VOLUME 40
SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1921
NUMBER 91
AMERICA PROPOSES
A NAVAL HOLIDAY
Stuns Foreigners With Big
Reduction Prigram To
Last Ten Years
Washington, Nov. 12.—More dras
tic and far-reaching than the most
ardent advocate of disarmament dared
to hope, Americas’ proposals were
suddenly laid before the arms confer
ence today at its first session by Sec
retary Hughes.
A naval holiday is the proposal, in
short that the United States, Great
Britain and Japan shall scrap 66 cap
ital ships aggregating 1, 878,043 tons.
Within three months after the con
clusion of an agreement, the United
States would have 18 capital ships;
Great Britain 22, and Japan 10. The
tonnage of the three nations respect
ively would under such a plan be 500,
650, 604,450, and 299,700.
Ships when 20 years old might be
replaced under the plan, and the re
placement scheme is 500,000 tons for'
the United States, 500,000 tons for
Great Britain and 300,000 tons for Ja
pan. No replacement ships could ex
ceed 35,000 tons.
The United States would scrap 30
capital ships aggregating 843,740
tons; Great Britain 19 aggregating
583,375 tons and Japan 17 aggregat
ing 448,928 tons.
The figures include old ships to be
scrapped, ships building or for which
material has been assembled.
Characterized by Baron Kato, the
chief Japanese delegate as “very dras
tic” but probably suitable as a basis
for discussion, and by Mr. Balfour,
head of the British delegation, as “a
statesmanlike utterance, pregnant
with infinite possibilities, and most
hopeful of satisfactory results,” the
American proposal, concrete and de
tailed, fell on the opening moments
of the great conference like a bomb
shell. The foreign delegates were
stunned. No other words describes
their feelings.
The principal features of the Amer
ican plan proposed:
That for not less than 10 years, com
petitive naval building cease as be
tween Great Britain, the United
States and Japan.
That all capital ships building or
planned be scrapped and a few recent
ly placed in the water be destroyed
within three months of ratification of
the agreement.
That the older ships of each fleet
also be destroyed, reducing the Brit
ish forces to 22 battleships, the Amer
ican to 18 and the Japanese to 10, each
ship to be retained being specifically
namfld.
That during the agreement, no cap
ital craft be laid down except under
a detailed replacement scheme includ
ed in the proposal which would pro
vide for ultimate equality of the Brit
ish and American fleets and for a
Japanese force at 60 per cent of the
strength of either of the other two.
That all other naval craft be sim
ilarly provided for in the same ratio,
specific figures for aggregate tonnage
in each class being laid down.
The naval aircraft be disregarded
in the scaling down processes as a
problem incapable of solution owing
to the convertibility of commercial
aircraft for war purposes.
That no naval building of any char
acter be undertaken in any of the
three countries on foreign account
during the life of the agreement.
That no capital ships hereafter laid
down exceed 35,000 tons.
That the life of a battleship shall
be fixed at 20 years and that ships to
be replaced be destroyed before the
replacement vessel is more than three
months passed completion.
That no battleship replacement
whatever be undertaken for 10 years
from date of the agreement.
That no combat craft be acquired
excepet by construction and none be
so disposed of that it might become
part of another navy .
That regulations to govern con
version of merchant craft for war pur
poses be drawn up, because of the
importance of the merchant marine
“in inverse ratio to the size of naval
armaments.”
Those are the outstanding features
of the sweeping challenge Secretary
Hughes presented to the other naval
powers. There was complete detail
covering every phase of the question,
but the essence of the proposal lay
in this:
SMITHFIELD DEFEATS
RALEIGH BY 7-0 SCORE
Raleigh Put Out of Championship
Series; Smithfield Will Play New
Bern Highs Friday.
The Smithfield Highs took the big
end of a 7-0 score in the first State
Championship game with Raleigh
here Friday. Thfe game was closely
contested, Smithfield outplaying the
visitors in every phase of the game
by a narrow margin. Finally in the
third quarter the locals succeeded in
putting over a touchdown, and kick
ing goal.
At the beginning Smithfield chose
to receive. FVom then to the end of
the second quarter both teams fought
hard but neither could do anything
with the other. The two features of
the first half were the 25 yard run by
Honeycutt on a forward pass and Is
lington’s perfect flying tackle. God
win gained considerable ground
through Raleigh’s line.
At the beginning of the third quar
ter Smithfield again chose to receive.
Godwin plunged through the line and
Holland made an end run good for
15 yards. The ball was carried to
Raleigh’s 25 yard line where Smith
field lost possession of it. Raleigh
failed to make yards and planned to
punt. Wharton broke through and
blocked punt. Brown grabbed ball
and carried it to 6 yard line. Ral
eigh was penalized for unfair tactics.
Ball on one yard line with four downs
to carry over. Smithfield plunged
twice for one foot gains, Holland
took ball and jumped over line. Hol
land kicked goal. Smithfield kicked
to Raleigh. Ball changed hands oft
en. Smithfield threatened to score.
Once Raleigh threatened to slip
through for a touchdown but Biggs
was there and caught him before he
made any progress.
Considering his line plunging and
tackling Godwin played the stellar
game. In almost every one of Ral
eigh’s plunges he got the man with
the ball. Capt. Jones, quarterback
played a good game for aleigh. Also
Ellington, halfback, played good ball
for the locals. The whole Smith
field line held good throughout the
game.
The line up for the game was as
follows:
Raleigh (0) Smithfield (7)
Position
Green- Honeycutt
Left End
Seligson- Biggs
Left Tackle.
Yost- Booker
Left Guard
Terrell - Wharton
Center
Mattison_Beasley
Right Guard
Waring - Pittman
Right Tackle
Briggs-Brown
Right End
Quarterback
Coley--Skinner
Right Halfback
Hiner_ Ellington
Left Halfback
Glass _ Godwin
Fullback
Score by periods:
Smithfield _0 0 7 0—7
Raleigh_—0 0 0 0—0
Substitutions: for Raleigh,* Wil
liamson for Terrell, Bagwell for War
ing, McLeskey for Hiner. Quarters,
10-12; 10-12. Referee Wellons. Um
pire, Wellons. Headlinesman, E.
Woodall.
tipworin League.
The regular business meeting of the
Epworth League will be held in the
League room at seven o’clock Tuesday
evening. A full attendance of the
Leaguers is desired as there is im
portant business to transact. An un
usual feature of this meeting will be
the “Stunt” given by the Third De
partment.
Mr. Polie Gardner, who has been
spending the summer at Baltimore,
has arrived in the city to spend some
time and is shaking hands twith old
friends.
That the United States offered to
go far beyond what she asked Great
Britain or Japan to do, viewed from
the absolute financial losses involved.
The whole American big ship building
program is on the stocks, while Great
Britain has no capital ships under
construction, and the Japanese “eight
and eight” program is as yet largely
on paper.
Seldom has a conference of nations
assembled in an atmosphere of great
er cordiality than that which envel
oped the opening session of the arma
ment conference.—Associated Press.
ARMISTICE DAY IS
OBSERVED HERE
Union Service at Methodist
Church; Soldiers’ Graves
Were Decorated
Armistice Day was fittingly ob
served here Friday, all of the churches
of the town uniting in a union serv
ice at the Methodist tjfrurch from
10 to 11 o’clock. “Old Glory” draped
in front of the chancel and chair
stand, service flags on either side,
and smaller flags here and there,
were an inspiration to those present.
The choir composed of singers from
the various churches rendered spirit
ed music appropriate to the occasion,
the repertoire including Rudyard
Kipling’s “Lest We Forget.”
Rev. D. H. Tuttle, pastor of the
Methodist church, presided over the
service. Judge F. H. Brooks pro
nounced the invocation. Beautiful
talks, eulogizing the soldiers who
made the supreme sacrifice and pay
ing homage to those who returned to
their native land and pointing out
the way of peace, were made by Rev.
Howard Hartzell, rector of the Epis
copal church and Rev. Neil Mclnnis,
of the Presbyterian church.
At the close of the service it was
announced that flags and flowers
would be placed upon graves of fallen
heroes in our cemeteries. The grave
of Millard Parrish, the first Johnston
county boy to fall in the great con
flict, was first visited. Then the
grave of Edwin Smith Pou, who fell
in the Aviation service, was decorat
ed after which, the grave of George
Galloway, the first North Carolina
to be gassed, was visited. The as
sembly then drove to Oakland ceme
tery and placed flags and flowers
upon the grave of Herman Higgins,
who died after the Armistice just
before he was to return home.
In accordance with the governor’s
proclamation, a program was given
in the school. After devotional ever
cises conducted by Supt. T. H. Franks,
several readings were rendered. Mose
Godwin told “How the War Came to
the United States”; Sarah Patterson
read “North Carolina’s War Record”;
Erwin Pittman gave the names of
Turlington Graded school alumni who
were in the Great War; Donnell
Wharton gave a reading on “Who
Won the War”; Harold Biggs, on
“Our Dead Overseas”; Mary Avera,
on “In Flanders Fields”; Ruth Brooks,
“America’s Answer.”
After the chapel service, school
turned out for the day. Practically
all business'fhausesl in iflown were
closed for the day, in compliance with
a flag and notice to close found on
each place of" business Friday morn
ing.
Aged Negro Slave Returns.
Saturday, an aged negro slave, Phil
ip Bell, who belonged to Mr. Jackson
Bell before the war called at this of
fice, and told us the story of his
leaving this sectioh.
He said he belonged to Mr. Jack
son Bell who lived at a place on Mid
dle Creek known before the War as
the Henry Eason place. He was born
at this place and lived there until
the battle of Bentonville, being at
that time about 25 years old. When
Sherman’s army came through he was
carried North by the army to Mary
land. He drifted around for a time
but finally settled in Baltimore coun
ty where his home is now. He has
not been back to Johnston county in
all that time and has lost track of his
relatives. Some of his white friends
and- colored friends made up a purse
for him recently to pay his .expenses
to his old home. He arrived here
Friday. When he was in this office
Saturday he had not located any of
his immediate family. He was told
his four brothers are dead and he is
now trying to find his sisters. lie
has located some of the younger gen
eration.
The old man said he owned a farm
near Long Green, Baltimore county,
Maryland and was getting along very
well.
Circle No. 3 Meets.
Circle Number Three Missionary
Society of the Baptist Church will
meet at 3 o’clock Wednesday after
noon with Mrs. Paul Brown. All mem
bers are asked to be present.
METHODISTS CLOSE
THE YEAR’S WORK
Pastor Read Report Sunday
Evening Which He Will
Carry to Conference
At the evening service at the Metho
dist church Sunday the pastor, Rev.
D. H. Tuttle, w>o has-just closed his
first years’ work here, read the re
port, which he will take to Confer
ence which meets in New Bern this
week.
His report showed that there are
452 members of the one church on
this charge, 116 having been added
during the past year, 79 on profession
of faith, and 37 by certificate and
otherwise. Sixty-five adults and 3
infants were baptized. Twenty-two
members were lost, three by death,
the others by removal from town.
One church building was ^reported
valued at $40,000; a parsonage, at
$10,000; other church property at
$5,000, making a total of $55,000 with
insurance carried to the amount of
$32,000.
The financial report was particular
ly gratifying in view of the fact that
times have been depressed. The total
amount raised by the church for all
purposes was $13,353.88. The various
objects included in that amount are
as follows: presiding elder, $205,
preacher’s salary, $2400; district work
$154; Conference work, $680; general
work, $450; churches and parsonages
$1,785.52; incidental expenses, $532.
31; Centenary pledges, $1,780.62;
Near East sufferers, $374.90; Chinese
sufferers, $586.11; educational pledges
$681.60; other objects, $1,073. There
is one Sunday school maintained by
the church with a total membership
of 425, which contributed $933.89 of
the total mentioned above. For mis
sions, $112.61 was raised through the
school, $282.33 for supplies, $521.37
for the orphanage, and $17.58 for
needy Sunday schools on Sunday
School Day. The school of which Mr.
T. R. Hood is superintendent, has 36
officers and teachers, is graded
through the senior department, has 24
on its cradle roll, and 32 in the Home
department. It has one teacher train
ing class and three Wesley Bible
classes enrolled in the central office
at Nashville. Of the number joining
the Church last year, 13 were mem
bers of the Sunday school.
The Epworth League with 55 mem
bers is a live organization. These
young pebple raised last year for mis
sions $100, and $95 for other pur
poses. It is active in all of its de
partments and is doing a wonderful
work among the young people.
The missionary societies of the
church are three: the adult auxiliary,
the young people’s organization, and
the Bright Jewels. The membership
totals 129, seventy being in the adult
society; 15 in the Young People’s, and
44 in the Bright Jewels. The total
amount raised by them was $1,621.95.
The number of church papers taken
included 7 taking the general organ,
“The Nashville Christian Advocate”;
106 taking the “N. C. Christian Ad
vocate”, and 49 taking "The Mission
ary Voice.”
After the pastor had finished read
ing what the church had done, he read
his own report. During the past year
he has preached 155 sermons; made
three educational addresses; held 49
prayer meetings; made 806 pastoral
visits, having prayer in 311 homes;
conducted seventeen funerals; per
formed eight marriage ceremonies;
sold without profit or given away 351
Bibles, placed 159 religious books and
775 religious papers; and distributed
7052 tracts.
That sounds like a big years’ work
and it is. It is work which has not
only already done good, but which is
calculated to go on and on to a still
more fruitful harvest. Not only the
Methodist people here but the whole
town will welcome the announcement
which they are practically certain of
hearing that Rev. D. H. Tuttle has
been sent back by the Conference to
Smithfield for another year.
Christmas Bazaar.
Circle No. 4, of the M. E. Mission
ary Society will hold a Christmas ba
zaar on December 16 at the Woman’s
Club room. During the day and even
ing a chicken salad course will be
served.
MISS LITTLE WEDS
MR. YATES EDGERTON
Popular Charlotte Young Lady Be
comes Bride of Mr. Yates
Edgerton, of Kenly.
In a teremony of marked beauty
and impressiveness Miss Minnie Ev
erett Little, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Phillips Little, and Mr. Henry
Yates Edgerton, the latter of Kenly,
were wedded last evening at 7 o’clock
at Trinity Methodist Episcopal church,
Rev. Lacy L. Little, kinsman of the
bride, and missionary to China for
20 years, officiated, assisted by Rev.
W. A. Jenkins, former pastor of the
church.
The altar and chancel were banked
with stately palms and ferns, inter
mingled with white chrysanthemums,
and flanked with seven branched Ca
thedral candlesticks holding lighted
tapers, forming an effective setting
for the beautiful wedding.
Mrs. William D. Alexander, Jr.,
played the wedding march. Prior to
the ceremony she rendered Schubert’s
“Serenade,” and “Call Me Thine Own.”
The wedding march from “Lohengrin”
was played as the processional and
Mendelssohn’s march for the reces
sional. Barcarolle from “Tales of
Hoffman” was rendered during the
service.
The bride was given in marriage
by her father, Mr. Phillips Little.
The groom was attended by his
brother, Mr. Claude Edgerton, of Ken
ly, as best man.
Mrs. Ozmer Lucas Henry, of Rock
ingham, cousin of the bride, was dame
of honor. Mrs. Henry, prior to her
marriage Oct. 26, was Miss Sara Lilly
Dockery.
Miss Jeanet Fairley, of Rocking
ham, was maid of honor.
The bridesmaids were Miss Inez
Edgerton, of Kenly, sister of the
groom, Miss Rosa Little, of Washing
ton, Miss Ruth Crowell, of Charlotte,
Miss Eleanor Horton, of Wadesboro.
The groomsmen were: Mr. Edward
Edgerton, of Raleigh, Mr. Jesse Sauls,
of Wilson, Messrs Joe Choate, and
John I. Erwin, of Charlotte.
* The ushers were Mr. John Phillips
Little, Jr., brother of the bride,
Messrs Stephen Davis, Francis Clark
son, Flynn Wolfe.
Misses Louise and Ann Everett
Little, pretty daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. J. P. Little, Jr., and nieces of
the bride, were flower girls.
The bride wore a handsome gown
of heavy white satin and iridescent
trimmings with court train caught
with sprays of orange blossoms. Her
long veil of illusion was worn with a
coronet of orange blossoms. Her only
ornament was a beautiful old pin, a
gift of the groom and an heirloom
in his family. She carried an exquis
ite shower of bride roses and sweet
peas.
The dame of honor wore her wed
ding gown of white satin and Du
chess lace and court train.
The maid of honor wore orchid
taffeta over silver cloth. The bodice
was fashioned of silver lace and tulle.
The waistline was defined with hand
made flowers with silver centers and
on the side was an immense bow of
tulle.
The maids wore dresses of sunset
taffeta. The skirts were cut petal
shape with silver lace flounce and at
the bottom were hand-made flowers
with crystal centers.
The dame of honor and maid of
honor carried arm bouquets of yellow
chrysanthemums, tied with green
tulle.
The little flower girls wore dainty
dresses of white organdie, hand em
broidered and trimmed in lace and
carried baskets of sweetheart roses
and ferns.
Reception.
A charming reception followed the
wedding at the home of the bride’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips
Little, at 706 Queens Road, east, My
ers Park, in honor of the bride and
groom, and members of the bridal
party.
After the reception Mr. and Mrs.
Edgerton left for a trip Sopth.
The bride is the only daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Little, both members of
prominent old Richmond county fam
ilies. She has spent most of her life
in Charlotte, her parents moving
here from Rockingham when she was
quite a child. She was educated at
Fassifern school in Hendersonville
and Queens college in this city and
is a bright young woman. Mrs. Edger
ton is pretty and attractive with sweet
gracious manners and since making
TOBACCO SHOWS
AN IMPROVEMENT
Price Average $9.00 Per
Hundred Better Than In
September
Prices received for the 50,597,385
pounds of farmers’ tobacco sold on
the loose leaf markets of the State
in October averaged $6.50 per hun
dred pounds better than the October
sales of last year and $9 per hundred
better than the average for Septem
ber, 1921, according to the monthly
report of the Crop Reporting Service.
As a rule, the offerings have been
better than September, with good
grades selling well and little demand
for poor tobacco.
The 50,597,385 pounds of farmers’
tobacco sold during the month brought
$15,619,412, making an average price
of $30.87 per hundred pounds. The
Fuquay Springs market showed $40.73
as the highest average for the month,
Reidsville second with $39.44, and
Snow Hill $36.55.
The larger markets reported pro
ducers sales as follows: Wilson 7,
082,463 pounds at $32.63; Greenville
5,125,492 pounds at $33.61; Winston
Salem 4,725,589 pounds at $32.53; and
Kinston 3,775,785 pounds at $24.47.
The seasons producers sales to date
including all Closed markets, show
106,394,708 pounds of the State’s
crop as sold to date at an average
season’s price of $24.98. This amount
is about 49 per cent of the total crop
forecasted for this State. The re- ,
vised estimates for the State’s crop
indicate a production of 221,626,000
pounds. The final reports on the
yield indicate a much larger crop than
was expected.
LARGE WHISKEY STILL TAKEN
FROM BOON HILL TOWNSHIP
Officers Capture Sixty-five Gallon
Still in Moccasin Swamp; Block
aders Escape in Thick Woods.
On Friday afternoon, November 11,
Messrs C. H. Johnson? and W. H.
Stevens, of Smithfield, Mr. J. H. Grif
fin, of Selma and Mr. Thomas Talton,
of Oneal township, went to the east
ern part of Johnston near the Wayne
county line and captured a 65-gallon
still and complete outfit in Moccasin
swamp. They heard some men com
ing soon after their arrival where
beer had been left and found they
were bringing in the still and other
things connected with it. There were
five of the blockaders. The officers
halted these men but they dropped
what they had and ran away. One of
the officers shot a pistol ball through
the still while it was being carried by
one of the blockaders. The still and
other things connected with it were
dropped soon after the firing began.
The woods are so thick it was impos
sible to capture the 'blockaders.
Conclusive Evidence.
Another proof of man’s descent
from the monkey is the way a wo
man’s face works when she tries to«
pull down her veil with her chin.—
Washington Post.
her debut has been one of Charlotte’s
most popular members of society. She
is a member of the Liberty Hall chap
ter, Daughter of the American revolu
tion, and has served as page from
North Carolina at several meetings of
the National D. A. R. Congress at
Washington. During the war she was
one of the (lty’s most active Red
Cross workers She spent much time
in making surgical dressings and was
also a member of the Red Cross can
teen and did much for the entertain
ment of soldiers. Since the announce
ment of her engagement Mrs. Edger
ton has been entertained extensively
in this city, Rockingham, Hamlet and
Monroe.
Mr. Edgerton is a son of Mr. H. F.
Edgerton and the late Mrs. Edger
ton, of Kenly, the former a banker
and planter and one of eastern North
Carolina’s leading citizens. He was
educated at Trinity college, and is a
young man of bright mentality and
splendid business ability. He made
his home in Charlotte for a short time,
but later returned to engage in busi
ness with his father. He possesses a
delightful personality and genial man
ners and commands many friends
throughout the State.—Charlotte Ob
server, Thursday, Nov. 10.