. WEATHER
.
Generally falx Friday sad Saturday ex
oegt local Utuadershewers Saturday
in extaaase west portion.
VOLUME SEVEN; NUMBER 123
LOWENSTEIN’S BODY IS FOUND IN ENGLISH CHANNEL
WEBBTOWN IS
VICTORIOUS IN
PLAY CONTEST
Final Count la Webbtown 39, Ki
wanis 37 In Playitroßnd
Competition
30C WITNESS SWIM ■ C<>
CARNIVAL AT POOL
Kl.a4blt.yvrm.nl (.roup iJ
Winner in Dramatic Contest
Wit* Ptae Tree"
: Th* Wnbbtown playgfoum won a
clotely contented play (U) at the
renter y#*t*raa> afternoon,
the final rntynt showing Wtbbtowu 39,
Kiwanli 17. Some three >ud *<l ' ll
dren and adults attend 'd the con
test and tha water carnl’rn! held at
the Presbyterian pool
la tha dramatic contest the Kiwadhte
'" ' 0 ’ |T
center, producing- "The Ptne Tree"
won the Judges rteclslot i«t Ihe
Webbtown entry "The House In the
Woods” Both plays were rendered ex
cellently.
In the athletic events and, the tour,
naments Webbtown displayed super
iority throughout, winning five of the
six events. Allle Derr eet a record in
rope Jumping clearing thfc "fTythg
hemp four hundred and fifty times
end then quitting without a miss
« net as cu atpyWWnrl n“
Other winners in the contests were:
fifty yard dskh. Dewey Jeanette; mum
plepfg. Deway Jeanette; borsesheee,
doable. William Rocbell and Charles
Hinson; standing broad Jump. Jack
Qplbreth; runlng broad Jump, Charles
Hinson; horseshoes, sluglcS. Charles
Hinson; jsekrock contest. Atllle Roch
ells.
The wstsr carnlvsi attracted an
I’rmense crowd of youngsters. There
were ten events, including several
open, numhars Mr.yc maa the
ousts tiding star of the water evenUf,
winning two first places, one of them
coming in the unlimited rouf?at tor
girls In the twenty-five yard dash
Other winners were: twenty fivs
yard dash for boys under twelve,
Morris Hale and Robert Grantham,
tie; a hundred and fifty yard swim,
Jrck Gllsson; diving for hoys’under
twelve. Charles Rogers; dlvug sor 1
boys, unlimited dess, Billy fttirnnons; :
twenty-five yard dash, boys from 12
to Id. Jack OMason, twent'y-fivo ward '
dash for girls under IJ, JUove. I
‘wenty five yard dash girls, unlltfilted
o'asa. f/oulse Move; twenty five yard
dash, boys, unlimited, lister Gllllkcn
Following tha contest all children
present who hadn’t taken part In the
contests wers given s hour's swlmlng
period. 1
Letters Show What Clinic ~
Will Mean To This Section
What ths Goldsboro rllnlc of tn*»
North Carolina Orthopedic, rllnlc will
mean to ths' parents ot aou>e crip
pled children la indicated In letters
to the Gastonia hospital, copies or
Lionel Well TtMiee letters —one fro*
which h»TS peen received here by
some \t miles from Goldsbarp and
the other from some 50 miles from'
Goldsboro —say that children wnoi
hare had treatment at «>Jie Oaat»nt«i!
hospital cannot be takvi back ror
chat rvatjon because the money rot j
the trip cannot be procured. With
the clinic for Eastern f'.orth Carolina 1
>n Goldsboro they bill be able to sp-1
pear here for examination
The ftr*t clinic will be held at the
Memorial Community Building July |
1R with Dr. O. .L. Miller, chief *nr-j
Reon of the Gaatonli hospital. In
charge Cllnlca will be held here earn
•uccedlns month for the next year
and It la considered probable that In
the end a (ranch of the Gastonia hos- ;
pital will be established hi re
The sum of |7.o<Hl has been provld
cd"Jorally to. support the clinic here
A trained worker will be matntalned
hue and a hot.u «rur 1 foi thy rllu.
P
From a. point i. 12 miles
THE GOLDSBORO NEWS
READ IN THE MORNING WHILE MINDS ARE FRESH—READ BY BUYERS BEFORE THEY BUY.
Investigating Death of Baby
General Obregon Assassinated
I ~~ L g
* v '.a l »Jfc
Hr k : t > SHH
■k tI \ ► J
I y*|m S y J i
fl Iks V jyi rAMl 1 I /
■ 1- 11 VI 'mfdmr- SdAJf B
aim.- M v^
Bearing a charmed life op a doien battlefields,
General Alvaro Obregon, president-elect of
Mexico, was shot to death ag he sat among his
friends at a banquet in the Rtfle town of San
Angel just outside the gates of the capital. On
the pretext of submitting several of hhr draw
ings, Juan Escapulario, a cartoonist, ap
proached and sent seven bullets crashing into
us*' / ytv a revolver concealed under a hat.
With Waving Os Cutlasses* Itlood-Thirsiv
Pirates .Sail IJpwn And Capture Goldsboro
COUNTY BUYING
MORE NEW CARS
iLasj; June 76 New Autos I’yr.
chained in County and Year'*
Ako Only 41
*
| Dcsplty the so-called “hard limes'’
raid to be gripping North Carolina
the rltlxexna of the T.«r Hoof State as«
buying more automobiles fhk year
liotu Umiv did la lU2J. Xlg utui t«-
I cased Thursday, In Kuleigh, by the
ptate Department of Revenue allow
I The report on sales of new cars in
Continued on page 2
trom Goldsboro ra-r.e thu> letter ' U
Dr. Miller:
July 2. n2B
Dear Sir:
"fUi-rwir j iTTfKTrff*nrTiii~rmi
1 would love to carry ii in up then
for Dr. Mi|l<>r to \i< him «• bp, ha'
done so much “o lit.»■ but 1 hanj*
the money. It » Mil i i. <• $ -:. ,un
) that I han't got. If you would coni'
j closer by so l c. il- 1 u > I v -uM !ov<
■ U go, hut cant no.v t'.'dcr the pro
1 x»c*ltlon, hoping to hat « m i return
I your’ trend."
The follow tue. letter I *i m a pf*in
i not-over 60 miles from Goldsboro.
j My Dear Miss McCollum:
1 Q
' 111 -I !•' etv l| > - .'jr I'll'! tin! it \ M
| u.» to send-'l) to your cjinle Julv .it!
Jor 12th. f would be so glad for l
to go and take the observation \V
have had unavoidable roy.i«...
and over »nd we are not fliratu ially
able-to sefld him; I asmii. Voifthnl !
, not for the lack of lntere.»| or /ippre
I latien that he does not come for
j certainly do appreciate everythin
! you have done for him In the p >sl
1 ,Mnd w;ish be could take < very oil ei
vat lon that you wopld. aivcr—hike t
ejve him And If It didn't cost ns any
i thing to get him there, ije wo: i |]
i, (Continued Qn I'ase Three)
Wi'lminjctuniany Given Glad.
Hand as Tliey Stop in Grids
t boro FerlShort Tin>e on (rood
) Will Till# of Thit Part of
State.
PRAISES HOSPITALITY
EXTENDED BY THE CITY
By JOHN D LANGSTON
i| With tltn screaming of the
I tooting of whletlee. and the ringing
ri of bells the Feast of the Pirates" moL
'jggadi *p>ept urtu ljt.Mdibncu jtuytgr
• day afternoon at 5:20, htttiSvA guatd
of three motorcycle*. Tin- motorcade,
l iindir the leadership of Dr. (]. G.
| Speer, chairman . i the motorcade
f-et-mwJUmt, stag cutipoaed Os twenty
”4 five cats' a< cording to Dr. Speer, sev
en! having dropped from the pro
cijshlon In Kinston, to go on directly
I lain Wilmington.
1 A welcome committee made up of
Mayor Jack Hill. L. A. l.aney, chair
J j trail Os the Wayne county board of
1 commissioners, Walter Denmark, soc
. jnt»rv of t!ic fiildsb’ito ( If,iTill er I
* ■ Mini i' :n! 'i . . i of hr fa went
ur on Ihe KTii -lou I Tiliw a j To “nietT
» the- eelvicade, and emor* tin in Into
t t! c i ') I pon teaching Cen -street,
t the parade, of snadtVy eofn.— 1 p4'»et*-
ft ihdeu »'i!i ou.l' le . sped d ij to (he
i "rtier of Center and Chestnut Street ,
(j where the lead ear of the pro-' *~jofi
•• halted As the pirates swung d' f *n
i from' the cars, a group of Oo| *itw>ro
edia«nt rushed forward, and tn v
1 (£°V- S tyere Soofi made to feel
were .mc
Dr Speer In commenting on tt)e
t welcome the p»rty received, '■sill,
i th is tlie kind of thing that, h' lp
t '(, make n project a wares*. Wo
i' h ive M ' ved (tie kind of wch' in
r every town we have parsed through
l and this plilt of got.nl fellowship and
* ro')pcra<lnn goes far toward m*kln*
c ' ii- .'i in. kind of. undig: t 1 1. a
| .We hope t ' tin! e this vc,«! '• Pm i ..f
g lip- ITratea a bigger and better oq>>
t. (ban ever before.” Tlytn J»e *<ided
, |'*e have alio tdy mote, over" a ban
o dred re'enratjops f«r people while on
rhi« t-lp ’ ' 1
A ft' i .' -i ■•■ il hand having hi th'
' vX'onUnuod, oir paga 2
Above an intimate photo of the martyred
president-elect and his family, taken in the
garden of beautiful country estate. In
addition to the general and his Wife, It shows
their five children, I. to r.. Humbor, Alvaro. Jr./
Alvita, Mayo and Refugio. The full-length
study at the left is a recent photograph of the
one-anued leader, as is also the portrait at the
fight.
ZONE MEETING
OFKIWANIANS
Gpldsboro Club Will Be Well
Represented At Wrights-
villi Conference
Itpnre .entntivi # -.i tar (WtUbtiM
Klwunls club xlll co today to Wil
mington to take part In 4 xofle meet
log of Klwunls 1 iui* Twelv org.ini
, v n ioua .u fihtfr pArt rs Hit -.Yliv'.i :Viil
be represented at ’.he if
•I..tdu * u ih )
of ( lull problem)- I ; "I»ie« tkg s will
j.'ove a feature'of tin meyrng at
as an
nouucrd by F. r. Spruill, lieutenant
'’’ „ # ft '
vdverilor of Jiock 1 Mount.
Mr. Spruill's a >;i<• 111 u tin id show's
that John-.luiiKon of New Bern, wilt
discuss a M\rlmuni Altendanci”; A.
II Kerr, of iioldsboro. "('lull Fro.
1 cams" Felix Harvey of Kinston;
■'l'ommittec Funrtlons''; W. ||.
Monlgomt- y. of Vi|ni ingtonV “Dofl
..n»<• OM'Ctlves”: c n Rowlett of
tireenvllle, "Relationship of Zone- to
(Continued on pag'd two!
■' ’
7 Cases Diphtheria
IP
Reported In 2 Days
n'evcii case 4of diphtheria have
, been reported at .tin" beallh de
Mituieui In tin last two days Five
v'ainfi li,ldicn of Del l Parks, ne.
gress living near Rosewood, and
tlu negress herself have the din
i "e- 'I he mother of these children
Is ill in a tiiliercnlar Aiospital. and
tin fattier died with tuberculosis
. > lit .1 >l,l!' ago A f.ve VPansold
Phillips child of the city also has
diphtheria and Mark t'andi II o
Indian Springs .township was re
ported a» siif.'erliiK from the same
Double. This Is 'an uuusuaHy
large number of • ase• of this con
tag, >u. disease for the lime of
year of those 111 had ever
taken (lie Ini in u ni/.t l lon for (he
dl*-oii<e.
GOLDSBORO. N. C. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1928
MICHIGAN FARM
YOUTH RELATES
STRANGE STORY
Unwed Mother I,eft Child. Hop
inir Her !*arent« Would Find
It And Keep U™,
YOUTH SAM MOV KM’NT AND
DASHKO STONE INTO BOX
What He Had Feared Wan Snake
Waa Three.l)a> Old Baby,
Born Out of Wedlock
* - r ■
BRONSON. Mich, July -
The story of Che killing of a three
i lay it old baby, after H had been
Ti) nw timrert mother *t tfce ta»HMn4
her parent* In the hope that they
could Rive the child | home, wiw be
liir Invest Ig.tted by here to.
night . \
The ha by was kllleti by Ward Wes
•el, 11l w.hn told pol|ce lie „„w the
form move In u cartjbotird box tit
which it was left by the mother, then
tliioUpK. It wan a intake hurled a
I:.rge stone Int" the 1 tmpfovlscn ciW
•t'le.
The tragedy occurred-et the farm
home of John Bloom,- when Wessetl
iHu io the tonHk * “ ’ f ■
Police toduy obtained an admission
from Mlm Marie Bloom 1», a
ter of the family, that the child wa*
Lora to her Monday njfhl. Rtow
ifie iiit »111 it\ an orchard. *fie ula! and
hi pi the lilrth secret from her par.
flit*
laist nlßhl. aecordtni to the ftrl.
nlie placed the bnhy In a driveway at
lhe home. hopinß the parents *vß*l
see 11 when they returned from a
hand eonci ft. .
k Members of the Bloom family tola
officers they s»y the bo* but drove
arnnnd It w ithoafi |nve*t|gu
i,on Wes set following the Bloom »»-
tr mobile, saljl lie gtnpped, went up
to the bn* and saw a,large stone oh
the covey. Inside was say.
■ I «a« something moke,** he rontlnu
cd ‘t thought It wus a snake, a;* i
took th* stone and'noshed It as hard
'At ’
,'ih I < 011UI ”
Os rider* tonight, declared they
uyulil cnnllnue Investigation before
aelTiig an Inquest” ”
SPEEDERSPAY
BEFORE MAYOR
.4-. .. .
Three Vinlalors of City Speed
I.a wx Tried in City Court
\ —terdiy «*
A total of five cases, three of which
Were speeding 1.1 Vs-r dl*|»"Sefl
■■f In city, cmirt at I, he regnhir Thttrs
day scihlou yesterday morrllng before
jiix honor, the Mayor, The frequency
til s|h edlnc. eases In the city courts
session* of the p.isi few weks is said
to Ire a rc-nlt of * vlgourou* cant
lialgn a; I'tist viol.i'ors, "f »lit* spied
IHK tawarinnKtrdw r vpcrlrd that-«nr
result of this "tightening up - ' on
Speeding there will soon be air evld
est 'tekgt>n(*a of «*»< ntfmtnsr «r ■ gy
fii'TirWbtftff,twr~rpe*B xtnes ~ •
Tin (■dlrm.iig i'Ssi'-i were tried and
disposed of yesterday.
Vernon •Cttuart. while, paid affine
of five dol|ar« and the cost tin •
eh" r t!'- of speeding an automobile
.1 .ii k Unr. white, charged * jwlth
pending an automobile, was ti t ofl
■viih the payment of the euhf»eui Jf
war hie fit Ml offeu.,e.
Will,am I’ipklu. colored, paid five
nolllgrs and the costs on a charge of
speeding an automobile
The man,tree of the local Jtelk and
Kflrd department stores were assess
ed with the i-osts on a charge or vlo
lutUrg the Mdvertislng laws ll was
said that the signs and banner* dis
played in front of the stores,*era n»t
-(l.»pla.vetl In accordance with tta art
m i using oidlnam es >T tie eitv f..t< it
of these stores «re st present having
' h' v t nniiiul lie, , and ■he hannei v
■ td.lu llrtrti ing tlwMleS were the
i nrs referred, to la the charge.
Belgian Millionaire
Identified By Wrist
Watch That He Wore
Under Love Ban \
■-1 ■
Hr* R
\nt - ; iH
a. , ■
' ■k < I
J ‘W
Ogden Goclet, young Harvard
graduate, who, it la whispered
along Park avenue, was the
subject ot a recent tete-a-tete
between his father and Miss
Louise Gruody, musciai com
igy wgrCwwp will aHwiPt
to have declared his intenttpn
to cut off his son without a dol
lar in the event he married the
pretty actress. She declined to
discuss the itory befgrj she
for i vacation abrojqT ~
STORM SWOOPS
INTO ILLINOIS
Four Perannit Killed and Proper,
ty Damage WtH Run Into
ThouMUids
CHICAGO, July is- Mh—Four p«r
..un* urp dead and hundreds of thou*
and of dollar* worth of crop* gud
property ruined a* the result of wtiftl
uni rain storm which sw-mpt north,
i usf Ulllrtuls today.
The wind, which at time* reached
a velocity of 64 mile* an hour, blew
'lie man from a roof to his death »nd
Dew dpwn u high tension ilectrle
wire on another, electrocuting him
A woman golfer was killed by light
ening and a man golfer was killed
by lightning in liermond. I ml., a sub.
iirh. “ i
.'Hiousssdw; nf e»4t*r« - **r» fkiwl»4
liy the heavy rains. Lightning darnag
iil nine hou 'o* in t'hleaga alone Hall
road traliiK were delayed as ifitlch as
H mlnulm In the fhlcugo territory.
District Co-Op Members Get
SII,OOO And Something More
Member# of the North Carolina Cot.
ton 11 rower* Cooperative Association
/ Wayne. linpjtn. Lenoir and Wilson
county'got more than the 611,606 due
•nn» in fiha) seUlement Hit ITi# ita
sonal pool of lust year at the district
•reefing Ikii) .ill the i ourthou*^v!»^ds
tii'U.n aiiciuuiis /tltrr'iot Word that
•in August I ui 4 Uli lu Ihe arr.rm.6n
Utev arc to - he entertained at a dta
;trie I Imrbeeue ;il_ Uim Wayne County
Fair trrmiuil* They gpt further word
tbu( front thi* distance the full price
lor lolt m look pretty good. *’*
IL B Blalmk, of Raleigh, general
uaugirn of the 4*KocJ»tlon, handed
ou the checks tritallng lll,on and die
mu <Hi;ht |ir"uno»tic.itlng as to
prices thU fall as he,told, the mem-
I Crs. utnoit 1 1*0 strong. Just how well
the • in »a* getting along.
ick -iid that If a IS.ItOO.’JOOI
b.‘ie crop were made tbl* year the
| rice would probably average 23.6
rent* anil that It a 1 fi.OOO.OtIO hale
Cop was made the price would be
thout 2*» cents Mr Blalock said that
i.uriuy the |.<-i v.-.n-. item MitnpHoli
has amounted to ls.inhi.olMi bales •• i
Th' -•ati-th at Herytce-4l( tin* Am
crlfiii Cotton tlrower* Kschange/ of
which Hi- Noitii t'aroliua Association
is a iiicmbi r, said .Mr. Blalock, is
MEMBER OR
THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Badly Decompoaad Bdly p| Fin,
ancien— Who Lsaptd Krsn Plana
—Found By Flaking Snsark •
discovery put? at
REST HOAX RBPORTB
Exported Thai DkpadtiH nf
Es tat d May Now Ba
FactlfUtad
801 IAJNOK Brß.kfßß. V t SB* a,
July 19 rindlag teday of tpa
body of Catt y Alfred . LomaaaUla.
missing Belgian
lip most of the glia nunnery shr
ruuuding his dtsappeersnoe fidas a
cross channel airplane, July 4.
French and Belgian euthoritlea.
captain Lowenatelu accident ally fail
from the plane as It flaw, \M$ mat
over the KnalfJk channel or dptlber.
ilely wrenched open tba exit door
and plunged to hie death. Bat the ag
ly rumors that the fiDeader had per
petrated a gigantic heax end wagtiaft
alive were definitely set at reet ♦ *
The battered body was foand float
ing 16 miles off shore bp a Baalepe
(irhlng smock sad’was readily Idea
rifled by s tyrlst watch engraved "Gap
t*in Leweneteia, 11 Rat da la BMeaM
unrecognisable as It tna la *M sd
vaoced stage of decomp*elftda
One Os the first rssalu as today's
I ud will be to permit immediately tae
preliminary *ot% of wtadhif *? th*
v*et ctlte of BarepeNi fSI “tiya
taty” rii niirtrT ffd itahßiir raiala *
t*d undiscovered legal ptports spored
that It would be years before this
work could be completed aad that tWa
raptaln's great holdings woald ha
tiyd up Indefinitely. *
The tragic end of Captain Alfred
I ."wen si el n < auaed a soaaatloa that '
had echoes do the stock exchanges oil
London, Parts, Brussels, aad Ber
lin A policy inquiry la iVafwa do.
vekpode only that h|e valet
klenograpbern who ware acoampaay
fng him on the trip, noted hip dlaap
pearance’ when he failed. I*/ ratara
from a lavatory st the rear ad ty*
machine. They Tonad a doer pfaa aad *
’liter the ('aptalß'a cottar, aad tie was#
tound In the machine. ■ - ,
Surmise* as U> tk« tragedy raag.
*d rrom theoriea of aocidewtal death
to hoax. Members of Mm LoWeoateta
r imily and Initiate fHeads of the'
financier aterna*asly denied that M
had any reason to cdmmlt suietda -
Tba rimuag of. the hadar mitt sanm
to expedite settlement es the eetati
He wes a rittsen es Balglam aad Mm *
lawi of that country preHeda Sid
tf'kntlnued oa page two)
gradually beginning to get the do pa
rn what cotton may fc* expected to
do nest. Compilation es data aa to
price trend* la a comparatively aa#'
ru rut ton of ttw thnhgmpa, hot tt It
proving more inccaaaful the older tkt
experiment-- become#. aaid Mr. Mt.
lttlu Z **-■
Tl¥ ffmirtHl dWrlbuled yesterday
in final aettlement for aeatonal pool*
'or dlatrici member* la part of IK*.-’
WO being dlatrlbutad la North Caro,
line among membdra In the atata. Tha
euro doe* not Include aattlaaant far
the optional pool, under which tha
firm her control* the eelling data at
III* cotton..
The county unit of tba aaaoclatlna
waa rporgaulxed and J. D. HI net at
Hone wood tnada chairman, N. 4-
Itowell, vice chairman, and W. W. 4a
(’run secretary.
Crank Jotjee,»local manager, mad*
announcement about the district bar
becue to be held at tha Pair Oronada
here August 1 , at 4:SO In the altar,
noon Mr. Jonea told tha member*
that It »a« going to be a harbaepd
that would go down In bltUary aa ltd
P<wr of It* kijnd and that It would ha
for member* of the Cottyn aaaocld*
tlon only. He *ald to be on tha took*
, out for further detaila.