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ITchina Entered Lend-Lease Fold ^mADE^CERTAIN Draft Boards Solld
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Roscoe Norris, 16, and Edward
Strickland, 15, Plead Guilty
To Larceny Charges and Are
Bound Over To Recorder s
Court — Judge Wood Sen
tences Norris To Roads For
' Eight Months — Strickland
Put On Probation by Judge
Rose.—Other Cases Tried.
The following cases were tried be
fore Mayor B. A. Henry Tuesday
Eoscoe Norris, 16, Edward Strick
land, 15, were tried before His Honor
on three separate charges. They were
charged with the larceny o ir
potatoes, and the destruction °f vege
tables in the garden of Johnny
Both boys plead guilty to the charg^
The second warrant charged the
with the larceny of two bicycles frorn
the home of Charles Campbell, m the j
Lizzie Mill section. The boys admitted
the theft of the bikes, stating that
they rode the wheels to Ealeigh,
where they sold one to HiU’s Harley-
Davidson Company and_ packed the
other one on one of Raleigh s streets.
The wheel sold the Ealeigh company
had'been sold to a Troy citizen. The
theft of the bicycles and potatoes
took place on last Thursday night
Chief-of Police Bradley Pearce got
busy early Friday morning and soon
had the boys in custody. They wwe
also charged '^ith breaking out two
of the town’s electric lights ^ throw
ing Coca-cola bottles at them. The
boys were remanded
CoTOty Recorder’s court, where they
were given a hearing Wednesday.
Norris was sentenced by Judge Tarry
Wood to eight months on the road ,
while young Strickland given a
hearing before Juvenile Judge H. V.
Ruse, he being under 16 years °f age.
Judge Rose put him on probatiom
‘telling the Selma officers to see to it
that he is at his home by nine o clock. ^
*^^uddy Blackman failed to Put m
his appearance ^ge”'He
answer to a similar charge, tie
was arrested jointly ^
Strickland. “He promised me faith
fully that he would be on hand at the
heakg,’’ said Chief Tearce, so I e^
him go home and did not lock mm
'^'^Eohert McCray was charged with
“ rri A.
belonging to Ins Inthernn a , ^
Edwards. Mr. Edwards told the ®ou
■ that he loaned his son-in-law his
automobile to go to town, a^iout a
mile distant, McCray promised to
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whTch the United States and Great
Britain.
Kenly Mail Carrier
Held Up By Soldiers
* — ^ ’
Senate and House conferees for
mally agreed Tuesday on legislation
establishing $50 a month as the base
pay for the lowest ranks in the armed
services, making Uncle Sam’s soldiers
sailors and marines the best-paid
fighting men in the world.
This agreement had been a fore
gone conclusion since Monday when
the Senate voted for the $50-a-mont
minimum. Both houses also are vir
tually agreed on legislation for es
tablishing a system of allowances for
dependents of those men m the armed
forces earing up to $78 a
The pay bill makes these changes
in existing monthly pay for soldiers,
sailors, marines and coast guards
men: ,.rf.
Private—apprentice seaman 0
First class private—seaman
Corporal—seaman, first class od
Sergeant—petty officer, third
Staff sergeant — petty officer,
second class —
First sergeant — petty officer,
first class - -
The bill also raises the P^F J”
I second lieutenants and ensigns
' $1500 a year .to $l,800-^nd increases
Le allowances given cornmissione
officers for subsistence and quarters.
Only the lowest rank of cornmissione
officers get an increase m pay.
More Men to ^rmy
promoted
Smithfield Draft Btaard SendR
29 White Men While the
Selma Board Sends 45 — Six
of the Number Were Volun
teers — All Sent To Fort
Bragg Saturday.
WILLIAM EARLIE LAMM
Siath Tank Destroyer Battalion
Kenly Man Says Men Held Gun
on Him While He Drove Them
to Columbia
Wilson, June 8.—Two unidentified
soldiers, apparently stationed at Fort
Jackson, made J. L. Pittman, rura
mail carrier of Kenly, carry them all
the way to Columbi^ S. C., at the
point of a gun last Thursday nie,h ,
Pittman said today. ,
The soldiers made him buy the
gasoline for the trip. He also was
forced to buy beer on the way, he
* A E McCracken, Kenly postmaster ^
said today that Pittman called him
froip Columbia on Friday nio™™^
and told him the story, and said that
he would not be back to work that
day because of the situation.
Pittman was unhurt and nothins
was stolen from him by the two sol
diers, McCraken said. No inveshga-
tion has been started as yet, the Ken-
Iv postmaster said.
Held Gun On Driver
According to McCracken, Pittman
was not carrying the mail Thursday
and had stopped to pick up the sol
diers, who, he said, were apparently
hitchhiking. Btttoan drove the ^ol
diers as far as Goldsboro and it was
there that one of the men m uniform
stuck a gun in Pittman’s back and
Ar.lpred him to drive south.
The group drove through GoWsbom
and Mt. Olive and on down to Colum
bia where Pittman spent the night
,PitUan said that he bad not learned
Col. Edgar H. Bain
h Kiwanis Speaker
Quits Rationing Job
i^ause oi Red Tape
The Selma Kiwanis club had the
pleasure of listening to an Address
by Col. Edgar H. Bam of Goldsboro,
on last Thursdayr evening. The pro
gram was m charge of W. i._ wooa
ard, who called on his son, Kiwanian
Ralph Woodard of Goldsboro, to in
troduce the speaker.
Colonel Bain said he did not have
a prepared speech to make, but after
a few introductory remarks, he said
if he was to label his talk at aH he
would call it “Public Opinion . The
speaker said that public opinion domi
nates, the world. “The life of the.pph. ,
tician is no longer than public ov^^on
is behind him,” Col. Bam said. When
any of you feel that you have reached
thJpeakof your career in life, then
is the time to cash in and take what
profits you may have acquired, o
else public opinion may change and
sweep your life’s savings away, said
*"''The°^°speaker said that even Jesus
Christ Himself found His popularity
at a high peak at one time, but as
He was facing the Cross, even His
own Disciples threatened to forsake
Him, as the result of the clmnge 0
public opinion. He said Presiden
Woodrow Wilson died of a broken
heart as the result of the change m
public opinion. Referring to the pro
Charlotte, June 10.—R. E. Thigpp,
Mecklenburg County rationing admin
istrator, released today his letter
resignation with the comment that
he’d rather be “a buck private m the
rear ranks than continue in _ this job
under the present conditions.
“Business as usual is all very well,
he remarked caustically, “but red tape
and bureaucracy are much worse.
Thigpen said that State Adminis
trator Theodore S.
bothered to answer some of his letters
am°fer up with spending a lot
of my time away from Pnvate
business,, without any pay, and then
not getting any help from the Raleigh
“^Thigpen sMd it was impossible to
handlf the job without a full-time,
paid administrator and added that
only two of his staff of clerks had
received any pay.
Mrs. Jim Montgomery, of
Selma route 2, mother of Wm.
Earlie Lamm, recently receiv
ed a letter from Commanding
Officer William A. Walker, of
Fort Bragg. In this letter he
compliments Mrs. Montgom
ery’s son upon his promotion
to Sergeant. He writes: We
are pleased with Sergeant
Lamm for having been out
standing in all phases of army
life. The efficiency with which
he has performed his duties
has brought upon himself and
his company the recopition
that follows any job well done
We are justifiably proud of
Sergeant Lamm and beh^e
that he will be greatly benefit
ed in the years to come by the
work that he is now doing so
well.” Lamm has been in the
United States Army f«r eight
years, three ef which he serv
ed in Panama.
Benson Man Dies
From Rifle Wounds
===—
Son of Claytdn Editor
Given Rank of Major
Seen and Heard Along
public opinion. -
Dia, wuBic J. ...w....... loarnpd bibition issue. Colonel Bam said pub-
Pittman said that he had n opinion had reversed itself on this
the ' issue many times and that it was
the MAINDRAG
H. H. L.
mayor HENRY was about the
busiest man in town 'ast Tuesday
night—more than a score of detend
Jts appeared before His Honor to
answer all kinds of eharges-Selma s
su'hSf
punishment on anyone—the town
a fine corps of police officers,
they usually get their man-one
youngster, who ^^r-
tbat he would be on hand at the hear
in the Mayor’s Office on Tuesday
skinned to parts unknown, but
S^f’Pearce was informed yesterday
Siat his man had been arrested at
St. Paul and was being he'd foj th
csplma officers—farmers of this sec
tion as well as everybody else, were
made happy by the fine rams that vis-
B00IO5R ^and This^^cribe visited the
Tme 0“ th. fin..t tob.e.o w._h«.
Son wSitIker, .
», thl. town, ha. t.
KER, get n g^^n
m Uncle Sams in ay ,g
he flving one ot tws coui j
-
Sto thia wa'r fSaTwm
hinds of good luck and trusts ne wu
SON \ah- .0^
ra»“ « “f”’ ir
is a big the
wiiilp a new front is oeius
old building the P'lhhc ^^ntej ftom
the Anderson street side—the rem
eling of the old buildmg la now in
progress.
rne
Tint identify them later.
Pittman was back at work ° ^
Because Pittman was a mail earner
be wL eligible for an X gas card. It
was supposed that the soldiers dis
covered this and decided to let Pitt
man drive them to Columbia.
issue many times and th^ it was
destined to do so again. No law is
stronger than public opinion, he
added.
Former Smithfield
Man Killed Friday
Warrant Is Served On
Smithfield Business Man
Junius Milton AUen, 37, of Benson
route 1, died in the Harnett County
hospital at Dunn early Tuesday morn
ing of rifle wounds. The h®!bth wa
declared a “plain case of suicide a
t -muest was held. Allen Johnston
county farm laborer /^llo^rind
Monday afternoon at 4 o clock an
was taken to the hospital shortly be
fore midnight and died about
Tuesday morning. Wednes-
Puneral services were held Wedne
day afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Ban
ners Chapel Adventist church, near
S,on took Pte. ■"
church cemetery.
The names of Johnston county
selectees who left for Fort Bragg
Saturday morning for induction into
the army have been released by tne
draft boards.
The Smithfield board sent 29 white
men out of a quota of 30. One man—
William Lathan Johnson, Benson,
Route 2—failed to show up at ™e bus
station in Smithfield. The Smithfield
draft board Monday had not been ad
vised why Johnson failed to appear.
Five of the 29 men leaving Satur
day from the SmithfieW draft board
area were volunteers. These included
Edmund Farriss Ward, Jr., Smith-
field: Ralph Sanders Stevens, Smith-
field; John William Jones, Princeton;
Pnlnb Lee Four Oaks, Route 3,
Robert Edward Hughes, Smithfield,
Route 2.
Board No. 1 Group
The rest of the contingent from
Board No. 1 included the
Lewis Sims Taylor, Smithfield,
Cadmus Norton Johnson, Four Oaks,
Rt. 2; Carson L. Williams, Clayton,
Rt. 1; Lloyd McLeod, Smithfield Rt.
1- Henry Otha Giles, Clayton, Rt. 1,
Albert Thompson, Benson, Rt. ^
Richard Edward Allen, Four Oaks,
Rt 3; Carlie C. Barefoot, Benson, Rt.
2; Dalma Moses Gallion Beeson,
Melton Lee, Four Oaks, Rt. 3; ChaHea
Thomas Gaddy, Smithfield, James
Holloway Kirkman, .SmiHiHeld, W -
liam Thomas Holland, Jr., SmhhfieW,
Jodie Daniel Beasley, Four Oaks, Rt.
1; William Pope Lyon, Smithfield,
Nathan Green Smith, Four Oaks,
Rt. 2; Theron Windford Blackman,
Four Oaks; Charles Dwight Johnson,
Smithfield; Delbert McLamb, Benson,
Kenneth EHC WilU.^s, Haleigk, RL
3; Luther Marvin Daughtry, Sm k
field Rt. 2; L. Roy Creech, Smithfield,
Rt. 2; Julius Everett Barefoot, Ben
son, Rt. 2.
. Selma Names
The Selma Saturday sent 45
white selectees, including
teer John Henry Cook of Selma.
' two of the Selma poup were
transferred from ot^r boards--Fel-
ton Gester Hedgepeth, Selma, Route
1, transferred
1 transterrea rruiu ^
Clayton, June 8.—News was re-1 Mount, and William Andrew
ceived here this week that Captain, Selma, transferred from Local
William ScottPenn son of Editor and Hoxboro
William oLOLL rciHi, V
Mrs. W. S. Penn, of the Clayton News
had been promoted to the rank of
Major in the United^ States Army.
Major Penn, who is now stationed
with the 33rd Division Artillery at
T „ .. rt. was p-radua-
with tne aaru .
Camp Forest, Tennessee, was gradua-
; ; . ;ti 19.34. Imme-
In addition to those sent from Sel
ma Saturday, there were two selectees
called up by the Selma b»td «4
erred to other
I tion. These were.
' Newcomb, Princeton, Rmte 1,
ferred to Local Board No. 1, Golds
boro; and Ivey Patrick Batten, Seim ^
Route 2, transferred to Local Boa a
^ The “t:-seiectees called by
the Selma board and sent to Fort
Bragg Saturday include the foUow
'"lee Gaston Earp, Selma RL 1.
Herman Wall, Clayton Rt. 2, Ernes
Vanderbilt Woodard Jr., Selma, Don
ald Captain Flowers, Clayton, R • .
Charlie Lloyd Wall, Selma, Rt- 4,
Stephen Johnson, ‘ Rt
Robert Thomas Moore Claytom
Smithfield — Funeral services for
Eugene (Red) Hill, 28 who was kfiW
in an automobile accident G^a
lotte Friday morning, T KatiJ
the home of his aunt, frs. KaHe
Moore in Smithfield by the Re_ . .
H. Lancaster. Burial took
Wallace cemetery between Smithtield
and Clayton. ,
Hill, a former employe at the
Smithfield Manufacturing Company,
had moved to Charlotte about a
month ago. A companion, F O. Wa
ters of Mount Holly, who was in the
car with Hill when it overturned, was
“St SvSi by U ..v»-y»«id
son, Bobby, who lives ^^h his au^,
Mrs. Moore; his mother, ^Irs- M.
Brady of Raleigh; and one brother,
Rudolph Hill of Fort Jackson.
A warrant was filed in the off 1^ of
the clerk of court in Smithfield Mon
day charging Charlie L. Beasley,
Smithfield filling station and ®tore
operator, with operating illegal slot
machines and other gambling devices
at his places of business across the
river from Smithfield. Beasley was
staged to get a hearing in recorder
court on Wednesday.
Officers led by Constable o
Bovall last Thursday raided toe
IfeaSy business establishments, and
found ^wo slot machines and discov
ered a game room in the rear of the
store equipped for various forms of
gambling.
Town Buys Car Load
Dust Down For Streets
54 Tokyo Warships
Routed at Midway
E. J Sasser, Street Commissioner
for the town of Selma, says he re
cently purchased a car load of cal
cium chloride to put on some of the
yiirl streets of the town to help keep
the dust down during dry weathen
The people living on streets which
have Lver been paved will doubtless
welcome this' news, as they
intend with lots of dust when the
streets are dry, and if you have ever
Sved on one of these dirt streets you
are in a position to know that it does
not take many hours, ®T®"
a big rain, before the dust, is flym=,
again,
ted“from*West Point in 1934. Imme
diately after leaving West Pomt^s a
second lieutenant he saw four years
service at Fort Bragg with the Field
Artillery. At the end of three years
he was promoted to First L'®"^®"^
and was battery commander there
for one year before going to the Ar
tniery SAool at Fort Sill, Oklahoma,
where he had a years special tram
'"in June 1939 he was tranferred to
Scofield Barracks in Hawaii, where he
saw foreign service for two yea •
While there he was
.tain. Returning to th® United State
While tnere ue Robert Thomas mouic,
tain. Returning to the United States RoPer^^ p p vel,
in the summer of 1941, he g^h Mavon Lee Woodard, H®”^^’.,CCpld
Son! Ab-’“.S" ” .koUme. 0...,
Division. About uuce .
Major Penn was transferred to Camp
Forest, Tenn.
Outlook Is Prouiisiug
For Johnstou Crops
Ratiouiug Office
Adopts New Plau
The county rationing office starting
Monday, June 15, will be open to the
public only during morning hours
Mrs. Roy Johnson, secretary to the
rationing board, has aMOUjiced.
The new schedule calls for closing
the office each day at 1 p. m. The ra
tioning staff will be on the job each
afternoon but will use the time for
necessary work other than waiting on
"'Ihe rationing office is located op
the second floor of the Courthouse in
£e grand jury room. The rationing
board meets .every Friday afternoon.
Chungking, June 9 (Beuter) -Com^
“S.T'a«Tr»dS.i.
•’mS fa Ik. !»«'.■
four to six aircraft carriers, four
heavy cruisers, five light cruisers
three seaplane tenders, 34 destroyers
and 200 aircraft.
Revival Meetiug At
Micro Baptist Church
A revival meeting will kegm at
Micro Baptist church ®n
June 14, with preaching ®'® ^
o’clock Sunday morning and at eight
o’clock Sunday evening.
During the week there will be no
morning services, but preaching each
night at 8 o’clock.
The Rev. L. E. Godwin, pastor of
the church, will do the preaching.
The crop outlook in J®kMton coun
ty at this time is one of the most
promising in many V®^’^®' , «
a whole the stands of cotton and to
bacco are the most perfect we have
e^er sLn. and this is an important
factor in production. _
Weather conditions m AP” ,
early May were favorable for p
ing and during the tobacco trans-
pfartfaE ™v rvisita faS
S'sAiifajri J.™ IX
SeUSl!iri; fealph’Elbert Radford,
Jobn'Ered*Wiod, Selfa»,
U®"'y^t^\.^i,®rAug'>Sus Jones,
feSaT’Ttmas Floyd Oliver Sgma,
Rt 2- Paul Austin Williams, H-.^ay-
S;f’Battle Wilson Champion, Clay
'"lavid Everett Wheeler, Clayton;
set.
mayor henry
(irS CERTIFICATE
“Chief” Griffin Is
Home From Hospital
• Art rt rt
Notwithstanding the fact that the«
a serious labor shortage, the tarm
L got their crops in early and
general reports coming « ^®.
T Td'iffavoii ..r™
fcuiS. both eotto. .nd tobacco
Harry K. Cook, beima,
der, Clayton; Wilham Norma^
land, Princeton, Rt. ,
Murphy, Clayton Rt. l, Ame
Braswell, Selma, Rt. , j^En
Becnarf W;.kb‘ .^^»a.
Henry BeU, Jf- ^e _
Law-
Mayor B. A. Henry and Herbert i
Waid who attended the Fourteenth
1 Annukl Drill School in Asheville last|
Returkn^ marketings of ^nt we«
and cottonseed per acre of cotton ka^ that they Officers and
vested increased member of the North Carolina State
to $49.23 in 1941, the highest ’^^turns 1 Associatioiu
since 1919. 1
■ wto and if favorable seasons Henry Bell, Ji-, ’ D'dley
UMllc J. '(be about the eariiesr Princeton, Rt. 1-
Mr. J. H. Griffin, who has b^n very j in this jg causing many
ill at the Johnston County U®®P'“ Lj^®rg'grave concern at this time is
for several days, has keen mo^d to farmers ^^ey
his home here, and S-ect to be faced during the harvest
proving, his many U.^gon. With modern methods of
very glad to know. -f farming more cotton and tobacco ca
Mr. Griffin is a former ®^ief ®f farm ^ ^ g^^^ ^
„,1„ ,f th. .1 .faCfatt “Ot .t
While there is a drastic shortage
"iS T's^rraW^cSssion
finds‘it i-P®f‘tn'?he"S"
I'SwtS.«>“ •“ “H
I way -warning signs. ,■
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