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i f I 191 I ill I C 1IK II I 41 I 'ISS ilk I I4W
VOL. LVI, NO. 25
Civic Organizations Plan
Old Fashioned 4th of July
Plans For Big Program;
Games, Watermelons,
Pigs Feature
Representatives trom various
civic organizations' in Franklin met
Tuesday night, June 18 in order
to plan a good, "old fashioned
fourth of July Celebration."
While a complete program for
the -day was not definitely arrang
ed, plans for gresy pole, greasy
pig, foot' races, three legged race,
sack race, turtle race, and many
other contests with a prize for
each were' discussed. Several ".sur
prises" which the committee does
, not wish to disclose to the public
yet are also being arranged.
In . addition to the' many contests
the committee also hopes to have
an "extra special" baseball game
and square dancing.
All prospective contestants , for
the more strenuous contests are
urged to start their training pro
gram as soon as possible.
Street Service
On Square Saturday By
Evangelist Snow
There will be .street preaching
,1 T- C 1, t .
Djr Kev. jj,.. Mtow? evangelist,
' on the square on Saturday after
noon at o clock. On Sunday
at 11 o'clock Mr. Snow will preach
at the Franklin Methodist church
and at 3 o'clock he will hold serv
ices at the . tabernacle.
The' Evangelist has expressed
himself as pleased with his recep
tion . in Franklin and the atten
dance at the services during the
first days of the two weeks county
wide revival, he is conducting at
the Friendship Tabernacle. There
has been a large attendance at
the evening services and the num
bers are increasing, each night.
AH business men and women
are urged to attend the services
held each day except Saturday and
Sunday in the Macon Theatre, be
ginning at 12:30 and. lasting 40
i minutes. This is a song and prayer
service with brief address.
S. S. Convention At Tabernacle
The Baptist Sunday School Con
vention scheduled to meet at Burn
ingtown Sunday afternoon will
meet at 2 :30 p. m. at the Taber
nacle instead of the appointed
place, in order to unite in the 3
o'clock service.
Milton Sanders Is
3rd In M. I. T. Class
Milton. Sanders, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Sanders, took his de
gree of Bachelor of Science at the
Massachusetts Institute1 of Tech
nology last week, graduating third
in a class of- j60 in electric engi
neering. There were 412 graduates
in the entire senior class.
After finishing the high school
course in Franklin with highest
. honors, Milton also received hon
ors at N. C State which he at
tended for two years before com
pleting three years at M. I. T.
He will report for' special duty
in the Navy Department for spe
cial work in National Defense on
July 1. I
Mrs. Mary Etta Queen .
Passes Monday Afternoon
Mrs. Mary Etta Queen, 77, died
at her home in the Oak Grove
community Monday afternoon from
a stroke of paralysis suffered the
previous Tuesday.
Mrs. Queen, a life-long resident
of this county, was a daughter of
the ' late Dennis and Mary Mc
Gaha Tippett She was born on
Jaxuaty 8, 1864, and married to S.
M. Queen in November, 1880. She
was a member of the Oak Grove
Baptist church.
Funeral services were held on
Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock
t the church, the Rev. Robert
V, Williams, pastor, officiating, as
sisted by the Rev. W. L. Bradley,
of Oak Grove. Interment was in
the church cemetery.
The pallbearers,, all nephews,
were, Edgar Queen, Gordon Arvey,
Don Burnette, Fred Queen, Paul
Anrey and Grady Burnette.
Surviving besides the husband
are four children, three daughters,
Air Haskell Arvey and Mrs. Fred
Burnette, of Needmore and
Mrs. Will Clark, of Etna; one son,
T. H. Queen; two sisters, Mrs.
Buell Dalton, of Franklin Route
4, and Mrs. Robert Painter, of
Lyman, Wash, also 35 grand
children and 45 great-grandchildren.
W. H. Cobb Elected
Mayor Of Highlands
W. H. Cobb was elected
Mayor of Highlands to succeed
W. W. Edwards at the munic
'. ipal election held Tuesday, Jane
17.
Town 1 Commissioners who
were re-elected are S. C. Cres
well and E. H. Brown. New '
Commissioners to take office
are Jack Potts, Dewey Hopper,
and L. W. Wright.
The' new administration will
take office on July 7.
County Draft Board
Announces Changes
The Macon County Draft Board
wishes to announce the following
changes in the list, of selectees to
be' sent to the induction station of
the United Slates Army at Fort
Bragg. '
Two names which .have been
dropped placed in a deferred class
for physical or personal reasons
are Frank Early ' Collins and Glen
Alexander Shuler. The two replace
ments are Cecil Allen, West's Mill,
and Albert Nathan Pennington,
Franklin.
Franklin Divides Twin
Bill With Bryson City
The Franklin All Stars won the
first game of a double header by
the score of 15 to 5. Star of the
game was Dan "Fog Ball" Rey
nolds, Franklin pitcher, who stuck
out. of the opposing batsman and
allowed only five hits.,
In the second game English,
Franklin moundsman, suffered his
first loss of the season, Bryson
City winning by the score oi 8
to 3. '
Cue to Sunday's split Franklin
is now in fourth place in the Tri
State League.
The All Stars will go to Hayes-
ville for a double header Sunday,
June 22. with Reynolds named as
one of the probable starting pitcn
ers. . ' i .
Forest Playgrounds
Visited By 3,571
The Nantahala National Forest
reports that tourist travel on the
Wayah district of the forest was
very good during the month of
May, The following figures show
the number of tourists visiting
each of the forest playgrounds :
Dry Falls 2,473, Arrowobd Camp
Ground 526, Cliffside Lake 314,
Van Hook Camp Ground 190, and
Amnions Camp Grounds 68, the
total number being 3,571. There
were visitors from 18 different
states.
Emory McDonald,
Former Resident, Dies
Funeral services for Emory Mc
Donald, will be' held on Sunday
at 2 p. m. at the Louisa Methodist
church on Cartoogechaye. The Rev.
Philip. L: Green, pastor, will be
in charge of the services. Inter
ment will be in the church ceme
tery. .
Mr. McDonald, a former resi
dent of Macon county,- died on
Monday from a heart attack
while on a construction job at
Oteen. He has made his home in
Asheville for a numlcr of years.
Surviving are three children, one
son, Clarence, of Elm a, Wash., who
is expected for the funeral; and
two daughter,, Misses Kathleen
and Margaret McDonald, of Ashe
ville. Baptist Mission Union
Meeting Tuesday, June 24
The annual meeting ofahe Wo
man's Missionary Union of the
Macon Association will be held at
the Highlands Baptist church
Tuesday, June 24. It will be an all
day program with lunch served
by the ladies.
The theme of the program will
be 'XDur Continuing Task 'Making
His Way Known." This program
will begin at 9 o'clock with a de
votional that will be inspiring to
those who attend.
Mrs. W. D. Briggs. state exe
cutive secretary of Raleigh will
lead a conference in the morning
period. The young people of Ma
con Association will give a play
and render special music Mrs. A.
J. Smith ,of Goldsboro, will bring
a message on the watch word for
the year. All Baptist ministers of
Macon, county are urged to come
and. bring" representatives from
their churchd ia this association.
FRANKLIN, N. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1941
Fire
Damages To W ayah Sign
Shop Reach $3,000
A fire which burned late Mon
day afternoon at the Wayah Sup
ply 1 Depot was reported by . the
Nantahala Forest Service to have
done approximately $3,000 worth
of damage.
The fire was kept confined to
the sign shop where it first broke
out.
Charles Melichar, forest super'
visor, stated that the damage was
chiefly to the building, and that
this would be rebuilt in the near
future.
The fire was reported by Grady
T. Recce, night watchman, at 6:45
p. m. and CGC boys and the
Franklin Fire Department . were
immediately dispatched to the
scene of action. Forest Service of
ficials praised the work of those
engaged in extinguishing the flames
and stated that a large portion of
the supplies, and equipment had
been saved.
At -one time it was feared that
the fire might spread to other
buildings and the Sylva Fire Del
partment sent a truck to aid in
the work, but the forces at hand
had the fire under control by the
time of its arrival.
As The World
A Brief Survey of Current
and Abroad.
DAMASCUS
NEAR FALL
Thursday afternoon the fall of
Damascus, the oldest inhabited
city in the world, to the British
was imminent. The radio reported
that many fighting for the Vichy
government were joining their
Free French brothers.-
NAZI-SOVIET
BREAK JXPJECJED
(jerman-Kussian relations
re-
mains a mystery as Nazi troops
and tanks mass on the Russian
border and Russia mobilizes. Hos
tilities are considered by some to
be a matter of hours, while other
guesses are that Russia will not
risk coming to blows with the Ger
man war machine, . ;
TURKEY SIGNS.
PACT WITH GERMANY
The ten-year friendship
pact
signed yesterday . between Turkey
and Germany frees the German
army of fear of trouble from
Turkey in the' battle with the
British and scores another tri
umph for Ambassador Von Papen.
London considers the pact as a.
mere stop-gap agreement in order
to isolate the Soviets. The pact
is said to have no bearing on war
fare in Syria.
RAF OFFENSIVE
WREAKS HAVOC
Britain's greatest aerial offenr
sive of the war, which has heap
ed more than 4,500,000 pounds of
explosives on Germany and Germain-occupied
territory, was carried
into its eighth day late yesterday
when royal air force fighters at
tacked German shipping in the
English channel and bombed a
military camp in Northern France.
"Bombing of the Rhine-Ruhr val
ley has caused great destruction,
with loss of 49 British and 55
Nazi planes reported for the eight
days of the air offeinsiev.
VIOLENT CAMPAIGN
IN NORTHERN AFRICA
The northern Africa campaign,
carried on under terrific heat con
ditions, combating tanks and planes
in a three-day desert blitzkrieg,
has achieved main objectives, Cairo
report?. Several hundred German
prisoners are reported taken and
a great number of enefmy tanks,
guns and aircraft destroyed. The
British withdrew to normal posts
after repulsing offensives by the
enemy. Berlin reports British halt
ed and "complete victory."
NO BOMBERS
OVER LONDON
The cessation of bombing attacks
on British 'bodes no good in the1
minds of the English who do not
relax vigilance. One theory is that
Hitler has plenty of men and tanks
but planes for only one front at
a time.
FRANCE FELL
YEAR AGO '
A year ago France fell and the
people of Britain have followed
Churchill fnrough "sweat, blood
and tejffs" in his resolve voiced
as "Our invincible resolve to con
tinue the war . . . and there are
Farmers Federation To
Hold Picnic July 19th
The Macon county Farmers Fed
eration picnic will be held on
Saturday, July, 19, at Franklin
high school, according to an an
nouncement by James G. K. Mc
dure, president of the federation.
Music, race, various contests,
tugs-of-war, short speeches and a
singing convention for t choirs . and
quartets will fill the all-day pro
gram. There will be a basket lunch
at noon, and the Farmers Federa
tion will supply free watermelons
and lemonade.
.AH farm families in Macon
county arc cordially invited to set
aside this day and attend the pic
nic, Mr; MeClure said. Musicians
and singers are particularly re
quested to come and perform.
Prizes will be awarded to the win
ners of all contests, to the best
musicians and singers, and to the
winning choirs arid quartets.
Stockton Appointed
Appeal Agent
J. Horner Stockton has been ap
pointed government appeal agent
for the Macon county -local board
No. 1; of Selective Service, suc
ceeding Gilmer A. Jones who has
resigned. Mr. Stockton has also
resigned as a member of the reg
istrant's advisory board to accept
the above position.
Turns
Events In State. Nation
good and reasonable hopes of final
victory.". It is acknowledged by
Britain and feared by the axis
that this final victory now hinges
on the aid that is now forthcom
ing from the United States.
HITLER RETALIATES BY
CLOSING CONSULATES
Germany has formally lodged
protest with the United States
against the closing of German con
sular offices and propaganda agen
cies in this country violation of
the United States-German treaty
of commerce and friendship signed
in 1923. In retaliation Hitler today
closed 80 o 90 U. S. consulates in
Germany and occupied countries.
Italy followed suit.
MERCHANT SHIPS MAY ARM
FOR OWN DEFENSE
, In view of the increased danger
to shipping in the Atlantic as
brought to light by the German
sinking of the RcJbert Moor,' Pres
ident Roosevelt stated if danger
becomes more imminent that the '
navy could arm merchant ships
very quickly. He added that such
action was not under immediate
consideration.
SHIPBUILDING HiITS
RECORD PACE
Shipyards will ' turn out 312
emergency cargo vessels for the
Maritine Commission i at a faster
rate than the speediest construct
ion rate attained during the 'first
World War, J. E. Schmeltzer, di
rector of the building program re
ported. " .
U.; S. HALTS OIL
SHIPMENT TO JAPAN
With the east coast threatened
by a petroleum shortage, the Gov
ernment halted a proposed ship
ment of oil of 252,000 gallons to
Japan. In the halting of the oil
shipment aids of Harold L. Ickes,
secretary of the - interior, said he
had obtained an agreement of Sin
clair Consolidated and Standard
Vacuum Oil company to halt load
ing of ship.
DOUBLING TAXES
ADVISED BY COMMITTEE
The" ways and means committee
today recommended the' doubling
of incqme and excess profit taxes
to meet the $2,400,000,000 defense
program.
Today President Roosevelt sent
a message to Harvard finals con
taining these words, "Believing as
we do, there is no other course
. . . we would rather die on our
feet than live on our knees."
HUGHES' SLAYERS GIVEN
LONG PRISON SENTENCES
Burnos Sherlin, who plead guilty
to a charge of second degree mur
der for the murder of Robert
Hughes, negro youth, in West
Asheville, was sentenced to .serve
17 to 20 years in the state prison
by Judge William H. Bobbin in
the Buncombe county superior
county superior court Sherlin fired
the shot which killed Hughes.
Three companions, Gordon Jones,
Winford Holder, and Loyd Mc
Hone entered pleas of manslaugh
ter and were sentenced to' serve
nine to 12 years each.
U. S. p. Organized
Plans Are Made To Meet
Macon Quota
Representatives from the various
church and civic organizations of
the community will meet to dis
cuss plans to raise the quota of
$200 for Macon county in the
United Service Organization cam
paign drive . on . Friday night
at 7 o'clock at the Legion Hall.
R. M. Hanes, state chairman, is
sued the following statement as to
the purposes and organization of
the U. S. O., "The United Service
Organization is a merger, for war
work only, of the Y. M. C. A.,, the
Y. W. C. A., the National Catholic
Community Service, the Salvation
Army, the Jewish Welfare Roard
and the National Travelers Aid
Association. .
, In the last world war, each 'of
these organizations solicited fund
and ran its own program inde
pendently. In order to avoid this
duplication of effort, overlapping
of activities', and unnecessary ex
penses, these organizations . ... .
have united for all war and de
fense activities. Tins will'- mean
better results, and much less ex
pense." . j
John Archer, county chairman,
has announced that the following
members, of ' their respective1 organ
izations had been asked to attend
the campaign drive meeting Friday
night:
Sam Mendenhall, Rotary club; T.
D. Bryson, Jr., Lions club; G. A.
-Jones, American Legion; Mrs. M,
E. Jones, Legion Auxiliary; Mrs.
Lester Conley, Garden club; Dr.
J. L. Stokes, Methodist church ;
Rev. Hubart Wardlaw, Presbyter
ian church; Rev. C. F. Rogers,
Baptist church ; Rev, A. Rufus
Morgan, Episcopal church; Henry
W. Cabe, Masonic lodge; Mrs. H.
E. Church, Eastern Star; Lester
Arnold, Moose lodge; Mrs. John
Wasilik, PTA; Harley R. Cabe,
Red Cross; Frank B. Cook and
Wilton Cobb, Highlands; Clyde
West, West's Mill; W. R. Wal
droop, Cartoogechaye; Mrs. Mary
Berry Justice, Holly Springs.
Cabe Chairman Defense
Savings Committee
H. G. Robertson, of Greensboro,
state administrator, Defe,nseU Sav
ings staff, announces appointment
of H. W. Cabe as chairman of the
local committee for Macon county.
Other community leaders Who have
been asked to serve on this com
mittee are Mrs. Eloise G. Franks',
Jerry Franklin, G. L. Houk, J. E.
S. Thorpe, J. Framk Ray, William
S. Johnson, Miss Lassie Kelly, and
T. D. Bryson., Jr.
In announcing this program the
Honorable Henry Mbrgenthau, Jr.,
secretary of the treasury, said,
"Defense Savings Bonds and
Stamps give us all a way to take
a direct part in building the de
fense of our country an American
way to find ' the billions needed
fori National Defense. The United
States is today, as it has always
been, the best investment in the
world. This is an ppporunity' for
each citizen to buy a share in
America."
This committee for Macon coun
ty is a part, of this nationwide
organization. Its main task will be
to spread information about the de
fense Savings program among the
citizens of the county.
Sugar Fork Baptist
Singing Convention
The Fourth Sunday Singing
convention will be held at ' the
Sugar Fork Baptist church ' on
Sunday afternoon, June 21. The
public is invited.
Pritchard Russell, Pres.
Harold Bryson
Dies In Concord
Harold Bryson, 16, son of Roy
Bryson, of Whittier, died in Con
cord Wednesday while undergoing
a tonsil operation.
Harold had been living in Con-'
cord and was to have returned
this week to make his home' with
his father.
The remains were brought to
the home" of his aunt, Mrs. Wade
Arvey.
Funeral -services will be held on
Friday at 11 o'clock at the Snow
Hill Methodist church, the Rev.
Philip L. Green, pastor, officiat
ing. Burial will be in the church
cemetery.
Surviving besides his father are
three brothers, Lyndon, of Can
ton; Marshall, an enrollee in the
CCC camp at Otto; and Bobby, of
Franklin. Also his grandfather,
Charlie1 Bryson at West's Mill; an
aunt, Mrs. E. H. Parrish, and an
uncle, Billy Watkins, also of
West's MiU.
$1.50 PER YEAR
ALCOA MAY
BUILD DAM
Government Regulations
Will Be Met With RFC
Help In Financing
News has come Iroin Washing
ton that I. W. Wilson, production
vice-president . of the Aluminum
Company of America, told a senate
investigating coniiltee Tuesday
that 'the company would take out a
licensed ,to build Fontana dani if
the government would assist in
financing it.
Commenting from 'Raleigh, I. K.
S. Thorpe of Franklin, president,
of the Nantahala Power and light
company Alcoa subsidiary, is re
ported as saying that his com
pany it ready lo proceed with
construction providing the dam is
financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation.
Last March 'the Aluminum com
pany withdrew' a declaration of'-,
intention to biiild the $50,0(X),000 :
Fontana hydro-electric project on
the. Little-Tennessee in Swain and
Graham counties because of the
Federal -Power-commission's license
requirements: During the last few
weeks government engineers have '
been considering the building of
four dams hy TV A in the inter
est of national defense, Fontana
being one of the dams considered.
Aluminum For Defense
The nation's need for increased
production for defense has cen
tered interest on the advances of
hydnelectric development in this
Section.
Wilson is reported to have told
the committee on -Tuesday that the
Aluminum company is willing to
co-operate to bring about, the de- v
velopment, either by selling its in
terests. -to" TVA, 'or in any other
way to make power available fur
the produceion of aluminum. He
stated that the corfTpany is ready
to apply to RFC for funds to fi
nance the Fontana project as soon
as OPM approves it.
Production Stepped Up
Arthur Davis, Alcoa board chair
man, assured the senators, in this
meeting that his company could
step up ': aluminum production if
the government would finance new
power sources and assure ships to
bring bauxite, (aluminum ore) from
South - America.
It was stated that the company
had doubled, and would shortly
treble its 1938 output, and also that
$200,000,000 was being spent to
advance national defense; and that
the company's entire technical re- ,
sources had been repeatedly placed
at the government's disposaf.
"You can count on us", Mr. Davis
told the senators.
It was testified before the com
mittee that the proposed Fontana
project could .supply power to pro
duce 100,000,000 pounds of alumin
um annually within the1 next three
years.
MGM Travel Talk
Feature Macon Scenery
. In Technicolor
James A. Fitzpatrick and his
four assistant cameramen, Howard
Nelson, Bill Steiner, Ben Sharpe
and Roger Mace, of Culver City,
Calif., spent Wednesday in the
Nantahala National Forest filming
a "Voice of the Globe" MGM
Travel Talk.
Mr. Fitzpatrick, creator of the
technicolor film feature, made
pictures of the Dry Falls and the
Lower Cullasaja Falls, in the Cul
lasaja Gorge between Franklin and
Highlands, also a panorama from
Wayah Bald.
T. T. Hall of the Forest Service,
stated that the film men were
highly impressed with the magnifi
cent scenery in Macon county.
Accompanying them on their tour
were Charles Melichar, supervisor
of the Nantahala National Forest
service; Mr. Hall, administrative
assistant, and Clint Johnson recre
ational engineer.
They left Wednesday afternoon
for Bryson City to make a toiir
of the Great Smokies.
Electric Dealers Unite
To Conserve Electricity
The Nantahala Power Company
and other electrical supply dealers
have taken further steps to con
serve the supply of electric pow
er. Besides urging the utmost ec
onomy in the household use of
electricity all dealers in electric
appliances have agreed, after dis
posal of their present stock, to
discontinue the sale, of electric re
frigerators and other such equip
ment until the power situation has
improved,