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J ; ; ■ __ m l 4 11 1 rp • You WiU Profit 1 he Alleghany limes DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume No. 14. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1939. Number 39. Hugo S. Sims, Washington Correspondent COURT UPHOLDS TVA The Supreme Court, by a 5-to 2 division, has decided that the fourteen private utility companies are' without legal standing to challenge the validity of the Ten nessee Valley Authority’s electric power program. The Court did not pass upon the constitutionality of the TVA, holding that the companies had no right to escape the competition which they com plained of. Justice Butler, in his dissenting opinion, in which Justice McRey nolds joined, thought that the companies were “entitled to have this Court decide upon the con stitutional questions they have brought here.” Thus, the TVA. it is thought, will now proceed with construc tion of dams and sell the surplus power produced. The opinion did not pass directly upon the ques tion whether the Government is engaged upon a navigation-flood control plan, or as the companies asserted, is carrying out a pub licly-owned power scheme. This is the second decision of the Court upholding the TVA without passing directly upon some legal issue. On February 17, 1936, the Court ruled 8 bo 1, with Justice McReynolds dissenting, that, Wilson Dam, at Muscle Shoals, was legally built and its surplus electric power could be legally sold. In his opinion, Justice Roberts related the objections brought by the companies, such as deprivation of property without due process of law. He agreed with the lower court that the Authority had not indulged in “coercion, duress, fraud or misrepresentation in pro curing contracts with municipali ties, cooperatives or other pur chasers of power.’’ He held that the complaint of the companies was directed to the competition involved by the Government’s sale of electricity and pointed out that, in the absence of a specific contract, the existence of a cor poration creates “no right to be free of competition.” COALITION’S FUTURE The fact that the Senate, through a coalition of Democrats and Re publicans, refused to grant the President’s request for $875,000, 000 for WPA and joined with the House, in outting the appropriation to $725,000,000 is leading many observers to predict a continu ation of the coalition on other issues. One of these involves the President’s request for an ex tension of his authority to furth er devalue the dollar. Senator Glass, of Virginia, head of the Banking and Currencies sub-Com mittee, who is a foe of the New Deal, says that the Treasury will have the burden of proof as to the necessity for continuing such power. It is taken for granted that he will have the support of some of the Democrats, who join-' ed forces with the Republicans to cut relief appropriations. A. F. L ON POLITICS The American Federation of Labor which has always proclaim ed a non-partisan political policy, has warned its affiliates against participating in the movement of Labor’s Non-Partisan League look ing towards domination of the National Democratic Convention in 1940. Besides being an agency of the G} I. O., which is enough to prevent A. F. of L. collabo ration, the objective of the League is “purely political” and thus in apposition to the established pol icy of the American Federation of Labor. CONGRESS EXPLORING Congress continues its delving into the foreign policy of the na tion and the question of national defense. With the disposal of re lief legislation, members of both Houses seem anxious bo explore the relationships with other coun tries and to study the proposed strengthening of the country’s pro posed military and naval forces. Other questions that threaten to bob up include the proposed recog nition of General Franco, as out lined by Representative McCor < mack, of Massachusetts, and our relations with Mexico, with refer ence to Nazi penetration and po litical influence there. The proposed fortification of Guam continues to arouse inter est. • A number of congressmen , have attempted to secure definite I statements as to the future inten l tions of the Administration. The / Hepburn Naval Board recon i i mended a strong naval base at f Guam, but the $5,000,000 provid ed in the Special Defense Proposal will do little more than start work on an “American Singapore’’ in the Western Pacific. Whether this island will be developed into an (turn to page four, please) The Sparta YTHF Chapter has an enrollment of 81 —boys this year. The of ficers of the local chapter of the Young Tar Heel Farmers are: Paul Richard son, president; John Pugh, vice president; James Porter, secre tary; Arza Richardson, treasurer; Cleo Reeves, sergeant-at-arms; F. H. Jackson, advisor! and Howard Hincher, reporter. Under supervised practice the boys’ aim is to have 50 per cent of the students with purebred seed or livestock for projects'; each boy to complete two or more projects and twenty-five per cent of stu dents with continuation projects. The cooperative activities are as follows: each student pay Y. T. H. F. dues by October 30; cooperate with County Agricul tural Fair, September 30—Octo ber ' 1; cooperative marketing of wool and lambs. The chapter’s program of work includes these community ser vices: encourage use of improved seed and livestock among farm ers; conduct four fertilizer dem onstrations. The leadership activities are to send two delegates to the state convention; to hold local crops and stock judging contests; to send winners in local crops and livestock judging contest to Dis trict contest; to send spekar to Y. T. H. F. speaking contest. The following meetings were included in the program of ac tivities: to conduct two chapel programs; to have definite plan ned Y. T. H. F. programs two times each month; ,to have each member on program during year. The scholarship requirement is an average of 80 on all high school subjects. The athletic program includes organization of a Y. T. H. F bas ketball team and sending repre sentatives to athletic field day event. The publicity aims of the chap ter are to publish news in Tar Heel Talks, and in the local pa per. The social activities include holding a Father-and-Son ban q u e t; attending Y. T. H. F.’s camp; Y. T. H. F. party, and Y. T. H. F. ministrel Applications are being received tti Sparta now —for emergency crop and feed loans for 1939, at the office of the County Agri cultural Agent, by J. E. Joines, Field Supervisor of the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Section of the Farm Credit Ad ministration. The loans will be made, as in the past, .only to farmers whose cash requirements are small and who cannot obtain credit from any other source. The money loaned will be limited to the farmer’s immediate and actual cash needs for growing his 1939 crops or for the purchase of feed for live stock. Farmers who can obtain the funds they need from an in dividual, production credit associ ation, bank, or other concern are not eligible for crop and feed loans from the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Section of the Farm Credit Administration. The loans will not be made to stand ard rehabilitation clients whose current needs are provided for by the Farm Security Adminis tration, formerly known as the Resettlement Administration. As in the past, farmers who ob tain emergency crop and feed loans will give as security a first lien on the crop financed, or a first lien on the livestock to be fed if the money borrowed is to be used to produce or purchase feed for livestock. Where loans are made to ten ants, the landlords, or others hav ng an interest in the crops financ ed or the livestock to be fed, are required to wave their claims in favor of a lien to the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration until the loan is repaid. Checks in payment of approved loans will be mailed from the Regional Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Office at Colombia, South Carolina. Robert Landreth has been appointed assistant clerk —to the Ways and Means Com mittee of the national House of Representatives in Washington, D. C., by Congressman Robert L. Doughton, of Alleghany County, chairman of that committee. Mr. Landreth is formerly of Alle ghany County. He has resigned his position as bookkeeper in one of the government departments in the national capital. The personnel of the Ways and Means Committee is, at present, made up of Milton Cooper, form erly a Salisbury and North Wil kesboro attorney, as clerk, and Mrs. Marion McCanless and Mr. Landreth as assistant clerks. Mrs. McCanless is from Salisbury. Receives Honor Dr. B: W. Kilgore (above), chief of the North Carolina De partment of Agriculture’s Chem istry division, who was presented recently with a “token of appre ciation for many years of faith ful and distinguished service in Southern agriculture” by the As sociation of Southern Agricultural Workers in session at New Or leans, La. X Spencer Tracy has | been nominated for the Academy —award again this year, along with four other actors and five iactresses. Tracy was given the Motion Picture Arts and Scienses award last year for his performance in “Captains Courageous.” The per formance for which Tracy was nominated for the honor this year was in “Boys Town.” The nominations were made yester day, in Hollywood, Calif. The nominations: Best performance by an actor: Actors—Charles Boyer in “Al giers,” Walter Wanger-United Ar tists. James Cagney in “Angels With Dirty Faces,” Warners. Robert Donat in “The Citadel,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Leslie Howard in “Pygmalion,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Spencer Tracy i n “Boys Town,” Metra-Goldwyn-Mayer. Best performance by an ac tress: Actresses—Fay Bainter i n “White Banners,” Warners. Bette Davis in “Jezebel,” War ners. Wendy Hiller in “Pygmalion,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Norma Shearer in “Marie An toinette,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Margaret Sullivan in “Three Comrades,” Metro-Goldwyn-May er. Outstanding pictures of the year: Pictures—“Alexander’s R a g time Band,” Twentieth Century Fox. “Boys Town,” M-G-M. “The Citadel,” M-G-M. “Four Daughters,” Warners. “Grand Illusion,” World Pic tures. “Jezebel,” Warners. “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” Warners. “Test Pilot,” M-G-M. “You can’t Take It With You,” Columbia. Best performance by an actor in supporting role: Supporting actor — Walter Brennan in “Kentucky.” John Garfield in “Four Daugh ters.” Gene Lockhart in “Algiers.” Robert Morley in “Marie An (turn to page five, please) White House Swamped With Dimes __! mam WASHINGTON, D. C.—Employees in the White House Mail Room have been working overtime for the past week sotting out the thousands of letters containing dimes for the 1939 "Fight Infantile Paralysis” campaign. Photo shows Mrs. Barbara Councilor (left) and Mrs, Ethel L. Haberkorn opening some of the thousands of letters being received daily. The finance group of the legislature voted to exempt —“basic” building materials from the 3 per cent, sales tax, and fhe joint finance group of the legislature in Raleigh, when it voted this way Tuesday, blasted a $500,000 hole in- the administration’s proposed revenue bill. By a close oral vote the com mittee voted in favor of an amendment by Representative Uzze.ll, of Row-an, Senator* Long, Of Halifax, and Senator Eagle, of Edgecombe, to restore the ex emptions despite a statement in Governor Hoey’s biennial budget measure asking "that the excise tax on building materials be ex tended to cover items now ex empted.” Action oh the" amendment fol lowed a public hearing at which bottlers of the state, opposed a proposed one-eighth of a cent per bottle crown tax on soft drinks on the ' ground that it would virtually take away profits of a number of bottlers and “wipe out of business” a number of others. The bottlers made a compro mise proposal through former Lieutenant Governor Elmer Long, of Durham, that the crown tax proposal be killed and that state license levies on bottlers be in creased. Senator Reynolds has announced the recent formation —of the Association of Patriotic American Citizens, —On Friday night, February grow into another political party. The junior North Carolina Senator revealed plans for a national convention of the em bryo organization, to be held in St. Louis during the early summer, | and stated that “if I am elected to head the movement I should be highly honored.” Reynolds was inspired to found the patriotic order, he said, be cause of the “thousands of let ters, phone calls and telegrams that have poured into my office praising my stand on international affairs.” Senator Reynolds now has a bill pending which calls for an absolute ban on all immigration to the United States for a period of ten years, “or until such time as every one of the 12,000,000 unemployed workers in this coun try shall have been provided with remunerative work.” Having been actively supported by various patriotic organizations j in his two campaigns, Senator! Reynolds is an outspoken advocate | of the mandatory registration and I fingerprinting of all aliens in the ] United States. “I am still a good Democrat.” said Reynolds, “but we will wel come both Democrats and Repub licans to our newly-formed pa triotic organization. There will be no dues and no profits and no religious prejudice. But, need less bo say, we will not welcome Fascists, Nazis or Communists.” REV. HOWARD J. FORD IS TO PREACH ON SUNDAY —morning, February 12, at elev en o’clock, in the Baptist Church. Glenn Maxwell has been granted janew trial —for the murder of Charlie ! Shepherd on April 14, 1938. Maxwell (colored) was con victed by a jury in Alle ghany Superior Court, here, of I first degree murder and was sen tenced to die. The case was car j lied to the North Carolina Su preme Court, which body handed down the decision ordering a new trial on Wednesday, February 1, with only one justice dissenting. Maxwell’s first trial was held last September. The high court ruled that Judge F. Don Phillips, trial judge, erred in his charge to the jury. Maxwell Will be arraigned, if is said, at the May term of Alle ghany Superior Court, and will again he tried for first degree murder. The high couit held that Judge Phillips erred in telling the jury that “your verdict will be ‘guilty of murder in the first degree,’ as charged in the bill of indictment, or ‘guilty of murder in the sec ond degree,’ and in no event will your verdict be ‘guilty of man slaughter’ or ‘not guilty’.” Associate Justice Michael Schenck wrote in the opinion that “under our system of trial the judge is prohibited from express ing an opinion as to defendant’s guilt.’’ Governor Hoey was supported by the highway board —Tuesday in Raleigh, when the State Highway and Pub lic Works Commission de clared that North Carolina’s highway system “needs all funds available for road purposes,” but voted unanimously to support Governor Hoey’s stand on the transfer, if necessary, of $7,000, 000 from the highway to the general fund. The commission, meeting in Ra leigh, also went on record as fav oring the issuance of $5,000,000 worth of bonds by the General Assembly to improve primary roads. The proposal bears the endorsement of the Governor. The resolution on highway fund transfer marked the second victory by Governor Hoey on the so-called highway diversion ques tion. Last week, after the Governor had urged the legisuature to al low the transfer in the event of a general fund deficit, the sen ate finance committee gave an unfavorable report to a “better roads bill” which would have pledged the assembly against di version. A national debt figure of huge size was forecast —Tuesday, when Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau told a con gressional committee that the national debt would reach $50, 000,000,000 and could do so with out danger to the country’s financial structure. The Fifth-Month Honor Roll at Pine Swamp School —has been announced as follows: j First Grade—Velma Edwards, i’atsy Edwards, An is Toliver and j Doris W'alker. Second Grade—Edith Crouse, | Lorce Edwards, Edsel Andrews! and Guy Scott. Third Grade-^-Helen Andrews, Marie Brooks, Fay Walker, Reba Walker, Dorothy Wagoner, Dwair .Andrews, Dwight Brown and Ed win Brooks. t Fourth Grade — Naomi An- j drews and Sally Ruth Atwood. j Fifth Grade—Arlene Halloway. Sixth Grade — Annie Marie Joines and Eva Sue Wagoner. Seventh Grade — Earl Lee , Joines and Madge Halloway. . -! Winning Friends iyr .;__ * * PAS . Practicing his own axiom of “win friends and influence peo ple,” Dale Carnegie, noted lec turer and author, is shown with the bearded Brahmin Ramgoolie Cebala, priest of the ancient Hindu temple at Tunapuna, on the outskirts ' of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Roosevelt asked for additional money for relief —Tuesday, when he flung the relief issue back in the face of Congress, with an assertion that unless more money is appropriated for WPA, millions now dependent upon fed eral assistance may “be stranded” by early summer. Specifically, he asked for the §150.000,000 which congress, in an economy effort, lopped from his estimates of relief needs for the present fiscal year. He urged “immediate consider ation” of his request, but the two key men in the situation in the house—-Chairman Taylor, (D. CoLo.). of the appropriations com mittee and Chairman Woodrum, (D.-Va.), of the subcommittee in charge, made it plain that no ac tion would be taken for several weeks. “I don’t know,” Woodrum said, “what action the committee will take or whether it will take any. I don’t see that the situation has changed, and 1 have not changed my view that the $725,000,000 we have already appropriated will be enough.’’ Chairman Adams (D.-Colo.), of the corresponding sub-comittee in the senate said that whatever bill is approved by the house will re ceive ‘‘careful study” along with any “new facts” that may be pre sented. He. too, said that neither the relief situation nor his own views as to what should be done had changed. Behind the president’s request and these statements by the legis lators lay the deep seated con troversy over the Roosevelt spend ing policies, and the results of the session’s first battle on that issue. Early last month, Mr. Roose velt requested $875,000,000 to finance WPA from February 7 to the end of the fiscal year on June 30. The house, with Re publicans and economy Democrats in control, reduced the figure to $725,000,000. After a memor able battle, the senate approved the lower appropriation by a single vote. But. in order to ob tain its bare senate majority, the economy bloc had been forced to make two concessions, that not more than five per cent of the WPA workers should be dropped during the cold weather months of February and March, and that if an emergency aros«, the presi dent could ask for more funds, i J. C. Fields, a pioneer Alleghany citizen, died —on Friday night, February; 3, at his home in the Elk Creek community, near Sparta, at the age of 98 years, he having celebrated his JOth birthday anniversary on January 20 of this year. He had suffered a stroke of paraly sis on Tuesday . preceding his death. Mr. . Fields was a member of the North Carolina General As sembly, representing Alleghany County in the House of Delegat es, in 1901. He had been a po litical leader in Alleghany Coun ty for many years, and retained a deep interest in political af fairs until his death. The de ceased man was a brother of the late State Senator William C. F'p’d*. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Annie Fields; two daughters, Miss Pearl Fields, Sparta, and Miss Clyde Fields, principal of a Statesville school, and a brother, Fiank P. Fields, Jamesville, Ala. Mr. Fields was an uncle of J. „ Cam Fields and Hoke Fields, Mouth of Wilson, Va., and Mrs. E. F. MeNeer, Elkin, N. C. Funeral services Were conduct ed on Sunday afternoon, the 5th, at two o’clock, at the home. Eld er Price Vass,. Woodlawn, Va., was in charge of the services, as sisted by Rev. L. F. Strader, pastor of the Sparta Methodist Church; Rev. H. J. Ford, pastor of the Sparta Baptist Church, and Rev. C. W. Ervin, Glade Valley. A group, comprised of Mrs. W. B. Whitney, Independence, Va.; Miss Nancy Phipps and Edgar I. Phipps, Bridle Creek. Va., and Miss . Emaline Hawthorne and T. R. Burgess, Sparta, sang “Rock of Ages,” “How Firm A Founda tion” and “Abide With Me.” Pallbearers w e r e: Horton Doughton, Statesville; J. Cam Fields and William Ross, Mouth |of Wilson, Va., and Ed Haw thorne, Fred Brown and Floy<J Crouse, Sparta. Flower bearers were: Mrs. Fred McLean, Mrs. W. B. Whitney, ;Mrs. Ross Hawthorne, Mrs. John iReid Smith, Mrs. Charles H. Smith, Mrs. J. Cam Fields, Mrs. Roy Burgess, Mrs. E. F. Chester, Mrs. Clinton Halsey, Mrs. Dwight Greene, Mrs. R. E. Black, Mrs. C. W. Ervin, Mrs. Edwin Dun can, Mrs. Ben Reeves, Misses An ne McLean, Ila Osborne, Mae Doughton, Blanche Gambill, Eraa linc Hawthorne, Zollie Southers, Virginia Hash, Margaret Ross, Lillian Ross, Vancine Choate, Wanda Choate, Nina Hash and Beatrice Holbrook, Dr. Sam Hol brook, Herbert Hawthorne, John Reid Smith and Charles H. Smith. Interment was in Elk Creek Cemetery. The Low Gap highway will be completed ' —soon, it is thought, North j Carolina highway officials having received and opened a few days ago a bid for the grading and paving of 4.03 | miles of this road, which will, when paved, give connection, near Norvale Crags, with the road that was paved by the Virginia high way department a number of years ago. The bids on the Low Gap link of the road were included in a group, of six bids, totaling more than $600, 000, which were opened in Ra leigh, on January 31. The bids for the project in Surry County included the mountain link of the Low Gap road, from a point sev en-tenths of a mile north of Low Gap to the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Virginia state line. Highway engineers are of the opinion that the proposed road between the Blue Ridge Parkway and Low Gap, construction work on which has been delayed from time to time due to changes in the survey, will be one of the most modern and beautiful links of mountain road in North Car olina. E. W. Grannis, of Fayetteville, was the successful bidder on the Low Gap road construction project. His bid was $117,887. 76. Ralph E. Mills Co., of Ken tucky, were low bidders for the structures on the road, amount ing to $11,600. Work is to begin on the road rhen right-of-ways are secured.
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