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" ghany Times Will Profit Always Read Times’ Advertisements THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT O F ALLEGHANY COUNTY GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THUP.SDAY, JUNE 16, 1938. Number 5. by Hugo S. Sima, Washington! CorrosponaUnt The Iowa primary election, well advertised in advance as a test of the “New Deal purge” attracted national attention because Sena tor Guy M. Gillette, seeking the Democratic renomination, was one of the nine Democratic senators facing the voters this year to op pose the Administration on the bill to reorganize the Supreme Court. Gillette Had Friends Mr. Gillette won by a 2-1 vote over Representative Otha D. Wearin, who was the choice of Harry Hopkins', the “friend” of James Roosevelt, and who had the support of some closely associated with the President. The Demo cratic primary, however, was not a thorough test of the Adminis tration’s strength. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace,, a power in Iowa politics, remained strictly neutral in Washington, but his followers in Iowa were openly supporting Mr. Gillette. In addition, the Senator and his friends claimed the tacit backing of Jim Farley and undoubtedly had the support of practically the entire. Democratic State ticket, in cluding Governor Kraschel, who compared the records of the two candidates during the campaign, contending that the Senator, with the exception of the Court bill, has been a supporter of the Presi dent. Republicans Pleased Republicans in Iowa, who nom inated former Senator Lester J. Dickinson to oppose Senator Gil lette in the election this Fall, were particularly pleased when the fig ures showed that around 260,000 persons participated in the Repub lican primary, as compared with about 140,000 in the Democratic test. The total primary vote, about 400,000, is far below the 1,100,000 votes cast in the 1936 presidential election. The Demo cratic total is far below the 621, 750 votes cast for President Roosevelt and the Republican party is considerably short of the 487,977 votes credited to Gover nor Landon. Hopkins Denounced National interest in the Demo cratic primary in Iowa reached a high point about two weeks prior to the voting, when Harry Hop kins, Administrator of the WPA, declared that if he were voting in Iowa he would vote for Repre sentative Wearin on the basis of hi& record. This declaration on the part of Mr. Hopkins was widely denounced as a plain demand on WPA work ers, in Iowa to support Repre sentative Wearin. Administration opponents immediately asserted that it was proof that the WPA fund was used for political pur poses in spite of the earlier decla ration by Mr. Hopkins that WPA workers could vote as they pleas ed without fear for their jobs. After the result of the primary was apparent, it seemed certain that WPA workers did not exert themselves in behalf of Mr. Wearin. This was plain in Sioux CJty, where he polled only a few hundred jvotes although more than 4,000 WPA cases were in the community. In fact, some po litical observers express the be lief that the Hopkins endorsement was something of a boomerang. Mr. Hopkins himself declared that the vote was a “refutation of •those who accused me of playing politics.’’ Court Issue Not Vital It seems fair to assume, on the basis of the Iowa primary, that a vote against the bill to reorganize the Supreme Court will not, of itself, mean the defeat of Demo cratic Senators. To make this vote a test of party regularity, as some of the advisers' of the President are anxious to do, even against the advice given by Jim Farley and other Demociats, was not suc cessful strategy in Iowa. More over in view of the recent de cisions of the Supreme Court, ■which is becoming more New Deal than ever, the question ia some what academic and lacks a great deal of being a vital political is sue. Where such a vote coincides with a record of opposition to the president, it is probable that the Democratic party machinery will be aligned against the candidate and the primary result will be different. Much has been written about the hot weather in Washington and the summer temperature which soars into the stratosphere, but capital heat does not worry the congressmen as much as the fires which have been started in .their states by potential. legisla tors, anxious to relieve them of ,(turn to page five, please) The 11th annual Rhododendron festival began —in Asheville at the begin- ] ning of this week, thousands of visitors converging on that city Sunday for the event, which opened with tours to rhododendron areas of the Craggies, Pisgah and the Great Smoky Mountains National park. A check was kept of the visitors in the Craggy gardens Sunday and 448 cars carrying 2,240 per sons were counted by CCC en rollees and motorcycle policemen. The 10 southern state spon sors arrived Sunday and were met at the Southern Railway station by members of the brigade of guards and escorted to their ho tels by motorcycle police details. The rhododendron grand par ade, first big out-of-doors event of the festival, moved through the city at 11 o’clock Wednesday morning in a spectacular display of floral splendor and regal pag eantry. The parade, one of the high lights of the entire festival, was two miles long and required ap proximately an hour and a half to pass a given point. Two thousand persons took part in the 125 units of the pa rade. Music was furnished by 1,282 musicians in 18 bands and drum and bugle corps. Four of the five divisions of the parade competed for prizes. The fifth was the court division and included the floats of the festival king and queen, members of their court and the sponsors from 10 southern states. Governor Clyde R. Hoey, his wife and their daughter, Isabel, viewed the parade from the re viewing stand on Pack Square. King Herman Gudger Nichols and Queen Evelyn Elizabeth Rade ker, who ascended to their throne at the grand ball and investiture | of the rhododendron brigade of guards Tuesday night, will be crowned in coronation ceremonies tonight (Thursday) at the rhodo dendron ball. The wreckage of an airliner lost Mar. 1 was found —Sunday on Buena Vista peak, near Yio&emite, Calif., by H. O. Collier, of Fresno, Calif., 24-year old prospec tor, who was led to the long-miss ing plane by a “hunch.” A sal vage crew which toiled for more than 12 hours through heavy snow on the peak arrived at I the wreckage late Monday. The | crash Of the plane on the storm i veiled mountain killed nine per sons. Aerial observers reported the party of more than 30 per sons reached the shattered Trans continental and Western airplane shortly after 6p.m. (EST) Monday. Collier guided ground crews up the 9,777-foot Sierra Nevada range peak to where the shat tered $85,0001iner lay. He and the guides, followed by a pack train, trudged through snow up to more than five feet in depth. Travel along the snow and ice covered mountain trails was slow and arduous. The region in which the air liner crashed while on a flight from San Francisco to Winslow, Ariz., when adverse flying con ditions developed, is one of the wildest in the Sierra Nevada. Six of the persons aboard were pas sengers and three were crew members. The wrecked liner was con signed to the elements Tuesday near the top of the lonely peak in Yosemite National park as Department of Commerce men completed investigation of the wreckage and started the long, hazardous trek down the steep mountain. The bodies of the plane’s nine occupants arrived in Wawona by pack train after a 20-mile descent clinging . to nar row trails along precipitous cliffs. FIVE KILLED WHEN PLANE CRASHES IN WYO. Worland, Wyo., June 11.— Four men and a woman were kill ed today when a private plane piloted by William O. Bashaw, 34, Seattle, crashed on a farm near here. Reports indicate the motor failed and caused the plane Jo go into a nose dive. Two convicts from the prison camp here escaped —Tuesday from Airbellows Gap and Vox, where they were work ing on the road. One of the men, Len Secreast, 34, of Lenoir, was serving a six-months sentence for assault, and the other, John Lov ette, 27, of North Wilkesboro, was serving a 21-months sen tence on about four charges. Bloodhounds were placed on the trail as soon as possible, but were unable to trail the fugitives. However, early apprehension of the escapees is anticipated. Franklin McCall pleaded guilty to the kidnaping —of James Bailey Cash, Jr., at a preliminary hearing held Tuesday in Miami, Fla. The $10,000 ransom kidnaping is a crime that carries the death penalty in Florida, if the accused is convicted. The court arranged to hear evidence in the case yesterday. A special grand jury also in dicted the 21-year-old truck driver for murder in the five-year-old Princeton lad’s death but McCall, arraigned immediately, pleaded in nocent to this charge. After several attorneys ex pressed unwillingness to defend the prisoner because they were, prejudiced, Circuit Judge H. F. Atkinson appointed Jack Kehoe to defend him on the kidnaping count only. It was indicated Mc Call might not be tired on the murder charge. A special grand jury heard testimony from James Bailey Cash, father of the kidnaped vic tim, and federal agents, and re turned the indictments within two hours. McCall was arraigned im mediately. . The murder indictment con tained two counts. One charged that McCall “un lawfully and from a premeditated design to effect the death of James Bailey Cash, Jr., did hill and murder him, ... by strangl ing, smothering and choking the said James Bailey Cash, Jr., with his, the said Franklin Pierce Mc Call’s hands.’’ FBI agents said earlier McCall confessed he placed a handker chief over the face of the Cash’s only child, in taking him from his bedroom May 28 at nearby Princeton, Fla. The body was found 12 days later, less than a mile from the residence. The other count charged the minister’s son “unlawfully and from premeditated design to ef fect the death of one James Bailey Cash, Jr., did assault the said James Bailey Cash, Jr., and by some manner and means unknown to these grand jurors did kill and muider him. . . ” FEATURES YOU WILL LIKE Lee Chiswick’s desperate battle against cattle rustlers, told in the exciting new serial, “To Ride the River With.’’ The meaning of the crucifixion of Jesus is the subject for the Sunday School lesson by the Rev. Harold L. Lundquist. The text is Mark 15:22-39. A chicken thief is making life miserable for Pa Piffle. See “Mes cal Ike” in our comic section. C. Houston Goudiss warns of the Danger of Overweight in the feature “What to Eat and Why” in this issue. Our news photo section in this issue reveals President Roosevelt inspecting a prize cow in the little mountain community of Ar thurdale, W. Va., site of a fed eral homestead project. Arther W. Pickard summarizes the world’s week in the feature “News Review of Current Events” in this issue. The Iowa primary election is discussed by Hugo S. Sims, Washington Correspondent, in the feature “Looking at Wash ington” in this issuer i Wins National Spelling Bee Washington, D. C. . , Marian Richardson, 12-year-old Elizabeth, Indiana, farm girl, shown holding the plaque she received for win j ning the 14th National Spelling Bee held in the Capital city. Jean I. | Pierce, of, Buffalo, N. Y., failed to spell the word “pronunciation” correctly, and is checking the spelling of it in the dictionary. Philip J. Truitt, Galax, was killed Friday morning —near Delavan, 111., when the storm-tossed army bombing plane in which he was riding burst into flames and plunged into a farm field, scattering the broken bodies of, its full crew of eight soldiers over the rain-drenched prairie. The huge craft, caught in the onslaught of lightning, thunder, rain and buffeting winds, crashed1 to the ground with terrific force. Carey Youle, who witnessed the tragedy on his father’s farm, re ported the big bomber exploded, bounced high in the air and spread bits of debris over a half mile area. The Galax youth, who was a private in the army air service, was 24 years of age; and was the only son of Mr, and Mrs. Arthur Truitt. Enlisting two years ago, he was stationed at Langley Field, Va., until last January, when he was transferred to Denver, Colo. In addition to the parents, the deceased is survived by two sis ters, all of Galax. The body arrived in Galax by train Monday morning, and fu neral services were conducted in Galax at 4 o’clock Monday in the first Baptist church, by the pas tor, Rev. Herbert R. Carlton. Following the services, the body was taken to Felts Memorial cemeteiy where it was interred. The body was met at the train by members of the Blue Ridge Post, American Legion, which formed a military escort. The flag-draped casket was carried in and out of the church while legionnaires stood at attention on the steps and gave a military salute. Standing with them was an army officer from the field where Young Truitt was station ed. Military exercises were held at the grave by the legionnaires. Other victims of one of the most appalling plane disasters in recent army records werer Captain Richard B. Reeve, 36, Waunakee, Wis. First Lieutenant Norman H. Ives, 31, Los Angeles. Second Lieutenant Thomas Langben, 27, Galveston, Tex. Staff Sergeant Edward F. Murah, Denver. Corporal William H. Housley, Stillwater, Okla. Private Max W. Myser, Villa Grove, 111. Private George L. Huntsman, Kankakee, 111. It hit with heavy force a half mile from me. Then came the explosion. The plane bounced high. Parts of it flew every where. It came down again with terrific force. It settled on top of a knoll in the open field. The bomber had been in the air approximately 40 minutes. It had covered 60 miles of its west ward journey. It apparently fell from an alti tude of at least 1,500 feet—the height of the concealing storm clouds in the estimation of me teorologists. One witness reported the wind approached tomadic velocity for one minute and a half about the time the plane dropped. The wage-hour bill was laid on the doorstep —of the White House Tues day night when opposition suddenly collapsed and the Senate completed iinal con gressional action by adopting the House-approved conference report. ; With Congress working late in j a drive for adjournment, the j House adopted and sent to the ! Senate the conference report on j the $3,753,000 spend-lend recov ery bill by a vote of 296 to 74. Only three voices were raised in the halls of Congi’ess Tues- j day against final passage of the wage-hour measure, and one of j those was that of Senator Josiah W. Bailey, of North Carolina. The North Carolina senator and William E. Borah clashed in the Senate over the constitutionality of the legislation. In the House the North Carolina delegation di vided its vote on adoption of the conference report. It was sup ported by Bulwinkle, Umstead, Hancock and Cooley, and opposed by Clark, Kerr, Warren, Barclay and Lambeth. Weaver and Dou ghton did not vote. Speaking against the conference report in addition to Senator Bail ey were Representative Fred A. Hartley (R), N. J., and Represen tative William Lamberston (R), Kan. Senator Bailey opened his at tack by asserting: “I consider this bill manifest ly unconstitutional and I believe the Supreme Court will so hold.” He said the high tribunal had al ways held that the commerce clause of the Constitution on which the wages and hours bill rests gave Congress no power to regulate industry inside a state. “I did not wish this legisla tion to reach the Supreme Court unless some senator here express ed the belief it was unconstitu- i tional,” the North Carolinian as serted. Senator Borah advanced the theory that the bill was consti tutional on the ground that Con gress had ample authority to es tablish a minimum wage to pro tect the health of those ‘‘actually engaged in producing goods for interstate commerce.” Conceding the health argument of Borah, Bailey said it did not follow that Congress could en act a so-called flooring for wages and a ceiling for hours. “This is not a matter of health,” he added. Senator Carter Glass (D), Va., interrupted Bailey to give him a “concrete example.” “I am more than 80 years old and I have worked 18 hours a day,” the Virginian asserted. It was a big victory for the administration after a hard and long fight, which saw the bill defeated twice in the House be fore favorable action came. The law will set minimum wages and maximum hours for all United States industries engaged in in terstate commerce. Earlier Tuesday Democratic leaders had definitely sidetracked railroad relief for the session. At a late parley between Vice Presi dent Garner, House Majority Leader Rayburn and Speaker Bankhead, it was decided not to attempt adjournment Tuesday night. The annual assodational W. M. U. meeting —is to be held on Tuesday, June 21, at Liberty Baptist church, Whitehead, begin ning at ten o’clock. The program, which has been arrang ed for the gathering-, is as fol lows: Hymn; Devotianal, Rev. A. F., Absher; Welcome, Mrs. J. T. Fen der; Response; History of hymn for the year, Mrs. Tom Moxley; Women’s Hymn; Reports;' assis tant superintendent, Miss Ivy. Grace Houghton, Stewardship, Mrs. George Crutchfield, Mission Study, Mrs. W. R. Taylor, Per sonal service, Mrs. W. P. Max well, Young People, Mrs. Bruce' Wagoner, Margaret Fund, Mrs. Rd Lundy, Jubilee Committee. Mrs. -W. B. Estep, Treasurer’s report, Mrs. W. B. Reeves, Mrs. Van .Milier, Miss Jennie Watson, Training. School, Mrs. Eugene: Shepherd, Report from Southern Baptist Convention, Mrs. F. Mil ler; Special music, Roll call of Church representatives. History of Alleghany W. M. U.; Inspirational address, Mrs. N„. C. Teague, of Winston-Salem; Appointment Of committees; Lunch; Hymn, Devotional, Rev. Howard J. Ford; In Memoriam; Special Music, Mrs. D. C. Bled sie and Edna Wall. Address: Standard of Excel lence, Mrs. Edna R. Harris, of Raleigh; Plans on canning for orphanage, Mrs. C. A. Reeves; Report of Committees; Golden anniversary meditation, and Ben ediction. The Yellow river in China went on a rampage | —and its waters swirled, over ’hundreds of square miles of Honan province yesterday (Wednesday) threatening, one of the greatest flood disasters in China’s history. Japanese military engineers re ported 150,000 Chinese civilians already had been drowned where the river broke through a 50-mile stretch of weakened dikes on its south bank. Fate of a large number of Japanese troops scattered through the area was not known. It was believed, however, that thousands i might be trapped and drowned. Japanese military officials said their engineers were directing thousands of peasants in attempts to check the rushing river, but that it was virtually beyond con trol. Major breaks in the dikes were between Kingshui, just north of the Chengchow junction of the! Lunghai and Peiping-Hankow rail ways, and Kaifeng, 50 miles to1 the east. Foreign relief workers believed that ravages of floods and war- in; Honan, Anhwei and Kiangsu prov- j incas would bring a relief prob-! lem almost as great as that ere- j ated by the World war. An estimated 30,000,000 refu gees were fleeing to the west to escape invading Japanese armies. Millions more were imperilled by yellow waters roaring through the heart of China and rapidly spread ing out. While Japanese charged that Chinese deliberately had cut Yel low river banks in an effort to wipe out Japanese military forces along the Lunghai, Chinese assert ed that major breaks were caused l by Japanese bombardments along the river. Three dozens of new books have been purchased —this week by the Sparta Public library. Among these newest books is “Paradise,” by Esther Forbes. It is said that those who read “Gone With the Wind’ will en joy this historical romance, which Dorothy Canfield Fisher describes as a long, rich, cblorful, deep and true story, laid in seventh century Massachusetts. Other outstanding titles in this collection are “Winged Pharaoh,” by Joan Gran; “Promenade,” by G. B. Lancaster; “The Exile,” by Pearl S. Buck, and “Roper’s Row,” by Warwick Deeping, Four prisoners escaped from the Grayson Co. jail —in Independence, Va., late Tuesday by boring their way to freedom. One,however,, was caught but the others were believed to have fled into North Carolina, according to Grayson County Sheriff W. CV Ward, keeper of the jail: The one, who was caught is a youth who was being held for juvenile authorities. Sheriff Ward said those who escaped were: I j.inaf! Poole, awaiting trial on an. assault > charge; Paul Jones, serving .a term . for breaking jail last October and awaiting trial on a.charge of larceny of an automo mobile Lester Osborne, serving a sipmp.nths term as the after-' math of successive convictions of violating traffic laws, and the youth. Paul Thomas, held as: a delinquent minor. The - trials of both Poole and Jones had been set for hearing yesterday, in Grayson county circuit court. Commenting on the jailbreak, Sheriff Ward said he had com plained repeatedly to county au thoriti- - about the condition of the jail which he said was badly in need of repairs. Judge John S. Draper, Pulaski, who is hold ing court there, will inspect, the jail today (Thursday),, Sheriff Ward said, with a view toward determining what, repairs are needed. The prisoners made their escape by cutting a hole in. the roof. Their get-away was , witnessed by the sheriff’s small daughter who informed her mother, leading to the quick formation of posses to search for . the escaped men. A group of hoys captured . Thomas within a short time and turned; him over to officers. Homes are being sought for four small boys —for the rest of the summer by Crossmore school, Inc., at Crossmore. The boys are Jackie, Boyd, Floyd and Roadman, 9, Iff, 11, and 12 years of age. Road man, it is said, is probably the smallest of the group, despite his twelve years. They are all boys, it is said, that anyone would enjoy having with them. It was thought that they had homes for the summer, but the persons with whom they were to stay became ill or went away on unexpected trips. JOHN L. LEWIS SUFFERED A CRUSHING DEFEAT —Tuesday when a house com mittee refused to allow a vote on a labor bill he sponsored, x National And World NEWS At A Glance EARTHQUAKE IN EUROPE London, June 11.—An earth quake born in the North sea jolt ed five nations today, rumbling over a 400-mile front from Eng land to the Rhineland. Three capitals—London, Paris and Brus sels—felt the shocks. Damage was minor but extensive, appar ently most serious in Belgium. ROVING BANDITS CAUGHT Welch, W. Va., June 12.— Vesta McCoy, 25, emerging from a mountain hiding place near Panther, was sent to jail tonight as the last of three roving “gun toters” who were chased back and forth over the Virginia line for two days. U. S. GUNBOATS TO STAY Shanghai, China, June 14.—The United States government yester day rejected a Japanese warning to foreign shipping by informing Japan it had no intention of re stricting activities of American warships on the Yangstze. Brit ish naval authorities, it was learn ed, took a similar stand, CZECHS ARE WARNED Berlin, June 13.—A foreign office mouthpiece warned the Czechoslovak government today that delay in solving the Sudetan German question “wflj lead only bo a more foreibte solmtion.”
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