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The Transylvania Times
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1932
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EASTMAN COMMITS SUICIDE
Trade Balance of
U. S. Is Favorable
25 Pel. Gain Shown in
Colton Exports
I WASHINGTON, D. C., March
10.—The United States had a
. favorable trade balance of t\v’cn-
g ty-four million dollars in Febrii-
, lary, the commerce departmeni re-
^ (ported ■ today. Exports for the
Mmonth totalled $155,000,000, and
‘limports aggregated 131,000,000.
2 -P/M' fVio fivef. t;pvP‘r'
Cotton exports for the first seven
months of the cotton season
amounted to 5,925,000 bales, a 2d
per cent increase over the corre
sponding period last season.
Stale Wishes to Know
Whether Service Shoxild
Be Continued
KALEIGH, March 16.—A series
of conferences is being- held all
this week and most of next
some 24 different counties to
lain the purpose and advan-
ages of crop reports and of the
farm census, taken by the U. S.
state crop reporting service of
ithe state department of agricul-
I ■ ture, with a view to getting' a
reaction from the counties as to
whether the farm census shall be
continued.
Frank Parker, head of the crop
reporting service, is personally at
tending all these conferences^ to
which the county commissioners,
tax supervisors, superintendent of
schools, tax listers, farm agents,
agricultural teachers and leading
farmers have been invited. Mr.
Parker is attending the confer
ence in Boone, Watauga county
today. Tomorrow he will attend
conferences in BakersviHe, Mitch
ell county and in Burnsville,
Yancey' county . Friday he will
be in Asheville and Sylva and
Saturday will hold similar con
ferences in Bryson City, Swain
county; Hayesville, in Clay coun
ty and in Franklin, Macon coun-
I iy. The following week confer
ences will be held in Transyl
vania, Henderson, Polk, Ruther
ford, Burke, Lincoln, Mecklen
burg, Montgomery, Moore. Lee
and Wake counties.
For several years there has
been considerable opposition to
the annual farm census^ chiefly
from the county commissioners,
county auditors and accountants
and the list takers, largely be
cause of the trouble entailed
Securing the information required.
These in turn have stirred up
■Some sentiment against it by the
farmers themselves. The state
department of agriculture, how
ever, regards this census as one
of the _ most important things it
does, since it regards it as noth
ing more than an annual farm
inventory, without which the
farmers could not tell how they
ilD COURT
IRM TO OPEN
BNOAY.APR.!
Soviet Troops
Move On Japs
Mo Outstanding Cases on
Cniuina! Docket; Jurors
Are Drawn
Iijuries Fatal
To Grandmotlier
Of Mrs. McClure;
^lussians Use Frontier Rail
way to Transport
Army; Washington
Not Alarmed
R0SM.4N, M.-irch 16. — Mrs.
, age .100 years,
died at the home of her. daughter,
Mis. If. C. Boarders in Shelby, !
Thursday, March 10. Funeral’
A mixed civil and criminal term
of Transylvania county superior
court will convene here Monday,
April 4, with Judge J. 11. Clements
of Winston-Salem presiding.
There are no outstanding cases
on the criminal tlocket, of some
thing more than eighty suits, some
of them being bank cases. These, j
however, it is learned, will not be ^
taken up unless there is some dis
position of. the cases already be
fore the state supreme court on
appeal and as yet not acted on.
The bar association, of which
W. E. Breese is president, will be
called at an early date when the
ciyil docket will be set. It will
appear in the next issue of The
Transylvania Times.
The following jurors were drawn
at a recent meeting of the jury injuries,
commission, composed of L. E, ' She was the grandmother of
Bagwell, E. A. Reed and Dan Mer-(Mrs. G. C. McClure of Rosman.
I She had been married twice. The
i First week—B. M. ' Mull, following children survive- Mrs.
j Branch Tinsley, J. M. Gaines. P. E. C. Boarders, Mrs. C. C. Ham-
W. Jenks, G. T. Frady, 1). H. Win-1 brick, Torn and Frank Wilson,
Chester, C. E. Lance, A. 0. Kit-J Mrs. Minnie Webb of Shelby, and
.WANCHURIA SEEN
Siieiby Woman, Age 100, j AS BATTLEFIELD
Had Been CJiiirch Mem-
TOKIO, Japan, March 16.—
her for 73 Years Soviet military activitic.'^ along
the Manchurian frontie
ported today by reliable foreign
sources.
The soviet authorities cancelled
regular traffic on' part of the Us
suri railroad, which runs along
- vices were held the following-1‘ll® frontier, to make
day at Shelby bv the pastor. H ItLe h™ ,
E. Waldrop,^ ht the Ba rtist 'f
church, of wAich she was a mem- ' ^“"sian .oH.cials
Mrs. Houser cele-
nilitary
brated her 100th birthday
versary August 9 of last year.
Two weeks ago site fell fractur-
irig her hip and suffering other
Houser of California,
“To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?” . . That was the brief
note which George Eastman, 77-year-old multi-millionaire manufac-
•turer and philanthropist, wrote before he shot himself to death in his
Rochester,. N. Y., home. World famous, as a genius, of the photo
graphic industry) art collector and big game hunter, Eastman is showji
above in a recent portrait.
City Committee 'PARC!
ueaole to Ad
Pallois Is
Owing to the illness of Harry
Patton, city clerk, who has been
suffering with “flu” for the past
several days, the special commit-
of which he and Alderman
Frank D. Clement were named to
vestigate an offer from C. F.
Poole to pay the town $5 per
thousand feet foi- merchantable
timber, and fi.Cty cents ptu
cord for acid wood, wiiicli he pro
posed to cut on the Norton’s Creek
water shod has not yet been able
to act.
Although at his post at the city
hal), Mr. Patton is not able to
make a trip to the shed, and his
dition indicated he will not be
able to do so for some days.
stand.
It is maintained that no busi
ness can tell whether it is making
osing money without an an
nual audit and ^ventory to tell
just how it stanls, and that the
farmers need a yearly inventory
just as much as do other business
In these conferences it is
Proposed to let the farmers and
county officials know the facts
and then let them decide whether
to continue it or not.
Siipplemeetary
Readers Arrive
Announcement is made by Supt.
voou supplementary
leaders and a supply of writing
paper have been received at his
ottice and are now ready for dis-
fonnf""'! Pi'iacipals of the
county schools may'call for these
house at any time, it is announc
ed,. and distribute them in their
schools as needed.
infanTgiluam"
buried SUNDAY
March 16.—The in-
Kniam^/a“7“'’- Ml'S. Mark
Wiliam was born and died March
duetoi ®®'yices were con-
no5n \ Sunday after-
ddon by the Rev. G E Kellav
Interment was in ^ iiiA ■
cemetenv e ® Whitmire
ents and .the par-
und sisters.
Dumber of brothers
OLIIR SIPES
AGAIN IS HELP
This Time He Will Be
Taken to Detroit; Ver-
!in in Prison
RATES RAISED
Revision Increases Postage
for Short H^iiiis and on
Small Packages
Mail rates from the United
States to foreign countries will be
increased after April 1, according
to an announcement from the lo
cal post office.
On this date there will be no
two-cent letter rate from this to
other countries, and no oncicent
postal card rate to foreign coun-
to countries of South and Central
America, including Spanish pos
sessions in northern Africa will be
increased to three cents for each
ounce or fraction, and on single
postcards from one to two cents
and from two to four cents on
double postcards.
chens, R. F. G. Glazener, W.
Raines, Charles Gravely, Chas. W.
Owen, George M.cGaha, C. G.
Fisher, D. L. Holiday, W. B. Dan
iels, P. A; Morgan, W. W. Ray,
R. L. Canseler, J. R. Hinkle, J. 0.
Cantrell, P. H. Galloway, J. D.
Golden, V. P. Waldrep, Duncan
McDougal, V. C. McCrary, Fred
Nicholson, J. F. Corbin, V. B.
Scruggs, C. C. Reese, C. YL Man-
ley, Roland Fisher. G. W. Hen
dricks, W. P. Fisher, J. C.
Scruggs, Mitchell Holden, J. Frank
Martin. B. F. Merrell, C. E. For- I rs i rs . „r , *
tune, H. P. Chapman, G. H. Pax- "COpfie Must Work Against
IHUNTER FEARS
PUCATiN IS
IDUE SETBACK
ton
Second week—Ed. Jones, H.
Hedrick, R. F. Williams, J. W.
Glazener, J. M. Allison, Barnie
Chapman, G. C. McClure, Dick
Zachary, W. M. Maxwell, W. W.
Pi uett, Frank Wilson, J. Frank
Hayes, J. L. Sanders, B. C. Bat
son, J. B. Huggins, Geo. Bedding-
field, W. F. Daniels, J. E. Gilles
pie, V/. M. Brittain, D. E. Lyday,
J. R. Cantrell, E. R. Bishop, R.
A. Gillespie, Walter Blythe.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March
16. — Fhe Interstate Commerce
commission has authorized a re
vision in parcel post rates which
Postmaster General W alter
Brown predicted would net the
government ^n increase of about
$7,500,000 a year in revenue.
No date was set for the changes
’ 1 Y, 1 to become effective. The revision
r; ! will increase all short haul rates
Oliver Snipes, 28. w-ho -was
sted here so:
Henry Verlin
onnection with
o “v/yKKoy.,/ "‘““I also those on small packages
by Sheriff T. E. Pattolf bSt”4io 'n
was released when an offieerS^om ®
Detroit came to Brevard because i 4.- u -4.
of failure to identify him i^om U ™™mmendations subrn,'^-
neetion with the 'Usl Ts ag^e^dls cm-nT'and'ihrr^acling
ouFT; sfe.%"|i“tt“ ti?ey“ruld h® vT7L ef- k Lfftle
he nJY.m 7® 'kfect of pMcing. the government
anotLUDetroit"lfficm.'‘"vho .1'"''^*®
bringing extradition ’pape;:” with ?;:Sr%he^'’n'ost~"^^,
GLAZENER ON
RADIO FRIDAY
Will Speak From Asheville
on 5-10 Year Farm
Program
Plan for Parents to Pay
High School Costs
to have declared the military re
quired the use of the railroad as
a result of Japanese troop move
ments toward the Siberian fron
tier of Manchuria one the pretext
of subduing the Chinese mutiny
at Heiho, or Taheiho, directl.y
across the Amur river -from Bla-
govestchensk.
All regular traffic on the rail
road from Vladivostock, near the
eastern border of Manchuria, to
Blagove.stchen.sk, on the northern
frontier, was halted. J'he railroad
runs along the northern border
from Vladivostok to a point near
Chita, where it connects with the
tians-Siberian road. The main
route on the trans-Siberian jams
through Manchuria, and the U.s-
road is much longer, although
entirely in Russian tei'ritor5’.
J. A. Glazener, Brevard high
school vocational agriculture in
structor, and chairman of the
Transylvania county general com
mittee on the 5-10 year farm plan,
will speak over the radio from
Asheville Friday night during the
8 to 8:30 o’clock period when the
farm promotion plan will be on
the air from WWNC. Mr. Glazen
er was invited to speak three
weeks ag’o, but intervening en
gagements prevented him from
accepting. Mr. Glazener will de
vote his discussion to the slogan
which has been adopted in Tran
sylvania county S-Lz-T-P, which
summarizes the Transylvania pro
gram.
Locally the 5-10 program was
furthered Wednesday night by a
discussion of the importance of
Verlin, it will be recalled, was
taken back to Detroit for trial,
and it. is learned since that he was
convicted and given a sentence of
15 years in the penitentiary for
his offense. It was a second sen
tence to be pronounced on him by
the court.
About ten days ago Sheriff Pat
ton received^ a communication
from a Detroit detective agency,
arcing if he could locat.e Snipes,
thorized the postoffice depart
ment to effect similar revisions
last fall.
Effects of the new rate will be:
Zones 1 and 2 (up to 150
miles); rate on one’ pound in
creased one per cerit, on 2 to 11
pounds two cents, on 12 to 21
pounds three cents and on 22 to
70 pounds from four to eight
cents.
Zone 3 (150 to 300 miles):
All rates increased one cent.
tV 4.'/C.T—Zone 4 (300 to ' 600 miles):
Detroit officer freed on Rates on 1 Ld 2 pounds, increas-
T n ® . ! ed two cents; on 3 to 4 pounds,
n J'e informed I one cent; on B to 6 pounds, no
the DetTOit agency that he could i change- and rate.s on 7 to 50
oe arrested, and two messages re-1 pounds,' decreased one to 22
ceived since have indicated the! cents.
•’“Y'- 2one 5 (600 to 1600 miles);
^nought hack to Detroit. [ rates on 1 to 2 pounds increased
Sheriff Patton did not have the two cents; rates on a 3 pounds
warrant on which Snipes was ar-ione cent; on 4 to 5 pounds no
lested but was under the impres-j change and on 6 to 50 pounds a
fa "’OS iiot in connection 1 decrease of one to 32 cents,
with the same offense for which he Zones 6, 7 and 8 (1000 miles
was sought on a former occasion, j or more): Rates on 1 pound in-
onipes signified that he would creased two cents; on 2 pounds
.^0 without . extradition, so,increased one cents; on 3 pounds
feheritt i atton is expecting the.; no change; on. 4 to 50 pounds de-
(Gontinued on page three) 'creased one to 47 cents.
Fire Damages
Rosman House
ROSMAN. March 16. — Fire
which broke out during the noon
hour Thursday, damaged the home
of Mrs. W. C. Minters, of Chester,
S. C., and occupied by Mr. and
Mrs. Cole Pangle. The house is
on Main street here. The fire
stai’ted from a spark on the shin
gle roof and was discovered by
A. M. Paxton, who was walking
up the street.
Neighbors, equipped with buck-’
ets and fire extinguishers, rushed
to the scene of the blaze and aid
ed in putting out the fire. Tlie
house is a two-story frame struc
ture. The damage was principal
ly confined to the roof with the
exception of that caused by wa-
t(!r.
The members of the Pangle
family wei’e in the kitchen pre-
pai'ing luncheon and did not'know
of the fire until Mr. Paxton gave
the alarm. The loss was covered
by insurance.
“The Unsolved Problem of Ed
ucation in • North Carolina” was
the theme of an address by Dr.
H. T. Hunter, president of Wes
tern Carolina Teachers College at
Cullowhee before the Parent-
Teacher association here this
week. Dr. Hunter had both praise
and censure for the work of the
state legislators in dealing with
education in the state, at thei
last session, and in the em
summed up the situation as i
“challenge to education in North
Carolina. “Our system may be
wrecked,” he declared, “unless
citizens prevent it. Our teachers
cannot stem the tide, for they
would be accused of selfish
fives,■' he declared, in closing* his
discussion.
Dr. Hunter declared at the out
set that the problem of education
in North Carolina is much great
er than it is in many other states.
In North Carolina, he said, there
are 30 children of school age out
of every 100 population. In this
state, every 100 taxpayer.? must
educate 225 children. In Cali
fornia each 100 taxpayers is call
ed upon to provide for the educa
tion of less than 100 children.
Dr. Hunter pointed out the fa
vorable and unfavorable educa
tional legislation of the past ses-
WASHINGTON NOT
ALARMED BY REPORT
WASHINGTON, D. C., March
• — The American govern
ment today found no reason for
immediate alarm in the reported
military activities along the north
Manchurian border, although
aware that the tension lietween
soviet Russia and Japan is poten
tially dangerous
MISS WEAVER
HELPS IN NEW
RELIEF PLAN
Free Seeds for Gardens To
Be Provided Through
State, Red Cross
MOVE TO AVOID BAD
WAVE OF PELLAGRA
Gardens for the needy and for
those who will feel tlie depres
sion in the interim between the
full recovery, free United States
wheat, which will be distributed
under the congressional act ap
propriating 40,000,000 bushels of
wheat for the hungry of the na
tion and the provision of yeast
for pellagra cases ui’e alj. in the
program for Transylvania county
which will be furthered by the
Red Cross chapter for the coun
ty, it was learned Wednesday in
connection with the visit of Miss
Pear] Weaver. The quota
eaver.
wheat which will be received hero
has not been determined since
wheat must first be applied for
by the local Red Cross chapter
and w’ill be distributed here,
through that agency, it was lear
To the credit of the legislators,
he placed the state-supported six
months school program and the
reduction of property taxes.
On the other hand, he pointed
out the overcrov/ding of children
in class rooms; the reduction of
funds for school support, and em
phasized a movement begun
whereby high school support
would be placed back upon the
parents who would have their chil
dren obtain a high school educa
tion.
This would mean, said Dr. Hun
ter, that the wealthy would be
able to give their children a high
school education, while the aver
age boy and girl would be denied
this privilege.
Recent legislation. Dr. Hunter
declared, caused the loss of many
educational leaders, supervisors
and special teachers in North Car
olina. It left about 1500 teachers
in this state without employment.
Dr. Hunter mentioned that thelfo^.
wealth of the state is estimated at '
less than three billion dollars. The
federal government takes to
Washington, in the form of taxes,
10 per cent of this valuation each
year. For North Carolina to send
to Washington $300,000,000 an
nually is an amazing situation, he
declared. He cited an instance of
tobacco company which in
this state had been able to show
profit of $36,000,000 in 1931.
every teacher in the state
should save 20 per cent of his
salary. Dr. Hunter said, it would
require ten years for the teachers
to save as much as the cigarette
man accumulates in one year.
It was then that Dr. Hunter de-
(Continued on page three)
state department had no
reports on military movements on
the Manchurian border or of spe
cial arrangements for the trans
port of troops on the Ussui rail
road. Official word reached Wash
ington some time age that Mos
cow was concentrating troops at
Vladivostok, but further infojma-
tion as to their movements has
been meager.
Fundamentally, all information
available here indicates tliat Rus
sia and Japan do not want war.
The soviet state is understood to
(Continued on page three)
3 STILLS IN
COUNTY TAKEN
Two Men Accused as Re
sult of Raid in Bo-
heny Section
Three stills have been captured
the county the past week, both
2 county and federal prohibition
officers having been busy.
The first of the series of raids
came with the seizure by Deputy
Sheriff Tom Wood and W.
Stroup, chief of police in Ros
man, of a 50-gallon capacity cop
per still outfit in the Boheny
tion.
The following day, Friday, W
W. Owen, federal prohibition offi
of Hendersonville, and
Stroup captured a sheet iron stil
of 45-gallon- capacity, in the Dia
moiid Creek section.
On Quebec mountain, the .same
day, a 25-gallon still was captur-
Whether it will be direct ....
the form of flour, or whether the
wheat must be milled after it
comes here is another -angle of
_ problem which the local Red
Cross people are yet to solve.
There an 136 families in the
ounty who have been helped
through local relief agencies dur
ing the current year. Some of
these have not needed help all
winter, and some of them have
given aid in previous win
ters. Some of them, in fact, are
continual charge of the county
when there is need felt here to
any degree, and one of the tilings
r(4n=n7i fnr the Red Cross will endeavor
to do will be to have those peo
ple provido fov themselves in
future,
Mis.q Weaver has made two-
trips here in the past 10 days in
connection with the relief work
in progress here. She will be
here again on Thursday and will
go into tile matter of gardens,
how they will be supervised ami
the care to be taken in eonnoc--
tion with these nroducts .after
they are grown. She is a personal
representative of Gov. Gardner.
It is learned now that there
will be two sources from which
gai’den seeds will be available in
this county. One is the slate
agency for relief, the other i-s the
Red Cross. In order to obtain
these garden seed, the local Red
Cross must be able to assure the
sources from which thev are ob
tained that the seed will be plant
ed, the products cared for and
that they will be available for
use in future by the families
planting the seed.
Thus one of the first stops that
must be taken, by the local Rod
Cross Or welfare agency is to nro-
cure the help of a ’worker or
workers in the county who can
devote their time to a necessary
supervision of the truck gardens,
to see that the people planting
them are carrying out the nro-
gram as intended. ^
A. H. Kizer, with w’hom Miss
Weaver conferred on her brief
visit here Wednesday morning,
said that it wim likely the mem
bers of the Brevard chapter of
Future Farmers of America
might be asked to help to some
extent in the supervision. They
can, it was thought, help carry on
this work in the communitie.s
(Continued on page three)
In the first raid, Deputy Sher-
ff Wood arrested Henry Alexan
der and Frank Alexander, broth-
charge of violating the
prohibition law.
He said that the outfit, and its
sui’i'oundings gave evidence of the
fact that it had been in operation
long period, a large amount
of the wood arou-nd the still hav
ing .been cut down in times past
fuel.
Honor Pupils of
H. S. Announced
HEALTH WEEK
MARKED HERE
P.-T. A. Offers Prize for
Best Composition on
Benefits of Milk
With the naming of Jane
Pearce, as valedictorian and
1/Ouise Gillespie as salutatorian
of the- Brevard high school senior
class this week, another prepara
tory step in the commencement
exercises for the year was made
public. Superintendent J. B.
Jones now states that he will be . .
in a position to name the full list have more than enough milk to
of graduates and the commence- around and the overflow is giv-
ment speakers at an early date, len to other children..
Brevard is having its “Milk for
Health” campaign this week.. The
Parent-Teacher association has of.
fered a prize for the best compo-
tion on the healthful benefits of
lilk drinking in each of tlic gram-
lar grades, and in t.lie lower
.grades the children are making
posters and rhymes for tlie jiro-
otion of intere.'^t in milk dririk-
g. They have been engaged in
this diversion this week.
Meantime, if one wants to
know just how the Parent-Teach-
association feels toward milk
drinking, a peep into the rooms
of the graded school at noon wuU
show scores of children being pro-
'ded with a glass of milk by the
•ganization, to go along ' with
their noon lunch. Often the chil
dren of the undernourished group
i : ife.