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Want To Sell 1 A 1 1 1 • I You Wil1 Profit Something? I K A A I I ff O fl H V I 1 1Y1 A Q " Y°U A1W&yS ^ Try a Want Ad Jl Jl A»TL A A JL Jl %J^L A JL Jf JL A A A Jl I Times’ Advertisements DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume No. 15. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1939. Number 14. ^^mmm' This Week in Washinston __ ! Washington, Aug. 16—(AS)— The first session of the 76th Congress adjourned with two events attesting further spread of anti-New Deal sentiment among Senators and Representatives alike. The President’s bill to author ize the borrowing of 3 % billions of the securities of Government controlled corporations and agenc ies, for the purpose of lending the funds for a wide variety of purposes in the effort to stimu late business, was killed by the refusal of a coalition of Repub licans and Conservative Demo-; crats to permit its consideration by the House, even after the Senate had agreed upon the meas. ure in a modified form, involv ing only about half as much money ias the President had ask ed for. Another important measure be hind which all the forces of the Administration lined up against the opposition, met the same fate. Ifhat was the bill to double the j borrowing and lending powers of the U. S. Housing Administra tion, engaged in so-called “slum clearance” projects of building • low-rent homes for the poor. A combination of motives en . tered into this final revolt against the Administration. There was a genuine feeling on the part of economy-minded members of both houses that the time had come to stop Government spending-for-re covery. I • - . 1' i 1 Wide-spread Revolt There was an even more wide spread revolt against the idea of increasing the national debt by borrowing in the name of cor porations or agencies, whose debts would not be included in the of ficial Public Debt statements, on the theory that the proceeds of their lending would be used to finance self-liquidating projects. Besides economic objections to the President’s program, further opposition was inspired by ob jections to the President’s policies in general. There was also an element of personal revenge on the part of certain Democratic Senators and Representatives who were the ob ject of the Presidential enmity in last year’s elections, and who survived; his so-called “purge” of the party leadership. All those things combined with previous actions of the Congress to make the ending of this session a fairly complete defeat of the New Deal. The way is now cleared for consideration of the prospects for the 1940 Presidential election, and that is what will engage the whole Attention of official Wash ington and of the Senators and members back in their home states from now on. The battle for delegates to the nominating conventions of both major par ties is already beginning. Pear Roosevelt It can be set down as a cer tainty t^iat the man whom all Re publicans fear most as the Demo cratic candidate is President Roosevelt himself. If he does de cide to break the precedent first formulated by the founder of his own party, and run for a third term, it is conceded that he will be the hardest man for the oppo sition • to beat. There are careful observers, professing to be able to read the political signs, who hold that the President is merely waiting until the time is right to announce that he will not be a candidate to suc ceed himself. Such tactics, it is pointed out, would prevent too great concentration of delegates behind any other individual who might be distasteful to the Presi dent and so increase his chance of naving a candidate of his choice named, in the last-minute confusion just before the conven tion. t The candidate who is now com ing to be regarded as the Presi dent's choice is Security Adminis trator Paul V. McNutt. Hs is the only Democrat with a con siderable vote-gathering ability who might have Mr. Roosevelt’s blessing. In actual political strength at the moment, however, Vice-President Garner is away out in the lead, on the Democratic side. On the Republican side, the outstanding candidate of the mo ment is Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, son of former President Taft. The Ohio primaries come among the earliest of any of the states, andi the Hamilton County (Cincinnati) Republican Commit tee has already begun its cam paign to win the primaries for its fellow-citizen, Senator Taft. It oouldn’t go ahead without the Senator’s written consent, and he gave it in a strong statement attacking the Administration and the New Deal, adding that the task which lies ahead of the next President is so great that no sens (turn to pace five, please) Married In July Mrs. Culver Dale (above), of Watauga County, who was, be fore her marriage in Independ ence, Va., Saturday, July 15, Mias Lucile Pugh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will T. Pugh, Whitehead. Rev. L. D. Mayberry, Independence Methodist pastor, performed the nuptial ceremony. -=Pfroto Courtesy Winston-Salem, Journal, - ---- - The Alleghany County Board of Education et —in Special session, ion Tuesday, August 8, to hear patrons of Glade Valley School District in regard to the location of the new school building being constructed in that district. After hearing their coun sel, Attorney John Folger, of Mount Airy, the. board decided to leave the matter of location to the State Superintendent of Schools. On Saturday, W. F. Credle, state director of school house planning, was sent here from the office of the State Superintend ent, Clyde Erwin. He went over the situation and made a report to Mr. Erwin, who called W. C. Thompson, county superintendent, Tuesday and stated that the pres ent site of the new school build ing, as fixed by the county board of education, was confirmed by the state authorities. Work will be resumed on this project immediately, looking to ward an early completion. The county will save approxi mately eight to ten thousand dol lars on this plant by having the aid of the Federal Government under the WPA, it is said. It is in the interest of all concerned to see that this project proceeds smoothly, avoiding any delay in its construction, it has also been pointed out A larger number of musicians than ever before —is expected to participate in the various contests at the sixth annual Old Fid dlers Convention to be held in Galax, in Felts Park tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday nights. Registrations have readied a high number, and one of the heaviest registrations ever seen here before for a similar event is reported. The event is being sponsored by Galax Lodge, Leyal Order of Moose, and the Galax Parent Teachers Association. A total of $129.00 in cash prizes will be awarded the win ners of the different contests. In the event of rain, the pro grams will be held in the high' school auditorium. In addition to the cash prizes, a silver loving cup will be award ed the contestant who, in the opinion of the judges, is the best all-around musician participating in the event. A SERIES OF REVIVAL SERVICES BEGAN HERE —in the Presbyterian Church, last (Wednesday) night. Services will be held each night during the series, at eight o’clock. Rev. Lowiry Bowman, of Sara sota, Fla., is doing the preaching. The jury list for the September term of Superior Court —for Alleghany County has been announced, and is as fol lows ; Rex Mitchell, Walter M. Irwin, M. F. Evans, J. M. Doughton, R. G. Cox, Glenn Edwards, Arol Choate, Connie Edwards, Fred | Collins, Fred Handy, G. N. Evans, James W. Wagoner, Fred L. An drews, R. L. Hendrix, C. C. Reeves, Fred Brown, R. T. Lan dreth, J. F. Busic, A. M. Osborne, John Richardson, Rufus A. Joines, John C. Church, C. G. Mitchell, Kelly Williams, A. A. Ayers, J. T. Miles, D. F. Wagoner, Elmer Edwards, John T. Choate, T. A. Edwards, E. E. Caudill, Robert Taylor, L. V. Joines, W. F. Doughton, M. E. Reeves and Van, Miller. Mary Pickford, the “Sweetheart” of America, accepted —during the past few days an invitation to reign as queen of the fifth annual National Tobacco Festival to be held at South Bos ton, Va., on Thursday and Friday, September 7 and 8. The invi tation was tendjered to thq former screen star jointly by Senator Harry Flood Byrd and Governor James H. Price, of Virginia. ** As queen of the celebration, she will be crowned “Regina Tobacco V.” She will be attend ed by 100 of the most beautiful girls from the tobacco-growing sections of the South, who will serve as princesses. A crowd estimated at 2,000 persons was on Whitetop —Mountain Saturday, Aug ust 12, for the closing day and night of the eighth annual Whitetop Folk Fes tival, 'which was held on the sec ond highest peak in Virginia. The 1939 festival came to a close Saturday night with a square dance, in which more than 500 persons participated. Saturday’s crowd, said to have been one of the largest in the eight-year hist ory of the festival, was twice the size of the crowd on Friday, the opening day. On Friday night, “The Barter Country Jig” and “The Mountain Version of Romeo and Juliet” were presented by the Barter Players, of Abingdon. After these performances, a square dance got under way and lasted far into the night. Folk music, made by fiddle, banjo, dulcimer and string bands, and the voices of singers inter preting folk songs, “ b a 1 la d hymns” or “white spirituals” ech oed across the mountainside all day. The less “polished” perform ers were eliminated in ' prelimin ary competition Friday, and Sat urday’s program was given by the select group who survived the preliminary rounds. Dr. Robert Gordon of Washing ton, who gave a brief talk, prais ed the festival highly, describing it as “the best of its kind in the world.” An extra feature Saturday was the public wedding of Council Cruise, who sang the first ballad at the first Whitetop festival eight years ago, and Arita Hawks, both of Tazewell. They were mar ried on the festival platform by the Rev. G. M. Pennington, Kon narock minister. W. E Alderman, Galax, was among the performers who won the right to appear in the final program of the festival He was entered in the carol singjng class. A new schedule of monthly security wages for WPA —project workers wag announced' Tuesday in Washington, D. C., by Commissioner F. C. Harring ton. The new schedule, Commis sioner Harrington said, wouldi raise the national average about $2.50. This, he added, would mean that the old average of $58 a month would be stepped up to about $55.50. The new wages became effective September 1. REV. L. F. STRADER WILL PREACH SUNDAY MORNING —August 20, at eleven o’clock, in the Sparta Methodist Church, of which he ie pastor. 7 Preview Glimpse Of Percheron Show . . . J Midget, world’s smallest purebred Percheron stallion, makes friends with Marceau, 2100-poundi Percheron grand champion. The little fellow is 36 inches high, weighs 220 pounds, can walk on his hind legs, bow and count. Midget has sired eight colts, some of which weigh 1000 pounds. Both horses will be shown at the National Percheron Show, S$fc. Paul, Minn., Aug. 26-Sept. 4. Thanksgiving is to come a week earlier tins year —than usual* according to a statement t&sued Monday by President Roosevelt dur ing a press conference at his mother’s summer home at Campobello Island, New Bruns wick, Canada. . For the last six years', the presi dent explained, a great many people have been complaining that there is too long an interim between the Labor Day holiday early in September and Thanks giving Day toward the end of November, and that the time is too short between Thanksgiving and Christmas. This sounds silly, he said. But he added that stores, work ing people and 'retailers had pro posed that Thanksgiving be change ed fiorr the usual last Thursday in November. This year Thanks giving would normally fall on November 30, and Mr. Roosevelt has decided to issue a procla mation setting aside November 23 as Thanksgiving Day. He recalled that in the early days of the republic a day in October was marked down for Thanksgiving and that it was not until after the Civil War that the last Thursday in November was selected for observance. A gridiron rebellion grew Tues day apace with a pile-up of pro tests from rock-ribbed tradition ists against President Roosevelt’s plan to change the day of Thanks giving this year from November 30 to November 23. There* may be two Thanksgiv ings this year. Tradition-bound New England was largely shocked. I 1 Superior Court judges will wear judicial robes —while in court rooms of the superior courts of the 100 counties of North Caro lina, according to a reso lution adopted recently by a con ference of North Carolina’s super ior court judges' at the Mt. Mit chell game refuge, with the ob ject of inereadtlg dignity of the j courts. “Professional" jurors were hit in a resolution stated by Judge j H. S. Burgwyn and adopted | unanimously. It would require the sheriff bo summon talis jurors from outside the courthouse. It ; was pointed out that many per sons make a point of attending I the courts in hopes of being j i “picked up’’ for jury service, and that many of these have served ^n juries numbers of times in : the course of a year. | A return to the custom of dis playing the state and national flags beside the judge’s bench in court rooms was presaged in -a plan of court room procedure by a resolution requiring that county ; commissioners of each county : comply with a statute to that ! effect. The resolution specified that the commissioners “should1 purchase a standard of colors, preferably in. silk, consisting of a United' States color and a state of North Caro lina color, each with gold fringe tassels and poles upon which is mounted a brass eagle, and that upon the receipt of same, the sheriff of the county shall cause the colors to be displayed1 upon the bench during each session of the superior court, the United States color to be placed on the (turn to page six, please; Unless the party nominee is suitabl President Roosevelt said he would take no active part in the campaign —of 1940, and termed the party's possible action, in the case of the nomination of a “conservative or lip-service” candidate, an “unfortunate suicide of the old Democratic party.” The chief executive told the Young Democrats’ National Convention in Pittsburgh, Peiha., Thursday night, in a carefully worded message read to the crowed opening meet ing by Pitt Tyson Maner, of Montgomery, Ala., retiring presi dent of the Young Democratic Clubs of America, that if his party insisted on nominating "conservative or lip-service” can didates in 1940 he would) take no active part in "such an un fortunate suicide of the old Democratic party.* "If we nominate conservative candidates, or lip-service candi dates, on a straddling platform,” he said, "I personally, for my own self-respect and because of my long service to, and belief in liberal democracy, will find it impossible to have any active part in such an unfortunate suicide of the old Democratic party.’* He said, in substance, he not only would "take a walk” as Alfred E. Smith did on the party before Roosevelt’s renomination, but he predicted the Democratic party would “fail If it goes con servative next year, or if it is led by people who can oflhr naught but fine phrases.” Giving no hint as to how he feels on a third term, Mr. Roose velt added he did not expect a conservative to he nominated "for I believe the convention (next year) will see the political wis dom, as well as the national wis dom, of giving to the voters of the United States an opportunity to maintain the practice and the policy of moving forward with a liberal and humanitarian pro gram.” Young Maner opened the three day meeting in spacious Duquesne garden after much preliminary bickering among factions over the organisation presidency and following an interview by Sena tor Claude Pepper (D., Fla.), that "Republicans and turncoat Democrats have deliberately sent their spies” to Pittsburg to “disrupt” the convention. Former Representative John J. O’Connor, of New York, Roose velt “purge’’ victim last year, countered by saying the New Deal had representatives of Thomas G. Corcoran, young administration lawyer, present to see that every thing “goes well for Roosevelt.” Mr. Roosevelt struck out at “Republican and Democratic re actionaries” who “want to undo what we have accomplished in these last few yearn and return to the unrestricted individualism of the previous century.” Teachers of the Alleghany Schools for the 1939-40 term have been announced —by county school officials here recently, includ ing high schools and the elementary schools of the county. W. C. Thompson is superintendent of Alleghany County Schools... The list follows: Sparta High School—C. R. Roe, principal, Mrs. C. R. Roe, Bryan Taylor, Mrs. Dalton Warren, Miss Nina Gray Liles, Miss An Alleghany County farm tour is planned —for Thursday, August 31, A schedule of the farms to be visited Has not yet been worked out, but will be published in next week’s TIMES,' according to an announcement made this week by R. E. Black, Alleghany County farm agent. L. I. Case, sheep and beef cat tle specialist, of State College, Raleigh, and W. B. Collins, assist ant farm management specialist, of Boone, will Be !n the group making the tour, Farmers and their wives, and I anyone else interested, are Invited to go on this tour of outstand ing farms in Alleghany County. Those attending are requested to take a basket lunch. The U. S. openly warned Mexico in a statement —formally issued in Wash-; ington, D. C., Monday, by Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles, that re lations between the two nations will be strained seriously unless there is prompt and satisfactory | settlement of the Mexican gov-1 ernment’s expropriation contro versy with American oil compan ies. The warning was issued in the wake of repeated denials that the State Department was taking an active part in the expropri ation dispute. Welles asserted simultaneously that the American firms must be reasonable in their demands for payment for their confiscated properties. The statement said, in part: “A continuance of the dispute not only will dislocate still furth er beneficial commercial relations between Mexico and the United States, with great economic losses to both countries, but more im portant still, it will constitute a material barrier to the mainten ance of that close and friendly understanding between Mexico and the United States which both governments regard as in the best interests of the two peoples.” Disclosure that the department had intervened officially came shortly after latest negotiations between Mexico and the oil con cerns ended in a deadlock. Sev eral previous attempts to effect a settlement ended in a stale mate. Pnor to issuing the statement Welles conferred' separately with Mexican Ambassador Francisco Castillo Najera and1 Donald R. Richberg, former NRA adminis trator now representing the Americans firms whose $250,000, 000 worth of oil properties in Mexico were expropriated along with British and Dutch holdings. Like several previous far-reach ing foreign policy moves during the past year? the declaration of American policy in the Mexican dispute was made in the absence of Secretary of State Cordell Hull who is vacationing in West Virginia. Welles’ statement said that the (Jnitgd States insists that Mexico make “prompt, adequate and ef fective compensation” for the seized properties. Discontinuance of the latest negotiations in no way relieves Mexico of its re sponsibility to make such pay ment, he added. A MEETING OF THE YOUNG WOMEN’S CIRCLE —is to be heldl tonight (Thurs day), at 7:80 o’clock, at the home of Mias Marjorie Halsey. Miss Lillie Ervin will have charge •f the program. Aileen Perry, Miss Fowlkes, Mrs. Grace Rector, Mrs. Thelma Rich ardson, Mrs. Bessie McMillan, Mi3s Gertrude Andrews, Miss Annie Sue McMillan, Miss Donna Jones, Mrs. Rebecca Choate, Arnold Jones and Burton McCann. Piney Creek High School-—L, K. Halsey, principal Johnny Gay Robertson, M. F. Parsons, Misa Jean McMillan, Miss Blanche M. Gambill, Miss EliagbeHt Jones, Mrs, Edna W, ferry, Joe Bill Reid, Miss Annie Ruth Raper and Lake R, Beyer. Springs—Miss Blanche* Pugh, principal, Mrs. Hazel H. Taylor, Miss Alice Taylor, Miss Hazel Taylor and Mrs. Ruth Choate. Airbellows—Miss Muriel Cau dill. Cherrylane — Mrs. Hazel B. Thompkins. i * Irwin—Miss June Crouse. New Hope—Miss Elma Wad dell. Stratford—Miss Ivazelle Tay lor. —^ Tolliver — Miss Annie Reid) Truitt. Pine Swamp—Mrs. Leila Wago ner and Mrs. Vera W* Edwards. Whitehead—Mrs, Johnny Dale Gambill and Mrs. T. Lovill Gray son. . i -«if W olf Branch — Hugh Choate and Mrs. Reba C. Howell. Glade Valley—Mrs. Ralph C. Gentry. Liberty Knob—Miss Vada Mae Duncan. Rock Cieek—Garnett Edwar^k New River—Mrs. Maggie O. Johnson. Rocky Ridge—Mrs. Ruth Perry Jones. Turkey Knob—Miss Kathleen Anderson. Blevins X Roads—Mrs. Cecil H. Gibson. Vox—Miss Bettie Joines. Hooker—Miss Clytie Duncan. Little Pine — Mr. Thelma C. Osborne and Mrs. Virginia Rich ardson. Rich Hill—Fred T. Hart amt Miss Ruby Lee Joines. Dividing Ridge—Mrs. Nannie B. Higgins. The NYA gardening, canning and lunch room project opened —Monday, August 14, in Alle ghany County, with eight girls working. This project calls for 20 youths. It is expected that enough girls will be working, to run two shifts, by the first of September. The old ERA cannery is be ing remodeled, to be used as a workroom for this project. Lee M. Woodruff, NYA super visor, announces that he will be in the local NYA office on Tues day and Thursday, from 10 to 12 o’clock, to interview applicants for work on the NYA projects. The August meeting of the Sparta Methodist Women’s —Missionary Society is to be held tomorrow (Friday) night, at 7:30 o’clock, at the home of Mra. Ed McMillan, with Mrs. Harry Vaughan as associate hostess. Mrs. R. E. Black will be the program leader. THE CEMETERY AT ZION CHURCH IS TO BE CLEANED —on Monday, August 28, in preparation for the meeting of the Association, which is to be gin on Friday, September 1. All persons interested in the care and upkeep of this cemetery are requested to meet on the date mentioned and assist in the work. FISH URGES “ARMISTICE” Oslo, Norway, Aug. 15.—Rep resentative Hamilton Fish, of New York, announced tonight, af ter a conference with German Foreign Minister Joachim Von gSbygnp.ftat he wffl prppoa. and3°a ^ou^^er^onfwmc^Jn phe.”
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