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11,000 INSURANCE AGENTS IN N. C. Fiscal Year Closes and Companies Renew Their Licenses. ASKS RECEIVER FOR BANK Suits Against City Officials, Following "Girl From Rector's" Incident. [Special to The Times-Dispatch.] Raleigh, N. C.. April 1.-To-day marked the close of the fiscal year with the State Department of Insurance, necessitating the renewal of the licenses of all the insurance companies and their agents doing business in the State. In this connection there were mailed out licenses to-day to 11,000 insurance agents in every part of the State, there being that number in the business. This has been the biggest year by long odds in the history of the Insurance Department in this State in the matter of the revenue derived. Commissioner Young will give out a statement within the next few days showing the business of the year. Bank Ordered Closed. Corporation Commissioner S. L. Rogers made application\to to Judge E. B. Jones for the appointment of a receiver for the Pilot Bank and Trust Company, Pilot Mountain, which the commissioner has ordered closed, and directed State Bank Examiner J. K. Doughton to hold until the receiver can take charge. The order of the commission closing the bank was due to a large amount of inferior and uncollectable paper on which funds of the bank have been loaned. It is the opinion of the commission that the bank depositors will get their deposits in full and that the loss will fall solely on the stockholders. A charter is issued for the Farmville Publishing Company, Farmville. Pitt county. capital $5,000 authorized and $1,000 subscribed, by J. T. Thorne and others, for newspaper and job printing. Work of Hospital Commission. At an informal conference of the State Hospital Commission, held last night, Charles A. Webb, Asheville, chairman, there was a general review of the work of the commission in providing the finishing touches for the extensive building operations at the Central Hospital here and a discussion of plans for the future in expending the remainder of the $500,000. The fund was created three years ago, to be expended in increasing the capacity and equipment of hospitals. There is something like $20,000 remaining, and this will be applied to improvements at the Eastern Hospital principally. Under the law the life of the commission is limited to the time it takes them to expend the last of the funds intrusted to them by the Legislature. Interest increases in the impending appointment by Governor Kitchin of a successor to E. B. Jones as Superior Court judge for the Eleventh District. J. C. Button, A. H. Eller, George P. Pell, Winston-Salem; A. J. Burton, Rockingham: R. A. Doughton, Alleghany, and C. O. McMichael, of Wentworth, are being mentioned as in line. with varying prospects for appointment. "Rectors Girl" Bobs Up Again. "The Girl From Rector's" bobs up