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Volume 10. SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA,THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1935 8 PAGES Number 51.
FIGHT ON BANK BILL
Legislative fireworks will be
seen before the Omnibus Banking
Bill completoes its course through
Congress. The House will prob
ably pass the measure as reported
by its committee, with the chief
fight centering on radical amend
ments, including those for the
"commodity dollar,” fixed price
levels and other such proposals.
The Republicans, in a House
minority report, asked fear the
complete elimination of the cen
tral bank section, known as Title
2, which they doubt has any ap
proval ekeept that of Governor
Eccles. Title 1 provides for the
-merging of temporary FDIC funds
into permanent ones and keeping
the deposit insurance maximum at
26,000. Title 8 makes various
changes in the present banking
statute, including termination of
double liability.
Senator Fletcher, chairman of
the ^Banking and Currency Com
mittee, opened what seems to be
a vigorous campaign for the pro
visions which would lodge con
trol of open market operations,
discount rates and member bank
reserve requirements in the Fed
eral Reserve Board by attacking
the flood of letters and telegrams
being sent to Congressmen and
by asserting that bankers have
not been able “to discern the
difference between purely bank
ing functions and monetary pol
icy operations.”
According to the Florida Sena
tor,-the controversial Title .2 would
create machinery to effectively
regulate monetary policy in ac
cord with the President’s cam
paign promise to preserve a sound
currency and to end "the in
defensible expansion and con
traction of credit for private
profit at the expense of the pub
lic.” .
PROGRESSIVES CELEBRATE
When the Wisconsin Progres
sives celebrate the anniversary of
their party’s birth on May 19th,
the event is likely to attract na
tional attention. Considerable
speculation as to the possibility
of its development into a liberal
third party is heard and a num
ber of prominent “Progressives”
will attend. The party recently
won a striking victory to control
Wisconsin and seized seven of
the state’s ten congressional seats.
There has been, notably since
1934, quite a bit of talk to the
effect that unless the old-line par
ties throw off reactionary leader
ship, they will face a formidable
third party. To date there seems
to be no connection with this
movement and the operations of
Senator Long and others.
REPUBLICANS CONFER
Much interest is taken in the
recent conference of a group of
Republican leaders in an effort
to foster the development of plat
form ideas in keeping with pres
ent economic trends. Given os
tensibly in honor of William Allen
White, Kansas editor, the lunch
leon brought together Republican
leaders and afforded them an op
portunity to express views on the
present program.
Generally, the consensus of
opinion seemed to be that the
course of the Republican party
would appear, during the next
twelve months with the collapse
of the Administration’s program
and that a suitable standard
bearer would emerge. While
many observers have expressed
the opinion that a return to pros
perity will insure the reelection
of President Roosevelt, Mr. White
believes that, even so, the country
will-turn to the Republicans “to
restore normal conditions, balance
the budget, and have a well-de
fined monetary policy.”
ADVICE IS VARIED
Excerpts from the advice given
by leaders: Charles Curtis, for
mer Vice-President, suggested
Out the party do some fighting
and stop voting for Democratic
measures, and asserted that if
they continued to loaf, ’‘as they
have the last two years, they
might as well hang up the fiddle
and quit-” Minority leader of
the House, Bertrand H. Snell,
warned that ‘.*we cannot elect
either a radical or an old-fash
ioned conservative ticket" and
"must be in the middle of the
road." Patrick J. Hurley, form
er Secretary of War, reminded
his hearers of the Oklahoma dance
rule against shooting the fiddler
until he is through, and added
that if the party wins it will be
on its own merits and not on 'the
demerits of the Democratic Party.
Generally, the speakers were on
tiie side of "liberalising the Par
'ty,” emphasising the necessity of
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Senators From
South Continue
To Filibuster
Connally, Of Texas, Is
Chief Filibusterer For
Grovtp Bitterly Opposed
To Anti-Lynching Bill
Washington, April 30.—Sena
tor Tom Connally of Texas, com
mander-in-chief of the Southern
filibuster against the anti-lynch
ing bill, snapped his fingers /at
12:07 p. m. today and called
Senator John^ H. Bankhead of
Alabama, to * the Senate firing
line. -
The uncle of Miss Tallulah
Bankhead, the actress, w»s suf
fering from a cold, and had
equipped himself with a box of
throat lozenges to do his bit in
this attempt to talk the anti
lynching bill to death.
l'lus is tne sixin aay oi ine
filibuster- In no'other legislative
body in the world could there take'
place the strange spectacle that
ha3 been going on in the United
States Senate for the last week.
The Senate’s rule of unlimited de
bate makes it possible for a little
knot of a dozen Southern sena
tors to delay legislation simply
by talking in relays. Senator
Hugo Black, of Alabama, and
Senator James Byrns, of South
Carolina divided six hours be
tween them yesterday.
The anti-lynching bill was in
troduced by Senator Robert Wag
ner (D), N. Y., and Senator Ed
ward Costigan (D.), Colo. It
proposes to punish sheriffs and
others officers with fines and im
prisonment if they fail to guard
a prisoner against a mob. The
bill defines a mob as “three or
more persons."
What Bankhead has against
this bill nobody knows. In the
first place he never mentioned it
in his long speech today; in the
second place, he was so hoarse
he could hardly be heard in the
galleries. An inquiry at the of
fice of the Senate stenographer
revealed that Bankhead was
reading a speech that he delivered
in the Senate eight or ten years
ago. It dealt with agricultural
distress. Any subject under the
sun is grist for the mill of a
filibuster. Senator Hue'y Long
read the Book of Genesis two
years ago in a 21-day filibuster.
No, senators listened to Bank
head. There were only three
Republicans in the chamber. Sen
ator Hiram Johnson, of Califor
nia, seemed to be telling a story
to Senator'1 James Couasehs, of
Michigan, and Senator Charles
McNary, of Oregon. All of them
were laughing out loud.
Senator Ellison D. Smith, of
South Carolina, sat as' a sen
tinel for the filibusterers, just in
case Bankhead collapsed and a
fresh speaker was needed immedi
ately. It also was his duty to
get up every hour and suggest
the absence of a quorum,, which
made it necessary for the clerk
to call the roll—a process that
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Seven Convicts
Saw Way Out Of
Prison Camp Sun.
> In a cage break Sunday night
at the Sparta prison camp, seven
convicts sawed their way out and
escaped. . They were thought to
have escaped about midnight, and
at three o’clock in the morning
they aroused Harlow Pollard, who
lives in the section near the farm
of A. A. Woodruff, to inquire
the nearest route to Elkin. 7
The escape was not discovered
until early morning. Small pos
ses of men, officials and prison
guards were immediately set on
the trail of the escapees and they
were tracked over various parts
of the county surrounding Sparta
but as yet only one has been ap
prehended. He was taken into
custody by Robert Bledsoe.
CqL Roosevelt
Assails Policies
Of Distant Cousin
Son Of Firet Roosevelt
Occupant Of White House
Scores Policies Of The
Present Administration
Boston, Mass., April 30.—The
new deal is rapidly destroying
the high standard of living in the
United States> Col. Theodore
Roosevelt asserted today, before
the New England Republican
conference.
Roosevelt compared the stand
ards of living • maintained in
America “up to 1929.” with those
of foreign countries, and said
that “our working men have no
conception of how miserable is
the lot of working men in other
countries compared to our stand
ards.”
He pointed out that whereas
in 1900, 63 per cent of the na
tional income' went into wages,
this figure Jurd risen to 63 per
cent in 1929.
“The policies at Washington
are definitely blocking real recov
ery,” he asserted, “and squander
ing the savings of the average
individual. If allowed to continue,
they will crush the small property
owner, the home owner, the small
business man—and we will become
a country where poverty is the
rule.”
Roosevelt made the following
charges against the Democratic
administration:
“The administration is robbing
America to benefit foreign coun
tries.
“Our people cannot purchase
necessities because the prices have
placed them beyond their grasp.
“The administration is not re
distributing the wealth of the
country, but arranging for a gen
eral distribution of poverty in
the future.
“It has robbed us of our for
eign markets. We have already
lost two-thirds of our overseas
grade in cotton textiles.”
R. E. Black Takes
Up Duties As Farm
Agent Yesterday
R. E. Black, for the past sev
eral years, head of the Agricul
ture department of Piney Creek
high school, assumed his new dut
ies yesterday (Wednesday) as
Alleghany county agricultural
agent. As he takes up the work,
he sends the following message
to the farmers of the county and
the associates he leaves behind at
Piney Creek:
“Having been appointed to and
accepted the position of county
agent of Alleghany county, I
wish to thank the farmers and
students with whom I have work
ed,' for the past several years as
vocational teacher at Piney Creek
high school, for their fine co
operation- I want to ask them
to give my successor the same
support they have given me.
“As I take off in a different
line of workt I hope to be of
some service to every farmer in
the county. I want all the
farmers of the county to feel
that 1 am their friend and will
ing to help them with their farm
problems whenever it is possible.’’
NRA FATE UNCERTAIN
Washington! April 80.—The na
tional industrial recovery act has
47 calendar days to live. Presi
dent Roosevelt wants it extended
two year*. Yet Congress seemed
as uncertain tonight on how and
for what period to extend it as
in the beginning.
Congressman Dougfaton Decides Not Tc
Rim For Governor In 1936; Prefers To
Continue Service In Present Position
Says Post At Present Makes It Necessary For
Him To Consider Duties, Not own Inclinations
CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Chief Executive Urges Him To Stay In Congress.
Belief Is General That Clyde Hoey Will Make Race
Washington, April 30.—Repre
sentative Robert L. (“Farmer
Bob”) Doughton, of Alleghany
county( North Carolina, Ninth dis
trict congressman, announced yes
terday that he will not be a can
didate for Governor of North
Carolina in 1936. His announce
ment came as a fulfillment-of a
statement made by him several
days ago, in which he said that
he would make all announcement
as to his intentions. regarding his
political future not later than to
day.
Congressman Doughton, accord
ing to reports, came to Capitol
Hill yesterday morning ready to
announce that he would be a
candidate for the highest honor
the people of his: home state
can bestow, but in the shank of
the afternoon he issued a brief
statement to the pros in- which
he declared he prewired \a re
main in Congress. ,
There was a reason, it is said,
for this sudden change—a White
House conference in which Presi
dent Roosevelt urged Doughton
to decide not to run for Gover
nor but to remain as chairman
of the powerful House Ways and
Means committee tf| aid in the
recovery program.
Doughton’s announcement put
North Carolinians fn Washing
ton in a stir- and thtee was wide
speculation as to whs#*- effect it
will have on the Governor’s race.
The general belief here is that
Clyde Jdoey, of gbgiby, will be
come k candidate along with a
large field of other candidates,
some of whom will run on
strong liberal platforms.
Hoey is a brother-in-law of
former Governor O. Max Gard
ner, who was yesterday appoint
ed special counsel for the federal
communication commissions’ in
vestigation of the telephone com
panies at a salary of $10,000 a
year. There has been some talk
going around Washington to the
effect that Governor Gardner used
his influence with the White
House to get pressure brought on
Doughton not to run for Gover
nor but to remain in Congress
so as to give Hoey a better chance
of winning.
This report must be discounted,
however, in view of the actions
of Secretary of State Cordell
Hull, who is known to have step
ped into the picture. Hull “wants
a man chairman of the House
ways and means committee who
will play ball with the adminis
tration on the tariff question. Had
Doughton quit Congress, Sam
B. Hill, of Washington, would
have become chairman of the
committee and he voted for the
Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, although
a Democrat.
Following Doughton’s confer
ence at the White House, Presi
dent Roosevelt wrote Doughton
is letter asking him to stay in
Congress. Doughton has been an
administration mainspring and
Mr. Roosevelt wants to keep him
in harness of the federal govern
ment. ~
Several weeks ago Doughton is
issued a statement to the effect
that he would soon retire from
Congress regardless of what he
decided to do about the Gover
nor’s race. Doughton’s statement
today knocks that conclusion in
the head. He made it plain to
day that it is his present inten
tion to be a candidate for re
election to Congress. Doughton’s
statement in full follows:
“After mature consideration on
my part, and consultation with
the highest administration leaders,
I have decided not to become a
candidate for Governor of North
Carolina. My position as chair
man qf the ways and means com
mittee makes it necessary for me
to consider other duties rather
than my own inclinations.
“I have reached this decision
reluctantly. For the past several
months so many people in North
Carolina have urged me to be
come a candidate for governor
that their insistence has become
a pressure which seemed impos
sible to decline. I hardly need
say, however, that my decision
not to make the race is no evi
dence of lack of interest in the
welfare of my state. 1 have
merely been convinced that my
best field of service at the pres
ent time, if I am to remain in
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Through State Capital Keyholes
By Bas* Hinton Sihror
WATCH-DOG—Senator U. L,
Spence, of Moore, is the legisla
tive watch-dog of the State High
way fund but as chairman of the
Senate roads committee he is
keeping busy fighting the diver
sionists- Senator Spence shyed
away from the bill to give the
highway commission authority to
pay Dare County something in
return for tolls it now receives
from the Roanoke Island bridge.
The State would make the bridge
toll free and the county would
use the annual State payments to
retire bonds. Senator Spence
feared this might be used as a
lever to obligate the State High
way fund to pay other county
bonds.
SECRETS—The joint confer
ence committee on the biennial
revenue bill decided it would
rather work without benefit of
publicity and barred newspaper
men. The committee members
took a pledge not to disclose what
happened in the session until their
report was made. But an hour
after they adjourned newspaper
men had little difficulty in learn
ing what action was taken and
the public was duly informed.
And they talk about women being
unable to keep a secret.
GETTING WORSE—Capua M.
Waynick, chairman of the State
Highway and Public Works Com
mission. is getting worried about
the condition of some of the “per
manent*’ roads in this State. They
sue going to pieces in « great
many places and Waynick fears
that the time may come when
federal aid money will be cut
off and the State will find itself
with a lot of broken down roads
and no money to repair them.
“I am going to insist on sturdi
ness rather than mileage in our
future road construction,” Way
nick said, with a view to making
what hard-surfaced roads you
now have actually “permanent.”
PAY BOOST—State Treasurer
Chas. M. Johnson is going to get
a raise in pay from $4,500 to
$6,000 annually the first of next
year as a result of a bill passed
by the General Assembly.- That’s
a nice lift but the State Treasur
er has not had a pay increase in
the past 14 years. And the last
Legislature dumped all the work
Of the local government in his
lap.
STILL THERE—Although-the
sound and the fury over the Ray
burn bill in Congress (which
would give the federal power com
mission almost plenary authority
over all power companies) the
measure remains a matter of
major legislation and Represen
tatives and Senators are continu
ing to receive protests from the
folk back home- Some people
remember that turning the mat
ter of railroad rates over to the
Interstate Commerce Commission
didn’t help North Carolina and
they do say the same people and
a lot of others fear the-result ii
the Rayburn bill should becoflU
law.
STRUCK BLOW—George Rosj
Pou, Raleigh attorney and son o:
the late Congressman Edward W
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4)
Judge Pless To
Open Alleghany
Court Here Mon.
The spring term of Superior
court will convene on Monday,
May 6, in Alleghany county, with
Judge J. Will Pless, of Marion,
presiding. Solicitor Allen Gwyn
will be present to prosecute for
the state.
There are no murder cases to
be tried at this term of court,
but two or three cases are thought
to be lengthy enough to consume
perhaps two days each. There
fore, it is thought, the term will
be fully as long as the average.
Opposition To
Roosevelt Bank
Bill Develops
Speaker Byrns Predicts
Passage Of Measure By
House By June 10 Or 15,
As Well As NRA Extension
Washington, April 30.—The ad
ministration banking bill, one of
the most vital pieces of new deal
legislation this session, ran. head
on into a fight as soon as the
House began its consideration
Monday.
Hardly had Chairman Henry
B. Steagall of the banking and
currency committee hailed Presi
dent Roosevelt’s public endorse
ment of the bill, which would
give the government “central
bank” control over monetary pol
icy, when the United States
Chamber of Commerce roundly
condemned the bill as likely to
increase “danger of political domi
nation of the Federal Reserve
System’s operations.”
In the House, Representative
John B. Hollister (R), Ohio, rank
ing Republican member of Stea
gall’s committee, demanded that
the “central bank” sectioni title
2, be withheld for,- “future de
tailed consideration.”
“There must be a stop to the
continual yielding for more and
more power in the executive
branch, particularly when its pow
er could be subjected so easily to
abuse,” Hollister said.
He charged that title 2 was
the work of Marriner S. Eccles,
governor of the Federal Reserve
Board. A central banking system,
he added, should be removed as
far as possible from government
control,
“Such a situation is one of the
evidences of a democracy as dis
tinguished from a dictatorship,”
he said. He argued that already
the Treasury has too grept power
over the nation’s banking system
—and yet we are asked to pass
a bill to increase this control
very greatly.”
Speaker Joseph W. Bryns pre
dicted the House would pass the
banking bill-^and in addition,
NRA extension, utilities regula
tion and transportation control,
all on President Roosevelt’s
“must” program, by June 10
or 15.
Drum Corps Benefit
Carnival To Open
Monday At Galax
Beginning on Monday, May 6.
at Felts park in Galax, Bolt and
Bolt Shows will play throughout
the week for the midway attrac
tions at the Spring festival being
sponsored by the Galax American
Legion post for the benefit of
the Galax Junior American Legion
Drum and Bugle corps. The
purchasing of uniforms for the
boys of the drum and bugle corps
is the specific purpose of the car
nival.
An official of the B. A B.
Shows was in Galax Tuesday
making advance arrangements for
the opening of the carnival, and
said the shows contain six rides
and a large number of shows
and concessions, such as is gen
erally to be' found with a good
carnival company.
Galax is to have three carnivals
this season, counting the one tc
play at the fair in September
Kaus’ Shows has been contractec
for fair week, and Bunts Greater
Shows will be on the midway foi
the firemen’s annual celebration
which is to be in progress a
Felts park throughout the weel
of July 4.
PLANE SETS NEW RECORD
New York, April 80-—A bit
passenger plane landed here lat
tonight to set a new trans-conti
nentel transport record.
<
Roosevelt Tafts
To Nation Again
(hi Sunday Night
Speaks From Oval Room
In White House In One
Of His Radio /Fireside
Chats. Is Optimistic
OUTLINES WORK PLANS
Says That Relief Rolls
Declined Instead Of
Increasing In Winter
For First Time In 5 Yrs.
Washington, April 30.—Sound
ing a new note of optimism, Presi
dent Rooseevlt Sun. night outlined
his work relief program to the
nation in a speech pledging “no
sectional, no political distinctions”
in distributing the $4,000,000,000
fund.
Speaking from the Oval room
of the White House in one of
his radio fireside chats, the presi
dent said that “rrever since my
inauguration in March 1933, have
I felt so unmistakably the atmos
phere of recovery.”
He summoned all citizens to
keep a watchful eye that the work
program should be "the most ef
ficient and cleanest example of
public enterprise the world has
ever seen,” and laid down a six
pronged diagram of principles to
govern the spending in his work
program. Then Mr. Roosevelt
enumerated a series of legislative
proposals he expects congress to
enact at this session. Topping
this list was his economic security
legislation, which already has been
passed by the house. The presi
dent said this measure was in
extricably interwoven with the
four billion dollar works program.
The oilier bills whose enact
ment he called for were those
to extend and revise NR A; to do
away with certain types of ."un
necessary” utility holding com
panies ; to broaden the interstate
commerce commission and extend
its regulation to buses and trucks;
and to amend the Federal Re
serve banking laws. ;
The chief executive said that
for the first time in five years
relief rolls had declined instead
of increasing during the winter
months and that they "are still
declining.”
The principles that he laid down
to govern the allotment of money
of the four billion dollar fund
were :
"The projects should be useful.
"Projects shall be of a nature
that a considerable proportion of
the money spent will go into
wages for labor.
"Projects which promise ulti
mate return to the federal treas
ury of a considerable proportion
of the costs will be sought.
“Funds allotted for each proj
ect should be actually and prompt
ly spent and not held over until
later years.
“In all cases projects must be
of a character to give- employ
ment to those on relief rolls.
"Projects -must be allocated to
localities or relief areas in re
lation to the number of workers
on relief rolls in those atreas.”
Mr. Roosevelt sketched the ma
chinery he had set up to carry
on the work, saying he expected
the division of applications and
information to sift the applica
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who tal^M no care of little thing*
not have the care of great ones."
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