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DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY
Volume 11.
(Published at Galax, Ya.)
SPARTA, NOR#< CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1935.
10 PAGES
Number 31.
FIGHTING
conflict between the ad
ition and business has en
a period of real hostility,
la very plain that those referred
„ by Secretary Ickes as the
"Lords of Industry and Finance”
are in no mood to cooperate with
the Government unless and until
they succeed in getting what they
want Along this line it might be
well to run over some of the ob
jectives apparently set by business
in its clash with Administration.
One of the things that business
continually insists upon is a bal
anced budget which seems to
mean the end of work relief and
the return of the problem to
states and localities. The employ
ers of the country would also do
away with crop control and
abolish processing taxes which
they associate with higher prices
for foods. Business does not
want any extension of Federal in
terests in the relationship with
employes nor doers it want any
regulation by the Government
under NBA. or otherwise, of
hours or anything else. Busi
ness is also chafing against the
ban set up by the Securities and
Exchange Commission and gen
erally opposes practically all reg
ulation.
There is much'talk of a return
to the gold standard. Moreover,
business, as a class, seems to be
against Federal unemployment in
surance laws, a national system
of old age insurance and any
kind of pensions for employes
unless operated by business it
self. The attitude of some
manufacturers to reciprocal trade
agreements, designed to lower
tariffs and stimulate competition,
is again in conflict with the very
patent trend of the Administra
tion.
INHAT IT HOPES FOR
This attitude of business is seen
pery clearly in the deliberations
if the American Bankers Associ
ation, the activities of the Cham,
►er of Commerce of the United
States and the National Associ
ttion of Manufacturers. It is ap
tarent in the attacks being made
,pon many administration policies
y the Liberty League and the
lational Economy League. The
ttack is also being aided by in
umerable trade associations and
usiness groups whose combined
ower and influence is being' cast
gainst the President with the
vowed purpose of defeating him
or re-election, gaining control of
le House of Representatives and
quidating the New Deal as
uickly as possible.
Answering the industrial coali
n is William Green, president
i the American Federation of
abor, who declares that the po
tion taken by industry will drive
ganized Labor and its friends,
i well as all liberal forces in the
untry, to the support of the
elt administration. Mr.
insists that the business
lr carries out the proposal re
ntly made by a prominent
ider that business “gang up”
; the New Deal. He denounces
platform of the industrial
iers as reactionary, eontribut
_ no ideas towards solving the
onomic ills of the nation and,
Mr. Green, does not differ
u the platform of the same
ties just before the crash in
The Labor leader says the
uuacturers Association offers
“most reactionary and the
constructive program put
in recent years.”
JB1TIONISTS ACTIVE
dtion, long a troublesome,
in national politics, seems
to plague politicians again.
;t McBride, Superintendent
Anti-Saloon League, says
“saloon is back" and that re
has failed. He predicts that
jority of states will be dry
by 1840 and that the peo
the nation will reject the
__t law with its double ap.
[ for the trade of women and
g people, its “alcohol acci
i, on the highways” and grow,
option" by liquor inter
ilative efforts. On the
__Wets insist that tem
i has made a distinct gain
otlegging has been lessen
that the Federal govern
secured $411,021,772 in
liquor revenues for the
fiscal year.
MSUS OF BUSINESS
fbe national census of business
!be taken in January, is intend
Jto furnish a chart of the na
i*8 economic structure and to
a basis of comparison with
< ditions reported in 1929 and
3, Some 3,000 persons will
| used to interview business men
! many types. The, census bur
1 points out that all information
wed will be of • confident
I (continued on page 4)
Republicans To
Hold Convention
In Cleveland
Ohio City Wins In
Three-Cornered Race
With Kansas City And
Chicago Mon. Night
TO OPEN ON JUNE 9
Bid For Support Of
Democrats Who Oppose
Roosevelt Is Made At
Committee Meeting
Washington, Dec. 16. — A
lively session of the Republican
National committee tonight, at
which Cleveland, Ohio, was select
ed as the city in which the na
tional convention is to be held in
1936, saw a bid for support by
anti-Roosevelt Democrats. Tues
day, June 9, was set as the
opening date of the Cleveland
convention.
After spirited debate, the na
tional committee also voted for
reduced delegations from most
states at the June convention.
Under the, action taken only 997
delegates will go to Cleveland
in contrast to the 1,164 wbo had
seats at the Chicago conclave
in 1932.
Specifically, the committee
voted down a move to grant a
bonus of three delegates at large
to all states that went Republican
in the 1924, 1928 and 1982
presidential elections. It approved
this delegate bonus for only the
six states that voted for Herbert
Hoover in 1932.
The committee’s call for Demo
cratic support, voted as the day’s
session continued on after night
fall, came somewhat as a surprise.
The action came in the adoption
of a resolution submitted by R
B. Creager, Texas committeeman.
/ “There is nothing between
what we call the Jeffersonian con
stitution and ourselves,” Creager
argued. "It seems the part of
common sense that we extend an
invitation that they join us in
the recovery of America.”
Mark Requa, California com
mitteeman and a close friend of
former President Hoover, second
ed the resolution.
“There are fundamental prin
ciples at stake about which there
can be no compromise,” he said.
The sharpest fights in the long
committee session, which met in
the gold ballroom of the May
flower hotel, almost within shout
ing distance of the White House,
where President Roosevelt wrestl
ed with the budget problem,
centered upon the fixing' of a
convention date and limiting the
bonus of three delegates at large
from states that went Republican
in the last presidential election.
Cleveland won the convention
city In a three-cornered race
with Chicago and Kansas City.
Only one ballot was necessary,
and this was taken secretly. The
Lake Erie city polled 64 votes
against 39 for Chicago and 6
for Kansas City.
June 9 was fixed as the date
after former Senators Phipps, of;
Colorado, and Reed, of Pennsyl
vania, endeavored to have this
left for determination by the
committee on arrangements after
the Democrats had fixed a date
for their convention. -
The committee session was
opened with an enthusiastic
greeting from Chairman Henry
P. Fletcher, who declared “We
all know the new deal Is slipping”
and "we’ve got the Democrats
on the run.”
Cotton Sandwich
PHILADELPHIA . . . Thelma
Kaighn, 18, (above), was rushing
around to get dressed for a party.
She swallowed a straight pin. Now
the doctors at a hospital here have
Thelma eating sandwiches filled
with fluffy cotton, as a part of the
strategy of protection.
Farley Expects
Many Republicans
To Bolt Party
Says Many Supported
Roosevelt In 1932 And
Predicts That The Same
Will Happen In 1936
Washington, Dec. 17.—Reply
ing indirectly to the Republican
party’s bid for support by anti
Roosevelt Democrats, Postmaster
General Farley tonight asserted
“some millions of Republicans
voted for Roosevelt in 1932” and
“just as many” will again in
1936.
Renewing his prediction that
the President would be re-elected
by a huge majority, Farley,
speaking as chairman of the
Democratic national committee,
contended that this would be true
whoever the Republican candi
date happened to be,
"What difference does it
make?” he replied, to a question.
“Senator Borah might get a big
ger Republican vote than ex
President Hoover. Governor Lan
don might get more in the West
than Colonel Knox. The logic
of the situation might call for
Mr. Hoover, inasmuch as he
typifies more than any other of
the aspirants the opposition to
the new deal. But it is the Re
publicans' problem and I certainly
do not envy them their task of
composing the abysmal differences
of the. frafchic;:*^ of that party.
"After all, it appears 'to be
merely an academic question, be
cause, regardless of who is nomi
nated by the Republican conven
tion, President Roosevelt will
-succeed himself as decisively as
he came to the presidency. 1
heve been in nearly every state
of the Union and believe I can
pretty thoroughly appraise the
strength of the opposition.”
Replying to another question,
directed at Democratic party fi
nances, Farley said:
“Unquestionably, the minority
party will have a huge campaign
(continued on page 6)
Many Buyers At
Livestock Sale |
Monday At Galax
At the weekly auction sale held
Monday at Pelts park, Galax, bj
the Grayson-Carroll L^y.eatock
mark** *■**. exceptionally good
run of stock, considering the time
•f year, was on hand for sale, a
good crowd was present and
there were also plenty of buyers
there to purchase what was of
fered for sale.
Prices were as follows: vea]
calves, $7.00 bo $8.80; steersl
$4.00 to $7.00"; heifers, $4 25 tc
$0.50; cows, $2.00 to $4.60, and
hogs, $8.00 to $9.75. Good
feeder heifers brought $7.25 pel
hundred pounds and good fejedei
steers, $7.50 per hundred.
The regular weekly sale wil
be held next Monday, Decembei
28, as usual, despite the fact tha1
next week is Christmas week, ant
another good' run is axpectec
then, with plenty of big buyers.
Jonas Predicts
Warm Section
Fight In State
Republican National
Committeeman Expresses
No Choice For Party’s
Presidential Candidate
Washington, Dec. 16.—Charles
A. Jonas, Republican national
committeeman from North Caro
lina, here today predicted a warm
political battlein his state next
year between the Democrats and
Republicans but he would not
venture an opinion as to the per
son he thought would be the best
candidate for the Republicans to
nominate for President.
Jonas, 'like most of his col
leagues from the South who at
tended the meeting of the Re
publican National . Committee to
day, is saying nothing about can
didates. He predicted North
Carolina would send an unin
structed delegation to the Repub
lican National Convention next
year. The Lincolnton Republican
said the issues were not yet suf
ficiently defined to talk about
candidates and he thought it
would be best for the party or
ganization in the state to send an
uninstrueted delegation.
Although refraining from a dis
cussion of Republican affairs from
a national point of view, Jonas
did not hesitate to talk about the
activity of his party in North
Carolina.
The former Republican con
gressman made no claim that
President Roosevelt would be de
feated for re-election in North
Carolina but expressed the belief
that two or three sitting Demo
cratic congressmen would be re
placed by Republicans. Jonas
himself, however, will not be a
candidate
There is no doubj.vbut that the
Republican patty JrT&king for
strong support from conservative
Democrats who oppose the new
deal. Jonas said his party would
put a full ticket in the field.
Irvin B. Tucker, of Whiteville,
of George E. Butler, of Clinton,
is slated to be the Republican
nominee for Senate in North
Carolina, and John L. Morehead,
of Charlotte, will be the G. O.
P candidate for governor.
'jonas said the Republicans
would hold Lincoln Day dinners
in Greensboro and Asheville at
which time plans for the campaign
would be formulated. Then the
convention will be, held either in
Raleigh o* Charlotte which will
nominate candidates and select
the delegates to the national_con
vention. S
TIMES TO CARRY SERHES OF
“WE DRIVERS” ARTICLES
Beginning in this issue, THI
TIMES starts a series of nini
articles on safe and sensible driv
ing. The series is based on th<
helpful hints of a great man;
experienced drivers, automotive
engineers and mechanics and f
called appropriately, We Dnv
ers.” It has been widely com
mented upon by safety
police officials and motor vehicle
commissioners. ...
THE TIMES Is carrying thi
series with the hope that it wil
be interesting to its car-drivmi
readers and as its contnbutioi
toward making our highways sai
er.
"v
Hoover Scores
Program Of New
Deal In Speech
Addresses Republican
Club In St. Louis Mon.
Night. Answers Recent
Speeches Of Roosevelt
St. Louis, Dec. 16.—Recent
speeches of President Roosevelt
were answered here tonight by
former President Herbert Hoover
with a sharp indictment of the
new deal and a proposal for a
new federal relief set-up which
would “go far to assure a clean
election.’’
The former president “in the
interest of good government,”
suggested a four-fold plan to
decentralize relief control, cut
government allotments bo states
by more than half and “relieve
human distress which suffers
enough without the, poison of
politics in its bread.”
He said “people on relief have
suffered enough from having
playboys take America apart to
see how the wheels go round.”
Addressing the John Marshall
Republican Club of St. Louis,
Hoover siftgled out for a torrent
of sarcasm Roosevelt’s Atlanta
remark two'weeks ago that “the
mechanics of civilization came to
a dead stop on March 3, 1933-”
The Republican chieftain said
the depression actually was turned
back throughout the world in
June and July, 1932, but that the
new deal caused this country to
lag for two years while other
nations progressed.
Roosevelt made a $2,600,000
,000 “error,” Hoover said, in
estimating the new deal’s public
debt commitments, and took credit
for $2,200,000,000 of recoverable
assets loaned out by the Hoover
Regime. He predicted Hie -public
debt would ' rise to 32 or 33
billion by next July.
The former president blamed
the 1933 bank panic on hysteria
induced among bank depositors
by the incoming administration,
and called it “the most political
and most unnecessary bank panic
in all our history.”
He called the new deal un
employment relief organization
“typical of the whole gamut of
waste, folly, ineffectiveness,
politics and destruction and self
government.”
“The inevitable and driving
purpose of any bureaucracy,” he
said, “is to use its powers to
secure its jobs. The sudden ap
propriations to cities, counties
and states were singularly timed
to elections. And this is not the
only method of making politics
out of human misery.”
“When in the face of a de
crease in the unemployed, the cost
of relief rises from $1,000,000,000
to an appropriation of $4,800,
000,000 in a single year, it is
(continued on page 6)
Bonus Payment
Demand Is Taken
To White House
Washington, Dec. 17.—The
American Legion carried its
demands for immediate payment
of the soldiers’ bonus directly to
the White House today but
brought away no predictions of
a softening of presidential op
position.
Increasing indications t hat
major veterans’ organisations
were driving to solidify their
strength behind a single bonus
hill in the approaching Congress
coincidentally brought a forecast
from a Democratic House leader
that a cash payment bill would
be shoved through, no matter
what the presidential attitude.
! TO HOLD BOX SUPPER, CAKE
WALK AT PINEY CREEK -HI’’
A box supper and cake walk
1 will be given in the Piney Creek
. high school auditorium tomorrow
> (Friday) night at seven o’clock.
'■ Proceeds are to be used for the
' benefit of the Home Economics
' department of. the school.
i PINEY CREEK “HI” TO
CLOSE FRI. FC»R HOLIDAYS
! Piney Creek high school will
1 close tomorrow (Friday) for the
\ Christmas holidays, ending a wy
1 successful semester.
The school will reopen on Mon
day. December 80.
| Canning Champions, 19351
CHICAGO . . . Miss Lorraine
Tana (above), 19, of Eau Claire,
Wis., is the national canning
champion of the 4-H Clubs for 1935.
She was crowned in the annual
national competition held here last
week.
Counter Drive (hi
Ethiopians Made
By Italian Army
In Surprise Attack
Monday, Ethiopians
Rout Fascist Forces.
League Council At Work
Rome, Dec. 17.—In a desper
ate counter-attack on Ethiopian
troops today, Italians rushed tanks
and airplanes to the no~them
front. In a surprise attack yes
terday, the Ethiopian troops rout
ed Fascist forces near the Tak
kase river, an official communique
announced.
A fierce battle was raping to
night. It may be the start of the
long-delayed Ethiopian mass of
fensive.
Striking just before dawn, a
strong force of Ethiopians believ
ed be commanded by Ras Siyoum
swept down on Italian outposts.
The first fusillade killed four
Italian officers, nine white Ital
ian soldiers and killed or wound
ed scores of Italian askaris.
The Italians poured a wither
ing machine-gun fire on the
charging black warriors. Ethiop
ian losses were not known, but
were said to have been heavy.
The initial engagement lasted
but a few minutes when the Ital
ians were forced to retreat. They
withdrew in disorder to Dembe
guina Pass, 12 miles back, and
reformed their lines while await
ing reinforcements.
The text of a communique
from Marshal Pietro Radoglio,
commander-in-chief of the Italian
armies in East Africa, follows:
“Strong enemy forces, estimat
ed at 3,000, attacked our out
(continued on page 6)
To Study States
Seciaity Set-up
In Near Future
Raleigh, Dec. 17—Governor
Ehringhaus said today he was in
formed over long distance tele
phone by John 6. Winant, chair
man of the Federal Social Secur
ity Board, that Thomas H. Eliot,
the board’s general counsel, would
come here shortly to confer on
the state’s laws relative to par
ticipation in unemployment iaur
ance plans.
The Governor and Attorney
General A. A. F. Seawell talked
with Winant. and the governor
reported Winant was impressed
with one suggestion the officials
had made that if North Carolina’s
laws were inadequate, those of
several other state’s undoubtedly
would require revision, too.
The Chief Executive said he
was “interested” in Eliot’s pro
posed visit. Winant said Eliot
Hauptmann Makes
Offer To Submit
To lie Detector
Execution To Take
Place During Week Of
January 13. Time Fixed
By Justice Trenchard
WRITES TO GOVERNOR
Condemned Man May Be
Permitted To Plead Own
Case Before Board Of
Pardons At Prison
Trenton, N. J., Bee. 17.—In
a letter sent from his cell in the
death house here yesterday to
Governor Harold G. Hoffman,
Bruno Richard Hauptmann pro
tested anew his innocence of the
Lindbergh baby kidnap-murder
and offered to submit to a lie
detector to prove it.
Supreme Court Justice Thomas
W. T.renchard, who presided at
the celebrated Flemington trial
held last winter, recently named
the week of January 13 as that
in which Hauptmann must die
in the electric chair, unless clem
ency is extended by the court of
pardons or unless the justice him
self should grant a new trial
on the basis of newly discovered
evidence, which seems very un
likely.
The condemned man wrote he
hoped Dr. John F. Condon too
would submit to such a test, be
cause the venerable “Jafsie” of
;he .ransom negotiations, he said,
"changed” his attitude on the
case between the time he visited
Hauptmann in the, Flemington
jail and the trial a few weeks
later.
“When he was visiting me in
my Flemington cell,” Hauptmann
wrote in his apologetic note, “he
said all excited to the prosecutor
—‘I cannot testify against this
man’.”
“I have a deep interest,”
Hauptmann told the governor, “in
what kind of force made him
change this saying.”
Hauptmann’s offer to submit
to lie detector tests brought no
immediate response from the gov
ernor. “I don’t want to comment
now,” he said.
The governor announced the re
ceipt of the letter from the
Bronx carpenter a short time
after published reports described
an alleged confession in which
Hauptmann was quoted as dis
closing he and Isador Fiseh, his
business partner now dead, col
lected the $50,000 ransom but
were guiltless of the actual kid
naping. These reports were
promptly denied by the governor
and other official sources as
groundless and untrue.
Governor Hoffman hinted
strongly that Hauptmann probably
would be permitted to plead his
own case before, the court of par
dons when it considers his plea
for a commutation of his death
sentence.
The court, the governor said,
will probably convene a week or
so before the week of January
13, during which Hauptmann has
been condemned to die, to ponder
the expected appeal for clemency.
Hoffman was asked if he was
(continued on page 6)
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“He who falls in love with himself
need fear no rival*.'
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