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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-
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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.
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