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&i World Use the Want Ads CLssiliad 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. yiump - A Brief Survey of Cur rent Events in State, Nation and Abroad the F a c t s Boiled Down to a Few Pithy Lines. PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT VOL. XLVIU, NO. 22 FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1933 $U0 PER YEAR . v 2 STATES VOTE REPilAL In Saturday elections, Delaware and Nevada voters favored repeal of the 18th amendment and brought the favoring states to eight. STEAMER SINKS. 118 ,SAVLD The lake steamer -George M. Cox hit. a rock reef iu Lake Su y trior Saturday, and sank, but tbi 118 passengers were all saved and Were brought, to Houghton, -Mich., after night on the reef. KIDNAPERS GET $30,000 City Manager McElroy, of- Kan sas City, Mo., on Sunday paid $30,000 to two kidnapers amf ef fected the release of his daughter, 25, who was forced at pistol-point to leave the McElroy home on .Saturday. KIDNAPER BECOMES INSANE Kenneth Buck, confessed kid naper of Margaret McMath, 10, from a Harwich, Mass., school on May 2, became violent Tn, his cell, Sunday, and was removed to the state hospital. for ihjs criminal in sane. .. . , : r- ' SECURITY LAWilSjSICWED; signed the measita' rl-quiring full yubiidty on securities o.fetcM iO public . sale. Loss ; hi IViJiialcui is-' ta tbe last. 10yans' is - esti mated t 5,000,000,000 in the Unit ed States. FRANCE MUST PAY DEBT It was revealed last 'week that President Roosevelt informed Edou ard Herriof, when he was in Wash- .- iagton as special French repre- tentative, that France must pay the. defaulted S19.000.000 in war . - debt interest and also the install ment due juoe 15. before the Unit-' d State 1. oonsidex. revision t)f -'Jbf.a.'f'as a. whole.' . QSiUMrMK OPENS , Odesr' fair, celebrating a cen 3 twy f progress in . th ciw. by 'ML.d$nidufa wa opened Satur day !&y - Secretary Farley. SevWfeTvVSdfed thousand - visited the fft Sunday. V.. -',. cpLoMKivrERu Hxctr ..; . . At, ffcji8af of nations' council l4t . ii,; fira and Colombia a signed 'fcfticjei of peace to end tSeir yerl boundary-dispute. .TTbe leaie.wiU send a commission t fia-iW true, boundary, PRESBYTERIANS MEET ' .The general assembly of the . Presbyterian church' in the United $3ftte opened last week at- Mon tfritfi election of -tOr. Ernest '$u&$SMi, Charleston, ty. Vii, as 0M4;Xatpr " and , re-election of Dr. ). D.-LesluX,. t)allas, .Texas, as stat ed lftK,,"; 77 U DAMS IN THIS STATE A total of 17 storage dams on Carolina streams feeding into the Tennessee river is planned in the federal project, for developing the rv Tenne ssee v alleyThe large st rw ill be on the French Broad river be - tween - Hominy - and - Bent creeks . with a lake covering 78 square miles. - - , STATE GETS MORE CAMPS . The number of forcstation camps . authorized for North Carolina has . i boon increased by 15 to make a '" total of '26 camps to be shortly opened. Four m?re will be author -Ud. Six of the camps will be , '-49 the east, five in the piedmont : 'n the rest in the western part -of the state on national forest land.' . ASHEV1LLE MAN KILLS SELF Despondent over sickness, Frank A Fanning, 76, killed himself with a shotgun, charge, Friday, in his boardaDg house room at -Asheville. , Another Buncombe suicide, was on Sunday afternoon Sam Jones, 25, killed himself with a shotgun charge to bis chest in woods near bis home- at Skyland. N. C. DRY FORCES ALIGNED A small group of prohibition loaders in North Carolina met in Raleigh, May 25, to elect Dr. Wil liam L. Poteat president of a state unit of the United Dry Forces to lead the fight to prevent this state voting for repeal of the 18th amendment on. November 7. A fur ther organization meeting was call ed to meet in Raleigh on Thurs day, this to be followed by a state wide meettng in Charlotte. , KILLED BY LIGHTNING BOLT f Struck by lightning bolt as he t. - lay u a vara nammoeK rea nan, , Jt, AsbeviUe, Wat killJ instantly AMATiirn r n lUlULii t.u C PITCH! Company of 100 Men Ar rives For Camp No. 10 Near Aqucue MORE AREEXPEC1 LD No Official Notice Reciv ed of Reported Pay Increases vilian Conservation corps, number- j ing 100 men, arrived in Macon, county Sunday and established N. C. Camp No. 10 near Aquone, in the heart of the Nantahalas. Mean while, the company which pitched camp at the Cozad roller mill on the outskirts of Franklin Wednes day afternoon of last week had "hig in" and was ready to go to work in the woods Monday morn ing. The Aquone company, fresh from several weeks ' preliminary training atZCarii pBr agmTTJr a y el ;.-vdl . detrained at Andrew:, 'and pr vec !- Mora news of Civilian Con servation corps activities will be found on Page 4 of this issue. Th Press plan to carry each week account of what is hap pening in the two camps in Ma con colunty and will appreciate any haws items sent in by re cruits. ed to the camp site in trucks. The camp is on the property of the Tallassee Power company about a mile e thi i -side : of Bob Barnett's home, ft fronts on the forestry service road from . Riser's store to Aquone and is a mile and a half from the Aquone postoffice. Captain Gervais is officer in charge1 of the camp and he is as 4ittt4, by two other "officers. . A. Causby - is project-- superintendent for the camp-under the-direction of the forestry service. Mora -Recruits Expected A new detachment of 100 men rs expected to arrive here next TuesdaytalfdluthiquMalfir the Franklin camp. Additional re cruits, also areto be sent to the Aquone camp. Each camp is sup posed to have a quota of 200 men. "Lieutenant Daniels, who arrived here this week from the Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., (Continued on paga six) Plan Box Supper Proceeds To Be Used by Young - Democrats A box supper will be held in. the courthouse Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. A special program of string music- will be-given -before and during - the supper by -the Young People's Democratic string band. ". ' Proceeds from the supper will be used. bytheMaconCountyYoung People's Democratic club to help pay the expenses of delegates to the first national convention of the Young People's Democratic club, which will meet in Kansas City, Mo., for three days, June 15 to 17. The eight clubs in Macon county are urged to attend this supper and bring along a number of boxes for sale. Many Residents Complain Against Cow - Chasing Dogs Many Franklin residents have raised a howl about dogs running loose at night, a howl so loud that Mayor J. Frank Ray was prompt ed this week to call attention to Section 1680 of the Penal Code re quiring all owners of dogs to keep them tied up at night - unless ac companied by the owner or some other person. The mayor said so much damage had been reported done by night prowling dogs that it would be necessary to enforce this law strict ly. Not relying solely on this edict, some residents who have complain ed that dogs have been chasinp. thr cows at nicht. are eoing to hod each night with shot guns u.nriv ', . Tran Pnrt-r said he heard a dog chasing his cowl the otyer night fcftl h itlh 1 lht pasture rounu Will Conduct Evangelistic Services ! . i I : : : ; i Ik- ' vvv IS -x - rfsi I. L. i t ji. , I , J REV. B. CHARLES BELL, D. D. Special Series To Be Held Here June 11-25 What Changes Have Been Wrought! The change that has come over the government manifests itself in many ways. For in stance, two automobiles hither to used by federal prohibtion agents to chase rum-runners lava been detailed "To " rhore' Constructive work by assign ment to the forestry service. TlieTcars werelrahsf erred "this' week from the prohibition en forcement office in Charleston, J5. . C., .to the forestry m service office- in- Franklin, : Sloan Promoted Acquisition Inspector W. R Sloan, of Franklin, who is said to have surveyed more mountain land throughout the south than perhaps any other engineer, Jias been appointed acquistion in spector for .the national forestry service. . In this capacity Mr. Sloan will play an important role in the ex pansion of the Nantahala and other I .national forest areas in the south. He-was - -chosen for--th? - position, account iif liis wide - experience in surveying mountain lands, hav- - " . - - . t r, ing run the transit over much 01 the territories acquired for the jS'anlahakiLJsational . forest and the iroat Smoky Mountains national ;pakr. Recently Mr. Sloan has been as isiing in the establishment of Ci vilian Conservation camps in the N'antaliala forest and had assumed the position of project director at A camp near Walhalla, S. C, only m few weeks before - announcement of his promotion came. i hat the faithful bovine's tail had been severely chewed. ' , "1 don't cave whose dog it is," he warned, "but they had better leep it penned up,, because the next time he chases my cows will be the .last." The section of the Penal Code quoted by -the mayor follows i "1680. Permitting 'dogs to run at large at night ; penalty"; liability for damap;e. No -person shall allow his dog over six months old to Tim at large in the night vmacoom jnnnird bv the owner, or some mem ber of the, owner's family, or some othe- nersnn by the owner's per mission. Any person intentionally, 1--nrwinrrlv, and wilfully violating this section shall be guilty of j. misdemeanor, and upon conviction, j shall be fined not exceeding fifty I dollars to any person injured' or suffering loss to his property or ntin. of Services Prominent Presbyterian Minister To Do the Preaching Sunday,: June 11, will -mark the beginning- of a special scries of evangelistic services to be held under4h-auspicesofthe Meth.-. odist- and Presbyterian churches of -Franklin,.- but -which are de- si gn cd-to-b e par ticip a teldi nbyall of the churches of the community and surrounding territory. These services will be held in the Meth odist " church - of Franklin each morning and' evening7" fromuife 11 to 25. The Rev. B. Charles Bell, D. D., of Shreveport, La., .will do the preaching, with Dale Stentz, of Lake Junaluska, directing the song services. Both of these men are specialists in their line. Dr. Bell for. a number of years has been the home missions superintendent of Red River Presbytery in the Synod of Louisiana, and for the past few years he has served as director of the general campaign of evangelism in Red River Pres bytery. He is a strong evangelistic preacher bringing - ta-hig -congrer gationclear7and ntorceful -expositions of the Gospel message. He is not a sensationalist in any sense of the term, but a preacher of the simple Gospel. His meetings have been marked with success wherever he has conducted these services.. Mr. Stentz will be remembered as a splendid song leader by those who heard him when he visited in Franklin a number of years ago. With these two men leading the meetings of these services, it is the feeling of those interested in bring- , ing them here, that, with the co-' operation oi an me cnurcnes, a gracious revival might be felt in the whole community. Preceding these services a num ber of other services arid cottage prayer meetings are being planned. The prayers and cooperaiton of all the churches are sought. The Rev. L. B. Hayes, v presiding elder of the Waynesville district, and the Rev. J. A. Flanagan, pastor, of the Presbyterian church, are heading up the plans tor, tnis series or services. NEW LABOR LAWS IN FORCE -Effective June-1 are-two new North Carolina laws governing lab or, one of Ihem setting a 55-hour week as maximum fori women worker in stores, cafes and hotels, the other gives wider powers to the commissioner of labor in enforc ing the state laws. ORDERS BETTING ELECTIONS The efforts of J. H. Tate and other McDowell count citizens to prevent the June 27 election in that county on pan-mutuel betting on horse racing failed on Monday when Judge P. A. McElroy denied an injunction against the election, TAX SITUATION STILL Murky Haze Shadows Acts ; Of State's Tom-Tit Legislature LAWS REVIEWED Free Fishing Permitted in 3 Macon County Streams . A dark gray haze sill hangs over the "toni-tit" legislature, as the 1933 general assembly of North Carolina lias come . to ' be known, and oiks interested are still puz zling over what was actually ac complished. It is difficult even to discover for certain just what local laws pertaining to Macon county were enacted, for some were pass ed and then repealed and it wold take a Philadelphia lawyer to dis cern which are still valid. George i'ation, '. county attorney, is awaiting arrival - of the - new statutes in book form before he ventures to explain just how tax legislation . enacted affects this county. Meanwhile, R. C. Birming ham, of Charlotte, county auditor, has gone to Raleigh to get the local government commission to unravel the tangle. Deferred Payments Senator R. A. Patton introduced and secured the ratification of a bill authorizing partial payments on back taxes over a period of five years. This measure became law on March 15, but later a state wide law was enacted to the same purpose but with somewhat different provisions. It also provided for a 10 per cent discount on all back tax payments made before the end of June, thisyear. . Afewdays before the legislature adjourned this laW was repealed and now the question arises as to whether (Continued on paga . six) 34GTC0MEDY: TO BE GIVEN 'See - You Later'-. Proceeds To Be Devoted "tar Library B. F. James, dramatic director for the Triangle Producing com pany of Greensboro, has arrived in Franklin to train a cast for the presentation of a three-act musical comedy, "See You Later," in the Franklin school auditorium at 8:15 o'clock 'Friday night, June 9. The play will be produced under the auspicis of the Franklin library and the proceeds derived will be devoted to improving the library and buying new books. -. The-rrpl ay - --will h a v e ;--sever al choruses, beside a cast of 10 char acters. "The cast " includes;-- Dick Slagle, Howard Barnard, Phil Mc- Collum, Don Young, Miss Georgia Dady, Mrs. Thomas Johnston, Jr., Howard Wilkie, Rill Hauser Tony Welch and Mrs. C. L. Cartledge. The choruses will be announced later. Admission charges will be 15 cents for children and 25 cents for adults. MIMED Some Sheep-Shearers Shorn; Others Cheered by Co -Ops Fr.d S. Sloan, county farm dem onstration agent, working in co operation "with " "the-United "Wool Growers' Association. A total of $9.12 was ;i 'v.ir.c.-l on 3.S72 roan-Is :f wool. The sale attracted Clay county wool growers as well as many in Macon county. The largest single sale was of 670 pounds by -a -Mr. Bristol of Clay county. Lee Rus sell, of Aquone", disposed of -V)l pounds, the largest jmount brought in bv a Macon county grower. Independent buyers headed off a few farmers before they readied the depot and persuaded them to sell; but, as a whole, it was a bad dav for the truckers. What the final price will be on the wool sold in Monday's sale remains to be seen, as this depends on the prices obtained by the United Wool Growers' Assxiation, which pools all purchases and awaits the most opportune times to diipo.'i of its holdings. Loan Act Eases Mortgage Burden On Macon Farms Never Absent or Tardy In 10 Years at School Miss Rosalind Bulgifl, who was graduated . from the Franklin high school Tuesday night, fin ished with an unusual record. She completed the eleven grades, seven in the primary school and four in high school, in 10 years and during that period she was never absent or tardy a single time. To keep this record un blemished it was necessary for her on several occasions to sub- i ordinate her inclinations and at- tend classes when many another pupil would have regarded him ! or herself sufficiently ill to re main at home. HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES 35 Seventh Grade Certificates Awarded 84 at Simple Exercises . A class of 35 - pupils was grad' uated from the Franklin high school at simple commencement exercises in the school auditorium Tuesday night. There was no set program and the only addresses inadevere by Professor M. D. Bil lings, county superintendent of schools ,and G. L. Houk, principal of the Franklin school. The ex ercises, attended by a large crowd, lasted hardly an hour, After an invocation by the Rev. Eugene R. Eller, pastor of the Franklin Baptist church, a brief talk was made by Professor Bill ings. He expressed sympathy for the teachers in their misfortune of having their salaries drastically cut TorTh'ecTTtwoTITOSbyh islatiire, but voiced"" the hopeful opinion that the teachers would not allowtheir-interesHnthe-children oi the county lag on this account. Certificates-Awarded .. High school entrance certificates were..awardetLJbyPro.fessorBillings to 84 pupils who, out of 159 can didates, succeeded in passing the seventh grade examinations. In awardnig diplomas, Mr. Houk impressed upon the graduates the advice that they should learn the lesson of service, urging them to remember that what they are them selves is the important thing and this should be their measure rather than the size of their bank account. List of Graduates Following is a list of the grad uates, including 18 girls and 17 boys : Girls: Margaret Welch, Kath trine wden, Jessie -Hurstr--P-uth Ramsey, Vesta Peek, Mattie Brn dlee.r- Helen- Grasty,- Louise Siler, Rubie Blaine, Blaun Henson, Rosa lind Bulgin, Mildred Harrison, Jos ephihe Higdon,7 Ruby ; Talley, MayH bur Henson, Emma Lou Vinson, Wnv Nirk 'Hnnt-r -Winton Perry, John Cunningham, Jack Car penter, Troy Downs, Bill Hauser, J. D. Dowdle, Ralph Angel, Sam (Continued on page six) Advances oi 11 to eb cents a pound otiwool in Monday's co operative sale at the Franklin de pot brought frowns to the brows of independent buyers and left some growers who already had dis posed of their shearings at much lower, prices feeling like shorn lambs themselves. TheTlndependentshad been pay ing only 10 to 18 cert a p:mtid, while the advance payments at the cooperative sale wrve 2C cents for clear wool and 22 cens f'r bijrty wool. The advd'iee last year was only seven and one -h.tlf certs, and the final puy.ients brought the total to 10 to 11 cents, according to the gr?.d- This year's higher prices gave heart to sheep-growers and ar? ex pected to have an encouraging ef- j feet on 9heep-raisng in this sec, jtion. Monday's sale wa conducted by Interest Rates Reduced To 4r2 Percent for Five Years PRINCIPAL DELAYED Plan for Refinancing First Farm Mortgages Is Provided The emergency farm mortgage act, recently enacted by congress on the recommendation of Presi dent Roosevelt, will save Macon county farmers many thousands of dollars through reduced inter c t rates. Also, through its pro vision deferring payments for five years, it will make it possible for many farmers now faced with foreclosure to hold ron - to r their rz property. - ; In interest alone the new law should save Macon county farm ers now operating , under land bank mortgages at least $3,000 a year, perhaps more, according to C. R. Cabe, of near Otto, secre tary and treasurer of the Otto Farm Loan association. . 4W Par Cent Interest Mr. Cabe said his records show ed approximately $175,000. in Fed- leral Land Bank mortgages in this county. He estimated that Joint Stock Land Bank mortgages would bring this to a. total of about $300,000. Interest rates on these mortgages in the past have been from five and a half to six per cent. Under the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act the rate will be four and one-half per cent, according to an announcement re ceived from the Federal Land Bank of Columbia. There may be -some "slight fluctuationsin this rate, due to changes in interest rates on bonds sold. The banks cent more-than-4he rate-paid -o the bonds ; - but the interest on bonds-is-limitecLtQfouLpex-Ccnt Therefore, the maximum rate that CM.J!).echargedOTrowTrs is five per cent. . Features of ' New " Act " The prindpal 'leafures of the"" new law are outlined in a pros pectus sent out by the Federal Land Bank of Columbia as fol lows: "1. Authorization for the banks to issue up to two billion dollars of a new type of bond guaranteed as to interest by the - United States which will be available for exchange for first farm mortgages or for sale . in order to obtain funds with which . to make new loans. V "2. Decrease in the rate of in terest on outstanding loans of borrower5 of -federal - land - banks -for a period of five years. "3. Reduction for the same pe riod in the rates charged on new loans made by the banks during the next two years. "4. Authorization for borrow ers generally to suspend prin- C-P Payments on their loans for period of five vears. "Provision for direct loans bj the Federal Land banks in ter ritories where there are no na tional farm loan associations through which applications , may be accepted." Exchange Plan Explained It is noted that a means is pro vided for holders of first mort gages to exchange them for land bank bonds. This should have the effect of releasing thousands of iollars (it would be almost im possible to estimate how many thousands) now tied up in frozen farm mortgages or deeds of trust. The holder of bonds could sell them or use them as collateral for loans, whereas it would be diffi cult to realize anything on a mort gage. . A circular sent out by the land bank explains the advantages of exchanging mortgages for land bank bonds as follows: "One purpose of this provision of the act is to make it possible for present holders of farm mort gages to acquire in tneir place tax-exempt federal farm loan bonds which will be more liquid than the mortgages. Farmer whose mortgages are acquired by the federal land banks also will benefit. They will be entitled to have their mortgages refinanced in accordance with the provision (Continued sa pf tlx)
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