aURSDAV, AUGUST 13, 1936
THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN
PAGE FIVE
Girl, 17, Admits Killing Mother with Hatchet
NEW YORK . . . Gladys McKnight, 17, and her 18-year-old chorister
sweetheart, Donald Wightman (above), revolted this populace, hard
ened to brutal crimes, in the confessed murder o£ the girl’s mother.
Donald holding the mother while Gladys battered her down and to
death with a hatchet. It was all over a trivial quarrel because Gladys
ihad to get an early supper for herself so she might play tennis with
ponald. They say the mother had a knife in her hand.
otainews
ISSinpRlZED
olitical Eyes Focused on
Effects of Crop
Shortages
Special to The Pres,s-Maconiain)
WASHINGTON, August 12.—How
iportant a political issue can be
ade out of the falling off in ex-
,rts of American farm products
id the increase in imports of
aple food supplies is the latest
lestion on which political obscrv-
■s here .are focusing their atten-
How much of the current situ-
ion is Jue to natural causes or
(iiditions outside of governmental
)ntrol and how much to political
easures, is the root of the argu-
lent.
The facts .as Washingtbn gets
lem are something like this:
The oversupply of surplus wheat
hich has ibeen depressing the
-orld market for several years, has
een practically consumed, resulting
1 higher prices. The world’s nor-
lal carryover of surplus wheat is
bout 300,000,000 bushels. All the
eports which the Department of
agriculture regards as reliable m-
icate that the surplus for the year
3 come will be just about this
ormal carryover. Of this the Unit-
d States crop of 1936, amounting
0 600,000 bushels, and the sup-
ily of old -wheat carried over, 125,-
00000 bushels, will leave an Amer-
can surplus of about 100,000,(XX)
lushels. -
W'heat consumption is increasing
dl over the world and this fact,
coupled with the world-wide short
age, will tend to keep prices up.
Of course, it is much too early to
forecast the Argentine and Austra
lian crops, where it is now mid-
Winter or early Spring.
In the meantime, American wheat
imports are up this year over last
year. These imports are for special
grades of wheat in demand by mill
ers, which are normally grown in
the Northwest and of which the
crop has been short for the past
six years. In the first six months of
this year official figures show that
19,805,560 ib.ushels of wheat were im
ported from abroad, compared with
12,839,047 bushels in the correspond
ing period of 1935.
Corn and the Drought
Official Washington is more con
cerned with the corn crop than with
the wheat crop. If the drought con
tinues to the middle of this month,
the Department of Agriculture’s
estimate is that the corn crop will
be less than half of the normal 2,-
500,000,000 bushels, and even with
good weather and plenty of rain,
the corn crop w'ill be about 800,-
000,000 bushels short of the normal
2,500,(XX),000.
So far this year imports of corn
have been less than one-third of
what they were in the first half of
1935; 5,f)62,215 bushels against 17,-
620,195 in the same period last year.
There has been a sharp decline in
the importation oi oats and of
butter. Ml'
On the other side of the scale,
exports of wheat have dropped to
practically nothing, though cotton
exports have been higher on the
averajfe in 1936 than in 1935.
It is this falling off of agricul
tural ex])orts and the rise in agri
cultural imports which gives the
politicians of both ]>arties concern.
The opponents of the Administra
tion assert that exports have fallen
because the Government has creat
ed an artificial scarcity and an arti
ficial price level, while imports are
rising not only because of this
scarcity but because of the Admin
istration’s reciprocal tariff policies.
Administration supporters say
that so far as tariff influence goes
the policy of the previous adminis
trations made it difficult for foreign
customers to get dollars with which
to buy American products, and that
the- increase in importation is due
to the destruction by drought of
crops which the (Government 'had
sought to adj.ust to the situation
caused by the loss of foreign
markets.
A Seller’s Meirket
Whatever the cause, it is the
judgment of economic experts here
that farmers and all other Ameri
can producers are now in the for
tunate position of having what is
called a “seller’s market.” Not only
agricultural surpluses but commod
ity surpluses of all kinds have been
greatly reduced, while the demand
for consumer goods is increasing.
This is particularly noticeable in
clothing and furniture industries,
and something like the beginning
of a genuine building boom seems
to be under way. There is no sur
plus labor in the industrial market,
the slack havinjj- been taken ,up by
the Government’s WPA and CCC
activities, so that the trend of
w'ages is upward.
The outcome of the internal war
fare in thq ranks o-f organized
labor, between the A. F. of L. and
John Lewis’ C. I. O., w'hich means
“Committee on Industrial Organiza
tion,” becomes more acute, with
each side' trying to get some sort
of a commitment of backing from
the Administration. Miss Perkins,
the Secretary of Labor, is keeping
on neutral ground in this situation.
Organized labor is not satisfied
with the fuller explanation which
Gov. Landon gave, in his letter to
Norman Thomas, the Socialist
leader, clarifying his position in re
gard to labor. The attitude of unio.n
labor leaders is that a “company
union,” that is, one confined to the
employees of a single company, is
s.omething not to be tolerated, no
matter how free the employees may
ADDITIONAL
FRANKLIN
SOCIAL ITEMS
Mr. and Mrs. Dover Hoilman
and children, of Winston-Salem,
spent the latter part of last week
here with Mr. Hoilman’s mother,
Jilrs. Tim Hoilman.
Mr. and Mrs. Carter Sloan and
two sons, Jerry and Pat, arrived
last week from San Antonio, Texas,
for a month’s visit with Mr. Sloan’s
mother, Mrs. J. S. Sloan.
C. H. Browning, of Bryson City,
was among the visitors here Wed>
nesday.
Miss F.leanor Sloan will leave
Friday morning for New York,
where she will take a three-weeks
course in dancing under Doris
Humphrey and Charles Weidman.
On the first of September she will
leave New York for Idaho where
she will teach school this winter.
She will be accompanied by Miss
l'reda Siler, who will go on to
F.verett, Wash., for a visit with her
uncle, Harry O. Siler.
:Mr. and Mrs. St. Clair Anderson
returned to their home in Albany,
N. Y. Friday, after a three weeks’
visit with their daughter, Mrs. Carl
Cabe, at Otto.
IN MEMORY OF JERRY LOVE
He was never on the fence,
Had good plain conmion sense,
.Made his living with a plow,
Ikit he’s gone and left it now.
,lf you don’t know w’ho 1 mean,
1 will place it in your bean.
And expound it with a thrill.
He was never cross nor ill.
I'accd the music with a grin,
And he thrashed o,ut many a sin.
So I’ll say in closing out
He was never known to ])out.
I'ound much joy in a laugh,
And he loved his other half.
Till sun set, from early dawn.
He was always toiling on.
Guess you know who 1 mean.
He was kind and good and clean.
Strong and gentle as a dove.
It was “True Blue Jerry Love.”
—TROY 1*. HORN.
THE yULur 1937
PHILCO
•with, the sensational
FOREIGN TUNING SYSTEM
...and again "OnlyPhilcohas it!”
Bryant Furniture Co.
FRANKLIN, N. C.
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be left by their employers to or
ganize as they see fit. Gov. Landon
has not denounced company unions,
though fully conceding the right of
union organizers to use any form
of persuasion short of coercion to
induce workers to join their unions.
For the first time since Presi
dent Wilson went to France to
negotiate the peace treaty a Presi
dent of the United Sti'.tes while in
office set foot on foreign soil,
when President Roosevelt paid a
visit to the ceremony of Lord
Tweedsmuir, Governor General of
Canada. American newspaper men
who accompanied the President
were glad to have furnished to
them an English translation of the
part of his speech which he de
livered in French for the benefit
of the people of Quebec, whose
official language is still that of
France,.
Shoes for Fall
and Winter
We’ve just received a new shipment of Pans
Fashion Shoes in the latest styles for Fall and
Winter. They’re smart as today and they’re
very .moderately priced.
Schulman’s Dept. Store
Franklin’s Newest and Most Modern Store
FRANKLIN, N. C.
FOR SALE
5 “Room House In East Franklin
Occupies Good Corner Lot
And Has Fine Rich Ground for Garden
ATTRACTIVE CASH PRICE
But Terms Can Be Arranged
See or Write
R. S. JONES
FRANKLIN, NORTH CAROLINA
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