North Carolina Newspapers

I 1 -. TODAY'S THOUGHT “The newspaper press is the people’s university.” —Partom. X DEVOTED Series 1937 - «* year in advance in Alleghany county oaJy OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Number 17. TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC A GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, ixxuivijuAY, APRIL 29, 1937. >NOMY ADVOCATED I The President's action last week alHn. attention of Con iatimated deficit of during the next fis year, which begins on July 1, with his statement that would use “every means at my |mmand to wipe out the threat deficit” and thus seek a bal budget next year, indicates general tightening of govem ntal purse-strings as faff aa the ef Executive is concerned. Mr. elt has apparently oon that the time has come for nation's finances to be put in er. He faces a hard task be Congress is apt to enact [islation this session requiring expenditures. SASURY DEFICITS " the Government has a deficit [the next fiscal year, it will be eighth successive deficit, each of which has caused an in in the national debt which rests at a new high. No ;ing person believes that such Ijcondition can continue indefi ely. In January the President bmitted his preliminary esti [tes for the fiscal year 1938, in ang that an $1,500,000,000 propriation for work relief ild be sustained without a net licit. However, a decline in tax jpeipts caused by a failure of |eipts to meet expectations and drop in other revenues Be in large part to the obstruc of collections by numerous suits against the Govern Jnt,” makes it necessary to re the situation if there is to [[any hope of a balanced budget en the next fiscal year ends on Be 30, 1938. INTS YEAR BALANCED declaring that it was highly bortant to achieve a balance of (ual income and outgo, the lsident said that existing taxes st be renewed and Congress |st hold appropriations within get estimates. With bills now ling which would require |und five billion dollars, the |ef Executive urged Congress [resist the pressure of “special aps” and warned that if new |>ropriations were made, that revenue must be provided. MGRESS INTERESTED fhile recognizing the opportu |es to improve social and eco nic conditions through Federal lon> the President declared that 1 “success of our whole program the permanent security of our |ple demand” an adjustment of enditures within budget e9ti That the President will je^ve powerful support from le of the leadeirs of his party |lear from the recent utterances enator Pat Harrison, chairman J the Finance Committee, and |ator James F. Byrnes, an inti personal and political friend, ^se senators apparently reflect sentiment of a considerable Igressional group but whether 11 be able to maintain suffi strength to oppose the pres groups remain to be seen. GATORS OUTSPOKEN _ator Harriaon thought that | figures prepared by the Treas Department, upon which the aident’s message was based, “ultra-conservative.” He nted out that some of the taxes „ collected in 1937—notably ■dfall, railroad retirement and lal security—will be collected the next fiscal year and took I position that the relief appro jjition should be below the fig set by the President. Senator nes agreed that the relief fig "is too high” and that the fiber on relief rolls should be uced each month. Senator! iinson_ Democratic floor leader, flared that the Federal govern ht had been running on bor (red money for nearly seven , a half years and that it was lost imperative that the gap be, led. The Republican floor fler, Senator McNary, of Ore 1, agreed with Senator Robin I that the deficit should be wip fout and expressed the view 1 the relief, appropriation was emely liberal. lie reader should not lose sight he fact that the Government expended an enormous sum ling the six depression years, |s-38, to battle the forces of omic collapse. One out of y six families has been di Jy aided by the Federal Treas Pand probably every family in [ nation has been indirectly aid |by the spending. Something e than nineteen billion dol have been spent by govern htal agencies in this country, h most of the money going fc.r J relief. of unemployment in I form or another. FOR RELIEF tabulation , by the Cnit Sermon Sun. Ends ’37 Commencement At Sparta H. S. Diplomas Given Twenty-four Girls and Seventeen Boys; Dr. Abrams, Of A. S. T. C. Speaks To Graduates PLAY ATTRACTS MANY Rev. H. J. Ford, Pastor Of Sparta Baptist Church, Preaches; Sexton Amd Edwards Are Honored Annual commencement exer cises, closing the 1936-37 team of Sparta, high school, began on Fri day morning with the recitation contest, the music recital having, been held on April 16. In this contest Margaret Giobbi was the successful contestant, winning a medal offered by the Bank of Sparta. Following the recitation con test, W. C. Thompson, superin tendent of Alleghany county schools, presented the Seventh grade and Perfect-Attendance certificates, eighty-one students receiving the latter. On Friday afternoon, the win ner in the declamation contest was Charlie Dale Edwards, who was awarded the medal given by B. and T. Drug store. Among the debaters, Cleo Jones was present ed the medal offered by Solicitor Allen H. Gwyn. The graduation exercises were held on Saturday morning, April 24. The invocation was spoken by Rev. A. B. Bruton, pastor of the Sparta Methodist church. Members of the graduating class participated in the program as follows; Herbert Lyons, presi dent’s address; Ernest Edwards, salutatorian; Minnie Edwards, class historian; Wade Choate, class prophet, and Jay Sexton, valedictorian. Misses Annie Mane Choate and Emaline Hawthorne gave a piano duet, “Spring Song.” ■ Ex-Lieu tesant Governor R. A. Doughton then introduced Dr. W. Amos Abrams, head of the English de partment of Appalachian State Teachers college, Boone, ' who de livered the annual commencement address to the graduating class. Using as his subject “The Great est Tragedy in North Carolina,” Dr. Abrams declared that the large per cent of high school students who leave high school before graduation presents a chal lenge to parents, teachers and students. Addressing each of the groups in tarn, the speaker show ed a sympathetic understanding of their respective problems. A witty and magnetic speaker, Dr. Abrams held the attention of his audience to the last. The school management feels that it was for tunate in obtaining Dr. Abrams to deliver the address. Following the address was the presentation of diplomas by C. R. Roe, principal of the school, to the largest graduating class in the history of the school, there being forty-one members in the class. Those receiving diplomas were: Misses Edna Black, Stella Bill ings, Helen Cheek, Irene Church, Flora Crouse, Minnie Edwards, Margaret Giobbi, Mabel Higgins, (Turn to page 8, Please) t'arti.ut numan Skeleton Found Recently In County Workers in Bluff Area park, near Laurel Springs, came upon a human skull on Plat Rock monutain Vast week, near the Sce nic parkway. A short distance from the skulli which was lying under a projecting ledge of rock, were a few short pieces of rib bones. In all probability, the re mainedr of the skeleton had al ready disintegrated. Evidently many years have elapsed since the death of the unknown person who perhaps was the . victim of accident, murder or war. The disintegration of the bones, and the finding of a button sev eral inches below the surface of the ground, under the skeleton, support this assumption. Possibly the older residents of the county may recall the disap pearance of someone whose where abouts have never been accounted for.. CU'SjSb , 1--1' • | Villa Ride*. Again | CHICAGO . .... Panctio Villa, ro mantic figure of Mexican history, rides again In the person of his lovely daughter, Senorita Celia Villa. She will join the circus as an expert rider and rope artist. Ohio River Again On Rampage; Red Cross Is Ready Roosevelt Recalls Special Gov’t. Red Cross Group To Supervise Relief Work Among Flood Refugees ■Thousands fled their homes, rich and poor alike, as the bloat ed and muddy Ohio rolled down stream Tuesday night with the debris laden burden of its tribu taries. The year’s second flood emer gency led President Roosevelt to recall a special Red Cross com mittee to supervise relief work among the refugees. Across the border in Canada, the city of London. Ont., flound ered under the worst flood in its history. Five deaths were counted and at least 6,000 persons were left homeless as the Thames river, 28 feet above normal, washed through the city’s streets and spread over a large section of southwestern Ontario- London was threatened with a shortage of drinking water and electric power. In the United States, rain-swol len rivers of Pennsylvania, Mary land and Virginia began to re cede. At least nine deaths were attributed to floods in the Middle Atlantic area. Grapplers sought to account for five persons miss ing in Virginia. “Wet” Votes Are Predominant In Durham Election Durham, April 27.—Durham county kept intact its. record of having never voted dry today as its electorate by more than two to one authorised the establish ment of a system of county-oper ated liquor stores. With all 30 of the precincts reported before 9 o’clock tonigjit, the vote was counted: Wets, 7,784; drys, 3.308. The county commissioners will meet Monday, their regular time, to discuss setting up a control board and arranging for the open ing of liquor stores. Legal whis key sales are expected to begin in about a month. Of the 80 precincts reported, only one had • majority of dry votes. In rural Bahama township 79 voted against oo&trol stores, while 49 supported them. Va.-N. C. Liners At Roaring River The Virginia-North Carolina Liners string band gave an inter esting musical program at Roar ing Rivea- high school on Friday, April 23. . Tomorrow (Friday) this band is to play at Mt. View high school. .' . I . \_ Sentences Tues. In Surry Court Carroll Co. (Va.) Youth* Charged With Terrorizing Fancy Gap Section, Near Mount Airy, In Surry MMm AttfT April 27.—Five Carroll county, Virginia, boys who were to have been tried on highway-robbery charges for al legedly terrorizing the Fancy Gap highway north of this city Satur day night, April 3, pleaded guilty to assaults with a deadly weapon in Surry superior court today and were given sentences of from four to ten months each by Judge Samuel Etjvin. Roy Quesinberry, 21, received i ten months; George Leftwich, 19, Roy Towe, 17, and Zehpyr Mon day, 18, drew eight months each; and Cecil Jones, 17, who furnish ed proof of former good charac ter, was given four months on the roads. The boys were not tried on the charge of robbery with firearms when a variance was found be tween the bill of indictment and the evidence presented. George Mosely and Lloyd Cox, of this city, had testified that the youths forced their car to the side of the road three miles north of Mount Airy, threatened the life of Mosely,-snapping a pistol, which failed to fire, at him and robbed Cox of some change. Mosely toss ed his pocketbook containing about $45 into the rear of the car where it was overlooked, he said. The boys had also been charg ed with severely beating Joe Grif fith. soldier on furlough, in a roadhouse fight in Virginia, haul ing him some distartce in a truck and throwing him oit on this side of the state line. New Highway Commiftsion To Take Office Sat. Raleigh, April 27.—Governor Hoey announced today the new 11-man highway and public works commission would be sworn into office at 10 o’clock Saturday morning. Capus M. Waynick, retiring highway chairman, also will take his oath of office Saturday if he decides to accept an appointment as head of the division of pur chase and contract, the governor added. Waynick said he would confer tomorrow with the Chief Execu tive regarding the tendered ap pointment, and would make no announcement of his plans until that time. Asked whom he would appoint to the $6,000-a-year purchase and contract job in the event Waynick declined the position, Hoey added: “I haven’t given the matter a thought yet.” He added, however, that Frank L. Dunlap, assistant director of the budget, and act ing director of purchase%and con tract, who has .been appointed chairman of the highway commis sion, probably would not be asked to keep, the purchase and contract job after May 1. Dunlap, meanwhile, declined to discuss highway “policy” matters, fie also declined to say whether changes in personnel were con templated. Governors Of South Discuss Freight Rates Washington, April 27.—A con ference of Southern governors and their representatives wag held here today and plans were made for launching a new drive to wipe out discriminatory freight rates against the South. Governor Clyde Hoey wired Governor E. D- Rivers, of Geor gia, who called the conference, that he could not be present but he would be represented by Stan ley Winborne, North Carolina pub lic utilities commissioner. Winborne was present and also in attendance were W. 1* Thorn ton, president of the Southern Traffic League, Winston-Salem, and W. S. Creighton, secretary of North Carolina Traffic League, Charlotte. ’ Warnings Issued By Roosevelt As Prices Increase Congress Warned Against Boosting Living Costs And Public Told To Go Slow On Speculation Washington, April 27.—Finding new problems to tackle as a result of rising prices, President Roose velt issued a double warning to day—to congress against boosting the cost of living, and to the pub lic against speculation. At the same time, he made known that Attorney General Cummings had advised him that an overhauling of the anti-trust laws is in order. Cummings de clared that these laws should be revamped to facilitate govern ment action against monopolies. The president’s utterances were made in an atmosphere contrast ing sharply with that prevailing in the old days of depression and NRA. Then the emphasis was on polic ies to prevent “cut-throat” price ; slashing, and the talk was of re laxation of anti-trust laws. Since then industrial indices have mov ed far upward, and talk now is of preventing a harmful boom. The president started the day by expressing concern to con gress over rising living costs. In a letter to Vice President Garner he said “the present hazard of undue advances in prices, with a resultant rise in the cost of liv ing, makes it most untimely to legalize any competitive or mar keting practice calculated to facili tate increases in the cost of num- ' erous and important articles which American householders, and con sumers generally, buy.” The president expressed oppo sition to a proposal by Senator Tydings (D., Md.) designed to prevent certain price-cutting in the sale of trade-marked goods. (Turn to Page 8, Please) Four Injured In Spectacular Auto Mishap In Surry ; Mt. Airy. April 27.—Pour per sons escaped- death in a spectac ular wreck near here this after noon when a light sedan struck and catapaulted over an approach- ] ing car to land upside down in a , ditch at the side of the highway. The sedan) occupied by three ' lo- ■ cal boys and traveling west on 1 the White Plains road, rounded , a curve two miles from this city at high speed, according to re- : ports, and crashed head-on into another automobile. When it hit the other vehicle ; it rose and soared in a spiral : through the air, passing almost , completely over the other car, witnesses stated, and burying its , nose in the earth. Wade McCraw suffered a badly crushed leg. Sidney Bobbitt and Jay Phillips had only minor in juries. Bobbitt was placed under $500 bond on a reckless driving charge, while Phillips was jailed for drunkenness. F. A. Park, of White Plains, driving the other car, suffered se vere facial cuts. Both automobiles were almost totally demolished. • Sheep Meeting Ana Shearing School To Be Held Here On Monday, May 3, at 9i:30 a. m., a sheep meeting and shear ing schoool will be held on the court house lawn. In case of had weather, it will be at the Sparta high school gymnasium. The morning program will con sist of talks on the outlook for lambs and wool for this year, the grading and marketing of lambs, and the proper methods of hand ling wool after it is off the sheep’s back in order that it may bring the highest price. Then, there will be a shearing demonstration by E. S. Bartlett, of Chicago, 111. Mr. Bartlett is an expert in his line and has put on deminstration in nearly ev ery state in the union. In the afternoon, Mr. Bartlett will conduct a shearing school for a number of young men. It is suggested that those who attend take lunch if they plan to stay for, the - Model Rocket "I designed this model rocket which the Cleveland Rocket Society will use for experimental flights into space Divorce Decree Of Mrs. Simpson Becomes Final Former Baltimore Belle And Duke Of Windsor Expected To Marry Soon After Coronation In May London, April 27—Mrs. Wallis Simpson was free today to apply for a final decree of divorce vhich would permit ■ her to marry ;he Duke of Windsor> who gave ip his throne for her. The six-month period prescribed jy British law as the interval be ;ween the granting of prelimin iry and final divorce decrees ex fired today. Mrs. Simpson ch ained her decree nisi from Er lest Simpson October 27, at Ips vich. It was expected that Mrs. Simpson’s solicitors would apply for the final decree, the decree ibsolute, tomorrow and that the lecree would be awarded next donday by Justice Sir Alfred Jucknell, speed champion of the ligh court of justice in final de :ree applications. Best informed opinion was that vhile no exact wedding day had >een set, the duke and the Ameri :an-bom double-divorcee and former Baltimore belle would be narried in France, in or near the Chateau de Cande where Mrs. Simpson is staying> about the niddle of the week beginning May 24 or about two weeks after the coronation of the duke’s brother, fJeorge VI. to whom he relin juished hist throne. Dare Votes Dry In First N. C. Liquor Election Manteo, April 27.—E. S. Wise, chairman of the Dare county joard of elections, said last night i proposal to establish alcoholic leverage control stores in Dare :ounty had been defeated by 11 irotes. Wise said the official tabula tions had been locked up and that he did not remember the exact number of votes cast for and against liquor stores. An unofficial check of complete returns, however, showed 671 dry votes and 662 wet ballots, with the prohibitionists leading by 19. Dare was the first county to rote on the repeal of prohibition under - the new oounty option liquor law, passed by the 1937 General Assembly. Woman’s Club To Meet Friday The Sparta Woman’s club will hold its regular meeting, postpon ed last week on account of com in the Masonic hall April 30, Bishop McDowell Dies Moil From Heart Attack l Distinguished Methodist Leader Had Just Returned From Morganton Services With Rev. J. C. Cornett LIVED IN WASHINGTON Death Referred To A* That Of One Of Denomination’s Great Men; Was Active In Unification Move Soon after returning to his home in Washington, D. C., from Morganton, N. C., where he had been holding a week’s series of services for Rev. J. Clark Cor nett, pastor of the Methodist church, Bishop William Frasex McDowell, 79, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died suddenly Monday from a heart attack. The Rev. Mr. Cornett, with whom Bishop McDowell had’ been associated in Morganton during the last week of hi3 life, is a former pastor of the Sparta Methodist charge, and is a mem ber of the Western North Caro lina conference, Methodist Epis copal Church, South. He is a native of Grayson county, Vir ginia. McDowell was bishop in charge of the Washington area from 1916 to 1932. Since then he has been' ehairman of the committee on unification of the Methodist Church, formed to bring about unification of "the Methodist Epis copal Church , the Methodist Prot estant church, ano the Metho dist Episcopal Church, South. The distinguished churchman’s wife preceded him in death in December, 1930. Leaders of the Methodist church have described Bishop Mc Dowell’s death as the passing of one of the denomination’s great est men. Alleghany Co. Dry Foijces Organize For Liquor Voting Following an address by Sena tor Thomas H. Steele, of States ville, in the court room in Sparta Monday, in which he made a stirring appeal to the citizens of Alleghany county to vote against legalizing liquor in the coming county election ,the dry forces in the county were organized with the election of the following of ficers: County chairman, Robert J. Andrews; vice-chairman, Rev. Wayne Thompson; secretary, Rep. A. B. Bruton, and precinct chair men Rev. Howard J. Ford, Gap Civil; Lester Phipps, Piney Creek; R. A. Crouse, Cherry Lane; Car lie Evans, Glade Creek; Frank Doughton, Cranberry, and W. R. Jones, Prathers Creek. SLIGHT HEART ATTACK IS SUFFERED BY POPE Vatican City, April 27.—Pope Pius suffered a slight heart at tack today but remained determin ed to conduct his customary Wed nesday reception for newly mar ried couples tomorrow. Sources close to the 79-yar-old pontiff disclosed the attack follow ed his luncheon. At the same time he complained of the return of light pains in his legs. "Beauty may have fair leave*, yet bitter fruit' AML I 90—George Washington was A inaugurated as {tret r Preeident of U. 8.. 1780. MAT 1—First party of 300setHete left for Matanueka, L Alaska, 1935. ; i—Federal convention ae eembled In PhllacWphta to adopt a national “ constitution, 1787. 8—The first medical school In America founded; - 1765. * 4—'The Haymarket Riot took place in Chicago, 1896. 5—Governor Rob