WEATHER
Generally Uir U 4 warmer Thursday
muj Uir.
VOLUME SEVEN; NUMBER 175
CAROUNAS COUNT COST OF WIND AND RAIN STORM
Washouts of Highways
And Train Trestles On
3 Sides of Goldsboro
Eipilr Fore«« Labor Furiously
To Open Highways and
Railways
Id a Betting of gloom and dreari
ly and with a background of drli
iling rain that teuded to diihurUn
Iha moat optimistic. Goltbiboro lay as
aa Isolated city last night, with prac
luelly all highway and railroad com
munlcatlona with neighboring towns
<ut off by waih outs, cave Ins, and
Standing high water on the roade. Wire
rommankatlon In some parts of the
cuudty were cut off during parts of
the day yesterday, but these were
repaired In short order following their
dtscovsrey and location. Only one
rxlroad going from tbe city was open
to traffic, this being the Southern
train -going to Raleigh, and acrordlng
lo reports, there were several wash
cuts on the road between Raleigb and
Greensboro.
Water, which had attained a record
high mark on some of the streeta in
Goldsboro Tuesday night, rendering
automobile traffic almost Impossible,
had yesterday fallen to a lower level
but as If to counter act this, the
wafer In some of the other streets
had risen still higher. Cars venturing
out on tbe Kinston highway yesterday
afternoon, wara forced to run for
about two block in water that stood
an« inches over the running boards
snd. *a they ploughed through the
stream caused great waves to go
rippltnf across tha Surface, looking
for all tha world like great ocean
llaars slashing their way through tha
mighty waters of the Atlantic. TEe
water still stood several Inches In
depth bn Walnut street near Edge
wood, while many of tbe cross streets
in that section of the city were flood
ed. «
Railroad traffic, with the eiception
oft the Southern trains going to and
Irom Aaleigh, wee at a stand still.
John Robinson* Circus, which was
supposed to have shown In New Bern
) estsrday. was yesterday held In the
city on account of several wash outs
on tha Norflok and Southern railroad.
The Btoney Creek. Palling Creek, and
Bear Creek treaties bad nil been wash
ed away, rendering train srrice over
'the road Impossible. Two washouts
on the Atlantic Coast Line tracks be
tween Ooldsboro and Mt. Olive, had
stopped Train service on this line be
tween Goldsboro'and points further
south, but repairs crewy with great
pile drivers were at work on these
btekka yesterday afternoon, and It
gras hoped that train schedules would
be resumed on all lines out of Golds
boro some time today.
The Kinston highway. Just on the
other bide of the Stoney Creek bridge
was washed out In one place and
part of tbe pavement had caved In as
a result of the heavy rains. Drivers at
tempting to pass at this point were
warned that they drove serosa gt
their own risk. A portion of highway
40 on the other side of Dudley from
Goldsboro was also washed out. ra«k
Ing It impossible for automobiles to
I-abs. Wash outs were also reported
ca the highway from Goldsboro to
Wilson. Goldsboro News subscribers
from Fremont. Plkeville were calling
*The News office constantly during the
ray, wanting to know why they didn't
get their paper. *
Reports from other town* indicate
that Ooldsboro Is not the only town in
this section suffering from inadeouata
communication facilities. In Kinston
II was said that early yenterdayc-snjirfi
ing water was standing two feetst*ep
in the lobby of tbe new Kinston Hotel
Tbe high wind and the high water to
gether damaged the building to the ex
tent of at least two thousaud dollars.
It was said. The highways between
Kinston and Pink Hill, Kinston and
Goldsboro, and Kinston and Green-
villa were rendered impassable by
numerous wash outa according to
news reports from that city.
ENCAPKD CONVICT CAUGHT
ZANKfiVILIJC. O. Befit. 19.—(Tear,
les Dobbins, 57. this city, escaped
convict from the Moundsville. W. Va.,
penitentiary, was held here today fol
lowing his capture by a police squad
last night- At the lime of Dobbins'
escape on June 29 last, he was serv.
§ ww'/gkl term, •
THE GOEDSBOKO NEWS
READ IN THE MORNING KHILE MINDS ARE FRESH—REAR 818 BUYERS BEFORE THEY) RUB.
Three Deal hi UKnown to Have
Occurred From Storm*
Work In States •
CHARLOTTE, Sept —<A») — The
aftermath of the tropical atorm that
yesterday swept over the Carolines
today appeared to be as bad aa the
storm itself aa reports from virtually
every Section of the two states filter
ed In.
as known to havdaoe
rurredj-two trainmen having been
killed aaar Sumpter. 8 0.. when a
train went through a weakened cul
vert, and a negro killed at Washing
ton, N. C.. when he grapied a live
wire at the heigbth of the storm.
From every ,section came wide
spread reports of rising streams, rail
road tracks washed out by the torren
ual rains, highways blocked, telegraph
»nd telephone wires leveled for miles.
Three were uprooted over an area
fully 100 mllefc wtdea and Sty miles
long and advertising signs and flimsy
buildings blown away. There were
few reports of iajuries and nona of
those reported was Serious.
The southeastern section of South
CaroJlns and Eastern North Carolina
appeared to be suffering vforse from
the high waters that followed In the
wake of the Storm.
Washington and New Bern, on the
roast, reported high tides that Inun
dated lower streeta.
Goldsboro reports flooded highway*
suspended train snd bub service snd
telephone lines out. Rocky Mount re
ported 500 local telapbnnea out of
order and the Tar river at flood stage
and rising rapidly
Fayetteville reported the Cape Fear
river rising and from the weather
bureau at Raleigh came predictions
of flood stage in all pastern Carolina
rivers.
Railroads operating In the storm
area were struggling wtlh a serious
situation. Trains were being anulled
.or ware marooned by wasbositS. None
attempted to maintain any sort of
rohedule. No estimate or 'damage
was available but thousands of local
telephones were reported out of order
snd many hundreds of poleSi down and
cabels flooded. ,
%
HF.NDERBON. GP)—Railroad lines
into Henderson were badly crippled
-today by the rain and —wind- si Arm
that swept this Section Telephone and
telegraph lines also were down and
communication with the outside world
was meagre. -t
NEW BERN— (JP) —Late today New
Het-n was still Isolated :
from tbe oualde world ho far as trav j
Continued on page three
Fourth Flood Warning Is
Issued For Neuse River
« i>
Neuse River, In mldutream last
night 'w*» rlatnK nt the rate of an
Inch and a half an honr. a check
made by the News allowed. At 6 o’*
clock The New* placed a Hague In
midatream under the bridge orer
highway 40, eouth of the
11 o’clock laat night the gague rcgls
Ured a rlae of 9 Inchea. *Fhsre were
aome reporta that In the backwater#
at retm the water waa rising a**
tepidly aa four Inchea an hour.
All predictions are that the rirer
will greatly exceed flood- of ten
daya ago which cotewl hlghemy 40,
and aome lnalat that 9123 figures may
be paaxed. laauesl for
Smithfleld show the stream due to
reach 2 feet higher than In the recent
flood ’.he Smithfleld creat. however
mill not arrive In Wayne county_
stretches of the river until aeveral
dava i ter paaalnx the Johnston cap
Mai. Johnaton county la credited by
the Hatelgh weather bnreau ax having
had most rainfall in the dow'npotrr end
most of thbt flood wll be turned iuto
the Neree to be borne away.
RALKIOH. Sept 19-OPI The
Fourth flood warning for Kaxtern
N irtb Carolina rlvera since August 1
was issued here today by Leo A. Lou
Grim Sweep of Tornado „ «
' P 1 rrsK,...
j!^L3a
Map shows sweep of storm from Virgin
Islands to Florida, the death toll of which may
reach 1,000. Best information is to effect that
700,000 persons are homeless, while, property
Can Avoid Washout
By Making Detour
. 4
Motorists wishing to go from
Goldsboro to Mt. Olive or Wllmlng
tan can avoid proceed by detouring
around the washout at Brooks
Swamp, South of the city, accord
ing %» Deputy Sheriff J. C. Kor
negay. His directions are to turn
to the left at Dudley in the direc
tions are to turn to the left at
Dudley in the of Sleep
Creek Hill, lo continue on to Mark
Moglngn* place krhepe a turn to
the right Si made. and then
straight ahead past the Pott's
place to the Seven Springs- Mt
Olive road front which, a turn to
the right will carry one back to
highway 49,
ROM A HOPS OFF FROM ROME
BACK IN 21 MINI TEN
OLD ORCHARD, Maine. Sept 19—
(JP)—'The Bel lance Monoplane lloiUa
turned hack and landed on tbe beach
j ties* at 11:32 a. m. Eastern Standard
' Time, today 21 minutes after it ha
taken off on a projected non atop
flight to Rome. o
Watcher* at Cape Kllgaheth Light
reported that when the Roma-passed
j there at a low altitude It was shooting
I black smoke and Its motor apparent
' ly wa# firing unevenly.
aen of the United States weather ho* (
reau. .because of the heavy 1 ratn that t
accompanied the West Indian liurri
ct ne up the Atlantic ooaat.
The Cape Fear river. Denson pre
dieted, will reach 52, feet at Fayette ,
vllle by tomorrow morning. Flood
stage there IS 35 feet. lute today tfi‘e
river had reached 46 feet there.
At Rocky Mount the Tar River, al
ready out of IU bank!, will reach 14
feet, 5 feet above flood stage by Frl
,i * *
day night, he eaid. A thirty foot stage
will be et Tarboro where 19 feet la
hank level was predicted by Satur
day.
The Roanoke river will go to 38 fee ( j
at Weldon within the next 36 bourn
the warning bald. Flood stage • there
is 30 feet.
A helghth of 24 feet or 5 feet out
of Its banka was predicted for the
Neuse river at Smithfleld bv late to
morrow. The river will also reach
counties where 7 inches fell Rainfall
where it has been bank full the past
fetv daya, ;
Heaviest rainfall during the storm
I yesterday ab reported to the weather
bureau was In Nash and Johnston
counties where 7 Inchres fell. Rainfall
over Ea:>terr North Caroline, Dcnbon
said, ranged from 3to 7 Inches. t
GOLDSBORO- N. C. THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 20. I*2B
JOHN BEASLEY
TO AID SMITH
Named Chairman 7th ('ongien-
Hional Democratic Veterans
Organization
i » •
Jnha Beasley. #f Cart bug*. Out
state coit-mander es the North Caro,
lira Department of the American Le
gion, was yesterday named by Col.
John D. lhfigston. state chairmen, to
head the Democratic Veterans Organ,
(ration In the Seventh Congrem'onal
District. Mr. Beasley has tbe dis
tinction of having been the Norlh
. N W
Carolina departments youngest tom.
maniler. He is new editing the
Moore fownty News and Is prei dent
ot the Interior Motor Express Com
pany- f
In accepting the congressional
chairmanship Mr. Beasley Issue I the
following statement:
”1 am supporting Governor Smith
more enthusiastlcally than I have any
other democratic presidential nomt.
nee since Wilson, not only because 1
d«»ply admire hU i finrsgp. slnfi.rilv
and honesty, but Itei-a use U believe. if
he Is elected, that he will eliminate
the bureaucracy and red tape In the
veteran's bureau that Is prveentlng
n.any sick and disabled veterans frpni
procuring the hospitalisation and
compensation a grateful coupt'ry is
able and willing to bestow.
"Governor Smith, through his ad
vocacy and approval of the measures
awarding an annual grant of SSOO to
blind soldiers of New York atste. and
the appropriation of llo.otKi.oim for a
state hospital , for the care of his
state's disabled ex.servlcemen. has
demonstrated his interest in the wel
fare of the disabled defenders of his
count and In his speech of accept
ance he approved the federal appro
priations for disabled veterans.
"Contrast this wDh the record of
Mr Hoover. He Ignored the plight
of these sick and maimed veterans
In kls speech of acceptance, and if he
has manifested any concern for them,
or denounced the scandalous conduct
oi the Veteran's btire*t notorious
Forties, an appointee id Fresldent
Harding, and. In a sense, his col.
league, I am unaware of It.’’
Baltimore Feels
Effects of Storm
: UAI.TIMORK, Md , sepf. 19.—<*>>- -
The wind and rain atprm produced ,
by the West Indian hurricane rcault- j
ed In the <!• >th of one man here to
day while one house was unroofed
and wires and trees were blftwn down
by the 46 mile an hour wind.
if tSl' IK JIBED IK WRICK
LONDON, Sept 19 - (JP) -wMany pas
ectigera wtre Injured, aome hetiously.
wh.n a train from rrayfnrd carrying
city workers craahed into the buffers
at Clwlijclnto the second and plnne I
in lueuj* 4Mb JH JJB
damage may reach a quarter of a billion dollar*.
Below, photo of a street in San Juan (P. K )
following 1906 hurricane. "
tlguruUiW IIIMUUW New.l
Newsome Fails In
Effort Kill Self
RALEIGH, Sept lE—(/P) —UUTTF
Newsome, Wayne county negro
convicted to the murder of youag
Heula Tedder and aentenced to dlo
n the electric chair, Bept«mtwr Sl
attern pled to taka hit Ufa by
kettlng fire to his agattreaa In Ota
solitary cell,'''state prison officials
revealed tonight Guards imall-sd
smoke, found Newsoma lying upon
tbe amoking msttroaa, and frust rat
ed the attempt. Tbe nagro baa beedt
very moroao slnra ha learned that
his second appeal to tbe State Bb*
preme court has beau daaled, gri
son officials bald.
Woman Suspect Is
Held By Police
Calgary. Alberta, Canada, Sept
19. (A 1 ) —A woman believed to be
Mrs. Sarah Northrutt. mother of
Gordon Norihcott, wanted .a Los An.
the niurddr farm case near Hlrr-ralde
Is being held for questioning by city
police- I
t ...° | f
WAhHIAHIK FAfNT
* if you mix-varnish with the paint
used on your walls, when you do tbe
woodwork, it will be the desirable
non glossy surface and atlll be
able.
Forestry Association Will
Ask New Forest Tax Statute
The program a* Kent out shows U*«
following for todayi
in a. m. * ' ' ■
Addnets State Forest* or Park*
Hon. Mark Squiren
-«Mdr*»s i' N I'
Hon. h! F. fle*w«!l »t*
/ Addressed — Highway planting %'
W. K. C»ropbell \
Member State Highway Commission
Member North CaCrollba Federation
of S\ otuanjL^ClitJl*'
Ilcport on For<*try Survey* in North
Carolina *• K .
1. S. Holmea I f< 0 •
State Forester V i'
B:.'S» o'clock |>. m.
Addressee —Fish and (lamo Conserva
tlon i ' t
Paul RedlugtOU fj A
Director IT. H. Mologlrsl Surrey 7
Wade H. Phillips 1
Director Dept. Conservation and !
Development.. f
H. H Hrlmley 'ft fl|
Cufator State Museum tj
Address Izauk Walton Miaguo . In
1 North Carolina 4
H. K Dartre f fftpi V
Winston Salem I VIH I
7 I'tletk p. m. if '
I (Jet-Together Hsoquct, Hotel l,
I Goldsboro A HI
, yv *• -
Courtroom Filled As
___ - .v
J. W. Bailey Launches
Campaign in Wayne
HOLMES HEARD
BY ROTARIANS
R. E. Stevens Driven 250 Miles
Over Flooded Roadu to Al
tend Meeting
farmers of Fuislern North Carolina
ran secure long leaf pine seedlings
m the State Nuibery at Clayton a<
»3 per thuoeand. State forester J. S.
Holmes declared last night In t talk
before the Ooldsboro Rotary club Mr
Holmes BJ»d ten other forestry Work*
era here lo attend the conventloa of
the Nortb Carolina Forestry Aaaocla
tlon were guests of ths club.
District Governor George B.
of Clinton had been scheduled to
make his visit to the clttb put coaid
rot resc lithe city on arcoant of wash
<4|ts on the highway between Clinton
snd Warsaw.
C. F. Kroatln, with tbe Appalach- ,
Isn forestry Experiment station at
Asheville told of a curvey of out over
P'fC? lands now being made through
the statin ino Virginal, Eastern North
Carolina and Eaatarn South Caroling*
Mr. K matin lilted a* tha greatest ob
stacles to forestry growth In this ae.c
Uoi: fire, a taxation hystetn that
does not take Into acconnt Ihe growth
of timber crogb, and the high value
pin- ed on bar#-farm lands. Mr. Krow
tin raid that timber could be profit
'ihdo g’< wn aa a crop on lands .valued
up to 97 sad agra.
R. E. SUvsbs, president of the
club, u'ated to the members a thrill
ing rtory of how he and another
Qpidsl-oro man drove over the flood
yivaged highways from Jackeonvilla
yssG rday In order to be at tha meet
Ing ast nlrht. The reguelar highway*
w re all washed out and Impamable.
ai d Mr. Steven*, secured from a na
tive. who grettkd him with Ih* **luta
•ten, “Well, wfcat I want to know
la how In you got In here"
when he enquired an to the beat way
t« rtf ch Ooldsboro.
•'Stlbk to tbe plneknot roßd*’ , and
you tan gat through." the native ad
vised and drew a rude m»p which
then ad the country roads fYom Tren
p.-i to Fink Hill. The party finally
reached Ooldsboro after coming by
l even Springs and bavin* driven 250
-mttrs-un a trip that U ordinarily
less ttast. 70 gill**.
SALISBURY STORM BRINGS RAIN
* AND STIFF NORTH WINO
SALISBURY, Sept- 1»-—(S’) R a* n *
fall In Hatisbury during the last 24
hour, totalled 431 Inches, bringing
the total during lb# storm to 4J»j
Inches. -t
North Carolina For.etry A.**'
jitlmi Will B«h the next legislature °
~a m a bill exempting growing timh*r
jrr.m taxation and providing that Mm
her shull be taken only when cut It
also want, national for.at* for Da.t
„ ra North Carolina. A reaolutlou to
this effect wa. panted yesterday at
t)« opening aexalon of the llth an
uual convention here.
Dexplte the flooda which pcevented
* number of officer* apd apeakera
fr.mi reaching the city, the morning
tftalon «>* »ome thirty eight forest
ry pn thn»la*u In *#»lon and before the
day the.attendance had mounted to a
r onsiderable figure.
On behalf of Goldsboro, Monel Well
rrwl an sddress of welcome which
had been prepared sty Mayor J. H.
Hill. County Attorney K A. Humi»h
r*y welcomed the convention for the
count. H M. Currau, forester of the
,i. pertinent of agriculture nkponded.
Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt, chairman
of the executive committee waa pro
>. nted by lllneaa from attending and
■ill* repot* went over, to another ses
sion. — 1
Conaidaratlon of the report by the
legislative committee wasi the out
standing event of the dny. I>r. C, M.
.Warburton, director of extension ear
% on Pago Two)
MEMBER 01
KHE ASSOCIATION
PRESS
PRICK FIYB cam
Geti Biggest Apple tfoo WM
He Decries Rsishig Rs-
Mgiou* Issue
m
( ITEM G. 0. P. RECORD
OF LOOT AND ROBBRRY
~ * 1 n ' 4
Shows How Republicans Pledge
ed ’Aid to Fanuefi and Then
Failed to Give It
Washouts on thu bighwsys sad mil
roads and tba elimination of MtfU „
ever country roada by tba Heed ai y
Tuesday In no way waabad Sway the
scheduled oprntngOf the Dsmooratia
rampalgn In Weyna eoanty land alsbA
Tba courthouse was wall flllad W*-
man and wosmb to boar J.'W Ballsy
rrratan tba Republican party for Re
lootnig of tba public domain. its Bttt
ura to carry oat Ha pladsab to the
farmer of America; and to abend
him as ba (are a ayatpsthotle pie*
torn of Goraraer Alfred R. fhnfth •
tend hla record.
Despite tba waaiber condition*
there was a number present (real
tba surrounding rwfpl ttatrtots aad
quite a few ijgoas Primont. it waa
the largaat gettwria|| attracted t •
any public meeting In tba ooaribouw
in many montha, aad frequently the
crowd broke Into hearty apple oaf at
Mr. Bailey's presentation of the 7
Mauaa.
. Ballsy won the biggest band" at*
the evening when he declared that
to "raise the religious las os la Am*
erica Is aa offense agaluat Ood, and
Head clappiag at thta statement laat
ad aometisw
County Chairman W. A. Dean M
caMlng the maetlag together appeal
ad to all Democrats to “sustain aw
In thU arduous teak of heading apt
the campaign la the eoanty I can"
do iluio without the haip of »my
ioyal Democrat- -ma* aad — wall T~
(At fraamt dsat.
Mr. Dees announced that the aont *
address he the campaign locally
would be mad# at tYemont qp Tueo
day, September 31, when Hefted MM'
ea Senator L. B. Tybon of Tenner
see will speak In the eckool then.
This occasion will he the first of th#
county can vase and candidate# will
be present for it. Mr. Doon rerter
ed briefly the record of Benetse iy
eon, saying that ho had solved da a
General la th* World War and that
he was aa effective Speaker.
Mies (lertmde Well introduced Mt
BaUey as " a Democrat, tbo kind
that begin with a n n plt n I
I) and the kind that begins with »
little d." ~
“I woald not rake the race tie*
lion,* said Mr. BaUey preiimUary ho
taking up the nude tread of hid
two hour speech,' "but the RstpaT
(Continued oa page SI
DIES ArHOME
OF A DAUGHTER
t ' “
W. D. Motrin Formerly iff
Office Buried in
Washington, D. C. f
W. D. Morris, wh% for eight yenrd
we* In the county tax collecting oK
fled, died Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'
clock D. C . following
a long IllneeU, friends were notified
by wire yesterday. Mr. Morrle wan at
the home of a daughter when the end
came. While he has been la fnltlaff
health, he was not regarded *«
a aerioun and the almost sudden end
will come aa a shock to hla assay
friends Funeral was held In Wash*
Ington.
The deceased wab a native of Peter*
hurt!. Va.. eud a man of quiet, eoart
eous. but assured bearing. Worn 1M1!
to 1!»?5 he wee In the employ of tho
Sheriff as ta* collector sad made a
wide acquaintance. Since that tips ha
hed lived In Washington hat last innn
came to Goldsboro for hit health. Mp
remained here until the lattar part of
v usual The first part of big visit
lie re found him much Improved, Hk
he failed under the severe beat sad
was feeling very bad whan ha left
hi. d.u|htra, Ttr#Ail