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THE JOHNSTONIAN
VOLUME 13.
the JOHNSTONIAN AND JOHNSTON COUNTY SUN CONSOLIDATED
SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1930.
H. Minson Hodges Is
Killed by Herman Allen
In Benson Wednesday
NUMBER 32.
Canning
Shooting Occurred at Home of
Allen Early Wednesday Morn- Coiintx/
ing—-Allen Surrenders to o i ^ i
Sheriff and is Placed in Jail, J^chool Convention
at Smithlield. ) Jo Be Aug. 28th
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About 6:30 o’clock Wednesday
morning Handy Minson Hodges of with Mill Creek"Chrisv
Sraithfield was shot dead by Herman
Allen in Allen’s home in Benson.
After the shooting Allen went to
the office of Rose & Woodall, un
dertakers, and asked that they send
tian Church in Bentonville Town
ship—Miss Flora Davis, of Ral
eigh, Will be one of Principle
Speaker.
to his home and get Hodges’" body. ' Pi'ograms are out and plans are
He then went to the home of Brad rapidly completed for holding
He then went to the home of Brad ° xur noiamg
McLamb, deputy sheriff, to whom Johnston County Sunday School
Vlrt A __ 1 , . CORVAnt.ion oil rlovr A. .
he surrendered and was brought to
Smithfield and lodged in jail. i .
Allen who is a comparatively Creek Christian Church,
,4. : j • ,, 18 miles south of
Convention all day Thursday, Aug
ust 28. -The convention will be held
young man was interviewed in the
county jail Wednesday and accord-
18 miles south of Smithfield, in
Bentonville Township, the opening
D|Live Stock Train
Brought Many People
To Selma Tuesday
Governor Gardner’s Address
WeU Received _ Every De^
partment of Train Under Spe
cial Supervision.
Fess Expects Roosevelt Three Selma Bachelors
jd.j.i vv tunesaay ana accord- . — -me upmujij
ing to his statement he had of late being at 10:30 o’clock Thurs
-41 - ’ - - Wood- morning. It is expected that
and worked in Woodall’s lum- : ^ attendance from
various parts of the county for this
session.
The committee in charge of plans
I and programs for the convention
have announced that the program
■often taken an active part in re- prepared with the idea of
ligious exercises, had of late been convention for the dis
To Run Against Pres. Entertain Kiwanis Club
bean in the employ of Preston Wood-
all,
her plant in Benson. Hodges was
in the employ of the Eldridge Whole- ,
sale Grocery of Benson and boarded
and roomed in Allen’s home. j'
Hodges, who in recent years had'
Mr. Hoover and Governor Will
1932 Nominees, He says.
be
teaching Allen’s wife how to use a practical problems” and
typewriter.
the plan is to make it possible for
ypcwiiuer. I lo luaivc lu puaaioie lOr
Allen says that when he reached from all departments of the
his home about nine o’clock Tuesday School to receive practical
night he found his wife and Hodges concerning their specific
apparently holding a religious serv
He said Hodges was reading During the convention there will
ing the Bible and attempting to ex- question and discussion periods
plain portions of it to Mrs. Allen. tho.se pres.ent will be given an
Allen took their fifteen-months-old opportunity to present their Sunday
baby and retired, leaving Mrs. Allen ^ohool problems and ask any ques-
■who was conversing with Hodges. i Sunday School work.
About midnight he was aroused by leaders in the con-
the baby, and found that Mrs. Allen "^O'^ion will be Miss Flora Davis,
was not in their room. He then General Superintendent of
became uneasy and began looking for North Carolina Sunday School
her in the yard and elsewhere. As A-Ssociation. Miss Davis is well
he passed the window of Hodges’ *^"own among North Carolina Sun-
he says he looked in and saw School workers. She has been
n-P 1 J. ji ... GfvnrtiPnt.pH wifK fViiii Wn»i-T-.
both of them in bed together. Allen ^>^™cted with the North Carolina
uj. uiciii ui ueu Logemer. Alien
says he became very nervous but Sunday School Association for the
started back to his own room and eight years and has helped in
Springfieid, Mass., Aug. 4.—United
States Senator Simeon D. Fes.s of
Ohio, in an interview here today
predicted that Herbert Hoover ag’ain
will be nominated by the Republican
party for President in 1932. Mr,
Fess also said Mr. Hoo.ver would
overwhelm all opposition as he did
m 1928. Senator Fess said he looked
foi the nomination of Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York
by the Democrats to oppose Mr.
Hoover.
Senator Fess said that although
prohibition would figure ii.- 'j-'" fall’s
■elections g.s well as in 19y7^l?iuld
do so only in a “local” way.. He
said he was optimistic by Republi
can prospects and that
Democratic
propaganda, which has been spfead ‘ lo uu
to hurt Mr. Hoover, will be swept Prof, and Bueck are:
away by the-record of the Adminis-'| Harper. 'Mr. H. H. Lowry and
tration’s achievements.
The Selma Kiwanis Club was en-
tertaineti by its three bachelor
members at a barbecue supper at
Harris’ Lake Thursday evening
at 7:30 o’clock, in honor of Prof, and
Mrs. H. Bueck, who left later in I
the evening for Cullowhee, N. C.,
where Prof. Bueck has accepted the
position of principal in the City
School at that place. Prof. and
Mrs. Bueck have been connected with
the Selma High School for several
years and have been useful citizens
in every forward-looking movement
in behalf of the school, the town and
community, so much so that even
the bachelors of the town have takeri
cognizance of the fact and have been
made to open their hearts and loosien
their purse strings in order to com
memorate their good works. These
three bachelors who have been thus
overcome with a desire to do honor
Dr.
Governor 0. Max Gardner ad
dressed approximately 2,000
farmers and their wives at the
initial stop of the Livestock De
velopment Special at Selma
Tuesday at 9:30. The train,
operated by the Atlantic Coast
Line,_ cooperating- -w'ith North
Carolina State College and the
State Department of Agricul
ture, will tour thirty-seven east
ern Carolina towns showing
purebread dairy cattle, poultry,
hogs and sheep and equipment
for proper care and feeding.
Every phase of the livestock in
dustry was lectured upon individual
ly. by experts and the hundreds of
farmers visiting, the train -were all
to hear through the modern
loudspeakers installed by the rail
road.
The Livestock Special, designed
to stimulate interest in one of the
leading phases of our agricultural
life; should; and I believe, will have
a very wholesome effect. It is an
self, said the Governor.
livestock train proclaims to
the State the value of purebred cat
tle of all kinds which means pure
bred progress for North Carolina.
With soil as fertile as in any part
of the State, there are only 3,500.
cows in Johnston County—one cow
for every 16 people and for every
two and one-half fanns. You can
never build a prosperous county or
community and never rid yourselves
of pellagra and raise your children
properly with health, until you fur
nish them with milk,” declared Gov
ernor Gardner. “This is an indict
ment against you.”
The dollar marks on the tobacco
barns blot out the prosperity de
rived from purebred poultry and
livestock and the state can never
be prosperous until it has a revival
as the livestock development is be
ginning in Eastern North Carolina
takes place. Cars of purebred cattla
are cars of gospel that means
much to the future of the State, in
the opinion of the Governor, who
says that the train is the most
heartening sign he has seen in this
time of depression.
Governor Gardner told the farmers
that he was anxious to see pros
perous and happy people in the
established fact that the livestock
industry is extremely important and anu nappy people in
vitally necessary to a well balanced ^nd that the four things „„
agricultural system, and any agency program as chief executive were'
which will have a tendency to pro- 'elimination of scrub cattle, pure-
^ itio uwii luum ana -—
met his wife in the hall of his home Sunday School Conventions and In-
and took her along with him to their ®t^Wtes in every county in the
room. When first accused of infi- S^^^e. Before coming tp North Caf-
■delity he says she denied it but 1^1®® Davis did State Sunday
S5ays that she later confessed. He School work for seevral years in
says he brooded over tha matter
until morning, and then went out Other prominent speakers on the
and borrowed a gun from one of will be Rev. W. 0. Hender-
After returning to ^r. G. A. Link, Rev. J. W. Al-
his neighbors.
The Ohioan declined to comment
upon his probable selection as Chair
man of the Republican National
Committeer to succeed Claudius H.
Huston. He .said he was “not at
liberty to talk o.n that subject at
this time.” •. '
L% rices Offered
Ofi Georgia Tobacco
his home he talked to Hodges about ^ev. J. H. Frizelle, Rev. W. J
Crain, and Prof. G. B. Strickland.
five minutes before shooting him.
Allen says he shot Hodges three, or
four times while Hodges was trying BatS ArOUSC SuSpicioO
to dodge him by running from one
room to another. After the second
shot Hodges told Allen that he had
been hit and asked Allen to go g-et
him a doctor. Allen paid no at-
In Colored Woman’s
House In Selma
There lives in Selma a colored
tention to what he said and shot woman by the name of Minnie Be-
him again. The shots entered thea, who occupies a two-room house
Hodg-e’s breast killing him instantly, on the east side of town. For the
Allen says that he was- in perfect past four months Minnie says that
mind when he shot Hodges. He jays | she has been hearing peculiar noises
that he was sorry he had to do it, in. the roof of her home, and these
but he did exactly what he wanted noises have gained such proportions
.that she became rather suspicious
Allen had been married about five j and decided that before she made ar-
■years and only had one child. Hodges ’ rangements to move to other quart-
■was a middle aged married man and ers that"she would make an investi
was running a boarding house in
Smithfield at the time of his death.
ABOLISHING POVERTY
Our attention was called by a
Selma citizen recently to a news- —— occ
paper article in which a prominent j he could fi.nd what was causing- all
gation as to- the cause of these
strange noises, so on Monday of this
week she went to one of her neigh
bors by name of Silas Stancil and
told him that she wanted him to
take off part of the roof and see if
electrical engineer said machinery
will in time abolish poverty in this
country. That is certainly a nice
prophecy, for there is hardly 'any
this wierd noise during the lonely
night hours. In response to this
request, Silas goes to the home in
broad daylight so that he might take
thing more desirable among human. Mr. “Spook” unawares, and to his
being than to get away frnm poverty j utter amazement when he took a
and drudgery. But those of us who look-in under this roof he found
have been watching these big power
magnates and utility millionaires
can’t help but feel that the abolition
more bats than he had ever seen
before, and began killing them -with
a stick and when he had finished the
Atlanta, Ga., August 1.—Reports
to the state d^epartment of agricul
ture from seven v-arehouses in the
bright lea-f tobacco area today show
ed a price range of from 10 to 15
cents per pound,•'with the average
around 12 cents, a figure which
Eugene Talmadge, state commission
er of agriculture, said was below the
cost of production.
From Hazelhurst came a report of
400.000 pounds on the floor at mark
et ope.ning time, with a price rang
ing- from 10 to 11 cents. Black-
shear reported 250,000 pounds at 12
1-2 cents; Statesboro 200,000 pounds
with no price quotation; Waycross
130.000 pounds at 15 cents; Camilla
45.000 pounds at 12 cents; Nashville
350.000 pounds at 12 1-2 cents and
Thomasville,. 125,000 pounds at 12
cents.
Mr. Talmadge said reports from
the remaining markets raight bring
the average prices higher, but that
he did not expect it to reach the
19 1-2 cent 'average of the first
week last year. Regardless of any
minor increase, he said, “the price
is below the cost of production and
there is too much dsparity between
the prices paid the farmer and paid
by the purchaser of the finished to
bacco product.”
of poverty is for them more than | job over 500 bats had been killed,
ii. J- ^ i-L _ 1--7 rr,, . ' I . . - . .
it is for the balance of us. They’ve 1 This is a true bat story coming
been abolishing their o-wn poverty, j from Selma, and we hardly believe
all right, but it has been through I there is another town in the state
charging .two or three times what that can cope -with us in the pro-
they should be charging for service, duction of bats, however, we will not
They really are not helping th econ- i claim the championship until we
ALEXANDRIA ORDERS
RAIN-MAKING STUFF
sumer abolish his poverty very fast.
If all of this g-reat mechanical pow
er now being developed were dis
tributed equitably and fairly among
us it would help a great deal, of
course. But since development and
hear from Kinston.
MRS. C. B. WADDELL
AGAIN IN HOSPITAL
Her many friends will regret to
, learn that it was found necessary
distribution in this machine age is I to take Mrs. C. B. Waddell back to
in the hands, of a few it is hardly; the hospital in Smithfield for a sec-
likely, no matter how ma.ny ma-jond operation which took place on
chines we may invent, that many Monday morning. Last reports are
of us m-e going to see the day when -
Alexandria, Ya.., Aug. 5.—Having-
failed to get Governor Pollard of
Virginia to call for state-wide pray
ers for relief frorn the drought, Dan
S. Hollenga, business manager of the
Alexandria chamber of commerce,
has ordered 200 pounds of rain mak
ing powder from Arid New Mexico.
The powder is to be sprayed from
Dr. E. N. Booker.
The supper was prepared at Har
ris’ Lake by Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Canaday, which consisted of barbe
cue, brunswick stew, slaw, tomatoes,
potatoes, pickles, bread, ice tea, etc.
Prof. F. M. Waters had charge of
the program, and after a few pre
liminary remarks, intorduced Mayor
W. W. Hare, of Selma, who made
the principal address of the evening
in which he told of some of the
things which Prof, anfl Mrs. Bueck
had done toward the upbuilding- of
the town and community, and ex
pressed keen regret that they^ere
leaving us, but assured them that
they would linger long in our mem
ory, and that he hoped that this
promotioi^ would only be a stepping
stone to still greater attainments and
usefulness.
Dr. C. P. Harper was the next
speaker, and in a few well' chosen
remarks he presented to Prof, and
Mrs. Bueck a beautiful silver dish
as a token of esteem from the Ki
wanis Club.
Mrs. H. Bueck then made a few
remarks in -which she voiced her
deep gratitude and appreciation to
the Kiwanis Club and to the gentle
men who had made it possible for
this most enjoyable hour. She said
that she did not wan{ to look upon
this occasion as a memorial service,
as she hoped to come back to us
again sometime. Her talk .was great
ly enjoyed and appreciated by all
present.
Prof. Bueck, in accepting the gift,
said that it v'as a distinct surprise,
and made him feel that, while he
hoped that he had been of some
help to the town during his -eight
years stay here, he had been made
to feel on this occasion that he
might have done a great deal more
than he had done. He expressed
deep appreciation for this splendid
manifestation of gratitude to him-
■sslf and Mrs. Bueck by the Kiwanis
Club and the three bachelors tender
ing them this honor.
Besides the regular Kiwanis mem
bers present, there were four honor
guests present, as follows: Prof.
D. A. Brown, of the University of
Mississippi; Dr., Marvin Blackman,
Mr. M. L. Stancil, editor of The
Johnstonian-Sun, and Mr. Sam Wood.
mote it is well worth while,” says
William A. Graham, commissioner of
agriculture.
The poultry exhibits were housed
by two cars containing- every modern
phase of the industry with model
and modern equipr^it for raising
chickens in easfern North Carolina.
Vital practices wiere lectured upon
by W. F. Armstrong, associate pro
fessor of poultry at State College
who declares that one of the “big
gest failings of poultrymen is the
carelessness or failure to practice
things that they know to be help
ful and to take on newer ideas.
Swine feeding- demonstrations with
better feeding, breeding- "and man
agement of beef cattle were discussed
by R. E. Nanoe, assistant in animal
husbandry at the college, who illus
trated with large photographs, charts
and posters showing in detail every
phase of the livestock industry.
Various dairy breed cattle were
shown on the train and ably dis
cussed by Fred M. Haig, college
dairy expert. “Dairymen in eastern
North Carolina do not see the possi
bilities in the industry because of
their previous experience with un
profitable animals. Through the dis
plays. on the train, the real dairy-
animals v-ere shown as being far
different from the unprofitable na
tive cattle that- are so prevalent in
the' eastern part of the state,” de- j
dared Mr. Haig.
an airplane on elouds over Alexan- FAIR VIEW PRESBYTERIAN
dria in the hope that it will con- CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT
dense them into rain. It is being
purchased from a firm in New Mexi
CO.
Sunday School Sunday morning at
10 o’clock. Everybody ought to go
verty will be a thing unknown.
that she is getting- along as well as
could be expected.
In addition, Hollenga sent a pleajto Sunday school II Timothy 2:15.
to President Hoover asking him to j Supt. Sullivan will be glad to see
issue a proclamation for nation wide ■ you out next Sunday morning,
prayer^ meetings “to ask divine aid j Preaching Sunday' night. Every-
for rain.” - I body is welcome.
The livestock train is scheduled (culture,
for Rocky Mount on August 18 and
civic and city officials are expecting
great results from the tour in this
section, in the opinion of V. W.
Lewis, Coast Line livestock agent.
Governor’s Address
Scrub cattle in North Carolina has
done more harm than all the boll
weevils and it is greater than all
its pests. Governor 0. Max Gardner
told more than two thousand farm-
lers and their wives at the initial
stop of the Livestock Development
Special operated by the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad cooperating with
North Carolina State College and
the State Department of Agriculture
in Selma August 5.
’A scrub is a person, animal or
plant that has no ancestors and
should not have any off-springs,”
said Governor Gardner. “The scrub
should be the first thing to go in
Eastern North Carolina. I think
this train demonstrates that the
scrub in the State must go and the
county stocked with purebred .stock.”
“One purebred bull is worth more
than any county commissioner that
I ever saw,” h-e declared. “Farmers
would not find depression but will
be guaranteed- prosperity if they
raise corn and livestock.”
Declaring war on the scrub cattle
in the State, Governor Gardner urg
ed every farmer in Johnston County
and in the State to cooperate in de
stroying the scrubby cattle an4
people.
these without becoming a scrub him
bred seed planting, improvement of
agricultural life in the home, and
the starting of a movement to rid
the State of scrubby people.
“Quit devoting all your time to
cotton and tobacco and supplement
your money crops with livestock, but
don’t' stop raising cotton and’ to
bacco,” he concluded.
The Livestock Development Special
will make a tour of 37 eastern Caro
lina towns this month and mads its
second stop at Smithfield Tuesday
afternoon.
The governor was followed by O.
H. Page, general superintendent of
the Atlantic Coast Line and in
charge of the train. He spoke only
about five minutes in explanation of
the Coast Line’s purposes in run-
ning this train. He then invited the
people into the train to see what
there was on board.
Both the governor and Mr. Page
were introduced in a few well chosen
remarks by Mayor -Wash Hare, of
Selma. Mr. Hare referred to the
governor as the daddy of the Live-
At-Home program and one of the
greatest governors this state has
ever had.
Among those acccompanying the
governor to Selma were Dr. Clarence
Poe, editor of the Progressive Farm
er; Governor R. A. Doughton, Tom
Bost, representing the Greensboro-
Daily News; Major William A. Gra
ham, state commissioner of agri-
Officers Make Raid
In Banner Township
Last Thursday afternoon Deputy
Sheriffs E. A. Johnston, W. E. King,
Brad McLamb and Hanibal God-wini
made a raid a few miles south of
Four Oaks in Banner township and
captured a 50-gallon copper still com
plete which was running at full
blast, captured 7 gallons of beer all
of which was destroyed at the still,
six empty barrels cut down. Norman.
Tart was arrested. and. placed under
bond. Other parties at the still
made their escape but the officers
know who they are and they will
be taken as additional parties in
the case.
ATTEND
FUNERAL
IN GREENSBORO
Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Moore, Mr. and
Mrs. R. P. Oliver, Mr. Ed Creech
and Miss Louise Townsend attended
the funeral of Mrs. Ballard Creech in
Greensboro Sunday. The sudden
death of Mr.s. Creech came as a dis
tinct shock to reatives here,- also to
her husband who.
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