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EIGHT PAGES. NO. 61. Drys Happy In Hope Of Better Law Enforcement Action of House in Increasing Guard (juise for Ju bilation in Camp of Pro-Volsteaders Throughout the Country Who Acclaim Vote a Great Victory Bv DAVID LAWRENCE 1921. By Tti? ttxxo Washington, March 14. ? The "drys" are happy. They see the end of rum smuggling. The action of the House in passing, by an overwhelming' vote, the bill providing for thoj enlargement of the Coast Guard service and the ratification by the- Senate of the treaty with ?Great Britain enabling the seiz ure of rum runners 12 miles from shore arp twr> moTcnm. which look to the rigid enforce ment of the prohibition laws. I Although it la true that the treaty. ? willi Great Britain simply binds the- ' vessels of that country and does not prevent rum runners from hoisting the French or the Chinese flag for that matter, the "drys" Insist that! the pact with the greatest maritime ' nation in the world establishes a precedent and that the likelihood of, serious international complications ' has diminished. After all, the only navy in the world comparable to the I American sea force is the British. It' is not likely that the other naval' powers will be inclined to question American seizure of their vessels particularly with the British treaty r as a recognition of the principle in volved. The British were careful to stipu late that they did not give up their three mile limit idea for territorial waters especially In war time but the American Government was inter ested only in the 12 mile limit forj search purpose to stop smuggling in peac?* time. As for the vessels of other nations with which the t*nited States will seek treaties similar to the British, the "drys" feel confident that the laws of the Vnited States as well as ? international laws permits the cap ture of any ship which can be proved' to he in contact with the shore for the purpose of smuggling or violat ing domestic laws. With the Coast Guard enlarged. , the Government will be in a position ! to collect more evidence of this kind.; More precedents for this form of seizure have been established and foreign nations have not protected, a -a Inst the principle, though they, L will undoubtedly require the Amer-i ican Government to prove its case' i every time. The new Coast Guard bill permits ' the transfer of smaller craft wjiichj i have become useless to the Navy as auxiliaries to a fighting fleet but J which can be effectively used to ov erhaul rum runners. The appropria tion for this purpose amounting to $1,1,000,000 is contained in another bill which has yet to pass but since the expenditure has been authorized: it is Inevitable that the money will', be provided. The "drys" are point in c to tin* VOt? on the Coast Guard bill as an evidence of their continued strength in the House, where recently a 2.7n beer movement was launched with renewed real. The advocates of mod ification of the Volstead law. how-; ever, do not wish to place them selves on record as opposed to en-j forcement of laws on the statute i books and the vote cannot be taken! as conclusive evidence of any change. In the relative Influence of the| "wets" and the "drys." In the same way the casting of only a half dozen votes In the Senate against the new: treatv with Great Britain Is not proof of any "dry" wave. JIndeed. if Conuress had been asked to supple ment the Volstead law so as to per t foreign ships to carry l'quor un- , ? seal Into American ports such a Hiest would have been granted be- ; ?cau?e the Supmme Court decision la-t summer surprised Congress it self which had no Intention of Inter fering with cargoes In transH, The permission now to be granted j British vessels to carry Honors on 'hoard provided they are sealed In American ports permit* them to op en their bars three miles outside th*? Cnlted States both approaching and leaving American shores. This elim inates the embarrassment of trying fo t ua ge the thirst of passengers and carrying only such an amount of lifinor on the voyages to the IJnltel States as could be used up befor" ! reaching destination. When comply-' Iiil with American regulations hen - tofore. the British ships have had no, liquors homeward bound, a clrcuni stance that has not displeased the American merchant marine which has to be "dry" going and coming and cannot offer Its bar as an Induce ment to passenger traffic. There Is no law. however. to#pr^' vent passengers who have taken II- J quor aboard from consuming the ?ame or retaining It in their posses sion when once outside the three mile limit and conversely there Is no {regulation at present which prevents Anyone boarding American vessels In j European ports with all the liquor j that can be carried. The risk In j transporting any unconsutned liquors ? BODY YOUNG WOMAN IS FOUND ON TRAIN Ogden, Utah. March 15 ? The body of a young woman with her head nearly severed was found in a trunk, aboard a Union Pacific train today. The trunk was consigned to Weed, California, and had been shipped from Denver yesterday. When the trunk wis being transferred to the Southern Pnrfflr train tiit> ba a r.e man noticed blood on the hinges and called the police. BADLY IXJl'ltKD \VHK\ TlilC K TUItSS CORNER } Tom Baker, who lives on Fourth street is seriously ill at the Com-I munity Hospital, following an acci-j dent which occurred Wednesday morning at the corner of South Road and Shepard streets. Mr. Baker and Major Payne were! driving a truck filled with lumber. As they turned the corner at S. S. j Davis's store the lumber started to turn over. Both men jumped from1 the truck but Payne was unhurt. Baker was hit by the lumber and In- 1 ternally injured. He was taken : hom*? but on Thursday was removed : to the hospital where an operation was performed. His wife and moth er are at his bedside. Malcolm Gregory, son of Chief of Police Gregory, underwent an oper ation at the hospital Saturday. Capt. J. H. Gard is critically iil at the hospital and his daughters,; Mrs. J. B. Hose and Miss Louise Gard. have arrived from Norfolk tol be at bis bedside. WAKK FOREST GLEE I'M It IS COMIMi TO HESTCITY Wake Forest. March 15, ? A ten day trip through the larger towns of Eastern North Carolina features the' schedule for the Wake Forest Col lege Glee Club and Orchestra made public by student Manager George Modlin of Elisabeth City. Other en gagements scheduled are a week end trip to Louishurg College and War* renton, and appearances at Wake Forest and at Meredith. Thirteen engagements are booked.! The club will begin its season before' a Louishurg audience on April 11! and close with the Intercollegiate, Glee Club Contest In Durham on. May 2. The club has been practicing regularly since early in February under the direction of Dr. H. M. Poteqt. An interesting program has been prepared. Twenty-one stu dents compose the glee club and 17 make up the orchestra. The schedule Is as follows: 1 April 11 ? Iyouisburg College. April 12 ? Warrenton. April IB ? Wake Forest College. April 17 ? Meredith College. April 18 ? Goldsboro. April 19 ? Klnston. April 21 ? New Bern. April 22 ? Washington. April 23 ? Edenton. April 24? Elizabeth City. April 25 ? Greenville. April 26 ? Wilson. May 2 ? Durham (Intercollegiate Glee_Club Contest). AVON SUFFERS IN THIS WEEK'S STORM Avon. March 15. ? The month of March has been showing Its respect to this section, as usual, and on?? of the most severe Storms In ten years swept Avon this week. Great havoc was played upon property of all kinds. The Globe Fish Company's build ing was blown from Its foundations and literally scattered over the sand hills like chaff. The sloop, Extorslor. foundered at her moorings and rolled over and was almost a complete loss. It looks, too. as though the price of chickens would he high this spring, for ninny flocks of young rhlckens were drowned. Supplementing the foregoing ac count of the Avon storm. S. M. Rod gers. 307 Fast Burgess street, who returned Friday from a tour of sounds points, says that et V von the storm broke In such fury that the tide swept over the vlll.ige Inundx*. ting It t<> a depth of five fenf. ?o that people had to get In the upper stories of their houses to keep from drowning, while In the stores 'goods had to he put on the, top shelves to avoid being ruined by th" climbing waters. Most of the poul try and some cattle, h?- says, were j drowned: while at one time life sav | ers from Hatteras stood by export ing momentarily to hare to rescue I the Inhabitants. ?Idual and not with the shipping JAPANESE DENY MEANS' STORY lllf Tli* IV?i I Toklo. March 15. ? Denial that any payment of money had ever l>een given Gaston Means in the effort to halt the prosecution of the Standard Aircraft Company case as Means charged yesterday be fore the Daugherty investigat ing committee was made today by Mitsui ' Bussan Kalsha through its principal office here. ADOPT SECTION OF POINCARE TAX BILL, Paris, March 15. ? The Senate to day adopted the section of Premier Poincare's financial reform measure which provides for a 20 per cent in crease in taxe?. BARGAIN** ARE FKATlltKO IN llANOS A\l> VHTHOIjASi fn the advertisement of Duff Piano Company, page three of this issue of The Advance, the piano and victrola cuts are transposed. The error is quite evident to persons fam iliar to the names of pianos and vic tro/as but it regretted none the less by The Advance ami attention is called to the advertisement, lest some one miss one of these bargains while they are going. The advertisement was set with the proper space saved for the cuts. There was some delay in getting the' cuts and when they came in they were hastily slipped in and the er-' ror was not found until pages 2. 3,; 6 and 7 had been run. HKI1K IN INTKIIKST CI IOWA N Uev. E. Norfleet Gardner of Pen-! dleton was here Saturday in the in terest of Chowan College. Murfrees boro. Mr. Gardner ? xp< eta i?? t>.* in the city over Sunday and is anxious j to meet girls and young women who ? may be prospective students of Cho wan, and men and women who are ; interested in the growth of the col lege. CHIEF OF POLICE SKiPSWiTHAUTO Thomayv ille- Officer Muk?i Quick Getawuv When Wo man Dies Who Hud Been Supposedly (lis Wife. H'kIi Point. March 15.? L. C. Jenkins. chief of police of Thomas ville, charged with the murder of a woman believed to be Mrs. Elizabeth Jones of Appalachlta. Virginia, whose body was found in the Jen kins home yesterday, was arrested when he returned to Thom.:svllle efrly today, according to advices re ceived here. Thomasville, X. C.. March 15. ? Surprising development took place here yesterday afiernoon after . a wo man iiad been found dead in the home of the chief of police here. Though she had been believed to be his wife, his wife telegraphed from CrtM-nvjlln Sniitli f?rt*lin-i nnrl now the Identity of the woman -and her child who was guarding the bo dy is unknown. Jenkins has skipped town with the police department auto. CONSOLIDATION OF SCOUTS IS BK<;UN Chicago, Yiarcli 15 Consolidation of the Lone Scouts of America with the Hoy Scouts of America whereby the membership of the Hoy Scout:* will be increased from C.Op.OOO to 1 700,000 was bqgnu her** today. Tlie merger was sanctioned recent ly by the executive board of the Hoy Scouts at a meeting In New YorK 1 and Armstrong Perry, former chief, pioneer scout of the Hoy Scouts, was' commissioned to devise means of ef-i fecting this amalgamation. VANDERL1I' ARRIVES BUT DOES NOT TALK Washington. March 15. ? Frank A. Vauderlip arrived here suddenly last night on summons from the Capitol but he declined to state the nature j of the summons. 1 Jess Smith Would Turn In Grave To Hear Wife lfarrv DuujJierty Was His Idol, His Hero, an<l Now First Finger of Official Accusation Is Being Pointed at Attorney (general l?y Jesse's Divorced \\ ife l(y ROBKIIT T. SMALL Copyright, 1924. Ih* Th# Advanc# 1 Washington, March 15. ? That the dead Jesse Smith, through the lips of his divorced widow, should turn the first tongues of official accusation against Ilarry Daugherty, the nian he wor shipped, shows what a topsy-turvy capital Washington has be come. It was often said of Jesse Smith that he would gladly lay down his life for his friend. Jesse Smith's suicide at the thres hold of the Attorney General's apart ment has never been explained. It was said he was suffcfjng from iP healtb and despondency. Washing ton saw no evidence at the 111 health, but the despondency unquestionably was there. It always has been said that "Jess" left a letter for someone. , but If he did. the letter never harf seen the light of day. Of all the Interesting figures, which came to Washington in con- j nectlon with the new administration on March 4. 1021, non?- was more , mysterious In a way than "Jess * Smith. It was known that, accord ing to small town standards. Smith was a wealthy man. His former wife hns told the Senate committee he was worth probablv $175,000. It also was known that he had been a lifelong friend of Harry Daugherty. As time Went on and Jesse SmlM* took no ofTIeial position with the Government, but occupied a desk near that of the Attorney General, It was supposed that he had made up his mind to spend all of his fortune ;f necessary to have a gay life in Washington so long as the Hardin" administration was In power and so long as his friend needed him. Jes:^ Smith k"ow the enemjes of Harry Dauifherty and he further knew If was the one man In whom the Attor nev General confided. "Jess" soon became known In Washington as "Main Street." TJfet was giving him his great adventure. Tak'-ti from the aisles and offices of his little department stor?- at Wash-. Incton Court House. Ohio, he had been suddenly transplanted to th" very upper circles of Washington, T). C.i and had gr<at<ir access t?? and freedom of th" White House than most of the cabinet officers. Jess Smith often said that he was nearer 1 1 to the "thrane" than "Charley", Hugh' s or Herbert Hoover or a num ber of other men that the nation j called great. Instead of a small town merchant. | Jesse Smith became a man of affairs, j a club man. a man about town. I*p j to. the time of his adventure In j Washington. Ray Raker, of Tien-*.! had been known as the most "ul - tra sWell" dresser In official circles. ' Ray was director of the mint andj his clothes looked like a million dol-, lars. There were diamonds on Ma watch charm, diamonds on his long cigaret holder and diamonds on hi** uurt.fr buckles. Itnt Ray faded when Jesse Smith .started to blossom out. He went to the bent tailors that the state of Ohio afforded and soon gave evi dence that while Washington Court House was a small town it was no Hickville center liy a long shot. One day during the first summer of the Hiirding administration Jesse Smith j electrified all the other callers at the White House offices by appearing there in a Shantung silk creation. ! The suit was the natural pongee shade. The shirt was purple. There was a purple handkerchief in the breast pocket. There were purple) socks, and a Panama hat with pur ple band. "Main Street" was never more resplendent than then. As much as Jesse Smith thought of President Harding and through Harry Daugherty he had inet the President-to-be long before he ever dreamed of the White House he would have preferred to follow Har-i rv Daugherty to the uttermost obliv ion rather than to continue to bask In the White House smiles without his friend. It was not a Damon and Pythias affair, this friendship. Jefcse I tfmith did not place himself on th ? Mime plane with Harry Daugherty. To Jesse there was no one o n that l?lane. Harry Daugherty stood nbove nil other men. To Jesse, Har rv Daugherty was an Idol. Smith was a much younger man than the Attorney General. He was tall, robust, with rosy cheeks, n i?M?wn mustache and plenty of brown hair. At the big hotel where I"' a::'! Mr. Daugherty lived hi apartments., Jesse Smith was a great social favor- 1 Ite. Many attractive women eye.! him as an eligible. They knew how dose he was to the White House. They knew he had been Included In nil of the Harding houseboat trips and the obscure Ohioan of a few months ago had become an extreme ly socially desirable Waxhlngtonlan. j Despite Its tragic ending, life hod given Jesse Smith at least two years' on the crest of the wave. He ha:l ; lived. If he thought his going could J have benefitted his friend In any, way, his one regret would have been that of Nathan Hale ? that he had but one life to give. And If a man \ can be restless in his grave. Jes*" Smith must be suffeHng tortures ov-l er what la going on In today. IHKS MYSTKHIOrSIA' AS WKIM)l\fl AIM'IIOACHKS I?aurinburg. March 15. ? John McN'air Pate. aged 27. was killed. Either accidentally or by suicide Fri day 45 days before his wedding- The tragedy occurred Friday. He was one of the wealthiest men of ?he ci ty. MICHIGAN AFTER CALIFORNIA NOW Lake Slate Trying Take Chi cago and Eastern Markets for Fruit and Vegetables Away from Pacific Coast. I n>- J. c. ROYLR IW?. By Th# New York. March 15 ? Michigan! producers are whetting their knives! for u bitter battle with California I growers for markets throughout th?? country for several nulls and vegetables. The 'consum ers and dealers in various parts of the lands are prepareo to watch with considerable enjoyment the progress1 of the battle. South westei-n Michigan nurseries are selling hundreds of thousands of grapevine seedlings and the1 spread of grape growing is extend- | ing into scores of districts in South ern and Western Michigan -where the industry heretofore has never j been introduced. I.4ist year Michigan grapes were ; sold in o4 states and 119 markets. About half of the output of the state was consumed in Pennsylvania. Ohio, Michigan and Illinois. The1 railroads carried about ? 4.000 car loads away from the Pawpaw dis trict, the total amounting to nearly, five million baskets. Some of the growers are worried1 over the California competition in view of the Increase in output ex pected this year, liut there is a dif ference of freight rate of nearly $:i5 a ton between California and Michi gan into the region centering around Chicago. The motive behind the I California increase primarily, how lever. ix the stricter enforcement of I prohibit Ion which will drive more j people to making their own wine. The below zero temperatures which have occurred this winter 'have not damaged the Michigan vines and growers in consequence look forward to a Heavy crop. The West Michigan field reports also de clan* that 192 4 should show a bump ier clop, as tliis follows a light year and Michigan vines usually alternato iin light and heavy production. ! The California growers show no j symptom of anxiety over the situa tion. There was a shortage of re frigerator cars during the peak of ? the 1922 California grain; season, but till* shortage was lighter In 1 1922; and the Southern Pacific is counted on to improve in 192 4 the record of efficiency hung up last year when its freight cars averaged 42 miles n day, or 12 miles farther than the goal set for the railroad as ' a whole. Michigan produced 6,5:52.000 bu shels of beans last season. Califor nia also is one of the leading wean raising states, and California grow ers say that by scientific cultivation an increase of about two bushels an acre should be added in the next few years. Tin- Michigan association Is en deavoring to find means of getting beans to the principal Eastern mar kets. Moston and New York. In com petition with California beans, which ov? r a combined water and rail route pay 30 cents a bushel freight, while shipments from Michigan to the same points pay 50 cents a bu shel. WIIJi lli:o \ IM AST HTOIIIHH OF COAST GCAItO SKRVlt'K Oliver M. Maxani, Chief of the Di vision of Operations, of the United States Coast Guard, beginning to night between eight and nine o'clock will broadcast life saving stories of the Coast Guard, through the Radio Corporation of America at Washlng t on . Two weeks from tonight or some time within the near future the story of daring work of Captain John A. Mldgett of Kodanthe will be broad casted. STUDIO WATCHMAN FATALLY WOUNDPI) I#o?i Angeles. March 15. ? It. J?m *s?n. wa'rhman at the Hollywood studio of Warner Hrothers, w.?* found fatally wounded near tho 91 u dio gat's todny. Defectlvps found at tho studio an automobile registered an belonging to If. h. Warner, if n engine Ht 111 warm, but no one was about. Efforts to bam who had loin driving the car were unavailing. Several hour* after the killing the studio was dark and apparently aon?! of the stages were being used. HALKX rill IM || t'AMX IIKV. VANIK MAVNKH Salem Baptist rhiirrh has called Rev. Vance Havnor of Hickory as ivsior and he has accopted the call. Mr. Havner in known as the "hoy preacher." He is 22 years old and has hoen preaching since he was 11. He Is unmarried and will make his homo In Weeksvllle, having ar rived Saturday. On Sunday he will preach at 11 o'clock IB the morning and 7.30 at alihft. ? ? MORE DOINGS | OF DAUGHERTY Film Manufacturer Testifies That Justice Department as "Fi\edM for Showing j (iariientier-Di'iupst1) Films. Washington . March 15. ? A sud \ den hIi i ft wa? mad** today in the I Daugherty investigation. neither Caston M?*ana nor Roxif Stinson be ing called. K. C. Qulnby, who made the films of the Carpentler-Dcmpscy fight, told of his acquaintance with Wil liam Orr and Jap Miiiiih, identified by Means as part owners of the film, hut said he did not know Jess Smith. Tex Klckard, the witness testified, told him that Muma. Orr. and a man named 1-ke Martin had told him that they hud a plan to display the films. "You mean that they could be shown and you would not he both ered by the Department of justice here in Washington?" UHked Senator Wheeler. "1 was told to go ahead with the -pictures and would not be bothered, ' replied Quint by. "Who told you that?" asked tho Senator. "These three gentlemen," Bald Qui m by. Wheeler bringing out the details of the plan, pointed out that the pic tures had to be shown before a Vet erans' organization in each state. "Then after that the exhibition buy er in that state would he hauled up before some justice and fined. That was the arrangement, wasn't it?" the Senator said. Qulnby asserted that the action would be "up to the buyer" of each state. Pressed by Wheeler. Qulnby said lip understood that a similar plan of receiving small fines and then show inu the pictures was followed In oili er states. SCHOLARSHIPS ARE OFFERED BY U. I). C. ! Mrs. C. I). Hell, president of the I). H. Hill Chapter. IT. 1). C\ is in i receipt of the following from Mrs. L. B. N'ewell of Charlotte In regard \ to scholarships to bo given boys and girls in thin com 111 unity 'by the 1". I), i [ C: "The time ban come for 1924 and 1925 scholarships to be awarded, ho I inn writing to ask yon to please get before your public the following data: j "Tell the members of the senior class of your High School that wo have a scholarship for a boy (choice) rnlversity of North Carolina, or A. and 10. at Raleigh; girl (choice) N*. C. C. W. or Kast < Carolina Training School, that writes the best essay ; or paper on .the Life of Jefferson j Davis. This paper not to exceed ! 2500 words, must be type-written and sent to me not later than June ' 1st. Am very anxious for this to be gotten before the Senior Class | High School pupils, so would be glad if you would make a personal visit 'and encourage writing of this paper. Scholarship to be awarded is valued at $200.00, ho It is well worth try inn for. "We also have vacant this year one scholarship at Kant Carolina Training School, Greenville, (?,, 'valued at $125.00; two scholarships at N. C. C W.. valued at $1.10.00 each; one scholarship at the Uni versity of N. C., not say exact valua tion. but know that I will have the scholarship open; one scholarship at Trinity for boy valued at $60.00, Moffctt Loan Fund; and the Tempo Whitehead Holt Scholarship given by the children of the confederacy at either the N. C. C. W. or the Kast Carolina Teachers ScliAol to the worthy girl who Is or has been a member of the c. of C., valued at $i::o.00 "Will appreciate it If you will get this data advertised In your local paper before the senlon high school pupils and any one else who might be Interested. You can apply to in ' for application papers." MIMJNKIt V SCHOOL tlKltK ON WttOXRsn.W Ml^s Pauline Smith, district home demonstration agent, will conduct a millinery school here Wedneaday from 10 to 1 In the Chamber of Commerce rooms and at \V< ??ksvllle High School on Thursday between (he name hours. Women of town and country are Invited to Attend. There is no charge and the Instruc tion Is very thorough. Those who wish to do so may take their mate rials and make their hats tinder Miss Smith's directions. Fl \ KD FOIl HI'KKMNO Ernest Moss, Perquimans Coun ty. was fined $5 and costs in police court Saturday for speeding, Assis tant Trial Justice Markharn presid ing. A number of cases wero con ilnned to Monday., I-OTTON MAItKKT New York. March 15. ? Colton fu tures opened today at the following levels: March 28. 8R, May 29.20, Ju ly 23.46. Oct. 25.85. Dec. none. New York, March 15 ? Spot cot ton closed quiet this afternoon, advancing 35 points. Middling 29.35. Futures closed at the fol lowing levels: March 29. 8B ; Msy 29.24 ; July 28.55; October 25.87; December 2*,i0.
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