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4. , J i, , t J : i .,. H"; . K Let none falter who thinks he is right. . Lincoln. A Bri:f Survey of Cur rent Events in State, Nation and Abroad the Facts Boiled Down to a Few Pithy Lines. . : attit ', PROGRESSIVE. LIBERAL " INDEPENDENT: VOL. XLIX, NO. 4 FRANKLIN, NC, THURSDAY, JAN. 25, 1934 $1.50 PER YEAR V5 . Vy RECOGNIZE CUBAN . ' GOVERNMENT - - Four days after he 'assumed jthe presidency of strife-torn Cuba, Car los Mendieta was ' informed of President Roosevelt's .'intention to formally recognize lhe; new regime. Mcndjeta says recognition will ajd in' speedy restoration Tof peace and normal trade in the '.island republic. i " ' HOUSE ADOPTS GOLD LAW thm ' president's bill to pUco ' title of 1 monetary gold in the ' . treasury ,wa ' patud by the . lower haute on Saturday in 3C0 to 40 Vote and passage thu, week in the ' senate is confj' dently forecast by Democratic ' leaders. . LOUISIANA ELECTION . ILLEGAL The house elections committee has declined to scat either of the two 'candidates for representative chosen in the sixth Louisiana dis trict. It declared illcgaj both the unopposed election of Huey Long's candidate,' Mrs. Bolivar Kemp, and that of J. U.: Sanders, Jr., who later was named , on. a ; protesting citizen's ticket. '""".'. ,' r FARLEY RESIGNS PARTY ' post -z:; x::::tizlz": James A. Farley; campaign man ager for President Roosevelt and chairman of the Democratic na tional committee, has . requested that a successor be found for him , as leader !of , the committee. He intends to devote" his entire time . to his duties "as postmaster general. CWA HOURS ARE SLASHED Costs of the national civil . works program are running : $10,000,000 per week ow the estimated expenditure uid dwindling' funds ' have forced Harry Hopkins to order civil works hours in cities be cut to 24 per week and hours in rural "'; regions to 15, Jh place of the standard 30-hour week : which " has been in effect. i 75.420 CWA JOBS IN STATE " Until sucli 'time as the federal ." curtailment in funds is lifted, the civil 1 works weekly , payroll : in North Carolina wjll be held under $700,000 and the number of jobs to 75,420, according to Mrs. mom- as O'Berry, the. state administra-i tor. The last weekly payroll bt- '" fore curtailment, amounted to $973,- ..m LLZ v'T HIJACKERS SEIZE CIGARETS A gang of hijackers, traveling in two cars, used gunfire to force a Burlington truck to halt south of Richmond on Friday morning. The truck was several hours later turn.- . ed back to its operators, Paul Holt and R W. Wortham, after $26,000 , worth of cigarets had been remov ed. The truck was en route to Baltimore with a v shipment from Winston-Salem. BANDIT BRADY SLAIN IN KANSAS , V Bjg Boy Brady, notorious des "tierado of the southwest," was kill ed Monday in a gun " duel hear J'.aola, Kansas, when he and three 'other escaped convicts resisted ar- rest by a large posse which sur rounded them in a cornfield. They were four of the seven who scaled ' the walls of Lansing penitentiary on Friday. .,. , . ... . 2 HELD FOR AUTO KILLING David Hines and Lane Woodfjn, each 22, , both of Alexander county arc held in jail at Statesville on murder charges as result of the hit and run auto killing of Robert Moore, blind man, on January 14 as he was walking on the highway near his home. 2 CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE Tragedy ended a childhood game in the home of Arthur Miller, Lex ,-ington, Sunday. Arlcne Miller, 10, wearing a costume with long tram, walked past the open fire. .The , 'train swung into the blazing grate ' and . the child was wrapped in flames. SJie died four hours later, At Clinton, Saturday, Elsie Butler, seven, playing at a filling station,.! Tourcd gasoline from a can into a .heater. In the explosion she was hurned to death. . mi mmm ?; COKIIERE Rev. Frank Bloxham To Be Rector of St. Agnes Church Xhe Rev, Frank Bloxham, rector of St. PaulV church, Clinton, ,N. C, has accepted a call to become 'llector of St.- - Agnes "Episcopal church, Franklin, and the Church of the Incarnation, Highlands, suc ceeding the Rev.vNorvift C. Dun can, who resigned in December on account of ill health. . Rev. Mr. Bloxham visited frank lin and conducted services at St. Agnes church Jhe first Sunday in January.. "He itf a young man, but has had a wide experience in many fields. ' He is a native of Bir mingham, England, and; attended ah English church school and"the high school of Birmmgham. Then he was apprenticed to a firm of machine - tool makers, where he was employed until he went into active service in the British army in France during the World War. Invalided in 1919 with shrapnel wounds in a hand and a leg, he went to the College -of Technology at Birmingham University,) Being graduated with. an associate mem bership of the Institution of Me chanical Engineers. , Served in Church Army After a time in the, commercial world, Mr., Bloxham joined the Church Army, a layman's society of the 'Episcopal church, and did mission work, throughout England for three years. Then he was sent to the United States to do pioneer work forthe . formation of . a sister society in the . Episcopal church in this country. In. that work he travelled through 31 states. This work completed, Rev. , Mr. Bloxham decided to enter the min istry. He took his .theological work at the. Virginia-Seminary, Alexan dria, Va., from which he was grad uated with . the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. While at the seminary he had charge of work at -Trinity church, Arlington, Va., and under him the church grew to be almost self-supporting. On graduation, Kev." Mr. Blox ham married Miss Gertrude Por ter," of "Torrington" Conn;; and Springfield, Mass.,' and -was ap pointed to - the work at - Clinton. He also served churches in the near-by towns of Faison,' Warsaw and Burgaw. Mr. and Mrs. Bloxham are ex pected to; arrive in Franklin next week, accompanied by Mrs. Blox- ham's mother, Mrs, Ina C. Porter. They look- forward to a happy and useful ministry in this section. f They're on Their Way to Abyssinia I 'rJ . ( ..... a 1.1 5 t V ' 1 v .M' fX: CWA PLANNKG p&IiOOHS few Jproject To! Start as vjton asviAutiority y i-ZU Receivejd BY MRS. Gi A, ONES (Director' of Wmen Work in M,acon County "under the C. W. A.) , Plani'arc progressing for, estab lislihl'ktumbcr of sewing rooms iiV'thfc ! equity to ' give A-mploymcnt to 'vpotti'ert !ttat!of wwkmd n net'(' of assistance:?' Notliinxan actually-ie started until permission is givkn.ljy. the. state administrator at Raleigh; to put on a given number ofy women, which number will also beWcoided bv the" Raleigh officials. If should be understood that thjs work t? only for women in actual need,.' except in cases where fore women cannot be obtained for the particular work to be - done, out of the number of workers, hmploy ment is, to be given without regard to "previousaffiliations and only to women in actual need,.'jand the only preference shown js to put on the neediest womn firsts John Carveth Wells, young son of the famed explorer, and his wife, Jill, as they left London on a tandem bicycle for Abyssinia, where young' Wells believes that they haye a good chance of recovering the treasure of the queen of Shebn. ." More Lespedeza : To Be Ordered Feb., 3 Another cooperative order of lespedeza teed U to be made Saturday, February 3, it wa announced Wednexky by F. S. Sloan, county farm demonstra tion . agent. . . Mr. Sloan requested that all farmers interested get in touch with him on tor before the date aet for, sending off the order. The first order this year, made : about W tleys ago, : was for 8,350 pounds, a .sufficient wmount -for . planting 334 acres. Besides this, it is estimated that approximately 5,000 pounds of . seed were saved in this county from last year's crop. S. R. Roper Is Awarded $1,800 In Damage Suit BRYSON CITY, Jan. ,23-S. R Rooer. of Macon county, was awarded - a - verdict for - $1,800 in Swain county-superior -court Tues day for injuries he claims to have sustained while - working - for - the Ritter Lumber company of Rain boW "Springs: The jury deliberated 25 minutes in reaching its verdict. Roper had asked damages of $3,-000.. Judge Frank Hill, of Murphy, , is presiding over the civil term which convened Monday. CWAWORKERS ON HALF TIE All of the workers on the pay roll of the Civil Works Admin istration , in Macon County went on ' half time work this week as a result v of the 'announcement from Washington that expenditures were running ahead of the appropria tions for the emergency recovery Meanwhile, no new employed are being placed on jobs and no new projects undertaken, although new quotas of workmen and approval of - new projects already had been granted or, .were- expected. Workers who hitherto have been employed - 30 - hours a week - are now working only 15 hours a week, but no projects already"" undertak en have been abandoned. Expectations in Washington are that Congress will make apapro priations to continue the C..W. A. activities until May 1, possibly longer. DEATH CLAMS E. A. I.1ASHBURN Funeral for Well Known Blacksmith Held at Sugarfork , Funeral services for Elbert A. Mashburn. 61. who died about 2 o'clock Monday morning, were held at the Sugar Fork Baptist church Tuesday morning at 11 ' o clock, with - the Rev Eugene R Elle r, pastor of the Franklin Baptist church, the Rev. A. A.. Angel, a Methodist minister, and the Kev. Mr. Beaty, of Highlands,, in charge of the services. Mr. Mashburn had been ill at his home on Greene street for the pa'st ten days with pneumonia. He was-well known in Macon county, having worked as a blacksmith in Franklin the greater, part-of . his life. He was a member of the Sucarfork Baptist church. He is survived by hi6 widow, his father. Tom Mashburn, of Frank lin; three daughters, Mrs. Steve Poole, of Piedmqjit, S. L., Mrs, Kiby Womack, of Franklin; Mrs Pearl Bishop, of Piedmont, S. C. ; two sons, .Norman Mashburn, of Franklin, and Chalmers Mashburn, of Vircrinia: four brothers. Ed Mashburn, of Sylva; Weaver Mashburn, of Dillsboro; Gurley Mashburn, of Asheville, and Gree ly Mashburn, of Winston-Salem; and . four sisters, Mrs. Hula Am nions... of . Winston-Salem ; Mrs. Molly Sorrells, of East LaPorte; Mrs. -Cora Woolen, of Webster, and Mrs. Ida Bryson, of Pied mont, S. "C. F. IX BIRTHDAY CAKE r If tun- kllfitJCV- mini HOSPITAL HERE IS REORGANIZED 'rovisicn Made by Duke Fund for Charity V- "Patients STAFF UNCHANGED . . Materials Needed The garments made by these women will be turned over to the Red "Cross and to the welfare of ficer to be used for the people in the county who are helped by the Red Cross and the welfare depart ment. These women are paid tor their work ' as the men are, with the same number of hours allotted, but nothing is provided, for rent, fuel, lights, water, etc., for the places where the work js to be done. This ig all done by dona tions of individuals, and anything donated will be gladly received. Especially appreciated would .be scraps for quilts, qujlt patterns, raw wool for making wool-filled quilts, materials of any kind which may be used for baby ' clothes, childrens dresses, etc. Another thing which will be most useful is patterns for plajn dresses fonwom enand children of all sizes," men's shirts-, baby clothes, night wear, bathrobes, etc. 'Also chairs, quilt framesand -sewing-machines to be used and returned. Many Donations Expected The I room which will be used for the Franklin sewjng room will be announced later. A sewing ma chine" has beenwlferedand it is believed that as soon as the pur pose and certainty of the " project becomes known that many things will be donated. In the districts, out from Frank lin where these centers wjll be established rooms have been secur ed and much of the equipment promised. Another project for . Franklin will be the complete renovation', re pairing and reorganizing of the books in the publjC library. Here -is probably' the biggest birthday cake ever baked. It was made ut oral Gubles. Fla and sent to the patients at Warm Springs, Ga., to be eaten on Presl dent "Roosevelt's birthday. January 30. Beside It stands Col. Henry L. Dougherty, general chairman of the national committee that arranged for Roosevelt birthday parties In I hundreds of cities and towns to i raise money for the Warm Springs Foundation. . BUS FARES CUT; NEW BUS ADDED Queen City Coach Line Announces Change . In Schedule A reduction in tares, a new schedule and the- addition of new bus on the Atlanta-Asheville Short route, which passes through Franklin, was announced here Wednesday by K.-J.-Kindley, representative of the Queen City Coach company. The new schedule will , enable residents of Franklin and other sections of- the -county-to-go to Ashcyille- by bus in the morning and return" by" Urns- that night, "T" A bus is scheduled to leave Franklin each morning at 7:15 o'clock for Sylva, Waynesville, Canton, Asheville and other points west," north and east. Another bus, from Atlanta and bound for Asheville, is scheduled to leave at 6:50 p. m. For some months there has been only cme bus a day for Asheville, leaving Franklin at 8:30 p. m. There will be two busses a day leaving Asheville for Franklin, one leaving at 6:30 p. m. and the other ARREST ROBBER SUSPECT Tom Clevenger,. 52, is held at Newport, Tenn., as a suspect in the I at 11 a. m. December 19 robbery -of the Citi-, The new" schedule calls for de zens bank at I lor Springs,-NT." C.,i parlure" of "a bus" from "Franklin Institution To Be ' Man aged By Non-Profit Corporation Angel Brothers hospital has been . reorganized on a nan-prof jt basis, enabling it to receive financial sistancc from the Duke Endow ment, it became known this -week. Hitherto, the hospital, operated by Dr. Furman Angel and his brother, Dr. Edgar Angel, has been unable to obtain provision for . charity ' patients from the Duki, Endowment because it was a pri-. vate institution. Reports of a reorganization at the hospital have - been current here for several weeks. Confirma-" tion of these reports came Tues day with.,the announcementm news .dispatches from Charlotte that the Duke Endowment had ap proved the reorganization and granted an allowance to the hos pital of one dollar a day for each charity patient. Corporation Formed A charter-has been obtained for a new corporation, known as An gel Hospital, incorporated, which has leased the i hospital property. from the Angels and will have su ¬ pervision of the management. A. B. Slagle, Macon county sher iff, is president of the corpora tion; Robert A. Patton, state sen ator for this district, vice presi dent; and R. S. Jones, Franklin attorney, secretary and treasurer. No changes in the hospital staff have been announced. With assistance from the Duke Foundation assured, the hospital, one of the largest . in Western North - Carolina outside of - Ashe ville, will be in position to render a broader service to the general public. : L Established in 1923 Dr. Furman Angel organized the hospital in 1923,' using an old resi dence on Palmer street. . In 1925 he purchased the Elias property and. erected a modern brick hos pital building. The hospital's busi ness'- increased and - in - ur. Angel built an annex, which in creased the institution's capacity to 50 beds. For a time a nurse's school was operated, but this was discontinued about two years go. Dr. Edgar Angel, who has been connected with the hospital in an active capacity for about two years, is now acting as head surgeon tor the institution in, the absence of his brother, who Is in Florida re cuperating from a recent illness. He- is assisted, by Dr. Charles . Solms. when four bandits got $2,400. WEED REDUCTION' DRIVE ENDS ' The campaign for contracts to reduce the 1934 tobacco production in North Carolina ended Saturday night with authorities reporting 95 per cent of the growers ' signing for a reduction of 165,000 acres and 1,14,000,000 pounds. Growers will reive $11,000,000 in rental, bene fit and equalization payments, in addition to the hjgher income ex pected from f a shorter crop.f Press-Maconian Going To Press Day Earlier To insure earlier delivery to its-Press-Maconian for delivery subscribers, The Press-Maconian this week inaugurates a policy of going to press Wednesday after noon instead of 'Thursday at ter- noon. ' All copies of this . week's issue of the newspaper for delivery, in the county were deposited at the Franklin nostoffice Wednesday night and should be : received . by a subscribers in Franklin, on the county routes and in most of the County postoffices on Thursday. Subscribers on the route served from , the Dillard, Ga., and those who receive their mail at Stiles, Tcllico, Aquone and Nantahala should get their copies of The Press-Maconian not later than Jmi dav. . Should any subscribers fail to receive their papers on time, the publisher requests that they so no tify him and he will take steps to find out who is responsible for the delay. In the future the management the county on 'Wednesday and all conies for delivery outside of the county on Thursday morning. In tarrying out this policy the publisher requests the cooperation of all advertisers, correspondents and the public in general. News matter and advertising should be received not later than Tuesday afternoon for publication (lining the same week;- unless it -is-late news of outstanding importance. Copy for advertisements larger than a quarter of a page, or for advertisements . calling for illustra tions to be cast from mats, should be received not later than 10 a. m. Tuesdays. Mrs. Frank Fleming's Mother Dies Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fleming and son, Frank, -Jr., attended the fun eral of Mrs. Fleming's mother, Mrs.- J. A. Burnett, in Greenville, S. C, Sunday, January 14- Mrs. Burnett was ill only a short time with pneumonia She had visited her daughter at Prentiss several times and made many friends here, who will deeply regret to learn of her death. 135 HOMELOANSjPPROVED In the week ending January 13, there were 135 loans approved for North Carolina homes by the Home Owners' Loan corporation, bringing the total of approved ap plications to 2,743 in this state. Work of Reemployment Service Is Explained Frank Curtis' Condition Critical Frank E. Curtis, wo suffered a relapse after a recent illness, was reported Wednesday to be. in a critical condition at his 'home on White Oak street. , Den Containing 10 Snakes Uncovered Snakes are seldom seen in the winter, so it was real news when 10 of them were found last week at a mine at Mica City on the headwaters of Cowee creek. Charles Bradley, who operates the mine, reported the find. Work men uncovered a den which con tained eight copper-heads and two rattlers. Mr. Bradley said he was con vinced that rattlers shed their rat ties during the winter, for the two snakes of this species found in his mine had only one or two rattle and a button, although the snake were of large size, indicating ma ture age. It has been generally thought that the number of rattles on rattler, indicated its age, but in for Atlanta and points south and west at 1 :35 p, m. Under the jew xates Jhe fare to Asheville will be $1.65 one way, and $2.50 for a round trip ticket. Corresponding- reductions have been made in fares to other points, The new fares and new schedule are effective Friday, January 26. The Macon County National. Re employment committee at this time is composed of the following:- Walter Gibson, of lotla, chair man; Uscar Kickman, ot Lcatner- man; William G. Stewart, of Otto Miss Elizabeth Slagle, ot 1'ranklm; C. Tom Bryson, .of Cullasaja, and the Rev. -William Potts, of High lands. The last two men, Mr. Bryson and Mr. Potts, have been appoint ed recentlv. to.JilL the vacancies of W. S. Davis, of Highlands, and Prof. M. I). Billings, of Franklin. There is yet one vacancy to fill, created by the resignation of J. E. Lancaster. This vacancy is ex pected to be filled at once. As many people in Macon coun ty fail to understand the workings Explains Placement Of Service Men on Jobs - i nnn w r r i win n 1 1 ir m ii ci -'ui "v VIII o the Franklin office of the National Reemployment Service, explained . Wednesday the regulations regard ing the placement of ex-servicemen. "Many veterans seem to think," he said, "that there are no rulings or regulations concerning their placement in jobs. Some are labor ing under the idea that they should be given jobs ahead of all others. This is not necessarily the case. "The, first thing to decide in the placement of an ex-soldier is whether he 1 is actually unemploy- classifications called for on the j ed. If a former service man is project. On all skilled or semi- a farmer and he has had a suf skilled work, the men, according ficient crop to carry him through to their qualifications, are sciccteathe year, he could hardly De class so :is to cive work try the men 1 H ae nncmnloved. ." best qualified. On all jobs calling Another thing which must be only for common labor, men are taken into consideration is that the selected, for the . openings accord ing to the rules of the office." One of the greatest difficttties which the committee has to con tend with, Mr. Edwards said, is the idea of ""many" individuals that his or her own personal case and -cn cumstances are the most trying. The committee has, a9 far as pos sible, investigated most of the hard luck stories and tried to make placements from the most "deserv ing cases. Tn the selection of men, one committeeman has as much rin'ht as any other. It is the com of the National Reemployment of- niittee which approves the selec- fice, the following information was advanced by John W. Edwards, manager, of the local office: "When an order for men is re ceived by the local manager, he tions, and not the manager.. Word is expected at any day ex-soldier must have dependents before he is entitled to preference in placemnts. A dependent is a person who, by law, must be pro vided for that is, a wife or child. Otherwise, an ex-soldier "Is con- J1VI- I V VI 1.11 HIV tfUIHV W--.F . other citizen. "Concerning a war veteran plac ed on a C W. A', project if he draws a pension, it wilt be reduc ed to' $6 a month, should his wages on the C. W. A. project xceed $50 a month" FEAR KIDNAPED BANKER SLAIN Authorities at St. - Paul, Minn., from Raleigh concerning the reg-, fear that kidnapers " have' slain istration of people who are anxious wealthy Edward Bremer, who was to rent farms. This information seized on January 17. A note de- j-ienry Curtis, ot nyiva, came -v - - plans to post all copies of The over Tuesday to visit his brother. at in,s ,s a Iaise ineory- recent years scientists have proved calls in the committee. The files', will -be announced in The Press as manded $200,000 ransom and ab in the office are run . according to soon as available. I solute secrecy.
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