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Wi 1 All 1 fll • You Will Profit 1 he Alleghany limes ~~ ) DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume No. 14. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1939. Number 50. This Week . in Washington Washington, Apr. 26 (AS)— President Roosevelt’s appeal to the Dictators of Germany and of Italy,—Hitler and Mussolini—to agree to make no further warlike efforts to extend their powers, and then to sit down in a wrold conference of nations to try to find a peaceful way of settling their grievances, whatever they may be, is easily the most dra matic gesture Mr. Roosevelt, with all his fondness for dramatic gestures, has yet made. How far it takes the United States into the field of European “power polities’’ is a question which official Washington is still puzzling over. As an appeal for peace, the President’s message to the Dic tators is in line with established American policy. At the same time that the announcement was made that such a message had been sent, orders were given to the Navy to send all of the fleet except the Atlantic Squadron back into the Pacific Ocean. No explanation was given, but the movie was taken here as an indication that there was no thought in the President’s mind of warlike measures in case the Dictator powers refused to come to his conference. No Disagreement There is no important disagree ment with this or any other ef fort to smooth out the unsettled condition of the world. There is a great deal of disagreement ex pressed in Washington as to the effectiveness of this particular method. This is the third time Mr. Roosevelt has asked the Dictators to be / good boys and not grab off any more nations that didn’t belong to them, and they haven’t paid any attention in the past. This time, however, official Washington and the most experi enced observers here believe that the President is counting upon backing up his peace plea by a show of force if he finds public sentiment here and abroad strongly enough behind him. The appeal to _ the dictators came as the climax to a week in which the President made sev eral warlike utterances. Leaving Warm Springs on a Monday to return to Washington he had re marked: “I’ll be back in the Pall if we don’t have a war.” That remark started not only news paper men but the public gen erally to speculating whether he meant he saw a possibility of a war in which “we,” the people of the United States, would be in volved, or whether he meant by “we” the human race in general. It also started the peoples and governments of Europe to guess ing what he meant. Explains Statement On Tuesday he explained, to the Washington newspaper men that what he had in mind was that if the expected war broke out in Europe it would have a serious effect upon the American nation and our people; but that since the war had not yet started when he spoke, it might be averted if the free nations, including the United! States, took a stand before it was too late. His intention was, in short, to warn Hitler and Mussolini that if they started a world war they would have to count on the op position of this country as well as England and France. A few days later, on Friday, the President did some more talk ing which set the public guessing. Addressing the Pan American Union, the organization of all the nations of North and South America he called upon the peo ple of die totalitarian nations of Europe to break the bonds of the ideas which enslaved1 them and were leading them toward war, and declared that the United States would meet any invasion of the independence of any nation of the Western Hemisphere, “force with force.” Then on Saturday came the circular letter to the dictators. Speak* At Mount Vernon In the meantime however, on Friday afternoon, Mr. Roosevelt motored down to Mount Vernon and there, on the portico of George Washington’s old home, on the 160th anniversary of the of ficial notification of the Revo lutionary hero that he had been electekjf the first President of the new nation, Mr. Rooaevel^ made I a speech which has stirred up al / most as much discussion as his / remarks on war did, I After remarking that he had ' always beliewed that Washington would have refused the Presi dency if times had been normal, he said that “the, summons to the Presidency had come to him in a time of real crisis and deep emer gency.” ' Critics of the President read into this, if not a bid for a re <*m to p*g» 0, pfcase) The Baptist annual May School convention —will be held at New Hope Church ion Sunday, May 7, beginning at 10:00 a. m. At this convention, brief reports and talks, interspersed with special music, will be made by pastors and Sunday School superintendents of the associa tion. The leading feature of the morning session will be an ad dress by Mrs. John B. Lane, State Sunday School worker, of Raleigh. The main address of the after noon will be given by Rev. W. B. Whittington, pastor of the West Jefferson Baptist Church. The program, as arranged by the committee, is as follows: Hymn: What a Friend We Have in Jesus; Devotionals—by Rev. William Hamm; Special music, by Mount Carmel Choir; Standard of excellence: Report of Superin tendent of each Sunday school in Association; Report of Depart ment Superintendents; Special music; Announcements and ap pointments of committees; Ad dress, by Mrs. John B. Lane, of Raleigh; Prayer; Lunch, to be served by the host church; Hymn, Stand Up for Jesus; Devotional, by W. F. Doughton; Report of Committees; Talk: Report on Re gional S. S. meeting, by Rev. A. F. Absher; Talk; Daily Vacation Bible School, by Rev. H. J. Ford; Quartet, by Sparta Sunday School; Address, by Rev. W. B. Whittington, and Benediction. More than 900 delegates and bishops gathered —in Kansas City during the past two or three days, from the three major branches of Methodism to attend the month-long uniting conference, from which the three long^divided religious denominational groups hope to emerge as one Methodist church. Yesterday (Wednesday) morning, the churchmen were to kneel in one common communion service. The theory of union to end divisions created by a first schism in 1828 and a second in 1844 already has been approved by conferences of the three churches —the Methodist Episcopal, the Methodist Episcopal, Soutli, and the Methodist Protestant. The work of the Kansas City uniting conferences will be to perfect a discipline under which the nearly 8,000,000 members of the three groups may operate as the the largest Protestant church in America. The 900 voting delegates, work ing with the 61 bishops of the two Methodist Episcopal churches and the leader of the hitherto bishopless Protestant branch, must iron out such problems as the financing of missions, creation of a unified youth movement and co ordination of all the church edu cational functions. From the communion service to day, following a ritual common to all three churches, the delegates and bishops march in procession two blocks to the arena of the huge muncipal auditorium where a gallery will accomodate 10,000 lay and clerical observers. There Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, of the Methodist Episco pal church, was to open a worship service—the first of the confer ence; Bishop Hughes, of Washing ton; Bishop John M. Moore, of Dallas, representing the Southern church; and Dr. James H. Straug hn, of Baltimore, president of the General Conference of the Metho dist Protestant church, were to preside at the opening business session. Elder S. G. Caudill Arill preach at Piney Creek Saturday —morning, May 6, at eleven o’ clock; at Fox, Va., Saturday af ternoon, May 6, at 2:80 o’clock, and Sunday morning, May 7, at eleven o’clock, and at Piney Creek, Sunday afternoon, May 7, at 2:30 o’clock. Everyone is cordially invited to attend these services. F. F. A. Treasurer i sti !i-. ■■ Bruce Osborne (above), of Piney Creek High School, is treasurer of the Parkway Feder ation of Future Farmers of Amer ica, which held a field day event! on Monday, April 17, at Appa- j lachian State Teachers College, j Boone. The federation has chap-1 ters in Alleghany, Ashe and j Avery counties.—Photo Courtesy! Winston-Salem Journal, Closing exercises at the Little Pine school were held —on Friday morning, April 21,! at ten o’clock, and the program consisted of songs, etc., and Sev enth Grade graduation exercises. Four girls and three boys receiv ed diplomas. The invocation was offered by Rev. Howard J. Ford, pastor of the Sparta Baptist Church. The literary address to the graduating class was delivered by Isom W. Wagoner, rural mail car rier in the Ennice section, who used as his subject: “The Value Of an Education.” The sermon to the class was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Ford, who used as his subject: “The Abundant Life.” Twenty-five students received p e r f e c t-attendance certificates. Each of these was also awarded a silver dollar. Other prizes for distinctive scholastic work were awarded to the following pupils: Helen Bed saul, Lynn Tompkins, Hattie Vaughan, Eula Mae Evans, Rob ert Mack Johnson, Wretha Mur phy and Hurst Higgins, Jr. The school term is said to have been very successful, under the management of T. C. Osborne and Mrs. Ruth Choate. The Grassy Creek Methodist W. M. S. held a meeting —on Saturday' afternoon, April 15, in the home of Mrs. Mattie Spencer, with Miss Myrtle Pugh, joint hostess. Nineteen members and visitors were present. Mrs. R. C. Pierce was program leader, "New Realization of Democracy in the Local Com munity” being the topic for study. Interesting discussions were given by Mrs. M. W. Reynolds, Misses Julia Hagar and Eliza beth Payne. Miss Myrtle Pugh read the scripture, and Mrs. F. C. Nye led the group in prayer. Mrs. J. E. Starling, Mrs. Lula Hudler and Miss Minnie Haynes had in teresting parts on the program. After the business session, a social hour was enjoyed and bountiful refreshments were serv ed by the hostesses. The May meeting will be held in the new home of Mrs. G. D. Sturgill, which is nearing com pletion on the property recently purchased from W. A. Weaver. The program will be in charge of Miss Minnie Haynes. The intense struggle over U. S. neutrality —was further prolonged Tuesday in Congress when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee de cided to continue its hearings un til May 6. The committee, which has been receiving testimony on a half dozen proposals to amend or kill the law, decided to hear an ad ditional list of witnesses, many of whom were suggested by Senator Johnson (R., Calif.). Johnson wants to repeal the law outright, and have the United States take its stand on international law. Tuesday** action meant that the committee wQl not make its decision on the neutrality issue before the "cash and cany” pro [g*. The Spring term of the Alleghany Superior Court —will convene in the Court House here on Monday morning, May 1, at nine o’clock, with Judge J. H. Clement, Winston-Salem, presid ing. Solicitor J. Erie McMichael, Winston-Salem, will handle the prosecution in the cases on the docket, and Miss Lillie Leake, also of Winston-Salem, will act as court stenographer. It is expected that the court will consume a full week, as there are a number of cases to be triedt one of which is a mur der case, and one a manslaughter rase. Glenn Maxwell (colored) will be brought back from State Prison in Raleigh to stand trial a second time for the alleged murder of Charlie Shepherd a little more than a year ago. Max well was sentenced to die for Shepherd’s murder in Superior Court here last year, but won a new trial when his case was car ried to the state supreme court. _ Commencement at Glade Valley High School closed —with the graduation exer cises on Friday night, April 21, when Rev. James Fick lin, pastor of the Mount Airy Presbyterian Church, de livered the literary address, using as his subject: "The Greatest Thing—Friendship.’’ Medals and awards were receiv ed as follows; Miss Edith Hayes, Music award; Miss Wiileen Mul lis, recitation medal, and also the Home Economics Department prize; Misses Mary Louise Branch and Mary Emma Logerholm, room prizes for girls; Marvin Warren, room prize for boys; Miss Maggje Sapp, award for best all-round school activities; Miss Juanita Darnell, Dramatics award, and Miss Peggy Edwards, scholarship medal, with an average grade of above 95. Miss Juanita Darnell, who made bhe highest average grade during her high school career, delivered the valedictory address, and Miss Maggie Sapp, who made the sec ond highest four-year average, delivered the salutatory address. Diplomas were presented the following: Misses Maggie Sapp, Juanita Darnell, Peggy Edwards, Alene Phillips and Arlene Davis, Clayton Shoemaker and Claude Dancy. Dean Earl Harris was class mascot. Each member of the graduating class was presented a Bible, donated by friends in Winston-Salem. Roosevelt asked Congress Tuesday to make a start —toward placing the gov ernment ion an efficient and economical basis by creating three new agencies to coordinate vital federal security, works projects and lending opera tions. Invoking for the first time his hard-won and restricted power to streamline the government, the President said in a special mes sage that he proposes to place in the White House direct control over the budget bureau, the na tional resources planning board and the central statistical board. He estimated that these changes would save the federal govern ment between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000 annually, and would result in larger economies to state and local governments. They will become effective in 50 days unless rejected by both houses. ELDER ELI A. LONG WILL PREACH SUNDAY AT ZION —Primitive Baptist Church. The F. F. A. President Charles Pugh (above), of Sparta High School, is president of the Parkway Federation of Future Farmers of America, which held a field day event on Monday, April 17, at Appalachian State Teachers College, Boone. The federation has chapters in Alleghany, Ashe and Avery counties..—Photo Cour tesy Winston-Salem Journal. National And World NEWS At A Glance N. C. COAL SUPPLY LOW Washington Apr. 19.—Repre sentative Doughton (D), N. C., discussed with President Roose velt the possibility of a better distribution of the available sup ply of coal if the coal strike con tinued. Doughton told newsmen the fuel supply of many North Caro lina industrial plants was alarm ingly low, some having only enough to last two days. LINDBERGH TALKS Washington, Apr. 20.—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh told Presi dent Roosevelt and the national advisory committee for aeronau tics today that the United States must remain ahead of the rest of the world in aviation research and aircraft quality in order to be prepared for any emergency. PRINCESS ELIZABETH 13 Windsor, Eng., Apr. 21.—Prin cess Elizabeth entered her teens today and received from her mother, Queen Eliztbeth, a gift symbolic of the fact that the heiress presumptive is becoming a young lady. It was a box of long silk stockings. The princess arose early to greet this 13th birthday, which started her on an intensive train ing period for her debut at 18 and, ultimately, for the time when England may again be ruled: by a “Good Queen Bess.” SHIRLEY TEMPLE LS 10 Hollywood, Apr. 22.—The focal point of attention after a recent preview was the star of the pic ture—the amazing Shirley Tem ple, who will be 10 years old tomorrow. DR. WILLIAM MAYO ILL Rochester, Minn., Apr. 23.— Twenty-four hours after he was operated on for a perforating gas tric ulcer, Dr. William J. Mayo, noted physician and surgeon, was reported by Mayo clinic physicians to be in “satisfactory condition” today with no “untoward symp toms” having developed. TELEVISION IS USED New York, Apr. 24.—Tele vision, both in the studio and out, was demonstrated for the first time to an annual meeting of the Associated Press this afternoon by the RCA-NBC system. The specially arranged visual broad cast was titled “Looking at To morrow/' CONSCRIPTION PLANNED London, Apr. 25.—The cabinet agreed tonight to call for immedi ate military conscription bringing more than 750,000 men under arms after learning that Fuehrer Adolf Hitler hed ridiculed Britain’s ability to defend herself in event of war, it was reported on high authority. R. FLOYD CROUSE HAS RECEIVED NOTICE —recently that he has been ap pointed District Deputy Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge, for the Jefferson District, which in ctata.**•«■*** Two men ore being held as suspects in the robbeiy of the Alleghany Motor Co. —nere recently. me tw.o men, together with their wives, were taken into custody Tuesday at a tourist camp near North Wilkesboro by county and state police. Several hundred dollars’ worth of merchandise, some of which has been identified as stolen from business firms in Virginia towns, was found in A sheep-shearing demonstration is to be presented —on Monday, May 1, at 10:00 a. m., at the Sparta High School Gymnasium. At i this time, E. S. Bartlett, of Chicago, 111., will demonstrate the proper method of shearing and handling wool. Mr. Bartlett was here two years ago, and is an expert sheep shearer. I L. I. Case, sheep specialist of North Carolina State College, and Paul L. Fletcher, marketing spec ialist of the North Carolina De partment of Agriculture, will have part on the program. There will be short talks on the outlook for wool and lambs, the grading and marketing of wool and lambs and the proper handling of the wool after it is off the sheep. In the afternoon, Mr. Bartlett will be glad to give instructions on shearing to farmers who ex pect to shear their own sheep or to men who do custom shearing. The public is invited to attend this meeting, especially those in terested in sheep production. Alf Landon spoke Monday night in Kansas City —at the centennial cele bration of the founding of the Boston University School of Theology. The 1936 Re publican presidential nominee viewed the unification conference of the three major branches of Methodism, that opened in Kansas City yesterdty (Wednesday) as a step which might “encourage other movements of this kind” to an eventual aim of “invoking divine aid’» for world peace. The foirmer Kansas governor is a delegate to the uniting ses sions to bring 8,000,000 Metho dists into one church organization. “This conference has a broad er meaning than its value merely to the Methodist church. The mutual good will and understand ing growing out of this confer ence will have a profound effect on our national life. We seek, not the welfare of Methodism alone, but the welfare of all churches and all peoples, and by our success here let us hope to encourage other movements of this kind. “It almost seems as if we were watching monstrous and horrible phantoms, mad with desire for power, filling the universe with hate and fear while they poise for the next threatening blow. The world, sinking under this load of hate—weary and in despair—is turning, always, to the devoted hands of its churches. A giant distillery outfit was seized Sunday morning Bi G1 on "s pe w be ft L tneir possession, Wilkes Sheriff C. T. Doughton said. The men, Aubry Kitts, 29, and John A. Kitts, 32, half brothers, were taken to Wilkes jail. They gave their address as Bluefield, W. Va., and said they were married on April 15 in a double marriage at Bland Court House, Va. Officers in the raiding party said they had “reasons to believe” the men robbed the Sparta firm of a new car, a truck and a safe containing $1,700 April 9. A car used by the men and seized at the tourist camp was identified as one stolen from an auto dealer’s storage room in Wytheville, Va., a few days ago. Officers said the car was jam med with wearing apparel and various types of tools they descri bed as “suitable for breaking in to buildings- and safes.” Officers from five nearby towns were called to North Wilkesboro in an attempt to identify com pletely the merchandise. Officers said investigation will probably reveal the men have robbed many places in North Car olina, Virginia, Tennessee and other neighboroing states and have stolen a number of automo biles. Wilkes officers were advised the suspects were in the vicinity by Alleghany County officers, they said. * A high-powered rifle, two re volvers and a big supply of ait> munition was found in the tourist cabin, officers said. The raiding party was compos ed of Sheriff Doughton, Deputy Oscar Pelts, State Patrolman Car lyle Ingle and Keller Eller and Harold David, of the North Wilk esboro police department. The quartet was captured at Jim Williams’ Tourist Camp, lo cated a half mile west of North Wilkesboro. No charges have been made a gainst the men yet, officers said. Secretary Hull declared Tuesday night in a speech —in Washington, D. C., at the 75th anniversary dinner of the American Red Cross, that there was “not room on
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