VOLUME 42
SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1923
NUMBER 54
GIBBONS-DEMPSEY
BOUT 15 ROUNDS
Crowd in Sun-Baked Arena
Astonished by Exhibition
of Tommy Gibbons
Shelby, Mont., July 4.—
The whole sporting world
was wrong with the excep
tion of that courteous, smil
ing individual, Tommy Gib
bons, of St. Paul.
The challenger, to the astonishment
of the 25,000 spectators in the sun
baked arena on the edge of this oil
boom town, was on his feet, still
fighting at the end of his scheduled
15-round heavyweight championship
battle today with Jack Dempsey,
when almost everybody expected him
to be knocked out in six or seven
rounds. Dempsey, the champion, was
an overwhelming favorite to win by
a knock-out early in the battle.
Decision On Points.
Referee Jimmy Dougherty, of Phil
adelphia, awarded Dempsey the de
cision when the gong clanged ending
the 15th round, but Gibbons, who did
not get a cent for fighting the cham
pion, left the ring with a moral vic
tory. It was the' first time any fight
er had managed to face Dempsey and
still be on his feet at the finish since
he became champion.
Gibbons has a reputation made in
eighty-six fights of never having been
knocked off his feet. That reputation
is still good. Dempsey had him dizzy
and weary probably a half dozen
times today, but failed to knock him
out.
Different Ending.
The fight had an entirely different
ending than any of the spectators ex
pected. Even the enthusiastic Gib
bons protagonists, shouting encour
agement to their fighter, had not the
slightest idea he would last more than
seven or eight rounds. In fact, it
was the consensus of opinion that
four or five rounds would find Tommy
on the floor knocked out.
Tommy, a master boxer and con
stantly on the lookout for the knock
out blow, danced and side-stepped
around the ring, occasionally slipping
a right or left to Dempsey’s face and
then eluding danger by clinching or
stepping backward.
Was Fading Fast.
Toward the last Gibbons seemed to
be fading fast and repeatedly went
into clinches with the champion. In
the last round it appeared that his
defenses were failing and many ex
pected Dempsey to administer the
expected knockout. The champion,
seeing the condition of the challenger,
furiously slashed at his head and
body, but Tommy hung on and clinch
ed and side-stepped until the saving
grace of the final bell.
Dempsey was never in danger in a
round of the fight. Although Gib
bons cut and slightly blackened the
champion’s right eye in the opening
round and Dempsey brought blood
once or twice from the challenger
neither was marked to any appre
ciable extent.
Gibbons’ Rounds.
A majority of the newspaper ex
perts at the ringside gave Gibbons a
shade in the fifth, eleventh and thir
teenth rounds, the remaining twelve
being accorded Dempsey without arg
ument. Neither the champion nor
the challenger were ever off their
feet, although once Gibbons nearly
fell through the ropes and was help
ed back by Dempsey.
Although Gibbons was the undoubt
ed favorite of the crowd, not a word
of dissension was heard over Referee
Dougherty’s decision. It had been
rumored about that if, by any chance,
the fight went the limit, there would
be a riot if the decision went to Demp
sey. State and local police and many
deputy sheriffs were on hand, but
there was no disturbance at any time.
Gibbons Good Sport.
Referee Dougherty did not hesi
tate an instant after the bell of the
fifteenth round sounded in raising
Dempsey’s hand. Gibbons, his face
blood-smeared and lips and nose
bruised, smilingly extended his hand
(Continued on page 8)
SHOULD TELL GERMANS
THUS FAR, NO FARTHER
Blyth W. Branch Would Have
U. S. Guarantee France By New
Monroe Doctrine
Paris, .luly 4.—The suggestion that
America should guarantee the se
curity of France from future Ger
man invasion by the promulgation of
a sort of second Monroe doctrine was
made tonight by Blyth W Branch,
president ofthe American chamber of
commerce in Paris, speaking as chair
man of that organization’s annual
Independence day banquet.
Mr. Branch drew an analogy be
twen what he described as the anti
podal conceptions of civilization be
tween what he described as the anti
between the United States and Eu
rope 100 years ago, when President
Monroe made his famous declara
tion, which although never formally
recognized by the signature of any
national or political body, has been
respected by Europe and has been
one of American’s cardinal principles
in her foreign relationship.
As long as Germany holds to the
doctrine of “might makes right” and
the rest of the world professes the
faith of “right makes might,” de
clared Mr. Branch, there will always
be potential danger from the east side
of the Rhine. The two viewpoints
of phyehology are diametrically op
posed, he declared, and there appears
no immediate prospect of Germany’s
coming over to the other view. There
fore, he said, he should like to hear
America make a declaration to Ger
many somewhat as follows:
“Work and pay your debts. The
entire world will help you bear your
cross, for you shall have a cross to
bear before re-taking your place in
the sun of which nobody has ever
I wished to deprive you. Forget your
, ideas of hegemony; forget about all
! your ‘Deutchland Uber Alles.’ Hu
! manity has no use for your ridicu
' lous pretentions which imperil the in
alienable rights of man, his right to
' life, liberty and the pursuit of happi
| ness.
I “Above all stay on your side of the
I Rhine, because as much as you may
I be able to demonstrate proofs of
, your good faith and penance, you
are and you will continue to be sub
' jects of caution, and we shall main
I tain our line of defense against you.
! not from choice but from necessity."
WOULD MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO
PREPARE FOR OR W AGE WAR
i New York, July 2.—The first entry
for the $100,000 American peace a
ward, offered by Edward Bok. form
I er editor, for the best practicable plan
for the co-operation of the United
States with other nations for the at
tainment and preservation of world
peace, was made today within a day
after the award had been announced,
j The peace plan came from the In
I temational-No-More-War -Demonstra
tion of New York and was as follows:
“First: That immediate steps be
taken to outlaw war by making it il
legal to prepare for, declare or carry
on war.
“Second: That arrangement be
reached with other nations that war,
for any reason, be declared a crime,
as well as the use of armed force a
gainst subject peoples and in time of
revolution.
“Third: That in the event the Unit
ed States Congress, or the governing
body of any foreign country has been
deprived of the power of waging war,
or in the event war has been declared
a crime, peoples be organized in
groups to refuse to support war if
funds be appropriated or war declared
despite the illegality of such acts.”
ARM SNAPPED OUT
BY BIG FLYWHEEL
Danville, Va., July 4.—Clyde
Hodges, a youth of Draper, N. C.,
is in a local hospital, his left arm
being literally dragged out of his
shoulder yesterday evening when
the sleeve of his shirt came in
contact with a heavy flywheel in
one of the Draper mills where he
was working. The wheel was re
volving at a terrific rate and eye
witnesses declare that thc^ arm
was snapped away from the boy’s
body and hurled, intact 50 feet
away. He was promptly treated
and was hastened to a local in
stitution. Physicians said today
that while the shock of the injury
was still to be feared the youth
had a good chance to live.
$100,000 FOR PLAN
FOR WORLD PEACE
Edward Bok Seeks a Practi
cable Plan Which Will
Benefit U. S. and World
i
I One hundred thousand dollars
| awaits the American who can conceive
| the most practicable plan by which
the United States may co-operate with
other nations to achieve and to pre
serve world peace. Announcement
was made yesterday that this sum
has been given for the purpose by Ed
ward W. Bok, of Philadelphia, form
er-editor of The Ladies Home Journal,
who retired several years ago to de
vote himself to welfare work and
self-expression.
The prize—one of the most princely
ever offered for a non-commercial
idea—is to be known as the American
Peace Award. It is to be given in
two parts of $50,000 each. The first
$50,000 will be paid for the idea itself;
the second will be given when the
practicability of the idea is demon
strated either through its adoption by
the United States Senate or because
a sufficient popular response endorses
it.
A jury of award, the personnel of
which has not been selected, will be
stow the $100,000. The exact condi
tions under which it may be gained
will not be announced for some weeks.
Determination of those conditions and
selection of the jury of award has
I been left to a policy committee ap
; pointed by Mr. Bok. This committee
! will open offices today at 342 Madison
Avenue.
Mr. Bok's real purpose in making
the award is to give the American
people, as a whole, a direct chance
to express itself upon a problem for
which we have not been able to find
I the answer through political avenues
j or through the efforts of interested
' special groups. It is a fitting time
| to do this because of the changing
j consciousness of our people upon
' matters international.
| Watching the kaleidoscopic chang
| es now taking place with startling
| rapidity in Europe, millions of Am
ericans, who a few years ago did not
feel at all concerned about our rela
tion to ihe rest of the world, now be
i gin to suspect that a fundamentally
j changing Europe means a changing
America and that the peace of the
j world is our problem.
| "Mr. Bok and those who have un
dertaken to administer the award
i think some American will evolve a
• plan acceptable to all or most of the
i various groups which, while they have
perhaps differed as to the best meth
: od of international co-operation, now
| agree in wishing to find some way
: by which the United States can do
t its share in preventing war and es
, tablishing a workable basis of good
i will among the nations.
I “Great emphasis is laid upon the
fact that the winning plan must be
I ‘practicable.’ Mr. Bok has made it
| clear that he has in mind two ob
jects : First, to secure a plan, and,
secondly, to get that plan put into op
( eration. In other words, the award
| is made not merely for an idea in it
■ self, but for an idea that will benefit
the people of the United States and
the world.
I
j “For this reason the award is *o be
paid in two parts. Half of it—or
$50,000—is to go to its author as soon
as the plan has been chosen by • the
jury of award.
| “The second $50,000 will be paid to
: the author of the plan only when its
j ‘practicability’ has been demonstrat
! ed; that is, when it has passed the
Senate of the United States, or when
the jury shall decide that an ade
| quate degree of popular support has
been shown for it.”—New York Times
July 1.
GRANDSTAND CRASHS KILLS
TWO, HURTS ONE HUNDRED
Salt Lake City, Utah, July 4.—
A grandstand from which hun
dreds of persons were witnessing
a celebration at Liberty park, col
lapsed late today, throwing scores
of people to the ground several
feet below and heaping masses of
wreckage upon them. First re
ports were that there were two
persons killed and more than 10G
injured.
PRES. HARDING IN
PIONEER PAGEANT
Rides In Old Coach and
Watches Scenes of 80
Years Ago Re-enacted
t "
Meacham, Ore., July 3.—Into this
little hamlet, nestling in a natural
amphitheatre on the very top stretch
[ es of the Blue Mountains of Oregon,
| I*resident Harding came today to par
! ticipate in a celebration commemocat
' arrival of the first immigrant wag
ing the eightieth anniversary of the
on in the primitive Oregon country.
He found h< re a colorful atmosphere
I redolent of the roaring forties, with
the setting and costuming in accord
i with the historical suggestion with
| which his address to his people was
I plentifully sprinkled.
: Incident to the celebration there
I was c dedication of a boulde’- rr.onu
i ment to ma<\ ih > new Oregon Trail
^ highway, whi h to . . ,v> the general
; line taken by • r.e pioneers who blaz
ed the way tc the Oregon country.
; In his address President Harding
. sketched the inc oents which led to
the origin o*' the i: un:g,,ant train of
' 1843. He told of now the Rev. Mar
j cus Whitman, tearful that the Gov
ernment \v > ii(i smrendor t lie great
| Northwest to tho British, had gone
i from what is now Oregon all the
1 v ay to the nation t capital to appeal
! t ■> F’ csident John Tylei and the
' t'onp.'ess to keep this vast territory
I rnder the Ameikaa flag.
jt v as a race against time,*’ said
i President Harding in describing Whit
man’s perilous journey. ‘‘Public opin
i ion was rapidly crystallizing into a
i judgment that the Oregon countrp
was not worth claiming, much less
worth fighting for; that, even though
i it could be acquired against the in
sistence of Great Britain, it would
i grove to be a liability rather than
an asset.1’
The President expressed “sheer
amazement*’ over the declarations ol
public men of that time. Andrew
Jackson, Daniel Webster and others
looked on the Oregon country as a
wilderness too remote for any con
nection with the United States. But
Whitman persuaded the doubting Ty
ler to postpone any decision on hold
ing or surrendering Oregon until
Whitman had a chance to demon
strate that it could be peopled by
American citizens. Eighty years ago
Whitman led an adventurous can
van from St. Louis across plains and
mountains into the Oregon country.
He won his cause.s and. Oregon was
saved to the United States. From the
experience of Whitman and his thou
sand pioneers President Harding to
day drew a lesson which, he held,
“cannot fail to impress itself.”
Praises Rugged Individualism
“In this test of self-reliant citi
zenship,” said the President, “there
came the rugged, militant whole
some West. Greater things were
wrought , larger accomplishment
was recorded, greater Victory was
won in this wholesome, inspiring in
dividualism than will ever attend pa^
ternalism or Government assumption
of the tasks which are the natural
inheritance of the builders who may
better serve themselves. Govern
ment may well provide oppotrunity,
hut the worth-while accomplishment
is the privilege and the duty of men.”
Meacham’s normal population is
about fifty. It was increased to sev
eral thousand today. Men, women
and children came by train, automo
bile and wagon from Pendleton and
other nearby places to see President
Harding and participate in the cele
bration. Many of them were dressed
in the costumes of the picturesque
’40s. Women wore high-waisted
frocks of gaily printed calico and
some adopted the hoop skirts and
crinolines of their pioneer grand
mothers. Men were there in black
slouch hats or the high beavers of
(Continued on page 8)
TWO JOHNSTON COUNTY
MEN PROMOTED
Mr. Hugh Fuller, who is at Fort
-iQ mnjojBQ i^JOfsT oq? uoj ^uboSubs
has been promoted to First Supply
Sarjeant for the North Carolina Di
vision of the National Guard. Mr.
W. E. Barbour, who is also there for
the fifteen days’ training, has been
promoted to clerical work for Head
quarters of the North Carolina Na
tional Guard. Mr. Barbour is a vet
eran of the recent world war.
ISAYS GOVERNOR ALFRED
SMITH TO ENTER RACE
Norman Mack Makes Announcement;
Says Democrats To Put In
“Wet” Plank.
_
New York, July
Mack, of Buffalo,
4,—Norman E.
Democratic Na- j
tional Committeeman announced last
night after a conference with Gover
nor Alfred E. Smith that the Gover
nor would enter the next Democratic
National convention as a contender'
for the nomination for President.
He said he believed the Democratic
national platform would carry a plank
calling for midification or liberalizing j
of the Volstead Act. “I think it would •
be to the advantage of the Democrat- j
to incorporate such a pledge,” he said.
Mr. Mack added: “All of the prin
cipal eastern seaboard states want
the Volstead law modified. The great
est opposition to modification comes
from the Western states, which are
normally Republican.
“The great industrial states like
New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl
vania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, Illinois, and Ohio, and
even Wisconsin and Maryland are
swinging around to the idea that the
present national prohibition law is
too drastic.
“The* Southern Democratic dry
states will go Democratic even if
the party pledges for a more liberal
alcoholic content.”
THE BOLL WEEVIL IS DOING
MUCH DAMAGE NEAR DUNN (
Considerable damage by the cotton |
boll weevil has been reported to the
Department of Agriculture and State
College officials by W. Bruce Mabee,!
in charge of the field station of the
division of entomology at Dunn, it
was stated at the Department of Ag
riculture here yesterday.
Mr. Mabee reports that the weevil j
I has punctured 17 per cent of the
| squares on the farm of M. L. Ballard
! at Kipling; on the farm of Dr. O. E.
Underwood in one field 18 per cent of ;
the squares have been punctured; and
12 miles south of Fayetteville on the ^
F. M. Morah plantation a nine per
cent damage has been found.
According to Mr. Mabee this is the
time when farmers should be on the
alert for boll weevil damage and pre
parations should be made for dusting 1
the cotton. He states that time should
not be wasted in looking for grown
weevils but lather that attention
should be turned to the punctured
squares on the cotton plants. Where
the damage is not general over the
entire field, time, poison and cotton
may be saved by dusting the heavily
infested plants and thus preventing '
the spread of weevils over an entire
farm.
For the purpose of determining the '
percentage of infestation, Mr. Mabee
suggests that 100 squares on the
stalks be examined. This will give a
general average for the field being
considered and, Mr. Mabee says, if ten 1
out of each hundred squares are punc- |
tured, it is time for dusting.
Dusting has already begun at Kip- ,
ling, Salemburg and in the fields south j
of Fayetteville, according to the De- ;
partment of Agriculture. Last year ’
dusting did not begin until July 26 ,
but it commenced this season on June
26.—News and Observer.
REV. A. C. HAMBY TO PREACH
SUNDAY AT BAPTIST CHURCH
The committee to arrange for a sup
ply at the Baptist church has secured
Rev. A. C. Hamby of Raleigh to j
preach Sunday morning. There will (
be a union service at the Baptist
church Sunday evening.
YOUNG BOB FITZSIMMONS
SHOWS FLASH OF DADDY
Wilmington, July 4.—Bob Fitz
simmons, Jr., son of the famous
heavyweight champion, knocked
out Wild Bill McFadden, of Bos
ton, in the second round of a
scheduled eight-round bout here i
today.
Fitzsimmons concentrated his
attack on the mid riff of his
heavier rival, beating him down
within ten seconds after the bell
rang for the second session. Mc
Fadden took the count of eight I
before staggering to his feet, and
a right and left to the solar plex
us sent him down for the final
count.
THE FOURTH A BIG
DAY AT HOLT LAKE
Crowd Estimated at 4,000;
Only One Arrest To Mar
The Day’s Festivities
The fourth of July was a big day
at Holt Lake. All parking space
near the lake and for half a mile
down the road was packed with au
tomobiles. According to a conserva
tive estimate, the crowd probably
numbered four thousand. People
from Raleigh, Durham, Dunn, Rocky
Mount, and other places out of the
county mingled with native John
stonians at this popular bathing and
fishing resort. According to Mr.
Dixon Wallace, who is managing the
lake this summer, numerous picnics
parties and fishing parties spent the
day at the lake.
The management provided a most
interesting free attraction for the af
ternoon. The Rocky Mount Life
Saving Corps under the direction of
Mr. Arthur Sutton gave an exhibition
of swimming, diving and other stunts
in the water. The spectators were
particularly interested in watching
one of the number extricate himself
from a sack in which he was tied and
thrown into the water. The Life
Saving Corps included six men and
two women.
Only one incident marred the pleas
ure of the day. In the afternoon one,
Wilbur Stevens of Raleigh, took on
too much booze and became too live
ly. Mr. Wallace asked Sheriff Mas
sey who was present to speak to him
and quiet him down. Th" sheriff
complied with his request but Stev
ens proceeded to hurl oaths and vile
language at the officer. After a
continuance of such disorderly on
duct for a time, the sheriff, with the
help of others who had come up, ar
rested Stevens, placed him in his au
tomobile and brought him to Smith
fieU to place him in jail. When the
prisoner stepped from the automo
bile, he made a dash for freedom.
The officer chased him in hot pur
suit and finally rounded him up near
the river bank behind the cemetery.
He was then locked up. Yesterday
he gave bond to the amount of $o00
for his appearance in court on next
Tuesday. His mother, Mrs. Mary E.
Stevens, stood his bond. Stevens
though a resident of Raleigh at the
present time formerly lived in John
ston County in the Shiloh section.
EVERYTHING BECOMES
PETRIFIED IN RIVER
Burlington, July 1.—J. D. Payne,
a former Burlington man, and well
known to many of our people, re
cently purchased a place on the Cape
Fear river, near Elizabethton, says
the Burlington News. A few days
ago his nephew found a perfectly
formed peanut in the shell that had
been petrified. A peculiarity of the
water in the river at that place is
that nearly everything left in the
water for a definite length of time
petrifies—logs that have been in the
water become petrified and are used
as grindstones and whetrocks. Mr.
Payne says he is thinking of start
ing a whetsone factory at his boat
landing.
FLAGPOLE FOR BIG
CELEBRATION STOLEN
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., July 4.—
The sixty-four foot flagpole belong
The sixty-four foot flagpole beolng
ing to the local Angliers’ Club, which
was to be placed into position on the
municipal dock tomorrow, was stolen
early Tuesday by unknown parties.
One of the bridge tenders at New
River said he saw a large truck con
taining two men going north on the
Dixie highway with a pole tied on
by wire cable. Local anglers believe
the pole was taken for use at some
other Fourth of July celebration.
UNION COUNTY HEN LAYS
FOUR YOLKS TO A SHELL
Monroe! June 27.—Frank Rose re
ports an egg layed by one of his
hens as having four yolks and has
citizens of the county guessing what
kind of a monstrosity would be hat
ched from the egg should it be placed
under a hen. It is common in this
section to find eggs having two yolks
but the four-to-the-shell variety is a
heretofore unheard of freak.