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THE JOHNSTONIAN AND JOHNSTON COUNTY SUN CONSOLIDATED
VOLUME 1;-
SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1932.
NUMBER 32.
Hobo Arrested In Selma
Is Wanted For Murder
Small Tobacco Crop Speculators Paying
Will Be Harvested
Department of Agriculture Says
1932 Yield to Be Smallest
Since 1913.
Ike JIcNiel, Colored, Arrested Here
For Hoboing, And Now Serving
Term On Roads For Larceny, Was
Identified As Party Wanted In
Rocky Mount For Murder of a
Colored Woman.
Last Of Bonus Army
Sent To Their Homes
Ike McNeil, colored, was arrested
in Selma- on July 27th, charged with
stealing a ride on a freight train,
by Deputy Sheriff.s Harvey Parker
and Norwood Barbour and Special
Agent .1. M. Long. It later develop
ed that the^ negro had broken
into a home in Wilson’s Mills and
stolen several suits of clothes, shoes,
etc., which were found hidden near
the railroad tracks where he boarded
a freight. He was tried for larceny
on .-iugu t 2nd, and sentenced to six
months on the county chain gang.
Officers Parker and Long received
information this week that the ne
gro was wanted in Rocky Mount for
murder, having killed Savannah Mc
Millan, colored, on July 2.5th. De
tective Paul Zimmerman, of Rocky
Mount, came to Johnston County
yesterday and identified McNeil as
the man wanted for the murder in
Rocky Mount. He was ordered held
for the authorities at Rocky Mount
afte;- serving' his term on the roads.
We understand that an effort will
be made to stay off the road sen
tence in order that he may be tried
for murder.
Final Trainload Departs From
Temporary Camp At Johnstown
Amid Cheers.
Cotton Estimate
Shoots Price Up
Government Forecasts Production of
11,306,000 Bales of 1932
Cotton. Crop.
Cotton farmers in Johnston Coun
ty are optimistic as a result of the
cheering- news accompanying the
cotton production estimate announc
ed by the United States Department
of Agriculture in the first forecast
of the year on MondayT
Prices on cotton jumped 75 points
on the early reaction to the govern
ment estimate of the 1932 crop. The
Department of Agriculture predict
ed an 11,306,000-bale cotton crop
this year, 5,790,000 less than last
year’s yield. This prediction was
nearly 1,000,000 less than any pri
vate estimate that had been made,
and the market’s reaction was to
send prices up $5.00 a bale in both
New Oideans and New York.
The forecast was based on the
condition of the crop August 1,
indicating 65.6 per cent of normal,
compared with 74.9 a year ago. The
indicated yield was a.nnounced as
149 6 pounds an acre, as con^ared
with 201.2 last year and with 151.4
pounds on the 10-year average.
The acreage in production after
deducting the average state aban
donment was placed at 36,151,000 by
the Department. The acreage this
year is the smallest since 1922.
For North Carolina, the August”!
condition and indicated total produc
tion was 65 per cent condition and
509,000 bales.
Two reasons for the startling
drop in production were assigned by
the Department: First, the boll wee
vil, and second, the lack of the use
of fertilizer and the consequent
smallness of plants.
Cotton prices made another stiff
advance Wednesday when more than
a dollar per bale was added to the
price of the staple.
Johnstown, Pa., Aug. 7.—The last
units of the bonus expeditionary
force steamed out of Johnstown
Saturday only a few minutes after
hearing the news that their for
mer chief of staff, Doak Carter, had
asked for a haven in Mexico.
Shouting, cheering, singing, some
500 veterans, members of the Penn
sylvania, New York, New Jersey and
New England contingents, marched
from theid squalid billets to be load
ed on aArain amid cheers of crowds,
lining the tracks.
A fife and drum corps escorted the
marchers to the train. They sang
while the corps played patrotic airs,
aid “so long” to Mayor Eddie AIc-
Closkey—and were gone.
Interest centered in the news that
Carter wired President Rubio of
Mexico, seeking permission to e.stab-
li.sh a colony of the B. E. F. there
Carter’s telegram, dispatched from
Huntington, W. Va., to which city he
went after severing his relations
with the B. E. F., read:
“Twenty-nine thousand honorably
discharged American veteran? of the
world war and their families who
are homeless political refugees driven
awav from their national capitol
and’refused admi.ssion to the various
states, request sanctuary and an op-
Dortunity for temporary colonization
’n Mexico. Your earne.?t considera
tion will be appreciated.”-
Carter said he plan? to stay in
Huntington until Rubio replies to
his mesage.
Washing-ton, Aug. 10.—The small
est tobacco crop in the United
States 'since 1913, except, one, i? in
prospect for this year.
The department of agriculture
monthly estimate today showed a
decline of 41,000,000 pounds in pros
pective production from a month
ago.
A total crop of 1,019,975,000
pounds is indicated by the condition
of crop on August 1, which was
56.9 per cent of normal as compared
with condition of 66.1 per cent a
month ago.
Production last year was 1,610,-
000,000 pounds and the average pro
duction for five years, 1924-28, wa?
1,299,000,000 pounds. The acreage
this- year is 28.7 per cent smaller
than last year, the total being 1,-
,447,000 acres ,as comijered -with 2,-
030,000 acres last year and 1,700,-
000 acres the 1924-28 average.
Reviewing conditions the depart
ment of agriculture said in nearly
all states some decline was regis
tered. *
4 to 28c A Pound
For Tobacco
George Carter Says They are Ex
pecting Fifteen Cent Average—
South Carolina Crop Is Short,
But The Quality Is Good—Crop
Here Will Be Short.
'Interesting News Items
From the County Seat
Tvphoid Vaccination
Campaign Under Way
Hundreds of People Responding to
the Treatment At Various Places
Throughout Johnston County.
Birthday and
Family Reunion
Selma Personals
Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Price and
son, Walter, left Monday for a two-
weeks’ vacation. They will visit
friends in Norfolk, Va., Baltimore,
Washington, D. C., and New York
before returning home.
Mr. Curtis Cox, of Bolivia, spent
a few days last week with his uncle,
Mr. G. M. Willets.
Miss Janice Willets has returned
after spending several days with
friends in Goldsboro.
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. O’Neal, of
Raleigh, spent Sunday with Mr.
O’Neal’s sister, Mrs. G. M. Willets.
NRev. Frank P. Jernigan, of Bis-
niark, Missouri, was guest of Mr.
and Mrs, Joseph Peedin -Wednesday.
Gene Terrell went to Durham Sat-
•urday afternoon on a short pleasure
trip, returning Sunday. Gene says
the girls looked good to him before
De War, but since De War they
look gooder.
Miss Elizabeth Robinson, of Bur-
Smithfield, Aug. 10.—The 71st
birthday of Mr. N. J. Allen, which
was celebrated With a family re
union and a big dinner, at his home
in Clayton Township on Thursday,
July 28th, was indeed an enjoyable
occasion, and - one that will not
s(?6n be forgotten by many of those
whose good fortune it was to be
there.
Mr. Allen, who has long been
known a? one of Johnston’s good
farmers, has given big dinners in
other years; but in 1932^he prob
ably had the biggest and best yet.
Even the weather appeared to be in
his favor. A nice shower and cool
ing breezes on the previous evening,
had to some extent broken the
drouth, revived the crops and
brought relief from the great heat
wave that for three weeks had held
North Carol ina in its grasp.
Early in the day relatives and
friends began to arrive from all
direction? and by noon about 100
people, including two daughters, two
sons, and a number of grandchil
dren, were present. One son was
absent.
A long table had been erected
under the spreading trees in the
yard, and when this table had been
loaded to capacity, with all manner
of good things to eat. Those present
were invited to partake of the
feast, and feast it was.
After all had eaten until their
appetites had been fully satisfied,
and several baskets of remnants
been take up, at the hour of 2:30,
all were invited to the front porch
to attend religious services. Impro
vised seats had been arranged in
the front yard; and an able ser
mon was then delivered from the
porch by Elder T. E. Adams, of
Willow Springs, N. C.
After spending a delightful day
and wishing Mr. Allen many hap
py returns of the sdhie, all departed
with pleasant memories of the oc
casion.
The typhoid vaccination campaign
for Johnston county is now well un
der way and hundreds of people in
variou.? section of the county ■ are
responding to the calk to take the
treatment as a protection against
the inroads of this malady.
The program for typhoid vaccina
tion, as given out by the County
Board of Health for both white and
colored people, is as follows:
Monday—Corbett-Hatcher, 2:00 .
Selma at 4:00 p. m., same day.
Tuesday—Cleveland at 2:00.
Clayton—4:00 p, m., same day.
Wednesday—Benson 1:30 p. m.
Four Oaks 3:30 same day.
Stewart Cross Roads 5:00 p. m.
Thursday—Archer Lodge 1:30.
Corinth-Holder.? 4:00 p. n>
Friday—Blackman X Roads 1:00.
Meadow—2:00 p. m., same day.
Bentonville—4:00 p. m..
Other appointments vyill probably
be announced at a later date. The
mission of the public health office is
to prevent the spread of disease and
not to treat it.
Speculators are paying from four
to 28 cents a pound for tobacco in
the South Carolina and border belt,
according to George D. Carter, who
is back from a business trip to Fair
mont, where he will operate a ware
house for another season. Mr. Cart
er also operates warehouses here
and in Tennessee.
“The speculators, I was inform
ed,” said Mr. Carter, “are expect
ing tobacco to average 15 cent
this year and are backing up their
judgemant with the cash. They are
paying good. prices for ‘distress to
bacco,’ sold by owners in advance
of the opening of the selling sea
son to finance the balance of their
crop operations.”
Mr. Carter estimates that the
South Carolina crop is les,? than
fifty per cent -of normal. “Thirty
five per cent of a crop, I should
?ay, is a fair estimate. However,
what tobacco they have in the bord
er belt is of fairly good grade.”
Conditions in Georgia and eastern
North Carolina are no better, it was
stated, smd Mr. Carter does not ex
pect more than 65 per cent of a
normal crop in’ this belt. “Six
hundred and forty million pounds
of bright leaf tobacco,” he said,
“were produced last year. This year
I do not look for a yield of much
over 300,000,000 pounds, and if the
law of supply and demand opei-ates
with its old-time vigor, I look for
.good prices. But one never knows
what tobacco is going to do.”
Mr. Carter is not only a warehouse
man, but a gro-wer of some conse
quence. L . L. Marion say.s, George
has some of the be.'t looking to
bacco in this section, and that is
quite a complime’nt coming ’^fem
Mr. Marion.—Moore County Ne-
Funeral ,of Mr. Carl Gordon Held
Friday and Was Largely Attended.
Mr. S. B. Hardee, Prominent Citi
zen of Cleveland Township Died
' At His Home Friday Morning—
Miss Estelle Talton Becomes the
Bride of Lewis Levine.
Hardee, of Smithfield, and Roy Har
dee, of near Clayton.
Miss Mary Davis, of near Smith-
field, and Arthur Cook, of Selma,
were united in marriage in the bride of Louis Levine, of New York
A beautiful wedding was solemn
ized at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Z. L. Talton in the Sanders Chapel
section, on Saturday, July 30, at
6:00 o’clock p. ra., when their daugh
ter, Miss Estelle Talton, became the
court house last Monday morning,
W. D. Avera, J. P., officiating.
Master Charles T. Turlington, of
Coats, is spending some time at Ahe
home of Mr. and Mr.?, C. M. John
son.
City. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. W. J. Jones, of Salemburg,
N. C., who is president of Pineland
College, where the bride received a
portion of her education. Of late
she had taught school at Archer.
Mr. and Mrs. Levine will reside at
41 West 72nd Street, New York.
Miss Marydel Rose, of Wilming
ton, is vi.-iting Mr. and Mrs. H. V.
Rose.
E. L. Turlington, of Richmond,
\a., spent the week end at the home
of Mr. and Mr,s. C. M. Johnson.
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Singing Convention at
Selma Baptist Church
There will be a singing convention
at the Selma aBptist Church, Sun
day afternoon, August 17th, at 2:30,
D. H. Stancil and two sons, of o’clock. The convention will be con-
Garner, visited relatives in Smith-
field last Sunday.
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Hugh Reaves, of Morganton, i.?
visiting Hubert Woodall, Jr., this
week.
Dock Fuller and Joseph Stancil
left Monday on a fishing trip to
'Minnesott Beach near New Bern.
ducted by Prof. Frank Stamps, of
Greensboro. Mr. Stamps is a hymn
writer and will use his own books.
The churches of Johnston County-
are invited to send quartets, either
male or female, who will have part
in the program. Public is invited to
attend.
NOTICE!
“Mutts” and “Jeffs”'
Play Interesting Game
Norman Sheppard
At Kiwanis Meeting
Mr. Norman Sheppard, of Smith-
field, -was the principal speaker at
the meeting of the Kiwanis Club on
Thursday evening. Miss Carrie Shep
pard, of Kingstree, S. C., delighted-
those present with several vocal se
lections, accompanied by Miss Mar-
lington, N. C., spent last we6k with | garet Hooks at the piano. Mr. C. W.
Mrs. R. 0. Broadwell. I Scales had charge Of the program.
Smithfield, Aug. 10.—The most
inters ting game of ba.seball of tlie
season was played at the fair
grounds here this afternoon by the
“Mutts” and “Jeffs”. The players
were selected from among the busi
ness and professional men of the
city, and the proceeds went for the
benefit 'of a children’s public plaj'-
ground.
In selecting- the players to make
up the teams, the stature of the
man and any resemblance of either
Mutt or Jeff as depicted by' Bud
Fisher,’"the cartoonist, were given
consideration rather than his quali
fications as a ball player. More
than a dozen men -were selected for
each "team in order to have a re
serve supply to give relief to those
who might desire to stop and rest.
The tall men were placed in the
“Mutts” team and the short and
stout men were placed in the “Jeffs”
team. The game was scheduled to
start at 3:30 p. m., and to be fin
ished by dark; and it was rounded
opt in good time.
The score was 26 to 20 in favor
of the “Jeffs”.
A large crowd attended the game,
which offered more real fun than
a barrel*of monkeys, and a boost to
the dwindling playground fund.
Family Reunion
“Had a lot of fun last week with
that cousin o’ mine from the Ten
nessee mountain?,” said Y^ancy.
' “As how ” asked Smythe.
“Found out he’d been drinking
white corn likker for forty y-ears,
and just for fun I gave him a
drink of pure muriatic acid.”
“Killed him, I reckon?”
“Kill nothing! 'Why, he didn’t
know he’d taken anything stronger’n
usual till he went to blow his nose
and burnt a hole plumb through his
handkerchief.”
The annual family reunion was
held at the ho’me of Mr. and Mr.?.
Calvin Strickland, of Oneals Town
ship, Johnston County, Thursday,
August 4th, and all enjoyed a day
of feast and fun and the renewing
of the old home ties.
Mr. Strickland has passed his
72nd mile post and Mrs. Strickland
has passed her 70th birthday. Well,
we hear folk? squak about “hard
times”, but it didn’t look like hard
times Thur.sday at that man’s
house. The guest began to arrive at
9 o’clock with a box or a basket.
The table was already prepared in
the large, cool shade grove. In the
midst of the arrivals and the hearty
greetings and friendly hand-shakes,
we had a shower of rain that lasted
.until after the noon hour. What a
'hower of blessings it wa.s—all were
.so thankful, to look out into the
fields—it looked as if it might be
our last day of feasting. Each one
had been praying- for rain. The
house was large and roomy with
three large porches, and the table
was removed from the grove to the
porch. There it was laden with ev
erything good to eat that any stom
ach could wish for—chicken, fried,
"baked, roasted and all other ways;
ham by the big dish full; good old
home-cooked barbecue (and it was
cooked over the coals too); every
kind of cake; salads, pickles and all
other good things; ice cream, pine
apple sherbet, ice cold water—just
a plenty of everything- and some to
take back home.
After dinner, the young folks
gathered in the parlor, played and
sung some good hymns that were
very- much enjoyed by all. Later on
they had games in the grove. All
the children and grandchildren and
.great-grandchildren were there with
a few other relatives and friends.
The time of departure came all
too soon, and each one turned home
ward declar in,g it was a day of
unu.'ual pleasure.
ONE OF THE FAMILY'.
Middlesex, Route 1.
The Smithfield unit of the Nation
al Guard, in command of Captain
Luby F, Royal, left la-t Sunday
morning for Fort Bragg, where the
boys -will be in camp, and get some
training as soldiers for t-wo weeks.
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Miss-'^Louise Williams, of the
Bunn section of Franklin County, is
visiting- at the home of her uncle
and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Stan
cil, this week,
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Rev. D. H. Tuttle and Mi.ss Lou
We.'cott returned to the city last
Thursday, after spending several
weeks in the Piedmont Section of
the State, visiting friends and rela
tives.
Misses Louise Blackman and
France?' Hem-y spent the week end
at Mr. Robt. Parker’s - on Selma,
Route 1.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Talton were
dinner guests Wednesday with their
daughter, Mrs. R. T. Lewis, oT Four
Oaks.
Mr. Thos. W. Winston, of Oxford,
spent Monday in the city with Mrs.
M. T. Candler.
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Brooks have
returned to their home here, after
spending several days at Mount Ver
non, N. Y'., with their daughter,
Mrs. Carroll Schoen,
The funeral of Carl F. Gordon,
former cashier of the First-Citizens
Bank & Trust Co., who committed
suicide by shooting himself at his
home on Third Street about 6:30
p. m., on Wednesday, August 3rd,
was held at the residence at 11:00
o’clock Friday morning, and was
largely attended. Rev. B. T. Hurley,
pastor of the Methodist church, and
Rev. J. P. Smith, pastor of the Pres
byterian church, conducted the ser
vice. Interment was made in the
Smithfield cemetery.
The pallbearers were: T, C. Jor
dan, W’. J, Huntley, B. W. Sugg, R.
R. Holt, W. N. Holt, and T. C.
Henry. The floral offerings -were
numerous and beautiful. The burial
service was in charge of Fellowship
Lodge No. 84 A. F. & A. M., of
which J. D. Parker is master, and
it was conducted in a very impres
sive manner.
Notice is hereby given that my
son, Albert (Al) Massey, age 19,
has become so incorrigible that he
is no longer under parental control;
that I have emancipated him and
hereafter I shall not be legally'
bound for any debt, contract, or
other obligation which he may cre
ate in -my name or his own; and
this is notice to all men that any
credit extended him will be at their
peril; that his beastly conduct at
home both during my presence and
absence has caused me and self-
respecting neighbors much mental
anguish and physical suffering and
I enjoin the forces of the law to
protect my home during my forced
absence from continued use as a
haven of i-efuge for immorality,
drinking, and other practices of a.
do-wnright destructive nature.
(Signed) MRS. EMMA E. MASSEY,
Mother.
Princeton, N. C., Aug 10, 1932)
TO THE PUBLIC
County clerk, H. V. Rose, will.be
host to the local post of the Amer
ican Legion in the courthpuse at 8
o’clock Friday evening. Sandwiches
and iced tea will be served, and \
there will probably be a^good after-
It is not possible for me to state
the exte'nt of the grief and humilia
tion that ray wife hnd I have felt
since the names of our two sous
got into print relative to some al
leged larceny of cigarettes back in
the ' early part of July. The facts
connected^ with this case are hard
enough to endure, but what becomes
cruelly painful is the stacking in of
staterrients which have no semblance
of truth in the matter and I am
asking space in the papers of the
county and State to clear up as best
I can one or two statements that
will have tendency to protect the
good name of my home, which my
wife and I have tried for 35 years
or more to establish. I wish to here
deny and denounce as false any and
all statements, however worded,
which would indicate that my home
has been searched for stolen goods
in connection with the arrest of my *
sons. I also -wish to deny and de
nounce as utterly false, the story
that has got abroad that my sons
are in any wise connected with, or
dinner speaker on hand.
have been conected with, the so-call
ed Red Stanley or Red Dixon gang,
I although my sons live in the
S. B. Hardee, a prominent citizen I comunity with these two men and
of Cleveland Township, died at his others connected with their robbing
home at ahont K nVlnr'lr r»n pyi/^oar I i rr\i »
home at about 5 o'clock on Friday
morning, August 5th, after suffer
ing for about two years with heart
dropsy and hig'h blood pressure,
and for several weeks with pararly-
sis. The funeral was held Saturday
afternoon and was conducted by
Rev. W. 0. Rosser, -of the Baptist
church, his pastor, his membership
being at Shiloh church.
Interment was made in the cem
etery at Oakland church in Cleve
land Township.
His widow and the following chil
dren survive; Mrs. J. Claude Carroll,
of Cleveland Township; Mr. J. D.
Coats, of near 'Garner; Mrs. Harold
Wells, of near Clayton; Mr. Marvin
and pilfering. They have never asso
ciated with them in any way and
are practically strangers' to them.
I need not add that I believe in
the • innocence of my two sons and
I am at this time confident that
when they shall, be given a fair and
impartial trial before a jury of their *
peers, they will be entirely vindicat
ed.
R. L. RAY, Sr.
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Miss Hattie Parrott, of Raleigh,
State Supervisor of Elementary
Schools, and Mrs. Fannie 'Thomas,
of Raleigh, were dinner guestsi of
the family of Mr. W. H. Etheredge
Thur.sday. . -