Use Want Ads If you have anything to sell a Want Ad will find you a buyer, quickly, cheaply. * * * * Tell Your Friends If they don’t read the Herald they won't see all the Johnston County happenings. L '■...- .srJ VOLUME 46—NO. 36 SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 1928 $2.00 YEAR—5c SINGLE COPY Light Docket in Recorder’s Courl Only Half Dozen Cases Triet And Disposed Of In Loca Court This Week. A light docket was disposed of in Recorder’s Court this week. Tht following cases were tried: / Gurnie Sullivan, white, was fount! guilty of giving worthless cheek. He was sentenced to the roads for (10 days and taxed with the cost. George McLamb and Monroe Mc Lamb were in court charged with violating the prohibition law. Geo. McLamb not guilty. Monore Mc Lamb was found guilty of posses sion of whiskey for the purpose of sale. He was given 60 days on the roads and taxed with the cost, but he gave notice of appeal. For beating board bill, Willie Hranch was sentenced to the coun ty roads for 30 days and required to pay the cost of the action. tester i,ee, a wnite iarmer, was found guilty of operating a motro vehicle while intoxicated. He was sentenced to the roads for G months and taxed with the cost. The road sentence is to be suspended upon condition that the defendant does not violate the prohibition law a gain during the next two years and Sin further condition that he does not operate a motor vehicle again for a period of 90 days and pay a fine of $50 and the cost. The court found that Saphronia Jackson had violated the terms of a suspended sentence and it was or dered that the defendant be con fined in the jail of Johnston county for a term of twelve months. James Medlin, colored, was in court on several counts. For pos session and transportation of whis key he was sentenced to the roads for 30 days and taxed with the cost. He gave notice of appeal and his bond was fixed at $100. For pos session of still and beer he was sen tenced to the county roads for 30 days, this sentence to begin at the expiration of the first term. He ap under a $200 bond. He was also found guilty of larceny, but took an appeal to Superior court from a 90 day road sentence and his bond was fixed at $100. Play At Meadow j Next Friday ■ 4 Benson, Route 2, May 3—An in- | teresting comedy-drama, “Mam my's Lil’ Wild Rose,” will be given , by the Senior class of Meadow in j the school auditorium on Friday ev- | ening, May 11. The cast of characters is as fol- j lows: Daniel French—From the city—.j Lynn Adams; Lester Van—Daniel’s chum—-Gordon Lee; Wade Carver —An unwelcome suitor—Woodrow Blackman; Orpheus Jackson—A native Romeo—George Davis; Old Joe—“Dat’s a fac’ Talmage Lee; Rose O'May—Mammy’s LiT Wild Rose—Pearl Tart; Mammy Celie— A black treasure—Effie Williams; Hester O’May—Rose’s maiden aunt —Emily Blackman; Peggy French —Daniel’s sister—Alma Barefoot; Letty Van—Peggy’s chum—Helen Butler; Babe Joan—A mountain charmer—Anna B. Hood; Mrs. Courtbane—A lonely woman—Min nie Lee; Be sure to see “Mammy s Lil* Wild Rose” at Meadow. The play will begin promptly at 8 o’- j REPORTS HAIL IN ELEVATION Mr. W. L. Massengill, tax lister of Elevation Township, was in the city Tuesday and reported hail in his section on Monday afternoon. Hail has been reported also from other sections of the county. 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. |Mrs. Carlton Stephenson re cognized her name last issue. Today’s Tantalizer: ryamytirachmthsi i V “Steno” Now Singer W ' V - VIAv/TOC^gTKR.1 j Kathryn Witwer of Gary, Ind has shined her career from typ< writer to musical keys. She hs won a place in Grand Opera an Gary set aside a “Kathryn Witw« Day” to honor her, when she sar, to a packed auditorium. H* father, who used to be a ste worker “with the boys/’ sat in tl balcony and after the performan' tears of joy streamed down h face. Horton Is Held Under $2,000 Bond -♦— Coroner’s Jury Recommends Holding- Of Horton For In vestigation Of Accident By Next Grand Jury. -+ Tuesday afternoon, Coroner J. H. Kirkman held an inquest to deter mine the manner in which William Bass and Charlie Hodges of Dunn came to their death on highway No. 10 near the overhead bridge at Sel ma last Sunday night. Six witness es were examined before a jury composed of W. J. Huntley, H. C. Hood, T. C. Ogburn, Thos. Jordan, Hugh Austin, and C. M. Johnson, and after they had heard the evi dence, they recommended that Wal ter Horton be held for an investi gation by the next Grand Jury. The first witness examined was W. C. Toler who passed about the time the automobiles crashed, and who brought Walter Horton, color ed, his wife and baby to Smithfield, summoned a doctor and found a deputy sheriff. lj. iviuiu.it; was iuso put oil inti stand and testified that he saw the Ford roadster run into the parked b'uielc. He saw a blaze spring up immediately. He ran up and pulled William Bass out of the burning Ford, but the flames prevented him from getting the other man out. He stated that Mr. Toler came up just after he had got Bass out of the car. He said that he did not smell any whiskey. C. H. Holt was the next witness but he passed the parked car be fore the accident occurred. He was on his way to his home in Princeton from Smithfield. M. It. Duncan, E. W. Oneal, Luth er J. Worley and T. E. Talton were examined who testified as to the position of the cars when they ar rived on the scene. The two negro men, Walter Hort on and Dennis Brooks, who were with the Buick, also gave their ver sion of the accident. After the inquest, Horton was placed under a $2,000 bond until an investigation by the next Grand Jury, and in default of a bond is in the Johnston county jail. Brooks was placed under a $500 bond which he gave and was released. DEMOCRATS KEYNOTER MILL BE |MR. BOWERS WASHINGTON, April 30.—The keynote at the Democratic nation al convention will be sounded by Claude G. Bowers, author and edi torial writer on the New Y’ork Evening World. lie was selected is temporary chairman today at u meeting here of members of the Dmoncratic national committee charged with making arrange ments for the |Ho4 'ton Conven tion. SEVENTH GRADE EXAMINATIONS SOON The seventh grade examina tions will be held in the Smith field Graded School building Saturday, IMay 12th, beginning promptly at 9:00. All students expecting to enter high school next fall will have to pass the county examination before they will be allowed to enter. Cordell Hull To Oppose Al Smith South's Answer To Accusa tion That It Had No Candi date Against New Yorker; Zeb Turlington Campaign Manager In N- C. By JOHN A. LIVINGSTON in The News and Observer. "Washington, May 1.—Cordell Hull, of Tennessee, today entered North Carolina as an active con tender for the Democratic nomi nation for President. Zeb Vance Turlington, of Mooresville, accept ed the job of managing his cam paign in the State. Entry of the Tennessee Congress man in North Carolina means his supporters will conduct an aggres sive campaign in his behalf in all Southern States with exception of Georgia, which is backing Sena tor George, as an active contender against Governor Smith. It is an answer to the argument that Smith opponents in the South have no' candidate of their own. Hull’s entry as Presidential can-i didate in North Carolina and other Southern States means that Gov- j emor Smith’s nomination is not, going to be conceded by his op- j ponents either now or hereafter! unless he gets the required two- j thirds in the Houston convention. ! The result in California was un- j known when the decision to enter Judge Hull in other States than | Tennessee was reached by his j friends. It pnakes no difference ] what the result in that state is.! The fight against Governor Smith’s ! nomination will go on. Simmons Knew Plan. While Senator Simmons had no; statement to make today, the de-j cision to enter Judge Hull as an active candidate in North Caro lina was made with his knowledge. The Senator’s challenge of Gover nor Smith brought him to the front as leader of the Southern opponents of the New Yorker. Senator George was the first! candidate considered by Southern lead ers as the best man to put up as Southern candidate to speak! for the South. The Georgia Sena- j tor’s leadership of the fight that j resulted in the refeat in the Senate j of the Walsh Resolution made him ; unavailable as a Presidential candi date. Congressman Hull’s record of; 20 years in Congress, his success- j ful chairmanship of the Democrat-! ic National Committee in 1922 and | his popularity are factors relied upon to gain for him strength in Congress speak in the highest J terms of his ability. After 250 Votes. Virginia, South Carolina, Flori da, Mississippi and possibly Texas are included in the plans for an active campaign for the Tennesse an. Altogether there are 250 con vention votes in the state in which Hull’s name is expected to be en tered as a candidate. Acceptance of the State mana gership by Representative Turling ton in North Carolina was in res ponse to a telegram sent yester day by Senator McKellar, of Tenn essee, and was made today in a telegram from Raleigh in which the Iredell man promised to do his best to place Judge Hull’s claims before the people of North Caro lina. “It is with pleasure that I ac cept the managenient of Judge Hull’s candidacy,’’ wired Turling ton, who is recognzed as one of; the shrewdest political leaders in the State. He was in Raleigh,! whither he had gone to confer with j Anti-Smith leaders. ! McKelJar’s Message, j “Am authorized by Judge Cor-1 dell Hull and his friends to re-; I guest your acceptance of appoint-; | ment as state manager for North Carolina of the candidacy of Judge Hull for the Democratic Presiden tal nomination,” Senator McKellar wired Mr. Turlington. “Knowing your splendid ability and of your devotion to the great moral and economic prinqiples Nvhich have heretofore t^ade the Democratic party invincible in the South and which have given character and substance to the National Demo cratic party, I convey this message to you with great pleasure and de sire to express the earnest hope that you will accept the State man agement of the Presidential cam (Turn to page eight, please) His Heart Is On the Right, Yet Wrong, Side! Dr. Fred Lindenberger of Berlin University is shown examining lose L. Navarro of Los Angeles, 23, whose heart is on the right side instead of the left. He has caused a flurry among doctors and scientists. The rest of his organs are perfectly normal and his mis placed heart doesn’t bother him a hit North Carolinians Buy Automobiles Spend Nearly Five Million Dollars For New Cars Dur ing Month Of April. RALEIGH, May 2.—North Car olinians spent approximately $4, 935, 000 for new automobiles last month, while an additional $911, 005.28 was expended for license plates, gasoline, and title fees. Ac cording to figures compiled by Sprague Silver, head of the auto motive vehicle bureau of the State Department of Revenue, car sales last month showed an increase of 40 per cent. Over those of April last year, 5,640 cars being sold in the State last month as compared with 3,920 in April 1927. Based on an average cost of $875 each, cars purchased last month would would total nearly $5,000,000, he pointed out. April sales also showed an in crease of 26 per cent, over the 4, 459 cars sold during the proceed ing month. For the first time this year, car sales total more than for the same period last year, with 17, 527 sold to May 1 this year, and 17,123 during the correspond ing time in 1927. Mr. Silver predicted that par sales this year would exceed those of last year as a con siderable mar gin, pointing out the fact ,that Fords will be on the market in larger quanities, although he thought this would be only partial ly responsible for increased sales. Automobile license, gas, and ti tie taxes collected during April brought the total for the first ten months of the fiscal year to 17, 004, 263.53, as compared with 12, 381, 848.88 for the entire fiscal year ending June 30, 1927. Collections during April, 1928, and 1927, were given as follows: April 1928 April 1927 License ..$223,623.02 $44,000 Gasoline 676,186.26 562,460 Title 11,256 <00 9,503 A total of 404,000 cars have been licensed to date as compared with 432,000 Dec. 31, 1927, and 434,000 June 30, 1927. Despite the smaller number of cars licensed, gasoline taxes for the first ten months of the pre sent fiscal year, $7,800,319.88, ex ceeds by nearly a million dollars the $6,923,327.61 collected during the preceding fiscal year.—News and Observer. REPUBLICANS TO HAVE NEWSPAPER The first issue of “The Johnston County Sun,” is scheduled to ap pear in this city next Thursday, May 10th. A. C. Stallings of Dur ham is said to bo owner and edi tor. The paper will be printed by the Medlin Printing Co., and the editorial office will also be in the building occupied by the Medlin Printing Co. The politics of the new publication will be Republican Some time ago the organ of the Republican party, “The Eeastern News,” .which was published in Benson, was sold to Mr. J. B. Ben ton, owner and publisher of the Benson Review. Enameled pans can be cleaned by scouring with crushed eggshells and soapy water. S. S. Convention , At Mount Zion To Hold Similar Convention In Cleveland Township Every Fifth Sunday; Prom inent Speakers. CLAYTON, Route 1, May 2.— i The Sunday school convention held i I at Mount Zion church last Sunday! was very largely attended. Sev-1 eral good speakers were on the; | program. A business meeting was j held at ten o’clock, and it was de- J j cided to hold a meeting at some I ; church in this township every fifth | ! Sunday. The next will be held at Shiloh Baptist church on the fifth j Sunday in July. At eleven o’clock' jthe pastor of Mount Zion Metho J dist church preached a very inter | esting sermon, after which dinner I was served on the grounds. In the | lafternoon Rev. Hollinsworth of; Raleigh and Judge F. H. Brooks, j of Smithfield, talked on Sunday j school work. These talks were very i I helpful, especially for the teach ers present. Mrs. J. E. Jones and Mr. P. W. Barber are improving after being sick for several days. , Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Williams | , and children, of Fuquay Springs,! spent last week end in this section with Mrs. Williams’ parents Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jones. missus numevan ourouur ana Mattie Jones shopped in Raleigh last Saturday. Mr. H. L. Boney spent last week end here with his wife at the home of Mrs. E. N. Booker. Several from this community at tended the commencement at Gar ner last week. Born to Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Aus- j tin on April 24, a son, James Hu bert. Mrs. Austin is the daughter ( of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jones of this section. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Barbour, of Clayton, spent last Sunday in this community. Mr. and Mrs. John Hobbs and1 children, of near Smithfield, vis-1 ited at the home of Mr. P. W. Barber last Sunday. Miss Bernice Franks is spend-, ing this week in Raleigh with her brother, Mr. Eugene Franks. Miss Lunette Barber is at home after teaching near Benson past \ six months. Miss Pearl Warrick,! who taught with her, spent last week end with Miss Barber before I going to her home in Goldsboro, i Mr. and Mrs. K. P. Barber and ( Iv. P. Jr., have returned to their; home in Woodland after spend-1 ing several days in this community] with relatives. Mrs. Tom Booker is visiting in Raleigh this week. The Christian Endeavor, of Oak land church has changed the time of meeting from 7:30 until eight o’clock on Sunday night. Be sure to come to Sunday school at 10 a. m. and to Christian Endeavor at 8 p. m. Sermon by the pastor second Sunday evenings at 8 o’clock and fourth Sunday mornings at 11. The public is cordially invited. — ♦ — Over 800 pounds of sweet clover seed were planted by farmers of Lincoln county in two weeks dur ing early March. 1 Cotton Ass’n To Elect Directors Johnston To Elect Delegates On May 18 To Attend Dis trict Convention; May Amend By Laws And Char ter. Raleigh, May 1.—The Board of Directors of the North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Asso ciation held its regular monthly meeting in the Association office here today. It was ordered that the Annual Election of Directors shall be held beginning with the county primaries during the third week in May and ending with the Annual Meeting of members at the Asso ciation office June 18ht, at which time the new Board of Directors will assume charge of the affairs of the Association for the new As sociation year. Johnston County will hold its county convention for primary elec tions at Smithfield, on May 18 at 10:80 n m Delegates elected at the county primaries will attend District Con ventions at District Headquarters in each of the ten Director Districts on May 22nd, and will nominate candidates to be voted upon by the Association members for Director to represent the district for the coming year. District elections where the poll holders will count the ballots will be held June 12th and the candi dates who receive majority vote at these elections in each of the ten districts will be declared the Direct or to represent that district. The Board of Directors in its meeting today also recommended several changes in the Association By-Laws and in its Charter. The most important of the changes is the one allowing an increase in the number of directors of the Associa tion from eleven the present num ber, to fifteen. Ballots will be mail ed to all Association members this week and they will vote upon the proposed change. The present board of directors is composed of Dr. B. W. Kilgore of Raleigh, President W. A. Pierce of Weldon, Vice Pres ident, B. F. Shelton of Speed, John T. Thorne of Farmville, E. A. Stev ens of Goldsboro, J. W. Stephenson of Smithfield, J. A. Turlington of Salemburg, A. McEachern, Laurin burg, W. II. Liles of Wadesboro, R. L. Shuford of Newton, Dr. G. M. Pate of Rowland. All members of the Board were present at the meeting today. Meadow Boys Organize Club Benson, Route 2, May 3.—The Meadow Roys’ 4-H Club met Wed nesday night, April 2G, for the first time after the organization of the club. All members of the club were present. Eight new members joined the club. They are as follows: Ruf us Johnson, Joe Sutton, Arthur Sutton, J. R. Lee, Jack Hudson, Floyd Barefoot, Marvin Parker, and Floyd Altman. In addition to the members of the club the following were present: Mr. J. B. Slack, Ben son, Mr. John Smith, Smithfield, Mr. L. A. Johnson, and Mr. A. G. Glenn. Reprots were made by dif ferent members of the club. Several questions, pertaining to the work that each club member is doing, were discussed. Among them were the proper fertilization of cotton, the adoption of a uniform price for labor, etc. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday night, May 30. Plans are now to secure some good agri cultureal speaker and make the meeting a general one for the en tire community. Announcement of this will be made later. -+ HOUSE IN BELMONT CATCHES FIRE Yesterday when the fire alarm sounded, it was found that a house in Belmont was on fire. It was lo cated out of the city limits, but the fire department went to the sceoie, and soon had he fire put out. It was a four,room house oc cupied by negroes, and it is thought that the house caught from fire around the wash pot in the yard. The kitchen was practically des troyed but the other part of the house was only slightly damaged. For general sweeping, dry salt scattered on the carpet also helps to preserve colors and to check the ravages of moths. \ Rich Indian Farmer Jackson Sanuttv-World’* richest Indian, who.iis: iacin& a ,$55QtOO( nut and other legal troubles. It al started when he wanted to donate £550,000 to the Baptist Home *Mi$ 'ion Society of Muskogee, Okla E. S. Hailey of Tulsa was appointee by Oklahoma courts as Barnett': guardian and refused to approvi the giving of the endowment sum Dr. Weigle Begins - Meeting Next Week Methodists And Presbyter-! ians Join In Holding Series Of Revival Meetings; First Service Tuesday. Following close on the heels of1 the revival services at the Baptist church, the Methodists of this city, will start a series of meet ings with Evangelist Ctoas. F. i Weigle, of Florida, as the preacher. For two weeks Dr. Weigle has been preaching in Selma when the Meth odist and Baptists joined forces and the interest has been fine. The meeting closes in Selma next Sunday night and on Tuesday night the revival starts here. All congre-! gations are asked to join in making the evangelistic services mean thei most to this community. Dr. Weigle has been very suc cessful as on evangelist, and with a two weeks’ campaign just con ducted at the Baptist church, the Christian people of the town are; expecting the community to be' more deeply stirred during the coming weeks. A newspaper at i Bloomfield, Pa., where Dr. Weigle | held a revival sometime ago, makes; the following report of his work in that city: ino union evangelistic ser vices in the M. E. church in this place during the past two weeks; closed last evening, with one of the! greatest religious services ever held in the town. All the churches of our town had joined in this ser vice, not only in name but in spir it, and the good accomplished is beyond measure. “Evangelist Charles F. Weigle, who has been conducting services throughout the country for many years, was in charge,and proved himself to be a big man of God before he was here forty-eight hours. The people came from many miles around to hear him, and the closing night saw the biggest at tendance of the campaign. “People have . been telling us that the church was losing out and | that no one would attend services that lasted more than thirty min-1 utes, but this campaign disprov-! es the view. It was here clearly! proven that it is possible to have large attendance at church. Last night the crowd began to gather long before the hour of service; and remained for the entire ser vice, which did not close until 10: 45 p. m. “Bloomfield was very fortunate1 in being able to secure Dr. Weigle. i More than 80 decisions were had during the two weeks, nineteen of these coming on the closing night. After the first few nights, there was not a service at which no de cisions were made. “All expenses were easily met and the free will offering to Evan gelist Weigle was creditable and gratifying to all. “The men’s meeting Sunday af ternoon was largely attnded and very helpful service was enjoyed I by every man present. “During the campaign more than 0000 people attended the services, some of them traveling more than 40 miles to attend, and all who fail ed to attend missed a great treat, The accomplishments of the ser vice must not be measured by the eighty or more divisions, which ir itself was fine, but the blessings that came to those in attendance are beyond measure. We feel thai the results will be lasting." \ Splendid Revival Services Sunday ■» ■ Selma Stores Close At Six O’ clock Beginning May 1 And Continuing Through Sum mer. SELMA, May 2.— The Baptist church was filled almost to its cap acity Sunday morning at one of the most intensely interesting ser vices ever held in Selma, and on Sunday night the Methodist church had every available seat taken to hear Dr. C. F. Weigle, who is con ducting a union revival here. Mon day was rest day for Evangelist Weigle and on Tuesday morning the stores closed for the first ser vice of the week, which was large ly attended. At the evening ser vice a number of out of town vis itors were present. Among the vis iting ministers were: Rev. G. B. Perry, of Princeton., Rev. D. H. Tuttle, and Rev. D. E. Earnhardt, of Smithfield. T» Close At Six O’clock A forward movement among the merchants of Selma is the decis ion to close their stores each after noon at six o’clock, beginning May first and continuing through the summer months. For several years this has been under discussion, but not until this year has the senti ment been unanimous. Sees Snow In Virginia. Oscar Creech has returned from a trip to various points in Vir ginia. While there last week he saw snow between Norfolk and Richmond. While he was not in the thick of the blanket which fell in the Shenandoah Valley, it was un mistakably snow. Attend School Commencement Mr. Wade Brown and nephew, Laland Brown, left Monday for Lake Landing to be present at the commencement evercises of the high school of that place, which took place on Tuesday. Mr. Lan dis Brown, son of Mr. Wade Brown is principal of the school. Attend Shrine Ceremonial Dr. R. J. Noble and Mr. E. V. Deans left Friday for Miami, Fla., to attend the Shriners meeting to be held in that place this week. •They left on a car and will make the long trip through the country Guests From Washington Dr. and Mrs. Wade H. Atkinson, of Washington, D. C., spent Thurs day night in the city with Dr. and Mrs. Geo. D. Vick. They were re turning from a tour of the south ern states. Weds In New York City he following announcement ha3 been received by Mrs. E. G. Rich ardson of this city: “Mr. Charles H. Williamson announces the marriage of his daughter, Mary Alice, to Mr. Geo. Gordon Stuart on Saturday, April 21, Church of the Transfiguration, New York City.” The bride has visited Miss Eva Richardson, who was a class mate of hers in Salem College, and a number of acquaintances in Sel ma will be interested in the an nouncement. She is the daughter of a prominent retired member of the Brown-Williamson Tobacco Company, of Winston-Salem. Entertains Circle No. 6. Mrs. J. W. Short w'as hostess to the members of Circle No. 6 of the Methodist Missionary Society on Tuesday afternoon. The leader, Mrs L. D. Debnam, presided over the meeting and expressed hersilf as being much gratified at the pro gress they w’ere making. Delicious refreshments consisting of banana Bavarian cream and fudge cake. 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