Newspapers / The Alleghany News and … / May 9, 1935, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Alleghany News and Star-Times (Sparta, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Want Ad* Bring Results The Alleghany Times Subscription Price Pi » yw in advance DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHAN Y COUNTY Volume 10. SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1935. 6 PAGES Number 52. I LONG SESSION LIKELY The present outlook is that Congress will be in session until some time in July, largely as the result of slow action in the Sen ate, where practically everything was held up for more than a week by a determined filibuster against taking up the anti-lynch ing bill sponsored by Senators Costigan and Wagner. The House, it is thought, can complete the President’s “must” program in a little over a month but long de bate is expected in the Senate over the ' controversial questions. ROOSEVELT’S “MUST" LIST In his radio address, President Roosevelt called five measures “essential factors in a rounded program for national recovery.” listing them as follows: (1) ex tension of the NRA; (2) elimina tion of unnecessary holding com panies; (3) transportation legis lation regulating highway, air way and waterway traffic under the Interstate Commerce Commis sfcn; (4) amendments to the Fed eral Reserve Act; and (5) social security legislation to relieve, minimize and prevent future un employment. tin his “report” to the people, the President made it plain that he means for Congress to take action on these measures, regard less of the so-called distinction between reform and recovery leg islation. He was optimistic over the present outlook and confident as to the future. He pointed out that for the first time in five years, relief rolls declined during the winter months. His address largely explained the executive set-up of the vast work relief program which “should be in full swing by autumn.” Mr. Roosevelt specified six fun damental principles to govern the public expenditures, saying that the projects should be useful, should promise ultimate return of a considerable portion of the cost, should mean prompt spending to give employment to those on re lief rolls, and should use a con siderable portion of the money in wages for labor. Moreover, the projects will be given to var ious localities in proportion to the workers on relief rolls. The President recognized that there would be instances of inef ficiency, bad management and misuse of funds, and called on the people for eternal vigilance to prevent such evils, asking them to cooperate with him in making the work relief program “the most efficient and cleanest ex ample of public enterprise the world has ever seen.” He wanted criticism, telling where work would be better done or improp er practices corrected. In support of NRA, the Presi dent insisted that “we must con tinue to protect children, to en force minimum wages, to prevent excessive hours, to safeguard, de fine and enforce collective bar gaining and to eliminate so far as humanly possible against the unfair practices of selfish minori ties which, unfortunately did more than anything else to bring about the recent collapse of industries.” Referring to “unnecessary” holding companies in the public utility field, the Chi$f Executive called the legislation a positive recovery measure. He said pow er production is virtually back to the 1929 peak and that operating companies are by and large in goad condition, but that under holding company domination the utility industry has been hopeless ly at war within itself and with public sentiment. The proposed legislation Will, he said, put the industry on a sound basis for the future in both respects, reducing rates to the consumer and pro tecting actual value and earning power of properties. The United States Chamber of Cemm'erce, meeting in Washing ton last week, moved toward an open break with the President in contrast to its cooperative atti tude last year. Besides condemn ing the proposed changes in the Federal Reserve Act the Cham ber’s attitude was indicated by the criticism of Henry I. Harri man, its president, who thought that the Administration is at tempting too much in too short a time. Plainly, the business group is lining up with the other busi ness organisations to avert, if possible, “major reform measures” and to seek currency stabilization and some definite assurances of lessened governmental expendi tures. BIG BUSINESS TO FIGHT The attitude of business gen erally, as expressed by its organi School Measure Passed By Senate On ftid Reading Liquor It Chief Topic In Lower House As End Of Session Nears. Fri. Adjournment Voted COUNTIES EXEMPTED Representative Bowie's Liquor Bill Reported Out Of House Committee “Without Prejudice” Raleigh, May 7.—While the Senate today went sedately ahead to put the school machinery bill on third reading the House con tinued to juggle liquor bills in the face of the Senate’s demon strated dryness. Two liquor bills introduced last night were reported out of the House calendar committee, one favorably, the other without preju dice. The bill receiving the fav orable report was that of Repre sentative Day, of Onslow, provid ing for the purchase of one quart every 16 days from state stores. The other was the bill of Repre sentative Bowie of Ashe, which would permit transportation of "legally bought” liquor into and through the state. Both bills went on the House calendar. Then the House, anxious to go home, adopted a resolution pro viding for adjournment sine die at 5 p. m. Friday. It previously had adopted a resolution prohibit ing introduction of new bills after the Wednesday session. But during the course of its meeting today, the lower body recognized the power of the Scot tish thirst and passed a bill to permit citizens of Polk, Scot land, Robeson, Cumberland, Bla de^ Columbus ,and Moore coun ties to give a “wee doch and doris” to their friend’s, the Tur lington act notwithstanding. After Representative McCall, of Robeson, had explained in a rich Scottish burr, the ancient rite of the stirrup cup in Scot land the rules were suspended and the measure shouted through to passage. It was sent to the presumable hostile Senate by special messenger where it joined a bill passed last night to exempt New Hanover county from dry laws of the state. •Despite the aridity of the Sen ate, shown by its quick defeat of the Day liquor control bill last week and the action of its cal endar in squelching the Page en forcement bill last night the up per house received a wet bill to day. introduced by Senator Corpora, of Martin, it provides for encour agement of grape culture and the manufacture of light wines In passing the school machinery bill on second reading the Sen ate lost little time in debate, con testing only one amendment ser iously and a few others briefly. That which stirred real debate was offered by Senator Johnson, of Duplin, to permit county com missioners to levy taxes to match federal funds for vocational edu 1 cation. Work On Road Through Sparta Nearly Complete The road construction which has been under way through Sparta since last fall is about to be finished, much to the satis faction of the townspeople and those living along the section un der construction. The completion of the road base came so late last fall that the pouring of the surface finish could not be done until warm weather. The dust from the uncompleted highway has been exceedingly an noying to those nearby. Kiker and Yount, contractors, have the machinery to be used in finishing 4he work now on the job and the first coat of oil was applied yesterday. The oil is being trucked from Galax. Af ter this coat penetrates for about 24 hours, the tar and asphalt will be poured. It has not been announced when the contract for the remain der of the road to Roaring Gap, which is expected to be con structed soon, will bo let. Local Girl Plays Prominent Part In Musical Recital In a recital of original compo sitios presented by the School of Music of Greensboro college, Miss Annie Marie Choate, daughter of j Dr. and Mrs. B. O. Choate, Sparta, played a prominent part. Miss Choate is a Senior student. Miss Choate rendered a selec tion entitled “Dawn” on the pro gram, as well as one entitled “March Of The Penguins.” Miss Choate also rendered “Song Of A Second April,” and served as accompanist for other numbers. The recital was held in the Odell Memorial auditorium, Greensboro. Alleghany Court Opens Here Mon.; Largely Attended Judge J. Will Pleas, Of Marion, Presides Here For First ^ime. Other New Officers Noted The spring term of Superior court in Alleghany county opened Monday morning with Judge J. Will Pless, of Marion, presiding. The streets and local business houses were crowded all day long with people from over the en tire county. - The courtroom was crowded with spectators who were interested in the court proceed ings. This term of court was marked by a number of new faces ap pearing in the official positions. Sheriff Walter M. Irwin, who is serving his first term, acquitted himself very creditably. Judge Pless, who is presiding for the first time in this county, has proven a fair and impartial ,ad ministrator of justice, and Solici tor Allen Gwyn has also made a good impression on the people. Tuesday’s crowd was slightly smaller but the rain which came in the morning prevented work on the farms and thus added to the number of people in town. The following cases had been disposed of by Tuesday after noon: State vs. Robert Taylor, sell ing liquor, $15 and costs; State vs. Hoke McMillan and Tom Rich ardson, robbery, McMillan. 5 years in state prison, and Rich ardson, not less than 8 years nor more than 12 years in state prison; State vs. Odell Wilson, rape, transferred to Juvenile court on account of defendant be ing under fourteen years; State vs. Raymond Crouse, assault with (continued on back page) Commencement At Sparta “Hi” To Open Fri. Night Commencement exercises for Sparta high school wiU begin Fri day night, May 10, at eight o’clock, with an operetta, “Rain bow’s End,” which will be giver by the elementary grades. . On Saturday morning, May 11, at ten o’clock, the annual read ing contest will be held. At this time the seventh grade certificates and the perfect-attendance cer tificates will be presented by Superintendent John M. Cheek. The Senior play, “Everybody’s {Setting Married,” will be giver Saturday night, May 11. «t 8 o’clock. The commencement sermon will be delivered Sunday morning at eleven o’clock by Rev. H. K. King, of North Willtesboro. The graduating exercises will take place Monday night, May 13 at 8 o’clock. It was announced at an earlier date that Congressman R- L Doughton would deliver the com mencement address. Since. that time he has found that it will be impossible for him to do so, and Honorable Ira T. Johnson, of Jefferson, has been invited and has accepted the invitation to de liver the commencement address A small admission fee wil! be charged for the grade program and for the Senior play. The patrons and friends of th« school are cordially invited to at tend all the commencement pro grams." Hie American Mother for 1935 NEW YORK ... A small vivacious woman with sparkling dark blue eyes tii3 ailvery hair has been selected by The Golden Rule Mother’s Day com mittee as the typical American Mother for 1935. She is Mrs. Fletcher M. Johnson of Irvington, N.Y., widow, 59, shown above with one of her thir teen grandchildren. She is. the mother of six children. Senator Cutting Killed In Crash Of Big Air Liner Missouri Accident Also Fatal To Three Others. New Mexico Solon Was On Way Tio Washington Macon, Mo*, May 6.—The crash of a fog-blinded TWA air liner today, killing United States Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico and three others, drew a speedy inveR«§ation tonight as two of nine other injured per sons hovered near death. Witnesses told a coroner’s jury the plane’s fuel supply was nearly exhausted when the low wing nightliner fell on a muddy pas ture near Atlanta, Mo., while seeking an emergency landing field at Kirksville, 15 miles dis tant. The jury recessed tonight until tomorrow. Transcontinental and Western Air issued a statement over the signature of Paul E. Richter, vice president, expressing belief a low gasoline supply caused the pilot to seek "a precautionary land ing.” “He probably did not see the (continued on back page) Reilly Seeking Receiver For Defense Funds Feud Between Hauptmann Ex-Counsel And Wife Of Condemned Man Bursts Into The Open Again New York, May fi.—The feud between Edward J. Reilly, bluff, breezy and belligerant ex-counsel for Bruno Richard Hauptmann, and the mouse-like Anna Schoef | fler Hauptmann, wife,of the con demned Lindbergh baby mur derer, burst into the open again Saturday. Reilly, who was “removed” from the case on Mrs. Haupt mann’s orders filed suit against her for $22,398.82, due him, he says, for expenses and fees in curred in defending her husband at Flemington, N. J. Saturday night Mrs. Hauptmann was faced with an order from the New York supreme court to show cause. 1. Why she should not be en joined from disposing of funds in her possession. 2. Why a receiver should not (continued on back page) Through State Capital Keyholes By Bass Hinton Silver COMING SOON—By the time you read this Lieutenant Gover nor A. H. Graham may have an nounced his candidacy for Gover nor in the flfemocratic primaries next Spring. If not it will be forthcoming within the next few days. The second high man in the State government has not tried to keep it a secret that he will run but has withheld an nouncement until his duties as presiding officer of the State Sen ate are completed. HOEY—The opinion that Clyde R. Hoey, Shelby Democratic wheelhorse, has been strengthened in Raleigh since the withdrawal of Congressman R. L. Doughton, who decided he was needed as. chairman of the national House Ways and Means Committee. Hoey also is withholding formal an nouncement until after the legis lature adjourns at which time he will tell the State of his inten tions. From a neutral position it’s pretty hard to figure out just what the Shelby orator will do. No doubt he wants to run but is a man who detests getting into a political dog-fight to gain an of fice. HUMANE—A man is just as dead when you kill him with lethal gas as if yon electrocute him but social leaders say that passage of the Peterson bill to substitute gas for electrocution in capital punishment is a great stride in the right direction. Per sons who have seen the gas exe cutions say the prisoner displays no sign of pain and that much of the gruesomeness of electrocutions is missing. Capital punishment oppositionists hail this State’s de parture in the method of legal killing as a move toward its abo lition. The Peterson bill provides that persons sentenced to death after July 1 be put to death by gas. Those sentenced before that date will be electrocuted. GRABBED IT—The General Assembly voted to apply the sales tax to gasoline and instead of re quiring you to pay the three per cent levy it will be taken from the tax of six cents per gallon you now pay. That means that another $800,000 of the money you are paying for roads will be used each year for other purposes. Already the State has been tak ing a million dollars a year out of the gasoline fund. Friends of good roads fear that there will be movements at the next legis lative session to take your gaso line taxes to pay county bonds. HOWL—North Carolina Repre sentatives in Congress are still reported to be receiving violent protests against the Rayburn bill which would give • the Federal Power Commission unprecedented powers in regulating and setting the nates of all power companies. Around Raleigh it is said that the State Utilities Commission would have little authority over power rates if the Rayburn bill should become law. Opponents of the measure point out that the State Commission has lowered power rates while the Inter-state Commerce Commission has North (continued on page 4) Highly Skilled Highway Workers Now Being Sought According to R. L. Wooten, District Manager of the U. S. Employment service, calls are con tinually being received for skill ed highway workers, and any per son who is skilled in the oper ation of any kind of road machin ery, such as power shovels, motor graders and bulldozers, should register with the National Re employment Service at North Wilkesboro. However, it should be borne in mind that these men must be highly skilled in the operation of these machines be fore they apply. Any applicant who has prev iously registered in the Employ ment office in Sparta, and re quests a renewal, may do so by mail. Delp Is Still Closely Guarded In Roanoke Jail Jailor Says Condition Is Apparently Improving. Has Same Freedom Allowed Others In His Cell Block Howard Delp, condemned to die in the electric chair for the mur der of the late Chief of Police Posey Martin, Galax, spends his time in Roanoke city jail, where he has been confined since the day after his conviction, as do the other prisoners, save that he is under the watchful, eye of guards 24 hours each day. Ait appeal tu me .ika ic oupicuic court for a writ of error was indicated at the time of the con viction, by Stuart B. Campbell, Wytheville, defense lawyer. Delp was convicted at Indepen dence in March and the death sentence imposed by the, jury. The convicted man was removed to Roanoke on the following day and three guards ordered placed at his cell. At times, since his removal to Roanoke, he has acted strangely, but apparently his condition is improving, it was said by Jailor John C. James. Delp is allowed the same free dom granted other prisoners in his cell block, being permitted to exercise daily in the corridor and mingle with other prisoners. But his every action is observed by his guard. At night, when lights are ex tinguished in the cell blocks, a single light remains burning in front of the cell occupied by the condemned man and, usually, two (continued on back page) Nineteen Seniors Receive Diplomas At Glade Valley. The twenty-fifth annual com mencement of Glade V,alley high school closed Monday night. April 29, with the senior play. The graduating exercises were held Monday morning, when nineteen graduates received their diplomas. Each graduate was presented with a Bible which was a donation made by a friend in Winston Salem. Rev. J. W. Luke delivered tho Bibles. The graduates were: Ted Wyatt, Lucy Wyatt, Richard Osborne, Annie Blair, Hazel Taylor, Re becca Darnell, Leola Robinson, Gray Norman, Georgia Wingler, Theresa Blevins, Roscoe Collins, Lonnie McMillan, Cupid Ledwell, Ruby Wyatt, William Telford, Ruth Ham, Mary Smith, Cleo Neely and Maude Stidham. The class, arrayed in caps and gowns, was accompanied by their mascot, little Miss Betty Joe Gen try. The benediction was pronounced by Rev. E. Wayne Thompson, a friend of the school of long standing. On Sunday morning, the com mencement sermon was preach ed by Rev. W. I. Howell, Jr., of Moclcsville, and the sermon to the Young People’s league was de livered by Rev. J. K. Fleming, Mt. Airy. Miss Georgia Wingler was Valedictorian of the class and re ceived the scholarship medal. The (continued on back page) Patman Bonus Bill Is Passed By Senate Tues. Upper Congressional Branch Adopts Measure Of Texan In Preference To Vinson Bill GOES TO PRESIDENT House Had Already Voted 318 To 90 For Patman Plan. Clark Moves To Reconsider _ Washington, May 7.—The Har rison compromise bonus bill was scrapped late today by the Sen ate, which body chose the Pat man inflationary measure in pref erence to the Vinson measure. The Patman measure, calling for payment of the $2,250,000,000 debt to veterans in printing press money, was then formally passed. The Patman bill had auready been passed by the House, which voted 318 to 90 for it. It now goes to President Roosevelt, who has threatened to veto it. The bill, however, will not be sent to the White House for pos sibly two days. A motion to re consider the vote was entered by Senator Bennett Champ Clark (D.), Missouri, who has two days to call up the motion for action. Administration leaders, it is said, believe the Senate will up hold Mr. Roosevelt's veto. The Patman bill was passed after the Senate: Rejected the compromise plan of sippi, 54 to 30—a plan Har rison said the President would sign. Chose the Patman bill in pref erence to the Vinson bill, backed by the American Legion, by a vote of 52 to 35. The formal vote passing the Patman bill was 55 to 33. 1 The bonus vote was taken be fore crowded Senate galleries and in the presence of hundreds of congressmen who had come over from the House to see the excite ment. Representatives of the Ameri can Legion, who had held front row seats in a reserved gallery, left after the Vinson bill, which they were supporting, had been rejected. The Vinson bill called for the issuance of bonds for immediate payment in full of the bonus. The Harrison measure would have paid the soldiers in cash or in negotiable bonds or would have given a premium to those who held their certificates until 1945 —the original date of maturity. Defeat of the Harrison measure was no surprise, despite the fact that Harrison warned repeatedly that President Roosevelt would veto any other bonus bill. Party leaders had conceded de feat. They sat back to permit the Senate to go through the motion of adopting a measure which makes a major clash be tween Mr. Roosevelt and Con gress inevitable. ♦ The Vinson bill lost by only three votes in the House, which adopted overwhelmingly the meas ure by Representative Wright Patotman (D.), Texas, proposing to start the printing presses to ' meet the government’s obligation to the veterans. Senator Ben nett C. Clark (D.), Missouri, of fered the Vinson substitute In the Senate.
The Alleghany News and Star-Times (Sparta, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
May 9, 1935, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75