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•* Use Want Ads If you have anything to aell a Want Ad will find you a buyer, quickly, cheaply. VOLUME 46—NO. 35 Johnston County’s Oldest and Best Newspaper - Tell Your Friends If they don’t read the Herald they won’t see all the Johnston County happenings. SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY MORNING. MAY 1, 1928 $2.00 YEAR—5c SINGLE COPY Benson Gives A Radio Program —.4 Sponsored By Kiwanis Club; Parent-Teacher Association Gives Program And Elects Officers For Another Year. Benson, April 27.—Benson was heard over radio Wednesday night for the first time. The program was opened with an address by At torney L. L. Levinson, after which the boys and girls high school quar tette was heard. The high school orchestra, the Thomas Quartette, and Mr. Claude Westbrook’s string ed orchestra from near Benson, gave several selections, which were much enjoyed. This program was sponsored by the Kiwanis club. The Benson baseball team recent ly won from Kenly in a fast game with a score of 9 to 8. It was play ed on Kenly’s field and well at tended. Better Homes Week has been ob served this week. Practically all of the business houses of the town have had their windows artistically decorated for this event. The first prize for the most attractive win dow went to Mr. J. E. Wilson’s grocery store. The second prize to C. T. Johnson dry goods store. Mrs. ^L. L. Levinson who was chairman for B'enson, left no stone unturned in getting the people interested in Better Homes. An Operetta, “Snow White”, was given in the school auditorium Fri day evening. All of the characters took their parts unusually well. {The costumes were attractive and the stage setting unique. Miss Mil dred Poole, public school music teacher, was director. The young son of Mr. and Mrs. Benner died Saturday after being sick with meningitis for a couple of weeks. The funeral was conduct ed at the home of his parents by Rev. J. E. Kirk, pastor of the Bap tist church. Interment was made in Carthage, the former home of his parents. uu.u.1 Will UU htilgeU by pupils of the Benson school May 4. Miss Ernestine Shipp, high school teacher, is supervising this much looked forward to attraction. A mammoth street parade will be given in the afternoon. The Boylan-Pearce Co. of Raleigh gave a demonstration on Interior Decoration to a large number of ladies on Wednesday afternoon. Spring and summer styles were, also demonstrated. The three fed erated clubs of the town sponsored this attraction. ine last rarent-Teacher Associ ation meeting of the school year was held this week with a large number present. This being the last meeting of the year reports were heard from the various committees, which showed the Association has been wide-awake during the year. The subject for discussion was “The Child’s Parents.” Miss Lita Gold Johnson, a senior, spoke on “The kind of mother we admire.” Mr. Edgar Wall, a senior, spoke on “The kind of a father we admire.” Mrs. A. S. Oliver used as her sub ject “As we see Ourselves.” Rev. J. Ruffin Johnson, talked on “The Responsibilities of Parenthood.” Miss Mildred Poole was soloist. Supt. N. G. Woodlief made a very interesting talk on the Parent Teacher work in general. This was the annual election of officers, which resulted as follows: Presi dent, Mrs. W. T. Martin; Vice Pres ident, Mrs. J. W. Whittenton; sec retary, Miss Gladys Harrill; treas urer, Mrs. Parlia Hudson. Mrs. John Turlington was host ess to the Entre Nous at their reg ular meeting recently. The business session was presided over by the president. A very interesting pro gram was given by Mesdames W. M. Smith and Parlia Hudson on George Elliott, Sara Barnhardt, Tantalizer There are exactly enough let ters in the line below to spell the name of a person in Smith field or Johnston county, and if the right one deciphers his name and will present it to the Herald office, we will present him with a free ticket to the Victory Theatre. Tickets must be called for before the follow ing issue. Frank Johnson recognized his name last issue. Today’s Tantalizer: mernss.trdncnltnpoosho I E. P. Gaston CAPTAIN E. P. GASTON, F.R.G.S. The Blakeley silver service was discovered by Captain Gaston, well-known London-America anti quarian, who brought the service to Raleigh for tlfe exhibition. Fine Interest In Revival Meeting Splendid Consecration Ser vice Sunday Morning; Ser vices Will Continue Through Friday Evening, j The revival meetings at Baptist j church of this city continue with j increasing interest. Congregations j have continued to increase, and have been remarkably good from the first, the house being well fill ed even the two nights last week j when the weather was quite rough. Both services Sunday were consid ered very fine in interest and re sults, that in the morning being set apart as a consecration service, when many Christian people com mitted themselves to higher living, I and several persons were received j as members of the church. The pas tor, Rev. S. L. Morgan, who is do ing the preaching during the revival used the text, Luke 10:41, as the basis for his sermon on “The One Thing Needful.” The Methodist congregation call ed off their service Sunday night for the revival, ,and the house was packed almost to the limit. Per sons from near by towns, were al so in the congregation. The sub- t ject of the evening discourse was j “Salvation Assured through Our 1 Great High Priest.” The services will continue through Friday, beginning each evening at 7:45, Mr. Smith continuing to di rect the singing and to render se lections both with his voice and the hand saw. Mr. Morgan has an nounced two special sermons as closing the scries, one to men on j Thursday night, “Where Our Men Are Short,” and one to women on Friday night, “Where Our Women Are Short.” Everybdoy is invited to both services. CENTRAL CAROLINA LOOP TO OPEN MAY 11th. Kenly, April 30.—With four clubs already entered, including Bailey, Kenly, Middlesex and Spring Hope, the Central Carolina League will soon get underway probably May 11th, it was stated by the league officials at a meeting in Wilson Friday night. The extension of time for clubs to enter the Amateur cir cuit has been extended to May 5th and teams wishing to enter are urged to “Talk Quick” so as to get the official schedule arranged for the 1928 season. Dr. Walter P. Whitted of Kenly was re-elected president of the circuit by the di rectors of the league. Under his guidance, the Small Town Loop has been a great success. Two games per week will be played as in the past seasons with a split season, also, the winner of the first half to meet the champions of the last half for the league title. . ♦ Two hundred and fifty farmers of Davidson county recently pur chased 2,000 bushels of seed soy beans in a cooperative shipment. and George Sand. Mrs. Chas. Wal lace gave a reading from Edgar A. Guest. The hostess served chick en salad and hot coffee. Attractive favors were given. A number of special guests were present. The out-of-town guest was Mrs. Tur lington’s sister, Miss I'attie Hunter of Kenly. Minister Preaches Clean Up Doctrine Rev. D. E. Earnhardt Says Folks Are Sick And Do Not Know It; Urges Cleaning Up Breeding Places Of Flies And Mosquitoes. -♦ “Cleanliness is next to godliness” thinks Rev. D. E. Earnhardt, Meth odist minister of this city, who pro ceeded Sunday morning to tell his congregation to clean up the mos quito and fly breeding places in this community in order that folks may be well, thus improving the .eligious atmosphere around Smith .'icld. He stated that folks in eastern Morth Carolina are sick and do not know it. His authority for this statement is the fact that he has lived in fifteen counties of this state, most of them in the east, and lis knowledge is first hand. Folks are full of malaria and lack the pep of the western part of the state. The minister not being a physician said he would not endeavor to use my technical terms. He just talked in plain United States, calling a spade a spade, and his hearers did not fail to get the message which he intended to put over in regard to the prevention of diseases carri ed by flies and mosquitos. A vein of humor ran through his entire sermon, and at times his il lustrations were particularly real istic. His congregation will be apt to remember the sermon. If the! lethargy due to germs should cause j them to neglect to clean up their ! premises, they will not fail to re- i member his words next summer ! when the mosquitos begin their i nocturnal serenades. Rev. Mr. Earnhardt used part of i the twelfth chapter of Romans as ! his text, and in a logical exposition , drove home the thought that folks j must make their bodies fit temples for the indwelling of the Holy Ghost. MCADOO DEPICTS WALSH AS IDEAL MAN FOR PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, April 28.—De scribing Senator Walsh, of Mon tana, as “one of the strongest supporters of President Wilson’s administration,” William G. Mc Adoo, in a lengthy letter to a party colleague in California, has expressed the view that “there is no Democrat in public life today whose achievements entitle him to greater honors at the hands of his party.” "With Walsh in the White House,” he declared, “a just man, an able man, a courageous man, an intellectual man, a great man, and a sober man will lead the people of the United States into a new era of prosperity and law enforce ment. Fundamental Democratic principles will operate again for the benefit of all classes and all creeds and all races, and the best traditions of Jefferson, Jackson, Cleveland and Wilson will find new expression and new power.” These statements and others, all highly complimentary to the Mon tana Senator, wrho recently entered the contest for the Democratic Presidential nomination with the support of McAdoo and many of his followers in 1924, are contain ed in a letter sent by the former Treasurer Secretary recently John B. Elliott, of Los Angeles, and mad epublic today. Mr. McAdoo said that if he were not detained here by his legal bus iness, he would go to California for some speeches in Walsh’s be half before the May 1 primary in which the Senator is entered against Governor Smith, of New York, and Senator Reed, of Missou ri. McAdoo.heads the Walsh slate of delegates. Elliott is one of the California Democrats who are tak ing a leading part in Walsh’s be half in the primary fight.—Associ ated Press. SNOW FALLS IN WESTERN CAROLINA BLOWING ROOK, April 28— An all day rain in this section Friday turned to snow and at 6 o' clock the mercury had fallen be b)V (freezing. ..Some fears were expressed that the fruit crop might he damaged. The trees have not bloomed! yet, but it is expected buds are sufficiently developed to be hurt by the freeze.—Associated Press. THE LONG MISSING TEA-SET Governor McLean this aternoon opens at the State House, Raleigh, an exhibition of the old silver service presented1 more than a century ago to the daughter of Captain Johnston Blakeley, U. S. N., the State’s naval hero in the war of 1812-14 against Great Britain, who was lost at sea. After lying in obscurity orf many years in an ancient Cornish Castle, the plate has been brought to North Carolina by Captain Ed ward Page Gaston, F. R. G. S., the London-American antiquary. The exhibit will be on free exhibition in the Hall of Representatives from May to 12 inclusive. Photos free of Copyright 11 to 1 and 2 to5 daily except Sunday. Two Men Fatally Hurt In Automobile Accident Charlie Hodges And William Bass Meet Death When Ford Hits Buick Roadster Parked On Roadside Near Selma. A most horrible automohle acci dent took place Sunday night about eleven o’clock on Highway No. 10 not far from the overhead bridge near Selma, in which one man was burned to death, another fatally cut, and four others more or less in jured. Charlie Hodges and William Bass, both white men of Dunn, are the dead men, while four negroes sustained cuts and bruises, though not serious. Mr. Hodges died in a short time after the tragic crash of two automobiles, and Mr. Bass whose throat was cut almost from ear to ear by glass from the sha> ered windshield died yesterday af ternoon at six thirty o’clock at the Johnston County Hospital where he was taken following the accident. About five o’clock yesterday after noon an operation was performed on Mr. Bass as a last resort, but from the first it was practically certain that he was fatally hurt. The accident occurred when the Ford roadster in which Messrs. nuugcs ana r>ass were riding nil the back end of a Buick roadster said to have been parked partly on the pavement and partly on the shoulders of the road. The force of the impact moved the Buick about ten feet, burst the gas tank of the Buick automobile which set the car on fire and fatally burned Mr. Hodges who was driving the Buick. Walter Horton, his wife and baby and Dennis Brooks, all colored peo ple of this city, were returning home from Turkey below Goldsboro when they had some tire trouble. The two negro men had got out of the car, jacked up one wheel, and were patching the tire by the lights on the front of the automobile when the Ford hit the car. The negro wo man and baby were thrown out of the car and knocked a distance of about ten feet. Shortly after the accident hap pened Mr. William Toler, superin tendent of the water works in Golds boro, came on the scene. He took the negroes to Smithfield, after getting the burned men out of the car whom they thought to be dead, and summoned Dr. W. J. B. Orr to attend Mr. Bass who was known to be in a serious condition. Deputy T. E. Talton, Coroner J. H. Kirk man, Dr. Orr, and others were soon on the scene, and it was found that the burned man was still breathing. ! He was taken to the hospital but [died just after reaching there. The [ body was burned beyond recogni tion. Not a piece of clothing was | left on his body, and though he 'talked incessantly until he reached | the hospital those attending him * were unable to find out his name. Mr. Bass, whose throat was cut, was unable to speak after the acci dent. Officers spent three hours be i Amputates Foot of Delma Langdon Langdon Receives Gun Shot Wound at Hands Of David Dupree In Shooting Scrape !. Delma Langdon, a white man of Pleasant Grove Township is in the Johnston County Hospital where it was necessary to amputate one of his feet Sunday evening on ac count of a gun shot wound re ceived at the hands of David Du pree, also a white man of Pleas ant Grove. The foot was amputa ted just above the ankle, but un less complications set in the in jured man is expected to recover. The shooting which resulted in the above named operation, took place Sunday afternoon about five o’clock at the home of Dupree. The two men had had a row over domestic affairs. Neither of the men were said to be under the influence of liquor. Dupree gave himself up, after the shooting, to Delma Hardee, deputy sheriff of Elevation Town ship. Dupree is being held with out bond pending the condition of Langdon. fore they were able to find out who the two men were. Chief of police of Dunn cooperated in a splendid manner with officials here, but it was not until they communicated with the state license bureau and located the owner of the car that they found out who the victims of the accident were. The body of Mr. Hodges was cfaimed yesterday by his brother who accompanied it home for the funeral service and burial. Mr. Hodges leaves a wife and three children. Mr. Bass, who is unmarried, is the son of N. B. Bass, former chief of police of Dunn. He was at his son’s bedside yesterday. Deputy Talton issued a warrant for the two negro men, Walter Horton and Dennis Brooks, but the warrants were not served until yes terday, though a guard was placed in the Horton home, it being thought that hi8 injuries were too serious to serve the warrant Sun day night. It developed yesterday that Horton was not so badly hurt, and he was placed in jail in default of $2,000 bond. Later yesterday af ternoon, Brooks was also placed under a $2,000 bond and was in jail no one having gone on his bond. A coroner’s inquest to in vestigate the causes of the death of Mr. Hodges will be held this after noon at one o’clock. Cornorer Kirk man has summoned the following jury: Messrs. H. C. Hood, C. M. Johnson, T. C. Ogburn, W. J. Hunt ley, Thomas Jordan, and Hugh Aus tin. Repeated tests have shown that dusting cotton with calcium arse I nate is the only safe way to con trol the boll weevil. Mrs. Martin Wins In Garden Contest Is Awarded First Place j Among 26 Contestants For \ Best Year Round Garden;! Four Other Prizes. An interesting feature of the school of house furnishing and household management held here Saturday for home demonstration workers was the announcement of I the winners in the garden contest which closed: on April 1. There were twenty-six contestants, five | >f whom received prizes for the i best all year round gardens. Mrs. Z. R. Martin, of Smithfield, had the best record of any participat ing in the contest, and she was awarded the first prize, a garden plow. Mrs. J. L. Peedin, of the Pomona-Creech club, was given sec i end place in the contest, and she j received a chest of Community si 1 - I ver. The third prize went to Mrs. ! II. B. l)cwar, who received a sack I of fertilizer. The fourth prize was also a sack of fertilizer, and went to Mrs. J. W. Boyette, of Carter Massey club. Mrs. Allie Barfield, of Bentonville, was awarded the fifth prize, a set of Community tea spoons. The contest which began on April ,J. 1927, took into considera tion variety of vegetables served during the entire year, the writeup of how the garden was made the financial returns, and pictures j made of the growing produce. Mrs. Martin, winner of the first i prize, planted a garden plot 32; yards by 23 yards. She had a lima bean trellis 25 yards by 7 yards from which she sold $50 worth of lima beans during the year. She had five vows of strawberries, and | on April 18 served strawberries j from her garden. She also has | three rows of raspberries and some i dew berries and Himalaya black ; berries. Her vegetables included | ten cabbage rows, five Irish pota-; to rows, two rows of multiply on ions, one row each of radish, tur-j lii'p, and New Zealand spinach, j ;She served roasting ears nearly j all the season. She also raised a j quanity of tomatoes and in the j spring sold nine dollars worth of tomato plants. In addition to these; vegetables, she devoted space in her garden to collards, cabbage, winter greens, an asparagus bed, garden peas, a parsley bed, sage bushes, Ruby King pepper, and ar tichokes sufficient to supply two bushels for Christmas pickles. Af ter her Irish potatoes were off, she planted sweet potatoes, producing a bountiful crop. Besides these vegetables on which she realized $63.50 during the year besides the nine dollars for her tomato plants and the $50 worth of lima beans, Mrs. Martin uats a numucr oi nun trees wmcn furnish fresh fruit in season. She has four peach trees, one current bush, three hazel nuts, three cher ry trees, five pecans, three plums, one damson, three fig bushes, one apple tree, scuppernorjg \tfne and two other grape vines. In addition to vegetables in the garden, Mrs. Martin always has a quanity of flowers, and last year vshe gave 175 bouquets to the hos pital, other sick, and shut-ins, and to friends. In additio n to the $131.45 worth of surplus vegetables she gave to friends, relatives and the needy vegetables in the amount of $25. On this same town garden plot, Mrs. Martin had a small chicken run, where she raised about seven ty-five chickens. She fed her flock | with surplus vegetables, which she found to be profitable in egg pro duction as well as lessening her feed bill. Mrs. Martin in making her re port in February on her garden work, made the following state ment: “I derive both pleasure and pro fit from my little plot. “I have leaves scattered on ground' in the fall, also commercial lime, then, have it broken good and deep. When ready to plant have ground brokeqf again and rows run, then apply stable man ure, hen house manure, and guano. Set multiplier onions in August when I sow winter turnips; in November plant sweet-peas; Dec ember plant garden peas, also set cabbage plants. February 14th plant Irish potatoes, cabbage rad dish, turnips. I think a liberal sup TURN TO PAGE 7, COLUMN 1 Braves the Arctic *■* ’• mmvmmr i Captain George II. Wilkins, who ! with Ins co-pilot, the Alaskan mail ! flier Carl B. liilson, riled the ! aviation and scientific world by completing a flight from Point Bar row, Alaska, to Green Harbor Spitsbergen. Among other dangers they faced starvation. House Furnishing School Held Here; Leaders From Home Demon-j stration Clubs Receive In-' structions From Miss Helen Estabrook. Under the auspices of the home demonstration work in Johnston County a school in house furnish ing and household management for leaders in the various clubs was ! held here Saturday, conducted by Miss Helen N. Esterbrook, of the j State Department of home demon stration work. The group met in the farmers room from ten until one o’clock. Miss Esterbrook talked- particular ly about floor coverings and drap- ' ery materials. She demonstrated 1 the pictures of rooms, samples of j materials, and with actual drap eries hung in different styles. She j discussed the what and how of curtaining of homes, bringing out 1 the importance of taking into con-; sideration the purpose of use for i the rooms. Color harmony was al so stressed. Tht following clubs were rep-; resented: Bentonville, Mrs. C. C. Beasley ' and Mrs. J. H. Mashburn. Corbett-Hatcher, Mrs. Waylon | Brown. Pisgah, Mrs. Carl Gardner, Mrs. A. J. Whitley, Jr., and Miss Irene ■ Whitley. Selma, Mrs. U. B. Hales and | Mrs. R. C. Mozingo. Carter-Massey, Mrs. J. W. Boy- j ette. Princeton. Mrs. J. R. Woodard and Miss Mary Jones. Pomona-Creech, Mrs. H. P. Creech, Miss Daisy Creech, and Misses Nellie and Myra Hill. A number of visitors were pres ent besides the leaders who will carry back to their clubs the in formation gained from Miss Esterbrook. WORST APRIL SNOW IN 26 YEARS IN MARYLAND HAGERSTOWN, Md., April 28 j —The worst April snowstorm the j Cumberland valley has seen in 59 ; years tore down wire communica tions, made highways hazardous with drifts and descended upon fruit orchards in full bloom last night and today. A wet clinging snow and a wind blowing from 30 to 40 miles an j hour, broke down wires and leveled poles across highways, cutting off communication to the west, in- j terferring with lines to the North j and South from here. Snowfall va-1 lied from four or five inches in the valley to a fott reported at Blueridge Summit.—Associated Press. w,4i The sweet potato grown on a sandy soil and properly fertilized should become an excellent money crop for Tarheel farmers. late Polar Flight Breaks Precedent . News From Top Of The World Creates A Real Sensation; Sheds Light On Geographic Problems. % -+ By Robert Fuller Washington, April 30.—The news from “the top of the world” that Captain George H. Wilkins and Carl B. Eilson, unannounced and jnheralded, had made a safe pas sage from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitzbergen has created a great *tir all over the world, as an out standing achievement, and the Nat ional Geographic Society here her alds the fliers as having broken all precedent in flying so far South luring their trip. They flew 250 miles South after reaching the northwest corner of Spitzbergen, the most popular base for polar flights. An astounding feature of this flight was that it was unannounc ed. No one knew that Captain Wil kins had started the flight. People remembered that he had been con templating such a flight, but grad ually the memory was fading. Then, of a sudden, new's came to the Capitol that the flight had been News of the start, the passage and the finish came all at once. Never was there a more sensa tional report! This is the first air-flight over the Arctic Basin by a heavier than air machine. The expedition was primarily for scientific purposes. Peary had thought he saw land-/ signs northwest of Greenland out in the Arctic Sea and the existence of this land has been the question ever since. Captain Wilkins according flew to the right of the Pole for the re gion where land was believed to be in evidence, and wired the Geog raphical Society that he had found no land. Thus Wilkins, in addition to per forming one of the bravest feats in history, a feat which made it neces sary to undergo many hardships, has erased a scientific question mark. And it is believed he will be able to give the world other scientific results of his journey. There are many scientific questions involved as to ocean currents, soundings, temperatures, atmospheric condi tions, and so forth. The National Georgaphic Society will add a very great deal to the sum believes that this latest Polar flight of general geographical knowledge. NEGRO FOUND DEAD IN SELMA C. B. McCollers, a negro of Selma, was found dead at his home yesterday afternoon, and Corpner Kirkman was called to hold an in quest. The jury which was im parelled failed to find any cause for his death. The negro who ap peared to be about 50 years old, lived alone. Tom Tarheel says the profit he made on his car of fat hogs this week will keep him from borrow ing money to start his crop this year. Aunt Roxie Opines By Me— Arter my ole man found I won’t gwinter git no inshorance check he hunted the feller up and lowed as to how he wuz on dat road fust. Den de feller’s han' begun to shape up like what de white folks calls vveepon, but hit looked mo to me lack one deese ole fashioned cider pessels. Den my ole man decided dat he mout git de wust eend of bof wrecks and lowed you show did hit me helve lick.
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