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THE JOHNSTONIAN-
THE JOHNSTONIAN AND JOHNSTON COUNTY SUN CONSOLIDATED
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VOLUME 15.
SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1932.
NUMBER
Hoover And
To Head
California Delegation Launches Joy
March At Republican National
Convention In Chicago—Moving
lectures of President Show Him
In Action As His the
Great Chicago Stadium.
Curtis
Ticket Again
Chicago Stadium, June 16.—Cali
fornia led a loyal tumult today as
a Republican national convezition
by fir.st ballot acclamation made her
adopted but favorite Republican son,
Herbert Clark Hoover, its choice for
the presidency.
A negligible fringe of dessenting
votes again as four years ago stood
between the President and the ab
solute unanimity of the 1,154 dele
gated representatives of the party
that he .-hould carry on for another
four years.
The Californians came prepared
for this renewed showering of party
favor upon them. They were armed
with every implement of political
demonstration modernly known to
the great game. They -found hun
dreds eager to help them use or
display their equipment.
.And they embroidered it all with
that all but last word of the day,
the talking movies, showing a dim
ly visible picture of Pre.-ident Hoo
ver in action on a high screen w'hile
his voice rolled out of the hall loud
speakers to add to the din on the
convention floor.
Jump Into Action.
There was clashing music of
bands and the overhead voice of the
mighty pipe organ as the carefully
prepared great spectacular moment
of the convention came. A.s Joe
Scott, of California, selected to place
the President in nomination, stretch
ed on tip-toe under the glaring
lights to shout the name of Hoover
into the bellowing amplifiers, the
uproar tore loose.
Down in front the Californians
leaped up to follow Governor Rolph
and his bear flag and the state
standard into the aisles in a wan
dering, shuffling parade. The band
and org-an roared into that “Cali
fornia, Here I Come” that has been
the Hoover theme song through his
whole political career.
Hundreds of Hoover horns, scat
tered before the big moment came,
joined in the uproar and national
flags, big and little, cropped out
over the convention floor.
A great blue-and-gold California-
Hoover banner appeared from no-
w'.here and went jerking and jigging
through the jammed aisles.
Ti'jy Balloons Add Color.
High against the flag draped roof
half a dozen big- netted’ bags be,gan
di-gorging- a slow, colorful shower
of toy balloons all over the great
hall. Green, blue, red, yellow they
came floating down like a straiyge
multicolored rainstorm.
They rained ■ over the platform,
w-here party dignitaries like Na
tional Chairman Fess, Secretary
Mills, Convention Chairman Snell
and Mr. Hoover’s own political sec
retary, Walter N.ewton, batted and
tossed them in an impromptu game.
They even fell into the mouths
of the big horns of the band troop
ing about the aisles, seemin.g to add
to the strain of the puffed cheeks
■of the bandsmen who knew not of
the little gasbags muzzling their
efforts.
Slogans “Press On With Hoover”
in huge lettering on white back
grounds, held on tall staffs carried
by delegates went w-eaving and
twisting along over the heads of
the shuffling demonstrators.
A platoon of camera men, yelling
frantic stage directions to the
marchefs, added their share of both
noise and lighting effects to the
picture. Their flash -Tiulbs winked
and blinked from the rail of the
platform and press stand where the
photographers perched periliously to
make their shots. There was a mut
ter of thudding reports as man af
ter man in his haste dropped spent
vaccuum bulbs' to explode on the
floor.
President’s Voice Rings Out.
At one point the organist switch
ed his great instrument to the
strains of “Onw-ard Christian Sol
diers,” played and repeated in full
volume and slow cadence. Some
caught it up and sang as they
trudged. It gave a momentary
touch of solemnity to the spectacle.
From a big- white hanging screen
loomed a bit vaguely, while his on
the north wall of the areana, the
motion picture of the President,
his own voice was electirically re
corded and greatly magnified by the
amplifiers, and sounded in the noise
in familiar tone where they could
be heard.
In the end Chairman Snell stilled
the uproar with his gavel, aided by
vast grunts from the organ to call
attention. Then the convention set
tled back to its two ballote after
a deluge of nominating andpsecond
oratory that recreated for 1932 the'
Hoover-and-Curtks ticket that march
ed to a great victory at the polls
four years ago.
J. W. Call Fatally
Injured xAt Wilson
WiRon, June 22,—J. W. Call, 42,
superintendent of the Southern Cot
ton Oil company’s local plant, wa.s
fatally injured late yesterday after
noon when a scaffold on which he
and two negroes were working col-
lap-ed and dropped them about 20
feet to the ground.
Mr. Call was rushed to a local
hospital in an' ambulance. Examin
ation revealed a fractured skull,
neck and arm. He died about 8:30
o’clock last night without regaining
consciousness.
The ne.groes, who were working
on the scaffold helping ilr. Call re
pair the roof of a building on the
company propei'ty, were John Bali-
ley and .Andrew Cromartie. Both
were injured.
Mr. Call is survived by his wife,
one son, .Tames W. Call, ,Jr.: two
brothers, W. H. Call, of Selma, and
S M. C.aU, of Mocksville, and three
sisters, Miss Martha Call and Mrs.
J. H. Thompson, of Mock-ville. and
Mrs. H. C. Sprinkle, of Salisbury.
Letter Postage To Be Large Haul Taken
3 Cents After July 6th | From C. E. Kornegay
Mrs. W. H. Hare
Died Tuesday Night
Mrs. W. H. Hare, one of Selma’s
best beloved and most highly re
spected women, passed away at her
home here Tuesday evening-.at 9:1-5
o’clock, after having been confined
to her home for several months
with a complication of diseases. She
had been in ill health for several
years and had been almost an in-
i-’alid since the death of her husband
a little more than three years ago,
but she bore her afflictions -with
great patience, which was exempla
ry of her great faith and Christian
character which she' most reverently
maintained until she was called
from.a life of sufferin.g and torture
into that life of the spirit which
is incorruptable.
The deceased gave her best years
in the interest of her family, her
community and in inst.ructin,g the
youth in the ways of eternal life.
There are many Christian men and
women in Selma today whose lives
"ire livin.g- monuments to the mem
ory of her efforts as a Sunday
School teacher. She thus spent her
mo.st useful days in doing good—at
home, as a kind and devoted neigh
bor, and as a Christian soldier in
the cause of Christ.
Having been born on September
16, 1862, ‘had she lived until the
16th of next September she would
have been 70 years old. She was
married to Mr. William H. Hare on
the 21st day of^ December, 1882.
Prior to her marriage she was Miss
PatHe O’Neal, daughter of William
H. O’Neal, of O’Neals town.ship.
The deceased is survived by the
follo'wing: Three sons—W. W. Hare,
William -Noble Hare and Milton L.
Hare, of Selma; one sister, Mrs.
Needham Williamson, o-f O’Neals.
township; three brothers—J. W.
O’Neal, of Selma; Frank O’Neal, of
near Zebulon; Robert O’Neal, of the,
Atkinson Mill section.
The funeral was conducted at the
home Wednesday afternoon at 4:30
o’clock, by Rev. W. J. Crain, pastor
of Selma-Baptist Church. Mr. Crain
paid a most worthy tribute to the
exemplary life of the decea.=ed, af
ter which the services were con
cluded at the city cemetery. These
services wcie largely attended by a
host of sorrowing relatives ' and
friends. The flowers were many and
very beautiful. The flower- girls
consisted of the neices of the de
ceased and two grandchildren, Ijttle
Pattilou and Annie Laurie Hare.
The following nephews of the de
ceased acted as pallbearers: E. R.
Williamson and R. M. CNeaF, of
Raleigh; J. M. O’Neal, Rostus
O’Neal, Robert O’Xeat, Jr., all of
Selma,-and Walter Raper, o|. Kenly,
Route 2.
Gongres.s Has Passed A New Reve
nue Bill That Is Expected To Har
vest a Big Amount of Taxes—
Checks To Be Taxed As Weil As
Gifts and Income.
The new revenue act became a
law on June 6th and the gigantic
task of collecting more than a bil
lion dollars from the people to l|eep
the .government in a going condition
will soon be under way.
The new 3-cent first class po.-tage
rate is effective July 6, and the sec
ond class higher rates are effective
July 1st.
The new tax schedules of the bil
lion dollar revenue bill a.s pa-sed
its final form follow:
Individual Income Tax Bates.
Normal: Net income, first $4,000,
present tax, one and one-half ■ per
cent; new tax four per cent; S4,-000
to $8,000, prS.sent, three per cent;
new, eight per cent; above .$8,000,
present, 5 per .cent; new eight -per
cent. Kffecth-e January 1, 1932.
Surtaxes.:
The new schedule begins at one
per cent on income over $6,000 and
graduate.s up to a maximum rate of
55 per cent on income in exces-: of
$1,000,000.'
The present .surtax schedule 'be
gins at one per cent on income hi
excess of $10,000 and .graduates to
a maximum of 20 per cent on in
come over $100,000.
Exemption.s,
Present New
Married per.sons .$3,500 $2,500
Single, persons 1,500 1,000
Earned income allowance: Pres
ent—25 per cent; New—none.
Corpoiation income rates: Pre.s-
ent—12 per cent; New—12 3-4 per
cent; 14 1-2 per cent for con.solida-
ted returns.
Inherit ance Taxes.
Present—Graduated scale from
o'ne per cent on estate in e.xcess of
$50,000 to maximum of 20 per cent
on estate.^ in exce.ss of $10,000,000.
Ne-yv'—Sg^ile begins at .jjje p^r
cent on net e.states in e.xcess of
$10,000 and g-raduates to 45 per
cent on estates over $10,000,000.
Gift Tax.
Present—None.
New—Begins at three-fourth.s of
one per cent on gifts of more than
$10,000 and graduates to maximum
of 33 1-2 per cent over $10,000,000.
Effective after June 6, 1932.
Import Taxes.
Oil—One-half cent a gallon.
Coal—Two dollars a ton.
Copper—Four cents a pound.
Lumber—Three dollars a thousand
feet.
Manufacturers’ Excise T'axes.
Lubricatin,g oil—Four cents- a
gallon.
Malt syrup—Three cents a pound.
Grape concentrates — 20 cents a
gallon.
Toilet preparation.s—10 per cent
(tooth pastes, toilet soaps and den-
trifices,. five per cent).
Furs—10 per cent (house lan
guage).
Jewelry—10 per cent (articles
selling for le.ss than $3 exempted)
Automobiles—Passenger chassis 2
per cent; trucks 2 per cent; parts
and accessories, 2 per cent.
Automobile Tires—Two and one-
fourth cents a pound.
Inner tube.s—Four cents a pound.
Radios and phonographs—Five
per cent.
Mechanical refrigerato'rs —■ Five
per cent.
Sporting goods and cameras—Five
per cent (aerial cameras exempted).
Firearms and shells—Ten per
cent.
Matches—Wooden, two cents per
thousand; paper, one-half cent a
thousand.
Candy—Two per cent.
Chewing gum—Two per cent.
Soft drink.s — Cereal beverages,
one and one-fourth cents a gallon;
unfermented grape juice, five cents
a gallon; unfermented fruit juices,
two cents a gallon; mineral waters
two cents a gallon when price over
12 1-2 cents a gallon; fountain
syrups, six cents a gallon;, carbon
ated gas, four cents a pound.
Gasoline—One cent a gallon, paid
by refiner.
Electrical energy—Three per cent,
paid by buyer of energy. Effective'
June 21.
New .Miscellaneous Taxes.
Telephones—Ten cents on calks of
50 cents to $1; 15 cents on $1.00
to $2.00; .and 20 cents over , $2.00.
Telegrams—Five per cent on all j
messages.
Cable' and radio dispatches—Ten
cents on all messages.
Leased Wire—Five per cent.
Admissions—Ten per cent on all
The C. E. Kornegay Wholesale
house here wa.s broken into some
time between one and four o’clock
last Sunday morning. The store was
entered by the use of a small crow
Bkr, the double front door being
pried open by breaking the padlock
on the outside and the night latch
torn off on the inside. An automo-
’oile is thought to have been used
to carry away the goods which
consisted of tobaccos in the form of
chewing tobacco, smoking tobacco
and cigarettes to the amount of
about $500.00. A part of the haul of
cigarettes were Ideated Monday
morning in an abandoned house
about seven miles from Rocky
Mount, and Chief E. R. Hales went
for them Monday afternoon, but the
value of these was on|y about $25.
The police are still at work on
the case, but no definite clues have
been had so far.
New Hume Being R-apidly Erected
The attractive bungalow of Mrs.
P. A. Holland on North Green st, is
rapidly nearing completion. The com
modious nine room dwelling of Mrs.
Holland was completely destroyed
by fire last August. Since that
time the family have occupied some
-small out-buildings on the lot. They
will soon be able to move into their
modern new home.
News And Comment
From
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Moving Into Beracideled Home
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Jacobs are
;noving into their lovely home on
Waddell street, which was badly
damaged by fire some 'weeks ago.
it has been completely remodeled
and a number of conveniences added.
It now presents a very handsome
-appearance.
.SELMA NEGRO GET.S SIX
MONTH.S FOR INTI.MIDATING
George McCullum, Selma negro,
better kno-wn as “Leathers”, was
arrejjted by Chief of Police E. R.
Hales Sunday ni,ght for intimidat
ing two Selma white girls. He was
kept in jail until Monday when he
was tried in court at Smithfield and
given 6 months on the roatls.
Johnston County’s A.
B. Degree Graduates
The following is a li.st of the
.A. B. Degree graduate.s—1931-1932,
from East Carolina Teachers Col
lege, Greenville, N. C.:
Rena Woodard
Eula Aycock
Pauline Boyette
Evelyn T. Jones
Mary L. Lee
Rebecca Lee
Evelyn Maynard
Edna Earl O’Neal
^ Blanche Smith
'i^arneda Woodard
tickets costing 41 cents and over.
Oil transported by pipe lines—
Four per cent.
Safe deposit boxe.s—Ten per cent,
paid by renters.
Bank checks—Two cents each.
Yachts and boats—Graduated li
cense tax from $10 to $100. Effect
ive June 21.
Postal Rates.
First class—Three cents an ounce;
second class, first and second zones,
two cents; third, three cents; fourth
five cents; fifth, six cents; sixth,
seven cents; seventh, nine cents, a.nd,
eighth zone 10 cents.
^ Stamp Taxes.
Issues of bonds and capital stocks.
Ten cents each $100 par value.
Transfer of stock—Four cents a
share; five cents when selling pi-ice
over $20 a share. (Includes stock
loans.)
Transfers of bonds—Four cents
on each $100.
Conveyance—Fifty cents on deeds
of $100 to-$500; 50 cents for each
$500 additional.
Produce, , future deliveries—Five
cents.
Banks to Aid.
Collection of the new 2 cents tax
on checks, drafts and similar in-
.struments, which goes into effect on
June 21, will cause no inconvenience
to bank depositors of the country
but will be handled entirely by the
banks.
The Internal Revenue Bureau said
the banks would pay the tax to the
Treasury at the Md of each month.
During the period the banks will
keep account of the number of
checks drawn by each depositor and
at the end of. the month enter ‘In-
charge against his account and en
close e statement in the depositors’
cancelled checks. Qounter checks
which are ■cashed by the depo.sitor
at the bank are not taxed.
BY CHARLES F. SCOTT
Washing-ton, June 21.—For the
first time in many months the spot
light of universal interest swung
away from Washington last week
and centered on Chicago in the
great stadium where 1154 Republi
can delegates and 20,000 spectators
gathered to nominate Republican
candidates for President and Vice-
President, and to watch that nom
ination.
The precedent of awarding a
President a second term has been
so firmly established from the time
of Washington down to the present
hour that the renomination of Her
bert Hoover has long been taken
for granted. But no one could min
gle with the delegates at Chicago
or with the throng of visitors who
came to attend the convention, with
out realizing that Mr. Hoover was
being renominated not because of
the precedent, above all not through
the pre.-sure of federal office-holders
or by machinery put in motion by
the national organization of ■ the
party, but .in re.sponse to a very
,genuine demand on the part of the
people who realize the leadership of
the President and are deeply con
vinced that th country will need
that leadership in the next four
years, and that the best assurance
. the country can have of economic
restoration and recovery is to
‘Press On With Hoover,” to use the
striking- phrase which the California
delegation had painted on a great
banner with which it led the pro
cession about the stadium when the
nomination of the President -svas an
nounced. It was a Hoover crowd,
not in any perfunctory spirit, not in
any doubtful mood, but proud and
confident and challenging.
And it was a Curtis crowd, too.
Naturally other candidates for Vice-
President were placed before the
convention. The precedent with re
spect to the renominatfon of Vice-
President has been against the prac
tice rather than in favor of it. It
was no reflection upon Mr. Curtis,
therefore, that ambitious men should
be propo.sed by their friends for the
second place on the ticket. But the
fact that Mr. Curti.s had personal
™^nds on practically every delega-
tira was quickly demonstrated as
the roll call preceded, as it was also
demonstrated that the, leaders of the
Party realized perfectly well the po
litical strength of the Vice-Presi
dent. That General Harbord, Colo
nel MacNider, Mr. Snell and the
other gentleinent whose names were
offered or suggsted, are all .good
Republicans and capable leaders was
conceded. But the fact was manifest
on every hand that none of them
had had the political and parlia
mentary experience which has made
Mr. Curtis a tower of strength dur
ing the critical period through Which
we have been passing, and that none
of them would bring to the ticket,
as a result of the nation-'wide cam
paign which custom imposes on the
Vice-President, the strength which
would be brought to it by Mr. Cur
tis. And so heforfe the first roll call
was fini-hed, Mr. Curtis was nomin
ated, and in due course, his nomina
tion was made unanimous.
With the re-noraination of Hoover
and Curtis assured in advance, the
real -vvork of the convention devolved
upon the Committee on Resolutions,
and the major interest of the con
vention centered upon the platform
it should frame. It would hardly be.
too much to f ay that the main in
terest of the conventi-on settled on
one particular plank in the platform,
the one dealing with prohibition. To
one who endeavors to preserve a
sense.of proportion, it seemed both
pre'posterous and tragic that meet
ing in a city where, 500,000 men are
unemployed, a great national con
vention should concern itself prin
cipally with the question a.; to
whether beer should be made easier
or harder to get. And yet that wa.s
the spectacle which was presented
in Chicago. Men who have grown
old in attendance upon national
conventions of botli parties declared
they had never known a place or a
time when so desperate an . effort
had bc-im made to stampede^ a con
vention as was made in Chicago Inst
vv>-‘k Oil bonalf of the wets. The
new.snapjr.s of Chicago gave whole
oaiifs 1,;) wee pronnganda. A wet pa-
i.iclK cnn'anized -with hands and
ua-nners and all manner of spectac
ular appeal. Wet meetings were held
1 in various auditoriums. Wet propa
ganda was spread all over the hill-
boards. Women infested the side
walks in front of the hotels .and
cluttered up the entrances of the
convention stadium, pressing upon
everyhod.v “Vote Wet” buttons. The
newspaper.s had nothin.g to say
about the plight of the unemployed-;
no parades were staged on behalf
of the men and women who want
bread; no meetings were held ^
point out a way for the relief
men who were facing desp
need; no fla,g.s were flaunted and no
button.s were printed to call atten
tion to any economic problem. Ev
erything was forgotten by those who
had set out to manufacture public
sentiment and to control the con
vention, except BEER!
Reading Chicago newspapers,
watching Chicago paradVM, observing
Chicago billboards, and Yat^ipg to
Chicago lobby conversations^i..^O'
-would never have thought there'
any lea.st thing the matter with the
United States of America except
that the people can not buy beer a.s
freely as they want to and with a;
high an" alcoholic content ,as they
desire. It is to the infinite credit of
the delegates of the convention that
they refused to he .stampeded, and
that they kept their heads in tha
face of the unprecedented effort
that was made to swing them to an
extreme expression of wet senti
ment.
The prohibition plank as drawn
by the Committee and approved by
the convention is not a “bone dry”
expression of prohibition sentiment.
It was generally recog-nized that if
the platform maker.s had contented
themselves merely with reiterating
the expres^ions of the platform ot '
1928, demanding the enforcement of
the law, and let it go at that, a
resolutron,^emanding flat and un-
qualified repehl of the 18th Amend
ment would have been adopted. It
-was obviously the view of a large
majority of the delegates that a
constructive proposal, somewhere be
tween the dry and wet extremes, is
demanded by the public sentiment of
the country.
And so the new plank, admitting
the existence of a nation-wide coji-
troversy over the 18th Ameiijlment,
expressed a belief that “the people
should have an opportunity to pass
upon a proposed amendment the
jrrovisions of' which, while retaining
in -the Federal Government power
to preserve the gains already made
in dealing with the evils inherent
in the liquor traffic, shall allow
states to deal with the problem as.
their citizens ( and that is the crux
off the whole matter) to the power
of the Federal Government to pro
tect those states where prohibition,
may exist and safeguard citizens
everywhere from the return of the
saloon and attendant abuses.” It was
this demand on the part of the ma
jority of the Resolutions Committee,
a demand that in the event of the
repeal of the 18th Amendment the
Federal Government should still con
trol the situation to such an extent
as. to preserve the g-ains ' already
made and to prevent the return of
the saloon, that led the wets, in the"
convention to present a minority re
port-demanding unqualified repeal of
the 18th Amendment. To have yield
ed to this demand, in the judgment
of a majority of the convention,
would have been to lose everything
that has been gained ir the direc
tion of control of the liquor traffic
during the past twelve years, ard
the proposal was t'cerefore reject
ed by an emphatic vote.
As already remarked, one who
attended the convention in Chicago
last week wooln have been lec to
believe that tho only plank vi,-.
platforni vidiich woi;l-.l interest any
body wa- thal rrl.a ’iie to i.i’j wei-
dry issue, and i.’iat ‘his ques-sov
would be paraii'Ount thrmi~l.c;:E t'-,e
campaign. As a ol iz:X, Lie
platform is an exceeoingiy stror.sf
document which will essi-w V.
strength and impunance as ina
campaign progres.ses. ano its vari
ous iilank.s are di;''uss::;- ano onc -r-
stoocl, and there -ean. 5' no 't'east-n-
eble doubr i’eat Kr-fore riie
is many weeks oi.t ihe pronmitieii
question will be :’;;!e.r;.;ed to D ■>
sition r^-here it h"-!:','!-';;, and the- .r.W
titudo of till- Pi'.vl v end its -.a; di- .
dates on econonne sr-oolemii -■ fit
emerge as the -'ommant anti -pa---
mount issue. Here are the hi°-h
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