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CRIMINAL COURT HAS A CROWDED DOCKET A. W. Perry Charged With the Killing of Paul Steph enson Is Acquitted This is court week in, Smithfield and the March criminal term moves along apace. The court is ably pre sided over by Hon. J. Lloyd Horton, of Farmville, and the State is repre sented by Hon. Clawson L. Williams, of Sanford, who is with this court making his first official visit to the courts of Johnston. The docket is large and the attendance is unusually large. Judge Horton’s manner of holding court is business-like, and several cases are tried each day. The case of State vs. Kemp Lee for making whiskey during last Decem ber was tried Tuesday. The main wit ness for the State was Prohibition Officer W. H. Flowers. The jury re turned a verdict of not guilty. Enley Boykin, charged with an as sault with deadly weapon upon Jas per Pittman, was on^ trial Tuesday upon appeal from a hundred-dollar fine from the Recorder’s court of last October. Jury’s verdict w'as that de fendant was guilty, and he was sen tenced to 12 months on roads of Johnston county. Boykin has a wife and five small children living near Moore’s school house, and for this reason term was reduced to three months, subject to good behavior. A good part of the last half of Tuesday arid first half of Wednesday was taken up with the case of State vs. Carlie McLamb, a sixteen-year old hoy from Benson, charged with house breaking, the crime being com mitted in April, 1921. This case had been tried in the juvenile court, but owing to the gravity of the crime this court did not have jurisdiction .and, was plated iyi^n^ the superior court docket. The State in this caje f was ably represented by Attorneys James Raynor, of Benson, and Mr. Best, of Dunn, while the defendant was'likewise well represented by At torneys Ezra Parker, of Benson, and Col. Ed. S. Abell, of Smithfield. 1 he i defendant was found guilty, but ( w ing to his youthfulness at the time of the crime, judgment is being re tarded while the county superinten dent of public welfare is trying to get admission for him at the Jackson Training School. . Wednesday afternoon found a ; packed court room, it having become j known that the case, the State vs. j A. W: Perry, policeman of Benscn\. . charged with shooting and killing . Paul Stephenson at Benson on the 16 i of last December, was set for this I time. A good deal of interest has been l^pnifested in the case since the occurrence took place culminating in ! the trial Wednesday afternoon when ; Mr. Perry was acquitted. Able counsel both for the state ; and the defendant added to the in-I berest. Messrs. C. C. Canaday, of i Benson and E. S. Abell represented j the defendant while the solicitor was i assisted by Messrs Ezra Parker, of j Benson and S. S. Holt, of Smithfield. ] Quite an array of witnesses were | placed upon the stand including the I defendant himself. The circumstances of the occur- ] rence will be recalled by many who j heard of the sad affair at the time it | happened. Evidence was brought out | in the trial w’hich convinced the jury \ that the killing was accidental rather i than involuntary manslaughter, the | charge brought by the state. Accord ing to the testimony of the defend- ; ant, his pistoj accidentally discharg ed as .he was thrown from the run ning board of the car in which Steph- , enson was riding having caught hold ; of the car in an effort to stop it. | This evidence was given as the true ! facts in the case ratii’r than the first"1 statement which was n.nqe fhat the1 defendant shot at *the tire of the au t.omobile. Mr. Cidum the other occu pant of the car besides Mr. Stephen- ! son, for whom the officer had a war- ! rant, is not to be found and the only j eye witness to the tragedy was Mr. I Hockaday, the night policeman of j Be nson, who was being assisted by ' Mr. Perry in making the arrest. Mr. i He-kaday’s testimony coincided with that ol the defendant. "I ne defendant proved a splendid | character, ^ dozen or more character witnesses- bearing testimony to this effect. The hearing of the evidence con sumed three hours or more and the STORM LEAVES DEATH, AND DESTRUCTION IN WAKE Red Cross Active In Ministering To Victims Over Torn Area; Death List Soars. CHICAGO, March 13.—(By the J Associated Press.)—Red Cross reprc j setatives, public officials and citizens’ j committees were at work today re I j trieving the wreckage, human and otherwise, in the storm-swept states of the Mississippi and Ohio valleys. Reports apparently almost complete, placed the life loss in the March fury of Sunday and early yesterday at 44. Nearly 200 were reported in i jured. The combination of blizzard blasts I and the first general thunder storms of the year, left tragedy, damag >, pathos and heroism in its wake. Red Cross ministrations were be ing given today to the survivors at Pinson and Deansburg, in Western Tennessee, where thirty of the 300 or more inhabitants were killed and 100 persons were injured by the storm which left little of those com munities erect. JACKSON, Tenn., March 13.-—Sev enteen dead, stood as the toll taken by the tornado which swept in from, the southwest Sunday night through the village of Deanburg and Pinson, near the boundary of Chester and Madison counties, leaving in its wake a trail of wrecked dwellings, sever al hundred homeless and approxi mately 75 maimed. Jackson hospitals are crowded with injured and others being quartered m homes. Of tile injured, a dozen or mo.-e were seriously hurt but only one, -T. C. Ervin, was reported in a critical condition. Ervin ill with pneumonia, was caught under falling timbers of his home, and his chest crushed. Physicians attending him declared he had “a fighting chance to live”. Two of his children are among the jured. y Pinson, a farming settlement hf about 300 inhabitants, is wrecked. Upwards of forty dwellings, two school houses, and a church were torn to fragments and a score or more houses were partially drecked by the wind whidh swept into Mad ison county after sweeping through the smaller hamlet of Deanburg, in Chester county. In Deanburg scarcely a building escaped damage, while in Pinson none but the more substantial brick houses weathered the storm. Rescue parties today continued the search of outlaying sections for the possible additional dead or injured, ■while Red Cross workers organized relief measures with the machinery of that organization already in mo tion, and the immediate needs of the homeless cared for. Today tents and supplies were oj. their way to the storm swept area from the divisional Red Cross head quarters in Atlanta and by night fall it was believed all of the home less will be provided with tents to shelter them until their ruined homes can be restored. A fund of several thousand dol lars was being raised here today to 42 providing aid for the urgent needs of the victims. Several truck loads of clothing and bedding were sent to the scene of the storm last u:ght. TO BOMB HEAVY ICE JAM IN DELEWARE RIVER WASHINGTON, March 13.—Three army airplanes will be sent to Port Jarvis, N. Y., tomorrow to bomb a heavy ice jam in the Deleware river which threatens to cause a flood. An officer of the air service, who in spected (he situation, recommended use of explosives. ' speeches of the lawyers carried the case over into the evening hours. Adjournment wras made for supper, the case being resumed at 8 o’clock. The jury^-teok the case shortly after ten o’clock, and/ in , about half an hour brought in the verdict—not guilty. Yesterday the entire day was con sumed with the case State vs. Harris Johnson charged with rape of Lillie Peacock, a fourteen year old girl. As we close our forms for this issue the case is not completed. The de fendant is represented by Attorneys James Raynor of Benson, and S. S. Holt, of Smithfield. Attorneys Jas. A. and Robert A. Wellons have been retained to assist Solicitor Williams. SOCIAL LEGISLATION RECEIVED ATTENTION General Assembly Provided I Well for North Carolina’s Unfortunates t j - ! RALEIGH, March 15.—Social leg islation fared well at the hands of the General Assembly of 1923. In j fact, was, on the whole, progressi •*. j It followed out the general policies ! of the sessions of 1917, 1959 and 1921 | in extending public welfare work in | North Carolina and in providing gen ! erously for the State’s unfortunates. ! Not a single retrogressive step was taktn by this last General AssembH' ; in regard to North Carolina’s social ' program. Most important among the pre I gressive social measures passed are I the Mothers’ Aid bill, the one to I raise the age of consent from 14 to ! 16 years, and its companion making j the legal age of marriage 16 inste | of 14, the establishment of an indus ; trial training school for delinquent ■ boys in Eastern North Carolina and l the bill to allow two or more counties ! to unite to build a county home. It l was also favorable for the progress j of public welfare work in North , Carolina that the proposed amend ment to the juvenile court law which would reduce the age limit of juris diction of that court from 16 to 14 failed to pass. It was in «upport ot the Mothers Aid bill that the State Board cf Charities and Public Welfare was es : pecially active. This measure wa . stronly sponsored by most of the ' civic and fraternal organizations in ! the State and by many of the church \ es and by the Legislative Council of j Women. It met with practically no | opposition in either the Senate or j the House. Its passage marks a I distinct forward step in North Caro !Jinafs^ plan of caring for clependent c hildren. Its purpose is to aid wor thy mothers who have been deprived of the support of their husbands to care for their children in their own homes. The bill carries an annual ap propriation^! $50,000 from the State. Counties which take advan tage of the j !an are requii-ed o j match their share of tnis appropria tion. By raising the age of consent to 16 and by making the legal age of marriage also 16 and bv defeating the proposed amende er:t ►o the juve nile court law which would have rt- ] duced the age limit of that court’s jurisdiction to 14 there has been se cured a wise and convenient uniform ity in regard to age in these laws re lating to the protection of children in the State. The bill to allow two or more counties to unite in building a county home is in line with the policy of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare to consolidate, whenever possible, such poor-relief into district homes as moi^ efficient and economi cal than the county unit. Bills to abolish the superintendent of public welfare in Surry, Lenoir, Johnston, Columbus and Avery coun ties were defeated due to the strong sentiment of the people of these counties in favor of the welfare offi cer as expressed to their representa tives. With reference to Warren county, the State law which made the employment of a welfare officer optional in a county of less than 32, 000 was repealed and this same op tion was enacted as a local law. A bill was passed making the office of superintendent of public welfare mandatory in Mitchell county and raising the compulsory attendance age there to 16. Prison reform bills sponsored by the N. C. Conference for Social Ser vice travelled a rougher road than the rest of the social measures. Three out of seven bills on the pro gram of the Conference introduced into the General Assembly passed. These were: to put the State prison on an appropriation basis; to abolish the department for criminal insane at the State Prison; and to establish a colony for tubercular prisoner;. These last two were offered by Supt. Pou and all three had his support. The bills which failed to pass were: to abo^sh flogging as a punishment; to reorganize the Board of‘Directors o? the State Prison; to change the personnel of the Advisory Board of Parole; and to send all prisoners sen tenced for more than three months f Continued on page 4.) EXPOSITION OPENS AT WILSON MONDAY Program Is Completed For This Great Eastern Car olina Exposition Everything is ready for the big Exposition to be held at Wilson, N. C., March 19-25th, under the auspices >f the Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce. The program has been completed and nothing remains no v, but to open the doors and let the crowds file in, and the indications are there will be sufficient crowds the very first day, to convince any body that Eastern North Cai-olina is yet alive. The full program is listed be low which is composed of some of the most prominent talent, both po litical and musical in this country. Nobody within 100 miles of Wilson should miss this big event. In discussing the purpose of the Exposition with a reporter of this paper, Secretary Bartlett, who is handling the big show had the follow ing to say: “The officers and Execu tiee Committee of the Eastern Car olina Chamber of Commerce felt that they could do nothing that would at tract more attention and be more potent in “selling Eastern North Carolina than a show of this kind, and so we arranged to hold it. In the second place, we wanted to let our people see, in part at least, just what we have. These are two main reasons why this big Exposition was planned and is being staged.” Eastern North Carolina Music lov ’ers have a real treat in store for them on the opening day, when Anna Case, America’s Premier Soprano, will give a recital afternoon and evening. The afternoon recital will consist of about half of her regular program, but the evening recital will /consist of her full program. The pri ces for” {Tns~ Grand" Gpfra about the same that is being charged in Eastern Carolina for plain Vaude- j ville. But the management feel that ; the people should have an opportun- j ity to get the best for the least mon- j ey. You ought to hear this wonderful ! singer. Yarborough’s Band will be a big feature evry day and night during the 1 wc-ek. Two concerts daily will i:e ‘ given b> him, including his special solo work of both vocal and instru mental. These concerts alone are worth the price of admission. The big Exposition will open with a parade on Monday afternoon, at 2 p. m., and from the interest that is being manifested in this, there will be a large number of entries. The prizes are as follows: first $100; 2nd, $75; 3rd, $50. Governor Morri son will lead the parade. Yarbor ough's Famous Hussar Band will furnish the music for the big occa sion. A school parade will be staged Fri day at 2 p. m. An effort is being made to get all the school children from several counties to have trucks loaded with school children in this parade. Wilson and Wilson County Schools will participate 100 per cent. The prizes for this parade are as fol lows: For the schools outside of Wil son City Schools that brings the larg est percentage of her pupils to the parade, will be given $50; 2nd, $25; and 3rd, $15. For the grade in the City Schools of Wilson that puts out on the best parade, will be awarded $25.00; 2nd $15.00; 3rd, $10.00. At least 10,000 school children ought to attend this big day Frid tv March 23, of the Exposition. The two big buildings are so beautifully decorated that it will be a revelation to not only the children but t« the adults as <|vell. The children oug .t to have an opportunity to see what our own people can put on, and this is a pretty good way to get them ac quainted with these facts. The Hon. John Temple Graves will be on the program Tuesday night. March 20th, instead of Hon. Wm. G. McAdoo as previously announced. Mr. McAdoo’s business affairs in Los Angeles made it necessary that he cancel his engagement. But the peo ple of this entire section have a ra>'e treat in store for Tuesday night. John Temple Graves is well known r.s an orator in the country as any other man, possibly unless it is William J. Br^an. Mr. Graves is one of the smoothest speakers the country has ever produced,and his wide knowledge of business affairs will make his ad dress more than interesting. WIND PLAYS HAVOC AROUND SNOW HILL LTproot Trees, Blows Down Barns and Lifts Tops Off of Houses. GOLDSBORO, March 13.—A semi tornado twisting off poplars 6 inches in diameter, stripping the roofs off l tenant houses, blowing down tobac I co barns, carrying away all the sky lights on a new brick tobacco ware j house, and driving huge firebrands ! from a forest fire onward across fields tb be extinguished by the rain driven too by the wind, struck Snow Hill at two o’clock this afternoon. O. C. Liles, a salesman, reported here tonight. A sky light and frame was thrown on a man in a horse and buggy, se verely cutting him. Mr. Liles was in the midst of the storm. He de clared that had not the storm split, one prong going north and another southwest, many more buildings ! would have been wrecked. The north I prong the storm followed Con | tentnae creek, wringing off poplars i and cedars and filling the air with ■ debris and burning fagots from an i old field fire. The houses with the i roofing stripped off were tenant | houses with tin roofs for the most j part. Tobacco barns blown down too I were old buildings, but the ware I house with the wrecked top was new and one of the finest in Eastern , Carolina. Reports came here late tonight of storm" and hail in the Dudley section of this county which wrecked 4ev I eral barns. A slight fall of hail fol ; lowed by a heavy wind storm struck I Goldsboro at noon today. | GIRLS TEAM ELIMINATE TARBORO HIGH SHOOL I - In a game featured l»y the all round passing of the Smithfield ygirls quint, the local team elimi-, Bred Tarboro High ScRool Trom the Eastern Championship series at Rocky Mount Wednesday night hy a 24-13 score. The next game will probably come next wfcek. Arrangements have been made to have a monster style show Tuesday night or Thursday night. Living models will be used to show off the many new things that the department stores have -to offer in Eastern Caro lina. This is a real treat. The Exposition feels fortunate of being able to book Mrs. Lois Long Riker for a concert Wednesday night. Mrs. Riker is a Carolina product and has gone to New York and made (too 1 in the musical world as a Soprano. Her many friends in this section will be on hand to give her f Thursday afternoon and evening the various Queens that will be sent from Eastern Carolina will be voted on. The out of Wilson queen receiv ing the largest number of votes w:" be presented with a $500 diamond ring on Friday night and officially crowned. A separate contest is on for Wilson girls and a $500 diamond ring will be presented to the Wilson winner also, and she will be crowned Friday night along with the out f town girl. baturday, the people ot Eastern Carolina will be fortunate in having Dr. A. M. Soule, President of the State College of Agriculture, of Geor gia, to address them Saturday morn ing at 11 o’clock. Dr. Soule has just recently returned from a trip to South America where he has gained some wonderful information as to financial relations as affecting the South. His address will be one of the best things of the whole Exposition. Every man that is at all interested, and we are all, in Agriculture, or business, in any way, should hear Dr. Soule Saturday morning. Dr. Kilgore Speaks in Afternoon Dr. B. W. Kilgore, Direefcor of the Extension service of North Carolina will speak in the afternoon on some thing vitally important to people of the Southland. You «hohld arrange to hear him. From every angle you look at thi's big occasion it looks good. As a de velopment measure for Eastern Caro lina, it is possibly unsurpassed. Al an advertisement for the section, it can’t be beat. As a tifhe for read wholesome amusement, it has no equal. If you are interested in an of this, make your plans to attend at least one day, the opening day and you will be found around there every day thereafter. PLEDGES BE TAKEN SUNDAY, MARCH 18 Johnston County Presbyteri ans to Raise Quota $3208 For Evangelism Evangelism is the outstanding keynote of the campaign of the pro gressive program of the Southern Presbyterian church which is now in progress and which will close with the every member canvas on Sunday, March 18. In the synod of North Carolina Presbyterians will be urged to pledge on next Sunday $780,000 for the benevolent causes of the church, and those who are directing this stewardship campaign in this synod realize fully that if the import ance of evangelism is recognized the financial problem of the church will be solved promptly and without spe cial effort. The quota for the Johnston Coun ty Presbyterian churches for the year beginning April 1, 1922 is as follows: Alaska, $56; Benson, $376; Center Ridge $50; Community, $30; Four Oaks, $40; Kenly $600; Mizpah $64; Oakland, $480; Oak Grove $100; Pro gressive $40; Roseneath $24; Selma, $100; Smithfield $1,000; Spence $248. This makes a grand total of $3,208 for Johnston county. The following facts concern5n» need for urgent evangelistic effoit throughout this synod will prove of special interest at this time. The synod of North Carolina is composed of seven presbyteries a-'d 88 of the 100 counties of the state are included in the territory of the synod. In the presbytery of Albemarle there is a population of 699,201; there are 5,877 Presbyterians in this presbytery and last year 356 conver sions were reported in this presby tery where there is an unconverted popm\rAbYj>~ie.*-JJtfy5.7.1 jMuiur jM» jua&fcA of age. There is a population of 272,320 i l the presbytery of Concord, 9,544 Presbyterians. Last year 406 con versions were reported in the presby tery and the unconverted population is 58,228. The population of the presbytery of Fayetteville is 252,973, with 13, 379 Presbyterians. The number of conversions reported in this presby tery last year was 784, and the un converted population is 67,365. The presbytery of King’s Moun tain is in a territory with a popula tion of 143,643. There are 4,597 Presbyterians in this presbytery; the. number of conversions reported last year was 357, and* the unconverted population js 33,385. In the presbytery of Mecklenburg, with a population of 212,149, there are 14,038 Presbyterians and therj were 748 conversions reported last year. The unconverted population over ten years of age in this pres bytery numbers 47,585. The population of the presbytery of Orange is 503,400, of which num ber 11,514 are Presbyterians. There were 766 conversions reported last year and the unconverted population is 137,892. In the 'presbytery of Wilmington | the population is 326,871, and in this presbytery there are 7,556 Presby terians. The conversions reported last year were 419, and the uncon verted population in this presbytery is 78,891. BUY GOOD BOOKS AND HELP YOURSELF AND THE LEAGUE i The Epworth League of Centenary Methodist church will during the next few days present for sale to the fami , lies of our town the Moody Colport age Library, than which there are no better books for family use. The books are suitable to all ages and the price is thirty cents per book—suits about all pocket books. Some of the titles are: Sowing and Reading, The Way to God, Gospel ‘Pictures and Story Sermons, Defficulties in the Bible, etc. i The young people get a small profit from the sales which they use in the benevolent and mission work of the Senior and Junior Epworth Leagues. ! Rev. D. H. Tuttle selected the books which are non-sectarian and are spir 1 itually helpful to all. Mrs. W. H. Lyon returned Wed nesday from Raleigh where she visit ed her sister for a few days and at teded the Alvah Parson art lectures.
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