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TODAY’S THOUGHT “Little things console os, because little things af flict us.”—Pascal. The Alleghany Times DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SC Subscription Price d»1 a year Vi in advance in Alleghany county occJy SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Series 1937 GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1937. 10 PAGES Number 18 rHE HERNDON CASE The Supreme Court decision, reeing Angelo Herndon, the Ne ro Communist, who was convict id in Georgia for violating a law 'orbidding the advocacy of force ul resistance to the State, again llustrates the split in the Court rith Justice Roberts on the side f the liberals again. The pro eeding against the Negro was •ased on membership in the Com lunist Party which advocates evoluntionary opposition to the ibate and that the organization fork was tantamount to such ad ocacy. A dissenting opinion by Justice ran Devanter and approved' by le Conservative bloc, concluded lat Herndon was “engaged ac vely in inducing others, chiefly outhem Negroes,” into forceful esistance against the State. The istice thought the literature was particularly adapted to appeal to legroes” and that its effect should e tested “with appropriate regard > the capacity and circumstances” f those sought to be influenced, ustice Roberts’ opinion left the iwyers somewhat confused as to hether the decision invalidated ie Georgia statute or only ap lied to the Herndon case. The eneral impression, howeiver, was ie latter viewpoint. Last week the House cast aside ie Miller-Tydings price agree ent bill, apparently because the dministration does not desire any igislation on industry or labor ntil after the Supreme Court ght is settled. The presumption I that plans will be offered later > establish a fair trade practice rognam and to fix minimum ages and maximum hours for ibor. The idea just now is that ie new legislation will avoid the >de system of the NRA but that will attempt effective regula on of industry is not doubted. OCIAL SECURITY TEST ^ I All constitutional questions irding the Social Security Act ie now before the Supreme ourt by virtue of an agreement i examine a Massachusetts case hich recently held unconstitu unal sections of the law relating old age. The unemployment in irance features of the Act have ten before the Court for some ne in an Alabama case. The assachusetts case involved the lyment of old age pension taxes id will be argued this week, ter which the Court will recess itil May 17th. A prompt deci jn on the old age and unemploy ent sections of the Social Se urity Act is important because renty-six million workers and ro million, seven hundred thous id employers are now paying xes under the Act. Meanwhile, jvemment officials have warn that if the Act is approved by e Supreme Court, penalties will i applied to those who fail to ,y them under the terms of the {islation. . iPUBLICANS OPEN UP Indications are that the Repub :ans are ready to abandon their ent tactics and that a more ac e opposition to the President is ntemplated. Chairman Hamilton 11 rftake four speeches on che dio. which were postponed two onths ago when the party lead s decided to stay in the back ound and permit the Court fight split the Democrats. The strate sts believe that these tactics ve succeeded and that the time s come to lead the voters who eked Governor Landon and oth s who have shifted from the ■evident on the Court issue The quarrel among the Derao ats on the Court plan encour ed the Republicans to believe at the split would be real if, by pclicy of silence, they avoided iking it a partisan issue. While e Democratic senators, at least, e badly divided on the Presi nt’s judiciary reform plan, it entirely too early to determine lether the cleavage will be per inent and thus affect future rty action. Anyway, when the spublican leaders launch thqir w opposition, the observer will ible to get a better idea as to w far the recalcitrant Demo ats will go. (EMPLOYMENT CENSUS Various sources have suggested immediate survey of unem >yment because of the conflict • estimates of the number of rsons now out of work. It ap ars that the Business Advisory uncil recommended to Secretary per several months ago that a unt be made, by the Census Bu rn and Senator Vandenberg has estioned the Government’s esti ite of unemployed, stating his lief that it is five million above (Turn to Page 5, Please) Carnation Milk Condensery At Galax To Receive First Milk May 10; Routes Listed Alleghany County Will Be Served By A Number Of Haulers’ Routes; Cooperation It Sought MUCH INTEREST SHOWN Erection Of Plant At Galax Is Result Of Efforts Of Farmers, Business Men For Whole Milk Market Next Monday, May 10, milk is to be delivered to the new Car nation condensary in Galax for the first time. Officials of the company are yery desirous that farmers who indicated a willingness to cooper ate in the promotion of such a slant for this territory, by signing up certain numbers of cows for nilk production, back up such in iications now by furnishing all the milk for the plant that they possibly can, beginning next Mon lay, if at all possible. According to a statement re leased in Galax recently by Gay ord Hancock, superintendent of the plant there, it has been im possible to personally contact jvery producer who has milk for sale and anyone who may have l>een missed will render both .hemselves and the Carnation oom- 1 pany a service, according to the Company official’s statement, by getting in touch with the hauler who will cover the territory in which his farm is located and naking arrangements for the mauler to pick up his milk on :he morning of May 10. A list of routes, together with he approximate territory which is be .covered by the hauler on »ach Has been arranged and made public. Four or five of these tarnation milk routes serving the Galax plant will touch sections >f Alleghany county. A route to be served by Char les Edwards, as hauler, includes ill territory around Sparta, going west to .Laurel Springs and east, >n road No. 18, to Galax, by way >f Dal hart and Reavistown. Hallie D^bglas will serve all the ;erritory ground Piney Creek and will follow the hard-surfaced road from Twin Oaks to Independence. The territory from Sparta to if ox, and all roads around Vox md Baywood, to Reavistown, will se served by Vance Choate. The Brush Creek section, near he North Carolina-Virgjnia line, between Twin Oaks and Indepen (Turn to Page 6, Please) Band Of Gypsies Robs Stratford Man Last Thursday Last Thursday, as W. M. Mit :hell, of Stratford, was sitting >n his front porch pacefully read ng his newspaper, a caravan of gypsies drove by. The people in :he last car looked back, backed dp, shopped at the house, and iskejr for some water. Mr. Mit : bell showed them where the wa ;er was. Shortly after the gypsies eft( he found that over two hun ired dollars had been tiaken from lis billfold. How the vagabonds extracted lis billfold from the pocket of his shirt, removed the contents, ind restored it to its original diace without being detected is a mystery to everyone except the limble-fingered gypsies. y Sheriff Walter M. Irwin was mmediately notified of the rob jery, and chased the thieves as Far as the West Virginia state ine, where the trail was lost. A reward of one hundred dol ars has been offered for the ap prehension of the thieves. Play To Be Given A.t Laurel Springe Sat. Night, May 15 A play, “Goin’ Modem,” is to se presented at the Laurel Springs school building, on Satur iay night, May 16, at eight >’ck>ck. String music will be a feature of the event. Proceeds are to be used for ■chool purposes. VALUABLE JEWELS WILL SPARKLE AT CORONATION London, May 4.—Thirty million dollars worth of royal reb ,'ia and crown jewels will sparkle at the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. N. C. Members In Congress Support Economy Program Doughton Talks About Reduction In Proposed Relief Appropriation; Senator Bailey Comments Washington, May 4. — Almost solidly, members of the North Carolina delegation in Congress are swinging behind the move now under way on Capitol Hill to cut federal expenditures for relief during the coming fiscal year. Senator James F. Byrnes, of South Carolina, ignited the econ omy spark week before last when he proposed a billion-dollar relief appropriation instead of a billion and a half as recommended by President Roosevelt. Since then the economy wave has been sweep ing over Congress and the senti ment expressed by members of the North Carolina delegation is representative of the feeling on the Hill that the time has come for reduction of federal expendi tures for relief. Senator Josiah W. Bailey, in a statement today, goes his colleagues one better and says no state, county or city should re ceive any aid for relief from the federal, government unless it is financially broke and unagte to raise funds for this purpose. “As between direct relief and work relief, I prefer the latter,” Bailey said. But relief work ought to be real and the work ought to be useful. The compensation ought not to be so much as to in duce workers to refuse private employment. The goods produced or the work done ought to be worth the wages paid. No one should be given work relief who refuses opportunity for employ ment. Moreover, no city, county or state ought to draw a dollar from the federal treasury unless it is actually unable to provide funds for unemployment relief. The problem is local and becomes general when the local unit is unable to meet it. The federal administration ought to proceed (Turn to Page 8, Please) Congress Moves Slowly; Rooseveh Advice Is Awaited Washington May 4.—Congress moved at a snail’s pace today in the absence of word from Presi dent Roosevelt as to what he wants done on wage and hour leg islation, new farm bills and pro posals to compromise the Supreme Court controversy. The Senate was not even in session and the House devoted most of its day to small “private” bills. Members of both branches ac knowledged that details of new labor legislation were “up in the air” pending the President’s sched uled return May 13 from a fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico. Speculation stirred in Capital corridors and offices as to wheth er Mr. Roosevelt might seek “lib eral” support for his proposed court reorganisation by outlining wage and hour legislation before the court issue is acted upon, or delay shaping the labor bill until the future make-up of the Su preme Court tribunal is apparent. Holding up sessions on general wage and hour angulation until the President’s intentions become known, the House labor com mittee confined its activities in this field to preparations for hear ings Monday on a proposed “lit tle NRA” in the textile industry. Royal Family Ready for Coronation LONDON, England . . . Here is a new picture of King George VI and Queen Elisabeth and thefe two daughters. Princess Elizabeth (left), heir presumptive to thb throbs. and Princess Margaret Rose. Princess Elizabeth recently celebrated her eleventh birthday. T. J. Carson Is Taken By Death On FrL, April 30 Was A Brother-In-Law Of Ex-Lieut. Gov. Doughton And Rep. Dough ton; Last Rites Are Held Saturday Thomas Jefferson Qarson, 73, one of the most prominent and most beloved men of this section, passed away at his home here on Friday, April 30, at 1 o’clock, following a brief illness. The third son of Thomas J. Carson and Catherine Thompson Carson, he was married on De cember 5, 1888, to Miss Cora Doughton, a sister of Ex-Lieuten ant Governor R,"4A. Doughton and Congressman^ B. L. Doughton. Next year tor. and Mrt. Carson would have observed their Golden Wedding anniversary. Their fam ily life, it has been said, was a beautiful example of mutual de votion. For more than forty years a member of the Methodist church, Mr. Carson was prominent in his church relations. The loss oc casioned by his death will be keenly felt, not only in his church, but everywhere that he was known. Outstanding in civic work, Mr. Carson had served as Alleghany county superintendent of schools, as a member of the board of county commissioners, as a mem ber of the board of education, and for many years as c&shier of the Bank of Sparta, of which he was one of the directors at the time of his death. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Cora Doughton Carson; one daughter, Mrs. Luther Boyer, Charlotte; two sons, Thomas D. Carson, Washington, D. C., and George E. Carson, Elizabeth City; four grandchildren, and one broth er Robert S. Carson, Peach Bot tom, Va. Funeral services were held at Gentry Memorial Methodist church in Sparta, on Saturday afternoon, at 3 o’clock, by ReV. T. J. Houck, West Jefferson, a former pastor of the church and an old friend of the family, assisted by Rev. A. B. Bruton, present pastor, and Rev. Howard J. Ford, pastor of the Baptist church. Pall bearers were Horton Doughton, Statesville; Claude Doughton, North Wilkesboro; Claude Carson, Independence, Va.; Van Miller and Tom Moxley, of Laurel Springs; Charles Myers, Emerson Black and Bayne Dough ton, Sparta. Among the flower bearers were the following nieces of the de ceased: Mrs. Tom Moxley, Laurel Springs; Mrs. Charles Myers, Sparta; Mrs. Stella Bryant, Bridle Creek; Mrs. Albert Stephens, Greenshoro; Mm. Claude Carson, Independence, Va.; Miss Mattie Doughton, Guilford college, and Mrs. Claude Doughton, North Wilkesboro. Interment was in Shiloh ceme tery. __i_ ROOSEVELT SEEKS NEW FISHING SITE TOES. Galveston, Tex. May 4—Presi dent Roosevelt’s fishing party to day set out for Port Isabel near the Mexican border for a change of scenery. Many Cases Are Heard At April Court Term Here Judge Harding Presides At Recent Sitting Of Superior Court; Solicitor Gwyn In Charge Of Prosecutions \ Alleghany County Superior court convened on Monday, April 26, at 9:30 o’clock, for the pur pose of hearing criminal and civil cases, with Judge W. P. Harding on the bench, and Allen H. Gwyn, solicitor foe this district, prosecut ing the docket. The grand jury follows; Robert Fender, foreman; Robert Taylor, A. A. Ayers, Wilmer Woodruff, Lonnie Edwards, G. R. Wagoner, Clinton Busic, Ralph Gentry, Clyde Wagoner, Lester Wood ruff, E. T. Wyatt, Duffy Crouse, P. L. Brown, J. A. McCoin, Oscar Key, Charlie Key, Davie Edwards and Everett Miller, with Lee Black as officer of the grand, jury. W. P. Grace, charged with operating a car while under the influence of liquor, failed to ap pear, forfeiting his bond for $100, which was condemned for the use of the public school fund. Rudolph Evans, charged with operating a car while intoxicated, was fined $50 and costs. George Irwin, charged with operating a car while intoxicated, was fined $100’ and costs, and a road sentence suspended, capias to issue on motion of solicitor the first time he finds out he has been drinking liquor. Sam Phipps, charged with vio lating the prohibition law, was sent to the roads for four months. Wesley, Claude and Clara Cau dill, charged with larceny, were each sentenced to six months in the county jail, the first two to be assigned to work on roads. Clara Caudill’s sentence reduced to two months upon payment of cast and payment for property taken. Fielden Miller, plaintiff, vs. W. G. Sturgill et al. Plaintiff given judgment for $457.86, with inter est on $402.86, costs of action to be taxed by Clerk. Will Caudill, charged with being drunk and disorderly, was dis charged and remanded to a jus tice of the peace for lack of juris diction. Bert Hendrix, charged with (Turn to Page 8, Please) Auto Is Blown To Bits In Bullhead Section Of County On Saturday night at mid night, an automobile owned by Lonzo Rash, of the Bull had sec tion 'of Alleghany county, was blown literally to pieces by dyna mite, by an unknown person or persons. The automobile was parked in the open, about 200 yards from the house. The blast was so severe that several window panes in the house were jarred out. Sheriff Walter M. Irwin made an investigation, and states that he has some valuable clues which may lead to the arrest of the guilty party or parties. Baptist W. M. U. To Meet May 13 At Roaring Gap The Woman’s Missionary union of the Baptist church will hold its regular monthly meeting on Thursday, May 13, at 2 o’clock, at the home of Mrs. George Crutchfield, near Roaring Gap. All members are urged to at tend this meeting, as it is planned bo organize two circles at this time. Preparations For Coronation Are Rushed In London King George VI Crowned Four Times Tuesday In Rehearsals For Actual Ceremonies On May 12 London, May 4—King George VI was crowned four times today in rehearsal of the coronation a week from tomorrow. After participating in the cen turies-old rite of accepting the baton of a field marshal, the sov ereign, accompanied by Queen Eliabeth, paid a surprise visit to Westminister Abbey. Wearing a royal robe over ordinary street clothes, the king rehearsed for two hours with the Archbishop of Canterbury. Queen Elizabeth also wore a royal robe of crimson velvet and ermine. But, as her own crowning was not rehearsed, she spent most of the time watching. Their audience was a starry eyed group of workmen in over alls and shirt sleeves who hung over the gallery rails to watch. “The king didn’t seem at all nervous,” one of them said. “He was laughing and joking before and after but while the actual rehearsal was on he was solemn and serious.” A. S. T. C Finals Last Week Bring Good Tam To End Boone, May 5.—The thirty fourth annual commencement at Appalachian State Teachers col lege last week brought bo a close what President B. B. Dougherty declared to be the best year in the history of the college. Dr. Shelton Phelps, president of Winthrop college, delivered the commencement address in which he was hopeful and prophetic of the future of teacher education in America. The 103 young, men and women receiving their degrees represent ed 40 counties in North Carolina and seven states. Graduates of the two-year Normal School num bered forty. Convicts Escape Monday But Are Soon Recaptured On Monday, as eight prisoners from the State Prison Camp in Sparta were being transferred temporarily to the Yadkin Prison camp, two of the convicts effected their escape by tearing a hole in the side of the cage by means of a metal bar, which they had man aged to procure. Miaking their get-away shortly before 12 o'clock on Monday, th^ men, Boland Poison and Bob Ed wards, were taken into custody again within a few hours, one be ing captured before dark and the other a short time afterward. TQ OBSERVE MOTHER’S DAY AT GLADE VALLEY On Sunday, May 9, Rev. R. L. Berry will hold a Mother’s Day service at Glade Valley. At the close of this service a congregational meeting is to be held for the purpose of electing additional elders and deacons. "One should fy u laughing enemy and A flattering friend.” MAT
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