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Only One More Day In Which To List Your Taxes * THE WEATHER * Continued cloudy to * night and Saturday. Sot * much change in temper * ature. ? CIRCULATIOM ? Thursday * 2,475 Copies * ? VOL. XIV. " FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1924. EIGHT PAGES. NO. 129 LaFollette Wields Weapon For "Progressive" Support - .? Denounces Communists Who Have Sought to Control Third Party Convention and Hopes to Thus Win Support from Progressives of Old Line Parties Hj DAVID liAWREXCK (Comllht 1924. By Th# Advanc*) Washington, May 29.?Robert M. LaFollette, senior Senator from Wisconsin, whose group has held the balance of power in the House and Senate now has reached out for the balance of power in the Presidential campaign. The Wisconsin Senator's de nunciation of the Communists who have sought to control the third party convention in St. Paul is a two-edged political weapon. With one stroke of the men he has ?c?l?ro<f\hem"elf .fr?m 'he ultra-ra<1 !h country and reverted to which httr*.Mrm 0f "Pro?r<>?sive" by ? fbllowera in Congress call themselves. By the same token he has announced his Intention of de f .. ? ,rom the two old line Dartv for el^Mi" hlD pr0f!r*m "id appeal .?l ?'T ** Pr*?W?nt of the Unit Mates on an independent ticket No other political event has ax n'nfJi 8lsnlncance and far-reaching effects wrapped up In It as the plan ll?n Ne,th" the Repib llcan nor Democratic parties will make a platform to suit him. Yet r* ,U8f8 to be a8 radical as the hi !lun '? He 18 ambitious. He has been making the fight for pro frresslvism for a generation. But for h k w,th Theodore Roosevelt .Vea. he would have been the candidate in 1912. He has been a consistent advocate for years of the same doctrines which have lately spread throughout a wider territory1 In the West than ever before. He was. of course, nntlwar. But so was *LacD?"ald' Pr,m" mlnlster ?h? i?f. j France has turned to Thi. icT.a' , ao w,ly not America? Tills Is the LaFoIlette theory this year, f.lrncl. of William Q. McAdoo have been saying LaFoIlette would not run if the Democrats nominated a Progressive like McAdoo. But the Wisconsin Senator wants to run be hu'Ih , S!" he can be elected. His idea Is that he would have an f"j" ,lmp of it If both parties nom inated conservatives and left the wongrbH?,and Llberal vote K The political strategists of both ;'."" P8 Pr,of.?88 to be satisfied with IS . . announcement in that they think. It will help their respec wl? uanU|?e*'ihThe Republ|cans feel It will unite the conservative strength MfAhe;?Un r7 behlnd President Cool !??..? ,dr*?ln81 Democratic conaerva Th. n " Pivotal states The Democrats think It will mean! wL,.'?OI7.?f LaF??""e In certain Western states which ordinarily would be carried by President Cool Idge and which now would make Sh?nOC.7U| V,ctu0ry "8 U was In 1312 when the Republican party was split None of these views Is convincing time Vr?m "OW "" Action of fhi . ?. .?0rt t0 ,ake advantage of the 1-aFollctte movement In the wl i 8U't" each party. It Is not unl kely that the nomination of a l(fr!nhii mocrat would make the campaign cry one of con .i "'tism and "s?fe and sane" doc trine. The Democrats on the other rnrti^l i*i ,e*k to proT? ,hnt 'heir not as unsafe a* LaFoIlette ana so on. Analysing the national political situation, It would seem that the ih!"Cn E ?en",or enters the rnce at rarelv"yh?? ?.k ,Pom?,1, and that -ki ? ,hcre ''"en a year In which a man of his theories could n?ra"d ?? "juch strength as today In the West. In 191? the Democrats won by a combination of the West and flouth. The McAdoo Democrats have been counting on the same line mosl nfC iha"vtht3r T,liunlly eoncedo most of the Kastern states to Presl vr:'cr,ldr- nut" Lunette di 7idc" the West with a Demoerats i.t ch*nct" "re no candidate will jB.k '""Jof'ty Of the electoral vote ?? k C?HtP1l wl" h?v? to h,. de cided by the House of Representa tives voting by state delegations and the outcome Of that Is In doubt be cause the party affiliation Is practi cally oven. There the J* Foil et to *ri?!'i> ,w""ld awta control f?r they could Influence the choice of a radl ca Democrat rather than a conser ^i?*?k R'p,lb"c?n?Ihey could re peat the combination they have been making l? the present session of Congress on legislation. But the trategy of th? McAdoo Democrats Is not the only strategy hclng expounded The friends of Governor Al Smith and John W. Da Jjj*' '* foolish to concede the Fast and that with more or less moist candidates the prohibition ?n 1h.?jcaST.i|UP??t *" **?'"latlons in the East and win a few Imnorinnt thV7JFon^ti>ero<?rat" Th#n the Lar ollette forces rapturlnr a few Republican state* In the West the Demoerats would weaken Mr Coolldges In the East snd at The ~me time get the beneftt of the &r" ,he ^The LaFoIlette announcement for a?d no ALLIES MAINTAIN MILITARY CONTROL Disarmament Demands of the Versailles Treaty Must be Fully Executed Say Al lied Ambassadors. London, May 30.?The Allies In tend to keep a Arm hand on military control on Germany by maintaining the Commission of Control In full operation until the disarmament de mands made In the Treaty of Ver I sallies are fully executed, according to a long note from the Council of Ambassadors sent to Berlin from Paris today. THE BANK OF EDENTON WILL DOUBLE QUARTEBS Edenton, May 30.?A contract for the rebuilding and remodeling of the Bank of Edenton, whereby twice the ?space will be secured, was awarded Thursday morning to Jones Brothers llCompany, contractors, of Wilson, I with Charles Robinson & Company, of Richmond, as architects. I Work will commence at once and completion guaranteed by October 1. When finished it will provide for I twice the working space and a larg 1 er lobby for the banking room, ar.d twice the office space upstuiro* the new building extending to the prop* |erty line at the rear. In addition a new heating system will be Installed [and the cellar reconstructed to keep ' out water seepage. j The total cost of the improvement , is estimated at $25,000. MORE NURSES ARE FIRED WHEN IIOII THEIIt HAIR Harrlsburg, Miss., May 30.?Seven 'student nurses at South Mississippi Infirmary were immediately dls : missed here today after they had l bobbed their hair. NEW HOTEL AT RICHMOND | Richmond, Va., May 30.? (Spe cial.)?A million dollar hotel will be built on Richmond's principal busi ness street within the next year by I outside capital. The names of the .owners have not been disclosed. W. !I. Stoddard of New York Is drawing | the plans. CHARTiOTTR HANKER DIES AT HATTLECREEK, .MICHIGAN Charlotte, May 30.?Walter S. Al exander, 66 years old. and a promin ent banker and capitalist, died at Battlecreek, Michigan, Thursday night, according to advices received at his home here. TWO KILLKD AT TAMPA Tampa, May 30.?Henry Ward, deputy here wan killed Thursday nlKht by a negro nanx<1 Homer Wil liams. Ward wan shot down when he attempted to arrest the negro. ?A posse later went after William* and killed him. MKXICAX TKADK l\(;l(KAKKH New Orleans, May 30.? (Special.) Shipments by loenl merchants and wholesalers to Mexico have Increased In the last week, since the op nlnj of Campeche and other port*. Ship m?*nts to Hondttran al*o have bet tered considerably owing to the com position of political troubles In that country and reports of a good ba nana crop. Business also Is good with Panama. This city has be? n placed on a parity with New York on shipments of coffee from Colom bia and trade Is Increasing as a re sult. Retail trade here lias quieted down considerably. FOUR IIOYS DROWNRD Dayton. Fla., May 30.?Four boysj were drowned here late Thursday af ternoon while out swimming beyond their depth. Follette will change the minds of the already chosen delegates to the Cleveland convention. The Demo crats will be Influenced by the La Follette decision to run Independent ly. They cannot endorse La Follette as he professes to be a Republican. Would he endorse McAdoo. If he Intended to do so, he would not be arranging to accept a nomination from his followers who expect to gather In Cleveland on July 4 to I frame a platform. LaFollette, who iIn It 17, was ostracised by his col leagues In the Senste and who was investigated for his speeches against the war, now has become one of the ?most powerful Individuals In the Presidential CHAUTAUQUA MUSICIANS Willem Durleux, the talented 'cellist, who, with Marion Carley, Is to appear on the Chautauqua pro pram, June 12-18, is a graduate of the Iloyal Conservatory at the ^Hague, having had among his teach ers such masters as Joseph Giese and Anton Hekking, and was later a professor at the same conserva tory. KOREANS PLAN HLOW l'l? AM Kill t 'A N CONSULATES Tokio, May 30.?An alleged bomb plot of Koreans to blow up British and American consulates has been unearthed here and guards have been placed around them. INQUIRY OF Oil, COMMITTEE HE 8UHMITTED TO SENATE Washington, May 30.?The formal \ report on the long inquiry conduct-1 ed by the oil committee will be sub-1 milled to the Senate next week. MELLON TO ANSWER MEANS Washington, May 30.?Secretary Mellon will be given an opportunity as soon as practicable to answer be fore the Senate Daugherty commit tee, the testimony of Gaston Means, it was announced by Senator Wheel er, Democrat, today. i AT WEEKSVILLE TONIGHT At the Weeksvllle High School to-' night there will be given a dramatic dialogue between "Deacon Team" , and "Sheriff Keemer." The subject! will be "Anarchy for Patriotism.'1 The public Is cordially Invited. No admission. ELECT OFFICERS TONIGHT j Officers of the I. O. O. F. for the] 'coming year will he elected at the1 I lodge meeting tonight which will be j held at Achoree hall. The grand j lodge urges a radical change in the, selection of officers for the ensuing' I term. FORMAL TRIBUTE TO NATION'S DEAD Memorial Duy Exercises in Washington Today Willi President Coolidgc as the Principal Speaker. (By Thi AM'-datrd Prrui Washington, May 30.?Willi Cool id -e delivering the principal Mem orial l).4.v address in Arlington am phitheater, all branch*-* of the Gov ernment. Its armed forces and patri otic and religious organizations joiind today in paying formal tribute to this nation's war dead. The placing of a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier by President Coolldge, a ceremony here tofore performed by the President only on Arnristlce day, ih expected to set a precedent for future memoriul day exercises in Arlington Cemetery. All executive departments of the Government were closed and the Sen ate took recess. The House, how ever, took no recess, members being anxious to take up the McNary Haugen farm relief measure . NATHAN LEPOLDJR IS NOW UNDER FIRE Optical Company's Records Reveal He Had Been Sold Pair Spectacles Like Those Found Near Body of Franks Chicago. May 30.?Nathan Leo pold, Jr., 19 year-old son of a multi millionaire and manufacturer, a un iversity honor student, and connect ed with some of Chicago's weathlest families, was questioned all night oy Robert C. Howe, state attorney, af ter an optical company's records re vealed that he had been sold a pair of spectacles Identical with those found near the body of Robert Franks. 14-year-old kidnapped vic tim, and also the son of a multl-mll llonaire. When questioned Leopold still maintained that he was not owner of spectacles although he was familiar with terrain wftere body was found and had visited the spot as recently as few days before Franks' nude bo dy was found Jammed in a railroad culvert. Bergdoll Not Passenger In Dirigible ZR Three (By Tht AtMciatf4 Prru) Frledrlchshafen. Germany, May 30 ?Reports that Grover Cleveland Hergdoll, American draft evader, had applied to go as a passenger to America in the dirigible ZR 3 which Is being built here for the United States, or that he had enlisted as a member of the crew was denied here this afternoon by the Zeppelin Com pany officials. Sentenced To Hang, Woman's Chief Concern Her Husband Claimn Not Remember Shooting Mother-in-Lair Who IIik! Made Life Miserable for ller and l.ires on Daily llo/ie of a f'isit from ller Husband She Still Love* II) MIUARD ritll?ttW)N <C?nrrl?M. IM4. ?* Th? AlniNt Atlanta. Ga.. May 30.?A lip.itIrk and a Bible that she nerer had road until she was put behind the? barn. IN the Chief comforters of lift. Ida Hughes. who today la awaiting the hangman's noose for the murder of her mother-in-law, Mm, M. C., Hughes. There la something very child like--and very pathetic?about this woman who coolly Murk a plrtol aualnst the bodv of her mother-in law and Hhot the older woman to death with a policeman standing on-! ly a Irw feet away. She reads the !3lble a while. Tlo-n she goes to hor mirror and powder? her note and wield* her lipstick, making herself attractive for her husband, whom she expects at any! minute. Dut the husband doea not come. He haa not visited her for thru weeks. That, apparently Is her one| concern. She has appealed for a new trial. Hut she Isn't at all con-j ftdent It will be granted. Yet she does not seem disturbed over the possibility that hor days will end on the gallows. What concerns her Is that her husband doesn't come. "They say I killed my mother-in law," Mrs. Hughes said, as she sat In a rocking chair In the woman's ward at Pulton County Tower?"the fllg Rock." the negro prisoners call It because It Is of granite from Stone Mountain. "But 1 don't remember getting the pistol or firing It. That Is all a blank to me. What I remem ber Is the way I suffered beforehand. "My mother-in-law lived with us. and she waa a bad womai. She drank and the brought to our house women of ba<l character. I worked on the night shift of a cotton mill and made from $3.20 to $''..90 a night. That had to pay house rent, grocery bill and everything for im. My husband wasn't working. "After I'd worked all nlgM I'd come home and cook breakfast for them and half the time none of them would speak to mo. or If they did apeak It was to grumble at what I had cooked. At night I'd fix supper before I went to work." "Why did you stand for all that?" Mho whs asked. "I didn't have anywhere elue to go. Besides. 1 loved my husband, and I kept* thinking things would get better. "Finally my mother-in-law decid ed to move and when she left she took most of the things In our house with her. One Sunday she came back with two policemen. She had a warrant for clothea of her'a that she said I had. "She went over to my trunk and began throwing my things on the floor. I asked her to atop, but she kept on. "The next thing T remember, was riding In an automobile, and my husband and little boy were cry In*. I asked the policeman next to me what was the matter and he nald: 'You know damned well what's the matter. You've killed your mother In-law.' But I didn't know. "I believe It a hereafter," Mrs, Hughes concluded, "but I believe I had my full punlahment on thla earth. I am la the handa of the law, If I must die, then I must. Bat none of It seema real. It *11 seems like something I had dreamed." Portia! When Mim Minnie Goldman, of Omaco. won her diploma to prac tice ln\v nhe never guessed that ??iin day her father would l>e her "?"t But now he Im the defendant ? 'i her "liicccxt cjum." Her father, A inn ham < Soldi nan. face* federal trial in Worcester. Mans., with his Kon in law. Joseph 13. Mamlno. Chi cago. chanced with embezzlement in ?-onneptlon with the lootlnu of iliv Warren National liank. COTTON* Ot'TIXHIK IHXMt Atlanta. May 30.?(Special.) ? The demand for calcium arsenate for fighting the boll weevil ia increasing and tenant farmers in Southwest Georgia are threatening to quit their crops unless land owners provide large quantities of the poison. Cold, rainy weather has started abnormal ly earlier than last year, although the movement is not general yet. SPECIAL TRAINS l-'Olt GEORGIA PEACH CHOI' Richmond, Va. May 30.? (Spe cial.)?-Seaboard Air Line officialt here stated today that, beginning June 15, special trains operating on passenger train schedules, will rush the Georgia peach crop to New York City. There will be three or four thousand carloads. COOPER LEADING IN 500-MILE AUTO RACE (Br Hi* AmocIUmI I'wm.) Indianapolis, May 30.?Earl Coop er was leading this afternoon In the twelfth annual 500-mile automobile rnce at the 200-mlle mark. But a few seconds behind him came Ben nett Hill and Jimmy Murphy. Coop er's average speed was 98.38 miles an hour. UNIVERSITY PITCIIER SIGNS WITH ASHEVILLE Asheville, May 30.?Herman Bry son, pitcher this year for Carolina, signed up today with the Asheville Club of the South Atlantic Associa tion. WASHINGTON MAN DIES AFTER FALL FROM CAR Washington, "N. C., May 30.?In forming his son Bonner that the gas oline was leaking and requesting that the motor truck he stopped Mr. J. T. Jackson, a highly respected citizen of this county, In attempting to st"p on the running board fell to the pavement of the concrete road between the coun^ home and here Wednesday morning. The back of his head hit the pavement crushing It He was taken to the Fowler Memo rial Hospital where he lived until W? dnesday night, his death occurr ing ai eight o'clock. He never ral lied after the acejilent. Mr. Jackson, who Is slxty-slx years rild and who resides several miles from here on the river road/wan j r-oming to the rtity on a motor truck rjp.g driven by his 19-year-o1rt"*son. Honner Jackson and when botween Ihe county home and this eU.y met with the mishap resulting later In his death. He was horn and reared near Old Ford and has resided in this county nil of his life. He was an industrl rnts farmer and a consistent mtmber if Ware'# Chapel M. K, Church. Mr. Jackson, was twice married. By his first marriage he Is survived by three children, Eugene* Herman, and Mrs. Claude Congleton. By his necond union he Is survived by his widow and four children, Bonner, Ulllan. Ottls, and Mamie. He has two brothers living, Mr. Henry Jack son of Grlmesland and Mr. Owen Jackson of this city. The funeral took place Thursday afternoon at three o'clock from the home of his *on, Mr. Eugene Jack son, corner of Eighth and Market streets conducted by Revi. H. B. ftearlgent and L. D. Hayman. The Interment was In the family burying ground la the country.. The follow ing acted as pollbearera: R. K A. T. Williams. Charles * J. W. Mitchell. O. B. bert Runaley. 11 , BRUMMITT MADE A FINE IMPRESSION Speech Before Graduating ('lass of <"ity High School Wins Him I'avor With Youilg and Old. [Tin* Choices of Lift'" wan the heme of D. G. Hrunimltt of-Oxford, candidate for Attorney General f North Carolina, In his commence ment address before the graduating lass of the Elizabeth City High School and a large and appreciative audience ut the high school auditor ium Thursday night. The speaker developed the Idea that the purpose, of education Is to nable one to make wise choices. Some choices, he said, are made by chance, some from habit, and others fter careful consideration. Charac r is developed, he went on to show, by wise choices, by the exercise of discrimination in the making of deci sions, "It Is seldom." he said, "that one deliberately decides to become vi cious. Outrageous vice and crime are the exception and not the rule. The st conies when you are required to choose between things apparently qually good, or between the good and the best. l?nder some circum stances a thing good in Itself may become bad. Life Is largely a mat ter of correct emphasis. Every en joyment precludes the possibility of another. You can't eat your cake and have It too. It has been said that should one begin reading In the public library of Paris and read 16 hours a day for 70 years he would die in the first alcove. Just beyond might lie the portion of the world's literature which would yield him rip est harvest and keenest pleasure, but he would never reach It If he stopped to read everything merely as he came to It. 'Therefore one must have the ca pacity to discriminate. He must de velop that sense of proportion which will enable him to assess the rela tive values of things that are pri mary and things that are secondary, and than ha mutt have the win to put Into effect the correct choice when made. "Much is being said of the observ ance of law and the maintenance of order as clvfc duties. They are nat ural duties as well. The problem Is one of right choices. In setting life Into harmony with that law which God gives for the control of all life. From the beetle and the Parthenon to the human being, the results ar? the same. There Is no Incompatibil ity In the true spirit of self respect and in a dignified submission to rightful authority,?in the home, In the school, In the community. One must recognize such authority In the contacts with the natural forces about him. His life will be the hap pier and the sweeter If his choice shall likewise Include a glad submis sion to such authority as society has established for his control and pro tection. "To the young life, then, the prob lem of correct emphasis, of wise choice, Is of prime Importance. En Joy life? Yes. Seek recreation? Yes. But such things must take their secondary place. Truth Is always truth, but It may be relative as well as absolute. The good may be the enemy of the best. Character must be fixed on the primary virtues of industry, honesty, thoroughness and truthfulness. You must be willing to surrender the present for the fu ture, the temporary for the perma nent, the seen for the unseen. You achieve things worth while by the choice of the highest." PINK PRODUCTION DKCMNKft New Orleans, May 30.?(Special.) ?Production of Southern Pine As sociation id 11 Is f1pcr*?asecl 2.1 per cent last woek, orders foil off 12.4 per cent and shipments dropped .05 per cent. There were 69.200,000 feet ordered. 70,200,000 produced and 80,000.000 f?'f>t shipped. FORM Kit ACTRKftft IH Hill: TO HALF MILLION IWTATR Chicago, Yr-.y 30.-?Mrs. Edna Welch, former actress, hss boen nd Judgod tho daughter of the late Charles ftwlgart, And become solo heir to Ms hnlf million dollar estate. The mntter has h?'?-n under Investi gation for several years. IXHTANTI.Y KII.I.KD WHKN THROWN FROM AUTOMonifJO Cincinnati, April 30.- Albert Thorne Achonectsdy. New York cash ier of the General Electric Company, was Instantly killed hero this after noon when he was thrown from hie automobile as It struck an Ice wag on. His neck was broken and he was here on a short business trip. CHAUTAUQUA GUARANTOR* AT HOUTHKRN HOTEL TONIGHT There will be a meeting of Chau tauqua guarantors this evening at 8 o'clock at the Southern Hotel for the purpose of distributing tlcketa. All guarantora are asked to be pres ent. KRRK I'KTIRKH FRIDAY Motion pictures will be exhibited at the First Methodist Church, Fri day night, beginning promptly at S o'clock. The following la the pro gram: "First Aid In the Heme," "Blessing Born la Agoales of the Wsr," "Tea Pounds to the Bvshel." "New Orleans."
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