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THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight. Saturday unsettled. Mod erate South and South? icest winds. ? ?****? CIRCULATION Thursday 2,549 Copies VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1924. EIGHT PAGES. NO. 75. Wilson's Widow Seeks To Keep Letters From Public Her Request to Saturday Evening Post to Refrain from Publication of Several of President's Letters Until She Can Establish Right Control Them Causes Comment llj DAVID LA WREN CK 1924. By Tfet A*vm?c?) Washington, March 27.?Copies of the current issue of the Saturday Evening Poet available today revealed that Mrs. Wood row Wilson has asked that publication to refrain from publishing several letters written by the late President, the request being made, it was stated, because the widow "wished to establish her right to control or to prohibit the revelation" of her husband's correspondence. The incident caused no little stir here for men in Congress! promptly asked whether it is Mrs. Wilson's intention to es tablish a property right over letters written by Wood row Wilson on Government station ery while he was holding public office. President Taft, it Is Raid, held that letters written while in the White House relating to public bus iness were the property of the Am erican Government and did not take| them with him. An examination of, the flies when the Harding adminis tration came into power showed that the Wilson family had taken away practically all letters of any impor tance. - | There can be r.o test, of course, of the property rights of official let ters until an effort is made by some one to sell them or to copyright them for it is held by competent authorities that no one, not even the widow, has a right to sell or prohi bit the publication of letters written by a President of the United States. The last occasion on which the subject was discussed was in connec tion with the use in a book by Am bassador Gerard of a letter written to him by the Kaiser. It was con tended, at the time, that the letter was public property and that news papers and other publications could not be required to recognize a prop erty right of any individual in that letter. An effort was made to per suade President Wilson to authorize the publication of the document but he delayed action until after the Ge rard book was made public. The question of legal rights to let ters written by Government officials Is likely to become an important one, particularly if the courts should hold that anyone who is employed by the Government has a right to take his letters with him after he leaves office and restrain their pub lication. It ao happens that one letter writ ten by President Wilson to Secretary I..ane of the Interior Department which has never been made public gives valuable information on the at titude of Mr. Wilson toward some of the questions Involved in the oil leasing policies of his administra tion. The letter is said to b? favor able to Mr. Wilson because it is said he would have required the resig nation of Mr. Lane had the latter in sisted upon his viewpoint. letters of this kind could be ob tained by any Senate committee sim ply by subpoenaing those who have them in their possession and all the correspondence of a President can be printed by a simple resolution of Congress calling upon the outgoing Presidents to deposit their official letters with the succeeding adminis tration. The letter which Mrs. Wilson asked the Saturday Evening Post to suppress was not official, but per sonal and poHtlcal. It related to Mr. Wilson's advocacy of Joseph P. Tu multy for United States Senator from New Jersey. It was written not only after Mr. Wilson left the White House but after the break oc curred between the late President and his former private secretary. The suppression of the letter Is said to be within the legal right of any of the heirs of the late President but the substance of the letter has been made public by James Kerney, edi tor of the Trenton Times, who dis cussed the subject with Mr. Wilson after the latter had himself declined to be a candidate for the Senate. The New Jersey political leaders urged Mr. Wilson to run for the Sen ate feeling that ample precedent for It was furnished by John Qulncy Adams who served a long time in the Senate after he left the White House. The fact that Mr. Wilson urged Mr. Tumulty Is considered sig nificant of his esteem for the man from whom he had become es tranged. i TWENTY-FIVE MEN ENTOMBED IN MINE Welch, W. V?? March 2*.?Twen ty-live men were entombed today In the mine at Yukon by an explonlon. according to report* here. The men are believed to be dead. HUNDRED PERISH IN LANDSLIDE THURSDAY Salerno, Italy, March ift. ? More than 100 persona perished In a land slide yesterday and thousands are SPECULATES IN CEMETERY LOTS California Realtor Capilalizr es Land Craze to Point of Boosting Demand for Final Resting Place. Br i.. c. owkx CMvrtikl 1924. toy Tkt A4?anc? Berkeley. Cal., March 28.?On man) occasions eminent writers with no intention of levity, have intimat-j ed that California is a place popu-' lated largely by real estate agents i and that if any sacred spots are un adorned by "for sale" signs, they are few, far between and hard to find. There is no denying that the real estate gentry have never been con spicuous uy their absence in Califor nia, but it also must be admitted they are both an aggressive and a progressive lot. If any evidence is lacking on this score it will be found right here in the effete super college city of Berkeley. Just now the state realty commission, which looks into and after the licenses and the moral qualities of realty venders, is trying to determine whether the local "memorial association" shall be al lowed to sell cemetery lots as a spec ulative proposition. ? The concern, according to state ments laid before the state commis sion, has been advertising that op portunity to buy realty holdings ! which in the next few years will ; double, triple and even quadruple in i value. So far as is known, this is .the first recorded instance even in California wherein efforts have been {made to Induce the public to gamble in future values of its eternal abid ing place. i The so-called Memorial Associa tion started an advertising campaign I two weeks ago. Prospectus and dls ! play space dwelt heavily upon the .opportunities and nice profits for i those who, figuratively speaking, got In on the ground floor. Then, fol lowing protests by the local associa tion of realty men, backed by the chamber of commerce, operations of (the burial plot concern were tempor ! arily halted. Considerable mystery surrounds the allegations which .brought the stop order. The case is j now under consideration and a de cision expected within a few days. | Pending a decision the state commls 'ston declines to make any statem^nr for public consumption. I Locally, however, two different reasons are being advanced. One is that realty men contend there is still enough land In California to sell to Easterners without falling back on ?burial plots. The other Is that Berke ley chamber of commerce, like many iothers all over the state, construe , the scheme as a ?ack hand slap at California's wondrous climate, where migrating Easterners, as well as na tives. are supposed never to have any use for burial plots. Funeral J. G. Hollo well The funeral of James Oatllng Hol lowell was conducted Friday at noon at the home, Bayslde, by Dr. N. H. D. Wilson, an Immense crowd at tending. The casket was home to Its last j resting place by the colored men on tbe plantation, an ^ the honorary pallbearers were: O. R. Little, Ce icftl Garrett, Or. John Hallba, Dr. C. JB. Williams. M. B. Sawyer. L. B. Jennette. W. H. Jennette, 8. B. Park er, Camden Blades, J. J. Morris, F, V. Scott. W. A. Worth. C. P. Brown. Mr. Hollowell's death occurred Wednesday morning at 9:30 at Bay side. after an Illness of two weeks. Mr. Hollowell was business man ager of Bayslde. a Federal apprais er. and was associated with the Vlr glnia-Carollna Joint Stock Land Bank. Ills mother, Mrs. P. O. Hollowell: , three sisters. Mrs. 8. A. Graham of Sallt-hury. Mrs. John M. Parker of Baltimore, and Miss Margaret Hol lowell of Bayslde: two brothers. Frank Hollowell of Portsmouth and C. W. Hollowell of this city, sucvlve him. NARCOTICS FOUND TWO MEN ARRESTED New York, March 1*.?The .nurce of narcotic* shipped to Hollywood 'wan traced here yeaterday and the polio broke up the den, netting 1750.000 ot dope and arreatlnf two FISH SHIPMENTS ARE HALF NORMAL Shad Business Slow This Spring But Is Picking Up and Will Probably Be Bel ter Next Week. A shipment of 550 boxes of shad and herring caught in Croatan and Pamlico Sounds received by the Globe Fish Company Wednesday night is considered by the company to be about half what the shipments should total If catches of fish were normal. The shipment Is larger than any received by the company before the storm but for this time of year they say shipments of 1,000 boxes and over should be coming in on every boa. night. A representative of the firm told an Advance reporter Friday that there were very few fish In Pamlico Sound and fewer In the Albemarle, but with winds more favorable, they expected the shipments would In crease steadily until normal ship ments were reached. U. G. Wise of Stumpy Point is credited with a catch of 200 shad Wednesday, thought to be the larg est single day's catch since the 'storm that drove fresh water far do*n the sound, and prevented fur ther shad for the time being from entering sound waters. The shad business ts still consid ered to be "slow" but the fair ship ment Wednesday night, which the Globe Fish Company considers to be "mighty few flsh" for this season. Is thought to be the forerunner for larger cargoes next week and on through the season. BROTHER OF WALSH BEFORE COMMITTEE Washington. March 28.?John Walsh. Washington lawyer and bro , ther of the prosecutor of the Sen ate oil committee, was called before the committee today and questioned at length by Senator Spencer, Repub lican, of Missouri. Regarding his activities and connections the wit ness said he never had been connect ed directly with any oil company, but .was general counsel for the Holding Company. He denied this company had any "Interest in Wyoming or any other Northwestern state." !.t KUKAL SCHOOLS IN TRIANGULAR DEBATE ! At Weeksvllle High School tonight 8 o'clock Sallie Leary and Ever ett Burgess of Old Trap will debate on the negative side of the query, 1 "Resolved, that the United States should cancel the Inter-AUIed War ; Debts." while Glenwood Meads and ' Royall Brothers of Weeksvllle will j uphold the affirmative. At Old Trap at the same hour Louisa Brothers and Everett Bea . man of Newland will debate on the negative against Ollle Mitchell and Andrew Heath of Old Trap on the ' affirmative. I At Newland the Weeksvllle nega tive team. Marguerite Brothers and I Cora Ileld wlil debate against the Newland affirmative team. Frame .Sawyer and Lucille Brothers. CHAMBER (X)MMKK('K ENDORSES j COASTAL HIGHWAY MOVEMENT The Coastal Highway meeting at , the Chamber of Commerce rooms In .the Community Building Thursday ? night proved an Interesting one and ? resolutions were adopted endorsing the movement to bring this highway by Elizabeth City. Secretary Job was asked to gath er all available data on the subject and to be ready to present It to a special meeting called for next Tuesday night. CALIFORNIA DROUGHT BROKEN San Francisco. March 28 (By The Consolidated Pres) ? The depress ion which has gripped many lines of business in California for the past three months as a result of the 1 state wide drought Is passing. Farm | bureau's now report that the farm I and orchard crops In many dlstrlctc j have been saved by the recen' moisture and the agricultural out | put of the state promises to be 80 ' per cent of normal. Herbert Hoover Is The Judge Landis Of Ether What Kennesaw Mountain Is to Baseball, Will Hays to Movies and Augustus Thomas to Drama, Hoover Is to Radio and Will Brook No Monopoly lly nontCRT T. KM AM, (Cojrrlffct. IV24, By Th? Advane*) Washington, March 28.?Herbert Hoover has become the Judge Landis, the Will H. Hays, the Augustus Thomas of the air. Judge Landis is the high com missioner of baseball. Will Hays is the czar of the movies. 'Augustus Thomas is the high priest of the drama. Secretary Hoover Is the new em peror of the ether. He announced today, however, that he would be a benevolent emperor, that he would not attempt to set up a censorship and would never consent to any scheme by which radio listeners shall be charged a fee by law. The Government of the United States will always control the other roads, but It will not be drawn Into saying what shall and what shall not ; be fed to the radio audience. "There are enough complaints now," says Mr. Hoover, "against the individual programs sent out by the | various broadcasting stations. "If the United States were to as sume control of these programs, the ; kicks will be multiplied by the tens of thwsands and the first thing wo knew we would be having a senator ial investigation on our hands." I.Ike others who have studied the subject. Secretary Hoover beHeves that the great problem which con fronts radio Is the financing of the broadcasting stations. The expense of maintaining these stations today Is at the rate of $5,000,000 a year. Eventually It will be necessary to pay all of the artists who now are contributing their talents free. Even tually It will be necessary fo pay roy alties to composers and authors. Some means will have to be found to meet this necessary expense. Ad vertising announcements will not. solve the problem. In the view of Mr. Hoover, for with too much ad vertising the radio audience he says will disappear In disgust. Radio is making great strides In every othep way except the financ ing of broadcasting, but Mr. Hoover Is of the opinion that the air will .never be used for the purposes of private conversation between Indi viduals. ft Is perfectly true that thousands of wave lengths may be given Impulses without one wave In :terferlng with the other, but the re ceiving Instruments probably never will be perfected to the extent- of taking care of all these minute, gradations. At present there are only from aeven to ten practical war* lengths In a tone. Each wave! length must be surrounded by a neu tral band because of the limitations of the refinements In a majority of the receiving sets used today. The entire United States Is divid ed Into Ave radio zones and while many sets can pick up signals and programs from all Ave cones, there Is ordinarily no Interference because of differences In time and arrange ments for a division of time between stations which have approximately the saine wave lengths. This ar rangement Mr. Hoover says Is neces sitated by the fact that most of the receiving sets In use today have u capacity of only 200 to 600 meters. "It we were to attempt to license private stations today," said Mr. Hoover, "only ten or 12 persons could talk at any one time In any one zone. And we would run the risk of a discussion of some one's bobbed hair shutting out a speech by the President of tne UnUed States. And much as we love bobbed hair, that would be quite an Impossible situation." Mr. Hoover has reiterated his stand that there shall be no monop oy of the sir. "There will be," he explains, "no vested right In any one wave length. There will be no monopoly of cer tain roads in the ether. The Gov ernment will see that the air is kept open to all comers. The Govern ment will d^ everything It can to en courage continuity of service froin any one broadcasting station. Cer tain companies, through patent rights, msy attempt to exert a mon opoly over the means of entrance In to the ether and exit from It. but the Interests of these companies are so tied up In the development of ra dio that there Is reAson to believe they will show great vision In han dling the subject. In any event, while they may control radio Instru ments, the Government will never lose control of the sir Itself snd will never permit the air routes to be run counter to the general public in terest. "There hss been no parallel to the development of the sir ss a means of communication since the Inven tion of printing. The rsdlo Is the hand-maiden of the printer. The Government will see that nothing happens In the ether to Interfere with or hamper Its future." Attorney General Daugherty Resigns In the Midst of Constantly Increasing Storm of Criticism He Reluctantly Follows Den by Into Retirement and His Resignation Is Promptly Accepted by Coolidge. Washington, March 28.?Attorney General Daughertv ha? resigned. Surrounded by an ever-growing storm of cri ticism and under .pressure of many of his ranking part} leaders, he today consented to follow former Secretary of the Navy Denby into retirement. Little Marjorie Davis Dies From Injuries Funeral Will Be Conducted At Home Saturday Afternoon At Three O'Clock Blithely riding her bicycle to Rchool for the afternoon session of Thursday, Marjorie Davis, bright little eight year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Urner (?. Davis. 4 24 Cedar street, met death when she was thrown from her bicycle directly In front of the rear wheel of a Ford son tractor and when her skull was fractured, apparently by one of the Iron cleats on the tractor's wheel. Marjorie, It seems, had been home for lunch, and. third grade pupil as she was. was returning to the gram mar school building oh North Road Street for the afternoon session. Hiding along Cedar street to Har ney she had apparently crossed Har ney to the primary school lot. At any rate she was riding through the school lot toward Dyer street when seen Bhortly before the accident by L. Frank Swain, 316 Cedar street, who happened to be passing the prl j mary building at the time. "She had Just smiled at me in passing," says Mr. Swain, "and then I saw her start down the Incline I from the school ground to the Ce dar street sidewalk about half way the block. The Incline must have been steeper than she thought. At any rate, she did not seem to be able to stop when she reached the sidewalk but rode across it and was thrown at the curb directly in front of the rear wheel of the passing tractor. It happened so quickly that I can not be sure of It, but to my horrified gate the rear wheel seemed to pass over the little body and stof at her head." Physicians who examined the child, however, say that the wheel did not pass over her body?that except for the fatal wound, a gash from the mastoid region to the crown of the head, there was not a bruise on her. In their opinion the tractor came to a stop aimoet In stantly but not in time to prevent one of the metal cleats on the wheel from cutting Into the scalp and cran ium. The weight of the tractor, in their opinion, would have crushed the little body or head to a pulp if It had passed over either. At any rate. Tom Deaman, negro city employe driving the truck at the time of the accident. Is exhonorated of all blame in the matter. "He did as well as I could have done had 1 been driving the tractor and the child my own," Is the verdict of L. Frank Swain, eyewitness' of the acci dent. It was Mr. Swain who first reached the child after she was hurt and, picking her up, took her Into the school building. This was at 1:15. Later she was taken to the home Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Wood. 110 Dyer street, where she died four hours later. The funeral will be conducted at the home Saturday afternoon nt 3, o'clock by Rev. Daniel Lane, assist-; ed by Dr. N. H. D. Wilson and Rev. C. II. Culbreth. GI.ENNA COLLETT TO KEEP GOLF TITLE Plnehurst, March 28. Glenn Cot lett today retained th?* North and South women's golf title by defeat-; Ing Louise Fordyce five nnd three. I DAUGHERTY COMMITTEE THROWN OtJT OF STEP Washington, March 28. ? The Daugherty Investigating committee was thrown out of step momentarily by the resignation of the Attorney General today but when the excite ment caused bv the announcement had subsided It plodded along Its task of gathering data. Life In Dauaherty's apartments was gone Into through the medium of Walter Miller, former valet, who Iold of whiskey being brought and ;ept there, of many visitors. Includ ing Albert Fall. Harry .Sinclair, Will Hays, and a boat of others. His resignation, promptly accepted by President Cool idge, clean* the Administra tion of the last of those (lilii net inemhers who have be come the storm centers in the oil scandal. His resignation was submit ted at the request of the Presi dent, and in acceding, Daugher ty said he desired it to become effective forthwith. Daugherty declared that he ten i dered it "solely out of deference to lyour request and In compliance i therewith." I Coolldge's letter requesting the [resignation based the request on i Daugherty's refusal to comply wita the summons by the Senate Investl I gating committee for certain papers .relating to rum running on the Mex ican border. The Incident, the President said In | the letter "only illustrates the dif ficulties which are certain to recur with every increasing embarrass ment and your inability to perform satisfactorily the duties of Attorney General under the present condi tions." Daugherty's letter of resignation was made up of three terse sentenc es, but In a second letter to the President he said any suggestion that he could "function as Attorney General and defend myself against these charges at the same time was hardly warranted by the facts." i He recalled that he had twice of fered since Coolidge became Presi dent to retire but had been request ! ed to remain. He said he was aware that the argument of "party expediency" had been used to secure his retirement, but added that '"cowardice and sur render of principle are never expe dient." MORRISON URGES LITTLE PATIENCE Charlotte, March 28.?Governor Morrison yesterday urged the Social Service Conference here not to con demn all prison officials because some Inhuman guard beats a pris oner too much and declared thrft North Carolina is taking the great est step forward In rarrylnir out a comprehensive social service pro gram. SUBMARINE CHASER EXPLODES ON CI!ASF Jacksonville. March 28.?The con verted submarine chaser Ituse used by Sheriff Dowllng to apprehend a rum runner, exploded at sea yester day and sank. Those tin board es caped In a life boat with slight In juries TAKES INJUNCTION OF BIBLE LITERALLY Locust Grove. Ga., March 28. ? Herbert Little, 17-year-old boy, cut off his right hand at the wrist here yesterday because he said he had to obey the Biblical Injunction, "If thv right hand offend thee, cut It rf.w ' - ? TfUCHBM MKKT HATt ltI>AY Saturday morning at 10:30 the County teachers will meet In the Chamber of Commerce rooms. The regular reading circle work for tho se*nion will be completed at this meeting. COTTON MARKET New York. March 28?Spot cot ton closed steady today. 60 points advance. Middling 27.40. Fu ture* closed at the following levels: Mty 27.13; July 26.38; October 23.85; December 23.48; January 23.16. New York, March 28.?Cotton fu tures opened todav at the following levels: May 28.70. Julv 2? 05, Oc tober 2? 59, December 23.39, Jan <NHT ft.M. ' Jerry Whaley Is 111 at his home, 107 Pearl street.
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