VOLUME 40
SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1921
NUMBER 59
SIXTY FOUR LEPERS
ARE FREED AS CURED
Use of Chaulmoogra Oil
Proving Successful; May
Not Need Settlement
HONOLULU, July 24—Use of the
new chaulmoogra oil specific as a
cure for leprosy has been so success
ful at the Molokai fsia 'd settlement
for lepers here that 64 inmates of
Kalihi hospital have been discharged
as completely cured.
Authorities say that probably with
in 10 years the territory will have
no further need of Molokai as a leper
settlement; that settlements for lep
rosy will be a thing of the past, and
that leprosy itself may perhaps be
unknown.
To Arthur L. Dean, president of
the University of Hawaii, goes the
credit for perfecting the leprosy cure.
Chaulmoogra oil long has been reco
gnized as the standard specific for
leprosy. Its one fault was that it
had to be administered as a whole,
with the result that the cure was
slow and inefficient.
Doctor Dean has separated from
the bulk of the oil that element that
combats the disease. It is this ele
ment in the pure state, that has been
used with sucii astounding results
at Molokai. The process is by an
intermuscular injection once a week
and capsules administered internally
three times daily.
Dr. W. J. Goodhue, for l^f years
resident physician at the Molokai set
tlement says that under the present
method of treatment 65 per cent of
the chronic cases of leprosy at the
settlement will be turned out cured
within the next two years.
Many of the patients at Molokai,
however, never can recover as their
disease was too far advanced before
the cure was discovered.
There are 512 patients at Molokai
and of these 175 have been under
treatment with the Dean cure for five
months.—Howard Case in Charlotte
Observer.
S. C. TOBACCO GROWERS MEET.
Hold Indignation Meeting About Low
Prices. Committeee Will Meet
Warehousemen Friday
FLORENCE, S. C., July 22.—Defin
ite action as to what is best to be
done to obtain relief from the situ
ation created by low-priced tobacco
will be determined at the meeting of
the Tobacco Growers’ association of
South Carolina, in Florence, Friday,
July 29. The Warehousemen’s associ
ation was asked by the indignation
meting here today to meet a commit
tee from the Growers’ organization on
Saturday for the purpose of fixing a
minimum price at which tobacco will
be permitted to sell in this state.
It was admitted that nothing was
to be gained by demanding better
prices and that control of the crop by
the farmers themselves in the acre
age and matter of marketing was the
only avenue of relief.
Farmers are urged in resolutions
adopted to offer only the better grades
well cleaned and picked and not to
bring any tobacco whatever to market
until after the meeting here Friday,
when definite steps as to price will be
taken for their guidance.
Speakers urged today that tobacco
selling for two and three cents a
pound was worth more as fertilizer.
There were probably 100 present, rep
resenting all lines of business, and
while the meeting opened slow, it de
veloped into a pyrotechinal display
later on.
Some delegations from surrounding
counties brought in reports of such
bad feeling in some sections against
the present low prices as to give rise
to apprehensionsa s to what might
happen in some localities unless the
people were brought to an understand
ing of all conditions. Discussion today
was frank and free. Wilmington Star.
Mr. S. C. Turnage and his daugh
ter, Mrs. S. H. Massey and Elder H.
R. Faircloth and wife went to Golds
boro Thursday. While there they
heard Evangelist Ham who has been
there several weeks holding a -meet
ing for all the churches of the city.
They attended also a Sunday school
convention which was a meeting of
the Freewill Baptists of the State to
organize a State Sunday school con
vention.
SERVICE FOR GEO., GALLOWAY.
Body Brought From Overseas and
Interred in City Cemetery;
Memorial Service at Church
A memorial service was held here
Saturday morning at 10 o’clock at
the Methodist church in honor of
George Galloway whose body had been
brought from overseas for interment.
Mr. Galloway was a native of Smith
field, but called Fairmont his home at
the time he entered the war.. He was
a son of the late Mr. Dan W. Gallo
way. His mother, who is a sister of
Mr. E. S. Abell and Mrs. E. J. Poole,
and a half sister of Mr. J. H. Abell
and Mrs. L. T. Royall, still survives
him together with three sisters and
a brother as follows: Mrs. E. J.
Chambers, Mrs. H. L. Price, Miss
Katherine Galloway and Mr. James
Galloway, all of Fairmont.
Mr. Galloway enlisted a week after
war was declared, for service any
where they might place him. He was
only 22 years old but like many oth
ers he was ready to heed the call to
arms for humanity’s sake. He train
ed at Camp Wadsworth, New York
and went overseas in the second troop
ship. He was among the very lirst
to arrive in France, the very ship on
which he sailed being sunk by a sub
marine on the return trip to the
United States. About the first of
November 1917, he was sent to the
front and was in active service until
February, 26, 1918. He was a mem
ber of a picked company none of
whom were under six feet tall. On
the 26th of February, he was gassed
and died the next day in an American
hospital attended by American nurses
and doctors.
The memorial service Saturday
was conducted by Rev. D. H. Tuttle,
Three rifle shots were fired and the
burial taking plac< immediately after
ward in the old cemetery. A num
ber of his soldier and tailor friends
from Fairmont wete picsent in uni
form, and participated in Ihe military
tary burial of the.r fallen comrade.
Three rifle shots w >re fired and the
bugles sounded taps in accordance
with the army custom.
Those present from Fairmont were
Messrs J. C. Hubbard, R. L. Thomp
son, Ben Thompson, H. A. Thompson,
Neil Thompson, A. E. Thompson, G.
C. Small, Mark McDaniel, Roy Grif
fin, H. V. Brown, Carson Lewis, Fer
man Floyd, Claude Turner, Knox
Kyle and Thomas Baker; Mr. James
Galloway, Miss Katherine Galloway,
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Chambers, Dr.
and Mrs. H. L. Price and Mrs. D. W.
Galloway.
In Praise of Our Secretary
The Goldsboro Weekly Record writ
ing about the young men and women
of Goldsboro who have made good
away from their native city, speaks
words of praise of Mr. John Morris,
who has recently come to this city to
be secretary to the chamber of com
merce. Smithfield has already been
impressed with the manner and busi
ness ability of Mr. Morris and the
compliment paid him by his home
town paper will deepen the good im
pression. We quotp as follows:
“Goldsboro never produced a clean
er, more manly, cultured and refined
young man than John R. Moris, who
has recently been chosen as Secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce of
Smithfield. He is brim full of energy
and perseverance and a gentleman to
the manner bom. He is possessed of
a gentle nature and a sunny disposi
tion that makes him lovable and will
win for him friendships wherever he
goes. We have watched him grow up
to manhood from a mere tot and we
admire him for his true worth and
genial manly deportment. We have
never lost sight of him only when he
was away from home attending the
University and for a few months
when he was employed in another
town and from our knowledge of his
character and upright life and his fine
abilities we feel sure that Smithfield
could not have selected a finer man
to serve as Secretary of the Cham
ber ofC ommerce or one who would do
more to make it function.”
Beautiful Flowers
We wish to return thanks to Mrs.
R. H. Alford for a beautiful bouquet
of snap dragons sent us last week.
They were grown in the flower garden
behind the hotel where a variety of
blooming plants gives pleasure to the ,
passerby.
TWO KILLED IN A
KINSTON TRAGEDY
Man Shoots His Landlady
And Then Kills Himself;
Said to Been Drinking
Kinston, July 24.—A bloody
tragedy was enacted here at 4 o’
clock this afternoon when Lannie
Best, an automobile mechanic,
shot and mortally wounded Mrs.
Effie Redd and turned the pistol
against his own breast and fired
two shots from which he died
within a short time. Mrs. Redd
was carried to a local hospital,
where her death is expected mo
mentarily.
The Redd and Best families oc
cupied adjoining apartments over
a store owned by Mrs. Redd at the
foot of Caswell street. Best was
in arrears both in his grocery
and rent bills, it is said, and re
sentment of the demand for pay
. ment is believed to have prompt
ed him to kill his landlady and
himself. He was married and had
two children. Mrs. Redd is a wid
ow, with five children.
Threats were made against Mrs.
Redd by Best on Saturday night, ac
cording to John Tull and F. J. Dean, I
neighbors of the two families. Mrs.
Best took her husband’s pistol from
him and hid it. Returning from a
drive with his family this afternoon
he forced his wife to give him the
pistol and walked into the Redd apart
ment.
Mrs. Redd was sitting in her kitch
en. Best found her there and open
ed tire without warning. One bullet
penetrated the breast just below the
heart and the other pierced her abdo
men. She fell to the floor unconscious.
Best walked back to his own bed
room and shot himself. Dean rushed
into the house at the sound of the
firing and found the man dying with
the pistol beside him.
Best was a capable mechanic and an
excellent workman when sober. It is
understood that he had been drinking
heavily for the past several days.
Since the death of her husband, who
was killed in a railroad accident two
years ago, Mrs. Redd has been keep
ing a grocery store, and letting out
several rooms above it. Best had
been living in her house with his wife
and two children for about a year.
Sunday School Entertained
On last Wednesday evening the
girls of the Pisgah Missionary Sunday
school delightfully entertained the
boys at the home of Miss Inez Steph
enson. Rook, “Drop the Handker
chief,” and “Wink,” were played much
to the amusement of all.
Miss Pearl Johnson delighted the
company with beaurtiful music at the
piano.
During the evening delicious cream
and cake was served. There were 32
present to enjoy the evening. At a
late hour everybody departed declar
ing Miss Stephenson’s home the best
place in the world to have a good
time.
THE HOME TOWN
H There are fancier towns than
our little town, there are towns
that are bigger than this, . nd
the people win live n the
smaller towns don’t know vhat
excitement they miss. There
are things you see in the weal
thier towns that you can’t see
in a town that’s small; and yet,
up and down, there is no other
town like our little town after
all. It may be that the streets
aren’t long, they’re not wide
nor maybe straight, but the
neighbors you know in own lit
tle town all welcome a fellow—
it’s great.
U In the glittering streets of
the glittering town, with its
palaces and pavement and
thrall, in the midst of the
throng you will frequently long
for your own little town after
all. If you live and you work
in your own little town, in spite
of the fact that it’s small, you’ll
find it a fact that our own little
town ig the best little town
after all.—Exchange, uniden
tified.
THREE AUTOMOBILE
ACCIDENTS SUNDAY
Four Men Killed, Several
Hurt; A Clayton Man
Escapes Unhurt
Four men were killed instantly and
five more or less seriously injured in
two automobile crashes within a rad
ius of 30 miles of Raleigh yesterday.
H. B. Jones and S. B. Hutchins, of
Norfolk, were instantly killed shortly
after midnight when their car turned
j over on a railroad crossing three
miles north of Franklinton, and Chas.
E. Martin and Ralph Webster, both of
Durham, were instantly killed and five
other Durham men were injured when
a touring car somersaulted with them
near University Station 12 miles west
of Durham.
An oblique turn across the Seaboard
tracks north of Franklinton, a driver
unfamiliar with the road, and a car
too long to negotiate the turn at any
but low speed caused the death of
Jones and Hutchins.
Taking the ditch to pass a car that
declined to surrender half the road
brought disaster to the Durham auto
mobile, with the death of two men
and the injury of five others.
From Spencer came tidings of an
other smash in which members of two
leading families were injured in a
crash resulting when a third car back
ed suddenly away from the curbing
and jammed traffic. Neither of the
casualties in this case were fatal, but
five people were sent to the hospital
and two automobiles smashed. The
list of the dead and injured in all three
accidents follows:
NEAR DURHAM
Charles E. Martin, 1000 East
Main Street, Durham, automo
bile mechanic, dead.
Ralph Webster, 1000 East Main
Street, Durham, hosiery tnill
worker, crushed chest.
Ben Thompson, Durham, hos
iery mill worker, bruised.
I. L. Dillehay, Durham, hosiery
mill worker, bruised.
George Brownie, Durham, me
chanic, and driver of the wrecked
car. Bruised. In Orange County
jail charged with manslaughter.
FRANKLINTON ACCIDENT
H. L. Jones, Norfolk capitalist,
killed instantly.
S. B. Hutchins, Norfolk Capi
talist, killed instantly.
SPENCER ACCIDENT
Mrs. A. L. Petree, Greensboro,
badly cut.
Miss Bertie Petree, Greensboro,
dislocated knee.
Miss Willie Mae Stone, Granite
Quarry, badly cut about neck and
breast.
J. Lee Stone, Granite Quarry,
injured about the face.
The Durham car was a Mitchell
borrowed for a day’^ journey to Bur
lington. Returning to Durham late in
the afternoon, driving moderately ac
cording to witnesses, the car endeav
ored to pass a Ford driven by D. J.
Taylor of Durham. It is said that
Taylor refused to heed their signals,
and that the Mitchell attempted to
pass by taking to the gutter on one
side of the road.
a rear wneel buckled and the car
swung back toward the road in a
somersault, turning completely over
and around. When it came to a stand
still, it was headed back to ward Bur
lington. Martin was lying on one side
of the car and his brains on the other.
Webster was picked up forty feet
away. The other members of the par
ty were lying about the car* more or
less seriously injured.
Brownie was driving the Mitchell.
He is a Syrian, recently come to
America after nearly four years ser
vice as an ambulance driver with the
British forces in the Near East. He
has another name, but adopted his
British-bestowed nickname of George
Brownie when he came here. He is
employed as a mechanic in Durham;
and is said to be a very capable driv
er He was arrested by Sheriff L. B.
Lloyd and placed in jail on a charge
of manslaughter. I be car was not
badly damaged.
li.c Franklinlon accident, some de
tails of which were given in later edi
tions of yesterday’s News and Ob
server, occurred shortly after mid
night when the Singer Speedster in
which Jones, Hutchins and C. B. Poole
of Clayton, were coming to Raleigh,
failed to take the curve in the road
JNO. E. CREECH BURIED SUND’Y
Body Brought From Overseas; Bur
ial Took Place in Yelvington
Grove Cemetery.
Sunday afternoon the body John
E. Creech, who died overseas, Oct.,
29, 1918, was interred in the cemetery
at Yelvington Grove in the presence
of a large crowd of friends and rela
tives. Mr. Creech was a private in
Company H., 120th Infantry. He was
wounded in action and died from his
JOHN E. CREECH
wounds in a hospital the same day he
was wounded.
The service Sunday afternoon was
conducted by Rev. J. H. Worley.
Picking Huckleberries Finds Still
Kinston, July 24.—A big, bearded
moonshiner with ji pun and slouch hat
probably wouldnt’ hurt a little girl.
No story would have it so. So, under
the circumstances, there is nothing
for one Crave county shiner to do save
start at the bottom again and build
upward, for Sadie Ballard has his still,
kettle and all. Sadie is 14 years of
age. She was picking huckleberries
when she found the still. The operator
was away. The plant was hidden in
woods about 300 yards from the home
of Sadie’s father, .J. W. Ballard, near
Dover. It was of 25 gallons -capacity,
Sadie carried the pot home. Then she
went back and got the moonshiner’s
lantern and lantern’s shades and a
number of glass jars with which she
may consreve the huckleberries she
picks in the woods. The pot and other
equipment constituted quite a find,
Sadie thought. Besides, she’s a prohi
bitionist. May be the W. C. T. U. will
want to give Sadie a medal.
Dr. L. C. Smith, of Richmond, Va.,
came Sunday to visit friends and rela
tives in Johnston. While here he is
visiting at the home of Mr. H. I. Og
burn. Dr. Smith was reared in Pleas
ant Grove township, this county. He
attended a medical college in Rich
mond and after graduating there de
cided to remain and has been practic
ing there for several years.
and turned over on the railroad track.
Jones and Hutchins were crushed, the
car falling on their brests. Mr. Poole
escaped without a scratch.
The bodies of the two dead men
were brought to Raleigh at 6 o’clock
yesterday morning and prepared for
shipment to Norfolk last night. Mr.
Poole left for Norfolk with them at
10 o’clock. Neither was mangled, save
for bruises across the chest. Mr. Jones
was 30 years and leaves a wife and
two small children. Mr. Hutchins was
35 and leaves a wife and several chil
dren, who live in Norfolk.
The party was en route to Sanford
where the sale of the defunct Cum
berland Power and Light Company
was to be confirmed today by Judge
W. J. Adams, Mr. Jones, who was
president of the company, bought its
holding at receiver’s sale, July 2, act
ing on behalf a group of the bond
holders of the company. In his pocket
at the time he was killed was a check
for $75,000 to be used in payment of
the judgment of the court. The sale
will be confirmed, with other members
of the bond holding committee acting
in the place of Mr. Jones.
The accident reported from Spen
cer occurred when the car driven by
Dr. A. L. Petree, of Greensboro, pull
ed far over to the left of the street
to avoid collision with a car that sud
denly backed away from the curbing
and ran head on into a car driven by
J. Lee Stone, of Granite Quarry. Both
cars were badly damaged and all of
the occupants more or less seriously
hurt.—News and Observer.
THE TARIFF BILL HAS
PASSED THE HOUSE
Oil, Hides, Cotton and As
phalt on Free List; Hard
Fight Over the Bill
Washington, July 21.—The Repub
lican protective tariff bill, estimated
by Chairman Fordney to raise around
$500,000,000 in revenue annually, wa3
passed tonight by the House by a
vote of 280 to 127—precisely the vote
by which a Democratic motion for
elimination of its American valuation
provision was defeated. Seven Repub
licans voted against the measure,
while the same number of Democrats
supported it.
Oil, hides, cotton and asphalt stood
up against a determined fight to tax
thema nd remained on the free list.
The Longworth dye embargo, first of
the five contested schedules to go be
fore the House proper for a separate
vote and backed by most of the Re
publican members of the ways and
means committee were thrown out,
209 to 193.
Forming and holding a flying
wedge and aided by Republicans not
satisfied with all the bill’s provisions,
the Democratic minority made the
most of its chances and won on each.
The ways and meaite committee lost
out on three of the five amendments.
There was not much chance of im
posing a duty on hides and cotton af
ter the House, in committee of the
whole, had defeated amendments car
rying sompensatory rates on their
manufactured products. When the oil
amendment was reached there was
such a shout of noes that a roll call
was not demanded. A moment later
Chairman Fordney, trying to make
himself heard above the din which
pi-evailed during three hours of vot
ing, announced that sentiment in the
committee of the whole against tax
ing asphalt had been so overwhelming
that it was not worth while to go
through the form of calling the role.
More than two hundred committee
amendments, rushed through during
the last few days, were put up to be
voted on in a block. Some merely cor
rected spelling in the bill, somes huf
fled commas, and some changed the
rates, but the Democrats still holding
their forces in line, compelled a rec
ord vote.
Just before the time came to pass
the bill, Representative Garner, of
Texas, ranking Democrat on the ways
.and means committee stepped to the
front with the expected motion to
send the bill back to its framers with
instructions to strike out the Ameri
can valuation and reciprocal provis
ions. This was where the Republicans
and Democrats divided squarely on
the whole tariff issue, although they
had split widely on some of the earl
ier votes.
After the House had passed the bill
and adjourned until Monday, Chair
man Fordney and Representative Gar
ret, of Tennessee, the acting minority
leader, issued statements defending
and denouncing it. Declaring the
measure a “monstrosity,” Mr. Garrett
asserted that the Democrats were gi •
en “just five opportunities to win and
they won all five.”
“If the bill had been opened up for
amendment under the general rules
of the House,” he added, “there is no
telling what would have happened to
it. When I say five opportunities I
mean in the House itself. Of course,
we had a few chances in the commi*
tee of the Whole and there we defeat
ed the increase of duties upon leath a
and boots and shoes and upon cotton
manufactureres.
“There were only twenty-two lines
of the bill out of 8,630 lines read for
amendment. Not a member of the
House except the majority members
of the ways and means committee had
an opportunity even to offer an amend
ment to a committee amendment.
“By such methods was this mon
strosity passed. The dafr of retribu
tion will come.”
The 346 page bill, with its multi
tude of amendments goes to the Sen
ate in the usual way, to be referred
to Chairman Penrose’s finance com
mittee for tinkering. How long it
will remain there nobody knows. Sen
ator Penrose said, however, that open
hearings would be held, but that they
would probably be brief. It seemed to
be pretty well understood by House
members that when the bill comes
back from the Senate it will not be in
the same form as passed today.