North Carolina Newspapers

1 tlO REGISTER NOW Registration books for the town election to be held May 2 will dose Saturday, April 22. If you haeiot already registered, go to. the- town hall and do so immediately. mm . I V A Brief Survey of Cur rent Events in State, Nation and Abroad the F a c t s Boiled Down to a Few Pithy Lines. . tixtit Sty? Qujljlattius fHarnmau PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT VOL. XLVIII, NO. 16 FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1933 $15 PER YEAK Ag tlio - World III ,rv,OV . ll 1 ' p mm 5 t- f AGED COUPLE IS ROBBED Fidela Owenby, 67, and his wife, 66, were left bound hand and foot by two white men Saturday af ter noon in the isolated Henderson county Home of the couple. The two scoundrels took $400 which' the couple had recently been paid in insurance on their son's life. He was killed in France during the world war. Mrs. Owenby manag ed to free her wrists get a pair of scissors and fee her husband. BIGGS IS SOLICITOR GENERAL Judge J, Crawford Biggs, of Raleigh, chairman of the state hoard of elections, has been ap pointed solicitor general of the United States. President Roose velt" sent- the appointment to the senate on Friday. It is a $10,000 per year job. BEER IN SOUTH CAROLINA Beer and wine, not over the federal limit of 32 per cent alco hol went on sale in Sduth Carolina Friday morning by virtue of legis lative enactment the preceding night. No restrictions were placed on the sale. ASK HUEY LONG'S REMOVAL A petition signed by 20 Louis, iana citizens was filed with the United States senate last week ask ing that Huey Long, Louisiana senator, be removed, listed charges of personal dishonesty and v cor ruptness against him and said they could prove them. KELLY. IS CHICAGO MAYOR Edward J. Kelly,. 56, Democrat, j was last week elected mayor of Chicago, to serve until April, 1935, as successor to Anton J. Cermaclc, slain by a gunman's bullet at Miami, Fla. MOVES FOR MORTGAGE RELIEF The rescue of the small home owner unable to meet the terms of his present mortgage, is plann- "edbjTPresidenrRooseveltiira bill submitted to congress last week. The president would create ..a. fed eral -corporation -with -$200,000,000 capital to take over home mort gages, refinance - them - on more diberalermsand-jrelievetheJioid-ers - of - the- mortgages- by., giving them 4 per cent government bonds - in exchane. , . DANIELS ESCAPES WRECK Josephus Daniels, Raleigh editor, "who "is-ncw ambassador to MexL co, arrived in . Mexico City on Sat fday77Anattempr,wasmadeto wreck his train by removal of rails near Morales but the damage was discovered in time and the ambas. sador's train proceeded slowly with men examining the tracks ahead of it. COLLIER INDIAN COMMISSIONER John Collier, of California, was on Saturday appointed by Presi dent Roosevelt as commissioner in charge of the nation's Indian wards and reservations. SALES TAX FIGHT. CONTINUES The lower house of the legisla ture passed on its second reading . Wednesday a biennial revenue bill carrvintr a two uer cent eeneral sales tax. The vote was 46 to 52. The measure, before coming law, must be passed on one more read ing in the house and then on three readings in the senate. Op ponents of the sales tax plan were planning to fight the bill to the last reading and had hopes of de fecating it. Their hope of a sub stitute lies in a luxury tax. . A sales tax proposal,"- carrying a 3 per cent levy, was defeated in the .louse last week and efforts were made to substitute for it a selec tive commodity tax, but these ef forts failed. FARM POPULATION GAINS Rural pouulation of the United States has been increased by one million persons during the past vear as a result of the back-to-the- farm movement brought on by the depression, according to the bureau of agricultural economics. The bu rrcau estimated the farm popuuation L on - January 1 as .. 32.242,000, com pared with 31,241,000 on the same date in 1932. It is the largest in crease in a single year since 1920 and completes a net gain of more than two million people since 1930. BRITAIN RETALIATES An 80-per cent embargo on Rus sian imports has been procaimed by Great Britain as a result of the trial in Moscow of six British en gineers on charges of espionage and sabotage. Two of the engi neers were given prison sentences, one acquitted and three ordered dtpertsd. ON U. S. GOES OFF MIMTANnARnl Uvlil IT J. i HI IS i 11 1 IS President Takes Bold Ac tion To Stem Flow of Gold Abroad v STOCK PRICES RISE New Currency May Be . Issued On Changed p i n n y VOld KatlO Ba81S The United States went off the gold standard Wednesday. As aj result commodity and security prices already have begun a rapid advance This bold action was taken by President Roosevelt to stem the flow of gold to foreign countries ana . to ...Dnng aooutT controlled m flation and an international -scaler- Back of the president's action is seen a plan to lift American prices, stabilize world exchanges on a re vised gold -basis , and expand thej use of currency. France is now the only major nation remaining on the gold standard. Great Britan dropped it a year and z half ago. This put the United States at a disadvantage in foreign trading. Wall Street Pleased While there was some difference of opinion over abandonment of the gold standard, Wall Street, strong advocate of sound money, was elated, for it sent stock prices soaring. J. Pierpont Morgan, the nation's leading banker, welcomed it. "It seem to me clear," he stated, "that the -way out of-the depres sion is to combat and overcome the deflationary forces. Therefore, I . regard the . action now taken as being the best possible course un der existing circumstances." New Currency Looms Quickly following announcement that the country, had dropped. the gold . basis, word . came from .the capitoHhat legislation had been in troduced rmcongress"with The president's sanction to give the chief -executive - authority to-issue newcusrency.ta-modify.the gold ratios and content of the dollar and to establish a dollar stabiliza tion board. A general quickening of business i . p I Will it vU(i'W Jl A -iiHJ-, cat IV and greater circulation of money'' Stockton, young Hickory is expected to result, making it possible for debtors to see light. One view taken of the president's action was that it was an adroit counter-attack against dangerously radical inflationary movements. It was explained that the United States in its present program could control its currency and its price level, as Great Britain has done in the past year and a half, and thus avoid anything bordering up on Germany's post-war experience with fiat money. Bill To Validate Tax Sale Delays Enacted The Patton bill to validate the postponement of the sale of land in Macon county for delinquent taxes was ratified Wednesday, ac cording to a news dispatch from Raleigh. As originally introduced the bill also validated all other acts of the county commissioners, but it has hot been learned here whether this clause was contained in the bill as passed and ratified. Saturday To Be Last Day For Joining Macon League Saturday afternoon, April 22, will, split, thus affording a team which be the closing date for any team started off with a draw a better to enter the Macon baseball league. , n toward championship. Af- v uIm 1 ter the schedule a series of games mgs have been held and every-; thing has been done to make the will be played between the two rules - of the -league fair to one Jeading . teams .for the . champion and all,, and .the officials of thejihip of the county -league have decided the time is The number of teams - to join over for study and the time for the league will have to be an action is at hand. even number, such as six or eight, Four teams have entered the league thus hr. Holly Springs, Rainbow Springs, Cowee and West F.nd hnve made their denosit. which is the first step of the member - ship requirement. An nnpninff came wi 11 be statrcd bv all teams of the leacruc oil Saturday afternoon, April 29. The, season will run for five months, with' only Saturday afternoon games on the schedule, unless "a game is rained out. ' The .season will be " ' T!D '"' dmmk I 2k d , j V mm height Gains Leaders in Fight against , Abandonment or Kailroad Business is picking up for the Tallulah Falls railroad. In fact, recent improvement has been so pronounced that leaders in the j fight against abandonment' tA the line feel greatly encouraged. M?fficial traffic-fTf ,show 1 140 cars were handled during the 'first two weeks of April, this year, as against 88 cars during the same .,CTi0( 1ast vear. a numerical in- - crease 0f 52 cars and a percentage gain of 59.09. If business continues at this rate, it is felt that nrosnects of abandonment will be considerably diminished. To obtain authority for abandonment, J. F. Gray, re-' eeTvefrmusr show that present and prospectivetraffiff"donotjust continued operation. With freight loadings increasing all the time, as they have been since January 1, this would be difficult to prove. The Interstate Commerce Com mission has not announced when and where it will hold a hearing on the receiver's petition fori abandonment, but the Georgia Pub lie Service commission has called a hearing on the matter for Wed nesday, May 10, in Atlanta. The decision of the Georgia commis sion probably will bear much weight with the interstate body, which usually asks for the recommenda tions of state agencies in such cases. Jobs Open for 24 Macon Men in Conservation Camps YOUNGVIDOVfe JENT TO JAIL Mrs- Cheek and -Theodore Stockton Convicted Of" Larceny Mrs. Paul Cheek, handsome .. r C PrAfitiec on4 Knoll man, must serve 12 months in prison for the larceny of $200 in cash and $100 in notes from Matt Daves, 75-year-old farmer of the Clark's Chapel section, last Sept Thoy were convicted in Macon county superior court. Tuesday morning after a trial so interest ing that it kept the courtroom fill ed with spectators. 7-1 tw a b rou gh t -ou 1 4 n-1 h estate-'s . t r -m . 1 j. evidence mar - jiri.- wiecic- ine Daves noiue anu persuaueu iuc . r aged farmer to -go-with her io the kitchen to get a drink of water and that while they were in the rear of the house Stockton entered and stole Mr. Daves' pockctbook. Later Mrs. Cheek and Stockton went to Asheville. The two were arrested a few days later. Stockton also was tried and con victed on two whisky charges. On the first he was sentenced to 12 months on the roads and on the sec ond he was given a suspended sen tence of 12 months. The total time he will have to serve is two years. etc., and in case there is an odd number of applicants for member- ship, the teams will be considered in the order of entering their ' application. i This is the last notice given for the date of closine the membership period. It is now time for all teams which haven't made a. de - posit, and which are really interest- ed, to act at once. See T. W. Angel, Jr., for a membership and position in the league, Ji urn Encourage v. i The "T. F." receiver is expected to be assisted in pressing for abandonment by legal and traffic experts of the Southern railroad, which controls the branch line from Cornelia to Franklin. For this rpeason, those directing the fight for continued operation of the line feel that every effort possible should be put forth in opposition. Strong influences are , expected to be brought to bear on the Georgia Public Service commission and the I. C. C. for abandonment. Mr. Gray himself is a former member of the Georcia commission. To counteract the forces pressing for 'nnunkingtihciuxei4txJScahHed must exert every .ounce of influence at their command. Plans already are under way to organize large delegations from all of the towns along the "T. F." to attend the hearing in Atlanta, and work has begun on the col lection of frejght statistics opera tion costs and potential business prospects with which to combat the arguments for abandonment. The lines for the fight are well drawn. Arrayed on one side are Mr. Gray, the receiver, and the Southern railroad, and on the other are the business men of the com munities served by the "T. F." and the employed of the line, Applications To Be Han dled By County Relief Director- Relief -agencies-will - begin next Monday to recruit 6,500 employes al 16'fed'" t6orthCarblinaf6flhe civilian" conservation camps,-i-was ffecidecTTn-RleighTuesday at a meeeting of district relief super visors. The number to be alloted to each of the counties also was determined at this meeting on a basis of the populations of the counties and their percentage of destitution. Macon county was alloted 24 employes; Jackson, 30; Swain, 15; Cherokee, 0; Graham, 10, and Clay, 12. Recruiting will be in charge of the county relief directors and Macon county ' applicants, should tilcthcir.TspplicatioTiKvith"-Xliss , Rache, . Daviv coumy . wdfarc - of. To Get $1 Day Recruits accepted probably will be sent : to army camps for a few weeks of training and then put to work in conservation camps in the national forests. Five such camps are to be located in the Nantahala forest, according to information re ceived here. Members of the ci vilian conservation corps will be given board, lodging and work clothes and paid $1 a day. En listments are for six months and one year. The government plans to put 250,000 men to work in the con servation camps, which will be un der the supervision of the army. Robert Fechner, director of the conservation-unemployment pro gram, announced Tuesday that 23, 000 men already had been recruit" ed for the camps from the larger cities of the country. Recruits must be between 18 and 25 years of age. Rev. . J, A. Flanagan Out of Town . The Rev, J. A. Flanagan is at tending the Rural School of Re- j I'tfion at Vanderbilt University, , which is being held from April .17 to 28. There will be no preach- ing services at the Presbyterian , church Sunday. Sunday school will be at the usual hour. ( On Sunday, April 30, Dr. Willis , A. Sutton, of Atlanta, will speak i me rrcsuyienan cnurcn at 11 . o'clock. Dr. Sutton is a noted 9peakcr and the public is cordially invited to attend this service. LEADING REVIVAL ' ! i '3 tEV. W. L. GRIGGS REVIVAL DRAWS LARGEJM7DS Two Services Being Held Daily at Baptist Church With large congregations attend ing, revival services are being held twice'. a day at the Franklin Bap tist church under the direction . of the Rev, W. L. Griggs, of Char lotte, and John K. Blackburn, of North "Wilkesbora. Rev. Mr. Griggs is doing the preaching and Mr. Blackburn is leading the music. A morning ser vice is held each week day at 10 o'dockntthevtniiig 7:45,- : . Re-v. --Mr. Griggs, who is a native of -this-county,- held a revival here last year which was sw-successful that the pastor, the Rev. Eugene R. Eller, and the officials of the church decided to ask him to come back-again- thisyear Three services are scheduled for next Sunday at 11 a. m., 3 p; m. and 8 p. m. The afternoon service will be for men only and Rev. Mr. Griggs has announced that his sermon topic wil be "An outstand ing Man for Christ in 'a Commun ity." The revival started last Sunday and is , scheduled to continue through Wednesday or Thursday of next week. R. N. Stiles Celebrates G4thBirthday:3E: Friends and relatives of k. N. Stiles gathered at his home in the Hickory Knoll community on East er morning to celebrate his 64th birthdayailTiiversaryTA" beautiful dinner -was served in the Stiles lining room. Anions those present were Mrs. R. N. Stiles, Miss Mattie Hoglen, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Hoglen and family, Mr. and Mrs. L, S. Stiles and family, F. F. . Stiles, Mrs. Em ma Stiles, Ralph Stiles, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stiles and family, G. D. Stiles, Miss Helen Stiles, Mar tin Justice, Mrs. Ada Fulcher, Brabson Fulcher, Stockley Brooks, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Holbrook. There were 32 present. r vi l0 Webb To Address Annual Father - and - Son Banquet The vocational agriculture class if the Franklin high school will hold its annual father-son banquet h the school auditorium at 7 o'clock Saturday night. 7Thiswiir be" the"lhird 'banquet of its kind sponsored by the agri ulturc department of the high school and the boys are looking forward to it with much enthus 'sm. A large number of fathers are expected to be present with their sons. The principal speaker on the pro gram is Bruce Webb, of Asheville, organizer of- the 5-10 Year Farm program. The banquet will be prepared and served by Miss Rosalie Mor row and the girls of the home economics class, The live-at-home TTPP-" Jury Completed For Dryman Gase ' HI 1 II I - I 4 Calf's Head with Two Faces Exhibited A calt't head with two face wai being exhibited in Franklin Tuesday by J". D. Welch, of Burningtown, and E. L. Welch, of lotla. The calf died in birth Monday night. !t wti the firt calf of a young Red Devon scrub. It had a single skull with only two ears, but there were two mouths and four eyes. The freak attracted much at tention and the Welches could have re-aped a good harvest of nickels had they, set up a tent and charged admission. AIambwitli thi ee. ears,-one in 4he center jof .its Jhead, .eight legs and two tails was reportrd to have been found dead by Canton Henry in the Ellijay section about two months ago. TWO WELCHES ARE INDICTED Accused of First Degree Murder; Trial Date Not Yet Set C. C. (Tump) Welch and ' his nephew, Floyd Welch, both of the Burningtown section,.were charged with first degree murder in true bills returned by the grand jury Wednesday. Both are at freedom under bond. The two men are accused ol slaylngjphnnderipnlso oftht P.iirningtownscctionr-last Decem ber. ""Anderson's' body," partly" cov ered with snow, was found at the Totrnibuntairi"rauiic7'nrr"si TrivaOhoughrhlTTfiiiTT a storm, fallen into the gully and frozen -to-death. After -two1 cor Qnct'sinqucstvJioweeritwaslei -cided thaUhead-bcenslainand the two Welches were arrested and bound over to the court. No date has been set for trial of the case, but it is thought like ly that it will be taken up aftei conclusion of the burglary and mur der cases arising out of the fatal attack on and robbery of George Dryman. The court has set aside until a later term the trial of all civil cases on the calendar. On Wednesday T. S. A. Kan nady, well known Franklin man, vaslconicted. by a. Juryonua chargcTof embezzlement. The court deferred passing of judgment. The casegrcwout of ..financial .trans actions while Kannady was repre senting the Singer Sewing Machine company. - Carl Guest and R. L. Mashburn were acquitted on charges of lar ceny. HOME FOR WEEK-END Senator R. A. Patton and Rep resentative Charles I... Ingrain came back home from Raleigh last Sat urday to talk things over with their constituents. Both seemed, to think that the legislature probably would be in session for some time yet. They returned to the capital Mon day night. program will be carried out in every detail, as practically every thing for the banquet will be fur nished by. the boys from their home farms. Musicfor -1hc evening-will - be supplied by the Higdonville or chestra. The program follows: Welcome Harold Stewart, Music lorchestra. Toast to dads Siler Slagle. , , Response W. G. Stewart. Songs Richard Slagle. Report E. H. Meacham. Hog-cailing " contest For fathers only. "Comradeship" G. L. Houk. Farmer's diary Erwin Norton. "Vocational Agriculture in the 5-10 Year Program" Bruce Webb AWf 4 Men and Woman Accused On Indictments for Burglary PENALTYls DEATH Trial of 4 Men on Charges Of Murder Deferred By Court Four men and a wuinan went 011 trial in Macon county superior court Thursday morning in connec tion with the robbery on the night of January 23. of George Dryman, 83-year-.,d Middle Creek farmer, who died February 12 as a result ofnjuTirsnreceived when the rob bers attacked him after breaking clown the door of his home. The four men Clyde Wood, Ern est Stanley, Oscar Seagle and Rob ert Bell all are being tried on in dictments for, first degree burglary, conviction of which carries a pen-, alty of death in the electric chair. Woman Accused The woman Mrs. Louise Stamey, wife of Ernest Stamey is charged in a searapte indictment with con spiracy and aiding in the burglary. Another man implicated in the crime Mel Holden is dead. .He was fatally shot in a battle with a sheriff's posse in the Coweta section on the afternoon of Feb ruary 16. A sixth man. J. R. Bell, who was said to have been the leader of the bandit gang accused of the robbery and fatal attack on Mr-Dryman, is still -at large with - a reward of $300 on his head. Court room Packed : Zhecourt room3virs capacity when the trial 4?ol under way., this morning.Jt -required alL of the seats on one side of the courtroom to seat the special venire of 150 men, all from the northern endof the"c6uhty7"whlcfihad "been ordered impanneled by Judge-J."H. Clement-Tuesday-morning: Special deputies were on hand to maintain order and keep the aisles cleared. Trial of .the case is expected to consume the court's time for the rest of the week and it may ex tend over into next week. Jury Completed Selection of the jury, however, moved forward quickly. As finally drawn it was composed of: J. A. Clark, W. R. Coleman, S. J. Waters, Herman T. Wilson, W. C. Grant, D. W Justice James McCall, Cr-Tr-Parrish, -J.W.Mor- -gan, Jr D.A.-Shuler GLr-Jacobs, Clyde Morgan. The court excused 62 of the spe cial veniremen, while the defense used only 18 of its .47 challenges and the state 10. True bills were returned in the case Monday by the grand jury with J. E. Potts, of Highlands, as foreman. Defense attorneys, how ever, persuaded the court Tuesday morning to dismiss them on grounds that they were returned on in competent evidence. The grand jury examined more witnesses and senLup. a new set of trtiebills. 4 Accused of Murder The four men, besides being in dicted for first degree burglary, also were indicted for murder. It was decided however to try them first for burglary.. Both charges carry capital punishment upon con viction, Selection of the jury was com pleted before the court recessed for lunch and the taking of evidence was expected to get under way in the afternoon. On Wednesday Robert Bell, Os-- car Seagle, Quince Hodgins, Frank Carpenter and Garland Cole went on t rial on ch arge s of stOTe-break ing, larceny and receiving stolen goods in connection with the theft of goods from the W. M. Ritter Lumber company's camp store near Rainbow Springs last winter. Gar land Cole pleaded guiJty and the others were convicted by a jury. Judge Clement deferred passin judgment until the burglary and murder cases had been tried. The state's principal witness in the burglary and murder cases is expected to be Oscar Seagle, who. turned state's evidence in the mag istrate's hearing in February.