WEATHER Partly cloudy Wednesday, prececded by rala in anat portion Wednesday morning Thursday rair, rising Tun. VOLUME SEVEN; NUMBER 174 GOLDSBORO FEELS AFFECT OF TROPICAL STORM Number Residents Forced To * Leave Homes Account Rising Waters Oi Burdened Big Ditch MANY SECTIONS CITY FLOODED Popular Branch (’overs iMigh way 40 tinder 2.5 Feel of Water Qoldaboro yesterday egeprtenced the affect of the tropical hurricane which for more than a week now has laid death and destruction over a length of 2,000 miles In Goldsboro it was little more than rain, rain, rein and more rain. At 1 o'clock this morning 8 5 Inched Lad fallen in the last 23 hours and It soeipad that there was little prospect that there would be a let up until late today. Oldest residents could not recall an instance when a greater lain fall had been recoiled in one day During moat of yesterday the rain was merely rain, but from about 8 until 10 o'clock last night the down pour was accompanied by gusts which attained a velocity of 40 miles an hour. A number of residents aloifg the “Big Ditch" were forced from their homes last night as the water began to creep Into their doors. The Hfg Mteh at about 4 ©clock yesterday af ternoon ceaaed to be a big ditch, to be a creek. It became a mountain torrent tailed upon to bar off more water tban Its baijks could carry and rgse steadily until 7 o'clock last night. Then there was a respite and the water fell beveral Inch only to be taleed again begninlng about U> o'- clock. About Park Avenue there la (he appearance of a large artificial lake ibis morning. Where the i Ditch i roast s Ashe street there was as much s« two feet of m*dly rushiug water, and along E Walnut there wa* the same. At Klm street liie Ditch hail not broken from Its banks late last night. It was along the K. Walnut street gpot that most of the residents were criven from tbetr homes when the waters from the flooded branch begun backing Into the homes Mr and Mrs. A. Gordon abandoned their home and took refuge at y»e Hotel Golds boro and Mrs. Lillian Midgett and son did likewise. Others sought haven •with friends. Kdgewood Suffers The Kdgewood section was literally flooded torrential rain. Water 18 Inches deep back up along Kifst Walnut and the Kdgewood Grocery moved stortfs from off the floor and onto high shelves to esc»pe the lapp ing torrent. Ashe Street was practical Jy impassable near the Orphan's home On East .Walnut street a new Chevrolet coupe was drowned out when the water rose over the motor. It was covered to the seats. The News was Informed after It* driver aband oned it. Several Feet In Little Washington Uttle Washington, the. negro resi dential section. was under several feet of water. It wa* possible to ride on a boat through any slreel of the section yesterday afternoon. Stores In this vicinity were flooded. South C arolina street from the paxsenger aha t'.on presented the appearauce of a street in Venice. High nay Forty Covered Hlghwav forty south of the cfTV, i.ear the new count*? duh site, wm under water 2 5 feet last night, this from backing of Popular branch. The Atlantic Coast Line had stopped train, lium running over its tracks in the direction of Mt. OlfVe. Two watch men had been platted to keep careful check upon till! roadbed whtch was threatened by rising Cupular branch lacking agaltmt the railway embank meat. At Creucent L»kp, E W Rutledge labored all day yesterday in an effort to save the dam and belleved-st 10 o_ clock last night that thu had !<•’«•!? affected The flood a space fi by fi feet, had been entirely removed • t II o’clock yesterday morning. Ord lnarlly this gate will drain the lake Ir 3.5 hours Rut with the sate aide open hte lake continued ,to rise, anil At 8 o’clock last night the water was (Continued on pace two) THE GOLDSBORO NEWS READ IN THE MORNING KHILE MINDS ARE FRESH—READ BV BUYERS BEFORE THEM Hint Fla. Storm Toll Mount** To 250 iu KMdNVILLK. Fla. Sept. IN —(API The appalling extent of the hurricane dl>«hU r dealt *ec tlulls of Ike lower east rua.t and sunt hern and central Florida as sumed uu eve a widening scope lair tonight as reports from the stricken raens counted the known dead nt more than 2*41 and estlmnl ed damage to property far into the millions. With many reported missing, anUclpatloas were lhat the total death list would be much great er. 4, Red Cross offtctuls estimated that It woald reach 40 in Pal eonnly, one of the hardest hit * regions, alone. The same soiree placed the damage nt approximate!) g2.»,00t1. non while other estimates Inerens ed this fig a res to between tiV IMM.IMMI and UOIUSNMI.IMHI. JACKSONVILLE, Sept. IS —<>P) With a death list of 149 already re ported from the storm strick area (if Southern Florida fears water eg pres* ed today that It may reach 250. The list of Injured said Howard Selby, chairman of the l*alm Baeeh Red Cruw* may grow to 1000. property damage mounted. Selby was At the same time the estimates of quoted as ftxtug R at 825,000,000 alone in Palm Beach cminly and Senator J. T. Robinson said It was being ostlm iited that between 875.000.0(H) sod 8100.000,000 in the affected aren. The Democratic vice prSlßTeotial nominee made this statement on ar riving in Jacksonville after a trip through the storm ravaged ts rrltory. From the southeast, fcouthcrrn and immediate territory tiorderfug lake Dkwhotibee came reports tis death, suffering and stress, lteliel expedi tion* pcmruled the territory from Miami and wired b»ck for more aid for the homeless and helplesig. One hundred national guiardsmen were ordered to'the Palm Beach area for duty anil two hatterlea erymen were dispatched to lake Okeechobbe. Refugees In need of flood, clothing end medical supplies, wreck of horn ts and other sftuctnres, faced Red Cross and other workers to bent ev ery energy to succor the needy. JACKSONVILLE—DP) —V. L. Est er, division passenger agent of the Southern Railway sytitem. ssld today he had receivedtja report that the system's northbound **. ponce I>s Leon" which loft Jacksonville last night erralled ai Crawford, 30 miles out of this city. Mr, Estes said ho received no reports of the damage or number of person Injured, If any because telegraph and telephone llmw tot ween here and Crawford were dis ruptd. He said his Reports were that the entire train left the rains when the roadbed, soggy from uft-entlal rains, gave way. SAN JUAN. Porto Rico, Sept. 18— (A*> Nine rnmimnle*. of the Porto Rico national guard were called out this afternoon for police an dother du Lex In 23 towns of the-Island by Gov' H. M Towner, In addition 23 volun lerr reserve officers received Instruc tain* to proceed throughout the island emrgency supplies to the In habit.m?H, rn*ke plans for relief and also to survey the needs. ,yw* (Questions For Herbert Hoover ■o Mr. Hoover: If.lcivctcd: - 1 You »re going to re-appoint Andrew Mellon to c.iforco prohihl tlon aren't you? 2. You are going) to keep whito girls and negroes working togeth er In the depa ,'Uneata, aren’t you? , 3. Mr. Hoover* tell, my why. Here you're wet and tt»ere you're dry. , CAROLINAS ARE fN CRIP STORM Apparently Km-apt* Without Any Present Damage E»- cept Weeding tßy Asaoctated Pres*) The Caroliuas tonight were In the grip of the Hurricane that turned atide after penetrating Florida and causing many deaths hut apjiarently had escaped anything worao Hum a wettlpg aud some property damage. Central over Charleston. S. this morning, the storm hod p»*sed on up the coast, spreading inland and car rying down telegraph and tllephn** wires. Wind* that reached a velocity of from 40 to 6» miles an hour and whipped up heavy seas along the coaat weer accompanied by torren tial rqins Charleston up to late today had rainfall of 8 Inches nr more; Wll •nlngton reported 4.54 Inches of rain , In 20 hours, and point* incland re- 1 ported heavy down 1 fours with winds ranging from 20 to 35 miles an hour. From Charleston to Savannah. Ga., the eoast line was cut off from com munication with the outside world. The Western Union Telegraph com psny office at Charlotte was able to *ork intermittently with Charleston iind a dispatch from the Press correspondent at that placw void that some damage had been don* f) small boat* «nd piers and that I roe if had been uprooted II said that riport* from polnls south were men gre iHit, Indicated heavy damage be tween Beaufort and Savannah. Savannah escaped with little more than a hard blowfl according to a radio message from an Associated Press correspondent there. High tides with brisk winds were reported from Wilmington and New IJern on the North Carolina coast. Columbia. 8. C . was rut off from communication by a storm that waa reported to have etruck between Col umbia and Newberry Florence, 8. C. end Charleston. S. C.. still were cut Viff tonight. A dispatch from th« Columbia of fice of the Associated Press received 'ate today said that three were blown down and power and telephone pole* leveled In all aectlor* of th»t city. SOUTHPORT, N. C.—The htgh wind end rala which ntrpok this city today continued unabated early tonight. ■With the barometer rerfdUig 2!*.3u at ft oclock the wind were continuing at a velocity of 10 to 45 mile*. Tidewaters had backed up Into the itreet* Limbs, blown from trees were littered over teh elty and a 5 Inch rainfall In 8 hour* proceeding fi o’- clock bad caused some undetermined damage. All county and state roads leading out were under w»t»r The Wilmington Southport pg* senger steamer was unable to operate (Continued on Page Two) Federal and Sjtale Experts to Address Foresty Convention Bttpinnino 10 A. M. The lkth annual convention of the North Carolina Forestry AasociAl i u will convene in the Memorial Fom ntiinlty Building at 10 o'cloi k thin the first session of a thre" 1 day meeting which hr l r;s to Ool:*ehoro hundreds of those mterc.v .'d it the fore->t problem. a ini .• turn bar cf fo-cstry experts of the Slate inti rati >t a 1 government. The fir/t session will he h>-ltl •* the mej)fiorl!it_ (’• mmnnltv hnlid'ne it id nVlo« k this morning and the invo oatlort . will he delivered by Rev W O. Cone. Words of welcome will l*e spoken hr Mayor J. 11. Hill for the city and by 1,. A Haney, as chalrma i of the county bonrfd of county com mlsiHoners. Response la scheduled for I - M Barger, president of the Bar yer I,amber Compsny of Mooresvllle. Reporta are Bated from tha follow GOLDSBORO- N. C. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER I*. 1928 BAILEY OPENS CAMPAIGN 8 P. M. I OPENS CAMPAIGN jSMc" iPnMMIT* '' jfl 1 Ji - C* V, sßey*., J w. RAII.KY (Jreat Interest I* being manifest In (be appearance of J W Jlaißty of KHleigh In the courthouse at 8 o'clock tonight to open the Democratic iam paign In Wnyn* County- AYCOCK’S MIlF" DAM GOES OUT Fremont Reports Greatest Rata fall Since 1911, H Inches Hav inß Fallen To i l\ M. ((Special To The News) FIbKMONT, Wept. 18 The Incessant iiVtce lu*t night has wrought havi)h.,4o roads and bridge* in th* •lorihern part of Wayne county. Water ir running across the county highway 3 northeast, west and sooth of FVemont w:th many small bridge*.washed away The dam at Ayeock '* mill gave way north of the mill house this morning and it la reported that a break of 40 feet lias retried and the mill house is In danger. The damage to open cotton In the fields u very great. Very few people from the country have been in town today. Mot of those seen here came from Wilson, where gity went yesterday with tobacco. The storm sewer* over covered ditches In town of Fre mont have not been able to carry off the wuier und many of tfte street* are flooded for block* with piaclically all small l firfiTges washed away. One school truck was drowned in water ruiening acrosg th© rood just noi ot town Itils morning, the highway | leading out to Ayeock * < burch. Rural ! mall carriers from Fremont were | oliable Jo complete their route this j morning and will he unable to go out 1 tomorrow. No communication lias been had With Eureka, eveu by telephone j flnce this morning. j At 5p . tn. today It ts raining hard | > nbstdfeent 111 sight. Th* greatest raluKill previously recorded tor 21 hours wus 6.T5 Inche* ateiut 4 year* ago * " V ' ~ ' ■* lime officers'. President. (' J Harris ltd Hillsboro; secretary It. W. Orue j l.cr: chairman of executive commit tee. Joseph Hyde Pratt 9 Three addresses are on the hills for this "Farm Woodlands' tiv pr. r M./•Varburton. director of i iteuston service t T , ks. Bept of Acri culture. H H Cull Inwood. forester of the l/nerli'iin Forestry Assoctstion | l int .1. C,. K. McClure president of j the Fultiierw 1 Feslrnttinn Inr. j The afternoon ;(-'ion will Is yin nt j ijVltHk and J. A. HnrtneSs, Her :< tnry of State, will give the report I oi tht It ;: rt.itlrc tommHte. and will i tie followed by H. if. Curraa. vice j llsirnian. A demonstration In farm wisKlland values will be glvctl at Ills State Th» day's fceaaionj will end at 6 o'- CO-OPS GET FIRST BALE Hon. Is. D. Kohinnon of Wadew ',l»on» Repeats Hits Perform ance of Year Ago "The first bale of cotton received b) the ctitton cooperatives this acason Was delivered by Hon. L D- Riblu. Sim of Anson county.? Mr Kobinson, who served for five years adliec t"r of had tho 'nils, tlmllon of deliverlug tho first bale Inst year oil September 6th. "The cotton crop in this Bt<*«* is exceedingly late." said General Man ager Blalock “In the Southern -cun. ties the damage on aeeount of cot ton rotting In the boll* is extremely Jhcavy. This Is especially true with tank cotton AftJJ viewing th • de struction wrought by"ihe recent rams, wo are of the opinion that the last Gqvftrnment report of 870,01)0 bale* can easily be lowered by liHI.OOO hales" t Association officials are upH'nlstlc concerning the outlook for the A*, this year They state that the Association demonstrated Ita abil ity last year to operate satisfactorily to the membership with a limited volume of cotton and the Association now has fifty per cent more v cotton under contract that It had-at this time Inst year, and Indications are that the Association will receive a much larg. er volume of cotton thl* year- New members appreciate the Im proved service which th* Association is now prepared' 1 to render by which they can. through the optional pool, take advantage of the A**ool*t!on'» sales service anil otlll reserve th* privilege of ordering their cotton sold when they need thetr money even on the day that the cotton I* delivered- ASHEVILLE Ma 4 VICE CHAIRMAN Don H. KliuH Will Aid Col. I/u»K Hton in Cairn* of Gov. o Smith Don 8. Elimi, publisher of the Ashe ville Times, has been appointed vice (hulrman of the National liemocratio Veterans Organlxat.ion In North Oaro !ln* according to information receive ed yesterday by Col» John D. Langs ton, of Goldsboro, state chairman Ap ) nojpgmvnt of the lAsheVllle man man* that publisher* will direct the ruiFe of Governor Smith -among North'NL'arollna veterans. *e Cel. Langston is publisher of The News. High men are graduate* of Duke University and both served with die unction ft?r their country. General Henry T. „Allen, former Commissioner of the American Army of Occupation on the Rhyne. Is heading the nation wide movement among veterans on behalf of Gover nor Smith In North (’arolina (he plan will be to enlist the aid of veterans tu every city and town, explalirtng particularly wh»t Governor Smith hn* done to aid disabled Veterans In Ms four terms us chief executive In New York i lloapjfnl'tty Mr. tlarelnr »t 3:30 Itil* afternoon. i lilk InijtlklU with an llluatrated Ira lt.i« on■fffrrwfy tioldahoro people are i ordlaJly Jjivll« «t to all th«- aeaaloua. The mhvenllon will be continued Thiufday -anil Friday. KxhiMli Are Placed Our diaapperalng foreat rwerrtu and to reforest cut over land" Thero ' i;i*■ aer tirin'. of tree* lllu«tratlrfU the benefit* of thinning away defective ami uupromteln* plant*, allowing the Store thrifty to term* unhampered. One i,iii couat for mlxolf the rina* that mark* the uge of the trie from which the section was taken. One reitloti ».i* nit from a regular a rat heard of the fori -t- a sapling of a humlnd and. aixty *ix jrwura ago When It Mrrta*j Its climb toward the Cuutluued “u page threw STORM WARNING WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (A^—Tho weather bureau issued an advkhiry f-torm warning tonight reporting that the tropical storm was central ou the South Uuroltna coast and forecast ttiat it would pass out to sea tomor row morning near Gape Mutters*, N. C. ■* vo SMITH SPEAKS IN FARM BEIT Shown Wherein {*. O. I*. Huve Deceived Farmer; iMedirra Party 16 Farm Aid OMAHA, NSb-, Sept. 18 (4V- Levellng an attack on the Republican party his opponent Herbert Hoo ver, for their stand on farm relief, Governor AI Smith In the heart of the grain belt to open hla speech making campaign for the presidency that he stood k for the principal of the "McNalry Hau gen bill" twice vetoed by President Uoolldge. "What remalna of the MrUalry. Haugen bill 'Vs a mere matter of me thod,'” the I>emocratlc nomine* as serted In an address prepared for delivery Iti the auditorium here, "and J do myself to th* exact mechanic* and methods embodied. In that bill ’* * Just before making this declara tion, (jovernor Smith said; ‘Wfarlous people have attempted to misrepresent epd confuse my attl. tode with reaped ,to the McNalry* Haugen bill, I do not propose to leave the slightest d»ubt In any Mtfr** mind on tbit subject.'’ As I read ghe McNalry Haugen Mil. Its fundanenlal' putpoae is to establish an effective control oF Uie exportable surplus with lb# chsts Imposed upon ths commodity bene. fltted. "Ftir that principle the Democratic platform squarely stands and for that principle, I squarely stand- Mr. Hoover stand* squarely opposed to this principle by which the farmer could get the benefit of the tariff. "Kxpreaslng the view that "Hg|’s Is a dean cut lague with the far mers and voters of th# country must tUclde," the New York Governor re iterated that the details by wjilch tlilft principle shall be put Into es. fed alone remain to be worked out hnd he again pxofllsed. if elected, to name a non-partisan commission of farm leader* and students of the problem to determine the esact me. thod of relief- Governor Smith charged that th* Republli ana had violated their tllat forn. promises,- bad deceived the far. nier and had done "nothing whatev er to contribute in the slightest de. gree to relieve the distress or pro mote the welfare of the farmers.” Robinson Not To Speak in Atlanta JACKSONVILLE. Fls. Kept IB.— Senator Ju« T Robinson, late to. day definitely cancelled hi* speaking engagement In Atlatna tonight. Ar riving here hours behind jjche.lule, the Democratic vice presidential nominee wft„ advised by aviation of. tlrlals that it would be Impracticable to attempt a trip to Atlanta by air. because of weather conditions. The Senator will leave tonight for Bow ling Green. Ky , where he ha* an *n. gagement f»r an addree* tomorrow night r Fear Neuse Floods Will Bread Record That the Neu»a river within the next week will go to height* greater than'the flood of I»2S wan being generally predicted laat ht by thoae ftuuiiar with the antic* •of the atreutn Tliey pointed out that rain* such a* fell in |Mo|di*- bOffl yeeteritay and ,*urh aj were continuing to fall—had been genrr a) along the watershed of the river Thhs burden of water will not bo gin to reach crent or* the river here for a nurtther of day?. T|ie river furthermore, had not racecj ed to Ita normal depth following the flood of ten day* ago. MEMBER OH 7| THE ASSOCIATED ' I PRESS * | PRICE FIVE CENTO AT COURTHOUSE AT 8:00 OTI OCK I Chairman of Woman’# Work Id* hum ApgmaJ To Womb \ Voter# of County | Wh»t many believe will be tH most Interesting campaign eluc# tag day* of h'uaioulsai will be launched by the Democratic party o( WaynU county when J W Bailey ot Halefgtf ■lteaka In the Wayae County Cewd house at I o’clock thta evening. Mr« Halley la but the flrat of a number of big guna who will train tbetr flrg upon the enemy In -Wayne county bn* K o’clock, end the Hon. Joslah Bailey of Raleigh! will be the apeaker. Mr. Ballsy Id one of the heat known men In North Carolina, s' former editor of The Bib* Deal Recorder. » "J* : « Birthday of C. StateJ To Be Feted On Oct. RALBTGIf. Sept. 18 -UPl —Ceremog lev c.immcrmoratfng the S9th Anntvef *arr of the founding of North Caro* Itnj* state College of Agriculture pad •ngineerlhg will be held on the camp ua October 3 under tentative plana an noum-ed by college authorities. Plena) tor broadcasting the speech#* and music of the rocaslon have been tak en up w ith station WPTr here. Ptrsaff dent K. C. Brooke, alumni secretary T H. Safford and head football coach Gua Tebell era expected to be eg Ug • ■ iU * » .