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f ? ? * ? THE WEATHER * * Fair tonight and Thurs- * * day. Colder on the coast * * tonight. Diminish ins * * \ort Incest icinds. ? II* * * ? ? ? * * ? .-a CIRCULATION m T nesday * 2.615 Copies * VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1924 EIGHT PAGES. NO. 50 Road Across Camden Bv Belcross Or Not At All Page Emphatic in Statement That No Koute Other Than I Belcross Will he Considered and Camden's Refusal Accept Belcross Koute Will Mean INo Road Does Camden County want a 16-] foot road from the end of Project No. 110, the State bridge floating concrete road, across the county by way of Belcross, or does Camden prefer no paved road at all? That is. in effect" the question that is put up to the Highway Commis sion of Camden by Chairman Frank Tage of the State Highway Commis sion in a letter dated February 25. and addressed to the members of the Camden road building body. If Camden will provide a right-of way without cost to the State, the State Highway Commission is ready. Mr. Page sets forth, to award the contract at the March letting for a 16-foot road from the end of Proj ect No. 110 toward Sllgo for a dis tance of approximately 12 miles. Rut. unless the "Camden High way Commission meets the terms of the State Commission relative to a right-of-way, no contracts for road building in Camden County will be awarded at the March lettings and nobody knows when any more roads in that county will be paved. Moreover, Mr. Page wants It un derstood that if a road across Cam <ien from the end of Project No. 110 toward Currituck Courthouse is ever built It will be built by way of Bel cross. This Is most emphatically and directly set forth in the letter "a d dressed separately to the several members of the Camden Commission. The letter follows: "Some days ago I sent to your chairman,' Mr. Edwin Sawyer, copy of contract which the State Highway Commission is asking the Highway Commission of Camden County to sign, furnishing right-of-way with out cost to the State Highway Com mission for Project No. 111. "We intended to send copy of let ter accompanying this contract to each of the members of the County Highway Commission, but in error failed to do so. I am, therefore, writing yon notifying you that unless this contract Is returned properly executed within the next few days it will be impossible for us to let Proj ect No. Ill at the next letting, which will be some time the latter part of March. "I had just as well say here that the State Highway Commission has adopted definitely, once and for all. the location as recommended by Its engineering department for Route 111 ? that Is the road lending via Belcross. This route is estimated to cost $47,000.00 less than some other suggested route, and Is approximate ly 1 12 miles shorter. "If Currituck and Camden coun ties at once agree to furnish the right-of-way as provided in the con tract sent to your chairman, it is the purpose of the State Highway Commission to let for contract a project of a 16-foot paved road from the end of Project No. 110 toward Sllgo, Currituck County. We have a contract from Currituck County "Highway Commission covering their participation in this road. "Your immediate attention to this contract will be necessary If we are enabled to let this project at our next letting. "Awaiting your immediate reply, 1 am, "Yours very truly, "FRANK PAGE. ""Chairman. State Highway Com nrtssioir." - ? ? Elizabeth City, of course, is not interested In a Camden fight as to the route of a Camden County high way. but Elizabeth Qlty is Intensely and vitally Interested in the early paving of a road across Camden County and on toward Currituck Courthouse and the Virginia 1 In- . And. Inasmuch as the State Highway Commission is committed to th? building of a Ift-foot road "as far as the money will go" it becomes ap parent that Elizabeth City is also In terested. as well as Currituck, in liavlng the rood go by the shorter route, since choosing the longer would shorten by 1 % miles, or more, the length of road paved In Curri tuck County. Members of the Camden Highway Commission are: Edwin Sawyer of Belcross. chairman; W. A. Gregory, of Shlloh. and Wiley Whltehurst, of South Mills. BELGIAN CABINET RESIGNED TODAY (By Tli* AtMclat?d Pr*M) Brussels, Feb. 27. ? Tho Belgian cabinet today resigned as the result of defeat In the Chamber of Depu^ tlrs over the Franco-Belgian econo mic convention. ACREAGE INCKEAKKS Athens, Texas. Feb. 27 ? Cotton growing on the plains of Texas has ?received new Impetus from the an nouncement that H. F. Underwood of this place will build a 20,000 bale Compress In Plalnvlew. Swlcher County, hitherto a ranching district. Is plowing for a large cot ton acreage. NEW SERIES IS GOING STRONG Nearly Thousand Shares Al ready Subscribed, Says W. Ben Goodwin of Building & Loan Association. Nearly 1.000 shares have already been subscribed In the new series of the Albemarle Dulldlng & Loan As sociation, according to W. Ben Good win, secretary and treasurer. It is probable that the new series which opens March 1 will approxi mate the largest series in the his tory of the association. Last spring there were 2,000 shares subscribed, the largest number since organiza tion, and Mr. Goodwin believes the present series will be close to that figure. A contest among_the shareholders is becoming warm, as the opening date approaches. The shareholder who secures the largest number of new shares will receive a prize of $50 In gold. A number of the share prize. Mr. Goodwin wishes to stress the value of using the savings of the people for home building. Duslness is not disturbed but stimulated by the Duilding & Loan Association's employing, as it does, the money saved by the people of the commun ity. Mr. Goodwin thinks. "The money saved through the Duilding & Loan and used in home building goes directly to labor, lum ber and building material dealers and others connected with the build ing trades, who deposit it in the banks and in that way make avail able more capital for the use- of oth er business enterprises," Mr. Good win said. "The money remains right here with all Its added profits, to raise the standard of living in the city." ANOTHERENTERS RACE FOR SHERIFF J. W. Hohhs of Salem, Suc cessful in Fishing and Farming, Is Fourth Candi date for This Office. Another candidate who has en tered the lists in the race for sher iff of Pasquotank County is J. W. Hobbs of Salem, who is announcing his candidacy In this Issue. Fisherman and farmer. Mr. Hobbs is successful at both callings. Mat ried 14 years ago $250 in debt, he was able, when he came to Pasquo tank from Chowan in 1912, to make the first payment on a Salem town ' nli ip farm and now has his home | paid for, a considerable investment in fishing equipment, and money In the bank. He says that If elected sheriff of Pasquotank he will put Into the work of the office the same energy, application and industry that have characterized Ills activities as farm er and fisherman. Mr. Hobbs also makes the candid ; admission that he is not entering the race because he has been urged to ; do so by his friends, but because he j wants the office and believes hlm ; self capable of filling It acceptably to the people of Pasquotank County. "1 nave oeen too busy up to this time to engage In any active cam paigning," he declares, "but between ;now and the primary I expect to get (out among the voters and let them ? understand that I am a candidate and that I will appreciate their sup ! port." W|th Mr. Hobbs' announcement, there are now four avowed candi dates in the race for sheriff. They are: L. \V. Anderson, Charles Car j mine, Miles Ferebee and J. W. | Hobbs. ^ Black Hilly Sunday At Ml. Lebanon Tonight Evangelist C. P. Dixon, commonly known as "Mark Hilly Sunday" will speak at Mt. Lebanon Church to night at eight o'clock and nlso Thursday and Friday nights at the same hour. Tonight his subject, will be, "The Undertaker is at the Door," Thursday night the subject will be "As an Eagle Stirs Up Her Neit" and Friday night he has been asked to ?peak on "The Vision of Dry Nones." Seats will be reierved for white people. PATRIARCH TIKHON IS SERIOUSLY ILL (Bp Ttl* AltMllM Pr#M? Moscow, Feb. 27.? Patriarch Tlk hoft, head of the Kusslan church, who suffered a stroke on Saturday, is In a serious condition. Oh, for 'the Life of a Traffic Cop New York City was struck by a storm of snow and sleet the other day. The streets were flooded and pas.suge almost impossible. One fair victim was caught at 33rd street and Eighth avenue. Traffic Officcr Henry C. Windell thereupon picked her up and Just as the photographer happened along was about to hand h$r over to Officer John McGuire. To Wed Egyptian Royalty Mrs. Jean Xasn. daughter ot nn American millionaire, who eloped at the aire of 17. now is enlaced, it is reported, to Prince Ahmed Sat^ib Bey (shown with her), nephew to Kins: Faud of Ecypt. One report is that Mrs. Nash will embrace the Mohammedan faith. Looks . Different, Doesn't He? ' THJOOUH VAt^ ?KNTINO. H? bu discarded the Spanish atmos phere that made a million sir Is call him a sheik, and 'for 'his next picture. "Monsieur Beaucalre," dons this sort of garb. Powdered w 1 g and everything. Fine clothes. J Looks different but clothes don't mske a man and our guess Is that Rudy will get more letters from movie-smitten las y sles than ever. This might prove almost anything. Rudy has been away from the screen for some time, so that his return is some thing of an event ?like frlnstgnce, the birth of twin giraffes or break fast in bed. UNION DRESSMAKERS OO OUT ON STRIKE Chicago. Feb. i" ? A Mrlkp of tin Ion dremmiakera waa rallod today by the International Indira' Garment Workcra, an<1 the atrlkera started Out with half a dozon riot calli and aeveral acta of violence. DOBY-BHODKM Miss Clinnle Rhodes and Mr. Charles J. Doby. both of this city, were married at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning by Dr. 8. H. Templeman nt hid home on Went Main street. They left on the mornlnK train for Co lumbia, where they will visit the bride's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Sim eon Rhode*. After February 2!) they will make their home at Norwood. Daugherty Has Plan To Retire Gracefully Believed That He Will Announce Ketirement to Take Place Regardless of Outcome of lii<|iiiry After Investigation Is Over, But This May Not Satisfy His ('rilics IB? 11) p Auoclitrd ITmiI Washington, Feb. 27. ? An oiler made by Attorney General Daugherty to retire to private life when the Senate completes its investigation of his official acts is believed in official circles to be imminent. WINTER'S WORST I VISITS BESTCITY ; Most Severe Storm of Season Passing Without Serious I Damage and Willi Only I i Temporary Inconvenience. | I Elizaboth City Tuesday night and I | Wednesday morning was in the ^ripl of the worst storm that has visited I this city thiB winter. No serious damage has been done I so far as reports reaching this news paper Indicate, except damage toj stock due to leaking roofs. Hoofs that have not leaked since the last ; big snow were leaking Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. It was reported. The most serious inconvenience ~ SUiTeif u iiM u result uf tho utorn was the interruption of electric service! Wednesday morning. During the night the wind blew the front of the old sheetiron clad building on North I'oindexter street across the high tension vires on that street and the] ; awning of the M. G. Morrlsette Fur i nit ure store twisted itself about an- 1 other wire on the corner of Mal l | and Water streets. At 5 o'clock i Wednesday morning sparks were fly ing and a wire was popping off at a I great rate at the Morrisctte corner. I For about two hours the lights lllckered on and off, and then went I off altogether until 10 o'clock in the morning. At one time between ,r> and f> o'clock one of the high tension wlre? crossed a service wire somewhere along the line and consternation reigned in The Advance shop when the linotype motor began to spit and smoke and sputter and the heating equipment of the Ludlow Typograph ceased to hum. For a time it was feared that such havoc had been done to its type setting machinery that it would not be possible to get The Advance out Wednesday, but when normal current came back on at 10 o'clock all the electrical equip ment except a couple of fuses j. roved to be in working order. | However, ordinarily The Advance iwork day begins" at 5 o'clock in the morning and, as nothing could be done Tuesday morning until about 11 o'clock, since an hour Is required to melt down the metal In the type setting mahclnes and bring it to a casting temperature, this Issue of The Advance has suffered according ? ly. The first edition, which must be In the postofTico In time to catch the rural free delivery carriers' mall, went out in a four page form. JAPANESE PRINCE IS REPORTED DEAD London, Fob. 27. ? Prince M&huo yh! Matnskata 1h dead, according to a dispatch received here from To klo. Prince Matsukata. one of the few remaining Japanese genro or elder statesmen, was the founder of Jap anese finance. He was a member of the ancient feudal clan of Ratsuma from whose descendants spring the greater mitrtber of officers of the Japanese navy. He was born In February. 18 35. He served under Prince fthlmazu. the feudal lord of Hatsuma. and fought in the Japanese clval war of restoration. When the Imperial gov ernment returned to power, taking the place of the Sho^uns. he entered the government service as a prefec tural governor and later became at tached to the department of finance under the then minister Count 8hl genobu Okumrt, With Count Okuma he laid the foundations for a stable state finance which was In chaotic condition on account of the feudal system of administration. A notable achievement of Prince Matsukata was the organization of a land tax. Prince Matsukata was the head of a numerous family. It. Is generally believed that bis children and grand children number between 0 and HO. .Several of his sons are leading fig ures in the Japanese business world. Matsukata's second ministry In 1896-97 again emphasized his right to be called the founder of Japan ese finance, for It was then that he established a system of gold stand ard for the empire. He was finance minister In the succeeding Yamagata cabinet and In 1902 traveled extens ively through the t*nlted States and Europe. During the Tlusso-Japan es4 war he was made a Marquis for meritorious service, and some time later was appointed I*ord Keeper of the Private Heal. Iff 1922 he reslgh ed frcmi the latter office and was elevated to the peerage, taking the title of Prince Matsukata. Under the plan he would tep out of the cabinet regard ess of the outcome of the Sen ite inquiry and would announce hat intention to the country in tdvance. A statement from Ivim is expected lefore the day is over. There is the belief In some quar ers that this may end the bitter controversy of which he has become he center. There still are some of President Coolldge's advisers, how ?ver, who believe that the promise :o resign at a future date will not satisfy the Attorney General^ cri tics In the Senate. Whether it would be entirely sat isfactory to Coolidge or not remains undisclosed. He conferred for an hour today with Daugherty but made no statement. Washington. Feb. 27. ? Attorney General Daugherty was called to the White House last night for a two hour conference and It is expected that there will be swift develop ments in the matter of his resigna tion today. SMOOT KNEW OF DOHENVS COMING Former Chairman of Oil Committee, However, De nied Humors of Having < lommtmienl ion With Fall Washington, Feb. 27. ? -Senator Smoot, Republican, of Utah, former chairman of the oil committee, today disclosed publicly that he -was ad vised in advance that E. L. Doheny tVas coming to Washington to testi fy about Ills $100,000 loan to Albert D. Fall. Smoot said lie received Informa tion from J. W. Zeverly, persona! counsel to Harry Sinclair, who was at New Orleans at the time with Fall. The Senator denied the rumors current at the Capitol that he had been in telegraphic communication with Fall since the former Secretary of the Interior announced in Decem ber that lie had received $100,000 loan from Kdward McLean, publish er of the Washington Post. The telegrams sent to McLean, Fall and others at Palm Peach and relevant to the oil Inquiry were read Into the record today. The first, frot.i John Major of Washington to McLean, suggested a leased wire from the Washington Post to Mc Lean's cottage in Florida so the pub lisher could have "easy and quick access to the White House." GARNER HAS NEW SET OF FIGURES Washington, Fob. 27. ? A now not of Troasury figures, made public to day by Representative C.arner, rank Irig Democrat on the House Ways and Means committee, oRtlmated that the personal Income tax reduc tlon schedule of the Garner tax plan would roR?lt In a Ion* of $483,000. 000 In reveniio In 1025. and the Mel lon plan would ratine a Iors of $350, 000.000. These eptlmates did not take Into conRldrratlon the proponed reduc tions In miscellaneous taxes and were based on the estimated reve nue for the calendar year, 1025. PRECINCT MEETINGS ON APRIL THE FIFTH Raleigh, Feb. 27 ? The State Dem ocratic executive committer met here yesterday and set April 5 as the date for precinct meeting*, April 12 for county meetings, and April 17 at Ra leigh ns the date of the Democratic convention. Judge Francis D. WlnRton read a resolution which he Rtated would be Introduced In the convention pledg ing the State to support Josephus DanlelR for I'realdent. rOTTON MARKKT New York. February 27 ? Spot cotton closed quiet thlR after noon. advancing 65 point*. Middling 29.55. At two p. m. futurg closed as fol Iowr: March 29.02; May 29.43; July 28.75; October 26.00; Decem ber 25.85. New York. Feb. 27 ? Cotton fu tures opened t h 1r morning at the following level*: March 29.00; May 29.35; July 28.50; October 26.16; December 26.75.
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