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ALLEGHANY STAR * TIMES THE STAR, established 1889 — THE ALLEGHANY TIMES, established 1925. Vol. 16 No. 3. Sparta, N. C. Thursday, May 30, 1940. Washington, D. C.—An un precedented phenomenon took place in Washington last week when some 65 members of Con gress discarded party lines to participate voluntarily in a sur vey of the unemployment situ ation. We are not sufficiently naieVe to believe that this move, which may have far-reaching sig nificance, is wholly altruistic on their part. Some of these gen tlemen are undoubtedly gather ing tools for political fence-mend ing in the next election campaign. Most, however, are going for ward with the study, despite the realization that their efforts may be forgotten in the growing preoccupation with the European war and the national defense program. A committee’s preliminary re port recommends a vast housing program, and warns that while ‘‘military expenditures may tem porarily ease the relief burden to some extent, they are not a solution to our problem.” Further endeavors may suggest a working approach to the un employment problem. At least they will indicate an awareness of the situation and a desire on the part of our lawmakers to do something about it. * * * When the Wright brothers made their first successful airplane flight back in 1903, little did they dream that they had created ! what was to become the most ter-! rible instrument of destruction j the world has ever known. Experts claim the plane of j tomorrow will do 800 miles per| hour—placing America but four i hours away from Europe, and! thereby giving it reason to fear a German victory. At the same time, military advisers here say that the United States will re main secure from any but a “stunt” attack from abroad for some years to come. That secur ity, however, will depend on the certainty that this Government . will permit no foreign power to gain any base for operation on 1 or near the American coasts—a 1 fact that explains the sudden in terest here in Bermuda, Trinidad 1 and Greenland, as well as in the islands of the Pacific. * * * Three weeks of action by the Hitler hordes in Western Europe have transformed the internal situation within the United States., What had been a national need for 5,000 Warplanes has ndw be come a demand for 50,000 per year. What had been a trickle of letters urging members of Congress to revise the neutrality laws to permit loans to the Allies has now become a deluge of tele grams demanding immediate par ticipation in the war. Represen tatives of thirty denominations, meeting in Philadelphia in a Na tional Study Conference on the Churches and the Industrial Situ ation, concluded “that it is im possible wholly to divorce foreign policy from domestic policy and that any comprehensive program for peace must contain a syn thesis of both.” And what the public reaction is to the possibility of a German victory has been made clear to; Congress. Suggestions for ad-1 journment of domestic politics are! being made* but responsible lead ers know that Congress is in no mood to retreat from isolation at present. What its mood will be in six months from now may be an entirely different story. Snap Shots and Sun Spots ,.Q ! We had a fire in Sparta last ■week, and the whine of the siren was sweet music, for we knew a group of young men were in stantly in action to get hose at tached to hydrant and a stream of water flowing onto the blaze. It was even so, and the fire was soon conquered. Very fine for Sparta. Both life and property are more safe than before! But, in the happy state of having a good Fire Department let us not one whit relax our vigilance to keep fires from starting. Re member, the ounce of prevention which outweighs a pound of cure. Allegfumy County sure had a primary election Saturday, and lo, the same county that went for McDonald in ’36, went for Gravely this time, by some 58 votes ahead of Broughton, the statewide favorite. But of far greater interest were the county contests, in which four candidates were seeking the nomination as representative of the county and two ae senator for this 9th dis trict, of Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga. The latter was taken ■ ■ ■ Ou r wo r Id Belgian King Surrenders To Hitler London, May 28.—Leopold III, King of the Bel gians, has surrendered his nation to Nazi forces, and ordered his half million men to cease fighting. Belgium thus becomes the sixth nation to fall under Hitler’s blitzkrieg blows in less than nine months, following the fate of Poland, Norway, Denmark, Luxembourg and Holland. Belgian Collapse A Sad Loss London, May 29.—Collapse of Belgian resistance to Germany, under orders of a nerve-racked young1 king already disowned by his ministers, has all but, robbed half a million Franco-British troops in Flanders of hope of escape. Only a military miracle can save ■ them from a fast-closing German trap. Army Seeks Escape From Flanders London, May 29.—An encircled army of 400,000 British and French troops, deserted by their Belgian allies on the blood-drenched fields of Flanders, battled today to break a tightening Nazi grip of strangulation and abandon the war on Belgian soil. Italy Expected To Enter War Rome, May 29.—Civilians began taking over some posts left by men called to arms today, as the Belgian collapse on the northern front heightened Italy’s war fervor and made active Italian intervention appear to be only a question of days. The doors for unrestricted departure from Italy were closed tonight on British and French nationals, in what some observers took for another step toward war. • • • Belgians Propose To Fight On Paris, May 28.—The refugee Belgian government today disowned King Leopold III as a traitor to his people because of his surrender to the Nazi blitzkrieg, and announced that a new Belgian army will be raised “to fight on to victory alongside the Allies,” Australia Promises Unlimited Aid Sydney, May 28.—Prime Minister R. G. Menzies said in a speech here tonight that the Australian gov ernment will send men, munitions, and war supplies without limit in support of the Empire’s war effort. loosevelt Names Seven For Defense Washington, May 28.—President Roosevelt named a national defense commission of seven, drawn from government, business and labor, to gear the nation to top-speed production of planes, engines, guns and other defense implements. One of the seven is Miss Harriet Elliott, dean of women at the University of North Carolina, to advise on consumer problems. ly Eugene Transou, with prac ically double the number of rotes given to his competitor. A able of the vote by townships is ^iven elsewhere, as also a short iketch of Mr. Transop’s public ife. In the race for the nomination ts representative Robert Eender :ame within 42 votes of a tie with the top man of the four, W. Bert Edwards. That he frankly advocated the idea of allowing the top man to have the nomination is a matter of record, and that he should be runner-up is doubly interesting. It is indeed good news that rom Greene has come home from the hospital, restored to the de moted mother that needs him. He was terribly injured in that in saine car wreck a few Saturday nights ago, and it is almost miraculous that he has lived. Has i civilized community no sugges tion for the prevention of such driving, that tears down telegraph poles and strews human beings about like discarded toys? Annual Reunion of Gilliam family —will be held Sunday, June 9th, at the, home of Mr. and Mrs. Reece Gilham one and one-half miles west of Sparta on U. S. Route 21. Prominent speakers will be present to address the gathering. The following quartets have been invited to sing; Southern Har monizers from North Wilkesboro, The Wilkesboro Friendly Four and Yadkin Valley Four from Elkin, and the Jones Family, Ronda. All relatives are urged to at tend and friends are invited. Everyone bring a picnic basket to supplement the lunch that will be served. J. A. Gilliam, North Wilkes boro, chairman, Mrs. W. H. Jones, Ronda, secretary. New Hope New Hope, May 28.—Mrs. W. R. Jones visited her sister, Mrs. Bessie Critcher last week. Louise and Reba Sue Roupe, Alene and Donald Musgrove and Bruce Williams visited friends in Galax Sunday. Mrs. Bessie Critcher is visiting her sister, Mrs. Lena T. Bill ings, of Laurel Springs, this week. Mrs. Wiley Irwin spent Satur day night with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Osborne. Several persons attended the sheep-dipping demonstration held at D. J. Jones’ Saturday after noon. Mrs. Frank Jones has been very sick for the past week. Sunday School is progressing nicely at New Hope. Birthday Honors . . . Aunt Cynthia Crouse Cox, of neat' Vox, who was born near Hooker in 1858, and for whom a grand birthday dinner' was set for some 200 guests on her 82nd birthday, May 19. The Interesting Interest “De int’rest done et up de principal.’’ The old story of the closed bank and the colored depositor seems to apply to the City of Louisville, Ky., which, on May 2nd, proudly announced that it had at “long last” paid off a $490,000 bond issue borrowed 60 years ago, but that it had cost $1,007,600 in interest. It seems that in 1880, just a few years after the first running of the Kentucky Derby, Louis ville needed some fire and police horses and various types of equip ment. It issued $490,000 inj bonds and paid off the debts On Wednesday, May 2, 1940, the Sinking Fund Commission paid off the last of the debt and burn ed $368,000 worth of bonds. The horses and equipment cost the taxpayers in the sixty years $1,497,600 of which $1,007,600 was in interest. Judging by the, price the horses for the police and firemen cost, it was thought at first that they were all Derby winners, but city officials de clared that investigation failed to reveal a single Derby winner among the lot. A Word To The Wise And The Foolish The difference between safety and accidents is often common sense. A safe driver is ready for any emeregency. Every time is train time at a grade crossing. Drive as though your child walked ahead. war-stricken civilians throughout Europe have prompted the American Red Cross to issue its first war relief appeal since the World War. A drive is now under way throughout the country to raise a minimum of $10,000,000 to purchase all kinds of relief supplies. The above poster has been selected to carry the appeals to the nation. Many Interesting Memoirs —will be brought up by the following list of Postmasters who have served Alleghany folk since the United States Post Office, was first established at Gap Civil in May, I860. This list has been obtained through the courtesy of the present Postmaster, G. Glenn Nichols. Gap Civil, Alleghany County, N. C. POSTMASTER DATE APPOINTED James B. Parks ...„.. May 2, 1860 Mrs. Catherine E. Vaughan . March 16, 1866 David R. Gentry . May 23, 1870 Willie E. Hudson . August 18, 1871 William P. Holbrooke . June. 13, 1873 John 0. Edwards .. June 30, 1876 Isaiah M. Brown . March 9, 1877 William L. Norman ... December 31, 1878 Name of office changed to Sparta .. June 24, 1879 William L. Norman ... June 24, 1879 Rufus K. Parks . July 9, 1879 Washington K. Holbrook . June 13, 1881 Berry Edwards ..., January 30, 1882 Joseph C. Welch ...::. April 17, 1882 Robert H. Hackler . June 5, 1884 Westley W. Naylor ..... July 20, 1889 John C. Edwards ... December 5, 1889 Hugh K. Boyer * .... January 30, ’1880 Hugh Hanks ....... April 10, 1897 David M. Beck * .,..... May 25, 1900 Mervyn Jones * .... April 2, 1903 (Name changed by marriage to Mervyn Cheek) Mervyn Cheek ..... July 21, 1903 Jonathan H. Gentry * ... April 16, 1914 Robert H. Hackler ..... March 27, 1915 Mrs. Lula M. Choate * ... September 22, 1922 George Glenn Nichols * ... March 12, 1935 Those names marked with an asterisk are believed to be the only ones still living. James H. Parks, the first Postmaster appointed at Gap Civil, was the father of Mrs. R. A. Doughton, and the grandfather of D. C. Shores, both of Sparta today. Rufus Parks, who was appointed Postmaster in July 1879 was Mrs. Doughton’s brother. And doubtless many, many more family connections will be recalled and noted by the appearance of this list. Thursday at 2 o’clock the Camp Fire Girls met for the third meeting at the Methodist Church. After some preliminary business we decided to assume responsibility for raising five dol lars toward the Red Cross Relief Fund. We started on a jaunt into the meadow to seek knowledge and beauty (one of our aims as Camp Fire Girls). We each endeavored to learn new things in our va rious fields of work. We learn ed of the origin of flowers by listening to some interesting stories told by Mrs. Hardin. We found that there were about 12 different kinds of trees growinj in that particular meadow. Ver; queer insects were seen, too. Oni of our group even found a hug' rock wihch looked like the hea< of an Indian. After walkini back through the poison ivy, wit! which we had in a short tim' become acquainted, we arrived a the church where we each chosi an Indian name by which w might be called. Some of thesi were: White Rose, Red Wing Minnehaha, and White Feather Then we returned to our homes Don’t forget Thursday after noon at 2 o’clock, Sparta Meth odist Church. Pika Rizotti and Sarah Warren rirst nre call for Sparta’s new apparatus I-—-came list Thursday at 10 a. nV. iwhen fire in tl: kitchen of Vaiice Choate'- home got beyond con trol. The Volunteer firemen re sponded quickly to the siren • alarm and ,-oon had. the hose at I tached to a -hydrant, and a stream of water playing on the blaze. |The fire was soon under control, jand the first real battle of the | Sparta Fire Department a mat [ter of record. Some considerable I damage was done by fire, smoke, jand water, but the home was n.ot j destroyed, i Surprise birthday dinner was set Sunday, May 19th j—to honor Aunt Cynthia Crouse | Cox, who was - .82, having: been : [born near Hooker on May .16,. 11858., Dinner- was set at' her ! old home, in Vox community,., i which is now occupied by her ! son, Gwynn Cox, i In - 188.1 she . was married to • - Robert David Cox. He passed [away in 1935, at-the ago of 77. iOf six-' children -there .are four;: j living, Lentus arid Gwynn, of | Sparta, Dewey of Aberdeen; : Wash., and Mrs, T. H. Crouse, of Sparta. Attending the dinner were (some 200 guests, who came afoot jand in 35 cars, and trucks. A 'number of nice gifts were pre sented. ! Before dinner Rev. John Wil liams, J. C. Sparks and William ! Andrews gave interesting talks. I Those coming from away were [Mr. and Mrs. Fred Weaver, of jPeden, Mr. and Mrs. John Rhudy j Crouse and daughter, and Mr. rand Mrs. Willard Cox from i Galax. Among the guests nearing or [about the age of 80 were M. B. | Cox, J. W. Maines, Mrs. Ellen Crouse, Alice Toliver, Martha [Edwards (89) and Almeda Shores. Among guests froth Sparta were ; Eugene Transou, Floyd Crouse, [ W. F. Osborne, Dr. Doughton, [ Mrs. Mattie Choate, Mr. and ! Mrs. Rex Evans, Dewey Truitt [ and daughter, Anna Mae, Frances Wrench, Mr. and Mrs. G, Glenn j Nichols and Opal, and many more. I’"-.:. i Conference Called On Religious Liberty About 200 Protestant ministers and Jewish Rabbis of Washington, D. C., have called upon the Chris tian ministers of the United States who believe in complete sepa ration of Church and State to | attend a Conference on Religious Liberty in Washington on June 11th. The purpose is to define and defend the religious liberty upon wihch all democratic insti tutions are built. The Conference will -discuss the taxing of churches in connection with social security legislation, the appropriation of tax-raised funds for sectarian purposes, the appointment of Myron C. Taylor as President Roosevelt’s personal representative to the Vatican, the, use of pressure and violence for1 the purpose of limiting religious liberty in social, economic and [political realms of American life, [and actions by the government of both the nation and the states that violate the Spirit, if not the letter, of Constitutional guaran tees of freedom of religion, speech, press or assembly. Outstanding national leaders in the defense of religious liberty will address the closing session ■ of the Conference, which will take the form of a mass meet ing in Constitution Hall. Seminars on the above Subjects will be conducted by well-known experts during daytime meetings. J. M. Broughton, cf Raleigh, will be next Governor —of North Carolina unless there is sharp reversal of form, for, since 1916 when the present primary system was established, the high man in the first, gubernatorial primary invariably has defeated the run ner-up. In all cases but one he not only achieved victory but In creased his margin between the first and second primaries. The exception earne in 1932 when Dick Fountain cut the Ehringhaus lead from 47,371 to 13,084 in the runoff primary. In that campaign there was a clear issue between Fountain and Ehringhaus. In all other second primary battles the winner of the first primary has been swept into of fice. by a sizeable margin. In the famous 1920 campaign, for instance, Cameron: Morrison led O. Max' Gardner by less than 100 votes in the first guberna torial primary. - Four weeks later in the runoff the, margin was in creased to 9,2:59 votes. In 3 924' A, \V. McLean de feated Josiah W. Hailey decis ively. In 19.28 Gardner was nominated without opposition. Then followed the Ehringhaus Fountain battle of 1932. Four years later in 1936 Clyde R. Hoey increased his first primary lead of 4,468 votes over Dr. Ralph McDonald to 51,940 in the runoff primary. In Saturday’s gubernatorial primary Mr. Broughton, running against six opponents, polled ap proximately a third of the en tire vote and ran more than 30,000 votes ahead of his closest rival. His margin of victory was the greatest ever polled in a multiple contest such as was con ducted last Saturday. Topia Topia, May 27.—Mrs. Mallie Weaver, Peden, visited friends in this community last Wednesday. Miss Ruby. Faircloth, Scottville, spent a few days last week with Mrs. Belle Blevins. Misses Dorothy Brown and Oe tavia McMillan, Crumpler, were guests of Miss Mozelle Blevins, Saturday night. Mrs. Josie Dowell, Piney Creek, visited Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Cau dill, recently. Miss Rena Fitzgerald visited Miss Fairye Lee Black Friday. Guests of Misses Beulah and Grace Fields Sunday night were Misses Irene, Doris and Grace Blevins. v Enemies Within Our Gates It is believed there are a good many undesirable aliens, and a lot of bad natives in the United States, who are trying to “re make America,” and whose plana and purposes are dangerous. Nearly every Government activity that tries to run down these peo ple is being attacked and mis represented. For instance, the Dies Committee—but more spe cifically the Hoover G-man against whom . strong sentiment was de veloped because they were detect ing Communists, crooks, racket- I ears and traitors by the police method of tapping their telephone lines. A terrible hurrah was raised about this practice, despite the fact that such a method in police and Government bureaus has long been recognized as a legitimate method. Experienced newsmen in Washington have de fended the G-men and praised their sleuthing-plans to bring crooks to time. To My Friends And Supporters Of Alleghany County: 'T Words fail me to express ; adequately my gratitude to you for your active > and loyal support in the primary race just closed, l As you well know, the place was not of my seek : ing. Nevertheless you insisted it was my duty to 1 run for it. My belief even now is that it was not simply me you voted for, but for a return to , the supremacy of democracy. I accept your man ; date, and promise that to the extent of my ability . my every energy shall be devoted to serving my , county and my district as a loyal and intelligent people wish me to. Sincerely, EUGENE TRANSOU May 28, 1940.
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