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fHE JOHNSTONIAN AND JOHNSTON COUNTY SUN CONSOLIDATED
VOLUME 15.
SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1932.
NUMBER 27
How Johnston County
Democrats Voted In Pri
mary Held On July 2nd
Following is the vote by town
ships in Johnston County as polled
in the Democratic run-off primary
Saturday, July 2nd.
East Smithfield
Ehringhaus » HI
Fountain 418
Majority for Fountain 307
Morrison - 270
Reynolds 348 •
Majority for Reynolds 78
Kirkman 464
Booker 187
Majority fop Kirkman 277
West Smithfield
Ehringhaus 275
Fountain 256
Majority for Ehringhaus 10
Morrison - 230
Reynolds 280
Majority for Reynolds —
Cleveland
Ehringhaus 62
majority
45
.-87
55
32
50
majority
majority
Fountain Majority
Morrison
Reynolds
Reynolds^.
Booker ---
Kirkman
Booker majority
I'.levati-on
Ehringhaus is
Fountain
Ehringhaus majority
Morrison
Reynolds
Reynolds
Kirkman
Booker •
Booker majority
Wilders
Ehringhaus
Fountain
Fountain
Morrison
Reynolds
Reynolds
Kirkman
Booker
Booker majority
(’l.'ivton
Ehringhaus
Fountain
Fountain majority
Morrison
Reynolds -
Morrison
Kirkman
Booker
Kirkman
majority
majority
.102
40
...•35
.113
78
.154
...12
...142
...57
...51
•
6
...36
•
...70
46
...44
...64
.. -20
...99
.313
....214
..174
.-225
51
..,.89
..146
..57
...90
..149
,59
..164
75
..89
-.42
..19
..43
-23
-43
-13
Reynolds
Kirkman
Booker
Kirkman majority ..
West Banner
Ehringhaus
Fountain
Fountain majority ..
Morrison
Reynolds
Reynolds majority.—
Kirkman
Booker
Kirkman majority .
Pleasant Grove.
Ehringhaus
Fountain
Morrison
Ehringhaus majority
Morrjson
Reynolds ?
Morrison majority ....
Kirkman
Booker ...
Booker majority .—38
Ingrams
Ehringhaus 190
Fountain 165
Ehringhaus majority 25
Mori-ison M88
Reynolds 163
Morrison majority 25
Kirkman 191
Booker 162
Kirkman majority 28
Bentouville
Ehringhaus
Fountain
Fountain majority
Morrison
Reynolds
Reynolds majority
Kirkman
Booker
' Booker majoidty
Meadow.
Ehringhaus 7 64
W. F. Black Killed
In Auto Accident
Drys Are Turning
To Borah As Leader
Virginia Pharmacist Has Prominent
Family Connections In Selma.
Funeral At Clinton Thursday.
Durham, July 5.—W. F. i^lack,
Roakoke, Va., pharmacist, met in
stant death on highway number 10
near here this afternoon when his
automobile left the roadway and
plunged into an embankment. He
was on his way from Raleigh to
Durham and was unaccompanied.
There were no witnesses to the ac
cident. Physicians said death result
ed from a fractured .=kull. Black,
a middle aged man, formerly lived
in Clinton and is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Katie Black, of Clin
ton; his wife, two sisters and sev
eral children. Officers could a.-cribe
no reason for the accident other
th.an that the driver lost control of
the car.
Mr. Black was well known in
Selma, having married a daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thad
Whitley and a sister of Mrs. R. E.
Suber, Mrs. W. B. Johnson and
Mr-. M. R. Wall, of Selma.
Th^ funeral services were held at
Clinton this (Thursday) morning.
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50
—.8
-59’
51
-26
-36
Seek To Draft Idaho Man As Third
Party Head This Year.
THE NEED OF THE HOUR
10
-24
.,44
20
We are hearing very much from
economists, politicians, those in of
fice, and those desiring to be in of
fice, about the supreme need of the
pre-ent time. Some are saying we
must have more taxation in order
to balance the budget. Others are
declarin,g we mu.st have less or we
are ruined. Some are decla^ring that
if prohibition is not enforced, we
are doomed; if it is not repealed,
we are lost. Others are declaring we
need more legislation of, every type
and variety. Some are emphatic
that what has ruined us is too much
legislation.
Let Roger Babson, the staistiSan
of business, the consellor of the
great and the mighty in the coun
cils of economy and civics, have
our ear and mind for one moment . , ,.
1- he stands up and emphatically action be ta ^
.103
.304
-201
.206
.339
-133
Fountain
Fount
Morri.-bn
Reynolds
Morri
Kirkman
Booker
.140
.266
.259
majority
:280
.273
majority
Oncals-
Ehringhaus .
Fountain .■
Fountain maiority
-28
Morrison
Reynolds
Morrison
Kirkman
Booker —
Booker
majority
-97
-67
-204
-388
-184
-226
-320
majority
-106
441
.307
..127
majority
.Selina
Ehringhaus - —
Fountain
Fountain majority
Morrison
Reynolds
Reynolds
Kirkman
Booker
Booker majority
Beulah
Ehringhaus
Fountain ....
Fountain majority
Morrison
Reynolds 322
Reynolds majority 205
Kirkman 327
Booker 82
Kirkman majority 245
Boon Hill
Ehringhaus 5^
Fountain 214
Fountain majority 161
Morrison 71
Reynolds 184
Reynolds majority 113
Kirkman 1 153
Booker 110
Kirkman majority 43
Pine Level
Ehringhaus 14
Fountain —121
Fountain majority , 107
Ehringhaus
Fountain ..
Founta
Moriison .
Reynolds
Reynoh
Kirkman .
Booker
Booker majority
Wilson Mills
Ehringhaus
Fountain ,
Fountain majority .
Morrison
Reynold,;
Reynolds majority
Kirkman
Booker ....
Kirkman majority
majority .
...106
86
92 .
majority .
...133
......14
70
majority .
63
Micro
26
-.139
majority .
29
...-113
...119
majority .
90
declares: ‘Tt is tfie church which
has created America, dev'eloped our
schools, created our homes, built
our cities, done everything that' is
worth while in America. The need of
the hour is not/or more legislation;
the tjeed of the hour i- more Re-
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60
-80
President Signs Bill
To Feed the Hungry
W’ashington, July 5.—President
Hoover today signed a resolution to
provide 45,000,000 bushels of wheat
and 500,000 bales of cotton from
the farm board for use by the Red
Cross for the needy. The supplies
will supplement the small amount
of wheat still remaining from the
40,000,000 bushels provided by Con
gress some months ago.
Chairman Payne of the Red Cross
said new supplies were needed if
the hungry are to be fed.
VALUABLE CATAWBA STRAW
BERRY CROP.
Surely this is getting at the heart
of the matter, and we agree most
heartily with the declaration that
“America is suffering today because
she' did not and has not taken ‘SIN’
out of her ‘buSIN'ess.’ Sin i- in,the
very middle and heart of bu.siness.
We need here in America and in
the world to take sin out of our
business Not Babson’- voice, but a
mightier voice than Babson’s, cried
out to the world lon.g ago to the
same effect: “Seek ye first* the
kingdom of God and his righteous-
re-s, and all these things shall be
added unto you.’ We need to begin
to live as thou.gh we really believed
there is a God in heaven and on
earth.”—J. O. Atkinson, in Christian
Sun.
Indianapolis, July 3.—Indications
that the big national temperance
organizations are interested in
.-ponsoring Senator Borah as a thii'd
party candidate for the Presidency
were in evidence today as the pro
hibition party’ opened its quadren
nial convention.
Leaders of the party said repre
sentatives of the national groups
were urging that it postpone nam
ing a candidate until after the Na
tional conference of organizations
-uppogting prohibition meets in
Washington July 14.
. At that gathering the situation
resulting from the Democratic and
Republican repeal and resubmission
stands will be studied and a cam
paign outlined.
Meanwhile those familiar with ne
gotiation,- to obtain Borah’s accep
tance of the prohibition party’s
nomination said they were definitely
of the opinion that if a number of
the big temperance groups would
give him their active support he
would make the race.
This however conflicted with the-
views of the Idaho Senator’s Wash
ington friends. Borah is on record
a? believing economic issues are
predominant and that the prohibi
tion question is not the basis for a
successful third party campaign.
Two men who sit on the national
prohibition board of strategy at
tended today’s meeting saying they
were there solely as observers. They
were Bishop Jams Cannon, Jr., of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, and Canon William Sheafe
Chase, of the Council of Churches
of Christ in America. Both have
been in consultation with D. Leigh
Colvin, the prohibition party’s na
tional chairman, who has taken the
41sad in the effort to secure Borah
as the nominee.
Canon Chase went before the res
olutions committee of the conven
tion to advance his plea that no
of a
Presidential candidate until after the
meeting at Washington.
He said afterward he believed the
dry organizations would rally unit
edly behind the Idaho Senator and
he is confident that with this sup
port Borah would agree to run.
Bishop Canon’s son, Richard Can
non, attending as a delegate from
California, where he is a candidate
for the House, is the active leader
of a younger group among the del
egates seeking to make Borah tire
candidate.
If the move to adjourn the con
vention before nominations are
reached is un-uccessful. Cannon is
considering placing Borah’s name
before the group himself.
The youn.ger Cannon’s group is
not totally in sympathy with older
members of the party. The latter
fee! the nomination- should go to
one of the party’s lifelong workers
as is customary. Cannon, however,
is not so much concerned with the
party as with defending the' Eigh-
teentlv Amendment.
Roosevelt-Garner Ticket
Nominated At Chicago
Democratic Convention
New York Governor Is NamecL the DemOCUatic Primary
Presidential Candidate and John x -r t i T i O
N. Garner of Texas Is Nominated
For Vice President.
The Democratic National Conven
tion which remained in session in
Chicago all last week, completed its
work Saturday, with the nomination
of John N. Garner, of Texas, for
Vice President, following the nomin
ation of Franklin D. Roosevelt of
New York, for Presidential nominee.
Governor Roosevelt had an airplane
in waiting, and as soon as his nom-
Held on July 2nd
R. R. Reynolds Given More Than 2
To 1 Vote Over Morrison,—Lieut
Governor Fountain Gave Ehring-
haus Very Close Race.
Raleigh, July 5.—Outwardly North
! Carolina today was taking a politic
al holiday to recuperate from the
most intensive political campaigns
staged in the state in recent years
but undercover political gossip,
illation was flashed over the radio speculation and activity hummed
he hopped into the machine and
swept through the air to the Chica-
convention where he delivered
his speech of acceptance, thus break
ing all former customs in this re
spect, as it has been customary for
a presid.ential nominee to wait until
he has been formally notified before
making his acceptance speech.
The Democratic platform on which
both the nominees for President and
Vice President are 'to risk their po
litical future, declares for flat re
peal of the 18th Amendment to the
national constitution, and both Mr.
Roosevelt, the presidential nominee,
and Mr. Garner, the nominee for
Vice President, have declared them-
,=elves in favor of repealing the 18th
Amendment.
Alfred E. Smith was a prominent
figure qt the Chicago convention,
and in making a speech for the
repeal plank on the floor of the
convention declared thqt he was
living just four years ^ ahgad of the
times when he ran x)n a wet plank
in 1928. It is yet to be seen whether
the people are ready for the repeal
of th 18th Amndment to the Con
stitution. Smith had a few dele
gates who stood by him for the
Presidential nomination to the very
last, but the trend toward Roose
velt had gotten such headway that
he could no stop it, and insead of
gaining support Smith’s friends sup
porters gradually left him until the
Roosevelt forces had enough to give
e re-
madq '
persistently.
The official declaration of
suits of last Saturday’s ru
Democratic primary will be
next Monday afternoon. Judge J.
Crawford Biggs, chairman of the
state board of elections has announc
ed. Usually the result, is announced
on the Saturday after the primary
but yesterday was a holiday, when
most county boards were supposed
to cansass their results, the date
was moved.
Official results are not expected
to make any material changes in
the unofficial reports which give
Robt. Rice Reynolds, Asheville attor
ney and senatorfal candidate, the
largest majority ever given a Demo
cratic nominee in a primary. Also,
John C. B. Ehring-haus of Elizabeth
,City and Mayor A. I.. Fletcher of
Raleigh are expected to be declared
the winners of their contests.
Reynolds’ unprecendented victory
which he scored in defeating the
veteran Senator Cameron Morrison
of Charlotte for both the short and
long terms in the United States
senate, caused more gossip than any
race in years.
The margin between tjie two men
today was more than 100,000 votes,
representing the first victory of a
wet candidate over a . dry since
North Carolina adopted prohibition
in 1908. As a result of the “wet”
landslide as the vote is generally
regarded, talk has already started of
him the nomination, Roosevelt hav- , possible attempts in the next legis-
ing finally secured 945 of the 1154 i lature to amend the Turlington act,
votes in the convention. | North Carolina’s state prohibition
There is some uneasiness in Dem- i law which is one of the strictest-in
ocratic quarters that A1 Smith may | the nation.
refuse to follow the Roosevelt lead- Ehringhaus had 12,000 votes more
ership and that the Smith support- | than IJeut. Gov. R. T. Fountain of
ers will refuse to be Roosevelt sup- Rocky Mount in today’s tabulations,
porters. A movement is on foot to with only about 100 scattered pre
pacify the Smith wing at this time, cincts in the state unreported, and
ARRESTED 65 TIMES.
BENSON MAN ATTEMPTS
SUICIDE IN NEW ORLEANS
Marvin Crouse, young Lexington
-white man, had a brief spell of lib
erty Sunday, 11 hours to be spe
cific, between the expiration of the
jail term served ‘ since his 64th ar
rest and his return to jail after ar
rest 65, according to police records.
“Drunk again” 'was the report of
the police when they returned Mar
vin to jail Sunday night at about
9 o’clock. He had been released
fr#m a 30-days sentence for drunk
enness at ,10 o’clock Sunday morn
ing.
DEYVBERRY PROSPERITY
57
25
Morrison 31
Reynolds 88
Reynolds majority
Kirkman 52
Booker -- - 77
Booker majority
East Banner
Ehringhaus 54
Fountain -. 57
Fountain majority 3
Morrison 59
Reynolds - 104
Catawba county farmers are more
than 58,000 better off '.jecause of
their strawberry crop, which is just
about over. Bob Martin, Hickory
grocer, who has acted as a commis
sion merchant in disposing of much
of the crop this season, says that
approximately 130,000 quarts of
berries were sold by Catawba farm
ers. The lowest price paid was
around $1.50 per crate.
Macon County farmers made a
start with lespedeza this spring by
seeding 300 acres on the small
grain. The crop is looking fine since
the recent rains.
For 25 years Cameron, Moore
county, has been known as the dew
berry capital of the world. In that
section and around Vass, also in
Moore county, dewberries are culti
vated like other ber-fies and the.
growers get a good living from it.
This year there was a good crop
and the berries sold on the ground
from $1.75 to $3 a crate. Cameron
now has an auction market a.t which
the berries are. sold to the highest
bidders. More than 1.5.000 crates
have been sold this -season. Most of
the buyers are using trucks to con
vey the berries to northern markets.
New- Orleans, July 4 —Richard
Ransdell, 22, of Benson, N. C., who
is ser\'ing a three months sentence
for petty larceny, slashed his arms
with a raz?ir blade Sunday in the
jail here when he received a mes
sage that funeral service for his
mother will be held tomorrow in
Benson.
The prison captain said the mas-
sag;e was RansdelTs fir.;t news of
his mother’s death.
DRIVES CAR WITH BROKEN
NECK.
Physicians at Knoxville, Tenn.,.
marvelled Saturday at^ the feat of
Vance Young, 18-year-okl Charlotte,
N. C., youth, who drove an automo
bile from Greenville, S. C., to Knox
ville with his neck broken.
Last Tuesday he • dived into shal
low water at Greenville. He was
pulled out unconscious but soon re
vived. The next day he drove to
Knoxville. An X-ray disclosed a
fracture through the bone of the
fifth cervical vetebra, the entire
front portion being broken and
crushed. He is improving.
and it may be that Smith’s friends
will be whipped in line by the as
surance that Smith will be given
the nomination for Governor of the
State of New York to succeed
Roosevelt.
There is a move on foot among
the staunch prohibitionists of the
country to place a prohibition can
didate in the field, and pressure is
being brought to bear on Senator
Borah of Idaho, to make the race.
Borah is among the ablest men in
the nation, and aside from his rad
ical views , on national policies, he
has been a power in the Republican
ranks in the shaping of national
legislation. If he should accept the
nomination for the presidency on a
third party or prohibition ticket,
it will then be up to the people of
the country to decide whether they
think more of prohibition than they
do of party lines and vica versa.
The Democrats ploclaimed the
nomination of Roosevelt and Garner
as a master stroke, and voiced the
belief that they -will win in a walk;
but in the Democratic convention
where only Democrats were voting
and talking, such a sentiment was
naturally to be expected; but in the
November election Republicans will
be voting, and if the Democrats
think for a moment that the nation
al Republican party is a weakling,
they have another thought coming.
It has the men, the brains and the
money—three very essential qualifi
cations for success.
is expected to be declared the guber
natorial nominee. '
Fletcher scored a decisive victory
by a margin of about 60,000 votes,
in his race with Clarence E. Mitch
ell, also of Raleigh, for the nomina
tion as state commissioner of labor.
While the state primary continu-'
ed to hold ■ the spotlight here, dele-
.gates returning from the national
Democratic convention brought talk
of the national Democratic ticket.
Gov. 0. Max Gardner, Josephus
Daniels and others who attended the
Chicago meeting were loud in their
praise of the Democratic ticket,
Franklin D. Roosevelt for President
and John Nance Garner for vice-
president, and predicted its election
in November. •
The governor is expected to take
the stump in the state in this fall’s
campaign of the Democratic nomi-
nee.s, and also is expected to be
called on by the Roosevelt forces to
visit other states in the interest of
the national. ticket.
Negro Dies From
Injuries Received
In Accident
KENLY QUARTET HEARD IN
SELMA
A rather heavy infestation of boll
weevil is reported from two farms
in Halifax Countv. The growers are
beginning control measures.
In preparing for fall planted cov
er crops, it is well to remember
that clovers do best on land that
has received an application of lime
stone.
The male quartet of Kenly was
enjoyed by all at the union servjce
at the Presbyterian church last Sun
day evening. We thank these men
for giving us this splendid special j the accident were Rilena Bro\*,
music and hope that they will be
able to ■ come ^ back, again in the
near future
Smithfield, July 6.—John Ivan
Braswell, of Momeyer, N. C. was
fatally injured Monday when the
car which he was driving was side-
swiped by a transfer truck headed
north. The accident occurred near
Benson on Highw-ay No. 22. Braswell
suffered a compound fracture of his
left arm and internal and external
injuries. ^
Braswell was brought to the
Johnston county Hospital Monday
mornin,g and he died there about
noon the same day.
With the deceased at the time of
a
colored w'oman from Momeyer; and
Sylvester Boyette, colored, also
from Momeyer, and blind.