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r THE WEATHER Cloudy and cooler to night and Thursday. Probably shower tonight icitli shifting winds. ******* VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY* EVENING, APRIL 9, 1921. EIGHT PAGES. NO 85. Foreign Policy May Yet Get Into 1924 Campaign Crowded Off Stage by Teapot Dome and Other Domestic Disturbances in Realm of Party Politics Big Issues Mav Yet Come to the Fore bv November By DAVID I.AWREXCE (Copyright, 1*24. By Tht Ad??ne?) Washington, April 8.?Foreign affairs, the world court, and the League of Nations?heretofore crowded off the stage by Tea pot Dome and other domestic disturbances in the realm of party politics?may get back into the drama of the 1924 campaign. The resolution of benator Pepper of Pennsylvania, Repub lican calling upon the President to summon a world conference similar to the Hague conference! of 1907 and previous years has. precipitated a debate in the Sen ate of no casual importance The Republican leadership did not connive with Mr. Pepper to bring up the subject of a world court with it* collateral question of League of Na tions parenthood. Only a few days ago. Senator Robinson, the Democra tic loader, accused Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican leader, with having pigeonholed the Inter national Court proposal submitted to the Senate by the late President Harding and Secre.ta.ry Hughes, and endorsed by President Coolldg? as the only practicable plan at present before the world. It had been hoped by Uepubllcan leaders that TTr? World Court plan might slumber in committee at least until after tlv? campaign. IJut Mr. Popper has revived the whole problem of foreign policy. There is ,no doubt that while his move was criticized as indiscreet and without the authority of the Repub lican leadership, it does reprt^ett an effort on the part of the Pennsyl vania Senator to answer the criti cism that the Republican party hav ing pledged itself to' an association of nations in 11)20 did nothing about it. Even though it might keey peace inside the Republican family to forget this, the Democrats had no intention of ignoring the issu" and are preparing to accuse their Repub lican brethren of failure to fulfill pledges. To the friends of international co operation, any sort of conference with takes America out of her isola tion and bring her into conference officially with the other pow rr of the world is looked upon as hopeful The Hague conferences contained a code of international' behavior. Unit ited in effectiveness, but far more advanced than the views of the iso lationists who now oppose acree ments of all kinds with the other governments of the world. The Democrats probably wiP sup port Mr. Pepper's move largely be cause they know it will mean em barrassment within the ranks of the Republican party and .in>ihin? which can bo done to split the Re publican party still more is Demo cratic strategy just as it was Repub lican tactics In the Leau-io of Na tions fight. The Coolidge administiMlon has had other plans. Awaiting the re port of the Dawes-Young ndvisoiy commission, the hope li?is been ex pressed by officials that a rehabili tation of the European eoonomic sit uation would bo followe.l i?y pn era of political stability and that Inter national conferences wotili await a settlement first of the reparations problem by direct agreement be tween the interested powers. Anoth er conference to limit armament es pecially that of submarines and air craft was proposed as a part of the naval appropriation bill In the House recently but the President, while In sympathy with the purpose of the measure did not feel anythinu could be accomplished on a reduction of armament until the deeper questions involved In the economic and politi cal relationships of European coun tries to each other were adjuster.. The summoning of an Internation al conference would, of course. If it led to a meeting like the Wash I tig ton arms pacts of 1921, help the prestige of the Coolidgo administer tlon, but the chances are that all proposals, including that of Senator Pepper, will be held In abeyance un til after the national conventions In June. There Is no Republican hero who desires to hand Hiram Johnson an Issue on a silver platter. NEW ATTY GENERAL OUTLINES IIIS POLICY Washington. April 9.?Harlan Stone. taking up bin pout as Attor ney General today, announced that It would be lila policy to keep the na tion "In the straight path of Justice under the law." He proposed. h<? said, to make the Constitution and the laws "the shield of Innocence ljut tl>e swift avenger of the guilty." CHILD FATALLY lit HNKI) Mary Hell Wilson, little two and a half year old daughter of Mr. and Mr*. W. B. Wilson of Rhlpyird Ferry, Camden, was hurled Saturday at Old Trap as a result of burns. Mary died Friday from fatal burn* received Thursday morning. Mrs.' Wilton left her three children In the living room and later nhe heard ter rifying screams and hurrying hack to the room found the child ablase. Hertford Thinks She Can Lick Bess City Hertford has tentatively chal lenged Elizabeth City for a tennis I tournament this summer and this | little town has the nerve to send ; word that it can put pluyerson the | court to beat anything Elizabeth City has in both singles and doubles. So stated Robert Cotter, district I agent here for the Mutual Life In surance Company, who returned from Hertford Monday. Of course It ennnot be said what the local tennis enthusiasts will do with this challenge. Hut it is known that Elizabeth City has a string of tennis players who could make a pretty good showing if they would organize, arrange for fcuildlim a ten nis court or two. and put in some regular and serious practice. I Some of Elizabeth City's tennis ' players have for the past several years enjoyed a number or interest ing matches on the-court belonging to C*. I-'. S. vfrert, s? rretary of the Elizabeth Ci*y Hosiery Company. And those who have enjoyed these games feel grateful to Mr. S?{vffert. [who has always extended every pos sible courtesy to those Interested, land to his generosity is due the fact that tennis'has been U< :>t up to some extent In Elizabeth City for the last three years. Thn e years ngo a tennis club.was organized and a court was built on the lot back of the First & Citizens National Dank. A few weeks' play ing was enjoyed on this eourt but it 1 was a wet summer and after the llrst I wet spell weeds had grown tip thick ly on the court and no effort was made after that to rebuild the court. This lot is not now available for a | tennis court. There are. however, several avail able lots In the city that would make good tennlQ courts. It merely re mains to be seen whether those In terested in the sport will get togeth er and plan for some real tennis or : whether they will continue to sit In 1 their offices and wait for the invi tation of some friend to go out for n set of singles or doubles at int ~ ! V: vals so far apart as not to afTord any systematic development of the sport locally. CLEVELAND RATES SAID NOT BE HIGH Cleveland, April 9.?Delegates who room together at the Ilepubli can National Convention here in June will pay half what delegates have paid at previous conventions, according to George n. Harris, chairman of the hotel committee of the local arrangements committee. On the other hand, the individual who holds space that could be oc cupied by four must pay the rate of four. The hotel keepers have agreed to charge the regular published rate for two persons In a room, plus a rate for each additional person which the room can accommodate. Three out of the four down-town hotels to which most of the delega tions and campaign or state head quarters have been assigned, will chareg a flat rate of three dollars for each additional occupant. The fourth hotel announces that a room for which the regular rate Is flvo dollars for two persons will accom modate a third person at the addi tional rate of Ave dollars, making the room rate ten dollars. A six-dol lar double rOORI can receive two ad ditional persons at three dollars each, with the room rate at twelve dollars. A seven-dollar double room will accommodate two more at three dollars and fifty cents each, with the room rate $14. the maximum. These rates the management rep resents ta be considerably lower than rates charged at hotels of the same grade at conventions In recent years. Mr. Harris says delegates, rooming together at one convention paid ten dollars apiece. Downtown hotels are within flv* or ten minutes' walk of the conven tion hall. The most remote outly ing hotels are 25 minutes' ride, or 15 minutes' by motor. To facilitate the accommodation of visitors, the hotel committee is conducting a housing bureau to which the hotels refer requests for rooms they are unable to fill. The committee then seeks to find satls , factory quarters. A six-day contract for delegates and a 10-day contract for campaign headquarters are offered by the ho tels. Contracts for delegates date from June 8, Sunday, two days pre ceding the convention. Two Jungle Babes .. baby orang-outang taket a ride astride a baby rhino in Ccn'*%! East Africa. The two were caught by the Hungarian explorer. R. Kitt^ntjcrgcr. CAMDEN CAN GET | PAVED ROAD NOW County Highway Coiiimi?>tioii Agrees to State's Terms unci Paving Contract Probably Awarded Next Letting. The way Is at Inst open for the State Highway Commission to let the contract for tile paving of the 1 ti-foot concrete road from Camden Court lion-, to Sllgn In Currituck. 7hh Is the news reaching here from Cr.mden io?:ay. the Camden Comity Highway Commissi; *n having voted at its April meeting this w?ek to meet the terms offered by the State: that Is to provide the State a free right of way by the Belcross route. j The action of the Camden high way body, it is understood, was bas> (I on the agreement that $."."00 of the cost to the county of the Bel cross right ? f w.?y should borne by private Intervals; ',i> rstig the Bel cross route. Th tot: I < t ef the right of way to t! <? ????>?: is r..t ? \ pected to greatly e\cet?l that sum. and it is believed that the indi vidual taxpayer's assessment of the cost of the rifilit of way will there for" be negligible. The contract for the paving of tills highway will, therefore, in all prob ibllity, be awarded at the next let ting. COTTON GOES HIGHEK New York. April 9.?Diminishing' i supplicji_xaAiBid another heavy buy ing movement in cotton today, and i 'May contracts jumped 70 points, i making a total advance of $12 a hale! in two days. New Orleans. April 9.?Cotton fu tures this morning advanced $5 a I Mile, making the total Increase dur j Ing the last two days of $15 u bale. FUKTHER INQUIRY INTO CONVENTION OIL DEAL Washington. April 9.?Further In quiry Into r? ports of deals at the Re publican National Convention of ^1920 was made bv the Senate oil In vestigating commilt?e today. J. W. Haughn (?f Hurllnger, Tex as. testified that James Hamon told 'him that he had "signed the check" that resulted In the nomination of : Warren (). Harding. . Haughn quoted Ilamon as saying that lie would spend a million dol llars if necessary to put Oklahoma in the ({"publican column ut the gen eral election. CHAPAXOKfc FARM Bit n?sr:s HK.WILY IIV II\IIN I-IIIK Four log mules, a cow and calf and :v ton of hay w? re lent In a lire which Tuesday night burned the barn of W. l\. IVrry 'of Chapanokc to the ground. No other adjact ill ? buildings were burned and how the lire sjurtvd is nof known. American College Boys Make Rotten Stewards That's the Verdict of Captain Hi-rlicrt Hartley of the Levi;: than Who After a Trial of tlie Collegians Is Sailing Saturday with German-American Steward n>- nowi.Axn wood (Copyricht. 1924. B? Tht Advanct) New York. April 9. ? One Vater lamliMclie characteristic of (lie good ship Vaterland, but only one, will remain to the steamship Leviathan when she sails Saturday, inaugurat ing her first full season as an Am erican trans-Atlantic liner. That Is the German?or German American steward. The steamship of superlatives, as they call the mistress of the sens down at the United States line of fices, tried out an experiment in Am erican stewards last summer, spec ializing a bit in college boys. Ilut never again. "Americans make rotten stewards ?especially college boy Americans," Captain Herbert Hartley, comman der of the Leviathan, told the writ er today as he stood on the bridge of the great vessel at her winter pier in Hoboken, preparing to move her across the river to her Manhattan sailing pier. "There'll be no more college hoys aboard If I can help it. Th? y are Just tourists, more interested in see ing than serving, as we discovered last season when we had a few aboard. Americans in general make poor stewards. If a passenger com plains about anything, the Ameri can steward Is too murh inclined to say, 'Well, what the hell did you ex pect, anyhow?' "Germans, mostly Americanized Germans, will predominate In the steward's department this season. French, Swiss and Auntrians will make up the bulk of the remainder." As for the fuss Representative Hrltten of Illinois kicked up in Con gress last year because the American owned, American operated Levia than had her menus printed In French? well the Representative will have something to talk about again, for the same practice that ob tained last year will be in vogue. That It Is, In the Rltz Carlton res taurant. ? a concession ? French menus will prevail. In the ship's own dining rooms, however, the na tive tongue will be the vogue wher ever there Is an American word to fit the dishes a corps of International chefs prepare. A* she nosed across the North Rlr* er today to her falling pier, the Le viathan looked every Inch the ahlp of superlatives. Glistening in a new coat of black and white, with three red, white and blue funnel*, she seemed almost to brldgo the broad river. Aboard painters, carpenters and scores of otlier workmen of almost I every variety, were putting the fin-] J tolling touches on the job of dolling her up. Down in her engine rooms., the engine crew was tenderly minis-1 terlng to the finest engines In the world. The uiiris-: "ship of super latives" was attached :o the, Levia than for thes<?, among other reason.*.: She is the largest steamship, afloat; the safest steamship afloat;! the swiftest steamship afloat and the most luxurious steamship afloat. The claims a4 to slse and speed , were contested by the British Mh-i j jcstlc for a time, hut British ship ping circles now have conceded both titles to her. Lloyds lists h<?r as the I biggest. The Atlantic conference :it 1 Brussels recently officially accorded hbr the speed record. H<t average speed for last season wa<? 2.1.571 knots per hour. The British Maure tunla was second, with 23.51 and the Majestic third with 2:t.29. On her trial trip the Leviathan ran up to 28.04 knots and Captain Hartley declared she still had another knot In reserve. " The Leviathan. starting late last reason, lost $70,000. Hut the ? United States lines hope to mnke a profit on her operations tills year. "If American travellers would give us the support that foreign natlo'naln give the ships of their lln?'s, not on ly the Levlpthan but all the rest of the American liners would he crowd ed all thi? time," Captain Hartley de clared. "We csrry practically no forelicn^r*. They all travel on their own ships. Hut foreign ships carry many Americans who ought to be riding on thelc own vessels. "The cause? No. I don't think It Is because the American ships are dry , whereas the others are moist. In my experience of thirty years at sea. ^ htive nevef observed a terrible lot of drinking. And of course (here his eyet twinkle) American ships are American territory. It's no. j more, necessary to go dry aboard ship than it is st home, I suppose.' , I'm sure I never molest anybody's luggage." SAYS HAVE WON HIGHWAY FIGHT "We have won our flght for the coastal highway after a hard flKht," read* a telegram from Dr. Samuel >1. Templeinan, member of the Elizabeth City delegation at Savannah thin week In the In terest of bringing tliiH highway through Elizabeth City. "I'ugh led our fight in a mas terly way," the telegram contin ues. "and P. H. Williams- has b??en elected as chairman of the North Carolina Highway Commit tee." Members of the Savannah dele gation are expected to make p full report to a general meeting if the Chamber of Commerce up on their return to Elizabeth City. WHEELER FACES U. S INDICTMENT Charged W i t li Accepting Money After Election as Senator f??r His Influence in Behalf of Oil grants. Washington, April 0.?Rising to a point of personal privilege. Sen ator Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana, denounced on the floor of the s n ate today the indictment returned against him yesterday by a grand Jury in his home state as "part of one of the most damnable conspira cies ever ccti&a miuatexl In the United States.'* Wheeler spoke to n crowded Sen ate, virtually every member beinc in his seat, while the galleries were jammed. The foreman of the Montana grand Jury was described by tie Senator as "tho bitterest political enemy I have." ?'Tlie man who pr?i?n??.d the ?%! dence to the grand Jury," he ndd>d. rec? ntly had sought the Senator'.5* aid in obtaining, an appointment. Great? Falls, Montana. April !?. ? United States Senator it. K. Wheel er, chief Investigator of tho Daught erly investigating committee, was In dicted In Federal Court here yester day on the charge of having accept ed money as a retainer fee after be coming Senator to use his Influenc 1 in obtaining the granting of oil b ar.*.1 permits/ Washington, April 9.?Senatoi Wheeler denies the charges brought against him In Great Falls and saj* It's a dirty frame-up on the part oi Daugherty and a retaliation for the J investigation. He says that he Is en itlrely innocent and will prov? it at the proper time, but at present wl'l continue at Washington until the Daugherty investigation Is ended. Washington. April 0.?The Senate committee appointed to Investigate the Department of Justle and the official acts of Harry Daugherty an nouiM- d today, after nil executive session, that It's inquiry would pro ceed, with renewed vigor despite the indictment in Montana of Senator Wheeler, committee prosecutor. At a meeting behind closed doors tin* indictment was discussed at l? ngth and after tin* discussion Chairman Hrookhart said: ."Tills In vestlg?itIon will proceed and proceed with a force and determination that it has never known before." KILGORE GETS SIGNAL HONOR nireolor of Stale Experiment StutioiiH to Keprefteiit Unit ed State* ut Interniitioiiul Agriculture Meet. RaMfch, April 9?Dr. II. W. Kll gore. Director of the .Vorth Carolina Experiment stations and Dean of th< School of Agriculture at the State College has hen appointed hy th?> 1'nlted States Department of Agriculture as a delegate to repre sent the United States at the meet ing of he INternatlonal Institute of Agriculture to he held in Home, Italy, in May, according to an nouncement made public here today at the State College of Agriculture. The delegates are selected from th?? ranks of those who have render ed outstanding servUes to the agri culture of the United States and who are prominent because of their efforts in helping to Improve fann ing condition?* both In their own Im mediate sections and In the country at large, It watt Stated. The United States Is apportioned nine delegate** to this Institute with their expenses In In* paid hy direct appropriation by Congress and the trip arranged by the Department of State. Dr. Kllgore was advised of his appointment by the Federal Depart ment of Agriculture some days ago but has held the matter In abeysance until today so that he could get his work at the College In such condi tion that he would be willing to leave It for the period of six weeks that he will be absent . His present plans are to join the other delegates at New York from where they will sail on April 18. His daughter, Mils Elisabeth Kllgore Is planning to accompany her father on the trip. REPORT OF DAWFS IS NOW IN HAND Reparations (!iiinini?sion Re ceives Finding and Kecom ?nendations of Experts on Germany's Capacity to Pay. <8y Tilt AtMciatfd Priu) Paris, April 9.?The reports of the experts who have been engaged for the past three months in the task of ascertain ing Germany's capacity to pay reparations was handed to the experts today. The two committees have gone deeply into the intracacies of the many problems connected with rep arations and they approached the task as "business men anxious to ob tain effective results." The League of Nations was drawn into the reparations problem by the Dawes report, while an unofficial representative of the United states is slated for an important role In ex ecution of the expert's plan. The American member of the gen eral board of control for the pro posed new gold bank Is regarded as quite likely to fill the Important post 'of "commissioner." His duty will be to decide when ("feminity's capacity to pay has been reached, while the l.eauue Finance (Committee will be asked to arbitrate if the commissioner's decisions in applying the "Index of prosperity" are disputed by either Germany- or the Allies. CLEVELAND HALL IMPARTS DIGNITY Municipal Auditorium lit Which Convention Is to he llchl Has Kecord for l*r?? I'riMy of Its Meetings. riovpjand. April 0?Tlio muillcl pal auditorium in which th?* Re publican national convention will bo held here In June has a remarkable faculty of Imparting a of dig nity to the gatherings assembled in i [it. according to City Manager Wil liam it. Hopkins. Athletic events, ? -Mr. Hopkins said, which elsewhere would have led to confusion, dis ? I order and possibly rioting, have been !| witnessed in the auditorium with j noteworthy decorum and restraint. "I saw two basket hall games i played successively In the hall,' said I .Mr. Hopkins, "on In the afternoon ! and one In the evening. The first was between two unbented hlsrh schools, keen rivals, and I was 1m | prrs.sed by the good feeling and sportsmanship 'shown by the rooters for the contending teams. The se j rond was b ejtween the local profess ional team and visiting champions. The referee, although a Cleveland man, repeatedly made decisions ad verse to the home players, and I j suppose many of the lot;al fans In wardly thought they were extreme. Yet their only manlfeHtation of dis pleasure was a subdued grumble Just once. "1 am told that similar restraint marked spectators a' an amateur boxing bout in the hall when a burly visitor was pummeling and punish ing a local boxer. Kveryon* In the crowd was for the under-dog, ac cording to the account I received, but there were no hisses end none of the open remonstrance which might have been thought Inevitable. My Informant inserted tbnt in some halls the situation would have kln I died a disturbance." The auditorium, occupying a city block and built at a cent of about $6,600,000, was designed In Italian |renaissance style. The exterior Is faced with variegated Indiana lime stone, the pink granite base is from New Hampshire, and the entire In terior marble treatment is from Ver mont. K/IGIjK AT ttllKKNVflXK Greenville, April 9. ? An Ameri can Itald Kagle was brought to this city and displayed In front of the newspaper office here. It measured j-ix feet And nine Inches from tip to tip of its outspread wings and weighed 10 and a half pounds. An rutomobile party brought the bird to town and said that they cnught I* rttrr a dlft! i If. struggle when Iho bird attempted to cross the road In front of the ear and was blinded by the lights. .Joe Rtanton, John Runn hailey. June Rdwards, and Charlie he'll, who composed the party, said that they caught tho bird near Urlmesland. WIIX'OX TO HYDR J. W. Wilcox, Deputy U. S. Mar ! shal, left Tuesday for Hyde County to condemn property for the Inland Waterway. t trTTOM MABKlff Now York, Apr'l 9?Co.tfon fu ? ?.'e? at 2 p. ni. were quded ?t "he fo.! wing Jevc* .May 31:15; <lt.Iy 1 ? *2; October 25.4:!; D'cen.l-er 24:95; Janunrr 24.>0. New York. April 9. ? Cotton fu tures opened today at the following levels: May 31.11, July 29.*0. Oct. 26.65, Dec. 26.10, Jan. 24.72.
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