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********* * THE WEATHER * * Fair tonight and Tuea- *" * day. Moderate Temper- * * ature. Gentle North and * '* Northwest trinds. ********* CIRCULATION Saturday 2,509 Copies VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1924. FOUR PAGES. NO. 71. OVERTON TAKEN TO STATE PRISON ^ 'ih Two Other Prisoners Leaves With Sheriff Reid for Raleigh to Begin Long Term Prison Sentence. Three prisoners, two negroes and one white, were taken- to Raleigh Sunday to begin serving terms In the Mate I'rison Imposed at the criminal term of Superior Court concluded here last Saturday. The white man was Luther Thompson, convicted of the larceny of an automobile, and the negroes were Lelioy (Sap; W hite and Elwell Overton. Thomp son was sentenced to two years, and the two negroes to 20 years each In Sap's case a 20-year sentence was Imposed for burglary, and lie1 was given six additional sentences of 12 months each for offenses rang ing from robbery to forcible tres-l pass, but these sentences run concur- 1 rently with the 20 year sentence and will not stand in way of the release !' of the negro when he has served his 20 year term. Elwell Overton's case sprung two ' surprises on the general public, one when the jury brought In a verdict of manslaughter and the other when the court Imposed the limit on the prisoner for this offense. | The manslaughter verdict, while a surprise to the general public, was ^?ViV ?"h expectation of those who followed the case closely in the courthouse and who noted the Intel ligence of the Jury before" which it was being tried. The public gained the wrong Impression of the serious ness of Overton's offense because Oierton was not represented bv counsel at the preliminary hearing and witnesses for the State were not cross examined. Conducting the de fense. to Which he had been assigned only when Overton was arraigned in a very able and skillful manner] J. H. LeRoy, Jr., brought out on cros. examination the fact that nel tlier Captain Xtorrisette nor Engin eer Ward, principal witnesses for the Mate, would swear that they saw Overton strike more than one blow and both admitted that what thev took from the motion of the defend ant s elbows to be blows might have .." by the tugging and pulling over a broom handle, such aj Overton described. The weakness of Overton's testl mony lay |n his description of how iV . I.. Iiallance, the white man In connection with whose death bv I drowning In the Tasquotank Rlye'r Overton was charged with first de gree murder, went overboard I "Den he snatches de broom awav from me." testified Overton, "and stumbled back against de rail and fell oyer It. I sees his two feet and de broom handle sticking up over de rail, and I grabs de broom handle. But I nln t got no purchase and wld his weight and de speed of the boat against me I couldn't hold on to the handle and It slipped outer mv hand. If I could a hilt It it would have pulled me overboard too." - ?n,.t2* . 1rl!,g Overton's testlmonv could not help wondering what held I 'Jo ,RnuC aft,'r h" w"nt over the low lS-inch rail of the tug boat handle "?" C,?UM k'rab thp hroom handle A plausible explanation *"'! t r thnt Mr Dallance did snatch the broom out of one of the negro s hands, and that In the sud den releasing of It he stumbled back against pnd ovor tho mil. that for an Instant Overton held the heavier white man clinging to the broom .LOT ^ ,Iear llfe at ,hp point thp handle Joined the broom I r:.rr'.,nW" ???" wa,,-r- ^ ??>pn. rather than he pulled overboard , himself, let go the broom handle, j Terhaps some such view prevailed In the lury room, where decision for a ? jordlct of manslaughter wan roachod in loss than an hour. At anv ra to. tho Jury had no dlroot ovldonce to i " ro'" ?"?tln.ony as to how the white man went overboard. , and doubtless felt. In view of this L circumstance, that a verdict of any . tlilni- mor, tin, manslaughter ?would hardly be JustlAed. Prevailed in IP rlaln parts of the city Initr dlateiv alter the drowning it Iiallance ' might have been allayed had there been an early hearing In court will, state s witnesses nibjeef to ernss er I amlnatlnn. The version of the ar fair that prevailed In the city among those who heard Captain Morrl [ *7;r rH,i,"r F 21. , ?',.s thnt Ov< , ton I ral? win iTh"? "'"'Inst Ih ? rail with a blow of tho flst nn.i \ dim Vhtl? ,ho ,n,,or w" o ff i<i< r-. f hi." ? ? i""iii>- ,hr- * ?X)TTON MARKET New York March 24 ? Spot cot I ton closed quiet thin afternoon, dc E cllnlng ISO point*. Middling 27.36. I Futur-.i closed Ht the following fc levels: March 27.08; May 27.23; L July 26.70; October 24.63; Decani - l ber 24.40; January 14.00 New York. March 24. ? Cotton fti | turea opemd today at the following ^ levela; March 2*. JR. May 2*. 52. July 27. SO. October 26.47. December 25.02. MAKE CLEAN SWEEP AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY r* Washington, March 24. The ""ii" today authorized a sweeping Investigation of the aircraft Indus ODDS AND ENDS ! GO INTO RECORD Bits of Testimony Bearing j on Aspects of Oil Inquiry] Recorded as Harry Sinclair Is Discussed. Washington. March 24 ? Odds and ends of testimony bearing on th?-? widely separated aspects of its in quiry went into the record of the oil committee today while its members were perfecting plans to hale Harry Sinclair into court because of his re fusal to submit himself to further questioning. As if the committeemen had deter-! mined to push their task of investi gation to a quirk conclusion, wit-j nesses succeeded each other rapidly and most of them were dismissed with only a semblance of cross ex amination. Gartnl Thompson, one of Cool idge's campaign managers, testified that he had no knowledge of an "oil deal" at the Republican National Convention of 1020. Harold Vivian, reporter for the New York Times, told the commit tee that he received confirmation from Will Hays' New York office J that Hays would testify to the stock transaction by which Sinclair helped wine out the Republican National Committee deficit. C. C. Chase, son-in-law of Albert Fall, today declined to answer any questions hv the oil committee on the ground that any answer * he mleht tend to incriminate hlra. Price McKinney of Cleveland had testified that Chase visited him at his home to ps!< him to say that h?? had made the famous $100,000 loan to Fall. LIVES LOST WHEN STEAMERS COLLIDE (Br Tto? A??nrl*t*4 rr??.( Gravesend. Eng.. March 24. ? The American steamer Am erican Merchant, and the Brit ish steamer Matatua. today collided off Thameshaven. the latter sinking with a loss of life variously reported from 1 to 8? and with several injured. ANDERSON MUST GO TO SING SING New York, March 2 4. ? Willinm H. Anderson. resigned state superin tendent of the Anti-Saloon League, recently convicted on the charge of forgery, must go to Sing "f?lng Pris on for from one to two years. Su preme Court Justice Wagner ruled today, in ?l<>nying the former dry leader's application for a certificate of reasonable doubt. QUIET A FT Bit STOKM The case in which Charlie an?l Calvin Patrick, father and son. were defendants, and which/ resulted in a mistrial last Wednesday, will not be tried again this week, both defend ants having agreed to enter a plea of guilty. Accordingly the elder Patrick was fined $25 and costs for violation of the Turlington Act and $5 and cost* in each of the other two charges against him, making a total of $35 and costs, while Calvin Patrick was let off with the costs in the two cases In which he was defendant. The only case tried Monday was that against W. C. Jackson for vio lation of the parking ordinance, and in this the defendant was let off with the costs. HERE FOR CHAPEL HILL CHUKUH Rev. Walter Patten, pastor of the Methodist church at Chapel Hill, Is In the c'ty in behalf of the new Methodist church, thnt he Is raising funds to build. On Sunday night at the First Methodist Churrh. I)r. Pat ten gave a very Interesting lecture and fhowed sterreoptlcan slides of the University campus nt Chapel Hill, the churches and the Inade ouat" capacity of the present churrh to take care of the bovs. As there are nt present 700 Methodist hoys nttenoJng the Pniversltv and the seating ennarity of the church is only 20ft. It Is very evident thi' a new huildinir Is badly needed so Dr. Patton Is working to raise *2?rt.0ftft. The Mission Board Is giving $50,000. ?he Western North Carolina Conference. $3ft,ftft0 and the North Carolina Conference $30,000. The remainder Is to be raised by subscription. Aboujt 2,0ftft student attend the University at Chapel Hill and the V M C A snd village churches look after the spiritual needs of the bovs. This new church will he built to take care of the young men. SENATE TURNS DOWN TREASURY PROVISION Washington. March 24. ? The Treasury provision In the revenu ? bill limiting cnpital loss deductions to 12 and a h?lf ner e^n t wr* tndnv turned down by the Senate Finance Comihlttrc. John T. Weeks of this city, J. E. Cooke of Delcross and E. J. Hum phries of Fentress left Saturday on a business trip to Florida. England's Prize "Lady Orey" is the champion horse of Great Britain. Just recently ahe won the "King's Cud." at a London Horse Show. REPORTS FROM SOUTH CAUSE COTTON DECLINE New York, March 24 ? Reports of Improving weather condition* for now crop preparations in the South today "Seemed chiefly responsible for the declines of from 50 to 75 points in (ho cotton market. Tho decline extended to 27.25 for July while May broke (o 28.52. making a net decline of approximately one cent a pound. ASKS HOUSE TO TAKE ACTION ON CARAWAY Washington. March L'4._ ? The House was today asked by Represen tative Tread way, Republican, of Mas sachusetts to take "appropriate aC (ion" on the charge that Senator CaiTaway; Democrat, of Arkansas, had improperly criticised the House and Speaker GlUett in his Senate speech Saturday. DAUGHERTY HEARING , AGAIN UP WEDNESDAY Washington, March 2-1.- -Further healings in the Senate investigation of Attorney General Daughorty were today postponed until Wednesday on account of the illness of Senator Wheeler, committee prosecutor, and to conflicting engagements by com mittee members. MASKED MEN GET PIGGLY WIGGLY MONEY Washington. March 2 4. ? Four masked men today robbed two Pij* gly Wiggly store officials here of $10,000 In a daylight automobile holdu p. SECRETARY WILBUR IS DULY INSTALLED' Washington. March 2 4. ? Curns Wilbur, new Secretary of the Navy, arrived in Washington today, con ferred with the President, and was then installed at his desk at the Navy Department. COUNTY MAY HIRE MACK JENNINGS OUT Mac): Jennings, former Elizabeth City resident whose motion for a change of venue to Gat en County was allowed by Judge Devin early in the week last week, came Into court here Saturday and through his counsel entered a plea of guilty,! whereupon the defendant was sen-: tenced to two years in the Pasquo-' tank Jail with leave to the County Commissioners to hire him out and , pay his wife the sum of $lfi a month, or. .in case any Arm or in- 1 dividual wishes to hire him. the; Clerk of the Superior Court will per mit such firm or Individual to do so j upon payment of costs by the d"-j fendant and upon the defendant glv- ! lag bond In the sum of $500 for ap pearance at each term of Superior Court to show good behavior and for the -payment of $10 a month to his wife. J. C?. Jennln?s, for operating an automobile with open cutout, was found not guilty on verdict directed by the court. t George Reid, who has been hav fng a controversy with the city po lice and recorder's court officials a.? to the payment of dog tax, was found not llrble to Mils tax by a Pas quotank Jury Friday. In the case of Leniu'el Griffin vs. J. G. Williams et al Judgment was granted in favor of Jhe plaintiff by. reason of the failure of the defend ants to file an answer to the com-' plaint and the note in controversy was ordered cancelled. j The Elizabeth City Water Com pany noted an appeal from Judge Devln's decision denying the Injunc tion asked for by the water company to prevent the Issuing and sale of bonds on the part of the city or any other step on the part of the city looking to the establishment of pub licly owned utilities and the case will now go to the State Supreme Court. G. P. Hood is away on a business trip to Ilaleiah and other points. He Is expected to bo back on the first of April. Hobo Finds " Uncle Joe" A Real Reg'lar Feller One Tramp <?<>! the Surprise of lli * Life If hen He Knocked at the Door of Residence of Former Speaker of House of Representatives at Capital l?> HAItltV A. IKIT.I.ADAV (Cofyrlflht. IWI, By The AdvancO Danville, lilt.. Mnrcli 24. ? The residence of "Uncle Joe" Cannon to day boars those cabalistic chalked nelroulyphlcs of the road that spoil out to the great brotherhood of th ? unwashed- ? "regular folks here; don't push it up." It was ptit thi n by on" of the famous ex-Congress man's latent guests. "Uncle Jo"" waa r?ttrrtn': around the house with the Inevitable cigar In hla mouth when thr?r?- cam'1 ,? ring at the bell. Doing the nearest person to the door, "Uncle Joe" op en?d It. The man on the thr"sho1d, hag gard. unkempt and shivering, start od the usual "line" about a handout for a poor hungry man. "Uncle Joe ' took one look at the figure with Its torn clothe#*, at th" coat collar turned up about a hairy neck, and swimy Wide the door. "Come in." he urgrd. The hobo's eyes widened with as tonishment. He aermed to suspect some trick, but "Uncle Joe's" siulb reassured him, and he shuffled alow ly Into the big house. "Uncle Joe" usher? d him Into th ? library- th^ same rbom wh'-re he baa received hundreds of notables come to nnv their respects and poated him In a big chair. He pressed one of the Cannon cigars on his vis itor, cockod his own foot on the li brary table, and began to chat eas ily, amiably. Little by little the visitor recov ered his composure, but It was a long time before he even approached that state of being "nt homo" which his host urr-.ed up^n him. F.von after 'Tncl ? .for" l?n<J turned on his radio so t after order ing a special luncheon props red. 4he visitor couldn't seem to got tho ld?a that nil this was being don<* for him for a ragged, dirty knight of the road. This big library seemed to i'f-t the hotter of him. And surrounded as ho was by memento^a cf "I'nclo Jo"'*" long eareor In Congress, with portraits of H#nry Cabot Lod??. Wil liam Howard Taft. Warron O. Hard Iwr. William MoKlnlev and other no tables. the 'bo could hardly be blamed for his embarrassment. Ho turned out to be a poor con versationalist. but ho wan a itood ll? tfnor, and 'Tncle Joo" ? nt'Ttained him for an hour or moro with rem iniscences and comment on topics which he thought moat likely to In terest -hla caller. Finally, replete with food, and with evident reluctance to leave such a swell Joint, the 'bo stepped forth again to the road. But It was a dif ferent looking tramp who hesded for the outskirts of Dnnvllle and th<* open highway. He stepped down the broad stalra with a Arm. steady tread. Hi* head was n little higher, and he didn't shuffle so dejectedly. " Taint any 'wonder that guy waa In Congreas so long," he muttered. "He's s regular If there ever was one. They don't make "em that way sny more." McAdoo Campaign Takes On New Lease Of Life Victory in Georgia Turning Point and No Indication That Attempts of Enemies to Ascribe His Success in That State to K. K. K. Can Put Any Crimp in Campaign Hy DAVID I-WVIlKNfK. (Copyright. 1*24, By Th# Advance) ? ? ? Washington, March 22. ? David Ladd Rockwell, campaign manager for William Gibbs McAdoo, said today that it was absurd to attribute the McAdoo landslide in Georgia to the in fluence of the Ku Klux Klan. JONES APPEALS :| AND GIVES BOND ! 1 After Vain Plea to Save Cli ent from Stale Prison ('omittel Derides to Take Case to Supreme Court. For nearly an hour Saturday af ternoon a bio counsel pleaded before Judge W. A. Devin for the mercy of the court upon their client, Alex K. Jones of Newland, convicted by a Pasquotank jury Friday of man slaughter for the death at the de fendant's hand of Alfred Ferebee, colored, who had been an employe of the Tanilly for more than 20 years. In their plea for mercy counsel for tlie defense went so far as to aslc that their client be not imprisoned* at all. but that the court impose the. minimum penalty prescribed by law, i four months in the County jail, and permit the defendant to be hired out by the County Commissioners during his prison term. "If I could consider no one hut myself," said Judge Devin. "I woull accede to this request, but the duty devolves upon me to vindicate .the, majesty and the. supremacy of the law. "The jury has found the defend ant guilty. It might have acquitted him, but it did not accept, at least i not In whole, his version of the ai' ; fair, and the fact remains that he 'did follow the dead man to a dis tance from his house and to the edge j of his premises where he crushed the negro's skull with one terrific blow.! "However, I am impressed by the tribute paid the defendant by his neighbors. present here in such , large numbers and speaking through! the defendant's counsel, and in view of this tribute and in view of the! fact that he has shown by all the} witnesses in the case that he had the reputation in his community of be-' lng a man of good character, and In i view further of the Jury's recommen-i datlon for mercy which I am dis-| posed to be in accord with, it Is the. Judgment of the court that the de fendant be confined in the State Prla-1 on at Raleigh for a period of not lean than two nor more than five yoars. "Mr. Jones, I am very sorry to have to impose this sentence upon you. but I feel it my duty to do so." Counsel for the defense immedi ately gave notice of an appeal and the defendant was required to give appearance bond in sum of $.r>,000 and appeal bond of $100. which was promptly arranged and he returned home with his family, pending the appeal. The theory of the defense in "the Jones case was that Alfred Ferebee turned back after he had almost crossed the bridge leading from the. Jones lot to the State highway and with open knife came at Jones say ing that he was going to leave but before doing so he wan going to cut Jones open. The weakness of the defense lay In the fact that the knife was never found nor even seen by any witness other than Jones himself, though Mrs. Jones did tes tify that while waiting for his money Alfred sat on the edge of the porch With his back Joward her apparent ly whittling. Against the defendant also fo the Jury's mind probably was the significant fact that the club with which Alfred was hit seemed to have been carefully made way with; while the knife Ferebee was (Continued on Page 2.) ok. mw;s ItKTIKKS ? W il l, SIJPPOKT AYDLETT Dr. John I). Hlggs, .Martin County candidate for Congress from the First Congressional District, has re tired from flie race, according to re ports being circulated here today, and from a source believed by this newspaper to be reliable, ?omes in formation that Dr. Rlggs will sup port the Elizabeth City candidate, E. F. Aydlett. This news is encouraging to Mr. Aydlett's friends on this side of Al bemarle Hound, who believed that Dr. Hl-es would carry Martin and who now believe that Dr. lllggs's support will swing a big majority of the Martin County vote to the Eliza beth City man. Reports of Mr. Aydlett's strength In f'Ht and Martin strengthen the impression here that Mr. Aydlett will lead the field in the first pri mary nnd win out in the second. Mist I.ucile LeRoy and Mlsa Olive Wood left Saturday morning for Norfolk to spend the day and at tended the dance Saturday night at the Montlcallo. ?\Ir. McAdoo's victory was 10 overwhelming," he declared, 'that no single element brought it about. "A* for the Ku Klux Klan, the po sition of Mr. McAdoo, was not in doubt. A heckler in the crowd at Macon, Georgia. asked Mr. McAdoo what ilia attitude was toward the K. K K. There were cries or put mm out.' but Mr. McAdoo Insisted that nobody should he put out of any ot his nicotines simply for asking u question. Ho then proceeded to make answer: 'I stand four square with respect to this and every other order on the Immutable guarantee of liberty contained In the Mr?t amondni. nt of the Constitution or the I'nlted States, that Is for the freedom of religious worship, free dom of speech, freedom of the press and the right of peaceful assembly. He pointed out tliat the spirit or America was against rcHgloua Intol erance. His answer was met Willi an outburst of cheers and applaus-. "While we were confident of a victory 111 Georgia we had no Idea that li would be a landslide. We re rail that Woodrow Wilson stumped the state In 1 !> 1 2 but that Under; wood carried It. The victory over I'nderwood today Is significant or the way the South feels about Mc Adoo." ? i Tlu' campaign mana^r was in high spirits, declaring that the or I uanlzatlon for McAdoo waa growing so strong that it would without doubt be able to control the conven l' "The dispatches from Missouri af I ter the recent primary." he added, "did not give a clear picture of what ! happened there. We shall have a majority of the delegates at the Democratic state convention which Is to be held shortly." The state convention will be an In teresting buttle ror while .Senator need failed to enrry the prlmury. his friends will be active In his behalf Ir the hope of preventing Missouri from endorsing McAdoo. The fight, on the other hand, for McAdoo la largely anti-Reed and there are many former Wilson men In Missou ri who are not especially Interested In seeing McAdoo nominated but who will Join forces with the Mc Adoo men to bring shout the repu diation of Senator Heed who. beside* his breaks with the Wilson adminis tration, Is now charged with having dragged McAdoo into the oil contro versy without Justification. Mr. Itockwell is having a series of (?.inferences here with leading Demo crats. He Is an active person who knows pre-conventlon politics back wards and forwards. Kour years ago he was the man who lined up so many states for James M. Cox of Ohio that he assisted materially In tin' final victory then. Mr. Rockwell realize that the charge or K. K. K. Influence is being made against Mr. McAdoo but he calls It absurd. "Look nt Illinois," ho remarked, Catholic. Is managing the McAdoo campaign. Also In Wisconsin, the candidate for delegate at large Is Tom Hemming,, a Catholic. Would these men Ink" so prominent a part In the McAdoo campaign If they were not mi I Isfled that the man they are working for is free from relig ious prejudice?" Th< victory In Georgia I* undoubt edly a turning point In tlie whole McAdoo campaign. It meant a great deal to his candidacy for It was the first Southern primary after the re cent revelations that lie had accept ed fees from corporation** as an at torney nftor leaving public office. Had Vieorgia turned McAdoo down, It would have boon the end of his candidacy. Conversely those who have been on the fence now are tak ing renewed Interest In the cam paign. The next light Is in South lii' ota where the Hearst Influence 11 behind the protest ticket, in Iowa there Is a bitter fight. Wilbur Marsh who Is one of the Western al lien of Charles F. Murphy. Oeorge llrennan, and the so-called organiza tion leaders of the Democratic party, Is a candidate for national commit teeman and Is being fought bv Clyde Herring, a McAdoo man, who recent ly ran for governor. The outcome Is being n waited with peculiar Inter est by Democratic politicians for If McAdoo can got control of the Iowa delegation It will help him In neigh boring states of the West. Altogether ttie McAdoo campaign shows no evidence of diminishing energy but, on the contrary. Booms to have triken on n new lease of life since the victory In fleorgla. KIM.KIY IN COI.MSION Norfolk. March 14. ? T. J.. Creek more of Norfolk and Charlea n. Tarr of Danville were killed yeaterday In the collision of an auto with a train at Wellarllla.
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