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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, MARCH 30, 1939. Number 46. This Week in Washington Washington, Mar. 29 (AS)— There are three distinct groups, * one almost might say three par ties, into which the Congress of the United States is divided. They are the Republicans, the Conserva tive Democrats and the New Deal Democrats. Of the three, the Republican group is the most efficiently or ganized, under the leadership of Representative “Joe” Martin, of Massachusetts. On every question involving political considerations, the Republicans have consistently voted as a unit. The other two groups are divid ed and less sharply unified. One branch of the Democrats are thick and-thin supporters of President Roosevelt, and if they do not actually take their orders from the White House they go along on any matter in which he is believed to be especially interest ed. The third group, the old-time Conservative Democrats, is a fair ly well-knit element, composed of Senators and Representatives who regard themselves as the “real” Democrats and reserve the right to take issue with the Adminis tration on any question which does not conform to their ideas of the best interests of their Party and the Nation. The real leader of this third group, which holds the balance of power and can by its votes de cide the issue on any legislative question, is Vice-President Gamer. Difficult To Agree All of the Democrats would like to go along with the Presi dent, but many of the middle party find it difficult to agree with many of his proposals. There fore a committee of four Demo cratic Senators paid a personal call on Mr. Roosevelt a few days ago, to find out just what he really wants of Congress. They reported back to their colleagues that the President wants particu larly the following items of legis lation : First, the restoration of the $150,000,000 for WPA, which was cut out of the Relief appro priation bill against the Presi dential wishes. Then he wants new laws to aid distressed railroads; an expanded farm tenancy program and more aid for cotton, wheat and com farmers; revision of taxes but not to reduce the Government’s in come; extension of the mortgage insurance powers of FHA, and 800 millions more for slum-clear ance work; no change in the' Labor Relations law until the Federation of Labor and the Con gress of Industrial Organizations have composed their differences; a system of additional credits for small business concerns and the appropriation of the additional $550 millions for national de fense for which he has already Asked. The reaction on Capitol Hill to the report made by the President’s ^visitors was that if that was all lie wanted he could have it, all hut the $150,000,000 for WPA. On most of the rest of the Pres ident’s desires there is substantial ly no opposition in principle in any of the three legislative groups. There may, and doubtless will be, a lot of partisan quarrelling over details, but if Congress felt as sured that the program reported by the volunteer committee rep resents all that the President will ask of this session of Congress, the road ahead for the rest of the year would be clear More Defenses Wen tod Hitler’s latest move in seizing ■what was left of Czechoslovakia after he had promised Erance and Britain that he would go no farther in that direction, has "thrown a scare” into official Washington, and definitely united all elements behind a national' de fense policy even more extensive than has been so far put forth. Defense measures already voted or in process of passage through Congress provide for a moderniz ed Navy at least equal in size to any other, an air force larger than that of any other nation, an increase of 40,000 officers and men in the regular Army, the mobilization of industry to turn out 12,000 planes a year and the necessary arms and munitions to equip a force of a million fighting men. Estimates of the cost of these preparations for defensive war, if necessary, run to as high as four billion dollars over the next two fiscal years. The very sharp note sent to Reichsfuehrer Hitler by^our State Department, protesting against the seizure of Bohemia and Moravia, reflects an almost unanimous feel ing in Washington that inter national events are drawing the United States \ mon* end more to ward way; war for the preser vation of Amnuican ideals of lib erty and honu|ii justice and war A biliion-dollar 'farm bill was passed Tuesday I —in the House of Repre l sentatives at Washington, j D. C., when House economy ; advocates emerged jubilant ly victorious from two hectic af frays with that usually powerful group, the farm bloc. By the skimpy margin of 13 votes they succeeded in stripping from the biliion-dollar Agricul ture Department appropriation bill a $250,000,000 item for par ity payments intended to raise the | purchasing power represented in j farm products to the 1909-1914 ! level. ! And, with plenty of votes' to j spare, they turned back a $60, 1000,000 appropriation closely re j lated to a new plan advanced by i President Roosevelt for disposing ■ of the nation’s huge cotton sur j plus. Grinning at their success, they then, in concert with most mem bers, voted for passage of the measure, and turned their thoughts and plans to the pending request of President Roosevelt for a sup plemental appropriation of $150, 000,000 to finance, work relief until July 1. An important element in the rejection of the parity payment fund apparently was a combina tion of the votes of members i from city districts, and the Re publican membership generally, ; although in the latter there were j tome defections. One faction of the urban rep ! resentation had for several days been seeking to obtain assurances of farm-vote support for the $150,000,000 relief appropriation requested by Mr. Roosevelt, in return for their votes for the parity item. Failing to obtain I the pledges they sought, they vot j ed against the farm group. While the House was debating, |the parity payment question, j President Roosevelt announced to a press conference a plan for subsidizing exports from the 11, i 300,000 bale stock of surplus oot ! ton held by the government as | security on loans to producers. The plan had been worked out in , collaboration with congressional I leaders, including Chairman Jones ! (D), Tex., of the House appro | priations committee. Mr. Roose velt asked an appropriation of $15,000,000 to finance the pro gram until August 1. _ , V Roosevelt made it known Tuesday in Washington —D. C., that his recom mendation for construction of two 45,OOO-ton battle ships in a bid for world naval leadership is a partial re ply to Japan’s refusal to reveal whether she is building war ves sels larger than treaty limits. His remarks were made at a press conference a few hours after it was learned that he had approved plans for the building of the super-dreadnaughts as part of the vast naval expansion pro gram authorized last year. Funds for starting construction of the two vessels will be contained in the regular Navy Department bud get being drafted by a house subcommittee. In response to a question, the President saidi that the Japanese government’s refusal to verify or deny reports that two or three Japanese warships are being built in violation of the 35,000-ton limit of the defunct Washington treaty, was one of several rea sons for his action. , He declined, however, to state other reasons for supporting con struction of the two vessels which would be the largest warships ever set afloat. THE SENIOR PLAY, “HOBGOBLIN HOUSE” —will be given at Glade Valley High' School on Saturday night, April 8, in the school auditorium. THE HOUSE APPROVED A SUBSTITUTE TUESDAY —iir Raleigh for the bill bo for bid the sale of beer and wine in Watauga County, for which Rep resentative Roby Grier had. wag A series of revival meetings will begin here —in the Methodist Church, on Sunday, April 2, at 11:00 a. m., with the pastor, Rev. L. F. Stradi e.r, in charge. Services will be held through the following week at 11:00 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. each day. Members' of other churches are cordially invited to attend the meetings. Meetings to obtain signers for electricity —are to be held in Alle ghany County during the next few days, according to G. F. Messick, project superintendent of the Caldwell Mutual Corporation, of Lenoir. Mr. Messick pointed out that it is very important that everyone who possibly can sign do so, as there are a few weak sections, and practically everyone will have to sign in order to have the number that is required by the REA specification. Mr Messick requests alL who are interested to meet at the fol lowing times and places. Blevins Crossroads School, Thursday, March 30, 7:00 p! m.; Whitehead School, Friday, March 31, 7:00 p. m.; Piney Creek High School, Tuesday, April 4, 7:00 p. m., and New Hope School, Fri day, April 14, 7:00 p. m. The work of staking the REA line in this county is progressing rapidly, several miles having al ready been staked. Joe Powell, of Durham, is the engineer in charge of this part of the work: It is requested that the farmers do not move stakes which have already been set. Colonial claims of Italy were outlined Sunday —in Rome, by Premier Mus solini, in a 1 militant speech, in which he stressed force as the key of fascist policy. The Italian dictator affirmed that Italy’s colonial problem with France was her claim on Tunisia, Djibouti and the Suez Canal. Facing cheering blackshirt fol lowers at a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the first fascist combat squad, II Duce for the first time put the official stamp on the clamor rais ed in the now-extinct chamber of deputies last November 30. He rejected suggestions which he said had been made that Italy take the first step toward solution of the long-smouldering, issue and put the next move up to France. Mussolini proclaimed a five point fascist policy in foreign affairs t 1. Although Italy considers long! peace necessary for European civilization, she refuses “solicita tion’* to make the first step'until her “sacred rights” are recogniz ed. 2. Italy adheres to the axis with Germany, threatening attack if a democratic coalition is form ed against the authoritarian states. 3. Italy has colonial problems with France in Tunisia, Djibouti and the Suez Canal of which Paris was informed in a note last December 17. 4. Italy considers her interests predominant in both the Mediter ranean and Adriatic seas but does not exclude Slav interests. 6. Italy, believing that force governs international relations, must arm herself with more guns, ships and airplanes even at the cost of completely militarizing the country. Four hours after Mussolini had spoken, the government divulged both a congratulatory telegram that Reichsfuehrer Hitler sent Saturday and Mussolini’s answer. The first reaction in diplomatic circles to il duce’s speech was divided between unpleasant sur prise by some observers at il duce’s acceptance of the policy that foreign relations are founded on force and relief, expressed by others, at what they considered a conciliatory gesture toward Mules Discharged From Regular Army CAMP DIX, N. J. . . Nine Army mules received discharge, orders here recently. The age of the oldest is 33. Orders are awaited from President Roosevelt as to what shall be done with them. National And World NEWS At A Glance GERMANS OCCUPY MEMEL Memel, March 22.—Motorized companies of German “shock forces” tonight rolled into Memel from East Prussia and occupied it in the name of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. WOULD BALANCE BUDGET Washington, March 23.—One of the most paradoxial situations in recent years arose today when Marriner Eccles, a foremost ad vocate of government spending, virtually urged Congress to pro ceed at once to balance the bud get. DESPERADO KILLS SELF Powell, Wyo., March 24.—Earl Durand, shaggy-haired mountain man who killed four peace offic ers in less than a week, put a bullet through his own head here today after a bloody bank rob bery attempt in his home town. SEES GARNER TREND Pinehurst, March 25.—Elliott Roosevelt, son of the President, tonight defended his “observation and report” of a trend toward Vice President John N Garner as Democratic presidential candidate in 1940. BIG PLANE CRASHES Oklahoma City, Okla., March! 26.—Eight persons were killed •early today when a twin-motored j Braniff Airways transport plane | crashed and burned shortly after taking off from the municipal air port here. TO ERECT NEW STATION Washington, March 27.—The communications commission grant ed today an application by Harold M. Thoms, doing business as the Asheville Daily News, Asheville, N. C., to erect a new radio broad-. cast station. The permit provides for oper-! ation of 1370 kilocycles, 100 watts, unlimited time. SPANISH WAR ENDS Madrid, March 28.—Nearly 1,-| 000. 000 half-famished survivors of the most terrible siege of mod em times danced and embraced victorious nationalist troops in Madrid’s streets tonight in cele bration of the city’s surrender and the end of the long Spanish civil war. Boxing bouts are to be held at Sparta High School —on Saturday night, April 1, beginning at eight o’clock, in the Gymnasium. The pro gram will include six bouts, five by white men and one by colored men. In addition, there will be a battle royal by five colored fighters. Three local men are to engage in this prograrh of boxing events. The program is to be sponsor ed by the local Dean Parrish Post, American Legion. The program will be followed by a dance. REV. HOWARD J. FORD IS TO PREACH SUNDAY NIGHT —April 2, at 7:80 o’clock, in the of which Fifty miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway south —of Roainioke, Va,, will be opened to through traffic Saturday, April 1, it was announced by the National Park Service headquarters in Roan oke recently. Opening of a like mileage in North Carolina, how ever, awaits completion of black top paving under existing con tracts expected to be completed about July 1, it was pointed out. No dedication ocr ceremony is planned until a larger portion of the nearly 500-mile scenic road* way through North Carolina and' Virginia is linked together. The sections now being opened in Vir ginia have been paved with a preliminary hard surface and ex tend south from the vicinity of the Bent Mountain Post Office, on top of the Floyd plateau where temporary connection has been made with U. S. Route 221 high way to Floyd. This point is about 18 miles from the center of Roanoke City. The 50-mile park way section terminates in a clov er-leaf grade separation, crossing U. S. No. 58, the Martinsville Hillsville road near the Meadows of Dan. Major contracts were complet ed last fall, and since then this part of the drive, has been opened on the “travel-at-your-own-risk” basis under a speed limit of 25 miles. It is planned, according to Acting Superintendent Stanley W. Abbott, to lift the speed limit beginning Saturday, April 1, to 35 miles an hour and' to maintain the parkway clear for traffic although wayside park development, road side planting, parking area, and guard rail construction will con tinue during much of the summer. As this incidental work is pro gressively completed, it is planned to put final speed zoning into ef fect in which the top limits post ed for passenger car traffic will probably compare with those in force on State highways in Vir ginia and North Carolina. The Parkway will be adminis tered by the National Park Ser vice, and traffic control laws will be enforced similar to those gov erning the State highways. In addition, special Park Service regulations will govern the pro tection of the Park scenery and conservation of wildlife. One of the important regulations pro hibits the use of the Parkway drive by commercial or business traffic, the Parkway having been set aside for purposes of recre ation rather than for business. The Virginia Parkway patrol will' be continuous during the tourist season and is r^w staffed with three National Park Service rang ers who are Thomas K. Garry and Wallace D. Barlow, with head quarters in Roanoke and Edwin M. Dale with headquarters at Meadows of Dan, Virginia. In ad dition to being authorized law enforcement officers, the rangers are charged with responsibility for fire protection and general public relations work with the adjacent landowner and with the tourist. The Blue Ridge Parkway, esti mated to cost when completed in the neighborhood of $30,000,000, is being built by the National Park Service, engineering, and construc tion being under the supervision of the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads with William M. Austin the highway engineer in charge. The States of Virginia and North Carolina are contributing the necessary rights-of-way for the Parkway through their respective states, in addition to providing certain necessary property line surveys. Estel Moxley Was Freed In Justices' Court Here On Tuesday Alter Arraignment —for a preliminary hearing before Justices of the Peace B. F. Wagoner and F. N. Roupe on a charge of rape and murder in connection with the death of Elva Brannock in the Saddle Mountain sec- 1 tion of Alleghany County in February, 1937. Moxley, a i native of the Saddle Mountain section, was brought back ‘The King’s Sneezes” will be presented j—as an operetta in the Sparta High School auditor ium, tomorrow (Friday) night, at 7:30 o’clock. The cast will include a total of about seventy-five children. Those in the cast will be from the third to the seventh grades in the local school. Proceeds from the presentation of the operetta are to be used for the benefit of the grade libraries in the school here. Approximately 800 forest fires burned during 1938 —in North Carolina as a result of brush burning, ac cording to R, D. Gentry, Alleghany County Forest Warden. These 800 forest fires cost the state thousands of dol lars in damage to timber and wildlife, to say nothing of the effect the fires have on such as soil erosion and the aesthetic value of the woodland, it has been pointed out. Every single one of those 800 fires represents a case where someone was careless with fire, it has been said. Therefore, County Warden Gentry reminds all who intend to bum brush, sedge or debris of any kind, in connection with Spring farming and clear ing, to familiarize themselves fully with the North Carolina forest fire laws. Before burning debris of any kind, County Warden Gentry urges everyone to obtain, either ; from him or his authorized rep ! resentative, District Warden George Royal, Roaring Gap, a burning permit. from Maryland a few weeks ago as a suspect in connection with the case. He was arraigned for a hearing Tuesday morning, at ten o’clock, in the Alleghany County Court House. Appearing for the defendant were Attorneys R. A. Doughton and Robert M. Gambill, Sparta, and Attorneys Bowie and Bowie, of West Jefferson. Erie McMichael, of Winston- _ Salem, solicitor for the Eleventh Judicial District, together with R. F. Crouse, local attorney, ap peared on the part of the state. Every available seat and all the standing room in the Court House was taken by the crowd that gathered to hear the trial. Upon the setting of the court and the arraignment of the de fendant, for trial, Solicitor Mc Michael stated to- the court that, as a representative of the state and' in the interest of justice, he felt that, after having made a careful examination of the state’s witnesses, they did not have evi dence warranting contending for a verdict of guilty of the two charges, each of which carries the death penalty. The solicitor stated that, in his opinion, the state had sufficient evidence to justify the justices finding prob able cause, which would bind the defendant to court, but that he did not want to ask for a man’s life upon what evidence they had at the time. After this statement to the court by the solicitor, the counsel for the defendant moved that the prisoner be discharged. This motion was granted, and the de fendant was given his freedom. Thus, the murder mystery, which has baffled officers since its commission of the crime two years ago, is still unsolved. Dr. John W. Hoyle, of Statesville, will be in Sparta —on Sunday, April 2, to hold the quarterly meeting for the Sparta Methodist charge at the local church. Dr. Hoyle is presiding elder of the Statesville District. The quarterly meeting is sched uled for 11:00 a. m. Picnic dinner will be served at the church, and everyone in terested is requested to take a basket of lunch. I To regulate markers’ activities— An amended election reform bill i was passed Tuesday by the Senate | —in Raleigh, and the measure was sent to the House for concurrence. The measure, which would regulate activities of ballot markers in primaries, passed the upper house after lengthy debate. The amendment, proposed Monday by Senator Folger, of Surry, stirred up one of the hottest battles of the 1939 session, and caused some of the j original sponsors of the bill to disclaim it as a part of the re form program. Originally, the bill would have prohibited any person from as sisting more than one voter in marking a primary ballot. The Folger amendment added a pro- j viso that election officials could j assist any number of voters. Senators opposing the amend ment attempted two tactical moves to have it eliminated from the bill. First they forced' a vote to reconsider the amendment, which was approved Monday, and their motion carried, 25 to 20. Then Senator Lumpkin sent j up a substitute amendment, inter-j preted as a compromise, which would allow any person to assist j in marking six ballots. It was killed, 24 to 16. Another vote next was held on Folger’s proposal, and it was re adopted, 22 to 21. The bill then passed third reading, 24 to 16, and went back to the house. Another reform revision of the 1940 primaries, was passed and ordered ratified into law by the senate. The measure, spon sored by the state elections board, allows county elections boards to order new registrations if they are deemed necessary Both houses stuck fairly closely to a resolution banning the in troduction of bills—a move to expedite sine die adjournment* Miss Cleo Jones won second place in Argumentation —in the Southeastern Tourna ment held this year in Salisbury. Miss Jones, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Jones, is a mem ber of the debating team of Ap palachian State Teachers College, Boone, and is an honor stodeSk at the college. The A. S. T. C. forensic squad
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