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Flair Haturdwj. Mwneay probably
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VOLUME SEVEN; NUMBER 183
NEWSOME IS ELECTROCUTED
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Calmer Than Most 01
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Those Present, Negro
Walked To His Death
“How You All "Feeling?" He
Asks Witnegtini Ah lie Ad
vance* Into Death Chamber
8 FREMONT MEN ARE
OFFICIAL WITNESSES
j
Waa “Happier” Than In Days,
And Said Ix>rd Had For
given Him
(By HENRY BEL If )
Calmer than moat o( (He witnesses
and newspaper men gathored for the
electrocution. Larry Neweome, black
rtdmpy Wayne county negro went to
Li* death In the atate -owned man
ktllar at the State Fr'son. Raleigh,
yaaterday miming Jnatice was dwne
and the pegco paid- with hT* life for
the like he had from pretty
litU* Beulah Tedder, on a blenk.
Uy njgtit. December It, 1927, Henlah
eared "her honor hut lost her life and.
yesterday the atate required tho
■npreme genulty of Newsome.
Batter-fed looking. belter kept
than when convicted her* l*«t win - (
ter, the aub normal Newsome ,
calmer than moat of the witnesses!
leathered in' thq aeml dark, octagonal |
death chambef 111-the prlann. Clad
In tha blue denim of the peniten
tiary In his stocking feet. Newsome
walked between Dr. John L. Tillery
and Rev. John Clanton, negro min
isters, as he advanced to his death.
Purpokefully he stalked ahead "His
face was pallid, and on liir tore
Head there was a dark circle,
"Good mornln’ herald In low but
steady words which sounded sharply
In the room stilled by thf know
ledge of approaching death The
greeting had been addressed to Dr.
a, H. Nnrfnan, prlann warden.
'Another step hp advanced and his
eves flitted about the circle of neww
papermen, the wltneaaea from the
Fremont section. The silence was
fttrilble as he took In the scene.
"How you all feelln*'*? he naked,
addressing the tense group ranged
about the death chamber.
Prison attaehoes assisted him In
getting placed In the chair, not be
cause he waa weak or needed asals
tanre. but that hi* body might Ik;
properly placed for the devouring
electricity to «paaa through and *c
compllsh Tts piiri*pm‘ The electrodes
were fastened to hie legs, the death
cap slipped onto his shaved head.
"You can make It a little tighter."
he aa'd, referring to the straps of
the headpiece, and ‘‘tighter' was his
last word
The signal was given. J E Thom, •
a*. of Ismbhurg. shoved In the switch
aT.d 1800 volts of electricity were
concentrated in the body of the 2t
year old negro. Straps of the ma
chine that hung loosely grew taut
with strains ns Newsome stiffened
Ip death agony. There was no out
cry A faint odor filtered about the
email room.
For-two mliintes > jijni«<*en safonds
the electricity shot throng v New
home's body. The signal t***Vlthdrnw
the awltrh was given, and Mr Thom
as broke the current*
The chest of the limpv was
hired o.t the left, side, and oir. I.
R: Builnra. of Rowland applied the
rethOecore. The heart still honour -
ed Slijhtly.
Th t the electricity might be
strengthened in Its deadly qualities.
Deputy Warden Honeycutts poured
water i>n Newsome's tiead god.on Min
leg. For a second time Mr. Thomas
closed the switch, allowing li to re
main abut fog 55 seconds.
For a second time Dr. Bullock lis
tened for signs of life. These were
none and at 10:11’ a s» ts the Rowland
pbysclan pronounced the negro dead.
Was “llappj"
Newsome was happier yesterday
morning than he h»e been for davs,
Dr. John L. Tiller*. of th* depart
ment of Bible of Hh.iw Vnlverslty
'told The News following tlx- exe< u
tion. Dr. Tillery, with John Clanton,
ministerial student at Shaw, had act
Continued on P*i« Si*)
THE GOLDSBORO NEWS
READ IN THE MORNING ffHILE KINDS ARK FRESH—READ BY BUYERS BEFORE THKB BIOL
Newsome’s Father
' Did Not Want Body
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(Special To The News).
FREMONT. Bept. 28 Mack
Newsome, negro, father of I<arry
Newsome who was electrocuted
at State Prison yesterday mornluy
for the murder of Beula Tedtfe/.
did not claim hts son* body be
cause he “didn’t feel like he
ought to take the money his other
children had helped to make and
spend U burying this no count
one. 1 ’ Bo t{re father declared to
day. He had prefaced thia remark
with the declaration that he had
tried to raise his children like
they ought to be raised, and was
quoted as saying that though he
deeply that Lhe ataVe
taking life of his boy he knew
be had committed the crime and
the good people of the stale said
he ought to pay for It. that justice
was dppe. „
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BIG INCREASE
IN SALES HERE
Expert That Market Will Mssk«
25 I’er Cent Advance Over
last Yeac
Mammoth sales o?*the lats Tffre?
days h»vo set a new record for auc
tions on the Goldsboro tobacco iq* r
ket. It was said yesterday. Friday
was a rSfretition of the previous day
with so much buslqews being done
that clerks were unable to eomplje
official statistics through late last
night
Official sales through Thursday,
■b
ns given The News by Mr. Fuller of
the Export Leaf Tobacco Company,
shows 2.<50.878 poutidi for which
83*1.18! 81 bas been paid.
Yesterday’s big breaks shoved the
total close to the two and three quar
.ct figures.
It now lupins to appear that tha
Goldsboro Market, which has stead
ily advanced In averages this year—
will sell 25 percent more than was
sold l»«.t year. This would place the
DiU’tii !• ’the 10.000.0 db pomel cl:u-n
A'» tbccsetnen have pointed ont
the continned congested conditions In
Wilson. Greenville. Kiniton and oth
er large centers, the favoi'able aver
ages made In Goldsboro and the In
creasing patronage of thdAlocal ware
| houses from a wide area.
The average made Thursday In tha
j, tace of much berap was $16.30.,
Fremont Natives Relate
Graphic Story Fla. Storm
(Special To Thfe News)
FREMONT, Sept. 28 Steam shov
els were used for digging graves in
' tte West Palm Beach urea during
j the recent hurricane, according to a
letter received by Mrs".,.Ora Yelver
| tou of Fremont Route 3, from her
daughter, M>w. Blanche Ruffin, who
• lives In West Palm Beach. Another
daughter. Ml»s Dollle Yelvertoo bad
i.gone qnly a short time before the
j storm to enter school In Flolda. Lat
. ters from these two div*- graphic des
’Viptlous of the hurricane “The
hurricane w«s terrible’ writes Mrs.
It tiff in on the Thursday .following the
, etodm. "even worse than ihe one at
Mama, yon ought to see how
the negroes and white people are
l.urlad They are using two of Loch
man'* ateam. 4Uovi I* lo dig the grai
cs and putting, three and four iu the
1' same box. aud are putting them side
by side and putting the boxes on top
t f oath other. I'la terrible. They bur
- The Proudest Boy in Montana
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1 m fait -it* I |||c
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Thk intensely human photo show* how Governor Alfred E.
Smith, Democratic’nominee for President, occasionally forgets
his role of political leader and becomes |u*t a pal to the younger
generation. lie is grinning campaign 'button upon breast of
' youthful admirer during tofieHstop of his train at Billings, Mont
Governor Smith Speaks ~
In Milwaukee Tonight
Encouraging Reports* Brought
To Him A« To GtyVCUP
In Minnesota
OGVKRNOR SMITH'S TRAIN KN
POUTE-TO MILWAUKEE Wls., Bept
38—(AP) —From a stato that never has
gone Democratic iu a national elec
tion to the only one carried by La
foiled* four years-o ago. Governor
Smith moved today In hts quest for
the presidency. ■' ■ ... -
The Democratic nominee said good
bye to Minnesota, greatly encourag
ed by the> reception given him last
night In Bf. Paul, when he branded
the Repulillean party as lacking In
leadership and hammmed away at
his opposition from t|i« farm relief,
inland waterway development and
Immigration angles.
Grossing Into WUeonain for the
sixth and final Speech of hla Drat
stumping tour, the New York Gover
nor. was headed toward Milwaukee.
As rte campaign special, nearly an
hour behind schedule In getting away
from Ihe Mlnnl'sotu capital skirted
tbe Mississippi and
the Badger *iate, crowd* were out at
various way stations but only rfbout
a half dozen stops all for train oper
ating purposes, were made and many
failed to get a glimpse of tbe !*cmo
c r»tlc standard bearer.
(COBtilled on Page, Hlx-
led 300 negroes and 186 white people,*
and they are attll bringing more dead
cue* In ..
'■ “Charlek worked until 1 o'clock
last night helping dig graves and
identify person* V 1 »ho bad I teen
brought in country f
can't begin to ‘crftiiwin how torrihh
It Is
“West Palm Beach #*■ Just ruined.
I aim' Beach wasn't dumaged so had
Out in the i verglades they arc going
to start burning the dead bodies in -1
stead of burying the bodlew. bacause!
fi't y were drowned and they'he afr,t:il |
of the typhoid germs going around |
l think It will bo betteF for the pro '■
pie here.
"In the negro town ther Isn't i
.
hardly a house standing.
“We have something lo he thank
fnl of because everyone lu this spart
n.rnt is safe This stood It
better than anyone I’ve seen yet
There are only seven stores' open
right now, hut flty're fixing tbe oth -
er* so they cau open them."
GOLD6BORO. N. C. SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1928
ASK REDUCTION
WEED ACREAGE
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Small Atlendancd At Meeting
Held in Greenville
s , Yesterday
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A campaign for reduced tobacco’
acreage lu 1929 was launched by tbe
Lantern f’arolin*. Chamber of Com
inerce in ■ aedional meeting in Green
vllle yesterday., but less than 125
men of the section were present to
see the campaign gel underway.
Resolutions adopted at the meet
ing urge a 25 percent cbt In tobacco
erreage for next year, and call upon
tho United States Tobacco Assocda -
tion to- provide for the opening of
Sastemi Fai-ollua toharro mskets
not latkr than August 20.
Another nection of tho resalutlon
avks the Btate College extension ser
vice to back a more dairy cattle pro
gram In alt of file counties of this
xeetton.
Philadelphia Mavor
Transfers All Cops
PH 11-A DELPHI A. I’ept 28—(A*)—
In au'effort to eliminate alleged jkil
lie corruption revealed In tbe grund
jury Investigation and their "rack -
els'’ Mayor Harry A. Mucey tonigbF
Issued the most drasffc police reor
ganlaatlon order In the history of
Philadelphia, directing the transfer
cl every policemen In the city.
A1 Smith Hoover War
At Virginia St. School
Bound* as of a great battle giv
ing on disturbed teschers at
Virginia Hireet Grammar/school
at the recess period yesterday.
From all the noise, the shouting,
the civil,;;, the’hurrahing,
uppaicnt that wotne major cates
trophe had struck among the
eight year old males of the achool.
Nervously the teacher* rushed out
In a body to find that engagement
w*s taking place b>*ttwcn the Al
Smith and Herbert Hoover, con
tingents of the school "Ifi*, did
all this start,’’ authoratlvelff de
maftllcd one of the teacher*. 'Well
you know, Robert Rhodes Hatch
and his; gang are trying to run
all the Hoover boys off the
grounds" refdied one who had
been busily engaged In repelling
th* invaders.
Republican Chairman
To Confer Here Today
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Rrawnlow Jackson, chsirman of
the Executive committee for the
ftepubllcan party in North F*ro -
llua. wHI confer Republican
leaders of Wayne county In the
courthouse gt 10 o’clock ’ J tbU
morning. T C. ('roer, cqunty chair
matt announced yesterday. The
meeting will not.be a public af
fair, Mr. (’row aalfrl. but Kepubll -
cau commit teemeu over the conn
ty are being urged to attend: In
the afternoon Mr. will
hold
aud Rurgaw.,lt was said. A sum
ber of meetings In the iuteraxt of
the local G. O. P. candidate* and
In tbe intereat or the national
ticket are being planned srer
Wayne. It waa announced.
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RASKOB TALKS
OF SMITH PLANS
a
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No liana for Nominee to Go
Into “Solid South”, Says
Chairman
•
NEW YORK. Bept. 28 [Jff— Dfccua
sing plans for Governor Hmlth’a aec
cud speaking tour. John J. Raskob.
Democratic national chairman, aald
I might that he believed Vfc presld
ent'al candidate will apeak iu Tan -
ti't <ee and Kentucky and alvo that
he would visit Baltimore, Md.
The rnalrman aald ther* war* no
.plan* for the governor to get Into
the ‘frolld south" and added ll« did
not believe such a trip *ro* neceeeary
I Wilson Sets Second ' .
New TobaCco Record#
WIIAION, Sept. *B—<*)—For th*
aecond time In thr*« week* tbe *xhU
Ing weekly .tobacco sales record* has
been shatterd on th local market, of
filal figure* of warehousemen re
vcabd today.
Hale* for the fir* day period end
ing yeaterday totaled 7,787,Ml pounds
as compared to the record eetabltah -
ed the week ending September IS, 6t
7.588,814. The new record ecllpae*
the mark established last year on tbe
local, market laet year by more than
a million pound*.
WO MAX |<s NINTH ifrß BROTHER
IX.MW IN HINHtXD, AHKENTED
NEW YORK. Hept 28 (JP)—k wo.
man who Insisted her brother-ln
law.was her husband was under ar.
real today, charged with perjury.
Mrs. Della Frank. 23 year* old. o(
the Bronx, wan separated from her
himbund. Albert JYunk. several year*
ago and granted alimony of 825 a
week, none «f w hlch she ever re; clv
ed, she says- • . v
(p Ijist Tuesday she had a man ar
rested. saying he was her huaoaud
Albert. The man. however, insisted
be was Albert’* brother. Samuel.
Arguments Against Permit
Expected Next On Thursday
> W Itblii eight or ten day* a rnilng
s.ih p|-ob*hly be forth coming from
cn the appllcatbm of the Branch
Banking and Trust company of Wtl~
klou'-to locate a branch in Goldsboro,
it was I'srned yesterday. Arguments
favoring the granting of the applies
tion have been heard by the loiuml*
slow, and It Is probable gilat on next
Thursday argument" ag»ln*t grant
tug the application will tie received
A ruling should com* in a short tome
etter the conclusion or the hearing, It
was said.
Tom Host, Greensboro Daily New*
correspondent, had the following In
Ids paper yseterdey relative lo the
flret hearing:
Application of Branch Banking
company of Wilson for authority to
open In the Goldsboro territory a
branch of the Wilson corporation
wua argued lief ore the corporation
commission, tod»y and action was
dtlayed until.tbe two national banks
of Goldsboro can b" heard In opp<>s»
tion.
Clinton S. Carnes Is
Placed Under Arrest
In W innipeg, Canada
SIMPLE FUNERAL
FLOOD VICTIMS
Service Arranged By Minister-
Ul AstHOcUUon; One For
Negroeo Aloe
■WEST PALM BWACH. Sept. 2f—
((s*>- Plan* were mad* here today for
a simple funeral be held
Sunday for Florida* 2.800 atorm
dead
Member* of the efty ministerial
union met yeeterday at th* Flret
Methodiat church |iad appointed •
of it* body to conduct the aervlc**,
which will be held over lb* grave*
of more than 700 atorm victim* bar
led at Woodlawu cemetery her*. Rlt
es will be conducted for thoee buried
there-./*? those burted elaewher* and
for than* who** bodies etill lie ua
fouud along tbe devastated shore* of
laik* Okeechobee.
Two service* will be held. The flret
at 2:20 pm. will be.for whtt* peo
ple, and the ether to be conducted
Jeter and by negro clergymen, will
be for atorm vtctlma. s
Under present plan* th* funeral
dirge will be played by the city bead
the opening hymn will be sung by a
mass choir from all the city church
es and'the Invocation will be aald by
Rev. Charld* U Ml worth of Norwood
Baptist church.
HOOVER IS TO
V SPEAK IN N.Y.
Mndtali Square Gordon With
('■parity For 20,000 I'oopt*
Secured
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (AX -Her
l*.rt Hoover will apeak in New York
City ou October 13 Instead of Octob
er 17. the . hang* of date* being mad*
so that he oeftld obtain Madieou
square Garden with quadruple seat
ing capacity over Carnegie bait.
The change waa made tdday after
Penator George H. MO*** of New
Hampshire chairman of the advisory
ccmmlttee had reported that th* ad
vance demand for tickets for the New
York speech «i> *o great that the
Carnegie ball would not afford *uf
flcent Apace to accomodate the crowd
At the Hoover General headquar
ter* It was xSIS that tbe 5000 odd
• cat* In Carnegie hall would have
teen filled with Hoover worker*
from th* varlon* prelncta In greater
New York and sor (i that reaeon the
New Madison Square Garden wa* a* -
cured with Ita seating capacity of ap
proximately 20.000 and l* on# of the
larxeet hall* in the country.
A delegation Representing several
hundred petitioners* and $4,000,000
In property, came to Raleigh to pre -
sent tb« cause The Branch Ranking
company which recently spread out
to over territory In Warsaw and
Helms In which banks had gone down
would go intq, tbe Wayne capital to
occnpy and enlarge Hie field of tbe
(.Id People’# which failed two yearn
ago. Goldsboro has now only thro
lank*, both .national. In the arxu
ment* m»d* before the corporation
commlsnlon this morning It wa*
contended that one of the natioual
Institution* i* the child of the Nor-''
wood* and the other of the Borden*.
Kenneth Royall attorney of Golds
boro *ose during the proceedings to
announce that he “approved e>/~
torney for the two'national bank*. At
a later date the commission will hear
the opponent*
The Only controversy Is over the
butlnri*. The Branch people with,
capital, surplus sod undivided profits
Uootiaued on ft|* 8U).
liKMRER Off
KHK ASSOCIATm
PRESS
price five cam
Ex Treasarar «f Hone Mlmtott
Hoard, Southern Baptist
Convention, Fonnd
SHORTAGE IN ACCOUNTS
* SAID TO BE A J^ILLIOM
EmbcuUmont In Chorre fti
ferred in Warrant Under
Which Ho la Hold
WINNIPM. Manitoba. Bept *»—
—Clletoo «. Cere**, format
ireeeurer of the Hoeee MMm Board
of the Southern BepUet convention.
Atlanta, (la., wee arrested here to
day. He wee taken Into anatody oa a
warrant charring emheaalemeat.
On Be pi ember | at Atlanta. On.. Dr.
('herlee W. Daniel, chairman of the
executive committee of Ike church,
announced that there erne "appnr
•ntly a ahortage of one million dei
iara oa the hooka ’ handled hr Oam-
M At that time he had dhuppeared
from Atlanta.
Two ladlctmeata charging emhu
iclment oae charging mlenpprepvin
tton of in.tN and the other MMH
have been returned ngnlapt Oeraen
by the Pulton county grand .Jury
at Atlanta, and solicitor general i.
A. rfoykiu baa aanoopced that other
true htUa will he eought he rapidly
aa auditors working on the books hM
complete *
DIRECTS APPEAL
TO STATE YOUTH
Gardner CDgg Rocord of Rgpuh
Henna la Votoraao AM
yr- Tlgitwi
WILBON, Sept **—(**— Appealing
to the young men of North Carolina,
tin American Legion and toe methdtn
of tkia mate, 0. Mag Gardner, Dame
< retie Kuaeraetorlal nominee plentfed
with them here tonight to ge loth*
polls to Nooember nod defeat the «a
fubllcan party beennae of “the klft
ertmea committed ngainod the die.
a bled end aksk reUraae of the world
war.“
. ' There k one Mil of iedUmont
egalnot the Repabltoaa party that. 1
call upon ton young men of North
Carolina to proanente an Norembnr
«'• Mr. Gardner naM “Thle Mtl Tk
the serioes charge larolved M toe
responsibility ~of the RepnMlona
party tor lt» coodncf toward the Mi
•nd disabled soldier* of the world
war.* _
American soldiers iwinmed from
the campa and field of conflict to be
come the vtttme of toe ormftio*.
bribery and treachery of the Veter
ans Bureau, toe epeeker charged
The jrlmlnal lews of the fl. 8.
Bent Col. PorbUe to the Atlanta pent.
tertiary for hie bribery and for the
soldiers money he elole, Mr. Onrdner
declared. Bat the moral and poltlcal
lew of responsibility will never b*
vindicated end made ceen nntll toe
Hepohllcen party, roeponatble for
the. dirty crime against the nation*
young men. Is rebuked, conrlcted end
repudiated at the bar of a long dd
.ayed, but perpetually outraged pub
lie opinion- • >
“I eppeel ItPlhe first rotor* to
commit their c»u»e and heart* to tha
Democratic party on Its record In
state end nation.“
Gene and Polly May
Be Married In Rome
HOME. Sept 21- MfV—After e feW
r hour* experience heretoday with the
formality for bia approaching wed
ding with Mis* 'Polly” lauder of
Greenwich. Conn, (tone Tunney, re
ared heavyweight champion decided
that if his bride to be ag ( (reee they
will he married In the eternaj, city.
MU* Lander end their parents, <to
gether with several frtoi»m» are voy
aging toward Napela where they are
due next Tueaduf. TVW