MURDER OF MRS. KING PLACED.
Warrant Served on Gaston Means
I-ater Saturday Charging His ith
the Detd. Paper Returnable at .10
O'clock Monday at Concord. No
Second Inquest Will be Conducted
by Coroner. Prisoner Placed in Jail
After Conference W ith Counsel.
Concord, Sept. 22. ? Gaston B.
Means at 11 o'clock tonight was lodg
ed in the Cabarrus County jail charg
ed with the murder of Mrs. Maude A.
King, who was killed near here Au
gust 29. Before being carried to the
jail his counsel held a long confer
ence, at which Means was present.
After this meeting his lawyers left
on a late train for Charlotte.
Means, who was formerly business
manager of Mrs. King, who was mys
teriously killed near here on August
29, was arrested late todr.y on a war
rant charging Jiim with the murder.
The warrant for the arrest of
Means was issued after an all-day
conference between Solictor Hayden
Clement, of this district, and repre
sentatives of the office of District At
torney Swann, of New York, at which,
it is said, enough evidence was
brought out to establish what officials
believe to be a motive for the killing.
The warrant which charges Means
with the murder of Mrs. King is re
turnable at 10 o'clock on Monday
morning before A. B. Palmer, police
justice of Concord.
Solicitor Clement announced to
night that the coroner's inquest into
the death of Mrs. King, which had
been scheduled to be reopened on
Monday morning, will not be held. The
solicitor explained as his reason for
cancelling the inquest that he had
been informed by the court that a
second inqupest might be held illegal.
GREAT SWEET POTATO YIELD.
Secretary Vrooman Urges Establish
ment of Warehouses In Southern
Trade Centers to Help Take Care
of Crop.
With a record breaking 88,000,000
bushels sweet potato crop forecast
and not more than 10 per cent of the
indicated yield provided with suitable
storage facilities, Carl Vrooman, as
sistant secretary of agriculture, in a
statement Sunday night urged South
ern business men's organizations to
see that potato warehouses were pro
vided in trade centers, says a Wash
ington dispatch.
"A little effort intelligently direct
ed by business men's associations of
Southern cities during the next few
weeks would save the nation approxi
mately thirty million bushels of food
in the form of sweet potatoes," said
the statement. "It is the patriotic du
ty of merchants, bankers and farm
ers' associations in Southern commu
nities, as well as good business, to see
that sweet potato storehouses are
provided in trade centers."
The sweet potato crop this year will
be the largest in the history of the
country. The latest crop estimate in
dicates a yield of 88,000,000 bushels
against 71,000,000 last year and 78,
000,000 in 1915, the largest previous
crop. That means a surplus of approx
imately 15,000,000 above ordinary an
te-war demands, a surplus, however,
that would be very much needed to
take the place of other foods that will
be absorbed by war demands.
Of the total sweet potato crop in
the United States about 90 per cent is
grown south of Maryland. Not over
10 per cent of the Southern yield is
provided with suitable storage facili
ties. The ordinary procedure has been
to bank the sweet potatoes in the
ground or to cover them with straw
in outhouses and the loss has ranged
from 30 to 40 per cent, according to
the severity of the winter. And the
60 or 70 per cent not a total loss is
always more or less injured.
HEALTH EXHIBITS FOR FAIRS.
State Board of Health Prepares Four
New Health Exhibits and Em
ploys Four Demonstrators.
Four entirely new health exhibits
have been completed by the State
Board of Health, and they are now
ready to make their way about over
the State to the Fairs, says a late
Health Bulletin. According to the
Board's program and well arranged
schedule, this week will find three or
more of the exhibits on their way to
the western part of the State where
the Fair season will be on full. The
Fairs that have been dated up thus far
for this week are at Sylva, Hickory,
and Leaksville-Spray.
In preparing the exhibits for the
Fairs this fall, the Board adopted a
new plan. Each exhibit deals with
one disease or vital health subject.
The subjects of the four exhibits are:
Tuberculosis, Typhoid Fever, Malaria
and The Care and Feeding of the
Baby. Each exhibit consists of eight
electrically illuminated models, each
model being a reproduction in minia
ture of, or a lesson from, the condi
tions as they exist in life. For in
stance, the malaria exh:bit contains
reproductions of a mosquito breeding
swamp before and after it has been
drained, the various means and meth
ods of draining it and getting rid of
mosquitoes, and the methods of pre
venting and curing malaria. Each of
the other subjects is as fully and at
tractively dealt with.
Because of the increased demands
made upon the Board for exhibit ma
terial at Fairs this fall, it has been
found necessary not only to enlarge
and prepare new exhibits but to em
ploy four demonstrators to accompany
and be in charge of the exhibits at
the Fairs. Last year only two dem
onstrators were found necessary.
In addition to the four large ex
hibits, the Board has prepared a num
ber of portable exhibits for communi
ty Fairs. This material can be sent
by express or parcel post, and is fur
nished free of cost except all trans
portation charges and the cost of any
impairment more than the usual wear,
or for loss of any of the material. The
subjects of these exhibits are Typhoid
Fever, Tuberculosis, Child Welfare
and Flies.
TO ORGANIZE STATE MILITIA.
Governor Rickett Proposes to Draft
5,000 Men With Not Less Than
25 Per County.
In a proclamation issued Sunday
night Gov. Bickett invokes active ser
vice of the "unorganized militia" as
constituted by an act of the last Gen
eral Assembly ratified March Gth and
consisting of all male citizens of the
State between the ages of 18 and 45,
the call including those 31 to 45, says
a Raleigh dispatch to the daily pa
pers. The Governor proposes to draft
5,000 men from this unorganized mi
litia with not less than 25 men to any
county and bigger companies for the
larger counties.
The regulations for the selective
draft are to be immediately framed
and the draft accomplished with the
least possible delay in all the counties.
Conditions now prevailing in the State,
the Governor declares, make this
move necessary at this time. The plan
is one that was worked out by direc
tion of the Governor some days ago
and approved by the State Council of
Defense. Among the conditions that
are speedng up the formation of the
militia companies are the crimes com
mitted the past few days in Wake,
Vance, Harnett and Durham Counties,
all of which stirred hundreds of peo
ple to mob violence if the criminals
who committed the outrages can be
gotten at.
The State's prison is the "place
of safety" to which criminals are
brought to keep mobs from them and
a particularly large special military
force is contemplated for Raleigh and
Wake on that account to deter com
binations of mob movements from
different counties to force even the
State Prison under some circumstan
ces.
Already there is formed a formid
able special company of selected citi
zenry in Raleigh for service of this
sort to be ready for any emergency.
The organization was perfected Sun
day night in the State House with Adj.
Gen. Lawrence W. Young and Maj. W.
F. Moody directing the movement. The
men were called to the service through
special letters and telephone the past
few hours and they are understood to
be ready for any emergency.
Board of Education to Meet.
The Board of Education will meet
in regular session, on Monday, Oct
tober 1st, 1917. Any one having mat
ters pertaining to schools, will present
the same on the above date.
W. G. WILSON, Chairman.
L. T. ROY ALL, Secretary.
The Civil term of the Superior
Court convened here yesterday for
two weeks session. His Honor, Oliver
H. Allen, of Kinston, is presiding.
U. N. C. JOHNSTON COUNTY CLUB
Albert Coates Gets Other Honors.
Jasper Stuckey Highly Honored by
His Society. Eighteen Johnston
t ountj Boys at the University.
Chapel Hill, Sept. 24.? The first
rt Kul.tr n eeting of the Johnston Coun
ty Club for the year was held Satur
day night, September 22. Some of the
men who were elected to office in the
organization last spring did not re
turn to college this fall, and it was
necessary to re-organize the club. The
following officers were elected:
President? Albert M. Coates.
Vice-President? W. G. Wilson ,Jr.
Secretary? Clenon F. Boyett.
Treasurer? F. O. Ray.
Johnston County has one of the
biggest delegations to represent it in
the University this year that) it has had
in the past few years. There are a
number of new men here from John
ston County this year, thanks to Mr.
A. M. Coates and the loyal alumni of
the county. But we have not yet done
all we can do. Johnston County
has eighteen men in the University
who may be classed as follows:
Seniors? A. M. Coates, Smithfield;
C. F. Boyett, Smithfield; J. L. Stuck
ey, Kenly.
Junior? S. B. Lee, Four Oaks.
Sophomores? F. O. Ray, Sclmr.; R.
H. Wilson, Wilson's Mills; C. C. Mas
sey, Princeton; J. T. Ellington, Clay
ton; J. T. Morgan, Benson.
Freshmen? E. S. Abell, Jr., Smith
field; W. R. Woodall, Smithfield; W
B. Wellons, Smithfield; C. H. Grady,
Kenly; K. C. Sasser, Kenly; Ashley
Farmer, Clayton; S. J. Creech, Ben
son.
Medical Students-J. H. Fitzgerald,
me Level, is a second year medical
student; W. G. Wilson, Jr., Wilson's
Mills, is a first year medical student.
Mr. Wilson entered the University
with the class of 1918, but he decided
to study medioine and instead of be
coming a Senior this year he becomes
a first year medical student.
Johnston County has one man who
continues to take his share of honors
in the University. Albert M. Coates
was elected President of the North
Carolina Club last week. He has also
been elected a member of the student
council for this year. This will make
two years that Mr. Coates has served
as a member of the student council
At a meeting of the Phi Society
Saturday night, J. L. Stuckey was
elected chairman of tho Appellate
committee. The President of the so
ciety called this chairmanship of the
Appellate Committee the most impor
tant office in the society, as the
chairman of this committee has to act
as a sort of constitutional judge and
pass upon the validity of all fines im
posed in the society, and from his de
cision there can be appeal.
Professor Branson, of the Depart
ment of Rural Economics, says that
Johnston County has been badly neg
ec dong the lines of the economic
is ory cf the county, by students
from the county who have been in
the University for the past few years.
The club ,s going to take up the task
of working out some sort of an eco
nomic history of the county. It is hop
' at the students from Johnston
County will be able to gather the more
important statistics on schools,
churches farms, farm crops and other
ings of a like nature and get them
published in a pamphlet during the
Former Smith field Girl Honored.
The following paragraph about a
former Smithfield girl in a recent issue
of The Goldsboro Argus will be of
interest to the people of the town and
community:
"Miss Olivia Pettway has returned
to Meredith College on a Music schol
arship. This is the first Music scholar
ship ever given to Meredith. This
scholarship was given by Theodore
Presser, music publisher of Philadel
phia. Miss Pettway won this scholar
ship by her very good record during
the two past years at this college."
Smithfield Primitive Baptist Church.
We are requested to announce that
on next Thursday, September 27th,
Elder J. S. Morrison will preach a*
the Smithfield Primitive Baptist
church, at 11 o'clock a. m. The pub
lic cordially invited.
Mr. Ransom Sanders left Sunday
night for Charlotte on business.
DRVFTED MEN LEAVE SELMA.
List of Fifty Men As Certified by
the District Board Left Selma Last
Friday for t amp Jackson. Twenty
nine of Required I Junta Not Having
Been Certified ill (Jo Later.
Selma, N .C., Sept. 21.? The fol
lowing men from District No. 2, John
ston County, left Selma this morning
over the A. C. L. Railroad for Camp
Jackson. The quota required from
this district was 79 men, but on ac
count of the failure to get the certi
fied list from the District Board in
time, only 50 men were sent today.
The balance will be sent as soon as
the list is received from the District
Board.
Roy Gaston Gulley, Clayton.
Wm. Charles Wiggs, Princeton.
Dewitt llardison, Kenly.
Granger Grady, Selma.
Otis Ratten, Clayton.
Clarence Barham, Clayton.
Turner Vinson, Clayton.
Neurus Clingman Holt, Princeton.
Lee Edmundson Hooks, Kenly.
Condary Ellis, Pine Level.
Arthur Creech, Kenly.
Oscar Bailey, Pine Level.
Wm. A. Braswcll, Princeton.
Exum Stephenson, Clayton.
Aaron Wall, Clayton.
William M. Godwin, Micro.
Loomis Stansell, Kenly.
Ernest Parnell, Kenly.
James Howard Stephenson, Clayton.
Hardy Bass, Kenly.
Edmond Lee Crawford, Kenly.
Dennie T. Harris, Clayton.
Colon Gay, Clayton.
Simon Allen, Selma.
James Glover, Selma.
Arthur Pipkin, Kenly.
John Preston Wiggs, Princcton.
W. R. Smith, Micro.
Marion B. Snipes .Princeton.
John W. Pearce, Princeton/
Marion B. Adams, Princeton.
David N. Allen, Clayton.
David Buck Durham, Clayton.
Garland S. Wall, Clayton.
Herman H. Duncan, Clayton.
Leamon W. Barnes, Clayton.
Elijah Capps, Princeton.
Wm. Barrister Parrish, Clayton.
Walter M. Ellis, Clayton.
Wiley H. Wellons, Princeton.
William Ingram, Princeton.
John Howell, Smithfield.
Henry Langley, Princeton.
Sidney Mitchell, Clayton.
William O. Atkinson, Micro.
Luther Williams, Kenly.
Luther M. Barnes, Clayton.
J. F. Hill, Kenly.
Walter Boykin, Kenly.
Charlie Creech, Micro.
Quite a crowd of relatives of these
young men gathered at the City Hall
here today to see the march to the
station. The young men were ad
dressed by Supt. E. H. Mosor of the
Selma schools in a very touching and
instructive address;, appealing to them
to line up with the ripht class while
in the training camps and the army,
and to return home crowned with vic
tory, theii morals and character above
reproach and be men that our State
and Nation will always be proud to
honor. No finer crowd of young men
physically were ever called together
in Johnston County.
WHAT TO GROW FOR THE HOGS.
Rape and Rye Make Good Winter
Pastures for Them.
West Raleigh, Sept. 24.? Rape and
rye pastures make good winter graz
ing for hogs. In some parts of the
State rape pastures are the most valu
able; in other parts of the State rye
pastures, everything considered, are
more valuable than rape pastures for
grazing hogs through the winter
months. Hardly a place in the State,
however, can he found that is not
suitable to the winter growing of cith
er rape or rye.
Experiments conducted by the Ani
mal Industry Division of the North
Carolina Experiment Station show
that both of these crops are exceeding
ly valuable, according to reports made
on the work by Mr. Dan. T. Gray,
Chief of the Animal Industry Divis
ion. In one test conducted the rape
and rye were planted on September
19. On November 9 the rape pasture
was ready to be grazed but the inaug
uration of the test was delayed until
December 3 on account of the rye mak
ing n slow growth. By December 3
the rye pasture was ready and the
ground was practically covered with
green growth. The rape pasture, which
I
was sowed in rows, was from seven
to nine inches tall upon this date and
practically covered the ground al
though the rows were eighteen inches
apart. At the beginning of the test
(December 3), the hogs weighed ap
proximately tJO pounds each. At the
close of the test, 1 1<5 days later, or
March 29, hogs were ready to be sold
upon the market.
It was found that one acre of ry*>
pasture was equal in feeding value to
4.3 bushels of corn plus (>0 pounds of
tankage. At present price of corn each
acre of rye saved about $11.00 worth
of corn and tankage and at the same
time the rye yielded a partial crop.
An acre of rape always affords more
grazing than an acre of rye and it was
found that each acre of rape was
equal in feeding value to 14.3 bushels
of corn plus 200 pounds of tankage.
At present price of corn an acre of
rape, therefore, saved $3(5.60 worth of
grains. The rape, unlike the rye, was
not capable of growing into a useful
crop after grazing and was discon
tinued but the above figures do not
represent the full grazing capacity of
an acre of rape pasturer because the
hogs were taken from the pasture
when much rapidly growing rape was
still on the ground.
GERMAN INTRIGUE HOBS UP.
High Explosives and Deadly Microbes
Secreted In Imperial Legation at
Bucharest. Lansing Reveals Scheme.
How Germany "shamefully abused
and exploited" the protection of the
United States by secreting in the Ger
man legation at Bucharest, after the
American government had taken
charge of Germany's affairs at the
Rumanian capital, quantities of pow
erful explosives for bomb plots and
deadly microbes, with instructions for
their use in destroying horses and cat
tle, was revealed Sunday by Secre
tary Lansing, says a Washington dis
patch.
It was another of Mr. Lansing's se
ries of disclosures of German intrigue,
made public without comment in the
same manner as the Von Luxburg tel
egrams which have brought Argentina
to the verge of war with Germany, the
Von Eckhardt letter from Mexico City
and the Von Bernstorff telegram ask
ing the German foreign office for au
thorization to spend $f>0,000 to influ
ence Congress.
The latest story is told in a report
to the State Department from William
Whiting Andrews, a secretary of le
gation at Bucharest, and a letter from
Foreign Minister Parumbaru, of Ru
mania.
Parcels and boxes taken into the
German consulate at Bucharest with
a display of great caution aroused the
suspicious of the Rumanian govern
ment. On August 27, 1916, the even
ing prior to the date of Rumania's
declaration of war, some of the cases
were taken to the German legation,
located in a different building from the
consulate. Convinced that the boxes
were not taken away from the lega
tion by the German diplomatic mis
sion on its departure from Bucharest,
the Rumanian authorities later or
dered the police to find them and ex
amine their contents. The police com
municated with American Minister
Vopicka, in charge of German inter
ests, who reluctantly assigned Secre
tary Andrews to observe the search.
The boxes were found buried in the
garden of the German legation.
The Weather Summary.
New Orleans, La., Sept. 24. ? Nearly
seasonal temperature conditions pre
vailed over the cotton region Sunday
and Monday except that it was some
what cooler than usual for the season
in the eastern portion on Monday.
Light precipitation reported Sunday
and Monday in the Carolinas, Geor
gia, Florida, and eastern Alabama and
on Monday in Mississippi.
Heavy rains ? Sunday, South Caro
lina, Allendale, 1.32; Georgia, Griffin,
L42.
Sunday School Convention at Spence
Chapel.
A Sunday school Convention will be
held at Spence Chapel Presbyterian
church in Pleasant Grove township,
the fifth Sunday in September.
Last week Messrs. R. B. Brickey,
J. H. Wiggs, Dock Braswell and H.
I). Ellington went to Washington, D.
C., to attend a convention of J. B. Colt
Company.
MOB TRIES TO LYNCH NEGRO.
Rufe Cagle Brought From Dunn in
Automobile and Placed in Peniten
tiary. Attempted Criminal Assault
Is Charge. Alleged Victim Is 1ft
War-Old Girl, Daughter of Promin
ent Farmer. Mob Held at Bay at
Point of Pistol.
***- * ' ?.
(News and Observer.)
Dunn, N. C., Sept. 22.? Rufe Cagle,
a negro twenty-six years old, was ar
rested at Linden today, charged with
attempted criminal assault on Miss
Adelaide Jeffreys here last night and
has been carried by automobile to the
penitentiary. The negro was arrested
late this afternoon after being tracked
through the swamps near Linden by
the aid of bloodhounds and brought
here.
A molt intent upon lynching was in
process of formation when Sheriff
Turlington and Chief of Police Bass
decided to carry him away. A part of
the mob had already formed at the
doors of the town prison when a strong
force of officers arrived with a high
power car. Forming a line they drew
revolvers and unlocked the doors,
holding the mob at bay. In a few
seconds they had the prisoner aboard
and underway.
Early this morning, the girl found
unconscious, lying on her face, at the
edge of a corn field on the Jeffreys
plantation. Her sister discovered her
where, in the darkness of night, she
had been repeatedly passed by search
ers.
The girl is now conscious, but suf
fers from nerve shock and many bruis
es. According to her story she was
seized by an unknown man in the back
yard of her home a few minutes after
her sister had left her on the front
porch, upon retiring at about 9 o'clock.
The assailant covered her head with
a cloth and stifled her cries. She was
frightened into unconsciousness and
remembers nothing that transpired
from that time until she regained
consciousness this morning.
Examination by Dr. I. F. Hicks this
morning disclosed that no criminal as
sault had been made. This is probably
due to the fact that the girl's sister
raised p.n alarm a few minutes after
the girl was missed. Adelaide and her
sister, Miss Kathleen, were seated on
the front porch of the home until 9
o'clock. At that hour Miss Kathleen
went to her room to retire. When the
>-.irl did not follow within a few min
utes the sister called to her. Upon
drawing no response she went to the
porch to find her gone. Then she light
ed a lantern and searched through the
yards, calling loudly as she searched.
Her cries are believed to have fright
ened the mau away before he had
time to accomplish the more fiendish
crime.
Miss Jeffreys is sixteen years old
and a daughter of P. J. Jeffreys, one
of the wealthiest planters of this sec
tions. The family is prominent here
and in Wayne. The young lady is pop
ular here and feeling against her un
known assailant is intense. When the
news of her mysterious disappearance
spread over town last night hundreds
<>f men volunteered as searchers and
the country was scoured for miles
around. It was not until daylight,
however, that she was found. Her sis
ter discovered her shortly after 6
o'clock.
V
SELMA TO HAVE "DOLLAR DAY."
Date is October 11th. To Have "Pay
Up Week" in November.
Selma, N. C., Sept. 24. ? A meeting
of the Selma Merchants Association
was held in the Association offices last
Thursday night which was attended by
a large per cent of the members. The
two features of the meeting other than
routine business, was the adoption of
resolutions designating Thursday, Oc
tober 11th, as "Dollar Day" and the
week beginning Monday, November
11th, as "Pay Up Week." The adoption
of these resolutions was unanimous
and every member of the Association
will enter heartily into the work to
make them successful.
"Dollar Day" will be a day of bar
gains for those in Selma and adjacent
community. Watch The Herald for the
ads of the Selma merchants who will
have special "Dollar" displays for tho
occasion. Customers coming to Selma
will be surprised to see what can re
ally be bought for one dollar on this
day. j
Mr. Timothy Hudson, of Durham,
spent Sunday here with relatives.