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VOL. 46—NO. 11
$2.00 PER YEAR
SM1THF1ELD, N. C'., TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1928
HiisKfeek
By Arthur Brisba&e
A COURAGEOUS IRISHMAN—
A HOLLOW MAGNET—
A VARIEGATED CLIMATE
MORE AIRPLANES NEEDED—
A real fighting Irishman has
come to America. William Thomas
Cosgrave, President of the Irish
Free State. Diffident, keen light
blue eyes, soft voice, iron will and
a lion's courage. That is a picture
of the Irish President, for whom
fear does not exist, not even the
only fear admitted by his relative,
the Celtic chiefs of Gaul, who ad
mitted that they feared one thing,
that the sky might fall on them.
If you asked, “Can NOTHING
be more powerful than SOME
THING ?” you would get no seri
ous answer.
But how do you explain this fact,
announced by German science and
proved by convincing experiment?
•A hollow magnet is more powerful
The absence of magnetized metal
inside the magnet increases its
magnetic strength. A magnet con
taining four hollow lamellae has
as much lifting power as one con
taining nine solid lamellae.
Everything is possible in chem
istry and physics, now that atomic
construction and the horrible pow
er and speed of the tiny electrons
-have been added to human knowl
edge. But that hollow magnet news
is a thing to puzzle science.
A. D. Lasker, who ran the Ship
ping Board, once a young, fright
fully energetic boy, sitting in the
outside office of Lord & Thomas,
in Chicago, now even more fright
fully energetic, Bits in the inside
office and owns the place.
He and' his wife have just given
a million dollars to Chicago Uni
versity to study the “causes, na
ture and prevention of degenera
tive diseases.”
Within three hundred years, the
average life has increased from
thirty to sixty years, but a man
of fifty has very little better
chance of life than a man of that
age one hundred years ago.
Lasker wisely gives money to
find out why it is that human be
ings after fifty break down so
quickly.
If the scientists will let him,
Lasker should use some of his
money investigating suggestions
that medical science would call
“all nonsense.” All the theories of
Pasteur, who taught them more
than they ever knew before.
Michael J. Hinch, eighteen years
old, touched a live wire carrying
5,000 volts and, according to doc
tors, was “dead for half an hour.”
Quick action by firemen 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 been doing in the previous
eighteen years.
The question arises, does the
same thing happen to all of us,
after we have been dead a long
time, perhaps, as one earnest
clergyman suggests, as long as
a billion years, waiting for tht
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Tantalizer
There are exactly en ugh 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. ,
Joe Ellington deciphered
his name last issue.
Today's Tantalizer:
wietnburulrr
Hickman Is Angry
At Fellow Prisoner
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Elopes With Sheik
Sybil Bayer, $5,000,000 heires
daughter of Mr and Mrs. Edwii
S Bayer of New York City, whi
recently eloped with Vincent Ed
ward Brown, $25.00 a week neck
tie clerk. The elopement, it i
said, has brought down parents
wrath on her head.
Herald Family
Gets Together
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Mrs. Joe Gribble and B. Arp
Lowrance Speak To Corre
spondents and Subscription
Solicitors at Dinner Meet
.,... ——»
The Smithfield Herald entertain
ed at dinner a number of its cor
respondents and subscription so
licitors Friday evening at the
Woman’s club room. This is the
second meeting of this kind that
has been held, a similar occasion
having been enjoyed about two
years ago.
Covers for forty guests were
laid, and the Woman’s club served
a delicious two course menu.
Two out of town speakers were
present on this occasion, both ex
perienced in newspaper work. Mrs.
Joe Gribble, who for ten years has
been the Dallas correspondent of
the Gastonia Daily Gazette, made
a very interesting and helpful talk
on the “Art of Newsgathering’’ in
which she interspersed much of
her own experience. Mrs. Gribble
is full of her newspaper work and
has the knack of imparting her
enthusiasm to others.
Mr. B. Arp Lowrance, of Char
lotte, Field Secretary of the North
Carolina Press Association, was
the other out of town speaker, who
gave a practical talk on “Sub
Iscription Solicitation.” Mr. Low
i ranee has been a wonderful aid to
the newspapers of the association
in furthering their interests, and
! Viis talk Friday evening was out
oi a varied experience wun inc
newspapers of the state.
Following: these talks, a rounc
table discussion made for an in
formal occasion which was appar
ently enjoyed by all.
The meeting was presided ovei
by Mrs. T. J. Lassiter, editor o
the Herald. In the absence of th<
business manager, W. M. Gaskin
who was detained on account o
illness in his home, words of wel
come were extended by H. V. Rose
Rev. D. H. Tuttle pronounced th
invocation.
As the guests arrived and dui
ing the dinner, music was furnish
ed by a local orchestra, known a
i the Midnight Ramblers. Those com
posing this organization are Wa!
iter Lassiter, trumpei; Tom Lass
I ter, trombone; Bill Joe Austii
jsaxaphone; Bill Norton, drums
Durwood Creech, banjo; Mis
i Maude Creech, piano.
I Linotype slugs bearing th
names of the guests were uniqu
! place Cards. Printed programs i
ithe form of a miniature newspape
[were at each plate.
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“Babe Ruth walked twice today
| “Gosh, she should be more car<
*|ful whom she rides with.”
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Begs His Guards To
Let Him “Get His
Hands On” Man
Who Revealed His
Letters
ial precautions were taken today to
closely guard both William Edward
Hickman, confessed kidnapper and
slayer, and Dale Budlong, a fel
low prisoner, whose revelation of
a sensational letter from the self
styled “Fox” brought him promi
nence in the present sanity trial of
the former.
Tirades against Budlong report
ed by jail officials to have been
made by Hickman resulted in the
informer being more closely guard
ed. \
SEEKS REVENGE.
Hickman was said by his custo
dians to have pleaded for a chance
to “get his hands,” on Budlong.
The latter had turned over to the
prosecution a letter, later admitted
hv thf» Hpfpnso tio T\vr»r1n/*+ n+‘
Hickman’s active pencil, in which
Hickman said he was going to
"throw a fit in court,” and stage a
"laughing, screaming, diving act.”
"Maybe in front of old man Parker
himself.”
When led back to his cell after
the court was adjourned last Sat
urday until Monday, Hickman ask
ed for a chance at Budlong.
"You just let me in a cell with
him,” Hickman begged his guards.
IPLAN BIG DRIVE.
I While these backstage events
were taking place, the legal bat
teries of the prosecution and de
fense marshalled their forces for
a French drive for their prospec
tive goals. Apparently taken by
surprise when the defense “stole
their thunder,” by using the pic
tures of the dismembered parts of
little Marian Parker’s body as fur
ther proof of the defendant’s in
sanity, the state prepared to re
verse its original plan of attack.
CHANGE PROGRAM.
Instead of saving the prosecu
tion phychiatrists until the last as
was planned, District Attorney Asa
Keyes will offer the state’s medi
cal evidence early in the case, and
then finish off with witnesses who
w’ill relate to the jury the crime
itself and how Hickman acted after
his apprehension at Pendleton, Or
egon. By this method the state
hoped to give the jury a final im
pression of the facilities of the
crime and not the long and techni
cal testimony of the psychiatrists.
ONLY A SANITY HEARING.
The state also prepared to make
doubly sure of plugging all possi
ble legal loopholes in the law by
establishing before the jury the
'commission of the crime and the
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Funeral Services
For R. I. Wallace
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| The funeral of Mr. R. I. Wallace
■who passed away at his home here
Thursday was held Friday after
noon at 2:30 o’clock at the resi
dence. Rev. D. H. Tuttle, assistec
by Rev. .S L. Morgan, conductec
the funeral. A large crowd wa
present including a number of oul
. of town people to pay a last trib
ute of respect to the deceased. In
• terment was made in the city cem
• 'etery. The pallbearers were
' ’Messrs. Lawrence Lee, Robert Ad
ams, T. C. Henry, G. W. Hicks, E
• A. Johnson, J. C. Stancil, H. C
- Hood and H. A. Grumpier. A beau
• itiful floral offering covered thi
- new-made grave.
- j Among those here from a dis
- .tance to attend the funeral were
, Messrs. H. B. Johnson and W. E
Clark, of Wilson; Mrs. J. W. Mas
s sey and Mr. Bill Massey, of Clay
ton; Mrs. I .W. Massey, Mr. an
e> Mrs. J. D. Massey, of Selma; Mr;
e J. E. Peele, Mrs. C. S. Peele, Mrs
n John Woodard and Mrs. Lub
r Mitchell, of Princeton; Mrs. A. C
Johnson, of Oxford; Mrs. P. E
Massey, of Wilson’s Mills; Mr. an
” Mrs. J. H. Rouse, of La Grange
• Mr. and Mrs. R. U. Barbour, an
(Mr. M .L. Stancil, of Benson.
i
BENEFACTOR
A. 1\ G IAN N IN I
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Gives Fortune
To Aid Farmers
Giant Financial Institution
Outgrowth of Country
Boys’ Early Transactions
With Farmers
| Written Specially for The Herald
By ROBERT FULLER
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 9.—It’s
a long trail from handling fruits
and vegetables to handling mil
lions, but that was the path of A.
P. Giannini, who has just decided
to g*ve away*4iis personal fortune
in the interests of human_\yelf arjj
;—and significantly enough, remains
true to his boyhood love by en
dowing his wealth for the benefit
of agriculture.
Giannini never did have ambi
tions to be a millionaire. The son
of an Italian vegetable grower,
and founder of the Bank of Italy
and its associate corporations, he
is giving a huge fortune to the
agriculture of the state in which
he built a banking organization
which has been called the greatest
financial asset of the state and a
“banking octupus.”
In 1928 alone the enormous sum
will amount to $1,500,000, repre
senting Giannini’s 5 per cent of
the earnings of the Bancitaly Cor
poration, which he has refused to
accept.
| James A. Bacigalupi, on behalf
of the directors of the Bancitaly
(Corporation/ made the announce
ment that this money will be
given to the people of California
through a foundation to foster and
develop the State’s agricultural in
terests.
| One million dollars will go to
ward the establishment of the
| Giannini Foundation of Agricul
tural Economics at the University
of California, and five hundred
thousand dollars for the erection
of a building on the campus, ded
icated to ways and means of im
proving the economic conditions of
Farmers, Dairy and Livestock
men.
| A little more than thirty years
ago Giannini, a young Italian fruit
and vegetable buyer, began lend
ing money to other farmers whc
had established themselves in the
fertile valleys of California.
Today the Bank of Italy reaches
every hamllet in California, an:
the Bank of Italy and its subsid
iary corporations are said to fom
ithe second largest bank in the
• I country, the National City Banl
■ (of New York being the only on<
to surpass it.
‘| This giant 'institution bega*
:when Giannini started lendinj
• money as an aid to friends am
: those with whom he did business
• Mighty oaks from little acorn
■ 'grow!
I STABLES AT FAIR
GROUND CATCH FIR1
• The city fire department wa
^called out Saturday when it wa
• found that some stables at th
• northern end of the fair ground
i had caught fire. The stream o
; [water soon put out the flames an
1 .the damage was slight. It is no
[known how the first started.
Another Arrest
Shooting Affair
i Another arrest has been made in
i connection with the shooting af
i fair in ONeals township which took
I place last week. Sunday, Jot
Wright, the son of Sarah Wright
who refused to vacate the log
i cabin in which she was living but
j which belonged to (i. Weathers
by, was brought here and placed ir
jail to await a hearing in Record
er's court. He is only about fifteen
| years of age, but he is charged with
I shooting at the officers, who were
j attempting to force his mother tc
j vacate the house.
'Grade Crossing
To Be Retained
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j Hearing Before County High
way Commission At Regu
j lar Meeting Yesterday.
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j The hearing in regard to abol
ishing the grade crossing to the
| left of the station here conducted
before the Johnston County High
way Commission at its regular
i meeting yesterday resulted in a
|denial of the petition of the At
lantic Coast Line Railway to do
away with the crossing.
Until Highway No. 10 was hard
surfaced, this route crossed the
railroad at the station and was a
very dangerous crossing. Several
accidents at this point have taken
a toll of human life, and two years
ago the A. C. L. company placed
a guard there during the twenty
four hours of the day and night.
?Since the location of No. 10 has
[been changed, the traffic along this
iroad has lessened considerably and
| the railway company is now desir
ous of doing away with the guard
and closing the road at this point,
iThe railway company favors the
road crossing the railroad on the
right side of the station where
proper safeguards would be placed.
This would necessitate changing
the route for a short distance.
I The hearing had been advertised,
and at the meeting yesterday, a
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Smithfield Quint
Defeats Wakelon
| After trailing- the Wakelon high
school basketeers during the first
half of a game Thursday night, the
purple and gold five of Smithfield
i high ran wild in the second divis
ion of the affray and registered
jits tenth victory of the season de
feating the Wakelon tossers by ^
; 22-11 score. The game was player
1 in Zebulon. The Smithfield aggre
gation seemed to be off form in th<
first half and only chalked up sb
points against eight or Wakelon
but when the second half opener
the locals began to get themselve;
together and rang the basket witl
frequency.
"Cinch Bet?”
W* W Watson, 80 yearold cap
talist of Salina, Kan., who ha
nade a wager with an insuranc
company he will live five years
lays he has a "cinch bet.” Mi
■Vatson paid the insurance com
tany $100,000 in cash and the com
tany in turn is to pay him $1,50
»ch month that he lives.
W. T. Kirby And His Big Hog
SOME PORKER!—Twenty-eight months old Poland-China
belonging to W. T. Kirby near Kenly weighed 971 pounds.
Mr. Kirby is on the left of the picture and his brother-in-law,
j E. T. Crumpler, who helped care for the hog, on the right.
BAG CONTAINING VALUABLE
\ MAIL CUT TO PIECES BY TRAIN
An accident which caused
considerable extra work and
delay occurred Sunday morn
ing when a mail sack thrown
from train No. 83 rolled un
der the cars and was cut to
pieces by the wheels. This train
does not stop here, and the
mail is thrown off as it passes.
It is said that the bag Sunday
morning struck a switch post
anti rolled back under the
| train.
i The bag was said by post
i office. authorities to nave, con
I tained first class mail, there
j being an unusually large num
ber of letters. Every package
except one was ground up.
Three registered letters were
intact.
This bag contained several
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County Historian
1 Offers Resignation
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| Successor To John A. Mitch
iner Will Be Chosen At
March Meeting Of Board
Of Education.
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The County Board of Education
in regular session her© yesterday
decided to employ A. M. Pullen &
Company, public accountants who
have audited the school books of
Johnston county for the past few
years, to make the audit for this
year the work to begin at once.
This action was taken after con
sideration of a letter from A. T.
I Allen, State Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction, who has written all
of the county superintendents ask
ing for their cooperation in having
| the reports out on time this year.
It was his suggestion that audi
! tors be employed now and that the
: audit be made from month to
month. This will have two benefic
i ial results. Th© report of the
State Superintendent can be ready
by the time the legislature meets,
and the various counties can make
out its budget more quickly there
by making it possible for the tax
books to be compiled sooner.
At the meeting yesterday, a let
ter was read from John A. Mitch
iner, of Selma, tendering his resig
nation as Johnston county’s first
historian. On account of ill health,
Mr. Mitehiner has not assumed the
duties of the position to which the
• board of education recently elect
I ed him. In tendering his resigna
J tion, Mr. Mitehiner writes as fol
| lows:
• “Kindly excuse the delay in re
| cognizing the receipt of your letter
notifying me of my election as
• Johnston county’s first historian
; j Realizing the importance of the ap
i pedntment and the necessary studj
• ,and research that it would take tc
, satisfactorily perform the duty, 1
. wished to carefully think the mat
) ter over before making my reply.
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Mrs. S. G. Phillips
Passes At Hospital
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Mrs. Addie Lena Phillips, wife
of Mr. S. G. Phillips, passed away
at the Johnston County Hospital
Friday following several days’ ill
ness. Mrs. Phillips was operated
on for appendicitis about a week
before her death and her condition
was serious from the time she was
taken ill. She was forty-two years
of age.
The funeral was conducted at
the home Saturday afternoon at
three o’clock by Rev. H. R. Fair
cloth, of the Freewill Baptist
church, and Rev. S. L. Morgan, of
the Baptist church. Interment was
made in the Oakland cemetery.
The pallbearers were: Messrs. J.
H. Brady, W. D. Johnson, Roscoe
Ford, J. E. Gurganus, R. E. Holt,
and S. B. Jones.
The deceased is survived by a
husband and three small children.
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Arrest Negroes
In Kenly On
Theft Charge
Two negroes whose names were
not reported were arrested Thurs
day in Kenly under suspicion oi
having stolen a Ford truck loadec
with two bales of cotton. The ne
groes stated in Kenly that the>
[were from Moore’s school section
but when questioned closely it wa:
found that they knew nothing o
that section. It is thought the cot
ton and truck belonged to a Mi
Best in Wayne county. Wayn
county officers were notified wh>
went to Kenly and took charge o
the negroes.
I Aunt Prudence: “Keep awa>
from the sound of the same thing
!as aher the loudspeaker, Dennj
The announcer sounds as if he ha
a cold.”—Ex.
Regular Session Of
Go. Commissioners
First Days’ Session Featured
By Tax Releases; Will Meet
Again Today
The board of county commis
sioners were in session here, yes
terday and will be back again to
day to complete unfinished busi
ness. Every member of the board
was present.
The greater part of yesterday’s
session was taken up with hearing
tax complaints, and a number of
tax releases were ordered as fol
lows :
Ella J. Creech, Pine Level town
ship, $60; Raymond Creech, Pine
Level township, $150; Rebecca
Creech, Pine Level township, $480;
Mrs. E. Wood, Banner township,
$160; Dan U. Oliver, Selma, SI,000;
Harriet B. Jones, Selma, S1000;
Mrs. W. B. Woodard, Pine Level,
$742; Stephen Hicks, O’Neals, $600;
J. P. Alford, Smithfield, $550; Mrs.
D. H. Alford, Smithfield, $230; S.
P. Wood, Selma, $1000; S. P. Wood,
Selma, $500; J. L. Johnson, Smith
field, $650; Savannah Weaver, Ban
ner, $2500; J. M. Peele, Clayton,
$2000; J. Q. Beasley, Banner, $450;
J. S. Peele, Wilders, $8415; W. B.
Barber, Boon Hill, $615; Barnes
Pope, Beulah, $1000; Iradell Ray
nor. Banner, $50; J. W. Smith,
Meadow (amount not given); G.
Willie Lee, Smithfield, $50; L. T.
Ogburn, Pleasant Grove, $500; R.
S. Johnson, Elevation, $3,000.
It was ordered that C. A. Bailey
be paid $18.00 for burial expense
of one who was on the pauper list.
It was also ordered that Savan
nah Woodall’s tax abstract be
changed to Savannah Weaver, Ele-.
vation township on account of er
ror in name.
An order was passed to refund
J. M. Peele tax on $2900 tax ..val
uation on real estate, 1926 tax.
J. W. Dodd was ordered paid
$14.55 for supplies Ingram town
ship roads, and Robert Holland
was ordered paid $10.60 for bridge
timber for Micro township. Other
bills were ordered1 paid totaling
$169.40. D. C. Rhodes was ordered
paid $14.00 for geese killed by
dogs.
A few changes were made in
the old pauper list, before the
•board adjourned) to meet tegain
this morning.
Wanted, Information
In the early days of the World
War the officer in charge of a Brit
ish post, deep in the heart of Af
rica, received a wireless message
from his chief.
“War declared. Arrest all ene
my aliens in your district.” »
A few days later the chief re
ceived this communication:
“Have arrested seven Germans,
three Belgian, four Spanish, five
Frenchmen, a couple of Swedes,
an Australian and an American.
Please inform me whom we are
at war with.”
Emphatically, No!
Mamma: “Now Frankie, if they
pass you cake a second time at
the party you must say, ‘No
thanks; I’ve had plenty,' And don’t
you forget it.”
All went w-ell with the boy until
I the hostess said kindly:
; “Hon't you have another piece
of cake?”
“No thanks. I’ve had plenty, and
.don’t you forget it!” was the as
itonishing reply.—Ex.
Aunt Roxie Opines
1 By Me—
I
I De game law ez a failure be*
cause fokes hain’t even quit shoot
ing 'hot air.”