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house is a quotation out of all forests
and mines and stone quarries, and
every man is a quotation from all of
his ancestors.
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A Brief Survey of Cur
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Nation and Abroad
the Facts Boiled
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PROGRESSIVE
-LIBERAL
INDEPENDENT
VOL, XLIX, NO. 10
FRANKLIN, N. C THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1934
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PROPOSES NEW AIRMAIL
CONTRACTS
President Roosevelt proposed
Wsdnesday that the army be re
lieved of the job of carrying air
mail as soon as possible. He sug
gested that contracts for carrying
the mail be let to commercial avia
tion companies as soon as possible
' under legislation providing for
. "honest payment for honest ser-
: vice." : ,--'"""' '-h
BANKERS LOSE APPEAL
The supreme court of North Caro
lina Wednesday refused to grant a
writ of certiorari sought by four
Transylvania county bankers in
their fight to avoid going to jail
on charges of violating the banking
laws. The defendants, Thomas H.
Shipman, Joseph H. Picklesimer, C.
R. McNeeley and Ralph Fisher,
were scheduled to appear before
Judge Finley at Hendersonville
Thursday for the issuance of commitments.
GETS $125,000
The jury in the libel suit of
Princes Irena Youssoupoff in a
London court Monday awarded her
$125,000 against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
Ltd., makers of the film
"Rasputin arid the Empress." J
JUDGE KILLS SELF
U. S. District Judge Ernest Ford
.Cochran, of Charleston, S. G, was
found hanging with a silken scarf
tied to a bedpost in his home
Sunday. He was 68 years of age.
He was appointed in 1923 by Presi
dent Calvin Coolidge.
SURVEY YEAR ,
The- principals .of the Roosevelt
administration sat down to an an
niversary dinner Sunday night to
chat over the tricks taken and the
plays lost since the first hand of
the new deal was dealt a year ago.
DIE IN PLANE
At Lawrenceville, . 111., three men
were killed when an airplane
plunged into a lake Sunday after
noon. The bodies were recovered
ty men in rowboats who broke a
path through, ice two inches thicfe
CONVICTED
Dr. Sarah Ruth Dean, woman
physician, on Saturday was con
victed at Greenwood, Miss, of the
poison whiskey murder of Dr. John
Preston Kennedy. A life sentence
was fixed. :-
INSULL TO GO r
The foreign minister at Athens
on Saturday notified the minister
of the interior that Samuel Insull,
Sr.. former Chicago utilities op
erator, must leave Greece. The
notification said that the final ex
tension of Insull s permit to re
main in the country had expired.
i , ON RAMPAGE
V J. L. Rush, 50, of Laurens, S.
C. killed his wife and three daugh
ters early yesterday morning and
then burned down their home
around his own body. Evidence
was that Rush slew his wife and
daughters with an axe and then
jslKvt himself after setting- the liome
afire. :
MOTHERS-IN-LAW
Amarillo, Texas, husbands
brought flowers Monday for their
mothers-in-law as the first event
of its kind was celebrated to "show
expressions of love, respect and
'genuine understanding of the place
of our mothers-in-law hold in our
hearts and affections."
SHORTAGES' PAID
Approximately $1,000 has been
collected by the state on "short
tircs" found in the revenue depart
ment last summer, it was learned a
Tew days ago. The irregularities,
involving five or six former field
deputies, approximate $5,000. The
major part of that will be collected
without criminal action, it was
learned.
HELD IN SHOOTING
Clark Frady, 23, is held without
bond in the Haywood county' jail,
at Waynesville, " following his , re
sorted confession to the fatal shoot
ing Saturday at midnight of -Monroe
West, 30, in Cecil township,
Haywood county, as a result of an
alleged argument oyer a division of
whisky at the home-of Adam West,
lather of the slain man.
BANK ASSETS CLIMB
National bank assets reached
$21,747,483,000 at the close of 1933
a new high since last March's
batilf holiday, The figures were
made public by .T. F. T. O'Connor,
comptroller of the etirrenev, in
mmmary of statistics on the Dec.
STATE UGGKG 1 il
hi ROAD WORK
North Carolina Slowest in
U. S. To Use Federal
Aid Money
FIGURES ARE CITED
Funds Available To Im
prove Highways and Re
duce Unemployment
Progress in highway construction
in North Carolina under the $400,
000,000 appropriation by Congress
for public works roads is below the
average for the whole country ac
cording to an announcement re
ceived from the Bureau of Public
Roads, U. S. Department of Agri
culture. On February 24, 74.5TJr
cent of the total $400,000,000 federal
highway appropriation had been al
lotted to work in progress. On the
same date, 55 -per cent of North
Carolina's $9,522,293 apportionment
of the total Tund had been put to
work.
In North Carolina, a total of 184
projects, estimated to cost $6,197,
000, had been advertised for con
tract, including regular federal-aid
and stateNimds ; 147 projects had
been awarded to contractors or
started by day labor; and 77 pro
jects, employing 3,905 men, were un
der construction. The public works
funds involved in the advertised
projects amounted to 45,236,000,
other federal and state funds mak
ing up the balance of the total esti
mated cost of $6,197,000.
Req)uSrMinU Modified
The national industrial recovery
act, which created the Public
Works administration, and carried
the $400,000,000 appropriation for
highway to.be built by the state
highway, departments supervised by
the Bureau of Public Roads, modi
fied to' some extent the older federal-aid
procedure. Federal grants
uader tbj act do not have to be
matched with state funds. Appor
tionments of the new appropriation
are available for building roads on
the federal-aid highway system
(not more than 50 per cent of the
funds), for extensions of federal-
aid system roads through munici
palities (not less than 25 per cent
of the funds), and for the construc
tion of secondary or feeder roads
(generally not more than 35 per
cent of the funds).
Bm!U of AjpaortkMimetiU
State apportionments are made
seven-eighths in accordance with the
federal highway act of 1921 and
one-eighth arcording to population
Apportioned funds may be used to
match regular1 federal-aid appro
nriations, and are available until
expended. Maintenance of public
works highways included in the
federal-aid system is an obligation
of the states; in the case of ma
nicipal extensions of the system
and secondary or feeder roads, the
maintenance responsibility, by agree
ment may be transferred to ap-
propriate mnnicipaLDr-.CDunty-iT.j
inoniy
Public works highways authorized
under the act must be built m
such a way as to relieve unemploy
ment as much as possible. In gen
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Funeral Held
J. D. Mcfconnell, Cullasaja,
Dies At Age of 81
Funeral services for John D. Mc-
Connell, 81, of Cullasaja, were held
at 11 o'clock Monday ' morning at
b!I n w iefier nastor. assisted
r . i t r .i i . -t l V... V. .
by the Rev. John Jennings.
Mr. McConnell died at his nome
an niness of "two
Mr. McConnell was born in Clay'
county November 26 1852. but came
LTafa rf'JixTars
He had lived in this county ever
since and at his home on Cullasaja!
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for 47 years. He was married to
Miss Rozetta Russell September V,
1874. She died September 13, 1892.
On December 2, 1894, he married
Miss Martha Russell
Surviving Mr. McConnell are his
widow, and five children: Mrs. wnite friends ak before she had finished the sad story ot
S, uAnXJu buried so many of her children Although she spoke
McConnell, Mrs. C. N. Angel and not a word of English, anyone could have understood her
Miss juanita McConnell, all of Oil- pitifully dramatic gestures.
cSTreSd t A. "t- Yoana Connie-heet never used adoe to hunting he was
Connell, Toccoa, Ga.;. one sister, a "still" hunter. He had great skill both with a gun and
Mrs. Jane Elliott, Franklin Route jjere jje hunted for bear, the Animal for which he , was
danS aTtTgSt gSnt named. He would go to the Bald and hunt until he had
CHEROKEE LORE
By Margaret R. Siler
Article IV
A-LEE AND YOANA CONNtE-HEET, A NOBLE IN
DIAN COUPLE RECOLLECTIONS OF
MRS. LAURA SILER SLAGLE
TWJRS. Laura Siler Slagle is one of only a few living per
"sons who had an intimate acquaintance with the Sand
town Indians. The daughter of Albert Siler, she was reared
in sight of , the old Indian village on Cartoogechaye creek,
the last home of the Cherokees in Macon County.
Mrs. Slagle, now the wife of T. W. Slagle, still lives in
the Sandtown vicinity, her home situated on a hillside near
the Twin Churches on N. C. Highway 28. As she looks' out
over the fields and mountains from her front porch, mem
ories of the Cherokees crowd back into her mind. But not
a single Indian now lives in
They have all died or been
Reservation in Swain County.
Mrs. Slagle knew well Jim
Cha-cha and Cun-stay-gee Chuta-sottee were called by the
white people; but she recalls
There were a daughter, A-lee, and two sons, Will Siler and
John. Will was named after William Siler, who had deeded
much land to the Cherokees who escaped from a band of
their tribesmen being herded to Indian reservations west of
the Mississippi river and fled
he was usually called Will Indian. ,
Their parents, it was recalled in the last article in this
series, were of different social rank, Cha-cha Chuta-sottee
being an aristocrat among the Indians, while his wife, Cun-
stay-gee, was of the plebeian
cording to Mrs. Slagle, were reflected in the children. A-lee,
the daughter, had the high bearing of her proud father,
while the sons, Will and John, had the more ordinary traits
pf their mother, who, though of lower social rank than her
husband, was a fine woman.
A-lee married the dignified and respected Yoana
Connie-heet (Bear Long)
Yoana was a . preacher and a hunter, and he distinguished
himself in both capacities.
Mrs. Slagle . remembers that he had a Testament and a
hymn book printed in Cherokee. She does not know who
taught him to read, but thinks it was probably her grand
father or grandmother. A-lee took great pride in her
husband's learning and in his standing as a religious leader
among his people. -:--- t
On Sundays A-lee and Yoana were always dressed in
neat black and white raiment, whether they were worship
ing with their fellow Indians or with their white friends.
When the Cherokees went to the churches of the white
people they joined in the services wjth utmost reverence and
when the white people sang hymns they sang also, but in
the Cherokee language, instead of English. One of Connie
heet's favorite hymns, Mrs. Slagle recalls, was "I am Bound
for the Kingdom." The Cherokee for the chorus, as nearly
as we can spell it by sound, was:
"Hi-a-no-waysa-cotsy, Hi-a-no-waysa-cotsy, Hi-a-no-tvaysa-cotsy,
Cal-la-lan-ty-no."
One day. A-lee. went to
herTclean-black," witha IhOW
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dressed in pink calico, about
handkerchief, neatly folded.
A-lee had all the dignity of both her father and her
husband. She" sat straight as a ramrod and would not
speak a word of English. She bore herself with regal
demeanor and seemed to give an impression of condescen
sion in visitiing her white friends. Her personality wa3 so
strong that by her manner she conveyed the thought, "I am
to you only a poor Indian, but such noble blood runs in my
veins, the like of which you know not of."
7 But whenever A-lee looked at her little girl her icy
manner would melt in a look of such deep love that Mrs.
Slagle was moved to ask her
Without uttering a word of
. iflrio-iiaw and with
I had one child, so big, indicating with her hand the height of
a child of about 12 vears.
: ment -of hands she gently laid the child in the ground,
'uttering one sad word, "A-lew-yah" (dead). Then she told
I .. .
0f another child, not quite as tall as the otner, ana iaia n
n-Vk oo,rinir - A Jon.tmh - TWp had been still
BWajr, IUUUl ll-UUJ 0J111&
another child, a baby at the
the ground with her expressive hands, and what heart
breaking pathos she put into
were streaming down her
the Cartoogechaye community.
transferred to the Cherokee
and Sallee Peckerwood, as
their children more vividly.
back to their old haunts; but
caste. These differences, ac
who was of her same. rank.
Mrs. Slagle's home dressed in
,iiK the Norris
arma tqq Yiav littlo rlfHltrllt.pr
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her neck also was a wnue
if she had any more children
English, she told Mrs. Slagle in
esnressive vestures tliat she had
Then with an eloquent move-
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breast. This, too, she laid in
the word a-leiv-yah! The tears
cheeks and those of her young
WA LAUNCHES
EROSPWORK
Vast Program Planned To
Halt Costly Depletion
V Of Soil
CHECK DAMS BUILT
Sites Secured for Nurs
eries; Asiatic Chestnuts
To Be Tried
The construction of 24,000 soil
erosion check clams by CCC boys
aitd preparations for the establish
tnent of a Soil Erosion Experi
ment Station and two forest nur
series with an ultimate capacity of
60,000,000 forest tree seedlings per
year mark the preliminary ad
vances made by the Tennessee Val
ley Authority in its war against
the depletion of soil resources in
the Tennessee River watershed.
"An effective beginning at soil
erosion and flood control has been
made , with the aid of 25 CCC
camps," Edward C M. Richards,
chief of the Authority's forestry
and soil erosion division said to
day.
Building Many Darn
"The soil erosion prevention work
already completed includes 6,000
rock dams, 5,000 log dams, 1,000
brush dams, 12,000 bag dams and
200,000 yards of bank protection and
mattiingg. About 30 per cent of
the erosion prevention work in the
half milliion acres.' surrounding the
area which will later be submerged
by the new Norris Lake hasbeen
completed. Preparations for vege
tative control for the region are
now being completed and this part
"of the work will get under way as
soon as the planting season opens."
The establishment of a Soil Eros-'i
ion Experiment Station for the)
Tennessee Valley by the Soil Eros
ion Service of the United States
Department of the Interior has
been seenred,-nd the selection of
lands for this purpose is now un
der way. : ;
In its reforestation program, the
Authority -has -field crews investi
gating areas throughout the Valley
which are in need of reforestation.
Thus far recommendations have
been made for the reforesting of
6,725 acres above the Norris dam.
Plan Nurseries L .
Sites have been secured for two
forest nurseries which ultimately
will have a capacity of 60,000,000
forest tree seedlings per year. One
of these is located in Eagle Bend
on the Clinch River near Clinton,
Tenn., and the other is established
in the extreme southeast corner of
Nitrate Plant No. 2 government
reservation at Muscle Shoals, Ala
bama. The Authority already has
available for planting this spring in
the areas to be reforested a total
of more than 3,000,000 trees. The
nursery stock for an experimental
planting of eight varieties of blight
resistant Asiatic chestnuts is await-
inK
thel spring-planting -season - at
Lake region to replace the blight-
killed native-chestnutsr
The first community town forest
in the Tennessee Valley has been I
established at the town of Norris,
Tennessee. This forest includes ap
proximately 2,000 acres, and will be
managed on a scientific sustained
vield basis for the production of
forest products.
The Forestry and Soil Erosion
Division of the Tennessee Valley
Authority acts ulso as agent for
any group in the Valley requiring
its particular type of service. A
reconnaissance survey was recently
completed for the Cumberland
Homesteads, Inc., at Crossville,
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Tenn., the new agricultural co
Of ficers Named
Annual Election Held by
Order Of Eastern Star
Nequasia -Chapter No. '43 of the
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v.uB.y..i..c-.i.,-o,
ium iuuiM.iuy infill uiu cic.icu .1-
f icers as follows for the ensuing
year:
Mrs. George Dean re-elected wor
thy matron; John E. Rickman, re
elected as worthy patron; Mrs. T.
S. Munday associate matron ; Gor
don Moore, associate paton; Mrs.
Gordon Moore, secretary; Mrs. Sal
lie Penland, treasurer; Miss Eliza
beth Slagle, conductress; and Mrs.
Frank I. Murray, associate con
ductress.
On Thursday evening, March 15,
at the installation meeting, there
will be 10 appointed officers nam
ed.
CWADying
Most of Workers To Be
Dropped By April 1
The Civil Work, program in
Macon county is fast being
brought to close.
J. E. Lancaster, who returned
Wednesday from a conference
at sUte CWA headquarters at
Raleigh, said most of the work
in the rural districts of the
state would be ended by April
1. There is a possibility, how
ever, that a few CWA employ
es will be retained until May
1, he added.
Forty-odd CWA employe
-were dropped from the Macon
wunty payroll this week, leav?
iag approximately 218 still at
Mark On local projects. This
tramber does not include those
empleyed at the forest experi
ment station at Coweta, but it
does include those working on
stream gauges and feeder roads
' for the Tennessee Valley Au
thority. '-.
PLANS FOPvOED
Young Democrats To
Gather At Bryson City
On March 17
The " Young Democratic clubs of
Macon county are planning to send
a large delegation to Bryson City
on Saturday, March 17, to attend
a convention of the Young Demo
crats of the llb congressional dis
trict, at which a number of promi
nent figures in North Carolina poli
tics are expect.4 t. be present.
Plans for the cowfntion, which
will be held at Frymnt Inn, were
formulated' at a ineea in Ashe
ville Tuesday afternoon of the exec
utive committee of the district or
ganization of , Young Deraocrats
fohn W. Edwards, president oi the
Young People's Democratic clubs of
Macon county, was among those at
tending: . this meeting.
" Mrf Edwards said reports at the
meeting indicated that interest was
as great as ever in the Young
Democratic movement sund that the
organization would take a leading
nart in this year's campaign to
elect Democratic candidates to of
fice.
At the meeting in Ashevifle Mr.
Edwards, publicity chairman of the
district, was delegated to report to
the convention at IJryson City- on
the feasibility of establishing an of
ficial publication for the clubs of
this district.
Invitations to speak at the Bry
son City convention have been ex
tended to Governor J. C. B. Eh
ringhaus, Senator Robert R. Rey
nolds, Senator Josiah W. Bailey,
Congressman Zebulon Weaver; J.
Wallace Winborne, of Marion, state
Democratic chairman; Mrs. Mary
Thompson Evans, state president of
the Young Democrats; Ex-Governor
O. Max Gardner and a number
of other prominent figures.
Chicken Thieves Raid
Hen Houses
On Thursday night of last week
the chicken thieves raided a num
ber of hen houses on Cartooge
chaye arid carried off more than
40 fat hens.
Some of the heaviest losers were :
George McGee, George Conlcy,
Fred Oliver arid Ferd Burrell.
Calf Has Squirrel Eyes
And No Tail
1). L. Crawford, who lives near
Herman Dean's store on Route 4,
has one of the strangest calves ever
seen in this county. Scores of
people have visited his barn to have
a look at the queer critter.
The calf, born last Saturday, has
tiny, squirrel-like eyes set deep in
its forehead and instead of a tail
it has merely a small bunch of
liiifc f"lilii-iiMc tho jalf Jc nnr-
. nn nf f. Kpc fr.
;"'i?L'va-i ""t
"Crawfor(i says he has ever had.
KILLER BREKS JAIL
John Dillinger, notorious killer
and bank robber held in the Crown
Point, Ind., jail awaiting trial for
murder, walked out of the "escape
proof" prison Saturday with a negro
prisoner, each armed, with a ma
chine gun. Dillinger obtained the
machine guns from the jail war
den's office after he had bluffed
jail attendants with a pistol whit
tled from a piece of wood. Dil
linger Wednesday was reported
somewhere in the vicinity of Gran
FOR CONVENTION
ite City, III.
BOARD NAFM
TAX LISTELS
Pay Set at $1.50 a Day fcr
Listers and $1.25 for
Assistants
APRILJURORSDRAWII
Superior Court To Con- ,
vene April 16; McEl
roy To Preside
Tax listers were appointed and
jurors drawn for the April term
of Macon county superior court by
the county commissioners at their
regular monthly meeting Monday.
The list-takers are to start work
in April. Their pay was set by
the commissioners at $1.50 a day,
and each lister will be allowed one
assistant at $1.25 a day to help- in
making the farm-crop census re
quired by law.
Tex Li.ter Named
The following men were appoint- .
ed to list property in. the town
ships giveriwith their names: J
W. G. Mallonee, Franklin ; Wayne
McCracken, Mill Shoal; Sam Bry
son, Ellijay; J. T. McCoy Sugar1
fork; Frank Potts, Highlands; Ral
eigh McConnell, Flats; John Nor
ton, Smith's Bridge; Ben Lenoir,
Cartoogechaye; Lee Baldwin, Nan-
tahala; Ed ' Byrd, Burningtown;
Fred Bryson, Cowee. -
Superior court is scheduled to
convene for a two-weeks mixed
term on April 16 with Judge P. A.
McElroy, of Marshal, presiding.
Fallowing is a list of jurors drawn
to serve at this term:
Jury List
Fii
irst week: Roy Cunmnghaia.
Franklin; L. M. Curtisi, Route: I,
Dillard, Ga.; A. C Ballew, Route
2; Lester Dills, Prentiss; S. E.
Fouts, ' Route 3 ; Lee Burch, Rain
bow Springs ; George Wilson, Naa
tahala; W. A. Shields, Route 3; E.
B. Roane, Route 1; C E. Moore,
Lllijay; 1). R. Cabe, Route L Dil
lard; C F. Moody, Route 3; IL L.
Huscusson, Route 1; T. L. Hol
land. Route 4; Chester Wlilcex; "
Routed ;Jr H. Deweese, Flats;
Ralph Parrish, Route 3; H. R. Pea
land," Routed ;AT J. Edwards,
Route 3; J. H. Tallent, Route 2;
R. M. Coffey, Franklin; B. L.
Henson, Route 1, Dillard; S. WT
Carter, West's Mill; Mack Moffit, -Prentiss;
Frank Guffey, Route 2;
Ed Shepherd, West's Mill; Fred
Arnold, Franklin; Harold Mooner",
Route 1; A. T. Hurst, Leatheman;
Frank Crane, Highlands; Loo
Campbell, Franklin; J. D. Keener,
Route 2; Richard Norton, Route?
1, Rabun Gap; J. C. Tilson, Gneiss;
J, B. Shields, Flats; John Mclntyre,
Route 4.
Second week: J. E. Lakey. Etni.-
N. C; G. M. Bulgin,' Franklin; J.
H. Daves, Route 2; W, A. Mc
Connell, Cullasaja ; Sam StanfiehL-
I-rankiin; Ray Dryman, Scaly; It
E. Yonce, .Kyle; T. J. Cames.
Stiksj . Claud. Callowav, Franklin : -
Brown Setser, Route 2; J. W.
Baty, Highlands ; J. D. Franks,
Franklin; J. D. Cabe. Tellico: Wi-
ley "Holbrooks, Route 2; G. O.
Ledford, Prentiss; J. H. Rickman,
West's Mill; T.. M. McDowelL
Route 1, Dillard; Z. B. Bryson,
Scaly.
Celebrates 91st ' ;
Birthday Anniversary
Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Fouts at
tended the 91st birthday annivers
ary of Elbert Watson at Glenville, '
on Friday of the" past week. De
spite Mr. Watson's age, he is very
active in body as well as in mind.
Dover Fouts, son of Dr. Fouts,
Frank Watson, Mrs. J. A. Watson
and two children, Catherine and
Charles, were also present. ' '
Rotarians Now Have
Home of Their Own
Franklin Rotarians moved into a
home of their own Wednesday,
holding their weekly luncheon meet
ing for the first time in their new
dining hall in the Cunningham -
building. -
Under the direction of flie Rev.
J. A. Flanagan, who proved to be
as good a carpenter and painter as
a preacher, the storeroom next to
the Franklin Hardware company's
store, had been altered and de
decorated for the purpose. A par
tition was erected across the middle
of the room, providing a commod
ious dining hall in the front and a
kitchen in the rear. ;
In the future the Rotarians plan
to hold their meetings in this ball
and to offer it to other organiza
tions and groups needing similar
accommodations.
30 national bank call.
j children. ' (Continued on g- I wo) ,.