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WKATHER yf ■» *. * ’• . VOLUME NIGHT, NUMBER 106. EXAMINE SEVEN WITNESSES IN TRIAL OF RAFE KING FORMER SHELBY MAN KILLED HIS WIFE, IS CHARGE Require Only 40 MinaLw in Scat oinc Jury in Trial at Chewier South Carolina SEVEN WITNESSES TELL THEIR STORIES 'MONDAY Neighbora Relate FlmHhk of Young School Teacher’a Body ■jr m*B H. WOLFF ' AiinhlH Pm< RlaH Writer CHESTER. 8 C.. July I.—(A®> Continuing ths rapid pace art dnrinu tha morn lag when the Jury was select, ed In to minute* tha Chaster county court of general sessions trying Rina tor murder adjourned tonight after haring crammed the testimony of aeran Important *tata witnesses in to the apace of three hour*. King, former resident of Shelby, N €., Hi charged with choking to (tenth hie vtfe, Fhy Wilton King. 21 year old French teacher In the Bharcn. 8. C.. high school. Her llfeleea body waa found In up outhousq near their home hy neigh bora on the night of January 26 Withe single exception It waa these Same neighbor* who taattfled thta af ternoon describing "how they had been told of her disappearance by King and how a search of the premise# bad discovered her body sprawled on scat tered walnuts la the outhouse. Two bf them told that they noticed e scratch on King’s nose whan ta* sought aid In finding his wife Rosie Fergason, 14-year-old school girl and her father 8. T. Ferguson, nearest ’ neighbor* of the Kings described IMI scratch, and ths girL declared It look ed ae though R here beaa re cently mad*. \J Tha girl’* mother. Mrs. 8. T. Fhrgx soa, testified the week. prior to Mrs. King's death she had heard Mrs. King crying sad bad gone over to aee what was wrong. Bhs did not see Mrs. King however, and King told her he and hts wlf* had been "playing" and that when ahe put her feet in his faee he had slkpped her. The Mate's effort to show that there was a quarrel was somewhat damag ed when defense Attorney Thomas F. McDowell an admission from her thM King "might hare said he slapped her feet." The attorney was still mdr# obviously pleased a moment later whau Mrs. Farguson said "For all w# knew they were living a very happy life." ‘Thank yon ma m, beamed the at torney," yon may take your aeat. The other witnesses this afternoon were R. F. riaxleo, Sharon postmast er, who examined the body and aided In carrying ,lt In the house; W. I-on Plaxloo, farmer, neighbor of the King'd who also was among those examining the body; Babe Adams, ag ed negro, who* was the .first to touch th* body after Mrs. Ferguson and the children had discovered It and J. R. & Barnwell of York, whose diagrams of fa* hons# were used Inlocailng vari ous objects. LT. BAKERTsT RECOVERING Was Injured Whop Hb Seaplane s Plunged IntoAt«E* 4 - Mar ahead City ■” NEW BERN. July“T—(API—U. jibm E Baper of Hampton Roads Naval 4lr Station Injured late yester day when the plane he was piloting crashed lhto Bogus Sound at More head CRy, was reported tonight to he recovering eatlefactorlly. He will be B bi« to leave the hospital In a few days It la expected. • Officers from the Hampton Roads station flew to More heed City this morning to Investi gate Baker's collision with a mast of the const guard cutter Pamlico Which waa responsible for the crash \ ■ ■■ ' FLAKE LOCATES PLATE , 1,08 ANOKLEB. July I.—('API A tn j fitre. exploded In a hixh fox over the San Fernando Valley todav. en abled a refueling ship seeking life l<nt endurance fllghi airplane of l.eo V®* .jfrtr at»«* Maurice -hfqrrlanmi i> tor* l " H knjJ transfer a load o' gasolln* The monoplane wa arariug the end U* gasoline supply. w If. > THE GOLDSBORO NEWS READ IN THE MORNING WHILE MINDS ARE FRESH—READ BY BUYERS BEFORE THEY BUY. •a • A * * * Present 1929-’3O City Budget For Consideration Aldermen 4 - -j ■■ - » v 0 V a TAX RATE WILL REMAIN SAME UNDER PHOPOSKD EX PENDITURES for year —Zoning matter AGAIN BOBS UP TO PLAGUE HOARD Goldsboro's city lag rate fur tba, year to end May 3w, 1930. will l»e Ihe same as (he past year. City Man ager Zeno Howell announced lad night as he presented the budget for the new year for the consideration of the Hoard of Aldermen. Presentation of the budget, a 'new i flare-up of the "toning" matter, pro ' posed baa station ordinances, a re-' newed appeal from the Branch > Banking and Trust fom'pany that l» be made one of the city's depositories for funds for laying of sidewalks, and authorisation of ordinances allownig laying of sidewalks In certain sec-1 lions occupied Ihe meeting of the, board, Final action on the budget will be I taken at a meeting on July 16. to be! advertised as a public "hearing" on tha budget. Meantime a copy of the figures showing th* proposed expen ditures and th* source* of revenue wlty be on file In the office of the city cierti. ' The total budget figure as present ed last night ed with the total appropriation figure of H02.15if.64 for the year just end ing. ' However. 525.057.77 of the 1929-30 total la the remainder of a deficit of Mother Still Seeks Her Wandering Boy IX>B ANGEUBB. July 1,-(APJ- Mrs. 8- R. Fltagerald of Albemarle. N. C„ arrived here today to search for her spq. Robert 8. Fltagerald. who d I sap peered from home 24 yearH ago ' the ItM Robert was 17 when he left home and would be 41 now. IJCHT SESSION COUNTY COURT Three Cues Settled in Two 30 Minute Semionn During Yesterday County court set a new record for slack sessions yesterday. Three cases were disposed -of and lawyers com plained that Hbslnsss was mlghtv dull Thera waa a thirty minute setslit In the morning and another thirty nil ’ut* session In the afternoon. Ra.mml Jernlgan waa convicted of a .-hargt of driving an automobile while drunk and fined SSO and coela and given a suspended sentence of 90 days on the county roads. If he falls to par the fine or If he drives an automobile tn Ihe next three months, he la to go to the roads. James Raynor whs found guilty of removing 1 crops and sentenced to days on the ‘ roads. Raynor thought this too harsh and appealed the case to superior court. Bond was fixed st S2OO. Ben Person. Genoa farmer, submit-J ted to operating a lightless vehicle at, night, and Judgment *waa withheld to Jkly 1». [ Harris Speaks at Dedication Permanent ' Tuscarora Camp "l.et us build buildings and high ways, and great works; but wlthall our building*. Ist us not forget the greatest building of all that of building character" advised Stanley A. Harris, of th* National council of the Boy- Scouts of America. Sunder afternoon as he delivered the address at Ihe formal dedication of the per-j msnment camp of Tuscarora Council of Boy Scouts. Upward* of JtMl people from Golds boro and Ml. Olive were present for the exercises held on a hillside over looking the lake of the to-acre Honilt camp site In Indian Township . Mr Harris' talk wag 1 brief. J»ul II was full us wisdom which the age, have found good and he found at ' tractive hearers In those present Hj called upon Gobi-b< ro In ptodut - leaders leaders In a' spiritual way.' i..ti for lh«- city nnd county to rc cogulxt* be worth that lie:* In the Ut’V Scout organism hut a* an u gan- Itmion fib character building In hoy*. I ■ “\ . 'a A For the benefit of the members of Ihe board. Hollowell xpUlue I that this (Icflclt came about wmip an ticipated Increases tn city property valuations fulled to' material!* •*. M reported that the deficit Ind Im--f reduced by s4.7tKi ihe past year He declared that H\was hoped tp rudtt*9 the deficit to |26.00d In the year now i being entered Prloi* to submission g ih hud set ib*- planning commission hud Iteen In structed to "set l-ut* r In tv. ! , Hi, matter of aonlua the city. Th, In | strnction was ceutaliied In a re* >lu , tlon adopted on motion of Alderman | Waters, and came about afte ■ li up pan red rttjjt the board IfJi evidently the soiling (natter. Alter inuih search ing at the minutes, the board re minded Itself of a previuu* e nominee report In which It had expressed It self ae Inatructlng the piuuuliig com* mission to re-gone the city and to em ploy "outside counsel” It (his Is nec essary. The sonlng mailer had bobbed again whan Hoyall H. Spence appeared to ask permljMon to erect a washing and greasing station, and possibly a (Continued on page 4J OLD OFFENDERS GET SENTENCES Mayor J. H. Hill S«t4lg Two To Roada for Thirty Days Each Several old offenders appeared be fore Mayor Jack Hill In police court ywtgrttty ffiffifulag, and In two In stances tha rbcurfent appeasers were given 30 day road sentences as "re wards” for their persistence tn facing "His HonoT." One of the defendants wss given a 30 day suspended sen tence, and one defendant was hound over to Superior court. Almost the entire morning wns taken up with the disposal of eight cases. fCmmett Ingram, white, plead guilty to. being drunk and disorderly uud was fined $1 and coats and given a suspended sentence of 30 days. He waa warndd by Mayor Hill that ano ther occurence of the offehse would rnsnn he would have to start serving the road sentence. Roland Jeunelle, white, on two counts of being drunk tnd disorder ly, was fined $6 and the costs In one case, and sentenced to 30 days on the roads In the other. Raymond Jernlgan, while submitted to a charge of driving an automobile while under the influence of whiskey and waa bound oyer to county court. J. C. Freeman, colored, another al leged old offender, was sentenced to 30 days on the roads for being drunk and disorderly. Alvin Malpaea, white, wss $6 and (he costs for being drunk and I disorderly Robert Becton. colored, was bound over to county court an a charge at (Continued on page 4) "There al the present tlm#>ome 771.000 Bo> Scout* In Adfcrlca,*" be declared "and this number could be several million* If we only bad the men available who would give their time and energies to Ihe work." «S#The National Council representa tives complimented Tuararoru Conn til on the work that It ha* done and Is doing and pleaded for nn expan sion of (he work In the future Th* dedicatory exercises bad start ed with the sound of the bugle from Broaden Spence uml I*uther Nash and; j A. A, Joseph, president of Ttmarorn Council, called the meetlug to order , Th* Invocation was delivered h> llev l V. Mi Hue, pastor of t>(. I’aiii Methodist Church. and Mr. Joseph presented W, A Deea as master of i ceremonies ( Hinut Aaron /:p*tei» spoke'in let ms cf highest appreciation (or the gift to the Council of the late Mr* '.Bel it ell and |>al;t tribute to her, (Cwutiuusd on p*s» N. C. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 2nd. 1929 UPS AND DOWNS OF A DRUGGIST Cmrlew B. Miller Given kiwun ianu Some Stnrtlinu Informal ion There art more ups and more d>>w:i* In the life of a druggist than this world dr-mms of. Bo (Joblabor ) Kl wunlany discovered, lasi nigh- when Charles H. Miller, fur we don't know how huig serving the public In G d-ls boro, discovered lav. ul-h'. wli » i Mr. Miller read them s putter t*-11 It: : f bout the life of a druagld- Said Mr M er Tin average person knows but t l,ll< of the vicissitudes of the retail drutf business, and I shall In this brief pa | pi*r attempt to give you some lira of wtn( xot-i on In almost ever* drug strre I# the Lind every dav. In *h*- (Irsi placj ihe average clttacn Ib'nhs faut every drug sl.ire li avert ibl "gold mine", yel you ver- lew' •(riigglsls living In Brown Stone fr<inm or driving a Fierce Arrow cur. The uapense o( conducting • ilri.R store Is mors than any other bu-dne**' on earth taking Into consldwra'loiwthe volume done. » The druggists of North Carolina have Ihe following nixes in pa# Ns tlqn.il Inconie Tsx. Bute Income Tax, County Tax, City Tax, Narunt* Tax. Sandwich lax. xwls W.itor 'fax to lolb State and City—CUs.-.e':-' Tex. t r ; ? tstc andT^Jly. People ihlnk that trenrendous vol'- ume of profits are prescrip tions. but when you take Into con sideration that every registered Irux •Cl gist Is compelled t-o have not only a high school education, hut also aerrti three ywara In a drug star#, then four years at a college of Pharmacy, you will readily see tha! the laborer is moat worthy of his hire, and unless •very large voiame of prescript lona ar* filled often times this department I* conducted nt a loss, for high salari ed men are In charge. The druggist hardest Job. many peo ple Ihlnk, Is to figure up the«profits We give service, aonte of It for noth ing. lint most of It, w* get paid for. About every third persoa entering the door wants a favor- maybe Ita a check to b* cashed, or a finger bandaged, a package wrapped up that wdTTuiught at the chain store, a taxi called, a doctor summoned, use of the tele phone. us« of the city directory, a light for a cigar, a stamp. Does the bus stop far Is It to Raleigh* —can 'you change a twenty?* a boy wants an empty cigar box and etc. Now we will start off with the first Item. Can you cash a check? When Ihe person uuknown to us ask for s check to be cashed, we like the craftv Yankee, counter question. Do you' wish to make a Yes. Uno w# cuah It after we-ftnu It O. K. If he doe* not want to bay. sorry we arc short of change. } Try and cash ona in a chain store! and see what you g »t. Cashing cbecksl] Is sometimes qnlte expensive. People expect you to an as a firs! aid station without charge Is there any reanmi on earth why this should tie* We use a bandage adhesive —lt nil cost us money Why should not we charge f Go to the doctor and see what you get for addressing of a finger. A package wrapped up—certainly wo wilt do It hut we are also busy. f tty directory sure there It I* but It cost us fifteen dollars a year. We charge thJgTtem up to good will. , Just wants light "Doc", alright there she Is >help yourself. It cos: us #ir*. and the gas we burn, but she J* al ways working and everybody Is Wel come. , Give me five two-cent stamps will you sure we will, yet the 6 and 10 sold him the paper and envelope. Os course we sell a good grad.: of writing paper. If telling stamps brings budnes* to the drug store, why doesn't the shoe store and fa# grocery store sell them? The same man who brags abirftt I av-] lug spent |tt»o 0« hospital bill for bV wife wll' kick like a steer on p.-vtllg s!.£!> for s prescription, and thinks you are robbing Min- Wbv 'a this, because ihe druggist are door nut*, for this fellow most all the time, glv fhg away his lime and knowledge gratis. Here comes a lady with a hoi bottle, will* tfie Information that it is no good il Is leaking already, and wants a n<‘« one. We find Ilia', It was u efteap lull lie. ordinary grade, bei-aune she refusedk > * buy one rtt;t| I guaranteed for two (Continued on page 5J Hubby Sett Record y y!#’ f ji l ! ' f Y. Isl I 7 i - When Captain Prank H.wl. landed at New York, h« had* crossed and ' recrotted thg United Statey all ill the ahort dying tiinc of 36 houra and 54 minutes, setting records in both ways. Hit wile (oliowed th« course of hit flight on the map and nobody it more elated than *h« now that everything is tafely oyer. R 0 RECEIPTS SHOW DECLINE * ■ .. i Ket-eiptit. However for flix Months Ahead Everything But Idtat Year u Postal receipt* of th* local yuat offlc* for the six months period end ing Sunday show a decrease of lI.MI from the receipts for the same period of time lu 1935. lu spile of this alight fulling off. It igcver, the receipts for the first half or this year trv the largest of uuy first half period tn the history of the Goldsboro of(l< with the exception of last year, Fn*imaster K. A. Klmkfn* told The News." The receipt* for the first six months nt 1938 were 431.5P7. Compared with 333,220 for (he first six month* of 1626 according so figures obtained from the local postmaster This Is an average of heller than *5,000 per month for Ihe period. The figures of last month's receipts Were not iivallabl# yesterday. "We have been unusually busy pre paring onr report for the end of th# six months, sod It will be sometime tomorrow Irefore the exact figures of (be June receipts will be olqglnable.'' postmaster Htmkln* declared. Board Receives Delegations And Adopts Highway Budget Adoption of the highway cwnntls sb.u bu,dg, i tor the cotaing yesr, con sldoMitfbn of again ert.gtoylng T T. Drown as assists}!! county agent tn charge of poultry sork. nud routine tmslness occupied the county board of commissioners yesterday at a aes uu which sijgiieil early ui Ihe morn lug and coiillnued until 6:30 yester day tift«rn«*on a The highway budget adopted shows ibut this department will this year expend sl3. r *,(HM), of which s4'’,.- t*(Hi will Im> paid.by the slate in the one cent gasoline tax provided for counts rood nld In (he lasi session of the General Assembly. The commissioner* yesterday did not get to the point of adopting the county' budget gs « whole, Imt with In# school budget and the highway Cudgel out of the way. Ihe say Is tit-ar for final arlluu on the county budget as a whole ala near merGii*. The budget adopted for the high way commission yesterday will ne»:- ssalUle the satue ux levy— i» cent* Person Admits Wagon Which Caused Fatal Accident Was Traveling Without Lights 4 MM— JUDGE BLAND HOLDS UP SENTENCE OF GENUA FAMiH WHOSE LIGHTLESS WAGON CAUSED DEATH OF CAIT. DAN WISE SATURDAY NIGHT * , Wayne county officer* wilt give a complete report of the wreck Satur day night In which ('apt Daniel Wine received fatal Injuries befhre Judge I). U Bland passes sentence on Hen Person, Genoa farmer, who was driv ing the light less wagon which th# automobile In which Captain Wlo# wss riding struck. Mr. Parson lit county court yesterday submitted to Ihe charge of driving without lights and Judge Bland announced that sen tence Would not be passed until July 18 Herbert Grantham, driver of the automobile which was In rolllslou with Ihe reur of Persons wagon, tes tified yesterday that h* had been blinded by the lights of sn approach ing car and did not aee th* Mgfatleea wagon until Jt# was too near to avoid hitting It. Ha salt! that he had operat Fire Lom for June Less Than Five Spot Goldsboro will have a pipe* tih tU* honor roll of th# state Insur ance department for th# month of June as a result of the slight dam age done by fir# her# during tb* past month. It wa# announced yes terday by Chief Georg# W Mabry, of th* local firs, department. Only (tvs fir* alarm* wsr# turned in here during the month, and one of these was a fSTfc* alarm, Th# Newt was told. The damage reused by either of th* other four slight hist** did'not amount to or exceed five dollars, W wss said. If a city Is able to t»- port that no one fire caused more than 36 damage, that city o.r teem Is sllglble for a pine# on th# state Insurance department honor roll. Chief Mabry stated. ALLOT SUM FOR FIREMAN AID I ► « s' Goldnboro Department Will Re ceive Total of 1802, Aa* ft 6 un red ” Goldsboro fir* department will re ceive fttll this year from the fire man's relief fund which has Just been collected by Daq C. Boney. etat# com missioner of Insurance, It ha* been announced by chief Georgs .‘W. Mabry, of the local fir# department. Accord ing lo the report from the stale com missioner’s'office, $48,096.67 le avail able for distribution to the organised fir* departments In Ihe larger ctileai' and towns of III# state. Os the 126 towns qualifying tn re -1 reive a share ofsJhe fund, Charlotte continues tn (he lehd with $3.K3$, an Increase of |6on rfvkr last's year's share. The Goldsboro department, which was In twelfth pine# last year, lias taken Rocky Mount's plaoe, tenth (C-cnt'lntiad nn pane 4t as was lerted last year It leas said (after the meeting last year, how ihcreaae tn the leVv for road, purposes was held down through the I Issuance of s6k,titfo in road and bridge bonds. Action on whether or not Mr. I Grown would lie re employed as a»- ! Distant coqnty agent in charge of j poultry work was defersyd until another meeting. A delegation liead .ed by Thoms* H Norwood hail ap peared before the board yesterday j morning, urging the continuance of I tills work and pointing oul what U had accomplished In the c< inty dur ing the past two years. When the board adjourned yester j day afternoon, however. It was ap j parent that three out of the five mem ber* were al that lime of a mind to vote against the continuance of the work They did not give this as ilheir final word. liul sal<l Itiey desir ed lo make further Investigation of the feeling among the people of the | county relative to lb* work, " , Today’s Circulation 2,993 PRICE FIVR CUfIR ed an automobile (or a number of year* and at Uia tltua at tba aoctdant -about P o'clock eight— waa making between M Njuml M mllaa an ho«r. J Tha right frOot wheel at tba aato moblla atrnck lie 101 l (root wheal at tba wagon aa tirantham attempted to go around It. Tha onr waa ovar turned aavaral tlmoa. O real bam. tha driver, racatvad on IA auparfloial la- Jurtaa .and Paraoa. tWa drlvar at tha lightlaoa wagon, waa wtthont harta. % Only tha loft roar wheat of hla wagon waa damollahad. „ Harold ('nrlor. Negro admitted that ho waa tha driver of tha aatomahtla , whoaa light* Orantham anM hltadad him t artar told how ha hod aeon tha wagon and tha ear behind It. Ho aatd ho drove to the very edge at the (Contlamed on page H CHARGED WITH STEALING AUTO CldttrgMg Hakfeg CUm So Botigfct Car Fra« “Thi Stack Maa** Clarehoe Hobhe, local colored yonth. waa not able to tail the name or tha preeaat whoraahaat at "the tall black man*’ ha daeiaroa ha pnrehaa md a, ft| mtabsksr mthnnyia Cmsi ms mw emtaw wan i Saturday, June M. and at the bear ing before Mayor HRJ in paHeo aeon over to RuparfcrdSMT mZt HR" charged with Mraaey at aa anteaie mi% He waa lodged la tha oonaty . Jail In default of Mad. Robb** Mother, with a eagre bay lug Monday after It waa atotea aad after C. J. Carroll, loon! garage pro prietor. had reported U'a loan. Whoa ■dvtiiad hr officer U 0. Rhode* and Mr Carroll that the ear waa a atolan oa*. tha women told the men that bar non told her he had bought the ear from a tall bladh man. Hebhe *w In Jail at the time, having beea ar» reeled oa a complaint by hie aMthar that he had rtrueh her. She told M fleer* that aha had atarteg down If th* jafT~tiP*oe him la the ear, aad had got th* bay to drive for her. Hobb*. on the stood. declared that b* bought the ear trim the atrnage negro, after the uokaowa c an* had told him that hie Mother waa alok In a fardletaat town, aad that be would aatl the ear cheap la order to get fund* to reach he* hadelde. Hob be ■aid he paid the apparent owner of th* car fSf.oa egah aad agreed to pay :,ih* balance of 91M.M la weakly pay ment*. Tba prtaoner'a atory tol.ruled by two other negro boyVMhe were •*id to have boon aear him at the time tha purchaa* waa mad*. All • (hr** declared, however, that they hail "never aooa the man hefora or »lnre." , Officer Rhode* declared, however, that Hobba. while la Jafl, had told btm h* had paid IUI.OO ctal for tfcw <*or. ARE OVERCOME BY GAS FUMES ■JL... .. Threw Mm la Hcrioaa CwdilM Aa Rgaalt of laboratory Bfatxr BOHTON, July I.—(APl—Three men were overcome hy gen fumee reeultlng from a fire of undetermined origin lu the chemical laboratory of Boot on Calveretty today. The fire waa dla covered aa hundred* of Mudeats war* registering for the aoramer achool course* which open tomorrow. The men overcome, who were re ported in scrlon* coadltlon at th* Homeopathic Hoapltal. war*: John U Neal, 4k. of Arlington, batldlng super- Intendent; Arthur 8. Dag la, 41. aad Thoma* McDonald. 2%, both of Bya lon. engineer and Janitor, reapootivoly Kir# Commissioner Kagan* HnltMPt ordered aa tnvootlgatloo In aa after to determine th* nature of tha gna and tho c. nag gl lh« U/ta. „
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