North Carolina Newspapers

II. n oi Bib cf Ykdam No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the reason that nothing can be beau tiful which is not true. Ruskin. i 1 ' A Britf Survey of Cur rent Events in State, Nation and Abroad ' the Facts Boiled Down to a Few Pithy lines.. '''v:v.-;"; PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT VOL. XLIX. NO 11 FRANKLIN, N. C THURSDAY, MARCH 15. 1934 $150 PER YEAR k)U ' . i n i-;( i mi i sou: 2 COMPROMISES CN VETERANS RELIEF The house of representatives Wednesday night adopted a com promise proposal on veterans and federal , pay legislation which it hopes will noj be vetoed by the president. The measure was then sent to conference with the senate. The compromise carries a $90,000,- 000 increase in benefits for; former soldiers and provides for restoring five per cent of the regular govern ment salary schedule on February 1 and a second five per. cent July 1. ROOSEVELT STOPS 'HARMFUL THING' President Roosevelt is 'stopping a good many harmful things that otherwise would 1e put over on the people," according to Henry Ford, who Tuesday announced a minimum daily wage for Ford em ployes of five dollars a day. He predicted steady improvement of industrial and commercial condi tions and aid "the American people have learneiso much about bank ers that they are no longer afraid of them." CUkSOAT BURNED The U. S. gunboat Fulton was burned in Hong Kong harbor Wed nesday but 'the 187 men aboard were lauded safely. NX OPERATING COSTSREDUCED Annual Saving of $13,900,000 . A Year Made under New Budget 1 t t i i t FLYING HALTED . Acting-'oii instructions from Pres ident , Roosevelt, Major General Benjamin D. Foulbus, chief of air corps, on Sunday temporarily sus pended all air mail flights pending the drafting of a new, curtailed schedule to insure the fliers' safe ty. The" suspension was- expected to last about three days, growing out of Rposevelt's command that "deaths in the array air corps must stop." , To date, VlO fliers have lost their lives in the 20 days since' the army' 'took over the work. NOW IN PRISON It took four, Brevard men from Fridav until Sunday night to ; get .Jfrom Trawiytyania county" to the Stage's Prison t Raleigh, wnere they .ar$-beginning services ol sen tences inflicted in 1831 as an out growth of the banking debacle in Western worth . varouna m w. Thev are Thomas H. Shipman, J. H. Picklesimef, C R. McNeely and Ralph. Fisher, who tried every avenue of lesral escape before fin ally going to prison. Watch Its Smoke ! ? HELD IN HOLD-UP I Hugh,, White, bank-fclerk, two de--v tectives and a member of he Greenville county grand jury were ? arrested Saturday on charges grow . ing out of the $50,000 bank hold-up i.' at Greenville. S. C, Thursday. White, a bookkeeper at the bank, ; was one of the two bank employees '.held ud within the shadow of the t Greenville county jail when the y money was being transported from the postoffice to the bank, less than two blocks away. WANTS HIM AGAIN The skeptic who believes no wo . -inan knows . her own mind just had . not met pretty "lady sheriff of '?V Crown Point, Ind,' Mrs. Lillian V M. Holley, from whose "escape rr- . ..... r...a. t p proof" jail jonn uuunger, noos-j V bad man, went A. W. O. L. with a wooden pistol. She wants another chance if Dillinger is caught. "Perhaps I won't get him back again, but I'm going to ask for him. You bet I am," is the way she puts it. ADMITS ROBBER Isaac Costner, calmly defying his former gangster pals to attempt vengance, in Chicago Saturday ad: mitted from the witness stand that he took part in a $110,000 mail rob- bery at Charlotte and named two Touhy gangsters as his accomplices He said Basil "The Owl" Bang- "hart was in Charlotte the night of the mail robbery but did not name him as one of the actual robbers For his part he received $25,000, he said. RALEIGH, sMarcli 14. Three things pointed out to members of the State Democratic executive committee by Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus are still sticking in the minds of those who heard his speech before the committee here ast Thursday night, according to comment heard on all sides in the capital. These three things are: 1. The fact that the state's to tal budget fof all purposes is jiow approximately $48,000,000 a year, in cluding highways and schools, while during the last two years of Gov ernor Gardner's administration and as set up by the 1931 general as-'! sembly, the total yearly budget was $55,000,000, so that the present budget is $13,000,000 less per year than for, the two foregoing years. 2. That North Carolina is con tinuing to pay federal taxes amount ing to between $175,000,000 to $200,000,000 a year, or more than live luuvo ao iiiutu as . mh pay in state taxes, with little or no objection, thus ranking next to New York state in the payment of federal taxes. Expenditure Explained 3. That every dollar collected by the state of North Carolina is ex pended approximately as follows : I Forty 'cents for the support of the state-wide eight-months school System. Thirty cents for the payment of interest and principal on all state debts. Seventeen cents for the main tenance of more than 50,000 miles of highways, all prisons and prison camps and 7,800 prisoners. Two and one-half cents for the support of . the State University and all tther state educational institu tions! - Two and one-half cents for the support of all charitable and cor rectional institutions other than prisons. Two and one-half cents for all state departments, commissions, of fices etc., here in Raleigh except those that are self supporting. Cdurt Costs Two and one-half cents for pen sions and salaries of. all superior court judges and solicitors and the cost of holding courts in the state. Two and one-half cents for other miscellaneous purposes not already enumerated These figures Rive a total of 99 cents, but can be figured out in fractional detail to account for the full 100 cents in every tax dollar. ' 1 IIHBL 'I I I I' .1 I 1 I 1 " 1 1 1 I 1 "I 111 ' " " I - - - . ' . . .;,''.. ," - i r:...y.-:: . '-; r : : ; ;,;" y--- ' : - jTp ' ;". ": :' V ' tfPJ V 7" ' y (I """"" ; -r-iji v- : ' "" i vVV I. ii 1.1, 1. It li I, lil .1, 1 1 1 1 .J, I., I.I,,.Ll. ., ' v ' S - . . . mm DRYS SEEKING CAMPAIGN FUND Plan To Take Active Part In Politics To "Con serve Victory" Courtesy Nas'niile Tennt.'e-a BAPTISTS HOLD STUDYCOURSE Perry Morgan Conducting Classes For Sunday School Workers A Sunday school training school is in progress in the Baptist church this week with Perry Morgan, state secretary of Sunday school work, in charge. Mr. 'Morgan is teaching "Build ing the Standard Sunday School." Mrs. John B. Lane, who is the ap proved intermediate and junior lead er of North Carolina Baptists, is teaching a course in junior and in termediate . work. Mrs. Lane is from Charlotte. Miss Leona Lav ander, of Nashville, Tenn., who is secretary of library work for the southern Baptist convention, is teaching a course in "Cradle Roll, Beginners and Primary Work" and also a course in library work. The Sunday schools of the coun ty will meet at 2:30 Sunday after noon to organize a Macon county Baptist Sunday school convention, Ml Baptist churches of the coun CONVENTION OF G.O. RCALLED W. J, West, County Chair man, Says He Won't Be Candidate W. J. West, chairman of the Macon county Republican cxecu tive committee, issued a call Mon day for a county convention of the party to be . held in the courthouse at 1 o'clock Saturday afternbon, March 31 . fy are urged .to send representa- Frnm lookinc at this tabulation thelves to this meeting. V. A. Brown- taxpayer can see just how every J ing, of Bryson City, and Mr. Mor dollar he pays to the state is spent Kan will speak. and none of this money comes from any state tax on property. Frank Warren and Family Move To Franklin Frank Warren, junior partner oi the Zickgraf-Warmi Lumber com pany, has arrived here to assist Mr. Zickgraf in the Operation of the band mill recently established by the company. Mr. Warren arrived from his former home, Perry, Fla., Sunday. Promoted W. N Sloan -Notified -of Transfer To Washington The principal purpose of the convention is to elect delegates to attend the -state-convention. Mr West said he hoped the convention would also elect a new county chairman at this meeting, although such action is not scheduled to take place until a later convention; "My health has noi been good," Mr. West explained, "and I would like to be relieved." -- He said he would not seek of fice again this year. Two years ago he was a candidate for representa tive. - Precinct conventions to elect del egates to the county Republican convention were called by Mr. West for Saturday, March 24. Thus far there has been little talk of who will be candidates for the Republican nominations for county offices in the forthcoming primaries; but George Dean is ex pected to run for clerk of court and it is thought likely that Horn er Stockton also will seek nomina tion lo some of fice. Neither, how ever, has definitely announced his candidacy. The Macbn County Dry Forces, i which were instrumental in piling up a large majority, in this county against repeal of the eighteenth amendment in last November's elec tion, arc planning to take an active part in this year's political cam paigns. This purpose is revealed in a cir cular letter sent to many prohi bitionists of the county by he Rev. j. A. Flanagan, treasurer' of the County Dry Forces, asking for con tributions to help defray expenses of the organization. It was pointed out that funds are needed to finance the attendance of a delegate from this county at statewide prohibition meetings, for stationery, postage and other ex penses. The Rev. Eugene R. Eller, pastor of the Franklin Baptist church, has been elected to represent this coun ty as a member of the state board of trustees of the United Dry Forces andi.is planning to attend a meetingyif the board in Greens boro this month. "If you would like the privilege of sharing in this work," said the circular letter, "will you send in your contribution to the Rev. J. A Flanagan, treasurer, or leave it with Mr.- Henry Cabe at the Bank of Franklin, at vour earliest con venience, so that our plans can be perfected. Every contribution will be appreciated. A dollar from you would help immensely but 25 cents from you and the same amount from three of your friends will do the same amount of work in help ing finance our work. "The county executive committee would again express to each of you its sincere appreciation for . all of the work you did and the ser vice rendered during the recent campaign. It was an overwhelming- victory,, made possible because the people of Macon county be lieve in prohibition. Let us con serve this victory for the cause of righteousness and temperance." Made Supervisor John -Herbert Stone Is New Head of Nantahala Forest John Herbert Stone, acting supervisor of the NanUhuJ National forest, has been giv en a permanent appointment to that position. He received form al notification of his promo tion from headquarters of the forestry service in Washington the latter part of last week. Mr.. Stone succeeds John B. Byrne, who is on a leave of absence on account of illness. Mr. Byrne is now in the gov ernment hospital at Oteen, near Asheville, recovering from a recent breakdown. Mr. Stone was technical as sistant to Mr. Byrne for several years but was' transferred to Athens, Tenn., last fall as as sistant supervisor of the Chero kee national forest. When Mr. Byrne became ill several months ago he was sent back to Franklin as acting supervisor of the Nantahala forest. Mr. Stone it a graduate of the forestry school of Yale University. BACK-TO-SOIL PLAN LAUNCHED State and Federal Govern ments Seek To Make Un employed Self-Sustaining DEMOCRATS TO HOLD BANQUET Many from This County To V Attend District Party Rally W. N. Sloan, who has been super visor of acquisition surveys for the federal forestry service in this re gion, has been notified to report in Washington next week to assume He , was accompanied by his wife , new duties. The transfer is regard and two small sons. They were en-' ed as a promotion, tertained for several days at the Mr. Sloan said he did -not know home of Mr. and Mrs. Zickgraf in whether he would be located in East Franklin before moving into Washington permanently. He plans the Higdun house on Bidwell street to leave Franklin next Tuesday. He where they will make their home. will be accompanied by Mrs. Sloan. Methodists Planning To Hold nre-naster rrayer meetings American Legion To Meet Saturday Night The Macon county post of the American Legion is scheduled to hold a semi-monthly meeting at 8 o'clock Saturday night in the county courthouse. All ex-service men. as well as members of the Legion, are invjted to attend. S3.000.WO FIRE Twenty-four firemen were injured nd property damage totaling $3,- 000,000 was caused at Birmingham on Saturday afternoon by a fire in the heart of the business dis trict. Every available piece of ap' paratus within the vicinity of Bir mingham was put into use. . IS FREED ,vv Major William C. Ocker, who was V... taught to fly by the Wright broth vrs and is ihe United States i Army's oldest avaiator in point of service, was cleared at Fort Sam " Houston, Tex., Thursday night of charges of "cussing" a superior of ficer with mule waon language. A series of prayer meetings will be conducted next week in prep aration for the pre-Easter services to be held at the Methodist church in the last week of March. Prayer meetings for women will meet in different homes on Tuesday and Friday afternoons, March 20 and 23, at 3 p. m. Prayer meetings for men will be at the church on the same days at 7:30 p. m. The reg ular Wednesday evening prayer meeting at, 7:30 on March 21 will be for the Palmer street and East Franklin .section, a second for Har lison avenue and vicinity, a third for P.onny Crest and the Georgia road, and a fourth for the Murphy road. Each group will meet' two afternoons- at3 o'clock, at a dif ferent home each time. For each group five persons have been ap pointed: a hostess for Tuesday March 20; a hostess for Friday March 23; a leader; a music chair man ; and an attendance chairman be for everyone and . it will also .These are as follows: look toward the services to be held For the Palmer street and East in the following week. All in the Franklin group : Hostess Tuesday, community are invited to the pray- Mrs, Jim Palmer; hostess Friday er meetings and to the pre-Easter Mrs. E. B. McCollum; leader, Mrs services. The prayer meetings for women are sponsored by the F. S. Johns ton Bible class of the Methodist church. They will meet in four dif .'erent groups. One group will MELLON CHARGES CRUDE POLITICS Andrew W. Mellon, former secrc tary of the treasury, charged in a statement issued Sunday that poll tics of the crudest sort" was being exercised by Attorney General Cummings in authorizing, a grand iurv investigation of the former cabinet member's income tax af Sponsor Movie Cradle Song' To Be Shown Under Junior Class Auspices "Cradle Song," starring Dorothea Wieck, will be presented at the Macon Theatre Monday and lues- day, March 19 and 20, under the sponsorship of the junior class of the Franklin high school. It is Miss Wieck's first American pic ture and has received high praises from the critics. Part of the proceeds from the sale of tickets will go to the sens ors, who are raising funds to de fray expenses of tire annual mn quet giv.en by Ah e ju n iorcla ssJ or the senior class. Twenty or thirty Young Demo crats from this county, are planning to go to Bryson City Saturday night for the annual conference and ban quet of the Young People's Demo cratic clubs of the Eleventh con gressional district, according to John W. Edwards, president of the Macon county clubs. Mr. Edwards also announced that a delegation of six from this coun ty will attend the Jackson Day dinner, annual statewide Democrat ic rally, to be held in Raleigh on the night of Saturday, March 31. A number of prominent state po litical leaders are expected -to at tend the Bryson City meeting. One of the important matters to be con sidered will be the establishment of a newspaper to represent the Young Democrats of the Eleventh congres sional district. Mr. Edwards, who is chairman of the district publicity committee, has been asked to sub mit a report on the advisability of such action. The principal speakers at the Jackson Day dinner in Raleigh will be Senator Champ Clark, son of the famous speaker of the house of representatives, and Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus. MUCH LAND IS NOW IDLE Idle Families Desiring Farms Asked To Register at Re employment Office With the civil works program drawing to a close, both state and federal governments are making a concerted drive to reduce unem ployment by placing as many de pendent families as possible on farms where they at least can raise food for themselves. The first step in this new pro gram to cope with the unemploy ment situation is being launched through the national reemployment service, which is conducting a sur- vey to determine the number of families desirous of obtaining sus- ' tenance farms. Re gut ration Urged John W. Edwards, manager of the Macon county office of the re employment service, urged Wednes day that all persons who want to farm and fo not have the neces sary land to apply at the reem ployment office in the Odd Fel lows hall. Franklin, for registration forms. 'There is no promise," he ex plained, "that a farm will be found within the county for each regis trant. In fact, no one is guaran teed a farm; but at this time the federal government is anxious to find out just how many people are desirous of returning to the soil. Of late, the newspapers have been carrying stories of model farms be ing set up in various sections of the country. Perhaps, the statis tics now being gathered as to the number of unemployed in this county desiring to return to farms may influence the government to start such a project in this section.- Ivuch Land Idle Funeral Held for Mrs. Sally Mincey, 71 Mrs. Sally Mincey, 71, died at her home on Watauga Thursday, March 8, after a short illness. Funeral services were held at the Watauga Baptist church Friday morning at 11 o'clock with the Rev. A. S. Solesbcc officiating. "There are more than one and a , half million acres of idle farm lands in North Carolina and there are indications that the state gov ernment will endeavor to see that many of these idle acres are put in food crops." President Roosevelt indicated last week that new methods would be employed in reducing unemploy- ment. This was followed Tuesday by the outline of a back-to-the-soil movement by Harry Hopkins, na tional relief administrator. This was interpreted as an indication that the government's relief efforts in the future will be largely directed to ward putting unemployed families on a self-sustaining farming basis. Death Claims Aunt Of Henry G. Robertson Mrs. Hattie Woodfin Allison, 87, died at her home at Webster Tues day evening, March 6, at 7 o'clock aftera week's '. illness of pneu monia. Mrs. Allison, before her marriage, was Miss Hattie Woodfin, a daugh ter of the late Dr. Henry Wood fin, a prominent Franklin phy sician, and a sister to the late Mrs. Laura Robertson and Mrs, Lula Terrell, both of Franklin. She was an aunt of Henry G. Robert Mrs." Mincey is survived by sev-'son, of this place, and the last cral children and a host of relatives member of the widely known Wood- and friends. fin family. Election of Red Cross Officers Postponed Election of officers for the en suing year-by the Macon county.- - chapter of the American Red Cross was postponed at a meeting of the chapter in the courthouse Friday afternoon on account of 'the lack of a quorum. Another meeting for the election of officers and the transaction of other business will be called at a later date and of- ficers of the chapter have expressed the hope that a full membership will be present. 500 Indians Due Here Sunday On Way to National Capital A band of 500 Indians, represent- fairs. He said, however, he was practically all of the major glad to get the mattcrV out of the attorney generals otfice and into the court. tribes in the United States, is ex pectcd to arrive here Sunday on its way to Washington, where the In dians have been promised a'hear- ing-on various ; complaints. . Dr. Wolf Paul, a leader of the Hopi Indians from the reservation at Nogales, Arizona, was here today making arrangements for the arrival SHUPING SUCCEEDS GARDNER G L. Shuping, of Greensboro, was unanimously , elected (.national ; Q jJan( committeeman tor ISorth Laroiina, Ho c,-, T,iune u,nl,i,i 1)rnh succeeding Ex-governor O. Max ; .. ;remain ,ierc until . Tuesday, Gardner, resigned, al a meeting of, somc.where in the vicinity of the reservationi'ln the west had defrauded the Indians out of much of their property, and alleged gross mismanagement pf Indian affairs. "We are going to Washington," he continued, to see rf we cant have something dorre about it. We have been promised a hearing." Dr.; Paul is a practising physician, but said he was not allowed to practice his profession off his res ervation. Although he is 69 years old, he shows little of. the effects of age. He is tall and erect, has State's Deposit Interest Rate Is Lowered RALEIGH, March R-Banks in the state in which state money is deposited will henceforth pay pnlv three-fourths of one per cent in stead of the one and one-half per cent which they have been paying," as a result of a resolution adopted by the Council of State reducing the rate of interest. Prior to the 1933 general assembly the banks were required by law to pay the state 3 per cent on all time de posits. But the banks maintained that this rate was too high and unfair and sought to get a bill through the 1933 general assembly abolishing the interest rate entire ly. Another bill was introduced to fixit at one per cent. Legislation was finally enacted empowering the council of state to set the rate. the state Democratic Tom Porter; music chairman, Mrs. Henry Cabe ; attendance chairman, Mrs. John Davenport, For the Harrison avenue group: Hostess Tuesday, Miss Amy Har (Continued on pge four) ' I LI l rammncf somewncre in tne vicinity . niercins Drown eyes ana jet diuck eXCtllllM f tr0l,:n nn.l ko tvlrtpA tllPtn . fiair ... . . . .''Mi i laiinuii. .vi iiv .i'vvt.i. ...v.. Htm committee, in Raleigh last limrsciay bc joine(, hy delegations from nigni. One hundred and fifty mountain boys and girls have joined the 4-H dubs being organized in Clay coun ty this winter by the farm agent. the Cherokee reservation in Swain county and the Catawba reservation near Rock Hill, S. C. "We want our citizenship and the management of our own af fairs." Dr. Wolf Paul said. He Quarterly Conference To Be Held at Iotla Church He said the Cherokee reservation A quarterly conference of the had one of the'best records of all, Franklin circuit is scheduled to be the Indian reservations in the coun try and praised the treatment of Indians in North Carolina. A striking comment made by Dr. Paul was that there are only three charged that Indian agents on some , Indians in federal penitentiaries. held at 11 o'clock Sunday morning at the Iotla Methodist church. The Rev.B. W. Lefler, pastor of the circuit, has requested ihat all stew ards of churches on the circuit be present.