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NUMBER 4
VOL. 25
Selma Red Cross War
Relief Fund Now $372
If You Have Not Contributed To
This Worthy Cause See Ral
eigh Griffin At Branch Bank;
Mayor Henry at Henry & Nor-
dan’s Store, or M. L. Stancil
at Johnstonian-Sun Office.
The following people and business
concerns in Selma and commimity
have made contributions to the Red
Cross War Relief Fund:
SELMA WOMAN GETS
LETTER FROM SON
Third Victim Dies
In County Hospital
Grady Lee, 28-Year-Old Ingrafts
Township Farmer, Succumbs
In Johnston County Hospital
On Friday Morning From
Gunshot Wounds Inflicted By
Herman Allen On Thursday.
Charlie Talton, $1.00, Henry & Nor-
dan, $5.00, Floyd C. Price & Son,
$12.50, Albert Eason, $1.00, Albert
Brown 25c, Dr. Will H. Lassiter, $5.00,
Norton’s 5c to $5 Store, 50c, A. K.
Eason, $1.00, R. Britt, $1.00, S. M.
Parker, $5.00, C. M. Ketchey, $1.00,
H. L. Watson $1.00, V. Cooper $1.00,
J. A. Palmer $1.00, Roland Smith 25c,
H. C. Denning 50c, D. Johnson $1.00,
Dr. R. M. Blackman $2.00, J. N.
Wiggs $2.50, Mrs. J. N. Wiggs $2.50,
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Woodard $5.00,
P. H. Starling $1.00, Mrs. W. L. Stan
field 50c, Hazel Denning 5c, Pay and
Save Market $1.00, R. P. Oliver $1.00,
J. Q. A. Jeffreys $5.00, Joe Wiggs,
Pine Level 25c, J. M. Mitchell 5c, Ver
non Wiggs 10c, Tom Ray 50c, Wilbert
Anderson 25c, Luby Moore, Pine Lev
el, 25c, Eunice Swain 10c, John
George 19c, Tom Abdalla 25c, Cecil
Corbett 10c, Murray Lane 25c, Mrs.
Omega Ray $1.00, R. L. Ray $1.00,
Fuller Suber 50c, T. O. Wiggs $1.00,
F. & P. Auto Parts 50c, Gregory’s
5 & 10c Store $2.00, H. V. Gaskill
$1.00, Mrs. Elmer Brown 25c, Mrs.
Fannie Cameron $1.00, Mrs. B. F.
Prootor 50c, W. E. Jones $1.00, Tal-
mage Corbett $1.00, Hazel Lane $1.00,
Vanity Fair Beauty Shop 50c, Lan^-
ley’s Jewelrv Store $1.00, Nadell
Creech 25c, Harold Hogue 25c, Wood-
ai'd & Creech Drug Co., $5.00, W. R.
Smith $1.00, Mrs. W. R. Smith $1.00,
J. C. Avery $5.00, Dr. Oliver $2.00,
G C. Hinton $1.00, Newton Branch
$1.00, J. C. Diehl $1.00, George Ab
dalla $1.00, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Kor-
negay $6.00, Carolina Beauty Nook
$1.00, Roy Smith $1.00, Mrs. Annie
H. Vick $2.00, Novelle Smith $1.50,
Percy Strickland 50c, R. A. Jones
$i-o6,
C H Brown $1.00, Carolina Ser
vice & Parts Co. $1.00, Herbert Ward
$100 J. H. Stancil $1.00, Robert
Youngblood 50c, Cecil Roe, Pine Lev
el 50c, Ann Ashworth 10c, Woodruft
&’Canaday $1.00, Paul McMillan 50c,
Davis Store 50c, Alvin Brown 2oc,
Worley’s Beverages $25.00, Southern
Cotton Oil Co., $15.00, E. G. Hobbs
$100 J V. Chamblee $1.00, South
Irn Bell T. & T. Co. $5.00, Mr and
Mrs. H. E. Earp $1.00, Mrs. N. G.
Blackman 60c, Mr. and Mrs. A. .
Driver $1.00, Mr. and Mrs. W. P.
Aycock $1.00, Mrs. J. B. Person $10,
James Person $10.00, Rev. and Mrs,
D. M. Clemmons $2.00,
R P. Brown $3.00, John W. Brown
.$2.00, Don Brown $1.00, Miss Bessie
Rose $1.00, Mrs. A. J. Rose $1.00,
Luther Corbett $1.00, Hubert Moore
10c, Leslie Parrish 6c, John Blizzard
10c', Robert Green 26c, H. W. Mat
thews 10c, Mrs. H. H. Pilkington 25c,
IMrs. J. D. Barnes $1.00, H. B. Carter
50c, Leon Brown $1.00, Miss Barnes
50c, Mrs. Rosa Worley $1.00, O. L.
Walker $2.00, a friend 25c, J. P. Ea
son $1.00, PlQpsant Plain Church
55 50
" Raleigh .Griffin $1.00, Louis Abdalla
$2.00, Hunter Price $1.00, Miss Anna
belle Flowers 50c, C. A. Bailey $1.00,
Ed Creech $2.00, Miss Cassie Abdalla
$100 M. L. Stancil $3.00, Alton
Stancil $1.00, W. H. Call $5.00. Mrs
Inez Brietz $1.00, Mrs. Roger Strick.
land 60c, Mrs. F. C. Price, Jr, 50c,
Jliss Julia Grant $1.00.
M. R. Wall $1.00, W. D. Perkins
§1 00 Olivia Adams $1.00, Mr. Mitch-
iner $1.00, Herbert Ward $1.00, Mr.
and Mrs. L. T. Parker $1.00, Mr. and
Mrs. Rudolph Howell $1-00, Mr. and
JIrs. William T. Woodard, Jr. $1.00,
Mrs. W. T. Woodard, Sr. $1.00, Miss
Ruth Avery 60c.
The following letter has been re
ceived by Mrs. Rich Oliver of Selma,
from her son, Charlie Oliver, who is
helping to defend the Stars ^ and
Stripes somewhere in the Atlantic;
“San-Juan, Jan. 6, 1942.
“Dear Mother:
“I am awful sorry I haven’t writ
ten you before. As it is I haven t any
place I could mail a letter in the past
three months. I just arrived here me
other day. 1 could tell you a lot, if 1
could see you, but cau’t write the
news. I have been all the way across
to South Africa. Cape Town is the
name of the city we went to—-it was
some experience to me. We were
there when the war was declared. 1
am in abov.t the best place I could be
I reckon. So don’t worry about me. I
am still on the Atlantic Ocean and
hope I will stay. I am in the hospital
with a swollen jaw, but will be out
soon, so don’t worry about me. 1 will
come out on top. Had a card from
Bob saying he was in the Nai^. Guess
James will be back in service soon
Hope it is all over before Bill gets of
age. I will wite again soon. Don t
worry about me. I am O. K., and will
come through all O. K. Give my love
to everyone.
‘‘Your son,
“CHARLIE”
Salvation Army Woman Found
At Army Post In Smithfield
Slain
Monday
School oi Missions At
Selma Methodist Church
The School of Missions for the con
gregation of the Edgerton Memorial
Methodist church will begin Sunday
morning at the opening session of the
Church School. The other sessions will
begin Sunday evening at 7:30 and
there will be a session each evening
through Wednesday at the same hour.
A special feature of the session tor
Sunday evening will be P^c^wes show
ing the growth of the “Methodist
Meeting House.” These pictures are of
particular interest at this time and
we feel that we are fortunate to be
able to use them, first in the Raleigh
Distriot. „ .
The study- book for this year is
written by Dr. Paul N. Garber, Pro
fessor of Church History at DiAe
University, and Dean of the Duke Di
vinity School. The name of the book
is “The Methodist Meeting House. In
a world crisis, why should the Me.th-
odist be studying about Meeting
Houses ? Because the church is a sym-
-bol of the dwelling of God among the
people of the earth and it answers the
human need that is as old as peop e,
to recognize their maker and to have
a place where they can come together
in fellowship. _
The spirit of cooperation ot tne
Woman’s Society of Christian Service,
the Board of Education, the Board ot
Stewards, the Methodis.t Youth Fel
lowship, and the Circles has been
promised to the Board of Missions
and Church Extension. The Chairman
of the Board of Missions and Church
Extension is Mr. H. L. Boney. Mr
Boney has assured us that this vill
be one of our best schools.
Grady Lee, 28, third victim of a
murderer’s gun, died in the Johnston
County Hospital Friday morning pf-
ter lying near death’s door for thir
ty hours. He was shot early Thursday
morning at his home in Ingrams
township by Herman Allen while eat
ing his breakfast.
Allen, using a 16-guage shotgun
early last Thursday morning, took the
lives of his 26-year-old wife, Ruth
Lee Allen, sister of Grady Lee, and
Cap Raynor, Banner township farm
er, and mortally wounded Grady Lee
before officers seized the killer.
Raynor, 30, who was shot and in
stantly killed while standing on the
front porch of his home, was buried
Friday afternoon at the Banner Chap
el church, near Benson.
A double funeral service for Mrs.
Allen and her brother was held Sat
urday afternoon at two o’clock a^t the
home of their mother, Mrs. Claudia
Lee, near Benson.
Investigation of the triple tragedy
has not yet revealed any clear mo
tive for the reign of terror, but per
sistent reports say that Mrs. Allen
and Cap Raynor had been running
ai*ound together and that Allen had
had trouble with his wife’s family.
In 1930 Allen was sentenced to a
fiverto-seven-year prison term for the
murder of H. M. Hodges, of Benson,
in a row over Allen’s first wife. The
prisoner served 52 months of his sen
tence before being released. He mar
ried the Lee girl shortly after leaving
the penitentiary.
Alien, who was moved from the
•Johnston county jail to an unannounc
ed jail in another county, is being
held without privilege of bond.
Solicitor Claude C. Canaday stated
that Allen would face three separate
indictments for first degree murder.
Allen is expected to come up for tri
al at the next term of criminal court
which opens February 8.
AUTO TAX WILL BE
DUE FEBRUARY 1ST
Raleigh, Jan. 21.—Vehicles owned
and operated by the North Carolina
State Highway and Public Works
Commission will not be liable for the
“auto use” Federal tax that will be
imposed on February 1st, Charles
Ross, General Counsel for the Com
mission, declared today.
Under Paragraph “J”, Section 3540,
Chapter 33-A of the Revenue Act of
1941, Mr. Ross said, a motor vehicle
or boat used by the United States, a
state, territory, the District of Col
umbia, or a political subdivision of
any of these is exempted from pay
ment of this tax.
However, he added, employees ot
the State Highway and Public Works
Commission who use their Pr^^te
cars for business purposes will be
liable for the tax just as any other
private citizen who owns and operates
an automobile or other motor vehicle
on the public highways.
The “auto use” tax goes into effect
February 1st, with owners being re
quired to pay $2.09 per vehicle for
the remainder of this fiscal year, n
July 1st the full tax of $5.00 wdl fall
due, and it will he effective until July
1, 1943.
stateYiew^per
CONTEST WINNERS
Durham, Jan. 19.—With cash, tro
phies and certificates for prizes, the
North Carolina Press association on
Friday night singled out and rewarded
its- member papers and workers tor
outstanding excellence' m the nevs-
Joseph J. Ellis, Transient, From Jersey City,
New Jersey, After Robbing Slain Woman of
Her Money and Automobile, Fled to Raleigh,
Where He Was Arrested—Given Hearing In
Smithfield and Bound Over to High Court.
A 23-year-old New Jersey youth sat in the Raleigh police sta
tion Monday night and calmly admitted having hammered to
death—scarcely five hours earlier—the woman who took him in
to her home, clothed and fed him.
The youth was Joseph James Ellis, of Jersey City. Me was
arrested by Detective Sergeants O. C. Jordan and H. L. Peebles of
the Raleigh police force at 5:30
*p. m. after having killed Mrs
LEON G. STEVENS
HEADS COUNTY BAR
worthy year
fii-
Mother Talks To Son
10,000 Miles Away
$352.74
Total to date
Any one who has not contributed to
this worthy cause please do so at
once. “Remember Pearl Harbor. For
your convenience, you can leave your
wntributions at either of the follm
'"Ratetgh^ Griffin, at Branch Bank. ^
B A. Henry, Henry & Nordan s
Store; M. L. Stancil, Johnstoman-bun
Office.
Mrs. Polly Hill Creech
Died Tuesday Morning
Mrs. Polly Hill Creech, 86, w'ldow
of the late Joshua E. Creech, died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. F. E.
Wright, at 7 ;40 o’clock _ Tuesday
morning after an extended illnes|
Funeral services were held from
the Wright home Wednesday after
noon at 3 o’clock, conducted by Elder
Elijah Pearce, Primitive Baptist min
ister of Princeton, assisted by the
Rev. D. M. Clemmons, pastor of the
Selma Baptist church. Burial took
place in the city cemetery.
Surviving are one son, John Henry
Creech, of Wilmington; one daughter,
Mrs. F. E. Wright, bookmobile libra
rian of Johnston county; two grand
children, R. C. Creech and Mrs. David
O’Keefe, of Wilmington, and one
great-grandson, Billie Creech, of Wi -
mingTon.
Smithfield, Jan. 21.—Mrs. J. J.
Broadhurst of Smithfield had a long
distance conversation with her son.
Captain Edwin Broadhurst of the U.
S. Army Air Force, in Java a few
days ago.
Captain Broadhurst talked with his
mother and other members of the
family for about 16 minutes. The Hy
ing officer, who has been active wn
Pacific war zones since the outbreak
of hostilities, reported that he was
well and safe. _ .
Due to the difference in time in ..he
two parts of the world, Captain
Broadhurst placed the call Wednes
day night and Mrs. Broadhurst re
ceived it Tuesday morning. About 4o
minutes were required to make the
telephone connection from San rran-
cisco. ,
The distance between mother anu
son while talking was approximately
10,000 miles over land and water.
TOBACCO GROWERS
CAN’T GET CANVAS
newspapermen went to Charles Bar
rett and Herbert O’Keef, of the Ra
leigh News and Observer, for the best
spot story; Hal Tribble, Charlotte Ob
server, for best feature story; Jmimy
Dumbell, Charlotte Observer, for best
news photography; and Spencer Mur
phy, Salisburg Post, for best edito-
The awards were presented l*y D- S-
Laprade, editor of the Durham Morn
ing Herald, at the climax of the North
Carolina Newspaper institute’s annu
al dinner session at Duke universi y
Monday night. , t i
The Cleveland Times and Jackson
News won the trophies for geiiera
excellence among weekly papers above
and below 1,500 circulation, respect
ively. The trophy for best comnmnity
service went to the Mocksville Enter-
prise and -the one for the best specia
edition to the Roxboro Courier.
At a meeting of the Johnston Coun
ty Bar association, held in the Gabriel
Johnston Hotel in Smithfield Monday
evening, Leon G. Stevens was elected
president, succeeding J. Ira Lee.
Alfonzo Parker, Benson attorney,
was elected vice president, succeeding
Jack Hooks of Kenly, and Pope Lyon
of Smithfield was re-elected secretary
and treasurer for another year.
Aside from the election of officers
for the year, was an address by Judge
Henry Grady of Clinton, and a talk
by Mrs. Carrie Speight Edwards, Su
perior Court stenographer. Judge
Grady called on all lawyers to exert
all their efforts and influence to car
ry forward the nation’s victory pro
gram. The jurist impressed upon the
bar members their great responsibil
ity as members of the legal profes
sion. , , ,
Mrs. Edwards expressed her great
pleasure in working with Smithfield
people during her visits to the
al--^urtAt^og.rapher,-,-'-:';c:> ' - "
F. H. Brooks, local attorney, gave
the invocation at the bar meeting.
Judge Grady was introduced by J.
A. Wellons, Sr.
Father of Selma Man
Killed Near Grifton
Bessie Brewer, 46-year-old sup
erintendent of the Smithfield
Salvation Anny, Monday at 1:30
p. m.
The slain woman was found at 3:301
by Nellie Peele, 16-year-old girl who
also stayed with Mrs. Brewer. She^
was lying beside the table where she
had been eating when the act was
committed. The blood-spattered ham
mer was found nearby.
Ellis said that Mrs. Brewer was at, , ■
the table and that he was taking some^
tools from a box nearby. “When I * •
picked up the hammer the idea came
to me to hit her,” he said. “TTien, I
found her money. There was about
$29. The change was in a pocketboolc
and the bills were in her purse. I
found the key to her car. Then I got
her car out of the garage and left.”
Ellis drove to Raleigh. He parked
the car about a block from .the police
station although he didn’t realize it—
and started to hitchhike out of town
on U. S. No. 1. When he neared the
city limits he began' to realize what
he had done .and decided to give him
self he .said. He walked to .a Neg-
'rd'r iiSutS'''«rr'thA end of 'GlascdcTc'
Street, told the Negro what he had
done and asked him to call the police.
Desk Sergeant J. H. Hayes took the -
call and sent Officers Jordan and
Peebles .to the house. The youth sur
rendered peacefully.
His only explanation for the act
“I had been taking morphine tab-
NOTED MOVIE STAR
IS KILLED IN CRASH
Goldsboro, Jan. 21.—Goldsboro mer
chants said Monday that they had no
tobacco cloth on hand and did not
know when they vdll get any.
The 0PM and .the Department ot
Agriculture announced several weeks
ao-o that the mills making bandages
and gauze cloth had been instructed
to start turning out tobacco cloth and
tha.t plenty would be available to
farmers.
Carole Lombard, wife of Clark Ga
ble both top-ranking movie actors,
was killed instantly, together with
her mother, 15 army officers and six
other passengers and crew, when the
airship in which she and her mother
were returning to Hollywood, after a
trip to Indianapolis where she helped
in the drive to sell War Savings
Stamps and Bonds. She is said ..o have
sold a million and a half worth ot
bonds and stamps in one day prior to
here return trip in which she met in
stant death. The plane ran head-on
into Table Mountain near Las Vagas,
Nevada, striking the mountain abou..
500 feet from the top. All bodies were
burned beyond recognition, Mrs. Ca
ble being identified by dental
brought from Hollywood, -and her
mother by parts of her leather purse
found under her body.
Johnnie Potter, 74, died in a Kin
ston hospital Sunday afternoon an
hour after being struck by an auto
mobile while walking along the high
way near Griftom Potter had been
visiting relatives near Grifton,
Funeral services were held at the
home of a son, Willie Potter, Selma
route 2, Tuesday afternoon at 2:30
o’clock, with burial in Watson ceme-
,tery nearby. . ’
Surviving’ are three sons, and three
daughters.
GRIFTON MAN IS FREED
IN HIGHWAY FATALITY
Kinston, Jan. 20.—Authorities said
today Roland Abrom, Grifton, Route
1, was not at fault in the accident
near^p*on Sunday, fatal to John
Pof^rT^, of Selma.
Abrom was driving a truck that
ran over Potter, a pedestrian who died
in a hospital here an hour later. It
was Lenoir County’s second fatal
traffic accident since January 1.
lets and I didn’t know what I was
doing.” He said he had intended to go
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Seen and Heard Along
THE MAINDRAG
H. H. L. =SSS:
WORKING OUT CROP
rotation program
Silver Loving Cup Awarded
Dr. Booker By Kiwanis Club
COTTON MARKET
The following is today’s cotton
,„arket report as furnished by the
firm of Floyd C. Price & Son of Sel-
N. C;
Strict Middling 20 l-2c
Middling - To 'i
Strict Low Bright ^
Strict Low Dark 19 l'^
FUNERAL HELD FOR
COLE L. BLEASE
Columbia, S. C., Jan. 21. High
state officials were among the hun
dreds who attended the funeral ot
Cole L. Blease here today, the 73-year
old former governor and U. S. Sena
tor who died Monday,
ma.
Highly important for wartime needs
approximately 450,000 tons of waste
paper have been collected in England
since the war began 25 months ago.
Follovdng the annual custom which
was adopted more than a decade ago,
the Selma Kiwanis club Thursday ev
ening awarded the silver loving cup,
which the club instituted as an em
blem of service. At the beginning ot
each year a secret ballot is taken
among the club members to ascertain
who, in their opinion, has rendered
the greatest community service dur
ing the preceding year, aside from
any service rendered in connection
with their regular routine duties.
Last year William I. Godwin held
the cup for the most outstanding ser
vice during 1940; and Thursday even
ing when President Bill Thad Wood
ard called on Howard V. Gaskill to
present .the cup to the one rendermg
the most outstanding service for
club members were wondering who
would be blessed with that honor, bu.
when Dr. E. N. Booker was asked to
stand and have recited to him the
reason for this performance, he was
given a rousing applause by the club
members.
Dr. Booker, in accepting the cup,
did so in a most gratuitous manner;
and the choice thus made seemed to
meet the approval of the entire ^ub.
Dr. Booker’s name will be engraved
on the cup along with the others who
have held it in previous year.
O. A. Tuttle, immediate past lieut.-
governor of the Fourth Division of
the Carolinas Kiwanis District, had
charge of the program, and made a
.talk on “Questions and Answers’,
a bulletin just published by the office
of Kiwanis International, which prov
ed very enlightening to club mem
bers iiresent. He brought out many
points in connection with what may
Mr Enos Blair, Extension Agrono
mist from State College, was m the
county on Tuesday of last week to
help several farmers with planning
crop rotations for their farms. Mr.
Blair planned a crop rotation tor
Leon Hill who liifes near Smithfield.
The rota.tion wa^worked out and the
farm was mapped showing the differ
ent fields. The rotation indicated what
crops are to be grown on the different
fields each year. By working out a
crop rotation of this kind a better
program of soil conservation and soil
building can be sarried out by the use
of cover crops and legumes, and where
tobacco is being grown it can be work
ed into the rotation so that it will not
have to follow immediately after a
legume crop. A planned crop rotation
should be essential for every farm.
“Wine is a mocker, strong drink is
raging, and whosoever is deceived
thereby,” was .the Scripture S. R.
LEE duoted to GAS HARE today—■
the Bible also says “love your ene
mies,” GAS told S. R.—“sometimes
it’s hard to do,” MR. LEE replied—
“well, 1 love mine,” said GAS—“whis
ky is my worst enemy and I love it”—•
do you believe in dreams? —well,
there’s one man in Selma who does—
a few mornings ago D.AVID B.ALL’S
wife called him to breakfast while he
was having a dream—“you woke me
up at .the wrong time,” MR. B.ALL
told his better-half—“1 was dreaming
1 had been offered a new' job, a big
ger job and at a bigger salary, and
you awoke me before I found out
where it w'as,” he told her — after
breakfast he went down to the Lizzie
Mill, of which he is superintendent—
a short time after arriving there
GLENN GRIER, the head knocker,
came in—“well, D.AVE, while in Char
lotte yesterday the boss told me to
ask you if you would be interested in
going to a bigger mill the company
ow’iis and at a bigger salary” — of
course this w'as a big inducement, but
we are glad .to be able to state that
DAVE has decided to remain in Sel-
-the loss of this fine family would
Benson Man Treated
For Drug Poisoning
Robert B. Creech, 66, of Benson,
was released from the Johnston Coun
ty Hospital Sunday morning, after
staying there several days for chloro
form poisoning which it is thought he
took through mistake.
The Benson man, w'ho doctors ani
mals in the community, had placed
some chloroform in a soft drink bot-
,tle, intending to use it in one of his
Indications were that he ab-
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cases. Indications were that ne au- botice iro.u...^- iminedi-
circles. ed the drug. ' '
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IIICV l-iic iv/oo V/..- ----- .
have been a blow to this town ilK.
BOOKER was the town's outstanding
citizen during the past year according
to the members of .the Woman’s club
and the Selma Kiwanis club this
popular pill dispenser was awarded
the silver loving cup on last Thursday
night—HOWARD GASKILL did the
presenting and made a cracker-jac
speech—“I’ve always wanted some
thing like this to keep my beer in,
said the M. D.—the editor of this pa
per went down to Goldsboro a few
days ago and had his “smeller work
ed An--he has been suffering from
a congested nasal passage for some
time and we hope this operation will
be very beneficial—sorry to leajn of
the illLss of MRS. OTHO DAVIS
who has been undergoing treatment
in the Johnston County Hospital since
last Sunday—last reports from the
hospital said she was improvmg-^this
will be good news to her many frien^
she is missed at the DAVIS DEPT.
STORE these days—upon receipt ot a
notice from the Draft Board to appear