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'"i f -ft - V?.' II! I 'r 0 ,i'V- hi, i ( Bib of Wlciiom The creatidrt 6i a thousand forests is in one acorn. Emerson. iiini 3 :rXMsY. a S Ml I I I I I I I I A Brief Survey of Cur rent Events in State, Nation and Abroad- the Facts Boiled Down to a Few Pithy ttnb ' ijtgfylattfta fHanmtatt PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL 'INDEPENDENT Lines. VOL. XLIX, NO. 7 FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, FEB, IS, 1934 $150 PER YEAR lb CONTINUE CCC The War Department announced Saturday that orders providing for the continuance of the , CCC at its present strength, of approrimately 300,000 men' have been sent out to maintain the corps at full strength until March 31, 1935... will be ac complished in two enrollment pe riods of six months each. ' CWA BILL HELD UP Final ..action on the administra tion hill to appropriate $9500,000,000 for civil works and elnergency re lief projects was delayed in the senate Tuesday. . Meanwhile Harry L. Hopkins, civil works administra tor, was engaged in an argument with Representative Giffo'rd (Rep. Mass.) who, has insisted that Hopkins give .an account vyf C. W. A. activities. Four million C. W. A. workers are said to be depen dent for their pay next Saturday on early . passage of the bill now before the senate. The civil works administration now has under, con sideration a proposal, to discharge 200,000' or more men now employed in southern states on projects lo cated m private land. FATE IN BALANCE T Four prominent Transylvania county men were faced Wednesday with the likelihood "of - entering state's prison Thursday morning - under terms of two years each for bank law violations, unless Govern or Ehringhaus granted clemency at the last minute. Midnight Wednes-1' day was the' time set for expira tion of their 30-day respites. The four men are Thomas -Shipman, C. R. McNeely, Joseph Picklesimer and Ralph Fisher. The four were con victed in August, 193,1, . of having issued ' $100,000 in Transylvania county tax anticipation notes to bolster assets - of the failing , Bre vard Banking company. Governor Ehringhaus recently declined to ex tend clemency to them after they had promised to niake a $30,000 res-4 .titution to the-county. ' AUSTRIAN REBELS SHELLED A J it. ..nt'.rKinA . r.t CW1 V 2 iSSPr Tuesday after two days of civil war during which government forc es opened a bombardment of the huge Karl Mar apartment building, Socialist stronghold, and other reb- Ncl centers.; Socialists were strug gling in a ilozen other cities against : the fascist government of Austria. PARK MONEY ALLOTTED v The Publid Works administration , Tuesday made official the allotment of $2,235,000 for the purchase of land to complete the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. FRENCH WORKERS STRIKE A nation-wide general strike against "fascist reaction" gripped France Monday ,as approximately one million workers remained idle for 24 hours' stopping virtually all normal activities. The strike was marked by rioting in which at least one .person was killed and many wounded. Premier Domergue's negligible. . . , AIR MAIL BY ARMY ' The United States government Friday ordered contracts with 12 aviation concerns for the carrying of air mail to be abrogated Februr ary 19, directing that after that date the army should take over flying the mail pending further ar rangements. This action followed presentation to President Roose velt of evidence gathered by a sen ate committee into alleged graft in the. letting of airmail contracts dur ing previous Republican administra tions. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh telegraphed the president hat the government's action "will unneces sarily and greatly damage all American aviation." T He charged that innocent comp'anies would be made to suffer for the faults of others. The government, however, has not altered its plans. BUSCH KILLS SELF August-Anheuser Busch, 68, .fa mous brewer, killed himself by "shooting a revolver bullet through his abdomen at his palatial St. Louis home Tuesday. He was de spondent over ill health. 9 UrtlTR WFFIC ' ' J Orders lending new invigoration to the drive for increased employ: ment are going' forward from two key offices im the governments re - covery program.. NRA Administra tor Hugh S. Johnson has called a meeting of all,coed authorities for . March 5, with the object of fur hcr reduction in present hours of labor to 32. At the same time,' Secretary Ickes urged immediate work on projects for : funds allot ted, expecting 4,000,000 to be on the Civil Works by May t. " Mmlk DENTISTS PLAN SCHOOL SURVEY Will Conduct; Study of Mouth Health Conditions of Children Members of the North Carolina Dental society will conduct a mouth health survey of the public schools of the state on Tuesday, February 20j and Thursday, February 22, ac cording to an announcement by Dr. J. L. West, Franklin . dentist, who will supervise the survey in Macon county. Get NA Pay The dentists have voliintarilv un dertaken to carry out this project in cooperation with state and fed eral public health trfficials and the AnYefican Dental society, and they will receive no remuneration for their work. The survey will be made in two Macon county schools, the ones at Franklin and Highlands, during the regular school hours on the dates mentioned above. Similar surveys are to be made in all the states of the union, Dr. West said, but the North Carolina Dental society is the first to un dertake this study. "It is expected," Dr. West said, "that 700 dentists will visit the schools in North Carolian on the dates set for the survey and dur ing this time they will inspect the mouths of; at "Jejst 200,000 children for dental defects. . This is the greatest eoncertei effort ever to be undertaken in two days' time in the health 'annals of the state. '." Effect f Undernourishment . ment ranks first in the physical defects of our school children and, inasmuch as undernourishment is reflected in' the mouth of the child by improper, development of the teeth, the dentist has an unusual opportunity to find if this Is true." If a child is found to have den tal effects, the parents will be no tified and advised to take the child tp their regular dentist and have the defects- corrected. SCOUTS SEEK TO Affi NEEDY Undertake Relief Proj ect at ; Request of President Roosevelt ;In. response tpa project as signed,, to the Scouts of the nation by President Roosevelt in a radio broadcast-Saturday -iioonJranklin Boy Scouts have launched a cam paign,, to', collect unused clothing, bedding and discarded furniture, which will be put into good con dition and distributed to needy families through the county relief organization. , The Scoutsgathere4 in. the Scout hall to hear' the president's mes sage. It was the high point of their celebration of the 24th annual Scout Week. The chief executive asked "every troop and every Scout to do every thing possible in their Separate lo calities to collect such household furnishings, bedding and clothing as people may be able to spare as gifts to those who greatly need them." ' " '.'" " r "I am confident," he added, "that the American people will generous ly cooperate and respond." The Franklin Scouts plan to make a door-to-door canvass to get gifts of clothing and furniture in ful fillment of Jhis project. Miss Ra chel Davis, director of the relief organization , which will -supervise distribution of the articles to the needy, said the following things were most badly needed : ' Baby clothing, stockings, dresses, over alls, shirts, shoes, sheets, pillow cases, coats and sweaters, trousers. Only clothing that can be repaired so that it may be worn ' is desired. BEATS THE RAP Verne Sanky has kept his word to "beat the law." With a noose fashioned from two neckties and with a handkerchief in his mouth to prevent any involuntary outcry, he hanged himself in his cell at South Dakota penitentiary, Sioux City, Thursday night. Sanky was held on kidnaping charges. CHEROKEE LORE . By Margaret R. Siler . " - Introduction THE REASON FORMATION OF THE ARCHEOLOGIC AL SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA . JL WA-CATOOSE time (long time' ago), in my early youth, I read James Fennimore Cooper's "Leather Stocking Tales." From that day to this I have been, in tensely interested in the American Indian. Reared in mid dle Georgia, I gained little first hand knowledge of the Red Man. I was quite thrilled, therefore, when I married and came to live in Western North Carolina, the home of the Cherokee, from which he had been ej ected not so many years before my arrival. I was delighted to find, that my father-in-law, Albert Siler, Esq., spoke the Cherokees' language almost as well as his own, having learned their tongtte as a child playing with Indian children. : . I have often thought I would put into print some of the things Mr. Siler told me of the Cherokees, for he was' an authority on the" subject; but I wondered who would be interested, who would care to know of these things, that are fastr passing from our knowledge. InVIay, 1933, the North Carolina . Archeological Society was formed to collect, study and preserve North Carolina history and Indian lore. The first regular meeting was held in October, 1933, at the home of Mr. Burnham S. Colburn. in Biltmore Forest, Asheville, N. C. I had the pleasure of attending this meeting and the honor of being placed on the Executive Committee, Learned men were presient-irom alL parts of this the state. They were greatly the Cherokees. Dr. Swanton the way from Washington, D. C, to take part in the pro gram.. - t " . Dr. Swanton gave a lantern slide lecture showing the distribution of the various American continent and depicting the supposed route of the Spanish explorer, Fernando DeSoto, through Western North Carolina. I was especially interested serving the Heritage of the Past," and it is with view to preserving what I have learned of Cherokee lore that I am writing this sesies of articles. At the meeting in Asheville Dr. Douglas L. Wrights, of Winston-Salem, president of the society, made an interest ing address on "North Carolina, Nature's Sample Case He spoke of the Indian tribes which inhabited this state from the coast to the mountains the Algonquins in small r (Conti'Mied on To Reorganize Young Democrats To Reduce Number of Clubs Plans for a reorganization of the community clubs of the Young Peoples' Democratic organization of Macon county were made at a meeting of officers of the organiza tion last Thursday night at the home of Miss Elizabeth Slagle, vice president. n It was decided to reduce. the number of community clubs in the county from ten to six. Plans were also made for several of ; the members to attend the Jackson Day dinner to be given in Raleigh Saturday, March 17. Meetings - were called to be held at the following places and dates for the reorganization of the com munity clubs: Salem school, Saturday night, Feb. 17; Cowee school, Thursday night, March 1; Etna school, Sat urday night, March 1Q. All of these meetings are scheduled -'to open at 7: 30 o'clock. . U. D. C. RENDERS SIDNEY LANIER PROGRAM The Macon County Chapter: of the United Daughters of Confeder acy met at the home of Mrs. T. J. Johnston Monday afternoon. Mrs. Carl Slagle, president, pre sided .over the meeting and a very interesting program was rendered. Mrs. Esther Freas, of Murphy, who is visiting relatives on Cartooge chaye, gave a very entertaining sketch of the life of Sidney Lanier. Mrs. C. C. Herbert sang "Into The Woods," written by Lanier. After the meeting the hostess' served sandwiches, cakes and cocoaJ in rJ state and, somaom vOutside, interested in the history of and Dr, . Judd had come all Indian tribes over the North in Dr. Judd's'talk on "Pre Page Two) CALLS lilEETiNG ON FOOD Authority for Local Food Distributors To Be Established By authority of the National Food and Grocery Distributors' Code Authority and pursuant to the Code of Fair Compet'4'0" for the Food and Grocery Trade meeting of representatives of all wholesale and retail fool and gro eery establishments covered by the code will be held at the Battery Park Hotel, Asheville, N. C, at 8 p. in. Tuesday, February 20, accorct ing to an announcement by A. R Turnbull, chairman of the comph ance board for this district. This meeting is being called for the purpose of electing a Local Food and - Grocery Distributors' Authority to be charged with the administration of the Code in this area. ... - It is ' important that every retail and wholesale establishment be rep resented at this meeting, Mr. Turn bull said. i GETS LIFE TERM A life sentence for Gordon Al corn on Friday) following the sui cide of Verne Sanky in' his prison cell at Sioux City, wrote an end of the criminal careers of the prin cipals in the . $60,000 ransom kid uapmg of Charles Boettcher, 2nd, wealthy Denver broker. Alcorn, who was in an adjoining cell when - Sanky suicided, pleaded .guilty. CODE JONES LAUDED BYJILLINGS Credited with Evolving Plan For Reopening Bank Of Franklin . An expression of appreciation to those who assisted in , making it possible to, remove restrictions from the Bank of Franklin was voiced Wednesday by M. U. Billings', vice president of the institution and liquidating' officer for Several months after its closing on Decem ber 15, 1930. , Mr. Billings pointed out Gilmer Av Jones, attorney for the bank, "as the man, more than any other one, to whom is due much of the credit." He explained that it was Mr. Jones who evolved a plan of liquidation and reorganization which was finally approved by state banking authorities, won the sup port of the Reconstruction finance Corporation and gained admission for the bank in the temporary Fed eral Deposit Insurance Corporation. Many plans were proposed, only to be rejected, before one was finally worked out in such a form as to receive the approval of sto'ckholders and state banking authorities. Bnk' HUtory The bank, established in 1903, closed a few. weeks after the fail ure of the Central -Bank and Trust company of Asheville during the wave of financial hysteria which swept western North. Carolina. , It reopened on April 29, 1931, as a trust depository and liquidating ?gnnyy. It , continued, .to function in this capacity uniu iviarcn t, . . . .'i r t A 1933. when it was closed 'again on accountjaf jthe national bank mora torium invoked by President Roose velt. It reopened, however, as a trust depository about two months later. . . , Billings' Statement The following statement was made public Wednesday by Mr. Billings: "The Bank of Franklin is again operating as an unrestricted busi ness institution, the tact tnat u is doinc so is because most of the people have cooperated with the nersons havine the responsibility oi opening the bank in a way that has been very gratifying. To. the peo ple Who were and are materially interested in the outcome stocK holders and depositors, should' go the appreciation of those who real ize the benefits to the entire com munity the reopening of the bank will bring. "T have been rather closely con nected - with . theBank jLXranklin since it closed. 1. have. . seen the earnest, faithful work done by all whw-have assisted iabringing about the conditions of the bank we all wanted -that--it might be in a position to serve the needs of the people of the town and county. In such cases as this, there is usually some one person who did the right thing at the right time, . who brought forward the needed plan to solve the problem, when to most there seemed to be no solution and the case was apparently hope less. '. ' "In this instance, 1, personally, want to name publicly Gilmer A- Jones as the man,. more than any other one, to whom is due much of the credit that today Franklin and Macon county have a bank in which the savings of all may be debited with safety equal to that of the solvency of the national govern ment, and that the business of the countv can be transacted nere ai home. I believe injustice to Mr Jones and the people, of the county I should' say this. LIEUT. PICKELL RETURNS TO COLUMBIA Lieutenant Hcyward H. M. Pick ell, U. S. army reserve corps, has resigned his post as assistant to Captain Charles Mcllwaine, com manding officer of the civilian con servation canip located on the out skirts of Franklin, and returned to his home at Columbia, S. C. Lieu tenant Pickell, who had been , sta tioned at the camp since last sum mer, made many friends while here. In returning to Columbia he in- tends to re-enter the practise of his profession, engineering. Lieutenant Jasper Parker, of An derson, S. C, has succeeded Lieu tenant Pickell. P lS-WWlElTn' iistitution Ready to Normal NANTAHALA GAP WIPED OFF THE MAP Nantahala Gap, at( leait the one known by that name in thetf -art, ka been wiped off the map. No, the C. C. C, the C. W. A. and th- P. W. A. haven't plugged upv he hole in the ridge that forms the gap. The gap is still there, just at the point where the government road to Aquone passes over the ridge of the Nantahala range; but the vame hi& been changed to Way ah Gap and so it will appear on the maps of the future. The decision was made by the United States Geographic Board, official national arbiter since 1890 in the "matter of determin ing geographic names, their spelling and proriunciation. An nouncement . of this decision, along with hundreds of others, is contained in "Uncle. Sam's Handbook on Geographic Names," an 800-page document just pub lished. . DEATH CALLS r,IRS.BRYSOIl Funeral for Former Franklin Wpjman Conducted at Tucson, Ariz. Funeral services for Mrs. Leona Lyle Bryson, for. many, years one of Franklin's most prominent worn en, were, held Monday af ternoon at her home in Tucson, Ariz., with burial there, according to in forma tion received by relatives here Mrs. Bryson, who was 78 years old, died at midnight last Ihursday. Surviving Mrs. Bryson are four children, Mrs. Laura Bryson Har rington and Mrs. T. W. Porter, of Franklin; Frank Bryson and Miss Margaret F. Bryson, of Tuc son; one sister, Mrs. Mary Wal droop, of Route 1, Franklin ; and two brothers, Dr.. Jim Lyle and Dan Lyle, both of Peck, Idaho. She was a sister of the late Dr. S. H. Lyle and the widow of Al bert Swain Bryson. MrsBryson .. went to live with Frank. Bryson . and M iss M argarct F. Bryson in Tucson about eight years -..ago. Her JastjisiLJo her old home in Franklin, the beauti ful brick bouse near tht foot of the town hill just off east Main street, was about two years ago. Mrs. Bryson was a staunch mem ber of the Methodist Episcopal church and, despite her age, she continued an active member of the church after going to Tucson. She was a member of the Methodist mother class and the Elizabeth Russell missionary society circle of the University Methodist Episcopal church in Tucson. Contract Let Reidsville Firm .To Surface Link on Highway 28 Contract for the surfacing of ap proximately five miles of highway No! 28 across the Nantahala moun tains to a point near Rainbow Springs has been let by- the state highway and public works commis sion foTCiker "and "Youiity- Reids ville road contractors. Loose stone already has been placed on the road. Working on completing the road is not expected to start until April on account of cold weather. A native stone courthouse cost ing $115,000 is to be erected in Robbinsville, Graham county seat, A PWA project, the new struc- ture will replace the old frame courthouse which was erected in j 1895 The present structure, al though out of date in several re spects is still in good condition, and will be used until the new one is completed. pi- Now , Resume Business Deposits Insured (by Federal Corporation To Extent Of $2,500 FEW WITHDRAW MONEY Reconstruction Finance Body Subscribes to $20,000 Preferred Stock The Bank oi Franklin opened Wednesday morning without re strictions, prepared to meet all withdrawal demands. Final details paving the way for the resumptidn of normal business ' by the bank were completed Satur day and Monday. Tuesday after noon the bank was notified that all restrictions had been removed. When the institution opened Wednesday morning, according to H. W. Cabc, the cashiai, it had assets in excess of $130,000. Capi talized at $25,000, it also had a v surplus and undivided profits amounting to $21,000. . Few .Withdrawals Mad. , New deposits, hitherto held as trust accounts amounted to approxi-t mately $64,000. Old deposits, froz en since the bank closed during the banking panic of 1930, amount- ed to $19,669. Cashier's checks io the " old depositors were already drawn when the banlc opened and it was prepared to convert them in to currency if the depositors - de-: - sired it, but very few wanted the cash. Eight old depositors received their checks and immediately de posited them to new accounts, while nine took their checks or the cur rency, the withdrawals amounting to approximately $1,300. lias DyO;t Iikuitnce The bank now is operating under a new charter, granted under the stringent banking regulations en acted by the last legislature, and , it is a member of the temporary Federal Deposit Insurance Corpo ration, which is backed by the United States government. This guarantees all deposits to the ex tent of $2,500. A permanent " de posit insurance corporation is to be organized in June, its provisions to-take effect July 1. In Strong Condition The concensus of opinion among business men : in Franklin - is that thcr bank'is - far- stronger now -than it was before it closed. Officers of the bank are W. A. R og e r s, p r e s i (1 entiJ L D Billings, vice president; Grover Jamison, chairman of the board, elected to succeed S. H. Lyle, deceased; and H. W. Cabe, cashier. A new board of directors, elected at a stock holders' meeting in January, is com posed of W. A. Rogers, M. D. : (Continued on page ' four) Choir Formed Young People of Methodist Church Organize Thc young people of the Frank lin Methodist church met Friday night with Misses Margaret and Mildred Cozad for the purpose of organizing a junior choir. The Rev. C C. Herbert acted as , chairman of the meeting and the following officers were elected for a period of three months: -..Miss .Virginia, Slagle, president; . Miss Mildred Cozad, secretary and treasurer; 'Miss Eloise Sherrill and Winton Perry, personnel directors; James Porter, pianist and director; Mrs. C. C. Herbert, assistant diec tor. 1 A meeting will be held every Fri day evening at 8 o'clock. The next one will be with Miss Grace Con ley on February 16. CATCHING UP Industry, led by the automobile makers, began to catch up with 'the boomlet in retail and wholesale distribution during the past week in business. Retail trade was giv en a further fillip by the extreme cold weather in many sections of the country. . :
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