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/ , \, T-jil Selma offers splen did living condi tions, pure water, diversified indus tries, varied re sources, equable climate and mod em city conven iences. Seima wel comes youl The J ohnstonian-Sun A JV.Mv Newsmter Containing The News And Views O/ Your Community And Surrou„dtng TerrUory^ The Johnstonian- Sun is dedicated to the best interest of Johnston coun ty and its sixty thousand people. Read the news and advertisements in its columns each week. NUMBER 29 VOL. 24. WOMEN WANT WAR LESS THAN DO MEN In A Newspaper Poll Takeii By The New York News, Wives, Mothers and Sweethearts Are More Than .5 Per Cent Strong er Against War Than Men. New York, July 13.—According to a newspaper poll taken by the ^ New York News, wives, mothers, sisters and sweethearts are more than 5 per cent stronger against war than their menfolk, a separate count of postcard votes by sexes revealed today as the New York State-wide referendum swuing into the home stretch. Bulging mail sacks containing 20,- 364 cards arrived at poll headquar ters today and brought to 144,124 the total tallied so far. The State-wide score stands: For war*. 43,359, or 30.1 per cent. Against war: 100,766, or 69.9 per cent. Evidence that women as a group ; ' are less warlike than men was pro vided by a double-check in two distant areas—the Fourth Assembly district in Queens and Oneida county. The women voted 81.9 per cent to 18.1 per cent against war, and the men 76.3 per cent to 23.7 per cent against war, a difference of 5.6 percentage points. The News tallied the votes of men and women by simply separating “Johns” from “Marys” on the address half of the double postcards sent out and by clipping corners from the women’s ballot cards. This explains why many women in St. Albans, Bay- side, Queens Village, Hollis and Douglaston, as well as in and around Utica, received clipped cards. Power Line Nears Completion YOUNG FARMER TAKES OWN LIFE Willie E. Crocker Shoots Self In Heart at Home of His Aunt Without Making Any Threat Or Giving Any Cause For Act. Smithfield Attorney Dies By Own Hand Shown above is pent ui n-w iiU,UUU \ulL I'ne the Caro lina Power and Light Company is building from its substation between Dunn and Erwin to the Cape Fear stream geneiating plant in Chatham county. The line, one of five the company is building in North and South Carolina, is part of the company s program of expansion to aid in the national defense piogram. Fort Bragg Office Is Spending $140 a Minute Fort Bragg, July 14. — Federal funds expended through the Fort Bragg finance office during the fiscal year ended June 30, totaled $74,074,- 478. Lieut. Col. L. W. Mattox, post of fice, announcing the figure today, said an average of $140 was spent every minute. The expenditures were for con struction work at both Fort Bragg and Camp Davis, civilian observation corps work in North Carolina, and the cost of selective service boards in the state, in addition to soldiers’ pay. COMMISSIONERS TO REDUCE TAX RATE Refunding of School Bonds Would Make Possible Seven Cents Reduction, Otherwise Rate Would Remain at $1.4r>. RED CROSS ASKING COUNTY FOR HELP War Relief Production Calls For Various Articles of Wearing Apparel. Willie E. Crocker, 31, one of the leading young tobacco growers in this part of Johnston coqnty, committed sucide early Sunday morning by fir ing a single shot through his heart. Crocker was at the home of his aunt. Miss Emma Crocker of Selma, Route 2, when he took his life. Coroner E. N. Booker said it was a clear case of suicide. -Crocker spent Saturday afternoon in Selma, and was reported to have been in good spirits at that time by people who contacted him. His aunt reported that when they arrived home Saturday night that she noticed a decided change in her nephew’s conduct. No cause has been given for the act. Crocker was alone when he took "his life. ; Surviving are his wife, the formei Miss Mildred Woodard of Princeton; his father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Crocker of Selma, Route 2; three brothers, Joe N. Crocker of Selma, Route 2; John I. Crocker of Bethlehem, Pa., and James P. Crock er of Washington, D. C.; one half- brother, Newland Crocker of Selma, Route 2; two sisters, Mrs. Oscar Creech of Selma, and Mrs. Harold Peedin of Selma, Route 2. Funeral services were conducted Monday from the graveside of the Crocker cemetery which is two miles east of Selma, at 3 o’clock in the af ternoon. The Rev. D. M. Clemmons of the Selma Baptist church wa* the officiating minister. Deed Was Gommitteed At Home of His Brother, In Meadow Township, Sunday Night About 6 O’clock — No Cause Given. Funeral services for P. G. Lee, a well known lawyer of Smith- field, who ended his life Sunday night at 6 o clock at the home of his brother. Jack Lee, in Meadow township, was held Monday afternoon at Rose and company’s funeral home in Benson Burial was in the family cemetery on the J. J. Rose homestead in Ben- — *tonville township. Takes Liee Sunday P. G. LEE Selma S'counts At Gamp Tuscarora This Week Scouts David S. Ball, Jr., L. R. Grant, Jr., and Dickey Broadwell are spending this week at Camp Tusca rora. Others Scouts from Selma are expected to go to Camp Tuscarora next week. While the county commissioners are reported to have not definitely decided on the tax rate for this year, it has been determined that it will be no higher than $1.38 as compared to $1.45 last year, we are informed. The 7c reduction in the rate is, however, contingent upon the refinancing of $20,000 in school bonds to become due during the year. There is some objection to this procedure, we under stand, of borrowing money to meet obligations of the county thus ex tending the debt of the county. But should the bonds be not refinanced, the rate will stand as last year at $1.45, it is reported. The county budget was tentatively set at $693,297.59 of which $197,- 924.92 is for general government pur poses; $135,203.05 for interest on county bonds, except school bonds, and $342,169.62 for schools, most of which goes for payment of currently due school bonds and interest. None of this money is applied for the op eration of the county schools, as this is paid by the state. The school bonds is the aggregate of all the bonds for building the various school buildings in the county. Johnston County’s quota for the American Red Cross calls for various and sundry articles of wearing ap parel, to he used for war relief pro duction, as follows: 12 Men’s sweaters 24 Women’s sweaters 48 Children’s sweaters 40 Knitted suits 48 Bed shirts 17 Operating gowns 50 Layettes 20 Toddler packs 12 Women’s cotton dresses 48 Girl’s cotton dresses 40 Boy’s shirts EXTRAS 24 Women’s skirts 24 Girl’s skirts 24 Caps or beanies 12 Men’s Socks 6 Afghans 12 Hospital pajamas. Mrs. Thel Hooks, Chairman Smithfield, N. C. Daylight Saving Time May Come To Us All YOUNG MAN KILLS SELF NEAR ERWIN Filling Station Operator, Whose Home Was In Princeton, Kills Self With Pistol. According to Coroner E. N. Booker, of Selma, Lee made a pallet in a room at the home of his brother and killed himself with a double-barrel _ shot gun, blowing the top of his head off. Nobody was in the house at the time. Lee, who was 37 years old, received his law training at the University of North Carolina and under the late Judge George P. Pell, of Raleigh. He was a candidate for the general as sembly four years ago and was de feated in the primary by a small mar-. gin. Dr., Booker and Sheriff Kirby Rose- investigated the case. No reason could be determined for the suicide. Surviving are his estranged wife? three brothers, Talmage Lee and George Lee, of the United States na vy; five sisters, Mrs. L. S. Butler, Misses Annie and Charlotte Lee, of Raleigh; Miss Irma Lee, of Philadel phia, Pa., and Miss Alice Utley Lee> of Benson. Secretary Of Navy Frank Knox Visits Marine Base In State Wins $1,000 Award La’w For Vaccination Of Dogs To Be Rigidly Enforced Many “New” Homes Dot “Terrapin Hill” They call Green street in Selma “Terrapin Hill”, and the many new homes surely do make it look spotted. The new homes of Floyd C. Price, Jr., Carl P. Worley, Ed Creech, Hun ter Price, Leon Woodruff and Joe Creech have revolutionized the sce nery in that part of town; besides the' repainting of Bill Nordan’s home, the remodeling and repainting of the J. R. Straughan old home site by Bill That Woodard, and the painting of the home of T. M. Eenoy, and the re modeling of the home' where Editor M. L. Stancil lives, which was re cently bought by Mr. T. M. Benoy; also the remodeling of the Richard son home by Hayden Wiggs, who has changed it into an apartment house. Dog owners in Johnston County who have not yet complied with the law requiring vaccination against rabies must comply by the end of this week or make themselves sub ject to prosecution. Township constables are aiding in the enforcement of the law this year and they promise that prosecu tions will begin next week. Dr. E. F. Boyette, county rabies inspector, will conduct a final vaccination roundup at his office in Smithfield Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. Daylight saving time for North Carolina, with all clocks and watches run forward for one hour beginning August 1, became a very strong prob ability Wednesday as Governor J. M. Broughton called upon mayors of all cities and county commissioners to cooperate with him in complying with a request from President Roose velt for institution of 3S*plmht saving time in order to save electrical ener gy needed for national defense. The Governor communicated by telephone Wednesday with the Gov ernors of Virginia, South Carolina and Tennessee, all of whom assured him they were taking similar steps for voluntary observance of daylight saving time in their respective states. Before communicating with the other governors, Broughton sought and ob tained a ruling from Attorney Gen eral Harry McMullen as to the Gov ernor’s power to order observance of daylight saving time by proclamation. The Attorney General ruled inform ally that there is no such power. Rev. L. H. Watson 111 At His Home Rev. W. H. Watson is ill at his home here suffering from a sciatic nerve trouble in his right hip. He has been confined to his home foi the past several days but is con valescing nicely and it is hoped that he will be able to be out again soon. State Will Give Mercy Plane To Britain; County Quota $500 Miss Ellen Singleton won a $1,000 award from the Sou thern Society of New York for her accomplishment in piano. Miss Singleton is the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. L. T. Singleton of Moyock. Her father was pastor of the Selma Methodist church for four years, and during that time Miss Singleton _ was sponsor for the Selma Kiwan- is club. She studied under Mark Hoffman while attend ing Greensboro College. She recently has been a pupil of Harold Morris in New York City. Merchants Praised For Putting Legion Games On Air Just prior to the starting of the Selma-Wilson game here Wednesday, H. H. Lowry, of The Johnstonian- Sun, was introduced by Mr. Wanna- maker, announcer for WGTM. Mr. Lowry, in a brief talk, thanked the Selma merchants and professional men for making it possible for the games played in Selma to be broad cast over Station WGTM in Wilson. He also paid a tribute, to the officials of WGTM for the splendid reception and the very fine cooperation given our business men. In his introduction of Mr. Lowry, Mr. Wannamaker said: “He is no stranger to WGTM, having Ibeen on the air many times before.” Johnston county is getting ready to do its part in a whirlwind, state--v\dde financial campaign to secure approx imately $76,000 for the purchase of L airplane ambulance for Great Britain—a gift from the citizens of North Carolina to the people of Eng land. - The money collected in Johnston county will go into a central Old North State Fund set up to pay for the big mercy ship. During the next two weeks a committe under the leadership of Mrsi Norman Shepard of Smithfield will conduct a county wide solicitation of funds; and every Johnstonian is urged to support the cause to the best of his ability. Mem bers of the county advisory commit tee who are working with Mrs. Shep ard are: J. B. Benton, Benson; Judge F. H. Brooks, Smithfield; Dr. R. E. Earp, Selma; R. P. Holding, Smithfield; Al- ,bert Noble, Smithfield; Mrs. Hugh M. Page, Clayton; James Pool, Smith- field; Mrs. Edw. W. Pou, Smithfield; Miss Mattie Pou, Smithfield; and H. V. Rose, Smithfield. The Old North State Fund, headed by Governor J. Melville Broughton as honorary chairman, and Judge P. 0. Bowman, prominent attorney of Chapel Hill, as state chairman, was organized in response to Great Brit ain’s pressing needs for additional ambulance equipment. The plane se lected for, a gift to England is an amphibian, twin-motored Grumman fitted with special ambulance facili ties accommodating four stretcher and two sitting cases, pilot, medical attendant, or co-pilot. It is this type of airplane that the British-American Ambulance Corps recommends as best suited to England’s present needs. Committee for Selma are: Wm. I. Godwin, Carl P. Worley and Dr. R. E. Earp. Mrs. Norman C. Shepard, of Smithfield, is County Chairman. Funeral services for Elton Lee Wells, who ended his life with a .38 pistol Thursday morning, were held at the home of a relative in Prince ton Friday afternoon. The young man was working at Glover’s filling station at the Cape Fear river bridge, near Erwin, at the time he sent a steel jacket bullet through his head, the bullet striking the wall of the filling station after passing through his head and drop ping into a shoe box. Friends of the boy say that he put a quarter in the “juke box” and went into the back room. Shortly they heard a loud noise , which they thought was a drink crate or a box falling. It happened that one of them had to go into the ante-room to get some change. It was then that they found him dying from the wound. He was rushed to the Harnett County Hospital in Dunn, where he died about two hours later. No one seemed to know any reason for the act save worry over his status as a draftee. He had sent his ques- tionaire back to the Dunn board but had not received his classification. He had suffered from a broken arm re cently and had just taken the sling off the day before. He was reported to have said that he didn’t care whether he lived or not. Just five weeks ago he was at home in Princeton. He was reported to have been in the best of spirits at that time. Not any of his people, in cluding his father, had seen him since. The body was taken to the home of his aunt, Mrs. Bettie Strickland, in Princeton, where the funeral ser vices were held. Interment took place in the Princeton cemetery. Surviving are his father, Luther Wells, of Princeton; three brothers and three sisters. Col. Frank Knox, secretary of the United States Navy, flew from Washington City to New Bern Wed nesday morning in one hour and 3fli minutes in a two-motored Amacosta transport plane. He was accompanied by Congressman Barden and high Marine and Navy officials. , Secretary Knox came to North Carolina on an inspection tour of the Eastern North Carolina Marine bases now under construction. Seen and Heard Along THE MAINDRAG J =By H. H. L. = Roger Strickland Is Kiwanis Speaker The speaker who was scheduled to address the Selma Kiwanis club on last Thursday night was unable to fill his engagement, but Program Chairman Leon Brown refused to let the club down without a program and introduced Roger Strickland as pinch hitter for the scheduled speak er. Mr. Strickland kept his audience in a roar of laughter with his humor ous fish stories. He then gave way to Raleigh Griffin who came back at the ■ speaker with a defensive blow at the speaker for certain ref erences made to him while on a re cent fishing expedition down East. The Kiwanians enjoyed the bout from both sides, and this brought Kiwanian Brown’s program to an end. The first ball game ever broadcast from Selma was heard over Station W. G. T. M. Monday—and it came in good, according to reports from all over this section — COACH EARL FUNDERBURK’S mother, who lives in Wadesboro, said she heard every play and wired her son her congrat ulations—EARL said: “I hope she . didn’t hear the broadcast Tuesday,” when his proteges lost to Wilson “If she did,” continued EARL, “it would be just like her to cry”—W. G. T. M. did a fine job Monday and Wednes day—the games at Wilson are also broadcast — the merchants and professional men of Seima sponsored the broadcasts from here—that was a fine thing those men did for the Sel ma Juniors last night — by giving them a big barbecue chicken dinner at the American Legion hut — the boys had a great time and each one put away half a chicken — GER TRUDE STRAUGHAN, MAGGIE CHAMBLEE, FAY WHITE and MAYORESS HENRY did their part in “rooting” for the team Monday and Wednesday—GERTRUDE said she didn’t eat a bite of supper Mon day night and FAY said she believed she would have to call in a throat specialist—go to it, girls, that’s what it takes to win a ball game — never theless, we have a good joke on these ladies, when the Selmaites arrived in Wilson Tuesday no Coca-Colas were on sale at the- stadium, so MAGGIE got in her car and went “up town” after that popular beverage, but lo, and behold, when they returned with a big box full of dopes the cold drink stand had opened up—“gosh, I’m sor ry we didn’t get here sooner,” the op erator of the stand told us—Jupiter Pluvius was exceedingly kind to us here and Wilson, just a light sprinkle, not enough to stop the game — the Editor of The Johnstonian-Sun was too busy putting a new roof on his home to go to Wilson, and we don’t blame him, for we might have had another gully washer, and he would have been needed at home—^he is an- I other real fan.
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