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TODAY’S THOUGHT "It is right to be tented with what have, never with we are."—MackintosJ DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Series 1937 GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1937. EIGHT PAGES Number 7. Si OURT FIGHT BEGINS The lines are beginning to fopm ‘ the Senate for the fight which ill center around the President’s oposal to appoint, under cer in conditions, up to six new jus :es of the Supreme Court. In e House, little chance exists ir a successful battle against e President’s proposal, but, in e Senate, where foes of the ggestion will concentrate their tack, it is likely that the battle ill be prolonged. Hearings he re the measure reaches the floor 01 consume considerable time k1 certain senators are sure to hate the bill at great length. >ME GOOD IDEAS So much' interest has been oused by the proposal of the •esident that he be empowered appoint, until the total num ir of justices reaches fifteen, le new juBtice for each member 10 has not resigned within six onths of his seventieth birthday, rthe public is apt to overlook broad reorganization of the en e Federal Court system which s been urged to speed up and ake modern the function of the arts. The President would add ty new judges in the lower kderal courts to supplement dgea past seventy who refuse to sign, create a “proctor” to keep i the work of the lower courts, thorize the Chief Justice to as jn justices to other congested ckete, ban decisions or injunc ms in cases involving consti tional issues until the Govern int has been given ample notice id full hearings and certain easures to expedite appeals in ms involving the eonstitutdonal > of legislation. RESIDENT SURPRISES The President’s message un tubtedly was a surprise and taxed many members of Con ees. Generally, Republicans and ti-New Deal Democrats de tunced it and full-fledged New talers gave it their support tteide comment aligned conser tive businessmen against “pack g" the Court, while Labor lead s announce their support. Re tits indicated that a fringe of see who have supported the undent’s earlier legislative pro am inclines to desert him on ft. causal court issue. Eeasing the need for “new ” the President’s message idly called attention to the e of the present justices. Six them are past seventy and three e over seventy-five. Here are sir ages: Chief Justice Hughes, Justices Van Devanter, 77; sReynolds, 76; Brandeis, 80; itherland, 74; Butler, 70; Stone, ; Roberts, 61, and Cardozo, 66. IRD BATTLE CERTAIN While the President’s proposal change the number of justices not new, his position undoubt y creates a crisis in the long tory of the court. Originally 1789 it had six members. The mber was reduced to five in 91, up to seven in 1807 and to te in 1837. During the Civil w, the number was ten because Confederate was not sitting, ter the Court was reduced to eft members and, under Grant, wed again to nine, with the ssident accused of “packing” i Court in order to .reverse the ir-to-three “legal tender” de iion. Despite the carefully worded iguage of the President’s mes je, its implication clearly em Mues tat the Supreme Court to be subject to the executive d legislative branches of the >vemment. Since the days of hn Marshall, the Court has as led the right to finally decide lether Congress or the Presi nt infringes upon the Constitu m. For more than a hundred mb, the meaning of that docu snt, as translated into govem ■ntal machinery and using gov nmental power, has been in enced by the economic and so il trends of the times and un ubtedly interpretations have en the result of the personal iVoeophiee of the justices. Usually, in the course of a esidential term, each president s appointed members of the preme court and thus exerted ; power to influence judicial serpretations and decisions. For B past fifty or sixty years, the ,urt has been regarded as a con. rvative influence, with a ten ncy to exert itself in behalf property rights. This attitude is ainly seen in the use made of e “due process clause” of the urteenth Amendment, passed to atect the rights of Negroes, and now mainly relied upon by cor rations, which have been judi djy declared “persons” by the preme Court. Annual Basketball Event To Begin In Twin City March 9 High Schools Of Alleghany Surry And 18 Others Of The Northwestern N. C. Counties Are Eligible OUTSTANDING EVENT Pilot Mountain H. S. 1 Girls And Copeland H. S. Boys, Both Of Surry, To Be Defending Champions Persona in charge of arrange ments for the twelfth annual Northwestern North Carolina High School Basketball tournament in Winston-Salem, sponsored by the Winston-Salem Journal and Sen tinel, have completed plans for the occasion and entry blanks will be available for the high schools of the 20 Northwestern counties within the next few days. The tournament will get under way at the Reynolds high school gymnasium Tuesday, March 9, and entries will close at midnight, Friday, March 5. All schools in the 20 counties of the Northwestern section of North Carolina are eligible for the tournament and all are invit ed to send boys' and girls’ teams to the twin city for the play. Coaches and principals desiring entry blanks for the play are urg ed to communicate with Frank Spencer, sports editor of the Winston-Salem Journal, at the ear liest possible date for blanks and information on the tournament. The tournament, the largest basketball event in the South, and probably the nation, attract ed ninety-six entries last year, and officials are hopeful of in creasing this number this year. Schools of the.'following coun ties aire eligible for the tourna ment: Alleghany, Forsyth, Wilkes, Yadkin, Davie, Davidson, Iredell, Randolph, Guilford, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Catawba, Burke, Watauga, Ashe, Rowan,' Avery, Caldwell and Alexander. Copeland high school boys and Pilot Mountain high school girls, both of Surry county, will be the; defending champions this year. Reports from Northwest Caro lina indicate that many of the ] boys and girls teams are already j planning for this grand finale of j the basketball season. Among the early requests for application blanks are Westfield high school, of Surry; Cove Creek school, of Wautaga; Startown high school, of Catawba; North Carolina School for the Deaf, Burke; Hudson high school, of Caldwell; Dobson high school, of Surry, and others. Two requests have been receiv ed from schools in counties not included in the twenty Northwes tern counties and had to be turn ed down by the committee. It was decided not to increase the num ber of counties eligible for the [ play for this season. ! The committee has also issued I a request to all coaches and prin i cipals to obtain entry blanks at the earliest possible date so that the schools may enter before the deadline for accepting entrance for the meet. Rites In Charlotte For Bishop Mouzon Largely Attended Charlotte, Peb. 16.—Leader* of Southern Methodism attended fun. enal services here Thursday for Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon. The 68-year-old churchman, head of what was known as the righest and strongest districts in ' the Methodist Episcopal Church, I South, died suddenly at his home j Wednesday. j Thursday the body lay in state . in the $1,000,000 First Methodist | church until 3:30 p. m., when I services were held by Dr. G. T. ; Bond, preparatory to removal of ithe body to Dallas, Texas, for I burial. Advices from Dallas said the i se.rvice.s there would be at 2 p. m. Saturday in the First Metho dist church, and would be con ducted by Bishop John M. Moore, of Dallas, and Bishop A. Frank Smith, of Houston. New Fixtures Are Being Installed At Sparta P. O. New fixtures have been furnish ed recently in the Sparta post office building, consisting of screenline, boxes, filing cabinets, desk, safe, bag and pouch racks, dumping and stamping tables, general delivery and outgoing mail cases, typewriter stand, chairs, waste baskets and parcel post cabinets. Most of these fixtures have ar rived and have already been in stalled. Under the direction of R. C. Halsey, owner of the building, the inside walls of the building have been painted and new light fix tures are being installed, a flag pole is being erected and other improvements made. Dr. M. P. Carico Dies; Was Native. Of AUeghanyfo. Prominent Minister Passes Away In Knoxville, Tenn. Was Methodist Pastor, Presiding Elder 45 Years Dr. Martin Phleming Carico, a native of Alleghany county, died on Wednesday, February 3, in Knoxville, Tenn., where he was pastor of Perry’s Chapel Metho dist church. He was 69 years of age at the time of his death. Dr. Carico, who was bom at Edmonds, in the eastern section of the county, had served on charges in Holston Conference Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for 46 years. During this time he served some of the most outstanding charges in the con ference, including State Street church, Bristol, Va.-Tenn., Mmj sey Memorial church, Johnson City, Tenn. (twice), St. Paul’s church, Wytheville, Va., Graham station, Bluefield, Va. (twice), Lebanon, Va. and McFarland Me morial church, Rossville, Ga., from which charge he went to Knox ville last fall. The first two charges served by the outstanding | minister were, the Spring Valley ano Elk Creek circuits, in Gray son county, Virginia. On these two charges mere are many per sons who still recall the great revival meetings that were held by Dr. Carieo, who was one of the most beloved pastors they have ever had. In addition to the pastoral charges mentioned above, Dr. Car ico served as presiding elder of the Big Stone Gap (Va.) district, the Bluefield (W. Va.) district and the Sweetwater (Tenn.) dis trict, each four years. Dr. Car ico preached the commencement sermon to the graduates of Galax (Va.) high school tn the spring of 1924, on Sunday, May 25, of that year. He was then presiding elder of the Bluefield district. Surviving are the widow, who was, before her marriage to Dr. Carieo on May 23, 1887, Miss Sarah Cornelia Brock, of North Carolina, and four daughters and three sons, as follows: Mrs. H. Warren, Knoxville, Tenn., with whom Dir. and Mrs. Carieo were liv ing at the time of the death of the former; Mrs. J. E. LeHardy, also of Knoxville; Mrs. C. M. Bul lard, Macon, Ga.; Mrs. E. H. Barbee, Akron, Ohio; G. G- Car ico, Macon, Ga.; P. H. Carieo, Chattanooga, Tenn., and C. M. Carieo, Chicago, 111. t Funeral services were conduct ed on Friday, February 6, in Mann’s Funeral Home in Knox ville by Dr. F. B. Shelton, presid ing elder of the Knoxville dis trict, and Dr. W- S. Hendricks, pastor of Epworth Methodist church, Knoxville. Active pall bearers were stew ards of Perry’s Chapel church and honorary pall bearers were ministers of the Knoxville district. Interment was in Lynnhurst Resthaven cemetery, Knoxville. METHODIST W. M. S. TO HOLD MEETING TOMORROW Tomorrow (Friday) afternoon, at 2:30 o’clock, the Women’s Mis sionary society of the Sparta Methodist church will hold its reg ular meeting at the home of Mrs. T. J. Carson, with Mrs. R. E. Black associate hostess. Mrs. Jay Hardin will be leader. Settlement Of Big General Motors Strike Effected $25,000,000 Increase' In Wages Is Announced By Alfred P. Sloan, Head Of General Motors Detroit, Feb. 16.—Settlement of the General Motors strike was effected Thursday on a basis fair to the United Automobile Work ers, in that recognition will be accorded it to the extent of its memberships and fair to all em ployees, in that no man may be forced into or barred from join ing a union, provided for a per manent peace and the probable re-opening of all plants within the next 12 days, according to news given out after the settle ment. The statement came as a dis tinct relief to the entire industry in' that its terms provide them a solid basis for labor relations. Un der them no union would be recognized as th* representative for all workers but only in pro portion to its membership. The change of closed-shop and one group domination is thus made more remote. Reports that Gen eral Motors would not deal with any group other than the United Automobile Workers for the next six months were without foun dation and were based upon a let ter to Governor Murphy, which was not part of the main agree ment but which assured the gov ernor that he would be kept fully informed of any dealing the cor poration might have with other groups on general policy issues contained in the union’s letter of January 4. At a press conference Thurs day, W. S. Knudsen, GM execu tive vice-president, stated that the corporation had a large bank of Orders on hand a Ad hopes to hit a capacity production of 225,000 cars during March. He said that, out of 235,000 employees in all GM wholly-owned plants, approxi mately 120,000 employes are now working and that the remaining 115,000 will be recalled to their jobs as quickly as possible. Referring to the peace pact, Knudsen said: “There is no crow ing on either side—I hope not. What we think is most import ant is to get people back to work and get the plants running again, because you yourselves know that when a big machine is stopped you have to monkey with the fly wheel a bit before you get it go ing again. That fly-wheel has got to be tolerant. There must be a desire for peace and no animosity on either side.’’ A five-cent per hour wage in crease for all GM employes, total ing $25,000,000 annually, was announced in New York Thurs ray by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., presi dent of General Motors. In creases go into effect February 15 in plants now operating and in other GM factories when oper ations are resumed. At a press conference this afternoon, William S. Knudsen, executive vice-presi dent of GM, declared the pay boost had nothing to do with set tlement of the strike. The GM boost, coupled with the 10 per cent pay increase announc ed last Tuesday by Chrysler Cor poration, augurs well for the eco ation, augurs well for the eco nomical outlook of the nation. Thursday’s increase will make GM’s wage rates 25 per cent high er than the highest paid prior to the depression, Sloan said. To gether with the $30,000,000 pay boost in November, 1986, Thurs day's increase brings to $56, 000,000 the annual wage increase granted by the corporation. Plans For Formation Of Boy Scout Troop In Sparta Under Way Definite plans are under way at the Sparta Methodist church for the organisation of a Boy Scout troop under the direction of Robert J. Andrews and Rev. A. B. Bruton, pastor of the church. All boys of Sparta and vicinity between the ages of eight and seventeen years who desire to become scouts are requested to meet at the Methodist church to night (Thursday) at seven o’ clock. ■ Li -W i ■ "fii -'..-tit,. • > Miss Inskeep Guest At Banquet Given At Va. College Miss Josephine Inskeep, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Ins keep, Roaring Gap, and a student of Fredericksburg State Teachers college, Fredericksburg, Va., was a guest at the Commercial Club banquet held recently in the grill room of the Stratford hotel, in Fredericksburg. About 165 members of the Commercial club attended the banquet. The outstanding feature of the occasion was an address by Har ry C. Spilma, of New York City, an internationally known lectur er and author, on the subject, “Personality and Power.” Landon Silent On Roosevelt Plan For Court Change Speaks Friday Night In New York At Republican Lincoln Day Dinner. His Address Is Brief New York, Feb. 16.—Former Governor Alfred M. Landon, of Kansas, said Friday night nation al issues in which “the whole fu ture of our country is involved,” had been raised of kite, and added they should be treated without partisanship. He did not specifically say, in a speech delivered before the Na tional Republican club here, to what he referred, but Us remarks generally were interpreted as di rected at President Roosevelt’s proposals to change the supreme court. Thursday, discussing the speech then in preparation, Landon had said that it “certainly would” touch on the future of the su preme court and that qriginal j draft was being reivised for that purpose. It was an address of scarcely more than 600 words, perhaps the shortest ever delivered by the 1936 Republican presidential can didate, since he became a national figure. “When I accepted the invitation to come to this meeting (a Lin coln Day dinner),” he said, “I planned to make a few informal remarks to you as a Republican talking to fellow Republicans.” “Since then events have occur red in our national life which1 make it out of place for me to talk bn a party basis. The issues raised are greater than any party. They concern the whole of us.” “They are worthy of unhurried deliberation by congress. They will not wisely yield to partisan j discussion either within or with-! out the congress. The whole future of our country is involved. “Upon these issues I have strong convictions, but I shall not avail: myself of this occasion to discuss them further.” Schools Of County Contribute To Flood Relief Fund A total of $122.24 has been contributed by schools of Alle ghany county for Red Cross flood relief work, as follows: Glade Valley (elementary) $8.40; Pine Swamp, $4.51; White head, $7.95: Chestnut Grove, $0.53; Stratford, $2.00; Turkey Knob, $1.95; Laurel Springs, $22.60; Sparta, $50.72; Rock Creek, $3.10; Hooker,. $1.40; Vox, $10.00. The names of those who con tributed to the flood sufferers through Vox schools follow: Lillie Edwards, 50c; R. G. Cox, 50c; L. L. Cox, 80c; Roy Lee Fender, 6c; Kenneth Fender, 6c; M. B. Cox. $1.00: Mrs. M. B. Cox, $1.00; W. J. Jennings, 60c; An drew Jennings, 50c; Ruth Truitt, 5c; Chester Meines, 6c; Silver Maines, 6c; Reid Fender, 5c; J. C. Blevins, 26c; Hasel Maines, 6c; Mrs. Nancy Edwards, 25c; Hasten Edwards, 26c; Garnett Brown, 2c; L. A. Andrews, 20c; Alice Tolliver, 50c; Mrs. H. C. Willey, 60c; Mrs. A. J. Wille.y, 20c; O. F. Brown, 10c; S. M. Duncan, 26c; Mrs. G. M. Duncan, 15c; Fred Andrews, 10c; Mrs. Jane Cox, 25c; Preston Cox, 50c; William Andrews, 15c; Emory Blevins, 10c; Cecil Murray, 3c; Odus Blevins, 5c; Thurman Cox, 26c, and D. C. Wyatt, 75c. 16-Year-Old Alleghany Girl Assaulted and Slain On Her Way to School February 8 _ m_ Senate Passes County Option Liquor Measure Bill, Previously Passed By House, Returned To That Body For Approval Of Amendments Made Raleigh, Feb. 16.—After adopt ing several minor amendments to the measure, the Senate late to day passed the county option liq-' uor bill. There was no record vote. The bill, previously passed by the House, was returned to the House for approval of amend ments. Legislative leaders said the lower body probably would act on the proposal tomorrow and that it would be ratified into law by Thursday. Under the measure, each coun ty could call for elections on the creation of liquor stores. The bill was passed by the Sen ate after an amendment calling for a state-wide referendum on the liquor question was defeated, 27 to 17. The adopted amendments, would: 1. Prohibit drinking at foot ball games or at any other public assembly. 2. Cause stores to fix uniform prices. 8. Allow stricter supervision: of stores and prohibit the placing of a liquor store in a township which voted dry although the County voted wet. 4. Require a 20-day notice of the opening of the registration! books and provide for one ballot instead of two as previously stip- j [dated. Other amendments resulted from typographical errors. Senator Martin, of Davidson, who led the fight for a state-wide referendum, asked the adoption »f amendments which would al low only those counties having liquor stores to vote on the meas ure, to prohibit any sort of ad vertising in a North Carolina pub lication, and make it unlawful to transport whiskey anywhere in the state except in a wet county. These and three other proposed changes were voted down. The roll call completed an afternoon of debate in which 16 senators took active part. Senator Rodman, of Beaufort, who directed the efforts of the county-option forces in the ab sence of Senator Gravely, of Nash, was supported on the floor by Senators Hill, of Durham; Johnston, of Buncombe; Long, of Halifax; Gay, of Northhampton; Rowe, of Pender, and Coburn, of Martin. Two Perono, Enroute To Winston-Salem, Have Accident Mon. j On Monday morning about three o’clock two men from Wins ton-Salem narrowly escaped death when the car in which they were traveling crashed into two electric light posts in Booneville, breaking off both posts. Neither occupant of the car was injured, although the automobile was practically de molished. The men probably owe their lives to the fact that the car had a steel frame. The men who had brought some reporters from the Wins ton-Salem Journal and Sentinel to Sparta to cover the Brannock murder case, left Sparta about midnight Sunday night. The driv er fell asleep, it is add, as they were rounding a curve in Booner ville, on the return trip, and lost control of the car. BAPTIST W. M. U. TO MEET TODAY; MISS VASS HOSTESS The W. M. U. of the Sparta Baptist church will meet this (Thursday) afternoon, at 2 o’ clock, at the home of Miss Mar gie Vass. Body Is Found Friday In Thicket Near School For Which She Had Set Out, After Extensive Search IRWIN LEADS SEARCH Scene Of Tragedy Is In Saddle Mountain Section Approximately 5 Miles East Of Sparta One of the most atrocious and ghastly crimes in the «r.nnl9 0f Alleghany county was perpetrat ed on Monday, February 8, in the Saddle Mountain section, about fifteen miles from Sparta, when 16-year old Elva Brannock, youngest child of Mr. and Mi*. Jeff Brannock, Saddle Mountain, was criminally assaulted, choked and brutally murdered. The girl’s body was found on Friday morn ing, already showing signs of ex posure to the weather. She bed been missing since Monday, when she failed to return home from Dividing Ridge school, in the Saddle Mountain section. The girl left home, as usual, at seven o’clock on Monday morning to attend the school, where she was a member of the Seventh grade, and was last seen by Dewey Edwards and Andrew Al len, who were waiting for a parkway truck, about one and one-half miles from the spot where the body was found. On Monday afternoon, when the girl failed to return home from school at the regular hour, the family became anxious and, after an early supper, one of the girls and a brother went in search of her. On going to the boarding place of Mrs. Lola Bill ings Anderson, teacher of the Dividing Ridge school, they learn ed that the sister had not been in school at all on Monday. For the next two days the search con tinued, telegrams were dispatched to various parts of the country, the disappearance was broadcast over the radio and groups of men searched the surrounding country side. On Friday morning a determin ed band of volunteer searchers, possibly numbering two hundred, met to scour the woods near the place where the victim was Inst seen. Setting out abreast, about ten fdet apart, the men advanced slowly, determined to comb the underbrush. The body, frozen hard and lying on the face, seen first by R. D. McGrady, was found on Friday morning about ten o’clock at a distance of 300 yards from the school DuilJing, in a very open place in the woods, near a clump of ivy. The girl’s school books were stacked neatly by her shoulder. A bag containing part of the girl’s lunch lay several feet away, with part of the contents scatter ed on the ground, as if the bag had been thrown. Sheriff Walter M. Irwin, accom panied by the corner and doctor, painstakingly examined the spot and surroundings in search of clues before the body was brought to Sparta, where an autopsy was performed by Drs. Guy Duncan, (Turn to page 8, Please) Friends and mulct fail us in herd tlmmT „ FEBRUARY M—Aaron Bun, vioe presi dent under Jefferson, arrested for treason. 1807. 10— Revolt of Cubans against Spanish rule started, I89S. 11—Washington dedicated in elaborate ceremony. 1885. 22—First around is broken for the Central Pacific rail road. 1863. 22—American steamer "Carib" sunk by mine ofl German coast in North Sea, 1915. 24—Bill to impeach President Andrew Johnson fftMfjki duced, 1868. 25—Income tax to the Constitute!) claimed, 1913.
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