Newspapers / The Alleghany News and … / June 8, 1939, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Alleghany News and Star-Times (Sparta, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Volume No. 15. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1939. Number 4. This Week in Washington Washington, June 7 (AS)— Most of the talk about economy in Government is turning out to be exactly what experienced poli tical observers have been predict ing it would turn out to be—just talk. That goes for Congress and for the Executive branch of the Gov ernment as well. It goes for Re publicans and Democrats in Con gress, for New Dealers and for conservative Democrats as well. The plain fact is that politic ians are not alarmed over the increasing national debt, but are concerned with appropriating more money which has to be borrowed, and distributing the borrowed money where it will do them, per sonally, or their party organiza tions, the most good. Two recent instances indicate this attitude in Washington, where the present Government policy is described as “lending-spending.” One is the address of President | Roosevelt to the convention of the ' American Retail Federation. The other is the acquiescence of Sena tors and Representatives of all shades of political opinion, of every party and faction, in agree ing to add $400,000,000 to the expenditures for farm relief, without a record vote. The President's talk to the re tailers is regarded here as a state ment of the Administration policy in regard to debt and taxes. The President said, in effect, that there is no need for anyone I to be concerned about the growth j of the public debt, since the peo ple are borrowing money from themselves anyway; and that the borrowed money is being spent | for things which benefit every-; body and will eventually result in improving business conditions. Advocated by Eccies This is substantially the policy which has been advocated by Marriner S. Eccies, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board whose influence with the President in financial matters is now consider ed to be greater than that of the Secretary of the Treasury. The Treasury is, however, more •closely in accord with the Presi dent, on the matter of tax revision than it has been for some weeks. The Treasury’s attitude has been for a long time that the only way to, increase the national income, which means the individual in comes of citizens and business en terprises, is to repeal or modify the taxes which prevent idle capital from engaging in new en terprises or expanding old ones. The President has been strongly •opposed to tax reductions which are now compensated for by ad ditional taxes in other directions. Mow* far he will go along with Congress and the Treasury re mains to be seen. There has Deen a noticeame shift in the atniosphere of political Washington in recent weeks. It can hardly be said that the op position to the President and his policies within the ranks of his own party has diminished mater ially, but there are outward signs of a more friendly feeling on both sides. Expert sign-leaders interpret the present situation as indicat ing that the President is hopeful of reuniting the Democratic party so as to insure' himself a third term nomination, and that all but a few of his most bitter oppon ents inside the party are begin ning to wonder whether the Demo crats have a chance to elect any one in 1940 except Mr. Roosevelt himself. If that opinion becomes a conviction, party expediency and the personal political futures of numerous Democratic leaders will over-rule personal antipathies and dictate the support of the Presi dent for a third term. Garner, Boom Alive That is nut to say that the Gar ner boom for. the Presidential nomination is dead. It is still very much alive. But Democrats are asking themselves and each other whether it would be safe to put up anybody with a less wide-spread personal following than Mr. Roosevelt himself, to contest against whatever candi date the Republicans may nomi nate. Under-oover gossip m Washing ton is that the scheme in which Postmaster General Farley, as Chairman of the Demorcatic Na tional Committee, is currently en gaged, is not to collect pledges of delegates for himself, as had been whisperedi, hut to insure the backing of the state party ma j chines for the renomination of the I President with Mr. Farley as Vice, f President. There are signs that all is not going smoothly in the Bepublican groups in the Senate and House. That they have not agreed upon a policy to which they can all adhere, is evidenced by the large, number of Bepublican members who voted with the Democrats on (tun to page t, please) v- .. . A>4 ■ X,Ji 4*,:.mi'iss Americans and Canadians joined in cheering —King George and Queen Elizabeth Tuesday, when the English royal couple wias on exhibition before a million and a half persons as the royal train moved slowly through an aisle of people strung through city and country all the way from Toronto to the Detroit river. They experienced the most gruelling day of their Canadian tour. For hours they stood on the back platform of their train as it carwled through towns and even the crossroads which were crowd ed with automobiles and people. King George kept up a seem ingly endless round of greetings, despite the pain of an elbow in jury received as the train came to a sudden halt at Stratford, throwing him against the wall of the platform. He rubbed the joint briskly at intervals during the 13-minute stop. The welcome awaiting them in Windsor, Ontario, across the river from Detroit, climaxed the day. Approximately 250,000 Canad ians and Americans watched from along a five-mile stretch of rail road track as the royal train slowly entered and left Windsor, a city of 100,000. At the station in downtown Windsor the king and queen met an ovation and a 21-gun salute as they stepped onto a flower decked platform. Mayor David Croll, of Windsor, and later May or Richard W. Reading, of De troit, greeted them. Closely surrounded by royal Ca nadian mounted police in scarlet jackets, their majesties left the platform and circled it while shak ing hands and chatting with war veterans. Huge floodlights illuminated the scene. The party was behind schedule and it was dark when the royal train arrived. Its departure left 35,000 Ca nadian school children sorely dis appointed. Original plans for only one stop in Windsor had been altered to allow for a five-minute halt in front of the stands where the youngsters had waited hours in the hot sun. The. king and queen were on the observation coacli platform as it passed' the children but the train failed to halt. Just off the Canadian shore of the Detroit river there was a line of passenger liners, excursion boats and private yachts. These let loose with their whistles and bells as the royal train slowly rolled away in the dark. Detachments of Detroit poliee were in Windsor as an escort for members of the city council who were official guests. Detroit’s own welcome was a sign 46 feet long and 15 feet high: “Detroit welcomes their majesties the king and queen.” ' Yesterday their majesties starts e d an exhausting procession through London, Ingersoll, Wood stock, Brantford, Hamilton, St. Catharines and Niagara Falls, and into the United States last night for their four-day trip to Wash ington and New York. Hie date for the Great Smoky Park dedication event —will be postponed, it seems, as National Park Service officials said Tues day night in Washington, D. C., that a new time probably would be set for the ceremonies as a result of a decision of Presi dent Roosevelt not to start his western trip during June. It had been hoped the Chief Executive could, leave some time during the middle of this month, stopping en route at the park to dedicate the 40Q,000-acre scenic development. “We can dedicate the park any time the President can go," said Oliver G. Taylor, chief of engin eering of the park service, who is handling the Washington end of the arrangements. He pointed out no definite June date had been set because of the President's previous indecision a bout being able to get away from Washington. Some date be tween June 16 and 22 had been considered. , ■ - ■ . , ‘.J.V ■ ' |: -f ; W. B. Halsey, Sparta, received a degree Tuesday —at the University of North Car olina finals in Chapel Hill, being one among 560 to .whom degrees were awarded. The Sparta boy was given a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy. Also among the number receiv ing degrees was Carlisle W. Hig gins, Jr., of Greensboro, son of Solicitor Carlisle Higgins, former-! ly of Sparta. Higgins received a Bachelor of Arts degree. A shotgun was fired near the Duchess of Kent —sister-in-law of King; George, Monday night in j London, and at about the same time a glass panel was shattered mysteriously at the home of the Princess Royal, the | King’s only sister, in two appar-| ent attempts to terrorize or in- ; jure them. Scotland Yard, investigating! both incidents, was reported to! have under consideration whether responigbility lay with the Irish republican army or its sympathiz ers who have been charged by police with waging a campaign of bombing and terrorism in Eng land. The campaign earlier this year caused the Duke of Kent to cancel a tour to northern Ireland. The duchess, beautiful and one of the most popular members of the royal family, was leaving her fashionable Belgrave Square home for the movies when the shot was fired. She was not injured and was said not to have been aware of, the incident, which occurred be tween 10:30 and 11 p. m. (5:30 and 6 p. m., E. S. T.), until after she had viewed the film, “Wuth ering Heights,” at the Gaumont Theatre. With her was Lady Portarlington. A middle-aged cyclist was pre sented in magistrate’s court Tues day as the man who had fired the sawed-off shotgun near the duch ess of Kent and theh pedalled off briskly, insisting solemnly he was “quite in order.” The Duke of Kent is to leave England in October to assume the 'duties of governor general of I Australia. Both the princess royal and the Duke of Kent are councillors of state in the absence of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Canada and the United States. Bishop G.B.0xnam told the graduates at Duke University —in Durham, Sunday night, June 4, in the baccalaureate sermon, that he has grown Weary tof “these purveyors of despair.” “Singing at Mid night” was the theme of the Boston Methodist bishop’s sermon, taken from the New Testament incident when Paul and Silas, imprisoned as dangerous revo lutionists, sang songs at midnight. “These men,” said Bishop Ox nam, “belonged to no lost cause. They were no tattered remnant fighting it out in heroic helples ness . . . They were men who could understand Robert Louis Stevenson’s definition of life; ‘Life is an affair of cavalry ... a thing to be dashingly used and cheerfully hazarded.’ ” President William Preston Few, delivering the baccalaureate ad dress Sunday morning in chapel services for the graduates, said that the first lesson that history suggests is one of hope. “I see no reason,” he daid, “why you should be more discouraged about life than have been others who have gone before you. Conditions change but the essentials of liv ing and of success remain largely the same.” Monday, Duke concluded the busiest and most significant year in all its history, awarding 812 academic and three honorary de grees in graduating exercises at tiie stadium. Previously during the day two other occasion were attended by large groups, the commencement sermon delivered by Dr. James Rowland Angell, former president of Yale University, in the morn ing, and the alumni-alumnae luncheon held during the early afternoon. r.ft* ifci'v i Before They Were King And Queen . . .. ■ . i Their Majesties, the King and Queen of England, when Duke and Duchess of York, handling Elinka of DoonhoLm, Aberdeen-Angus cow, at the Scotland Estate of Col. Norman Kennedy. Col. Ken nedy’s son, Bruce, who is in this country attending Hotchkiss School, Lakesville, Conn., will graduate this June, when the King and Queen j are visiting the United, States. National And World NEWS At A Glance HITS TOWNSEND PLAN Washington, May 31.—The Townsend old-age pension bill was described in the House to day both as “a national recovery plan” and as “economy heresy.” At one point in the hours of debate preliminary to tomorrow’s vote, Chairman Doughton (D), N. C., of the ways and means committee said it would impose “the heaviest tax ever levied in all our history.” FRANCE INTERVENES Paris, June 1.—The French gov ernment intervened today in an effort bo stave off collapse of negotiations for a triple alliance between Britain, France and Rus sia. VANDENBERG CLUB FORMED Detroit, June 2.—A Vanden berg-for-President Club — prob ably the first organized to pro mote Senator Arthur H. Vanden berg (R), Mich., for the 1940 Republican nomination—was start ed here today. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES ILL Washington, June 3.—Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes was confined bo his bed tonight, suf fering from a duodenal ulcer, and speculation, entirely unofficial, immediately arose as to the pos sibility of his early retirement from the Supreme Court. ROYALTY ATTENDS CHURCH Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 4.— King George VI and Queen Eliza beth went to church today with the plain people of Canada at a service of united denominations in the little town of Portage La Prairie, blackland farming center 64 miles west of Winnipeg. “PEACE FRONT” GETS BLOW London, June 5.—Anglo-Soviet “peace front” negotiations suf fered another blow today when the cabinet’s foreign policy com mittee refused to extend Britain’s anti-aggression guarantees to in clude the small Baltic states form ing a buffer along Russia’s west ern frontier. IRISHMAN IN CUSTODY Detroit, June 6.—Sean Russell, a leader of the fiery, outlawed Irish Republican army, sat in an immigration detention cell tonight and could hear the booming of guns and cheering as King George and Queen Elizabeth were wel comed to Windsor, Ont., just across the Detroit river. JAMES A. FARLEY WAS GIVEN AN HONORARY —degree of Doctor of Laws from Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas, a Methodist church school, yesterday. CONFEDERATE FLAGS WAVED BESIDE THE STARS —and stripes at the Arlington Cemetery amphitheatre, Washing ton, yesterday as the United Con federate Veterans and Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy honored their dead. The REA has given! preliminary consideration —bo tan application of the Caldwell Mutual Corpor ation, Lenoir, for an ad ditional loan of $125,000.00 bo permit the corporation to ex tend its electric lines for 125 miles, to serve approximately 375 members in Alleghany, Ashe, Wa tauga and Caldwell counties. The original application made to the REA (Rural Electrification Administration) by the Caldwell Mutual Corporation was to con struct!J7§£L,tmiles of line in the four4Wrahties mentioned and serve 4,246 members. The REA has already allotted $905,000.00 for this project. If the additional allotment of $125,000.00 asked for is grant ed, a total of $1,030,000.00 will have been made available for construction of rural electrical lines in Alleghany, Ashe, Wa tauga and Caldwell counties; A salary rase for teachers of the state seems —assured, as it was estimat ed in Raleigh Monday that between $200,000 and $250, 000 would be available dur ing the next scholastic year. At the same time, Lloyd Grif fin, secretary of the state school commission, announced that ap proximately 200 additional teach ers would be employed in 1939 40. During the current year, 24,167 teachers were on the state’s pay roll. The additional teachers, Griffin said, are needed because pupils are atending school more regu larly than ever before, and be cause more pupils are finishing high school. Teachers are assign ed to schools on the basis of aver age attendance. The school commission will meet Thursday to consider how the salary schedule should be altered. The legislature, in increasing funds for instructional service during the coming fiscal year, authorized the commission to de cide how the money should be appropriated. Part of the legisla ture’s boost will be used to pay the salaries of the 200 additional teachers and to meet increment gains. The remainder—the $200,000 to $250,000—may be spent in any way, or all, of three ways, authorative sources said. These ways are: to cut down tne differential between the salaries of Negro and white teachers. At present, the average white teacher receiv es more pay than the average Ne gro teacher. 2. To increase the salaries of all teachers. 3. To add a ninth increment to the salary schedule. At present there are eight sal ary increments. During a teacher’s first year of employment, she re ceives no increment. Thereafter, however, her salary increases each year, for eight years. After the eight years, there are no fur ther increases. | John Temple Graves told a commencement crowd at Chapel Hill —Tuesday, at the University of 'Jorth Carolina, that “our im nediate task in America is not to nake war upon any people, with n or without our land.” “It is rather to prove our own nstitution. We need to prove that government by the people works. . . We need to show that liberty ind ham and eggs can both be lad.” The unversity conferred de crees upon a record class of 556 who had just been told by Graves ;hat they faced “the most excit ing and uncertain world that ever received a graduating class.” Governor Hoey handed a di ploma and a Bible—a gift of the state—to each graduate, all the while speaking congratulations. Just before the diplomas were presented in a twilight setting in beautiful Kenan Stadium before a large audience, the unversity’s president, Dr. Frank P. Graham, briefly bade the class godspeed. Senior President Felix D, Mark ham responded. Graves is an editor of the Bir mingham (Ala.) Age-Herald. The third-term boom for Roosevelt reached a new high —Tuesday with a series of developments which provid ed a lusty preview of the 1940 Democratic national convention. Shortly after Representative Martin J. Kennedy (D), N. J., carried the third-term issue to the House floor, a group of south ern delegates presented to a con ference of the Workers Alliance a resolution opposing the presi dential candidacy of Vice Presi dent John N. Garner and calling on relief workers “to keep the new deal in the White House.” Mr. Roosevelt conferred mean time with E. H. Birmingham, chairman of the Iowa state Demo cratic committee, who said he had informed the Chief Executive that Iowa would support him if he is prevailed upon to run for a third term. secretary o<t the interior Har old L. Ickes put the President in the race yesterday with an article in the magazine Look in which he said “I want Roosevelt for a third term.’’ Congressman Kennedy called on the Democrats to renominate Mr. Roosevelt and urged his party to “ignore the third-term myth.” He cited numerous historical incidents to support his contention that the founding fathers were not oppos ed to a third term. The Workers Alliance, an org anization composed of relief cli ents, adopted the resolution with out a dissenting vote. It was frankly anti-Garner and was of fered to a “right-to-work” con ference called for the purpose of supporting the President’s relief appropriation demands. The resolution urged relief workers to organize clubs to rally support for a candidate sympa thetic to Mr. Roosevelt’s objec tives. Conferring its first honorary degree Tuesday —morning, the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, awarded the degree of Doc tor of Laws upon Judge Florence E. Allen, of Ohio, at the insti tution’s 47th annual graduation exercises. Degrees were also conferred upon 387 members of the gradu ating class, the largest in the his tory of the college. The exercises began when the procession of faculty and sen iors, led by Governor Clyde R. Hoey and Miss Mamie Grace Smith, of Kinston, chief marshal, marched into Aycoclc auditorium, Announcement of awards was made by Dr. Jackson. Miss Jane Dupuy, Greensboro, a member of the graduating class won the Weil fellowship; Miss Margaret Coit, of Greensboro, a sophomore, and Miss Eleanor Ross, of Norwood, a junior, will share the Winfield scholarship; and Miss Mary Betty Brown, of Taylorsville, the Men denhall scholarship. Will Rogers took his place in the Capitol’s statuary —Hall in Washington, D. C., Tuesday, alongside the nation’s most illustrious sons and daughters in the select confines of the hall. There, in the presence of wet-eyed admir ers, was unveiled a bronze like ness of the cowboy humorist and philosopher—the man who began life in a simple home on the plains of Oklahoma and ended it in an Arctic airplane crash. Members of his family, officials high in national and state govern ments, representatives of stage and screen, hundreds of Okla homans and scores of private citi zens were among the 2,000 who jammed the rotunda and watched in tense silence as the statue was unveiled by Mrs. Sally McSpad den, of Chelsea, Okla., sister of Rogers, and Will Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. The statue, depicting him in characteristic pose—a whimsical smile on his face, hair tousled and hands in his pockets—was pre sented by Oklahoma as its second and final contribution to the hall of fame. It wall stand: near a likeness of the state’s other repre sentative—Sequoyah, the Indian who invented the Cherokee alpha bet. Rogers himself was part Cherokee. Each state is permit ted two representatives in statu ary hall. Mrs. Betty Rogers, the widow; her children, Jimmy, Bill and Mary (Mary Howard, of the mov ies); Mrs. Paula Lowe, a niece; Dr. J. C. Bushyhead, a cousin, and close friends of the family watched the ceremony silently. Senator Barkley (D., Ky.), the Democratic leader, Governor Leon C. Phillips, of Oklahoma, and Luther Harrison, Oklahoma city editorial writer, paid glowing trib ute to Rogers. Vice President Garner and Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the RPC, were among those on the plat form. * Governor Phillips, who present ed the statue to the nation, term ed Rogers America’s best known and most revered private citizen and “our unofficial ambassador of good will to the world.'i t Senator Barkley replied that Rogers’ life illustrated the oppor tunities of America. Of 72 stat ues in the hall of fame, he said, all but 12 were those of public officials. He said he wondered if greater services were not per formed by perrons who “walked in humble ways” than by office holders who sometimes feel them selves more revered. . f > A walk-out of 70,000 Detroit ■ auto workers —has been settled, it was announced in Detroit Tues day night by Federal Labor Conciliator James F. Dewey. The strike was among workers of the Briggs Manufacturing Company, and had kept nearly , 70,000 workers idle for 15 days. Dewey said that representatives of the company and the United Automobile Workers Union (C. I. 0.) had concurred in the agree ment and that it would be signed yesterday noon. Immediately af terward it was to be presented' to a union mass meeting for rati fication. If it is ratified, Dewey said, the eight Briggs plants probably would reopen this (Thursday) morning, and the seven other automobile plants forced to close because of lack of supplies from Briggs will reopen as soon as pos- £ sible, probably before the end. of the week.
The Alleghany News and Star-Times (Sparta, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
June 8, 1939, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75