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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, FEBRUARY 23, 1939. Number 41. mHERHHSKlIto Hugo S. Sims, Wukin(ton Carreipomdent ADDING 3,050 PLANES The action of the House of Representatives in passing a bill to add 3,050 warplanes to the Army Air Corps by a vote of 367 to 15 indicates that Con gress will pass practically the complete rearmament program ad vocated by the Administration. Earlier, a Republican caucus de cided to back the defense bill, with the exception that it pro posed an amendment spreading the purchase of the planes over a three-year period instead of the two years provided in the bill. On this, the Republicans stuck together, but were defeated 183 to 136. ARMY HAS 1,44.6 NOW As we understand the situation, the Air Corps had on hand on December 31st.. 1938, 1,797 air planes, of which 351 were obso lete, leaving 1,446 serviceable ma chines. To this should be added 558 planes under contract and 464 to be purchased under the provision of the regular War De partment appropriation bill. This would supply the Air Corps with 2,468 serviceable planes. The bill' before the House provided a top strength of 5,500 airplanes, in' line with the President’s recom-1 mendation, and, therefore, author-' izes the purchase of approximate- j ly 3,050 additional planes. PROVIDES EXPANSION From a transcript of the hear ing before the House Military Af- i fairs Committee and from other j sources, it seems that the program! will provide for: an increase of] the aircraft -industry’s productive' capacity from 2,500 annually at present to about 800 planes per month; the purchase of more than 3,000 planes by July 1st, 1941, to give the Army 5,500 planes; (the Navy meanwhile would ex pand its air force by 200 planes per year, reaching a 3,000 total in 1944). There is also provided $62,000,000 for a construction program for Army air bases, bar racks, mess halls, etc.; $8,000,000 for bombs; provision for training -civilian fliers with more complete training at Army training cen ters; a research program to seek the development of 3,000-horse power engines and 400-miles-per hour planes. BRANDEIS RETIRES The resignation of Justice Louis D. Brandeis, after more than twenty two years of active ser vice on the Supreme Court bench, was no surprise as the Justice is twenty-two years of active ser in frail health for several years. When nominated by President Wilson, Mr. Brandeis was opposed by business men, utilities repre sentatives and every former presi dent of the American Bar Associ ation. It was only after four months of fiery debate, in which the racial issue was raised against him, that the Senate by a vote of 47 to 22 confirmed his nomi nation. • Shortly thereafter, he became a member of the “Holmes and-Brandeis dissenting’’ firm. HAD LIBERAL VIEWS Mr. Brandeis geared his legal thought to change, believing that! the law should serve a transitional society. His dissents put him on record in favor of the restoration of competition in the face of stul tifying monopolies wherever pos sible. or where this was impose sible, a system of control. He often spoke in behalf of the civil rights of the individual and the protection of a minority in a •democracy. He did not believe, in general, that the Constitution, or any law, was intended to leave a nation helpless to correct its evils and expressed the view that “there must be power in the state and in the nation to remold through experimentation our eco nomic practices to meet changing social and economic needs.’’ He added: “If we would guide by the light of treason, we must let onr minds be bold.” By many his views were con sidered a forecast of New Deal reform legislation and it is noted that of sixteen important legis lative measures brought before him, he sided with the Adminis tration ten times. DESTROYERS DEFECTIVE The difficulties of building up a Navy are illustrated in the an nouncement last week that eigh teen more of the Navy’s newest destroyers have been delayed in completion because of the discov ery of engineering defects. The ships affected were authorized in 1935 and 1936. The defects in volve certain turbine failures and it was necessary to correct the de sign in other destroyers. Little or no extra expense is involved to the Government because the cor rection is up to the builder, but a delay in the completion of the destroyers is inevitable. Japan’s relations with third powers in China —were believed by neutral observers Tuesday night to be rapidly nearing a show down as the result of a tense situation in Shanghai" and the bombing of a railroad sta tion in British Hongkong by Japanese airplanes. In a two-hour emergency ses sion Premier Baron Kiichiro Hi ranuma, Foreign Minister Ha chiro Arita, War Minister Lieut. Gen. Seishira Itagaki and Marine Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yo nai considered drastic action to check anti-Japanese terrorism in Shanghai, where the 53rd po litical assassination in the past 15 months occurred with the slaying of Marquis Li Kuo-Chieh, | reported to have been associated with the Japanese-sponsored Nan-! king reformed government. Replies given by the four min isters to angry interpellations in the Japanese diet showed theyj agreed that Japan must risk in ternational complication to “re store order” in the international settlement of Shanghai. Premier Hiranuma declared i that the latest terroristic acts ( “compel Japan to take funda mental measures to maintain peace and order” in both the set- \ tlement and the French conces sion of Shanghai. Arita said that “nothing could prevent Ja-1 pan from exercising the right of self-defense where necessity de mands.” Pioneer Citizen Dies —J. C. Reids (above), 90, who passed away at his home in the Elk Creek section of Alleghany County on Friday, February 3. Mr, Fields was a former member of the North Carolina General Assembly.—Photo Courtesy Wins ton-Salem Journal. A plan to balance the state budget was submitted —Tuesday by a sub-com mittee of the General As sembly’s joint finance com mittee in Raleigh. The sub committee recommended a nine point program to “balance the state’s budget,” including pre viously rejected proposals to in crease liquor taxes and to extend the sales tax to “basic” build ing materials. Almost immediately after hear ing from the subcommittee, which had labored since last Fri day on its recommendations, Senator Umstead of Orange countered by offering an in crease of approximately 16 2-3 per cent, in the income tax. No action was taken. Despite a motion by Senator Boyette of Moore that the sub committee’s report be adopted immediately, the committee decid ed to defer action and to hold hearings Thursday on all new taxation proposals. The program, as presented to the full committee by Represen tative Bryant of Durham, fol lows: 1. Increasing the estimate of returns from the inheritance tax tually raising inheritance taxes). 2. Increasing the levy on ma chines vending soft drinks from $15 to $30 a year to net $45, 000 a year. 3. Increasing tax on chain stores either by increasing rate by $76,000 a year (without ac (tum to page eight, please) The British House of Commons gave its approval —Tuesday night to England’s gigantic share in the international arms race, a few hours after Prime Minister Chamberlain had admitted it might “lead to the bankruptcy of every country in Europe.” At the same time Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancester, W. S. Morrison, speaking for Baron ChatfitJd_ minister for co-ordi nation of defense, disclosed that the British and French general staffs were working on a joint inclusive plan to make effective use of all the two nation’s re sources—men, munitions and war potentials—in event the two are involved in war. Senator Byrd, of Virginia, said the nation faces —“the most momentous legislative problems in our history,” in an address on “The Trend of Government in Washington,” delivered Tues-i day night in Lynchburg Va., at1 the convention of the Virginia Retail Hardware Association. He said a free and frank public dis-! eussion was necessary for the best solution of these problems. Senator Byrd told the associ ation that the time had come “to appraise the important legislation that has been enacted in recent years so that the good and the practical may be strengthened, fortified and made permanent, and the unwise and impractical either repealed or amended.” Byrd was introduced by Sena-! tor Carter Glass, who said that j Byrd, as Virginia’s governor ac-1 complished more than any gover-| nor since the Civil War and in his i few years of service in thei United States senate had made j such a reputation as no other] man had done in a similar period i during Glass’ lifetime. In responding to the introduc-1 tion, Byrd said that his hardest job during his six years so far in the senate had been “keeping up with the senior senator, who can cover more ground and fight harder than anybody, old or young, that I have known.” Glass, who told his audience he had ridden 200 miles to be pres ent against the earnest admonition .of his physician at Washington, said he and Byrd had delayed their depaiture from the capital because of their “earnest desire to attempt to save the taxpayers $35,000,000, and we so voted, but the spendthrifts as usual prevailed.’’ “But we intend to persist,’’ he asserted, “in our effort to put this government on a business basis.” “I favored important legislation that has been enacted,” Byrd said. “To mention some, I favored ade quate national defense, control of the New York stock exchange, the insurance of bank deposits, and the reorganization of our banking system. “I have always favored the taxation of tax exempt salaries and future issuance of tax exempt bonds, and introduced legislation to this effect when I first came to the Senate.” Commenting on the sale of air planes to Prance, Byrd said he saw no justification for criticism of the sale, “providing such sales are made in accordance with the neutrality laws.” “I am opposed to foreign en tanglements,” he said, “and have supported the efforts of Secre tary Hull to regain our foreign markets, destroyed largely through the Republican policy of excessive tariffs.” THE HONOR ROLL FOR ROCK CREEK SCHOOL —for the fifth month of the 1938-39 term has been announc ed and is as follows: First Grade: Billie Joines, Bet ty Ruth Farmer, Dwight Reeves and Rosalie Crouse. Second Grade: Warren Rector and Ted Sanders. Third Grade: Doris Souther, Blance Crouse, Imojean Carpen ter, Evelyn Joines and Ruth Crouse. Fifth Grade: Walton Joines, Kathleen Carpenter, Ruby Rose Sanders, R. L. Souther, Jr., and Benny Reeves. Seventh Grade: Edna Sanders, Wilma Hampton and Fred Hamp ton. . Flood Doesn’t Wait For Control Project . MIDDLESBORO, Kentucky . . . These men used an outboard motor for transportation in the downtown section here recently, after the town was flooded by swift torrents which plunged down from the mountains. The flood came before Middleboro’s $500,000 flood control Government project could be completed. Advocates of government economy renewed —their attacks on adminis tration spending Monday in Congress with a demand that the Senate withhold money for starting a new TVA dam. The movement brought a charge from Senator Norris (Ind., Neb.), legislative father of the TVA, that “the power trust” was seek ing to hamper TVA. At issue was a $4,252,000 al lotment for starting work on a new’ dam at Watts Bar on the Tennessee river. The item was part of a $17,206,000 TVA al location approved by the senate appropriations committee after it had been rejected in the house. Moving to strike out the Watts Bar project, Senate■; Adams (D.,. Colo.), told the ^en§vT the TVA had come “to make a start to ward economy.” “I am not concerned about power development from the dam,” Adams told the senate, “but I am concerned about cur tailing some of these vast gov ernment expenditures -—• particu larly those wdiich can be post poned.’’ Norris and Senator McKellar (D., Tenn.), defended the pro ject, contending that it was neces sary to completion of the TVA program already laid down by congress. There were 53 influenza deaths during January —in North Carolina report ed to the State Board of Health, Raleigh, showing a drop of 41 under Che 94 reported the corresponding month in 1938, according to figures compiled by Dr. R. T. Stimp son, Director of the Division of Vital Statistics. There also was a decline of 89 in the number of pneumonia deaths for the montn, tne January, total being 315, as compared with 404 a year ago. Preventable accidents were re sponsible for 119 deaths last month, as compared with 127 for January, 1938. Some of the deaths from accidents that actu ally occurred in 1938 were not reported until 1939 The year started off with a drop in the number of deaths, the total for January, 1939, be ing 2,828, as compared with 3, 098 a year ago, while births also showed a slight drop, this year’s total being 6,352, against 6,395 in January, 1938. Suicides showed a drop of from 26 to 17, while homicides for the month fell from 35 to 30. Maternal deaths last month numbered 30, a decline of seven under the corresponding period in 1938, while deaths among children under a year old total ed 411, the same as in January, 1938. There were also three fewer deaths from diarrhea and enteritis among children under two years old, Dr. Stimpson’s re port shows. Measles deaths dropped from 16 to 7, while whooping cough fatalities jumped from nine to 22. There were nineteen deaths from diphtheria during the month. Senator Pittman denounced the dictator states -—Monday night in Wash ington, D. C., as intent on dominating the world. Sena tor Pittman (D.-Nev.), de clared that Americans would die, if necessary, to preserve the things they “consider worth more than life.” Ridiculing the British policy of appeasement and the American isolationists, the chairman of the senate foreign affairs committee I called for a firm stand in de-! fense of American rights' “throughout the universe.” Such a policy, he said in a speech prepared for the Wash ington Star’s radio forum, was! the most likely to keep the United States out Of war. As- for attempts at appease ment, by giving way to demands of dictator states, he declared: “The policy of appeasement,! has not only been unsuccessful! and ultimately destructive, but has been immoral. It is evident that no person can die but once, and the period of life is limited, | and that it is far better that! he die a few days earlier for j Christianity, justice and liberty than that he live a little longer in cowardice and degeneracy.” Concerning isolation, he said: “Austria, since the World War, adopted and practiced a policy of isolation. Behold Austria! Ethiopia practiced the policy of isolation. Note the condition of Ethiopia. Czechoslovakia, under the rules of the league of na tions, practiced the policy of iso lation. Czechoslovakia’s territory has been divided up, its govern ment destroyed, and its spirit of democracy annihilated! “Witness China. No people and no government ever practic ed more sincerely the doctrine of isolation!” Describing the policy of de fense he advocated, he said: "This policy includes the pro tection of a country’s territory, and the rights of its nationals throughout the universe. It holds that such protection shall be accomplished, first, through every established, peaceful in strumentality ; second, through every legal resistance to en croachments upon the integrity of a nation’s territory and the rights of its nationals; and the third and lastly, through the use of physical force if every other means has failed, to successful ly defend its territory and the right of its nationals." Pittman said President Roose Jvelt’s policy was to avoid entangl ! ing alliances, but to refuse the ! “oppressed governments” no aid !that the United States may leg ally give them, short of war. | Relying to critics who say the 'president’s foreign policy is en dangering the peace of the j country, he said: | “President Roosevelt, under ■the approved policy of our gov ernment and the neutrality act, has no intention to lead us into war and cannot lead us into war.” A NEW BATTLESHIP WAS CHRISTENED TUESDAY —by King George VI, of England. The sovereign christened the $4T)_ 000,000, 35,000-ton armored giant King George V in honor of his father. The king wore an ad miral’s greatcoat for the chris Richmond County voted against liquor stores -—in that county Tuesday. The majority against the A. B C. stores was 1,045 out of a total v-ote of 4,009. The complete vote was: Against, 2,527; For, 1,482. A total of 47 absentees weire cast in the entire county, 41 of them against stores, and 6 for, according to Is lac London, chair man of the board, of elections. The 4,009 total vote, compares with 7,121 cast iri the Democratic primary of last July, and 2.974 cast in the general election last November. Two persons were killed by a tornado in Bertie —County Tuesday night, when the storm swept through a thickly populated farm area along Albemarle Sound, on the North Carolina coast. At least 17 persons were seriously injured., by . the storm. Several families were sepa rated and numbers of persons made homeless as the wind cut a three-mile path through the small settlement of Green Cross Roads, leveling: at least 10: houses but missing the section surrounding the village church. The dead: John W Brown, 65, killed in stantly when his automobile pil ed into the rear of a bus forced to a sudden stop by a tree fell ed by the form. Robert Lawrence, 94, who died in Windsor Hospital after being pulled from the wreckage of his home. Brown, chief of police at Cole rain, was returning from the scene of the tornado when he was killed. A Norfolk-Southern bus had escaped the windstorm by a few minutes but was forced to stop suddenly .when it ran abreast of one of the huge trees blown across the highway. Mayor J. A. Pritchett, of Windsor, said all victims had been accounted for with the ex ception of Mrs. MacKinley Con ner. State highway patrolmen and volunteers continued to search the stricken area by torchlight for her and possibly other victims. Pritchett, who visited the scene of the disaster, said he believed the storm had struck the area east of Windsor and moved out to sea without doing further damage. He said an “unestimated number’’ of refu gees were being cared for in Windsor homes. Clarence T. Wilson passed away in Portland, Oregon —at Good Samaritan Hos pital, on Thursday, February 16. Dr. Clarence True Wil son was internationally known as a prohibitionist and was the founder of the Methodist Church Temperance Board. He had been ill for three weeks with uremic poisoning, complicated by a heart attack. Dr. Wilson, one of the -most active fighters in the ranks of prohibition, was born at Milton, Del., April 24, 1872. He was educated at St. John’s college, Annapolis, Md., but gradu ated from the University of South ern California in 1894. After a brief experience in the ministry, he went to Portland in 1905 as pastor of Grace Metho dist church and later of Centen ary Methodist. A Republican. Dr. Wilson sup ported Herbert Hoover in the 1928 presidential campaign against Alfred E. Smith, whom he called a “wet nullifier of the constitu tion.” But in 1932. when Presi dent Hoover was running against Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dr. Wil son created a furore at the Ohio conference of his church when he denounced Hoover as a “de serter from the dry forces the first day he was elected.’' He said he was going to vote for Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for president. He an nounced later, however, that he had withdrawn his support of Thomas upon learning there was a “wet” plank in the Socialist platform. the cost of auto license tags would be raised —by 50 cents in North Caro lina under the provisions >of a bill introduced in the General Assembly a' Ral eigh Monday night by nator Long, of Halifax. The receipts of such, an increase would be used to establish a hospital insur ance fund for victims of highway accidents. Representative Woodhouse, of Yadkin, sent forward a measure to ..abolish all county alcoholic beverage control boards and to, ■transfer, their duties to the boards of : county • mtnissioners. The bill was understood., to be an economy, proposal. • The hospital insurance measure, -aid to b backed by the State Association of Hospitals, was re ferred to the senate finance com mittee. The bill provides that the insurance would become effective' a.- soon a- a $ S uO.Ouu iund is set- up from receipts of the ad ditionai, 50-cent levy on auto ■license tags. Under the proposal, the fund would pay S3 a day, for 21 days, toward the hospital expenses of any North Carolinian injured in a motor vehicle accident. Action was deferred in the senate on a bid to require the immunization of all children against diphtheria. Another principal legislative development Monday was a pre diction by Governor Hoey that North Carolina’s budget for the 1939-1941 biennium would fol low “rather closely’’ the record setting $154,514,899 tax-spending program recommended by the ad visory budget commission. The Governor disclosed that he had conferred several times dur ing the week-end with chairmen of legislative . money committees, and that he was convinced the state would “continue to operate under a balanced budget.” Wednesday, the legislature was to move to Charlotte for a one day session, at which Governor Hoey and Governor Burnet R. Maybank, of South Carolina, had been invited to speak. Never before had the General Assembly met as far west as Charlotte, state officials said. Saturday, members of the sen ate will go to Wilmington on a pleasure trip. The Seniors of Glade Valley High School —were entertained by the Juniors on Monday night, February 20, with a theatre party in Sparta, followed by refreshments at the B. & T. Drug Store. The event was the annual Junior-Senior party held by the students. A prize was given Miss Bobby McCall, who was voted the pret tiest girl, and Claude Dancy, who i was voted the best-looking boy, ! also received a prize. Both prizes | were donated by B. & T. Drug I Store. The Arthur Walker Literary Society gave a George Washing ton program on Saturday night, consisting of readings from “Washington’s Life and Works.” Alumni visiting Glade Valley High School during the week-end ; were Clyde Forrest, Dobson; Miss | Virginia Taylor, Newton^ and Miss j Lillie Ervin, Sparta. Sparta High School girls’ basketball team will play !—the Ronda girls tomorrow I (Friday) afternoon, at 3:30 o’clock, in Ronda, in the four ccunty basketball tournament which will be participated in by teams from Alleghany, Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin counties. The Sparta boys’ team will play the Elkin boys, in Elkin to morrow (Friday) night, at eight o’clock. THE FRENCH SEEMED READY TO RECOGNIZE —unconditionally the nationalist Franco regime in Spain Tuesday night, and to send a FYench gen eral as its first ambassador to i Burgos. Diplomats thought the week-end would sue full recog nition.
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