SELMA
HAS A $20,000
WEEKLY PAY-ROLL
VOL, 16
THE JOHN
THE JOHNSTONIAN AND JOHNSTON COUNTY SUN CONSOLIDATED
SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1933.
Zangara Sentenced To
80 Years In Penitentiary
'i'wenty Years F^ach For Assault
With Intent To Commit Murder
Upon President-elect and Three
Others; Charges Growing Out of
Serious Wounds Inflicted Upon
Mayor Cermak and Mrs. Gill Held
in Abeyance; Possibility of Mur
der Count Involving Capital
Punishment Still Remains, But
Mayor Cerraak’s Doctors Feel
That His Recovery Is Now Rea
sonably Certain; Zangara Presents
Spectacular and Puzzling Figure
In Court.
Miami, Fla., Feb. 20.—As scorn
ful of the law as when he tried
with fanatical zeal to assassinate
President-elect Franklin D. Roose
velt last Wednesday night, Giuseppe
Zangara today pleaded guilty to
four counts of attempt to murder
ajid was ‘sentenced to 80 years.
Zangara is 33. His sentences of
20 years in each case, running con
secutively, constitute life imprison
ment at Raiford state prison or
hard labor in the Florida road
camps.
However, should Mayor Anton
Cermak, of Chicago, or Mrs. Joe H.
Gill, prominent Miami society wo
man, die of the wounds they receiv
ed when spectators deflected Zan-
gara’s aim at Mr. Roosevelt, the
state will seek a first degree mur
der indiatment and the death penal-
'ty.
Today’s sentences were for try
ing to kill the President- elect, Rus
sell Caldwell, Cocoanut Grove, Fla.,
Miss Margaret Kruis, Newark, N.
J., and W. J. Sinnott, New York
policeman and bodyguard to Mr.
Roosevelt. The latter three were
.slightly wounded by the bullets Zan-
gara’s pistol sprayed into the crowd
which surrounded the car occupied
' by the President-elect in Bay Front
Park.
Insists on Guilt. *
Louis Twyman, defense coun.sel,
■who entered Zangar’s guilty pleas,
said his client had insisted he was
guilty.
“He says. ‘No no, I am not crazy,
•when we asked him. if he think-s he
is insane,” Twyman told the court.
Taking the witness chair, uncon
cernedly, Zangar gave stomach.pains
and hatred of capitalists as the
reasons for his desire to kill Mr
Roosevelt.
“I suffer all time from my stom
ach,” Zangara told Judge E. C.' Col
lins. “I no like the way capitalists
take all money. When I read in pa
per the President come here, I de
cide to kill him.
“I decide to kill him and make
him suffer. I want to make it 50-50.
Since my stomach hurt I get even
with capitalists by kill the President.
My stomach hurt long time.
Zangara told the court he did not
care whether he lived or not.
“I seeck all time,” he said. “I
thing just maybe cops kill me if I
kill President.
“Somebody hit my arm when I
t.Ey it.
“They fools! They should let me
kill him.”
The prisoner turned as he was
led from the court room, held up
eight fingers, and asked Judge Col
lins how many years he had been
sentenced to serve.
The judge nodded at the uplifted
fingers.
“Pour times twenty is eighty,”
Zangara shouted. “Oh, judge, don’t
be stingy. Give me a hundred years.” ;
Laughing in evident amusement,
Zangara then fell in with his guar^
and was led back into his cell.
He will be held pending outcome
of the injuries of Mayor Cermak
and Mrs. Gill.
Zangara’s Fate To
Await Developments
state Attorney Hawthorne, of Fla.,
Says That So Long As Neither
Of The Victims Dies Zangara Will
Be Subject Only To Action Of
Criminal Court On Charges Of
Attempt To Murder.
Mr. J. U. Oliver
Died This Morning
Passed Away At Home of His Sister,
Mrs. J. C. Diehl—III Only Five
Days—Funeral From the Home
Friday .Morning at 10 O’clock—
Interment In Family Burying
Ground.
Congress Will Let
States Settle Repeal
I Burns Is Arrested
In Fatal Accident
House Votes 289 To 121
Re- I Coroner’s Jury Holds Dunn
peal of 13-Year Old Constitution
al Amendment After Brief But
Fervid Debate That Roused The
Packed Galleries; Action By
House Follows Senate Vote To
Submit Repealer To States, 36 Of
Which Must Approve To Put New
Amendment Into Effect.
Responsible For Death of Preston
Blackman.
James U. Oliver died at the home |
of his sister, Mrs. John C. 'Diehl, in I
Washing-ton, Feb. 20—The 13-
Selina, this morning at 5 o’clock jyear old constitutional amendment
Miami, Fla., Feb. 17.—State At
torney N. Vernon Hawthorne today
called the Dade county grand jury
into special session of Giuseppe
Zangara, who attempted to shoot
President Elect Roosevelt should
either Mayor Anton J. Cermak of
Chicago or Mrs; Joe H. Gill of
Miami, two of hi.s bullea victims,
succumb.
Hawthorne said the jury could
not under Florida law take indict
ing actions unless one of the victims
died and made the case one of
capital crime. Such an indictment
would charge murder in the first
degree, Hawthorne said.
So lon^as neither of the victims
dies Zangara ■will be subject only
to action of the Dade county crimin
al court on charges of. attempt to
i murder.
i after five day.s’ illne.-s of pneumonia.
Mr. Oliver was a son of the late
Mr. and Mrs.y James U. Oliver and
was born and reared at the old
home place between Selma and Pine
Level. He was 37 years old and un
married, Surviving are two brothers.
Dr. A. S. Oliver, of Raleigh, and
R. T. Oliver, of Pine Level, and one
sister, Mrs. J. C. Diehl, of Selma.
The funeral services will be held
from the home of his sister tomor
row morning at 10 o’clock, conduct
ed by Rev. L. T. Singleton, pastor
of the Edgerton Memorial Methodist
church, and the interment will take
place in the family burying ground
near Pine Level.
Snakes Found In Dog
Bitten Last June
Mr. J. S. Stancil who lives in the
Raines Cross Roads section in Beau-
lah Township, Johnston county, was
a visitor to the office of the John-
stonian-Sun Tuesday morning and
brought with him two snakes seal
ed up in a fruit jar. Mr. Stancil
then related one of the most inter
esting snake stories that we have
ever heard. He said that spine time
about the first of June he had a
dog to get bitten by a poisonous
snake on the left jaw, and that for
several ■ days after'wards the dog’s
head was swollen almost double it-'
normal size, but that it later healed
up and the dog’ was apparently as
well as ever until some four or five
days ago when he began to swell
and died last Monday. Remembering
similar experiences by his brother,
Mr. Haiwey Stancil, he .said he cut
the dog’ open and found two snakes
clinging to the dog’s liver which had
been almost completely eaten by
the.se repitles. One of these snakes
measures 43 inches in length and
the other 38 inches in length. They
are just a little larger than an
ordinary led pencil and were still
alive when presented to us Tuesday
morning. All of our local people
here who have visited our office to
see these snakes declare that they
have never witnessed anything like
it before. '
Miss Winnie Rickett To Speak
At Selma Baptist Church
Selma’s Pay Roll Sign
Makes Traveler Bout Face
The Selma Parent Teachers Asso
ciation will meet Monday night,
February 27th.
Mrs. C. W. Scales and Miss Eliz
abeth Whitaker will put on a
‘Founders Day” program at this
meeting -of the association, and an
enjoyable evening is assured. Time,
7 ;30 P. M. Public invited.
A few days ago two . traveling
men parked their cars near each
other on one of Selma’s main
streets. One of these men noticed
that the other’s outer casing ’was
badly cut and the inner tubing was
threatening to blow. out. He im
mediately called his contemporary’s
attention to this fact, who in turn
questioned a colored man who was
riding with him as to how it hap
pened. The colored man made this
reply: “Boss, you did it you’s seif
■when you looked up at dat $20,-
OOO weekly pay roll sign across de
highway you’se turned round so
fast dat de car was runnin’ on de
two rims and daft what done it.”
Special services at the Selma
Baptist church next Sunday even
ing at 7 o’clock. Miss Winnie Ricket,
State Baptist Young People’s Secre
tary, will be the pmcipal speaker.
This service •will be under the
direction of the local B. Y. P. U.
Special music will be furnished. Both
the young and older people are urg
ed to attend this service. Mrs. Chas.
Stephenson, the president of the
local union, will have the service
in charge.
Miss Ricket is a very interesting
speaker, so don’t fail to hear her.
Hostess To Sunday School Class.
Miss Lena Duggins was hostess
to the members of her ■ Sunday
school class at her home on Tues
day evening. Games were played and
several contests were greatly en
joyed. The hostess served a deli
cious sweet course. Just before the
party the teacher, Prof. 0. A. Tut
tle, took the class to the basket ball
game, played between Micro and
Selma.
The Pitt County Farmers’ Ex
change handled $41,007.04 worth of
farm products last year and has
$1,191.08 on hand in cash and equip
ment. A stock dividend of 6 percent
was paid to members.
Mr. Norkett Es
capes Serious Injury
While coming- from Laurinburg
six miles beyond Fayetteville on
Route 24, Wednesday afternoon,
Mr, J. E. Norket, of the Lizzie Cot
ton Mill here, had a very narrow
escape from serious injury and
possible death when his automobile,
a new Desota Six, wa- completely
demoU.shed.
Mr. Norket, in relating the story
to us, said that he was accompa
nied by Mr. J. R. Austin, a prom-
irlSit fai’mer of Mecklenburg coun
ty, who is visiting him, and as
they neared a bridge be'uind a wo-
rtian driving a Packard car, the
woman apparently slowed down
very suddenly at the brdge’s ap
proach. He said that he threw on
his breaks so suddenly that his
car skidded the’ rear end striking
the abutment to the bridge. It then
continued on across the bridge with
a side movement and landed acros.s
the bridge completely demolished.
Mr. j^ustin was thrown to the
ground but sustained only slight in
juries. Mr. Norket escaped unhurt.
for national prohibition went back
to the states for a new decision
today, on a 289 to 121 vote in the
House of Representatives.
Duplicating the Senate action
la-t week, when it favored submis
sion of a repeal amendment to state
conventions by a 63 to 23 vote, the
House acted before being in session
an hour and a half, cheered on by
part of the galleries and in the
face of ominous silence on the part
of others there. The latter re
presented many of the prohibition
organizattions, which served notce
at once through the Anti-Saloon
League that the issue would be
“fought to a finish in state capitals.”
The vote was fifteen more than
the two-thirds required.
Speaker John N. Garner was
greeted with cheers and applause on
announcing the outcome.
WRECK ON HIGHWAY NO.
10 NEAR PRINCETON
Mr. E. J. Sasser and family, re
turning to Selma from Mt. Olive
Sunday evening about 7 o’clock
when meeting a car which blinded
him so that he did not see a wagon
he was overtaking until his car had
■struck the rear end. of the wagon,
knocking a Mrs. Edwards onto the
paved road and breaking her collar
bone. There was no lights on the
wagon, it is alleged, and no blame
was attached to Mr. Sas.ser who
took Mrs. Edwards and her hu.sband
to the Johnston County Hospital.
At this time the extent of her in-
juries. ..are - not- known
Writes From Panama
Sqt. Sidney Price who is stationed
in Panama has written asking that
the Johnstonian-Sun be sent to him.
He is a Selma boy and likes to keep
in touch with his friends and the
old home town. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Price of this
city and has been stationed in
Panama for some time.
Change Bank Personnel.
Mr. Raleigh Griffin, of Woodland,
N. C., who was a former clerk
in the Branch Banking and Trust
company here, has recently been
put in full charge of the bank’s
affairs.
Mrs. Paul Warren, who has serv
ed as clerk in the bank for a long
time, and whose services have met
with public approval because of her
many kind and courteous acts to
ward the public, has been retarded
from further service with this bank.
On behalf of the public, we feel
prompted to express to Mrs. War
ren a word of appreciation for her
efficient services to the public while
with this institution.
BASKETBALL NEWS
Friday night the Selma High
School basketball team subdued the
Smithfield team by the score of
23-6. Selma got’ the lead from the
opening tipoff and were never head
ed throughout the game. The usual
good work of Parrish and Foster
featured for Selma, while ,the work
of Grimes and Ennis were the most
outstanding for Smithfield. The local
team has only been defeated but
once this season. Recently Clayton
was 'defeated 50-7, Four Oaks 20-16
and Micro 20.18.
In a fast basketball game Friday
night Selma Allstars defeated the
Smithfield Allstars by the score of
25-21 on the local court! The Selma
team was composed of former high
school and present high school stars
while the Smithfield team had Joe
Ellington, former Wake Forest Col
lege player and two other players
who starred with Oak Ridge a few
seasons ago. Lloyd Foster was the
shining light for the local quint,
while Jim Kirkman and Ramie
Davis did the best work for Smith-
field.
A. C. Grumpier Is
Seriously Injured
Last Monday afternoon while
dismantling the remains of the
old store building on Railrioad street
belonging- to the J. H. Parkers heirs,
A. C. Crumpler was seriously in
jured when the frame skeleton of
the building collapsed and fell upon
him. His chest was crushed, one leg
and one arm broken. He was imme
diately removed to the Johnston
county hospital where he was given
all possible medical assistance.
Mr. Crumpler was so seriously in
jured that but little hope is held
for his recovery, but the last re
ports we had from the hospital
said that he was still living.
Smithfield, Feb. 19.—Coroner
James H. Kirkman was called upon
Saturday to empanel a jury and
pass upon the cause of the death
of Preston Blackman, a farmer re
siding in Ingrams town.ship.
The evidence tended to show that
the deceased was struck by an au
tomobile driven Friday night “in a
carele.=s, reckless and indifferent
manner, and on the left-hand side
of the road in the direction the
car was moving,” and in addition
to the foregoing verdict, the jury
found this automobile was being
operated at the time by Archie
Burns.
The accident occurred in Four
Oaks Friday night, while the de
ceased was walking along the higli-
way in front of the chair factory.
The deceased was about 50 years of
age, was married and leaves a
wife and two sons'. Burns is about
30 years of age and he resides in
Dunn.
Interesting Items
From Smithfield
Johnston county is scheduled for
four weeks of Superior Court with
out any intermission. A two weeks
Civil term opened la.st Monday with
Judge H. A. Grady on the bench.
It is expected that Judge J. P. Friz-
elle of Snow Hill will take charge
next week and after finishing the
civil term he will j)reside over the
term for the trial of Criminal cases
which is to run through the fol
lowing two weeks.
Moving’ To Selma
There are many sig-.ns showing
clearly that the people of Johnston
county have not yet decided to quit
farming. Regardle.'s of the existing
depression they are sowing more
and larger tobacco beds than usual,
and some are building new barns.
There is said to be an unusual
demand for mules this season. Sher
iff R. U. Barber, who has been,
handling live stock for several years;
in speaking of the matter Tue.sday
said that there had been very little
change in prices in the last three
years, and that a man could sell
all the mules this season that he
could buy and pay for.
Mr. C. C. Pitch who has charge
of the Wet Wash Laundry of Selma,
is moving his family here from
Hamlet, N. C. He has as his as
sociate in the business Mr. E. A.
Beck, al-o of Hamlet, who expects
to move his family to Selma within
the next few weeks. We welcome
these new comers to our town and
wish for them a successful venture
in the Laundry business here.
SUPERIOR COURT
FOR TRIAL OF CIVIL
ACTION
Revival Meeting At
Little Greek Ghurch
A series of revival meting.s began
at Little Creek Pentecostal Holi
ness church on Sunday, February
19th ,and are continuing through
this week, and probably longer.
These services are being conducted
by Rev. Walter Williams of Selma,
route 2. Services each night at
7:30. Public cordially invited.
Tax Payers Mass
Meeting Is Galled
You are urgently requested to
meet at a county-wide Mass Meet
ing of the tax payers of Johnston
County at the Court House in
Smithfield, on Tuesday night, Feb
ruary 28, at 7:30 o’clock, for the
purpose of reorganizing the Tax
Payers’ League and to draft such
resolutions for tax relief as the
meeting may deem necessary to pre
sent to the State Legislature, now
in session in Raleigh.
Your presence at this meeting
may mean considerable tax relief
to you, so don’t fail to come and
help us. Bring every tax payer you
can with you. This is urgent, so
don’t fail to be there Tuesday night
at 7:30.
THE TAX PAYERS LEAGUE OF
BEULAH TOWNSHIP.
J. C. GRADY, Chairman.
m
Mrs. S. D. Brown has been con
fined to her room with “flu”, but
we are glad to say she is out again.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Creech and
children, carrol and Christeen from
Sanders Chapel section, spent last
Sunday with', Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Denning,
Monday, February 20.
Hon. Henry A. Gi’ady, a Judge
of Superior Court of North Caro
lina, presiding.
Jurors for 1st Week
A.- J._ Futrell, J. -V. Woodard, B.
E. Stallings, R. L. Parker, W. A.
Braswell, W. H. Crocker, J. A.
Weeks, L. Shepard Penny, H. E.
Weeks, W. V. Blackman, W. A,
Nordan, J. M. Johnson, Frank Rich-
ard.son, D. F. Thompson, S. A.
Mathews, M. G. Putrell, George Hol
land, Walter K. Eason, R. L. Hill,
Jr., B. B. Batten, Clarence Weeks,
D. H. Sanders, Jr., J. J. Sander's,
James L. Peedin.
Jurors for 2nd. Week
Loomi.s Vinson, A. P. Holt, Jr.,
Kyle Stephenson, G. H. Wall, Al
bert Casey, L. A. Smith, W. R.
Flowers, Fred E. Lee, James H.
Watson, Henry Kemp, P. B. Chamb-
lee, W. N. Hood, M. F. Mathews,
Luther R. Johnson, L. F. Barnes,
J. P. Rains, G. B. Smith, L. L.
Painter, Julius B. Lee, Willie E.
Garner, Joe E. Creech, W. A. Hin
ton, J. M. Driver, J. M. Wall.
Jurors excused: S. A. Mathews,
deaf and H. E. Weeks, ill.
Cases Had
Dr. V. A. Davidian, vs J. W.
Fitzgerald. Action on an account.
Jury finds that both Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Fitzgerald are each indebted
to Dr. Davidian $150.00 wth inter
est from August 1st 1931.
Star Manufacturing Co., vs, Town
of Benson. Consent judgment. Plain
tiff to pay cost.
Retta Gower Bradley vs Earl
Bradley. Action for divorce, adultery
being the grounds sued upon. De
fendant found guilty by jury df
comi-niting adultery.
Tuesday, February 21.
Citizens Bank and Trust Co,, vs
Earnest’ P. Allen. Action on ac
count.
J. E. Wilson vs. J. V. Allen. Ac
tion on account for mules sold and
delivered.
Mr. Hugh M. Au-tin made an in
teresting talk at the Kiwanis club
last Thursday.
Mr. Austin who is a member of
the enterprising clothing firm of^
Austin & Hamilton, took for his sub
ject “A Suit of Clothes.” He trac
ed it all the way from the sheepc
to the finished product in the store,
showing the many changes' that it
undergoes, and the great amount of
handling that it gets between the
sheep and the weaver.
He estimates that a dollar spent
for clothing at his store benefits
not less than one thousand people.
It help.s the farmer who produces
the wool, and helps to keep the
woolen mills, dye factories, tailoring
shops, railroads, steamboat lines,
traveling .salesmen, merchants, and
everybody connected with them
profitably employed.
The Kiwanians will hold their
meeting on Thur.sday of this week
with the senior cla-s in the school
building and will award prizes for
the best essays on the life of Abra
ham Lincoln.
Bennie Coats, a well known far
mer and a .son of Ben A. Coats of
the western section of Elevation
township, was a-saulted and serious
ly injured on the Hunter road last
Saturday night.
A negro named Roosevelt Fellows,
was reported to have committed the
crime. Fellows was arrested and giv
en a hearing before Joel A. John
son, Justice of the Peace, last Mon
day. He- was bound over to court,
and his bond was fixed at $200.09.
Being unable to make the bond, be
was lodged in jail.
Full particulars of the unfortu
nate affair are not available here,
but it is reported that Coats was,
hit on the head with an automobile
jack, and that there is some doubt
about his recovery.
Seen Along The
MAIN DRAG
(BY H. H. L.)
Proceedings County
Recorder’s Court
Tuesday, February 21.
State vs Tim Westbrook, white
farmer, aged 55. Violation prohibi
tion law. Guilty possession 1 quart
whiskey. Fined $5.00 and cost,
State vs John Bell, colored labor
er, aged 30. Receiving stolen chick
ens, value less than $20.00. Know
ing them to have been stolen. Guilty.
Defendant given 3 months in jail
and assigned to work on county
roads.
State vs Preston Peedin, white lab
orer, aged 25. Carrying concealed
weapon. Not guilty.
State vs Preston Peedin, white
and Reva Boon, ’white, fornication
and adultery. Both defendants guilty.
ORIN A. TUTTLE sporting new
Chewy. Look out, girls—ANABEL
JONES and ELIZABETH WHITAK
ER Fording in the rain to Wilson
on shopping expedition—MILDRED
PPIRKINS leaving for Richmond,
Virginia, for week-end visit—COUN
TY AGENT SLACK shaking hands
with Selmaites—BOYD COOK buy
ing ducks for his duck farm—MA
BEL JEFFREYS with her tin pan.
^MITHFIELD CITIZEN: “They
Tell me that when the sirene blows
in Selma everybody lights out for
SMITHFIELD, the fire truck
and all”—Dozens of people visit
Johnstonian-Sun office to see the
two snakes taken from a dog that
was bitten by a snake six months
ago— TORE STRICKLAND wins the
first “pot” at Woodard’s Drug Store;
MAYOR WASH HARE shaking
hands with his friend.s, the May
election is not far off^MARY
BOOKER visits Maindrag with sev-
-era} good looking Pine Level teach
ers. Come again, girls—ELIZABETH!
HILL is all smiles this week. Char
lotte is contemplating a visit to
Selma this week-end.
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