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The Alleghany Times TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHAN Y COUNTY Subscript] in advai county Series 1987 GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1937. Number 38. Info S. Sim*, Washington Cor respondent) ATCH FOREIGN AFFAIRS Undoubtedly foreign! affairs, th in the Far East and in trope have occupied the atten n of President Roosevelt and cretary Hull to a great extent ring the past few weeks. The esident has taken pains to as re the public of his determi tion to keep this country out war. He has given consider e study to the application of r Neutrality Act and has re itedly emphasized to American izen that their insistence upon ding with countries in the dan t zone- is at their own risk. :is has subjected him to some iticism from various groups It, at the same time' has tended I stifle the criticism of various ?ice organizations. Apparently, i President’s statements are ended to keep public opinion Jet and to prevent anything v the beginning of violent paganda intended to exert ssure upon the government ILL IS PERSISTENT eanwhile, Secretary Hull is tinning his attempt to exert influence for peace. Several iks ago we reviewed his recla of July 16, setting forth in principles for world pesce. s document goes before the of Nations by the express er of the secretary and is ac jnpanied by the replies of most ’the nations of the world. Mr. ill’s move is viewed as another p in mobilising world opinion peace. His statement was •jched in general terms and was itcifically applied to the Far gst by a subsequent utterance. However, the general principles 'e .«n important bearing on the ipeant situation, where the iterranean difficulties are ing grave concern. General it is believed that warfare in Far East can be restricted to ban and China, but there is "siderable doubt whether a war Europe can be prevented from leading to the entrie world. ESIDENT FOR PEACE While Secretary Hull’s succes ' e steps do not involve the jted States in any formal com ments, they emphasise to the rid at'large that the influence the United States is undoubt y on the side of the peaceably lined nations and suggest >ngly a disapproval, of the tac of aggressors who are willing endanger world peace in their >rts to secure territorial ex ision. This idea is emphasised I the declaration of the Presi ,t in regard to the “jittery" dition of the nerves of people rywhere over the threat of r. Significantly, the President glared that he could not speak 1 the others, but felt sure he tld speak for the democracies. 1 S BREACH HELPED ..'ithout underwriting the inter. rtion, it is interesting to point that certain observers ere w suggesting that the Lewis isevelt breach is apt to prove vintageous to both parties. Hi C. I. O. leader has regain a certain amount -of political edom and the President, it is 1 is relieved of the disadvan es which were inherent in a -close connection with the mil it labor organization, t is pointed out that William len, president of the American eration of Labor, is now play much more closely to the ite House and insisting that >r recognize its friend, Mr. isevelt. Heretofore, the A. F. L. Chieftain has been some »t in the background, while n L. Lewis was proclaiming to adherents the virtues of their nd in the White House. Re tly it will be remembered, the I. *0 leader indicated his dis sfaction with any impartial tude on the part of the Presi t toward labor disputes and ■red a caustic criticism which plainly directed at the Pros it. WIS EXPECTD MUCH Tie "break” between Lewis the President seems to be en ly due to an assumption on part of the C. I. 0. leader the President of the United |tes should be the subservient of his organization. In other ,tds, having supported Mr. >sevelt during the campaign, C. I 0. was entitled to his support in all of its battles, ile the President has unmis ably given expression to a hy for organized contributed gi achievin pi - Convention Parade Records Broken By Legionnaires Brightly-uniformed Vets Pius Reviewing Stand At New York Convention 16 Hours; Bands Busy New York, Sept. 21.—As the American Legion continued into today the colorful procession it started up Fifth avenue early yesterday morning, all records for convention parades were left be hind. For more than 16 hours the veterans, brightly uniformed, with bands playing and colors flying marched past the reviewing stand where national leaders received the salutes of State delegations from every part of the nation— and delegates from foreign coun tries. The former soldiers followed a route they took as members of a conquering army nearly two decades before. Hours behind schedule, the last of the units making up the 200, 000 marchers fronted in lower Manhattan for their 26-block walk up the historic old avenue as the new day began. Far more than two million men and women, by the best available official estimate, packed the way along the Broad Street to watch as unformed bands and: drum corps and troops of marchers passed. They were middle-aged now and a little weary, these marching men, and they seemed far from that 1917 time of mud and death now 20 years agone. All along the 56 blocks of march where a million or more people stood thoughtfully to watch it all, there were reminders over and over again of men who will march no more on this or any other street—who died on the soil of a country across three thousand miles of sea. The songs their bands played were the songs of all America. They burst out with "Dude’’ in memory of an older and even sadder war. They stepped smartly by the reviewing stand to the notes of “My Old Kentucky Home,’’ and to the old solemn melody of the “Battle Hymn of the Repueblic.” Wages Of N. C. Teachers Still Below 1929 Level Raleigh, Sept. 21.—Miss Louise Berry, president of the North Carolina Association of Classroom Teachers, said tonight that a 10 per cent pay increase given teach ers this year lacks eight per cent of reaching the 1929 teacher-pay level. Miss Berry said she spoke for 17.000 classroom teachers in re questing a correction of a story saying that salaries of teachers had been boosted to the pre-de pression level by the increase. “The facts are,” said Miss Ber ry, “the highest paid teachers in 1929 received from the state $133.33 per month if they held en A grade certificate and had eifeht years experience. “The new maximum salary is $123.75 which is still short $10 per month of the pre-depression salary schedule. “Salaries must be increased another eight per cent before reaching the 1929 level.” Child Afflicted With Infantile Paralysis Improved The Son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Edwards, who was stricken with infantile'paralysis recently, is re ported to be improving. If he continues to do so, he will be allowed to sit up by the last of next week. It will be an indefi nite period of time, however, be fore he will be allowed to walk. It has been rumored that the Edwards child’s illness was caus ed by smallpox vaccine, which he took a few weeks ago. and that he did not have polimyelitis. However, hospital authorities defi nitely diagnosed the case as be ing infantile paralysis, and agreed that the. vaccine could not have had any connection with his AFL Organizes To Crowd CIO Elements Off Pacific Coast San Francisco , Sept. 21. — American Federation of Labor leaders today began organizing a ‘solid front” council of mari time unions designed' to crowd all Committee for Industrial Organi zation elements off Pacific coast waterfronts. For a nucleus .the AFL will seek men who rebelled against actual or prospective CIO affilia tion of various maritime unions. PWA Allocations Ended; Roosevelt Ready For Trip Hyde Park, Ne. Y., Sept. 21.— Oh the eve of his dtepartuere for a two-weeks tour of the West, President Roosevelt said today there was nothing he could add to his non-commital statement of last week concerning charges that Associate Justice Hugo L. Black is affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan. Meanwhile, official sources let it be known that Black, return ing from a European vacation, had not communicated with the president since publication, of the charges. At a press conference late in the day, the president announced the wind-up of allocations under the new public works program and said! this meant the end of PWA. He also admonished newsmen not to attribute politics to his visit ing certain cities in the west and steering clear of others, and said he might make a fireside radio talk on future public works pol icy before congress met. Switching to his west coast trip, starting from here tomorrow at 4 p. ra.. Eastern Standard time, the chief executive warned re porters today not to guess his reasons for going to this and that city and passing up others. His first informal rear-platform talk—and officials said all but the Bonneville Dam speech Tues day would be infoimal—will be at Cheyenne, Wyo., home of Senator O’Mahoney, another Demo court bill opponent, Friday morning. Discussing the windup of PWA in a statement earlier in the day, the president /aid that this emergency agency was establish ed to stimulate construction and employment during the depres sion and that it had fulfilled its mission promptly and effectively. Alleghany Fair Postponed Until October 1 And 2 Friday and Saturday, October 1 and 2, are the dates set for the Alleghany County Agricultural fair, which was to have been held on September 24 and 25, but which has been postponed for a week on account of the tempor ary closing of Sparta high school, due to the development of a case of infantile paralysis. All the schools in the county are urged to participate in the following games; 50-yard dash, 100-yard dash, potato race, three legged race, basketball relay race. These contests will begin at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. It is hoped that a large num ber of adults and children will be prepared to enter other con tests, such as the slipper-kicking and nail-driving contest for wo men; apple-diving and balloon blowing contests for children, etc. An oldtime bullpen game has been planned for men over 40 years. On Saturday afternoon wood chopping and wood sawing con tests for men will be held. Also, two games of soft ball have been planned for the afternoon, and good program of boning baa bean arranged fot Present plana are to boxing with a bout Death, Destruction, Horror In Shanghai SHANGHAI, China. . , Rescue workers remove the injured to hos pitals after the bombing of two of Shanghai’s largest department stores on Nanking Road. Nearly two hundred were killed and five hundred injured. Prospects For Big Republican Meet Increased Washington, Sept. 21.—When Chairman John D. M. Hamilton disclosed today that he had Bug* gested such a course several months ago( prospects for a Re* publican national convention in advance of next year’s congres sional election apparently increas ed today. The idea, not announced at that time, was brought into wide spread prominence several weeks ago by former president Hoover. After a conference with Re publican leaders from a number of large cities, Hamilton told re porters that at the last meeting of the party’s national executive committee he appointed a com mittee to look into the possibili ties. Hamilton explained that he was reselling judgment on the ad visability of such a convention untli the national committee meets in November, when, he added, it will “certainly be discussed. The “convention,’’ he said, would “have no legal, status un der the laws of the party but it could be given a semi-authoritative status. The party leaders who met with Hamilton canvassed the trends of the political situation and predict ed a big turnover in next year’s congressional elections. Hamilton himself, forecast “the most intensive congressional campaign in the history of the party.” U. of N. C. Set* All-Time Record For Enrollment Chapel Hill, Sept. 21.—The en rollment at ’the University of North Carolina here neared 3, 200 today, setting a new all-time record, as the deadline for closing of registration books for credit courses approached. No enrollment for credit will be permitted after Thursday ex cept by executive order The registration passed 3,100 today and late comers, most of them with valid excuses, were still arriving. Last fall’s enroll ment was 3,027. Dr. Norton To Be Here To Assist In Children’s Tests Dr. Ray Norton, assistant li rector of preventive medicine. State Board of Health, Raleigh, will be in the offioe of the Alle ghany county nurse, Mrs. Virgin ia- Ashley Greene, on Friday, September 24, from, 9 to 4 o’ clock, to assist Mrs. Greene in giving the tests to phi Wren to de termine whether they are immune to diphtheria. Immunity to diphtheria means of course, immunity to mem braneous croup, which is one kind of diphtheria. This test will be given to children under 14 yMtrs of age. Any child who has not had the vaccine at least six weeks cannot have the test There will be ne charge. Vandenberg Sees Coalition Party In 1940 Election Bay City, Mich., Sept. 21.— The prediction was made tonight by Senator Arthur H. Vanden berg, of Michigan, in a fiery speech, that a new coalition party of Republicans and Democrats opposed to President Roosevelt may emerge for the 1940 elec tion, or that there may be “sym pathetic cooperation under hos pitable Republican banners.” Vandenberg, himself regarded as an outstanding possibility for the Republican presidential nomi nation, spoke at a rally at which Michigan Republicans opened their campaign to defeat Gover nor Frank Murphy in 1938. “Realignment is inevitable,” de clared the senior Michigan sena tor. “Indeed, it already obviously exists. Vandenberg repeatedly causti cally referred to the “Roosevelt party” rather than the Democratic party, and assailed its leaders as “intolerant, power-mad oyer lirds.” He attacked the adminis tration’s labor policies as well as its fiscal policies and criticized Governor Murphy for backing President Roosevelt for a third term. With the labor policies of Gov ernor Murphy offering the major issue in the 1938 state campaign, Vandenberg saw possibility that the strength of President Roose velt might be affected by John L. Lewis, chairman of the Com mittee for Industrial Organization. Federal Debt And Deficit Reduced By Collections Washington, Sep$. 21.—A heavy stream of taxpayers’ dollars into the federal till this month has reduced the deficit and the public debt, treasury account books showed today. On September 18, the public debt dropped below $37,000,000, 000 for the first time since Aug ust 24. It stood at $36,860, 862,000. The treasury retired' $360,000,. 000 of maturing discount bills last weekf using cash from third quarter income tax collections. The debt may go above $37, 000,000.000 again next month, when the treasury plans further borrowing. Studies now are un der way to determine what type of securities would be issued. Fall Term Of Alleghany Court To Open Sept. 27 The fall term of Alleghany County Superior Court will con vene on Monday, September 27, with Ju<^e E. C. Bivens, of Mount Airy, presiding. J. Earle McMichael, recently appointed solicitor of the 11th judicial dis trict, will prosecute for the state. Although the docket, both of civil and criminal cases, is light, it is thought that court will last throughout the week on account of the land cases. William Powell ‘Scared’ Of French Women In Paris Paris, Sept. 21.—William Pow ell, suave film actor, lost his dignity last night because he is “scared of French women.” Powell entered a bar, accom panied by Dorothy Parker, for a quiet drink. A French newspaper woman recognized him and rushed up to the table. Powell and Miss Par ker rushed out. “I’m scared of French women,’’ he called over his shoulder. Italy To Assist In Mediterranean Fight On Pracy Rome, Italy, Sept. 21.—By an officialy communique announcing e special meeting of British, French and Italian naval experts in Paris, Italy’s participation in the Mediterranean anti-piracy pa trol was virtually assured tonight. Although the communique of Foreign Minister Count Galaazzo Ciano used the words “a great Mediterranean” power in describ ing Italy in comparison with Great Britain and France, it was believed that Italy’s demands for parity had been met The communique, howeyer did not use the word “parity” which has been the bone of contention. Unless a last-minute hitch de velops, therefore, Italy will lend her warships to 'the vigil against submarine piracy in the Mediter ranean set up at the Nyon con ference which she and Germany refused to attend1. Count Ciano’s communique set forth that the meeting at Paris, to be held shortly, was called by the French and British govern ments who invited Italy. It also declared that Italy, as it has throughout the entire Mediter ranean discussions, was keeping Germany fully apprized of her intentions to attend the meeting. High government officials were eagerly optimistic that the menac ing situation in the Mediterranean had been dissolved and that the deadlock preventing Italy’s par ticipation definitely was broken. They were particularly jubilant that the peaceful omen came as Premier Benita Mussolini prepar ed for an important visit to Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler, of Germany with whom he has act ed in ciose concert. Justice Black Sails For U. S. Southampton, England, Sept. 21.—Associate Justice Hugo L. Black of the United State Su preme, Court was en route home tonight aboard a small liner to face the storm of controversy arising from published statements that he is a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The master of the liner City of Norfolk in a wireless message said: “Justice Black aboard.” Black dashed aboard the City of Norfolk here yesterday after noon a few minutes before the gangplank was raised. Five min utes later the ship lifted anchor and steamed out of the harbor. New Shelves Are Put In Library; New Books Added New shelves, built by WPA workmen, have recently been add ed to the Community library to take care of the new books. Among the new books are “The Head of the House ef Coome” and its sequel, “Robin," by Francis Hodgson Burnett “And So—Victoria,’’ a new novel that is proving as popular as “Gone With the Wind" was last no doubt bo pfelp* if Roosevelt Renews Demand For Court Change In Speech Speaks Before Assemblage Numbering Thousands At Constitution Day Event In Nation's Capital City Washington, Sept. 21.—With a warning that unless social reform is assured in the United States the nation is threatened by dic tatorship, President Roosevelt re newed his fight for a “rejuvenat ed’’ supreme court here Friday night. The chief executive spoke in connection with ceremonies commemorating the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States. He urged that America pledge its “fealty to the Consti tution itself and not to its mia interpreters.” A responsive but shivering au dience of thousands, gathered in the open air beneath the Wash ington Monument, heard the Chief Executive return to the battle in which he suffered his most severe defeat little more than a month ago. i hose who listened for a reference to the current agi tation over the alleged Ku Klux Clan affiliation of Mr. Roosevelt's only nominee to the Supreme Court were disappointed. But the address was studded with assur ances that the reform the Presi dent seeks can be achieved with out loss of individual liberty. Acres of people stretched be fore the president as he spoke from a tiny rostrum in the pit of a natural amphitheatre known as the Sylvan theatre. Estimates of the crowd varied \ from 50,000 to 76,000. Only by raising the living standards of the masses, Mr. Roosevelt said, “can we insure against internal doubt as to the worthiness of our democracy and dissipate the illusion that the necessary price of efficiency is dictatorship with its attendant spirit of aggression.’’ He added: “That is why I have been say ing for months that there is a crisis in American affairs which demands action now—a crisis par ticularly dangerous because its external and internal difficulties reinforce each other.” Throughout the history of the country each effort at social re form had been called unconstitu tional by its enemies, he said. The protective tariff, the Louisi ant purchase, the Missouri com promise, methods of financing the Civil war ,and regulation of rail road rates, he cited as instances. “oFr us the Constitution.” said the President, “is a common bond, without bitterness for those who see America as Lincoln saw it, ‘the last, best hope of earth.’ “So we revere it—not because it is old, but because it is ever new—not in the worship of its past alone, but in the fatih of the living who kept it young now and in the years to come.” LEADS IN NEW JERSEY Newark, N. J., Sept. 21.— State Senator Lester H. Clee, clergyman foe of Governor Hoff man, held <a substantial, lead in New Jersey’s Republican guber natorial primary. jmimmje "One mutt cut kit nut According to kit ctotn. troy hi* country, 1780. 38—President flJHg 1 . moved the deposits ttnU.abonfc. 1833. a Arctic, nearing American shore*, a cod 300 lorn three, II St Louts;
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