TODAY’S THOUGHT
A Wise man revenges
himself far injuries by
kindnesses. — Chin es e
PrtveA.
DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHAN Y COUNTY
SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1936
Volume 11
Number 21
ROOSEVELT FISHING
Shoving off from San Diego on
the cruiser Houston last week
for three weeks cruising and
fishing, President Roosevelt will
rest, read and relax while his
lieutenants report upon the re
sults of his speeches and parleys
as he made Us Journey across
the nation. Completely covering
the opposition for a full week,
the President’s publicity blanket
ed their criticism but now that
he fishes off Cocos Island the air
is resounding with the attacks of
his foes.
Undoubtedly the New Deal
needed the publicity given its
aims by the Chief Executive, past
master of approach toward the
millions whom he addresses as
“my friends.” For many months
the attackers have had the better
publicity and their guns have
gradually been shifted directly
upon the President himself, nath
er than upon secondary targets.
From the day he left the White
House, however, until his cruiser
steamed into the Pacific, Mr.
Roosevelt had the spotlight. How
effectively he used it will more
^subsequently appear. «
FOUR SPEECHES REVIEWED
In his first speech at Fremont,
Nebraska, the President drove
home to farmers the advances
recorded by agriculture, recall
ing the thirty-cent wheat and
twenty-cent com of three yean
ago, and contrasting conditions
then and now, Pointing out that
“for the farmers of the natiqn
the long, downhill road to de
press! began not in 1929 but
in 1 )-0,” he insisted that the
plan put into practice has “borne
good fruit,’’ that the gap between
prices for farmers’ products and
.farm purchases has been lessened
and that the record shows an in
creased income of $6,300,000,
000 over what the farmers’ in
come would have been if the 1982
level had been continued.
Two days later at Boulder
Dam, Nevada, Mr. Roosevelt,
speaking at the dedication of that
726 foot wall of concrete, rele
gated power development to a
secondary position and aggres
sively defended the governmental
spending program, which “is al
ready "beginning to show definite
signs of its effect on consumer
spending.” He insisted that the
government has employed workers
and materials when private em
ployment failed, but added that
“in two years and a half we
have come to the point "where
private industry must bear the
principal responsibility of keep
ing the processes of greater em
ployment moving with accelerated
speed.”
On the next day the Presi
dent stopped to make a short
address in Los Angeles. Here he
assured his listeners “we have
come through stormy seas into
feir weather” and appealed to
liberals to unite for the same
end by “making some concession
as to form and method in order
that all may obtain the substance
of what all desire.” In this city,
despite reports of a falling off
in his popularity, the Chief Exe
cutive, received what newspaper
correspondents termed the “larg
est recaption of his career.”
The last of the four scheduled
addresses was delivered at San
Diego. In this_the President re
viewed national affairs along the
line of his Fremont agricultural
arguments and discussed foreign
affairs. He found signs of a re
storation of confidence in govern
ment and in business, largely as
a result of action taken by the
administration to adjust our cur
rency, strengthen our banks, re
store values and relieve burdsars
of debt. He declared that “an
American government cannot per
mit Americans to starve” and
for that reason it had been neces
sary to give federal relief. He
recited impressive gains: deposits
in commercial banks up to $10,
000,000,000 or SO per cent; total
deposits in banks $50,000,000,
000 compared with $55,000,000,
000 in June. 1920; deposit insur
ance covering 98 per cent of the
50,000,000 depositors; lowered
interest rates for government and
private borrowings; from March,
1988, through June, 1085, he
said industrial i production in
creased 46 per cent; factory em
ployment 86 per cent; rural
general store sales 104 per cent;
automobile sales 157 per cent;
life insurance written 41 per
cent and electrical power produc
tion 18 per cent.
Calling attention to the cloud
of “foreign war” he reiterated
' n“- intention to re
and free,” de
the American
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Republicans Of
West Critical
Of The New Deal
Herbert Hoover, After
Caustic Speech Saturday
Night, Entrains For Trip
To New York On Business
MESSAGES RECEIVED
Ex-President Declines
To Say Whether Or Not
Eastern Trip Is To Be
Politically Significant
Oakland, Calif., Oct. 8.—As
Herbert Hoover’s most outspoken
attack on the New Deal since he
left the White House, delicered
here Saturday night, Still ringing
in their ears, western Republicans
"indicted” the Roosevelt adminis
tration here Sunday for "gross
betrayal of the American peo
ple.”
While Mr. Hoover himself roll
ed eastward for business engage
ments in New York, the “spirit
of ‘36” convention of party lead
ers from eleven western states
continued the chorus of disap
proval for which he sounded the
tone.
Calling for “restoration of re
sponsible representative govern
ment," the group accused the ad
ministration of undermining rep
resentative government “by usur
pation of legislative power by
openly attacking the supreme
court’s right to protect consti
tutional guarantees of liberty,
and by conducting a government
of propaganda and misrepresen
tation."
It was censured for “gambling
with the future of the young men
and women of America in an
orgy of spending" snd for recog
nising “a nation whose avowed
principles call for the overthrow
of representative government x x
x ”
Messages were read from Col
onel Charles A. Lindbergh, Gov
ernor Eugene Talmadge, Georgia's
Democratic anti-Roosevelt chief
executive; Governor Alf M. Lon
don, of Kansas, a potential presi
dential candidate, and from Gov.
Harold G. Hoffman, of New Jer
sey.
Immediately after he finished
his attack on administration fiscal
policies with the most caustic
language he has used since he re
tired to private life, Mr. Hoover
entrained last night for New
York to attend meetings of the
Stanford Associates and of the
New York Life Insurance com
pany, of which he is a director.
He declined bo say whether the
trip was politically significant.
Large Amount Of
Livestock Sold
Mon. At Galax
At the weekly auction held
Monday at Galax by the Grayson
Carroll Livestock Market, one of
the biggest runs of stock in re
cent months was on hand for sale,
and plenty of buyers were there.
A large crowd was also present
Prices paid were as follows r
top calves, $9.70;, milk cows,
$62.00; top lambs, $9.70; top
heifen, $«.*0; top steers, $7.06,
and cows, $2.80 to $6.00
Twenty head of horses were
also disposed of.
Luther P. Davis, Galax R. F.
D.t in the absence of both of the
Homey brothers, substituted as
auctioneer at Monday’s sale,
which was held at Felts park,,
where the niarkct has been oper
ated since its inauguration in
June, 1984.
OFFICER ROUP MAKES RAID
IN BULL HEAD SECTION
Prohibition Officer Leonard
Roup made a raid in the Bull
Head section Monday and cap
tured a “still” single handed. The
operators escaped but Mr. Roup
destroyed the following:
One 100-faUan boiler, one
200-celion “still.” nineteen 250
gaUon fermenters, 2,700 gallons
of mash, 1,760 gallons spent
mash, twenty-four 8-gallon tins,
and three buckets.
nRST SNOW OF SEASON
'ALLS SUNDAY IN SPARTA
Snow, the. first of the season
md coming unusually early this
rear, fell Sunday morning in
Iparta for about tw
Aged Citizen Of
Alleghany County
Has Enjoyable Trip
I. C. Reynolds, Stratford, has
returned from a four-weeks
visit in Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Delaware and Washington, D, C.
Mr. Reynolds spent his 82nd
birthday, which occurred during
his visit, in Washington, D. C.,
visiting points of interest. Among
the most impressive sights he saw
were the White House, the
grave of the Unknown Soldier
in Arlington cemetery, and the
Museum.
Mr. Reynolds, who is very
active and interested in current
events, spent some time in
Baltimore and Philadelphia and
was keenly interested in the
activities of these large cities.
On his return trip, he visited
Richmond, Va., Greensboro, and
Winston-Salem.
New Hearing For
Bausells Set For
Mon., October 28
Retrial Ordered By Va.
Supreme Court. Carroll
County Venire Summoned
For Jury Duty In Case
Wytheville, Va., Oct. 8.—Mon
day, October 28, has been set as
the date for the new trial of the
cases of Henry F. Bausell, 69,
Lebanon newspaper publisher, and
his son, Bemace Bausell, 32, for
the alleged murder of T. Eugene
Cornett, Wythe county farmer,
at his home .near Rural Retreat
on January 13, 1934. The cases
have been set for hearing in the
circuit court of Wythe county,
of which Judge Horace Suther
land, Galax, is the presiding jur
ist.
At former trials in the lower
court Bemace Bausell received a
sentence of 32 years in the peni
tentiary and Henry F. Bausell
a term of 20 years. Appeals
were taken by the Bausella to
the supreme court of appeals
from the judgments of the lower
court
The supreme court at its fall
session in September at Staun
ton set aside the judgment of the
lower court and (remanded the
cases for a new hearing in the
circuit court of Wythe county.
The gun battle in which Cor
nett and his daughter, Virginia
Cornett Bausell, estranged wife
of Bemace Bausell, were killed
and both Bausells wounded, oc
curred in an upstairs bedroom
of the Cornett home, about three
miles south of Rural Retreat.
The difficulty is alleged to have
arisen over the custody of Jean
Bausell, Infant daughter of the
younger Bausells.
Fifty veniremen from Carroll
county will be summoned for
October 28. It has not been
announced which of the Bausells
will be tried first, or whether they
will be tried together.
Both of the Bausells have been
in the Bristol, Va., jail since
their convictions in Wythe county
in 1934.
Sol Reynolds
Pleased With
Potato Plan
Washington, Oct. 8.—Senator
Reynolds conferred today with
AAA officials regarding the po
tato and tobacco production con
trol programs.
Following an interview with
Secretary Wallace the junior
North Carolina senator expressed
satisfaction over the plans of the
department to enforce the potato
legislation.
Senator Reynolds saw J. B.
Hutson, chief of the AAA tobacco
division, after which he predict
ed tobacco farmers of America
will receive in dollars and cents
as much for their 1836 crops as
they did for the 1984 crops.
While pointing out that the price
was lower than last year Senator
Reynolds called attention to the
fact that prices are much higher
than they were in 1982.
The senator left Washington
tonight for Charlottee where to
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Large Sum Of WPA
Money Available
For This State
Nearly $2,000,000 la
On Hand For Expenditure
In North Carolina, Coan
Is Notified Recently
Winston-Salem, Oct. 8.—Ad
ministrator George W. Coan, Jr.,
was notified by Washington au
thorities recently that approxi
mately $1,900,000 in federal
funds had been allocated the
WPA in North Carolina, he said
Friday night.
The money will be used to
finance between 90 and 100
works progress projects in all
eight districts of the state, he
said.
"This amount; supplemented by
local sponsor contributions, will
mean that over $1,260,000 in
WPA projects can be started next
week.
"These new projects will gjve
employment to between 4,000 and
5,000 relief workers, who. added
to the 2,800 now employed, will
bring the total of WPA pay rolls
to approximately 9,000 by mid
week.”
The state administrator con
firmed reports that the Greens
boro and Winston-Salem airport
projects had been approved by
president Roosevelt and j federal
funds allocated *gr the programs.
He indicated that about $207,
000 in federal funds would be
allocated for the Greensboro air
port and approximately $127,000
for Miller Municipal Airport here.
Recent developments at Wash
ington, Mr. Coan said, '“indicate
that an additional two or three
million dollars in federal funds
will be made available to North
Carolina next week.
To this date approximately
$1,900,000 in- f, £wd» have
been definitely allocated ' to the
state—about 10 per cent of the
minimum amount North Carolina
may reasonably expect through
the WPA.
The state administrator again
expressed his conviction that the
WPA will have under consider
ation “no less than 1,000 proj
ects in the state, by Thanksgiving
and not less than 3,600 on WPA
pay rolls before Turkey Day."
He declared ithe government’s
decision that other than relief
labor and prevailing wages will
be paid on WPA projects “the
most optimistic news the state
administration has .received in
recent days.
"This latitude,” he said, “will
mean that the WPA may employ
the necessary labor, skilled and
unskilled, from the employment
service regardless of whether they
have been on relief.
“This really means that the
resourceful ‘forgotten man*—or
woman—who has declined to ap
ply for federal relief may be
employed under the WPA pro
gram.”
It will also make possible the
undertaking of projects similar
to the armory program, requir
ing skilled labor, he said. ^
Plans For Roosevelt
Welcome In Ga. Do
Not Include Governor
Atlantic, Oct. 8.—Governor Eu
gene Talmadge- bitter Democratic
foes of the new deal, today was
left off the program for Georgia’s
welcome celebration to President
Roosevelt when he speaks here
Thanksgiving week.
The Georgia delegation in Con
gress, which invited the Presi
dent,’ met in executive session
and decided that in addition to
Mr. Roosevelt’s address there
would be only two other speeches,
by Senators George and Russell.
About the time the program
was announced, the governor, in
a speech at Philadelphia said,
“The crowd that’s in Washington
aren’t Democrats,” and charged
“a Communist stole the Demo
cratic nomination.”
No mention was made of Gov
ernor Talmadge, in the state
ment of the delegation’s decision
as to the program.
GENERAL GREELEY ILL
Washington, t>cL 8—Ma^r
General AdolpJma Wellington
Greeley, »1. New England Yan
kee, tonight ley dangerously
in Wetter Reed hospitaL
ill
Surry Co. Deposit
Certificates Are
Stolen In Dobson
Unknown Yeggmen Blow
Vault In Clerk’* Office.
Certificate* Taken Worth
$8,000. U*e Nitroglycerin
Dobson, Oct. 8.—About four
o’clock Sunday, the vault in the
office of F. T. Llewellyn, clerk of
the Surry County Superior court,
was blown by unknown yeggmen,
who escaped, apparently without
trace, with $8,000 in county time
deposit certificates.
The robbers missed $1,400 in
I cash, principally receipts from the
past week’s term of criminal
court, which had been banked
the day before. Several hundred
dollars more which had been re
ceived since the deposit was not
left in the safe overnight. Other
contents of the vault were not
molested, Mr. Llewellyn stated
after a preliminary check, the
non-negotiable time certificates
comprising the entire haul.
The large vault was completely
wrecked by the nitroglycerin blast
which blew part of one door
into a steel cabinet on the op
posite side of the office. The
thieves, apparently familiar with
the offices and courthouse, were
thought to have entered the build
ing through the front door. Bars
were prized off a window of the
records room, adjoining the main
clerk’s office through a steel
door, probably to have been used
as a means of egress in, case
nearby residents heard the ex
plosion.
Dr. A. C. Gibbs To
Hold Quarterly Meet
Saturday At Shiloh
The fourth and last quarter
ly conference of the present con
ference year for the Sparta
Methodist charge, is to be held
at Shiloh church on Saturday,
October 12, at eleven o’clock.
Dr. A. C. Gibbs, presiding elder
of the Mount Airy district, will
be in charge of the meeting.
Rev. Cecil G. Hefner is com
pleting his first year as pastor
of the Sparta charge.
The annual meeting of the Wes
tern North Carolina conference is
to convene in Salisbury on Thurs
day, October 24, with Bishop
Paul B. Kern, Greensboro, pre
siding.
Detroit Tigers
Win World Series
For First Time
Navin Field, • Detroit, Oct. 8.—
Leon Allen Goslin, an amiable
New Jersey farmer known far
and wide as “The Goose,” struck
the $50,000 blow yesterday that
carried Detroit’s Tigers to their
first world championship in a
slugging, rip-roaring finish to the
baseball wars of 1935.
With the score tied, two out
and Manager Mickey Cochrane on
second base in the last half of
the ninth inning, the Goose pro
duced the golden basehit, a line
single over the head of Billy
Herman, star second baseman of
the Chicago Cubs, that brought
Cochrane home With the deciding
ran.
Gosh n s winning hit on Garry
French, Cub southpaw, gave the
battling Bengals a 4-3 victory in
the sixth game, and carried them
to triumph in the series by a
margin of four games to two and
enabled slim Tommy Bridges,
curve-ball right-hander to achieve
his second pitching conquest after
a thrilling struggle.
KENTUCKY MINISTER CHOSEN
TO SERVE MT. AIRY CHURCH
Dr. Walter L. Johnson, Port
Royal, Ky., recently has been
elected pastor of the First Baptist
church of Mount Airy, to succeed
Rev. J. R. Johnson, who has re
signed and returned to Galax,
Va., where he formerly was pas
tor, to establish headquarters for
Mission work in Southwestern Va.
Dr. Johnson, it is expected,
will react favorably to the choice.
He filled the Mount Airy pulpit
twice on a recent Sunday.
TO HONOR CROWDER
AM* Crowder, world series
baseball hero, is to be honored
with a luncheon soon in Winston
Salem.
Commissioners Of
Alleghany County
Hold Meet Monday
The Alleghany County Commis
sioners held, their regular busi
ness meeting on Monday, October
7. Routine business matters oc
cupied most of the day.
The 1936 tax books were given
into the possession of Sheriff
Walter M. Irwin. The value of
these books, charged to his ac
count is $33,939.41. This, of
course, will not include discover
ies and penalties.
The amount of taxable property
in the county is valued at $3,
998,306.00.
A number of people are pay
ing their 1936 tax this month in
order to secure the 1 percent
discount which is effective during
this month.
Man Kills Self
Near Piney Creek
On Friday, Oct 4
Places End Of Shotgun
Barrel In Mouth And
Presses Trigger With
Cane. Dies Instantly
Johnny Cox, about 66 years
of age, who lived near Mount
Zion church. Piney Creek, R. P.
D., committed suicide about 9
o’clock last Friday morning,
October 4, by placing the end
of his shot gun barrel in his
mouth and discharging the load
by pressing the trigger with his
cane. The load ble.w off the top
of his head, killing him instantly.
The act was attributed to ill
health and financial worries. Mr.
Cox had been a cripple for 49
years but for the past year or so
had been almost an invalid.
On the morning of his death,
Cox had threatened suicide and
his wife placed his gun out of
reach. When she went to milk
the. cow, he asked his mother,
who had not heard the threats,
to hand him the gun and, think
ing he wished to clean it, she
handed it to him, where he was
sitting in his chair, and went
on outside. Glancing back through
the window, she saw him commit
the fatal act.
At one time Cox was Register
of Deeds in Alleghany county and
served in that capacity for two
terms.
The deceased is survived by
his mother. Mrs. Isom Cox, his
wife and three small children,
two brothers, George and Charlie
Cox, both of Idaho, and one
sister, Mrs. Prank Shepherd, of
Scottville.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Saturday morning at Mt.
Zion church by Rev. Ben Wil
liams, and interment wis in Mt.
Zion cemetery.
Ickes, On Cruise,
Follows Progress
Of Scenic Road
Washington, Oct. 8.—While
the public works administration
yesterday, was formally announc
ing an allotment of $6,000j<H)6
from the old public works fund
for additional construction on the'
Southern Appalachian Parkway
it became known that Secretary
of Interior Harold Ickes is fol*
lowing developments regarding
the scenic drive as he cruises
wffh President Roosevelt on the
U- S. S. Houston somewhere in
the Pacific.
Before leaving Washington Sec
retary Ickes called in his personal
assistant, Harry Slattery, and
told him he wanted to be kept
advised as to progress on the
parkway connecting the Great
Smoky Mountains and Shenandoah
national parks. Previous to this
he had, under order of the Presi
dent, arranged for the six mil
lion allocation and had called in
National Park Service officials to
urge full speed ahead on con
struction.
ELECTED LEAGUE HEAD
E- M. Knox, High Point cits
manager, was elected president
of the N. a League of Munici
polities at the organisation’s re
cent meeting in Greensboro.
Reynolds Tells
How He Saw U. S.
In 30 Days On $100
North Carolina Member
Of Upper Congressional
House Completes Tour
Of Nation’s Scenic Spots
IS VERY OPTIMISTIC
To Leave In Near Future
For Orient, Accompanied
By His Daughter, Frances.
Visits Grave Of Long
Washington, Oct. 8.—“Have a
seat gentlemen and I will tell
you how I saw America in 30
days and on $100.”
With, these words Senator Rob
ert R. Reynolds, recently describ
ed as North Carolina’s advertis
ing agent, greeted a large num
ber of newspapermen in his of
fice Saturday morning and for
nearly two hours lectured on the
scenic beauties of America and
the need for young Americans
to see their country as a check
against communism, fascism and
alienism.
Politics entered into the press
conference with the North Caro
line senator, who conc'uded after
talking with people ir 32 states
that Sen. Borah was the most po
tent man the Republicans could
nominate but fully satisfied that
regardless of who the G. O. P.
nominee is, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt will sweep to victory
with as many votes to spare as
he had in 1932.
Senator Reynolds spent two days
in ' California but failed to see
former President. Hoover. “I
would like to have seen him but
it did not fit in with my sched
ule,” Reynolds declared. He said
he heard no one on the trip ex
press a desire for Hoover- to re
turn to the White House. He
did say he heard some favorable
Republican talk for Frank Knox,
Chicago publisher, Senator Van
denburg, of Minchigan, and Sen
ator Dickinson, of Iowa.
Tears almost came to Rey
nolds’ eyes as he told of stopping
in Baton Rouge and placing a
flower on the grave of “my
friend, Huey Long.” “He was
my friend and I want the world
bo know it.” While not agree
ing with Long’s share-the-wealth
ideas. Reynolds praised Long and
said to appreciate him one had
to travel through Louisiana. • “I
found the masses of Louisiana
loved Huey Long and I knew
the reason why when I saw the
roads he built, the bridges he con
structed, and the educational in
stitutions he developed.”
The colorful North Carolinian
discussed the European war situ
ation with Washington scribes
He predicted another serious war
in the old country but said
Americans were united in stay
ing out of war. He expressed
the opinion that the American
people were dead set against
Mussolini and pulling for Ethi
opia.
Reynolds expressed pride over
the advertisement his automobile
tour of the United States brought
North Carolina and said it was
a good thing for him from a po
litical standpoint. “I met hun
dreds of relatives of North Caro
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"He who hath km ms reputation U •
dead mmt among the living.-*