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Alleghany Times
Vol. 15 No. 34.
SPARTA, Alleghany County, N. C., Thursday, JANUARY 4, 1940.
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Capus M. Waynick
will speak to
petroleum men *
—of Alleghany County and
nine nearby counties at a
district meeting of the North
Carolina Petroleum Indus
tries Committee in Winston
Salem on Thursday, January 11.
Mr. Waynick, who is a High
Point editor and former chairman
of the State Highway and Public
Works Commission, has long been
an advocate of the principle of
spending highway taxes for high
ways only, and took a prominent
part in opposing diversion of
highway funds during his adminis
tration as head of the Highway
L Commission and at a Legislative
hearing at Raleigh last winter
phich attracted; statewide atten
mi.
e Winston-Salem meeting,
[h will be held at the Robert
»e Hotel, includes the coun
)f Alleghany, Forsyth, Rock- j
lm, Guilford, Davidson, !
Yadkin, Surry, Stokes and;j
In addition to oil com- j
jents, distributors, and ser
>tion operators, members 1
organizations interested j
^y transportation will at- :
participate in the pro
1 a. m. meeting for the j
k general discussion of
ft of taxation, diversion
ftfunds and other legis'
-ft’s affecting highway
ft followed by a lunch-;
Mr. Wavnick will
■
-Salem meeting is
of a series of ten
lgs being held,
during Janu
Charlotte, is
ilmer Sparger, j
etary of the
oleum Indus- j
ch is com
pniee sta
ry county
ay Din
at night in
Hotel in. the
It has been
iinner event will
■one of the best
figures to North
erson of McNutt,
Igovernor and na- \
iLegioh coramand
|from the several
state indicate a
Ice than ever be
nf-tVip-mine North
ocrats.
Security Adminis
IcNutt will be sought
subordinate adminis
focials in the security
As past national com
the American Legion,
draw many prominent
^ires; as one of the hand
nen in public life today
F attract the ladies; as a
r» va rii.rlonf
I be an object of keen in- j
*efest^>n part of all the citizens |
of the state. All of this, along- j
with his recognized ability and
charm as a public speaker, adds
up tc a four-star attraction for
the 3940 dinner.
All signs now point to the
largest attendance of any party
gathering except the biennial
state conventions. In one respect
it is likely to establish a new
^oi-d—that is in the number of
pdidates for governor present.
J J or eight men, known to be
c\rtaidatesi although some of them
hkve not formally announced,
have secured tickets to the din
ner. The occasion is designed
primarily to revive interest in
Jacksonian Democracy, but pros
pective candidates for president
or governor will not be hitman
if they did not also attempt re
vival of interest in their own
behalf. s
Calendars
Would you like a nice wall
calendar for the new year, 1940?
ne in to the Alleghany Times
opposite the Sparta. Post
'and next door to *"4he
1 and get one of our Tinles
|The Independence
Masonic lodge
elected officers
—for the coming year, at a re
cent meeting, as follows: Raby
Cox, Worshipful Master j Max
Gentry, Senior Warden; W. O.
Crotts, Junior Warden; Bays M.
T6dd, Secretary; Letcher C. Win
gate, Treasurer; Earl Cox, Senior
Deacon, and Ernest Phipps, Jun
ior Deacon. Garth Rector and
A. V. Allen were appointed Stew
ards.
Installation ceremonies will be
held at the January meeting.
More than
290.000 persons
paid visits
—to the Blue Ridge Park
way during 1939. Of this
total, 147,000 visitors in
48.000 cars were counted on
the 50-mile long; Virginia sections!
of the Parkway south from Bent j
Mountain to US-58 at Meadows j
of Dan. Forty-three thousand .
automobiles carried 130,000 per- |
sons along- the scenic drive in !
North Carolina from the state I
line south to Boone, while a total
of 5,500 cars, were counted on
other portions of the Parkway not
so complete as to construction
and scattered through the Blue
Ridge Mountains.
Doutbless this census indicates
a real public interest in the
Parkway, particularly since the
new roadway was not fully com
pleted (traffic being maintained
on only 100 miles during most of
the summer) and was operated
on the “travel at your own risk” i
basis under reduced speeds.
The record traffic for any giv- j
en day occurred during the Ashe- !
ville Rhododendron Festival when j
2,400 persons traveled to see the j
Craggy Gardens in the height of [
their bloom on June 25 by way
of’the partially eonvjfleted section
of Parkway just to the north of
that city.
These, figures suggest a greatly 1
increased number of tourists be- j
ginning next spring when 140
continuous miles will be opened
to use from a point on Bent
Mountain south of Roanoke
through to the Boone, Blowing
Rock, Linville resort area in
North Carolina. The through
connection will be ready in the
early spring since grading and!
surfacing of the southern-most;
sections in Virginia between
Meadows of Dan and the State
line have recently been complet-;
ed. During the past year this)
37-mile gap was closed to traffic,
and the us^ of State highways
through HiUsville and Galax was
necessary to reach the North j
Carolina sections from Virginia, j
Sections 1-U, V, and W, the ■
three contracts in Virginia, just
north of the state line were com
pleted during December linking
the Floyd Plateau sections and
the completed Parkway in North
Carolina into a continuous 140
mile unit.
Satisfactory progress can also
be reported on the 50-mile sec-'
tion in North Carolina between
Grandfather Mountain and Toe
River Gap near Mt. Mitchell. The
Lmville River Bridge is rapidly
nearing completion and the tun-1
nel between Little Switzerland ]
and Buck Creek Gap is finished i
so that it will soon be possible
to drive, through from Grand
father Mountain to Toe River
Gap on the, finished Parkway
grade with a crushed stone base. I
The three bridges overpassing I
State highways at Linville Falls, j
Gillespie Gap, and Little Switzer- '
land are in various stages of con- [
struction and short detours are j
necessary.
Looking back, 1939 was the
busiest construction year to date.
Work was in progress on 275
miles of Parkway scattered all
along the Blue Ridge, the north
ernmost job in Virginia being
better than 400 miles from the
southernmost in North Carolina.
The honor roll for
the fourth month
at Rich Hill
—School has been announced, as
allows:
First Grade.: Lorene Fender and
Irene Lyons.
Second Grade; Junior Johnson,]
Nella Mae Shaw and Alfojean
Johnson.
Fourth Grade: Reba Mae Ben
nett and Everette Shaw.
Fifth Grade: Guy Dickenson.
Seventh Grade: Lyla Dicken
son, Ruby Dickenson, Norma
Fender and Helen Spurlin.
Miss Isabel Hoey
has been named by
Secretary Edison
| —of the U. S. Navy Depart
ment, Washington, D. C., as
sponsor lof the 35,000-ton
battleship North Carolina,
first new American battleship in
nearly two decades, which is to
be launched at the New York
navy yard in June* Secretary
Edison announced the designation
of Miss Hoey Tuesday when he
announced plans for the launch
ing of the North Carolina.
Miss Hoey is the daughter of
Governor Clyde Roark Hoev, of
North Carolina.
The ship will be the first of
six battleships of the same general
size and type under construction
now to be launched. The ship
was not expected to be ready to
join the fleet, however1, until late j
next year-.
The North Carolina is,the first !
completed battleship and the I
fourth naval vessel to bear the ;
name. The third North Carolina, j
likewise, was a battleship, but ,
was scrapped; before completion j
by the 1922 naval limitation |
treaty.
The North Carolina will be
about 75 per cent complete at
launching. Her sister ship, the
Washington, under construction
at the Philadelphia navy yard,
will follow her down the ways in
about three months.
An All-American
youth orchestra
is to be formed
—by Leopold Stokowski,
and the National Youth Ad
ministration for North Caro
lina plans "fiT^ondfuct a
state-wide classical Musical con
test to aid in the selection of this j
orchestra, to be organized in the!
United States this winter for a‘
good-will tour of South and. Cen
tral America. This information j
comes from John A. Lang, State I
Youth Administrator, to Lee M. j
Woodruff, local NYA supervisor, j
The National Youth Administra-!
tion will recruit from throughout 1
the country the 109 young musi
cians who are to make up the
orchestra which the famous con
ductor, Stokowski, plans to take
on tour. Only applicants under
the age of 25 years will be eligi
ble; but both NYA workers and
non-NY A young people may ap
ply
In order to help the national
organization recruit the best tal
ent, the North Carolina NYA is
making plans to conduct a con
test of skilled young musicians in
Raleigh during the early part of
February to select those who will
be recommended for regional try
outs under the direction of Mr. \
Stokowski.
Mr. Lang said young people
should send all applications direct
ly to him, care of the NYA in
Raleigh. The try-outs will be open
to all young people, irrespective
of sex, color or race. In making
application the young person
should state the instrument he
plays, his training and experience, |
as well as personal information j
concerning his age, address and |
present occupation. All applica-1
tions must be submitted before j
February 1, 1940, and applicants!
will be notified later as to eligi-|
bility for the try-outs.
A shortage of
$2,000 has been
found in Watauga
—County tax books. Charles
E. Hagamaai, Hickory ac
countant, said Monday that
he had found the shortage
in the books of Len Wilson,
Watauga County tax collector and
former Appalachian State Teach
ers College football star, who has
been missing since December 19.
Since his figures were not yet
completely tabulated Monday, the
accountant was unable to state
the exact total of the shortage.
However, he said, an estimate of
two thousand dollars is “not far
wrong.” 1
The money must have been
taken between November 23 and,
December 19, Mr. Hagaman add
ed, because Wilson’s accounts had
(turn to page 4, please)
This Couple Wed 50 Years
Mr. and; Mrs. Charles E. Cox (above), of Mouth of Wilson, I
VS., who celebrated their fiftieth (golden) wedding anniversary at
their home, on Tuesday, December 10. Mr. and Mrs. Cox have
three daughters and, two sons, as follows: Mrs. S. Luther Payne ,
and Mrs. Kyle McMillan, Galax, Va.; Mrs. W. A. Neaves and Cone;
Cox, Elkin, and Vergil M. Cox, Mouth of Wilson.— (Photo Courtesy]
The Roanoke (Va.) Times).
In a statement on New Year’s Eve—
Secretary of State Hull expressed a
hope for world peace during 1940 i;
—with all nations forsaking “the forces of de- j ■
struction” and returning to the “tried and proven ;
road” of peaceful relations during the new year. |1
In a statement in response to requests for his views on '
the outlook for the new year, the secretary of state said
it would be a rash man indeed, who would undertake
to forecast the course of^ inter
national events, but indicated
strongly that he thought there
was a good chance his hope might
be realized.
“The possibility is not exclud
ed,” he said, “that, even during
the coming year, all nations may
find in themselves sufficient
strength of conscience, of reason,
of the very instinct of self
ere^e-evat-rtm- -to- Vdt-oefi—-before the
forces of destruction have been
loosed in all their fury—to the
tried end proven road of friendly
and peaceful international re
lations, along which alone the
human race can move in the di
rection of material advancement
and spiritual progress.”
The secretary made clear that
Ins own hope for a better, peace
ful world was predicated on a
profound conviction which he be
lieved was held by millions of
men and women everywhere that
there it- no inevitability about
war.
“There is a way 01 peace for
all nations, if they choose the
way of peace rather than the way
of war,” he said* “But all na
tions must choose the way of
peace.”
A1 Smith is
ready to bolt the
Democratic party
—again if his party re
endorses the New Deal,
which is headed by his one
time bosom friend, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, according to
a statement issued in celebration
of his 66th birthday anniversary
December 30. The “happy warrior”
of yesteryear presented his per
sonal list of Democratic presi
dential possibilities and threaten
ed to “take another walk” if his
party re-endorsed the New Deal.
“If the, (Democratic) platform
oomes out in full piaise of the
New Deal, it’ll be time to get
ir.y walking shoes out again,” he
said.
The former New York governor
arm defeated presidential candi
date in 1928 has spoken seldom
about politics since the 1936 cam
paign, when he “took a walk”
because of the opposition to Presi
dent Roosevelt’s
Saturday, in
‘licensed real
;hat’s how he’s li
policies,
the capacity ol
< state broker”—
ted on the direc
tory of the Empire State building
which he, runs—-he held his an
nual birthday press conference in
lis 32nd floor office overlooking
;he East River and had his say on
a variety of subjects.
Concerning a third term for Mr.
Roosevelt, he sai(l:
T think and hlways did think
wo terms were enough for any
lan. That’s beejn sort of an un
'ritten part of our constitution
nee the days of Washington . .
t’s kind of a tradition—an Ameri
can tradition.”
Dr. Clarence Poe i
will not run
for governor i
cP North Carolina -this1
year, according to informa-!
tion given out Tuesday in '
Raleigh by the widely
known editor of The Progressive ‘ i
| Farmer. I]
j Dr. Poe said he was dedicating :;
j himself to. the South-wide, ten- ■ <
i year program for “balanced: pros-!
I perity in the South 1940-1950” 1
as evolved by the Southern Gov- ■ ■
} ernors Conference instead of 1
| seeking the Democratic nomina- i
tion.
! His withdrawal left..'three an
nounced Democratif candidates—
| Lieutenant Governor W. P. Hor- i
l ton, of Pitts boro, and J. M.
i Broughton and Revenue Commis
j sioner A. J. Maxwell, of Raleigh.
Last fall State Treasurer Charles
M. Johnson, who, like Poe,. had ’
Sheen wddely mentioned a& a pos
jsible gubernatorial candidate, an
' nounced he would not seek the 1
(governorship but would run for ■
| re-election.
| There has been wide specu- '
lation that former State Senator 1
•L. L. Gravely, of Rocky Mount,
I and Willis Smith, Raleigh law
yer, would both announce within
a week for the governorship.
There are a number of other
prospective gubernatorial candi
j dates also.
Four persons
were killed in
highway mishaps i
j—in North Carolina over|
I the New Year’s week-end,;
and three slayings and a sui-!
ride also contributed to the,
' list of violent deaths. A boy was
killed in a hunting accident.
Thurlow Davis, Pineville textile;
worker, was fatally injured when i
his automobile overturned near j
Charlotte. Wheeler Newkirk, 65
! year-old negro, was struck and,
; killed by an automobile nearj
Goldsboro while he was pushing ^
a bicycle along a highway.
Two Fort Bragg soldiers were \
killed in highway mishaps. Corp-i
oral Ocie Farris, 24, of Spring- j
field, Tenn., was hit by an auto
mobile and killed near Fayette
ville. Private Austin Jackson, 24,
1 was killed in a motorcycle-automo-;
bile collision at Erwin.
Fifteen-year-old Lonnie James
Ayers of Four Oaks was accident
ally shot and killed on a hunting
trip.
There were three slayings over
the holidays. Charlie Adams was
ishot in what Sheriff C. G. Holland
'called a "brawl” at Money Island
1 |turn to page 4, please)
A. Census School
for this district
will be conducted
—ill Wilke.sboro, where applicants
or positions as census enumer
itors will be given instruction.
0). Joines, assistant supervisor
>f the Ninth District, Bureau of
he Census, from the Salisbury
)ffice, left Monday for Wilkes
>oro to supervise* the. school to be
leld there, after spending the
veek-end in Sparta.
The first phase iof the 1940
irogram will he the training of
■numerators for the manufactur
ng, busines, mines, drainage and
quarries census.
Later, preparatory instructions
vill be given for the agriculture
md population census, which will
login in April.
TheJjazi ship
Tacoma was
interned
—night, and
freigher rolle
anchor in M
dor, a orison*
m neutrality foi
he European ws
Her master,
[now, subitted
flonday morning
r Uruguayan de;
ntil 8 a. m. (6s
ret out.
Thus ended th
racoma made S
o sea to face
vhich had watt
ince the Gemia
•hip, Admiral Gi
•o refuge at th
lour battle on
The 8,268-ton
hr Graf Spee
;ome of her ere'
he pocket battl
a, Captain Han;
ip his floating :
IT, rather than
>i' battle.
Monday, with'
>f defiant viole
var usefulness
ia reiuly just a si
hat of the (I
treat German I
'cuttle:! off til
vithin sight ofl
i'ecember If*. 31
Fifty Uiugul
he -t* anier La|
o the Tacoma MumUU llWllllHg |
ind boarded, her. She had lain
it anchor all night . just inside
he outer breakwater, whence, I
with the German battle flag fly
ng, she had steamed Sunday
from a point closer to shore.
A Uruguayan naval clerk drew
ttp the certificate of internment.
Captain Know signed it and,
with her captain and all her
:rew of sixty still aboard, the
Tacoma was guarded by a lone
ifficer of the Uruguayan navy
Honday night.
Uruguayan authorities gave
Daptain Know and his men two
lays to wind up shipboard affairs,
rhen they will be interned and
sent to live in the interior of
Uruguay.
The freighter, herself, was to
)e beached Wednesday. Great
3.ritain has applied for permission
for H. M. S. Ajax to enter Mon
tevideo on a “courtesy visit,” and
officials of this little country were
tonsidering granting a 3-day ex
tension of the 24 hours in port
isually granted belligerent war
hips.
Uruguayan internment of the
Tacoma’s crew will follow the.
example of Argentina, which took
ike action against 1,039 crewmen
of the. Graf Spee after they had
anded at Buenos Aires. Captain
Langsdorff, however, cheated in
ternment—by shooting himself.
Uruguay charged that the. Ta
•oma, in standing by at Captain
Langsriorff’s behest to pick up the
:rew of the Graf Sp.e, had func
tioned as an auxiliary man a’war
luring an “act of war,” namely
the destruction of the Spee. She
therefore was subject to the same
rules of neutrality which forced
the Graf Spee out of the harbor
it the expiration of a 72-hour
leadline,
Behind this offirial reason, how
jver, was the constant pressure
of Allied diplomacy.
Besides the Ajax, the 9,830
ton British cruiser Shropshire was
[relieved to be near Montevideo
Monday night.
MRS. SAM PORTER, SPARTA,
WAS ENROLLED AS A MEMBER
—of the Red Cross during the
recent annual roll call drive in
Alleghany County. Mrs. Porter’s
name wag inadvertently omitted
from the list of members publish
ed recently in the Times.
North Carolina’s
Jackson Day event
will be held
—in ! Raleigh on Monday,
January 8, with American
Legionnaires of the state, as
citizens, finding unusual in
terest in the presence of two past
national commanders, and several
past state commanders, although,
the Legion, as an organization,
will have no part in the affair.
Paul V. McNutt, nowr federal
social securtiy administrator, and
Henry L. Stevens, now a North
Carolina superior court judge,
both former National Command
ers of the Legion, will be on
hand. Mr. McNutt will make the
principal address of the occasion,
and Judge Stevens will have a.
place on the , program.
Governor Clyde R. Hoey will
also take part in the oratorical
approve his selcetion as a Jack
son Day speaker.
Charles Edison was
made head of the
Navy Department
—by President Roosevelt
Saturday, in Washington,
D. C., advancing the son of
the late famous inventor,
Thomas A. Edison, to the post
of the late -Secretary of the Navy
Claude A. Swanson, of Virginia,
who died last July, and putting
an end to speculation over the
delayed choice for the cabinet
post, which has been vacant since
Swanson’s death.
Assistant secretary for more
than three years, Edison had been
acting head of the navy depart
ment' for nearly six months.
The appointment was announc
ed unexpectedly at the White
House after Mr. Roosevelt had
summoned the acting navy secre
tavv there for a conference. It
wili be submitted formally to the
senate for confirmation after con
gress convenes this week.
Edison, wealthy and unassum
ing. has supervised the navy’s
| intensive warship building pro
gram as assistant secretary7 since
j November 17, 1936.
Although loath to leave his own
extensive business affairs as head
i of the. far-flung Edison industries,
j ho came to the navy at the presi
: dent’s urging after the death of
Assistant Secretary Henry La
trobe Roosevelt.
United States
defense is
progressing
—satisfactorily as the year’s end
finds national defense reinforce
ment “well advanced toward com
pletion,” Secretary of War Wood
ring reported yesterday.
“During the new year, we are
planning to extend our program
of reorganization, rearmament
and training so as to increa.se
further the efficiency of our land
forces/-' Woodring said. a