The J ohnstonian-Sun
TWO CHILDREN BURNED TO COUNTY SCHOOLS ^
TO CLOSE MAY Ti
PROMOTED
Superintendent
0. A. Tuttf
Announces Commenceme
Speakers—Kiwanis Club
Give Oratorical Medal — -
sonic Lodge and Mrs. G. ^
Vick Also To Give Medals.
closing exercises of the Selma
school on May 11, at 8:16 p. m.
Scene of fire last Thursday afternoon on farm_ of Bailey Harris
near Archer Lodge school, which clairned the lives of two small
boys. Mr. Harris estimates his loss to farming equipment, feed,
fertilizer, etc., stored in the two-story barn at $1,500. ____
Two Children Die
In Blazing Barn
Thursday Afternoon
4' ' '~*
Occurred At Home Of Bailey
Harris Near Archer Lodge
Thursday Afternoon — Chil
dren Thought To Have Been
Playing With Matches In The
Bam.
TRAPPED IN
BURNING BARN
Attorney R. N. Sims, of Raleig^,
has accepted an invitation to delix^
the commencement address at jte
hinV I
1
Mr. Sims has been teacher of fe'
Sims Bible class at Tabernacle BCi ■
tist church in Raleigh for many ye._ .
He is ex-president of the State B
tis'C Convention and well kno i
throughout North Carolina.
Dr. Lee Shepherd, pastor of
Memorial Baptist church of RaWeh,
will preach the baccalaureate seflipn
on Sunday evening. May 10, at 8
o’clock.
The Seventh Grade exercises will
take place on Friday morning. May
at 11 o’clock, at which time the
seventh grade students will receive
their promotion to high school.
The annual oratorical contest will
be held Friday evening. May 8, at 8
o’clock, when eight contestants will
compete for the Kiwanis oratorical
award. Prior to the contest the school
band will render a twenty-minute pro
gram of band music. Immediately fol
lowing the contest the Glee Club will
give a thirty-minute program.
A complete program of the closing
exercises of the local schools will be
published in next week’s issue of this
paper.
Zero Hour Nears
For The War Bond
Drive In Carolina
CAPTAIN
Funeral services for Earl Wester
Harris, 3 and-a-half year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Harris, and
Sherwood Barnes, three and-a-half
year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Tal-
madge A. Barnes, who were burned
,to death Thursday afternoon at 1:30
o’clock on the Harris farm, at Archer
Lodge, were held Friday afternoon
from White Oak Missionary Baptist
church near Archer Lodge school, in
Wilders township. The_ Rev. Alfred
Parrish conducted the rites. Burial of
the Harris child took place at Little
Creek cemetery near Wilson’s Mills,
while the interment of the Barnes
child was in the family cemetery
near the home.
The children lost their lives w'hen
the large two-story barn on the Har
ris farm caught fire supposedly from
matches with which the children were
playing. The two families were next
door neighbors and the two little boys
were their only children. Mr. Harris
was at the home of his father, T. C.
Harris, four miles away picking to
bacco beds, while the mother was on
the south side of the home sweeping
the yard when she discovered the
bam in flames. Desti'oyed with the
barn were 74 bags of guano, 60 bales
of hay, 30 barrels of corn, a large
quantity of soy beans, and all of the
farmer’s farming implements. Sever
al mules in the barn were rescued
before the flames reached them. The
Harris home caught on fire several
times but was saved from destructnm
by heroic efforts on the part of neigh
bors. The children were burned be
yond recognition. Dr. E. N. Booker,
county coroner, held that an inquest
was unnecessary.
earl WESTER HARRIS, three-
and-a-half-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bailey Harris.
14 Negro Men Left
Selma For Camp Today
The following Negro men left Sel
ma for induction in the army at
Fort Bragg this (Thursday) _ morn
ing, who were called to service by
Draft Board Number 2:
Nathan Taylor, Pine Level; George
Marvin Smith, Pine Level; James
Roscoe Vinson, Selma, Route 1;
ton Sanders, Clayton, Route 1; Al
fred Ashley Everette, Clayton, Route
1; J. H. Pace, Zebulon, Route 1; Wal
ter Milford Martin, Wilson; Swade
McLamb, Clayton, Route 2; Arthur
Atkinson, Princeton, Route 2; Lemon
Morgan, Clayton, Route 2; Nathaniel
Walker, Princeton; John Wesley Wil
liams, Selma, Route 1; Matthew Wig
gins, Wendell, Route 1; and Melvin
Archibald, Clayton, Route 1.
SHERWOOD BARNES, three-and-
a-half-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Talmage Barnes .
Selma Young Lady
Sings In Charlotte |
Mr. John Jeffreys, accompanied by
his daughter. Miss Mary Louise Jef
freys, Miss Stella Btheredge, of Sel
ma, and Misses Genevieve Medhn,
Frances Massengill and Barbara Bar
bour, of Smithfield, attended the
State Junior Federation of Music
Clubs held in Charlotte, Saturday.
The young ladies, all students of
Miss Btheredge, having made “supe
rior” ratings in contests held in Ra
leigh, had been invited as honored
guests. All four young
part in the program.
Baptist Worker In Italy
To Speak Here Sunday
Dr. W. Dew'ey Moore, who has
been in charge of the work of South
ern Baptists in Rome, Italy, for sev
eral years, will speak at the Selma
Baptist church on Sunday morning.
May 3rd, at the eleven o’clock service.
Dr. Moore will speak on the general
situation in Europe as he saw it de
velop through the years, and will
speak particularly of the Baptists
work in Italy. He is a very engaging
speaker and it will be a privilege to
hear him.
Smithfield Club To^
Sponsor Cotton Festival
On May 22nd the Smithfield Ki
wanis Club is presenting its Annual
Cotton Festival to the people of
Johnston county, a three point pro
gram to be features of the festivities.
The idea of the -Cotton Festival is
to encourage the use of more cotton
goods, hut in order to make the evpnt
attractive to'all, a baby show ®n“^
dog show will also be a part of the
program, the main feature, of course,
being the fashion show.
All mothers with children from in
fancy to six years of age are asked
to participate. Children up to three
years old will be in one class and a
$5 prize will be offered the winners
of each sex in this class. Another
class will consist of ages from 3 to 6
years with like prizes.
The details of the dog show have
no.t yet been worked out, but all dogs
will be placed in two classes—bport
dogs and Pets.
The fashion show will show models
of all the better grade cotton goods
available for general use and will be
modeled by contestants sponsored by
merchants in Srftithfield, and else
where in the county.
It is the plan and purpose of the
Kiwanis club to make this the bigges
Festival since the beginning several
years ago. , ,, •
The Festival will be held in the
Gold Leaf Warehouse throughout the
afternoon and night of May 22nd. An
admission charge of 10 and 25c wi
he asked. „ ,
Braxton Wilson, manager ot the
Sanders-Mims Motor Company ot
Smithfield is chairman of the commit
tee on arrangements.
Meeting of Johnston
Ministerial Association
The monthly meeting of the John
ston County Ministerial Association
will be held with the Mt. Vernon
Christian church, Clayton, N. C., on
Monday, May 4, 1942.
PROGRAM
10'00 A. M.—Devotionals—by the
Rev. W. S. Caudle, Raleigh, Rt. 2.
10-20 A. M.—Business; Minutes, Off
ering, Appointing Program Com-
mittee. .
10:35 A. M.—Presenting Some oi Uur
Problems that we may know about
our peculiar diffculties, and that we
may more intelligently pray -for
ealh other and the proper solution
of the Problems. (The
to be simply stated and NOT Dlb-
CUSSED.) ^ ^ ,
10-M) A. M.—Address— The Central
theme of the New Testament, the
New Birth”—by Rev. A. B. John
son, 114 W. South St., Raleigh.
11:20’a. M. —Adjournment.
Ill a letter recently received by
Mr. Martin Thorne, of Selma, route
1, from his son, J. C. Thorne, mail
ed from Austrailia and dated March
20, 1942, he writes: “Just to tell
you that I have been prompted to
the grade of Captain, U. S. Army,
and I am very happy about it. The
message was radioed from Wash
ington to my headquarters today.”
In another letter, dated March
14th, Captain Thome writes: I am
havings lots of fun these days here
in the jungles eating coconuts off
,the trees. We are at present camp-
,ed in the wilds of the jungles with
the rest of the animals, but it isn’t
rso bad. We get plenty of good food
.and have very little work to do
these days. As Motor Transport
Officer, I still have quite a number
of trucks operating, however, I lost
i part of my fleet recently. I would
- like to tell you of my war experi
ences so far, but guess it will have
to wait. I sure would like to drop
around and plow ‘a few rounds for
papa. I am still waiting and long
ing for some mail from honie as it
has been over four months now. I
haven’t heard a word from anyone
in the tl. S. since I left, but maybe
the mail will catch up with us one
of these days.”
“Captain” J. C. Thorne was a
member of the Smithfield National
Guard battery. After finishing high
school here he attended State Col
lege, Raleigh, where he studied
forestry for two years. He spent
four more years at State 'College
in the study of agriculture and
upon completion of that course he
taught agriculture at Greenhope
school, in Wake county, for two
years. He enlisted in the army m
September, 1940 and was made a
First Lieutenant last June. On
November 21, 1941 he sailed from
San Francisco and is now a Captain
in the U. S. Army somewhere in
Draft Registration On
Monday Totals 4,235
Men Between 45 and 65 Years of
Age Who Registeied For War
Duty In Johnston County
Monday Reach This Figure,
The number of men who registered
for war duty in Johnston county on
last Monday between the. ages of 45
total 4,235.
There were eight registration pla
ces in the district embraced by Draft
Board No. 1, consisting of the fol
lowing:
Smithfield registered 753
Bentonville registered 104
Benson registered 402
Four Oaks registered 313
Pleasant Grove registered.... 169
Meadow registered 153
Wilson Mills registered 82
Cleveland registered 100
Total Board No. 1 2,076
There were eight registration pla
ces in the district embraced by Draft
Board No. 2, as follows:
Selma registered 643
Micro registered 127
Kenly registered - 333
Archer Lodge and Corinth-
Holders registered 344
Princeton registered 274
Clayton registered 438
Total Board No. 2 2,159
the vicinity of Australia.
WHEAT GROWERS TO
VOTE SATURDAY
Wheat growers of Johnston county
will go to the polls Saturday to vote
on the 1942 crop with the knowledge
that the United States has in sight
■the largest supplies of wheat in his
tory, according to P; B. Chamblee,
chairman of the county AAA commit
tee.
The balloting will take place be
tween the hours of 8:30 a. m. and 5
office, which is the only polling place
to be established in Johnston county
where only a few wheat producers are
eligible to vote.
Chairman Chamblee said any pro
ducer who shares in the wheat grown
on a farm on which more than 15
acres of wheat is planted and the nor
mal yield from the acreage planted is
more than 200 bushels will be affected
by the wheat marketing quotas and
will be eligible to vote.
Quotas were approved last year by
a majority of 81 per cent, with
North Carolina wheat growers voting
in favor of quotas by a majority of
83.8 per cent.
Plans are rapidly shaping up for
the formal launching of the War
Bond Campaign in this county on
next Monday, May _4, when workers
under the general direction of Coun
ty Chairman R. P. Holding will be
gin a systematic canvass to the end
that every income earning citizen
may be given an opportunity to
pledge voluntarily some portion of
his or her income to the regular pur
chase of defense bonds and stamps.
Governor J. Melville Broughton>
who is Honorary Chairman of the
campaign, in a proclamation, issued
recently, designated May 4-9 as War
Bond Week and called upon “the full
and prompt -cooperation of all citi
zens in signing a voluntary pledge
for the purchase of United States
savings securities.”
Every pledge is conditional upon
the signer’s remaining financially
able to make the stated purchase.
This condition is expressly stipulated
in the pledge. It will be left to the
signers to decide whether or not they
are able to continue their purchase.
Purpose of the campaign is to en
able the government to take a nation
wide inventory, so that tax plans be
laid accordingly to pay for the cost
of the war. The more dollars volun
tarily pledged for the purchase of
bonds, the less will be the tax load.
The money invested in these war
savings securities—the safest invest
ment in the world—^will,be taken out
of competition for consumer goods,
thereby preventing inflation and
building up a cushion of savings for
the individual when the war ends.
These securities also make every
citizen buying them a share-holder
in the future of America.
You Must Register In
Order To Buy Sugar
ladies took
Coach Broughton
Joins Naval Reserves
H. W. Broughton, instructor in his
tory and athletic coach at the Selma
high school, left early Wednesday
morning for Norfolk, Va., where he
reported for duty in the athletic di
vision of the United States Naval Ite-
serves, headed by Jean Tunney. He
will be in training there about six
weeks before being assigned to duty
elsewhere.
1 Sugar Registration begins Monday.
Notice of Extension
The committee appointed
•by Governor J. M. Broughton
to receive claims for damage
caused by the munitions
explosion near Selma on the
7th of March have extended
the time limit for filing
claims from April 30th to May
15th, 1942.
W. H. CALL
' R. P. HOLDING
CHARLES ROSS
Registration of all consumers enti
tled to allotments of sugar will be
held on May 4, 5, 6 and 7, from 2
o’clock until 7 o’clock in the follow
ing schools in Johnston County:
Benson, Kenly (white); Glendale
Princeton (white); Brogden, Clayton
(white); Clayton (colored); Cleve
land (white), Short Journey (color
ed) Four Oaks (white). Meadow,
Pine Level, Selma (white), Selma
(colored), Smithfield (white), Smith-
field (colored), Archer Lodge, 'Cor-
inth-Holders, Wilson’s Mills.
Since the schools in Johnston coun
ty are consolidated and are of consid
erable distance from the patrons, and
further in view of the tire shortage,
arrangements have been made to pro
vide for the registration of Negro
families at certain of the white
schools that may be nearer where
these families live than are -the Negro
schools which their children attend.
For example, Negroes living in Ben
son can register at the Benson white
school. Those living in Meadow can
register at the Meadow school, etc.
Also anyone living in the county may
register at the school that is most
convenient ,to him, this in most cases,
of course, will be the school which
his children attend. In other words,
the schools have tried,to make it as
convenient to the public as. poss.'ble.
Every person should register
whether he wants to buy sugar or not,
or whether he has a supply of sugar
on hand, for the reason that this reg
istration may he used as a basis for
amount of sugar on hand if the per
son registers and declares the amount
of sugar that he has. He tRll not have
to give up his sugar, but will not be
given an allotment of sugar until he
has consumed what he already has.
There is no penalty for having sugar,
but there is a penalty for falsifying
OT failing to declare the amount on
hand.
There must be a separate applica
tion made for each member of the
family. The member of the family
making application must make the
applications for all the members of
the family. This member must be over
18 years old except in cases where
parties under 18 years old are mar
ried and constitute a separate fam-
The member of the family over 18
vears old who is making application
for each member of the family unit
should go to the school with the fol
lowing information for each member
of his family: age, height, weight and
color of eyes and hair; he should also
know the number of pounds of supr
that each member of the family has
on hand.
Members of a family over 18 years
old and away from home in school
will have to register where they are
in school. The same thing would ap
ply to any member of the family 18
vears old and away from home.
Mpmbers of the family m the arm
ed service of the United States or
confined in an institution, or prison,
are not entitled to he counted as a
1
Junior Order Holds
Four-County Meeting
A meeting of the 28th district of.
the Junior Order of United American
Meahanics- was Held in_ Smithfield
Tuesday night with practically e\ery
council in the district represented.
After a barbecue supper at the HoU
man Building, the juniors held a short
business session during which H. C.
Bobbitt, councilor of Smithfield Coun
cil No. 102, welcomed 75 or more
members of the district and tu^n^
over to District Councilor A. C. Ed
wards of Hookerton and other dis
trict officers. The counties of John
ston, Wayne, Lenoir, and Green are
in this district.
Edwards paid tribute to Robert
Bruton, head of the Junior Order
Children’s Home at Lexington.
State Councilor C. L.- Stancil of
Smithfield and Raleigh said that the
spirit of the order ■was on the in
crease. “These are times when we
need everything the Order stands
for,” said Councilor Stancil, not
alone for what it is doing m local
sections, but throughout the S.ate
and nation.”
In speaking of legislation on m-
migration, Stancil said the Junior Or
der was either directly or indirectly
responsible for every law enao,^.
“If there is any one man responsible
for the Dies Committee, it is our
National Secretary Wilmeth,” con
tinued the State e^^^re
that after the war there_ will be more
fields ripe for Communism. Where-
ever you find the Junior Order, you
find opposition to Communism _ and
every sort of ‘ism’ except American-
Vice State Councilor M. G. Fl^
nagan of Graham spoke briefly. Stato
Secretary Forrest L. Shearm of Scot
land Neck, gave a glowing accoun,, of
the progress made by the
Ed Gregory of
elected district chaplain to fill the
^expired term of E .F. Beale who
resigned some weeks ago,
cilor A. C. Edwards was elected to
serve on the board of directors of
,the Orphanage. . j,g.
It was decided to hold the tall aw
trict meeting in Four Oaks sometime
October or November.
tt warvoted to hold a district class
initiation at Goldsboro on May 28.
Bob Pittman Vocal
Union Meets Sunday
Th, Annual'siiSI tT PMmSl
the Upper Johnson and Bob Pittinan
Vocal ^Union will meet in Princeton
Sunday, May 3, 1942, at 2 P. • ^
Postmaster Earp
Is Out Again
His many friends here are glad to
' wicnr he ii?ed as a basis lor i are not entitiea ro ue cuunvc - ggg Postmaster Henry E. Earp ®
Parcation of other commodities the family and cannot ^
•aerr?no penalty for having any\ ® H. B. MARROW, Superintendent.\at Hoapital, Rateigh.