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Want To Stall Something? Try a Want Ad The Alleghany Times You Will Profit If You Always Road Times’ Advertisements DEVOTED TO THE CIVIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY Volume No. 15. GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1939. Number 30. This Week in Waskinston Washington, Dec. 6 (AS)— With the organization by the fore most Republican leaders of New York State of a “Dewey-for President” campaign for dele gates, and the opening speech in that campaign made by the Dis trict Attorney of New York County in Minneapolis, the three- j cornered battle for the Republi- j can nomination is at last fully under way. Senator Arthur Vandenberg’s organization committee has been actively at work for several weeks, proclaiming him as Michigan’s Favorite Son, and issuing im pressive “literature” in his be half, with almost all of Michi gan’s foremost Republicans, from the Governor down, as signa tories. Senator Taft’s personal cam paign in the West, which has ■ taken him and his politically-able; wife to the Pacific Coast, has also ! been going on since the extra j session of Congress ended. It \ has the blessing of most of the j Ohio party leaders, including Gov-! ernor Bricker, who was being talked of as a Presidential pos-1 gibility himself before he declared in favor of “Bob” Taft. Between Three Men As Washington political observ-1 ers view the prospects from this j point in time and space, the real i battle for the nomination is be- j tween those three men. Each of j them, it is expected, will go to | the convention with a practically j solid block of delegates from his j home state. Dewey’s will be the j largest, Taft’s the next largest j and Vandenberg’s third. Each j will have a considerable number | of delegates from other than their home states, the number of whom cannot as yet be estimated even approximately. . No experienced observer expects any one of these three leading candidates to have a majority of delegates when the | convention opens, but each will have enough backing to be an extremely powerful factor in the final decision. Only one man can get the first prize, and he is not always the candidate who hag the greatest Strength short of a majority. Observers with long memories are harking back to the Republi- ( can convention of 1920, when it seemed a foregone Conclusion that ! the nominee would he either Gen eral Leonaril Woo'd or Gov. Frank j Low’d en of Illinois. The conven tion became deadlocked and when the nomination of either of the leaders became utterly hopeless, the effort to find a candidate who j would not be too objectionable ,for ! both Wood and Lowden to agree i on him resulted in the selection of the darkest “dark horse’’ in the convention, Warren Harding. Having that episode in mind, some astute lookers-on are begin ning to look over the “dark horses” now in the Republican field. A three-way deadlock is less likely than one involving only two candidates, but it is possible; and there are many Re publicans who have their lightning nods in readiness in case they might be useful. The present outlook is that many states will send delegations for “favorite sons” who have no expectation of getting the plum, but whose followers could be traded to advantage to support the likeliest winner. New Hamp shire’s Gov. Bridges, Massachu setts’ Gov. Saltonstall, Rhode Is land’s Gov. Vanderbilt, Pennsyl vania’s Gov. James, are among those who are expected to have considerable numbers of delegates if not solid state blocks, when the convention convenes. Delegation For Landon Kansas is expected to send a solid delegation for former Gov ernor Alf Landon, Who will be remembered as the Republican candidate for President in 1936. Representative James W. Wads-1 worth of New York, and Repre sentative Bruce Barton of the same state are most often spoken of as possibilities in case it should turn out that Mr. Dewey cannot get the nomination and the New | York leaders should be unwilling to throw their tremendous strength to either Vandenberg or Taft. Hovering over the whole Re publican picture is the shadow of former President Hoover. Mr. Hoover has no organisation work, ing for his nomination, he has made no public declaration one way or the other, and those in his personal confidence assert that he has no ambition or desire to mm for President again. But his recent frequent con tacts with political leaders all over the nation, his public ad dresses and magazine articles and the quite general and definite growth in Mr. Hoover’s personal popularity and the public’s re spect for his opinions, look to some of the Washington observers as preparing the way for his selec (turn to page 6, please) The strike at the Webb plant in Galax ended —Tuesday when an agree ment was reached at la con ference between W. A. Mc Alister, conciliator from the U. S. Department of Labor, Wash ington, D. C.; William L. Fitts, representative of the Carpenter's and Joiners of America, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor; a committee of the strik ers, and John A. Messer, Sr., owner and manager of the plant. Mr. Messer announced the settle ment of the dispute Tuesday night. In his announcement, Mr. Mes ser said that, in the agreement reached, he had promised! to take back as many of the former em ployees as possible and that they would be put to work as rapidly as possible. He said he thought that, by January 15, all of the former employees could be taken back. Mr. Messer also said that about a dozen would be taken back yesterday (Wednesday). More than 100 of the furniture, factory worker's walked out on Monday, November 20, in protest against a request of the manage ment that they work extra hours curing Thanksgiving week to make up for Thanksgiving Day (November 23). Programs were presented by the different grades —of Laurel Springs School dur ing October and November. A Hallowe’en program was giv en by the Fourth and Fifth grades. A program for American Education Week was given by the j Seventh Grade, program forj Book Week by the Sixth Grade,: and a Thanksgiving program by | the Second and Third Grades. The | First Grade : students will present | a program at a later date. The honor roll for , the third | month is. as follows: First Grade; Rebecca Moxley, Louise Pruitt, Norma Harrold and | Hiram Cox. Second Grade: John Miller. Third Grader John Woodrutf, Wendell Moxley, Anna Sue Jones, Gordon Miller, Levette Dixon, Odell Dixon, Ervin Pruitt, Rose Marie Fender Maud Taylor, Doris Upchurch and Jewel Pruitt. Fourth Grade: Jane Bledsoe, Ellen Woodruff, Roy Miller and Jack Osborne. Fifth Grade: Jimmy Wagoner, Thompson Shepherd and James Edward Myers. Sixth Grade: Cleo Bryant, Elea nor Upchurch and Raymond Mil ler. Seventh Grade: Ralph Brown and Edward Taylor. Ann Rutherford was a visitor in Winston-Salem —yesterday ( Wednesday ) and made personal appear ances at the Carolina Theatre. Dressed in'grayish slacks, bright red socks that matched a little bow at her throat, and Lounge slippers, Miss Rutherford, one of Hollywood’s prettiest gifts to movie-goers, tripped into her room in the Rob ert E. Lee Hotel in the Twin City Tuesday 'night andi shook hands energetically with a group of newspaper and theatre folk. The 19-year-old actress, better known as Mickey Rooney’s sweetr heart in the Judge Hardy Family picture series, arrived in Winston Salem early Tuesday night from Charlotte, accompanied by her mother, A1 Burks, Hollywood ex ecutive, and Mrs. Burks. The group was enroute to At lanta, Ga., where the world pre miere of “Gone With the Wind” will be shown December 15 in Loew’s Grand Theatre. Miss Rutherford, “thrilled pink” over her role in the much-talked-of technicolor picture that portrays Civil War and reconstruction days in the Old South, plays the part of Carreen O’Hara, Scarlett’s youngest sister. SYMPATHY FOR THE PEOPLE OF FINLAND —who are “the victims of ag gression,” was expressed/ Tuesday night, in Mexico City, by Presi dent Lazaro Cardenas. Both capital and labor were indicted Tuesday —in Detroit by a special federal grand jury proceeding against manufacturers, contractors and unions on a charge of violating anti-trust laws by creation of a monopoly in the Detroit tile in dustry. Three associations of contract ors, eight national manufacturing concerns, two AFL locals and 35 individauls were named by the grand jury. The indictment charges that a conspiracy exists to drive out of business 60 independent De troit tile contractors by depriv ing them of sources of tile and labor. Halifax said Hitler caused Russia to invade —Finland, in a statement to the House of Lords in London, made Tuesday night. Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax said the invasion has “bartered; away the liberties of the Baltic people.” Condemning Russia for bom barding open cities' and towns and “mutilating women and children,” Lord Halifax inferred' that Hitler and Josef V. Stalin had entered into an agreement whereby Rus sia was given a free hand in the Baltic. The Soviet invasion of Finland, he said, “seems to be the direct consequence of Germany’s pol icy.’’ “Hitler has bartered away what was not his policy—-namely, the liberties of the Baltic peoples. “The sequence of events has shown how wide is the damage once the flood gates are opened.” j Lord Halifax said: Britain and France are prepared for a long war against Germany and that1 “there can be no truce or patch- ! eti-up armistice that will bring no j relief.” The foreign secretary promised j that when the League of Nations I council sits in Geneva Saturday ] to take up Finland’s, protest; against the invasion Britain will “make its position plain.” He did not indicate, however, whether Britain would support a demand by Argentina and other smaller nations that Russia be voted out of the League as a wanton aggressor. Earlier, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had told Commons that Britain had not protested the Soviet invasion and he side-step ped a question by Vyvyan Adams, conservative, as to whether Brit ain would vote for Russia’s ex pulsion from the League. Lord Halifax will not go to Geneva and Britain will be rep resented before the council and assembly sessions by Richard Aus ten Butler, pariiamentairy under secretary of foreign affairs. The foreign secretary was bit ter in his condemnation of Rus sia’s resort to armed force against Finland, saying: “In the last few days we have witnessed what has been univer sally condemned as an inexcusable act of aggression by one of the largest upon one of the smallest but most highly civilized nations of Europe. ■ “Open towns have been bom barded and women and children have been mutilated and done to death on the pretext that a nation of under four millions had hostile intentions against one of 180, 000,000. “The tale of evil consequence that has flown from the German example and practice of aggres sion grows.” A SQUARE DANCE WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY —night, December 9, at Laurel Springs School. A small admission charge will be made, and proceeds will be used for the benefit of the school. Secretary Hull assailed foes of his trade pacts —Tuesday night in Chita go as “narrow and short-sighted.” He also asserted) that abandonment of the program would '‘render infinitely more difficult the pro cess of building an orderly and prosperous world.” Much of Hull’s speech dealt with the trade program’s effect upon the farmer. Rich Gold Lode Uncovered In Georgia . . . DAHLONEGA, GA. . . Armed with rifles and shotguns, guards are shown before the entrance to the century-old Calhoun gold mine at which work has started. The mine was found* to contain rich bonanza ore assayed at $60,000 per ton, and classed with the famous Comstock Lode in Nevada. The land in the area is under private ownership, hence making “claim staking” impossible. National And World NEWS At A Glance TO SEEK SETTLEMENT Copenhagen, Dec. 5.—Norway issued a rush call today for a conference of Scandinavian coun tries to explore the possibilities of peaceful settlement of the Fin nish-Russian war and to take stock of their own alarming situ ation. Emphasizing the earnest desire of the northern countries to re establish peace, Norwegian For eign Minister Halvdan Koht in vited the foreign ministers of Sweden and Denmark to meet him in Oslo Thursday. Norway striped up defense measures by sending more men to her far northern frontier, which adjoins Finland. BRITAIN SCORES RUSSIA London, Dec. 5.—Great Brit ain today condemned anew the Russian invasion of Finland but spurned any quick peace with \ Germany to meet “worse perils.” ) Foreign Secretary Lord Hali fax told the house of lords that the Russian attack had been “universally condemned as an j inexcusable act of aggression” | and declared it was an outgrowth j of the Russian-German pact sign ed August 23. TO HONOR CARTER GLASS New York, Dec. 4.—A chair of government in honor of Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, will be endowed next month at Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Va., Dabney Lancaster, secretary of the college board, said' today. The official announcement of the endowment will be made January 4 at a dinner to be given the senator on his 82nd birth day anniversary. Lancaster said between 200 and! 300 friends of Senator Glass’ will attend the dinner which will be followed by an open meeting in the college auditorium. ITALIAN STUDENTS BITTER Rome, Dec. 4.—Mounting Ital ian disapproval of the Soviet Russian invasion of Finland was shown today by vigorous student demonstrations in both Rome and , Milan. About a thousand students pa raded the streets of Milan for an hour behind) Italian and Fin nish flags. “Viva Finlandia,” they shouted urging resistance to the Soviet attack. ENVOY TO CUBA DIES Havana, Dec. 4.—United States Ambassador J, Butler Wright died here tonight at the Anglo. American hospital where he un derwent an operation several days ago. He was 62 years old. Wright, a veteran career diplo mat, went to the post in Havana in 1937 from Czecho-Slovakia, where he served as minister. A REGISTERED GUERNSEY BULL HAS BEEN SOLD —by W. A. Corpening, of Horse Shoe, to Bill Hardin, Sparta. The animal is Bill’s Masterful Pete 278601, according to The Ameri can Guernsey Cattle Club, Peter borough, N. H., which announced the sale. "Here Comes Charlie” will be presented —by the Junior class of Sparta High School, in the high school auditorium on Saturday night, December 16, and it is expected that a large audience will witness the presentation of this interesting production. The cast of characters follows: Charlie Hopps, Larry’s Ward-— Miss Wanda Choate; Larry Elli ott, a young business man—Jim my Atwood; Vivian Smythe Kersey, Larry’s fiancee—M i s s Emogene Choate; Uncle , Aleck Twiggs, in charge of Charlie—N. G. Smith," Jr.; Mrs. Fannin Fftra ham, Larry’s aunt by marriage - Miss Maze] Richardson; Ted Hart ley, Larry’s old-time college pal —KyJe Atwood; Mrs. Smythe Kersey, Vivian’s mother—-Miss the-Kersey, Vivian’s brother—R. the—Kersey, Vivian’s brother, R. C. Mitchell; Nora Malone, cook at Elliott home—Miss Edith Caudill, and Officer Tim McGrill, Nora’s sweetheart—Roy Choate. A nominal charge for admis sion will be made and the pro ceeds will be used for meeting necessary school expanses. Mrs. J. H. Rhudy died in Galax Hospital Tuesday —about 12:23 o’clock, after 'having been a patient in the hospital fior some time. Mrs. Rhudy formerly resided in Independence, and has been a frequent visitor ni Sparta, even after she and her husband, the late J. Hix Rhudy, prominent at torney, moved to Galax several years ago. She became seriously ill sev eral weeks ago and spent a num ber of weeks in Jefferson Hos pital, Roanoke, before being brought back to the Galax Hos pital. Mrs. Rhudy was a daughter of the late E. Columbus Fulton and Rosamond Dickenson Edwards Fulton, of Independence. Mrs. Rhudy’s father, who died over three years ago, was for a num ber of years adjutant of the Peyton N. Hale Camp, United Confederate Veterans, and was a prominent Grayson County citizen. Surviving are three sons, Cap tain Ralph C. Rhudy, of the U. S. Army Aviation corps, Honolu lu, Hawaii; Rob Roy Rhudy, Mia mi, Fla., and Jim Ted Rhudy, Gainsville, Fla., and a daughter, Mrs. Horace Sutherland, Galax. A sister, Mrs. Verna Couch, Roa noke, also survives. For many years Mrs. Rhudy had been active in social, civic and religious cir cles of Galax and Grayson coun ty and was actively affiliated with the D. A. R., U. D. C., and American Legion Auxiliary. I Funeral services will be con ducted this (Thursday) afternoon, at two o’clock, in the First Meth odist Church, Galax, by the past or, Rev. W. M. Bunts, assisted by Rev. D. Sidney McCarty, past or of the Galax Presbyterian Church. Interment will be in Felts Memorial Cemetery, GaMx. The Sparta High School basketball teams have been —invited to enter the Mountain Park Tournament, which was scheduled to open yesterday (Wednesday) and continue through Monday, December 11. Teams from Wilkes, Surry and Alleghany counties are partici pating in this tournament. The Sparta boys’ and girls’ team? will meet the White Plains teams tomorrow (Friday) after noon, at 6:30 and. 7:30 o’clock, and will play in the tournament until pliminMtprl Van Reeves, a prominent Sparta man, passed away —suddenly at his home on j Sunday afternoon, Decem ber 3, at the age of 70 years. Although sudden, Mr. Reeves’ death was hot unex pected, as he had been in declin ing- health for some time. Mr. Reeves took an active part in civic and religious work. For many years, he was Register of Deeds of Alleghany County, Also, he had held the office of deacon in the Little River Primitive Bap tist Church for many years. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Ettie Gambill Reeves; four daughters, Mrs. John R. Edwards, Dowingtown, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Connie Edwards, Mrs. Wayne Waddell and Mrs. George Crouse, Sparta, and four sons: Lester Reeves, Bennettsville, South Carolina; Carl Reeves, Bel Air, Maryland, and Lon Mac and Paul Reeves, Sparta. Funeral services were held! Tuesday morning,1 at eleven o’ clock, at Elk Creek Primitive Baptist Church. Elder J. D. Vass, Elder S. G. Caudill and Elder C. B. Kilby conducted the services. Flowefbearers were' grand-' daughters of the deceased, and pallbearers were near relatives. | Interment Was in the church cemetery. R. F. Crouse has been appointed Jackson Day —chairman for Alleghany County, according to an announcement made by John D. Larkins, Jr., state director for the annual cele bration thi9 year of the birthday of “Old Hickory,” by Democratic leaders. The purpose of this campaign, which began last week and will culminate in a mammoth Jackson Day Dinner at Raleigh on Janu ary 8, is to raise money for the Democratic campaign and con vention next year. A speaker of national repu tation has been obtained for the celebration, which will be held January 8, at the Hotel Sir Wal ter, in Raleigh. A high standard was set at the 1939 dinner by the speech of Governor (now Senator) “Happy” Chandler of Kentucky. State Director Lar kins, who managed the last cam paign, guarantees that the 1940 program certainly will not fall below that standard. Eighty-two persons are now employed —by the Grayson County Hosiery Mill, at Independ ence. Of this total, there are 35 males and 47 females on the payroll. Produc tion of the mill is now about 800 dozens of pairs of hosiery per week, but the management expects to increase the weekly production to 2,500 dozens of pairs when all machines are run ning. It is hoped that all the machines will be in operation by the middle of January, according to a statement issued by the management. Of the machines in operation, there are eleven leggers, which are being operated both day and night, and three footers, three of which are operated in the day time and two at night. There are eighteen lggers and six footer machines, in all, in the mill. There are twelve looping ma chines, five of which are now be ing operated, sixteen seaming ma chines, ten of which are in opera tion, and seven inspection tables. As a gesture of sympathy toward Finland —President Roosevelt dis closed Tuesday in Washing ton, D. C., that he was seeking a method of using Finnish war debt payments for the benefit of the little Baltic nation, now being attacked by Russia. At the same time, he took oc casion to slap the critics of his foreign policy. Objection to it has come, he said, from states men in Russia and Germany, from the publicity director of the Re publican national committee— whose name he said he could not remember—and from a small number of politically-minded peo ple in the House and Senate. It was learned, meanwhile, that the administration was post poning a decision on the question of recalling the American am bassador to Russia, a course of action strongly proposed by sev eral Republican leaders, who have criticized the President for recog nizing Russia originally. In this connection it was indicated the administration is hopeful the Rus. so-Finnish hostilities may be end ed soon. A fourth development of the day was a statement by Sumner Welles, the acting secretary of state, making known that the United States was ready to take part in a joint denunciation of Russia by a number of American nations. Mr. Roosevelt told of his plans for the Finnish war debt pay ments at a press conference, in the course of which he replied with an abrupt and emphatic negative to a question whether it would be unneutral to forgive the Finnish debt payment- under the circum stances. As to just what would ulti mately be vvorkhdUSUt, Mr. Roose velt was .uncertain. Thus far, how. ever, he said, he had asked Secre tary Morgenthau to segregate the Finnish debt payment of $234,000 expected on December 15, in a separate account and leave it un touched until the best method, of making the money available to the Finnish people could be work ed out. Some similar treatment may be accorded Finland’s past payments, he indicated. The fact that Finland, alone of all the nations of Europe, has scrupulously kept up her debt payments to the United States, has served to intensify the al ready deep sympathy for that country in her hour of duress. Suggestions that she be given special treatment regarding her debt payments have been made in several quarters. However, it has been pointed out that only Congress can change the terms of any of the present debt agreements. A default, how ever technical and however much approved by popular opinion, would moreover, legally prevent the Finnish government from ob taining credits here under the Johnson act. So a special method had to be found. As the President pointed out Tuesday, Secretary Morgenthau must, under the debt agreements, accept the Finnish payment of December 15 if it is tendered. Newspaper dispatches indicated, he said, that it would he offered. So he was proposing that the payment be held separate until he can take up with Congress the question of letting the money be used to help the Finnish people. The monthly Methodist Young People’s Union —meeting will be held at the Sparta Methodist Church on Fri day night, December 8, at 7 r3# o’clock. All members of young people’s divisions in Alleghany County are invited to attend, and1 visitors will be welcomed. The Soil Conservation service proposes —to operate four or five demon stration '•farms adjacent to, or near, the Blue Ridge Parkway. Any farmer interested shouldi present his application to R. E. Black, Alleghany County farm agent, in Sparta, as early as pos sible.
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