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rfl. - ’^3/ ' I t_„ limes ! DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOM VELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY __■ •» _ Volume No. 15. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY JUNE 22, 1939. i Number 6. This Week in Washington Washington, June 21 (AS)— The biggest show which Washing ton has ever seen wound up on Friday night,'June 9, with the de parture of King George and Queen Elizabeth. On the same day the Govern ment of Finland sent an official notice to the Treasury that it would pay its regular semi-annual instalment of $175,000, principal and interest, on the money bor rowed from the United States Gov. ernment for rehabilitation of the little nation after the World War. Only one person in Washing ton was rude enough to ask the King of England “what about the four thousand million dollars and moire your country owes us?” He was a member of Congress who sent A telegram addressed to the King at the White House, and then told the press about it- The Congressman was so obviously seeking personal publicity by this ungracious gesture that the news paper men all agreed not to men tion his name. In the first place, the King of England has nothing to say about his Government’s financial re lations, amd in the second place he and his wife were here merely as King and Queen of Canada, which doesn’t owe the United States anything. Moreover, they were paying a social, not an of ficial, visit. To ask them about the debt would have been as bad manners as to ask an invited guest at one’s house when he intended to pay that $3 you lent him in 1929. However, there is a decided feeling in Washington official circles that the royal visit’s ef fect is likely to have a great deal of influence in bringing about a settlement of the war debt matter, as well as strength ening the relations between the two nations. ■ Friendship Assured When George VI laid a wreath with his own hands on the tomb of George Washington that set tled, once for all, the question of any lurking enmity between the two nations. Those who have made the closest study of inter national affairs believe that friendship between the govern ments of Great Britain and the United States is our strongest bul wark against aggression by the totalitarian powers of Europe and Japan. It can be set down definitely that the personal contacts with the King and Queen by all manner of public officials, winding up with their reception by the Senators and Representatives in the rotunda of the Capitol, have left a strong impression of friendliness among many who had expected some thing like a demonstration of royal aloofness and superiority. If the rulers of the British Em pire are this sort of folks, of ficial Washington is saying, there’s no reason why the United States should not cooperate with their country to maintain world peace and friendship between the nations who speak the same language. The King and Queen proved themselves “good fellows” in every sense of the word. They fell into the easygoing ways of America as if they were used to being treated like ordinary human beings, and seemed to enjoy it. The King grinned like a de lighted schoolboy when Vice President Garner threw his arm around his shoulders while he talked to him, and slapped him on the back as they parted. Seeking Third Term Echoes of the royal visit still overshadow almost everything else in the National Capital, except the prospects for the 1940 elec tions. The belief that the President is not only seeking but preparing vigorously to go after a third nomination has grown mightily in the past few days. It got its strongest support from an article in a popular illustrated magazine by Secretary of the Interior Har old Ickes, in which he set forth his reasons for desiring the Presi dent’s renomination, and took a crack at practically every Demo crat who has been suggested as the 1940 candidate of the party. Almost simultaneously there ap peared in another widely-circulat j ed magazine an article by Stephen / Early, chief secretary to the ■ President, which did not mention a third term but complained bit terly about the nature of some of the criticisms which have been levelled at Mr. Roosevelt. At the same time, however, the sentiment for the nomination of Vice Pitsident Gamer to head the party ticket is growing as fast as one of the cactus plants of his native Texas grows. In the most recent published (turn to page five, please) The Children’s Hospital at Roaring Gap —opened on Thursday, June 15, for the eleventh summer. Dr. L. J. Butler, well-known pediatrician from Winston Salem, will continue as medical director of the hospital. Dr. Karl Shepherd will act as resident physician. Dr. Shepherd completed his medical training at Harvard University in 1935, and since has done special work in pediatrics at Duke Hospital, Dur ham. Miss Mary Murphy, of Wins ton-Salem, will be superintendent. Five more nurses are on the staff. They are; Misses Jane Pearce, Dillon, South Carolina; Jessie Handy and Virginia Flippin, Stuart, Virginia; Genevieve Har din, of Orriun, and Carolyn Sing iltary, Winston-Salem. All are graduate nurses, and will receive a certificate in pediatrics at the end of three months. Dr. Butler will hold spec ial clinics at the Children’s Hos-: pital during the summer. The i first will be held on Saturday afternoon, July 1. This clinic will be held for infants. Child-, ren wishing to .register for the tonsil clinics will be notified later as to the date. John Choate died | at his home here on Saturday —June 17, after a lingering illness, at the age of 87 years. The deceased, who j was affectionately known as “Uncle John,” was a widely j known and highly respected citi- j zen. Surviving are the widow and three daughters, Mrs. Reid Ed wards, of Maryland; Mrs. Alice Rector, Independence, and Mrs. Garfield Edwards, Sparta; and two sons, Rob and Letcher Choate, of Maryland; a number of grand children and great-grandchilden, and four great-great-grandchild ren. Funeral services were held Monday morning, at 11 o’clock, at Little River Primitive Baptist Church, of which the deceased had been a member for many years. Elder C. B. Kilby, Elder S. G. Caudill, Elder W. H. Handy and Ex-Lieutenant Governor R. A. Doughton participated in the services. . Interment was in Sparta Ceme tery. North Carolina Republicans “oiled their guns” —Tuesday in Charlotte pre paratory to the 1940 elec tion battles. Jake F. Newell, of Charlotte, state Republi can chairman, said his chief ob jective was to form a Republican party organization “that will not be one of villification and abuse but one in which the people of North Carolina will have com plete confidence.” Optimism was sounded by Brownlow Jackson, of Henderson ville, the party’s state secretary treasurer and former state chair man. “I have absolutely no doubt,” Jackson said, “that the American nation will go Republican in the 1940 campaign but we particular ly desire that North, Carolina a gain will go Republican and I think the efforts we now are start ing will accomplish that.” Newell said the organization would be revised and its roots would take hold in each of the I state’s 100 counties. It will be fi nanced primarily, he said,, by “making each member a stock holder in the party.” A stockhold er will be any person making a contribution to the “war chest.” The party wqll have a complete ticket in every county in the', state during the oncoming campaign, Newell promised • The Wilkes County Singers Association will hold its regular —semi-annual meeting at the Superior Court House in Wilkes boro on Tuesday, July 4, begin ning at 10:00 a. m. All singers, including choirs, octets, sextets, quartets, trios, duets and soloists, are cordially invited to attend this meeting. “This is a national holiday, so let u& take the day off and join in singing praises to the Lord,” said J. A. Gilliam and William A. Stroud, chairman and secretary, respectively, of the association, in announcing the meeting. The United States has intervened in the latest —attempt .of Japan to seize control of foreign areas in China, employing an indirect diplomatic attack tending to show a difinite alignment of American interests with those of the British and French. Secretary of State' Cordell Hull disclosed that he had instructed U. S. Charge d’Affaires Eugene Dooman at Tokyo to protest to the Japanese foreign office the continued bombing of American property in China. Dooman also discussed the blockade of Kalang su, Amoy, by the Japanese. Thus, technically, the United States is avoiding direct entagle ment in the foremost far eastern issue—the blockade of the British and French concessions at Tient aui. j_»uc cue xuu unpun ux me diplomatic exchange was to serve notice on Japan that this country, far from being mollified by the courtesy extended Americans in the blockaded areas, has not lost sign of primary issues which in volve a long series of Japanese moves to subjugate American in terests in China. Dooman’s protest over the bombings, which have gone on spasmodically during the past few weeks despite previous American representations, follows a series of consultations here between State Department heads and Brit ish embassy officials ostensibly to exchange factual information on the Tientsin crisis. Because of courtesy extended Americans in Tientsin by the Jap enese and the fact that the Unit ed States has no concessions of its own in the international set telments of China, the State De partment has kept aloof of the blockade, as such. North Carolina’s exhibit at the World’s Fair —in New York was dedi cated Monday by Governor Clyde R. _ Hoey, his staff, state dignitaries and about 3,500 natives and residents of the state. The Governor spoke of the state’s cultural, social, agricul tural and industrial accomplish ments and declared that North Carolina has not neglected “the great spiritual values on which a mighty civilization is built.” He pointed out that the state has a balanced budget, that it required less for relief than any other state during the depression and that it is “keeping pace with the nation’s progress.” “This exhibit is representative of the educational and material growth of North Carolina and seeks to typify the balance be tween the state's agriculture and industry,” he said. “Half of North Carolina lives on the farm. The other half is in business and industry; but business supple | ments agriculture.” Hoey said North Carolina was not content to rest on past laurels but was constantly planning for the future. He said the first white child bom in the new world was bora on Roanoke Is land, N. C., and added that “every one in North Carolina lives long and well and has a good time.” Two thousand people attended ceremonies at the court of peace, prior to the dedication in the court Of states. (turn to page six, please) The Heads Of Two Great Democracies . . . WASHINGTON . . . King George VI of Great Britain, the first reigning British sovereign to visit the United States, and President Roosevelt riding in procession after the arrival of the British rulers in 'Washington. A filibuster ! | threat faced the ; , "SiT . > v' ‘ ' - •' •‘■•I revenue measure —in Congress when wes tern silver and currency expansion forces in the Senate threatened Tuesday night to ijse this method to delay action on the administration’s tax revision and monetary legislation directed toward extending vital policies which die in ten days. The new $1,735,000,000 relief appropriation for the fiscal year beginning July 1, also may be j imperiled if the delaying tactics I continue. v JSenate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley (D), Ky.^ moved to break the filibuster by summoning the Senate to meet at 11 a. m. (e. s. t.) Wednesday, an hour earlier than usual. He told news papermen that he was not worried by the situation and that night sessions would be resorted to, if necessary, to beat down the fili busters. The talk-fest is directed at the legislation, pending in the Senate, which would extend for two years the $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund and powers to devalue the dollar voted to the President dur ing the depression. Senator Elmer Thomas (D), Okla., leader of the currency ex pansionists, is sponsoring a pro posal to compel the treasury to issue $2,000,000,000 in new mon ey backed by $1,500,000,000 to be taken from the stabilization I fund and $500,000,000 from the free gold held by the treasury. Allied witn nim is senator rat McCarran (D), Nev., who is try ing to force the treasury to pay • more than the 64.64 cents an ounce for domestically mined sil ver, or to gain administration pro mises that the price will not be reduced below that figure. Admin istration leaders thus far have de I dined to make concessions. Unless executive clemency is granted s* n ;—Ln the next two weeks by Governor Clyde R. Hioey, (they will be asphyxiated at Central Prison, in Raleigh, » 'on Friday, July 7. The men, all convicted of first degree murder, are Alfred Caper, Negro sentenced in Robeson; James Cureton, Negro sentenced in Forsyth; James Godwin, white man sentenced in Guilford; Bric ey Hammonds, Indian sentenced in Robeson; James Henderson, Negro sentenced in New Hanover; and Glenn Maxwell, Negro sen tenced in Alleghany. Cureton, Godwin, Hammonds and Henderson lost appeals to the state supreme court last Fri day, and under state law their execution dates were fixed auto matically on the “third Friday thereafter.” Maxwell originally was sen tenced in May, 1938, but won a new trial from the state supreme court. He was convicted again last month, however, and sentenced to die July 7. Caper early this month received a reprieve which will expire on J July 7. National And World NEWS At A Glance JUDGE MANTON CONVICTED New York, June 20—Martin T. Manton, the only member of the federal judiciary ever to be thus stigmatized in all the 150 years of its history, was sentenced to day to two years in prison and fined $10,000 for selling his in tegrity as senior judge of the second district U. S. circuit court of appeals. ERROL FLYNN AND WIFE HURT Holloywood, June 20—Errol Flynn suffered a slight concussion and’cuts,'necessitating 12 stitches, I and his pretty actress wife, Lily j Damita, was shaken up in an au-; tomobile accident last night. The actor swerved his automo bile to avoid striking two pedes trians and struck a wall. Dr, Frank Nolan took eight stitches in Flynn’s forehead and four in his right eyelid. — ONLY 12 ABOVE ON PIKE’S PEAK La Jara, Colo, June 19—Freez ing weather early today caused extensive damage to' crops and gardens in the San Luis valley in extreme southern Colorado and the Colorado Springs area, far ther north, where ice formed on still water. Tourists shivered as they view ed the sunrise from Pike’s peak in a temperature only 12 degrees above zero. “QUINTS” GO ON DIET Callander, Ont., June 19—The Dionne quintuplets have been put on a diet because they are “a little too fat,” Dr. Allen Roy Da foe announced today. The diet cuts down on starches and sugars. It is not strict, but potatoes are banned completely. MRS. LINBERGH HONORED Amherst, Mass., June 18—Cit ed as giving “new wings to words,” Mrs. Charles A. Lind bergh tonight received the honor ary degree of doctor of letters from Amherst College—the alma mater of her father, the late Dwight W. Morrow. The former Anne Spencer Mor row, a graduate of Smith College, was the only woman among seven recipients of honorary degrees at Amherst’s 118th commencement, at which 197 seniors were grad uated. — OPPOSES DEVALUATION 1 Washington, June 17—Headed by Senator Glass (D.-Va.), the senate’s often-effective coalition of Republicans and Democrats op posed to administration fiscal pol icies has organised for a vigorous battle to strip President Roose velt of his powers to devalue the dollar. “No country in the world ever benefited by cheapening its mon ey,” Glass, one time treasury secretary, told reporters. “It’s un sound for any administration to have that power.” MEMORIAL SERVICES ARE TO BE CONDUCTED SUNDAY —afternoon, June 25, at Rocky Ridge Church, at Peden. After the services, ithe graves in the cemetery will be decorated. The public is invited and urged to attend and take flowers. | Ralph B. Cheek has been named teacher of Agriculture —in Yadkiirville High School re cently for the 1931M0 term byj the Central School Board of the, Yadkinville School District. He Is j a son of John M. Cheek, Sparta,! former superintendent of Alfejl.-'j [any County Schools, and Mrs. ! [Cheek, and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he majored in Vocational Education. Mr. Cheek received his agricul tural training at V. P. I., Blacks burg, and is at present working on his Master’s degree. He has had five years of professional ex-j perience in the' high schools of i Sparta, Maysville and Dobson. In Dobson, where he was a faculty j member last term, he taught I Agriculture. -■■ ■ ■ .——i. —- j Roosevelt refused to commit himself on a third term I —Tuesday when reporters at his regular press confer ence sought to draw him out ion the question. He also carefully parried other ques tions relating to the political out look. A newspaperman asked Mr. Roosevelt point blank whether he planned to seek re-election, and he advised his questioner to go stand in the corner. He resorted to that strategy several months ago when the question was first propounded. Later, when again queried, he j omitted the stand-in-the-comer in- j junction, he said, and columnists ; seized on the omission as politic- ; ally significant. mat was an awtul mistake, he : said, and consequently he re peated the injunction today. Reporters then asked whether he and Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuar dia of New York talked politics when the “Little Flower” visited him Tuesday afternoon, and he rejoined that the hot season was approaching and that politics was too weighty a subject to discuss. The Chief Executive had two other politically important callers Tuesday—former U. S. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings and Democratic Governor Lloyd C. Stark, of Missouri, who broke up the powerful Pendergast ma chine in Kansas City and earned the sobriquet of “Tom Dewey of the West.” Cummings, who resigned to re turn to his law practice, had luncheon with the President. “We had one of our good, old fashioned talks on many things, including politics, political pros pects for 1940 and matters per sonal to ourselves,” he said. Senate and House conferees on the 1940 agricultural —appropriation bill Tues day neared final agreement > on a compromise version of I he measure, accepting items | for $225,000,000 for farm parity | payments and $113,000,000 for distribution of surplus commodi ties. Both chambers have passed dif fering bills which the conferees lare now seeking to merge into lone measure acceptable to the jtwo Houses. It was understood jthat the conference was extended for another day when the group was unable to agree on a cotton subsidy export provision in the Senate version. ^ Members declined to discuss de | tails of the issue involved in the j export clause, which was spon sored by Senator John H. Bank ihead (D.), of Alabama. | The $225,000,000 parity item I was not contained in the Adminis tration’s original budget estimate for the Agriculture Department, and President Roosevelt has in formed Congress that it must pro vide sources of revenue for such extra-budgetary proposals. The Senate added the item af ter it was defeated by a narrow margin in the House as result of a coalition of Republican and ur ban Democrats, the latter of (turn to page 6, please) A change in the neutrality act has been urged —by President Roosevelt, who endorsed the Bloom bill Tuesday as an influence for peace. In connection with this endorsement, the chief executive urged Congress to re vise the present neutrality law at this session so that the adminis tration can formulate a definite policy to follow in case of war. He said at his press conference that if Congress goes home with out enacting new neutrality legis lation, and that if a war broke out in the meantime, it would be difficult to pass any sort of a measure without leaving the Unit ed States open to charges that it was favoring one side or another. Therefore, he continued, it would be to Congress’ own ad vantage to insure itself against getting into such a dilemma. His remarks bore out reports Monday that he is determined to have the neutrality act revised in the near future despite a threatened Senate filibuster against provisions of the Bloom bill which would repeal the pres ent arms embargo and place sales of all American supplies to bel ligerents on a cash-and-carry basis. The reference to the Bloom bill, drafted by Representative Sol Bloom (D), N. Y., in con formance with recommendations of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, constituted the President’s first open endorsement of the measure, although his approval was taken for granted. The President declined to dis cuss reports that he might call a special session to deal with the neutrality issue if Congress ad journs by mid-July without act ing. He described "the query-** an “if” question. Hundreds are expected to be in Galax Saturday —June 24, for the big Young Democratic Rally and Barbecue at Felts Park, at which Congressman Robert L. ( “Farmer Bob”) Doughton, of Alleghany County, is to be the principal speaker. The event, sponsored by the Young Democratic Clubs of the Fifth Virginia Congressional Dist rict, will be held in connection with the annual district conven tion of Young Democrats. The speaking program is sche duled to begin at 3:30 o’clock in the afternoon. After the invoca tion, an address of welcome is to be delivered by Mayor B. D. Beamer, of Galax, which will be responded to by C. Carter Lee, of Franklin, Va., district chairman. From that point in the program, Mr. Lee will preside. ce] pr< du no of me tic gii gr< the an of the SO] cai tk sei ly to of he of be ist on
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