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THE JOHNSTONIAN AND' JOHNSTON COUNTY SUN CONSOLIDATED
VOLUME 13.
SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1930.
NUMBER 19.
Textile Men To
Meet Here In School
Auditorium, May 9
Over 100 Men From the Eastern
Carolina Division to Be in
Selma Meeting
It is' expected that more than one
hundred members of the Eastern
Carolina Textile Division will attend
the Spring Meeting to be held in the
Selma Graded School Auditorium on
Friday, May 9th at 10:00 o’clock
A. M.
Prof. F. M. Waters, Superintend
ent of Selma Graded School, will de
liver the address of welcome, and it
,is hoped to make this meeting the
best that has yet been held, both
from an educational and a social
standpoint. Selma being a central
ized location a.nd the fact that many
mills are operating on curtailed
schedules will, no doubt, induce a
full attendance at this' meeting.
Luncheon will be provided by the
Selma Cotton Mills and the Eastern
Manufacturing Company and this
will be served in the hail of the Sel-
m.a Kiwanis Club. With all this in
view, it is confidently expected that
the meeting will be a very pleasant
and profitable one.
U. S. Senate Fails
To Confirm Parker
For Supreme Court
PLACES CHILD IN
SHRINER’S HOSPITAL
Washington, May 7.—The Senate
today rejected John J. Parker as an
Associate Justice of‘ the Supreme
Court.
The vote was 41 to 39.
The North Carolina judge .missed
confirmation by a two vote margin
centering on his attitude toward or
ganized labor and the negro.
It is the first Supreme Courts nomi
nation to be rejected since 1894.
The Senate’s decision leaves va
cant the seat of the late Justice San
ford.
Standing firmly by his nominee
President Hoover has given no indi
cation who will be his next choice.
Senate leaders do not believe he
will agiin turn to the South.
Local Minister Talks
To Selma Kiwanians
Eider Isaac Jones
Died Last ' Sunday
Mr. anc! Mrs. W. H. Call returned
\yednesday from Greenville, S. C.,
where they placed little Lucile Lamb
in the Shriner’s Orphanage Hospital,
which is maintained by the Shrine
for the treatment of deformed chil
dren who are unable to have treat
ment elsewhere. Mr. Call says a won
derful work is being done at this
institution where 65 beds are avail
able and other patients are treated
who are able to go and come from
their home. Every care is taken of,
the little sufferers, clothing furnish
ed, playthings and amusements pro
vided for them while confined in the
hospital, and bright-faced nurses en
tertain tjiem. A generous, public-
spirited citizen of Greenville built
this hospital and the Shrike is re
sponsible for the upkeep. Mr. Cal!
thinks the little girl they took will
possibly be in the hospital for 5 or
6 months.
Hostess at Birthday Dinner and
Family Reunion
Mrs. Mamie Tuck Candler was
hostess at a lovely birthday dinner
and family reunion on Thursday,
May 8th, in Celebration of her moth
er’s, Mrs. Georgianna Winston Tuck’s
80th birthday. 'The lower floor of
the spacious home on Anderson St.
was en suite for the occasion and
tastefully decorated with . colorful
spring flowers.|''T5iatives from out
TJf^own" began to arrive before noon
.and were greeted at the door by
Mrs. Candler and passed on to where
Mrs. Tuck, comfortably seated, re
ceived congratulations, felicitations
and many lovely birthday remem
brances. At one o’clock the guests
were ushered into the dining room,
and a delicious four course dinner
was served. The beautifully appoint
ed table had as its centerpiece a
bowl of red and white roses, U. D.
C. colors, Mrs. Tuck having been
quite active in the work of the
Daughters of Confederacy and at one
time President of' the Selma Chap
ter for four years. She later organ
ized the Junior Chapter with 50
members. While Mrs. Tuck is prob
ably Selma’s oldest woman, she is
mentally alert, keeping abreast of
the times and a most interesting con
versationalist. She has a wide circle
of admiring friends who coflgratu-
late her on being '80 years ygung.
Relatives present were; Mr. and Mrs.
W. G. Broadfoot and children, of
Wendell; Mr. and Mrs. Tom W.
Winston, Miss Georgia Noble Taylor,
Julia Winston Taylor and Mrs. Rich
ard Taylor, of Oxford; Mr. and Mrs.
Sam E. Leonard and daughter Mar
garet, of Rocky Mount; Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Etheredge, Miss Margaret and
Stella Etheredge, Mr. and Mrs. R.
W. Etheredge, Mr. and Mrs. Roger
Strickland, Mr. §.nd Mrs. F. B. Sit-
ton, Mrs. R. A. Ash-worth, Misses
Anne. and Amy Ashworth, Robert
A-shworth, Mrs. Mamie Tuck, Mr.
^Claiborne Tuck. Great grandchildren
present were: Frank Winston Sit-
ton, Elizabeth Ashworth and Bobby
Etheredge.
Elder H. F. Hutchens returned
Monday from a few days stay
out of town, and found awaiting him
a telegram asking that he conduct
the funeral of Elder Isaac Jones at
3:30 on Monday afternoon, but of
course it was then too late for him
to comply with the request, greatly
to the regret of the Selma minister.
Elder Jones died Sunday afternoon
about .6:00 o’clock. He was going
into his 84th year and was one of
the oldest and most prominent Prim
itive Baptist preachers in the United
States, having done considerable
traveling in- his m.inisterial work, and
was known and highly esteemed and
much loved by a wide circle of ac-
quaintainces and Primitive Baptist
over the country.
The deceased made his home near
Maple Hill, in Pender County, N. C ,
where he was reared and where he
spent the major portion of his life.
FORD BEATS AMBULANCE ■
AS 8 MINUTES BABY WINS
F-sv. D. F. Waddell, pastor of the
local Presbyterian Church, was they
speaker at the Kiw'anis luncheon las
Thursday evening. Rev. Mr. Wad
dell’s talk was full of humor anc
wit and it _ was enjoyed very m.uch
by the club.
District Trustee, Fred Waters, an-|
nounced to the club that Fridayl'
June 13 the'nine clubs of the fourth j
Carolinas district would gather at)
Fayetteville for the yearly meeting.*
He also read a letter from Dri
Battle A. Hocutt, of Clayton, sug
gesting that the luncheon clubs o;
th^ county meet together at interJ
vals during the year to learn one
another better and to thresh ou'f
some of the problems which con
front the people of the county. This
suggestion was voted on by the club
and was..passed without a dissenting
vote.
It is hoped that a bus can be
charteered sometime during this
month for the purpose of taking a
number of farmers to Dr. David R.
Coker’s farm near Hartsville, S. C.
Dick Massey is head of the commit
tee to put this across. He said that
he would be in position to tell the
club something definite at the next
.meeting of the club.
Charles W. Scales and Linwood
Sichardson were appointed to repre-
,^ent the club at the International
invention to be held at Atlantic
City in June. •• These gentlemen are
to see that some other members of
the club attends this meeting if they
can’t attend.
Meteorite Seen From
Here as It is Passing
Over Greensboro
Johnston County
Superior Court
.The Superior Court finished trying
MRS.
ROY HARDEE
DIES IN HOSPITAL
,A"Are in WasK'ngton, N. C., Wed
nesday' burned 'up an entire city
Mock and . doing damage estimated at
about $200,000. •
When the Hudson-Belk Co. baby
sho-w drew an entry one day old last
Wednesday those connected with the
sho-w thought the contest for the
youngest baby was over.
But the race had just heg'un.
On Thursday a baby weighed in
'at the tender age of two hours and
thirty minutes. The contest was
again conceded.
But by this time the race between
parents had become eclipsed by a
race between hospitals and ambu
lance drivel's,
1 Thursday’s entry was from Rex
Hospital. Yesterday it was badly
distanced by a Mary Elizabeth baby,
brought in by another ambulance
driver.
For the third time the prize of a
crib was conceded and for the third
time the concession was premature.
The contest closed last night at
six o’clock. Twelve minutes before
it closed an excited nurse from Rex
Hospital rushed in with a bundle
■which was shown to contain seven
pounds and 12 ounces 'of real live
baby and which authenticated rec
ords at the hospital showed to hkve
been born at 5:40 p. m., just eight
minutes before.
But while the hospitals stayed in
the contest until the last, '■ the am
bulances were eliminated. The win
ner, Leland Gould Barden, Jr., of
512 Holt Street, was brought in by
the proud father in person and visit
ed the store in the trusted family
Ford.
The -baby registering in second
place was Mary Lucinda Driver,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Driver, of 511 East Jones street.
In all 281 babies -were weighed
during the contest.
Other contest ■winners were: Joyce
Lee Andrews, heaviest baby 6 to 12
mo.nths of age weight 33 pounds, age
11 months.
George R. Barden, hea-viest baby
13 to 24 months, weight 38 pounds,
age 21 months.
Lois and Louis "Woodall heaviest
set of t-wins age 8 months, -weight:-
Lois 18 pounds, 2 1-2 ounces, Louis
18 pounds, 2 ounces.—Raleigh News
and Observer, 4th.
Mrs. Driver was formerly Miss
Ruth Fulghum, of Selrria. Mrs. Bar
den was Miss Jessie Gurley, also of
Selma. .
Tornado in Texas Tuesday took 66
lives and caused property damage'
running into millions of dollars; . '
A very sad death occurred in the
Johnston County Hospital on April
the 30th, when Mrs. Roy Hardee, of
Cleveland Township, died of child
birth. Mrs. Hardee was taken to the
hospital about one o’clock in the
morning and died about five o’clock
in the morning of the same day, on
ly living about four hours after
reaching the hospital. She was.
afflicted with, l^tigh't’s ‘di'sease,' and
this is attributed to being one of
the prime causes of her untimely
death. Her mother died with the
same trouble when she was born.
Mrs. Hardee was a member of the
Methodist church at Mount Zion, but
aft,er her marriage less than a year
ago, she, and her husband lived near
Oakland church. The funeral was
conducted from Oakland church on
Wednesday following her death on
Tuesday, by her. pastor. Rev. Mr.
Clegg, of Garner. There was a very
large crowd at the funeral and burial
and the floral offerings were numer
ous and very beautiful. Mrs. Hardee
only lacked about t-wo weeks of be
ing 19 years old. .
The deceasied is a daughter of
Mr. J. C. Carroll, of upper Cleve
land Township, who still survives
her. She is also survived by her
husband, her step-mother,_one sister,
Mrs. M. A. Penny, of Gamer; and
three brothers as follows: Messrs. J.
Claude and W. L. Carroll, of McCul-
lers. Route 1; Mr. H E. Carroll, of
Raleigh, and one half brther, Air.
Joseph Carroll, of McCullers.
MR. N. H. LUCAS
FOR THE LEGISLATURE
Johnsto'nian-Sun,
Dear Editor:
This is no time to take chances.
The major issue in the coming cam
paign, and in the next legislature
will be tax reduction. To handle that
question, we need a man with a wide
range of knowledge, with much
thought and observation. There is
a lot of we taxpayers -who think
Lucas is the best qualified man in
the county to handle the question.
Our inefficient, unjust and notorious
taxing question is an intricate and
complex question. It will take a high
degree of intelligence, manhood and
nerve to successfully cope .with that
problem. And Lucas possesses all
three, in a high degree. We hope
that no person or persons, will in
trigue, or maneuver to defeat his
norriination in the Convention, and
thereby cause taxpayers to lose hope
in tax relief, and might react to
our disadvantage. Then, if you will
remember the year 1924, you .will
feel that you are duty bound to hon
or that man at least one time.
A. T. JOHNSON.
"a few people in Selma and othe ■
parts of Johnston County have bee:
heard to say that they saw a strange
light in the direction of Gfeensbori
last Saturday night wliich impressed
them as being a “shooting star” or
small meteor. Some thought it was
a sky rocket sent up some-where near
here,
r This is said to have been a meteor
ite which seemed to pass directly
over Greensboro Saturday hight
about 9 o’clock and kept up a dis
tinct roaring and giving off gxplo-
sions which shook buildings. / We
■quo'fe below from an ^icTe "appear-
ing in -the Greensboro Daily Ne-ws
Monday of this -week:
In the absence of defini-te know
ledge in regard to the disposition
and destination of the meteorite
which on Saturday night visited
Greensboro and other North Carolina
communities many of those who saw
and heard it continued on Sunday
to speculate in regard to the re
markable visitor. It was quite evi
dent that when the big transient
heavenly body began this journey
no forwarding address was provid
ed.
- It is considered quite possible that
fragments *of the meteorite will be
discovered somewhere in this state.
Scientists say that such bodies usual
ly are finally consumed by the loss
of fragments from time to time,
the.se portions falling to the earth
and into the sea. In other words,
the meteorite, it is said, does not
fall as one great body, but by a
sort of explosive and attritional pro
cess is gradnally consumed, usually.
J. P. Molen, in charge of the Unit
ed States wieather station at the
Greensboro airport, when questioned
yesterday by a Daily News reporter
expressed the confident opinion that
the erratic caller was a meteorite.
Attention was called to the fact that
meteors do not come in contact with
the earth, although meteorites,
I which are much large than meteors,
-(hr-.Sestabiiish very \dgorous contacts
with this planet. It is known that
from time to time fragments of con
siderable size and weight have fallen
from meteorites to the earth.
Available information appears to
indicate that a meteorite bearing a
good deal of resemblance to the one
seen in North Carolina Saturday
night was the one reported at Wes
ton, Conn., April 14, 1807. The di-
amter of the one at Weston was esti
mated at 300 feet. Three heavy ex
plosions were reported then. Two
feet below the earth’s surface was
fo.und a 35-pound fragment from
the meteori-te which visited Connecti
cut. Considerable similarity between
the Connecticut and North Carolina
meteorites, both as a -visual and audi
tory impressions, appears to have
been indicated.
One observer reported that the
Saturday night visitor seemed to be
about four inches in diameter and
about 20 miles high. This would ap
pear to indicate that its diameter ac
tually ranged between 100 and 300
feet, it was Said. It may have
weighed hundreds of tons. Years
ago a certain meteorite, was estimat
ed as weighing almost 60,000 tons.
One seen at Windsor August 18,
1783, is said to have been at least
3,200 feet in diameter, or about |
all'..the cases on the docket last
Thursday. Cases that have been.dis-
I pos.ed of since last Tuesday are as
follows;
Mrs. Mourning Jackson vs. H. D.
Perkins. Motion is - made for con
tinuance and this case was set for
trial on the first Monday of the next
civil term xif court.
W. Jesse Stanley vs. E." Ward
R. W. Coats. Cont. for defendant.
'Dr. Surles certificate filed in case.
Mrs. Minnie T. Duncan, Adm., vs.
E. R. Gulley and others. This case
was ordered siet as first case for
Monday of the second week of next,
term of Superior Court.
W. F. McLamb vs A i^,/ludson,
John A. Lee, W. J. Adai& and A.
P. Tart. Consent judgme^ m favor
of plaintiff and defendants in the
sum of $425.00 with interest' from
April 5, 1929 less credit of $51.78
as of April 5, 1929.. Execution not
to be issued before Nov. 1, 1930.
W. Ryal Woodall vs. Ora V. Pool
and Mrsj Mary Moore. Order con
tinuing the action for this term and
setting it at the top of the next
civil calendar for trial as the first
case in first Tuesday of next ci-vil
term.
W. H. Hayes vs. Herbert Sutton.
Dismissed the action and taxed plain
tiff with cost.
Central Shoe Company vs. W. R.
Keen and J. W. Keen, surety. Con
sent judgment by which plaintiff
will recover of defendant the sum of
$799.66 with interest from Dec. 4,
1928 and the cost. Execution not
to be issued until after Nov. 1,
1930.
Zebulon Johnson vs. B. J. Benson
and others. Order appointing James
Raynor and C. C. Cannady receivers
of the lands described in the plead
ings.
'Vertie Barefoot Hugulet and oth
ers vs. Atlantic Joint Stock Land
Bank. Order authorizing plaintiff to
file an amended complaint within
20, days from Thursday, April 30,
1930, and defe.hfianta. have- 20 d.ays
after filing amended complaint to
file any pleadings they may deem-
proper.
W. H. Wiggs vs. Mary George.
Actions for damages-' sustained in
an accident on highway when auto
mobile of defendant ran into a wag
on of the plaintiff causing damage
to his mule and wagon and load of
tobacco. The jury finds that the
plaintiff is damaged about $75.00, the
defendant is therefore ordered to
pay the plaintiff $75.00 and also
pay the cost of the action.
Alice Grimes., and others vs. Bar
bour and Denning. Consent refer-
eno9 and ordered that J. C. Clifford,
Esq., of Dunn; head the contention:
and file findings of fact and opinion:
of law.
J. L. Lee vs. A. H. Morgan. Judg
ment by which plyaintiff and de
fendant have agreed on a route fo:
the highway, restraining order le:
tered in this cause is dissolved ani
the plaintiff is taxed -with the cos:
George Ragsdale vs. Charlie Davil
Jud,gment in favor of Plaintiff v.l
defendant in the sum of $287.7:
with interest on same from Dec.
1928.
E. J. Wellons vs. W. C. Lassiter
and Rosella Lassiter. Judgment on
the pleadings in favor, of the plain-
Sheriff Gets Telegram
From Illinois That
Gar Thieves Arrested
Those who read The Johnstonian-
Sun will probably remember an' ac
count of an automobile theft which,
was published in these columns in
the issue of - April 24th, rela
tive to the stealing' of a man’s car
in Smithfield, which we are re-
printing in part, as follows:
“Sunday night Mr. Paul R. Ne'W-
man of Lillington, N. C., stopped at
the Johnston apartment house and
went inside for about five minutes.
As he was coming right back out
he left the keys in the car. While
in the house he heard a car start off
but thought that it was someone
else. When he went out to get hLs
car it was gone.”
Since that time an un'tiring effort
has been under way by Sheriff Fitz
gerald and his force of deputies to
locate the car and apprehend the
guilty party or parties, but no trace
could he had until recently when
some checks began to show up at
the bank where Mr. Newman did
his banking. These checks bore Mr.
Newman’s signature, but of course,
his banker very readily saw that the
signatures were not original. These
checks- came from different pointe
between here and some point out
in Illinois, so the -wires were put into
operation in an effort to head off
the thieves. In response to this ef
fort, the police department in Car-
bondale, Illinois, telegraphed the
nqws that they held two men driv
ing a Ford car with a North Cart>-
li'na license tag which answered the
description of Mr. Newman’s car.
They also found in one of the car
door pockets a check book of Mr.
Ne-wman’s that had been partly or
entirely used up, and this no doubt
accounts for -the bogus checks that
have been arrmng signed in the
name of Mr. Ne-wman.
Sheriff Fitzgerald advises us that
he has already wired the police in .
Carbondale, 111., t hold the men ss^.
cure until they can be brought back
to this state to answer to the crime.
The* names given by these men!
Carbbndale are “Johnnie Doran”
“Claud .Williams,” but tb?*r tru«
identification may tell quite Aliffer-
ent tale when they arrive in John
ston County.
Ransom Evans Killed
When Car Overturns
Mr. RaiLsom Evans, who lived -.
about one m.ile east of Princeton, ;
had his neck broken when his car
overturned in a sandy place in the
road near Richardson Bridge some
time between ten and eleven o’clock
Monday night. There was a Holt
boy in the car with Mr. Evans at
the time, and it is said that when
the car struck the sandy place in
the road it swerved to one side
and turned over ‘catching Mr. Evans
under one side of the steering-wheel
and breaking his nepk, from which ')
he died instantly. The Holt boy es- j
caped unhurt with the exception of /
one finger which was naaitfr badly V
hurt..
three-fifths of a riiile. In height I tiff vs. defendants in the sum of
AT THE FAIRVIEW
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday School at 10 A. M.
Preaching service at, 8 P. M. '
D. F. WADDELL, Pastor.
they vary from 25 to 200, miles; that
is; they would hardly be visible at
a distance greater than 200 miles.
The meteorite was about 60 miles
away -when it passed over or at
least seemed to pass over Greens
boro, one person who viewed it con
jectured. ' The angle .at which it
passed ■was not definitely established,
but on the basis • of . impressions
formed by many persons who ob
served the. strange ' light and heard
the ■weird noites Mr. Molen is in
clined to the opinion that the rare
visitor was traveling at an altitude
of 25 or 30 miles at the time of
the .explosions over this- section. “It
may have been going from 400 to
450 miles an hour,’* he added, “and
it may have weighed hundreds of
tons.” 1
One of those who viewed the
strange heavenly manifestation refer
red to the light as “a reddish cast
before the e::(;plosion and blue after
the explosion.”. The noises were
something like those caused by dis
tant cannon in action, it was said.
Observers agree that houses were
shaken in somewhat the fashion pre
vailing in times of earthquakes. The
brilliance of the light shed by the
s'wift traveler and the awe-inspiring
thunderousness of the explosive nois-
$4,152.13 with interest on $88,92
from Feb. 2, 1929 and interest on
$4,062.21 from Nov. 1, 1927.
The Sheriff’s officie was notified of
the accident and deputies were soon
on the scene to make an investiga
tion, and we understand- t^t'-they
made their report to the effect that
Mr. Evans came to his death pure^
ly as an accident. . ■ ' ,
The remains were taken to his
home near Princeton.
es evoked much excited comment in
this section.
Through the combination of dense
atmosphere in the heavens, the in
tense heat and the impressive speed
as the meteorite plunges through
space friction naturally develops,
causing the explosions, with attend
ant dislodging and failing of frag
ments. ■ The inflammable character of
the big - body seems to have beben
rather definitely indicated. The
presence of gas is generally recog
nized as one of the manifestation.
Malleable iron is one of the chief
materials in meteorites, astronomers
say. Fragments of meteorites oh
display at Yale university have been
found to co-ntain from 95 to 98 per
cent iron and from two to five per
cent nickel.
Although uncertainty prevails as
to the present location of the phe
nomenon and its fragmentary family,
thos,e who saw the lightning-like
flashing and heard the peculiar roar
are e'vidently hopeful that they will
not have intimate contact with the
COUNTY AUDITOR VISITS
BIG CRUISER
Mr. R. L. Fitzgerald of Smithfield
and family went to Southport last
Sunday to see the United States
cruiser Raleigh. Mr. Fitzgerald
states that it was a very interesting
trip and that every citizen in North
Carolina should have visited the boat.
He says that there were thousands
and thousands of people there, and
that he had to stand in line about
an hour before he could get on the
boat. Mr.. Fitzgerald also says the*
the marines' were very politj Build
every way. He Says, that the,"
was very rough- Su'ifdav aj,D N
and that it waS ^n excit
ienoe when they went
Cruiser in the httL: ^ ^
small boats bounce.
ped water
waves, ^ I ^
jseep it'
.1,. SoldU tha
mystifying meteorite.
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