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VOLUME FIVE-NUMBER 142
MRS. W. A. WESTBROOK KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
AVID STORY OF HIS f AST LIFE KLATED IT CYCLNE mM
BORAH ATTACKS
FRENCH LETTER
Bays ClcMMCcau’a Open Uattar
la Unfair and Approaches
the Absurd
Boise. Idaho. Aug ll <*>>- Senator
William K Borah, of Idaho, rbalrman
of the foreign affairs commutes, hat
prepared a statement In response -U>
Questions regarding hia oplnldn of the
open letter from Georges Clmenceau.
war-time premier of France to Presi
dent Cooildgs.
The letter. Issued Sunday In Parla.
contained an appeal not to treat the
settlement of the French as a com
mercial affair. Clemenceau declared
the propoeed Bsrenger-Mellon debt
agreement to he Impossible of fulflll
men! and that it threatened the inde
pendence of France.
In hie statement Senator Borah said
In part: *
"Olemenosau’s lettay la so cruelly
iq Is Leading as bis Intimation that we
are uudermlalag the Independence of
France. aatKeo deliberately unjust
where he refers to waiting for A mer
les to enter the war. and where he
ertt tclsea the United State# fpr mak
ing a sparale treaty ot. peace with
GeriuAy. and yet so pathetic In maai
test tors of his country that I- prater
not to comment at lengtl|i Ha is one
whose unfounded wrath me can afford
to Ignore, and whabe malicious In
sinuation* vs can afford to pass by.
|f they have anything to say of a
people whom they ones hailed as their
unselfish deliverer they could at least
speak Ibe language of truth and gra
ciouanesa. The statement that we ero
trying to undermine the Independence
of France or that soembody wants to
buy Frsnce approaches the absurd.''
FUNERAL OF MR.
WOOTEN AT 4:30
Di*d at Home In LaGrattße at
12:30 YenUrdav After Very
firlef lUneaa
Funeral acrflcs* tor Shade Wool
en. f- rty-etgbt years old. 6t tetGrange.
will be held at that place this after
noon at 4:30 o'clock. Mr. Wooten
died at 12:30 yesterday morning after
a abort tllne^.
Mr Wooten la sacvitod by hla wlf;*,
who wae Mlae AnnlF Edwards. of Blri |
mlngfram. Ala. Mra. Woolen wae visit
ing relatives In Alabama yvhen h *' r
husband became 111 and be died be
fore she reached home. ,
Two slaters and one brother also
survive. The slstaera are Mrs. M K _|
Rtisell. of Ooldsbpro. and Mrs' Ada
Carter, of I-aOrmnige. The brother la
Ramuel Wooten, es Mount Olive.
Mr. Wooten had ‘tor many years
been connected with the tobacco Indus
try In Eastern North Carolina and
waa widely known. For the past tew
years he had been employed hy the
Co-operative Association and last year
waa In charge of the warehouse of the
co ops at Warsaw. He waa a mem.
t>« r of the Pretbyterlau cliurih of l.a-
Grange.
(jEN. ANDREWS RKTI'RNH
■ New York. Aug. 11—(AP) -Oen. Un
' t -.dc-are, Vw*i *>t 'V
(i mi r aforeensent dfvmas asst Ist.
day on the French liner IVance ex
pressing' great satisfaction aa to the
agreement reached - with the British
government.
Oeneral Andrews aatd he will laave
for Washington tomorrow and begin
is once setting up machinery for the
operation of tba new agreement made
during the recent visit In I/mdon. Ha
denied that tba government had
adopted ruthless tactlca In Its cam
paign to enforce prohibition by poison
Ing commercial alcohol, as was «-harg
ed In New York papers today.
The lasy. haay warmth of the late
cummer, afternoons la In evidence
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THE'COtPmmJ NEWS
LOCATED AT NO. 110 SOUTH JAMES STREET Ifc THE HEART OF THE BUSINESS SECTION ..
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Skull Was Crushed In Turn
Over of Car at Falling
Creek at 4:30 Yesterday
Reports Attempt
To Enter Home
E G. Godwin, of 3t)B East Cent
er Street, an employee of the lib
erty Warehouse, called The News
-mt 11 o'clock Isst night to report
that on at least two occasions Isst
evening someone made an effort to
enter bis home.
"I have Just come In.’’ Mr. God
win said, "and And my wife and
mother nervous over the faet that
someone has been shaking eur doty
for about thirty minute*. My wife
went down to see who it wan and
found no on* there.”
MA FERGUSON
STARTS CAMPA’GN
Says She I* Not Bound to Quit
as Challenge Unaccepted
Austin. Texas. Aeg. 11,—
Grounded on the proposition that the
acceptance of a challenge meSe by
• Jim" Is not' acceptance of n chal
lenge made by Miriam and
to defeat of the Ku Klux Klan, the
campaign or Governor Miram A. Fer
guson for the governorship of Texas
was rechristened today In the gar
ments It were two years ago.
After two jreare of silence a * to her
plans following certification of her
name on the run-off primary ballot by
the state Democratlve Executive Com
mittee Monday, she plunged full tilt
today Into all the turmoil of .political
affray. With the battle cry of antl-
Klanlsm uppermost and her ’Womlae
to null thrown overboard by a contin
gent that Attorney General Dan
Moody, her opponent, never really ac.
cepted her challenge.
Declaring she wag In the race with
all her heart, she Issued a statement
arguing herself free of all promises to
quit and laying the gage of battle to
Moody, which she charged la support
|*4 by the Kii Klux Klan Politicians
I remarked that tho statement smacks
iof the old-time Ferguson faction and
the fighting method that has thrown
the stalo Into heated fights on many
an occasion before hi*. a
The reaction to tha announcement
began to appear In the form of re-
I piles from Moody’s followers and from
I members of the Ku Klux Klan
Friend Arrives Here To
Aid Young Tennessee Man
More encouragement came yester
day to young H. X N c »ly. of Summer-’
town, Tenn., held in u>« Wayne Coun
tv lull for responsibility for the ac
cident Sunday night In which IkMtsle
t*. Traylor lost hts life and Harold
'Grady and Mies Williams pain
iWftt.i», r
lor whom young Neely Is working, ar-'
‘ivrii |:i Goldsboro as «n emissary of
Ms son nml announced that h« Is here
to look after Neely's-iatcrest until the
younger Utvtjwrp arrives. Mr. |g>w
thorp suit! that his son wired him
Alabama that he would come t >
Coldslioro as smut as possible, late
1 yesterday afternoon Mr.* l/>wthorp.
was already Investigating the case
and at rangltiK for counsel, tl • said
•be matter of making bond would wait
until hla son arrives.
• The visitor was emphatic In endors
•ng the character df the beleagured
Nw*|y. He has known hltn for some
time, he stated, and has visited the
youth's parents la Sumtt*rtown,
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GOLDSBORO, N. C. THURSO*Y HORNING. AUGUST 11. 1926
Wan Miss Madie Duvall,
of Whiteville, Before
Marriage to Mr. West
brook. of <£oldsborp
Mrs. Vjf. A. Westbrook, of Oreen-
Yflls, was killed and her husband
slightly Injured In an automobile ac
cident at Falling Creek, seven miles
west of Kinston at 4:3$ yesterday aft
ernoon. ...
Mr. and Mr* Westbrook were on
their w*y to Goldsboro. Mr. West
brook's Old home. In I t*hr)Md*r road
ster, and according bo Paul Taylor,
of Kinston, and Judge McCullom, of
loGrange? who witnessed the accident,
w,re traveling at a high rate of speed.
Mr. Weatbruok was at the wheel
and In dodging some highway signs
which had been placed on tho road
by construction forces, the car left the
bard surface. Mr. Westbrook iwerv
sd th% wbset to an effort to get back
on the pavement, eye wltneaass aald,
and when he did the car turned com
pletely over and landed on Its wheels
MRiffo- ■ ~-
Mr. Taylor and Judge McCullom
hurried to the scene of the accident
and they found both occupants of the
car still tn their seals. Mrs. West
brook was unconscious but still alive.
When the car made Its complete turn
over. the iron stay In the top had
been brought tnt > violent contact with
the top of Mrs. Westbrook’s head,
knocking a h«,le through the skull.
Mrs. Westbrook and Mr. Westbrook
were placed In Judge McCullum's car
and speeded to the General Memorial,
hnaptlai In Kinston, but Mrs West
brook died before the hospital was
regched. Mr. Westbrook. 1t was said,
suffered a cut on the arm and la auf
ferlng from ahock. Hla condlilofi Is
not regarded ae serious.
News of tbs accident came as a
great shook to Goldsboro people, for
6oth Mr. and.-Mrs. Westbrook sre well
known here. Mr.. West brook moved
'o Greenville eome time ago to engage
«rr the automobile business with his
brother. Jack V.'estbnok.
Mr. Westbrook 4a a aon of Mrs. J.
V. Westbrook, of 315 West Wslnut
street
The dead woman was before mar
riage Miss Madie Duvall, of Wbue
vtlle, a daughter of Mr. and Mr*. O
L. Duvall, who survive her. In ad
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Tenn, 'Had company" was the cryp
tic explanation be had for the fatal
accident. _
Incidentally. Mr. lowthorp is worth
* news story himself, lie last visited
Holdeboro (S years ago. It wag' «|jur
>ng the War Between the States, and
*
"bewggfmg « vlMO'ie* w.w* mm ' wmsmhm,
ptte-uf cannonballs. He was greatly
impressed at the changes that burs
taken place here since then.
Mr. Isrwthorp's gr