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Volume No. 14. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1939. Number 51. This Week in Washington Washington, May 3 (AS)—So many Senators and! Representa tives are reporting the receipt of floods of letters from the folks flack home, expressing the fear that the United States is heading toward war, or asking what the real foreign policy of, the Ad ministration is, that it is evident that a “war scare’’ of considerable dimensions is spreading over the nation. The fear that the United States ia being headed! toward partici pation in another Euripean war has not been allayed by the utter ances of men in high positions, phose included! the president, whose jrecent public expressions have Caused alarm, and Senator Taft, of Ohio, who openly charged the President with exaggerating the •jpar situation for the purpose of promoting-l**® own political for tunes, “Ballyhoo” is the word Senator Taft used. it is not easy to discover and down all the facts in a situ ation so complicated by personali ties and ambitions, but the com bined judgment of the best-inform ed observers in Washington may be summarized somewhat as fol lows: First, there is more war talk and fear of war in the United States than there is in England, anid) less justification for it. News paper headlines and loose talk in Washington are to blame. Second, the President does not want to drag the United States into war but is sincerely trying to prevent or postpone a war between the great European pow ers. The best judgment here is that his public statements so far have had a deterent effect upon the dictatorships. Third, the President believes that he is reflecting overwhelming American public opinion iu lining up this country by “measures of war” on the side of Eng and France and against Ger many, Italy tod Japan. Hop** For. Pmm If such an overwhelming pub lic opinion is demonstrated, clearly tq the Dictator nations, backed pp by the demonstration now under way of American prepared ness for war if necessary, and the adoption of economic measures which would help the-democracies, the hope which actuates the Ad ministration is. that the aggressor nations wiil at least pause long enough to give England and Prance time in which to complete -their military alliances and their war preparations. To do that,, in the hope of ^verting , war*, the President will gp as far as possible, provided! he feels that he has a strong back ing of. public aentiqient. . As to-wfaat the-position of the United States might he if the efforts to stop the impending war fail that is something which is up to the American people and the Congress, hut in which the lead ership of et)ic President would be| a strong factor, if not a decisive one. , , It can be set down as certain that nobody in Washington from the President itjjown wants this country to get into any war. The ■only important difference of opin iqn is on the question whether the policies and , pronouncements of the White . House will have the desired effect of keeping the United States out of Europe’s quarrels. 1 ■ v Immersed In Situation The President has become so immersed in the European situ ation that those who have talked with him lately, report that he Seems. to be losing interest in domestic affairs. His chief im mediate concern is with the eco nomic forces which can be mus tered in support of England and .Those include the “barter1? plan of swapping American surplus products for supplies which we peed—but not with Japan, Ger many or Italy—creating new $nancial machinery to enable prance and Britain to realize dol ' Jars for American securities own ed by their nationals without dis locating the securities market^ and political loans to South American ah<l perhaps other nations to en able them to buy American goods instead of trading with Germany or Jfipa^ , , ,«.*! Among national ^ problem*, as against international matters, the movement..to amend the Wagner Labor Relations Act to give em ployer? ah oven break with em ployees seems to. be malting pro -th- Congress. T^ere. is ihind the movement to ?A and the .whole the Government, definite has yet getting out of control, and becom (turn to page three, please) Glenn Ml Commencement at Sparta High School will open —on Friday morning, May 12^ ,at 10:30 o'clock, at wgiich time the Seventh Grade certificates and Per fect Attendance certificates are to be presented. Presentation of these certificates will be follow ed by the annual High School de bate. The question fox debate this year is: “Resolved, That the United States should establish an alliance with Great Britain.” John Pugh and Guy McCann will up hold the affirmative, and the nega tive is to be argued by Misses Louise Garioo and Jesse Lois Jones. The annual declamation and recitation contests are scheduled for Friday afternoon. May 12, at 1:30 o’clock, with the following boys participating and giving declamations, as follows: Dan Thompson, “When Duty’s Voice is Obeyed, No Failures are Made”; David Easterling, “Henry W. Grady”; Robert Berry, “My Moth ex, My Country, My God,” and Kyle, Atwood, “Happiness and Liberty.” rive giris win take part in the recitation contest, as follows; Miss Hope Marshall “At the Swimming Pool”; Miss Louise Cbrico, “Ma Take? a Chance”; Miss Elvira Wagoner, “Dq Green Squarsh and Pa”; M&s Gretchen Duncan, “The Qat Came Pack,” and Miss Lois Mitcfiell Reeves, “Mrs. Tremble Visits ,the Painless Dentist.’' Graduation exereisqs are to be held on Saturday morning, May 13, at 10:30 o’clock. T)ie liter ary address to the graduates is to be delivered by Dr. I. C. Greer, superintendent of the Miles Home, at Thoinasyille. The, Senior class pjay, “The Scarecrow Creeps,” is iq be pre sented on Saturday night Hay IS; at eight o’clock. ... The concluding program. of. tke 1939 finals will he held on Sunday morning, May 14, at eleven o’clock, when the commencement sermon to the graduating' class ir to be preached by Rev. A. ^ Gibbq, pastor of Broad,, Street Methodist Church, in Statesville, who is ,a former presiding elder of the old Mount Airy District All the commencement pro grams wiU be held in the high school auditorium. Superlative students have been chosen in the Senior class as fol lows: Best in Scholarship, Miss Jesse Lois Jones and Louis Irwin; Most athletic girl, Miss Annie Mae Truitt; most athletic boy, Paul Richaidson; Most beautiful girt, Miss Opal Greene; Most handsome boy, Frank Osborne; Most popular girl, Miss Emory (tum to page 5, please) The Senior class and facility members of Sparta High —Schdol were entertained with a party in the high school reading room on Thursday night, April 2,7, by a number of mothers of members of the Senior class. The mothers who entertained were: Mrs. Vance Choate, Mirs. Walter Osborne, Mrs. Lon Mac lieeves, Mrs. C. C. Castevens, Mrs. Marvin Doughton, Mrs. Dalton Warren, Mrs. A. C. McMillan and Mrs. P." L. Choate. Apple blossoms and other Spring flowers were used effect ively in decorations. Games, contests and dancing were enjoyed, and delicious re freshments were served. Governor Hoey honored papers for extradition of four persons, providing for their return to Wythe County, Virginia, to face charges of house-breaking and ©rand larceny. The chief executive honored the papers Saturday in Raleigh, at the re quest of Virginia authorities. The four for whom extradition was sought were being held- in jail at Wilkesboro. They are: John Kitts, Eva Mae Moor* Kitts, Andry Kitts and Opal Parmer Kitts. Sheriff W. C. Kincer, of Wythe County, and Deputy Sheriff J, W. Taylor were at Wilkesboro await ing the arrival of the extradition papers. The Virginia officers said , the quartet was wanted for the theft Of $£60 from a: garage and store house at Wytheville, Va. Wilkes county officers arrested the quartet near Wilkesboro sev eral days ago. They said they found considerable merchandise and a large supply of gnus and ammunitions with the Kitts'. .. The four mfire suspected of the robbery of the Alleghany Motor Company and theft of an auto mobile and “ ssfe bejpngingrtot&i firm here several weeks ago. Daniel C. Roper is to serve only t&tiporfcrily —in Ottawa, as U. S. minister to Canada, it was disclosed Tuesday in Washington, P. C. The former secretary of Com merce, appointed to the diplomat ic post by President Roosevelt, said.: “I expect to remain only dur ing the period of the visit of the king and queen of Great Britain. That would be about 60 days, or 90 days at' the most.” —morning, May l._ Judge Clement, of Winston Salem, opened what is expected to be a week’s term of criminal and civil cases. When court adjourned for the day Tuesday afternoon, the majority of the criminal cases had been tried and disposed of. Walter Blevins was given a sentence of two yeans in the penitentiary upon pleading guilty of breaking andi entering, on two counts, and was given a one-year suspended sentence for larceny of an automobile. In the case of State vs. Porter and Miller, for stealing an auto mobile wheel and tire, Freel Mil ler was put on probation for e period of five years. Ih the Por ter case, a non-suit was taken, Jake Alley was found guiltj of carrying a concealed' weapox and was required to pay the cosi of the action. Len Parmer was fo d guilt) of dynamiting fish, bul the Sen tence has not yet handled down. returned a Guilty,” after deliberation about ten minutes. A number of other minor case) were disposed of. * vrfttyiMTi itimini At the close of court on Tues day afternoon, a jury drawn from a special venire of 40 men summoned from Surry County was put in the care of an officer for the night, after they had heard the evidence in the case of the State vs. Glenn Maxwell, who is being retried for the murder oi Charlie Shepherd. One counsel for the state and one for the defenadnt made their argument to the jury before court adjourn ed Tuesday afternoon. Wednes day morning there was to be further argument of counsel and the charge of the court, and ther the fate of the Negro was to b< in the hands of the jury. Assisting the solicitor, J. Erl< . McMichael, of Winston-Salem, an Attorneys Robert M. Gambill ant i R. A. Doughton, of Sparta. De 1 fending are Attorneys W. B. Aus tin, of Ashe Comity, and Attor i neys Trivette and Cranor, * a Wilkes Comity. inffiTiil * fiHi ~ I Reenacting Washington’s Journey George Washington’s coach, traveling from Mount Vernon to the New York World’s Fair, reenacts the inaugural journey of the first president. Denys Wortman, New York cartoonist plays the part of Washington. r Commencement at Piney Creek High School closed . j ■ —on Wednesday night, April 26, at seven o’clock, when the graduating exer cises were held, bringing the 1938-39 term of the school, under the management of L. K. Halsey, principal, to an end. At this time, the literary ad dress to the Seniors was delivered by Professor W. Amos Abrams, bead of the English Department at Appalachian State Teachers College, Boone. Diplomas were presented the following graduates- Misses Vir ginia Austin, Logene Caudill, Delores Douglass, Edna Rae Smith and Marjorie Woodie, Rob ert Delp, Bruce Osborne, Lewis Hash and Cam Wyatt The salutatory address was de livered at the beginning of the graduation program by Miss Vir ginia Austin, who made the sec ond highest average grade during her four-year high school career, of oil the members of the class. Ne^r the close of the program, Cum Wyatt, first honor student, who made the highest four-year average grade for the class, de livered the valedictory address, . A Citizenship medal was pre sented a member of each of the high school. classes, as follows: Freshmen—Miss Helen Halsey; Sophomore—Miss Edith Osborne; Junior—Miss Mattilene Gambill, and Senior — Miss Marjorie Woodie. ine commencement sermon do the graduating class was preach ed on Sunday morning, April 23, at eleven o’clock, by Rev. R. H. Stone, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Jefferson. The graduating exercises were in the form of a Class Day play, and were very interesting and entertaining. The opening program of the commencement was presented on Saturday night, April 22. when the Senior play, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,’’ was presented in the new high school auditorium, where all the commencement pro grams were heldi. The play, which was well attended, was a dramatization of Mark Twain’s immortal novel, portraying all the characters that the great drama tist drew so richly. The behav iour qf all present during the presentation of the play has been commented on as being exception ally good. The play was a sequel to, or follow-up of, the play, “Huckle berry Run,” which was presented by the graduating class of 1938 at Piney Creek. t- • ’.'.'■■■■■i" . .1 * • “THE GYPSY ROVER” IS TO BE PRESENTED SUNDAY —night, May ft, at eight o’clock, , at Sparta High School, by the Glee Club, sponsored by the Mus ic Department of the school. The presentation will be fat the form of an operetta in three acts. A small admission fee will be charged, and proceeds are to be used for the Home Economics Department. MERGER COMMENDED Kansas City, April 26.—-Repre sentatives of three Methodist churches, already working aa ope organization, were told in ,a let ter from President Roosevelt to night their unification program was ‘‘a harbinger of better things” to “a world distracted by malice, envy and ill will.” CONSCRIPTION APPROVED London, April 27.—Great Brit ain tonight released 1,500,000 men from their jobs to swell the agm ed forces and augment an annual peacetime conscription of 310,000 British youths which Parliament approved tonight by an over whelming vote. LINDBERGH FAMILY ARRIVES ii Englewoid, N. April 2S.t— Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh apd her two-children, JonLand, arrived at the Morrow estate to day from France. r The wife of the fiier, who » bn a tour of the country, for army air service arrived in New York aboard the French finer Champlain at 6 a. m. She, the children and a nurse were the first passengers off. They had aa escort of 75 policemen. WPA CHIEF’S MOTHER DIES Bristol, Va., April .29.T--|ifa». Victoria Harrington, 7ft, mother of Ool. Francis C. Harrington, United States works progress ad ministrator, died today at her home here. Col. Harrington was with her. N. Y. WORLD’S FAIR OPENS New York, April 30.—The New York Worlds Fair, bidding all comers to try its latch-string to, the future, played today to an officially estimated crowd of 600,000 in the first eight hpors— far short of the 1,000,000 ex pected on the inaugural day to peer into the symbolized “world of tomorrow.” ROPER GETS CANADIAN POST Washington, May 1.—Seventy two-year-old Daniel Calhoun Rop er. until recently secretary oi commerce, was appointed today to be the new United States minister to Canada. Soon after President Roosevelt sent the nomination to the Senate, Secretary Hull baid every effort would) be made to get Roper to Ottawa in time to be United States representative at the cere monies attending the visit there of King George and Queen Elizar beth of England this month. WANTS U.S..PEACE GUARDED Washington, May 2. — A de mand that congress stay in ses sion to guard the nation front being “eased” or ’’driven” inti war was made in the senate to dag in reply to a move for Juni adjournment. • It came from-Senator ,Ja)uuk» (R., Calif.), a veteran .expenew of isolation as At a jcri tic of: administration foreign poli cy. He asserted that it was ti congress that the people leoke< for protection against war. Miss Rowena Woods, a Sullins College student, at Bristol —Va.-Tenn^ has been designated to serve as a princess in the court of “Queen Virginia III" at the fifth annual Dogwood Festival to be held in Bristol May 11-12. Miss Woods is a daughter oif Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Woods, Pearis burg, Va., and a granddaughter of Mrs. James W. Hawthorne, Sparta. Examples of the work of Alleghany County youths —will be on display at the North Carolina Youth Craft Exhibit and Conference to be held in Raleigh Memorial Auditorium on Friday and Satur day, May 19 and 20, according to Mrs. Robert M. Gambill, NYA Supervisor for Alleghany. . The Conference, sponsored by the North Carolina Council of Youth-Serving Agencies, will com bine an extensive exhibit of handicraft achievements by youth of North Carolina with an open | forum discussion program deal ing with immediate problems fac ing young people of today. John A. Long, State NYA Di rector, who is also president of the Council of Youth-Serving Agencies, reported to Mrs. Gam bill that present plans indicate this conference will be highly successful in its efforts to give expression to the works and thoughts of Young Tar Heels. A number o f outstanding speakers of North Carolina and other states have accepted invita tions to participate in the discus sion forums which are to be con ducted all-day Saturday, May 20. The exhibit of youth crafts, arts and works will be opened to the public beginning at one o’ clock Friday afternoon and will be on display all through the fol lowing day. Among organizations which will participate in the Con ference are the 4-H Clubs, the Future Farmers of America, the Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Youth Administration,! the WPA Education and Employ- J ment Divisions, and the Junior ( (turn to page 5, please) 4 jury of Surry County men found Glenn Maxwell —(colored) guilty iof first degree murder in the retrial of the Negro here in Alle ghany Superior Court for the alleged murder of Charles Shepherd in April, 1938. The verdict was reached yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon, and Judge J. H. Clement, of Winston Salem, presiding .over the Spring term of court here, set Friday, July 7, as the execution date. According to the jury’s verdict, Maxwell must die in the state lethal gas chamber in Central Prison, Raleigh. The jury deliberated for about one and one-half hours before reaching the verdict. The Negro was tried here last pear and sentenced to die in the state gas chamber, but an appeal bo the State Supreme Court by his attorneys resulted in a new brial, which was held) this week, with a venire of Surry County citizens being summoned for ser vice in the case. Coy Collins, who was charged with drunken driving and man slaughter, pleaded guilty to the charge of drunken driving, and was sentenced to serve 60 days on she roads, the sentence to begin n October. The manslaughter charge was nolle pressed. ‘Hi Vo Silver!” angered a New York state trooper —in Saratoga County Tuesday. (Then the call came to his ears, rrooper Frank Fitzgerald, astride i horse, reigned to a halt, point* ng a stern finger at Frank De Gregory, 16. Fitzgerald brought Him before City Judge Anthony 1, Labelle, charging breach of the peace. In his complaint Fitzgerald said Degregory “* * * did address complainant by the name of 'Hi ino Silver’ in a degrading manner to both the trooper and the uni form insofar as his capacity as i police officer was concerned.” Degregory posted $100 bail for appearance Friday. ' ■ - Healing a schism of 1 if* . ; t t d Hwo new bishops w fSunday at the Uniti —in Kansas City, in a simple ceremony. The two men consecrated are from the former Methodist Protestant Church, which split from the main church body in 1828. Bishop James H. Straughn, of Baltimore, president of the general con ference of the Protestant branch, and Bishop John Calvin Broomfield, ot Fairmont, w. va, a former president, were conse crated in a service before 8,000 persons at the Municipal Audi torium. The bishops-elect and conse crating bishops were cloaked in black academic gowns as they stood before a lighted cross and rows of other church bishops. White- and red-robed Boston University singers led a proces sional into the auditorium. Bishop Adna Wright Leonard!, of Pittsburgh, in the consecration sermon, said “the kingdom of God is not for the purpose of giving power to man, but rather (or him who serves best. | “There is nothing greater a bishop can do than reveal in his ■ own life that he is humbly trying to follow Christ.” Admonishing the new, united church not to be concerned simply with the number of members, Bishop Leonard observed: “What Methodism needs todiay is not more machinery, but the roar of power to stand alone—if need be—at the crossroads of the world for Christ.” Conaecrators for the ceremony were Bishops Edwin H. Hughes, Of Washington; John M. Moore, of Dallas; Paul B. Korn, of Naah , vfUe; and H. Lester Smith, of . Cincinnati.! a ... ■ i. vA Board of> Temperance with ■ offices in Washington was estab i lished Tuesday to carry on a fight I on alcoholic liquors, narcotics, (turn to page six, please) . 'tVl • • ■
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