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I I I DEVOTED TO Want To Sell Something ? Try a Want Ad TP I 4|| ^ 1 rp • Ihe Alleghany limes You Will Profit If You Always Read Times’ Advertisements THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume No. 15. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1939. Number 25. This Week in Washington Washington, Nov. 1. (AS)— With the practical certainty that the Administration’s amendments to the Neutrality Act will have pa«sed by Armistice Day or there abouts, Washington is turning at tention to domestic politics again. The exact date of the intensive phase of the 1940 Presidential campaign can be predicted with certainty. It will be the day upon which the new Neutrality Law is sent by Congress to the President for his signature. The lid will be off and the field wide open for the candidates for the nominations of both parties to start their organizations in high gear. How much momentum any of the leading aspirants of either party have gained as a result of the Neutrality discussion is rather difficult to appraise. If the general public accepts the new law as finally enacted as being the measure bes't calculat ed! to keep the United States out of war, then on the Democratic side the edge will go to President Roosevelt, who is responsible more than anyone else for the Neu trality amendments. Politically speaking, on the Republican side the advantage will be rather with Senator Taft, of Ohio, who has favored repeal of the arms embargo from the beginning, than with Senator Vandenberg, of Michigan, who has vigorously opposed . repeal. Considered Shadow-Boxing The belief of most Washington observers is that the general pub lic has come around to acceptance of what Washington analysts have felt from the start of the, contro versy, that neither repeal nor retention of the embargo will make the slightest practical dif ference if the nation really comes face to face with the issue of participation in Europe’s war. All the debates on this point are re garded by realists here as so much shadow-boxing. Of considerably more import ance, in the minds of the most realistic observers, are the “cash and-carry” provisions, with their accompanying restrictions upon the freedom of movement of American ships on the high seas. The amendments agreed upon by the Senate committee relax those restrictions materially, leaving the whole Pacific Ocean and most of the Atlantic open to American shipping and trans-oceanic air craft. There will, however, doubtless be sharp differences of opinion as to the merits of the new law, not all based on partisanship. Therefore, there is a growing opinion among political observers in Washington that the candidates for the Presidential nominations of the two great parties who will have the best chance may well be men who have not taken an active part in the Neutrality pro gram or committed themselves to support of any phase of it. Swing Toward Douglaa If we leave the President him self out of consideration, which more and more close scrutinizers of public affairs are inclining to do, the tendency is to believe that the power of the Adminis tration will be thrown behind some Democrat who has not been too closely identified with the New Deal. There is a feeling that Paul V. McNutt is by no means so sure of Presidential support as his friends have be lieved him to be, and that Frank Murphy, the Attorney-General, is out of the running. Talk is swinging toward Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, form erly head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, as a likely candidate for the Presidential ac colade as the successor to Mr. Roosevelt. This is taken quite seriously in some well-informed quarters, who do not believe the President will seek a third term for himself. It is pointed out mat uuaujt^c Douglas is much more likely to command the support of anti New Deal Democrats than any body else who has been close to the White House in the past few years, and that he has not had any part in the Neutrality dis cussion. That might create the interest ing situation of two fprmer class mates of Columbia University Law School running against each other for the Presidency; for on the political dopesheets District At torney Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, stands out not only ip pub lic estimation based on past per formances, but as the one lead ing Republican Presidential candi date who has not been tangled up in any way in the Neutrality dis cussions. Both Mr. Dewey and Justice Douglas graduated from Columbia Law School in 1925, though the latter'u nearly four years older than Mr. Uewey. He went into the tfaching of Jaw (turn to page 8, please) DOLLAR The Alleghany Red Cross Roll Call will begin —ion Saturday, November 11, and continue until Thurs day, November 30, accord ing to an announcement made recently by Rev. R. L. Berry, Sparta, chairman of the Alleghany County Chapter, American Red Cross. During this period of time, citizens of the county will be giv en an opportunity to help in the work of: the organization. Rev. L. F. Strader, Sparta, has been appointed Roll Call chair man. Other officials are Mrs. J. T. Inskeep) secretary; Alton Thomp son, treasurer, and; Mrs. Robert M. Gambill, publicity chairman. Of each membership, only 50 cents of the amount is sent to National headquarters. The re maining amount is left in the county to be used by the county organization. The Alleghany. welfare set-up certified 151 —cases, involving 581 per sons with 141 cases being serviced with commodities, during September. W i t *h 41,138 cases representing 188, 944 persons certified in North Carolina during September as eligible to receive surplus com modities distributed through coun ty welfare departments, 36,642 cases actually were serviced dur ing the month, A. E. Langston, State director of commodity dis tribution with the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, said this week. Twenty-seven school lunch pro grams were aided! during the month in which 1,296 needy and undernourished graded school pupils of the state received free hot lunches, while 318 persons in four children's camps were helped by the extra food sup plies. Since the first of October 243 school lunch rooms with an al lotment of 21,998 needy, under nourished pupils have entered the commodity distribution division’s new program to have 150,000 poor children on the records for free lunches during the current school year, Langston said. The Alleghany County welfare department is supplied with sur plus commodities purchased by the federal government for North Carolina distribution from the District Number 4 warehouse at North Wil’.esboro. As of tne first of October the four former surplus commodity districts were changed: into six areas to provide better super vision of distribution of the food and WPA-made clothing in the counties. Alleghany County has been allocated to the fourth area and will continue to be served from the North Wilkesboro ware house. District personnel in the ware house distribution points will, in practically every instance, be re tained in the area offices. Mussolini carried out Tuesday a drastic shake-up —of his cabinet, party and high est military leaders—the most drastic which fascism has seen— in a surprise move interpreted as an effort to strengthen Italy’s neutrality. In London, Mussolini’s action was regarded as eliminating pro German elements in the high ranks of fascism, because several of the 10 men removed had been regarded as staunch supporters of close collaboration wi^h Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. Britjsb diplomats a4o reported that , .a Balkan pact, in which Italy will participate, is being drafted to resist both German and Russian expansions. t Mussolini replaced Achille Star ace, secretary-general of the Fas cist party since 193,2. At Road Celebration At Norvale Crags October 25 Rev. L. F. Strader, who was returned as Methodist pastor —here recently for another year, and Mrs. Strader, were honored on Friday night, October 27, with a linen shower at the parsonage. R. A. Doughton, acting as spokesman for the group, welcom ed the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Strader back to Sparta, to which wel come both responded in a few ap propriate words. Following an enjoyable period of conversation, Mrs. Jay Hardin and Mrs. Robert M. Gambill serv ed iced tea, sandwiches, and cakes to approximately thirty guests. The guests of honor received many beautiful and useful gifts from the following: Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Doughton, Mrs. R. E. Dob yns, Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Gambill, Miss Marie Perry, Mrs. Vance Choate, Miss Wanda Cho ate, Miss Bettie Halsey, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Hardin, Mrs. Dwight Greene, Mrs. F. Castevens, Miss Eula Parsons, Mrs. T. J. Carson, Mrs. Mexa Phipps, Mrs. A. F. Reeves, Mrs. R. T. Burchette, Mrs. J. M. Clark, Mrs. Claude Moxley, Miss Annie Reeves, Miss Mary Wooten, Mr. and Mrs. Eu gene Transou, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Doughton, Miss Mae Doughton, Mrs. C. C. Castevens, Misses Lillie Ervin, Marporie Halsey and Wilma Crouse, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Roe, Mrs. Lelia McMillan, Mrs. Harry Vaughan, Mrs: J. T. Ins keep, Mrs. Lola White, Mrs. B. O. Choate and Mrs. E. E. Black. REV. J. R. SHUMATE IS CONDUCTING A SERIES —of revival meetings at Chestnut Grove Baptist Church,' just east of town, this week. Day services begin at 11:00 a. m., and night services at 7:30 p. m. The Rev. Mr. Shumate is pas tor of the Baptist Church at Sugar Grove, Va. A huge U. S. defense fund request is seen —by observers in Washing ton, D. C., where President Roosevelt estimated Tuesday that it would cost $275,000, 000.00 to safeguard! and enforce American neutrality during the first ten months of the European war. The president told reporters that this sum would be asked of congress as a deficiency appropri ation in January. This strength ened the belief of some officials that the total national defense appropriation for the next ses sion would! exceed $2,000,000, 000. The extra $275,000,000, Mr. Roosevelt told his press confer ence, is needed chiefly to pay for increases in the armed forces ordered September 8 when he proclaimed a limited national emegency. The expense covers maintenance of the Atlantic coast neutrality patrol and the mass training of troops ordered by the war department. A short time before the presi dent spoke, Chairman Sheppard, Democrat, Texas, of the senate military affairs committee, pre dicted the expanding army would require $1,000,000,000 next year, and Chairman Scrugham, Demo crat, Nevada, said the house nav al appropriations sub-committee expected the navy budget would approach this sum. In another dlefense develop ment the war department an nounced that the first new aerial fighting unit to be formed since congress approved a $800,000, 000 air corps expansion in April would be sent bo Puerto Rico in November to reinforce defenses of that Caribbean outpost. It is (turn to page 8, please) In the picture above, Governor Clyde Roark Hoey, of North Carolina, is shown addressing the throng that attended the big celebration held Wednesday, Oc tober 25, at Norvale Crags, mark ing the opening of the new Galax-Mount Airy highway, by way of Low Gap. At the left Governor Hoey is seen, with Con gressman Robert L. (“Farmer Bob”) Doughton, of Alleghany County, eating his share of the big barbecue served the crowd.— Photos by Zabriskie. National And World NEWS At A Glance SHIP ON WAY TO GERMANY Bergen, Norway, Oct. 31.—The ! American freighter City of Flint in command of a German prize ! crew was feeling her way south ward along the North Norwegian coast tonight followed by a Nor wegian man-o-war. The prize ship, on her way from the Soviet Russian port of Murmansk, to a haven in Ger many, was sighted off Lodjngen light this morning flying the Ger man fi'ag. — SKIRMISHES IN WEST Paris. Oct. 31.—The French reported "marked activity” on the western front today with a series of land' skirmishes between French and German forces and brisk ar tillery duels in which the Ger mans were said to have used long range heavy artillery fos the first time of the war. N. Y. FAIR COMES TO CLOSE New York, Oct. 31.—For the, first time since the $156,000,0(W show was thrown open to a pop eyed but hesitant public last April 30, the palpitant exhibitors of the New York World’s Fair wel comed a rain today as they clos ed up shop and battened down for the winter. EX-GOV. DIES AT 100 Carson City, Nev., Oct. 30.— Former Governor Roswell K. Col-1 cord. who was 100 years old last April 25, died today. Colcord, a Republican, served as governor of Nevada from 1890 to 1894, He was superintendent of the Carson City mint for 13 years. Coloord was a native of Sears port, Me. FREE NATIONS PRAISED Vatican City, Oct. 29.—Conse crating 12 new missionary bishops in a solemn ceremony in St. Pet er’s Pope Pius today praised those states where morality and justice prevail and tyranny is Unknown. His words echoed sen timents expressed Friday in the first encyclical at his reign in which he' criticized governments in which civil authority “puts itself in the place of the Al mighty and elevates the state or [group into the last end of life." Sparta Is To Have Another Big Dollar Days Event On Friday, Saturday And Mon. —November 3. 4 and 6, in which the people of Alleg and t to partake o being offere< ticipating in Rooseve chided b Russian —Tuesday : land the “ of the UniH effect, warn come to ten world that closer to Ge once partners tern pact. 1 In an exhavu sia’s new foreij ier and forei more than 1,1 ing the exan sion of the So; United States’ arms embargo aggravate and pean wax. Salient poin minute speech 1. Struck a velt for “intei negotiations w tradiction of policy of neul 2. Declared to understand of a mutual as lar to those whl jtic states of Estonia, Latvia and [Lithuania virtual protectorates. 3. Denounced Great Britain (and France for carrying on the |war with Germany for the pur pose, he said, of safeguarding their colonial possessions. 4. Said “there can be no ques tion of restoring Poland” and 'that it was “absurd to continue the present war” for such a cause. 5. Asserted that German and Russian relations are being placed on an increasingly-solid and friendly basis. 6. Announced trade negoti ations would be opened with Japan and opened the door for a move by Tokyo toward stronger cooper ation—possibly a non-aggression pact. 7. Gave no hint of any possible Soviet aims in the Balkans but said Turkey, which refused a pact with Russia and signed one with Britain and France, must fake note of the offer of cooperation to Japan. By her pact with Britain and France, he said, Turkey hid mov ed into the “orbit of war’’ and would not hazard a guess whether Turkey would come to regret it. Russia’s dictator, Joseph Stalin, was given a tremendous ovation when he seated himself along with other Soviet leaders in front of the chairman’s rostrum of the modem hall built behind the pic turesque Kremlin. November 23 was designated Tuesday as Thanksgiving Day —in Washington, D. C., by Presi dent Roosevelt. The day was designated by the president as a “day of general thanksgiving” and the chief executive voiced grati tude for the nation “that in a world of turmoil we are at peace with all countries.” While the proclamation stress ed hopes for international peace, it may stir up a measure of do mestic strife since the calendars —and many governors say Thanksgiving is going to be Thurs day November 30. 'rile president had announced last August that he was going to move Thanksgiving up a week. He said many business men want ed the date changed so there would be more time between the i Thanksgiving and Christmas holi days. 'ever put on tor the benefit of (the buying public in this section, j Drastic reduction in the prices of i merchandise of many kinds have been made and all who are in terested in getting most in real value for the money spent are urged to turn now to the big double-page advertisement in this issue of THE TIMES, and also the advertisement on page 6, and see for themselves the abundance of golden opportunities for real savings because of the unusually attractive prices on almost any kind of merchandise in which he or she may be interested. These cooperating stores are j extending a cordial invitation to j their customers and friends to take advantage of the opportunity to buy high-quality merchandise at money-saving prices being of fered them during this three-day Dollar Days bargain event. Foes of the arms embargo won the first |—skirmish over neutrality legis lation in the House Tuesday, in Washington, D. C., when ’ that | chamber agreed to send the meas j ure to a conference committee to | adjust differences between the ; Senate and: House versions. ! The vote, which effectively pre j vented the embargo bloc from i offering amendments from the i floor was taken amid angry cries !of “city slicker tactics?” Adminis tration men replied that the pro | cedure was normal. There was no noli call on the question, but administration lead ers jubilantly hailed a previous roll call, on which they muster ed an unexpectedly high majority of 60 votes) as indicating a safe | margin for repeal of the em bargo when the final test comes. The noil call was on a question of ending debate on the proced ure to be adopted for consider ing the bill. The results, in effect, defeated a Republican attempt to open up the legislation for house amendments. The vote was 237 to 177. Opponents of repeal—most bit terly controverted issue of the neutrality figbt—had pleaded bit ingly and vainly for an opportun ity to bring the senate bill before the house for any amendments it might see fit to adopt, or to send it to the foreign affairs com mittee to be amended.
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