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Ilpf] THE TRANSYLVANIA TIM . C y. i A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County VOL. 41, NO. 3.--BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA—THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1936. $1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY BREVARD BANK SALE IS SET FOR MONDAY All Holdings of Defunct In stitution Will Be Sold At Public Auction Sale of assets of the closed Brevard Banking Company will he held at court house door in Brevard, beginning at II o'clock Monday morning, January 20, with Cat Kim/.ey. liquidating agent, in charge. The assets comprise j U <1 g m e n t s, notes, real estate, cash items, s' \S and bonds, and other miscell ous items. Complete list of assets to 1 sold, and details of the sale m full are set out in an advertisement ben lining on lace two of tile second section of this paper. Tim various items will be sold parcel by parcel, and then offered for sale in groups, and then in entire hulk, to the highest bidder. Owners of luma tide claims against tip dosed bank may use 22 per cent of the i pi- amount of claims as if it were , ash in bidding on the assets offered for sale. Purpose of the sale is to facilitate Up P imitation of lip Wink, and to pav t . remaining depositors as much . ,[, pnm Iiatob. Twenty per already been paid to depositors b, \ • ■ >. t l\ mi/cy. Ab Kilpatrick Lands in New York Prison \1. Kilpatrick of this county was ap prehended ip New \ork City last Fri ilay after having escaped from the prison .Hiarry squad near Huntsville on . ., [011.1 Iasi year. Kt a-nek was servile; a t'vo year term for stabbing a man here in Match of last year, and made ills es cape from the quarry squad of the prison i amp where he was used as a handy man. Scouts Plan Larger Field of Activities Friday. January l"th. marked tin- be ginning of a "new deal" for the Hoy Seouts of I’.revard. With Scoutmaster .1. R Kufty pre fiiliag t lie Seoul meeting eame to ordei witii the eustotnary salutations and re porting of good turns by each of the boys in tip 17 scouts present, six were VAted Info' file" following offices; Scrili. Oliver (>rr Jr.; monitor. Charles Piekelsititer; doorkeeper. Uay moitd Hayes; litirarlun. N ance Jackson: flag tiearer. John Walker; reporter. Steve F.raeken. As tlp r. was no other important hus iness. Hi. s out master then turned his attention lo the seouts* "new deal, stressing tin fact that accomplishments of ill* troop have not been what they should during the past year, and urging k lie.r. e. list meti ve w ork tie done. ^ He guv the scouts five objectives for Hie following week, each objective rep resenting a symbol of stouting: I |. ■■ all lards seen in the next week; know at least C. trees under wintir eoadilions; earn a sum of money from five rents up; I put out fe. d t*< r birds; 7. have an extra good turn for the following Friday. The meeting then adjourned with a snappy monitor's report. K\, . ,m now being turned to tiro Court of Honor, anil the jamboree to be liei.l at Asheville, uni to a most successful year in scouting.- Steve Hrackeii. lieporter. Officers Elected By Cathey Creek School New officers and teachers were elected at the Cathey*: Creek Baptist Sumla> school on Sunday. January G. rt» serve for tin* year RUNS. The following w« re elected: Superin tendent. Noah C. .Miller; assistant •n: erintendent. Vernon Burton; sec t ry -treasurer. Mrs. Lore no Boss; hers Bible class, James Garrett; young people. J. A. Bryson; juniors, Mi . L. B. Wilson: beginners. Mrs. Til . lie B. Currie. . Regular worship is held each first * and third Sundays, and conference and woiship held, the Saturday night before iu first Sunday. Sunday school is at o o'clock each Sundav morning. B. Y. • f. at 7 o'cluek and prayer meeting ,t 8 o’clot k Sunday night. The Rev. W. 1\ Holtzclaw is pastor. The public is cordially invited to attend any or all ^ of these services. 'S3Jp^ " Saw+iqi —-)u Vl'LETSi | ■p . ^r New Type Face Used In This Week’s Issue A new type dross is Jfiven Tho Times this week, which the man agement hopes will meet with ap proval of subscribers. Paced with the problem of buy ing new matrices for the type setting machine in The Times of fice, the new style shown on this page was selected for its neatness and also because of the fact that it would carry more words per inch than the old-style face which has been in use for sever al years. The Times requests subscribers to criticise the new style type face, and of course, if it does not meet with approval of readers, will be changed to one tint is more suitable... .for after all. chief aim of this newspaper is to please its readers in as many re spects as possible. President Coltrane Speaker at Meeting Featuring the January meeting of the Parent-Teacher association, held Tuesday afternoon in the Brevard grammar school auditorium, was an in teresting and instructive address given ly President K. J. Coltrane of Brevard College. 1 Mr. Coltrane discussed the problems and opportunities confronting the com munity in the field of public education, giving fuels and figures on school oper ation. "The state merely lays the foun dation of our system by paying the actual expenses.” the speaker said “We must get together and finish the job." Several suggestions for doing this were cited by Mr. Coltrane, ns. better library euuipment. new buildings, nine months school term and special art teacher. Resignation of Mrs. Walter Banks as president was accepted with regrets. Mrs. Roland Whitmire, vice president, was elected president of the organiza l on for the remainder of the school 'erm. The nominating committee was instructed to name a vice president. Decision was made for the executive board to investigate and make arrange ments about the proposed school lunch room. Mrs. .1. M. Allison, representing the C. !>. c.. asked the teachers to ob serve the following birthdays: January II, Matthew Contain Maury: January Ri. (ten. Robert K. I.ee; January 21. Thos. J. Jackson: February 3, Sidney l.anier; Febpyitio,__ jj . (.lynr J. .Ji. JJ, Kt uaiR The banner for December was won by Mrs. F. 1‘. Sledge's 3-A grade and Miss Julia Heaver's 3-1! section. Sample Store Opens Brevard National Sample store, under tin management of J. I. Ayers, will open for business in the building" next door to the Tinsley Burlier shop on Main street Saturday of this week. The new concern will feature sample cuts of piece goods, men's, women's and children's ready-to-wear. Mr. Ayers is well known here, he having been supply sergeant at Camp F-li for the past two yea rs. LOCAL VETERANS TO RECEIVE I RGE SUM Bonus Bill Seen As Certain To Pass, Paying World War Soldiers Trims} Ivania count} veterans of the World War will receive $105.K32.-I3 if Congress enacts the bonus bill which now scents very likely to go through at the present session. American Legion hotid<iuurters in Ra leigh announce that 63.'.'SO North Car olina veterans will receive a total of ?::i.622.Ki2.su under the proposed hill which has passed the lower house and is now being threshed out in committee before going to the senate. Word from Washington Tuesday aft ernoon was to the effect that u compro mise MU providing for payment in bonds which arc immediately cashable or can lie held as an investment, had been reported favorably by a count of 1.7 to '1 in the finance committee. Lead ers believe that the bill will pass the senate by or before the end of the week. Washington. Jan. 15.—A compromise hill authorizing immediate payment of the $2.4111.0110,000 soldier bonus, backet} .1} powerful administration and veteran leaders. Is 1 icing pushed toward early passitge in the senate. Payment would be made in non-ne gotial [‘ bonds valued at {$1,836,950, which could lie turned into cash by the veterans at their local postoffices, and n $87,786,500 of actual currency, under die terms of the senate measure. The house passed a bill last week ailing for immediate payment of the ■onus hut left it up to President Roose "lt to determine how the money would >e raised. Action of the senate leaders n approving the compromise indicated ulministration officials had abandoned pipes cf postponing action on this Is tUe which has been before congress for 17 years under every president since Warren G. Harding. Air. Roosevelt's lieutenants on Capi tol Mill are said to have advised him iover.il days ago that it was highly unlikely that sufficient cotes could be found in either body to uphold another ■onus veto. First indication that the ad ninist ration had capitulated came when Majority Leader Joe T. Robinson if the senate predicted that some com iromise measure acceptable to tic .Vhitc House could be agreed on. WPA WILL ASSIST IN STREET WORK HERE Will Provide Employment In Brevard For Large Num ber of People Work on grading and graveling un improved si reels and sidewalks in Bre vard is expected to get under Way within the next couple of days, with WIW furnishing labor for the several projects. The force of WPA workmen in Bre vard will lie increased under the street improvement program. Director W. K. ltreese said Wednesday, additional al lotment of federal funds having liecn secured through Ills office for Brevard to take care of needy unemployed here. Sewing rooms, for women, and road projects for men in various sections of l the county have been going for several j weeks, with around two hundred peo ■ I - in lug given employment under the WPA. I _ Basketball Holding Stage Center Here llrevard basket ball tossers will play a double header here Friday night of this week when the boys high school team will meet Christ School, and the high school girls will play the llrevard All-Star girls. First game is called for i 7:8o on the high school court. The llrevard high teams won over j the Hendersonville outfits on the lilt - r tor's court Tuesday night, the girls winning 83-11. and the hoys going into an extra period for a 26-24 score. llrevard College A-squad defeated the Kosman all-star aggregation at Ilre vard Tuesday night to the time of 34 ,24, while the college I’-squad was winning over the Kosnian high school quint by the score of 34-27. In a double header game here last Saturday night the college 11-squad de feated the high school by the score of 2S-2f>. and the college C-sqtlad defeated the high school It-squad ln-f>. "While schedules for the three outfits in the county, llrevard College, lire card High and Kosman High, are not complete, there is promise of plenty of good entertainment for 1he next several weeks, with two to five games being played by tile several teams earli week. Jack Miller To Get LsttfejLAi Annaitoli* Jack Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller of llrevard. is on the list of athletes who will receive the covet ed Navy "N" at the June graduation ceremonies. Young Miller has taken an active part in football at Annapolis during the past two years, playing a part of every game the past season at center and will be the first string key man on the Navy squad in 1836 Scme Snow Still Here Snow is still to he found in some of the coves, remaining on tile ground since Dccemlier 28. when the heaviest snowfall of years was recorded here. Knuds In the county arc drying out considerable and school buses are re ported to lie making their regular runs. Kxtra crews have been kept busy by Kngineer Kraest Webb in order to re pair roads as fast as possible. Production Credit Meet Annual meeting of the Asheville 1’reduction Credit association which serves Transylvania and a number of ; other mountain counties, will lie held in Asheville on Friday, January 17. be ginning at 11 o’clock in the morning. Several outstanding men of the state in Hie agricultural line will be pres ent at the meeting, and it is expected that several farmers of this county will attend. Legion Meets Tuesday All members of the American Legion 1 ;u i urged l»j officers to attend t h e meeting to lie held in the court house mi Tuesday night of next week. Jan. "1. beginning at 7:S'l. Matters of interest to every veteran in the county will he brought before the body, and all ex-service men whether members of the Legion or tint, are invited to attend. ! Realty Transfers I The following real estate transfers j have been recorded by Register of i Deeds Jess Calloway during the past week: V. S. Bryant trustee to Really Pur chase dorp.; Geo. B. Compton to N. D. McNary, receiver; Gurney P. Hood, commissioner of hanks to A. M. Paxton and wife; VV. W. Poole and wife to T. ,S. Wood and wife. HONOR ROLL The following subscribers have sent in renewals since Wednesday of last week: A. K. Mooro, Lenoir. .1. T. Mills, Texas. J. M. Meeco, Brevard H-2. Mrs. R. Jenkins, Penrose. Dr. T. J. Summey, New Jersey. M. W. Galloway. Brevard. L. R. Scruggs, Brevard. R-It. ltance McCall. Balsam Grove. J. M. Blythe, Brevard R-2. A. K. McGuha, Piseab Forest. D. M. Orr, Brevard K-1. S. Jones, Lake Toxaway. The Times welcomes the following new subscribers who have become read ers of the Homo Paper since Wednes day of last week: Jack Blythe, Penrose. G. T. Bcddiugfleld, Oakland. ■ Commissioners Order 1932 Foreclosures Order was made by (be county com missioners in special meeting here .Mon day that procedure lie started to tore close delinquent taxes for the year 1!>32, as provided for in the 1935 law passed by the legislature. Vnder provisions of Die law. all pro perts on which taxes frr the year 1932 have not been paid, shall be fore closed . upon, and an additional charge of six or more dollars placed against the property alter the suits hUV" been started. Considerable detail work is .made necessary in the foreclosure proceed ings, and it. I.. Gash was appointed as assistant to County Attorney ltreese to help in the work. All County Schools Resumed Work 13fci All schools of the county ivsittnrd work Monday morning of this week, and according t«» County Superintend ent .1. 15. Jones, all buses were able to make their complete trips with ver> few exceptions. Postponement of opening was made from January t> to 13 on account of the deep snow and bad weather prevalent here the week before scheduled date for opening. Arrested On Murder Bill 34 Years Old Waynesvillc, .Ian. 15. A nee Phillips, about (»5 years of ago, was arrested ir. Pigeon township, Haywood county. Sat urday afternoon on a charge of mur dering a man .11 years ago. Phillips is said to have killed Jim I Sutton, a man of a hunt HO years of age. in the llig Creek section of Cata j loochee township, Haywood county, in pan. Phillips it was learned, returned t«» i Haywood county several days ago to | visit a brother. Some persons, whose | names the officers did not divulge, rec | ngnized Phillips and remembered the | charge against him. The case is expeeted to come up for I trial at the February term of Haywood count} Superior Court here. AAA Payments To Be Made Says Official , All AAA payments due North Cur r oTTha fanners-up January fi. MM. | will be paid, according to word from ! Washington received by Dealt I. O. Kchauh, of State ('allege. The treasury depmtmont has un tiouneed that all AAA checks now !»e Inr distributed are good and may lie ashed at any time. The dean could not say just when checks for payments llow due will lie ilistrihuted. as preparations for these payments had not been completed at the time the AAA work was suspend I ell. Dealt Scliunb expressed his belief that some way will lie'worked out for completing these and other payments within a* reasonable time. Farmers who kept faith with their crop adjustment contracts up to the time the Supreme t'ourt invalidated the AAA deserve to get the payments promised, the dean said. Gets Life Term HAY ItAll.KY. who was sentenc ed to lift? at Greenville last Monday, when lie submitted to the char-rc of slayinn Officer A. It. Hunt. (Out courtesy The Greenville News.) College Teams Win i Over Rosman Quints — Basketball season opened for Brevard College Tuesday night when (he varslt) won over Itosman All-Stars 34-21 anil the B-team trounced Itosman High school 36-27 on the high school stag* gym. Several new faces appeared for the first time in the college lineup Rogers and Ardrey. two freshmen, an showing promise of becoming main stays on the varsity. Ardrey with 17 points led the varsil> in routing tin All-Stars with Patton and Davis get ting six points each. Rogers' floor garni helped considerably, and Wright, stel lar guard, is rounding into old-ttnn form. In I he "B" game James Crisp led ! with X points with Whitesides gather ing t! points and playing a splendid ■floor game. Hyatt and I.atl played steadily on the floor and each got 5 I points to aid In the victory. Fifteen | men were used in the high school game in order to give Coach Jumes a line on reserves for the “A" team. Two games with Enka there Wednes day and a game with Blue Ridge ui Hendersonville Saturday will dose out | the week's p rug rang The Lineups: Vurslty 34: Rogers and Patton. ' guards: 'Ardrey, center: Davis and I Wright, guards; Rosman All-Stars 24; Fisher and Whitmire, forwards; O. I Galloway. center; White and C. Gallo way guards. B team 36: Hyatt and Fagan, for wards; Eldridge. center; Crisp and Whitesides, guards; Bosnian High, 27: Rigdon and Gwen, forwards; Whitmire, center; Gillespie and Summey, guards, i Subs for I! team, Nesbitt, Lull. Mock and Ballard. Jess Smith Moves Jess Smith, in the auto repair busi ness here for the past twenty years, has moved his garage to the Fred Harris building, corner of East Main and Gaston, where he will continue in the repair and garage business. Ray Bailey Given Life Sentence For Slaying Greenville Police Officer Greenville. S. ('., .lull II.—A life in prison or on the county chaingung I faces Itay Halley, 28. of the HurnsvilU section of North Carolina, who Monday pleaded guilty to the murder of Motor j cycle Officer A. II. Hunt here nearly I four years ago. A verdict of guilty with recommenda- l j lion to the mercy of the court was ae ccpted by Solicitor .1. G. Leatherwood and Judge A. 1- Gaston, of Chester, sentenced the North Carolinian to serve the remainder of his life in the state penitentiary or on the public works of this county. Jn a signed statement after his sen tence. Bailey maintained his innocence and declared that it was only because of the "falsehoods" that had been sworn against him in the ease and his lack of funds with which to put up un ade quate defense that he had entered the plea. Bath']/ Sols The defendant, pictured at various times as a desperado and mountain bad man, broke down as his plea war entered by C. G. Wyehe, of defense counsel, and sobbed audibly while sen tence was being pronounced. Hunt was shot through the heart and instantly killed on the night of May 1, 1932, when city officers stopped a taxicab to question its occupants. It was estimated that between 76 and 100 shots were fired in the exchange and officers expressed confidence that they had wounded seriously one of the gun men. Bailey was later found at a hos pital in Sylva, N. <\, suffering from i bullet wounds and was arrested on a charge of murder. He was freed after a habeas corpus hearing in which he offered an alibi. The North Carolina Supreme Court up held the decision, but It was reversed by the United States Supreme Court. Hatley remained a fugitive for some months, being captured last fall in Georgia about a week after he had (hot his way out of a trap near Bos nian, N. C. Three other alleged members of the land were charged with murder and ikewlse were given their liberty at a habeas corpus hearing held in Ashe S vilie, N. ('. Their eases were not ap pealed und they never have been taken into custody In this slate. Text iif statement The statement in which Hailey as serted he was Innocent follows: "There are only two reasons why X submitted, namely: "I had only a few dollars to de fend myself. My people borrowed tc the limit of their credit in order tc help me employ counsel and to make preparations for the trial. Hefore final preparations were made for the trial, all money available was exhausted, ne money left to pay transportation und lodging of witnesses who are scattered now over three states. “X have been told ‘that a poor man has a poor chance in court' and 1 am nothing but a poor, penniless boy. “I know, and Clod knows, that some false witnesses testified against me in this case in a former trial und of fours* would do likewise again if I had gone on trial; and probably more false wit nesses would have testified against me if I had gone on trial. “In view of the two aliove powerful reasons, I was persuaded for hours by my friends to submit, advising that my life might tie sworn away. "My statement is the same now, as always, X am an innocent man of this charge. "Signed, Ray Hailey." Makes Esea pc Only a few months ago Sheriff Tom Wood from North Carolina anil South Carolina officers surrounded a house In Transylvania county where Raj Bailey was reported to be hiding. Just before they were aide to spring their trap, Bailey became alarmed and jump ed out the back door shooting. He wounded one officer and made his get away in the darkness, after being wounded himself. He next appeared in Georgia and officers hot on his trail, spotted several places where ho had stayed but always after he had moved jn. Then officers came upon him walk ing along the road, unarmed, and he was taken Into custody and rushed to Greenville, S. C„ where he was lodged n jail*to await trial. MRS. BREEDLOVE IN JAIL FOR SHOOTING Neighbors Start Argument— End Up With Two Badly Injured Mrs. Mary Burgess and her daughter, Miss Hertle Burgess, both of the Oak land section, were shot with a 32-eaIi bre pistol in ihe hands of Mrs. .loss Hreedlove, also of Oakland, Iasi Wed nesday night. Condition of Mrs, Burgess, who Is about sixty years of age. was consider ed very serious for a few days, but she is reported now to be resting fairly comfortably. She was shot through the left chest just under the collar bone, the ball ranging downward and passing out through the back after piuicturirr-' a lung. Miss Burgess was shot through th" left side, but it was a flesh " '—I. and Dr. Knglish said was not ed serious. Mrs. Breedlove was bu n. ! n o Wednesday night by .Sheriff Tom W "d and Is being held pending otdeon ot the condition of Mrs. Burgess. Wa a • for her arrest charges assault "I, deadly weapon with attempt to , ill. The shooting is said to hu'o hen a culmination of arguments over rln: ii"i. of Mr. and Mrs. Kred McNeely lit- w. younger women starling the flout. IT llminury hearing has not b. mi In-Id. and stories told the sheriff ur- con flicting as to details. Large Group Hears Jackson Day Speaker Eighty Democratic lenders of Tin sylvaniu county gathered m the Wood men of the World hull Wedtn *!:■> night and heard I. furls Arledv tiromlnent Hendersonville attorney. in a Jackson Day address. The meeting was presided nv. r :.y John E. Itufty, president of the Tran sylvania Young Democratic cluli. with Senator Ralph II. liamse. Jr. introduc Ing the speaker. Mr, A fledge traced the origin of tin Democratic party from the time •>! Thomas Jefferson, through the diy of Andrew Jackson, and on to tin present Roosevelt era, placing Roose velt in the same positioi as leader of a nation and civilization :s were Jef fersnn and Jackson. Well versed In history. Mr. Allege made Interesting comparisons of the leadership of Jackson aid Roosevelt, and closed his speech w:th the asser tion that the people of the United States would rally around the Roose velt standard with the the courage, and the same success hat attended the leadership of Jacksot Music for the dinner-' at was fur nished by the farter or nostra. Short speeches were made by 'halrtiiat: W. I,. Aiken of the county • ard of com missioners, W. fat Kin /oy. It re card attorney, and ITofcssor j. R Jones, superintendent <the re- ity hoard ot education. Official fi-o altlon was given by Chairman Ruff to the mem bers ot the program, tie inbershlp. and. arrangements commitf-t - tor the- work, done in arranging the si. essful event. Digest Poll Shows New Deal Is Behind The l.itetuty Digest oil for Iasi Friday gives tiie anti-.V ■ Dealers in creased lead, with B!».S| | cent VOIitn ••no” and 3S.II "yes". So far there have hci n <188,403 vn'c . the New IP al getting d4 and ti antis getting l ull.Ills. in North Carolina, tit Digest poo shows Ifi.o.'ti for the N'.-v Deal, and ]0,403 against. Chief Galloway Hurt When Bull Runs Wild Chief Galloway was .'riou.-dy * i* - jureil las! week when he was bruised and trampled b> a large edt Isdonging to Ralph R. Fisher. Rut ; t the timely Intervention of Mr. Kish* Mr. Gallo way would very probal have been killed. The two men were driving some tat tle belonging to Mr. Fisher when the bull became enraged and knocked Galloway down anti continued bis on slaught. .Mr. Fisher ran i ■ ami pulled the bull away only to b. thrown and considerably bruised himself by tlv large animal. Galloway was given fit it aitl treat ment by Or. It. L. Stokes and later removed to l.yday hospital wher** hi.* condition Is reported very good. One hit was tlislocatctl. anti he "as consider ably bruised. Mr. Kishei was bruist-n when he was knocked down and tramp led by the hull hut not seriously. , "The Red laimp." a pit.;* written by the late Hilliard Booth, I revard play wright of note, will tip given by the Little Theatre group sometime during February, according to announcement following fhe meeting on Monday eve ning. Tryouts for casting will bo held on Monday, January 20tli for "The Red Lamp.” anti for "The Boor." which will also be given during February. Any persons interested are tnvlted to try out for the various parts In the plays. At the meeting Monday evening. Pro fessor J. A. .Carlisle of Rrevartl College had charge of the program and gave % very interesting talk on make-up. us ing live models.