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j I - Slogan For 1928 Raise your food and feed stuff and “Live at Home” VOLUME 46—NO. 9 $2.00 PER YEAR _By Arthur Brisbane MORE BATTLESHIPS— 21 AMERICAN NATIONS— THE FIRST AEROPLANE— A GREAT BEAR FIGHTER— -♦ The Government proposes to spend $129,000,000 every year for for twenty years on battleships of different kinds, including fast, no cessary cruisers. This means a total investment of two billion, five hundred and eighty million dollars in new ships. The country can afford it and such a programme will impress other countries. "We could also afford flying ma chines to protect those fighting ships, which, in modern war, with out flying machine protection, S^uld be as helpless as sheep la^Ptfig wolves, without shepherds cr sheep dogs. One hundred and four delegates, representing twenty-one nations of North and South America, includ ing the United States, are gather |ed in a great conference hall in I Havana. Those twenty-one nations I® are the greatest power for peace in the world, also the greatest power for war. They stick to j gether. Canada, without ’relinquishment of loyalty to the British Empire, should be a leader in'that confer ence. Canada’s interests are in these American continents, their independence and' their future. El Imparcial and other newspa pers in Spain are displeased with President Coolidge’s warm recep tion in Cuba, naturally because this country took Cuba from Spain and Rave the 'beautiful island to the [Cuban people. El Imparcial says s country has reserved rights in F^’uba. It has reserved only one, preservation of Cuban independ ence.” He not only made Cuba in the right “to intervene for the dependent but guarantee that she shall remain so. The original Wright brothers’ air machine, first plane that ever car ried a human being through the air under human control, is boxv’d up ,for shipment to England. It ought to stay here in the Smithson ian Institution. The Smithsonian Instution should have Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic plane also, and the Government should pay Lindbergh enough for it to make him independent for life. If Lindbergh got $1,000,000 for that machine, he would get less than one per cent of what this country owes him. The Spirit of St. Louis, despite all Lind bergh’s good care, must be getting old and worn, and a brand new machine, best and safest the world can produce, should take its ^Jnce. js Human beings as a whole, like individuals, do only ONE thing really well. The work of the hu ■ man race today is scientific and industrial, making new discoveries in science, applying them to man’s material welfare. Today scientific workers are like builders installing plumbing, heating and other con veniences in a big building; later (Continued on Page 3) Tantalizer ¥ There are exactly enough let ters in the line below to spell the name of a person in Smith field or Johnston county, and if the right one deciphers his name and will present it to the Herald office, we will present him with a free ticket to the Victory Theatre. Tickets must be called for before the follow ing issue. Ed Turnage recognized his name last issue. Today’s Tantalizer: ' auroedryom Robbers Enter Four Oaks Bank And Get About $1000 In Silver Use Acetylene Torch on Vault Door Bui Fail In Attempt To Blow Open Safe -♦-— Robbers entered the Bank of Four Oaks early yesterday morning:, blew open the vault and carried off loot in the amount of about a thousand dollars, making: a complete get away before the people of Four Oaks were astir. G. T. Hobbs, assistant cashier, went down to the bank about sev en-thirty o’clock and found that the front door had been prized open. He notified Bert Lassiter, the cashier, and further investigation showed that what appeared to be professional thieves had used an acetylene torch on the combination of the vault door, and had gained entrance. The same means were used in an effort to break open the safe which was in the vault but they proved futile and the contents of the safe were intact. The acety lene tank was left in the bank. All of the valuables of the bank were in the safe exrent some sil ver money, some nickels and pen nies, which were in th vault. All of the silver and nickels were taken; §95 in pennies were left. Whether the pennies were too bulky or whether the thieves were fright ened away before their job was completed is not known. The money stolen included $57 in silver dol lars; $207 in half dollars; $170.25 in quarters. $230 in dimes, and $275 in nickels. The bank’s loss is fully covered by insurance. Besides taking the amount of money, the thieves rifled about half of the safety deposit boxes, but it is not known at this time what has been missed from these. W. H. Barbour has missed a hundred dol lar Libery bond. It appears that deeds and papers that could not be turned into money were not dis- j turbed. All of those who rented safety deposit boxes had not, yes- ; lerday afternoon, been through their boxes- to see if anything has been taken. That the deed was committed not j long before day, is the impression of those who went into the bank first yesterday. The safe itself was warm from the torch which had been used in the effort to open it. The bank building was even warm. On the highway about 400 yards west of Four Oaks were found yesterday morning signs of a big automobile and also the track of what might have been the acetylene tank when it was lifted from the automobile. A dog at a • house nearby this spot is reported to have done considerable barking I in the early morning hours. Recovering From Auto Accident. William Crickmore of Rocky Mount is in the Johnston County Hospital recovering from an au tomobile accident which took place last Tuesday. Some of his teeth were knocked loose, and his face was badly bruised. He sustained no broken bones. In City Yesterday. Dehna Hardee, of Elevation township, was a visitor in the city yesterday. Smithfield High’s Luck Changes; Cop Three Straight Games ' Smithfield’s luck seems to be go ing: good now. Last Friday night the hr me \owi boys and girls journeyed over t( Benson for a doubleheat er. Th» Purple and Gold waved triumphant ly in both games. The girls came in for plenty o glory in a gory combat. The gam. was fast and furious and the* were many upsets during the whol affair. The girls’? passing am shooting was at the highest peal it has reached this season. Youm and Holland were in tip-top forn: Young looping the ball in the has ket for eight pou^* > ,.tt Holland topped -Vnm dvr < r, eamB wa»OD BROS. Benton and Hedrick were the stai’3 for Benson but they were apparent-; ly lost in Smithficld’s rapid fire passing and shooting. The final score was 16-18. •) The boys’ game was fast and well played. The purple and gold hurricane getting the ball in the ! second quarter and outplaying the ' Benson boys all around. The teams ' were evenly matched at first but l when Uzzle, Norton and Parrish : started their famous trio passing * stunt Benson threw up the ghost. > Uzzle did the heavy scoring with • E. Parrish giving him many shots. Norton was as consistent and re |‘v _as ever, being in every part \{o page four, please) , , *---- -- Hickman Repudiates Former Confession; Denies Guilt In Death of Marion Parker LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28.(AP^. —The kidnapping and killing of Marian Parker was disclaimed to day by William Edward Hickman, whose counsel declared that the youth had repudiated his confes sion to the police. Jerome K. Walsh, defense at torney, said Hickman does not ad mit the slaying of the schoolgirl but refused to elaborate on the sudden change in the attitude of the accused youth, who heretofore had been ever ready to confess his guilt to officers, newspaper re porters and others. The repudiation of the confes sion obtained by the police was made to Dr. A. L. Skoog of Kan sas City, chief of the! staff of de fense alienists, who visited Hick man in his cell. f Along; with the latest turn in the case, Walsh revealed plans for continuing; the fight for Hickman's "life should he meet with defeat in the accused killer’s insanity trial. Walsh said that if the jury in the present hearing found Hick man was sane at the time of the crime, an arrest of judg;ment would j be asked, coupled with a demand ! ifor another trial on the plea that! the defandant now is insane. In! this connection Walsh pointed out | that an insane man could not be | (Turn to page four, please) Catches Hand In H. R. Radford, an employe of the Smithfield cotton mill, had the misfortune to get his right hand caught in some machinery of the mill last Frdiay and sustained such serious injury that it was necessary to amputate the hand. It was about forty minutes before his hand could be freed from the machinery. He is undergoing treatment atr the Johnston County Hospital and is getting along nicely. Musical Comedy Meadow School BENSON, Route 2, Jan. 30.—Re- ■ hearsals of “The Flapper Grand- j mother,” musical comedy to be i siven at Meadow high school on , Friday night, February 3, are well j jnder way and everyone is delight- , ?d with the progress that is being ! made under the direction of the1 rnach, Miss Elizabeth Hogwood.' rhe cast of characters is as fol- 1 lows: Andrew Spriggins, who believes in nothing modern, A. G. Glenn. Mat Spriggins, his wife, who 1 wants to be up-to-date, Annie Lou 1 Ellis. Lena Spriggins, the wild child of Andrew and Mat, Thelma Creech. Belindy Spriggins, the old-fash ioned child of Andrew and Mat, r Vera Joy McBane. Maggie Pepper, the flapper grandmother, Elizabeth Webster. Dr. Joy, village doctor, in love i with grandma, Gardner Lee. ‘Dick Tate, a motor cop, Fred i Lee. Jimmy Swift, auto salesman,!; Lynn Adams. Bobby Smith, a sweet, sissy 1 boy, Elmon Wood. Count Seekum Rich, Englishman, who followed grandma from Eu rope, Woodrow Blackman. Rastus Jones, a gentleman of i color, Alton Lawhon. (Turn to page four, please) Suffering With Peculiar Malady -♦ Boy Holmes who lives near | Four Oaks was in the city yes terday and told us of the death of Azell Massengill which took place at the home j of the deceased on Four Oaks, j route 4, Friday after a ten day \ illness with a malady the di- j agnosis of which baffled phy- ' sicians. It was some affection of the brain and it was report ed at one time that the man was suffering with hydropho bia. This idea, however, was dissipated by the doctors, but 1 the disease is still a puzzle. Last week Mrs. Massengill be- | came afflicted with apparently j the same trouble. She was reported yesterday to be some- ! what improved. j )PEN OFFICES FOR LICENSE PLATE NUMBERS DURHAM, Jan. 30.—Durham* j ogether with nine other cities of j' he state will maintain an office | or the convenience of the auto- ! nobile public in securing license \ ags, according to information re :eived from R. A. Daughton, Com nissioner of Revenue of North Carolina. This office is being oper ated through the cooperation of he Carolina Motor Club with the evenue department and thousands >f automobile license plates have • >een hendled here. The other cities vhere all the year round offices vill be maintained are Asheville, .harlotte, Greensboro, Goldsboro, . Statesville, W|inston-Salem, Rocky , Mount, Elizabeth City and Wil- j nington. Thousands of dollars have ( >een received by the state revenue . lepartment through the offices con- . lucted throughout the state since I ;he automobile license for 1928 be-' :ame due. COUNTY BOARD OF AGRICULTURE In order to further promote ( the cause of agriculture in Johnston county I am here re questing that every farmer in terested attend a call meet ing1 at Smithfield at the court house at two o’clock Saturday afternoon, February 4, to per fect a County Board of Agri culture. A. M. JOHNSON. KILLS 3650 POUNDS OF MEAT. Mr. Texas Helm living on the farm of J. R. Atkinson in the nor thern part of Micro township, has just finished killing hogs. Mr. Helm made two killings the hogs tanging in age from eight to twenty-four months, and in weight from 140 pounds to 725 pounds. He killed a total of 3650 pounds of nice meat. In addition to rais ing this meat, he made a hundred barrels of corn. Mr. Helm is a man who believes in hog and hom iny. Interesting Address On Near East Relief -* Lex W. Klutz, State Director Tells of Great Work Being Done for the Orphans The regular fifth Sunday night j union service, which was held at j the Methodist church Sunday eve ning, was featured by a most in : teresting and impressive address on Near East RiV.-? v.c:k by Lex I W. Kluttz, state director of Near East Relief. Using slides and motion pic tures, Mr. Kluttz illustrated the work being done for the thousands of orphans in this foreign land by the generous people of America and other countries. He said that many often wonder why there are so many orphans in the Near East, and he explained that, by stating that many of the men were killed in the recent war; others were sent to outposts where there were few provisions and they died from starvation; two million people had been driven out of Armenia, and 'many of the mothers on the long! marches had denied themselves i food and starved to death in order! that their children might have! enough nourishment to live until ' they could reach a place of safety, I and many of the parents had been ! put to death because they would I not renounce the Christian relig- i ion. ami. muuz sam mat it wouia re quire two more years to finish the work of earing: for the orphans un til they could provide for them selves. In the orphanages the chil dren are given medical attention, are sent to school, and are given industrial training. One million children, however, will soon bo ; forced to leave .the orphanages and go to refugee camps, where condi- j tions are horrible, unless more fi-: nances can be obtained soon. The j speaker said that the children are J deeply grateful for the help re- ! ceived from America, and that they are continually praying for the Americans whose generosity ha* j saved them from starvation and death. At the close of the service an offering was taken which will be! used for Near East Relief w'ork. -- ■» AMPUTATE LEG OF H. K. PARKER THURSDAY H. K. and Junius Parker who were recently wounded in a shoot ing affray near Four Oaks and were taken to the Johnston County I-fospital for treatment are report ed now to be improving. It was re-, ported last week that H. K. Par ker was in quite a serious condi tion and perhaps not expected to j live. It was necessary on Thursday to amputate one of his legs, and '■ he is now said to be on the road I to recovery. VET REVISITS BENTONVILLE AFTER 63 YEARS ABSENCE Back from Bentonville battle field, where he fought his last skirmish in 1865, Col. B. F. Isen berg, of Huntington, Pa., stopped over in Raleigh Wednesday to en thuse over the prospects of a Na tional park at Bentonville. Colonel Isenberg was a member j of the Ninth Pennsylvania Calvary | and declared that he was near the 1 head of the column that entered j Raleigh when Johnston retreated.1 He recalled Governor Swain turn ing over the keys of the Capitol and the loj» shot fired in the de-1 fense of Ra.eigh by Lieutenant Walsh, of the Texas Galvary.— Raleigh Times. PETITIONS FOR BANKRUPTCY George W. Sanders, Johnston county farmer, Thursday filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in local United States District Court. jT. Goor, Greenville merchant, also filed a voluntary petition. | Mr. Sanders .listed assets of $950.50 and liabilities of $32,960.17. Mr. Goor listed assets of $4,000 and liabilities of $8,000.—Raleigh Times I -♦ CORINTH-HOLDERS BEAT BAILEY BOYS ; ALSO GIRLS ZEBULON, Jan. 2G.—The doubleheader game between Cor inth-Holders and Bailey last night resulted in an overwhelming vic tory for Corinth. | The score for the girls* game was 20 and 11, and for the boys’ 'game, 24 and 13. I JOHNSTON COUNTY FARMER CHAMPION COTTON GROWEI Thirteen bales of cotton produced on 0.4 acres by C. P Clayton. Ellis, oi Accident Fatal Gun Discharged and Inflicts Wound; Dies Within 24 Hours -*— Blair Bogen, a fifteen-year-old colored boy who lived with Roscoe Williams on Don Peterson’s place, was accidentally shot last Friday and died Saturday afternoon in the Johnston County Hospital. The boy had been placed in Williams’ home by Mrs. D. J. Thurston, county public welfare superintendent, some time ago, there being no relative" who could give him a heme. Fri day morning, Williams assigned him some work to do and then went off to work himself. In the afternoon, about the time school was out, the boy took the gun and was presumably going hunting. He wanted to cross a ditch and gave :he gun to one of the colored school children who was passing along the road, to hold until he had got icross. As the gun was handed to him, the load discharged and pass ed through his abdomen. He lay -here in the ditch for about two lours before medical aid could reach him, but as soon as help came he was carried to the John ston County Hospital. His wounds were so severe that nothing could ie done and he died Saturday aft ernoon. The boy told before he lied how the w'hole affair hap pened, and no blame was attached ;o any one. Reports Turkey Broods in January W. J. Hill, of Four Oaks, route 1, was in the city Saturday. Mr. EJill reports that one of his turkeys which had been missing for several lays was found last week sitting >n a nest containing sixteen eggs. Mr. Hill considered this a very sin gular occurrence, March and April >eing the usual months in which :urkeys lay. ARM OF CHESTER BARBOUR SEVERELY HURT IN GIN Chester Barbour of Benson who is in the Johnston County Hos pital following an accident which severely injured his arm, is re ported to be improving. Mr. Bar pour hurt his arm in a gin on Mon lay of last week. C. P. Ellis Produces 13 Bales ol Cotton on (?.4 Acres; Gives Figures on Cost ol Growing, Harvesting And On Sales j RALEIGH, Jan. 30.—C. P. Ellis, of Clayton, produced last season thirteen bales or 5,542 pounds of lint cotton on six and four-tenths acres. This, according to J. M. Gray of State College, is the larg est yield on this acreage grown in the State in 1027. This is a yield of 806 pounds of lint cotton per acre and is 020 pounds over the state’s average yield for the year, according to Frank Parker, State Statistician. Mr. Ellis Thursday outlined what he considered the major contribut ing factors to his success. He said. “I believe in planting cotton early and I believe in using good seed. I used Coker’s Cleveland Number 5; the length of staple in this cotton “pulled” one and one-sixteenth inches. “I attribute the heavy yield to early planting of good seed and the liberal side dressing with nitrate of soda,” Mr. Ellis stated. “It takes a fertilizer that works fast to get ahead of the boll weevil, but it is my experience that soda turns the trick. “I have heard a lot of talk about the Texas farmers putting us North Carolina farmers out of the cotton business, so I decided to keep an accurate record and see for myself what there was to it,” Mr. Ellis said. “When I planted my cotton I fer tilized each acre with 500 pounds of acid phosphate, 100 pouunds of nitrate of soda and 75 pounds of muriate of potash. We used a dropper type of planter and left two to three stalks in a hill. The hills were twenty-four inches (Turn to page four, please) H. W. TART IS DEAD. E. W. Freeman and T. L. Hudson of Meadow towmship wrere in the city yesterday. Mr. Hudson while here qualified as executor of the estate of H. W. Tart who passed away on January 21. Mr. Tart was stricken with paralysis and died six hours later. He w'as 74 years • of age, and had lived all of his life in Meadow township. He leaves a wife and several daughters. A more extended account of Mr. Tart’s death will appear in a later issue. Three-Months-Old Baby Chokes To Death On Rubber Pacifier CHESTER, Jan. 26.—Tho three months-old baliy of Mrs. Estelle Edmunds in the Shelton communi ty choked to death today on a paci fier at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Walling, ac cording to information reaching Chester tonight. It seems that Mrs. Edmunds left three of her older children in the room and the baby on the bed, and was out of the room only a few minutes. When she returned, it was dead. At first she was greatly puz7.1ed not know ing what caused the di-ath, but neighbors were summoned and ths baby’s mouth opened and the rub ber pacifier could be seen lodge-i in the windpipe. 1 *_,_____ Brogdon Negro Badly Burned —*— A negro, Taylor Parker by name, of the Brogden section, was brought to the Johnston County Hospital yesterday suffering in tensely from burns about his chest and back, which may prove very 'Serious. It is thought that the negro went to sleep with a cig arette in his mouth and his clothes ignited. His clothing were burned off. ) "I - -- ! Plans Under Way ! For Exposition Smithfield Is To Take Part in the Industrial Pageant To Be Staged On the Opening Day at Goldsboro f -♦ Preparations are already underway for the Eastern Car j olina Exposition which will be held this year in our neigh boring city of Goldsboro. The opening day is April f), which, by the way. is Easter Mon | day. One of the features of the ex position this year is a pageant which will be given on the open ing day, and yesterday, N. G. Bart lett, secretary, of the East Caro lina Chamber of Commerce, and Mrs. Francis D. Winston, of Wind sor, were in Smithfield arranging | some of the details of this pag eant. This entertainment will not be of an historical nature, but will deal with the industrial develop ,ment of the past few years and will suggest what the future holds for this section of North Carolina. Twenty or more towns of Eastern Carolina will take part in the pag ;eant, each having been assigned a certain episode. Yesterday a committee from the Business and Professional Wom an’s club met with Mr. Bartlett and Mrs. Winston and agreed to become responsible for Smithfield’s part in the pageant. It is especial ly fitting that the county seat of the biggest cotton county in the I state should be given an episode that deals with cotton. The pre sentation will be left to the local club which bespeaks he cooperation of the entire town- It wiU ,be of v interest to know that a moving picture of the pageant will be made, which will later be shown at the local picture show. Mr. Bartlett and Mrs. Winston .went from her eto Benson where they met with a committee of ladies there last night in the in terest of the part Benson will take in the pageant. -♦ Child Is Knocked Down By Automobile J. H. Parker of O’Neals town ship was in town yesterday and old us of an automobile accident hat happened abou ttwo miles this ide of Micro yesterday afternoon, dr. Parker stated that a Buick au omobile was turned over in a litch near the front of Mr. Dennis batten’s house, and upon inquiry le found that a child had run icross the road and the driver of he car had gone into the ditch to ceep from running over it. The •hild which was a grandchild of dr. Batten, was knocked down by he car but was not thought to be seriously hurt. Mr. Parker stated hat the school truck was stopped n front of Mr. Batten’s home but re did not kno wwhether the thild lad just got off the truck or had )een in yard. The automobile was said to be long to a Syrian from Wilson, fhe occupants of the car were un Receive Two Carloads Pontiacs. Biitton-Hill Motor company, lo :al Pontiac automobile dealers, an nounce the arrival of two car loads of cars this week. These cars are now on display at their show rooms. Aunt Roxie Opines By Me— _ “A leetle office i> more dan apr, er be made up fer by bijf tawk.”