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The feller that agrees with
everything you say is either
a nut or he is gettin' ready
to skin you.
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A Brief Si'vx'cy cf. Cur
rent Events in State,
Nation and Abroad
the Facts Boiled
Down to a Few Pithy
Lines.
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LIBERAL -
PROGRESSIVE
INDEPENDENT
VOL. XLIX, NO. 3
FRANKLIN, N. C THURSDAY, JAN. 18, J934 ,
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ROOSEVELT'S MONEY-PLAN
President Roosevelt on Monday
presented his plans for devaluation
of the dollar and was assured
prompt passage of desired- legisla
tion.' His plans call for: govern
ment title to all monetary gold
with payment made in gold cer
tificates, devaluation of the dol
lar down to at least 60 per cent
of its present gold qohtent, use of
a fund of two billions .of. dollars
for dealing- in foreign exchange
and maintaining an even level of
the dollar in trade. .
LIQUOR BILL NOW LAW v
President ' Roosevelt , signed
the new liquor revenue bill sad
irotule it effective Friday. Fed
eral revenue may exceed $!C3,
0S3.0S0 yearly from' it W hisky
pays $2 per gallon tax and b"r
$S per barret
R.'F. C. GIVEN NEW LEASE
. Both branches of congress on
Monday passed the administration
measure extending the life of the
Reconstruction ' Finance corporation
for a year and increasing its bor
rowing power by. $850,000,000.
MEW CUBAN PRESIDENT
Carlos Hevia,' only 33, accepted
the presidency of Cuba on Monday
night with Ramon Grau San Mar
tin resigning. There was little dis
turbance but a few San Martin
supporters were shot down in a
demonstration before the capital.
Hevia heads the more radical ele
ment of, the juntarin power. v
UTILITIES MUST ALL
REPORT
The. st&t utilities commission
has ordered all utilities, munici- ,
' pal as -well privately-towned, -to
report by April 1 the true
December 31 values on proper
ty and other assets set (up as
' rate-making basis. Lack of -comprehensive
information has .,
; liitberto blocked rate - adjust-
." meat moves , before the., cam- .
mission. -. .
1 UTILITY ASSOCIATES
NAMED
Disregarding; political pressure,
Governor-' Ehringhaus on - Friday
nicked Dr. William L. Poteat, pres
ident emeritus of Wake Forest 'col-'
lege, and Frank W. Hanft of the
faculty of the state university, as
associate .utilities commissioners - to"
sit with Commissioner Stanley
Winborne on - special . cases of re
view.' '
10 DIE IN FRENCH PLANE
Ten persons, including five high
French officials, . were burned -to
death Monday night m the crash
-of a big commercial plane near
tCorbigny. ' ,
74 DIE IN INDIAN QUAKE
At least 24 were killed and many
(thousands of buildings damaged, in
a Monday earthquake that shook
nearly all of -India, - :
ESCAPING CONVICT KILLED
Ed Atwood, -Wilkes fiounty bad
man who escaped, from the- state's
prison in May, was shot and killed
"fry Sheriff W. B. Somers in Wil
kes county on Sunday night. At-
wood resisted arrest when he was
surprised at the home of Mrs.
Cletus Wood near .the Watauga
county line.- ' ;
6 DIE IN EXPLOSION
J. C. Wilder, engineer for, the
Eastern Cotton Oil company plant
at Hertford, and five negro em
ployes were killed. In the Saturday
morning . explosion of a boiler
which wrecked the factory. Seven
negro workmen were injured.
BURNS IN AUTOMOBILE
William H. Crawford, 45, remain
ed in the rear seat of a car which
headed into a ditch near New
TWn. earlv Sunday morning. . A
.companion struck a match to as
(certain damage to the car. It
caught afire and burned rapidly,
Crawford never escaping.
MPilYlIOlD
IS EXCAVATED
Scientists Hope To Find
Traces of Early
Civilization
MANY RELICS FOUND
Mound May Be Site of
Ancient City Visited
l By Desoto
Excavating the ancienrXherokee
Indian mound at the mouth of
Peachtree creek, near Murphy,
archeologists " of the Smithsonian
Institute of Washington are search
ing for traces of ancient and
buried civilizations which may re
veal new knowledge of races ante
dating the red . men, and new in
formation which may shed - light
upon the route- followed by Her
nando De Soto's expedition in 1540.
The work of excavating the
mound and its surroundings '' has
been going forward for several
weeks and will be continued for a
month or more. C. W, A. work
ers are engaged in the task erf lift
ing the huge pile of earth for rel
ics and skeletons ! '
oHnirn Taking Part
, The work being directed by J.
D. Jennings, of Chicago, who is
supervising the scientific research
portion of the task and William
B. Colburn, of Detroit, who is in
charge of excavations. Both are
attached to the " Smithsonian In
stitute. Mr. Colburn has frequent
ly visited- Franklin in search of
Indian relics and geological speci
mens. He is a brother of S.
Colburn, of " Asheville. '
The mound, ' which has already
been excavated four times by relic
hunters, is being systematically in
spected for traces of early man in
this region "- Excavations have dis
closed 23 skeletons in. ; the vicinity
of the mound. These, """however,
are the remains of individuals sim
ilar to'.JhtI Indians. inow located
here t It is believed from former
excavations that the mound itself
contains skeletons of a larger pre
historic race, antedating the In
dians and the founders of. the
mound itself."
The , area will also be carefully
searched ' for traces "of "relics" left
by the te Soto expedition as it is
thought .possible the mound marks
the site 4. of the ancient city of1
Guasili, . visited by De Soto. An
cient mine shafts sunk in the near
by hills and recently , discovered
are believed to have been the work
of the De Soto expedition.
Excavations in and around the
mound h'avedisclosed pottery, stone
implements, '' trade and Indian
beads;;' guns pf two types and bul
lets of two sizes. The Smith
sonian Institute excavations were
begun some distance from the
mound and are now approaching
the Central " structure," where the
archeologists believe will be found
the more ancient relics and re
main? JoJjeJocate d in. this section.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
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. I View of the Tygart river at Grafton, w. Va., where the War department "will build a flood control
dam costing nearly $12,000,000. 2 Dairy farm pickets destroying milk on the highway during the milk strike
In the Chicago area.- a Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt talking In behalf of old-age pensions in the Chamber of
Commerce building In Washington. ; " ;
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Three Turpins Acquitted
In Sylva Kidnaping Case
PROTEST LOW
LAND PRICES
Protests against the low prices
being paid by the federal govern
ment for land in Western North
Carolina were lodged before the
National Forest Reservation com
mission in Washington last week
by a! group of lumber men and
others. . .
The group included James Cv K.
McCluref president" of the Farmers
Federation ; Andrew Gennett, of
the Gennett Lumber company.
Asheville: W. T. Damtoft, assistant
secretary of the Champion Fibre
company; Joe Keys of Washing
ton, and N. M. Dawson, of "East
LaPorte, representing the Black
wood Lumber company ; and Law
rence Bemis, of Robbinsville, rep
resenting the Bemis Lumber " com
pany.
Congressman Zebulon Weaver
introduced the group to the com
mission. The group argues that
the prices of $1.50 to $2.50 per acre
offered to landowners in this sec
tian are unfair, as they represent
only about 40 per cent of the
average price of $5.79 for the pe
riod between .1912 and 1933.
Mr. Gennett told the commis
sion that there are approximately
1,300,000 acres of privately owned
land with - in the territory of the
national forests in Western North
Carolina -which the owners - would
beglad"t6rseHTta "thrT-gbverrimeiit
if they were offered more equit
able prices. He"proposed rates of
$3.50 to $5 an acre.
C. C C. Worker Introduc
ed As Surprise Witness
By Defense
After hearing evidence for three
days, two justices of the peace in
Sylva pronounced a ve'rdict of ac-
quittar Tuesday, afternoon in the
cases of Warfield and . Alley Tur
pin, brothers, and Dock;:. Turpin,
their uncle, charged .with kidnaping
and torturing. : Frank Rhinehart,
Waster. schQolpriricipal, ,Ias ' Pe'
cember. . ., ,
The case was heard jointly be
fore- Magistrates B. O.' Painter and
John H. Morrb, who announced
their decision afterT 35 minutes ,pf
deliberation.
Alley JCurpin wasbound"overiO
the nert. term of Jackson county
superior court on a - charge of - as
sault with a deadly weapon against
Rhinehart prior to the alleged kid
naping.
Courtroom Crowded
The courtroom was . crowded to
capacity during the three days of
the hearing. ,
Taking the stand Friday, Rhine
MCLURE CITES
FARMTIGURES
Federation Sales for Past
Five Years Total
$2,000,000
C.W.A. Expected
flo Supply Jobi
For Idle Women
SMALL CANNON
BALL IS FOUND
Missile May Be Relic of
j Spanish Explorer's
Expedition
- Historical questions7 ! Vefe raised
last week by the discovery of a
small iron bait thought likely to
have been a cannon ball, in a cut
on top oi , Coweta mountain.
The missile was found imbedded
in clay by Johh T. . Franks, who
was work ing on a road being 'con
structed over the mountain in con
nection with the Coweta branch
of the Appalachian forest - experi
ment station. . , p..-
It is possible that the ball is a
relic' of Hernando DeSoto's ex
pedition to this region in 1540, for
it has been fairly definitely estab-
Mrs. G. A. Jones Appoint
ed Director of Women's
: Activities
payrollTmounting
New Road for Broadway
May Be Constructed
By T. V. A.
With, the appointment of Mrs.
Gilmer A. Jones, of Franklin, - as
director of women's work under
the Civil Works administration, it
became apparent this week that a
new quota of jobs, especially for
unemployed women, would prob
ably be assigned to Macon county.
As yet, only a comparatively few
women have been placed in work
through the government's reemploy
ment and emergency relief agen
cies in this county.
Quote Not Learaad
lished that . the intrepid Spanish1, Appointment of a county direc-
explorer passed through what is
now Macon county,- This theory
tor of women's work was interpret
ed as an .indication that a number
is strengthened by the knowledge of jobs would likely be created for
' Figures were given out this week
by James G. K. McClure, Jr,
president of the Farmers Federa
tion, Inc., on the money paid to
farmers for products marketed
through the various activities of
that ' cooperative; with headquar
ters in 'Asheville. The total for
the five jrea period-19284932 was
given as approximately two mil
lion dollars.
"IrishL potatoes marketed by. the
Farmers Federation, Inc., during
1933 brought the farmers of Wes
tern North Carolina approximately
$37,200," said Mr. McClure, "al
though this was a sljort crop be
cause -of -drouth. A good -part -of
this . potato money went to Hay
wood county farmers. For the five j
previous years (1928-1932) the val
ue of potatoes marketed by the
Federation for farmers was $79,
000: "Rye has been bought from far
mers for several years and suc
cessfully marketed in other parts
of the country by the Federation.
that there were no conflicts, in
which cannon were likely to have
been used, in the Coweta section
during cither the Revolution or
the Civil War. The ball, however,
may have been fired. by a cannon
at some" distance. ,
There is no positive indication
that the missile was a cannon ball,
but no other explanation of its
women within the near future. It
has not been learned, however,
what the county's quota for wom
en will be. Nor has the exact
nature of the work for them been
indicated.
Mrs. Jones' appointment was an
nounced Monday. It was made by
Miss Alice. M. Laidlaw, of Raleigh,
state director of women's work for
origin and -purpose has, been ad-' the C W. A. Mrs. Jones will work
vanced. The ball weighs eight in cooperation with Miss Rachel,
ounces and is approximately one i Davis, county C. W. A. director
and three-quarter inches in diam
eter Although it is badly rusted,
moulding lines are still noticeable.
GupidBusy
62 Marriage Licenses Is-
- sued Last Year
'"u,i "". . .
hart identified all three defendants 1 ' c '"T "
... . i . . , tains has shown itself better able
d U1C lilt 11 I1C tMUUCU iCliCU I1UI1
MANY DIE IN' ANDES FLOOD
Around 40 lives were lost and
damage of $8,000,000 done in sud
den -Friday floods which "swept
down the Andes mountain into
Argentina on the Mendoza river.
Answering Puerto Rican protests
against Governor Robert H. Gore,
President Roosevelt on Friday
named Major General Blanton
Winship, Macon, Ga., as governor
of the island.
Teachers Plan To Organize
School Classes for Adults
Organization of ' classes for adult ' es, including a wide variety . of
illiterates and others who wish to subjects.
receive instruction in various sub
jects is , being planned by three
Macon county teachers who are at
tending the institute for unem
5. Nursery schools for children
of pre-school age.
The Macon county teachers at
tending the Cullowhee institute are
ployed teachers at Western Caro-1 planning especially to organize
Una Teachers college at Cullo- adult classes and i home-making
whee.1 j classes. Mr. Ramey., acting as
Those attending the institute are spokesman for the group, has ask'
TOBACCO AVERAGE IS $16.11
Producers ' sales of tobacco to
January 1 in North Carolina totaled
470.840,955 pounds, at an average
price of $16.11 per hundredweight,
the federal crop reporting service
finds. December sales -were 55,.
684,528 pounds at average price of
$17.25. ...
7 ESCAPE, 3 RECAPTURED
Sven prisoners leaped to free
dom from a state . highway truck
near Durham, Saturday. . Three
were speedily retaken.
HAYWOOWD HEADS U. N. C
ALUMNI
Dr. Hubert Haywood, Raleigh, of
the class of 1905, has been chosen
by university alumni as president i
.of the association for the year. I
V. C. Ramey, of Cullasaja. and
Miss Susan Rice and Mrs. West
rook, of Highlands.
The institute is being conducted
under the! Civil Works administra
tion, leachers on leaving the in
stitute are expected . to organize
community classes with 10 or more
pupils and they will be paid for
teaching these classes by the G W.
A.
According to an announcement
and took him on a .wild week-end
ride through Jackson and Macon
counties and north Georgia, thjjgat-i
ening him with mutilation andr
turing him by various means.
All three of the defendants took
the stand and denied, they had par
ticipatedinraanyway Jnlhe aljeged j
abduction and torturing of the
school principal. A .number of wit
nesses were put on the stand to
establish alibis for the defendants
and to testify in. behalf of , their
characters.
Surprise Witness .
A surprise witness was sprung by
rtie defense Jn Nelson Sexton, a
C. C. C. worker of Mountain City,
Ga., who said he thumbed a ride
from a man he identified as Rhine
hart - about 2-:30 o'clock on . the
morning Rhinehart . said, he was
being held by the alleged kidnap
ers. Sextan said he left Rhine
hart's car a short time after be
ing picked up because the school
principal had made an "insulting'
proposal to him.
Rhinehart took the stand again
Tuesday to deny that he had giv
en Sexton a ride or that he had
ever seen him.
to stand cold weather- as a cover
crop in other regions, and distant
seed dealers are learning to look
Cupid is staging a recovery drive
in Macon county all his own and,
incidentally, business is picking up
for C. T. Bryson, registrar of
deeds.
Mr. Bryson reported issuing mar
riage licenses to 62 couples last
year, as against 21 in 1931 and
only 10 in 1932.
Enactment of the marriage bans
law in the legislature several ses
sions past had the effect of send
ing most of Macon county's cou
ples to Georgia or South Carblina
ed for cooperation . of the public,
especially public school principals
county officials, churches and fra
ter.nal organization, in the organ
ization of classes.
"This program," he pointed out,
"in no way conflicts with that of
the public schools of the county,
but is to plan so as to encourage
all between the ages v of six and
sixteen to continue in school or, if
they have left, to reenter school,
" XT . ' II t .
to the Federation for seed rye. to get married. Repeal of this law
Where the individual farmer would ' became effective the first of last
hardly be able to get- this -business. j July -and immeiiately--4he - matri
the Federati6ncan"buynisrrye, monial "business - in -Macon County
pool-it into carloads, have a train- began to increase. Mr. Bryson
ed .seed man tag- it according to said most of the licenses in 1933
regulations of the various states, were issued after July 1.
and see to proper credit or col-"
lection arrangements on the ship-; WALKER D. H1NES DIES
ment. i Walker I). Hines. 63. director
"During 1933 the Federation paid general of American railroads in
farmers approximately $12,000 for 1919-1920, and also former head of
rye, while for th five previous the Cotton Textile Institute, died
years the total was $35,950." in Italy Sunday of apoplexy.
Horsley Asks Observance
Of State Quarantine Laws
and welfare superintendent. " She"
will supervise the activities of wom
en working under the C W. A.,
but will not have charge of place- '
ments. .
More jobs for unemployed men
also appeared likely this week with
the receipt of -a telegram at the
county C. W. A. office authorizing
the office to supplyall men" requi-
sitioncd for work on projects un
der the Tennessee Valley Author-"
lty. A small gourp of men started .
work last week building a stream
gauge for the T. V. A. on the Cul
lasaja river. Other projects are ex
pected to be ' undertaken by this
agency within the next few weeks.
May Build New. Read
Unofficial r.eports have been re
ceived that the T. V. A. would in
clude in its Macon county projects
the , construction of a road from '
Broadway to Tesenta, but it has
not been announced when this
work would start or how many
jobs it would create. .'
Meanwhile;- the-Cr WrA. pay
roll' in this county is steadily
mounting. Last week it was slight
ly above $5,700ral though the men
could not work full time on ac
count of bad weather. This week
the payroll is expected to exceed
$6,500, and this does not. include
the pay of nearly a hundred men
employed on road building projects
in the Nantahala national forest
which are being undertaken with
N. R. A. funds.
Macon Marine Now
Stationed in Guam
J. R. Ferguson, former Macon
county boy now stationed at the
Marine Barracks; U. S. Naval Sta:
fion, Guam, writes The . Press-i.faconian:
" 'Join the Marines and see the
world.' I answered this call in
July, 1933, and in four months 1
had traveled 12,000 miles, or on
Dr. H. T. Horsley, county quar
antine officer, requested this week
the cooperation of the public in the
enforcement of the state's quaran
tine laws in Macon county. He
pointed out that without this co
operation the public cannot have
the protection against contagious
diseases which the 'quarantine laws
are designed to give.
Numerous cases of whoo'iung
by Dr A. T. Allen, state supenn- No person is allowed to enroll in tne average ot 100 miles per day.
tendent of education, five (Utter- the adult schools except those over 1 ve seen rori au rnnce, nam,
ent types of classes may be or
ganized, as Follows! !
1. -. Adult illiteracy classes. " '
2. Vocational training classes.
3. Vocational education and re
habilitation classes, -specializing in
teaching some trade.
4. ' General adult education classr
sixteen years old and not enrolled
in any other school.
"Any one interested in having an
adult or home-making class or
ganized in their community is -requested
to correspond with V. C.
Ramey, county group chairman,
Cullasaja, N. .C. "
here. It also requires teachers . to
make written reports to the quar
antine officer of any cases or sus
pected cases of whooping cough ' the senate. :
withni the teacher's school district.
Parents and householders are al
so required to notify the quaran
tine officer of the presence or
suspected presence of whooping
cough, measles or other preventable
diseases within their homes. This
Senate Confirms Price
As U. S. Marshal
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. The
nominations , of three North Caro
linians Tor important federal po
sitions were confirmed Tuesday by
Charles R. Price, of Charlotte,
was confirmed as United States
marshal for the western district of
North Carolina, and the nomina--tiort
of Angus Dhu MacLean, of
Washington, N. C, to be assistant
solicitor-general was approved.
cough, measles and mumps, have' is required even when no doctor! Ford S. Worthy also was confirm
been reported in tranklin and has been consulted
throughout the county m recent
weeks. The spread of these highly
contagious maladies can only be
checked, Dr. Horsley said, by strict
observance of the quarantine laws, j not more than 30 days.
The state s public health laws re-
Violation of the above sections
of the health raws is a misdemean
or, punishable by a fine not ex
ceeding $50, or imprisonment for
Balboa, C. Z. ; Panama Canal, Pan
ama City, San Diego and San
Francisco, Calif.: Honolulu, Hawaii
an4 now I'm on a tropical island
called Guam and would like to
hear from some of . the young
folks back home. How about writ
ing
quire physicians to report all cases REYNOLDS EARNS $21,153,721
of preventable diseases to the conn- The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
ty quarantine officer within 24 company reports .net earnings of
hours. Specific diseases mentioned .$21,153,721 for 1933 as compared
are "whooping cough, measles,
diphtheria, scarlet fever, small pox,
infantile paralysis, typhoid fever,
tvnhus fever, Asiatic cholera, bu
bonic plague, yellow fever, or other
with $33,674,800 in 1932.
K1DNAP-K1LLER TO DIE
It took a Columbia, S. Q jury
only 21 minutes to bring in a death
diseases declared by the North y verdict, Saturday, against Robert
Carolina Board ot health to "De
preventable."
The law, however, does not stop
H. Wiles, . 49, for the kidnaping
and murder of Hubbard IL Harris,
jr., 15.
ed as marshal for the eastern dis
trict of North Carolina.
Rev. C. L. Ledford
Dies in Tennessee
News was received here Satur
day -of the death of the Rev. C. L
Ledford, who died at his home in
Emory Gap, Tenn., on Saturday,
January 13, after an illness of
several months.
Mr. Ledford is widely known in
Macon county. He was born and
reared on North Skeenah.
He was the father of Prof. S. F.
Ledford, superintendent of schools
in Rabun county, Ga, and an uncle
of E. B. DeHart, of Franklin.
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