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DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY
Series 1937
GALAX, VA. (Published for Sp;
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N
C.) THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1937.
EIGHT PAGES
Number 28.
MICHIGAN'S LABOR LAW
The State of Michigan, as a re
sult of the automobile strikes, has
enacted an Industrial Disputes
Act, which Governor Murphy
hopes will have wide acceptance
throughout the nation. The. Act
enters some new territory al
though it parallels the Norris
La Guardia Act of 1932 and the
National Labor Relations Act. A
“yellow dog” contract—an agree
ment by an employee to his em
ployer not to belong to a union—
is outlawed and injunctions by
state courts are prohibited if they
forbid peaceful picketing.
The Act provides limits to this
activity prohibits obstructing en
trance ’or egress to a plant or
residence, the blocking of the
highways or participation by those
not a party to the dispute. It pro-,
vides for enforcing the right of
collective bargaining through
cease and desist orders by a
three-man board and that the
bargaining agency chosen by a
majority of workers is to be the
exclusive agency of all workers.
Company unions are disqualified.
Moreover, the Michigan Board
is empowered to put pressure on
parties to reach a settlement and
to subpoena parties in a media
tion effort. Restrictions on pick
eting caused William Green, Pres
ident of the American Federation
of Labor, to condemn the Act as
detrimental to the interests of the
working class and to blame the
rival C. I. O. for giving public
opinion a turn in favor of such
legislation.
COURT FIGHT PLANS
The Court fight occupied the
Senate last week, with SenatoT
Logan leading the battle in behalf
>f a compromise proposal and in
listing that a minimum of fifty
'our votes would pass the meas
ire. The compromise calls for
;he appointment of an extra Su
>reme Court justice for every sit
ing justice over seventy-five
Fears of age, but limits such ap
>ointments to one a year and fix
’s the Court’s membership at nine
accept for the temporary appoint
nents referred to above.
The oroginal bill ealledl for new
udges for all sitting justices who
lid not retire within six months
if reaching seventy years of age,
nth no limit as to the number
>f appointments for this cause
rithin one year. The compromise
rould enable the President to
iame two new associate justices
his year—one to succeed Justice
fan Devantex, who retired recent
y and one for some member of
he Court now past seventy-five.
COMPROMISE WILL WIN
The geenral opinion last week
ras that the administration
rould probably win if the meas
ire can be gotten to a vote. Its
ate apparently depends on a fili
uster planned by Senators Wheel
r, Burke and other foes- of the
riginal measure. There are de
ermined opponents of the Court
eform plans who are neverthe
»ss, against any prolonged nh
uster. They take, the position
iat a filibuster is an admission
lat the majority of the Senate
avors the compromise measure
nd lose public support if unduly
rolonged. Senator Logan says
hat, if necessary, the Senate will
it twenty-four hours a day to
,reak the filibuster. Generally,
le Court battle • is expecetd to
ake anywhere from three weeks
» two months, with little pros
ect «*■ other New Deal legislation
eing reachedi until some time in
Jugust.
IUBUSTER AHEAD
Newspaper correspondents re
ort that only a filibuster can
eat the reorganisation compro
lise and that Senator Robinson,
whom the President gave the
-.ir of drawing up an amendment
► win a majority of votes to the
enate. has done such a good Joo
even opponents of any Su
_* Court change admit that
measure will pass. They re*
■on that Senator Burke has seven
debating teams” of
sch, with one group
> hold the floor a day
issmuch as there are thirty-five
r forty senator* counted) in a
map Which will oppo^ W
oust measure bo the |*** *****
would bo hardly f***1* £
only the little used cloture rule
t the Senate wrote on
19?T after the celebrated,
ir of twelve,
a filibuster starts,
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Court Plan May
Be Defeated By
House Committee
Petition May Be Necessary
To Force Roosevelt Bill
Out Of Committee For
Debate On House Floor
OPPONENTS JUBILANT
Chairman Sumners Makes
Vigorous Speecfh In
Opposition To Measure;
Senator Copeland Heard
Washington, July 13. — J3o
strongly did the chairman of the
powerful house judiciary com
mittee come out today against the
Roosevelt court reorganization bill
that opponents of the measure ex.
claimed joyfully that the bill was
dead.
Advocating a sit-down on the
issue, Chairman Sumners, (D.,
Tex.), made a speech interpreted
on all sides as meaning that his
committee will never let the bill
out on the house door for a vote
unless the house itself takes it
away from the group by drastic
action.
To get a bill out of an unwill
ing committee a petition bearing,
the names of 218 of the 435
housfe members is necessary.
Friends of the court bill began
talking of such a petition. Op
ponents predicted it never would
be filled.
Senator Wheeler, (D., Mont.),
a leader of the opposition to the
billt which is now being debated
in the senate, declared the Sum
ners speech marked “the collapse
of the fight to save the bill.”
Sumners had never before com
mented publicly on the present
court bill, which calls for the ap
pointment of one additional su
preme court justice a year if in
cumbents past 76 do not retire.
But today, while Senator Cope
land, XT)., IfT Y.), was appealing
to President Roosevelt from the
senate floor to withdraw the meas.
ure lest it split the Democratic
party permanently, Sumners arose
in the house to declare that the
nation is at a crossroads, and
that one of the paths leads to
dictatorship.
“Is it good sense,” he demanded,
“to split us from top to bottom
when we need a united govern
ment and united people to save
this nation?”
Many house members arose and
applauded when Sumners appealed'
to the senate to abandon “an un
necessary piece of legislation."
Sen. Robinson, Of
Arkansas, Taken By
Sudden Death Wed.
A radio dispatch broadcast be
fore this issue of THE TIMES
went to press brought news of
the sodden death yesterday (Wed
nesday) of Senator Joseph T.
Robinson, of Arkansas, the Demo
cratic majority leader in the
United States Senate. Neither
details of the sudden passing of
the outstanding and illustrious
statesman from Arkansas, nor fu
neral arrangements have been
learned.
Senator Robinson was the run
ng mate of Ex-Governor Alfred
. Smith, of New York, in 1924,
hen the’latter made the race for
■esident on the Democratic tick
He was the presiding officer
; the Democratic national con
mtion held last year in Phila
tlphia, which resulted in the »e
>minatron of Franklin Roosevelt
>r the presidency.
For the past several months,
aring the discdssion that has
ken place oyer the proposed re
■ganisation of the United States
ipreme court, the name of Sonar
r Robinson has been mentioned
(ten and prominently for ep
rintment to the high tribunal,
ace he has consistently stood by
resident Roosevelt and the new
ml since the advent
oosevelt regime tat the lip*
COOL SPRINGS QUARTET
TO SING HERE SUNDAY
The Cool Spring? quartet will
sins at the Sparta Baptist church
on Sunday aftarnaon, July 18,
at 8 o'clock. ■ •*
The local choir will also «in«
is iasitod to
First Cooperative
Lamb Shipment For
Alleghany Is Made
The first cooperative shipment
of lambs was made this week
from Alleghany county.
It is said that this loadi of
pooled lambs was the best ever
to leave the county. Ninety-sev
en of the lambs graded choice
and 232 good. They were sold
direct-to J. J. Harrington, a New
York packer, at $10.65 per 100
pounds for choice lambs and
$10.15 per 100 for good lambs,
home weight.
Another cooperative shipment
will be made from this county on
or near July 20. Any farmer hav
ing lambs which he wishes to
ship, but which have nbt already
been pooled;, may get them in the
load by notifying R. E. Black,
county agent.
Gives Self Up
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CHICAGO. 111. . . . Eluding the
police of several States for three
months. Robert Irwin, wanted for
the murder, of three In New York
City on Easter, surrenders to local
authorities.
Planes Begin
Final Stage Of
Earhart Search
U. S. S. Lexington Sends
Out 60 Planes In “Last
Chance” Hunt; Many
Think Fliers Are Dead
Honolulu, July 13.—In a gigan
tic ‘‘last chance” search for some
sign of Amelia Earhart and Fred
J. Noonan, lost 11 days off tiny
Howland Island, 60 planes from
the U. S. S. Lexington scanned
today the lonely South Pacific sea.
From the broad flight deck of
the aircraft carrier the planes
rocketed and spread spokewise, in
the greatest search the navy had
attempted.
The planes returned at 4 p. m.
EST., after scanning 21,000
square miles and made ready for
immediate refueling for an after
noon flight which would extend
farther southward and include the
immediate vicinity of Howland.
The sea was smooth, after a
tropic storm last night and con
ditions were so improved the navy
fliers could scan the water from
a height of 500 feet.
They planned to cover 36,000
square miles of the sea surround
ing Howland, the minute land
point at which Miss Earhart and
Noonan aimed on their July 2
flight from Lae, New Guinea.
On that day the coast guard
cutter Itasca, standing by the is
land for emergency, heard her
say by radio the plane’s fuel was
nearly exhausted within 100 miles
of Howland. The fliers could not
hear the Itasca’s radio.
Miss Earhart wrote the Oak
land Tribune several days earlier
of trouble she had encountered
with her radio equipment.
Many navy officers believed the
chances of finding Miss Earhart
and Noonan remote; that they
were lost, with their ship, beneath
the waves.
Arend Sisters To
Be At Spartan
Theatre Tonight
The Arend Sisters, fosmeily of
radio station WSM, Nashville,
Tenn., are scheduled to fire a
program of singing, dancing and
comedy acts at the Spartan thea
tre in Sperta, tonight (Thno
day, July IS). *
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Prerfdent^Son Weds Ethel JhiPoot
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OLD CHRISTIANA HUNDRED, Del. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt Jr., immediately after the wedding ceremony. They are
going to spend their honeymoon abroad.
Sen. Bailey Says
Court Bill Aims
At U. S. liberty
North Carolina Senator Is
Heard In Heated Speech
In Opposition To Bill;
Senate Galleries Packed
Washington, July 13.—Senator
Josiah W. Bailey, i$ resuming his
speech in the SeAt/*" in opposition*
to the court rnP^r.isation bill,
charged today..''lftat the proposed
legislation was an attempt to wipe i
out the liberties hqnided down to
the citizens of America by their
founding fore-fathers and that its
enactment into law would lead to
absolutism, a totalitarian state andi
a European dictatorship.
The senior North Carolina sena
tor today broadened his attack on
President Roosav^.-and at the
same time insisted he was not
attacking the Chief Executive. He
complained that the newspapers
had interpreted1 his remarks yes
terday as an attack on the Presi
dent.
While the North Carolinian was
sinking his shafts of criticism in
the legislation, the court issue
was taking a new turn in the
House with Chairman, Hatton
Sumners, of the House judiciary
committee urging that the pro
posal be shelved.
With the Senate galleries pack
ed and an estimated crowd of
400 clamoring for admittance,
Senator Bailey traced history of
constitutional government and the
rebellion of the settlers of Amer
ica against “king-controlled
courts.”
After citing the Supreme Court
decisions in the AAA and NBA
cases restricting the powers of
Congress, Bailey said:
“The effort here now, the mo
tive here now, is to create a
court that will give us the power
the courts saidi we do not have.
“If you want more power do
not get it from your contrivances.
If you want more power do not 1
get it by legislation. If you want
more power there is only one
source of power in America. Oh,
hear me senators there is only one
source of power in America. We
are not sovereign, the President
is not sovereign, the court is not
sovereign. The stfurce of power
in America is th« people of, Amer
ica. If you want more power gf>
out to them and make it plain
what you want. Let them de
termine.”
Piney Creek Girt
Has Part In Play
At A. S. T; C.
IOw Kathleen Anderson, Piney
Creek, reappeared in “Gammer
Gorton's Needle," a three-act fa
mous old English comedy at Ap
palachian State Teachers college,
Boone, on Saturday night, July
10. '
This was the second time that
Miss Anderson has appeared as a
character in this play, each time
representing “Gammer Gurtoo,"
the leading woman character in
the drama. The ptcy was pro
duced on March 20, Of this year.
While attending callage the past
throe yean, -Miss Anderson has
talma part in in |H|A -
Josephus Daniels
And Rep. Weaver
Confer On Parhw’y
Reynolds And Doughton To
Confer With Sec. Ickes
Soon; Possible Change Of
Parkway Route Discussed
Washington, June 13.—A con
ference was held again today be
tween Congressman Zebulon
Weaver, of North Carolina, and
Josephus Daniels, ambassador to
Mexico, on matters concerning the
Blue Ridge parkway and the pro
curement of additional federal
funds to complete the Great
Smoky Mountains National park.
Ambassador Daniels saw Weav
er after leaving the Interior De
partment, where he conferred!
with Secretary Ickes.
“Ambassador Daniels told me,”
Weaver said, “that the secretary
of interior had no information re
garding a change in the location
of the Blue Ridge parkway west
of Asheville, and there was no
official contemplation of a new
route.
“Personally I have no appre
hension as to any change in the
original route selected by Secre
tary Ickes.”
Alternate routes have been sur
veyed by the National Park Ser
vice and this has led to specu
lation that the parkway may fol
low a course different from that
originally planned between Ashe
ville and the park .
Representative Weaver said Am
bassador Daniels also discussed
with Secretary Ickes the desira
bility of securing funds to com
plete the park. Weaver stated that
he, Senator Reynolds and Repre
sentative Doughton would confer
with Secretary Ickes later on dur
ing the week. The conference is
being arranged in accordance with
a suggestion by Ickes to Daniels.
Distillery Is
Confiscated In
Saddle Mt. Area
On Monday, July 6, officers
confiscated a distillery in the Sad
dle Mountain section of Alleghany
county. They destroyed a 60
gallon boiler, a 60-gallon “still,'
and' a 50-gallon condenser, and
poured out 600 gallons of mash.
One man, Charles Giles, was
caught operating the “still” which
was running full blast. One un
identified man escaped. Giles was
turned ewer to Federal authori
ties, and is now under a 6300
bond, pending a hearing before
U. S. Commisaoiner George Cheek.
Smithey’* July
Clearance Sale
To Open Tomorrow
Beginning tomorrow (Friday),
Smithey’s store here will begin a
big store-wide July clearance sale,
which will continue through the
rest of July.*
Included in this issue of THE
TIMES is a large advertisement
calling the attention of the citi
sens of this entire Section to the
to a large attendance at this sale
Fair Meeting To
Be Held Here
Tomorrow Night
A meeting will be held tomor
rom (Friday) night, at 7r30 o’
clock, in the court house in Spar
ta, relative to the Alleghany coun
ty fair that has been held regu
larly each fall for the past sev
eral years.
At this meeting, officers of the
organization are to be elected, a
date for the event decided upon
and other general plans mapped
out.
Farmers, business men and
their wives and anyone interest
ed in the annual Alleghany fair
are invited to attend this meet
ing.
Latest Invention
LOS ANGELES, Calif. . . . Miss
Lillian Q. Williams, inventor of
5 new telephone receiver and
trj»’ s:nitter assembly..Both hands
are frr^. when using this instru
ment
Roosevelt Asks
Congress To Pass
New Farm Measure
Executive Asks For Bill
Combining “Ever-normal
Granary” And Features
Of Outlawed AAA
Washington, July 13.—Congress
was asked yesterday by President
Roosevelt to pass a new farm bill
at this session combining Secre
tary Wallace’s "ever-normal gran,
ary’’ and certain features of the
outlawed agricultural adjustment
act.
He made the request in identi
cal letters to chairmen of the
Senate and House agricultural
committees a few hoars after
vetoing a proposed two-year ex
tension of low interest rates on
federal land bank loans,
"We have not solved the prob
lem of orop stability yet," the
president wrote, adding that
“warning signals already are in
sight” and that “existing laws
are not adequate to guarantee
future safety.”
“May I express to you once
more my hope,” he continued,
“that your committee will go for
ward and that sympathetic con
sideration may be given by the
Congress:
“First, to the continuation of
the present agricultural conserva
tion program as the foundation of
the long-time plan;
“Second, for the assurance of
abundance for consumers by stor
age of substantial reserves of
food for use in years of crop
failure;
“Third, for protection of farm
prices and; farm inocme.”
The president said the vital in
terests of the nation demand that
an “all-weather farm program”
serving both fanners and consum
ers be undertaken now.
“If we wait until next year,”
he warned, “the ultimate objec
tive will be the same but we may
be faced with emergency condi
tions * • * ”.
Senators McGill (D., Kan.) and
Pope (D., Ida.), made an uwuc
cessful effort to iniwwhice lepsle*
tion incorporating the president’s
ideas.
CRAB CREEK CEMETERY TO
BE CLEANED ON JULY M
The cemetery at Crab Creek
church is to be cleaned on Fn
yuly»». and parapna^ ^
House Overrides
Farm Loan Bill
Presidential Veto
Fate Of Bill Now Lies In
Senate, With Action Them
Before Disposition Of
, Court Question Unltkely
N. C. VOTE IS SPLIT
Rep. Doughton Among
Those Who Vote In Flavor
Of Overriding Roosevelt
Veto; Vote Is 260 To 97
Washington, July 13.—By a
vote of 260 to 97, the House late
today overrode President Roose
velt’s veto of a bill designed to
extend low interest rates on fed
eral land loans for another year,,
despite a stem White House
warning that the measure presents
a $30,000,000 threat to a balanc
ed budget.
Fate of the bill now lies in the
Senate which also must override
before the measure can beocme
law. Early action is improbable
since it cannot be called up until
the controversial judicial reorgani
zation bill is disposed of.
The vote came after Majority
Leader Sam Rayburn (D), Tex.,
appealed for support of the
President on the ground that the
farm emergency had passed and
that the loan bill set up a dan
gerous precedent which other fed
eral agencies might be called upon
to follow.
His arguments were lost, how
ever, in the sharp struggle that
3aw one of Mr. Roosevelt’s ablest
House lieutenants, Chairman Mar
vin Jones (D), Tex., of the agri
culture committee, join with
Republicans in pleading that Mr.
Roosevelt’s veto be overturned.
It was the second time this ses
sion that the House had scuttled
a presidential veto. On June 2,
the House and Senate quickly vot
ed to pass ojver Mr- Roosevelt’s
veto a measure extending for five
years the privilege to war veter
ans to convert their war risk in
surance into other policies offered
by the veterans administration.
Washington, July 13.—The
Nrrth Carolina delegation divided
its vote on the motion in the
House today to override the Presi
dent’s veto of a bill continuing
the emergency interest on farm
loans under the farm credit ad
ministration.
Representatives Lambeth and
Uulwinkle were the only members
who voted to sustain the Preat
dent’s action. Representatives
Doughton, Weaver, Hancock, Coo
ley, Warren, Kerr, and
Barden voted to override. Repre
sentative Umstead did not vote.
Service^ Of State
Nurse In County
To Be Retained
Miss Virginia Ashley, state
nurse for Alleghany county, will
be retained for another year.
The county’s half of the nurse’s
salary has been raised through
private contributions and an ap
propriation made by the county
commissioners.
The names of contributors and
the amount each contributed will
be announced next week, it is un
derstood.
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