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mtt i PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT VOL. LIU, NO. 26 FRANKLIN, N. C THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1938 S1.S0 PER YEAR . WPA PAY RAISE AFFECTS MACON Unskilled Workers Will v Get $5.00 More Per Month Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins has -announced i wage increases affecting 500,000 un ' skilled WPA workers in 13 south ern states. ',. Hopkins said the action was tak en at the direction ot President Roosevelt and is. pursuant "to a general administration policy of bringing the income levels pf 'the lowest paid workers of the south more nearly in line with the income levels of such workers in other parts of the country." Hopkins said, the hike would in ' crease the southern relief worker's i pay by about $5 a month. States affected are North Caro lina, Virginia. Kentucky, Oklahoma, Alabama, Arkansas, ' Florida, Geor gia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. All Wage Raised In 4 States The major increase affects un skilled workers but, in four states Virginia, Oklahoma, North Caro lina, and Kentucky adjustments were made in the monthly security wages of all WPA workers. "This wage scale means that no one who works in the WP4 will receive less than $1 a day in any region," Hopkins said., "We have felt for some time that our security wages in certain areas of the country were based on a standard of living below the levels of health and decency and did not bear sufficient realistic relationship to the actual cost of living. The new minimum wage rates created for these half-million workers re ceiving the lowest monthly security wages, while still inadequate in my judgment, give these people some thing nearer to an ' income which will assure a minimum standard of living. "We have also believed that with 'the apparent beginnings of an up turn in business, this is a particu larly advantageous time to acceler ate that upturn by creating addi tional purchasing power in the low er brackets." New Wage Schedules New monthly wage rate schedules follow: 1 In North Carolina and Virginia: Cities over 100,000, professional and technical rate raised from $7,5 to $79, skilled rate from $f8 to $72, in termediate rate from $52 to $57, and- unskilled rate from $35 to $40. ;ities from 50,000 to 100,000, pro fessional rate from $68 to $73, skilled rate from $62 to $66, inter mediate rate from $48 to $53, and " unskilled rate from $33 to $38. Cities from 25,000 to 50,000. pro 4 fessional rate from $62 to $66, skill ed rate from $56 to $60, intermedi " ate rate from $43 to $47, and un skilled rate from $29 to $36.' Cities from 5,000 to 25,000, pro- . fessional -rate from $53 to $57, skill- ' ed rate from $48 to $52, interme diate rate from $36 to $40, and .un skilled rate from $24 to $30. Cities under 5,000, professional rate from $42 to $48, skilled rate r. from $38 to $44. intermediate rate from $30 to $33," and unskilled rate from $21 to $26. Macon county, of course, comes under the last classification, "cities '., . under 5,000," and .the greater part of the WPA labor is unskilled, but it means an immediate increase of $5.00 per month, and will help., not only the workers, but all the "busi ness interests of the county. V Rummage Sale To Be Held Saturday , The ladies of the Episcopal church will hold a rummage sale on Sat urday, July 2, beginning at 10 o'clock, at Mrs. Green's sewing T room, across from. Roy Cunning ham's store. Nice summer clothes and other ' articles in good condition will be on sale. , . , Macon County's New Agricultural Building ir ir i ' TJ..J1 .Local Team Wins From Cornelia In Hot Game Sunday Franklin's crack baseball team de feated Cornelia 11 to 8 in a hotly contested game on the home grounds Sunday afternoon. The local boys were held scoreless for five innings before they solv ed the slants of left-handed Carey but once the hitting started the bingles came plenty fast. The score stood 11 to '4 in favor of Franklin at the end of the seventh, but Cornelia rallied in the eighth to score 4 more. Hawthorne, Pattillo, Archer and Dalrymple starred for Franklin, while Carey, Hudson and Grant led the Cornelia team. Batteries Franklin, Hawthorne and Archer. Cornelia, Carey, Chap man and Edwards. The score: ' R HE Franklin ., 11 14 4 Cornelia 8 15 .4 Grocery Stores To Close July 4th Most grocery stores in Franklin have signed an agreement to close all day on July 4. Following is the agreement as submitted to the grocers: "We, the undersigned , merchants of Franklin, agree to close all day Monday, July 4 : Sloan's Grocery, H. T. Sloan; C. T. Blaine; People's Market, C. L. Pendergrass ; Roy Cunningham; A & P Food Stores, C. Russell ; Dixie Store, Verlon Swaf ford ; City Market, E. W. Long; Sugarfork Moore, J. M. Moore; J. R. Pendergrass; Pay-and-Take-It, W. L.. Led ford. Goes To Reunion Ai Gettysburg J. 1 M. Daves,, 92, of Franklin Route 2, one of the four remain ing Confederate veterans of Macon county, left Wednesday for Gettys burg to attend the veterans reun ion held there the first of July. He was accompanied by his son, Joe Daves. The other veterans in Macon county are : S. W...Picklesimer, of Otto, and William E. Roper, of Briartown. J. W. Caldwell, ' who makes his home on Franklin Route 3, ' was transferred to this county from Haywood, and James Deal, colored. XV - - NEW BUILDING IS COMPLETED County And Demonstra tion Agents Installed In New Quarters Macon county's agricultural buiM ing has been completed, with the exception of the heating plant and the seating of the ainliionuin, una all ot the offices are occupied. The building is a one-story and basement structure, 58x70 feet over all, and is built of brick. The county agent's . department contains offices for County Agent Mendenhall and Assistant . Agent Sam Williams, two secretarial of fices and a fireproof vault. Airs. T. J. O'Neil, county demon stration agent, has two rooms, an office and demonstration room. The demonstration room .is equipped with a modern electric range, with sink and draining boards and cabi nets built in underneath. There is another room which it is understood may be used for the farmers' market, and eight sub stantial display tables have been built and are stored there. The building contains an auditor ium 30x39 feet, with three exits, and is so constructed that the slightest sound can be .heard from one end of the room to the other. The basement contains a storage room and a room for the heating plant, which will be installed before cold weather. . The building was erected at a cost of $8,000, half of which, was paid by the federal government. WPA labor was used, with Zeb Conley in charge of the entire job. The construction has been inspected by several experts' who. have stated that it is one of the best in the state.; The grounds are being landscaped and will be covered with grass arid shrubbery, and it is planned to gravel a parking space in front and to grade and gravel 'the cross street from Church to Main, mak ing the building easy of access. , (Fiddlers Convention At Sylva July 4 ' The Sylva-x football team is spon soring a fiddlers' convention to be neld on the evening of July 4, and several Macon : county fiddlers are expecting to attend, Jul LJi it A. B. Bradley Passes Monday At Home At Otto Funeral services for A. Brack Bradley, 77, were held at the As bury Methodist church, at Otto Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock. The Rev. J. C. Swaim, pastor of the Macon circuit, was in charge of the services. Interment was in the church cemetery. Air. Bradley, who suffered a slight stroke of paralysis about six months ago and from which 'he never fully regained his health, was taken critically ill Sunday. Death came about 4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at his home at Otto. Air. .Bradley, a farmer, was a member of the Asbury Methodist church, having joined more than 40 years ago. Pallbearers were eight sons, Youcll, Claude, Clennie, Herby, Troy, Joe, Grady, and" Ervin, all of Otto. Surviving are his widow, the for mer Aliss Elizabeth Cabe, and 12 children; five daughters, Mrs. Zel lia Grist, of Dillard, Ga. .Route 1; Mrs. Angie . Dills, Misses Elzie Connie and Lochie Bradley, all of Otto; eight sons, Youell, Claude, Troy, Joe, Clennie, Herby, Grady and Erwin Bradley, all of Otto, and one sister, Airs. W. A. Norton, of Dillard, Ga. Route 1. Fireworks On The Night Of The 4th The Franklin fire department, in cooperation with the business men of the town, will provide a fire works display which will be put on immediately after the donkey base ball game Monday; night. Sufficient funds have been raised to make the display worth seeing, and vis itors to the. town on that day are invited to stay over after the -game and enjoy the fireworks. Vacant House Burned Wednesday Morning A vacant house in East Franklin, belonging to A. W. Reid, and known as the Lyle Jones place, was destroyed by fire, about 3 o'clock Wednesday morning. . ' When the blaze was discovered the whole structure was in flames, and though the fire department re sponded ' promptly, there was no chance to save the building. , The house had been vacant for some time, and there is.no clue as to the cause of the .fio , 2 ARE HELD ON POISONCHARGE Strychnine Said To Have Been Given Victim In Whiskey Nathan Brendle and Mrs. Law rence Mason are being held in the Af aeon county jail on technical charges of murder, following a cor oner's inquest into the death of Lawrence R. (Jabo) Mason, 34, who died at the home of Airs. Viney Ilaskett near here early Sunday morning. Airs. Haskett testified at the in quest that Brendle came to her home about J0:30 o'clock Saturday night, accompanied by . Walter Pressley, and gave Mason a drink of whiskey. She said snon afterwards Man became violently ill and died seven hours later. Five Franklin physicians who an alyzed the contents of Mason's stomach and also a bottle of liquor from which he is alleged to have taken the drink, reported both con tained a deadly poison. . v Mrs. Haskett said Mason had been staying at her home, and re marked soon after he had taken the drink that the liquor tasted bitter, adding' "I -believe they got me this time." She testified Pressley and Bren dle ' had been there a short time before and inquired if Mason had a drink. When he replied negative ly, she added, they said they would go and get some liquor and come basku .: : ...... Pressley, who was held as a ma terial witnens in toe case, told ot Brendle and Mrs. Mason coming to his home in the Watauga -section for supper. He said he went with Brendle afterwards to the home of Arthur Sanders and obtained a bottle of liquor from under ai pile of corn shucks. Pressley said he took a drink from the bottle, and then accom panied Brendle . to the Hackett home, and back to his own house where Mrs. Mason had waited for Brendle., The two left together, be . said. Questioned as to whether the bpttle he drank out of was the same one Brendle handed to Mas on, Pressley said it was dark and he was unable to tell. Admits Purckuing TabhtU Sheriff A. B. Slagle said Brendle admitted purchasing some tablets, similar to the poison found in Ma son's stomach, at a local drug store several weeks ago, but maintained they were still at his home. Sher iff Slagle said a search of the house failed. to disclose the tablets. ; C. M. Moore, coroner, ordered the contents of Mason's stomach and he liquor bottle sent to Ra leigh for further analysis. The pre liminary analysis was made by Dr. Furman Angel, Dr. Edgar Angel, Dr. A. B. Kizinskr Dr. W. A. Roarers, countv ohvsician. and Dr. N. G. Williams. Witnesses at the inquest said Mason and his wife . had been es tranged " for approximately three years, and that Mrs. Mason pre viously had sued him for divorces. Verdict of Coronar' Jury Following is the verdict of the coroner's jury after hearing the tes timony of the various witnesses at the inquest Sunda afternoon: "That the deceased, Lawrence Mason, came to his death as a re sult of poison, towit, strychnine, being placed in whiskey and given to him. We find that the whiskey was given to the deceased by one Nathan Brendle, and that Walter Pressley was present at the time the whiskey was given to the de ceased. "We recommend that Nathan Pressley be held as a material witness. " "We further recommend that the sheriff's department make a thor (Contiou! a Pi Twtv)
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