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Items of interest g'.eaned during the past week
Germany W'oriw World
Koenigsburg, Germany- Rudolph
Hess, cabinet minister known as
Chancellor Hitler’s “second self in
an amazing address Sunday pleaded
for an understanding with t ranee,
sounded a warning against impend
ing war and defied any nation to in-;
vade Germany.
The speech was delivered before (
Nazi chieftains of Prussia and was
broadcast throughout tho nation..
Translations were then broadcast i
to the pronouncement, which followed
by just a week the bloody “purge
of the Nazi party.
The speech was amazing not only
because of it? appeal to France, but
also because of an implied warning
that war threatened Europe and the
defiance to invaders. _
PRESBYTERIAN MEN AT
ENJOYABLE GATHERING
The Men of the Church organiza
tion of the Presbyterian church held
their regular monthly social meeting
at the Hut Tuesday evening, which
proved an enjoyable and profitable'
event. _
The speaker of the evening was Dr.
T. Thompson, professor of religious
education at the Union Theological
Seniinarv, Richmond. Va. Dr. Thomp
son is iii Brevard this summer in his
capacity as one of the directors of
Camp Carolina.
Circle No. 3 of the Auxiliary served
supper to the gathering of men.
DR. PIEHOFF TO HAVE
CHARGE OF SERVICES
Announcement is made by Rev. i
j. p. Simmons, pastor of the Brevard- j
Davidson River Presbyterian church. ]
that the rtgular prayer services next j
Wednesdav evening will be conducted ;
by Rev. Z. T. Piehoff, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Williamston,
N. C. Mr. Piehoff is in Brevard this
summer, one of the councilors at
Camp Sapphire.
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BREVARD, N. C.
NR A Heads Change
Washington— Hugh S. Johnson,
NRA administrator, has decided to
turn over a large part of running the
Blue Eagle ijiachine this summer to
a group of five subordinates. The
tive are: G. A. Lynch, George L.
Berry, A. R. Glaney, Robert W. Lea
and George Buckley.
I.css Them Half of New Deal
Funds Spent
j Washington—Less than half the
! government’s recovery and relief
“war chest” of $13,115,585,221 has
! been spent to date, leaving $6,670,
675 405 for the same purposes during
the' next 12 months, the treasury de
partment revealed Wednesday.
Sunday Worker Loses Sum
Brooklyn—A good habit cost An
! gelo Qegardo plenty. He has gone to
i lus laundry every Sunday for year
to check the books. Three gunmen
'awaited him last Sunday, forced him
to open the safe, took $1,000 and his
automobile.
Keu West Goes in Hands of Receiver
Kov West, F'a—The southernmost
Icitv in the .United States Friday was
in'the hands of a receiver who hoped
to overcome years ot misfortune and
m ike it a second Bermuda by reu.
im- a lifeless tourist trade and pump
ing fresh blood into its stricken
veins.
Shelbu To Get Cheap Electricity
Shelby_ Possibility of producing
cheap power for towns and mties in
i this part of the state through erec
tion of a plant with PWA funds was
I discussed with Shelby business men
j Thursday by W 11. Childs of Lincotn
ton one of the incorporators of the
Piedmont Electric company. .
I Mr. Childs said he had received
: great encouragement frnio PWA ofti
cials in his endeavors to obtain lie
grant for a non-profit power produc
tion company.
Murrty's Candidate Loses
Oklahoma City— Congressman E.
! W. Marland. who pledged a “new
i deal for Oklahoma.’’ outstripped the
I field of 15 seeking- th« Democratic
I nomination for governor oil the basis
’of late tabulations Thursday.
The former oil millionaire led
tli.. ticket with more than 20.000 votes
m re than his closest competitor, Tom
Ankliu. speaker ’f the house of rep
resentatives. who was Governor
-Alfalfa Bill” Murray’s choice for his
successor.
.V. (’. Educational System to Receive
Sam
Washington — North Carolina's
education department is due to re
ceive an allotment of $1,200,000 as its
part of the $48,000,000 carried in the
emergency appropriation bill passed
by congress recently for education
relief, it was revealed here Thursday
by J. B. Warren, secretary of North
Carolina State Teachers association,:
after he and State Superintendent
A. 1\ Allen had conferred with the]
relief administration as tei early allo
cation of funds.
Hitter Calls for Peace And Goes On 1
l acation
Berlin—Adolf Hitler called for
peace and quiet and ordered a politi
cal truce Sunday after the most tui
I indent week of the Nazi regime.
The chancellor set an example of ;
: ■ ulward calmness fur the German ]
people by leaving Berlin and going to j
Mis retreat in tne Bavarian Alps, at I
least for the week-end and possibly i
for a longer vacation.
Conspiracy at Havana Thwarted
Havana—Night long raids on the
h mes oi funner army officers are
believed by the government today to
have thwarted a major conspiracy.
Nearly 10 former officers, most of
them veterans of the Hotel National
battle October 2, 1033, are held on
charges of conspiracy.
“Spite” Hills Stop Relief Work
Baton Rouge, La.— Fifteen thous
and destitute citizens will be drop
ped from federal relief rolls because
the Louisiana neglected its own relief
fund. The legislature is engrossed in
a campaign of tax and “spite” bills
against Senator Huey P. Long’s poli
tical enemies.
Paraguayan Troops Attacking
Beunos Aires—Bolivan and Para
guayan forces were locked Tuesday
in a major battle, which gave indica
tion of determining the victor in the
bloody Gran Chaco war.
Forty thousand Paraguayan troops
were attacking Fort Ballivan, strong
hold of the Bolivan forces near the
Pileomayo and key position to the
whole Chaco region.
July Fourth Death Toll Great
At least 81 persons died last Wed
nesday as millions of people cele
brated the “Glorious Fourth” as com
pared to 466 in 1933, greatest in his
tory. Tabulation of deaths were:
Fireworks 1, autos 34, drownings 31,
accidental shootings 2, and other
causes 16.
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Mrs. Roosevelt Visits H . .V. C.
Asheville—Mrs. Franklin D. Roose
! velt inspected Thursday Biltmore in
Asheville and Tryon Toymakers at
Tryon seeking to learn whether simi
lar industries could be developed in
furniture making projects she spon
sors at Hyde Park, N. Y.
Sen- High In Farm Mortgage Ltans
Washington—A new high in farm
mortgage lending by the Farm Credit
Administration was announced on
Thursday by Governor William I.
Myers. , ,.
During June 57,400 loans totaling
$154,000,000 were closed by the fed
eral land banks and land bank com
missioners, Myers said, making the
largest lending activity begin more
than a year ago. Loans are now being
made at the rate of about $6,000,000
per day, the governor declared.
Graphic Story of Two Lives Snuffed
Out By State Electric Chair Route
(Raleigh News and Observer)
Two more men died in th. elec-|
trie chair here Friday without ton-]
testing the crime for which the Sta. •
exacted the death penalty.
Clyde Ferrell, 25-year-old Dur
ham white man who was-1 calmer in,
the face of death than the attend-j
ants who fumbled with the straps,'
was electrocuted for the murder of:
Thaddous Tilley, Durham filling |
station man in a Holdup on the night i
of March 2, 1933.
John Lewis Edwards, Charlotte'
negro who gave his age as 17 but |
who looked older than Ferrell, de
layed his death to speak from the
chair words of counsel to his fellow
man and to assert his own innocence.
Smiling the breadth of his cherubic
countenance, Edwards died just three
minutes after he declared in a firm
voice:
“I’m not guilty of this crime of ■
which I was accused. I never killed ]
no one in my life.”
He was sentenced to death for the ]
murder of J. W. Brown, street car;
conductor, last year.
Holds Pmk Flower
Ferrell died first.
He took his place in the chair only
! a few minutes after the whine of the j
! dynamo had supplanted the Death :
! Row dirge. With him into the cliam
| her walked his mother’s pastor, the
i Rev. C. R. Nixon, Wake Forest Bap
Itist minister, in his hand he clutched
1 a pink gladiolus. Another doomed
I man had thrust it out to him as he
I passed down the cell block.
The little fellow, anaemic, emuei
! ated, weighed barely 125 pounds,
i He held the flower as he would have
a cigarette if that had been allowed
him. The attendant strapping his
• right arm down took the flower from
he hand and tossed it on the floor,
j The doomed man’s eyes followed it
: as though something very valuable
■ had been wrested from him.
i When the arm was made fast to
, the arm ul' the oaken chair, the
guard picked up the flower and
| placed it in the hand which Ferrell
no longer could extend to receive it.
“Anything you want to say,
j Clyde?” asked Warden H. H. Honey
cutt.
, "No, nothing at all.”
i The Rev. Mr. Nixon leaned over
1 solicitously.
| "I’m all right, all light,” said Fer
rell.
i Warden Honeycutt waved the
minister out of the chained-ol'f
enclosure. Dr. J. M. Coleman drop
ped his hand. Executioner A. H.
Sessom threw the switch.
Dies In Silence ]
The pink gladiolus quivered, as
the lingers grasping it seemed to]
i relax instead of contra.‘t as is usual]
1 upon application of the lethal cur- j
rent. It slipped down until it wu
retained only by the pressure of
the dying man’s hand against the!
oaken at m df the chair. It ]
quivered, but it did not fall.
The body tautened, and the fin- j
gers, delicate as a young girl’s,,
tightened upon the flower. For two-'
minutes the current coursed through
the body. Only the mouth, visible
[through the straps, showed the death
agony.
Executioner Sessoms broke the
circuit mid the body hung limp
against the straps but the heart
still fluttered. Dr. Coleman did not
apply the stethoscope. W a r .1 i n
Honeycutt poured water from an c Id
shaving mug over the head and leg
electrodes. The executioner threw
the switch. The hand holding the
flower seemed to come to life. The
fingers moved .holding the stem so
,'hat the pink blossoms were brought
10 an upright position.
But a third shock was necessary
to kill skinny pale little Clyde Fer
rell, and when the undertakers
men finally took his body from the
chair, the flower was still grasped
firmly in the hand. The body was
limp. Only the knee of the leg to
which the electrode had been fasten
ed would not bend. The remains went
to Ferrell’s mother ,Mrs. D. D. Mas
sey 102 Guthrie Avenue, Durham.
After Ferrell was dead, the Rev.
Mr. Nixon revealed that he did not
| confess, even to him.
“I’m not guilty. They talked me
into it,” the minister 'aid Ferrell
told him. He would not elaborate
1 upon the paradox.
Edwards’ Death Speech
Five minutes later Edwards, ro
tund, cheerful, was in the chair.
Obviously fearful that he would
not be given an opportunity to make
a full statement, he began talking
as soon as he had taken his seat.
"May God bless Sister Allen (Ra
leigh white woman who regularly
visits the doomed men), tell her to
keep coming and preaching to the
boys on Death Row.”
“God says only to trust in
Him.
“I’m going home to vest.j
I trust in the Lord.”
And lamb-like, John Lewis Ed
| wards, convicted murderer, indi
cated that he was ready to die.
Death Comes Quick!i;
The straps were tightened. His
■bulky body offered more resistance
|to the current than had Ferrell's
■ 125 pound?. Water about the head
1 electrodes steamed. The right ear
! burned. The hands, with no pink
gladiolus to hold clenched tightly.
I Two shocks killed burly John Lewis
j Edwards.
I The electrocution was the 139th.
Waiting on Death. Row with life
c ases are 19 more doomed men.
MRS. CALLiE OWENS
I BURIED LAST FRIDAY
HENDERSONVILLE. July 11 —
Funeral set vices for Mrs. C'allie
Owens, 52, wife of W. W. Owens,
were held Friday morning at 10:00
o’clock at the Ebenezer Baptist
church with the Rev. J. C. Owen and
J. R. Owen officiating. Burial was in
the cemetery there.
Mrs. Owens died at her home on
11tie Chimney Rock road Wednesday
!evening after a lone illness. .She was
a native of Transylvania county and
a daughter of the late Mr. ana Mrs..
.1. H. Kitchen.
She is survived by her husband, a
daughter Meda, four sons, Roy, I.a
mar, Duane, and Ralph. She leaves •
tfil’j following brothers and sisters: i
Mrs. Leila Owens, Hendersonville; 1
Mrs. Allie Galloway, Brevard; Net- ■
?on Kitchens, Lake Toxaway; Her-j
man Kitchens, Enka, Julius Kitch
ens, of Horse Shoe; Mis. Ida Mize,
Nalanville, fexa®; Mrs. Azalee Me-:
Curly, of Houston, Texas; Lewis |
Kitchens, Post, Texas; Oliver Kitch-;
ens, of Missouri; Mrs. Rosa Black-,
well and Columbus Kitchens of Fort j
Worth, Texas
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PISGAH FOREST NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Cagle and two
children of Canton were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Daniel last week
We are sorry to hear that Mrs.
Delius Lyday is seriously ill at the i
home of her daughter, Mrs. D. H. Orr.!
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Ray and son |
of Little River are visiting the lat
ter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Hed
rick.
Mrs. A. W. Beck is visiting her
nephew, Clyde Case and family inJ
the' Pink Beds.
All members of the W. M. U. ;
asked to meet at the home of ;.!
W. A. Sentelle next Wedne-i .7.
Please bring lunch and be prep .red
to spend the day and quilt.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Steele, Mrs.
H. Emory and children of High Point
and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Lam • 0/ Fla'.
Reck were guests of rclativ s here
last ween.
The many friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Mackey will regret to know
that they have moved to Swansnnna
to make thoir home.
Revival services will begin at the
Baptist church Sunday night. Every
one is cordially invited.
Sam Wyatt was slightly injured
Tuesday when the log train on which
he was working wrecked.
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QESTION IN COUNTY
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that he had authentic information
about the dam, and that it would be
a boon to the entire section. He went
into considerable detail about finances
and plans which he said he knew of,
and which he would be glad to Ull
any one interested.
The motion made by Mr. Brsese
was adopted, and no other meeting is
expected to be held until such time
as authentic and definite information
on the project is had.
MASONIC MEETING
Regular communication of Dunn’s
Rock Masonic lodge will be held Fri
day night at 8 o’clock in the Ma-onic
Hall. All members are urged to at
tend and an invitation is extended
to visiting Masons.
Jerry Jerome, W. M.
Henry Henderson, Secy,
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