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Want To Sell Something? Try a Want Ad The Alleghany Times You Will Profit If You Always Read Times’ Advertisements DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY 'Volume No. 14. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1938. Number 84*. By Hu,go S. Sims, Washington Correspondent On next Tuesday, November 8, the people .of the United States go to the polls. National interest centers in the election of 432 members of the House, 37 mem bers of the Senate, and the guber natorial contests in 32 states. There is no question as to who will control the new Congress. Republicans have r.'D hopes of ac quiring a majority in either House. They hope to recoup some .of the, losses suffered in the Smashing defeats of 1932, 1934 and 1936. The G. O. P. is con fident of gains and er/en Demo cratic leaders, concede that their majorities will be reduced. "PURGE” HOGS STAGE There are, we think, two inter esting observations in connection with the present political cam paign. The first is the fact that the President’s effort bo liberalize the Democratic Party by eliminat ing some Conservative office holders attracted more attention than the congressional campaign itself. In other words, to this ob server it seems that the people are more interested in the “purg es’’ of Mr. Roosevelt than in the straight-out contests of Democrats versus Republicans. NEW LINE-UP? The second observation in con nection with the present political campaign is that the contest is not whether Democrats or Republicans will control the Seventy-Sixth Congress but whether the oppo sition to the President, including Republicans and Conservative Democrats, will be large enough to seriously hamper Mr. Roose velt’s leadership during the last two years of his term. Expressed in another way, the Democratic control of Congress is so strong that its dominant New Deal fac tion has been able to disregard any threat of a combination of Republicans and Conservative Democrats. Whether the'election next week will chrnge. this rela tionship is about the main ques tion to be decided. DEMOCRATS AT PEAK To one familiar with the history of American politics during the present century, the upsurge of the Democrats since 1931 has been a remarkable phenomenon. During the first thirty years, of the pres ent century, the Democrats con trolled the House of Representa tives for six years (1911-1917) and the Senate for six year-.s (1913-1919). Most of the states were under Republican rule,. In 1931, when the Seventy-Sec ond Congress convened, there were 219 Democrats in the. House and 214 Republicans, while in the Senate the Democrat:- had 47 members and the Republicans 48. In other words, the parties were about evenly balanced after the 1930 election, although the Demo crats had to score heavy gains in that election to bring this about. G. O. P. AT BOTTOM As the Democrats took charge of the Senate and House, Repub lican membership dropped to new lows in both branches of Con gress.. In the country at large this trend affeeted control of the states so that today .only soven of the firty-eight state governments are j controlled by Republicans. Thus, tod.ay, the Republican Party is in control - of few successful state wide political organizations and, with little power in national af fairs, the G. O. P., a; a major party, is setting a new low rec ord in the United States. NOTHING CONCLUSIVE For the present, at least, the party in not united, either in j leadership or upon principles, and 1 can only hope that the present i election will mark the reversal of the Democratic trend. If this is pronounced theca will be the chance of a decisive battle, so far as the House is concerned, in 1940. However, under present con ditions the election next week is not apt to register any very clear cut trend between Republicans and Democrats and we doubt very much if it speaks distinctly about the great issues of the day. National defense has become the first (problem of the American Government following the aston ishing! surrender of Great Britain and Prance at Munich. Pace to face with the demands of the dictators, Great Britain with her great fleet, and France, with her gsneat army, bowed to the superior air force of Germany. The governments of the demo cracies were unable to face the prospect of war because Germany, with a small navy and an infer ior army, had an air fleet that was believed to be big enough to overwhelm the combined French and British aerial forces. GERMANY DOMINANT The revelation that Germany, for the present at least, i,s the (turn to page four, please) The case of Howard Delp is to be reviewed —thia month by the Virginia State Supreme Court of Ap peals, and will be the first case to be argued when the tribunal convenes in Richmond on Monday, November 14. Delp was sentenced bo death in Gray son Circuit Court, at Indepen dence, in April, 1935, for the murder of Chief of Police Posey Martin, Galax, in February of that year. The extreme sentence followed the verdict of a jury finding the defendant guilty, after a sanity jury had first reached a verdict holding that Delp was sane at the time the crime was committed. Later, however, a sanity commission held the de fendant was insane and he was placed in Southwestern Virginia State Hospital, in Marion. Recently, a commission report ed Delp had regained his sanity, and the case now comes before the high court on appeal from his original conviction. Delp was prosecuted during the trial that resulted in his con viction, by H. P. Burnett, now of Galax, who was at that time Commonwealth’s Attorney of Grayson County, assisted by Town Attorney Jack Matthews, of Galax, and S. Floyd Land reth, Galax. The defendant was represented by Attorney Stuart B. Campbell, Wytheville. Near Century Mark -? V ; . ' John Collins (above), Bay wood, Va., who will celebrate his 99% birthday anniversary on Deceni ber 14. Mr. Collins, one of the very few remaining Confederate veterans in Grayson County, liv«.s at the home of his daughter, Mrs. T. L. Vaughan, Bay wood, and is the grandfather -of Mr.-,. Lome Higgins, who lives at Brush Creek, a few miles north of Sparta, near the state line. —Photo Courtesy The Roanoke Times. Hysteria reigned Sun. night among radio listeners —throughout the nation and actual panicky evacu ations from sections of New York resulted from a too realistic radio broadcast describ ing a fictitious and devastating visitation of strange men from Mars. Excited and weeping persons all over the country swamped newspaper and police switchboards with the question: “Is it true?” It was purely a figment of H. G. Wells’ imagination with some extra, flourishes of radio dramati zation by Orson Welles. It was broadcast by the Columbia broad casting system. The broadcast was an adaptation of Wells’ “War of the Worlds,” in which meteors and gas from Mars menace the earth. Five boys at Brevard (N. C.) College fainted and panic gripped the campus for a tyalf hour with many students fighting for tele phones to inform their parents to come and ge\ them. It finally got so bad in New Jersey that the State police put reassuring messages on the State teletype, instructing their officers what it was all about. And1 all this despite the fact that the radio play was inter rupted four times Tor Hie an-7 nouncement: “This is purely a fictional play.” [A Carnation plant is to be built jin Statesville I—s o o n , according to an , (announcement authorized Friday by officials of the company in Statesville. The announcement was authorized by A. C. Ooster huis, director of dairy extension for the company, the headquart ! ers of which is in Oconomowock, |Wis., and Gaylord Hancock, sup le.rintendent of the Galax, Va., plant. Officials of the company, which now operates 53 plants through out the United States, have been considering for many months the location of a plant in North Carolina, but not until recently, ' have they found that sufficient j volume could be produced. I Two persons were fatally injured Sunday ' —night when the automo ! bile in whic'n they were riding left the road and was wrecked near Whitehead. | The two persons, Arch Shepherd, ! 41, and Connie Richardson, 19, I , of Scottville, died Monday morn-j | ing in Wilkes Hospital. The ac- I | cident occurred ' about - eleven ; o’clock Sunday night. Blaine Reed, Dodge Phipps and i Reb Hubbard, who were also in ! the automobile, were injured. Reed suffered a wrenched back, i but Phipps and Hubbard were I less seriously hurt, j Shepherd was owner of the j | automobile. Richardson was driv-] ing. The funeral for Shepherd who | was a Wor d War veteran, this! son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Shepherd, j [of Scottville, was held yesterday! | (Wednesday) morning, at Cran-1 be,vry Church. Members of the' American I.rgien we,' pallbearers, j The funeral for Richardson, I son of MV. and Mr M Ivin Rich-I ardson, of Scottvilie, was held j yesterday aft . noon, at Mount ! Cannel Church. Alleghany voters will name county officers Tuesday ■ —in the general county election. In addition to the {county offices to be filled, ! the office of Solicitor of the 11th Judicial District, State Sena ; tor for the 29th Senatorial Dis trict and Congressman from the i Ninth District are to be, filled. Considerable interest is being shown in the campaign in Alle ghany County, and most of the candidates are waging active fights. A Democratic rally is bo be held j here,, in the High School Gym j nasium on Saturday afternoon, ; November 5, at 1:30 o’clock. At ‘that time, among the speakers will | be Congressman Robert L. Dough don, of Alleghany County, the t incumbent, who is seeking reelec jtion; William B. Austin, candidate for the State Senate, and A. D. i (‘‘Lon”) Folger, of Mount Airy, jwho is a candidate for Congress 1 from the neighboring Fifth Dis trict. Announcement concerning, this rally was made l’ecently by! |R. F. Crouse, Sparta, Chairman I ] of the Alleghany County Demo cratic Executive Committee. Band music will be a feature of the rally, and the public is invited. Monroe, Adams, Republican can didate for Congress from the | Ninth District, spoke here last j Saturday night, October 29. The candidates for the various offices are as follows For Solicitor—J. Erie MeMich ael, Democrat, and Paul Swanson, Republican. For State. Senator—William B. Austin, Democrat, and Grant Baugess, Republican. For Representative in General Assembly—S. W. Brown, Demo crat, and S. S. Landreth, Republi can. For Clark of Superior Court— A. F. Reaves, Democrat, and ! Nj C. Jones, Republican. For Sheriff—DeWitt T. Bryan, j ; Democrat. For Register of Deeds—T M.! | Gambill, Democrat. For Coroner—Dr. B. O. Choate, Democrat. ] For County Commissioner—J. C. Gambill, Democrat, and Edgar j Wright, Republican. Miracles Of Nature Pictured above are two branches of second-growth upples, grown in the orchard of O. B. Burcham, who lives two and on -half miles south of Woodlawn, in Carroll County, Virginia. The apples trees blossomed in the late summer and two of the cluster at the left (Yellow Transparents) are fully matured. The cluster at the light is of the Virginia Beauty variety. Next Tuesday’s elections may be very significant —and the minority Republi can party is working hard to recapture legislative seats now held by Democrats. One week from today, millions j of American voters will have rendered their decision in what may prove the most significant political referendum since the world economic crash of 1929. This year’s congressional and gubernatorial elections constitute the fourth political census-taking since that collapse. The first, in 1930, saw the sweeping away of ten-year Republican control of both Senate and House and a net gain for the Democrats of i seven governorships. Just what tbyft “black Friday” i of 1929 meant to the Republi-j cans is graphically pictured on the elections for both houses of Congress and for governor that' have taken plac since then. The trend against them began before Franklin Roosevelt appeared on the scene as a 1932 candidate1 for the White House. It has never varied up to this year. If Republicans recapture even1 a small number of Senate or House seats or governorships next Tuesday it will be the first time in nine years and in four national tests that the political j tide has failed to register against, that party. President Hoover’s ^1928 elec tion was a high-water mark for I the Republican party in more! than one sense. For the first j time since reconstruction days | the party had captured electoral j votes in the solid South. It over-; whelmingly dominated both houses , of Congress and held 30 of the. 48 governorships. I Much interest was shown in the musical program —that was presented at the 1 Methodist Church Sunday | morning, by a group of j singers and musicians from St. Paul’s Methodist Church, Wytheville, Va., of which Dr. E. ! A. Shugart is pastor. The pro- ( gram was seemingly much en joyed by the large number of; persons present. The Wytheville Male Chorus, * with P. A. Spence, director, sang several hymns and spirituals. Dr. 1 B. A. Wagoner, of Wytheville,! the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. j Wagoner, Sparta, was a mem-1 ber of this group, and also spon sor of the program. This group of singers alternat- j ed with Mrs. Riley, instructor in ; the Hawaiian School of Music, of Pulaski and Wytheville, and two | of her pupils, sons of Dr. and! Mrs. Wagoner, who presented sev eral pleasing numbers on Haw aiian guitars. Willard Sharitz played several hymns on an or dinary handsaw. A basket lunch was served on the lawn of, the Methodist Church, after which the crowd assembled in the Sparta High School audi- j torium for the afternoon pro-} gram. During this program some 1 numbers were dedicated to Dr. Wagoner’s parents, and to ex Lieutenant - Governor R. A. Doughton. Scenery along the Blue Ridge and Natchez Trace —Parkways wili be protect ed, and hiotdog stands, bill boards or other unsightly roadside developments will not mar the scenic beauty of the two tourist routes, according to j accounts observed by the Federal1 Writers’ Project, WPA, which is cooperating with the Southern { Highlands Recreation Comihittee j in assembling information on the varied recreational resources of' the region. The two-lane Blue Ridge Park way, extending from nearly 500 i miles through the Virginia and i North Carolina Highlands to Link ; Shenandoah National Park with Great Smoky National Park, is rapidly being pressed to com- i pletion by the National Park Ser vice and Bureau of Public Roads.; When finished, this park-to-park system will represent the longest ’ single-unit recreational motorway: in the country. Now under construction, the Natchez Trace Parkway will pass in a southwest direction through; Tennessee, northwest Alabama, i and Mississippi. It is expected to become one of the popular ap proaches to the Southern High-, lands region. Skirts Mountain Crests Skirting along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains, the Blue j Ridge Parkway will weave through picturesque forests, around peaks, and across valleys in a broad i right-of-way averaging 800 feet wide. This feature will insure the protection of the scenic char acter of the countryside against objectionable structures along, the; edge of the road. At frequent intervals the parkway will be tapped by state, county and national highways, making it possible for motorists to enjoy short drives as well as longer ones. The Blue Ridge Parkway will attain its greatest elevations in its southward course through the Great Smokies, rising from 2,500 feet to 5,000 feet above sea-level to rank as the highest scenic tourist route in Eastern United States. Markers For Natchez Trace Originally a path- of Indian travel, Natchez Trace became in 1780 the principal stagecoach highroad between Nashville, Ten nessee, and Natchez, Mississippi. The National Park Service will commemorate this historic old trail by placing markers along the new parkway at points where remnants of the trace still persist. Although there will be no gen eral assortment of lunchstands or billboards in the areas flanking either the Blue Ridge or Natchez Trace Parkways, conveniences and recreational facilities will be in stalled at Locations where natural beauty will not be impaired. Proposed developments include such accommodations as gas sta tions, tourist cabins, camping and picnic grounds, swimming pools, footpaths and bridle trails. A new bus line between Sparta and North Wilkesboro —has been established, giving daily service from North Wilkes boro to Sparta, and return. Information regarding this new bus service may be obtained from B. & T. Drug Company. Dr. Robert R. King, Alleghany Health Officer, said —recently that Tube rculo-sis is a di&ia'Sii that .is riot easily recog nized in it early stages by the common ..method of examination. Some of the early signs are loss of weight, -light rise of tempera ture rinc! a general feeling of fatigue continuing for sometime. Anyone having one of more of these, symptoms would do well to have their physician make a thorough examination to seek a cause, it is said. The tuberculin test is an aid in excluding tuberculosis as only those who have at sometime- had the tubercular germ in their sys tem respond to the. t est.. This test is made by placing a small chop of fluid in the skin and is checked a few days later to see the effect. The tuberculin test is of special advantage in children, as it gives warning , in time to prevent ser ious involvement. The tuberculin test will be given at the. Health Office in Sparta any Tuesday morning from t- n to twelve o’clock by Dr. Rob ert R. King. .All school children, and any one else who. want.- to, are urged to take this test. I Fire lighters gained control of a forest lire —in Northwestern North Carolina that had raged un controlled for three days in the border mountains of Wilkes, Watauga and Caldwell counties. Sunday night the fire was reported “in hand” by E P. Simmons, district forest ranger, who had been directing the fight against the flames since last Wednesday. A wind, which had fanned the flames dangerously near the re sort town of Blowing Rock Sat urday subsided during the night and Sunday only a slight brqgze prevailed. Simmons said that the fires that had flared against the skies until Saturday, had been reduced mostly to smouldering stump and, logs Sunday night. Only two new j spreads were reported during the \ day, one near Lenoir and the j other near Blowing Rock, but | they were well under control. j Approximately 250 volunteers, I hired laborers and CCC youths j were engaged in fighting the fire., today. Members of CCC camps! at Newton, Mortimer and Morgan-j ton were working in separated! sections of the forests. The fire fighters, armed with: axes, shovels, picks, and portable1 water pumps, dug wide trenches and squelched minor blazes wi'th water to halt further progress of the flames. Simmons said that many of the ; men had been working for two days and nights without rest in an effort to stem the blaze. Mountaineers throughout the sec tion have volunteered their ser vices. Simmons said that the battle against the fire would have to continue until there was a heavy \ rainfall. He reported that the unusually dry condition of the forests made it almost im possible to put out the fire com pletely. The fire started Wednesday at the headwaters of the Yadkin River in Watauga county. Fox hunters built a camp fire Tuesday night and by Wednesday morning it had turned into a flaming in ferno. An Armistice my celebration is to be held here —.on Friday, November 11 (Armistice Day), sponsored by the Dean Parish Post, American LegLon. The cele bration is scheduled to begin at five o’clock in the afternoon, with a fish fry in the Sparta High School Gymnasium. After the. supper, the festivi [ ties are to continue with an old-fashioned barn dance. All ex-service men in Alle | g'hany Comity, together with their | wives, are invited to attend the I fish fry. The general public is invited to attend the barn dance. A new peace bid was made Tuesday night in England —by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who ’held out his hand anew to Adolf Hit ler, of Germany, in behalf of economic peace and a curb on armaments. Interpreting to a critical house of commons his course “after Munich,” the prime minister also sought quick parliamentary ap proval of his decision to bring the Easter friendship pact with Premier Mussolini into force. He gave commons ore day io debate and decide. “What we are aiming at is: first, a limitation of armaments by agreement, because unilateral disarmament will help nobody; and in the end their practical abolishment. That is looking very far ahead. I shall not see it, but 1 do not see why I shouTd, not see the first stages of it if we pursue a ' consistent policy.” Likewise the 69-year-old prime minister recognized Germany’s geographical right to a “dominat ing position” in central and southeastern Europe and declar ed “don’t let us suppose that there must be economic warfare between Germany and ourselves.” National And World NEWS At A Glance WARNING IS ISSUED Washington, Oct. 26.—Presi dent Roosevelt, in a virtually unprecedented condemnation of nation- which .suppress liberty, persecute Jews, and u.-e. threats of war to attain national ends, issued a warning- tonight that die. United. States would protect .he Western Hemisphere from nterfe.rence from abroad. CHINESE OPPOSE TRUCE Hongkong, Oct, 27.— A group of prominent leftist-inclined Chin se, disturbed at the possibility of a peace with Japan, today de nanded continued Chinese resdsfc ince and Chinese cooperation with Soviet Russia. The demand was telegraphed to jeneraliesimo Chiang Kai-Si.sk, nilitaiy and civil chieftain of the rationalist government, Lin Sen, president of the government, and Or. Sun Fo, president of the legislative council. * WILL CLAIM COLONIES Lodabury, Germany. Oct. 29.— Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler’s dep uty for colonial affairs, said today Germany lays claims to all her pre-war colonies without excep tion. Germany, however may . not . de mand outrig t return of all of them, he indicated, but he added that in that event “we shall de mand compensation for whatever we don’t claim." BETTER BUSINESS FORECAST Washington, Oct. 30. — The bureau of agricultural economics forecast today that 1-939 would be * a better business and industrial year than this one but not quite as good as 1937. In an annual report on demand and prices for agricultural pro ducts, the. bureau said : “General economic conditions in the United States are most favorable to recovery.’’ NEW DEAL BIG ISSUE Washington, Oct, 31.—The New Deal became more than ev er the dominant election issue yesterday when President Roose velt and Secretary Wallace took a hand in the important Cali fornia and New York campaigns and Alf M. Landon declared con tinuation of great federal power would lead to fascism. KIDNAP DEATH REVEALED New York, Nov. 1.—The kid nap-slaying of a suburban busi ness man and the cremation of his body in New York, and the hitherto unknown abductions of two Brooklyn men ransomed for a total of $14,900 were announc ed tonight by J. Edgar Hoover, FBI chief. He said four men were under arrest and that “certain ones had confessed.” ROBERT WOOLSEY, OF WHEELER AND WOOLSEY —comedians of the screen, died Monday at his home in Maliba. Beach, Calif. >*>
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