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WANTS ADS
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Volume 10.
TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY
SPARTA, NOR'
CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1935
Number 39
6 PAGES
—
h Tima* Special
Correspondent
TO SELL BABY BONDS
President Roosevelt is expected
to buy the first “baby bond”
about the first of March, and to
inaugurate an educational cam
paign by a radio address. Provi
sion for these bonds, in denomi
nations as low as $25, was made
in the bill setting up * flexible
system of financing for the gov
ernment in place of the present
flat limitations. A "revolviing
fund” of not more than $25,000,
000,000 may be set up for long
term issues and one for short
term securities, not to exceed
$20,000,000,000.
The “baby bonds” wil be dis
tributed to investors through post
offices on a discount basis. T^e
first issue will probably mature
in ten years, with interest equal
to about 2 1-2 per cent. Purchas
ers, it is understood, will have
the right to turn them in for re
demption after six months if they
need cash . Safeguards to be
thrown around them include fa
cilities in post office safes to store
the bonds for purchasers. Secre
tary Morgenthau and President
Roosevelt are said to be enthusi
astic over the program. The for
mer points .out that Great Britian
has made six issues of this type
since 1916.
Sin
Washington
Minor prophets, who seek to
read all signs, including those
that are imaginary, say that the
idea is Mr. Roosevelt’s device to
make the bondholders think in
terms of governmental expendi
ture, and become something like
psychological partners in the New
Deal. Objections that were waved
aside are that the new savings
bonds might deplete bank deposits
and that, if the public becomes
skittish the bonds might be dump
ed on' the market. However, if
the people buy the goods, as ex
pected, one may expect a more
conservative attitude to develop
in regard to Federal finance.
HULL MEETS DIFFICULTIES
Secretary Hull has met many
difficulties in his effort to follow
the most favored nation doctrine
and equality of trade and oppor
tunity. He has been subjected to
great pressure in this country by
protected interests, and abroad he
has run into a maze of restric
tions, quotas, tariffs and other
impediments. Of course, this coun
try cannot object since it led the
world in restricting imports from
other countries. v
With the signing of the recip
rocal trade treaty with Brazil,
witnessed by the President, who
thus seems to indicate very clear
ly his undiminished support of
Secretary Hull’s policies, another
step in their development became
clear- Nations which have trade
discriminations against us will not
be given the concessions that go
into reciprocal agreements until
they drop their restrictions and
join us in a program of equal
treatment. Moreover, it is an
nounced that ,a list of nations
discriminating against the United
States has been made and that
no reciprocal treaty will be
negotiated with them.
STARTS AGGRESSIVE POLICY
The adoption of this aggressive
attitude seems to mark a step
forward by the State Department,
which is anxious to restore for
eign trade to its former vigor
and volume. Every effort will be
made to discourage discrimina
tions that thwart international
commerce and enctfurage wide
spread adoption of the most
favored nation policy as a means
of lowering trade barriers. Un
less this is accomplished, the Sec
retary of State sees nothing to
prevent extreme government re
gulation, lower standards of
living here, and a chance for
sotne outside power to outstrip
us in foreign trade.
MEW NRA LEGISLATION
Congress is expected to begin
deliberation on the new NRA leg
slation this week, following sub
mission of the proposals by the
Administration, which will ask
that the new law be temporary,
for one or two years, or until the
President, in the event of an in
dustrial upturn, should indicate
that the depression has really
Dassed. The lessons of the past
year will be utilised to “tighten”
lip loopholes, with considerable
discretion in an administrative
board to deal with price-control
features which tend toward higher
prices or monopoly- Section 7-A
will be retained, but no effort
will be made to revive the licens
ing provision, which was never
nvoked by Gen. Johnson- Impo
of codes upon recalcitrant
tries will be provided in
of the criticism that at
the failure of outatand
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Wilkesboro PC A
Stockholders
Meet February 2
Farm Lending Agency
For ThU Territory 1
Holds Annual Meet In
Wilkesboro
Members of the Wilkesboro
Production Credit association,
which serves the counties of
Alleghany, Ashe, Yadkin, Wa
tauga and Caldwell, held their
first annual stockholders meeting
at Wilkesboro on February 2 and
heard complete reports on the
first year's operations of the
association and elected directors
for the coming year.
The meeting was very largely
attended, not only by the mem
bers but also by a great many
farmers who are not members
but who desire to acquaint them
selves with the credit facilities
which the association is offering.
An invitation had been extended
by the association to all farmers
to attend.
After the annual report of the
year's operations had been made
by T. W- Ferguson, Secretary
Treasurer of the association, the
meeting was addressed by W. M.
Webb, Secretary of the Produc
tion Credit Corporation of
Columbia. In his address Mr.
Webb explained the corporate
set-up of the Farm Credit
Administration of Columbia,
which serves the states of North
Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida, and made a thorough
explanation of the local associa
tion’s financial statement.
Mr. Webb said that the pro
cedure for obtaining loans for
the coming year had been greatly
simplified and that the loans
could be handled a great deal
more quickly than in the past.
He urged fanners, however, to
make their applications early and
get their commitments approved
as they do not begin paying in
terest until they get their money.
Other speakers of the meeting
included J. Kdwin Tiddy, Field
Representative of the Corpora
tion, of Columbia; A. G. Hendren,
County Agent of Wilkes; Dennis
H. Sutton, County Agent of
Caldwell; J. W. Crawford, County
Agent of Surry, and W. H.
Walker, Vocational Teacher in
Watauga county.
The meeting was presided over
by Paul J. Vestal, president of
the association.
Directors elected for the coming
year aare; Paul J* Vestal, W. H.
Hardy, A. B. Hobson, Fred N.
Colvard and H. Grady Farthing.
The Wilkesboro Production
Credit association makes loans
for agricultural purposes. The
interest is 6 per cent per year
at present, payable when the loan
matures and interest is charged
only for the time the money is
used.
Doughton Is
“Iron Man” Of
National House
According to a recent issue of
a large Washington newspaper,
Representative Robert L. Dough
ton, of North Carolina, who at
72, is called the “Iron Man of
the House,” has a grievance
(along with most other Washing
ton residents). The.city’s streets
are so filled with slush, and so
slippery, that he can't reach his
office until 6:30 a. m.
Ordinarily, according to the
capital newspaper. Representative
Doughton goes to work at 6
o'clock, while younger Repre
sentatives marvel.
He works on his mail from 6
a. m- to 9:30, presides over the
hearings of the Ways and Meins
Committee on the President's soc
ial security bill from 9:80 to
12:30, listens to debate on the
House floor until 6 p. m., and
then goes back to his office to
clean up his work.
So healthy is he, it is said, he
hasn’t had a cold in three years.
ERA ADMINISTRATOR
AND ENGINEER HERE
Miss Victoria BoD, Sixth dis
trict ERA administrator, and E.
W. Cole, district engineer, visited
the relief office in Sparta Friday.
Miss Bell was pleased very
much with the work that has been
done by the local acting reliel
director and her co-workers in
Alleghany county.
Students At
A. S. T. C.
Go On Strike
Boone, Feb. 12—At a mass
meeting of students at Appalach
ian State Teachers college this
afternoon, students voted to re
main away from classes until
their demands were met.
They asked the administration
bo approve a three-point program,
consisting of allowing boys to sit
with girls at social and athletic
events; forcing the officer who
“black-jacked” some of the stu
dents to apologize, and a promise
that strike-leading students will
not be punished.
Hoover Speaks
At Lincoln Day
Banquet In N. Y.
Former President Is
Introduced By Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
Pleads For Liberty
New York, Feb. 12—Herbert
Hoover returned to public leader
ship of the Republican party to
night with ,a blunt warning to
the American people that “what
ever violates, infringes, or abro
gates fundamental American lib
erty violates the life principle
■of America as a nation.”
The former president participat
ed in a Republican rally at a ban
quet celebrating Lincoln’s birth
day, at which he heard fellow
leaders in the party denounce the
Roosevelt administration which
succeeded him two years ago as
“traitors to the very people.”
Mr. Hoover in his brief pre
pared eulogy of Abraham Lin
.eoln, of whom he is an ardent
admirer, himself studiously re
frained from a direct reference
to the administration—but his
remark was interpreted as a
warning against trends at Wash
ington under the Democratic re
gime.
He strongly hinted that he, like
Lincoln, felt “Americans should
be masters of the state and not
the pawns of the state,” as some
have declared the Democratic
government is making the in
dividual.
The nation’s only living ex
president, on his first visit east
in two years, took occasion on
this initial public appearance since
leaving the White House to es
pouse the cause of change toward
the future but along routes pro
vided under the Constitution.
He emphasized that Lincoln,
faced with a similar period of
great strife and danger to the
endurance of the union, felt
“changes were inevitable to
meet the shifting scenes and
problems of the day,” but added
(continued on page 4)
Son Of Tenth
President Dies
At Virginia Home
Richmond, Va., Feb. 12.—Dr.
Lyon G. Tyler, one of Virginia’s
most distinguished men and son
of John Tyler, tenth president
of the United States, died tonight
at 7:80 o’clock at his home, “The
Lyon’s Den,” in Charles City
county, from an attack of pneu
monia. He was 82 years old.
He had been ill for nearly a
month but his condition was not
regarded as critical until about
a week ago when what had been
influenza developed into 1 pneu
monia of the virulent type.
Then all hope of recovery of
the eminent historian, genealogist
and president emeritus of the
College of William and Mary
was virtually abandoned.
Although he lived a simple and
rather retired life in the country
since 1919 when he resigned the
presidency of William and Mary,
he was widely known throughout
Virginia and the North and East.
TO HOLD BAPTISMAL
SERVICE AT PINE FORK
A baptismal service is to be
held at Pine Fork on Sunday,
February 24, at 11 a. m.
The service is to be in charge
of Rev. C. H. McKnight, pastor.
Services will also be held on the
preceding Saturday night.
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Byrd Expedition
Heads Homeward
From Antarctic
Abandon Part Of
Equipment In Order
To ; Speed Ships Out
Of Perilous Waters
Aboard Admiral Byrd’s Flag
ship (via Mackay Radio) Feb. 12.
—The ships jyi Admiral Richard
E. Byrd’s seegnd Antarctic ex
pedition passed through Discov
ery Inlet Friday, away from the
Antarctic continent and on their
way to Dunedin, N. Z., as tre
mendous ice blocks crashed down
from the barrier front.
The Jacob Ruppert and the
Bear of Oakland passed through
the inlet close together, in a
dense fog at 2:56 a. m.
The barrier quickly was con
cealed by the mist, cast up as
the huge ice blocks burst from
the face of the barrier and be
came icebergs.
S. S. Jacob Ruppert. at Sea
(via Mackay Radio) Feb. 11,—
The second antarctic expedition
of Admiral Richard E. Byrd
turned away from Little America
Wednesday and headed for the
civilization it left behind 17;
months ago.
With men and supplies aboard
this craft and the Barkentine j
Bear of Oakland, the expedition j
moved west along the ice cliffs j
of the Ross barrier, bound for
Discovery Inlet to pick up pen
guins.
Under sail of a fair wind and
using power as well, the Barken
tine was in the lead. Robert A.
J. English on the bridge. The
flagship was under the command j
of Commander H. J. Gersten.
The admiral reluctantly aban
doned two tractors, two snow
mobiles, a few empty gasoline
drums and minor equipment. The
expedition leadei' wanted to get
away and said: “There’s no use
in pressing our luck too far.”
Of the four airplanes brought
aboard, two were stored in No.
2 hold. These are the Pilgrim
and the Fairchild. The condor,
William Horlock, which carried
the burden of the expedition’s
long range exploration, was dock
(continued on page 3)
Substitute For
Sales Levy Is
Outlined Tues.
Franklin And Forsyth
Representatives Are
Sponsors Of Measure To
Replace Sales Tax
Raleigh, Feb. 12.—Before an
audience hardly larger than the
joint finance committee of the
General Assembly and a few
drousy newspapermen, opponents
of North Carolina’s sales tax to
day drew back the curtain and
revealed in detail their substi
tute plan.
As presented by Representative
Lumpkin of Franklin and Mc
Donald, of Forsyth, it w,as a
masterpiece of conception and
execution. Covering 17 neatly
mimeographed pages, the plan of
fered $12,361,094 a year in new
revenue, almost all “recaptured”
from that lost in the retreat from
property taxes, as against $8,
750,000 estimated from the sales
Of this amount, $3,086,538 j
would be recovered from a net
income tax of six per cent on
dividends now tax free, $4,682,
679.74 would come from fran
chise increase, $350,483.04 from
insurance premium taxes, and
$4,241,394.20 from a program of
(continued on page 3),
Belk’s Store To .
Open In Sparta v
Saturday Morning
Sparta’s newest store, Belk’s
Department store, is to open for
business on Saturday morning,
February 16, at 8 o’clock.
A full line of merchandise
suitable for the needs of every j
member of the family will be j
kept in stock, according to an
nouncements made concerning the
opening. Oscar Andrews will be
in charge during the opening.
The new store is to be located
in the storeroom formerly occu
pied by the Dalton Warren De
partment store.
Belk’s stores are operated
throughout North Carolina and in
parts of South Carolina and Vir
ginia.
Through State Capital Keyholes
By Bom Hinton Silvor
CANDIDACY—Some members
of the General Assembly don’t
think that Senator Harriss New
man. of New Hanover, and
Representative Gregg Cherry, of
Gastonia, Chairmen of Senate .and
House committees on finance, have
helped their reported candidacies
for Governor and Lieutenant Gov.
emor, also respectively, by the
speed they have attempted to
apply to committee consideration
of the proposed revenue bill.
These dissenters express private
opinions that rushing consider
ation of the big money bill has
angered more people than it has
pleased.
FUTILE—Dr. John T. Burrus,
Senator From Guilford, thinks
the chairman of the State High
way and Public Works Commis
sion and the Commissioner of
Revenue should be elected by the
people instead of appointed by
the Governor and has bills intend
ed to make such a change. But
the High Point Doctor isn’t bet
ting any big stakes that his pro
posals will become law. On the
other hand he is inclined to be
resigned to their defeat. Senator
Burrus defeated Capus M. Way
nick, present chairman of the
highway body, in the Democratic
primaries last June.
PURPOSE—The bill by Senator
Paul D. Grady, of Johnston, to
amend the law establishing a
State Board Cosmetoligists, pro
poses to do many things but op
ponents avow its main purpose is
to abolish the three members of
the board of beauty shop in
espectors appointed by Governor
Ehringhaus. Failure of the Gov
ernor to reappoint Miss Emelie
Purcell, who served on the board
one year, has created no little
stir and proposals for a new set
up -occasioned little surprise
in Raleigh political circles.
GAS TAXES—From this point
it looks like everybody and Ms
jfi .**:>■* ... V -
brother is trying to get his hand
into the pocket of the automobile
driver by diverting highway fund
revenue. Motorists and truck
owners have expressed in no un
certain terms the opinion that any
surplus gasoline taxes should be
applied to repairing roads or re
ducing the cost of license taxes.
You will not be able to tell who
wins until the General Assembly
adjourns sine die.
TOLLS—This General Assembly
came to Raleigh determined to
make all bridges as free as the
roads and it didn’t take the mem
bers long to remove the tolls
from bridges across the Chowan
near Edenton and the Cape Pear
at Wilmington. You won’t lose
much money, in the opinion of
those supposed to know, if you
wager that tolls will also be lifted
from the Wright Memorial Bridge,
gateway to Roanoke Island, as
the result of legislation backed
by the administration.
NOT TOO SOON—Guesses on
the date for final adjournment
of the Legislature are beginning
to vary widely as the joint finance
committees continue deliberations
on the biennial revenue bill.
Legislative prognosticators profess
to foresee unanticipated delay on
the revenue bill in House and
Senate. These unquoted wise
men sense unexpected storms as
the result of rapid passage over
many sections of the money bill
in committee.
GOVERNOR—Lieutenant Gov
ernor A. H. Gnaham isn’t saying
much for publication but you can
make a note on your cuff that he
hasn’t withdrawn from the 1936
Gubernatorial race. Treading the
even tenor of his way Mr. Graham
is nevertheless laying the foun
dation for his campaign next
/continued on ham 2)
[Surry Student
At A. S. T. C.
Dies From Injury
Robert Reeves, Mount Airy,
died early Monday morning from
a broken neck, an injury he re
ceived in a gymnasium at Appa
lachian State Teachers college,
Boone, last Friday. Reeves was
a freshman at the college. While
going through gymnastics he frac
tured the fifth vertebrae which
retsulted in complete paralysis of
the body. He was married last
Christmas.
The body was taken to Mount
Airy, where funeral services were
held.
Reeves was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. L. Reeves, Mount
Airy.
Gant Dirigible
Falls Into Ocean
Off Pacific Coast
Lighter-Than-Air
Development In U, S.
Is Dealt Mortal Blow
By Loss Of Macon
San Francisco, Feb. 12.—
Stricken by a mysterious .accident j
in mid-air tonight, the U. S. S. 1
Macon, giant dirigible, fell into j
the Pacific ocean 12 miles off!
Point Sur. Unconfirmed reports i
said an explosion ripped the tail
ofT.
Commander Herbert V. Wiley
and other officers and crew took
to rubber boats. Six hours later
warships with which the gigantic
sky queen had been maneuvering
reported rescue of seven boatloads
of survivors.
Wiley, one of three survivors
of the Akron disaster two years
ago, was in the first boat picked
up.
Searchlights ablaze, war ves
sels patrolled the rain-swept ocean
seeking additional survivors among
the wreckage.
Plunging to the sea in tragic
parallel to the fate of her pre
decessor the Akron, the Macon
apparently remained afloat long
enough for at least most of her
crew to escape. Navy officials
said seven boats could carry most
of the Macon’s 83 officers and
men.
Loss of • the Macon dealt a
mortal blow to American lighter
than-air development. The navy
has lost the Shenandoah, the Ak
ron and now the Macon. Wreck
of this $8,000,000 experiment
probably dooms hopes of high
lyivy officers for construction of
a great fleet of gas bags to act
as the “eyes” of . the fleet in
future warfare.
In contrast to the Akron dis
aster, which plunged 73 men be
low gale-tom seas off New Jer
sey in a welter of girders and
tattered envelope, before they
(continued on page 3)
N. C. Banks May
Reach Level Of
1929 Tins Year
Raleigh, Peb. 11.—North Caro
lina banks may reach the peak
condition by the end of 1935
that they enjoyed before 1929,
the state banking department an
nounced today.
Deposits in national and state
banks, the department reported,
increased $122,260,323.73 from
June 30, 1933, to December 31,
1934, Meanwhile, commercial
state banks showed a correspond
ing increase of $86,566,002.02;
industrial banks, $744,321.71, and
national banks, $34,950,000.
One of the most significant
facts brought out in the call re
port of December 31, 1934, said
Gurney P. Hood, commissioner of
banks, was an increase of $6,
598,811.55 in loans and discounts.
The October call report, he said,
had shown a decrease in those
items.
“The liquid condition of our
banks continues,” Hood reported,
“showing $173,000,000 in cash
bonds. Both checking accounts
and savings accounts showed sub
stantial increases during the per
iod of 1984.
“It appears now that the re
sources of our banks at the end
of this year will be almost at
the high peak which was shown
before 1929.”
Wilentz, Reilly
Address Eloquent
Pleas To Jury
Prosecutor Demands
Death For Hauptmann.
Reilly Asks Jury To
Give Him Freedom
Flemington, N. J., Feb. 12.—
With an angry demand today for
the death of Bruno Richard
Hauptmann in the electric chair,
the case of the state of New
Jersey against the German car
penter for the alleged murder of
the Lindbergh baby was sealed.
His voice raised in scorn and
fury, Attorney General David T.
Wilentz cried out in his all-day
summation to the jury for a man
date which will put the defendant
in the electric chair, but as he
finished he was interrupted and
the courtroom thrown into con
fusion by the shout of a spec
tator-clergyman.
From his perch on a window
sill of the jammed courtroom,
the Rev. Vincent G. Burns, a
North Jersey pastor, interrupted
the summation to cry: “A man
confessed that crime to me in my
church.”
Struggling, he was hauled
down and taken away. Later
Justice Thomas W. Trenchard
ordered him released after in
structing the jury to disregard
the incident.
By tomorrow’s noon hour, the
jury of eight men and four
women, it is expected, will be
locked up to decide Hauptmann’s
fate. Justice Trenchard is to
charge the jury at 10 a. m.
Hauptmann sat tight-lipped
throughout Wilenta’ fiery sum
mation, as the prosecutor swung
his fist and called him “the low
est form of animal, a pariah who
contaminates the air.”
Anna Hauptmann was statue
like in her chair but the jurors,
by slight gestures and fleeting
expressions, frequently betrayed
their feelings.
Only the electric chair, Wilentz
cried, would “thaw out” Haupt
mann’s coldness—“He is cold, yes,
but he will be thawed out when
he hears the switch.”
At times the prosecutor’s pas
sionate burst of oratory all but
left him exhausted.
He shouted that the murder of
the Lindbergh baby would be
“insignificant” as compared with
the “crime” of freeing Haupt
mann ; that "every woman in her
home would shudder again.” i
Attorney General Wilentz rag
ed at the prisoner from the first
moment of court until dusk when
he leaned across the jury rail
and asked for the death verdict, j
After the lengthy outpouring of
oratory, in which he met and
challenged the main points of
defense strategy, the attorney
general concluded his plea with
these words: “If this jury will
do its duty, we can- translate
Colonel Lindbergh’s loss and sor
row into some gain for civiliza
tion, to show that whether we
catch a man walking into the
room or not, we c,an crush them.
we can crush these snakes, we
can crush these criminals, that
society isn’t so weak that we can’t
deal with them. That’s the job
that you can do.”
After the convening of court
Monday morning, Anthony M.
Hauck, Jr., Hunterdon county
^ / y
“He who taste* every tium'j
sometimes bum* his mouth.'
FEBRUARY
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at Ciacbnati. 1W.
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eereen etar, born 1U1.
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