Selma Merchants Say Business Improving
^The Tt^CTc-Jt-Home Drive No>v
Going On Is Attracting New
Business To Selma.
!
Since the merchants of Selma be-
i?an their campaign for more busi
ness by featuring the Trade-at-
ricme idea, a week or two ago,
• here has been a noticeable trend
in business to Selma. Several Selma
.'merchants have been heard to ex
press the belief that the campaign
js already showing worthwhile re-
sr ■ ts.
The attractive prizes which are
being offered, including a new
A.istin Automobile, have begun to
t_rn new business to Selma, and
.'.any foi’mer customers are cora-
i'C back this way.
There is no chance game conncct-
/id with this campaign. Our mei-
wr.'ints are selling their good- at
r':iuced prices and giving tickets
with each 50c purchase, 'fou pay
no more for the goods than you
w^uld have' to pay without the
th sets, and should you hold the
T ky number on December the 24th
V ,1 will be given an Austin Auto-
ntbile absolutely free. There are a
nr liber of other valuable prizes to
f-' given to the people who are
present with their trade tickets
't! that date. The numbers will be
rawn and should you hold the
cr nber corresponding with the one
:..wn you are sure of, a nice prize.
-So come on and do your trading
i:' Selma, keep your ticket- and
I"' lie back on December 24th, when
i '- prizes will be awarded. Some-
J\' will be in luck for Christmas
fj- year.
Rev. Mr. Barclay
Addresses Kiwanians
Southern Passenger
Train Wreck In Selma
Rev. Mr. John Barclay, pastor of
the Christian church of Wilson, wa-
the Kiwanis speaker at the regular
weekly luncheon. Br. Barclay, who
was voted Wilson’s most valuable
citizen, made a very interesting talk
on world conditions. He discussed
the tariff question, armament- and
other interesting subjects, after
which he opened the meeting
for discussion. Rev. Mr. Barclay is
recognized as a very deep, thinker
and well read.
A questionaire gotten up by C.
P. Harper, John Wiggs, C. A. Jacobs
and A. J. Holliday wa- presented to
the club for its approval. This
questionaire is to be mailed to a
number of people which they are to
answer and return to the secretary
of the club. It deals with busine.ss
conditions in the town.
Andrew Holliday and Parson Wad
dell rendered two vocal duets which
were enjo^’ed very much. They were
accompanied on the piano by Miss
Ellen Singleton.
The report on the Columbia meet
ing by A. J. Holliday and the nomi
nating committee by Rev. E. T. Sing
leton were postponed until next
Thursday night.
“The Dumb Waiter,” a mu-ical
comedy, will be given by the club
at an early date. This is sponsored
by- the dub and coached by Miss
Margaret Creech.
About 4:45 on la.st Sunday mSm-
17)11 the Eastbound Southex'n passen
ger train No. It2, was wrecked at
Main street cro sing in Selma when
it split a switch. The engine re-
'■■ained on the main track while the
re.-nainder of the train took the
si-ctrack beside the Southern freight
station. The derelict cars remained
or, the sidetrack for a short dis
tance, then broke a rail and tore up
the track for a considerable distance
finally striking a box car standing-
on the siding, knocking it down the
track but did not detrail it.
Just before the pas enger train,
which' is due here at 4:45, two long
frei,ght trains passed going in op
posite directions. However the
I'cked after the wreck. The mail
car on 112 remained here' until
10:05 when it was picked up by
ea.atbound train No. 18.
.A wrecking crew with crane from
the Atlantic Coast Line shops in
Rocky Mount was. ordered to .the
scene and had the main line open
by noon Sunday.
No one was injured, but pas en-.
gers . and train crew were consider
ably shaken up. ^
Mrs. Lula Sanders
Turner Passes Away
Prominent Smithfield Woman Who
Was Gold Star Mother, Died
On Armistice Day.
PRESIDENT GRAHAM TO
SPEAK U. N. C. BANQUET
E. T. Boyette, principal of Glen
dale Consolidated School, who is
president of the Johnston County
Alumni Association of the Univer
sity of North Carolina, announces
that the annual U. N. C. banquet
.will be held here on Tuesday event
ing, November 29. Pre.-ddent Frank
Graham will be the speaker on this
o'ccasion and a full attendance of
the alumni and their wives is ex
pected.
Smithfield, Nov. 14.—Mrs. Lula
Sanders Turner, 60-year-old widow
of the late John Turner, died at
the Johnston County Ho.-pital here
last Friday night about 10 o’clock.
She had undergone two serious op
erations there a short time ago, and
several days her condition had been
I considered almost hopeless.
I The deceased was a daughter of
' the late Zoe J. Lemay, of Cleveland
I Township, and a sister of the late
I Zoe L. LeMay of Smithfield. For
I several years after her marriage
' she lived with her husband in Wake
county, but after his death .-he mov
ed to Smithfield, and had been liv
ing here for several years.
She was one of the ,Gnld Star
mothers who went to France at the
expense of the United States Gov
ernment. Her son,. LeMay Turner,
lost his life during the world war,
and she crossed the ocean and vis
ited hi- last resting place.
Mrs. Turner is survived by two
daughters and three sons, also one
sister, Mrs. Eliza Williamson of
Smithfield. The funeral, which -was
held from the home at 2 o’clock
Saturday afternoon, was conducted
by her' pastor. Rev. B. T. Hurley of
the Methodist church, assisted by
Rev. D. H. Tuttle and Rev. J. P.
Smith. Interment was at Holland’s
church in Wake county.
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, we, the people of Selma and Johnston County,
have lived to witness another fruitful harvest from Mother
Earth, and are about to emerge from the shadows of one of
the world’s greatest depressions which has held the peoples
of the earth in its devastating grip for many months past,
and
WHEREAS, in the light of the history of all previous de
pressions, it would seem that we are now about due to wit
ness the dawning of a new day through a better understand
ing among our Sister Nations looking to the settlement of
foreign war debts through a definite program, and
WHEREAS, our own people have been ever responsive to
the call to deviate the distress at home and abroad, so far as
our ability would permit in a financial way, and thereby have
kept the home fires burning by caring for the less fortunate
of the community in such a manner that there has been no
great amount of suffering from financial distress or from the
ravages of disease which have been met remarkably well;
NOW. THEREFORE, as we enter upon our voyage into
Winter’s grim shadows just ahead, let us join with the Gov-
ornor of our great State and the President of these United
States in voicing our praise and tendering our Thanks to
Him from whom all blessings flow, as we set aside and de
clare THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 19.32, as THANKSGIV
ING DAY. May we look to Him for strength and wisdom to
pilot us through the tempest as we ride the crest of the
waves toward the shores of an unexplored future.
W. W. HARE. Mayor of the Town of Selma.
Graham Woman Kills
Two of Her Children
Mrs. Elsie Witherspoon Dollar Tells
Calmly of Shooting Her Children
As They Slept Because She Didn’t
Want “To Leave Them to Mercy
of This W’orld”.
Tremendous Task For
Democratic Party
(C. P. Stewart in Greensboro News)
W'ashington, Nov. 14.—A few wild
whoop.s of Democratic triumph no
doubt are pardonable.
Soon after this first bur-t of en
thusiasm, however, the country cer
tainly will expect the party of Jef-
fersonianism to begm showing an
exceedingly sober sense of the enor
mous responsibility it faces.
Whether or not Democratic lead
ership has reason to congratulate
it elf in the present junction is a
question no one can answer intelli
gently until two, three or four years
hence. It can hardly congratulate!
itself upon the mere fact that it has
won an election which shortly will
place it in national control at a
j time of perhaps the greatest difficul
ty in American history. If it ac
quits itself creditably, it will be en
titled, indeed, to congratulate itself
upon the ch’cumstance that it af
forded such an opportunity'. If it i
fails, it is among the possibilities I
that not enough of it will “be left ^
j in 1936 to apologize. !
Miss Fulghum
Crowned Queen
Mr. and Mrs. C. I,. Richardson
and Mrs. M. A. Biggs accompanied
their sister. Miss June Fulghum, to
Kinston Friday night where she was
crowned queen of Ea-tern North
Carolina. This honor was won Thurs
day night at the Merchants and
Manufacturer’s Exposition when she
took honors from contestants from
towns from all over eastern Caro
lina. Fred I. Sutton, lawyer and
veteran legislator, did the crowning.
Miss Fulghum also won first prize
at a bathing beauty conte t held
at Holt’s Lake last summei:.
Explanation Is Given
For Hoover’s Defeat
Sanders Says Forces Beyond “Hu
man Control” Did It—Most of
Vote Is Counted.
j Public men quite generally agree
: that there can be no' more muddling
! through.
j The election result plainly implies
I that the voters considered that to be
i the only program the G. 0. P. had
I to offer. They evidently were willing
j to take another change of fundamen-
, tal social, economic and political re-
1 forms under Democracy’s auspices.
Some folk have faith to look for
an early i-estoration of livable con
ditions. Some remain skeptical.
Representative Florello H. La-
Guardia, a. an example of untra-
’ radicalism, ventures the gues- that
Americans have just seen their la.st
campaign between the two major
parties of today; that a complete re-
allignment will have been ecected be
fore 1936’s election.
The “Three Musketeers”.
COTTON GINNING REPORT.
Census report shows that there
were 30,879 bales of cotton ginned
in Johnston County from the crop
of 1932 prior, to November 1, as
compared with 30,670 bales g-inned
to November 1, 1931.
E. 'G. HOLLAND, Special Agt.
Your attention is called to the ad
vertisement of the - “Three Muske
teers,” Put, Blackie and Whit, on
another page. These gentlement in
vite you to their service station, one
mile north of Selma,. w-hen in need
of anything in their line. You will
have an opportunity to “spin the
wheel,” which has thirty-one num
bers. If the wheel stops on the
■number corresponding to the day of
the month you get your gas and oil
Free. They serve nice, fresh Pret
zels free with all cold drinks, which
are kept in a Kelvinator. This sta
tion is one of the most up-to-date in
Johnston county.
In the meantime it is easier to
explain why President Hoover was
beaten than why - Governor Roose
velt was elected.
The depression, of course, was the
Hoover administration’s undoing.
It was due, anyway, as a war af
termath. Protective tariff excesses
may have hastened and accentuated
it. To farm distress, industrial un
employment was added.
The President tried to deal -with
the situation as an ordinary inteiwal
of business stringency, which would
pass in due course, but it did not
do so—possibly because it was worse
than any past stringency, just as
the war^^was a greater war; possibly
because it. was more deeply seated
as to its causes.
Washington, Nov. 13.—President
Hoover was pictured Saturday by
his campaign chairman as “one of
our greatest chief executives,” who
was “beaten only by forces of fate
beyond human control.”
Chairman Sanders, of the Repub
lican national committee, issued a
statement saying the final election
figures would show “that no defeat
ed candidate in hi. tory ever receiv
ed as great a popular tribute as
did Herbert Hoover last Tuesday.”
With about 8 per cent of the na
tion’s polling precincts still missing,
the Associated Press tabulations
showed the popular vote for Frank
lin D. Roosevelt was 21,081,540 and
for Hoover 14,929,660.
Four years ago Hobver received a
total of 21,392,190 votes to 15,016,-
443 for Alfred E. Smith, his Demo
cratic opponent. His plurality was
6,375,747 as compared with Roose
velt’s today of 6,151,880.
No Advancement.
Convict 1932—This is an old-fash
ioned prison. Why don’t they get
some up-to-date machinery ?
Convice 1923—What do you
mean ?
Convict 1932—Well, it’s just like
it was when I .was here 20 years
ago—we >till crack rocks by hand!
John J. Blaine, both the La Fol-
iettes and no one con say how
many tens of thousands of their
supporters.
P. T. A. WILL MEET
MONDAY EVENING, NOV. 21ST
It has been found necessary to
•change the regular meeting of the
■p. T. A. from thd fourth Monday
■evening to the third Monday, which
-will be November 21st, at 7:30, in
the high school auditorium. An in
teresting Thank.-giving program ha.s
been arranged and Rev. D. F. Wad
dell and Miss Elizabeth Baines will
be in charge. A cordial invitation is
extended to all parents and teachers
and others interested.
$300,000,000 TO BE. SPENT
IN ADVERTISING NEXT YEAR
Atlantic City, N. J., Nov. 15.—
Lee H. Bi’istol, New York, president
of the Association of National Ad
vertisers, said today that more than
Three Hundred Millions of Dollars
is expected to be spent in advertis
ing next year. He said.the outlay
tvould be approximately 33 per cent
over figures^ for this year.
More than , half the companies of
the association, he said, have re
ported increases in total sales vol
umes during the last three months.
Progressive-ism gained strength
■within the G. 0. P. as the times
tightened, until, by the campaign’s
opening, it had attained a potency
comparable to what it had in the
1912 campaign. Whereas the insur-
gent.s in that instance, however, fol
lowed Colonel Roosevelt in a third
party movement, defeating President
Taft and electing Woodrow Wilson,
on this occasion they went over di
rectly to the Democratic ticket-^
Senators Hiram W. Johnson, Bron
son Cutting, George W. Norris and
Prohibition also is now a rapidly
I declining issue, and, despite his
1 party’s platform, Mr. Hoover gener
ally was considered on the no-long-
er-predominantly-popular dry side of
it. - • -
Then, too, Mr. Hoover had the
burden of carrying the mistake in
calling out United 'States troops to
drive the B, E. F. from Washing
ton. No single campaigner against
him, it is safe to say, damaged his
cause as it was damaged during the
closing days of pre-election argu
ment by the revelations of Gen'. Pel
ham D. Glassford, the bonus .seek-
el's’- friendly enemy, as District of
Columbia police chief during their
stay in the capital.
Graham, Nov. 15.—Mrs. Elsie
Witherspoon Dollar, 43-year-old wife
of a local textile worker, this aft
ernoon was formally charged with
murdering two of her five children
and .'hooting a third, probably fa
tally, at her home on Whitsett av
enue early this morning.
“I killed them because I didn’t
want to leave them to the mercy
of this world,” Mrs. Dollar declared
when she ivas interviewed in the
Alamance county jail here. “I had
gone through hell since I married
my husband 21 years ago last Sep
tember 2, and I couldn’t stand it
any longer.”
Warren, 12, and Daphne, five,
were instantly killed when their
mother, according to her own state
ment, shot them through the head
as they lay asleep at their home.
Dara, seven, is in a critical condi
tion at Rainey hospital in Burling
ton with two bullet wounds through
her head. She has only a slight
chance to recover, according to the
attending physician. Dr. G. L. Car
rington.
Mrs. Dollar said she had planned
to kill her three younger children
and herself for years. Calmly and
unemotionally she told the dramatic
story of the triple shooting.
“I brooded all during the early
hours of la-t night on the torture
I was going through from my hus
band,” she said. “He was working
on the nigdit shift with our two
oldest children.
“Finally I decided that it wa.s
time to end it all. I didn’t feel like
God required me to leave my chil
dren alive; I believed they would
be better off dead. I had nowhere
to escape from my husband, and I
couldn’t take my babies with me
even if I could get away from him.
“About midnight I took my old
owl-head .38 caliber pistol out of
the drawer. I bought it in Durham
two years ago to kill myself.
“I walked into the room where
all three of the children were sleep
ing- together. I placed the pi.-tol
against Warren’s head and pulled
the trigger. He ne-ver moved after
I shot him. The others stirred a
little but they didn’t wake up.
“I realized after I shot him that
it ■was an awful, awful thing to do
I would have given anything to
bring him back to life. But I knew
that I had better go through with
it.
“About 1 o’clock I gathered
enough courage to go back into the
room. I placed the pistol barrel
against the temple of Daphne, my
baby daughter as she lay there
sleeping so peacefully. I shot her
twice.
“Again I ran into another room.
It was about 2:30 when I went back
and stood there looking at Dara,
sleeping beside her dead brother
and sister. I shot her, too, and then
placed the pistol barrel against my
o^wn head. In all I had eight bul
lets, and I had used five of them
on my children.
“Three times I pulled the trigger,
but all three of the remaining car
tridges were no good.
“I got my suitcase and started
up town to give myself up.”
Policemen Grover Rich and Her
bert Ausley said Mrs. Dollar ■walked
past their car near Court square'
about 3 o’clock this morning.
“We asked her where she ■was go
ing, and she said she wanted to be
locked up,” Patrolman Rich stated
today. “She said, that we woulo
find out this morning what she had
done.”
Mrs. Dollar said she walked the
mile from her home to the court
house at a brisk, pace. “It vv-as cold,
and I ■wanted them to lock me up
as soon as possible,!’ she declared.
“I told the officers they had better
carry me to jail if they wanted to
get paid for making- an arrest. At
first they said the jailer wouldn’t
lock me up because they didn’t have
any charges against me. But Mr.
1 Rich finally got out of the car and
walked to the jail with me.”
The officer and the woman walk
ed the block from the courthouse to
the county jail in silence through.
Former Selma Boy
Dies In Rex Hospital
Adrian Powell Godwin, Son of Capt.
J. E. Godwin of Selma, Died In
Raleigh Tuesday Following An
Operation For Appendicitis—Was
Exceptional Young Man.
Adrian Powell Godwin, aged 23,
and the eldest son of Capt. J. E.
Godwin, died in Rex Hospital at
Raleigh Tuesday afternoon about 3
o’clock, following an operation for
appendicitis. He had been suffering
for several days from .tonsilitis at
his home five miles east of Raleigh
where he was stricken with acute
appendicitis Monday night and tak
en to the hospital at noon Tuesday.
He lived about 10 minutes after the
operation when his heart failed him.
For the past five years he held a
responsible position with E. A.
Pearce & Co., stock brokers, and
was held in the highest esteem by
his employers. He was married in
June 1931, to MLss Beulah Wall of
near Garner, who survives him, to
gether with one child.
Mr. Godwin was the son of Capt.
J. E. Godwin and the late Mrs.
Godwin, . of Selma, and no young
man in this town was more highly
respected than he. He was indu.stri-
ous, strictly sober, honest and a
Christian gentleman.
Besides his wife and one child
are his father, Capt. J. E. God^win,
and the following brothers and sis
ters: Misses Glennie, Beulah, Viola
and Estelle Godwin and Fred, Er
nest and Erwin Godwin,
The funeral services will be helvl
at Ebenezer church, three mile.s
from Hialeah on Route 10, Thurs
day afternoon at 2 o’clock, the in
terment will take place in the church
graveyard.
Theatre Has Ne%v
Sound Equipment
Those who have visited the Car
olina Theatre in Selma during the
past fev7 day.s have been very fa
vorably impressed with the fact that
they could hear so distinctly .every
word of the actors in the plays be
ing staged on the screen.
Not only have the patrons of this
theatre been favorably impressed
with the sounds, being so audible,
but since the theatre has been un
der the present management the
character of the pictures being
shown are of a much higher order.
Some of the pictures shown recently
have been of a very highly educa
tional order. The picture Tuesday
night showing “How Life Begins”,
was true to life and carried a les
son ■which all young fathers and
mothers need to know.
NEW PASTOR FOR SELMA
FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. Walter Williams, of Prince- '
ton, the new pastor for the Selma
Free Will Baptist Church, will fill
his’ first appointment here at 11
o’clock next Sunday morning, and
at 7:30 o’clock Sunday night.
The public is cordially invited, td
hear him at both of these Services.
the bright moonlight. Jailer - Law
rence Goins was aroused. He un
locked the heavy steel gate and ad
mitted Mrs. Dollar.
“Here it is,” she said, handing
him a paper bag. He opened it and
found a pistol inside.
“I killed my children with it,”
she calmly -stated.
Little Dara was lying on the
crude iron bed beside her murdergil
brother and sister when the officers
arrived. “She was crying and callin.g
for her mother,” they said today.
“Ever since we were married my
husband has tortured me,” Mrs.
Dollar asserted. “He has stood over
me with a knife in ins hand. I left
him twice, but he hunted me up
and told me a pack of lies to per
suade me to come back to him.
“Two years ago I rented a room
in Durham and spent sis hours in
it ■with a gas jet turned wide open.
But the gas didn't liuit me a bit.-,
I..ater I went to a pa'wn shop and'
bou.glit the pistol I used to kill my
children last night.
“I know it was an awful, awful,
thing to do. I think, that in a way
I’m not to blame for it. though. The
children are much better off dead.”