WEATHKB
FAIX FBIXAT All) SATCBDAT
VOLUME SEVEN; NUMBER 17C
GOLDSBORO READY FOR BATTLE AGAINST FLOOD
Coast Line Resumes v
Service Over Lines
Wilmington-Wilson
Bm 9crrk« to Wilson lad New
Bent—By Long Route—ls
Again Started
WORK TO HAVE NUMBER
10 WEST OF GOLDSBORO
Nease (Ever Already Crowing
Highway Number 40 Four
Miles South
l - - ~ r ' ' t
• Under blue Italian skies sud »
softly Smiling Indian Summer sun.
Goldsboro yesterday got ael for the
battle against the rapidly rising
Mens# riTSfi Tbs battle will be well
under way today and the river will
not reach Its crest before Sunday or
later It la very probable that the
floods by tbs time the crest Is reach
ed will approach the 1924 record.
Bus and train service out
Goldsboro was partly" renewed yes
terday The Atipntic Coast Line, by
working alrenoualy. opened Us line
to Wilmington nnd to-Wilson The
ton at 8:86 last night, the first since
the floods. There were more passeng
ftrsl train went through to Witmlng
ara on It than In weeks. be< ause an
tomoblle travel on highway 40 south
la deflnllaJy abandoned for some
time.
This morning nil trains will le*ve
Goldsboro on regular schedules, ex
oeptlng the Norfolk and Southern,
according to announcement from
tha ticket offices of the union station
jffst night.
Tto first bug front New Bern Vince I
the floods came through yesterday
rrrtvtng at 4 o'clock in the arternoon
eftar hating coma byway of Wash
tngton*. Qreeiv»HTgr'llo< ky/ Mount, and
Wilson. It left Newfhrrd at 7 a m
The first f>un for New Bern left at
4 o'clock yesterday afternoon with
throe passengers. It followed the route
by Wilson. Rocky Mount, OreeuYlll*
end Washington
Highway 4(h to Wilson was opened
for the first time yesterday morning,
and tha regular Wilson bus got start
4d on Its schedule again.
Traffic to Klnfcton was again In
terrupted yeaterday when 900 feet
of the new Snow 1111 l highway
■round which Kinston travel had
gone- ware condemned This forced
motorists for Kinston to detour by
wax of Jason, along country roads.
Bus service over this ntretrh how
ever was provided on touring cars
Highway 40 south toward Wllmlng
ton Is definitely closed for some
time. Efforts at repairing .the wash,
cut at Brooks swamp were abandon
ed yesterday as the Highway Com
mission roncsntrtted Its forces In
f reventing a collapse of parts of
highway number to at Little Rtvei
bridge west of the city. The abutllng
earth had tumbled on the northern
side and many employees of the
fnmmfcalon rushed labor yesterday
and laaf night, piling dirt filled sacks
In an effort to prevent a complete
collapse of the highway. Traffle
cc uld proceed only onUthe southern
vlda of the highway at this point,
hjjj waa going forward without *ny
serious consideration «/ nightfall yew
t«rday. 7
Washouts at the bridge were
caused entirely by rising Utile Kir
a ip. Drawing Ha water from local
principally, this river war ex
parted to rMckfifs crest tonight, and
should this be tha oase. (lie highway
10 was surely saved front a collapse
At Pearson's bridge at 4 o'clock ye*
terday afternoon Little River had
fallen two Inches This tw some 5
miles farther west from the bridge
up the stream, hut would Indicate
that the rlveg 1* reaching crest at
the over highway 10.
Waters front the river. however
did not quite attain the atage of 1024.
The road turning to the north from
( th# Old Tom Pierce filling station,
however, was under water for a long
Atrefrh, and outhouses In this area
poked only the tops of Uyeir heads
from out the swltfly flowing floods
At the bridge over the Little Rlv
it towards Elevens mill near the
Piste Hospital, the highway waa coy
eie«t to a depth of many feet. Three
miles further* west on the road It
a (Cpitomtd OB 6>
THE GOLDSBORO NEWS
READ IN THE MORNING WHILE MINDS ARE FRESH—*READ BY BUYERS BEFORE THEY BUXL
Kim ton Expected io Hear Brunt
of Fkwds On Neuae
River ,
IIAPI’ERSVILLE VILLAGE
DESERTED LAST EVENING
1-ong Time Flood Records Will
Be Shattered In Rising
of Waters
RALEIGH. Bept. !• —(A*>— Long
time flood records for many Eastern
Carolina rivers will be broken this
week as a result of the torrential rain
that accompauled the -West Indian
hurricane Tuesday. Lee A Denton, of
the U. 8, weather bureau he6|. pre
dicted tonight 't,
The t aps Pear. Neuae, Tar and Koa
noke rivers were out of their hanks
tonight and at the waters from
choked trthuUrlejji reached the rivers
they will go even higher. Denson said
Thu Cape Fear at Fayetteville was
69.4 feat high late today and atilt ris
ing. It will reach 63 feet or more
there tomorrow night or Saturday.
Denson predicted. The highest record |
there is 68.7 feet, eatablbihd In 1908. j
Flood stage for the (’ape Fear Is 33 j
teet. . *
The Neuae h« drcachcd 21.8 at
Southfield this afternoon and was
flooding lowlands and damaging
crops. A 24 fool stage tw predicted
tor the river there by tomorrow
morning.
The Tar river at Tarboro reached
yl4 late today and was rising rapid
ly. Flood stage Is 18 feet. Denson pre ’
ti.cted the rtver would go to 3o- feet
Saturday or Sunday.
A revlaed flood warning today for
the Roanoke River at Weldon aet the
craat at 42 feet to bo reached Bitur- j
di|> Th« river had gone to 3,'. feet
today.
The Neuae at Kinston was reported |
to be near
that Inundated tTW>lower sections of:
the city. The river was rising tonight
at a rate of about 2.6 Inchest an hour.
Krestdent of Happersville, village of
150 resident across the river from
Kinston, have all deserted their home*
Water has reached the lower floors
of many housea there.
No flod reerds are kept by “the
weather bureau In Kinston but It was
three daya after tha river reached Its
highest! mark at Bmlthfleld before
the exeat was reached at Kinston. All
mads Into Kinston, egeept that to
Greenville were clotted by high wat
er tonight
M ILBON — (A*) FlooHe streams in
this'vicinity were receedlug rapidly
-11 night with the exception of Coalent
uea creek and Tolsnot swamp Roads
which had been covered again were
made paseahle as the streams return
ed to their banka.
Contnentco creek however, was
causing sonic apprehension as It be
tame swollen from tributaries pouring
In on It. The power plant at the data
operated, by the city was shut down
jtlien water theratened to flood the
first floor. j'g
ROCKY MOUNT— (A*) —With sun
(Continued on page 6) 9 j
Larry Newsome Now Has
Six More Days to Live
KALiIIUH. Bcpt. 20— 1/Pi --Larry
ifff-wsome, stumpy black negro of an
cerluln age, who will be electrocut oil
Htplember 28, was the principal fig
lire In twA dramatic trials, both of
which ended In his being sentenced to
death for the murder last Decern
her of Heulah Tedder. 15 year old
tarm girl of near Fremont.
Beulah Tedder was killed Decem
ber 8. after a desperate struggle With
Iter assaUnnt almost witht'u the shad
ow of the humble borne of bet par
eats, Mr. and Mrw Alex Tedder. A
short lime later, her body was found
with the head almost severed from
the body.
Sheriff V D Grant and other
of I lee began an InvestigMliou and
T-jCfliTn a few hours, they had Hires
ed I*arry Newsome, who lived a short
4l*i»ute (rum Ui« actua ol Ui« ala/
. First Florida Storm Picture
jjj
The above telephoto show* building in business
section of Avon Hark, Fla., leaning craxily into
the street with it* roof blown completely pff by
the force of hurricane, which devastated almost
Forestry Association Ends
Its Meetino in Goldsboro
Holmes Says North Carolina
Will Be Hare of Merchantable
Timber in 20 Yrs.
V , ■ ...
The alarming rate at which North
Carolina la cutting away Its njen ban
jtible timber waa revealed by J. H.
Holmes, forcMer with the North Csro
l.nu Department of Conservation and
Development. In an .address before
the c]oslug session of the North Caret
[ Mnu Fnrtatry Association here yester
day. Today will he given over to the
Inspection by school children of for
estry exhibits placed for the conveti
lion.
Burveys made by the Aiservatlon
department show that North Caroliuu
Is cutting Its Mix Inch and agave ttm
her at the' rate of a billion feet a
year. Mr. Holmes said In 1912 there
were standing In the state 45 billion
feet of merchantable timber. Today
there are remaining only 15 billion
feet, according to Mr. Holmes ad
dressing the convention.
He cited these figures to nhow the
alarming necessity of taking., real
means for reforestation, for very lit
lie of the billion feet cut yearly Is re
placed At tide rate. North Carolina's
forests will be cut sway In something
like twenty years, provided no wide
spread reforestation movement is
started.
At the closing session of the con
ventlou the following dfflcerw were
elected: president. It Roliertson. of
Cauton; vice president, I’. It Camp
of Wallace: vice president for, West
ern North Carolina W. K. Campbell
of Greensboro: and for Ka.dern North
Carolina, John L. Cobbs, Jr., of Wil
mington H W Graeber was itmtln
tied a* secretary and W. J. Dantft of
Canton as treasurer.
Lionel cWoll, Goldsboro msn. had
declined on account of other Interest
(ngngedlng Iris attention, to permit
his Maine to be offered for the pre -id
cncy.
Nqnlre* Speak*
Maik Squires “father of the Great
(CpUliiutd on Page Four!
in*. In order to prevent possible tio
lence. th<- negro «, mu brought to
IUIe)«h lor safe keeping
Two days later. Newsome waa |
plantl on trial In the Wayne county;
courthouse ut Gold-boro with Judge
Henry W Grady presiding One day i
did miffli e to tlnfth the c**e,."'and !
it »a- continued on tin seciMtd day
which w.t, Sunday. In the midst of
the proceeding, the iourttonm was
thrown Into turmoil when relatives
of the dead girl made an attempt to j
*ei*e the defendant. Judge Grady dls I
play a pistol from the bench, and :
Sheriff Grant fired Into the ctlli.i*. I
The disorder wan quashed, the trial
i esunicd, and N»;w.Mime v. s , found 1
KUllty of first degree murder. .Indue |
Crady sentenced him to die by • lee-j
trocution.
ftttUMfd efi p#|t tUfCf * n [
GOLDSBORO. N. C. FRIDAY MORNING, SEI>TEMBKR 21, 1928
Local Market Records
Good Sale and Price
Bale of 139.356 pounds of weed
on the market hero fur 119,189.64.
brought the total sor 1 the season in
1.6:1,548 pounds and tfoe money to
8310,966-'l6. Yesterday's actual
average, muffle In the face of <on
s«der»klc 81 per hundred stuff was
81377. and warehousemen said
that If the scrap bad "been elimi
nated the average would have ap,'
proathed sl7. There was no sale
here on Wednesday, „ Tuesday whs
light with the average of 314.r,(>
being established. ®
COL BAIN WILL
AID GOV. SMITH
Accepts* Chairmanship of Demo
cratic Veterans Orgariza
tkm In Wayne
COI. Kdagr H. Bain will seYve as
(balrman of the Democratic Veterans
organisation In Wayne counts, having
notiflerl Cot. John D Lsttgwtou,
state chairman of Ins appointment.
Col. Bain will carry on an active
campaign among veterans lor (he
(,:use of the Democratic tt<kj-t. and
hopes to urnn,sc -ill cx service men In
the county to the realization that
the Democratic party Is the patty
that has showed appreciation for the
sacrifices which the soldiers render
ed. ,
“f, will accept the
Col Bain notified Col. faingwtpu. "I
om. llrst » vetc i an, then u Democrat.
If 1 htt(F"(TrT~taj > eii .i Itepilhlh an f
would have long x sin<v changed on
account of the (!. O. 1». attitude to
ward cx ervlcc men "
Col. Rain is one of the most ac
tive leaders among local veterans He
served an an officer overseas and
was in the thick of Important battles.
Since the war he lias maintained ■
steady Interest ill the rc«erve officer (
training cop . arid c-oet yearly to
train for further scivicc In Ur - eicnt
of his (buiilry'c call.”
Thinks Co. Damage
To Be Half Million
Damage to Wayne county
farms and crops Isojn the torren
llal Tim (Ills week and from ilic
flood* of Nrutr and Little- River*
-will real h or past latfo.ood in the
J *
opluioit of H. G, *1 liompftoh.
Goldsboro planter and merchant.
Mr. Thompson made the r-ilmate
;■<-■(< i ..1 (• i an ln» p. iti .u ■if
l-l lll■ ■ I \\« 111. It -Ullcl Cd 11. o .
I: 111 th> »lid nun
Vtiili SoW" of I Olimi laud
ituii. r water, will Is- not
l« «* :lun »2 . "O-i believes.
the enure scale»ard of slate. Lalcut advice*
place loss of life at more than -KJU in Florida
alone, while tltf damage wrought by twister
mounts into hundreds of millions. •
GIVES FACTS
AS TO BUSSES
Mill Resume Regular Line To
More head and New Bern
This .Morning
Bus service to New Bern and
Miirchc.nl over the regular route will
be roomed this morning according
In announcement made last night tfy
G. Irby Holmew. manager of the bus
.nation here. The station tins since
.the flteul acted as a clearing house
Inr travel Information, and Ms '
. Inline* said last night Ibai he Would
| lie glad to supply further Informa
llon today. t
*
Hr Issued the following stulement:
"We are operating busses on ragu
lar schedules out of Goldsboro to
Raleigh and from Goldsboro to WII
’oil, connecting at Wilson (or Rocky
Mount. Ho far we liuve had no Dou
ble on ihiwet two lines. Tbe Hite op
erating from Goldsboro td Greenville
end Washington, by* way of Kinston
has made some of their schedule
and will continue to- tryp them aa |
fur as they can.
• “Our bus that left New diem on
i Thursday morning at 7 a. m.. arrlr
led In Golileboro ut 3:50 p . m , after
a hard (rip around by Washington,
tireeilvllle. Rocky Mount sud Wilson ,
The same bus left here at 6 -p. m --J
I.ended for New Bern vip the aum«
route with several passengers, iu
eluding a giivernmeut man.
“This morning (Friday* ut 7 o'- I
t lock ,we will wiart a bus for Ls
Grange, Kinston, New Hero, More-»
head and, Bi-aufort via the regular
route, and If stti-crssful will resume;
all schcdults.
“Our Gnldslioro-Wllmlngtoti bus's i
e* are not 'operating and operation i
of thewe lin**es look very slim, there
being a 3b or Id foot washout 3 miles
this side of Mogul Olive. The. high
way fori f.e Have ’ lieen transfrrrotl :
-
from this point to tin* Little River j
I ridge on
and Raleigh, therefore It will pro
bably he the flrd of next week be
• V
lurt* can In* oil tbi j
(Continued.on I’age Four)
Governor Smith Attacks
- Methods of Republicans
Oklahoma r»TV. .'o—<4*»
Carrying his fyrht fur tin; prffcldern y
into the border at.iti of
which 11 torn l»y tm!lli< . (mV
jr j nor Smitli tonight deplored the In
f Jection of the rrlinloiiH l«*uo nml
I “whispering" methodk Ini ) "the ijm
pul go. it* fended hi- nrcinl *« < hlef
executive of Sr* York and uitfrd th*-
votero of stne nation to make their
c hoice 111 Ihe November election nolo- j
|v on ihe ground of rrliat Jjieat, promot
e* the lntere*f and welfare of the He
public.
In a upcei h prepared for delivery
h< re. i‘n the (‘ollUeuni. *|ilrh hn» a
• aline capacity of about liUfOti Uie
Democratic nominee directed ait «t
--jituk hi former Senator fferww of tbla
I Mate, who ha a holted thjp Democratic
1 party to Hupporl' Herbert Hoover, a
sailed Mrs. Mabel WiUebraudt, «u »a j
Now Fear Death List
In Florida Hurricane _
* May Reach Total 700
NOTICE TO THE BUBLIU
All traffic on Hlxliwiy No.
40 between (>uldMboro and
\Ailminn(on wais rtoued to the
public thin morning al 1 o’-
clock. by the Hiifhwu) Com
miwgion.
•
High*ay No. 10 wan ulUl
open at thia hour and no in
lerruptior. in expected on thin
road.
MARY TEACHEY
TAKES TO TENT
Traffic Over Neuae River Bridge
On Highway 40 Stopped ni
Midnight I-ant
With eight 4mhes of water across
the highway and flowing ui»diy *1 the
joint or the Circle fllliui station.
State Highway Commisison employees
At midnight last.atopped further traf
*|r from rrornW the bridge oveh
Neuse river oti Route 40. end blockad
ed highway at the Thompson planta
tion a few miles south of the city.
Mary Tearhey, ac lent negress. who
has seen other lloorls and freshets
along the Neuse had tied two boats
at her porch last night and waa ready
(o push off fur the sand hill back of
‘Adams filling atstiiWi. Here she lias
erected her a tent and here eha az
peels to wait out the flood wklch
Is rising about her home.
'I camped there In 1908 and (he wet
er did not get me, and Icamped there
in 1923 and- the water did not get me.
and I dout In-lleve It will come to
the top of the bill this *kjn«" the it*”
areas was quoted, as saying.
Anywnv she .took along a couple of
boats to be ready to row 10 Mfety iff
esse kuown record* are shattered and
the water covers the hill on which
her tent tr pitched
SIXTY HI KIKIi IX
ONK MBUB GBAVB
BT. PKTKKHBFRG, Ms, Bept. 20-
OP) The HI. Petersburg Time* today
published a dispatch from n stuff cor
teapondent at West Palm B'-»ch that
said sixty bodies were burled In one
large grave there yesterday, a grave
Dial was dug by a stau msbovel. He
ssld the bodies were brought In so
rapidly from tbe lake region that a
cre.w of carpenters wa» kept busy
building roiigbt cofttna. ’
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buok i.KUiFi: ■>
MULE Pi t ) HI UK
■ • n ~„m I- «N J
CHICAGon Bepl 20 UP) A fm*
major league double (day reisql i
utmost certain to be established till*
> ear. ,
With leu dav* to go the t'lnclnwattl
R<-d* already have set a new National
league mink with 179 double killing*
sud are only three short of the major
league record of 182 made by the
Wsshliigton Senators lu 1923
laiant attorney general a "dUhon
' c*t <am-patguer' ‘in behalf of M r Moor
i ei and node «ptr isle referiiece to the
Ku Kin* KJau, whose mernlrera he
said, have the “effrontery to refer to
'hemail ves an inn per cent Ameri
cana''
The New York Governor In hit ad
vance draft did not refer to the Hev
John Itoach Htratou <if New York, one
j of hi* most outepok'-u critic*. for
v horn a pl*< c on the platform had
I cep reserved Friends of Smith -ant
He probably would have Homlliing I >
my exlempraneoualy about the Itap
tiat clergyman.
In condcmnlnK aofne tho cam
I'uieu method* lined aj.ritiHl
h'mlth declared there was “uhuutant
reason foi believing ihat KepuMleana
' high In the councils of the party have
j _ (Continued on PM« as .
MKMBKK 01
THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS
PRICK FI VI CRNTR
Ked ( roMM (hairmah GKn Pic
ture of \p|iiilling Kilm( ft
IhimHKe and Death
liHRYING SOME HODIBH
IN QUICS LIMB ONLY
Danger From Dfawana and P«-
t Hence Growing Greater
Hourly ,
0 WKMT PALM Hit A Off, n*.. gept.
SO (/»*) The client of the ifftHiu
Mounter visited by the tropical karri
taae upon • ommuuities nestling on
the enat ahore of Labe. Okeechobee
aiood out clearly tonight aa local Red
( r»aa reports placed the estimated
dead at between 7*»u and Nf persons.
Virtually all of the daad am In tha
Kverglsdes district around Pahokee,
south Hay and Canal PoUit, an id Hear
ard W. He I by, < balrmau of tha Jala
Heat h county Had Crou committee,
who made the n<% eat I mate.
Declaring that health eoudtilona am
growing wotoe aaary minute, Selby
laid It mlaht be ascenes ry to place
Ibe whole area of liO mile* eqaara
uffder quarantine.
"Unload bodlaa are ror neorad tad
hurled within the neat 41 hours, oom
pie evacuation qf that territory will
haye lo ha effected, loci ad tea relief
workers," Selby said * e , *
Wurkorb ho oaaortod are rooorttac *
to burying the bod lea ja quick Umo
"aa It la Impossible to gleg them up
and bring them to the (waggery.*! *
may ha* to opr* (Ho
Whale sort lon with I lata from ifr*>
tlene,' aold Selby, adding that "a**
***** »ho di.pmoiMiftftdHtofth thor h
doing the state a gr&THtJBrr.V !
Khderal aid may bo roqulmd said.
Helhy, an the county hei not thi
money to carry on the work Wh
need outalde financial help badly to
the esteat of t&AO.OM. T«
ft? — —<—•' -
H **lby »»id bla ei 11 mate of H|e
property damage to tha county iU|l
* •**.PPO.OPO but that iaourance if
iuitera had estimated the lone might
teach a* much aa 171.00*,M0
Tl»r chairman denied report* thgt
rny rioting ha» occurred lb the atrldtf
en area. Plenty of armed ponds gfn'
<>n duty he aald.
■ * ’ J
An airplane hay boon ncowliag orOr
the area, spotting bodies, egfll Sttby,
declaring that many bad drift
ed away in flood.watora to almost tm
pC net ruble places/ *
c F. DEES IS . '
NEW COMMANDS
J* _ ,
AmrHeart !region Uunrbeq Re
I rogranf of Work Fur
TW. Y*ur
I be American Legion got off to 4
good start for the eeason of lMftJ*
»hh sn initial roll call off neatly,
"eventy-Ove members at tha commth.- J
Ity building iaitt sight
*lth Commander «ktoenldor pro.
e‘dln*, meeting was opoaed with
ihe usual new season preamble com*
mention on the general work as too
poet. This was follows# by the Op.
point mein of an nominating commit-
Ice for the election of nfflcoH for
the cnsulna year.
< laronce Crone chairman of thin
committee reported aa followt: Ch«u
*' u K Dees tor Comntoader. Mr Dgoo
was ri< iLcon.mander; H- Fltsbugh
Ute vice. commander; Archie U Wir
ru k Adjutant, and on oceonnt of the
of this latter offlcu
a new office was created, namely, as.
sistant adjutant. T- J. Psrroat
H w Klvera was nominal*! an
. k '.ir*ctn of Arms. ( apt. K. H Bain aa
('I aplaln, and l.ouls Humble M gar.
vl«e Officer Clarence Crone woh
nominated as Chairman of thq ha-r„
tertalnment Commlitoo. Those'Mari,
nations were rallied unonimoooty
with a‘eat ai.< laljn.
After a most enjoyable barbecue
the meeting was adjourned until tke
third Thursday Ig OOehof-