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Want to Recover Something You’ve Lost? Try .a Want Ad DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Vol. 13 GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1938. Number 37. .Z'' by Hugo Simms, Washington Correspondent F. D. R. FEELS SECURE The idea is abroad in some j quarters that the President feels i that his Administration is on j much firmer ground since the re tirement of two Conservative Su- j pcreme Court Justices and their j replacement with men of the same j political philosophy. While the! President, in his battle against what he considers economic priv ilege, has been able to win elec tions by enormous majorities, his opponents felt that the five Con servative justices would stop the New Deal even when the ballot box failed. The recent elevation of Stan ley Reed to the High Tribunal ends the domination of the Con servative group and is a shift in the balance of governmental pow er which is far reaching. Conse quently, business men now realize that they must make terms with the President or else seek to thwart him by arraying Congress against him. This may be accom plished temporarily but, in the long run, there can be little hope that the people of the country will turn toward high finance and big business. NEW DEAL WINS CASES The President’s trouble in the Court began with his early legis lative measures but since last February, When Mr. Roosevelt opened his attack on the Supreme Court Conservatives, the opposi tion has lost one legal battle after another. Since the beginning of the Court struggle, there has been consistent Court approval of New Deal laws—in fact, legal victories of the Administration have been ■exactly one hundred per cent. When the Court declared the Wagner Labor Relations Act con stitutional, approved the Social Security Act and refused to upset the Security and Exchange Act and the power phase of TVA and PWA, it was apparent that busi ness had been completely defeat ed. Consequently, industrial and financial leaders have the alterna tive of adjusting themselves and their operations to the present situation or of seeking to defeat the Roosevelt program at the polk. This latter course promises little or nothing in view of the trend shown in recent congres sional elections. SEEKS CO-OPERATION The President last week contin ued his series of conferences with leading business men of the na tion. As nearly as we can get it, the Chief Executive is sincerely anxious for business men to co operate with the Government but he does not intend to abandon re forms which he feels, have been endorsed by the voters of the country in overwhelming fashion. In other words, the extent of the cooperation depends almost en tirely upon the willingness of the ; business men to accept basic le-1 forms and contribute to the set- !■ tlement of evils in business prac- j tice. I HOLDING COMPANIES This explains the President’s statement advocating the abolition of all holding companies, whether in the public utility or other fields, and whether they are top or intermediate concerns. It ap plies particularly to holding com panies which control banks and operating utilities. The President asserted that holding companies with $600,000,000 of assets can control $13,000,000,000 of utility capital. He makes it clear that he will not agree to modification of the “death sentence” requiring dissolution of almost all but first degree utility holding companies. He insists that there is very lit tle wind and water in stock of the operating companies but that the holding companies present a different picture. The President feels that holding companies take advantage of their operating companies, telling of conversations with operating executives who said that their construction and equipment plans had been spiked by the holding companies which insisted on the privilege of financing such con struction despite the availability of local funds for the purpose. Such things could not go on, said the President, who “thought they all recognized it.” Whether the recognition is as general as the President thinks will be reflected in the cooperation which Mr. Roosevelt enlists from business generally. In the president’s crit icism was reference to the control of local banks by holding com panies in many centers far away. Mr. Roosevelt said the little ban ker was disappearing as the result of being “controlled from New York,” and that, in his opinion was a “bad thing” in view of am ple community funds and Federal supervision and deposit insurance. WHAT BUSINESS WANTS In the summer of 1933, the big business men of the nation were pleading with the President to do (turn to page eight, please) Wage cuts by industry during the recession —in business were opposed Tuesday by President Roose velt as “ suicidal.” The chief executive warned that if salaries are slashed this win ter and spring the government will be forced to consider “other means” of creating purchasing power. His views were embraced in a formal statement read at a press conference a few hours after John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organi zation had announced that labor would fight to the bitter end a gainst a reduction in wages and prices to offset effects of the trade slump. Mr. Roosevelt coupled his warn ing with a suggestion that mass production industries cut their prices to meet reduced purchasing power. He brushed aside inquiries of what the government would do if salaries were pared further, but it was believed that he referred to possible resumption of federal “pump priming.” The Chief Executive said his statement was prompted by statis tics showing that some business men in a few sections of the country already had reduced wages and that similar action is reportedly contemplated by oth ers. He made it clear that wage re ductions thus far are not wide spread. Mr. Roosevelt said that a group of industrial and labor leaders headed by Lewis, Thomas Lamont, New York banker, and Owen D. Young, head of General Electric Company assured him at their re cent White House conference that there would be no wage reduction during the slump. He added that he hoped to confer on Monday with 10 or 12 representatives of "little businesses” and obtain their advice on how the govern ment can aid them. He said he expected this dele gation to be selected from 500 small business operators who will meet earlier with Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper and his assistant Earl Draper. Gov. Hoey said the average man pays the tax —bill, in a speech delivered Tuesday night in Rocky Mount. The state’s chief executive said that new soak-the-i'ich taxes probably would yield little income. In his speech at a banquet of the Rocky Mount Chamber of Commerce, Governor Hoey said “the. intelligent citizen knows that neither the state nor national government can raise any money except by taxation, and whether direct or indirect it must be paid by the general public.” Many persons, the chief execu tive said, complain about the trend toward centralization of government and, at the same time, demand larger grants of money from the central govern ment. “The taxes cannot all be rais ed by levying tribute on rich people or large corporations,” the gray-haired, frock-coated gover nor asserted. “We are taxing wealth in both state and nation rather heavily, and to increase the taxes more would probably not produce any greatly increased amount of reve nue—for we can easily reach the saturation point,” he said. The united dry forces of N. C. stepped —into the 1938 political arena Tuesday night with a statement calling for prohibitionists to elect a “bone-dry” General Assembly and law officers willing to en force “bone-dry’’ statutes. “Now is the time for the friends of temperance to redouble their efforts and wipe out the beer shops and liquor stores that are increasing human slaughter on our highways and disgracing our state with drunkenness, de bauchery and crime,” the state ment, signed by Cale K. Bur gess, campaign director, said. [On High Bench WASHINGTON, D. C. . . Stan ley Forman Reed, Solicitor Gen eral of the United States since 1935, poses for his first official photograph after being named Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Associate Justice Sutherland. He observed his 53rd birthday last December. James M. Wagoner and wife observed their golden —wedding anniversary on Tuesday, January 18, at their home in Sparta, with all their eleven children, as well as several brothers ami sis ters and other .relatives and friends, being present. The immediate family present for the dinner were Dr. and Mrs. B. A. Wagoner and sons, Arling ton and John, of Wytheville, Va.; Dr. and Mrs. W. G. Wagoner and son, William G. Jr., of Bine field, W. Va.; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Higgins and family, of Sparta, N. C.; Mrs. Alex Coomes, of En nice; Mrs. Dewey Sparger and daughter, Margaret, of Dobson; Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wagoner and son. Lewis, of Sparta; Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Wagoner and family, of Cleveland, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Cook and son, Charles, of Westfield; R. E. Wagoner, Kannapolis; Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Childress, White Plains, and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Wagoner, Athens, Ohio. Other relatives included Mr. and Mrs. J, Henry Wagoner and son, James, of Nathans Creek; Mr. and Mr?. George R. Wagoner, Galax, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Warden, Stratford; C. J. Ed wards, Carlos Mitchell and Mr. j and Mrs, F. A. Mitchell, Sparta. Mis. Mitchell, Henry Wagoner and C. J. Edwards were attend ants at the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Wagoner. In keeping with the times of fifty years ago, Mrs. F. A. Mit chell and Mrs. C. J. Edwards had baked 1a log-cabin cake. which was of much interest to the younger generation. A delectable dinner was serv ed, the outstanding feature of which was two unusually beauti ful cakes. One, a three-tiered white cake. decorated in gold, and bearing the dates of the wedding and anniversary, was presented by the daughters. The other, a large single-tier white cake, was elaborately decorated, bearing two large sprays of yel low roses with gold leaves. Bor dered with which was designed by Mrs. Edwin Wagoner, of Athens, Ohio, was presented by the sons. Fitting tributes of respect were paid to the family by R. A. Doughton, Sparta, to extend their congratulations to this happy family. Many congratulatory telegrams, letters and cards were received. Mr. and Mrs. Wagoner were the recipients of many attractive gifts, the outstanding one being a complete suite of bedroom fur niture, presented by the children. The associational B. T. U. will meet —next Sunday afternoon, January 30, at 2:30 p. 'm., ..at the Sparta Baptist church. T. E. Story, superintendent of schools in Wilkes county, will be the prin cipal speaker. Rev. Howard J. Ford, pastor of the local Baptist church will preach in the church Sunday morning, at eleven o’clock. At 7:15 p. m., Rev. L. Grady Bur gess, of Elkin, will preach. The Rev. Mr. Burgess is a brother of T. R. Burgess, Sparta. The U. S. Steel corporation plans to modernize —its plants to the extent of; $80,000,000 before Septem- j her 1, according to its presUj : dent, B. F. Fairless, in a letter to the senate unemploy ment committee, written Satur day. Fairless, whom illness prevented from appearing personally before the committee, said that amount remained unspent from last year’s authorization. “It is hoped that these expen ditures can be made in regular course in completion of the pro | jects,” his letter said. “If such ; be done, about one-half, or $40, ; 000,000 would be expended in i the first quarter of 1938 and the | other half would be expended in the second and third quarter of 1938. “In addition, if business, con ditions warrant, there will be un doubtedly, other expenditure's in considerable amounts during 1938.’ Apparently replying to Robert H. Jackson, assistant attorney general, who has criticized the failure of steel companies to re duce steel prices since the busi ness slump began, Fairless wrote: “It is clair that prices can not be reduced without a correspond ing reduction in costs, of which wages is the most important part.’’ Walter S. Tower, executive sec retary of the American Iron and Steel Institute, disputed in direct testimony statements to the ef fect that steel price increases had “far outran the coat of produc tion.” Anotner witness Thomas O. Holden, vice president of F. W. Dodge corporation, which gathers statistics on the building indus try. told the committee that to regard the present recession as a new depression was absurd. He called it a "temporary check.” Tower reported to the com mittee a slight gain in steel oper ations since the new year began, and indications of “a moderate measure of further improvement during the early months of the year.” An appeal for funds for relief work in China —was made recently by Rev. R. L. Berry, Sparta, chairman of the Alleghany County Red Cross cha’pter, who also announced that, at the suggestion of President Roose velt, chapters throughout the country were joining in the ap peal. The funds would be used for the relief of the millions of suffering men, women and child ren in China, according to the Rev. Mr. Deny. ah tisMug uua cummuiuty to assist in raising this fund,” the Rev. Mr. Berry said, “there is little need to emphasize appalling con ditions existing around Shanghai and other cities, inasmuch, as newspapers, newsreels, and radio have vividly pictured conditions that exist.” He said that this money would be allocated to relief agencies and hospitals already existing, and that a committee of American business men in China, appointed by the American Ambassador, Nelson T. Johnson, would be formed to distribute the fund. No personnel will be sent from the United States. The Rev. Mr. Berry said, “Great danger exists that epidemics may break out.” Admiral Cary T. Grayson, na tional Red Cross chairman, said American officials in China had informed him that 650,000 sick and homeless persons were crowd ing the International Settlement and Greater Shanghai at the pres ent time, with many times that number scattered throughout, coastal and interior cities, towns, | and villages that have been devastated. The national chairman also pointed out that lack of adequate housing, facilities for the homeless was aggravating the health prob lem, and that existing public shelters had long been over turn to page 8, please) Stricken !r i WASHINGTON, D. C. . . .Im mediately following; the news of the resignation of Associate Jus tice Sutherland came reports of the alarming illness of Associate Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, above, who suffered a heart at tack after a complication of ill nesses. Known popularly as a “liberal,” Associate Justice Car dozo was appointed to the high bench six years ago by President Herbert Hoover. A jury was chosen for the trial of Bill Payne —and Wash Turner, long term escaped convicts charg ed with the fatal shooting of State Highway Patrol man George Penn last August 22, Tuesday in Buncombe county superior court, in Asheville. The jury was completed by 9 j p. m., after day-long examination ] of regular veniremen and mem- j bers of a special venire, of 250' ordered Monday by Superior Court Judge Felix E. Alley, of Waynesville. After Judge Alley explained briefly the status and duties of the juryt he adjourned court un til 10 a. m. tomorrow. Fifteen minutes before the case was called Payne, 41, slender and of medium build; Turner, 35, also known as Jack Borden, dark haired and stocky, entered the court room under a heavy guard of state highway patrolmen. Pa trolmen and other officers also were stationed at every entrance. Neither of. the defendants, fac ing- possible death in the gas chamber, showed marked interest in the proceedings. Sitting with Payne was his mother, Mis. Emma Payne of High Point. She wept at times', during the proceedings. Also in the court room, seated behind the desk of Solicitor Zeb V. Nettles and attorneys assisting him in the prosecution, was Mrs. Margaret Penn, of Carthage, mother of the slain patrolman. She entered the room, accom panied by her daughter, Miss Margaret Penn, other relatives and several Moore county officers, including Sheriff C. Y. McDonald and H. J. Boyette, Moore county prosecuting attorney. She cover ed her face with a handkerchief and wept at times. solicitor iNetties, wna prose cuted cases successively against Colonel Luke Lea, Tennessee pub lisher, and Wallace B. Davis, Asheville bank president, on bank law violation charges, and Martin Moore on a charge of killing Helen .Clevenger, of New York, questioned the talesmen for the state, and J. Walter Haynes, of the court-appointed counsel for Payne and Turner for the de fense. Penn, whose home was at Car thage, was killed by a rifle bul let after he had chased two men in a blue car into a dead-end road near here. The Buncombe county grand jury later indicted Payne and Turner, at the time at large after a daring break from Caledonia prison farm with five other long-term convicts last February 15. Payne and Turner were cap tured by federal agents at San ford January 3 and turned over to Buncombe county authorities after, Federal Agent Ed Scheidt said, the two had admitted several bank robberies and other crimes. Seated with Nettles were H. C. Fisher, Asheville attorney assist ing in the prosecution; Charles Ross, of Raleigh, general counsel of the State Highway and Public Works Commission; Robert Grady Johnson, of Raleigh, director of state prison, and H. F. Seawell, of Carthage, an attorney, who (Continued on page eight) R. E. Jones, one of the pioneer citizens of Galax —passed away at his. home there Tuesday night, about ten o'clock, after having suffered a heart at tack a day or two pervious. He suffered a heart attack in Decem ber, 1936, but, after being con fined for a month or so at his home, apparently recovered and was seen about the streets of Ga lax almost daily, where he had been a familiar figure for many years. Mr. Jones was a pioneer citi zen of Galax and was familiarly known as “Daddy” Jones. He op erated a furniture store and un dertaking establishment in Galax for several years and was active in various public enterprise- of his town and community. Surviving are the widow and four children: Dr. R. L. Jones and Walter Jones, Galax; Dr. \:. C. Jones, Danville, V’a., and Mrs. R. L. Dunnegan, Win.-ton-Kalem, X. C. public roads —is beTiTi,g actively opposed by Chairman Frank Dunlap,! of the North Carolina high way department, who arriv ed in Washington Tuesday to join the Association of Highway Commissioners in its fight to pre vent such reduction as proposed by President Roosevelt. Chairman Dunlap appeared be foie the Senate postoffices and postroads committee Tuesday af ternoon and expects to testify before the House roiads committee some time tomorrow. The North Carolina commis sioner urged the Senate com mittee not to reduce the federal road funds appropriation and stated that if it were cut to $125,000,000, the whole highway program in North Carolina would be wrecked. Dunlap said he believed North Carolina’s share of the proposed .$238,000,000 appropriation would j be about $5,000,000. He pointed out to the Senate committee that his state’s high-! way program was based on North I Carolina’s. matching federal -funds, and if federal grants Were re duced, the state would suffer' from a greatly diminished road budget, since both the size of federal aid and matching funds would be reduced. Federal expenditures for pub lic roads constitute a point of attack by President Roosevelt in his efforts to get the budget nearer to balance. At the special session he sent up a special mes sage asking that the 1939 au thorization, under which the states this month make their allocations for the 1939 fiscal year, be can celled. The House public roads committee, of which Representa tive Lindsay Warren, of North Carolina, is the second ranking member, refused to consider the President’s request. Supporters or the anti-lynch bill resorted Tuesday —night to the United States Sen ate’s debate-end cloture rule in a final effort to break the stub born southern filibuster against the measure. Sixteen names, the required number, were affixed to a petition for cloture and its actual filing awaited only such time as Sena tor Neely (D., W. Va.) could obtain the floor. At the conclusion of a speech by Senator Russell (D., Ga.) as> serting that the bill was backed by the communist party, Neely found an opportunity to send his cloture petition to the chair. Brevard college held its annual —mid-winter graduation exercises Tuesday morning, and Dr. Em bree H. Blackard, pastor of Wesr i ley Methodist church High Point, ■delivered the commencement ad dress. Others who spoke were Dr. H. C. Sprinkle, of Cornelius^ chair man of the board of trustees, and Robert T. Amos, of High Point, member of the board. President Eugene Coltrane awarded diplo mas to the 19 members of the senior class. temperatures all across the nation fefl Tues. night —in a chill prelude to a great new cold wave, freez ing out a l touch of false spring that had brought damaging gales and widespread menace of flood. In every sec tion—from the drenched, and in some cases, dust-swept prairies of th,- Middlewest to tile south 'in bottomlands-—-colder weath er was on the. way. in Sparta and Alleghany couft t.v, the temperature took a decid ed downward tumble Tuesday, -ind snow filled the air late in the afternoon. A bri--K cold wind accompanied the snowfall. In. North Dakota, Minnesota, X' bucko and Iowa the ther mometer dropped below zero late ye.-ternay—to Ik below at Devils Lake, X. D. Some roads, wbre blocked by snow in Wisconsin and southern Minnesota; a child .of seven froze to death near Crocker, S. I) Along the Mississippi’s, lower reaches- the Ouachita, White, St. Francis and Cache tributary riv ers continued to rise. There was a prediction that the Ouachita, already overflowing bottom lands, would reach 17 feet above flood stage at some points by Friday. But in that area, as in the northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin middlelands — where hundreds of families already had pulled out to higher ground—the prospective hard freeze had prom ised alleviation of flood con ditions. Meanwhile, high winds, whip ping warm rainfall, were subsid ing along the Atlantic seaboard after causing much minor dam age, hampering shipping and air travel. A huge blood-red beam of light which scientists said was an aurora borealis of exceptional amplitude Tuesday night tied up telephone systems in parts of France and spread anxiety in numerous Swiss Alpine villages. Emblazoned in the northern sky the light brought thousands •of telephone calls to Swiss and French authorities, asking whether it was a fire, war or the end of the world. The aurora borealis, rarely seen in southern or. western Eur ope, Tuesday night' spread fear in parts of Portugal anil lower Austria , while thousands of Brit ons were brought running into the streets in wonderment. Hundreds in London climbed to rooftops for a glimpse of the ruddy glow which led many to think half the city was ablaze. The Windsor fire department was called out in the belief Wind sor- castle was afire. There are several cases of scarlet fever in Alleghany —county and all parents have been urged to keep their children at Home if they have a sore throat or other symptoms of the disease, I until the cause of the illness can 1 be ascertained. The symptoms of scarlet fever i are as followsthe onset is sud den with sore throat, high fever, and’ vomiting. The rash appears in from one to three days, be ginning on the neck and chest. The incubation period, or the period from the time of exposure until the time of development of the diseaset is seven days, A person who has scarlet fever, as well as all members of his family, is supposed to be quaran tined from the onset of the dis ease for a period of three weeks, or until there is no abnormal discharge from the nose, throat or ears. Seventy-five per cent of the cases of scarlet fever develop in children under ten years of age. One case does not necessarily con fer immunity, although it is com paratively rare for a person to have this disease twice. JOHN ROOSEVELT, ELDEST SON OF THE PRESIDENT —was forced to cancel a mid year examination Tuesday at Har vard because of a sore throat and cold.
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