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SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1933.
NUMBER 3S
Tobacco Markets To
Open On Next Monday
(Special to Johnstonian-Sun)
Smlthfield, Sept. 20.—Tobacco
warehousemen and other business
firms in Smithfield are expecting a
great rush of busines next Monday,
Sept. 25th, when the tobacco mar
kets in the bright belt will be re
opened, after remaining clo.-ed for
three • weeks.
There s much anxiety among- the
people as to the prices to be paid
to the farmers for the remainder
of the 1933 season.
Immediately after the markets
-were closed, committeemen began a
canvass of this and other counties
getting the farmers to sign con
tracts agreeing to reduce their acre
age of tobacco in 1934 and 1935, in
the hope of getting an arrangement
whereby the weed would bring high
er prices. It is reported that good
progre-s is being made in getting
the growers signed up.
Girl Is Drowned
When Help Fails
Caught Under Timbers, She
TeUs Family Good-Bye and
Meets Death
Recent Storm At New Bern Recalls
Hurricane That Occurred In 1769
New Bern, Sept. 18.—Through the
storm-battered sound country, the
land of treacherous shoals and hardy
fishermen, here tragedy and bravery
have carved many epics of the sea,
they are recounting the story of the
death of young Frieda Mae Car-
raway.
It has been only two days since
the fishing villages were swept by
a 100-mile gale, described by oldest
residents as the worst in their mem
ory, and hunger and desolation pre
vail in many towns, but the story-
spreads from lip to lip wherever
refug-ees get together.
House Crumbles
Frieda lived in what is known as
the Bachelor community of Craven
county, a section that suffered heav
ily in the .storm. Pounded alike by
wind and water, the Carraway home
could not withstand the fury of the
hurricane Friday night, and began
td crumble.
Beams and heavy timbers fell.
The members of the family began to
seek safety. But a heavy timber
pinned Frieda to the floor. Water
-was creeping in the house and the
roof was gone. Wind tore through
gaps in the wall, making it hardly
possible for one to stand up.
Tide Creep Higher
The girl’s father, and members of
the community, sought frantically to
free her. The timbers were too
heavy, they would not budge. The
tides crept higher into the house,
inch by inch. The girl struggled.
The water came higher and high
er, sweeping through the wreckage.
The roof fell. The family and the
neighbors had to feel for their own
lives.
The girl looked upon the frantic
faces of her father, and ^he fisher-
jnen-neighbors.
-It’s no use. Daddy," the girl said,
.straining to keep her head above the
vi-ater. “Tell mama goodbye.”
The water strangled the girl, as
the men continued to struggle with
the timbers, waist-deep in water.
It was as Frieda said—it was no
nse. They had to flee for their
lives to higher land. And through
the sound country, the land of na
tive “sob” ballads they’re singing ol
the death of a little girl who knew
how to look death in the face.
An account of a hurricane that
wrought havoc at New Bern on the
night of September 7, 1769, is taken
from a scrapbook belonging- to Miss
Anne Noble, of Selma, and formerly
the property of her grandmother.
This account was written by Thomas
Clifford Howe, collector of the port
of New Bern, at that time, to Earl
Hillsboro, of England. This letter
was found years ago in a book store
in l.ondon, and is now in possession
of the Boston Public Library. The
letter follows:
Brunswick, 10th September, 1769
Earl Hill boro: The effects of the
storm, which happened in the night
of the seventh instant are so fatal
to New Bern that I cannot omit
giving your Excellency the best ac
count I can of it. Beginning with
Mr. John Smith, whose store full of
goods -was undermined with the
washing- of the -waves and tiumbled
down and broke to pieces all of the
goods washed away; besides this
his wharf and a large warehouse
that stood upon it, was broke to
pieces and scattered along the shore.
The cellars of the house where he
lived being- well stored with wdne,
rum, sugar, &c., were undermined
and destroyed, and all it contained
either stove to pieces or floateil
away by the violence of the wind
and currents. He saved himself and
family by cutting through in the
garret to Mr. Cornell’s house, which
they entered, but were soon Sbliged
to leave, cari-ying- with them Mr.
Cornell’s children and the nurse, by
which means they were saved, for
the floor of the house very soon
after fell in, and with the furniture,
washed away. Mr. Smith’s two
sloops are also lost, one stove to
pieces at the wharf, the other drove
up near the edifice, so high that she
never will be gotten off. it is sup-
po.-ed his losses cannot amount to
less than 3,000 pounds. Mr. Cor
nell’s cellar under his dwelling house
was undermined and the walls de
stroyed. Out of the cellar and store
together floated away near 200 hogs
heads of molasses, 80 of rum, and
several pipes of wine. Two store
houses that stood on his wharf, well
filled with valuable goods, were beat
down and carried away with the
wharf. The goods were all lost and
ing where your Excellency lives
when in Newbern was blown down
and the front of the lot, up to the
gates, washed away. Br. Coer’s .store
with the store house on the^ wharf
ne.xt to this, were thrown down and
carried away with all the goods they
contained. Col. Sieche’s tan-house,
with thirteen other housess situated
about it, and belonging to him, are
entirely destroyed. Many other
people have lost all they had in the
world, among- these is the unfortu
nate Mr. Sitgreaves who, with a
large family of small children, has
not a second shirt to his back.
The ed fice has received no dam
ages that I know of, if any, it must
be inconsiderable, for though 1
have seen Mr. Hawks he has never
mentioned anything- of the kind to
me. Newbern is really now a spec
tacle. Her streets are full of
tops of houses, thnber, shingles, dry
goods, barrels ami hogslieads, empty
most of them, rubbishy etc., inas
much that you can hardly pas-
along; a fe-w days ago so flourish
ing and thriving—it shows the in
stability of all sublunary things.
Thus 1 thought it my duty, sir,
to give your Excellency, the be.st
account I could of an event so fatal
to a place which has always had
your protection and encouragement
and which 1 hope will still iner.t a
continuance of the favors it ha.s- re
ceived from your Excellency. Mr.
Cornell’s loss, from a moderate com
putation cannot amount to less than
four or five thousand pounds.”
Mr. Ellis referred to in the above
letter was a great-great-great grand
father of Miss Noble.
SMITHFIELD NEWS.
A fishing party composed of about
a dozen Wake county citizens head
ed by Mr. L. J. Penny, of McCullers
section, passed through Smithfield
Wednesday on their way to Swans-
boro. Mr. Penny said they had in
tended to go to a point on Pamli
co Sound, but had learned that al
most everything in that section had
been wrecked last week by the trop
ical hurricane, and that they had
therefore decided to change their
course.
McLamb Is
Given Respite
Johnston Slayer to Get Either Re
prieve or Commutation; Reprieve
For Edwards.
The electric chair at State’s Pris
on w-ill not be called into use to
morrow, even thoug-h two men con
victed of murder in the first degree
and sentenced to die on that day-
are now in death row cells.
The two men are Charles Luther
McLamb, Johnston county white
man charged -with having killed
George R. Hudson, also of Johnston
county, and John Louis Edwards,
Charlotte Negro, convicted of hav
ing killed a Charlotte street car
inotorman in a robbery.
Governor Ehringhaus, shortly be
fore he left for Washington yester
day, said McLamb “will be either
reprieved or commuted.” The Gov
ernor also said the McLamb case
was being left in the hands of Com
missioner of Paroles Edwin 'Gill.
G!ll is now investigatng the case
to learn f McLamb killed Hudson in
a drunken brawl. McLamb at his
trial contended he killed Hud:^on
in self-defense.
Gill said Edwards would be re
prieved so that his attorneys could
perfect an appeal to the Supreme
Court. “The reprieve is being grant
ed on those grounds and not on the
merits or demerits of the case,” he
stated.—News and Observer, Sept
the 21st.
Receives Letter From President
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Pittman, of
Selma, have received the following
letter from Presidet Franklin D.
Roosevelt:
“My dear Mr. and Mrs. Pittman:
May I extend my hearty congrat
ulations upon the birth of your
daughter, Nira Delano Pittman. I
am sending herewith a small mem
ento for my name-sake with the
hope that she will have a happy,
active and useful life.
Very sincerely yours,
Franklin D. Roosevelt.”
The gift referred to is a lovely
white silk handkerchief with the
name of the President and the words
“Happy Days” embroidered in one
corner.
Considerable intere.-t is being-
shown in the protracted meeting
which is in progress at the Smith-
eek. The
services, which are largely attended,
are conducted by Dr. S. D. Gordon,
a well known lecturer and writer,
who has a rather unique way of ex
pressing his thoughts and impress
ing them upon the minds of his
hearer.-?.
PERSONAL MENTION
Emma Hooker Godwin, of Dunn,
is visiting Miss Rebecca Godwin.
Mr and Mrs. Robert P. Noble, Jr.,
and little son, Bobbie, and Miss
Anne Noble spent the week end m
Pvaleigh with the family of Dr. R-
P. Noble.
Mrs'. Annie Barham spent Sunday
-with her daughter. Miss Esther Bar-
Tiam, at Meredith College.
Mr. Ralph Hoffmeister, of Raleigh,
ispent Tuesday and Wednesday
"the city with friends. ^
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Stancil of
Smithfield, accompanied by Editor
M. L. Stancil, spent Tuesday after
noon near Gamer with Mr. and Mrs.
JD. H. Stancil.
destroyed. His brig was drove over
the large marsh to the south west
ward of the town, quite into the
, A lost also two'field Baptist church this w.
woods and entirely lost, also two ^ i
large sloops belonging to strangers,
drove up and lost near the brig.
Mr. Cornell’s ready money store,
kept by Partridge, at the corner op
posite Mr. Ellis’, is entirely de
stroyed with all the goods and
money, and the store-keeper so
bruised that is thought he cannot
live All the houses on the left
hand side of the street from the
corner up as far as Mr. Cogdell’s
were washed away-. Two women,
Mr.s. Johnston and Mrs. Pope, with
their two children, and two negroes
were drowned or killed by the ruins
of these buildings, no other life lost
that we know of as yet. Mr. Ellis
wharf and store houses, with the
goods in them, were washed awa\
and entirely lost. The cellar of his
store opposite the front of his dwell
ing-house was undermined and the
wine, rum, &c., &c., washed out and
the store to pieces. Those buildings
of Mr. Clethrell’s, where Mr. Neale
lived and kept the public ferry, and
those long houses of Mr. Wilton’s,
next adjoining, were entirely de
stroyed—not one stone left upon an
other. The part of the still-house
Mr. La-wrence U. Stancil, who for
the last three years has been a
special agent of the New England
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Boston, Mass., with headquarters in
the postoffice building here, has
been promoted by his company to
the position of supervisor of agents
for eastern North /Carolina. His
headquarters are now in Raleigh.
next the water was
beat down and
the works destroyed almost irre
parable.
Doctor Hasten’s tea house, store
and yard are entirely ruined and
destroyed, and the chemneys of lus
dwelling-house -have fallen on the
roof but luckily did it no damage.
His garden is quite tom up and
ruined. Mr. Davis’ house is a mere
wreck, his printing office broke to
pieces, his papers destroyed and
types buried in the sand. The pail-
Rev. E. M. Poteat, of Raleigh,
addressed a niass meeting in the
court house last Sunday afternoon
and warned his hearers of the dan
gers of legalizing the sale of in
toxicating liquors. He made an in
teresting talk and it was well re
ceived.
In closing his address the speaker
placed on the dry side the schools,
the medical profession, the engin
eers, the scientists, the builders of
the nation, and the fathers anl
mothers who were trying to give
proper training to their children.' On
the wet side he placed the brewers
and distillers, the president of Co
lumbia University, and even the
president of the United States.
In the county organization for
the fight again.rt liquor A. M. No
ble was elected county chairman;
C. A. Jacobs of Selma, first vice-
president, and Henry Watson of
Kenly second- vice president.
Red Gross Sends Out
Its S. O. S. Call
Disaster has never before struck
so close to the doors of Johnston
County people as it did last week
when the tropical storm swept the
eastern coast line of the State. New
Bern, Morehead City, Beaufort and
many smaller towns and villages,
as well a.s farm houses and fisher
men’s home were left in a devasta
ted condition. Sixteen deaths have
thus far been reported. Hundreds
were injured and thousands left
homeless, hungry and faced 'with
disease epidemics. The disaster is
unparallelled and the misery of it
is unbelieveable.
The American Red Cross has
been dissignated by the President of
the Jjnited States to take charge of
the relief work. Cash is the imme
diate demand. All people of the
county, men, women, and children
are called upon to do their part.
Every contribution, however small,
will be gratefully received and sent
to National Headquarters the very
day it is received.
Send contributions directly to
National Headquarter.? .American
Red Cross, Washing-ton, D. C,., or to
H. V. Rose, Chairman, Johnston
County Red Cross, Smithfield, N. C.
H. V. ROSE, Chairman.
Clayton Defeats
Kenly By 8-7 Score
Asked To
Hold Cotton
REV. AND MRS. D. F. WADDELL
ENTERTAIN AT SUPPER
The Selma Presbyterian. Manse
on West Railroad street, was the
scene of a most hospitable occasion
on Wednesday e\-ening at the hour
of seven when the officers and
.teachers in the Selma Piesbyterian
church and Sunday School enjoyed
a most appetizing evening meal
and, then engaged in an hour or so
of social conversation.
Those present went away declar
ing that the evening had been one
of unusual social hospitality and
with an earnest desire to return to
this minister and his good wife the
same degi-ee of hospitality as was
evidenced by them on this occasion
whenever the opportunity affords.
Smithfield, Sept. 19.—Urging cot
ton grower.? to hold their cotton for
higher prices which he said should
result from the acreage reduction
campaigns and increased consump
tion and general rise in commodity
prices under NRA, M. G. Mann, of
Raleigh, secretary-treasurer of the
North Carolina Cotton Growers Co
operative Association, addressed a
meeting of Johnston County farm
ers in the court house here this
morning.
“Don’t sell a bale of your 1933
cotton at pre.-ent prices if you can
possibly keep from doing so,” Mr.
Mann told the more than 500 grow
ers present. He pointed out that with
the rise in commodity, prices the
purchasing power of a bale Of cot
ton at present prices is no greater
than it was last year when it was
selling for six cents a pound.
As indication.?' that cotton prices
will rise before another planting-
time Mr. Mann pointed to the recent
“plow up” campaign which remov
ed several million bales of cotton
from this year’s crop, the plans for
cotton acreage reduction next year,
and the increase in cotton consump
tion as people go back to . newly-
created-by-NR.A jobs.
He pointed out that seed loan bor
rowers do not have to sell their cot
ton by October 31 to pay their
loans but that the admini.stration
has given them the right to store
their crop in bonded warehou.-es for
orderly marketing, and in so doing
that it warmly endorsed cooilefalive
marketing-.
He recalled that seed loan borrow
ers who collateralized their loans
last year with cotton on a 9 1-2
cent basis made a profit of from
.$15 to $18 per bale over those wlio
sold their crop outright at six to
seven cents or less per pound.
“The farmers’ only hope for better
conditions lies along the cooperative
highway,” said Mr. Mann as he
pointed out that nothing was done
about the tobacco situation until the
growers got their heads together
and put pressure on Washington. He
reminded the farmers of a state
ment by Secretary Wallace in which
farmers were told to get together
and work out a plan, present it
to Washington and that results
would be forthcoming.
He said the plight of the cotton
farmer would now be much worse
than it is were it not for the cotton
cooperative association “already here
with 11 years of success back of it
and .still fighting at all times for
the interest of the farmer.”
“The most misunderstood item
about the association is ‘expense,’
said Mr. Mann as he pointed out
that regardless of what a farmer
does with his cotton, whether he
piles it in his own yard or .stores
it in a bonded warehouse, he pays
storage and insurance charges. If he
dumps it on the ground the weath
er collects these charges through
“country damage,” while the cotton
may be burned or stolen. If he
stores it in a bonded warehouse, he
pays .storage and insurance. If he
borrows money on it from the bank
he also pays interest.
Mr. Mann pointed out that the
cotton association renders the mem
bers a complete classing service,
that it is their watch dog in Wash
ington, that it keeps them posted
through letters -and through the
Cotton Grower on up-to-date in
formation they should know.
A great deal of interest was
shown in the meeting ,one of the
most widely attended to be held here
in some time.
Homers by Blinson and Poole In
Ninth Defeat Kenly 8-7 In Series
Opener.
Clayton, Sept. 20. — Successive
homers in the ninth by Delma Blin-
son and Tick Poole enabled Clayton
to come from behind and defeat
Kenly, 8-7, today in the opening
game of the Johnston County
League championship series.
The locals, first half champions,
came to bat in the ninth two runs
behind. Blinson’s homer knotted the
count and then Poole proceeded to
duplicate the circuit clout and break
up the game.
More than a thousand fans saw
the series opener, a nip and tuck
affair throughout. The visitors out-
hit Clayton, 13 to nine, and also
made one less error than Claj-ton’s:
four. However, the home team madn
its blows go the limit and the ho
mers served to top off things.
Cooke Moore and James Moore,
brothers, pitched for Clayton. J.
Barnes caught. Ballance and Evans
formed the Kenly battery.
Pittman, Newsome and Ballance,
each with three hits, led Kenly’s
attack. Baucom, J. Barnes, Blinson.
and Gattis made two safeties each,
to lead Clayton.
The teams will play the second
game of the series at Kenly on Fri
day afternoon. Incidentally, the
Kenly team tonight elected Harvey
Pittman as manager for the remain
der of the season. Pittman, a first-
sacker and former pofessional play
er, had been playing for Snow Hill
in the Coastal Plain League. Elec
tion of Pittman; who succeeds Geo-
Hinton, came tonight at a meeting
of the Kenly club in Kenly.
W.B. Drake
Trial Starts
Jury Is Composed of Johnston
County Citizens—C. A. Jacobs, of
Selma, One of the Twelve—Big
Array of Counsel.
AN EXPRESSION OF THANKS.
The Free Will Baptist Sunday
School wishes to express their thanks
to the town board for the use of
the city hall for the Middlesex Or
phanage concert, -also thank every
one for their attendance and contri
bution. They received about $20.00.
Less than two and one-half hours
were required yesterday in Wake
Superior Court in selecting the ju
ry, including an al-temate juror,
which is to decide the fate of W.
B. Drake, former Raleigh bank pres
ident, charged in several counts
with embezzlement and making
false reports.
With the opening of court this
.morning, the State will begin pre
senting evidence in its effort to
prove accusations against the for
mer head of the defunct Raleigh
Banking and Trust Company. The
bank crashed in September, 1930,
the indicements resulting from its
failure.
A total of 36 of the special ve
nire from Johnston County under
went questioning before the State
and defense attorneys announced
that they were satisfied with the 13
men selected.
Judge J. Paul Frizzelle, of Snow
Hill, trasferred here by special re
quest, is presiding over the trial.
Members of the jury are as fol
lows: R. L. O’Neal, Selma, Route
2; W. C. Barbour, Wilsons Mills;
W. Herman Creech, Princeton, R. 2;
Wade Grice, Four Oaks; L. F.
Holmes, Four Oaks; C. G. Mumford,
Selma, R. 2; C. A. Jacobs, Selma;
J. L. Moore, Four Oaks, Route 2;
G. B. Johnson, Smithfield; R. L.
Smith, Selma, R. 2; Phillip B. Ed
wards, Princeton, R. 1; and Wiley
T. Grimes, Benson, R. 2. Jame.s
Thompson, of Pipe Level, was se
lected as the alternate juror. He
will take part in deliberations of
the jury only in event of illness of
a regular juror or other emergency.
Drake’s wife and his brother, J.
W. Drake, of Drake, S. C., were in
the court room and sat beside the
defendant during the selection of
the jury.
State attorneys announced yester
day the addition of E. J. Wellons,
of Smithfield, to their staff and
Wells had complete charge of ques
tioning the prospective jurors yes
terday. Solicitor J. C. Little, Ken
neth C, Royal and 1. M. Bailey com-
Catawba county farmers have pur-
cha.sed more farm machinery in the
past three months than they have
in the whole of the past three years, plete the prosecution attorneys’ list,,
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