The Johnstonian-Sun
VOL. 25
SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1942.
Single Copy 5c
Johnston To Get
Bookmobile Soon
Nazi Concrete Fort on Channel Coast
WPB Order Allowing Operation
Ends Long Delay in Securing
Permit.
Johnston County’s bookmobile will
begin its rounds on July 1 unless
some other hitch ^hows up.
The bookmobile, approved by the
rationing board, was purchased and
paid for last December, the revolving
book unit was installed and the out
side properly lettered but when the
county librarian. Miss Virginia Wil
liamson, applied for a license tag,
she was informed that it would have
to be released by the War Production
Board. Due application was made but
was turned down. Then appeal vcas
made to Washington and the assis
tance of Congressman Harold Cooley
sought.
H. B. Marrow, county superinten
dent of schools and chairman of the
purchase committee, received a recent
letter from R. L. Vaniman, deputy
chief of the automotive branch. War
Production Board stating that “after
reveiwing the facts and circumstances
of this case.... it appears that this
vehicle was properly delivered pur
suant to the authority of the local
tire and rationing board of Johnston
County.” He gave .permission to use
his letter as authority to have the
bookmobile titled and licensed by the
Department of Motor Vehicles of the
State.
Miss Williamson went to Raleigh
Saturday and secured title and license
and the vehicle will be on display
in Smithfield this week as books are
being assembled for the initial itiner
ary in rural sections.
Selma Stores Will
Close Monday^ July 6
As July 4th comes on Saturday this
year, we, the undersigned merchants
and business men of the Town of
Selma do hereby agree to close our
.place of business on Monday, July 6.
Henry & Nordan, Proctor’s Store,
W. E. Jones, Etheridge & O’Neal,
Langley’s Jewelers, Smith & Cameron
J. E. Gregory & Company, Abdalla &
Son, Selma Cash Feed Gro., Wiggs
Grocery, Carolina Service & Parts
Co., People’s Market, Economy Furni
ture Co., Pay & Save, City Barber
Shop, Farmers Exchange, Selma Clo.
& Shoe Co., Woodruff & Canady,
Davis Dept. Store, W. B. Godwin Store
L. George Groc., The Hat Shop, Selma
Barber Shop, Talton & Thomas, City
Shoe Shop, James Driver, I. E. Coley,
P. D. Yelverton, W. E. Parker &
Son, Norton’s 5c to $5 Store, Floyd
C. Price & Son, The Quality Store,
Pittman’s Hatchery, A. W. Mitchener,
Vanity Fair Beauty Shop, Carolina
Beauty Nook.
Seen and Heard Along
THE MAINDRAG
:By H. H. L.
HUB BROWN, manager of the
ECONOMY FURNITURE COMPA
NY, is opening up a new furniture
store in Smithfield—when asked by
the writer if he intended leaving Sel
ma, HUB replied: “you couldn’t run
me away from Selma with a ten-foot
pole. I love Selma”—his new store,
located in the Dr. Fitzgerald building.
Will be ready for business the latter
part of this week—that was a dandy
send-off the boys gave RALEIGH
GRIFFIN at the Merchants Hotel
Wednesday night—HOWARD GAS-
KILL made a fine toastmaster—he
managed to get in a word occasional
ly when HUNTER PRICE wasn’t
talking—DR. BOOKER paid a nice
tribute to the popular cashier of our
local bank, who is to become a bene
dict on tomorrow (Friday) when he
takes unto himself a wife—MRS.
ANNIE BARHAM, manager of the
Merchants Hotel, served a splendid
dinner—she was assisted in serving
by DOROTHY PARKER, daughter of
Capt. S. M. PARKER, and LEONA
SASSER, daughter of E. J. SASSER
—these young ladies did themselves
proud—the Editor of The Johnston
ian-Sun gave the ' invocation, after
which several short talks were made
by various members present and ev
erybody proceeded to have a big
time—JOHN WIGGS was the daddy
of the whole show .— MAYOR BAR-
NIE HENRY has returned from the
Land of the Sky, where he attended
the American Legion Convention—
BARNIE says he met Governors
from all over the U. S.—and saw
more spike-tail coats than a few—^he
reports a great meeting and a good
time—DAVID BALL will have charge
of the Kiwanis meeting tonight
(Thursday) and a fine program has
been arranged—RALPH CANADAY
of Four Oaks, who possesses a very
fine voice, wdll sing, accompanied at
the piano by MRS. LEON WOOD
RUFF—don’t miss this meeting-
CHARLES FULGHUM, JR., says he
would like to fill the place in some
good-looking girl’s heart, which has
been made vacant by the departure
of her “soldier boy.”
Missing Warrant
Suddenly Returns
Five-Month Old Warrant Against
Smithfield Lawyer Docketed For Trial
(Tom Lassiter, in Smithfield Herald)
A missing drunken driving warrant against a Smithfield
lawyer, issued last January 16 but blocked from entering the
regular channels of court procedure, has turned up mysteriously
in the office of the clerk of superior court and the case has been
docketed for trial.
* The warrant, charging Leon G.
Stevens with driving under the in-
Here Is Task For
The Red Cross Women
Johnston Oounty Red Cross
Chapter Asked To Make
36.000 Surgical Dressings By
End of This Year.
The national organization of the
American Red Cross has just been
called upon to produce for the armed
forces of the nation an immense sup
ply of surgical dressings. As in the
World War of 1917-18, the women of
America are called upon to work dil
igently to produce these necessary
articles.
The matter is of such urgency that
Mrs. Frances Frost of Chapel Hill, a
Field Representative of the American
Red Cross for Eastern Carolina, drove
over to Smithfield Tuesday afternoon
to confer with a group of w'orkers of
the local Production Unit of the John
ston County Chapter, and suggested a
quota of 36,000 dressings to be made
between August first and the end of
this year.
It is suggested that a work room
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The Rev. J. H. Worley, Selma’s
oldest citizen, has the distinction of
living to see one of his great-grand
children, Miss Rosa Lee Hinnant, of
Whiteville, graduate from college.
Another great-grandchild, Carl P.
Worley, Jr., of Selma, is a student
at the University of North Carolina.
Mr. Worley will celebrate his 90th
birthday on the first day of next Sep
tember. His father, John Worley, he
tells us, died at the age of 93 years.
His sister, Mrs. Aultney Strickland,
was 98 years old when she died. His
mother lived to be 87 and a brother,
William Worley, was 83 when he died.
Prominent Smithfield
Business Man Passes
W. N. Holt Succumbs At Jolwi-
ston County Hospital Fiollow-
ing A Period of Two Years
Blness — Funeral Held Tues
day.
W. N. Holt, 54, prominent business
The first picture to be published m America oi the concrete and
steel “fort” .which the occupying Germans have built on the French
coast at the point where the English channel is narrowest. .jThe “Todt
battery,” as it is called, is manned day and night and is camouflaged.
Here Germans who man the guns have been given the alarm signal
and are dashing for their posts.
fluence of intoxicants, grew out of an
automobile collision January 14 on U.
S. highway 301 several miles south of
Smithfield in which four nurses em
ployed at a Rocky Mount hospital
were injured.
Sheriff Kirby L. Rose swore out the
warrant which lists John A. Narron,
Mrs. Ruth Coates and the sheriff as
state’s witnesses. H. V. Rose, clerk
of the court, was the officer who is
sued the paper and turned it over to
the sheriff for execution. But some
how the case never reached any court
until last week.
Discovered in Drawer
The mystery document, according
to Deputy Court Clerk Albert A.
Corbett, was discovered last Wednes
day afternoon around 4 o’clock in a
desk drawer used by Corbett for
keeping personal papers.
The deputy clerk said he opened
the drawer and was surprised to see
the Stevens warrant lying almost in
the exact middle of the drawer on
top of numerous other papers.
“I am positive that the warrant was
not in the drawer when I left the of
fice around 4 o’clock Tuesday and it
w’as slipped in there sometime be
tween that hour and 4 o’clock Wednes
day,” Corbett told the Herald. “I am
sure of this because I opened the
drawer several times Tuesday and
the warrant would certainly have
been seen if it had been there.”
The deputy clerk said he imhiediate-
ly called Court Clerk Rose from an
adjoining office and showed him his
discovery without disturbing the con
tents of the drawej^ or The position
of the warrant.
Officials Indignant
Indignant over the warrant’s sud
den reappearance in a manner that
cast suspicion over their office, both
Rose and Corbett were emphatic in
their statements that until late Wed
nesday afternoon they had not laid
eyes upon the warrant since the day
Sheriff Rose left the clerk’s office
last January after obtaining the pa
per from the court clerk.
Said Clerk Rose: “I issued a war
rant against Mr. Stevens on the morn
ing of January 16 when Sheriff Rose
came into my office and applied for
it. I handed the warrant to the sheriff
and he left my office apparently to
serve the paper. That is the last time
I saw that warrant until Mr. Corbett
called me Wednesday afternoon to
show me what he had found. It is not
a policy of this office and never has
been to suppress warrants or to
block any case from receiving its
proper disposition.”
Corbett recalled that when the
sheriff obtained the warrant he pass
ed by his desk, opened the paper up,
showed what it was and remarked
that he was going out to serve it.
Sheriff’s Statement
Questioned by the Herald, Sheriff
Rose strongly denied he had tried to
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man of Smithfield, died at the John
ston County Hospital, Sunday morn
ing about 9:30 after having been in
ill health for about two years.
A private funeral service for the
family and personal friends was con
ducted at the Underwood Funeral
Home in Smithfield Tuesday after
noon at four o’clock, with the Rev.
Chester Alexander of Tarboro, for
mer .pastor of the Smithfield Pres
byterian church, officiating. The body
lay in state at the funeral home from
10 a. m. to 2 p. m. Tuesday. The
family requested that no flowers be
sent.
Pallbearers were employes of the
Holt Oil Company, J. M. Gardner, T.
T. Brown, John Cheek, C. C. Spivey,
J. H. Lewis and W. D. Debois.
Mr. Holt was the youngest son of
the late E. J. and Mrs. Jane Gaston
Snead Holt of Smithfield. He grad
uated in 1907 from State College and
since graduation continued to live in
Smithfield where he was active in the
business and civic circles of the
town. He was one of the owners of
the Holt Oil Company and had farm
ing interests in - the county. For a
number of years he was a director of
the Building and Loan Association,
and he was one of the active pro
moters of the building of the Gabriel
Johnston Hotel .He was a member of
the Masonic Order and was a Shriner.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Nancy
Henderson Holt; a son, W. N. Holt,
Jr., and two grandchildren, John and
Nancy Holt of Raleigh; and one bro
ther, R. R. Holt, of this city.
Judge Richard Dixon
Pays Johnsonian-Sun
Office Pleasant Call
•Judge Richard D. Dixon, of Eden-
ton, who has been presiding over
Johnston County Superior Court this
week, paid this office a very pleasant
call this (Thursday) morning. Judge
Dixon left here for Raleigh, court
having adjourned Wednesday after
noon.
This was the first time Judge Dix
on has presided over Johnston coun
ty court since his appointment to the
bench by Governor Broughton. He
told us he was a young man on the
bench, but H. H. Lowry told him he
had been around his court quite a bit
this week and had heard some very
complimentary remarks about him
by leading citizens of the county.
The grand jury, headed by J. Wal
ter Williams as foreman, heard a
charge by Judge Dixon and retired
for its job of passing on true bills
and other investigations.
Jesse Pilkington, of Selma, was
found guilty of abandonment and as
sault on his wife. He was sentenced
by Judge Dixon to three years in the
penitentiary, the sentence suspended
upon condition that he remain law
abiding and pay to his wife the sum
of $6 per week. The plaintiff was rep
resented by Carl Gaddy, Jr., of Selma.
A 70-year old Negro farmer of
Meadow township—Eulas Eason—en
tered a plea of nolo contendere on
charges of violating the prohibition
laws. He was sent to the roads for a
total of 12 months on two counts.
One bill charged possession of one
gallon of illegal whisky for sale and
a second indictment charged posses
sion . and operation of a still outfit.
Both offenses occurred in April.
Tom Tyner and Graham Canaday,
youthful delinquents who broke into
the dance hall at Holt Lake last
month and robbed the “piccolo” of
around $4.00, pleaded guilty.
Canaday, being only 15, was sent to
the training school at Rocky Mount
and Tyner was given a 3-year road'
sentence, suspended on condition that
the youth shows good behavior.
No cases of widespread public in
terest were on the calendar for the
current term.
18 and 19-Y ear-Old
Boys To Register
Tuesday, June 30
Johnston County’s two draft boards are now preparing’ for the
fifth selective service registration, which will be held on Tuesday,
Jun? 30th. All boys of 18 and 19 years of age must report to their
nearest registration place. Registration will begin at 7 o’clock a. m,
and continue until 9 p. m.
^ * This also applies to boys who
have become 20 years old since
Permanent Gas Ration
Postponed For Week
Washington, June 22.—The
start of permanent gasoline
rationing in the East was
postponed tonight from July
15 to July 22 in order to give
motorists an extra week in
which to organize car pooling
clubs.
The registration of car own
ers for new rationing cards
also was delayed a week. The
basic “A” books will be issued
July 9, 10 and 11, instead of
July 1, 2 and 3, as originally
announced.
In order to extend the pres
ent emergency plan for the
additional week, the Office of
Price Administration author
ized use of the war bond seal
in the upper left hand corner
of each card for a ration of
gasoline.
The purchase value of the
seal will vary with the type
of card. Holders of “A” cards
will be entitled to three gal
lons to tide them over the in
terim period; B-1 card holders
will be permitted to purchase
four gallons; B-2 holders, five
gallons, and B-3 card holders,
six gallons.
The filling station attends
ants will punch the seal as if
it were one of the units on the
card. All unused units on the
A and B cards will continue
to be good for six gallons
each.
Draft Boards Prepared For Fifth Regis
tration—Boys 18 and 19 Years Old Must
Register For Draft In Johnston Tuesday
the last registration. The law
specifies that every male citizen
who was born on or after Jan
uary 1, 1922 must register.
Registration of these young
boys does not necessarily mean
that they will be ordered for
duty anytime soon, perhaps not
until they are 21, but the regis
tration is for records and will be
used to determine the draft pro
gram in the future.
Eligible lists of those already reg
istered have been almost completely
exhausted, already married men are
being called and it appears likely that
the youth will be next, depending up
on the need. Local officials have no
authority on that point, however.
Proclamations issued by both Presi
dent Roosevelt and Governor Brough
ton on the registration have already
been received and posted by local
draft officials.
Boys may register at the same
places that the four previous registra
tions were held., , .
Billy Aycock Is
Kiwanis Speaker
Billy Aycock of Selma, and a First
Lieutenant in an Alabama Army
Camp, was the guest speaker at the
Selma Kiwanis club on last Thursday
evening. He was introduced by Pro
gram Chairman Bradley Pearce.
Lieutenant Aycock said he regard
ed a group of men like the Kiwanis
cluh as the “thinking center” of the
community.
Speaking of the war, Lieut. Aycock
said that while we are all immense
ly interested in winning the war, he
believes when the guns are hushed
and armies are demobilized, w'e will
still face the supreme task of ad
justing our economic system to peace
time conditions. He said with the re
turn of our soldiers they are going
to expect jobs to be open for them,
and justly so, and that it is going to
take some intelligent planning to
make a peace that will be a lasting
peace. He sees grave danger that un
der our previous high standard of
living, if some provision is not made
to satisfy the ambitions of our peo
ple during the period of readjustment
to peace-time conditions, if we don’t
mind we wdll he mobilizing our boys
for another war within the next
quarter of a century.
Save scrap rubber for Uncle Sam.
Hailstorm Damages
Crops IVear i^elma
Two Johnston Youths
Shocked By Lightning
During a severe electrical storm
Friday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock, a
bolt of lightning struck a large tree
in the yard at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. F. House, about five miles
southeast of Selma, seriously injuring
Laland House, 16, son of Mr. and
Mrs. House, who was sitting on the
back porch about 15 feet from the
tree.
The young man was rendered un
conscious, while his parents, who
were in the home, received slight in
juries. At the same hour, lightning
struck the home of Carl Brown of
Selma, Route 1, severely shocking his
little six-year-old daughter, causing
temporary paralysis in the right leg.
State Democratic
Leader Is Indicted
Charlotte, June 24.—Tom O. Little
of Statesville, member of the state
Democratic executive committee, un
der indictment here for alleged liquor
law violations, posted $1,000 bond to
day for his appearance in Superior
criminal court next Monday.
Little surrendered to State Bureau
of Investigation officers in Raleigh
and was out here last night. Superior
Court Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn is
sued a capias for his arrest yester
day after a grand jury indictment im
plicated him in a large liquor running
racket allegedly headed by Carl Lip-
pard.
Trial of Little and eight others in
dicted with him has been set for Mon
day before Judge Burgwyn.
The State alleged that Little, for
mer fugitive officer for the State
Prison Department, guided liquor
shipments into Charlotte where the
State charges they were sold to Lip-
pard’s retailers.
Says Johnston People
Should Be Thankful
Last Friday afternoon around 3
o’clock a terrific rain, hail and wind
storm visited a small section about
two and a half miles north of Selma,
doing much damage to growing crops,
especially tobacco. The center of the
storm seemed to be about the old
home place of the late Squire Kirby,
now owned by Herman Anderson. Mr.
Anderson’s tobacco was badly damag
ed and his cotton and tobacco was
blown about and riddled by the hail.
Other crops damaged in the same
vicinity were those of J. S. Kirby,
Charlie Kirby, Berry and Phil Lan-
his company carried insurance on the
tobacco being grown on the farms of
Miss Sallie Kirby, with S. E. Batten
as tenant, J. S. Kirby, J. M. Driver,
Howard Gordon, Levy Batten and C.
F. Broadwell.
We understand that Herman Ander
son and Charlie Kirby carried hail
insurance in other companies, but that
there was no insurance carried on the
Mayor B. A. Henry, C. E. Kornegay,
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Hohhs and son,
Gibbon, returned Wednesday night,
after attending the American Legion
convention in Asheville. They report a
good convention and large attendance.
Mayor Henry, in speaking of the
crop outlook between Selma and
Asheville, said that Johnston county
people certainly have something to be
thankful for. Nowhere did they see
any crops to compare with those in
Johnston county.
Aboard Lexington
Mrs. H. T. White of Selma had a
crops of Berry and Phil Lancaster, letter from her son, Morgan White,
Slight damage was also done on the 1 a few days ago saying he was safe
farm of R. L. Ray, Jr., who carried I and well and not to worry about him.
some insurance. 1 Morgan was on the Battleship Lex-
1 While there have been no reports 1 jngton when it went down in the
of severe damage by hail in other 1 Coral Sea battle. Morgan is a mem-
places in Johnston county, some hail! her. of the Dive Bombing Squadron
was reported in certain parts of Ele-land has been in the Navy about 4
vation township. | years.
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