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ABOUT MACON COUNTY I
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Macon County has a population of
13,400. Its area is 328,320 acres. The
forest area is approximately 218,732
acres, comprising 75 per cent of the
total land area. The total Stand of
saw timber is estimated at 485,000,000
board feet. Facts supplied by N. C.
Department Conservation and Indus
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PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT
VOL. XLVII, NO. 29
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 21. 1932
$1.50 PER YEAR
RELIEF BE
Measure Carries More Than
x $4,200,000 for State,
. ; Says Bailey
MILLION FOR ' PARK
$2,800,000 To Be' Available
At Once for Highway
Construction ,
Approximately $1,000,000 for ex
penditure on improvements in the
Great Smo1y Mountains National
park area, is provided in the new
unemployment . relief bill that has
' passed the house and senate and is
jnow before President Hoover for
his signature. The president was
expected to. sign the bill Wednes
day.. , .
At Washington it is believed the
bill will be given the approval of
the president.
Senator Josiah, Willaim Bailey,
interviewed in Washington, said he
was delighted that the "bill carried
an appropriation of $1,000,000 for
use in the park area. "While this
does not appear on the face of the
bill, when the park appropriation
was asked for by Horace.Jtf. Al
bright, director of national parks,
he ' stated he wanted something
more than $1,000,000 iri i the sum
asked for to develop this park. I
think more than $1,000,000 will be
available. This will be of great
importance to Western North Car
olina and will help every, county
in the west, and will be a great
value to our state," said Senator
Bailey.
To Get Buildings
- Senator Bailey said the total
amount available for North Caro
lina will be considerably in excess
of the sum of $4,200,000. "The
new road appropriation enables us
in match the regular aonroDriation
and we could not have used it butf
for the new" appropriation," he said.
The senator explained that the state
will receive this year for roads at
least $4,600,000, and that-to this
can be added $1,000,000 fot the
Great Smoky Mountains National
park and $100,000 for Camp Bragg.
He also pointed out that- the state
will have'public buildings designat
ed for construction, probably total
ing another $1,000,000. He explain
ed that on the basis of the pop
ulation of the state, North Caro
lina is entitled to $2,500,000.
In the' event the relief bill is
signed by the president, which is
expected in Washington as soon
as one or two clauses have been
cleared up, the question then aris
es, . when the $1,000,000 will.be
available for park work and to
what specific projects the money
will be applied. .
In Addition To Road Fund
' Senator Bailey said that the re
lief bill, as passed by the senate,
makes at once available for North
Carolina $2,800,000 .for road con
struction; $400,000 for building at
Camp Bragg; $1,000,000 for ap
proaches, roads, bridges and im
provements in the Great Smoky
Mountains National park, a total
of $4,200,000. This is - in addition
to the annual appropriation of $2,
800,000 for roads. .
Work under way on the principal
approach to the park at the pres
ent is being handled by the state
and state funds have been ap
propriated for this purpose, John
C. Walker, state highway engineer,
said at Asheville Saturday. He
said that this includes 11 and one
half miles of road from a point
south of Smokemont . to Newfound
i Gap on the, Tennessee line. Mr.
Walker said that if warm weather
continues late enough this fall, the
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OLD NEGRO HELD
: FOR SHOOTING OF
YOUNG NEGRESS
Bill Crump, 63-year-old negro, is
in the Macon county jail charged
with the fatal shooting about 3 a.
m. Sunday morning of Mary Jane
Gibson 19-year-old negress, ' in the
Double Branch section three miles
northwpst of Franklin. At a coro
ner's inquest held a short while
after , "the shooting the following
verdict was returned:
"Mary Jane Gibson's death was
caused by being shot by a shotgun
in the hands of Bill Crump."
. Crump staunchly denied that he
did the shooting, declaring that he
was at home in bed at the time,
but circumstantial evidence was
sufficient to convince the jury of
-the probability of his guilt.
NEWS SUMMARY
A Survey of State and National Events Concisely
Told in Brief Up-to-Date
v News Reports -
NO NEW STATE SALARY
CUTS
Governor Max Gardner an
nounced Saturday in state
ment to the council of state
that no new reductions will be
made in salary or Appropriation
allotments at this tune, despite
a pressing financial situation.
If it is found necessary-to take
drastic Steps, the governor said
he will call a special, session of
the legislature for that purpose.
Battle Heads N. C. Bar
-Kemp D. . Battle, Rocky Mount,
was made president of the N. C.
Bar association in Asheville on
Saturday,' closing the annual meet
ing. Guy A. Thompson, St. Louis,
president of the American Bar as
sociation, was chief speaker.
Garland Smith Freed
In the third trial for his life,
Garland Smith, Cawtaba county
youth,was freed in Danville, Fn
day, of the murder of a Virginia
officer in December. 1929. Effort
will be made to secure his pardon
from a life sentence given for the
death of another officer at the
same time. .
N. C. First in School, Bus
North Carolina, with 200,000 chil
dren transported daily, leads the
nation in public school transporta
tion, reports State -School Facts.
The cost is 7 cents per pupil per
day.
Hoover Cuts Own Salary
In line with the national econ
omy act of congress, President
Hoover on Friday announced a vol
untary reduction of $15,000 in his
yearly slice in annual pay of cab
inet ministers drawing $15,000.
Flagler Trust Is Sued
The trustees 6f the $12,000,000
fund set up by Henry Flagler are
defendants in a suit by receivers of
the, Florida East Coast railroad
asking that the trustees be required
to apply funds of the trust to
needs of the railroad. The Uni
versity of North Carolina is a ben
eficiary of the trust to the amount
of $75,000 per year.
Scales Is Acquitted
Wallace Scale's, Greensboro, was
acquitted of a capital burglary
charge in' Forsyth Superior court
Friday. He was charged with aiding-William
Pryor in robbing Mrs.
A. H. Galloway and bridge guests
of $15,000 in jewelry, later pawned
in New York and recovered.
Meeting of Red Cross
Called for Saturday
A meeting of the Macon County
Chapter of the American Red
Cross, will be held at 2 o'clock
Saturday afternoon, it was an
nounced Wednesday by Miss Eliza
beth Kelly, chairman. Miss Kelly
said she had received a message
from Mrs. Mayme Camp Sprinkle,
Red Cross representative for North
Carolina saying that she would be
here to attend the meeting.
Miss Kelly urged that represen
tatives from each school district,
as well as teachers in each school,
attend the meeting.
"Do not forget," she said, "that
interest rnanifested by a school dis
trict will determine largely the
quality and quantity of social ser
vice work in that district."
Cowee and West End Tied
For Macon League Honors
The race for high honors in the
Macon county baseball league is
still in doubt. With a win for the
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Cowee ana aiso tne west una
is going to take the play-off game
between these teams ' to settle the
fijst half championship. For the
past two weeks these two teams
have been tied for top honors.
There is only one more scheduled
game for the first half of the seas
on, and before then West End and
Cowee must play off their game
that was called a few weCks ago
on account of rain. Mountain
Grove was- to play Prentiss in a
play-off game-, and after three dates
of tnr tlio cratno and Mountain
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Grove failing to show up at any
of the three date, the game was
forfeited to Prentiss.
BONUS CHIEF ARRESTED
Walter W. Waters, command
er of the bonus army at Wash
ington, was under nrrest for a
short- time, Saturday, until he
and his aides agreed to co
operate with authorities in re-,
straining the bonus seekers
from disorder. The arrest fol
lowed an attempt by veterans
to rush the doors of the capitol
as congress met for its hist
session of the term.
Urges Votes For Dries
Without indorsing any. presiden
tial candidate, the national pro
hibition board of strategy, at
Washington, Friday,' urged member
organizations- to support "those
candidates who believe that pro
hibition ought to be the law."
SILERS TO HOLD
REUNION AT HOME
OF JAMES M. GRAY
The; Siler family reunion, an an
nual event in the family for sev
eral generations, will be held Aug
ust 4 at the home of James M.
Gray on Ellijay. The reunion was
held last year at Camp Nikwasi.
Every member of the Siler fam
ily is urged to attend the reunion.
The Gray home may be reached by
turning left off highway No. 28
on a rock road which diverges
from the main highway at the sec
ond bridge east of Franklin.
OFFICES OPENED
IN FRANKLIN BY
' MOODY AND MOODY
Law offices have been opened
in Franklin by Moody and Moody,
prominent attorneys of Murphy.
Members of the firm are J. N.
Moody and his 'two sons, Ralph
and Howard W. Moody. Their
Franklin offices are located above
the Macon Theatre in the offices
formerly occupied by the late T.
J. Johnston, Sr. The senior Mr.
Moody or one of his sons expect
to be in Franklin practically all of
the time.
Macon County Flower
Show Set for July 30
The fourth annual Macon county
flower show will be held Saturday,
July 30, in the storeroom formerly
occupied by Callahan's 5 and 10c
Store. Use of the store has been
granted as a courtesy by the own
er, Mrs. C. C. Cunningham.
While the show is spdnsored by
the Franklin Garden Club all the
flower growers .of Macon county
are urged to submit entries. Cash
prizes will be awarded. The show
is open to the public.
A Tom Thumb Wedding will be
held at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Bob Scott's Home in
Bethel Section Burned
The home of Bob Scott in the
Bethel section about 3 miles east
of Franklin near highway No. 28
was destroyed by fire early Wed
nesday morning. The seven-room
house and also the furniture were
lost. It was estimated that the to
tal loss was approximately $3,000,
partly covered by insurance.
Mr. Scott was spending the night
with a brother and the fire was
not discovered until a negro man
who lived near by saw the house
in flames after mid-night. The
origin of the fire was not learned.
Last, Saturday's, games resulted
in the following scores:
At Holly Springs 5, West End
10; at Cartoogechaye 9, Cowee 24;
'at Highlands 14, Prentiss 11; at
Mountain Grove 9, Franklin 0.
The following games are sched
uled for next Saturday: West
End at Prentiss, Highlands at
Franklin, Mountain Grove at
Cowee, Holly Springs at Cartooge
chaye. "
The clubs stand:
TEAM Won Lost "Avg.
Cowee 4 1 800
West End ....4 1 800
Highlands 4 2 667
Mountain Grove .....3 3 500
Franklin ........ ....2 4 333
Holly Springs ........2 4 333
Cartoogechaye 2 4 333
Prentiss 2 4 333
SHERIFF CUTS
UP 45TH STILL
Raids Liquor Plant in Wallace
Gap Section ; Road House
Also Raided
Sheriff A; B. Slagle and Deputy
Sheriff George .Mallonee were call
ed to McClure Cove, near highway
No. 28 in the Wallace Gap in the
Wallace Gap section 11 miles west
of Franklin, Thursday morning,
July 14. On a small mountain
stream a distillery was found with
three men at work. The men
escaped but Sheriff Slagle said he
recognized two of them.
A '30-gallon copper outfit was
brought into town along with three
gallons of corn whisky. About 1501
gallons of mash and. beer were
destroyed atthe tsill.
Sheriff A. B. Slagle and his dep
uties have captured and brought
into Franklin 45 stills since Mr.
Slagle assumed office 18 months
ago. .
Sheriff Slagle and Deputy Sheriff
John Dills made a raid on the road
house at Cowee Gap last Saturday
morning. They arrested J. B.
Johnson, of West Asheville, after
finding 10 pints of whisky near the
house, concealed in an old auto
mobile casing.
Johnson was tried Monday morn
ing before Magistrate Sam J. Mur
ray and bound over to superior
court under a $300 bond. Johnson
said he was operating the road
house for another party. .While
waiting for the other man to ap
pear he attempted to flee but was
caught by Sheriff Slagle and Dep
uty Dills after a foot race through
nearby woods.
FARMERS BUY
5 FINE BOARS
County Agent Places Orders
For Registered Poland
China Stock
Fred S. Sloan, county farm agent,
ordered five eight-weeks-pld pure
bred Poland-China boars last Sat
urday for farmers in various' sec
tions of the county. Mr. Sloan is
in a position to order purebred
stock at a much lower price than
when an order for more than one
is made, a considerable saving is
made in transportation -costs.
The five pigs ordered Saturday
should arrive in Franklin by the
middle of the week. G H. Mc
Clure and son, of Route 2, are to
get a boar ordered from Feffreys
and Son, of Goldsboro, N. C, while
George and Paul Gibson, of Iotla,
sons of Walter Gibson, county
commissioner, also are getting a
pig from Goldsboro. These pigs
are sired by a son of the 1931
national grand champion Poland
China boar.
The other three boars are to
come from the state test farm at
Statesville, N. C. They were
bought by C. W. Henderson and
his son, Don, , of Gneiss; Jeff En
loe, Jr., of Franklin Route 2; and
George Stewart of Otto. '
These pigs are all purebred and
of the finest stock. Registration
papers are; being forwarded with
each of the pigs.
3 GAMES WON
BY 'ALL STARS'
The Franklin :"AU Stars" are
making baseball history these hot
days. The local boys have won
three games out of three starts,
with all three of the games being
very closely contested. Next Fri
day afternoon the strong Canton
team will ' come to Franklin to
give the boys a touch of real
baseball.
Last Friday the local boys won
a close game- with Cullowhee by
a score of 4 to 1.
The hard-hitting team from Tal
lulah Falls came to Franklin Sat
urday afternoon and put up a fight
that kept the Franklin boys in hot
water for 10 innings. After nine
innings had been played .the score
stood 5 and 5, and it took good
team work by the Franklin boys
to score, the winning run in the
tenth. '
On Sunday afternoon, the boys
from Franklin tested out the blue
laws by going to Highlands for a
game. The game was fairly close
in some innings, but Franklin won
a 9-to-6 victory.
Continuance of Hearing
Sought on Railroad's
Abandonment Petition
Heavy Losses Incurred
By T. F.' Railway, Says
Receiver in Petition
Following is a copy of the pe
tition filed by J. F. Gray, receiver
for the Tallulah Falls Railway
company, in the federal court at
Gainesville, seeking authority to file
an application with the Interstate
Commerce Commission for the
right to discontinue service over
the line :
PETITION OF THE RECEIV
ER FOR AUTHORITY TO MAKE
APPLICATION TO THE INTER
STATE COMMERCE COMMIS
SION FOR PERMISSION TO
ABANDON OPERATION OF
THE RAILWAY.
TO THE HONORABLE E.
MARVIN UNDERWOOD, JUDGE
OF THE UNITED STATES DIS
TRICT COURT, FOR THE
NORTHERN DISTRICT ' OF
GEORGIA, GAINESVILLE DI
VISION, SITTING IN EQUITY:
The petition of J. F. Gray as
Receiver for Tallulah Falls- Rail
way Company, respectfully shows :
The Receiver was originally ap
pointed June 20, 1923, under juris
diction of ( Habersham County,
Georgia, Superior Court. The pe
tition in this receivership proceed
ing was withdrawn and dismissed
September 1, 1926. The Receiver
was again appointeo, effective Sep
tember 1, 1926, under jurisdiction
of the District Court of the Unit
ed States, for the Northern Dis
trict of Georgia, Gainesville Di
vision,, which Court now holds juris
diction. The Receiver was also
appointed as such in an ancillary
receivership proceeding in the
United States District Court for
the . Western Division of North
Carolina. ' -
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The net income balances from
receivership operation of the rail
way, from date of original appoint
ment of the Receiver to Decern
ber 31, 1931, inclusive, by years,
are as follows:
1923 $3,913.22 profit
1924 15.827.fi profit
1925 ........... 35,789.20 profit
1926 i. 25,393.33 profit
1927 ..44,066.08 deficit
1928 ........... 11,181.32 deficit
1929 33,349.77 deficit
1930 i. 7,823.93 deficit
1931 73,271.97 deficit
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The relatively small deficit of
$7,823.93 for tho year 1930 was
caused by collection of back mail
pay $27,982.32 from the Federal
Government.
The estimated net income def
icit from Receivership operation,
fom the ycarcnding December 31,
1932, is $57,806.00. This estimate
reflects anticipated reduction in
operating revenues and the utmost
economy in cost of operation.
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The actual deficits, froni receiver
ship operation, in railway operat
Cheese Industry Likely
To Grow in Mountain Area
North Carolina has an annual
cheese bill of about two million
dollars, about 80 per cent of which
goes into the pockets of dairymen
in Wisconsin and helps to build
the nice homes, the commodious
barns and the fine cattle herds of
that section.
Yet North Carolina cheese ranks
with Wisconsin cheese in quality.
The two commercial cheese fac
tories now operating in this state
cannot supply more than one-tenth
of the demand.
This is the opinion of F. R.
Farnham, dairy extension specialist
and cheese expert at State college,
who began the small cooperative
cheese factories in Ashe,' Alleghany
and Watauga counties back several
years ago. Mr. Farnham says the
consumption of cheese is heavy
in North Carolina because working
folks have found .that it is a
"rib-sticker" and will provide about
as much nutrition for the least price
at most foods. '
ing income, for the first five
follows:
January ....$ 7,649.09
February 4,445.01
March 5,786.97
April ..... 5.397.38
May ................. 4,686.06
The monthly cash deficit fore
cast covering receivership opera
tion for the period June 1, 1932,
to December 31, 1932, inclusive, by
months is as follows: (This esti
mate reflects both probable reduc
tion in revenues and in operating
expenses during the year).
June ........ ..$ 2,448.00
July 8,066.00
August 15,914.00
September 21,602.00
October 26,540.00
November 33,413.00
December 42,976.00
The indebtedness of the Receiver
as of May 1, 1932, is as follows :
Taylor-Colquitt Co., Spartanburg,
S. C, cross ties, $6,129.84.
M. L. Dowdle & Co., Franklin,
N. C, cross ties, $4,371.05.
J. F. Darby Lumber Co., Vidalia,
Ga., bridge lumber, $7,153.33.
Transportation Mutual Insurance
Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1932 prop
erty insurance, $1,344.93.
Various, 1930 taxes, $6,144.41.
Various, ,1931 taxes, 6,129.59.
Southern Railway Company,
Washington, D. C, Miscel. Sup:
plies, equipment repairs, traffic bal
ances, rents, etc., $63,634.09.
Southern Railway Co., Washing
ton, D. C.,cashadvance,-$30,188.83.
First National Bank Atlanta, Ga.,
Receivers certificates due Oct. 25,
1932, $10,000.00.
Total, $135,096.06.
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The Receiver is unable to obtain
funds for further operations
through banking channels or from
the general public or other sources,
although he has attempted to ne
gotiate, without success, through
every possible channel.
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The Receiver has given due con
sideration to the possibility of ne
gotiating a loan from the Recon
struction Finance Corporation of
$85,000.00, for a term of not to
exceed three years, to aid in the
temporary financing of the railway
for the remainder of the year 1932.
Without making formal applica
tion to Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, the Receiver on May
24, 25 and 26, 1932, conferred in
formally, in Washington, with
authorized representatives of Re
construction Finance Corporation,
and of Interstate Commerce Com
mission. Loans to railways, prior
to being made by Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, are subject to
approval of the Interstate Com
merce Commission. It appears that
in the Act governing the making
of loans of this character the con
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Heavy transportation costs re
cently have caused buyers to use
the cheese manufactured at West
Jefferson and North "Wilkesboro
and the home folks have found
that this cheese is as good if not
better than the imported product.
Therefore, Mr. Farnham looks for
an expansion of the business in
the foothills and mountain sections
of the state. The two commercial
factories now established and the
small cooperative factories have
proven that the industry is. sound
and that the product is of high
quality.
One manufacturer said the grass
on the mountain sides of North
Carolina would produce milk which
would make as good cheese as that
manufactured in the Alps of Switz
erland. Mr. Farnham doej not
.think this is idle talk'. Soon, he
says, North Carolina dairymen will
begin to pocket part of the two
million dollars now being sent out
of the state in purchasing cheese.
Committee O r g a n i z e d To
Fight Abandonment Of
"T. F." Line
DOVER HEADS GROUP
Court Asked To Grant 30
Days Delay; Answer
Must Be Filed
A continuance of 30 days in the
hearing scheduled for Friday morn
ing in Federal court at Gainesville
on the application of the Tallulah
Falls railway company looking to
ward abandonment of the line was
sought Tuesday in behalf of th
various towns served by this short
line railway. The request for post
ponement was made to Judge Un
derwood in United States Court for
the northern district of Georgia
by John E. Frankum, Clarkesvill
attorney.
Mr. Frankum told The Franklin
Press over long distance telephone
Wednesday morning that Judge
Underwood was withholding his de
cision on the request pending re
ceipt of approval from officials of
the Southern Railway company i
Washington. He said that Judge
Wheeler, of Gainesville, represent
ing both the. Tallulah Falls railway
and the Southern, recommended
that the continuance be granted.
In view of this it is thought very
likely that the Southern will be
amenable and that the hearing will
be put off by Judge Underwood
for 30 days.
This delay would give the towns
served by the "T. F." an oppor
tunity to prepare an answer to the
petition recently filed by J. F.
Gray, receiver for the line. Mr.
Gray's petition asked authority to
file an application with the lafer
state Commerce Commission for the
right to discontinue service over
the line. He claimed that the rail
road was unable to meet its obliga
tions or to borrow money to defray
the expenses of continued opera
tion.
Maw Meeting Held
An organization was formed Mon
day afternoon at a""mass meeting
in Clayton to seek means of in
suring continued operation of the
"T. F." Shippers and business ma
from Macon county, North Caro
lina, Rabun and Habersham coun
ties, Georgia, were present. Dr. J.
A. Green, of Clayton, was elected
chairman of the meeting and R. D.
Sisk of Franklin, secretary.
After considerable discussion of
the matter it was decided that the
representatives of each county
should appoint a committee of three
persons to represent their county
on a central committee empowered
to take whatever action it should
see fit.
Committee Personnel
The Macon county group select
ed M. D. Billings, chairman, M. L.
Dowdle and D. D. Rice. Rabun
appointed Dr. J. A. Green, chair
man, Dr. J. C. Dover and J. T.
Davis, while Habersham named -L.
Y. Irving, chairman, Frank E. Ga
briels, and John E. Frankum.
The central committee is expect
ed to meet in a day or so to com
plete its plans. Dr. Dover is chair
man of the committee.
On a- motion of Dr. Dover the
mass meeting went on record fav
oring the operation of the rail
roads in preference to trucks an4
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Carelessness Costs "
Camper Fine of $70
Dr. S. M. SneUon, of Tocco,
Ga., wa found guilty in Federal
Court at Gainewille, Oa on
July 14 of leaving a camp fir
unattended on National Forest
land. Forest officer produced
evidence .tending to show that
Dr. Snelson's camp fir had
scaped to the neighboring woods
and burned approximately 40
acres of government land. He
was fined $70.
lit imposing . the fine, Judge
Underwood, of the. northern
judicial district of Georgia, de
livered a severe indictment of
the carelessness which has pro
duced so many of Georgia's dis
astrous fires during the past 18
months. He said that the south'
heritage of forest resources could
not be valued so lightly if it Is
to continue to . receive benefit
from them.