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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, DECEMBER 8, 1938. Number 29. (Hugo S. Sim*, Washington Correspondent) Baseball has its winter leagues, where the fans sit close to warm stoves in freezing weather and discuss the piro&pects <of the com ing season, and politicians, on days when action is slow, follow much the same routine. News paper writers and columnists^ when they have nothing definite, to write about, resort to their speculations about future events, regardless of the fact that their predictions rarely come true. Much of the same state of af fairs exists in regards to the next session of Congress, with even an experienced political leader like J Senator Charles L. McNary talk- j ing about what the Republicans' j will do when they “join with con servative Democrats.” This is a j favorite indoor speculation at this date. Politicians and writers esti- j mate how many anti-Administra- i tion Democrats will join with so j many Republicans and undo the President’s New Deal program. Even Mr. McNary says there are three parties represented in Con gress, “Democrats, Republicans and New Dealers,” It is not our business to whoopi it up for either party but, just | the same, if o,ur .readers want to 1 know what is going- to happen i in the next Congress, they need! not fall for this coalition talk. It simply won’t exist, except in a j fete isolated tests. In fact, both of the major parties have their j factions, as the Republicans found | out at their meeting in Washing-1 ton last month. The Democrats, \ it is true, are not unanimous;! neither are the Republicans. There are liberal wings- and conservative wings in both parties, and also a faction that wants to be success ful at the polls, regardless of liberal or conservative principles. The prospect is that both par ties in Congress will attempt to outdo the other in taking care of the farmer, the veteran, the old age group, and the union labor program. When it comes to na tional defense, the chances- are that both parties will favor a larger navy, a modernized army and thousands of new planes. Everybody will be talking about relieving the. taxpayer and taking ! the burdens off of business so that private capital will get go-! ing. The differences will be mostly in method, in adminis-tra-; tion and side issues that will be; argued hotly for their political value in the 1940 election. There) is going to be no drastic change j in the policies that have been) underway for the past few years, j regardless of the coalition talk j and political prognosticators! ___ After six months of elaborate i preparation the Government’s in-1 vestigation of monopoly got un-! der way last week with the idea) of surveying the national economic j machinery. It is expected that the work will continue for many months. Sensational headline news Is not to be the rule, nor is the committee, headed by Senator Joseph C. O’Mahoney, interested in witch-hunting. The evidence, so far, indicates that the purpose of the fact-hunt is- to discover, if j possible, what makes business tick and what, if anything, is the mat ter with the economic plant. The committee, created at the request of the President, is a Congressional-Executive creature, to make an investigation into [ monopoly and the concentration of economic power in and financ ial control over production and distribution of goods and ser vices. The committee will at tempt to determine the causes of the concentration and control and1 their effect upon competition and the effect of the existing price system and price policies of in dustry upon the general level of trade, upon unemployment, long-1 term profits and under-consump- j tion. It will examine the ques tions relating to existing tax, pat ent and other governmental polic ies upon competition, price levels, unemployment, profits and con sumption. The committee has a stupend-1 ous job. It is- said that if the work j is carried out on the scope in-: dicated it will be the most im- i portant study ever made of the American economic structure. The committee, says Senator O’Mahoney, will try to do a con structive job, not as a prosecuting attorney, looking for violations of law, but, we gather, more as a doctor, looking over a patient, anxious to discover the true state of the patient’s' health and sin cerely hopeful of being able, to outline a treatment that will do the patient good. The Pan-American Conference at Lima, Peru, which begins on Friday of this week, will be fol lowed hy greater interest on the part of the people of the United States than any preceding confer (tum to page four, please) Sheriffs and Coroners will serve 4 years —if they were elected on November 8, of this year, Attorney General Harry McMullan 'held Saturday in Raleigh, in a ruling interpreting provisions of a constitutional amendment extending the terms of those officers from two to four years. Likewise, he ruled, the terms of sheriffs and coroners elected in 1936 were to end Monday Dcember 5, when the newly elected officials took office. The ruling was made in a letter to J. D. Larkins, Jr., chairman of the Sheriffs Constitutional Amendment Committee, which campaigned for the change. The amendment was adopted November 8 by a vote of 206,069 to 197,593. There had been some question whether it applied to sheriffs and coroners elected this fall. “It seems to me,” McMullan commented, “that those who voted for the amendment and those who at the same election elected the sheriffs and coroners, must nave contemplated tnat tnose elected should hold for the term provided by the amendment.” When sheriffs and coroners were inducted into office Monday, the amendment had been adopted, certified by the governor, en rolled in the office of the secre tary of state, and “in full force and effect.” The attorney general explained that the ruling was made “for guidance of public officials,” pending action on the matter by the state supreme court. “It may be well reasoned and argued that if the general assem bly contemplated that its change of policy should be postponed for so long a period as two years after it had become a part of the constitution,” the opinion said, "“some language would have been incorporated in the act to this effect.” To conclude that the amend ment is effective for the newly elected officials, it was said, is not to interpret it as retroactive, but, instead it operates “concur rent” with the election of the officers. McMullan asserted that “no question exists” but that the sheriffs’ association of the state, which campaigned for the amendment, expected that the terms would be immediately ex tended. Saturday marked the end of the football seasorf —for a number of colleges and universities of the nation that had not closed their grid season a week or so earlier. Notre Dame came tumbling off football’s highest peak, knocked down for the first time this year by Southern Cali fornia, the Rose Bowl hope of the Far West, in a savage game in Los Angeles that ended in a 13 to 0 victory for the USC Tro jans before a crowd of 101,000. Beaten twice this year but de termined to carry no more de feats into the Rose Bowl against Duke January 2, the warriors of Troy upset the Notre Dame hopes in two lightning-like thrusts that spelled gloom for the Irish. The power valve on the Uni versity of Tennessee gridiron ma chine remained wide-open Satur day, at Memphis, Tenn., and the Orange Bowl selection roared . to a 47 to 0 triumph over a hapless Mississippi rebel team, before 20,000 fans. It was the Volunteers tenth consecutive victory of the season. Oklahoma’s Sooners, gridiron champions of the Bix Six, crushed Washington State’s Cougars, 28 to 0, in Norman, Okla., Saturday, with a last-half surge that car ried them to the end of an all victorious season and ran their victory string to 14 in a row. A crowd of 15,000 fans watch ed the Sooners score three touch downs in the third period after drilling deep into enemy territory time after time without finding the double stripe in the first half. Another team that was toppled from the unbeaten and untied class was San Jose (Calif.) State College, iThe annual Christmas ! Pageant is to be given Sunday night —December 11, at 7:30 o’clock, in the Glade Valley High School auditorium, by the Young Peo ple’s League. The public is invited to attend. Many Alleghany I persons joined the Red Cross ; —during the recent annual ! Roll Call drive. A list of | those whose memberships | were received by the Roll ! Call Chairman and his co-work [ ers follows: William J. Siebert, Charlie Brown, Mrs. T. J. Carson, Rev. L. F. Strader, Mrs J. T. Inskeep, ! Guy C. Wallace, J. T. Inskeep, ' G. P. Crutchfield, Mrs. A. V. Choate, F. H. Jackson, Mrs. J. M. Doughton, Mrs. R. H. Hack ler, Rev. Howard J. Ford, D. C. Bledsoe, Ben G. Reeves, Modern Dry Cleaners, C. A. Roe, Glenn C. Nichols, C. C. Castevens, Eugene Transeau, D. E. Sturdi vant, T. R. Burgess, E. C. Will iams, Alton Thompson, Rev. R. L. Berry, Rev. C. W. Erwin, George Reeves, Robert M. Gam bill, Nora Helen Doughton, W. C. Thompson, Jay Hardin, Gra ham Myers, George Cheek, Isom Wagoner, Blanche Pugh, Mrs. Hazel H. Taylor, Alice Taylor, Carrie Fender, F. T. Hart, Dr. L. L. Long, E. J. Pugh, R. L. Pugh, Mrs. E J. Pugh, Mrs. F. Miller, Ivazelle Taylor, Mary Rizoti, Dr. Robert R. King, Mrs. Dwight Greene, Rosamond Reeves. Burton McCann, W. B. Taylor, Annie Sue McMillan, Elma Wad j dell, Mrs. Grace C. Rector, Mrs. ! Wayne Thompson, Mrs. Rush | Thompson, Mrs. Clay Thompson, Mrs. Ellen Guerrant, Mrs. Bruce Wagoner, Mrs. Vera Edwards, Claude Holloway, Mrs. Ralph Gentry, Lillian Cooper, Annie B. Correy, Mrs. Edd Lundy, Mrs. Walter Taylor, E. F. Chester, | Dr. C. A. Reeves, Polly Daugh erty, Gertrude Andrews, Aileen | Perry, Dona Jones, Senior Class ! of Glade Valley High School, A. B. O’Mohundro, Mrs. A. B. O’Mohundro, Mrs. Mary O’Mo ihundro, John Osborne, John R. ! Crouse—donation, Silas Nichols R. F. Crouse, Add McMillan, Lon Mac Reeves, Mrs. Edwin Duncan, Oder Joines, Mrs. C. A. Thompson, Jean McMillan, Gladys Robbins, Mrs. Elizabeth Francis —donation, L. K. Boyer and Mrs. Bert Choate. Rev. Howard J. Ford, Roll Call Chairman, wishes to extend spec ial thanks to those who assisted with the roll call, namely: Mrs. James Toms, Mrs. C. A. Thomp son, Mrs. Walter Taylor, Mrs. J. T. Inskeep, Mrs. Dwight Greene, and Miss Blanche Pugh, Chairman of the Junior Red Cross chapter. Anti-Fascist demonstrations were staged —in rrench-gioverned Tuni sia and Corsica Sunday, and these, together with new verbal blasts in Paris and Rome, added coals of fire to long-smouldering- French-ltalian friction. Blood flowed when 500 French colonists in Tunisia demonstrated angrily against Italy’s apparent campaign for gratification of her “aspirations” in that north Afri can protectorate of France. Thirty thousand Corsicans mill ed around the Italian consulate ac Ajaccio Corsica, shouting “long live France, kill Mussolini” in a mass demonstration of indignation against unofficial Italian claims to that Mediterraneau birthplace of Napoleon. The Fascist press in Rome kept to the fore Italy’s cr yfor “unsat isfied” national aspirations; in Paris a number of organizations adopted fiery resolutions aimed at Italian colonial ambitions. France’s internal worries con tinued -with French line workers at Le Havre defying the govern ment a second time by voting to continue a strike in sympathy with 60 discharged fellow em ployes. Some 5,000 marine work eis, including the crew of the laid up liner Normandie, were among the strikers. Jewish Refugees Hail America On Arrival ! I I | HOBOKEN, N. J.—A happy group are these Jewish refugees waving ■ j American flags on their arrival in the United States aboard the | liner Westernland. They are part of the contingent of seventy-three.: | who arrived from Vienna, Berlin and Hamburg. The refugees are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Glatzer and their daughter, Marlene, 4 years , •old, and Mr. Adolph Glatzer with his son, Mario, 2 years old. James Roosevelt has accepted a movie position —in Hollywood, Calif., hav ing joined Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc., as vice president. Goldwyn, gray haired veteran of the motion picture business who has organiz ed and headed more major com- j panies than any other man in Hollywood, announced young Roosevelt’s appointment in a brief formal statement: “It is with great pleasure that I announce that James Roose: velt has joined my organization as vice president,’’ he said. Goldwyn refused to go into I details as to what the duties of j i the President’s son would be.! | Roosevelt recently underwent aj | major operation for a stomach j 'ailment at the Mayo Clinic at! Rochester, Minn., and has been i recuperating in Hollywood. His resignation as secretary to j his father was announced last | month at the White House. Roose- [ velt was employed as one of the j President’s $10,000-a-year seere-j taries, a job he took over early i this year after relinquishing a profitable insurance business. The lanky, 32-year-old son of j the President had conferred sev eral times with Goldwyn and two I weeks ago, when he left by air plane for a brief trip to Washing ton to clear up his White House desk, he was asked if he intended to enter the film business. “Nobody has offered me a job yet,” he replied. After Goidwyn’s announcement Sunday, young Roosevelt issued a brief statement in which he said he was “very happy to be as sociated with Mr. Goldwyn,’’ but gave little indication as to what his new duties would be. The motion picture industry is the third field of business which young Roosevelt has entered. Jews were sent into isolation by a Nazi order —issued recently im Berlin, Germany. I The new orders forced Jews deeper into isolation from German life Sunday amid the beginnings of j nation-wide Christmas festivities. In the mended windows and showcases of stores taken from i Jews after the Anti-Semitic demon. J strations that followed the slay- ' ing of Ernest Vom Rath, German embassy secretary, in Paris, new; Christmas goods appeared. But the new proprietors were warned that they must make a complete new' start, erasing any ] ties with their stores’ Jewish origins. “The transfer from Jewish to Aryan hands,” the official order declared, “marks a definite break with the past. The new owner starts afresh and must not refer j to the. previous standing of his j business.” Local -orders in Nuernberg and the neighboring town of Fuerth warned that new Jewish arrivals j would be imprisoned unless those ; who intendadjfco remain more than 48 hours reported to police. An annual meeting of the North Carolina Home Economics —Association was held at the Woman’s College of the Univer sity of North Carolina, Greens boro, on Friday and Saturday, December 2 and 3. The local Home Economics club was hostess at a tea on Friday afternoon, December 2, of which Miss Mattie Lou Ed wards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Edwards, Whitehead, serv ed as hostess chairman. Miss Ed wards is also chairman of the j Arts and Decoration committee, j as w'ell as one of the council • members of the club. OUR FELLOW DRIVERS By Mueller wnat a guy! we scops me to ask what time it is, and because my brakes don't hold he gives me a ticket!” President Roosevelt spoke Monday at the University of N. C. in Chapel Hill —and while rain drummed on the roof of the new Woollen Gymnasium on the chilly December afternoon, the Chief Executive reaffirmed the liberal philosophy of the New Deal and asserted in his internationally broadcast address that many other democracies look to the United States for leadership, i German-French friendship was pledged Tuesday —in Paris, France, when Nazi Germany gave France a signed pact of friendship, and sealed it with a promise of at least a temporary respite from territorial claims. The promise embraced France's colonial possessions as well as her frontier on the Rhine. Foreign Ministers Joachim von ; Ribbentrop of Germany and Georges Bonnet of France put their signatures to a three-point I accord formally burying ancient enmities, which pledged good neighbor relations, recognized the , existing Rhine frontier, and call ed for consuiation on all pro-' blems except those dealing with1 “particular relations with third! powers.” In conversations following the; ceremony, it was learned from , quarters close to the foreign ! ministry, Ribbentrop also gave Bonnet assurance Germany would ! not immediately press any claims i for return of her colonies lost to France under mandates after; the World War. The colonial question was the 1 most important among many dis cussed by the diplomats in a general conversation, The German foreign minister is said to have maintained Ger-' many’s “theoretical claims” for; return of her colonies, but to j have pointed out that the reich had made no formal demands and did not intend to do so for the time being. A similar attitude was under stood to have been taken to ward the recent Italian clamor for recognition of her “interests and aspirations” in French Tun-! isia and Corsica. The foreign ministers also re viewed the problem of the Span ish civil war in their talks, and the possibilities of developing mutual trade, but no definite de cisions were reached. Bonnet and Von Ribbentrop af fixed their names to the five- ] paragraph pact with a golden-! plumed pen of Louis XVI style | under the crystal chandeliers of i the famous clock room at the j foreign ministry. There the Kellogg-Briand pact j outlawing war was signed 10 years ago. Alfred M. Landon was initiated as a Shellback —Saturday by Father Neptune as he crossed the equator on the S. S. Santa Clara, enroute to Lima, Peru, to attend the Pan American Conference, as a mem ber of the United States delega tion. The mock ceremony was con ducted beside an open air swim ming pool with Neptune imper sonated by Eugene P. Thomas of the foreign trade council, New York. Neptune found the 1936 presi dential candidate guilty of “high crimes and inisdeameanors, in cluding republicanism and politi cal aberrations.” Landon was sentenced to be shaved by the royal barber of Neptune’s court. The shaving consisted of liberal besplashing with a flour paste, then shaving with a threefoot razor. Landon escaped being toss ed into the swimming pool, part of the usual procedure. Secretary of State Hull, head of the delegation, and ship’s Cap tain Anderson presented Landon a certificate to show he had cross ed the equator and‘been initiated. Three newspapermen who fol lowed Landon in the initiation re volted and tossed most of Nep tune’s attendants into the pool. REV. HOWARD J. FORD WILL PREACH SUNDAY —morning, December 11, at ele ven o’clock, at the Sparta Bap tist Church. max world democracy may sur vive. Speaking before the University of North Carolina Political Un ion the Chief Executive declared h:S strongest conviction is his abiding belief that “the security and well being of the American people can best be served by the Democratic processes which have made this country strong .and great.’’ “Mr. President,” began the Governor, “we welcome you into our borders, to this seat of high er learning. We hail you as the first citizen of the world.” There was stillness of hands and voices as Mr. Roosevelt gripped the speaker’s rostrum smiled and. began speaking. Confining his remarks to do mestic issues and the 1 future mostly, the Chief Executive did touch on the international situa tion, but his remarks were caus tic, spoke of regimentation and dictatorships. "There may be those in the world who believe that a regi mented people, whose very thought and action is dircted by one man, may give some type of people a security which is pleasing to them,” Mr. Roosevelt declared. “But whatever convic tions I have none is stronger than my abiding belief that the secur ity and well-being of the Ameri can people can best be served by the Democratic processes which have made this country strong and great. It was dark, and the rain was drumming harder onto the roof of the gymnasium when the President finished his address. The crowd yelled and applauded, swarmed toward the platform where he was. but secret service men and state patrolmen kept them back until Mr. Roosevelt could get to his automobile. From Chapel Hill, the presi dential party motored to Durham where the presidential special waited to carry the party to Washington Monday night. Among those who heard Mr. Roosevelt Monday were Represent atives Robert L. Doughton, of Alleghany County, Harold Cooley, Frank Hancock, and William Um stead, and Senator Josiah W. Bailey. National And World NEWS At A Glance "UNCLE TOM’S CABIN” BAN Berlin, Dec. 3.—“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is not a suitable book for Gearman moppets to read, in the opinion of present-day Nazi edu cationists. In the course of a “book week” held at Weimar, various Nazi leaders, from Propaganda Minister Joseph Paul Goebbels down, have been telling the people—for their own good—what books they should read, and what avoid. OUTLINES LABOR POLICY Grand Lodge, Mich., Dec., 5. —Michigan’s Republician gover nor-elect, Frank D. Fitzgerald said in an interview today that “nei ther labor organizations nor em ployers will dictate to. the gov ernment” when he assumes office January 2. CACHETS ARE IN DEMAND Bethlehem, Md., Dec. 4.— A brisk demand was reported to day for the special Christmas cachet of letters and cards that will be mailed from this little Caroline county town, bearing the postmark “Bethlehem.” MOONEY MOVES FOR PARDON San Francisco, Dec. 5.—Thomas J. Mooney’s 21-year court fight for freedom reached a dead end today before the United States’ highest tribunal and he promptly took the first formal step to ward seeking a pardon from Governor-Elect Culbert- L. Olson. Confidence that the pardon would be granted was expressed by Attorney George T. Davis, who described the court’s failure to act as “the great tragedy of the Mnnnpv nooo
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