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Want To Sell Something? Try a Want Ad The / ghany Times You Will Profit If You Always Read Times’ Advertisements DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume 13. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1938. Number 49. by Hugo S. Sims, Washington Correspondent The failure of business to im prove and the apparent inability of industry to provide employment presents an economic problem to the nation. Recognizing the dan ger of a continuous decline, Pres ident Roosevelt last week attempt ed to outline steps which the Gov ernment might have to help the present situation. Already Congress had authoriz ed the RFC to use $1,500,000,000 in funds already appropriated in making loans to industry and in definitely extending the period within which these advancements can be made. Under immediate consideration was the appropria tion for work relief. Congressional and WPA authorities, estimated the outlay for the next fiscal year will be around $2,000,000,000. Under discussion and waiting the de velopment of national sentiment was the proposal to use $1,500, 000,000 in a new spending pro gram designed to transfer pub lic funds into the arteries of trade and industry. Exactly ho>v this ‘‘pump-priming” fund would be used was uncertain. Oppose Pump Priming It seems* reasonably certain that any effort at “pump priming” will meet with serious opposition. The attack in Congress will be based on the opinion that huge expendi-. tures at this time will injure, bus iness and destroy confidence and i that further increases of the Gov-; eminent debt might lead to* infla- j tion if not lepudiation. These ( arguments* will be emphasized by1 business interests with a notable j exception in favor of the use of * Government funds to aid ailing! industries, such as the railroads. Of course, there are two sides' to the argument about Govern-; ment spending. The spenders hold that the Government must pour out its money to “fill the void” left by private capital. This, they say, will provide purchasing power and permit consumers to buy necessary products. As prod ucts are consumed, the need will arise for industry to make new products. This cycle, it is assert-1 ed, will lead to recovery. Oppo- J nents insist that the importance; of a Government spending pro gram is over-estimated, that even i four billion dollars will add less1 than six per cent to the income of the American people, and add : that additional spending, involving additional national debt, will create uneasiness in the business' community and frighten away many times this amount in private capital. Different From 1933 Meanwhile, it is important to realize that the country is not in the position it was in 1932 and early 1933. There exists a confi dence in the safety of bank ac counts, farmers are assured of a reasonable purchasing power, WPA employment has removed fear from the hearts of millions and there is no absence whatever of abundant capital resources. There is, however, one must ad mit, a definite antagonism be tween Government and big busi ness*. The hostility between govern ment and business is extremely interesting. It has been empha sized by opposition toward prac tically every reform advanced by the Administration. It has been accentuated by increased taxation and efforts on the part of the Government to use the. tax weapon to force business and in dustry to accept its program of reform. Business leaders, rebell ing against this Government reg ulation, vigorously denounce Gov ernment interference with busi ness and assert that if let alone, private Industry and capital will provide the means of successfully combatting the business recession. Profits In 1937 There are some strange angles to the picture. Earnings of many large corporations in 1937 set new records. In view of the fact that these profits were made under regulations, restrictions and taxes, which, if anything have been lightened in 1938, the profits made in 1937 tend to disprove the alle gation that the Government has wrecked business. On the other hand, some officials, notably Har ry il Hopkins, asserts that mo nopoly and controlled prices have enabled business to take the cream of the Government’s efforts and thereby prevent the full suc cess of the Government’s pro gram. Business, however, in the face of declining, activity, con tinues a clamor for relief from taxation and reform andi the plain tive plea is heard from various spokesmen that the President do something to remove fear by issuing a reassuring statement. Altogether the economic picture (Turn to page five, please) Finals will get under way at Glade Valley —high school on Saturday night, April 23, at «ight o’clock, with a music recital. This program will usher in the twenty-eighth annual com mencement at the. Glade Valley school. Rev. W. C. Cooper, pastor of the Mocksville Presbyterian church, is to preach the com mencement sermon on Sunday morning, April 24, at eleven o’clock. On Sunday night, April 24, Rev. Marion Murray, of Banner Elk, will deliver a sermon to members of the Young People’s league. Graduating exercises are sched uled for Monday morning, April 25, at ten o’clock. At this timg, Rev. Joe H. Carter, Anderson, S. C., will deliver the literary address to the graduates. The Rev. Mr. Carter is a former pas tor of the Elkin Presbyterian church, and is regarded as. a noted speaker. The Senior class play, “The Time of His Life,” is to be pre sented on Monday night, April 25, at eight o’clock. This is a comedy drama in three acts. On Monday following the graduating exercises, a meeting of the Glade Valley High School Alumni association is to be held. All graduates of the school are urged to attend this meeting. Governor Huey has returned to Raleigh —iafter a week’s speaking tour of the state. Upon 'his arrival in the capital city Monday night, the chief executive said he had found busi ness. conditions “showing a defi nite improvement.” Textile mill operators, he said are receiving some orders and many requests for prices and samples and, “while I don’t mean to say new orders are pouring in, there are plenty of ‘nibbles’ and ‘nibbles’ usually indicate that new orders will be forthcoming.” The governor said business men he had met during his tour were pleased with President Roosevelt’s “more favorable attitude toward business.’’ “The upward trend of the. stock market and the president’s state ment that business is entitled to a fair profit have helped the psy chology a great deal,” the gover nor said. “The general attitude seems to be that things will pick up, and that attitude itself should help us out of the recession.” The governor left Raleigh Tuesday, April 12, and made nine speeches, mostly in the western part of the state. He returned to his duties on Capitol Hill Tuesday. A bus route from Wilmington to Boone was authorized _Friday by the utilities commis sion in Raleigh, by granting the Atlantic Greyhound corporation a franchise to operate between Raleigh and Lexington. The action provides for a through route between Wilmington and Boone. The commission also granted a franchise to W. L. Marshall, Jr., of Wadesboro, operating as the Piedmont Coach company, to run buses between Wadesboro and Winston-Salem, via Thomasville. Both routes will be established within 30 days of the actual signing of the franchise, Stanley Winbome, utilities commissioner, said. The franchise probably will be signed within a few days. The Raleigh-Lexington order pointed out that Greyhound “op erates an extensive system of buses” in both Eastern and West ern North Carolina, but has no [connecting link between the sys tems. The franchise will furnish the connecting link and allow Grey hound to operate a through serv ice “from the mountains to the sea,” via Boone, Winston-Salem, Lexington, Asheboro, Siler City, Pittsboro, Raleigh, Smithfield, Ofoldsboro and Wilmington, the order said. Jacqueline Cochrane Wins Air Trophy MBSSSSS^MS^mmmmsmm^mmmSSSSm WASHINGTON, D. C. . . Miss Jacqueline Cochrane receives the coveted Harmon Trophy and the award of America’s outstanding aviatrix during 1937 from the hands of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House. The Trophy is presented annually by the Ligue International des Aviateurs to perpetuate the memory of the famous World War Lafayette Escadrille Corps. In background (1. to r.) Major Alexander P. de Seversky and Mrs. Helen MacCIoskey Rough. .s Miss Clyde Fields has been head of Davie Aye. school —in Statesville since 1918, and before 1918 had been ia teacher in Mulberry Street school, in Statesville, Miss Fields is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Fields, Sparta, and is very popular in Statesville as a teacher. An article concerning Miss Fields and her work in Statesville was published in The Statesville i Daily of Wednesday,. April 13, together with her picture. The article is reprinted below as follows,: Daughter of M.v. and Mrs. Jos eph C. Fields, born and reared in a home, where many a gener ation of her family has lived, Miss Fields by birth and blood [may belong to Sparta but having ; lived here in Statesville these 20 years and more by all the ties of our love and honor for her, j the. pride wre have in her, she belongs to us. She was just a slim slip of a 'graduate when she came here first in the fall of 1915 to teach the second grade at Mulberry Street school. For two years she taught there and in that time securely placed herself in the esteem of school patrons and of ficials. The “new red-headed teacher over at Mulberry,” had ability, personality and a sincere interest in her work ’ that marked her from the very first, gave her a recognized place in the school and the community and made her going a distinct loss when she resigned in 1917 to take a position in the Virginia-Carolina High school at Grassy Creek. After one year there she - came back. Came to a warm welcome, came into a circle of friends that has widened through the years to in clude all the citizens of the town who have had contacts with her through the school or have known her in outside circles. The Davie Avenue school was still young when Miss Fields re turned' to Statesville. First opened in the fall of 1915, Miss Jessie Massey had: served as principal two terms and Miss Christine Rutledge for the third term. Miss Rutledge resigned to become Mrs. R. M. Rickert in 1918 and Miss Fields was called to take her place as principal. And' so she came to stay with ns, as the story books might put it. The kind of teacher and! prin cipal that the Lord himself had a hand in making, her ability goes deeper, is more innate than any methods learned in university and college, her success with little children is a thing of the heart as well as the head1, evidencing a soul within her as well aa a brain. Miss Fields’ own first years of schooling were under a governess at hear home. That was from the first.to the eighth grade. For the eighth and ninth grades she at tended Bridle Creek High school in Bridle Creek, Va., then for the 10th and 11th grades went to the Dublin Institute in Dub lin, Va. At N. C. C. W., known as the teachers college of the South, Miss Fields received her (turn to page eight, please) A new two-color air mail stamp will be issued —by the United States Post Office department as a special recognition of Na tional Air Mail Week, May 15-21, which is expected to be the greatest effort in the history of this service to increase its ef fectiveness and popular support. Recent : announcement at Na tional Air Mail Week general headquarters said this stamp will Be symbolic of the Air Mail and should be highly desirable for the many thousands of collectors who will send and receive letters on the special flights; that week. Postmaster General Farley said that this stamp will be of six-eent denomination, the same size as the commemorative issues; The border, of distinctive Air Mail design will be printed in blue and the central design will be in red. The design will depict an eagle with outstretched wings bearing in its talons a shield, olive wreath and bundle of ar rows. Numerous ornamental de tails have been included in the over-all design. ‘ This stamp first will be placed on sale May 14, in Dayton, j Ohio, which is the home of the Wright Brothers who built the first successful airplane, and at j St. Petersburg-, Kloriad, where the first passenger flight was made. On the following days of Air Mail Week, this stamp will be on sale at many thousands of Post Offices throughout the United States. The Honor Roll for the 7th month at Laurel Springs ' j—school is as follows, according to a recent announcement: First Grade—Joan Baird, Dor j is Upchurch, Rosalie Blevins, Re j ba Upchurch, Maud Taylor, Geor ! gia Taylor, George E. Shepherd, j Gordon Miller, Wendell Moxley, Clifford Church, Howard Reed, I John Woodruff and Robert Glen ! Long. Second Grade— Louise Up church, Roy Miller and Herman Pruitt. Third Grade—Mary Ruth Mil ler, Annie Blanche Pugh, Jimmie Wagoner, Dan Taylor, Thomas Shepherd and Tommye Sue Mox ley. Fourth Grade—Eleanor Up church, Cleo Bryant, Ray Hamm, Beauford Wyatt and Kay Miller. Fifth Grade — Emma Caudill, Peggy Long, Pearl Upchurch, Hazel Caudill, Ralph Brown and Edward Taylor. Sixth Grade—Wilma Long, Arlene Miller, Iva Dale Pendry, Betty Anne Miller, Dorothy Pugh, Helen Wyatt and Mattileen Up church. Seventh Grade—Ruth Caudill, Ruth Hendrix, Lucille Miller, Vivian Pruitt and Velma Tucker. THE LAUREL SPRINGS SCHOOL BASEBALL TEAM —won over the Whitehead school team in a very interesting game played on the Whitehead diamond on Friday afternoon, April 15. The Laurel Springs students i who did not attend the game en I joyed an Easter egg hunt. A program wiD be given Sat. night, April 30 I ——by the Sparta high school faculty, and students, in the high school auditorium, con sisting of a minstrel., cake ] walk and “beauty conte-t.” The minstrel will consist of ! special musical numbers, solo-, ! musical readings; tap dances and ] string music. ]■. The cake walk, under the direc tion of F. H. Jackson, Agricul ture teacher in Sparta high school, ' is expected to be a very interest j ing and entertaining feature of ! the program. The “beauty contest,’’ with | business and professional men of I the community entering as con , testants, will be different from any previous feature presented on j the local stage, it is said. The 'men, of course, it is pointed out. I will be dressed in the latest lad I ies’ Paris fashions. The follow ing men are expected to enter; T. R. Burgess, Dr. C. A. Thomp son, Bill Chester, Dr. Leff Choate, I Ed Doftyns, Amos Wagoner, Lon jnie Mac Reeves, Emerson Black, i Ralph Cheek, Bryan Taylor, C. R. Roe, F. H. Jackson, Claude Miles, | George Reeves, Dwight Greene, Bayne Doughton, Hugh Choate, Purvis Lee, Alton Thompson, | Duke Bledsoe, Carl Irwin, Isom | Wagoner, Vance Choate arid ! Albert Richardson. 1 A prize will be awarded the t loveliest lady. --— Miss Mildred Taylor is one of the 127 college girls ' —who will model, costumes of their own creation in the eleventh j annual Style show to be held at North Carolina State college,. Raleigh, today (Thursday). Miss Taylor, of Sparta, is a ! student at Appalachian State Teachers college, Boone. Miss Taylor selected material for her costume from, cotton and rayon fabrics designed and woven by students in the Textile school, which sponsors the . annual event. The garment was made as part of her cla’ssW'Ork in home economics. ,. A total of 147 young women from eleven colleges in North Carolina will participate in the Style show, to which the public j is invited. The fashion parade is scheduled to begin at 2 p. m., in Pullen hall. Afterward, the ! Textile building will be open to (visitors for inspection of the j processes of converting raw cot ! ton into finished fabrics and hos I iery. Many visitors are attracted an nually to the Style show, which was started by State college in 1928 to popularize cotton and rayon fabrics. A grand prize will be awarded to the girl with the most outstanding costume. Twenty-one new books are proving extremely popular —with the patrons of the Sparta Public library. These books were bought recently, and the list in cludes books by many well-known authors. “Storm Signals,” a story of Cape Cod, by Joseph C. Lincoln, concerns the fortunes of Captain Ben Snow, who returned to his home port, crippled and under a cloud of suspected cowardice, fol lowing a shipwreck off Hatteras. The novel follows the raising of this cloud, and this Involves Ben’s romance with the charming sister of the man in whose death he is supposed to be involved. “Let Us Be Faithful,” by Al lene Corliss, is a smart, sophisti cated, yet realistic, metropolitan romance of the Katherine-Brush Faith Baldwin variety. “Synthe tic Gentleman,” by Channing Pol lock, is a story moving at a high tempo through adventure, mys tery, comedy, and romance. “The House of Adventure,” by War wick Depping, takes its name from a little inn in a French town that had been nearly de stroyed by German shells. An English soldier, technically a de serter, begins to repair the inn, and as the people return to their homes, he becomes a leader in the reconstruction of the village. Other popular authors in this list of books include Faith Bald win, Temple Bailey, Zane Grey, Lida Larrimore and Charles Al den Seltzer. CViailes ShepheiA vi as tViuts. by ^a; a laic lasl I»wa to deal®la ic0\oted) Gletttt Waxwc\Uc® Ijiewa _ Pun»«g f %s. SaU,enSb Prs ( at the rv;t she^rof ”«*• as b« «a'hi,‘"»othe^ If about 40 V u„,JelW>°d hotne m! Nlaxv'e" nation, ',s nV county; SoottviUe- ^ted a sevv^e AUe^ w SheV^ v.een ■ 10 about vesu^u\uu ■■"» ope^'p«!v three we g,her'd' :nv;s ehs ^eM0U to Easter Bride -—Photo Courtesy Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel Mrs. G. C«rawford Lambj Jr., (above), who was, before her marriage on Saturday, April 16, in. Centenary Methodist church, Winston-Salem, Miss Jean Carson, daughter of Mrs. A. S. Carson, of Sparta and Raleigh, and the late Mr. Carson. Rev, Wilson O. Weldon performed the wedding ceremony. The first thirty minutes of the Red Cross meet —to be 'held in San Fran cisco, Calif., opening on Monday, May 2, will be broadcast on a coast-to coast hook-up on the . blue net work of the National Broadcast ing company. It will also be broadcast by the Mutual Broad casting company on its network. The time will be from 1:30' to 2:00 p. m., eastern standard time, which is the same as 2:30 to 3:00 p. m., eastern daylight sav ing time. Another Red Cross program that is said to be of unusual in terest is to be broadcast on Wed nesday, May 4, from 6:00 to 6:30 p. m. eastern standard time, i This program is to be a dramati sation of the history of the Jun ior Red Cross in this country and throughout the world, and will in clude good will messages from the Juniors, meeting in annual convention in San Francisco, to students, teachers and parents throughout the world. The program, it is said, will be the most widely broadcast program in the history of radio. It is to be broadcast by short wave into South America and Europe; in Canada by the Can adian Broadcasting system; in Great Britain by the British Broadcasting company; in Argen tina by the El Mundo network, and probably in France by one of the French broadcasting compan ies. It is expected that the pro gram will be one of great inter national significance. SPARTA H. S. PLAYED GLADE VALLEY H. S. —in. a game of baseball at Glade Valley on Monday afternoon, April 11. The game, which went seven innings, ended in victory for the Glade Valley team by the score of 15-4. Glade Valley and Piney Creek high school played a game on Tuesday, April 12, on the Glade Valley diamond, the final score being 7-5 in favor of Glade Val ley. This was the third game of a series, the first two having been won by the Piney Creek boys. THE WOMAN’S CLUB WILL MEET TOMORROW (FRIDAY) —afternoon, at three o’clock, in the office of The Alleghany Times. All members of the club are expected to be present. Maxwell was arre^tc'd Saturday . morning between Galax and Hay wood by Deputy Sheriff Earl . Lawson, Chief of Police Jack Higgins' ai:.i A. S.. Lawson, ex- : sheriff of Grayson county, all-, of Galax, after and. • extensive search had been made in Alleghany -county and part of Grayson county following the tragedy. Sheriff Walter M. Irwin, of Alleghany county, said here Friday that he had a tip that Maxwell would Surrender to authorities in an adjoining state, if he had the assurance that he .. would be kept in an unannounced jail. Sheriff Irwin said, however, at that time that he would not bargain with the accused slayer. , , Early Friday, Tom Maxwell, 20, son of Glenn, who is said to have had a quarrel with Shep herd, wag arrested by Sheriff Irwin .and lodged in jail in Sparta. Sheriff Irwin said young Maxwell was being held on charges of ■>, accessory before the fact of murder. Sheriff Irwin directed 75 men, including his -deputies and Alleghany citizens, Friday night in the widespread search for. Maxwell. According to information ob tained here, young Maxwell, 'after the quarrel with Shepherd at the . latter's service1 station, went to his father ( Glenn Maxwell) where he v was working in a field and told him that Shepherd had struck him with an ax . and showed his father injurie- on hi.- body. En raged-by his- son’' story and the sight of .the Wounds; it is said " he went to .the place where Shep herd was working, and committed . the .muidi-r, shooting Shepherd • three time-. The first shot is. -aid to have . struck Shepherd in tile hand and 'hot the handle of a hoe he held in his hand in two. It is reponed that the wounds shown the elder Maxwell by his son were received in a fall, in stead of at the hands of Shep herd. Maxwell lived on the farm of J. F. Cox. The Negro was said. Saturday to be confined in . a Virginia jail, although the location of the jail referred to is not definitely known. It was rumored that he was taken \ to Roanoke, Va., but jail authori ties there said he had not been taken there at a late hour Satur day night. However, Sheriff Irwin said Sunday night in Sparta that the prisoner had been return ed to an unnamed North Carolina jail, and would be kept there un til Monday, May 2, when the Negro will face a charge of first degree murder in Alleghany Superior court. Sheriff Irwin said Maxwell had waived a pre liminary hearing. Funeral services for the slain man were conducted Saturday morning at eleven o’clock, at Cranbeiry church, by Elders C. B. Kilby and C. R. Dancy, in the presence of a large number of people. Active pallbearers were: Bert Thompson, • Robert M. Gambiil, John Maines, Robert Lee Nichols* Dan Jones and Carl Jones. Honorary pallbearers were Sheriff Walter M. Irwin, T. R. Burgess, C. R. Roe, Lester Irwin, Norman Jones, Rufus Colvard, R. E. Black and Clark Sheets. Flower bearers were members of the Junior class of Sparta high school, classmates of the eldest daughter of the deceased, Miss Madeleine Shepherd, Interment was in Cranberry cemetery. Burley tobacco growers voted overwhelmingly —at the polls on Saturday, April 9, in Alleghany county, in the crop bill referendum, for the marketing quotas. Of the 81 who took part in the Alleghany re ferendum, 72 were in favor of production control. The two voting places and the members of the community referendum committees were as follows: Turkey Knok—E. C. Wyatt, W. C. Brown and S. C< Halsey; Sparta—C. G. Collins, Tan Miller and Jess Moxley.
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