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VOL. LV, NQi 47
FRANKLIN, N. C. THURSDAY, NOV. 21, 1940
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Main Street Being Widened
Through Business District
Town Board Agrees To
Share Expense With
Highway Dept.
WPA workmen Tuesday niorn
" 1 ing began ripping put present
curbs and gutters, removing trees,
and otherwise making preparations
for widening Main street here
from the courthouse to the post
office, following the town board
of aldermen's decision Monday
night to cooperate with the state
highway department on the pro
ject. .
, Meeting in a special session call
ed for the purpose, the board cf
aldermen passed the measure auth
orizing work to begin by a vote
of four to one. Under the terms
of the agreement, the town is re
sponsible for all grading work and
for furnishing- new curbs and gut
ters, while the state highway de
v partment is to .surface the addi-
tional width.
New Equipment For Fir Dept.
The board also authorized the
purchase of 500 feet of hose, six
coats and 12 safety helmets for the
. city fire department, .
I; According to Town Clerk George
, Deaii, the project will provide an
average increase of six feet in the
width of Main street, leaving a
one foot space for telephone poles,
light poles and fire hydrants..
On the courthouse iide of the
street, : the work will be carried
out from the Macon theatre to the
intersection of the one-way street
leading into 'lotla street, and on
the other side, from the post of
fice to Phillips street. The town
has just completed widening East
Main up to the post office.
Diagonal Parking
The increased width should re
lieve the congestion in the business
district that has long been a rrien
ance to both local and through
traffic, Mr. Dean said. The town
also hopes to be able to provide
diagonal parking spaces, in place
of the present parallel system,
which would make parking easier
and at the same time accomodate
a greater number of automobiles
in the same area.
The town's part in the widening
of the street will be financed
through the town-sponsored WPA
project, that has been responsible
lor the rest of the street improve
ments here. County WPA Super
intendent P. L. Threlkeld estimat
ed that the grading would be com
pleted and the new curbs and gut
ters poured in approximately three
weeks, if the weather continued
favorable. , '
Mr. Dean said that the stale
highway department planned to ap-
ply a . primary surfacing to the
graded portions of Main street
mis iau. J. nen nexi spring, mcy
are planning to re-surface Main
Btreet from the bridge to . the
Georgia road, eliminating the rough
(sections in the present paving.
As The World Turns
A Brief Survey of Current Events In State, Nation
and Abroad. '
THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
Total War loosed on Great Brit
Bin by Germany continues in in
tensity while London, Coventry,
Birmingham suffer new destruction
pf property and civilian lives.
Few sections of England have
escaped the visitation of Nazi
planes during the last few weeks,
as Hitler and Mussolini swear
total destruction to the Empire.
BRITAIN INTENSIFIES
AIR RAID
Britain's RAF continues relent
less bombing. of Germany's mili
tary supply and , transportation
centers. These raids have halved
production of the great Krupp
arms and munitions works, and
destroyed or badly damaged oil
plants, depots, and industrial cen
ter., including Berlin, say news
toureef.
THE AXIS
Hitler's increased activity in the
diplomatic front to hasten the
"new order in Europe" may sig
nify uneasiness on account of fail
ures of the axis in Britain and
Greece, but Britain's anxieties are
increased as Hitler extends his
power over the Balkans to close
in on Turkey, Greece and Suez.
THE WAR IN GREECE
The Italians are fleeing in com
plete route before the Greeks into
Albania. Mussolini thunders in
Rome "We will break the back ot
Greece . . . !"
However, Greece has appealed to
Red Cross Memberships
Reported By Workers
The following memberships in
the American Red Cross have
been reported, by roll call workers
in Franklin, and are hereby ac
knowledged :.. ;
Miss Lassie Kelly, Mrs. Miza
Crawford, J. 13. Pendergrass, C. L.
Pendergrass, John Slagle, Miss
Mary Willis, Judge J. B. Willis,
Mrs. J. B. Willis, Burnette Dalton,
Roy Carpenter, Erwin Patton,. Mrs.
J. C. Horsley, Mrs. Joe Ashear,
Frank Duncan, Willard Pender
grass, Red Henry, Mrs. J. A. Fowl
er, Miss Elizabeth McGuirc, How
ard Crunklcton, Mrs. J. Ward
Long, Mrs, J. E., S. Thorpe, Fred
Montony, C. E. Hyde, H. H. Plcm
ons, Mrs. Lester Henderson, Les
ter Henderson, Mrs. Ralph Worn
ack, Mrs. Frank Killian.
H. T. Sloan, Dr. Frank Killian,
Mrs. J. W. Hall, Mrs. Ben Mc
Collum, Mrs. J. L. Averell, Mrs.
Charlie Bradley, Mr. M. Blumen
thal, Mrs. H. E. Church, Mrs.
John Wasilik, Mrs. J. S. Conley,
Mrs. S. M, Mendenhall, H. H.
Hir.sch, Mrs. H. H. Hirsch, Mrs.
E., K. Cunningham, Mrs. Carl Ty-
singer, M. D. Billings, Mrs. M. D.
Billings, Manson L. Stiles, Miss
Amy Harrison, Mrs. Mary Allman,
John Harrison, Mrs. Ben Wood
ruff, Mrs. Derald Ashe, Mrs. Jim
Perry, Mrs. Jack Weyman, J. Fred
Bryson, C. T. Blaine, Jack Sanders,
Mrs. Charles Mehchar;
Lee Poindexter,' V. E. Swafford,
Mrs. John M. Archer, Mrs. I. T.
Peek, R. G. Beshears, R. R. SwbjV-
son, W. C. Zickgraf, Walter Dean,
Glenn Ray, J. L. Averell, John
Ansel, John Harrier, H. E. Church,
Claude Bolton, Winton Perry, J.
Ward Long, John Cory, W. L,
Metcalf, Robert Ward, Lewis Man
ning, Mrs. Lucy Sue Crawford,
Mrs. Hyldah Shepherd, Mrs. J. B.
Stalcup.
Mrs. Annie Laurie 'Welch, J. A
Sutton, Ralph Welch, J. E. Whit
aker, Joel Tompkins, W. C. Penn,
J. E. S. Thorpe, John M. Archer,
Mrs. A. B. Omohundrp, Mrs. J.
L. Barnard, Fred Sloan, Mrs. Fred
Sloan, Mrs. Joel Tompkins, Mrs.
Harley Dunbar, Dr Furman Angel,
Miss Clyde Berry, Miss MayBelle
Bryant, B. L. McGlamery, Mrs.
Elpise Franks, Ralph Womack, R.
M. Rimmer, David Sutton.
Bill Bryant, N. G. Williams, T.
W. Angel, Jr., Allen J. Green,
Sam Roane, Greensboro; O. G.
Bryant, C. B. Wickliffe, John
Hauser, J. H. Stockton, A. R. Hig
don Paul Carpenter, Bill Johnson,
Mrs. J. f W. C. Johnson, Fred
Arnold, thad Patton, Dan Bry
son, Woodrow Reeves, Frank Hig
don Jr., Hugh Leach, W. T. Moore,
Dr. Ben Grant, Mrs. W. p.. Sellers,
Miss Gladys Sellers, Mary H. El
more, J. B. Elmore, L. H. Page,
Mrs. L. H. Pace. Mrs. R. W.
Norton (donation), S. H. Lyle,
Grover Jamison, J. E. Perry, Joe
Ashear, .Frank Jamison,, Elmer
Crawford, Mrs. E. C. Soper.
"the free countries" for aid,
"Planes, more planes ... epic vic
tories are misleading" as the axis
plots her destruction.
Hungary signed up Wednesday
with the German-Italian-Japanese-Russian-alliance.
The failure of
Italy ' gives Hitler more complete
domination over Mussolini.
FLYING FORTRESSES
FOR BRITAIN
This government disclosed yes
terday that 26 giant four-engined
bombers ordered for the U. S.
Army had been released for sale
to the British.
CONGRESS STAYS
Congress will remain in session
by -a vote of 191' to 148 in the
House.
CIO AND AFL
Little ' hope for peace between
the rival forces of AFL and CIO
is held out after John L. Lewis
defiantly announced in his .speech
to the CIO convention that peace
was impossible now. Lewis is ex
pected to keep his promise to step
down as chairman at CIO, accord
ing to his promise when he an
nounced that he would resign if
Roosevelt was elected for a third
term.
EXPLOSIONS
Explosion occurring last week
in three different plants almost
simultaneously, two in New Jersey
and one in Pennsylvania, were
said by Secretary Stimson to smack
of "Teutonic efficiency."
ARMY CALLS
FIRST QUOTA
Volunteers And Draftees
Will Be Sworn In
This Week
' North Carolina's first-call quota
announced from the Raleigh
headquarters is .513, only 71 cf
which represent the number to be
called from 21 western counties.
It is probable that there will be
enough volunteers in each of the
draft board areas to fill the first
call requirements, it is stated.
The Macon, county draft board
reports that 126 questionnaires
have, been sent out from the
Franklin office, 21 to volunteers
and 105 to the first names holding
order numbers, all of which have
been returned. On Tuesday this
office had not received notice from
Raleigh of the number to be called
at this time from Macon county.
The army began receiving draf
tees last Monday, two months and
two days after President Roose
velt signed the nation's first peace
time conscription bill.
The army originally expected to
call about 30,000 men", under the
selective service program by De
cember 1 but officials said this
number had been reduced, largely
because of the number of volun
teers who had been accepted in
the interim.
Draft officials said almost the
entire number of men taken on
the-first call under the draft pro
gram would be registrants who vol
unteered. " ,
A poll of state selective service
officials showed, they said, that ap
proximately 71,000 of the men al
ready classified and found eligible
for immediate service had volun
teered. Physical Examination
The men called this week will
get their first contact with the
arms at - the induction stations.
There they will undergo a second
physical examination in which
the army doctors will check the
findings of the examining physi
cians yfihe local draft boards.
Those accepted will be finger
printed, start their service records,
get an army serial number and
then swear :
"That I will bear true faith and
allegiance to the United States of
America ; that I will serve them
honestly and faithfully against all
enemies whomsoever: and that I
will obey the orders of the presi
dent of the United States and the
orders of the officers appointed
over rhe, according to the rules and
articles of war."
Before being assigned to regular
units the draftees will go to an
army reception center to receive
uniforms, vaccination and a short
course of basic, military training.
Howard Gibson
Back In County Jail Here
After Two Escapes
Howard Gibson,' 21 year-old
Macon youth w.so has twice escap
ed from the county jail within the
space of eight months, was back
behind the bars again last Saturday
night. ; '
Acting cm a tip; Deputy Sheriff
John Dills, State Highway Patrol
man Ed C. Guy and Deputy Shentt
Frank Allen of . Jackson county en
circled the home of Willie Pass
nore near Cashiers and caught
Gibson as he was dashing out the
kitchen door.
Gibson received a 90 day sen
tence for chicken stealing at the
April term of superior court and
Judge J. A. Rousseau added a
one year's suspended sentence to
insure his good behavior.
The night of the day that he was
sentenced. Gibson escaped from the
jail. He was recaptured within a
week and served his 90 day sen
tence in the state prison tamp in
Cherokee county..
Afterwards he was returned to
the county jail here to await trial
for violating his suspended ' sen
tence, but the week before the
August term of court convened, he
again broke jail and remained - at
large" until last Saturday night.
Deputy Dills is placing Gibson
in the jail's cage instead of an
ordinary cell every night to insure
his appearance before Judge Wil
son Warlick at the December term
of superior court here.
Gibson is the first of seven who
have escaped from the jail here
since April to be recaptured.
WASHINGTON. The American
Red Cross has cabled $10,000
through the American Minister at
Athens to be given to the Greek
Red Cross to aid victims of air
raids and other wounded civilians,
it was announced here.
New Pastor
REV. J."L. STOKES II
Who Succeeds Rev. 1. L. Roberts
. As Pastor of the Franklin
: Methodist Church.
Patrolman Guy
Bound Over To Court On
Assault Charged
After waiving . a preliminary
hearing, State Highway Patrolman
Ed C. Guy was bound over to the
December term of superior court
this week on a warrant, charging
"assault with a deadly weapon ; to
wit, an automobile."
The - warrant, sworn out by W.
T. . Tippett, local contractor and
carpenter, was the result of ah
affair last month in which Guy
was alleged to have attempted to
knock Tippett's automobile out of
the highway by striking it from
behind with the patrol car.
Monday,' Guy servejU two war
rants on Tippett, charging failure
to stop upon signal from the pa
trol car, and driving with improper
lights. Tippett made bond before
Justice of the Peace George Car
penter in the sum of $100 for
each charge. His hearing was set
for November 28.
According to Tippett's story, he
'was returning home from work at
the Angel hospital around 1 :30
a. m., Octo-ber .14, when a car
drove up behind him and followed
him for some distance. He stated
that he was driving from 20 to
25 miles an hour.
Hearing a siren behind him and
not knowing what it was, he said
that he pulled over on the shoul
der of the highway and continued
driving at a reduced rate of speed
until the ', patrol car whammed
into him from the rear. Giiy failed
to drive up beside him so that he
could indentify the patrol car he
said.
After stopping, Tippett continued,
the patrolman came up to him,
smelled his breath and .searched
his automobile' for whiskey. He
was allowed to continue after be
ing warned to have .one of his
headlights, which Was not burning
at the time, repaired in the morn
ing. Franklin Churches Unite
For Thanksgiving Service
The Franklin churches will unite
for Thanksgiving service in the
Methodist church at . 10 o'clock
next Thursday morning. The Bap
tist, Episcopal and Presbyterian
congregations will join in the serv
ice. .
Rev. J. L. Stokes II announces
that Rev. C. F. Rogers has been
invited to preach the sermon.
Buck Creek School
Miss .Mary Elmore, teacher of
the Buck Creek school, announces
that the Junior Red Cross of this
school has joined 100 per cent.
Season Opens On Rabbit,
Quail, Grouse November 28
No Open Season On Wild
Turkey In Western
N. C. This Year
Open season on rabbit, quail and
grouse will begin next Thursday,
November 28, County Game Ward
en J. Fred Bryson announced this
week.
Bag limits -tor rabbit are 10 a
day, no season limit ; for quail, 10
a day, 150 a season; and tor
grouse, two a day, 10 a season.
The season on quail and grouse
closes January 15, and on rabbit,
February 15.
There will be no open season
this year on turkey anywhere in
Western North Carolina, Mr. Bry
AAA ELECTION
RESULTS GIVEN
C. S. Slagle Is Names
Chairman Of County
Committee
The results' of an election to de
termine county and township' com
mitteemen tq serve in the Macon
county Agricultural Conservation
association for next year were re
leased last week by Sam Mendvu
hall, county farm agent.
C. S. Slagle heads the county
committee, with B. W. Justice,
vice-chairman; Robert Fulton, reg
ular member, C. W. Henderson,
first alternate; arid VV. C. Ledbet
ter, second - alternate.
1.8S0 Tnke Part In Election
Approximately 1,850 'members A
the I county Agricultural Conserva
tion association took part in the
election, which was conducted by
mail. Members of the committees
act as 'representatives of the farm
agent in each community, to help
farmers secure maximum benefits'
under the conservation program.
The community committeemen
for, each township are as follows:
'-.Franklin township: Chairman,
Paul Patton; vice-chairman, W. L,
Ramsey ; regular member, C. D.:
Garner; first alternate, J. Ned
Teague; second alternate, W. B.
Brown.
Millshoul township : .Chairman, -E.
V'.- Amnions ; vice-chairman, Gordon
Smith; regular member, J. E. Tayl
or; first alternate, -John C Fergu
son ; .second alternate, C. B. Kins
laiul. Cartoogechaye townhsip. Chair
man, R. C. Enloe; vice-chairman, J.
H.-Brookshire ; regular member, E.
E. Crawford; first alternate, Roy
Southards; second alternate, Har
old Enloe.
Ellijay township: Chairman, J.
L. Clark ; vice-chairman, Woodrow
Teague ; regular member, Howard
Slvxik; first alternate, Elbert Bry
son; second alternate, J. A. Taylor.
Sugarfork township : Chairman,
D. M. Rogers; vice-chairman, C.
W. Henderson; regular member,
W. A. Keener; first alternate, W.
T. Tilson ; second alternate, John
C. Dills.
Highlands township: Chairman,
A.M. W'iUon; vice-chairman, R.
J. Cobb ; regular member, A. C.
Holt;, first alternate, E. P. Pickle
simer; second alternate, Wiley Mc
Call. .
Flats township: . Chairman, J, N.
Fisher ; vice-chairman, H. C. M iller ;
regular member, Paul Grist; first
alternate, M. S. Burnette; second
alternate, Ray . Dryman.
Smithbridge township : Chairman,
W. C. Ledbctter; vice-chairman,
Bob Wiggins; regular member, J.
K. Brown ; first alternate, T. V.
Vinson; second alternate, Robert
Stewart.
, Burningtown township: Chair
man, Carl Morgan ; vice-chairman,
Jud Wild ; regular mem't,er, Rufus
McGaha; first alternate,' H. H.
Cole; secouh alternate, Bill Par
rish. Nantahala township: Chairman,
Sam Waters ; vice-chairman, G. VV.
Owenby; regular member, D. L.
Owenby; first alternate, Jim
Shields; second alternate, Clifton
Morgan.
CQwee township: Chairman, D.
A. Hall ; vice-chairman, J. R. Hol
brooks; regular member, Fred Mc
Gaha; first alternate, Charley
Downs;1 second alternate, Floyd
Roper.
Raymond Tallent Hurt
In Truck Accident
Raymond Tallent,' son of Mr; and
Mrs. Ell Tallent, of Franklin, who
has been working at the Glenville
Dam project, received a broken
back Monday when the truck in
which he was riding overturned.
He is being treated at Angel hos
pital and his condition is reported
to be satisfactory.
son said. The state is attempting
to increase the number ' of wild
turkeys in this section both by a
closed season and by stocking
wooded areas with turkeys. Sev
eral were turned loose in the
county here recently.
"Possession of a hunting license
does not mean that the hunter can
hunt where he pleases," the game
warden emphasized. "Always be
courteous enough to ask permis
sion before hunting over anyone's
land and take care to treat the
property as if it were your own.'
Mr. Bryson added that game law
violations in the county were con
siderably less thus far than last
fall, and that a. a whole Mao-u
hunters were above average in
.sportsmanship and courtesy.
ALL QUIET ON
DAM PROJECT
Trouble At Nantahala
Dam Results In Clos
ing Down Job
' Work had not been resumed on
the Nantahala dam project Thurs
day morning, although everything'
had been quiet since disturbances
last Monday, according t Sheriff
A. 15. Slagle.
The Utah Construction company,
contractors building the dam for
the Nantahala "Power and' Light
company, ceased operations when
trjuble developed out of efforts of
labor leaders u disperse, a meet
ing held 1'a.st Monday morning.
.'Fighting - that resulted in cuts
and bruises to many and in some
men and automobiles being thrown
into the Nantahala river followed.
Sheriff Slagle said that although
some Macon county ineu were in
volved, most of the western North
Carolina persons involved in the
trouble live in Swain, Cherokee and
Graham counties." Some from Cop
per Hill, Tenn., are also said to
have taken part.
Six state highway patrolmen were
requested by Sheriff Slagle Tues
day as a matter of precaution to
prevent any further- disorder.
Labor Difficulties
It is reported that workers from
Utah and California who had "fall
en out with the group from New
Vork state" started the movement
to dislodge the northern workers.
These united with western North
Carolina and Tennessee men, and
handbills were distributed "to drive
the. Northerner 'out" by "We, the
Southern and Western People."
-Resentment- was said to have
centered around James C. Turner,
alleged to have sent wires to
bring in the outside workers, and
R. E. Lee, collector of dues from
the local men for the newly organ
ized union of outside men, with
the promise of giving them jobs
on the project. Some who had not
been hired and others who had
been replaced by the New York
men were joined by outside Sym
pathizers in the concerted effort
to drive out the men brought in
by Turner and Lee. Turner wo,
thrown in the river wheii he at
tempted to talk to the picketers,
und Lee, it seems, was beaten up
on general principles. Most of the
New York men , are - reported' to
have left as soon as they were
paid off.
One carload who were reported
to have driven through Camp No.
1 at a dangerous speed were fol
lowed by a car of local men.
When overtaken, all hands got out
and there was a free-for-all fist
fight, resulting in minor bruises for
all.
No "Armed Mob-
Several men and automobiles
were reported thrown in the river,
but Sheriff Slagle and. Deputy
Sheriff Dills emphatically denied
a statement published in the daily
press quoting Turner as saying,
there was "an armed mob of 500
men." The officers found no evi
dence of weapons and no armed
men, and stated that the number
engaged in the disturbance was
nearer 50 than 500. '
Many of the crowd assembled
were onlookers, and there was evi
dence that the presence of liquor
in the crowd on Monday night
contributed to the disorder, it was
said.
The sheriff remained on the
scene, until late Tuesday . night
when all was reported quiet, as
was also the report on Wednes
day. Sheriff Slagle states that war
rants have been issued for alleged
offenders and left with the officers
on duty, at the project to be served,
and that some arrests are expect
ed. He explained that no arrests
were made Monday and Tuesday
for lack of evidence against any
individuaL AH the New York work
ers allegedly injured in the fight
ing left immediately without pre
ferring charges.
Angel hospital authorities re
ported that no injuries to men on
the project had been brought there
tor treatment. This haspital has
the contract to treat casualties oc
curring on the dam project. It
has been reported that Lee was
treated for minor injuries in a
Knoxville, Tenn. hospital. One man
was said to have suffered a brok
en arm, but this could not be con
firmed, or his name learned.
Among those hurt in the fray
were R. E. Lee, Arthur Wallace,
labor union leaders, Richard and
W. Bingham and Blackie Blythe.
M. C. Namara of Andrews was
reported treated by an Andrew.
physician.
It is not known how many work
ers left their jobs on account of
(Goatiawed oa P( Six)
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