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THE ADVANCE PBKIiR * PKKI.K. I*ubli?hen HERBERT PEELE. Editor. Member of The AiMorittcd IVew. Tin AnwIiM Prow li infilled to Wii ?m hr rt-NkltMtloN of m?i dniilrhri Wfditfd In ttili M P* and alaa to the local nrai tulllthid Enured at tlta M*tofflc? at ElUafeeth city. N. C., , ?a aacond rlaaa matter. Tfcrn Manttii (In advance > fl.20 lljr Mull. ?IX Manthi (In advaaea) ! 12.25 Zone Twt. 12 aonth* liN Zana Ona. 12 month. , >4.00 Subscription Rates lly Canter. 0?a Wee* ?10 Caalt MONDAY. FEBRUARY It,. 1924 Meet Walter Cmrfp Pursuing its recent policy of endeavoring to acquaint readers of The Advance with members of the staff of special corres pondents now serving this news paper, The Advance takes pleas ure today, ladies and gentlemen, in presenting Walter Camp, who has been often referred to as the father of American football, and whose name, through his "daily dozen," is a household word in America. For six years Walter Camp played on the Yale University football team and was captain of the 'varsity eleven for two years. Just as expert at base ball, he served as captain of the 'varsity nine for four years in the positions of left field, short stop and pitcher. lie row(M on the class crew, won high hurdles in the Yale College games and represented Yale in the first in tercollegiate tennis tournament. A frequent contributor to the magazines, including Harper's, Scribner's, Colliers, Century, - Outlook and the-New York In dependent, he has also found time to write numerous books on sports. During the war he was chairrtian of the Atlantic Department of the Navy Com-j mission on Training Camp Ac tivities, and he then developed j his "Daily Dozen," a series of modified setting-up exercises j which were used in both thej Army and Navy. As an advo-j cate of exercise in the mainten ance of good health, Walter , Camp has many followers. All his newspaper articles in the future will appear exclu sively, so far as this territory is concerned, in The Daily Ad-i vance. . Made in Carolina I Next Monday evening the Elizabeth City Rotarians are presenting the Carolina Play makers to the community so that this section of the State may know a bit more about what is going on in North Caro- , lina. The Playmakers' head quarters are at the University j of North Carolina and this is their seventh tour. They arc bc-j ing sought far and wide and| "Elizabeth City is fortunate in' having an organization like "Ro tary to secure them. , About a year ago when the Playmakers were getting ready , to Visit Greensboro the Greens-, boro News had this to say about them : The announcement that the Caro lina Plavmaker* lire to visit Greena-l horo thin month In the " l their annual tour or the State Is ex Client new.. This orR.n .at on h?? , now come to he nationally Their collection of favorable notices] Includes extract* from such n"?P?- 1 Dera aa the New York Times. World; Evening I'?"t &nd Weekly I an<i from such magannes aa serin- j ner'a. Theater, the Survey and the | World's Work. Obviously no amateur organisation can achieve such a reputation y | theer technical excellence alone. The feature of the Playmakers work ( that haa won them national fame Is | the fact that they put on a ahow tntt | Is not only a good show, but "n1"" anything else In the world. It to profoundly American, owing no debt whatsoever to any other tradition! except In the mechanic* of produc-| tlon; and It Is not quite like any | other American drama because If Is ao Intimately associated with the Mfel of North Carolina aa to be conspicu ously Individual. The Dally News derives a peculiar satisfaction from the success of the Plavmakers becauae they are one goSi tiling that North Carolina has not only produced, but has also dis covered for herself The merlta of too many of our flrit-elaaa produc a have never been observed at home | until they were pointed out to us by admiring outsider* ? the abort ?tor les of O. Henry are a notable exam ple nut the riaymak era were a prodigious auecaas In North Carolina | before New York ever heard of fhetn.i Now that a distinguished producer l*> said to be arranging to P?t *om? ?f, the plays on n roadway. North Caro llnlana have the plesaant slight efipertortty that distinguished members of the I-knew-'em-when ?lab. Cleim Government Will Be The Paramount Issue Oil Seantlal- Have Overshadowed Bonus. Taxation And Everything Else And Given Democrats Opportunity To Take The Offensive lly DAVID LAWRENCE Co?yrt?tit. 1974. ky Th? Atfvtne* Washington, Feb. 9. ? Clean Government will be the para mount issue of the 1924 campaign. I Taxation has been overshad-1 l owed. The soldier bonus will be disposed of by a compromise.1 ,The Democrats will take the of-j , fensive and ask the country to | return them to power on the! .ground that their record of ad ministration was not sullied by any misuse of power. I The air is full of rumors and ev ery whoro one 'there are whis pers all tending to incriminate per j sons of prominence with a miscon ception of their personal relationship to the positions they hold. If half ; the stories which are being talked intrant are ever brought out under oath before the Senate invest! mating I committee, the sensations of the past three weeks will be tame compared with the disclosures to be made, j Dolled down to fundamentals, the t bin question is who in the Govern ment knew ahead of time about the [ ma* lng of the oil lenses. Who tipped jolt friends so that operations in the stock market might be profitable? , Who in the Government is engaged i In stock market speculation based j upon the act of the Government? And where shall the line be drawn j between speculation and investment? I The usual tales of the roundabout | efforts of the oil companies to gain favor are being told and while no | one is talking about outright brib ery there are suspicions being ex pressed that favors were extended in [order to bring ? about a -favorable viewpoint toward the leasing of the .oil reserves to private interests. One of the most perplexing phases i of the controversy is the differences I of opinion which seems to exist vitli I I reference to the true value of some | of the oil leases now under investi gation. Responsible persons are making the statement that some of I the leases in question are really of! doubtful value and that the owi ers know it but that the Utter had to keep on making public statements j about the amount of money expected to be made out of the leases in order to bolster up on the stock market the value of the stocks of particular oil companies involved. If they ad mitted that the leases were without value, the stocks would tumble. If they admitted that large sums ofi money would be made, the Senate 1 would get the impression that the Government had made a contract un-i favorable to itself. Just how much did the oil corii j panies know aliead of time concern-; Ing the making of the leases? l)id they gather all outstanding claims j and arrange a settlement so that th ? Government would look with more favor on the making of a lease or did they settle the claims because they knew the land was so valuable} that they could buy out the claim ants at a low figure and ultimately I make more money themselves? As for the general leasing policy, | this* undoubtedly will figure in the) answer to be made by the Republi cans to the Democratic attack. Cer- , tain leases were made under the Democratic administration. While' no one has proved that any DemQ- } crat received money or loans or any ' other favor to make the leases it is a fact that private interests did se cure leases under certain conditions. W<ire these leases wisely made? jf not, then the Republicans can claim] that both the Democrats and the Republicans followed the practice of making lenses. The Democrats will say of course that they made their leases In the ?pen and asked for bids. Rut should the Government's reserves be leased to private interests? One dnv Pies-, Ident Harding in u conference with, newspaper men ill. cussed the subject to some extent. Th.* criticism of the. Teapot Dome lease had begun to de velop and there was talk of an In vestigation by the Senate. Mr. Hard ing declared with vehemence that it 1 was nil right to talk about preserv- 1 Ing the oii for the Navy but if no body would drill the wells there j wouldn't be any oil and that if the; lands adjacent were being tapped by Vrlvate companies Government's ! supply might be drnined. Mr. Ilardlng never Sieved In Government development of its own ! oil lands. He didn't want the Gov-' eminent to go Into the oil business. He believed that If the Government entered Into a contract with private" concerns who would find It to their | advantage to Invest their money In drilling operations, both purposes, would be served ? the Navy would get Its oil and the private companies would make their expenses and a re-' turn on their Investment. Granting the principle of this ar gument as sound, the question then turns on whether the private com-' panies got more than their share of the oil and made a return entirely out of proportion to the Investment! they applied. And shouldn't the Government have gotten more out of ft all? Experts are at odds on these points, but the controversy will real ly turn on unprejudiced testimony of J experts. If it is proved that the in-, terests of the Government were neg lected It will make the Issue of clean! government even more conspicuous! In the campaign. There are signs of cleaning already. The administra-| tlon Is probing Itself, making rules | for the conduct of Government busi-l ness based upon the disclosure*! made. Clean Government Is a trite Issue but It will have a concrete sig nificance In the 1924 political cam-' palgn. I COOPERS TAKE STAND IN TRIAL THIS WEEK Wilmlng ton. Feb, 11 ? With the introduction of the last witness the State expects to close its case today in the first indictment against the Coppers in the Commercial National ; Bank case, and the defense will pro ! bably consume several days present 1 ing its side. M I NSTKKI. REH KA USA L The local talent show,- "The Min ? strel Revue" will hold a rehearsal - tonight at the Masonic Hall for all that are to appear in the show at 1 the new High School Auditorium i February 13 and 14. A full dress rehearsal wilnbe hold Tuesday at the high schodl audl i tcrrlum. That the Minstrel Revue will be acclaimed one of the best amateur shows ever presented i locally, is the opinion of several , critics who have attended rehear ; sals. Special vaudeville features will be introduced in the olio and and the entire company will appear ; In the farce comedy "Way Out In j Montana" which has been arranged especialy for laughing purposes. I There has been a large sale of tick ' ets and indications point to a highly I successful performance from every standpoint. The proceeds are for the Woman's Club tea room, the Linden. i Rehenrwal Tonight The choral club , will have a re hearsal tonight at 7.30 o'clock In the high school auditorium. All mem bers are asked to be present. On Northern Trip ^ Mrs. II. Grice left Monday for! Xew York to purchase woman's j ready to wear apparel for -the ' spring season for the firm of Mc Cabe & urice. ? GKRRMANY MIST ABANDON POLICY .OF , EVASION j (Continued From Page One) mission is able to present to the French a German program, bar.ed up on an Impartial estimate of German capacity and accompanied by full and convincing guarantee of German good faith and German readiness to perform under the new contract. Today the real difficulty seems to lie in the German conviction that the mission of the present expert inquiry is to force the French to let Ger many off, and that the single real necessity of the Germans Is to pro vide a paper case of inability to pay ( much of anything. This is the thing . which is instinct in all the press com- j ment in Germany at the moment j when General Dawes is beginning his labors. And the German reaction is for the next few days the all-Important ! thing. Meantime the one solid basis for optimism lies in the fact that , neither the Germans nor th?- French j care to aaaurne the responsibility for a failure of this present undertak-! ing. For the Germans it may well mean domestic collapse and even, revolution, for the F-ench it can' Jiardly fail to spell bankruptcy. Each nation, therefore, will maneuver to | throw any responsibility for failure s upon the other and thin circum- , stance gives General Dawes and his associates a good deal of authority. In the end, however, the old prob lem remains; If Germany is not ready to pay largely, as everyone, agrees she ultimately can. then there is no chance of any solution and things must continue to go from bad to worse. Therefore the German state of mind as revealed by the German public and press comment at the moment has enormous value, but it must be recognized that heavy discounts are to bo made for propa ganda operations, and the real test will not be what the Germans say before the Dawes decision Is made, bnt after. GIVEN FOt'R MONTHS William Alexander Overton, fori ! siuiu It on Fred Moore with deadly weapon, was sentenced to four months on the roads by Trial Jus tice Spence Monday morning. Ef forts were made to Induce Judge i Spence to change the sentence to a ! fine but the requests were refused. I New ? \ Shipment ? ? . Umbrella* and ; Canes [ Weeks & Sawyer Where the Be? I Clothes Come From 'CAPTAIN McCRARY LOSES COMMAND Washington, FVb. 11. ? Sweeping' 'changes in the personnel of officers !at Lakehurst, New Jersey, air sta-, Ition and officers assigned to the air-! ship Shenandoah, including thp re-' lief of her commanding officer. Com-, ! mand^r McCrarv, have been mad0 ?by Rear Admiral Moffitt. cliief of the 'Navy Aeronautical Bureau and ap ? proved by Secretary Denby. i The orders to McCrary said "Up i on being relieved by Lieutenant 'Commander Landsdowne as com . mandine; officer of the Shenandoah you will regard yourself d^tach^d from all duties on board that air ship." j McCrary who has also boon in 'command at Lakehurst was also re ! liewd of command there and "de tached from all present duties." HERRIN FACES MARTIAL LAW Turbulent Section Also Ex i pecting Strike of Four Tltousunil Coal* Miners in j Twenty-seven Mines. (By Th* Attociatrd Pren) ? llerrin. 111.. Feb. 11 ? Turbulent Williamson County, the seen** two ; years ago of a massacre of more than a score of non-union coal mill |ers and lately of internecine warfare I between dry Ku Klux Klan and wet ianti klan factions, today faced the prospect of a declaration of martial law and the strike of approximately ; 4000 bituminous coal miners em j ployed in 27 mines. No untoward incident occurred last night, according to reports to | military authorities. JUDGE STACY SPEAKS AT MEMORIAL SERVICE Raleigh. Feb. 11 ? Declaring that Wcrodrow Wilson will be the colossus of the twentieth century, Associate Justice Stacy, Sunday ad dressed a large audience here in the | memorial service to the former j President. MRS. ASA CANDLER DOESN'T GO HOME Atlanta, Feb 11 ? While Mr. Can dler today remained silent on the matter, Mrs. Asa Candler, who was j caught Saturday afternoon In an apartment with two men and some I liquor, did not spend Saturday night ' or Sunday at the Candler home. TAKEN TO RALEIGH FOR SAFE KEEPING Raleigh. Feb. 11 ? Dillon Good-1 win, negro, who shot and fatally wounded William Case near Klnston Saturday, was brought here yester day for safe keeping. Mips Florle Bell Morgan of Ply mouth spent the week end here as th?* guest of her aunts, Misses Mary and Florence Bell, on North Road street. FIRST LETHAL GAS EXECUTION SUCCESS Death So Far As Observers- Could See Was Instantaneous And Painless With None of Horrible Contortions That Mark Electrocutions By I,. C\ OWKX. Copyright. 1924. by Tht Advance ( Carson City, Nev., Feb. 11. ? Oth-| ' er states which desire to be both ? quick and painless in meting oat I death to their condemned criminals i . might do well, if capital punishment j must continue the prevailing vogue, I to investigate the example set here j last week by the state of Nevada i when it sent a convicted murderer ! to his doom with lethal gas. Ten seconds after the lethal mix- 1 iture of hydrogen and cyanide had i been turned upon Gee Jon. Chinese! high binder, who went to his death j alone when a sensational eleventh hour commutation spared Thomas Russel, his intended companion, the i oriental lapsed into unconsciousness, i It took nine of the 10 seconds for ! the deadly gas fumes to reach him. j Onee they reached him, however, the end seemingly was instantaneous ana I painless. Through lack of scientific supervi sion which would have measured the, advancing steps of death with mi crometer exactness, the estimates of i the time it actually took" the deadly, gas to kill, can bo based only upon the slightly differing closeness of^ those who watched. An effort was 'made lo set down accurately each {stage of the death proceedings by means of a stethoscope fastened ov er the condemned man's heart, but | an extra section of hose, which led ; from the death chamber to the ob-j servers' safety station outside, ren dered the effort ineffectual. Gee Jon was led into the lethal , gas chamber at 9:40. The gas was turned on at 9:41. It was necessary for two guards to support him in hif death march to the interior to the 1 small stone igloo. i Once inside the chamber the trem- 1 bling prisoner was quickly tru.ssed to ; a chair in one bf the two steel cells, I which had been set up Inside of the structure. An instant later there was a plainly audible sound which , 1 resembled the rush of air from an : airhose and the half dozen witness- j es required by law with as many | newspaper men who were also spec- j tators. craned their necks to see the! final chapter in the legalized drama of death. | The condemned man straightened in his chair and raised his head. A : fleeting expression, hardly of curios- 1 ity, came over his face. He started ' to turn his face toward the sound of hissing gas which came from the: wall behind him. Suddenly his eyes went shut and his upper torso sagged limply down into the chair to which he was bound. At the same instant | the upper abdominal muscles, which until a second before had moved in regular breathing, became still. The muscles of his body continued to twitch for six minutes. In the quick transition from life to eternity there was no movement of the body or face to Indicate even the slightest suffering. McADOO BEFORE OIL COMMITTEE Appearing At His Own Re quest He Declares That the Question Transcends Par tisan Consideration. Washington, Feb. 11. ? William G. McAdoo today emphasized before the Senate oil committee that his professional relations with E. L. Do h'eny recently terminated were "in good faith" and had nothing to do with the leasing of the nitval oil re serves. Appearing at his own request be cause of testimony giveri by Doheny as to his employment in connection with Mexican oil maters, McAdoo declared "I think it may fairly be presumed that if my name was not prominently mentioned in connection with high ofNce my private practice as a lawyer would be of no interest to this committee or the public*." +") Asserting that the "faith of th?? people in their own Government is shaken," he declared: "This question transcends political parti? a and par tisan consideration" and the "first duty of the hour is mercilessly to uncover and to bring to public view and scron and punishment every one who has betrayed a public trust or who has been guilty of wrong doing in this humiliating and dangerous affair." HUILDING AND LOAX STOCKHOLDERS TO MEET" - The annual stockholders meeting of the Albemarle Huilding & Loan Association will be held in the office of the secretary-treasurer, room 205, Savings Rank & Trust Company building, on Tuesday evening, Feb ruary 12, at 7:30 o'clock. NORFOLK COTTON Feruary 11 1924 Middling (closed today) . . . .33 l-8c Middling (opened today) ...331-2c NORFOLK PRODUCE At Jarvls & Fentress SPKNCE-HOLLOWKLL CO. Live Drensed Undn. Chlckcns 25-30 30 23-30 Hens 25 30 25 Turkeys 30 30-35 28-30 Geese 20 30 25 Ducks 25 30 25 Large Hogs 8-10 Small Hogs 11 Milk Calves 12-15 Yenrlinga 8-10 Sweet Potatoes $5.00 Eggs 38c Market Finn. ADVANCE CLASSIFIED ADS DAILY ADVANCE CLASSIFIED RATES This size type (8 point), one cent a word each Insertion; minimum 25 cents, one time: 75 cents week. Standing ads, live cents a wnrd per week. Twenty cents per month ? in advance. Wlilto space and para graphed ads, 50 cents an lock. Copy must be In the office by G t- f. day before Inser tion. For Rent FOR RKXT ? IIISSFY HOME, ON Cherry street, new paper and paint, lights, water, sas, 10 rooms, suit able two families. Apply Mrs. J. II. Leigh. feb.l 2-18-pd For Sale FOR SAM? CHHAP ? ONE PRNV sylvanla Seed Drill (3 disc) and McCormick Reaper and Binder, 6 foot blade. Both only used for few times. In good condition at bar gain price. Apply to P. W. Stevens Camden. N C.. ll-12-13pd PLOW CASTINGS FOIt ftAVJC cheap. Apply to Elizabeth City Iron Works & Supply Co. feb.7-tf-np FOB SAIiK ? SFF I S FOR BURT 00 I Day Seed Oats. We have them. Just unloaded. Aydlett & Owens. feb.8-1 4-np 1M ItK IIRKD DtROC JKRSKY I pigs for sale. Between three and [fouf months' old. Price $10. R. B. [Stevens, Camden, N. C. feb.8-14-np Help Wanted i WANTKO ? MAN WITH EXPKIU nnw aa wheelwright and general re i pairs In wood abop, also one e?pe ! rlenced blacksmith for wheelwright 'and general repair shop. J. M. But ler * Son. Suffolk. Va. feb.S-ll-np George needed a typewriter. "I can't afford to pay $100.00 for one," he told j his wife. "Why don't you try an Advance Classified Ad?" asked Mrs. George. "As usual, you are right, my dear," answered George. So he did. George has a typewriter. 1 WAXTKD ? HfClH I*OWBttED Spe cialty salesmen, capable of earning $75.00 weekly up, to market new, essential, non-compptetlve product. Nogar. 905 American Hank Hid*?-. Greensboro, N. C. feb.ll-pd WAXTKD ? < 'OMfll X ATIOX OFFICK girl and stenographer. Experience dealrable but not necessary if will ing to begin on very small nalary. Apply by mall to "H. K. W.," carp of The Advance. feb.8-tf Lost and Found l?ST ? TKN TICKRTH TO THE Minstrel Revue. Finder return to Advance office. It WANTKR AT HERTFORD. <11 A PRnoke, Camden, Relcroia, Ore*ory. Shawboro and Moyock, repreaenta tlvea of The Advance to aend In newa and secure aubacrlptlona on com mlaelon baali. AddrelV The Advance, Elizabeth City, N. C. l-OST ? TCKSDAY MORMN? Kebruary S one 30 * 34 Ooodyear tire and rim aomewhere between Camden Court Houae and floutli Mllle. Reward If returned to J. B. Anderson at A. F. Toxey Co. fT-lJpd LOST ? LARGE CAM FX) PIN, 8AT urday afternoon, between Melick's store and Camden Court House. Re turn to Advance Office and receive reward. feb.5-ll-pd Opportunities IMItO AND PIXI WOOD, *7 PRII cord, $3.50 half cord, $1.75 load. Stove Icngtha. Geo. J. Kprr. Phone 791-W. Jan.29-tf-np I.IM . \ It? 1:80 nog IiKAVKS M l/. flhr t h City every afternoon for Nor folk. Aliio Icavea Norfolk Union Station at 5:30 evening, arriving Elliabeth City S o'clock. Ja.l2-tf Candidate Cards NOTICR TO THR VOTKRfl OF Panquotank Cnurtty ?. ? Ladlea and Gentlemen: ? I am a candidate for Sheriff of thle County In the Pri mary to he held on the Brat Satur day In June 1$24. 1 ehall certainly appreciate your Influence and your' vote ftrr me for ttila office. Re apectfully, I.. W. Anderaon.
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