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WEATHER Fbir.-aad wanner In wot. Possibly showers la aaat Tweaday. Wednesday lair >ad warmer. VOLUME SEVEN; NUMBER »I IIC.' .■85T.:.-aef vxgi ■■ —‘ v —r~ l r:,rrr-.., ' ■ NEWSOME TO DIE IN CHAIR First Degree Verdict o, Returned By Chatham , Co. Jury Last Night Jude* Nunn Sentence* Ahn To Dio in Electric Choir On Friday July 13 2ND TRIAL ORDERLY AND SHORT IN TIME Defense Introduced No Witness es; National Guard Had Placed Machine Guns PITTBBORO, June U— UP)— Larry Newsome negro charged with slaying Beola Tedder, yoang Wayne coutily girl, tonight after a second trial was found guilty of murder In the firm degree and sentenced hy Judge R A Nunn to die eh the electric chair on Friday Junly 13 C. Ray, of the defense counsel rerved notice of appeal Defense was given 40 days to perfect Its appeal and the State 30 daya to mate Ita re ply. „ Ni • The Jury reached Its vadlct at 9:40 tonight after being out 38 minute*. Newsome was taken In charge by a 1 detachment of Netlonal Guardsmen and carried hack to the RUte peniten tiary la Raleigh - - The courthouse was well filled to night but there was no disorder of nay sort. Troops were stationed In and outalde the courthouse. I 4 Convicted In the first trial and aenteace dlo die In the electric chair Newsome was given a naw trial by the supreme court which held that Judge Hf. A. Grady had erred In in structing the Jury that bill two ver dleta—not guilty or first degree mur dea—could be returned . John Kornegay and Carl Hmlth, •Wayne county deputies and Dr. W C. I.lnrlllt, head of the Btate hospital ter Insane negroes at Goldsboro said that Newsome had confessed the crime to them. He told they said, that he slashed her throat to keep her 1 from telling of his gttempr to assault 1 her. The first of 15 stale witnesses to testify this afternoon was Cor« Held, negreaa. She told of a visit by the farm daughter whose body wst found, brutally cut, between the witnesses home and the farm home i In Wayne county early on the night < of last December 8 Cora Held relat ed the girl's visit to her for a Jar of tyrup. It was while the girl was returning the short distance to ty»r home with the eyrup that the stale contended Newsome met her. George Reid, hus band of Cora, followed to the stand with shout the same story. Troops, under command of Colonel Don B. Hcott »f Orahsm. stationed three machine guns at the three qnnrt house doors this morning. The negro • was broughj from stste prison at Ra leigh hy a squad of machine gunners Troops «)sn had charge of the ground outalde the hulldtnft. Another detach ment lined up with thd 1 bar and still another behind Judge Nunn's bench. The three companies, two from Bur , ttngton snd one from Durham, were oidered her by Governor Mcl-cwn as , a precautionary measure. Caplatna Abraham Carroll. Wllfon Wtlllaiqaon and L. H. Barbour, and I.tents. C. T. | Hmlth and J B. Cole attended (hem. Captain Barbour, Durham a veteran In the national guard, fold the Asso tated Press.staff man that this trial | was his 14th one of Ita kind tn the state In hta several years of enlist- i ment. I At the Goldsboro trial tha Judge and tha sheriff had to reeort to firearms when the negro's life was threatened while a aisle witness was upon the stand Relatives of the girl had grab bed him. Rhouly of “get him" came from the spectators. Judge Gr»dy used B pistol and the ahertff fired hta pistol, several times to prevent further' trouble. The negro today occupied a chulr. v.mtjn HW bar. handcaffri. . } i .. '.w’-.v. THE GOLDSBORO NEWS READ IN SHE MORNING WHILE MINDS ARE FRESH—READ BY BUYERS BEFORE THEY BUY. Rosewood Boy Wins In State Contest Henry Grantbam. non of Mr. and Mrs. H. Grantbam of Rose wood. was yesterday Informed that he had been aelteted aa state win ner among vocational agriculture sudents for bis essay on ylCoopera tive Marketings. How it effect* the Cotton Farmer.” For placing first young Orsutham wins a $54 prls* and a trip tn Raleigh in July where he—together with the sec ond and third vocation** winners. Leroy Sessamon of Cabarrus coun ty and Julius Wilson of Cleveland county—will recite their essays against 4 H club winners of t,lm slate. The winner sh Raleigh will . J ’J be given a free trip to Memphis early ' In Jbe fall to compete against winners from 13 other southern states. DRUNK DRIVERS FEATURE COURT Judge Bland Pasties Out Road - Sentence 1% Effort Curb Dangerous Practice 0 Drunken drivers were most often before Judge BUnd and Hollcltor Kd raundenn tn Wayne county Recorder’s court yesterday In the first seunion in three weeks, the past two M»nd»y.4 having seen no session on account of Superior court i Two of*>the men who tried to mix liquor with automobile driving were sent to the roads to think It over. Leslie Howell was one and drew CO oaya on the road*. Marabla WilUms got 90 days for his offense. For larceny, Fred Webb wag jen tenced to six months on the roads, i.nd James Mayfield 30 days' for car rying a concealed weapon. John T. Price was found guilty of driving drunk and sentenced to pay n SSO fine and coats and to serve 90 days on the quads if he drives his car In the next 90 days or falls to pay the fine. E. T. Uddet. embcsfflement, judgment suspended until June 25 on condition defendant pay $12.50 or produce suit of clothes. On a charge of assault, Andrew Pulton was bound to superior court. Lddle Erins will do five months (or (Continued on Pag# Four) Gives Blood in Effort To Save Brother's Life Somewhat stronger after a blood transfusion but still critically 111, waj the word which came from Spicer'r Sanatorium early thla morning aa to the condition of Pink Rose, Gran tham township farmer, who waa ad mitted to the hospital Sunday night, badly wounded from a knife in the hands of Millard Johnson, a neighbor. Blood for the traiNfuslon was sup plied by Mra. Sally Porter, a atster, and was selected hy surgeo'Us aftqr a teat showed It matched the blood ot the wounded man. Tests of the blood of several brothers had been made but found not to coincide with the blood of Mr. R<i*e. The Utter rallied percepti bly after the transfusion. It wag stat ed. Johnson, charged with having wind ed the knife, is held In tha Wayne county jail,. Bond has been set at $2,- 600. but It was decided to await the return of Sheriff W. D. Grant,before going forward with plans for granting the bail. Thera are two distinct stories as to how Rose happens to be wounded | Thar* U agreement, however, that Auauin U Foiled j ft ■■ Ik A B Hk wk ' ' A MUmJM Ba • 1! O An attempt to useaMinats Baron Tanaka. <he Japaneao premier, as he walked into the Tokio railway atatton was . foiled by timely intenrentton ot police, who took Into custody Shingo Okamura. merchant, when ‘ he dashed the statesman with uplifted IMPROVEMENT MAIL IS ASKED GoldMboro Trains Mentioned In Request by Wilmington to Washington , (.Special To The News)' WASHINGTON. June 11—At the In stance of Mr. Louis T. Moore. Exe cutive Becretsry. Wilmington Chamb er of Commerce, President J. Victor Grainger of the Murchison Nntional Bank and other clllsens of Wilming ton. North Carolina. Senator Simmons Is today taking up. with the Postmas ter General the desire of patrons of the Postal service In that section of the Slate to obtaLlnlmproved malt sac lllliea. j/ ’ • It has been pointed out that under present conditions tho Wilmington section has no railway Postal service for about twelve hours in every 24, or more especially, has Mo Jp-coming service from North and East between 5:30 p m. and 9:15 a. in.-or out-go ing service between 6:40 p. tn. and 8 p. m.i except for a round trip of closed pouch service from Ooida boro to Wilmington, arriving In Wil mington 45 p. m. *jid leaving Wil mington 4:35 a. m. ThU condition represents serious detriment 11 MB he conduct of general that the Postoffbe Deftftrftncnt should estab (Conttnuedbpn Pag# Flour) • hero has been bad blood between tbe two men for eotuetime. Johnson's ntory Is that he waa way laid and »«t upon by Hose about«: 30 Sunday afternoon, that Ko»e had a large etlqk; that'be (Johnson)' made an effort to get away from him, run ulna at least 3JH) feet; that Hone over took him. gripped hi* head between an arm and body and that thua assaulted 1 1 ilinson wielded hla knife In aelf-de tense. The atory by Roao’s frlenda la that Johnson waylaid Rose and set upon him with an open knife. The attack, accord in* to this version, la an out growth of feeling engendered when Roue testified In a liquor case against Johnson several month* ago, < Rose Buffered two severe wounds and was very weak from the loss of blood when he reaehed tlhe Sana torium. On the left side he had been so deeply cut In the lower part of the abdomen that the Intestines had been freed, and on the right aide the knife atabs K*d penetrated the long*. - N. C TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE 12, 1928 KIWANIS HEARS MR. ARMSTRONG City SuperinteudUMt Shows Rank of Goldsboro School Dr. R E. WlUUBta who conducted the program at Iml Bight's Klwanli luncheon presented. m prln-'.ial speaker of the eAatng Ray Arm atrong. superintendent of tha tlty reboots. O ./ Mr. Armstrong the club with an Interffitlng and cnllgbl antng talk on education In general and on Goldaboro'a schools Is partiru Inr. He touch on all phases of school actlvttiea in Goldsboro. In describing t*»e present equipment be stated that the new high schoof building, whlb poaslbly not aa etattMate as some »n<: net aa large aa otw*. waa the best built school buildlnmh the aonth, and >|ha( If there were nip defects iu its ronstruettoo, they mad get to make tl<) appearance, HR* to the eforia o* • predecessor. ». Hamilton, atiJ those who worked VfiUi him Qolda horo'a colored schoel equipment ta second to none In tftfo south, he atated Mr. Armstrong poatinaed along financial and bualnfoa tinea, explain ing that the school apratem hare was operated on a atrtefor business basis, preparing an ndvaacw budget each year and Uving, wiHflfo that badge'. It, was pointed out that the county funAa,. provided for six months of the school, term and that special city taxes pro vided for the balance. Figures were quoted showing that thfl attendance In Isrth white schools, nesrly doubled within the. pant ten years, while the cost had Increased two and one hair times. The relative higher Increase th coat, he said, was aue to hlghor living conditions, bet ' ter propaitul teachers and payments on the better pqulppcd bulldlalts -Rcboela are not expensive he a>ld and < xpreaaed the opinion that the yearly coat was probably laaa than the mon < y spent for soft drinks, as has been found to be a fhcT la Una of our neighboring counties It waa alau mentioned that In this qelghborlu* county more was spent for automobil es tn alx months than the antlre school system cost., Tbl# also, he thought would probably apply to Goldsboro and Wayna county. Continuing it waa explained that school methods bad changed and the frifantages of the present methods ware pointed out. The present system 0$ teaching beginners to road hy word and sentences was more sncceag ful than the A. B. C. method because the method now tn use teaches them to read naturally, fn other studies the present aim is to develop InlUa live snd system without unduo stress on facts and details. In.conclusion Mr. Armstrong quot ••d figures showing (hat'each advance In education gives n m*n a tremen- Uuous advantage over tho less fortun ate fellow who Is only a IhtfA *Bek>w h'm In school education. ) Roy parker gave the oral boost and he explained the different phases of bis duties with*~!ho city. HOOVER GAINS AT CONVENTION • • Secretary of Commerce Now Ap» ftarenUy Sure Being Chosen By Republicans KANSAS CITY. June l!_(4>)_ln emphatic declaration in favor of the candidacy of Herbert Hoover was made tonight by Senator Elect Wil liam Vare of Pennsylvania who con trols a large block of delegates from hia state . KANSAS CITY— UP) Delegates from Vermont native state of presldr ont Coolidge, agreed today to vote tolldly for Herbert Hoover and have one of their number second Ilfs noml r Alton. » « WASHINGTON—<JPV— Though re -tatnlng strictly In tha aeclusfon of , office* at the .. tcontlauad oa pagn 4) 1W Troth Broken mr I j CAamKAUio* D» l ßrncßa/ Th* rnnkgrement ot Stnoritw M e r eXdx-s. Castellano* and Primo do Rirsri, tho Sponish dictator, hog been broken off obrtfpUy; the bride-to-be hoe left Madrid for Paris and De Rivera himself U reported to be suffering from e high tem pers tars snd attended b % hi« nertonal ohvsician. MRS.CLEMENT BURIED MONDAY Fine Old Lady DM at Hmi of Her O. A. Clement, Early Sunday. ”4 CM * ' u -r ■■ r j. A noble and good life waa elosag ysqtqrdkx afUrnoon when the rs fcafhn of Mrs. Anna Aryan Clemswt wars interred at WalUee. While a large crowd 0$ friends looked »n. tear eyed la tbs face of dsath but confident that the deceagßl had en tered upon a better world. Bar <W. P. Currie, pastor of the Wallace I*reabyteriaa church, conducted the funeral service. Assisting him was Rev. Peter Mclntyre of the First Presbyterian church In Goldsboro. The service had started with tho of fering of a prsynr by Mr. Mclntyre at the home la Goldsboro. Active pall bearers were made ap of sons and sons Is law with the fol lowing honorary pall bearsra: W. F, Murphy. A. R. Sloan. J. K. Johnson. J. W Boner, H. F. Bon er, Newton Henderson, B. <3. Money. Geo; M. Word. Asborne Oarr, A. McL Graham. Judge Henry A. Grady, N. If. Carter, Blnford Sloan. O. H. Rob inson, Horace li. B. Oarr, 8. A. Roney, Pdfr"? BouSy, J. F. Faison, J. A, FaUoh. J. V, Bllay, Jske Powell, I/aFayette Southerland. t oon Wells, Ben Powers, ,■ k • m ' The end had rome for Mrs. Cle ment at yte home of her aon. A. O.' (lenient, on Bast Mulberry street. In the subdued hush of Sunday morning e*rly. Tho end ended a long decline of many weeks for the fine old lady who h*d attained her eighty-first year. or an exceedingly alert miitd and bright disposition waa Mrs. Clement. The Interest, which she took In the (Continued on Pngn Four) *" Prison Sentences For Beating And Starving [Girl To Death For the murder of Vermeil White. 11 year old Negress, James White, rather of the child will serve ten Tears In Stale prison. Amelia While, alepnu ther of the girl, will serve five years In Stale prison. o Judge R. A. Nunn of NSW fls'in passed out these sentences about 2 clock Sunday aftamoon after tha Jury had deliberated 35’ mltiuics to find White guilty of murder In the second degree. Counsel for Amcdla While had entered a plea of guilty of murder In the second dngre>: when (heir client was taken suddenly HI Saturday morning and It became ap parent that ahe would not be stle to continue at the hearing. Sentence *>f the White negroes rtid od a case which haa created m«re In terest among the colored population of Goldsboro than any case In ccen*. years The courthouse waa packed to capacity with negroes from the tlm« tVwe case was called throughout the scseiona. Though Judge Nunn ordered night seealon?,~Baturday night’s hear Irgs running kno earl/ Sunday morn-. Fight Over Unit Rule , In Prospect in State Convention This Morn Urge Delegatee Attend Meeting Most of Waynes twenty-five dele gnus tu the State Democratlo Convention In tyrietgh left for the Cnptltal city yesterday hut a (sw will ‘go this morning. Waynd dele gate* are urged to attaad tha cau cus of the third Congreasloaal.dls trlct to be held oa thq stage of the city auditorium, bsgtaalng at *:3O this morning. & NAME OFFICERS ATOTY LODGE T. U Gll.iMnWmß. Master ot Gotefoboim Number 624 A. P. A. M. At a meeting held last night Golds boro Lodge number 034 A. F. A. M edeotsff the following officers for tha JWMNUMIM' Mggtsf. TJk Muthta, Senior Warden, Luther R. Thomas; Junior 'Warden. B. L. MtmmonaJ Treasurer. Hoy M. fomaer. Beers- 1 lan J B. F. Hloks. Tlh mnoting waa presided over hv the present muter W. O Crawford, who saked the officer* elect to pres ent themselves two weeks hence to be Installed. At thla time Wayne lands* will Install officers at a Joint meeting being scheduled to elect next Monday Charity is i> foundation of Mason ry declared T. It. Crewaon. who Is pant everything In the Masonic line. I (Pa course of a talk Before the Lodge last eveniag. h» Thera wore about fifty members present and they listened attentively to s communication from Grand Mas ter R. 0. Du (in of Bnfleld. CARRIER HKTB RECORD WASHINGTON. Jane 11-~4!irr:Ths airplane carrier Lexington, reported to the navy department that ah| bad set a naw record for ship spaed whan she ran 700 ngutlral miles bet tween noon Saturday and noon yesterday, averaging 39.8 knots an h*ur. ■KCH,l*f< AL CORFORAL NF.W YORK. Juno 11— Oh— ~ Mr. Tclovox, mechanical man? tn to drill n r.quad nt a Governor's Island fete. In a teat hr seemed to lark the snap and origtnalllty of a hsrd boiled aergeaat. Ing—tha courtroom did not entirely empty.. The State charged that the 11-y*«r old negro girl had been killed by James and Amelin White through continued Inhuman treatment and through failure to supply her with adequate food. One of the most telling bits of Tvid •nee offered by the Bt»te wss the exhibition of pictures showing the body of the dead girl The pictures showed hardly, a b«dy but morely properly a skeleton, such waa the de gree of emaciation. Cgly looking wounds that gaped and seared mark ed thre frail body tn a number of pi am. These wounds, witnesses tea t'flod, had been Inflicted by James and Amelia Whit* aa they beat the child. At the Sunday session Solicitor Clawson Williams completed the ar gument for the State snd Judge Nunn charged the Jury, hta charge being completed about 13:45. Tha twelve men deliberated Utile more than a half hoar in rsadriog their verdict ..i .a,.- 'Miiliilt '• i ..... . jßai|§j MEMBER Os THE ASSOCIATED * PRESS PRICE FITE CENTS Turlingta* Munir mi ImM Far DakfiitiM Vnting Aa Uait For lain SMITH FORCES DBSm DIVISION or HALLO! Wayne Dakmlaa Urgtoi Altai Caneaa m Dtotrtet at t:» la RaMgli AoMlorHaa ralbioh. Jen* It. m < ttmg—» tioa of Urn unit fata gn»n pramhu tonight of > bitter l|kt between I teeth Carolina Smith and Hull forma la IM DKMratlo mala CoioaHn tomor row. Zoh V Turlington. mnsagnr M Cordell Hail, baa doctored hid lion of asking far a to- Mructed lor Hnll aaO rodai «»«* Tha Hall lemtor mM ho oaf Ufa* hfa forces to bold • two-thlrda majority In tha ooßTaattoa. «• While Smith nwwta tort art admitted that tha Hall maa will hoM vaatlon foMhe of &e Oonvomtfaa. Oooataor Stott might atlll recoin* fwaSl trtti from North Carolina pwritod thanata mM la not daclarad. aiaoo M S( Iho Stata'a 84 dalagatai aro elected bp Iho IS ronaraaalonal dlstetoto. | Praoaadtag tha — arsottoa lay m« tha State delegates wIU foot W diatricta to a loot lfaUnto I Igtasß* Custom in tho pa at hag boon to otoct lout dalagntea with M *pfa oath from , each district. Tha oanoootfao as a whoia named fonr at torgd la gam* plate tho ateto'a soots. PLAN MEMORIAL FOR DR. J M BELK Stores of C hain to ItaMo Cro* sting Fnai to BtoiM Ktofil As a memorial to tho bf Dr. I. M Both, founder of tho Sofa ohatg of department atom, tho otoraa on indlrtdual unlta hare erootoC o food to be uaad to b.|llding rami eharehoa. O. P., Matthew a. manaaer of tho lodal „ hranrh announced yesterday. Thta mean* of memorialising tho ftete4tor«< the bnatoeoa woo daeldad «poo ho ratine the church and parflßlUrly tho rural church hod tens hooa oao of tha chief object a of tho pßpanthrapr of Dr. Both. Herb year each More In tho Balk chain, tha manager* decided at a meeting In Charlotte, will c*n tribute 1100 toward the Dr. toalk Memorial Pund. Carl Handaeo. ate safer at tha .Raleigh store; W. H - Balk of Char lotte ce-fooadar of tha chain with Ur Beik and W. L. Wtolaca, manag er of the Charlotte stem, ware named as a committee to edmlaut*? lb* *»■• Thera are now Itfty-WK Bolk otoraa to operation with the number being steadily Increased. 1 Tha land. It fal low*, will receive aa a mlptmam •*.* r«0 the firat year and *n Increasing amount each eurcaedlng year. No Action Taken On Manslaughter Count RU#LSBORO. June 11— (JPs— No sh* tlon waa takee today hy Orange coun ty Superior court 4n the case gentnit Thomaa C. Bowls. ,Jr., and Stem Porches The maths, University of N'ertti Carolina eluded ta. are charged with manslaughter th connection with Ills death of Man Peadergmft, U. rear old,. Chapel Hllf hoy. who was .truck and '‘killed by an automobile ..ecu Pled by tho two and driven by Kurchee. V It la underatoad that t*e ones W*a
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