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TODAY'S THOUGHT "He serves Ws party best who serves his country best”—Hayes. The Alleghany Times -H Subscription Prtco SI* year in advance DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume 11. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1936. 10 PAGES Number 31 COURT TAKES RECESS The Supreme Court is now fi the midst of a two weeks recesi and there will he ho decision 01 the Tennessee Valley Authority before it reconvenes the first weel in February. While many expect ed the decision to be handec down last week, the Court passec on none of the government’s cases last week, although the request oi the government for a re-hearing on the decision upsetting the processing taxes was refused with rare speed for the Court, which immediately ordered the release of the funds impounded. An ar gument on the suit of the State of Georgia, challenging the con stitutionality of the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, will be heard on February 4th. The T. V. A. case is of out standing importance. It is the last of the New Deal issues now awaiting the Court’s ruling. The real fight is whether the. govern ment shall be allowed to compete in the hydro-electric field against private enterprise. On the decision of the Court will rest, to a large degree, the vast economic and so cial experiment now being con ducted in the Tennessee river ba sin. The decision of the Court is likely to create an' outstanding issue in the coming national cam , paign. Forces on both sides are organizing for the fight, which will probably be waged in every Congressional district. The T. V. A. case involves the effort of stockholders of the Alabama Pow er Company to prevent the sale, of transmission lines to the T. V. A. The government, beaten in the trial court, won in the Court of Appeals. ROOSEVELT FOR FARM AID President Roosevelt is whole heartedly behind the plan to use the half forgotten Soil Conserva tion Act of 1935 which will be amended to make clear that far mers are to be rewarded for maintaining “soil fertility” as dis tinguished from the prevention of “soil erosion.” The measure, as amended, is expected to be a sat isfactory substitute for the de funct AAA and to maintain the policy of Congress to provide farm income that measures up to that of industrial workers. The Presi dent thinks it will carry out the program he laid down last Oc tober for a “more permanent plan” to maintain and increase the gains made by agriculture and to broaden. 0peiions *° Pve “increasing - « freer es for servation emtrtlnt use of the nation's soil resources." hile the President would not 18S crop control, his descrip of the dangers of over-usage loil, coupled with the infer* that good land could be n from production temporarily he, ground of conservation, for reason that soil should lie periodically, indicates that s will be no lack of crop coft The President called atten to “intangible" erosion, which ists of using up the chemicals ssary to keep soil productive. I He Stressed sentences m nis statement of October 25th, em phasizing the possibility that it might be as important tb stimu late certain kinds of production as it has been to remove burden some surpluses. At that time he insisted that the “long-time and more permanent adjustment pro gram” would provide positive in centives for soil conservation and that benefit payments could be made on a basis to encourage in dividual farmers to adopt sound farm management, crop rotation, and soil-conservation methods. LABOR PLANS A COURSE The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, meeting test week at Miami, Flor ida, considered the instruction of the feujt Labor Convention to formulate an amendment JA: the Federal Constitution empwUring Congress to enact labor aim so cial and welfare legislation. Un doubtedly, Labor mi a whole de sires such an amendment, al though somewhat afraid of giving the government greater power in dealing with Labor, fearing that this might curtail the right to strike. A report at the convention was that the Democrats will not adopt any plank calling for such an amendment. Labor leaders who favor the amendment point to the Supreme Court decision on tha NRA and AAA and warn that other rulings might destroy the social security, railway pension, Guffey -Coal, and Wagner Indus trial Relations laws. Of course, the Federation has long maintained a non-partisan (continued on page 4) Smith Is Pictured As Turncoat Tues. By Sen. Robinson Arkansas Statesman Is Bitter In Rdply To Attack On Administration Made By 'Happy Warrior' QUOTES FROM SPEECH Says Former Governor Of New York Has Turned From Policies He Favored Most A Few Years Ago Washington, Jan. 28.—In an address delivered tonight, Senator Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas, branded former Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York, as a turncoat “warring against his own people and against the men and women with whom he. fought shoulder to shoulder in the past.” Senator Robinson’s speech was in reply to the one made by Smith Saturday night in which the latter impugned the Ameri canism and integrity of Roose velt policies. The Arkansas sena tor was Smith’s running mate in the latter’s 1928 campaign for the presidency. He said “the hour long haran gue before the miscalled Liberty League was barren and sterile, without a single constructive sug gestion.” “Governor Smith,” he conclud ed 8 national broadcast, "I’ve read you the record.” "You approved of NRA, you j approved farm relief, you urged federal spending for public works, you urged congress to cut red tape and confer power on the executive, you urged autocratic power lor the president, and you exposed with merciless logic the false cry of communism and so cialism. “The new deal was the plat form of the “Happy Warrior.’ “The policies of the Liberty League have become the plat form of the ‘Unhappy Warrior,.” Smith had contended that the 1932 platform, save for stock exchange control and repeal of prohibitirn. was "thrown in the (continued on page 6), Fire Destroys School Building At Galax Monday Flames completely destroyed the Getac grade school building Mon day night, throwing the school af fairs of the Virginia 'town into confusion and greatly hindering the administration of class work in both the grades and the high school, which was housed in a nearby building, which was saved from the fire. The building that burned has been used for most of the grades since the construction of the newer high school building about ten years ago, but, prior to that time, was the main building of Galax high school. It was erect ed about 26 years ago. It was of brick construction, three stories in height, and was valued at ap proximately $40,000. However, the extent of the loss could not at once be estimated, as all con tents were destroyed, except for some basketball equipment;. The building contained nine class rooms, four music rooms, each containing a piano, art room, laboratory and a basement which housed the high school athletic equipment. Slight damage is said to have been done to the high school building, only 40 feet distant. The two buildings housed 900 pupils and were heated by the same furnace, which was under the grade building. Origin of the fire, which ap parently began in the roof, has not been determined. Three hours after the fire was discovered, only the charred walls of the building were left standing and firemen, hampered by near zero weather and frozen hydrants, continued to thjrow water on the smouldering debris inside. It is understood that arrange ments are being made to resume work in the high school depart ment next Monday if sufficient heeri"!’ facilities can be provided. At the same time, it is understood ... the grades will be „ the Methodist church, r, a few of the grades ip the high school Sm., \-•' "f \ Further Reprieves For Hauptmann Are By No Means Likely Trenton, N. J., Jan. 27_Gov ernor Harold G. Hoffman today said he would grant no further reprieves to Bruno Richard Haupt. mann, convicted slayer of the Lindbergh baby, unless “further developments should warrant." “Will you grant another re prieve to Hauptmann?” Hoffman was Asked at his press confer ence. “No,” he said, Hoffman said he had no inten tion of calling a special session of the court of pardons, but would ask legislative action "if the find ings warrant it:” He pointed out, however, that any new evidence first would be brought before Su preme Court Justice Thomas W. Trenchard, judge of Hauptmann’s Flemington trial. , “Is it a fair assumption that there is no new evidence?” he was asked. “I wouldn’t say that.” Richard Loeb Is Killed By Fellow Convict In Prison Co-Perpetrator Of “Thrill Slaying” Of Bobby Franks In 1924 Is Slashed With Razor Joliet, 111., Jan. 28.—Memories of the notorious Loeb-Leopold murder trial at Chicago in 1924 were brought back today when Richard Loeb, 30, co-perpetrator of the “thrill slaying” of Bobby Franks, was killed in Stateville penitentiary, after having been slashed 52 times with a razor in the hands of an enraged fellow convict. James Day, 28. serving a term for larceny, confessed the killing of Loeb, State’s Attorney Will McCabe, of Will county, said, and blamed it to Loeb’s persistence in pursuing him over a long period with improper advances. Sullen at first, Day refused to discuss the case except to tell Warden Joseph Ragen it was “just a fight." But later, to Edward G. Pow ers, investigator for the state’s attorney’s office, he gave a full statement of the furious fight he (continued on page 6) Senator Reynolds Returns From Trip In Receptive Mood Washington, Jan. 28.—Robert B. "Our Bob" Reynolds, junior senator from North Carolina, will be a candidate for reelection when the time comes, he told friends upon his arrival in Wash ington recently from a trip around the world. Reynolds made a quick trip to Washington after leaving ship. Upon his arrival in the capital city he found over one hundred and fifty people, all North Caro linian^, many of them wanting jobs , or promotions, waiting to greet him. "The entire world is resting on three kegs of dynamite" Senator Reynolds declared in discussing world affairs. “One in Europe, one in Asia and another in Africa. Either one of tile three is capable of bring ing about a world *ar and "I don’t w&nt to see this country do anything which will involve us." Senator Reynolds said he favored asg neutrality' legislation. He ciaed the League of Nations and quoted one foreign observer who referred to the league of money changers. In commenting on the war bo tween Italy and Ethiopia, Senator Reynolds expressed his dpinion that the real combatants are dot Italy and Ethiopia, but Italy and Great Britain, and he warned against any oil sanctions or any other steps which would aid either one of these countries. Senator Reynolds was more charitable toward Japan than were two other North Carolina members of the congressional (continued on page S> uX.~Gov. Allied E. Smith/ Of New York, Hulls Bitter Attack At New Deal In Speech SaL H,S? E? EtZZSfsS SpKi. SPEAKS BEFORE LARGE CROWD IN WASHINGTON S»« The& Can Be Only One Flag, The Star* And StripS^r The Flag Of The Godlew Soviet Union Washington, Jan. 26.—Former Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York, and Democratic presi dential nominee in 1928, gave notice to the-nation tonight that he would “take a walk” during the presidential campaign of this year unless Roosevelt policies are repudiated at the national con vention to be held at Philadelphia in June. In a searing denunci ation of the Roosevelt administra tion as faithless to the platform upon which it was elected, Smith addressed the American Liberty league. Hisuspeech was broad cast over nation-wide radio hook-up. There were only two courses: open to “Disciples of Jefferson and Jackson and Cleveland, if the new deal is endorsed in conven tion,” the former New York gov ernor told the league audience and radio listeners. "We can either take on the mantle of hypocrisy or we can take a walk—and we probably will do tl^e latter,” he said. The words fell upon the eager ears of foremost members of both major parties, some1 of whom had been asking whether the “happy warriar” of 1928 might not join an independent prayt movement at the expense of the new deal | or possibly support a Republican nominee. They found he, left unanswered whether or not he might seek between now and June to bring about the “re establishment” ofparty principles he advocated. Class warfare and bureaucratic domination of the citizenry im pend, he warned, should the pres ent “socialistic” federal course be continued. “There can be only one capital —Washington or Moscow,” he continued with a vigor that flush ed his already ruddy cheeks. "The people can hreathe the clear, fresh air of America or the foul breath of Soviet Russia. "If the constitution wins, we win! The constitution has already won—but the news has not reach ed certain ears.” His next words were drowned out by cheering and laughter from the crowd which jammed the ball room of the Mayflower hotel. It was in the same room, and before a scene similarly resplendent, that President Roosevelt recently pledg ed to the Jackson Day dinner that "we will not retreat.” Time and again Smith reverted to the Chicago platform of 1932 which he helped draft. Except for stock exchange control and re peal of the 18th amendment, he said, it has been “thrown in the wastebasket.” He went on: “Even our Republican friends, and I know many of them; they talk to me freely—we have our little confidences—they have all agreed that it is the most com pact, the most direct, and the most intelligent political platform that was ever put forth." Among those who heard the appeal on its behalf were John W. Davis, Democratic presidential nominee preceding Smith; and two former Democratic governors, Ely of Massachusetts and Ritchie, of! Maryland. Ely said later he could not see. “how any Democrat can disagree with him.” “I am not a candidate for any nomination by any party at any time,” Smith said tonight, “and what is more, I do not intend to lift my right hand to secure any nomination.” One Democratic senator, who declined to be quoted, said Smith had not closed the door to a nomination. He said it was sig nificant that Smith, in declaring he was not a candidate, had add ed that he would not lift a hand, a no that this indicated he would accept a nomination. After his audience thundered cheers, he said: “I have no ax to grin. There ii nothing personal in this whole performance. So far as f am con cerned 1 have no feeling against any man, woman or child in the United States. “I am in possession of supreme happiness and comfort. "I represent no group, no man, and I speak for no man or no group, but I da speak for what 1 bcl.eve to be the best interest of the American people ~ in the class in which I belong." “I’m here because I’m a Demo crat,” he said—adding it hurt him to talk pow against a Democratic administration. “In my time I have met some goodand bad industrialists.” Smith continued. “I have met some good and bad industrialists.’ Smith have also met some good and had labor, and this I know, that permanent prosperity is depend ent upon both capital and labor alike, xxx “And I also know that there can le no permanent prosperity in this country until industry is able to employ labor, and there certainly can be no premanent re covery upon any governmental (continued on page 6) President’s Ball At Galax Expected To Be Big Affair Everything is in readiness for the big Birthday .Ball for the President to be held tonight )( Thursday) in Galax at Bluemont hotel. The largest crowd to attend one of the three (including this one) balls of its kind held in Galax is anticipated and it is also ex pected to be the most enjoyable from every standpoint of any of the three. One of the outstanding features of the occasion will be the floor show to be given under the direc tion of William Kyle, Galax, in tiie form of the tableau, “The Pied Piper Of Hamelin,” in which a number of children will par ticipate. Eriu Neese’s ten-piece radio broadcasting orchestra, one of the best known in the South, will fur nish. music for the dancing, and a crooner will accompany the in strumentalists. The ball is scheduled to begin at nine o’clock with a Grand March and will last until one o'clock in the morning. Steer Thieve* Are Located By Sheriff; Lodged In Jail Here Two men were arrested Monday by Sheriff Walter M. Irwin and charged with stealing a steer. The steer, which was stolen from Jess Sexton, Twin Oaks, on Monday night of last week, was located near Port Chiswell, Va. After an investigation, Sheriff Ir win took George Hodge and Terry Hodge, who live near Twin Oaks, into custody and took them to Galax, where they were positively identified by employees at the Galax stockyards and others as the ones who sold the steer there on Tuesday following the theft. The sale was made to A. L. Gardner, Hillsville, who in turn sold the steer to a Mr. Blair, of near Fort Chiswell, where it was finally located. The Hodges were placed in the Sparta jail to await the April term of court. Sheriff Irwin has made a lengthy and expensive investi gation into this case as an ex ample of what prosecution even petty thieves may expect. -He hopes to prevent a series of such crimes and make it possible for the fanners to feel their stock la safe. Geo. W. Wickersham, Ex-U. S. Atty.-Gen., Is Claimed By Death New York, Jan. 28.—George W. Wickersham, one-time attor ney-general of the United States and later chairman of the com mission which recommended con tinuation of national prohibition, died suddenly Saturday in a taxi cab. The cab driver who was taking the 78-year old attorney on a short ride to a club luncheon with old friends discovered at his des tination that his passenger was dead. Henry W. Taft, a law partner of Mr. Wickersham, identified the body of his colleague at a police station. Mr. Wickersham was at torney-general in the cabinet of Presiiknt Taft from 1909 to 1913. Bonus Kills Made Law Over Roosevelt Veto Both Senate And House Vote Overwhelmingly To Override. N. C. Members Vote In Veterans’ Favor Washington, Jan. 28.—Acting after the Senate voted yesterday 76 to 19 to override his immediate payment bonus bill veto, Presi-, dent Roosevelt sent orders down ■ the line to pay off the $2,491,-! 000,000 obligation to the veterans as quickly as "accuracy will per mit.” No word of disappointment or chagrin, no hint as to the possi bility of new taxes came from the White House as the Senate in a thwacking bi-partisan ballot—with! a two-thirds majority never in doubt—declined to accept the President’s disapproval of a bill for immediate, payment in $50 cashable bonds. The House pre viously had voted 324 to 61 to override. In the second of two statements issuing quickly from the White House, however, the. President opened a drive to lessen the strain (continued on page six) Borah Calls For “living” Platform In Brooklyn Tues. New York, Jan. 28.—“Every old person 60 years or over de serves $50 or $60 a month as an old age pension,” said Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, to night, but held that the Town send plan is impracticable. Senator Borah delivered an ex temporaneous address to a meet ing of some 3,000 persons in Shrine Hall in Brooklyn arrang ed by a "Borah-for-President” state committee which seeks to instruct New York delegates to the Cleveland convention for Bo rah. some heckling greeted ms pro nouncements on the question of federal legislation -to curb lynch ing. Pickets distributed hand bills attacking his stand against the Wagner-Costigan bill but the senator said his opposition to that measure arose from doubts of its constitutionality. In appealing for a “live” plat form for his party, which he said now was facing an "extraordin ary” loss of national influence, he referred to former Governor Alfred E. Smith’s Liberty League speech last Saturday “over the dead body of the Chicago (Demo cratic convention) platform.” “Nothing like it since Mark Anthony stood over the body of Julius Caesar,” he exclaimed. “And as the adroit orator of the evening drew back the shroud from the dead platform and point ed to the numerous wounds in flicted by those whom he called traitors, you could hear the anti Roosevelt Democrats and the regu lar Republicans cheering to the ! echo. . . | "It was fine- But, Republican friends, let us not make the fatal mistake—the fatal mistake of as suming that this election will turn upon the question of a dead plat form. “It must turn upon the question of a Living platform.” Funeral Is Held For George V In Windsor Chapel Body Is Laid To Rest After Simple Service. The Mighty Of Europe Walk Behind Coffin DAVIS REPRESENTS U. 5. Millions Of Subject* Of Late King Give Him Tremendous Farewell. Schedule Is Delayed Windsor, Eng., Jan. 28.—In the vaults of the. chapel of his 1,000 year-old castle, George V was buried today beside the bodies of his father and mother. f He was laid to rest after a sim ple service—in contrast to the pageantry of- a great funeral pro cession which brought his body here from Westminster Hall, Lon-, don. The mighty of Europe walked behind his coffin, borne through massed hundreds of thousands. The great empire was stilled in final tribute. Two minutes of silence was observed and millions followed the broadcasts of the services. Before they lowered him into the vault they removed the sym bols of his kingship—the crown, scepter and orb. The archbishop of Canterbury committed George’s soul to God, his body to eternal peace. Then Edward VIII, his son and succes sor, sprinkled earth from a silver urr. on the coffin as it was low ered into the crypt. As the plain oak coffin disap- h pcared, Edward stepped back and turned to the queen mother Mary and took her arm. A gleam of sunshine flashed ; across the chapel and touched the ’ diamonds of the royal crown h where it rested in the nave. Slow ly the king and the queen mother ; walked away. Five foreign kings, the presi- | dent of Prance, and a host of princes and notable commoners bowed their heads before the bier. Among them was Norman H. Davis, chief representative of President Roosevelt and the. peo ple of the United States. They walked in two processions, from Westminster Hall, London, to Paddington station and again from the station here to the. chapel. •: “1 Millions of George’s subjects gave him a tremendous farewell and because the cortege could : not get through the crowds in London the funeral schedule was thrown 33 minutes behind. Hundreds of persons fainted « were injured and the St. John’s ambulance brigade announced nearly 10.000 cases had been at*, tended in London during the pro cession, 3,000 more than in last year’s jubilee processions. One person died. Gov. O. K. Allen, Of La., Dies Tues. Baton Rouge, La., Jan. 28.— Governor Oscar Kelly Allen, who rose to power with Huey P. Long and inherited the political leader ship left by the late senator, died today of a cerebral hemorrhage. Ji CHIME a, *Y~ TNT 'MORX.O HAt TURNeo A&IN’ MB/ . "There to no areata misfortune than not to be able to bear misfortune " , JANUARY SO—Greet Peru Good* do t—^ 1200,000.000demege. 1010. 10—Ktnc Charta 1 •( England loMft hi» hMd IM9. ' n-u. *.