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VOL. LX? NQ. 19
FRANKLIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1945
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Complete Surrender Of Germany
America And Her Allies Win War!
7TH WAR LOAN
DRIVE STARTS
MONDAY.MAY14
Will Continue Through
June 30; Macon's Quota
Set For $218,000.00
The Mighty Seventh War
Loan Drive will open in Macon
county on Monday, May 14, and
continue through June 30, with
an over*., quota of $218,000.00
to be raised by the citizens of
the county, and a total of $168,
000.00 in Series E or individual
bonds.
Committees have been ap
pointed for the various streets
in town: to make a house-to
house canvass and the county
has also appointed committees
to solicit the rural districts. In
this way the entire county will
be given an opportunity to
place their saving in/a safe and
worthy investment, land share
in a speedy victory and safe
return of our boys and girls.
The work has been divided
into a number of branches with
a committee chairman assigned
to each. Many of these chair
men have already appointed
their committees and are ac
tively at work, especially the
Women's Divisions at Franklin
and at Highlands.
?A list of these chairmen is as
follows:
H. W. Cabe, permanent coun
ty; Gilmer A. Jones, 7th Loan;
C. J. Anderson, Town of High
lands; Mrs. J. E. S. Thorpe,
women's division at Franklin;
Miss Ruth Carter, woman's di
vision at Highlands; Mrs. Flor
ence Sherrill, rural committee;
Mrs. Velma Conley, publicity;
R. M. Rimmer, Franklin drug
gists; C. E. Mitchell, Highlands
druggists; Mrs. Agnes Howard,
theatre; Ben McGlamery, pay- I
roll; John Alsup, Jr., advertis- ;
ing; A. B. O'mohundro, cam- ,
paign expense, E. J. Whitmire, '
school.
Andrew Ray, chairman col
ored committee.
Committees I
American Legion Auxiliary, to
?Continued On Page Six
CHAS. T. BLAINE
DIES MONDAY
Funeral Services For Welj
Known Business Man
Held Tuesday
C. T. Blaine, Franklin's old
est merchant, died at his Har
rison avenue home early Mon
day morning from a heart 'ail
ment that had been troubling
him since January. He was 69.
Born in 1875, the son of Wil
liam Joseph and Ester Daves
Blaine, of Macon county, he
spent practically all of his life
here. He had been in active
business in Franklin for 40
years. - He received his early
training in the employe of
Green Trotter, starting in 1896.
About three years were spent
in Florida as a representative
of the Old Carolina Provision
company. In 1905 he was ap
pointed rural mail carrier for
route number 2, and served in
that capacity for eight years
and eight months. In 1917 he
established the first 10 cent
store west of Asheville. At the
time of his death he was spe
cializing in seeds and' plants.
Mr. Blaine was a charter
member of the" Franklin. Bap
tist church for 60 years and its
third oldest member. He helped
organize the Sunday school
and served as- the secretary for
25 years.
He was married to Minnie G.
Ashe in 1903.
Surviving are his wife; two
daughters, Mrs. J. H. Stockton,
of Franklin, anri^ Mrs. J. H.
Young, of Portland Ore., a son,
William, of Franklin;, and a
brother, Noah, of Sedro Wooley,
Wash.; and nine grandchildren.
Funeral services were held in
the Franklin Baptist church
with the Rev. J. F. Marchman,
pastor, and the Rev. W. Jack
son Hunneycutt, pastor of the
Franklin Methodist church, as
sisting. His body lay in state at
the church from 1 until 3, the
hour of the service. Interment
was in the Franklin cemetery.
Pallbearers were Roy Mash
burn, Henry Cabe, Lawrence
Liner, Quince Hauser, A. R. Hig
don, and Fred Arnold.
Seventh War Loan Heaviest
And Most Essential Of All
End Of European Conflict
Doesn't Mean The War
Over; Buy Bonds
By GILMER A. JONES
Chairman 7th War Loan Drive
We are confronted with the
Seventh War Loan Drive, which
is the heaviest we have had,
and the War Finance Commit
tee has made the usual blunder
of asking me to act as Chair
man, so I will ask the people
of the county to bear with me
through still another drive and
to support this one as whole
heartedly as they have sup
ported the previous si*. Our
quota this time will be harder
to reach than ever for a num
ber of different reasons.
I, along with many others,
have hoped all along that the
close of the war In Europe
would necessarily cut the cost
of operating the war just about
in half, both from the stand
point of casualties and money
required. I thought this until
I began to talk with a great
many men who had been in
the Pacific theater of war and
were doubtless well acquainted
with the situation there, and
m p?><f to make a more careful
study 01 the facts that stare us
in the toe. Thinking, Instead
of hoping, caused me to see
that the end of the European
War would not decrease the fi
nancial cost of pursuing the
war until Japan Is finally elim
inated as a fighting force. And
let us remember here that the
more and better our equipment
Is, the fewer American lives will
be lost ; we will pay (or the
I war both in blood and in dol
lars. and what we try to save in
dollars by failing to properly
and speedily equipping our men,
we simply make up for in blood
spilled. Of course, if we were
to be satisfied with letting the
war In the Pacific, run along at
its present pace, it might not
take as much material or as
many lives for the time being,
but it would cost more of both
in the long run.
I remember discussing the
Japanese situation with one man
a few years before Pearl Har
bor, and when I stated that the
Japs would attack us without
warning, he thought the idea
was preposterous. The majority
of our people may now think
that the idea that the Japa
nese war may yet last for a
number of years is also pre
posterous. I say may, not will.
Heaven forbid that it does, but
it very well could. My reasons
for making this statement are
as follows: "
1. The Japanese are fighting
close at home. We have to move
our supplies over a supply line
from five to seven thousand
miles long..
2. Like the European War,
the Japanese War will also be
supplied for the most part,
from the Atlantic Seaboard of
the United States, which will
place a still greater strain up
on our railway system.
3. It will be more expensive
to transport the American
fighting machine to the Pacific
from Europe than It was to
transport It to Europe from
America, the distance being
greater, and aa we do not have
? CmtUsaed on, MU e Sii
President Osmena Predicts
Japs Will Be Hard To Beat
WASHINGTON, D. C.? Preiident
Sergio Osmena of the Philippine!,
now in procen of complete recon
* quering from the Japanete and from
which General
Douglas Mac
Arthur's land
forces under Ad
miral Chester
N i m i t z will
swing into Anal
action against
the enemy, to
day issued a
statement in be
half of the
Mighty Seventh
War Loan.
President Os
mena's state
ment was re
leased by Briga
adier General
Carlos P. Roijiu- OSMENA
lo, resident com
missioner of the Philippines to the
United States, at the Philippine of
fices here. President Osmena said:
"Needless to say, we Filipinos art
very pleased with the signal suc
cesses achieved by the United States
and her allies during recent months.
After a long and hard struggle, the
Germans have been pushed to the
brink of overwhelming defeat and
the end of the war in Europe is now
cleariy In sight,
"In the Pacific out "aim have
City Officials
Elected By Franklin And
Highlands
Citizens of two Macon towns,
Franklin and Highlands, elect
ed their town officials in voting
on Tuesday, May 8.
T. W. Angel, Jr., was elected
for Mayor of Franklin, receiv
ing 195 votes in the election.
Geo. B. Patton had filed as can
didate for Mayor, but with
drew his name on April 17. The
office for mayor was left un
opposed.
Against a registration of 735
qualified voters in Franklin,
ballots cast totalled 247.
Elected to the board of
aldermen for Franklin were
John M. Archer, Jr., with 176
votes, Jess S. Conley, 136, Fred
Cabe, 144, Frank Duncan, 155,
Cecil L. Pendergrass. 177 and
L. B. Phillips, 220, leading the
ticket by 25 votes. Others
voted on last Tuesday were
Elbert E. Angel, receiving a
total of 105 votes, M. L. Dow
dle, 127, and H. A. Wilhide, 123.
Highlands Returns
For the town of Highlands,
W. H. Cobb was elected to his
third term as Mayor in the
Tuesday's election, with a vote
of 136 against Ernest Brown of
80 votes.
Wade Sutton led the ticket
on the board of commissioners
with a vote of 164. Other com
missioners elected Tuesday were
L. W. Rice, Sr., 122; J. E. Potts,
118; Harry A. Holt, 118; H. S.
Talley 116.
Unsuccessful candidates in
the race for commissioner and
their votes were T. C. Harbison
98; W. D. Wiley, 81; Tudor N.
Hall, 75; R. J. Price, 53; W. G.
Culbertson, 50; G. D. Hopper, 39
and S. C. Creswell, 29.
Mrs. Betty Bradley
Pastes Sunday
Mrs. Zeb Conley and daugh
ter, Miss Dorothy Conley, went
to Andrews on Tuesday to at
tend the funeral of Mrs. Bet
ty Bradley, a sister of Zeb W.
Conley.
Mrs. Bradley, a native of Ma
con county, died at Banner Elk
on Sunday. 8he had been con
nected with the Orace hospital
there for a number of years.
Surviving besides the two
daughters in Andrews, is ope
brother, Zeb W. Conley, of
FrankliA; also a number of
nieces and nephews.
Honorary pallbearers were
Harry Hlgglns. Geo. Dean, Silas
Womack, George Mashburn,
Alex Moore, Jghn Moore, Her
man Chllders, Wade Cunning
ham, Broady Pendergrass, Hen
ry West, T. W. Angel, Jr., Man
son Stiles, John 8. Trotter, Dr.
Edgar Angel, and Dr. H. T.
Horsley,
bean no less impressive. Under the
inspiring leadership of such men as
General MacArthur and Admiral
Nimitz, the Japanese have been dis
lodged from one position after an
other in their ill-gotten empire. In
this connection, my people and I
are extremely grateful that the
Philippines are now being liberated
from the tyrannical rule of the
enemy.
"Happy as I am that my country
will soon be able to live in peace
again, much remains to be done be
fore Japan is fully beaten. Aside
from the additional campaigns which
will be needed to obtain military
victory in the Pacific, there is also
the human factor to be considered
in that other peoples of the Far East
eagerly await to be freed from the
enemy. We Filipinos know only too
well from experience what it means
to be under Japanese domination.
"One of the outstanding feats of
the war has undoubtedly been the
effective fashion in which the United
Statei has overcome the formidable
obstacles of distance in supplying the
Pacific. Large quantities of supplies
will be needed, however, to deliver |
the final crushing blows against a
ruthless and fanatical enemy. All of i
us can make certain that these sup
plier are available for our armed
forces by giving enthusiastic support
to tht Seventh War Loan Drive." ,
Pvt. Wallace Morgan
Reported Missing
Mrs. Wallace Morgan has re
ceived a message from the War
Department stating her hus
band, Pvt. Wallace A. Morgan,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Davis Mor
gan of FraYiklin route 4. has
been missing in action in Italy
since April 17, 1945. Pvt. Mor
gan was serving in the 88th
"Blue Devil" division of the 5th
Army in Italy. He received the
Purple Heart decoration for
wounds received in October
1944.
Final Rites For
Jolhn Calvin Fox
Funeral services for John
Calvin Fox, 23, were held at the
Mountain Grove Baptist church
on Saturday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock, with the Rev. Zollie
Fox, officiating. Interment fol
lowed in the church cemetery.
Young Fox, son of Mrs. Mil
lie Blackburn Fox and Elisha
M. Fox, of the Ellijay section
of Macon county, died in a san
atarium at Black Mountain on
Thursday afternoon following
an illness of eight months. Pri
or to his illness he worked on
the farm with his father and i
on construction works. He was
a member of the Mountain
Grove Baptist church.
The pallbearers included Wal
ter Taylor, Harley Fox, Bass
Wells, James Ammons, Lee Fox
and Troy Holland.
Surviving are the present, Mr.
and Mrs. Elisha M. Fox, of El
lijay, four sisters, Mrs. Marga
ret Wells, of Murphy, Mrs. Mar
jorie Holland, of Gneiss, Miss
Cora Pox, of Detroit, Mich., and
Miss Pearl Fox, of Charlotte,
and five brothers, Fred Fox, of
Macon county, Weaver and
Walter Fox, of the U. S. Army
in overseas service, Frank Fox,
of Murfeesboro, Tenn., and
Homer Fox, of Ellijay.
Bryant funeral directors were
in charge of the arrangements.
Joe A*hear Attends
Funeral Of A. J. Simon
Joseph Ashear has returned
from Atlanta, Ga., where he at
tended the funeral of A. J.
Simon, a life-long friend who
came to the states with Mr.
Ashear in 1907, and who re
turned to Syria in 1922 with
Mr. Ashear.
Both Mr. Simon and Mr. Ash
ear returned to Syria, their na
tive home, and brought their
parents to the states with them
in 1922. Mr. Simon, who es
tablished business in Atlanta,
was In the merchantile busi
ness, and on many occasions
visited Mr. Ashear in his home
here. He was a veteran of
World War No. I.
Order To Cease Firing
Radioed To German Army
V-E Day Services
Has Capacity Attendance
On. Tuesday Evening
A capacity crowd of 400 united
in solemn and dignified V-E
Day services held at the Frank
lin Methodist church on Tues
day evening, sponsored by all
the churches of the commun
ity.
Following an organ prelude,
the congregation united in sing
ing "America".
The purpose of the service
was stated by the Rev. W. Jack
son Hunneycutt, minister of the
church. The invocation was led
by the Rev. C. R. McCubbins,
of the Presbyterian church, and
the Rev. D. P. Grant, pastor of
the Franklin Methodist circuit,
read the 13th chapter of First
Corinthians.
A short period of silent medi
tation and prayer of thanks
giving for victory in Europe and
for God's blessings upon our
service people in the East was
held.
Following the singujg-^ gf "q
Beautiful and Spacious Skies",
Guy L, Houk^ Superintendent of
-Macon cojKfty public schools.
deliveysd~*an address on "The
Principles for Which the' Allies
are Fighting." The Rev. A. Ruf
us Morgan, rector of the Epis
copal church, then addressed
the congregation on the subject
of "Peace, Our Unfinished
Task."
The closing hymn, "O God,
Our Help In Ages Past", sang
by the congregation was fol
lowed by the benediction oy the
Rev. Mr. Morgan.
Methodist Youth
Fellowship Meet
The Macon county Sub-Dis
trict of the Methodist Youth
Fellowship, will meet on next
Monday night at 8 o'clock at
the Bethel Methodist church,
according to an announcement
made by the sub-district sec
retary, Miss Carolyn Long.
The young people of the
Methodist church are to pre
sent the worship program. Miss
Long stated. This will be fol
lowed by a period of recreation
in which refreshments will be
served.
This sub-district includes the
young people from all the
Methodist churches in Macon
county. A large representation
from all churches are expected
to attend.
Macon Methodists
Attend Conference -
Delegates from all the Meth
odist churches in Macon county
attended the Waynesville Dis
trict Conference held in the
Bryson City Methodist church
on Monday, April 30.
At this conference reports
were made by all the ministers
on the work of the churches
during the first half of the
conference year.
Guy L. Houk of the Frank
lin Methodist church, was elect
ed to serve a second year as
lay leader of the district. He
gave a stimulating address to
the Laymen on the necessity
of "Better Sunday School and
Missionary Endeavor." Delegates
attended from the Franklin
Methodist church. Franklin
Methodist circuit, Macon circuit
and the Highlands circuit.
Because of the greater need
for fats and oils, the weight
of hogs on which price sup
ports will apply has been rais
ed to 300 pounds as against the
previous limit of 270 pounds.
Uncle Sam asks that 900,000
more -sows be bred to farrow
this fall than last year. The na
tional fal pig production goal
Is 37 million.
Flberboard Is more critical
than ever before. Growers and
processors should order their
containers at once.
Officially Announced On
Last Tuesday By
Pres. Truman
The "Unconditional Surren
der" of the German Army was
officially heralded around the
world last Tuesday, May 8, by
President Truman in Washing
ton, D. C., bringing peace at
last to those who have existed
for five and one-half years
under the heel of Nazi Ger
many.
Jubilant throngs in England
and France are celebrating yet
the glorious occasion, and little
wonder they are, after years of
horrible existence under the
cruel and heartless German
leaders who controlled their
country and their people.
Here in America most of us
preferred a quiet and sincere
acceptance of the long over
due good news of the downfall
of Germany and her confeder
ates, by worshiping and thank
ing God in our churches and
homes.
?-re -rniM have . been. jj. bitter
pill for the haughty Nazis to
swallow after parading their
military might before the world
as the "exalted nation with
master minds," who intended to
enslave the entire world, which,
by the grace of Almighty God,
has been delivered from the
force and rule of the Germans
and their sympathizers.
May God in the future let us
escape the chance of such a
fate, and give our President and
leaders the strength, the cour
age and knowledge necessary
to formulate plans to perfect a
I lasting peace, so that the on
coming generations will never
; again be forced to take up
arms to save our democracy
from destruction by our neigh
bor, which is contrary to the
plan of the Almighty, for he
says in his Word: "Love thy
neighbor as thy self."
1 Day Of Prayer And
Mother's Day Observed
In accordance with President
Truman's proclamation, the
Franklin Methodist church has
designated next Sunday for its
combined observance of the
Day of Prayer and Mother's
Day. Music appropriate to the
occasion is being planned. The
minister will speak on the sub
ject, "Victory for Mother's Day."
National Family Week
On last Sunday many of the
churches of the various denom
inations in Macon county began
their observance of National
Family week.
The theme of the National
Family Week, which is being
observed by christian churches
throughout the nation is "The
Family Exploring the Bible."
The, observance will be con
cluded on next Sunday with
Mother's Day.
Two Thousand
Extra Copies
This edition of the Frank
lin Press and Highlands Ma
conian, has an increased cir
culation this week of two
thousand oopies so that it
may have further coverage in
the Seventh War Loan Drive.
The extra copies are sponsor
ed and paid for in equal por
tions by the following men
and business concerns:
Western Auto Associates
Store, Macon County Building
and Loan Association, C. N.
West, Bank of Franklin, Ma
con County Supply Cotppany,
Reeves Hardware Co., Macon
Furniture Oo., Angel's Drug
Stare, Bryant' Furniture Co..
Dowdle Wholesale, Duncan
Motor Co., Burrell Motor Co.,
The Quality Shop, Franklin
Hardware Co., J. S. Oonley.
Buymore^/i^no*