North Carolina Newspapers

Tews Events of - it Tt7- 1 World- Wide Interest ...Briefly Told- KFFELLER CELEBRATES 97th K BIRTHDAY hn D. Rockefeller celebrated his Jo -i . la ct Wednesday ai nis "." .j v .T home, Rockefeller s r Mr' Parmelee Prentice, of of the family to greet the aged K sin-e his son, John D., Jr., 4"' Fu-ope John D. announced a" "he is enjoying hie usual pood hea th. FARLEY GIVEN LEAVE OF AB SENCE remaster General James A. r,-tv has been given a leave of ab :.rce" from his cablnet duties, be-r-'nine August 1 and continuing until .'rr the fall election, the purpose .;,, to enable Farley to conduct the '.a;n for the Democrats against . Republicans. The leave of .t"ce is without pay. DROUGHT MAY BREAK uwher reports this week ab- mdi he rouffht. may ena s soon, cool wave is moving from the iow- Vi'' to the East and scattered show . r .-.have been reported in several ,.. ,,f the United States. Damage cm bv the intense heat, which in fveni parts 0f the United States has Fo'n' above 111 degrees, is estimated a- $:jU0 0(10,000, and in addition, more than 700 people have died from heat. Te drought has damaged North fVoiimi cotton growers around $15, dWI.OOO. : - Ke'ief measures are being form ulated for the drought stricken areas. Trtvc include: one year moratorium .. farm debts; and employment of "iwu farmers by the WI'A. MINISTER TO DENMARK WEDS Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, United -um- minister to Denmark and .laughter ot illiam Jennings Hryan, was married Sunday to Boerge Rhode,' L'l'nticman-in-waiting to Denmark's K ;ntr Christian. About seventy guests, including 'President Roosevelt, and Mrs. Roosevelt, attended the wedding whuti took place at James' chapel, livde 1'ark, New York. HOIIUV BNS IDLENESS Bolivia recently put a ban in idle-T:t-st ov decreeing that all persons be tween the ages of eighteen and sixty must be occupied. n U IANS AND ETHIOPIANS CLASH More than thirty Italian aviators and soldier have been killed during tne last few days from ambush by Ethiopians in uprisings at Jimma, where: twenty Italian aviators were killed, and along the Addis Ababa lijlbouii railroad. FIND $203,000 ON FARM Louis and Margaret Voss, of Tip :n, lowa, found $203,000 in gold, ruirencv and bonds buried on the farm they inherited from their cousin, Henry Iwer.s. More than seventeen relatives are trying to break Iwors' LhWls PREDICTS LABOR htm L. Lewis, president WAR of the t nited Mines Workers, in a radio ad iire.ss last week said that employers i steel workers would precipitate war between the steel companies and et-l - workers. Mediators are hope--.i a.l. -of settling the dispute between w,s and the steel companies, re sulting' from Lewis' attempt to un ionize the 500,000 steel workers. miG REVOKES LEAGUE CON TROL Another thrust at the power of the ''ague of Nations wa, made last r-ek when the Free City of Danzig declared that it would on longer rec ognize the guardianship of the league. Danzig was put under the control the League of Nations when it was parated from Germany after the "orld War. McDonald protests vote a nalph McDonald, who trailed c jde R. Hoey m the run-off primary t-y more than 50,000 votes, appeared wfore the State Board of Elections :nday and asked that the vote be c.st.gated, referring especially to l -e absentee ballots cast. ARRESTED FOR DESERTING CHILDREN Marion Shanks, of Philadel- as arrftst.prfl loci- VriAav . -fnr Mi Phia, a.nfr her two small children im Snt'f m a top-story room of a .-. "Wl frame building, one of them rniu nb and the other with a dog it V0,Vd hjs neck tied to a bolt ,ij Ror- A policeman, who heard rWn.Cryme for water broke the door Today's Market inPl flowing cash prices were be- F&.W!2 Wcksday by the Farmers iteration fcere: Chi& havy Sht hens ...13 Wke"s- fryers . .,...... ..17c Kes, dozen .20c fe1" L00 hashed ! ; ?. 82c Published In The County Seat of Haywood County VOL, XLVIII NO. 29 Smoky Mountains National Parki Is Mr. Cammerer's "Pet Park"! Director Of All National Parks Tells F'ress Group Here Of Beaut v Of Ncar-Kv Park In his address before the North Carolina Press Association, in the initial meeting of the three dav ses sion held here last week, Arno B. Cammerer, director of the National Park Service, stated that the sum of one-half million dolars is needed U complete the land avqusition pro gram in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. "I am not willing to recommend the complete establishment of the park until the original 427,000 acres have heen achieved. We have in hand 39.5,000 acres, but good faith compels us to abide by the original agree ment,' he said. Mr. Cammerer added that he was confident the money would be obtained through co-operation oi all friends of the park and members of congress from North ( arohna ano Tennessee "I have spent more time in the Great Smokies than in any other of the national parks. It has a I wave been my passion and an obession with me. It is my pet park. It is the most romantic and has the intimate scenery of all the Thv area will be a giorv credit to . North Carolina am nessoe for all time, and it vi, source of lucrative revenue. must parks, i nl a Ten 1 be a In. toutlining the dcvolopmen the park, he said the plans 'f Park Service would include loi dining rooms, roads and trails, the eastern half of the great wi ness. area of the park unmarre of th bv roadways. In .describing-.' the- location of the park,, he stated that it lies midway between the mot4 populous .'centers of the Atlantic coast and the Missis sissippi, the Great Lakes and the liUu. ot Mexico. .seekei.s ol virgin wilderness,'' he said, "need not trek across the continent in -quest' of thei heart's desire. Here within easy ac cess bv every -means' . of . trans port a tion, awaits hundreds of acres and scrut sanctuaries mf nature. Yet tradition declares that not even the Indians have wholly explored some of the more remote fastnesses of the Great Smokies. : There are rumored to be regions deep within its tangled forests as shrouded in mystery as when DeSoto first heard of this re gion 400 years ago." "Until very recently, even scien tis'tp had ventured hut a little way into the rich field of research, In my own school days 1 was taught that: Mount Washington, New Hampshire, was the highest mountain west of the Rockies. Today 'accurate surveys have established-that this 'distinction belongs to the Great Smoky -Mountains on several counts, ('lingman's Dome within the park boundaries attains a height of (i,(i-12 feet. ' Altogei her there are known to be Hi peaks within the park "6,000 feet or more in alti tude. Here also is the highest high way in the East, climbing to 1 feet above sea level. "There are many reason why the Smokies make good newspaper copy. For- instance, more than 200,000 acres of the park are primeval, forests. The very finest stands of hardwood trees in the country are rooted in the steep slopes and. deep swamps. Over : 150 species of hardwood trees have already been atalogued. Here also is the larg est virgin .forest of red spruce left in. America," -North Carolina and lennessee may confidently await the material benefits accruing to them from the coming age of their joint natural park, when the Great. Smoky Moun tains National Park is joined to the Shenandoah National Park , by the Blue Ridge Parkway, now in course of construction. Some, of the most superb scenery in the East will-be made available to our American peo ple by one of the finest motor, roads in the country." "The people of the United States, and especially the people of the East, are entering upon an era of recre ational possibilities and conservation laccomplishments never dreamed of before, credit of which is very largely due to the aroused public interest you people of the press are ever so ready to help marshal and publicize." Mr Cammerer also told of the contribution of the $5,000,000 given by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., made for the purchase of the lands; and paid a glowing tribute to Mr. Rocksfeller's public spiritedness. He traced the history of the park movement, giving the details of the financial campaigns waged in North Carolina and Ten nessee to secure funds with which to buy lands. He paid tribute also to the work of Mark Squires, chairman of the North Carolina Park Commis sion and to Col. D. C. Chapman, chair man of Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Dicus had as as their guests during the week Mr. and Mrs. Seth Vining and daughter, Elizabeth Ann and Miss Ann Gibbs, of Tryon, who were here to attend the tpiress meeting. Mrs. Vining and Mies Gibbs are sisters of Mrs. Dicue, and Mr. Vining is the editor of the "Tryon Daily Bulletin" nd the "County News," weekly paper, Press Officers Named Saturday At the closing session of the Press Convention here last Sat day, the following officers were elected: CO. Council, Durham Herald Sun, president. V. Curtis Rus, The Waynes ville Mountainofr, vice president. Miss Beatrice Cobb, Morgan ton News-Herald, secret ry treasurer. U. Arp Ixn ranee. The Meck lenburgh Times, historian. 'I he executive committee is composed of: C (. Council. . Curtis Russ, Mis Beatrice Cobb, ex-oflicio and Mrs. T. J. Ijis siter. Smithticld Herald; Holt M.I'heison High Point Entir . prise; L. C Glffvird, Hickory Recoixl ; lalluTt Patn.-k. Glds boio News-Argus; and Grovel Biitt, Sampson Independent. 200 Newspaper Folks Enjoyed Themselves While In This Area v (invent Kin rnnram M o v e n -l(nn On Minuto Schedule. Trip Into Park Pleased V isitors Kilitvi'.'s J i tul publishers from Manteo to Murphy gat-liere,) here last week for three days, -and' according to their letters and articles which t hey have written since returning home, they had a "swell" time. The registration was about lSfi, with at lea.st I o r 20 others -at -tending one1 or niore sessions who did not register. At the banquet Friday.- evening, 'ill plates were served. The entire program ran on sched ule, and .without a hitch. I he mo torcade of ears into the park Friday morning ran Within two .min utes of the previously planned -schedule. The trip to and from Canton, as well a, the trip through Cham pion Fibre Company, was within five minutes of the time set. The press convention brought to Wayne.sville some outstanding speak ers. 'I he first evening was devoted to the -address of Arno B. Cam-merer, director of all national' parks. Be- 1 fore the evening meeting, the officers I of the Press Association and repre sentatives of the Wayne.sville enter tainment committees, had a special dinner, for Mr, and .Mrs. Camnierer at the Hotel Gordon. The members- .of the pro.-s were warni in theif praise of the trip into the - park Friday morninj.r. The mo torcade, was joined iii Sylva by about a dozen ears, that made the trip to Newfound: Gap and Cling.man's Dome, Sylva served soft drinks, arid WVy iiesville .served the members of the press ice cream at Newfound Gap. At Cherokee, the towns of Sylva anil Bryson ("ity served a delicious lunch, after which ah Indian ball game w-as staged. . The banquet here Friday evening was a success f rom every t tar.d point. At the banquet,, the speakers were, governor: eject Clyde I! Ileev. St r.a tor Robert R. Reynold.s, Senator fleet William Smathers, of New- Jersev, Col. Lindsey, former, national com mander of. the American Legion, and Senator elect, Mrs. E. L. MeKee, if Sylva,. -.' Following the .. banquet, the Soco Gap dance team gave a square dance, which was followed by round dancing. For the trip into the park, and to Canton, local people, furnished more vara than were needed, although full cars made the park trip, The trains m- Asheville were met all day Thursday bv local people. Each person at the banquet was given a souvenir. These were furn ished and donated by The Carolina Hill Billies, of Lake Junaluska, and Erkraft Industries, Wayne.sville. Saturday morning, each paper represented, was furnished with a neatly typed copy of an outline of Mr, Cammerer's address, and also mats of local scenes, as well as booklets, folder, and information about Way nesville. Already scores of columns of news and editorial material has been written about the press meeting. Papers all over the state have car ried the news, as well as papers as far away as New York. Every mail brings in additional letters and copies of papers. All of this is being compiled and placed in a special book for future reference. It is the plan of this paper to publish weekly, some of the editorials that have been written about W'aynes ville and this section., A check on the courtesy cards is sued showed that an average of 50 to 70 cards at each place wag used. The following- resolutions were ad opted by the association here Satur day morning: 1 Whereat, Tha North Carolina Press Association, having enjoy in Waynesville, N. C., one of the most -'.delightful and helpful sessions of At The Eastern Entrance WAYNESYILLE. N. i. THURSDAY. JULY MASONIC LEADERS Ai-lhur M Stillt. -ura ml masier of lie (liaiui A'uijheil of Pennsylvania. w.U l-i eiit- ot Ilie many Masons Kath i i ritin In i-i- I li is w eek -entl. tV 'i''& :' ''-: linivey T. (ii'aeely. Miand Inasti r.i n.l 1 'nuiH'il "f ihi". HardinsTo Build Expensive Home In Belle Meade Soon f Belle Meade nil noiinccd this week the sale of seven teen loV to W. L. Hardin, .lr and others in the development. The Ms overlook the eighteenth green of the Country Club Golf Course, and afford a panoramic, view which include. Old Bald, Wild Cat Clilf and numerous oilier peaks known fur their beauty. Mr. and Mrs. Hardin have already employed the services of L. Iyird, Asheville architect, to prepare plans for their home. Their home will be in keeping with the surroundings, and will represent, an outlay of 'about seven thousand dollars. The owner of Belli co-operate and aist scaping of their lots Meade are to in the him i -and the nur- rounding property. In ; another section of this paper, the owners of Belle Meade are ad vertising a few choice lots for sale. Three Steers Killed By' Lightning. Bolt : Three of the best steer,, on the Springdalo Farm were killed Friday night about midnight during the se vere electrical storm. The animals belonged to-T Lenoir Gwvn, anl were standing under a clothes line at the time the bolt struck. No other damage was re ported. its history due to no small extent to the generous hospitality of the com munity, be it therefore, Resolved that the association ex press on behalf of itself and its individual members our grateful ap preciation to the people of Waynes ville, the-. Women's club and other civic groups of Waynesville, Dr. Harold Foght, superintendent of the Cher okee Reservation, W. Curtis Russ an J The Waynesville 'Mountaineer,. Hay wood county for the use of this court room, the Champion Fibre Company, the Canton Enterprise, the citizens of Bryson City and Sylva and all others who have contributed so graciously to making this convention the enjoy able occasion it .-has -been for us all. That the secretary be instructed to extend to Arno 15. Cammerer, di rector of the National Park Service, our appreciation of his interest in the Great Smoky National Park and to inform him that the press of North Carolina ehareg his desire to see brought to early fulfillment the park constituted in the full 427,000 acreage proposed when it was pro jected; and further we urge the early establishment by the park service of recreation centers on the North Car olina side of the park. That this association endorse the efforts new being made to save Lake Junaluska to the splendid purpose and usefulness for which it was de signed and dedicated. --v:y;:..v.:.:: m V of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park 16, 1936 "Bill" Harris To Go On Trial Tuesday Morning Board Does Not Set Tax Rate Or Complete Budget The board of commmissioners met in a special session here Tuesday to complete the budgi't for the coming year. Because of other pressing matters coming before the board, the work on the budget was not quite com pleted. The board is scheduled to meet again Monday for their regular third Mondav meeting, and it i.s expected they will go into execu tive nession long enough to com plete the remaining details of ninislnng the budget and set ting the tax rate for next yea:. Manv Masons To Gather Here For Summer Meeting Will Arrive Sunday From Four teen States. Trip Into Park. Will Be Featured . Indications are that npproxiitiately U00 York Kite Masons will 'gather here Sunday from fifteen slates lor their regular summer meeting, ac cording to T. I rov Wyi lie, drand Master. Most of the (lelegateti are expect ed to arrive .here .on Sunday, although the first session will be .held on Mon day morning at eleven o'clock at (lie Masonic lemplc. Ileadiiiarlei s will ! in t he I einple. Two morning sessions will 1m- held concurrenl Iv. and- will he ..devoted to degree work. Doric 'Council No. JO, Roval and Select Masters, of Way nesville, will convene on the third floor of the Masonic Temple with Howard (i I'.t heridge, of Asheville, past -jinmd masler, presiding. The second floor will lie occupied bv the Carolina Council . of Thrice Illustri ous Masters,- with J. I'.dward Allen, of Wai-enlon, .master,' presiding, The afternoon '-'session will begin at I :4Ii, with T. I rov WV.-ho in charge of the (irand ounci! of Roval and SeleH M axons, of .North Carolina, who will.net as hosts to visitors out side the stale. Representatives- from t hi- District of Columbia. Morida, . (J'eorgia, Illi nois, Iowa, Maryland, Mississippi, New' York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ken.-tui-ky, Alabama. Indiana, .and Ten-, nescee will be here. A 'large : deloga liim of. -'York li'-t.e Masoii.s will, be here fvom all sort inns of Noi t h ( aro lina. Mi;.: Wv-ibe :said. ; 'The visiting- ladies Will be liiken to I.ak .Iiiiialuska during tbe ffer noon business. ses,sion. The Soutll-erh-. Methndist Assembly will serve ref rc.shmcnts and ive Ibem a forty minute rid', oh the "Cbej-okee." The delegates will leave- Wavnos ville at .'!:4o for a trip to Jleintooga Bald tor a picnic .supper. Solemn eeremonies will be observel at even fide by !be member-- ic a point on top. of the . mountain. Hail Does Damage To Haywood Crops Ileavv hail last week did consider able damage in -scattered sections of Haywood county. '1 he heaviest dam age was : done in the Wesley's (.reek and Panther's (reek sections of I' ine Creek township. Several farms in Ratcliff Cove also suffered from the hail storm. According to County Agent W. D. Smith, the- corn crop was the mo.st seriously damaged. While tobacco was cut by the falling hail stones, it wai pointed out that due to the late crop of tobacco that 1 his crop will overcome the damage of the storm. The corn crops of Ratcliff Medford and Ed Ratcliff in Ratcliff Gove-were the worst damaged in that community, while the tobacco crop of Frank Leop ard suffered. During the past few days good rains fell in all parts of the county, The heavy rain Friday was the first good rain since the last of April in the Ratcliff Cove section S. II. Stevenson Goes To Job In Maryland S. II. Stevenson, who : for eleven years was in charge of lights and power m Waynesville, and for the past eix months connected with the Carolina Power and Light Company, at HazelwooJ, left last week for In dian Head, Maryland, where he has accepted a position with a goverment project on construction work. Mrs. Stevenson will leave here in the early fall for their new home in Maryland. Mx. Cooper, of Asheville, is now in charge of the Carolina Power and Light Company at Hazeiwood. $1.00 IN ADVANCE IN COUNTY (leorjre Hampton Is Sought l?y Sheriff in Connection With The Death Of Connor Judge W. F. Harding, presiding judge, at the July term of court here, set Tuesday morning, July 21, a the date for the "Bill' Harris murder trial. Harris, a formt-r WPA fore man, is chaged with killing Wiley Connor, also a WPA worker about 45 days ago near BaVam. Harris was arraigned in court Wed nesday afternoon, but the decision as to the date of the trial was not de termined until eleven o'clock thi morning (Thursday.) An unexpected point in the case came up when the grand jury returned a true bill involving George Hamp ton, also a former WI'A worker. A warrant was issued immediately for Hampton, and when Harris was ar raigned in open- eourt Wednesday af .iinoon, the sheriff's department re ported that Hampton could not bo found. Those close to court proceedings stated that Harris would likely be tried this court, regardless of wheth er Hampton is found or not. Harris was in court Thursday moriv with his wife. T. L. Croon, president ot the Hay wood Bar Association wa.s granted permission to call a memorial service on Monday afternoon at two o'clock m memory of the late Judgo John M. Oglesbv. of Concord. A -ommntce composed of C. C. Davis, M. C. Stanl ey and It. B. Overton, will have charge.- Cases difKised of Iiy si-nt'iics up to Wednesday noon included; ! lobar! Johnson, mm payment of lmard bill, HO days on roads. Homer V. Conrad, cirrying con cealed weapon and public drunken ness, sentenced under- former Marge. Frank Williamson,- non puyuunr ef hoard bill, sentence put into - licet under fornmr trial. Floyd Ford, house breaking, giv n sentence pronouiu'ed under former trial. JSiMiard Bui-net1 juisault with a deadly weapon, given suspended sen tence upon Niyment, ol -osts Bon. .Cuddy, carrying concealed weapon, sentence su.spetilel upon payment of costs. Mtdvin Silvers ajul Dee . Sutton, given lid days in jail. Andy Johnson, charged with iiban donment and assault with leadly weapon, given tw y'ar in jail. Hardin Pwssley, larceny, form er suspended senterii' put into force. Robert Pralor, larceny, two years on roads. Verlm LimsfOri! anl A-noldM.--daha, larceny, li months on roads. .lames Green, breaking an I enter ing;. 12 moiiths on roiid.s. Sherman Harris, aluidonment, 2 months on roads. Three divorces were granted the first, of the week: Addie Gray from Ohio dray, J. B. Pembroke from Mae Pembroke, and Thelmsi Holland Mar)" fmm William Donald Mason Local National Guards Leave For Camp On July 22 . Three eommis.sioned officers and 'i 1 enlisted men of Company H, lL'dth" Infantry of the. North'. Carolina' Na tional Guards, which is the Wav Tiotsville division, will, leave-, here by train on Wednesday, July 22, lor ( amp Jackson, Columbia, S. V. a l.r-day encampment This is the first time wince for 1!I2S that the local unit has had their sum mer encampment at Camp Jaoksori Hoiotofore they have been going to Mowhoad City. The Canton divsiorv will alo be m camp at the same line. They v-iH go in trucks. Captain George F. F'lott, Fir-t Lieutenant Paul Martin and Second Lieutenant Grady Boyd will 1 : charge. Florida Man Is Building Home A. A. Nasrallah, of Jacksonville, Will begin the construction of a mod ern residence on the lot recently pur chased from R.L. Prevost on High way No. 10, in Hazeiwood and adjoin ing Belle Meade property. - This is the second season that Mr. Nasrallah has spent in this Commu nity, and he now plans to spend about four months of each year here. Mr. Nasrallah owns several apart ment houses in Jacksonville, as well as- other real estate. The Weather Max. Mm 90 60 92 63 98 60 91 63 89 62 91 60 88 63 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday