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Want Ads Bring Results Alleghany Times Subscription Price $1 * in year in advance DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume 16. SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1935. 6 PAGES Number 48. PROGRESS EXPECTED The huge work relief bill, giv ing the President some four bil lion dollars to spend, virtually aa he pleases, continued to delay other legislation Inst week, but there will be progress from now on. Mhny important bills had to wait for the Senate to make up its miftd but the theory of the administration is expected to strengthen the hand of the Pres ident considerably. Cynical observers point to the events that followed when the Senate insisted upon the prevail ing wage amendment. Readers remember that the entire measure was recommitted, with the sug gestion that the Senators would hear from the people. There was comment to the effect that the people were speaking against the huge appropriation but the showdown found the Senate sav ing its face. Evidently pressure from communities expecting some of the money was heavyr Now, with the spending of the sum in his hands, the President is able to exert fully as much “persuas ion” on Congressmen in behalf of the balance of his program, and it will be just as pottent. ROOSEVELT HOLDS ACE The idea, however, that the administration will get every thing it wants, just as it is sug gested, is wrong. There will be changes but, in broad outline, upon most important issues, the prediction is that the President will' win. Indeed, the outlook is that Mr. Roosevelt will find the going easier from now on and that, when Congress adjourns, he will be able to point to a num ber of important legislative measures, passed substantially as he desired. • In writing the above para graphs we are conscious that they may not please those who prefer to read only what tickles their own partisan views but they represent the picture that we see .at this time. Something may happen to upset the expect ed performance but it is not in sight today, The bonus issue, upon which many Congressmen will vote against the President and try to pass it over his veto, is regarded as a special'ca. b r.r.d does not upset the. present out look. REVISING THE NRA Dropping the Belcher case; generally regarded as a test case for the NRA, caused confusion that forced leaders to make clear the attitude of the administra tion. No one expected the Presi dent to have a program inasmuch as the matter was laid in the Con gressional lap some weeks ago but so much uncertainty resulted from abandoning appeal from an adverse opinion, delivered in an Alabama federal court, that Sen ator Harrison surprised the Sen ate by presenting a bill evidently prepared by the President before he left Washington to fish off the (j^ast of Florida. Briefly, codes would be limited to industries in interstate or for eign commerce, collective bar gaining would be guaranteed with employes having the right to sue for losses from violations and smaller industries would not be codified. A provision struck at monopolies and g»ve the Presi dent the power to use price-fixing and production control if neces sary to prevent unfair compe tition. Plainly the new measure would be stronger than the old in court and might even meet the >n of constitutionality, rais in the Belcher case. THE COST OF RELIEF The fact that 4.700,000 famil ies and 800,000 unattached per sons, depend upon the Federal government, wholly or in part, for food, clothing and shelter should make us realize that the nation still faces a serious probleih. The expenditure of nearly $200,000, 000 in March to provide for these individuals indicates the import tance of recovery that may take up the slack and cut down this enormous relief bill. Frankly, there are some observers who doubt if such. relief expenditures can be; eliminated for many years and argue that a straight dole is the cheapest way to handle the problem. The President is com mitted to work-relief and hopes to use the huge work relief ap propriation in a vast program of construction, reclamation and oth er activities that will put 3,600. 000 workers on jobs and stimu late the entire business life of the nation. ; BARUCH'S GOOD SHOWING Bernard M. Baruch, chairman the War Industries Board dur on page 4) *''■**# • Roosevelt Back At Desk After Fishing Trip Summons Speaker Byrns And Rep. R. L. Doughton For Conference About Economic Security Bill RETURNS TUESDAY Finds Secretary Howe, Who Had Been Seriously 111, Considerably Better. Signs War Dept. Bill Washington, April 9..—Presi dent Roosevelt returned to the capital today to supervise the task of putting 7,000,000 un employed Americans to work and announced he would hold a dozen or more conferences before de termining the set up under which $4,000,000,000 will be spent to try to do it. So far the only thing definite about administration, the White House said, is that Mr. Roosevelt will be the active as well as titu lar head of the program. But R was learned authorita tively that Relief Adrrfinistrator Harry L. Hopkins and Under secretary of Agriculture Rexford G. Tugwell will'have an important part in distributing, the fund. After the announcement the President summoned Speaker Jos eph W. Byms and Chairman Rob ert L. Doughton, of the House ways and means committee, for a conference at 9 p. m., but it was to discuss the economic secur ity bill, next on the House pro gram. Earlier the President had conferred with Hopkins, his first oatler after the return. Secretary Stephen T. Early emphasized that Mr. Roosevelt will not announce details of the relief administration until the pro jected conferences are concluded. Several drafts of executive orders setting up the administration are under consideration and the Presi dent expects to study them all before reaching a final decision. Mr. Roosevelt found his senior secretary, Louis McHenry Howe, considerably improved. Howe has been critically ill for three weeks with chronic asthma and heart disease. The President was de scribed as delighted with his im provement. He visited Howe for half an hour before plunging in to his duties. One of his first official acts was to sign the War Department appropriation bill, issuing a state ment calling attention to the in crease in enlisted strength of the army. Bill Would Effect Fishing, Squirrel Hunting In County On April 2, a bill was intro duced in the House of Represen tatives at Raleigh in regard to the regulation of fishing and kill ing of squirrels in Alleghany county. The measure was placed on the Calendar after its intro duction. The bill would fix the season for fishing for trout with hook and line from April 1 to Sep tember 1, and would fix the squirrel season from September 1 to January 1. House Bill.. 811, which would provide a four-year term fo* Registers of Deeds, was amended to exempt a number of counties from its provisions, .among which are Alleghany and Ashe counties. Senate Bill- 824 was amended to permit Commissioners of Alle ghany county to fix the Sheriff's salary at from 21,500 to |1,800, instead of from $1,500 to 22,500, Alleghany Has 273 More Farms Than In 1930 According to a preliminary an nouncement made by George P. McAllister, of Statesville, Super visor Of the Farm Census in the Eighth district of North Carolina, the number of farms in Alle ghany county, as of January I, is 1.657, as compared with 1,884 on April 1, 1986. r . * These figures are showit by a preliminary count of the returns of the Supervisor. It ia pointed out however, that these figures, which show an increase of 278 farms in the four-year period, are preliminary and subject to Glade Valley “Hi” Seniors Are Given Theatre Party Here The senior class of Glade Valley high school was enter tained at a theatre party at the Spartan theatre by the junior class on Monday night of this week. The entire group of about 40 persons greatly enjoyed the picture, “The County Chairman,” in which Will Rogers starred. The group was chaperoned by Miss Annabell Corry, E. B. Eldridge. and Rev. C. W. Ervin and Rev. J. H. Berry, who assisted in transporting the students to Sparta. Following the show, the B. & T. Drug Store provided re freshments for the entire group. Various Kinds Of Weather Reported Over The Nation Floods In California Valley Leave More Than Score Of Persons Dead. Ky. Rivers On Rampage The eletments cracked down on several parts of the nation Tues day, causing widespread damage. A northeaster battered the Eastern Seaboard, floods plagued California and menaced the lower Mississippi Valley, dust storms raged through the Southwest. Summer homes along the Long Island and Jersey coasts were jeopardized by pounding seas. Sleet and chilling rain swept in with the wind. Silt clouds rolling across Wes-1 tern Kansas and Northwestern Oklahoma cut visibility to 100 yds. and forced many highway trave lers to postpone their journeys. Dust also spread over parts of the Texas Panhandle. Some hope for relief waa raised, however, by weather bureau predictions of general precipitation over the North Central states. Nebraskans’ prayers were par tially answered by light snow, sleet and showers, although the rain passed the most arid region of the state and was insufficient in other areas. California counted more than a dozen flood dead after record smashing rains. The storm also had a tragic corollary in the deaths of 10' section bands who were killed by a gravel train near Roseville while en route to repair a railroad line. Homes, farms, stores, crops, highways and railways were damaged, es (continued on back page) President Signs Work Relief fill As He Goes North Aboard Roosevelt Special En Route to New York, April 8.—A few strokes of President Roose velt’s pen on the 14,880,000,000 work-relief bill today Set in motion use of history’s largest lump sum appropriation to put 8,500,000 men to work and end the depres sion. The bill was sent to Jackson ville, Fla., by courier after being enacted by Congress in a '76-day battle. Mr. Roosevelt signed it as he sped northward, ’refreshed and rested from his Ashing trip in Caribbean Waters, to attend the funeral tomorrow of his cousin, Warren Delano Robbins, in New York. Robbins, minister to Can ada, died yesterday of pneumonia. Immediately after signing the bill, the President signed two al locations from the amount ap propriated under the new law. The first allocated $125,000,000 to the‘administrator of the fed eral emergency relief administra tion, in order that relief may not stop. The long delay in the senate has made necessary the transfer of many millions of dollars prev iously allocated to highly use permanent projects to. im itate emergency relief work, President indicated. This ley came from the recovery appropriation of 1983. Many Of this be continued under the new law. Dr. Ernest Baker Dies Simday In Morristown, Tenn. Deceased Was Brother Of Mrs. B. O. Choate. Funeral Held Monday By Drs. Sells And Shugart News was received Sunday in Sparta of the death of Dr. Rob ert Ernest Raker, 47, of Morris town, Tenn., and youngest broth er of one of the most prominent local womenl Mrs. B. 0. Choate. Dr. Baker passed away early Sunday morning in George Ben Johnston Memorial hospital, Abing don, Va., after having been ill for only a few days with pneu pnonia. The deceased was a veterinary surgeon at Morristown. Survivinog are the widow, who was, prior to her marriage, Miss May Cole, Chilhowie, Va.; an adopted daughter, Miss Helen Franklin Baker; two sisters, Mrs. Choate, Sparta, and Mrs. Emma Dotson, Charlotte; four brothers, Dr. Charles H. Baker, Chilhowie, Va., Joseph Baker, Roanoke, Va., Frank Baker, Richmond, Va., and Eugene J. Baker, Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Fries, Va., and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Baker, Fries, Va.. formerly of Wythe county, who are of noted Virginia parentage. Dr. Baker attended V. P. I., Blacksburg, Va., and was a graduate of the United States College of Veterinary and Surg ery, Washington. He had prac ticed in Morristown since 1915. He was Secretary of the East Tennessee Veterinary association, and served as president of the state organization in 1934. Funeral services were conduct ed Monday afternoon in the Mor ristown Methodist church by the pastor, Dr. B. T. Sells, assisted by Dr. E. A. Shugart. presiding elder of the Morristown district. Burial was in Bethesda ceme tery, Morristown. Son Of Sparta Woman Is Memphis Radio Entertainer George Bledsoe, of Memphis, Tenn., who broadcasts a program of songs regularly every Sunday afternoon bver a radio station in that city, is the son of Mrs. Dema Bledsoe, Sp.arta. Mr. Bledsoe has a good voice and is a very popular singer as is attested by the number of requests for songs and notes of praise that are received at the station. Bureau Of Roads Finds It Hard To Get Right-Of-Way Congressman Feels That Work On National Parkway Is Not Progressing As Fast As It Should Washington, April 9.—Feeling that the work on the Great Smoky Mountain national park way is not progressing as rapidly as it should. Representative Zebu Ion Weaver recently called on Thomas H. MacDonald, director of the bureau of public roads, to determine just what plans are under consideration for the im mediate future. I Weaver is .anxious to get “dirt moving” on the parkway. “There I is a feeling here and in North j Carolina that we ought to go I forward with the parkway and ! not let the spring and summer pass without getting construction under way,” Weaver said. | The Western North Carolina congressman was not over opti mistic after his talk with Mac Donald, but stated that with passage of the $4,880,000,000 work relief bill a matter of days, he was hopeful that some steps would be taken to get certain portions of the scenic highway under construction. He said that so far as he could learn nothing has been done except the running of flag lines. It is understood that the bur eau of public roads is running into some difficulties in obtain ing rights-of-ways for the park way. The bureau is insisting on a 1,000 foot right-of-way to pro tect the parkway against erec tion of sign boards and hot dog stands. Under the agreement the st'tes are to furnish the right of-way. A large portion of the parkway will run through s federal forests and other land already owned by the government and, of course, there will be no dif ficulty in this respect. Some of the property owners along the proposed parkway route are not willing to dispose of land for the right-of-way, it was learned. One wealthy Virginian is understood to have forced a relocation of the parkway because he did not want it to split his property. The government by condem nation proceedings can secure the right-of-way, but this results in delay. DENIES HE OWES TAXES Washington, April 9.—Bruno Hauptmann today denied that he owed the federal government $9,678.30 for back income taxes, penalties and fines. Through State Capital Keyholes By Be** Hinton Silver TOUCHY—As the length of the General Assembly grows members are beginning to display evidence of developing “nerves.” Arising to points of personal privilege to “bawl out” some members or some newspaper editor, are be coming numerous as they "have a habit of doing in sessions that run into the payless period beyond the'constitutional 60 days. ■Finger pointing and fist-shaking will soon be the order of the days if the boys don’t get their troubles ironed out and go back home. ! LITTLE CHANCE—A private poll of the Legislature reveals that the batch of bills sent down from Washington by Secretary Ickes designated to put cities and counties in the business of. gener ating and ‘selling power have lit tle chance of passage. Two meas ures, drawn by the State Rural Electrification Commission, are much more modest and have the hacking of the Ehringhaus ad ministration. However, if they get by it will be a close squeeze, j LIQUOR—There can be no doubt that sentiment in favor of the Hill liquor bill is growing among members of -the Legisla ture. It still appears doomed but, only a few converts are needed; to put the measure across. Mem bers show a decided notion not to cut the appropriations bill drastically and if these troubles over takes are not settled pretty soon you are going to seb a great drive to put the Hill bill through. _ i EARLY BIRDS—John A. Mc Rae, of Charlotte, has joined Col onel T. LeRoy Kirkpatrick, of the same city, in announcing for Governor on the Democratic tick et. In Raleigh various stories are being tod about the inten tions of Clyde R. Hoey, Shelby Attorney, and Congressman R. L. Doughton regarding the Gover norship. But make no mistake— Lieutenant Governor A. H. Gra ham is going to run for Gover nor or bust a trace. All efforts to get him attracted by other jobs and what-not have failed entirely and a lot of folk believe his campaign is well underway. RAIDS — The raids on your gasoline tax money have gotten away to a good start. The Gen eral Assembly has voted to spend $500,000 of it annually in keep ing up City Streets and>it looks like $1,630,000 is going to be diverted to the General fund during each of the coming years. It also appears likely that some of the gasoline taxes are going into county treasuries before long in the form of paying the coun ties for roads they built before the highway commission had the money. Better get your own road in shape before the diversion party gets any livelier. SCHOOL BOOKS—State- rental of school books by the time the (continued on back page) Grayson Jury Decides That Delp Must Die In Electric Chair For Murder Of Galax Police Chief; To Appeal Case Condemned Man Is Taken To Roanoke And Lodged In City Jail To Await His Removal To Death House I! SENATOR REYNOLDS MAY HAVE OPPONENT Raleigh, N. C., April 9.—Rep resentative Thomas C. (Tam) Bowie of Ashe county, is seriously considering making the race for United States senator against Senator Robert S. Reynolds in 1938, he said' a few days ago. Bowie expressed the belief that “Reynolds is a one-termer, and if things do not change I shall probably enter the contest foi his seat in the Senate.” Junior Gass Of Sparta “Hi” Gives Seniors Reception Informal Affair Held Friday Night In Local School Gymnasium Is Delightful Event An informal reception was giv en by the Junior class of Sparta high school for the Senior class last Friday night in the gym nasium. Woodrow Richardson, Junior class president, and his various committees, it is said, deserve special commendation- for their efficient work in making the event a very delightful one. Louise Monhallen, Susie Os borne, Carolyn Maxwell, Dwayne Irwin and Junior Wagoner, mem ber's of the Decoration com mittee, decorated the building for the occasion very effectively. The Senior class colors, green and white, were used predominantly. Entertainment was under the direction of Mary Cecile Higgins, Josephine Inskeep and Florence Warren, and appetizing refresh ments were served by Mary Ben nett, Malalyn Wagoner and Thelma Hendrix. Practically all members of both the Junior and Senior classes, as well as the members of, the high school faculty, were in attend ance at the reception. House Decides Wars Should Be Fought In U. S. Washington, April 8.—Ameri can soldiers will never again set foot on foreign soil and will bear arms only in defense of the bor ders of the United States under an amendment to, the McSwain bill, approved by the House Fri day. The McSwain measure, designed to take the profit out of war, calls for universal conscription of manpower in event of war, but under Friday’s amendment it would never again be possible to send millions of men across the ocean as the United States did in the last war. The House accepted the amend ment—a joint enterprise at Rep. Gerald Boileau (P), Wis., ant’. Charles V. Traux (D), Ohio— without a dissenting voice. * Earlier jealousy between two committees blocked an attempt in the House Friday night to put teeth into the McSwain bill. It was a weird legislative ses sion, congressmen raced down the aisles, all shouting at once. Half the members were puxzled as to the exact parliamentary status in which the House had entangled itself, and the gavel thundered from the speaker’s dais for five minutes before order was re stored. Everybody was in favor of the McSwain bill,—as far as it went. The complaint was that it doesn’t go far enough, because it does not contain a provision for taking away excess earnings from profiteers. What is needed, everybody agreed, is an amend ment imposing a tax on excess profits in war time. I TRIAL ENDS APRIL 3 Lawyers Wage Vigorous Fight For And Against Defendant. Insanity Is Chief Plea Of Defense Howard Delp was sentenced late Wednesday, April 3, by Judge Horace Sutherland, to die in the electric chair for the murder of the late Chief of Police Posey Martin, of Galax, pursuant to the verdict of a jury in Grayson county circuit court at Indepen dence, where Delp’s trial for mur der had been in progress since the previous Saturday. Judge Sutherland fixed Friday, June 28, as the date for his electrocution at the Virginia state penitentiary in Richmond. Delp was taken the following day, in the custody of Deputy Sheriff W. C. Ward, of Indepen dence, and Officer Marvin Evans, Galax, to the Roanoke city jail, where he is to remain until June 10. when, unless some move on the part of defense counsel prevents it, he will be taken to the death house in Richmond to await execution. The murder trial followed closely a hearing given the de fendant in the Grayson court to determine whether or not he was insane, ,as the defense contended. The jury which heard the evidence' in this hearing rendered a ver dict that he was sane, following which Judge Sutherland immedi ately ordered trial on the mur der charge. Delp maintained an attitude of blankness and indifference, throughout practically all of both hearings. The prosecution con tended that these actions were merely feigned, basing their claims, to a large extent, on the fact that no witnesses were pro duced, except members of the defendant’s family, who told of ever having observed anything abnormal about him prior to his arrest and incarceration in Wytheville jail following the mur der of the Galax officer. A large number of witnesses were put on the stand by both sides and eloquent pleas to the jury were made by S. Floyd Landreth, Galax, and Common .jvealth’s Attorney H. P. Burnett, of Grayson county, for the prose (continued on back page) R. E. Black Is New Farm Agent For AHeghany R. E. Black, teacher of vo cational agriculture in Piney Creek high school, has been ap pointed Alleghany county farm agent to succeed W. B. Collins, who recently resigned to accept a similar position in Watauga county. Mr. Black holds an exception ally good record as a teacher of agriculture and his knowledge of practical farming, it is thought, will be of great assistance to the , fanners of the county. EHPTY awn.’/ OUT I WONT ( TAKE A uoe 1 ) henCath ml fSsTATlOK'; "There is nothing agrees worse than a proud mind and a beggar's purse." APRIL A _ *—C. P. Steinmeta, electrical wizard, born 1865. 10—Nebraska it firtt atata to celebrate Arbor Day, 1872. 11—Mt. Vetuviua erupts and dettroyi tevtn towns, 1906. nW—The Republic of Switzer land it organized, 1796. 13—Westing house patent on the 1869. secure, his.