The Transylvania Times
Adjudged Best Large Non-Daily In North Carolina And Second Best In Nation
Vol. 53; No. 32
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUG. 12, 1943
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ONE KILLED AND FOUR WOUNDED
GOVERNOR PUTS
TEETH IN ‘WORK
OR FIGHT’ ORDER
Asks Committee To Compile
List Of Persons Not Work
ing Or Fighting
Gov. J. M. Broughton has issued
regulations putting teeth into his
original “work or fight-’ procla
mation.
The new regulations call upon
every male North Carolinian to
work in gainful employment in
industry or agriculture. Students
during school term and persons
studying for a trade or industrial
job are excepted.
“In the present great shortage
of agricultural and industrial labor,
our Governor has taken steps to
insure that no able-bodied vag
rant person may consume food and
supplies produced by the labor of
others.” County Chairman Harry
Straus points out.
The Governor has asked all com
mittee members to compile names
and addresses of all ablebodied
male persons between the ages of
18 and 25 who are not gainfully
employed and who are not in the
armed forces.
County Tire Quota
For August Is Cut
The Transylvania county tire
quota for the month of August
has been cut nearly in half and
consequently it is impossible to
grant all requests this month, it
was learned this week.
The county’s August passenger
car quota is 49 new tires and 50
truck tires.
Gasoline books no longer gov
ern eligibility for tires. The own
er’s occupational needs are being
taken into consideration now, it
is stated.
MRS. MORGAN IS HELPING
IN ACCOUNTANT’S OFFICE
Mrs. Edwin Morgan is working
in the county accountant’s office,
assisting Mrs. Dorothy Mitchell in
making final tabulations of 1943
valuations.
TEACHING STAFF
NEARLY FILLED
Schools Open August 30.
Entrance Law Remains
Same This Year
With Transylvania county pub
lic schools scheduled to open on
Monday, August 30, the teaching
staff for the 1943-44 school year
is now being completed and will
be announced in ihe near future,
Supt. J. B. Jones seated this week.
Tentative arrangements have al
ready been made for all vacancies
except here at the Brevard high
school and one vacancy each at
Cedar Mountain and Montvale.
Miss Ruth Stevens has resigned
as primary teacher at Cedar Moun
tain in order to join the WACS.
A number of applicants are be
ing considered to fill the four
vacancies at Brevard high.
In connection with the opening
of schools, Supt. Jones pointed out
that the entrance law remains the
same since no changes were au
thorized during the last session of
legislature.
The law requires that to enroll
in the public schools a child must
be 6 years old on or before Oc
tober 1 and that he or she must
enroll during the first month of
the school year.
Aquatic School To
Be Held At Camp
Carolina Aug. 21
Plans are now being made to
hold a late season American Red
Cross national aquatic school at
Camp Carolina from August 21
through August 31, it has been
announced.
No information is available yet
as to registration, but it is believed
that there will be a large enroll
ment.
Two national aquatic schools are
held, each year at Camp Carolina,
one in June and the other in
August. Men and women from
rofiny sections of the country at
tend.
Dr. Royall, Outstanding Baptist
Missionary, Has A Famous Old
Ford Coupe Called 'Nightingale’
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Rosman Pastor Has Done
Missionary Work In Many
Foreign Lands
Dr. Francis Martin Royall, ven
erable pastor of Zion Baptist
church, at Rosman, and outstand
ing Baptist missionary, has a Ford
coupe which he calls “Nightin
gale,M for. he says, “it sings when
it runs.'’ It also seems to be en
dowed with a charm of some kind
because, he said, the vehicle was
fired upon by enraged Moslems in
Palestine, who had vowed to kill
him but was not struck. The car
was given to him for his work in
the Holy Land.
Dr. Royall has been in mission
work in China. Siberia, Egypt, Old
Mesopotamia and Palestine for 45
years. He has preached on the
four continents of America, Eu
rope, Asia and Africa. He has had
many exciting experiences in dif
ferent parts of the world and he
has visited many historic spots
during his long career in the min
istry.
Dr. Royall, a native of North
Carolina and Fellow in the Royal
Geographic Society in London, was
educated at Wake Forest and
Southern Baptist Theological Sem
inary. He read medicine in two
schools. His father, Isham Royall,
was the founder of Salembury
Junior College in Sampson county.
Dr. Royall went to China in
1893 and plunged into the interior,
where he learned the Chinese
language and adopted their cus
toms. There he witnessed famines,
floods, riots and plagues. In one
*/Iace in 1916 he saw 500,000 Chi
nese people starving and did what
he could to aid them. His en
counters with bandits and thieves
w'ere frequent and he knew the
first man w'ho was killed in the
Boxer uprising in 1900. At the
Baptist associational meeting held
at Glady Branch church last week,
Dr. Royall made an eloquent and
moving plea for aid for Chinese
now dying of starvation.
In 1928, Dr. Royall went to
Palestine and spent ten years there
working among the Arabs, Jew's
and Armenians. While there he
visited the excavations of Ur of
the Chaldees, where Abraham w'as
born. He spoke to the Jews in Old
Baghdad in their reading room
and was in the region of the Gar
den of Eden.
In Egypt he spoke to multitudes
both at Cairo and at Luxor, tomb
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Three State Baptist
Workers In County
Three W.M.U. state workers
are in the county this week work
ing with the Transylvania Baptist
Association teaching mission study
classes and helping to organize
the young people in several dif
ferent churches.
The workers are Miss Catherine
Abee, state young people’s leader;
Miss Louise Bashford and Mrs.
Covert.
Organization work among young
people is being carried out in
the following churches: Brevard
First Baptist church, Brevard Sec
ond Baptist, Cherryfield, Glady
Branch, Pisgah Forest, Little
River, Boylston and Turkey Creek.
Venerable Pastor
Dr. Francis Martin Royall is
a venerable Baptist pastor, mis
sionary, writer and lecturer.
MRS. OSBORNE IS
BURIED HERE MON.
Well Known Local Woman
Died Saturday After
Declining Illness
Funeral service was held on
Monday afternoon at the Brevard
First Baptist church for Mrs. C.
K Oabo. ne. 65. who died at her
home near Brevard on Saturday
night, following a period of de
clining health. The pastor, Rev.
B. W. Thomason, conducted the
service. Interment was in Gilles
pie cemetery.
Surviving are the husband, five
sons and two daughters. They are:
Ralph S. Osborne, of Murray, Ky.,
C. Lewis Osborne, of Brevard, Z.
Frank Osborne, of Decatur, Ala.,
T. E. Osborne, of Wake Forest, C.
K. Osborne, Jr., of Huntersville,
Ala. Five brothers and three sis
ters also survive, including, John
Sumpter, of Philadelphia, Pa., T.
Sumpter, of Crawfordsville, Ga.,
Dorsey Sumpter, of Alabama, Ar
thur Sumpter, of Easley, S. C.,
Fred Sumpter, of Roxboro, Mrs.
W. S. Ayers, of Caanan, Ga., Mrs.
J. C. Reynolds, of Elberta, Ga.,
and Mrs. Oscar Flemming, of Beau
ford, Ga. A number of grandchil
dren also survive.
Active pallbearers were Fred
Johnson, N. A. Miller, Henry R.
Henderson, D. L. English, J. F.
Zachary, Lewis P. Hamlin, Julian
A. Glazener and Maurice Hawkins.
The board of deacons of the
First Baptist church and past mas
ters and officers of Dunn’s Rock
Masonic lodge were honorary pall
bearers. Flower bearers were mem
bers of the T. E. L. class, of which
Mrs. Osborne was a member.
Mrs. Osborne was a native of
Cherokee county, but had lived in
Transylvania county for many
years. She was a member of the
Baptist church here, and was
active in church affairs until fail
ing health prevented her attend
ance.
Osborne - Simpson funeral home
had charge of arrangements.
Churchill Arrives in Canada For
Future War Parleys With Roosevelt
Since the unannounced arrival
on Tuesday of Prime Minister
Winston Churchill in Quebec, Can
ada, world-wide speculation has
been rife with rumors regarding
the time and place and purpose of
the sixth and next meeting of the
British leader with President
Roosevelt for conferences pertain
ing to the Allies’ part in the suc
cessful continuation of the war
against the Axis nations, together
with presumable post-war plans.
As a prelude to the inevitable
early meeting of the two great
war leaders, President Roosevelt
has already met with his high mil
itary and state department ad
visers as a probable preliminary
to his forthcoming new war talks
with Churchill. Gathering at the
White House on Tuesday were
known to be Secretary of State
Hull, Under Secretary Welles and
a number of other prominent mil
itary and state leaders. At his
press radio conference, the Presi
dent stated, “I expect to meet
with Prime Minister Churchill,
but I cannot say when or where
or anything else.”
After Churchill’s venturesome
Atlantic crossing on Tuesday, he
was met in Quebec by Prime Min
ister Mackenzie King, of Canada,
and went into conference almost
immediately with his Canadian
ally, with the announcement that
he would confer with President
Roosevelt later for separate Anglo
American war talks, at a time and
place which could not now be dis
closed. He was accompanied on
his trip to this continent by his
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ECUSTA STRING
BAND WON FIRST
PLAGE IN CONTEST
Dance Team Came Out In
Second Place In Annual
Mountain Festival
The Ecusta string band won
first place in the 16th. annual
Mountain Dance and Folk festi
val music contest held at Ashe
ville last Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, and the Ecusta dance
team won all contests until the
final round on Saturday night
and was defeated for first place
by the famed Soco Gap team.
These Transylvania contestants
were sponsored by the recreational
department of the Ecusta Paper
corporation under the direction of
John Eversman.
Rhett Talley is manager of the
string band and the other four
members of it are Robert King.
Carl Patterson, Arch Lance and
Odell Scott.
This outstanding band also fur
nished music for the Ecusta dance
team that included 10 couples.
Eben Morrow was manager and
caller. The other 19 participants
were Markley Jones, Jimmie Jones.
Walter Ashworth. Walter Wood.
Homer Raxter, Burgen Teague,
Otto Whitesides, Hal Keener,
Sang Lyda, Eleanor Caldwell, Mil
dred Talley, Lillian Houston, Pat
sy Grimshaw, Sue Alien, Ann Mor
ris, Catherine McCraA1. Gladys
Teague, Jean Bennett and Nancy
Morrow.
The Brookshire string band of
Henderson county won second
place in the music contest.
The Rhett Talley band furnishes
music every Mond|^T night for the
street dances that are held here.
Both the band and the square
dance team will be featured to
night at the regular monthly show
to be staged at Ecusta tonight.
Gets German Plane
■HManmnE *. mmmmsmmm
Although he was slightly
wounded, Sgt, Jimmie Aider
man, shown above, has been
recommended for citation for
bravery by his commanding of
ficer and got at least one Ger
man plane on July 26th.
BIG DEMAND FOR
CANNING SUGAR
Many Registering At Ration
ing Board Office. Dead
line October 31
Transylvania county women are
now canning large quantities of
vegetables, according to the re
quests for canning sugar that are
being made at the rationing board
office here.
During the month of July ap
proximately 225 families received
around 10,000 pounds of canning
sugar permits and so far this
montn almost that many have reg
istered. Mrs. Ernestine Davis an
nounced.
Registration for canning sugar
is increasing daily, too, it is learn
ed.
Mrs. Davis also announced that
the deadline for canning sugar
registration will not be until Oc
tober 31st.
Because of late cold seasons in
the spring, there are not many
fruits in the county to be canned
and it is difficult to purchase
them on the market.
Miss Beulah Zachary Is Making
Outstanding Record As Designer
And Stage Manager For Big Plays
Making Big Success
MISS BEULAH ZACHARY,
formerly of Brevard, is making
a name for herself in theatrical
circles in New York and other
large cities of the nation.
SGT. ALDERMAN
IS COMMENDED
FOR BRAVERY
Commanding Officer Recom
mends A Citation For
Former Brevard Man
Mrs. Jimmie Alderman, of Bre
vard, has received a letter from
First Lieutenant Walter A. Baker,
written from somewhere in Eng
land, highly commending Sergeant
Alderman for bravery displayed
recently during an air raid over
Europe and stating that as com
manding officer he had recom
mended Sergeant Alderman for
citation.
“With utter disregard for his
own safety, he stood by his blaz
ing guns, until the last enemy
fighter had left and we were well
within the zone of safety,” the
letter stated.
It is understood from another
source that this plane brought down
a total of 6 German aircraft in
the engagement of July 26 and
Jimmie was slightly injured from
enemy fire. He is now recupera
ting in a hospital in England.
“I am writing you these few
lines to let you know how very
proud I am of your husband,” the
letter further stated. “The type
of bravery he displayed under
fierce enemy fire, makes me very
proud to be his friend and com
manding officer.”
GAITHER TO OPERATE
BREVARD SODA SHOP
Bill Gaither has reopened the
soda shop in the building adjoin
ing the McFee Jewelry and Radio
shop here. Mr. Gaither is handling
sandwiches, bottled drinks and
smokes and plans later, when gas
is available, to offer fountain ser
vice. Mr. Gaither was formerly
employed by the Canteen Cafe.
Works With Large Number
Of Stars In New York
And Other Cities
Miss Beulah Zachary, of Brevard
and New York City, is making a
name for herself in theatrical cir
cles in New York City and other
large cities of the nation in her
tours as stage manager with high
rating plays and as costume de
signer for star actresses of world
wide popularity.
Miss Zachary is now with Helene
Pons Studio, theatrical costumers
and designers, of New York City.
Among the stars for whom she
has designed and made costumes
are Helen Hayes, star in the plav
“Harriet,” and for Katharine Cor
nell in “The Three Sisters.” Some
of the big producers with whom
she has worked are Gilbert Miller,
The Theatre Guild, Guthrie Mc
Clintic and Katharine Cornell.
Last spring Miss Zachary was
stage manager for the play, “Cry
Havoc,” on a three-month tour in
Chicago, Detroit, Boston and
other large cities. Last year she
was stage manager for the play,
“A Kiss For Cinderella,” in a
two months’ run in New York
City, with Louis Rainer and Ralph
Forbes as stars. For two sum
mers she was stage manager for
the Maplewood, N. J., summer
stock theatre, with a different
play showing each week.
“My job in general is to see that
everything goes smoothly behind
the scenes and on the stage,”
Miss Zachary said, in reply to a
query as to the scope of her work.
“I am responsible for a1! stage
properties, scenery, lighting, sound
effects, costumes, give cues and
other details involved in the suc
cessful production of a play,” she
further explained.
Miss Zachary received her train
ing for this type of theatrical
work at the Mohawk Drama Fes
tival, at Schenectady, N. Y., where
she worked for four summers un
der the direction of Charles
Coburn, star in “The More The
Merrier.” She has been in this
work the past three years. Prior
to that time she established and
directed the Brevard Little Thea
tre, which proved a popular form
of entertainment here for three
years.
Miss Zachary is a graduate of
Brevard high school and of Salem
College, Winston-Salem. She has
been on a recent vacation visit
here with her mother, Mrs. Beu
lah Zachary, who spends the sum
mers at her home in Brevard, and
the winters with her daughter in
New York City.
Home Nursing Class
Is Being Held In
Lake Toxaway Area
A Red Cross home nursing class
was started in the Lake Toxaway
section on Tuesday afternoon by
Mrs. Jessie Mae Lollis, county
nurse.
The class is being held at the
home of Mrs. Carl Moltz. Four
teen enrolled Tuesday and others
are invited to join. The class will
meet every Tuesday and Thurs
day afternoon from 2 until 4
o’clock.
Schedule Of Farm Meetings In
Transylvania County Is Announced
A schedule for a series of com
munity meetings to be held in
Transylvania county this month by
AAA community committeemen
was announced this week by Mrs.
Julia Westwood, clerk in the AAA
county office here.
All farmers are invited to attend
the meetings and at that time the
committeemen will assist farmers
in reporting this soil building
practices, measurements of special
crops, potatoes and commercial
vegetables.
Two meetings have already been
held in the Little River commu
nity, one at B. F. Robinson’s store
last Saturday and one at Little
River school Tuesday.
The schedule is as follows:
Boyd Township
Penrose school, August 14;
Knight’s store, August 21; Mrs.
Hattie C. Boggs, August 16; Clar
ence Orr’s store, August 14.
Brevard-Dunn’s Rock Townships
Lum Abner store, August 14;
Brevard high school, August 21;
Patton’s store, August 14; Tinsley’s
store, August 14; Powell’s store,
August 14; Connestee school, Au
gust 21.
Catheys Creek-Eastatoe
Townships
Selica school, August 14; Cherry
field Railroad station, August 16;
Hogsed Garage, August 14; Bur
ton’s store, August 18 and Middle
Fork Baptist church, August 21.
Gloucester-Hogback Townships
Balsam Grove school, August 21;
Quebec school, August 14; Silver
steen school, August 14; Cash’s
store, August 14; Montvale school,
August 14 and Lake Toxaway
school, August 21.
TWO-DAY FAMILY
FEUD ENDED IN
FATAL SHOOTING
Father And Son In Critical
Condition. Caused Much
Excitement
IN HOSPITAL HERE
A two-day family feud in the
Pin Hook Gap section of Jackson
county just over the Transylvania
county line, was terminated last
Tuesday afternoon with pistols and
a shotgun. One man was killed
and four others were critically
wounded.
Harley McCall, age 55, woods
man and farmer, died shortly after
the shooting occurred and was
buried yesterday afternoon.
McCall’s nephew and neighbor,
Ira Daves, who shot his uncle with
a shotgun, Mrs. Daves and two
sons were seriously wounded and
are now in hospitals in Brevard
and Hendersonville.
Ira Daves is in the Transylvania
community hospital and yesterday
afternoon his condition was re
ported as being extremely critical.
He was shot in the abdomen with
a 32-calibre pistol bullet. Dr. G. B.
Lynch, Dr. R. L. Stokes and Dr.
Herbert Marshall performed an
operation on him late Tuesday
night.
Mrs. Ira Daves and two sons
are in the Patton Memorial hos
pital in Hendersonville. James, 18
year-old son, was shot twice in the
abdomen and he is not expected
to recover. It was rumored here
Tuesday night that he died instant
ly, which was a mistake.
Hendersonville hospital authori
ties told a Times reporter yester
day that Mrs. Daves and the other
injured son, Lonnie, 13 years old,
are improving satisfactorily. Mrs,
Daves is suffering from a bullet
wound through the left arm that
ranged out near the elbow, one
shot through the left thigh that
ranged out near the knee, one
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BLACKOUT HERE
WAS A SUCCESS
There Was Some Confusion
Over “All-Clear” Sig
nal, However
The surprise, test blackout here
Tuesday night was a success,
Ralph Ramsey, chairman of the
county civilian defense council,
stated yesterday.
Some local residents, however,
were confused as to when they
should turn their lights back on
and a number of them mistook
one or two signals for the sign of
“all-clear,” he said.
To avoid this confusion in the
future, Mr. Ramsey suggested
that all persons turn out lights
when the first whistle is sounded
and leave them out until street
lights are turned on. “The new
air raid system provides for sev
eral whistle or siren blasts and
the all-clear is denoted by turning
street lights back on,” he said.
The blackout started about 4
minutes to 10 and ended at 10:35.
In spite of the fact that several
members of the defense organiza
tion have left here or were out
of town Tuesday night, the council
mobilized quickly.
Deserter Is Caught
While En Route
To Marriage Altar
With marriage license in his
pocket and his bride and a
preacher in the car, Dayton
Ward was all set to get married
Monday night in Rosman when
Chief of Police Tom Wood stop*
ped the car and arrested the
would-be bridegroom on a charge
of desertion.
Instead of marching to the
altar, Ward landed in jail and
Tuesday morning Henderson
county officers presented pri
ority claims on him for alleged
highway robbery, and took the
A. W. O. L. man back to Hender
sonville.
Chief Wood said Ward was a
native of Henderson county and
that he had been hiding out
near Rosman. He is said to have
deserted the army over a year
ago.