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ALLEGHANY ♦ STAR-TIMES* ALLEGHANY COUNTY’S OWN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER oL 15- No- 46- Sparta, N. C. Thursday, March 28, 1940. I WASHINGTON, D. C.—It has taken a war plus an Arctic winter to give Mr. Ordinary German a holiday from flag-waving, par ades and compulsory rejoicing. No torchlight procession. No Reichstag meeting. No flags. Only at the last moment are Germans informed that the Fuehrer will speak over the radio in the even ing. With the Munich bomb in fresh rememberance, the place from where he speaks is not an nounced beforehand. After six months of war, pro paganda, the best weapon of the >Jazis, is frozen up. Mass cele brations use up fuel and trans port; Hitler had to cut them out. Ipstead, Germans are consoled with hints of the great things their Fuehrer will do when Spring comes. Nazis predict sortie specta cular achievement. So confident is President Roose velt of an upward trend in busi ness that he is rejecting sugges tions for a further spend-lend pro I gram this year. This confidence is 'probably due to Secertary of the '{Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., ■Who reports that the volume of Aiders' in heavy industries is ex panding weekly. Of great import ahce, also, is his knowledge that both Great Britain and France intend increasing their orders for comVnodities, as well ae war ma terials. * * * * Th<i momentary crisis in France last Week did not, for one thing, show a weakness in French demo cracy. A democratic institution is strong when 300 Deputies can bring down a Government that had actual dictatorial powers. Germany may insist that “a pan ic” existed in France, but there seems to have been no reaction in that country to the Nazi “peace offensive. ” Instead, there are signs of plans for a more vigorously prosecuted war. The French, however, mean to avoid a repetition of the hor rors of the last war, when thous ands and thousands of French youths were hurled to death in offensive after offensive. An in tensified economic war is what can be expected from now on. * * * * THEY SAY: “The English are so proficient in the art of lying that one is tempted to envy them for it.”— Dr. Goebbels. “The Englishman will fight like —, not when his worst instincts are appealed to, but when his noblest aspirations are called in to being.”—Major the Hon. J. J. Astor, M. P. “The systems of thought and life in the German State and its ambiguous associate—the Union of soviet Socialist Republics—are systems intrinsically hostile to the Christian doctrine.”—Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of York. Furches Furches, March 25—Miss Ruth Woodie spent Saturday night at R. M. Taylor’s. Those visiting the home of Frank Roupe Sunday night were: Mr. and Mrs. Claude Critcher, Mrs. Bessie Critcher, and Bruce Williams. Miss Gladys Caudill has been ill with flu. Mrs. Bessie Critcher had as din ner guests Sunday: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roupe and children, Louise, Frankie, Reba Sue, Floyd Orrin and Fred, Bruce Williams, Robert Evans and Edd Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Crictcher visited the home of Glen Woodie Sunday. ■rvoDen j^vans ana r,aa layior of CCC Camp of Laurel Springs spent Friday night at the home of |fack Taylor. The school children of New Hope enjoyed a marshmallow roast and egg hunt Friday, March 22. During 1939, a total of 37 bicy clists were killed and 268 were injured in this state. Your Government... how familiar are you with it? The SUPREME COURT 1. How are the justices of the Supreme Court appointed? 2. What is their term of office? 3. There are nine members of the Supreme Court. Were there ever less than nine? More than nine? Answer these questions in your own mind, then look else where in this issue for the correct answers. ■ ■ ■ Our wo r I d Pope Pius Implores for World Peace Vatican City, March 24.—Pope Pius irpplored for “peace, concord and unity” among nations today in an Easter homily in which he advocated settlement of their relations “not by force, but by rules of truth, justice and charity.” • • • German Ship sent to Bottom Copenhagen, March 24.—The shell-scarred Ger man freighter Edmund Hugo Stinnes, 2,289 tons, sank with her cargo of coal today off the west coast of Den mark, where she was attacked last night by a British submarine. She was the second Nazi merchantman sunk by a British submarine since the war began. The 4,947-ton ore carrier Heddernheim was torpedoed last Thursday night nine miles east of Scaw (Skagen) at the entrance to the Kattegat, which leads into the Baltic sea. Turkey Strives to Reconcile Nations London, March 24.—Turkey is striving to recon cile the allies and Russia and thus dispel the danger of a conflict in the Near East which would force Russia into the war on the side of Germany, it was learned tonight. At the same time diplomatic quarters heard that Italy and Russia soon would sign a trade agree ment and send their respective ambassadors back to their posts, from which they were recalled because of strained relations between Rome and Moscow over the Finnish war. • • • Welles an Able Messenger London — Under-Secretary of State, Sumner Welles, still on his trip for President Roosevelt, has been in London and has won for himself the highest of English compliments—that he dressed like an Eng lishman, talked like an Englishman and behaved “as an Englishman would like to behave.” He has also given the newspaper's a fine example of the art of say ing nothing. Asked by one newshawk whether his face had been “gloomier” when he left Hitler’s pres ence, Welles quipped: “Like you, I cannot see my own face.” Thus far he has kept locked tight any infor mation he has gleaned on how the belligerents will behave. His schedule includes a second visit with Mussolini and his return home to America this week. England Wants New Cabinet London—England clamors for a new cabinet with increased intensity, suggesting a five-man cabinet in place of the present nine. This change would cen tralize the rule of the Empire and increase Churchill’s power on all military and naval arms. Boy Fatally Shot Roscoe Gilbreath, 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Chal Gilbreath of North' Wilkesboro, was acci dentally shot and killed about noon of March 25 while playing with some other boys near the fair-grounds. Roscoe and a friend were shooting birds with a .22 calibre rifle, and Roscoe stepped in front of the gun as Eckenrod pulled the trigger to shoot. Republican Delegates to be Free Raleigh—North Carolina delegates to the Republi can national convention will go uninstructed, Jake F. Newell, Republican state chairman, forecast yesterday. Reaches Ripe Age . . . IRA HALSEY —well-known and highly respect ed citizen of the Maple Shade sec tion of Grayson County, of which he is a native. He is 89 years of age, and is one of the oldest citizens of the county, Mr. Hal sey has been in good health and was able to work until a short time ago. He had been married 60-odd years when his wife died in November, 1938. Fire Department Minstrel Show —for the benefit of Sparta an<| Independence Five Departments, will be given in the Sparta High School Auditorium next Wednes day. at 8 o’c p. m. with an ad mission fee Of 26c. There are 22 in the cast of the show, which will include sing ing, dancing, fun—no end, and a mock Negro trial- The show has been given before, and those who know say it is rich fun. NORWAY LODGED A PROTEST WITH GREAT BRITAIN —yesterday in Oslo against vio lation of Norwegian neutrality by British warships seeking out Gor man vessels in Norwegian waters. To exploit Latin American markets for die benefit of —-North Carolina tobacco farmers, Mayor Thomas E. Cooper, candidate for gov ernor recently urged tobacco fanners of the state to call upon their respective congressmen to back a bill introduced last week by Senator Josiah W. Bailey, to make funds available for a study of means of opening these mar kets to United States tobacco. “Our greatest hope of a fair market this year,’’ said Gooper, who is a tobacco farmer himself with a farm in Brunswick county, “is to get these markets formerly supplied by trie British for the weed grown and processed in North Carolina. “If this bill, which Senator Bailey introduced shortly after I pointed to the need for opening these markets for North Carolina tobacco farmers, is passed, it will be the means of entering the thin edge of a wedge which will soon open wide the doors of South American and Central American countries to our greatest cash crop,” Cooper made the statement i-9 he was raak'r.g plans tp tour the state in his campaign for gov ernor in a sound truck. “I plan to begin my tour about the first of April,” he saM, “and it is my hope I will be able to see and talk with the majority of ^h« fanners of this state. I have always found farmers at North Carolina to be men with whom I couldi talk easily, being a farmer myself, and I have also found they have an excellent knowledge at the. needs of the state. Tlu-ough my talks with them on farm problems, on the needs of rural schools, on the needs for better farm roads, it is my hope I will be able to find some solutions for the many diffi cult problems which they face today and which they have faced for SO years under the adminls (turn to page 6, please) Rivers Officially Enters Race For Congress In small change and dollar bills received as do nations to his campaign fund( Jim Rivers' posts fil ing fee for ninth district congressional race with E dections Chairman Lucas.—Winston-Salem Journal Photo. Jim Rivers, a son of the late R/obert C. Rivers, who for almost fifty years published The Watauga Democrat, at Boone, Saturday paid his filing fee to the state board of elections and became a candi date for congress in the ninth district. His action will bring about the first party contest over the seat occupied for thirty years by Representative R. L. Doughton. Rivers gave to the press a brief statement which indicates that he will make his first bid for office as “an unurged, unsponsored candidate.” It follows: “In filing my intentions as a candidate I have not overlooked the fact that fourteen leaders of the. party in/which I have held lifelong membership recently called on the i incumbent representative and delivered, to him an j instrumnt in writing which they alleged wa? a ; mandate of the people that he again seek the j seat which he has occupied for nearly thirty years, i A sketchy survey of the district indicates that there are some two hundred and sixty-odd thou sand folks in these nine, counties who were not consulted by the aforementioned group many of \ whom would prefer, this year, a candidate by | contest rather than petition. If nominated and j ejected to the office, I shall strive to earn my ; pay.” Representative Doughton had first an- • nounced that he would retire from congress at | the end of the present term but later decided to j run, because, he said, of the, many requests that he do so. T“ Sen. Lee Gravely pushes his campaign —for the Democratic nomi nation for governor into the far eastern section of North Carolina this week with speeches and tours in Tyrrell, Hyde, Dare, Washington and Beaufort counties. During the latter part of the week he was to move into the central part of the state, covering Moore, Lee, Rich mond, Hartnett and other coun ties in that area. Speaking before the Young Democrats of Tyrrell county on Monday night Senator Gravely paid tribute to the state’s army of highway workers who “toil in fair weather and foul in order to enable the traveling public to en joy the benefits of our roads.” In Tyrrell, the candidate stress ed the need for farm to market roads, saying their construction demanded “prompt attention.” At Swan Quarter on Wednesday night Gravely charged that the promise to furnish a system of -- -ciaoI Ia county seat, connecting those points by the most direct route “remains the moral obligation of the state.” It cannot be done in one year, he explained, “but it must be. an objective of the state to be done as rapidly as revenues will permit.” The method of al location of funds has limited the amount of work done in Hyde county, Gravely declared, “and it seems to m© a fund of reasonable size should be set aside for use by the Highway Commission in sections of the state suffering by reason of such a method of al location.” Senator Gravely touched upon another subject close to the hearts of Eastern Carolina folk when he pointed out that while the road situation is of major concern "we must not forget one of die. principal industries in North Caro lina depends upon the watetf of Eastern North Carolina. He re ferred to the Ashing industry. “This great industry,” Gravely’ declared, "is in a serious con dition and is'rapidly approaching the point where it needs govern ment assistance.” Rocky Mount — Senator Lee Gravely will be supported in hii campagn for Governor by a fel low townsman and veteran mem ber of the General Assembly, Representative W, E. (Bill) Fen (tura to poge 6, pleaso) SEN. LEE GRAVELY The Russo-Fmnish Peace hinders the i —Allied cause, is the opin ion of American and foreign military experts. It has placed Che Scandinavian countries under the joint domi nation of Russia and Germany, »nd weakened the Allied blockade because the Reich can obtain vital war materials from the Northern j countries, experts point out. With the outcome of the war still completely uncertain, in the eyes of military men this blow could easily mean defeat for France and Great Britain. Realiz ing this, the sertiment for large scale military relief for Finland increased in both countries just before the peace was signed. That the Scandinavian countries were perfectly aware of the situ ation is apparent in the state ment from Sweden that only an adequate force of 80,000 to 100, MO men would be allowed to cross its territory on the way to Finland. A smaller force, it was reasoned, would be unable to pro tect Sweden from invasion by either Russia or Germany—and the presence of British troops on Scandinavian soil could easily he interpreted by the Reich as an excuse for military action. Recent developments have at least clarified the European situ ation, and proved that the war on the Western Front and the wax on the Karelian Isthmus were, for all practical purposes, one and (Turn to page 5, please) One far-reaching change made by —the 1939 General Assem-' bly in the election laws has to do with setting up a new system of registration in primary elections; Heretofore, only the general! election registration book has! been used for both primaries and jlections. Under the new law ;here will be separate registration aooks for primaries and elections. The voter will be entered on -he primary registration book of ;he party of which he is a mem ber and hereafter only the pri mary registration books will be' furnished the registrars for the primaries. - There will be either a complete relisting of voters or a new regis-1 state. In those counties in which a new registration is ordered the j books will be open during the! lsual registration period before j :he May primary. In the new registration the i s’oter will be registered on the1 general registration book and al so on the appropriate primary registration book in accordance (vith his party affiliation. Independents will not be regis tered on any primary book. In those counties in which a relisting of voters instead of a new registration shall be order ed, the Chairman of the County Board of Election, with such as sistance as may be necessary, will begin on April 2nd to transcribe to new general registration books the names of all persons shown by poll books to have voted in the elections or primaries of 1936 and 1938. A list of all names on the old j registration books, not shown by (Turn to page 5, please) Gov. Hoey spoke Monday night in Washington —D. C., at a banquet givea by the North Carolina Soci ety of Washington, in tha governor’s honor, and in his speech, made no reference to the May Democratic primaries in this =tate, but told what North Caro lina, had accomplished within re cent years in the fields of edu cation. industry arid agriculture, “We have- been sowing in North Carolina the paths of peace,” he asserted, “peace in industry, peace in agriculture and peace in education, . i “We have a balanced budget and we are reducing our bo^'',*d indebtedness,” Hoey conti ud, “and we have not increased taxes. We think we have a reasonably fair tax system.” Former Governor 0. Max Gard ner told the society that there would be “no domination and dic tatorship”- in the choosing of the * state’s next governor. -Jj The reference to the primaries, in which seven candidates are entered to succeed Governor Hoey, came after Gardner praised the “wisdom and tolerance” of the present state administration. Gardner, who is Hoey’s brother in-law and from the same town— Shelby— said Hoey’s successor uuum v wnv/atii UjUVWj" 000 people of North Carolina, free and untrammeled.” Hoey has, announced his neu trality in the approaching politi cal fight. Gardner recalled that Hoey was nominated in 1936 “after an in tense factional fight.” “He went into the office after the state had been divided,” he referring to the bitter con-' test ' ct'veen Hoey arid Dr. Ralph W. McD ■-'aid, former Winston Salem ooilege professor. “But during the past three and one-half years, Governor Hoey has conducted his office with such wisdom and tolerance that now he is the most popular governor North Carolina has ever had. “Today there are seven candi dates running to succeed him, bull there has not been a suggestion; that he is undertaking to exercise his power to throw it behind any one candidate. “The people of the state will name his successor without coer cion or dictatorship. I am proud to 9ay that North Carolina has no dictator. The next governor will be chosen without any domi nation.” Hoey laughingly asked “what’s the use of having a brother-in law unless he can stand besids you in an emergency?” Members of Congress from North Carolina and other offic ials in Washington from this state were among the more than 4M present. Governor Hoey, who left Ral eigh Sunday night, returned to the state capital city aboard a midnight train Monday night. Thieves entered the cellar at the hoi of Frank Atwood —in the Stratford vicinity Sunday night. March 10, and considerable amount of grocerie were stolen. The thieves ent ed the cellar by means of a kej and left the door locked. On the following morning, Atwood and son, Darrell, in search. found part of the stole goods. Piney Creek, Mar. 25.—W. Maxwell, of Sparta, took dinner in the Mt. 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