EltO
PROGRESSIVE
Ll, NO. 48
jGRESSMADE
roil CAll
FRANKLIN, N.
Corn Husking Champ
Members' Enrolled;
Bloxham Sets Goal
Of 500
, turnlTh^ yesterday b:
^ workers in the annual
",ro5 “'I“r"
1 * 248 the ftumbei
“,e^r»l by the
am, roll a\l chairman _
Tint a complete list, -Mr.
fm'said “and it is hoi>ed
f nil list to be published
‘ wlltins tta «>“>
’! this figure. An encourag-
’Lture oi this week’s effort
ll fact that Burningtown is
e"S :ch::r'di:
K S. "C--
t'U“b“e. ~ “e;.d and 1. L
:cted that each district will meet
‘*“°'^Seeks Goal of 500
,t would be a great help if a
^kers would report to the
1 chairman at the office o
anklin Press n«xt
frning in order that a wmplete
I of memberships may be made
,d the roll call completed. Just
le more week—kt us get m an
[ht for a goal of 500!”
Burningtown
iirs Robert Parrish, Miss Lola
isey, Miss Jessie Ramsey.
Highlands
Uiss Marguerite Ravenal, Miss
ire Ravenal, Miss Nourse, Miss
fchel Davis, Mr. O. F. Sunimer,
ilrs 0. F. Summer, Mrs. J. F.
kWn, Mrs. Kate Rhyneheart, Mis«
|va Howd, Miss Nina Howard
\Iiss Edna Jamison, Miss Ethel
llloway, Mrs. Jack Hall, Mrs. lu-
Jor Hall, Mrs. E. R. Gilbert, Mrs.
t^rl Zoellnor, Mrs. F. A. Edwards,
UE, Hicks, Miss Sara Gilder, A.
3 Potts, J. E. Potts, C. C. Pot^,
SJ'E. Potts, W. R. Potts, F. H.
Potts, Mrs. F. H. Potts, Mrs. J. F.
Potts, Miss Gertrude Harbison, S.
Porter Pierson, A. G. Spencer, Miss
iFlora Norton, J. C. Mell, Mrs.
Frank Cook, Mi'ss M. D. Warren,
Miss Maud Crane, Ed Rogers, Miss
Caroline Hall, C. H. Zoellnor, Mrs.
Sim Calloway, Sam Calloway, Mrs.
'Walter Reese, Mrs. A. C. Holt, P.
T, Farnsworth, Rev. Frank Blox-
Ito,
I Franklin
?R. D, Carson, R. R. Swanson, L.
B. Cope, J. H. Stockton, Sloan
Murray, J, J. Welch, R. C. Tillery,
Fj S. Sloan, S. W. Mendenhall, G.
A Jones, Jas. L. Potts, J. Frank
Ray, E, E. Sypher, Carr Howard,
(rs. S. W. Mendenhall, Josephine
Reaver, Ray W. Brandt, K. B.
'irousdell, R. V. Miles, Jr., C. S.
Hubbard, W, B. Jones, Lucy Sue
8ray, Harley Dunbar, John Cun-
lEngham, Carl P. Cabe, Mrs. D.
Mason, P. F. Callahan, George
%o\vn, Amanda Slagle, Louise Siler,
Tom Campbell, Davis Langdon, Tom
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IJV'DEPEJ^DEJV T
LIBERAL
$150 PER year
THURSDAY, NOV. 26, 193€
MURDER CASE
Presiding over Court
beingargued
Franklin
Produce Market
latest quotations
Crowned world’s champion corn
husker, Carl Carlson, 28, sinewy
six-foot Audubon, la., farmer, is
shown after he finished his gruel
ling 80-minute feat on Alva Oyler’s
Licking County, Ohio, farm, husk
ing 1,472.75 pounds of co^rn to take
the title, before a crowd of more
than 100,000 spectators, one of the
greatest galleries ever seen at an
American sport event.
immwrk
OF R1 CROSS
Vast Army of First Aid
Workers Trained by
Organization
By REV. FRANK BLOXHAM
(Chairman of C^nty)
Committee for ^acon Ccrunty) ^^
Ailitrica.r Red 'cross is so hrge
Httre'aboi]"some other branches of
^'^Th«°Red Cross has taught first
■A 1 173 000 persons, it
^ • A 700000 perlons in water
trained /OU.uw p „„fhods These
“ '“J
nearly 2,0OO,OW beach
and sea are ^,/S,e scene
and swimming P > jj-e on
the job so that y ^
a friend or re
better Volunteer work-
stnkes near h ■ Red
ers are the ba m-gical dress-
Cross. They other art-
ings, layettes _ transcrip-
icles for the is done
o' m2,, “e "““O
by ,„l«nteers m y
a... ;s.r:si» -
cepts of service t
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SHOOTING CASE
HEARD IN COURT
Grace Fiaming Acquitted
Of Ass.ault With a
Deadly Weapon
Grace Fleming, who peppered
Milo Sanders with shotgun shot
Sunday night a week ago in'an
altercation at Fleming’s home sev
eral miles south of Franklin on the
Georgia road, was acquitted by a
jury in Macon county superio;
court Monday when he came up for
trial on an indictment of assault
with a deadly weapon. Sanders,
who was accused by Fleming of
throwing rocks at his home and at-
tempting to 'break open a screen
door, was found guilty by a jury
of simple assault.
Four charges against Fleming
were presented to the grand jury.
It returned true bills in three
cases: assault with a deadly weapon
on Sanders, carrying a concealed
weapon and violating the prohibi
tion law. The jury reported “not a
true bill” o,n the fourth charge,
assault with a deadly weapon on
Roy Cabe, whom he was alleged
to have threatened with a shotgun.
Fleming pled guilty on the con
cealed weapon charge. A pistol was
removed from his person by 1 ohcc
Chief C D. Baird when he came to
Franklin for a preliminary hearmg
last week. The case of allepd
violation of the prohibition law
had not come up for trial today.
Judge W. F. Harding, presiding
over the November term of Macon
county superior court, left ]udg-
Tnt open in Sanders’ conviction
of simple assault and m Flemmgs
case of carrying concealed weapous.
He is expected to pass sentence
before court adjourns Friday or
Saturday of this week.
H(Prices listed below are
Uto change without notice.)
Iluoled ty Farmers F«deration, Inc.
iJhickens, heavy breed, hens 12c
jjhickens, light weight, lb. . ■ 09c
I fryers, heavy weight, lb. . ■ I2c
■fryers, light weight, lb 09c
■»Sgs, doz 30c
IS®™, bu. 80c
IVheat, hu $1-00
^ye, bu $1.00
J J^otatoes, No. 1 90c
l^ield peas, bu $1.10
|i!Pnions, bu 60c
pQnoted by Nantahala Creamery
|«tterfit, lb 29c
tions tomorrow throug
understanding Junior K.ed
of nations today. 3,^0^
subject Cross is the grouped by
and the organization is g
schools. Gordon
,1, rarried on ,c a
there is ^
children
work carried on hy
Moore and the
greater resP°«s j The juniors
the various s hoob j
do not pay a small group
fi-' i 5 “-rf ^
o nf oartnership
which ®“The credo of the
and responsibility. believe
cross J..»r . ^
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CO WEE SEEKS
HiMHOOl
Betterment Assodation
Calls Meeting To
Discuss Plans
The oeople of Cowee township
want a community high school and
r° pbnn.nS •» «k. «Uv. «'1«
to obtain one. . i? r'
With this purpose in view, R^ C
focSS
Son around Wesfs Mill has
^ S”’0et' S* " -
"“rRlSan poised
‘^°T r»m .0 p"*le (or bigh
Ss^s »d that estabteh
of a high school in the com
ment of a ^ig necessity
munity wou d ^bviat t^^gnts
of transporting high school stu
^^rfTomrhe^Snidaterhig
F^aSin. This, he added,
''nuTd eheve the heavy school bus
s i and alleviate congested con-
. ;n rhe Franklin school,
ditions in northern end
'’oun V Mr Rickman said,
of ^ rle^’stood the movement
rres’IIS a Hgh school
f Cowee a rumor having spread
f r effort was being made to
nlidate the primary schools in
consolidate tn i
the vi«nityj^^^ intention and
• ed that its sole purpose was
a high school mbre con-
^entfto the pupils in the north
"’■"a fiXschool was formerly situ-
^ ^ r pp but was abandoned
" iS’T.ver.forhcr rnral high
along With
;£°a«d high
ed in Franklm.
HON. W. F. HARDING
REPAIRS URGED
ONCOURTHOOSE
Judge Backs Grand Jury
In Demand for Needed
Improvements
■ udge W. F. Hailing, presiding
over the November term of Macon
county superior court, took the
county board of commissioners to
task Tuesday for failing to carry
out recommendations previous y
made by the grand jury for badly
needed repairs and improvements to
the courthouse.
The judge’s remarks were prompted
by a report which had just been
siibmitted to the court by the grand
jury, stating in part.
“In our previous reports we rec
ommended that a rest room for
ladies be put in the courthouse by
removing the office now occupied
bv O’Neil, but we find that this
has not been done and demand
that it be done.
“We also recommend that a bar
should be erected separating the
jurors’ box from the other part of
the courtroom; this has not been
done and->v-e call the attention of
the county officials to attend
‘^‘Ve"°also call the attention of
the coun-ty that we have repeatedly
recommended that the courthouse
be repaired as it is already con
demned by the state and is damag
ing in its present condUion.
ludge Harding complimented the
jury on its work and urged that
the county commissioners take ira
mediate steps to carry out the
o-rand jury recommendations, iie
Solicitor John Queen
to prepare bdls of indictment
against the responsible officials
the recommendations have not been
put into effect by the next term of
courc.
7 CCC Camps Assigned
To Nantahala Forest
The construction and betterment
of 3.S0 miles of roads and tra^,
timberstand improvement on 20,u0t)
acres of land, and the eompletion
of a rearing station that wdl care
for 50 000 fish annually are among
the major projects to be undertaken
bv the 28 camps assigned to tor-
estry work in North Carolina dur
ing the eighth enrollment period
of the CCC, according to an an
nouncement by Joseph C. I^i^her
southern regional forester, from
headquarters in Atlanta.
Mr. Kircher said that the North
Carolina forestry camps had been
assigned as follows; ten to the
Pisgah national forest, seven o
the Nantahala, two to the Sumter,
seven to projects on state am
private forest lands ^nd two
forestry work for the TV A.
Among the important forestiy
projects already completed by the
CCC in North Carolina, Mr. Kirch
er listed nine fish-rearing pools
in the Nantahala national forest.
Mathewson Defense Bases
Case on Plea of
Insanity
Macon county superior court re
mained in session 'thanksgiving
Day while a formidable array
attorneys presented arguments m
the case of Ralph Mathewson, 33,
Robbinsville cafe proprietor, charg
ed with murdering his wife, i;ioUiei
of a three-weeks-old baby, last he
ruary 15.
Trial of Mathewson, whose case
was removed to this county from
Graham on an order signed by
fudge W. F. Harding at Robbins-
ville in September, was started on
Tuesday after a 13-man jury had
been picked from a special venir
of 100 men. At an earlier trial ot
Mathewson, at the March term of
Ciraham county superior court, a
mistrial was declared when 'he j^iiry
failed to reach an agreement. When
the case came up at Robbinsville
again in 'September the state moved
for removal on the grounds that,
due to the defendant’s wide 'ni'U'
ence in his home county, he could
not obtain a fair trial there. Judge
Harding granted the motion, and
when Mathewson was presented tor
trial in this county he again faced
the Charlotte jurist.
Graham Bears Expense
Expense of the trial, which it is
estimated will amount to consider
ably more than a thousand dollars',
will be borne by Graham county,
not Macon.
The jury was filled at 3 ;30 o clock
Tuesday afternoon and the state
began placing witnesses on the
stand, completiiiig its testimony at
10 o’clock Wednesday morning. Ihc
defense, which based its case on a
plea of insanity, completed its tes
timony late Wednesday afternoon,
and argument was commenced this
morning with four prosecution at
torneys and four defense attorneys
to be heard from.
Counsel Appearing
Jones and Jones, of Frankhn, and
T. M. Jenkins, of Robbinsville, are
as-sisting SoUcitor John M. Queen
in the prosecution. The defendant
is repersented by Jack Morphew
of Robbinsville, J. N.^ Moody, of
Murphy, McKinley Edwards, ^ of
Bryson City, and George B. Pat
ton, of Franklin.
With the judge’s charge to follow
argument by counsel, it was thought
likely that a night session of court
would be necessary if the jury is
to receive ,the case before Friday
morning.
Tells ol .Slw>oting
The first state witness, Tom
Moose, of Robbinsville, said he
was in the Mathewson cafe when
the shooting took place, between
9 and 10 p. m. Feb. 15. Ten or 15
other persons were i,n the cafe, he
said, and Mathewson was standing
by 'the cash register, just having
made change for some customers,
and his wife was seated on a stool
behind the counter. Neither Mathew
son nor his wife had said anything.
Suddenly the cafe proprietor drew
out a pistol, a small .32 calibre
revolver, and fired three shots at
Mrs. Mathewson in quick succes
sion. He then turned the gun on
himself, the witness continued, fir
ing the remaining two shots in the
revolver chambers.
James R. Miller, Graham county
coroner, told of examining Mrs.
Mathewson’s body, which had
slumped to the floor. A bullet
wound was found in her right
breast, another in the left and an
other between the other two
wounds. He also said he examined
Mathewson's head, finding a scalp
wound three to four inches long
extending: from the right ear to the
1 top of his head.
Mr. Miller said he had known
the Mathewsons for some time and
that he considered them a congen-
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