Judge Ogles by interrupted to allow both motions. The defendants, Mr. and Mr9. W. W. Til’ley, their sons, Luther and Clyde and Luther’s wife, showed the first emotion during the five days of the trial when the judge directed the verdict of not guilty. Mrs. W. W. Tilley and Mrs. Luther Tilley sobbed with joy and embraced each other while the male members of the family were busy shaking hands-with their attorneys. Thus came to an end the trial of the most sensational murder case in Northwestern North Caro lina’s history, and the action of the court leaves the death of Miss Childress, foster child and sister of the five defendants, as much a mystery as it was the day she was found dead by neigh bors in the Tilley home on December 30. Saturday night four of the Tilleys returned to their home, the scene of the tragic death, after being held in jail since January. Freed in the Eldridge case, Luther Tilley rejoined the other members of his family. Failure to establish that the 18-year-old girl was killed or connect any defendant with the crime, if one was committed, was argued by defense counsel. The state was unable to prove that any one of the defendants was nearer than 150 yards to the home at the time the state desig nated as the hour of death. Saturday was the fifth day of the trial and at least two scores of state witnesses were examined, but no material evidence of an incriminating nature - was pre sented, other than that two wit nesses ’ stated they had heard re marks by the Tilleys that Luther had been paying too much atten tion to Leoda and that his wife was jealous. Tom Childress, father of the slain girl, presented one of the highlights’ of the day when he testified that one year prior to her death he received a letter signed “W. W. Tilley,” saying that Leoda was “giving a lot of trouble and separating a man and wife.” Childress said he car ried the letter to W. W. Tilltey and he denied knowledge of it, saying that “Minerva Tilley must have wrote it.” AGRICULTURE STUDENTS GO ON OUTING AT WHITE LAKE F. H. Jackson left Monday to accompany a group of agriculture students in his high school classes on their annual „outing to White Lake. Herbert Estep and Ray Choate are also spending the week at White Lake. Students leaving were: Ray Blevins, Wade Choate, Junior Wagoner, Paul Higgins, Olin Edwards, Kemp Duncan, Gene Irwin, Claude Critcher and Ralph Edwards. Alleghany County S. S. Convention To Be September 2 Gathering At Potato Creek Is planned For All Sun-’ day Schools Of All De nominations In Gount^T\ The Annual County Sunday School Convention for all the Sunday schools of all denomina tions in Alleghany county will be held in Potato Creek Methodist church, on Sunday, September 2. This convention is to be held under the joint auspices of the Alleghany county and the North Carolina State Sunday school as sociations. The Rev. Shuford Peeler, General Secretary, Miss Myrtle A. McDaniel, newdy elected Director of Leadership Training and Miss Edith Krider, Director of Young Peoples’ Work of the State Association, will be present and take an active part in the entire program. This year’s program is some what different from that of former years, planned especially to help meet the needs of indi vidual Sunday schools as well as a program of inspiration for all Sunday school members, j There will be addresses, and special “study groups” for dis cussion as to how to improve the Sunday school and how to teach in the Sunday school; also special' music and other special features. The theme of the convention is “Building Christian Homes.” There will be morning, afternoon and night sessions. The night session is especially planned in the interest of young people, but will be of interense interest and value to everyone. During the noon “recess” there will be a Fellowship dinner on the church grounds and everybody is invited to take their basket lunch and join in this period of fellowship. All the churches and Sunday schools of the county are ex pected and urged to send dele gates. At the close of the - con vention a pennant will be awarded to the Sunday school making the best record of attendance, based on number of miles traveled. Additional information may be obtained from the county presi dent, G. G. Nichols, or the secretary, Mrs. Enoch Osborne. Sales Tax In State Brings $6,011,700 During First Year Raleigh, Aug. 14.—The gen eral sales tax of 3 per cent, brought a total of $6,011,700.16 in revenue (not including $3, 257.17 refunded) during the first year of its operation, up to June 30, as has been announced. It is not generally known, however, that chain stores which have their main offices in other states, paid nearly a million dol lars of this fund, or $859,653.27, while $5,118,875.26 was collected from local merchants and chain stores which have their main of fices within the state. Of this amount, too, $36,408.80 was col lected as the $1 registration fee for each merchant doing business in the state, ‘he odd cents in the case of each county result ing from penalties of a few cents for delayed payment of this fee. With sufficient allowance for the small penalties, it is seen that there were approximately 36,350 merchants paying the reg istration fee during Hie past year, a tax in lieu of the former taxes on merchants and in consideration of their services in collecting the general sales tax. Fourteen counties, ten in the west and four in the east, paid $3,153,516.79 of the total tax, or considerably more than half of it, a compilation shows. CONGRESSMAN DOUGHTON ATTENDS TRAFFIC MEET Congressman R. L. Doughton attended the fifth summer meet ing of the Winston-Salem Traffic club which was held at Gray stone inn Roaring Gap, last Sat urday night, August 11. The prin cipal speaker of the occasion was Judge R. V. Fletcher, General Counsel, Association of Railway Executives, Washington, D. C. The invocation was offered by Rev. J. T. Mangum, pastor of Central Methodist church. Mount Airy. MRS. O’BERRY RESIGNS DEMOCRATIC PARTY POST Raleigh, Aug. 14.—A new vice chairman will have to be elected by the State Democratic Executive committee when it meets here soon. The necessity for this ac tion has come about by reason of an announcement made yes terday by Mrs. Thomas O’berry, state relief administrator, that she would not stand for reelec-1 tion as vice-chairman of the com mittee. The committee, in addition to i selecting a successor to Mrs. ! O’Berry, will also choose a suc cesor to Mrs. Palmer Jerman, who has resigned as Democratic National committeewoman. Skyline Parkway Boosters Meet In Mt. Airy Friday Congressman Doughton And “Governor” Doughton, Of Sparta, Among Speakers. Kiwanians Sponsor Meet About a hundred persons, all' j interested in the Skyline Park-; way that is planned to connect! the Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountain National parks, assemb led at the Blue Ridge hotel, Mt. Airy, N. C., Friday night and | heard Several addresses upon the j subject and a discussion of ways i and means to promote the work through nearby parts of Virginia and North Carolina. The meeting was sponsored by ! the Mt. Airy Kiwanis club and among the , prominent speakers were Congressman “Bob” Dough- i ton, of Alleghany county, “Gov- j error” R. A. Doughton, Sparta, j Kyle Weeks, Floyd, and W. D. Tompkins, Hillsvil'le. Before the conclusion of the ; meeting a committee was ap- ! pointed, one representative from each county, to work with the ; Federal government and the North Carolina and Virginia highway departments in any way they! deemed advisable in an effort to hasten construction work. Jack Matthews, Galax, was selected to represent Grayson county on this oommittee, Glenn Edwards, Hills ville, to represent Carroll county, j and D. C. Duncan, Sparta, to represent Alleghany county. A fine banquet was served by the hotel. Table decorations were miniature replicas of scenic points along the 'proposed highway, all very cleverly executed. Top Lambs Bring $6.45 At Auction In Galax Monday _ 1 The weekly auction sale held Monday at Galax by the Grayson Carroll Livestock market was marked by a large attendance and a good number of stock on the grounds. Top lambs sold for .$6.45 per hundred pounds> top veal calves, $5.75 per hundred, and top ewes $5.85 each. Gordon C. Felts', Galax, topped the cattle market with a pen of fat heifers at $4.15. J. T. Horney, president of the market, said Monday that he ex pected to have a carload of hogs, ranging in weight from 80 to 150 pounds, to be sold at the regular sale to be held at Galax on next Monday, August 20. Another special horse and mule auction will be held on Monday, September 3, as is customary on the first Monday in each month. This sale will be held in connec tion with the regular sale of live stock but will not, in any way, interfere with the sale of any of the various classes of stock that is sold regularly. I TWO CONVICTS ESCAPE FROM CAMP NEAR SPARTA MON. Two convicts, serving long sentences for robbery, escaped from the local convict group Monday afternoon while the priso ners were at work about one mile out of Sparta on Highway No. 18. They were not missed until after sufficient time had elapsed for them to make a complete “get-away.” Two bloodhounds were brought here from another camp but fail ed to locate a trail. Secretary Ickes To Hold Hearings On Parkway Route Hopes To Get Around To Them Within Two Or Three Weeks. Senators Are Enthusiastic Washington, Aug. 14.—In or Jer to settle what he termed a ‘nice controversy” between North Carolina and Tennessee regarding -he location of the Greatfi Smoky Mountain National ,parkway from Blowing Rock to the park en trance, Secretary of Interior [ekes announced today that he would hold open hearings on the patter. The secretary gave no definite date for the hearings, but said he hoped to get around to it within the next two or three weeks. He has not yet decided whether the hearing will be held in Washington or in the Great Smoky mountain section. Ickes plans to make a personal inspec tion trip over the different routes proposed by Tennessee and North Carolina, but said he did not know whether this would take place before or after the hear ing. The PWA has allocated $16, 300,000 for building the park way. Secretary Ickes’ decision to take the question of location of he parkway in his own hands is •egarded as a victory for North Carolina. It is well known that l report had been prepared rout ng the parkway into Tennessee just below the Linville Gorge section, entering the parkway rear Gatlinburg. When this became known North Carolina members of Congress rot busy and Ickes agreed to re jpen the matter and hold further icarings. Hearings were held last winter it Baltimore before George Rad ■liffe, district PWA supervisor. Senator Bailey stated today :hat if North Carolina makes as rood a showing before Ickes as was made at Baltimore before Radcliffe he has no doubt but Rat the parkway will be located ilong the route proposed by the North Carolina Highway De partment which takes in Grand father Mountain, Linville Falls, Little Switzerland section, Mt. Mitchell, Graggy Mountain, Ashe i-ille section, Pisgah Mountain, Balsam Mountain, and into the park at Cherokee. Senator Reynolds expressed gratification over the fact that Ickes has decided to hold a hearing. “Knowing the secretary as 1 do, I feel' that when he goes into this matter and sees the scenery which we have to offer on the North Carolina side, the parkway will be located through the Asheville section,” the junior senator declared. Senator Reynolds stated that North Carolina is not alive to just what the parkway and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park means to the state. He said Knoxville and Tennessee are busy advertising the park to the world with Gatlinburg as the main entrance. “The North Carolina legislature ought to appropriate at least $100,000 for the purpose of ad (continued on back back) "A liar's punishment is not being bettered when he speaks the truth." yr<susT s 13—First taxicabs appear io New York City, 1907. ® 14—Allies capture Pekin from Boxer rebels, 1900. IS—Panama Canal is opened for sea traffic, 1914. b 16—British capture Detroit from U. S. troops, 1812. ,c 17—Davy Crockett, great In • dian fighter, him 1786. 16—Virginia Dare, first U. S. white child, bom 1581. Jk 16—Five witches are Hanged >» Salem Mm lfioa
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