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Fair Tosadiy Wednesday Increasing oloodlnaoe followed by rain or snow to went. Not much change in tempera- VOLUME SEVEN; NUMBER 298 POLICE BELIEVE THEY HAVE CITY’S HOLD-UP MAN William Joyner, Negro Is Identified By Man. Whose Store He Robbed Jmm Jamea Say a He Is Negro Wlk» Task Three Shots At Rio Saturday Night BOUND TO HIGHER COURT* UNDER BOND OF 11500 Joyoor Denise Any Knowledge Os Affair* In Statements To Cogs With the srreet of William Joyner, M year old local negro, by officer* Jee Howell and June Howell at the seore’a hone ea Lee street yesterday morales about I o'clock, a series of boM hold-ups sad robberies which hare kept the local police force un uetuUy busy during the past few weeks were brought to an abrupt and :>ermaaeut end. local officer) believe Joyner was bound over^to Wayne Superior court under f 1500 boud at a hearing bedere Mayor Hill In police court here yesterday morning a tew hours after his arrest. He Is charged with having held up Tom Howell. Flat street merchant Saturday night. February 2, and wltb the attempted hold np of Jeese James, operator of the Standard Pilling station, on east Ash street near the Odd Fellow's Or- hoese last Saturday evening at Shout the - asms hour. Joyaer was arrested by the local jfflcara when Enls Faison. Uttle * Washington nagrsas. reported to the police that n man had entered her house Saturday night and bad stolen Iwo guns, |g In mousy, and some meat and other edibles The women told police that ahe had been awakened by a noise, and that' ahe saw the negro. She at odes recognised him ns s man she knew, she Said, and declared that he had been te bar house earlier In the evening. She described the man to the polio# and told them where he lived. Officere Joe and June Howell went to the houee on Lee street early yes terday morning, and made the arrest The negro pretended that he did uot know why be was arrested, R was said. The officers found a lons bar rslad .33 calibre revolver lu Joyner's room. The negro was lakes to the local ' police station, where he was question ed. hut deuled any knowledge of any I I'old-ups. It was said. He wniTTlfen -taken to the filling station, operated by Jessie James', and was there ab solutety Identified as "the men who attempted lo hold him up Saturday night, gntl fired a pistol at him thre< times. Joyner was next taken to How ell'e store on Elm street, and here too. he wee blent If led as the man who held Howell up at the point of a pis tol ”snß took an amount of money from tbs cash drawer, making good Ms escape. It Is not thought that Joyner Is the •ame negro who held’'up Miss Dors Phrago.-local woman, on a residential street of the city a short time ago end robbed her of a small sum of money. Officers stated last evening that the man who hdM up Mtks Hhra go, had thrown his gun In a backyard as h*.wa» running away, and that the gun was Just "an old piece of gun. Joyner Is not ,the type of man to at tempted to bold-up with that kind or - weapon. It was eeld. v MANIA' BAKER DIES SUNDAY r Short nineww of Itaeumonia Ka ta); Fonerhl Held In jUloigh From the home of his son In Raleigh yesterday afternoon were conducted funeral services for Manly Baker. 64, who for the past two yetfr* had been engineer at the Hotel Goldsboro. Mr Baker was taken suddenly 111 with renumonta lasi week and died at his room at the Hotel' Sunday evening shout i;H. He Is survived by his widow and < ne son. Manly Baker. Jr . of Raleigh 1 Mr. Baker has made many friend* tine* coming to Ooldshorn through his steady hooaaty and fidelity to d«t/. THE GOLDSBORO NEWS • 4 * ■■■ •-' ■' READ IN THE MORNING WHILE MINDS ARE FRESH—READ BY BUYERS BEFORE THEY BUY. 'Pay. With Hit Life Joan De Loon Torn), who com plicated Mexican politics whea he aagassinatfed President-elect Obrefon at Mexico Gty, faced the firing squad in expistioa lor hit crime. Colder ht Kurope Than In 239 Years BBKUN. b'to. ll— <A*) — l fold of a greater Intensity than has boen recorded since 15MI was experienc ed In Blleslu today. Reports Indt*, eatsd that the frigidity extended well Into tjie JUulkan stales. Forty-nine degrees below iero Fareuhett was tbe temperature re ported from Silesia. Nothing * to equal this bad been known there, it was said for 23k years.' Berlin, with a mark of 22 degrees below xero, Fareuhelt. est spell In 130 years. Breslau registered 6 below in the Carly hours. Three children were froxeii to death near that city. GEORGETOWN MAN IS DEAD W. J. Rou.se Died At Home At 8:30 IdiNt Night After Ix>ng lllnes* W. J. Rouse, 67. lonK-tlme resident cf Goldsboro, died at his home 'll! Georgetown ls«t evening following a lingering Illness Funeral urrangt ments had not been completed last evening The deceased l* survived by his widow. Mrs. Josephine Dajdeu House and aeven children. Mrs. L. L Can nady. Mias Bertie M House. Frank and Ralph House of Goldsboro: Ml** n.’lHls Rouse of Chgfiotte and Mr*. M. R Ballard of Asheville. RITES HELD FOR MRS. FLEETWOOD o Died At Home On Mulberry Street Sunday After Lin gerinx Illne** Funeral services for Mx* llessle Fleetwood, who died at her hotne on Itast Mulberry street here Monday af ternoon St 1 30 o'clock, after it linger In* Illness'of diabetes, were held froir the Eureka Methodist church ve«tei day afternoon at 3 odock Itei. H K Pittman. ps*tor of the church, offi ciated at the service* Interment war made in the Eureka cemetery. Mr and Mr* Fleetwood bad mad* thetr home In Eureka for tlie paat 3 years, and moved to Goldsboro onljt u few month* ago The deceased, who wq* 42 years of age. I* survived by her husband. El pier E neelwond. one Von. Gibson Fleetwood, who is located nt loirigle) Field u* au aviator, and three adopted daughters. Mlase* Margaret, ltoas Mm and Nancy Lee Fleetwood. WHISKEY CASES FEATURE COURT Ten Defendant* Before Judge |). 11. Bland At Monday Session 0 f'■*<*« Involving the truimporting, celling and possession of wblxkey fca tured un all day session of county court before Judge I). 11. Bland here yesterday. A total number of ft cases. 'Deluding Isrcrrfy charges, auto law 'tiolalloiiH, conccrlrvt wrapun charge* notion »oftr ckwrg-i. ;hop-llliln't tuts ran vteleiLri /of Phenter 815. wof-ti tried ui»d *!« posed of Pa*** Involv ing whisker c-hnrT" outnumbered other Individual < harkr*. however. WllUaiu t«orp mid .Lio'llle Gore sub mitted to a charge of transporting and selling whiskey. The* were each fined t'HI and the <<>*!* aml given a f> . fix month* t impended (all sentence Henry Pttriic> w»* fined L'.u im<J the cos's aj*d u !’<• dnv su-p'-nded |ai| tcnlenc* . pfler liar mg suloiHtled to h .barge of driving ait,antnmpMle whll.l under the Influence of whis|tey. Cur ney was also fined |s(l and th*s casts on n charge, of carrying a ctwctalrl weapon A case Johnny Gray, charcitm him with uoa-snpporf, wan dismissed. George Jones, charged with teni porarly larceny, was sentenced to Wi days in JuM and it**lgnc<r , io Hie rand*. Hubert Thompson, charged with laving whisky in bis posHesnlogi for the purpose of sale, was sentenced to serve go days in tail. Prayer for judgment was continued * upon payment of the eosts In the case ggalnst T. b. Hooka, charged With violating the auto law. Richard Burnette was found guilty of larceny, and was given six month* , on the roads. , » , William Jones and Hadle Wriglit were found guilty of having violated chapter 318, and Jnqf* was sentenced to atx months In jail and asslgnad to the roads Sadie Wright was sentenc ed to six months In jail, but bar sen tence was suspeuded bcause slfti has a small child. t William Jones was given fitt days In jail on a charge of carrying con cealed weapon, Ed D. Price was given three Months each In two cases. In which he was found guilty of sbopltfting- Senate Unanimoijsly Holds 8 Months Term Inopportune Now RALEIGH. Fern 11.--(A*) —Under a unanimous suspension of rules the senate tonight placed on the calendar a resolution holding thQJLnu increase lo an H month* public school term during the present legislature would be "Inopportune and 111 advised." The resolution. Introduced by Hen stor l,swrence. Democrat of OfPrt ti-rd. declared that at the present time "kdvalorem taxes are unduly oppres sive aud burdensome" and that the -rnute bad best devote Itself to "prob lems relating to the reduction of laser" By a vote of 30 to IS, the house Ewing bill wax pasacd, requiring that landtdates In pramaries pledge them selves to support the entire ticket In the primary In which Ihcy enter. Democratic Senator* Dark of Mucklenburg and McKeajhau of Cuin hcrland. oppoaed the bill on the floor. Tits former declared there. was no way lo enforce It. while the Cumber 'and senator said that the hill would te unfortunate at the present time Henalors Hobbs of Sampson. Wood of McDowell and I’crson of Franklin, were other Democrat senators who vqted against the measure. , In favorlpg the hill, Henator Braw ler, of Durham, told the aenate,|h ,,, his only objection to It was that It was "100 mild." He said the. Repub licans now try lo take charge of I Democratic primaries and that the! Ewing proposal would tend to eli minate thla. : After launching un attack arsinst the "head* of State college,” Henator ■Person was ruled from the floor at ■east four time* by lieutenant Gov ernor Fountain who was each time sustained by the *euate. For aoine tlme the se»«ion wa* transformed in -'• to a battle by the Franklin senator fer (he floor agijiltiat the presiding senator. The FrsnkUn man provided for n{ rroprlgliona. GOLDBBORO, N. C. TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12, 1921 Utpi to DofttK^ 'nJ/M n Three boars after she had born brought home from the hoe pitmi, where she had beca ro c a pern ting* from a nervotw breakdown, , Mrs. Anthony Fokker, wife of Anthony H. . ■G! Fokker, airplane builder and ; inventor, leaped to her death from the fifteenth floor of their apartment in New York. WitLM CUV KM I P MChTIIkU UWWHIN. Feb. II t/P) Surprise and disappointment prevailed sh Kng ihrtK hunting' circles today after pub ipdtlon In the Kxpress of a story that the Prince of Wale* had decided to abandon bunting and polnt-to point racing. The atory saida bunting steble of f'fteeu horses, among them Degommd r favorite, would be sold within a fortnight, the decision being due to rapidly Increasing ilwriaa Os the prince because of the illness of hts father , ORDER COLLEGE < LOHRD LINCOLN, Nebr., Ft>b 11—(/F) Cottier College was ordered closed for au Indefinite period after this morning’s classes by <'ily Physician, F. M Arnliolt. The action followed development of seVefal esses of spin al meningitis among the students There has been one death. One new case developed yesterday. *" -7 joint Investigation of "rumors con tenting N. C. Hlato follego" tt said "rumors have b«cn dtM*lniinted relti ilvA> to political • 1 1 It It le* cur ried on l,v the hc.nl -or the' Nortli Carolina State Coll,•gee" RALEIGH Feb II—DP) -Swing ing back into action tonight after the recess. Hie House killed the Rotht - till! to require sheriff's, lo make affidavit that they had exhausted per sonal properly before advertising real Cstale for sale for luxes, passed a Mty..by Representative Younce to reg ulate employment -"agencies along with ten other measures and receiv ed 27 new bills.,, ; The Boyd bill passed Its third rend ing Saturday JM burs quorum be ing present, but tonight with the re turn of members who were absent then, Ist opponents ibvried a motion to table It by a vote of 64 to 36. The hill of Representative Younce. Democrat of Guilford, would require i4l employment agencies In towns Os more than lO.UtMI Inhabitants to pay a license Tee of iWHt and would place 'VII stlch agent lea under supervision cf the slate commissioner of labor and printing Agencies lu towns of I rout Y, ,1)00 to in.tMHj Inhabitant* would Vjr required lo pay a U|«imh» fee of f3<mi ; from 2..100 lo 5,000, *160; below 2.500 ||o<t 11* provision* would uot apply to agamies dealing only with agricultural labor. Its author said It was Intended as a measure to control j unscrupulous agencea that are now collecting fee* from persons seeking • employment without rendering them any The house s|H>nt some lime tlisC’us rlng the resolution of Henator Klutxx ; calling for an Investigation of lire hydro-electric power situation 4a North Earollna but finally on motion t of Representative Nash of Richmond. 1 referred It to the committee on ap- TAYLOR IS FREED ON RAPE CHARCE Cap Found Near Scene of Brutal ( rime Did Not Itckinx To Him. Shown Siinnti Tnvtor. d-»f and dumb white man <?; RnpHti • county, who was arrested and lodged in the Dup lin county lull at Knuensvtlle,-charg 'd, with having criminally assaulted Mrs. Mary G Sullivan. aged widow of that aecjlou. several daya ago, was released from the rape charge whan probable eonse wa* not found at a bearing before Juki he of the Peace F. L. Potter In Kenansrllle yesterday at i iW o'clock. Taylor was required to trve 1300 bond for his appearance In t ounty court to answer to a rnlsde aieanor charge, however, It was learn-l #d over long distance telephone last night Taylor wa* reprcserled by H. D. William*, prominent l>u|»ltn at* lorney. while I) M lollv represented he state. to the reporta received trout Wareuw Inst evening. Insuffl cut evidence wa* presented al the hearing to show probable cansc tor binding the man over to Buperlor tonri .V large crowd. In oddendsnee nt ilk hearing, shut Taylor enter the court-room charged with a brutal crime for which the punishment Is death, end a rhort time later, saw him walk out. practlcaly a free man According to evidence aubmlUed al the hearing, the cap found al Hie scene of the crime has not Taytor's bat closely resembled one belonging lo the man. II waa said. Witnesses al so testified that tpe bloml-iiounda, rushed to the scene of the crime a rhort time after Ifg occurrenca, front’ Emithflold. had become^ angb'd up on tha trail starting fro* the nctunl seems of she assault, and hnd later Ktrnek Tnylor'a tuicha ertteve tbay probably crossed the tracks of the guilty party: The people of the Wolfacra«fa-aitd Gliaaon township sections do not now relieve that Taylor la Hi# gollty man cr that he had anything t* do with the crime at all. tha Newa wga In lor rued telaphona l*at night- Duplin officers will now have to bo gin searching for new duos to lead lo tha Identity of the rani criminal. It la believed, and whlla nil trails and possible clues are now many daya old. evary angla of the case will be •ackled. it was laarned. Mrs Sullivan, who la M years old. is still confined to her bed aa a rb *ult of her harrowing experience, but bar condition le not regarded as aer 'lout, II was said. LINDY AHEAD OF SCHEDULE ft *. \ /*■ ■■ Makcw Inapectlon To I>«KEia Spirt For Pennanent Fltfld In Rclise HKLI/K. Hrlttsh Himduraa, Feb II -DPI- Dropping In on Bells# 24 hours earlier than hi* schedule called for. Col. Hi as A Lindbergh on hi* re turn flight from I’anama to Miami with the Pan American Airways nisi’ put In the afternoon here Inspecting sights for a permanent airport. Ilf brought with him <ol John Hamhle don, vice president of Ih# Airway* and LI t'hrlsttan Hchllt. who has been given leave of absence from Ibe Mn rine corps to become Mishit super iiitendent of the sir company The Colonel flew here direct from Managua. Nlc.,. making the ‘trip In fl hours and 67 mlnule* An escort plane, piloted by Raymond J. Merritt stopped enroule at Tela, Honduras.’ When Merritt brought hi* machine down here, a few hours after Lind bergh hod arrived the keen eye of the Colonel noted a tire collapsing An Inspection rweuled a nail in it which probably was picked up when Mefrltt limit off at Tela An planes are to leave her# tomor row soon after daybreak en route tor Havana and Miami. HKGINN TERM TIBE9AY INDIANAFOLIH. Kell 11 —t/Pl— Dr. Edward K. Hhumaker. auperlntondant of the Indiana Aanll-HaUKsn l^agu* k cnnouaood tislay that he would go to ■he Hiute penal farm tomorrow rnom 't.g to begin servtnga sixty day sen t,nce (or contempt’, of the Indiaiut I Supreme Court. Two Bills Affecting County Are Drawn For Offering in Assembly Diet Suddenly \ . fURMEb *K ■, j I Edwin Dtnby, former meaber of pMfr«M. private in the Me- 1 rinea during the World W«r and Secretary of tk* WmEy to the Herding cabinet, w stricken with bevt toflure M a Detroit hotd and died Were ■edicEl aid could reach him. 4th District Medicos Meet In City Today New officers will bo lu«tailed at I the ouuv«ut t ‘RLi>LtoßjßKMrtkjbJ ‘tt let (fedlcal Boclelyaj her of commerce at 4 o'clock thla afternoon Physicians from soma nine count lee are expected to at tend- Dr A. 0. Woodard will pre side at the opening end Introdace Dr. R. L. l(OH| of Roanoke Rapid* Incoming president, other officer* to be Installed are Dr. Kornegay of Rocky Moonl, vice president, and Dr. W. H. Klnlaw. of Rocky Mount, secretory and treasurer. A luncheon will be served at the Hotel ’ Goldsboro at H3O and at 7:30 the medicos will again as semble In the chamber of com merce to carry out a actentlflc program. KIWANISHASA FULL PROGR AM I- ■ ■ —•*' 4’ ' ’ Ihrte Spet'chcH Listened I’d And Mu’Nirml Projrram la Rendered ■h * -esemwatao^-s There was plenty of talking going on at the Klwunts club al Its regular meeting al the Hotel Goldaboro last evening Frank Jones waa In charge of the program aml (l Ji« had Hnperln tendent of HI reels Roy J. Parker. County Agent A K Robertson and Hrv W OT’oite up for the delectation of the Ktwutiiuns. Probable tbe moat enjoyable fea ture, however, was a musical enter tainment In which Mrs. John Morris rendered n, number of pojtplar hoik* with Mrs W. L. Frederick at the piano. Mr Parker In his talk told of |ir work of the city playgrounds and *ahl that there would he some addition/ <o equipment for the children at Her man Park litis summer Mr. Robert*oe -ll*, imsed soil Improvement. Ilstlnr' crop rot al lon, cover crops and legume« a* means toward bettering #6ll. Mr, M Pone was In u humorous mood slid delighted tbe Klaunluu* with a series of Jokes. Mr. ItwberDion won the attendance prise for bis guess that Wayne county spent a million dollars for fertilizers Inst year the prise being presented through II Will aud Brdlft ers. As a silent boost, H. V* Mod- Iln of tbe Branch Bunking aud Truitt company distributed key covers. Next week's meeting will be. held Thursday afternoon Instead of Mon «luy night. It was announced Wive* and sweethearts of IKiwaitlanW. to gether with the teachers of the elty sellouts, will It* entertained at an oy ster roaat at the T. Griffin Mnnu.- factoring Company. ' ' memhhbof THE ASSOCIATED PRESS i ' ■ I IVIJOO ruanfiowi Would KEhw CoamtostoMNni P»f From f 4 ta 15 Pet Day With Mora For CltalnMUi WOULD ALIX)W SHERIFF 2 PERCENT FOR TAXES Com mtootoMr’g CampHtao F»t* ored Bill As AM To Tax C&Oo. e \l Two bills arteettag WoyEo oaootr goveramrat pram drawn ysatwdar bar county attorney E A Heaegduny, aot forwarded to Wayne reprewntallvns lor Introdectloe ta the gaaanl qp -embly wlthjg ; the seat few daj*. One of the bllla would raise the pEF of memhora at the hoaad of oouaty comoilaalonera from 14 to ta pw tag rod would prescribe a anas ta from *3h« to «M 0 par year far tha flßada man of the hoard. been drawn the sheriff of tha aonnty would rooeiva hl> preaent aakuty, ptaa 3 percent of the taxes ha eotleeta. hta would ho rodhlra dto pay the aalariaa of such deputise as are aeadai ta «ls v % ...' '• The secoad MU waa litartlili EO < ontrmpiated far the f iiaaa ta attm u Ist tog col lent lane of to«aa Mia < aunty hoard of aoauataafaMNi pMEE time ago aad raoogpwni' atatpa tßP uer which collefltiOM dasta mar* quickly nad amre lantpMaly ha #t- I f«Med. Five plan* ware thmahad «M b "' :» U Is ae follow* i f W Hectlon 1 That OttoPtor if ta W# Katra Hemitaa of 1«M fnhlfc Lata* Laws be aoMßdta hf striking Oat la the fleet ion One. the following words in lines, "Raven, Bight aad Nl|*r v "taß He shall appolsl aeeh DapEUae na may be necaaeary, aad a Jalldl. wltota ixg regate salaries shall no* axeead five thonnaad IMNM) dollars. POT annum, pavabl* la eoaal mahthly ta •lalimanta.- aad laeirt Mm taUawtag. >.s shall appoint a Jailer Mho ahdlt may ho nseeamrr all ta wßaaa aaldc ilea shell ha paid by aeJd Sheriff, aita be shall apponit a Jalttr who shall I* paid a salary by tha ooEEtr: ihdt m mill It ion to the sheriff's salary, said -herlff of Wayna county, ahatl resale# two percent on all taxes oollasted hy the Sheriff, Rchadnle E Taxes.** Beet lon 3: That all Mwa and-cUtmap ,f laws lb conflict with thla eet'ore hereby repealed. Section 3; That this Act shall be la lores from -jnd after da rtdgaUha As Te I'emmieelnaar The bill relative to the pay of eeim tv eommlssloncra Is aa toltowa: . Hectlon It Thai the Cbslnnaa ta the Board of <o«aty commlaelaaara of Wavnc rountv shall he paid a talarf of not Ices than Three Hundred Pdj tars nor more then six hundred dol lars per annum, peynbte la EMBhtoF Inst a Ilmen ta or otherwise, aa mar h# (letrrmlned by sal* board. Bert ion 2 That In fixlag Urn salary of said chalrmaa the chairman rlalt 'preside el such meeting. RE todgl t'sve no vot" ,( n »nW qiimtlca. WHR riei k (.i Buperlor court of Wayne county ci rII set st -sW meeting aa pt n-offlHo member of said beard add ,‘fcst n vote aa euch, aad a major*!# vote thereof shall determlae the aal sry of tha chairman. ■, \ t Hectlon >: That the other member* ojr aald Board us Goonty commlaetod ers of Wayue county shall reaatva as compensation the auta of One <*M dollar* per drv for all regular add pc< laj meetings, and mileage to and from the County sent ns hereto*or* allowed v u Section 4 tfPhnt for caitn or special work or services, hy dlredMon ta M.ld board of coanty conmtaateaevs. u reasonable allowaace or par dtaEl compensation and expenses Btoy. In (he dtsrretlou of said board of ooaa niixsloners. be allowed and made to any member of committee thereat. Hectlon 5. That all laws sad aorta or laws in conflict herewith are haro by repealed. Hectlon C. That this set shall ha In lores and effect from nad attar tta I a UUceUoa, - ‘ ~
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