VOLUME Reynolds Leading In Senatorial Race Ehringhaus Far Ahead In Race For Governor; Fountain Second and Maxwell Third—Second Primary Necessary To Determine Senato rial Nominee—F'ountain May Not Ask For Second Primary. Charlotte, June 7.—Robert E. Reynokls, wet candidate, announced y,oni his home in Asheville late to day he had been pledged the sup- p:-j.t of two other candidates elim inated in the first primary for his run off- contest July 2 against Sen- a;or Cameron Morrison, long time dry, for the Democratic senatorial nomination. Reynolds ^ said former Judge T. C. Bowie, of West Jefferson, and Frank D. Grist, who polled a total of more than 66,000 votes, had assured him they would back his candidacy. Nearly complete returns from Saturday’s voting showed the 46- yea.r-old A-heville lawyer was lead ing Morrison, a veteran of Demo cratic politics, by more than 11,400 ballots in the heaviest vote ever recorded in traditionally dry North Carolina. It was the first election in this state in 25 years in which prohibition was an issue. With 16 precincts missing from 1.32.3, the vote stood: Reynolds 150,049; Morrison 138,605; Bowie 37,360; Grist, state commissioner of labor and . printing, 28,550; Arthur S; '.nnons, Burlington poultryman, 3,375. Morrison, a seasoned cam paigner of the North Carolina po litical wars since he became of age 42 years ago, has issued no state ment, except to say he expected to beat Reynolds in the second prima- His lieutenants, however, have an no; need their purpose of waging an inten-ive campaign from now until balloting begins on the first S.durday in July. Plans far -an active campaign . ■ ce announced by Reynolds, who, a!', cough a novice in politics as comjrarexl to Morrison, has gained a reputation for being . a vigorous, campaigner. In a brief statement, the anti- prehibition candidate declared Sat urday’s voting w’as a vindication of a great i-sue. He said his county and district campaign managers would meet in Raleigh early next week to consider Ilians, after which he intended to make a whirlwind speaking tour in to all parts of the state. Judge Bowie took no stand wdth regard to prohibition in the first race, but he criticized Senator Mor rison for alleged clo-e relations w'ith the, “power trust” and because Morrison emted in the senate for t’le confirmation of Frank McNinch, Charlotte, anti-Smith leader in 1928 who was named by President Hoover to the federal power commission. A referendum on the liquor ques- lion was proposed by Gri.-t who joined Bowie in attacking Morrison on the power and McNinch question. Morrison based his appeal for re nomination upon his record in the senate and his support of the Dem ocratic party throughout his life. He was appointed to the senate 18 months ago by Governor Gardner upon the death of Senator Lee S. Overman. He served as governor from 1920 to 1924. Reiterating his personal approval of the 18th amendment and the Vol stead act, Morrison declared in his campaign that, as a loyal party man, he would be guided upon the issue the Democratic platform. The winner of the Reynolds-Mor- rison run-off will he opposed in the November election by Jake Newell, Charlotte attorney, nominated by the state Republican convention on a bone dry platform. Newell was op posed in the primary by George De- Priest, Shelby, running as a wet, but incomplete returns showed the Shelby man received only a scat tering handful of votes. ' In the race for the gubernatorial nomination, which for 40 ye.ars has been tantamount to election in North Carolina, J. C. B. Ehringhaus, of Elizabeth City, continued to hold a lead of more than 50,000 with 1,806 precincts reported. His vote was 165,942. Lieutenant Governor Richard T. Fountain polled 113,112. in those precincts while Allen J. Maxwell, state commissioner of revenue, had 100,875. The total 379,929, broke all previous North Carolina vote records for any office by almost 20,000. With anything more than nominal changes in the vote next to impos sible, Fountain was. entitled to ask Scout Camp And School Great Success Several years ago Supt. F. M. Waters had an opportunity to ob serve the outstanding work which was being done by Mr. W. E. Pen nington with a group of Boy Scouts at the State University. He immedi ately visualized the benefits that would be derived from a Scout camp and Scout-Master’s Training school in Johnston County, and the in terest that would be stimulated in Scouting. After working on plans in co-o]ieration with Scout masters Pennington and other interested citizens, his dreams have be.eu rea lized. The first Scout camp and elementary, Scout-Master’.s Train ing Course came to a very success ful close on Monday June 6th, after a week’s encampment and the var ious activities on the Selma school play grounds. Mr. C. A. Jacobs wrote above 40 letters to food manufacturing con cerns that donated supplies, that amounted to approximately $150 thereby enabling the boys to spend the whole week for that small sum of $3.00. Mr. Jacobs had entire charge of the feeding problem and the boys as well as the whole com munity are enthusiastic in his praise. G. M. Willetts was the efficient manager of the grounds, arranging tents, lights and water. The staff was composed of: W. E. Penning ton, head of Tuscarora Council, L. L. Hallman, Edwin Broadhurst, Lin- wood Blackburn, Henry Moore, and David Liles, who wall be connected with the local school as science teacher next year, all these are from Goldsboro and Bill Hayes is from Fremont. 48 boys were in attendance: 23 from Selma, 13 from Smithfield and 12 from Kenly. Among these three are second class scouts, 5 are first class and 26 received merit badges. The scout Master’s Training- course was conducted each evening- in the high school auditorium. Ele ven adults took this course. Lec tures wer« “The Tenderfoot with fundamentals.” W. E, Penning ton, “Patriot Unit in Scouting.” David Liles, “How To Teach Signal ing.” G. W. Greer, “The Troop Committee.” Rev. Herbert Massey, “The Scout Master’s Opportunity.” W. E. Pennington, “How To Teach first Aid.” Ray Armstrong, “The Wise Use of Leisure.” 0. J. Cordray, Scout executive of the Wilson coun cil lecturer on: “The Patrol- and Troop Program: Program making; The Objectives of Scouting.” , Visitors were welcomed at all hours of the day to observe the various activities, and at the even ing council fire a splendid program was given each evening, many visi tors being present. On Thursday evening 200 were present and on Saturday evening there were 300 or more. The_ boys accompanied by the Scout Officials attended the local churches in a body Sunday morning and on Sunday afternoon at four o’clock Rev. Chester Alexander, of Tarboro, spoke to them in the high school auditorium using as his theme: “Strength.” “I can do all things through Christ, who strength- eneth me.” The splendid success of this new venture is to be attributed first of., all to Scout Executive W. E. Pen- snington and his assistants. Others who gave unstintingly of their time and labor were: Supt. F. M. Waters, C. A. Jacobs, G. M. Willetts, G. W. Grier, Geo. F. Brietz, Dr, R. M. Blackman (local scout master), S. W. Armitage, Prof. Geo. T. Whit ley and J. A. H-odge. .Miss Itosahclle Hinton Selma Girl To Be In Elimination Gontest Miss Rosabelle Hinton, of Selma, winner of school and county pre liminaries, will represent Johnston county in the central district essay ir|k i.iim’a ire given by: L.-L. l^llman, Tenderfoot Scout—ilealing ton Growers CooiM-ative Associa tion, to be held in Smithfield Wed nesday, June 15. Winner of the central di.-trict contest will go to Raleigh and compete against three other district winners for first prize of $50 and a one-year college_ schol arship. Subject of this year’s con test is “Cotton Production In North Carolina—How to- Make it Profit able.” Busy Bee Grocery Robbed Friday Night Last Friday night about 10 o’clock Night Policeman J. L. Gur ley in making his rounds to see if all places of bu-iness were closed, pushed on the door of the Busy Bee Grocery and found,..that it was locked but that the latch was riot, on, which would make it possible for anyone to push their way into the store. Mr. Cuthrell, the pro prietor of the store was notified and immediately went to the store to find that several paekag-es of cigar ettes and perhaps other minor items of merchandise had been taken; also found the iron safe d-oor open and a number of papers pulled out on the floor. The day’s cash sales had been left in the safe amounting- to about $37.50, and thi.s had been taken by the thief or thieves. Mr. Cuthrell says that he does not 'have the slightest idea how the store was entered. A side door was used to make their exhit, but this had not been opened for several months be fore and was kept barred on the in side. It is thought possible that the thief entered the store before clos ing time and secreted himeself under a counter until after the closing- hour. All Major Officials Seem 'To Have Good -Majorities Over Their Op ponents in Primary Election—iVIay Require Second Primarp; To De termine Nominee For Coroner. The hard-fought campaign among state and county .office .seekers re sulted in an unusually heavy pri mary vote in Saturday’s primary election. There appeared to have been con siderable more interest manifested at the polls o-ver the nomination of a g'overnor and a United States senator than there was over local candidates in many in.-tances. E. ' H. Richardson, the present sheriff, seems to have defeated his two opponents, Daniel Jones and A. V. Driver by an .overwhelming- vote; and also Miss Cora Belle Ives seems to have been renominated for Register of Deeds over Barnie .4. Henry by a large majority. The vote for sheriff is as follows: R. H. Richardson, 3,561 vote S. D. Jones, 1,347 votes A. V. Driver, 880 votes. Miss Cora Belle Ives, candidate for register of deeds, received 4,013 votes; Barnie A. Henry received I, 6^ votes. Judg-e W. P. Aycock’s vote was 4,084, while his opponent W. H. Strickland, received 1,552 votes. J. Ran«om Creech, candidate for renomination for county treasurer, re,ceived 4,901 votes, as against his opponent J. Earl Creech, who re ceived only 633 votes. The vote was divided among the candidates for county coroner as follows; Jas. H. Kirkman, 1,878. Dr. E. N. Booker, 1,958. W. D, Avera, 1,712. It will probably take a second jirimary to run off the race between Dr. Booker and J. H. Kirkman. Among the aspirants for county commissioners, R. U. Barber seems to have led in this race, receiving- 4,753 votes. Other Inembe?^ of - the board who were up for re-nomina tion were: J. Rufus Creech, 4,697 votes; R. H. Hudson, 4,231 votes; R. P. Holding, 4,053 votes, while J. Willard O’Neal, one of the pres ent members of the board, was de feated, having received by W. J. Wilder whose vote was 3,079 and O’Neal’s 2,495. Waylon Brown was low man with 2,690 votes. Paul D. Grady was nominated to the State Senate-and Preston Wood- all to the House of Representatives. The Legislative vote was as follows; Paul D. Grady, 3,726 Preston Woodall, 3,333. Gilbert Grady, 2,914. W. J. Hooks, 2,281. Weisner Farmer, 1,855. W. H. Upchurch, 1,337. Dr. F. G. Gower, 833. State vs. Thomas Reed, colored laborer, for assault with deadly weapon, is found guilty and given four months road sentence, to be .ruspended upon payment of cost and upon condition that defendant does not loaf, loiter, or hang around the streets of Selma, and is not con victed of any criminal offense again in 12 months. State vs. John McLean, colored laborer, aged 42, for operating- car while under the influence of whis key. Guilty. Defendant is given 90 days on roads, to be su-^pended upon payment of $50 fine and cost. De fendant ordered not to operate a motor vehicle again in North Car olina during next. 90 days. State vs. Harvey Richardson, col ored laborer, aged 25, for larceny of cloth, value less than $20. De fendant given 4 months on roads. Notice of appeal and bond is fixed at $200.00. State vs. Felton McLamb, white laborer, aged 24, for assault with deadly weapon. Guilty. Prayer for judgment continued upon payment of cost. State vs. Jasper Hudson, white la borer, aged 24, for assault with deadly weapon. Guilty. Continue prayer for judgment upon payment of cost. ’Wednesday, June 1st State vs. Louis Lee, for violation of auto laws. Called and failed. Judgment ni si sci fa and capias. State vs. Edward Hinton, colored laborer, for larceny. It appears to the court that defendant has had a preliminary hearing before Justice of Peace. It is ordered that this case be transferred to Superior Court. NAMES OF SELMA’S HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES Unveiling At Micro By W. O. W. Gamp Greenleaf Camp No 687, Woodmen of the World, of Micro, will hold an unveiling ceremony at the grave of Mr. Tilton Wall at' the Batten cemetery, one mile south of Micro on highway No. 22, on Sunday aft ernoon at 3 o’clock. Rev. W. H. Carter will be present and deliver an address, also the Degree Team from Erwin will assist in the un veiling-. The public is cordially in vited to be present, and all Wood men are especially urged to be on hand at 2:30. J. R. PITTMAN, Secretary. for a second primary. Whether he would do so, in the face of the commanding- Ehringhaus lead, was not known immediately. He said he would make an announcement fol lowing the official canvassing of the votes. Six Prisoners Break From Gounty Jail Smithfield, June 8.—Last night six prisoners e.scaped from the county jail here, sometime between 12 o’clock and early dawn, and as yet none have been recaptured. The prisoners who escaped were: Rei! Stanley, Thabern Johnson, Albert Pucket, Johnnie Ange, Lonnie Deans and, Johnnie Bray. One of the prisoners was said to have sawed his way out of his cell and obtained the keys to the cells from the desk drawer of the jailer’s office, which adjoins the jail prison cells. He then was said to have un locked all the cells and let out all the- prisoners who wanted to get out, but only the afore-named pris oners were the ones to escape. The others preferred to remain in their cells. SELMA ALL STARS WIN BASEBALL GAME Selma All Stars defeated Emit 7-6 Saturday Behind the steady pitching of W. Worrels and Tal- mage Corbett. Harris and Fields led the Selma club in hittings. Fields coming home with winning run in the ninth, after stealing third base. Selma, now organized under new management, are open to play any amateur teams desiring games. Any one desiring games notify 'J. E. Nor- k-ett, Selma, N. C. Martin county farmers have sold about 60,000 bushels of sweet pota toes cured in modern houses for a price of 50 to 76 cents a bushel this spring. The following are the names of the high school graduate.s who com pleted high school here at the re cent commencement: Mary C. Gulley Bob Suber Amy Ashworth Edna Mae Cameron Reva Mae Peedin Alton Standi Rosabelle Hinton Ernest Godwin Elizabeth Oliver Mildred Bailey Erwin Fulghum Eunice Griswold Hazel Holland Ruby Woodard Irene Jones Howard Wilson Lloyd Foster Billy Aycock David Munden Lillie May Munden Walton Parker Aaron Creech Paul McMillan Mamie Hathaway Henry Grice Shelboume Brannan Pearl Batten Nellie Hatcher Verdie Stallings .Jnseph Brown Julia George Pauline Barbour Lillian Phillips H. L. Brown of Conetoe, Edge combe county, used some old brick, some stove pipe, and bought one bag of cement to construct a brick brooder for his chickens at a cost of $1.50. The brooder is giving ex cellent results, he says. Mry. Sam H. Stallin^gs Died Tuesday Night Smithfield, June 8.—Mrs. Sam H. Stallings died in the Johnston County Hospital here Tuesday night about, 10:30 o’clock, following- an operation . which was performed for intestinal obstruction about 7 o’clock of the same night. Her death came as a surprise to her many friends here. Mrs. Stallings was recovering from an appendicitis operation un dergone some time ago. The deceased was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Holloman. Mrs. Holloman is proprietress of the Smithfield Hotel here and Mr. Hol loman at present is staying- in Windsor, Va. A brother, is also at present staying here. ’Lhe funeral will be held at the home this afternoon at 3:30 o’clock with Rev. D. H. Tuttle and Rev. H. N. Massey -officiating. The burial will take place at Oakland ceme tery, this city. How New Tax Will Affect Individuals Washington, June 1.—Besides the high income tax rate imposed in the revenue bill as passed by the Senate, folio-wing are some of the new levies which may be expected to fall directly on the average dividual: Higher postage beginning- at tRree cents per letter. Excise taxes: five per cent on ra dios, phonographs, mechanical re- frigei-ators. Ten per cent on cosmet ics, jewelery, sporting- goods, cam eras, fire arms, and furs. Three per cent on automobiles, two per cent on accessories. Four cents a gallon on lubricating oil, one cent on gasoline. Two per cent on candy, chewing- gum and soft drinks. Miscellaneous: ten per cent on all admission tickets costing more than 40 cents. Ten to 20 cents on telephone mesages over 50 cents, 5 per cent on telegrams, ten cents on cablegrams. Two cents on all bank checks. Ten per cent on safety deposit box charges.' Other charges, such as the three cent on gross receipts of electric utilities, and tariffs on imported oil, coal, copper and lumber, may be passed on indirectly. The income tax rates are four per cent on the first $4,000; eight per cent above that with a graduat ed surtax beginning at one per cent above $6,000. Exemptions are $2,500 for married persons, $1,000- for single, in contrast to the present $3,500 and $1,500. The married per son exemption is reduced to $2,000 for those making more than $5,000. The net effect is that a married person -with no dependents -will pay $20 on the first $3,000; $60 on $4,- 000 and $100 on $5,000. The exemp tion for dependents stands as at present at $400 each. A serious cutting affray took place Saturday night about eleven o’clock one mile south of Selm^, William Waters, 45, is dead. He was stabbed in the back and side near the heart by Lonnie Deans, 17. Napoleon Deans, father of the boy, and a man unidentified, held Waters while the boy did the- cutting. Dr. E. N. Booker rendered first aid, after -which Waters w.as rushed to the hospital. Chief of Po lice Hales and Deputy Sheriff Har vey Parker arrested Napbleon Deans at his home two miles from the scene of the cutting at 4 -o’clock Sunday morning and his son at the home of a man named Johnson. In the pocket of the youth was th-a' knife -w-ith -which the cutting was done and blood was found on his clotl-iing. Both were brought to Sel ma and placed in jail. It is report ed that all parties were drinking. Wednesday afternoon, ffrank Strickland, a young white man, w?!S- arrested near the scene of the cut ting affray. Strickland is alleged to be the mai-i who helped Napoleon- Deans hold Waters while the boy used the knife. Douglas Waters, a 11-year-old son of the slain man, is reported to have been an eye wit ness to the cutting. Lonnie Deans made his escape from the county jail Tuesday night along with several others. Waters was not expected to live more than tw'o hours after reaching the hospital, but he did, survive un- Wednesday morning of this week when he died. Waters lived in the suburbs of Selma near the Selma Cotton Mills, and' leaves a wife and several small children. WITH THE SELMA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES Services Next Sunday, June 12th Selma—Sunday morning at 11:00 -o’clock—Rev. Chester Alexander, speaker. Sunday evening at 8:00 o’clock—Preaching by Rev. Ches ter Alexander. Junior Church at 7:15 Sunday evening. Everybody cordially invited. Oak Grove—Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock. Mizpah—Sunday evening at 8:00 o’clock. Pairview—Sunday School at 9:30 o’clock A. M. Everybody most cordially invited to attend all the above services. Meeting In Selma Has Fine Beginning Many are enjoying the splendid messages brought to us by Rev. Chester Alexander of Tarboro, N. C. The message Monday evening was especially impre^sive. The sum and substances of which -was, “Back to- Bethel and back to God.” This is the field in which lies our only hope. All have sinned, all have drifted from God. As long as men, business men, important men con tinue to dabble in immorality and sin just so long will w'e suffer in many ways. Some of-our most im portant men, men in responsible positions in the community disregard prohibition laws and the laws of morality, their influence is detri mental. We must come back to- Bethel that is “the house -of God’', and to God. May He bring us back to Himself, for we w'ere created by Him and for Him. D. F. W. JUNIOR NINE DEFEATS ' ' PINE LEVELL TEAM 4 TO 3 With a practically errorless brand of baseball, Selma’s Junior Nine defeated Pine Level 4 to 3, at Pine Level. Talmage Corbett jiitched well for Selma, allowing only a few scattered hits and walking only one. McMillan tripled for Selma and Z. Oliver did the same for Pine Level. The Juniors, playing airtight ball, suppressed a ninth inning rally in great style. A double play, the big feature of the game, came in the ninth when McMillan tossed the ball to Aycock after snatching it out of the air.. The. Juniors play Princeton Thursday. Recent rains and recovery of to bacco plants from blue mold have caused Columbus county growers to set a large acreage of late tobacco this season. 0 ifiv,

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