North Carolina Newspapers

i I ‘ THE JOHNSTONIAN THE JOHNSTONIAN AND JOHNSTON COUNTY SUN CONSOLIDATED VOLUME 15. Recorder’s Court Has Busy Session To Celebrate 100 Years Of History Former Selma Pastor Gives Lectures Here state vs. J. E. McGee, white la borer, aged 48; Richard McGee, white laborer, aged 20; Elizabeth McGee, white, aged 15, tor violation of the prohibition law. All defend ant- plead guilty to manufacturing and possession of home brew for purpose of sale. Continue prayer for judgment upon payment of one- half the cost each as to J. E. Mc Gee arid Richard McGee. Elizabeth McGee is ordered confined in jail and assigned to custody and care of Mrs. D. J. Thurston, welfare of ficer. State vs. Ed. Byrd, Jr., white la borer, aged 27; Howard Grumpier, white laborer, aged 18, for assault witii deadly weapon and violation of the prohibition law (Po session and transportation of one pint of whis key). Both defendants guilty on both counts. Prayer for judgment is continued upon payment of all cost by Ed. Byrd, Jr. Grumpier, having been under suspended sentence of 6 months on 'roads by trial on May 4, 1932, suspension of sentence to last for two years upon condition that he did not violate any criminal law during that time, is ordered to serve 6 months on roads. State vs. Rastus Toler, colored la borer, aged 29. Assault with dead ly weapon Guilty. Defendant sen tenced to 90 days on roads. State vs. Harold McLamb, color ed laborer, aged 21, for larceny of cigars, value less than $20, found guilty. Defendant sentenced to 90 days on road-. Appeal. $100 bond. State vs. Bradley McLamb, col ored laborer, aged 37, for larceny of cigars, value less than .$20, found guilty.'"Defendant sentenced to 60 days on roads. State vs. Will Gordon, white far mer, aged 52. Peace warrant. It ap pears- that this case was disposed of by Justice w'ho is-ued warrant. Case ordered remanded to Justice. State vs. 'VvTll Gordon, white far- diieh', aged 52, -carrying concealed weapon. Guilty. Defendant sentenced to 30 days to be worked at county home. State vs Will Gordon, wh.ite far mer, aged 52, for assault with deadly weapon. Guilty. Defendant sentenced to be worked for 80 days at c mnty home. This sentened to rim concurrent with sentence above. Stat'e vs. Richard McGee, white \ laborer, aged 20. The judgment as | entered in above ca e as to Richard ' McGee is changed to the following: I Defendant sentenced to 60 days or. j roads. j State vs. John King, colored far mer, aged 16, for assault with dead ly weapon. Guilty. Defendant sen tenced to 90 days on roads. State vs. Henry Elliott, colored' farmer, for assault with deadly weapon, not guilty. State vs Ernest King, colored la borer; Adeline Elliott, colored la borer: John King, colored laborer, aged 16; and Henry Elliott, colored laborer, 'violation of prohibition law. Ernest King, Adeline Elliott, and Henry Elliott not guilty. John King .guilty of manufacturing and posses sion of wine. Defendant to serve 90 days on roads. Sentence to run concurrently with sentence above. State vs. J. W. Exum, white far mer, aged 46,i for operating car while intoxicated. Guilty of posses sion and transportation of 3 quarts of whiskey. $50 fine and cost. Dr. J. A. Campbell Has Served Spring Brartch Church For Past Forty-Three Years. Historic Spring Branch Baptist church, six miles southeast of Dunn, is celebrating its hundredth anni versary with the annual Home coming Friday, July 22,' at 10:30, with morning and afternoon services and dinner on the grounds. This al-o marks the forty-third armiver.sary of Dr. J. A. Campbell’s present pastorate here.' Rev. A. J. Smith, Goldsboro, will assist him in a ten-day revival meeting, beginning with the home-coming seiwice. John Alderman will direct the music. This occasion is widely anticipat ed by scores outside the community as well as the membership of ap proximately 350, Special music by local talent will feature both ser vices, and a history of “The Hun dred Years Past” will be read. After the morning sermon, the church roll will be called and for mer members informally recognized* Services will be held twice daily, beginning Saturday, July 23, and continuing throu.gh Sunday, July 31, morning service at 10:30, and ev ening at eight.—Sampson News. Rev. C. H. Ca-hwell, representing the Anti-Saloon League of North Carolina, spoke at the Selma Bap- 'tist church Sunday morning and at the union service Sunday night. Mr. Cashwell is a former pastor of the Selma Baptist church and quite a number of his former congregation took advantage of this opportunity of hearing him speak. He came in the interest of the North Carolina Anti-Saloon League, having- been recently appointed as Representative of the League for Eastern North Carolina. His lectures here' Sunday seem to have made a fine impre.s- sion on the people of Selma in the interest of prohibition, which would indicate that he promises to become a very efficient representative in the interest of the dry forces in the State. Georg’e J. Burnett, of Memphis, Tennessee, has recently been elected Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League for North Carolina , and plans are now under way to put on a very extensive educational cam paign in the interest of the work. SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, .JULY 21, 1932 Earth Sets Fast Pace, But Don’t Hold Record. Escaped Convict Is Arrested In Selma Rotation Eastward at Equator Is At Rate of 1,040 Miles an Hour. DR. L. E. M. FREEMAN DELIVERS ADDRESS E. V. DEANS. JR., REPORTED BADLY HURT AT MONROE A telephone cal! from Monroe last night to Mr. , E. V. Deans stated that E. V. Deans, Jr., who was vis iting a boy friend near Monroe, had been seriously hurt in a swim ming pool Mr, Deans was later ad vised that it would not be neces sary to go to the boy’s bedside as hi^. condition seemed less serious than first !.iijdicated. That he had sufffFered a concussion of the brain and that ■it was thou.ght that he would get along all right and would be able to leave the hospital within a few days. This morning Mr. Deamt~'’^las in communication with the mother of the boy E. V. was visitin.g, and she stated that he was gettin,g alon.g fine and would be able to go to her home today, which is several miles from Monroe. It is to be hoped that the next news from this young Selma man will be even more encouraging. The ' second out-door meeting of the local Kiwanis club was held last Thursday at the home of George F. Brietz on his' lawn.. Rev. W. J. Crain, pastor of the First Baptist church, was in charge of the jjrogram. Pi'of. L. E. M. Freeman, of the faculty of Meredith College, Raleigh, was the principal .speaker. Dr. Freeman gave a very helpful addre-s on the . gen eral economic conditions of the country. Tlie Norket quartette, winner of the silver cup in the State-wide singing convention held, in Benson some time,..ago, rendered several very enjoyable numbers. The next meeting will be held on the lawn of J. N. Wiggs, Dr. gEor- re.st Freezer, pastor of the, Taber nacle Baptist churcK Raleigh, has been invited to de^*er an address on this occasion. The Sudden Passina Of Mr. W. M.'Tyi La’vvrence Parker Is Drowned In Lake Whiskey Still Complete Captured Near Selma United States Prohibition officers captured a copper still complete, in full blast, this morning about four miles north of Selma. A quan tity of whiskey was also captured along with the still. Two men, Luther Creech and Wil- ■lis‘*Rftines,, were at the , still and ^were arrested and brought before U. S. Cojnmissioner I. M. Massey who held them for United States District Court under bond of $250.00 each. Defendants gave bond and were discharged pending Federal Court to be held in Raleigh next November. Goldsboro, July ' 19.—Lawrence Parker, 22, son of B. A. Parker, of Gold.sboro,, was drowned in the lake at the old Country Club on Highway 40, about eight miles south of Golds boro, about 3 o’clock this afternoon. Parker went in the lake with sever al other boys. They knew he could not swim but -did not think he would go lAo deep water. A younger boy, Harold Utter, .'uddenly called that Parker was sinking. The other boys attempted to save him but could not get him out until he had been under water about 15 minutes; Larry War rick and Thurman Merritt pulled him out and hurried him by auto mobile to the Goldsboro Hospital. On the way they stopped at the fire station for a pulmotor. Doctors, nurses and a member of the fire department worked for nearly an hour in vain eiforts to resussrtate him. Young Parker is survived by his father, B. A. Parker; one brother, Leslie Parker; four sisters, Mrs. W. P. McIIhenny, Misses Louise, Eliza beth and Gertrude Parker, and an aunt. Miss Harriett Parker, all of Goldsboro. Funeral services jwill be held from the home at IKJ North Slocumb Street at 4:30 Wednesday, after noon. Interment will be in Willow- dale Cemetery. The deceased was a nephew of Mrs. R, C. Mozingo, of Selma. Mr, W. M. Tye died suddenly at hi.s home in Greensboro Monday night. Burial took place in the city cemetery Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Tye was the oldest ■ brother of Mrs. Alice Hood, of Selma. He was seriously ill some months ago, but was thought to be well on the road to recovery. Hi.s death came as a great shock to relatives and riends. Mrs. Hood was summoned to his bedside Sunday night. WEED SEED Beekeepers in the foothill sections report a good flow of sourwood honey ading additional facilities to secure this honey. Eight hundred ten birds in nine poultry flocks of Caldwell County returned a profit of 11 cents each from eggs during the month of May Here’s weed news for the farmer —but it’s bad. Seed' of w-iUl morning glory, buried for 30 years, sprouted al most at once after being unearthed and planted, tlie United States De partment of Agriculture reports. The seeds were buried as part of an experiment to discover how long seeds may lie in the soil and still grow, and to discover how long seeds must be buried to be killed. The morning glory will be given further opportunity to prove its “staying power,” as some seeds buried 30 years ago are still in the ground and will not be removed for 10 more years. By ROBERT H. BAKER (Professor of Astronomy, Universi ty of Illinois Urbana, 111., June 30.—Anyone who drives his car at the rate of one hundred miles an hour is like ly to tell his friends about it. Yet this is very slow going compared with the speed with which the earth is taking us through space. Consider the earth’s rotation. It is whirling us around toward the east at the rate of 1,040 miles an hour at the equator. The speed is reduced to 800 miles an hour at New York. Fortunately the air whirls around with us. If it were not so, there would be a continual east wdnd more violent than the severest tornado. Then, too, the earth is taking us around the sun at the rate of 65,- 000 miles an hour. If there were telegraph poles along the great curved track of the earth, they would fly past amazin.gly fast. But all the objects in the celestial scen ery are far away, except, the moon which goes with us in this journey around the sun. Next, the earth and the other planets are the sun's companions on a long voyage through the star fields. We’re speeding straight ahead at the rate of 40,000 miles an hour, steering- our course nearly in the direction of Vega. Ve.ga is the brilliant blue star nearly overhead in the evening skies of July. In the course of a year we move toward it four times as far as our di.stance from the sun. Finally we are flying at the rate of 700,000 miles an hour toward the constellation Cepheus. This con stellation can be found in the north ern sky, to the right of the pole star in the early evening in July. Some people imagine that its principal star' outline a steeple, ly ing on its side at this season with the point toward the polar star. In this rapid journey toward Ce pheus we have plenty of cele.stial company. All t!^ stars around us are movin.g this/7ay also. It is be lieved that we^/re taking part in the rotation oHhe vast system of the Milky Wa^around its center in the star cloud of Sagittarius 50,000 light years away. This great star cloud is now. vis- •ble in the southeast in the early evening, and low in the south at midnight. It is the bri.ghtest and most spectacular pa'rt of the fine region of the Milky Way that we see in summer. But the earth does not hold the record for high speed. Recent ob servations at the Mount Wilson Ob servatory appear to show that some of the remote spirals far beyond the Milky Way are speeding away from us at the rate of 25,000.000 miles an hour. This is high speed, indeed. Sam La-siter, an escaped convict from the penitentiary in Richmond, Va., was arrested in Selma Friday afternoon, after a hot foot race by Deputy Sheriff M. H. Parker and Coast Line Detectives Harrell and Long, and Judge W. P. Aycock, of the county recoi'der’s court, near the colored school building. Lassiter is charged with breaking into box cars on the Atlantic Coast Line yards here and taking a large number of shirts. Twenty-two of the shirts were found where he had them con cealed under an old house not far from the union station. The negro is a notorious thief and had been at large about ten months. THE LATE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION. McDowell county CURTAILING EXPENSES Hairy vetch as a winter hay crop and soil improver will be planted by many farmers in central North 'Car olina who have become converted to the easy and efficient way of improving land by using legumes. Fertilizer mixed at home with limestone is giving him excellent results with cotton this' year, reports J. D. McLurd ft Crouse, Lincoln County. » .One registered Angus beef bull and fjjur females wefe placed on one Durham county farm last week by the county farm agent. The commissioners of McDowell the past week sliced approximately $5,000 from the county budget for next year by abolishing the office of county farm agent and curtail ing other expenditures in all de partments of the local government. The budget which had been around $255,000, it was reported, will be brought down to $250,000 for the coming fiscal year, according to the tentative arrangements just made. In addition to cutting out a numb er of expenses that had been pro vided in the 'past, the com- misioners refused to add any new items to the budget. This means among other things, that no home demonstration agent will be em ployed during the coming year and that no appropriations will be made for fighting forest fires. COUNTED HIS CHICKENS TOO SOON. Charlotte reports that Senator Cameron Morrison has returned to Washington to fix up his affairs, for after November 8, he will be a private citizen and either Jake F. Newell or Robert R. Reynolds will commence drawing the pay. Morri son was' only appointed until the next general election. Reynolds in one of his campaign speeches as serts that Morrison, so confident was he that he would be re-elected, had leased a mansion in a fashion able residential section on Connecti cut Avenue in Washington for six years for which he was to pay $5,- 000 a month and Reynolds was wondering if he could get released from this lease. Morrison and his Watts millions had evidently planned to entertain in splendor and mag- nificance in the capital city the com ing six years but alas his hopes have turned to ashes. Morrison, if he did lease this mansion, as was aserted in his Winston-Salem speech is not the- first Tar Heel who did a like act. Way back yonder about a quarter of a century ago when Aubrey L. Brooks, of Greensboro, was the Democratic candidate for Congress from the fifth district it was reported that he went to Wash ington sometime during the siyjjjiHer and leased a handsome home ex- pectin,g to be in Congress for the next . 25 years but alas he, too, count ed ais' chickens before they were hat ;hed and , when the ballots were (Union Republican) The Biblical Recorder, organ of the great Baptist denomination in this state is not very well uleased with the late Democratic state con vention which met in Raleigh. In discussing its proceedings the Re corder says: “It may be well to call atten tion to the fact that the platform was silent about two matters which have been much discussed during the past few months in our state. These were the short ballot and the appointment of members of the Legislature to lucrative po.-itions which they, by their votes, have helped to create. These are two mat ters of public policy on which any party that appeals for the suffrage of our people should have a clear word. The filling of public offices v/ith legislators who have helped create them is a matter of public morals. In our national government, as corrupt as some think it is, this i-^ strictly forbidden by law. Should it be allowed it would be possible for the executive . department to have undue influence with the legis lative, since a President might use the bait of office as a bribe to carry his measures thru Con,gre.ss. If this law is good morals in the national 1 government a like law would be good morals in our State govern ment. “As to prohibition the Democrat' made a straddle in their platform The plank on that subject, while not mentioning protest could de sire and as dry as the dryest could de.sire, if we may believe- the vari ous interpretations of it we hear. In our view this plank is a wretch ed compromise which the convention adopted in contemplation of a pos sible wet plank in the Chicago plat form; it was a matter of pure political expediency. The balloting 'bowed that the convention was t-hree to one opposed to a reccom- mendation for repeal. 'W’e do not like evasions and dodges, even in political platforms.” From another source it is learned that this convention while apparent ly “dry” on the surface was “wet” inwardly and that “refreshments” stronger than lemonade could be found on all sides. This is quite a contrast to the Republican state convention that met in Charlotte in April. That body went on record against the repeal of the 18th Amendment and Clif ford Frazier ,the candidate for Governor and Jake F. Newell, the candidate for Senator are both ardent drys and are standing sol idly on the platform adopted at Charlotte. And furthermore we are inform ed that not a single person was seen at the Charlotte convention under the influence of intoxicants. Mrs. Jasper Boyette, of Boon Hill to'wnship, was brought to the John ston County Hospital Tuesday to make preparation for an operation. Wayland Jones, county game and fish warden, has given notice that s.eining for carp, catfish and suckers will be permitted in Neuse river, but not in other streams, during July and August. He says that any person in John.ston county having a pond that they want stocked, with fish will be given assi.stance if they notify him; as the dry weather is causing many small lakes and sloughs to dry up, and the fi-h in these must be removed or lost. A shipment of 25 hogs was made by truck to Richmond, Va., Monday by Messrs. H. E. Lee and Paschal- I.ee, of the Bentonville section. These farmers were fortunate in having their hogs ready and getting the benefit of the recent increase in price.'. The exeremely hot and dry weath er which has been experienced in the vicinity of Smithfield for two weeks is playing havoc with corn, tobac.co and gardens. Cotton also is very much in need of rain, but be ing somewhat a dry weather plant, it has held up remarkably well con- siderin.g the intense heat, and the lack of moisture. During the period of wet weather in June the boll weevils multiplied rapidly, and many farmers were predictin,g complete destruction of the cotton crop by weevils. Now it is thought that the crop of young weevils has about all been killed by the clear, hot dry weather that has prevailed in this section for two weeks. Another vacant house was prac tically destroyed by fire between 1 and 2 o’clock last Friday morning. This time it was a two-story house on the southwest corner of Second and Bridge streets, which buildin.g was owned by Mrs. Leonard Ennis.' The fire was first discovered by County Coroner J. H. Kirkman whose residence is on the opposite corner; but it had gained such a hold that the buildin.g was almost a total loss when the flames were extingui.shed by the fire company. The .building had been vacant on ly a short while, and was bein,g re paired, renovated, and made ready for another tenant. Tlie lo's is es timated at $3,000.00, which is partly covered by insurance. Mr.s, Ennis says she i.s so discour aged over her loss that she has not yet decided whether or not she will rebuild. Timely Farm Questions Answered At State College Q. I shall have about 200 breed ing hens this fall. Should I have them blood-tested and how do I go about having this done? A. Have the hens, tested if you possibly can. The pullorum disease is transmitted from parent to off spring through an infected egg and usually the carrier bird shows no symptoms of 'the disease. Only a test will reveal the presence of the . trouble. Apply to Dr. William Moore State Veterinarian, for help with the testing. / To Clean Up the O. Wiggs Cemetery All the people who have relatives and loved ones buried in the Oliver and Wiggs cemetery in eastern Pine Level township are requested to meet there Wednesday morning July 27th at 8:30 o’clock for the purpo.se of cleaning and beautifying said ceinetery. Please bring tools to work with. HERMAN A. OLIVER. Q. What are the best varities of Irish potatoes for the fall crop? A. As a usual thing, the Cob bler and Early Bliss should be us^' ed because they mature early. How ever, the - McCormick or Lookout Mountain variety is very popular in piedmont Carolina because of its hardines.s and hea-vy yields. The quality of this variety is rather poor. counted it was found that Brooks had been left at home and that the late John Motley Morehead, Repub lican, would represent the district in Congress. Tliat finished Brooks and he has no^er been able to make a political comeback of any kind. Q. For ^the past two years my dewberries have been injured by a disease known as anthraqnose. What can I do to control this? A, Cut off all the canes at or . just below the surface of the soil immediately after the berries are harvested. Bum these canes as soon as they are dry. Plow under the j leaves left on the ground. When the j canes are tied to stakes next March j or April, spray the plants with 2- 3-50 Bordeaux Mixture and again after the plants have bloomed. This should control the trouble. IT f — T' M! ■ If-,?. • ^ { \ ''t/i ►a *! i '>■ >¥ I' • ' Vi .■it.a-Y