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SELMA. N. C.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1933.
NUMBER .30
Smithfield
Winner of
High School Is
Banner In Contest
interesting Musical Program Given "orthy undertaking-, held the ban-
In Selma High School Auditorium aloft and made known the de-
Sunday Afternoon to Capacity ^he judges by calling- for
House—Several Choirs Took Part member of the Smithfield
In Program Besides Some Special to step forward and receive
Numbers—To Be Annual Affair. ‘he banner, which will remain theirs
until some other school in the coun
ty wins it from them in a similar
The Musical program given in the
The chair-man then expressed his
Selma High School auditonum
last Sunday afternoon was a great appreciation'for th^'wcnderfuf s
Success from ev-ery angle. While all
the school choirs on the program
were not present, there were enough
present, including thb special num
bers to consufiie practically all the
afternoon.
cess of the occasion and said that
this Christmas musical festival was
well worth while and that it woulil
be repeated in a more elaborate
way next year.
Rev. W. J. Crain, of the local
liev. D. F. Waddell, pastor of the baptist church, then pronounced the
local Presbyterian church, presided benediction
over the meeting, and called Dr.
H. E. Gille pie, of Greensboro, entertainment is no doubt due
to the platform who read the Scrip- committee on publicity and ar-
tere lesson. Dr. Gillespie is head ol rangements, composed of Rev. D. F.
the Home Mission Committee of the w^ddell, John Jeffreys and H. H.
bynod of North Carolina, and lead appointed by C. L. Richard-
ior the Scripture lesson the story President of the Selma Kiwanis
of the birth of the Christ Child. dub
Dr. C. P. Harper, local druggist, q Richardson and H. H. Low-ry
was then called to the platform and ushers for the occasion,
delivered the address of welcome on , ^ p -Waddell, as chairman
hehalf of the S-elma Kiwanis Club, ' committee, wi. hes to thank
becau.-e of the fact that the meet-j other members of the commit-
16 Meet Deaths In
Blizzard And Flood
Blizzards, floods and zero weather
left a trail of death and de>truction
across the nation this week.
Six persons dead ,one person mis
sing, hundreds homeless and proper
ty damage of more than a million
dollars in the Pacific northwest.
Four dead at Bellefonte, Pa., after
a train and an automobile crashed
in a snow storm.
Three burned to death in a dance
hall fire at Hampden, Me., w-hich
raged at the height of a blizzard.
Two dead from cold in Philadel
phia; one in Delaware ,another in
Baltimore.
Snow blanketed mo.st of the east
ern .seaboard, snowslides blocked
transportation in northw-est, and the
mercury touched 24 degrees below
zero in Owls Head, New York, west
ern Wiscon.sin reported a tempera
ture of If) below; North Dakota, 14;
Minne.sota, 23 below.
Selma Boy 'Airport Network
Is Honored
At Federal Cost
Chapel Hill, Dec. 8.—J. P, Temple,
of Selma, has been elected speaker
of the Philanthropic Assembly, de
bating society in the University, for
the winter quarter.
Other officers elected include K.
W. Young, Durham, speaker pro
tem; J. D. Winslow, Elizabeth City,
sergeant-at-arms; F. H. Fairley,
Monroe, -reading clerk, and R. D.
Baxley, Wagram, assLstant treasur-
Elected to the ways and means
committee were R. E. Smithwick,
Core Point, chairman; Melvin Gillie,
Draper ,and Frank McGlinn, Wynne
wood. Pa.
Foils Detection
Of Fingerprints
Skin Grafting Is Effctive, But Ex
tremely Painful, Says Govern
ment.
Johnston County Man
Given Two-Year Term
SIGNING FINAL CONTRATS
Ing was called at the suggestion of
said club. Mr. Harper paid a beau-
’ "tiful tribute to music and empha
sized the importance of knowing-
good music when we hear" it. “We
cannot always appreciate good mu
sic,” he said, “because we know too
little about it, especially some of
the high class mu ic of foreign ren-
uition, but we may better under
stand it when it is rendered by onr
own home people.”
While the singers were coming- in
and the program was being ai-rang--
ed, a splendid .number wa-s given by
• “the J. E. Norkett Quarette.
The first number on the program
was two selections by the Selma
High School Band.
The next number was a solo by
Jimmie Woodard of the Selmig,
High School.
The third number -was ’a Violin
Ensemble, by Smithfield High School
which almost brought the aud.ence
fo it^ feet as they left the stage.
Following this was a song by
Glendale High School.
The next number was rendered by
Carter.s School choir.
The Cleveland High School then
gave the next number by a lai-ge
choir from that school.
A 'special number, “Under The
Stars”, was also rendered by the
Glendale choir.
The Norket Quartette gave an
other special number -»-hile the au
dience was waiting for the deci ion
tne the judges.
Mr. G. M. Willetts gave two spe-
I ial numbers on a handsaw, w,th
p. ano accompaniment.
Carters Chapel Choir sang “All
Hail the Power” as a Special num
ber for’ the audience.
The following numbers were sung
in unison during the afternoon:
‘ Joy to the World,” as an opening
song: “Hark Herald Angels”, “Holy
Night”.
The chairman of the meeting ap
pointed the follqjving judges to de
cide which of the schools represent
ed should carry away the banner:
R. L. Ray, Sr., and M. L. Startcil,
of Selma, and J. B. Coats, of Smith-
field, who retired to one of the
rear class rooms, and after some
discussion as- to the -winner, render
ed a unanimous decision in behalf of
the Smithfield school, entitled the
“Violin En.=emble”. The personnel
of this ensemble were: Trumpets:
Linwood Perkins, Nathan Las.-iter,
Carl Pugh, Rudolph Howell, Thel
Ragsdale, Gus Martin, Albert
Coates, Marvin Hathaway, C. D.
Hamilton; altos: Bill Hood, Hubert
Woodall, - Miss Virginia Sanders;
clarinets: Max Johnston, Miss Mary
Noble, -Miss Elizabeth Johnson, Ry-
Jand Gregory, Carl Creech; saxo-
phone: Eddie Perkins, Glenn Grier,
Pope Lyon, Robert McLemore;
bases: Lacy Coates and Hugh Tal-
ton; baritones: Joe Grimes and
James Smith; trombones: Cullen
Hooks, McClellan Brady and Nuit
Edgerton; drums and bells i Raney
.Norton, Zeke Creech, Jennings Jor
dan and Joe Dan Talton.
Judge W. P. Aycock was then
called to the platform, and after
expressing his appreciation for the
splendid occasion and- complimenting
the Selma Kiwanians for such a
tee and the various choirs or any
others who took part in the pro
gram for their hearty cooperation
in making the occa.sion a success.
Among Our Advertisers
Your attention is called to the
following advertisements appearing
in this issue of the Johnstonian-Sun:
The Hudson-Belk company, of
Smithfield,- are telling our readers
about the many useful articles in
their big store suitable for Christ
mas gifts.
For a new suit or overcoat, ties,
socks, or .anything- in a man’s store,
.\ustin-Hamilton, also of Smithfield,
have just what you want.
The- Selma Clothing & Shoe co ,
of Selma, is calling your attention
to some splendid values in Ready*
to-Wear garments. Read their ad.
The Young- Men’s Shop, George
Gallaway,. proprietor, of Selma, has
a fine display of ties put up in
Christmas boxes (and they are pret
ty too). He also .has a splendid line
of shirts, socks, pajamas, gloves,
etc. See his ad.
Gen^ Terrell, Selma’s' youngest
grocer, is talking- about his line of
fresh groceries, meats, etc. Gene has
only been in business a few months
rnd his busine.ss is growing by
leaps and bounds See his ad.
See our popular Mayor, William
1. Godwin, if you want to borrow
money on your land.
The Lee Store (you can always
find an ad from this popular store
n these columns) is telling you
ibout the baj-ga-'ns in dresses, ho
siery, etc. Mr. Proctor is a wide-
FOR TOBACCO CURTAILMENT
Signing- of the final tobacco con
tracts has gotten off to a good
start in .pract'cally evei-y township
n the county. The township com
mittees report that the fanners are
showing- real interest in putting- the
program over in good shape This
prog-ram was desig-ned entirely for
the benefit of the farmers and is
their program. It is up to the fann
ers to pu.sh this program and make
it just a.s much of a success as
po.ssible. Do not wait for the local
committee to put it over in your
community—give them every assist
ance possible.
J. B. SLACK.
Goldsboro, Dec. 11.—Issac Barnes,
of Johnston County, was ^sentenced
by Judge F. A. Daniels in Wayne
Superior court late Saturday to
serve two years in the state pri.son,
having been found guilty earlier
in the week of embezzlement of
about $500 from his ward, Eula Mae
Coleman, of Wayne county. The
.girl was in the Oxford orphan
asylum. Testimony was that he had
never paid her but $T5. Barnes
broke down and wept in the court
room when thd jury turned in the
verdict of guilty.
A Christmas Tree.
There will be a Christmas Tree at
Carter.s Chapel Baptist church on
Friday night, December 22, 1933,
beginning at six-thirty. We extend
a hearty welcome to one and all.
EUNICE McCALL.
Only two bushels of silage spoiled
in the trench silos dug and filled
in Macon county this season and
this spoilage occurred at the top
of one silo where the material was
not packed.
The infallibility of the Govern
ment’s most effective and highly
developed weapon, fingerprint files
for identification, has been chal
lenged by a new subterfuge amon.g
criminals.
In a statement brought to the at
tention of the Department of Jus
tice, Mai Coghlan ,assistant state’s
attorney at Chicago, declared that
criminals were having their finger
tips changed by skin grafted on
2,000 Cuiniuunities Invited To Have
Landing Fields, Under a Civil
Works Allotment.
Two thousand cities, villages and
towns in the United States are in
vited to have aircraft landing fields
—whether they need them or not—
at the expense of the Federal Gov
ernment. All they have to do is to
furnish the unimproved ground.
This project, announced Nov. 24
by Eugene L. Vidal, Director' of
Aeronautics of tlie Department of
Commerce, involves spending more
than $10,000,000 for labor and. ma
terials, of which more than $8,000,-
000 will go for wage.s to over 50,-
000 persons now unemployed, says
Mr. Vidal.
The work will come under an al-
them.
To collect 4,000,000 fingerprints of | btinent of ’ both' labor and' nmterral
ci’iminals, the Department of Jus- jjy ciyj] Works Administration.
tice has spent years of effort and
large amounts of public money. Its
collection is the most complete in
the world.
The new criminal use of .'kin
graftinng, however, has not destroy
ed their usefulness as yet. The De
partment points out that the graft
ing operation is an extremely pain
ful one and one which no reputable
doctor would perform for the simple
purpose of enabling someone to
avoid detection through finger
prints.
States Attorney Coghlan made his
statement after an attempt to fin
gerprint an Illinois criminal had re
sulted in only smudges being- regis
tered.
Mr. A. K. Eason Talks
To Selma Kiwanians
Enough Gold In Sea to
Make Everybody Rich
Enormous Volumes of Other Metals
and Minerals Also Safely Guard
ed by Oceans Against Exploita
tions by Man.
Great, almost beyond measure is
the wealth of the sea.
There is gold enough, for example
to give one of the two billion-odd
men, women, and children on earth
a small fortune. Very conservative
ly calculated, each share would
amount to approximately $14,000,
with .gold valued at $20 an ounce.
Such is the conclusion that mig-ht
awake merchant and you can always i be drawn, as a rough approxima-
find what, you want at his store if
it is dry goods. He will buy youi-
chickens and eggs, paying you the-
market price.
The Branch Banking & Trust
company is calling your attent'on
to their sound banking service.
L. George is giving you a few of
his bargain prices 'on groceries. He
al-ways gives you the price in his
ad so you may have the privilege
of shopping- around, if you care to,
before you go to see him.
M. O. Long is giving notice of'
his opening up a new Radio Shop
in Selma.
The Chesterfield Cirarette people
are giving you a display advertise
ment in pictures. Pictures sometimes
tell more than words.
The Camel Cirarette folks nearly
always have an ad in the Johnston-
ian-Sun calling your attention to
the advantage of smoking Camels.
Smith & Cameron are emphasiz-
fig the importance of comfortable
foot wear, thereby assuring you
more pleasure in walking. See ad
elsewhere in this paper.
Clean-M-Right extends Chri.stmas
greetings and asks you to bring
your clothes early to avoid the
Holiday ru.sh.
The Modern Cash Grocery invites
you to come around and see Santa
Claus before you buy elsewhere.
tion, from the most recent estimates
of the composition of sea water con
tained in the 1933 Physical Tables
of the Smithsonian-Institution. Each
kilogram of sea water contains ap
proximately 45 millionths of ■ a
milligram of gold. But, a cubic
kilometer of the ocean weights a
trillion kilograms, and therefore it
may be said to contain approximate
ly 45 million milligrams of gold.
The total ocean sm-face area,
given in the Physical Tables from
the calculation of G. W. Littlehalesi
for the National Research Council,
is about 395,500 000 square kilo
meters. There are great variations
in depth, but a conservative aver
age is a little under three kilomet
ers.
4 he seas therefore contain at
least a billio.n cubic kilometers of
water, which would weigh at least
one sextillion kilograms, a number
which would be repreeented by the
figure 1 followed by 21 zeros. This
would give about a trillion five
hundred billion ounces of gold when
the milligrams are converted into
ounces.
So there are approximately 700
ounces for each individual-4which
would amount to $14,000 with gol/l
at $20 an ounce. Just now, of course,
it would be worth considerably
more.
Ten Lee County fanners are mak
ing additional home orchard plant
ings having purchased 135 fruit
trees cooperatively at a saving of
$26.25.
While one is about extracting hi.-
personal share of the ocean’s gold
it would be just as well to get his
share of the silver in the ocean,
which would be about 1,000 times
greater than the amount of gold.
Also one could help himself to the
vast amounts of iron, manganese,
phosphorous, iodine, copper, barium,
arsenic and zinc. All the.'C are pres
ent in sea water in minute amounts,
the table shows, together with such
vastly more abundant elements as
chlorine, sodium, magnesium, cal
cium, and potas.sium.
4 he estimates of the abundance of
the various chemical constituents of
the .sea were made by Thomas G.
4’hompson and Rex J. Robinson, of
the oceanographic laboratories of
the Univer-sity of Washington, as
members of a sub-committee of the
National Research Council.
Experiments have shown that
while it is not impos.sible to ex
tract the precious elements from
sea, water, the cost of doing so is
vastly out of proportion to the re
turns.
It is assumed also that the
amounts found in surface waters
also would' be found throughout the
sea. This is by no means certain
and thei-e is some rea.-on to believe
that the amounts may decrease con
siderably with depth.
The data on the earth’s oceans
contained in the Physical Tables,
compiled by Fredrick E. Fowle,
physicist of the Smithsonian In
stitution, represents the most re
cent agreement of experts in ocean-
.graphic problems.
In a report printed nearly 20
years ago by the Smithsonian In-
■stitutibn, on the basis of an e.sti-
mate of one grain of gold per ton
of sea Water, which probably was
too great, it was stated:
“No drop, however, small it may
be, can be removed from the occean
which will not contain many millions
All any-bojly needs to do is go and of gold molecules, and no point of
get it—which is quite a different • its surface can be touched which is
matter. No bank vault ever protect
ed its treasures more securely than
this gold is protected for Father
Neptune.
not thickly strewn with these. From
this molecular point of view we
must realize that our .-hips literal
ly floated on a gilded ocean.”
Mr. A. K. Eason, of the .4.tlantic
Coast Line railway, was the inin-
cipal speaker at the weekly meet
ing of the Selm^ Kiwanis Club on
last Thursday evening. Mr. Eason
spoke on “Safety Fii’st.” The speak
er said in part: “Ninety-five thou-
■sand people are killed in the United
states each year in accidents. 'I’en
million others are injured and the
monetary loss is around ten billion
dollars. 4’he story cannot be told in
Human terms, in terms of broken
bare numbers. It must be told in
human terms, in terms of crushed
and bleeding; bodies , in terras ol
ruined hopes and in terms of bro
ken heaits. 'fhen it becomes a dra
ma, a tragedy, with a sequel of
life-long- sutfenng and sorrow. There
IS not a iierson here tonight -who
does not know of a household where
there has been a child in an auto
accident, or a widow and children
who mourn the loss of a father,
husband or wife killed in an acci
dent.
"We suffered a heavy loss durin.g
the World War and yet two such
wars mig-ht be going on and not
take a greater toll from us in
deaths than we lose in accidents.
But even this g-reat loss might be
endured if it was the price ot some
great crusade, which was being
fought for and won. We can still
suffer and die for a great cause.
However, it should be some marvel
ous and precious cause; there is
nothing being won; we are getting-
nothing in return. 4’his is only a
toll we are paying for carelessness
and haste.
“Accidents can be eliminated to a
great extent if there is a will to do
so. Here is evidence that we have
won control over accidents. United
States steel has reduced accidents
86 per cent; 14 deaths against 100.
Dupont company have worked 350
men 7 years without an accident.
Take the record of the railroads. Of
the 480 millions of passengers car
ried last' y-ear only 40 were fatally-
injured. Accidental deaths among
employees for the last 8 years have
been reduced from 1940 to 557. In
jured, from 151,960 to 17,414, a de
crease of 89 per cent. The .Atlant'c
Coast Line railway has reduced ac
cidents 97 per cent and has won
two National Safety awards for the
dilligent work along this line.
“Look at the condition.s now ex
isting in our own state. .An average
of three persorus are killed on our
highways each day in the year and
tens of thou.sands injured annually
This condition goes on month after
month and y-ear after y-ear. Where,
■will it stop ? Death is a serious
matter and its causes should be
treated in a serious way We shouhi
put on our fighting armour and
The landing field program is a
further step to ♦stimulate private
flying. It follows Mr. Vidal’s recent
inquiry to 34,000 licensed and .stu
dent pilots and mechanics to ascer
tain how many would buy an air
plane if a small craft should be pro
duced and .-old for about $700.
Returns now being received by
the .Aeronautics Branch indicate that
thousands of persons would buy air
planes if the price were within their
means.
Mr. Vidal points out thj^ other
nations have encouraged private fly
ing by granting field subsidies. The
new landing field ptogram, however,
is not a subsidy but “an invest
ment in a relatively new industry
which i.s' important to the recovery
program,” .says Mr. Vidal.
Municipalities' will provide only
the unimproved land, which may
either be owned or leased by the
cammunity. Cities and States will
be asked to loan road building ma
chinery necessary for the grading
and leveling.
The average co.st of conditioning
a field should he ,$5,000 with only
about $630 to be expended for ma
terial and the rerh'ainder for labor,
according to Mr. Vidal . A field
should consist of two landing trip.^i
up to 3,000 feet long'and 300 feet
wide, except in locations where ter
rain or other conditions limit the
area to one strip, 'fhe -trips will be
marked for identification from the
air.
“We anticipate that the larger
towns and cities which as yet do
not have airports- will be the first
to recognize the advantages' of
this plan,” the Director said.
Each State will be. entitled to
have a certain number of landing
fields established, the number de
pending upon the size and popula
tion of the State, and we hope to
distribute these in 'such a manner
that they will be of utmost service
to airmen and their aircraft,
“If small villages feel that they
have no need for landing fields be
cause they see no immediate pros
pect of local flying activities ,they
nevertheless can contribute to re
duction of local unemployment and
also can-identify their communities
with a nation-wide system of air
ways by making landing site.s avail
able for improvement by the Fed
eral Government.”—U. S. News.
BUMPER APPLE CROP IN
NORTH CAROLINA
Production of apples in North
Carolina this year is almost three
times as great as that of 1932,
available information indicates, the
commercial crop of 1933 being esti
mated by the United States depart
ment of agriculture as aggregating
337,000 barrels by comparison with
119 000 barrels last year.
On the other hand ,the commer
cial apple crop in the United States
is smaller this year than that of a
year ago. In this country last year
there were 28,645,000 barrels of
commercial apples and the depart
ment of agriculture is forecasting
the 1933 crop as totaling 27,571,000
barrels, Virginia last year produced,
on a commercial basis.
start a crusade for the caase of
safety and eliminate the state’s
bloody record from accidents.”
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Earp and ’
Mr. James Earp were guests of the
club and delighted those present
with several vocal and instrumental ■
numbers. Mr. John Jeffreys was in
charge of the program.