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Asilie World Toms A Brief Survey of Cur rent Events in State, Nation and Abroad the Facts Boiled Down to a Few Pithy Lines.4 Use the Want Adb Gassified advertisements in The Franklin Press bring results. If you have something to sell or trade, try a classified ad. The cost is small only one cent a word with a mini mum charge, of 25 cents for each insertion. nttb Sty QtQtflaniin nanmitut PROGRESSIVE - LIBERAL INDEPENDENT r VOL. XLVIII, NO. 14 FRANKLIN, N. C THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1933 $1.50 PER YEAR PARTY ENDS IN MURDER A box party supper at Ebenezer, west of Murphy, ended Saturday night in a tragedy, in which Carl Carroll, 26, was twice shot , and killed by Jim Dockery, 18. Dock ery surrendered and is held in the Cherokee jail. ACOM G 1H) CAMP 3 n n MRS. JUD WILL HANG The last chance of Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd to escape death by ha ngi n g for her murder, of two women companions went glimmer ing last week when the Arizona pardon board refused to commute her sentence to life imprisonment and set April 21 for the execution. 70 DIE IN STORMS Cyclonic winds and heavy rains swept through' Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi last week to take at least 70 lives, and wreak tremendous damage to crops and property. NEW PROHIBITION CHIEF Major A. V. Dalrymple was on Friday named federal prohibition director to succeed Anjos W. W. Woodcock. Major, Dalrymple, at Cahfornian, held a similar post in the Wilson administration. GERMANY BOYCOTTS JEWS The Hitler government on Fri day night interceded in behalf of German Jews and ordered mem bers of the dominant Nazi party to confine the proposed thorough boycott of Jews and Jewish busi ness houses to one day's time, Sat urday Nazi leaders, however, stat ed the boycott will be resumed : this week unless Jews in- foreign! nations . cease their alleged mis-! representations of persecution ,Jews in Germany. of VETERAN FUND SLASHED In the most sweeping economy measure in American history, President , Roosevelt on Saturday issued the . decree cutting some $400,000,000 annually-4n-ederal ex penditures in behalf of war veter ans. The changes are v effective July l. 4 KILLED BY ROBBERS; Four wealthy bachelors, reputed aavr:$3S,000ashnrr-a-safen-were .murdered in their iurmhouse near -lacrosse, Ya., xn -Friday. -Police Jfound thckbodies riddled with bullets, the safe cracked open, all currency gone, and the house rifled of "valuables; "TLY"OVER'HIGHEST MOUNTAIN ' Flying over Mt. Everest, the Himalayan peak which at 29,141 feet spars higher than all other mountains in the world and which has never been scaled by climbers!1? to surrender the local power; though many have died in .the ef fort, two English planes on Mon day went up to 35,000 feet from which height motion pictures were taken of the monarch of moun tains. 12,737 BANKS OPEN The rebuilding of the banking -structure -of- nation" had "proceeded by the end of March, says Treas ury . Secretary Woodlin, to . where 12,737 banks were open including 5,387 national banks with deposits of- $26,000,000,000. PICKS FOREST RELIEF CHIEF ! President Roosevelt on Monday named Robert Fencher, of. Massa chusetts to direct the forest con servation and unemployment relief program which is designed to place stveral hundred thousand idle men to work in reforestation of mar ginal lands. ' CLAUDE BOWERS TO SPAIN Claude . G. Bowers, New York editor and author, has been nom inatcd by President Roosevelt as ambassador to ,. Spain. Sumner Welles, of M aryland, waschosen assistant secretary of state. WINBORNE UTILITY COMMISSIONER Stanley Winborne, elected last November to a six-year term an the corporation commission, was on Friday named by Governor. Ehring-hauras- thetilities cornmisioner jyJioorLje,LLJam,ai'yi t!ke over the work of "the . corporation commission, His appointive term continues, until the general election of 1934. N. C. INCOME TAX PROPS Income taxes collected bv the state in March totalled $4,699,267, almost $1,000,000 less than in March 1932. Individuals paid $667,199, do mcsiic corporations $372,291 and foreign corporations, including the big tobacco plants, $3,659,777, The chief drop was in domcstil corpora tions, which in March, 1932, paid $935,417.' . BOND PAYMENT IS DEFAULTED Utilities Company Refus es To Surrender Plant -Or Surety outcomeTn doubt Council Takes Steps To Claim Contract Forfeit In New York Bank Developments of the past week indicate-that -Franklin will have to engage-in a legal-battle-to-Tegain control of the town power plant from the Northwest Carolina Util ities,' Inc., which defaulted Satur day on a bond payment of $8,100. Officials of the East Coast Util-' inv.., a vii guild iitnumg cor poration which controls the North" west Carolina Utilities, informed the" town council" last Thursday night that they would not surren der the power plant, as previously announced. They also stated that,' after conferring with their attor neys, they had decided not to for feit a surety bond deposited at the timethe town sold-the power plant. Surety Alto Questioned The larger part of the surety! bond $50,000 is deposited in a de funct Cleveland bank. The rest of it-$23.000 is held in trust bv the Central Hanover Bank and Trust) company of - New York, through j which the bonds are payable. The bank ' is expected to draw-on- this deposit to meet Saturday's defanlt. . Meeting again Monday night, the tcnyrt-couiicil-adotd--re8(lutbn directing the mayor and town clerk ta.ej.v.eomiaLnQ.ticiLjQiLj.heJ : tral Hanover bank for withdrawal . afJtliu-tfQOhestirety bond. The ; teryjvith MQJliffl JjjjggE East Coast Utilities is expected to'bcrs of the Junaluskee "Masonic contest this action. , Deed Rejected j It has been learned that whenj the East Coast offered on March plant it requested that the trans-, action be carried out through a deed to the town. The council re- jected this offer lest it cntial re- sponsibilities for obligations of the Northwest Carolinai Utilities and, possibly, release the town's right in the surety deposit in New York. Members of the council and Mayor Gcorgc PattonvTCpntended, that,un der t he town's con tract - willi - th e power company, the hydro-electric York should automatically revert; to the town when the power com- nanv dcfaulted"onthe-"bonds.- What will be the final outcome! of the matter remains to be seen; but meanwhile the utilities com - pany is continuing to operate the power system. : : MICHIGAN VOTE FOR REPEAL' By a majority of three to one, the voters of Michigan, on Mon day instructed delegates to a state convention- to vote-for-repealHhunteering-Tto - work ,br;ng their. 18th, or prohibition amendment. Hunting Wild To Become Popular Sporti Hunting wild cats and cayotes is expecteu to rjecome one oi .uibii , i r r county's most popular sports as the result of enactment of the Pat-; Ihe commissioners, already hard ton bill setting bounties of $10 for , pressed to meet claims for sheep yoteJcalpsnd$3JLiQLw scalps. ' l are wondering how they are going Some hunterrjsay there- is-no-to-paythe new-- bounties.JThey such thing as a cay6Yc'iri'''IawnYal'so'"arepiizzling"over the question county, while a few . oldtimcrs of how to distinguish between Ma staunchly contend that there are, coh county wild cat scalps, and the and relate weird experiences with scalps of wild cats that may have the animal. But las for wildcats, i been' killed in other counties. . there are said to be more of them roamine the woods now than there have been in many, many years. 'going around buying cat scalps, or Sheep raisers claim that they have , possible importing cayote scalps been having considerable trouble j from the Dakotas, and then pre with cats of irecqnt. senting them to the commissioners Five or six wild cat scalps were , for bounties ? Looks like it's go presented to the county commis- ing to be hard on the county lioncrs Monday morning, but the , treasury as well as on the wild commissioners withheld payment off cats and cayotes." L2)(5 6 Candidates Seek Posts As Aldermen, 2 for Mayor Two candidates are now in the running for mayor and six for town aldermen in the election to be held Tuesday, May 2. They are: For mayor R. S. Jones and J. Frank Kay, both attorneys. For aldermen Dr. IV H. Fouts, T. W. Angel, Jr., J. Steve Porter, J. 13. Pendergrass, R. D. Sisk and , Grover Jamison. The names of two other men, M L. Dowdle and H. W, Cabe, were jisted as candidates in the last minute msh before the filing dead-; Tine last Friday noon, but both men requested a day or so later that their names be withdrawn. A mass meeting of residents call ed for 10 o'clock Friday morning r n .u u t- icu iiuuugii uii aiiuuui ui aii in sufficient number of persons pres thf. Those who, did turn out for the meeting decided informally that DEATH CLAIMS J. M. COCHRANE Masonic Funeral Held for Well Known Briartown Resident James M. Cochrane, 80 well known Macon county farmer and former- county-, commissioner, died at his home on Otter Greek in the " Briartown section "last Thurs- y- - ------ ' Funeral miicCiJit'CIfiJlsliJLlI!!?, Briartown Baptist church at. 2 jnent was in the 'Briartown cemc- lodge of Franklin having charge of the services. Mr. Cochrane was known to his many friends as "Coon." Surviving are his widow by second marriage, and the follow- ing children by his first marriage : Judd, of Virginia; Weimer, of j Briartown ; Mrs. Noland Owenbv land Mrs. Lola Roland, both of i Briartown. He was also the fath er of the Rev. Fred Cochrane, who died at his home in Ashevule last fall. BaptistsTo Clean Cpmptprv on Anril 1 1 Tuesday, April 11, has been set aside as clean-up day in the Bap tist -cemetery was announced this week by the Rev. Eugene R. El- ler, pastor of the Franklin Baptist 1 church. Rev. Mr. Eller requested that .'all persons who have relatives or friends buried in the cemetery and all others who are interested offer their own services or send one or more workmen to assist in' the work. He also asked that those ov n too s. . Cats Likely the bounties until they could ex- rr::i - u amine an umuui uoyy ui mc new, law. i "What," somebody asked, "is to i prevent unscrupulous hunters from .DffD it would not be worth while for such a small group, less than a score, to name a ticket. Dr. Fouts and Mr. Pendergrais are the only members of the pres ent board of aldermen who filed for reelection. There had, been a general expectancy that Mayor George B. Patton would run again for mayor, despite .the fact that he had stated time and again that he would not; l)ut the mayor stuck to his word and refused to pull the 'last minute surprise many had ex- pected of him. In the forthcoming election only three aldermen, instead of six, are to be elected, under the terms of a bill enacted at the current ses sion of the general assembly. In view of this and the power plant crisis, the election bids fair to be one of the most important and most interesting town elections in j a number of years. Destitution in Macon Comparatively Small Destitution in Macon county m far leM than in other coun ties -in the state, according to statistics released by the gov ernor's office of relief. According to figures for the month of February, which is taken as representative, the per centage of destitution hi this county, was 16.8, while the aver age percentage for the state was 26.1. The lowest destitution percentage reported was 8.3 per cant-in-Pasquotank, in thc-far-northeastern part of the state, while the highest was in Duplin county, also an eastern county. Macon stood 17th from the bot tom in point of destitution. The report of the " relieF"bf-fice- revealed that - 1S4,C00 families"-throughout" the-state'were aided by relief funds during February. Figures for March are not yet available. LIBRARY TO BE OPEN SATURDAY Membership Dues 25 Cents For Adults and 15 Cents for Children The Franklin": library" will -be open Saturday afternoon from 3 to51'c!ock"with "MrsT J.Ar Ord way in charge. The- library association, which has been inactive for several years, has been reorganized with the Rev. N. C. Duncan as president; Mrs. Lassie Kelly Cunningham, vice president; John W. Edwards, secre tary, and B. W. Johnson, treasurer. Under by-laws adopted by the association, membership dues will be 25 cents a year for adults and 10 cents a year for children under v 1 s- r l i i. . "11 LT"T I jrs Qrdway assisted by other members o( the association, has cleaned the library and put its three or four thousand volumes order. . It is planned to keep library open each Saturday afternoon for the present and later to have it open two afternoons each week. SUES FOR REYNOLDS MONEY . dopal church Wednesday night. The Cabarrus Bank and Trust B's.hP Penick- .of the young company, Concord, a guardian of est bishops. in the Episcopal church Ann Cannon Revnoids. two daueh- and a noted Poacher, came here ter of the late Smith Reynolds and -Anne-Cannon,his .firstwife! has started action in Superior court to have set aside a trust agree- ment by which the child would se- rare onlv $500000 of her father's huge estate and to have the court determine what claim the little girl has to the tobacco millions, The trust was established bv Rey- nolds as a preliminary to his di - vorce from his first wife. Action had already been started in Balti- more to determine what share of the, estate will be given to the i t T Jl-I Tti - . . u- son OI i-iuDV noiman Keynums, the stead witl. I BANK LAWS AM OPPOSED Repeal of Measures To Extend Liquidation Time Requested DIrtECTORSOPPOSED Constitutionality of Patton And Ingram Acts Is Questioned A majority of the stockholders and allof the directors ol the Bank -of - Frank 1 i n are re por t ed to favor repeal of two laws enacted by the general assembly extending until October 1, 1935, the time for liquidation of the Bank of Frank lin. A copy of the first law, which was introduced by Representative Charles -Lr-Ingram on the sugges tion of J. A. Porter, was printed in last week's Press. It provided for an extension of time for liquida tiorf of the bank for two years j after October 1, this year, the final date set in agreements signed by depositors two years ago. It also provided that four per cent interest should be paid on remaining de posits after October 1, this year. Defers Stock Levy The second bank" lawrcmbraced in a bill introduced by Senator R. A. Patton, goes further by stating that no assessment shall be' declar ed against stockholders and no judgment against stockholders '" en forced until April 1, 1935.x llothlaws-in-the-opinion-Tif-5ome persons familiar with . letral mat ters, are unconstitutional, it has been,pointeiutthaUlvey,maybe attacked on the basis that they abrogate, ja private contract be-1 Tween frieankan'utHeej)6'sTtors who-signed "thedcfcrred-liquilatkn "agreTmelirTwTearr Bank Officials Opposed Officials of the bank have in-! formed The Press that they have! no desire to take advantage of the remaining depositors and that they want to liquidate the bank as soon as possible. Notice already has been served on stockholders that they must arrange to make month ly payments on their stock assess ments. A 10 per cent assessment was levied and collected some months ago. Another 10 per cent assessment was made last month and many of the stockholders have met it. "t- r - - ; ZST Directors of the bank have writ ten Senator Patton and.Rcpre sentative Ingram asking repeal of the two bank laws. -rCopy -of - Statutt Followin is a copy of the Pat ton .bank statute, the last one en acted: "Whereas, the Bank of Franklin, in Macon county, N. C, closed its doors in the month of December 1930, and at the time of such clos ( Continued page four) Bishop Edwin A. Penick Confirms 6 at St. Agnes Six. young men and women, four, 1 in for a number of years, had been of them' from Franklin and two in ill health for five months. - irom nignianas, were contirmed by the . Rt. Rev. Edwin A. Penick, of Charlotte, bishop of the diocese of North Carolina, at St. Agnes Epis- t0 cnduct the confirmation sacra- the Corinthians that of all the enli reu?si of. the fRvlaPostles "I am the least of these." n. - Agnes and the Church of the In-, modesty,' he stated, but rather a carnation, Highlands. realization that, despite all his fine ' Rev. Mr. Duncan was temporarily . accomplishments, he had fallen far indisposed after a trip to Ashe- v ille and return and was unable to attend the service. Thursday Mr. Duncan had recovered. ' . 1 he death of the Kt. Kev. Junius M. Horner, bishop qf the diocese 'of Western North Carolina, at his home in Asheville Wednesday morning was announced at the ser- .r T3ieVirtn TTM-nA ...V. f kna Kn maw "w making frequent visits to Frank 1,100 Unemployed Men To Get Work On New Project 10 Civilian Conservation Camps Allotted to Nantahala National Forest; Work To Start On Four Immediately LARGE PAYROLL ASSURED FOR COUNTY; W I LtrSU PPLYf M Idle Men Recruited in Cities To Be Put To Work at Dollar a Day Planting Trees and Building Forest Roads and Trails Ten federal cams to men in the unemployed 4!?resiik'nlJooseveltretuensimieJjnje Nantahala National forest, by John B. Byrne, supervisor of the. forest. Mr. -Byrne returned to Franklin Wednesday after noon from Washington, where he attended a con ference of the supervisors of 151 national forests at which details for the construction of the emergency relief camps were mapped out. Work on four of the camps is to start immediately. In fact, negotiations for sitesand. lumber .'and other supplies. with which to build the cam)) buildings got under wav Thursday. Chorus of 75 To Give Easter Cantata - - - An Easter cantata, "King Triumphant," a musical inter "pretation " of Christ's passion - week, experiences. will. be pre: "fcented" by"'a community - chorui under th sponsorship of the MacDowell Music club at the Methodist church at 8 o'clock in the evening Easter Sunday. There will he 75 voices in the choilus, which has been, prac ticing the cantata under the direction of Mrs. Boice Monday. Solo parts will be taken by: Mrs. Boice Munday, Mrs. Gil mer Crawford and Miss Edwina Dalrymple, sopranos; Mrs. Thomas J. Johnston, Jr., and the Misses Rosalind Bulgin and Myrtle JVyatt. altos ; ThilMc Collum and Gerald Kenson, ten ors; Henry Wilkie, baritone; .James Fowler. ..and -R.C...Dady, basses. rTORESTWORICBILLr PASSES President Roosevelt's relief bill to authorize employing 250,000 idle men in forest conservation work as enacted (into law last week when the house approved the bill as passed in the senate. . "The man who says it is easy to be a Christian," Bishop Penick said in his sermon, ''does not know what he is talking about; he has no comprehension of. the meaning of the word." He based his. sermon on a state ment of St. Paul in his epistles to short of his mark. Christianity as pictured by the bishop. not as an end in itself but rather a means to an end. The, church is not for the righteous, ' for no one who considers himself j worthv of Christ is worthy of ; Him; rather, the first, requisite of j a true follower of Jesus is a real- . -f 1 . 1 ' .. izaiion oi nis unwunmness, an ax - ; titude like that of St.Paul ARKETFOR: FARMERS' house approximately 1 , 100 relief army originated-!)' it was announced today Local labor and local materials, it "was" announced, " will be" used as -far , as possible in construction of the.: camps : but the relief army squads which will occupy them af ter.they..ar.e..be.ingj,ecjuile(LJr.Qin.. thttiank!i..'vf lbjniautloxdn. the-laTgci ctttt-!-f t he u nt ry-r- Location of the camps in this vi cinity, however, is expected to give a great impetus to business, as the monthly payroll for each camp, on -the basis of a dollar a day for each man, will be about $3,300 a month for each camp. Will Help Farmers Besides this, the camps will af- .: ford a market for farm produce, thereby helping farmers of' this sec tion. . Two of the camps on which work is to '-start j immediately are to be bujitJn. re port ed 1 1 i a t"one-pf thenr will -prob ably be on what is known as the VanHook - farm - on - the - Cullasaja river east of Franklin and that the other --would be somewhere on the Nantahala-TivenrearAquoneThe forestry service has been notified that these camps must be com pleted by April 20, as a consign ment of men recruited in the un employed relief army will spon be sent here. It is expected that sev eral other camps will be establish ed in this county a few weeks lat er. Each pamp will consist of a col ony of army tents erected ovet wooden floors, a general mess hall and a commisary. Recruits under Discipline Workers for the camps are be ing recruited by the United States department of labor. They are to be given a short disciplinary course of instruction under , the direction of army officers and then sent to the camps, where they will be put to work building roads and trails and reforesting marginal lands- Each camp will have from 100 to 125 men under the supervision of a camp manager, who will have a timekeeper and other necessary assist aritsT " Recruits" are "to be giv-' en rough work clothes, their board and lodging and ,$1 a . day wages. , Forest Office Busy Headquarters of the Nantahala Forest presented a busy scene to- day as Mr. Byrne and his assist- ants began selecting sites for the camps and preparing' to erect the necessary structures. ! Mr. Byrne announced that those looking for jobs should apply to the foremen at the camp sites and I . . a L - t i 1 J - - hot at ine ioresx ncanquaricrs, ' (Continued en page four) .
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