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J6in. redT CROSS redT CROSS I unit 3ttp Sftgljlattiia JBwantatt PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT VOL. XL1X, NO. 47 FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, NOV. 22, 1934 $150 PER YEAR TVA ECONOMY PLAN OUTLINED Pattern of Great Project Unfolding in Valley Of Tennessee EDITOR'S NOTE This is the first of a series of four ar ticles on what the TVA is doing and plans to do, written by a staff correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, in ternational newspaper published in Boston. In view of the fact that Macon county is in a tri butary area of the Tennessee Valley, these articles should prove especially interesting to readers of this newspaper. KNOXVILLE, Tenn.-The Ten nessee Vallev Authority stands to day as the spearhead "of the New Deal. It is the pattern of a plan ned economy that the Government is weaving in a chosen territory to orove that a planned economy is possible for the nation as a whole. If the TVA is seen in this light then the Tennessee River repre sents the problem of unrestrained and unregulated forces that in the past 'have threatened the safety and peace of the nation. For the Tennessee has long been an ungoverned river, rolling tre mendously down -from the direction of the Cumberlands, the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Great Smokies, looping sinuously through the. piled up hills, shrinking placidly in dry seasons, swelling and leaping its banks in Seasons of rainfall It winds its serpentine loops about Chattanooga, down through the years a perpetual menace to the city, inflicting some damage almost every year and always presenting the threat of real and damaging floods. It is a hungry river, this Ten nessee, a river stained with the fertility of a thousand hills, colored with soil as a testimony to the flagrant misuse of land areas, to the. nush- of unrestrained and un- ' regulated farming. On hillsides that slope back from the river are fields gullied and eroded by the torrential ' rains that the district knows so well, fields planted to corn and to bacco that should bear only for ests, or forage crops to jhold the easily washed soil in place. At the same time it is a bounti ful river, for in the surge of its swift flowing is the promise ot al- most unlimited power, cheap andj tremendous power to flow back' over wires to the little towns, the tiny farm-houses with their oil lamps and antedated household equipment back iri the silent hills. Because in that valley drained by the Tennessee is an area that is almost a cross-section of America, the TVA has come to prove that man is the master of the land up-j on which he lives, that he can so OTder his works that there shall be plenty where poverty, and malad justment have left their marks. But because the task is so vast and complicated the TVA is a correlat ed system of varying activities, each one of which handles an ap pointed task, yet each one dove tailing into each of the others to form the complete pattern. To one department, the Tennes see River regulation under C. A. Bock, is given the taslc of har nessing the mighty giant, of hold ing its floods within control, of so governing the muddy giant that the whole of the valley shall benefit, that traffic may come and go on the broad lower reaches, that pow er shall flow back into the hills and floods shall cease. At Muscle Shoals is the Wilson Dam. the first completed unit of a system to curb the rushing torrent of the river. Above the Wilson Dam construction of the Wheeler Dam is in' progress. From these dams the great flow of power will go. But it is on the spreading fingers of the tributaries that thrust back into the mountains (Continued on Page Five) Roosevelt at Southern Home of Andrew Jackson ssssssrsv.v.iaBaaaaaawBsssivBSEi hxmok otIsm I 1 I H pllBBBill HI V m iW LjAsMb - r ?l Bar 2 Sentenced to For Hold-up ROLL CALL FAR SHORTOF GOAL Less than Half of Quota Of 300 Memberships Reported Enrollments reported this week by workers 1 in the annual Macon ; ... uJ I- rll 1 U county ivcu rus iwn can uiuugm the total number of new member ships to 120, considerably less than half the quota set for the county. Reports had not been received, however,' from a number of the roll call workers and it is believed that when these are turned in the prog ress will look more encouraging. No reports had been received from Highlands, which usually responds handsomely in the annual Red Cross campaign. Goal is 300 The roll call began on Armistice Day with the Rev. J. A. Flanagan directing the drive for member ships. He expressed the hope at a meeting of the workers that the Macon County chapter, which fell behind somewhat in the roll call last year; would go over the top this year before Thanksgiving Day. The quota for the county is 300 memberships. The first week of the campaign brought in 78 mem berships. Wednesday night of this week workers had reported 42 at ditional memberships. Out of every membership fee of $1.00, fifty cents is sent to the National Red Cross organization and fifty cents remains jn the treasury of the local chapter to be used in aiding the sick and needy at home. Need as Great as Ever Some persons have been reticent in joining the Red Cross this year, stating ttrSt need fdr the organiza tion was not so great this year on account of the relief work under taken by the government. Red Cross workers, however, have point- (Continued on Page Fourteen) NASHVILLE, Tenn. . . . Inhia wing through the South to person ally inspect the government's huge Tennessee Valley development pro jects and a stop at Harrodsburg, Ky., President Franklin D. Roosevelt paused here to visit "The Hermit age" state owned shrine of the Old South, the home of Andrew Jackson, built in 1823. Photo shows the lovely old mansion where lived the former President Andrew Jackson. Insert is of President Roosevelt who has fol lowed in the steps of other Presidents in visiting the shrine. The President, enroute to Warm Springs, made stops in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alar Wat and Miwissvnwi. 10-15 Years of Canary Ray Joe Hall and Oran Farley Plead Guilty to Robbery After pleading guilty to the rob bery of Canary Ray, aged mer chant of the Burningtown section, joe Hall, 23, and Oran Farley, 22, were sentenced by Judge J. Will Pless in Macon superior court Monday to terms in state prison of not less than 10 nor more than , r 13 y1 . The robbery occurred on October 24 and the young men were ar rested by Sheriff Slagle and Depu ty John Dills the following morn ing as they alighted from a bus in Sylva. Hall, a native of this coun ty but who had been living for several years in Indiana, had been visiting his parents in the Burning town section. Farley, who said his home was in Austin, Ind., had accompanied Hall. They presum ably left on their way back to In diana a few days before the rob bery, thinking this would throw of ficers off their trail. Creeping back into the lonely, sparsely set tled community on the morning of October 24, they pulled a clever ruse on Mr. Ray, 81 years old, deaf and poor of sight. Farley entered the store and asked to see some overalls. When Mr. Ray placed a pair before him, Farley used them as a lasso in an attempt to throw the old man to the floor. But Mr. Ray, despite his years and infirmities, put up a stiff fight and was not subdued until Hall, a handkerchief tied about his face to hide his identity, came to his companion's assistance with a drawn pistol. After rifling the cash drawer and taking some knives and watches from a coun ter, the young men fled. The next morning; they caught a bus in Bryson City, thinking they had made good their escape; but when they reached Sylva they found Sheriff Slagle and other officers awaiting them. The officers found in their possession the loot taken from Mr. Ray, who later identified (Continued on Page Fourteen) Lumber Plant To Resume Full Time Operation The Zickgnaf- Warren Lumber company announced this week that it planned to 'resume full time operations in a few days and was in the market for ash, oak, poplar, basawood, maple and chestnut saw logs. OUTLOOK GOOD FAR NFW RliAliiterious death of Thomas "Brack" 1 "It Illiff It will 1 Norton, whose body was found on Delegation Asks Highway Body To Surface No. 286 Prospects are encouraging for re location and surfacing of state highway No. 286 Macon county's hope of profiting from tourist traf fic to and from the Great Smoky Mountains national park accord ing to members of a delegation of Macon and Swain county business men and county officials who ap peared Wednesday before the state highway and public works commis sion in Raleigh, Acting as spokesman for the del egation, Charles Carroll, superin tendent of Swain county schools, laid before the commission a re quest that federal road funds for merly appropriated for construction of the Soco Gap entry into the Great Smoky Mountains park be diverted to constnuction of a new hghway between Frankln and Bry son City. The money for the Soco Gap road, all of wheh was granted by the federal government but was being spent by the state highway commission, has been released by the decision of Harold I ekes, sec retary of the Interior, choosing the North Carolina route for the park-to-park highway. The great park way will cover the same ground as the Sodo Gap road and, therefore, the state has ceased work on this project. The delegation was informed that the highway authorities had been in conversation with officials in Washington concerning the funds thus released said to amount to approximately $450,000 and had been assured informally that use of this money on other projects would be approved. No formal de cision, however, has been made and until it is the highway commission will be unable to take action on the relocation and surfacing of No. 286. Encouraged The commission, would not com nut t itself to any course of action,' it was said, but members of the delegation felt that their trip to Raleigh had been well worth while. The Nantahala Power and Light company has made a preliminary survey of a section of the proposed new road from Alarka in Swain county across the Cowee Mountains into Macon county. The map of the proposed relocation, however, has not been completed. Before any work is done on the road state highway engineers will select a route. The delegation which went to Raleigh advocated no particular routing, stating that all they want ed was a new road to Bryson City and that they were willing to leave the choice of a route to state en gineers. Members of Delegation Members of the delegation from Franklin were W. B. . McGuire, town councilman; Harold Sloan, J. E. Lancaster and E. W. Long, county commissioner. In the Bry son City group were Kelley Ben nett, J. E. S. Thorpe, Mr. Craw ford, Mr. Corpening, chairman of the Swain county commissioners; Dr. Bryson and Charles Carroll. Mr. Thorpe told the highway authorities that the map of the preliminary survey made by the Nantahala Power and Light com pany, whose waterpower interests are affected by the route, would , M. Henry, church clerk. The pub be completed in a few weeks. lie is invited to attend. MURDER CASE TRIALSTARTS Sam Howard Takes Stand As Star Witness in Mul berry Mystery Trial of Herbert Bradshaw and Edgar Howard for first degree murder in connection with the mys- highway No. 285 in the Mulberry .section one night last August, was commenced in Macon superior court before Judge J. Will Pless, Jr., Thursday morning. Both men pled not guilty. Selection of a jury took up most of the morning. The taking of evi dence was begun shortly before the noon recess with Sam Howard, star witness for the prosecution, on the stand. Trial of the case was expected to require about two days. Norton, it was first thought, was the victim of a hit-and-run driver, but testimony at a coroner's inquest indicated foul play. Bradshaw and Howard were arrested a few weeks later and at a preliminary hearing Sam Howard, an uncle of Edgar, testified that he had seen two men place a man's body on the high way. A chicken roast had been in progress nearby and it was re ported that Norton had been in a drunken brawl with Herbert Brad shaw. Gets 15 Years William - Taylor, of the Cowee section, accused of raping a girl under 12 years of age, entered a plea of guilty of assault with at tempt to commit rape and was sen tenced by Judge Pless Tuesday to 15 years in state prison. The criminal court docket was heavy and Thursday it appeared that it would require the rest of the week to dispose of it. Judge Pless is scheduled to hold court in another county next week and no other judge was found available to continue the session here, so the Macon County Bar association vot ed to postpone trial of all civil cases requiring a jury until the next term of court. In reporting to the court the grand jury, with J. W. Murray as foreman, said the county institu tions were in good shape and coun ty records well kept. It recom mended the purchase of new mat tresses for the jail, that seats be placed in the corridor of the court house and added: "We recommend anything that will lower the expenses of the county F. Y. McCracken Seriously Hurt in Accident Franklin Y. McCracken, formerly a resident of Franklin, was serious ly injured Saturday afternoon when his automobile overturned down an enbankment between Asheville and Waynesville. Mr. McCracken was said to have driven off the pavement to avoid a collission with an approaching truck. At the Aston Park hospital, Asheville, it was found that Mr. McCracken had suffered a frac tured skull and a broken arm. His condition was reported Tuesday as critical. Mr. McCracken lived here sever al years. He was connected with the Franklin Furniture company and engaged in the real estate bus iness. Since leaving here he and his family have been living at Knoxville, Tenn. He rs a brother of Dr. J. R. McCracken, of Waynesville. Revival To Start At Ellijay Sunday Night A revival will start at the Elli jay Baptist church at 7.45 o'clock Sunday night, November 25, accord ing to an announcement by Joe
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