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?*? + **** * THE WEATHER. * Partly cloudy tonight * and Saturday. Light to * gentle irinds. mostly * Southicest. ******** ? ?***? ??? ? ? * CIRCULATION ? * Thursday * * 2.212 Copies * * * ? -? ? -?" ? A. VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1923. FOUR PAGES. NO. 779. Harding Thought Was Last Illness Thief Executive Had Premonition That the End Was Near, Says His Brother-in-Law?Words of Sorrow and Sympathy Expressed in Many Quarters Ran Francisco, August 3.?Tlio President had a premonition that his. last illness would be fatal, according to a statement by Elbert Remsberg,] his brother-in-law, to newspapermen^ today. Mrs. Harding, although greatly shocked at the death of her husband,; aroso early this morning, after a short sleep and directed all affairs. and looked after the welfare of the party. London. August 3.?King George 1 today commanded the court to wear mourning for one week for Presi dent Harding. Washington, August 3.?Former President Wilson today sent a mes- 1 sage of condolence to Mrs. Harding at San Francisco, but the telegram was not made public. Murray Bay. Quebec, August 3.? "The loss of President Harding can-' not be overestimated," Chief Justice Taft and former President of the | United States, declared today. Washington. Aumist 3.?"The na tion suffered an Irreparable loss" in , the death of the President. Senator Hltam Johnson of Califorina de clared here today. KikI Camp Suddenly v San Francisco. August 3.?Presl- \ dent Harding died at 7:30 o'clock! (1.0:30 Eastern time) Thursday ] night by a stroke of apoplexy, after having almost won his fight against broncho-pneumonia and other com plications. The end came suddenly and with out warning while Mrs. Hnrdlng. truly fntthful until death, sat by his 1- Islde reading to htm. Two nurses i were the only other persons In the room and there was no time for a last word from the nation's leader cither to his wife or to the republic: he served. A shudder shook hii' frame, weakened by seven days of illness and worn by a trip of 7.500 { miles from Washington to Alaska 1 and returning as far as this city. He collapsed, and it was over. Mrs. Harding only had time to rush to the door and call. "Find Dr. Boone and the otherB quick," mean-' InK the physicians. Brigadier Gen erela Charles E. Sawyer, personal physician to the President, was In a nearby room, but when he hurried Into the room, medical skill was useless. ? Mrs. Harding was as brave and stronir after the end as she had We?-n faithful to the end. Although not strong an<V still Effected by her ft 11 - r.- ss of nearly a year ago. she de clan d that she could not break down, and she did not break down In the hour of h^r greatest grief. The body will be taken at 6 o'clock this evening from the Palace Hotel, j where he died, and will be borne di rect to the train which will leave for Washington as soon thereafter as possible. Washington llcnnnilxMl Washlncton, August 3.?From Its highest officials to Itb humblest citi zen. Washington awoke today to the Blow realization that President War ren G. Hardfric lay dead In faraway San Francisco. Tho suddenness of the blow struck 1a?t night with numbing force. Not until the morning papers bore the news over the city was It fully cred ited. It was to a strangely scattered of ficial family that word of their lead er's death was flashed. Of all the cabinet, only Postmaster General Now was actually within the limits of the National capital. Administration Events These constitute the high spots In the events of the Harding adminis tration: Re-establishment of peace with Germany and Austria; Calling the Arms Conference, which approved the naval limitation treaty and tho four-power pacific past; Ratification of the treaty with Co lumbia, resulting from the partition ing of Panama; Revision of the tax and tariff laws; Restriction of Immigration; Farmer aid legislation, with par ticular reference to easier credits on more liberal terms; Establishment of the budget bu t? au; Veto of the soldier bonus bill; Extension of the program of aid for wounded, sick and disabled vct t ran* of the World War; Advocacy of American participa ting In the World Court. Xcws ltroA4lcfu>tc<l. New York. August 3.?At 1:30 a. m. a radio station at Newark. New J? rsey, threw on long distance trans mitters and began broadcasting the story of the President's death to sta tions In Europe, ships at sea. Ameri can naval bajes, and Isolated forest patrols over the, country. Warren G. Harding brought to the Presidency an infinite patience and kindness in dealing with public ques tions and men, which enabled him to WAIlltKX G. HAItPIXti handle the problems of government without the stress and worry which1 had handicapped many of his pre-! decessors. Whatever else historians may say of him there probahlv will be little | dispute that few chief executives came to office in peace time facing problems more complex in their na ture or greater In number. All in ternational nffalrs were unbalance?! as never before, with many principal settlements of the Great War still to; bt effectuated. At home the wftfk of! reconstruction had .only just beirun, j with business deprZ-sju-d, agriculture j prostrate and unemployment general. How Harding measured up to the task before him must be left to J the historian, but his friends said that coming to the Presidency as he did with an open mind, a denire for counsel and an intimate knowledge of the processes of government ac quired In his services in tb<? Senate, he was the type of man needed for the Job at such a time. Preaching upon every occasion the doctrine of Americanism, he set his face resolutely against "Entangling Alliances." While thus adhering to what he was pleased to th?r principles of the founding fathers, he nevertheless lent the moral assist ance of the government In the efforts to bind up the wounds of the world. That influence was once declared by him to be not inconsiderable, and so America tinder his guidance had a part, silent though" tt was In the main. In effecting the settlements of many vexing world questions. Its chief contribution was the Washing ton Arms Conference at which the principal pbwers covenanted to limit the size of their navies and thus lift from tax weary peoples the burden of maintaining the race for naval su premacy. Along with the proffer of counsel in effecting world settlements went an Insistance that American rig'its be recognized. In polished phrase, but with a directness of expression that was not to be misconstrued, the. world was given to understand from the very first of the Harding admin istration that the United States, tree ly respecting the rights rrfi the other nations, asked for herself only that to which she was entitled in simple Justice, and that she could accept nothing less. While in his dealings with Con gress Mr. Harding preferred the role of counsellor rather than dictator, he speedily removed any. doubt that his gift of patience denoted any lack of purpose one ehe bad charted a course. Thus he told Congress that soldiers* bonus legislation either should carry the means of financing or be postponed, and when the legis lators put aside his advice lie1 promptly vetoed the bill they sent him. 7 .His tenacity of purpose was fur-l ther exemplified In his continual pounding for economy In public ex penditure* and again In his insist-! ence that Congress pass the merch ant marine aid bill with a view to curtailing the continual drain which! the operation of the war-built com-j merclal fleet had become upon the Treasury. His greatest single effort In the field of domestic legislation was In behalf of this measure. ? Not Infrequently Mr. Harding was] called upon to play the role of peace-1 maker In governmental affairs. He j Intervened in a dispute between Con gress and the Treasury as to the form general tax revision was to take, and ' the program he approved was car-! rled out in the main with a reduc tion of more than half a billion In the nation's tax burden. Likewise, his counsel settled the' long controversy between the House] and Senate on the question of Amer- \ lean valuation In the tariff law. He proposed In Its place a flexible turlfT: arrangement under which the Tariff, Commission was given authority1 with hl? approval to Increase or low er rates within prescribed limita tions. I'pon alanine the bill, the President declared It constituted the Contlnned on Poga 4 Russell Case Set For Trial Monday | And Trouble* of Two Other Young While Men in Toils of Law Multiply The case of the State vs. Dan Rus sell, Providence township farmer, son of Miles Russell, set for Friday morning, was again continued in the absence from the city of Aydlett & Simpson, attorneys for the defend ant. Friday morning in recorder's) court and is now set for trial Mon-j day morning. Troubles multiplied Friday for Ross J. Brlte and Mark Warden, young white men of Pasquotank! County, whtr were fomtd jrirtttr of4 tampering with a Stale s witness and fined $25 and costs. Trial Justice Spence. in imposing sentence, called the attention of the defendants tt> the seriousness of their offense nnd said that he would Impose a more severe penalty but for the fact that he did not believe that at the time they realized they were violating the law. Evidence was that the two de fendants went to Clinton Overton. Sr., negro farmer. State's witness in a case charging nrite nnd Warden with manufacturing liquor, and told him that if he testified that he saw them at a still and drank some of their liquor the n? uro would be iq as [ much trouble ns they were. Overton was not deterred by their suggestion, however, and It was on his testimony [that Brlte and Warden earlier this week were convicted fn recorder's court of manufarturinu and. when they noted an appeal, bound over to Superior Court under an appeal bond of $200. Friday morning Angel Dance, colored, who. Clinton says, I was also working at the same still with llrite and Warden, was likewise found guilty, and put und< r tin same | appeal bond. If AugeJ can not ar range bond he will have to serve a term of three months on tlje roads. Parker Morgan for violation of the parking law was taxad with the I costs on a submission. Henry Divers, sentenced to Jail for operating a gambling device about two weeks ago. was let off of the | remaining IIS days of his sentence on condition that he go to woft and .support his family. Hawaii Gets Rich on Sugar This Year ! Increase of Forty IVr Cent Over (iross Itelnriit from ThU Produc t in lf?22 Honolulu. Aug. 3?"King Sugar." monarch of Hawaiian products, will 'pour approximately $70,000000 In to the territory this year, on Increase of almost 4'? perccnt over the gross 'return from thin product last year, according to the estimates of promi nent planters. All except a few mills in the terr** tory have completed th'?lr grinding ? for the teason, and ttte combined ! output Is certain to exceed R00.000 I tons, -a decrease of approximately ? 100,000 tons from the production of Inst year, which i? laid to the planta tion laborers* strike of 1020. when most of the 192 crop was planted. The average price for last year's j crop, however, was $92.96 a ton, as compared with this year's estimated average price of between $130 and $140 a ton. Planters here have polnten out that the value of the Hawaiian sugar 'crop approximately equals the pro duction of silver In the United States, 1 which usually averages between $.10, 000.000 and,$60.000.000 annually although It rose In 1915 to $77,036, 170. With the large increase in athe su ? gar income. It is estimated ttiat Ha waii's exports to the mainland 1'nited States this year will aggregate $100. j 000,000 as the pineapple pack will bring $25,000,000 and other miscel laneous products approximately $&, 000,000. UNION SERVICE AT AT FIRST BAPTIST The first t'nion Service of the sum mer will be held In the First Itaptist Church Sunday evening at # o'clock with the pastor of the First Metho dist Church preaching?Dr. N. H. D. Wilson Dr. W. n. Flanagan of Richmond Southslde Church. Dr. S. H. Temple man's former pastorate, will be pres ent to preside In the absence of Dr. Templeman. who Is on his vacation. The public Is most cordially invit ed and It is hoped that there will lie a large attendance. COTTON EXCHANGE IS CLOSED TODAY New York. August 3.?The New York cotton exchange will not open | today out of respect for the late President Harding. vcwr mrrwvcK* kijzayikth City and Nlcsnor Friday morning one buttery cutlery roll containing knives, razors, hammers and other things. Reward If returned to F. F. :Garrett or J. H. Aydlett Hdw. Co. Auf.8-F.P.np City Sorrows Over President's Death Th?> flag on the Ft'tleral Huilding hung at half mast to day. by order of Postmaster J. A. Hoo|?er. heCRUDf of the death of the Chief Executive of the nation. The Onus on the Government boat. Pamlico. In the harbor. Texaco Ruilding and other buildings III th? rttv also hunc at half mart. The courthouse bell was tolled for half an hour early thin morning by order of Fire Chief Flora, and all day on the streets the death of the Presl jlent seemed uppermost In the minds of Elizabeth City people. The news reached the city after midnight and was not generally known until people began to jret?U1> In the morn ing and go about their work. Advance newsboys were on the streetH at 4 o'clock and kept busy until the train came In with the Virginian-Pilot at 11:30. Forty-Two Counties Adopt Mothers' Aid And the Stale Appropriation Only I let nine KlftH the One .Month Ago Raleigh. Aucust 3.?A month af I tor tin* fund of $50,000 appropriated for Mothers' Aid by the General As- J sembly of 1923 became available on i July 1. 42 counties hire taken?ad- j vantaue of this State assistance to worthy* mothers deprived of their j {husbands' support who are struggl-1 I ins to rear their children In their own homes, officials of the State Hoard of Charities and Public Wel fare announced tonight. I According to their pro rata share, these 4 2 counties nre entitled to $2D,322.CiO of the fund. It wns stat ed. This does not mean.- however, accordinu to Miss Knietli Tuttle, ?1 i-1 (rector of Mothers' Aid. that the i while of the $29,000 available from the State for these 4 2 counties will be utfd. merely that they are entitl 1 ed to that much. It is necessary,1 ?she explained, for each county to match dollar for dollar the amount [taken from the State fund, j Counties taking Mothers' Aid now, lit is announced, are: Alamance, Al exander. Anson. Reaufort, Rruns wick, Runcomhe, Riirke, Cabarrus. I Cleveland, Columbus. Cumberland. Davidson. Edgecombe, Forsyth, Franklin, Granville. Guilford. Har nett. Hertford. Iredell. Lenoir. Mc ; Dowel I, Mecklenburg, Moore. Nash, 'New Hanover, Orange, Pasquotank, Pitt, Ilotx-son. Rockingham. Rowan. Rutherford, Sampson, Scotland. Stanley, Surry, Wake, Wilkes. Wil son. Pnion and. Vance. Others are expected within?ar-jihort time, Mlssl Tuttle said. A dozen Individual application.!: for Mothers' Aid have come in from various counties to the office of the State Roard of Charities and Public Welfare which has the supervision of this fund. Only one has been ap proved. so far. This came from Scotland County. The ca'-e Is that of a widow with four little children, the oldest of whom Is five and a half. J Her bnsbao.d died leaving her with no means for their support. "Reasons for disapproval of other applications were in general insuffi cient Information. "It Is the object of the Slate Roard of Public Welfare In administering 1 Mothers' Aid in North Carolina to go Islowly and very carefully, especially at first, in order that only women really worthy of assistance receive! this help." Miss Tuttle says. "A |groat dial depends on how the fir?4 cases are administered whether or jnot Mothers' Aid In North Carolina is to be a success." Application blanks for Mothers' Aid made out by the Roard of Pub-, lie Welfare require detailed Informa tion in order that the administration of the fund be safeguarded. Miss Tut-, tie asserted. Most of those received ; up to now. Miss Tuttle says, have not j been fully filled out and, hence were! unacceptable. Together with the ap-J plication blank for Mothers' Aid the! Roard of Public Welfare plans to] send out health record blanks for mothers and children, which, howev er. the applicant Is not absolutely re quired to fill out. she said. For as sistance to county superintendents of public welfare in administering > Mothers' Aid Miss Tultle is prepar-j In* a monthly family budget. Includ- { Ing rent, fuel, light food, clothing and sundries. The whole spirit of the Mothers' J Aid law was misinterpreted by one recent applicant, according to the director. A well-to-do gentleman re ported to b? more than able to sup port his widowed daughter who lived , in his home made application for aid in her name, said Miss Tuttle. "Probably he thought there was n't any use supporting her any more) than he had too. if he could get the State to do part," said Miss Tuttle. "Of course fhls application was re-1 fused, as Mothers* AI<J Is Intended for needy women." "No woman with children over 14 I Is eligible for Mothers' Aid." contin ued Miss Tuttle. "One application i came In to the board from a widow with two sons, one 16 and the other 14 In August. She applied in Julyi and said she wanted a month of the aid for her younger boy. any way. j We do not wish to approve appllca-j Hons for aid for less than six months,! as we feel that anything less can ! scarcely be satisfactory." Coolidge Takes Oath Of Office New President Is Sworn in l>y His Father, Notary Pultlic, Text of Pledge Being Telephoned to Him at Plymouth, Vermont, from the While House 2:47 Friday a. m. Garrett Trial is Battle Affidavits Fight Centers around Motion of State to Declare Mistrial '11* Tti? Atuwii.rd Pwtl Cumberland Courthouse. Va., Auk. 3.?Th?? battle of affidavits which ,raged furiously for the first two day* of the trial of tho Garrett brothers broke out afresh today when tho trial of Larkln Garrett for the murder of Rev. IMward Sylvester Pierce was resumed. The battle centered around the motion of the state to declare a mis trial because it had learned that three of the jurors had made state-1 .ments before the trial started that should have disqualified them. The court announced that It would" ?ntertaln a motion for mistrial and directed that witnesses be called. WIIJIELM'S COFFIN CRUISED THE SEAS Bremen, Auk. 3.? Pack In the ;old days when William ilohentollcrn, now living quietly In Holland, used tor enjoy (raveling about Europe as [the German emperor, the steamer Bremen -ofter saw him installed in ilie Imperial suite, built gaudily for his personal use. And at that time .It was related, though never proved, that a sumptuous royal coffin was al ways carried on this vessel. In case of eventualities. It now appo.irs this story was true. The Bremen is today the Constanti nople. running between Handy Hook and the Golden Horn. Down in her 1 hold there was found recently the I.cofTIn referred to. It Is a pretentious ! affair, lineil jvith silk and decorated ; with gold and silver. Williams last travelled on the Constantinople in 1912. -- - ALABAMA HAS MODEL AND MODERN PRISON Montgomery, Ala., August 3.?Al abama has a chance to step from the bottom of the list of states In prison reform to the top. In the opinion of Dr. It. Staff Whit in, president of the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor. "Your Kilbv prison in mod'-rnoss Ik a model. It has none outside of N>nv York that can equal It. My. but tlu( changes that have taken place m \Iabama since my first visit hero under the O'Neal ndministration. "The ne\t step will be In the abo lition of the convict lease system. That must be only a matter of time. And let me say, that in desiring na tion-wide publicity in selling Alaba ma's great natural resources, there 1:4 nothing that will be the advertise ment of a model convict system. "Products of Kilby prison are be ing sold too low. however. They are barely paying for the operation of the plant. Your convict labor Is be ing given away," Dr. Whiting de clared. "The system of work from sunrise to sunset under the lease system must go. It has gone everywhere except In Alabama already." FAST NORFOLK TEAM PI-AYS LOCALS TODAY A fast Norfolk team will piny hall on Hi*1 local diamond tlilx nfternoon nt 5 o'clock, weather permitting. Kd gnr Williams was on liIk wav to the city with the club nt o'clock, ac cording to .Manager John Wells. Another tame Is also schedu-lcd for Saturday afternoon. OrrlicHlrn Mimic for Currilurk Pleasure Day Music 'by a home talent orchestra will be one of the attractions of Plea-1 sure l?ay In Currituck County Satur day. and this feature will doubtless add no little to the enjoyment of n program already replete with good thing*. Pleasure Day w41l be observed at' Bible School Park at Point Harbor. The speaker of the day Is Congress man llallett B. Ward. VjAIMJF/ ( IIOWP T.K1VKM OX FIRST MKTIIODIMT OI'TIVfJ , With weather conditions Ideal for an excursion down the river the An nie L Vansclvcr left at 2 o'clock PrS day afternoon with a large repre*on tntlon from the First Methodist Sun day school. After enjoying supper and various forms of amusement at Chanttlla Peach the crowd will lesve about ft: 30 and return to the city by 8:30 p. m. i (Br Th? AuorUtrd Prr*o 1 lymouth. Vt.. August 3? Presi dent CoolidKc l?ft for Washington at 7:30 (Ills morning, accompanied by Mr*. Coolldge and two Federal em ploye*. who had hastily pressed Into secret service duty. New York. August 3.?Though hi* complete plans have not been made known, it i, learned that Preaident v !. m*y l,r?ceed from New York or Washington Went to meet [he train bearing the body of Pres ident Harding to the National cap! i Tho ,,?dy of the President will leave San t rnnclsco tonight at 7, on a special train, for Washington. -Where it will lie In state In the Na tlonal capitol. Washington, August 3.?Calvin Coolldge took tiie oath as President of the t nited States at Plymouth. Vermont, at 2:47 a. m. today, The nrw 1 resident wan nworn In m father, who is a notary pub i "crflnd at whose home ho was visit* Jog. - Tt'^, *.?x* ?f"sthe pledge as pre |scribed h.v the roiistitulion was tele phoned to him by the White House. C alvin Coolldge. although by pro fession a law*<r, entered ihe public i service almost immediately upon : leaving college. First t lec ted :i member of the city council of Northhampton. Mass., tho [city which hail been his home siuce j he became a vo.<>r, he progressed steadily upwar.i through the offices of city solicitor, mayor, membership in the House of lleprcM ntatives and of the Senate of Mas^achu:'"!ts, serv ing as president of tlui latter bodv, and then as lieutenant governor un til elected Governor and in l'.?20 j Vice-President of the United States. I In the more thin 20 years he gave |to those duties his time was almost |exclusively devoted to the problems of public affairs. Only Incidentally did lie turn to the law, although ^ie always maintained an office with an assoclato at Northhampton. He was born In the village of Ply mouth, Vt., on July 4. 1X72 or Purl* tan ancestors who came to ibis coun try and settled in Waffcrtown, Mass.. In 1630. His ancestry runs through a long line of farmers who lived In Massa chusetts until his ?reat great grand father moved Into Vermont. lie left the farm In 1X91 for Am herst College and graduated with honor* in 1K95. Immediately upon leaving college he went to North ampton to study law and finally Fet tled there. It was Mr. Coolldge's common aenae, his insight into legislative tac tics and his mentality which first at tracted to him the attention of po litical leaders. The late Benator w. Murray Crane, who was a resi dent of Coolldge's congressional dis trict. was among the first to note these qualities, and he resolved to utilize the first opportunity to pro ject Mr. Coolldge into the national political arena. Ily hard work and steady pfofrefi Mr. Coolldge continued his rise un til lie rouId 'be considered for high office and then It was that Honator ( nine and other leaders exerted ihelr powers to liavo him nominated for I.I' ll 1 en.inI -Governorship. lie was elected in the first campaign won hy the Republicans in Massa chusetts for several years, duo to the Progressive party split. There nfter It was but logical for him to succeed to the governorship, an of fire whirl) he held for two terms anil which he left for the vice presidency. The dramatic events tho Bos ton police strike. |n which the gov ernor took a firm and unyielding stand for law and order, focussed upon him In J?1 ft national attention and made' of him almost overnight a national ngure. For a while he was talked of prominently as a Presidential possibility. As Vice-President he became a regular aitendant at the President's cabinet meetings, a custom estab lished for the first time in his ease. Mr. Coolldge married Miss Grace Goodhue, whom he first met In Northampton as a teacher, in 1905. and they have two sons. RUNAWAY CAUGHT IIFJIF. Thomas W. Ange of Darden. four miles from Plymouth, was taken from the northbound Norfolk South thern passenger train Thursday af ternoon and held In Elizabeth City pending the Arrival of his parents from Plymouth. Young Darden had started lo leave home, but from all appearances Friday morning when his father And mother arrived from Plymouth he had become reconcil ed to the return home. He left with his parents ort the 11 o'clock train af ter a morning of shopping and taking in the alghta of Elaaabeth City.
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