• WEATHER
Psrttj eiewd; fel tewed by laent
tbaaderwbewers Thursday slteraeoa
s* alghL
VOLUME EIGHT, U9.
COUNTY TAX RATE FOR THIS YEAR SET AT sl.lß
38 CHILDREN EXAMINED HAVE TB: TO BUILD SANATORIUM
.4 -. ' * . * —. • \r*rr> ; . • *
County Board Approves
Budget That Will Save
Payers $9,600 in Year
Rate for Levy for J*eml ' Year
Wan 51.20 on SIOO
Valuation '«*
LEVY FOR 6-MONTHS
* SCHOOL CUT 9. CENTS
The Comparison on
Ratea for This Year
and for I-a»t
Th* Wayn* county tax rate for tb" 1
year which begun July 1, will beJH.IB
Cent* aa comparejl -with $l2O for the
peat year under the county budget
adopted'by the county board of com
mission*™ yesterday. The new rate.
It will be seen, I* I cent* on the SIOO
▼a I nation lean than laat year. I>if
fedently stated. the' taxpayer* will
pay tnfb the couuly $9 .two leaa this
year wlitch started rhe riest oT the
month than thejj did laat ytar.
The total bndget requirement* are
estimated at $743,584 92. and the total
estimate of expenditure requirements
a*
The total tax levy for the new year
Is divided a* follows: general fund,
li cents; poor fund 6 cent*, road and
bridges 30 cents, debt service 8 cents,
six month* schools 60 cents.
A comparison of the new rate with
the old rate reveal* that the general
fund has been Increased by 3 cent*,
that KJfftor fund has been crested,
that tbs mads and bridge* levy |* In
creased by Id cent*, that the debt ser
- trice levy I* decreased hy I* cent*,
and that the six month* Hcbool levy
la decreased by 9 cents.
The ten cent radiation ly the debt
service levy this yesr a* compared
with last is made possible throuch
applying the $43,000 which Wayne
will receive from the special gasoline
tax fund for debt purposes llml this
fund not been applied to debt service
and used for road malignance, the
ten cent levy Increase for roads and
bfldges would not have been nstfes
sary. &
The rats for the past year was ax
follow*: general fund 13 cents, Rond
and fridge fund 20, county debt »erv
Ice 18 cents, six months school fund
69 cents. * *
A summary of the budget estimate
as adopted yesterday will be found
on another page in this Issue.
ELON GIRL TO
return home
: 0~ -j
Attempted to Ehd Her Life By
Jumping Into River Near
Waycrotw . .
WAYCROBB, fla., July 17 </P> A
young woman held here
after poMce ssld she to
commit suicide by lumping into the
Hetllla fiver, today was Identified a*
France* Teague of Klon College. N
C.
Before Identification *h > gave the
name of Thomas She declined to re
veal the name of her parents.. Police
quoted physicians as saving she was
temporarily mentally unbalanced.
Mrs. C. E. Tspacotl of Kim <ol
lege, mother of the girl, advised of
ficers thst aht was forwsrdlng trans
portation for the girl's passagr hony
SHIP BURNING
ON FLA. COAST
Count Gufird Making Investiga
tion to Determined Aid
NqmM
«BT. PETERHHt’RG. Flag July 17.
( Jp>—A telephone message t:> the Bi.
Petersburg Times from It- Bera*ot*
correspondent eerly tonight -aid a
large steamer was apparently horn
ing off the coast at that point
The Coast Guard base her hr I n >
report on the strip hut was investigat
ing. The radio station was trying t *
raise all vessels that were* In thst to-
- .
J
THE GOLDSBORO NEWS
READ IN THE MORNING WHILE MINDS ARE FRESH—READ BY BUYERS BEFORE THEY BUY.
2 ARE RETURNED
TO COUNTY HOME
Civil War Veteran Had Strange
Collection in Hitt
x Pocket*
.Needham R Whitfield. 84 year old
'inmate of the Wayne county home
near the city, and Will Wilson. 39, a
three-day resident of the same Insti
tution, were yesterday morning re
turned to the counly homo alter an
absence of" about 24 hours on tbw
part of Whitfield and an absence ot
only a few .hours for Wilson.
Mfhllfletd. who declares thal he Is e
Civil War veteran, was lodged Ip the
city jail Tuesday about noon follow
Ing W arrest by Officer Chink I
Rhodes on a complaint'•by a resident,
of Houth Goldsboro thal the aged man
had gone Into tbelr housn and. gon r
to sleep. He was arrested at Barrie I *’
store In little Washington, and whey
taken into custody, had all the pock
els of his clothing filled with various
and sundry articles. Among" the
things In his possession were a pint
botllu about half ' full Os alcohol,
whirl ihiF old man claimed he u*ad
for nibhlqg purpose*, an empty pop
bottle, two small bottles of atrychnlne
tablets, lotgrcco, snuffy a small
amount of money, a knife, and other
odds and end-*;
Whitfield, who is small In status
and Is feeble, Is said bv officers to
have a habit of going up on people’*
porches and lying down and go'ng to
sleep. He has heen locked up In Jail on
several occasions, and oa one of these,
most recent times, scratched from
under the wire fenee surrounding the
county Jail .according to his own ad
mission. The old man get* the "wand
ering bee” every once In a while, and
when one of these spell* hits him.
makes an excursion Into town He has
heen st the county home for a num
ber of years.
Wilson, who was taken hack to the
home yesterday along with Whitfield,
was brought to the police station here
afterenn Kdgewood resident had call
ed the headquarters and told officers
that hod been frightened by a
man- According to the police. Wilson
had left the county horn* earlier in
the day to come to town and gel some |
clothes from file home of a brother.•
said to live here The man had lost
his way, and In attempting to get hfs j
hearings had asked the lady for sotn?
Information,* It was said.
Wilson wa* seriously Injured la«t
fall when he wa* assaulted and rob
bed while riding with two men from
Raleigh to Goldsboro The Incident oc
curred near Smlthfleld. and V' IhoV
was removed from the car and left
alongside the road In a aemt-cnnsct
nua condition. He was brought to a
local hospital and It was several dar»
before he recovered. The man hail
been staying with relatives here un
til about three days ago. He was also
badly Injured at Spartanburg. 8 <!.
more than a year ago when knocked
down by an automobile. Ills’ leg was
broken at this time Wilson told The
• , (C-orttinued on page 6)
Russia Breaks Relations
With China Nationalists
MOSCOW, July 17.— </Pi The Si
goyernment ‘ tonight y • broke of
diplomatic relaCons with tile Chinese j
nationalist government.
The Soviet government mhde public
Its reply to the Chinese not 1 , tin- lat
trr hav iik come ln-ie*pi>os* to an Mt i
tlmalttm from Russia lit thl* no ttf
Sov el laloii .aid that all mem* *
I, > aching amicable aarwenstni haii
' been ex*haiisted.
Th note placed hy entire re p m *
•bllln for all CO 11 requeue m ItpofT lh
Chinese It annotttieed also that'all
Soviet representatives ami c;>uux« Her 1
i fflcial- an! all goveruuient com me r
a
rial representative* would he recalled I
at once from China.
i It further declared that all Soviet j
New Farm Board Starts Big Effort
I) / iliWa mail li
. Mr \yr\jP
» President Hoover ..it with Ills newly crested l-arin .x«i i . to ilrsl gosttlns In V.aahingl m, I». t’. lo
right, sluing; v J.lines I'. Slone of l.oxiogiou. Ky., vlca-ch •nm. o. reptc cnilng tobacco; Secretary of Agriculture
Arthur M. Hyde, cx olflco thumber ot lb« board; Pr» Id d llwr. ' bixaoUer 11. l.eggc, ( balnnan; ilhsrltt, 11.
Teague of I .os Aqjtclcs, Ituit uu ug Statidipg Wlltla o b J".«;!»■ II of Norihfl-dd, Minn., dairying t'harUu S
wtlson of Hall. N V. blistern ugrlcul iual mime-is spo u n tail William:, of Oklahoma f’dlyv'cotlon and C.
B- Owunan Ilf Karmlngton. Mrj; live -arnrit; ~~z~ r
To Decide Baseball
Status at 8:15 M.
Whether or no! it will he ptis
aible far Goldsltoro Id finish ih<-
season In Hie Kaslern North f’aro
-11 it it L’ ague Is expect m| Ip h<- ile
termlpkd M ‘a mass meeting lo he
livdd In the chamWr of commerce
rooms at 8;1R Ih1» evening Every
body who Is willing to iki his pari
In boosting attendance at the
games here 1« Invited to atieoW
and the 176 siockholiiarx lu the
baseball dub arc urged in be then
II 1* generally agreed that. If
means runout lie found lo Incroane
attendance at home gamer that
Goldsboro will have to surrender
her franchise. Already the elulj U
faced with a deficit ranging from
$S.Mft lo 7.1H81 forth» current sea
»on
HOME REPORT
TO BE GIVEN
-< • A ' o
Kyts of North Carolina (Hid Fel
lowh To B«* Tamed to (’ity
. . Today j
eye* of North Carolina Odd
Fellow* will ho turned Inward'llnddx
iHkyo io<lav. About n*sm, members of
the order of ihe sixth district , will
gather for tbelr annual picnic at the
Orphan Home, and this afternoon the
dire*-tors of the home will meet to
consider the report of ihe committee
which recently made an Inspection of
the property.
Grand Master R. F\ Simmons of
Winston-Salem will attend the pl*V*
jim guest of honor and he pretdbn' for
the Jrustees meeting this afternoon
Copies of ihe report of ihe sp<*cial
romffelttee which came lo th * t.v f>*
lowing appointment at the Grand
Lodge meeting In W'linton. bo I t< u-t
rece ved here yesterday hy member ,
of the trustees sent their contmi:
were not discin' ed.
Odd Kell iw- of Goid.boeo. Wil - >o
Tarboro. Elm Clt* Mi olive R
Mount and l-prinx Itop- nr> t»|>ect. I
lo gather for the picnic Ills morning
& 1,-tats would l>" tecsllid from th* 1
ItTflnese KaAlern rail *a tbit .ill, rail
way communication- between Soviet
i territory . and China would b »u»-
I l>eode<l and thst the officials altd coun
1 -ellor represents! yes id Nankins
j governm *nt would be'‘ordered ltnnt .il
latelv t. leave the Culon and Soviet
S«ii Wk' i epublb s
The finvlel note said that the M m
i cow government would reserve all
.the rlrh prising from lh>* I'cklng
Mtikdrn agreement of I'tlM
: It do lilted, that 111 • I'll It'X: tepl,
to- Itus-Un ulllniat.'m wX uu-.
I factory In content and hypocr.tlcil In
. .
! 4 Oo^.
j {wifUaucd on page 5; •
GOLDSBORO. N. C. THURSDAY AIORNING. JULY IS. 1929
♦vo \ W .
FIDE DESTROYS
TOBACCO BARN
( harle* W. Itexl of I hompeonV
Chapel Suffers I/imn of
SOMI ,
A tobacco barn eootaliilug 4&ti
litlcks of curing lobaVjcn hot oiging lo
Charles .W, Best, oh Goldsboro route
& near Thompson’s chapel, tut , < om
pketetf destroyed - hy fire yrtt*rdnv
looming hlkiul 3o p’clock Ms Real '*
Ison was at the barn, but had drop
I ped off lo sleep wbeu the f re slarl
| i«d Mr. H«sl gone in bed, hut hup
Ipimd lo see the reflection of tin
‘ hlnse frnm s bed-room window lie
left Ihe house Immediately but when
he reached the barn Ilia blase I
gained such headwat as to render e*-
llngulxhlng It almost Impoxslblg. v
Mr. Best estimated his loss at ap
proximately S4OO. Which was no! cov
ered bj Insurance. A stack of woel.
piled up at one end of Iho ba|fl. wa
sav»d. but another pile pf tohaev •»
sticks was burned before they could
the removed. Mr. Hesl told the New.-
that In hi* opinion Ihe blase started
when one of the cnrlng ktlcks of to
bacco fell on the hot flue Inside ihc
barn. * * .
HEART ATTACK
PROVES FATAL
Duke Univ«ril*y S(u«4en( Wax
In Swimrainty A( Lake
Junalu-ka
I.IKK JCXAU’HKA. 'July li
Howard Ashley, 23. of Boone, N C .
died of a heart attack slide -wloit,
mins-In I,ak<■ Junslttsku toduv \ b
e
lev. an expert swimmer, hud lust no
lev.-d the lake about 1 p tn . w lt ,- n It
illsappcared below tb" stirfaie. Com
ti,t»t..iw hrougbj him to lie slior: but
he'falled to respond to efforts at »r
tifklMl respiration >
Phys'etafte after an egantinatlon
-aid thst death Wav-dll I t b'art fait
lire \ ltlev~»a ciadiVoed ti oti-llok
t imi’i tv the pc t h,V. wn do
*YiC fur. bet ■♦l Ml > Hum
mer school.
.|*ATIIUNDKR M'lW »l>
t t h«»i ki.kt imn
la* IVitirgct, Kronce. July 17. ■ 4*)
—The American transatlantic air
plane I’at bflodr, with Captain lewi
A Yancey and Roger Q Williams,
landed at the l.n Ikinrgnt Hying field
this afternoon from Rome
vVilson Snow Hill
Road 1h Approved
Ihe New- Karrwu
Hy M. M. 11l NVIfiAN)
If Al. HIGH. ..Inly 17 A new
highway, from Snow Hill t*i W!l
--sjn, was put on fjte map of th •
state highway kystetn at the meet
ing of the stale highway < otbinls
don todav It |< in the and
d. , i cl Cotnmi-s <m -r*
t ran! Kngler .ttid Claudo U
M’heat ley tgreeing to build th>
por’lms fn their districts.
No Word Yet From
John (>. Jlnnette
An entire week had yresterdny
passed since John G. Jlnnette, II
yesr old carpenter of 1.09 8 Slo
rttmb street, disappeared from b*t
hom*>, and daring thU linn hU
wife and chlldr >n have r* te.ict!
ao d rect word front bint. »nu only
one report, from a relative I.* Vtt
cjlye to ihe effect that the misa-
Ittg flJsn hud be n seen tfn the
streidM there thday ha li
his br»m*» here. Tfll* relative ev*an
*kok Mm for a htlnnle or so,
but rheo |<e looked around ngaln
th" in:'a lied left. As.far a* c ».r ne
.csrrn d b* re. nothing has since
l;e''h it<ar*l from J'unette
It Is l»*’!*'ved by local pollc t nnd
tn ; Whi are acquainted wl ( h Jn
nrttn tits' he has left this section
"for good.”
PAUL T. LONG
TO BE TEACHER
.
Arrivi-y jim Farm Inntiuclor for
Broaden and Seven Spring**
o SrhiNth
m - ..mum *
f
I’aul T. Long arrived yesterday to
assume, his dutlea as
vocational agriculture at Broaden
and ,8,-ven Springs high schools
The county board of education
nomet'me ago made provision Dvr Ihe
employin'in of an addltlonal/tcacher
of agriculture In the Prmnty and sub
smfoenily ll was decided to arrange
a scbHuli' undT which the Instruc
-0
lor would divide bis time between
Hrogden and Seven Springs Mr l«ong
will conduct class*' at both places.
He 1* a native of Northampton conn
ty. ;t graduate of Stale Co)leg* and
sot fqttr >'* .*t Ih it teaching ag
rlculture at West Edgecombe high
school 111 I <U" ■ ■ note; ( 'Hllitv j
No agreement has yet been reached
on who WYll Hoccecd A. 11. Veaxey
as vocational 1 eacher at Rosewood,
but a number of candidate* are being
considered.
Appeals to Business Men
To Work for Weed Mart
Two -cl < of buyers .for the Gold*-
boro (ob.ii-c i market can be secured
if Goldsboro tiuxluess man
would "speak a g*»'«l the
market to-the farmer* with whom he
does business. ThU Is Ihe expression
of Sheriff W. It. Grant, of the tohac
co firm of Gram and Smith. In a let
trr bring sent to local business men
Sheriff Grant uppeulx lo the business
men to “work for the market.”
"When Goldsboro puts her shouldsM
to tin* wheel a* Wilson, Greenville
still Kafmvllle have done,” assert*
Mr. Grant, "we w II then have a to
bacco mat Wet that is a credit in the
city."'
l know -that you have the Golds*
intro tobacco uiarkqt a^ heart a* much
Final Report on School
Clinic Conies Few Hrs.
Alter County Board Act*
Ten White C’kiMren laill 04
' ered Found in Neel of
SaniUrium Treatment
TWO CABEB OF “ADULT"
TUBERCULOSIS FOUND
ThUry-Seven "Suapirioua” Caaee
Reported in Findinga of
Dr. Yoder V
——*• i
Thjrty-elght positive casea of tuba
f-ulosis and thlrty-aevan ’’suspicious"
< asea are revealed In the final report
of recent tubercaloala tests conducted
In Goldsboro and Wayne County
School*. The final report cane yes
terday from Dr. T. M Yoder, of the
Stale Kanltorlum extension service,
. who gave the tuberculin tent te ap
proximately lAM white and negro
children In cooperation tMtb the loonl
health department. Several hundred
x-ray pldurea were made na n check
where the reaulia of the Inbarcnlln
teal Indicated Ihe check was needed,
and the report of Ur Yoder la baaed
upon a study of the X-ray photo
graphs.
Ten of the white children fonad to
have luberculoeta are In need of san
itarium treatment, Dr. Yoder report
ed Right white children were report
ed as positive "but sanitarium treat
meal,” the report rand “emu gueatloe
nWy neceeenry for them, dep-nd'ng
very largely on their home coadVona.
If they ere not living in contne* wltH
•n open case at tubercaloala, and If
they can gel reasonably good itlta
tlofi at home, the ywlll probably get
hy. otheiwlee II would he well far
them also to to Ihe Baa'tor'em.'
Twelve Colored children were f iend
positive and sanitarium treatment
recommended.
Three three colored eh> d
ran were fonad to have the "adult
type of tuberculnala, and we think It
very necessary Indeed that they bava
sanitarium treatment aa early as pos
sible. a* they are possibly Inf ctlons
lo those with whom they-Mye."
Two. children were diagnosed aa
having tuherculoals of .the neck and
1t Is urged In the report that they
should have X-rajr treatment for these
glands, combined with dletlc and
fresh air treatments. If they cannot
get these, together with X-Ray treat
menu at home ,lt Would be well fori
them to come to the Santtorium "
Twenty-four white ttdMjten col
ored caaea are classified
ous” in Dr Yoder’s report.
His report continued:" «
*’|n some of these cases I hav* rec
ommended that another X-rny p'nture
lie made of
Ihree months. These, case* shin'd he
considered very much as the active
cases above mentioned The parents
should he Instructed to give them
plenty of good, nourishing food. Hey
should he urged th have the chtldrsn
lie down for at lea*t two hoars each
afternoon, and the children should
not be allowed t Vitake any strenuous
exercise, such aa running. Jumping
ball playing, etc. and they should
spent at least nine or tan hours In
tied at nlkht They should ulso have
t’ontlnned on page 6
_• •_ cr_rr
a* I have sod having studied the sit
uation from everV angle and travel
ing tbl* and adjoining count te*.
wrote Mr. Oraht. (‘‘'find the farmers
anx'oun to market their tobacco In
Goldsboro. If the cttlsen* of Golds
boro and the farmers of Wayne c mn
ty will come to our aid there Is not
the slightest doubt tn my mind hut
what we can secure two eels of buy
er* Jor this market by the first of
October. The tobacco companies will
give use buyers If we can get the to
bacco here for them to buy. but we
can not expect them to furnish as
buyer* unless we can furnish them
with tobacco
"The warehousemen lu Goldsboro
(Continued tn PH« i),
Today's Circnlatfoa
3,076
pucamicMi
( ummtHMion'cni l*r>»W> far !•»
$25,000 la NMw far Com
l, Baattarhua
DELEGATION APPEASE TO
URGE NEED BANITOEIUII
Building la ba PratMaf la Goto
(or SO Patiala AaaaraO
-1,,, *
W V M county will eoastruat i ta»
bercuioeia üßttarlaai u oaut (OJO
Hom«tia« during the irmpt yeas,
It *u by the ooutl Mari at
county comaisdteaam la Mwjlai
•ion yesterday. Aa approyetattoa ter
th« ssnitorlaa «u ant mada ta U*
budget Adopted ter tha oarrrat mar.
but the county wOl aa* Ha oredJt,
either In the torn dtMdrt tana
note* or boaOa, ta ematteg tfta hdd
pitei Definite appraml ad tke pun
iest wee gives altar a Oatefadteb MM
appeared and arpad tta aeaawMy te
the ('omiuleelnaam.
Among theae petti naMd One Mart
for the aanltorinm ware ttm ML S
Rnblneon. Urn. I. K. JOaMA MM. P
W Dnrtn. Mra. B. O. Thimpgaa. %
w h. a with, Judge, o. I. Maad. W.
A. Dean end Dr. Ip W. Oerhett *|
n. nmtmt —lm |ka Mma|>. Am ' MMMEE
Rankin over leap
would atlaw |1 pdf daypPfkOEll
It wan arguAd to tfciMMbAMMtl
that from*! etaaipdMi M
carry Interest M|fß aa UaMkE
n county inatMattea
with the OMN ateteh wtll -M
made available, It la >raaaaat taamM
n eaattorteai that will neeemadgde It
patients It 1a eepaetad that It *Mh*
erected on ooaaty prep arty aaar tts
present County Heme, and that Che r
•election of plans tad awaMMo «• &
contract will he toMd MIBF
ACTR ACOMR TOLL
RALBIOH. July M. m Ms *’ ,
tomobile eccldeute eaaeedad hcahttp
during June aa the daaaa ed peredh*
meeting violent deaths la North Ott
rtiinn The monthly repeat <d tha atate
board of health reran la « jiwMi
were killed la nataamhAa ealMl
white $7 were Wiled ky one id thddr
fellowmen. *
SPEED COPS
TRAVEL SOME
r ». j V.f
Rtiuar and Hawaii Haw TiaM
led -I&7I4 Mllaa la Uaa
•f DMr
MmMßMdkwa
The two memkern at
police force who ham aa a part at
tbelr duties the tiding at two-wheal- v
< d motor bikes hare tapathar traveled
11.724 miles daring tha past twnlre
months, and prnotladlly all this stir
In*. In line of petrel duty, has Man
(lone tnside tke City Mitts. Officer*
June Howell aad F. P. Eonse are the
biueconts who am naan dally rtdteg
shout the etrecto, path* aad byways
of thr city, on their Warley-Pnridseal. ,
and the two offloan ham become a
Nemesis to apeoding motortate aad
other violators at the elty’f spaad
end traffic laws.
The uMndoaetor aa offteer Koned'e
*»»oll»e steed has registered i.IM
nfllee since Jeaaary It. pr nearly \r
000 miles each meath. while MoweU'e
“HarleytV. has clreled aad traversed
the city! to the tans of 7 Mt miles
since late last aammer.
While having aa thetr specialty tha
arrest and warning at speeders aad
traffic violators. Officers Rones apt
Howell am frog neatly ealled apan te
make arrests la other oases, aad to
assist in making Inveetlgstlons, seek
ing summons aad saswertng eoam
pi** MU* . , „ , mU