VOLUME 40
SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1921
NUMBER 74
CAMP BRAGG WILL
NOT BE ABANDONED
Secretary of War Weeks has
Cancelled Order—More
Troops be Sent There
Secretary of War, John W. Weeks
yesterday rescinded the War Depart
ment order for the abandonment of
Camp Bragg at Fayetteville, and the
cantonment is returned to the active
list, according to information receiv
ed here last night by Colonel E. I-’.
King, Jr., who is representing the
government in the conclusion of the
condemnation proceedings to secure
possession of lands taken over for the
use of the camp.
Cancellation of the order to aban
don the camp has been regarded as a
certainty since last Sunday ^hcr.
Secretary Weeks personally inspected
the camp. He declined then to make
definite announcement until he had
conferred with General Pershing, his
chief of staff. Brigadier General A.
J. Bowley, commanding officer at the
camp was called to Washington Tues
day and was informed yesterday that
the camp would be retained.
Orders to abandon the camp were
issued from the War Department in
July, and since then Fayetteville citi
zens, co-operating with General Bcw
ley have waged a persistent campaign
to have the order rescinded. Denied
flatly at their first effort, Republican
National Committeeman, John Motley
Morehead, was asked to throw his
weight into the fight, and upon his
request, Secretary Weeks agreed to
hold up the order until he had op
portunity to personally inspect -he
camp.
With that assurance, Fayetteville
has been confident that the camp
would be retained. But one defect was
found by Mr. Weeks when he inspect
ed the place Sunday that being the
lack of adequate transportation facil
ities between Fayetteville and the
camp nine miles away. Tuesday morn
ing the citizens of Fayetteville pledg
ed the extension of the trolley 'ine to
the camp boundary, and with that as
surance Mr. Weeks had no farther
hesitancy in withdrawing the order
to abandon.
Not only will the present garrison
at Camp Bragg be retained, but units
that have already been transferred U
Camp Knox, Ky., will be returned,
and a part of the garrison now a*
Camp Jackson, S. C., now ordered
abandoned, will be transferred to
Camp Bragg. The field officers’ school
recently moved to Camp Knox, with
Major Gruber in command, has been
ordered back to Bragg. General Bow
ley will remain in command of the
camp. At present there are 2,000 men
stationed there, and this number will
Oe increased.
Secretary Weeks had no hesitancy
in declaring to the Fayetteville peo
ple with whom he talked Sunday that
Camp Bragg was the best maintained
army camp that he had seen, and that
its situation for artillery work was
ideal. Its remoteness from Fayette
ville, and the lack of transportation
alone caused him to hesitate in then
declaring for its retention.
General Bowley has been the chief
figure in the fight to retain the camp,
working with the active co-operation
of the Fayetteville citizens and North
Carolinians generally. Fayefteville
has acted upon every suggestion of
fered by the commanding general, ev
en seeming not to know that the Sec
retary of War was in the Cape Fear
metropolis on Sunday, and in provid
ing everything that has been asked
for in the way of additional facilities.
Secretary Weeks was delighted
with the administration of the camp
by General Bowley, and particularly
with his economy of operation, and
his determination to clear the camp
area of bootleggers and keep it clear.
His examination of the camp was
minute in detail, and included person
al interviews with members of the
enlisted personnel. It was from a
sergeant that he learned of the diffi
culty often encountered by the men
in getting to Fayetteville in their
leisure time.
Fayetteville and Camp Bragg have
won out over the seventh abandon
ment, and to the Scotch in that coun
try, the number is significant. They
remember the tradition of Robert
Bruce who watched the spider ch'mb
to the roof of a cave, six times only
to fall back again when it reached
OPEN EXPOSITION WITH
THRONGS AT CHARLOTTE
Morrison and Pratt Make Speeches
Praising Industrial Growth
of Two States.
Charlotte, Sept. 13.—Opening day
of the “Made-in-Carolinas” exposition
was featured by addresses by Gover
nor Morrison and Col. Joseph Hyde
Pratt and a superb program of music
by the $12,000 New York city concert
band and an evening concert by five
musical artists of New York.
This exposition represents 60 years
pf industrial growth in industry in
the Carolinas. The city is full of visi
tors.
The exposition was called to order
by the playing of the Star Spangled
Banner by the band. The president
of the chamber of commerce, Col. T
L. Kirkpatrick, welcomed the gover
nor and Colonel Pratt in the names
of the “two greatest states in the
union” to a Carolina exhibition of 100
exhibitors and 3,000 products. He re
ferred to Colonel Pratt as head of the
good roads movement and greatest
soldier and one of North Carolina’s
ablest men. Colonel Pratt said he
wanted to see the exposition a perma
nent thing. His address was full of
interesting poi.i* s. Goverm <■ Morrison
was given a ro '.sing recs'C’or.. He
was in his best ft rm and Charlotte
in her happiest navji at having him
here.
After a word -r appro nation be said
that the exposition was a happy con
ception.
“We want to do tho -kings the
Christian and the patriot want to see
done.’’ He spoke of the enlarged pro
gram of the great basic industry,
agriculture, and rep> cod in the diver
sified industry of the state and the
great future to which this points.
“We are getting rich,” he said. “There
are no two states in the union that
have the diversified interests that we
Carolinas have. We want to wear
things that are made in Carolina, not
Massachusetts, Philadelphia or New
York. Let us and our sister state,
South Carolina, trade with each other
for the mutual benefit of both.”—
Greensboro News.
LITTLE IMPROVEMENT
SHOWN IN COTTON CPOP
Need of Rainfall in North and South
Carolina Urgent; Texas Crop
Hurt By Heavy Rainfall.
Washington, Sept. 14.— “Cotton
showed little or no improvement dur
ing the week, and continued mostly in
■i ery poor condition,” a '°ording to
the weekly review of crop conditions
contained in the National Weather
and Crop Bulletin issued today.
Unseasonable weather continued in
the cotton belt, rainfall being unpre
cedentedly heavy in some centra! and
southwestern counties of Texas,
where great damage was done. Plants
were somewhat revived by rainfall,
however, in other sections of the state
the report said.
In eastern localities the hot and
dry weather continued to halt the
crop’s growth, plants in South Caro
lina losing vigor and shedding badly.
There also was complaint of some
shedding in North Carolina.
Cotton was reported “very poor”
in Georgia and “apparently beyond
possible improvement.” Progress was
generally poor in other sections of
the belt, according to the review.
Bolls were said to be opening fast
generally with picking and ginning
progressing rapidly in most central
and eastern districts, but harvesting
was considerably interrupted in many
western portions by rain.
Big Stock Of The West.
Mr. W. T. Lane received a letter a
few days ago from his wife who is
visiting in California telling him
about going to the state fair of that
state. She saw at the fair an eleven
months old hog which weighed 785
pounds. Many of the hogs she saw
there she says looked almost as large
as cows. She saw also some fine
steers which are so large when they
walked away from her looked like a
group of elephants. She is out west
visiting her son, Mr. Ralph Lane who
holds an important position with the
United States government.
the top. The seventh attempt whs
successful. It inspired the leader of
the Highlanders to victory.—News
and Observer.
“FATTT ARBUCKLE
HELD RESPONSIBLE
Coroner’s Jury at San Fran
cisco Returns Verdict Of
Manslaughter
San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 14.—The
coroners jury returned a verdict to
day holding that Miss Virginia Rappe
motion picture actress, came to her
death through peritonitis, caused by
the rupture of an internal organ.
Roscoe C. (Fatty) Arbuckle was held
responsible by the jury for Miss Rap
pe’s injury and the district attorney
was directed to conduct a full inves
tigation of the matter.
The verdict charged Arbuckle with
manslaughter and directed that all of
ficial sources concerned conduct a
full and exhaustive investigation.
The jury held that Miss Raene
came to her death through the appli
cation of force, “which we believe
from the evidence was applied by Ros
coe Arbuckle and we hereby chaige
him with manslaughter.”
“We recommend that the district
attorney, chief of police, grand jury
and prohibition enforcement officers
*ake steps to prevent a further oc
currence of such events so that San
Francisco will not be made the ren
dezvous of the debauchee and the
gangster.”
The verdict in assigning the cause
of Miss Rappe’s death said:
“We, the coroner’s jury, find that
the said Virginia Rappe. age -5, sin
gle, residence Los Ancrcles came to
her death on September 9 at the
Wakefield Sanitarium from a ruptur
ed bladder, contributing cause, peri
tonitis.
“And we further find that said
Virginia Rappe came to her death
from peritonitis caused by a rapture
of the urinary bladder, caused by
the application of some force, which,
from the evidence submitted, was ap
plied by one Roscoe Arbuckle.
“We, therefore, charge the said
Arbuckle with the crime of man
slaughter.”
Ben Boas, one of the nine jurors,
returned a minority verdict in which
he said that Miss Rappe’s fatal in
juries were caused by the application
of some force, “but I am unable to
say who applied it."
Two charges of murder, one pre
ferred by the police and the other
by Mrs. Bambina Maude Delmor t.
friend of Miss Rappe, and two charg
es of manslaughter, one returned by
the grand jury and the other by the
coroner’s jury, rest against Arbuckle.
The coroner’s jury wa3 out for
more than three hours after an ex
amination of witnesses, which started
last Monday.
Arbuckle, although apparently
deeply moved, accepted the verdict
with composure.
The verdict was the outstanding
event of the Arbuckle case today.
Other developments were:
The starting of an investigation
into charges that liquor was brought
to and served at the Labor Day , irty
in Arbuckle’s hotel room, where Miss
Rappe was alleged to have suffered
the attack which ended in her death
The finding of Betty Campbell
show girl and one of those attending
the party, after she was reported to
have disappeared, and her interroga
tion by>the district attorney
The statement of Captain of De
tectives Matheson, that one of the
girl witnesses who had attended the
party had been asked to accept a
bribe to withhold her testimony.
District Attorney Matthew A
Brady said he had not decided what
course to pursue in regard t. the
murder complaint, in view of the
manslaughter charges, but would set
tle the matter before Friday, when
Arbuckle appears in police court to
plead to the murder charge. The
grand jury indictment for manslaugh
ter is to be returned in the Superior
court tomorrow.—News and Observ
er.
Forced To Go Get $300 For Robbers.
Petersburg, Va., Sept. 14.—James
Kuntz, employe in the steward’s de
partment at a local hotel today told
police officials of Petersburg of hav
ing been a victim of a “badger” game
yesterday, being forced to drive his
automobile, at the point of two pis
tols, to a local bank, where he wrote
a check for $300 and paid to two
strangers.
GOLDEN WEED SELLS
HIGH ON THIS MARKET
Averaging Ten Dollars Per
Hundred More Than On
Opening Sale
A great wave of satisfaction has
swept over this city and surrounding
community. This “era of good feel
ing” is being brought about by the
high prices paid here on this market
for tobacco. The yellow weed is
selling high. The farmers and ware
housemen are elated over the pro
gress this market has made since the
opening two weeks ago.
Tobacco is selling higher on this
market now than on the opening, and
a great stream of farmers are driv
ing here to reap some of the good
prices offered at this point. The mar
ket closed Thursday afternoon aver
agng $10.00 higher than on the op
ening sale and a spirit of happiness
is prevailing among the entire folks
of the community. Many reports
have reached this city in regard to
the unsatisfactory sales made on oth
er Eastern markets and that the
warehousemen are having to contend
with farmers turning the warehouse
tag and considering no sale for their
product.
So far this market has established
a record which is surpassing all oth
er places, is the news which was re
ceived here this morning and the
warehousemen are striving to hold up
their end of the good work and thus
enable the farmers to receive the
very highest prices offered.
The farmers who are carrying
their tobacco to other places are
making a big mistake as reports are
being received here daily that we are
outselling any other market in the
east. The warehousemen at thi3
point startd out in the early summer
te build up their market and they
have done their work well as their
sales will tell you.
If you have been carrying your
tobacco to another market and are
not satisfied with results obtained at
that place then you will do the wise
thing by bringing it here where it is
a known fact that you will receive
the very highest dollar to be offered.
This market has all the representa
tive buyers of all the largest tobacco
companies in the world. They will
bid on your tobacco if you have it
on sale here.
The Mosquito Campaign.
Several months ago it was decided
to wage a mosquito campaign for
Smithfield. The work was put ;n
charge of Mr. John G. Hamilton. He
hired several hands and began the
work of ditching both in town and
around the town. The weather has
been favorable both for the ditching
and for keeping mosquitoes down. Mr.
Hamilton did more ditching and better
ditching than was ever done here be
fore. He has managed the work well
and it has been done in a satisfactory
manner in every respect. The work
of ditching is about over but Mr.
Hamilton is keeping the ditch banks
shrubbed and is putting poison into
the water to keep down the mosqui
toes in their breeding places. He says
the people can help him by getting
clear of all empty tin cans and by
allowing no breeding places around
their dwellings.
Gored To Death By A Bull
Last Sunday afternoon, Sept. 11th,
at the home of Mr. J. M. Vinson of
Wilson’s Mills township a bull which
heretofore was considered harmless
started to kill a calf which happened
to be near him. An old colored man
named Ashley Vinson tried to drive
the bull away from the calf. The bull
turned on him with fury and disem
boweled him. He died from the effects
Monday morning. Hallock Blaylock
next tried to quiet the bull but he
made fight again ripping a long gash
on one side of the colored man up to
the arm pit. Mr. J. M. Vinson by
some heavy strokes stopped the bull
from fighting. The Blaylock negro
is badly hurt but will recover.
A farmer once called his cow zephyr,
She seemed such an amiable hephyr;
When the farmer drew near,
She kicked off his ear,
And now the farmer’s much dephyr.
Piedmont Press.
DEATH OF MISS MITHCHELL
SUICIDE. SAYS A JURY.
Evidence Given At Winston Shows
Miss Mitchell Jumped
From Hotel.
Winston-Salem, Sept. 12.—The cor
oner’s jury, after thorough investiga
tion today rendered a verdict that
Miss Lillian Mitchell, who leaped
from the top of the new Robert E.
Lee hotel, falling a distance of 100
feet, came to her death by her own
action, with suieidal intent. It was
also disclosed that the young woman
had been despondent for several
weeks. Her age was 23 years. Mr.
and Mrs. H. E. Mitchell, father and
step-mother of deceased arrived here
this morning from their home at Dil
lard, Stokes county. The body was
prepared for burial and was sent to
the home of the parents, where the
funeral services will be held tomor
row. Interment will be in the old
Mitchell family graveyard near Dil
lard. It is reported that Miss Mitch
ell’s sweetheart, for whom she grieved
has been in a hospital for some time
and that little hope is entertained for
his recovery.
Following a view of the scene of
the tragedy this morning the coroner’s
jury returned a verdict that the de
ceased came to her death by her own
action with suicidal intent.
Miss Lowe and Mr. Azmon testified
as to the circumstances attending
their visit to the hotel, practically as
above stated. Neither detected any
thing unusual in the conduct of the
young lady en route to the building,
or upon their arrival on the roof. Mr.
Azmon stated that while they were on
the top of the hotel a few drops of
rain fell and soon he and Miss Lowe
turned to go down. Missing Miss Mit
chell they looked in the stairway en
trance, thinking that she had stepped
in there to get out of the rain, and
failing to find here there continued
their search of the floor to the ground.
Miss Lowe told the jury of a con
versation she had with Miss Mitchell
several days ago, in which was in
dicated that she was despondent over
a love affair, during this conversa
tion it was stated that the deceased
asked Miss Lowe what she would do
if she loved a man and wanted to
marry him, but she knew she could
not. Miss Lowe said that she told
her that she would forget it and look
on the bright side, but Miss Mitchell
declared in subside, that there was no
bright side to it, and that with every
minute the future would grow darker.
So far as is known there was only
one eye witness to the tragedy. Mrs.
W. F. Smith, states that she, with
friends, was en route to the hotel,
passing up Marshall street, when she
saw what appeared to be a bundle of
clothing fall from the roof of the
building. “I screamed,” she said “and
then I heard a crash.”—Greensboro
News.
FIVE GAME SERIES WITH
SELMA BEGINS HERE MONDAY
Five Game Series Arranged With the
Fast Selma Team; First Game
To Be Played Here.
A series of five games has been
arranged between Smithfield and the
fast playing Selma team. These t*vo
clubs have been playing good ball
and the games will be interesting
from the start. Both teams will be
composed of players from each town
that have previously been playing
with each respective club.
The schedule of games follows:
Monday, Sept. 19, at Smithfield.
Tuesday, Sept. 20, at Selma.
Thursday, Sept. 22 at Smithfield
Friday, Sept. 23, at Selma.
Fifth game if necessary to decide
the winner will be announced later.
Games start promptly at 4 o'clock
and the general admission will be
35 cents.
Barbecue Dinner.
On Tuesday, September 13, Mr. J.
M. Ingram gave a barbecue dinner
to his relatives and friends. Those
present to enjoy the pleasant occa
sion were: Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Thomp
son and family; Mr. and Mrs. L. D.
Moore and family; Mr. and Mrs. Al
bert Strickland and family, Mr. and
Mrs. W. T. Sasser and family, Mr.
and Mrs. C. G. Rose and family and
Mr. and M rs. D. B. Lawhon. All re
ported a pleasant day and plenty of
every thing good to eat.
COMMERCIAL UNIT
IS GIVEN APPROVAL
Representatives of Varied
Interests Indorse Eastern
Chamber Commerce
GOLDSBORO, Sept. 12—The secre
taries of the various chambers of
commerce and the representatives of
the varied commercial interests in
Eastern Carolina including boards of
trade, merchants’ associations, bank
ers, landowners and manufacturers,
held an enthusiastic meeting in the
rooms of the chamber of commerce
today and made tentative plans for
the formation of an Eastern Carolina
chamber of commerce.
W. C. Denmark, secretary of the
local chamber, called the meeting to
order and stated the object. Kenneth
Royall, president of the Goldsboro
chamber, was made temporary chair
man, and took occasion to accord the
visitors a warm welcome.
Mr. Royal sounded the keynote in
his opening address- in which he stat
ed that representatives present should
have a free and frank discussion of
the matter and “if it is shown that
we need a central organization to
combine our efforts, then let’s orga
nize an association that will be a
militant factor in the affairs of our
state and nation.”
W. A. McGirt, manager of the
North Carolina Landowners’ asso
ciation, indorsed the movement and
said: “Such an organization would fill
a long-felt need and would prove a
great value to the farmers, merchants
and bankers and manufacturers of
the coastal region.”
E. W. Gaither, of the North Caro
lina extension experiment service,
representing the farming interests
appealed to the commercial organiza
tion to organize a unit which would
insure the success of the co-operative
market effort now being advanced by
the extension service.
Secretary N. Y. Chambliss of Rocky
Mount, W. C. Denmark, of Golds
boro, H. Y. Scott, of Wilson, H. E.
Barlow, of New Bern; Mr. Price, rep
resenting the Southern railway and
Mr. Underwood, of the Norfolk
Southern railway, made' interesting
remarks and indorsed the movement.
The speakers referred to the natural
advantages of the coastal plain and
declared their determination to assist
in any manner which would hasten
its development.
Reference was made to the ideal cli
matic conditions, rainfall and soil
conditions, which are unequaled by
any section of the world.
Resolutions were adopted at the
night sessions which set in motion
the creation of a real militant or
ganization which will be known as
the Eastern Carolina chamber of
commerce and which will involve all
the commercial and agricultural in
terests in this section when the or
ganization is completed.
Short Course in Smithfield.
Miss Maude E. Wallace, Assistant
State Home Demonstration Agent
and Mihs Mamie Sue Jones, District
Home Demonstration Agent have
been secured by Miss Garrison to
give a short course here from Sep
tember 21st to the 23d, inclusive. They
come under the auspices of the Wo
man's club. The course will consist
of demonstrations in dress designs—
forms, line, color, pattern, &c., and
millinery. There will be two meet
ings each day, from 10:30 to 12:30 a.
m., and from 3:30 to 5:30 p. m. They
will be held at the Woman’s club build
ing and also in the basement of the
Methodist church. Let everyone avail
themselves of this opportunity.
New Firm on Second Street.
The Smithfield Battery Co, has
bought out Mr. J. H. Kirkman who
has been in the Storage Battery and
Service Station business here for sev
eral years. The business changed
hands some days ago and the old Wil
lard Service Station at the rear of
Lyric Theatre has been taken over
and moved. ' They are prepared to
give good service. Mr. T. J. Newberry
is manager and has had a number of
years experience in the battery busi
ness. They will continue to take cars
for storage as Mr. Kirkman did.
They have an ad in today’s issue.
Look for it.