SMITHFIELD1AY BE
ON TOURIST ROUTE
Effort Is Being Made To
Turn Southern Tourists
Along Local Highway—
Runs Parallel With ACL
MEETING HERE TOMORROW
Last week a meeting was held here
with representatives from all the
towns along th eA. C. L. Railway
from Wilson to Fayetteville and an
organization perfected of which Mr.
T. C. Young, of this city was elected
chairman, and Mr. Eugene T. Lee, of
Dunn, secretary and treasurer. An
executive committee was appointed
composed of two representatives
from each of the twons along this
route.
The purpose of this organization
is to make an organized effort to se
cure permanent improvement of high
way No. 22 between Wilson and Fay
etteville and to make an organized
bid for the tourist travel to the South
turning the travelers at Petersburg
and following the Coast line through
Rocky Mount, Wilson Smithfield,
Benson, Dunn and on the Fayetteville
It is said by those who have stu
died this question that the proposed
route is shorter by about 100 miles
than any other road in the state
running north and south.
The plan is to connect highway
No. 22 with N. 40 at Wilson and
No. 24 at Fayetteville, and the
first step of the organization will
be to get the state hikhway com
mission to improve this route be
tween Wilson and Fayetteville. This
is a definite step for road improve
ment through this section and will
mean a great deal of publicity for
Eastern Carolina.
The executive committee has been
called to meet in the county commis
sioner’s room at the court house here
tomorrow afternoon at three o’clock
At this meeting 11 the details of the
campaign will be completed.
There will be some expenses at
tached to this movement and each
town hase been assessed a pro rata
part in meting the financial need m
carrying on this work, each town
paying according to its population.
We have been informed that Smith
field’s pro rata part is $1’0 and each
man or firm interested in seeing this
highway improved is asked to con
tribute to this fund. Mr. Young and
Mr. Lee are not receiving any com
pensation for their services but are
giving of their time in an effort to
get this “short-cut” highway through
North Carolina. Any one wishing to
contribute to this fund is asked to
see either Mr. Young and Mrs. J. W.
Stephenson.
GIRL BABY LEFT ON
PORCH AT GOLDSBORO
Goldsboro, Aug. 9.—A beautiful
baby girl about six months old was
left on the porch of the old Robin
son house on North on John street.
Mr. an dMrs. Howe, who occupy the
house, found the baby just before
retiring for the night and are giv
ing it every care and attention.
Many persons have visited the Howe
home during the week but no clue
as to the identity of the child has
been found.
GREENSBORO MILLS
CUT WAGE TO OPEN
Greensboro, Aug 11,—White Oak
denims mills, largest in the world;
Proximinti cotton mills and Proxim
inti print works resumed full time
operations this morning with a cut
of 12 1-2 per cent in wages, They
have been shut down since July 24
COTTON ADVANCES
New York, Aug 11—Cotton was
firm at the opening of today’s mar
ket with an advance of from 12 to
28 points on relatives listed Liver
pool cables and continued draught in
Texas with a higher foreign exchange
Arch Killer
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Police of Hanover, Germany, be
lieve Frit* Haarroan has murdered
more than fifty, although he admits
but twenty-two victim! lurea to
his modest residency and murdered.
Craving notoriety seems to be hie
only reaeoh.
CRIMINAL COURT
OPENED MONDAY
Judge M. Barnhill, Presiding,
Gives Grand Jury Clear
Cut Charge
The Superior Court opened here
yesterday morning with a crowded
court room and criminal docket,
Hon. M. V. Barnhill, of Ricky
Mount, is presiding, and the term will
last* a week.
The lawyers, litigants and jurors
were all present and the oormality
of drawing a grand jury and empan
elling the petty jury was promptly |
gone into. The judge’s charge was
brief but clear cut. He first charged
the grand jury of their obligations
to the citizens of the county to see
that the law is well enforced. He cited
the four crimes ^hich may be punish
able by death in our state—murder,
rape, burglary, and arson. He stress
ed the importance of a rigid enforce
ment of the prohibition laws and the
laws regulating the driving of auto
mobiles. He further charged the
grand jury to look into the condition
of the county home and county pris
on camp, the jail, an dall other places
of confinement in the county. He in
sisted that the living conditions of in
mates of these various institutions
be made and kept wholesome and
comfortable. He also charged that
the various county offices be inspect
ed and a report made on their con
dition. Judge Barnhill believes in
praise as well as criticism, and he
specifically charged that when any
officer is found to be in a praise
worthy condition that this also appear
in the report.
After the charge of the judge, sev
eral motions were heard whieh dis
posed of some cases and continued
others.
Mr. N. B. Grantham, of this city,
is foreman of the grand jury.
OLD-FASHIONED CAMP
MEETING AT FALCON
Dunn, Aug. 10.—The twenty-fifth
annual camp meeting began last
night at Falcon, near Dunn, and will
run through Sunday, August 16. Ser
vices are being held three times daily
—10 a. m., and ’ and 8 p. m. This
annual meeting draws thousands of
people from far and near, and indi
cations point to one of the largest
meetings in the history of the camp.
Several prominent preachers have al
ready arrived to do the preaching.
The old-time mourners bench is used
and the folks shout when they feel
like shouting at this meeting.
Falcon is a village of several hun
dred population and the town has
neither a “movie” or “dope” dis- j
pensary. No smoking is allowed on !
camp grounds and an orthodox
| religious atmosphere abounds there, j
Ladies Rest
Room Restored
As a result of several petitions and
also at requests of the heads of some
of the Woman’s Clubs of the County,
filled before the Board of Commis
sioners as a special meeting yester
day, the Board of County Commis
sioners rescinded the rental of the
Ladies’ Rest Room in the court
house to Mr. Abell, who has already
move out and the ladies of the Coun
ty are thereby given back their rest
room and may continue to use the
samp.
To Regulate
Jitney Lines
Raleigh Aug. 10.—Another effort
to regulate and control the transpor
tation of passengers and freight in
motor vehicles on the public high
ways of the State was launched in the
House yesterday morning with the
introduction by Representative King
of Guilford of a measure providing
for the control of all such traffic by
the State, with a schedule of license
fees to be added to the maintenance
fund of the State Highway .Commis
sion.
Under the provision of the meas
ure no motor bus line may be oper
ated without license from the Cor
poration Commission, which is
charged with the duty of determina
ing whether any new lines are neces
sary to the public convenience, of
fixing fees and rates, regulation of
the size of vehicles and the safety
of operation, and the general su
pervision of the business along lines t
already applied to other common
carriers of the State.
Operators of bus lines will be re- j
quired to furnish satisfactory surety
bonds for the indeminification of
passengers and property, and other
persons whose lives and limbs may
be jeopardized by intemperate opera
tion of motor vehicles for carrying
passengers. No new lines may Le es
tablished without the sanction of
the Commission. The measure was
referred to the Committee on Roads
and Turnpike, of which Representa
tive Clayton Moore is chairman.
ICE ENVELOPS SHIP
WHILE AIDING FLYERS
Screw Broken on Floating
Hummock, Unseen in Fog,
in Hunt for Landing.
Reykjavik, Iceland, Aug. 11.—The
United States cruiser, Raleigh, ex
ploring the east coast of Greeland in
search for a landing place for the
American army world flyers today
reported to Rear Admiral Magruder
that the ship was in a dense fog bfc
miles east of southeast o^Angmag
salik, and that she had encounterec
floating ice hummocks.
While the cruiser was attempting
to gain the seas free from the ice
a floating hummock struck it, dam
aging a propellor on the port side
it reported.
Admiral Magruder said it was
doubtful if Angmagsalik couil b<
used as a base for the cruiser seoul
planes which are being c a r r i e c
aboard the Raleigh and Richmond t(
scour the coast.
A plan has been under ctnsidera
tion whereby these planes can b<
used to carry fuel for the work
flight planes over the ice fields.
FRANKS CASE YET
FAR FROM CLOSE
Chicago, Aug, 10.—All evidence in
the hearing to determine the pun- j
ishment to be meted out to Nathan i
F. Leopold, Jr., and Richard A. i
Loeb, for the murder of Robert
Franks will be completed by Thurs
day or Friday of this week, it was
intimated today by Robert E. Crowe,
State’s attorney.
Enthusiasm and cultivation must be
kept up if the home gardner would
succeed. Don't let killing weeds kill
enthusiasm.
Ford Roadster and Ford
Coupe Collided in Front
Of W. H. Austin’s Home
TWO SERIOUSLY HURT
Sunday afternoon a serious
automobile accident occurred here
in front of the home of Mr. W.
H. Austin about five o'clock
when a Ford roadster driven by
Messrs. John Hocutt, Walter
Ragley and F. A. Allen, of Clay
ton, and a Ford coupe driven by
Willie Mayfield, colored, cook
for the San-Gla-Sta Lodge at
Holt, ran together
The Clayton car was going toward
Four Oaks and the coupe ws coming
into town from Holt Lake. It is said
that both cars were on the same side
of the road and were speeding. Ac
coraing to reports neither driver saw
the other car until they were within
a few yards of each other. Both
turned at the same time and collided
on the opposite side of the road,
shattering the windshield of each
car. The roadster was turned com
pletely around and headed in the op
posite direction from which it was
going. It was turned over and was
considerably damaged. The coupe
was also badly damaged.
The occupants of both cars were
injured and were rushed to the Smith
field Memorial Hospital where they
were examined and given treatment.
It was found that Mr. Hocutt and Mr
Bagley were seriously hurt, Mr.
Hocutt receiving internal injuries
while Mr. Bagley’s leg and collar
bone were broken. He also received
cuts and bruises about his face and
head. They are still at the hospital
but are reported to be getting along
nicely. Mr. Allen was cut and bruised
about the face and head while the
negro suffered painful cuts in his
face. They were allowed to leave the
hospital soon after their wounds were
dressed.
ENORMOUS LOSS
IN POWDER FIRE
Forty-Five Million Pounds of
Powder Destroyed at Old
Hickory Plant.
Nashville, Tenn. ,Aug 10.—Forty
five million pounds of powder were
destroyed by fire at the Old Hickory
Powder plant near today .The loss,
on the basis of present prices is es
timated at more than $2,000,000.
The powder was manufactured for
the Federal government during the
war at a cost of approximately $22,
000,000 for the $4’,000,000 pounds
destroyed.
• Machinery and buildings erected by
the government during the war at a
cost of more than $5,00,00 were de
stroyed by the flames, which sT ept
over an area of 40 acres >n the heart
of the plant. The total war-time
cost of the property and powder de
stroyed was estimated today to be
more than $28,000,000.
The powder had been stored here
by the government as a war jeser/e,
One half of it was to have been used
in road building under the direction
of the Department of Agriculture.
Fifty factory buildings, owned by
the Nashville Industrial Corporai!,
most of which were rented by the
government for storage of powder,
were consumed, in the conflagration.
The factory machinery was 1he pro
perty of the government.
The fire was declared to be the
greatest single loss suffered by the
government since the World War and
was rated as one of the most destruc
tive incidents in the history of gov
ernment munitions plants.
No one was severely injured. J.
E. Cook, government guard, who
turned in the alarm at 5.20 a. m,
sucered a blistered neck from the in
tense heat.
, "Rain Padre”
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For 25 years Father Jerome S.
Ricard has sent out daily weather
reports to the farmers near the
Santa Clara (Calif.) University.
Now the Knights of Columbus are
Conducting a campaign to erect a
ncw^observatory for him.
TALK COMPROMISE AS
SOLUTION PORT BILL
Nothing To Compromise Yet,
But Suggestion Made On
Contingencies
Raleigh, Aug. 11.—Compromise on
the Governor’s port measure began
to he talked among the handful of
legislators who remained in the city
over the weekend, although the port
legislation has not yet taken that
definite form that would give any
thing to compromise about, predict
ions of agreement based upon con
tingency had their inning about the
lobbies of the hotel during afternoon
and evening yesterday.
That interpretation is being given
to the move on the part of Senators
Brown, Marris and Bellamy Satur
day when they served notice that
they would attempt to strike from
the measure the provisions for a
referendum at the general election
in November. If they are unable
to get final action on the entire
measure they will offer as a com
promise the proposal to pass the port
section and let the ships go.
Senate leaders think that such a
solution might be possible. House
leaders are of the opinion that the
House will accept nothing except a
referendum on the proposal as a
whole, and if the Senate inclines *o
be adamant, the entire program will
be defeated by a deadlock that will
not dissolve until the constitutional
limitation on the session brings ad
journment toward the end of the
month.
Governor Morrison would not be
willing to accept a compromise his
friends said yesterday. He '/ould, of
course, be tremendously pleased if
both the House and Senate passed
the port and ship bill without a
referendum, but rather than to see
any part of the program scrapped,
he would go to the people in a cam
paign for the ratification of the en
tire trrminal and ship line legisla
tion. He thinks that emergency
would justify action without re
course to the election.—News and
Observer.
Injured In Auto Wreck
Warsaw, Aug. 9.—Misses Elizabeth
Vann and Louise Howard, of Rose
boro, escaped with minor injuries
when Miss Howard ditched the car
she was driving a few miles from
town on the Wilmington-Goldsboro
Highway. The windshield was
| broken, but neither young lady was
! cut, only bruised and shaken up.
Frank Pope Case Postponed
Messrs Wellons and Wellons, a t
torneys for the defense in State vs.
Frank Pope, the murder case which
we mentioned as being one of the cases
to be tried at the August term of
Court, have since advised us that tthis
case has been postponed until the De
cember term.
WALTON PETEET
ADDRESSES CO-OPS
Gives Johnston County Co
operatives Wider Vision
Of The Organization to
Which They Belong.
SAYS ENEMIES AT WORK
Charging that a nation-wide effort
to discredit co-operative marketing
is being financed by a small group
of large interests, Mr. Walton Peteet
Secretary of the National Council of
Farmers Co-operative Marketing As
sociations, gave Johnston county co
ops a wider vision of the movement
at the court house here last Friday.
Introduced by President G. A. Nor
wood of the Tobacco Growers Co-op
erative Association, Mr. Peteet gave
a picture of the present situation of
farmers who. he said, are now ogan
izing from Maine to Texas and from
Washington to Florida.
“You have got to fight to take your
own business back into your own
hands,” he said, in commenting on
how some dealers say the co-opera
tives are “interfering with their
business, because such men have
tended to the farmers’ business for
so long they think they have a di
vine right to handle the farmers’
products.”
He exposed some of the methods of
the speculative interest who he
I charged are now conducting a tre
I mendous under-cover Campaign
! against the farmers’ association be
cause they have found that open
opposition does not work. In the
great wheat States, where farmers
have been inspired by the success of
co-operatives in the South, the oppo
sition is circulating statements that
the tobacco and cotton associations
of the South are failures. He cited
one instance of where a Canadian
newspaper ran in seven column heads
a story on the supposed trouble of
the tobacco association in North
Carolina. Throughout the wheat
belt men are reported to be travel
ing as against for articles which
farmers never buy, but once they
start talking to a wheat grower will
tell him to stay out of the wheat
pool, because he knows what the to
bacco pool did and how it caused
him to lose his farm in North Caro
lina. Mr. Peteet told of many other
instances of hiw such men “spread
their poison and move on,” and
warned the growers against foolish
or corrupted men among their own
members in North Carolina.
Throughout his speech Mr. Peteet
kept the subject of co-operative
marketing on a high plane of serv
ice to the State and nation and ap
pealed to the farmers of North Car
oline to go on until they had con
trol of a larger part of the crops, so
they could realize all the economic
and social benefits wrapped up in
co-operation.
Dr. C. C. Masaey Locates Here
Dr. C. C. Massey, of Princeton,
has located here and will have his
office over the Jones-Cotter Com
pany store. Dr. Massey is a graduate
of the University of North Carolina
and also of Jefferson Medical Col
lege, of Philadelphia, Pa. For the
past year he has been engaged in in
terne work at Rex Hospital, Raleigh,
and is now ready for general prac
tice.
Mr Herberd Gets Canary
The canary which was given away
Saturday afternoon by Johnston &
Stephenson created quite a little in
terest. At four o’clock a good crowd,
some with a handful of tickets, had
gathered at th edrug store to see who
the lucky winner would be. Mr. Wil
liam Herberd held the duplicate of
the first ticket drawn and was award
ed the canary.
Legumes require lima foo MMCtK
ful growth. Especially Jo (Mi (M of
alfalfa, say agronomy WOfkflM of the
State College extension diviaion.