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Want To Sell HT1 1 All 1 HH • You Will Profit Something? r A 1% IjL I I 1% A I If You Always Read Try a Want Ad jA A A Jk^mL A A A A A A gf JL i Times’ Advertisements DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume No. 14. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1939. Number 42. Hugo S. Sims, Washington Correspondent CAPITOL FAIRLY QUIET With the President watching the fleet manoeuvres, the capital was fairly quiet last week. Congress was in the initial stages of grind ing out appropriation measures-; and the flurry over the sale of -war planes to France had about subsided. It may be taken for granted that as a result of the French airplane purchases, efforts will be j made to limit the power of the President in such matters. The in cident will also be used as a lever to pry into the entire question of foreign relations and as a spring board from which to jump into long discourses on neutrality and keeping this country out of war. NATIONS SEEK PLANES The arrival of military missions from the Netherlands, intent up- j on the purchase of airplanes in this country for the Army and Navy of that nation, apparently aroused no adverse comments. Even the report that Soviet Rus sia might make an effort to pur chase two battleships to be built in this country, touched off no fuse. The uproar about the [French purchases was caused, ap- j parently, by the secrecy surround- J ing the transactions which was dis- 1 closed by the crashing of the bomber in the West. NEUTRALITY ADVANCED The earlier purchase by Great Britain of planes caused no con-1 sternation. Meanwhile, it may be assumed that the present policy of this country, as adopted by the President, includes willingness to sell war supplies to the British and the French and thus help the democratic nations to arm them selves on a parity with the aggres sor powers in Europe. That such purchases will accelerate produc tion in this country and reduce the cost to the Government is a pleasing factor. In other words, Mr. Roosevelt had advanced the official attitude of this country from one of blind neutrality, re- { gardless of the issues involved in j a war in Europe, to one of legal neutrality, which policy, as things > stand today, amounts to consider able assistance to Great Britain! and France. - : That the position taken by the j President expresses the views of; the American people can hardly; be disputed. Public opinion in this country is overwhelmingly against Germany and Italy, large ly because our people believe that a war in Europe will be the re- j suit of premeditated aggression, j HOUSE DEBATES GUAM Last week the House having passed the bill to increase the Army flying strength to 5,500 planes took up the naval air base program, with most of the dis cussion involving the proposal to establish a seaplane outpost on Guam. Chairman Vinson, of the House Naval Committee, said the Navy had no intention of fortify ing the tiny island at this time but warned that some day it may prove “indispensible to the suc cess of United States defensive j operations.” With the world be-; ing overrun by the dictator pow- } ers, he continued, it is necessary j for the United States to answer i them in their own language and the nation should be vigilant in j looking to its defenses. Criticism of the project came from Repre-j sentative.Fish, of New York, who! called it a “dagger” at the throat | of Japan and said that if we J ■“were ever looking for war, this J is the way to get it.” Regardless of tne aenate ana • the discussion that renters around Guam, it may be taken for grant ed that the Congress will provide the air bases requested and that the United States will enter into their active development. While this writer has no “inside infor mation,’' and while the present measure does not inclnde the ac tual fortification of Guam, it is reasonable to assume, unless world conditions change, that the island will eventually become a strong outpost for the Navy. In fact, its development is necessary if the Navy is to be able to function effectively in the event of a clash with the Japanese. Moreover, the fortification of Guam increases the difficulties that stand in the way of any attack upon Hawaii, the western coast including Alaska and the Panama CanaL ECONOMIC OUTLOOK While economists do not look tor anything like a boom, under lying factors are favorable to steady improvement in the com ing months. The Administration’s encouraging attitude to business tends to remove some friction, although peace is being delayed by the die-hard attitude of some i .(tom to page five, please) A bill designed to “reform” elections passed —the House of Representa tives in Raleigh Tuesday, riding over an opposition bloc. The bill, the first and possibly the most controversial of a series of bills designed to “re form” North Carolina elections, was sent to the Senate. While the legislative machinery operated at the fastest clip of the 1939 session, the joint re venue committee gave a favorable report 'to a permanent tax bill providing for a “substantially balanced budget,” and the sen ate finance comitt.ee killed the Umstead bill providing for the mail-order sale of liquor in dry counties. The senate passed and sent tc the house an amended bill which would give juries discretion ir sentences in first-degree arsoi: and first-degree burglary cases At present, conviction of suer crimes carry mandatory death sentences. The amended bill, how ever, would allow juries to de cide between life imprisonment and death. As originally drafted and spon sored by Governor Hoey-, the measure also would have given judges and juries discretion in sentences for first-degree murder and rape, which also carry man datory death penalties. The election “reform’’ measure, a direct outgrowth of fraud charges which followed in the wake of last year’s primaries and elections, would ban absentee vot ing in primaries and tighten ab sentee regulations in general elec tions. Chairmen of county election boards would be soley respon sible for the destribution of ab sentee ballots for general elec tions. Debate on the bill was touched off by Representative Phillips of Onslow, chairman of the house elections committee, who describ ed it as “a good Workable bill to reform voting practices.” Repre sentative Cherry of Gaston, state Democratic chairman, led the floor fight for the proposal. An appeal for support of the appropriations —by the North Carolina legislature proposed for the benefit of public health work in this state, was issued recently by Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, State Health Officer, at his office in Raleigh. “Governor Hoey made a very forceful and logical statement when he said, ‘There can be no such thing as EXPANDING pub ic service and CONTRACTING •ax levies.’ And again our states man gave us food for thought when he said, ‘There is a general feeling that conditions do not warrant major changes in tax policies now, either in the way of new levies or general increas es; therefore, the budget may only partially meet the needs of some agencies and institutions.’ ‘ “What financier can hope to meet with success who estblishes i profitable business and destroys its effectiveness through false economy? It takes money, coupl »d with intelligence and executive ibility to meet with success and :o establish economic security. It is wise to be liberal in a PRO FITABLE UNDERTAKING. “It is admitted, and without fear of contradiction, that the prevention of disease and the preservation of health has been, ind is now, inadequately distri buted. Local communities cannot leal with this MASS problem un assisted. The State of North Car >lina should assume its relative responsibility to insure its citizens he protection and security that :an be had in no other way. “Through taxation, and in substantial amounts and on a per nanent basis, is the only sound, :conomic and profitable founda ;ion upon which we can establish i comprehensvie health program :o meet the needs of our citizens. “Syphilis is our greatest health problem today. We have it on he ‘run.’ Is it wise to retreat? “This is Progress, but I pray hat the body politic may be a vakened from its somnolence and irouse anew an active and pro gressive program for an increas (turn to page six, please) Dogs Guide Sightless I .: . j DETROIT. Mich. . . These Do i bermann Pinscher dogs, trained by Eugene Kelly of the Pont chartrain Kennels, lead their i blind masters along the street here. The sightless. men are lleft). Dr. Glenn B Wheeler, of Detroit, and Paul E. Brown, of Toledo Ohio, brother of Joe E. Brown, the film comedian. Many farm homes in Alleghany can now install —efficient, inexpensive wa ter systems where con ditions permit the use of a hydraulic ram, R. E. Black, Alleghany County farm agent, 1 said recently. Mr. Black stated that the average farm family car ries as much as thirty-seven tons of water yearly in buckets by hand, from springs or wells to the house. The tremendous a mount of labor and energy ex pended in carrying this water can be avoided by installing hy draulic rams. 1 The successful operation of a ram depends upon the following conditions, says, Mr. Black: suf ficient water, and sufficient fall. Any home owner haying these I conditions can easily install a .ram, and enjoy the convenience | of running water in the home. ! Mr. Black states his office is pre j pared to furnish the necessary engineering assistance in determ ining whether or not conditions would permit of the installation of a ram. Attention is called to the fact ! that several Alleghany County ! farmers have installed water sys tems with hydraulic rams, among whom are Mack Brooks and Bob Nichols, Sparta; and Frank C. Brooks, Glade Valley. The fishing season for all species of fish —except Trout, in and west of Alleghany, Wilkes and Rutherford counties and | west of Highway No. 18 in ! Burke and Caldwell counties, has been extended to April 1, it was announced recently at the Ashe ville office of the North Carolina •division of Game and Inland Fisheries.' The season was originally set to close March 1st, but due to a great demand from the people and recent cold weather which will delay spawning somewhat, it was concluded that there would be very little harm done to the spawning fish by extending this closed period. The season as now set for Large and Small Mouth Bass, Bream, Crappie and all other species of fish except Trout, closes the 1st day of April and extends to June 10th, at which time it opens again. The Trout season is now closed and will not open until April 15th. Under special regulations, Lake Santeet lah in Graham County is now closed to all fishing and will not open until June 10th. In view of the granting of this extension end the equalizing of the Large and Small Mouth Bass season, also the plans for a wide spread public restocking program, the Division earnestly requests that, should any fisherman catch any of the various species of game fish whid), looks to contain roe or spawn, that they will wet (turn to page six, please) .V A letter was received from Howard Delp —w h o awaits execution April 21 in the state peni tentiary in Richmond, by oby Dolinger, of Whitetop, Va., one of the juror; who re turned the death verdict against Delp . for the murder of Chief of Police Posey Martin of Galax. Va., in 1935. The letter receiv ed from Delp was under date of February 9. and was made pub lic recently by Mr. Dolinger. Delp was declaied sane after a period of observation and the -upreme court of appeals denied an appeal. ; The text , of the letter, without ; change in any detail, follows: ; “Dear Mr. Dolinger, “1 am praying evert- night to God to please hear my humble : plea and have mercy on me! •‘I know I have committed a terrible sin but God in Heaven I knows I was not in my right mind I when I did that awful thing else j I would not have taken Mr. Mar tin’s dear life for anything in this j world. Mr, Dolinger you must J believe me when I say I did not j hold any malice for anyone and i did not have a desire to do the ; awful act I have been convicted i of. “If you only knew the con dition I was in I am convinced you would want to help me. Any one who has not been through the experience I have can not reali/ze ' just how I have felt since realiz jing what I did there in Galax. ! “I know you would understand if I could have the opportunity i to talk to you personally and j explain. I “If you will forgive me and i have mercy on me I will be very ■ thankful to you and I know you f will never regret showing mercy | on a poor wretch like me. “I am praying, ever night to ■God to forgive, me and have mercy | on me and to save my wretched soul. ■ “Thanking you sincerely; j “I am yours truly and humbly, I (Signed (; “Thomas Howard Delp.” 1 - j •• Sentiment for iroad beauty is rapidly growing —in all parts of North Carolina, with the result that many counties are already olanning clean-up and dress-up campaigns along the highways, it was announced re j cently by T. E. Pickard, Jr., Sec retary of the Governor’s Com mittee on Roadside Control and Improvement. This committee, of which Coleman W. Roberts of ; Charlotte is chairman, is also | planning to introduce legislation i in this session of the General Assembly designed to give Boards ; of County Commissioners and the Slate Highway and Public Works ! Commission more authority in the .improvement of the roadsides and adjacent territory. w eu Kept, attractive road i sides definitely help to draw more visitors to the state and to keep them here, while ugly, rag ged roadsides and roadside pro perties tend to drive them away and into other states,” Mr. Pick ard said. “Since each visitor or tourist spends from $6 to $10 a day while in North Carolina, it is definitely to our advantage, from a financial standpoint if nothing else, to make our road sides as attractive as possible. Last year tourists spent more than $60,000,000 in North Caro lina. Next year they wall spend still more if we will go to the trouble to make the state more attractive and remove the many eyesores and ugly places along our highways.” By roadside improvement and control is not meant the planting of trees or flowers along the highways, as some seem to think, but rather the removal from the roadsides of all illegal and un sightly signs, trash heaps, auto mobile “graveyards” and other eyesores, Mr. Pickard explained. The committee does not propose to prohibit all types of signs or advertising, but rather to restrict these signs to certain types and in certain localities. It does seek the removal of the so-called “snipe” signs along the highways, however, which are already il (turn 5o page six, please) To Circle Globe . . SAN FRANCISCO . . . Edward W. Harden, former war corres pondent, who scooped the world 'by six hours on the story of Dewey's victory at Manila, begins his second tour of the world. His first trip forty years. ago took ten months; this, one can be com pleted in nineteen days. A referendum on war was proposed in the Senate —in Washington, D. C., Tuesday, When twelve sena tors indicated support of a proposed constitutional amendment, under which the gov ernment of the United States would be prevented from waging war on foreign soil unless the people, approved in a referendum. The proposal bobbed up in the Senate with the announced sup port of the twelve senators from four political parties. The amendment, highly objec tionable to . the state department, was introduced by the 12 while the senate proceeded with a bit ter debate on the administration’s armament program—a discussion in which Senator Xye, Republi can. North Dakota, said there would be no war in Europe “un til the United States gives the word.” With the exception of a few changes, the war referendum re solution was word for word the measure introduced in the house . lust year by Representative Lud low, Republican, Indiana. The Ludlow measure was defeated af ter an extraordinary battle in which the administration brought heavy pressure to bear for its re jection. ! The state department made ; clear its attitude as being that such a system would bind the hands of the government in the conduct of its foreign relations. This contention Senator La Fol lette, Progressive, denied Tues day. “Popular veto power would not hamper the chief executive in any foreign policy supported by pub li copinion,” he said in a formal statement. “On the contrary, it would encourage him to take the people into his confidence on mat ters of the gravest international concern.” The war referendum amend ment would provide that: “Except in case of attack by armed forces, actual or immedi ately threatened, upon the Unit ed States or its territorial pos sessions, or by any non-American nation against any country in the western hemisphere, the people shall have the sole power by a national referendum to declare war or to engage in warfare over seas.” The 12 who introduced it were, in addition to La Follette: Senators Bone, Democrat, Wash ington; Capper, Republican, Kan sas; Clark,* Democrat, Idaho; Clark, Democrat, Missouri; Don ahey, Democrat, Ohio; Frazier, Republican, North Dakota; Lun deen, Farmer-Labor, Minnesota; Murray, Democrat, Montana; Nye, Republican, North Dakota; Shipstead, Farmer-Labor, Minne sota; and Wheeler, Democrat, Montana. • The heaviest late winter snow in Iowa’s history —left behind it, as February went out like a lion, clogged roads , disrupted business and dosed schools in that state. Willie Taylor was robbed on Tuesday night at Stratford '—-according to. reports. Mr. Tay i lor lived alone at the Waeoner farm, where he was awakened by ’’a voice and two persons with flashlights, standing at th. tw ■ (windows,. I According to reports of the; ! occurrence received here. Mr. Taylor was forced by the unvei ; come visitors to arise, yo to an other room. yet all- of his tnondyi and give it ’of the r'obbery' did not recognize (the thieves wh. blinded him v th :the lights and who appeared to ;be wearing masks. Bishop Purcell spoke at a Youth Crusade Rally —Monday night in West Market Street Methodist CI;u~cH, Greensboro, on the object, “Youth Takes a Look.” This was the first official 'visit in Greensboro of Bishop: Clare Purcell.... who reside; in Charlotte, since he was .assigned last year to the Carolina con ferences. He was made a bishop ! in May of last year at the quad rennial General Conference of the Church. “Youth should follow the way of Christ in making a better world for men,” said Bishop Pur cell, speaking to some 1,500 youths gathered for the rally. The Greensboro District rally was ; the second of a series . of . Youth Crusade rallies in the Western North Carolina Conference. “The Church calls for youth to expose youth’s soul to the. ever living Christ,” Bishop Purcell said, "for the way to a better world is the way of Christ. Get a de tached point of view. Look upon the earth as with a telescope from the moon.’’ Also included on the speaking! program; were Frank -Masters, Greensboro; Rev, W. A. Kale, Mooresville; Miss Nina Wr nn. secretary Of the High. Point Young People’s Union; Greer Hoover, president of the Rockingham Union; Rev. M. Teague Hipps, Salisbury, conference director of young people’s work, and Rev. L. B. Hayes, presiding elder of the Greensboro District. Wayne Kernodle, Greensboro district di rector of young people’s work, presided. The Youth Crusade, a four year program for youth in South ern Methodism, is scheduled to be concluded in 1942. The first rally in the Western North Carolina Conference was held in Morgan ton on Friday, February 24, for the Marion District. The third in the series was held yesterday (Wednesday) in Winston-Salem, Other rallies are to be held as follows: Salisbury, Statesville, Monroe, Asheville, Waynesville, Gastonia and Boone. Governor Hoey was praised by Ralph McDonald —Monday in Winston Salem. “I 'have always held a high personal opinion of Governor Hoey and I find myself liking him better all the time,” declared Dr. McDonald, the Governor’s 1936 primary oppon-j ent, in his first public interview i after his release from the West-; ern North Carolina sanatorium 1 at Black Mountain Sunday. “He has shown me every kindness in! recent months, and his thought-! fulness has been a source of much comfort to me.” The former condidate and lead er of the liberal democracy of the State had only the highest praise for his former opponent of the last gubernatorial race. "I approve heartily the adminis tration of Governor Hoey. Of course, our beliefs on some mat ters, especially taxation, are fun damentally different,” he said, “but those differences are matters of honest opinion which are bound to exist among people who think seriously of the problems of democratic government.” , GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE AWAITED —Tuesday night an armistice in the 31-month old Spanish civil war following resignation of Loy alist President Manuel Azena. The sit-down strike has been he!: illegal r—-by lie United States Suprc. Court. On Monday of this week, the nation’s highest c^urt, denouncing the iown -trik>' ruled that worker ...ho .-eize their employ er'.- farti ry have plr.ee:! them -v&s .-'ie the potection of the \V ,rrser labor relations act* Chief Justice Charles Evans Hugh -. ;•-ading a majority opin ion, deik-ired that a sit-down in the Far. reel Metallurgical cor poration of North Chicago, IB., two yea: ago was a “high-hand ed - pro<* :ing without a shadow of legal, right-.” Declaring that the employer eouM ii-charge the “wrongdoers” vltnout . violating the Wagner Act ’■'is epi.nl n -invalidated an order by the national labor relations board requiring the company to re., state- .employees who were dis missed when they seized key build ings of the eorpbkatlbn. The labor boat h i contend ed that the strike result d from violation of the Wagner act by the en oyer, including refusal to bargain collectively. Besides delivering this sharp blow to the. labor board, the court set aside two other board orders for reinstatement. One involved the Sands Manufacturing com pany of Cleveland, and in this case the Supreme court held that employes who strike in violation of a contract sever their relations with their employer. The tribunal ruled also that the Labor board had not hstantiated a charge that the Columbian Enameling and Stamping company of Terre Haute, Ind., had refused to bargain collectively with its employes. An order for rein statement 6f those discharged was set aside. The court supported a board order that the Fansteel company Withdraw recognition from the Rare Metal Workers- of America, local No. 1. The tribunal agreed with the NLRB that Fansteel had violated the. labor act in refusing to bargain collectively with the Amalgan ated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North Amen a.f “But reprehensible as was that conduct of the respondent” (Fan steel), Hughes wrote, “there is no ground for saying that it made respondent an outlaw or deprived it of its legal rights to the pos session and protection of its prop, erty.” The Chief Justice said the strike was “illegal in its inception and prosecution.” “This was not the exercise of the ‘right to strike’,” he added. “It was- an illegal seizure of the buildings in order to prevent their use by the employer in a lawful manner and thus by acts of force and violence to compel the employer to submit. “When the employes resorted to that sort of compulsion they took a positic- outside the pro tection of the statute and accept ed the risk of the termination of their > nployment upon grounds aside fr the exercise of the legal rights which the statute was designed to conserve.’’ Justices Reed and Black dis sented in each of the three de cisions against the labor board. Justice Frankfurter, a new mem ber of the court, did not partici pate in these decisions. Four miles of REA line have been located —in Alleghany County, and have been staked. The remainder will be located and staked as soon as the weather will permit, accord ing to an announcement made this week by C. G. Collins, one of the REA directors in Alle ghany County. Bids for wiring of homes have not yet been let. However, an nouncements concerning these will be made later. !■. I!-': •' aavl
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