North Carolina Newspapers

^ ? : ? < '.if? t:?: ? <->-?? ??? 1 "? .?? ? ? <?. ? .?? i -?? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? \? -nr ? ?? ? ? nuxm PARIiVUXE, PWT COUNTY, NORTH qAKOI ?DAY, MAY 27th, 1927 4 T ' _in ju.i.iiuji.u,i.il . ? ? ?' Lindbergh Caplares Bead of Whole World Young American Seemingly Un conscious of Dizzy Heights Of Fame To Which He Has Risen TALKS TO MOTHER BY TELEPHONE AFTER HE . GETS TEN-HOUR NAP Visits Mother of Missing Freneh Flier Who Failed In Attempt To Cross Atlantic In Plane. -?i ? P^ris, Pi:?nce.?Captain Charles A. Lirnjbergh, sheltered in his country's embassy from a world filled with praises of him, awoke Sunday af: ternoon from a sound ten-hour sleep, seealingly innocent of the fact that the whole earth was eager to honor his Exploit of flying alone from New Yori to Paris. Soon after he had had breakfast the courageous and charming young mas frqpn the Middle West telephoned to his mother in far away Detroit. It was the first time- a private telephone calhhad linked France with America, but it was only one of many pre cedents that the world set today . in the gcneral desire to show its admira tion for-the sandy-haired, soft-spok en "aviator who made the trans-At ?, lantie flight in his little monoplane and: in solitary- glory. Ranging up the receiver at the en<? of the conversation with his mother, Lindbergh placed himself in tbC kindly care of Myron T. Derrick. - Tbj Ambassador led him to the bal cony of the embassy to please the crowd that had been standing in the street clamoring for a sight of him ev#r since the won! went forth that, at last the young hero had arisen from his gloriously earned sleep. After that, two score cameras had to be accommodated; then Lindbergh told the story of his flight to a group of newspaper men eager to send his wgrds around the world. As his first sufy outside the embassy since, his ar rjyal, the young American did a thing Qbt made him even more beldved in the hearts of the French, who already . had given him such praise of toungue and p^H as no man has known for With the ambassador as an escort, the bird man went to call on the sor rowing mother of the gallant Freneh aviator, Captain. Nungesser, who set oot to fly the Atlantic a fortnight ago and baa not been heard of since. All France has been touched deeply by t^is visit of. young Lindbergh to ex press his sympathy to the mother of the Frenchman who is believed to have sacrificed his Kfe m attempting the perilous adventure that Lindbergh later was to achieve, j The mother of Charles Nungesser elasped Charles Lindbergh to her bos om when the victor in the race her ^wn boy so courageously undertook called on her. I* . 1 . 1 Jf A. 11 v I wanted to mike my IlKl m U!l [the mother of my valiant friend, Capt. ;>Nungesser," Lindbergh proffered Imlt *ingly, twisting his hat in his h~m "I.knew Charles in New York and admired his courage. I still have hope for him.*' . * "JH _ Then the young American added: "I ask you to have confidence that he will yet be found?my own mother had . confidence that I would be safe it the ft end of my journey." They then embraced. ie whole American people! I regret that the searches made for CfaaakM sp t? mm have been unf ruit ful," pursued Lindbergh more and more moved, "but I ask you to keep h"l^TS**^4bat is all. I have < not lost hope ef meeting my son again. I My heart ri a French wopian knows ? how to support suffering and anxie ties." ' : * broke- She sobbed bow sorry aba % was she could not be at lis Bourget 4 of rite air descend in triumph. He con fusedly tried to comfort her, but was ?n unable' to jepl7?simply hugged her, Marsh*) Lyaatey -aajmother Mil er, as was an official of the foreign | office bringing felicitations from * - ^ - fypffl PEri^t fhc A/aar AAA fL??f OX um PaMB OX KBjVUv lifliiu IflHIIMw &?gaan ftfwlit Pawio sAmt York istflmf' gatfr?'M. JRov. - ' - . ? ; at the thought of what this man has 1 done.' Lindbergh had retired a # little be- J for 4 a. m., after a light meal of con- < somme and a glass of milk, his first food since leaving New York except j for, as he expressed it, ' about a sand wich and a half." When Lindbergh awoke he found on a table near his bed a mountain of * telegraphed and cabled offers that 11 may make him more than a million aire, but in all the room there was not \ a stitch of clothes he could call his a [ own. r He had come from New York with t no garments save his flying suit, a (? toothbrush and a razor. All the ordi- ? nary little necessities he had left be- ? rhind him to save weight for his \ motor's gasoline supply. The pajanias t which he slept in belonged to the am- s bassador. ' k Now came the problem of clothing t him. The ambassador's shirt .was e found to fit fairly well and one of the t footmen of the embassy supplied a V modest blue lounge suit that' hung a somewhat loosely, on the slim frame e of the modest young man from .the a West A pair of tan-shoes went to ? complete the improvised outfit in c which he made his first public appefev d ance since landing. The shoes fie y brought with him were of the tough I old Army type and a little heavy for r balcony of the embassy, there tfcw nothing of weariness in his counter- h nance. His hair, of the windblown n sandy sort so often found on men a leading the outdoor life, and had been g only casually brushed, and. as the r young man smiled his gently good- o hearted unaffected smile, the crowd t that had kept silent so'long while he I slept burst into a quick rising crts- h . eendo of "Bravds." For five minutes more he stood there with the am has- j sador. The crowd seemed reluctant to c let him leave, and he went downstairs a and stood at the embassy's entrance, ?hidden from the street by high walls r and heavy gates, and looked into a 5 (Continued on page Two ? Do Well With Biddies I ?s Mr. and Mrs. "E. E. Eubanks raised t 500 R. I. Re<l biddies and put the first i lines on the market last Saturday, when they sold 52 on the curb market s at 45c per pound, or 90c each, for they t averaged two pounds, and are less , than ten weeks old. Mrs. Eubanks j used hens and one 175 and one 140 i capacity incubators in producing these biddies' and consequently the cost of i these biddies should run less than 30c, you can figure: the profit. ,?-v ? ? " Makes Good With i Demonstration Hogs ! T Mr. K. L. Dudley visited the County ; Farm while the ton litter contest was underway, demonstrating the value of , a balanced ration in feeding hogs. Mr. Dudley was so impressed with the re- ? mark-ble gains. being made by Mr. , R. E. Corbette, that he decided to try this ration on a bunch of 25 pigs : he had at home and here is the results. ( The pigs averaged 50 pounds, he fed { them 59 days. He bought $111 worth j of fish meal and wheat middlings jud < fed 50 bushels of corn. At the end of , the 59 days the pigs averaged 158 ( pounds. He put the pigs in a coopera- < thpe car and received a check for $881.- j 45 after freight and handling charges were deducted. After paying the ?e<1 ; bill Of fill* Mr. Dudley had $270.45 .? left for his 59^ bushels of com and tite I ^ ^ ^ ^ I iiVVC. 1/4 UiUX v yy l t/lgh -? V w i VI ^Cv <Japt Chas. A. Lindetfcergh "Spirit of St. Louis" ' ? " ' . V : \ Pitt Coimfy Chib Girl Wins 1km ? ;<5. I t"""r "? Frances Dildy Selected As Om Of-Seven Outstanding Club Girls In District : . ? Si Frances Dildy, fifteen year old clul girl, Fountain, R. F. D. 2, has beei selected as one of the seven outstand ing club girls in the North Easten district of North Carolina. This dist rict comprises twelve counties an< more than three thousand Home Dem onstration club girls. In December, the Farmer's Al|ianc< offered $300.00 in cash to be divide< among outstanding club girls ant boys to help defray their expenses t< the State Short Course at Raleigh Thesp club members were to be select ed on their record of personal worl and on club leadership. The Home Demonstration Agent has just beer notified that Frances received one oi these appointments. The Fountain .girls' club was organ ized in January, 1926 and Frances was elected president From the first die seemed to feel her responsibility and did all she fcould to make her :lub a success. , : , ?Their first project was clothing and Frances made all of the articles they vere required to make* and made :hem so well that she won several irizes at the community, county and listrict faurs. This is her personal record in club vork. Her record, in leadership is equ illy good. At any time the girls have leeded material for their work that hey could not get in Fountain she las ordered for them and collected. 5he represented her club at the State Short Course in Raleigh in 1926. Wien she returned, she called her club ogether and taught them Food pre ervation. She ordered the necessary naterials and taught the girls to make he fans she learned to make in Ral igh. Using the same principles, she augfet them to make lamp shades. Vhen fair time came round, she with committee of her club mates arrang d a splendid exhibit of their work ,t the community fair. After this, she tacked their exhibit and sent it to tjie ounty fair. At one time she gave a emonstration to the Woman's club ?hen it was impossible for the Some Emonstration Agent to answer their equest far a demonstration. The wo sent contest, she enrolled the \romep i .her school district, and there were nore contestants from Fountain than py "other one place. This year, the [iris, under her leadership, have aiaed money to buy a four burner il stove, and through their effort^, ogether with the cooperation of the ^rent-Teachers Association they lave a fairly well equipped kitchen. Fransec has just graduated froip ligh School as Valedictorian of her lass. She is secretary of her class, ,nd a member of the high school ten is team. She also won the debaters oedal offered by the Woman's Club (he is a rosey-cheeked, healthy giri, ully up to normal in weight. In every ray she measures up to the standapQ f a well rounded club girl, who Wives to live up to the club mottjo tnd improve the Head, Heart, Health ind Hand. Next fall Frances will enter college it East Carolina Teachers College >ut she expects to go on wjth her clt$b cork during vacations. She is a born eader, and can be a power for godd n the community where she lives. I Wikon, May 23.? Charlie Foster, I ilias Charlie Robbins, negro, died in It Rocky Mount Hospital early this noming from a bullet in the head, in Blcted lata Saturday night by Police l^hief Ben Farmer, of Sharpsbozg. Brher the negro halted traffic on the itocky Mount-Wilson highway by his B'Wfld West" display of footing, v with his ownk-Tuetvi cmfwyp p p ^p I The negro blocked the highway Bvith his own car ever;- time another :ar would attempt to pass him, add i man riding with Ed Lamm, m .vpund. L&mrn wtti.to Lr drove up and Chief Farmer re turned the fire. ^One shot took effect : . '? ^ oolidge is^first choice of the Republican* and of Nvt Y., li^ choice^ of ^the^DemocratsrJ The >'P II .fiwp l*f Wlf ~ Wm districts as indicated in a nation-wide I straw vote whieh H|s Just been con- I eluded and in which a total 362,20) I votes : :,_.v This nation-wide ?;^rtraw vote on I presidential nominees was conducted by the Publishers Atttocaster Service H through the 2,000 weekly newspapers it serves. There was'no limitation of H of the names oo thj^hgllot, or write I wished to recei\^^^nomination by . ut ^ . ;-iJj wide ma^J.n^hisivote indicates that former Governor Lowden of Ulinoise will go to the 1928 G. 0. P. convention with many instracted delegates. I . Governor Lowden was close upon the heels of the President all through the ten weeks of balloting. At no time was he more than 10,000 votes behind the President and finished with 80, 066 votes to 87,176 for the President. Voters were also asked to mark a H second choice, in event their favorite could not be nominated. In this res pect Lowden ran ahead of the Presi dent, receiving 12,546 votes to 8,396 ? for Coolidge. I ?? Senator Bor$h of Idaho was third on firat choice. return? witfc; 14,526 ? votes. However, Vice President Duwes' I ran far ahead of the field as second choice with 21,547. ' Seemingly a situation could devel I op within the Republican convention vpry much like the ? McAdoo-Smitl deadlock in the 1924 Democratic ses sion. If the primaries and state con ventions were now being held or had been held for a national convention Sthin the next 30 to 60 days Lowden might come in with enough delegates tp block the nomination of Coolidge. In this event, present returns show, Dawes might walk off with the nomi nation. Of especial interest, of course, is the situation within the Democratic Ipprty. These returns bear out, in a yfay, the prediction^. nykle by many party leaders, that the McAdcr* sup porters are riot functioning as m 1923-24 and that the CaHfonUan will hive to get busy if he expects to be -&e big factor iri 1928 that Kfe was in 3 924 Senator Jaraea Beed of Missouri stemingly will be a factor for -Gov !nor Smith to cratch. Reed is erowd g Smith as closely for Democratic vor as LowfiOn is Coolidge is for Re Simth leadS"*"fiirst choice with ^, ; n But, the bigWprise is in the sec II end , choice bhHpriri|^ Here Senator IJeed shows |paJj! stifcngth, He-ptrijed a, greater se?Pfchoice vote, than m first choice. With a total second choice vote of 42,160, he had approxi mately MM more then ftrrt .dtoice. 5 #0n the other hand, both Smith and McAdoo showed very little second 9 . .... a 3 q?; ._ ? I ojpd choice if their man can not have E. &T Arnold, County Agent, To Conduct Campaign Against Dreader Disease Some 1,500 letters have gone out ftfom the County Agent's office to-the. farmers of Pitt County announcing; that two vaccinating campaigns wilt be put on annually by the County Agent and that the first one wil be gin June the first and the second one in the fall. All farmers who have hogs to vaccinate are requested to fill out the following application and mail to the county Agent:? Dear Sir: - "* . . : ?..-.?J*1V I wish to list the following hogs to be vaccinated during the Hog Cholera Campaign in June: ? - - -jy t'?:J1! ? ? -*?? 'Wi-.v ' ' Nunmber Weight ? 35 to 50 lbs. * 60 to 100 lbs. XOO glWlbs i - farmers calls attention to the fact that the Agricultural Program .calls for activities along many lines of which vaccinating hogs is one and that in order to do all the work mapped out it will be necessary to set definite periods of time for each project in order to save time. After the cam paign is over the County Agent *$1 devote his entire time to other lines of work, such as dairying, hog feed ing and shipping, poultry raising and marketing of poultry products, club work with boys, demonstrations in production of field crops, etc. Therefore if the farmers have any hogs they want vaccinated before next fall it will be necessary to list them for this campaign. This is done to save time and to enable the County Agent to do more work. The farmers of the county should join in and let the'Agent vaccinate all the hogs in each community at one time rather than to be caling for him one at t time because in this way one com munity ? can and does often consume from two to three weeks of an agents fine when all the work could be dope in from two to three days. May the 21st is the day set for all farmers to have 'their hogs listed. this date a schedule will be v&rked out for each township aijd those who have listed hogs will be notified just when to expect tHe Agent The farmers of Pitt County are be coming interested .in producing hop and .have already shipped out tjvo car loads cooperatively and arrangements ar^f under way to ship another car. ? ? ? v pjpH. C. Turn^ge?Defd H. C. Turnage, 82, a retired farmer of the Fountain community, passed away last Sunday night at eight o' clock. He had -been in feeble health the past few years due to infirmities accompanying old* age, but his: condi tion grew so serious the last week P?JO thaj^dg^fo-^ras not unexpected. , Fdneipl services wew conducted from his late home Monday afternoon I a| threerso'clock, interment following in the family bufitying grtund jjjearby. He is survived' by a wife, o^e son, a^fpur daughters. ? SSI rgp- jfonyagc teas one of the most inntiential m'eni of his community dur ing the active years of his lffe. He was deeply interested in the develop ment of Pitt County and did much to ward the development of agriculture In -the community. ;> - > HI rSI ? A straw will show which way the wind blows?especially if it's ?ne of these new $5 round brbies and it gets about a ten-foot start on you. ^ ^^ __. Srecflvitt Yonfo Drowned Sat Charley L. Wilkinson Laid Ti %st ?. At Now Greenwood ? Cemetery Sunday ? .- Mlt . ? Greenville, May 23. ? Funeral ser vices were conducted Sunday, after noon,for Charles L. Wilkerson of this ?:i$j?rWho was drowned Saturday aftei noon-at 3 6'clock while in swimming with companions atJEJ^qgUl's Landing a few miles from Greenville. ! The young man came to his death when he stepped off a sandbar intc deep w.ater from which .he' was un able tQ swim out. His body was re ?covered about a.hjdf iour later by Ear! Forbes.and two'Stancill boys who were in proximity to where the [trag edy occurred. Effori-s to resuscitate , Jhe 'yWJJftjf map, on tlje banks of the river proved futil. He was.^jished to a local hospital for-medical aid, but this also proved ineffectual: Funeral services were conducted from the home of his parents on Paris Avenue, yesterday afternoon at five o'clock by Rev. R. J. Bamber, pastor of the Eighth Street Church of. Christ; and Rev. W. S. Harden, pastor of the Presbyterian Church. Interment was' made in new Greenwood Cemetery. ! Lee H. Moore's Sunday School class of" the Christian Church, of which young Wilkinson was a member, act-; ed as pal bearers. A profusion of fowersl attested the high esteem iri which he was held by hundreds of friends throughout the city. Pitt County Club At U. N. C. Elect Officers John Lewis, of This City, Given Rising Vote of Congrstalations By Members of dab' - \ ? CS ? * Chapel Hill# May 23.?On Thursday night the Pitt County Club of the Uni Carolina in the final (Stoker, of Grifton, vice-president, and Wflljs Whkhard, of Stokps? secretary and treasurer. Johnson will be a sen ior next year, while both Stokes and Whichdri are members of the rising junior class. John Lewis, retiring president, pre sided at the meeting and gave a brief survey of the accomplishments of the chib during thb year. Ho also made a few remarks concerning the work of the club for next year. One of the greatest achievement&of the club was in issuing the "Carolina Reporter" just before Easter. This paper had as its purpose the boosting of both Pitt County and the Univer ?*i$y with the aim of getting more Pitt County youths to enter the Uni versity. In addition to this, it served as an organ through which the alumni might keep in touch with the evenis of the campus. Frank Wilson and Willis Whichard made short talks in which they urged the bdys to take more interest in the work of-the club next year and make it the greatest year in its history. They stressed the fact that new mem bers would be made to feel tKat they were an essential part of the club". Wilson especially urged more varied programs with prominent speakers. A rising vote of congratulations was given John Lewis, of Farmville, who was recently iniated into Phi Beta Kappa, National honorary schol astic fraternity. . After all-business had been disposed of the members remained to enjoy a smoker and social hour. .? - > ' ?. Typhoid Vamn^tjion . Time Is Here I r The time has come when there is no'excuse fo> having Typhoid Fever. In fact it migiit be said, as of Small pox, that it is almost a disgrace to have Typhoid Fever. Practically every person knows that it is a disease that can be prevented, yettiie majoriiy of peanl^ do not take the time to pro tect ioemselves against it. The con trol and prevention of Typhoid is # matter of sanitation and vaccination. When a person gets this disease it means that he has swallowed some thing from the bowel discharge of ft Typhoid patient or carrier. The agents for carrying such infected material are flies, ffttgeps, food and fluids. Pro tect yourself from flies by proper screening. Be sure .that the food you eat and the fingers that handle your food are dean. Be careful as to the source .of the. fluids you drink, such as water and milk. If you drtok at applies to ?H?y ?embel* of ev?y f*iu- r . ||W0 pb?' #an tiwt. he is ' . J|| if within the past thWfl 'years nVi'lI ka xil DC ilviu S v V - rjfc^ *?. ;..A ^2-*" ' I*'-. * A"v -j.? - PB . ' . -> - ? ? 'l'- : S ' I ? ?^Q * Vfll I *.?. PDV^^KV^Iq Five Person^ Dead, Number Others Seriously Injured By Flying timbers } - Norfolk, Va., May 25.?Five per sons dead, six 0/ eight more probably j fatally injured, and between 26 and 30 hurt in varying degrees Was the toll of a 75-mile wind and thunder storm that swept over Norfolk arid Portsmouth this afternoon, shortly be - fore 4 o'clock. R. P. Williams, ojf - Portsmouth, and H. C. Everhart, of ; Suffolk, president of the Suffolk" Am ti r sement "Company, were killed, and up : wards of 40 men, wojneii* and children i' injured wheiv the right Wing of the grandstand and the press box of the Virginia League besebdll park fell 0:1 b the crowd. ' ?. ? > ? -;iiX ttfil ? ? The other dead are all negroes who ? were killed when the wind lifted a ? section of a warehouse roof on the ; Norfolk water front, carried it 200 feet through the air and dropped it on a gang of section hands on the tracks of the Norfolk and Western railway " near Union Station at the east end of Main Street. Four other neg.oes are expected to die. - Kenesaw M. Landis, commissioner of baseball, was in the park with offi cials of the Virginia League and city officials from Norfolk and Portsmouth when the storm broke just before ihe game between Portsmouth an<TPeters burg was scheduled to start. He,-bow ever, was in the left wing and waii un harmed. Approximately 40 persons were treated at hospitals, but a score" or more of these suffered only superfi cial injuries and were alowed to leave for. their Iiomes after receiving treai menL A.t King's Daughters' Hospital, it was said an unidentified man of r bout 45 years of age was expected to die. Others reported in serious condi tion there were J. R. ider, of West Haven; J. J. Perkins, of West Norfolk, and H. W. Nolin, of Craddock. Two men taken, to the Naval Hospital also were, reported badly hurt Tie Portsmouth, ball park is locat ed some distance from the downtown section of the city, and be^qse.of fiie wind ftQdJisavx news of the <& wming i|i; Aid ^as immedi^gesen| from l^/Hovy every available ambulance, went-Im mediately dispatched to the scepe. That the death toll was not wrger is considered remarkable. The press box, a wooden structure on top of the grandstand, was4he first to go When the storm hit Part of this Was car ried 50 yahls and deposited' ip a ploughed field. Then the roof of the right wing of the stand was lifted Ofl' its supports and dropped on the crowd of men, women and boys. The last ef the party of newspaper and telegraph men in the press box had juu out when that structure sailed'away. The part of it that landed in the croWd was believed to have been responsible for the death of McWilliams. A great scene of confusion followed the crash. A crowd of more than 3,-> ^ 000 persons was in the park in honor" of "Landis Day," many of them wo-' - men. While women screamed' g*nd fainted, a big part of the crowd in the undamaged sectiohs of the stand rushed to the tangled niass of human- _ i'ty and timber. ??? i ; ? x ?_ it- .?.U. Tne storm swept in irum me wuui across Portsmouth and th'Ch over the Elizabeth River, centering its force a long the eastern branch of that' river, where buildings were uqredfed, win dows blown out, cornices1 carried a vitey'and other damage done. Hie chtrying away of a big .advertising sign of steel frame-work on "the bfldge gave rise .to a report that Y pftt. of the Berkley River bridge, connecting Norfolk and Berkley had collapsed. .This proved untrub. " The Jones warehouse, used for storing lime at the Norfolk terminus of the bridge, was hard hitT'A section pf the tin-covered roof, 100 feet by ? 30 feet, was lifted bodily from the structure and earned 200 feet The gang of negro track workers was fleeing for shelter when the mass of tin and heavy timber crashed down Upon them. Three were killed outright. Catherine Richards, agetf 12, who was in the path of the soaring roof sec tion, was picked up bodily ; by the wind arid swept out of the way to sefety just a moment before it crashed' to earth a.short distance from the Union Station at the foot of Main Street ;.v I ?' 'Other sections of both Norfofl^ and Po^month Wfferifd damage. Ahuge drinlttr mass of sheet metal, appar ently the' top of a- Water tank which came from nobody fcnows Where, was dropped into the center of Crabby StreeTbetweeri Tazewell Street J\ College Place, but injured no'one. Win- . ? dowa were smashedJnd trees uproot ed over a tilifte area.