“HERE'S TO YOU- 1928
_ WEATHER J
parity cloudy and much colder Suu-
Mjf. Monday fair and continued cold
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VOLUME SIX; NUMBER 264
•NOW SEEKING HICKMAN’S WOMAN ACCOMPLICE
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We Have Got To
Get Out oi Here Quick,”
’ Were Words Overheard
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lafprmation May Indicate f hild
Wan Slain on Friday and
Not Saturday
WOMAN VISITED HICKMAN
IN HIS APARTMENT 16TH
Information Given By Another
Woman Who Eealded In
Same Apartmei t Houm
LOS NGBI.ES, Bee. ft* (AP)
of the dlsirtrt
n'to/Mey* ..(floe here toiaj »»«*ht
• woman they believed »m ia the
* apartment of. Hill lorn Blrtaifc
admitted slayer of Marina Valrfc
or. ra the ley hoiore the *trlN
body on fivon to her father In
exehaaae for fU*h.
. George ( MrtMW. ehlof loves
thtotor fhdoNf that the depart- o
■eat had reeelred Information
from a noman llrlna la the apart
■eat building where Hlekman llr*
ed, tdat an aaldeatlfled woman I
vfsltod HMuaaa la hU room* oa
Friday Recembor 1C
v Off teem said tty* thin Infer-
mlabt ladleate that the /
•rliwl flrl was alala on Friday
and not oa Satardoy, Oeeember 17
aa Bk* ■aa mM ta hi* confer
a lea. The nearrh wa» dlrreed to
-1 ward a flrl who Moved from the
sport ment aereral day* ago. 'ttffl
eam wear told that a eoavorso
tten fca| tywa overheard Mwffli
a woman aad Hlekman la his
aptotment In IMA the nemsn '
“Eddie we have got t* ,*et out
as here aad ret oat qalek."
Ontj a glimpse wps obtained
of the wenun, effleen were told.
She was donerltted as older than
M'rkmon, fashionably dressed sad
heavily made sy.
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Mrs Lindbergh If
Relayed by Weathei
CHICAGO, Dee Mrs. tfvan
gellhe Lindbergh and party. flying en
- route from HI. Louis to Detroit on the
Isst lap of their trip from Mexico
were forced down by bad weather
this evening at Roby. lud, safely
x. landing In a race track
EL jtoby Is just serosa the Illinois line
■ld aoutbeast or Chicago The party
Ram.' hare to spend the night. -.
sVffA Quiet, Serene Smile
Face, 1927 Meets Death
•f&BS I*. LASOOTO>, Jr.
Promptly at 11 <6 lest night th<
Old Ynr. 1927. begau his last »lo«
"V wnrch toward deeth, doomed to dli
jKWnl'i'f to a custom •« old Time
llaiirr at a aacranc# W ti* "world and
to mike way (or ft nawar and more
abla year. Twenty seven seamed re
algnetl to W» f«‘« *• ‘■• rch toward
tho 1. thal chamber began. Thar* Fath
“cr Time, chief executioner, awaited
the stroke of twelre. with tds acjrthe
h hari> and'cold, the blade glistening
dully la the feeble light of the waning
moon. The steps of '27 did no* fs'tcr
ai he approached the door through
which he was to enter, and from
h which ha was to never come back.
Outside, an uproarloue crowd await
td news of the execution. They were
not uproarious because of the death of
'J7 Hither were they joyous b*o»tt*e
bia qping meant the dawning of a new
event, for had, not Mothei Earth
juet aunouncad that she was about
■ IP Wrtl to a Nfw Year.
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THE GOLDSBORO NEWS
READ IN THE MORNING WHILE MINDS ARE FRESH—RE AD BY BUYERS BEFORE THEY BUY.
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City’s New Year
Celebration Tame
Goldsboro took its New Year
Quiet ly..
At lf:*9 last night one whistle
started blowing, one bell follow
ed with rbitloua < htnUngs Severdl
automobiles were driven throatsli
the main at reel a boatyng shouting
crowds The auto boms were
blown continuously.
1 That was alt the mcepttou that
Goldsboro gave Miss f 933 and five
young Ipdy must have,felt much
put out at the little Interest her
coming a;ouseil '*
CHEVY PRICES
ARE ANNOUNCED
Redvctioiw of Front $lO to |SO
On Improved General Mo-
H tore Offerings
MBTIbOIT. Dec. 31— OP) Fuik
uhytd brakes, shock atmorblug swings
Mild increased wheel base are some ot
tb* features of ihe new Chevrolet au
tomobile given ItiTAltlal abowlag to
day by General mo tom corporation*.
rltl/T competitor of the Ford com
pany.
Coincident wjth the showing the
.Chevrolet company announced price
mfuritoua op all models, ranging
irom |lO on the coach to 960 on the
•F'rt model. The new price tangn Ih
Irom s4!*s tor. the roadster to- 1715
for the “Imperial fjtndeou."
‘hTEAM ITTEN MADE EL4STII’
.More room for expansion of steam
ta pipes has been provided by by
large ducts composed of flexible cor
tuzargjf pipes, constructed in loops
many times a man's height. By
means of ’hie flexibility the loops
adapt themselves to whatever expau
slott the steam can cause.
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GIRI'. SITE* HER
Ft THEE MIFF,
KANSAB CITY, Mo . Dec. 31—While
u 15 year old daughter looked on In
'«rror. William R. Walta, 61, shot
and killed lit* wife, Ethel 2d. here
Friday and then committed sufc|de.
Police believe a family argument was
responsible. ,
At 11:55 the old year. 1937, tottprid
cebly Into the room where it had
jjade a rendevous with lbMPh, and
tuppdd before the grim executioner,
>Mwly old '2Tn slioulderg straighten
d. and a <|Ufet serene smile played'
•bout hts lips na If to say. "well I’ve
tved a long and useful life, and now,
"in really to go." " ®
Then Just as the clock some Where
n the distance boomed out tr - hocr
of twelvb. something listened bright
if as It flashed through the air, and
Father Time's scythe iiad descended
m e more, /vimost*simultaneous with
the last gasping breath and a Inst
yo-rerlng sigh, and even, before <li
rruaUed and emaciated body of old
'37 had yet settled to bis last long
sleep on the old stone floor of the
small room, there Ixlknded to through
another door on opposltg .side
of chamber, a shining, radlsil'
llgure pink-cheeked and glorious tn
her youthful Innocence -Mias 1929.
(Continued on Fags TWoJ
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1927 BUILDING RECORD OVER 1-2 MILLION
DOUBLE WEDDING
AT COURTHOUSE
New Hope and Stoney Creek
t Younjr Folks Begin New
Year With Bridal Night
i “ Thera's a couple out r here who
rant' To We murdered." facetiously
remarked a citizen, entering the Han
ley Furniture Company yesterday af
ternoon. and addressing* Ksvj. T. A
Healey.
"You want to murder them bey* or
take them on over to your office ?ti
the wurthoune,” asked the man. cn
Joying hugely the joke of referring to
marriage as murder.
"hot them come in here?*' fapll’,l
Tag. Henley, and the man disappear
ed out the door. A moment and Tie was
back, wildly excited. "There's another
couple out there wanting, to be mur
dered,’ he shouted
"Wall, wc d < better adjourn to the
office at the courthouse," said the
Squire and be picked up his hat.
A moment later and a double wed
ding was In progress Young /rod
Price of Stoney Creek township j lam
ped the hand nr blushing Nellie <■ i
ner of New Hope rwwneblp: %m: >v
Leslie Lane of New Hope twrusTlp.
clasped the hand of blushing Hunt
Coward, also of New Hope The young
menlookedat tbolf sweethearts, right
proudly. The girls cait their eyc t up
on the floor. *
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"Will you take,'’ began Msq Henley,
and a moment latsr the two coup),e*
were married;* one couple witnessing
the other's mferriage.
RESUMESAIR
* TRAIL TODAY
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Lindbergh Will Leave Honduras
For 260 Mile Flight to
Salvador^
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- OP)- Now Year's Day likely will
find Col. Charles .Lindbergh deliver
ing his message of peace to another
Central American. Republic, Hairs
dor.
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At daybreak tomorrow the Spirit
of Ht Louis will be wheeled to one
md of the polo fiehk here which he
bus made famous -and the hero wIH
speed hie plane head al
most due south for Salvador on the
P;m iflc eide. lu covering this stretch
lie will follow the coast line down
to an acre across the Oulf of Hon-
ouras. Then there will be motintalus
intige and sparely settled country to
traverse In ail about ”60 miles by
air between the two capitals. »
- Though British Honduras la a small
land with u slender population
the very small majority of which
comprise British and American, the
peoplwlyure given to Undbergh jhe
lull nt&iftnte of their admiration and
-ftppteclaltett tor irix bavtiw aohe hrf>
Inr out of hl« direct tyne of travel to
“put the little colony bit the map.”
HOKNEMHOIf FMSUKRm KTAHT t
THAIMSG FOR BIG TOIBMV
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ST. PETERSnrRG. Fla . Dec. 31
! (4*l-Horsespoe gingers have started
training here In prifparatlon for the
national tournament to he held here
starting February jo
Frink Jackson. of Kellertou* lowd.
former champion. Is ready on the
groumi throwing “rjngcifc" while Putt
Mjcssman. another former title holder,
Is expected to arrive next week
f’ C. Ilavis, of Columbus. Ohio, the
champion, la planning to return to
defend hfs crown.
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GOLDSBORO, N. C. SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 1, l»28 rs t^
RECALLS POEMS ,
BY MR. DURHAM
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Mr. Parkdr Offers New Year
Veraea WYWten by Former
Elm Street Paator
New Year written by tha
Rev. Ernest Greery Durham wblla*
He was pastor the Eltn Street Metho
dist church here sty years ago were
recalllcd last night by If. B Parker,
senior member of thu Goldsboro bar, (
who stopped at Xt»* News office to
pay Year Greetings. >
"I am sure." said Mr. Parker,
"that the friend* of Mt. Durham will
be glad to he reminded of him lu the
ilitort tfoems which be wrote approp
riate to the passing oL the year "
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"I'll Bf A Friend." is the title of
one of the poems. It followa:
This yepr f will sec c hat a friend
I can be
To My fellow man:
To help htm to know I am hit friend
as wevgo ,
*'tl d-> what T can
i .' tj ■ i ptvvfntl that f urn h|s
t( r f ; .(ttl t "HI h« -
r'.tul n' t’ta days go He'll certainly
know 1
T He caai count on me.
If he is drunk or down, I'll not sneer ,
and frown. *'.
And just leave him there
It he la tettrpled and tried. I'll stand
by his side
And whisper a prayer
It Ho’s good or bad. If he’s lonely
and sad
If tired of the tile strife
I’ll help him along with word Nleed
and song
And sweeten his life <
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And who. is thlti man, my fellow man
tVhd on me can depend
It's the poof- and the rich and ho In
the ditch
■ Who 1* without a friend *
f will bd as-near like aa the SaTTour
; “ dear ■:
As I posalbly can
I will work among men with u heart
ant! then ,
Just help any mstK-
The second of Ihe pvicmk -4s tltlrdi
"A ties Year Rose." ' t..
“It's cold; but there la a rose
That blooms for New Ywara day—
Piooms on the grave of lust year '
Just now, passed away
It speaks of MW ltf* kOW to all
Cr-*
Oh hear today the rosw's call
And be a man J:M7"
The beet you cau
And do not tail.
BUSINESS GOOD
THE PAST YEAR
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Federal Renerve Board Report*
That liank Oedit Abundant
Foi All Needy
WASHINGTON. Itcc. 31 OP) Des
pite the recession In recent mouths.
American business In the judgement
pi the Federal Reserve Board closed
tie books today after a year of w
tlvh/second only to record bieaklur
193*1."
During 1937, the Isiard said In a
business review, bank credit wm
nbuudg/lt tor all classes of enterprise
and. money rates were relatively low.
particularly after mid-summer and
early autumn when discount 1 rates
were reduced. The supply of capital
I funds arising from national saving*
I -van exceptional!/ large- * .
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| Zero Weather For
South Ib Promised
| ATLANTA. Dec SI. <*»—Tam
pet at urea ranging from.sero to la
the 20'a sras Indicated tonight as
nature’r New Year Greeting fey
the South aa the mercury west Into
the nose dive wttt» the season's
low mark indicated In moet states
1 by morntag.
From balmy and 70 s tem
peratures this afternoon began
all-ling down slowly aad at night
fall the winds on which the pre-
HR led cold wave ws» riding out
of th e north west hegap biting cold.
. Western North Carollha, south
Carolina and Virginia had already
felt the advancing cold wave to
night and were expected to be Tal
ly In the grip of winter by tomor
row night. - ,
CUPID SLAYS
MANY COUPLES
HU Got Married On Last Day
of Year to Boml Total for
- to SSI (
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i Dan f'npld, the relentless God of
j love, wgs again busy In thA county
| and before the office of
] Mias Deasle Grantham. Ragldter ot
l*e< I - h?i closed upon of
ihe l at diir of the year, ala couples
had been addM to the marriage lic
ense woll. This number brought tha
total for the month to 71 and the to
tal for the y«ar to 531. Os the couplet
who yesterday decided that thetr new
year resolution would to to get mar :
rled, five were white. Ttye 71 total for
December wae 11 more than Novem
ber when 6? couples sitursd licenses.
Those securing permits yeaterday:
Haul A. Powell of Dunnella, Fla..
V.nd Florence E. Grantham of Gran
tham township
Leslie lane of New Hope township
sir! Hunii ,Coward also of New Hope.
Jessie Price of Indian Springs town
ship and Betti* Gardner of New Hope.
. Krastus Grant and Btella Mae Sin
g letup, of Greene county.
Kdilte Heaaley of Indian Springs
township %nd ( lara Evelyti I»dg of
New Mope
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TRAINS CRASH IN
BIG-SNOWSTORM |
Younir Giri Diaplaya Her.ii«m Aa
She DlrtfU Efforts of
Rcacureni
CHICAGO, l>ec. JH.-JA’»-Crawling
>ut of a snow storm two hours be
hind t< h«dute a fast Chicago passen
ger train from Kansas City today
plunged Into the rear of a passenger
train rmm HL i/uis, lelaacoplag two
sleopers, kjjlinA onp ; woman, Imprls
ouing another in a steel compart
ment and injuring more than a scoTg
of passengers.
Directed by cries of t igs- courageous
li-yeer-oid girl in on,, ocarh, n.ore
(ban 104 men worked for hours with
torches to break through the steeper
in which the girl wan held and an
other car wher g at first other victims
,w*re believed imprisoned.
The girl. Mr* Sara Streckell of
Tulsa. Okla., her legs crushed so bad
ly she will die, repeatedly told her
rescuers of the body 'of another wo
man lytng at her feet. Fighting the
snow storm and zero weather aa well
as thy steel which held the girl fast,
Ihe worker* shouted encouragement
as they burnod their way through the
side of th»r jrWpez. __
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EXPECT GREAT
PARTY MEETING
1406 Dtmorratic Lca4ara Over
i * Nation Reaponriinc to Jack
son Day lavitationg
I i t
i WASHINGTON. Dec. it (A»> -Res
pr ase to the 1400 Invitations sent out
by the National committee to the
1 Jackson Day Dinner here on January
‘ lit, have led Chairman Clem Shaver
[to believe that thie will to the greft
; irt pasty rally on auen an occasion
In years- «
ThU will be the first gstherlps r
the hosts of Democrats since the his
toric straggle at MadUon Squara gar-'’
I den An IM4 and It Jtkety srill .bring
together the central figures in that
baltte—Alfred K Smith and Wm. O.
McAdoo
Doth of theaa msnf'lhe one now a
prominent contender for the presi
dential nomination and the other eels
eliminated from the race have been
I invited to epeek. Similar invitations
also have goue ou to Reed of His
sourl. Walsh of Montana, Roblakoh of
Arkansas, RlcbUe of Maryland. lWj*a
akay of Ohio and others whose namd
haw been fltlked about In conoectlna
with the presidential nomination ae
well aa to several other party leaders
and presidential possibilities.
Col. John D. Lmngaton, of Golds
boro. will be eae of the two gusl
ot Senator North Carolina.
REMUS TRIES
NEW SCHEME
His Attorneys File Motion in
Probate Court For N«w
Sanity Tnpt V
CINCInNVtI. Dec. ft.—(HV-Mo
tion for a new sanity test for Oevrg*
Remus and pending It hta ralaaae on
baud was filed in probate court today
but Judge Wm. Luders postponed ac
tion until Tuesday. »
1 The step wm taken merely to per
fect-the Remus record so that aa ap
peal might be taken from the judvea
decision that Remus hr Insane, foar
ael said. *
To to legal It was neceasary that
tha motion to filed within |hruo days
after tb w dcislon was rendered In >he
»*nlty caee. Downed for settlement
next Tuesday also was a petit! >n for
a writ of habeas corpus filed in be
halt of Remus by hia brotJhar-ln-law.,
' Week of January 23 To
Be Known Goldsboro W eek
The week of January 23, will be de
signated Is “Km** Goldsboro Week”
II was announced yesterday by W C.
, Iceumark, secretary uTpic Goldsboro
Chamber of Commerce. Through or
ganised tours of Inspection through
, the manufacturing plants of the city, j
through dally lectures before the
students of the city schools,, "'and j
1 through cooperation of lbs civic clnns.
1 facts about the city will be broad - :
i cast public i
’ Announcement of plans for lhei
' “Know Goldsboro Week" by Mr. Deu
> mark Is as follows:
Ve have read with a greet deal if In
f tsr/.t the page In this mornings :|*ws
about Goldsboro as s inanufa* turlnu
' ceutsi We note that you carry a
' list of articles manufartarsd In
> Goldsboro and also a list of our raanu-
I facturlng plants which Is very good
, Info matlon a number •»( our p“o
--t pie. The Goldsboro people are by uo
i means as familiar with what our illy
j la doing as they should be. Any Infer*
1 liiif i i rub* i i :ii
MEMBER OF
THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS
PRICR PIVR
1
Hundred New
Homes Built
General Financial Situation Bet*
ter Than la Several
Yenra
PREDICT 1928 WILL
SET BIGGER RECORDS
Mora Attention Han Been Paid
In County to DivonMod ••
Agriculture ■
Yesterday closed a year of aotld,
substantial and material growth tdr
Goldsboro, and basineas men looking
back at the record of lIS7 found it
good. Looking forward, they predicted
that 1931 would to a year of grantor
progress than IM7 had toeff-
The Steady expansion of Goldsboro ~
Is reflected. It waa pointed eat la no
totter way thaa In the number of new
homes built last year. Misty resid
ences wan erected to tha
average oKgvs sank month—during
1937. This doST'uot include, ttyl num
erous homes built oh the mfiges of
the ettraad Just outride
jit# llmlts—Adamavtlle, Rslivlew, end
other points. The surburkaa hosn#*
would send the total for the dtp to
nrtre than H», H t was eerib — 4
Hut lattes compiled by He Chamber ~
of Commerce showed that a total "of
♦M3.160 la bultdtag permits wore to- ,
-tldd dudlag the year. These ftyaraa
represent Ream which are widely dis
tributed and to the number of per
mits show the general progress of the
city. This build tug program consists
of -school, church, residences, etoree.
Riling stations, garages; clubhouse. ",
warehouses, and manufacturing plants
Included 4m new msnutacturiua °
plants which hare been located *ln
the city are the Maris BottUag Com
pany, ihe .Wajrns Ginnery, the Oolds
loro Narrow Fabric company.
Rsslness with merchants (tad with ,
in* city* firms generally has basa
good during the year. Many Arms im
ported that December bushtoH Mtab-
I shed new records for tbs etty. An
t-uai stockholders meetings are new
lu order and at these reports of satis
factory buslasss during tha year have
been made." &r' ".*> ■ : f
The banks report healthy increases .
in the number of depositors aad ta the
amount of deposits
Home busineas experts declared
that the Ilnanclal situation In the a4ty
Is now totter than at auy tiyto In auv
«r..l years
fCoatfnoud ou Page Teal "
nia'lon of this, kind should be* dire- 1 "
fully reed by our citizens.
Mny I say In this connection, that * •
the Chamber of Commerce In going
lo designate week of January Krd
•*' htew Goldsboro" wet'i. During f
.this week we ere going to endeavor .%
ito liave our commercial and lnC3Af”!tl '
I In* i rest open their doora to the pub* .
IF There are thousands of people In
! Goldsboro who could not tail you to
day how many manufacturing plants
j.we have and during thin "know
tiodsboro" week It wth'b* our Oemrn
to have the public vtirit these plants
rut only for the purpose of seeing
i modern work shop but to become
Uujlisf'wlih the articles that Golds*
boio is mgaulacturing. How many per
l b are there In Goldsboro WM *•
i.evor been through our nuw hank and
our new school buildings. (
There are thousands of our people
who are not familiar with our wboto- % -
sale and Jobbing districts nad IlkU.
icon tinned on Pagy Two| t^g|