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VOL. 25
SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1942.
Single Copy 5c
NUMBER 40
Ready for Shipment to Ameriea’s Allies
Dr. Petry To Be At
The Methodist Church
Duke University Minister Ti5
Conduct Series of Services At
Local Church, October 4th
Through the 9th.
Primitive Baptists
Hold Forth At Benson
American planes provided through the lend-lease act are shown being
made ready for shipment to an un-named American city, destined for
shipment to Allied ports. These planes are packed in weather resistant
coatings to assure safe arrival. (Soundphoto-Office of War Information.)
Young Man Kills Self
With Gun Sunday
Calypso Man Mentions to Friend
About Jumping Oft Water
And Then Draws Pistol From
Pocket And Fires Bullet Into
Right Side of Head—Occurr
ed Near Princeton.
John Jones, 28, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Rufus Jones, of Calypso, died of self-
inflicted bullet wounds at the home
of Mrs. Sallie Wallace near Prince
ton Sunday afternoon about 4:30
o’clock, Johnston County Coroner E.
N. Booker reported.
After an investigation Coroner
Booker ruled the death a suicde and
sad no nquest wll be held. The shoot-
ong was witnessed by several persons.
According to witnesses, Jones was
standing on the porch at .the home of
Mrs. Wallace about a half-mile south
of Prinieton. .He remarked to a
friend: “How about going on top of
the city water tank and jumping
off?’’
His friend replied, “No, I don’t
care to.”
“Well, how about doing this?”
Jones said, and pulled a .32 caliber
pistol from his pocket and fired
through the right side of his head.
Jones died about two hours later
at Johnston County Hospital.
Coroner Booker said Jones had been
driving a truck for a Goldsboro firm
and was spending the week-end in
Princeton.
Funeral services and burial for
Jones were held at Sunset Memorial
Park, near Smithfield, Monday after
noon.
Newspapers of State
Offer Prizes For Scrap
District Union League
Convention Coming
The District Union League Con
vention will be held with the Selma
Free Will Baptist Church on Sunday,
October 4, 1942.
Theme—Victory Through Faith.
Scripture—Matt. 21:21.
Song—Faith of Our Fathers.
2:30—Devotional, by Raines Cross
Roads League.
2:46—Welcome, by Kathleen Star
ling.
2:50—Response, by Joe High of the
Orphanage.
2:56—President’s Remarks.
3:00—Business.
3:30—Special Music, by Pine Level
League.
3:40—Convention Sermon, by the
Rev. J. A. Evans.
4:00—Playlette-—The Lad and His
Loaves, by Selma League.
4:15—Business.
4:30—Benediction.
Dear County Chairman:
■ All the newspapers of. North
Carolina are aware of the splendid
work your committee and others in
the state have done in the collection
of scrap. At the request of Mr. Nel
son, we are entering the picture in an
active way to co-operate further with
you. Beginning on October 1, and
lasting through October 21, the news
papers of North Carolina are putting
on a contest and drive for the collec
tion of scrap metal.
The newspapers are giving away
$3,100 in prizes to be given to the
counties collecting the most scrap per
capita, to the individual and firm
collecting the largest poundage of
scrap, and also the Junior organiza
tion, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, 4-H
Clubs, etc., that collects the largest
poundage.
It is the desire of the, newspapers
to make the people more scrap mind
ed, and by donating extensive adver
tising and news stories in each issue
during this period to increase the
flow of scrap to you and your com
mittee.
The newspapers through their com
mittee, of which I happen to be chair
man, will send you official contest
receipt blanks and also Scrap Scout
Badges for your local committee to
use in giving receipts, and giving
Scrap Badges to anyone _ bringing in
25 pounds or more. It is our hope
that the newspapers publicity and ad
vertising will greatly benefit the
work of your committee. Your news
paper has a copy of the contest rules
and will be glad to work with you in
every way possible so that North
Carolina will produce more scrap per
capita than any other state in the
Union.
Assuring you of the co-operation
of the newspapers in your most im
portant work, I remain
Sincerely your,
FRANK DANIELS, Chairman
N. C. Newspaper Salvage Com.
Committee.
Dr. Ray C. Petry, of Duke Univer
sity will open the series of special
services at the Edgerton Memorial
Methodist Church Sunday morning at
the 11:00 worship hour. He will use
as his topic, “Jesus Christ Our
Wisdom.” The evening service at 8:00
will find Dr. Petry using the subject,
“Some Admonitions For Christian
Living.”
During the week days Dr. Petry
will be speaking at 9:00 a. m. and
8:00 p. m. These messages will be
taken from the study of the Bible
and from the great needs that arise
out of a war torn world. People are
asking as they never have before for
the messages that will help them. We
believe that the coming of a great
Bible teacher to us at this time is a
means of helping thinking people to
be more Christian in their living. ■
The Methodist people would like to
share all of these services with all
the people of the community and the
surrounding communities that would
enjoy Dr. Petry’s messages. We bid
you welcome to the Gospel feas.t.
Sunday is the day set apart for
World Communion. It is a time when
the Christian people of the world can
meet with Christ and share with Him
and with one another in the great
sacrement of the church. It is the
one sacrificial service that all Chris
tian people can share with a broken,
bleeding, and dying world. We can
not come to this. His Service, with
our young men and women upon the
far places of the world without a
prayer for them and a memory
our hearts, we feel as deeply the
hungry, naked, sick people of the
needy world. We will make our offer
ings at His table to help the Chaplins
minister to the men in service and
to meet the needs of the people where
our church is at work.
0. L. HATHAWAY, Pastor.
Little River Associatian Draws
Large Crowd At Mt. Zion
Church For Annual Associa
tion—Next Association To Be
Held At Middle Creek In
Southern Wake County.
Small Tornadoes Hit
In Johnston County
Benson, Sept. 29.—The Little River
Primitive Baptis.t Association con
vened. with the Mt. Zion church here
on Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
September 25, 26, and 27, 1942.
The following ministers were pres
ent and preached with a demonstra
tion of power and in the Spirit of the
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, during
the sitting of the association:
The introductory sermon was
preached by Elder R. B. Parrish, fol
lowed by Elder Shepard Langdon, af
ter whiih the following visiting min
isters preached:
Elder J. T. Williams and Elder E.
L. Cobb, from Black Creek Associa
tion; Elders T. M. Walker and N. T.
Teasley, from Lower Country Line
Association;' Elder W. E. Jerrell,
from Abbott’s Creek Association;
Elders J. W. Wyatt and Jack Pullum,
from Lower Mayo Association; El
ders L. A.. Johnson, gure Lee, and
L. W. Turner, from Seven Mile As
sociation; Elders R. W. Gurganus, E.
E. Pollard, F. W. Rhodes, and L. L.
Yoppe, from White Oak Association;
Elder W. C. King, from Upper Coun-
.try Line Association; Elder Joshue
Mewborn, from Contentnae Associa
tion; Elders R. B. Benson and A. L.
Robins, from Kehukee Association;
Elder W. C. Edwards, from Bear
Creek Association; Elder L. T. Tuck
er, from Salem Association.
Presiding officers of the assoiiation
were Elder E. F. Pearce of Princeton.
Moderator, and Elder T. Floyd Ad
ams, of Willow Spring, Clerk.
The attendance was good through
out the association, and each day a
long table was spread and an abun
dance of choice foods were served to
the hundreds of people in atendance.
The next sitting of the association
will be held with Middle Creek church
in southern Wake county, on the
Fourth Friday, Saturday and Sunday
in September, 1943.
Blackout OFFicials Did
Good Job In Selma
David J. Jones Is
Killed By Train
Clayton Man Killed Instantly
When Struck by Train; -
Funeral Monday.
Clayton, Sept. 27.—David J. Jones,
49, of Clayton was killed instantly
Saturday afternoon about 5 o’clock
when he was struck by a Southern
Railway train while walking along
the tracks here.
Dr. E. N. Booker of Selma, John
ston County, coroner, investigated and
ruled that dea.th was due to an un
avoidable accident.
Jones was born in Fayetteville in
1892, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Bryant Jones. He was married to
Martha Farris of Laurinburg in 1926
and moved to Clayton in 1940. He was
a member of the Episcopal Church of
Fayetteville.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mar
tha Farris Jones; two sons, David
Thomas Jones of Clayton, and Wood-
row Jones of Fayetteville; one daugh-
.ter, Mrs. Louise Casper of Fayette
ville; two brothers, Thomas Jones of
Fayetteville, and Archie Jones of
Norfolk, 'Ya.; one sister, Mrs. Annie
Strickland of Fayetteville.
Funeral services will be held from
the late residence, in Clayton Monday
at 2 p. m., with the Rev. P. O. Lee,
pastor of the Clayton Methodist
Church, officiating. Burial will follow
in Creek Mount Cemetery at Fayette
ville. *
Entire Town Thrown Into Total
Darkness Almost Instantane
ously—Chief Air Raid War
den W. D. Perkins and His
Able Assistants Did Good Job.
The orders for a State-wide black
out on Tuesday night of this week
were carried out to perfection by
the Air Raid Wardens in Selma, un
der the direction of Chief Air Raid
Warden W. D. Perkins.
The signal for a blackout came
exactly at 9:15, and Chief Perkins
had set up such a perfect organiza
tion that it was jus.t like an auto
matic machine. At the first sound of
the alarm most all lights seemed to
go out instantly and simultaneously,
and it was only a matter of seconds
before the entire town was in utter
darkness.
Air Raid wardens could be heard
going up and down the streets in an
effort to find someone “asleep at the
f itch,” but without avail. The Main-
ag was as dark as the jungles
where electric lights are unknown in
less time than it would take to tell
it. News from Pine Level was that
the people of that neighboring tovro
heard the Selma warning, and that
they, too, found themselves in utter
darkness.
We took a peep up and down the
streets but' could see nothing but a
sea of black, and it seemed that the
stars and even the Milky Way were
brighter than we had seen them since
the days of the oil lamp—W-A-Y
B-A-C-K in the sticks many ^ara
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Scrap Drive Renewed
Throughout the Nation
Early Sunday morning, according
to our Wilson’s Mills correspondent,
a small tornado swooped down in that
section and did considerable damage.
For more detailed information about
this storm, see Wilson’s Mills news
in another part of this paper.
The storm seemed to hit with
greatest force in Elevation township
where it swooped down in the Lassi
ter neighborhood.
In the Lassiter section, a tenant
dwelling occupied by the family of
Lee Sanders, colored, splintered into
bits .that were strewn over several
acres. The roof, the walls and parti
tions, and even the chimney were
completely blown away and only the
flooring of the four-room house was
left standing.
Five persons were in the dwelling
when the storm struck and all mira
culously escaped serious injury. San
ders was the worst injured, receiving
a cut on his foot in adition to minor
bruises.
The dwelling was owned by Russell
Lassiter and was built before' the
Civil War by Lassiter’s grandfather.
The building stood at the old Lassiter
homeplace until it was moved some
years ago to serve as a tenant house.
Lassiter’s loss was estimated at
$500.
' Freak Results
Bert Lassiter, Four Oaks banker
and a bro.ther of Russell Lassiter re
ported two freakish results of the
storm. He said poultry wire was
swept from the ground back of the
Sanders home and was left hanging
on an electric wire several hundred
yards away. One of the Sanders bed-
sheets, he said, was found in the top
of a tree some distance from where
the dwelling stood.
Morgan White Gets
Service Decorations
Morgan White son of Mrs. H. T.
White of Selma, who has been spend
ing some time here with his mother
and other relatives and friends, was
a visitor to the Johnstonian-Sun of
fice Monday. He told us that he was
on the aircraft carrier Lexington
when it was bombed and sunk in the
Coral Sea Battle some time ago. He
said about dusk the day before the
Lexington was bombed the Japs made
an effort to land on the hugh air
craft carrier, thinking it was one of
their own ships, but when their anti
aircraft guns went into operation
four of the enemy planes were down
ed.
Morgan told us that the day the
Lexington was bombed the air was
speckled with Japanese dive bombers
and fighter planes, and when the
Lexington went down he drifted
about in the water for two hours
before being picked up by one of
Uncle Sam’s destroyers. He said only
about 8 per cent of the personnel on
the Lexington were lost when it sank;
Morgan is wearing three golden
stars which represent three battles in
which he has been. He enli^ed in the
Navy four years ago this coming
January. When he returns to his post
of duty about October 15th, his ad
dress will be: M. M. Morgan, V .T.—
12, Care Post Office, San Francisco,
Calif.
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Back Home From
Morehead City
and Mrs. W. F. Pendergraft
Buys Its Quota
Of War Bonds
Have you heard about Uncle Sam
needing, scrap .iron, steel,, tin, rubber,
aluminum, rags and various other
things for war production?
From the way people have respond
ed to previous calls, we had decided
maybe they haven’t heard about it—
or didn’.t care anything about it. But
if you have scrap materials and are
not willing to give them up, it will,
in all probability, become necessary
for the Government to take them
anyway, just as it is freezing all
automobile tires, tubes and other
things today.
A meeting was held in Smithfield
Monday night under the direction of
C. E. Bingham, chairman of .the John
ston County Salvage Committee, with
practically all sections of the county
represented; and at this meeting it
was decided to go after, scrap with
renewed energy. The Smithfield com
mittee has adopted a plan to place a
small flag in front of everyone’s
home or place of business who do
nates as much as 25 pounds of scrap
to the war program. Surely every
one should be able to contribute 25
pounds of scrap.
Prizes are being offered in the
various counties to those salvaging
the most scrap. In Johnston county
any one who can lead in salvaging
the most scrap will be awarded a $50
war bond. By winning such a prize
you will not only be helping the war
production program, but yourself as
well. In addition to the prize, your
name will be heralded throughout the
county and state as a leader in the
cause for Victory. Get busy today.
Mr.
and children, Barbara Dale, Gladys
and Floyd, Jr., have returq^d from
Morehead City,, where they spent
some time with ' Mrs. * Pehdergraft’s
sister, Mrs. H. C. Howard. They were
accompanied by Mr. Jimmie Sanders
of Smithfield.
Clarence Brown Visits
His Parents In Selma
Clarence Brown, who has been
transferred to New Orleans from
Puget Sound, Naval Base in Wash
ington State, spent the week end here
with his parents, Capt. and Mrs. J. P.
Brown, en route to New Orleans.
Clarence is, a pharmacist’s Mate, fc.
Mr. and Mrs. Payne
Return To Selma
Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Payne have
returned to Selma from Superior,
Wisconsin, where Mr. Payne was
player and manager of that city’s
baseball club in the Northern League.
Payne became manager in July, re
placing Art Hanger, veteran base
ball manager. The club climbed from
seventh place to fifth place under
Manager Payne’s direction, failing to
get in playoffs by less than one-half
a game.
Payne, who was coach and teacher
at Corinth-Holder, does not plan to
return to Johnston county schools,
but will go into defense work.
Sgt. John W. Avery
Writes From England
The Kenly Building and Loan Asso
ciation has gone over the top in the
purchase of War Savings Bonds in
connection with the $100,000,000
War Bond Purchase Program spon
sored by the United States Savings
and Loan League and the North
Carolina Building and Loan League,
according to a report from Mrs.
Gladys K. Neighbors, Secretary,^ re
ceived ' at State League Committee
headquarters today.
The national program calls for the
purchase by all Associations of $100,-
000,000 in bonds between June 30 and
December 31. A quota of $1,915,000
has been assigned to the North Caro
lina Associations, and in turn quotas
have been assigned to each individual
Association.
The Kenly Building and Loan Asso
ciation is an approved issuing agency
for the sale of War Bonds to the
I public, and the purchase of its quota
1 of bonds for its own account has no
Mrs. Walter Avery, of Selma, Route
1, received a letter from her son,
Sgt. John W. Avery, who is some
where in England, one day last week
stating that he was getting along
fine and not to worry about him. He
assured his mother that he was get
ting along even better than she and
her folks at home. He advised that
everybody in the United States buy
all the bonds that they can possibly
buy.
Sergeant Avery has been in the
Army about three years. He is be
lieved to have been in England about
one month. Sergeant Avery wrote his
parents to tell all his friends to write
to him, as he would be very glad to
hear from any of them.
relation to its activities in the sale
of Bonds to the public.
The above information was given
out by J. P. Stevens, Chairman North
Carolina League Defense Committee,
Greensboro, N. C.
Miss Mary Louise
Jeffreys On Program
Selma Kiwanians were entertained
with two very delightful piano num
bers by Miss Mary Louise Jeffreys on
last Thursday evening. Her renditions
were among the most up-to-date
classics of the day, and were given
with splendid skill at the keyboard.
Miss Jeffreys was presented by her
father, John Q. A. Jeffreys, who had
charge of the program. Kiwanian
Jeffreys said he was unsuccessful _ in
getting a speaker for the occasion
and invited his daughter in order
that a program might be had.
A committee was appointed to
draft resolutions recommending that
more strenuous methods be invoked
to curb the sales and drinking of in
toxicating liquors among our people,
especially among our soldier boys.
Nam’ed on this committee were John
Jeffreys, D. M. Clemmons and H. V.
Gaskiil.
The meeting this Thursday night
will be Ladies’ Night, when the club
will entertain the local school faculty
and the wives of club members and
their sweethearts. The meeting will
begin at 7:30 o’clock. A prominent
speaker and entertainer has been se
cured and a good program is assured.
Cadet Earl Swain
Becomes Lieutenant
Seen and Heard Along
THE MAINDRAG
^By H. H. L. ——i
Camp Lee, Va., Cadet Earl R.
Swain, Selma, N. C., was recently
graduated from the Officer Candidate
Course of the Quartermaster School
located at Camp Lee, Va., and re
ceived a . commission as a Second
Lieutenant in the Army of the United
States.
His class consisted of specially
selected enlisted men of the Quarter
master Corps who demonstrated to
their local commanders and selection
boards that they possessed the quali
ties of leadership and initiative neces
sary for officers of the Quartermas
ter Corps.
The course consisted of intensive
training in both military and basic
Quartermaster subjects.
Pvt. Jesse W. Stallings
In Foreign Service
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Stallings, pa
rents of Pvt. Jesse W. Stallings, re
ceived a letter from him stating that
he was “somewhere in England.” He
said he liked the country fine and the
people were very nice. /
He is a Radio operator on a Flying
Fortress Bomber in the Army Air
Corps.
John Bill Ricketts owned the first
American circus and gave exhibitions
in Philadelphia as early as 1792.
Mud baths are sometimes taken as
a remedy for rheumatism, gout and
other ailments.
“NEW FALL GOODS” is what we
intended to say in WALT GODWIN’S
advertisement last week, instead of
“FEW FALL GOODS”—that “F” got
in the “N” box, thus the bad mixup—
we apologize to WALT—We want to
say right here that he has the New
Fall Goods all right—and in a few
days will have more as he is on the
Northern Markets this week buying
more goods for Jiis big store in Selma
—TROY HENRY and RAYMOND
PEEDIN spent several days in Rich
mond this week on business—we asjc-
ed TROY at the Union Station Mon
day just before he boarded the train
if his wife sent RAYMOND along to
look after him, “no,” he replied,
“RAYMOND’S wife sent me along to
look after him”—W. B. GODWIN,
JR., writes his dad from Oak Ridge,
where he is attending Oak Ridge Mil
itary Institute, to send him some
“heavies” and yarn socks, as the
weather up that way was getting
cold—“Pm getting along fine,” he
writes, “they’ll make a man out of
you here if you stick to it,” he says •
MR. E. M. GORDY, manager of the
Brick Hotel, on Tuesday celebrated
his birthday—he was 75 years young
—“they put on a blackout over the
entire State to celebrate my birth
day,” he said—he looks no older than
a 60-year-old, if you could see him
dance to the radio barn dance, you’d
think he was younger than 60—to
night is the big night at the local
Kiwanis Club, when the club plays
host to the school teachers, and the
wives and sweethearts.of the Kiwan
ians—HAYDEN WIGGS will be in
charge of the program — BILL
CREECH has a window that is at
tracting the attention of everybody
.that passes the Selma Drug Compa
ny-dozens of photographs of Selnia
boys who are serving Uncle Sam in
the Army, Navy and Marines, are on
display—BILL wants the picture of
all the Selma boys in the service, so
bring your son’s and let him display
it along with the rest of .them—glad
to see EARL FUNDERBURK on the
Maindrag this week—EARL is now
stationed at Elizabeth City they
Maindrag sure was blacked out Tues
day night—not a glimmer of Ugl
anywhere to be seen.
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