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strengthens our nerves
and sharpens' our skill.
Our antagonist is our
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SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1935. 10 PAGES Number 17.
COURTING THE YOUNG
Political leaders are putting
some emphasis on the "young”
voter and hence we have the
"Young Democrats” and the
“Young Republicans” being re
ceived with open arms by the
hard-boiled veterans and every
effort being made by both parties
to line up the youth of the land.
The average citizen who wonders
what it is all about might reject
that, according to the statistics,
there will be 9,000,000 new voters
next fall and that capture of this
bloc is quite understandable to
those who want to win.
CANCEL CONCESSION
The furore over the oil conces
sion that the. Ethiopian emperor
gave out as a last effort to check
mate , Mussolini, has died down
with announcement of its cancel
lation by the American holders of
the grant. Earlier it had been ap.
parent that the United States gov
ernment was not going to do any
thing particular to protect the
rights of its citizens under the
document. Secretary Hull, after
a few days thinking, made it per
fectly plain that the newly signed
document would not affect the
policy of the nation.
EMPLOYES INCREASE
The employes of the Federal
government have Increased from
560,000 when President Roosevelt
assumed -office to 729,769, of
which 450,000 are under civil ser
vice. This number does not in
clude. of course, the Army or the
Navy, the CCC workers, the men
on employment relief or the farm
ers who receive benefit payments.
Breaking up the number of em
ployes we find that the Postoffice
department has 259,464, the War
Department 66,722, and other
agencies string along to bring up
the total. The AAA has 6,379 and
the Department of Agriculture
37,621. The Resettlement admin
istration lists 9,949 and the TVA
some 17,162. The total number
of civil executive employes is only
12,500 below the peak figure
reached during the World War.
A billion and a quarter dollars
of Liberty Bonds, the last out
standing of the enormous war is.
sues, have been called for October
15th and at the same tim?r the
Treasury seeks $5O0;OOO?8OO*’’R>
add to its working balance. This
will bring the national debt to
$29,500,000,000, an all-time high.
However, due to refunding opera
tions of the Treasury, which ob
tained lower interest rates, the
government will save about $100,
000,000 a year in interest on the
eight billion dollars of Liberty
bonds that have been converted.
Incidentally the government’s
working balance is only about $1,
200,000,000 with about one-third
set aside to retire bank notes.
GOVERNMENT FINANCING
• Critics of the administration
point to the recent failure of the
government to sell all of the
$100,000,000 of Farm Mortgage
bonds at 1 1-2 per cent as a
warning that there is a limit to
the credit of the country. Others
see nothing to it, pointing out
that the low interest rate had to
compete in an improving market
and that failure of the public to
subscribe to the full amount of
fered merely indicated that funds
were finding other satisfactory
investment areas. Also, one hears
that Secretary Morgenthau is now
ranged among those who seek an
early balance of the national
budget and George Creel, well
known writer, says Treasury ex
perts see this goal attained by
1939- However, President Roose
velt declared, when questioned,
that he hadn’t read the forecast
and besides he didn’t know who’d
be President in 1939!
MANY POWER PROJECTS
A survey of power projects un
derway in the United States, made
for the purpose of cheeking activ
ity along this line, reveals twenty
State and Federal developments
that will cost $630,350,000 when
completed. Included in the list is
the Boulder dam, a $166,000,000
project now virtually completed.
It was started long before the
Roosevelt administration. How
ever, "the TV A is rapidly complet
ing. its three dams to cost $94,
000,000, The Missouri river de
velopment centering around Fort
Peck, in Montana, to be com
pleted in 1987, will cost $84,000„
000; the Grand Coulee project, on
the Columbia river, also to be
finished in 1987, will take $68,
000,000 and the Bonneville dam,
also on the Columbia river, is to
be completed in 1936 at a cost
of $66,000,000. Besides the
twenty under construction there
are numerous projects, either
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Col. Roosevelt
Scores Policies
Of Distant Cousm
Says Relative In The
White House Is Leading
. The United States Toward
Communism Or Socialism
RISK IS ALSO HEARD
Son Of First Roosevelt
White House Occupant
Speaks To New England
Young Republicans
Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 10—
In a withering blast at new deal
policies Saturday night, Col. Theo
dore Roosevelt charged that his
distinguished and distant cousin,
President Roosevelt, has “deliber
ately set about communizing or
socializing the United States
along the lines followed in Rus
sie, Germany or Italy."
The occasion for his remarks
was a week-end conference of the
New England Young Republicans,
at which Congressman-elect Char
les F. Risk, of Rhode Island;
former U- S. Senator George H.
Moses, of New Hampshire* and
Governor H. Styles Bridges, of
New Hampshire, also spoke.
Two weeks after the President
had addressed the nation’s Young
Democrats, in a radio broadcast,
Colonel Roosevelt told Young
Republicans that “any folly of
the government today is, if any
thing, more your concern than
that of the older group, for ulti
mately you will have to pay the
piper. It is you, therefore, who
should be most deeply concerned
with what this government is do
ing.”
He charged that in Washington,
“a careful, planned attempt is be
ing made to overthrow our
American ideal of government.”
“Mr. Roosevelt and his hench
men, Frankfurter Cohen, Tug
well, Corcoran, et al., have de
liberately set about communizing
or socializing the United States
along the lines followed in the
old countries of Europe such as
Russia, Germany or Italy,” Colon
el Roosevelt said.
The former governor-general of
the Philippines charged President
Roosevelt with failing to keep his
campaign promises, held that the
administration has “attacked the
roots of oUr American represen
tative government" and claimed
it is “squandering the wealth of
the nation . . . retarding recovery
. . . mortgaging the future . . .
and has thrown hundreds of thous
ands out of work.
“More wealth has been destroy
ed by this administration,” Col
onel Roosevelt said, “than ever
has been destroyed in the history
of the world in a like period, ex
cept by war or pestilence.”
Roosevelt May
Speak At Legion
Meet In St. Louis
Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. 10.—
President Roosevelt sexioitsly con
sidered last night a stop at the
American Legion convention in
St. Louis late this month on his
travel to the Pacific coast in re
sponse ' to an invitation presented
to him here, today.
The occasion offers opportunity
for a discussion by the president
of thoughts on the recurring issue
for cash payment of the bonus
insurance certificates.
Frank Belgrano, national com
mander of the legion, Colonel
Henry Monroe Johnson, assistant
secretary of commerce, and a
member of the legion executive
committee, presented the invita
tion. They reported the presi
dent was giving consideration to
it. 'f
The American Legion conven
tion meets from September 23
to 26. Tile president talks over
the air on the night of Septem
ber 23 in inaugurating the annual
mobilization for human needs and
probably will start west immedi
ately thereafter, probably from
Washington.
FLAGS AT HALF MAST
Washington, Sept. 10.—Flags
on the capitol and Senate and
House office buildings. were at
half mast this morning as a sign
of mourning for Senator Huey
P. Long.
Taken By Death |
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Senator Huey P. Long (above),
who died at 4:10 a. m- Tuesday
in Lady Of The Lake hospital,
Baton Rouge, La., from a bullet
wound inflicted Sunday night in
the Louisiana state capital by
Dr. C. A. Weiss, Jr., whose body
was immediately riddled with bul
lets by the bodyguard of the
“Kingfish.”.
State To Get
Share Of Work
Relief Funds
Congressman Doughton,
Senator Bailey And
Governor Ehringhaus
Confer With Hopkins
Washington, Sept. 10.—Repre
sentative Doughton, Senator Bail
ey and Governor Ehringhaus held
a conference today with Works
Progress Administrator Harry
Hopkins, followed by a joint
statement in which they said they
had been postively assured that
North Carolina would receive its
full share of the $4,800,000,000
work-relief fund and "there would
be 4>o di'.frimination as between
states for political purposes or
otherwise.”
This means, according to the
statement, that $70,000,000 in
round numbers will go to North
Carolina, but just how it will be
divided between WPA and PWA
is yet to be determined.
The statement cleared State
PWA Administrator Baity and
State WPA Administrator Coan
of any blame, for the small
amount of money yet allocated to
North Carolina.
“Mr- Hopkins stated emphatic
ally," the joint statement read,
“that any report to the effect
that any projects from the state
had suffered by reason of delay
was without foundation. On the
other hand, he stated that Mr.
Baity and Mr. Coan had filed
their projects properly and in
great number.”
The North Carolinians arrived
in Washington for their confer
ence looking toward expediting
the public works program in their
state at a time when the clash
between WPA Administrator Hop
kins and PWA Administrator Ickes
on spending the four-billion dol
lar work-relief fund was nearing
the show-down stage.
Glade Valley
High School Has
Good Opening -
Good attendance marked the
opening of Glade Valley high
school on Tuesday, September 3.
Several new students have enter
ed since the opening of the school.
At the opening exercises, Rev.
R. L. Berry, pastor of the Carson
Memorial Presbyterian church,
Sparta, conducted devotional ser
vices, and Superintendent E. B.
Eldridge made a short talk on the
school and its work.
In an announcement of the fac
ulty made some time ago, J. How
ard Collins. Boone, was listed as
having been engaged bo All a
vacancy in the Science department
of the school. However, Mr.
'Collins has resigned to continue
his work with Appalachian State
Teachers college, at Boone, and
J. H. Ostwalt, Statesville, has
been selected to fill the vacancy.
Mr. Ostwalt has had considerable
■experience working with young
people in religious fields.
(New pupils who have entered
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Senator Huey P. Long Dies
From Effects Of Assassin's
Ballet; State Funeral Thursday
Baton Rouge Eye Specialist Who Fired Fatal
Shot Is Immediately Killed By Bodyguard
END COMES IN LADY OF THE LAKE HOSPITAL
Body To Lie In State Under Brown Spire Of
Magnificent Louisiana State Capitol He Built
Baton Rouge, La., Sept. 10.—
Over the bed of Huey P. Long
in Lady Of The Lake hospital
here today lights flickered out and
with them went the life of the
Louisiana Senator. The death of
the “Kingfish" occurred at 4:10
a. m. today as the result of a
gunshot wound inflicted here Sun
day night in front of the gover
nor’s office by Dr. G. A. Weiss,
Jr., Baton Rouge eye specialist.
Dr. Weiss was a son-in-law of
Judge B. H. Pavy, of Opelousas,
La., bitter Long foe. One of the
bills before the current session of
Long’s legislature has for its pur
pose the ouster of Judge Pavy
by changing the judicial district
from which he is elected. It first
was thought this prompted the
young doctor to turn killer, but
members of the dead man’s family
today denied emphatically that
Dr. Weiss even felt strongly on
this subject.
The young doctor spent the
afternoon and evening before the
assassination attempt and his own
prompt slaying on an outing with
his family. They swam and play
ed on a rivesr bank, and Dr.
Weiss never seemed happier or
more carefree, they said.
Long saw the pistol pointed at
his stomach a second before it
blaized lead through his body, wit
nesses said, and .attempted to
Seize the weapon. This resulted
in the bullet striking him in the
side, instead of from in front.
Two shots were fired. The
second went wild and struck the
thumb of a Long bodyguard, who
already had his pistol leveled.
The guard, Murphy Roden, grap
pling with Dr. Weiss, then stepped
back and shot him. As the doc
tor fell, other bodyguards poured
15 bullets into his body.
The body lay on the state house
floor, just outside the office of
Governor O. K. Allen, an hour,
guarded by police.
Long did not collapse immedi
ately. Still on his feet, he said
to his companion, James O’Con
nor, public service commissioner,
“I’m shot,” as he walked slowly
toward O’Connor.
“You’re joking,” replied un
believing O’Connor, who had
drawn his pistol. Then O’Connor
Union Veterans
To Fight Plans
For Joint Meet
Grand Rapids, Mich-. Sept. 9.—
Members of the Grand Army of
the Republic, gathered here for
their national encampment, set
tled down tonight for a finish
fight on the proposal for a joint
convention at Gettysburg in 1988
with the United Confederate
Veterans.
Pennsylvania’s delegation which
would be host to the proposed
joint encampment, will meet to
morrow to formulate an expres
sion of policy for the, delegation.
James W. Willett, Tama, Iowa,
former commander-in-chief, and
nounced today he would. “fight
with all my strength” against the
plan. •
Pelley To Seek
Presidency On
New Ticket
Asheville, Sept. 9.—William
Dudley Pelley, organiser of the
now., defunct Silver Shirts of
America, announced today he
would organize a new political
party on whose ticket he would
oppose Franklin D,< Roosevelt for
the presidency in 1936.
The new organisation will be
called the "Christian Party.” Pel
ley informed the public in a cir
cular distributed here today. Its
battle cry will be .“For Christ
and the Constitution.”
, Pelley, a former New England
writer, said his party will advo
cate free “Americanism” as op
posed to the "bolshevism" whicl
has been adopted during the past
.few yean.
Baby Girl, 23
Months Old, Is
Found Prodigy
San Francisco, Sept. 9.—Joan
McGlamery, twenty-three-months
old, blue-eyed daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Alexander McGlime.ry,
Saturday had been termed “ex
ceptional if not prodigy” by
psychologists at Stanford Uni
versity, where she demonstrated
her baby vocabulary of 450
words, all of which she uses
glibly. \
The baby’s other accomplish
ments include ability to count to
10, spell her first name, 'sing
“Yankee Doodle," recite correctly
numerous nursery rhymes, and do
all these untiringly for bewhisker
ed scientists who record the
evidences of her unique mentality
on paper.
State To Wage War
On Slot Machines
That Are Unlicensed
Raleigh, Sept. 9.—North Caro
lina’s revenue department has de
clared war for unlicensed slot
machines.
After conferring today with
several slot machine operators, A.
J. Maxwell, state commissioner of
revenue, announced that a
"drive” will begin on September
20 to force uniform compliance
with the law which requires pay
ment of licenses on such ma
chines.
“The law requires not only the
payment of a license on each
slot machine operated,” stated
Maxwell, “but that the license in
each case shall be attached to the
slot machine.”
saw blood trickling from the cor
ner of Long’s mouth.
O’Connor pocketed his pistol
and took the, sinking senator in
his .arms. Quickly, and before
many witnesses realized Long had
been shot, O’Connor and other
Long friends hurried the wound
ed man to an automobile and
dashed to the sanitarium.
Long was taken immediately
to the operating room, still con
scious. “Why did he shoot me?’’
he was heard to mutter.
The state house was in turmoil.
House and Senate adjourned im
mediately. Guards cleared the
building of all but officials.
Senator Long died surrounded
by the men he had raised to
power in his empire of Louisiana.
At the foot of his bed his wife—
a girl he met when he was a
flour salesman and she was a
I champion cake-baker—held her
head in her hands and wept.
Every resource of medical
science failed in the attempt to
preserve the life that was attack
ed Sunday night when the assas
sin’s bullet plowed through Long’s
body. Oxygen tanks were used
to the end and the blood of five
men—everybody from Lieutenant
Governor James Noe to a highway
policeman contributing — was
pumped into Long’s arteries in a
vain attempt to revive him.
The end for the turbulent Long
came quietly. He was lying in
a room on the second floor of
Our Lady of the Lake Sanitarium.
Only once in the hours just be
fore dawn was he conscious en
'ough to recognize anyoffe. That
was the man who stood at his
right hand in all his fights—
Governor O. K. Allen.
“Get back, Oscar, and give me
.some air,” Long was reported to
have muttered to him while the
oxygen tanks hissed gently, pour
ing life-giving gas into his lungs.
The rest was incoherent. Now
he would bable about his new
book, “My First Days in the
White House.” Then he would
talk of new plans for Louisiana
and the nation.
Then again he would whisper
and nuns say his last words were
a prayer.
The hospital room went black,
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| Winner In Contest
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Duke Bledsoe (above), owner
of Alleghany Motor Sales, Sparta,
Who was recently awarded a trip
to the California Pacific expo
sition, San Diego, Calif., as guest
of the Fo.rd Motor company, with
all expenses paid. The trip was
won in a Ford dealers’ contest.
He was accompanied by Earl
Wagoner, of the same firm, who
also won a trip to the exposition.
Drops In Crop
Prospects During
August Reported
However, Ample Food
Supplies For Months Of
Coming Winter Predicted
By Agriculture Dept.
Washington, Sept. 10.—The
Agriculture department today re
ported substantial drops during
August in wheat and crop pros
pects, but ample food supplies
for the winter months were pre
dicted.
The September 1 condition re
port estimated the total wheat
crop at 594,615,000 bushels and
the com crop at 2,183,755,000
bushels. The August 1 estimate
had placed the wheat crop at
607,678,000 bushels and the corn
crop at 2,272,147,000 bushels.
The loss of 13,000,000 bushels
of wheat was attributed to con
tinued rust damage, which cut the
crop by approximately 123,000,
000 bushels during July. It is
increasingly evident, the depart
ment said, that the domestic sup
ply of hard red spring' wheat of
milling quality will be below re
quirements.
The wheat crop, based on to
day’s estimate, will be the third
smallest since 1904. The 1934
program was 497,000,000 bushels,
and the 1933 crop 529,000,000
bushels.
Dry weather in the southwest
ern part of the belt was blamed
for the 88,000,000 bushels drop
in the corn crop, but the depart
ment said yields may be .affected
somewhat by the earliness or late
ness of killing frosts.
Work On Scenic
Parkway Link To
Begin Very Soon
The first work toward the con
struction of the first link of the
Park-to-Park Scenic highway be
gan Wednesday morning, when a
few men were employed by the
contractor to assist in unloading
and moving machinery to Low
Gap, where the first dirt will be
moved.
It rs understood that steam
shovels will begin moving dirt
there on next Monday morning.
Several car loads of machinery
were expected in Galax, Va.,
Wednesday. Mr. Johnston, who
is Superintendent for the con
tractor who has the contract foi
the construction of the first
twelve miles, has already moved
to Sparta.
It is understood that about
.110 men will be employed. The
contract allows one year for the
construction of the first 12 miles
but it is understood that the con
tractor expects to complete it ii
200 working days.
Doughton Family
Holds Reunion In
Sparta Last Sun.
Home Of Former Lieut.
Gov. R. A. Doughton Is
Scene Of Gathering.
Many Members Present
JUDGE PADGETT SPEAKS
Members Of Family
Referred To As Giants,
Physically, Morally,
Spiritually And Mentally
Members of the Doughton fam
ily, of Alleghany county, gathered
here Sunday for a reunion, and
the occasion will probably be long
remembered as a time of great
enjoyment for all who were
present.
In speaking of the reunion,
one who was present had the fol
lowing to say; “A home-coming
of the Giants, physically as be
fits a race grown great in the
top of the Blue Ridge. Giants,
morally as become worthy des
cendants of noble ancestors.
Giants, mentally by reason of
which they stand in the front
rank of the best men. Giants,
spiritually because of the evi
dences of God’s handiwork as
seen in the towering peaks and:
the nearby stars at night. And did
they come! All the way from
Baltimore, Washington, Virginia
and from many places in the Old
North State.
“As these mingled in cordial
fellowship with faces radiant
with joy, it was a scene to make '
the gods glad. What an array
of talent! What an influence;
what a power in these nobles
people! They met for the gala
occasion in the splendid home of
the eldest brother, Ex-Lieutenant
Governor R. A. Doughton, a
home that, despite the flight of
yuars, still dispenses that old
rasifloned Southern hospitality.
No one knows better how to be
stow those queenly graces than
Mrs. R. A. Doughton and her
honored husband. And what a
dinner, and how those hungry
seventy and more, did eat! And
no wonder. There was just
enough fall tang in the breeze
to whet appetites.”
Members of the immediate fam
ily present were: the three living
brothers, Congressman Robert L.
Doughton, E3c-Lieutenant Gover
nor R. A. Doughton and W. P.
Doughton, and two sisters, Mrs.
F. Miller and Mrs. T. J. Carson.
Mrs. Myrtle Fender, Washington,
D. C., was unable to be present.
'After luncheon Judge J. C.
Padgett, Independence, Va., ad
dressed those present, .reciting, in
an interesting manner, some of
the notable achievements of these
“gifted sons and noble sires-”
The Independence lawyer ,-ie a
gifted after-dinner speaker and
did the occasion ample justice.
Dr. G. A. Martin, pastor of the
Sparta Baptist church, and, as
such, pastor of the Doughtons,
spoke feelingly and tenderly of
the mother of these “giants,” who
lived-to be almost ninety-six years
of age before she “slipped off to
the, Glory Land a little more than
a year ago.”
The occasion was brought to a
happy closing with fitting words
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