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yOL. 43 NO. 55 Chamblee Wins Over Thurston By Small Majority For House Total Vote Is Light; Chamb lee Gets 1,137 Votes As Against 995 For His Op ponent Thurston. GRIST LEADS IN COUNTY The second primary, held Saturday July 5, brought out a very light vote, there being only two places to fill— one on the county ticket for House of Representatives, and one on the State ticket, for Commissioner of Labor and Printing. The vote re sulted in a victory for P. B. Chamb lee candidate for the legislature over D. J. Thurston, by a majorty of 142 votes, and victory for Grist, candi date for Commissioner of Labor and Printing, over M. L. Shipman. The total vote in the county was a little above 2000 votes, or about two thirds of the vote on June 7. The vote for candidates for the legislature by townships is as fol lows,: Chamb- Thurs Township lee ton Smithfield 504 22 Bentonville 12 10 Pine Level 45 24 Selma 98 50 Ingrams 59 25 Banner (East) 1 17 Banner (West) 12 97 Clayton 24 389 Beulah 14 74 Cleveland 29 29 Boon Hill 78 52 Meadow 38 33 Pleasant Grove 15 10 Wilders 40 42 O’Neals 123 13 Elevation 7 41 Micro 2 31 Wilson’s Mills 36 36 Totals 1,137 995 The latest reports in the State give Grist a majority over Shipman. With 506 precincts reported out of 1,719, the totals in the race were as follows: Grist 39,146, Shipman 19, 351. These totals represent 43 conn., ties of the State of which only seven were complete. MISS TUTTLE GiVEN HONOR AT CONVENTION Miss Emeth Tuttle, Director of the Bureau of Child Welfare, received a signal honor at .the Natioaal Con vention of Social Workers at T ron to, Canada, when she was appoint or one of the seven members rf the national committee co d chil Iren of the home age, th'Otgh Mothi r’s Aid. Miss Tuttle is the only mem. ber of the committee ■'ro.n ■ So. th en state. The convention this year met at Toronto, Canada, upon invitation of the Canadian Association, rd Miss Tuttle was on the pugrem f • an address on Mother's tV.d work in North Carolina. She <ive 'he re sults of the first hundred savveys in the state. About five thousand social welfare workers from the United States, Can. da, and other foreign countries were present at the convention.— News and Observer. LOOKED IN ON N. Y. CONVENTION Miss Emeth Tuttle, of Raleigh, spent the week end in the city with her father, Rev. D. H. Tuttle. Miss Tuttle has just returned from a trip to Toronto, Canada, where she attended an international conference of Welfare workers. On her way home she stopped in New York City and spent about three quarters of an hour in the Democratic Na tional Convention. Asked by a rep orter wThat she thought of it, she replied, “It is more like a Demoniac convention than a Democratic con vention.” DR. JAMES SPRUNT IS CRITICALLY ILL Wilmington, July 7.—rD. James Sprunt, head of the cotton exporting fir mof Alexander Sprunt and Son, and prominent literary figure, is critically ill at the home of his son here. Little hope is entertained that he will live through the night. Honored Mrs. Leroy Spring; of South Carolina, who caught the fancy of the convention and was put in nomination for the Vice-Presidency. She also was acting Chairman of the Credential Committee "VETS" MAYINOW« a.- * * - «•■*»«•» APPLY FOR BONUS E. F. Anderson at Benson Will Assist Veterans and Depend ents in Making Application After five years of political de_ bate and harange Congress has passed the World War Adjusted Compensation Bill. The present bill embodies only one feature of the original five fold plan of compensation which was drafted by the American Legion at the request bf Congress. The Legion has worked ceaselessly for adjusted compensation and it is due the credit for this bill. The adjusted Compensation Act provides compensation for World War veterans, and for the depen dents of certain deceased veterans, in the basic amounts of one dollar for every day of home and $1.25 for every day of overseas service. I he basic maximum to any individual who had both home and overseas .service is $625. Veterans whose compensation at the above rate amounts to $50 or less be paid in cash. Dependents of deceased veterans whose compensa tion would have amounted to $50 or less will also be paid in cash in one sum. When the compensation of the deceased veteran would have I amounted to more than $50 the amount will be paid in ten equal quarterly payments. The first cash payments will be made as soon as possible after March 1. 1925. Veter ans whose basic compensation amounts to more than $50 are en titled to an Adjusted service cer tificate whose face value will be approximately 2 1-2 times their bas ic compensation. The certificate in plain language, is a twenty year endowment life insurance policy. Its value is equal to the paid up endowment insurance which the veterans basic compensa. tion, increased by 25 per cent, would buy on the date the certif icate is issued. The certificate or insurance pol • icy, will be paid to the veteran up on its maturity in twenty years from the date of its issue; or if he or she, should die in the meantime, to the benificiary who has been named by the veteran; or, if no ben eficiary has been named, to the vet eran’s estate. It must be remembered that cer tificates will be issued only to vet ierans and not to dependents—it is | manifests that no life insurance pol icy can be issued on the life of a vet eran who is deceased—dependants (Continued from page 1) NEGRO WOMAN IN JAIL RRINEI Charged With Killing Her Two Babies at Birth; Strangled Them With Apron Strings. FOUND IN OLD TRUNK Effie Fellers, an unmarried Negro woman about thirty years of age, is now in jail charged with a very grave icrime; namely, that of having taken the lives of two babies born to her on July 3rd. The woman has been living with William Lassiter, a colored man liv ing near Mr. John Myatt’s farm in Cleveland township and has been em ployed as a cook by Mr. Myart. It was generally believed in the com munity that the woman was soon to become a mother, and there is evi dence that a child or children weie born in Mr. Myatt’s cornfield rear where the woman lived. Lassiter reported this to Mr. Myatt and later to Sheriff Massey. The ar rest of the woman followed nd her room was searched. In the bottom of an old trunk two. one-day-old babies wTere found. They had an old apron string tied tightly about their necks and their bodies were otherwise cov ered with an old dress. They were both stone dead. The woman and the dead babies were brought here to Smithfield and after an examination by Dr. Hooks they were reported to have been choked to death by the string about their necks. The babies 'Were buried and the woman was committed to jail without bond to await trial in the August term of the superior court. It has been reported in the neighborhood that she has probably spirited away other babies born to her before this time. The woman refused to make a statement in regard to the matter and no other arrests have been made. Effie Fellers is well knQwn here in Smithfield where she has done do mestic work in several of the homes. She has the reputation of being a splendid cook and good housekeeper. EDWARD W. POU HAS A PROMINENT PART Fourth District Congressman Assistant Parliamentarian Democratic Conventioq By EDWARD E. BRITTON New York, July 5.—The Fourth North Carolina district has been in the limelight from first to last on the officers platform of the Demo cratic National Convention, in the person of Congressman Edward WT. Pou. On the main platform in Madi I son Square Garden there are the chairman, viee chairman and other high officials of the convention. Con_ gressman Pou being there by virtue of his position as assistant parlia mentarian of the convention. Congressman Pou seems to know ! everybody, often using their Chris tian names in greeting friends, and prominent men from all sections give him the hailing sign. He has been a member of 12 Congresses and as there are more than 500 members in each Congress, he necessarily en joys a very wide acquaintance. Most of his older colleagues call him Ed, all treat him with marked respect and he is one o£ the host loved men in public life. Today one of the older m ’ nbers !of the House said of Mr. Pou: “He is so unselfish and so modest, he is loved by men who have served with him, regardless of party affiliations. He probably does not realize the influence he wields in Cong? ti. Ai ways he has the attention of the House. During the last session he made two really great speeches. O.'e was on the so called soldier bonus. : He spoke without notes and the House and galleries were perfectly (Continued on page 4) DR ORB,SURGEON, OPERATE HOSPITAL Will Take Charge When Dr. Tyner Leaves For Leaksville; Now At Mayo Clinics. FORMERLY AT A. C. L. HOS. Since it was announced sometime ago that Dr. Carl V. Tyner, surgeon at the Smithfield Memorial Hospi. tal was to leave in the near future for a larger field of work at Leaks ville, Smithfield and Johnston Coun ty have been interested in the plans for the hospital here. Several plans have been suggested and at one time it was thought that a new’ brick, up_to-date structure would be erected, and the hospital run on a somewhat larger scale than at pre sent. One plan after another, how_ ever, was frustrated, but it now looks as if something definite has been ar ranged. Dr, W. J. B. Orr, who has been surgeon at the Atlantic Coast Line Hospital at Rocky Mount, has rented the hospital and will operate it, whenever Dr. Tyner leaves, which will be about August 15, or Sept 1st. Dr. Orr resigned his work at Rocky Mount on June 1st and is now ob serving the Mayo Bros, clinic at Ro chester, Minn. He will be there for several weeks longer. Dr. Orr has done surgical work ever since his graduation and has had splendid suc cess. It is gratifying to know that the hospital will continue for its worth in the community has long since been demonstrated. MR. McCOY JOHNSON DEAD Mr. McCoy Johnson died at his home in Elevation township Saturday June 28, at the age of sixty-eight years. He was buried in the family burying ground Sunday afternoon. Mr. Johnson was a good farmer and a good neighbor and will be missed in his community. He is survived by two sons and five daughters. PRESIDENT’S SON IS VICTIM BLOOD POISON End Came After the Boy Had Had Battled With Utmost Bravery For Five Days Washington, July 7.—Calvin Cool idge, Jr., son of the President, died tonight at Walter Reed Hospital of blood poisoning. The end came after the boy had battled with the utmost bravery and fortitude for five days against a disease which had racked his body with pai nand sapped the reserve strength of his frail constitution. President and Mrs. Coolidge, who had maintained constant vigil at the hospital, were at his bedside, hope_ ful and cheering and comforting their son to the last. Three sinking spells Sunday night brought him to the point of death. A slight rally Monday gave slight hope, but soon thereafter he began again to lose ground and he never rallied again. A sinking spell, the fourth he had suffered in 24 hours, brought death. Notwithstanding the use of oxygen and other restoratives the courage which had withstood crisis after crisis and had beaten death off re peatedly was unable to meet the fi nal attack. The collapse began at 9,30 o’clock and he gradualy sank into eternity. He died at 10:30 o’ clock. The infection developed from a broken blister on th eright foot in curred during a tennis match with his brother John on the White House courts last Monday. At first paying no attention to it, the youth develop, ed an alarming condition by Wed nesday night and physicians were (Continued on page 4) i Al Smith Takes The Lead As Opponents Of McAdoo Attack "Into the Fight” ---. ROBERT M. LaFOLLETTE LAFOLLEnE ENDORSED Bf THE PROGRESSIVES Convention Endorses LaFollette For President On His Own Platform. Cleveland, July 5.—After endors ing Robert M. LaFollette as a Pre sidential candidate and providing for the organization of a new political party next January, the Conference for Progressive Political action wound up its convention early to night. The conference empowered its national committee to select a Vice Presidential candidate after confer ence with the “LaFollette-for-PresL dent Committee.” LaFollette was endorsed as a can didate on his own platform. The convention then adopted for itself a platform embodying the ideas con tained in the Wisconsin do :ument and in the statement of principles issued at the St. Louis session of the conference last February.—Associat ed Press. REMODELLING STORE Quite a number of stores have been remodelled and improved re cently. Mr. J. E. Gregory is now having a new front put in his store which, when completed, will ! add much to its appearance. Revival at Beulah Hill The revival will begin at Beulah Hill Christian church near Four Oaks on Monday night, July 21, and will continue a week or ten days. The pastor, Rev. Theodore Yarborough, of near Kenly, will do the preaching. Everybody is cordially invited to attend. J. E. LEE. COTTON BLOOMS GALORE Mr. L. A. Ellen of Zebulon, Route 1, was in town Saturday and gave us a call. Mr. Ellen says he has plenty of cotton blooms now, -. port ing his first—a red bloom- -on June 30th. He reports a lot of rain in his section which has done the coops damage especially cotton, but con sidering the wet weather, the trops in his section are good. CRAVE NCOUNTY ALLEGED ELECTION FRAUD IN Ne wBem, Jul y7.—The first after, math of Saturday’s run-off primary which concluded a spirited contest for the nomination of sheriff be tween R. B. Lane and A. A. Ipock which was won by Lane, came this morning with the arrest of C. A. Ryman and Harry Willis, election officials, on a charge of illegally votin gabsentee votes of Tom Gii lette and others. Resolution Passed by Demo cratic Convention Releas es All Pledges For Can didates. BALLOTING FOR MONDAY Madison Square Garden, New York, July 7.—Charging down on the McAdoo line with a new ferocity the coalition forces in the Democratic national convention swept the Mc Adoo votes down to their lowest point. On the 87th ballot the coalition forces battered down the McAdoo strength still further and the lead ers in the contest stood this way: Smith 361.5; McAdoo 333.5; Rals ton 93; Glass 71; Davis 66.5. This was a loss of 20 for McAdoo and a loss of one and a half for Glass. It was a gain of one and a half for Smith, a gain of one and a half for Davis and a gain of one for Ralston. On a forced poll of the Kansas delegation tonight it went under the unit rule to Governor J. M. Davis and out of the McAdoo column. Madison Square Garden, New York, July 7.-—By action of the Democratic national convention today, all dele_ gates were released from pledges and instructions on presidential can didates. The acti >n of the convention el id not affect the two-thirds rule or the unit rule. By this action, the conven tion approved the stand of the 15 minority candidates, including Gov ernor Smith. Mr. McAdoo’s counter proposal did not come up for a vote. The text of the resolution adopted by the convention on motion of former Governor Gilchrist of Florida, was as follows: That the time has arrived when in the opinion of delegates, should be and are hereby released from any pledges or instructions of any kind whatsoever touching upon any can_ didacy for the nomination of the presidency. The McAdoo people passed the word that Mr. McAdoo wanted all his people for the resolution as he did not wish to appear as an ob structionist, The result was that the votes in favor of the motion tumbled in so fast that its passage was as sured before the roll call was half over. The effect of the releasing of delegates from instructions and pledges, w'hile retaining the unit rule and two thirds rule, will be de veloped in the balloting immediately BALLOTING TODAY Seventy-Eighth Ballot McAdoo 511; Smith 363 1-2; Davis, of West Virginia, 73 1_2; Ralston 5; Robinson 221-2; Ritchie 16 1-2; Walsh 6;y Saulsbury 6; Ferris 17; Bryan 3; Gerard 1; Roosevelt 1. Two absent. Total 1,096. Seventy-Ninth Ballot McAdoo 507 1-2; Smith 366 1-2; I Davis 71; Underwood 50; Glass 17; 1 Ralston 4; Robinson 28; Ritchie 16_ 1-2; Walsh 6; Saulsbury 6; Ferris 18; Gerard 1; Roosevelt 1; Bryan 3.. Two absent. Total 1,096. Eightieth Ballot McAdoo 454 1-2 Smitft 367 1-2; Davis, of West Virginia, 73 1-2; Un derwood 46 1_2; Glass 68; Ralston 5; Robinson 29 1-2; Ritchie 16 1-2; Walsh 5; Saulsbury 6; Owen 1; Fer ris 17 1-2; Josephus Daniels 1; Bryan 4 1_2; Roosevelt 1. - Two absent. Total 1,096. Eighty-First Ballot McAdoo 433; Smith 365; Davis, of West Virginia, 70 1-2; Underwood 48; Glass 73; Ralston 4; Robinson 29 1-2; Ritchie 16 1-2; Walsh 8; Sauls bury 6; Owen 21; Barnett; Josephus Daniels 1; Bryan 4 1-; Ferris 16; Roosevelt 1. Two absent. Total 1,096. Eighty-Second Ballot McAdoo 413 1-2; Smith 366; Davis of West Virginia, 71; Underwood 49; Glass 78; Ralston 24; Robinson 28 1-2; Ritchie 16 1-2; Walsh 4; Saulsbury 6; Owen 21; Ferris 12; Bryan 4 J-2; Josephus Daniels 1; Roosevelt 1.