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■~ 'f-■ v'^"'-:^>,-!'( )*.>■#> 'S ■• '"^ VOLUME 15.' Chief Justice Hughes Speaks At Asheville Asheville, June 9.—“We are apt to look too far away for the ac complishments of reform. Improve ment is generally a personal and a local matter, and I look in the main to the local bench and bar to rem edy local defects in the admini-- tration of justice,” Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes told members jpf the Buncombe County Bar Asso ciation, federal judges and a packed courtroom in the federal building til's morning. Chief Ju'tice Hughes was speak ing at the opening here of the Juuges conference of the fourth cir cuit which will remain in session tomorrow’ and Saturday. The initial session w’as open to the public. Chief Justice and Mrs. Hughes ar rived in A'heville by motor Tues day afternoon. They will leave to morrow’ morning for Washington, probably by train, it W’as announc ed today. Speaking as to the desig- ation of a “liberal” or “conservative” Mr. Hughes said: ■'These labels do not interest me. I know of no accepted criterion. Some think opinion are conservative ■which others would regard as es sentially liberal, and some, opinions classed as liberal might be regard ed from another point as decidedly liberal. Such characterizations are not infrequently used to foster prej udices and they serve as a very poor substitute for intelligent crit icism. A judge who do-es know how to work in an objective spirit, as a judge should, will address himself ccn-cientiously to each case, and will not trouble himself about la bels.” The federal judges were told by Chief Justice Hughes today that judges are separated from the con flicts of interest and from the ‘passionate .strife” of parties. -■‘Our responsibilities,” he said "lie in the sphere of judicial activ ity. This has its obvious limitations but we should not chafe at them. It is a sound tradition that judges are not to invade the field of leg islative policy.” The chief justice. added that judges were not to intrude “into the domain which belongs to admin istrative planning save as this must he brought into harmony with the law.” Tonight the chief justice was the guest of honor at a meeting of the Buncombe County Bar association which also entertained ±lie other vi'iting federal 'judges. ^ The chief justice said “the su preme exercise of the judicial pow er of the United States is in main taining the constitutional balance between state and nation and in en forcing the principles of liberty’ which the constitution safeguards against arbitrary power. “This is an extraordinary demand from judicial intelligence but it is an integral part of our system and the duty imposed upon our judges cannot be escaped. We cannot per form this duty in a narrow, tech nical spirit. Our dual system re- ouires recognition of appropriate state power as w’ell as federal pow er. It demands freedom for state authority to meet local needs. It de mands opportunities for experimen tation and pro.gress.” THE JOHNSTONIAN AND JOHNSTON COUNTY SUN CONSOLIDATED SELMA, N, C., THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 19;J2. NUMBER 24 Benson Is To Have [Heavy Taxes Are Laid!Member of Congress [Means is Convicted Its Annual Singing ! On Germany’s Peiple[ Dies Making Speech On Larceny Counts To Begin Saturday Afternoon, June 2.5th, When Johnston County Classes Will Contest For Loving Cup. Sunday Will Be State-wide Contest—Hon Clawson L. Wil liams Chief Speaker Sunday. Emergency Decree Levies On Earn ings of Every Citizen Hol ing a Position. Representative Eslick, of Tennessee, Collapses While Cirging Payment Of Bonus. The State ' Annual Singing Con vention meets in Benson, N. C., Sat urday and Sunday, June 25th and 26th. The Saturday afternoon ses- .'ion will be devoted entirely to Johnston County talent, with loving- cups tp be awarded to winning choirs and quartets. Beginning at 10 o’clock Sunday morning compe tition will be open to all State en trails, with loving cups to be award ed. Choirs, quartets and individual singers from all section of the State have signified their intention to be present. One attractive feature will be congregational singing by sev enty-five male voices, led by Mr. Furman Betts, of Raleigh. Another feature -will be a thirty-minute talk by Hon. Clawson L. Williams, of Sanford. This is one of the most signifi cant events of the year for this -ection of the State. About Ten Thousand people usually attend from all sections. Preparations are being made to take care of an even larger number this year. Remember the date, Saturday afternoon, June 25, and all day Sunday, June 26th. Everybody welcome and no ad mission charged. L. L. LEVINSON, President. Berlin, June 14.—The heaviest tax burden ever carried by the German people was imposed today when President Paul Von Hindenburg signed a sweeping emergency decree submitted to him by his new chan cellor, Franz von Papen. Every German with a job Is re quired to pay a tax on it under the new regulation. Every purchaser of salt w’ill contribute his mite t'l the government through a new leas y. And, -on the other side of the ledg er, the g-overnment’s dole to the un employed and the war maimed -was materially ^slashed. With the extraordinary tax meas ure already in force, the new lev ies mean Germans will pay as they never have paid before. Jury Finds He Misapplied Funds Taken to Effect Return of Lind bergh Baby. Garner To Stav In Bed Several Days Illness of Speaker of House Will Keep Him From Post. Rainey Wilt Preside. Civil Service Exams. Instructor Foreman THINKS POEMS ARE WORTH PRICE OF PAPER The following is taken from a letter addressed to the ecktor of The Johnstonian-Sun this* week, , written by Mrs. H. M. Hocutt, of Seminary Hill, Texas: “Manly and I are thinking .aome North Carolina news would help us quite a lot, so we are. asking you to send your paper for a year. I don’t remember the rates, so if you’ll send the paper on we’ll mail you a money order as soon as we find out how much it is. Your po etry is worth the price of the paper and I know we shall enjoy reading it each week.” The United States Civil Service Commis.sion has ...inounced that un til July 12th it will accept applica tions for po.sitions of instructor foreman, cutting department, in structor foreman, stitching and fit ting, and instructor foreman, la-t ing department, for duty in the shoe factory. United States Penitentiary, Leaven-worth, Kansas.' The last reg’ister of elig-ibles for the position of foreman, lasting- de partment, was -established August 20, 1928; 'two appointments have been made from it. No previous ex- amin,ation has been held for the other two jlositions. The. entrance salary is $2,300 a year. For the present vacancies the De partment of Justice w’i.-hes men. Each applicant must have had at l^ast five years;’ experience as prac tical worker in a shoe factory. At least two years of this experience' must have been as foreman, or as- -istant foreman, of the department for which application is miade, in a factory manufacturing shoes by the Goodyear-welt process. Full information may be obtained from J. R. Barbour, Seqretary of the United States Civil Service Board of Examiners, at the post office, Smitlffield, N. C. Commerce Secretary Under Wilson Dies William C. Redfield Passes Away .\t Home In Brooklyn At Age of 73. Washington, June 13— Indications tonight were that the house will have to proceed through several more of the session’s clo-ing days wjithout the personal leadership of Speaker Garner, who is ill with a bronchial iiifection. Dr. George Calver said tonight the speaker should be out of bed by Wednesday and “barring unfore seen complication.- he will be able to be back at the capitol next Thurs day or Friday.” When the speaker was ordered to his hotel rooms Saturday morning with a high fever after starting- the day’s work at his office, it w^s ex pected he would be back in the chair by Monday. Saturday was the first time since he was elected speaker la.st Decemb er 7, that Garner had not called thg house into sess-ion. In December, however, he filed with South Trimble, house clerk a statement designating- Repre.-enta- tive Rainey of Illinois, house Demo cratic leader, to act as speaker in his absence. Rainey presided Satur day and will continue to occupy the chair until Garner returns. Washington, June 14—Representa. tive Edward E. Eslick, of Tennessee, | died on the house floor today in the midst of a speech for cash payment of the soldiers’ bonus. Death came W’ith a suddenness that brought gasps from members and the galleries, as the GO-year-old legislator faltered grasped at the readin.g stand on which his notes lay and then dropped to the floor. Members quickly carried him to the speaker’s lobby where he was placed on a divan. Dr. George Cal ver, the capitol physician, aided by two doctor-members—Repre=enta- -tives Larrabee, Democrat, Indiana, and Swick, Republican Pennsysvania fruitlessly applied emergency respi ration methods. In less than 20 minutes Calver announced Eslick dead. By his side W’as his w'ife, who was listening in the gallery while her husband spoke, and the entire Tennessee congres sional delegation. Calver attributed Eslick’s death to “heart block ” “I believe he was dead before he struck the floor,” the physician said.. The house which had continued debate after Eslick was removed, ad journed as soon as his death was announced. Shortly afterward the senate also recessed out of respect. Reduced Rates On Freight Approved Five Important Comoditles Will Be Given Rate Reduction From Wil mington Port. Lincoln’s Phvsician At Death Hour Dies Dr. Chas. A. Leale Was First to Reach Civil War President After He Was Shot. Mrs. Emma Capps Dies In Henderson The funeral of Mrs. Emma Capps, who died at the home of her son,' Lonnie Capps, in Henderson, was held at Pine Level on Tuesday of thi.s week. Mrs. Capps, who. was 74, is sur vived by a daughter, Mrs. F. M. Cawthome, of Selma, and four .sons, Lonnie of - Henderson; W. W. of Rosemary; 0. D., s)f Selma, and J. T. Capps, of Micro. New York, June 13.— William C. Redfield secretary of commerce dur ing the Wilson adraisitration, died at his Brooklyn home today. He was 73 years old. ■ Mr. Redfield was known as a “business, man’s legislator” because he advocated-, the application to gov ernment of same principles which he championed in business. He ent ered Congress in 1911 with the tar iff a dominant issue and he came to be regarded as one of the ex perts on the subject in the house. He had been for many years a manufacturer of steel products. He held a high protective tariff to be unneeded, since, he said, the American worker’s skill more than compensated for the cheaper wages of other countries. He was secretary of comerce from 1913 until 1919, when he re signed to return to business as vice president of the Warp Twisting-in Machine company and a director of the Equitable Life Assurance socie ty. As secretary of commerce he enlarged and reorganized the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, and he was active during the war in the war trade board, the bureau of standards and the council of na tional defense. He was always a staunch advocate of a large navy for the protection of American busi ness interests. He was born in Albany on June New York, June 13.—The first physician to reach the side of the mortally wounded President Abra ham Lincoln died today at the age of 90. He was' Dr. Charles A. Leale, who lived on upper Madkson avenue. He was con.-sulting physician, also when President James A. Garfield succumbed to an assassin’s bullet. At the time of Lincoln’s assassina tion Dr. Leale was executive officer of the United States array general hospital in Washington. When he reached Ford’s theatre he found the President crouchel in a sitting pos ture, pulsele.ss in a profound col lapse. He remained at the bedside of the dying- president throughout the night and was holding his hand when the end came. Dr. Leale was born March 26, 18- 42, in New York. He had five child ren, Lillian Marion, Dr. Medwin, Loyal and Mrs. James Harper. His wife died in 1923. He received his medical education at Bellevue hospital medical college and W'as appointed a medical cadet United States ar»iy in 1864. He was honorably discharged in 1866 after contracting a severe illness. Subsequently to his discharge Ke investigated Asiatic cholera in Eur ope and America and gave his ser vices to the poor in the epidemic of 1866. He will be buried Wednesday morning. Wilmington, June 13—Approval of reduced freight rates from Wilming ton to certain points in North Caro lina and South Carolina on five im portant commodities has been grant ed by the Interstate Commerce com mision. H. E. Boyd, manager of the Wilmington Traffic as.-’oeiation, an nounced here today. The new rates becoi-ne effective at once and in a majority of cases, offer a reduction of about 50 per cent. Outstanding in interest is the reduced tariff on canned goods, dried beans and peas and dried fruits. For sometime Wilmington port interests have sought the low er rate in an effort to encourage the calls of steamers from the west coast. It is expected t’nat the . re duction will materially increase the sailings. A reduction in leaf tobacco from South Carolina points to Wilming ton was also approved. The new tar iff from Mullins is 21 against the old of 24. Marion will also receive the same rate. Moving To Hendersonville. Supt. and Mrs. P. -M. Waters and son are leaving this week for Hen dersonville, where Mr. Waters will be Superintendent of the city schools at that place. The people of Selma are exceedingly reluctant to give them up, but rejoice with them in the promotion. 18, 1868. His first excursion into politics came in 1896, when he made an un- successfuL'-race for Co-ngress. A Tribute To Mrs. Georgiana W. Tuck Converse College, Spantanburg, S. C., June 12, 1932. Dear Editor: The news reaches here of the de parture of one of Johnston County’s ladies, Mrs. Georgiana Winston Tuck. Her life reads like a romance; it was full of service and consecra tion until she was beckoned across the river. In days long since past, she gave her heart and her hand to a young minister, who preached the love of God and neighbor to a rural people in Virginia, and who besides gath ered around him little children and told them about the things that are found in books. The task of teacher and preacher was too much for him: he departed life leaving a young widow and six youthful children. Mrs. Tuck was of the old race of the South that united efficientcy and aristocracy. Doubting not a moment that Prowdence would lend a hand to a consecrated mother, she set herself to the arduous task of rearing- her beloved children. Two boys, were sent to Bingham, in its day famous among all schools for boys; a daughter was sent to Pnwell School at Richmond, another to Salem College. She did not rest contented until all had trodden the path of learning and culture. To see her children educated was her dream, not an idle dream, but one to which she gave her unbounded energy and as she gave to her own, she gave to others. Her charity was broad as the heavens under which she lived. To-day she has crossed the river to meet once more the husband and father in the'sofe light that falls Washington, June 13.—Gaston B. Means tonight was found g-uilty in the District of Columbia court of larceny of $104,000 from Mrs. Eve lyn Walsh McLean, in a fantastic plan to recover the kidnaped Lind bergh baby. Two hours after it had been given the case the jury of 11 men and one woman returned -verdicts of guilty on two counts of larceny of the $100,000 ransom money and of $4 000 expense money. Verdicts of not guilty on two counts of embezzlement of the same sums were returned. The case was given to the jury after five hours of argument dur ing which opposing- counsel alter nately assailed and defended the former department of justice agent, ■lustice James M. Proctor consumed two hours in charging- the jury. The government, holding fraud and deceit actuated Means from the beginning of the bizarre negotia tions, centered its arguments on charges of larceny^ The defense, on the other hand, claimed Means had been sought out by Mrs. McLean, e.stranged wife of the Washingt-on- Post publisher, to aid her in find ing the child and was actuated by ’lonest and sincere motives. For the defense, T. Morris Wamp ler and J. William Tomlinson' stress ed a note sent by Mrs. McLean giv ing Means authority to pass over the„.$100,000 ransom money. Leo A. Rover, United States district attor ney, countered with reference to testimony that at all times the understanding- had been that the money was to be turned over only after return of the baby, identifica tion, and certification of good health The g'overnment claimed Mrs. Mc Lean was actuated by mother love -and a humanitarian interest in hop ing she could help refurn_Jhe child, A’liile the' defense charged she was notivated by a desire for notoriety. Raskob Gives $100,000 To Democratic Cause Chairman Makes Good Pl-edgje Before Total cf $1,500,000 is Raised In Money Drive. How New Revenue Tax Law Hits Us The “Revenue Act of 1932” be came a law -on June 6, 1932, at 5:00 p. m. Except as otherwise provided the act takes effect upon that date. The effective dates of the vari ous revenue producing provisions of the bill ai-e as follows: Income tax act—’January 1, 1932. Additional e.state taxes—June 6, 1932, after 6:00-'p. m. Gift taxes—June 6, 1932, after 5:00 p. m. Manufacturers’ excise taxes—June 21, 1932. Miscellaneous taxes—June- 21, 1932. Increased postal rates -on mail matter of the first class—July 6, 1932. Increased postal rates on adver tising portion of any publication en tered as second class matter sub ject to zone rates of po.«tage under existing law—July 1, 1982. The following- are examples -of the classes of persons who are re quired to make returns and pay taxes newly imposed under the act: The manufacturer, producer or im porter of the following articles: Lubricating oil, brewer’s wort, grape concentrate, automobiles, candy, chewing gum, toilet preparations, furs, jewelry, radios, refrigerators, sporting- goods, fire arms, cameras, matches, s-oft drinks ,tires and tubes and gasoline. The following articles or services are also subject to the ta.x: Telephone and telegraph mes sages, electric energy, bank checks, lease of safety deposit boxes, ad mission fees, transportation of oil by pipe line, and the users of pleas ure boats. Washington, June 9.—John J, Raskob, chairman of the Democratic national committee, by cancellation and surrender of two promissory- notes of the national committee of $50,000 each, has converted hia pledge of $100,000 conditional upon the completion of the party’s $1,- 500,000 victory fund into an out right gift. This is revealed in the report of the treasurer of the committee for the period from March 1 to Mhy 31 -which wa.-; filed with the cleric -of the house of representatives to day. The report also sho-ws that the party’s deficit of $786,117 as of February 29 has been reduced to $559,358 during the three months. Expenditures amounted to $258,026. The exi.-ting deficit includes $120,250 without accrued interest 'from April 1932, which is o-wed to\ Mr. Ras kob and $433,767 in note.X held by the County Trust company ^f New York. Against this deficit tl^^ora- mittee had a cash balance of ^ 627 on hand May 31. Givers of $5,000 are Melvin A, Traylor, of Chicago; Ira Nelson Morris, Chicago; Robert F. Carr, of Chicago; R. R. Young, New York; and Morton L. Schwartz, New York. Mr. Young’s gift is in addition to $2,000 contributed prior to March 1. The Marion city and county or ganization of Marion, Ind., contrib uted $3,000. The- following made gifts of $2,- 000 each: W. N. Reynolds, Winston- Salem, N. C.; JIorris Vehon, Chica go; L. P. Bonfoey, Quincy, Ilk; Bowman Gray and James A. Gray, Winston-Salem, N. C.; Col. Joseph M. Hartfield, New York; S. Clay Williams, Win'ton-Salem, N. C.; S. Forry Laucks, York, Pa.; Charles R. Crane-, New York; and Pierre S. Dupont, New York. Mr. Dupont’s gift is in addition to a contribution of $25,000 made through New York victory committee prior to March 1 and of a gift of $250 contributed through the victory committee of Delaware. Negro Robbs Wayne County Farmers Goldsboro, June 9.—Pete Elmore and Charlie Strickland, Wayne county farmers, were held up and robbed by a negro on highway 4^1 between Pikeville and Fremont, this county, at 8 o’clock Wednesday night. The men had taken a truck load of beans to Baltimore and while in that city a negro youth, who stated that he lived in Mount Olive, Wayne county, asked for a i-ide back home. Having traveled all the way from Baltimore to Wayne county the ne gro tapped on the cab of the truck and the driv'er stopped to see what he wanted. The negro jumped out and covered the men with a pistol. from the throne of God on the eter nal .shores. There she tells him of the vmrk well done, of _ the trials of yore and the victories; Of a life full of struggle and achievement, of a glorious soul that was awed neith er by depression, despair, but that walked on nobly to' the perfecting of a great task. Mrs. Georgiana Winston Tuck re calls to us the best traditions of our great Old South. We are better for having known her. We lay respect fully a wreath on her grave, we whisper a prayer that like this Christian lady we may have forti tude in our trials, vision , in our tasks, confidence in the eternal near ness of God. A. VERMONT. Mr. Frank Jones Died Friday Night Mr. Frank" Jones, age 71, died last Friday night at 8:40 o’clock at the home of Mr. G. H. Eason, on. North Sharpe street, in the t-Won of Selma. Mr. Jones came to Mr. Eason’s on Sunday before and was taken with something like paralysis of the throat. He could not eat anything, but could talk some up until about 1 o’clock Friday afternoon before he died that night. Funeral serAuces were held at the home of Willie Jones, his oldest son, Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock, con ducted by Rev. Mr. Ferrell of Kenly, after which interment was made in a private burying ground several miles north of Selma. Mr. Jones was a member of the Holiness church. The deceased is .survived by nine children , three daughters and six son.s, as follows: Mrs. G. H. Eason, of Selma; Mrs. Lula Eason, of near Selma; Mrs. Ina Merritt, of Mt Olive; Messrs. Garland Jones, of near Selma; Rebus Jones, a few miles north of Selma; Rim Jones, about four miles north of Selma; Will Jones, about four miles north of Selma; Clarence Jones, about 7 miles north of Selma, Parson Jones, about 7 miles north of S'elma. Mr. Jones’ wife preceeded him ti the grave about six years ago. Craven County farmers have sold 22 carloads of fat hogs this spring with two or three more ears to move in June. 1^) 'i • “S*.> '■J 'i. X - ' 4 ■i : i’