North Carolina Newspapers

The Leading If eeltly Vol. XLIII.? No. 37. spa per in IT estern ,\ orth Carolina , Covering a l.arpr and Potentially Rich Territory Murphey, N. C., Friday, in Thi.% State $1.00 YEAR? 5c COPY LEGION VOTES FOR PAYMENT OF FULL BONUS; Resolutions Adopted and Sent To | State Commander Express Post's Desire The- -Toe Miller Elkins Post No. 06 of The American Legion, Murphy, went cn record Monday night as fav oring the bill now pending in Con preNS for payment in full of the sol dier bonus. Resolutions we're adopt ed setting forth the attitude of the Cherokee Legionnaires at a special call meeting at which one of the larg fvt number of veterans of the county eve! to attend a local meeting were present. Along with the resolutions a mo tion was adopted to wire the two North Ca'rolina Senators, and the Congressman from this district, ap prising them ol the action of the lo cal post. Among ether matters of business taken up was the admitting of ten new members into the membership of the po^t. W. E. Studstill, chairman of the Legion's relief committee, re ported that quite a number of people had been given jobs in the commun ity during the past few weeks. The resolution adopted follows: Whereas* there is pending in the Congress of the United States a bill providing for payment in full of the soldier bonus; and Whereas, it is the opinion of most, ? all* the financiers and seates men there is great need in the Unit ed Staates for in inflation of cur rency. by means of which money would be made cheaper and more available, thereby loosening credit and giving relief to the country at large; and Whereas, it is pVcpo?ed that the -nonoy to pay off the soldier bonus in full - an be raised by the issuance 01" currency, which wil? meet the de nan i for inflation ol the currency ar.d at the same time help the world war veterans as well as the whole country. ThenfoVe, be it resolved by the Joe Miller Elkin Post, No. 9li, of the \r; <;Yican Legion, (Murphy, North Carolina, that this Post hereby goes on record as favoring the bill pend ing in Congress providing for pay ment in full of the soldier bonus. Passed at a called meeting, this the 18th day of April, 1932. A. W. McIVER, Commander. A. M. SIMONDS, Adjutant. Dahlias Add Beauty To Any Farm Home A soil that will produce pood vege tables will prow dahlias and no mote beautiful spot can be had about any home than a dahlia garden. Locate it in a sunny spot with partial shade in thf altpmoon and protected from the drying winds of summer for the best success. These, in brief, are suggestions made by Robert Schmidt of the ?horticultural depatrment at State Colk-ge to those who wish to have some of these beautiful flowers a bout the place this season. If the soil rich, no fertilizer treatment is needed when the clumps are planted rut if the soil is poor and run down, it may be wise to turn under a ijkral application of w?ell-rotted Marie manure. Whatever the treat ment at planting time, when the dah lia plants get about 15 inches high, top-dress them with a good potato fertilizer but do not let the fertilizer ?"ome closer than about 6 inches from , the hill. In dividing dahlias for planting, k*vP in mind, he says, that the eyes are found on the base af the stem or crown and not on the roots theni *?eives. A root without an eye is i worthless. On the other hand one ! ?ood root with one eye is all that is | necessary for a strong qlant. The - medium-sized roots are better than j tne large ones. Mr. Schmidt recomfmena^ planting ; ?-ahlias from April 1 to late June in viciinity of Raleigh. The best average time is from May 1 to May Early plantings will give blooms Ttom July until frost. Dahlias, he fays, should be planted 6 inches deep sandy soils and not over 4 to 5 in ches deep in heavy soils. Space the ?"ls thre ft apart in rows from 3% : 10 4 feet apart. If several sprouts come up, thin them oat to one. It i * also necessary to stake the plants that they may not be injured by "fx* rains and wind storms. When -jj? plants Ret about 12 to 15 inchec tie them to the stakes tnd make ?*?r tyings as the plants gxow tal~ Candidates For County Offices Must File By Midnight, May 27 All person? seeking the nomination of any particular party in Chero kee county must file with the County Board of Elections their intention? and the office they seek at least two weeks before the date of the primary in order for their nan.* to appear on the ballot*. An ? \ tract of the law reads as follows: . . .Kveiy candidate for selec tion as nominee of any political |:ai-! ty for the office of State senator, rcgardles-s of any party agViement' for rotation of candidates in sena rotial districts of more than one coun ty, member of the House of Repre sentative?, and all county offices, shall file with the County Hoard of Elections of vthc county in which they reside at least two weeks be fore such primary is to be held, a like- notice and pledge." This would matce midnight. May 21st. the expiration limit for filing! as a candidate for the nomination of any office. The following is the form of the pledge to be made out and filed with the board of electoins by the candi date: "1 hereby file my notice as a can didate for the nomination as in the primary election I to be held on .Tune 4th, 1932. 1 af filiate with the . .. Party, and I hereby pledge myself to abide by the r. suits of said primary, and ' to support in the next general elec tion all candidates nominated by the Party. " fSigped) THREF TICKETS IN RACE FOR i MAYOR MAY ?j Lovingood, Present Incumbent, Butt i And Hinshaw Head Ticket* Seeking Election 1 Three tickets have entered the race for mayor and town commissioners for Murphy in the election to be held on Tuesday, May 3rd. The election will be held in the court house in the manner and dur ing the hours as prescribed by the Australian ballot law. The time for registration of candidatesnow is the candidates enterting the race is up at <? o'clock Wednesday evening on April 27th. Hayes Leathcrwood is registrar, and the books for registering to vote in the town election closes April 23rd. Henry Hyatt and W. O.Ad ams are the judges of the election. Here are the tickets as we rcciv ed them. Look them over and take your choice: For Mayor: V. I. Butt. For Aldermen : Arthur Akin. R. P. Lovingood. R. R. Beal Fred Christopher Charlie Calhoun R. B. Ferguson For Mayor, S. W. Lovingood, pres- 1 ent incumbent. For Aldermen: J. W. King. J. H. Phaup. R. R. Beal. W. M. Ramsey. E. O. Palmer. (One yet to be certified.) For Mayor, S. M. Hinshaw. Fol Aldetmen : R. R. Beal. J. H. Phaup. Abe Hembree. J. W. King W. M. Fain. W. M. Ramsey. Grow More Capons As Farm Sideline! Nothing is more apprizing on the family table than a well thrown and finished capon and they may be sold readily on local markets. Cooperative shipments by agr oup of growers may be made to excellent arvantage es pecially around the Easter hoolidays when cash on the farm is generally r.t a low ebb. Roy S. Dearstyne, head of the State College poultry department, sees in capon production one of the undeveloped industries of poultry farming in the State. He says the early Chinese and Egyptians knew about this delightful meat ar.d prac ticed capor.izing in ancient days. The Greeks and Romnas learned the art and gave the industry to Europe where the consumption oft' capon nwat ?3 generally followed. The surplus cockerels on a farm may be used for this purpose. How ?ever, only well developed birds should be used. If vigorous robust. HARWOOD GETS ONE YEAR IN STATE PRISON BY ROBERT A. ERW1N. RALEIGH, N. C.. April 16. ? (UP) A case without parallel in the ju dicial history oi North Carolina was terminated definitely tonight when 1 fudge W. A. Devin reconvened Wake j county superior court long enough to ! issue a definite decision that his for j iner colleague, Judge John H. Har wood, of Rryson City, was guilty of a felony ? not a misdemeanor. The decision mteans Judge Harwood will spend a year in the stale prision at Raleigh, in the same building with 27-year-old daughter, Lola, who is serving a two-yea'r sentence. Under a misdemeanor conviction. Judge Hanvood would have served his term | on the Wake county loads, hut would have retained t:ie right to practice ' law. Miss IlaVwood pleaded guilty to the enib: zzlement of $4,823 of <tate tax | funds, taken to play the stock market with the man to whom she was en gaged. Their intention was to have secured enough money to establish a I home. She lost heavily in the 1929 I stock market crash. Judge Hanvood admitted he alter j ca and mutilated and erased certain state records >n his daughter's case in an effort to save her from prison. Tluir pleas of guilty were entered last night, with Judge Harwood's of I lens" being declared a misdemeanor. Today the controversy arose wheth er or not it was a misdemeanor or felony. The state, through Attor ney General Dennis Brummit, held throughout the offense constituted a felony. In this light, .Fudge Har wood was removed today from the Wake county jail to the state prison. Tonight, Judge Devin made a hur ried trip tu IvaLigh from his home in Oxford and convened court in the clerk's office. He then declared Judge Harwood's offense a felony. Judge Harwood, tall and of dis tinguished bearing* with flowing gray hair, appeared at the hearing attaired in a blue overall convict suit, wearing white socks and a blue and white stiiped prison shirt. A dramatic scene occured when he left again for prison, accompanied by Sheiiff Noma K. Turner. Judge Har wood stood in the doorway, smiled and raised his right hand over his head in a salute to his former col league, Judge Devin, the attorneys and newspapermen. "Goodbye, Judge," called Judge Devin to Judge Harwood. i Judge Devin signed an order at 7:15 p. disbarring Judge Harwood from th.- practice of law in North Carolina. Judge Harwood tendered his resignation as special judge of the ? state superior court to Governor O. JViax Gardner, who received it too ; late to act upon it until Monday. It will be accepted. The Harwood case presented sev eral unusual parallels ih North Caro lina history, among them the follow ! ing. 1. Judge Harwood becomes a con vict in the same prison with many criminals he sentenced there during his tenure as judge. 2. He was tried by a fellow mem ber of the superior court bench. 3. Judge Harwood was prosecuted by the man under whom he seVved as assistant attorney general ? Attor ney General Dennis G. Brummit. 4. He is prisoner in the fame penitentiary with his daughter. Pri son authorities said he will be per mitted to see her, his only child, on the regular visiting days, Tuesdays and Fridays, if he has no work on hand at the time. He will be guard ed during the visits. I t>. Judge Harwood is the fir^t judge in North Carolina history to be convicted of any crime. worm-free birds are used, they may be grown out into heavy capons that bring- good prices. Never use a leghgorn for this purpose, he advises but use such breeds as the Rocks. Brahams, Orphirtgtons, Cornish, Wyandottes or Jersey Black Giants. Timing the eaporcizing opcratior is necessary. The best ma'rket* ex ist about Easter and this avoids put ting the capons into competition with turkey at Thanksgiving and; Christ mas. To have birds ready for the Eamr market, caponize them about July 1 to 15. This will give them time to develop large frames tnd to go through the intensive feeding oeriod which finishes such a bird in Irom 10 to -4 days. Mr. Dearstyne beleves there is no sound reason why capon production ?hould not become a major farm in dustry in this State. The man who will caponize a few birds in A April, May, June and July will find them a welcome addition to the family table in winterand he may get some money from them when cash is needed. NOR VELL SEEKS SEAT IN SENATE I Colonel Edmund B. Norvell ? prominent Murphy attorney, definite I ly announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for senator I Su0m,the. 33r<1 district this week. ; l he Mstrict comprises the counties of Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon and bwaim. Mr. Norvell has resided in Murphy for 43 years, having come here from Haywood county in 1880. He was! if haiinian of the Democratic execu- j | tive committee for Cherokee county, ' *01' several years. He served as count ty superintendent of public schools Iron i 1903 to 1909. He has had ex tensive experience in .legislative work having served for more than 22 years as chief clerk of the enrolling depart - I incnt of the General Assembly. 31 r. Norvell 'a announcement is | 'carried in another column of this' issue. FUNERAL FOR KNIFE WOUND VICTIM MONDAY The funeral of Mrs. Ed McClure, 35, was held.' from the Andrews fun- 1 cial building Monday morning, the Reverends John Hogan and W. A West in charge. Mrs. McClure died Sunday afternoon from complication. >aid to have developed from a knife wound in her left breast inflictetHby Maud" Nelson on April 2nd. Mrs. McClure whose home is on j ? Junaluska creek about four miles ol J Andrews is reported to have been j lured from the homo of a neighbor) by the Nelson gill on pretense that' I another neighbor had a sick baby! j that needed attention. When Mrs. ? I McClure accompanied by Miss Nelson j reached a secluded spot >he said Miss j Xeleon attacked her and stabbed hei i just above the heart. Mrs. McClure j managed to get back to the road l where she was later found almost ex- 1 1 hausted from the l? - of blood and ! rushed to Andrews where she was j given medical attention. I-ate? J pneumonia and other complications) developed and she died Sunday after- 1 noon. On the day of the cutting the Nel son girl was placed unde'r arrest and committed to the Cherokee county jail at Murphy in detfault of $.1000 bond awaiting the outcome of Mrs. McClure'* injuries. She will be tried at a later term of Cherokee Sunerio'r court. Mrs. McClure is survived by her husband and seven children ranging in age' from tyo to eighteen years. j Woman's C'ub Sponsors j Clean - Up Week, 24-30 The Won. an > Club, at Its meeting j Wednesday afternoon, designated i the week o f April 24th to April the I 30th as clean-up week in Murphy. The e-lub 's civic committee is to have charge of canvassing the town in an effort to get all the business men and property owners to clean up i their premises during this week. The committee wishes to urge that I everybody clean-up their premises for the coming tourist season, so that the town will present a clean and inviting appearance when visi tors come to town, as well a* mak ing it more attractive for the home folks. The merchants and business hous es of the town are asked to put pu per and trash in a box or can and place it on the vacant spaces at the rear of the buildings, instead of on the front, so that it will not blow all over the streets, causing them to be littered up with unsightly trash and pape'rs. "Cleanliness is next to godliness," and everybody is urged to fall in line and let's make e>ur town clean, neat and attractive ? a better place to live I in. Have You Got These Dollar Bills? If you have dollar Bills with these numbers: S751S3469A, P63G22401A M 09307376 A, M74561316A. R56217 453A you can pet it back if you spend it at J. W. Lovingoo d's, or if you have a receipt calling for the num ber and have already spent it with him, you can pet a dollar back by taking your receipt to his store. A number of bills have beer, placed in circulation by this store in the coun ty, and Mr. Lovingood is offering to give a series of dollars back to the owners if spent at his sotre. Watch his adv for futuVe announcements. Also, if you are not a reader of the Scout, Mr. Lovingood is offering to pay ten cents of the subscription price for you, which leaves you but 90c ro pay for a year's subscription. He wants you to *ead his advertisement. Vow turn to it ard read it. REGISTRARS, I JUDGES NAMED FOR ELECTION ? New Registration Ordered In Walker I School House Precinct, Regis tration Book Impounded i I he County Hoard of Election met I Saturday and elected Joshua John n?n?r?f MurP^y? as chairman, and K. K. k>ng. of Topton, secretary. B. ?<? Morrow, of Violet, is the other member. The Registrars and Judges of elec tion lor the June primary and gen j ? 'Hi (lection next N'ovamber were ap pointed as follows: | Topton, h. B. King- registrar; (.'. | N. George and B. B. Wright. judge Andrews, South Ward, Chase Tath lam. registrar; \\\ W. Ashe and F. ?? . Swan, iudges. j Andrews North Ward. Mrs. Dan I I a. ham registrar; W. H. Hamilton, and (?. B. lfoblitzell, judge?. ! -^'arble, Jim Bryson. registrar; S. H. Parker and X. W. Abernathy. iudges. M r?.m?5>,a- ' Keen* registrar ; .)!. M. Rogers and Gilbert Stiles, judge*. ir ' o ' , mV1'* ^ Moore. registrar; ii. i>. Mliott and John Donley, judg I-ras-town, Void Hogan, registrar; John Mason and Sam Carringer jrdges. Buint MertinK House. .1. W. llatch S.am A- "ughes an, I < bde McNabb, judges. Walker School House. .1. \V. Kil J.atrick, registrar; Cling Johnson and i arl Stile.', judges. i- Shields, Registrar; . ? ? "a'htr and .Milt Anderson Sr judges. Hothou'e, John Newman, registrar Harley Shields and Tom Cole index es. Wolf Creek ? transferred to Hot house precinct. Liberty, \\ K. Hill, registrar; I.onns I.edfoVd and I' II. Williamson judges. Shoal C:e.':. W. W. Baiton. reg i trar; Oscar Vaylor and W. An derson, judges. Ve-t.s. Willis Floyd, registrar; La layette Chapman and Bill Curtis judges. Persimmon Creek? transferred to Shoal Creek. Long Ridge. Mrs. R. Ii Morrow rwfiistnJr; Fred Graham and .1. w! Morrow, judges. LiMverda1!!, Luther Waldroup, reg istrar; Sam Chambers and' G. F. Rose, judges. Upper Beaverdam, John Walker registrar; Billy Dockery and Bill Al len, judges. Ogrceta, Fred Martin, registrar; Pr-arl Johnson and John Taylor judge?. Grape Creek, George Roger**, regis tiar; Hollin Carter and Cha'rlie Hun sucker, judges. Hangitrgdog. ilollin McDonald, registrar; Dewey Kephait and Dock Ramsey, judge*. Boiling Springs ? transferred to Hangingdog. Ebeneezer. Lola .McDonald, regis trar: Thomas Lcatherwood and Joe Allen, judges. Mui phy. South Ward. P. H. Leatll w>od. registrar; Bill Brandon, and Ivrnest P. Hawkins, iudges. Murphy. North Ward. .1. M. Brit tain. registrar: Nolan d Wells, and John Axley. judges. At a special call meeting Monday, the board ordered a new registration in the Wlalke'r School House precinct. The new registration was made ner cescary because tli registration book was placed in the ballot box when the ballot boxes in the race for IT. S. Senator were imnounded by Con gress In the Bailey-Pritchard elec tion dispute, and can be opened only on o'rder of the special investigating committee of the Senate. Primary Thi* Year Both the political parties of Cher okee will enter the legalized primary this year to nominate candidates of the two parties for the various county offices. Heretofore, con vention- had fccen held and officers nominated, but the county adopted the legalized primary at the election :n November, 1930. The County Board of Election transferred several precincts to oth er?, this action being taken because ?* the few voters patronizing them, and inordcr to save the county as. much fcxpenss as possible. The ^hange would make it inconvenient for some the voters, but it was stated that considerable expense would be saved the county. UamU 1U * Iuul fdki la citcbaUr tmm CBS." Mia TTnclc Eb?i). "I ae-ftr Ji> ??w a lain wlf go much tr?uM? of 1>1k own <1a* he wfiMi't wii!Isi* to aire foit.o.