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"'‘"WSAM* 1 . i VOLUMBBIX; NUMBER SO4 15 TO 20 DROWN AS FERRY BOAT “DIPS” IN WAVE t * ■ 7 T • * 'W,vS Meagre Details Come In From Catastrophe Near City of San Francisco UoMfWtrd I ton ml PMMMfPMi 1 > Astor DrjAi Wb*k Swagt Acromi Lower Deck OVERBALANCE OF BOAT THOUGHT RESPONSIBLE WttaMMP Say Lane Wave SeMMi to Sweep Oat of S Deep Blae Baa : ■ t*v rluxnKco, v*. it .an Stile—t nhmm aad ton* ' ty pailif in mOm ferry Seat niralte. were believed te tore • if-, base toewaei late today wbea they wave washed ever beard Ini. Hae Praaeieee bay freai Uw lever A liiWMar ea aaetber ferry beet ulf he raw Ike passengers iwfyl Me Ike water. He wk be ■ tfceaebt eU were tnvMi - . Aaetker wttaesa said be eaw U te II perwM waahod ererbeeri wbea tie ferry saddeely "frip pel* aa M was unbalanced. Otben eaM they believed es the victims had heea phM ay by beat* which farmed te aid the »Mehba craft. * A gavarwaut tag wee dispatch ed frbai Heat Ulead aear the veebe el the die—ter sad twe ethers pat eat treat hare. the heat wse erewded by the eeael heavy heeee (stag crowd. AH eeate waer sccaplad aad the peeetapere had crewdad ferward te the hew es the heat > He warwlac nf.e» Impending dleaeter wee fCH. Wttaeeeee edid that a larga wave seemed te sweep > Baddetor asreee the hew es the FALSE ARREST IS CHARGE MADE . I Pitta Laval Man Hae loatHuted Civil Acttoa Far $35,000 Damage • I In e civil ectlon transferred yeatcr dey from Wake to Weyue county sup et lor coart apon petition of the defen dants, J. L. Creech of Pine Level ask* damages totaling 836.000 against the /Home Security Life Insurance Com pany, Oeorge"K< and T. A. Healey. Actaal damages of 126.000 aad positive damages of 810.000 are alleg ed. plaintiff alleges that the de fendant Williams caused his arrest on a charge of giving a worthless check, end that he wee falsely arrested un der warrant granted by T. A. Henley, that after the amount of the check— 146—had been paid at a hearing before Healey, thla plus coart costs, that no report of tbs case was ever made to the Wayne county superior court as In renal red by law. The charge is made that the local magistrate used bin of fice for the sake of collecting the check. The actual damage la claimed on grounds that tbs plaintiff had been greatly humiliated, his spirit broken in that he was displayed before his neighbors and the public In custody of officers, that he waa forced' to i pend sometime In the Pine Level fait and that hs was discharged from bis position as agent for the Home Recarity life inpursne# company with 'Hit cans# or notification. Since that time, M Is averred, he had been enable to seenrs another position. The ectlon Is brought by Crawley sod Johnson of Raleigh sad the reply of the defendants was not among the papers arriving yesterday from the Wake county oourt under order of Judge‘Onmmer, who honored a peti tion for move of the eaee. Blames Hard Study > For Student Suicide WAKE FOREST, Feb. 17—(**)-Hlj mind unbalanced by “hard study” Is tbs oaly reason I can find so far for the young man's suicide 1s the only reason I can find said Coroner L. M. Waring, who Inveetlgsted the death of .Oirl J. Salisbury, !». Wake Forest College Jaaior who— body was found ' • - ’ ,6*. THE GOLDSBORO NEWS READ IN TH? MORNING WHILE MINDB ARE FKBSH—READ BY BUYERS BEFORE THEY, BUT. , *«r\ mam . n mmai - BURGLAR GETS SMALL AMOUNT Eaters Hem es Mrs. W. R. f Crawford Bat Falla is Effort At Dr. Wtaklamaa’a Fifteen dollars la cash and two necklaces were reported stolen from the residence of Mrs. -W. R. Crawford vnd an attempt to eater the home of Dr’. A. F. Winkteman failed. The fore going sentence covers the story of thieves operating oh South Will lent street, Thursday night. Mrs. Margaret House returned to the Crawford residence shout 10:30, tram a social engagement aud waa s larmcd when she heard someone make a hurried escape through the rear of the house. Feaylng to go Into the house she gave %n alarm Neighbors answering and gating Into the resid ence found signs thst thieves hsd been In the place. A room occupied by Miss Merle Farley had been searched and left In a general condition of disorder A subsequent check-up revealed 111 and two necklaces missing from the Crapford residence, where a number of young women room. At the home of Dr. Wtnkleman. ( Mias Mary Langford was alarmed by what she believed was an attempt to enter her window. She called girl friends from another room, and When they came they pulled the window down and locked It. Nothing more waa thought -of the Incident until yesterday whgfM6*waa reported that the Craw ford residence a few doors away had been entered. MRS. O’BERRY PRESENTS GOV, 1 McLean Telia Han— Department of Woman’s Club of Hia . Beliefs RALE [OH. Feb. 17—OF)— In an ad dress here today Governor McLean de clared "I sometimes become impatient at the charge *nmanatlng from one or two individuals that we are giving tco much attention to budgets, balauce kneels and other business methods In the administration of government and that we are Inclined to overlook the spiritual values of life.” i He addressed the American Home I Department of the Bute Federation of Women's clubs. Mrs. Thomas O'- Berry of Ooldubona president of the frtate Federation Introduced him. “I am more concerned with the aplr ttual progress of North Carolina,’’ said the Governor than 1 am with any mere matter of giaterlal progress. I reaT.se. however, thst we cannot develop our services of government Involving -ag they do the necessity for larger sums iof money to carry them on unless we husband |pur material resources.” A -- ■ ■■ ■ ■- - ■ ■ ■ FOOD SCHOOL HELD WASHINGTON—(API—LocaI leaders fiom every organised club In Wash ington county attend the food lead ers shool held hers teat week, Miss Vlolst Alexander, home agent, reports The school was conducted by miss Mary E. Thomas, nutrition specialist at BtAte college. At a meeting of the county dbuneil last week. It Was voted to take up this Work as the major project for all the clubs. The council also entertained thfe 1 • commissioners and board of education at this meet ' Ing Fund for Radio ior County Home Has Reached $61.60 Through coin* Inadvertence the !»tory of the rise of the fund for the Radio for the County Home waa left out In yesterday's Issue of The News hut It wasn't because there waa a scarcity of donations. The people are meeting the worker with a smile of welcome, expressing their eager de sire to give. At least a doseu have said If the amount they gave wasu't if GOLDSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1928 '• X Iff RESOURCES DISPLA V FOR EXPOSITION INDICATE WIH WAS KILLER 1 TWO DEATHS IN : TWELVE HOURS | Mrs. E. C. Cobb airi W. M. Rieka Os Fuemant Will Be Boriod Today > / . (Special To The News) FREMONT. F*& 17-Twlcs within twslvs hours today did the death angel strike and tomrrow, Saturday February 11— a fuueral will be held at S o'clock and another at 4:00 Mrs. E. C. Cobb, about aUty years of age. died at her home here Thurs day nigh£*at II o'clock following an illness of two days with paralysis Three weeks ago today her daughter Mrs. Claude Griggs died following n long. Illness. Mrs. Cobb Had labored long ehd Incessantly with her daugh ter and the greet egre she gave her If thought td have undcrmlued her he%lth. Bhe hadjjot been out since Mrs. Or lag's death?\ Bhe Is survived by /tier husband, E 0. Cobb, one daughter, Mrs. P. W. Smithl«on. of Rocky Mount, and two sons, Edgar of Charlestown, W. Vs., and Robert of Edgecombe county. W. K. and J. L. Bryan of Wilson arc brothers of the d« ed and Mrs. A. R. Morgan of Go.-sboro Is a sla ter. Funeral will be conducted from the home at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon by Rev. R. fc.. Pittman, of the Metho dist church here, and the paator of the deceased: Interment will be In the Fremont cemetery. «W. M, Kicks. 63, died at her homo here title morning. He was forme.)/ conected .with the. Ricks Hardware company es Frenjpnt hot . his health In recent years had been such that he had not engaged In any regular buri **eg, Itr. Ricks Is survived by his widow, three sons, Floyd, !<etter gn ( j Edgar Ricks of Fremont and out daughter Mrs. G. B. Pearce of Fremont. Fun eral will be from the home at 4 o’- clock Saturday afternoon by Rev. J. C. I books, of the Free Will Baptist church. Unrlsl will be In the Ricks family burying ground three miles north of Fremont. e CORDON POTEAT MAKES ADDRESS <> , * C , 1.l . —— ■ , ** A Telia Student Volunteer* That World Needs Stalwart « Christians v* . DURHAM. Feb. 17— -The world has never more “needed well trained purpoeeful end stalwart Christian -leadership than today” declared Gor don Potest educational secretary of the student volunteer movement at Duke University tonight at the open ing of the annpal conference of Stud ent volunteers. ' World missions wl|F be the theme of the conference which Is to last through Sunday. Students from 30 ' North Carolina colleges and unlveral ties are present. 1. S. CONXjI, KFSItfNH i t WASHINGTON .Feb. 17-Express ’ Ing dissatisfaction with admlnlatra t tien ou tlie Rogers act, governing pro i motions In the foreign services, Tracy Lay, U. E. Consul General at Buenos Aires, has submitted his rsltgnation. 1 »nough to come back for more. En thusiasm Is too small a word to com pass the feeling of the good folks or Ooldsboro far this way of showing ihe people of the Home that they are with them Contributions received at the News, or by members of the staff. , (Continued On Cage Three) i MWMO—SW jd. Gatlin Tr;ial I In New Turn I —— Mrs. (Willin WM Go On Stand „ Te Dtmy Coafaootoo Aa Told Bjr Hfrdue WENTWORTH, FelL 17— Alma Gaflln will tall the wltneas stand tomorrow to l«A the testimony ol Rev. Thomas P*r«s| that she con fessed to him the a«| murder of her father. Smith Petty. t Annonnceraent that Mrs. Uatltn would take the stand waa made by P. W. Glldewell, chief defense attorney after the state rested Us case this afternoon Often three day* of testimony and cross examination during which the mifiiater related |m the Jury his story of the alleged con fession. * Mr. Glldewell made no other an nouncement In regard to hla plana bnt S possible o trend of the defense caae was Indicated today during cross ex amination of Mias Mary East, a train ed nurse who attended Mp. Smith Petty who died last March. Glldewell asked Mlse East If she had not seen Mrs. Gatlin endeavoring tp get her dy ing mother to make a dying confes sion. . . * Mrs. Petty died Mgreh 9, after her li us hand had disappeared in Decemb er 1936,, Miss Bast who had been on the stand tor the eUte In the morning was recalled this Afternoon. “Did you not see Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin priWd’Wf r-other wae dying and beg her to con fcU|r * Hk * d Mr ' Glldewell Sol'c'lor ('nv'i ‘Mutedlately object ed toiler-.!.'d .11 'ft r.M» vTci , • explained that h> held the quest'on. Improper bceauae the only “way t)ui/ It could he used Is for it to be used in corroboration of evidence given by the defendant herself. Glldewell countered that he Wanted to ahow that the defendant went to a doctor, learned her mother was about to die and tried to get h#r mother to confess by telling her of her con olt lon. * Pardue and ‘ other state witnesses have related In testimony about little , ihihEi lirlnit nkLumHW"* 9Willt Hie house and I want thle to go trf'the Jury Glldewell Bald. 1 O CHICAGO AR ARllftl TIK I|KKI. I'EAJUT SHOW IN lilt EMBER KINBTON, Feb. 17—The 1938 Na tional Peanut Exposition will be held In Chicago December 1-1. ' l The East Carolina 'Chamber of Commerce announced today It had awarded the exposition to the Windy CJty over Kansas City aud Virginia and Carolina bidders. PHYSICIAN IS NOW ON TRIAL <. - Charge Conopiracy on Part of Doctor to Gain Control Os Fortune ANGELES, Feb. 17 tdnJWht ' days before the sack tru*sej|/o«(ly of Mrs. Amelia Appelby waa found by a lonely roadaldg her business manager Dr. Chaa. McMillan, made arrange ments to rent the wealthy widow’s honse, C. L. Bennett, a state witness testified at the physician’s murder trial today. It was on December 18, said the witness that Dr. McMillan arranged, ) for the rental inf the home of Mrs. whose death the state charges waa tha result of a plot by Dr. McMil lan to gain control of her estate. A neighbor of Mrs. Appelby tesltfied , that on Friday December 21 he heard a violent quarrel next door with a ’ woman’s voire screaming and raving.. * Then he eald he saw Jjie woman, and Dr. McMillan come to the back porch 1 of the home where she ordered the < Ikb-ctor off the premises 111 a loud ™l<e. „ , SLIGHT BRUISE CAUSE OF DEATH Blood Poteou Developing From Bruioo Cauooo Dooth of Young Mark Welia Mark Weld "Jr., son of Mr. aftj Mrs. Mark Wells of Greene county, who formerly resided here, died at DJO yesterday morning from blood poiaou developing from a alight bruise on the hand sustained In an automo bile accident. ,* The funeral service was held from the home of the parents on the old Goldsboro-Hnow HUI road at 4 deblock yesterday afternoon aud a grant crowd of friends wgre lo attsndanc# Murtnl waa made In burying ground near the home. A week ago the past Hunday young Wells' automobile turned over aiul hf sustained min/- bruises about the hand and cuts about face. HU tpjur taa were considered as of a superfic ial naturd and scant attention - was paid to thorn. Ho continued at hit work for several days and* then waa bothered with a severe Inflammation about the hand which had been Urule ed Physicians were summoned and pronounoed the cnee blood poison. 'The young man was a brother of Kirby aud Luby Wells of this city and Mrs. Dave Montague and Mrs. K. W. Pate. HU father Mark Welle, is a prominent farmer living un the old Goldsborwaoow Hill road aad nhont 16 miles from . here. v •- - - . - ' BANKER PRAISES NORTH CAROLINA Cincinnati Financier Says Btato Highways Bast Ihvcntawnt Ever Made CHARLOTTE( Feb. !7-(/P)~North Carolina U recognised throughout the Middle West aa the single American state, the ipiusual prosperity < of which— tuna** almost entllrely from within, declared Charles N. Evans, .i luiiaimi'ri nsMnSF^smsras— Uay with a group of other attend the meeting of group nine at the State Rankers Association. .The visitors arg making g. tour of the state to observe Its financial and Industrial resources. “The 1120.e00.00e I believe it U. the rtate spent on roads U the beet In vestment the state ever marid,” said Mr. Evans. \ CHAMKERIJNIS ON WAY AGAIN Has Rebuilt ’Midget Plane and Will Continue Lecture w Tonr .; CURTIS FIELD, N. Y., Fah. 17ir td*)—Clarence Chamberlin announced tonight he would take off at dawn ti morrow on the second leg of his na tional lecture -tour after delays Jor re construction of his irfidget biplane up set hts plan to start today. Chamberlin flew his craft for a half hour this afternoon and later pronounced It. ready for the hop to Macon. Oa. where he Is scheduled to speak tomorrow night. City Merchants Association ' " Still Stressing Credit List The Increasing service which tl»r merchants association Is rendering Hs member* I* shown In the Febru ary bulletin of the Association issued yesterday'by Miss Mary Hberard, Sec retary. The Association rootlnue* to <mpha*fse Its credit rating service, and during the months the lint on file itas been tripled. . "The fact that approximately half I His Organ Grinding Is forever Silenced NEW YORK. Feb. IT- (AV-Psa nlea showered down from the win dows of the east side when. Rubinn Tuteturo played hts organ lo the narrow street but K was aomethtna laore elusive than money for which Rttbino played. - When police broke Into his room today they found that Ms bank book showed a balance of 84.48,900 piled up pennies of three score years add flvs aad yet Ru blno had been so dissatisfied with Hfe that he had.left It voluntarily, Police opened the windows to clear the place of the gas on which Rubins had drifted away from the world of hand organa, and clinking pennies end children dancing on the sidewalks and they could find uo clue to Indicate why KbSlao had chosen death. „ * ■ POWER LOBBY IN LIMELIGHT Sack to Find Out Vucto of UUM* tigs Lobby MatoUinod to Washington WASHINGTON. FSb. ]#-<#>— Aa the Federal Trade commission prepar ed today to carry oat Use Senate’s mandate to Investigate public utili ties, a quiet movement for aa Invaa* tlgation or the power lobby la the na> UoaaJ capital was put aader way la the legislative body. Senator Norris of Nebraska, Repub lican Insnffsnt, sponsored, this went, which gained the Instant sap port of a number of senators oa both rides of the chamber. They'-regarded the importance ot thla Inquiry as sec ond 6hiy to one of the utilities them selves and said speedy action waa im perative. . ' - -** l " ■' 1— 111 DEATH CHAIR GETS DEVLIN o Is Final Words, Negro Confess ed Another Murder; Kilud “Insurance Man” m-SLAUEiQH Fbb. 17—0P1 —Dave Dev lin >3. South Carolina negro who wenr the way of a convicted slayer Id State prison slectrk- chalrHoday aad who had prevlonaly confessed to guthori t'ss tbs murder of one mas and parti cipation In staying In another, unbur dened his mind ot still another killing while In communion wUb splrtuai ad visors Just before the last march to death. He went to hts death asking martyr of Ood and expressing belief that soc iety was doing right in taktag hts life. , . , Devlin paid the death penalty for the murder last year In Rowan coun ty or deputy Sheriff Yarborough. Re cently he appeared In Charlotte to lay the blame for murder of a Char lotte men on John Clyburh, negro, ad mitting having been with Clyburn at the time the white man waa elaln. Today he told five negro ministers who conferred with him that he had kilted e “life Insurance man” where and when the crime occurred Devlin did not say. Officials tonight were without any definite clue aa to who the Insurance man waa, that the negro said he had -killed. of our membership has promptly rat ed the names supplied In our qumt lonaire leads iis to believe that thi ides meets with their approval. W< would like to have any or all of out members offer us any suggestion that In their opinion would he way to build up our refsrnce files than the system we have used during (Continued Op Page I). j ti^ESpnol PRICK FIVE CEI9TB 'i - " Forestry and Game Stressed . State Depart arant as Csnainra* lien WfU Hare Ckargaaf TWa Fsatnai The luura Carolina BqwidN, to y to held at JMptose tto wuuk ed * April 0, will tor* tto aaat oamptata d tap lay of natural raaourem tkat kps toan uMmbM lac any an ah pru*t* oaa event. Aaauranoa of this display was (tto an, whan Wade li Phillips, dirsilpr of tto Department at Cwi iwttoi and Paratopaiant, ptadaai to It. C. ' Bartlatt, eec rstnry as »to Bagtasw Carolina (hantor at Cnmgl|«h l)H service as kia department Is saaStoM lag and putting an tto dtaptoy. Two of tto aklat features at tto exhibit of raaoarsdo wttl to fsrgetry - and tame. The forestry exhip wtS conaiat of a layout of a forest, atop* ins contrasts totwaaa protaatad fpsto and those that are covered to dip* •inactive forast traa; toola that spa Ufttod in ndMhilltii Hi Bk ** wow aan ■* ■ Wg^Ur mon"; and vividly ltluatrUad paatofS pointing out tto' damepm HwpdKl about by Area; prtated ■slttolS touching on foraat cause rvstioui gpd actual apecimona of hurnod truss. , Tha (an* diaplay will MtoiSt fggt* Ijr of mounted aurtmippg of tto BMP Ji typical birds and animals to wjpJ state. rail aamratinh ts *. p Brtmley, diraetor sad Hairy T. Bast* curator, of tto MMa tea Tha annual mngtasns ttoaf. St* rector Phillips indicated, which air sad utiliantioa as these fgstors to tto State. * . \ _ ‘ ( , CH URCH KEEPS j ITS BIRTHDAY Grant Crowd at Aaaaal MMit At PratototnrlujClnrcto Deeplte a torreatlel dowapswr. *S at the g*t>to-«attor meeting as tto First Presbyterian church celebrating Its seventy third aaftremary. top moating was told In tha Sundey aehtot annas and startad at 1 o'clock la tto arantng. PreTlona announcemeat that bdSrto* rue Warms County's epeetal dish, would he eerred on this naoaalaa brought* a multitude of eburah mem bara and friends of tto eharalMtaplS (to beery down pans es rain. % . Her. Peter Malalyre. the mpto*P ened the serrlca with tlmaly sad par* tlent remarks on the otnailaa, aad called the roll at tto Uealto of tP church who had died during tto yant, them. to HM- fc» Tandel. and ibefWfofluwnd a ailtgM fui muatcal program. Little Miss* Cornwall gars a rlsUp •election and Mrs. John Mortis snag. "Mora Light la tto Mora tug". Miaa Caraway than sang a solo and Mrs. Morria rendered another selection. Supper was announced In tto din* Ing room of tto chnrah shortly pgM was an orderly scnuuhdl for tto beua ' t tf ul barbecue and chlckea aappar which tod been prepared. Announcement tod toan map that jPcollection would to mad* hr tto l«u»e of mieetona and ottor chnrah actlrltly and n large woodaa ham which those attending filed, wan pine ed to receive the envelopes with af* faring*. And there was a ahewar as the envelopes that fllled tto tog, umi roriTUßfu l CJIEt IS VICTIMPir CAM«|! 9VMUCI JONESBORO. Feb. tM»»—Osnasr naually thought of by laymen as an elderly person's dlaenae. today had claimed tto life of Louis, fear yaar old daughter of C. B. Boaaar, of naar. . ' IT-J
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