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LT7 0' K. 1 ABOUT MACON COUNTY Macon County is predominantly agricultural, but according to a survey published by the State Department of Conservation and Development, it has 10 industrial establishments, whose an nual output is valued at $724,474. In dustrial employes number 177 and their wages total $211,282. ! I ill I- I ! ( f n n i i . m m p O I.Ir. Vt!!:cr Gsts'TdJ ts in N. C. Grmmy Wants Guns Repealing Hoover Stocks Up PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT VOL XLVII, NO. 38 FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPT. 8. 1932 $1.50 PER YEAR 1 .SI . ? K . ) ( fir U I kartt Warns Walker William Randolph Hearst, Ex mayor James J. Walker's only N. Y. newspaper supporter, tias warned Walker that- he will not support him if he runs for re-election in an effort to punish Franklin D. Roosevelt. Walker resigned his of fice last week with a tirade of in' vective against Roosevelt who, he said, had not given him a fair trial in removal proceedings. . Hollywood Suicide Jean Harlow, glamorous girl of the films, tells detectives in Holly wood 4hat she doesn't know "why fier husband, Paul Bern, director of glamorous films, killed himself with a pistol on Monday. Bern left a note: "It is the only way to make good the. frightful wrong I have done you and to wipe out my abject humiliation." Farm Convention Meets ' Around 500 leading North Caro-1 lina farm men and women attended conventions at state college, K.ai eigh, last week. L. H. McKay, Henderson County, was made pres ident of the State Farmers con vention, and Mrs. Dewey Bennett, Pnrivth fraintw nrsidnt of the State Federation of Home Demon stration Gubs. Socialists Seek SuDDort Seeking 10,000 signatures in order to place the names of Socialist electors on the- North Carolina bal lots this fall, two Socialists have tarted a survey of the westefn part of the state. Norman Thomas may speak in the state late in October.' Germany: Wnts Arms "Under all circumstances, Ger many must do what is necessary lor her defense," said -Defense .MinistefT, General Kurt von Schleicher this week. He means to achieve for Germany arms parity with, .other major powers. J , rv tt r. nrll -.' uouars ror i opaccomsis Into "the pockets of eastern N. C farmers this week poured hun dreds of, thousands, of dollars. Prices for the new tobacco crop are, in some instances, triple those of last year. Large sales were re ported. ' " Repealing Hoover "Repeal Hoover" is the slogan officially" adopted by the North Carolina Young Democratic Club, -which filed a certificate of incor poration Tuesday. The club will tell auto tags bearing the "repeal Hoover" slogan. Fighting' in Ecuador Furious fighting in Quito, capital of Ecuador, resulted in death of 1,000 or more laSt week before.1 a rebellion wal quelled. Millions rront All listed shares on the New York stock market have increased their1 quoted values $7,287,742,341, during the month of August. v Tax Sale Called 1927, 1928 and 1929 Town Taxes Must Be Paid Prooertv in the town of Franklin on which 1927, 1928 and 1929-taxes have not been paid will be sold at public auction Monday, Oct. 10, under an order adopted by the town council Monday night. Ad vertisements of the ale will start 3n next week's issue of The Press. . The council voted to extend for JO days the advertisement and sale of property on which 1930 and 1931 taxes are delinquent. The local government commission, created by the state legislature, directed last spring that all property on which taxes were delinquent through 1930 be advertised in May and sold in June ; but Franklin's council hat VUivU OvVviai JvaijWHViiv"ia tit v ' der to give - delinquent taxpayers full opportunity to settle back tax es without the additional expense of advertisement and public sale. The council also voted Monday night to pay any reasonable sum, not to exceed one-half the amount put up by the county, to employ an attorney to represent the public in anv efforts deemed necessary to prevent the discontinuance of the Tallulah Falls railway. Other towns and counties served bv the"'T. F." have agreed to cooperate In a movement to thwart the petition of J. F. Gray, receiver,, forauthonty to file an application for discon tinuance with the Interstate Com tntrct eommUilon. CATTLE SALE SEPme2i Annual Cooperative Event To Be Held Again at Franklin Depot MUST LIST BY 17TH Is Chance for High' Prices, Says Sloan; Expects to Ship 10 Carloads ,The annual cooperative cattle sale for Macon county will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 21, at the Frank -liri, depot. Fred S. Sloan, county farm agent, urges farmers to lisU the number of cattle they have for sale by September 17, to en able him to order enough . cars and to notify the buyers in time. A number of corrals will be built at the scales near the depot to take care of the cattle. All cattle are to be brought to Franklin early Wednesday morning, where they will be weighed, grad ed and' paid for,, then loaded at once - for southern markets. 169 Sold Lut Yew The first sale of this kind was held last fall for the Macon coun ty farmers. . At that sale a total of 169 head were bought from 59 farmers. Five carloads of these cattle went to the southern mark ets and the remainder were bought as feeders by buyers of Western North Carolina. , The ' advantage of this kind of sale is that it gives every farmer the same chance to sell,' whether he has one or a large number of cattle. Any man has a chance to buy the cattle as they cross the scales, since they are sold to the highest bidder. By having the cat tle assembled this way, it makes it easier, for the buyer to pick what he wants in less time and at less expense. . - The cooperative sale gives the farmer a better chance to get a higher- price for his cattle. The buyers, are in a position to pay more, since the time spent in going to all , sectiont ofthe county and the expense of getting the cattle to a' shipping point has been elim inated. ; Se Agent "out . Mr. Sloan requests that all per sons interested in this sale get in touch with him so he will know approximately how many head and the grades of cattle will be offered for sale. , The listing of all cattle must be done on or before September 17. . It is expected that from 6 to 10 carloads of. cattle will be offered for - sale. The White Provision company,' of Atlanta, which spon sored . the sale last fall, will be represented again. 100 Attend Rogers Family Reunion More than 100 guests, 'from five states, attended the Rogers family reunion at the home of Mrs. Lee Leach last Sunday.. Five states, New York, Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, were represent ed. The next reunion will be held at the home of Mrs. Jess Rogers Whittier, Swain county on the first Sunday in September, 1933. , Editor Forced Glory Due The cditdr.of The Franklin Press is forced to admit that he has been sailings blithely along in somebody else's wind, Shining contendedly in the reflected glory of another's star. Now, penitent for his false pretense, he Is bound to ;'fess up" and inform the Vpublic that he has a 'ghost writer' and is not respon sible .for the great improvement which has come over this news paper during the past two weeks. The credit goes to Cameron Shipp, New York newspaper man and mag azine writer,, who has been guest editor of The Press since the last week in August; and who, we sin cerely hope along with our readers, will continue in this role for some weeks to come. We thought we had gotten away successfully with the subterfuge and could keep on enjoying the compliments of neighbors, friends and enemies as long as Mr. Shipp like a good reporter, kept his type writer busy and hit mouth shut. Immediate Work For 100 Men to Be Given in Three Nantahala Road Project Immediate work for approximate ly 100 Macon county men was of fered this week by the Nantahala National Forest offices,' which will begin three new projects " with funds recently released by the un employment reief fund. As announced in The Press last week, preference in alloting these jobs will be given to local ex- service men,, and all labor will be hired by foremen on the job. The Franklin office will hire no one. Henry Baty, foreman, is to be in charge of building a road from Webster Gap to within one-half mile of the crest of Rabun Bald. This road will be approximately a mile and- a half long and work will start immediately. The fore man can be reached at Webster Gap. . . . ' Lawrence Potts, foreman, will direct work and hire men on a road to run from Junaluska Creek, about six miles from Andrews, to WEAVER FLAYSIURGES W.NX. HOOVERTACTICS Congressman Sets G. O. P. Tariff Penalty at Three Billions A plea for a return to Jeffer sonian principles of government if this nation is to endure as a great Republic and a scathing criticism of Herbert Hoover was voiced by Congressman Zebulon Weaver of Asheville in an address before a large crowd in Macon court house Saturday afternoon. Mr. Weaver spoke under the auspices of, the Young Democratic Club. "In all great emergencies," Mr. Weaver said, "some democrat has been called to power' in this na tion." He cited the regimes of Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleve land and Woodrow Wilson as ex amples. " '.'When," he asked, "did Mr. Hoo ver become the sole guardian of patriotism? Certainly it has been in recent years, because most of his active life was given to ex ( Continued on pg tlx) Press Premiums Boys and Girls Working For Newspaper Prizes Several prizes have already been awarded by The Press' to boys working on the new premium for subscription plan. Premiums will continue to be awarded to any person willing to do a little easy work among his friends. You are permitted to have as many premiums as you can earn. Among the prizes ottered are air rifles, radios, dresses, boys' and girls' sport coats, shot guns, 22 rifles, footballs and silk stocking. 1 The Press' offer, is not a con test. You do not have to get more subscriptions than some one else to win the prize you want. Drop in at this office for further details. To Admit 'Ghost Writer 9 This he has done most obligingly, but despite his fine .modesty, gen ius like sin will out. Yesterday we received a letter from Weimar Jones, former Franklin boy who is now city editor of The Asheville Times, commentingon the changes that had come about. Weimar wrote : . "I wan,t to congratulate you on the improvement made in The Press in the last two issues. You've put a lot of punch into it, and dug up several stories chock full of human interest." That was too much I N longer could we' keep garnering praises due another. We were so conscious stricken lasts night that we could hardly sleep. True, the editor told himself defensively, the guest edi tor had been assigned to write his own story be he, self-effacing soul refused to do so. Therefore this belated recognition. Mr. Shipp is a former North (Continued on pag six) the mouth of the Little Tuni, a distance of four miles; then up the Little Tuni to Tuni Gap, then down Big Tuni, a distance of twelve miles in all. The job starts Monday John F. Cunningham is fore man on the Nantahala Road job. The road from Nantahala Station to the' foot of the mountain, about two miles, will be widened. Work starts the middle of next week. A camp will probably be establish ed near the station. Nantahala Forest will spend $55,000 for labor on many pro jects this spring and fall. In an atempt to give work to as many men as possible, crews will work on a rotation basis. The base rate f pay for Forest labor is twenty cents an hour, but in cases where men are compelled to stay in camp, and pay board, an attempt at better adjustment will be made. TO ADVERTISE Rotary Speaker Suggests Publicity Campaign For Highway 28 Speaking before the Franklin Ro tary club at its weekly luncheon at. the Scott Griffin hotel Wed nesday, N. N. Beadles, vice presi dent of the Asheville chamber of commerce, suggested that a pub- icity campaign for highway No. 28 be launched to attract more tour ists to rrankun and other towns along this scenic mountain road. Many people do not know of the mountain beauty of this section, Mr. Beadles said; if they did, they would want to come here. He ex pressed the opinion that one of the finest motor trips in Western North Carolina is from Asheville to Bre vard, through the Sapphire country and Highlands to Franklin and thence back to Asheville. by. Sylva and Waynesville. "We have many things in West ern wortn carouna mat money won't buy," the speaker said, "but people won't know about them un less we tell them. Comparing the mountain region with the low country of states far ther south, he pointed out that here one is not pestered with mo squitoes, drinks water without fear of contamination and enjoys health ful climate and matchless scenery. He urged that community jealous ies be forgotten and that all of the towns of Western North Caro lina join together in the unbuilding of the section. Baseball Scores Cartoogechaye and Cowee May Play Series This Saturday's games will end the official Macon county baseball schedule for the year. This seas on has found Macon county base ball teams in a league ana playing reeular schedule for the first time in the history of the county Plans are already being developed to have a league for next year, with a longer schedule and an ear lier beeinnine. Games set for last Saturday were either forfeited or rained out, with only two of the teams in the league starting a scheduled game. Three of the teams failed to show up as the schedule required and later failed to make any plans for the play-off. West End and Cartooge- chave were rained out in a two inning start. This game was finish ed on Monday afternoon at West End. The game was well played and in doubt until the ninth in ning, with the Cartoogechaye boys winning their second straight game from the , West Enders with score of 5 to 4. Team" Won Lost Avg. Cartoogechaye ....... .6 0 1000 Cowee 6 0 1000 Holly Springs 4 0 .667 West End ....4 0 667 Union 1 2 .333 Highlands ...1 S .167 Mountain Grove ......1 5 .167 Prefitiii .1 5 467 HIGHWAY ROUTE SPLITS COUNCIL Rift Over-Course No. 28 Is to Take Breaks Up Town Meeting jvlAYORTRIESTOQUIT Writes " His Resignation, Councilmen Adjourn, Don't Accept It Disagreement about how automo biles should be parked on Main street and whether state highway No. 28 should be routed over Main street or Palmer street almost broke up the town council at its regular monthly meeting Monday night -in town hall. A motion to adjourn, put while Mayor George Patton was writing his formal res ignation, was railroaded through in time to save the council from dis integration. One member, T. W. Angel, Sr., had resigned before the meeting opened and been replaced by J. B, Pendergrass. Another member, J, S Conley, had threaten ed to quit and others were showing signs that their jobs weer none too tasteful to them. When the meeting opened there was a delegation of 20 or 25 res idents present with a request that the council approve the plan of the State Highway commission to switch No. 28 from Main street to Palmer street, which would be sur faced and extended from its inter section of the Georgia road through the gap back of the Nantahala Creamery to a point above George Bulgin's shop. The -Mayor Protett When the minutes were read it developed that J. S. Coriley had called a special meeting of the council last week at which an amendment was adopted changing the Main street parking ordinance so as to require parking of auto mobiles next to and parallel to the curbs instead of diagonally in the center of the street. The mayor protested this action, declaring that he had not been properly notified of the meeting and was unable to attend on account of being engaged in court at the time. The minutes were disapproved, thereby nullifying the amendment to the parking or dinance. Later, however, the same amend (Continued on page six) Back to School Franklin High Has 327; 375 in Grades The summer, vacation ended, Franklin's public school opened Monday with 702 pupils enrolled. The registration was apprsximately the same as last year, with 327 list ed in the high school and 375 in the elementary grades. A few more pupils are expected to enroll be fore the end of the week. Three new teachers are on the faculty R. R. Smithwick, of War renton; Miss Rosalie Morrow, of Statesville, and Miss Porter, of Franklin. Mr. Smithwick, a grad uate of N. C. state College, will ipnrVi sripnrp in the hicrh school and coach the various boys athletic teams. Miss Morrow will have charge of the home economics de partment and Miss Porter will teach in the elementary grades. Uncle Jake Cloer's Beauty Outshone a Bright Red Sash (Editor's Note: Our Tongue-in- the Cheek editor, Mr. Edward i, wet chagrined last week to learn that everal cynical reader doubted the veracity of hit fiih yarn, in which he related how C. M. Moore and a 30-foot boat were swallowed by a fish. Mr. Edward's story this week will ttand the acid test j in fact, it hat become one of the legends of Macon county.) BY JOHN W. EDWARDS Uncle Take Cloer, who wears a bale of beard which is beginning to show the touch of age and which reaches far down toward the waist line, was talking to John H. Thorn as one afternoon, not so very long ago. This talk became heated, and the men were using their hands and arms freely, as I happened to am ble by on my way to the main street of the metropolis of , Macon county. Having found a sale for a few news items, I entered upon the stage. It was not mere curios ity, nor the great love for t little State Ready to Let High way Contract; .Veto New Route Macon County Leads ' In Red Cross Work The Macon county Red Cross chapter, under the direction of Miss Elizabeth Kelly, has so far outdistanced other North Caro lina chapters that MissKelly has been invited to tell how Macon does it in "The Red Cross Cour ier," national publication. "A chapter that has the best rural organization found in her territory, by Mrs. Sprinkle, that is doing the county welfare work ; is foremost in production ; industrious in pellagra control and relief work generally, sure ly deserves to 'speak its piece' before our great Red Cross family," wrote Frank J. Brun ner,' editor of The Courier. 4 JAIL BIRDS FLY TP COOP Three Saw Way Out; Another, Courthouse Sweeper, Strolls Off Singing right heartily v to drown the rasp of their saw, three youth ful prisoners sawed their way out of the Macon county jail Monday afternoon, lit out through a corn field and haven't been heard of since. At about the. same time, seventeen-year-old Lloyd Hampton, who'd been sentenced by Judge Sink to keep the courthouse clean for thirty days, walked calmly away and disappeared into the moun tains. The boys who sawed their way out were Ray Miller, 17, of Frank lin, charged with assault with a deadly weapon, reckless driving and larceny; Albert Metcalf, 21, of Hen dersonville, charged with larceny; and Lambert Talley, of Highlands, charged with assault and with vio lation of the prohibition law. Between Wall The cell from which they escaped is on the second floor, with a win dow giving on an ancient ware house. Warehouse and jail are only a few feet apart, so that the boys could brace themselves against the walls and slide down. Sheriff Slagle was able to trace them to the ' banks of the Little Tennessee, where two crossed over. But all trails ended on the banks of the river. Last April, three prisoners escap ed by sawing out. They were Bel don Waldroop, 17, charged with the murder of his half-uncle; Roy Mason, sentenced to serve six months for housebreaking and lar ceny; and Bede Mack, charged with larceny. They Were all cap tured. In sentencing. Hampton to his housecleaning job, Judge Sink warned him that if he escaped, he would catch him if he had to pay the expenses of the chase himself copy, Dut wnen I approacneo, h began to look as if Brother Thom as was so wroth up about some thing that he was making threats as if to strike Uncle, Jake. In fact it seemed as if reason had fled Brother Thomas' mind. The nearer I approached the harder my knees would rap each other I'll admit 1 was scared. But far be it from me to stand idle by and see an old man struck down in a street brawl, by a husky giant many years Uncle Jake's junior. Imagine my humiliation, my an tipathy, when I found that the quarrel was over their facial beau ty. First Uncle Jake would say, "I am the best looking." "'Taint so, neither, I am by far the best looking gentleman," re plied Brother Thomas, getting white with heat. I was so shocked that I didn't care much il they did fight. Be (Cfthtimiti M pag six) Commissioners Intend to Start W4ork on No. 28 Early in October DISPUTE CITY ROUTE No Decision On Course it Will Follow Through Town of Franklin Ready to carry out its promise to complete the surfacing of highway No. 28 from Franklin to Murphy, the State Highway commission is planning to let contracts on the Franklin end of the project on September IS and to start work early in October, according to in formation received in Franklin. Charles Ross, attorney for the commission, came to Franklin Sat urday and discussed the surfacing of this road with W: D. Barnard, chairman of the county commission. Mr. Barnard later said that Mr. Ross had informed him the high way commission intenaea to sur face No. 28 all the way from Franklin to Hayesville and Mur phy, the last unfinished link in the state's countyseat-to-county seat program, before July of next year, the time limit set by con gress for the expenditure of emer gency relief funds set aside for road construction work. The com- w. r-. . i r mission, ivir. ioss assurcu mi. Barnard, does not wish further to delay surfacing No. 28 and expects to start work on .the link from Franklin to Rainbow Springs, or at least to the foot of the Nanta halas, by October 1. He did not state what type of surfacing would- be used. Make New Survey It is expected that work will be started near the corporate limits and that the route will follow the present road most) of the way, changes being made only where necessary to eliminate dangerous curves. A surveying crew under B. S. Marsh, of the Asheville of fice of the Highway Commission, started to work this week making a new survey of the road. This crew was sent in after considerable dissastisfaction was expressed with the route proposed in a map, based i . on a survey maae in uie spring, which was posted in the courthouse last month. A petition protesting against this route was signed by west of Jrrankhn but atter the AnnfprpnrP KtivAPti f r RnQ arm 11.1, uai uaiu iaai ijaiui vcsj decided that it would De unneccs? sary to present this petition, as (Continued on page six) Museum of Crime Sheriff Collects Weapons Used by Killers The knife a wretched boy used to stab his half-uncle, the battered buckshot Tom Paine fired into the tough hickory stick a man used to beat his wife these are the prize exhibits in Sheriff ' A. B. Slagle's little crime museum at Macon County courthouse. The Sheriff's relics are all in the big safe and are not for casual visitors to see, like the collection of copper stills in a corner of the office. One of the exhibits Sheriff Slagle wanted was the gun Tom Paine used, which was an , exhibit in Paine's recent trial, but Judge Sink decreed that the weapon be returned to the Passemores. Another exhibit is the letter Mary Jane Gibson, 19-year-old neg ress, was writing when 63-year-old Bill Crump killed her with a shot gun. The last word she wrote trailed off into a scrawl as the bullets struck her. One of the shots pierced the paper. Judging from the collection, knives are the favorite weapons of the Macon scrapping set. Several battered frog stickers, with bloody records, are in the Sheriff's safe. FAMILY REUNION The Cabe family reunion will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Cabe Sunday, Sept. 11, instead of -Sept. 10 as was stattl In lut week's Press.