North Carolina Newspapers

Slogan For 1928 Raise your food and feed stuff and “Live at Home” J o h n »t o n County’s Oldest and Best Newspaper - Established 1882 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 VOLUME 46—NO. 10 ❖ * SMITHF1ELD, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1928 * WisWeek By Arthur Brisbane DEAD 30 MINUTES— DON’T START TOO SOON— BIRDS SING ON SUNDAY— THE LITTLE MAX— Michael J. Ilinch, 18 years old, touched a live wire carrying 5,000 volts, and, according to doctors, was ‘'dead for halt’ an hour.” Quick action by lire men brought the boy back to life. At first his mind wandered. Then he recognized friends, knew his own name, who he was and what he had Wen doing in the previous 18 years’ The question arises, does the same thing happen to all of us, af ter we have been dead a long time, perhaps, as one earnest clergyman suggests, as long as a billion years, waiting for the world to end and Gabriel to summon us ? Young gentlemen of Yale vote overwhelmingly for Secretary Ho - ver for president in 1928. The young men reflect, without know ing it, opinions of their fathers and other older men. Among democrats, Governor Smith, of New York, is the favor ite, by a big majority. Friends of Secretary Hoover should not start their race too ear ly. Many a man has won three quarters of a race with ease, but not the last quarter. Pittsburgh judge decides that Pittsburgh’s symphony society may give concerts on Sunday, al though the Allegheny County Sab bath association calls the concerts wicked. What about the birds that sing on Sunday, and could not sing if the Lord did not approve ? Are they wicked? /Banking gentlemen tell the little man not to invest in stocks or even bonds, but put his money in savings banks. That reminds you of the little bey who didn’t want his sister to kill the big bluebottle fly. He wanted to kill it. If bonds and stocks, industrial and others, yield profits good for big concerns, why not give the little man a chance? How many millions hav" Fred erick H. Ecker, of the Metropoli tan Life company; President Mich ell, of the National City bank; President Gianinni, of the Bank of Italy and Bancitaly corpora tion, and dozens of others made for their stockholders by wise bond and stock investments? Mr. Michell made millions for Ins bank, buying government bonds below par, whi n little people were unloading them. Why not a committee of honest financiers to tell the little people what to buy, safely ? Great Britian is “watching the United States carefully, suspect ing an American challenge , for world supremacy.” This country doesn’t particular lvwant any world supremacy. Plen ty of room, plenty to do on these two American continents. But if anybody must have world supre macy, why not the United States? This is a heal empire and will last. The emperor of Japan sets an example in economy—carries a $5 watch, cultivates his own ricefields, - That would surprise his great great-grandfather. That mikado by lifting a finger, could chop off anybody’s head, and he did. Japanese discover that westeri methods bring in western agitation Politics in Japan is divided int( eight parties now, including foui labor parties. That calls fo thought. Here we haven't even one labo: party, and worry about bolshevism Landlady: “Eight o’clock, eigh o’clock.” Auctioneer (sleepily): “Who’l make it nine?”—Ex. Slayer’s Confession Is Read At Trial Rebuked! Senator James Heflin of Alabama fcho was sharply rebuked by his chief (or his-repeated attacks upon the Ro ®:an Catholic Church, its “Polilica: Machine,” Gov. Al. Smith and Tam many Hall.” Child Improves After Accident +■ .. Ruby Batten, Seven Year Old Child of R. S. Batten Sus tains Painful Injuries When Knocked Down By Car Ruby Batten, sevea-year-oli daughter of R. S. Batten, who w'as knocked down by a ear Monday afternoon soon aft£r getting off a school truck in front of the home of Ennis Batten near Micro on highway number 22, is improving and is expected to recover from her injuries, according to informa tion received here yesterday. The owner of the car, H. Assard, of Wilson, was one of the occu pants, but his brother-in-law w’as driving at the time of the accident. The car, an Essex, was said to be traveling at »the rate of thirty-five or forty miles an hour and the driver slowed down so suddenly that that car turned into a ditch. Three ladies were in the car and one was painfully hurt, her shoul der having been broken. The Batten child was knocked unconscious, and three other chil dren narrowly escaped injury. Mr. Assard offered every assistance possible, and offered to pay all damages and hospital bills When a physician was summoned a thor ough examination was made, and it was not considered necessary to take the child to a hospital. She was badly bruised about the head and chest. Here Viewing Invention. Messrs. J. A. Paasche, of Chica go, I1J., A. R. Downer, of Gordons ville, Va., C. R. Kennedy, of Char lotte, E. L. /Thompson, of Green ville, E. C. Butner, of Atlanta, Ga., J. B. Lee, of Wilson, and F. E. Willard, of Oakfiekl, Wis., were a few of those here recently to see the new indention of Jas. H. Kirk man, on display at Grantham’s old store. / \ H"-" .— "" j She: Time separates the best of friends. I He: Quite true. Fourteen years ago we were both eighteen. Now you are twenty-three and I am thirty-two. Tantalizer There are exactly enough let ters in the line below to spell the na^ne of a person in Smith field dr Johnston county, and if the; right one deciphers his name and will present it to the Herald office, we will present him vith a free ticket to the Victoj-y Theatre. Tickets must be called for before the follow ing issue. (Miss) Audry Moore recog nized her name last issue. Today’s Tantalizer: ( x nteoeinlojgl l Presented by Jerome I Walsh, Attorney For Wm. E. Hickman— Depositions Read HALL OF JUSTICE, Los Ange les, Feb. 1.—William E. Hickman’s confession of the kidnapping, kill ing and mutilation of 12-year-old Marian Farker was written into the evidence today at his sanity trial. lhe 19-page confession made by the youth on a train carrying him back to Los. Angeles after his ar rest in Oregon was read by Jerome Walsh, chief defense attorney, j after Dick Lucas, a detective, and i the first defense witness, had re- i lated the story of the crime to | which Hickman had pleaded “not guilty by reason of insanity.” The ( confession was a repetition of pre- ! viously published accounts of the j crime. TO SHOW AFTER CRIME. • After being kept in captivity two J days by Hickman, Mfarian cried and Hickman “ ‘became afraid she ! would tumble me up with the po lice,’ ” Detective Lucas said he had admitted. Hickman then tied her to a chair and strangled her. A few hours after 'the killing* Hick- ; man went to a show. The newspaper-wrapped parts of the dissected body were thrown in Elysian Park about dusk, Lucas continued, relating also how’ Hick- j man said he met Parker that Sat-1 urday night to turn over the torso J for the $1,500. “ ‘I sure needed that money,’ ” Hickman was quoted as comment ing, “ ‘and I was going to take the chance, as things were getting j hot.’ ” Relating of Hickman’s cashing j one of the numbered $20 ransom 'bills in a cafeteria that night, Lu-1 cas quoted Hickman: “ ‘I’d sure like to see that girl cashier. I bet she got a thrill when she learned it was me.’ ” Hickman was quoted by the wit* I ness as declaring he was sitting up in bed when the police searched the 1 apartment house Sunday morning. * “ ‘The money was behind the wall ironing? board,’ ” Hickman said. “ ‘They seemed be looking for towels, but they didn’t take any of mine.’ ” Lucas quoted Hickman’s relation \ f his packing up, then stealing the green Hudson automobile in j Hollywood by holding up the own- I er, and of fleeing to San FranciscD , and Seattle. In Seattle, after cashing a $20 bill at a haberdasher’s, who Hick man said “he knew me,” Hickman | went to a show’ and the next day drove back to Oregon, where he was captured. i-tucas tesuneu mis comession was taken by continual questioning on the train while returning the prisoner here. Under defense ques tioning, he testified- Hickman then himself wrote the 19-page confes sion. The defendant did not seem to be moved by the reading of the details. i Captain Charles Edwards, for- j mer chief of police in Kansas City, and a one-time benefactor! and friend of Hickman, who today was 120 years old, related in the last of the sheaf of depositions presentsd by the defense that be personally ■ believed the youth insane at time of the crime. He asserted, how jever, he was incompetent to pass | legal judgment on the question. Colonel Edwards revealed that he was instrumental in obtaining a position for Hickman in the Los Angeles bank of which Perry M. Parker, father of the slain child, is an officer. After Hickman was convicted of forging checks at the bank, Edwards had the youth pa roled to him. In a deposition, Colonel Edwards' wife said she had remarked at the time that the forgery seemed an act of insanity. The opinion that Hickman was insane was expressed by Mrs. Re becca Tomlin, one of Hickman’s school teachers, but she admitted she had formed her conclusions jafier his arrest in the Parker * case.—Associated Press. i • Horrors! He Did jiiiiiii in in '•itmiiiiiw-"' .ir‘"'r~ HERE IS the ground hog, who lays claim, sometimes, to beatig the world’s most accurate weather forecaster. Did he maintain his prestige as a weather prophet this year? Did he see his shadow Feb ruary 2nd, “groundjhog day?”— Did he go back into his burrow, prolonging winter for another six weeks? Recorders Court Has Light Docket -♦ Seven Criminal Cases Are Disposed of On Tuesday of This Week Recorder’s- court was in session here Tuesday of this week and the following; criminal cases were tried and disposed of: W. A. Henry entered a plea of. guilty to a warrant charging giv ing a worthless check. Prayer for judgment was continued upon the payment of the cost. Milton Peoples was sentenced to the roads for 60 days for posses sion and transportation. The sen tence was suspended upon the pay ment of a fine and cost on condi tion that he does not violate the prohibition law again in the next j two years. Arthur Allen was found guilty of possession and transportation. A { 60-day road sentence was suspend ed upon the payment of a $60 fine and the cost, and on the condition that the defendant does not vio late the prohibition law again in the next two years. iiuu., viirtigcu niiu iaiceii), | was called and failed. Judgment ni si sci fa and capias. Ed McCray was convicted of possession and transportation. He was sentenced to the roads for 60 3 ays, but the sentence was sus pended upon the payment of $50 fine and the cost. R. D. Massengill, Leon Flowers, Monroe Lee and Delbert Phillips were in court charged with viola tion of the prohibition law. Each was found guilty of manufacturing and possession and all were sen tenced to the roads for 60 days 2>ach and taxed with the cost. The I road sentence was suspended upon i the payment of a $25 fine each and cost on condition that they do not violate the prohibition law again. in the next two years. Charlie Jordan was convicted of careless and reckless driving. Prayer for judgment is to be con tinued upon the payment of cost. The defendant was given 30 days in which to pay. HAS CHAMPION SAWMILL ! J. J. Eason, of the Sanders Chap el section, is said to have the cham pion sawmill. It is a Fordson trac tor mill. Romey Daughtry of the same neighborhood had two saw stocks which were so large that two steam sawmills refused to tackle the job. He took it to Mr. Eason’s mil. and had it cut. The first cut was 16 feet long and cut 674 feet of one-inch boards. The second cut of 16 feet turned out 427 feet of boards, making a to tal of 1101 feet of timber from one poplar tree. Miss Cora Chadwick Improving Miss Cora Chadwick, efficient nurse at Johnston County Hos pital, who underwent an operation for mastoiditis a few days ago, is Igetting along nicely, her friends [will be glad to learn. Woman Fills Officers With Bird Shot ' Officers Try to Put Colored Woman Out of House and She Fires Bird Shot At Them; House Burns Short ly After Vacated ONeals township was the scene of rather an exciting incident Mon day afternoon and night when Sa rah Wright, a colored woman, re fused to move out of a log cabin belonging to C. G. Wpathersby. It seems that the negro woman had owned the cabin at one' time but bad mortgaged it and it had been sold in default of payment. She and her husband and four children had been put out of the house a time or two, but they kept moving back. Monday, the owner of the property took out ejectment papers but the magistrate failed to per suade them to move. The consta ble also tried to get them out, and failed. Then the sheriff was noti fied, and Monday afternoon, Depu ty John O. Ellington and C. C. Hathaway went to the house to see what they could do. When the officers made their appearance, the woman who was in the house with her four children, began firing at them with bird-shot. Fearing that the children might be hit the offi cers refrained from firing back. In the meantime, the shot fell thick and fast, several shots hitting the hands of the officers. Leaving C. C. Hathaway on guard, Deputy Ellington came back for reinforce ments. W. D. Avera and T. E. Tal ton returned to the scene with Mr. Ellington and after allowing the woman’s sister to remonstrate with her and after letting her hear some talk of dynamiting the house, the door was opened and the woman fled to the swamp. As yet she has not been apprehended. In a short time the house was vacated. Mack Whitley, a colored man, was arrested for conspiracy and was brought here Monday night. R. B. Whitley of Wendell, however, stood his bond for his appearance in court. A few hours after the house was vacated, it caught fire and burned to the ground. Free Picture Show Shows Jackie Coogan On Vis it to Near East, and Festi val in Which Rev. Chester Alexander Took Part The manager of the Victory theatre, in cooperation with Near East Relief, will be host at a free motion picture show Saturday morning at 10:30 o’clock. Every body is invited to see the pictures which will consist of several reels of scenes from the historic lands of the Near East and especially the life among the orphans who are in the Near East Relief Or phanages. Besides this there will be two other reels, one showing the famous Jackie Coogan on his trip to the Near East. Jackie went several years ago with a cargo of milk which he collected for his lit tle friends overseas. Another reel will show a Golden Rule Festival in Columbia, S. C., in which Rev. Chester Alexander took part. During the week many of the school children of the county have made offerings to help the boys and girls of Bible lands and Lex Kluttz, state director of Near East Relief, arranged with Manager Howell to show the boys and girls some pictures of their little friends overseas. The doors will be open at ten-twenty Saturday morning, and it is hoped that many will go out to see the free pictures. To provide a silk dress for a woman requires the combined la *or of 300 many legged worms one ear and one two legged worm foi no week. Theatre I j Irish President Greets Big Bill Thompson William 1 William Hale Co‘grave, President ot the Irish Ihonipsott of Chicago as he steps -ma 1 is i ree State, greets Mayoi oft the Twentieth Century Princeton Bows To Local Highs Smithfield Five Triumphant Only After Hard Fight; Uzzle Outstanding Star The Johnston county champions have been dethroned! The so-call ed champs in the persons of the Princeton high school basketball five invaded the local camp Tues day night with high hopes of add ing Coach Blankenship’s team to its list of victims but were sent home with a 18-12 drubbing in one of the best cage contests seen here this season. PRINCETON TRAILS CLOSE. Although they were never in the lead the Princeton tossers trailed Smithfield so close that at times it looked as if the locals were going to fall before this wonder team that they had heard so much about. The spectators were kept on edge throughout. The first half was marked by close guarding on the part of both teams. At the end of the half Smithfield held a 7-4 lead. TOO MUCH FOR CHAMPS. With the opening of the second half the local cagers found the basket for two successive goals, giving them a seven-point margin. But then the Princeton outfit ral lied and ran the score to 11-9 in a very few minutes. Smithfield shot a foul and Princeton another field goal bringing the count up to 12 11. But this was as near as the Boon Hill basketeers could get to victory for the local five caged three field goals in the final min utes and made victory a sure thing. ED UZZLE IS BIG BOY. Ed Uzzle, guard, was the main cog in the local’s victory and the outstanding star of the game. His floorwork and goal shooting was exceptionally good. He scored in all eleven points. Ed Parrish starred on the defensive. He was closely guarded by the Princeton team and had to be content with second honors in scoring for Smithfield. Gurley, Princeton high scoring ace, made several spectacular shots which placed him along with the other stars of the game. An other feature of the affray was the strong defense of the Smith field team. It was indeed hard for the visitors to break through it. TO PLAY AGAIN. The two teams will meet again here next week in what is expect ed to be another real clash. OLLIE HAMILTON VISITS DAUGHTER HERE IN ‘PLANE In company with Messrs. Mar gin and Craft, Ollie Hamilton, well known throughout the state being the owner of the Ollie Hamilton vaudeville show, was in the city yesterday to visit his daughter Miss Cleo Hamilton who is making her home in this city during the winter months. The trio arrived ir this ~ city by aeroplane fron Wadesboro. The aeroplane was manned by Mr. Martin, a licensee pilot, who stated to a representa five of this paper that he expecte: to remain in Smithfield for a fev days, probably through Sunday, fo the purpose of taking passenger up for a ride. The landing field i 'at the old cotton mill just outsid the city limits. R. I. Wallace Dies At His Home Here Was 111 With Erysipelas But Death Was Not Expected; Retired From Business On Account of Health -♦ Friends and relatives of R. I. Wallace were shocked yesterday when they learned of his death which occurred at his home hero about the noon hour. Mr. Wallace had been ill for nearly two weeks, erysipelas having developed from a scratch on his knee sustained while out hunting. His condition, however, was thought to be im proved, and his death was not ex pected. About a year ago he had a very severe heart attack, his life at that time being despaired of, and since then he had not en tirely regained his wonted vigor. The deceased, if he had lived un til May 10, would have been 62 years of age. He was a native Johnstonian and had lived for the greater part of his life in this city. He was a merchant until recently when he sold his business on ac count of his health. He is survived by his wife, who before her marriage was Miss Jennie Massey; by one daughter, Mrs. Clifton Beasley of this city; and by four sons, Holton Wallace, of Lexington, Ky.; Dixon Wallace, of Wilson, Frank Wallace, of this city, and Lawrence Wallace, a stu dent at the State University at Chapel Hill. The funeral will be held this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the residence conducted by Rev. D. H. Tuttle. Interment will be made in the city cemetery. F. M. Holly Kills Big Lot Of Pork A Total of 5,023 Pounds Is The Record For This Sea son; Hogs Range From 240 to 349 Pounds F. M. Holley is one who believes in raising plenty of “hog and hom iny" at home, as well as other farm and home supplies, as anyone would see by visiting his farm. He lives near Peacock’s Cross Roads in Meadow township. On January 24 he killed thirteen fine hogs, the lightest one weighing 240, and the heaviest one 349, the 13 making 3,707 pounds. He had previously killed twelve hogs that weighed 1316, a total of all together being five thousand twenty-three pound? for this season. 1 Mr. Holley has reared a large family but most of them are mar. ried or live in other parts, th< number of those of his householt at present being five. Although hi is advanced in years he is strong and hearty, and enjoys picking i backbone as well as when a lad. —— ■ -- | Teacher: “I wonder if you liki wit, Isaac?” i Ikey: “Sure, I do, I eats it, ever: morning.” “Eat what?” inquired teacher. “Cream of wit,” answered Ike; i S, S. Convention To Be In Selma Good Program With Good Speakers Has Been Arrang ed For Sunday Afternoon At Edgerton Memorial M. E. Church The annual Selma Township Sun day School Convention will be held on Sunday afternoon beginning at 3 o'clock in the Edgerton Memorial Methodist church, Selma. The public, as well as those that are interested in Sunday school work, is cordially invited to at tend this convention. The program which is very interesting and help ful with two out of town speakers will b eas follow's: 3:00 Devotional Service, con ducted by Dr. R. L. Shirley, Selma. 3:15: Two essentials of success ful work W'ith children—graded or ganization and graded Bible les sons, by Miss Flora Davis, N. C. Sunday School Association, Ral eigh. 3:30: Suggestions for the organ ization and activities of young people’s classes, by Mr. Geo. F. Brietz, Selma. 3:40: Solo, by Mrs. \V. B. John son, Selma. 3:45: Business session; Report of nominating committee; election of officers; collection. 3:55: Young people—How to get them and keep them in Sunday School, by Mr. J. W. Holloweli, Kenly. 4:05: The young people in the Sunday school, by Rev. D. M. Sharpe, Selma. 4:15: Adjourn. The Boy Who Will Be In Demand. One of the finest qualities in a workman is the quality of seeing what needs to be done and doing it without being told. One of the rarest in a servant in the house is the doing of things that need to be done without being told. Young men working their way through college are invaluable if they have this quality. A tool is left out in the lawn; there is a rail off the fence; there is a lock broken from the door; there is a window-pane gone somewhere. The boy who tends to these things because they need attending to, without specific directions, is the boy who, other thing being equal, is going to be in demand when he gets out into the great world, and it is the at tention to little things and the habit of observation, which sees what needs to be done and then does it, which makes exceedingly useful men and women. There will always be a position for such per sons. There will always be a call to come up higher. It is in one sense a small thing to do these lit tle things without orders, but it is doing of them that makes great captains, great engineers, great ar tists, great architects, great work ers in any department, and it is the absence of this quality that makes commonplace men and wom en, who will always have to live under the dominion of petty or ders, men and women, who do nothing unless they are told to do it. It is this quality which makes volunteers in church work, and the invaluable men and women who do not have to be stood over. They are the joy of the pastor's heart; they are the ones who do not have to be watched.—Charles M. Shel don. Aunt Roxie Opines By Me— “Fokes tryin’ so hard ter fret an edicashan till day feryot hoir ter tatvk da fltih oaten a burn."