North Carolina Newspapers

? r? O (?) in a yNx b p P its of Wtdom s Science fives' us knowl edge, hm only philisophy can yive us wisdom. Sir Thomas Browne. A Brief Survey of Cur . rent Events in State, Nation and Abroad the Facts Boiled Down to a Few Pithy . Lines. PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL IM)EPEJWHJ'T VOL. XLV1II, NO. 38 FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPT. 21, 1933 $158 PER YEAR As the World II; V UPTURN IN EMPLOYMENT Secretary of Labor Frances Per kins reports that 730,000 workers were returned to jobs in August and a 612,000,000 increase in pay rolls resulted. She noted, however, that employment remained 28 per cent , and paylrolls 48 per cent be low 1926 level. George A. Sloan, president of Cotton Textile Insti tute, reported that textile mills had put on 145,515 addiional workers up to September 1. The department of labor reported North Carolina's employment level for Augnst but 2.3 per cent over July but poyroll increases amounted to 14,8 per cent for the month. CUBA UNDER DICTATORS The government headed by Ramon G. San Martin hat an nounced 'a - virtual, but benev olent, dictatorship of Cuba until the island republic is returned to normal conditions. HUGE LOSS IN STORM At least 15 lives were lost in Friday's terrific hurricane which swept down on the central and northern Carolina coast country do ing millions of damage Ln wreck ing buildings and destroying crops. .Carteret, Pamlico, Craven, Hyde, Tyrrell and "Dare counties were heaviest hit. The $350,000 bridge over the1 Neuse at New Bern was badly damaged. WOULD FINANCE FARM LOANS The reconstruction finance corporation has announced a loan of $150,000,000 to aid in the financing: of farm mortgages through federal land banks. 2 DIE IN STUNTING PLANE John L. Grimes, 17, Lexington, not a licensed pilot, took James T. Dennis, 19, also of Lexington, aloft on Sunday. While doing stunts in his plane near High Rock lake, Grimes' machine crumpled and plunged '. 1,500 feet to the shore, both boys dying instantly. A car occupied only by Morris Dominetz, of .near Biltmore, plung ed from a highway curve into 40 feet of water at Lake Lure on Sun day. Dominetz' tody was ater -recovered. LAMSON IS CONVICTED Ending a trial which attracted national attention, David A. Lam son, 31r executive of the Stanford university press, was on Sunday at San Jose, Calif., found guilty of the murder of his wife. The fight for his life will go to the higher courts. MEXICAN STORM KILLS 100 Striking at the City of Tampico and penetrating 300 miles inland in to Mexico, a tropical hurricane on Friday killed at least 100 and caus ed vast damage. SOFT COAL CODE SIGNED After a long and bitter ' contro versy, General Hugh Johnson on Saturday secured final approval of a recovery code to govern the bi tuminous coal mining Jndustryrlhe last major code to be settled. $612,068 FOR SCHOOL BUILDINU School building improvements in the year ending June 30 cost the state $612,068, with 62 school build ings and 69 other buildings erected and other improvements provided. 16 SHOT IN MINE WAR Signalizing last week's opening of a "holiday" by 30,000 miners in the ' Pennsylvania soft coal fields, 15 miners and a deputy sheriff were wounded by gunfire at three mines near Union town and more than a score were beaten. $75,000 HEART BALM VERDICT , A jury at Los Angeles last week awarded to Mrs. Marian Y. Read, a verdict for $75,000 damages from r-i .. : vv-: ... i .... .- (r..,,,. ,y ,!,- lure star, for the alienation of the affections of Mrs. Read's husband. SOUTHERN DROPS THOP CREW Reween-1 ,00ft md-4,5(X)-shop-em jihyes of the Southej-n railway will lose their jobs, it is estimated as result of the vote Fy the shopmen to work 40 hours per week instead of 32 and decision of the road to maintain its present total of shop work hours. Mrs. K. M. Wnldroop and 'Mrs. Florence Hampton came up from Bryson City Wednesday to attend the funeral of Mrs, Eliza Kelly. William S, Johnson left Mondav for Pittsburgh, Pa., where he will enter the Carnegie Institute of Technology. MACON EXE1PT FROM DOG LAW County Unable To Settle Claims for Sheep Slain by Dogs DOG TAX REPEALED Measure Enacted by Last Legislature Brought To Light The statewide dog law no longer applies to Macon county, whose representative in. the legislature in, 1919, the late J. Frank Ray, ob tained its enactment with the hope that it" would encourage .sheep rais ing, especially in his home county. As the matter now stands the county commissioners have no au thority and no funds to pay in demnities for sheep, or other farm stock, killed by dogs. Hitherto, claims for farm animals killed by dogs have been paid out of the dog tax fund ; but now the county cannot collect a dog tax. , . Applies to Clay Clay county also has been ex empted from the dog law. The county commissioners were informed of this situation at their last meeting. Prior to then they had been under the impression that the dog law as it applies to this county had been exchanged only to exempt from taxation one dog for each family. Both Senator R. A. Patton and the late Representa tive C. L. Ingram had announced they would seek passage of a meas ure in the legislature to this end. After the legislature adjourned Senator Patton said such a bill had been enacted. When a complete volume of the 1933 public laws was received here, however, it was dis covered - that , Macon couny . had been entirely exempt from the dog law; :" : i-Bad for Farmer If the repealer is constitutional, which is doubted in some quarters, a farmer who raises sheep and chi ckens is ''aTfhe"'mecy7'p f P row ling dogs. He has not even the legal right to shoot a dog caught in the act of chasing his cattle or killing his sheep or chickens. Should he kill a marauding dog, the own er of - the animal has grounds for a damage suit, if the dog has been listed as personal property for tax es. The fact is, a man even lacks legal authority to kill a mad dog belonging to someone else. Of course, if a neighbor's dog kills a farmer's sheep, the farmer can hold the dog and claim dam ages from his neighbor; but usual ly in such instances no one will ad mit ownership of the dog. Hold Reunion McGahar"and:Ti4'P:eJLL. Hold Annual Gathering The Mctiaha-Tippett clan held its third annual reunion at the home of W"TrTippell "Sunday with ap proximately 150 relatives and in vited guests present. , The day was spent in renewing old acquaintances. At the noon hour a picnic dinner was spread on the lawn and was thoroughly en joyed by all present. The reunion next year will be held at the home of Miss Monteray McGaha at West's Mill on the third Sunday in September. Local Labor To To BoildG.C.C. Quarters Some type of permanent quarters are expected to be built at Ci vilian Conservation Camp No. 9 on the outskirts of Franklin and per haps also at three other C. C. camps in this county. The Prefis-M-aeoition' has-kawmk Local' ! bor is to be used as JfariisjtoS:.Jbiit it -was-iearned that the- con- sible in this, work, according to an authoritative source, and recruiting of workmen is' expected to begin in a few weeks. Employment of- carpenters and other workers needed in building the permanent quarters will be handled through the newly estab lished federal Reemployment Ser- i vice, for the government has an-,: flounced that no ones can be cm ployed on a public project financed with federal funds unless he lias registered with the Reemp'oymenl Service. The local Reemployment office is 'God's Cure for Is Flanagan'? The depression was blamed an $3,784; and today, it is .estimated man's failure to keep pace, spirit- at approximately $3,000. ually and . mentally, with his ma- "America became the richest, the tcrial development, iij a sermon by strongest., the most influential ni the Rev. J. A. Flanagan at the tion in the world during these Frankliti Presbyterian church Sun- years. In her vast surpluses of day morning. The sermon attract- manufactured and raw materials, ed considerable attention-'and mem- she counted 500 million bushels of bers'of the congregation requested wheat, 24 million hales of cotton, The Press-Maconian to report it, 60 billion . dollars ' of frozen ' assets "God's Cure for the Depression" in the banks (since this estimate was. Rev. Flanagan's topic, and he was made many of these have been said America will 'have to follow released) and other', billions' of dol the course of the Israelites to bring lars worth of materials, back prosperity, observing four "In these one hundred vr-ars th things: Humility, nravcr. worship and repentance. dividual has increased from one- Reviews Changes fifth of a horse power until today, "America, in the last one huti- with all of the marvelous machines dred years," Rev. Flanagan' told his and , instruments, it is estimated to hearers, "has gone through many be about three hundred horse pow remarkalde ' changes, ,' but through er an increase of 1,500 per cent none of thenj has she passed so in 100 years. ''... rapidly as the: economic revolution "President Coolidge.in an address through which she is going 'now"., at Frcdricksbtirg, Va., in October, So far the revolution has been 1928, said: "Enterprise and indus without violence or bloodshed. It try have made it possible for the is JJie hope of its leaders that it United Stales with 7 per cent of rnay-continu thus I'n J n.d of the world, jnd..:6 -per "The' president; with his advisers, j cent of . the '.population to produce has proposed a scheme whereby the j 50 per cent of the grains and other nation' can be led back into days I basic materials used in the World. j of prosperity, and peace,' and 'pjen- j ty. Under the V R. A. the Whole trom cotton with the cotton gm as nation is being h'ned up into one 28,000 women did in, the days be- great organization to carry out fore the cotton gin's invention this great plan.. Tile first reports Today one woman can produce as are just "being received as to the -much yarn as 4,500 women did in progress made in this direction. Colonial days, Mechanical power Whether there will be success for has been increased until it is equiv this venture or not, U -yet to be 'alent' to the work of three billion determined. The ..nation is lining , additional -.employes... . .or more than up behind the N. R. A. because nop?'"1' extra . helpers for - each wage other plan has been offered . and i earner of former generations." because it has confidence in its; Ten Millions Idle president to carry forward this "In the face of all this wealth, great plan to a successful plan. increased power, mechanical inven "Let us look back for the mo- lions, ' we have today more than ment that we, may be able 1o go forward with a better understand- ing. of the situation and its need. "In the year 1830, America had 23 miles of railroad; by 1840 this had increased to 2,818 miles ; today we have over-250,000 miles of main line trackage, with an additional 150.(M.:.oi..rspnr,ivn.4ideriin.cs. "In this time the postal business increased from .$1,919.000 "to $599, 591.000 Jn the year 1925. "The population of America has grown from 12,866,000 in 1830 to approximately 125,000,000 in 1932. Division of Wealth , 1 "In 1830 the total per ' capita wealth of the nation was $550; while in 1927 it had grown to Elect Officers Young Democrats Meet at Holly Springs The Young People's Democratic dub held a meeting at the Holly Springs school house . Saturday J night with a large and enthusiastic crowd present. Tames Mauser. C. Tom P.ryson 4 W41 U4n W . .Mwiwi wiri UiC-l i - speakers of the evening, - ( m icts elected for - t he t'iHH g year were : ". Mary Perry, chairman; Walter Taylor, Tice xhaii-man ;ilinorBal--ton. secretary and treasurer. The next meet ins will be held at the Ellijay . school house on Satur day night, September. 23, at 8 o'clock. Speakers on the program '. for the evening will be:- Miss Elizabeth Slade, James llauser, (.'. Tom 1'ry son and John W. Edwards. Music will be furnished' by the Young Democratic string band. Be Hired T in the Odd Fellows Hall above Leach Brothers' hardware store. John V. Edwards is in charge.' Mr. Edwards does not have authority to place workmen, however, 'as this is done by a county committee, Definite plans for tjie permanent trm-nrrs--'haYetrtbrwTmTrttnmI r ; strurtion of semi-pernianent winter I quarters by menibers f the C C. 'U u;ls eounternianded several days 'i ago. Work had already gotten I AVt.i under way, but was halted I -when instr m-liniK rami- rum VV:is l- ... . . "muton . that i ennaiieiit ifuarters would be built .with local labor..- One hundred and forty-nine boys' at (', f.T. No. 9. liave reenlisted. for another six. months, less than thirty failing to sign up. Transfer of recruits from other 'Camps,- prob- 1-ably northern camps, to bring the I number up to 200 is expected the near future. Depression' Sermon Topic averaee horse nower of the in One man can take as much seed ten. millions of unemployed workers in our country, representing ap proximately 40 millions of our total population, many of them without the ".necessities of hfe except so far as they are supplied by the government, churches, municipalities and Other organizations caring for them. A terrible indictment for any nation that it should have one third of its population... living at the point of starvation andat jhe same time be burdened with these vast resources of food and raw materials. - -r "The trouble has been that our spiritual and ' intellectual develop ment, has not kept 'pace with our (Continued on page six) FUNERAL HELD FOR MRS. KELLY . Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza Kelly, who died at 2 a. ni. Tuesday at the age of ; 88, were- held at 1(1:30 o'clock Wednesday morning at the Franklin Methodist church. Ms. K elly had -be-en 44).JeIiiuug. health for some months, but her coiuf ition did not . be c )in e c r i t ic al until about ten days ago, 1- 1 M rs.- -Kell v was a- -native -of -Clay-, county, but she spent most of her life in Macon, having moved to this county with her parents at the a;e of four years. .The ftmeral was conducted by the Rev. L. B. Hayes, of Waynes ville, presiding elder of this dis trict; the Kev. W. A. Jenkins, pas tor of the -Methodist church; the Rev. F.ugctie R. EHer, pastor - of the Haptist church, and the - Rev vj. f. riauagan, pasior oi uie i ics- bylerian church. Pall bearers were Lawrence Ram sey, 'A. B. Slagle, T. W. Angel, Ir- T. 1. Johnston, Gilmer L , Crawford and Jake Addington." Burial was in the Franklin cem- etery. Mrs. Kelly was the mother" of Miss Elizabeth Kelly, who 'until her! death eight months ago was an pose(j by the Tennessee Valley policy that Muscle Shoals shall be outstanding figure in educational Authority for the sale of power entirely self-supporting and 'bank and social service circles through-, g,.m,rated at the Muscle Shoals able;'- in' other ; voi ds, . ;t business our the state. - - - (,am - Alabanui. These - rates, enterprise." ' r"- Siui:iving Mrs.:. Kelly .-art;L.two,fesi(j.eilt..feiesewit has-aBQiM:-cdr- ,Te ' cmnputattfitt&'Jncudc(L-wh.at daughters, M rs. Lassie Kelly Cun- wjjj cc)nstitutea . "yardstick" by is termed ,a fair "present value''' ..f ninghain and Mrs. Octa Green- niI,.,olu.,. The r;ites of nri-itl.e property; allowed, for interest wood, both of Franklin five grand children and four great dr.en; two' sisters,' Mrs. grahdchil Ida Dow- die and Mrs, Mora Vanhook, both'! 1 '"- I ...t ',-nt,t,'0 I -infl and one brother, . .. J .. I .A I . L. Patton, ot laroltoii, da CONNER-BARNES Miss Laura Conner and Robert spent the week-end here with his quietly married in the courthouse Tuesday afternoon, with John W. in i Edward justice of the peace, of ficiating. : . LYLE SELECTED BY REPEALISTS Nominated as Wet Candi date For Delegate to Convention VOTING EXPLAINED Two Ballots To Be Voted On in Election November 7 Dr. S. H. Lyle has been nominat ed as a wet candidate for delegate from this county to the proposed state convention uu repeal of the 18th amendment. . . More than 120 names, consider ably more than necessary, were signed to the petition nominating Dr, Lyle. Circulation of the peti tion started last Saturday and it was; only a short time before a sufficient number of signatures of qualified voters was obtained. Alex Moore, former sheriff, was I i mi inated as dry candidate f or d el - eijate to th-eeftvenl ion -iit - a -mas meeting' of prohibiiion ad ocates in the courthouse Sunday, September 3. J. R.-' Morrison, chairman of the county board of elections, said a petition for him would not be nec essary. As. no one has announced as a candidate in opposition to either Dr. Lyle or Mr. Moore, it was accept ed as a foregone conclusion that their names would go rtrthe Ma- .111. c . i . 1 ctvn county nanots ior tne repeal election. . The following explanation of how the election is to be conducted has been received by The Press-Ma-conian : On November 7, next, the people of North Carolina are called upon to vote on the question o-f repeal ing the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the. United States. The general assembly of North Carolina submitted this question to the people of the state in the form of "convention or no convention" to which delegates are to be elect ed upon-the-basis-ef representation of each - county- in the lower house of the ' general assembly. These delegates are to be voted for at the same time the question of con vention or no , eonevntiou is voted on. Two Ballots , Thus there are two. ballots to be voted in each of the counties, and each delegate- so elected must cast his vote in the convention in accor dance 'with the vote by which he or she was elected. There will be 120 delegates, in the convention, each county being represented as it is represented in the House of Representatives; some counties such as Mecklenburg, Forsyth, Guilford and Wake will have three delegates each. . . A number , of counties will have two delegates and each coun ty will have at least one delegate. These delegates will be elected on a- ticket either "I-W Iv epeal'' or "Against Repeal," in other words if trade 'code, rather than one ot tne x-ouutyotes against rt pcaltvvolankeLodcAand theydid delegate or delegates in. the con- not care to pledge iheinsihe ' vpntinti voti tri iist:ii'n the IKth code Until thev knew it.S plVjV'isioilS Amendment -nd -keep4t-aHartof the Constitution.. It a county votes. for repeal its 'delegates will vote ,to take the 18th Amendment out of the Federal Constitution. Any elector holding an official position either state or federal, can offer for delegate, holding office is no bar to being a delegate in the convention; any person desiring to be a candidate for delegate shall (Continued on page six) Low Electric Power Rates Forecast by XV. A. Action Electricity rates . .said '-1( be the tin. ITnitn.t Sttileu- for . rr,.n(...mrs h' been Dro - vate utilities. ! Although Muscle Shoals' is a Irmrr wav from Western North Carolina, it is .expected that in- time C- rate ' schedules for power generated j there will have the effect of re-, i ducing rate's throughout the whole Tennessee" valley, with a resultant impetus to industrial development. Many are inclined to think the rates announced by the T. ,V. A, will bring - about lower electricity Kites all over the country. ' . . '. In announcing the rate schedules for Muscle' Shoals power, David Work Expected To Start Shortly On Prison Camp Idaho and New Mexico Vote for Repeal Idaho and New Mexico lined vp in opposition to prohibition Tuesday, becoming the 30th and 31st states to vote approval of the 21st amendment, which in effect repeals the . 18th. Approval of five more states is needed to carry the new amendment, and eight more are scheduled to .vote Virginia on October 4,. Florida on October 10, and North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, South Caro I'nr. and Kentucky on Novem ber?. In view of the fact that not a single state thus far has voted against repeal, wet leaders pre dicted an oasy victory, some , li.tinj, they would carry three motv states than necessary. New Mexico voted approx imately three to one for repeal, while in Idaho the wets had a commanding iend with only a few precincts unheal J frcn. ' NEA CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED HERE 40 Names Posted on Blue Eagle Honoi Koh At Postoffice Forty names are posted on the NR A. honor roll in the Franklin IKjst office and mure are expected to be added as a result of a con certed drive for more members which "" was "organized " at a - mass meeting iir the courthouse Monday night. . Two roinmhtecs were" aiipointed at the -Monday ,night nieeiing, one to enlist more employers under the Blue Eagle, emblem and the .other to obtain pledges from consumers to patronize stores which have sub scribed to a fair practice-code. AY. T. Moore is chairman ot the em ployers' committee and Flarlcy Cabe is chairman of the consumers com mittee. Warning Sounded A warning was sounded t at the meeting -Monday, night against the failure of anyone displaying -the Blue Eagle to live up' to the NRA pledge under which it was obtain ed. .-Non-compliance, it was stated, might result in removal of the em blem. ' ' Most of the major business hous es of Franklin have subscribed to an NRA code, but a few have with held compliance on the ground ;!' a.ud hk lhey-. could Jioncstlyabide Dy tnem On Honor Roll Following is a list of. the names 'appearing on the honor roll in the postoffice: - 'IV iter's, Roy V Grocery Store, Brvant . Furniture" Company, Joine:" Motor 'rind Tractor Company. Mr, con Chevrolet Company, Manciaru .'Oil' Company of Newjerscy, Crisp's I (Continued on' page six) j F... Lilienthal, d i recti r in charge of nmver for the T. V. A., explained 'that thev "are-based on the board's and' repayment of capital, deprecia- Ition charges, operation' and main- tenancc. distribution costs; -ana pro- : vided tor the payment of taxes equivalent to those paid by pri- vate utilities. Wholesale electricity rates for 1,000 horsepower and ov'etf were quoted at $22.50 per horse per year. The schedules for domestic cou- tuners,' including rural as, well as urban residents, ranged from 3 cents per kilowatt hour for the first 50 KWII to four miles per (Continued on page six) Old Camp Ground Proper ty Selected as Site For Camp PROTESTS FILED Buildings To Cost $25,009 And Give Employment To 100 Men Oscar Pitts, an official of the state highway and public works de partment, announced, here Tuesday' that work prpbably would be start ed, in about two weeks on a per manent ' convict camp, for Macon rttunty. Although no official announce--nent has been made of the pur chase of a s,te for the camp, it.. war learned That negotiations -were -nearly completed for the transfer to the state of the old camp ground property on the edge of Franklin. The. tract, consisting of a hundred a res, ,-in .stly i wooded land, for merly '-.bekmeed to Lee Barnard, but now is owned by Harrjj Hig gins. .'-'-.. The . pnrchae. price was unoffic ially reported at '$3,500. Residents Protest When it was learned several weeks ago that the highway and public works department was con 'ide ing loraiion of the convict stockade on the camp ground prop erly a number of residents in the vicinity protested that it would in ji'.re their property by making it undesirable for residential purposes. Si in i.-v w ent so far as to state that .should the state attempt to locate the camp near the highway they would take legal action with view to i protecting their interest s. . A number of other-sites were of fered to the state, on of them said to - beeryiirtorrf armingHand rfor a price of $1(1 an-acre. . Pespite the objections of nearbv residents, it -was iearned-thi-; week that the highway and public works department, intended to go :hc:'.d with the purchase of the ca:.ip "grourid isite. ...A"dee'd'"'fof the" prop-"' ertv has already been drawn and sent ot Raleigh, but Thursday morning it had. not been returned for recording. The deal, however, was expected to be .completed in a few days. To Cost $25,000 Highway officials have announc ed that plans ' for the cam)) call for brick buildings costing approx imately $25,000. Work on 'the build- ings, it was stated, will afford em ployment to about 100 men. The camp will house between 75 and 100 prisoners. A superintendent and guards, about one. to every eight tttt iv. 1 1 men, ai ii' i" rmyii7TT-i.i locally. The convicts will be used on high way work, ; - - - Although the ....'state has not yet trained title to the property, the Wt-h way department has started work on a road evidently intended to ler1 to the camp stockade. Second Annual Smith. 1,'taaion Held The second annual Smith family reunion was held September 10 at the Stiles school house in Burningtown township. Music was furnished by the Stiles choir and short talks were made by a num ber of members of the clan, in cluding sonic very appropriate re marks by C. C. Welch. A large number " of members of the clan. ' and also many visitors" were present. I - The time for the next annu;il uathering of .the 'family was chang- from the second Sunday in September to the fourth Sunday. The meeting place will be the same. Officers elected by the clan : w e re ; . . .:. E. -Smith, ..president.; Sanford Smith, vice president; Mrs. Pwight K-dland. secretary; the Kc. Tudsou Smith, historian. V. Womanless Wedding Set foi September 29 The Woman's Missionary society of the First Baptist church will sponsor a womanless wedding at the courthouse "i! 8 o'clock Friday nieht, ' September 29. The enter tainment will be in the form of a three-act play with all t the parts played by prominent Franklin men and boys.