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????***?? ? THE WEATHER * * Rain tonight and [irob- * * ably Wednesday morn- * * ing Xortheast galea, be - * * coming Northwest. ?*****?*? VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CARO: IlN> ??*?*?*?? ? I * CIRClLiTlOy ? Monday * * 2. WO Copies * ? ? NO. 49. TAKING TIME TO READ TELEGRAMS Oil Committee Goes Into Ex ecutive Session to Examine , Messages Sent to Fall and McLean. Washington. Feb. 26. ? Presented ?with a sheaf of telegrams sent from Washington to Albert Kail and Ed ward McLean, publisher of the "Washington Post, at Palm Beach, the Senate oil committee today went into executive session to examine them. In ordering the room cleared. Chairman Lenroot said that any of the telegrams found to be relevant to the inquiry would be read in public. The telegrams were presented by the divisional superintendents of the telegraph companies and apparently i numbered several score, some con taining hundreds of words. A subpoena was issued for W. G. Wahlberg, former private secretary to Harry Sinclair, who will be ques tioned as to the identity of the Mr. "Hayes" to whom he had testified that he delivered $25,000 in liberty J bonds. At the time of his testimony the committeemen thought his ref- i erence was to an employe of the Sin-' clair Interests but since then there have been reports that there was an other Mr. "Hayes." In this connection Senator Walsh announced that there was no pres ent intention of summoning Will After remaining behind closed doors for nearly two hours the com- j mittee adjourned until tomorrow. It was explained that the examination of telegrams had not yet been com pleted. SIX SQUADS OUT IN CHASE AFTER BANDITS Chicago, Feb. 26. ? Six squads of ?detectives armed with rifles and shotguns today sped to the south western city limits in search of five bandits reported to have broken in to the state bank of kinsman, Grun fly County, and to have hauled away a 2.800 pound safe containing more than $15,000. CHEEK GOVERNMENT IS REPORTED FALLEN London. Feb. 26 ? Dispatches received here indicate that the Greek government headed by Premier Kafandaris has fallen. AYDLETT SENTIMENT STRONG IN AHOSKIF. Ahoskie, (Special) Feb. 2?5 ? E. F. Aydlett passed through this city to day enroute to Pitt after a tour of Hertford County in the interest of Ills candidacy for Congress. From all reports reaching here, indications are that Aydlett sentiment is strong In Ahoskle and Hertford County generally. SPEAK TONIGHT ON CHURCH EFFICIENCY Dr. J. M. H. Summerell and Rev. A. J. Crane will speak Tuesday night at Cann Memorial Presbyter ian church on "Church Efficiency." All denominations are cordially Jn vited, especially the officials of all churches. PARENT-TEACHERS MEETING POSTPONED The Parent-Teachers' meeting -which was to have been held this af ternoon was unavoidably postponed because of the bad weather and be cause of sickness among the chil dren who were to present "George Washington's Sixth Birthday." DR. IIA l{ It IS ENTERTAINS DFATISTS OF TI1K CITY Dr. M. M. Harris entertained the dentists of the city at a delightful dinner at his home 311 West Main Htreet. Saturday evening. Those enjoying the evening with Dr. Har Tis were: Dr. H. S. Willey, Dr. H. E. Nixon. I>r. William Parker. Dr. S. W. Gregroy. and Dr. II. D. Walker. OPPOSES WAR DEPOT SITE Geneva. Feb. 26 ? The .free city of Danzig, which Is under control of the League of Nations, has protested to the league against the site picked by the Polish government for a war depot. The site is too near the city and likely to endanger life in the ?veril of explosions, declares the protest, A neutral commission has been named in an effort to settle the dispute. EXCl.t'KIVE AGENTS FOR DISTINCTIVE WOMAN'S WEAR Pretty Oats and dresses sold ex clusively In this territory by Mitch ell's Department Store, are featured In an advertlsment in today's Isstie of The Advance. The One Day Sale of last Satur day at .Mitchell's attracted Imme diate attention, according to Mr. Gilbert, proprietor of the store. "Country people came to the city Friday afternoon to see these dreMrs." Mr. Gilbert said. The first announcement of the special offer was made in Friday's paper which reaches rural subscribers in this County early In the afternoon, adv WHEN IS A CITY? By Satnuel H. Templenmit. Query: When is a man not a man? Answer: When he becomes a corpse. There U the Paine form that the man had. The clothes may be the same that the man bought and wore. But the man is gone and an inanimate piece of ciay is all that is left. What makes the difference? The soul is lacking in the corpse. A preacher was con ducting a funeral one day and said: "Brethren, this corpse has been a member of this church for a number of years." That same thing might be said of a great many churches but it is just as true of a lot of other organizations. The body is there but the soul is gone. Houses and streets, stores and banks will not make a city. A real city must have a soul or else it becomes an in ert mass. Has our city a soul? Is It - ~atert aud alive or is it a corpse? What <lo you think about it? Are you helping to make your town a real organization or not? Some things in this world live on dead bodies and some people would rather see a dead town in order that they may get their living unhin dered. But I am appealing to the citizens to join the Chamber of Commerce and make this a live town. We do not want the soul of Elizabeth City to de part. Brazil Preparing For Annual Festa It's Christmas, New Years, Fourth of July, and Hallo ween All Rolled In One Rio de Janiero. Feb. 26 (By The Associated Press) ? All Brazil is preparing to celebrate its greatest "festa" of the year, the carnival. What Christmas. New Years, Fourth of July, and Hallowe'en, all rolled in one, would be to the American, carnival is to the Brazilian. Carnival is said to have been a pagan celebration. Invented long be fore the Christian era, and to have come down in modern times modi fied by the restraits of civilization. On its way today it has added to the fame of some of the" world's great cities. Venice, Rome, Paris, and New Orleans. The way carnival is cel ebrated in Rio de Janerio every year, however. Is a more spontaneous ex hibition erf popular enthusiasm and is played on a greater scale than ever seen in any other city of the world. Mardi Gras, the final day of the carnival celebration In this city, falls this year on March 4. For the last two months preparations for the celebration have been under way. Hundreds of carpival clubs have been organizing their programs, their music, coat nines and floats for the enormous street parades which will begin March 2 and continue to the daw of March 5. Millions are being spent in these preparations and other millions will be sp?-nt by the people In masquerade costumes, fireworks, dances, parties, and every Imaginable means of producing fun and hilarity. miring I no three days and nights of carnival, the streets in an area of less than a square mile in the heart or Rlo's business district will contain more than a million of fun seeking people, the vast majority being dressed in fantastic costumes, masked and enjoying themselves with an abandon possible only to Latin blood. Street parades of wonderfully decorated floats, throbbing drums and blaring trumpets, inlli's of auto mobiles containing the youth and beauty of Brazilian society, clouds of confetti and serpentina*, stifling waves of perfumes, and crushing crowds of rainbow colored masque rade? are the elements that form carnival atmosphere. The froliclng multitude creates a spirit that Is as contagious as the fervor of a revival meeting. For weeks before the celebration begins in Mo all the railway and steamship linos will be taxed be yond their capacity bringing crowds from all parts *>f Brazil other parts erf South America, and even from Europe. Every hotel, rooming house, and home will be filled to overflowing with guests. Literally thousands wlli sleep In the streets rain or fair, during the celebration. The grey dawn of the first day* of Lent will find all Brazil In a proper ly penitential mood. The silken domino will be rumpled and torn; the guif ;ir strings will be broken, and Pierrot will have a <lark brown taste in his mouth. But he will be satisfied to the marrow of his ach ing bones. Mr. and Mrs. W B. Holloman, Joe Miles, Oartand l^eggett and Oscar Haywood of Norfolk spent Sunday here as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Holloman of 92 Khrlnghaus street. . - ' CORN-HUSKER TO BE A GOVERNOR? Petersburg. III., Feb. 26 ? Menard County's champion corn-shucker is running for governor of Illinois. He is Jame* 11. Kirby, dirt farmer, who does all the work on bis 200 acres, shucked 147 bushels of corn in a day. Kirby is bucking the regular state Democratic organization. He seeks the nomination on the Democratic and Farmer tickets. Gives Greatest Private Library 'Sr't*. Morgan, the banker, has ijrlven to thr public his* jrrrnt private library, with nn estimated worth of several millions of dollars It con talnd about 25.000 volumes and paintings. Morgan Rave It as a memorial to the memory of his father. HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS PI'T ON A GOOD SHOW The Girls Literary Society of the Elisabeth City High School present j erl a one act play. "The Mouse Trap," I in the high school auditorium Mori I day evening to a good sl*ed. audience and did it so well that those attend ing declared It was worth ten times ; the admission fee of ten cents. The members erf the cast w? re | Misses Klizaheth Thompson, Katli erlno Hathaway. IsOuIko Outlaw, ! Kvelyn Butler. Margaret Hollowell, I Margaret E. Sawyer, and Dorothy | Gard, and each girl acted her j>;?rt ' j so snapplly that the audience was | kept laughing through the entire comedy. " ' l The girls got up the show and put it on all by themselves, and i their initiative and skill ha* b'cn (greatly praised by .those who saw j the play. SKVKRF. KTOflM ON WAV HA YH WRATH K II IU HKAt* The Weather Bureau at Washing-! ton sent out a warning Tues day morning to the effect thai a ! storm of marked Intensity, central 1 immediately south of Alabama, will, move north eastward with further Increase of Intensity. "This will probably be a severe I storm," says the Weather Bureau,. 1 "along the entire Atlantic seaboard.! Advise all Interests." KINKTON NKW station OVKNH <)\ XKXT MONDAY Norfolk, Fob. 2f? ? On Monday, March 3. tho now union passenger station at Ktaston, which will be oc- ; cupleti by the Atlantic* Const Line,1 the Norfolk Southern Railroad, Klnston Carolina Kail road and tho Carolina Railroad com-] pan I oh will bo oponod for busi ness. Tho use of tills station will J afford Joint station facilities and consequently be of much conven ience to tho traveling public. This is a how building with all modem conveniences and tho erection there-! of- will be of much benefit to the, traveling public which Is invited to' inspect it. J. S. Jones now In i.harge of tho Norfolk Southern ticket office will be Joint ticket agent at the new sta tion. LUDENDOHF TRIAL OPENS AT MUNICH Munich. Bavaria, Fob. 2fi ? The snngulnary events of last November became aualn tb?? topic of Intense! public Interest today with tho open ing of the trial of former Field Marshal Isiidondorf and his nine as sociates, Including Adolph Hitler, for their parts In tho attempts to overthrow the government. The proceedings are expected to consume hut a few days. | Congress And President I May Clash On Tax Bill Presidential Veto Certain, Tlii-iks (jtrri^pnndenl. If Provi sion to Make Income Tax Heturns Accc^ililc to (longrn**, Passed l?y House, Is Allowed to Gel bv in tlie Senate lly n.WID laWUKXfE (Copyright. 1924. By The Ad?anct) .?i ... Washington, Feb. 25. ? The Coolidge administration will ne\ er consent to the provision inserted by the House in the pending tax bill making income tax returns available to a special com mittee of Congress. DANIELS FANS CALLED TO MEET Raleigh, Feb. 26 ? The first move to place Jorsephua Daniels In nomination for tile Democratic candidate for President was made last nlcht when a formal call was issued for Thursday night for a "Dan iels for President" club to be formed to further his Inter ests. HOLD DISCUSSION OVER DAUGHERTY ? I Admiiiisl ration OITiriulu Nc-t liutialr for Settlement of; How liul Definite Derisioii Is Expected Soon. Washington, Fob. 2F>. ? DuriiiK nj truce in tho open hostilities today.' administration officials negotiated j for settlement of the row over the I retention of Daughert:* in the cabi l not" , Another succession of conferences I including a cabinet meeting resulted in no surface development but gave increasinu indications that some def inite decision might be announced in the near, future. White House officials Insisted af ter the cabinet meeting that tho question of Dauuherty's resignation did not come up for general discus sion and neither the President nor Daugherty had any statement to make. Meantime, on the Senate floor the Republican organization staved off consideration of the Wheeler resolu tion for investigation of the Depart ment of Justice and the purpose of the delay was not explained. 1 CONFESSES SELLING STOLEN At FIX MOBILES Hickory, -Fobt- 20. ? J*otween 60. and 75 automobiles have boon st.>l ? ii by a gang operating around 1)an j villi*. Virginia, and Hlck.v and I.ln Icolnton, according to State Automo bile inspector Harris, who Is hero; In the i-ftorl to round up I he thieves. Luther Fry. hold in jail at New ton on a prohibition charge, baa con r eased, according to offlcera, that ho sold the stolen cars. REED MAKES VICIOUS ATTACK UPON McAOOO ' St. Louis, Feb. 2<I ? Senator | James A. Heed In opening his cam-! I palgn hero yesterday for the Demo cratic nomination for President! i scathingly arraigned William Olbbsj McAdOO, d0C hiring that he ro<?iv<<l I large sums of money from Morse, t Doheny, and others for the ik>1 ! 1 1 - j eal Influence he had with the admin istration rather than as lawyer's fees. BII.L TO TKANSI KK VESSELS FROM NAVY Washington, Feb. 26 ? A hill was Introduced In Congress yester day to transfer certain vessids from [ th?' Navy If r the Coast Guard to en fore prohibition and alsto to In cr? ase the personnel of tflo ('oast Guard. WELL KNOWN AUTHOR AND PLAYWRIGHT DIES New York. Feb. 26 ? George Hun-' dolph Chester. author and play-) wrlght, died here today. APPROPRIATION BILLS DISTURB PROSPERITY Washington. Feb. 215.? -The num erous bills pending In Congress call ing for large appropriations are re garded by President C<?olidfti> as dis turbing to the ' prosperity and wel fare of the country. TKXAM TOMATO UlOP Houston. Texas, Feb. 26 (Py The Consolidated Pres?)f ? ? Tomato grower* In East Texas are enthus iastic over the proposals for the spring crop. Hundreds of acres now an- being prepared to receive the young plants from the cold frames. Mrs. J. Crawford Biffl of RAl-j eigh who has been the guest of! Mrs. H. D. Walker at her home, 100 Weil Main street, for a few days! ' will leave Tuetday nfght for her j home. I The opposition to the move from the Treasury is so empha tic that this together with other objectionable features in the tax bill may be the basis for a veto message from the White House. Should Congress have tho right to throw open to the public gaze tho private affairs of the American p*?o ple? Should one business concern engaged In sharp competition with another and possessed of influence in Congress sufficient to get at the in come tax returns he enabled to get facts and figures on rival concerns? Should members of Congress be giv en new ammunition with which to attack private business? These questions are answered in the nega tive by administration officials who think that Income tax returns should he k**pt lnde??d, the Tr-eas ury Department has heretofore re fused point blank to furnish the in come tax returns to any other branch of the Federal Government Itself, even the Department of Jus tice. Time and again the latter has felt that without sufficient evidence to catch bootleggers under the pro visions of the Volstead Act, a fraud ulent Income tax return might land I the "bootlegger" in Jail. It has been I with difficulty and through round about court proceedings that any in formation has been obtained and us ually the Treasury Department baa I preferred to do its own prosecuting of such cases upon Information fur | nl shed by the Department of Jus itlce. So jealously guarded have income tax returns become In the last ten years that the thought of making them available to a committee of Congress goes against the grain j here. There Is some reason to be lieve that t lie Senate will throw out I the amendment and that It will be I lost in conference between the two I houses. If it stays in the bill, It I may force a .veto. \yhlle there are men on Capitol ! If ill who are saying President Cool i Idge will not dare to veto any tax bill that comes before him, they are likely to be surprised when they re ceive a veto message. Mr. Cooildg0 knows that the argument can work both ways, namely, that Congress cannot afford to' kill tax legislation any more than can the chief execu tive and that If he sends back a bill to Congress urging that objection able features be eliminated. Con gress will change the bill or stand pat on the measure passed depend ing upon whether the objections are supported by public opinion. On the Issue of publicity of priv ate affairs, the administration has no doubt of the ultimate support of the people. The business Interests of the country will fl**lit the pro posal tooth and nail for If the In come tax return? are made available to a congressional committee ft will mean the use of the same informa tion In a dozen different channels entirely apart from the income tax. The income of corporations, partner ships and all business concerns might have to undergo some day the scrutiny of tariff experts anxious to prove that certain tariff duties should be raised or lowered and oth er controversies may be stirred up by the use or misuse of information obtained from Income tax returns. On the whole, the administration is opposed to letting go of the confi dential information given by the tax payer to bis Government. It \IV.KO W> OX HMM'K Wichita. Fob. 2 fi. ? (By the Con ;*olldat*'d Press.) ? The- Kansas City, Mexico A- Orient Hallroarl will bp Hold to "tli** bent and hlKhont bid der" her* March 27. to satisfy a [Government Hen of $2,500,000. ! OHM NEW OKOER I CAI.I.EO NOBLE KI.AN Mnncle. Ind. Feb. 26 ? Officials of the Delaware K'lan of the K.i Klux yesterday announced their withdrawal from the order and the forming of a new order named thn Noble Klan of the North and stated that It* organization would be per fected in several states within the next few days. rOTTOX MARKET Now Yor. Feb. 26 ? Spot cot [ ton closed quiet this afternoon, de [ ( lining 45 points. Middling 2ft. 00. Futures cloned at the following level? > March 2X.70; May 29.00; July 21M6; October 25.93; Decem ber 25.70. New York. Feb. 26 ? Cottcm fu tures opened !hls morning at the | following levels: March 29.00; May 29.40; July SS.92; October 26.25; December 25. 80.
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