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GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1937.
Number 40.
(By Hugo S. Sima, Washington
Coaraaponjflant)
REPUBLICAN STRATEGY
Apparently, the leaders of the
Republican Party are seriously
considering the strategy to be
followed during the next few
months in their efforts to restore
party power and prestige. Al
ready the congressional elections
next year are in mind because it
is important to register gains in
orler. to enter the presidential
election in 1940 with hope.
THE CONVENTION PLAN
Chairman John D. M. Hamil
ton is pushing his proposal for a
mid-term national convention to
draft a declaration of principles.
This has been endorsed by a num
ber of national committeemen but
the final decision will be left to
a committee meeting in Chicago
in November. The suggestion has
aroused considerable discussion
and much unfavorable comment.
Republican congressmen appar
ently prefer to define the Party
stand on the floor of Congress and
some of them are afraid that fac
tionalism would parade internal
differences at the convention. A
poll of numerous Republicans
throughout the country_ however,
indicates considerable support of
the idea among the rank and file.
HOOVER OPPOSITION
The Republicans undoubtedly
have serious differences to iron
out before the party can expect
to regain its formidable position
in American political life. For
one thing, there seems to be a
bitter enmity towards former
President Hoover, who suggested
the convention idea in a magazine
article. Immediately, other advo
cates of the plan took occasion to
point out that it did not originate
with the former president, thus
allaying the suspicions of the
L&ndon faction that the mope was
intended to keep Mr. Hoover in
the public eye and possibly pro
mote him as the party candidate
in 1940.
HILLES-HAMILTON
The long fight between con
servative and progressive Repub
licans is by no means over al
though the retirement of Charles
D. Hilles, National Committeeman
from New York, may help heal
the breach. For many years he
has been regarded as the symbol
of Old Guardism and vested in
terests by a group of younger
Republicans. In some circles, it is
believed that his withdrawal from
active participation points the way
for Senator Borah and other lib
erals to come back into the fold.
VANDENBURG’S IDEAS
Republican opinion is also di
vided upon the question of party
tactics. Mr. Hamilton, and others,
are militantly against proposals
for a coalition with Democratic
opponents of the New Deal and
demand “an affirmative declara
tion” on national issues. This pol
icy of fusion was recently adopt
ed in New York City, where the
Farley machine was engaged in
battle with the Tammany organ
ization. It is proposed for other
parts of the country where anti
Roosevelt Democrats would be
wooed, even o the extent of or
ganizing the opposition under
another name. Particularly in
the South, it is argued the feel
ing against the Republican label
is an insuperable barrier to such
a coalition. This objection to
waived aside by Mr. Hoover, who
points out that many Southerners
voted Republican in 1928 and as
serts that “the issues now are
just as fundamental.”
Senator Vandenbuig, the actual
leader of Republicans in Con
gress, in a recent speech, called
for' a coalition against the New
Deal, saying it was comparative
ly unimportant whether th& new
party takes the field with a new
name or through “sympathetic
cooperation under hospitable Re
publican banners.” Endorsed by
some Republican editors and fol
lowed by the resignation of Mr.
Hilles, the speech of the Michigan
Senator is taken as a tacit admis
sion that, in his opinion, the only
way to take national leadership
from the President is through a
fusion on terms satisfactory to
those who have long been bitter
political rivals.
HOPE STIRS G. O. P.
Competent political observers,
who have studied the national po
litical situation today, are of the
opinion that the President re
mains the only national leader
with an impressive following.
Neither the Supreme Court bat
tle nor the furore raised over the
Black appointment has seriously
damaged the prestige of the Chief
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Alleghany Court
Disposes Of Many
Cases Last Week
Special Term Of Court, At
Which Parkway Land
Cases Would Be Tried,
Expected To Be Called
At the regular fall term of
Superior Court held in Alleghany
county last week, seventeen bills
of indictment were returned by
the grand jury, fifteen of which
were “true" bills and two “not
true” bills.
The grand jury was composed
of G. P. Crutchfield, foreman;
Lester Green, Leff Edwards,
Glenn Warden, Willie Hamm,
Walter Jennings, John Tolliver,
Fred Miller, Lester Phipps, G. R.
Edwards, Sowell Woodruff. Y. L.
Cooper, Will Pugh, Herbert
Woodruff, Lon Brooks, R. L.
Southers, H. C. Caudill and G. C.
Landreth. Lee Black was officer
of the grand jury.
The following criminal cases
were disposed of:
Coot Shumate, charged with
driving drunk, fined $50 and
costs with driver’s license re
voked for one year.
Estel Moxley, charged with vi
olation of prohibition law, fined
$50 and costs, driver’s license
revoked for one year.
George Duncan, charged with
reckless driving, fined $25 and
costs.
Raymond Lieary ana Lieve
Long, charged with assault with
a -deadly weapon, each given a
road sentence, suspended upon
payment of costs.
Charlie Blevins, charged with
carrying a concealed weapon,
given a five-year suspended sen
tence upon payment of costs.
Platt Waddell, charged with
non-support, must pay $4 a
month for the support of his
child.
Carl Hodge, charged with re
ceiving stolen money, given three
months on the road, and Wayne
Alley six months, being charged
with breaking and entering.
Raymond Weiland, charged
with receiving, given a five-year
sentence on good behavior.
Claude Hill, charged with oper
ating a car while intoxicated, fin
ed |50 and costs, and surrender
ed his driver’s license for 12
months.
The following civil cases were
continued: K. G. Jarvis vs. J. K.
Andrews; Buster Murphy vs. E. G.
Thurlow; Glenn Cockerham vs.
E. G. Thurlow; R. G. Gwyn vs.
G. Glenn Nichols. Three divorce
cases were continued: John Roup
vs. Julia Roup; Howard Pharr
vs. Mattie Phair, and J .C. Sher
rill, Jr., vs. Katherine Sherrill.
The case of C. O. Waller vs.
C. A. Ragland and Aetna Casualty
and Surety Company was refer
red.
The case of B. T. Wagoner
vs. Commercial Credit Company
was compromised. The plaintiff
is to pay costs, and the defend
ant is to turn over to plaintiff the
title to the automobile involved.
The cases of Mrs. Alice Wat
son vs. J. L. Irwin, executor of
John A. Irwin, and R. G. Rieh
ardson and Carl Joines vs. J. K.
Andrews were non-suited.
Divorces were granted the fol
lowing couples: Walter J. Ed
wards vs. Maggie Mae Edwards;
Roy McMeans vs. Lelia McMeans;
Lura Hall vs. Woodrow Hall( and
Josephine Wright vs. Connie
Wright
It is expected that a special
term of court will be called within
the next two months, at which
the scenic parkway land cases will
be tried.
Many Classes To
Sign In Jobless
Census-Taking
Washington, Oct. 5.—Uncle
Sam is going to give tourists and
tramps, as well as stay-at-homes,
an opportunity to register in his
forthcoming unemployment cen
sus.
John D. Biggers, the census ad
ministrator, told reporters today
that postmen would “try to reach
everybody” with the registration
blanks to be distributed Novem
ber 16 and 17 and mailed back
to local postoffices
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COL. KNOX VOICES PRAISE
OF ROOSEVELT’S SPEECH
Chicago, Oct. 6.—Col. Frank
Knox, Republican candidate for
vice president last year, describ
ed as “magnificent” President
Roosevelt’s speech here today.
“We have just listened to a
splendid and inspiring talk by
President Roosevelt in which he
talked on a subject on which
there can be no division of atti
tude on the part of Americans,”
Col. Knox said.
Aggressive Wars
Are Denounced
By Roosevelt
Chicago, Oct. 5.—The “cruel
sacrifice” of innocent peoples in
aggressive wars was denounced
here today by President Roose
velt, who hinted that it may be
necessary for the United States
and other peace-loving countries
to “quarantine’’ the belligerents
to protect themselves.
In what was regarded generally
as the most important speech on
world affairs he ever has deliver
ed, the president told a Lake
shore audience;
“The peace-loving nations must
make a concerted effort in oppo
sition to those violations and those
ignoring of humane instincts which
today are creating a state of in
ternational anarchy and instabil
ity from which there is no escape
through mere isolation> or neu
trality.”
Aides said Mr. Roosevelt’s ut
terances might mean, at some fu
ture time, an effort toward iso
lating aggressive nations from
world commerce.
“America hates war,” he told
the hundreds of thousands who
gathered' along the lake front to
hear him through loudspeakers.
“America hopes for peace. There
fore America actively engages in
the search for peace.”
He declared that the will for
peace must express itself so that
nations meditating violations of
their agreements and the rights
of others wiU be dissuaded from
such a course.
“There must be positive en
deavors to preserve peace,” the
president added.
His address, which was broad
cast nationally, named no names,
but it seemed clear that some of
his remarks concerning aggression
were aimed at participants in the
undeclared Sino-Japanese war, at
tacks in the Mediterranean on
neutral shipping, outside nations
taking sides in the Spanish cipil
war, and the Italian occupation
of Ethiopia.
After asserting that strife
among a tenth of the world’s
population threatens the security
of the rest of the world, the
president declared r
“When an epidemic of physical
disease starts to spread, the com
munity approves and joins in a
quarantine of the patients in or
der to protect the health of the
community against the spread of
the disease.”
The whole tbne of the message
was bold and strong, although the
president made clear he was de
termined to follow a policy of
peace.
School Children
Of N. C. Get Free
State Fair Tickets
Superintendent W. C. Thomp
son, of Alleghany county schools,
announced recently that he had
received free tickets to the North
Carolina State fair to be held in
Raleigh October 12-16 for dis
tribution to all of Alleghany
county’s two thousand children in
the public schools. He will dis
tribute the tickets next webk.
On each complimentary ticket
is a personal invitation from Gov
ernor Hoey for all of the state’s
school children to attend the fair
on Friday, October 16, the day
set aside especially for North
Carolina youngsters. There are
no strings attached to the offer,
and the youngsters may attend
the fair with or wihout their
teachers.
Governor Hoey has joined Dr.
J, S. Dorton, of Shelby, manager
of the state exposition, in ex
pressing the urgent hope that as
many children as possible take
advantage of the free visit to
their fair.
“No Turning Back”—Roosevelt
EN ROUTE . . . Inspecting various Federal projects along way,
President Roosevelt, accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, tours West to
sound out popular reaction to latest New Deal measures. Laughing
aside third-term queries, the President took recent occasion to prom
ise “no turning bark” on announced liberal policies. He is shown
above while motoring through Yellowstone Park.
Hoey Discusses
Importance Of
Air Ma3 Service
Raleigh, Oct. 5.—A radio audi
ence was told tonight by Gover
nor Hoey that the celebration of
Air Mail wfcek, October 11-16,
“may result ^n a great expansion
of the air nihil service.”
The Chief Executive urged
North Carolinians to join whole
heartedly in the observance and
said: “The importance of air mail
service for our state cannot be
over-estimated.”
“The government is making
this a test week and the import
ance of the undertaking should be
fully appreciated,” he continued.
“It is fitting that the test should
first be conducted in North Caro
lina, since this state led the way
in the beginning of aviation.”
The state will observe the week,
he said, "with the purpose in
mind to increase the use of this
facility.” He explained that next
Tuesday six planes would visit
the state, pick up air mail from
42 cities and deliver it to mail
receiving air ports. Among the
pilots, he said, will be Captain
Dick Merrill, Al Williams "and
other world famous fliers.”
“Thirty-four years ago at
Kitty Hawk, on North Carolina
soil,’’ he saidt “the first heavier
than-air machine lifted its wings
in successful flight ^nd today an
imposing monument on the mound
marks the place where the Wright
brothers demonstrated the possi
bilities of flying and opened to
the future this most important
means of transportation.
Honor Roll For
Piney Creek H. S
Is Made Public
Students of Piney Creek high
school who were eligible for the
Honor Roll for the first month of
the present school term are as
follows:
Second grade: Buddy Warden,
Herbert Barr, Leta Fae Woodie,
Wanzoleen Landreth and Mary
Frances Parsons.
Third grade; Albert Rutherford,
Virginia Delp, Evelyn Brown',
Ozena Landreth, June Hash and
Lois Finney.
Fourth grade: Edwin Wyatt,
Bytha Sturgill and Mildred Black
burn.
Fifth grade: Joe Paisley, Lacy
Lee Weaver and Evon Jenkins.
Sixth grade: Carolyn Billings,
Bruce Whiteley, Georgia Cox,
Wayne Hoppers, Gary Wyatt,
Jesse Cox and Ralph Pratt.
Seventh grade: Logene Pugh,
Ella Phipps and Betty Mae Wag
oner.
Eighth grade: Bina Collins,
Pauline Hash, Maxine Jenkins.
Louise Perry and Virginia Rob
bins.
Ninth grade: Kelly Neil Stur
gill, Marie Busic, Elisabeth Cook,
Racine Fender, Mattilene Gambill,
Edith Hash and Marye Kennedy.
Tenth grade; Marjorie Woodie
and Cam Wyatt.
- Eleventh grade: Riley Austin,
Gena Sue Gambill and Grace
Hoppen.
Travel Is Urged
By Roosevelt h
Cleveland Taft
Aboard Roosevelt Train En
RoRoute to Hyde Park, N. Y.,
Oct. 5.—Enthused by two weeks
0 f travel through Par
Western and Northwestern states,
President Roosevelt offered an
addition tonight to what Horace
Greeley said when he advised
“Go West, Young Man.”
Speaking from his railroad car
at Cleveland, over the New York
Herald-Tribune forum on cur
rent eventsi he declared:
“I would amend this by sug
gesting that men and women, old
and young, should go not only
to the West of Horace Greeley,
but all the way bo the coast—
should go South and North and
East.
“And in their travels, may I
repeat a suggestion which I once
gave to a young man in New
York who thought he knew it all.
1 said:
“ ‘Take a second-hand car, put
on a flannel shirt, drive it out
to the coast by the Northern
route and come back by the
Southern route. Don’t stop any
where you have to pay more than
$2 for your room and bath. Don't
talk to your banking friends or
your chamber of commerce
friends, but specialize on the gaso
line station man, the small res
taurant keeper and your fellow
automobile travelers.’ ”
In that way alone can one
round out the picture—get a com
plete conception of any national
problems, he said.
“The professor and student in
a university, the newspaper edi
tor and the reporter, the man in
public life and his local constitu
ent,” he asserted, “can and do
learn greatly by much reading,
much study and much discussion,
especially if the reading, the
study and the discussion cover all
sides of any given question.”
League Of Nations
Accuses Japan Of
Causing Hostilities
Geneva, Oct. 5.—The League
of Nations moved today to con
voke a conference of signatories
of the nine-power pact, including
the United States, to deal with
Japanese “invasion”, of China.
In short order, the league’s ad
visory committee adopted recom
mendations of the Sino-Japanese
sub-committee which condemned
Japan and proposed league action
in the oonflict.
The sub-committee, after for
mally branding Japan guilty of
violating the nine-power treaty,
the Boxer protocol and the Bri
and-Kellogg pacts, recommended
the nine powers meet as soon as
possible.
It was also recommended by
the sub-committee that the league
assembly be kept in readiness for
a special session to discuss the
Far Eastern situation.
Alleghany Agricultural Far
Is Huge Success; Is Held At
Sparta High School Oct 1-2
'JAPANESE FIGHTING GROUP
IS DEFEATED BY CHINESE
Shanghai, Oct. 6.—A daring
Japanese raiding party was over
whelmed by Chinese defenders
early today when it tried to
break a nine-day deadlock by
penetrating the shattered North
Station area.
Roosevelt And
Wallace Hint Of
Special Session
Washington, Oct. 5.—In speech
es yesterday and today, Presi
dent Roosevelt and Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace hinted broad
ly that Congress will be called in
special session this fall. *
Both emphasized the necessity
for immediate action on crop
control legislation if it is to be
come effective in time for spring
planting.
Mr. Roosevelt, homeward
bound from a trip to the west
coast, told an audience at Grand
Forks, N. D., that “haste seems
to be important from every angle”
if new legislation is to affect the
1938 crops.
Asserting that many farmers
plow in the fall “against next
spring’s seeding," and that some
crops such as cotton are planted
in February and March the presi
dent said:
_~ven after a bill is passed
and becomes law * * * it takes
a month or two before it is hu
manly possible to set up the ma
chinery in all parts of the coun
tTJ *° carry out the providings
of the new law,'*
Secretary Wallace spoke more
specifically of the need for speed.
He said he hoped that a decision
could be reached on a permanent
farm program “after full debate
dunng the next two months.”
Wallace, frequent advocate of a
special session, talked in New
York. i
The speeches followed weeks of
speculation on the subject by
members of Congress. As re
cently as last Saturday, Chair
man O’Connor (D., N. Y.) of
Hie House rules committee, ’said
he saw scant prospect of a spec
ial session. He said he believed
no time would be saved in pass
ing desired legislation because of
the intervention of Thanksgiving
and Christmas holidays.
Some 50 members of Congress
left recently for Hawaii to be
gone more than a month. Others
are in various parts of the world.
If the president issues a call he
is expected to allow them ample
time to return.
Times Subscription
List Is Boosted
By W. S. Mead
W. S. Mead of Charlotte, who
has been in Sparta and in’ var
ious parts of Alleghany county
during the past four weeks ob
taining subscriptions for The
TIMES, has completed his work
in the interest of the paper and
has gone to Independence where
he will work for a few days on
the Galax Gazette. The TIMES
now has a considerably increased
circulation through his efforts,
about a thousand new readers
having been added.
Mr. Mead made a great num
ber of friends while here and
stated before he left, “I've had
a dandy good time; I have talked
TIMES to every soul I could see,
I have thought TIMES day and
night, I have eaten and drank
with it, I have studied it as with
a microscope and defended it as
a cat with one kitten.’’
Mr. Mead was highly success
ful in his work here and has
placed the TIMES in many homes
where it was not going.
After a few days work in In
dependence he will go to Galax
where ha will continue his work
i on the Galax Gazette for several
weeks.
Many Contests Engaged In
By Both Young And Old;
Play And Boating Bouts
Outstanding Features
Splendid success seems to have
marked the annual Alleghany
Agricultural fair which was held
here on the grounds of Sparta
high school Friday and Saturday,
October 1 and 2, and the various
programs given in connection with
the gala event were largely at
tended.
On Friday, the opening day,
exhibits, except livestock, were
entered during the early part of
the day and were judged later in
the day. Livestock exhibits were
entered Saturday morning and
were, likewise, judged later dur
ing the fair program.
On Friday night, the royalty
play, “Aunt Abby Answers An
Ad,” was presented in the Sparta
high school auditorium, and was
a decided success. Many persons
have been heard to remark that
this was the best play they had
ever seen presented. The play was
given by riiembers of the high
school faculty.
Mrs R. C. Halsey, whose act
«£i»«AbbvrTpTed’sUmd
in-the-wool 0i/ t-Et***’ a dyed
JoneT ptyiS £?' a"d Arnold
— C^ ayinS the part of Hor^
lrewby’S unw®Icome
w much applause
yce, as Essie Eber
taJe. furnished, many
“.‘“If of each char
- Was outstanding,
of various
in Saturday
number of
some of these con
as follows:
(elementary
Sparta 1st
Laurel Springs,
(elementary
Fw;e’oPinej
Fi°yd Sexton,
; 50-yard rfn.u
Pris). Rose Wago
Georgie Bill
2nd; 50-yard
hoys), Dane
and Howard
hoiT^ward^F <*■■*«*
Creek, 187 L T?’ ^y
Sparta, 2nd; 100 yjrrf h** .Sexton*
school boys) rk/pd,dash <hiSk
1st Sector, Sparta
i5."L"0"“ K5
Eran*1 ?”vin? contest—Mrs J a
sriS,.-4 «"■ *•&*£
Husband-Calling, contest — Mrs.
M. L. Richardson 1st L
Maxine Duncan, W “**■
Hog-Calling contest—Frank At
W0°d, 1st, and T. R. BurSs
sack nrTeser °f
which are pubLhe^'be^p^
tato Race (elementary ^
sale a tattle-tale’
laughs. The r "
acter in the play
kir^tWet'C events,
kinds, were engaged
■^ning: by a w
participants,
Results in
tests were
50-yard dash
Sr’ E!fine Pender,
«d Lucille Miller
2nd; 50-yard dish
c°S *°ward r
n k, lat> and
P>ney Creek, 2nd
(™grh school c,: •
ner, Sparta, 1st and
>ngs Piney Creek, :
school
Rector, Sparta, 1st
,!??■ Piney Creek
10Q-yaid o
hoys), Howard
"Better aome of a pudding than none
^.OCTOBER
*—Utuoago a™ brofce out
damage estimated at
S2oo.aob.ooo. i87i.
•—Forest fins broke oat to
northern Minnesota
destroying 6 towns and
taking 400 Uvea. 1910.
ID—The United States Naval
Academy at AnnapoUs,
Maryland, opened, 1845.
11—First steam ferry estab
lished between New
Yoflt and Hoboken. 1811.
11—The first record of the die
covesYcdaocmetbyplro.
tography, IMS.
IS—Molly Pitcher,
the battled
1744.