North Carolina Newspapers

o on r wy s B? of Wisdom i-::.v;lnnt;ss expresses of ae t.:():is, what straiL;htiiess does oi lines ; and there' can. 'no more he two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight line. Herbert Spencer. Turn i III mm is VVVv A Brief Survey of Cur rent Events in State, Nation and Abroad the F a c t s B o i 1 e d Down to a Few Pithy Lines. 3lje Ijiijljlmtite iltanuttan PROGRESSIVE - LIBERAL - - INDEPENDENT VOL. XLVIII, NO. 37 FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPT. 14, 1933 $1.50 PER YEAR As the World 3) ,1 i ill i i mii . r v mo L r i V THIRD CUBAN GOVERNMENT A third ,new Cuban government took the reins on "Sun-ay when the revolutionary junta of five chose Dr. Ramon G. S.. Martin as. pres ident of the republic and arranged for a cabinet representing chief opposing factions. The change was made without violence. Thirty U. S. warships are at island ports. President Martin pledged fulfillment of the revolutionary program. IRAQ'S KING DIES Feisal, king of the Arabian desert jand of Iraq, died of a heart at tack in Berne, Switzerland, Friday. Feisal won his kingdom by glorious exploits for the Allies during the World war. He will be buried in Baghdad1. NAVAL PLANES SET RECORD Six naval seaplanes set a .new formation distance flight record on Friday when they winged without stopping the 2,059 miles from Nor- folk to the Canal Zone. 3 DIE IN ESCAPE BREAK Six men were wounded, three fa tally, at a prison camp near New Orleans on Sunday when 13 prison ers, heavily ' armed, fled .romthe camp. SLEEPING SICKNESS KILLS 111 The sleeping sickness epidem ic in the St. Louis region con tinues unchecked with 111 hav ing died and many fresh cases reported. TO LIMIT COTTON SHARPLY Secretary Wallace, head pi the agricultural administration has an nounced plans to curtail cotton pro duction next year to 25,000,000 acres, a 5,000,000-acre drop from this year's curtailed production. At the same time federal forecasters seL 12,414000 as their estimate jA the 1933 crop 1. STRAUS NEW NRA LEADER General Hugh S. Johnson, re covery administration chief, has ..iiamM.RobcrtKtJTausJ..29.t.ii.s chairman of the NRA -policy board succeeding Robert L. Stevens. Os- r'.-ydefa's-naneartlfl?; pert for the NRA. NITPOSTAL-FURLOUGHS - National recovery has brought such increased activfty in the pos tal service that Postmaster General .Farley., has ordered a .suspension by September 30 of the paylcss fur lough plan used to cut postal ex penditures. OPEN REVIEW OF VET CLAIMS The veterans board of review, set up to examine cases where veterans are seeking increase in compensation, began work last week at Charlotte with nearly 800 cases ready for hearing. Paul Younts. Charlotte, is chairman of 'the board. Other members are Frank Smcth urst, Raleigh, Taul Dana, l'inc ,. hurst,. E. B. Turner, Columbia, and - Dr S B. - Byington,! Washing , ton. "TEACHING" PAY" FIX EI- The state board of education last week declined la proposed "TO-per cent" increase in '- the schedule of the teacher pay and approved the $45 to $90 month ly pay range filed by the state school commission. BALLOONIS.TS ARE FOUND Missing since September 2 when they took off at Chicago in the international Bennc-tt balloon cup race, Ward T. Van Orman and Frank A. Trotter were found Mon day in the wilds of Ontario, their balloon having descended on "top of a pine tree. ROBBERS GET $60,000 Trapping-Railway - express -guards in the St. Paul union station, a gang of eight masked . robbers on Monday secured over $60,000 in cash and securities, seizing it as it was being transported to a train. TOBACCO CAMPAIGN SUCCEEDS Organizers of -thetobacco -reduc-i lion campaign in the Carolina re port tit at a large measure of suc "'cessTwasattained irrtlie"Rigning-of growers to contracts ; the first two days pf the week. A virtually complete sign-up for reduction of the next two crops is forecast and an early' re-opening of the markets is seen with higher prices to result. IS CRUSHED BY WAGON Luther Mason, 85,. of Buncombe county, was crushed to death Fri day under his own wagon. The brakes gave way on a steep gnuh and the aged farmer pitched for ward under the wheels of the heav ily loaded vehicle. NRA CAMPAIGN PLANNED HERE Organization Formed To Secure More Blue Eagle Pledges RAY I S CHAIRMAN Edwards Denies Favori tism In Reemployment Service Plans to make National Recovery in Macon county the president's drive a success are to be per- fected at a meeting house at 3 o'clock noon of the officers ui the court Friday after and executive committee of the county's Blue l'.agle organization, formed at a meeting of Franklin business men Tuesday nigh t Mayor J. Frank Ray was elected chairman of the organization, and Alfred R. Higdon, secretary. liar Old T. Sloan, A. I. .'Todd and John W; E'd ward sWcttti am e d rmn i be rs of the executive committee. More than 40 business men, most of them merchants, attended..; the NRA meeting Tuesday-night in the courthouse. Speakers, pointed out that unless Macon county gels busy and puts its shoulder to the recovery cam paign, it will be at a disadvantage in obtaining allocations from fed eral aid funds under the recoiist ruc tion finance act. Word has gone : i ,,4- 1 i"iv lA ehmrrftl if line C111 Wilt liwill Y, alllllll'U, U vvn.T nctivi, that those communities which show the best spirit in backing tip the administration's drive to- banish the depression will be given preference in the distribution of federal money. 1 Plan Canvass The local Blue - Eagle- committee is planning to canvass all of the merchants and other employers in Franklin, urging them to subscribe to a reemployment code dv"' signing I lMVrjL-..fr-ni'rnl'"7ifeIjypi rQnif6f the special trade., group agreements. -The O'liunilU'e also intends t" 1 wa ge -a earn ) a tgn to i nance con - sinners to sign agreements to. trade QilJxjyjlh stores displaying jhcjllue Eagle, emblem of eompliance'v.ilh an NRA code. - John W ; Ed ward s, manager of the newly organized Macon , county branch of the-federal Reemploy ment Service, said a survey, of Frankl.in showed there were 1 X5 business establishments here.. He said the NRA committee hoped to get every' one of them to subscribe ! to an NRA pledge. It will also, be the duty of the Blue Eagle . committee to police the town to see that all employers displaying .the Blue Eagle arc liv ing up to their codes." In cases where the code is violated the com mittee has authority to call the offender to account and to remove the emblem. -.- .. . ' J)en;epavorjtlSm ; Replying to aceustations of po-lilii-nl ftivnrhicm in- ministration of the Reemployment Service, Mr. l'dwards said Republicans -and Pemocralsslat.ui.an equal oppor tunity, in getting jobs through the agency. "No favoritism at all is shown," he said. "We simply list the names of those 'registering, together with their qualifications. Along conies an employer who needs help. ' We give him a list of workers vc have available and the employer, does his own hiring from this list." The reemployment office is lo cated In the Odd Fellows TTall above Leach Brothers hardware store and it is open for registra tions from 8 a. m. to 12, noon, ich da v. Slagle Honor Roll Announced J. J. Maun, principal of the Sla gle school, has announced the hon or roll for the first month, as fol lows: First grade : len v Led ford," Nina po -Waldroorr, . D: Anderson ami Nawassa Conley. , . ... Second grade: lna l.ee Jones, ( dadys' Kcnnyr Weiioia- JVerkr Ru1h Crawford and Virginia Davis. Third .grade: Ariilla Dills, F.lba Ledhetter and Kate Williams. Fourth grade: Ruth Anderson, Virgie Collier, Barbara Hurst, Vir ginia Lenoir, Myrtle Lewis, Louise Smith and Hobby Waldroop. , Sixth, grade: Osceola Lewis, Mar garet' Collins, Dempsey Sweatman, Frances Hurst, . Louise Waldroop, Florence Ledhetter, Alice Ledbet- ter and Mary Jo Setser. Seventh grade: Gordon South- - ards, Ilarold Ledford and Elzia 1 Dills, ' -i i- ' i.i iim . I 1' , " ji $ j-i . -' ' y .... . ' i i ft f " ) -tf N JOHN II STONE TRANSFERRED Promoted to-Assistant to Supervisor " of Cher- okee "Forest John Herbert Slmie,- technical as sistant to . the,, supervisor, of . the NaiitahanrnlitirrnaTfrrresr; with headquarters in Franklin,, has been notified of his "appointment as as sistant to the supervisor of the Cherokee national . forest, with headquarters in Athens, Tcnn. The transfer is regarded as a promotion. Mr. Stone, a graduate in forestry from the Sheffield Scientific school of Yale university, has been located in Franklin since 1930. lie is to be succeeded in his position here, i it was announced at the torestry office, by Frank A. Albert, now connected, wish the. CK-cola naiional forest with headquarters... in. -Lakc City, Fla. ' -"" .Mr.,- Albert . iV HitTt,eilLj3Jlivc the latter part of this week or early next week. MniitMlJLhifi wife are ex pected to go to Atlietjs the latter part of the month. Youth Returns after Long 'Dick' Johnson Tells Trip, to California And Hawaii of " Tired "and tanned, Richard U. Johnson, lacking a;' few days of being 18 years old, came hack home early Wednesday morning after an experience journey t" Cal ifornia and the Hawaiian Islands. "I -lick," the youngest son of Mrs. J. W. Cantey Johnson, left FYank lin the middle of July last year with only a few dollars in his pock et. Striking it lucky on the roads, iie IT!) cfi-TiTki'iJ . to CaTiTortiiTi nr five and a half davs. He 'went to Santa Barbara, wIktv he had spent part of the previous summer .on: a small sail boat after thumbing his way across the continent to sec the Pacific regatta: He found the de pression had struck Santa Barbara full blast and there was no work to he found. He then went to San Francisco, where he said he was startled to find the weather so cold people were wearing overcoats in. lulv. ' San Francisco also was gripped in tlus throes of depression, so "Dick" looked farther westward and Final Surface Being Put on Highway 28 The : Rr" B. Tyler-company -of Charlotte - started work -Tuesday putting the finishing surface of -small stone and oil -on- the-first 10 miles of highway N6'.28wes't" oij Franklin ' " Meanwhile " the C." Y. Thomp--son company,of -Greenwood, was nearing the end of the stone work en the next link of No. 28, from the foot of the moun tain to Rainbow Springs. - With the alubgrading practically fin-" ished, the last of the base stone on this link was expected to be laid within the next week. When completed, No. 28 west of Franklin will be nearly the same type of road as the high way from Gneiss to Highlands. USURER PAYS $4,000 Pleading guilty of violating the state's laws forbidding usury, Har ry L. Drake, Chicago, on Monday .paid -R0(X) to a Raleigh court to free himself. Drake had operated his business-!!!-" aluiiiiBi'f 23,367 IDLE REGISTER In ,W counties 23,M7 tiiuMnpToyeir men have registered with the fed eral reeniploynient service and are reaily U x plawiiTeiit oh "public works jobs to start soon. made his way on a President liner to Honolulu. There he found tem porary work in a etife and later landed a job-yilh-bunk and board on a Chinese sampan, or fishing boat, which a group of Honolulu newspapermen had fitted, out as a pleasure craft. Richard and another boy took care - of the boat and spent their days sailing, fishing and swimming off the far-famed Ha waiian beaches. When a motion picture company began making shots for a .deep sea picture and "1 lick" found himself master in "charge oT an S.vToot. pc wemT'pl'cTrc - lire boat which the movie folk had -chartered-; - 1 "Believe me, I. .iad plenty of work moving that boat around," "Dick" said. "The director' wanted it shifted to(( a new position about every hour. The anchor didn't have a winch, so 1 had to haul it up myself. It was hard work but lots of fun." The early part of this year "Dick" landed a job on a Malso.n liner and worked his wav back to California. In San Dieeo he hoii.ht a small 'flower. -stand on one of the main boulevards ist. and became a flor- fiourtcsv Washington Daily Newt 21 PASS 7TH GRADEEXAMS List cf Those Eligible To Enter High School ; Announced Twenty-one pupils - passed the scvenllr grade .examination held Satwday, , Seplu-ihcr. 'A :d a.r.f eligible to enter the Franklin high school. Following is the list of those who passed, as announced yesterday by G. L. llouk, principal of the Franklin consolidated school : Frank Hryson, Cowee; 1 orscy M atlotk, Cowee ; M aiic Waldroop, 1'i'nion; Einnia Potts, Pine drove; CihneiMcCoy, Pine Grove; Clyde Cabe, Academy; Newell Piekle simer, Lower Tcsenta; James Nor- ns, Utto; Jessie At II Mmsey, Mick ory Knoll; Leo Corbin, Higdoti ville; ISriscoe Dills, -Pine - Grove, lohn Corbin. Ir.. HiL'doiiville : Wil- "ataTiga ; 1 liohias ttratF son, AcaTlemy; Albert- Rogers, 1 lickorv Knoll; Clinton Fdwards, lTurThJilflown i l'miliiif Fi.uh, Hig donville; Georgia Durrell, Ciiion; Thclma Holt, Mulherrv; Dallas Hollandr Salem; Pine Grove. . KellyHouston. Hitch-Hike "Business was fine while the United States fleet was in port," he said, "but after the- fleet left things grew dull and -.-got a girl to run the flower stand while I worked at another job. . ' ' "Flowers," he added, "are plen tiful and cheap in California. sold bunches of - swcclpeas, ,j5, to, a hunch, for five Cents, and made money on them, beautiful colors cents a dozen. "The flowers Chinese people Large gladioli, in sold for fifteen were llialV grown ly why they eresrr .hnrp;"" -Last month r eTiifrF'hoine lick" , decided-to and" Told his"" flower stand. He left Ha,, Diego August 29. This time he was not so lucky at thumb-touring. It took him two weeks and a day. to get home and at Texarkana, Tex., his pocket book was stolen. He had only 22 cents left. However, he managed to get along by workiilg here and there in cafes and arrived in Knox ville, Tcnn., Tuesday of this week. He reached Asheville that night. rum. there it was only a mere step to Franklin hitch-hiker. or a transcontinental 4MoreStates In 7 Highway Patrol Men Start Round-Up Two state highway patrol men swooped down on Franklin Wednesday and began a whole sale campaign to enforce the state mctor vehicle license law, rounding up automobile owners resident in this state who have been displaying Georgia tags. They also checked up on trans fer of licenso plates. The pr.trol men kept three magistrater. busy most of Wed nesday afternoon writing war rants. Only several arrests were made Wednesday, but many more were expected to follow Thursday,. . Ej FOR COLLEGES Over Score of Franklin Young People Going Oft to School Franklin is sending more than a score of young iiuu and women off to universities,, colleges and " pre paratory schools this fall. our are going to the University of North Carolina at Chapel .Hill: VV.'AV. Sloan, Neville Sloan', Jr., Doyle and Norman Blaine. our also are uoinu to. the Uni versity's college for women at Greensboro, - formerly lhe North Carolina - College-- fi r - Women but now a branch of the university 1, I- "T,.'t .. It J lie Alisseses r.lial)etli l lowilie. Mar i e 'I'a line c. 1 ; ' r g;i r e t I j an k and Florence Stalcup. 1 luJilwinv-.aregoi.ng to. Ay est: ern Carotin;. tejujirs Uw at ti'llo'whei;..'Flu.'iX.ljss-es-.1Ana ison, llatlie Slagle. M ildred I ai'n llaf risoii and William Margaret Slagle. - " S. Johnxm is leaving in a lew oiiv.i.tu enter mo t arnegrr Tte Institute of Techtmlogy at P.iits burgh, - Pa.7-where--he will -take-a special course in printing. - (.) 1 h ers-w hnh avc-4ef I ,ir arc-planr. ning to leate soon to enter schools and colleges include : Ted Fatoii, Davidson College, Davidson, N. C. Miss I.ueile Morrison, Mars Hill College, Miss College, Miss see, S. Miss iness C Mars Hill. N. C. Mary Louise Slagle, Berca lterea, Ky. Maude Met lure, Toinas C. Kate r.owden," Cecil's P.us ollegei Asheville. Miss Roberta F'.nloe Knoxville Tetm.; business 'college. Hugh Johnston and I'obhv SI oan, t. hnst School, Ardeh. ' Miss r.lizabetl) M c( iinre. F lora McDonal r. College, Red Springs, N. Holly Springs Honor Roll Announced Miss F.li.abeth Deal, teacher at the Holly Springs school, has an nounced the school's honor roll for the first month, as follows: .First grade: Bobby Deal, Charl es Seay, Roy Cabe, Kathleen Cabe, Roy Crispe, Junior F.lliotte, Eugene Fllliott, Lester F.lliotte and lr.liza he'th Elliot te. 'Second grade':. Willard Carer, Clarence Corbin, Albert Cabe, Har ry Kinsland and Robert Cabe. Third grade: F'.mogene Landruin, Ina Belle. F.lliotte, Merl Kinsland, 1 1 a Mae Crii'ic, Mil dxd F'ra u kliiu. Grady Carver, Thad Ashe Ashe, James L. I Juggins, Mavis Edgar F'ish and Frank Seay. Imhii-iIi grade: Arthur Cabe. i Se'av and Kathrvne Aiui l.ew Hug gins. Fifth grade : II. D - Corbin, Jr.. 1. I'.. IT. .Hand, .lohimv 1 Walker. Dewel laml.- Elliottc and Louise Kins- Sixth grade : 0 en Amnions, Tallies Crawford, ( Dewey .F.lliotte W'oodrow Franklin, Edith Cabe Bertha Cabe, Margie Crawford and Bessie Seay. Seventh grade: Lewie Holland JTallie Cabe,. Virginia Justice am Margie Seay. - GUILTY OF KIDNAP EFFORT l7or conspiracy to kidnap Jacqueline-Johnson, two, James A. Smith, Dunn, was found guilty at'Lilling ton on Saturday and was given five to' seven years in state's prison. Wet Column Others Needed MANY LEAVING Maine, Maryland, Colora do and Minnesota Vote For Repeal 10 OTHERSTO VOTE . ' . Officials for November 7 Election in Macon Appointed Four' more States added their ap proval " this week to repeal of the IKth 'amendment, .making a total to date of 29 just seven short of the number necessary to revoke the-constitutional provision for pro hibition. Ten other states, includ- ing North Carolina, arc scheduled" to vote on the 'issue in the next two months. ,31 aine,-vhich. has-been a dry st a te lrT - SI I y a r s, vote A for re peal more than two to one Monday, wets electing all Af the SO delegates to the 'ate -repeal convention. On Tuesday large majorities against, the prohibition amendment were piled up in Maryland, home of the wet leader, Governor Albert C. Ritchie; Colorado and Minne sota, home of Volstead, co-author, of the prohibition.. laws. Two more states, Idaho and New Mexico, are scheduled to vote on the amendment next Tuesday. Vir ginia follows on October 3, and Florida on October 10; On November 7 six states are to vote on the issue. They are North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, South Carolina and Kentucky. ""Thus- far- not "a", ingle state has voted against repeal and wet lead ers are confident whisky will be legalized by the first of the year. Macon Election Officers Appointed Judges, and. registrars for Macon county pJls in the November 7 referendum on the 18th amendment were appointed by the county board of elections .at a meetingast Sat- tirday. J. R. Morrison, chairman of the board, which also includes as members T. S.- Munday- and F. H.-FJigdon announced - thelist -as follows : " Franklin Charles Rogers and A. R. Higdon, judges; W. L. Ramsey, registrar. Millshoal I. R. Franklin, and Add' Kinsland, judges; L. A. Berry, registrar. Ellijay Charles (Moore and John Corbin, judges; Will Henry, regis trar. - Sugar Fork Fred Moore and W. A. Keener, judges; Alex Shook, registrar. Highlands Roy Phillips and Rob ll .. ! u. n rjL j (' ges ; Walter B ry son, registrar. :- Flats Earl 'Dryman and Marshal " Burnett, judges; Oden Penland, Tegistrar? ' ' ; Smith's - Bridge Charles - Norton and Claude Patterson, judges; J. Tr"Cae,"""registraf. : r- Cartoogechaye Ben Lenoir and Bun Ker, judges; Don -Sweatman, registrar. Nantahala No. 1 Charles Jacobs and Odell Hall, judges; George Steffe, registrar. Nantahala No. 2 -V. M. Jones and J. R. Wilde, judges; J. R. Shields, registrar. Burningtown Robert Pnrrish and L. H. Roper, judges; Ed 5yrd. registrar. Cowee-r-Robert Gibson and J. B. , Matlock, judges; Robert Bryson, registrar-. Mr. -Morrison said the list had been approved by Alex Moore, who ha been nominated by the county prohibition organization as z. can didate for dry delegate to the state repeal convention. A wet candidate has not yet been named. The registration books will be open only one day; October 28, but vvtei-s:. already : registered are not required' to register again. Young Democrats To Meet At Holly Springs The Young People's Democratic club will meet at the Holly Spring school house on Saturday night, September 16, at 8 o'clock. A short program of addresses and string music will be rendered, including talk by. James llauser and John V. Edwards on what the N. R.. A. means to the country. C. Tom Bryson will also be on the program.