POLENTA TRUCK
TURNS HALF OVER
No One Is Seriously Hurt; De
fect in Steering Gear the
Cause of Accident
J±n unfortunate accident occurred ;
Tuesday afternoon just across the
river beyond the High Land bridge
when the big three and a half ton
Corbett truck which brings the chil
dren to school here from the Polenta
section, turned over causing, how
ever, no serious injury to any of the
occupants. The truck was going slow
ly and turned out to pass a wagon.
When the driver, Maylon Price, cut
back into the road something gave
way about the steering gear. The
driver put on brakes and brought the
truck to a standstill just before it
eased over on its side, the soft dirt
on the side of the embankment gave
way. The truck, like all others used
by the school in the county, is steel
bound which fact probably prevent
ed the serious injury of any of the
children. A few bruises and cuts
were sustained by several, Miss Delia
Ellington receiving a severe cut on
the hand which necessitated medical
attention. She was able, however,
to be at school with the others next
day. The county superintendent hap
pened to have a truck that had not
been taken out, and the children were
carried home that afternoon on it.
When an investigation as to the
cause of the accident was made it
was found that the tie rod that con
nects the steering gear was defective,
making the accident unavoidable.
Methodist Church
On next Sunday Rev. D. H. Tuttle
will close his third year as pastor of
Centenary Methodist church. By re
quest he will preach at eleven a. m.
on “The World-Wide Cry for Peace
and How the Price of Peace Will
Usher it in.” At 7:30 p. m. he will
preach the closing sermon of Con
ference year after which the report
of the yeail’s 'work Mill be read.
Welcome for all.
A NEW FARM CREDIT
BANK IS FORMED
The North Carolina Agricultural
Credit Corporation organized thru
the efforts of A- E- Bing, secretary
treasurer of the North Carolina Cot
ton Growers Cooperative Association
and John H. Boushall, of the Raleigh
Savings Bank and Trust company,
for the purpose of aiding farmers in
the financing of their crops, was j
chartered by the Secretary of State
yesterday.
For som etime Messrs Bing and
Boushall have been studying the I
necessity of working out some meth
od of aiding the farmers in financ
ing the production of their crops.
Several conferences in which a num
ber of men, deeply interested in the
welfare of the farming citizenship of
the State considering the plans ad
vanced by Messrs Bing and Boushall
were held and the final conference
yesterday resulted in the organiza
tion of the Corporation, with an auth
orized capital stock of $2,000,000.The
charter has been granted and the new
corporation expects to begin business
as soon as $100,000 capital is taken.
“It is an established fact,” says a
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MOREHOUSE PARISH KU
KLUCKERS GUILTY OF
CARRYING FIREARMS
Bastrop, La., Nov. 5.—Four al
leged members of the Morehouse
Parish Ku Klux Klan, ihcluding
Captain J. K. Skipwith, exalted
cyclops, today were found guilty
of “carrying firearms on the
premises of another” in connec
tion with hooded band activi
ties in Morehouse Parish last
year.
Sentences will be pronounced
later. Others found guilty were
Benton Pratt, Marvin Pickett
and W. G. McIntosh. Three al
leged klansmen, tried jointly,
with the four, were found not
guilty. They were Sam Edl
ridge,“ Sam Cox and “Cud”
Pickett.
HIT BULLS-EYE AFLOAT
WITH 16-INCH GUNS
Aboard the U. S. S. Maryland, off
San Pedro, Cal., Nov. 1.—A new
chapter in the history of naval gun
nery was recorded on floating tar
gets by projectiles from the super
Ireadnought Maryland’s 16-inch
rifles, fired yesterday for the first
time in actual battle practice.
Gunners of the Maryland celebrat
ed the first firing of the big rifles
by hurling a 2,000-pound projectile
straight through the bullseye of the
distant target, their second shot split
ting the raft squarely in the middle.
Targets were changed twice during
the drill and both sets looked as if
they had been riddled.
All four turets sent their charges
to the mark with startling regulari
ty. What officers said was most re
markagle was the fact that not one of
the gun pointers had fired a shot be
fore. The Maryland’s personnel con
sists largely of recruits.
The* fifring was accompanied by
spectacular sights. The explosives
shook the 33,500 ton ship as if she had
been a canoe. Lights and other glass
were smashed; paint was chipped
from the stacks and sides and heavy
steel deck gear rattled about like tin.
The short-range battle practice was
only elementary gunnery exercise, it
was said by Commander F. M. Per
kins, gunnery officer of the battle
fleet, the distance from muzzle to
target being about six miles. Next
spring when the fleet returns from
Winter maneouvers in the Carribean
the Maryland will have long-range
practice, he said, in which all of the
16-inch rifles will be fired in salvos
at a range exceeding 30,000 yards.
The main battery of the Maryland
consists of eight 16-inch guns mount
ed in twin turrets each gun being
60 feet long, weighing 115 tons and
having a range exceeding 15 miles.
HOPE OF A SERUM
FOR TUBERCULOSIS
Dr. C. A. Shore, director of the
State Laboratory of Hygiene, has re
turned fom a visit to Oxford Uni
versity, England, where he went to
study recent experiments and devel
opments with reference to the pos
sible prevention and cure of tubercu
losis by means of vaccination. The
developments are the result of long
study and research by Dr. George
Dreyer, a noted Dutch bacteriologist.
The results of the experiments have
been very encouraging. Dr. Shore
will make similar experiments in our
State Laboratory. While he is hope
ful of results, it is of course too
early to say that a positive remedy
for the plague has been found. But
it is a tribute to the worth, the
efficiency and the progressiveness of
our State department of hejdth that
prompt effort has been made to learn
the value of D^. Dreyer’s experi
ments and will be the first State to
make similar experiments to test
the value of possible remedy that
will bless the race if found effective.
Some day a remedy will be found
for tuberculosis. There have been
many failures. Hope has been raised
only to be crushed. But hope is not
dead.—-Statesville Landmark.
McCullers Farm Brings Good Price
The McCullers Farm which was
sold at auction Wednesday by fhe
Union Auction Company brought a
good price. It -was cut up in small
farms, Mr. W. M. Sanders purchas
ing the most of the property. The
Ford touring car which -was given
away was given to Mrs. J. W. Hobbs,
she being the owner of the lucky
ticket drawn from the hat.
Death Of Child
Vick, the seven-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Cicero Hatcher, died
at home near the Plainview school
house in Selma township on Novem
ber 6, 1923. Death resulted from
pneumonia with complications. The
funeral services were conducted at
her late home by Rev. W. D. Stancil
and the remains were laid to rest in
the cemetery at Bethany Baptist
church in O'Neals township on. the
day following her death.
Vick was a bright child and much
beloved by her parents and friends,
and the heart of the community
mourns with the bereaved.
BAPTIST ASSOC’AN
MEET AT BETHANY
_
Meets Next Year at Four Oaks
—Program Marked by
Splendid Addresses
The Johnston County Baptist As
sociation held its annual session with
the Bethany Baptist church near
Kenly, Oct. 31-Nov. lsflj. The As
sociation elected Mr. R. H. Gower of
Clayton as Moderator, Rev. R. M.
von Miller, of Wilson, as clerk, Mr.
J. A. Smith of Four Oaks, Route No.
4, as treasurer, and Mr. Julian
Creech, Selma, Route No. 2, as audi
tor. The following addresses and
reports created lively debates, but
were unanimously adopted. Rev. A.
C. Hamby, of Raleigh, spoke on Mis
sions, Mr. J. J. Lane on church gov
ernment and finance, and presented
a resolution to petition the Baptist
State Covention to make some
changes in its constitution, which
was adopted.. Rev. N. H. Shepherd
of Kenly presented Report on Social
Service, Rev. R. M. von Miller, the j
reporter on Christian Tducation, Rev. :
R. C. White, the new pastor of Clay
ton, reported on Teaching and Train
mg, and Kev. a. u. ivener, luc new
pastor of Benson, made the report
on Missions. Rev. Jas. A. Ivey, pastor
at Four Oaks, delivered the Intro
ductory sermon, using for his sub
ject: “The Stewardship of the
Country Churches.” Rev. R. L. Gay
spoke on Ministerial Relief. These
reports and the various addresses j
were of a high order and the unusual
large number of delegates stayed un
til the close of the session and en
joyed the meeting. The Bethany
church entertained the delegates in
the most wonderful and bountiful
manner. The next session will be
held in 1924 with the Four Oaks
church.
FOUR FORD CARS BADLY
DAMAGED IN ACCIDENTS
Series of Accidents Around Dunn
During Saturday Afternoon,
Sunday and Monday.
Dunn, Nov. 6—Three people were
seriously injured, four other received
minor injuries, four Ford cars were
demolished an danother car was bad
ly damaged in and around Dunn as
the result of five accidents which oc
curred from Saturday until Monday.
Raiford Jackson, young white man,
was the most seriously injured when
the car in which he was riding struck
a wagon and turned over twice on the
highway between Dunn and Duke
early Sunday night. His left arm was
broken, his skull fractured, his left
knee badly injured and his face pain
fully hurt. He did not regain con
sciousness until noon today.
His brother, Junius Jackson, who
was driving, escaped with minor in
jury. Both the car and wagon were
completely demolished.
Fred Wilkins has his left arm
broken and the bone shattered when
the car in which he was riding tum
e dturtle on a Dunn street late Sat
urday night.
Jeff Allen, the driven, also sustain
ed painful cuts and bruises.
Maybelle Motley, nine year old
school girl, had her leg broken be
low the knee this morning when
she fell out of a truck, the rear
wheel passing over her leg. The
bone was shattered from the weight
of the truck.
Five passengers of another car re
ceived slight injuries when their
car plunged into a creek near Dunn
Saturday afternoon.
Suggestions For Curb Market
Summer is over and garden pro
ducts are now scarce. But there are
still a number of things that can be
marketed through the curb market.
Below is ^suggested list: Fresh fall
and winter vegetables, canned vege
tables.
Pickles, preserves, and jellies,
poultry in feathers and dressed, eggs,
chicken salad, dressed rabbits, pork
products, butter, milk and cream,
peanuts, pop corn, walnuts, syrup,
honey, cakes and candies.
S. S. CONVENTION
TO MEET AT SELMA
L. T. Royall is President and W.
T. Woodard Secretary—
Meets Nov. 15 and 16 ’
From officers of Johnston County
Sunday School Association comes the
information that arrangements are be
ing completed for the County Sunday
School Convention to be held in the
Methodist church, Selma, N. C., on
Thursday night and all day Friday,
November 15 and 16.
The County President, Mr. L. T.
Royal, and the County Secretary, Mr.
W. T. Woodard, are sending commu
nications to Sunday School leaders of
all denominations in the county, urg
ing each Sunday school to have a
large delegation at the convention, it
is expected t’^at practlcoftly every
Sunday school in the county will be
represented .
Announcements concerning speak
ers and program for the convention
will be sent out later. Several of
the best Sunday school workers in
the county will take part at different
sessions of the Convention.
In addition to the local talent, Miss
Flora Davis, of Raleigh, Assistant
Superintendent of the North Caro
lina Sunday school association and
Rev. Daniel Iverson, Pastor First
Presbyterian church, Tarboro, N. C.,
will be present to take part on the
program.
The Johnston County Sunday
schol association under whose au
spices the convention is being held,
is an interdenominational organiza
tion. The County association is one
of the integral units of the No*-th
Carolina Sunday school association,
which is a cooperative effort of work
ers from the different denominations
to extend and improve Sunday school
work in North Carolina. The asso
ciation stands for those interests that
are common to Sunday school work
ers of all denominations.
KLAN PUBLICITY MAN KILLS
KLAN ATTORNEY IN ATLANTA
Shot Lawyer Five Times After Seek
ing Interview, Says Eye
Witnesses.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 5.—Phillip E.
Fox, publicity man for the Ku Klux
Klan, who late today shot and killed
W. S. Coburn, Atlanta attorney, as
he sat at his desk in his office, to
night refused to make any state
ment regarding the affair. Fox is
held at police headquarters without
bond on a charge of ihurder. His
refusal to talk so far as left the au
thorities without a clue as to the
motive for the shooting.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 5.—Phillip E.
Fox, publicity man for the Ku Klux
Klan, late today shot and killed W
S. Coburn, Atlanta attorney, and
counsel for the faction fighting Im
perial Wizard H. W. Evan and oth
er officials of the order. Fox is held
at police headquarters without bond
under a charge of murder.
Coburn, a former official of the
klan, and later legal representative
of what is called the insurgent fac
tion, was shot five times as he sat in
his office on the ninth floor of the
Atlanta Trust company building.
He toppled over dead
Mrs. W. A. Holbrok, stenographer
for Coburn, said that Fox came in
while Coburn was talking to a client
and began firing when he was told
to come back in about an hour. She
said five shots were fired. Three of
them were said to have taken ef
fect. When taken in custody Fox is
quoted as saying: “I am sorry to have
had to it, but I am glad he is dead.
He was planning to ruin me, and 1
had just as soon be hung as hurt.
What I did has no connection with
the Ku Klux Klan. Coburn had threat
ened to ruin me and to publish affi
davits affecting my character that
were untrue.”
At police headquarters Fox denied
any connection with the Ku Klus
Klan, giving his occupation as a
clerk. He was identified by newspa
per men as the publicity agent foi
the Ku Klux Klan and police said he
is the editor of The Night Hawk, of
ficial organ of the imperial palace oi
the Ku Klux Klan.
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TWO PERSONS DEAD AS
RESULT OF PISTOL SHOTS
A double tragedy occurred in
Clayton township Wednesday
about noon, when Lonnie Flow
ers shot and killed his wife, shot
and slightly wounded a Stephen
son boy, whose first name we did
not learn, and then shot and kill
ed himself'
Mr. and Mrs. Flowers had not
lived together for sometime, ac
cording to the report which was
given us, he living in Harnett
county and she with several chil
dren living on the place of Mr. L.
F. Austin in Clayton township. It
seems that Mrs. Flowers with
her children had gone to help her
son-in-law pick cotton Wednes
day. Her husband went to her
home and inquired where she was.
He finally found her in the cotton
patch and when they stopped to '
eat lunch, ate with them. He
asked her if she would live with
him again, and when she refused,
saying they could not get along
together, he pulled out a pistol,
shot his wife four times, the
balls taking effect in her breast,
and shooting himself in the
heart, the shots proving fatal in
both instances. It is not known
whether the shot which hit the
Stephenso nboy was aimed at him
or whether it was a stray shot.
Tent Meeting Continues
The tent meeting still continues
and Rev. Mr. Matthews requests uc
to announce that there will be ser
vices both Sunday afternoon and Sun
day night.
SMITHFIELD AND ROCKY
MOUNT CLASH TODAY
What promises to be the greatest
game of the season on the local
schedule will be this afternoon on
Riddick Field in Raleigh when the
Smithfield highs buck up against the
strong Rocky Mount aggregation.
The Smithfield team has trained
hard during the past week and are
determined to fight as they have
fought before. The team seems to be |
in good condition.
The Smithfield management is ex
pecting a large crowd of rooters from
their home town to cheer the team
onward in the scrap.
ALLIES WANT CROWN PRINCE
TO STAY IN HOLLAND
Paris, Nov. 8.— (By the Associat
ed Press.)—The Allied Council of
Ambassadors decided today to re
quest the Dutch Government not to
allow former Crown Prince Freder
ick William to leave Dutch territory,
where he has been in exile since the
war, and also to ask the German gov
ernment not to allow him to enter
Germany, as he is on the list of per
sons charged with war crimes whose
arrest is sought by the Allied gov
ernments.
New I'ords Arriving Daily
The Sanders Motor Company now
has eleven carloads of Ford automo
biles on the siding at the depot here,
and it reports from one to two car
loads arriving daily. This reminds
us of a recent editorial in the Mon
roe Enquirer which says that “the
world do move, but when it moves
it rides.” Evidently thirty-cent cot
ton is having its effect on the auto
mobile industry.
Death In O'Neals
Mis. Spicey Jane Price, widow of
the late Haywood Price of O'Neals
township, died on the 6th instant, a
victim of the Great White Plague.
Death came after many months of
suffering. She is survived by a large
family of small children, the oldest
of whom is a confined invalid. Her
remains were laid to rest in the Hales
cemetery near her late home on the
day following her death. The funeral
services were conducted by Rev. W.
D. Stancil, pastor, Bethany Baptist
church.
SUNDAY CLOSING
AGAIN IN EFFECT
rown Commissioners Have Busy
Meeting—They Approve
Hospital Site
The regular monthly meeting of the
town commissiones Tuesday evening
was a busy one, several items of gen
eral interest coming up for discussion
One matter which has been the sub
ject of considerable interest for sev
eral weeks was disposed of when a
resolution closing all stores on Sun
day except the drug stores for the
sale of medicine only, was passed. It
will be recalled that sometime ago
such an ordinance was repealed. A
number of the citizens becamfe in
terested, a mass meeting was held,
a petition was circulated and the
placing back of the law Tuesday
night was made. The new law pro
hibits the opening of the Telephone
Exchange during the hours from
9:30 to 12:30 o'clock, provided for
in an amendment offered by Mr. E.
S. Edniundson. When the amend
ment was voted on, there was a tie,
one member of the board being ab
sent, and Mayor Narron broke the tie,
casting his vote for the amendment.
Following this, a report of the hos
pital committee was presented by
Dr. Thel Hooks. Dr. Hooks stated
that of the locations which have been
considered by the committee the H.
II. Radford property meets with the
approval of all. The price of this
property being somewhat higher than
it was anticipated would be paid, the
board decided to provide this location
without the additional $5,000 which
was offered at a previous meeting.
Stock in the hospital will be issued
to the town to the amount of the
purchase price of the property.
The matter of cooperating in the
hotel proposition was brought up,
and Mr. E. S. Edmundson was named
to represent the town in this enter
prise.
A committee was named to look
after securing a new fire bell, the
old one being broken. The fire sig
nals are scarcely audible on the old
ciaeked bell.
HENRY FORD BUYS
MODEL TOWN IN MICH.
Henry Ford has just purchased the
saw mill property of the Hebard Cor
poration which includes the town of
Pequaminy, Michigan. The town built
in 1877 is known as a model town.
There are 105 cottages for the work
men, two churches—one Protestant
and one Catholic—an amusement hall,
a school, a club house, a waterworks
and electric lighting plant, a tele
phone system, a general store where
all residents shop, and a public play
ground and park.
Each workman pays the same rent
—$1 a month. He need never worry
about coal, for he burns none. Instead
he stuffs his big stove with hardwood
from the company’s forests, paying
$1.75 for a large wagon load—barely
the cost of cutting and delivering.
A doctor administers at a charge of
$1.50 a month.
The Alamance Creamery made
67,149 pounds of butter, paying out
$22,993.96 for butter fat to the farm
ers of the country during its first
y ar of operation ending September
RELATIVES TRAVEL FAR
TO ATTEND FUNERAL OF
MAN IN FINE HEALTH
Washington, Nov. 5—A mis
taken report that William L,
Wells, former resident of this
city, had died in North Carolina,
resulted in the needless trip
Thursday of George W. Wells,
Mrs. E. V. Meams, Mrs. R. A.
Reeves, and Mr. and Mrs. Jas.
H. Wells, his relatives, to Nor
folk, Va., where Mr. Wells had
been living. After a 2-day search
the “deceased” was located in
North Carolina in excellent
health. ,
The report was current in Nor
folk, and Durham, N. C-, and
was brought to Washington by
a captain of the Norfolk Steam
ship company.—H. E. C. Bryant,
in Charlotte Observer.