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??*******? * THE HEATHER * * Shatters late tonight * * or Wednesday. Warm - * " er tonight. Fresh south- * erly winds. **"*****#?? ********* * * * CIRCL E 4TIO\ * Monday 2. 1.W Copies ? :?! * ********* - VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1924. EIGHT PAGES. NO. 54. Corrupt And Content No Longer Is Philadelphia i Slay he Some Corruption Left But Absolutely No Content-! iiient Either Among Enemies or Friends of Vice, as Ohl Gimlet Eves Is Keeping Roth Jumping By ROBKItT T. SMAI.L Copyright. 1924. by Th# Philadelphia, March 4. ? "Old Gimlet Eyes" is having the light of his life. For two months he has been at death grips with the vice and crime of a city once known as "corrupt and content." The bat-j tie has ebbed and flowed. Philadelphia!? believe, however, that General Smedley D. Rutler. ' thetr new commissioner of safety, is getting the upper hand. The enemy | has not been routed, but the offens-j Ive still is on. The pressure is such, never-the-less, that General Butler has hardly had a moment's breath-' 1ng spell. He went away to Chat-j tanooga a few days ago to deliver an address on cleaning up the city. | While he was gone a dozen or more ; speak-easles and other resorts flour-' ished in a single police precinct. The lieutenant in charge was one of the i most enthusiastic cops who had ! greeted the general when he first ar-; rived tor -duty. The cop had been] com missioned, as it were, on the field of battle. When the commls-i sioner got back from Chattanooga I he promptly "broke" the lieutenant. I And so it goes. "Battling Butler"! -does not dare relax for a moment.! A "system" which has grown up I through the years and is deeply root-' ed, cannot be smashed in a day.' When General Butler annaunced a' "cleanup" in 48 hours he knew that J was impossible. But he wanted to j set a high goal. He talked much] because he wanted to arouse the peo ple. He was like the ballyhoo art is#t at Ihe circus aide show. He want- . *d to attract the. crowd. He felt] that once they were with him all would be well. General Butler has attracted the people to his support and they are with him heart and soul. They be Meve he is doing better in his dif ficult post than any other man could have done. But Philadelphia is not a Sahara; nor is it crime-proof. As a matter of fact there have been a . series of serious crimes during the last few days and once more the j fighting marine at the head of the j police has gi/en his men orders to shoot and shoot to kill. Drying upj Philadelphia, it is admitted, is like draining the Florida everglades, it can be done, but the job is A diffi cult one, requiring m?ny patient liours and days and months. Apparently many of the crooks i driven from the Quaker city during the first few dayB of the Butler reg- , ime have run the blockade and are J '.otnce more in their old haunts. Spor- j adic outbreaks of violence show their presence from time to time and : <*eneral Butler -attacks them anew. He Is driving the police all the time, i He is constantly on the firing line himself. The western battle front of the World War Itself never of fered a harder Htruggle, however, than the one which confronts Gen eral Butlar each morning of his life. Some of the criminal elements of the city were so firmly entrenched that the General's preliminary bom bardment passed them by. The war fare has gone beyond that stage now. The "mop up" crew Is at work and It is a tedious undertaking, rout ing a nest of criminals here and an other there. General Butler's friends say he never promised to make Phlladel- , phla as dry as the Sahara. He has. however, endeavored to close all of the publico drinking places. Just recently he has read the ho tel men of the city a steaming lec ture. The hotel men told the gen eral at the beginning of his cam paign that they were with him to a man. The general said that was "fine" but he put some of his men on guard Just the same. Now he has told the hotel men they have not kept the faith and they must stop the use of liquors In their public dining rooms and restaurants. Like every other big city Philadel phia probably always will have its private supplies of Illegal liquors and Its private drinking parties. Nev er-the-less some of the r>nthuslastlc nollce would suppress the parties, r. particular vigilant ? cop recently raut* .1 i radio party where six mar ried couples were celebratlne a birthday anniversary. The Incident caused a lot of trouble ? particularly to the over zealous copper. General Butler always had a pret ty fine line of vigorous language, ' learned In the vicissitude of the Ma rine Corps, despite his Quaker an cestry. Lately those who have had contact with him say that he ca:i give "hell-and-Maria" Charley Dawes a running start of a couple of, thousand swear words and catch him before he reaches the corner. He reserves most of his verbal bar rage for those politicians who unc tlously come to him and say that the police drive Is all right so long as It Is directed against the other fel low, but that the general ought not to go so far in certain other direc tions. That gets the Marine's an tora. Non* of the politicians expected the general to go as far as he ha*. ( Three Murder Cases In One Term Court And John C. Perry Thinks World Getting Worse At Rapid Rate Now "As a boy and young man." says| John C. Perry, 415 first street, "F| don't remember but three murder cases up to the time I was 26 years1 old. "Just look at us now. Here wei have three murder cases docketed I for trial in one term of Superior! Court." Mr. Ferry is sure that the world is growing worse and worse ? far worse. And whether one agrees with Mr. Perry or not, it must be admitted : that never has such a crime wave rolled over Pasquotank County as | that which started with the shooting! of O. C. Bray- last December. The shooting of Bray was fol lowed by the killing of Alfred Fere- i bee, colored, less than three weeks later. Ferebee was knocked over thej head with a club. Now comes the drowning last Fri day night of W. R. Ballance, and preliminary hearing and Superior: Court trial of Elwell Overton, col ored. on the charge of knocking Mr. i tlnllance overboard. t will fullow one another hardly a week apart. Not only in Pasquotank but in most of the counties throughout thej Albemarle violence seems to have been rampant since the setting in of i the winter just past. At Currituck Court this Tveek at least on shoot ing case was on the criminal docket; while there is -another in Cam den. Perquimans. which had a murder case at the last term of criminal court In that county, if* said to have a kidnaping case and a case involving a charge of assault with deadly weapon for its next criminal term. DAVID OVERTON IS LODGED IN JAIL HERE David Overton, young negro who has given Elizabeth City police and Pasquotank County law enforcement officials no end of trouble. Is back In Jail. David was cautured by a posse in charge oi' Sheriff Charles Reld about six miles from town Monday about noon on the Williams farm owned by Coppersmith Bros, in Mt. Herman township. He is now in Jail awaiting trial on a number of charges. Sheriff Held has been on Over ton's trail for several months and on receiving a tip Monday as to the ne gro's whereabouts he got a posse and went out to take him. David was found at the house of a negro named Paul Overton and when the posse surrounded the house aud came in on him members of it could see David himself in the yard talk ing to a colored woman. When David saw. the sheriff he ? started to run. as he did some years! ago when he was flushed out in the , country by a posse headed by Po- 1 lice Officer Twiddy. Kennedy Davis and Leslie Amstroirg were nearest the point toward which David head ed when he undertook to make his escape, and Armstrong fired in thej general direction of the negro, ' whereupon David threw up his I hands and surrendered. David Overton Is the same negro,] the shooting of whom cost Police Of-' fleer Twiddy several hundred dol-| lars some years ago, though Mr. Twiddy has always stoutly maintain-' I'd that He was paying for something that somebody else did. Members of the posse tliet cap lured Overton Monday were Sheriff Charles Held, W. L. Jones. Kennedy Davis, Milton Haskett, and L. B. Armstrong. Negroes as well as whites are reported as relieved that Overton has been captured. His depredations had' grown to he a menace to the countryside. TAKES OVER STORES NON PAYMENT TAXES Norfolk, March 4.- -The collector of internal revenue yesterday tooK charge of the Norfolk and Newport News stores of E. Hogshlre Sons and Company, dealers In ship supplies, for non-payment of taxes during 1918, 1919, and 1920. They thought the first flourishes were all right and good publicity for the new administration. They ex pected the drive to die down within a week or so. But It still goes on and the politicians who at one time exerted control of the police are squealing loud and long. Philadelphia may still have some corruption within Its borders, but It Is no longer contest. NOW IN THE LIMELIGHT This photograph was, taken in December, 1923. and shows Attorney General Daugherty ( left ) talking with former Secretary of Interior Al bert II- Fall, both Of whmn nr.. rnpoflturjly brought l-f>? ? attention - in the investigation of naval oil laj^d leases. It was snapped Just out side White Houses executive offices. CURRITUCK SHERIFF CAPTURES ROBBERS Poplar Branch. March 4 ? The night of February 2 II . some one robbed the store of Curtis Grey of Corolla. The robbers came In an automobile or truck carrying away about 10 pairs of boots, several bags of flour, quite a supply of canned [ goods, plus several smaller things too numerous to mention. They j emptied one keg of Coco-Cola syrup and took the keg with them. While ; i In the store they ate one half rani | of oysters, several pounds of cake | 1 and some canned goods. They left j , the store with a light burning and i the empty cans on the counter. Sunday. March 2. R. E. Flora, i j Sheriff of Currituck county, cap- J i tu red the robbers at Seagull and placed them in the county jail. SAYS BAL MASQUE MUST BE "SOBER" I Philadelphia, March 4. ? The di rector of public safety, Genera! But ler, announced yesterday that the | bal masque which ushers in the len ; ten season tonight must be a strict ly sober affair and that he intends for rich and poor alike to observe the law. He says his policeman will I be placed about the hotel to prevent j any drunkenness. Mrs. P. H. Morgan of Shawboro' was in the city Sunday. SAN JOSE SUFFERS QUAKE EARLY TODAY (By Ths Aitoeiatrd Press) San Jose, Costa Rica, March 4. ? A series of earth BhockB beginning at four o'clock this morning dam aged fully half the building* <>f San Jose and caused a number of can ualtieB. Washington, March 4. ? "A very severe" earthquake about 21,000: in Ilea from Washington in a south-! erly direction was recorded on the seismograph at Georgetown I'nlver Blty today. Father Torndorff. the seismolo- j gist, snld the shocks began at 5 : 1 X ! this morning, reached a maximum ; Intensity between 5:23 and 5:26 and | were still In progress at seven; o'clock. RAILROADS DECLARE DEVICES IMPERFECT Washington, March 4. ? Eighty- 1 nine first class railroads today ask<*d j the Interstate Commerce Commis- j slon to modify itB order for the In- i stallatlon of automatic train control devices. The Joint petition declared that devices Intended to stop the I train when it enters the danger zone! are as yet imperfectly developed and ' that the experimental operation of them does not Justify the extensive utilization of them. Tug Clay Foreman Leads. Eventful Life The drowning of W. It. Ilallance last Friday night and the events which followed In Its train Involvi d the Foreman-Blades Lumber Com pany of this city In a series of minor misfortunes that at any time* except when a human life had been lost would have hardly been considered trivial. In the first place, the tug Clay Foreman Is a Foreman-Blades vessel and her work In towing lumber barg es Is Important In the matter of! keeping KlUabeth City's big test lumber mill supplied with lo?n. The Clay Foreman had to put back into port Friday night nnd Captain Mor- ' rlsette had to remain over with his Vessel until after Saturday morning's session of police court, not knowing but that the preliminary hearing as to Overton might be held at that time. Again the going out of the tug was delayed Monday morning when Captain Morrlsette remained over In the cltv to be present at Monday's session of court, when Ov- j erton's case had been set for trial; j but the trial could not be h?ld on account of the fact that Sunday night Overton was spirited away to, Norfolk by the city police, acting un-J der Instructions from Solicitor' Small. Prosecuting Attorney Saw-j yer and Trial Justice Spence did not know that Overton wan gone until! court convened Monday morning Now Captain Morrlsette faces having to k?.'ep hla veaael in port when ho attend n the preliminary healing, probably aorne lime n? \t week. and again In the week following', when h?* haH to appear an vltnoxR In Su perior Court. Not only no, but the Foreman ! Blades Lumber Company found it B"lf three men abort bealdea Captain' Morrlaette Saturday morning. Hal* j lance waa dead and F.lwoll Ov# rton wa? In Jail, of eotirae: but locked ; ' up with Elwell wan John Davit* , col ored. auapected of being concerned; in the difficulty between Mr. Hal ll(tC6 and Overton. Davln has alnce been releaa^d, no | ( evidence agafnat him having bei n j developed, but the Foreman-Derrick - aon Veneer Company, which i? af-. Hllat'-d with the Foreman-Hlade ? . Lumber Company, came near loalng another man Sunday night when Ev an* Forben waa unmaaked by Sher iff Held and Police Captain Winalow. Mr. Forbea la Hated in the rlty dl | rectory as an employe, of the iron Work*, but, It now develops. h?m' been working more recently for the I Forenum-Derrlckfon Company. j | Still another Interesting nldcllght j on the drowning of Mr. Hallance Im ( I the fact that Mr* Hallance haa been1 itwlc*' married and that her flrat hus band waa killed an a result of a dlf ! Acuity at Waahlnxton, N. C.. about 20 yeara ago. Hla name waa John Rue. I | KK.COltD SHOItT SKSSION Routine business and a record for .brevity niarki'd Monday's session oi I the Board of Coutity Commissioners. ! The ?County Physician's report, showing 'J 4 cases or measles. 1 1 of whooping coukIi. three of chicken* pox. two of German measles, ami one of diphtheria, was practically the only matter of general interest brought to the attention of the Com missioners. The board adjourned at noon, es-| tahlishing a record for short ses sions, so far as the memory of Reg ister of Deeds G. W. Brothers goes. MONDAY PASSES AT j CANTON QUIETLY Canton, N. C., March 4. ? The first day of work on a non-union basis passed quietly Monday at the Champion Fibre Company with 300 men going to work. t'nion forces picketed the plant but did so peace ably. ANOTHER IN RACE FOR SHERIFF NOV* Still another candidate for sheriff enters the lists today, and this one also is from Salem township, which already had one candidate in J. W. Hobbs. The new candidate is C. L. Hall | who lives on the Weeksville brick 1 road about eight miles from town. Now one of the county's most pros perous and successful farmers, Mr. Hall is also qualified for the office of sheriff through 1 2 years as a_cor poratlon man, during which he had wide contact with the public. "If elected to the office of sheriff of Pasquotank," said Mr. Ball, In handing this newspaper the an nouncement if his candidacy, "I shall do all In my power to give 100 per cent service," With the entry of Mr. Hall in the race Pasquotank can not be said to lack for timber for sheriff, as there are now three candidates besides the two from Salem. The three from town are L. W. Anderson, Charles Carmine and Miles W. Fere bee, ? Others prominently mentioned at one time for sheriff were J. M. Wil son and Jasper Thompson, the latter of Nlxonton and the former of I Salpni township, but these two are | said to have decided not to enter the I primary. MACK JENNINGS JAILHD NON SUPPORT CHARGE In the absence troni the city of Trial Justice Spence. Mack Jennings, former resident of the city, in Jail here since Sunday morning oniaj charge of abandonment and non support, was not given a hearing In , the recorder's court Tuesday morn-, ing. j Jennings was brought to Elizabeth City from Richmond, where he was | motorman on a street car, by Depu- i ty Sheriff J. L. Prltchard. Arriving from Richmond Sunday morning, I Mr. Prltchard was one of the offl- 1 cers who took Sap White and Elwell ? Overton to Norfolk Sunday ninht.| but despite 4 8 hours of being alJ moKt continually on the go, Mr. Prltchard was In the sheriff's office transacting business as usual Mon day morning. Omitted by oversight in re port of Monday's session of court was the case of Leonard Armstrong, who, on charges of Illicit possession and transporting liquor and of be ing drunk and disorderly, was re quired to pay fines aggregating $60 | and costs. \ Itrvnold* Foundation S?-cur?t? Itx Chtirlt-r Raleigh, March 4. ? For the pur pom* of helping out Indivlduala and Institutions the Reynolda Founda tion of Winston -Salem wan char tered yesterday by the Secretary of Stat*-. It it* headed l?y the widow of the late R. J. Reynolds, tobacco king. STICKS TO MKIJjOV Washington. March 4 Adherence to i he principles and the provisions of the Mellon tax plan were re affirmed by President Cf/olldge to day. KMOHT NOMINATED Washington. March 4 ? The nom ination of Samuel Knight of San Francisco. to he special Government counsel in litigation to determine the validity of certain titles held by the Standard Oil Company to land In California, was sent to the Senate (relay by President Coolidge. WAS CALIJCI) HOMK D. S. Swannon whr/ has been vis iting Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Morris of W< eksvllle was suddenly railed to his1 home In Norfolk and left on the three o'clock train Tuesday. COTTOV MAHKFT New York. March 4. ? Snot cotton, closed quiet. Middling 28.60. Fu tures. closing hid. March 28.13, May 28.43. July 27.87, Oct. 26.11, Dec. 24 77. Jan. 24.47. New York, March 4? Cotton fu tures opened thla morning at the following levels: March 27.78; May 28.08; July 27.60; Octobar 25.00; December 24.76. ! WALSH REFUSED | DOHENVS PLEA ('liirf I'rowpulor in the Oil In<|iiiry Clear* Hit* Ow II Name When He Kt-ailii Tel egrams Into lieroril. Washington. March 4. ? Senator 'Walsh. Democrat, of Montana, chief prosecutor in the oil inquiry, refused in December to enter into any oil transactions with K. L. Doheny. It mluht he "squeamifilinfftH on iiny part." Walsh told Doheny, but he could not appear to use his official position for profit, the Senator said. The purpose of the negotiations apparently was to hamper the work of the oil committee. Telegrams put Into the record of the oil committee today showed that after Walsh had forwarded to Do heny the suggestion from a consti tuent as to the development of the Montana oil field, Doheny suggested that Walsh or his brother go to Los Angeles and consult about It. Doheny based his suggestions on the proviso that Walsh or his broth er was willing to "take interest" in the proposition. The Senator replied that the sug gestion was "most alluring but said | that he could not accept because ' leasing negotiations with the Gov ernment would be necessary. I This correspondence took ?place before Doheny revealed that he ? loaned $100,000 to Albert B. Fall< | but after the Inquiry Into the Do Iheny and Sinclair leases had been begun. Reading the telegrams into the 1 record. Walsh said that efforts had | been made "to discover something that might be urged feloniously or (otherwise against me. That end j would be served if it would be whis pered about that there had been an ! exchange of telegrams between Do heny and myself." 1 Chief Burns of the Bureau of In vestigation of the Department of Justice told the committee that E. \ roil of secret agents soon after In jauguration day In 1921 and that he 'still retained that connection. Mr. Burns said that the famous "Mary" message was sent to Flor ida In an effort to suggest that Mc Lean should resign in order not to embarass Daugherty. Francis McAdoo, son of William Gibbs McAdoo, told the committee that. McLean telegraphed him that Mitchell Palmer. Attorney General I under Wilson, was acting attorney [ for Fall and Sinclair. Mr. Palmer, previously on the stand, had already denied the con nection. MEN PULL PISTOLS AND BOTH ARE DEAD I Columbia, Tenn., Match 4.?~Rlg |gls Jackson and Robert White met on thd road last night near here. | White pulled his pistol and fired. So did Jackson. Both are dead and the cause of the trouble Is unknown. Ft'XKKAIi W. It. ItAliMNCK The funeral of W. R. Hallanc* was conducted Monday afternoon at the homo on Hunter ntr?*et by Rev. Ft. F. Hall at 4 o'clock and Inter ment made In Hollywood Cemetery. Mr. Hallance's body was 'found late Sunday afternoon not far from the place where he Ih Haiti to have been thrown overboard by Klwell Over ton, colored, Friday night, from the tun Clay Foreman. Mr. Rallance Is survived by his wife, and daughter, Marion, his mother. Mm. Sarah Hallance, and brother, George Hallance, all of this city. The pall bearers were: LycUfgUA Madrln, G rover Hill, f>ddle Sawyer, Jim Hall, IvOtiis Twiford and Sain Hughes, I I NKHAI. MISS W.IMi Washington, N. C. March 4-? Miss Josephine Wall, aged thirty, passed i way Saturday night at ten o'clock at the home of her mother. Mrs. Mary L. Wall, oil North Market street. The deceased while In poor health for the past several years had only been confined to her bed since last Wednesday. She had been a resident of this city for the past fourteen or fifteen years and luring all these years a consistent itnd faithful member of the Chrls ian church. She Is survived by her mother, one sister, Mrs. J. P. War ner and three brothers, one <r1 whom Robert K. Wall, Is now taking a bouse of training In a Government school In Atlanta, ho having been wounded in France during the late World War. The funeral was held from the home on North Market street Mon day afternoon at two o'clock by the Rev. Richard Haghy. The interment was In Oakdale cemetery. NO INVESTIGATION FINMNGS OF CHICAGO GIIA\I> J CRY Washington. March 4 ? No In v est i gat ion .will be made of the find ings of the Chicago grand Jury which Indicted Charles Forbes and J. W. Thompson will be made by the special Senate Veterans Committee. Chairman Reed announced today. INVESTIGATE HH1PIMNG HOARD Washington, March 4 ?A sweep ing investigation of the Shipping Board was authorized by the House today*
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