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This Week in Washington Washington, Aug. 2. (AS)— The first session of the 76th Con gress draws to its close with no patching up of the rift in the Democratic party. Because of this rift, the Presi dent has lost major engagements in the struggle between himself and the Legislative branch. Perhaps the most important act of Congress', in the last fortnight of the session, was the passage of a 1)111 introduced by Senator Carl A. Hatch, of New Mexico, to prevent federal workers, in cluding WPA workers and others on relief, to take part in party 1 politics. After it had been amend ed on the floor of the House and the Senate had concurred in its amendments and sent the bill to the White House for the Presi dent’s signature, it made it illegal for any official or employee of the Government to take any part whatever in party politics, under penalty of a $1,000 fine. Only the President, the Vice-President, Senators, Members of Congress, and officials whose positions make them responsible for formulating national and international polic ies—otherwise, the Cabinet—are exempt from the operation of this new law. The net effect, if the Hatch j Act is enforced, will be to keep all Federal office-holders from taking part in next Spring’s pri maries to choose delegates to the Presidential nominating conven tions of either party, or from being delegates themselves to any party convention. That is cal culated to destroy the ancient system whereby Presidents in of fice are renominated by conven tions largely composed of office holders. Eighty-three Democrats joined the solid Republican block in the House to carry the Hatch bill by a vote of 242 to 133. .. I Pasted 242 to 133 After the final passage of the Hatch bill by the Senate, forty or fifty Southern Democratic Sena tors crowded to the Vice Presi dent's rostrum to congratulate him and Senator Hatch, the auth or of the bill. Vice-President Gamer beamed his appreciation; for the new law ogives him a greatly improved chance of get ting delegates elected who will stand for him for the Presiden tial nomination. The Gamer Presidential boom is now fairly launched. The second major piece of legislation in the closing weeks of the session was the adoption by the House of a resolution proposed by Representative Cox, of Georgia, for the appointment of a special Congressional com mittee to sit during the recess and investigate the administra tion of the Wagner Labor Re lations Act. Here, again, 104 Democrats, mostly from the South, voted with the Republi cans to carry the resolution by a vote of 254 to 134. The ground for this investi gation is the charge, frequently made not only by employers but by the American Federation of Labor, that the Labor Relations Board has refused employers a hearing in labor disputes, and has discriminated against the A. F. of L. and other labor unions in favor of the C. I. O. Simultaneously with this action by the House, the Senate passed the Logan bill providing for the judicial review by the courts of all administrative rules, decisions and orders made by any branch or instrumentality of the Execu tive arm of Government. This is aimed not only at the Labor Re lations Board but at all other agencies. Conference Fails The most severe blow to the President's aims was the failure of his conference with Senatorial loaders of both parties in a last desperate effort to win support for the changes in the Neutrality laws which Secretary Hull for mulated and the President urged on Congress. The Senatorial leaders of both parties, the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Foreign Affairs committee and the Vice President himself, sat with the President and the Secretary of State for three hours while Mr. Roosevelt told them, and Mr. Hull confirmed, the reports from American Ambassadors in Europe about the danger in the inter national situation. The Senatorial conferees were adamant in their refusal to ac cept the President’s point of view. Senator Borah went so far as to aay that he could not accept the Administration’s statements of the gravity of the situation, for he had contrary information from sources ho considered equally trustworthy. The Vice-President asked each Senator present whether there was any chance of getting the (turn to page five, please) ♦ A-. ■. •'v-w .. ,^5-, I..- 5 * • Want To Sell ¥ 4 11 1 ^¥1 • You Will Profit Tm I he Alleghany 1 imes DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC. AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY - : 1 ——---A~ — ---- Volume No. 15. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1939. Number 12. The Roosevelt lending bill was lolled —Tuesday in a swift, un ' expected debacle in the House of Representatives in Washington, D, C. The president struck back with a declaration that the action was a blow to industry, the unemployed and the taxpayers. With a jubilant coalition of Republicans and- Democrats in command, the chamber refused, by a vote of 193 to 166( to take, the $1,950,000,000 measure up for debate. This action followed Senate passage Monday of a much-reduced' $1,615,000,000 ver sion of the same program. After witnessing the dramatic display of insurgency Tuesday, Representative Rayburn, of Texas, the administration leader, indi cated that the other major money bill on the administration pro gram—the $800,010,000 housing; bill—was as good as dead. While batttle-weary legislators prepared to adjourn Congress by Saturday night, President Roose velt received reporters at his press conference. In a calm tone he said that while he was not criticizing the legislators for something they had a perfect right to do, those who would be adversely affected had a right to know where the responsibility lay and the names of those who voted against House consideration of the measure. A large number of industries I would not have their production increased, as planned1, he said, and' a large number of relief clients who would have got jobs would have to remain on relief. This, he said, would cost the taxpayers a good many hundred millions of dollars. Mr. Roosevelt had asked $3, 060,000,000 for loans which he said would aid industry and' em ployment. Administration men said the project would be self liquidating and would not increase the national debt. Critics dis puted this and called the plan dangerous to the federal finances, and an undesirable grant of tre mendous power to the Executive. Rearmed Germany boasted Tuesday night of power —and advantages that she said would be on her side in another war, and backed her boast with 2,000,000 men under arms who yesterday (Wednesday) celebrated the 25th anniversary of the outbreak of the World War. In a front-page splash compar ing, Germany’s striking power now with what it was in 1914, Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbel’s newspaper, Der An griff, said that Nazi Germany wants peace but is ready to fight and win unless it is a peace “that guarantees us security in exist ence and our living peace.” The article was written by Kurt Kraenzlein, editor-in-chief of Der Angriff, which carried the headline: ' In asserting that the advant ages of another war would be on Germany’s side, the newspaper cited three claims: 1. That the western anti-ag gression powers would suffer strategic disadvantages in that they would be compelled to fight on two fronts—the North Sea and, the Mediterranean—and possibly in the Par East because of Ger many’s alliances. 2. That Soviet Russia is “in the position of a man who has just had a stroke and fears a new outbreak if he acts ener getically.” 3. That colonial problems have been complicated by the addition of continental problems. A DAILY VACATION BIBLE 1CHOQL WILL BE HELD —at the Sparta Methodist Church next week, beginning at nine o’ clock Monday morning, August 7. Children up to the age of 15 years are invited to attend, re gardless of denominational af filiation. \yq Baxter Anderson, of Wilkes County, accidentally killed —himself Tuesday morning near j the lower Yadkin River bridge, at North Wilkesboro, When he ac cidently discharged a .22-calibre rifle bullet into his forehead. Anderson, who was 17 years of age, died almost instantly. A jury, empanelled by Coroner I. M. Myers, ruled that the youth came to his death accidentally at his own hands. Anderson, a son of Mr. and |Mrs. John Anderson, was with 'Roscoe Porter, 16-year-old play Imate, when the shot was fired. Porter told the coroner’s jury that each had a rifle and had been roaming over the woods across the river for some time and were on their way home when Anderson was killed. Port er said that they had been “act ing a fool” with the guns, pok ing them at each other and “hav ing a good time” along the way. Funeral services will be held sometime today (Thursday). The Doughton family held its annual reunion —on Sunday, July 30, at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Doughton, Sparta. Ex Lieutenant Governor R, A. Doughton, Sparta, who was mas ter of ceremonies, introduced the speakers: V. D. Guire, Lenoir; Judge J. C. Padgett, Independ ence, Va.; Rev. L. F; Strader, pastor of the Sparta Methodist charge; Rev. Howard J. Ford, pastor of the Sparta Baptist Church, and Dr. B. C. Waddell, Grassy Creek. Miss Mattie Doughton, Greensboro, gave a history of the Jones family, and Hort Doughton read a letter from his father, Congressman Robert L. Doughton. The invocation was offered by Dr. H. K. Boyer. A forty-foot table, placed un der the trees on the lawn and laden with good things to eat, was one of the main features of the occasion. A large number of relatives and friends were present. Among those from a distance were: Mrs. W. A. Fender, Mrs. GeoTge Britt, Walter Fender, Mrs. R. L. Doughton and Miss Reba Dough ton, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. B. O. Edwards and son, Bobby, of Asheville; Miss Martha Doughton and Joe Doughton, Greensboro; J. K. Doughton, Baltimore; Dr. and Mrs. Bob Miller, Gastonia; Dr. and Mrs. Wayne Miller, Lenoir; Mrs. Josie Fields, Mrs. Hoke Fields, Carol Fields, Mrs. Josie Greene and Calvin Greene, Mouth of Wilson, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Lee Black and Miss Ruth Black, Piney Creek; Dr. B. C. Waddell, Grassy Creek; Mrs. Jones Waddell and Mrs. Foster Hackler, Scottville; Judge and Mrs. J. C. Padgett, Independence, Va.; Dr. and Mrs. H. K. Boyer, Charlotte; Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Ayers and Bobby Ayers, Roanoke, Va.; V. D. Guire, Lenoir; Miss Lorraine Reeves, High Point; Robert Strickler, Asheville; Dr. Charles Glenn, Gastonia; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Myers and daugh ters, Rita and Angelina, of North Wilkesboro, and Mrs. E. Miller and family, W. F. Doughton and Miss Ivy Grace Doughton, Lanrel Springs. MEMBERS OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S LEAGUE ENJOYED —a party on the lawn of the Methodist Church Friday night, July 28. Games were played! and con tests were held, after which watermelon was served to ap proximately 30 persons. PATRONS OF SOUTHERN STATES COOPERATIVE —in the Turkey Knob section will hold a meeting at Turkey Knob on Monday night, August 7, at eight o’clock. The public is in vited to attend. A MEMORIAL SERVICE IS TO BE HELD ON SUNDAY —August 6, at 11:00 a. m., at Glade Valley Presbyterian Church. The memorial sermon is to be preached by the pastor, Rev. R. L. Berry. REV. L. F. STRADER WILL DELIVER A SERMON SUNDAY —morning, August 6, at eleven o’clock, in the Sparta Methodist Church, of which he i* pastor. Hold Second Annual Twin Party in Maine I - I I I - LAKEWOOD, Maine . . . Madeline and Bridget Gaudin, 20, of Mexico, Maine, with twin lambs presented to them by the Depart ment of Agriculture after they were judged the healthiest twins by | members of the theatrical colony during the second annual twin paity held here recently. ' SET ENDURANCE RECORD Springfield, 111., Aug. 1.—The flying Moody brother's established a new light plane endurance rec ord tonight.—and kept on going. At 6:43 p. m. (CST) Hunter Moody, 25, and Humphrey, 20, completed 21& hours and 43 min utes of continuous flying. The previous record of 218 hours and 43 minutes was set last year by Clyde Schleiper and Thomas H. and Harley Long of Long Beach, Calif. DANZIG #NSrON MOUNTS Free City of Danzig, Aug. 1.— Political tension in Danzig, taut since Adolf Hitler tagged the Free City for return to Germany, reached a high pitch tonight as Danzig Nazis charged Poland had opened a trade war and demanded that Warsaw keep its “spies” at home. Germans declared that Poland’s refusal to continue imports of margarine and herring, important Danzig products, was a “general attack on Danzig’s vital economic necessities.” SLAYER SURRENDERS Lexington, Ky., July 31.—Tall, hollow-cheeked 70-year-old Char les Allen, wealthy retired farm er, surrendered today, ending a 30-hour manhunt by possemen following the shootting to death of Cynthiana Police Chief George Dickey and wounding of eight others Saturday night at Allen’s barn. DIVORCE MEASURE PASSED Washington, July 31.—Com munications soliciting Americans to obtain divorces in Mexico or other foreign countries would be barred from the mails under a bill passed by the house today and dispatched to the White House. IRISH IN SECRET DRILL London, July 30.—While the exodus of Irishmen from Eng land continued a flying squad of policemen in Belfast Republican army band secretly drilled on a nearby mountain today. The leader of the band, an Irish Republican who had been sought for several months, was arrested. CCC BOYS FATALLY BURNED Ogden, Utah, July 29.—Trapped er, surrendered today ending a conservation corps enrollees died and a fifth was missing in Nev ada tonight as forest and brush fires menaced vast sections of western timber land. The area, extending over sev eral states, was tinder dry from weeks of drought and searing heat. Lightning, flashing from rain less thunderheads, killed one man in Oregon and added to the fire hazard. A MUSIC COURSE WILL BE TAUGHT AT THE SPARTA —Methodist Church, beginning Sunday night, August 6, at 7:45 o’clock, and continuing through Friday night, August 11. R. W. McCuHey, of Duke Uni versity, Durham, will teach the course, and everyone is invited to attend. iA... ;.JL C. S. Long, of Newport, was | given the title —of “Master Teacher” of Vocational Agriculture for North Carolina in 1938-39 Tuesday night at a night session of the 36th annual farm home week at North Carolina State College, Raleigh. Mr. Long, who is Agriculture teacher in Newport High School, in Car teret County, was introduced by Roy H. Thomas, state supervisor of agricultural education, and was given a prize of $75.00. The new “Master Teacher” gradu ated -iaota State-College in 1930. Earlier Tuesday, a poultry ad visory council for the state was organized with K. F. Howard, of Dunn, as president. Other of ficers named were L. H. McKay, of Hendersonville, vice president, and Professor Roy S. Dearstyne, head of the State College Poultry Department, secretary. Committees were named to in vestigate the amount of poultry products being shipped into North Carolina, to study ways of developing home trade, and to appeal to the state for better materials with which to give chicks blood tests. Group conferences were held1 on rural home-making, forestry, hor ticulture, and farm poultry. At the morning session, Dr. E. V. McCollum, food chemist at Johns-Hopkins University, urged the delegates to raise their own food supply and improve the diets of their families. “Eat what you want after you eat what you should,” he advised. One hundred young would-be lawyers gathered —in Raleigh puzzled Tues day over questions of law in the halls of the Senate and House, while down stairs in the Capitol, their Gov ernment reckoned that times hadn’t changed much in 40 ■ years. “They still ask 67 questions,” Governor Hoey commentedi with a laugh. That was the number of tricky legal problems asked the 60, in | eluding, Clyde Roark Hoey, who in 1899 applied for licenses to practice law. The future Gover nor had already served a term in the state house of representatives. And that was the number of questions yesterday’s batch of applicants were to answer, to the satisfaction of the state board of law examiners, before they can hang out their shingles in. North Carolina. However, the Governor said, despite the similarity in the num ber of questions, there have been changes in the way examina tions are given. CUSHION SEATS ARE TO BE INSTALLED IN THE SPARTAN —Theatre here in the very pear future, for the added comfort and convenience of the local movie house’s patrons. Also, the seats will be spaced wider,' A series of revival services at Rocky Ridge —Presbyterian Church were con ducted last week by Rev. 0. V. Caudill, pastor of the Elkin Presbyterian Church, and Rev. R. L. Berry, pastor of the Sparta and Glade Valley churches. Several new members were re ceived into the church. The Rev. Mr. Caudill and, the Rev. Mr. Berry were assisted by the Rev. Mr. Caudill’s daughter, Miss Helen Caudill, Elkin, and Miss Velma Pugh, in conducting a Bible School. James Usborne, of independence, was found dead —between twelve and one o’clock Monday, July 31, by his mother, Mrs. Lula Os borne. The body was found near the old Joe Bryant home, about four miles north of In dependence. Death was due to a gunshot-wound in the head. Undertakers said the back of the youth’s head wag shot off and that a 12-gauge single-barrel shotgun was hung on a large splinter on a plank fence above the body. Dr. Z. G. Phipps, Galax, Gray son County Coroner, said that young Osborne’s death was a case of suicide. Gwynn Cole, an uncle of the youth, said the gun belonged to him, and that young Osborne borrowed it about nine o’clock Monday morning, saying he want ed to hunt groundhogs. The uncle quoted the boy’s grandmother as saying that he had asked to go to Independence with his mother Monday morning, and upon being told that he could not, remarked that he would be there when she returned. Mrs. Osborne found the body upon her return from Independence. Funeral details have not been learned. Young Osborne was 16 years of age at the time of his death, according to information receiv ed here. Fliers had to 1 contend with snow Tuesday —six miles up, over Kansas and Pittsburgh. Four army fliers, racing along six miles above the earth, shivered in a temperature 13 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit, while earth bound folk sweltered in the mid dle 80’s on the first day of Aug ust. “We had on heavy coats, but it was still plenty cold,” said; Captain Leonard F. Harman, co pilot of the army’s new 22-ton (Boeing-39) “flying fortress,” which landed at Floyd Bennett Field here after spanning the continent nonstop from Burbank, Calif., in nine hours, 14 minutes, 30 seconds. “We were sitting up there in the stratosphere, at about 33,000 feet over Western Kansas and Pittsburgh, and the snowstorms were pretty fierce.” Dr. James H. Kimball, princi pal federal meterologist here, ex plained why snow storms in the substratosphere never reach the earth in the summer. “The lower air is so hot and dry that the moisture is absorbed immediately. It would take huge quantities to last long enough to reach the ground,’’ he said. The giant, four-motored craft, powered with 1,000-horsepower Wright cyclone engines and car rying 2,500 gallons of gasoline, had an average speed of 225 miles an hour and was less than two hours behind the west-east mark of seven hours, 28 minutes set by Howard Hughes in Janu ary, 1937. MEMORIAL SERVICES ARE TO BE HELD AT MT. ZION —Church on Sunday, August 6, and everyone is invited! to at tend andi take flowers. The cemetery is to be cleaned today (Thursday) and all who are interested in the care and upkeep of this cemetery are urg ed to be present, if possible, and if not, ’then some time before Sunday. All-day services an to be held, Alleghany County University of North Carolina —alumni may have an op portunity to join an Alle ghany - Ashe - Avery - Wa tauga Alumni Club in the near future. A committee to discuss the proposed organiza tion of such a club is to hold a meeting tomorrow (Friday) af ternoon, at five o’clock, at the Daniel Boone Hotel, in Boone. The committee is comprised of Robert M. Gambill, Sparta; Ira T. Johnston, Jefferson, and Dr, D. J. Whitener, Boone. J. Maryon; Saunders, executive secretary and editor of the Alumni Review, Chapel Hill, will also attend the meeting in Boone. A banquet for the alumni from > the four counties will be held tomorrow (Friday) night, at eight o’clock, at the Daniel Boone Hotel, in Boone. Former Lieu tenant-Governor R. A. Doughton, a trustee of the University, will preside. The guest speaker will be Dr. A. R. Newsome, head of the University of North Carolina History Department and president of the No-rth Carolina Literary and Historical Association. Each alumnus of the University is urged to attend this banquet and to take with him his wife or sweetheart. Following is a list of the Alle ghany alumni: Tam Joines, Leon ard K. Halsey, James Sturgill, George McKinley Vanhoy, T. R. Burgiss, Robert Martin Carico, John Morgan Cheek, Dr. B. 0. Choate, Hugh Choate, Nolen David Cox, R. F. Crouse, James E. Doughton, ■ J. H. Doughton, R. A. Doughton, Edwin Duncan, Guy R. Duncan, Robert M. Gam bill, Cam Landreth, Sidney Gam bill, W. B. Halsey, Ernest Ho naker and Herbert Estep. Parents who wish to have their children’s tonsils —removed, but who are un able to pay, may have their children registered at the Health Department office in Sparta on Tuesday, August 8. This will be the last registration day for the tonsil clinic at the Children’s Hospital at Roaring Gap. Children who are not regis tered cannot have their tonsils removed at the clinic. Dr. Robert R. King, Health Officer, will have charge of the I registration. Each child will re ceive a medical examination free. Sixty children have already regis tered for the clinic, which will be held in September, at the Child ren’s Hospital. | Dr. Fielden Combs, well-known ! throat specialist, of Winston | Salem, will be the surgeon at the clinic. Dr. LeRoy Butler, pedia trician, i& the medical director. Mexico is r '**•; j. seeking a basis for settlement —of its expropriation con* tnoversy with American oil companies, and in doing ao, | will offer the firms minority
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