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ny Times -DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY I Volume 10. SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1935 4 PAGES Number 34. -- -- rfAiif....--- ---- -----r ■ . ■ ---: ,11 ...l By Hugo Sim*. Tim** Special f' Washington Corra*pon«Unt INGRESS CONVENES , As Congress convenes^there is t*mc uncertainty as to the re commendations of the President and a general inclination to wait for the Administration to reveal its program. The major policies involve the task of recovery and jreiief and almost every question ■'that comes up will be con^dered in its relation to one or the'other of the two great problems before the Congress. PROBLEMS COMPLICATED Last week the President con ferred with his official family in frder to polish his message, de oils of which will not be known jntil it is delivered on Friday of ;his week. It will be broadcast id the people of the nati<ah will „*ve the opportunity of hearing the President’s recommendations on some of the questions at issue, although it is not expected that he will treat every item on the legislative program, but rather that he will follow his custom of submitting subsequent messages to Congress on specific issues. PRESIDENTS POSITION J The subjects to J* considered my the present Cor^ress a jd the ■resident include: The extent of , ¥&lief and public works, the or C dinary budget, the bonus, the cur ') rency question, the NRA, and ' some other matters such as the inflation issue, which will be pushed by blocs in Congress. It is not expected that any et jfort will be made to lay devwn .a definite sum for relief dhd public .Works, although probably the I President will ask broad powers jin regard to these expenditures, j Meanwhile, he is said to be hope j ful that minimum expenditures I can be made in an effort to give I business its chance to “cooperate,” l but if little results from the help j of business, the government will probably enlarge the expenditure of its recovery agencies .d* The ordinary budget, according to best information, will be cut closely. The currency question is not expected to come to a head for at least a month because the inflation group is marking time while awaiting results from the ‘cooperation of business men with the Administration. But, in the event that this does not lead to better conditions . the near fu ture. .a strdwen'Od will be made for currency measures to bring the purchasing value of the dollar up to the 1926 price level. However, strong as the inflation group is in the new Congress, Democratic leaders believe that the President will be able to con tinue to control the monetary policy of the Administration, tich will probably not be rhang for soqfna months at —it. BONUS LIKELY TO WIN Probably the greatest issue be tween the Congress and the Presi dent is a difference of opinion over the immediate payment of the veterans’ bonus. Legislation to accomplish this will undoubtedly appear promptly, with present in ^jU$ptJons that it will pas^ Con gress. In the event of a Presiden tial veto; few doubt but that the House will override the President and, while the attitude of the Senate under such circumstances I is not so plain, the preponderance of opinion is that the Senate, too, will vote for immediate payment by the necessary two-thirds. CONTROVERSIES CERTAIN | The NRA is certain to be the , target of a strong Republic" n at tack, with Senator Borah opening Are to demand the restoration of | the anti-trust laws and the aboli - tion of price-fixing. The Idaho senator is making a great issue out of monopoly, which, is strong i ly reminiscent of the days of I Theodore Roosevelt and to a de gree of Woodrow Wilson. controversial questions the entrance into the which will probably the bitter League of Na are in the Senate Lawrence but AIDS MANY of ms Hauptmann Goes On Trial In Murder Case Suspect To Face Jury Thirty Month* After Lindbergh Baby Was Kidnaped And 'Killed Flemington, N. J., Jan. 1.— Thirty weary months after the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped and killed, the state of New Jersey brings a prisoner to the bar of justice tomorrow to try him for the most notorious crime of this age. I «y me opinions ui a* pciovno in the jury box in the court of oyer and terminer Bruno Richard Hauptmann will live or die. New Jersey law dictates that he either must perish in the electric chair or go back, a free man, into a world, where there is scarcely a fireside that has not heard his name. The shadow of prison is not across his life, so far as this commonwealth is concerned, but New Jersey state will arrest him at the courthouse door if he is acquitted and carry him back across the Hudson River to try him for gold hoarding, extortion, obtaining money under false pre tenses or any one of a dozen charges. Hauptmann swears he is innoc ent. The ransom money found in his possession, he says, was given to him by Isidor Fisch, a skinny little fur workei','« whose lungs were gnawed away by tuberculosis until he went to Germany and died. And so both the living and the dead will be on trial tomor row, for if Hauptmann is truth ful—if Fisch did give him the money—then where did Fisch get it? It is the aim of the defense to shoulder the blame on this man who lies buried in a Bavarian plain, beyond the call of sub poenas, writs of extradition and the wrath of all mothers and fathen. Against that contention of in nocence, Attorney-General David I. Wilentz of New Jersey will marshal a mass of damning cir cumstantial evidence. Haupt mann had the ransom money; handwriting experts will testify he wrote the notes that the kid naper sent to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh; experts will say lum ber and nails found in the ladder against the Lindbergh house were purchased by Hauptmann—a car penter. But it is on a question that has become threadbare from re iteration in courtrooms since law was codified that the issue will swing—the question of “where were you on the night of March 1, 1932?” Hauptmann will answer that he was miles away from Sourland Mountain, that he was walking away from a bakery in the bor ough of the Bronx, New York, escorting his wife home from the place where she worked. Then the prosecution will summon wit nesses to testify they saw him, shoes caked with mud, reconnoit ering the road that leads up to the Lindbergh house on or about the time of the kidnaping. Case Against Negro Suspects Is Dismissed Robert McMillan and Samuel Maxwell (colored), who were ar rested in connection with the death of Garnett Richardson (col ored), who was found cremated recently in a burning house, were to be given a hearing last Friday at 2 p. m. but, on motion of Attorney Sidney Gambill, the case was dismissed for lack of evi dence. RELIEF OFFICIALS IN SPARTA RECENTLY J. C. Capt, representative from Harry Hopkins’ office, was in Sparta last week attending to matters pertaining to relief work. Mr. Capt is visiting the local of fices in the six counties of this district. He appeared to be fav orably impressed with the work that is being done here. Another visitor here Monday in connection with the relief program was Miss Victoria Bell, who met the County Commissioners in re gard to eases they will assume responsibility for under the new regime. Miss Bell is administra tor of the relief program for the six counties, of which Alleghany is jna. Officers Make Distillery Raid And Arrest One In a raid made on Monday, December 31, by Sheriff Walter M. Irwin, Prohibition officer Leon ard Roup and Bill Halsey near Edwards Cross Roads, a large copper still was destroyed and one man arrested. Four men were working at the still at the time of the raid but. three escaped. The one taken resisted arrest and drew a 32 calibre automatic pistol on Hal sey, who caught him while run ning. Work (H Taldng Farm Census Is Now Under Way Federal Check-Up On Agricultural Statistics Starts January 2. Seek pAMnaea Of Fanil«rt Washington, Jan. 2.—Approxi mately 25,000 federal census em ployees today began the huge task of enumerating the more than six million farms and ranches of the United States in what is probably the most important agri cultural census in the nation’s history, according to a statement released by Director William - L. Austin, Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce. Plans call for the completion of the can vass before the end of January. “The Fifteenth Decennial Cen sus Act, approved June 18, 1929, directed that a mid-decennial Cen sus of Agriculture be taken January 1, 1935, for the calendar year 1934,” Director Austin said. “Because of the tremendous up heaval in the great basic indus try of agriculture, due to the depression, drought and other factors new farm statistics are urgently needed in connection with the Government’s vast recov ery program. “The earnest cooperation of the farmer is necessary to the success of this census, for it is one of the federal activities de signed primarily for his benefit. However, the welfare of agricul-: ture affects all other industries, directly or indirectly, and the public generally. The statistics are necessary not only for the ordinary transaction of govern (continued on back page) Baptists Hear Ehringhaus In Raleigh Speech — Raleigh, Jan. 1.—Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, addressing the fifth annual All-Southern Baptist Sunday School conference here, tonight, praised the Baptist sys tem of training Sunday school teachers. Declaring himself “sort of a cornfield Episcopalian,” the Gov ernor said he felt quite at home among Baptists. “The problems we have can only be met by some sort of edu cational process,” he told the con vention. “This is what you Bap tists are doing in teacher train ing programs, and in your work in the great field of religious edu cation.” Ehringhaus brought out two problems facing the Sunday school group: 1. Too great a tendency on the part of people to regard the laws of the land as something of a hindrance to the fulfillment of their own selfish inclinations. 2. Too great a general feeling that law breaking is dangerous only in respect to getting caught and punished. The Baptist. Sunday -schools, Ehringhaus said, can make a dis tinct contribution to society by “cultivating in the minds of chil dren, as well as adults, in your territory, a greater individual in sistence upon intellectual hon esty.” r , , ' ' Other speakers tonight included Dr. P. E. Burroughs, of Nash ville, Tenn., who declared that just as Dr. J. B. Gambrell believ ed thirty years ago that teacher training among Southern Baptists was the most vital movement ever launched, so the same great un dertaking, yet incompleted, is a major task today. “New Dealers” Look To 1935 With Confidence Greater Economic Security Forecast For Nation’s Workers. Hull Sees New Treaties Washington, Dec. 31. — New deal officials and agencies paus ed tonight to examine the coming year and found its possibilities good. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins forecast greater economic security for the nation’s work ers. Secretary of State Cordell Hull believed 1935 would see new trade treaties and real progress toward world economic recovery. Secretary -of the Interior Har old L. Ickes foresaw a new public works program. The NRA took stock and found 98 per cent of all American busi ness under codes that have elimi nated child labor, curtailed indus trial homework, established the principle of a limited work week and minimum rates of pay, de creased industrial unemployment, augmented wage purchasing pow er, and curtailed wage cutting in pri^e competition. The Civilian Consei-vation Corps which will begin enrollment of another 60,000 youtus tomorrow, evaluated the work done by al most one million young men and found their highway building and soil erosion efforts had benefitted the nation approximately $291, 000,000. Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper saw clearing weather, with fair days ahead, for busi ness. Miss Perkins said : “We are better oft" as a nation than we were this time last year. Employment was approximately 12 per cent and pay rolls 7 per cent greater than for 1933, farm ers’ income rose byiOotn -than a billion dollars. We should be able to look forward to further gains. “Among the hoped for accom plishments of 1935 is the passage of legislation which wilL provide a greater measure of economic security for the country’s wage earners. “It is my sincere wish that 1935 will bring increased oppor tunities for employment at good pay to every wage earner.” Veterans Plan To Battle For Bonus Payment Roosevelt's Arguments Against Paying [Claimants Immediately Is Struck Back At By Legion Washington, Jan. 1. — The American Legion tonight struck back at President Roosevelt’s ar guments against immediate pay ment of the soldier bonus and warned that every effort would be made to force such a measure through the Seventy-fourth Con gress. The decision of the Legion to fight to the last ditch was an nounced by its national command er, Frank N. Belgrano, Jr., in a lengthy statement analyzing Mr. Roosevelt’s position on the bonus contained in a letter to Garland R. Farmer, Henderson, Texas, legionnaire. The president’s letter, generally considered as an attempt to rally support of the nation behind him, and Belgnano’s reply, formally opened what is expected to be one 6f the most tumultuous fights in the new Congress. Both leaders are adamant. Mr. Roosevelt wrote Farmer that there are several reasons why the gov ernment should not be called upon to pay the $2,100,000,000 bonus at this time. In the first place, he said, the adjusted certificates do not fall due until 1945. Secondly, Mr. Roosevelt point ed out, the certificates are to be considered as endowment insur ance policies. More than 85 per cent of dying veterans, he said, leave no other legacy but the cer tificates to their dependents. To cash them now would remove a vital source of future income from wives and families of ex service men. In addition, the President said, an inquiry disclosed that more than a billion dollars advanced to veterans in a compromise agree ment reached in 1931 had been spent chiefly in liquidation of debts. There was no reason, he wrote, to believe that immediate disbursal of $2,100,000,000 would stimulate trade. The latter argument, Belgrano said today, “presents one of the strongest arguments in favor of the immediate payment of the ad justed service certificates I have yet read.” Through State Capital Keyholes By Be** Hinton Silver CAPITAL MANAGER ? — It’s being kept pretty quiet but there is an under-cover movement to have the Legislature change the government of Raleigh from the commission form to a city man ager form with a Board of Coun cilmen, according to the Capital City grapevine. The present Ral eigh City Commissioners have been from one row to another al most since the day of election and even the man on the street can sense sentiment for a change in government. None of the Wake county members of the General ‘Assembly have expressed themselves publicly on the sub ject but pressure for the change in your Capital City is about as sure as death and taxes. COST OF TALKING—The or der of the State Utilities Commis sion reducing Southern Bell tele phone rates in 58 North Carolina communities has received a delay by order of Superior Court Judge W. C. Harris. The court injunc tion halts the proposed reductions in rates until the company’s ap peal is heard in Superior Court which may be in January or several months later. The Utilities Commission, aided by the office of Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt, is ready to fight for the last ditch for the approxi mately 12 per cent cut and reliable, although non-quotabjp, sources are of the opinion that lower phone rates are just around the corner. FERTILIZER— Governor Eh ringhaus and Commissioner of Agriculture William A. Graham are going to bat for lower fertiliser prices in North Carolina. The Governor writes that he is unable to understand the upping of fertiliser prices in 1984 ov*r those of the year previous and wants Mr. Graham to assemble j. r-sv-'iv data and attend a conference on the subject to be held in the nation’s capital in the near future. Fertilizer and gasoline prices have been worrying the Gover nor almost as much as the in crease in tobacco prices has pleased him. BUDGET MESSAGE— What’s in the report of the Advisory Budget Commission to the General Assembly is a closely guarded secret and newsmen snooping around the offices of printers for the State haven’t been able to le,-irn much about the budget recommendations. You can put one thing in your pipe and smoke it, however, that is, that the budget proposal will con tain a suggestion for reenact ment of the sales tax with some revisions. It may be liberal enough to suggest that the sales tax can go by the board if the legislators can find the money elsewhere. The Budget Com mission is friendly to the administration and Governor Eh ringhaus has publicaly stated that the "emergency” for which the sales tax was enacted has not passed—you get what that means. The message also may contain suggestions for higher teacher pay. DIVERSION—Don't be sur prised if anti-gales tax leaders urge that four or five millions of dollars from the taxes paid by motorist* and truckers for building roads be diverted to re place the sales measures. Farmers living on the secondary road system may not object to this but they want the holes filled up and the bridges repaired be fore .their gasoline and license taxes go for some othe T ■y (continued on page 8) Suspects In Robbery Case Are Released Porter Wagoner and Emmett Wolfe, who were arrested in con nection with the robbery of Jay Hardin’s store on Saturday night, December 22, were given a hear ing Friday and were released from bond for lack of direct evi dence. Circumstantial evidence pre sented made the situation look very suspicious, it was admitted by G. Glen Nichols, before whom | the trial was held, but enough direct evidence to justify the ! prisoners being held for trial was lackine. Natives Of N. C. To Be Prominent At S. S. Meeting Persons Outstanding In Religious Work Of State To Re Heard At Greensboro Convention When the State Sunday school convention begins its three-day meeting in the First Presbyterian church, Greensboro, January 21, many native North Carolinians who have achieved outstanding places in the field of Religious Education will be present to par ticipate. Rev. Shuford Peeler, for four years the General Secretary of the North Carolina Sunday school association, will give his annual report and have charge of details. Dr. S. D. Gordon, of Winston I Salem, universally known and be hoved, will deliver the convention ! sermon Monday afternoon at 3 | o’clock, on the convention theme i‘‘Fellowship With Christ”. Dr. j Gordon will also have charge of several devotional periods. J. B. Ivey, a business man known throughout the length and breadth ol' the state, and presi dent of the North Carolina Sun day school association, will be the presiding officer and as president will bring his message to the delegates. Duke University will contribute to this convention through Dr. Elbert Russell, dean of the School oi Religion, and Dr. H. Shelton Smith, of the Religious Education al Department, who will both have prominent parts in the program. (continued on back back) Laurel Springs Postmastership To Be Filled Announcement has been made by the U. S. Civil Service com mission, Washington, D. C., that an examination is to be held in the near future at Galax, Va., the result of which it is expected to make certification to fill a con templated vacancy in the position of fourth class postmaster at Laurel Springs, in Alleghany coun ty, and other vacancies as they may occur at that office, unless it shall be decided in the inter est of the service to fill any vacancy by reinstatement. The compensation of the postmaster at this office was $730 for the last fiscal year. Receipt of applications will ciose on Friday, January 18, and the date for assembling of com petitors will be stated in the ad mission cards which will be mail ed to applicants after the close of receipt of applications. Applicants must have reached their twenty-first birthday but not their sixty-fifth birthday on the date of the close of receipt of applications. Applicants must reside within the territory supplied by the post office for which the examination is announced. The examination is open to all citizens of the United States who can comply with the requirements. ERA CASE WORKERS ARE ALLOTTED TO ALLEGHANY Al'eghany county has been al lotted three ease worker* under tre new ERA program. It is understood that Mrs. Ruth Choate has been appointed chief worker and that she will be assisted by Bert Thompson and Miss Sara Martin. Further Forest i Legislation Is Deshred By Dept. Conservation And Development Dept. Sends Letter To Various Wardens In view of the fact that the legislature is to convene in Ral» eigh on Tuesday, January 8, and in order that forestry may pro gress in the state, it is going bo be necessary that certain legis lative measures be introduced in the forthcoming legislature, ac cording to a letter mailed out by the State Department of Con servation and Development to chief wardens and county war dens. It is pointed out that elab orate laws are not wanted, nor is it desired that measures may be offered which will be objec tionable through increased taxes. The letter follows, in part: “The Senators and Represen tatives who will come to Raleigh from your respective counties can do much to assist in promoting forestry and stabilizing the work jn the Department, if properly informed of the need for suitable legislation and what the Division of Forestry has done, is doing now, and hopes to do in the future. “Under the present fire control law any county may cooperate with the State and Federal gov ernment in the protection of its forested areas from fire by sign ing a one year contract and mak ing available a sum designated by tre State Forestry Office, which sum is matched by an equal amount of State and Federal ■funds. The contract that is now possible for these coun ties to sign is for a one year period only, which may be re newed in the event the county wishes to renew, and the State is agreeable to such renewal; but any county may withdraw co operation at any time by simply notifying the state that at the end of a thirty day period they wish to withdraw cooperation without giving any cause. This one feature—this ability for a county to withdraw at any time • and only sign up for^a year’s work—causes a very Unstable con dition which by all means should be corrected. “Two courses are open either of which will stabilize the work. The first is state wide fire con trol and the second is a five or ten year cooperative agreement. "State-wide fire control would enable us to put into effect a long time fire control plan and remove the uncertainty now exist ing under the present law. It would stabilize forestry and there by make the future secure for the wood-using industries. "No bill has yet been drafted for state-wide fire control but it is planned to draw up such a measure whereby the State For ester would be empowered to designate such counties, as in hia ' estimation, in which forest fin control work should be carried on annually.” EVIDENTLY So far as the United States is concerned, Europe from this time forward is not going to live be yond its creditors’ means.—Wich ita Eagle. “Gossips and talebearers set on fra all the houses they enter.” JANUARY
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