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Want To Sell ili < Something? Try a Want Ad DEVOTED TO _i_ The Alleghany Times You Will Profit If You Always Read Times’ Advertisements THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume No. 14. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1938. Number "2?. •* Hugo S. Sims, Washington Correspondent JAPAN STEPS BOLDLY U. S. TRADE BLOCKED HULL SCORES AGAIN PACT WITH ENGLAND MEXICAN LAND DISPUTE SETTLEMENT DESIRED JEWS IN GERMANY U S. WILL RE-ARM MEN, SHIPS, PLANES UP TO NEW CONGRESS With (the national election out of the Way, Americans have re cently centered their attention up on affairs outside the continent al area of the United States, which present problems for the government. In the Far East the nation is faced with the vital issue created by Japanese aggression against China, with implications that the trade of other nations will be hampered. In fact, the Japanese have already indicated very clear ly that they plan to follow the .course adopted in Manchuria, which has proved disastrous to all trade except that of the Japan ese. The United States has called the attention of the. Japanese Gov ernment to the “Open Door” pol icy anji the treaties under which Japan agreed to respect the terri torial integrity of China. We doubt if any responsible official of •our government expercts the diplo matic notes to have any effect upon the Japanese, who daily in sist that a “new order” has arisen in the Far East and that other nations should amend their views in harmony with the present situ ation. The announcement that the King and Queen of Great Britain will pay a visit to this country in the early part of 1939 clearly indicated the successful conclusion of efforts to negotiate, a recipro cal trade treaty, and the announce, ment of Prime Minister Mackenzie King, of Canada, that the pact with that Dominion will be on a broadened and more compre hensive scale confirms the fact. The United States, as many readers are aware, under Secre tary Hull has insisted upon a program of gradually lowering barriers that stand in the way of mutually profitable trade between the nations of the world. This is directly opposite to the course of Germany and other totalitarian nations, which go in strongly for barter agreements, under which the benefits of the pact are strictly limited and tother nations barred. The United States reciprocal trade treaties are under the “most favored nation” clause, which means that advantages giv en to any country immediately inure to the benefit of all other nations that give this nation equal trading rights with all other na tions. The barter system, says Mr. Hull, means more restrictions upon the commence of the world, while his program tends to remove the obstacles and give trade a free course. The dispute between the United States and Mexico, which involved the appropriation of American owned land and oil companies, without compensation by the Mexican Government, has not been settled, but the recent agreement in the land controversy may point the way to a broader settlement •of mor e important oil claims. Under the plan agreed upon, a two-man board will evaluate the agragrian property taken from Americans by next May, and the Mexican Government agrees to pay ?1,000,000 to the United States toward settlement by that time, and not less than that amount each year thereafter until the claims as approved, are paid in full. While settlement of the land question does not affect the oil claims and the Mexican Govern ment has agreed to no legal prin ciple as a precedent, the idea per sists that the latter dispute will inevitably be settled. Both coun tries appear to be anxious that n.o serious dispute shall continue to exist. On its part, the United States, long held up to the smaller republics on this hemisphere as a dollar-grabbing colossus, is es pecially desirous that the dispute shall not serve to arouse suspi cions in other Latin-American countries that might injure the solidarity which now prevails. Last week President Roosevelt summoned Ambassador Hugh Wil son from Berlin in order to get first hand information as to the situation in Germany. Mass meet ings throughout the nation de nounced German barbarity and many prominent citizens took oc casion to express sympathy for the mistreated Jews. (turn to page four, please) A presidential speech was made at Chattanooga —Tenn., (Monday, as Presi dent Roosevelt 'headed for Warm Springs, Ga., for a two-weeks stay. The Chief Executive left Chattanooga for the Georgia resort after reaffirm ing his faith in what he called the “constructive” social better ments of TVA, in his speech. The brief informal talk ad dressed to the 2,200 workers on Chickamauga dam, one of seven such projects built or building in the Tennessee river watershed, was made at the first stop on a 50-mile automobile tour of the Chattanooga area that covered scenes of Civil War days with modern day social economic proj ects. The president stood on a high concrete parapet on the north earthen embankment of the $36,500,000 dam as he expressed the thanks of the nation to the scores of workers standing below him on a huge navigation lock. It was his third visit to TVA territory. “I have never seen this par ticular operation before,” he said. “But I have seen most of the others and I know what you are doing is not merely putting an obstruction across a river just to make a few kilowatts of elec tricity. “We are doing a much bigger job than that. We are not only improving navigation and stopping floods, we are not only making highways across the tops of these structures, we are not only help ing to reforest cutover land and conserving soil, but taking it by and large, we are doing some thing constructive that Will affect the lives of o ir grandchildren in the United States. “Because of the example that this work is setting, you will cause equal progress not only in the Tennessee valley but in other parts of the country, even in parts of the country where there are no rivers to put dams across. “That is why I want you to know that not only your govern ment is proud of the work that is being done in the Tennessee watershed, not only the people of Tennessee, and the other states in the watershed, but also people all over the United States are watching you.r work. “That goes down to the com mon labor—the day labor—on this job and extends all the way up through the different trades and professions to the commission itself.” Hugh R. Wilson will confer with the president —at Warm Springs, G.a., Sunday or Monday, it was announced Tuesday by President Roosevelt, who is at Warm Springs for Thanks giving and a two-weeks rest. Wil son, the United States Ambassa dor to Germany, has been called home for consultation on anti Jewish persecutions in Germany. Talking with reporters in his cottage on Pine Mountain, the chief executive also said he may see Speaker Bankhead and Rep. Rayburn, of Texas, house Demo cratic leaders, during his two weeks’ stay there, although no conference has been set. He em phasized he was there to play and had made no appointments for callers except that for Am bassador Wilson. His negative replies to a series of questions regarding national and international affairs came as a preface to an unexpected criti cism of the state of Georgia, his “other home,” for failure to cooperate with the federal gov ernment on public works. He said Georgia was the only state in the union which had done nothing thus far to enable it to borrow from the PWA and other New Deal agencies, and the fed eral government had become soft hearted on two occasions and permitted the state to obtain projects through indirect borrow ings. He added this would never hap pen again, for he was tired oi having one state among 48 re fusing to go along. Georgia would not get one cent more for PW^ projects, he emphasized. A Tuberculosis clinic is to | be conducted I—'here on Monday, Decem ber 12, continuing through the 13th. This will be one of a number of clinics to be held in the Alleghany-Ashe Watauga Health District from December 12 through the 21st. j The clinic in Jefferson will be held December 14 through the 17th, and in Boone, December 19 through the 21st. Dr. P. P. Cain, Superintendent of the North Carolina Sanatorium, has agreed to furnish one of his ! clinicians for the purpose of diag nosing any cases with a suspicion of Tuberculosis, during these clinics. Dr. R. T. Jenkins will probably be the physician sent to this district. In preparation for this clinic, the department would like to have any cases referred to it by the physicians of the territory, and any families having had cases of tuberculosis in them in the past. First, the tuberculin test is given. This test is entirely harmless, and only those showing postive reactions to the test will be given an appointment. Those attending the clinic will have a fluoroscopic examination, and any giving indications for it will re ceive a thorough physical exami nation, and if necessary, appli cation papers will be filled out for admission to one of the state sanatoriums. At these clinics it is possible to handle some thirty-five pat ients per day with a maximum of forty. Appointments will be given and each patient notified as to the hour and day for them to attend. This is a most important ser vice offered by the state to its citizens, and although great pro gress has been made in the con trol of tuberculosis, it is neces sary to continue the efforts to ward its control, particularly by early diagnosis, reporting of the disease, and by proper treatment, it is said. Application for admission to the clinic to the District Health Department should be made at the county seats. This service is entirely free, and it is hoped that the communities will all work together to make this clinic a success. Continuation of the German drive against Jews —was indicated Tuesday in a statement made in Berlin by Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, who declared that Nazis will “stick to their guns” in carrying out their anti-Semitic plans. Meanwhile, annihilation by “fire and sword” of Germany’s Jew®, if they sink to criminality, was predicted by Das Sehwa.rz Korps, weekly or gan of the. black-uniformed elite guard. The weekly paper said Jews soon would become impoverished in Germany and in that status might become a “community of hundreds of thousands of crimi nals.” Should that occur, it said, Germany would root out “the Jewish underworld just as we used to root our criminal ele ments in our land of order; with fire and sword.” Goebbels spoke to 2,000 propa ganda workers of the Berlin dis trict. The meeting, first of a series of 1,500 anti:Semitic demonstra tions scheduled during the, next few months, was held a® Germany prepared to press economic annihi lation of the Jews, a policy which appeared to be driving a wedge deeper between her and three great nations—the United States, France and Britain. Speaking in the Kroll opera house, Goebbels coupled his at tacks on Jews with Monday’s de bate in the British house of com mon®, when Germany’s policies were criticized, and warned: “If the English want to’ con clude a binding friendship witl the German people, they shoulc not make this- friendship depend ! ent on inner political Germar circumstances.” j Life-Size Bust Of Will Rogers HOLLYWOOD, Calif. . . Df. Emil Seletz, noted brain surgeon, as well as a sculptor, is pictured with a life-size bust of Will Rogers which he has just completed after three years of painstaking wogk. Hailed by experts as a most intimate likeness of the laughing philosopher, the bust will be used for a Will Rogers Memorial. A big U. S. Army bomber crashed Friday night —-in Georgia, in, a battering rainstorm, killing seven fliers in one of the worst tragedies in the history of military J aviation. An eighth was gravely injured. The plane crashed in a West Georgia forest. The ship, a new two-motored, mid-wing Douglas, was on a rou tine flight from Mitchell Field, N Y., to Maxwell Field, Ala. So isolated was the spot where it j crashed the news did not reach | the outside world until Saturday, j Major W. A. Maxwell, Max-, ^velt Field operations manager,! who hurried to LaGrange, Ga., j to investigate, said from what he ! was able to piece together from a crew member conscious, until j his death in a LaGrange hospital,' “bad weather was the only appar ent explanation.” The crew member was. Private j | Joseph J. Nanartowich. “We were flying low to get under the ceiling,” Major Max-1 well said the soldier related. “It was raining. Suddenly we hit a1 rough spot (apparently a down-' ward air current) and bounced. Next thing I knew the plane was ploughing through the trees . . . no mechanical defects so far as I could tell.” Taken to the hospital also by a rescue crew that slithered over muddy roads and up a wooded slope to reach the plane was Second Lieutenant John D. Madre. The plane, investigators said, apparently was going about 200 miles an hour when it rammed the forest seven miles northwest of LaGrange. It cut a path 150 [yards long through trees, some of them as big around as a man’s | body. Four bodies were found within a few yards of the smoking debris, three others in the wreckage. One apparently had made a futile at tempt to use his parachute. It trailed open beside him. German treatment of Jews was the subject — of an attack in the Eng lish House of Commons, in London, Monday, where, with rare unanimity, a motion was adopted deploring in furiated Germany’s treament of Jewry, after the government had announced plans to create havens for refugees in Africa and Brit ish Guiana. Adolf Hitler was reported an gry at Prime Minister Chamber lain’s announcement Jews would be sent to a former Germany colony in Africa, Tanganyika, as well as to British Guiana in South America, and led to unconfirmed reports that Germany’s am bassador to London might be recalled. The Tanganyika project was re garded in Berlin as a “plot” to avoid returning the colony to Germany. Germany’s anti-Jewish drive was bitterly assailed in the House of Commons debate which dis closed that already Chamberlain’s hope of reaching an appeasement settlement with Germany based on the Munich accord had been struck a severe blow. Labor members of parliament proposed taxing of German pro ducts, controlling of German as sets in England and strong diplo matic action as methods of forci bly drawing Germany’s attention to British disapproval of the per secutions. Chamberlain said Britain in tends to lease “on generous terms” at least 10,000 square miles in British Guiana and as much land in Tanganyka, northern Rhodisia, Nyasaland and Kenya colony as economically and climatically suit able. It was learned on unimpeach able authority that Britain back ed the plan with the understand ing that private capital in the Un ited States would raise $100,000, 000 to help the Jews reach, settle, and lease their new homes. OUR FELLOW DRIVERS By Mueller I SLOW So I sez, “You can’t fool a guy who keeps his eyes open . . . Secretary Hull plans to send a new note to Japan —soon in an effort to break the diplomatic deadlock with that country. Prepa rations for the dispatch of such a note appeared to be under way Tuesday night at the State Department in Washington, D. 0. The new note, it is under-: stood, would insist that American rights in China be observed. Japan’s reply to an earlier American note, which demanded the maintenance of the open door and complained that Japan was trying to monopolize Chinese trade, was characterized Tuesday by Secretary of State Hull as unsatisfactory. The Japanese reply had re jected all major contentions in the earlier American note and declared that “ideas and princi ples” of the past no longer ap plied to the Chinese situation. [ Hull said Tuesday that the Japanese communication con flicted with the general position the United States has taken throughout its history. I Olticials acknowledged tnat it I was the implications in Japan’s remarks about past principles and about • the creation of a “new' order’ in eastern Asia that troubled them most. Observers have interpreted the remarks as an indication that Japan ex pects to dictate conditions under which foreigners shall live and foreign business be carried on in China. Although Japan promised equa lity of economic opportunity in China, U. S. officials incline to be lieve she means that there should be equality among all foreign na tions but that Japan in China is not a foreign nation. Informed students of govern mental affairs expect the next American note to assert that the rights of the United States are on a par with those of Japan or any other nation. Meetings for potential users of electricity —in. Alleghany County are to be conducted on Wednes day, November 30, and Thursday, December 1. These meetings have been planned in order that farmers may have a chance to learn something of (the proper lights to use and ade ! quate wiring. They have been planned in view of the fact that the Rural Electrification program for Alleghany County has been approved and construction work is expected to get under way in .the near future. A consumer of electricity can ! get a sufficient amount of power for his money> it has been pointed out, if the wiring I is done properly , and home and | farm buildings can be made more | convenient if lights and switches are placed at proper places. In order that Alleghany farmers may 'have this information before the j wiring of their homes and farm j buildings is started, the services I of D. E. Jones, Extension Spec j ialist on Rural Electrification at 'State College, Raleigh, have | been obtained to spend the two | days mentioned above in this | county ana conduct a meeting- in each of the Townships where I electric lines have been planned. The schedule for the meetings referred to above follows: November 30—9:30 a. m., Blev ins Cross Roads, 1:00 p. m., Whitehead; 3:00 p. m., Laurel Springs, and 7:30 p. m., Piney | Creek High School. I December 1—1 :Q0 p. m., New Hope. A local person who is interest ed in Rural Electrification in Alleghany County had the follow ing to say in commenting on these meetings: “I consider it highly important that every farmer attend one of these meetngs unless he is thor oughly familiar with wiring build ings. It is also highly important that every farmer expecting elec tricity pay his membership fee and have his right-of-way ac knowledged by a justice of the Peace or Notary Public. It would probably be difficult for new cus tomers to get on after the line is constructed without beai’ing part of the expenses themselves.’' A proposal to light back against German —“persecution” of minori ties was put forward Mon day .night in the English House of Commons, in Lon don, with the suggestion that such action be taken by Great Britain and the United States. After detailing specific Instan ce- of maltreatment of Jews—in cluding an assertion 7U Jews were killed in a concentration camp-—of which he said , he had been informed Philip J. Noel-Bak er advocated a three-point plan. “First,” he said, “if must com prise action of some kind to check presecution and expulsion of new hordes of penniless re fugees: I believe other govern ments, like the government of the United States, could protest in Berlin, “Secondly, we could make it clear in Berlin that there can be no cordial relations between the German government and the Brit ish people while the matrydom ur jews, outiansus, i ruiescaiiuj, and Catholics goes on. “It is hypocrisy to pretend that in present conditions a policy of trust could be pursued. “Thirdly, we may have to con sider if we should not take meas ures of active self-protection.” Noel-Baker contended that Bri tain soon might have to stem the tide of refugees seeking admis sion here, and he recalled Polish retaliation recently in prventing a mass expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany. He said Nazi methods Of expro priating Jewish property also rais ed a financial problem, and add ed : “The time might come when we should have to think of tax ing German products and control ling German assets here, in order to solve this grave financial pro blem.'’ National And World NEWS At A Glance SECRETARY HULL PRAISED New York, Nov. 20.—Three educators and two editors paid tribute to Secretary of State Hull tonight for his application of President Roosevelt’s “good neigh bor” policy. RECOUNT OPPOSED Indianapolis, Nov. 21.—U. S. Senator Frederick Van Nuys, re elected in the closest off-year con test in a decade of Hoosier poli tics, asked State Supreme court writs of prohibition today to halt recount proceedings instituted in seven counties by his Republican opponent, Raymond E. Willis. CHINESE SUCCESS ADMITTED Shanghai, Nov. IT.—The Jap anese made a reserved acknowl edgement tonight that the Chin ese counter offensive in South, China, near Canton, was having some success. A Japanese army spokesman explained the failure of Japanese forces to advance northward from i Canton, captured Oct. 21, as “a ! lull before the storm.” NEW POLICY IS SEEN New York, Nov. 19.—The Unit i ed States is about to embark upon new international and do mestic policies of historic impor ; tance, in the opinion of some of the nation’s most prominent in jdustrial leaders who claim know : ledge of current plans in Wash ! ington. ACTRESS IS U. S. CITIZEN | Los Angeles, Nov. 18.—Luise Rainer of the movies discarded dignity today, jumping up and j down and clapping her hands ex • citedly. The scene: A federal court room. The reason: Luise had just be come an American citizen and the demonstration occurred after she took the oath of allegiance. I The actress said she was born j in Dusseldorf, Germany, January 12, 1910. JAPAN DENIES CHARGES | Tokyo, Nov. 18.—Japan denied . today point by point every charge i in an American note demanding j maintenance of the “open door” in China and asserted that “ideas 1 and principles of the past” no longer apply in China’s new sit uation.”
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