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I ■ THE JOHNSTONIAN THE JOHNSTONIAN AND JOHNSTON COUNTY SUN CONSOLIDATED Selma Colored Woman Robbed At Point Of Gun Colored Woman and Her Son Are QaSCS Tried Forced to Surrender Contents of Iron Sate to Two Men Who Enter | Their Home Friday Night. Three Killed When Train Strikes Auto Two ^Vlen and One Giil Die In Accident At Fayeteville Crossing. In Recorder’s Court Physician Commits Suicide at Angier Dr. D. E. Council Kills Self, After Failing In First Attempt In News paper Office. When Tommie Ricks, 16-year-old son of Olivia Ricks and the shine boy at the Selma Barber shop, en tered his home on North Sellers street last Friday night about 10:30 o'clock he found his mother, with a pillow case tied around her neck and two men with drawn guns try ing to force her to open a small iron safe in the room in which she had some money she had received from on the life the insurance company of her late husband, Rev. A. T. Ricks, who died about a year ago. The boy was struck and kicked sev- eral times by the robbers and at the point of a gun was forced to open the safe. After the safe was opened he and his mother were forced to the other side of the room while the thieves rifled the safe of more than S254.00. The robbers, two strange colohed men, made their escape in a car which was parked about 250 yards from the house. It is not known how the robbers knew' the woman had the money in her house as they were perfect, strangers to her. No arreats have as vet been made, although the of ficers are trying to apprehend the gu'ltv parties. The. late Rev. A. T. Ricks was for a number of years pastor of several colored Baptist churches in eastern North Carolina, and this fa'”iiv is one of the most highly respected among the colored popu lation of Selma. Revival Services At Selma Baptist Revival meetings will begin at the ■Selma Baptist church next Sunday, September 18th. The service will be gin each evening at 7:30.' The hour for the day service will be announc ed later. Evangelist George W. Tay lor of Beverly Hills, California has beeii engaged for these meetings anil he is expected to arrive in .Selma by next Sunday. Mr. Taylor is a noted evangelist, he has had wide experience in the evangelitic field. He is a native of Kentucky, graduate of Transylvania University Lexington, Ky., and Louisvhle Bap- t'st Theological Seminary. Dr. Ray Palmer, D. D., Washingto'n, D. C., has the following to say about Mr. Taylor. “Taylor’s sermons abound with argument, reason, logic, theol ogy, phylo.'ophy, wit, humor, com mon sense, pathos, and appeal. He has all the elements of a great orat or. He is simple yet sublime: en thusiastic, yet well balanced: be ap peals to the emotions, yet exalts reason, he brings his hearers to tears, yet makes them smile through their tears: he stirs the heart, yet he convinces the judgment.” It is felt that the local church and com munity "has in store a great bless ing in the coming of this noted man of God. Members of all local church es and the community in general cordially invited to attend the services. Let’s help make this a mw- al and spiritual feast and a decid ed advance in the work of the King dom among the religious forces of our community. September 6th. State vs. Silas Martin, white la borer, aged 20, for larceny of hat, value less''than $20. Guilty and is given 60 days on the roads. St5ite vs. Pete Dixon,-xolAred la borer, aged 22, for carrying conceal ed weapon. Guilty and given 90 days in jail and assigned to work, at the county home. State vs. Otho Benson, white la- oorer, aged 18, and Earl Bradley, white, laborer, aged 22, for forcible trespass. Guilty and each given 60 days on roads, to be suspended upon payment of $10 fine each and one- half cost each. State vs. John Smith, colored and Richard Williams, colored, for as sault. Not guilty. State vs. John Jonei, colored far mer, aged 33, for violation of the prohibition law. Plea of guilty as to possession and transportation of one gallon of whiskey. $50.00 fine and cost. • State vs. Henry Adams, white farmer, aged 30, for assault with deadly weapon. Guilty and fined $25 and taxed with the - cost. State vs. Joe Beasley, white far mer, aged 22, and John Guin, white farmer, aged 30. Beasley chaiged with as-ault with deadly weapon. Motion by solicitor to' include John Guin as party defendant. Motion al lowed and both defendants charged w'ith affray. Both defendants guilty. Continue prayer for judgment as to each defendant upon payment of one-half the cost each. State vs. Clarence Smith, white farmer, aged 54, for assault. Not guilty. Tuesday, Sept. 13th. State vs. P. L. Brock, white la borer, aged 22, for violation of pro- nibition law. Guilty of possession of one-fouith pint of whiskey. Con tinue prayer for judgment upon payment of cost. State vs. Hunte"r Sanders, colored laborer, aged 45, for violation of prohibition law. Guilty of possession of .still outfit and. manufactming whiskey. Defendant' sentenced to 4 months' on the roads. State vs. Fred Mitchell, white farmer, ageil 32, for cruel to ani- .nals. Guilty. Continue prayer for judgment upon payment of cost. State vs. Charlie Morris, white farmer, aged 33, for assault with .ieadly weapon and peace warrants. Guilty of A. D. W. Defendant sen tenced to 66 day.s on roads. Under peace warrant defendant is ordered ;o give bond of $200. Conditioned ipon his keeping the peace during .rext 12 months. State vs. William Sauls, white farmer, aged 22, -for assault on wife. Guilty and given sentence of 6 months on roads, sentence to be suspended upon payment of cost and on further condition that de fendant does not assault wife again during next two years and upon condition that defendant provides a home away from parents of defend ant and parents of his wife. State vs. (^allie Martin, white; Fayetteville, Sept. 13.—Three lives vrore snuffed out and a fourth crit- .cally imperilled when an automo- oile bearing a party of young peo ple from a Country club dance met a switch engine on the Ramsay street crossing of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad here early this morn ing. Miss Margaret Poteat, 22, was killed instantly; Euland Evans Can ady, 23, died on the way to the hos pital, and Frank Parker Armstrong, 23, lived only three hours. Miss Orion Olive, daughter of^Dr. P. W. Olive, of this city, was badly injured, and little hope is entertain ed for her recovery. The crossing watchman stated that the driver of the automobile failed to see his lantern and he was cofiipelled to jump to avoid being run over. The car approached from the side opposite Engineer J. E. Barnhill, and the- left front of the locomotive ripped the right side of the sedan. Coroner R. A. All.good will hold an inquest after the funeral of the victims. Parker Armstrong was assistant "Rshier of the Fayetteville hou-e of Branch Banking and Trust compa- nv. He was the son of Mrs. Mary P. Armstrong, of Tarboro, and his funeral will be held there at four o’clock tomorro'w afternoon. Fui^ral service for Miss Poteat will be held at 11 o’clock tomorrow morning from the Highland Presby terian church, and those for Mr. Canady at 3 o’clock from the First Baptist church. Raleigh, Sept. 12.—Dr. Desmond ■E. Council, son of T. C. Council, prominent postoffice workers of Ra leigh, killed himself this afternoon in Angier after a rather vigouous effort at self destruction in the Ra leigh Times building - this morning, according to the Times story this afternoon. The young physician, 31 years old from all the evidence had suffered a violent visitation of insanity and there ■was nothing to stop him. Charles Ruth pressman in the Times service, headed him off on the first attempt, but there was no way to stop him. His peculiar hallucina tion was that he was a disgrace to the profession of medicine. Announcement from the Council home on North Bloodworth street this evening was that ‘the burial will take place tomorrow afternoon from Catawba Christian church. Dr. Coun cil had been associated with Dr. C. R. Young, of Angier, who gave his fellow'practioner the highest sort of name for fair dealing and success ful work. Dr. Council was terribly overworked. There was no other mo tive for the violence, of which Dr. Young kn(gvs anything. Bryant Gives World’s Summary Cotton Outlook Johnston Association Of Sunday Schools Is Well Attended A very interesting program was ghen at Progressive Presbyterian church in Boon Hill Township on Wednesday, September 7th, by the Johnston County Sunday School As sociation. “The Child and the Home and the Sunday School” were the central themes discussed. It was an interdenominational meeting and all the different denominations in the county took an active part in the proceedings. The meeting was pre sided over by M. P. Young, Associ ation President. The Johnston County Association is only one unit in the State Asso ciation, known as the North Caro- Viii Consumption Higher In United States and Mill Stocks Are Lower. Washington, Sept. 12—Government reports on cotton indicate improve ment in prices. Consumption of United States cotton is up, and mill -tocks higher. The acreage of cotton in Egypt has been reduced. It is predicted the total output there this -season will be 945,000 bales of 478 pounds eacK compared with the official produc tion figure of 1,288,000 bales last season. The acreage has been cut from 1,747,000 to 1,135,000. The Bureau of Agricultural Ec onomics of the Department of Ag riculture made this report today: During the six months ended July 31, 1932, the total world mill con sumption of all cotton amounted to 10,793,000 running bales, 531,000 lina Sunday School Association. It ^ ggj^j. [ggg than dur- is supported by free will offerings; and has its main office at 101-102 Arcade- Building, Sali.sbury, N. C. MR. D. M. HAYES RESIGNS FROM BOARD Johnston County’s Part In Relief Program ‘Flvinit Fnmilv” T.ands Safe At Eskimo Town Picked Up by British Fishing Ship On Southern Tip of Greenland— Eskimos Assist Flyer When His Children Wade Out To - Remote Village In This Northern t'lime. ‘Depression Where Is Yo‘ Gone To’ “Depression, where is you gone?” This is D. W. Parrish of Benson speaking. - Mr. Parrish, who is the Ford dealer in the Benson teritory and while he does not believe hard times are over he knows that the car business is better. He is selling sev eral new cars each week and week before last he sold over $1,20 worth ■of Used cars and “got the money.” ■ No, Mr. Parrish says he is not going into the money lending busi ness yet. He is loking frward to selling several new Fords this fall, ■ he says.—Benson Review. and Ed Stafford, white, for forni cation and adultery. Not guilty. State vs. L. A. Hodges, white merchant, aged 38, for violation of prohibition law. Guilty of possession of whiskey and home brew for pur pose of sale. Defendant sentenced to 12 months on roads. Appeal. Bond $350.00. State vs. L. A. Hodges, white, age 38, and Jack Hodges, white laborer, aged 19, for violation of prohibition law. Jack Hodges not guilty and discharged. L. A. Hodges guilty of possession of whiskey and home brew for purpose of sale. Defendant sentenced to" 12 months o.n roads. ‘A'ppeal bond at $350.00. This sen tence to run concurrently with ._sen- tence above. State vs. Albert Barber, white far mer, a.ged 21, for larceny of chick ens. Not guilty. Sulphate of Amonia applied to a corn crop where a heavy yield of vetch had been turned under last spring has made no perceptible dif ference in the indicated yield, says 'V. S. Simpson of Union County. Angry widow ,after learning hus band left her nothing: “I want you to'-take ‘Rest in Peace” off- that tombstone I ordered yesterday.” Stone cutter: “I can’t do that, but I can put something underneath.” “All rifeht, put ‘Till I Come!” Angmagsalik, Greenland, Sept. 12. —After a two-day search along the ca t Greenland coast by aviators ■-'nd seamen, the Hutchinson “Plying Family” was found today on a beach less than^ 40 miles from here. They had cracked up their trans- ■itlantic plane in a treacherous reef- filled fjord. The party of eight, including George R. Hutchinson, his wife and tv.;p little dau.ghters, were picked up by the British trawler Lord Talbot, which had been scouting around a position given by the Hutchinson in an SOS call since Sunday afternon. (Owners of the Lord Talbot in .Aberdeen, Scotland, said they re ceived a me-'sage that the ei.ght castaways had been landed safely and the Talbot had proceeded to fishing grounds. Exchange Teleg'raph and Reuters dispatches said they were landed at Finby, a Norwegian station in east Greenland, which is not shown in any standard atlas). The British ship had reached the point given by Hutchinson in his last distress call within four hours. Later German and Danish aviators and American, British and Norwe gian members of various scientific and other expeditions in this vicin ity, who put out in boats, joined in the search. The Talbot kept in constant con- tach with this village by radio and apparently was enlarging- gradually the area of the search, after begin ning at the position it had received from the Hutchinsons, -when it found the smashed plane. Hutchinson said a leaking gaso line tank forced him to bring- his plane down Sunday. while attempt ing to fly from Julianehabb, at the southern tip of Greenland, to Ang magsalik. His children and others in the party were able to wade ashore and reached the tiny Eskimo settlement of Eker, whose few inhabitants were preparing to abandon the place for the winter. In a few more weeks they would have been on their way to Angmagsalik. Eskimo sealers- aided Hutchinson and his crew in saving their flying instruments' and most of their sup plies. Convalescent (to a friend): “Thanks very much for the brandy peaches. Although the doctor would- not let me at the peaches, I en joyed the spirit in which they were sent.” Johnston County may share in the distribution of Federal Funds for re lief of destitution this winter in pro portion to the extent that through its own eforts, both private and governmental, its citizens utilize their own resources to this end, ac cording to Dr. Fred Morrison, State director of relief. Federal assistance in this under taking, declared Dr. Morrison _,is not to be substituted for local relief ef forts. On the other hand, it is pro vided only to supplement the maxi mum that local communities do for their own people and will be avail able only when ■ the 'Washington authorities are convinced that local resources in each community are in adequate to meet the needs for re lief. In order, therefore, for this coun ty to participate in the fund which Governor Gardner will seek from the Recon-tructfon Finance Corporation for all of North Carolina, it will be necessary for it.s relief agencies, public and private ,to make a thor ough survey of prospective needs of. its destitute people and then to fur nish evidence that it is undertaking to meet conditions with its own re sources as completely as possible. When this shall have been done in this county, when all local re sources for relief have been deplet ed and the relief needs remain un- Tjrovided for, it is the purpose of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to provide supplementary funds with which to complete the task and ade quately take’ care of the conditions of need and destitution throughout all of North Carolina, its towns, cities and counties. It is important, therefore, that every local agency and all citizens interested in this program of con structive assistance unite their ef forts immediately to forecast prob able needs in their respective com munities, then to pledge every avail able local resource toward meeting the challenge of the needs arising from unemployment to the end that North Carolina may be fortified in financial resources to protect its people from the rigors of want and the hardships being imposed upon them by a continuation of the eco nomic disorder. Through the office of Mrs. W. T. Bost, State Superintendent of Pub lic Welfare, questionnaires have been forwarded to various agencies in every city and county in the State seeking formal and definite information as to conditions exist ing, as to what local efforts are be ing made to take care of the needy and destitute and as to exact de tails of the situation which prevails in each community. It is urged that every public and private agency en gage in any relief work last winter cooperate with the county superin tendent of public welfare in compil ing this report, because the task is too big for one person and because it is important - that a complete pic ture of all the effort of our com munity last -winter be furnished the state relief office and the Recon ing the corresponding period in 1930-31 and 6.4 per cent less than in the first half of 1931-32, accord ing to a cable to the Bureau of Ag ricultural Econo'mics from the Inter national Federation of aster Cotton Spinners’ and Manufacturers’ Asso ciations. This brought the total con sumption for the 1931-32 season to 22.323.000 running bales compared with 22,488,000 bales in 1930-31, 25,- 209.000 bales in 1929-30 and was the smallest since 1923-24, when the to tal world consumption amounted to only 20,430,000 bales. While the total consumption of all cotton from February-July this year six Mayor W. W. Hare and the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Selma are in receipt of the resig nation of Mr. D. M. Hayes as a member of -said board. Mr. Hayes’ resignation reads as follows: “September 12, 1932. “To the Mayor and Board of Com missioner.-: of the Town of Selma, N. C.:- “I hereby tender my resignation j smaller than the preceding as a member of the Board of Com- j months or the corresponding period missioners of the town of Selma, , year, consumption of American North Carolina, to take effect ini-'cotton showed an increase over botjj mediately, for the reasons the busy previous periods. The 6,202,000 run-' season is now open and my work ning bales of American consumed in will necessarily require all of my the last half of 1931-32 compared time and almost all my time out of -with 6,117,000 bales the preceding town. The work I shall be engaged period, 5,630,000 bales in the second in is strenuous and fatiguing and I half gf 1930-31 and 5,940,000 bales cannot, after doing my work give m the same period of 1929-30. Dur- the' necessary time and attention to mg the 12 months ended July 31, the duties of the office I now hold 1932 there were 12,319,000 bales of with the town, : American cotton consumed, which “Yours very truly, ' was 1,411,000 bales or 12.9 per cent “D. M. HAYES.” I more than in 1930-31, but wa.s about Upon receipt of the above resig- , 700,000 bales smaller ihah in 1929' nation from Mr. Hayes by the May- 30, The sea-on's consumption of or and the Board of Uommissioners, j Indian cotton amouilted to 4,789,000 it was moved and carried 'that said | bales, 1,074,000 bales or 18.3 ’pet cent less than in 1930-31. Sundries resignation be accepted. The Board then began to look about for a suitable mai> to fill this vacancy, and in doing so, it could find no better material for this ^ re sponsible place than Dr. C. P. Har per, our local druggist, and there fore Dr. Harper was appointed to fill this responsible position with the town with the hope that the ap pointment would be acceptable on the part of Dr. Harper. Burgess Savs Carry Your Seed Back Home Mr. Ralph Burgess, manager of the Wood Ginneries throughout this section says that farmers should ^ never store their cotton seed unless 2,559,000 bales whereas on August. totaled 4,235,000 bales compared with 4,864,000 bales .-the previous season, a decrease of 629,000 bales or 12.9 per cent con.sumption of Egyptian cotton in 1931-32 amount ed to 980,000 running bales which was 14.9 per cent larger than in 1930-31. The 1932-33 season began with to tal .rtocks of raw cotton at mills slightly laT-ger (3.9 per cent) than a year earlier, stocks of American about one-third larger, Indian one- third less and Egyptian and . sundries about unchanged. Total stocks of all kinds on Augu.st 1, 1932 amounted to 4,483,000 bale.s compai’ed with 4,- 313.000 bales a year earlier. Mill stocks of American cotton totaled they can get an agreement with the ginner or oil mill to give them the top price or their^ seed back when they get ready to sell. “The best place for a farmer to .store his seed is at home says Mr. Bur gess. When seed are stored and not sold, the big oil mill know exactly how many seed are on storage, thus the farmer is working against his best interests in many ways,” he says. He says his firm will buy seed outright or exchange them for meal now, but that no cotton seed can be stored for future settlement with his firm.—Benson Review. The pastor was examining one of the younger classes and asked the question: “What are the sins of omission?” After a little silence, one young lady offered: “Please, sir, they’re sins we ought to have committed and haven’t.” 1, 1931 they were only 1,871,000. Two hundred fortv-two thousand bales of this increase took place in the United States and probably most of the remainder in mills in the Orient. Indian cotton held by mills at the beginning of the new season totaled 1,033,000 running bales compared with 1.565,000 bales a year earlier, 1,667,000 bales on August 1, 1930 and was the small est since sometime prior to 1921. Mill stocks of Egyptian and.sundries were 229,000 and 662,000 bales re spectively compared with 217.000 and 660,000 a year earlier.—^H. E. C. Bryant, in News and Observer. Many People Killed As Steamer Explodes The steamer “Observation” with a load of workmen on board, ex- -truction Finance Corporation. Upon the basis of the composite information thus obtained concern ing individual community needs and individual community effort, Gover nor Gardner will.base his request to the Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion ofr Federal funds to supplement local resources for properly caring for the needs throughout the State ploded soon after pulling off from its anchorage in East River New York a fe\v days ago entailing a loss in human lives of more than 40 people. The craft, which had' formerly been sight-seeing steamer, was proceeding to Riker’s Island with a party of workmen who were engaged on'the construction of the new penitentiary, at the time of the blast. Many of the survivors were severely injured. J
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