EXPONENT of: TRAN-
SYLVANIA COUNTY.
New
FOURTEEN PAGES
THIS ISSUE
VOLUME XXV
BREVARD. N. C. FRIDAY, MAY 14th, 1920.
NUMBER 20.
OUR RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT
THE KILLING OF SHEPPARD
POWELL
At Recorder’s Court Monday the
ECK SIMMS WRITES
Editor Brevard News:
Dear Sir
If this comes within the
please publish.
The majority of the Democratic
rules
Raleigh, N. C., May 10, 1920. The |
contest for Governor is proceeding |
at a lively clip in and around the cap ^ followinjr cases were up for trial be- !
itel of the State these fine days and f^re iiocorder R. L. Gash. I
there ,s little likelihood of a cessation ^ The preliminary hearing of Eliiott!
of hostilities” until sunset on elec-; Cantrell charj;ed with the murder of. voters of Transylvania County have
tion day, Saturday, June 5th. This Sheppard Powell, v/as held and facts heen looking forwartl, wiih a good !
three-cornered fi.erht holds the center developed sufficiently to convince deal of anxiety, to the prii, ary vvhic':! |
of the board and aspirants for minor court that the crime could not was to have been held on June 5th, :
places on the ticket are permitting ' ^e worse than 2nd degree murder. I 1920; but it is reported that a con-'
their ir.terc:'.ts to drift :;lons- with the j request of slate's attorney Chas. i vcntion is being planned instead, the
tide. True, a number of them are ^ Deaver the prisioner was removed time, place, etc., w’ill be announced
conrtibuting to an increase in the i*e- Buncoi^ibe county jail until Super- by me as soon as I can get wise to j
ceipts of the Raleigh post office and fourt Convenes here in July. The «n^y political manuvers.
the demociatic voters of the State (leftinrJant’s attorneys will sue out a| When the brainir-st and greatest
will not be without information rel- habeaj' corpu:^, and find the ; nian on the globe of the present age,
ative to those scekhig political pie- vvhy a bond cannot be lixed. j (Woodrow Wilson) decided to “make !
ferment at their hands. \et, the fel* | Jimies Morgjin and W. M. Meece the world safe for Democracy and
lows w’ho jtre gottin.u a healing were the only witnesses for the state | called for volunteers, the people of
Cam Morrison, Bob Page, and Max
Gardner. j
The State Board of Elections has j ^.jtnessed, with Cantrell’s j it was decided to nut conscription in
given an order thru the Department, between Powell and i to effect, they did not call for men
of Labor and Printing for the print-1 testified that he had ' over thirty-one, they did not ask the
ing of the primary ballots to be used | knives ot the two men | mid(ile aged men to shoulder arms,
in the nomination of candidates for | went into the affray. They did not ask the older men to
state oflices, judges and mer»ibers of j Ca^trell has a wife and five child-, leave their loved ones and cross the
^ngress, a total of 1, Glo,Oa State j fjuns and
Democratic ticket, 500,000; Republi-; youngest was only 15 1 protect American Ideals. They did
can Presulcntial ticket, oOO.OOO; Is^ killing was ! ask and roceivc the men from ages
District,, Democjatic, 90,000; ord i ^ 21 to 31. And when the 30th
District, Dem. 7o,000, 3id istiict,, ^ child,! Division W'as mobilized and called for
Republican. o0,000; Gth District,;
DESCRIBES PLIGH OF COUNTRY
PRESS
HOV/ WE TAMED THE BASCH-
ILELE
Small Town Papers Unable To Get
Paper.
Association Head Charges That The
Newsprint Market Has Been Cor
nered.
By S .P. Verner
(Copyright pending. All rights re
served.)
N. C. WEEKLY PRESS ASSOCIA
TION TO MEET
Gathering Planned May 14 in
Selwyn Hotel at Charlotte.
the
examinee
1. Morgan was at the home the United States united as one great
of ('antrell on the night of the kill-1 body and stood by Old Glory. When
Dem., 85,000; 0th district, Repub.,
50,000; 7th district, Dem., 125,000;
9th district, Dem,, 115,000; 5 Judi
cial district, Dem., 75,000; 8th Judi
cial district, Dem., 75,000; 18th Judi
cial district. Dem., 75,000.
Twenty-i'iirht names will appear on
the State Democratic ticket this time, j
against twenty, four year;- ago. The ■
Republicans v.iil not vote for .state j
officers in the primary, but will have ;
an opportunicy to express their pre
ference .for the presidency between
Major General Leonard Wood and
Senator Hiram W. Johnson, of Cali
fornia. Three hundred thousand bal
lots will be placed at their disposal
for this purpose. They have no local
old.
volunteers I determined to enlist and
did so, being one of the first in Tran-
These two men came of the hardy i sylvania to do so. At that time they
stock of mountaineers that for more | didn't say I was too young, they did
than a century, have tilled the fer- | not say I lacked experience, they did
j tile valleys and productive mountain i not say I was not financially prepared
! sides that lie south of the Blue Ridge | but they did say that this is the age
j near the South C’arolina line in Tran- of the young man.
sylvania County. j I am 28 years old and while I have
They are cf the gallant fighters; the utmost respect for gray hair.s, at
that formed themselves together and j the same time the personal persecu-
w^ent down from these higli hills to tion about being too young, is too
Kings Mountain to put the “red
coats” to flight. Sturdy, coarse
mountaineers but gentle, kind-heart-
! ed fathers and husbands.
Attorney C. B. Deaver will assist
w’ith the prosecution and Attorneys,
contests save in the Thi.d and Sixth | Brecse, Hamlin, Galloway and Fisher
concressional districts. In the Third,! I*’'
W. B. Rouse is contesting with R. L.
malicious and rediculous for me to
say more.
Recently I w’as offered an assign
ment w^hich meant a gread deal in
a financial way to me, but I realized
that this was simply a political trick
to get me out of the race for sherifT.
Another false move and rumor is
The case of State vs. Mose Kemp, ' to the effect that I am going to with-
Horrinc; in the Sixth, W. J. McDon-;» d'ai'ijc of assualt with intent to
aid is runiiinK aRainst R. S. White, i
The convention in each of these—and
all other districts m the State—se
lected a man to enter the primary,
but the two named the endorse
ment did not please all the “breth-
drav/. I can simply slate that I am
in this race to win and will win if I
have fair play.
If elected, and I expect to be, I
promise the following:
That I shall do all within my pow-
State vs. Kemp, assault on a fe
male continued.
State vs. Frank Ball, assualt, con
tinued.
State vs. Roscoe McCall, assualt er as sheriff of Transylvania County
ren” and an “appeal to Caesar” has "’ith a deadly weapon, continued. to break up and abolish the making
been staged ^ State vs. Bertha Williams, assualt, of monshiiie if any, by the help and
The Democrats have contests in | continued.
five of the ten districts. Fists, Third, ' , • i
Sixth Seventh and Ninth. Congress on female, probable cause being | I further promise to treat all men
man Small is opposed in the First, by , ^ound defendant bound over to Su-; equally and will do my sworn duty.
Hon. H. S. Ward, of Beauford coun-’ under $200.00 bail,
ty; Representative Brinson, of the
j co-operation of the people of these
Sta e vs. Walter Caldwell, assualt; hills.
Third District, is confronted by his
erstwhile opponent, former Solicitor
Chas. L. Abernethy; Solicitor H. L.
Lyon and J. G. ShaW Esq., are after
Mr. Godwin’s scalp in the Sixth. Re
presentative L. D. Robison, decided
not to a?k for re-election in the
Seventh District and United States
District Attorney W. C. Hammer, So
licitor W. E. Brock and J. C. M.
Vann are contesting for the seat soon
to be vacated
, Democrats seek to succeeed Clyde
Hoey who al^o “plays quits.” They j
are Judge W. B. Council of Cataw- j
ba; Dr. J. ISl. Peterson, of Mitchell; i
Maj. A. L. Bulwinkle, of Gaston; j
Hon A. L. Quickel, of Lincoln and j
Marvin Ritch, of Mecklenburp:. i
The entry of Judge 0. H. Guion j
into the contest for Asso-.iate '
of the Supreme Court creates a va-
TO FIGHT H. C. L.
Well Known Merchant Offers to
Share the Burden With His Cus
tomers.
Realizing that the burden of liv-
I realize and believe the office of
sheriff to be the greatest and most
1 important and therefore the most re-
I sponsible office in the gift of Tran
sylvania folks.
I I am not trying to blow, or pull
I the wool over your eyes nor to
I blindfold anyone. I W'ant this office
I and am not trying to make the voters
i think that someone else wants me to
I am
ing costs to-(iay is a most ^ h^ye it for political reasons
burden indeed, H. Patteison of Hen-j ^ democrat, proud to be so, and
r Liiu scrtL auuii icfund fifteen j j within my power
Five Ninth District nearly eveiy artic e ■ Democratic party clean,
bought at hi:s store, commencmg with | ^ consider it to be and always has
Saturday of this week.
“On Cotton dress goods and on'
household linens the discount will be | ^^f^e'Vhe nert sheriff of Transyl-
only ten per cent,” says Mr. Patter- !
son.
—but I cannot. It would mean too
been. At the same time while I am
as positive as a man can be that I
v/ill be the nejit sheriff of Transyl
vania, still if by some fluke or mis-
I wish I could make it fi teen j ^m not elected, my op-
Washington, May 7.—The picture
of the countiy press, which includes
the little four page paper from back
home fighting with its back to the
wall and almost ready to go under
because"of the print paper shortage
was presented to a senate ir.vestigat-
ing committee today by Cortland
Smith, of New York, president of the
American Press association. ■
Along with his picture of the trou- .
bloes of the counti’y editor, Mr. Smith '
made l;he direct charge that the pa
per market had been cornered and
that the print paper interests had
conspired to regulate production so
that prices might continue to mount.
In the face of this situation, he j
frankly told the committee there was i
little hope for the small town papers |
and that unless quick relief was pro- ]
vided haif of them would be wiped 1
out of existence.. While other wit- |
nesses had charged that the market
had been cornered, Mr. Smith, whose
association largely supplies the coun
try press, was first to allege a con
spiracy to regulate output and price.
The long extended hearings were in
terrupted so that the committee could
confer behind closed doors with As-
sirtant Attcrney-Gcneral Ames, v/ho
was asked to recommend some way
out of the troubles.
John A. Pcnton, of Cleveland, O.
who testified before the committee
yester(iay, presented proposals to
day to Postmaster- General Burleson
and the federal trade commission for
doubling the postal rate on class
publications v/eighing more than a
pound, and limiting daily papers to
24 pages and 48 on Sunday.
The federal trade commissioner’s
finding in its investigation of the
newsprint paper situation, were sent
today to the department of justice,
where it was said the report was be
ing studied “with a view to taking
such action as it warrants.”
The News is trying to run a paper
of twelve pages and while we have
said very little about the white pa
per situation at the same time it is
becoming very alarming as w'e can
har.dly get enough for eight pages,
much le:;s twelve, however as long as
w^e can get any paper, regardless of
prices, the Brevard News shall print
at least eight pages.
COMPLETE SURVEY OF
GAP ROAD
JONES
Supervisor to Advertise Soon for
Bids for Construction of Highway.
ponents can depend upon me and niy
great a loss to ine. i g^^ipp^rt in the fall elections.
This refund will be made in co ( , Lastly let me say that I will appre-
.sh at the time of the purchase and'frankly ask for the sup
er the supreme i.ourt creates a | niatei’iallv aid those who . nnVip-ht ritiyen of
cancy on the bench of the Fifth Ju-, , •_ he-ivv burden to buv ncces-■ , '1 ^
Di.fr,vt and thp honor of fillinLr I , t y . , county. Old Iranf ylvania..
my
dicial Di.strict and the honor of filling : ,
it is sou:At by Solicitor J. L. Hort<',n | ' P^kerson „alsV stales that the |
and F. M. Wooten, of Pitt, and As-j store are priced at |
siKtant United States Distiict Attor- ; per cent below the present j
ney Ernest M. Green of Craven. ! „iarket—making a saving to his cus-
Judge E. H. Crammer, a recent ap-
Yours truly,
ECK SIMMS.
pointee of Governor Bickett, is op
posed by Addison G. Ricaud in the
Seventh, v;hile Maj. Michael Schenck 1
of Henderson, seeks to displace
Judge J. Bis Ray in the Eighteenth
Judicial District.
Ea(.-h of the aspirants for the gov-
ernorship has established headquart-
1 ws here and their managers are en-
tomers of one-half-
v\'orth considering.
-which is vvell
MEETING OF THE BREVARD
CLUB
At a meeting of the Brevard Club
on Tuesday riidvb Mr. C. M. Doyle,,
secretary of the R(lvovti;dng ccm-
mittee, j^aid that lie is receiving riiore
inquiries from su.mr.er v'sitor.; thi'r.
ever before and promised that Tran-
Democratic leaders realize that the
party Vv'ill need the labor vote in No-
venibcr to make victory certain and
t;re more concerned aboiit the pians | ^^e over-
fo*’ the final battle than in elevating i tiijg season. Mr. Doyle point-
f^'lged principally, at present, in mak- ; office. j ^ ^reat many of these
/hg claims. The Gardner candidacy j All ccncccdcd that a second pri-; letters Vvanted infor;natIon about
'appears to have sustained a set-back | mr .ry will be j - eessary in settling a roornr., cottages or other accommo-
recently on account of his defy to number cl contests and the wise drt'ors, and it is proposed to'get out
ones are interested in napiing candi-i a printed list of all available hour-es,
dates whom they believe can attract cottae*-?, rooms, etc. that are for
the largest following in the fall elec- rent this year.
tion. j list will be printed at once
The contest for Governor over- and all who have any rentable prop-
shadow's everything else and the fight erty are urged to communicate with
is assuming a robust attitude, v.dth the secretary of the Brevard Club
each of the three aspirants “on the immediately, and positively not later
hustings” presenting his claims for than Monday, May 17. This is of
the honor. The voters may take 1 unusual importance as we must ac-
their choice and pay the price. (commodate our summer visitors.
the farmer-labor questionaire. All
the other candidates for Governor
and the various State offices made re
spectful answers and are taking
chances on getting on tho “fair list.”
What the outcome is going to be re
mains to be seen later on. The farm
er-labor committee states that it has
not sought to exact pledges from any
candidate, but merely to ascertain
their views on Important public ques-
Engineer J. J. Still of the State
highw'ay department, yesterday com
pleted the survey of the Jones Gap
road. Blue prints and maps will
soon be in the hands of Supervisor
W. Henry Willinion, w^ho will at once
advertise for bids for the construction
of this very important highw’ay.
The work v/iil extend from Travel
er’s Rest to the North Carolina line,
near Drake’s, a distance of approxi
mately fifteen miles. It is hoped the
bulk of the work may be completed
this summer. If operations are be
gun in time, it is believed that the
entire iob can be cione before froc.;-
ing weather next w'inter. Six miles
of the road will be built up the moun
tain and a .nroat deal of v.-crk will
be required on that leg of tiie route.
The other nine miles will be compar
atively normal roadvvay. A modern
highway will be constructed.
When completed the road will tap
the main highway to Brevard at the
North Carolina line thus making one
of the best driveways in the south
from Greenville to the North Carolina
city. When the road is finished,
the motorist may transverse a belt
of boulevard from Greenville to Hen
dersonville, thence to Brevard and
back to Greenville by w’ay of the
Jones Gap road, the route offering,
rcsnic be.nntv possesso'! by no other
drive of that length in the world,
highway officials declare.
UNION MEETING
A union of all the churches of the
Transylvania Batist A.ssociation wdll
take place at Little River Church,
Saturday and Sunday, May 29 and
30.
As the opening up of diamond
mines in Africa producing several
million dollars a year, according to
a statement published by the Guaran
ty Trust Company of New York, re
sulted indirectly from my third ex-
rc.'iticn to Africa, when I took the
py.!?mies back to their jungle homes
from their visit to St. Louis, and as
these mines are owned in large part'
by Americans, an account of some j
hithei'to unpublished details of that;
expedition may be interesting. A!
good deal has alreadjj been publish- 1
ed about the sccond expedition, when
I induced the pygmies to leave Afri
ca for the first time and visit the out
side world, and I only need to refer
to it here to make the connection
clear .
Up to the time that Dr. F. J. V.
Skiff, Director of the Field Colum
bian Museum in Chicago, and Head
of the great Department of Exhibits
of the St. Louis Exposition, and Dr.
W. J. McGee of the Bureau of Eth
nology at Washington and acting
President of the National Geographic
Society, became interested in the
plan to get the pygmies to visit the
exposition, and commissioned me to
go for them, with the approval of
Governor Francis and President
Roosevelt, none of the pygmies had
ever been seen outside of Africa, i
and only a few explorers had seen
and described them. Among these,
in historic sequence, were Paul Du
Chaillu, Dr. Schw^einfurth, Henry M.
Stanley, Dr. Wolf, Major Von Wiss-
man, and possibly Sir Harry John
ston, although I am not quite certain
whether Sir Harry or I saw them
first after Von Wissn^.an. In my first
book, “Pioneering in Central Africa,”
I described how I came to meet them
in 1897.
In 1903, Dr. Skiff and Dr. McGee
arranged for my return to Africa to
try to induce some of them to visit
the United States, and this I manag
ed to accomplish with the result that
a long disputed scientific question
was finally, settled, although many
question in anthropology about these
people immediately sprang up, and
are still being discussed.
After I got all of them back safe
ly and soundly to their homes in the
Kasai, I located temporarily at an
old abandoned “factory” at the con
fluence of the Lulua and Kasai
Rivers, at a place called Bena Luidi,
and there this story begins. I had
been commissioned to make a botan
ical collection for the St. Louis Bo
tanical Gardens, and Professor Starr,
a noted anthropologist of the Uni
versity of Chicago, had asked me to
await his coming in order to facili
tate his researches and collections in
that region, while I had decided to
open up the Bachilele country, up to
that time practically closed to the
white man because of the inveterate
hostility of the Baschilele tribe.
The Bachilele only a few months
before had burned down a rubber
trading “factory” of the Compagnie
du Kasai, and chased tho white men
away, some thirty miles from where
I was. I was fully v/arned by the
traders to look out for trouble when
I located !'.t Bena Lukli. Several
ycar^ before tho3j :^ame natives had
killed ten cf my caravan. A few
years before that, tv;o Belgian army
ofiicei'S, Moi'-rs Kon'w;:;^ and Fro-
ment, had tried to penetr:^te that, re
gion, but got into a fight and gave
up the attempt. King Leopold’s gov
ernment did r.ot possess a post in the
region, which was somewhat larger
than Belgium. A trader of the Com
pagnie du Kasai, (which I shall hei*e-
aftcr call the Kasai Company) Mon-
sivier Cudell, had made a notable ex
pedition up the Kasai, and had pene
trated one corner of the Baschiiele
country, and his trip had resulted in
the establishment of two factories
located on tho river along the east
ern boundary of the territory. The
most remote of these was on the east
side where !\Ionsieur Bertrand held
the farthest outpost of civilization in
the southern part of the Congo. The
other Vv'as on the west bank at the
foot of Wissman Falls, and was then
occupied by Monsieur Gilis. But
there was no penetratior^ of the in
terior from these posts, the bulk of
their trade being with the peaceful
Baluba and Bakuba tribes on the
west bank of the Kasai. The Basch
ilele territory extended practically
Meeting in Charlotte, the Western
North Carolina Weekly Pre.ss asso
ciation on May 14 will hold a con
vention at the Selwyn hotel, with af
ternoon and evening sessions, pre-
ceeded by a visit thru the plant of the
Western Newspaper Union.
The afternoon session, beginning
at 3:30 o’clock will be divided into
the following discussions: Drawing
the line between news and publicity-
advertising, led by Noah Hollowell,
of the Hendersonville News, and J.
B. Craigmiles, of the Mitchell Coun
ty Banner. The county newspaper
and politics, discussion led by J, D.
Boone, of Waynesvills Mountain-
Courier and Dan Tompkins, of Jack
son County Journal. Increases nec-
esarry in job, advertising and sub
scription rates, discussion led by F.
H. May, of the Lenoir News-Topic,
and S. E. Whitten, Marion Phrogress.
Advantages of a standard price list,
discussion led by C. Bush, Palk Coun
ty News, L. B. Weathers, Cleveland
Star, C. B. Osborne and W. A. Band.
Two addresses and one discussion
will feature the evening program, be
ginning at 8:30 o’clock, as follows:
The newspaper’s opportunity for
community service, discussion led by
R. E. Pricc, Rutherford Sun and Miss
Beatrice Cobb, Morganton News-
Herald. Address by W. C. Dowd, of
the Charlotte News and one by A.
W. Burch of the Charlotte Osserver.
MISS LUCY PFLASTER A CHARM
ING BRIDE
Miss Lucy Pflaster, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Pflaster of Blue-
mont Va., and Judge Robert Lenoir
Gash of Brevard were married on
Saturday, May 1, at Glenineade, the
home of the bride’s parents. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Malcolm Taylor. The wedding was a
very quiet one owing to the illness
of the bride’s sister, Mrs. J. S. Broom
field, who is now in a hospital in
Washington.
The bride was beautifully gowned
in chiffon and white satin with veil
of rare old Brussels lace which form
ed her train, and w'as held by a band
of orange blossoms. She carried a
bride’s boquet of white roses and
was unattended coming to the altar
on the arm of her venerable father,
who gave her in marriage. The best
man was Mr. William Gash of Phil
adelphia, a brother of the groom.
Among the out of town guests were
Miss Margaret Gash of Nev/ York,
Mrs. P. V. Daniel and Jliss Daniel of
Fredericksburg'and Miss E. L. Dick
enson of “Marmion” King George
Co., Va.
After a delicious luncheon Mr. and
Mrs. Gash left on an extended tour
after which they will make their
home in Brevard, N. C. where Judge
Gash is engaged in the practice of
his profession.
from the Kasai to the watershed of
the Loange, and for a distance of
about a hundred miles rorih and
south between these limits. Bena
Luidi was at the north eastern cor
ner of the counirj".
]\Iy calculations in planning to
nenetrate this terra incognita were
based upon the prestige among the
natives accruing to me as the result
of the trip of the pygmies to Amer
ica, as v.’v'ii as upon the knowledge of
the psychology of the African ob
tained upon my first expedition.
Bena Luidi was logically the point
of departure for this enterprise. It
had been founded about ten years
before by Monsieur Stache, the pion
eer rubber trader of that region,
who had been the oniy v^hite man to
cross the Kasai in that locality be
fore me since the memorable trans
continental trips of Livingston in
1854, and of Cameron in 1874, both
of whom had crossed the Kasai much
farther south. Von Wissman and
Wolf had kept on the east or friend
ly side of the river. I believe these
were the principal, if not the only
white men who had been in the Up
per Kasai before me, and none of
them had gone into the interior on
the west bank of the river below
where Livingston crossed it fiftgr
years before. Livingston had not
reached the Baschilele country eitber.