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?1 5ji \ t ;?#? in vd. it ountv. 8YLVA, NORTH CAROLINA,: THTJESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1933 $2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County. THREE MEN ARt HELD FOR TRIAL If! tUETT CASE j ti r&^lic ! Parris am. iM.iii- .v WVIV three oniei I :K. ,1 i . u'wii at l be February , ,,i >; ? j.:i|>:vior ccart in cttu ' ;:!i i i?f death of II. E . , i ,,-y-uii City, whose bo; I; .... ? 1 I?is <it*i(jcno5*iIi , off Highway No. 10 Friiay night, Dic-i (ij,.r - ? a preliminary jii'.irii - ? ? ?' -'ustiec of the Peace 1,,!,^ I!, ilctrris Wednesday after 1,11k . Kllt-n. ' i!?|<l<>yr of the Xantahale i i C.'aipany, is though. w i(. ! i instant y killed, when ; i d over a 125 toot em I * ? \' i:lii.) thf next few day. (?).( . I".: J?::ui!ey ami "Habc* < ???iisiiit-i:." w< re ill! taken into eas tmlv liv '??t: !<?' is of Sheriff Mancy'sl ,(.n;iiiir' A li uii cap, which match I mi- in'4' fi'):ri a front wheel (il ;t ,.:!r ii. .it Eider* was thought to |,av.' Ii"" ' iivinir was found at s; jh iiji' ulii-'t* Klletts car Ivft the road ( mini; ?ii.iui girl was placed o." ?i:.n?l :i- the chief witness for llir Stair.' .-I the preliminary hearing :iml n-tiliiil that she, Elders, Par lis. :iii'l Kradlev were driving w.s! !,i-|.i\v l>i|l?l??r?i. with Elders at th< whirl, Viliti'. they met another cat roiii-Mtf ?'i' ^t . ;iu;l I haY Elili i's wns ilrivin r ?n the if! t side of the road, she stat.d i!..it sli > to?\ him thai hr was nhoiit to strike another ear. anil that lie ivmarked rhul hf: didn't J ??mi. S 1 1 e s\Vi>ie that they did striki I t\u far tl-iit w is coming meeting I I A'-ffi, ;ui'l *1:.'! siie told Elders that I. ? VA ;l i . ir c id knocked i; I ? i'l' tVr toh\. au 1 !!:v the occupants I n.i iJ.i |>m\i V.y it" ki led. and, that \w "tVvili.'? 'jive a durn,' i ii .1,- .... (?, ft it.,1 thnt they ''??I '?< nit'l lli' y came to ill'' hio'i'Ji ,,i' \ cr ok, where I Jit \ .Hi, I fi xi 1 1 ., puncture, 'rt <;>. I tli \ n turned to Dills- i m i't'of.l >'i?|>i>iu^,at ptyce wli-ie flic ina-h occurred, and then ". it ' ki i k i.i st, taking Rradlev home . ."I tb- n join<r to the Markers Creek : ) I n isc, where thev spent the !;i:rl'f. 'I lie h..i!y of Mil. ft was discovered nit !! o-ltirk ?i. i lie night of Fri ?' v. !? i i: i HX Tilt- officers wore ic.!. .iv! Sh. rit't' Maiu-y and his ti-r i:ii'av(!i.i(cly began an in \? H'linli n uUcd in the ur <?;' l?rad!cv, Parris, and tin- Cii'i-'.i iian ?ir|. Khlors was ar i i i J:.- (by following the death i ! i. t'.i-i-;., v.;iS taken into ens ?>c 'I "iiil.'y and Bradley on -'lay. * 1 1 ? ?? making her statement '> ,-. t t Ii" Cunningham gir! ' Following the prelim -I i was orded held ?" ! ? reeosrni/ai'.ce in the l -I " :ih a material witness J,'i" ih' Slii'c. J. If. Patterson, iro for i lie Jackson Chevrolet i -tilled jis to the matching ,,r'v l:!il> ?-;? | > found !).v flyman Rllt >'? ji'.'ieo where Ellelt's ear ? 1 1, and Sutton told of fnidir.pr tin cap. WST OF turoeS DRAWN TOP, FEBRUARY COURT ' ; : diviwn for the Febrn : v -'i 1 Superior court of Jaek 'ii '" mi Monday mid tho fol ? -..-*,11 sit on the juries dur il > ? i ? I' . t 'din: v. .fjimcs R. Fisher, W. ':"k \\\ \. Jackson, W. F. I. I?. Hi-jiilv, It. K. Fisher, V;- '<? A V If. R. I hit/, J. 'J. Far \ I'.. Mi N'i ely, .T. O. Fisher. ?' 'fr.M i, Brysnn; W. F. ' " w : ? 1 1 . AV. IT. Oxner. , W. F. Dry son, A. C . !l-i;ry I* Taylor, W. K i',: ' *"? !. C'-ivp; Oilhert Mfloilv, C J, s. Urvson. Rufn> 1( '',w I'uli'-ri Hnldcn, John M ''' '? '?Mr lifiiMiii'ff. C. W |:,K';v. IT. n. I try son ; K, R. Oreeir '? r"0|r,. |>w,.( J?im A. llonper ? R- f'i,v..,nt Mtiritt Hooper, AT. T? I!. A. CI. R. Bunngnr *!"r' ' !?'. IIiMiper. ('. W. Deit/. nn<l I'iuk.r. week : I. nt her Wike, T. A i11"''1. '>? Ii. Coward, Mark Deit? J" 11 N'mIoii, T. C. Uvbiff. AV ? Finnic Key.,. Tinlph Ri* T'"'l l'ood, John Stephen*; F. ? I'. M. Alley, Glenn AVard' - T?:??ivr:i nier, ITenrv Smith- W '? M'.hbiih, S. A. Cook, Ball HaM ' A- Nonnan, \V. L. Enloe; James I JOHN D. NO&AMf iS OK SiJf J biui Ai'ii Joliu U. Norton, well known <>a^kson county man, was . lcc ud s<,rgutut-at-iu'im> 01 the blaic fcivn aic vt a ca..Ct>3 iiv-ju ;jy Wie ajuuhj c^utb ul iliat w>uy iui6uitj ? Villi Ouiy U>'O uCpul>at'u-i> ill w!? I fcuc imuviilj hel l l. < ca. CU3. .iorton, who v/;:s defeated .a cm. primaries as a candidate tor me i>JUiocratic nomination of Cciiimis aioinr of Labor, won out o\ jr >j. 1\ Shell, oi Harnett, the 011 y oUkt nonuncv for scr^ea.it-a uims, by one vote, the count JeiiU' id.) to 2-L Shell had held the posi lion for the past four session.*. The nomination <of Norton was uindo by Senator W. It. Francis of Haywood county. Mij Korton is well known lu-r. having served his county both s> register of deeds and Clerk cf th Superior Court. Heavy ?ains Cause Numerous Slides Cowee tunnel trot back to its an cient form, following: tlu- heavy rains <-f tlic first of last nook, and it slide in the cast end of the tunnel blocked traffic on the Murphy division of the Southern railway lor a period of twenty- four hours. A heavy freight engine was buried to almost the top of the smokestack in the big: dirt slide, but all members of the train crew escaped uninjured with t lie ex ception of engineer Beauregard Bry son, who received slight hurts, and came to Sylva for medical Attention. The old runnel, once the dread of train crews and maintenance depart ments, has been behaving itself forj a long number of years, since con crete retainers were erected at the west end; but the unusually heavy rains of the last week of 1932 proved too much, and the slide, which wan 21 baby as compared with some of Ihej old-timers it has essayed, came at thei ootit. end. There were numerous slides on both railways and highways in lliis part of the State. Highway 100, to fullowhce, which connects Sylva with the South end of the county, has been practically impassable for days, due to the rains and to the new work that has been wing on, preparatory to paving. Wither the Highway department nor the contractor has attempted 4o pre pare a detour for this important highway, although everybody knew Hiat the attempt at construction dur ing the winter months would inevit ably result in practical blocking of traffic for weeks. PMOKY PARK HAS 51 PEAKS WITH ALTITUDE OVER MILE The (irvnt Smoky Mountains Xa tionnl park contains 51 peaks and saps more than r> mil<> high, accord itig to a Jist compiled by John I). Topping, publicity dim-fur of the Chamber of Commerce, from records >f the U. S. goo 'ogicnl survey. According to the list, there are 20 mountain peaks in the park area with an ft) ti tiule of 6,000 feet or more. Twenty-three peaks hnve an altitude of over 5,280 feet but less than 0,000 fflet, while eight mountain gaps are over 5.280 Pwt hi^'h. The highest peak in the park is Clingman's dome, which rises 6,042 foot above sea level. Next in size is ATt. fluyot, which is 6,621 feet high. All of the peaks are located with in the park area, which consists of approximately 428,000 acres. The Newfound gap, over which runs the main- highway to the Great Smoky ^fountains National park, is on'v a I Pew hundred feet less than a mile high, its altitude being 5,045 fret. \. Tfetd, .Tcsk Rogers and Z. J. Fin cannon. The new jury commission which ?vas appointed is composed- of (}. C Turpi n, .1. B. Bumgarner, <and Pil'anl Coward. SOHULMAN OPENS NEW STORE Kchuhitfm'fl! Department Store was ?p-iifd oil yesterday in the new building located between Medford furniture Company mid the A & P ?tore, on Main street. According to Mr. Sol Seliulman. manager, the store will carry a full 'ino of dry goooris, notions, shoes, etc. \fr. fllrnn Hughes of Cullowhee and Miss Ilattie Parker are employed as ? clerks in the new establishment. 'ARMY' OF JOB SEEKERS INVADES NATION'S CAPITAL * 1 Washing en. D. C.. Jan. 4.- .'iftj r at. kiti-r c ref 1 p; ifa/ft tions to rep s tLn expected armioa of " Hunger March "Bonus March ers,' "Farm Relief Marchers' fid other miscellaneous delegations whifch had threatened to invade Washing ton this Winter, the District of Col umbia police have been, not exactly disappointed but surprised at the ab sence of the expected guests. * j The much-advertised u Hunger | Marchers "'got to the outskirts of the city, a few hundred of them, with their automobiles, but when they found the}1 were not going to be al lowed to picket the White House or heckle Congress, they turned urornif) and went back to where they came front. It was hardly a headline, ^.so far as putting on a show was con cerned. There are a few stragglers left in town from the "Bonus Expeditionary Force" of last Spring, but they are laying low, and little is being heard of the demand for immediate pay ment of the bonus. Nobody whr knows his way about in Washingtor expects any serious attention to tha' subject, at ??t until the new Congress assembles, which will be some lime between March and nexf Christmas. .... Newspaper headline hunters tried' to picture the recent convention hen of "dirt farmers*' as another at , tempt to overawe the government by a mob demonstration. It wasn't/ any thing of the sort. Thev wen* an ear-1 *f . neat, peacable lot, who said their* gay, mad*' their demands and left? town to go back to their farms There isn't a Chinaman's chanoe that any of their demands will be acceded to. Indeed, the only farm measure which seems to have a chance is the dom estic allotment plan, which involves reduced farm acreage, to which th$se dirt farmers were opposed. There is, however, a nothei^Jrrtny* ? already beginning <Jo assemble in : Washington, and promising to swell rapidly from now on. That is the ; army of job-seekers under the new Administration. j The best estimate (obtainable at , present indicate that there are about j 14,000 f deserving Pemjocratf ' at- I ready in Washington, pulling wires and laying plans to get themselves appointed to office under President Roosevelt. Thai is less than half of the number of places he will have to fil'. There are more than 3o,000 Fed eral posts at the disposal of the President, in spite of the fact that the Civil Service laws protect the vast majority of Government work ers in their jobs. There is no wav of estimating how many applicants there are for eicti ?>? these jobs; the best guess is at least a dozen. Before lie will he permitted to give j very much attention to such matters | as foreign debts, international dis armament, balancing the budget and j other pressing matters. Mr. Roose velt will have to pjieify the politicians of his party by handing ?out jobs to j them and I heir supporters. If he | doesn't paeifv them, he's going to A Roosevelt Aide ? Stephen T. Early, former Wash ington newspaper correspondent, has been named as White House secre tary^ President-elect Roosevelt. Ho will 6e associated with LouuT Howe and Marvin H. Mclntyre on the "in ner circle" of the Roosevelt sttflf. I Three Are Taken r To Asheville Jail Three prisoners, Jim Barton, (alias Jack Lester), Don Ramsey and Jess Elders, were removed from the jail here to the Asheville jail, yesterday, for safe keeping until the February term of Jackson County Superior Court. The removal was made, ae cording to Sheriff Maney, after an attempted jail-break had been dis covered Barton and Ramsey are charged with larceny of an automobile owened 3>y Frank Winkler, which was taken from in front of the New Jackson Hotel on the night of November 16. The ear was recovered several days M?r and the two men arretted after iWy wrecked it at the ovrhead bridge near Dillsboro. Elders is being held in default of $5,000 bond, in connection with the death of H. E. Ellett, which occurred in an automobile wreck on the night of December 23. HUGHES RITES HELD SUNDAY j Funeral services for Baseomhe Hughes were conducted Sunday af ternoon at the Cullowhee Baptist church by the pastor, Rev. I. K. Staf ford, Rev. P. L. Elliott of the faculty of Western Carolina teachers Col lebe, and Rev. Thad F. Deitz of Beta. Special music was arranged by a quartet, composed of Dr. II. T. Hun ter, Dean W. E. Bird,, Mr. W. M. Hunt and Dr. J. II. Painter. Inter ment was in the Cullowhee comet err. Mr, Hughes, who was popular among a large circle of friends in this county, was 28 years of age, and was the office manager of the Cul lowhee Motor 'Company. He was ? member of the Baptist church at Cnl lowhee, and active in the work of tfcej have plenty of trouble with them when he wants to ?<?(; something don* in Congress. Inauguration Of Governor Takes Place At Noon Today (By I)nn Tompkins) Itah-igh, Jan. 5. ? Governor (). Max Gardner will ntni'n to his law prac tice, his in", aid his other in terests at Shelby, in Cleveland, and North Oaroiiiia will have a new gov ernor at noon today, when tlie oath of office will he administered to John) Christopher Dlneher Ehringhaus, the first governor that the Albemarle has furnished the State since James Ire dell served fl one year term in 1828. Mr. Ehringhaus, who will be North Carolina's fifty-fourth governor, was elected by the largest popular ma jority ever accorded to a candidate for the Clirif Magistracy of the Stat.v or for any ether office in North Car olina. In the primary, Mr. Ehringhaus, while he won the nomination, did not fare as well as he did in the gen eral election, and it was the major ities that were piled up for him in 'the Southwestern counties, of which ! Jackaoc is one, that accorded him t:? nomination and paved - the way for his smashing victory in the General election. Mr. Ehringhaus knows this, and the counties' of the Southwest should he in a position to ask any reasonable thing of the new Govern or, and have a willing oar attend their requests. In other words the county of Jackson and its sisters sur rounding1 should be "sitting pretty' 'j with the new administration. Mr. Ehringhaus is taking over the reins of the executive branch of th State government at a time when ron ditioeis make his task a most trying one; but he has the good wishes and the support of all North Carolina and co-operation with the people should make his a great administra tion. The ceremonies of the inauguration are simple and inexpensive, in keep ing with the Spirit of the Times and the thought of the people. All North Carolina joins with the Albemar'e folk in hailing our new (Governor and wishing him well. General Assembly Goes Into Session With Budget Balancing Chief Problen TODAY and TOMORROW (By Frank Parker Stockbridge) Weather . . just the same One of the commonest remarks when we have had two or three mild winters in succession is that "We don't have the old-fashioned winters with lots of snow and the ponds frozen for skating from Thanksgiv ing to Easter, like wc used to.'' Then along comes a "real old fashioned winter" such as the pres ent one promises to !>??, to confute the grumblers. The fault is with human memory, Weather Bureau records prove that there has been no perceptible change iu the average annual temperature jr snow fall in the United States in the 52 years since records began to be kept. There have been as many "hard'' winters as mild ones. But as human beings get older they re member vividly the unusual happen ings of their childhood and think of them as the regular occurrences. I have forgotten all about tli: heavy snowfall in New England on Thanksgiving Day, 1876, but I vivid ly remember that on New Year's I Day, 1877, a few weeks later, the 'snow had melted and the road had i i thawed and ic took our old mare j "Jessie*" all day to draw a side-bar buggy ten miles to town, through hub-deep mud, under a sweltering sun. Fifty years from now the children of today will be complaining that the winters aren't what they used to be; but it will be their memories, n<nt the weather, that has changed. Relief . . from cares I had a haif-hour alone with Pres ident Hoover in the White House the other day. It is against the rules to quote what the President says in such conversations, but I violate no j confidence in reporting that he looks I acts and talks like a boy approachir his school vacation. He is looking forward with eagerness to being re lieved from the most onerous job in the wx>rld. In this respect he is much like other men who have been President. Some may not have been so frank about it, but no man ever laid down the reins of that office without be ing glad he was well rid of the job and wondering why he ever thought he wanted it, in the first place. Mr. Hoover, I am privileged to report, will not do any of the thing< wfyich his friends have suggested for him to do when he leaves the Whit' House. To nse his own word, he pro poses to "hibernate*' for ? year, where nobody whom he does not wan4 to sec can find him, and where lir can do exactly what he p'eaes. Af ter that, nobody knows, least of all Herbert Hoover. T venture the gness that a book will come out of that "hibernation," sinep Frtnefc Stawther, the Presi dent's literary wewtarv, expects in accompany Mb ehief into the soli tudes. ? Discipline . ? MM oaaungs All Italy it regimented. Every business, industry and occupation is organized. The Italian Parliament i compoeed of ?ha elected by 44 trade, industrial or agricultural groups; they do not represent dis tricts, they represent occupations. These occupational guilds or syn dicatcs have absolute freedom to combine in any enterprise that is for the public welfare. So has every in dividual the right to make as much money as he can, provided he does it honestly. But there is plenty of gov ernmental supervision to see that the pub'ic interest is served. A number of persons who were not satisfied to do business honestly, bul persisted in dishonest methods, were summarily removed by the Fascist organization. Musolinis government is extremely practical in its methods. Sunday School. He was an activc -young man, but was stricken a short time asro with influenza which was followed by pneumonia, to which h^ snemmbed on Friday night. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Rettv Jane Huebes, and one brother, Mr. Gleoa TTnghga, (By Dan Tompkins) Raleigh, January 4.? Along with all the rest of America and Amari* cans, the chief prob'em that it foro ing itself upon the General Assembly of North Carolina as it meets today is the matter of money. Money, with apparently less of it than in many years, looms toiler and bigger in the eyos of i>eople and governments. There is a deficit estimated at about 12 million dollars facing the Stnte. The new Governor and a ma jority of the members of tha Gen eral Assembly are pledged to remove the 15 cent property tax for the nix months schools. Plans are flying thick and fast for the revamping of the State government with a view to economy and cutting the cost of gov ernment. Cut in State salaries and wages, which have, in many in stances been reduced far below appropriations of the last General Assembly, seems inevitable. The State Tax Commission has pointed ont a way to remove the 15 cent tax, and at the same time meet the deficit, in a report made last week; but there are almost as many solutions of the problem as there aro men in Raleigh, and almost every one has his own pet scheme. In the re port believed to reflect, in the main, views of Governor Ehringhaus, the State Tax Commission frowned on sales taxes, recommended that no new taxes be imposed by the 1933 Gen eral Assembly, that repeal of the 15-ceut ad valorem tax for school purposes, now yielding $3,850,000, be compensated for by increases aver aging 20 per cent, in prcseent taxes, and that the $6,000,000 annually for balancing the budget bp produced by the following three devices: 1. A further reduction in every item except debt service of abont 16 per ccut, including -gradual <4 ary cat, so as to reduce the general fund expenditure level of this year, which reflects a 30 p;.-r cent cut in I appropriations for departments and institutions. 2. A temporary diversion ofc $2, 000,000 a year from the hifchway funds to the general fund of the State. 3. Refunding of the general fund bond and note maturities for the next two years. For the past two years this item has been approxi mately $1,000,000. It continues at that figure next year and is approx imately $2,000,000 'he fol owirr year. The findings oi the Tax Commis sion were prepaid in closer co-op eration with the Governor-elect and the Budget Commission than is usu ally the ease. Co: trary to what has been the usual' pra-tice, Revenue Commissioner A. T. Maxwell, chair man of the Tax Commission, and Dr. Fred W. Morrison its secretary, sat in on a'l of th<i deliberations of the Budpet Commission instead #f rr<?re ly rppr-rnng to efpre-s their views. There appears to be a ?.;n nl dis position oi ihe part of mo-?* of : he members ?f '.'ie G mid to vie'd axe v? !.rr h / *n ? in fecting j;? ? 1 ??? f ioii-- i:i Vi ?*\p v l? turcs, n.:d to att-trpl I) rhit't as much of tho tax burden .if is p *? sible onto tflio sb ?udrrs of tho.-<* most aMi to bear if, The Democrats in thrt House iu'*t Tuesday evening at r-ijyh' oVlock nnd selected R. L. Harris of P;-r?-;n county as Speak r of the House. Thus be^an the organization of what wil! probably prove to be the most importan' svssion of the Cenera1 As sembly that has nut in XV?Hh Caro lina since the day ? oe the R?construe tion. A. H. (Sandy) Graham, the new Lieutenant Governor will begin wielding the gavel in the S-nate. at the other end of the capitol, after the inauguration tomorrow. PAPER MILL RESUMES WORK The plant of the Sylva Paperboard Company resumed operations Satur day nitrht after bavin" b?n closed down for a week for the Christmas holidays. BOX SUPPER AT GREENS CHEEK Announcement has been made thai there will be a box supper at View Point school house at Green's Creek, Saturday nigfrt, Jawuvj L ,4 /
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