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VOLUME SEVEN; NUMBER 282
PERSON’S WHISIiY BILL UNFAVORABLY REPORTED
Proposal for an Eight
- Months School Term
Introduced in House
Hoppers Crowded With Bills
Yesterday as Legislature
Moves Ahead
BOREN’S DIVORCE BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE 71-35
Whedbee Wants to See Number
of Supreme Court Justices
Increased
RAUEVMI. Jan. 23.—(A*)— The
house legislative hopper «u cram
med to overflewtng today with 28
new bllla that tnclndad a meaaure
apottaored by Representative McLean
democrat Beaufort ot provide an
eight month®, school term for N. C.
The McLean hill provided for a 40
centa tax levy on the 1100 of property
valuation In the countlei. With the
state bearing the coat of the public
schools where the levy would not
produce sufficient revenues No plan
for financing the measure on the
part of the state was set forth. Es
timates as other members of the edu
cattoa committee, of which repre
sentative McLean Is chairman, ware
however, that'lt could l>e accomplish
ed through an equalisation fund of
II.ROO.OOfi.
Thb houee hud placed before It a
state primary to pledge support for
bill to require candidates In the
all nominees of the party. Ewing,
democrat of Cumberland Introduced
tbla.
Representative Boren’s bill to make
five years of Involuntary separation
where one of the parties baa been
guilty of a tetaty. grounds for di
vorce paiMMlrtfef-toWM X\ *b **• but
only after K bed been subjected to
a riding fire In n running debate.
RAIJCIGH. Jan. 23.-<*V-The se
nate opened Its third week of the
legislature today In a sesaloyt In
which seven bills were entered. 'ln
cluding one to Increase the number
of members of the supreme court
from five to seven, which wonld re
quire n constitutional amendment,
Committees were active today. The
committee on public health bv a
unanimous vote returned the Person
preacrlption llqnor measure to the
senate with an unfavorable report
Judiciary committee number 1 de
cided to favorably return a bill In
troduced by Senator Person, which
provides that In the event of a va
cancy In the office of the IT. 8. Se
nate through the death or resignation
the governor shall appoint a suc
cessor t® serve as senator until the
next election.
The Increase In the 'lnumber of
members of the Supreme court wss
proposed by Senator Charles Whed
bee. democrat, of Perquimans coun-
A bill to prohibit officials of Ihe
state department of agriculture from
ranking offlcisl crop prediction, esjl
mates and speculative statement* as
to the future price of crops grown
within the teat* waa Introduced by
I .B. Hobbs, deteoerst, of Sampson
county.
SCARLET FEVER
IN THE COUNTY
A .
Health Detriment Xaks Pa
rents to Watch CHilaYnq
Carefully
The cRy and health department
yesterday issued u request that faJ
enta be on a watch for the appear
ance of scarlet fever. The warning
was Iterate! after a number of cases
cf the disease had been dlagrosed In
at least three sections of the coun*
Cases have been reported from the
Ay cock school district, the Hmtt’i
Chapel section, and the Kdgewood
section of Goldsboro. It wss said.
Most of the rases are reported as
mild, but Dr. I- W Corbett urged
that s physician he oalled If children
show a “rash” on the body, saying
that the danggr of complications was
to be guarded against.
Rl( HMOfl) EHIi ROBBID ,
RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 22. <AV-
Police received a report Just before
noon today that-two young men had
held up and robhed the Liberty Na
tional Bank and Trust company.
THE GOLDSBORO NEWS
•'t ...» * - 1 wi . ■ 1 * i ;
READ IN THE MORNING WHILE MINDS ARE FRESH—READ BY BUYERS BEFORE THEY BUY.
•a
Flu Takes Children
From Brogden Home
The home of Mr. and Mrs. K. M
Dudley of Brugden township Is
desolate this morning. A week ago
Ihetr two-year old baby died of
pneumonia following tnfludhxu.
At 8:80 Tuesday night their 4
year old daughter, Margery, died
of the same disease. These two
were the only children of the
household. Mr. and Mrs. Dudlev
have the aympathv of all In their
sorrow.
GRANTHAM SUIT
BEFORE COURT
u i ■ •* •
Seeks Damage of 13,000 From
Norfolk Southern Railway
. For Accident
The charge Mldyette 4hl*
morning remains to complete the caae
fit Luby Grantham against the Nor
folk and Southern railroad company"
In Wayne connty superior court. Ex
cept to pause for a moment to grant
once divorce, the court on Wednesday
rave all ita lime to thla action.
Mr. Grantham seeks |S,oofi damage
from the railroad, alleging negligence
on tbe part of agents of the company
as the cause for an accident In which
his automobile waa wrecked by a train
on Ash street end in which he was
Injured. The accident took place Jan
uary 81. I»87.
Goldsboro Citizen Dies
At Home of Sister
*
Mr. J. R. Chamberlain, well known
and* prominent cltlten of Goldsboro,
better known aa "Doc,” died at 11:46
laat night at th®, home of his sister,
Mra. T. W. Flowers, 105 North James
•tr*#i.
The v funeral hill be conducted
from the home at 10:30 Friday morn
ing. and the interment In Ihe Willow
Dale cemetery.
SHOT HUBBY
FORGETS IT
Jungle Huntress and Society
Woman Testified in Her Own
Detent*
NEW YORK. Jan. 28— UP\— Eeth
er Wilson, jungle huntress and Wash
ington society woman testified tn her
own defense today I hat she had no
recollection of Shooting her husband.
Ballet Wilson. Fifth Avenue lawyer
anij, politician last March.
"I saw down across from him st-hls
deck," Mrs. Wilson testified, in re
lating her ectlons el she time of the
»hooting. "He was very rude to me.
I told him I wanted to have a definite
understanding about money matters
anA he waa perfectly dreodful. I nev
eV saw ’film so angry In my life.
Three or four times he tried to put
me out of the office The minute Mr.
Wagman (a lawyer employed by WII
ron) went out of the office Mr. Wil
son made a Jump at me, put his hands
up as though to grasp my nerk and
cursed roe. Baying You. your s# kill
ing Miss Rice’."
There wa# no explanation of the
Identity of Miss Rice and at this point
In her .testimony Mrs WHsoi* bettmu
to laugh hysterically.
"I don’t remember shooting Win.'
she -concluded her ncco’iint, tonghlnt
and then suddenly bursting into tears
Tnder* cross examination she At
nowledged she had a revolver without
a permit although «he knew this
be against the law She carried It In
- handbag she said to protect hei
>wet*. « Bhe could , not be p.mltlv
whether It was lu her bag when *h
railed on her huslmnd because she
never looked In the hag. as she never
carried a handkerchief and seldom
used powder.
Wilson, who was wounded 1 Iwlce
snd spent two months In n hospital,
testified he believed Mrs. W’llson had
■hot him by accident. v
Hoovers Leave for Florida \
■
Mr
Until it is time for him to return North for the
inauguration, President-elect Hoover, above with
Mrs. Hoover and Dr. Hubert Work, will take
I shlnas ho ®a th® ruete aii.fl Penney. Florid*
President Gains of Wake
Forest Secured as Speaker
■ V . a d
Dr. Frauds V. (tolnee. president
of Wake Foreel College: Senator J.
*M. Broughton of Raleigh, and J.
Wilson Smith, state secretary of the
Y. M. C. A. are the chief adult speak
ers for the tenth annual older boy*
Conference to be held 1 In Goldttburo,
February 15, 16 and 17.
Jerome Clark, of KrfyeUevlllo, pre
sident of the conference, and hsl
crew of active associates grill be in
charge of all session*.
Among those who have been se
cured to as group leaders are the
following: L- J. Gossard of New
MIDWEST AGAIN
SHEET OF SNOW
W*t*r Soaked Earth Freegea
With Low Temperature
Making Sheet of Ice
CHICAGO, Jan 23—OP) -Two at
mospheric disturbances one in east
<rn Kansas and the other Jn the
Rocky Mountain plateau region, to
day had polluted mldwestern temper
atures toward xero. and below Gales
whipped Lake Michigan, Ice covered
pavements and open roads, and In sev
eral state* there wa* promise of more
snow.
The renewed cold snap, which Iha
we*ther burean said would 1m- severe,
came as the trailer.of rain and warm
ing winds Which h»d left hlreels,
sidewalk*, and fields snaked With
the temperature dropping, the water
trt.fft! coating most of Ihe middle wr*i
wILi Ice.
'-hlrago, whose street* already were
slippery with »now that fell durimt
the Christmas holidays, was r/» ri
Ing to sand and ashes to iRSk<» foot
Mnd motor traffic l ,s « dangerous
Streets became skating rinks for
children In many parts of the city.
The Mack hills of South Dakota
were experiencing the worst we*|her
«f she Winter, a record low of it he
low sero being reported tberiV There
was only a moderate snow fall, but It
was whipped he n lilting northwest
wind Mist piled high drift* and de
'aved traffic. »
Whistling winds, -now laden ~w«pt
(ver North Dakota and Minnesota
Below xero temperatures prevailed.
Mid some school- were clo-ed
highways were blocked bv the snow
Infant Die*, of Heart failure
AftIIKRORO. Ja« ; 23. M-:irt
fallnr» »-ss given trslav- by local pbv
p -
sb-l-jii-; as the < Mis.- of the death of*
4 tea HionUia old lulauu
GOLDSBORO, N. c. THURSDAY MDHNINii, JANUARY 24, 1929
..I—— V s
. ligru. Ray Armsiron®, o{ G.lldsboru,
F. W. (ireoue, ts Wilson. J. F. K*s
|M>rmaii. of Rocky 'Mount. M, L. 8(ock
stlll, of Ralelgli. Several others
will be asked to help.
Th# plans are to make this-the..
1 biggest and best conference ever I
held In hettfirn North Carolina. Up
wards, of lOtl delegates are expected
for- tbe conference her#
Goldsboro *:as select (Ml. us the
place Os meeting after the teen* Y.
M. O. A. se.i'etary had conferred
with several cltlMlta of Ihe clly. This
Is the first time that Ihe conference
lias ever been lu-bl in Hie « 11 v'
BAUCON HELD
IN JAIL HERE
•a
Alleged to Have Been Driver so
Rum ( ar Throuirh City
Sometime Aro
Harry jlaucom, who Is said to have
flgurisl jn court record* on
occasions. teas~"ye ,i te''' la y lodged In
Wayne lull on a charge of -transport
ing whiskey.
ItottciMii is held as the pian who
several months ago outdistanced De
puty Sheriff Carl Smith In a race
tbal hsl from o here to Wilson’s Mills
He was arrested by Deputy John kor
at a local hotel on Tuesday
night.
MARJORIE DAW
AGAIN IS WED
Myron Scl/m-t. Movie Produc
er, Takes His Hrid# l<> Los
AmyleH
NKW YORK- :’3 f.4 v > Miir*.i
rle Daw,, motion picture artress and
Myron Halxnlck. movie producer
were married tislay In the munici
pal chupot bv Mo- city clerk Tjicv
left rft once for Lo» Angeb- .', .
Mi . in. g-’.v u>r .igc
divorrwl bJvi lirsl Tfnsbatid. Albert t
pnthcrlsiml, of thdlywool, tn A|>rll
182.'.
BuMnpNs Leader Diex
In Daytona Beach, Fla.
DAYTONA IH-.Ai 11. Fla.. lan t
Id'l- Jack .On J<ilill i>n. 70. pu dib iit
of the Itm inational Slim- Company
of St. laiuts, died here late todu.
of hyuirt trouble ufler ail tllnes: of
four day*.
millionaire, at tbe latter’s home on Bcii® isle, naor
Miami Beach. Tbe photo aitowg Hoover party:
just before boarding a train for tha South. ]
Goldsboro Figurea
In APProprlution
WASHINGTON. J*,i.
President Coolidgo tisiay runout
mended that Congress make avail
able a supplemental appropriation,
0f... $394,000 for the Ireaaury _dt_
, 0 :
pamnentjor a<u by the suparvla
-Ing architect for 1829.
Os tbe sum fjt)o;i>uo |g to be us
ed fur extenalons and Improve
nieni. In federal building*, Includ
tng those at l.ancaatur. Ky.; Tal
lahassee, Fla., and Goldsboro. N.
C Tin- balance of Blßi,(Hrt would
be used to pay for service* of out
*B4#° architect* lu the roust ruction
of .other Items.
NORTHCOTT ILL
CASE HELD UP
Hin Trial for Murder To Ha
Resumed Todav: Seeks
♦ IdJifal Aid #
RIVERSIDE, Cal., an 23. -(M~
1 Apparently suffering from an attack
us melancholia In addition to hi* phy
■deal lll*,' Gordon Stewart Northcott,
accus.-d slayer of three boys spent a
restless night In Ihe detention Ward
. f the Riverside county hospital last
night.
Thc K ;ypuiu: Canadian, who for morn
luiu a ■ k Yvj.- been altemptlnjpsfo
act as his own attorney' In his trial
w'.ih gniuttsl a t ohtiuunnoe yesterday
ntifll tomorrow. The fonltounnc# wa*
-ranted after Dr. H. L. Ratliff ha!
testified that Northcott was suffering
from laryngitis aud conjunct I vltlea.
Northc-tet spent a large part of last
.Igbt Jn tears. hl« guardjt reported,
-..blcli appearmrto Incra.me the influ
matloii of his already badly swollen
eye*. The Young Canadian, betp-#en
cells. lli.it lie. .lb iMired «f
--his own .ibiiity to-tigtii tiic >barge*
“ucci sfullv 4-1,. comp 1 lined that'll'-
was lonely mid that he wauled help.
David Sokol. Lam Angeles attorney
was associated with til'., defense
• In tie* trim, ttwd who Withdrew
two daV“ In'in .\oTthcott dUmlsstet
the rest of his lawyer* and plotted to'
handle hi* own affairs against the ad
vice of J edge George Mb Freatnan,
tlsßrsl Northcott lost night
Kdkol at thit”cotlclu«l*hi of n Inna
b.l'tii'W, jinnoMiiced that In."wonl I
petition Judg>- ►'rceptan truuort-nw to
permit him to reenter the ras# *•
Northcott** attorney Hokul said he
i mddereu N'ortherilt hpth physically
mentally lin omptUi-wf to carry oil
th* light.
Want Extra Terms of
| | t ■ • y c-. z> '* •" *
Wayne County Superior
Court to be Granted
Demonstrates l*ower
Dynamite, He’s Dead
H.MBKRTON. Jan. 23.-GP)
Dock Yates. Chadbouht negro, de
monstrated the power of- dyna
mite tut his brother Monday nlgtit
and as a result died In a hospi
tal later without regaining con
sciousness. The man took a fuse
and cap and struck a match to
° show the brother Its power. A
pile of dynamite ,ln the room waa
set off and several holes were
blown In Yale's bead and Ills left
foot was blown "off A big hole
was blown In the floor of the
house and all windows were
blown out. The brother was
slightly Injured.
Yales had the dynamite for use
In blasting stumps aud kept It In
hla boms.
RELATES STORY
OF HER LIAISON
*
Nmthvllie Woman Had . Mel
11 Younp HuoincMs Man He
“ cretly for Six. Yearn
NAHHVtLLK, • Jan 22.--»lra. Eva
Hnl#n Cunningham, testifying In the
trial of Walter L. Liggett, charged
with the murder of her tiueband
Turaey Cunningham, today, related to
a Jury her six year association With
tha defrnd*qt v _>
Throughout the tssllmony of the $5
year old widow, I.lggsyt. a prominent
vuung, grain dealer here, seemed un
moved as she kepi FieFTye* centered
on him.
Cunningham, manager of a local
hotel, wa* phot down in III# back yard
of his home the night of October 29
when he met Llggtet leaving after
a meeting with Mrs. Cunningham,
l tggelt entered a plea of cfslf lis
tens*.
Mr* Cunningham testified that Lig
gett had urged her to get a divorce
end once had told her “he could get
someone oi the Memphis underworld
to knock off her husband ”
Cnder s searching cross examina
tion. Mrs: Cunningham told ot hei
meeting with Liggett six years aao
when lu* picked her up In Mnxr
while she waa walling for a elreet
car. She aleo related vlslta to a house
In she central part of the city with
the defendant and two week end tripe'
one at a hotel at Columbia, Tenn., and
the other at Hewanee. Tenn., and num
erous meetings In lh# garage of her
home and on tbe campus of a nearby
college
SNIPES FUNERAL
AT 11 O'CLOCK
&£ ,
Died ts. gnterday Followtair lll
nenn of Several HonthM. Waa
«2 Yearn Old
_ tv
From the home on North Jumei
i-tree* at 11 I'dack this niorulnx will
be he lid fuueral for Mrs. Mandv
Hnlpes, 82, whl fol
lowing an Illness of many months.
Mrs. George Strickland and Eel)
Hnlpes. both of Goldsboro are child
ran of the deceased. There are six
surviving brothers, M. F. Cox of Gx
..ford, 7. B. C. T . Claude and Louis
Hill, all of Kmlthfteld.
FVTGHY MW.IX!* I.IFF NKNTKM’I.
COJ.CMBIA. S C. Jan. 23 (Afi—
Charles R. Vaiiglm, of Jacksonville,
Fla., who Was .(•filencwl to serve
life imprisonment for the slaying of
Hatniiel J. Hick lay, noted detective.
~Wgs' taken to the state penitenttary
late tisiay to liegin his *eate®c«, -
vi'POintfh u> toaaiHstoh
' :o t %
WAHItt NOTON. Jan 23. (Ab-
Senator HtimiiniiN »f North Varollna,
Richard I*. l-tt3V I. of Kentuckv; and
I,like .Lea, Teliitessei- puliltsher. Were
appointed by Prosldent Cooltdge to
day us members of Ihe commlsslou
*n charge of the proposed President’s
Plata m .NagJtvlUe, Teun,
I MEMBER OF
THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS
piici nratam
May Switch (rim Inal Waak
Afiaad of ClfO IT BStifc Ba*>
atom Nat Grantad
A BAR COMMITTEE 18
STUDYING PROPOSITION
Would Have Extra Criailaal
Ter* la February and Ex
tra Civil Tern Lain
Hornetblng Is likely Halt® do®#
about civil court proceeding crtml
nal court i® mixed terms of* Ways*
Superior court. U appeared yeteer
dey.
Effort* are contemplated by It*
local bar sssoclatton. It waa learwed
•o requeet special teresa of OMVt far
’Ysvne undar lh® emergency jedge
v.fem One term for rrlmlnal caeee
■ometlme la February would be aek
ed. It wae indicated aad aa otva
•erm of rlvtl court later la. th®
-print would be sought.
If tbe spqefiT terTO of court era*
not be secured, It waa 1 tamed. It to
nrobable that soma member of the
General AseemWv will h® agbad t*
tutroduc# a hill which would pravtil®
that «ton titer® to a two WMtff*
mixed tertp, the w#®b devoted t® the
trial of crlmlual am®® shall «®m®
first. This had been th® loaf te®ad
'tfig custom hut ®| th® tote lagts I#-
ture a htll waa peee®d under Vkhb
the civil court weeb came tret
There ha# hoea cosielderuble dot
sat I* fart 100 with thta urwfemiat
on the putt of tbe public.
fl was learutel that th# toe®! bar
unsocial ton baa appointed g commit
tee to
k I j I J l *, j T MIA
W. H. LAWRENCE
LOSES APPEAL
Supreme Court Finds Lawruues
Had Fair Trial far KlMnc
Mr*. Parry
•» —,.
RALEIGH, Jen. *».—H.
I.awrenoe. Durham eteteraotor,. who
was Convicted nearly • year ago ft
murder In the soeoad degree tor th®
slaying of Mrs. Annie Perry, Durham
trossmaker. and s®ateacad to Si
-etini In prlaon. mute eery* bto *ea*
lence, the Supreme court ruled today
In finding no error In hie eaa®.
Lawrence wss found guilty tea
. trial In Pit t shorn laajt, Summer, th®
evidence - against him botag ctrcute
itsntiel The appeal was based oa th®
contention of defena® attorneys that
Judgs R. A. Nunn. prsgMlag. errud
In refusing to grant ® motion for mob
.alt of th® cos*.
Th* middle-aged dressmaker*®
body wa* found In the Cap# F**r rtv- j
er In April of last year, a few day® J
after two fishermen reported hearing J
a woman screaming for awtrey oa thte
A vent’# Ferry bridge In Chatham
county shoot midnight March 84.
Lawrence was arrested April It,
vigorously protesting his Innoooucu
and claiming an alibi. Maid lu Jail
without bond, be cob tinned to direct
bis contract log operations from bto
cell.
GRESHAM BUYS
WILSON LINE
Owner of Moat Linra Plytaf
Through City Purehasm On®
toM
MOrf
wi
\ It—
8. T Ores ham. principal owner of
several of the bus lines operating I®
i iid out of Goldsboro, j ha* purchased
the Ootdsboro to Wilson and Wllso®
to'Rocky Mount Itnss from Patrick
and Vinson, II waa announced yes
terday.
operation of the lines has now
been taken over by Mr. Gresbo.n aad
colnrlden) with th# change, announce
ment of a bus from Goldsboro to •
Hockv Mount was announced. Bus#®®
direct th,. Rocky Mount by Wilson
leavi" here now at 7:3® and 10:46.
In the mort|lag and 11:3®, 4:34 aad
8:30 p. m. Previously bus puseagera
from (toldakoro to Rocky Mount had
to Wttooa. I