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Make Your Plans TO SELL YOUR TOBACCO —IN— SMITHFIELD THIS SEASON g- “It’s just a little highere here” IF IT’S FOR THE GOOD OF JOHNSTON COUNTY, THE HERALD’S FOR IT. SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY MO.lNINu, SEPTEMBER 20, 1027 * * ¥ $2.00 PER YEAR Negro Killed By Shot From Dark —■»— Gamier Hinnant, Colored, In jail Awaiting Hearing; Shooting Occurred in Wild [ ers Township Saturday night about ten o’clock a negro by the name of “Foxy” Holder was killed at his home in Wilders township. Holder was call ed to the door of his home and a load of number eight shot which came from out of the darkness was fired into his stomach. Holder liv ed only a few minutes. His wife and children were at home with him, but they were so badly fright ened that they did not give any alarm nor let anyone know that Holder had been killed until 'early Sunday morning. Then Sheriff Turley was notified of the killing and deputies immediately went to the scene to make investigation. Coroner Kirkman was also sum moned, who after gathering what information he could, set the in quest for tomorrow at the John ston county courthouse. The fol-1 lowing jury has been summoned to i hear the facts in the case: J. I>. i Boyette, H. B. Boykin, V. R. Tur- | ley, J. M. Wall, S. Murphrey, and W. M. Murphrey. The deputies made investigations around Pineville the section where the killing took place- and later arrested Gamier Hinnant, a negro j who had made statements at a i store on Saturday night which to gether with other evidence led to a suspicion that he might have committed the crime. Hinnant was brought to jail yesterday morning where he awaits a preliminary hearing. The evidence is only cir cumstantial, but Sheriff Turley j considers it sufficiently strong to hold him. ^ -».-— The New Chronology “Why, Ella, you know that isn’t right. 1 remember it perfectly. Don’t you know it happened five instalments ago? Yes, sir, just five instalments after I kissed your ring upon your finger, Laura told us that she and AI were six instalments along on their new furniture. And now they are go ing to l.p divorced with only ten more instalments to meet. Well, as I said, they had their first quar rel just six instalments after our engagement. I remember it per fectly because it was the exact day of the third instalment on my car. the filth instalment on my radio and the ninth instalment on my j dog!”—Life. NO BAN TO BE PLACED LPON SEA FLIGHTS Washington, Sept. 16.—Scien and the pioneer instinct won a vi »ory over the risk of life tod; when the government air co-o dination committee decided again any federal ban on trans-ocean flights in land plains. The committee, composed fne Iniec* secretaries of the w; '^vy and commerce departmenl n nderod its decision after 'fleeting at the navy departmer The conference was called President Coolidge’s request consider the situation resuitii from the loss of life in rece °’e.- water flights in land plain 1,10 committee “xpressed pr found regret over these air tra e' i's hut saw no reason why su pioneering ventures, if undertak' •J personal competent to jud, ,u r‘skR involved and with car JH.V tested equipment of t hchest type, should be prohibit absolutely by law. Tantalizer Jhprn arc exactly enough let .?rs mi the line below to spell ne name of a person in Smith . , • an,l. if the right one de Jphers his name anti will pre ■^nt it to The Herald office, ' 0 will present him with a roniphmontary ticket to the ictory Theatre. Tickets must e called for before the fol ding iSSu-r. Malcolm Hathaway recogniz his name last issue. Today* Tantalizer: vielnhnjsono Rode Plane’s Tail Vincent Taylor, 17, of Hacken sack, N. J., in helping an air-mail pilot straighten away a plane for a night flight caught his band in a strut and was taken aloft on the tail of the plane where he rode for 30 miles. The pilot was unaware of the boy’s plight. Automobile Hits Princeton Child Seven Year Old Son of Walter Lee In Goldsboro Hospital ^ Seriously Injured -♦ GOLDSBORO, Sept. 17.—Gideon j Lee, age 7, son of Waiter Lee, Princeton garage owner, was se riously injured when struck on the highway at Princeton by a Chrys ler roadster driven by R. M. Bynum, Jr., of Raleigh, Friday nig*ht. The child was rushed to a Goldsboro hospital and examination disclosed that the left leg and arm were fractured. There was also a frac ture of the skull and undetermin ed internal injuries. The condition of the little boy waa reported as favorable today. In trying to avoid striking the child Bynum left the read on the left side overturning the car. Ail eye-witnesses agree that the ac cident was unavoidable. Mr. Bynum was on his way to Goldsboro to join his wife, who is here visiting her parents. GETTING ON BETTER THAN WAS EXPECTED GOLDSBORO, Sept. 18.—Gideon Lee, seven-year-old Princeton boy, who was seriously injured when hit by the automobile of R. M. Bynum. Jr., of Raleigh, on Friday night, is getting on better than could be expected according to his physician Dr. D. J. Rose. -4 OVER MILLION AND HALF BALES GINNED WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 8. —Census report shows 1,540,025 running bales (counting round as half bales) ginned from the crop of 1027 prior to September 1, com pared with 606,556 for 1026 and 1,886,399 for 1025. Department of Agriculture. | An estimated condition of 56.1 per cent of normal on September 1, with an indicated United States production of 12,602,000 bales (500 ; pounds gross weight) abandonment for the season of 4.8 per ce.it, and j indicated area left for harvest of 40,626,000 acres. is shown by the Crop Reporting Board of the U. S. D-.j artmeiu of Agricu’tuie. Consolidated Cotton Report. Sept. 1 Ginnings to Sept. 1, 1,540,025 running bales. Indicated t-'tal product! >n. 11, 602000 •.}. . , 500-pounds g! >ss. Condition Sept# 1, 56.1 per cent of normal. Indicated abandonment, 4.8 per cent. Indicated area left for harvest, 40,626,000 acres. Indicated yield of lint cotton, 140.3 pounds per acre for harvest. Revival at Tees 'Chapel. A revival began at Tees Chapel Saturday with Rev. E. C. Marris, of Durham, assisting the pastor, Rev. W. Ruftin Coates. Services are held at eleven o’clock in the morning and 7:30 at night. Large crowds have attended each serv ice and much interest has been nraniested. The prospects are brgiht for a good meting. The pub lic is cordially invited. -4.-.. Only the best products, properly displayed will win a premium at the fair. 1 Johnston Farmers See Their Error —♦— Those At First Urging Horne Bankruptcy Now Favor Composition In Case Raleigh, Sept. 14.—Johnston county farmers, who have been impatient for court day with Chas. W. Horne, and who helped to pre cipitate the bankruptcy proceed ings which established court con trol ever the Horne business, ar° joining a throng which would like *o see a composition of the Horne case so that the property would come back to Mr. Horne, the cred itors would get their 30 per cent or more, and Mr. Horne might >ckle a huge job again. A trip into the county without purpose of finding anything new on the Horne case, shows the in stability of public thought. Mr. Horne had many hundreds of thousands in small obligations. A few meetings soon had the country element organized ana pressing for bankruptcy. The court ordered it. The receivers were named. The property was put on the market. And about a month or six weeks ago a huge amount of cotton was sold when the market was sick. All of v hich the Horne supporters sought »o avoid. The cotton went at slight ly better than half its later mark et price. The ioss was $50 a bale or more. And soon came the far mer-chorus that Charley Horne always had paid the farmers more money for their cotton than they received elsewhere; that he al ways paid them and made some money. Had he been left to work out his own salvation, the Johns ton folks are sure that he would have held his cotton and sold it advantageously. j Ihe bankruptcy court, however! cannot wait on cotton. The bank-j ruptcy order is no temporizer. And ; a pretty little penny of one hun-| dred to two hundred thousands| lands to get lost in this shuffle, j the Johnston ans have been saying' these several days. Thty probab-; ly have the figures too high. The I losses from quick court sales will1 hardly be so great as feared, but the cotton on hand had to go in stanter and the pot into which the pile has been thrown is much far ther from filling than it has been. Whether the composition will take place or not, it is known that Mr. Horne can pay more than the bankruptcy will yield, can take back his farm lands and other property, set tbe machine awork ing again and get the aid of bank- I ers in an effort to make final and! full settlement of the pile of j claims which run near the million and a half mark RALEIGH, Sept. 17.—Johnston > county farmers who wish to return i to the status quo ante, as the legal folks have it, and put their ac counts into the keeping of Charles W. Horne, who was adjudged a bankrupt sonic weeks ago at their instance, will be resisted by Mr. Horne’s attorneys. Whether all of them will oppose the scheme of composition nobody can say. Mr. Horne and his attor neys did their best to head off any bankruptcy. No member of the family bearing the Horne name ever had gone into bankruptcy and in the olden days when Mr. Horne’s father, Col. Ashley Horne, was run ning for governor, it was said of him during the campaign that he never put anybody else in bank ruptcy or sold anybody out. But the assurances of Raleigh and Wendell bankers that Mr. Horne probably could pay 100 cents on every dollar due did not suf fice. When the thing came to a sort of referendum the Johnston county folks followed their lead ers into the bankruptcy court, ihe property sold has been on the mar ket again, and cotton, disposed of weeks ago, was as one born out of season. The farmers are not get ting anything like their former prices. They are sorry that they hurried Mr. Horne into a court. There was not a judgment against him when the showdown was de manded. He had paid many thous ands too much for the cotton that he held but he had been able in times past to come out. And Johnstonians are sighing for the old days now. They kicked Mr. Horne into the bankruptcy courts and they kicked his prop Congressman Pou For Farm Relief —*— Favors Extra Session of Congress To Consider The Agricultural Problem WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—Farm legislation is just as necessary now as it was last winter, regard les of recent advance in prices of farm products, believes Representative; Edward W. Pou, of the fourth dis trict. “Because of recent advances in the price of farm products,” says Mr. Pou, “it will probably be urg ed that there is no necessity for the passage of farm relief legis lation by the congress which will convene in December. But if the agriculture of the nation is to be placed on a stabilized basis, legis lation by congress is just as neces sary now as it was last winter. “When the railroads were facing financial disaster congress passed legislation which placed the rail roads of the nation (with a very few exceptions) on a paying basis. Of course, the manufacturers have had for years protection which amounts to a subsidy. “Agricultural products have only commanded higher prices when there was more or less of crop disaster. If there is to be even moderate prosperity, the relation of the government to agriculture must be revised. It is the para mount question with which the new congress will be called upon to deal. “I shall to the best of my ability cooperate with the representatives of the farmers’ organizations in outting through the new congress such a measure as is mutually agreed upon. The justice of such, legislation, the urgent need for it is such that I am ready to throw consistency to the winds, and to try out almost any measure agreed upon by farm representatives.” i When asked if he would vote for the McNary-Haugen bill, if this measure is again brought up this winter, Mr. Pou stated that he tvould as a last resort. When the McNary-Haugen bill passed the House during the last session of Congress, Representative Bulwin He, who opposed the bill, stated to the House that if Mr. Pou had icen present he would have voted against the bill, and in favor of the A swell measure. “President Coolidge might well call Congress in extra session ob October 15,” continued Mr. Pou, ‘to give opportunity to consider this great problem. One thing is certain, if we are to judge by past experience, there are so many great problems with w'hich Con gress will be called upon to deal unless there is an extra session, some of these problems will not receive attention. Just why there should be any hesitation about call ing an extra session when leaders on both sides are urging it, is hard to understand. There is the prob lem of flood relief legislation, there is also the problem of legis lation to prevent a recurrence of the recent flood as far as it is hu manly possible to do so. “I would not suggest that there is a purpose to side track any of the great measures which demand consideration, but if the President persists in refusing* to listen to leaders on both sides, it would j seem that there is a purpose to give Congress just a little time; as possible to consider a program unsurpassed in importance for the last 50 years.” It was indicated at the White House this afternoon that Presi dent Coolidge has virtually aban doned the idea of assembling Con gress in advance of its regular time.—Thomas H. Young, in News and Observer. erty on the market. The stuff sold badly and there are huge losses ahead. Mr. Horne would have pre ferred taking his goods back, but some of his lawyers, and maybe all of them, would be opposed to the plans of his creditors for their own benefit. They hustled him into the courts. He comes out at the leisure of the law and they do not like it very much.—Greensboro News. ♦ Neary every dairyman in Gas on county has a silo or will build one soon Stave silos are most common. i Prison. fPcdls. Behind JAvm>CA.s~ncg~l * Former Governor T.l McCrajr d Indiana—free on parole after serv ing 3 years and 4 months on con viction of having used the,mails to defraud. Tilden Honeycutt In Auto Accident -♦ Misses Burton and Austin of Nashville Also Injured; In Salisbury Hospital -4 ^SALISBURY, Sept. 18.—Miss Polly-Burton and Miss Jackie Aus tin, both of Nashville, N. C., are in the Salisbury hospital suffering from severe bruises and shock as a result of an automobile accident ! at the corner of Mahaley and ■ Mocksville avenues, this after- ! noon. A car in which the two young ;adies were riding with Tilden Honeycutt, of the Dixie Fire In surance company, Greensboro, and Ed Kornegay, of Harrison Printing company, Greensboro, was struck by another car and overturned. Mr. Honeycutt is also a patient in the Salisbury hospital with severe bruises but Mr. Kornegay was only slightly hurt. Miss Burton is a teacher in the Salisbury schools and Miss Austin teaches at Rock well . and was spending the week j end with Miss Burton. Mr. Honey-1 cutt’s home is at Smithfield and j Mr. Kornegay’s home is Goldsboro. I NOTE—iS. T. Honeycutt, father ! of Tilden Honeycutt, was sum moned to Salisbury yesterday. After an 'X-ray examination, the injuries of Tilden Honeycutt were found to be more serious than they were first thought today. The young man is quite popular here where he lived all of his life until a few months ago when he accept ed a position in Greensboro. His many friends wish for him a speedy recovery. GIPSIES GET IN TROUBLE Traffic ^Cop T. E. Talton was no tified yesterday afternoon by Selma officers to intercept a couple of gipsies, a man and a woman, head ed for Smithfield, the gipsies hav ing relieved an old negro man of $50. Talton speeded toward- the Selma road and soon had the par ties under arrest. Chief Griffin of Selma was at the courthouse in a short time, identified the offend er's and took them into custody. There were two cars of gipsies, one car proceeding toward Benson. Historical Echoes Several feet from the organ grinder and near the bank ear is a rusty, decrepit, stooped and ail ing flivver, with a smooty sign: “I DO NOT CHOOSE TO RUN IN 1928.”—Boston Post. What femininity is hoping for, we imagine, is a silk stocking that v/ill rise up, so to speak, and ad dress the world approximately as follows: “I do not choose to run.”—De troit Free Press, McLamb Draws Five Year Term —«— Tobe Holt Gets Two Year Road Sentence; J. H. Holt, Six Months; Appeals Jn All 3 Cases The special term of Superior court granted for the trial of crim inal cases came to a close Satur day afternoon about five o’clock. Judge Henry A. Grady, who pre sided, kept the court busy when in session and the calendar was clear ed of a number of cases. Tobe Holt who was tried about the middle of the week, was sen tenced before court adjourned, to! two years in jail to be worked on j the roads of Johnston county. He i had recived a sentence of eighteen ! months when the case was tried in the Recorder’s court. Holt gave notice of appeal to the Supreme court and gave an appearance bond of $2500. His appeal bond was fix ed at $75. J. H. Holt, who was in court charged with violation of the pro hibition laws, was found guilty and was given a sentence of six months on the roads. He also took j an appeal to the Supreme court, j and gave a $1000 bond for his ap pearance. His appeal bond was also fixed at $75. Thursday the case, state vs. Fel ton MeLamb, an eighteen? year old boy of Benson, charged with a criminal assault upon a female un der sixteen years of age, was call ed. By eleven o’clock a jury was impanelled, after which court was adjourned in order that attendants upon court might attend the cele bration at Bentonville. The case was resumed Friday and the en tire day was spent in hearing- the evidence. Saturday, the ^lawyers made their speeches, and at four fifteen that afternoon the case went to the jury. The jury stayed out about fifteen minutes and re turned with a verdict of guilty. The judge imposed a sentence of five years in the State Prison. The defendant took an appeal to the Supremo court. He gave an ap pearance bond of $3000 and an ap peal bond for $75. FREE WILL BAPTISTS ARE FOR PROHIBITION GOLDSBORO, Sept. 16.—The annual State convention of Free; Will Baptist closed yesterday at Shady Grove, Sampson county aft er three days of deliberation. There was a large attendance and much enthusiasm manifested according to reports received by those who attended from this city. Among the resolutions adopted was one urging all Free Will Bap tists to stand by and aid those who are in authority in the enforcement of the prohibition laws, and that as a people joined together, not to support any one for office who is not in sympathy with the Eighteen th Amendment, regardless of polit ical p-arty. It was urg-ed that the stand be “from township officer to the President of the United States.” Rev. S. H. Styron, of Pine Level, who has been president of the con vention for ten years, was re elected. According to reports “The de nomination has made much prog ress in all lines of work during the past year, the greatest being made in the orphanage at Middlesex, and Eureka College, at Ayden. The treasurer’s report for the year was the best in the history of the in stitution. The leading speakers for the oc casion were: Prof. William Henry Oliver, of Nashville, Tenn., Rev. R. jV. Self, West Asheville, Rev. E. C. iGaskill Sea Level Prof. R. E. Spencer, President of Eureka Co lege, Ayden, and the president of the convention Rev. S. H. Styron. AMOS COLEMAN, COLORED, •DIES AT SAWMILL CAMP J. H. Kirkman, coroner, was summoned to Gill’s sawmill camp in Oneals township on Tuesday, Sept. 13, to hold an inquest over the dead body of Amos Coleman, colored. A jury composed of D. J. Smith, B. H. Seawell, W. R. Jeans, NT. T. Holton, W. R. Fail and Lee Hocutt was summoned for the pur pose of investigating the cause of the death. The jury found that Coleman came to his death from natural causes. Also Asks Apology Kosika bchwimmer who organ »ed (he Henry Ford Peace Shi| jow requests Mr. Ford's apology to clear herself," she says, "n; charges growing out of the unsuc cessful mission in 1915 to get the toys out of the trenches by Xmas.’ Farmers Of N. C. Will Organize American Farm Bureau Fed eration Will Be Invited to Help Ir« the Organization Raleigh, Sept. 19.—An invitation will be extended the Farm Bureau Federation to come to North Car olina and help to organize the farmers of the estate into one state-wide farm organization. This is the result of the resolu tion passed at the last meeting of the State Farmers’ Convention, follewd by action taken at a meet ing held at State College on Aug ust 25, and a decision reached at a further meeting held on Thurs day, September 9. A sub-committee appointed by Chairman Fred P. Latham oi* the general conference worked for sev eral weeks on its report to the conference on Sept. 9. This sub committee was headed by Dr. Claience Poe and had studied care fully all of the big national farm organizations as well as conditions within this state. The committee expressed its cordial appreciation of the work done by all farm organizations. In no way was its action in select ing the American Farm Bureau antagonistic to any other such or ganization a* the Alliance, the Farmers’ Union, the Grange or similar federations, but it felt that the American Farm Bureau Fed eration more nearly fulfilled the requiremenets of conditions in this state and for that reason, this r.’, lionai body was selected for at filiation. The committee also provided for an organization committee that v :li pro -*fd with dteniis of c* lying through the spirit of the Fpim Convention resoiuHur,. The first quarter of 1928, from Janu ary 1 to April 1, was designated as -Farm Organization Quarter” and all organizations, county ag ents, school teachers and others interested in the continued wel lare of farming in the State will be asked to take part in the work. No oiganization work will be dope in any community or county until the local agricultural leaders are consulted. -♦ REVIVAL CLOSES AT TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH A revival meeting closed Wed nesday night at Trinity Baptist church, and there were twenty-one [additions to the church. Eighteen I joined by baptism, two by restor ation, and one by letter. The re vival, which ran for ten days, was the best held at the church in years. Rev. L. R. Tate, of States ville, a former pastor of the Trin ity field, did the preaching. Rev. G. P. Lanier is the present pastor. Sardis Baptist Church. Regular services at Sardis Bap tist church next Sunday, Septem ber 25, conducted by the pastor, Rev. Jas. \V. Rose. At morning worship the subject will be: “The Magnifying of Christ in Both Our Soul and Body Through the Church.” The subject for the eve ning worship: “The Guarding of Our Chief Treasure.” The text for this subject will be found in Prov. 4:23—“Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.” Livestock Show Gets Under Way Attractive Program For En tire Week; Three Counties Cooperating -♦ The tri-county livestock show which begins at Benson today is the only show of this kind ever put on in North Carolina, stated N. G. Bartlett, secretary of the Eastern Carolina chamber of commerce, who was in Smithfield yesterday en route to Benson to see that the affair comes off without a hitch. This fair is sponsored by the branch office of the Eastern Car olina chamber of commerce which is located at Benson. The counties of Johnston, Harnett and Samp son were selected because they are three of the biggest cotton coun ties in the state, and because the prospective cooperation in this ter ritory was fine. The branch office started out with the aim to place a thousand dairy cows in these three counties within eighteen months beginning June lty 1927. The raising of poultry and hogs is urged in connection with the dairy business. The livestock show will tell in a concrete manner what is now being done along this line, and will sug gest what future operations may be. Food and feed exhibits related to dairying will feature the sKov One thousand dollars in cash premiums will be awarded for the various exhibits of the entire fair. An interesting part of the show will be the improved dairy machin ery, including milking machines which will be demonstrated. The fair is being financed en tirely by public spirited men of Benson. Dr. A. S. Oliver is pres ident of the fair association, James E. Wilson is vice-president, and J. B. Slack, secretary. The program opens this morning at eleven o’clock with a big pa rade yi which a hundred or more cars are expected to be featured. Tomorrow a livestock institute will be held at the high school auditor ium at 10:30 a. m. Dairy special-, ists from State College will con duct this institute. An amusement program has been provided, and fireworks will be shown Tuesday and Thursday nights. Free acts will be given every day. On Thursday, civic luncheon clubs of the three counties will hold a noon meeting, -♦ Family Leaves For Kentucky. Kenly, Sept. 10.—Rev. and Mrs. W. T. Evans and son left Friday, for Louisville, Ky. Mr. Evans will enter the Louis ville Seminary and Mrs. Evans will enter the training school for wom en. Mr. Evans was pastor of the Missionary Baptist church here for about three years and will be miss ed by the church and town. The Christians and pastors of the town express the high esteem in which they hold Mr. Evans as a conse crated Christian and as a preach ?r of ability. He has ranked among the most successful pastors and is a thoughtful and scholarly preach er. He has done a great work here, and will especially be missed in the union prayer meeting on each We i nesday evening as ho was alwa s present. --4- ^ STANDARD KEEPER TESTS COTTON WAREHOUSE SCALES C. W. Lindsay. Standard keeper for Johnston County, has recently made a test of the scales at the Cotton Storage Warehouse end finds them to be in good shape. Now cotton is now being stored, and this information may be of interest to the public. AUNT ROX1E SAYS— By Me—< I* wL^l ® ■Aj' “Do man who dooze unnecessary work uv Sunday iz mo’ an apt to ' be dippin’ atter de root ur tril." A ■i'A-lk