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PROGRESSIVE '. LIBERAL INDEPENDENT
VOL. XLVII, NO. 42
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, OCT. 20, 1932
$1.50 PER YEAR'
ROOSEVELT'S BONUS VIEWS
- Presidential Candidate .Franklin
on the bonus question Wednesday
night, telling thousands of peqple
gathered to Lear him in "a Pitts
burgh baseball park that he did
not see how a government already
in the hole could wisely go deeper
into it. In his opinion, thejjovcrn
ment should not consider anticipat
ing bonus payments until it had
balanced the budget and had cash
in the treasury. After assailing
Republican fiscal .-policies and
pledging himself to a program of
governmental economy, ' Roosevelt
proposed a tax on' beer as one
method of avoiding new tax in
creases. ' 'I ''
STATE HOSPITAL HEAD DIES
Dr. Albert Anderson, 73, for 19
years head of the state : hospital
for insane at Raleigh, died Sunday
morning of uremic poisoning.
REFUSE REVIEW FOR DAVIS
The U. S. Supreme court on
Monday recorded its refusal to re
view the case in which Wallace B.
Davis, former president of the Cen
tral bank,- Asheville, was sentenced
to five to seven "year for 'making
a false statement on the condition
of the bank shortly before it failed
in November, 1930. The State Su
preme, court had already approved
the sentence. . ' , '
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." In 315 auto accidents recorded by
the state motor vehicle Tbureau in
September, 76 persons were killed
and Wi injured, seven cnuaren
"were killed while playing on streets.
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ROCKINGHAM STRIKE ENDS
Gaining . none of their demands,
1,200 textile , strikers at Rocking
ham voted Saturday night by big
majority to return to work iri the
Picket and Entwistle mills. The
company stores reopened Monday
mill operation. The workers had
been idle eight weeks. 7
STATE FAIR GAMBLING ) '
As result of numerous complaints
of unfair dealing and gambling in
booths on the midway of the state
fair. 50 booths were closed Friday,
one operator was nnea, serious
charges of misuse of special police
and magistrate' powers were made,
the entire matter will be probed by
the Wake county grand jury.
SUPREME COURT HOME
,The cornerstone of the new and
majestic home for the U. S. Su
. timing mil rt was laid in Washing
ton last week, with President Hoov
er officiating. John W. Davis maae
.. j t,LU t tV. Cn.
preme court bar. The building will
be one of the handsomest in. the
capital
THROWS CHILDREN
Mrs. Aurelia Lorenz, divorcee,
hurled her . two small children to
death from a 16th' floor hotel room
at Milwaukee last week and then
loaned afnr them to die herself on
the pavement. '
-"Minister Dies
Rev. Frederick Cochrane'
Body Brought Home
Funeral services for the Rey.
Fredrick Cochrane, who died in
l.aW Citv. Fla.. Sundav morning,
were held in Asheville Tuesday
morning and , the body was brought
to Briartowni, his old home place
in this county, for burial.
The deceased was a Baptist min
ister and a former patient at the
US, Veterans' hospital at Oteen.
He served as chaplain during the
World War for that institution. He
was a graduate of the University
of North Carolina and Crozief The
ological Seminary of Chester, Pa.
He held pastorates in Philadelphia,
Texas and North Carolina.1
The deceased was born and1 rear
ed in the Briartown section and
was well known in Macon county.
He i the son of S. M. Cochrane.
Besides his father, he is survived
by his widow and five, children, of
Asheville. ' -
Navy Recruiting Officer
Asks Applications
H. E. Stone, naval recruiting of
ficer at Asheville, has announced
that the November enlistment quota
for this recruiting district will be
15 men, Applicants are now being
examined for this quota and all
men interested in the naval service
are urged to present themselves at
the "office jn Asheville between 8
a. m. and 4:3$ D. m. any week day,
The, age limits are 17 and ?5, with
I seventh gride education require!
PRODUCTION OF
KYMJITEBEGUN
Philip S. Hoyt Announces
Plans for Developing
; Macon Deposits
OUTLOOK IS GOOD
Washing Plant Installed at
Crystal Kyanite Mine'
..'. At Clarkesville
Philip S. Hoyf, president of the
Industrial Minerals Corporation" of
America, with headquarters in
Franklin, announced this week that
the company had begun the pro
duction of kyanite at Clarkesville,
Ga., and was planning soon to de
velop two kyanite properties in
Macon county. . . " -
A washing plant for the produc
tion of crystal kyanite, is being in
stalled at Clarkesville,' where the
company has about 3,000 tons., of
the ore in sight for immediate de
velopment besides a large reserve
of kyanite schist which, Mr. Hoyt
said, also will furnish a mica by
product ; . .
Developing Macon Mine
Operations have already ' been
started looking toward development
of one of the kyanite deposits ' in
this county. This deposit, in- the
western section the county, of
fers a large tonnage of high grade
kyajiite ore containing a by-product
of garnet suitable for the abrasive
industry. A rail tram is now be
ing erected across the Nantahala
river to supply the mine with rail
road facilities. ' Further prospecting
is being done on another deposit
and an electric power line has-beeri
run in for use at this point.
Outlook -Encouraging
Mr. vHoyt has shipped several
cars of kyanite recently. He ex
pressed the opinion that, the .out
look for larger shipments is prom
ising, even in the face of the cur
rent industrial depression, Pur
chase of kyanite at this time, he
said; indicates an upwardtrend in
industrial activities, as kyanite is
used in refractoryproducts for bas
ic industries.
Mining of kyanite from bodies
of schist ores containing mica and
garnet, it was explained, makes it
possible to sell kyanite ore at a
minimum cost and at the sametime
to produce mica and garnet by
products which will yield favorable
profits.
Clay Man Slain
Wade Ledford Shot Dead
In Liquor Quarrel
Wade Ledford, 28, is dead and
Clifton Parker, of the Tusquitee
section- of Clay county, is wanted
by officers in connection with the
slaying, following a quarrel at the
latter's home Wednesday night, al
legedly over a drink of whiskey.
Officers said they were informed
that Ledford went to. the" home of
Parker and invited him to drink
with him, also to go with him away
from the house. Finally, they said,
Parker agreed to go. Later, ac
cording to information received by
officers, Ledford became angry and
struck Parker with a lantern,
whereupon Parker is said to have
shot him in the head.
Plans Complete for School
Fair To Be
- The .public is cordially invited to
attend the School Fair to be here
Saturday -Oct. 22, from 10 a. rrk
to 4 p. m, in the Franklin school
auditorium. This is the second
event of its kind and represents
quite a bit of work on the part of
the students and it is hoped that
it will be of considerable help to
the community.
The merchants of . Franklin have
donated liberally for prizes. . Be
cause a list of the contributing
merchants is not complete, they
will not be published until next
week's issue of The Franklin Press
-In the vocational agriculture de
partment, first, second and third
prizes will be offered for the best
ten ears of prolific corn. There
will be a first prize offered for the
best single-, ear of corn and first
and second prizes for the follow'
ins: ;. -v
Irish .potatoes, loy beans .sweet
potltots, stock bttts, farm plans,
3,623 Pupils Enrolled
In 47 County Schools
Macon county's 4 schools
have an enrollment of 3,623 pu
pil, according to figures an
nounced this week by Professor
M. D Billings, colunty superin
tendent There are, 3,495 chil
dren in 46 white schools and
137 negroes in - one colored
school. The total ' number of
high ' school ' student is 404.
There ' are 111 teachers in all,
four of them mtheooloredschool
four, of them in the colored
school.'
FUNERAL HELD
FOR LIS. HAYS
Beloved Highlands Wo
man Dies Following
Stroke
On FridayJ afternoon, Oct. 14,
funeral services, fof Mrs. M. E.
Hays were held at her home in
Highlands with the Rev. W. ,T.
Potts, pastor of )he Baptist church,
of which she was a member for
many years, officiating.
The remarks made by Rev. Mr.
Potts were ' quite appropriate foir
one who had lived the life that
Mrs. Hays had in Highlands.
The pallbearers were J. E. Potts,
Eugene Potts, Guy Paul, Frank'
Potts, Walter Reese and L. W.
Rice.
The large crowd which attended
the funeral testified to the love and
esteem in which Mrs. Hays was
held. She was a firm believer in
"charity beginning at home" and
she exemplified her belief by her
faithful performance of duties as
a mother in the home. But her
charity did not stop there but
spread throughout the entire com
munity. In sickness she was an
efficient and sympathizing helper.
In the Sunday school, as teajcher
of the youngest children, she was
a real mother as well as Christian
teacher and the Sunday preceding
her death found her in her ac
customed place with her class. For
many years , she was the organist
and delighted to have her little
class about her to sing, at the clos
ing exercises of .Sunday school.
For ten years she was one of the
few to help; hold!- the Woman's
Missionary society together by reg
ular attendance and as long as er
health permitted 1 she was never
known to shirk her duty.
For a short period she was
teacher in, the public schools in
which capacity she' ingratiated her
self in the favor, of the people.
She also held other public offices;
the last was that of assistant post
mistress. She vertiably "died in
the harness," as had long been her
wish. Lost Thursday morning she
went as usual to tlte postoffice,
where she suffered a stroke which
caused her death at 7 o'clock in
the evening.
Although Mrs. Hays was from
the North, she had spent most of
her life in Highlands. She is sur
vived bv one son. Willi, his
younger brother, Joe, having died
two years ago; a brother, W. M.
Cleaveland, and two sisters, Miss
Eva Cleaveland, whose home is in
Bridgeport, Conn., and Miss Klean
or Cleaveland, who is postmistress
in Highlands.
Held Sa
educational booths, general farm
exhibits. , . . '
There will be a sweepstakes of
fered for the best single exhibit of
the entire fair.
In the Home Economics depart
ment there will be first and second
prizes for the following:
Best exhibit of canned products
from the laboratory.
Best exhibit of home canned
products, best exhibit of handwork.
Music will be furnished in the
afternoon by a string band of agri
cultural students.
BUS BODY HURLED OFF
. The body of a bus, carrying 25
Guilford county boys to the state
fair on Friday, was hurled clear of
the chassis and catapulted into a
field near Burlington. Ten were
injured, for itrleutV.
turday
RED CROSS SETS
ROLL CALL DATE
. .
Annual Drive for Members
To Be Conducted on
Armistice Day
WORK IsHrEVIEWED
Clothing and Food Given
Hundreds of County's
Needy Folk
The annual Ffed Cross rolf call
will be conducted in Macon coun
ty on November 11. Armistice Day,
it has been announced by Miss
Elizabeth Kelly, chairman of the
county chapter of the national re
lief organization. '
Plans for carrying the roll call
to every school district in the coun
ty will be discussed by Miss Kelly
at " the next countywide teachers'
meeting.
The Macbn county chapter of the
Red Cross hasjielped hundreds bf
needy people during the past two
years, distributing flour and other
food, besides clothing and medi
cine, to scores of 3eserving fam
ilies ? '
Reviews. Work
Reviewing the work of the na
tional organization, . Miss Kelly
said:
"To prevent suffering in this
period of unemployment and gen
eral economic depression, the Red
Cross made widespread distribu
tion of wheat, flour, clothing, med
icine and other supplies. More
than 2,200 chapters have participat
ed in community unemployment re
lief programs.
"Constructive measures for com
batting hardship iri drought areas
resulted in. the distribution of gar
den seeds to 605,000 farmers in
1931, and 315,000 additional packets
of garden seed were distributed in
the spring of 1932.
The work for war veterans and
.their families multiplied, owing to
economic stringency and to changes
and liberalization in veterans' leg
islation. '
"Nursing and health activities
were broadened and intensified to
meet the sudden emergencies of
natural disasters and to cope with
incipient disease threatened by mal
nutrition. Junior .Work
'The Junior Red Cross, with 6,-
775,000 members in the schools, was
stimulated to increased achieve
ments in service to less fortunate
children, to community enterprises,
to veterans in hospitals, and the
general alleviation of distress
everywhere. '
"Fifty-one years as the official
National relief agency, with ex
perience in more than J.200 disas
ters in the United Sjtates, the
American Red Cross finds itself in
1932 carrying the largest peace-time
load in the history of humanitarian
organizations.
"Volunteers, trained and directed.
by a mucleus of professional men
and women, carry- forward the com
prehensive program of the ,Ked
Cross. This program puts into ef
fect the mandates of the Congres-
. (Continued on page six)
Franklin Wins
Local Grid Team Downs
Bryson, 26 to 0
The Franklin high school foot
ball team clicked nicely in the lasl
half of its game with Bryson City
high school's eleven last Thursday
afternoon, scoring a 26 to 0 vic
tory, Franklin's first of the season.
Franklin played a good defensive
game in the first half, but put
over only one touchdown. Three
touchdowns were .made in tch last
half. Although the Bryson . City
boys were much lighter, they put
up a good fight throughout the
game. "
B. Fouts scored two of Frank
lin's touchdowns; Perry,, one; and
Cabe, one. Angel kicked two extra
points.
Franklin's Tihe-up" ' follows : '
Calloway, left end; R. Fouts, left
tackle; W Fouts, eft guard; Dow-
dle, center; Wilkie, right guard;
Freeman, right tackle; Cunning
ham, right end; B. Fouts, quarter
back ; Perry, left half ; Cabe, right
half ; Angel, fullback.
Substitutions: Williams for R
Fouts; V. Fouts for W. Fouts; B.
Cunningham for Dowdle ; Saunders
for Wilkie; Hunter for Cunning
ham.
Franklin is scheduled to play at
Andrews temwow afternoon.
County Nominees of Both
Parties Plan Intensive
Pre-election Campaigns
With the general election less
than three weeks off, Macon coun
ty politics is warming up. For
some weeks county candidates have
been quietly dorng street corner
and neighborhood missionary work,
but now they are swinging into
the open with public statements of
their platforms and announcements
of speaking campaigns.
The Democrats announced this
morning that their local candidates
would start an intensive speaking
program next wevk. C. L. Ingram,
A. B. Slagle, C. T. Bryson, Demo
cratic nominees for representative,
seriff and register of deeds, re
spectively, and other Democratic
nominees for local offices will make
a tour of the county, speaking at
7:30 o'clock each night.. Their
schedule follows: '
Monday, Oct. 24, Etna; Wednes
day, Oct. 25, Tellico;. Thursday,
Oct. 27, Flatts; Friday, Oct. 28,
Kyle; Saturday, Oct. 29, Liberty;
Monday, Oct. 21, Iotla; Tuesday,
Nov.' 1, Cowee; Wednesday, Nov.
2, Burningtown; Thursday, Nov. 3,
Pine Grove; Friday, Nov. 4, Ot
to ; Saturday, Nov. 5, Franklin
courthouse.
Congressman Zeb Weaver is
RAINBOW NINE
D0WNSC0WEE
Wins Post-Season Series
And County Champion
ship in 2 Games
Rainbow Springs won both games
from Cowee in the post-season se
ries for the championship of Ma
con county.
They took the firsts game 4 to
3 in 'eleven innings, which was a
very good game. They won the
second game easily 7 to 4. This
game was playVd at Cowee and
looked very tmich like a. shut-out
till the last of the fifth, when
Cowee finally scored one run and
scored three more in the last of
the ninth. Rainbow collected five
hits and four runs off Duvall in
the first inning.
Harry Bryson, the -Cowee boy
who had not been struck out dur
ing the season, met his Waterloo
the first time tie faced the Rain
bow pitcher. "Buck" Wilson' struck
him out the first time up in the
first" game and Mingus struck him
heut twice in the second, game. He
also failed to reach fifst base in
the second game. , 1
Mingus struck out . thirteen of
Cowee's batters.
Score by Innings :
R. Springs 410-000-002 7 14 3
Cowee ..., 000-010-003 4 6 6
Batteries : Mingus, Vaught ; Du
vall and Hurst.
Pay-and-Take-It
Grocery Store Opened
A wholesale and retail store,
dealing in staple groceries and
feedstuff's, has been opened by
W. L. Ledford in the storeroom
in the rear of Angel's Drug store
formerly occupied by. Charlie T.
Blaine. W. L. Ledford is pro
prietor of 'the store, which he has
named the Pay-and-Take-It Feed
ind Grocery Company.
Davenports Going Abroad;
To Open Office in London
Mr. and Mrs. John Davenport
arid their two small daughters will
sail Thursday October 27, from
Norfolk on the U. S. S, Hamburg
for England, where Mr. Davenport
plans to establish a branch office
in London for the Franklin Min
eral Products company, which ope
rates mica mines , and ,.,.a. grinding
plant in this county.
" Mr. '"Davenport 'plans " to ' spend
most of liis time in London while
Mrs. Davenport .expects to stay in
Paris, where she . plans to enter
her children in a private school.;
The Franklin Mineral Products
company for some time has had
an agent in Paris, but has felt the
need of establishing an office of
its own in London. This office,
Mr. Davenport said, besides handl
ing orders Jor wet ground mica
manufactured by the company at
its plant here, will also represent
the , Garnet Products company, of
scheduled to speak Tuesday night
at Highlands.
J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Democratic
candidate for governor, and Rob
ert R. Reynolds, Democratic nomi
nee for the United States Senate
are expected to come here to ad
dress the voters" sometime before
election, but the exact dates of their
appearances have not been an
nounced. The following schedule of speak
ings has been announced for 7:30
o'clock . Friday night of this week
by the Young People's Democratic
clubs
Cowee, R. S. Jones and Black
burn W. Johnson; Holly Springs,
Dr. W. A. Rogers and John W.
Edwards; Otto,, Sam J. Murray
and'C T. Bryson; Slagle, J. J.
Mann; Salem, C. S. Tilley and
Miss Elizabeth Slagle; Maple
Springs, B. A. 'Jones, Henry Cabe
and Alex Moore.
W. J. West, county Republican
chairman and candidate for the
legislature announced that the Re
publican nominees also wiJl hold
joint speakings over the county
but they had not completed their
schedule, this morning.
SINGES MEET
HERE ON NOV. 30
Old Fashioned Christian
Harmony Quartets To
Be Featured
The next , Macon County Quar
terly Singing Convention is schedul
ed to be heid in the Macon county
courthouse the fifth Sunday in
this month, November 30. Sing
ing . classes from South Carolina,
Georgia and a number of Westeri.
North Carolina counties are ex
pected to take part In the con
vention, besides singers, quartets
and choirs from all parts of Macon
county, said J. M. Raby, president
of the convention, in announcing
the November "meeting.
The day's program will begin at
10 a.-Tn., Mr. Raby . stated, and
continue with an hour out for
dinner- until everyone has had
enough singing. One of the fea
tures of this convention will be
the singing of old fashioned Chris
tian harmony "quartets.
28 To Open Soon
Resurfacing of Highway
Nearly Finished
Resurfacing of state highway No.
28 between Gneiss and Highlands
is expected to be completed the end
of this week or early next week, if
weather conditions permj contin
ued work on the road.
For several weeks traffic between
Franklin and Highlands has been
detoyred via Dillard, Ga, .and dur
ing the recent rainy weather pas
sage over the dirt road from Dil
lard to Highlands has been ex
tremely difficult. '
Traffic over No. 28 on the other
side of Highlands was suspended
Sunday due to the heavy rainfall,
which flooded the roa at Lake
Sapphire.
New Hampshire, a concern operated
by Mr. Davenport's brother which
manufactures abrasive materials.
Despite depressed business con
ditions of the past two years, the
Franklin Mineral' Products com
pany has been operating its grind
ing plant most of the time, and
sometimes on day and night shifts.
Through its Paris agent it has
been selling mica to European buy
ers f for "some tirrie j but Mr'. ' Daven
port believes that the foreign mar
ket can be considerably enlarged
by maintaining a branch office
in London. This office will have
direct charge over the company's
interests in England arid on the
continent, but the Paris represen
tative will also be retajried, Mr.
Davenport said.
Mr. Davenport expects to be
abroad for a year. In his ab
sence, L. H. Page wil be in charge
of the company's mines and plants
her.
POWER PLANTS
TO CUT TAXES
Will Double Valuation of
This County When (
Completed
fHORPE HEARD HERE
Nantahala Power Official
Urges Industrial
Development
Completion of the hyoro-electric
power projects in Macofl county
of the Nantahala Power Vmpany
and allied subsidiaries of th Alu
minum Corporation of Anrferica
will more than double the tax
valuation of the county, the Frank
lin Rotary Club was told Wednes
day by J., E. S. Thorpe; of Bry
son City, who-is in charge of these
projects.
Mr. Thorpe, who spoke on the
"Industrial Possibilities of West
ern North Carolina," was careful
to state, however, that he did not
know when work on these pro
jects, suspended two years ago,
would be resumed. This depends,
he explained, on better business
conditions and a greater demand
for electric power. He expressed
the hope that such a demand
would result from industrial de
velopment of this section, rather
than come' from outside sources
necessitating power "exporting."
Hugh Project
Mr. Thorpe said that when com
pleted the power development on
the Nantahala river in the western
port of the county, with a darn
at Aquone and a five-mile tunnel
leading through the mountains to
a turbine plant near Nantahala sta
tion, will be capable of producing
74,000 horsepower Work on this,
project was begun in 1927 but was
suspended ' in 1930 due to financial
and industrial conditions.
Macon County, according to sta
tistics cited by Mr. Thorpe from
a recent report of the Federal
Tax Commission, had a tax valu
ation in 1929 of $7,632,000.' (It has
since been slightly , reduced.) This
valuation will be more than equalled
by the value of the. Nantahala
powerWoperty and two other pro
jects inMir bordering on this coun
ty, he -aHded. and should have the
.effect of a proportionate reduc
tion of taxes for the entire county.
He pointed out that 65 per rent
of . Graham county's tax valuation
rested on an Aluminum Corporation
of America power development.
"Relatively speaking, Mr. Thorpe
said, "the industrial possibilities of
Western North Carolina are great.
They have hardly been touched."
i i r . . i i.i
inauurw vrowin neeaea
He pointed, out the possibilities
for the production and processing
of mineral, agricultural and timber
products. Declaring that there is
very little profit in raw materials.
on account of extreme competition, .
he said that if this section is to
reach its highest development it
must turn more and more to in
dustry, processing or at least semi
processing its raw materials. Lum
bering throughout this section, he
added, has been handled as "crude
ly as possible" with a minimum
permanent gain. Instead of manu
facturing the htmber into finished
products close to its source, this
section has allowed it to be shipped
(Continued on page six)
Jobs Offered
Uncle Sam Has Vacancies
For Gradermen
The United States Civir Service
commission has announced that
open competitive examinations will
be held to fill the vacancies of
graderman at Franklin, Highlands
and Pisgah Forest and the position
of mechanic at Franklin at salaries
ranging from $1,2000 to $1,320 a
year. Applications to take the ex
amination, it was stated, must be
filed with the manager, Fourth
United States Civil Service district.
Washington, D. C, not later than
October 31. The proper application
blanks may be had at the Franklin
or Highlands postoffices.
Preference will be given in fill
ing these vacancies to war veterans
and residents of the communities
where the appointees are to be em
ployed. The minimum age limit is
21 and the maximum 48.
The applications and appoint
ments are subject to the usual civil
service regulations. Further details
may beobtained from postal au
thorities in Franklin or from tht
Civil Service Coriuniiiitn.