t/ Use Want Ads It yon have anything to aell a Want Ad will find you a buyer, quickly, cheaply. Mgmlfa Tell Your Friends If they don’t read the Herald they won’t see all the Johnston Connty happenings. Johnston County’* Oldest and Best Newspaper - - Established 1882 VOLUME 46—NO. 47 SMITHFIELD, N. C„ TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE 12, 1928 $2.00 YEAR—5c SINGLE COPY Discuss Local Tobacco Market Mass Meeting: of Business Men and Women Held In Court House In Interest of Improving Market The meeting of Smithfield bus iness men and women held at the courthouse Thursday evening was characterized not so much by en thusiasm as by practical, thought ful suggestions as to how a to bacco market may be built in Smithfield that will sell more of the 14,500,000 pounds raised in Johnston county each year. The call issued by the Kiwanis club met with a fine response, there being a goodly number pres ent not only from Smithfield, but a few from Selma who are inter ested in seeing a good tobacco market here. Dr. W. J. B. Orr, president of the- Kiwanis club, presided over the meeting and Called upon sev- : eral men who are familiar with conditions here, to present some vital facts concerning the market. Mr. O. C. Cauley, with the Smith- j eld Tobacco company, gave fig- j comparing the sales on the local market with other markets in Eastern Carolina, using a black board to show the relative loca tions of these markets. It was brought out that Smithfield is ideally located with reference to other markets and also with refer, ence to where tobacco is grown in quantity. At the same time it was pointed out that the market here does not sell the tobacco that it ought, a comparison with Farmville showing that Farmville sells near ly six times as much tobacco as Smithfield. These facts were supplemented with further information given by (Mr. Willis Glass and Mr. R. S. ' Scott, proprietors of the two re-1 drying plants of this city. At least' one of these companies lost money last year by maintaining a redry ing plant at a market that did not furnish all the tolbacco that was ! needed by them. The Glass-Staples company of 1 which R. J. Reynolds is president i has orders for the next year’s | ^prop that will require quite a lot j flp of the golden weed. This redrying i company will operate here next year, but unless considerably more | tobacco is sold on this market than ! in the past few years, the com- ; pany states, that it will be neces- | sary for them to move their plant to a market that can fill their needs. It was brought to the atten tion of those present that the Smithfield market is at a crisis. Unless it improves considerably there is danger of losing the to bacco payroll which amounts to about $100,000 annually. Warsaw was cited as a tobacco market that lost out because it did not realize its value until too late. Mr. T. C. Young was called upon for a few remarks and also Mr. R. P. Holding. Mr. Holding stated that one characteristic of Smithfield is that she is satisfied with nothing less than the best. Good streets, good electric light system, good water system, good schools, have been the aim of this city, and there are other things worth while such as food inspec ts tion, a health nurse and other ' things that the town would like to have if it were only able. One way of making these things possible, said Mr. Holding, is to increase the taxable property in Smithfield bo that the burden will not fell too heavy on the few. It was pre dicted that if six or seven million pounds of tobacco could be sold on TURN TO PAGE 8. COLUMN 1 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. Dixon Henry recognized his name last issue. f. Today's tantalizer: cmlaesyo Where the Democrats Will Flock June 26 and Make History I-— Here’s the outsdie of the great new coliseum built at Houston for the attend the Democratic National Convention. delegates who wil This is the interior of the Houston, Texas, hall where the Democratic Party will its Presidential Candidate and evolve its platform. name Decide Sheriff In 2nd Primary Chas. A. Creech and J. M. Turley Two High Men; Brooks Concedes Nomina tion To Canaday There will be a second primary in Johnston county on June 30 which will decide the nomiation for sheriff. The two high men in the primary on June 2 were J. M. Tnrlev, the present incumbent, and Chas. A. Creech. There were four other men in the race as follows: John O. Ellington, W. W. Hare, John \V. Blackman and J. J. Wil liams. It was tactily agreed, aecordfng to Mr. Creech, before the first primary that the two high men ■ would run in the second primary, • for it was generally conceded that with six candidates no one would get a majority. Candidates have, five days after the canvass of the j vote to decide whether they will run in a second primary or not, and Saturday Mr. Creech made his decision which was filed with the chairman of the county board of elections, J. A. Narron. In the senatorial race no one of j the candidates had a majority, C. I C. Canaday, present senator, hav-1 jng the lead over F. H. Brooks j with 99 votes. The other candi- j date was C. II. Grady. Mr. Brooks decided to concede the nomination J to the high man, Mr. Canaday, and -will not go into the second pri mary. In filing his decision with the chairman of the hoard op elec tions, Mr. Brooks makes tin fol lowing statement: “After considerable hesitancy, though after mature consideration, I announced my candidacy for state senator from Johnston county sev eral weeks after Senator Canaday and Mr. Grady had filed their no tices for the same position, and then did not wage a very vigor ous campaign. From the returns filed with the canvassing hoard last Monday, it appears that Sen I ator Canaday has a lead on me of 99 votes. My hands are clean, my conscience clear, and I bear no ill will towards any one, but am deep ly grateful to my staunch friends over ihe county who loyally stood (by me and voted and worked for me in the primary lasf, Saturday. “It is against my nature and I don’t know haw to wage a fight agairfst my Democratic friends, though I am ever ready to fight to the bitter end our Jtepublican op ponents. Therefore, in the interest of harmony in the party, and to save to the taxpayers of Johnston county the expense and my friends the worry and work during the hot days of June that lie ahead of the second primary, after careful and prayerful consideration, I have de i cided to waive a second primary i and yield the nomination to Sen j ator Canaday. “I have always tried to be a ! good sport and never lay down or !Iturn TO PAGE 8, COLUMN J Delegation Of 32 Goes To The State Convention Uninstructed Hull Forces Claim a Majority of Dele gates Selected At County Convention Held Here Saturday The court room was. well filled with delegates from every town ship in .Johnston county Saturday morning; at eleven o'clock when Chairman Benton called the Dem ocratic county convention to order. The convention was opened with prayer by Rev. E. D. Dodd of Four Oaks, after which D. Carlton Stephenson placed in nomination as permanent chairman of the con vention T. C. Young. This nomi nation was seconded by C. A. Jacobs of Selma. S. T. Honeycutt rose to a point of order as to whether it were necessary nrst to select a temporary chairman be fore a permanent chairman was chosen, but he was overruled and the motion naming Mr. Young as permanent chairman was carried. Before calling Mr. Young to the chair, J. B. Benton made a brief talk concerning his stewardship as chairman ol‘ the Democratic Exe cutive committee for the past two years. Following Mr. Benton’s speech, the chair recognized A. M. Noble who made a stirring speech in favor of Cordell Hull, presidential candidate, and who placed in nom ination thirty-two delegates to rep resent Johnston county in the state convention. C. A. Jacobs of Selma seconded the nomination of the delegates and the motion was tin own open for discussion. S. T. Honeycutt grew eloquent as he urged that nothing be done in the convention that would disturb the harmony of the Democratic party. He spoke of his pride in the forty years of Democratic rule in North Carolina. In the interest of har mony, he offered an amendment to Mr. Noble’s motion providing that each township meet separately and elect delegates and alternates ac cording to the township’s strength, which delegates when elected by the townships should be the dele gates from Johnston county to 1 the state convention. Others who discussed the motion were: C. A. Jacobs, A. M. Johnson and J. \Y\ Wiood. Mr. Noble accepted the amendment and the motion was ; carried as amended. The townships repaired to various places in the courthouse to select delegates and alternates. The following delegates and alternates were elected: Pine Level: Delegates, W. A Herring; alternate, C. H. Brown Banner: delegates, J. W. Par rish, Preston Woodall, Parlia Hud .son; alternates, J. F. WoodaW, Dr W. T. Martin, Alonzo Parrish. ' Meadow: delegates, A. B. Hood E. A. Tart; alternates, W. V Blackman and J. Mang Wood. , Bentonville: delegate, W. H TURN TO PAGE 4, i Tobacco Crop Now Has Fine Prospect ('. W. Adams, In Travels Over County, Sees Conditions Improving; Predicts 15, 000,000 Pounds ‘‘It now looks as if Johnston county is going* to raise around 15,000,000 pounds of tobacco,” de clared C. W. Adams, manager of the Planters Warehouse, who has been traveling over Johnston coun ty taking stock of the tobacco sit uation. Conditions the past week have been vrey favorable to the growing crop. Practically all the tobacco planted has a good stand and since the rains have let up all crops are growing rapidly. li some sections crops are reported from ten days to two weeks late ■but Mr. Adams thinks that John stun county crop is well along and unless there is more rain it is be lieved that the crop will be about as early as last year. Sunshine and warm nights for a while, Mr Adams thinks, will mean for John ston county one of the best crops in its history. Mr. Adams thinks that it is tc the interest of the farmers to sel their tobacco in their own county The only market in the county which is Smithfield, has facilities to handle every pound of this to bacco, and he believes that if the> will sell it at home that it will ma terially decrease taxes and in crease the value of real estate things that should be done ir Johnston county. CLEVELAND MAN HAS CHASE WITH MAD DOC I). M. Wood, of Cleveland, ha< a chase with a mad dog yesterdaj morning and finally succeeded ii killing the dog after a narrow es cape from being bitten by him. Thi mad dog had attacked another dog and both were killed. Mr. Woo< and a negro ran the dog about i mile before they could kill him. STORM DOES DAMAGE IN CLEYELA N D TC)\VN S11H Early yesterday morning be tween three and four o’clock storm did damage to fruit am shade trees in Cleveland township Thebarn of Ransom Sanders, col ored, was blown down and his oi chard considerably damaged. Sev eral shade trees at the home o Mr. Percy Barbour were blow down. Hail fell in Pleasant Grov township, and a tenant house o the farm of Mr. E. S. Coates wa blown from its pillars. Prevents Tarnish. If a lump of camphor is put i the chest or drawer where silve is kept it will prevent the silve from tarnishing. | Rev. W. W. Barnes ! At Baptist Church 1 Proiessor of Church History In Southwestern Seminary Speaks on Life of John Bunyon The life of John Bunyon was the subject of a sermon delivered Sunday night at the Baptist church 'by l)r. W. W. Barnes, native of E.hn City, but at present professor ^ of Church History in the South western Seminary at Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Barnes is one of the teachers in the Baptist Preachers’ summer school now in progress at Meredith College, Raleigh, and (Was invited to preach here by Rev. S. L. Morgan, pastor of the local church, who has been attend ing the school. The Baptists of the world are this year celebrating the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Bunyan, a great Baptist leader of England in the seven teenth century and Dr. Barnes stated that it was appropriate that he should talk concerning his life. He began by reading the Beati tudes found in Matthew 5. He de clared that any one of the Beauti tudes summed up the life of Buny an. He continued his talk by giv ing a sketch of the life of John Bunyan and showing where Chris tians today could profit by the high ideals of this great character. In the course of his sermon Dr. Barnes declared that the world to day needed a sense of sin as John Bunyan had. He went on to pic ture the years Bunyan spent in nri<;nn .nml loi/t cniu>i 1 Hospital at Washington, D. C 1 Miss Smith who formerly lived ai L‘ the Ivanhoe cotton mill became in 1 terested in preparing herself to b< * a nurse and through the aid oi missionary society of the Metho dist church here she completed th< course at Brevard Institute, doin* 1 four years’ work in three. She thei r entered George Washington Uni. r versity Hospital and is now a full fledged graduate. Houston Will Give Delegates Welcome Colisieum Built For Event Will Be Perm anent; City All Set For Meeting of Dem ocrats on June 26 Written Specially for The Herald By ROBERT FULLER ! HOUSTON, Texas, Jnue 11.— j [ Houston is all set for the great j Democratic National Convention, i which will convene here on June ; 26. And while Houston has been * bending every effort toward per- j. fecting plans for the convention, j civic leaders have not been over, looking the opportunity so to shape this work that it will tit into the solid foundation of a still greater Houston. Although the movement and' actual construction of the convention coliseum has been somewhat of an overnight project, all workers seemingly I have been impressed with the idea 11 that they are not building a tem porary structure. The city of Houston was laid out according to a well defined city nlan by it’s pioneers. Leaders of ,1 civic life in villages, towns and cities throughout the nation are expected to absorb some concrete j ideas on city-building when they are in Houston for the convention. These local leaders are pioneers and it is to them that future gen erations will point when their The coliseum is placed in the center of what is destined to be a ‘civic center,” an area in which , many future public buildings are planned. In this there is a good 1 idea in city building. No convmun- : ity is too small to start planning for the future, and a sound foun- ( dation provides for later phenom enal growth. In its early days Houston was a small, secluded 1 town. It has become large and powerful because of the wise plan ning of its pioneers. An arrangement program for the convention has been perfected that is considered adequate to care for another 100,000 overnight ad dition to the population. Special arrangements are being made by convention committees to care for all visitors to Houston at and about the time of the party j gathering. These are the words of Jesse H. Jones, Houston capitalist and the chairman of the arrangements com mittee: “Come to Houston the city is ready to care for you.” Claude G. Bowers, New York; editorial writer, historian and or- ! ator, will be the keynote speaker at the convention. Mr. Bovvers at tracted great attention by his ad dress at the last Jackson Day Din ner, which is considered a master piece. It was beautifully written, and most effectively spoken, j It was Jesse H. Jones who led i the fight for Houston when the! | Democratic convention city was ! being chosen. Mr. Jones is the publisher of the Houston Chroni cle. All the proceedings of the con- ; vention—as in the case of the: Kansas City conclave of the G. O. i P.—will be broadcast over the ra dio in a gigantic hook-up reaching i into every nook and cranny of the country. The most thorough “ra-1 dio picture” of a convention ever made will be presented to the lis-; teners, as microphones will be j placed all about the convention 1 door and balconies and everything > going on will be “picked up” and transmitted. NEW FIRM HERE. Messrs. Abdalla and Vinson com pany have purchased the bankrupt stock of the Smithfield Shoe com pany and are now preparing to open a new store there Saturday, and will carry a complete line of all kinds of shoes for men, wo men and children, ladies and misses ready to wear garments, and millinery. Smithfield extends a cordial welcome to this hustling new firm and the Herald also wishes them success. atm vm 1 Mother of Flag Day S SW-fi^wtb as- -PSP' -a MM* VW " JHf Mrs. Laura B. Prisk, mother of l-'lag Day, is completing her plans \>r this year’s tribute to Old Glorv. Throughout the country patriotic organizations will unite with civic bodies to honor the stars and -tripes on June 14. H. Brooks Made Democratic Chairman — -*■ ■ )nly Action Taken at the Meeting of Democratic Ex ecutive Committee Satur day Was Selection of Chair man At a meeting of the Democratic Cxecutiv Committee held here Sat irday immediately after the coun y convention adjourned, F. K 3rooks was unanimously chosen as hairman. Those who had been nominated in the county ticket were invited o meet with the committee to of cr any advice that they might see it. Practically the only thing tak ■n up at this meeting, however, vas tlie selection of the chairman. Appreciation of the work done by he retiring chairman, J. B. Ben on, was expressed before the meet- ■ ng adjourned. Members of the executive com nittee are as follows: W. L. Mas ongill, of Elevation; P. B. Cham dee, O’Neals; Robert Barham, -Vilders; Herbert Brown, Pine l,fcvel; 1). H. Stephenson, Wilson’s dills; J. F. Woodall, Banner; C. :I. Holt, Boon Hill; R. A. Keen, !n grams; J. Herman Oglburn, Pleasant Grove; J. J. Young, Clay on; Delmo Coates, Cleveland; Dr. VI. Hinnant, Micro; C. A. Corbett, £elma* T. C. Young, Smithfield, rlenry Watson, Beulah; T. L. Hud son, Meadow; J. H. Marshiburn, dentonville. [Will, PILKINGTON HELD IN DEFAULT S5000 BOND The coroner’s hearing in the murder of Everett Eason which took place a few' weeks ago on highway No. 10 near the Ivanhoe cotton mill, was resumed yesterday and about thirty witnesses were examin ed. Paul Pinkington is stijl held in jail in default of a $5,000 bond. Ausley Pilking ton is out under a $2,500 bond and Wiley Grice and Herman Eason are under a bond of $250 each. James Narron, Ber nice Narron and Polly Chil ders, who were held for a time as material witnesses, have been released. This case will be passed upon by the grand jury of the next crimi nal term of court which con venes here on Monday, June 25th. Abelj & Shepard have been retained to assist the state in the prosecution of the case. \V. H. Lyon will appear for Paul and Ausley Filkington; F. H. Brooks, for Childers, Judge W. P. Aycock for Grice and Eason. Guests Mrs. B. G. Jonea. Mrs. J. A. Pritchell, of Windsoi | and Mrs. J. T. Page, of Claytor spent yesterday here with Mrs. I ; G. Jones. I Report Of Highway Work Done In May J. B. Lodor, Supt. of High ways, Gives Detailed Ac count of the Five Districts Mr. J. B. Lodor, superintendent of highways of Johnston county, submits the following report of road work done in Johnston coun ty during the month of May. District (No. 1. ) C. I*. Harper, Commissioner'.; Clayed or graveled, 702 yards;; culverts placed, 182 feet; bridges repaired, 2; roads rebuilt, 2 miles; roads dragged, 1150 miles; roads, built, 2 miles; machine ditched, 284 miles; hand ditched, 482 yards; shoulders pulled, 190 miles; cut ting right of way, 5255) yards; fill in place, 92 cubic yards. District No. 2. L. Gilbert, Commissioner. Culverts placed, 08 feet; bridges, repaired, 10; roads built, 9; roads built, 3V& miles; roads reibulit, 2 miles; roads dragged, 1123 miles; machine ditched, 33 miles; hand ditched, 135 yards; shoulders pull ed, CO miles; cutting right of way, 800 yards; fill in place, 515 cubic /District No. 3. S. E. Barbour, Commissioner. Clayed or graveled, 32 yards; bridges repaired, 1; roads dragged, !>2S miles; machine ditched, 217 miles; hand1 ditched, 327 yards; shoulders pulled, 159 miles. District No. 4. C. P. Harper, Commissioner. Clayed or graveled, 2702 yards; clearing and grubbing, 40 yards; culverts placed, 82 feet; bridges repaired, 3; roads rebuilt, 15 and three-quarter miles; roads built, bi mile; roads dragged, 1415 miles; machine ditched, 100 miles; hand ditched, 1178 yards; shoulders pull ed, 158 miles; cutting right of way, 1284 yards- fill in place, 495 cubic yards. District No. 5. Dr. J. C. Grady, Commissioner. Clayed or graveled, 70 yards * culverts placed, 96 feet; bridges, repaired, 7; roads dragged, 1L41 miles; machine ditched, 202 miles; band ditched, 845 yards- shoulders pulled, 340 miles; cutting right of way, 3530 yards; fill in place, 240 an,bic yards. Construction Done By Convicts. • Camp No. 2: Located in Meadow township, working: an average of* ten prisoners, clayed and graveled 100 yards; cleared and grubbed 8834 yards; placed 68 feet of cul verts; rebuilt 2 miles of road; built 4l/2 miles of road; dragged 9 Vi miles of road, hand ditched 1720 yards; pulled 6 miles of shoulders; put in 600 cubic yards of fill. Camjp No. 3: Located in Clayton, township, working an average of 9 prisoners, clayed or graveled 50 yards; cleared and grubbed 3325 yards, placed 68 feet of culverts; hand ditched 105 yards; cutt 1300 yards of >ight of way; put in 7185 cubic yards of fill. Camp No. 4: Located in O’Neal’s township, working an average of 12 prisoners, cleared and grubbed 5190 yards; placed 208 feet of culverts; built 2 Ms miles of road; machine ditched 2 miles; hand ditched 2376 yards; cut 3530 yards of right of way; placed 215 cubic yards of fill, and built 1 bridge. The Bridge Force working coun ty-wide, rebuilt 28 bridges; built 1 bridge, an dthe rest of the month used in painting bridges. Aunt Roxie Opines By Me— , “Hit look lak de South has frez . solid betwixt Al Smith and de White House.”