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r Uz2 tlia Want At!: Classified 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. n 1 I A ' IL.V. HI St ! i V it'" "" 1 Hi il3 A Brief Survey of Cur rent Events in State, Nation and Abroad the Facts Boiled Down to a Few Pithy Lines. PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT VOL. XLVIIINO. 27 FRANKLIN, N. C THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1933 li lt PER YEAR . ' . '7 DRY AGENTS ARE SUSPENDED Among 1,300 federal administra tors and dry agents relieved of their duties on July 1 were 24 in North Carolina. In the list of 24 were J. L. Osteen and P. M. Cau dle, deputy administrators. The agents are on indefinite furlough as part of the economy program. FIGHT FOR CHEAPER TEXTS Southern legislators and educa tors met by delegate system at Atlanta last week to call for joint legislative action demanding cheap er school textbooks to unify the texts, to abolish school book fees and to boost southern authors ot texts. VETERANS EXPERIENCE SLASH July 1, opening the new fed eral fiscal year, mw veteran benefit expenditure slashed to $581,988,000, a $345,861,000 de crease from the previous year's payment. For some 500,000 former soldiers all payment was stopped while decrease were or dered for others. CARNERA KNOCKS OUT SHARKEY Jack Sharkey, Boston sailor, was dethroned "as heavyweight boxing champion Jhejnight of June 29 in New York, when 55,000 people saw Primo Camera, 250-pound Italian giant, knock Sharkey out cold in the sixth round. VIRGINIA TO VOTE ON BEER Governor Pollard has called a special session of the Virginia leg islature to meet August 10 to con sider a bill legalizing the sale of beer in the Old Dominion. He re sisted the action until he was as sured that over two-thirds of the assembly would win in favor of it. WENDELL WILL IS SETTLED Of 2,294 claimants to a share in the estate of eccentric Ella V. Von Wendell, who left property worth 40 to 100 millions, only four have been successful. In a compromise the four' will' . get $2,125,000 fc-atop-ning their actions contesting a will in which the New York estate was left to charity. SETS EAST-WEST RECORD Thecross-country dash to the National air races was won Satur day by Roscoe Turner, setting a New York to Los Angeles record of 11 hours and 30 minutes. STATE CONTRACTS FOR GAS The state department of purchase "and "contract on Friday bought 10, 000,000 gallons of gasoline, a year's supply, with the Texs company getting the contract in 54 counties, the American Oil company 15 counties and Standard Oil company 12 counties. SOVIET-BRITISH ROW ENDS The Soviet government has re leased two British engineers, con victed , on sabotage charges, and London has. answered by lifting, the trade embargo which Was adopted in retaliation. NEW MINISTER BEGINS DUTIES Rev. W. A. Jenkins Be comes Pastor of Meth odist Church Here HAS FINE RECORD Formerly President of Davenport College At Lenoir The Rev. Weaver A. Jenkins ar rived here Thursday of last week from Lenoir, N. C, where he has been serving as president of Dav enport college, to assume the pas torate of the Franklin Methodist church. He was appointed to the charge by Bishop Mouzon to fill put the unexpired term of the Rev. O. P. Ader, who recently was su perannuated oil account of ill health. ' Mr. Jenkins brought with him his family, consisting of Mrs. Jen kins and their son, Bill. Their daughter, Mrs. Tom Smith, and small son came with them for a visit, Thev are' living in the Methodist parsonage" on Main street. '"""" Congregation Pleased Mr. Jenkins held his first ser vices here Sunday, with large con gregations" present. Members of the church have expressed great satisfaction in the appointment of a man of Mr. Jenkins' caliber to this charge. For the past seven years he has been president of Davenport college, In Lenoir he was a leader in the civic as well as the religious and educational life of the town. Before becoming ' president of DavenparTro11ege7 which recently was eonsolidated with Greensboro College for Women, Mr. Jenkins was pastor of Park Place Methodist church, Greensboro, seven months; Central Methodist church. Concord, four years; Trinity Methodist church, Charlotte; two years. Dur ing the war he was a chaplain in the United States" army, spending some of his time on the big trans port ships. Mr. Jenkins was-graduated from the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, in 1907. He then studied for the ministry in the seminary at Yale University. Miss Kate Solesbee Bitten by-Dog. Miss Kate Solesbee, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. A. S. Solesbee of Iotla, was bitten by a dog Wednesday of the past week. Fear ing that the dog might be mad, it was killed Saturday, and' the head sent to Raleigh for examination. Report was received here this week that the dog did not have rabies. County Home Romance Ends in Matrimony Mis Naimie Riddle and Will Hall, both inmates of the' coun ty home, were - married Satur day in the register of deeds of fice in the courthouse by George Carpenter, justice of the peace. The Jicense gave the bride's age s 50, the bridegrooms as 54. Hall said he was going to take his wife out of the county home and make a living for her.' They had planned to get married a long time, but had been unable to raise the $5 necessary for a license. Hall worked hard and finally saved the required amount. LIBERTYCHURCH PLANSiEVlVAL Services To Be Conducted By Rev. Wiley Conner Of Knoxville A two weeks revival meeting will begin at the Liberty Baptist church Sunday morning. The Rev. Wiley Conner, of Knoxville, Tenn., H. Dalton, of Cowee, in charge of the singing. There will be two services daily, with the morning services begin ning at 10:30 o'clock and the even ing services at B o'clock. Everybody is invited and rged to attend these services. To Convention Youify Democrats Leave For Wrightsville Franklin's delegation to the state convention of the Young People's Democratic club, to be held at Wrightsville Beach Friday and Saturday, left Thursday morning. In the party were John W. Ed wards, who has been, proposed as vice president of the state organ ization, Jimmie Hauser, Harley Cabe, Fred Cabe," J. " Grady Owens FRANKLIN HAS GLORIOUS 4111 Program of Races, Fights, Baseball Game and Dancing Given ATTENDED BY 3,000 Turner Declared Victcr When Seay Gets Sick in 3rd U S FACES BIG DEFICIT Ending a fiscal year in which a budget deficit of $1,786,000,000 resulted, the U. S. treasury on Saturday started a new year in which it ; is. determined, income - will balance outgo. k. ASHEVILLE BANK REOPENS The First National Bank and Trust company, of Asheville, re opened on Saturday morning with B. S, Colburn as its president, and . with deposits of $2,500,000. Fifty per cent of old deposits is avail- , able in cash. 2 TAR HEELS WIN HONOR O. Max Gardner, former gover nor of this state, and Austin Finch, of Thomasville, furniture factor, have been named members of the oommittee--f eight serving asa national economic planning com mittee in connection with the ad ministratioraf lhe" industrial re covery act. : determination to do. all possible to win the honor of vice-presidency of the state organization for John Edwards, but it was-sorely split on the question of prohibition re peal which is expected to-come u p for avote at the. eonvention..Some were outspoken in favor of re peal, while others were opposed to it or preferred to soft-pedal the whole liquor question. Efforts have been made to prevent an is sue being made on the liquor problem at the convention; but, judging by reports from over the state, the proponents of repeal are confident they can get the organ ization to go on record for abolition lof the 18th amendment. FranHin had a glorious Fourth with lots of people, plenty of fun and fine weather. The crowd was estimated at 3,000 persons. The fun started at 10 o'clock in the morning with races for boys and girls, toad frogs and pigs. Tl.e boys and girls got out of breath, the frogs got scared and the pig got caught. Nearly everybody got hot and drank plenty of lemonade or beer, according to their tastes, but it was one of the soberest July Fourths Franklin has ever experienced. The fights at the courthouse drew a -good crowd, but -were; not Llhalf as interestingr.Jaccording..toreuartsTas one at the ball game, which, by the way, ended in a 16 to 7 victory for .Rainbow Springs over Cowee. (We didn't hear how the fight came out.) Race Results As for the races in the morning: Fred Murray won the 100-yard dash for boys and 50 cents in cash Andrew Cole won the 220-yard dash and 50 cents. Wayne Cunningham's frog hop ped across the line ahead of . ap proximately 50 other frogs to win the toad race and a prize of 50 cents. . A second prize of 25 cents was awarded to little Helen , Ed wards, whose frog jumped a close second. Leo Sanders got 50 cents for winning the boys' sack race, while Dorothy Sloan wori 50cents in the girls' sack face, Franklin to Vote Tuesday On Sale of Power System; Little Opposition Is Likely Tuesday's Election C(J SLIGHT has been opposition lo the proposal to sell the town's power system to the Xantahala Power and. Light company that ihe election to be held on the question next Tuesday has aroused sur prisingly little interest. Nevertheless, the outcome of this election will be of major importance to con sumers of electric current and property owners in dividually and to the town as a whole. Town officials who have given hours of thought and study to. the question have expressed the opinion that Franklin is fortunate to receive an oiler lor the plant at this time not that it isn't a valuable property,' but because the town is not in position to operate 'it to best advantage. The town lacks sul ficient capital to finance necessary repairs, to build extensions to get new customers and to hold in re serve for operating contingencies and to meet bond payments Polls To Be Open from 8 A. M. to Sunset In Courthouse 296 ARE REGISTERED Power Company Agrees To Assume $287,500 In Bonds The boys' relay race was won by The Boy cout team;consistingof and Frank Norton TheTTlelegationas-unitedn-itsjintoaro ond Charles ralmer. They split 50 cents between them. The girl sack-r a ceen d e d i n a tie-and " the-prizewas -tlivided -inx ways. . --Pole Is Jonah True, the town now has a surplus of approximate ly $14,000, but this is hardly sufficient capital for so large a business, especially in view of estimates that necessary repairs will cost in the neighborhood of $20,000. ' Furthermore, it is estimated that on the basis of reset returns the town would be unable to meet bond payments out of current revenues. That would mean a higher tax rate exactly how much higher, we do not venture to say; but some who are qualified on the subject estimate that the rate would have to be nearly doubled. Most electricity consumers will find the Nanta- hala rate schedules lower than those now in force. This is especially so in the case of large consumers, not only manufacturing plants, but aiso large domes tic users, for the Xantahala follows a policy of en coufag'ing' families-to use electricity for cooking and refrigerating purposes as well as lighting, and has ad invnt of electricity lUis.saul that J or a. tew small users the charges will be slight lv higher, perhaps ; hilt such attractive rates -will -he -made for -stoves and refrig erators that many-small consumers will graduate intu the more economical schedules for larger users. With little opposition thus far developed to the proposal, the Town of Franklin will vote Tues day (July 11) on the sale of the municipal hydro-electric power plant rind distribution system to the Nan tnhala Power and Light company. There seems to be little or no doubt that the voters, 2 of whutn have registered for the elec tion, will confirm the contract for BRUTON SUCCEEDS S1LER Wade Bruton, of Troy has suc ceeded Walter D. Siler as assistant to the state attorney general, Siler having accepted a federal post in Washington. r - ; - Mac LEAN IS BIGGS' AIDE Angus I). MacI.ean, of Washing ton, ( N. C," has been appointed as sistant to U. S. Solicitor General J. Crawford Biggs,- and will have his office in the nation's capitol. BLOCKADERS WOUND OFFICERS Avory county's sheriff, W. H. Hughes, and two of his deputies were painfully wounded the even ing of June 29 when they were fired on from ainbush by illicit dis tillers using shotguns. Burnell Waldroop's Foot Badly Injured Eu rnell Wald roop,.. .of . the . Car toogechaye section, suffered serious i in juries to his left foot while helping- to-unload steel beams from a truck at the site of Joseph Ashear's new building on Main street Wednesday afternoon, One of the big beams slipped and fell on Waldroop's foot. The big toe and the toe next to it were mashed off and the arch of the foot was broken. Waldroop was taken to Angel Brothers' hos pital for treatment. Hi-ip at tho o-i-pntpct ndvniitnp-f o s'rile. ns we see -XT.-r u I ...n-.i:...i..L. mv;--..,-,! -;' js-- . ione im i iic uoys couiu ciiiuu nit . , . . mi i l 1 "i, greasy pole, try as tfigyuuKTTirptrS-H" was a little too slick and a little too high. The prize was a dollar and a box of candy. Finally Billy Wilkie climbed higher. than anyone' else and the judges decided he had earned the candy if not the mon ey. The pig race was one of the strangest Franklin ever did see. Paul McClure caught the pig, but he couldn't keep it. He was given a dollar instead and the pig was auctioned off for $3.25 so the com mittee would have enough money lo pay other prizes. Seay Gets Sick Meetings for Midwives Called by State Nurse U S COLLECTIONS JNCREASE C. It. Robertson, Hillsboro, on July" 1 succeeded-Gillianv-CiTissntn as collector of federal revenue' in the state. Collector Grissoin re ported June collections of over $.30, 000,00), which-is" $8,(KXMXX) over June, 1932. v $412,076 FOR N. C. RELIEF Additional irranf of $412,076 in federal relief funds for North Carolina was made Saturday by Hprry L. Hopkins, relief ad Starting Saturday, a series of six meetings''"' for the instruction"" of midwives will be held in various communities throughout the county by Miss I!. Punti, a field nurse sent out by the bureau of matern ity and infancy of the slate depart ment of health. . In an annouiicenu'iit given The Press Miss Dunn requested that' ryrry-iHidwife -in the -county -attend one of the' meetings.' Practical talks will be made on midwife? prac tice and letters of registration will be renewed for those previously registered, she said. New applica tions for registrations also will be accepted. .'The meetings have been authoriz- j ed by the Macon county board of health, working in cooperation with the state board of health. and time of meetings to be con dueled by Miss Dunn: - - Franklin, courthouse, 9 a. in., Saturday, July 8. Aquone, school house, 10 a. m., Mondav, July 10. Highlands, school house, 10 a. m., Tuesday, July 11. Gneiss, Pine Grove school, 10 a. in, Wednesday July 12. Otto school 'house, 10 a. m Thursday, July 13. West's Mill, Cowee school, 10 a. ni . Friday, July 14. , There are approximately 50 reg iMrred midwives in this county, .Missi Dunn said, and there also are quite a few women who prac tice midwifery occasionally but who are not registered. She expressed the hope that all women who as sist in maternity cases, even though ihev do not regard themselves as midwives, will attend at least one The big bout -advertised for - the prize fights in the. courthouse. Tues day afternoon fizzled at the end of the "thir.d - when "Kid" Seay got sick and left the ring to his op ponent, "Kid" Turner of the Frank lin C. C. C. camp. The boxers were given $19 to split between them. The minor bouts proved more interesting. The boxers in these mix-ups each received $2.10. The total gate was reported as ap proximately $77. The town council met Monday night and prohibited use of the streets -far the. July .Fourth carnival, so most of the events were held . . 1 1 r . t on tne ptiDiic square in troni oi The Press office. It was too regular service, for the Nantahala company,, backed I bv millions of dollars, plans to improve local iac.ihties and to extend to Franklin a new power line, linking it with the company's main system and thereby in creasing current available herq by several thousand horsepower. This, together with lower rates offered manufacturers, " should attract new industries to Franklin. Rut there is'little opposition to the sale and we won't argue the point further. However, we would like to impress upon those who registered for this electi our liie i m -rt a nee )i going t the olls and cast ing their "ballots "next Tuesdav. This election is -a special --elec4u)n--aml.a.-iieweg:ktTJiliQii..w.asiraUe.(.Lfor that purpose. - Those who have registered and fail t ) a ppear at t he pol 1 s or to send absentee certi ficat e s with their ballots will be voting against the proposal. So, rain or shine, it is the duty of every voter who registered for this election to go to the polls and and vote, unless he is honestly opposed to sale of the plant. , sakvwriich ----ha been tentatively agreed upon by the town council and officials of the Nantahala Power and Light company. A copy of the proposal appears on Paee 3 of this issue oi The Press. Briefly, it provides that in exchange for the power plant, dis tribution system and a 60-year fran chise, the power company agrees to take over all outstanding bonds, together with interest, as of June 1, 1933. The company already has advanced to the town $17,500 for a principal payment, due June 1, and $270,000 is still outstanding. Thus, in effect, the Nantahala company' n'rees to pay $287,5(10 and interest. Guarantee Clause Instead' of a forfeit bond to guarantee fulfillment of the con tract, the Nantahala company is to deliver to the town a guarantee from its parent company, the Alum inum Corporation of .-America, as- sWuTrfaithfiil-perfoTmance-of-obli- -gations Only those who have registered -Tor this election will be permitted . ' to vote in it and, instead of a ma- joritrof those noting, as in regular elections, a majority of those who.. have-registered-will berequired.,jQr ipproval of the proposal. If a reg Uterml voter remains awav from "" the polls, his failure to vote will amount to a negative vote. Absentees Available Those who have registered and who find that through illness or absence from town they will be unable to attend the polls may ob tain absentee certificates and bal lots from George Dean in the town hall, or from John W. Edwards, the registrar. The polls will be open in the courthouse from 8 a. m. to sunset. A. L. Leach and George A. Mash- bl irn havr - been - ap poi n t e d - jud ges; of the 'election. W. N. C. Choirs Invited To Enter Song Festival Mi than five hundred choirs Following is a list of the places of the meetings scheduled dusty for the . dancers, however, 1 1 Hailing at least six thousand voices and .iorawhile.it looked like the; have been invited to participate' in dance would have to be abandoned, ' the' Aslu vilk- song festival to be bur- Mr. Joines offered the use of held in Asheville July 26 and 27 his storage room in the Joines j'nder the direction of Homer Rode-M-.tor and Tractor company build-, heaver, internationally known evan ing and the dancers went merrily gelistic singer and music director, on to the strains of music supplied ' One of the outstanding features by the Young People's Democratic of the song festival will be two club band. , mornings and afternoons of com- - petition between the various choirs ! within ' a hundred miles of Ashe- The winner To be awarded a - Power Rates Lowered Miss Lillian Pattern Hurt Ir Bus Accident Miss Lillian Pattern, daughter ol Mrs. F.rwiiii Patton, of ' Franklin, Route 1, was painfully injured on the left knee when she Was return ing home from Marion Thursday of last week. The bus in which Miss Patton was riding ran into a car near Asheville- and her knee was injured in the collision. viTle handsome silver loving cup. In the evenings all choirs will join into a great massed choir un der the direction of Mr. Rodeheav er, and the largest number of voices ever to be assembled in the south will sing the famous Hallalujah Chorus from the Messiah. Each choir will sing two songs durine the contest. One will be a hvmn or so'ng of their own se lection, while the other will be the beautiful hymn, "Unfold Ye , Por tals" from Gounod's Redemption The "competition will not be decid ed on the si.e of the choir, but upon the quality, precision and in terpretation. Eaeh choir must have it least ten members, but there is no limit to the number of voices in any choir. The festival is not limited to church choirs, but all choral bodies and club choirs are invited to par ticipatr. ' : : ; - In addition to choirs, all individ ual' singers are invited to join the great festival choir. There will be no entrv fee for those in the con tests. Besides the silver cup, other valuable prizes are being offered, including memberships in the Ashe ville Civic Music association with the privilege of attending all of the association's concerts, including (Continued on page four) Power rate schedules embraced in the contract of sale are said by those who have examined them to be much lower , than the schedules which have been in- effect under the Northwest Carolina Utilities, Inc., which forfeited the plant April 1 through default on bonds. The domestic schedules have not been made public, but it has been re ported that they also are lowtr, ex cept in the case of a few small users. It is said that the Nanta hala company's rates will mean a very appreciable savinRfor per sons using electricity, for lighting, cooking and refrigeration; but for a small class of customft's, those burning only a f ew ' ITfthts, the Nantahala rate's are said to be slichtly higher.' , Those advocating sale of the plant claim that the town in all likelihood will be forced to increase its tax rate about 65 cents if . the sale is .not confirmed. They point out that the plant now needs con sideraple repair work, which the town is not in-position to carry ouTt I hev also claim 4hat the iown . would be unable to extend power lines' outside the city limits in or der to get new customers. Through sale of the system, they believe, Franklin will obtain better hydro electric service at lower rates and place itself in a ntore advantageous situation to attract new industries. The town also will gain the added benefit of insroasing its ta: valuation.