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. THE BREVARD NEWS >|||M||| ^ ^ ||||||| r| f . , ! I , I, ii ???? ii 111 i 111 ?i_.ui i >i ? i ?wiiMinirTTM wr ~ ... n? ? mm ??Mow? >wb? .'??? ?, a.i mm?UMB? l?WIB% VOLUME XXXVII BREVARD, NORTH CARO UNA, AUGUST 4, 1932. Number 31. ? ' - ? 1 7 ? V 1 " ?" " ' - ' ' ' * . " 1 ' 11 ?? i i ?? * C3E= ? ? COMMISSIONER OF r BANKS LOSES SUIT IN SUPERIOR COURT Litigation Involving Officers And Directors of Old Pis gah Bank Non Suited. CONCERNED MERGER OF ; PISGAH WITH B. B. CO. Defendants Offered No Evi dence, Motion For Neat Suit Being Granted. ^ Non-suit a-es taken late Wednesday afternoon in the case of Commission- j er of Banks vs. Pickelsimer et at The j defense offered no evidence, making j motion for nonsuit at, conclusion of \ evidence offered by plaintiffs, ivhieh :v<ts granted by Judge Moore. Civil term of Superior court, with Judge Walter E. Moore, of Sylva, pre siding, was engaged Wednesday m hearing the case of the Commissioner j of Banks vs. Pickelsimer and others. This suit, instituted by the banking; department of the state against the | former officers and directors of the Pisgah Bank, is based upon an al leged contract that the state contends was entered into by and between tne officers and directors of the old Pis gah Bank and the officers and direc tors of the Brevard Banking company, now in the hands of the Commissioner of Banks for liquidation. The plaintiffs allege that the offi cers and directors of the Pisgah Bank, to-wit: J. H. Pickelsimer, L. P. Ham lin, 0. H. Orr, W. W. Croushorn, H. A. Plummer, J. L. Whitmire, flush Whitmire, R. L. Nicholson, Dr. E. S. English and C. R. McNeely, did not comply with said contract alleged to have beeen made. The plaintiff is seeking to have the defendants pay for such stock as was not taken, after which an assessment on the stock would become effective. The sum that is alleged by the plaintiff that the defendants were to take was m amount of 312,500, and this, with a like stock assessment, would amount to $25,000, less such amounts as is( shown that any one or more of the j defendant group purchased. Included among the defense clauses > ( Continued on Back Page) MISS SHIPMAN IS i CHOSEN BY B. Y. P. U. ! Now Heads County Organiza tion As Result Of Elec tion Sunday. Miss Hyburnia Shipman was chos en President of the County Associa tional B. Y. P. U. Sunday afternoon when members of that organization met at the Glady Branch church for their regular meeting. Miss Papline Powell was elected Vice President and Miss Beulah Gar- 1 ren was chosen to fill the position of | Secretary-Treas. District leaders elected were: J. C. McCall of Lake Toxaway, Paul Glaz ener of Glady Branch and Vernon Gosnell of Little River. Miss Garnett Lyday was elected Junior-Intermediate leader. The roll call revealed that over 75 members were present for the meeting, repre senting eight different unions. Ralph Ramsey, director of the Bre vard B. Y. P. U. and District Presi dent spoke for a few minutes using as his text "Let no man despise by you" from 1 Timothy 4:1. This was followed by a special duet number by Glady Brach representa tives. ? The Mt. Moriah Union of Cherry field presented an interesting and in spiring pageant entitled "Call of America," which proved to be of un usual interest. Leading characters in the pageant were Misses Ruby Whitmire, Ruth Whitmire, Margaret Waldrop and. Jewel Waldrop. ANOTHER MONTH OF GRACE IS GIVEN ON DELINQUENT TAXES Board Makes It Plain That This Is Final Extension to Be Made WILL ADVERTISE LIST DURING SEPTEMBER And Sell Property On First Monday In October ? Urged to Pay At Once. County commissioners in regular session last Monday gave another 30 days extension to tax payers now in arrears, but made emphatic state ment that this is, indeed, the last postponement of the tax sale. All property upon which taxes are not paid by the first of September will be advertised during September and sold on the First Monday in October, j This sale of property for taxes was ; to have been held some time ago, but | I (Continued on Back Page) HiTGOT DRUNK; THEN GOT MARRIED Drunk and didnt know anything : about it. That was the evidence offered in | the case of Richardson vs. Richard son, seeking annulment of a marriage . in Superior court here Wednesday. I Mrs. Richardson, through affidavit, | related how Richardson came to her i girl hood home in Leicester, Bun combe county, took her for a drive on the Waynesville highway, stopped at I a roadhouse where she alleged that Richardson gave her something to drink that was intoxicating. On the j way back to Asheville, the plaintiff alleged, h.e gave her more whiskey. I and took her to the court house in Bun | combe county, where a license was [procured and the marriage ceremony | performed by a magistrate. Mrs. | Richardson's plea was based on the j claim that she would not have mar ried the man had she been sober, j Later Mrs. Richardson alleges, sho| learned that Richardson had a living) wife in Richmond, Va. The annulment was granted by the jury hearing the case. UNION SERVICES AT METHODIST CHURCH j Union services of the Brevard churches will be held next Sunday evening at the Methodist church, with the Rev. Paul Hartsell, pastor of the Baptist church, in charge of the ser vice. This meeting had been scheduled | for last Sunday evening but was post poned for one week on account of the I commencement exercises of the Va-j cation Summer Bible School at the j Baptist church. Rev. J. H. West, pastor of the) Methodist church, gives cordial invi-| tation to everybody to attend the.1 union services Sunday night, with especial invitation to all visitors in J the town. | ROSMAN REVIVAL IS MOST SUCCESSFUL Rev. C. L. Holtzclaw is holding an j unusually successful revival meeting j at the old show house in Rosman ac- 1 cording to recent reports from the community It is said that Rev. Holtzclaw is having larger congregations than any revival meeting ever held in Rosman. A cordial invitation is extended by Mr. Holtzclaw to everyone in the county to attend his series of meetings which has been in session for over a week and is expected to continue for two weeks. Baptist Church Packed With Eager Attendants at S. S. Commencement i One of the largest crowds ever to ?<* gather in the Brevard Baptist Church assebled Sunday evening to witness the commencement program rendered by the pupils of the Daily Va?aiion Bible School. A few people were un able to find seats after extra chairs placed in aisles and vestibules were filled. The number present was es timated at over 650. The audience with rapt attention to the demonstrations of nearly two hundred boys and girls who had come to show their parents what they h3d l-earned in the Bible school'. The beautiful processional march ^ led by two flag bearers, one bearing ^?he American flag and the other the Christian flag, entered th? church ac companied by a march played by the V church orchestra. The pupils quoted in unison the schools call to worship and the motto. I The song, "Holy, Holy, Holy," was sung by the pupils and followed by the 23rd Psalm and Lord's Prayer. While the orchestra played four chil dren took the offering. One of the high spots of the pro gram was the school anthem, "Lift up Your Heads, 0 Ye Gates." Profes- j sor Alvin Moore directed the anthem and the children sang beautifully. The primary department sang a song and gave a long passage of scrip ture which they had memorised. Miss Marjorie Black, a primary pupil, led in the quotation. Questions were ask ed the primaries by little Fred Glaz ener and answered in unison by the nrimaries. Little Jane Whitmire de lighted the audience with a mission ( Continued on Back Pa-ge) Judge Denies New Triai to Four Men In Bank Case Here Judge Walter E. Moore in Superior court late Thursday after noon denied the motion for a new trial filed by Thos. H. Ship man, J. H. Pickelsimer, C. R. McNeely and Ralph R. Fisher. Judge Moore announced that the case would be held open until next Monday so he would have time to find facts in the case upon which to base permission of the court to grant the defendants ar. appeal to the Supreme court from his decision in denying a new trial. Argument in the case was complet ed Tuesday, and announcement of Judge Moore's decision awaited reply from Judge H. Hoyle Sink, trial judge, bearing upon the question of! some members of the trial jury enter ing the Brevard Banking company's building during the progress of the 'original- trial, J. Bat Smathers, of counsel for the defense, declared there was nothing in the letter and affi-j davit sent to Judge Moore that wasi contradictory to the affidavits filed} in this hearing by Owen and Gallo-j way. Order was made by Judge Clem- 1 ent several weeks ago that petition I for a new trial be heard at this! term of court before Judge Walter E. Moore. The order automatically stayed execution of the case, and the petition was made Monday after noon. Lewis P. Hamlin, T. Coleman Galloway, William E. Breese and Judge D. L. English, of Brevard; J. Bat Smathers and G. Lyle Jones, of Asheville, and Richard B. Overton, of Canton, appeared for the defense. j Solicitor J. Will Pless, Jr., of Mar-j ion, Pat Kimzey. of Brevard, and | Felix Alley, of Waynesville, appeared j for the state. Numerous affidavits were presented I to the court by the defense in support I of its claim for a new trial. Each affffidavit was' replied to by the state with other affidavits in effort to off set the appeals of the defense. Two instances covered by the affidavits seemed to be the controlling factors before the court. One was to the ef fect that* E. F. Moffitt, a state's wit ness in the first trial, had spoken to the foreman of the trial jury, former Sheriff Mtedford of Haywood county, | and had stated to the juror Medford 1 that while he (Moffitt) had nothing against these men, the people her wanted them convicted. Whereupon the affidavit alleged, Juror Medfon replied to Mr. Moffitt to effect tha' he need net worry; that the mer. would be convicted, as that was what this jury was here to do. Supporting j affidavits were presented to extent of | affiants saying they had seen Moffitt I talking to the juror. The state presented ar. affidavit' from Mr. Moffitt making sweeping] denial of this alleged event, stating j ( Continued on page four ) PUG HINTON WINNER OVER KID JARRETT Was Headlines In Good Hem-" dersonvilJe Card At Lake Osceola Friday. "Pug" Hinton, popular Brevard boy, who has been making a name for himself by his outstanding work in the boxing field won the decision over Jimmy "Kid" Jarrett of Asheville, Friday night at the Osceola Beach near Hendersonville in an 8 round I bout. "Pu.j"' weighed in at 153 and ! Jarretv at 157. Ilinton was defeated by the Asho-i ville man two years ago when Jar rett. then a veteran of the ring out- < weighed him by 20 pounds. The local | lad has met a number of fighters in ; both North and South Carolina dur-| ing his boxing career and he is rap- j idly making a name for his skill in the ring. He has several more fights scheduled for the near future. GLAZENER'SCLASSIS CALLED TO MEET ? i A call has been issued by Prof, j Julian Glazener, instructor of Voca-i tional agriculture in the Brevard j High Schools for all the members of | the Brevard Young Tar Heel Farm-i ers club to meet at the Agriculture ! class room, Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. According to Mr. Glazener some very important business matters hare been scheduled for the meeting and he is very eager that all the members of the club be present to join in the general discussion of the work to be presented. ANOTHERSLASH IN SALARIES Oi- TOWN At the meeting of the mayor and board of aldermen, held Tuesday night, further economies were effect ed through reduction of the salary of the town clerk in the sum of ten dol lars a month; the same reduction ap plying to the salary of the foreman, while' the mayor and board members voted themselves a slash of one dol lar a meeting. They are now to re ceive $3 instead of $4 as heretofore prevailing. Minutes of the meeting had not beer, completed late Wednesday after noon, and would not be released to the press, officials said, until next week. The board has been compliment ed very highly since adoption of the plan of publishing the entire minutes of the meetings, thus giving the citiz ens full information concerning all transactions. Minutes of Tuesday night's meeting will, therefore, be published next week, not being ready for release to the press this wtfek. SEVEN DAY FISHING 1 SEASON SATURDAY Large Number of Fishermen Expected on Streams In National Forest. i Manipulators of the rod and reel are expected to be found in large numbers in the Pisgah National For est Saturday when the limited seven i day fishing season opens; the season) to close August 6. The Game Wardens will collect a fishing fee of S 1 .00 per day for each man and 50c for each woman, these; amounts to I* payable in postoffice j money orders only. i Officials of the forest have an nounced that approximately 25 mile* of trout water on Davidson river. North fork of French Broad, Look- j ing Glass Creek, and South Mills riv- 1 er from High Falls to Wolf Ford will be open Saturday JXiiv 30 for this very limited time. NEW ORLEANS MAN ! KIWANIS SPEAKER i Jule Vedeau, of New Orleans, La.,! manager of the Underwood Typewrit er Co. who is spending the summer at | The Pines, spoke before the Kiwan- 1 ians Thursday at noon when they held ! their regular meeting at the England j Home. Mr. Vedeau in an interesting and clever manner gave several humorous sketches of the lives of the French people in the French quarters of New Orleans. He was very high in his praise of the beauty and comfort of Western North Carolina, especial ly of Brevard and Transylvania county. YOUNGPEOPLEHEAR SPLENDID REPORT } Miss Winifred Nicholson spoke to the Young Peoples Department Sun day evening at the Methodist church on her impressions of the young peoples conference held at Lake Junaluska. Miss Nicholson attended | the conference for two weeks and j mingled and studied with boys and : girls representing all Southern Methodism. The young people attending the conference were trained in several courses relative to the work of the church and of the manner in which the work should be carried out in the young people' departments of the Methodist church. Two Cuban boys from the Brevard Institute also attended the conference. Pio Sanchez and Thomas Veree. Following her talk George Mangum . of the Brevard Institute spoke to the ? young people on instances and ex periences which play 2 great part in ; the formation of our lives and he cited several Examples te> prove his points in regard to these statements. COUNTY BOARD ASKS ! HIGHWAY FORCE TO | WIDEN AND PAVE 284 County Workers To Be In Dir Need of Work Dur ing Autumn. i ADOPTS SCHOOL BUDGET j AS PRESENTED TO BOARD j Hears Petitions On County ? Roads ? Lee Named Con- i stable of Hogback. By action of the county board of commissioners when they met in reg ju'.ar session Monday it was voted to | request the state to widen and hard i surface highway No. 284 through the Pisgah National Forest. The board expressed their reasons | for this action by explaining that they [believed the county would be in dras j tic need of relief this winter and the | project would relieve in a large de gree the unemployment situation here. Earl W. Lee was appointed as con ( Continued on Back Page) STAfEOFFKML Tf ! MAKE INSPECTION! Miss Margaret Lane, field worker of the Child Welfare Department of North Carolina, will be in Brevard Friday to go with W. A. Wilson, j founty superintendent of public wel fare in Transylvania county, on a [trip of inspection to the homes of women who are receiving Mother's AH from the state. The purpose of this trip of inspection is to determine if those mothers who are receiving aid from the state are deserving. It is also the purpose of these workers to ascertain if there are other moth ers in the county who need the aii'l and who come under the provision? of the work. | Miss Lane is now spending a few j days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Lyday, at Penrose, enjoying a well earned rest. She resumes her active duties Friday with the work outlined in this county. CORBIN'S CLASS IS HEADED FOR CAMP Prof. J. F. Corbin, vocational agri- ! culture teacher of the Rosman High School, will take the entire class ot boys on a camping trip next week to Rocky Bottom, in South Carolina. The boys have been extended use of the camp there by County Agent T. A. Bowen, of Pickens. Field and water sports will be enjoyed by the yount farmers during recreation periods, while lectures will be delivered to the class by professors from Clemson ] College and other leaders in agricul tural lines. Prof. Corbin is doing great work , with the young farmers in the upper J end of the county, and this camping j; trip will be a combination pleasure j and study period. WILSON ENDORSED BY MRS. BICKETT The county Board of Commission ers in regular session Monday filed the official report of Mrs. W. T. Bostf state commissioner of Public Welfare endorsing the appointment of William A. Wilson as county sup erintendent of Public Welfare of Transylvania county. Mrs. Bost represented the State Beard of Charities and Public Wel fare and this endorsement makes the appointment of Mr. Wilson final and complete. 2000 WORKERS BUSY IN BIG ENKA RAYON PLANT NOW RUNNING Happy Information Carried In Asheville Daily Papers Wednesday. MANY PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTY WORKING THERE Plant Receives Big Orders and Resumes Full Capacity Operation. Because of the large number p! Transylvania county citizens who have employment at. Enka, the fol lowing interesting news appearing in Wednesday's Asheville papers will be of tremendous interest. The big plant at Enka, running on "short time" for several weeks, has resumed full op erations, as told in the following ar ticle in Wednesday's Citizen: Machines of the American Enka corporation are now being operated full time and the plant capacity of 2,000 employes are now at work, it was announced yesterday by officials of the company. Old employes of the company have been recalled to work, following a business lull of several months, dur ing which time several machine units of the plant have been idle, or work ing part time. Officials of the big' rayon plant, however, made it plain they have no need for help from other sections, since they plan to put old employes here back to work and use unemployed persons here if any new workers should be needed la'er. It was announced yesterday that several hundred persons from other cities have applied for work at ftte plant during the past few days, th;^K having heard that the plant would run on full force schedule and need ed workers. Officials said it is use less for workers from other cities to come to Enka seeking employment. The plant is working at capacity and full time, employing workers who have been out of work here, or work ing part time. As idle machines wj-ri put back in operation, old employe* were recalled to their jobs. In addition to resuming full time and capacity operation improvement! were made at the plant and iri Enka village. Throughout the plant several new partitions have been built be tween departments and repairs made in different parts of the SlO.OfiO.OGO plant. A new wing was added to the (Continued, on Back /'"</? ) COUNTY TAXRATE ~ MAY BE INCREASED Assessed Valuation Is Hitlf Mil lion Dollars Off, And State Aid Is Down. County commissioners face a lt; vd task in preparing the budget am' set ting the tax rate for this new fiscal year, owing to the fact that the as sessed valuation of taxable property Is more than a half a million dollars under that of last year, while at th ; same time the county's part of t r. state equalization fund for the - tended school term has been cut half. To make the situation more ficult, only about fifty per cent of ' ' ? 1931 taxes have been paid, it is sa d. Members of the board and many leading citizens had hopes some time ago that the new tax rate-- could be lowered, but with the above fa-'ts ex isting it is not seen how it wili b possible for any reduction to be mad-? in tax rate. Some men familiar with existing conditions assert that the tax rate will have to be set at a higher figure this year than that now in force. County officials have been working for the past several days on this ivrk, and it is expected thai it will >e completed next First Monday, and the new tax rate named. Sixteen Graduates at Brevard Institute Received High School Diplomas Friday Brevard Institute closed its sum mer term last Friday, July 29, award- j ing high school diplomas at that time j to sixteen seniors, exactly half of the original class, who needed the work of the summer term to finish the re quirements. Many of the students of the school finish their course in three years by taking advantage of the summer sessions. Two certificates in the commercial department were also awarded at the close of the summer work. The term was a very successful one, the enrollment falling only four short of last summer, which is considered vary good with general conditions as they are. A great many toys and girls of the local community caroe in for work to supplement their courses in the city schools, and several came from a distance for the sam* purpose. The new enrollment for the summer session numbered twenty -one. Miss Daisy Ritter of Cope. S. C., the new superintendent, is expect. J in Brevard early next week to r. s sume charge of the work of rhc In stitute. Miss Ritter is a member the Woman's Missionary Council of the Southern Methodist church, which is the controlling organization, and she has had wide experience :.n in stitutional work and management. Those who know ber are confident that the school will prosper under her guidance. New members of the staff who will be associated with Miss Ritter next year, will come about September 1. They include Mr. G. E. Pugh, of Rock Hill, S. C., who will be dean of boys ( Continued on Back Page)
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