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THE WEATHER Nor* Obroiln: Ha* Friday; Saturday fair; strong out whMto, poaalbiy reaching gals fore* Ule t“nt*ht and Friday, sag bblft lag to northwest ' k ft. _ VOLUMB FOUB; NUMBER M 3 GOLDSBORO. N. C, "T ' WKf MORNIjtG. JANUARY H. 1K26 L jj- -—_j ; : . . . 1 r ~'-'"«agrr , 7 . I Kll.fei FIVE ( KNTB STATE REFUSES SELL A. AND N. C. RAIL STOCK /Warrant Against Governor McLean Is Withdrawn 11 ■■ I —- Governor Tells New York Banker Wovld Not Consider Sale Over 12,000 Slutng of “Maillot Rood** Stock Ownod by . State of North Carolina ROAD HAS LONG LEASE NorfoHt’Sovthoni Has Leas* on Property Which Hag7o Yean To Ron RALEIGH N. C. Jan. 7. (AP) —North Carolina ia not interested in dispoeinf of ita 12.600 shares of Stock of the Atlantic 6 North Carolina railroad, Goer nor McLean has written a New York invest* ment banker. The executive’s letter was *in reply to an in* quiry front the banker ask ing whether the state ““would consider a proposal.” rrhe > banker’* letter. mad<* public by the uovwnner today, follow*: "The State of North Carolina own* lJ.fifiO • Bhare* of tfce etaefc of the Atlantic a North < aewUaa railroad and I am writing to Mfc Whether the State would oeUeMar a srt>t*>*al for It. ‘ineMaaah a* the road u leased to the Norfolk # Southern railroad ■ u.n'uaait naAfl UH am J iV«n ml nrii v~rrji~ WSBO .■ tlfu I VlUl II on the ISWMaMOt U Used under the term* of the lease during the nest seventy yearn, there does not appear , to be nay lAattood of yalne in the , holding! othtr than from any other investment with Used returns. "I have lately been In Eastern North Carolina, end I take this oc- ( cation to congratulate you on the many expression* of aallafactlon with | your administration of state affair* wbicp I heard." Ooverttor McLean replied "The State of North Carolina Is not Ip ' position to consider at the present 1 lime • proposal to sell Its stork In 1 the Atlantic A North Carolina rail road." DEMOCRATS ATTACK PLAN FOR INQUIRY Kepre»entativei Agaiiul Inves tigation of British Rubber Monopoly WASH IVGTQN. Jun 7.—<A*>—Con. tinning with Ita Investigation or the British monopoly as th* crud* rub ber supply, the House commerce committee today received testimony from representative* ot the American rubber Industry. Meanwhile In the House, the ad visability of the Investigation «'»■ Voueatloned -by,o*ver4 Democratic member*!. Representative Blark, of Nqw York, and Connelly, of Trias. /Vi as sect In a that the committee /uld turn Ita attention to monop r.#» lb thla country over Con gress haa legislative power. ,> Secretary Hoover's position In urg ing the rubber Inquiry amounted t® "propaganda plus” In the opinion of Mr. Black, whs charged that Amer. lean tiro companies are "sicking the MVhful Hoover on <he British lion lust when they arf about ts Inflate Jhmmr I .Us. Connelly advised tha com ml t to take a look “at the trusts that :lfc running between is legs," «nd aprtid all ta energies attacking for eign mopoipollaa. AT U.E OF IM. OLDEST M OMAN 1.1 POINTT DIES (VpfBRIUOK. Md.. Jan. 7 t-M'ss Henrietta M%rshaH. 104 years old. the oldest woman In the county, died last night at the home of H. Martin Wright, with membere of whose fam ily aha had lived for years t Mlaa Marshall waa a native of M. Mary * county, but removed to Bal timore at the atr* a* *4. > She waa, a member of the Baptist ehatvk . k THE GOLDSBORO NEWS GOLDSBORO IS THE GATE CITY I* EASTERN NORTH CAROLIN A 4 i f < .in i GOVERNOR DECLINES NEGRO’S PETITION RAIAHGH. N. a, Jan. 7.-HF) Governor McLean today declined I to exercise executive clemency In the cate of. John Wesley Daw kins- Forsyth County negro, aep. traced ty die la the electric chair here tomorrow soy murder In the first degree. Dawkins mode a personal appeal to the governor m few days ago. writing the execu tive n letter. It Dawkins was convicted In "Forsyth H Superior Cour; last June, oadi U I out an appeal to the Supreme STU DENTS : PUBLICATION 10 ‘ ROUSES IRE V Officials of Gsorgw Wsshington 4 I'ldvemify Threaten To Ex d pel Magaxlne Proponents H ■ — • WASHINGTON. Jan. 7.-OFh- I Georg* WaatMnjpon f/Uhriveroity offl r clals today were considering caput • flop of othrr students connected with r the Leah, new and unofficial public*. lion of the school and whose editor, n John R Itromcll, hat been dismias ‘ cd * Bromell, whose first Issue of the * I-mffi was described by William Mather I-ewls, president of the Cal. f verealty as "positively Indecent.” wax B contemplating court action to gain ( reinstatement and declared hr would n print nnothrr "hotter" edition of the magazine. In M, an announcement raid, would appear the two love let. tera which canned a sensation In the. Rhinelander annulment suit In New V«rk and Which were not published. Bromell was dismissed by J'revn drnt Iwwls when he refused, volun tarily to withdraw and after irerpt f Ing full deaponslbitlty for the pub lication. Dr. Ijrwla.fcald the Leah generally was In "exceedingly bad taste" but he objected -particularly to an artble attacking the momll diaroicter of tf>eorgr Washington while he lived at Mount Vernon *Whr University carries the name , of thy father or bis country." he de . rlnrrd, "and the article, besides be.- , Ing obscene, la unpatriotic.” j Associates of Bromell, whose II names are being sought by unlver. j -tty authorities, were said to be . 1 ra'lying to his support In an effort ■ to have him reinstated and obtain r authority to contlnus publication of f 'he magazine. Bromell contended tail , dismissal grew out of his campnl.ni . again* “an kll-powrrful froterutty . clique" ruling the university. . “For many drcndei." It continued, “the university has been hamstrung . by a few snob* who have attempted > to run or ruin tb* *rfeo<4- Thu* far ( they have been eucce*ful tn both. . With the result that George WaWh. . Ington university Is known' only tn i Ita Immediate vicinity.” i Another announcement disclosed that n previous taaue of the Lish . was attempted but -wait abandoned l sfter printing because “It offended I the esthetic aensc <*f honx of our . mid.vtctori*n* and drew from them such a shower of criticism that Its distribution was Impossible " 4 a Fall as Nlate Kills Miner 1 J Clarksburg, W. Vs.. Jsn. fl.-Rlch i ard Boson, 27, a cowl miner of • Brownton. dkd In a hospital hare to day of Injuries received several hours . earlier when he waa be • naath falling slate while at work ». h» the Bear volly mine lie Is sur vived hr hie wife and eight children VANDERBILT HEIRESS WEDS IN NEW YORK ? Ceremony, Uniting Comiuelfl Vanderbilt and Earl E. T. Sadlib Yesterday LARGE CROWD GATHERS Mob Fonng in Front df Fifth Avanua Home; Bride Giv en Necklace NEW YORK, Jpa. 7—<FV—WJth medieval pageantry. Mies Coneuelo Vender blit was married today to B T. Smith, tn the drawing, roem of her mother’s Fifth Avenue home. To the chanting of the Panllat (hoirlsters th* cetemony was j#r formed la n betting resembling the Chspel of n French chateau, while on the sidewalks beneath the windows a large crowd waited, eager for n glimpse of the guests. The Panllat choiristera sang the burlrl chorus from "The Res* Malden.” cantata, bv Cowea. an tb* bride and her tdfrr t William K ' Vffnderbllt, 2nd., entered tbs room. • Her only attendant, Mr*. Frederick C. Church. Jr., the farmer Mhs I Muriel Vanderbilt, sister’ of tbs bride, entered alone. Sidney A. Bnffth was best man. A* the guests arrived. several - squad* of uollcemen were called out - to keep open a lane from the club • «♦ the door. The targe crowd wa* > particularly In the possibility of the • arrival of the former Mies Ellen • Macfcaj ud. her husband. Irving Ber. ■ Un. '' . * .*< * 0 * A necklace of large squnre.cut dL smonds alternating with cluster*. In 1 rose design, was * wedding gift In the Vanderbilt family for Urn erc -1 ond time today, J It wn* a gift of Mra. William K. Vanderbilt to her daughter, Con. au*lo. Mra. Vanderbilt herself recelv. 1 ed It a* a gift from her mother twrn. ty.aeven year* ago, when aa Virginia Fair, daughter of Jame* Graham Felr. once a United States Senator from Nevada, she was married <e Mr. Vanderbilt. Hih. Cornetj.tr» Vanderbilt gave tit* bride a diamond brooch and Harold Vandeifitllt * necklace of sapphire, rubles and diamonds. Clarence Mackey’s father. John W. Mackay. wo* a partner of .Senator Fair In the day* urban they both re*e from fresh 1 Immigrant boy* to wealth by mining ' enterprise* In Nevada. The had luck about a $2. bill I* that you may give It to somebody for a S2O. • I 1 ■ !, - ■'-! .1 : » Week Os Investigation Fails Clear Up Mystery Os Slaying! IftAIJCIOH. N Jan. 7. One w.-ck KVan, with the pi.tol found tying strongly „„ thr ,IA rs »r th I •* *~.b ... -*», b, ,b. 4.«,, p.,4. P ,-j. “ young Preaton Rodgers. Jr., has b-en ed eitenslv* powder burns when Hr. circumstance* i-sdine tin to « m t almost a total failure tn clearing up ed at close range and only when has hot be- n ascertained " a the detail of bla death, eicept In- tb# pistol was held about two feel _ , nofar as the fact that tie did not from a handkerchief wer* hu ms pro. “ f hP tll »* '■ **'• , aboot himself has been rather dr. duced similar to the slight marks ,7 ‘u. ‘ '° r WV ** rr * t finitely established foun ,, irninU tbn ~u lu, Wol)tt(| “• «»l«lpltel‘F of possible motives "Who killed Presfon Rodgers*’ re. 'he forehead of the dead boy. '. 111 * ,u * ,n '’ < “Used any one of mains as much of a mystery aa It The ratal wounding of the boy was t * t , * o,Bbt ' r ° r <« kill was on the morning of the last day preceded by s drinking party a t the 1 °V of December when he was carried to home of hl« mother which iisNdun. Another feature is that qo on# ft Res Hoapital from his home suffer, W late In the nlglit. spparen'lr bed any portlrir- Ing from a fatal pistol wound In his the coroner's Inquest stiowid.lTcseru ** r *l r strong mat Ivs for the s|a/. forehead. - at the party a i on* time or snoihrr ***' * What happened Ip the dargenrd were Mr». P H Rodgers, mother of And the fart that the killing I |, dining room after the young man's 'he dead boy; Mrs. Lolita (’’lurk. ***d 10 have taken place in tha dark mother said She placed his pistol on cousin of the dead boK. Mrs. ttonnie * nt| *hat there art* no admitted eye. th* table Id order to quiet hi* de. Baste, local Iwsuty parlor pr prle. witness** Is silll another punt * K th* weapon may never lie. tresa; KterHt Krug. t«xi driver; Phase. f known There was a idiot, witness. Hugh Ogtuirn. su'omoblle salesman A Wory book dotwctlve possibly p *a said. »nd the young man 1* Mid and Ralph Branch, Ur tier' would make measureny-n's t tha n t*• •»»*• koen found lying on Ih* 1 oat rail Ictery Tr*tl<*«ay. ,oo m eiamlne th* dust *n the Moor floor, fatally wounded. Teatlmony »u» that the non I ft with a microscope, aearch th* ash.si I Halelds Newt Improbable before the sUuoiing took piper (Xte tn tb* furwse* gad analyse the re. J That the wound waa inflicted by #r t'-aMaony warn pnacUcpUy all nasal of the whiskey left by that) ; young Rodgers’ own hand sppeors coni Sfrtetwvr bun whether fr (Inn teKV ‘ uhlskry which •olieitvr Evv t most Improbable, aa teats conducted purposes <ef c«aosoMwg batsm «t nan testa r.-< must toovs liean produc. J o« handhardhiafs by Saiicltor W. V . tha porty which vaaaM <wfl*ot gm tlan ad uapbaai*—loss as memory, u .in i i i |r— T.t ! FIRST SNOW OF YEAR NIGHT Th* fbr*t t*ML K. the Ncaß°n, accompanied by * strong north • winds, started falling about 10:3* ] o'clock last night, nad was atilt 0 coming down at l:«* o’clock Fri day morning, at which tin* drifts neveri j inches In depth were to b# seen ia somr pigers. The anow. due to tha wet coudiilon «f the ground and the mildiwsa of the weather far the past few day*, at -first melted aa fast aa It l fell. Although no official figures t *ere available. Kla thought that s the temperature taet night drop. ’ Bed Imlow he freest a g point, at compared with the balmy, spring, like weather prevalent for almost a week. Be porta from KJnaton and New Bern at ll'Velock aUted 1 ’ that snow was ala* falling In “j those tyro cltle*. Tbg) weather 1 man's -prediction for today is rain 1 and high winds. Saturday, ac cording to his prognostication. k will be fair. INCOME TAX PROVISIONS TO BE APPROVED Washington, tmm, dfihn Increase In personal income tag exemptions provided In (he H**»ae reduction hill appears <<rt*ln of Seaath approval. Democratic members ol (be Sen ate ftnsncbv committee, whiob now has the bill under consideration, gave tentative appioval tn this pro. vision today In dragtlng their sub stitute program. Republican mem. ber* already had expressed general approval to the House rate srhedul*. The House bill would Increase Min exemptions fmm yi.iUM) to $1,600 for slnyie persons, and from t2.btd) t* $3,500 for married persons. Ii Is estimated this would relieve 2,500.. 000 tax.payers ffom any lacoam tax. 0 Senator Simmons, of North Caro tins. ranking Democrat on Ike com. mittre, announced after an .all-day conference of the minority members, that they probably would be ready to present their program by ftatur. day. A stumbling block In the Do. mocrat*’ diacuaaton terms to have been prrbentrd by the desire of annu ls Increase the total reduction of $230,000,000 aa provided In the bill aa It passed 'hr House, to $600.000.. I (Continued on Page Two) IIFATHER OF MRS. BERLIN STILL SILENT F*mtor Ellin Markay Happy Over Marriage, Km Henri alck Ovtr Father’a Artiomt NEW MADE Newspaper Report Says New Will Eliminates Ellin From Receiving Pari of Fortune NEW YORK. Jan 7. (SV-Mra. In ring Berlin la supremely happy in her -recent marriage with the noted je«a composer, she kaya, bat fa heart alck because her father, clarence H. Mackey, president of the Postal Tele, graph Company, has not glvmithem his bleaalng. - Back In New York la the compos, crin roof garden apartment today Mr. and Mra. Berlin were awaiting aom* word from Mr. Mackny, t* whom they have sent n special fir. livery Drier, in the hope that ha would approve ihe marriage. Thus far, however, he has add-d nothing 'o bis statement that 'be wedd ng waa wttfceqt bis knowledge or up. Iproval. The couple dined with Mra. Javsph A. Blake, the bride’s memb r, and received her bleaalng Monday after •he wedding, the World aaya. Berlin said ah* waa romlng to New . York to attend the wedding es Gen. iUflo Vsnilerlhlt to Karl K. T Bmlih j 1 tht* The c*tipj* pinna to • return tonight or es-rly tsm«rr*w to f Atlantic City, where Mrs. Berlin said Mie wll entertain tomorrow night ■ at a hotel so that ber friends ran meet ber husband. duty guests . have been Invited. Their proposed honeymoon trip tn ( Europe aboard the leviathan, leav ■ Hiss here Saturday for which th ■hip’s presidential suite had been engaged, will probably be eanc<-!|Ml Mrs. Berlin bke said. * The New York American today ' •tstes that It bon learned from ( friends of the family that Mr. Mar 1 key hqe made a new wttl which cut* 1 the bride off from the s3fi,fifio,o4M which Is the reputed alas of his for. f tune. It also states that at hi* as. late at Koffcyn, ixmg Island, hr had J HD daugher’a belonging* shipped t * her hunbaud’s apartment. " A member «f a law firm which ha* 1 represented Mr. Mackey told the d N<-w York Times that hr knew no. ¥ '-king about a change In Mr Meckay'a will end put no credence in the re. ‘ port 11 •“Yocy lleppy” NEW YORK. Jan. 7,-(ffV-The As- (Ooatlnuedi on I’age Two) 1 • * •*- - —■■ - - B Exeutive Sends Long Message To Nashville Mayor; Denies Charges ELDERLY MAN BADLY FROZEN ROCKY MOUNT, Jso 7 -UPh- Hl* hands tod fr*t fro*m, hi* b«ly emadaird and partially para. Ij»r«l, R, H, Moor*. Sft.yftr.old whit* man of Rocky Mount, woo •ound today la a clump of wood* jnit outbid* th* clly limit*. H* <hud l»*cn missing for Sevan days. A party of hunter* round th* ■an. and wb*n token to the b«a. pits! h!« coadHloa was aucto that It waa feared he might not recov er. Later phyalclaan aald he might pull through. though It probably would become aec»*aary to amputate both hand* and feet That Moor* * uttered a paraJy. tic atroke while walking through the w ><m|* Inert Thursday waa- the opinion « by phyalelaa*. Me was found to he paralysed from hi* wulnt down, and a Mew "u hU head waa ascribed to atrftu in.- some object whan token with portly*!*, 11 In watch and oon atdei able money whldfc ho had on I inn person sUm hi Ulooppi-arod I had not been touchad. I % ■ I CHAPMAN OWES COUNTRY MILLION BUCKS Judgment Far Thai Amount Obtained By Government Against Doomed Bandit New Haven, conn., Jan. (Jerald chapman, under sentence la lie hanged March it for murder ing a policeman. owes tba Halted Htateo government ona million dal- Jar*. A judgement for that amount In favor of the government waa handed down here yeaterday by Federal Judge Kdwln H Thomas la an ne lson brought by Postmaster Oeaer al New and John A. Denaher, of Hanford, noslotant Unit 'd State* dlsjtrb-t attorney, white chapman whs standing trial In Hanford. The order of judgement also In cludes interest on the million dol lar* at the rale of *l* per rfnt per lUiouni from October 24, 1921,' and the costa of lb* court. The aum represent* the value of bond* and other securities still tuls *lng from.tba CJ.4oo.utiu mall loot •aken h» New York on August 24, IMH. by ( hapman and others The Jndgm, nt will permit the govwra ment to levy on any of chapman's properties* either the aecurtties "ob tained !u the mall robberyT or any other property whirl* might route to llghf. chapman did not llte an answer to the action, and Judge Thomas granted a default to Ihn government, judgment belug given when proof of the value of the aeruritleS stolen Wn» furnished. IHRKCT KtlMft MKRYIfR PARIS, Jan. 7. —Direct radio te|e. graphic aervlce between Argentine and France was established todgjf. The honeymoon Is over when she discovers thsU 1 the wedding ring leaves a green mark on her finger. **)W YORK fOTTOJI NKW YORK, January 7.-(A*)- Cetlon futures tloseil steady, three P*lnis up to 17 down; »p«»t eotton quirt, middling 20.6 ft. Prev. (,’l«»se Oprtiing (Mom January .... 20.06 2*l ft 20.01 MarfU , ».!IJ 20.01 !».!* May;...;.,. lt.fto HUti 10.4 H July lI.IS* 11107 JAWj Dctobar .... lg.tw 1 ft. 7ft 14JU ~ .... k: ASSOCIATED * PRESS DISPATCHES 1 -• o , “ G«vomor Also Talka Tb Saudi Town Off Mai Ovnr Nmkmg f YenttrAny AftormS ' CHAUFFEUR IN DUTCH Warrißt WHI Now Bn feMi Por "'MgfcjH ß •MJk. tfca WftlTMt »ko with ekCMtfing Uin apaad m*»i« i B Nash villa, NT CTm Dm! b !L!L w !!L fci •oothnr wfR ho tmms4 far > [ P>v K. fovnrnnr'a sSp|?6 distance tonight. A wararnt Issued against Qovera. •r Aa#ig *W. McUan by Mayor r. N. Rosa; of Nashville, charging t** chl*f' executive es Marts "—* I I ** * e 0»w tohl# I was - "Miuritay LA The Raleigh p**tc* warrant from the Nagfe*!* pottoe (isveraor McUan was not In *h*r °®ce at th* time the warrant wa»’ carried (Her* hut unit* WM ngT ! < voted by Charles U. Bnglaad net. v*»e aacrwlhry te fl** chief Mve. la behalf at the Oovuraar. i When appraised hr Urn Naahvhle dial’s statement, th* governor aald be ha« "mode , a* re*u*ei egoept that contained hi n»y tel.gram t*. day.” "I explained to hl« la my telegram this afternoon that I waa aot rldlag In tt*a car at the ti*g«. *»d thare. for. could not he .uiity rhaUge." Ovremor McLean mJ* t *. night. Talked «n man* In response te the telegram, th* Nashville Mayor called la fIM guv. *n»#r on the tolophaaa, and, infer, ring to th* cewv*nation, th* g*e. rrnor aald: "When be *nk*4 me far (he name es the driver, I gav* him the chaurfeur'* name. I told him '•hat I had ne dnlre te interfere with the precra*** of the Mw. and If ks desired to pash the can* against the chauffeur. I would Ilka far him •o write me * letter, and give me th* tecta, aa that the chauffeur, if (Continued on Pagg Two) publicYty I ON SMALLPOX FROWNED ON Tnmjm Newnpmwm Malt* Nn Mentkm OfSituation Doctor Baya Near Eytidontic TAMPA. Fla. Jan. 7. (AV-tUnA- Ing newspapers In Tampa today car rled no mention of reported amall po* cases here, which Dr. B. C. Levy, city health ofTlt ur, said are bordering on an epidemic. The bealtfc officer, who bus termed newspaper publicity of the disease his "greatest weapon" to prevent Ita spread. prepared through prtoted circulars to carry his appeal Into homes through school • hild ran. The Klwnnla dub of Tampa went on record yeaterday a* being opposed to any publicity on th* number of smallpox cane* In th* city. The action of the Klwanla CMb. an cording to member* apetkiag IFM* halt of th* n*w* »nprr—alun. waa due to Tampa "petting unfair advw- Using through the reporta whtah arw exagprerated by papers la tha North spreading propaganda adv*ra* tgM Florida and Taytpa,"
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