Vol. XLIII.? No. 34. Murphey, N. C., Friday, Marchc 25, 1932 $1.00 YEAR ? 5c COPY Court To Open Here Mcrnsn ^ j Cherokee County SuDerior Court will open here Monday morning with Judjre A. M. Stack presiding. This will ^e both criminal and civil term. anri Solicitor John H. Queen will al?o be in attendance. A larjre number of people arc ex pected to be in attendance upon the trials and many of our merchants are offering unusual values in mer chandise for the week. Many cases arc on the criminal docket, and it v.ill perhaps take more than a week to dispose of them. The criminal docket follows: CALENDAR . CHEROKEE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT ? CRIMINAL TERM APRIL 4, 1932 Hon. A. M. Stack, Judge Presiding, Hon. Jno. M. Queen, Solicitor. Any case on the Criminal Docket may be called, at any time, upon motion of the Solicitor. Jail cases may be called at any time. Attorneys appearing for defen dants, o'r with the State, please notify the Solicitor. Witneses bound to Grand Jury for April Term, 1932, must remain un til discharged by Solicitor. 1. State vs. Fred Hall Judgment Abandonment. 2. State vs. Will Cooper Cost V. P. L. 3. State vs. Marshall Bell Cost A. D. W. 4. State vs. Marshall Bell Cost c c. w. 5. State vs. Clyde Taylor Cost V. P. L. 9. State vs. Henry Barnett Trial Abandonment. 10. State vs. Ross Moore Judg ment V. P. L. 15. State vs. Charlie Killian Trial Abandonment. 17. State vs. Sam Henry Cost v. r. l. ?2. . ?*ate vs. i.tc Ellen Hmrb*i>. Hazel McMahan. Mary Best Trial 1-irceny &. Rec. 23. State vs. J. M. Grindstaff Trial V. P. L. 24. State vs. Paul Zimmerman (J. B. F. Trespass. 26. State vs. Cha'rlie Beal, Hazel McMahan, Bose Fain, Mary Best, Jimmie Hunt, Lee Ellen Harben Trial Larceny & Rec. 27. State vs. Hanley Painter Cost V. P. L. 28. State vs. Robert Flower^ Trial Larceny. 29. State vs. Rosco H olden Trial Forgery. 30. State vs. Charlie Dockery Cost Killing hop. 31. State vs. Rolin Lovincood Trial V. P. L. 32. State vs. Rolin Lovingood Trial MFG. 33. State vs. W. K. Scroop Trial Resisting:. 35. State vs. Elze Brown Trial V P. L. 36. State vs. Elze Brown Trial V P. L. 39. State vs. Harve Johnson Trial V. P. L. 43. State vs. Jesse Roberts, Os car Roberts Cost A. D. W. 47. State vs. Milt Anderson Judgment V. P. L. 48. State vs. Dewey Fish Trial V P. L. 50. State vs. Jimmie Gates Trial V. P. L. 51. State vs. Jimmie Gat-"1? Trial V. P. L. 52. State vs. Jimmie Gates Trial V. P. L. 53. State vs. Truman Cole Cost A D. W. 54. State vs. Joe Dockery Cost V. P. L. 57. State vs. James Michael Trial Abandonment. 58. State vs. Glavborn Taylor Con V. P. L. 59. State vs. Russell Gregory Cost R ? D. 60. State vs. Charlie Coleman, Bob Taylor Trial V. P. L. *>1. State vs. Lon Wright Judg ment A. D. W. 62. State vs. Elm est Campbell Cost V. P. L. 63. State vs. Tyrus Logan Cost C. C. W. 64. State vs. Henry Walker Judgment A. D. W. ,0. State vs. Buck Godfrey Cost Manslaughter. ^2. State vs. Ben Carroll Tnal Abandonment. . 73. State vs. Sam Mason Trial P. M. W. L. ? _ 74. State vs. Homer Taylor G. B. R. 0. 75. State vs. Waldo Scrofsgs Trial C. C. W. 76. State vs. Jessie Gibby Coet V. P. U 77. SUte vs. F. C. Sondersedeza seed to sow several huruired acres. G. HARVEY HUGHES DIES MARCH !Oih George Harvey Hughes, son of Paschal C. and Margaret Davidson Hughes was born in Hayesville, Clay County, North Carolina on the 28th day of December, 1886. Several years after his birth his parents moved to Murphy, N. C. where Harvey was reared. After his maturity he went to Atlanta, Geor gia and beeame connected with W. L. Fain Company, and remained with this company lor thirty years. In January 1913, Harvey married I Mrs. .Maude Black of Atlanta. Af ter moving to Atlanta he connected himself with the Park Street Meth odist church South and joined the or der of Odd Fellows. He died Thursday morning, March 10, after an illness of a few hours, and was interred in -West iew ceme tery, Atlanta. Funeral services were | conducted from Park Street Metho dist church under auspices of the order of Odd FLellows on Saturday i March 12th, 1932. He is survived by his widow and several stepchildren, also two sister, Mrs. E. B. Norvcll and Mrs. S. D. Vkin of Murphy, and one brother. P. P. Hughes, Yanor, Tenn. NOLEN? MOODY Coming as a surprise to hor many friesds in Murphy and western North Carolina, is the announcement by attorney and Mrs. J. N. Moody of the marriage of their daughter, Cather ine Louise to Mr. Alexander C. Nolen of Zanesville, Ohio, on Thurs day, February 25. The marriage vows were spoken at the home of the Rev. J. K. Grice , pastor of Calvary Baptist church. West Asheville, who officiated. Mrs. Nolen is a young woman of charming personality, an?i ha.s many friends throughout western North Carolina. She received her education in the Murphy high school and at Peace Institute, Raleigh. The groom is the son' of the Rev. Nolen of Oxford, Alabama, and was educated at Auburn College. He is a registered pharmacist, and is a rep resentative of Sharp and Dohme Drug Company. In the near future, the young couple will take a trip to points in Florida and Cuba. TTiey will make their home in Zanesville, Ohi-o. Anderson-Freeman An interesting marriage taking place on Saturday, March 19th, at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon, was that of Miss Helen J. Anders, daug hter of Dr. and Mrs. M. G. Anders, ot Gastonia, and Mrs. William C. Freeman, of Washington, D. C. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. G. Wilkinson, pasior of the Metho dist church at RobMnsville, In tlu? j parlor of the Junaloska 'ierrace hctel Friends had decorated the par lor and the vows were spoken before an improvised altar. The bride's mother, Mrs. M. G. Anders, and Miss Katthleen Cranford, a close friend, came up from Gastonia. The groom is a representative of the American Tobacco company with headquarters at Asheville, wheTe the couple will reside, after spending the wwek-ent here at the J-unaluska Ter race. Roth bride and groom are graduates of Duke University of the class of 1930. Benedict ? Cearley Miss Carrie Cearley , of Athens, Georgia, antood that a larg:j number of counties will form per manent organizations and carry on the work of a Milk-for-Health cam paign during the remainder of the year. Among the eastern counties that have recently organized and are act | ive in, the campaign this week are, j Gates, Pasquotank, Washington, Pamlico, Northhampton and Warren, arc cooperating through their schools Carteret, Brunswick, Columbus, Bla den, P-rplin, and Pender are co operating through one or more agencics. Western counties recently organ izing Milk-for-Health campaigns are Rutherford, Polk, Macon and Clay. DIVERSION OF GAS TAX HAS PITFALL By E. E. Duffy ' The gaosoline tax was created on road usage as a means of obtaining the large funds needed to build con nected highways and surfaces that eliminate mud and give low cost motoring. Yet law makers have been giving increasing attention to using this tax for other purposes not at all connected with road building. During the year in which the gas oline tax has been in effect motor ists have pledged support to higher tax rates for they realize that the money expended by them in motor fuel taxes was being returned many times over by lower car operating costs, increased safety and comfort. Had they realized that some day law makers, taking advantage of theinr legislative power, would transfer these funds from the highway bud get to other purposes it is very doubtful if there would be a gaso line tax as it is known today. Whenever gasoline tax money is diverted to other purposes than for road construction it then becomes a special tax, or aluxury tax, and not a user tax. This abuse of the gaso line tax will in the end mean w-dei spread demand for reduction in the tax rate and even abolishment. It would be only a matter of time un til motorists registered strenuous objections against a special tax for j miscellaneous purposes, a tax which they themselves created and spon sored for road construction to the benefit of the nation. 1 Aside from the lack of ethics in gasoline tax diversion, there is a very important reason why this mon ey should be left in highway funds. Money spent for road building goes largely into pockets of workmen Thomas H. McDonald, chief of the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads has calculated that $910 out of every $1,000 given for building concrete pavement goes to labor. In general from 75 to 90 per cent of the money spent in road cosstruction does the very important job of directly fur nishing people with a livelihood. Beyond that, the largest industry in the United States, the manufactur ing servicing of automobiles, is great ly dependent upon road activities. The automobile industry provides em ployment for 4,000,000 men direct ly and an additional million men are kept busvy supplying raw materials. The automobile industry furnishes omuloyment, then, for roughly one tenth of all "gainful" workers in the United States. It is conceded that the automobile industry will be a leader in the re turn of normal business. Clearly, in the face of the road improvement needed, a pick-up in the automobile industry will be gTeatly retarded through the curtailment of road con struction made necessary by the di version of gasoline tax money. Soil improvement is occupying the attention ol Rutherford County farmers this year. Thousands of pounds of lespedeza seed has been planted and considered farm land terraced.