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The Alleghany Times Subscription Price $1*„ year advance DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHAN Y COUNTY Volume 10. SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA,THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1934. 6 PAGES Number 29. By Hugo Sims, Time* Special Washington Correipondent FOREIGN TRADE IMPROVES Figures for the first ten months of this year show an increase of 36 per cent in American export trade and an increase of 16 per cent in imports, both being com pared with the corresponding pe riod of 1933. That our merchan dise export balance was nearly $400,000,000 is not so pleasing in view of the desire for a closer balance in order to increase for eign purchasing power for Ameri can products. For the first ten months of 1933 the export balance was only $110, 599,000. This yeiar, for the same period, exports were $1,767,697, 000 and imports $1,371,871,000 as compared with $1,298,099,000 and $1,187,500,000, respectively, in 1933. It is believed, however, that the uneven balance can be improved through the several re ciprocity agreements now being negotiated. Word from Warm Springs, Ga., where the President enjoyed his Thanksgiving dinner with patients at the infantile paralysis foun dation, is that the routine Federal budget for the next fiscal year will be balanced and emergency expenditures held to as low a figure as possible. How this is to be done remains to be seen when Congress gets going in January and faces the various demands for more spending and the payment of the bonus. NO DISCORD DEVELOPS Japanese hopes of Anglo-Am erican discord have gone glimmer ing in the light of recent utter ances by responsible statesmen in both countries. Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, denied rumors "that Great Britian and Japan had talked together with out consulting the American dele gates. Premier Baldwin declared his government attached the high est value to close friendship and co-operation between the two Eng. lish speaking countries. In Wash ington Secretary Hull replied to both by paying tribute to the “fair, co-operative attitude” of the British and to say that the American government “whole heartedly reciprocates” the Prime Minister’s utterance. While there has been no official proposal of a common front against Japan, it is known that British officials have suggested the possibility of understanding be tween the United States and Great Britian, which would seek to ob tain for the two nations such ad vantages as may be possible through ,an agreement. It is said that Norman H. Davis, the head iif the American delegation, has been given authority to discuss the matter insofar as” it relates to a joint limitation of navies to avoid any naval rivalry. A clause would probably enable either power to increase naval strength if Japan embarks upon any am bitious attempt to create a much Larger navy'. HULL’S TARIFF POLICY Following ,a speech delivered by George N. Peek, special tariff ad viser, to the President, Secretary of State Cordell Hull found it advisable to reiterate the policy this government will pursue in its campaign to remove tariff obstruc tions through trade agreements. Mr. Peek had urged that we adopt a “two-column tariff” and bargain for business in foreign markets Under a system of quotas, now so much in vogue in other countries. I Mr. Hull laid down the flat >roposition that the most favored ration treatment "in its uncondi tional form” will be the basis of the twelve trade agreements now underway. He does not believe that much is to be gained by re moving a temporary trade barrier >r by swapping commodities or >y bargaining for the purchase of toffee or crude rubber in exchange for the sale of tires or other com nodities. Rather, he insists that there be a broad program of tariff reciprocity and other countries pve the United States as good treatment as may be accorded to my other nation. On our side he proposes to grant the same treat ment to all in the American mar cet. APPARENT CONFLICT Another apparent conflict be tween governmental leaders de veloped when Secretary Ickes, in tharge of the PWA, intimated that ow cost housing' was impossible through private capital at the very ime when Mr. Moffett, of the federal Housing Administration, vas talking about the wide use of urivate capital for this purpose ind the general idea was going uround that the government would (continued on page 5) Counties To Be Consolidated For FERA Work Alleghany, Ashe, Wilkes, Watauga, Surry And Yadkin To Comprise Unit Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga, Wilkes, Surry and Yadkin coun ties will be consolidated into one district, with headquarters at North Wilkesboro, for the admin istration of the FERA program in this section. This consolidation is in keeping with the change being m,ade in the state set-up, which is taking place in order to place more emphasis on the side of soc ial work than has been placed heretofore. To do this several counties will be grouped into dis trict units, and will be staffedi with case workers necessary for the supervision of families and home visiting. As many of those now working in the loc,al office here will be used as is possible, but the object in cutting out the office is to lower the cost of administration and to allow more money for the vvork itself; it is, therefore, pos sible that only the local case workers will be continued on “the payroll. There is now 104 administrative units in the state with the at tendant cost of running such of fices. Under the new regime, this number will be reduced to 33 district administrative units in the state. The allottments made the var ious counties will be sent to the district offices and disbursed from there. On January 1, all direct relief cases will be dropped from the FERA lists, and will become county charges in all those coun ties that have not provided ap propriations which have been ttumed over to thd Relief Ad ministrator for use in cooperation with the relief program. Ashe county is one of the counties where the direct relief will be stopped since she has not made such appropriations. After the first of the year, only those who can work will be em ployed by the FERA. This rul ing is made in an effort to make counties assume their normal re sponsibilities in regard to their poor. Relief Director C. A. Miles has notified the County Commission ers of this county that all un employiable persons will be the responsibility of the local govern ment on and after January 1. Tax Increase To Be Opposed By Doughton Washington, Dec. 4.—“There will be no increase in federal tax es unless it is absolutely neces sary,” Chairman Robert L. Dough, ton, of the House ways and means committee, declared here upon his arrival today to sit in with a special ways and means subcom mittee which is canvassing the tax structure with the view of drafting the 1935 revenue bill. The N-orth Carolina represen tative said he would confer with President Roosevelt and Secre tary of Treasury Morgenthau within the next several days and get their views as to what they thought will be needed to .run the federal machinery during the next fiscal year and then his com mittee would shape its program accordingly. Doughton will be here until the week before Christmas in con nection with this work with the special committee on taxation and other routine departmental work connected with his office. Asked as to his position^on cash payment of the bonus, Doughton said he would like to see a plan worked out for pay ing the veterans, especially the needy ones. TO HOLD FATHER AND SON BANQUET HERE SAT, NIGHT Boys of the Sparta high school Agriculture department are to hold their annual Father and Son banquet on Saturday night, De cember 8'. The affair is to be.,held in the high school building. *' HOLD UNION SERVICE Rev. John Leslie Hart, pastor of the Galax Baptist church, de livered the sermon at the Galax union Thanksgiving service in the Christian church. Auto Sales For November Show Drop In N. C. Raleigh, Dec. 4.—New car sales in North Carolina during Novem ber dropped considerably from the record set in October, but were far ahead of sales in the corresponding month last year. The drop is attributable to the short period of use of 1934 licenses, prospective purchasers waiting until December 15, when they may use 1935 licenses, Direc tor L. S. Harris, of the motor vehicle bureau, reports. New motor vehicles registered in November numbered 3,715, or 3,029 passenger cars and 686 trucks, as against 7,311 cars and 1,905 trucks in October, and as against 2,328 cars and 450 trucks in November, 1933. Sales to the end of November for the entire year reached 53,461, or 43,075 cars and 10, 386 trucks, as against 26,971 cars and 5,955 trucks in the 11 months of 1933, Director Harris reported. Business Men Plan To Help Recovery Drive Several Hundred Industrial Leaders Make Public Tentative “Prosperity Platform” New York, Dec. 4.—The move ment to harmonize efforts of busi ness and the national administra tion in ,a concentrated drive for economic recovery gained furth er momentum last night as sever al hundred industrial leaders made public a tentative “prosperity platform.” Gathered at the annual meet ing of the national industrial council of the National Associ ation of Manufacturers, the ]>usi-. ness men pledged themselves to work for closer co-operation be tween government and industry and began a four-day program de signed to sound out business opin ion in all sections of the United Highlights of the platform, which will be submitted to a gen eral convention of the association later this week, were: 1— Avoid policies which tend bo centralize control over indus try, labor and agriculture and to regiment the United States. 2— Maintain a constitutional balance among legislative, execu tive and judicial power. 3— Balance the federal budget. 4— Withdraw federal aid from states which do not cut expendi tures excluding relief and bonded debt, to the 1926 level. 5— Substitute for state sales taxes and federal “nuisance” tax es a non-cumulative. manufac turer’s sales tax, collected by the government and shared with the various states. 6— Return as soon as possible to a “genuine and unrestricted gold standard.” 7— Amend the securities act and the securities exchange act to conform with the principles of British law and practice. 8— Repeal the Frazier-Lemke act. 9— Establish a uniform account ing system for operations in which the government engages. 10— Abandon all forms of gov ‘ernment competition with private industry. 11— Make illegal sympathetic strikes. ‘ 12— EJncourage local settlement of labor disputes and make every organization of employers and employees equally subject to pub lic authority. 13— Relieve unemployment dis tress, not subsidize it. County Officer* Take Oath Mon.; Many In Town Many persons ' from various parts of the county were in town Monday to attend to routine business matters, it being the first Monday, and also to see the newly elected officials take the oath of office. Those being sworn in were Walter M. Irwin, sheriff; Charlie Shepherd, Constable of Pnathers Creek Township; Johnny Wagoner, Constable of Glade Creek Town ship; »A. F. Reeves, Clerk of Court; Vann Reeves, Register of Deeds; Johnny Gambill, County Commissioner; W. M. Roberts, County Coroner, and J. C. Sharks, County Surveyor. Repeal Of Dry Law Is 0b€ Year Old On Dec. 5 Congressman Celler Warns Whisky Industry It Must Reform Or Be Outlawed Again Washington, Dec. 4.—Prohibi tion repeal will be one year old tomorrow, and tonight Represen tative Emanuel Celler (D), New York, who was in the vanguard of the fight that brought legal liquor back, w,aimed the whisky industry it must reform or be outlawed. He threatened to sponsor legis lation which would regulate liquor advertising unless the distilleries cease “placing advertising before the public designed to popularize drinking.” One year of repeal, according to Director Joseph H. Choate, Jr., of the federal alcohol con trol administration, has demon strated that liquor taxes must be lowered if bootleggers are to be driven out of business. “Unless the vested liquor inter ests take warning,” Celler said, “they will have one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave. Those of us who were in the vanguard of the fight against prohibition feel that we have an obligation to keep the liquor business clean and above corruption. Evidence of graft is wide spread.” Choate cited the British Isles, with a population one-third that of the United States, where liquor taxes amount to $(500,000,000 a year. “They are able to levy those high taxes,” he said, “because the’y have no bootlegging.” Choate believes the quality of liquor now is better than one could reasonably s expect in one NATION GIVES THANKS Thanksgiving was observed throughout the land Thursday, November 29, and a deep relig ious undertone was noted. Debt Adjustment Committee Named For Alleghany J. B. Riley, Field Representative Of Debt Adjustment Body, In Sparta This Week J. B. Riley, field representative of the Farm Debt Adjustment commission, was in SpartEf Mon day and Tuesday contacting members of the Alleghany County farm debt adjustment committee. The Farm Debt Adjustment commission is working under the Farm Credit administration and is administered from funds furnished through the office of Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, state administrator of the ERA. The commission has aw its purpose the adjustment of debts of farmers who are unable to meet their obligations and are faced with the possibility of having to go into the bankruptcy courts to get relief. Mr. Riley states that when a farmer applies to the local com mittee for assistance, the com mittee tries to work out a satisfactory arrangement with all creditors, and give the farmer ,an opportunity to work out his debt problems. D. C. Duncan, of Sparta, is chairman of the Alleghany County debt adjustment committee. M. A. Higgins, of Ennice, is vice chairman, and Clinton Halsey, of Sparta, is secretary. Other mem bers of the committee are M. E. Reeves, of Laurel Springs; J. T. Miles, of Cherry Lane; Will Parsons, of Piney Creek, and W. B. Reeves, of Whitehead. Farmers who are hard-pressed by their creditors may get in touch with one of the members of this committee, and they will assist him in working out an adjustment of his debts. ENDS GA. VACATION Washington, ■ Dec. 4—President Roosevelt is scheduled to return here tomorrow after a vacation spent at Warm Springs, Ga. Through State Capital Keyholes By Bess Hinton Silver BIG STICK — Raleigh back room political circles hear rumb lings of a coming war between eastern and western Democrats that are highly intriguing, to say the le,ast. The story goes that the westerners are forming a combine to force redistricting of the State after the mandate of the constitution. The east has blocked redistricting which would give the west greater represen tation at the expense of the boys down east. The plan of the wes terners is said to be scrapping of the traditional method of alter nating between east and west on candidates > for Governor, Senator and other important State offices in the event the easterners re fuse to agree to redistricting. That would mean that the west would offer Democratic candidates for all offices every term. The -thought will probably cause the eastern boys to pause and think. NUMBER FOUR — You have been reading a lot about the three leading candidates for the Demo cratic gubernatorial nomination in the spring of ’36, namely Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby; Congress man R. L. Doughton, of Sparta; and Lieutenant Governor A. H. Graham, of Hillsboro; Now you can also hear around the State Capitol that Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt, of Oxford, has about decided to pitch his hat into the ring and if he does you can look for a real battle-royal. Any man of the quartette can well be rated a serious threat to any other man’s gubernatorial ambitions. HONOR—Keyholes is just about willing to stake its reputa tion on the prediction that Dan C. Boney, North Carolina’s affable Commissioner of Insurance, will be honored by his fellows at the annual meeting of the National Association of Insurance Com missioners in Florida early in December. It would not’ be sur prising if Mr. Boney should emerge as president of the (Na tional organization. POTENT—Announcement this week of the formation of the Highway Protective League of North Carolina—main objective and amendment to the State constitution prohibiting diversion of motor taxes—is another indi cation of motorists banding together-to prevent their being made the “goat” in taxes in Tar Heelia. Motorists are already pay ing 52 per cent of total taxes collected in North Carolina and the new organization asserts that if more money is being collected from motorists than necessary to maintain roads there should be a reduction in motor taxes, rather than diversion. The potency of the new group is indicated by some of its sponsors; Julian Price, president of the Jefferson Stan dard Life Insurance Co., of Greensboro; J. A. Hartness, former Secretary of State; Claude Wheatly, former Republican mem ijer of the State Highway Com mission; Dr. John N. Hill, pro minent surgeon of Cherokee county; Norman Chambliss, banker and manager of the State Fair; Superior Court Judge Hoyle Sink; R. P. (Bob) Holding, president First Citizens Bank & Trust Oo.; J. G. Stykeleather,). W. A. McFirt and J. L. McNair, former members of the State Highway Commission; J. B. Ward, Wilson business man, and a host of others. You’ll admit there’s power in that line if the boys can develop the team work. It appears they will. BONER—Keyholes won the mythical concrete bicycle for the prize boner last week. An item told of the expected resignation of one of the State assistant Attorneys General because , of poor health. Dennis G. Brumnfitt, Attorney General, writes that both A. A. F. Seawell and T. Wade Bruton, the two assistant Attorneys General are in good health and have assured him that they have no intention' of resigning. That - is widely-known. What Keyholes intended to say was that on6C of the three as sistant United States District Attorneys is expected to resign because of poor health. Oui apologies to Messrs. Brummitt (continued page 2) Flier Thinks He Has Set New Altitude Mark Bartlesville, Okla., Dec. 4.— Wiley Post was jubilant last night, convinced he had spiraled his round-the-world monoplane Winnie Mae higher into the air than any heavier-than-air craft hitherto had gone. He said he believed he had reached 48,000 feet or more. The secret of whether the one eyed aviator, clad in an ,asbestos suit with oxygen helmet, had tap ped the lower reaches of the stratosphere as he had hoped was sealed in his barograph, which will be sent to Washington to be examined by officials of the Na tional Aeronautical Association. The present international rec ord stands at 8.96 miles, set by the Italian, ftenato Donati. Bal loons have penetrated about four miles higher. Doughton Says Sales Tax Will Come Up Again Stops In Winston-Salem On Way To Meeting Of Ways And Means Group In National Capital Having rested up from his suc cessful campaign for re-election to the House of Representatives, Congressman R. L. “Flarmer Bob” Doughton spent a short time in Winston-Salem Monday night en route to Washington to attend a meeting of the House ways and means committee, of which he is chairman. The com mittee was scheduled to meet Monday, but Congressman Dough ton asked that the meeting be postponed until Tuesday morn ing. The all-important question of a sales tax will more than likely find its way into the House dur ing the coming session of Con gress, Mr. Doughton surmised while consuming a ‘‘sizzling steak” during his short stay in the twin city. •‘The sales tax question has a lot of strong supporters in both House and Senate,” Mr. Dough ton declared. He said he would not be surprised to see this form of taxation pushed by its pro ponents. Mr. Doughton said he would have four new Democrats and two new Republican members of hia committee. The Democrats missing from the committee will be Chalenberg,, of Nebraska; Dickinson, of Missouri; McClintic, of Oklahoma, and West, of Ohio. The new members of the com mittee will be elected during the party caucuses to be held prior to the opening session of Con gress on January 7. Asked if he expected the ses sion to be smooth and responsive to the President’s will, Congress man Doughton said he did not know. “There are a lot of new fellows in Congress ,and they have made a lot of promises. You never can tell what will happen,” he said. Congressman Doughton said his committee would be in session for about two weeks and then he expected to return to his home at Laurel Springs for the Christmas holidays. He expects to be home about December 20. Residence, Barn And Granary Of T. L. Harris Burn The residence, barn and gran ary belonging to T. L. Harris, of Glade Creek, burned one night last week. The family who were at home, awoke about midnight to find the three buildings burning. An oil can nearby and the simultaneous firing of the three buildings load to the belief that the fire was of incendiary origin, but suspicion rests on no particular person or persons. Very few personal effects were saved from the fire. ELDER S. P. ROBERTS TO HOLD SERVICES Elder S. *P. Roberts, of the Primitive Baptist church, will hold services in the near future as7 follows; Baywood, December 13; Cral Creek, December 14; Zion, Do cember 15; Little River (Sparta) December 16. Waynick Nat Ass’t. Highway Chief For N. C. 'ucu | High Point Editor Is Appointed To Handle Work Of E. B. Jeffress, Who Is III Raleigh. Dee. 4.—Capus M. Waynick, of High Point, 45-yeiar old prominent North Carolinian, today was appointed assistant chairman of the state highway and public works commission: Waynick will act in place of Chairman •£. B. Jeffress, of Greensboro, who has been in a coma almost continually since suffering a stroke of paralysis last August. Governor Ehringhaus met with members of the state highway and public works commission today in conference, out of which came the announcement of W.aynick’s selection. Waynick was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1931 and of the State Senate in 1933. Waynick’s new position was an nounced as “temporary,” at a salary of $416.33 1-3 per month. Born in Rockingham county, December 23, 1889, Waynick at tended high school at Greensboro and college at the University of North Carolina. During the World War he serv ed as lieutenant. The board, in selecting Way nick, adopted the following reso lutions: “Whereas the Honorable E. B. Jeffress, chairman of the State Highway and Public Works Com mission, is still physically unable to perform the duties required of his office and there arrives par ticularly at this time most im portant labor with respect to parkways and other federal proj ects, state legislation matters and other highway problems demand ing immediate and constant at tention, therefore be it resolved by the highway and public works commission that the budget bur eau be and is hereby requested to establish within the commission the temporary office of assist ant chairman of the highway and public works commission, to be in. the absence of the chairman clothed with all the powers and duties of the chairman.” Big Dance To Be Given Here Friday Night One of the most outstanding dances ever given in Sparta is to be held here on Friday night, December 7, from 10 o’clock ’til —? in celebration of the com pletion of the new gymnasium. Music is to be furnished by the “Camel City Night Hawks” .and any profits made will be used for the benefit of the school. ' 'iOiaperones will be provided. The new gym provides an ex cellent place for a dance, as there is 7,000 square feet of hardwood floor space. LOCAL BOY ON HONOR ROLL AT O. R. M. A. “Buck” Higgins, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Higgins, a student at Oak Ridge Military academy, was eligible for the Honor Roll during the last term at the school, it has been announced here. "If you want the kfmtl then you mutt crack thf nut.” DECEMBER S—Illinois, 21st state, si mitted to Union, 181#. 4— Henry Ford’s Peace Mis sion Ship sails, 191$. 5— California declares inde . pendence of Mexico, ' 1836. 9—The Irish Free State is established, 1921. . 7—Delaware is first state to s sign Constitution, 1787. S—Washington retreats) across Delaware river* i* 1776. a slvit *—Jenaakm surrei ♦5British AUcnby, surrender* 1917.