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. WEATHER iacreaslag cloedtnees and warmer Wednesday, Tkiniijr nia Warmer ** end colder Thursday aftsr noo* in w«M. VOLUME SEVEN; NUMBER 269 NORTH CAR. GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONVENES Leaders Held Caucuses -- * Last Night Preparatory To Organization Today ' Hmn To Be (idled To Order By Alex I ■—iter. Principal Clerk LONG TO PRESIDE AT opening Upper house Number of Committee* Will Be Appointed At Opening # Semdcnu Today RAiaiOH. January Nr—UPi—Demo 'rsts and Republican* esuenaed hare tonight la preparation tor the formal convening of the 1929 general assetn -1)1 y at noon tomorrow. The Republleana Indicated they would not contest the organltatton of <he two honaee by the overwhelming Democratic majority ae in ihelr cau cni they ooptented themselves with naming l floor leaden without noml netlng candidates for the elective po eit lone. Houae Democrats, meeting In thr hall ot tha house of representative' In open session. named A. H. (Bendy! Graham of Orange county ae their candidate far epeaker without oppo sition. .** Only awe ywlept developed in which r. * Hi»grb Fuf Rowan was named for sergeant-el-arme over Thome* 8 Lytle of McDowell bye vote of 58 to 1* . v ' . For preeldent pro tern of the aen ' »te, Senator Thomas L Johnson of Robeson was chosen by unanimous »ote House attaches nominated Wyre: principal clerk, Alex Lassiter of Her tie, who wee elected for his Bth term: reading clorfc, John D. Beery of Wake engrossing clerk, Mias Ross B. Munn of Cabarrus and assistant sergeant at-train. Major J. A. lisk of Mont gomery. * . 7 For the senate the caucus nominat 'd; principal clerk. Leßoy Martin or Tedkln and Wake; reeding clerk. Needhm Mangunr of Wake; engross ing clerk end Rev. W A Oqrey of Martin, serggenl-et-arms. 0. P. Shell 4 of Harnett end assistant sergeant-at erms, O. P. Shell of Harnett anil as slstant sergeant at arms. Extim T 1 " I ewls, of Nash All *ere emoted nn mlmonsly. « Seventy-seven represent at ire* an swered the roll call when the house caucus of Democrats wee called to erder by R. M. Cox of Forsythe who sskad Judge Wlnstoa, of Bertie, to take the chair. Judge Winston was elected permanent ebalrman. RALEKHT. Jen I caucuses of leader* of both parties to night. member* of the 1929 general assembly were prepared to .proceed with the organliattpn of the senate and house when they convene at noon - tomorrow. The house wilt be called to order by Alex Lassiter, principal clerk, who Is a candidate for re-election. After coming to order, the first duty will be the selection of the epeaker of the house. Then will follow'the selection of the principal clerk, the reading clerk, the enkroaslng clerk, and ser geant-at-Srma. by vote of the hou* e The senate -will be called to order by retiring Lieutenant-Governor J Rimer Ix>ng. who according to pre cedent will preside over the senate until Friday when R. T. Fountain, of Rocky Mount, will be Inaanjtrated as * iledtenan!-governor.- The lieutenant-, governor preetfob ae president ex of tlclo of the eehife. The senate will then choose the principal clerk, leading and engrossing clerks, and *>rf*ent-at-arms. After the house select* H* clerk and other officials, the speaker will rame some of the committee*, mem bership on which ha* been determin ed at Ih# caucus of the majority par ry the preceding night. All *»f the lin portent committee* are not as a rule named the first day. but organisation committee* such »* the rules commit tee* always the first to be announced The minority party la always rep resented on the committee* although if has neVer been given any Import tnt chairmanship* Tlie chairmen are appoints* by the speaker and "eutenant-governor The senate committees will not hie announced until. Friday when the In coming lieutenant-governor presides (leapt for the rules committee and Continued on page two THE COLDSBORO NEWS READ IN THE MORNING WHILE MIND& ARE FRESH—READ BY BUYERS BEFORE THEY BUY. •<Y ' - . O Imagine Having Tooth Ache In This Big One o BOSTON. Jan 8 -(/Pl—The largest tooth in the world, meas uring 11 feet and 2 Inches In length and weighing more than 3M pounds, has arrived at the Harvard dental school museum. It raffle from the Jaw of a mastodon, and scientist estimate that it Is more than 50.000 years old It was foetid TO Alaska. DR. RONGETTI DENIES CHARGE 'hicaß’o Physician Waa ('barged With Perfcrvinx Illegal Operation Op Girl t u r ■ CHICAGO. Jen. 8 DP) —Dr. Amane Rongettl, chanted with the murder of Mlsa Loretta Enders, 19, by an Illegal' rperatlon. testified today that he'-had performed' no such operation and charged a former coroner’s physician with an attempt to effloyt money from him In connection with the girl’s death. It was his first appearance on the stand In ht* two trials for the girl's murder. He did not testify ht the first trial In which he was convened and sentenced to death but later granted a new trial by the supreme court. 0 The slate had mad* a request that one of hla witnesses be arrested on a perjury charge. The court ordered her taken Into custody. The prosecution sold she was MU# Martha Llnqulst and that she appear ed as a witness today under the name of Miss Ebba Lott Unquist. a slater, formerly employed by Dr, Hon gettl In his Ashland Boulevgrd hos pltal. closed after the Enders death- The woman under cross examination said she had* been married In Pltu burgh and her name at present was Ebba Unquist of Leechburg, l'enn. Dr. Rongettl, who has been In Jail for more than a yeah appeared nerv ous »nd 111 at east as he submitted to dlrpct examination, flgetlng about In the witness chair and asking that uuestions be repeated. He said that a man whom he believed to be the hus band of the Enders girl asked to ad mit her to hi* hospital for examina tion In November of 1927. While a patient there Dr. Rongettl said the girl gave birth to a baby. He made every effort to save her life, he testified,-, and performed a slight oi (ration after thebahy* birth but nogr nrevlously. When the girl died he sain le gave her family IlMloto help de fray expenses because they told him they were poor people and he felt sorry for them. . DROVE FANJIEB I*3 NEW YORK. Jan 8 OP> nob drove. Philadelphia southpaw., didn’t have much competition (or the 1928 i strikeout title In his league Iwfty fanned 183 Alphonse Thomas. While Box, was second with 129. Murvin Argues For State ■> Wide Sunday Closing Law County e Comtastoner J R Murvin < of Seven Springs say# The News got httn wrong tn quoting him as asking Wayne county representatives to se cure a bill closing filling stations on Sunday. He say# that what be Wants-, Is a bill closing "all country store*' in tho si ato on Sunday, which of course, would Inetiule filling station.- ” ”1 want the lew in Wajii" county.'- his statement continue*, "but I want It state wide and T believe the better elenfent of our cltlxeu* are In favor of this law "We have noticed recently severe criticism of filling station* In Ib*« Ktstc by promlnijjJ clt/xehs. including Superior and KMeraJ court Judges stating' titellef that a melorltv were selling wrjilskey. no doubt this Is true to a great cgtent. "It Is bad enough far this condition to exist six daya in the week, and Good Willers Reach the Capital - u •■— **w Mat .av - I f ImSt • jfSpF lp||| a a > , -jr ' *• » we———■——— ■ 1 ■ " 1 " wr vs His face covered with healthy tan, President elect Hoover appeared ready ior the big task khrad oi tuM ae ka wrived at Union Station ..r;. . I.M > weajea »»w » Duke Remains to Lie in Slate At Duke University Thursday NEW YORK. Jnn. 8. —(AP) Ben jamin N. Duke* who rose from a boy peddler of tdbecco to help place hi* family among the pioneer* of big bus iness. (Hoi today In Ills upper Fifth avenue manttou after a long llinesA. He was In ht* 74tli year. Hehiud hhn W left a fortune esti mated at upward of $80,000,000. found <-d on the profit* of a Southern tobac cc shop and ngtended by year# of ef fort In railroad*, banking, cotton, reul estate, and other high scale enter prises. o’ Gut of fils fortune came huge phll rnlhroplea lie never permitted to be publicly listed, but of Which 11,- 000,0041 was *al|l to Jinvc been given to Trinity college, Duke Univer sity *t N and (lulliord college from wßlch he Waa graduat t A Burial will take place nt Durham v here he maintained an estaTc. A, special train paving Pennsylvania station at i p. tn., tomorrow will bear the body, acc/fmpqalod by the family and friends where It will He lu stnlo and Duke University from the time »f Its arrival about 8:30 or 9 a, m.. Thnrsdsv until II a m . when th*' funeral will take place at Memorial our county and federal officer# shoul l remedy that condition tn so far as It Is possible for them to do, but from my observation and opinion of other expressed to me. th«t_ condition I wwor#e on t4und#y llwn ;uiv other du In the week,. The o|e-n store to the drunkard and joting leivs.. I • ping them away from tie- iliurt he a' 1 Suhday Schools mid asscK iatitig' \v'ih the Itetter class of cltlxens wi'l !■ .'ilng and .ometlitt g n ike them vltlxens of onr County and and our leglslator llgve the power tft close Ik esc pieces on Sunday and stop the gathering of l#~ge crowd# on ojur pabllc roads on Sunday, wdio meet there to drink and play slot machines and otherwise ;de*c*erate the Brtbbalh and make country roads and hlghwuys Uanger «ae to pass over " (•OLDSBOKO N. C WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1929 Chapel. Meanwhile arrangements were that the l>ody would remain at a funeral parlor here. Death eating to Mr. Duke at 5:4.", ,liw morning when lie felted fir rally gfter a bronchial attack last night. A" far back a* 19(5 he had suffered from nervous disorders and more reC&nrly had been conflnetl to his home. With film when he died were his wife. Mrs. ' Jtarah Pearson Duke: ht# daughter. Mys. A. J. Drexel-Biddle. Jr, her j i htuhand amt hD clergyman, 4 TTr; ‘ ; Ralph W. Sockman. SALVATION ARMY | COUNCIL DIETING No indication Yesterday As What Outcome Will He In . Revolt Movement BUNMTRY ON THAMES. England. ! Jan. 8. -(/Pi— Any anticipation's, that tile high coeacil of (lie Halva!ton j Army which assembled herb today 9 o Would reach a quirk decision of the fitness of General Bramwell Booth to J continue as commattder In chief were i dispelled. Although three eepnrat ■ ■ sessions ware held, the starting of I the machinery of the Council took up ’ ull the time. 5 Committees were appointed and of l fleer# elected It »»i -aid uuotfh lal \ ly tmilrhl that the real work of the council would he I-In tomorrow. Hinrhsmith Hospital Is Now ! T nder Endow munt HU.FTTEVILLU,. N. U. Jan l (V. vn.e Hlvh h"s;>ltjl n! tl.l. <-!ty has Identified Itself W'lth the Duke Endowment and Will be opera! ■ d In tin future under the regulation (If th» Duke endowment. < The hospital 'ha been -completely r*-org*nlred and chartered under th name "Tho Hlghsmllh Hospital, Inc. " officers of the institution, who wll 1 erve without snlarv. are: R. W Her ring, president; ‘ W. A West, gjee proHldent: John C. Gllmors. secre tary; Mlsa Mary U Rothwell, cor ; tespondlng secretary: and Miss Mur I taret Tomlinaop, trcaaurer, in. Washington. Dr, Hubert Work (left) wfc among those who greeted Mr. and Mri Hoover on lUeu return to the capital. ARE TO IMPROVE CITY’S WHITEWAY yL WMtew«jr Will Be Con at rue ted Down (’enter of Cent«r Street Walkway Goldsltoro's center street I# due for further Improvement. It was learned ly**Kt«rthty D«ml#loh ha* bleq reached to eoaet-ruct tt whlteway down th# center of the. reoently constructed walkway. It was said. Provision for conduits to carry- the necessary wires was made In Die laying of the walk | way. Thla center street whlteway ; would extend only from Ash to Chest (nut streets | Tho .Whlteway nloug Walnut street its also scheduled for a complete over-] | hauling and Improving shortly, It vu learned. ’ • ' ] TO BF (AI M’l» lIKUmtl (IROb'P WAHHINJkiPGS, Jan 7 , iJP) Hu hert Work: fornVer secretary of the Interior; Attorney General Sargent, Assistant Attorney General Pnrmenter nnd fjollcttor General Mitchell will be called before the Senate Indian affairs Committee to explain (grand Jury investigation of tUatrlhu-. Itlon of fluid* exceeding fl.Ot'O.ono he-j longing U> Jackson Burnett, an intom , I patent Tree Indian,'was not passed lust summer. i ... ...... „„ : Fu/l ral For Vs. C I.ertoy Frorr Home- at 3 o*Clock • “ Tf""’ \ I W. H l.oroy, -18, general superin "dent of the Empire Manufacturing ; f'ompanv: anti one of the best-liked I men of the cltv. died nt a lornl hoepl i tal al 1 " ' Jack foltowlnx an Illness cl two weeks with Inflnenza and pneumonia. Funcml service- will h< held-from ''ie home hi 12 ■“ En <t Mnllcrry street tt ?. o'clock thl- afternoon and will I«’ In • barge of ltcv Peter Mclntvre. •« tor of the First Presbyterian Porch The Mason* will observe their ritual if the service'and will provide eallhenrer*. Burial will lw made In the fill'll' plot 111 willow Dale ceme tery. * Bn-i !• Ro«vycM. Ororri* Mr. l-e --rov was etlncsjted In the schools of ‘Atlnntn fit t'llj he was married lo Miss Bertha M'-fov ofUharlotte an! ih with tw« ( htldren, Ham and Lucy i Leroy, survive, Doctors Renew Warning About Taking- Care If . Influenza Has Set In Los Angeles Starts Cruise To Florida LAKEHURBT. N. J . Jan. I —<*>) —The Nevy dirigible Loa Abgelee took off at 8:48-tonight fore train ing cruise of more than 1.000 miles which takes tt Mouth along the coast to Florida The craft will participate In the dedication «f the municipal airport at Mtautl. Fla., and then proceed to St. Joseph's hay to the mast ship Patoka. HOUSE VOTES TO SEAT REP. BECK „ O D ba»e Cont'nueN In Pen :tp Ov >r Ktlfog* AnM-War |»R«t, Hoist Billy I WASHINGTON, Jen. * -<*»>-The Houae put e touch of variety Into the proceedings of congress today by vot* llig overwhelmingly that James M. Heck, former solicitor general of the H. H was entitled to hla seat e* a member from Pennsylvaqle. Beck’s residence In Philadelphia bad been questioned at the beginning l of last session by Democrat* who In -1 lifted he lived In Washington rather than Philadelphia, hut the house { would-not follow the argument, (h --' 'tend It upheld the report of ita elee tlone committee that Mr. Heck we* qualified to serve. Debate continued In the Senate ov fr the Aw** tg renondoe ) war. while efforts went on to reach some kind of an agreement by which the ratification of the document could ho brought to an early vote. Hopes of thoae desirous or bringing about such a situation fluttered up ward and downward as they have for revere! daya and adojurnment found the flow of oratory atl)l In full swing. Tha tariff hearlngs before* the house ways and means committee dealt srgely with the duty on caffeln, d product of skimmed milk. One of ike house committees- I 'that t n ‘rulea—voted to give the right qf vay to the Fenn bill calling for a of the house mem bership on the basis of population. This measure, which would reduce i representation of certain stales and I i.nd Increase that of others la In for « f stormy time. A year ago the houae and the senate sent the measure back I to the central committee. At the senate side of the cspltal the . Indian affairs committee asked that Commissioner nttrke of tha Indian ltureau aurialu a chaYgs of yesterday that Henator Pine of Oklahoma was seeking to undremlne the Indian ser vice. I>A*6EHOURLY II.U BIRMINGHAM. Ala . Jau 7-^-OP) | intermittent nose bleed for some 200 I hours today had do weakened Mr# Betty Jones that she w»* unconscious at times and dungerotisly 111 About fifteen years »gp Mr. Leroy moved to GoldstMiro to live and at hat time waa connected with the Kouthern Cotton Oil comiuiny In a re •ponslhle position, which he held for five years. Ten year* ago he became connected with the Empire Manufac turing Company gnd was one of this firm’s most valued employees, being nt the time of hi* death general sup irLtendent of the plant. But. his business whs not all, of the Mfe to, Mr Jie found 'lime to serve his city and his church and to take an active pair In the Masonic life here. He was appointed a mem ber of the board of aldermen to TUI an unexplred term from .the court house ward and at the last city elec tion was returned lo the place, hav, the plurc. His devotion to the cause of the Continued on page two MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HNK9 mn cam* TODAY Estimate That Inftagnia Epi demic Waiting Bat Pma* monia On lncr«aac SO OR MORE CASBB OT PNEUMONIA IN CITT NOW Complicathm Dm Nat Mtow Where Patient Goeg T» M And Stays TMsa T. Holds hero physlotaas yweUedag le- Kued a nag warning far «fem* Who have iou-hes of '*■■**-- to ge to bed and stay there until they have eattftr ly iscovered, n nntlng not ‘Lat ttw l ifiy nr Mrare caaee at pmmao«|i «a --| the dty at the praam* had etaeet entirely reaulted from failure le lake proper safeguards when atriekee With Influenva U I the inflnenxa epidemic geipM . to be da the decrease, dky lehoels yesterday reporting abeenoea rdag ing from 10 per cent In the high rchool to about 30 per oent la the pri , miry schools, there has hem an :ap , precieble Increase ta the nemheP el meed developing pTfnutlmi JVty wee considered n conaervnttde OMl* " ' ' I n.ate of the number 0 pneumonia , [ cases reported In one heepittl WMh ”vn other* on tha verge el the earn* (• dtmflou. „ « "Some people when taken with Mr flnenae.’' said one r’lrfriew’’ rnif" to regard H entirely let lightly unugti running a tsemperutin, neh ' tng. coughing and fealtag gmgfgllr nsd. they attempt to M pt fhe.leit'hf If and refuse to go to had. Theee ■ case* are th. men ma*. MM* le nM ti e epidemic started In > out of this number aafy me that weal > to bed end stayed there depeiagMl •y before suffered from MwESt and iisthma " From another source tt «M Mara -1 rd that one cttleee, who died aa 9m> l nay. probably lost hie battle IMihet pneomoeto. developing foUetrlag TO* fl uense. because he attempted ta kese tut after 111 with the PM earn, drte . #i>:g hie automobile a hundred ffltlm k or more on two •rpnrnte day* wklb ; running n temperature at AM dlgrlu. REHYMERCASE IS UNDER WAY i) - ' ■' ;; # % Judge Sherwood Saye Belief fie Taetiag Spelln" Not Lefttl ;j . YORK. Penn.. Jaa. 1.-(*V-J«d|e Sherwood, presiding to the trial of John H Blymer for the murder 0 Nelson R. Rehmoyag, threw coMter melon Into the nu|i of the deftM* today when he ruled that belief In Witchcraft or H delaslona N do not constitute legal Insanity. The ruling came When the tfefenw ’ 1 produced the first witness to eetahlMk the heel* fore plan of Inenalty. t#b* mayor waa a lender la n cult In which the murdered men nleo.wne n prae i t'tloner. end which professed belief In the power of ’’hevfn*'* or the ceet- I In* of spells Jinlr# ffharwood excused thO JUff and after the defense argument lor th* Insanity plea said. “The Ish lew hold* that hulluelnattoo+.pl' a defendant are not a proper defame nnles* such a belief would boa Jue tlflcatlon for taking life The BupreUH r'-urt ha# upheld that ruMug. The burden la one the defense, however, to show he we# actually Insane and not Inst suffering from delneloifi. "It se«ms to the court that we will ,!-#'« to exclude th* testimony until *uch time as you can show tbs de fendant knew tb* difference between right and wrong at the time of th* • uppoeed crime.” srs: pi.AVER , w ... fHARLEHTOti. 8. C., Jin. B.—GPI Mix naval seaplanes, on* squadron of those which stepped here en from Hampton Ronds to Panama dee to bed firing condition*, took of this morning for Key,Feet. Ten remaih •d at anchor the time tap their departure had not bene oi)4
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