The Transylvania Times
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1932
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) OFFICES TO STAY HERE, BELIEF
North Carolina State College Sponsors
WIDE SEARCH
PRESSED FOR
FAMOUS BABY
Lindberghs Deeply Affect
ed as $50,000 Ransom
Is Demanded
Push Passage
Of Sales Tax
Bill In House
ALL OFFERS OF
REWARD ARE OFF
TRENTON, N. J., March
2, — All rewards offered
for the capture of the
kidnapers of the Lindbergh
son were cancelled today on
account of Col. Lindbergh’s
fear they would endanger
the life of his child.
TREiyrON, N. J., Ma
he slate legislature tod
ch 2.-
oluti
aptur
reward of $25,000
of the kidnapers of Charles A.
Lindbergh, Jr. This increased the
$10,000 state reward prebiously
announced by Gov. Harry Moore.
Billion Dollar Levy In
crease May Be in Ef
fect by April 1
Above are shown four attractive young ladies who have been chosen as sponsors at North Carolina State
College. Their pictures will appear in the beauty section of the 1932 Agromeck, State College yearbook.
They are (1) Miss Katherine Morgan of Salisbury, sponsor for the varsity track team; (2) Miss Sara
Molder, of Columbus, Ga., sponsor for the Agromeck; (3) Miss Emily Storv, of Raleigh, sponsor for
the junior class and, (4) Miss Marguerite LePort, of Greensboro, sponsor for the student body.
KEEP WELFARE
OFFICE OPEN 1
DAY A WEEK
Monday To Be Active
Day; Work Simplified;
Food, Clothes Needed
A change in the hours at which
the County Welfare associatioix
supply room is to be kept open in
future w'as announced this week.
Heretofore, th«x supply room has
been open daily, beginning at 1 p.
m., with Miss Kern present each
afternoon in the week. Beginning
next week, the supply room will
remain open only on Mondays, but
will be open all day, with the ex
ception of the noon hour for
luncheon.
Two factors have contributed
to the^ change in the plans for
operating the supply room. Oik'
of t.bps#^ 1C? T.f/M.i- L.... L......
M. E. LADIES OF DISTRICT
IN MEETING HERE TODAY
Zone No. 1 of the Asheville dis
trict of the Woman’s Missionary
society of the Methodist Episco
pal church, South, will hold its
first meeting of 1932 in the Bre
vard Methodist church, Thursday,
March 3. beginning at 10 o’clock.
Zone No. 1 is composed of all
the auxiliaries of the Methodist
church in the three counties, Polk,
Henderson and Transylvania, with
Mrs. Oliver Orr of the Brevard
Auxiliary as zone leader.
The program for the day reads
as, follows:
10 o’clock—Devotional by Mr?.
J. W. Payne and Miss Bessie Al
len, of Hendersonville.
Welcome by Mrs. Hume Harris.
Response by Mills River auxiliary.
Roll call and discussion of plans
for year of all auxiliaries.
Roll call and discussion of plans
(Continued on page 4)
RALEIGH GETS
GATHERING OF
DEMOCRATS
June 16 Is Date Selected;
Bailey Sees Hoover
Defeat
of these Is that the work has been
simplified and the organization
has now learned what is to be ex.
pected of it in the way of assist
ance. Another is that with the
opening of the Pisgah Cotton Mills
in town, work has been provided
many who will not now need as
sistance.
This work was first can led on
through the office of Superintend
ent of Schools J. B. Jones for a
period of two ' months before it
was taken over by Miss Kern.
Mr. Jones found that the work
called for more time than he
could devote to it and as a re-
^It he personally engaged Miss
Kern, and paid her for her ser
vices to operate the supply room,
so that none of the money that
has been contributed or donated
to the cause has been devoted to
ana ^f^'K^yation of the agency,
snnnr P®*'' 'i'l'ectly for
supplies for the needy
the cause without any remunera
Long Illness Ends
In Death of Mrs.
H. Cunningham
I'Dntinuefi on page 41
Mrs. Harry Cunningham died
Sunday at her home on French
Broad street following a lingering
illness of the past year or more.
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon at Oak Grove
church, with Rev. Paul Hartsell,
pastor of the Brevard Baptist
church, conducting the service. In
terment was in the Oak Grove
cemetery.
Active pall bearers were: W.
P. Fulbright, B. H. Freeman, D.
P. Kilpatrick, C. 0. Robinson, Ira
D. Galloway. Clyde Ashworth.
Included in the honorary pall
bearers were: D. L. English, R. P.
Kilpatrick. .T. S. Bromfield. T. G.
^yard, J. K. Mills, J. M. Kilpat
rick. Joe McCrary, T. S. Wood,
S. M. Macfie, Thomas Smith, John
Ashworth, S. F. Allison, W. M.
Henry, _T. G. Miller.
Surviving are her husband anr!
10-'
•-old
RALEIGH. N. C., March 2.—
The State Democratic executive
committee, meeting here last
night, decided to hold the state
convention here on June 16.
Precinct meetings were set for
3 p, m. on Saturday, June 4, the
day of the state primary, or at
any other time on that day con
venient to the precinct chairman.
Raleigh won the convention
over Charlotte and Sanford, the
vote being 91 for Raleigh, 17 for
Charlotte, and two for Sanford.
Prior to the selection of the
place and date for the convention,
the committee heard an address
by Senator Josiah W. Bailey, of
Raleigh, in which he predicted the
defeat of President Hoover in No
vember, and called for the most
unified Democracy the state and
nation has seen in two decades.
COMMISSIONERS TO
GATHER ON MONDAY
The March meeting of the coun
ty commissioners will be held at
the courthouse on Monday, March
7. Nothing special at this time is
scheduled to come before th?
county commissioners, so far as
was indicated this w'^eek in court
house circles.
HOPEWELL, N. J., March 2.—
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., 20-
months - old baby of Colonel
and Mrs. Lindbergh, was seized
from his crib where he lay ill'
with a severe cold last night and'
taken away by kidnappers, of I
whom no trace had been found:
today.
It w,as announced the kidnaper.? I
left a note demanding $50,000
ransom. A search throughout the ,
east was organized at once. Col
onel Lindbergh, grave and deeply
affected, left his estate here w'ith
two state troopers and two trap
pers familiar wdth tlie country
side at 8 a. m., and it w’as said
Lindbergh would fly over the rug
ged Neshaminy valley in search of
the kidnapers.
The child, wrapped only in night
clothing, was taken evidently, by
a man who appeared to have
climbed into a bedroom window
by means of a ladder sometime
between 7:30 p. m .and 10 p. m.
Mrs. Lindbergh, formerly Anne
Mon’ow, daughter of the late
United States Senator Dwight W.
Morrow, broken-heartedly said:
“The poor child has had a cold
and will suffer. We have been doc
toring him for several days.”
Lindbergh,' quietly but suffer
ing . terrific strain, said he sus
pected no one, and observed:
“They must have -got through
that window,” pointing to a
screened window which would not
close because it was warped.
Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, moth
er of Mrs. Lindbergh, arrived to
console her daughter early today
from her home at Englewood,
N. J.
It was stated authoritatively
that “If the means and occasion
for doing so are made known to
Lindbergh, he would pay the kid
napers for the return of the
baby.”
The kidnaping created a world
wide sensation, with the London
Press streamering story and play
ing it far more prominently than
the war, while the federal depart
ment of justice offered its com
plete cooperation in the search.
The theory was advanced by
trained detectives that dope ad
dicts were responsible.
The police knew only that the
intruder had used a ladder, put up
in sections; had scaled into the
nursery; and there left a note —
presumably a ransom demand,
though they would not say—then
had scrambled down the ladder,
making his way to a point- down
“Featherbed lane” toward the
main highway.
On this path, according to foot
prints, the kidnaper was joined by
a woman accomplice.
The spot where the kidnaping
occuiTed is remote, situated up a
rocky roadway off a main thor
oughfare.
A stolen auto, found abndoned
near Hillside, N. J., furnished po
lice a possible clue. The car, a
blue Nash sedan, resembled one
in which two men early last even
ing inquired at Princeton the way
to the secluded Lindbergh estate.
False scents w’ere followed, but up
to early forenoon the police work
ed up blind alleys,
IJndbergh, keeping the poise
which marked him since, the day
he leaped to fame 'by his Paris
ocean flight, aided police. His
wife, daughter of the late Sena
tor Dwight Morrow and compan
ion of the colonel on a venture
some flight to the orient last year,
pulled herself together remarkably
after her first prostration and also
helped police.
Col. Lindbergh with two state
troopers and two two trappers fa
miliar with the countryside left
the estate in a fast car before 8
a. m., without revealing where
(■Continiiod on page six)
John H. Small, native of Wash
ington, N. C., and for 22 years
representative from the first con
gressional district of this state
will speak here Tliursday night,
March 3, in the courthouse
against the 18th amendment, Mr.
Small was in congress • from
March, 1899 to 1921, and was
one of the few southerners in
congress to vote against the reso
lution for the adoption of the
18th amendment.
Although he retains his' legal
residence at his old home in this
state, he uow has offices as an
attorney in the national capital.
He is appearing under the aus
pices Of the association oppo.sml
to the amendment.
WASHINGTON. I). C.. Mar. 2.
Completion of tlu- l)i-parti.son
$1,000,000.000 tax increase bill,
announced yesterday by Acting
(.’hairman Charles R. Ci-isp of the
ways and m cans committee,
brought predictions today that the
bill and its provisions for a gen
eral two per cent sales tax on
manufactured articles, may be in
Cifect before the end of the
month.
Crisp said he would sulnnit the
bill for his committee’s approval
today, introduce it formally in
the liouse probably Saturday, and
move' to take it u{) in the liouse
probably Tuesday.
Delsate will not be restricted
and the bill will be ojien to amend
ments. according to Soealcer Jolin
Garner, who commented that this
is considerably different from the
tactics of his Republican predeces-,
sors. Passage is expected before
the end of the week. The bill then
will go to the senate w’here some
opposition to the $()2r),()00,000
sales tax is expected. luit not
then
TEACHERS TD
REPAID SOON
Six Months of Term Gone;
School Office Gets $700
for Bus Costs
One half of the school teachers’
salaries for the city anj county is
expecte-d to be psiid by Monday of
next week, and the remainder will
be available in about three weeks,
or as soon as the state department
of education can check up on the
situation in the county.
With the beginning of March,
marking the end of the six months
term in the county, all of the
schools entered the extended term
and this is operative county-wdde
for the final two months of school
so that all the children of school
age in Transylvania county,,
w'^hether in the city or county,
have equal privileges of an eight-
months term.
Operation of the closing two-
months term of school is liased on
a payment of one-third of the ex
penses by the state and two-thirds
by the county. The county’s por
tion of this expense is around
$10,000, and of this amount $3,-
000 is already in hand. Superin
tendent J. B. Jones, with the last
payment of salaries to each teach
er in the county, delivered a mem
orandum to each asking them to
conserve funds a.s, according’ t>
present indications, schools may
close w’ith salaries not paid up in
full. But the anxoimt of back sal
ary due with the closing of school
will not exceed a month, and may
not be that much, all depending,
of course, on the way in 'v.’hich
taxes are received by the county.
The state only meets its portion
of the extended term costs as the
county meets its, so that })art of
the finances will be cared for just
as soon as the county is ready to
take care of its pa.vments.
With regard to the payment of
half of the Fobruar.y teacher.?’ sal
aries, it was explained that since
February is the final month in the
six-months term of school a com
plete check-up is made on Feb
ruary salaries so that the pay
ments out of Raleigh 'will be pre
cisely what is due. If there is an
error in the previous months in
the term, this is corrected in tho
following pay day, but the state
does not mix the funds of the. six-
months and of the two-months ex
tended term.
Superintendent Jones w’as ’n
receipt Wednesday morning of
$700 additional funds from the
state for gas and oil for school
bus costs.
enough to endanger it,
to President Hoover for his .sig
nature.
Most of the pi'ovisions have
been drafted by special sulicom-
mittees in pre])aration for the full
committee’s approval.
Imposition of special excise tax
es in addition to tlie general sales
tax has been found necessary,
Crisp said. He declineil to say
what articles would Ije levied up
on, but committee members have
been considering electricity, gas
oline, imported oil. industrial al
cohol, and natural and illuminat
ing gas as subjects for these im
posts.
Increases in income and inherit
ance taxes, and a new gift tax,
will increase revenue about $250,-
000,000. The sales tax is counted
on for $625,000,000 in its present
form, which exempts only food
and farm jiroduction necessities,
and this leaves $125,000,000 to be
raised by new special excises.
In addition, the committee
counts upon various plugging-up
of “loopholes” in the present ta
law to increase revenue by about
$100,000,000 more.
FIRE VISITS
JONES HOME
Damage, Around $500 Is
Covered by Insur
ance Policy
REQUESTS NOT
TO MOVE SITE
COUNTY WIDE
Kiwanis, Chamber of Com
merce, County Co-op
erate for Retention
DISTRICT ENGINEER
TO RESIDE HERE
So far as the district road of
fice force here knows, state high
way office for district No. 4, lo
cated here since last July 1 when,
the state tuok over the adminbs-
tration of all roads in the com
monwealth. is going to stay right
in Brevard, despite the semi-of
ficial announcement given out iti
Hendersonville last week bv T. L.
Durham, chairman of the Hender-
.son county commission, to the ef
fect that it would be moved to
Hendersonville in the near fu
ture.
Immediately the announcement
was made public that the of.fices
were to be moved to Henderson
ville, the Transylvania county
commissione''s in a called meet
ing held on Friday, offered a
.suitable location for the construc
tion of any buildings that may be
needed and free office space if
the state hi.ghway eom,mission
would retain its headquarters
here.
The Kiwanis club and the
Chamber of Commerce also back
ed the movement to have the
state retain the highway office in
this city and citizen's meetin.g
Friday 'night voted to send a
telegram urging the commission
to reconsider the decision which
would take administration of the
road affairs in the counties of
Transylvania, Polk, Henderson
and parts of Jackson and Macon
counties from Brevard.
Transylvania countians are urg
ing that a hearing be held in
the matter, before the offices are
moved.
At the local office yesterday,
however, no intimation was made
of any knowledge that the trans
fer is still contemplated. W. B.
Ferguson, district engineer, who
is to be in charge of the office,
according to, the original an
nouncement, and w'ho comes here
from the highway' office at Ashe
ville is in the city and stated
yesterday that he is planning to
' cupy a home here at an early
date.
Variety Store To
Be Opened Here
In Few Weeks
Fii
discovered in the residence
of Superintendent and Mrs. J. B.
Jones on West Main street, about
.7 o’clock Monday morning caused
considerable damage to the house
and furniture. The loss, estimat
ed at around $500. is said to be
entirely covered by insurance.
The fire, oi-iginating in the liv
ing room and confined alto.gether
to that room, is thoug'ht to have
been due to hot coals and ashes
from the fire])lace burning their
way through the sills underneath
the floor, . and to have been
.smouldering all night. It was
not discovered, however, until
Mr. Jones went into the room
Monday morning to start the fire.
Quite a little of the flooring in
the living room had to be toi-n
away, and considerable damage
to the furniture and furnishings
was caused by smoke and soot,
the fire itself having gotten hut
little headway before discovery
was made. .Promjjt response on
the i)art of the fire department
spared what might have been a
disastrous confla.gration. The de
partment has been widely com
mended for the cai-eful and effi
cient manner in which they han
dled the fire-fighting apparatus
and foi’ the .slight damage caused
by W'ater.
The house is that formerly
owned by Nathan Morris, and is
now in the hands of the Judson
McCi’ai'y real estate firm.
The United 'Variety Stores will
open a stove in Brevard in March.
It has been thought for some
time that a store of this kind
would locate in Brevard, but
only in the past few days has it
become a reality. L. M. Hinshaw,
owner of the chain of stores, was
in town Monday making final ar
rangements.
The- United Variety Stores
carry a complete line of notions
and other products within the
price range of $1. This chain
lias seven other stores, all of
which are located in North Caro
lina. The headcfiiartei’s for tho
firm are in Taylorsville, N. C.
Tile local store will be located
in the McMinn building, in the
room formerly occupied bv the
Chamber of Commerce. Work
men have already begun the re
modeling of the store roomi F.
G. Feimster will be manager of
the Brevard stove. The stock of
chandise will be of $10,000
value.
A store of this kind has long
been needed in Transylvania
county, according to a number
or citizens, and it is believed the
imblic will heartily welcome the
new establishment. An an
nouncement of the opening will
be published in this paper within
the next two weeks.
AIKEN SEEKS PLACE
ON OEMS' TICKET
H.
C. H. GLAZENER AT BOONE
^ ROSMAN, March 2. — C. H.
Giazener, section foreman of the
highway in this community, left,
last week for Boone, N. C., to
take a short course in patching
hard surface highways. Several
demonstration.? will be given at
Boone this week. Mr. Giazener is
expected to I'etufn to his home
here the latter part of the weelc.
Aiken today added hiu.
name to the list of candidates who
will be before the Transylvania
county Democratic primary to be
held in June, seeking party prefer
ment for the nomination as sher
iff. Mr. Aiken is well known and
popular and has been an active
worker in hi.s party for' many
years.
He has been in the service of
the Hendersonville-Brevard rail
way for 19 years. Three years
ago, Mr. Aiken entered the }>ri-
niary anj was highest in the race
for the nomination for county
treasurer. He retired from tho
race, h.owever, it is recalled, for
the .sake of party harmony.