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Following closely upon Mr. Roosevelt’s public denunciation of the Senators and Representatives of his own party who formed a coalition with the Republicans to defeat parts of the Administra tion’s program of legislation which the President regarded as vital, this declaration is accepted here as a gage of battle aimed at the elements in his party who are lined up behind Vice-President Gamer’s leadership in the effort to prevent the President’s own renomination, or the nomination of a candidate of Mr, Roosevelt’s choice. If Mr. Roosevelt is renominat ed, or the nomination goes to a New Dealer of whom he ap proves, there is every prospect of a bolt from the ticket on the part of Sjouthem Democratic leaders, as serious and perhaps even more widespread than the bolt which resulted in the defeat of Alfred E. Smith and the election of Her bert Hoover in 1928. . Split Would Spell Defeat Such a split in the party in election year would spell defeat, just as a bolt by Mr. Roosevelt and his followers would spell de feat. But if Mr. Roosevelt and his personal following bolted the party nominee they .would; have no place to go except in a new third party. The situation then would be parallel to that in 1912, when Theodore Roosevelt and his personal followers bolted the Re publican ticket headed by Presi dent Taft, and formed the Pro gressive or “Bull Moose” party. The Roosevelt bolt in 1912 resulted in the election of Wood row Wilson. A Roosevelt bolt in 1940 would almost certainly re sult in the election of the Repub lican candidate, In the opinion of the shrewdest and most experi enced! political observers in Wash ington. The chief hope of a Democratic victory in 1940, ^it is felt here, is that the differences between the two wings of the party be com pletely reconciled. That is not seriously considered possible. There is too much divergence of point of view, and too much bit terness has been engendered by the defections of party members in both houses of Congress. In the closing days of the ses sion the lid was off, and language was exchanged between members of the same party such as had been seldom heard in Congress since the days before the Civil War, when debate more than once reached the stage of personal physical attacks by Members and Senators upon one another. R<pi iblicans Encouraged Naturally, such disharmony gives great encouragement to Re publicans. Many of them are saying, more or less openly, that the 1940' election is already de cided in their favor. That is still a rather birash prediction, but reports which have begun to come back to Washington from investi gators out in the states do show, so far, a very definite swing toward the Republican party. There still remains the riddle of Mr. Roosevelt’s personal in tentions in regard to a third term for himself. Some inter pret his threat to bolt the ticket if a conservative is nominated as another move toward getting himself the party nominee. Wheth er he could get the nomination is still another question to which no positive answer can be given. Many observers here think they see the signs growing plainer that Mr. Roosevelt’s candidate for President will be not himself but Paul V. McNutt The latest scientific poll of Democratic voters indicates a sur prising gain in public favor for the genial, white-haired gentleman from Indiana. Leaving Mr. Roose velt out of consideration, the choice of Democratic voters is for Garner first and McNutt second. Neither Garner nor McNutt is regarded by Republican leaders as a eangerous opponent; their greatest fear is that they will have to beat the President himrelf, and their greatest doubt is whether they could do that. It would call for far more effici ent political tactics than the Re publicans have displayed in the past two Presidential campaigns, and a greatly more appealing candidate at the head of the ticket. DECORATION SERVICES ARE TO BE HELD AT NEW HOPE —Church on Sunday afternoon, September 8, it has been ‘ an nounced. A battle over ; Thanksgi ving Day seems certain —in view of the controversy that has arisen since Presi dent Roosevelt’s recent an nouncement of a shift in the date of Thanksgiving this year. It seems that the argument may head the White House and Con gress into another disagreement. An effort by anti-Roosevelt forces, both Republican and Demo cratic, to strip the president of the traditional power of his of fice to set the thanksgiving date is expected. It could be done | by making the day a legal holi day falling on a date fixed by statute. Bills to that end are certain to go into senate and house hoppers in January, pav ing the way for congressional hearings to sound national opin ion. The president proclaimed No vember 23—instead of the tra ditional last Thursday, November 30—as the thanksgiving date this year. Mr. Roosevelt also intimated that he was considering stepping Thanksgiving day forward another week next year—further increas ing the probability of congres sional action. Putting the ob servance forward to mid-Novem ber would throw it close to an other November holiday, over looked or ignored by the presi dent in giving his reasons for advancing the thanksgiving date. That is Armistice Day—Novem ber 11—commemorating the end of hostilities of the World War. It was fixed as a legal holiday by a statute enacted last year. Should Thanksgiving -Day, 1940, go up to the second Thursday in November, the two November holidays that year would fall in the same week, Armistice dgv on [Monday, Thanksgiving on Tnurs | day. Moreover, it is possible that in some years they would fall on the same day. The president’s attention has been called to the fact that Ar mistice day already provides a break between Labor Day and a Thanksgiving observance on the last Thursday of November. Hundreds of thousands were called by France —to the oolors, from the ranks of reservists, to match Germany's forces, and the nation sat tight Tuesday night on her hope that Soviet Russia was up to no 9erious alli ance with Nazi Germany. Premier Edouard Dalaidier stalked out of an hour-and-a-half cabinet meet ing in the War Ministry in Paris to talk with calm blue-eyed Gen eralissimo Maurice Gamelin. Gamelin, commander-to-be on French-British landt forces, should war come, and supreme com mander of his nation’s land, sea and air armies, was said to have told Daladier that they were ma terially prepared for “any eventu ality.” The number of reservists called was estimated in the neighbor hood of 600,000, but the war ministry’s plans for Wednesday remained secret. The superior war council met early Tuesday and was expected to meet again Wed nesday. After the cabinet meeting, only a brief communique was issued saying that new instructions had been wired “to French ambassa dors abroad.” The cabinet meets again at the Elysee Palace with President Lebrun this (Thursday) morning. The French ambassador at Mos cow had already asked that Rus sia tell her French ally just what the agreement with Germany was all about. Both Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet remain ed late in their offices. Bonnet re ceived the Polish’ ambassador, Jules Lukasiewicz, and the British charge d’affaires, Ronald Camp bell, both before and after the cabinet meeting. Another caller at the Quai D’Orsay was United States Am bassador William G. Bullitt whose “informative” talks with Bonnet Have been almost daily affairs. It was commonly believed that the cabinet also put the finishing touches to the last series of mili tary decrees necessary to prepare the armed forces for any neces sary test. Looking Toward 1940 WASHINGTON, D. C.—Senator Robert A. Taft, of Ohio, son of the late President and Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Court, who hag announced his candidacy for the 1940 Republican nomination for President. . | Hundreds were present at the Old Fiddlers —Convention held in Felts Park, Galax, Friday and Saturday nights. The annual event, the sixth of its kind held in Galax, was sponsored: jointly by the Galax Lodge, Loyal Order of Moose, and the Galax Parent-Teachers Association. A crowd variously estimated at from 1,500 to 2,400 persons were in attendance Saturday night. Contests were held in different classes, and member's of the Moose Lodge were in charge of them, as follows; Dulcimer, Gor don Stoneman; Folk Song, W. James Sessoms; Tap Dance, Boyd Fielder; Guitar, Elmer Davis; Banjo, R. L. Nelson; Violin, Price Goodson; Clog (or Flat foot) Dance, Paul Cornett, and Bands, Davis Winesette, Orrin S. Rhudy and Boyd Fielder. Winners in the various indi vidual and band contests were as ^nl 1 Auro • Dulcimer — Raymond Melton, Woodlawn, 1st; Velma Musser, Galax, 2nd, and Jacob Melton, Galax, 3rd. Folk Song—W. E. Alderman, Galax, 1st; Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Ball, Rugby, 2nd, and Dude Boyer, Fries 3rd. Tap Dance—Nuckolls Nester, Hillsville, 1st; Pauline Landreth, Galax, 2nd, and Alma Lineberry, Galax, 3rd. Guitar—Kelly Lundy Galax, 1st; Robert Catron, Galax, 2nd; Pershing Worrell, Hillsville, 3rd, and Clinton. Lowe, Galax, 4th. Banjo—Elizabeth Osborn, Mar tinsville, 1st; Wade Ward, In dependence 2nd; Pete Stone, Stuart, 8m, and George . Stone man, 4th. Violin—John ReCtor, Galax, 1st; Rafe Brady, Mount Airy, N. C., 2nd; Harvey Creasey, Stuart, 3rd, and Harvey Gravely, Austinville, 4th. Clog (or Flat foot) Dance— Elizabeth Osborn, Martinsville, 1st; Rafe Brady, Mount Airy, N. C., and John Vipperman, The Hollow, tie for 2nd, and Parley Marshall, Laurel Fork, 3rd. Bands—John Rector and his “Wildcats,” consisting of John Rector, Kelly Lundy, Robert Cat ron and Iver Edwards, first; Pat ton Brother, of Fries, consisting of Everett Patton, Wilbur Pat ton, H. C. Farmer and Glen ton, H. C. Farmer and Glen Neev es, 2nd, and the “Carolina Merry Makers,” of Austinville consist ing of Malcolm Hill, Jack Por ter, Lugene Pearman, Beulah Hill and Jotty Winesette, third, and the “Midnite Ramblers,” of Stuart, consisting of^ Thornton Dalton, Pete Stone, Clyde Adams, Mr. Raper and Marvin Owens, fourth. Wade Ward, Independence, was awarded the loving cup offered the contestant adjudged the best all-’round musician in the entire convention. An 88-year old woman, Miss Lucy McDowell of Fincastle, who has been blina since birth, ap peared on the program Saturday night. She played several piano solos. A DAILY VACATION BIBLE SqHOOL IS BEING HELD —this week at the Sparta Presby dist Church, conducted by Dr. Lowry Bowman, of Sarasota, terian Church conducted by Dr. Fla., add others. Arrangements for i the Great Galax Fair are nearly —complete, and everything is expected to be in readi ness for the opening day, ; Monday, August 27, when the annual event that attracts I many frorft' Alleghany and other! nearby North Carolina counties, as well as Grayson, Carroll and, and other Virginia counties, will1 get under way for a six-day run. j The fair, according to advance i information, will furnish “six; glorious days and six gliteririg ] nights” of entertainment for both : young and old. '• Prospects of agricultural and industrial exhibits already point to a large ai\d brilliant display along this line, and additional applications for entry are being received by the fair management confcirmallv. A Broadway musical revue, fast and exciting races, big and thrilling free acts, band con certs and fireworks, as well as! a “mile-long” midway, will be' outstanding special features of the 1939 Great Galax Fair. ’ On the midway will be the Art Lewis Shows, which will also pre-1 sent what is said to be one of the largest, spectacular, thrilling and entertaining free acts, in front of the grandstand, every afternoon and night. “Meet your friends on the miday,” says the fair mana gement, in announcing this new carnival engagement here. Many new and thrilling rides, in addi tion to the old stand-bys, such as the ferris wheel, loop-o-plane, merry-go-round, caterpillar, etc., are promised. John Mac Reeves, game war den for Grayson and Carroll counties, whose wild life exhibits at the three last fairs held in Ga lax have been so popular, pro mises the greatest and most in fc-i'esting exhibit seen - there yet, in cooperation with the Virginia State Game Commission and the U. S. Forest Service. —- ■ A German-Russian non-aggression pact conclusion —will be reached very soon, according to a German An nouncement in Berlin short ly before midnight Monday night. By the announcement, Germany upset the whole struc ture of the tense middle Euro pean situation. If there is to be a conflict as a result of the Pol ish-German dispute over Danzig and Pomonze (the Polish corri dor) it appeared certain that vast Russia will be neutral, as a re sult of the impending agreement. The position of Poland, which had been counting on the effec tiveness of what Germany calls the "democratic encirclement pol icy,” appeared to have been weakened greatly. German soldiers were massing on the Polish frontier, and now it seems certain that if they are called upon to march eastward they will not have to worry about the possibility of encountering Russian troops somewhere in mid dle Poland. Germany’s announcement of its diplomatic “putsch” startled all Europe. It apparently meant that the months-long effort of Britain and France to induce Russia to enter a front to back up Pol&nd, Ru mania and other smaller Euro pean countries against aggression had failed). For, according to the German announcement, Russia had agreed not to fight Germany. The announcement of what dip lomatic observers admitted as a master stroke by Adolf Hitler came even while British and French military officers were in Moscow going over plans of strategy with high Soviet officers. It seemed likely that these dis cussions would lead to no con structive results. A series of revival meetings is being held —at the Sparta Presbyterian Church this week, with services beginning at eight o’clock each night. The meetings will con tinue Sunday morning and- Sun day night. Dr. Lowry Bowman, of Sara sota, Fla., has charge of the ser vices. No. 1 Farmerette . . . ■ I J NEW YORK CITY—Mrs. Lucille Gentzen, of Hackettstown, N. J., who in 1935 bought a farm in Hackettstown for $4,200 and de veloped it until its value today is $25,000, has been acclaimed America’s champion farmerette. The return of Danzig and more to Germany —is necessary to meet the demands of Adolf Hitler, according to a statement issued by high Nazi quarters in Berlin Tuesday night. Germ any’s armed forces will smash a cross Poland “to Warsaw and even beyond” if Poland refuses to surrender immediately to the Reich every inch of territory tak en from Germany after the World War, it was said. The statement, apparently re vealing Fuehrer Adolf Hitler’s plans for a fourth partition of Poland, came from the same high sources who last year predicted correctly his absorption of Aus tria and Czechoslovakia. Thrice before in its history has Poland been partitioned. It became evident that Hitler no longer wants merely the free city of Danzing, but insists on the amputation of the Polish cor ridor and Upper Silekia. Nazis proclaimed jubilantly that Poland is “lost” and that the British-French 'anti - totalitarian bloc had suffered a knockout blow as result of the decision of Ger many and Soviet Russia to con clude a pact of nonaggression. Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop left Berlin’s Tempel hof Airdrome at 9:24 p. m. Tues day for Koenigsberg, East Prus sia, en route to Moscow. Ribbentrop, after planting a kiss on the cheek of his wife, left aboard Hitler’s private Fockewulff Condor plane, piloted by the fuehrer’s personal pilot. A second plane, carrying Rib oentrop’s staff, followed. The party will halt over night in Koenigsberg, arriving in Mos cow Wednesday. An officially inspired statement to the foreign press de nied that the pact constituted a ‘mere tactical maneuver” on Hit ler’s part. “It represents a permanent re alignment in Europe,” it was stat ed. “Poland in her present form is finished,” Germans said. Thousands of army reservists were routed from their homes and rushed to mobilization centers. Highways and railroads were clogged with green-grey German uniformed troops moving up to :he Polish frontier. Germany’s military prepara tions were said to have reached their peak Tuesday night. The nation was on a full war time basis. Poland’s future depends, it was said, on whether she chooses to resist Hitler’s demands. It was admitted that the Poles were quite liable to choose to fight, instead of capitulating as the Czechoslovaks did. If she should “bow to the inev itable” Poland will be compelled to surrender only those territo ries formerly a part of Germany, it was said. In this case, the Poles would be given a free port in Danzing to make up for the loss of their access to the Baltic coast, Nazis said. “But if they choose to fight there can be no security for any of Poland,” one Nazi expressed it. The shock and bewilderment caused in London and Paris by Monday night’s announcement of a German-Soviet pact of non aggression seemed to convince all Germans that Britain and France would back down and refuse to fight. Glade Valley High School will open I Tuesday, August 29 ,—for its 30th annual session, with the following faculty in charge: I Rev. C. W. Ervin, principal, ,and teacher of English and Bible; | Dari D. Rhodes, Social Studies; i | Miss Annie Belle Gorry, Mathe matics and French; Miss Lena I ■Thompson, Science arid Home ; 'Economics; Mrs. Ellen Guerrant, Music and Dean of Girls; Mrs. E. B. Eldridge, dietitian, and E. B. Eldridge, Superintendent and Treasurer. Miss Thompson is the only new faculty member. She is a gradu ate of Flora McDonald College, class of ’39, and from Gastonia, She was vice-president of the Senior Class and a member of the student council. Many new applications have been received, and indications point toward a full enrollment. Sentiment for a third term for Roosevelt —w a s reported Sunday night in Atlanta, Ga., to have been found, by L. W. (“Chip”) Robert, secretary of the Democratic National Exe cutive Committee, back from an eight-week “sounding” trip throughout the West. He assert ed “the people west of the Mis sissippi River want Roosevelt to run for a third term.” Western sentiment was so strong for Mr. Roosevelt, Robert said, that “if the president does not make a third-term race, the western people will line up with any me the president favors for the White House.” Robert sai4 in the interview that he conferred with both busi ness and political leaders in every state west of the Mississippi River except four—Arkansas, North Dakota, Minnesota and Colorado. “What opposition there is to a third term west of the river,” Robert declared, “is nothing at all like that prevailing in the East. Out there, the faith in Mr. Roosevelt is sufficiently strong to -ally that part of the country to anyone the president has confidence in, if he himself doesn’t seek the nomination.” Talk of a split in the Demo cratic party over the third term issue was dismissed by the Demo cratic national secretary as with out foundation The Alleghany Farm Tour schedule —has been announced and everything seems to be in readiness fior the tour, which is to be held Thursday, August 31. On this tour, the results of the use of phosphate and, lime on pastures and clover, rat-proof granaries, terracing, baby beeves, model wiring of houses, success ful alfalfa growing, beef cattle and other evidences of success ful farming are expected1 to be observed, according to R. E. Black, Alleghany County agricul tural agent. Every farmer and farm woman in the county is invited; bo go on the tour. It will be necessary for each person going, however, to take lunch with them. The schedule follows: 8:30—Assemble at Courthouse; 8:35—Arrive at Hort Dough ton's; 9:15—Arrive at B. G. Har ris’; 10:30—Arrive at J. C. Mc Cann’s; 12:00—Lunch, at Bluff Park; 1:00—Arrive at Van Mil ler’s; 2:15 — Arrive at Pearl Fields’; 3:00—Arrive at J. R. Gambill’s; 3:45—Arrive at R. E. Hawthorne’s; 4:30 — Arrive at New River Farm, and 5:30—Ar rive at Jess Moxley’s. MISS BO GENTRY GAVE A BIRTHDAY PARTY RECENTLY —at her home here, honoring Miss Mary Warren. Contests and games were enjoyed. Watermelon was served on the lawn to the following guests: Misses Emoryetta Reeves, Nina Edwards, Vancine Choate, Wanda Choate and Tommie Gambill, Har rell Joines, Muriel Joines, John Pugh, Bill Collins, Charles Pugh and George Reeves, Bel Air, Md. Later, dancing was enjoyed at Colonial Inn, where cake, candy and lemonade were served. England served blunt warning on Adolf Hitler —Tuesday night in London that, regardless of the German-Soviet pact of non aggression, Great Britain is mobilizing her armed forces to resist to the utmost” any Nazi aggression against Poland. Parliament was summoned to reconvene in emergency session today (Thursday) to act on meas ures under the new emergency ; powers defense bill, increasing Britain s mobilization of reserves of the army, navy and air force. Under the action to be taken by Parliament Britain will be brought virtually to the peak of her fighting strength. Britain’s 11th hour mobilization of reserves and, warning to Ger many against starting “a Euro pean war with all its tragic con sequences” was taken in concert with France. The French cabinet, in simul taneous session, decided to bring I rench armed forces to a strength ot 1,500,000 men on full war footing. ihe British Broadcasting Com pany Tuesday night summoned members of Parliament to return tc London from their summer vacations. An official announcement issued after a three-hour “crisis session” of the British cabinet at No. 10 Downing Street asserted, that Brit ain will stand firm in her pledges to fight on the side of Poland in resisting any German aggression. The announcement that Ger- 3 many and her years-long enemy, Soviet Russia, have gotten to gether to conclude a pact of non aggression can have no effect on 3 Britain’s militant stand, it was -M announced. The forces of the navy, army, 3 air corps and air raids precau tions units are being called up as a “precautionary” measure. These reserves were identified | only as “certain personnel.” If any other government in- - sists on using force the British government is “prepared and de termined’’ to resist it to the ut most, the cabinet specifically in- I tended to reach Hitler. Explaining the emergency de fense measures, the announcement said: “The government remains of the opinion that there is nothing in the difficulties that have aris en between Germany and Poland which justify the use of force involving a European war.” Piney Creek High i School will begin its 30th term —on Monday morning, August 28, at nine o’clock. Rev. L. F. Strader, pastor of the Sparta Methodist charge, will make a talk at the opening exercises. All patrons of the school are invited to attend. The new and modern $40,000 brick school building, which con tains eleven classrooms, and of fice and a library, will be used Monday for the first time. The faculty is composed of ten teach ers, including a Home Economics teacher and an Agriculture teach er. Sparta • High School will open Monday, August 28 —at 9:00 a. m., for the 1939-41 term, with C. R. Roe, who ha served for the past several years as head of the school, in charge again. School busses and school build ings are being put in readinest for the opening, and prospect for a good school year are bright Patrons and friends of thi school are invited to attend th< brief opening exercises to be helc Monday morning. PRACTICALLY ALL SPARTA STORES WILL BE CLOSED —on Labor Day (Monday, September 4)> it has been an nounced'. This will be in keep ing with a policy followed in the past in many parts of the country, in observance of the national labor holiday. The Sparta stores will be open again usual, Tuesda
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