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Tp® 1 All 1 • I You Wiu Profit 1 1 ne Alleghany 1 imes l-rr. I DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND . SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY 1 __■■___ Volume No. 15. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 1939. Number 18. ' - ThisWeek in Washington Washington, Sept. 13 (AS)— In the diplomatic moves and’ par leys which have kept the whole world stirred up for the past few •weeks the United States has play ed a far more important part than is generally realized. Its influence has been thrown on the side of England and France and definitely against Germany, to the point where the European democ racies are beginning to feel that this country is definitely com mitted to give them the fullest support to the very end. That is distinctly a wrong im pression. No commitment to take up arms to fight the battles of any other nation has been made and none can be made by any authority but the Congress of the United States. It would take a great deal more provocation than has been given so far to arouse the Ameri can people to the point of going to war. Bht in definitely show ing sympathy with the democratic powers as against the dictator ships, the Administration’s moves have had the effect of strength ening the morale of Britain and France and', it is believed by highly-placed men in the State Department, of breaking down the morale of ’ Hitler and Mussolini. * To Prevent War The purpose of this Govern ment is to prevent wari if that is possible, while at the same time preparing our national defense in case we should be dragged into war, and formulating a definite foreign policy which would1 be acceptable to everybody, a policy which would tend to keep us out of war rather than drive us to ward it. Nobody can say with certainty how much the several appeals for peace sent to the Central Powers by President Roosevelt have had a definite influence. The general approval of the President’s urgent plea for con ference and negotiation between the conflicting interests in Eur ope is believed to have had con siderable effect. The President’s direct appeal to the King of Italy has served to remind many Americans who had almost forgotten it that Italy is, after all, a sovereignty with a king at its head1, and that Musso lini is merely the king’s prime minister, who can be dismissed without notice at any time if he gets the nation into trouble. The information which Wash ington gets from Europe indicates that the Italian government is ] beginning to realize that it is on the spot, if and when a general war begins, and that its continued support of Hitler is increasingly doubtful. - Historically, northern Italy has always been a major battle ground for every great European war. And the action of the Presi dent in denouncing the treaty between the United States and Japan has made Italy’s coast de fense a very serious problem. Explain* Attitude That takes a little explaining. As the foreign experts in Wash ington figure it, Japan, as an ally of Germany and Italy, undertook to make such demonstrations against British interests in China and the Far East that it would' be necessary for the British fleet to be divided, to protect the strategic outposts of the Empire. That would prevent the concen tration of British warships in the Mediterranean, and leave Italy free to lend a hand to Hitler. But when the United1 States took a strong attitude in oppo sition to Japan, the whole picture changed. Japan realized that it might have to face the United States fleet, not the British, and immediately began to pull in its horns. Aggressions against the British in China slackened or ceased en tirely, and the Japanese govern ment began to make extraordin ary efforts to cultivate American friendship anew. On top of that came the announcement of an alliance between Germany and Russia. Enemy of Japan Now, Russia is tHe traditional enemy of Japan, and the Japanese government is not at all happy over the idea of continuing an alliance with Germany while Rus sia is in the same picture. Therefore, Japan has begun to sing small, the British have not found it necessary to send any part of their Mediterranean fleet into Chinese waters, and Italy, almost an island), is surrounded by the ships of the most power ful seapower in the world, with France ready to jump her from the northwest at the first crack of a gun. That is the way the diplomatic soothsayers in the State Depart (turn to page 5, please) Dr. Robert R. King will be at live points in Alleghany —tn.ext week for the pur pose of vaccinating against smallpox, typhoid and diph theria, and also to perform Schick tuberculin tests. Dr. King is the health officer for the Alle ghany-Ashe-Watauga District Health Department. The Schick test is for the pur pose of determining whether or not a child is immune to diph theria. The law requires that all children between the ages of six months and seven years have the diphtheria vaccine, and later the Schick test. There is no excuse for any child having diphtheria or mem braneous croup, according to Dr. King. A clinic will be held in every school in the county, it is said, in order that parents may take their children who are under six years of age to the one near est them. All principals of schools will be notified of the dates and asked to announce the clinics in their schools, so the children may tell their parents when the clinics are to be held. Dr. King’s dates for next week are as follows: Monday, Septem ber 18— Cherry Lane Post Office, 2:30 to 4:00 p. m. Wednesday, September 20— Piney Creek High School, 1:00 to 4:00 p. m. Thursday, September 21—Blev ■ lift X Roads, 10:00 to 11:00 a sr.., and Laurel Springs 1 00 t) 4:00 p. m, Friday, September 22—Sparta High Sihool, 0:00 to 12:00 a. u . Answers Last “Taps” | I ..MU.'.I I I ■'’■'-■'■■j)--" ■>' John Collins (above), of Bay wood, who died early Tuesday morning, September 12. He would have been 100 j years of age De cember 14. Mr. Collins served throughout the/ Civil War in Com pany C, 8thJ Virginia Cavalry, having volunteered at the out break of the/ war. He was one of the very lew of the “boys in gray” left inl-this entire section. D. L Jones, of State College, will be 1 here —tomorrow (Friday) to as sist farmeifs of Alleghany County in the selection and the use of electrical appli ances. Mr. .tones isi a specialist in Rural Electrification. Meetings 1 lave been arranged for Mr. Jon as’ conferences with farmers ip the county as fol lows: 9:30 ja. m., Piney Creek High Schools 1:00 p. m., Sparta High School! and 3:30 p. m., Laurel Springs School. Farmers and farm women of the county who have not already purchased their electrical appli ances or farm motors should re ceive some ^valuable information from Mr. Jones, it ig said, and are urged fro attend one of these meetings, in order that they may receive ini ormation that will probably p/revent them making mistakes, ijh buying their elec A young people’s revival will begin at the Methodist —Church here Sunday night, September 17, at eight o’clock. The pastor, Rev. L. F. Strader, will be assisted by Rev. M. T. Hipps, of Statesville. Rev. R. W. McCullye, of Duke University, Durham, will have charge of the singing. Everyone is invited to attend these services. Roosevelt gave Germany an indirect warning —Tuesday to the effect that the Nazis would not be per mitted to seize any British or French territory on this side of the Atlantic. Restating i the Monroe Doctrine, President! Roosevelt made it plain to a press conference that the United States, j for its own protection, would be j bound to resist such a move. At the same time, Mr. Roose- j velt said he would have an an-! nouncement “soon,” on the call ing ci a special session of Con giess to revise the neutrality Fct. A’, though Chairman Sabath (D., 111.) of the House rules com mittee left the presidential office a few hours earlier predicting the session w* ulo convene, about October 1, Mr. Roosevelt did not set a date. He merely said that Sabath’s guess was as good -as that of any of the reporters present. The discussion of the Monroe doctrine arose when a correspond ent began questioning the presi- i dent about his speech made at j Kingston, Ont., last year saying j that “the people of the United States will not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil is threatened by any other empire (than the British empire).” The position of the United States toward Canada, in the light of the Monroe doctrine and of that statement of the presi dent, has been the subject of much conversation and specula tion in Washington, since Canada joined1 the rest of the British empire Sunday in declaring war on Germany. But even more intensively j some conversations have dealt | with what the United States would do should a victorious Ger many seize British and French holdings near the Panama canal, and thereby enable themselves to construct naval and air bases uuae umt vital paaaagc.wo)'. Alleghany County 1 received a total of $1,351.50 —iof combined county, state and federal funds in August, for distribution to 213 re cipients under the North Carolina public assistance pro gram, it has been learned from Nathan H. Yelton, Director of Public Assistance. To 115 needy aged in the county went a total of $813.50, giving them an average grant for the month of $7.07, while 90 dependent children received aver age grants of $3.76 to make a total expenditure for that pur pose of $338.00. Yelton’s, information showed there were eight widows of Con federate veterans in the county 'drawing old-age assistance pay ments under the legislative act transferring them, if eligible, to the public assistance rolls. The widows received a total payment of $200.00, or an aver age of $25.00. State-wide average payments to needy old people was $9.58, to dependent children $5.91, and to pensioners $25.31. A total of 55,283 persons over the state received $463,118.82 in August while for the fiscal year through August state totals were: old age assistance, $635,140.16; aid to dependent children, $249,194.54 Confederate widows on the pub lic assistance rolls, $88,221.26. THE METHODIST W. M. S. WILL HOLD ITS MEETING —for September at the Methodist Church here tomorrow (Friday) night, at 7:30 o'clock. Mrs. Jay Hardin will be pro gram leader. ^ Press . . . j i WASHINGTON D. C.—Photo shows President Roosevelt as | he answered the questions of Washington newspapermen regarding j the European situation at his Press Conference here which was | attended by more than one hundred reporters. j National And World NEWS At A Glance GERMANS PLAN ADVANCE Berlin, Sept. 12.—Germany, authoritative sources said tonight, intends to fight across Poland all the way to the Russian border, if this should be necessary, to ren der ere entire Polish army harm less. Entrance of France and Brit- j ain into the war has changed j the picture, it was said, so that I the high command wants to elimi-; nate completely the possibility of having to fight for long on two j fronts at the same time. - I SHIP HALTING ALLOWED Washington, Sept. 12.—If Ger-! many stops American shipments | of contraband articles to Britain, 1 as dispatches from Berlin say she j intends to do, Uncle Sam’s voice j probably will not be raised in ] ■anger. The reason given by responsible ] persons here is that the announce ment fie m Berlin says Germany ] will use the same contraband list as Britain, and the British list is, ] almost word for word, the same list the United States announced after it entered the World War in 1917. GREAT ARTILLERY DUEL Basel, Switzerland, Sept. 13.— i (Wednesday) — Reports reaching] Switzerland early today indicated ' one of the greatest artillery duels in history began during the night in the eastern Moselle valley be tween Germany’s Siegfried and France’s Maginot lines. Shells shrieked high over the border hills. READY FOR SQUALUS LIFT Pcitsmouth, N. H., Sept. 12.— All was ready tonight for a start at daybreak to lift the Squalus to the surface of the Atlantic and tow her nine miles into the navy yard. — CANADIAN BUDGET DRAWN i Ottawa, Sept. 12.—Determined on a “pay as you go’’ policy as fa: as possible in financing war costs, the Canadian government today presented the house of com mons a war-time budget calling for increased taxes on incomes, luxuries and excess profits. In presenting the budget, Reve nue Min'ster J. L. Ilsley told the house the government believed' every citizen should he ready to share the cost of the war. Parlia ment already has voted $100,- j 000,000 for war purposes. “Rural Mail Box Improvement Week” is being observed —this week. In observance of this week, in setting it apart for this purpose, the Post Office De partment urged that all unsight ly mail boxes, that detract from the beauty of highways and dwellings, be removed and set up in more pleasant surroundings. Repainting of boxes and dis playing of owners’ names where the name can be plainly seen was also advocated. tHE YOUNG WOMEN’S CIRCLE WILL MEET AT «:4S O’CLOCK —tonight (Thursday) at the home of Miss Lillie Ervin with Mrs. P. H. Tompkins as associate host Miss Mary Warren will have The French army was reported to be in Saarbrucken j —suburbs Tuesday night.' Reports reaching Paris indi*' cated that French motorized ! units were driving into the | outskirts of this German indus-! trial city. i The city of the German Saar! is regarded as the key to the ad- | vance positions of Germany’s! Siegfried' line on the 100-mile! northern fl'ank, between the Mo selle and Rhine rivers of the western front. The French drive on Saar brucken put a wedge into the ad vance fortifications of the main 1 German Siegfried line at their strongest point east of this capi tal of the rich Saar mining basin. French artillery pounded Ger man lines surrounding the city from heights in the forest of Watndt, region to the southwest captured by the French last week, and the French were reported to j have “slightly turned’’ the de-1 fences of Saarbrucken during the day. (Dispatches from the Swiss bor der Monday night said the French had advanced toward Saarbruck en from the east in a pinching movement). Behind the lines, French Prem ier Edouard Daladier met British Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain for a secret meeting of the French-British supreme war coun cil. Chamberlain, accompanied by Lord Chatfield, British minister for coordination of defense, flew to France Tuesday afternoon in a special military plane for the sur prise session “somewhere in France.” With Daladier was Generalis simo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, supreme commander of the French and British armies. The meeting was understood to have taken place at the field headquarters of the French gen eral staff. This first meeting of the su preme war council, whose four members form the high command j of the French and British allied) forces, not. only was concerned! with the immediate political and j military situation but with the ; next moves of their general ' strategy. The Duke of Windsor and his American wife —the former Wallis War field, of Baltimore, have! gone “home” to England j after nearly three years on I alien soil. Expectant Britons learned from a terse announcement by the Bri tish ministry of information Tues day night that their former King Edward VIII and the woman for whom he renounced his imperial throne December 10, 1986, are now in England. The cryptic two-line communi que read: “Mention may new be made of the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Eng land and where they are staying." But where the duke and duch ess were not even high officials of the royal household knew. Fort Belvedere, favorite residence of the former king, has been kept (turn to page 6, please), iinAlitor.ikiiii’f-" r- ■' A Bingo Party will be given at Four Oaks Tavern —in the dining room, tomorrow (Friday) night, at eight o’clock. ! Proceeds will be used for the] benefit of Sparta High School, and the public is invited to at-( tend. Governor Rivers, j of Georgia, was in North Carolina —this week for a confer ence in Raleigh yesterday (Wednesday) with Gover nor Clyde Roark Hoey, of North Carolina, about unfair freight rates. Governor Euthris D. Rivers arrived in Raleigh Tuesday night. Out of the long black car with the bright yellow Georgia No. 1 license popped a short, alert man in a black suit and wearing a black hat just as black night was falling on Raleigh. Despite all the blackness, there was no dark mystery about it. The man in the black suit in the black Car was Governor Rivers, arriving unannounced to get a night’s rest before, conferring with Governor Hoey yesterday on a subject dear to both their hearts. That subject is getting the South an even break on freight rates. “This is just a general confer ence on the subject,” said- Gover nor Rivers as he paused for a moment to talk with the report er, “on the way up I stopped in Columbia and talked for sev eral hours with Governor May bank.” Governor Rivers was accom panied by John B. Spivey, presi dent of the Georgia senate, and Roy V. Harris, speaker of the Georgia house of representatives, rhey were joined yesterday morn ng by Walter McDonald, chair man -of the Georgia public pub lic service commission. Nine German divisions have been diverted —from the siege of War saw to the western Euro pean and Vistula fronts, an official Warsaw radio- broad cast said early yesterday (Wed nesday). The broadcast also said that the German invaders of the Polish capital city then were de finitelv “on the run.” Warsaw began the fifth day of siege with the announcer’s state ment that the invaders had been stopped and hurled back. The pressure on the city prob ably had been decreased because of the withdrawal of the divis ions, and that the Germans had been driven back about six miles. Martial music blared from the Warsaw station Tuesday night to tell Europe the dogged defenders of Poland’s capital clung to their heavily-shelled positions. Tuesday’s losses were said to be insignificant for the first time since the siege began—only 16 army casualties being listed. Only three air i-aids were re ported in the city. Polish Staff Captain Vaclay Li phski in an announcement said> the German onslaught with tanks and motorized corps had failed j and air raids no longer were a danger to the morale of the peo ple. Thousands who fled the city were said to be returning and volunteering for defense duty. The announcement did not esti mate the number of German troops withdrawn from the siege but a division normally runs be tween 10,000 and 12,000 men. Meantime, meagre reports from announcers and Polish army head quarters at Lwow (Lemberg) in dicated : 1— German attack has intensi fied pressure of the giant nut cracker around Warsaw, while the direct drive from the west con tinues. 2— Warsaw’s defenders are holding grimly to the gains they reported in pushing German ad vance troops back from the city’s suburbs. 8— Reinforcements determined not to lose their beloved capital are being rushed to the defense A meeting was held by the Glade Valley —Presbyterian Church Wo man’s Auxiliary, at the home of Mrs. Rush Thomp son, on Wednesday after noon, September 6, at 3:30 o’clock. In the absence of the H president, Mrs. Ralph Gentry, vice president, presided. Mis» Lillian Cooper, of Rich- ' j monri, Va., conducted the de- 1 votional, basing her talk on “The ij Gospel by John,” the Bible study for the year. Mrs. Rush Thompson was lead er of the program, using the topic “Suppose our church stopped teaching.” Those taking part on the program and their topics are as follows: “We Would Lose Our Identity in the World,’’ Evon Eldridge: “We Would Lose Our Heritage,’ Mrs. R. L. Berry; “Riches lo Share,” Mrs. Walter Taylor. The closing prayer was offered bv Mrs. Oiaj, Thompson. The Aux: ’arv vctecl to have it’ meetings at night, rather than in til.? afternoon, s r.ce so many o+ the members are s-hool teach ers, the new schedule to take ef fect in October. Mrs. Gentry cordially invited the Auxiliary to meet with her in October. Rev. R. L. Berry, the pastor, will conduct the Bible study at that time. The hostess, assisted by Mr3 Bruce Wagoner, served refresh ments to ten members and one visitor, Mrs. Clifton Thompson, of Maryland. Racket-Busters . . . LAKESIDE, Mich.—Thomas E. Dewey, District Attorney of New York and Republican presidential possibility, meets another notable racket-buster—Judge George E. Q. Johnson, former U. S. Dis trict Attorney, of Chicago, who prosecuted A1 Capone, notorious Chicago racketeer. Canada followed England into the European war —Sunday, September-10, by just a week, when she formally declared war on Germany. It was the first time in history that the senior i domain of tne British common- j; wealth, on its own account and | by its own will, exercised this -j prerogative of nationhood by de- J daring a state of war. The gov- •';* eminent merely published the British war proclamation in 1914 when it entered the World War. Thirteen hours after the House ' of Commons approved the gov eminent’s proposal to throw Ca nadian men and resources into war for the second -time in 25 years, Lord Tweedsmuir, gover- ^ nor-general, issued a royal pro- j clamation. , |
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