in ADVANCE IN THE COUNTY
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SYLVA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECiOMBI .II 28, 1933
$2.00 YEAS IN ADVANCE OUTSIDE THE OOUHTT
Sheriff Says K idnapping
To Get Full Investigation
[Sheriff ,oim ^ Manev said thi*
^ornii'r tfint an<* ^ Apartment
pltfpoje to Mft the matter of the kic
,ir|'p n? oI ^raiik Khinehart, princi
' 0f the Beta school and superit:
lit ot th*' Baptist Sunday school,
ni W'hstf r, to the very bottom. "Wr
j,#vp i?:en working1 on tbe inattei
(.tcadi'.v ever si,,cc ^ ^irst camc up".
K'icnfi Manev stated, "and we do
,!0: ;?ro|x?>'* to hold up on our investi
until the whole thing is air
id out. ?> .
gvrr Mm**'
Sunday morning, th?
ph'Mfhart kidnapping has been th<
topic of conversation in Sylv*
y,,) ,liirk<on foimty. Rhinehart is ?
nlti?v or the) county, and has taught
ja i\ comity schools for many years,
lie i\pn?minent in cshurch work at
flVhster, his home; aid there is v
it ilt !il of interest in it among tht
peop'?*. Sheriff Manev stated that the
I'nitiil States Deparment of Justice
^iViids in Charlotte have telephoned
him that it is not a kidnapping oi
which the federal authorities have
Kny jurisdiction, and that they ar<
{ikin? no part in the invest'gation.
Rh'iu hnrt, who was found, at the
Pink Hot'd in Franklin, Sunday morr
ine, ami brought to Sylva by Sheriff
Manoy p.thI other Jackson county of
lieers, asserts that he was kidnapped,
,, he w.hs returning to his home near
W.hstcr, after attending the School
wasters' Club dinner, in Sylva, Fri
Hny ni?ht. by two masked men, and
that he v ns forced to drive his car
t? Nalrnim Hap, back agun to Br<?nd
Vt own, i? Macon county, where be
^ \A?dtoliled. From Fridtiv night 1
unt'A WW morning, wh.m he was
Mcwcijwi mdiart states that be wa:
inisfri'Htoil in various ways, cursed,
Ji bused, suhjoctfcd to numerous ind ^'ni
tii-, place) on a railway track in '
front of h train, and jerked away,
just before the train struck him;
pluA'd on the highway in front of a
f?r, and the hrnk.'p put on. just be
fore the ca* itruck, and in divers
?vayn threatened with death and tor j
tnred, fina'ly being released between j
Clayton nr ' Mountain City, with eblo j
rofonu poured over him.
i
Sheriffs Statement f
Sheriff Mar.py stated that FYenk j
Khinchart cam* to him Friday lii^ht, j
or. the sijr'ets of Svlva, and told bin) j
that hpl.u! had some trouble with i
two men ?:,d wanted protection. "I j
tad i:nt received a call to go to Ad
'fit to the Christmas tree'*, Mr. Maney
f-tnti ? u?n?l was stopped by someone
who told ina that there was a long
distance telephone call for me. I told
Jihini'hart to get warrants and f i
wnnM see that they were served. Mr.
Rbirwhart told me that he didn 't have
fimc to pet warrants, that he was on
li'? wny to the supper, at the school
hoti ????. I then went to answer the
phoie call, and when I returned,
Khinehart was gone. So I went to
\ddie to answer the call from there,
ind when I returned to Sylra, about
? :30f I went to the school house to
ret Rhinehart and take h>m home, if
1c wanted me to; but found thit he
iiad left. Rhinebart was to have come
(n Sylva the next morning to gel
pwuv warrants, and I waited in the
office until noon for him to come.
The nfxt I heard of the mattor, hit
brother, Joe Rhinehart came to me.
nhout 7 o'clock, Saturday night, and
'did that Frank had been missing
-?ince the night before. I went wtih
Rhinehart, and we searched for
Prank until about 11:30, Saturday
niph'. I came back to Rylva, called
(?very deputy In the county to eorae
in tin* next morning, and, organized ft
posse to join the officers at daylight
'hi' next morning to continue the
?e?r<h. R?d called offecrs in nearby
towns, including the Rabun county,
^wryia officers, giving them deserip
of Rhin^hart and hi? car. I
w?it to hod at 2 o'clock, and nt 3:30
?'00 Khi.i,(hatr called me and siH
'hut he w?s coming to Sv'va 'he next
inornlnfr at 7 o'clock with paper*' for
'hf Men, not saying who. I called
fhi.J Deputy Sheriff C. C Mason, at
hi* ftnu'. He t\ame to the ,'ai! at 6
n'olook and had breakfjyrt with me.
waited until 8:30 for -foe Rhine
hart, and he didn't come, so I tried to
fH" his home, but the lino was h?i*v.
At S 40 Capt. A. H. Weaver/ of Dills
Hom, called mo and sai l that Frank
Rhin.-hart had been found in Frank
H murdered. Mr. Mason, Deupty
Shi-riff Homer Turpin? nnd I want to
Weh?t*.r, to Joe's house. He wasn't at
but Mr*. Rhinebarfc infonued
that she had been talking to Frank
who was in Franklin, and wanted tbe
officers to com? end irius' him home,
as ho was afraid to coma alone. We
went by Prank Rhinehart's home and
apprised his people of the fact that
he had been located in Franklin. We
then went to Franklin where we
found him at the Peek Hotel, and wo
I brought him to Sylva, end we turned
him over to Dr. Candler at the hospit
al for examination.. He had no visible
bruiftcfl or other ovidene;s of mistreat
ment upon him, and his "lothes looked
clean and neat. Rhine 'tart told us
that he had bee.n kidnr ->pcd and mis
treated. We asked. him f h?* rcsoimij'
ed *ny of the men. He ^a;d: that they
weri? masked ; but later stated that ho
tho-.;??ht hj? at one-time 1 ?copniawd one
uf the vo;ces, an<* later that he roMwr
niztd two of the voir s. We asked
him for the nam^a of t!ie men whose
voice? he recognized, but he did not
tell us. No warrants ha"e been sworn
out or turned over to us, in coaneo
tion with the case, and ^hinehart har
f given us no names of the men, but wo
I arc working on it without let up, and
I propose to shift it to the bottom
I "We went to. Mountain City, near
i where Rbinehart stat d he was re
leased, and where he sail he had ialk
ed with a man named Cox. We found
Mr. Cox, who is n five, intelligent
gentleman, and he told us that he saw
a man answering Rhim'iarr's d'wiip
| tion, at about daylinebt .Sundnv mm i
i ing. When he first saw him, Mr. Cor
j told ns, he was seated humped up ir
i h's car, at a filling at i' inn *? fhor'
| distance away from wh^re J was, T
I tried '?) rouse somebody at the stnfiov
I but tailed, and the men, whoae ?n?
was headed toward Clayton, turned i*
and enmc up to me, and. istced if ther*
Was % telephone nvar. I told him >hV
t could arouse the people it 1 .uoarby
house, but he paid not to do .*o. H- 1
then asked im. to exa nine hi? j?a?
which I did, and informed him thn*
he had. about 4 inches in li?3 lank, ?
sufficient amount to g"t hiiu to thr
State fineV wfcrre therr is a ftHtn/
station that was open. He then askc'
iv io examine his water, ?vhich I did
and he drove away towarl S:.r-b
Carolina". Mr. Cox told ns, the
sheriff stated, that if !h nan, .nippo-'
ed to have been Rh>nehp:l, ha?l :>ppri
him of the kidnapping- nn.l that h
had been rflienscd a short time brf?>r<
that he eould have called the officer
in Clayton, to he on the lookout for
the men, and that, having his own phi
at hand, he could probably hav-? }>m
sued and Apprehended them"
RMnolwt'a Statement
Mr. Rhinehai-t told of the difficulty
with two, men in 8vlva, and. that he
went in acarch of offi< ? rs, af.er "??
trouble. " I found Sheriff Man<v with
Chief ofPolice James A. Turpin. T
called Mr. Money aside anl told him
about tho troable. I told him 1 was
unarmed; and wanted protection. \fr
Maney said, "I've pot to go to supper
but will furnish you a deputy later".
"I then called a taxi 4 n earry ir.-' Jo
the Svlva high sehool balding, wh.re
the Schoolmasters' club was l.cMing i
banquet. There I eall'd Mr. M. B.
Madison, unpiiintendcrt of schools,
and Mr.' Coot Turpin, nemb *r of the
Board Educe tion out ar.d iold them
of the. .trouble I had had".
Mr llhinehart said; of his attempt
<?d trip home that, WI drove my car
to DiHsboro, where I had some gas
put iisat Capt. A. H. Weaver's filling
station, and Captain Weaver Insisted
that I take so-metflne along to pro
teet i$y?elf, but I thon-flit things had
blown, over, so I started on home un
armed. "Rounding thf curve bc'ow
Brown's dairy, a car pissed me, slow
ing $own even with i^e and a man
said,.;'Rhinehart, w:> want to talk to
you". They drove on. blocking (he load
with their car, which T thought wa?
the sherifrs, as it resembled it.
Two' men got out. nisi ed over to my
ear, jerked open the doors and cover )
ed me with their pistols. Thev were
masked and one got in front with me
and tho other got in the back s??at.
One of the men sale7 : 'Now drive
where we iell you". Reaching the
Barker enrve, acvcral hundr^l yard-*
further on thf road to Frankliit on*
ofj^te men commanded me to tun
around. I drove throng the hack
street of Sylva and on to Ba'sam ??ai\
where I was told to s'op. One of th?
men there said: "Wf'll have to put
tho bridle on you, you'll s?c too mm-li
I gueas'. I was then Jblindfold<?d and
Ihe aarteear which had stopped wo
approaebed. Hwe or lour m?n irot
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THE PRESIDENT
President Will Deliver
Message To Congress
On Next Wednesday
Washintgon, Dec. 26 ? The political
forecasters arc busy guessing; what
President Koosevelt will say in his
annual message to Congress, when
lhat bo<ty convenes on the Wednesday
following New Year's day. There arc
<ome things about which it is not
necessary to guess very much.
The President will report that the
business of the Nation is much better
than it was when he took office. That
is now generally understood to be
Lrue, in every important line. A hope
ful bms'uess--?;ulii4?Ut is. -reflected in
.he letters which come to Washington
jv-eiy day, and in the first hand re
wrts from nirn in the field. That was
not true a few months ago. The Pre*
ident believes, and will tell the Cor
grcss, that his program has changed
the rational psychology from despair
to hope. - - '
Certainly, more men nr.- back at
work. Entirely outside the several mil
lions who are employed '.u project ?>
of the Public Works Administration
and th > Chil Works Administration,
other n.'. Jlonn are back at Jobs iu pri
vate industry and business. I ' .stead of
being: a lurder winter th.vi lust, as
looked possible even a few weeks ago,
it now 'oofcs as if there uii;;!it be less
1 ~J*y for the st;j?|>ort o;
The President will report. that bus. I
ne.ss an l industry are organ i/i^g Hum
selves, undpr the National Kccoverj
Act; that they are pretty \vt 11 orgai
iped now, and are beginning to se?
the benef ts of organization and to
like it. And that will he truer thai
seemed possible in September.
There will be a Government financ
ial statem Mit which will amaze many
The budge t> which Lew Douglas wi.l '
submit to the President an;3 the Pres I
ideqt tq Congress, will be balanced, or !
practically sp. Understand, the budget I
relates on'y to the current annual ox ,
penscs i(ticl ?ncome of the Government
It has noting to do with tho borrow
Ings of Mso Government, except that;
it must jvovido means of faying in
tercet on loans. Including that, tho
item of interest on the huge sun-*
which have been borrowed to pay for
Public Works, to lend through R. F.
C. to industry and financial institu
t'ons, to finance uneii ployin #t relief
in various ways, and so on. the Admin
istration expecta to be abi" to show
Congress that i? it does not make
wasteful expenditures out of current
funds it can reduce taxes, v-t stead of
increasing them, and still pay all of
Uncle Ram's current bills.
The big coatrovcisy o'i financial
matters is likely to be ov^r the in
crease in {he National Debt. It ought
to bo reroruibercd t -iat un \r Secreta !
ry Me lon, which means through the
admini tratfr.vs <f Harding, ?oolidgp
and Hoovir, th" United States pair!
off seven thousand millions of its
ptiblie debt. Th< total borrowings un
der the present Administration have
not reached that yet. so far it is a
fair statement that we are not a8
deeply in the hole ho we wore in 1920
Offsetting that, of course, is the fail
tire of European nations to keep up
their payments oil the war debts,
j which were count( d to 1;>!.e up a i.ood
deal of the National li- ->t. But the
theory of this a.l ninis i.tt'on seems
to he that a nation's ?). . ?ts are not
meant to be paid, but merely to pay
interest upon,
Bankers look or debts as -ome tiling
to be paid, and Mr. lion was a
banker. Statesmen look an diebt;. as
something not to ' e pai and in ihai
respect this Adniinistri: Ion is deeid
pdly statesmanlike. If ti; ? emcrgi ney
can b.V hrwrowr ' menoy, stful
the ordinary 6af fairs o; .iovcror:ent
kept down to ar; eeo: nieal h; sis,
the taxpayers e* si; I a ."pretty
stiff impost for i teresi the debt.
< The Federal ('??vern.> tit can bor
row at. say, H j?er *ent a year interest
That would mean that a billi- n, a
year c?n be lopp d of ' the but 'got,
which Mr. Doug?.)? be" ves he has
found the way to do, t! ,. billion can
be applied as interest :i the r."bt,
and it wou'd be enoue' to warrant
30 hill'ons of debt. The -tional 7)cbf
todiay is under tw nty hi :ons.
So, we may look for lteommcndr.
tions by the Pre?: 'ont f much l reiit
er authority to Juror d> I t for pvblie
works and other occir 'ions which
will put men to work. 1 ' enough can
be put on Government payrolls, or the
payrolls of 0ov? '-nmont contractors,
so that nohftd.V who is ??'>le n?d will
ing to work is 1< ft un-iuploved, at
work which ?s p 'ually onstrpe'ivo.
then the wheel will 1 :in to Mini
over by itself, and pros nty wili not
reed any furtlu '? coa ig to come
back. That is tb<> the on which i
vast public work- is jie '!fied,
As to Agriculture, tb~[ will b: one
of the hifrh spot-- of (! ? Pre.sid~nt*?
m?ssacr. Ho w'll point ' > the snooess
of the wheat pre "am, ' ' ? cotton pro
prram, the c.>rn h ;<r pr<" ;?ni, ami the
stops which have been '-'ken to stabi
lize the milk sit?-*ition. -nd the henj
fits which have aecru' -1 to fanner?;
not only in bet' r pr \s for 'heir
products but in the 'p? of, fash
payments out of nrocep :,ij? tnxc- for
their services in -educi'- production.
On the money ' uestr - nobody ven
tures n arness w'th nr~ great -onfi
denoe behind it, f*>r thf T>resid< ni has
not disclosed, at 'east *? anyone who
will tell, just wh"t. he i uiminp o il?t
The brst opinior howe r, ?s thj"t he
will asss-ire >Co- rress hut be does
not eonitomp'fati- jpsiv ; "Prf? tinfr
press money", t' at hf - -o;ild li^e to
have authority to buy "!v;>r wrhout
having to coin '* intr 'ollars or es
tablish a defini4* rat'o to ffohl. and
that the time h~s no* vet cor?e to
| stabilize the dol'ar in international
trade.
Tn other won' , the ^pectation is
that he will let the '' liar eonMnne
to drop until i1 cr?l<' alno is ^ome
where around ;"fl eel hv the old
standard, nniles? Fn " 1 and Oreat
Britain indicate 'heir ' ^ire to sta^i
'ize their cnrrer"ies i: espcct cf the
dollar at a ratie whicJ a!r. ?oo evelt
regards as Batisticton And that has
?ot yet been reached ^
Crowds Throng Streets
For Christmas Shopping
i
TODAY and
TOMORROW
SQUIRRELS .... headed west
Some time ago I noted itt this eol
umn that gray squirrels were migrat
ing by thousands from Connecticut
? nto Massachusetts Now this trek of
the squirrel tribe in. search of fresh
food supplies is headed west. Numbers
of thein have been observed crossing
the Hudson River, some using the sev
oral bridges which span the stream
between New York and Albany, some
stealing rides on boats, maniy swim
ming ? and many of them drowning
in the effort to get across, I haven't
had any report of them crossing on
the ice, but in mid December the Hud
son was frozen over solidly from'
Poughkeepsie to Albany, 75 miles,
i nd that should make it easier for th??
little fumed migrants..
Nobody yet knows what particular
sort of food has run short in ihc^Xew
England haunts of these squirri Is,
but it is generally assumed Hint
hunger is driving them westward. An
other possible explainat:on, it seem*
to me, is the invasion of so mam
forest areas in the East by the Civil
ian Conservation Camps has frighten
ed them into moving away from the
1 vicinity of so many humans..
RECLAMATION Jersey flats
I motored out into New .Jersey on n
recent Sunday and, crossing the broad
t retch of flat swamp known as the
''Hackcnsaek Meadows" or "Jersey
Flats", T wondered why none of tin:
pro^cts of public works undertaker,
by the Govei?me:t included doing
something to make this immense area
of waste land valuable.
Here are more than 75,000 acres, a
strip probably JO miles long audi av
crashing four miles or so wide, lying
within two miles of the nation's lar<r
est city and separating it. from the
most populous district of North Jer
sey, whicli could! be made the greatest
recreation center in the world, by the
expenditure of a few millions of do
lata. r*ut a few hundred dredges a',
work, discing canals and channel*
and piling up the recovered mud an.!
sand to lift the rest of Ihc area pen,. |
anently above high water, and the
most wonderful park in America
could be developed here.
Tt would have to be a Nation*!
park, for New York won't tounch il
since it.lies in New Jersey, a sd Vw
.Jersey won't do it because New \or <
would be the chief beneficiary. And
I suppose commercial interests wou <
try to block it, anyway. Nevertheless,
I still think it is a good idea.
ART . . by unemployed
Instead of bare, plain walls, the in
sid^s of America's sehoolhouses hos
nit nls, post offices, jails, police sta
tions and other pub'ie build ngs ma>
soon be as decorative as those of hn
fopo The Civil Works Administra
tion presses to put thousands of un
eivploy.d artists at work, pumtin*.
pictures and modeling statues for ic
beautification of structures which a.
for public use.
If the work is carried out under
intelligent supervision, it ought to be
of enormous educational value, and
who knows but what some young art
ist now unemployed, may find in tin
work a chance to show bis genuis >o
that a hundred years from now an
lovers will make pilgrimages to some
obscure country school (?"J"
mastcrpiccc of tkc famous ?>?h"Sl h
Thnt is whnt happens in Europ. .
where thereat artists painted on the
wal's of churches and payees.
EDUCATION outside of books
I have just come across a definition
which seems worth passing along. Mr.
Ramsav MacDonaldi, the Prime Mu
ster of Great Britain, who got In
own schooling in a little rural schoo
m Scotland, but who is easily one of
the world's most educated men, said.
"The educated man is a man wi%
certain subtle spiritual qualities which
tr>ake him calm in adversity, happy
when alone, and just in his dealing*,
rational and sane in the fullest mear
ing of that word, in all affairs of
life". ,
' "Suck^en may be found everywhei.
They may never have seen ins de of .>
college; ihev may know little of th
inside of books. But they have com'
to acquire what is, after all, th main
end of all education, which is an un
del-standing of one's individual^ re.r
tion to the rest of the world. No cot
| l'ogo toarh anybody more thai*
't tat
As a harbinger of what we may hope
for 1934. and as a foundation npon
which to base that hope, the Christ
mas trade in Sylva was the best in
the entire history of the town.
Last Saturday, literally thousands
of people thronged the streets of Syl
va all day, and bought, and boughfc
and bought, until nearly everything in
the stores was gone, and shelves, show
casts, and racks were much in the
same condition os the cupboard, when
Old Mother Hubbard got there.
It was great in see the happy then*
ands of people, smiling, laughing,
?ight hearted, buying for the festiva
board and for presents for tho9c they
love.
Not only was Saturday the biggest
business itav in the entire history ot'
Sylva, one of Western. North Caro
iina's foremost shopping centers, but
the trade was good throughout the
entire Christmas buying season, far
better than for several previous years
and admittedly the best for five years
The story is the same from all
parts of the country. Probably the
increase was not as great in most
p'aees as it was in Sylva. Possibly
other town cannot successfully assert
that the last buying day before
Christinas was the biggest day's busi
liess in the entire history; but the
increase and volume were so great as
to be retraiked from one end of the
country to the other.
Observers assign two major reasons
lor the great Christmas business in
Sylva. One i? the general betterment
i of the country generally, due to the
policies of President Roosevelt, which
have put more money into the pockets
of Ihc people than they have had for
many year. The other is the fact
that tke merchants themselves had a
better and more optimisile feeling
than in recent years, and they invest
ed more money in newspaper advertis
ing than usual, far more than last
year, thus stimulating an interest
among the people, in Sylva as a shop
p:ng center.
'Dm two stimulants, Roosevelt's
policies ;rtid newspaper advertising,
operating together, brought the re
suits ? results far in excess o? what
the most optimistic bad anticipated
QUALLA
At the cemetery at Qnlia on DeceO:
ber 21, by Rev. J. L. Hyatt, the fol
lowing obituary was read:
Mrs. Sarah Brooms was born in
1861 and died December 19, 1933 at
the age of 73 years.
Before her marriage she was Miss
Sarah Shelton, daughter of Jack and
Ibby Shelton, of Canada township.
She was married to Andy Brooms,
and to 'them were born 10 children,
G boys an <1 4 girls, eight of whom arn
stiil living. Those surviving are: Daw
Brooms, San Pedro, Calif., William
Brooms, Roxbury, Va., Penn Br'oomu,
Iliawassee, <Ja., Jeff Brooms, Cruso,
X. C., Caiit'y Jirooius, Clover, S. C.,
llutt Broo us, Knoxville, Tenn., Mrs.
Sophia Collier, Cniso, N. C., and Mrs.
! Charlie Styles, Whittier, N. C. Thos?;
deceased are Mrs. R. W. Matahews.
Whittier, and Mrs. Oscar Callahan,
of Cruso.
Mrs. Brooms was a member of Jim
Missionary Baptist church for ov?m
40 years.
On Sunday morning at the Bapti-i.
church, Rev. J. L Rogers delivefed
Christmas message from the tex;.
?'An tlinu he that should come, or do
we look tor another". lli$ subject
was. "Thf? misunderstood Christ".
The text for I lie evening service was,
"What is thy name And he aid, 'Ja
cob". Both sermons were interesting
and the servic<s well attended.
Mr. -lack Battle, of Charlotte, is
spending the holidays at home.
Mr. ?). 0. Terrell, of Biltinore, U
spending the holidays with homo
folks.
Miss Lncilb* Scroggsand Mr. Worth
Orei li, of Biasstown, are visiting st
Mrs. A. ('. Iloy'e's.
Mr. Elbert Keener and Mr. and
Mrs. Ma< k Dixon, of Bryson City,
spent Sunday at Mr. Jim Keener's.
Mr. and Mrs. Kerm Noland, of Can
ton, arc visiting at Mr. D. L. Oxnor's
Misf cs Mozelle and Phyllis Woody
returned to Enka after a visiti with
hnm-j folks.
Mi Golman Kinsland, of Cheroto*
called at Mr. J. K. Terrell's, Sunday
afternoon.