TODAY'S THOUGHT
Never a tear bedims
the eye that time and
patience will not dry.—
Bret Harte.
a year
in advance
DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY
SPARTA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1935
Number 24
Volume 11
RELIEF CONTINUES
Undoubtedly direct relief will
have to be continued foe. some
weeks longer with the resuit that
the amount of money to be spent
on construction of projects will
be reduced. The WPA has not
succeeded in putting to work the
93,500,000 employables that it
expected to have on jobs by No
vember 1st and the probability
is that more than a million po
tential workers will be getting
relief for some weeks longer. The
fact is that all projects have to
be in line with the definition of
work relief as laid down by Con
gress and Comptroller-General
McCarl has been kept busy re
viewing the projects submitted,
many of which have been scrap
ped and others held up.
COTTON LAW JN COURT
Considerable attention is being
given bo the legal attack upon the
constitutionality of the Bankhead
Cotton Control law instituted by
the State of Georgia ift the orig
inal jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court. Governor Talmadge, arch
critic of the President, instituted
the suit which complains that the
act damages Georgia’s chance to
sell cotton from a 160-acre, state
owned farm. Government attor
neys have been asked to show
cause by November 11 why the
State of Georgia should not pro
ceed with her. legal action.
While another case before the
court involves the Bankhead Act,
there is some doubt as to whether
it will test the merits and it may
be decided on another question.
The Georgia case, it seems bo the
writer, should also be differen
tiated from other suits in that
the plaintiff is a State and the
Federal Government does not
necessarily have the same .rights
and powers towards States that
it might possibly enjoy in relation
to citizens.
FUNDS FOR YOUTH
The National Youth Adminis
tration is expected to provide em
ploynjent for 94,000 young peo
ple at a variety of tasks, with
wages ranging from $6 a month
for high school students to $15
a month for those in college.
Those to be given work also
include some not attending school.
The word has gone out through
the country and school officials
have been -requested to select
students needing assistance. They
must be between the ages of
sixteen and twenty-four and able
to do such work as checking
municipal records, making census
es of traffic, and serving as com
munity playground assistants.
According to Aubrey Williams,
55.000 will be used for recre
ational activities in the cities,
and 20,000 in rural sections.
Some 15,000 will assist local
governments in their activities
and 4,000 make studies of public
records.
PACIFIC AIR MAIL
The Postoffice Department has
received a bid for the carrying
of air mail across the Pacific to
China, which makes real the
dream of ages and definitely
brings the two continents closer
than ever before. The under
standing is that trans-Pacific air
mail service will include two
crossings each month each way,
but details of the schedule are
not available
The Pan-American Airways
Company submitted the only bid
received by the Postoffice De
partment. This company has made
studies of the flights involved and
will have planes ready for ser
vice by November 1st. Mail and
passengers will be carried over an
8,000-mile route from San Fran
cisco, by way of Honolulu and
Manila to Canton- The planes
must be able to carry six pas
sengers and have fire-proof mail
compartments. , -
Mail service across the Atlantic'
is being studied, with negotiations
being carried on with foreign in
terests in order to secure adequate
bases. Apparently, there is some
difficulty in securing the neces
sary terminals and emergency
landing fields. Meanwhile, the re
port is that Dr. Hugo Eckner
proposes to use Zeppelins in a
mail service across the Atlantic.
This government will not cooper
ate in the establishment of such
a route although it will make an
extra charge for mail handled by
the Zeppelins and pay the Ger
i Government the extra carry
charge. -
OPTIMISTIC
Jr., Secre
cy. got back
a five
Young Bausell Is
Being Retried In
Wythe Co. Court
Carroll County Jury To
Decide Fate Of Father
And Son, Charged With
Murder Of Cornett
ATTENDANCE IS SMALL
Case Was Expected To
Reach Hands Of Jury
Late Wed. Afternoon.
Panel Is Easily Obtained
Retrial of the case of Ber
nace Bausell, charged with par
ticipation in the slaying of T.
Eugene Cornett in the Cornett
home, near Rural Retreat, Va., in
January, 1934, was begun Mon
day* in the Wythe county circuit
court at Wytheville. Judge Hor
ace Sutherland, Galax, is pre
siding.
Young Bausell is charged joint
ly with his father, Henry Bausell,
Lebanon (Va.) newspaper pub
lisher, with the Cornett slaying.
At former trials the elder Bau
sell and his son were given sen
tences .of 32 and 20 years, re
spectively, in the penitentiary
but, following appeals to the
state supreme court, retrial of
the cases was ordered.
The defendants, indicted joint
ly, decided to be tried separately
and the prosecution elected to
try the younger man first
Due bo conferences between at
torneys. there was considerable
delay Monday morning in start
ing the case. A special venire
of 38 jurors from Carroll county
was present and no difficulty was
encountered in obtaining a jury.
It was necessary to call only 21
prospective jurors to get the
necessary panel of 20.
The jury to which was com
mitted the task of deciding the
case comprised the following Gar
roll county citizens: J. E. Bon
durant, H. L. Puckett, John F.
Cassell, William D. Goad, Char
les H. Horton, Reed Hall and W.
L. Marshall, farmers; Rush B
Newman, merchant and farmer;
Harrison L. Jennings, George W.
Lewis, Palmer F. Turner and Ben
R. Hill, all farmers.
W. Paul Parsons, common
wealth’s attorney of Wythe
county, a son of former Senator
John M. Parsons, Independence,
made the opening statement for
the prosecution, and Stuart B.
Campbell, outstanding Wytheville
attorney and nephew of the late
Governor Henry Stuart, of Vir
ginia, outlined the defense side of
the case.
Taking of testimony occupied
the remainder of the day Monday
and all of Tuesday, running much
along the same lines followed in
former trials.
It was expected that the case
would reach the hands of the jury
late Wednesday afternoon.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Par
sons is being assisted in the prose
cution of the cases by former
Congressman Joseph C. Shaffer,
of Wytheville, who is also a
former United States district at
torney for the western district
of Virginia, and Minitree J. Ful
ton, Richmond, a native of Gray
son county and a prominent at
torney of the Virginia capital
city.
In addition to Mr. Campbell,
defense attorneys are Thomas F.
Walker, Wytheville, and the firm
of Wilson, Burns and Wilson, of
Lebanon.
Less than one hundred persons,
it is said, attended the trial Mon
day, in contrast to the large
crowds that attended th,e former
trials.
Bankers Attack
New Deal Plans
At Annual Meet
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.,
Oct. 29.—While praising the ad
ministration of the new Federal
securities lawe, investment bank
ers in their annual convention
today trained their heavy gjms
on acts of the last session of
Congress piroviding for dissolution
of utility holding companies, bol
stering the TV A:, and levying
high taxes on big incomes, big
corporations and estates.
The Investment Bankers As
sociation of America through its
public service securities com
mittee, abandoned its long stand
ing opposition to Federal regula
tion of utilities in any form.
Ass’t. Atty. Gen.
MacLean Resigns
Washington Position
Washington, Oct. 29.—Assistant
Attorney-General Angus Dhu
MacLean will take over the law
practice of the late James H.
Pou, of Raleigh, generally con
sidered '■one of the most lucra
tive and most attractive in North
Carolina. He will also resume
his connection with his old law
firm of MacLean and Rodman in
Washington, N. C.
Mr. MacLean’s resignation has
been placed in the hands of
President Roosevelt, and Attor
ney-General Homer S. Cummings
is expected to make public the
President’s reply and his own ex
pression of deep regret tomor
row.
The action of Mr. MacLean
came as a distinct ■ surprise and
occasioned keen regret among his
associates in the Department of
I Justice.
I -
Nations Join In
League Boycott
Against Italy
Total Of Twenty-Nine
Countries Agree To Buy
Nothing From Italy. Hope
To Force Italian Peace
Geneva, Oct. 29.—By slow but
steady stages, the. League of Na
tions general boycott of Italy
continued to grow tonight, as 29
countries had agreed to buy
nothing from that nation.
A complimentary weapon to
the economic boycott—namely, a
pledge to prohibit exportation to
Italy of key products essential
for manufacture, of armaments-^
also had been accepted by 29
countries.
By a relentless, grinding pro
cess of isolation, the league hoped
Premier Mussolini’s capacity bo
wage war in Ethiopia would
eventually be reduced, and he
would be forced to sue for
peace.
Application of an arms em
bargo against Italy and removal
of any arms embargo against
Ethiopia had been approved by
39 countries, and 32 nations had
pledged their readiness to apply
financial sanctions against Italy,
giving Mussolini no credit what
soever. Twelve countries had
accepted the project of mutual
assistance to nations which suf
fer most because of the boycott
against Italy.
League of Nations officials
said they expected many more ad
hesions to the league plan with
in the next few days. The league
committee of 52 will meet Thurs
day to discuss when the sanctions
will be formally made effective.
With the approval of the eco
nomic boycott by Czechoslovakia,
Uruguay, Iraq, Turkey and Af
ghanistan this afternoon, the
number of nations accepting it
was 29. The others were Aus
tralia, Belgium, Great Britaifi,
Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia,
France, Greece, Guatemala, In
dia, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, the Netherlands
New Zealand, Norway, Poland,
Rumania, Sweden, Switzerland,
Russia, the Union of. South Africa
and Yugoslavia.
Roosevelt Urges
Permanent Peace
Throughout World
Washington, Oct, 29.—Presi
dent Roosevelt, in formally pro
claiming America’s observance of
Armistice day on Monday, Nov
ember 11, expressed a convic
tion that “permanent peace can
and must be attained throughout
the world.''
Without mentioning specifically
the war now being waged by
Italy and Ethiopia, the chief
executive said in his proclama
tion;
“It is particularly fitting on
this anniversary of the armistice
that we should express our de
termination to remain at peace
with all nations and our San vie
tion that permanent peace can
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Fiddlers’ Meets
Draw Many Music
Lovers To Galax
Frank Jenkins, Dobson,
Is Winner Of Loving Cup
Offered Best Individual
Musician In Convention
On Fridtfy and Saturday nights,
large crowds .gathered in the
Galax high school' auditorium for
the second Old-Time Fiddlers con
vention to be held in Galax.
Again, lovers of old-time moun
tain and folk music, folk singing
and dancing (both clog and
square) had an opportunity per
haps to hear their favorite tunes
some time either on Friday night
or Saturday night, for a total of
146 contestants were entered for
the prizes offered. Of these, 64
were eliminated Friday night.
Many more were registered but,
because of illness, oould not be
present to compete.
A total of $100 was awarded
Saturday night in cash prizes.
Plans are alrady being formu
lated by a committee for another
musical festival for Galax to be
held by September, 1936, and it
is hoped that it will be possible
to have a much larger and more
suitable auditorium for the oc
casion.
Jenkins Band, Dobson, N. C.,
won first prize in the band con
test, and Grady Bedsaul’s Band,
Winston-Salem, playing .‘‘Rag
time Ann” and “Slow Train
To Galax,” won second prize.
For the most entertaining band,
the Bog Trotters Band, Galax,
was declared the winner, and
Frank Jenkins, of Dobson,
was awarded the silver loving cup
offered for the best individual
musician in the convention.
In the violin contest, Clyde
Rayeld, o f Winston-Salem,
was winner of first prize, play
ing “Old He» ,-^wakled” and
“Charlie Chaplirt Wabble." In
this contest, Fred Cockerham,
Galax, playing “Sunny Home In
Dixie,” won second prize.
Frank Jenkins, of Dobson,
playing “Turkey In The Straw”
and “Home, Sweet Home,” won
first in the banjo contest and
Edgar Rogers, Stuart, was second
in the banjo contest, playing
“Log Cabin” and “Spanish Flan
dango.”
Fields Ward, Galax, was the
first prize winner in the guitar
class, playing “Wild Flowers”
and “One-Eyed Sam,” and Miss
Myrtle Jenkins, of Dobson,
playing “Careless Love,” was
winner of second prize.
Miss Ruth Melton. Galax, and
Miss Lina Melton, Galax, were
winners of first and second
prize, respectively, in the dulci
mer contest, their respective se
lections being “Ebenezer” and
“Walking In My Sleep.”
Miss Mable McBride and Rufus
Gardner, both Senior students of
Woodlawn high school, were first
in the folk song contest, singing
“Barbara Allen.” Walter Aider
man, Galax, singing “Lord Bate
man,” was second in this contest.
In the clog and flat-foot dance
contest, Sonny Hanks, Galax, was
first, and Clyde Rayfield, Winston
Salem, was second.
In the square dancing contest,
Frank Jenkins’ team, from Dob
son, was first, and' Fields
Ward’s team, of Galax, was sec
ond.
In the Junior Violin contest.
Walter Catron, Galax, was winner
of first prize.
Just before leaving Galax
Sunday, Frank Jenkins, of Dob
son, winner of the silver loving
cup for the best individual musician
in the convention, received a tele
gram advising him that his son
had been seriously injured in an
automobile accident. The son
died later Sunday in the hospital
in Elkin.
Guns Blaze In
Kentucky Coal
Mining Section
* Mannington, Ky.» Oct. 29.—
Bloodshed and gas bums result
ed today from the latest of the
mass marches of union sympa
thisers on unorganised Kentucky
coal mines. -
Gas bombs, pistol shots and
then the staccato of submachine
gun bullets followed the refusal
to halt of some 600 or 700 men
who swarmed toward the Wil
liams coal mine entrance here
this afternoon. ( ^ i
State Troopers
Seize Road Funds
In South Carolina
Troops Under Command Of
Major Frank Barnwell,
Of Florence, Take Charge
Of Money In Banks
Columbia, S. C., Oct. 29.—
Under orders of Governor Olin
D. Johnston, state troopers took
charge of nearly $2,000,000 of
South Carolina highway funds in
banks here today as the chief
executive’s program of reorganiz
ing the department by military
rule—tactics he learned while in
the World war—encountered its
first' obstacle.
Comptroller General A. J.
Beattie disclosed that he would
.refuse upon a ruling by Attor
ney General John M. Daniel, to
honor vouchers for public funds
signed by the highway adminis
tration set up by the governor
yesterday after he had ousted the
board of 14 commissioners by
proclaiming the department in a
“state of insurrection,” and mobi
lizing a machine gun company of
guardsmen to back up his or
ders.
Under state laws, however, a
large part of the department’s
expenditures are made directly
from its own revenues, and such
expenditures do not require ap
proval of Beattie.
Impounding of $1,871,352 of
highway money on deposit in
three Columbia banks was done
by a detachment of troops under
Major Frank H. Barnwell, of Flor
ence, officer in charge of the
militiamen who stood guard
around the offices of the com
mission. Since none of the high
way commission members at
tempted to enter their offices
today, the number of guardsmen
on duty was reduced from 61 to
30.
As the commissioners kept sil
ent about their plans, Governor
Johnston was in almost uninter
rupted conference with Joe Ca
lus, designated by him as execu
tive manager of the department,
and the five men named as an ad
visory board.
Indications were that the con
ferences were concerned with a
method of selling automobile
licenses for a flat fee of $3,
promised by the governor in his
campaign, instead of at the gradu
ated scale averaging $6 to $8
fixed by the legislature. The new
license period in this state un
der the law begins November 1
New Methodist
Pastor Expected
Here Next Week
Friends and members of the
local Methodist church are very
regretful over the transfer of the
pastor, Rev. C. G. Hefner, to
another church. Mr. Hefner, who
has a superior education, and who
is highly trained for the work in
which he is engaged, has shown
a whole-hearted interest in the
church and the various phases
of its work, and has introduced
new ideas in its execution. There
fore, it brought a feeling of loss
to church members when they
learned that he is not to remain
here another year. Mr. Hefner
is to be pastor of the Cullowhee
church in the Waynesville dis
trict.
Rev. A. B. Bruton will be pas
tor of the Sparta charge during
the coming year.
The Rev. Mr. Hefner expects
to leave Sparta Saturday and the
Rev. Mr. Bruton is expected to
arrive here with his wife and
daughter the early part of next
week.
Potato Grower*
Go To Capital
For Discussion*
♦^Washington, Oct. 29.—Potato
growers and handlers from ten
states will discuss with farm ad
ministration officials tomorrow
proposed programs for the 1936
ind 1986 crops.
Officials said states to be rep
resented are Delaware, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland,
forth Carolina, South Carolina,
Virginia and West
Many Good Buyers
Attend Livestock
Sale Mon. At Galax
An unusually large number ol
good buyers were present Monday
at the weekly auction sale held
at Felts park, Galax, by the
Grayson-Carroll Livestock mar
ket, and a large crowd was in
attendance.
A good run of the various
classes of livestock was also on
hand for sale.
Prices were as follows." heifers,
$4.50 to $6.65; steers, $4.65 to
$6.85; veal calves, $7.50 to
$9.80; hogs, $8.10 to $10.10, and
cows, $2-50 to $4.85.
Among the regular buyers on
the Galax market is Glenn Dun
can, Sparta.
Member Of State
Siqireme Court Is
Claimed By Death
W. J. Brogden Passes
Away Tues. Afterrioon At
His Home In Durham.
Appointed By McLean
Durham, Oct. 29.—Death clos
ed the career of Associate Jus
tice Willis James Brogden, of
the North Carolina State Su
preme Court, this afternoon at
5:05 o’clock at his home here.
The passing of the .jurist follow
ed an illness of several months
from a complication of diseases.
Justice Brogden was 58 years
of age, having observed the an
niversary of his birth only the
18th of this month. He had
been a resident of Durham for
34 years and was prominent in
civic and religious circles as well
as one of the outstanding lawyers
of the city.
The deceased justice was ap
pointed to the supreme court
bench by the late Governor An
gus W. McLean and took office
on January 1, 1926.
During the nine years he serv
ed on the supreme court bench
Judge Brogden continued to re
side in Durham. One reason
for keeping his home in this city
given by Judge Brogden was
that he “wished to continue his
evangelical duties in Durham.”
The reference was to his Sunday
school class ,at the First Baptist
Church, which he taught for 34
years and which bcve his name.
Judge Brogden was born near
Goldsboro on October 18, 1877,
a son of Willis H. and Virginia
(Robinson) Brogden. In 1917 he
married Miss Lila Markham, of
this city, who survives him. Other
survivors are two sons, W. J.
Brogden, Jr., and Blackwell
Maxkham; a brother, L. C. Brog
den, of Raleigh, and a half-sister,
Mrs. Helen Swart.
Funeral arrangements had not
been completed tonight, but it
was stated that services will be
held some time Thursday.
Cold Wave Holds
Pacific Northwest
in Its Icy Grip
Seattle, Oct. 29.—The coldest
October weather in years grip
ped the Pacific Northwest tonight,
sending high winds and rain south
to-California and frigid tempera
tures bo many interior areas.
Southern California had a light
earthquake.
Two unidentified fishing vessels
went ashore in the Puget Sound
Gulf of Georgia, with one man
known drowned, and a third boat
was reported sunk, British pro
vincial police reported.
A high pressure area sweep
ing dawn from Alaska was blam
ed by the weather man. The
forecast generally was for more
of the same.
In Southern Alberta highways
were blocked with snow. Drifts
in some districts were seven and
eight feet deep. A temperature
of 12 below aero was reported
at Namaka, and 10 below in
the Crow’s Nest Pass area.
Calgary reported the unusual
sight of a rainbow, visible more
than 10 minutes, following the
blizzard.
Seattle had the coldest Oc
tober day in 16 years, 8S de
Rev. A. B. Bruton
Is New Methodist
Pastor In Sparta
Appointments Read Mon.
In Salisbury By Kern.
Hefner Sent To CuIIowhee
In Waynesville District
WEAVER IS REMOVED
Rev.. J. C. Cornett Is
Returned To First Church,
Morganton, In Marion
Dist., For Another eYar
When the appointments were
read Monday by Bishop Paul B.
Kern at the closing session of
the annual meeting of the West
ern North Carolina conference,
Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, in Salisbury, it w,as found
that Sparta will have a new
Methodist pastor. Rev. A. B.
Bruton was appointed to the local
charge to succeed Rec. Cecil G.
Hefner, who has been here for
one year. The Rev. Mr. Hefner
was transferred to the Cullowhec
charge in the Waynesville district,
of which Dr. W. A. Rollins is
presiding elder. Cullowhee is lo
cated some distance west of Ashe
ville and is a college town, the
church which the Rev. Mr. Hef
ner will serve, being situated on
the college campus.
The complete list of appoint
ments for the Mount Airy dis
trict, of which Sparta is a part,
follows: A. C. Gibbs, presiding
elder; Ararat, G. B. Gwyn, sup
ply; Boone, E. C. Widenhouse;
Creston, A. G. Lockey; Danbury,
J. W. Jlgnnett; Dobson, C. W.
Russell; Draper, T. B. Johnson;
Elkin, W. A. Jenkins; Helton, J*.
O, Cox; Jefferson, G. R. Staf
ford; Jonesville, P. L. Smith;
Laurel Springs, J. C. Swaim,
Leakesville, W. O. Goode; Madi
son, W. H. Willis; Moravian
Falls, J. C. Gentry.
Mount Airy—Central, J. T.
Mangum; Rockford Street, H. R.
Cornelius, and Mount Airy cir
cuit, J. L. Ingram.
North Wilkesboro, R. B. Tem
pleton; Pilot Mountain, Fred Set
zer; Rural Hall. C. M. McKin
ney; Sandy Ridge, J. A. Fry;
Sparta, A. B. Bruton; Spray, A.
C. Waggoner; Stoneville-Mayodan,
R. M. Hardee; Todd, J. M.
Green; Walnut Cove, J. O.
Banks; Warrensville, T. H.
Houck; Watauga, J. W. Parker;
Wilkesboro, A. W. Lynch; Yad
kinville, I. L. Sharpe, and Ronda,
T. G. Williams, supply.
Rev. J. O. Cox is the new pas
tor of the Helton charge, suc
ceeding Rev. C. W. Russell, form
er Sparta pastor, who takes the
place of the Rev. Mr. Cox at
Dobson.
Rev. G. C. Graham, who is a
former pastor of the Helton
charge, was sent to the Marion
Mills charge, in the Marion dis
trict, of which Dr. P. W. Tucker
is presiding elder.
Rev. T. H. Houck, former local
pastor, was appointed to the War
rensville charge.
Rev. J. Clark Cornett, a native
of the Elk Creek section of Gray
son county, Virginia, and a form
er member of the Holston con
ference,. was returned to First
Church, Morganton, in the Marion
district, for another year.
Dr. J. W. Moore is the new
pastor of First Church, Marion,
(continued on page 6)
"The best horse needs breaking; the
aptest child needs teaching.
w .OCTOBER
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ber* 12,000 to-day, 1777.
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rives in France, 1117.
LSI—Halloween Eve il first cel
ebrated as holiday. 1607
NOVEMBER
p House is opened, 1871.
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test in u. 8., 1910.
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