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Volume 10.
The Alleghany Times
TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY
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SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA,THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1935. 4 PAGES . Number 35.
USE
WANTS ADS
FOR RESULTS
By Hugo Sim*, Tima* Special
Washington Correspondent
WHAT CONGRESS FACES
• r The overwhelmingly Democratic
Congress which orgianiied last
week and took charge of the leg
islative affairs of this nation will
face a number of puzzlesome mat
ters before its session ends. Be
fore it convened more than 1,000
bills had been to the public
printer and nobody knows how
many others will be introduced.
There will be a small army of
plans and projects to improve the
situation, each, in the eyes of
the author or sponsor, being vital
to national recovery and well
being.
Without regard to recent recom
mendations of the President it
might be well to take a look at
the general situation and discuss
some of the issues that are cer
tain to arouse discussion and
precipitate debate. In so doing
let Us state at the beginning that
the review is based on the out
look as Congress convened and
does not take into consideration
any event of the week immedi
ately past.
BALANCING THE BUDGET
The budget will be the subject
of # clash between those who in
sist that a balanced budget must
precede recovery and those who
contend that it is impossible at
this time to attempt such an un
dertaking and that, anyway, the
subject is not decisive. Operating
on a fiscal year that begins in
July the Federal government has
just about completed one-half of
its year, with appropriations for
the last year already voted by
the last Congress. Hence, one
should remember that, in all bud
get discussions, we are dealing
with the fiscal year that begins
next July and ends in the middle
of 1936.
The set-up contemplated pro
vides for two sets of expenses,
“ordinary” and “emergency.” The
first group includes all routine
costs and is expected to aggre
gate around three billion dollars,
divided roughly as follows: Vet
eran’s relief, $600,000,000; Na
tional defense, $500,000,000; Civil
departments, $700,000,000; Farm
benefits, $300,000,000 and Inter
est on the public debt, $900,
000,000. Considerable difference
of opinion is certain on the first
three items, with many favoring
new benefits for the soldiers, new
construction for the navy and
changes in hundreds of items in
departmental expenses.
WHAT OF PUBLIC WORKS
In the class of emergency ex
penses two great issues arise, pub
lic works and relief -of unemploy
ment, and both are controversial
to the highest degree. Taking up
public works we find that, at
present, the government is using
about $1,300,000,000 a year for
road building, rivers and harbors,
subsistence homesteads, loans to
States and cities and to construct
undertakings like Boulder Dam
and the Tennessee Valley Author
ity.
However, there are many who
say this is entirely too small an
amount and should be increased
many times. With private spend
ing violently contracted these
folks argue that the government,
through public spending, can give
the impetus that is needed to re
vive industry and get things mov
ing and that Federal credit can
stand the strain without any dan
ger of breaking. Various types of
works are suggested, such as slum
clearance, low cost housing, grade
crossing elimination and the use
of labor on such undertakings
rather than providing relief.
WHERE RELIEF STOPS
On the other hand opponents
of this free spending policy say
tliat it discourages private enter
prise, pegs costs at high levels and
arouses fears that new taxes will
be levied, that it would be better
for the government to retire from
the scene because its program can
not hope to equal the huge out
lays that would follow business
revival. They point out, in sup
port of this contention, that the
national income, before the de
pression, was around $70,000,
000,000 and that if proper steps
revive business that there will be
spending enough.
■ Another big item of the emer
gency budget is the $2,300,000,
000 a year being spent annually
for direct relief through the Fed
eral Emergency Relief Adminis
tration, the Civilian Conservation
(Corps and, to a lesser degree, the
Department of Agriculture. The
Civil Works program, once so ac
tive, is now very quiet. Much of
this huge sum becomes necessary
because 22 States are contributing
j leas than 1 per cent of the relief
tot*> although Congress, in adopt
Ufo.
(continued on page 3)
Ringing Call Is
Sounded For S. S.
Meet This Month
Baptist Leader To
Discuss Alcohol. To
Give Pageant: “Judean
Hills Are Holy’*
Officials of the North Carolina
Sunday School association are
sounding a ringing call to all
Sunday school workers through
out the one hundred counties of
the state to assemble in conven
tion January 21, 22 and 23 in
the First Presbyterian church,
Greensboro.
“The call,” according to one
official, “is a triple call—a call
from within, a qall from without
and a call from above. From
within comes a personal call for
the renewal of personal conse
cration; from without comes the
call from others for individuals
to help them in a great spiritual
recovery program, and from above
comes the call for co-workers with
our Christ, and thus the conven
tion theme: ’Fellowship With
Christ.’ ”
Pennsylvania is contributing to
this Convention through two out
standing men in the Lutheran and
Baptist churches. Dr. M. Hadwin
Fischer, connected with the Luth
eran Seminary at Gettysburg,
Penna., in charge of the edu
cational program of his denomi
nation in that state as far as
young people are concerned as
Director of the summer camp at
Nawakwa, and formerly connect
ed with the Pennsylvania State
Sunday School Association, will
present addresses on “Live Situ
ations The Basis Of Expressional
Activities” and “Essentials Of
Leadership,” as well as taking
part in the Discussion Groups and
Open Forum.
Dr. John W. Elliott, of the
Baptist Board of Philadelphia,
who has created a unique place
for himself throughout the state
because of his fearlessness and
frankness in facing the alcohol
question and challenging church
members to do likewise, will be
with the convention to speak on
"And What About Alcohol?”
"Young People And Alcohol” and
“The Church And Alcohol" as
well as in another address the
closing night of the Convention.
His messages will be most timely.
Miss Elizabeth McE. Shields,
the Director of Children’s Division
work for the Presbyterian Church
in the U. S., from Richmond will
be present to take care of the
Children's division work as well
as contributing through general
addresses to the group at large.
The neighboring state of Vir
ginia, is helping through its gen
eral secretary of the Virginia
Council of Religious Education,
the Rev. Minor C. Miller, who will
present his thoughts along the
lines of “The Lost Bible" and
also assist Miss Shields in the
Children’s Division.
Officials urge workers not to
fail to see Prof. H. Augustine
Smith’s great pageant, “Judean
Hills Are Holy” on Tuesday
night, January 22.
Persons desiring to attend may
enroll through their pastor, coun
ty Sunday school president or
secretary or directly through the
office of the North Caroliiva Sun
day school association, Salisbury.
Colored Man
Is Injured
In Shooting
In a shooting affray near
Hare early Saturday morning,
Troy Bryant (colored), was
seriously wounded by his father
in-law, George Baker, 78. The
two men, it is said, who had
been out all night, went home,
to Baker’s house, where they
lived together, early Saturday
morning in a drunken state, and
Baker’s wife fled to a neighbor’s
house. Bryant took his shotgun
and advanced on his father-in
law, who got his shotgun and, he
asserts, ftred in self defense.
Two shots were fired, wounding
Bryant in the right shoulder, arm
and hand. Bryant suffered from
an excessive loss of blood, but
is expected to recover.
Both men were placed in jail
to await a hearing and both ape
held without bond pending the
outcome of Bryant’s wounds. ,r
INVITED TO MEETING
Helen Keller, noted blind Vtit
er, has been invited to attend a
meeting in Raleigh Jan. 29.
Lindbergh Nursemaid
FLEMINGTON, N. J. . . Betty
Gow (above), nursemaid in the
Lindbergh home, who collapsed
here Monday after being subject
ed to a searching cross-exami
nation by Edward J. Reilly, de
fense lawyer of Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, now on trial for the
murder of the Lindbergh baby.
Stockholders Of
PCAToMeetln
Wilkesboro Feb. 2
Directors Of The
Association To Be
Chosen For Coming
The annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Wilkesboro
Production Credit association,
serving the counties of Alleghany,
Caldwell, Watauga, Ashe, Surry
and Yadkin, will be held February
2 at 11 o’clock at the Courthouse
in Wilkesboro, according to advice
just received from the Secretary
Treasurer of the association, T.
W. Ferguson.
Not only are all borrowers
from the association, the holders
of' class B stock, expected to be
present, but a most cordial in
vitation is also extended to all
farmers in the territory served
by the association and it is
hoped that a large number will
accept the invitation. Every mem
ber of the association is urged
to bring one or more non mem
bers with him as it is the desire
of the organization that every
farmer in this section shall ac
quaint himself with the credit
service which it has to offer.
Directors of the association for
the ensuing year will be elected
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Veteran Minister,
Brother Of Famed
Doctor, Succumbs
Blackstone, Va., Jan. 8.—The
Rev. James Claiborne Reed, D.
D., 92, veteran Methodist minis
ter, the last survivor of the War
Between the States in the Vir
ginia Methodist clergy, died at
his home here early Sunday after
several years of failing health.
He was a brother of the cele
brated Dr. Walter Reed. They
were sons of the late Lemuel S.
Reed, also a Methodist minister.
Dr. Reed was bom in Pasqua
tank county, N. C., November 1,
1842.
In 1869 he married Miss Sallie
Clarke of Fluvanna county, Va.
They had ten children.- In 1891
he married Miss Janie Vail, of
Portsmouth.
He was licensed to preach in
the Methodist ministry at Char
lottesville in 1868, and retired in
1922. During his ministry he
held twelve pastorates, and serv
ed as presiding elder over six
districts. He presided over the
Edenton (N. C.) district, Norfolk
district, Suffolk district, Danville
district, Lynchburg district and
Petersburg district. His pastor
ates were Nelson county, Pow
hatan county, Atlantic circuit,
Southampton (N. C.), Norfolk
circuit, Nottoway county, High
street, Petersburg; Trinity, Rich
mond; Memorial, Lynchburg; Cen
tral, Richmond; Hampton and
Bedford.
Funeral services were conduct
ed here Tuesday at 2:30 p. m.,
and interment wAs in Lakeview
cemetery.
Bailey Clashes
With Huey Long
In Senate Mon.
Argument Brings
Echoes Of Chicago
Democratic Convention
Held In Summer Of 1932
Washington, Jan. 8.—Echoes
of the 1932 Chicago Democratic
convention, when North Carolina
caused the Roosevelt forces to
drop their fight for abrogation of
the two-thirds rule, were heard
in the Senate chamber yesterday
afternoon during Senator Huey
P. Long’s speech attacking the
national administration and
especially Postmaster - General
Farley.
In telling the packed Senate
chamber and galleries just what
he did to promote the nomi
nation of President Roosevelt, the
Louisiana senator discussed the
efforts to line up support for a
change in rules governing Demo
cratic conventions whereby a
majority vote instead of a two
thirds vote nominates candidates.
“We tried to put this over but
the North Carolina delegation ran
out on us and would not stand,”
Long stated.
As quick as a flash Senator
Bailey was on his feet, exclaim
ing: "The senator is wrong.
North Carolina never did run
in.”
“I beg the senator’s pardon,”
Long replied. “We could not get
North Carolina in. We had Mr.
Roosevelt talk to the delegation
from Hyde Park but we could
not get North Carolina in.”
Josephus Daniels, Raleigh
publisher and now ambassador to
Mexico, made an unsuccessful
effort to get the North Carolina
delegation to agree to vote to
change the two-thirds rule.
Senator Bailey opposed the
change and three-firths of the
delegates stood with Kim.
In a final effort to swing North
Carolina into line, the delegation
met in the Congress Hotel and
Mr. Roosevelt addressed it from
Hyde Park over telephone, his
voice being amplified. His appeal
to change the rule had no effect.
Besides Senator Bailey and
Senator Reynolds, Representatives
Kerr, Bulwinkle, Clark, Warren
and Lambeth heard Long’s
speech.
Legislators In
Raleigh Ready
For *35 Session
Robert Grady Johnson,
Of Pender, Picked At
Party Caucus As Choice
For House Speakership
—
Raleigh, Jan. 8.—Prom the hills
of Cherokee to the water-soaked
lands of Dare came legislators and
lobbyists to Raleigh yesterday and
today for the convening, at noon,
Wednesday, of the 1935 General
Assembly. They came by train,
bus and automobile.
By a vote of 67 to 36, a har
monious Democratic legislative
caucus tonight nominated as its
candidate for speaker of the 1935
House, Robert Grady ohnson, of
Pender, over two other candidates.
They were Laurie McEachern of
Hoke, who received 19 votes, ,and
W. Lee Lumpkin of Franklin,
who received 17 votes.
The overwhelming Democratic
majority in the House makes
Johnson’s nomination tantamount
to election to the post.
Only one member of the caucus
was absent, 103 members casting
votes for the various nominations.
Johnson was nominated by
Representative P. E. Thomas of
Anson, who, in an address bright
ly colored with optimism, alluded
to his candidate as a “country
lawyer and dirt farmer,” and
managed to include a brief “for
a reasonably short session” of
the legislature.
The nomination was seconded
by Representative R. B. Morthew,
of Graham, and D. L. Ward, of
Craven, a new member.
McEachern was nominated by
Representative Thomas O’Berry
of Wayne in an address which
called attention to the candidate’s
record and declared him to be
“unfettered by any promises as
to committee appointments.” The
nomination was seconded by Rep
resentatives T. C. Hoyle Jr., of
Guilford and Malcolm McQueen,
of Cumberland.
Lumpkin, praised as the “won
der boy of Franklin,” was placed
in nomination by Representative
C. W. Spruill of Bertie. The
nomination was seconded by
Representatives R. P. Bender of
Jones, and W. T. Brown of Per
(continued on back page)
Through State Capital Keyholes
By Bos* Hinton Silver
EDUCATION — Many gentle
men from the length and breadth
of North Carolina are taking
temporary residence in Raleigh
this week and will leave the Capi
tal City two, three or four
months later much wiser men. An
unusually large number of new
members inake up this session of
the General Assembly and many
of these always come with ideas
for remaking the laws to correct
all difficulties of living in the
State. Almost without exception
these hopefuls leave for their
homes, at the end of the session
wiser but sadder men. But de
spite failure of adoption of their
proposals the Old Ship of State
goes sailing on, and on, and on.
LIQUOR AND JAILS—Word
is leaking into Raleigh that fed
eral agents operating in the bor
der-towns of Virginia are going
to join forces with North Carolina
Officers in breaking up some of
the Tar Heel parties staged with
“Virginia Liquor.” According to
well-grounded rumors the federal
sleuths will keep eyes peeled on
North Carolina cars parked around
Virginia liquor stores. When the
machines leave the federal boys
will telephone their license num
bers to arms of the law in this
State. Watching the highways the
Tar Heel»Officers expect to nab
more than a few machines and
their drivers and seize the contra
band. Sounds reasonable, at any
rate.
TURNING POINT—All eyes
will be upon two men as this
session of the Legislature pro
gresses. Upon the success or fail
ure of Governor Ehringhaus and
Lieutenant Governor A. H.
(Sandy) Graham with the sokms
depends a great deal of North
Carolina political history. Friends
of the Lieutenant Governor say
he will run for the gubernatorial
nomination in 1086 if he comes
with flying
■■—'■I. II ' ■" 1
colors. Prom circles close to the
present gubernatorial throne comes
word that Mr. Ehringhaus may
be persuaded to attempt to un
horse Senator Josiah Bailey next
spring if he has good luck with
the General Assembly.
NO SKIRMISH—Everything is
all set for a major legislative bat
tle over diversion of highway
funds before the 1935 Legislature
is very old. Capus M. Waynick,
newly-appointed Chairman of the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission, has his forces lined
up to protect the highway fund
from various and sundry raiding
parties but if the enemy com
bines forces in common cause
there may be serious trouble. It
will take money to repair roads
now in bad shape because of the
limit on spending set by the 1933
Legislature. It will take money
to increase the Highway Patrol
and enforce a driver’s license law.
But other State interests wish to
take motorists taxes to pay their
bills.
DECISIONS — Political wise
boys, now gathered in Raleigh
from all over the State are ex
pecting Clyde R. Hoey, Shelby
silver-tonguer, and Congressman
R. L. Doughton to make an
nouncements of their intentions
as touching the gubernatorial race
before the blue birds fly again.
Both these political big-shots ,have
told friends that they expected to
reach conclusions “after the first
of the year.” That day has come
and gone and a great silence
hangs over Shelby and Sparta,
North Carolina. “But it won’t
be long now,” say friends and
supporters of both potential gub
ernatorial candidates.
ATTORNEY -GENERAL— For
ces that would like to dethrone
Attorney General Dennis G.
(continued on page S)
Doctor to Quintuplet*
NEW YORK . . . The wonders
of New York’s sky-scrapers failed
to impress Dr. Allen R. Dafoe
(above), Canadian country phy
sician, who brought the Dionne
quintuplets into the world. He
came here to lecture.
Roosevelt Tells
Congress About
State Of UnioR
Says, Beyond Material
Recovery, He Senses A
Spiritual' Recovery As
Well. Message Broadcast
Washington, Jan. 8.—President
Roosevelt’s call Friday before
a joint session of Congress for a
“new order” of things under
which 3,500,000 workless would
be put on federally-made jobs
created a generally favorable re
action, although some guarded
criticism sounded back. Ap
plauded by friend and critic
alike as he spoke In a dra
matic capital setting, the presi
dent made a keynote of “secur
ity”—for jobs, the aged, the
home—but dwelt longest on the
outline of a vast but singly-direct
ed public works program.
As he returned to the White
House first responses from Demo
crats on Capitol Hill were en
thusiastic. Minority Republicans,
however, were chary. Wall Street
reacted with irregular prices on
the stock market.
Enunciating new policies for a
long range program of recovery,
he told the Congress:
“We have undertaken a new
order of things; yet we progress
towards it under the framework
and in the spirit of the American
constitution.”
Standing before the joint ses
sion of both houses, and with
many of the nation’s most promi
(continued on back page)
Congress Waits
For Roosevelt
Legislation
Washington, Jan. 8.—The four
day-old 74th Congress, faced with
finding work for 8,500,000 un
employed and other tremendous
tasks, found Itself today with vir
tually nothing to do, so the
House started an. investigation.
President Roosevelt's practice
of sending to Congress one piece
of legislation at a time contribut
ed to the delay. The first item
on his schedule is social security
legislation. He is expected to
transmit a message on the sub
ject late this week, putting the
lawmakers to work in earnest.
The Senate was in recess. Its
foreign affairs committee met to
discuss a resolution for American
adherence to the world court,
which is expected to be reported
out when the Senate meets again
Thursday and which will provide
a subject for lengthy debate from
time to time in the upper House.
The House; which was expected
to take up the $750,000,000 in
dependent offices bill, first depart
mental appropriation measure of.
the session, was delayed by the
fact that the appropriation com
mittee was not completed until
today. The bill, however, can be
reported tomorrow, and passage
early next week was indicated.
It includes more than $500,000,
000 for veterans' benefits.
Eyes Of World
Fixed On Case
Of Hauptmann
Two Witnesses Say
Defendant Is “Hie
Man” Tues. Betty
Cow Collapses Mon.
Flemington, N. J., Jan, 8.—■
Two witnesses—one an elderly
Sourland neighbor of the Charles
A. Lindberghs, the other ,a Bronx
cab driver—laid an accusing hand
today on Bruno Richard Haupt
mann, on trial in the little Hun
terdon county court house here
for the murder of the kidnaped
Lindbergh baby. Gingerly, 87
year old Amandus Hochmuth, who
lives at the entrance of the Lind
bergh home, unexpectedly tapped
the stolid carpenter on the should
er as he identified him as the
man in a “dirty green car’’ con
taining a ladder, whom he saw
from his porch on the day of the
kidnaping—March 1. 1932.
Then Joseph Perrons, the cab
driver, slapped the same rigid
shoulder and almost shouted:
“That’s the man!" who eleven
nights later sent him to Dr. John
P. (Jafsie) Condon, elderly kid
nap negotiator, with a note.
Hauptmann stiffened. He mut
tered, almost inaudibly: “You’re
a liar.’’
It was another day of swift
sensations in the case by which
the state of New Jersey hopes to
send Hauptmann to the electric
chair.
On Tuesday Betty Gow, Lind
bergh nursemaid at the time of
the kidnaping, was on the stand
for a considerable length of time
and was subjected to a gruelling
cross-examination by Chief of De
fense Counsel -Edward J. Reilly,
who questioned her closely about
the details surrounding the diseov.
ery of the abduction. Reilly at
tempted to intimate by his line of
questioning that the kidnaping
was an “inside job.” Although
the pretty Miss Gow stood up
well under his barrage of ques
tions, she finally lost control of
herself and had to leave the court
room, Collapsing soon thereafter.
She soon recovered and was taken
to the Morrow home for the night.
With the trial growing out of
one of the most shocking crimes
(continued on back back)
Much Business
Transacted In
Sparta Jan. 7
Monday, January 7, was ,a day
of unusual business activity in
Sparta. A great number of
citizens of the county thronged
the streets and courthouse,
apparently intent on starting the
New Year out right by dispatch
ing their business affairs without
delay. This attitude, it has been
pointed out, seems to augur well
for improved economic conditions
within the county for the coming
year. The large amount of taxes
collected on the first Monday also
testifies to the increased amount
of money in circulation over last
year.
The county commissioners, who
were in session, transacted a great
amount of routine Jjvising# and
also gave major consideration to
a request for a new school build
ing which was asked for the
Laurel Springs community by a
delegation from that place.