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********* * THE WEATHER * * Increasing cloudiness, * * followed by rain late to- * * night or Friday. No * * change in temperature. * ********* VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, Ay cock Memorial Is Unveiled At Raleigh Tribute Is Paid to North Carolina Pioneer in Educational Awakening Which Would Have Been Done Several Years Before But For Delay Caused hy the War (By Th? AwMiatM Praw) Raleigh, March 13 ? The program] of the Aywck memorial exercises! .held in Raleigh today at noon in the' City Auditorium was as follows: Prayer ? Reverend Richard Til-j man Vann, D. D., Raleigh. An Appreciation of Charles Ay cock ? Dr. Edwin Anderson Alder-' man. Historical Address ? The Honor able Josephus Daniels. 1 p. m. ? Audience followed the State College Band to the Capitol where the unveiling occurred. 1:10 p. m. ? Unveiling of Monu ment under direction of presiding officer ? Presenting it to the people - of the State? ?Unveiling of Master Charles Brantley Aycock. Qoldsboro.i and Master Charles Aycock Poe. Ra leigh. 1:15 p. m. ? Acceptance of Sta-i tue on behalf of State ? 1:30 p. m. ? Benediction? =-Elder ' Frederick W. Keene. Raleigh. "The people of North Carolina have chosen to put aside their cares , and businesses this day" said Dr. Al derman "for a simple and noble pro- 1 cesa of thought ? the enshrining in j their hearts and memories of a man whom they grey to love; of a fel low citizen who incited them to.lof-j ty action and orf a public servant who modestly but radiantly served the interests of his people and inan-> kind. This outpouring of a great people with every mournful cere mony of affection and remembrance' is very impressive proof that North Carolinians do nort will that the re nown of their great servants shall hereafter suffer but rather that all : that art and genius can do shall,; here be done to hand on to other ages the bronze or marble Im ages of those who dreamed wide I dreams of social perfection and peace and struggled manfully for their realization. - "We are giving thought today not' to the death of Charles Brantley Ay cock, for such as he can never quite be imprisoned with the dead, but to his steadfast and romantic life which shall endlessly endure, Inspire, and teach. "It Is not possible for one born of this soil to stand in this presence and not feel a big stir of emotion. It will be a memory to cherish and keep green throughout life. It is not my part err purpose to attempt to present to you today a formal memorial address but rather to trpeak as one who knew Charles Ay cock when both of us had youth and walked together in the early morn ing of life; to seek to recreate his figure in some faint measure for the eyes of those who did not know him; and to pick out for contempla tion some of the saliences of his character. Was Country Bred "I had a sight of Charles Ayccrck for the first time in the fall of 1878 at the University of North Carolina. He was country born and bred and 1 was city born and bred. These were estranging circumstances, but1 we soon came to know each other. IhT^Wa^ plainly rural to the ordi nary eyKbut only a dullard could fall to perceive a certain distinction in his presence, a certain authority i in his manner, and a certain signifi-' cance In the very cadence of his voice, i It was my good fortune as soon as I entered into the world of men to! find myself a fellow citizen with Charles Aycock in the city of Golds-, boro. This town was almost as well! adapted to train the young citizen as Chapel Hill had been to train the young scholar. Aycock was busy building a home and laying, by hon est labor, the foundation of his great professional reputation. We some times walked together and talked about things that seemed significant when life lies before and all the framework of the land Is there to build upon. These contacts revealed to me that Aycock, like Lincoln, was not primarily a logician but a poet and a man of letters." The suggestion that a suitable > monument should be erected to the memory of Charles Brantley Aycock' was made soon after his sudden death In Birmingham. Alabama on April 4. 1912. according to Dr. J. Y. Joyner. j but the World War and Its aftermath 1 prevented the effective furthering of( the idea until a number of years la-' ter. From the very first the Ay cock Memorial Committee had three! ideas In mind. The Children's Tribute One was that the monument! should be a free will offering by the people he loved and served, and the boys and girls for whom he gave the ! (Continued on page 8.) JUDGE KEN YON WILL MAKE DECISION TODAY W'aahlnittoiwMarOi 1* ? President Cool Id He yenterday offered the Nary portfolio to William B. Kenyon. now a Federal circuit. Judge and he will make hla declaton today. WILSON OUT FOR REPRESENTATIVE Member of One City's Strongest Law Finns Likely Represent Pasquotank ill House Next Session. The only development In local pol itics this week la the news that J. Kenyon Wilson of the firm of Thompson & Wilson has decided to offer himself as a candidate for Re presentative of Pasquotank In the General Assembly of 1925. Mr. Wllstn was editorially sug gested as a suitable man for Repre sentative of Pasquotank by The Daily Advance about a month ago. Since that time talk of his candidacy has been more or less general; and recently It had been understood that he would enter the race. Not until ' this week however, did Mr. Wilson' admit to a reporter for this news paper that he would be a candidate.! Though offering himself as Repre sentative for his County If the elec torate desire to send him to Raleigh In that capacity. Mr. Wilson Is not disposed to make an aggressive cam paign for the Democratic nomina tion or even to make formal an nouncement of his candldacv. If the Democrats of Pasquotank will ten der him the nomination he will ac cept it with due appreciation and will endeavor to nerve his consti tuents in the General Assembly to the best of his ability. If Pasquo tank Democrats are indifferent to; his candidacy or prefer some other man as their Representative, he is' not disposed to argue the question iu I his owu If there is to be opposition to M?\ ; Wilson's candidacy, it has not yet developed. The contest for the office of sher- ' Iff continues to overshadow In Inter eat every conteat for county office in the approaching primary with the in- ! dication that with five candidatea In the running there will be no further! entries in this race. Every one of, the candidates has a considerable following, and it Is therefore hardly probable that any candidate has a sufficient1 v decided advantage to win out In the first primary. The outcome of former contests would Indicate that the second pri mary would be between two of the three candjdates from the city; but friends of Mr. Hobbs and Mr. Hall argue, for the very reason that herc-j tofore all offices have gone to Eliza- 1 beth City, it is now time for the ru ral part of the County to be favored.' Anderson's friends armie that h* ; will be one of the candidates in the second primary because of his long term of party service for which. th?y I say, he has had no adequate reward. Friends of Carmine argue that he | I should have the office because he! needs It and because of his record as County auditor. They point to hi* ' success in politics heretofore as In dicative of the showing he will make: j In the June primary. Ferebee'a friends are quite active In his behalf, urging that there is I every reason for his nomination that could be urged In behalf of any of [the other candidates and that he- 1 i sides his experience in business, in] , politics and in office especially .qua!* I Ify him for the office. C. C. Prltchard has this week for-! j mally announced his candidacy for) I renomlnatlon as County auditor and | still has the field to hlmaelf for thisl ' office. He will be Just completing ! his first full term In office next March, and Indications are that he' I will have no opposition, as his worrf I has been generally satisfactory. FIVE SUBPOENAED BY OIL COMMITTEE Washington. March 13 ? Rudolph' .Hynlck*. Republican National Com- 1 ! mltteeman from Ohio. Harry McKen zie, attached to Coolldge'ti Chicago campaign headquarters, and Tiffin1 lOllmore. deputy secretary of the 'state of Ohio, were today subpoenaed , i by the oil committee. | They are to be questioned in con- 1 nectlon with the story of l^eonard | Wood. Jr.. about an attempted na-| tional deal in the Republican Nation-] al Convention at Chicago In 1920. Norman Gould erf New York and I Charles Garrlsh of Columbus, Ohio,1 were also subpoenaed. PH ESI DENT EBEItT DISSOLVES REICHSTAG (Bv Th? AmwIiM Pmtt Berlin. March 13. ? President Ebert today dissolved the relchstag In consequence of the determination I of the socialists to Insist cm revision1 of the special emergency ordinances, i promulgated by the government, no Itably tag regulation. BEATEN UTILITIES FIGHT FOR TIME ? Decision of Richmond Court! of Appeals Seems Cut the Ground Completely from Under Suits Against City. A decisive victory, it would appear, was that won by the^ city of Eliza beth City in the opinion in Elizabetn City's favor handed down by the United States Circuit Court of Ap peals at Richmond on March 10. This victory would seem to indicate that the City Council has betin well advised by ita attorneys as to the city's rights in the matter of the erection and operation of municipal ly owned utilities. The only ques tion now at issue appears to be that of how long the privately owned utilities here can keep their eases going in the courts. The existing utilities are seeking to find refug**, apparently. In a multiplicity of ao tlons; but the causes in all of these actions are practically identical. Two cases were decided at Richmond this week, but It Is interesting to not^ that the formal opinion in the case of the Elizabeth City Water & Pow er Company against the city of Eliz abeth City reads as follow*: "The legal questions Involved In I this appeal are considered in the! opinion this day flled In John T. Hill,' Howard E. Crook et al vs. the city j of Elizabeth City et al. and the con-, elusions therein reached are decisive I of the assignments of error here."* Now here, stripped of legal verbl-. age, is the opinion of the court In Continued on Pago 4 CAME NEAR BEING GREAT BIG BLAZE | An alarm from Box 34 at 9:4H o'clock Thursday morning called tthe fire company ta Shirley street. Where they found the home of Charlie Johnson, colored, all ablaze SO that the hnnse nnri nrrthing in It could be saved. The adjoining house occupied by Carrie Doxie. col ored, was also damaged to Ihe ex tent of about $25 and three other houses nearby were nllghtly damaged ? because of flying sparks. No one was at the home of John-i ' soir. which Is oTAr * the railroad he- \ tween the knitting mill and Parson | age street, far enough from the last I hydrant to make the water com-' pany pressure not very good, and a! strong northwest wind was blowing besides. The origin erf the fire Is not known. Some of the neighbors discovered It and turned in the alarm but the fire had gained such headway that It was only by the) good work of the flrmen that the! )iouses nearby were saved and a' really big fire checkod. BUSINESS STANDSTILL IN THE SOUTHEAST New Orleans. March *13 ? Business ] is a'most at a standstill In this sec-! tlon of the South. A representative of one of the largest jobbing houses here, who has Just returned from a trip through Mississippi and Louis iana said today that business in thej rural communities and mcrat of the^ large towns Is at Its lowest ebb j since the spring of 1921. Thej backwardness In farm work. un seasonable cold and the small re-j turns received from last year's crops are making the farmer very, careful about incurring new debts. ' he said. Retail trade trade here j fell off considerably during the last week, a cold snap checking the sale of spring goods, which was Justi beginning. J AGAINST ROOSEVELT Bliss Ruth Lltt (above) of East Patchogue, N. Y., who is running against Theodore Roosevelt, assist ant Secretary of the Navy, for post of delegate from First Congression al District, for a seat in the Repub lican National Convention. SAYS ROOSEVELT GAVE THE ORDERS Major General I^ejeune Tes tifies Before Oil Committee About How Teapot Dome Was Taken Over by Sinclair ? Washington. March 13 ? How American marines cleared the Tea pot Dome of trespassers after that oil reserve was leased to Harry Sin clair was described to the oil committee by Major General Le Jeune. . lie said the orders were issued by T*heodore Roosevelt, then acting Sec retary of the Navy. Roosevelt testified that the re quest for clearing the Teapot came from Fall who was quoted as sayin,*, that "he and the President wanted the squatters ejected." Roosevelt said that Secretary Daniels had tak en similar action. To Appoint Receiver. Cheyenne, Wyoming, March 13. ? Appointment of Rear Admiral Jos eph Strauss as receiver of the Tea pot Dome was requested today of Federal Judge Kennedy by the spe cial counsel, Roberts. Affidavits by acting Secretaiy Roosevelt and Secretary Work, set ting forth that an injunction halting the development work and a receiv ership are necessary to protect the interests of all parties concerned pending litigation over the lease, were filed In court. GRIM APPEAKS ON , UNKNOWN MISSION Washington. Mnrrh 13. ? While the House was today preparing t"> look Into the charges of wrongdoing that have been made against two of its members, John firint who con ducted the Chicago grand Jury in vestigation in which charges devel oped, appeared before the grand Jury here on an unrepealed mission. Virginia To Pave Two Roads T oward Bestcity Completion of Both Projeetg by Next Winter Looked For ward to I?y State and Oiimty Koad Authorities in Vir ginia, Say Report* llraehing Here Thursday Paving by October of both the Omit Bridge road and tbo Dismal Swamp road from Norfolk to tl?^ ' Virginia line Is looked forward to by Norfolk County road authorities. ac cording to reports received . here Thu rsday. The supervisors of Norfolk Coun ty this woek luthoHxed thp borrow ing of funds not to exceed $340,000 for the construction of thn Dismal Swamp road, extending from Deep ; Creek viHage to tho State line. The distance Ir 13.fi miles. This road will be built by the Nor folk County Road Commission under contract with the Virginia Btate Hlshway Commission and will be of waterbound macadam construction with a bituminous surface, 18 fevt j wide. It is hoped that a start can be made on the paving of this highway by April 1, and that It can be fin ished by October 1. Road paving projects are seldom completed an '?arly as hoped for, but every condl tlon would appear to favor the com pletion of this project as planned. The weather from April to October! Is usually favorable, and this proj ect will not be so dependent on weather as is usually the case, as, transportation of materials will nil' 1"' by water, since t lio road nklrtn 1 the Dismal Swamp Canal through out its length. Meantime the Virginia State High way CommlsHion Ih getting ready to pave the Great Bridge road, the pres ent plan being to build the- road o* concrete as far as Hickory and of gravel-clay construction from that! point to the Stat'- line. However, the Norfolk County supervisors this1 week adopted a resolution authoriz ing the county road engineer to con fer with the VlrclMa Stat*- Highway Commission with a view to g<>ttinK a concrete road all the way to the State line, or. at hast, a water bound macadam road In lieu of the proposed travel clay road. Norfolk County will propose, It Is under stood. to guarantee Interest on the additional cost If concrete is used In place of the gravel clay. ' The type of construction to be used on both these road* Is of In terest In Elisabeth City, because It Is believed here that the North Car olina Highway Commission will be disposed to connect *lth the Virginia paved roads at the State line with a road of the same type of construc tion at the Virginia road. Coolidge Message Puts Congress On Defensive President"* Sharp Itemiiider to Congress That It Should At tend to Its Knitting E\|>eftod to Bowt Hi* Stock with People Whether Congress Heeds Reprimand or Not < n>- DAVID IAWRBXCE , ICwrlWt ID). ?> Tka Washington, March 12. ? Congress and particularly the Re publican leadership, has been placed on the defensive by Presi dent Coolidge who in a special message has demanded that all legislation be put aside that a joint resolution be adopted making effective immediately the 25 per cent cut in income taxes payable this week. RECORD CRIMINAL DOCKET IN COURT Two Murder (juica and Out Murder Suitpect Before Judge Deviu With Usual Number Minor Offenders. With two murder canes on the criminal docket in one of which a prominent and well to do farmer is defendant and in the other of which i a negro Is accused of the murder of a white man, and with LeRoy i Whit**, young negro highwayman j suspected of the "murder in cold , blood of 0. C. IJray, popular Eliza I beth City insurance man, to face | Judge Devin on eight separate : charges, there is no prospect that anything except criminal cases will i be tried at the one week's term of ! Superior Court, beginning here next week. Though popularly believed to have i shot O. C. Dray in the back as the white man turned to run. LeRoy White, generally knojvn as Sap, has | never been indicted on that charge, I officer* of the recorder's court hold I ing that it would be useless to ar ! raign the negro on that charge on ? the flimsy evidence secured by the police. However, White has con fessed to the charge of burglary and a lengthy sentence in the State prls I on would seem to be assured for : him though he is never brought to trial for murder. | The white farmer Who is to face I trial on a second degree murder ; charge is Alex. E. Jones or NewlanJ. brother-in-law of D. E. Williams of .South Mills and of Mrs. W. L. Co I boon of Elizabeth City. Mr. Jones admitted to Sheriff Reld, when ar rested. that he had hit Alfred Fer ebee, negro, over, the head with a club, inflicting the wound uh a result of which Ferebee died some days la ter In the community hospital. Elwell Overton is the negro who is to be tried for the murder of W. U. Itallance, white deckhand on the ? tug Clay Foreman. It Is alleged that I Overton knocked or threw Mr. Hal lance overboard on the night of Fri day. February 29, as the tug Clav Foreman was leaving the harbor here. It la certain that Ballance | went over the rail c/f the tug and was drowned, for his body was re covered from the Pasquotank River early , in the evening of the follow ing Sunday. In addition to the trial of Over ton, another sequel of the drowning of W. It. Itallance may be the in dictment of certain participants of the mob that on Sunday night fol lowing the recovery of Mr. Itallance'.*: body and the coroner's Inquest i formed to take Sap White and El- 1 Well Overton from the Pasquotank 1 County Jail. The Identity of the man believed to have been the leader of1 the mob Is generally known. j Another case of rather more than usual Interest Is that against Luther Thompson, son-in-law of an Eliza-' beth City police officer, who is I charged with larceny of an automo bile. Mack Jennings, young white man one time of good standing in 1 his community, Is In Jail awaiting trial next week for abandonment of wif?- and children under peculiarly 1 revolting circumstances. Then there I is Wilson Ilateman, Perquimans County farmer and suspected boot legger, charged with assault with in- 1 tent to kill. Not only will there be no civil i cases tried next week, but one hard ly sees how all the criminal cases on th<* docket are to be disposed of. I There ar?- the usual number of cases! coming up from the recorder's court involving violation of the Turlington) art and there are three Norfolk bovs charged with stealing two automo- ; bile* In Elizabeth City In onr night.; besides a number of rases. In all probability, against David Overton,, petty thief, and a whole retinue of minor offenders. JAPANESE FRUSTRATE SINCLAIR OIL EFFORTS (Sv TM AiMclatrt flSNt) Toklo. March 1 J.1? Japanese mil- 1 Itary authorities hare frustrated the attempt by J. P. Mcrnllounh and D. I K. MoI,a?*hlln American aurteyora j repreaentlnx the sin, lair oil Inter- 1 i Ma, to enter the northern aectlon of i the laland of Hanhallen. The author Itlea have taken the two on a Jup- j aaeae (un boat to the port of Ontaru | / The two houses were more or less surprised to receive Mr. Coolidge's sharp reminder that prompt action woufd be appre ciated by the country, and while there was some comment to the effect that. Mr, Coolidge might have acted sooner, the 7act is " Congress had had the proposal under consideration for more than a month and has simply : neglected it. Thi> resentment of the country, if (such develops. against the failure of | the Government to give the tax pay ers the benefit of the 25 per cent reduction on 1923 Incomes 1? beln? (discussed on all sides and the Trep idant is being commended for havinrt 1 taken the step which clearly relieve* i him of responsibility for Congres sional delay. The administration has thought right along that if the proposal were to come to a vote neither party could afford to block action. The Joint resolution, however, has rested in committee and, while those who have not wished to report it to the I House are defending their position on the ground that the Senate would not act, the latter body has not had the opportunity and there has been 1 no way to tell what the Senate might | do as joint resolutions have some . times gone through In a jiffy. j The more the President urges Con ? gress to confine Itself to legislation j desired by the people, the stronger ; will his position become, in the opin ion of his advisers, who think the country is getting the Impression j that Congress does nothing but in | vestlgate while important bills are ? neglected. Should Congress bestir itself in I the next few days and pass the Joint resolution sought by the President, it would, of course, be quite a feata 1 er in his cap, politically speaking, : for It would place the leadership of the Republican party in his hands. Hut even if the measure is lost, Mr. Coolidge's e fforts. In the direction of Immediate legislation, will not hurt him. The Democrats have begun to raise the cry that Mr. Coolldge is playing politics. In any event. this Is one of these Instances where al! factions agree that n reduction of taxes would be a political advantage to any candidate or party. In spite of that Impression, however. Con i gress Is taking Its time, believing no doubt that the cut In 19211 incomes lean be made as effective on Juno [16 as now and that the considera tion of the 1923 and 1924 Incomes | together will help to get the whole i revenue bill out of the way before | next autumn's elections. Meanwhile the Treasury receipt* from Income taxes this week are be low normal as the public Is await ing the action of Congress, optimis tically thinking a last minute spurt will make the cut in 1923 Incomes effective. SEIZE LINER FOR SMUGGLING LIQUOR New York. March 13. ? Go'vern ment confiscation of the Iloyal Mall ship Orduna was demanded today in a libel suit filed in Federal Court by the t'nlted States district attor ney's staff as the result of a narcot ic and liquor raid aboard the vessel yesterday. Washington, March 13. ? Govern ment agents last night Belied the Hoyal Dritlsh mall liner Orduna on charges of smuggling liquor and nar cotics. EDUCATORS AFTER EIGHT MONTHS' TERM ItalnlKh. March 13. ? Th? North Carolina Educational Association op ened here last night with the ex pressed determination to press for ward in a movement for an eight months Urms for all the schools of the State. <Y>TTO* Af ARK KT New York. March IS ? 8 pot cot ton closed steady this afternoon, ad vancing 45 point*. Middling 2H.80, Futures closed at the following levels: March 28:52; May 28:75 July 28.03; Octobef 25.51; Decem ber 25 .25. New York. March 13. ? Cotton fn? tures opened today at the following levels: March 28.26, March 28.48, July 27.72. Oct. 25.60, Dec. 25 10.
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