North Carolina Newspapers

i i f Yro--. '. --pr Of i IT 3 CX I i J It's the songs ye sing- an' the smiles ye wear that's . amakin' the sunshine every where. James Whitcomb Riley. ; 7w vwvy.cvy, A E:;;f Sir 1 .' cf Cur- .. re:.: i, in Nation and Abroad t iigllmt&ii illaramatt thz Facts Boiled Down to a Few Pithy Lines. ' :-':' r. PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT VOL. XLIX, NO. 2 FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY. JANUARY 11, 1934 $150 PER YEAR 1 V HOUSE APPROVES LIQUOR tax ; , By vote of 3S8 f o 5 the lower house of congre on Friday approved the emergency liquor tax bill designed to yield $470. 039,000 in revenue ., annually. Early approval of the senate is forecast The bill set a $2 per gallon tax on' till tilled spirit. A flat $5 per barrel rate on 'beer it et : SOVIET ENVOY ARRIVES . . Alexander A. Troyanovsky, the soviet union's first ambassador to 'the United States, arrived in New York on Sunday and presented his credentials to the , president on Monday, . . : i 33.SC0 AUTOMOBILE VICTIMS -The National Safety council estimates that 33.SC0 person t lost their live in automotive) vehicle accident in 1933 an in crease of 3 1-2 per cent over 1332. The higheat recorded toll is that ef 1923 whe 33,675 were killed. TAG SALES GOING FAST . , Sales of state automobile tags through the last week were 30 days ahead of the "1932 record, with 244,155 placed as compared with 121,373 for the 'same .'date of 19,32. Around 2,000 motorists have been ; arrested for use of old tags. ; r. 452 . FOREST FIRES IN NOV. ...fThe excessive dryness of North Carolina woodlands is cited as cause of .the increase in forest fires in November,' state authorities re- ' porting 452 such . blazes in that month with damage estimated at $56,152- . : :. . , 190 HOME LOANS APPROVED In the week ending December 29 the Home Owners , Loan corpora tion in this a state approved , 190 loans on that - many homes, the loans involving $372,423. Approved loans to that date in this state to tal 2,448 involving $5,392,462. SURVEY OF HISTORIC POINTS A natmnnl nrvv . rf hmtarric I buildings i has been approved as a civil works project and in North Carolina M. R. Marsh, Charlotte, I has been named supervising officer with a personnel of 28 workers, for I this state. I ' ' ' ;' " " ' 1 LOAN TO MECKLENBURG -,, . Mecklenburg : county; has been awarded $438,000 of public -works funds for construction of new schools and schoI additions, one of. the 'biggest' awards that has come to the state. .'. C GETS $12200 VERDICT Tr XXfnir QtinAnA' - Aiirf lact jeek' the state won a $122,000 ver ct against three bonding com plies, asking recovery, on bonds lovering deposits of the state park tommission in the Central bank of Jvsheville which failed in 1930. ; Ap peals were noted. " ' jpOSTAL DEFICIT IS CUT j , Postmaster General . Farley , re j ports a $112,3743r2 -deficit in the J postal department for 1933 as com J pared with a loss of $205,550,611 in I 1932. The1 number of postal, em V ployes is 235,573. ; ' 1 GEORGIA RELIEF ROW Harry Hopkins, federal relief and civil works chief, has dissolved the Georgia civil works -"and relief board and, is administering the funds in tha,t state . directly through his own. aides, after pub licly criticizing Governor Eugene Taimadge and his board for ob structing the work.. , ; v (- . C. TOBACCO TAX RISES i The bternal revenue department t- arts ' $200,727,038 paid from Jv" rth Carolina , in the last fiscal r in miscellaneous taxes, chief 1 on tobacco , products. . Income t es in , the state for , the year v re but $12,760,720. Due to her 1 , tobacco industries, this state n-iked next to New. York as con- ibutor to the antional treasury. BARGAIN FOR LIBERTY Governor Ehringhaus has so far leclined to grant clemency to four j Transylvania county men, who have' bargained to restore $30,000 1 xto the county if they are let off from prison terms imposed for conspiracy to wreck the Brevard ? Banking company in 1930. Thomas Shipman, formmer president of the bank, Joseph Pickelsimer, C. R. McNeely and Ralph Fisher, for mer county officials, have placed securities worth $30,000 in the " hands of the county commissioners but they Insist the payment is not to be made unless the sentences are forgiven. . 0. OF LESPEDEZA Sloan Reviews Advantag es of Crop for Macon - Farmers PLANS SEED ORDER All Interested Asked To See County Agent By Saturday. ; BY F. S. SLOAN (Macon County Farm Demonstra- ''t,. tion Agent) .' For .general purposes and from the results, obtained, lespedeza has proved to be one of the best and most valuable legumes ,ever grown in Macon county. It has so many uses and values that sdftie rof it should be -sown on every farm in the county.' The value of lesptdeza is- shown by the ; increased use of it by farmers since 1930. The first year only L 3,400 pounds of - isced were sowed by thirty-five farriers, and last year approximately 21,000 pounds were sowed by 196 farriers.; These: fanners used this lespldeT za in Several different ways, ich as i ' In pastures, in orchards, li'or hay, ..for , soil improvement, lnd for seed. For all of these usetl it has proved a real success. Aj 1 a pasture plant it fills a place dufilijj July, August and September. Wl ln we usually have .our . very dryit season and the grasses in pastur Is do not furnish much grazing, le- pedeza makes its best growth at' l"wvj il vaiuv it will llldKC i Detter growth during a f avorabl season, but will withstand more dr weather than grasses. Anothe point worthy of consideration, whei used in a pasture, is that it' can not be grazed so close that it, will URGES S0T.7LT not reseed.'v'On old pastures it f 'Dunty courthouse last Friday af recommended that at least ' , ;rnoon' for tL preliminary hear pounds per i.ftctv be '"iiszi aaJ t!u. ::s bcfce-Magistratef SatnM-ur for new , pastures at , least , six pounds perr acre in a mixture of other seeds. " " ; Good Cover Crop To seed lespedeza at the fate of 25 pounds per acre in orchards we find ' that it makes a yery good cover crop and that it will reseed each "year." By doing -this and let ting it resced it will place nitrogen in the soil and eliminate the use of much commercial fertilizer, es pecially nitrate of ' soda. The use of lespedeza for hay is becoming more extensive each year. The analysis of . lespeedza hay shows that it is almost as good' as alfalfa nndthat it ,is better than red clover or soybeans. It is also much easier to cure than soybeans, becaues of the fine stems. On a good clear day it can be cut early in the morning and put in the barn that afternoon,' so there Is not so much chance of losing it on ac count of rain. YfeH. Good Hay : -: The yields of cured - hayhave run" from one thousand pounds to five thousand pounds per acre in this countyTbe yield, of course, depending upon the ' fertility of the soil, the rate of' seeding and the available moisture. On good bottom land it will give as much, and in some cases more, hay per acre than Soybeans, while on upland the yield is also good if we have a favorable seas- on. ; The general method of esti - mating the hay yield before cutting is that for each four inches , of. lespedeza above the cutter bar of a mowing machine, it will yield one (Continued on page four) . Forged Vouchers on State Treasury Are Discovered , RALEIGH, Jan. 10. Another forged check, on the State of North Carolina the - sixth : to come in within the last few .weeks has come to the office of the state treasurer for payment, it was learn ed there. Several days ago State Treasurer ; Charles M. Johnson is sued a statement warning all banks and merchants -not , to cash any state checks or vouchers without proper identification of the persons presenting these checks. These last six checks or 'vouch ers have been forged on counterr feit vouchers similar to those used by the state highway and public works commission and have ranged in amounts from $35 to $87.50. This last check was for $47.50 and was made payable to and endorsed by Raymond Smith of Tfoy, N.' C, RFD. The voucher was made out on a typewriter and to a casual Highway Chairman Hopes! New? Federal Allotment ' For Roads Will Be Made , RALEIGH, Jan. ;0. Chairman E. B. Jef fress of the state highway and public, works commission . is hoping that Congress - will approp riate another $400,000,000 for use in the further construction of fed eral . aid highways,' since North Carolina would then , get another $9,500,000 to' ifse ,in completing or rebuilding highways now included in the 6,100 miles of roads now in the federal aid system in the state. At the present time almost all of the $9,500,000 which the state re ceived last year from the public works administration for highway construction, has been allocated, though not . all of the work has yet been contracted for. . There are still hundreds . of miles of highways within the federal aid system that either need improv ing or rebuilding, however. Chair man Jeffress pointed out. : "If we can get another $9,500,000 from the ' government for . use on the federal aid roads in the state, we can put these' roads in excel lent condition,"' the chairman of the state highway and public works commission said, "If we do not get this additional money, how ever, a great many . roads that really need improvement are going to have to.-staw as they now are for a long tin e, since there is j Jeffress does not see how Congress nothing to indicate that the state j can refuse to make the second ,ap will have any money to spend on J (Continued on page four) Bond Continued Examination Waived by Billy Pickens V; A large crowJ( gathered in the ray and George Carpenter, in the case of Billy Pickens, 63, held un der $5,000 bond in connection with the fatal shooting of Fred Sti- winter, 34,. at a candy pulling on Walnut creek the night of, Decem ber 23. The crowd, however, found little excitement besides a minor Verbal barrage i between "counsel for Pickens and private prosecution. Pickens waived examination and not a single witness was placed on the stand, ' although a number had been summoned to testify. George Patton and R. D. Sisk, Pickens' counsel, suggested that the defen dant's bqnd be reduced; but when McKinley Edwards, . retained by the prosecution, voiced objection, they made no point' of the matter and waived the hearing. Defense counsel announced, how ever, that they had; witnesses who1 would testify that Stiwinter had threatened Pickens and . that the small, aged man had acted in self defense.- - Mr. Edwards - professed amazement -at- this announcement, - aec.anng.tnat pmv, that ntornins, he had ..questioned? the , witnesses L referre4totlLftnames:were. not;' . , .TP(wtir,n in theii-debt mentiond) and that they had told him Pickens shot Stiwinter in cold blood.- -. . ; v . TO HOLD CONFERENCE The first quarterly conference of the Macon charge : will be held Sundav at Union church, accord- 1 ing- to an announcement by the Kev. J. B. Tabor, Jr., pastor. The Rev. L. B. Hayes, presiding elder of the Waynesville district, will preach at the 11 o'clock ser vice. observer , looked like a genuine state highway and public works commission voucher. It was cashed by the J.- C Penny company store in Rockingham. Four of the other forged check? were cashed in Asheboro and one in Wadesboro. These forged checks are . very easy to dttcct by authorities here who are familiar with the various forms of decks and vouchers used since they have two very glaring defects, accoraing to State Treas urer Johnson.. Otherwise they look1 almost exactly like the state high way and public works commission vouchers. The 'two defects are that on .the two lines for signatures, they are signcH "Baxter Durham, State Auditrir" kind on the second line "E. B.l jVffress, Chairman," while the KerWuiP highway commis sion .voucher! yre , not i signed by State : Audito! octer Durham new highway construction for a long time yet." ' , .. Hopes For New Allotment Chairman Jeffress is very hope ful that this Congress will agaiiv make another appropriation ,ot. at least, $400;000,000 Jor federal aid highway construction, ite has re ceived a letter from Congressman Lindsay Warren, in which Con gressman Warren said tfiat he regarded- highway 'construction as among the most beneficial of pub lic works undertakings and that he was going to cdntinue to work j for another appropriation for that purpose. , Other of the state s con gressman are also ' understood to be in favor of another federal ap propriation for roads. .'. -J Unless another appropriation ' to continue the highway building pro gram - is ; forthcoming, thousands of those, who have been given em ployment on projects now under way will have to go back into the ranks of the Unemployed as soon as the present projects are com pleted, Jeffress pointed out. Since the primary purpose of the entire public works program, in ' which the highway building program is one of the largest parts, is to put men to work and keep them there, MANY FARMERS RECEIVE LOANS Rural Debt Burden Being Decreased through Refinancing -T COLUMBIA, S. p.. Jan. 10.-In closing . 6,280 loans amounting to $8,322,361.50 during the month of December, The Federal Land Bank of Columbia, for itself and as agent of the land bank commissioner, established an . all time record -for transactions handled in one month in the third district. ( December loans practically doub led the 3,541 loans closed in No vember for the sum ; of $4,528,479 and were four times greater than the October figures. According to figures just pub lished by the Farm Credit ad ministration in Washington, about 85 per cent of the money now being lent to farmers is for the purpose of refinancing indebted ness. This is a decided increase over the 48 per cent of loan funds used for this purpose in 1932. Many people are of . the opinion that the Farm Credit administra- tlnn !e mprplir inrrpncincr till farm- , - debt when theoppo: . jg he far in.about.'i7.5 r . . . . . farmers and for loans from' the-land bank commissioner's fund" the average reduction was 23 per cent. Using the December figure " as an illus tration and the $4,500,000 in-com missioner's loans, as a' basis of calculation, farmers in the third district reduced their indebtedness approximately $1,500,000 on com missioner's loans only in one month. , Further, this refinancing was at a low rate of interest and on the "amortization" plan ' of re payment, permitting borrowers to pay off the principal in gradual installments over a long period of years. According to President Frank H. Daniel of the land bank, effects of loans already made in the Caro lina's, Georgia and Florida are shown by improvement in mer chants receipts and a better state of repair on many farms. Said President Daniel, "We have re ports showing that taxes paid out of loans obtained through the land bank enabled counties to keep their schools open and many banks arc in a more liquid condition because of mortgages refinanced with our institution. MILK WAR' IN CHICAGO Milk ran . in Chicago streets on Monday, milk trucks were toppled into rivers, and truck drivers were attacked by dairymen representing 130 farm organizations! which have declared a blockade on milk mov ing intd the city until, milk "prices are restored to the recent level of $2.10 per ; hundredweight. Large at I companies ; had .reduced the price to $1.40. , ' SCENIC ROlfTE Pawnee pill Highway Pass es Through Highlands And Franklin TRAVERSES U. S. 64 Carolina and California Linked by Surfaced Highway; v7-: ' " ' BY MRS. T. C. HARBISON (Highlands Correspondent of The Press-Maconian) . The most direct scenic higbway, from Carolina to California, U, S. 54 known . as tfie ! "Pawnee Bill Route' is coming into limelight from coast to coast. , Briefly, this route is a ninety-eight per cent paved highway system, starting from Manteo,' N. C., and passing "through Carolina towns? ihcluding Highlands land Franklin,' westward to Murphy.?' thence through inter vening states to Los "Angeles and San- Francisco. Pawnee, Oklahoma, is the half-way point on this east to west highway. Through . the efforts of Major Cordon W. Lillie. Pawnee. Okla- 'homa, president of the U. S. High way 64 association, and of Jack de Lysle, executive manager, and with the cooperation of various towns and cities along the way, the ad vertisement of the; Pawnee Bill Route 'is proving highly successful. .. Historic Highway Major Lillie, or Pawnee Bill, for whom the highway is named, is a well known pioneer and scout, and is the Great White . Chief of the Pawnee tribe of Indians in Okla homa. Major Lillie says that U. S. o4, besides being the shortest of all routes from east to. west, is the most! scenic and the ; most historic, highway, in America today. States along, the route have their Ozarks, their Rockies, their, lakes and deserts ; - and " they j all posses some Section -famous aild historic ally interesting, and North Caro-1 . lina'has muh to offer, of both historical interest and of natural beauty " WesternsNorth Carolina is especially noted for its wonder ful : mountain ' scenery." This new routs passes through noted sec tions of Western North Carolina, including the Pisgah National. For est, the Blue Ridge, famous in song, and story, and ; the Great Smoky Mountains. . Highlands and its vicinity,, atop the .glamorous Blue Ridge, offers to the travelers of the Pawnee Bill route a . veritible wonderland of rugged mountain' sides, precipi tous rocky headlands, deep ravines and misty water "falls. 'Offers Beautiful Scenery Five miles from Highlands on the highwal near the Macon-Jackson county line is the magnificent pauoramic Sunrise ..View, - beautiful scene - -of - sharply etched - nearby cliffs, culminating in the. outlines of distant mountain ranges. " A few miles nearer Highlands is the cen turiesold "Primeval Torest with its tall "murmuring pines and hemlocks." Those who have leisure time to spend in Highlands may sense the romance of, moonlight over Lake Sequayah; may thrill to the rum bling of an approaching storm has tening towards Wolf Ridge from the hills beyond Horse Cove; ob serve the; flaming beauty of a dy- ing day over westerly hilltops form continued on page tour; . Textbook Board Planning To Change V RALEIGH, Jan. 10.'-The tenta tive course of study in history for the elementary schools of the state has been completed by the elemen tary textbook commission, which p.lso plans for hearing representa tives of publishers of the various books that have been presented for its consideration, it was- learned. .'.Superintendent Clyde Erwin of the Rutherford county', schools, is chairman of the textbook commis sion, and Mrs. A.; R. Wilson, prin cipal of the Lakewood school , in Durham, is its secretary.- ; - The commission is ' hoping that the tentative course of study which it has set up, will save the state, or rather the" school children of the state, some money- and at the same time increase interest in his tory in all the grades. The present history books have ;been in use for some 11 years and 1 are con sidered badly out . of date. The 2 New Prqjecfc Supply F or Kidnap Hearing Set for Friday Preliminary hearing for War field and Alley Turpin, brother, and Dock Turpin, their , uncle, charged with kidnaping Frank Rhinehart, Webster school prin cipal, was continued by Justice S. H. Monteith at Sylva Mon day until Friday, morning at 10 o'clock. Bond of the defendant were continued until Friday.. V The continuance of the case was by mutual consent of the defen dants and private prosecution. FARMWORKERS Re - Employment Office Seeks To Aid Landlords And Tenants John W. Edwards, manager of Macon county re-employment of fice announced Monday .that his office is now ready to register landlords and farmers who. are m need of farm labor of any kind. Likewise, families desiring to rent a farm and unemployed farm labor are urged to register. Families who left farms for work in towns or factories and are now interested in going back to the farm are urged, Edwards said, to register and give the government a s chance to help- them find the kind of employment they prefer. Thdre may be some families ap plying for farm placement who do not have enough -food and cloth- r.ing to "run", them until the crop is made. Under .certain conditions, provision will be made to extend help to such families, he said. Funeral Services Held For Mrs. M. L. Angel Funeral services for Mrs. M. L. Angel, 76, of Smith's Bridge town ship, who died at- 6:45 o'clock Tuesday evening, were held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at Clark's Chapel with 'the Rev. Mr. Lefler, pastor of the Franklin cir cuit,, officiating. , Mrs. Angel had been ill for three weeks "with influenza and pneu monia. She was a member of the Sugar Fork Baptist church. . Surviving Mrs. Angel are her husband, three sons, Walter, of Iotla; ; Earley, of i Frankhn.ziand Aiex, ot smiths Bridge; six daughters, Mrs. Joe Smith, of Tel- lico; Mrs. Addie Vanhook, Mrs, SamJV anhook-and Mrs-Otto-Mc-- Clure, all of Prentiss; Mrs. George Poindexter and Miss Annie Angel, both of Smith's Bridge ; 36 grand children and six great-grandchildren. TRAIN HITS SCHOOL BUS Monday brought another school bus horror, this one at Bassfield, Miss., where a passenger train plowed throueh a bus on a cross ing, killing three and hurting 20, , six of them very badly. History Course hew course of study is designed to increase emphasis on North Caro lina history, so that the school children may gain a deeper insight into the history of their own state and cordate this history with their generaly histofy.' It is contemplated to develop a better co-ordinated course of study that will extend from the elemen tary grades on into the high school grades without leaving the wide gap that heretofore has existed be tween elementary and high school history -courses. , "Our main objective in working out. this course of study in history has been to try to select a course that will arouse the interest of the children and give them a better understanding of social and gov ernniental problems and thus bet ter prepare them to meet the prob lems they will come face to' face with in living their lives," Mrs. Wilson said. HELMFERED ing Work Q- Unemployed Construction of 1,200 Modern Privies . Planned OTHER WORK LIKELY Tennessee Valley Author- ity Building Water - Gauge Stations Work , under' the C. A., the N. R. A. and the T. V,"A. in, Ma- x con county moves on. apace with new projects turning up here and there almost as rapidly as the " change of acts in a five-ring circus. -It fairly makes the head swim to try to keep up with all these va ried "activities under the : govern: ment's far-flung recovery program. This week brought two new pro- . jects, each promising work for more idle men and each bringing new improvements to the county. Building Privies l Tuesday morning 16 men went to work at Rainbow Springs on a sanitary project which has as its purpose the construction of 1,200 modern privies throughout , the county. At a point on the Cullasaja river just below C. T. Bryson's store a crew of eight men started Wed nesday to build a water gauge station for the Tennessee Valley Authority. S. C Council, X, V. A. engineer, is in charge of -the work. Other Work Expected . Other work of a similar nature is contemplated by the T. V. A. in this county and it is thought likely that more men soon will be employed in these projects. , ' J. A. Porter has been placed in charge of the sanitary project and an expenditure of $11,668 for labor has been authorized. It was stated at the county Emergency Relief office, however, that most of the men to be employed in this work would have to be transferred from -other projects. Eight of the six teen men who began work at Rain bow Springs Tuesday were itewly employed ; carpenters, while the othr eight weer common laborers tranasferred from other C W. A. projects. The sanitary project is under the supervision of the State Depart ment of Health, which has long urged the necessity of modem pri- vies to public health.' 'Funds al- -loted for this work ..provide for la- -bor only and families which wish to take advantage of this oppor tunity to have a new. privy con structed are required to supply all materials. The cost of, materials for a -privy ---is ""estimated : at from $5 to $8. Those interested in se- curing new privies are advised to . get in touch with Mr. Porter. . h-Other-menare-expectedtobe placed at work. on this project in the near future and crews will be put on the job at Franklin, High lands and in the rural districts. Work is well under way on the construction of buildings and tim ber stand improvement at the Cow- ! eta' branch of the Pisgah experi ment station, with 112 men employ ed and 37 more yet, to be employed. There have been unofficial re ports of various highway projects j to be launched, with, the likelihood . of several hundred rnore jobs be ing created; but as yet no official confirmation has been received on any of these projects. .55 Go To Camps Dumring the past ten days about 55 . men, , two-thirds of them .ne groes, - have been recruited from Macon county for service irt the Civilian Conservation camps locat- ed in the county. . Since the . Reemployment office opened in ' August .with John W. Edwards in charge, 2,200 men and women have registered as appli cants for work and 492 have been placed and many , others are be- ' (Continued on page four)' FRENCH MINISTER RESIGNS Colonies Minister Dalimier has resigned from the French govern ment, after he had been revealed as a sponsor for a huge false bond issue in 1932 through a Bay onne bank.. Alexander Stavisky, head of the bank who had been a fugitive since the $30,000,000 crash of the institution, on Monday at tempted suicide by shooting him self in-thefcpad aftr r'! ' I r V