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Tim*. Want Ads Brine Results The DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, Volume 10. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHAN Y COUNTY - —— —....—- - SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1935. 6 PAGES Number 29. SCORES SHIPBUILDERS That some private shipbuilders “are certainly not above suspic ion of willingness to wave the 'flag or circulate war scares in the plain and simple interests of their own pocketbooks” is the conclusion of the Senate Munitions Committee, which says that their record, since 1927, “has not been an entirely pleasant and whole some story.” This just about summarize^ the situation, but it comes as no surprise to those who have kept up with the reve lations before the committee. That ships built in private yards cost several million more than those constructed in navy yards caused the senators to criticise the Navy Department for not having some “yardstick” with which to accur ately measure the difference in cost. MITCHELL. CHARGES FLOP The charges of Ewing Y. Mitch ell, aired before a Senate com mittee, did not amount to as much as one thought because the witness, repeatedly asked to spec ify the facts to support his con tentions, contented himself for the most part with rehashing items uncovered by previous in quiries. If he hoped that Repub lican members would take up the issue he managed his testimony vtiy badly, time after time stray ing to alleged derelictions of the Commerce Department prior to the present administration. His audience dwindled as the hearing continued, and the former official reiterated his statement that he had no direct evidence of graft or corruption. BUSINESS CONCERNED Business leaders, we are advis ed, are showing some concern over cancellation of orders, which have developed since the death of NRA, and officials of the new or ganization fear that a sharp de cline in activity may develop. Field agents report much price cutting and widespread use of "loss leaders” by big and little stores. They also assert that la bor standards are being cut. These evils appear in the consumers’ goods industries, the service trades and in small establishments generally. In the manufacturing industries labor standards continue to be up to standard. Apparently the cancelled orders come in through anticipation that removal of wage and hour restrictions will mean cheaper prices .and that there is no use in holding on to orders placed at prices under the old order. NO NEW RECOVERY LAW Just now the idea is that Con gress will go home without enact ing any new recovery law, but industry will be invited to sub mit voluntary codes with the un derstanding that they will not be passed on until the future NRA policy is decided upon. The President points out that since the Court decision lawyers have been searching for a substitute law and that once they thought a suitable act could be based on the right of Congress to define “interstate commerce” but that further study revealed difficulties. While the study continues there is not much prospect for immedi ate success or legislation. ICKES DEFENDS THE PWA Secretary Ickes, PWA admin * istnator, issued a vigorous defense of his policies in his recent book, dedicated to President Roosevelt, just as Harry Hopkins seems to be the man of the hour insofar as spending the work relief fund is concerned. Mr. Ickes freely admits that mistakes were made but he insists that he has kept politics out of his organisation, which allotted only $2,606,000, 000 and had more than a billion of that tied up by insurmounta ble legal difficulties. He points out that the prosperity level of public construction exceeded ten billions of dollars annually and his sum was totally inade quate to end all unemployment. He; insists that PWA kept an Av erage of 500,000 men at work on construction sites in 1934 and provided jobs, directly and indi rectly, for 2,000,000 more. THE 1930-LINE DRAWN The general opinion is that the Republicans wil put their faith next year in the conservatism of the past, without any effort to attach unto themselves dissatisfied Democrats, and that the Roosevelt strategy is a play to the left, which will line up all those that range from mild liberalism to ex treme radicalism. The famous “grass roots” conference was tak en as an indication of the atti tude of the Republicans and the course1 of the President in the past two weeks has been ample sign o! his policy. This practically means a continuation of the fight of 1982, with new personalities (continued on page President Puts Pressure Behind His Tax Plan Poughton And Other Leaden In White House Conference With Chief Executive Today PROGRAM IS ATTACKED Mleghany County Congressman Denies That Tax Schedule Has Already Been Drawn Washington, July 4.—President Roosevelt put pressure behind his “rich-must-pay” program at c White House conference today, and congressional leaders an nounced hearings on the measure would start Monday. After talking with Mr. Roose velt for two hours and a half, Chairman Robert L. Doughton, of the House ways and means com mittee, indicated nothing definite had been decided on the new rates of taxation. In general, the President de sires higher inheritance and gift taxes, an increase in the higher bracket income taxes and larger levies on corporate earnings. Experts called into consultation were said to favor an increase on upper middle class incomes. Doilghton said the message M.r. Roosevelt sent to Congress recent ly would be the basis of the new taxes. “He is leaving it up to our judgment what the rates will be,” Doughton added. Doughton denied that the tax schedules already had been drawn, but said he expected Treasury experts to have them ready when the full ways and means com mittee began its hearings. The general estimate of the new reve nue to be obtained from the taxes is $340,000,000 a year. Some members of Congress, notably Chairman Pat Harrison, of the Senate finance committee, contend that figure is too high and that it will be nearer $100,000,000 annually. Organized opposition to the new taxes began to appear to night. The American Liberty League, .representing the conser vative forces ,of the country listed nine objections tonight to the new levies: "1, They were advanced at this time for political rather than economic reasons. “2. They represent a gesture to satisfy radical agitation for a redistribution of wealth. “3. The taxing power is in voked for social ends rather than to raise revenue. “4. This is not a sincere effort ti balance the budget because (continued on back page) Galax Firemen Now In Midst Of Celebration The annual Galax firemen's Fourth of July celebration is now in full swing, and large crowds are attending each night, when carnival attractions are being fur nished by Bunts Greater Shows. The celebration opened Monday, and Tuesday night a big torch light parade was held by the fire men, who marched out Main street to the carnival grounds at Felts park. Today (Thursday) the attend ance was good, despite the down pour of rain in the afternoon, which boosted business at the Bingo stand by driving many per sons under the canvas seeking sh< ’ter. Howeve., the rain stop ped and the weather was ideal for the night program, which was attended by a crowd estimated at more than 4,000 persons, who thronged the midway. The celebration will come to an end Saturday night, July 0. The Galax American Legion Junior Drum and Bugle corps is participating in all the parades of the firemen. MEMORIAL SERVICES TO BE AT MT. ZION SUNDAY Memorial services at Mt. Zion cemetery are to be conducted on Sunday, July 7, by Rev. T. J. Houck. Decoration and memorial ser vices Sunday will follow the cleaning of the cemetery, which took place today (Thursday). Several From Alleghany Now At A. S. T. C. The followng students froir Alleghany county are attending summer school at Appalachian State Teachers college: Misses Bid die Miller, Nancy Miller, Clyde Higgins, Beulah Osborne, Leona Church, Blanche Giambill, Bettie Joines, Annie Sue McMillan, Bach el Halsey, Edna Gentry, Rosalie Hoppers, Mrs. Bessie McMillan, Mrs. Rebecca Choate, Mrs. Edna Perry, and Robert Taylor, C. G. Fender, Emmett Evans, Bryan Taylor, Hugh Choate, Mack F. Parsons, Emerson Warden, and Claude Evans. The fcaulty of the college en te.trtained the student body last Friday with an ice cream and cake social. School Building Program For This County Discussed Request Of Board Of Education For PWA Sum Of $80,000 Includes A New High School Here At a joint meeting of the coun ty Board of Commissioners and the Board of Education held on Mon day, July 1, the Board of Edu cation made a formal request to the Commissioners to secure a 9um of $80,000 from the Public Works administration for the schools of Alleghany county, the purpose of this request being to put the schools of the county in such condition as to meet the pressing needs of the schools and the State’s requirements, so as to avoid the embarrassment of having them condemned. In their present condition, they are great ly in danger. This money would be used in all the districts of the county in proportion to their needs and pu pil enrollment. The plan of ex penditure is as follows: A new brick building in the Glade Creek district for the elementary grades, containing five class rooms and an auditorium, at an estimated cost of $12,000. The same as above for the Whitehead district, located at Laurel Springs. At Sparta, a high school unit, in stallation of water and sewage systems, repairs on the old build ing, cost, $34,000. At Pmey Creek, remodeling old building, (continued on back page) Key Brothers Set New Plane Endurance Mark Meridian, Miss., July 1.—The longest continuous airplane flight in history ended late today. Two daring young aviators, Fred and A1 Key, brought down their plane, the Ole Miss, from the skies through which she had dipped and circled for 27 days without cessation. Their history-making endurance flight topped every record on the books, official and unofficial. At noon today they passed the former sustained flight record, not recognized by the National Aeronautics Association. This time, 647% hours, was massed by Dale Jackson and Forrest O’Brien five years ago at St. Louis. The Keys passed the official record of 668% hours, se,t by John and Kenneth Hunter at Chicago in 1980, last Thursday. The Keys made a perfect land ing at 6:06 (c.s.t.). National Guardsmen and police threw a cordon around them to protect them from the hilarious greeting of the crowd of some 18,000 persons. The brothers taxied the Ole Mum to a hangar, where they crawled stiffly out for their first contact with the ' soil since June 4. At the hangar they were greeted by their wives and other members of their families. The brothers were rushed away from the field to the Lamar hotel to receive baths, stimulants, massages and other preparations for their first sound sleep in nearly a month. r Djapgfrt Days Ate Forgotten DBS MOINES, ta. .. . Generous rain* and abundant sunshine through out America’s fodd belt, Texas to Minnesota, now indicate bumper crops this /ear with drought weeks and dust storms of but year forgotten. Photo show Jane Caldwell, former Iowa 4-H Club queen, waist deep in a hcarily filled wheat field near here. Appreciative Letter Written To Doughton Spencer Maxr’Says His RecoHections Of Alleghany Solon Go Back To Childhood Congressman Robert L. Dough ton, of Alleghany county, now in Washington attending the current session of Congress, has recently received a letter from James T. Gobbel, Spencer, expressing his admiration of the popular chair man of the powerful House Ways and Means eomn&Jtee, and his ap preciation for his long career of services to the people of North Carolina. The letter written by Mr. Gob bel to Congressman Doughton fol lows: “My Dear Congressman Dough ton,: “As a life-long Democrat and resident of your District I wish to express my admiration of your long career in the service of the, people of North Carolina. I know that I express the sentiment of the people of our state when I say that your life has been a source of inspiration to all of us In our efforts for self-better ment. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to have known you personally are better citizens and stronger men and wo men because of our contact with a man of your great ability, char acter, and understanding of the problems confronting our nation. “My earliest recollection of any man in public life goes back to my childhood when I heard my mother speak of our great Congressman, "Farmer Bob” Doughton- Since then your every action has served to increase the admiration and respect I held for you then. Like thousands of other Tar Heels I was disappoint ed when you decided not bo run for the governorship of our state. However, North Carolina’s loss was the Nation’s gain. President Roosevelt needs real men like you to help him in his ght for the economic and social recovery of our country. “In closing, allow me to ex press my conviction that you will live always in the hearts of North Carolinians as a great patriot and statesman who puts duty to his country above all personal ambitions. Your place in our state and national history is se cure for all time. “From a young man who is a better citizen and a stronger Christian because of his contact with you.” JAMES T. GOBBEL PEDRSATIC CLINIC BEING HELD AT ROARING GAP Dr. L. J. Butler and Dr. V. D. Offut are holding a Pednatic clinic at the Roaring Gap Baby hospital on Saturday afternoons, having begun on Saturday, June 29. TIMES A DAY LATE This issue of The TIMES is published a day late this week be cause of the arrangements made to give the entire force a full Fourth of July holiday. NEA Puts Force Behind Freedom For Instructors Would Allow Teachers To Teach All Sides Of Controversial Questions. Meeting Held In Denver Denver, Colo., July 4.—The Kational Education association put its organized force today be hind full freedom for instructors to teach all sides of controversial questions and simultaneously pledged itself to teach that the American government is the best so far designed by men. Agreement on the explosive subject of “academic freedom” came when distinguished educa tors cast aside hair splitting dif ferences and joined in a plan bo establish an association committee empowered to engage actively in a fight against interference with classroom teachers. The action was considered by many convention delegates to be a victory for educators of liberal tendencies. The conservatives, however, rushed through without opposition the “democracy” reso lution with the apparent intention to keep radical educators from employing the academic freedom resolution as authority to advo cate Communism, Socialism or any other form of government. More than 5,000 delegates trooped from the resolutions dis cussion toward ballot boxes and an evening assembly where Sena tor Gerald P. Nye asserted enact ment of the program against war profits evolved by the munitions inquiry committee would “elimi nate at least 75 per cent of the danger of America being called upon to participate in more war.” He asked the educators’ coopera tion. Mias Agnes Samuelson, of Des Moines, Iowa’s state superintend ent of schools, was elected presi dent of the association today. She succeeds Dr. Henry Lester Smith, dean of the school of education of the University of Indiana. Miss Samuelson was announced the winner over Dr. Annie C. Woodward, of Somerville, Mass., and Dr. Caroline S. Woodruff, of Castleton, Vermont. R. E. Offenaur, of Lima, Ohio, was reelected treasurer of the association. He defeated W. T. Longshore, of Kansas City. No vote totals were announced TO CLEAN CRAB CREEK CEMETERY ON JULY 28 The cemetery at Crab Creek will be cleaned on Friday, July 26, and all persons who are in* terested in the care and upkeep of this cemetery are requested to meet at the time mentioned to assist in the work. INDEPENDENCE CHOIR TO SING AT LIBERTY Mr. Bad-low, with his choir from Independence, Va., will sing at the service to be held at Lib erty church, at Whitehead, on Sunday night, July 7. The public is invited to attend the service and hear these singers. Many Lambs Sold Monday At Galax Livestock Sale At the weekly auction sale held Monday in Felts park at Galax by the Grayson-Carroll Livestock market, top lambs sold for $7.50 per hundred pounds; top veal calves brought $7.85 pe.r hun dred; top heifers brought $6.05; top steers sold for $6.65; top butcher cows, $5.35, and top but cher bulls, $5.26 per hundred pounds. A total of 780 lambs was sold at Monday’s auction, and also a large amount of stock in all other classes. J. T. Hoirney, president of the market, who also owns and oper ates livestock markets at Savan nah, Ga., and Columbia, S. C-, was present for the sale. Liberty Being Attacked, Says Herbert Hoover Former President Is Heard By Cheering Crowd At Calif. Fourth Of July Celebration Grass Valley, Calif., July 4.— Former President Herbert Hoover warned that liberty is being “ques tioned and attacked from both home and abroad” in a speech before a cheering Fourth of July crowd today. • America’s mission, he declared, speaking under a blazing sun, is “preservation of individual lib erty.” He called upon all Americans to hold fast to “the fundamentals of the great constitutional char ter of our liberties.” Again the former president let out no inkling of what part he would play—if any—in the 1936 political drama. He followed generally the same, points sounded in other recent ad dresses. “Liberty,” Mr. Hoover said, speaking from a platform in the town ball park where cars had begun parking hours before his arrival, “is under attack over the entire world. “It has already fallen in coun tries holding 500,000,000 human beings. Losing confidence in themselves, whole nations have surrendered their liberties to dic tators. “It is a time of discouragement and disillusion in which with a sort of slave psychology men would rather be safe than free. And it has turned out they are not safe. Under despotism theirs is a life of fear and coercion. There is no security of life or property. Speech and opinion, radios, universities and the press are strangled.” He said the birth of American independence was significant not only for its political aspects but (continued on back page) School Trustees Select Teachers At Recent Meeting T. R. Burgiss, W. F. Osborne, and R. B. McMillan, school trus tees, have announced the names of the teachers elected at a re cent meeting held by them for the schools in their district. The selections are as follows: Sparta high school: High School—C. R. Roe, principal; Mrs. C. R. Roe, Mrs. Dalton Warren, Miss Ina Jean Reeves, F. H. Jackson, agricultural teacher, and Herbert Estep. Grammar School—Mrs. Rebecca Choate, Mrs. Bessie McMillan, Misses Grace Crouse, June. Crouse, Clyde Higgins and Annie Sue McMillan and B. F. McCann. Tolliver school, Miss Blanche Gambill; Chestnut Grove, Miss Coralie Gambill; Wolf Branch, Silas Nichols and Miss Gertrude Andrews; Pine Swamp, Mrs. Vera Wagoner Edwards; Glade Valley, Mrs. Bruce Wagoner; Cherry Lane, Miss Hazel Burchette; Lib erty Knob, Miss Ivaaelle Taylor; Whitehead, Mrs. Robert Fender and Miss Evelyn Caudill; Airbel lows, Miss Muriel Caudill; New Hope, Miss Alma Crouse; Irwin Crocery, Emmett Evans, and Elk Creek, Hugh Choate. States’ Rights Pleas Dominate Talks On Fourth Rioosevelt Policies Scored And Praised By Politicians In Speeches In Various Sections BLEASE IS HEARD Senator Byrd, Va., Is Speaker At Celebration In Washington At Foot Of Washington Monument Washington, July 4.—Pleas for the protection of individual liber ties and the rights of the states today dominated fourth of July oratory, lending a strong political tinge to the holiday celebration. So worded were the addresses of several headlined speakers of both parties that in some observ ers read indirect thrusts at the new deal. Others were loaded with loudly-spoken specific de nunciation of President Roose velt’s activities. Still others car ried his praise. Leading one wing of the par ade, former President Herbert Hoover asserted that “wherever in the world individual liberty has been maintained” the people have been better fed, clothed and hous ed, happier and more self-respect ing. Prom the south came a call for safeguarding state rights, with Governor Talmadge, of Georgia, outspoken new deal critic, de manding abandonment of the Roosevelt program “as the only road to recovery.” Also from within the Demo cratic party, Senator Byrd, of Virginia, headlining the capital’s own celebration at the foot of the Washington monument, stress ed President Washington’s views on individual freedom and prais ed him as “for his day a con servative m thougnt and judg ment.” The holiday found President Roosevelt working quietly in the executive mansion, with a con gressional conference on taxes the major item of his program. La ter, he worked away upon his ever accumulating correspondence. Washington’s celebration, in many respects a counterpart of thousands throughout the nation, consisted of a band concert, the Byrd speech, fireworks and cere monies in Arlington national cemetery, where Senator Clark (D., Mo.), denounced world-wide armament races as ominously in evitable breeders of war. From the south, too, came a defense of the president, Sena tor Russell (D., Ga.), described the chief executive as “a man who did not and will not yield to demagogues.” ■ Talk that Mr. Roosevelt is assuming the powers of a dictatorship he denounced as “utter folly.” Events following the supreme court’s NRA decision, he said were proof that the ad ministration is willing to let the constitution stand. Cole L. Blease, former U. S. senator and twice goveonor of South Carolina, denounced the national administration in a Fourth of July address at Forest City, N. C., today for what he (continued on back page) SO 6(6 4 MONUT' J "A lie is Kite a snowball; we farther you roll it, the bigger it becomes.'* JULY > 2-P**ry starts succcufal wwmi row QIICOTWy mpt *—Sp*ni«h Cttvm’i bn * «unk by U. 8. N»yy, lMt, • *~"Am«ic»» fint wnt'.ll public M Bocton, lttt, ■ I—New Haven. i* pilUfvd by the mt. •—United States adopts ded» mal ayetem of “■—E IMS. vzs&r •—John D. hint, boro MM. ii
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