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The J ohnstonian-Sun
tSm U.S.WAR BONDS
VOL. 25
SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1942.
Single Copy 5c
NUMBER 45
Democratic Majorities
Reduced In Johnston
Light Vote Throughout County
Tuesday Left Democratic Ma
jorities Lagging Far Below
Previous Levels—Sheriff Kir
by L. Rose Suffers Greatest
Lotss In Votes—All Democrats
On Ticket Elected.
According to unofficial reports,
Johnston county will remain under
Democratic control for four more
years, but with greatly diminished
majorities polled in Tuesday’s elec
tion.
The unofficial report gives Kirby
L. Rose 5,790 votes, while L. D
Mitchell, his Republican opponent;
received 4,065 votes. This was per
haps, the most pivotal contest in the
county during the voting Tuesday.
Most Republicans and many Demo
crats felt that Mitchell had a fair
chance of defeating. Rose should the
Republicans poll their normal strength
but hundreds of Republicans as well
as Democrats did not go to the polls
Tuesday. The cause, of course, is at
tributed to the war situation more
than to any other one factor.
We have no figures on the ballot
ing for other jcandidates for the
county as a whole, but understand
that other Democratic majorities
ranged somewhat higher than that
received by Sheriff Rose.
In Banner township the Republi
cans came through with handsome
majorities, in spite of the light vote,
Mitchell defeating Rose in that town
ship by 269 votes.
Sheriff Rose received 237 votes in
West Selma precinct, while Mitchell
received 67. In East Selma precinct
Rose polled 137 and Mitchell 75, mak
ing a majority of 232 for Rose in
Selma township. Other Republican
candidates ran around 50 votes behind
Mitchell in this township.
Only about one-half of the normal
vote was polled in Selma township
Tuesday.
Slim Edge in Congress
Retained by Democrats
Republicans Hold 205 House
Seats, with Eight Races Un
decided, and Gain Nine Mem
bers in Senate
Oct. Scrap Harvest
In Johnston Totals
Nearly Million Pounds I
BOTH BOARDS
SEND DRAFTEES
FOR INDUCTION
Herman Allen Pays
Penalty For Murder
Herman Allen surrendered his life
to the State of North Carolina in
Central Prison’s gas chamber at
Raleigh last Friday morning, paying
the supreme penalty for the murder
of his brother-in-law, Grady Lee. Al
len was also charged with the murder
of his wife, Ruth Lee Allen, and a
neighbor. Cap Raynor, but the state
chose to try him only on the Grady
Lee charge to simplify the court pro
ceedings. The murders were commit
ted early one morning last January
several miles south of Four Oaks.
Allen, 35-year-old farmer of In
gram’s township, who once served a
prison term for manslaughter, was
one of two men executed at the
prison Friday. The other was a Negro
17-year-old Otis Harris, of Bertie
county, who was convicted of rape.
Allen was the. first to enter the
gas chamber. As he walked through
the door at exactly ten o’clock a. m.,
he carried a smile, and as the atten
dants adjusted the brown leather
mask over his face he prayed.
He was still offering his prayer
when the first fumes of cyanide gas
began to pour into the death room at
10:03. He was pronounced dead 10
minutes and 20 seconds later.
Two Johnston county officers at
tended the execution of Allen. They
were Deputy Sheriff Hales and As
sistant Jailer Will Barber. Other
Johnston .county men witnessing the
execution were John Arnold, Luther
Worley, Alfred Coates, Howard Denn
ing, A. E. Denton and Dalton Raynor.
Burial took place Saturday after
noon at the Allen cemetery four miles
south of Four Oaks.
Washington, Nov. 4. — Sweeping
Republican successes in a tense war
time election made actual voting con
trol of the House a touch-and-go af
fair tonight, although the Democrats
salvaged enough seats to block Re
publicans from naming a new speak
er.
The Democratic Party also retain
ed a majority in the Senate, though
the Republican flood-tide ripped wide
gaps in the administration forces
there.
(Smithfield Herald)
The county salvage committee an
nounced Monday that Johnston coun
ty’s scrap collections in the State
Newspaper Contest drive from Octo
ber 1st to the 21st totaled 923,745
pounds of 14.48 pounds per capita.
Not included in this figure was an
estimated 250,000 pounds of scrap
which is going into war production,
but which was in such bulk that it
could not be moved during the period
of the campaign. This part of the
county’s contribution to .the war ef
fort included a tram railroad, two old
sawmills, and 15 boilers of the saw
mill type.
Two firms in the county turned in
Both of Johnston cpunty’s draft
boards^ sent Negro selectees to the
Army induction station at Port Bragg
Friday. The . Smithfield ' board
Methodist Pastor
Served His 4th
Has
Vear
last
sent 35 men and the Selma board 23.
Names of the group called up by
Board No. 2. here are as follows:
James Weston Hinnant, Rt. 1,
Middlesex; William Ninnant, Rt. 2,
Zebulon; Jessie James Finch, Rt. 2,
Zebulon; Arthur Watson, Rt. 2, Clay
ton; Josephus Daniel Hinton, Rt. 1,
Wendell; Lee Bradley, Selma; Jehro-
na Banks, Clayton;
Lester Ellis Sims, Pine Level;
Richard Coley, Rt. 1, Kenly; Harley
Williams Smith ,Selma; Freddie B.
Boykin, Kenly; Manuel Junior Simms,
Thanksgiving Plans
Harvest Day Sale
of
Dr. Forrest C. Peezor, pastor
the Tabernacle Baptist church in
Raleigh, will be the speaker at the
Harvest Day celebration planned by
Thanksgiving Baptist church for Fri
day, November 6.
Dr. Peezor will be heard at a wor
ship service scheduled to be held at
12 noon. A free barbecue dinner will
be staged on the church grounds at
1 p. m. and an auction sale of pro
duce will take place following the
dinner. Proceeds from the sale will
go into the church treasury.
Local Girl Honored
At Brenau College
Gainesville, Ga., — Miss Dorothy
O’Neal, junior at Brenau College, and
the daughter of Mrs. J. M. O’Neal of
Selma, was this week elected into
Sigma Pi Alpha, national honorary
langauage fraternity. Requirements
for membership are, an average of A
in all languages, and an average of
at least a C in all other subjects.
Bare Majority
President Roosevelt’s party finally
pieced together a bare majority of
the House membership tonight, but
the opposition had edged so close that
even slight deflections from party
regularity might shift the tally on
important roll calls.
With only 8 House races undecided.
Republicans counted 205 seats, com
pared with 218 for the Democrats,
two held by Progressives, and one
each by American-Labor and Parmer-
Labor lawmakers. In the 1940 elec
tion Democrats won 267 House seats
and Republicans won 162.
The new Senate lineup stood at
66 Democrats, 38 Republicans, and
one Progressive, with the outcome of
contest in Montana undetermined.
Senator James E. Murray, Democrat,
held the lead in that state.
The Republicans had made a net
gain of nine Senate seats, including
that of 81-year-old George W. Norris,
Nebraska Independent. As a result,
they had their largest representation
since the New Deal drove to power
nationally in 1932. The Republican
trength had dwindled to only 17
Senate seats in 1937.
Josh Lee Defeated
Of the 15 Democratic Senators
elected Tuesday, 10 were from the
party’s stronghold in the South. But
Oklahoma elected its second Republi
can Senator in 35 years when E. H.
Moore, Tulsa oil man, retired Demo
crat Josh Lee.
The administration lost other strong
supporters in the Senate. Detroit’s
Judge Homer Ferguson defeated
Senator Prentiss M. Brown, who ram-
rodded this year’s price control legis
lation through that chamber. A Re
publican industrialist, Albert W.
Hawkes, accounted for William H
Smathers of New Jersey. Republican
George A. Wilson doNvned Democrat
Clyde L. Herring in Iowa.
White House influence could not
cave Senator George W. Norris, 81-
year-old Nebraska Independent, who
bowed to Republican Kenneth S.
Wherry. E. V. Robertson, Wyoming
Republican, eliminated Senator Harry
H. Schwartz. /
Other Republican victories were
rung up by C. Douglass Bucjc, in
Deleware, Harlan J. Bushfield in
South Dakota and Chapman Rever-
comb in West Virginia. Revercomb
vanquished Governor M. M. Neely, a
former Senator. In West Virginia’s
other Senatorial race, for a short
term ending next January 3, Neely’s
than 50,000 pounds each during 4^' KlsMy; Daniel William Davis,
the drive, the salvage committee an
nounced. The Johnston County Furni
ture Company of Smithfield scrapped
the old heating system of the Austin
building here and contributed around
55,000 pounds to the scrap harvest.
Smithfield Manufacturing Company
turned in around 53,000 pounds.
Singled out for especial praise was
the Pine Level boy scout troop, which
gathered up 53,564 pounds of old
metal to lead all scout troops in the
county.
The county salvage committee is
well pleased with the record made by
Johnston county even though the
county did not win one of the prizes
offered in the state newspaper con
test. The committee pointed out that
the record of collecting nearly one
million pounds in a three-week period
was excelient in view of the fact that
this county has been doing an above-
•the-average in the job of getting in
the scrap ever since Pearl Harbor.
Including the 923,745 pounds collec
ted in the October drive, Johnston
county’s total scrap collections since
the Pearl Harbor attack stand at 4,-
375,745 pounds or 68.55 pounds for
every resident of the county.
C. E .Bingham, chairman of the
salvage committee, estimated Monday
that the county still had around 1,-
500,000 pounds of scrap that ought to
be turned into channels of, war pro
duction and he urged that the, peogjie;
of the county continue their salvage
efforts until every last bit of old
metal is moved .
Scrap Winners
To Be Decided
Thursday Night
appointee, Joseph Rosier,
Hugh Ike Shott, Sr.
lost to
Pine Level Scouts
Gather Much Scrap
During the recent drive to salvage
scrap' metal for the promotion of the
war program, the Boy Scouts of Pine
Level are credited with gathering to
gether a total of 53,564 pounds of
these much needed materials.
Scoutmaster Alvin Kornegay of the
Pine Level Troop told us a few days
ago that one night during the scrap
drive, after he had retired for the
night, some of the Boy Scouts went
to his home and awoke him and asked
him if he would go with them out of
to'wn a piece to get a load of scrap.
Mr. Kornegay said his wife asked him
if he was going, and that he replied
“Certainly, I am going. If these boys
are that much interested in this scrap
campaign, I will get out of my bed at
any hours of the night to help them
get in the scrap.” “Yes, Sir,” said
Mr. Kornegay, “I went.”
Winners of the county scrap con
test, in which 17 townships competed
for war bond prizes, will not be de
termined until Thursday night of this
week when all township scrap com
mitteemen and committeewomen are
to gather at .the courthouse at 8:00
for a final checkup. Salvage Chair
man C. E. Bingham said Monday.
All committee members are urged
the meeting, bringing full reports and
receipts to verify the collections made
by each township during the county
contest drive which ended Saturday
night.
All scrap gathered by organiza
tions and salvage depot operators up
until Saturday night will be counted
in the contest, provided such scrap is
moved and sold and proper receipts
obtained. Chairman Bingham said.
The township which collected the
most scrap during October will get a
$150 war bond. The second and third
ranking .townships will be awarded
$50 and $25 war bonds respectively.
D. S. Ball Tells of
Boy Scoot Activities
Rt. 2, Selma; Nathaniel Watson, Rt.
1, Selma;
Andrew Jackson Harris, Rt. 2, Sel
ma; Theodore Everett, Rt. 1, Prince
ton; William McLaughlin, Selma;
George Washington Howard, Rt. 1,
Middlesex; William Arthur Carter,
Kenly; Johnnie McClamb, Rt. 2, Clay
ton; Cauley Wiggins, Rt. 2, Zebulon;
Floyd Robert Cox, Rt. 1, Clayton;
James Alfred Holder, Rt. 1, Middle
sex.
The local board called two Negro
men, but they were ordered to report
to boards in other areas for delivery
to the induction station. T. Clifford
Hooks, Selma, Route 1, will report to
Board No. 3, Baltimore; Md., while
James Price will report to Board No.
149, Brooklyn, New York. '*
Names of those called up by Board
No. 1 at Smithfield are are listed
below:
James Haley ,Rt. 1, Smithfield;
Frank Junior Smith. Rt. 1, Smithfield;
Willie Rodgers McAlister, Dunn;
Lawrence Buddy Collier, Rt. 2, Clay
ton; Delma Williams, Rt. 1, Willow
Springs; Levi Avery, Rt. 1, Clayton;
_ Robert McCoy, Rt. 2, Dunn; Wil
liam Henry Lynn, Smithfield; Junius
Lee, Smithfield; Charlie Clay Wash
ington. Smithfield; James Wesley
Hair, Rt. 1, Benson; Ernest Langston,
Benson; Felton Gulley, Rt. 1, Angler;
John Robert Peacock, Rt. 2, Four
Oaks; Dave Lassiter. Rt. 1, Smithfield;
Bbokei-^TT Snead, -Rt. l,~Four Oaks;
Clarence Jackson Williams, Smith-
field; Booker T. Liles, Rt. 1, Benson;
Paul Smith, Rt. 1, Willow Springs;
Eddie Rose Sanders. Rt. 1, Smith-
field; Alton Davis, Rt. 2, Clayton;
Edward Willard Avery, Rt. 1, Clay
ton; Richard Stevens, Smithfield;
David Snead, Rt. 1, Four Oaks; James
Anglish Bryant. Rt. 2, Four Oaks;
Bernice Roger Maby, Rt. 1, Willow
Springs;
Lester Cole, Rt. 1, Four Oaks; John
Tomlinson, Rt. 2, Clayton; William
Henry Brown, Wilson’s Mills; Walter
Bell, Jr., Rt. 1, Smithfield; Charles
Edward Whitley, Smithfield; Donnell
Sanders, Jr., Smithfield; Reginald
Ennis, Smithfield; Wilbert Lunn, Rt.
1, Smithfield; Paul Franklin Black-
well, Rt. 1, Smithfield.
Farewell Service Draws Larffe
Oodigregation — The Pastor
Was Presented Check For $25
From Board of Stewards And
Mrs. Hathaway A Silver Vase
From Missionary Circles —
The Rev. Mr. Clemmons Told
Of Unity Between I^ptists
And Methodist Churches.
L. HATHAWAY
Many Take Advantage
Of Our Renewal Offer
Warning Issued
To Johnston Draftees
Glenn Grier, Jr.
Now 1st Lieut.
Glenn Grier, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. G. W. Grier, has been promoted
from second lieutenant to first lieu
tenant. He received this promotion on
October 19.
Lieut. Grier, who is stationed at
Camp Polk, La., is now on maneuvers
in Louisiana. He was inducted into
the service 13 months ago.
Program Chairman, David S. Ball
addressed the Selma Kiwanis club on
last Thursday evening on the activi
ties of the Boy Scouts.
Mr. Ball -is Scout Chairman for
Johnston County, and his address was
no.t confined to local scout activities
alone, but he did more than this by
telling something of what has been
accomplished in scouting throughout
Johnston county, as well as in the
Tuccarora Council, which embraces
several gounties.
Mr. Ball enumerated many things
the boys learned in scouting, and how
scouting helped .them to overcome
many difficult problems with which
they are confronted during their
“teen” age.
Mr. Ball had as his special guest
Mr. Ed Perry, Scout Master of the
local troop.
Rey. Howard Newman
To Hold Services Here
The Rev. Howard F. Newman of
Richmond, Va., will preach at the
Selma Presbyterian church Sunday
morning at eleven o’clock and at eight
o’clock Sunday night.
All mernbers of the church are es
pecially urged to attend these ser
vices and the public is very cordially
invited to come and hear this splendid
young minister of the Gospel.
Thirty-one registrants of the Selma
draft board—16 whites and 15 colored
men—have failed to respond to no
tices directing them to appear for
physical examination.
W. H. Call, chairman of the board,
said the men will become suspected
delinquents if they do not report to
the board at Selma within ten days.
The white failing to heed notices
include:
Alton Boykin; Charlie Parrish, Jr.;
Ernest Thomas Godwin; Fab Sea well
Manning; Johnnie Bryant Moody;
Wilbert Dallas Peedin; Arnold Rasper
Phillips; Charlie Lewis Lane, Jr.;
Larry Cooper Mitchell; William Jacob
Braswell; Jimmie Starling; James
Arthur Bailey; John W. Stallings;
William Thomas Nartley; Thomas
Raymond Game.
COLORED
Joe B. Lundy; Roland Ricks; Na
than Blake; Leroy Singletary; John
Tate; Thomas Jefferson Davis; Ray
mond Richardson; Bill Cox; Willie
Brown; Joe Lynch; Joseph Richard
son; Herbert Pierce; John Daniel
Sanders; Woodrow Singletary; Cobb
Smith.
W. H. CALL, Chm., Johnston
Co. Local Board No. 2, Selma.
With the announcement a few
weeks ago that the subscription prices
to The Johnstonian-Sun would be ad
vanced on November 1, 1942, and that
all subscriptions received up ,to that
date would be taken at the former
price of $1.00 a year, has brought in
a goodly number of renewals as well
as many new subscribers.
As has already been stated in these
columns, the rise in price was made
necessary by the advancing price of
living costs as well as operating ex
penses, and the difficult problem of
securing mantenance equipment. Be
fore we can buy replacement parts of
any kind we must show that they are
for maintenance and for expansion
of the business. All things are becom-
yiS more of a handicap in
the program’ of bperatidh. ~
In order that our subscribers may
fully understand the present subscrip
tion rates to The Johns.tonian-Sun, we
are quoting them below.
ANYWHERE IN THIS STATE
One Year $1.50
Six Months 75
Three Months 50
OUT OF THIS STATE
One Year $2.00
Six Months 1.00
Three Months 60
The difference in the subscriptions
going out of the state is due to the
fact that most of these have to be
wrapped in seperate wrappers, caus
ing considerably more time in mail
ing, wrapping and handling, as well
as considerably more postage, since
postage is charged according to the
zone rate in which the subscriber
lives. The greater the distance the
higher the rate of postage.
You might watch .the label on your
paper and see when your subscription
expires, as all subscriptions will be
discontinued which are not paid up in
advance.
The Rev. O. L. Hathaway, who for
the past four years has been the much
beloved pastor of Edgerton Memorial
Methodist church, held his farewell
service Sunday evening, Nov. 1. A
large congregation was in attendance.
The Rev. D. M. Clemmons, pastor of
the Baptist church, gave over his
service, and with his congregation,
joined the Methodists for the final
worship.
A. K. Eason, retiring chairman of
the Board of Stewards, opened the
exercises with appropriate remarks,
commending the membership for their
close cooperation with both pastor
and the Board. He then presented the
incoming chairman of the Board. J.
Q. A. Jeffreys.
The music was in charge of Misa
Stella Etheredge and her Junior
choir.
^ Mr. Hathaway used as his theme,
Love,” from the thirteenth chapter
of First Corinthians.
Following the sermon, W. H.'Call,
church treasurer, with visible emo
tion, paid tribute to bo.th the Rev. and
Mrs. Hathaway, for the influence of
their consecrated life in the communi-^
ty, and especially the fine work done
with the young people. He said they
deserved a bigger and better place,
but assured them should they return
to Selma, they would be received with
open arms. Mr. Call presented Mr.
Hathaway a check for twenty-five
dollars from the Board of Stewards,
and a silver vase to Mrs. Hathaway
from the members of the Missionary
Circles.
The Rev. D. M. Clemmons told of
the unity which has exis.ted between
the Baptist and Methodist churches
during the four years of Mr. Hath
away’s stay in Selma.
Dr. Carter To Speak
Before Kiwanis Club
Wm. I. Godwi^Gets
Instructor’s Rating
William I. Godwin, prominent at
torney of Selma, has received his
flight instructors rating and is now
located at the Raleigh airport and will
be assigned a class of students in the
next government unit of army and
navy students, which unit wilt begin
about November 10th. He will be sta
tioned in Raleigh or Chapel Hill at
one of the government flight schools
conducted by Serv-Air Incorporated,
government flight contractors of
Raleigh.
Great men at close range often
seem so ordinary, so human, that it
inspires new faith in one’s self.
Selma Man Completes
His Primary Training
Clarence A .Whitley, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul G. Whitley of Selma, who
enlisted in the Navy last month at
the Raleigh recruiting office, has re
cently completed preliminary training
at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola,
Fla., the “Annapolis of the Air,” ac
cording to an announcement from the
public relations office of that station.
Upon completion of .this preliminary
training, he was assigned to duty
there.
Prior to entering the Naval service,
Whitley was employed by Swift and
Company.
He is one of the many men in the
Navy today who have voluntarily
joined their country’s fighting forces
for service wherever they may be
needed, and at the same .time, have
the opportunity of building their fu
tures in profitable, established trades.
Dr. William Howard Carter, pastor
of the Tabernacle church in Goldsboro,
will address the Kiwanis club at its
regular meeting tonight, (Thursday.)
Dr. Carter on last Sunday celebrated
his 20th year in the ministry, deliver
ing three addresses over Station
WGBR. He is a native of Selma.
Chief-of-Police Bradley Pearce will
have charge of the program. The Rev.
D. M. Clemmons will introduce
speaker.
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Seen and Heard Along(
THE MAINDRAG
■ -By H. H. L.
Cottage Prayer Meeting
Tonight (Thurs.) 7:30
Cottage prayer meeting was held
on last Thursday evening at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. J .C. Wilkins, con
ducted by the Rev. J. H. Worley.
Inspiring talks were made by Mr. H.
W. Everitt and Mr. Worley, and
special music furnished by Mrs. Clyde
Pilkington and daughter. Miss Rose,
and Miss Louise Brown.
Prayer meeting will be held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Mc
Duffie tonight (Thursday) at 7:30, to
which the public is cordially invited.
These cottage prayer meetings are
well attended and much interest is
being manifested. ■ ^
We recently heard a good one on
our genial friend, C. HUB BROWN,
manager of the Economy Furniture
Company—a colored man and his
wife dropped in his place of business
and wanted to buy his best suit of
furniture—HUB proceeded to show
them the best suit he had in the house
and described the different parts, the
chairs, bureau, footstool, as being the
best finished and strongest suit in
the house, but when he got to the
bedstead he placed emphasis on .that
as being exceeding strong and told
his prospective customers that he
“stood behind this bedstead,” where
upon the old lady as well as her old
man grunted, “if you are going to
stand behind that bedstead we don’t
want it,” and proceeded to leave,
later returning they told HUB, “now
if you will promise not to stand be
hind that bed we will buy ‘that air*
suit of furniture”—and HUB forth
with smiled and said, “I wasn’t going
to stand behind .that bed in person,
but simply guaranteed it to be of ^e
best material” — her many fri^lds
were glad to see MISS NAG®H
SMITH on the Maindrag Tuesday af
ternoon—this was her first visit to
Selma since her accident last July
when she suffered serious injury in
a fall from a horse—she was head of
.the music department of the local
high school last year and made many
friends during her stay here—wonder
what our friend, J. L. SEATE, did
with that order for a permanent
wave he got at the auction sale a few
days ago—go ahead and let the ladies
fix you up—if it improves your looks,
we might try it—the RE'Y. MR.
HATHAWAY will be missed from
the Maindrag—this beloved minister
finished his fourth year as pastor of
the local Methodist church on last
Sunday night, leaving Monday for
conference—he and MRS. HATH
AWAY made many friends during
their four years’ stay in Selma, who
regret to see them leave—maybe the
Bishop will keep him in this section
of the country.
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