North Carolina Newspapers

1 i II J w x i n (I i U 1 r, n j -J i Vv V mm RED CROSS r f ' ROLL CALL TTTlT November 11 - 10 7'V. wv 4. 4 Vtttk Green as Grass Comparing Crop Values Power Reductions Employment Improving PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL - INDEPENDENT VOL. XLVII, NO. 44 FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, NOV. 3, 1932 $1.50 PER YEAR POLITICAL FODDER ."Grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities," if Democratic tariff policies are adopted, Presi dent Hoover told a G. 0. Partisan meeting ri Madison Square Garden Monday n:ht Speaking in- Bos ton the same night, Democratic Nominee Franklin ' DeLano Roose velt accused Hoover of seeking to undermine reason with fear and attempting to "coerce" the voters in ; returning him 'to office with threats of vdire economic calamities should the Democrats win. Hoover .plans to be in his home town Palo Alto, Calif, to cast his ballot on, election day after winding up his transcontinental campaign tour. Roosevelt plans to cast his ballot at Tarrytown, N. Y. then going Democratic headquarters in New .Yorlt City to receive returns, which most political forecasters predict will elect him by the largest Dem ocratic majority in a generation or ' more. v ' " ... HIDING THE. ELEPHANT Campaigning for Democracy in Greenville Monday night, Governor .Gardener recalled that in 1902 Rc- ' publican Senator Pritchard pushed Locke. Craig into the political .jEQrn- er fcy declaring, that -the liide -of -a bull calf ""was worth more under McKinley than a 1,200 pound steer under Cleveland. " Then the govern or proceeded to strip the hide off the G. O. Partisan elephant, com paring the difference between agricultural -values under Wilson and under Hoover. 'Pitt is our greatest agriculturaP county," . he said. "In 1919, under Woodrow Wilson, the crop value( of Pitt county, reported by the U. S. Cen sus, was $21,COO,000. In . 1931, the crop value of Pitt county, under Herbert Hoover," had fallen to the bankrupting value of slightly more than $4,000,000x x x x Curing the administration of Herbert Hoover the farmers of North Carolina have lost approximately $150,000,000 in " the "annual value of their crops enough to pay the entire - bonded debt of the state." POLITICAL EXPENSES Camoaien expenditures of $1,454.- ! 79 were reported Saturday by the -Republicair-natjonal-xommitteeor the period from June i to October 26. The party still had a- balance of $120,000 in the treasuryJSiggest G. O. Partisan contributors ' were Andrew Mellon, $25,000; other Mel lons. $20,000: Oeden Mills. $25,000; Eldridge-Rr" Johnson -phonograph inanuiaciurer, 9 ou,uw. irur uic wmc period Democratic receipts were S5l.06S.654 and disbursements $926,- r-i T cn(Wi T? u . I 208. The Democratic party has. been making frantic appealsj donations of anv size to help stave off a deficit. . In this state, party campaign expense reports show the Republicans have spent $5,760 and the Democrats $4,432. Each party .had depression bank balances, left. Republican Job Holder Gilliam Gris som was the biggest G. O. Par tisan contributor with $500,! while Judge Frank A. Daniels, with a $250 gift, was the Democratic big ; money giver UTILITIES PROPOSE REDUCTIONS Electric power rate : reductions averaging from 5 to-10 per -cent were proposed before the . state corporation commission last week by the four big utility companies serving North Carolina. The com mission estimated the; reductions would save $402,000 per year from power bills to consumers. :. 500,000 BACK TO WORK William Green, president""! the American . Federation of Labor, es timates that 500,000 have found em ployment in the past month, al though much of the work is seas onal and temporary. Green says 10,900,000 remain idle in the coun . try, - .. , . DIVERS HUNT GOLD Eight suspects are held in New York following the theft of $50,000 in gold bars from a Brooklyn re fining plant. Divers are at work trymg, to locate the gold at the bottom of East river 'where the robbers threw it after a false test had led them to believe the metal was brass. ' TEXTILE PIONEER DIES i A pioneer in the textile industry of Gaston county and North Caro lina, Abel P. Rhyne, 88, died at Mt Holly, on Saturday night. FLOGGERS ARE ARRESTED Nine are under arrest at Jack sonville, Fla., charged with 'a score or more of severe floggings which have recently been given men, wo men ind children, Join the Red Cross and Help The Di stresse d and Nee d y I " if - f ZZJ ill 4 s.- .iAv..v, - s - : i i 7 f $ V " BISMMBI Miss Elizabeth Kelly "Reported Improving MisEIizabetliKelly, who un derwent, a serious operation at Angel Brothers' hospital last Friday morning,,was "'reported today to be doing as well as could be expected. For several ' days after the operation Zb.ercanditian.ZZ was viewed as critical; but tbe early part of this week she unproved with some rest and it was stated today that she probably would e removed to her home within the next week. West Addresses G. O. P. Meeting at Highlands - Prominent Republicans of Macon county held a meeting in the high school auditorium Saturday after noon. The audience listened with interest o speeches made by W. West, Republican-candidate for representative, -and -by-T, G.- Har bison. Mrs. Nan Fulmer Dies at Tomotla News was received here this week of the .death of Mrs. Nan Fulmer, 79 of Tomotla, hear Murphy. . Mrs, Fulmer was the stepmother of Mrs. E. K. Cunningham. iiik, mm I Several Hundred Attend Dedication of New Church Several hundred persons attended the dedication Sunday of the new Clark's1 Chapel Methodist church, the only stone church in Macon county and one of the most modern and beautiful churches in Western Nortn Carolina. The service was conducted by the Rev. L. B, Hayes, presiding elder, of the Waynesville district, assisted by the Rev. H. C. Free man, pastor of the church, and the Rev. J. C. Umburger, pastor of the Macon circuit. Rev. Mr. Hayes praised the loy alty of the congregation and the cooperation of its members with their pastor, who had worked dil igently for four years . to bring about the completion of the new church.. He emphasized the fact that the congregation was not rich in material resources but was in deed rich "in those things which money cannot buy." .The first Methodist church in k ; 1 U f 1 mm , .,,:.::v.:.w: ip;ip:.:. mm 'fit 9 DEATHCMS T.F.'C0iMCT0R R. C. Snyder DiesaFCor; nelia Following Long -Illness R. C. Snyder died , at his home in -Cornelia, Ga.; Wednesday morn ing at 11 o'clock after a serious illness of six months. Funeral services will be held at the Cornelia Baptist church, wliere he had been a member for several years, at 10 o'clock Thursday and the body will be brought to Bethel, Macon county, for burial Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Mr., Snyder was formerly of Ma coo. county Jie . moved, to . Georgia about 12 years ago. He has been an employee of. the Tallulah Falls railroad for about 20 years. When he became ill he was conductor TromXbrhelialo' Franklihrlfe was a member of several lodges. Surviving are his widow, who was Miss Berdie Cabe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Cabe, of Franklin, and five children, Fan nie Burr, Marie, J. R., Paul and Berdie Lee. the Clark's Chapel community was erected about 100 years ago. ' The new church is the third to serve the congregation. The last build ing was burned in November, 1928. Work on the new building was started early the following year. Plans for it were drawn byW, D. Keener and Rev. Mr. Freeman and, after they had. been approved by the authi&ities of the" Methodist Episcopal Oiufch, South, work was started. There was little cash on hand and comparatively little was forthcoming. ' But, nevertheless, the work proceeded. The church now, a handsome structure of native stone, is valued "at $12,500. But most of this was contributed in labor and materials by members of the congregation and friends who belonged to other churches. Only $3,500 in cash was given to the church, $2,750 of this by the Duke Endowment, according to Rev. Mr, Freeman. ' NEW ROAD WORK P BIDS RECEIVED Highway Commission To Consider Proposals Friday OLD BIDSREJECTED Work on No. 28 To Afford Employment To Many Macon Men New bids were received by the State Highway commission at Ra leigh Thursday on two projects in .Macon county and two in Clay county, both on highway No. 28. Earlier bids, opened by , the commission October. 20, had been rejected. The commission is ex pected to act on the new bids Friday. The low bidders today were: 10.37 miles of traffic bound Mc Adam from Franklin to the foot of the Nantahala mountains, Cobb andJEIomewoQd33iapeL-Hinr$100,- 412.50- 5.8 miles of traffic bound Mc Adam from flie end, of the above project to Rainbow Springs, C. Yj Thomason, Greenwood, S. C. $5,- 1.14.40. 7.28 miles of traffic bound, Mc Adam in Clay county, C. Y. Thom ason, $56,960.60. ' 7.45 miles of traffic bound Mc Adam in Clay county, $59,359.90. Thomason was low bidder on both Macon county projects at the first opening of bids. The bridge and structure contract for the Ma con county links of No. 28 were let to Hobbs-Peabody company of Charlotte. ' To Use Local Labor After the contracts are let, the work is to be done as far as pos sible With local labor, as the ap propriations for the : "projects" comes from the federal emergency re lief -iuud. A minimum .wage jof 20 -cents -an -hour Jsto be paid unskilled "laborers, and a minimum of 30 cents an hour t skilled lab orers. Applicants for work on, these projects are urged to apply at the office of Miss Rachel Dais, Maconounty'elfarc-TvorkerHn the courthouse, betwen .9 a. . m. and 4:30 p. m. Saturday. Wor for Hundreds yiSkTLM-Su... 28. "is cxpectedllO afford employment to hundreds of Macon county men. Miss Davis has received the fol lowing instructions from the State Department of Welfare as to the placement of applicants . for road jobs: ' We suggest that you arrange your list of unemployed in ,the following order, according to the rules of the State Highway com mission, so as to be of the most help to the contractor who will make his selection accordingly: (a) ex-service men with deperi- dentSL. (b) .men - other than .-.ex-service men with dependents; (c) unmairred men, either ex-service or-non-service -men." A number of Macon county men already have found employment on road work -carried out "with-direct emergency . elief funds.. Four hun dred and fifty dollars was allotcd to this county several weeks ago and this has been expended on road work in -various sections of the county and on completion of the Franklin athletic field. The road work has been' in the fol lowing communities; Skeenah, with Zeb Shope as supervisor; Cartooge chaye, .with John Roan as super visor; Tellico, with Ed By as supervisor; and Leatherman with E. O. Rickman as supervisor. The supervisors have served voluntari ly without pay. New allotments 1 (Continued . on page four) Honor Roll 15 Pupils Get on List at Highlands Fifteen pupils made the honor roll of the Highlands consolidated school during the second month of the school term, it was announced this week by O. ,F. Summer, prin cipal. The honor roll follows: First grade: Edna Phillips, Bill Moss, Frank Burrell. Second grade : Jessie Anna Potts, Marie Neely, Gertrude Webb. Third grade: James Hunt, Fe licia Mae Edwards, (Lois Munger. Fifth grade: Richard Zoellner, Agnes Roper,- High school: Mary Keener, John W. Edwards, Eula May Potts, Wendell Cleaveland. olitical As General Saturday Roosevelt Gets 41 States And Tremendous Majority In Digest's Straw Vote Roosevelt, 1, 7l4,789; Hoover 1, 150,398 that's the final outcome of The Literary Digest's presidential straw 'vote, as announced in this week's, issue. Roosevelt's majority carried with it 41 states out of the 48. Roosevelt's percentage of the total number of straw ballots cast was 55.99; Hoovers, 37.53. Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for president,- polled 148,079 votes,-4.48 per cent of the total . The electoral votes, on the basis of The Digest's poll, would be di vided as follows: 474 for-Roosevelt and 57 for Hopver. Democratic Victory Likely "Unless all signs fail, unless some unexpected, eleventh-hour condition arises to reverse the nation-wide trend disclosed by this great mon ument of freshly gathered . statis tics, the complete poll will be in terpreted by many practical men eand women of all parties as a pres age of a Roosevelt victory." , laking uo the straw vote re turns by states, one finds that; BOTH PARTIES PLMMLIES lepublioan and Democratic Candidates To Speak Here Saturday TTdtli R epuTjlicarT randDcmocrafic county candidates are scheduled to hold party rallies in the courthouse Saturday afternoon. '. ' W. J. West, Republican county chairman and candidate for repre Sentatiye.hasannoinice -and uthcrrritcpubhean candidate will speak at the courthouse at 2:30 p. in. The Democratic can didates also had announced they would appear in the courthouse at 2:30, but after their attention had been called to the conflict with the Republican speaking they de cided to delay their rally until after the Republican candidates had finished speaking. The Democratic candidates C. L, I Ingram, for representative; A. B. 'f1 1 f t 'Ft m aiagie, ior snerut, ana 'c iom Bryson, for register of deeds are also scheduled to speak at the following places Ellijay 3 :30 p."mr Friday: Holly Springs 7:30 p. m. Friday mgaonviue :ju p. in. raturciay The Republicans have been stump ing the county like the Democrats, but have announced no definite schedule of their meetings. Speakers have been assigned by the Young People's Democratic club of the county to address meet ing at 7:30 o'clock Friday night at the following places: Otto Dr.' W. A. Rogers and Sam (Continued on page four) Crowd of Over Macon Singing Convention More than 1,000 persons attend ed the Macon County Singing con vention at the courthouse last Sun day. Several counties and states were represented, and the follow ing classes took part in the sing ing: From Swain county, Bryson City quartet, the Cherokee Indian class, duets by Baxter Smiley and others, and duets by the Shelton Brothers ; from Clay county, E. L. Ballard quartet, Valley River quartet; from Haywood, Smith and Shelton quar tet, Shelton Brothers duet, bass solo by Rowe Haney ; Jackson county, East Sylva quartet, from Bessie, N.. C, J. P. Blacklin, solo; Macon county, Smith and Mason quartet, Mason Branch mixed, Lib erty class, Ellijay class, Ridgecrest class, Ridgecrest quartet, duet by Mrs. Arlesa Roper and daughter, Jessie, "Just Around the Bend," word9 and music by Jim and Frank McCravy, radio artists. Dituaoon Oection Wears; s Challenge Day North Carolina gave Roosevelt 28, 153; Hoover, 9,963; New York, Roosevelt, 172,765; Hoover, 164,453; California, Roosevelt, 148,832; Hoov er 81,834. The seven states which Hoover carried were Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hamp shire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont. The District of Columbia went for 'Roosevelt. Even rock ribbed Pennsylvania swung into the Democratic column, ' giving Roose velt 124,675 to Hoover's 93,057. Few-Changes- Likely ""Con siderabl e"1 lkehhood -is seen that Massachusetts and Rhode Is land may prove on election day to be Democratic rather than Re publican, despite the Digest's re turns. Some possibility is seen al so for a change in Connecticut, New Jersey nd New Hampshire. According to a survey made by the Associated ress, 47,000,000 per sons have qualified to vote in next Tuesday's election, exceeding by four and a half million the record- shattering registration of 1928. Ehringhaus Pays Visit To Franklin, Highlands J C. Ehringhaus, Democratic nominee tor governor of -North Carolina, visited Franklin and Highlands last Friday afternoon while on a final pre-election campaign tour - of ; the -western counties. He stopped in Frank lin for an hour or so early in the afternoon -and -made .a brief address to a small crowd . which gathered in front of the court house. In Highlands he was cordially greeted by "prominent citizens and spent a short while chatting with business men and Major Harris Prospering In Prosperous Town Major S. A. Harris, former edi tor and publisher of The Franklin Press, is prospering well in the prosperous town of Moultrie, Ga., where he is , secretary of a pro gressive chamber of commerce, ac cording to Dr. R. M. Rimmer, who returned several days ago from a visit with the Major. Major Harris has a beautiful jiome and many friends 'in NfpuP trie, Dr. Rimmer said, but he is as much interested -as-ever inthe goings-on in Franklin and Macon county. Each ..week.nihe quoted the Major as saying, the Harris fam ily waits eagerly for The Frank lin Press and news of their old friends and acquaintances. Dr. Rimmer said Major Harris expected to come to Franklin for a visit in about two weeks. 1,000 Attend Chairman James M. Raby an nounccd there " would be another all day singing at the courthouse on January 29, 1933. Decreased industrial activity in the . state last year brought a de crease in the number- of worker injuries reported to the N. C. in dustrial . commission. In . the year ending June 30, workers injured dropped to 25,886 from 28,750 the year before. Total costs reached $1,142,502 with medical costs total ling $431,653 and workers or their families getting $710,849. Blinding fog caused the crash of a Charlotte airplane on a country road near Mooresville Monday, with Edward H. Byars, 45, owner and pilot, W. Earle Padgett, 42, Lin- colnton, and his daughter, Earleen Padgett, 17, dying m the crash The girl was thrown clear, the twtt men dying in the wreckage. t1 Jienoe Local Candidates of Both Parties Stumping County CHALLENGES MADE Board Takes Steps Prevent Election Disagreements To, With the election only four days off, the political situation in Ma con county is growing tense. Lo cal candidates of both parties are going from township to township stumping the county and making final pre-election pleas for the sup- port of the voters at the" polls next Tuesday. -Withlthe-view-to-avoidihgny-election daydisagreemcntsrhc county board of elections, of which J. R. Morrison is chairman, has taken precautions to make the poll ing as orderly as possible. The board has obtained an ' agreement from the leader? of both parties for a quiet, businesslike system of making challenges. Two represen tatives of each party are to gath er Saturday . in each township to go over the registration books with the registrars; All other per sons are to be excluded from the place where the challenge pro cedure is being carried out. This is expected to eliminaete a coiK siderable amount of friction. Challengers' Named " Folb'ving are the challengers by townships as named by Albert Ramsey, chairman of the Democra tic county executive committee, arid W. J. West, chairman of the Re publican cOunfycxeTiitne nccdP mittee: . . " Millshoal J hu Raby and Harve Cabe, Demoefatsf-Ad-Kinsland-and-Arvey Seay, Republicans. Ellijay Tom Bryson and Loren Moses, Democrats; Will Hidgon aTrdj6hu"CorbinrRepubIicansr Sugar rork-r-Olney Moses and Luther Holland, Democrats; Dave McCoy and John Dills, Republi- cans. Highlands Ed Potts and W."S. Davis, D-mocrats; T. G. Harbi son and Ed Picklesimer, Republi cans. Flatts Earl Dryman, Democrat: . J. D. Burnett and Marshal Burnett, Republicans. Smith's Bridge W. A. Norton and D. P. Cabe, Democrats; L M. Henson and John Angel, Republic ans. Cartoogechaye Carl Slagle and D. B. Lenoir, Democrats; Hez Dills and Al Williams. Republicans. Nantahala No. , 1 Bob Burnett an(LBasSiBaldwin( Democrats John Wikle and Mrs. D. L. Owen-" by, Republicans: Nantahala No.-2 John - Reighart - and W. B. Jones, Democrats ; Odell Hall and Craig Steppe, Republicans. Burningtown Robert- Parrish and- Robert Ramsey, Democrats; John Dean and Erwin Drenning. Re publicans. Cowee John Dalton and C. W. Russell, Democrats ; Davis Dean , and J. B. Matlock, Republicans. Franklin Frank I. Murray and R. S. Jones, Democrats; R. D. Sisk and S. L. Franks, Republicans. Big Vote Expected Registration Jigures-have not yet been made available, but it is un derstood that many new registra tions have been made and the vote next Tuesday is expected to be the largest in the history of the county, barring bad weather. County Ballots On the county ballots appear the following candidates : " For senator, 33rd Senatorial Dis trict R. A, Patton, Democrat; J. C. Herbert, Republican. For Representative GL Ingram, Democrat ; W. J. West, Republican. - For . Sheriff4-A, B, Slagle, Dem ocrat; R. M.1 Coffey, Republican, For Register of Deeds C. T. Bryson, Democrat; C. B. Stockton, Republican. For Surveyor J. H. Dalton, Democrat; Mack Franks, Republic an. ' For Coroner C. M. Moore, Dem ocrat; J. M. Corbin, Republican. For County CommissionersWal ter Gibson, Gus each and E. W. Long, Democrats; A. S. Solesbee, J. H. Dean and J. H. Rogers, Re publican!. For the first time in the history (Continued on page fair)