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FIND MUTILATED BODY OF YOUTH IN NEW RIVER
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OFFICERS SEARCHING FOR WILLIE EVANS ON SERIOUS MAME
SIX ONSLOW COUNTY WHITE
MEN ARE HELD AS MATERIAL
WffNESSESIN JACKSONVILLE
Body Found in Now
River by Lynchburg,
Physician; Had
Been Brawl;
Mew Bern. July *7.—(*■)—«* young
Oflw county white me§ »r« h«UI In
Inn at Jacksonville without b*U a»
Malarial witnesses In cqpaoction
with thh death of Bltta Hollta. 17. of
Roily Ridge. whoa# mutilated body
waa found la New River, fww itillea
from iackoowvllla Monday afternoon
Thl* waa the iafonaatlon received
over lons dlataace telephone tonight
from' acting ooroner O. W. Jones of
Onslow county. Throe of thooe In Jail
gave the name of Howard, while two
others are named Sedans the corn
ney aajd The none of tho sixth could
not he learned.
The body, found hy a igrachburg,
Va.. physician. when he wee flah-
Ing In the rlrar, according to hla
statement, waa later Identified by Hol
lis- parents. Mr. and Mrs. James Hol
lis. The body was In bad condition.'
tbo coroner said, the thrdat baring
boon cat oad the akall fractured.
The cheat was badly bruised. The
dead man appeared f t Met been In
tho water far sometime.
Halite waa laet seen Saturday af
teraoon at 2 o'clock la company with
tha all yoaths now fa Jail, the coro
ner eatd. He passed through J*ck
aoartlle with them, stopping at an old
eaphalt plant shout three miles from
Juckeoavlll*. Hero sometime later the
police was railed to quiet a drui
"brawl'’ among them. No - arrests
wore made at tho time.
Early that night, however, four of
the gig returning through Jackson
ville were Jelled after they had drif
ts their car into another machine.
Later released, they were re-arrested
shortly after the finding of (Jte body
Monday. The parents of Hl4 othex,
two surrendered them to thet qwthorl
tloe today. j
No clue ne to where Hollis was
•*d‘n. If he was. baa been Cor-1
oner Jones said. The graphs It plant
where the row tools..trine* la the af
ternoon la located on a creek three
quarters of a mile from the point
where the body waa found.
The officer expressed the opin
ion that th.» body waa towed down
the creek and cut adrift In the New
River. A search np and down the
creek- and examination of every row
boat failed lo reveal any signs of
blood, ko said
rSILDRF.IT PLANT ffARSF*
Roanke Rapids. July 27. —<£*)—
Thirty-eight gardens, some of thorn
belonging not over eight
years old*wM nil showing especial
care, have been Jndged for children
of the Rosemary section of Halifax
county, Mias Hasel Ervin, county
agent, has reported.
Lettuce, beets cucomtuirs, llpje
beans, equasb, .tomatoes- onions and
Jounce have been grown successfully.
The moat of the gardens are being
tended by children whose parents are
employed at the Rosemary, mills:
vegetables for winter urn.
Silk Worth
*slo,ooo Stolen
Oakland, Cnllf.. July 27.--(JP) Ten
or twelve men hoarded a Houthern
Pacific freight train -loaded with silk
and special mervhawd(»* at Newark,
south of here, today, overpowered
the train crew sad threw approximate
ly fie.ooo of the freight to confeder
ates alongside the track, who escaped
la an automobile. Three suspects
wore at Ntlm. the first stop,
where the robbers leaped from the
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STORM ABATES
! IN FLORIDA
Leaving ENtnutgcd Shipping
( ropn and Wir* Fa
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Jacksonville. Fla.. July 27.—(de
luding on n wind which at times
reached a velocity of 100 miles gu
hour, the storm which came, out of
the Cnrrebereaq sea yesterday hit the
lower Florida coast today and was
travsltng up the Atlantic seaboard to
night. leaving Hi Its wake distressed
i.blpptpg. damaged crops and crippled
* Ire facilities. *
The storm was reported lets today
centered between |Palm Beach and
Juplthr, Florida, apparently moving
slowly north westward.
Miami reported, damage of 1100.900,
three-fourths of which was suffer
ed by the avocado pear crop. A lino?
than met death when he came la
touch with a live wire on top of a
telegraph pole. This was the only
lose reported late today In the storm
swept area.
Th Miami the rain ceased at noon
and the wind had dropped to mod
erate force late today.
Palm Beach received the full force
of the storm In an 00-mlle an hour
wind. The barokneter went up to
29.03. hut tho blow abated at three o’-
clock this afternoon.
Ocean Drive and the fashionable
sea front boulevard of Palm Reach
fronted by palatial homes was said
tp have been badly damaged by high
waves. Trees were uprooted an# the
roofs lifted off seven houses.
Twenty ynrbts anchored at thr
yacht club pier broke away and were
smashed. t
’An Italian steamship caught the
full force of the storm off Jupiter In
let and late today was fighting for
W
existence. Five ships were In the vic
inity of thr distressed vessel which
had broken her steering apparatus.
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Again Peach Crop
Is a Bumper One
July 27. -Georgia's golden
horse of luscious pearhra, now mov
ing Into every corner of the Nation
will not begin to show gny signs of
letting up until Heptemher 1.
This Is two weeks later than the
usual Urns for the closing of thel
Georglq peach season. This year’s |
prolonged shipping Is due to s bump
er harvest, drsplte prlng's Isle cold
snaps.
KJstlmata swere made that Georgia's
peach crop would net the peach grow
ers something like 912.MM.U00 In
192*.
While thla year's Is not quite the
largest commercial crop In history,
the peach Is said to be virtually free
from all worms, nears, pits and othrr
defects. A new system of marketing
baa been worked out hy the Georgia
Peach Growers’ Exchange to prevent
the larger markets from becoming
glutted and cauaHig price depression,
as bps been the caae heretofore
Argument With *
- Th|s One Taboo
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Parts. July 27. There la-no chance
to argue with n new type of tele
phone operator recently Installed
hers. It Is >a 24-hnur-a-day phono
graph.
When a person calls a number that
has been changed, he Is automatical
ly plugged In on the phonograph and
hears a voles announcing In
aonoroua tones:
"Tb's number has been changed;
i pleas# consult thr new telephone di
rectory. Thla number has been
changed; please consult tha new I*l
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GOLDSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 28. I»2<
BEGIN TRIAL
OF FIVE MEN
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Chargofl WUh H*viit* Outraged
Pettet Girls Last
* " February
San Diego, July 27.—UP) —the last
(h%ptar In the tragedy which claim
ed the lives tha family of Tbomaa
M. Pet eat hare last February, waa to
be written today In Tl Juana, reaort
iown across the lower CalHbrnU hod
oar from here, when five men will
lace q Mexican court charged with
having outraged the two Peteet
daughters. Clyde and f
The IRo girl*, with their parents
were found dead In a gas-filled room
a few days after they declared they
had been drugged and attacked In
the border cltv. In a note found near
(he bodies gir faher declared tho
family sught death rather than en
dure the shame they felt was theirs.
The defendants Zeaado I Janos,
firmer chief of police of Tt Juana;
Louis Amador, keeper of the saloon
in which the glrjs alleged they were
drugged; Refugio Alvareg and Fran
cisco Navarro, bar tender, and Bal
vador Epinnaa. taxicab driver—were
brought Into court yesterday and the
complaints charging them with the
criminal attack reiuj, Judge Dries
then ordered all but Atvares returned
to Jail, wheer they have remained
since they were arrested February 10.
Alvaros has been at liberty on pro
bation.
The trial will be held la the eoro
n uirftr hall of Tt Juana and will be
dreed to tho'^ public. Special passes
Lave been leaned lo newspaper writ
era.
In the event of conviction the men
may be puniahed by prieon term*
ranging from alx to eight yeara.
WILLDISOJSS
STATE RIGHTS
Governors Representing East
and West Gather ia
Wyoming
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Cheyenne. Wyo., July. 2
State rights will be djscusafcd by gov
ernors representing the egst and weal
at tha opening of the second day
of the twelfth annual governor's con
ference here today. '•
The difference of opinion that led
to a breach between the north and
south, Ilea today, as evidenced by
the views of Governor delegatee, be
tween the east and the west. The
east, they say, Is defending ’‘(fie pol
icy of federal control' of national re
sources and the vast, undeveloped
stretches of the far west and the west
Its holding that the' federal jlomaln
| in Its sections |g an encroachment
upon tha rights of Ita respective
states.
Governor Ralph O. Brewster, of
Maine, and J. H. Trumbull, of Con
necticut, will speak on "Htata Jtlghts
and Obilgatlona.” to represent the oast
while governors Walter M. Pierce, of
Oregon, and George F. Deem, of IT
tah. will take up the western view
point with a4dresaes on “Western re
action" and -''the public land ques
tion." ' >
Other speakers on the day's pro
gram Include Governor Franklin 8.
Billings, of Vermoiy. on "prison-mad*
goods and possible interference 'ia
distribution" whoyc address la to pre
a round fable discussion by all
jar-?
ci nor Adam M. McMullen, of Nehras
la. will speak on "efficient state ad
ministration." *
Honolulu and Ht. are
bidding for the next conference but
It la understood the 1929 meeting
place will not be selected until the
executive board session next winter.
THftltvrON» niVORIFH
Philadelphia. July 27.—(iPJ— It he
came known here today that a di
vorce waa granted July ftth hy the
Philadelphia courts to Virginia Blair
Thornton from Hlr Henry W. Thorn
ton. prtrgftient of the Canadian Na
iiUDßi Hr! Imrwl <■> g
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First Death In '
Mexican Trouble
MEXICO fIYV, Jaly 27. The
«jrst death frap rieleaee la the
preseat con Met Maris the gav
-matcat ahd tha Latheik- rbarrh
was r«parted hy a rerre>p« adesl
leday. Me repariad the l>n>l»i
as the mqrwr *f XeteMtam, who
had attached a leva! Catbslk
priest. ,
Coolidge WarnH
American Citizens
Paul Bmitha. N. Y.. July 27. VF)-
Praaidant V-uuHdga hopes Gut Ameri
cans hbi-oad will make allowances
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for conditions la the foreign coun
tries they are visiting and will not
Indulge In any unwarranted criticisms
or any recriminations.
Hie portion of tha president who
was made claar la the matter at the
executive offices today without, how
over, any direct reference being made
to the demons! rat tops that have oc
cured agaiast American tourists In
France.
Th* desire of the United Staten, It
was said, waa to maintain friendly
relations with all ceentriea aad the
belief waa expressed that the attitude
of Irresponsible persons or the Unit
ed States for foreign countries should
not he treated too serjpuely.
It la necessary. It waa added, for
Americans abroad to rssllae at this
time that pMoplm of some other coun
tries are In a difficult!** with sym
pathy.
Borne American tourists It was said
are of a somewhat bumptlone nature'
end If that type obtains some educa
tion and discover* that thsre are oth
er people in the world who are entitl
ed to some consideration, not much
barm will be done.
If the more responsible type of
American finds things abroad uaaat
lafactory, It waa asserted, there la al
ways tha remedy for them to come
end spend their money here.
Cozart & Son Erect New
"Packing House For $60,000
Will Be Able to Handle All Live Stock of Wayße and Adjoining
Count lew . ‘ w
After hxvliiK been In buatnees In
Goldsboro (or Im» (ban two and t
half years I hi* wall known flyn of,
fnsart and Bon believes In thla MC- |
tlon of the state to thi* extent lhal
they hare count runted a new parkin*
hnuae. It la lorjded on the extension
of South t'enler atrert, Jual below
Vlnron'a wood and coal yard, and j
equipped It with every modern facil
ity >n order that tuny may better
lake rare of their ever Increasing pat
ronacr. The new plant wflh Ita of
fice and refrlxeratton equipment, drill
coat approximately fti0.000.04). The
fU 'M
,
The firm of t'oxart and Bon started
'n biialneea on Center atreet and
Mulberry about 2N month* ago. doing
doing at that time only a jobbing
bualueaa. About n year |at«u* they
constructed 'a slaughter him«ee : on
Hourh John atvret, In
might prepare the raeaL
■trade from .the lire stffk wßjt'(iti
wrouml Wayne r-opnf f. ‘
11 lilt dr I| lint <■ for rhrtr. ruVrt.i .Tji a -grtrAl
2• ree making preparations
Veeater.,. plant. The present eqhifla
meni
about 120,000 00 Thus It i ufc-l»* atan.
lhal this firm baa every
|:i the future of Goldsboro na a trad-1
bur .enter „—T ““
‘When In mir n^MpM l *' we well.'
he able to buy. and care h»r, A
live s)ork that may be and
prepared for the market by all the
r»»*>plea of Wayne and a>g or eight ad
jacent count lea." stated Mr. R T. On*
rsrt. ampr ftp the tirpi. yesterday
whet W« tatatotawrt tat • »n*te-J
NEW SUPERVISOR
HAS ARRIVED
Het*B WHbom To Take
Plica as Mm Spear
’ Miss Hslon Wilson. ,of Rockwell
(Tty. lows, arrived la Goldsboro yes
urday to assume her duties as rural
supervisor of the schools of Ways*
county. Mlsa Leuf? Bpears, who has
been auprevleor for the past three
years, nlvrs up her work at the end
of the week. n, , 9 ‘
Mies Hpenr will spend, sometime
visiting In Klnaton, her home. She ia
to be married to T. W. Guthrie, of
Rallshary. In tbo fall. Mias gpaar
has made many friends during her
stay in Goldsboro sad they will regret
to see her go. She remains la Golds
boro. for th* real of th* week to as
sist Mlaa Wllstyi In getting acquaint
ed with the detail* of the position •
County school authbrftkM feel that
they have a competent successor to
Mlaa Spear In Miss Wtjson. She was
educated at lowg Ruth College and
secured her Master’s degree from
Teacher’s college, Columbia Ualver
aly. The past year she served as rur
al auprevleor of Rutte County, Cali
fornia ,aad prior to that ah* waa
(ounty superintendent of Calhoun
County, iown. She has a record aa
r successful leeeher.
Barber i« Abo
Town Historian
Huntsville. Mo.. July 27 --Ttp hqr
ber shop of Rugby and Mayo la the
home of the city’* archive*. Here la
a huge diary, resting on a center
table, are chronicled each day’a
events. t
The “barber shop book ends all dis
putes. When customers get to argu
ing about th* coldest or hottest days
the book la opened and Iker* la foand
the truth in black and white.
. It’a no use £o try to sell your
flve-yedr-old used car a* a two-year
old because the Kook will find yon
%ui.
J s «. * 0
tad lit lea for handling all of Ha, aa
wall, an Iba market for It'd dlatrl
but Ion". \
The firm la now oparatlna nine
i nucha for the delivery of their pro*
•liirla outalde of fioldaboro and two
j cracka hteldr the Hty limit* They
har* approximately 'twenty man In
i their employ# and In their nauaaa*
department they employe twelve glrle
nt preaant. Aa aoon aa they ar« In
rttetr new plant they will require at
leaat half that many more, "t oaarta"
aauaaae la their apodal feat are. al
thouirh they deal In all other .pack
ln« houae tinea. They have In their’
new plant cold atoraae farllltlea for
the refrigeration of 150.000 pound#
'if perlahahle produrta.
The firm la > of hi It. t'o
- Hr., and R. T. < tncher and
aon Mr. It T, Omari. tpK* manager,
haa Jlyed „>n tioldahoro only a few
year#, and prior to hla entry In bual
peaa for hlmaelf, waa aaaodated with
thflft and o>. here and at. Raletali
. Wt
pi*wjg>'4tnrt •enaedah .«* **-e**-i
ply the hualnmf* men In ■rnernl aa
huatlera and hooat
ahorl the ftrm of f’osart A Hou
hiKJif a r#tl a***t to (tolriahorr) I
f(p*^ J fftroiirMlliiK and thtdr
eaij| i**< |>Hpiii£d!> evidence that
|*U£ieee la the will to
UQu and thl hccept an I
erformnlty/
Nlr. J oaart atated that It war dnr
to the liberal of the Oolda
iKiro *njen h«nla were able
to Inr.reaae their faWmiea to the »«-
tent they hnvr, and herald that both i
BOOTBLACK CHARGED WITH
ATTEMPT Tfl fAMMIT DAPF
AliLßirl lUtUinMll mic
BY MRS. LILLIAN RUSSELL
i» 'M ■ I- V'*!>■*<*
EGYPT FORCES
DIGGERS OUT
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SquaMfM Onr ! RuanllMii
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London July S7—Aa a dir ret coa
seqaenre of riwNt squabbles with U»r
Egyptian antiquities department, Prd?'
lessor Mr W. M, Flinders Pr|ri«, the
world famous R«|IM NopalWdi.
baa daeldod to abandon all ai op ra
tion work la Egypt and t mat far bla
staff to Palestine.
Archaeologtma working la Jm
ora Minn* constantly Irritated br
thr "high handed" acf-on of the new
ly-formed antiqultlaa dapartmaal.
wttich his at Us hand. Plarra Lnena,
a Frenchman.
It la stateA that lhay ara being sak
rd ta- iliß atraaaaati with 1 nous
which glva Ws depart mat practical
ly. despotic pager* ovar slmoat amp
data * I of tbatr work
Professor Peuto baa lat|«Mod that
ha coaatdara aoJk of the taptlallm
to Ur no ludicrous that H la >|—ga
'tibia tor him to maka any farther
plana for work la Rappt. far tba tame
rraaon a party of aMllad American
aicaratoi a at Thebse haw ahaademad
all excavation work, dad there la a
llkrhilhood of other oieavatara with*
drawing.
"I am bringing my fifty years work
In niypt to a clone tb|a yanr". aaid
Profaasor Petrie la aa lateral*** here.
• and am flolag to South Palaattha,
where erary aaalataaoe la gtvsa to
archaeologists. The dot-ta-tha maa
*»r attitude token up by thr authorl
tlea In Egypt baa mad# it Imp—kflfl
for me to rontipue my work. Tie
■Uuatlon there from the polat of view
of archaeologists la aothtag bhort of
farcical.
“The old law concerning f*nda
made by axsasatora wag that Ihe fin
der ehoald hare half of what he
touad. The other hair waa taken by
the government. That waa fair aaoagh
although tha government generally
’took the better half. New law* in
troduced eatpnwer the government to
take everything the excavator
eo long an hla expeneea were
Thai meant that the government cqpllp
take anything of great tatereat and
"Imply give the archaeolglst back bla
rxpenaea. Three keguUtlon*. how-
e *ar. were only once put Into fifrte.
“Now, however, Lama require* that 5
no workmen ahall be employed with
out official sanction for each ladi
vldast man. No visitors may be ad
mitted to oae'a excavations without
the name official eaßctloa. and one
may not European on the
work uuleaa Hnpoo baa been ladl
virtually aanctloned by the antiquities
department.
“An exravalor may not put up any
shed or building on the site of bla
work without first consulting and
submitting the plsn of such a build
">* to hrsdquarters,. Every find made j
by aa excavator, under the new agree
ment which be, Is required lo sign, has
to be placed at lb* dlapoaal of the dl
lector of the 'Atoparlaieal pf fenllqut-
Inspector to oversea the work, wkllr
thr excavator baa lo pay the man's
salary.
**A further rule Instituted by the
Hulborllles says that no workman
may be paid for any small rtads be
makes. The result has been that hun
dreds of Hnutii specimens which
would normal have been preserved'
are being overlooked by the native
workers.
**l have alwwya paid my men the
Leal value for the f’pd* they make.
This mad* them carets I not to ovnr-I
I loo>t **d sM» remtpad taj
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Negro Has Left For
Parts Unknown and
Officers are Oeaduct-
Ing Wide Search
imd4#i Imnw Imnht
la «*» M» ts
tag. I
the rase. My*. BnUer and Mr. WtfWM
registered at lie hotai JgHW ■•• Fit
lag Nr. Bailor waa out aT
when Bvnaa eaflkfl lo MEVJlSakl^^g
other rwport in that the —*»•*»#»
loom end tator rwtafMd mA MM
the attempt to oammtt B* «MP;
cam. one «he -road vto*. X * p*
Mr. Boiler rets mod l» ttm ktt
room some minute* later aai hia Wt..
told him of what bad MlfUti, J
cording to a story told
Irr the negro fled wh«fll she aoffljH
»d, after having thrwsm bar MfIMR
the bed.
Upon hearing tha story br Mm.
Batter. Mr. Batler mag tor bell boy
serrtoe, Iblnkiag, socordtag to tha
report, to
then J. (’. Vanatory. totoWBFJiMBh
what naatataatio he oonM to tba aon
ple. he told Tba HeWi. * ,
They oheebad oat a tow btortM
Inter, and several boom totof tba «d
--flcers appeared with ton wiflMl tor
the negro. UeaaUaM he bad Ml tor
imrti unknown. A
Mr. and Mrs Bnttor left On inhere
yesterday afternoon for Batolgb M
said they wonM ro«om ««****
Ixslnst the negro to flbgfl ho wag
AI 2"
coup 14 registered from Maflnltd Of
ficers understand that thay worn orl
yiaally from Wlnotoo-4gtop. Mr-
Butler la a painter by trada. 0. 'M.
Smith waa employed as flonooal kg
the couple. _»
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Min Jane Roberts
Has BailgnH
Miss Jane A. Roberta, tor tha pa*
three yenre home demonetraliln agent
for Wayne rouaty. has raaigand dM
will leave at the end of tha woak tor
her home ta Oreoawood. B. Ck Mtoi
Roberta will probably reabgto dotoon
stration work la Alabama la tßg toll.
Educated at WTathrnf Oallaga.
South Caroline, and atVmbtdy Oal
lege. Mine, Roberta came lo OolßdMd*
’krsc yearg ago aa boms danaaostra
tloa agaat. During tha Ugsn that
man's clubs, and cammmMr fltohl
Lave been formed to every Mdtofl
ot tb* rouaty. Throngb bar. thn flB»%
market waa eoukliahad. and aba was
instrumental to securing the toRIm
cf a branch of Rissar and Rflktoowito
Northern poultry merebaata, toftoMto
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