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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.
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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. .
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PROGRESSIVE
LIBERAL
INDEPENDENT
VOL. XLVIII, NO. 16
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1933
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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
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height Gains
Leaders in Fight against
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.