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48TH YEAR THE HOME NEWSPAPER SMITH FIELD. N. C.. TUESDAY MORN IN 0. JANUARY 7, 1929 SIX PAGES TODAY NUMBER 2 Rev. E. Frank Le< Is Shot By Negri Little Hope Is Held For Dui | ham Methodist Ministe f Who Was shot Frida y , Night; Formerly Attende A / School Here DURHAM, Jan. .‘5.—Rev. K Frank Lee, prominent Methodis minister, pastor of Calvary MeUi odisit church., this city, was sihol and seriously if not fatally wound ed about 9:45 o’clock tonight b;> an unidentified negro. The shoot ing took place at the residence of the minister on. Elizabeth street jn the northern part of the city, when he went to an outhouse to get a Scuttle of coal. The negro was accosted and asked his business. His reply was a shot that struck the minister in the abdomen. A second shot fol lowed, lodging in a less danger ous part of the body. Mr. Lee came hero in Decem ber immediately after being as signed by the North Carolina con ference from Fayetteville where Ire’ served for a number of years. Previously he had served at K t. isttcxn. Prior to becoming affiliated with the Methodist Epiiseopai church, Rev. Mr. Lee was a Pres byterian minister, having charge V Buffalo dh'urch, Greemsiboro. Ho is an extensive property owner in GXrcenaboro. Immediately after he was shot Mr. Lee walked back into h's house set down the scuttle of coal, and then collapsed in a chair. Physicians and officers were sum moaied and (bloodhounds were sen: for in an effort to track the min- ; ister’s assailant. — Associate! ' Brest*. LITTLE HOPE HEM) OUT FOR RECOVERY OF MINISTER DUiRH'OM, Jan. •!.—Little hope is held out for the recovery of Rev. E. Frank Lee, well known lo cal minister who was *voundcd last night ail his homo, about 3:30 o'clock when he accosted a noc turnal prowler, who was mhH larkin'? on his premises. He stal l'd ^bontfy after being wounded W\ul he was shot by a large gin gcr-eolored negro, whom he would recognize if he ever saw him again. Hospital attaches tonight declared that his condition is very critical, and it is feared he will not recover. NOTE: Rev. E. Frank Lee lias friends and acquaintances in John■ Elton county who will regret to learn of his serious condition. lie attended Turlington Institute in this city for several years, wber preparing for college. MULE KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE SUN DA V A mule was killed Sunday night on the highway between SmV.hfu.-ld and Selma when it suddenly ran across the road in front of the automobile being driven by Sam Young of Raleigh. The occurrence took place about 11:30 o’clock as Mr. Young was enroute to Ral eigh. The mule, according to if fport, was loose and had only a halter on him. The impact of the . (boast broke the steering wheel and ^fcit<iitfercd the glass in the wind shield of the car. Mr. Young sus tained cuts about the face wnich were dressed at the Johnston County Hospital. Mr. Young is considered fortunate mot to sustained serious injury. The linilr yes lin'd ay morning Rad not been identified. V. IV. HIVEllS IIKSHINS AS SCOUT EXECUTlVi COUBSROItO, Jan. t.—A sue cosswr to W. W. Rivers, w1h>5< nosiginatiun as scout executive o. Ttascacoru Boy Scout council, vcr. into effect on Thursday, Januar; 2, will probably be selected with,’ the next few days. D. S. Hants bom, president of the eouui'j Stated last Thursday morning. Mr. Rivers, who has been i: change of the boy scout work her | for over six yeans, stated that h | has several offers «f scout leatl IL cisbllp uudar advisement, aid ths ^ he hie not jot decided v.hidi 1: J| 958 Pound Hog I I Mr. I. V. Pittman of Micro, I butchered, a three-year-old . hog I last Thursday that weighed t»"S (pounds gross. After being dress-'.1 j the hog weighed 006. This porker j measured eight feet and seven inches from tip of nose to end of | tail and -was eight feet and fvur , inches around. Other hogs killed at the same time made a total of 2,-ldl pound/ Gas Plant Among New Year Plans Selma and Sniil liliehl Have .Approved Joint I'ropntsition —Denson May He Oinked With Dunn and Erwin Three t« Avn.s in John stem eoun- \ ty—Smi-hfield, Selma ami Ilcn-on —may have gas in the near I'.;-j lure, if plans of a Chicago 1 petal ion materialize. A comi-miUee | from I he SY'nia hoard ef com mis* | sinners with the mayor of Selma, Mr. \V. TV. Hare, met with 'Mayor ■ •J. D. Underwood of this city a.ui j some of .the town aldermen includ ing M. I*. Holding, W. (I. GUs* and II. I/. Shin Her, in the may mV ' If ice here Wednesday, New Year's night, and approved :mj rffir made to the two boards by tiiica.uo corporation to supply the two towns—Selma and S'mith field—with gas for heating, light ing and cooking. It is understood that if enough towns in the south desire .his service to make it profitable lire corporation will meet the needs. Already Hvoidcisvii in this stole is being served by the (Ihicag > fir-m, and other towns have the matter under consideration. A plant would not be installed with out a minimum population of 500b to serve. For this reason So!mi and Smithifield have approved the pi sit ion jointly. Dunn, Erwin, and Benson arc* said to be c >n sidcring a joint plant. For some time there has been some demand for cheaper moans of heating, lighting and cooking, oils is known to be less expen sive than electricity, and the in stallation of a gas plant to solve | this section will no doubt be we! ,‘onied. >FI.MA KIWANIANS HEAR DUNN IWSTOK SIvLMA. Jan. (5.—Rev. Norfleet jardner, pastor of the First Ban tfist church ctf Dunn, made a splow lid talk to the Kiwanis club at -he regular weekly luncheon l*i«L riutisilay evening Mr. Gardner laid ith-al we silvudd la Merit Fr>u.. -he mi.-takes we made during 1i: • year eul’ I Pit.*, and resolve to ii <■ i mart* useful life during tlu* r >in ;ng year. Each member present was giv ■n a slip ef paper to wrte a N w Vear's resolution .on and after thIs vais done the person to tin* right .ad the resolution the person Ij he .left had written. This v.'r vt.ry interesting. A report from the eommitte: 1 a'Ko made up and delivered the \iwanis Christmas baskets \va - ! .cry igcod. A number of familie; - hroughouit this community wev ' mule happy Christmas by the Ki vvanUj dub. Willi the cwpcralioi t of both the Kiwanh club and lb e Roman's club a oomtmumt, , or,,-:'Wn~ *,„,n >IIJt ii.«* rwrtOnmy State And Natior News Paragraph* National Capitol Catches Oi Fire; Contract Is Let l’oi Rebuilding Executive Of fives of White House; I)r Coe Optimistic Over Farm ing _».*ir The second fire in recent days in Wa2hin5tu.il, T). C., in widen government buildings were dam aged occurred Friday night when the National Capitol itself was Tour.d to ‘be ablaze. On Christmas Kve, •the executive offices cf the Prc blent c.t the White House j were totally destroyed, and las’ Friday night, the ancient govern j-ment house of the nation was en jdangered. Fire blazed for thirty j minutes cr more about the dome I cf the capitol, it having oiigi 1 r.sted in the room of a capitoi ar tist, Carl Mober.ly, who was ren ovating some valuable pain-tings and pictures. Moberly was found in the room almost suffocated. It is m t known what caused the fire, but oils, paints and eas-ds in the artist’s room permitted the blaze to -sp-reaid ra-pklly. It has been suggested lb-ait a cigarette may have been the cause, «.r spontaneous com bust i< n. An in vestigation has been instituted More than -twenty fire companies we re called u p 0 n .to ‘ f i gh t t h e blaze. Fire Chief Watson e.-di nuited the damage -as slight but would not place an estimate upon the damage. Water is said to nave* seeped down into the private chambers of numbers of the Su preme court. The file was first discovered by numbers of tin; capitol building police. The superintendent of public. \ liuildingrs ami grounds has «;\vu \i • ' cd the contract for rebuilding lh°! White House executive office.-,; which \vci;r destroyed by fire o.i 1 Christmas Eve. The award went i to Cha-rle> H. Thempkins Com- j pany of Washington, I). C., on itsi bid of $74,SK(). tinder the cm- ; tract the work is to be complete i within SM) days. Tile structure ir j ■to lie made as fireproof as pos sible, and restored on the same J plans under which it was id '.ere J • soon after President Hoover was i-MUga. ;.Ud. In a radio talk last week. Hr. i Clarence Poc, of the Pivgr?.';'V3 j Farmer, expressed optimism as to i the fanning outlook. One sank-I mg bit of advice win:a lie ya - e j was: “Pay as you go, and It’ j you can’t pay, don’t go." lie j spoke of the depression jf iand | values, and advised young mc.i j wilio wish fto make farming their life work to buy farm 'lands now. ’ He said never again, in his oDin ion, would they sell for so low a price, and even 'though one had a hard time meeting payments fori a time, he thinks it would be I worth the struggle. Deaths from autoni|0.bile acci dents in the state last year are 1 net expected to exceed those of' l'.*2S, although there was an In crease cf 1 - per cent during the i first half of the year. According to figures recently compiled, deaths from accidents were nia-i tori ally reduced after July 1, when I the State Highway Patro-l began' its work on the highways. Durine the first six months of this ycai 21)5 were killed a>s compared to 202 kiilled during the first six months of 11)28. By the first of December the percentage of \ii. ! civs:,-a; was cut down to five, and w hen all the figures for December : : in it is expected I hat there jw;!1 be a further reduction. It is ' id that there have been fewc: Hum the usual number of holi • day accidents. It. will probable be tin* middle of this month be* J fore all figures for the past year are available. TO CELEBRATE BOLDEN VKDDI MI ANNIVERSARY. The following invitations have been received here: “1880-1930. Mr. land Mrs. Charles Penny Ellis in vito yeti to be present at their iii liu'h wt .1 ding anniversary, or 11 Tuesday, the 1 It 11 of .Luiuary into, i,:OT1 i unt.! !<> stitch. Clay ' ton, N. C. Charted v-r-L i-lli -IjSS-rfiy ■ few." i To Ship Poultry ; Again This Year i Car Will He Loaded at Selma Next Saturday; Will An nounce Winner Soon in Corn Growing Contest By .1. P>. SLACK | Tile first poultry car for t"iis ' year w'M be lor.Jc 1 at Seima, Sal ! urday, January 11. This is t.ie j beginning of the poultry shipping 1 season for this year. According to j the present schedule a car \vii‘! | be leaded at So’.ira every Satur- ' day after January 11, un.il hr-1 thcr notice is given. The prvr j for Saturday, January 11 are ar > follows: i - i Colored hens, 22 c; Leghorn liens, 20c; colored chicks, 21c; Leghorn chicks. 15c; roosters, 10c ducks and geese, 12c; turkeys, 2‘J j and 10c. All cars loaded at Selma this year will be stopped at the C'ast Line freight depot instead cf the Southern freight depot as hereto* foic. The cars will open at 8:30 a. m., and dose* at 3:30 p. m. 1 he car lead poultry shipment' have proved a great success is the past for the farmers in tin section, and it is hoped that the;, will he it- successful again this year. Approximately one hund-'id and fifteen thousand pounds of poultry was shipped from Selma, last year, which 'brought a total sum tlf twenty-eight theusa.: ! ! dollars. Corn Crowing Contest. A report will soon be made on j the wironcr of the five-acre con growing contest put on in John .stun county this year. Lie veil far- j mers entered this contest, and reports are now in Raleigh, and j the commit tee of Agricultural j Workers t here will select the thnn* j winners, and the amionncoment as i to who these winners are wii! he! made within the next few da).-. I This contest was sponsored by' the Citizens Bank and Trust Com ! pany. Benson, the Bank of Four I Oaks, Four Oaks, and the F.rst- | Citizens Bank and Trust Company j Smit.hfield, and the Farmers Bank! and Trust Company, S'mithfiehi. Th.e results of this contest me! very pleasing. The average yield I fer all of the contestants was be tween fifty-five and sixty bushels per acre, and the average cost per bushel was only about thirty-seven cents. This proves conclusively ‘.hat Johnston county farmers can pro duce corn at a very cheap price, ar. 1 by selling fh.is corn through hogs a handsome profit can be made from growing com. DEWITT WORLEY DIES FROM SHOCK OF SON’S A'LS • Mr. Dcwbt Worley died sudden ly at 'his home near Princeton Sunday morning about six o’clock, his death apparently coming from shock. He had been to summon a physician to see his ten-year-old sen. and was in the room »vher the doctor examined the sick boy. When the examination was com pleted he asked the physician about the boy’s illness, and when the doctor said the boy had piicu n^onia iMr. Worley lay down across the bed and died almost in stantly. lie appeared to be in hjs usual health Sunday morning be fore he received the shock. IF was about fifty years of age. Tlie deceased was a good far mer and highly respected in his community. He was a member of j Oakland Friends church in Wayne county. About fifteen years ago he married Miss Addic Williams of Greene county, who, together with three children, survive hint The funeral was held yesterday morning at eleven o’clock, con ducted by the pastor of Oakland church and interment was made . in the cemetery at Micro, j The family has the sympathy of the community in this hour of ‘ bereavement. ' A barn of tobacco grown by T. ill. Turner of Wake county on j land where dolomutic limestone j was used sold for $675. The aver ] age price was 60 cents for the Id38 pounds in the bain. ! Thirty hi id of registered .Jersey j wc&u s&a^iiUy fcj Beam ws&is^v j&y Gotta, 1 GET the | 1 MONEY /.S', Crop ^{u **■••■ ncTt . MARKETING i \ PROG M How TO I - Raise mob'i ii\CAM AHf j\ Wff'msi.J1' > Education /v ) ?$$-P$S -PE55 - IMISH ' ’ p-&J - —i ^ _ Body Allen Pope Is Finally Found Neuse River (lives I’p Body of Drowned Man After 1 Days of Rescue Work BALIvIGII, Jan. 1.—After f ur clays of prodding and grappling and dynamiting in the deep wa ters of the Neuse Uivor, the body if A linn Pope was -brought in yesterday afternoon by a negro "ho had been helping with the woik. The body was recovered within 20 foot' of where it went down, it was reported. Pope was drowned last Monday a-f-terniKin when he jumped into the stream about a mile above Baucom’s bridge, in attempting to escape officers who had just i aided a s-tjll nearby. After tw ■ days of probing about in the wa ter, which is about eight feet deep in that spot, Coroner War5 if blasted a section of /the river for half a mile down stream, with no success. Early yesterday afternoon r negio named Curtis fished up thr ! body, which was -torn up to some i extent from the dynamiting. Cor oner Waring stated 'last nght! that there was no way of as-! curtaining just what caused Pope | to drown when he jumped into' the cold water, but it was thought | that he had suffered a sudden! heart attack. The body was turned over to relatives who live in Joihnstor? ] county. Bryant Pope, the young; man’s father, lives at Selma. Funeral of H. I). Ellington. The funeral of Hunter L). Ellington who died at the John - j siton County Hospital Thursday, was held at the home of his brother. John 0. Ellington, here on Friday afternoon. It was large ly attended, quite a number of Clayton anil Raleigh people be sides local citizens being present. Rev. S. L. Morgan, pastor of the deceased, conducted the servi o, assisted by I)r. Ini E. 1). An drews, of Clayton. A profusion of beautiful " flowers bore silent testimony of the sympathy of nu merous friends. After the simple sendee at H*e home, the body was borne to its llast resting place beside his wife in the city cemetery. The pallbear ers were: W. N. Holt, J. H. Abe’], W. J. Huntley, E. S. Edmunds n», F. H. Brooks, Ed Sasser, D. 1! Creech and W. T. Holland. Baptist Philatheas To Meet. The Phi-lath ea class of the Bap tist Sunday school will meet or Thursday evening, January 9 a1 7-o'J o'clock with Mrs. !I- G 4Gray. Mcmbet-s y.ie tcpg'ed It ss?s»si.- .. Officers Receive Threatening Note Find Letter When They Re turn To Curs After Hunt ing For Still in Woods of Wilders Township County officers received a threat .Sunday morning when the3 returned to their airtomobiles after invest orating the wools near where they had parked taeir cars while hunting fca* a whiskey still in Wtilders township. A note placed in a car warned them to keep out of the woods. The occasion for the iivci ie;,t was a message to the sheriffs office in Smitlifield Sunday morn ing to the effect that a still was running in a certain section of Wilders township. Deputies J. O. Hinton and TO. A. Johnson an swered the call and together with Deputy C. E. Sanders of W.'d ors township and Chief Pollard otf: Clayton, went to the vicinity. They parked their cars about on». nvile from Percy Flowers' strre and went into the woods nearly to hunt for the still. They soon found eight barrels of beer bur-1 ied in a sawdust pile, and not fa** away, the cu/p, worm and doubling, pipes of a still. They discovered also fruit jars and other evide cl that a still 'had been in opera tion. After destroying the beer, and confiscating the still apparatus, they returned to their automobiles1 where they found the letter warn ing them to keep out of the woods. The officers state that every week reports come to them from Wilders township that li quor is being made and sold, an l appeals are made to them to rid that section of it. They state that whenever they hear of av beer that needs destroying, or stills in operation, they expec' to1 continue to go to the woods in an effort to break up the nefari ous traffic. APPREHEND NEGRO WHO SHOT AT DEPUTY Ed Wadford, a negro of Boom Hill township, who shot at Dep uty E. A. Johnson, of this city, on •the night of December 19, when Deputy Johnson confiscated h;s car, a new Foixl roadster, . with [five gallons of liquor, was ap prehended in Goldsboro las; Thursday. Deputy Johnson to l the liquor car on Market street The negro ran, but he shot a the deputy missing his aim. Wadford was arrested on th.*e< .charges: transportation of liqv.or carrying a concealed weapon, ?r.; assault with, a deadly wepon ’The negro gam bond in hho sun c€ SI*.*? Lcr.dcu Brac^ el! z~-m. Not Enough Food Crops In State Survey by Extension Depart ment Shows That Foods and heeds Are Neglected For Money Crops -'limey crops—whose value h governed by conditions over which producers have iiltllc control—■rule : supreme on North Carolina farms, whMe the staple foodstuff and feedstuff products are neglecte 1 to such an extent /that in 1925 North Carolina foil $158,000,000 short of producing in sufficient quantities those crops, the full production of which would hive put the state on a “live at home” basis, anti have made the farmers independent of the fickle, flue-1 tuating prices of cotton and to bacco. This is one of the important. ■ findings of a comparative survey made by Charles A. Sheffield, as-! s hot am t to the director of the ex- j tension service at State College.! Mr. Sheffield’s survey is based on j the findings of the federal farm censuses of 1925 and 1900. It shows that the farmers cot only do not raise enough food stuffs and feedstuffs to supply th* wants of the state as a whole, but actually fall shout by many mil lions of dollars of raising enough to supply their own needs. In 1925 this margin amounted to almost $(>2,000,000, representing the dif ference between the value of Cvrn wheat, oats, hay. veal, mutton, lamb and milk, which the farmers of North Carolina actually raised and the value which they needed for their own use if they lived as well as the average citizen of the United States. North Carolina farmers in 1925 fell short by $20,300,000 of pro (tucmg e-nougn mmc ior men* own needs, fell $13,809,400 shoe*:, of producing enough corn, fell $19, 000,000 short on hay, fell $9,313 983 short on oats, $7,059,608 short on wheat, $765,377 short on mutton and lamb, and $731,970 short on veal. Mr. Sheffield’s survey show* that the farmers did raise enough eggs, poultry, pork, beef and po tatoes. (sweet and Irish), to sup ply their own needs but not tie neeois of the state. A CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our sincerfl • thanks to our friends neighbor*: and kind physician for every deed of kindness and help shown, tc * us during the sickness and dealt of our darling child, Edith Fran ces. 1 MR. & MRS. D. L. BOYETTE. Mr. ami Mrs. F. G. Fitzgerald j o'» uj daughters. ( Ruth and Flora, ,pp*r.t tht v. tel; end wrth frianid.i iteste* . .. Now Developing Co-op Marketing j Federal Farm Board is Form | Commodity Groups To { Handle All Principal Farm Products J, j ; '• ■ By CAtEB JOHNSON What is the new Federal Firr. 1 Board doing^ 'and how will it bet efit the individual farmer’ j Those av.-e questions to whi«; jthe answers are not yet char, (even to f.nany of the people whose | business it i5 to observe th'.ng | in Washington. As a result, soim I folk 'have ah-eady begun to thru v biicibats at the Board and to ut , ter dire predictions uf failu I of this great effort at farm tv j Vef. f Without venturing an opinion as ! to >how it is all going to woj k out, suppose we see just what the Board has set out to do, an i how it is going about it. For it is now getting- into action, and the results of its work will .be felr. fay every man, woman and child it the United States. It is, in a very real sense, the most powe r.: Governmental agency ever esta jlished, by reason of its authority I and its immense financial rescnr j ves, and it has been entrusted j with the most revolutionary task which any Goveamment bureau has ever tackled. ■in a, nuwsin-eu, me joo oi tnu Farm Board is to teach farmoi s how to be business men. Under the Agricultural Marketing Act the Board is directed to do four principal things. These ate: 1. To minimize speculation in agricultural commodities. 2. To prevent wasteful methods of distribution. 3. To prevent surpluses, so as to give the advantage to domestic markets. j 4. To encourage the organiza tion of farmers’ cooperative ma** jketing associations, j That is a big program. It will I take years to develop it full.'. Meanwhile, it is to be expected ? that the Board will make soma honest mistakes, that its memoers, ■being human, will have to learn by experience, and that many farmers will believe that they have been sold another gold-bri k by the Government. But the Board is authorized to use Five Hundred Million Dollars. That is a lot of money, even when you say it fast. One hun dred and fifty millions of this is already available. This money is to be lent to farmer organ i/n tions for the purpose of facilitat ing the marketing of farm prod ucts. Not to private dealers, bat to organizations owned and con trolled by producers—the fa rate is themselves. Fiftyjtfrree million dollars ha* already been promised by the Board to such organizations, 12 million paid out. Tire borrower) pay the Government rate, lim ited to 4 per cent by law, so far about 3Va per cent on the aver age. The Board considers that the third purpose set forth above, the prevention of surpluses, will in volve many years o>f experiment and education, so it is concen trating on the organization and support of cooperative mark 3Jang associations, in the belief that if the producers of 40 to 50 per cent of any commodity can b$ grouped into marketing organiza tions, local, territorial, tied to (Turn to page five) Aunt Roxie Say* CM&o cut-in
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