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THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1930
Nye Reported Sending
Investigators to State
(Raleigh Times)
Senator 'Gerald • P. Nye, of North
Dakota, chairman of the Senate’s
Campaign Funds Committees, was
quoted a special Washington dis
patch to the Greensboro Daily News
Thursday morning as saying that in
vestigating agents of the committee
would be sent into North Carolina
within “a few days” to probe charg
es of excessive campaign expendi
tures and alleged election frauds in
connection with the recent primary
THE JOHNSTONIAN—SUN, SELMA, N. C.
Coal Operator
Would Stop Radio
To Break Drought
' Washington, Aug. 8.—Radio waves
have about as much effect on the
weather—or possibly less'—than light
waves have on glass, in the opinion
of scientists and engineers here to
day in discussing the proposal of a
West Virginia coal operator to close
down all broadcasting stations for
60 days in an effort to break the
drought.
V. Ford Greaves, a federal radio
in which Jo.siah W. Bailey, of Raf-i'ommission engineer and a leading
eigh, defeated Senator F. M. Sim
mons for the democratic Senatorial
nomination.
authority on radio science, explained:
“There is no disturbance in the
air as the result of the passage of
“There are not only charges that Ithe transmitting
great sums of money were used by! stations to the receiver,
the Bailey supporters, and that the | course the radio waves pass
Simmons people were not permitted | everj’where, air, cloud.s, buildings,
to vote, but it is charged that frauds may be said that
jLive Stock Train
Makes Stop 'at Dunn
By LOUIS H. WILSON
(Special Correspondent)
The farmers of- Harnett County
are neglecting 'to take advantage of
livestock for profit, is the opinion
of J. 0. Anthony, head of county
vocational agriculture who spoke to
more than 900. farmers at the Live
stock Development Special Train
operated by the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad in cooperation with State
College and the department of agri
culture at Dunn Wednesday morn
ing.
“When corn is sold at a dollar a
bushel, the agricultural people of the
county are losing fifty cents through
their failure to feed corn to their
Big Damage in Wake
Of Alamance Storm
Burlington, Aug. 8.—Lightning and
wind did thousands of dollars dam
age here at 5:30 o’clock Thursday
afternoon during a terrific storm in
what is believed to have been a small
area between 'Glen Raven and the
city proper.
The home of Ernest Staley, on the
highway west of the city, burst in
flames an instant after it v/as
struck by lightning and was a total
loss. Members of the family were
away.
The home of Montford Gerringer
was struck and a hole burned in the
roof.
Two tobacco bams belonging to
Ed Hodges were demolished by wind.
Kiwanis Farm *
Picnic Aug; 23
70 Clubs in Carolina® Will Send
Representatives To Hendersonville.
Raleigh, Aug. 13.—A Kiwanis
farm picnic, with each of the 70
clubs in the Carolines sending a
farmer and a Kiwanian, will be held
in Hendersonville on August 23,
George R. Ross, director of state-
Giias. H. Holt Passes
After Long Illness
In
(Smithfield Herald)
the death of Charles Henry
Holt, which occun-ed at his home
in Princeton, Thursday night at
about 8:30 o’clock. Boon, Hill and
Johnston county has lost a valuable
citizen. He was active in the affairs
of his town, country and church
until three months ago when be
owned farms and chairman of the was taken ill almost suddenly and
hogs,” he continued. “Thousands of houses on either side of the
were committed by invoking the old
absentee voters’ law and disregard
ing provisions in the Australian sys
tem,” the story from Washington
reads. “It is asserted that in a
single pounty 1,700 of these absen
tee votes were sent in, and that
1,500 of this number were recorded
for Mr. Bailey under an old law, to
employ the language of one letter,
‘pregnant with possibilities for
fraud.’
On Trail “of Facts”
It is asserted that if absentee
votes—of dead people and people
who had left the State permantly—
v^ere cast in the same way in all the
counties, this fact alone would ac
count for the majority cast against
Mr. Simmons in the June ‘punitive
expedition,’ The committee will make
an effort to ascertain just what the
facts are in this respect.”
The story goes on to state “since
the June primary election the Sen
ate Committals has received letters
from the State from time to time,
in wliich the writers asserted that
election day frauds had been com
mitted, or that abnormal amounts of
money had been employed, and urg
ing an investigation.”
Blame Friends of Simmons
Candidate Bailey is apparently tin-
disturbed by thees charges. He hai
no .statement to make, but pointed
if the energy generated by all of
the radio stations in the world were
concentrated it would not equal the
force of a rainstorm.”
Greaves pointed out from time to
time throughout history there have
been blighting droughts, many of
which exceeded in destruction that
which now has assumed the propor
tions of a national calimity. In the
earlier droughts there were no radio
stations to transmit impul.sies through
the ether.
“Scientists and engineers would
not say that anything was impossible
oei'haps, yet it is hardly probable
that the drought can be attributed
to radio waves.”
There appears to be some analogy
between radio and sound waves. A
sound wave passing from point to
point does not disturb the atmos
phere and it does not become sound
until it strikes some receptive ob
jective such ,as the ear drum.
Similarly the radio wave does not
become a source of energy until it
come.s in contact with receiving ap
paratus by which it is transformed
into the sound or light, as in the
case of visual radio.—Greensboro
Daily News.
acres of pasture land on the Cape
Pear River are going to waste when
they could be put to use as graz
ing land and sown in corn. Many
of these acres are planted in cotton
but the boll weevil is destroying
the crop and the time has come in
Harnett County when the farmers
begin to realize that a diversified
crop .and increased livestock will be
the means of putting cash in their
pockets.”
The cattle judging exhibition of definitely known to have resulted
highway were blow-n from their
foundations. Chimneys were blown
off and deluges- of water entereed
a number of homes.
Many sections of the city were in
darkness as night came on while
line crews of the public service be-
g’an their work of making repairs.
Tonight a complete check of the
stricken area immediatedy about the
city could not be mads. It may ex
tend farther than expected, but it
SAVE—AND PAY TAXES
the train attracted hundreds of live
stock owners in eastern Carolina
who are demanding detailed informa
tion to better cattle raising in the
county, animal husbandry and dairy
experts announced today.
J. Paul Shaw, vocational agricul-
'turalist, declared that improvement
in hog breeding was the great need
of the entire section. “Farmers real-1
ize the value of cattle but cannot I
in .serious damages and loss, al
though no personal injury has been
reported.
GOOD-BYE, POORHOUSE
see it because of reduced profits j
due to the lack of home grown
feed and marketing. The live.stock
train is a stimulant to the cattle
development in eastern Carolina and
the time is oportune for that de
velopment. Corn is replacing cot
ton and the farmers are gradually
realizing that it Is profit for live
stock.”
From present indications it isn’t
going to be very many years until
dread of old age—the poor-
house—will be a thing of the past,
j We’ll always have poverty, and
there’s no way to abolish old age.
But it appears that a way has been
found to take the sting out of both
and to make the declining years of
those dependent on the public far
more happy and cheerful than -is
possible when the poorhouse is their
The “class taxation”
wives m
abuse grows nient train moves to Roseboro and
out that in his single speech before . ^
the primary, which was delivered « is the practice of ganford August 7. Large crowds
here two nfghts before the primary,
dividuals for the benefit of the gen- chambers of commerce wired officials
he denied reports of excessive cam-
eral public.
, ^ T , “*“■ Five insurance policy- n,n the ears
paign expenditurees and that John . , , , . t i- ' i
holders have been outstandingly i
J. Rascob, Chairman oi the Demo- ^
, ^ ^ ,,, burdened in this manner. Comment- '
cratic National Executive. Committee, . .situation, the Boston
had s.ent bailey money into the
State. Mr. Bailey’s sworn .statement
“As an indication of the provi-
of his campaign expenditures was American public, the in-
filed with the Secretary of State. department of the Cham-
and showed evpenditures of less than Commerce of the United
I only hope of shelter.
-n , -,T ■ ■ J- -n- I New York has just passed an old
Robert Herring, prominent Fay-' . V,,.,. * * „
... .,, , -11 J 1 n I age-'pension law. Other states have
etteville lawyer, will address Cum-' ^ ^ i i-v,
, , , ^ i-i, •„|bee.n experimenting along the same
berland County farmers and their' , “ ' t nt i
V *4- -11 T-i, I lines with success. In New York
Fayetteville. The develop-
' something like $15,000,000 a yeai
will be paid out in pensions to aged,
each sufficient to keep the recipient
in food and shelter. Gradually the
poor house will go, the present cost
of maintaining them going into the
old age pension fund.
It won’t take long to tell if it’s
going 'to work out, and once it proves
its worth other states will quickly
fall into line. Dread of the poor
house will have .passed. And where
Carolinas Kiwknis committee on agri
culture, said here today.
An agricultural program for the
clubs of the two states will be
planned at the picnic, Mr. Ross said,
with the view to aiding agricultural
progress in all sections during the
coming year.
Governor 'Gardner, President Frank
Graham of the University of North
Carolina, and Dr. E. W. Sikes, presi
dent of Clemson College, will be in-'
vited to addres.s the meeting.
Agriculture in the two states will
be considered with regard to the sec
tional differences in the lower coa.st-
al plain, the upper coastal plain., the
sandhills-, the Piedmont, and the
mountain sectioji, and the different
crops which are -adapted to each
section. Reports on the farm pro
ducts of the different sections will
be made by the representatives of
the different Kiwanis clubs.
Grossman Accepts
Bid to Garolina
Kiwanis Meeting
Hender.sonville, N. C., Aug. 12.—j's there around Selma or in any
® i,' States points out that it paid in Raymond Crossman of Omaha, Neb.,lather locality an aged person that
e ection avs, anc e is s .c mg y;;^99g niore than $5,000,000,000 for in- pre.sident of Rotary International, has not at some time oi other felt
1 11 1, i-“nrance protection, a national safe-, and Mr.s. Crossman will attend the that dread? It may cost the tax-
Bai ey supporters, oca y, ^ i guard against the devastating ef- Carolina district convention of Ki-j ^ dollars more, but they
axe een earing repoi s o a fg^ts of fire, accill^eftt, disease' and wanis to be held in Raleigh'Novem-j''’’h know itis being sensibly spent,
atonal investigation into the recent ‘ land there will never be a protest
': d^th.
I ber 6, 7, and 8, Allison W. Honey
pnniary, assert that the pressme, points ^ cutt, district governor
being brought to bear upon Senator ^ insurance taxes,!here today.
Another, official visitor to the eon
announced ' from them. Even if it meant that
vention will be Roe Fulkerson, of
Wa.shington, D. C., novelist, and ed-
Nye is being brought by “disgruntled
friends” of Senator Simmons. ; 5io0,000,000-to be
Senator Nye has gone West to $92 178 971
vestigate Ruth_ Hanna McCormick^A-as made on thelitoridl writer for Kiwanis Maga
Illinois Sanatorial campaign, bV.t the necessary to pay
story said he 'expected to be oack m regulation but,
Washington before the end of this | ^ only $3,956,708
month. It i-s probable that the re-insurance de
ported investigation may be held in ^
the State in September or October. I expenses. Out of every
Investigators will look into the situ-' collected from the poli-
ation and make their report to Sena-I ^ 29 cents were paid for
tor Nye when he returns to Wash- ‘
ington.
HEALTH AND SAFETY
.service to them. The remainder,
95 71 cents, went ,to pay tbs public
bills. The thrifty were taxed a.s
citizens and property owners and
taxed as policyholders. They were
not aware of it, herhaps, because the
assessment was levied upon the in-
quite I surance companies, but the money
American industry today
generally realizes that health and came out of their pockets,” in the
safety are first cousins, if not quite shape of necessarily higher premium
“brothers under ths skin.” • It has charges.
gone about the solution of this prob- 1 ^
lem in a commonsense manner. A
great .many of our industrial and
mercantile groups cooperate with
we would have to do without some
thing we now enjoy, it would be a
good investment.
LICENSING DRIVERS
zine. ,
Eugene ‘Newsom of Durham, N. C., jf ^ movement just started by
immediate past president of Rotary American Auto Association be-
International, also will be given widespread as its promo-
place on the Kiwanis program. .ters'hope for, it may not be long
Advance information indicates a ^;ji
large attendance, Governor Honey- , themselves forced to obtain a “driv,
cutt said. license” before they can oper-
I ate their cars. But th'gv will not
SIMMONS BACK HOME I be alone as it is proposed to make
UNTIL NEXT WINTER the movement nation-wide in its
I scope.
Washington, Aug. 8. - Senator I several states require
Simmons has returned to the state, '"P"
and will probably remain at home ■ ^ P'^"
until Congress meets again in De-
se-eks to have every driver in every
their empolye.s to secure periodic
physical examinations. Some main
tain their own industrial health de
partments where the worker can
freijly discuss the results of his
health examination with proper medi-
eal supervisors. The idea is to keep
men out of the hospitals—^to cheek
and correct the sources of illness.
Prevention is the all-impoitant
thing—and prevention is sound eco
nomic investm'snt. It helps the com
pany and .also the man. To both,
the good health of the employe 'is a
major consideration. His health is
the nation’s wealth, its greatest as
set.—Irving Fisher, Professor of Eco
nomics, Yale University.
cember, unless official business de- Bcen.sed. It 'does not call for
mands hi,s return here now and examinatio,n at the start. Any
then. It is thought that,Mrs. Sim- car owner would be able, to secure
mons, who has been -il! for some asking- for it
BRITISH GROCERY CHAINS time at the Takoma Park sanitari- P‘V™g the few cents necessary
PLAN LARGE COMBINE j um, will be able to return to her defray cleik hire. But instead of
heme in New Bern in about two repeated violations of,
■■ . . , . , , - weeks - actual display of
A combine which will have a capi-1 4-u^ j t
tal of approximately $55,000,000 and,' Senator Simmons now find.s him- , . t’' )
will include between 5,000 and 6,000 .self much improved in health. Hi.s romnlatot
retail stores is planned by several friends believe that he will shortly, ^ .
was taken to a hospital on the
same day he became ill. He was
carried to two other hospitaLs in an
effort to fi.nd relief, but when it
was found that he had cancer ef
the bladder, he was taken to his
home to spend his last days, and it
was' there that he met death Thurs
day evening in the calm assurance
of a Christian’s faith.
The funeral was held Friday
afternoon at the residence at four
o’clock, a large crowd being present
to pay a last tribute of respect.
Rev. Wallace 0. Andrews, pastor of
the Missionary Baptist church, of
which ths deceq.sed was a member,
conducted the service, assisted by
Rev. Mr. Turner, pastor of the
Princeton Methodist church, and by
Rev. R. L. Satterfield, a Baptist
minister of Ohio. After the sacred
rites at the home, the body was
taken to the Princeton cemetery for
interment. He was buried with Ma
sonic honors, St. Patrick’s Lodge
617 having charge of the service at
the grave. Members of the lodge
served as pall bearers.
Charles Henry Holt w.as' born De
cember 28, 1864, on a farm near
Princeton, his parents being Henry
and Julia S. Holt. After reaching
manhood, he left the farm and held
a position with the A. C. L. as agent
and telegraph operator at Wade.
Later he went on the road as bag
gage master, and finally as conduc
tor between Florence and Charles
ton. After a time, he quit the rail
road ^nd was for 10 or 12 years on-
the police staff of Atlanta, Ga.
It was while living in Atlanta
that he met and married Miss Leone
Huddleston, and to this .union were
born four sons and three daughters,'
who with Mrs. Holt .survive. They
It became definitely known last are: Drexel M. Holt of Dallas,
week that the name of H. D. Hood, Texas; Mrs. Alma Cox of Benton-
Jr., of Dunn would be presented at ville; Caspian S. Holt of Winston-
the next state conventio,n of the Salem; Mrs. Bradley Hinton, Mrs.
Junior -Order to be held in Greens-1 Teresa'" Gossett, Henry and DeLeon
boro on August 19, for the post of! Holt of Princeton. All were at his
State Vice-Councilor of the order, j Bedside when the end came except
If his election is achieved, as many j Mr. Holt of Dallas, Texas, who re
predict, this will mean that Mr. turned to his home a few days ago,
Hood the following year will be ele-; after a visit to his father. The de-
vated to the po.st of State Councilor cea.sed is also survived by two broth-
of the Order which is the Command-' ers, Ed. A. Holt of Princeton and
er-in-chief of the State Organization. George M. Holt of Wichita, Texas,
His m-any friends and acquaint- and by two .sisters, Misses Estelle
ances are convinced that Mr. Hood and Leone Holt of Princeton,
is well qualified to hold the post j Twenty-seven years ago Mr. Holt
as head of the Order and wish for ^ returned to his native county of
liim success in the convention. I Johnston and since that time ha.s
Mr. Hood has been prominent in ! tieen actively identified with the po-
Jr. O.'U. A. jV?. circles for a num-1 litical, civic and religious life , of his
ber of year, having served in various | community. He was a faithful mem-'
official capacities for ten years, anj ber of the Missionary Baptist church.
King George Sends
Message to Hoover
King George of England Sunday
felicitated President Hoover on his
56th birthday. He sent the follow
ing- message to the White House:
“ft is with great pleasure, Mr.
President that I offer you on the
occasion of your birthday my warm
est felicitations together with my
sincere good wi.shes for your con
tinued health and happiness.”
Honors May Gome
To Dunn Gitizen
H. D. Hood. Jr., May Be Named
VJce-Couneilor Jr. O. U. A. M.
having achieved success in all of
the positions held. He is especially
well known in District No. 18 of the
State organization, having served
the District as District Deputy of
the State Councilor in 1926-27.
Mr. Hood is 40 years of age, mar
ried, and will have two sons in col
lege this year. He is a leading
business man of this town, member
of the Rotary Club, member of the
Baptist Church, and leader in civic
enterprises.
He is a native of Selma but has
been a resident of Dunn for 8
years.
The Jr. 0. U. A. M. totals a
State membership of approxiitnately
55,000 and is considered the most
active fraternal organization in
America today. Two orphanages
are maintained by the order—one
at Tiffon, Ohio and another in Lex
ington, N. C.—From the Dunn Dis
patch of August 12, 1930.
After plowing under a . :^eld of
sweet clover and planting the land
to wheat, C. S. Martin of Ivedell
County, har-y-es'ted an average of 22
and at the time* of his death was
a deacon and was treasurer of the
church. He had served as mayor
of Princeton, and was justice of the
peace for a number of years. Fie
was a staunch Demowat and was a
member of. the executive committee
in Boon H'll township. He 'was
postmaster at Princeton during Wil
son’s administration. He was a Ma
son and for several years had served
as secretary of his lodge. He was
a man who had strong convictions
a.nd who was ready to stand by
them.. He was an ardent supporter
of the prohibition movement in the
days before the 18th amendment
was passed, and -after then, he lent
his influence to the enforcement of
that law with unrelenting fervor.
Princeton Man Hangs
. Self at State Hospital
Benjamin F. Pearce Uses Sheets
Tied Together.
of the leading grocery chains in
Great Britain as a further step in
the nationalization of distribution,
according to a report received in the
Department of Commerce from Asr
.sifetant Trade Commissioner R. S.
Charles at London.
be as well as ever.
AIDS TUBERCULAR GIRL
The Raleigh Kiwanis club partially
paid the expenses to enable a young
girl suffering from tuberculosis to go
to a sanitoriura, The club dlso paid
' 50 towards rebuilding Camp Ed-
gerton for boys, recently damaged
by fire.
“The Rats Around My Place Were
Wise,” Says John Tuthill.
“Tried everything to kill them.
Mixed poison with ■ meal, meat,
cheese, etc. Wouldn’t touch it. Tried
RAT-SN.AP- Inside of ten days, got
rid of all r^s.” You don’t have to
mix RAT-SNAP with food. Saves
fussing, bother. Break a cake of
RAT-SNAP, lay it where rats
scamper. You will see no more.
Three si/es, 35c, 65c, $1.25. Sold
and guaranteed by E. V. Woodard,
Druggist, Selma,' N. C.; Godwin
Drug Co.; Pine Level, N. C.; A. F.
Holt & Sons, Princeton, N. C. Adv.
.‘51.500 IN LOAN FUND
The Aberdeen Kiwanis club has
raised more than $1500 for its edu
cational fund to be loaned to worthy
students.
W. M. Cannon of the Baton sec
tion, Caldwell County, found it nec
essary to dust his cotton with sul-
phus to control the red spider. This
is the first time' that such control
measures have ever been necessary
in the county.
J'he average driver 'doesn’t care
mucfi for a fine, but he would hpte
to lose his right to drive a car.
And it would be the fear of for
feiting hi.s license, it is argued, that’,,
would cause him to be a more' care
ful driver. Promoters of the plan
feel it will do more to drive the
careless and irresponsible drivers
from the road than any other meth
od that could be adopted. ' Petitions
are now being circulated in several
states and reports indicate that the
plan is being . endorsed by motorists
who see in it a protection - to life
and property they cannot get
through the present traffis laws. ■
Using three sheets tied together,
bushels as compared with eight i ’"’hich suspended his body through a
b'l'hels an acre before u.siro- the mf® the basement of the main
sweet clover.
Fifty-one poultry growers of Dav-
, idson .County made a trip of inspec
tion to' the leading poultry farms
of the county on July 25.
SPONSORS LENOIR BAND PAYS HOSPITAL EXPENSES
The Lenor, N.. C., high school
band, which has won all medals in
its class in the state-wide band con
test,’ is ■ sponsored by the Kiwanis
club of that city.
Mr. R. C. King Tells a Wonderful
Story About Rats.-' Read It.
“For months niy place' was alive
with rats. Losing chickens, eggs,
feed. Friend told me to try RAT-
SNAP. I did. Somewhat disap
pointed at first at not seeing many
dead' rats, but in a few days didn’t
see a live one. ’ What were not
killed are-not around fny place. RAT-
SNAP sure does the ‘trick.” Three
sizes, -85c, 65c, $1.25. Sold and guar
anteed by E. V. Woodard, Druggist,
The Durham Kiwanis club recently
approp^’iated $400 to defray expenses
of certain patients needing treat-' Selma, N. C.; Godwin Drug Co,.,. Pine
ment for tuberculosis in a Sana- I.evel, N. C.; A. F. - Holt & Sons, j 3q . I30 rGSTlBrsilolG
torium. Princeton, N. C. Adv.. , them “Safetyj. zones.”
building, Benjamin F. Pearce, 30,
of Princeton, hung himself early
Tuesday morning at the State Hos
pital.
Coroner L.- M. Waring pronounced
it a case of suicide after an investi
gation disclosed that the patient
was strangled to death. His body
was found by an attendant at 6:55
o’clock and it was still warm.
The inmate had been at the State
Hospital for about a year.
The shute through which Pearce'
jumped after tying the sheets to
gether and then 'affixing one end
around his .neck, is used for -^he/ dis
posal of bed linen from different ’
floors to the basement.—Raleigh
Times.
The man who invented the
“Painless dentist” si,p-n must al-,
calling
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