/ M ? 00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE IN taples J Continue Case Ur ;il (Dock) Maples, young from Gatlinburg, Tenneavas acquitted by the jury, reek, of robbery with'firein connection with the nf Weaver's Pilling /I hoia u>/ ? I station, at Dillsboro, in 1936. Mr. A. H. Weaver, owner and operator of the station, failed to identify Maples as one of the men vho staged the hold-up. The case of Carl Crawford, charged with the murder of Asbury Ammons, was continued until the October term of the court. James A. McDowell drew a 4 months sentence for an assault with a deadly weapon. John D. Norman, reckless driving, 60 days suspended for 18 months, upon payment of $25.00 and the costs and good behavior. Leslie Lay, violatioh of the prohibition laws. $25. Homer Green was sentenced to serve 6 months for operating an automobile while intoxicated, at the October term of the court, 1939. He failed to comply with the terms of the suspended senand it was ordered put IC1AV V? ? -- , ? into effect. At the February term, 1939, Walter Deitz was sentenced to 30 days, for an assault with a deadly weapon, and the sentence was suspended. He failed to comply with the terms of the suspended sentence, and it was ordered put into effect. HOME GARDENS SHOW SIZEABLE EXPANSION ??? Judging from the appearance and size of home gardens this year pantries in rural North Carolina homes this fall and winter will be stocked with an abundance of canned fruits and vegetables, according to John W. Goodman, assistant director of the N. c. State College Extension . Service. Evidently realizing that tney face the prospect of slim profits from cotton and tobacco this year, farm families have given serious consideration to the suggestions of Extension workers and have redoubled their efforts to produce good gardens. Not only have these families devoted more area to gardens, Goodman said, but they have planted a wider assortment of vegetables. This will assure. a greater variety in the diet. That part of. the garden not used for current needs is being preserved for fall and winter use. In most home demonstration clubs at the present time, canning has come to the fore as a major project. Home agents of the Extension Service are instructing farm women in the latest and most scientific mettles of canning and preserving surplus foods. Likewise, Goodman said, these same agents are giving instruction to 4-H Club girls in saving fruits and vegetables. Many of -i_ , ... . . - ciuo girls nave taken iooa conservation as their major Project for the year.' Greater than usual interest in home gardens was stimulated this year by a new AAA provision which provides a small payment tor planting and cultivating a garden. The provision specifies a minimum of ten vegetables on at least one-tenth of an acre during the year. The latest available figures fr?m the u. S. Department of A&riculture showed North Caroiina well in front of other states in the value of vegetables produced in home gardens. BRITISH In response to the British government's campaign for increased home food production, m?re than 2,000,000 acres of grassland have been plowed up fHi are now being planted to I0?n crops. gSt ! 11 ..-%v.v '.. /~" ^ s'^:.-.;.' ' T'f'--' - ! .'. H I |H ' Hy [ -^ |V^.'7 v,j Hr ! iH '} |i THE COUNTY i Acquitted; Crawford Itil October Tuckaseigee Baptist W. M. U. To Hold Its Annual Meeting Tuesday , ' / * The annual meeting of the Woman's Missionary Union of the Tuckaseigee Baptist Association will be held on next Tuesday, June 25, Jtegihning at 10 o'clock. The sessions will be held in the Hamburg church, at Glenville. The program, as announced by Mrs. Charles L. Allison, associational superintendent, follows: Devotional, Mrs. W. N. Cook, of Webster. . Greetings, Mrs. Arlin Fowler, Glenville. Response, Mrs. Paul Buchanan of Webster. Report on Mission Study and Literature, Mrs. Fred Forester, Cullowhee. Report on Stewardship, Scott's Creek Church. Report on Personal Service, Mrs. Kate Bryson, Hamburg. Training School and Margaret n J ? ? r uiiu, jmiiss ijuueiia Drown. Report of Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. J. V. Hall, Syhra. Superintendent's Report. Roll Call of societies; recognition of pastors and visitors; appointment of committees. Convention echoes, Miss Martha Lou Stillwell. Address. Lunch. Young People's Hour: Song, "More Like the Master," Devotional, Miss Edna Allen. "Shining Along the Way," Sunbeams from Beta. "Gladly Learning-the Way," Girls' Auxiliary House Party, Peggy Ramsey. "Royally FOltaring the Way," Royal Ambassador Camp, Cullowhee Royal Ambassador. "Earnestly Proclaiming the Way," Miss Hattie Hilda Sutton. "That Youth Continue Steadfast"? Report of Young People's Work, Mrs. H. M. Hocutt. Reports of committees. Closing devotional. '"l; BALSAM P" 4ft*. (By Mrs. D. T. Knight) Fathers' Day was observed In the Sunday Schools here Sunday. Mrs. A. D. Lewis arrived Friday from Louisville, Ky., to spend the summer in her cottage. Mr. J. L. Ellis is here, from Atlanta. ; Dr. J. A. Klock and family arrived Monday, from Daytona Beach, and will spend the summer in their cottage. Mrs. Harry Rotha and Miss Tillie Rotha, of Waynesville, were guests of Mrs. Di T. Knight, Friday. The Stiles are here, lfhlch means that Balsam ' Mountain. Springs Hotel is ready for the tourist season. , > Both hotels are looking forward to a great season for Balsam. Cottages are very much in demand, also. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Smith, of West Asheville, visited Mrs. D. T. Knight, Wednesdayy. Lower Limits Vital To tut itoaa i/ejt uis . The short-cut to greater street, and highway safety is enforcement of sane agreed limits, according to Julien H. Harvey, nationally prominent safety authority and managing director of the National Conservation Bureau .accident prevention division of the Association of Casualty and Surety Executives. "If every citizen would study the statistics of America's unfortunate accident record for 1930," Mr. Harrey declares, "they would recognize instantly that keep Congress in session indefi fic fatalities is speed. It requires, i no expert to see that at the first? glance." A t,? .V . r#| . \% ' PI .-'v' . .v I ickm% SYLVA HO? ? ,f ? v * Federation Plans II FonnalOpeningof I New Department i The Furthers' Federation will have a formal opening of its new < grocery, vegetable and meat 1 market, at an early date, it was i announced by Federal officials, 1 today. 1 1 The meat market will be in t change of Mr. R. E. Dills, tfho i has been in the meat market 1 business in Sylva for a great 1 many years. < The date of the opening, to- , gether with prices, will be made ] in an advertisement in the next \ issue of The Journal. 1 1 PREACHER GETS j 8 MONTHS FOR rtHT/iiruv orwrr* a * wrt < Rev. George Clark, Negro preacher, of Webster was sentenced to serve a term of eight months on the roads, for the l&rceny of chickens, by Judge A. Hall Johnston, in superior court, here, last Friday. Chicken owners around Webster, Sylva and Beta believe that their fowls will be more secure during that period. WASHINGTON WEEK JOHN B. WEATHERMAN Washington ? In the face of unprecedented developments in events within this country as well as abroad the movement to keep Congress in sessio n indefinitely in order to deal more quickly with the ever-mounting probleins of national defense and to revise tax legislation is galnlngmomen turn 4n. all flan-. gresslonal quarters. The White Huose has expressed the wish to have Congress complete its task for this session and adjourn by ? M ? ...UU aiajtw. june 44. nuwever, wiui 141c growing seriousness of the situation in Europe and the intense interest in this country being manifested by Americans in all walks of life the bloc favoring the retention of Congress here in Washington is steadily growing. The demand for such a course is now being voiced by leaders of both major parties and it now appears highly probable that Congress will stay in session throughout the summer, taking recesses for the periods of the Republican and Democratic national conventions. It is a combination of vital circumstances which is adding impetus to the growing conviction, on the part of leaders; that Congress, in the interest of national welfare, must remain on the job. Most important among these circumstances was the disclosure that President Roosevelt is contemplating the possible sending of American armed forces to ] points beyond the confines of ' TTntfjkri states The rumors of 1 I W44V W AA?W%? w^wmm m ?m _ the possible destination of such : troops are varied. General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the Army, de- 1 clined to be specific with regard ' to definite places, in his ex- ( planation that the President had ( requested of congress the authority to call to active service J the National Guard, the Army and the Navy reserves is in or- 1 der to employ the use of such ] armed forces in other countries ( of the western Hemisphere. 1 Latin-America Alarmed i From diplomatic quarters, however, the information was available that several LatinAmerican republics are becoming increasingly alarmed at the < intense activities of Nazi fifth ; column agents inside these coun- ; tries. These countries are disj posed to view with such alarm < ! these fifth column threats that they are appealing to the United < States to send warships and > troops to help them cope with this growing menace. Accorchng : to this Information, It was in response to such an appeal that the Pretfileiit has just dispatched the United States cruis-, (Continued on Page Two) . . V ^ V m TH CAROLINA, TONE 20, 1941 Republicans iffeel In Philadelphia Foi Convention Mondaj ? i ' ? . " ' ' : ; t The speculation on the political front Is now centered upor che Republican National Con mention, which is to meet ii Philadelphia, on Monday. Due t< the unsettled and ominous in ternational situation, more thai iistial importance is attached to the utterances of the party plat form, especially as they ma; leal with foreign relations an< with the tariff- policy. A part: platform is regarded as the ma ture thought of a political par ty, put into words, and th pledge of the party along thes lines, will have its effect both h this country and throughout th world. It is assumed that th Convention will go into sessioi and draft its platform on the as mmption that President Roose relt will be the Democratic nom inee. It is generally believed tha the nominee of the conventioi For the presidency willfee one o five men: Thomas E. Dewej Robert A. Taft, Herbert Hoovei Arthur Vandenhurg, or Wende] Willkie; though there are othe aspirants, who are making bid tor the nominatoin. Dewey Given Edge The Gallup polls still give Dew ey, the New York prosecutin attorney the edge over the fiel as ihe most probable choice UUUUgll U1C WHI ucvcivpuicilt eire generally believed to hav weakened his chances. Robert / raft, Senator from Ohio, and son of William Howard Taft, th only man who has ever held th offices of both President an Chief Justice of the Suprem Court, is believed to have an ex cellent chance to be the choic Uf tiie convention. Former Pres Went Hoover is beyond doubt th best informed man in the Re publican party on ixiternatiom matters. He had first hand con tacts with Europe before an during the World War; was hea of the huge Belgian Relief; an ba8 kept his contacts ever sinc< Were it not for his disastrou defeat for a second term in th White House, he would probabl be the nominee at this time. H may be anyway. Senator Arthu Vandenburg, the Republics: leader in the Senate, has a wid reputation throughout the coun k? J I* is AnnotilAra/l in in UTJT t (UiU lb u buaaiuwvu iu u< formed circles that both he an Wendell Wilkie have goo chances at the nomination. 1 bhe convention should adopt ; platform based upon the com plete isolation of this countr from affairs in Europe and Ash Vandenburg would be the logics choice5 to lead the ticket tha would run on such a platfonr Platform Important Perhaps, at no time ih th history of this country has s much depended upon the lan guage of the" political platform and the type of men that ar nominated for the office Of Pres ident of the United States. Thus, all eyes turn, for th tim? bSifig, toward Philadelphia to see who is to be the Republi can didatVfor I^resTderit, and al ears are tuned to the floor o the Philadelphia Convention; t fbo R^foiihlirah rftCfti I1CH1 Wlicit/ vuv ? , has to say officially lipdn 1 ttf subjecfe thaft affect; thfe fdtfife] relations of this cotirifcry, botl diplomatic and commercial. */ .. Ciffi&dg Will Open June 22, 23, 2 Cliffffside Lake will' again b opfch ' tih Jtnltf 22, 23, ahd 25 t fishing. The flshitig ctiiitihue# t a 11 rac t numerbu^er4fluslas:t, Brdok trout caught to date aver ag?> tffell ove'r t&i ihCHfcs. riot! Ldke fpng; can be had, there being tw str^ffihsrwelf stocked with brool trditf, enflfrto timMetym tft main .Settles bx^ir jiigt" the dam, having some exceUen secured from the bathhouse a the Lake. ^ =.. ! i , t . *1 < | - ,-f \ 'y> ^ ^ |: ' : " - ' "&'* '. ... ? %'**' ''' - ' - V' '.r,' T * ;> ' :]:y%&!?%> > Iltt) t Sylva Legion Post f Plans Big Parade r Here On July 4th ?? The William EL Dillard Post, i American Legion, is planning a . huge, parade of World War Vetl erans and Boy Scouts, for 11 3 o'clock, on the morning of the _ Fourth of July in Sylva. i It is planned for the two Boy [> Scout troops in Jackson county . to lead the parade, and they will Y be followed by the Legionairres. i Every Veteran of the World War, t? or of anv other war in which the _ United States has engaged, is . requested and urgfed to join in e the parade, and patriotic celee bration. It is probable that other i patriotic organizations will be e invited to join the procession. i FRANKLIN OBSERVES I 4 0 0TH ANNIVERSARY - OF DE SOTO'S COMING ' I t Next week on Wednesday, 1 June 26, the 400th anniversary * of the coming of De Soto to r? North Carolina will be celebrat% ed at Franklin. At high noon on ft that day the North Carolina Sor ciety of Colonial Dames will uns veil a marker with appropriate cerembny to commemorate this colorful opening chapter on the . history of North Carolina and g our section. d John Temple Graves n, noted ? editor and columnist, will be the 3 speaker. Other distinguished e guests from many parts of the L state will be present at the ina vitation of the Colonial Dames. e The public is cordially invited to e come to Franklin on that day d and share In the entertainment e arranged I by the citizens of Franklin who are cooperating e with the Colonial Dames to make i. this a premortal occasion, e A pageant-drama, "Saga of i. De Soto," .will be presented in d the Macon Theatre immediate. ly following the unveiling cered mony which will take place on d Highway 23 near the Little Tend nessee river bridge. This page; ant, which has been specially x written by Miss Edith Russell of e the Russell - Harrington Festiy vals, will be produced under the e direction of Miss Rus&U herr self, by a cast of 40, With auttoon tic Spanish costumes. e In the afternoon the chamber . of commerce will guld# tw9 . torcades, one oh U, A' Highly d 84 to Chunky Gal m^tain d (Continued on Page a Births, Deaths of Infontg - ? ! TV { lAiA y increasing iruring l' Raleigh.?There were 82,47J I babies born in North Carolina during the first five months of L 1940, which was 712 more than were born during the corresponde ing period in 1939 and 18,049 in o excess of the 14,422 deaths report - ed so far during the present s year. e These figures have been com piled by the State Board of Health's Division of Vital Statise tics, of which Dr. R. T. Stimpson r, is the Director.The report goes on to show II that deaths through May, this f year, numbered 812 more than 0 the. 13,610 reported for the cory responding period of 1939. So e there are increases reported in 1 the number of births and deaths for the current year. Through May, 1940, there were 2,075 deaths in North Carolina ? /1A*I A tTAOf* among UIIUU1CI1 i uiiuci a jr vui old, compared with 1,926 the first * five months of 1939, while the total number of maternal deaths e was 188, just 19 more than oco curred during the corresponding 6 period in 1939. i! Deaths from preventable ac. cidents?543?numbered just 20 ft' 'more than, the 523 through May? jf 1939, while the 1940 homicide o total is five more than the 1939 fc. total, so far. (' Suicides are up in 1940, with f 141 as compared with 115 the it corresponding period in 1939. ;7: There have heeii no phenomd enal rises or slumps in deaths a' from any of the diseases listed, J the report shows. i I I II1111 cnrtTTirwrw I j IIIH11 flirmi !GS9P^?'f' ': Vr* * # * . ! '/: * *S - |2Jt A TEAR IN Al)V ^?ajmmmm Building Of For Jackso Urged By Cullowhee Methodists 3 Begin Daily Vacation 01 Bible School Monday ti ? ir Cullowhee (Special) A Daily ^ Vacation Bible School began at S1 tViA Piill/MnhAo MfifVirtHicf nhnrch iS VilV VUUV/TTliVV AVAV?U*V%kUiv VMW* VM on Monday with Miss Hannah Lou Brown in charge as director. * Teachers who will assist with "< class work and music are Miss ^ Gay Battle, Mr. and Mr*. Howard & Crawford, Miss Dorothy Wii- P liams, and Miss Melba Nanney. According to an announcement fc by the Rev. Walter Lee Lanier, pastor of the Cullowhee Method1st church, the church school will J continue until June 30 when it will be concluded with a Church School Day Program. & f< COMMODORE MAURY ? SUBJECT OF SFEECH o ^ i] (Winnie AliceMurphy) r< Cullowhee (Special) ? Robert ^ Lee Madison, president-emeritus r of Western Carolina Teachers ^ College, talked today to the students attending the summer c school now in session on the Life s and Achievements of Commo- I dore Matthew Fontaine Maury, ' Three states, Virginia, Tennes- 1 see and North Carolina, accord* c ing to Professor Madison, are re* sponsible for the development i of this great American; Virgin* l ia, because he was born in Fred- J ericksburg; Tennessee, since he received his early education 1 there; and North Carolina, be- ( cause his great teacher, Eisfrop Otey, was from that state. When Maury was nineteen, Jfr, 1 Madison said, Sam Houston, 1 congressman at the time, gave 1 the boy an appointment as mid- 1 shipman to the navy. In spite of 1 the opposition of his father, whose older son had narrowly escaped death at sea, young Maury borrowed a horse from a < neighbor and set out on the i seven hundred mile trip to Washington. Stopping for a few days in Lexington, he met . a , young girl, Anne Hernald, who, j (Continued on Page Pour) ( v .. * ? I JPc$?e Officers Begin i Retirement Fu^d J i State Aiwjitpr Rosp Ppu ? announced today tjhat apqroxi- ? matqly 600 law enforcement q? fleers in aU parts qf the State * have made applications to par- 1 ticipate in the Retirement bene- t fits of The Law Enforcement * Officers Benefit and Retirement c Fund. Each officer who participates f in the retirement features of the a Fund is required to contribute P three per cent of his monthly 0 salary of $200.00 or less, begin- 1* ning with salaries earned after a July 1. Officers on a fee basis i( contribute $3.00 per month, the 11 equivalent of a $100.00 monthly salary. Contributions are payable y by the tenth of month follow- e ing the month in which the sal- ^ ary is earned. The first contribu- ? tions are due oh or before August c 10. The Board of Commissioners P of the fund have adopted regula- t tions providing for retirement n benefits payments to begin July P 1, 1945, to all officers who have S served twenty years. In order to * receive credit for service prior to July 1, 1940, officers must make aplications before January I, u 1941., and muit mate contribu- & tlions equal to three per centum n of salaries earned beginning Juty w 1,1940. Applications may be bad 01 from State Auditor Pou, Cbabv h man of the Fund, Raleigh. ' CI The Retirement Fund is open * to Sheriffs, Deputy Sheriffs, Con be repaired," and added, "the anitary conditions are a reroach to Jacksop county." Hie jtext bf the full report fol)ws: . "To His Honor, A. Hall Johnr ion, JudgO Presiding at the une term or superior uoun,, 940: "We, the Grand Jury at this erm of Court, wish to submit the allowing report: We visited the 'ounty Home and find the inlates well cared for, with plenty f provisions on hand. The buildig is in good shape, except the oof needs a coat of paint, and he gutter pipes are in need of epair. Also, a screened-in porch , . o be built to the kitchenWe find all the offices in the Jourt House to be kept in fair hape, except the Register of )eeds' office should be equipped irith a soft light of some type, as t is impossible to improve it itherwise. "We visited school buildings ind find that they are being remired as fast as finances will permit. ''We visited the prison camp at .Vhittier, and found it in good condition, and well cared for. "We hnd the jail in almost too ?a4 a shape to'be repaired, the sanitary conditions are a reproach to Jacjkson county, and we hereby recommend that steps he taken to vote bonds for el new jan M Tho rPTwrt. is stoned bv Mr. *"v ~fr- * TT J.-O.TT- . Wike, as foreman. GROWERS TO BALLQT DN TOBACCO QUOTAS Faced with a market situation nore serious than that of 1930_12, flue^cured tobacco growers )f North\Carolina apd other Southern States will go to the x>lls July 20 ^o vote on .a threerear control plan. Recent amendment^ to the piota provisions of the AAA program have authorized this refii^endum, which, if voted on favorably by a two-thirds or more najority, would set up quotas on he 1041, 1042, and 1943 crops, leretofore, growers have voted >n only their next crop. E. Y. Lloyd, AAA executive oficer of N. C. State College, said ,ny loan arrangements to support the market will depend upn a decision by growers to reguite marketings. A majority vote gainst quotas would automat :ally eliminate any governlent loans. If quotas are voted for three ears, the AAA executive officer xplained, domestic manufacturers can pay fair prices for heir tobacco without fear of ex- ^ essive production during the eriod. Then, too, the exportrade will be more likely to lake purchases at reasonable trices, and the government can ive maximum support to prices or the export grades. Probably the greatest factor in he present distressed situation i the 1939 crop, which was. rown without regard to' alloti$nts. Flkaging caution to the lnd$, grower? barned a 1,160,O0,p00-P9ivid crpp, 34 per cent igher than the previous record rop of 1997. The result was a 30,000,000-pQund surplus. The second fcgsop, and perap? efamt ** great as the overreduction factor, w#s the s^rinsly curta&d foreign markets s a result of the presept Eurpean conflict. Coming together, le two dragged prices down to n average of 14JJ cents a pound >r the season. The previous ve-year average was 22 J) cents.