'im-j Let^sPutSelmaOverlnSthWarLoanDrive BUY srw?4i bonds 5*wmiuun Johnstonian-Sun Mearc/:/ BUYMORE THAN BEFORE VOL. 27 BjE GAVE HIS DAD—YOU LEND YOUR MONEY I Dewe^^ to Head Ticket Selma Draft Board Sends Won Republican Nomination On First Ballot—Gov. Bricker Is Named For Vice-Presi dent — Dewey Accepts Nomi nation In Personal Address. 356 Boys to Bragg Early Today MAYOR HENRY GETS AN ITALIAN FLAG For months political observers in Republican ranks have predicted that Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, wouid be nominated for the Presidency at the Republican Nation al convention on first bailot, and that is exactly what happened when the i ® votiDp'* Qf nandkerchief voting began at Chicago Wednesday. i ...u,-, . o- m ... - Delegates who had gone to the con- I vention uninstructed soon caught the ^ ® j money of Itaiian ' ’ - - - I change, and a silver fob. Mayor B. A. Henry exhibited an Itaiian Flag to the editor of The Johnstonian-Sun Wednesday morning which he had just received from his nephew, Kirby Henry, who is now somewhere in England or France Along with the flag were ' two sn- Pijrbly constructed and designed spreads and what appears to be a which Kirby secured (Photo bj William Sturm, Chicago Sun) U. S, 7'reasury Department Wake Man Hoes On Trial For Hifs Life For Rape 3.. AHifrt Atkinson, 27-year-old filling station operator of the Garner section of Wake county, who is charged with ravishing 23-year-old Sarah Barber of Clayotn township, went on trial for his life in Johnston county Superior court Wednesday. A special venire was ordered by Judge R. Hunt Parker sommoning 150 pros pective jurors for the capital case. ■ yhe red-haired defendant, who was arrested last Thursday morning and kept in an undisclosed prison until Sunday when he was returned to the county jail, was arraigned on the rape charge in court Tuesday morn ing, pleaded not guilty. The arraign- 'ment proceeding took place after the '■ grand jury had returned a true bill of indictment against Atkinson on the basis of testimony given by two wit nesses Monday. ' Miss Barber, daughter of Mr. and . Mrs. James Barber and an employee of a Raleigh drug store, who told ■ sheriff’s officers that she was attack ed criminally three times last Wed nesday night, related her story to the grand jury, and additional evidence was supplied by Dr. P. F. Yates of Clayton, who examined the young- woman following the assaults. The bill of indictment alleges that Atkinson “did unlawfully, willfully and feloniously ravish and carnally ■ know Sarah Barber, a female, by force and against her will.” Solicitor W. Jack Hooks, who an nounced that the state would seek a first degrree conviction automatically : calling for the death penalty, is be ing assisted in the prosecution by .James R. Pool and L. L. Levinson, attorneys employed privately by the fam'ly of Miss Barber. Atkinson is represented by Wil liam B. Wellons, G. A. Martin, E. J. Wellons and Claude C. Canaday. ' According to the story related by Miss Barber to Sheriff Kirby L. Rose, she alighted from a bus in Clayton at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday and was of fered a ride to her home several miles south of the town by a man whom she thought she knew until she was' inside the car. ' Instead of driving her home, she stated, the man drove for seven or eight miles over country roads, fin- . ally turning down a path leading into a wooded area where he stopped the car, forced her to get out, struck her with his first across the jaw, render ing her semi-conscious, ordered her to remove all her clothing, then as- . saulted her twice. • Later, Miss Barber related, they drove to Bill Stallings’ filling station across the Neuse from Smithfield where gas was purchased, the man threatening to kill her if she called out for help. Before taking her home, he drove into another patch of woods, forced her to undress again and assaulted her a third time, she, told officers. She said the man gave his name as Robert Johnson and claimed he had been working at a store in Smithfield, but was scheduled to enter the Army next day. Miss Barber reached home about 11p.m. and told her father what had happened. Officers were notified im mediately and from evidence picked up at Stallings’ fiiling station they began a trail which led to the arrest of Atkinson at his home three miies from Garner. Deputy Sheriff Joe Tur ner Barnes, Poiiceman Lisbon Jones of Smithfieid, and Deputy Sheriff C. E. Wrenn of Wake county took him into custody. Atkinson then was car ried to the Barber home where Miss Barber identified him as her attack er. Atkinson, a married man, is the father of a child. Visiting Evangelist Is Kiwanis Speaker trend and fell in line Governor Dewey flew to Chicago by plane last night to deliver his ac ceptance speech to the convention in person. Mr. Dewey was in fine spirits, and news reporters who have heard Governor Dewey on various occasions, deciared the Governor spoke even better than they had ever heard him. On the final ballot. Governor De-wey only lacked one vote of getting a unanimous vote, which was cast for General McArthur. Governor Bricker of Ohio, had con siderable backing for the Presidency, but after reaching Chicago he doubt less realized the Dewey trend could not be overcome. Governor Warren of California, who had been groomed for Vice President, told the conven tion point blank that he would not ac cept the nomination. Following this announcement by 'Governor ’Warren, Governor Bricker’s name became very much associated with the Vice Presi dential nomination. Sensing the trend, as Governor Bricker most surely did, he addressed the convention in a most able manner and withdrew his name as a candidate for the Presiden cy in favor of Governor Dewey. When this announcement came he was forthwith nominated as Governor Dewey’s running mate. The flag, measuring about 3x5 %t, IS a real Italian flag. On this fll^g there are more than a hundred names of soldier boys who wrote their names upon it at every con ceivable angle, zig-zag along the white panel in the center of the fla->- at various angles. " Ad Sells Bond To Party Out of County Bond Drive Getting Off To Good Start The announcement in a recent issue os The Johnstonian-Sun that a per son could dedicate a War Bond in a boy or girl in the armed forces and at the same time get a star placed by their name on a large placard at the Branch Banking & Trust Com pany in Selma, brought the following letter to Raleigh Griffin, cashier of the Branch ,Bpnk here: “Acme. N. C., June 20, 1944. “Mr. R. H. Griffin, Branch Banking & Trust Co., Selma, N. C. “Dear Mr. Griffin: PFC. C.‘LOVIS ROSE, who has notified his wife, Mrs. I,ouise Rose, of his safe arrival in England. He is serving with the Engineers and received his training at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin and Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky. Pfc. Rose is the son of ‘?VIr. and Mrs. Preston Rose of Selma, Route 1. Many Boys Overseas Are To Come Home To the extent that shipping space is available, the War Department will increasingly endeavor to return to this country under a rotation fur- vjruiin: [ plan, men and women who have “I read of your plan, in the John- served long tours of duty ov stonian-Sun, for the people of John- ston County to buy a bond for the Evangelist G. G. Lanter of Reids- ville, who was conducting a series of evangelistic services at the Selma I Baptist church, was the guest speak er at the weekly meeting of the Sel ma Kiwanis club on last Thursday evening. He was introduced by Pro gram Chairman Vernon Wiggs. The Rev. Mr. Lanter said the all- important thing for each and every one in this world is to make peace with the Heavenly Father through the acceptance of Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour. 'The speaker warned that our days here are but few, and that the material things of this life Jo not matter so much as those things which are eternal. The minister quoted repeatedly from the ’ Scriptures as he drove home the j tlTeme of his message. The attention of the club was ! called to the serious illness of Leon Hinnant at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hinnant, and at the close of the meeting a neat sum was made up by Kiwanis members and sent to the Hinnant family, but upon arrival at the Hinnant home it was learned that their 22-year-old son, Leon, had died at 7:45, only a few minutes after the club’s atten tion had been called to his illness. The attendance prize, awarded by H. V. Gaskill, went to R. E. Suber. The Fifth War Loan Drive in Selma is getting off to a good start, with sales of Series “E” Bonds reach ing a total of ,$21,587..50, and all others $20,000, making a total of all bonds sold to date $41,5.87.50. Raleigh Griffin and Rudolph How ell are very grateful to all those who have given them such splendid co- operation in the drive. The play, ‘'Four Corners, U. S. A.*^ put on at the high school auditorium luesday night was greatly enjoyed boys in the Service. I would like to buy one through the bank and dedi cate it to my husband. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Radford of Selma. His name and address: “Henry W. Radford, Ph. M. 1-C, U.S.N.R., U. S. N., Mobile Hospital No. 8, care Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, California.” LA-s it isn’t convenient for me to go to Selma right now, I am enclos ing this 10c stamp album, filled, and 5c for one $25 War Bond. Please put my name and my husband’s on the bond and send it to the address be low. Thank you. “Mrs. Maggie Lee Radford, Acme, North Carolina, Care B. L. Daniel.” The Broadwell Brothers Now In Foreign Lands Friends Visit Mrs Oscar Creech In Hospital Efc. Wilson (Jiggs) Broadwell is now somewhere in England and his brother. Ensign Donnie Broadwell, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Pi land and Miss Mildred Pittman visited with Mrs. Oscar Creech Saturday at Duke Hospital in Durham. Mrs. Creech, who has been very ill, is reported to be improving. Mr. James Crocker of Washing- . —0-- x>roaaw news from^the bov^^'iuU^*^*'"^^'"J u ° visiting wJth his sister, their parents ^ Mr at Duke Hospital. Mas- Broadwell Creech is to return with mm to Washington. erseas. The War Department has, devised this plan of notifying hometown pa pers and broadcasters of returning personnel: At the time when person nel arrive at ports of debarkation, in formation wiil be sent to local Army agency and thence to hometown pa per and broadcaster. Meanwhile, per sonnel will be passed through a nec essary processing before return home for furlough. In most instances this should result in your learning of im pending arrival of returned personnel to your community before actual ar rival. Accordingly, the following informa tion is forwarded: Pvt. Thomas B. Barnes, Field Ar tillery, returning from 23 months ov erseas in the African theater of Op erations, was expected to arrive on approximately 23rd day of June at Fort Bragg, prior to reaching his home at Route 3, Kenly, where he will visit his wife. Ybutk Club Closes For Three Weeks ,Pvt. Jimmie Woodard Arrives In England Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Woodard have been notified of the safe arrival in I^ngland of their son. Pvt. Jimmie C. Woodard. He was inducted into the ^rray on December 14, 1943, and re- cei-Ved .his training at Fort Bragg and at Gamp Blanche, New Orleans. Before entering the armed services Pvt. Woodard held a position 'with the A. C. L. Railway Company at Goldsboro. He is now with some rail road company in England, and is connected with the 13th ’fraffic Regu lation Group. Brisht Leaf Tobacco Market Opens Aug. 21 ’Iffie following registrants were sent to Fort^Bragg today for preinduc tion by Draft Board No. 2, at Selma: ^ 2, Kenly; George ' Washin^on Howell, Rt. 1, Princeton; Joseph Wilbert Atkinson, Rt. 2, Ken- ly; Harold Fletcher House, Rt. 2, Selma; Joseph H. Richardson, Rt. 1, m Morrison O’Neal, T ■ ’ Lonnie David Allen, Rf’ “L/’ Lla^on; Luther V. Stone, Rt. 2, Kenly; James Person Pittman, R>.. 2, Selma; Willie Ralph Bridgets Micro-; Grover Elmer ^pe, R^ i’ Kenly; ' ’ T Carroll, Rt. 1, Selma; Lloyd Julius Carroll, Rt.- 1, Wendell- E. J. Corbett, Jr., Rt. 1, Zebuloni Harley D. Medlin. Rt. 1, Clayton; Melvin Adams, Rt. 2, Clayton; James Howard Driver, Rt. 1, Wendell; J. p. Peele, Rt. 1, Kenly; Battle Messer, Rt. 3, Raleigh; William Leo Edwards, Route 2, ' Princeton; Thomas Harold Barnes, Rt. 2, Kenly; Samuel Dalton Gilford’, Rt. 2, Kenly; Carl David Davis, Rt. 2, Selma; John Tmomas Scott, Rt. 2, Selma; Wilbert Lee Garner, Rt. 1, Selma; George Vick Creech. Rt. 1, Middlesex; Marvin Edward Bass, Rt. 1, Selma; Leo Franklin Talton, Gar ner; Angms Turner, Rt. 2, Clayton; Charles Brantley Aycock. Micro; Hubert Lee Byrd, Rt. 2, Smithfield; Wdlard Nobel West, Selma; Arthur Felix Fields, Kenly; Henry Spence Overby, Rt. 2, Princeton; Sv/ade Tru itt Hardee. Clayton; Norman Charles Parrish. Rt. 2. Selma; William Arvel Hodge, Rt. 2, Kenly; Bernice-Lewis Green, Rt. 2, Clayton; Roland Don Evans, Rt. 1. Kenly; Lelar.d L. Pope. Rt. 1, Kenly; , Silas Eugene Peedin, Rt. 1, Prince ton; John Eiton Sanderford, Rt. 2, Clayton; Walter Allen Talton, Rt. 1, Princeton; William Nawbert Crocker, Jr., Rt. 1, Selma; Charles Edward Strickland, Rt. 1, Selma; Alton Claude Grady, Rt. 1, Selma; Jesse Thurman Starling, Rt. 1, Selma; Na- thon Jones, Selma; Andrew Rudolph Batten, Rt. 1, Wendell; Thomas Ro land Jackson. Rt. 1. Kenly; Kenneth Dixon, Rt. 1, Kenly; A. B. Starling, Rt. 2, Kenly; Moses Lee Brown, Rt. 2. Selma; Alonza John Austin, Rt. I, Prince ton; William Larkin Moore, Rt. I, Zebulon; Ernest Delma Parrish, Sel ma; James Lester Brady. Rt. 2, Sel ma; Thaddeus Raiford Parker. Rt. t, Princeton; Raymond Earl Pounds. Rt. 2, Clayton; Charles J. Mumford, Clayton; Robert Randolph Mitchell, Rt. 2, Smithfield; Clarence O’Neil Davis, Clayton; James Rudolph Bai ley, Rt. 1, Selma; Grover Barney Daniels. Rt. 1, Kenly; Joe Ruffin Wall, Rt. 2, Clayton; Jessie Lee Cockrell, Rt. 2, Kenly; Roy Jefferson Norris, Rt. 1, Clayton: Herman Donald Hol land, Rt. 2, Selma; Graham Harding Batten, Rt. 1, Selma; Daulton Roy Boyette, Rt. 2, Clayton; Raymond Parrish, Micro; Joseph Edward Wall, Rt. 2, Selma; Shirley Cornelius Williams, Rt. 3, Garner; Ronald Vause, Rt. 1, Wen dell; Wright Lupton Hardy, Rt. 1, Zebulon; Ralph David Moore, Rt. 2, Selma; Robert Edward Lee, Rt. 1, Selma; Jame.s Elton Hester, Rt. t, Princeton: Ralph Carlton Hodge, Rt. Opening dates for 1944 tobacco markets in Georgia. Flroida, the two Carolinas, and Virginia and modifica tions of several marketing regula tions were adopted by the Tobacco Association of the United States at its 44th annual meeting held in leigh yesterday. , The following opening dates were set by the association: Georgia-Flori da Belt, Monday, July 24; Border Belt-bouth Carolina Belt, Tuesday, August 1; Eastern Belt, Monday, August 21; Middle Belt Monday, Sep tember 11; Old Belt, Monday^em em er 18; and Dark Virginia Beit, Monday, December 11. The opening dates were adopted as recommended by the sales committee headed by N. M. Schaum of Wilson and wera approved without a dissent ing vote from the more than 300 as sociation members attending the ses sion. Kenneth Bradley Says It Rains and Then Snows , ai, Mrs. A. L. Bradley is in receipt of Ra- I ® letter from her son, Pfc. Kenneth ' Bradley, who is stationed at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, in which he says: “It rains here about every da'S' and when it is not raining it is snowing.” Mrs. Bradley has another son, Foy Bradley, also in the service. On June 17th, the Youth Club of Selma decided to close its doors for a three weeks’ period, in order to get their club building in shape and to 'make plans for an election of officers. Some of the present Youth Council were members of this year’s gradu- i ^ imtci-uii, ivi.ipu v^am-on nuuge, rv,c ating class and have now left the '.-2, Kenly; Roby Eatmon, Rt. 2, Prince community to enter the armed forces I ton; John Cle-veland Jones, Rt. 2, or to accept work elsewhere. As a re- | Clayton; Robert Hatcher, Jr., Rt. 1, suit, and until this can be done, it ; Selma; Lunsford Bailey, Danville, has been decided that the club should j Ya.; Joseph Ernest Batten, Rt. 2, remain closed. A call meeting of the. ' Kenly; Elijah Glenwood Price, Rt. 1, entire membership has been planned , Selma; William Elton Davis, Rt. 1, for the night of July 6th at 8:30 p. i Wendell; James Ottis Montgomery, m., in the Club Building. At that Rt. 2, Selma; Derwood James Duph, time all the members of the club are , Rt. 2, Warsaw; Rev. Mr. Blount To Preach At Mill Chapel The Rev. G. W. Blount, pastor of Edgerton Memorial Methodist church here, will preach at the Mill Chapel at the Selma Cotton Mill, Sunday ev ening at 8 o’clock. The public is in vited to this service. urged to attend and be prepared to elect officers to fill the vacancies now existing on their council. Mrs. Mable Nordan Payne, one of the club’s supervisors, will be pres ent at the meeting as well as a rep resentative of the Kiwanis club and Selma Recreation Commission. It is hoped that enough boys and girls will attend this meeting on the even ing of .luly 6th so that the club may be reopened on Saturday evenin.g, July 8th. If it should be reopened that night the volunteer supervisors will be asked to start attending at their re,gular times immediately fol lowing this meeting. The Johnston County Court House will be closed on Monday and Tues- da.v, July 3rd and 4th, in observance of the 4th of July, and the County Commis3'’oners will hold their regu lar meeting on the following Monday, July 10, 1944. William Raeford Jones, Rt. 2, Smithfield; William Isaac Worley, ,Rt. 2, Selma; Hardin G.- Blackman, Rt. 2, Clayton; William Henry Wal lace. Rt 2. Princeton; Boyd Jones, Rt. 2, Clayton; Earl Lynch Adams, Rl. 1. Princeton; Millard Morris Ben son. Rt. 1. Clayton; Askew Price, Rt. 1, Zebulon; Charles Cleo Creech,’ Rt. 2, Kenly; Elbert Hogg, Rt. 2, Clay ton; Ray Chamblee Rt. 2. Zebulon; Hobart Theo House, Rt. 2, Princeton; John Robertson Smith, Rt. 2, Smith- field; James Daniel Pittman, Rt. 2, Selma; Henry Franklin Edgerton, R. 1, Clayton; Jethro Bunnion Bat ten, Rt. 1, Selma; Norman Nestu.s Crocker, Pine Level; Paschol Lee Bizzell, Rt. 2, Prfnceton; Elbert Bal ance, Rt. 1 Kenly; Ollie Kinnon. Pate. Rt. 1, Kenly; Sidney Harding Radford. W 3, Kenly; Bernice Albert P>^ ' 1, Middlesex; Elton Ri»- (Continued O” Af - ’V : i 7 .S; :.4F J: '■■{ '■ b- i A-'l ■ I ’.4 • [ ! ■J ■1 i aIj I f J J £