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1. is tlie 'World Uc2 the Want Acb Classified advertisements in The Franklin Press bring results. If you have something to sell or trade, try a classified ad. The cost is small only one cent a word with a mini mum charge of 25 cents for each insertion. "i f lumo. A Brief Survey of Cur rent Events in State, . Nation arid Abroad the Facts. Boiled ' Down to a Few Pithy Lines. Elt tfislfianJua flanmtatt LIBERAL PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT VOL. XLVI1I, N. 9 FRANKLIN, N. C THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1933 $15 PER YEAR i i i r N f 1 i II JAP'S LEAVE LEAGUE SEATS In protest against a unanimous vote of censure of Japan's military policy in Manchuria, the Japanese delegation to the league of nations assembly walked out of the Ge neva meeting Friday. Military leaders declared the nation's, firm intention to proceed with the cam paign in China's Jehol province. MARYLAND BANK HOLIDAY Declaring recent heavy withdraw als ironwMaryland banks without justification, Governor Albert C. Ritchie on Friday declared Satur day, Monday and Tuesday legal holidays for all financial institu tions in the state and thus provided time to check the withdrawals. FEDERAL JUDGE IMPEACHED The house of representatives vot ed 183 to 142 on Friday to impeach Harold Louderback, federal district judge in California, and to request the senate to sit as a trial court on .charges that he committed mis demeanors in handling receivership cases. A two-thirds senate ma jority is required to convict. COUNTY'S FARM PROGRESS CUED , Macon Receives Favorable Publicity in Atlanta Constitution USED AS EXAMPLE Five-and-Ten Year Pro gram Results Reviewed In Editorial FORMER BANKER KILLS SELF Despondent .over-inability.t, get a" job, .WUliam:DZHarrisr3Cform er vice president of the Central Securities company of Asheville, shot himself to death at his step mother's home near Sanford last Thursday. . Mr. Harris, who was a World War veteran holding a com mission as lieutenant colonel in the - field artillery reserve corps served as director of the state depart ment of conservation under Gov- rnbTMcLeaS IrToheof a series of trials arising out of. failure of the Central Bank and Trust com pany and the Central" Securities company of Asheville, he was ac quitted on a charge of using the mails to defraud. Rewards of $300 Offered For Capture of J. R. Bell, Outlawed Coweta Gangster ENGLISH ARMS EMBARGO Great Britain on Monday adopt ed a provisional embargo to pre vent the ' shipping of arms and munitions to either China or Japan during the present conflict over Manchuria " Senator Borah, - chair " man of the U. S. senate's foreign relations-committee - declared -op-4 position to an American embargo on the grounds it would be unfair to China. Macon county received much fav orable publicity in an editorial in the Atlanta Constitution on Feb ruary 22 reviewing the agricultural progress in Western North Caro lina since inauguration of the five- and-ten year farm program. What has been done in this county under the program is cited as an example of "the extent to which agncul tural conditions were revolution ized." The Constitution's editorial follows, in part: FIVE-TEN-YEAR FARM PLAN Interesting and encouraging prog ress is reported for the five-ten- year-farm r program -launchedby the southeastern council, in west ern North Carolina last spring. The first year's operation of the program, according to H. Arthur Osborne, chairman of the regional council in charge, has brought in creased interest in soil improve ment in pure-bred live stock, in better farm buildings, in subsistence farming and in cooperative efforts of all kinds. . The movement is being spon sored by the newspapers of this section of North Carolina and more than 60.000 persons- attended the various agricultural meetings held during' the year. At these meetings the doctrine has been stressed that the cow, hog, steer,' sheep and hen, , with timber fruit and special crops can be so fitted into the agricultural production program that -their products will stand for a prosper ous -community.-To further .this end the farmers are urged to lend their acres to the organization of a. program of balanced diversion of The price on the head of J. R. Bell, outlaw, has been boosted to $300. That : is the amount that will be paid for his capture, dead or alive. Under the outlaw proclamation posted at the courthouse door, any citizen on seeing Bell may demand that he submit - immediately to arrest and, should he resist, to shoot him down. Bell is wanted on warrants charg ing murder and first degree burg lary in connection with the rob bery and fatal attack on George Dryman, 83-year-old Middle Creek farmer, on the night of January 23. He is also suspected of having been connected with other robber-1 ies blamed on the Coweta gang, of which he was said to have been the head. The band is said to have referred to itself as the "Jesse James gang" and called Bell, "Jesse.1 One hundred dollars of the re ward offered for Bell was put up by the estate of Mr. Dryman; an other $100 was posted Tuesday of this week by the county commiss ioners and the latter sum was matched Jy the state. The money is being held by Frank I. Mur ray, clerk of the superior court. All efforts of officers to appre hend Bell have been futile ' thus far, but they still have hopes of bringing him to justice. He is believed to be hiding in north Georgia. Various rumors that he had returned to this county and eaten meals in certain homes were traced by Sheriff Slagle and his deputies and found to be without foundation. Fred Cabe, special deputy, who was shot in the arm in the pis tol battle . between Bell and a sheriff's posse near Bell's home on Coweta, February 16, was dis missed from Angel. Brothers' hos pital Sunday. BACK TAX BILL GIVENSENATE 'atton Introduces Measure Authorizing 5-Year Payment Plan UT ONCALENDAR LEADS IED RECEIVES LARGE FORTUNE "" Undei! the " will of Samuel E. - Moorehead of New York,his "JaugnTerMrs7Edith Moorehead Bryant, of Asheville, receives $907, 278, the biggest part of the estate. RSNM BY FARM CLUB Cartoogechaye 5-10 Group Elects Mr. Crockett 7 President" IROAD SATULAI NOW HNISHED Top of Mountain Is Now Accessible by ' Motor ngram SeeksValidating Act for Collecting Delinquencies A bill designed to relieve de- inquent taxpayers in Macon coun ty by authorizing installment pay ments over a period of five years on all back taxes, has been intro duced in the. upper house of the general assembly by Senator R. A. Patton. A similar bill was in troduced in the lower house earlier in the session by Representative P. Randolph of Swain county. Senator Patton succeeded in hav ing his bill placed upon the cal endar, thereby eliminating the dan: $2,038,000 FOR N. C. RELIEF The Reconstruction Finance cor poration on Saturday authorized $2,038,000 relief funds for March and April distribution in North Carolina and the state's relief chiefs are allotting the funds to the 100 counties. BRUMMITT RENEWS ATTACK Asserting he had furnished plen "evi&ence'of Surry, county -which "assail govern ment at Jts very source, Dennis Brummitt, state attorney general, , on Saturday declared Solicitor Car - lisle Higgins .did not follow the statute in writing the bills recently rejected by the Surry grand jury and sent in only one of the wit nesses whose names were furnished by Brummitt after a probe of the June primary in burry county. BANK POWER FOR PRESIDENT Congress last week rushed through a bill giving the president tremendous powers for one year over , national banks, specifically "any powers over national banks that states in which they are lo cated may exercise over state - banks." The authority will be used to meet banking emergencies in Michigan and other states. L. U. S. ENDORSES LEAGUE STAND Secretary of State Henry " Stimson was speaking for both old and new administrations on Satur day when he cabled to Geneva the - United States approval of the league condemnation of Japan's miliatry policy in Manchuria. farm lands and crop allotment, The-48-counties-comprising-4h area in -which the movement -was undertaken, saw.,theimportationup to January 1 of 51 beef bulls, 33 dairy bulls, 33 dairy cows, A2 sows, 52 boars and 53 rams, all pure" bred rtheincreaseoflespe deza planting from 3,588 to 12,206 acres and the construction of nine new standing silos and 13 trench silos. The extent to which agricultural conditions were revolutionized in these 18 counties as a result of the adoption of the five-ten-year plan is illustrated in the report of Mr. Osborne by the following recital of progress in the single county of Macon: The Macon county organization carried its program to 1,800 people during the year. Two fairs were held.- - New outlets for. farm pro duce were 'developed. . Cooperative sales were arranged. New live stock placed in - the - county included .J26 pure-bred Poland-Lhina sows, 14 boars. 6 Guernsey bulls, 2 short horn bulls, -4 Hereford - bulls,-6 Hereford heifers and 4,000 pure bred chicks. An increase of 500 per cent in the acreage in peas and other soil-improvement crops, an increase of 100 per cent in the acreage planted in soybeans for hay, and 25 per cent increase in pasture improvement; erection, in accordance with plans supplied by the state, of 15 farrowing houses, two sweet potato curing houses, five brooder houses, and three brick brooders. Twenty-five bushels of certified seed corn were distribut ed. Forty-seven community groups were organized. Greater interest is being taken in such activities as home beautification and standard ization of grades of produce. There has been "a marked decrease in food and feed importation." Between $600,000,000 and . $700, 000.000 is being senMout of the south each year for agricultural ATneeting of the Cartoogechaye 5-10 Farm club was held in the Slagle schoolhouse Friday after noon, with Fred S. Sloan, county farm agent, and Mr. Farnum mak ing the principal ' addresses. , At this meeting the following officers werre elected to serve for the coming . yearx -the Rev. J5.R. Crockett, chairman ; Mrs. Charles Nolen, co-chairmair; Miss Kath! erineSiler- secretary-treasurer;- an d Mrs. Hay ne -Author, publicity edit or" and assistant secretary. ThefollowingcommitteeJ.jchair men were also elected r agricultural committee. I.ddieXrwfoTdTe cationa!" committee,-Mrs. S. " R. Crockett r home-improvement-com mittee, Mrs. Henry Slagle; re ligious committee, Mrs., Horace Hurst; civics committee, Charles Waldroop I recreation committee, George Crawford; social commit tee. Mrs. Laddie Crawford ; and music committee, Richard Slagle. The club voted to hold its meet ing on the last Friday afternoon of each month. With Laddie Crawford as chair man, and Mrs. Henry Slagle as co-chairman, last year, the first year of the organization, the Car toogechaye 5-10 club made a won derful record. The club was one of the most, active and did the greatest amount of work of any club in the county. Besides the fine-programs given - at the .meet ings, the club members exchanged garden seeds and did several oth er things which - helped the entire community. Last fall it held the only community fair in the county t is -how ossibletcr-reachrthe top of Satulah mountain, near Highlands, by motor. This is the first time cars have been able to make if to the top in comfort, Jn. fact, only one motor until now ever reached Satulah's crest at all, This was a "strip-down Ford" driv' en JyTudor HalLof Highlands several years ago. This was con; sidered quite .feat,.Jrj bath cad and ..driver. The forestry service has -had gang of men . at work on the trai broadening it into a road, and it was opened about 10 days ago. his-wil probably makea-great M eetings Called To Discuss And Relief Work Composition by Macon Girl To Be Broadcast A new musical competition, "Under the Light of the West ern Start," by Mitt Carolyn Nolen, of Cartoogechaye, will be on the air for the first time Thuraday, March 2. It it to be broadcast from Hollywood, Calif., over radio tat ion KMTR at 4:45 o'clock, Pacific standard time, or 7:45 eattern atandard time. Mils Nolen is the daughter of the late Frank H. Nolen and Mn. Nolen, of Cartoogechaye. Plans f o r Distributing Seed Packages-To Be Outlined EXPECT SEED SOON Every Family Receiving Relief Aid Must Plant Garden gef,of ariunf avorablecommittee report. ', Term of Measure It provides "That all delinquent taxpayers of Macon county, and of any municipality or other sub division of government of said county, shall have five years from the date of the ratification of this i act, in which to pay all such de linquent taxes which have 7 been heretofore levied and assessed against them, upon condition that all such delinquent taxpayers shall, within each year of the said five year period, pay one-fifth of such unpaid and delinquent taxes now owed by them, and shall hereafter promptly pay during each fiscal or tax year, all taxes levied and as sessed - against such taxpayers - for such fiscal or tax year, INAUGURATION 0N SATURDAY Roosevelt Announces His Cabinet, Including One Woman Franklin Delano Roosevelt will become the 32nd president of the rThat Jill delinquent taxpayers, of Macon county, and of any munici pality, or any other sub-division of government in ;said county,-whose lands have been sold for taxes and purchased-bylh ecounty-or-other municipality or sub-division of gov- FORD OFFERS BANKING AID Henry Ford brought his millions to bear on the Michigan banking crisis last week-end, offering to subscribe total capital stock of $8,250,000 for two new banks to take over liquid assets of the First I National and the Guardian Nation al banks. Banks say the plan would permit payment of about 35 per cent to depositors. Plan Raleigh Trip Macon Delegation Going To Jackson Dinner A group, of Macon county Young Democrats is planning to attend the Jackson Day dinner and an nual business convention of the North Carolina Young People's Democratic club in Raleigh on March 15. John W. Edwards, pres ident of the Macon county club, is in charge of arrangements for the trip, and-all persons interested in going are urged to notify him immediately. The Macon county club is entitled to three votes in the state con vention. Any good Democrat with a dollar in his pocket is eligible to attend the Jackson Day dinner. difference -in -the popularity -of 4he mountain foruinmer-touristsUn til now Sunset has been the fav orite mountain for picnics, weinie roasts etc., because of its acceS' sibility by motor while -Satulah was oiily vrsitedDy those who6tF joyed the long hike from the Lsk rigge Gate. The making of the road isr the preliminary step of building a forestry service tower on top of Satulah. This is ex pected to begin in the near future. Farmers Warned Agains Northern Oat Seed The U..S. department of agri culture has received reports that high quality northern white oat seed is being shipped into the south. It warns southern farmers that the" "sowing of these nordieiu varieties fesults in" low "yields and grain of poor quality and urges them to sow the red oats common ly grown in the south. Althou gh the northern pat seed may be of high quality, it will not produce a satisfactory crop in the south, the department oat special ists say. These northern white va rieties are more subject to dis eases, ripen prematurely, and us ually produce grain of light weight under the warm climate! of the south. Onlv seed of red-oat varieties such . as Fulghum, Red Rustproof, and Burt should be sown for grain production in the south. United States at inauguration exer cises in Washington Saturday.- Mr. Roosevelt already lias com pleted his cabinet, announcing his last appointments Tuesday of this week. He broke precedent records by naming a woman to the cabinet for the first time. She is Miss Frances Perkins, New York state commissioner of labor, whom he appointed -teethe- post -of secretary of labor. The agricultural outlook in Ma con county for 1933 and plans for emergency relief activities during the coming months will be dis cussed at eight community meet ings called for next week by Fred S. Sloan, county farm agent, and" Miss Rachel Davis, welfare direc tor. Miss Davis and Mr. Sloan, work ing jn-COoperatioft-withltheQyerr produces which can be raised " t, Dewey Dorsett, president of the well in this section. It this huge . f -Youne" Peoole's"- Democratic sum or the greater part of it, ciuk has written Mr. Edwards urging him to round up a' good delegation to represent the Macon county club, which won wide rec ognition for its activities in the pre-election campaign last fall. Senator Bailey and Reynolds and Staney Winborne, state Democrat ic chairman, are expected to be the principal speakers at the dinner, which will be held at 7 o'clock in the evening at the Sir Walter hotel. The business meeting is scheduled to open at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. were kept in the south it would mean that this would be the most prosperous agricultural section of the country. , Box Supper To Be Given at Holly Springs On Saturday night, March 4, a box supper will be given at the Holly Springs school for the bene fit of the Holly Springs commun ity baseball team. Music will bei furnished by the Young Drotners string band, Clyde Wood Arrested, Not Clarence Wood It was Clyde Wood, not Clarence Wood, who was arrested on charg es of burglary and murder in con nection with the robbery and fatal attack on George Dryman, 83-year-old Middle Creek farmer, on the night of January 23. Through an unintentional error The Press er roneously stated last week that Clarence Wood "was being held as a defendant in the case, along with other alleged members of the Cow eta or "Jesse James gang. It was Clyde Wood, Clarence's broth er, who was arrested. ernment to which such taxes are or were due, shall have five years from "the date of the ratification of this act in which to pay all back taxes upon said lands,- and -six per centanterestperannumupon,all such-delinquent-taxes-irom-the-dat when said lands were so sold "That all unpaid and delinquent taxes in Macon county, and any municipaity or other sub-division thereof, except such as those upon which tax sales have been had, or tax foreclosure suits brought, shall bear interest at the rate of six per centum per annum from and after June 30th, subsequent to the time when such taxes became due and payable. "That all taxes in the county of Macon, and any municipality or sub-division , thereof, shall be pay able at the f ace amount of such taxes, if paid before - June 30th, immediately subsequent to the date when such taxes" are due and pay able, and thereafter such delinquent taxshaHJbearinteres of six per centum per annum." Another Tax Bill A bill introduced by Represen tative C. L. Ingram, of Macon, which has , already passed the house, is designed to validate the collection of back taxes upon which the time for" advertising and fore closure proceedings has expired The measure provides "that all sheriffs and tax collectors, who by virtue of their office, have had the tax lists for purpose of collection of taxes for Macon county in their hands for 1928, 1929, 1930 and 1931 . . . ; . . are . hereby authorized and empowered to collect arrears of taxes for -each of the years afore said under such rules and rcgula tions as are now or may hereafter be provided by law." The last report of Macon county financial condition showed a total of $145,lp8.75 in delinquent taxes for 1928 through 1931. Time for foreclosure proceedings to collect these arrears expired last fall." The Ingram bill, after passage in the house, was referred to the senate committee on finance. -The fulL cabinet list follows: Treasury, William H. Woodin, of PeWsylvahia and New York Stateatorojejl2Hujl,3f Tennessee. , "AffdweyeTieral as J. Walsh, of Montana War, George H. Pert), of Utah. Navy, Senator Claude A. Swan sonTof "Virginia. Agriculture, Henry A. Wallace, of Iowa. 1 -InteriorsHarold I Ickesv-of Illinois; Labor, Miss Frances Perkins, of New York. Commerce, Daniel C. Roper, of South Carolina. Postmaster General, James A. Farley. Robert W. Bingham, Louisville publisher and a descendant of North Carolina stock, is. slated , for appointment as ambassador to Great Britain; but Mr. Roosevelt has an nounced that he will not make public his foreign assignments tin til after he has been inaugurated. Books Needed Library To Open Soon; New Volumes Asked . The Franklin library in the Ma sonic hall has been put in shipshape condition and soon will be reopened to the pubic- for the first time in several years. Reorganization of the library as sociation is expected to be com pleted at a meeting to be-called within a week or so. As soon as this is done and monitors are! named to supervise the lending ot books the library will be open one or two afternoons each week. TWO DIE IN BURNING PLANE An airplane hit high tension wires two miles east of North Wilkesboro Monday afternoon and crashed burning to the ground. Dying in the flames were the pilot, Bryan Sanborn, 19, Black Mountain and his sister, Evelyn, 17. ' ' i ' Dewey Rochester's Eve Iniured Dewey Rochester was struck in ihem to the library, the eye with a hot piece of steel books and, modern fictoin are espe- A small committee has been working on plans for the reopen ing for, the past month and Mrs. J. A. Ordway, who volunteered her services, has done yeoman's ser vice in cleaning the library room and dusting several thousand vol umes on the shelves. Red Cross materials - formerly stored in - the library and reading room have been removed to the old farmers federa tion building. The library committee has re quested that any persons having wortl v ' ,!c books which they no -cr need at home to donate Children's nor's lof f iceof JelieC wilQiay O?: pervision over the distribution of garden and other seed among needy families. They plan to dis cuss the allocation of seed pack ages at the meetings next week. Seed Expected Soon The seeds are expected to arrive about. March 10.but as yet Mr. Sloan and Miss Davis have not learned how many packages will be senr-to "this -ocronty: Undery-the plan of distribution recommended by the state relief agency, seeds will not be distributed free of charge. Each person receiving seed will have to be recommended by the local relief committee and will have to work for them. The cost, however, will be small. For in stance, the state relief agency has advised,a package xjfseeds suf- ficient to plant a garden for three persons,.. may- be sofcL for. appro? imately 23 cents. The cosfof seeds will bededucted from" 1hec6uniy'iv relief " fund "appropriation " by the state. The county, in turn, "will deducrfrorrOnef requisitions issued to those work- ing .on relief projects ajumsuf- ficient to cover the cost of seeds Issued to them. Every family re ceiving relief aid will be expected to plant a- garden sufficiently large to supply- their.own.needs.Unless. they- dof-relief-aid -will-be-cut-of fr PurpoM of Meetings Mr. Sloan will advise farmers attending the community meetings as to what crops are best to plant this year and also how they can conduct their farms most eco nomically under present conditions. The whole purpose of the meetings is to make the county and its farm families as nearly self-sustaining a$ possible, so as to reduce the amount of relief aid that will . te necessary not only during the spring and summer but also next " fall and winter. The tenor ot the program is - not f merely lo -give charity to the needy- but to help the needy to become self-support-ng. ; - All persons receiving emergency relief aid or expecting to receive it. are especially urged to attend " the community meetings nextweek, but others living in the commun ities also are asked to attend. 3 Meeting Held Three community meetings al ready have been held- at Pine Grove with 140 present, at Hig donville with 87 present, and at Iotla with 97 present. Following is the schedule of meetings for next week : Tuesday, March 7, 10 a. m. Salem school; 2 p. m. Clark's , Chapel school. .Wednesday, March 10 a. m. OaK Grove school ; 2 p. m. Cowee school .- Thursday, March 9, . 10 a. m. Otto school ; 2 p. m. Mulberry school. v TYiday, March 10, 10 a. m. Holly Springs, school; 2 p. m.- Oak Ridge, school. while working in his blacksmith shop Monday. He was taken to Angel Brothers' hospital, where medical aid was administered, but it was feared he would, Jose his sight in one eye. i cially needed.. Such gifts may be left at The Press office or handed to Mrs. Lassie Kelly Cunningham, Mrs. Ordway or John W. Edwards. Proper recognition will be givfen for all book donations . . Episcopal Services . To Be Resumed Sunday The Rev. N. C. Duncan, who his been spending his annual va cation at Lincolnton for the past month, was expected to return to Franklin . Wednesday or Thursday. He plans to conduct the com munion Service in the Church of the Incarnation, Highlands, at 11 a. m. Sunday, and to hold evening . prayer in St. Agnes church Frank lin, at 7:30 p. m. . . A schedule of Lenten services will be announced in next week's issue of The Press.
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