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Want To Sell l"^i 1 All 1 HH • You Will Profit 1 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, APRIL 6, 1939. . ; Number 47. This Week Washington Washington, Apr. 5.—(AS)— It usually takes a new Congress about three months to get “shak en down'' so that it can tackle matters of legislation with a clear understanding' of what they are nil about and what chance there is of getting action. This 76th Congress is no ex ception. Here it is April and. the boys on Capitol Hill have been in Washington since the first of January, learning the ropes and getting acquainted with each oth er’s points of view. Now it looks as if they were about ready to get down to serious business. To be sure, the department re organization bill was serious busi ness, but not as serious as the President’s opponents made it out to be. The major points on which the reorganization bill was beaten last year have been taken out of the measure as it now stands. While it gives the. President wide powers to regroup and con solidate Government bureaus and offices and to go as far as po litical expediency will permit in lopping off useless jobs, the pow ers granted him, are not as great as those which President Hoover asked for and the House voted to give him in his last two years in office. And before Mr. Hoov er, Presidents Ooolidge, Wilson and Taft had asked for the same authority to introduce business like methods into the administra tion of Government. The big job which Congress is > now about to tackle is taxation. Here the President lent a helping hand by agreeing to accept the proposal to amend the Social Security Act so that the increased taxes for old age retirement will note go into effect next year, as provided under the law as it stands. Mr. Roosevelt and the Treas ury are also agreeable to the elimination of the somewhat fic titious “reserve fund” for Social Security, which has been widely criticized as tending toward in flation. There seems little likeli hood now that the Social Secur ity act will be broadened to take in classes of workers not now cov ered by it. SCRAP OVER TAXES The real scrap in Congress will be over methods of changing the tax system so that it will still produce enough revenue bo run the government, yet relieve busi ness and capital of the burdens which industrialists arid economists say have been preventing ex pansion of business and the cre ation of new jobs for workers. Details have not been made public of the Treasury’s plan, which has been carefully worked out by experts, but in general it proposes to “broaden the tax base” by including in the income tax millions of persons who are now not directly taxed, provid ing for collection of such taxes at the source, by deductions from payrolls, scrapping all the present various forms of taxes on cor porate business and substituting a single graduated tax on cor porations with special preference bo small businesses. Part of the plan is to abolish all the excise and “nuisance” taxes, but here the problem of what to substitute for them aris es, and is likely to cause a row. There is every expectation that Congress will pass the Rankin bill providing pensions of $40 a month for every veteran who wore a uniform for 90 days or more during the World War, whether he ever got farther than a training camp or not. The only veterans’ organization opposing the measure is the American Veterans Association, whose spokesmen contend that the total cost to the taxpayers of the proposed pension plan will run to at least 13 billion dollars. There probably will be some ex citing debates when the measure gets to the floor of both houses, but the best-informed men on Capitol Hill concede the likeli hood that the measure will be passed. ASK $1,000,000,000 Back of the new Agricultural appropriation bill, the largest ever proposed to Congress, the Farm Lobby is solidly lined up. The bill calls for the expenditure of a trifle over a billion dollars in the coming year, which is almost 250 millions more than the bud get estimates. More than half of the amount is for soil conservation and other direct subsidies to farmers and an additional 250 millions for “par ity payments.” Even with the certainty of a bitter light on the floor, the general opinion is that there will be no serious changes in the measure. Hie controversy over the fail ure of Madam Perkins, Secretary of Labor, to order the deportation of Many I Bridges, the West Coast Conjmunist labor leader who is citisen, The fist of jurors for the Spring term —iof Alleghany Superior Court, which is to convene in the Court House here on Monday morning, May 1, has been announced. Those whose names have been drawn for jury duty follow; E. C. Truitt, J. R. Gambill K. W. Hudson, C. W. Irwin, CUeo Edwards, C. C. Castevens, Eugene Transou, Reeves Douglas, R. V. Thompson, F. G. Wright, W. C. Bottomley, Carlie Evans, Andy Wagoner, Lee A. Andrews, F. A. Mitchell, Lee Finney, John R. Halsey, Thomas W. Landreth, C. L. Hash, L. V. Richardson, Harmon Joines, Letcher Edwards, Will Miles, Herbert Woodruff, Y. L. Cooper, Coy McCann, J. T. Inskeep, Brady Petty, J. M. Os borne, Guy Waddell, Brant Tay lor, Reece Miller, W. W. Ward, Wilmer Fendeor, J. H, Miller and L. K. Parsons. Commencement at Piney Creek High School will begin —ton Saturday night, April 22, at 7:30 o’clock, when the play, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” is to be given. Commencement this year is to be held in the new audito rium, which is almost complete. A new velour stage curtain will be installed, by a Winston-Salem concern on Monday, April 10. On Sunday morning, April 23, at eleven o’clock, the commence ment sermon is to be preached by Rev. R. H. Stone, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Jef ferson. Graduating exercises are to be held on Wednesday night, April 26, at 7:30 o’clock, with Profes sor W. Amos Abrams, head of the English Department at Ap palachian State Teachers College, Boone, delivering the literary ad dress. ■ -.. 4 MARRIAGE LICENSES 'WERE ISSUED IN SPARTA > —at the office of the Register of Deeds, T. M. Gambill, during the month of March, as follows: Olen Cornett to Ida Anderson, both of Fox, Va.; William Bur chett to Opal Mae Crouse, both of Dobson; Robert W. Delp, Elk Creek, Va., to Julia Chance, Hogan, Va.; J. B. Jones, Jr., to Opal Cox, both of Galax, Va.; Paul Benfield to June Kirby, both of Galax; John Wade Ward, Crumpler, to Glen Richardson, Furches; James Luther Hedrick, Wyth'eville, Va., to Alma Gene Webb, also of Wytheville, and Ralph O’Neal, Siloam, to Stella Billings, Thurmond. A flurry was created Tuesday night in London —by a speech the first lord of the admiralty, Earl Stanhope, made in Portsmouth saying that anti-aircraft guns of the British fleet were being manned “so as to be ready for anything that might happen.” This was met immediately by a statement from No. 10 Down ing street—the official resident of Prime Minister Chamberlain—that Stanhope’s words were not cor rect. Reliable sources said, however, that Great Britian appreciated the far-reaching potentialities of her pledge last Friday to back Polish independence with armed might. EASTER SERVICES WILL BE HELD SUNDAY —April 9 (Easter Sunday) at 11 a. m., at the Sparta Baptist Church, by the pastor, Rev. How ard J. Ford. All members of the church are urged to attend. ANTIOCH CEMETERY WILL BE CLEANED THURSDAY —April 13, and all persons who are interested in the care and upkeep of this cemetery are urg ed to gather at that time. It is planned to grass the cemetery, and those who go are urged to take lawn grass seed, or white clover and bluegrass mixture, and also fertilizer, or preferably lime, slag and barnyard manure. Those who gather are also nak ed to take their lunch, as well as Hie necessary tools/ Head. N. C. WPA . C. C. McGinnis (above), who on Saturday, April 1, entered in to the office of Acting State WPA Administrator. The appoint ment as Administrator will be come effective April 26, at which time the accrued annual leave of the retiring Administrator will expire. Chevrolet dealers sold 24,342 new cars and trucks —during the second ten days of March, it was announced at com pany headquarters in Detroit, Mich., recently. This is a contin uation of the upward trend not able since new model introduc tion, making the month’s sales to date 36.3 per cent higher than they were a year ago. Used car sales for March this year are also running ahead of those for the same period in 1938. Combined sales of new cars and used cars, during the second 10 days, were 66,295 units, and for the month to date, 126,373, the announcement said. National And World NEWS At A Glance V GABLE AND LOMBARD WED Hollywood, Mar. 29.—Metro Goldwyn-Mayer Studio announced! that Clark Gable, and Carole Lombard, film stars, had been married at Kingman, Ariz. The studio said it received its information in a telephone call from Gable. He said the cere mony took place at 5:40 p. m. with the Rev. Kenneth Engle of ficiating at the Methodist Church. ROOSEVELT SPEAKS Warm Springs, Ga., Mar. 30-— President Roosevelt today reiter ated that the South is the . nation’s No. 1 economic problem and . call ed southern industrialists to help the region “get out of hock to the North.” Speaking to the student body at the Alabama Polytechnic Insti tute at Auburn, Mr. Roosevelt urged the South to raise its eco nomic standards. LIBBY HOLMAN MARRIES New York, Mar. 31.-—Dark, vivacious Libby Holman, who sang her way. to fame on Broadway with the torch song, “Moanin’ Low,” was honeymooning in the country today with her second husband, Ralph Holmes, 23, actor and son cf Taylor Holmes, veter an character actor. They were wed Monday. U. S. RECOGNIZES FRANCO Washington, Apr. 1.—The Unit ed States followed the lead of other powers today and accorded! formal diplomatic recognition to General Francisco Franco's na tionalist regime as the legal gov ernment of war-torn Spain. JAPAN AND RUSSIA AGREE Moscow, Apr. 2.—Japan and* Soviet Russia today signed a fish eries agreement to settle a con troversy which for months had disturbed relations and held the threat of graver trouble between Tokyo and Moscow over fishing rights off the east coast of Siberia. ft DOUGLAS CRITICIZED Washington, Apr. 8.—Senate confirmation of William 0. Doug las to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court was delayed today when Senator Frasier (R), N. D., made a lengthy address criticizing Douglas’ activities 'as chairman of the securities com The a* defense and reform bills were approved —by President Roosevelt in Washington, D. C., Monday night, thus placing ia major part iof his emergency national defense program on the statute books. At the same time he wrote an end to more than two years of controversy over government reorganization. The Chief Executive signed the national defense bill authorizing expansion of the army air corps to 6,000 war planes, bulwarking Panama Canal fortifications and education of industry in the mak ing of vital war materials. He also affixed his signature to the sharply-modified reorganiza tion measure passed by Congress as a substitute for the sweeping proposals recommended by the White House in January, 1938. The first reorganization bill was defeated after a bitter congres sional battle. Under the $364,000,000 de fense bill, the air corps will have 43 new squadrons which army experts consider essential to ade quate aerial defense of the na tion. The measure also authorizes new proposals to man the expand ed fleet. The enlisted strength of the air corps will be increased from 21, 600 to 45,000'men and the num ber of officers in the army will be raised from 14,659 to 16,719. The army plans to use $170, 000,000 of the $300,000,000 air corps authorization for buying new planes. '5he remainder will be used for personal increases, bombs and other equipment. The Panama Canal authorization of $23,750,000 will be used to build or rehabilitate structures to house anti-aircraft, seacoast defense and auxiliary units. The army also is authorized Xs, *pend $40,500,000 for educational orders designed to acquaint industry with the type of materials, labor and methods of furnishing critical material in war times. Is Named Counsel . James M. Dyer (above), of Rixeyville, whose appointment as Agricultural Counsel for the Southeastern Chain Store Council was announced recently. Mr. Dyer, a native of Abingdon, will work in Va. and North Carolina. The annual Easter seal sale for crippled children —is now under way in Alleghany County. Miss Lillie Ervin, sup erintendent of public welfare in the county, is chairman of the seal sale drive. Everyone is urged to purchase seals, for only a penny each, as generously as they can, thus helping the crippled children of Alleghany County. The entire proceeds of the sale are used in attempting to prevent crippling conditions; endeavoring to cor rect and cure crooked backs, arms and legs; supplying braces, crutches, wheel-chairs, and casts; providing, educational facilities and vocational training; and plac ing crippled boys and girls in suitable occupations adapted to their needs and physical con ditions which will afford them the highest possible degree of self ! support and self-respect, it ha3 been pointed out. In Wilhelmshaven, Germany— Hitler avoided, Saturday, in his speech, going beyond an intimation —that he may end die naval treaty with Great Britain that was drafted in 1935. The fuehrer derisively threw back the Anglo-French anti aggression challenge. “Germany will stand neither for intimidation nor encirclement,” he declared. He spoke to 50,000 men and women of Wilhelmshaven and its L. K. Halsey, of Piney Greek, has received a letter —from the University Testing Service at Chapel Hill, stating that the annual Senior exami nations there had been graded and that the mean grade for the class was 69, while of the 4,000 exami nations graded at that date, the mean was 52. The letter stated further that, if a student makes a grade of 66 or better, he or she has a reason ably good-chance of doing satis factory college work. About 89 per cent of the students’ gradu ating scores are above 66. The entire group that took the exami nations are not graduating, how ever, it was pointed out. Mr. Halsey is principal of Piney Creek High School, Several persons from Glade Valley were guests —of Westminster Presbyterian •Church last week-end. The group consisted of E. B. Eldridge, principal of Glade Valley High School, and the Misses Maggie Sapp and Peggy Edwards, stu dents. They presented a Glade Valley program at the Sunday School assembly Sunday morning. Miss Sapp gave a talk on the work of the Young People’s League at Glade Valley, while Miss Edwards spoke on “The Opportunities of a Christian School.’’ Mr. Eldridge toldi about the work of the school, giving general information about the institution. The Westminster church is one of the liberal supporters of the G&tdc Valley High School. vicinity in a nz-minute aaaress after he had witnessed the launch ing of Germany’s second 35,000 ton battleship this year, the Von Tirpitz. In his passage on the 1935 Anglo-German naval treaty, un der which Germany agreed that her tonnage would not exceed 35 percent of Britain’s, Hitler said: “I once concluded a naval agreement with Britain. It was animated by the fervent desire that we might never again have a war with England. “If, however, that wish does not exist on the other.side, then the practical preconditions for con cluding such a treaty have van ished.” On the whole the fuehrer con tented himself with heaping scorn upon Britain, of which he said: “For 300 long years she has acted in a virtueless manner but only now in her old age she speaks of virtue.” Poland and the Anglo-FVench offer of military assistance if her independence were threatened were mentioned only indirectly with the warning by implication to Poland: “He who is willing to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for others must expect to get burn ed.” There also .was an indirect reference interpreted as aimed at either President Roosevelt or Sec retary of State Cordell Hull when the fuehrer, in describing Germany’s efforts at economic expansion, asserted: “We won’t take orders in this matter from any European oa extra-European statesman.” The chancellor spoke outside the Wilhelmshaven Rathaus from behind a bullet-proof glass screen at the end of a busy day. Some said the glass screen, re sembling bank teller’s window, was placed before the fuehrer [m a preventive against any odlil .a’ ;The Board of County Commissioners held a meeting here —on Monday, April 3, it being the Board’s regular session day. The Board is comprised of James McD. Wagoner, chairman, V. B. Phipps and J. C. Gambill. A number of routine matters were disposed of. Claims total ing $3,962 were drawn on the county, and of this amount, $192.25 went for old age assist ance, and $73,33 for dependent children. “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” I will be presented |—by the Senior class of Piney Creek High School on Saturday night, April 22, at j 7:30 o’clock, as the opening event of the -1939 commencement program there. “The most delightful of all plays” is the way in which the production has been referred to by an interested person. The production is a dramatiza tion of Mark Twain’s immortal novel with all the characters that the great dramatist drew so richly. The cast of characters has been in rehearsal for several weeks, under the direction of W. R. Francis, and a well-prepared per formance is assured, it is said. It has been explained that this play is not the same play, but a sequel to, or follow-up of, last year’s Senior play, “Huckleberry Finn.” Hobgoblin House” will be given at Glade Valley —High School on Saturday night, April 8, in the audi torium. This play, a mys tery-farce in three acts, by Jay Tobias, will be presented by the Senior class of the school. The time of the play is sup posed to be early Spring, and the place, near the Ozark foothills. The first act portrays a living room of the late Horace Hob good’s * house, about nine o’clock on a stormy night, with ghosts and mystery. Act II shows the same scene about two minutes later, with more ghosts and more mystery. The same scene is also shown in the third act, one min ute later, with the unraveling of the mystery. The cast of characters follows: Darius Krupp, the old care taker of Hobgoblin House—Bill Spencer; Miss Priscilla Carter, the present owner — Maggie Sapp; Marian Carter, her niece—Alene Phillips; Jill Carter, Marian’s younger sister—Mary Emma La gerholm; Fkank Harlow, Marian’s fiance—Eugene Metcalf; JackLor ing, Jill’s fiance—Bill Cook; Su san Parkins, the “Henglish ’ouse keeper”—Juanita Darnell; Henry Goober, the darky gardener— Howard Bundy; Delilah Worts, the darky cook—Peggy Edwards; 'Bluebeard Bronson, an escaped maniac—Ted Wyatt; Bill Wilkins, his keeper, John Allen, and The Headless Phantom, ? ? T— Bobbie McCaH: The old-time square dance has been postponed —until Saturday night, April 15, it6m Saturday night, the 8th, the date originally selected. The event will be held in the Sparta High School Gymnasium. Proceeds will be used for Hie improvement of the, school grounds, and the public is invited to attend. Music will be furnished by Hub Sanders, Ford McCann and the Carpenter brothers. CIRCLE NO. 2 OF THE BAPTIST W. M. U. —will meet on Tuesday night, April 11, at 7:46 o’clock, at the home of Mrs. Howard J. Ford. Miss Edna Walls will be pro gram leader. SERVICES ARE TO BE HELD AT LITTLE RIVER CHURCH —on Sunday, April 18, by Elder TUB, of Winston-Salem, it has : ■nj; Vi’iv. /, ^ u.iij The total mileage mi which no work has been done —or funds provided in con struction of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia is 86.3 miles, according to an offic* ial statement given the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce re cently by the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads. The Virginia sec tion of the Parkway totals 228 miles. The State Chamber recent ly protested plans to reduce Fede ral funds for its completion. “No estimate can be m..de as to when the Parkway will be en tirely completed,” the Bureau re ports. “The section from Jarmans Gap to Rockfish Gap will probab ly be open to traffic by mid-July, although it is not anticipated that guard-rail work on it will be com pleted by this time. The section from Adney Gap to the Meadows of Dan is now usable for traffic, though guard-rail work will be under way this summer upon it. “It is anticipated that it will be the summer of 1940 before the section from the Meadows of Dan to the North Carolina line is completed, and this section op en to traffic.” The Bureau notified the State Chamber research department that work is either under way or con tracts advertised for bids on 141. 7 miles of the Parkway. The longest completed stretch is one of about forty-six miles to the South of Roanoke. By the sum mer of 1940 it is anticipated that a continuous stretch of well over 150 miles, in Virginia and North Carolina, will be open to travel. This summer, the figures of the Bureau reveal, it will be possible to drive from Rockfish Gap, near Waynesboro, to Front Royal, ut ilizing a section of the Blue Ridge Parkway and the full length of the Skyline Drive, a distance of more than 100 miles. Great Britain moved swiftly Sunday night —to extend her armed “en circlement” of Nazi Ger many across Europe to the Dardanelles by means of
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