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any Times • USE WANTS ADS FOR RESULTS Volume 10. DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Number 35. SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA,THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1935. 4 PAGES I By Hugo Sims, Timas Special Washington Correspondent SUPREME COURT SURPRISES The 8-to-l decision of the Su preme Court in the “hot oil" case came as a surprise to administra tion circles, and as a welcome token to those who have strenu ously objected to what they call Congressional abdication. The court passed on Section 9 (C) of the NRA which “authorized” the President to prohibit the inter state shipment of oil in excgss of state restrictions. Congress did not “direct” the President to do this nor establish any basis for state restrictive laws. Therefore, with no criterion to govern the President’s course the court held that Congress had transferred too much of- its responsibility and that it must determine policies, leaving to the executive arm to act only within the limits so es tablished. During the early hectic days of the administration emergency laws went through the legislative hop per speedily, although there were those who questioned their con stitutionality. That most of them will be given ,a serious study in the light of the Supreme Court decision may be taken for grant ed. Meanwhile, the AAA and other new deal agencies maintain ed confidence that the statutes governing their activities contain sufficient declaration of policy and adequate boundaries within the court opinion. Just what effect it will have, other than to serve as a warning in regard to future legislation, is not clear because the presumption is that the present Congress will immediately provide new laws to meet the court’s de cision. THE NRA AND AAA STUDIED Sometime ago Secretary Wal lace had his economic advisor on finance, Gardiner C. Means, to make a study of the NRA and the AAA with a view to clearly un derstanding the conflicting poli cies of these emergency agencies. Although intended for private study the report will become a public document in pursuance to a Senate resolution introduced by Senator Borah. The expert points out that they are “contradictory and confused” undertakings, and suggests that the remedy is to eliminate monopolies or else bring them under the control of an in dustrial policy board on which the government as well as economic interests will be represented. The study points out that mod em industrial organization has de stroyed the free market and dis rupted the operation of supply and demand in many industries. It cites instances where prices went down least where the de mand decreased most. Agricul tural implements, for example, fell 6 per cent when production was reduced 80 per cent. The conclusion is set forth that unless there is a return to free compe tition to prevent individuals from affecting market prices, there must be some governmental con trol of existing industrial combi nations. FARLEY TELLS OF MAIL Postmaster General Farley ex presses the hope that his next an nual report will describe trans pacific air transport service, and calls attention to the fact that plans for a transatlantic air ser vice have further advanced. He says that reduction of the ail mail postage rate has produced an increasing volume of air mail, that the service now includes more mileiage and cities than ever before and that as a result of cancelling the former contracts the average rate of pay per mile is 26:802c compared with an average of 43c a mile prior to annulling the contracts. He insists that the 3c lettei mail rate must be continued U prevent a loss of 76 million dol ters per year in revenue. Refer ring to the debated postal suj> plus of 312,161,016 for 1034 Mr. Parley says that this com pares with deficits ranging frow ' 48 million to 153 million fpr th« previous four years, and tbw these amounts were arrived al after adjustments for non-postu items authorised by law. Thes< include the air mail subsidy, tlu ocean mail subsidy, franked am penalty mail. ARGUE GOLD CLAUSE Attorney General Curamingi last week appeared before thi Supreme Court for the first tim< since he took office to argue thi validity of the present monetary program, and to contend tha Congress was within its powers ii forbiding payments in gold re gardless of contracts previousl; signed. As ouf readers , knov almost all bonds, mortgage con (continued on page 8) . Roosevelt To Enter World Court Fight Chief Executive Is Described As Anxious For Show-Down On This Controversial Issue Washington, Jan. 15.—Presi dent Roosevelt will enter the World Court fight in the Senate tomorrow through a special mes sage urging American adherence to the famous international tri bunal, it was learned at the White House tonight. The Chief Executive was said to be anxious for a show-down on the controversial issue which has been pending for 12 years. The message, it was reported, will be brief. It is expected to follow largely the line of argu ment advanced today by Major ity Leader Joseph T. Robinson in presenting the administration’s side of the case. In an hour and a half speech, Robinson declared adherence to the court would substitute “right and justice" for “force and ter ror” in settlement of international disputes.. He denied that par ticipation with the tribunal would involve entangling alliances or that American principles or pol icy would be abandoned thereby. Instead, he said, it would demonstrate "co-operation in an effort to substitute law for anarchy in international affairs.” Simultaneously, Robinson dis closed for the first time what was interpreted as part of the strat egy of senatorial opponents of the court. He said he expected them to make an effort to create and substitute another court for the world body. “When that is done,” he shout ed, “you will be surprised and rejoice at the thoughtfulness, the tolerance, the impartiality which underlies the statute of the per manent court of international justice.” Pausing for a moment to glare at Senators Hiram Johnson (R), Calif., and William E. Borah (R), Idaho, vigorous leaders of the opposition, Robinson continued : “You will be equally surpris ed that great minds glorified here have demonstrated their incapac ity to devise any plan compar able in its possible advantages and benefits to those of the per manent court of international justice.” Prices At Galax Livestock Sale Monday Best Yet Farmers received for their live stock which they had ,at Galax Monday for the regular weekly auction conducted by the Gray son-Carroll market, the best prices received since the market was inaugurated last June. Ac cording to market officials, these good prices were paid in all classes by the best of buyers. Top veal calves brought $7.95 per hundred pounds. Top steers brought $6.50 per hundred; heif ers, $5.80, and top fat cows, $5.40. Top hogs sold for $7 per hundred. Two carloads of mules, mares and colts will be sold at the Galax market, located at Felts park (fair grounds), on next Monday, January 21, at which time selling will begin promptly at noon, one hour earlier than usual. These horses are the property of Otto Emrick, of Nebraska, who has been selling exceptionally good gentle horses at the Galax mar ket every first Monday for some time. Next Monday the cattle will be sold first and, in view of this fact farmers are urged to take in tneir stock early in the day. LOCAL PERSONS HAVE AUTO ACCIDENT SUN. David Higgins, local barber, and Page Higgins, also of Sparta, and two young lady passengers mi raculously escaped death or major injuries Sunday afternoon when the coupe in which they were riding, belonging to David Hig gins, was completely wrecked beyond repair when struck by a car driven by Dr. Arthur Ed wards, of Bristol. The accident occurred on the highway between Hillsville and Mount Airy. Dr. Edwards’ oar, also a coupe, was also completely demolished. Dr. Edwards escaped severe injuries. Using Women Soldiers^ • y.v.Xv:OTW.w/iWWw.v,v.- •.•■ViJ.Vli.v.v.'.v.v.JVAa AFRICA . . . Abyssinia calls the attention of the League of Nations that the Italian Somali land is using women soldiers in the warfare now being conducted against Ethopia. Children Injured When Bus Leaves! Road In Surry School Bus Strikes Wagon And Goes Over Steep Bank When 16-Year Old Driver Loses Control Mount Airy, Jan. 15.—Thirty two Pilot Mountain public school children were injured, one critically, and several others seriously, late on Thursday afternoon, January 10, when a school bus, enroute from Pilot Mountain into the Shoals section where most of the children lived, struck, a farm wagon and plunged over a culvert and enbankment one mile west of Pilot Mountain on Highway No. 268. The bus they had been travel ing on broke down a few days ago and another bus driven by Archie Barker, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Barker, of Mount Airy route one, was called to carry them to their home in Shoals on this trip. After cross ing the railroad over-head bridge at Pilot Mountain the bus made its way up the incline and started down the McKinney hill, a long dip into a creek bottom at that place. The road is straight and travels directly west. As the truck gained speed in its coasting down this grade and with its heavy load of about- 45 children the driver saw a wagon standing on one side of the highway and a man -standing on the opposite side. It was here the wreck took place. The young 16-year-old driver at the same time became blinded by the sun from the west and in his effort to dodge both the man and the (continued on back page) Mack Lundy New Chief Of Police At Cambria, Va. Mack Lundy, former member of the Galax, Va., police force, has accepted an appointment as Chief of Police of the town of Cairh<’ia, Va. He has resigned his position with the Higgins Oil company, Galax, with whom he had been employed since early last spring, and entered upon his new duties at Cambria Tuesday. Chief Lundy is a brother of Mrs. Isom Wagoner, Sparta. SMALL CHILD INJURED SATURDAY BY WAGON Sue, the small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Edwards, was injured Saturday when one wheel of a wiagon loaded with approxi mately a ton of rock, passed over the child’s hip. The little girl was riding on the wagon and fell beneath the wheel. The child was taken to the hospital where examination disclosed a dislocation but no fractures. It will be necessary for her to wear a plaster cast for several weeks. Wilkes School Chilfren Hurt In Bus School Bus With Automobile And Turns Complotely Over. To Hold Heating Mon. North Wilkesboro, Jan, 15.— Bight children 4»ere slightly in jured this mornigg when a school bus, carrying 42 children to Wilkesboro Highland Elementary School, collided, with an auto mobile and turned completely aver on the strest. The injured are Pearl and Ullata Warren, James McClain, William Boucheltt Jr., Everett Bouchelle, AddieX.ee Reid, Viola md Noah James. The bus was driven by King Prevette, 26. The accident oc curred when ti.e automobile, iriven by A. L. Prevette, enter ed the highway from a side road near the intersection of highways 60, 16 and 18. The driver of the bus and a child sitting beside him were thrown through the windshield to the roadside but were not in jured. The automobile remained upright. The driver of the bus charges that the driver of the automobile was responsible for the wreck, dating that the cai- dashed before his bus so quickly that it was impossible to stopapr dodge with his heavenly lade# vehicle. He says he was not driwng faster than 15 or 20 miles per hour and that he was going down grade in second gear. The automobile driver says the school bus was traveling rapidly and that his automobile had gain ed the roadway when the crash occurred. He alleges that there would have been ho collision had the school bus not been going so fast. A highway patrpirnan, aided by local officers and school officials, investigated the wreck and a hearing on the matter will be held on Monday at the courthouse in Wilkesboro. IS NEW KEYSTONE GOV. Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 16.— George H. Earle boday was in augurated Pennsylvania’s first Democratic governor in more than four decades. Relatives Of fisch Secretly Arrive In U. S, Expected To Testify For Prosecution In Hauptmann’s Ttrial For Lindbergh Baby Murder Flemington, N. J., Jan. 15.— Three German relatives and the nurse of Isador Fisch, Bruno Hauptmann’s dead alibi man, were hidden as secret state wit nesses tonight as the carpenter’s murder trial prosecutors announc ed themselves ready to explode “the Fisch myth.” The myster ious manner of their landing from the liner lie de France in New York harbor stole consider able interest from the little old Hunterdon county courtroom where the state of New Jersey j seeks to send Hauptmann to the electric chair for the kidnaping i of the Lindbergh baby. | „ It was Fisch, says Hauptmann,! who went to Germany to die and left with him a shoebox contain ing more than $14,000 in ran som bills—the bills with which the carpenter was trapped last | September. Two more handwriting experts —the third and fourth.—today testified that Hauptmann wrote the fourteen letters that led to payment of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s $50,000 ransom I for a baby already dead. In Monday’s court session a pretty blond pajama model ac- j cused Hauptmann of shadowing Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon, ransom negotiator. The model, chic and stately Hildegrade Olga Alexander, en- \ lievened the trial session other wise devoted to expert testimony about the writing of the ransom j notes. A friend of Dr. Condon for twelve years, she took t'.ie stand to say she saw “Jafsie” in a Bronx telegraph office in March of 1932, nearly a month before Dr. Condon paid the $50,000 j ransom, and that another man was watching him “very signific antly." “I say the man was Bruno Richard Hauptmann,” she de clared firmly. A faint flush stole (continued on back back) Through State Capital Keyholes By Bet* Hinton Silver GOOD STROKE — Governor Ehringhaus made a hit with the Legislature in his biennial message. If the Governor lis tens to the urgent pleas of friends from all over the State and runs for the Senate against Senator Josiah Bailey, his recommendations for better salaries for teachers and State employees will not hurt his chances. HOLDS ’EM—Lieutenant Gov ernor A. H. Graham is one pre siding officer that holds the reigns tight on the State Sena tors. Last session some of the boys didn’t like this but it expedit ed business and the personnel of the present Senate is busi ness like if it is anything. UNEMPLOYMENT INSUR ANCE—Former State Senator W. O. Burgin, of Davidson, is con fident he will live to see his 19SS bill for a State unemployment plan become law before this ses sion of the General Assembly ad journs. Conditions were such in 1933 that the measure had little chance and was withdrawn but the commission, headed by Mr. Burgin, made a study of the situation and Governor Ehring haus endorsed the plan ip his address to the General Assembly. PRIZES — Perhaps you have wondered why there is always such a scramble among Legis lators to get on important com mittees. The reason is simplicity itself in many instances. The big committees receive delegations from all over the State and mem bers of the groups have many chances to turn a few political tricks. That in future campaigns, especially of a State-wide nature. DOUGHTON—-HOEY — Lines have formed in the General As sembly on the prospective candi dates for Governor with the sharp est divisions between the back ers of Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby, and Congressman R. L. Dough ton. Backers of Mr. Hoey are expecting an announcement from him at any time and the sup porters of the Congressman ex press confidence that he will run. Lieutenant Governor Graham is playing the game but there is strong opinion that he will be a candidate. There is still som'e opinion here that Julian Price, of Greensboro, will be a candidate. THREE-WAY RACE—Paul D. Grady, Johnson county, Senator W. G. Clark, of Edgecombe, and former State Senator George Mc Neill, of Fayetteville, are begin ning to pull their string in the race for Lieutenant Governor next year. Senator Grady mark ed up a preliminary victory over Senator Clark when the Johnston man got himself elected president protempore of the Senate over the opposition of Senator Carl L. Bailey, of Washington, who was openly backed and nominat ed by Senator Clark. The de feat of Grady would have been a feather in Clark’s cap in the cam paign for the second highest political office of the State. DIVERSION—The fight is on between those who think auto mobile taxes should be spent on roads and those who would like to use the money for other pur poses. Governor Ehringhaus back ed the movement agsainst diver sion and recommended that holes -be filled, bumps smoothed down, shoulders repaired and tolls taken off bridges before the highway tax money (the State’s heaviest levy) is used for other things. POWDER KEG—There is an opinion here that the formerly helpful post of chairman of the roads committees in this Legis lature may not be so helpful (continued on page 8) Girl Flying Mailt WASHINGTON . . . Miss Helen Richey, 25, (above), is> flying the I mail on the Washington to De troit run. She is the first woman to win the right bo wear Uncle Sam’s Airmail Wings over her left coat pocket. Helen has 1,000 flying hours to her credit. General Assembly Ready To Settle Down To Its Task Thomas, Of Harnett, Would Outlaw Gambling Devices. Beer Bill Introduced By Palmer Raleigh, Jan. 15.—Finally or i ganized and equipped with the : appropriation and revenue bills : t'oi the coming biennium, the North Carolina General Assembly today was prepared to take off it* jcoat and settle down to work, j The House, however, display : ed little disposition in a brief session this morning to do any thing of the sort. It met at 11 o’clock, heard the standing com mittee assignments Of Speaker R. Grady Johnson, received nine bills, and .adjourned at 11:30 without waiting to hear the Gov ernor’s budget message. Delivered in the Senate, the budget message called for a 16 per cent, pay hike, an increase of $2,500,000 annually for schools, and a sales tax extend ed to cover all commodities. The House will receive the message when it convenes at noon tomor row. It already has the appro priation and revenue bills, intro duced by Representative Bryant of Durham. The House was also pulled in to the limelight by introduction, by Representative Palmer of Ca barrus, of the first beer bill of this session. Palmer’s bill pro vides for an Increase in the legal kick of beer from 3.2 per cent, to 4.5 per cent. It was .referred (continued on back back) Ehringhaus To Name Brummitt’s Successor Soon Raleigh, Jan. 16.—Although he declined to announce his ap pointee for the post of attorney general to succeed the late Dear nis G. Brummitt, Governor Eh ringhaus promised Monday night, after the deceased official's fun eral had been held that day in Oxford, that he “would not de lay very long in naming the man.” Several names figured promi nently in the discussion. Includ ed among these are A. A. F. Seawell, 71-year old assistant at torney-general; Lieutenant Gover nor A. H. Graham; J. Wallace Winbortie, of Marion, state Democratic chairman; Major L. P. McLendon, of Greensboro, chairman of the state board of elections, and Charles Whedbee, former state senator from Hert ford. PARKWAY FORCE SWELLS SPARTA’S POPULATION The population of Sparta has been swelled considerably during the past week with the incoming of more than twenty persons con nected wi^h the Skyline drive parkway force. Attorney General Brummitt Dies In Raleigh Saturday Many State Officials Pack Oxford Baptist Church Monday For Funeral Services Raleigh, Jan. 15.—Dennis G. Irummitt, attorney general of tforth Carolina, died here Satur lay of a heart attack caused >y pneumonia- The deceased state officer was 53 years of ige and was the state’s 37th ittorney general, having served n that capacity since 1924. The llness which took his life started wo weeks previous with an ittack of influenza. One among many expressions >f praise for his long tenure in ;he state governmental service s that of Assistant Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell, who rraised Brummitt as “an able, :ourageous and eonscientous officer, and a citizen whose in luence in public affairs has been >f inestimable value.” “Mr. Brummitt,” he continued, ‘filled the office of attorney general longer than any other man in the history of the state, and none of his predecessors surpassed him in ability or quality of service." In Washington, Representative Doughton, of Alleghany county said: “Dennis Brummitt was really one of the great men of North Carolina. I have never known in my lifetime a more capable man and one of higher character. The state can 'ill--* afford to lose such a public . servant. I extend my deepest sympathy to his family.” Governor Ehringhaus and State Auditor Baxter Durham visited Brummitt’s residence less than two hours before the attorney general died, but were not allowed to see him. He was pronounced dead at 12:10 p. m. State officials and other friends of the deceased official packed the First Baptist church of Oxford Monday afternoon for the funeral services, which were conducted by Rev. Roy Mc Culloch, pastor of that church; Dr. J. Powell Tucker, pastor of the Raleigh First Baptist church, and Dr. Herman T. Stevens, pastor of the Asheboro Baptist church. Governor Ehringhaus led the scores of state officials in at- ■ tendance. The long list of honorary pall bearers contained names for many years prominent in the political and business activities of the state. State departments at Raleigh were closed Monday in respect to Brummitt, and flags were at half mast over all state build ings, as they had been since his death. Interment was in Elmwood cemetery, Oxford. GETS UNADDRESSED CARD Nellie, the Flemington dog whose fan mail exceeds 20 let ters and post cards a day, Mon day received a card from Nevada which bore, in place of an ad dress, a picture of Nellie, a black and white mongrel. as*| A "Imkutry W jwtune’j right hand end wti Mill >i—♦» t»>H> iim «f"i&tJrtStX JAHUAKT I*£ “-?^sss «f V«fi 1777.
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