Slogan For 1928 Raise your food and feed stuff and “Live at Home” CONSIDER THIS! The Herald has the largest circu lation of any newspaper publish ed in Johnston County. That’s something to consider, Mr. Ad vertiser ! §2.00 PER YEAR Sanity Trial Of Hickman In Progress Superior Judge J. J. Tradueco Has Been Appointed to Preside Over Hearing of Confessed Slayer of Marion Parker LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25.— (AP) —Superior Judge J. J. Tradueco, prominent veteran jurist of Cali fornia, tonight was appointed to preside over the sanity trial of William E. Hickman, kidnapper and slayer of Marian Parker. The decision was announced a few hours after Superior Judge Carlos Hardy, whom the defense attorneys accused of bias and pre judice in the case, had removed himself “in the interest of jus tice and the speedy hearing of the case." Judge Tradueco, who comes from Mariposa county, has been a Cal ifornia jurist for 30 years. For several months he has beon acting ! j. as a relief judge in Los Angeles | ■county courts. HARDY REMOVES HIMSELF AS HICKMAN CASE JUDGE HALL OF JUSTICE, Los Ange- i les, Jan. 25.— (AP)—Swift and un- | expected moves that ended in the I defense scoring a prime victory, j that of obtaining a new judge by j charging bias and prejudice to the ' jurist assigned to the case, marked j the opening day of the sanity trial j of William E. Hickman, kidnap per and slayer of 12-year-old Mar-1 ian Parker. j Superior Judge Carlo.4- "Hardy filed an affidavit consehtir.e “in the ' interest of justice and the speedy ; hearing of this trial” to remove j himself from the case. The trial judge is expected to be named by a judicial council, headed by Wil liam Waste, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. STRIKES SWIFTLY. Striking swiftly after the trial j. was called to order this morning, j' r Jerome Walsh, Kansas City attor ney defending Hickman, entered i an exception to Judge Hardy. The J defense charged bias and prejudice P on three separate grounds and the court denied that such were true. 1 Forty minutes after the trial open- j* ed adjournment was taken until j1 afternoon to give the petition more consideration. Alter an nour s comerence witn Superior Court Judge Victor Me- { Lucas, Judge Hardy decided to file } a counter affidavit. In this, al- ‘ though denying the harboring of. any bias or prejudice, Judge Hardy } in effect disqualified himself from ( the trial. P District Attorney Asa Keyes, ^ chief of the State’s attorneys, vig orously opposed the court’s action, 1 and he urged the overruling of the 1 defense’s exception. Keves refused 1 the legal opportunity of conferring 1 •with the defense counsel to select S a judge mutually acceptable, and 1 the procedure of naming Judge Hardy’s successor went to the ju- I dicial council, empowered by law 1 to so act in such a situation. i TAKE ADJOURNMENT. i * The swift action of the morning « session was eclipsed by the after- < noon session, which lasted only 20 1 minutes. Adjournment was taken until Thursday morning. | In contrast to the morning ses- 1 sion when few women were among jt the spectators and a dozen seats < were vacant in the court room, the < (Continued on Page 4) |i Tantalizer There are exactly enough let ters in the line below to spell the name of a person in Smith field, and if the right one de ciphers his name tmd will prr- * sent it to The Herald office, we will present him with a complimentary ticket to the ' Victory Theatre. Tickets must i be called for before the -fol lowing issue. Olha Stephenson rccogniz- j t ed his name last issue. Tooay-s -Tantaliser: ► eadteurng Oklahoma’s Bad Man I (‘XuTOC>ygTCR. I 'Matt ’ Ivimes, 22 year old bank robber who stirred ’em up by his . boldness. He stole an automobile »n which a baby was sleeping— . but returned it when discovered. Then he took the Chief of Police < c. Jennings, Okla., at point of. a '< gun on a wild night ride, tied him !, to a tree and escaped. ----- 1 Highway Accidents Subject Gf Address Kiwanians Hear C. T. Mat thews of Carolina Motor Club; Appoint Committee To Consider Managerial Form of Government Kiwanian C. T. Matthews, of Greensboro, a representative of the Carolina Motor Club, made a very interesting talk to the local Ki .vanis club at its regular weekly meeting yesterday. Kiwanian T. C. doling in charge of the program 'or the day introduced Mr. Mat ;hews to the club. The figures given by Mr. Mat hews on the accident record of North Carolina revealed an alarm ng situation. Last year five hun Ired people lost their lives in this date through automobile accidents, besides this number killed, there vere hundreds who received minor njuries, and there were twenty hree hundred accidents in which here were no fatalities. Last Novmber there were three lundred and thirty-nine accidents eported. Sixty-nine were killed in hese accidents. A review of these ases snowed that forty-five of the iccidents were caused by speeding nd that practically all of the four ; lundred and eighty-eight drivers, nvolved in these accidents were , xperienced drivers who had been j ehind the wheel for more than , year. Mr. Matthews remarked , hat one of the interesting things withered from the review of these ases was the. fact that only thir y-three of the more than four. undred drivers were women. The Carolina Motor Club is in- i erested in establishing a State i ighway Patrol System, which they i elieve will greatly reduce the reck- ! css driving on the highways of the date and make motor transporta ion a safer thing for the people, i his patrol system is in vogue in | laryland and Pennsylvania and | as proved a great success. The i loney for the support and equip - | lent of such a patrol could be rais- j d from a fee of one dollar charg- j d for every driver’s license. The Ciwanians heard Mr. Matthews | nth profit and interest. Mrs. W. J. B. Orr and Miss tuth Brooks furnished music for he meeting which was very much njoyed. A committee from the lub was appointed to look into the natter of fostering interest in a nanagerial form of government j or the county. Other civic clubs j n the county have the same mat- ; er under consideration. -0 A CARD OF THANKS Wc wish to extend our love and ppreciation to those who in any , vay rendered love and services to is in our sad and trying hours in he death and burial of our dear vife and mother. We want to es tecially thank the doctors and the lurses for their medical aid and issistance. May God bless you all nd keep you is our prayers. ADK1N WOOD and daughter, DOROTHY LEE WOOD. Negro Tenants Tried In Court —*— Four Men Caught at Whiskey! Still Found Guilty of Man-; ufacturing and Possession -4 A half dozen negro tenants of * I. A. Welons were arraigned in i Recorders court Wednesday of this week, all charged with disposing of ' • reps before paying rents. The ; charges were set forth in six cases ; here being two defendants in the | irst case tried, Offie and Adline' holmes. Offie Holmes was found j lot guilty, but Adline Holmes who ■ented the land was found guilty j >ut prayer for judgment was con inued upon payment of cost. The ither defendants, Jas. Watson, iohn White, Isham Watson, Jr , sham Watson, Sr., and Bennie Watson were all found guilty and ach was sentenced to thirty days ' n the roads and to pay cost, the ; oad sentence to be suspended upon payment oi a hne and cost.' Kach of the five defendants took j' an appeal to the Superior court. Four cases in this week’s court ( grew out of the capture of a whis- j key still by L. D. Parker and R. C. Hockaday on Thursday of last week in Banner township. Six men were seen at the still, four of whom were arrested. The other two have not yet been apprehend ed. The men who were brought to trial are John Dave Phillips, Will Phillips. Talmage Capps and Ben Allen. These four defendants were all charged with violation of the prohibition law and all were found guilty of manufacturing and pos session. John Dave Phillips was sentnccd to jail for a term of <10 days to he worked on the roads of Johnston county and to pay cost. The jail sentence is to he sus pended upon paymi nt of $25 fine and cost. Will Phillips was sentenced to jail for a term of six months to be worked on the roads of Johnston county and pay cost. Jail sentence is to he suspended upon payment of $100 fine and cost, and upon further condition that the defend ant does not violate the prohibition law again during the next two years, either by manufacturing', possession, transportation, owning 1 or possessing any spiritous liquor ■ or any equipment, and not to aid ‘ or abet or assist in any way, any one by being present where whis key is manufactured, kept, or I stored, during the next two years. xuf nimiiig gumy 01 tne detend ant of any of the above provisions shall be a breach of this judgment. TaImago Capps was sentenc ed to the roads for sixty days, the sentence to be suspended upon the payment of cost and upon further condition that the defendant does not violate prohibition law again in two years. Ben Allen was given a road sen tence of sixty days, and was taxed with the cost. The road sentence is to be suspended upon payment of cost and upon the condition that the defendant does not vio late the prohibition law again m two years. % Other cases disposed of in Re corders court this week are as fol State vs. Delmo Weeks charg ed with violation of the prohibi tion law. The defendant was found guilty of possession and was sen tenced to work the roads for 60 days and to pay a $25 fine and cost. The road sentence is to be suspended upon the condition that the defendant does not violate the prohibition law again during the next two years and pay cost and fine. State vs. Lizzie Eason charged with assault. The defendant was found guilty and was sentenced to go to jail for a term of 30 days to be worked in jail and to pay cost. The jail sentence is to be suspended upon payment of $10 fine and cost. State vs. Needham Davis charg ed with carrying concealed weap on. The defendant was found guilty and was given a road sentence of 60 days and was taxed with the cost. State vs. H. E. Renfrow, Paul Boyette, Joe Freeman Home and Willie Renfrow charged with tres pass. All the defendants w'ere found guilty. Prayer for judgment was Pushing Action For Bentonville Park The bill introduced in the Senate by Senator F. M. Sim mons, identical with that intro duced in the House of Repre sentatives by Congressman Ed ward Pou, to establish a na tional military park to commem orate the battle of Bentonville, in Jonston county, passed its second reading in the Senate Fri day, according to a letter receiv ed Tuesday from Senator Sim mons by Gov. A. W. McLean. Senator Simmons and Con gressman Pou introduced the bill on request of Governor Me* J I,can in a letter sent them on December 20. The bill was re ferred in the Senate to the Com mittee on Military Affairs. “I shall be delighted to help with this matter in any way I can,'**5 Senator Simmons writes.—News and Observer. rax Collector Is \fter More Money ’alls on Tax Payers Who Have Not Paid Not To Make It Necessary To Levy A Cost Johnston county’s tax collectoi has been keeping quiet. He ha< been staying in his office and look ing strictly after the matters per taining to his job, getting thing in readiness to write receipts for the taxpapers when they shpuld pay their tax; and since tnq books have been turned over to him he has been receiving tax funds ev ery day. But after these days of steady work, the tax collector has a message for the taxpayers of the county, and this is what he has to say: “To the taxpayers of Johnston lounty: First, to you who have paid your tax, we want to thank you. Also we want to commend you 3n having done your duty. To you >vho have not yet paid, we hope y-ou are getting ready to pay soon. We are here waiting and looking ’or you every day. “The law regarding the collee :ion of tax has been amended ro hat it makes an early collection lecessary. As your collector, it be comes my duty to carry into ef fect this law, and I am sure it will >e your desire for me to do so, and I that you will give me your hearty cooperation in carrying this law |into effect. We know from exper ience that when the law is obeyed, we have better times. “Now' it is my aim and desire I to give you all the benefit the law will allow, but will suggest that jyou make your arrangements to xome and pay early. If you don t, the law will force me to levy a !cost and force a collection, which 1 hope will not be necessary. I “The law makes tax due each year on the first of October, so up to the present time you have had about four months in which to pay. Many of the good citizens of this county have paid their tax, and they think it is none the less your duty to pay yours, and they are requesting me to see that everyone pays soon. By so doing you save a great deal in the amount of pen alty and cost. Several thousand dol lars in penalties and cost was paid in this county last year. You, the taxpayers, pay it. So come early and avoid it—keep that penalty and cost in your own pocket. When you wait long to pay your tax, you cause those in charge- of your coun ty government to borrow a lot of money to run the expenses un til you do pay, thereby causing you as taxpayers to pay lots of inter est. Let us stop that by paying early and thereby lower our tax for the next year. “W. F. GRIMES, “Tax Collector for Johnston Co." continued upon payment of cost. An appeal was taken to Superior court. | State vs Buck Hinnant charged with assault with deadly weapon. Defendant was found guilty, and was sentenced to the roads for a term of four months and to pay Health Department Makes Good Showing - Dr. Massey Makes Report of dear’s Work to Health Hoard —Shows Varied Activities i The annua] report of Dr. C. C. Massey, county health officer, was the feature of the special meeting: of the county Board of Health held here recently. J. D. Underwood presided over the meeting and called for the report which Dr. Massey read as follows: * ‘‘Johnston county shared its part with the state in the contagious i diseases, which reached epidemic proportions in places. Measles and whooping cough were far more1 prevalent. The records in the local health department show a total of 678 cases of measles, whooping cough, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, smallpox, chicken pox, meningitis, etc., and this figure represents only j] a part of the cases actually occurr ing, since a small percentage was reported from the rural parts of | the county. “There were vaccinated against i smallpox, 1721, typhoid fever, 8101, and diphtheria, 928. “The report shows much time ?pent in schools, 95 schools having j aeen visited, with 2803 children laving been examined and atten tion called to ordinary defects, ( vith the correction of 424. Much i jffort was made in the schools to lorrect malnutrition. i wo luoercuiosis clinics were held during; the past year, one for adults and one for children, con ducted by a specialist from the i State Sanatorium. In these clinics many adults and children were ex amined, resulting; in the discovery of 24 incipient cases, a part of |whom institutional treatment was f provided while the others were given proper instructions for home j treatment. I “Special examinations for mar riage. 180, teachers certificated, 18, children certificated for industry, 45. “Sanitation, all hotels, cafes, and restaurants were inspected and properly rated, with the assistance of a State inspector. The servants, or food handlers were given a phy sical examination as required by law. ‘ “Visits to jail, 124, convict camp, G8, county home, 84, with appro priate treatment as the case re quired, autopsies 5, conferences, individual and group, 1930, car— miles, 11,400. “Th,e earning by the department was $2.90 for every dollar expend ed, this calculation being made by a plan laid down by the State Board of Health.” The report of Dr. Massey was unanimously adopted and the year’s work was commended. The County Health Board is composed of J. D. Underwood, Dr. .1. B. Person, Dr. A. H. Rose, H. B. Marrow and C. A. Fitzgerald. All were present at the recent meeting except Mr. Fitzgerald. SEVERE WINDSTORM HITS COLUMBIA, S. C. COLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 25.—Co lumbia was visited tonight by a terrific W’ind storm accompanied by a heavy rain which blew down tel ephone, telegraph and power poles and threw a great portion of the city in darkness, but with no ac companying loss of life. The storm seemed to center on Main street and while no great property loss has been reported many window panes, plate glasses j and doors W'ere smashed. The low er house of the general assembly ] was in session at the time and the lights of the state capital were put out of commission. Automobiles were blown across i the street and one automobile was blown against the building of an automobile company with such • force as to knock off a small cor- i ner of the building. Freewill Baptist Church. j Sunday school Sunday morning i at 9:30 o’clock, F. C. Fitzgerald j superintendent. Church services | Sunday evening at 7 o’clock. Pray er meeting Wednesday evening at1 7 o'clock. F. W. B. League Thurs-1 day evening at 7 o’clock. The sub- ( jeet for the evening “Gain and Abel.” Everybody is invited to at- j tend these meetings. 1 l SEVEN HUNDRED SEE BIG HOG TURNED INTO PORK W. T. Kirby of Kenly Practices “Living At Home’’ During His Farmer’s Ca reer of 46 Years. Ho(f killing is always a great event on the farm, but not many hog killings create the interest hog killings create the interest as the one staged by W. Thompson Kirby who lives on the outskirts of Kenly, did when he killed his !i7i pound Poland China last Tuesday. Fully seven hundred persons were 01 hand to see the porker strung ip. and according to Mr. Thomp son's own statement, around ten thousand have been to his house luring the past two months,to see he big hog. The fame of the hog spread and people from seven dif erent states have stopped by to tee this tinest specimen! of swine hat this section has seen. The hog, which was a full-blood id big-boned I olanri China, was wenty-eight months old the day before he- was killed. The weight of the hog dressed was 924 pounds. The liver and chitterlings tipped the scales at fifty pounds. Besides the big hog, Mr. Kirby has killed about 700 pounds oft pork, but this is not as much as he usually kills. Last July he had the misfortune to lose sixteen head of hogs with the cholera. \\ hile this is the biggest hog } Mr. Kirby has ever raised, he rais- 1 ed one four years ago that was of pretty good size, weighing 875 ' pounds gross and which dressed 1 gut 815 pounds. Mr. Kiiby attrib- i utes the popularity of the porker i just killed to the fact that he now i lives right on Highway No. 22, s whereas, four years ago he was ? some distance from the main road, c Continued on page four Col. Olds Here In Interest Of Records James to Raleigh Documents Dating From Formation of County to About 1800 For Reconditioning Col. Fred A. Olds, secretary of! the State Historical Commission, I spent two days here this week in the interest of preserving some of the old rcords of Johnston county. Filed in the basement room of the clerk of the court’s office in the courthouse were numerous old ree-, ord books and old documents, but age was beginning to tell, and Col. ^ Olds selected those dating from, the formation of Johnston county!' until about 1800, and on Wednes-j day they were placed on a truck ; and under the personal care of Col. Olds were taken to the Su preme court building in Raleigh, : where each record will be careful- 1 ly leconditioned as to binding and < working up margins of pages 1 which have been worn. The old and 1 faded handwriting will be treated < py a process that will render the 1 penmanship legible. This is done i under the direction of the Histor- ] ical Commission of which Col. ] Olds is secretary. i When the reconditioning is com- 1 pleted, all of the documents will t re catalogued so that in a very ( few minutes, information may be 1 ocated. i Col. Olds has just completed a » umilar work in Craven county. In r fact, the old records of practically ! ill of the counties now have been 1 mken to Raleigh and worked over n order that they may be preserv- j ?d. « While in Smithfield, Col. Olds ac* i ?epted an invitation from the sup- 5 ?rintendent of the city schools to 1 :alk at the chapel period both Tues- f lay and Wednesday mornings. On ruesday he addressed the high 1 school using Daniel Boone as his subject. Wednesday he talked to he grammar grades. r 'Col. Olds is doing a splendid >vork in helping to preserve the j listory of North Carolina. He is 1 he author of a series of articles t >n North Carolina governors now ] [•uniring in some of the Sunday j lewspapers. i [fOTTON REPORT FOR i JOHNSTON COUNTY 1 Census report shows that there were 50,843 bales of cotton gin red in Johnston county from the . ;rop of 1927 prior to Jan. 10, 1928 • is compared with 70,838 bales gin-. red to January 10, 1927 crop of 1920. | K. G. HOLLAND, Gin Reporter. DEATH OF A BABY. The Death Angel visited the i ronre of Mr. and Mrs. I. B. John son on January 19 and gently bore , iway the spirit of their darling . raby, William Howard. He was porn on October 30, 1927, making lis stay on earth nearly three j nonihs. Buffaloes Bond Is Reduced To $1000 The habeas corpus proceedings in connection with Buffaloe case conducted in Goldsboro Tuesday afternoon before Judge Daniels re sulted in the negro’s bond being reduced from $10,000 to $1,000. The negro,- however, is still in jail in default of bond. The case will be tried in the March term of court. J. H. Pou and A. M. Noble appeared for Buffaloe, while E. J. Wellons represented the prosecu tor. Buffaloe is charged with kill ing the four and a half year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Zeb Thomp son, the truck which he was driv ing having struck the child. SMITH FIE LD-PRINCETON TO CLASH JAN. 31ST. PRINCETON, Jan. 25.—The Princeton boys are still boasting hat they are the Johnston county j rhamps and are rejoicing in a lumber of well canned victories, rhey will invade the Smithfield amp January 31, confident of re- | urning home with the scalp of he Smithfield quint. Smithfield, | lue to examinations this week, has ! lad no game and has been in se ious and earnest training for this articular* battle. The team at the ! •resent time is in best condition t has been this season, and should he Princetonians come out vie- , orious there were be no excuse to j ffer. According to most critics, the earns are about evenly matched nd this should be the classic of ohnston county. Both teams have .’on over some strong quints with Smithfield having played a few lrger teams. Coach Boyette of Princeton has ( fine team which is built around uch men as Hill, Creech and Gard er. Coach Blankenship declines to ay anything but he is pretty sure o have a fast machine on the oor January 31. DEMONSTRATION OF PAINTING MACHINE A final demonstration of “Kirk lan’s Automatic Highway Mark- j ig and Painting Machine” will be : iven tonight and tomorrow at N. | k Grantham’s old store, apposite ; he Farmers Bank and Trust com any. Anyone who has not yet een it and would like to do so is espectfully invited to be present. This is the fifth machine made vithin the last three years and is he completed and perfected one hat will be offered for sale as oon as they can be manufactur d on a production basis. Blueprints and photographs of he first, second, third and fourth machines designed will also bo hown in addition to this complet 'd one. From here it will be tak n to Raleigh and other cities. A CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our appro bation of any service rendered by inyone during the sickness and leath of our baby. MR & MRS. LARKIN CREECH. It spoils a favor if you are afek to return it. Tree Nursery Near Town Of Clayton State Acquires Nine Acre Tract Fronting on North Carolina’s Main Street To Further Reforestation RALF.IGH, Jan. 2fi.—Acquisition if a nine and a quarter acre tract or a forest tree nursery by the Jivision of Forestry of tile De tainment of Conservation ami De •elopmcnt on State Highway .No. 0 between Raleigh and Clayton vhich was announced today, in ures tile prosecution of a great I y iroadonod program of leforestra ion in North Carolina. Tim new nursery site fronts di ectly Oil the “main stret t” of Jorth Carolina, being about one tile west of ( layton. Improve lents have already been started nd will be completed within a very hort time. These will consist of house, slat structures, hods, and tiler improvements. With the acquisition of the new tract, the plans of the department are to increase materially the out put of forest seedlings for planting forest lands that have become so denuded that there is no natural jreproduction. It has been estimat ed that there are approximately 14,000,000 acres of forest lands in North Carolina not in use at pres ent that can be made to produce a ! revenue by artificial reforestratio-n and by adequate protection from fire. The state has been working on forest fire protection for some years, and reforestration by means iof nursery-grown seedlings had been a part of the Forestry Divis ion’s program for a shorter time, i This year the output from the oil nursery will be about 237,000 seed lings, and next year it is planned to increase this number to a half a million in order to supply the growing demand. Greater facili ties from the production of forest seedlings will make provisions for building up the output to several millions annually. In some states where this method of reforestra tion has been in vogue over a long er period, the forest nurseries are producing from twenty to thirty millions of seedlings annually. The new nursery’s location was selected especially because of the suitability of the land for tree cul- , ture- and -for the educational ad vantages which its situation will afford.—Raleigh Times. DEATH OF LITTLE DOROTHY MAE CREECH On December 19, last the Death Angel visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Larkin Creech of Royal sec tion and claimed as it svictim lit tle Dorothy Mae. Though she had only been with them for a short time, being only four and one-half months old, she was as a choice rosebud of the. family, young, ten der, and sweet. She was a perfect picture of health until about two weeks before her death when she was taken with pneumonia. The funeral was held at the home by Dr. R. L. Shirley of Selma in the midst of many relatives and friends, after which the remains were taken to the Oliver ceme tery and laid to rest beneath a mound of beautiful flowers. A precious jewel from us is gone. Her baby prattle all is still. But in our hearts we chrish yet The sweet thought that Dorothy lives. Aunt Roxie Opines Bv Me— “A flood uv words iz a norr/ place ter cool a hot tamper in."