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il Number 85 Mr. Farmer: It Will Pay You to Sell HMITHFIELD NEEDS: —Bigger Pay Roll. —A Modern Hotel. —Renovation of Opera House. —More Paved Streets. —Chamber of Commerce. Johnston County’s Oldest and Best Newspaper - — Established 1882 Forty-fourth Year SMITH FIELD, N. C., TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1925 School Patrons Besiege County Commissioners FOR BETTER HIGH SCHOOL FACILITIES •Mass Meeting To He Held Here Friday Afternoon To Thresh Out Matter Before Joint Boards. INTERESTED IN SCHOOLS Yesterday found the caulnty commissioners room filled to over flowing with a crowd of johnston county school patrons who were there to find out whether or not provision has been made to send their children to school during the coming year. The county board of commis sioners were in session every mem ber being present, including th*> newly elected mende r, Mr. T. Edgerton of Kenly. Mr. Freeman Broadwell of Plainview started the discussion in which quite a num ber took part and which finally wound up in a hub bud of con versation, each one telling his neighbor what he thought about SH the school situation in Joh'nston county and in his own community in particulars. A representative from Live Oak district said his district was off to itself, could not be attached anywhere, and had not a truck to transport the children anywhere else. Pleasant Grove wants the eighth grade taught in that district and they are willing to provide a room if they can have a teacher. Corbett Hateher has 16 or 17 high school pupils, not enough for appropria tion to be made for an extra teach er, and their school with one less teach* r than last year. Polenta anil Shiloh with a number of high school pupils and no where to go. These were just a few of the prob lems that were thrust thick and fast' at the county commissioners and county attorney, until county * attorney J D. Parker declared that he was in favor of abolishing the whole truck system. This statement, strange to say, found a responsive chord in the breast of some others present who favored selling the trucks and building more school houses where the pupils could walk to them.One expressed the opinion that all this (Turn to page four, please) FOUR OAKS HOME BURNEDSATURDAY Home of Mr. Charlie Wellons Totally Destroyed by Fire Saturday Afternoon. Saturday afternoon shortly after five o’clock a call came from Four Oaks for the Smithfield fire com pany to go at once, fire which was feared might lead to a disastrous blaze having been discovered in the roof of a dwelling. When the fire was discovered the whole roof of the house of Mr. Charlie Wel lons was in flames, according to information given here. It is t thought that fire came from the stove flue and apparently it had burned for some time inside the roof before the blaze was seen. h ire chief Sam E. ilogwood and his company responded to the call and arrived on the scene in a short while but it was too late to save the building. The dwelling was built of heart lumber and light wood and it was impossible to stop the flames. However, the nearby buildings w'ere protected, prohibiting the spread of the fire. The stillness of the atmosphere was also a help in controlling the fire- It is thought that if the ga rage which is located at the rear of tliis dwelling had caught, the whole town would have been in grave danger. The dwelling was totally de stroyed but practically all the fur niture was saved. The loss is es timated at between $4500 a’ad 515000. It is understood that there was $1500 insurance on the build ing. Capture Whiskey Stiii in Boon Hill Township Federal .officers captured a whiskey still Saturday morning; in Boon Hill township. The still was located four or five hundred yards back of the store of Mr. Art Wiggs. It was running at full blast and four negroes were seen as the officers approached. The negroes immediately took to their heels and made their escape. The officers seized the still but found no whiskey or beer. URGES RETURN TO Congressman E. W. l’ou Sees Remedy For Crimes Only In Reconsecration. / “My message to the people of Johnston county,” declared Con gressman E. W. Pou, Sunday mor ning as he addressed a large con gregation assembled at the Bap tist church at the eleven o’clock hour, “is re-consecration. I would say to the blockader in the back woods in trumpet tones, ‘Stop!’ Laws will not remedy the ills of the world. When one’s heart gets right he has no desire to break the laws.” Thus the congressman from this district closed a splendid discourse in which he made an appeal for people to stand firm in the faith of their fathers and mothers. What appears to be a preconcerted pur pose to dethrone the Christian faith in America is assuming dan gerous proportions. The recent world w'ar is a challenge which cannot he ignored. At the close of this great conflict, when millions were left dead on the battlefields, when millions of dollars worth of property had been destroyed, those who have always wanted to cru cify Christ, saw their oportunity. One nation returned to paganism. Russia has been placarded and edicts have been issued by those in authority against the teaching of religion. This position has spread until it has found lodge ment in all the countries of Eu rope. The position entered Eng land. Our American boys came back poisoned by this preconcert ed plan. America lias a number of things not to be proud of. Homi cides in America have increased from throe to every 3 00,000 to 9 in about twenty years. More mur ders are committed in North Car olina than in the British Isles. Mr. Pou wonders what is to be the answer of the Christian people and expressed himself as believing that the passage of additional laws will not remedy the trouble. “Young men boast of unbelief,” he said, and he gave an instance from his own experience. In a moment of eloquence he asked, ‘how can anyone look out upon the sky and not believe in the ex istence of Almighty God.” The little rosebud and the modest vio let silently speak of God. Seventy thousand worlds that bedeck the firmament proclaim God. The dawning morning, the falling night, the growing crops, the har vest tell of a Supreme Being. Men are a; king, “Can a man be an ed ucated university man, loyal to his university teachings and trainings and yet be a Christian? If our universities and colleges are shak ing the simple faith of the young men of America,” said Mr. Pou. “it is indeed time to inquire why such a result of university train ing follows. I believe any man can take the New Testament gospel and prove to any sane man that the teaching of our mothers con cerning God and Jesus Christ if the everlasting truth. The trouble with civilized America is we are wandering away from the faith of our fathers.” And the message Congressman Pou would deliver to the people of Johnston county is: “Let us all be re-consecrated to that faith which has made Amer ica the greatest of all the 'nations of the earth.” IN. C. PRISON MAKES CONVICT CLOTHES Superintendent Geo. It. Pou Urges Counties To Buy Prison-Made Clothes for Convicts Raleigh, Sept. 5.—George Ros Pou, superintendent of the State’s Prison, yesterday issued his second letter to the chairman of thr boards of county commissioners of the hundred counties of the State in an effort to secure orders for clothing for county convicts, which I is now being manufactured at the ! prison. ■ Fall convict clothing for the ; Wake county'prisoners was made at the State’s Prison, and the Wake County road officials state that they arc much pleased at the saving effected and the quali ty of workmanship, according to Mr. Pou. Clothing made by the prison is sold by the Ronner Sales Agency of Charlotte. In his letter to the county offi cials Mr. Pou states that there are now .100 convicts at the State’s Prison not gainfully employed and “unless these prisoners are plac ed upon a revenue-producing bas is,” he declared, “the prison can not be self-supporting.” Manufacture of convict clothing is the second industry to be es tablished at the prison, Mr. Pou says, the first having been the weaving of chair backs and bot toms. The prison will begin a third industry soon, .Mr. Pou said, the manufacture of concrete cul verts for use in building State highways, This latter industry will not increase the revenue of the prison materially, according to Mr. Pou, but will save the State highway commission between $40, 000 and $50,000 per year. Prison officials are also considering the manufacture of drain tile for sale to farmers. UNITED STATES BUYS MORE GAS People of America Are Tsint! More Gasoline Than The Rest of the World Gasoline consumption is far more extensive in the United States than anywhere else in the world. A commerce department survey made public July 19 showed per capita consumption in this coun try to have reached 69.3 gallons a year, while England was second with an average of only 11.6 gal lons. One year’s consumption in China would not keep the automo biles of the United States running eight hours. To supply the demand, Ameri can production of gasoline was in creased from 1,500,000,000 gallons in 1914 to 9,000.000,000 gallons in 1924. The United States ac counted for 79 per {ent of t.he 'world’s total consumption last year while at the same time ex porting $160,000,000 worth of the commodity. The commerce department also announced then that in June the United States produce-! 350,557 passenger automobiles and 36,096 automobile trucks, compared with 214,332 and 28,117 respectively, in June last year. MISS COMB TALKS ON MISSION WORK Returned Missionary Tells ol Her Work With Women and Girls In China. There for 14 Years. One of the most interesting talks made by a foreign missionary here was the one delivered Sunday af ternoon at the Methodist church by Miss Bessie Combs, who is on a furlough from China. Arriving here from Middles*; about three thirty o’clock, full of pep and en thusiasm. she was ready to deliv er her message. The speaker, who was original-' j ly from SC Jose Missouri, was in troduced by Mis? Vara Herring, district secretary of the Woman’s Missionary Society. In her intro ductory remarks, Miss Combs said that she went to China in lull, fourteen years ago, and was sta tioned in a small town twenty five miles from Shanghai. After laboriously spending (Jays and months in the study of the Chinese language she was allowed to be gin work. She said that she did not go to China to teach but t.o preach, and she had been in China six years before she was given just the work she wanted. Then she was assigned evangelistic work among thti women and girls of one of the districts. She said that where she lives in China they have no roads but everybody travels by boat, and when she is out on the field at work she lives in a small houseboat. Because she is a mis sionary and tells the old, old story of Jesus and His love, her boat is called the “Jesus boat.” Miss Combs spoke of the great change that had come to Ameri ca in the fourteen years she has been away, especially in (he young people. She said everywhere she went the favorite theme was the “youth of today.” She said they were very different from the young people of a few years ago, and while they liked to say things that shock people, she believed that deep down in the heart of the young people today there was a yearning to do worth while things. She mentioned several new words that had been “coined” while she was away and dwelt partic ularly on “flappers” and the im pression they*' made on her. During her talk Miss Combs said sorrowfully that the church has not stood behind the mis sionaries. She spoke feelingly of the keen disappointment she felt when she learned that the mission hoard had cut the missionary ap propriation twenty per cent, even when the people here have so much money and can afford so many luxuries. She told of the dis appointment that the misionaries would feel when the news reached them. Her description of what the gospel is doing for those who had never before heard of Jesus Christ and His power to save from sin. was particularly strik ing and as she told of conversions and of how devout the vilest sin ners often became, it was very touching. She closed her interest ing talk by singing for the young people, “Near the Cross” in Chi nese. Discuss Ways and Means to Complete New Hospital As It Was First Intended With the new hospital well tin der way of construction the meet ing of the board of directors Fri day afternoon in the court house was characterized by discussions of ways and means bo complete the hospital as it was first in tended. The matter of collecting money for the stock already sub scribed was discussed and Eb. W. J. B. Orr, secretary-treasurer, was authorized to notify the stockhold ers that their second payment will be due on September 15. A campaign for the balance needed for tlie building will be put on in the near future. Nine of the fourteen stockhold ers were present at the meeting las follows: Dr. Thel Hooks, Dr. | A. H. Rose, Dr. W. J. B. Orr, Dr. j M. Hinnant, W. D. Hood, A. H. Morgan, N. B. Gralntham, K. C. j Gillette, and W. M. Sanders. The other members of the board of di rectors are: Ur. 0. ('. Massey, W. I). Aver a, W. H. Austin, R. P. Holding and W. N. Holt. Dr. Hook: , chairman of the board, presided over the meeting. A contract has been executed with Reinecke Construction com pany, and the company has given bond which is now in the hands of the secretary-treasurer. The agreement with the construction company provides for occupancy of the new building by January 1. A decision was made as to the type of brick to be used in the building, select common hard red brick being the choice. Before the meeting adjourned a committee was appointed to ap praise the hospital site and the hospital equipment now being used. This Crew Now Opening Its Nation-Wide Dry Drive All tali' and divisional chiefs in (ion. Lincoln C. Andrew's new Federal Dry Army were in Wash ington last week for a final council-»t'-war before the big drive which started this week. There are 22 district chiefs, unrestricted by state lines. It is planned to “get the big ones"—couuting off the liquor supply at the source. No. 1., Comm. Haynes; No. 2.. (ten. Andrews; No. Comm. White. Ivanhoe Manufacturing Co. Has A Second Hearing B. B. Adams. Former President of Defunct Mills, Testified That He Did Not Believe Mill Could Have Lost $667, 000 In Legitimate Hedging; Others Examin ed; Next Trial October 12# The bankruptcy trial of the Ivanhoe Manufacturing Company of this city whicii had its first hearing about a noy'\ ago before ■Joseph Blount Cheshire, Jr-, ref eree M bankruptcy, in Raleigh, was continued ttiis Week consum ing the greater part of Thursday. F. K. Broadhurst was treasurer and general manager of the eot ton mills, J. J. Broadhurst was bookkeeper and the following were on the board of directors: B. B. Adams, F, K. Broadhurst, J. J Broadhurst, W. H. Austin, J. H. B. Tomlinson, W. D. Avora and E, F Ward. The hearing Thursday was not qpmtjleted an# the case will be continued some time during the first days of October. An account of the hearing Thursday as pub lished in the News and Observer is as follows: B. B. Adams, of Four Oaks, for mer president of the defunct Ivan hoe Mills of Smithfield, testified that he did not believe the mill could have lost $667,000 in legiti mate hedgings on the cotton mar ket. He was a witness in bankrupt cy proceedings before Joseph Blount Cheshire, Jr., referee. He said that when he left the mill after a stroke in 1920 that the mill was in as good condition as any in North Carolina. “Mr. Adams made a very good witness in his own behalf against the thinly veiled insinuations of J. W. Bailey, attorney for Ken nuth Gai.it, trustee, that directors and officials of the mill had trad ed with themselves to the detri ment of the mill which failed in the spring of 1025 for about $800, 000. “Others examined yesterday were K. 'K. Broadhurst, treasurer and general manager of the de funct mill, and W. I. Smith, audi tor, who identified various figures quoted from the books of the com pany. Mr. Broadhurst was asked by Mr. Bailey to explain why certain large sums drawn from the account of the mill in Smith field banks were not entered on the books at the mill- Hu will probably be called upon for his explanation at the next hearing which will be October 12. Want Claims Disallowed “The parties represented by Mr. Bailey are endeavoring to have large claims against the mill by Mr. Broadhurst and others ox its directors disallowed. “The first witness called yester day was Mr. Broadhurst who wa. repeatedly questioned by Mr. Bailey as to losses of 3677,353,99, which the trustees, minority stock holders and some of the creditors are endeavoring to show wrere the result of speculation on the part of the directors. Mr. Broadhurst explained that the “hedging" op erations entered into to protect the company against fluctuations of (Turn to page four, please) Wilmington Officials Think Robinson Will Confess To Making 01 her Attempts Wilmington, Sept. 3.—The con fession of Tom Robinson, negro, convicted and sentenced to electro cution for criminally assaulting a student nurse here on the night of August 12, is regarded by local authorities as leading possibly to an admission that ho was the per petrator of the other attempted assaults upon other white women of this city in the same locality. “You, Sheriff Jackson, and Mr. Tindal, have saved my life—and I want you to know everything bad I have done,” Robinson told the sheriff aboard the train , as they were en route to the State Penitentiary in Raleigh. It is un derstood that the sheriff probably will receive a letter from the ne gro, to be opened after his execu tion next month, and it is believed this will contain a confession of a startling nature. The negro admitted he was afraid of mob violence before he Was carried to Raleigh for safekeeping and after he was brought back to the city for trial. Sheriff Jackson and his deputies have been highly commended by citizeens for th able manner in which law and or der was maintained under condi tions that have hardly ever exist ed in this community before, for 'he resentment to the heinous crime was so outspoken that at times it appeared as though an Outbreak could not he prevented. CO-OPS PAY HIGH ADVANCE IN EAST Tobacco Cooperatives are Now Ready For Good Season at Twenty-Five Markets) Twenty-five cooperative receiv ing points of the Tobacco Grow ers’ Cooperative Association open ed in as many Eastern North Car olina towns last- Tuesday morn ing with a first cash advance to growers of sixty-five per cent. This is the highest advance ever mde by any tobacco cooperative association in the country Association officials here Wed nesday had not received reports on the delivery but they did not expect.' a heavy one. The growers in and out of the association were more inclined, according to what information has been received, to watch the “breaks” on the auc tion floors and make a studied com parisen of the full price paid out in auction houses with flu- returns which the association advances will indicate. RANSOM RAYNOR INJURED BY AUTO Was Run Over Hv Automo bile On Highway at Han nah's Creek Church; Seriously Hurt. \s we go (• press newti r< aches us (hat Mr. Raynor died roon after reaching (he hospital in Fayetteville. A serious if not fatal accident ! occurred about 7:30 o’clock yes terday morning on the highway at Hannah s Creek Primitive Baptist church when Mr. Ransom Raynor was run over by an automobile driven by Dr. J. K. Parker, of Selma. According to reports received here, Mr. Raynor, who lives in the Banner Chapel section, had ' go'ae to the church to await for Mr. Troy Lee, one of the county / ommissioners, and was coming with him to Smithtield- In the ‘ meantime he was standing by the road talking to Mr. D. G. Allen. ' It seemed that they did not she the approaching automobile until is was almost at them and when Mr. Allen called to Mr. Raynor to “look out, a car is coming!” he stepped fa the wrong direction and the automobile ran over him. Mr. Raynor was immediately carried to Dr. Utley's office in Benson for medical attention and h's condition was found so serious that it was thought advisable to take him to a Fayetteville hos pital. At last reports he was said to be in a serious condition. Mr. Raynor is the father of Mr. James Raynor of Benson, and is a prominent man in his commun ity. He is about sixty-five years of age. HAIL AMI WIND STORM DESTROYS FIELD CROPS Oxford, Sept. 5.—The terrific hail and wind storm which visited Granville county late Tuesday af ternoon reached from the Virgin ia line to the Vance county line. The path of the storm was about four miles wide and ten miles long Never In the history of the coun ty has a more destructive storm been recorded. Some crops were totally destroyed, while others suffered 50 per cent loss'. In some sections not only the to bacco and corn crops were totally destroyed, but the entire woods nearby were stripped of trees. In some sections hail was so severe that it was reported to be ankle deep. On many farms only a small 'quantity of the tobacco had been cured, the entire remaining crop in the fields being lost- The dev astated farms' were visited by hundreds of citizens during the night and early morning. Immense trees were uprooted in many sec tions. No loss of lives has been : reported, only miraculous escapes. I Travelers on the roads were saved by iak?ng refuge in nearby houses. ! Three-fourths of the county was i not touched by this storm. CONTEST SCHOOL ELECTION A hearing was held yester day before the county commis sioners, of the Pleasant Grove school election which was held August 25, and which was al leged to he carried by a ma jority of three. The election was contested on several grounds. Those opposing the election raised the question of persons being improperly reg istered, of the election not be ing properly advertised, of an attempt tit bribe a registered voter, and of voting persons ab sent without the proper certif icate. The charge of bribery was thrown out when it nas shown that the alleged offer of brib ery affected in no. way the election. After hearing all the evi dence, the commissioners stat ed that, they would render a decision this morning. QUIET WEEK AT STATE CAPITAL Interest Centers in Opening of Tobacco Markets In Eastern North v Carolina. OTHER STATE NEWS Raleigh, Sept. 7.—A quiet week was passed in Rale*igh last week. Hie chief interest in the Capital City centering in the opening on September first of the tobaeoo markets of Eastern Carolina, this meaning much to the business of this section. The Governor and trustees went into conditions at Caswc 1! Training School before Mr. McLsa'n departed for New York to sign road bonds. High way Commissioner Frank Page left for Buenos Aires to attend a :1> .in-American road meet, the capital speculated over who would be appointed as judge at the spec ial term of court for the trial of W. B. Cole of Rockingham, the killer of W. W. Ormond, Josephus Daniels, chairman, went ahead with plans for a Bryan Memorial at Washington, D. C., the special I committee investigating the Com imissioner of Labor and Printing | with reference to favoritism | charges reported and printing bids I were opened for the public busi | ness. The Capital also looked for ward with interest to the Supreme jCourt of this week when the ap | peal of Henry Dennis Griffin of Williamston, sentenced to 30 years for mutilating Joseph Necdleman will be heard. i The opening of the tobacco mar | kets was distinctly disappointing. An average price of 14 to 16 cents which was four to five cents below last year was realized on opening I sales with about 8,000,000 pounds ! offered for sale. The quality of I the early tobacco was said to be poor. The opinion was expressed during the week that the best por tion of the crop had not been of fered for sale aind also that the farmers had drugged the market with too much cheap tobacco, thus lowering the price. Hope is held ithat the later season quality will raise the price. Governor McLean and the board ; of Caswell Training School de I oided at a meeting to formulate a ! definite policy in dealing with the feeble-minded children of the in stitution. This policy in its various I phases will be worked out by the j various members of the board and presented in full at a later meet i ing. Commissiekier Frank Page left i for South America to attend a rciad congress at Buenos Aires. After the meeting he expects to visit several South American re publics and inspect road systems, returning about November from his trip. Governor McLean has not ap pointed a judge to try W. B. Cole of Rockingham for the killing of (Turn to page four, please) MAY DREDGE NEUSE RIVER FOR BOATS Improvement To Be Consid ered At Meeting In Golds boro Today; Was Once Navigable A hearing of the Improvement of Neuse River from New Bern to Raleigh will be held at Golds j boro at eleven o’clock today. All who are interested in this im | prove ment which is under consid eration by t'he United States gov ernment are requested to be pres ent at the meeting. The hearing will be before Major Oscar 0. Kuentz, District Engineer of the United States Army. He has re quested that the arguments be put in writing as much as possible. This river at one time was nav igable as far up as Smithfield and there is no reason why it should not be open to navigation again. Its improvement will not only aid navigation but it will be most beneficial in flood control. There are thousands and thous ands of acres of land that are subject to floods from the waters of this river, due to the fact that ■it has not been improved.