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LEAKSVILLB. NORTH CAROLINA Tl'HBD AY, FEBRUARY 12, 1*24. ASKS FOR RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT TAKES NO OFFICIAL NOTICE OF THE RESOLUTi PRICE: Tv o CE No Official Action President Declares on Senate Demand DENBY RESOLUTION REClfES CHARGE OF FRAUD MADE IN THE WALSH RESOLUTION (By Associated Pres*) Washington, Feb. ! 2.—The Denby resignation resolution adopted by the Senate yesterday follows: "Whereas the United States Senate did, on January 31, 1924, by an unanimous* vote adopt Senate joint resolution No. 54 to procure the annulment of certain leases in the naval oil reserves of the United States: "And whereas the said resolution among other things, de clared as follows: " ‘Whereas, it appears from evidence taken by the com mittee on public lands and surveys(of the United States Senate that certain leases of naval reserve No. 3, in the State of ■Wyoming, bearing date April 7, 1922, made in form by the government of the United States, through Albert B. Fall, sec retary of the interior, and Edwin Denby, secretary of the navy as lessor, to the Mammoth Oil company, as leasee and that certain contract between the government of the United States and the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport company, dated April 25, 1922, signed by Edward C. Finney, acting secretary of the interior, and Edwin Denby, secretary of the navy, relating.among other things to the construction of oil tanks at Pearl harbor ( territory of Hawaii, and that certain lease of naval reserve No. 1, in the State of California, bearing date December 11, 1922, made in form by the government of the United States through Albert B. Fall, secretary of the in terior and Edwin Denby, secretary of the navy, as les|sor to the Pan-American Petroleum company as lessee, were execut ed under circumstances indicating fraud and corruption; and “ ‘Whereas the said leases and contracts were entered into without authority on the part of the officers purporting to act in the execution of the fame fof tfce United States and in violation of the laws oi fiance of the settled policy of the government, adhered to through three successive administration^, to maintain in the ground a great supply of oi! adequate to the needs of the navy in any emergency threatening the national security,; "Therefore, Be it -esolved that it is the sense of the United Stales Senate that the President of the United States immediately request the resignation of Edwin Denby as secre tary of the navy." This measure was a substitute for the original resolution offered by Democratic Leadcir Robinson before the Senate adopted the Walalh reso’ution for annulment of the oil leases. (By Associated Press) Washington Feb. 12. — President Coolidge will take “no official recogni tion” of the Senate’s resolution ad vising him to demand the resignation of Secretary Denby, because of his connection with the leasing of naval oil reserves. . ~ The Robinson resolution calling for Denty's resignation was adopted by the Senate late yesterday by a vote of 47 to 64. The executive declared he did not propose to sacrifice “any innocent man for my own welfare” nor retain in office “any unfit man for my own welfare. “As soon as special counsel can ad vise me as to the legality of these leeseg and assemble for mo the per tinent facts in the various transac tions,” the President added, “I shall take such action as seems essential for the full protection of the public interest. I shall not hesitate to call for the resignation of any officials whose conduct in this matter in any way warrants such action upon my part.” MADAME HAGER TELLS BOY ' WHERE TO FIND FLASH-LIGHT The fame of Madame Hager is now assured. Yesterday one of the colored boys who ca^s papers on a Gazette route lost his flash-light, and he went right straight to Madame Hager wit’.f his troubles. She told him the name of the boy who picked up hi* flash-light. - Before the boy returned to the Gazette office, the management had instituted a search for the flash-light an dfound it. The same boy named by Madame Hager had the flash-light in his “in side pocket” just as Madame Hager had informed the colored boy as to where it was. The Gazette newsbay swere play ing around the building when this other boy .happened around and seeing the flash-light on the ground, picked it up and put it in his pocket. When corned, he turned it over to the editor. ————— Mrs. Cora L. Martin left today for Richmond, Va. At Noon bn Rotary Day ^To be sung to “Maryland, My Maryland”) By Daisy King Barker I yield myself thy votary Rotary, my Rotary! On Tuesday when thy day rolls round, And my cook can not be found, 'Tis with relief I know hubby’s dined A treat of food and fun combined. And 1 can live on any scrap, i v ’Cept a scrap with that dear chap. I yield myself thy votary, Rotary, my Rotary! that dinner, RAILWAY TRAVEL STILL IN STATE OP CONFUSION IN OCCUPIED RUHR (By Associated Press.) Mayence, Feb. 12.—Progress to ward normal functioning of the rail way system of the occupied Ruhr territory' is indicated by official sta tistics, but is barely visible to the naked eye of the passenger who must travel over the tributary lines. The official figures show that the freight-carrying efficiency of the roads has now increased to about 80 per cent of normal, and the through passenger traina on the main line run with fair regularity; but travelling over branch lines is still considerably a matter of luck, mostly bad, owing to the unfamiliarity of the newly em ployed personnel and the constant changing 0 fschedules. ALICE BUYS ELEPHANTS (By Wiekes Wamboldt) Aice adores elephants. She has always wanted one and I have always been afraid some enemy of mine would give her one. The reincama tionistg would probably declare that in a. previous existence she was a maharajah, an Indian princss, a mahout, a howdah, or something or other that had to do with elephants, j No matter where she meets one of the' great beasts, or to whom it belongs, it is hers. Once in Baltimore we were held up by a cir»us parade. Suddenly there glided int' " •» a string of elephants hanging on to each other’s tails. Alice lasted her hands to her breast and ,-ied out ecstatically. “Mama’s ibies!” People on either side look i at her suspiciously, but she was blivious to everything except those achyderms and watdhed them dot lgly until they shambled out of sight ■ith their skins fitting them like a fat tan’s pants. A small circus went broke in our »wn. They had one elephant. Alice toked at him wistfully. “Isn’t he ite?” and “lint he sweet?” she ghed, “I wish t had him. ’ He didn’t tok cute or sweet to me. He looked venty feet high and twice as dangeous. • ! “Where would we keep him? Our yard is not tall enough,” I said un easily—for Alice has wanted many strange things in her life—including I me—and got em. “We could keep him in the garage,” said Alice confidentialy, “We could put it on stilts, or something. And he could have the scraps from the table, couldn’t he?" “Oh, I don’t know about that," I re plied, "One has to be careful how one feeds elephants. They don’t like selksoned food. I heard of a little boy who gave one a peanut with red peper on it and a hundred and fifty years later the elephant saw the little boy and remembered him and roared at him and squirtd water on him.” “Maybe,” said Alice, as she reach ed thoughtfully over and touched my thumb with the pink tip of a tapering little finger, “Maybe ivory elephants would be cuter.’i I knew it. Right from the first 1 had suspected that this conversation was heading to the purchase of a flock of little ivory elephants that she had assured me could be bought cheap from a curio dealer who was going out of the animal business. As com pare dto acquiring title to a mountain of flesh with an appetite like Coxey’s Army( I would feel it a relief to pur chase a small group of ivory counter parts' that ate nothing at all and would not squirt “water on you a 150 yearh safter you had med them doctored peanuts. So Alice got her little ivory elephants. She herds them on the mantel in her bed-room. She shifts them around into different formations every morning so they will not get tired of standing in the same place. Each has a name and mine is the proud distinction of having the most dangerous looking one named after me. WORKMEN PURCHASE MANY OF CHICAGO’S NEW HOMES {By Associated Praia) Chicago, Feb. 12.—Seventyfive per cent of the residences built in Chicago during the past year are owned by “overall" people, according to John M. Glenn, secretary of the Illinois Manufacturers Association. “There were 7,852 residences built in Chicago in 1928,” said Mr. Gldnn. “Of these, 5,889, all costing undei ; 910,000, are owned by working yeople, families in which the heads of the house wear overalls and work in fac tories and other industrial plants. Mrs. Candler Fight Charges (By Associate. Press) Atlanta, Feb. 12.—dphe case against Mrs. Asa G. Candler Sr., wife of At lanta millionaise s< It drink manu facturer; W. J. Stoi dard and G. W. Keeling, charged w th violating the city code, was con uitied in police court on account ,o ■ the illnes sof police chief, Jameg 1 cavers, who with Police Captain A. J Holcombe made the arrests. Mrs. Candler and represented by co when the cas wag yers indicated they fight the charges. When the trio w< apartment, a botttt found on sitting. * The raid was made on a tip. ir defendants were present and the law ire prepared to table |chere arrested in an of liquor was they were FRENCH PROPOSAL TO MULCT FOREIGNERS QUICKLY KILLED (By Associated Press) Paris, Feb. 12.—A boycott on all Roods imported from countries with high exchange, which means princi pally American and English mer chandise, is being pushed vigorously by the Matin in order to assist in sav ing the falling franc. However, ofher newspapers and public men are not joining very loudly in the chorus, for the French realize that tourists from high exchange countries are in fact what has helped to keep up exchange. Several attempts to tax foreigners for living in France and suggestions that high exchange visitors be charged different prices to resilents have been stifled. M. Loucheur in the Chamber recently cause dthe prompt withdrawal of a /bill to charge for eigners 240 francs a year as residence tax, with the announcement that foreign money brought by tourists alone more than balanced France’s commercial deficit, running between one an dtwo billion francs. Govera mnt spokesmen immediately confirm ed this statement. _ j ijiimiiimiimiiiiimi ii A Tale of a Bridge jj (Series, No. 3) WHE ^ the Spray-Draper asphalt road was constructed the County Commissioners borrowed $300,000 from a Wlimington bank for that project. There are some strange reports about this loan thijit can only be told after verification. That^fnare than the legal rate of interest was paid,3s sot improbable. At any rate this mat ter has been taken care of by the present Board by an issue of bonds at a much lower rate of interest,: lit was a former Board that made the Wilmington loan on which $15,000 was paid as interest. So it must be remembered that while the present Board issued bonds to take care of their tei It jiaftf, though there loan, the debt was contracted before of office. ould be unjust to spy that the Draper ^ju^o be||%big busing ah rear£ tffoSef who-*ay it-was bullt to. benefit the Mebane interest. One would be nearer the truth to say it was built to benefit the Marshall Field interest, if their immence invest ment at Draper isi taken into consideration. As a matter of fact it has benefitted the Marshall Field interests and the Mebane interest, simple because it has bnefitted the township and Rock ingham County. Both these big interests want ed the road, and are paying for it; while furnish ing employment to hundreds of working people. Had it not been for these two big interest in our three towns, instead of the asphalt road we have today, we would have nothing but the old cow paths so common not many years ago. Before the day of big business, much farm land hereabouts had been sold for taxes, much more for five, six, seven up to twelve and fifteen dollars!, an acre. In fact land around here was the deadest thing on the market. The average , man did not care to own much of it. Some few, however, who could see ahead did do consider able buying and are rich today as a result of their foresight. It is a strange notion some people have of “knocking” big business while at the same time, had it not been for the enterprising spirit of men » who had sipme money and the grit to invest it, Leaksville township would be very near pov erty stricken today. Another interesting story of local road paving is that stretch of asphalt from the rail road at Spray on up to North Spray. There was a meeting held up near Hubbard & Jones’ store, at which plans were made to appear before the Commissioners and ask for this project In the afternoon, a large delegation went to Went worth and secured an order for the work after property holders along the way agreed to stand a share of the cost. To have opposed this pro ject because the proposition would benefit Mar shall Field’s interest, would have been con temptable, and yet it wasl of direct benefit to them, but of still greater benefit to the to / l-s'nip and to the county. It was stated at a meeting or the 'jj t lty Commissioners recently, that there is something like $26,000 still uncollected on this Spray pro ject and that steps will be taken soon to collect all unpaid pledges of abuting property holders regardless of who they may be. Chairman T. R. Pratt stated that it was his intention to apply this $26,000 on the Fisjiing Creek bridge as both iroiects were Leaksville township projects. \nd since the North Spray road was paved for a new bridge across Smith River mes more and more apparent. In fact the present bridge is not considered safe and a new nb built there this coming sum s old bridge was built there were ! oh die Draper, side of the river, and now theire are several thousand with a school and church and a mighty fine community of folks. iE, Mu m PHM1 I When Peace Restored As Between Klansm^ Simmo h 3 ay . vans 3 ; LID OF TUTANKHAMEN’S SARCOPHAGUS RAISED TODAY (By Associated Press.) Luxor. Egypt, Feb. 12.—The lid of Tutankhamen’s sarcophagus was rais ed today. It is understood ’ho body of the king was found within, i When the lid was raised Hit re was revealed a most splendid gilded mummy case ever found in Egypt. The case hears an ettigy of the King wearing the sacred head dress and with his hands crossed, one bearing a crook sceptre and the other a flail. Prison Laundry Fire At West Pesna Pen (By Associated Press) Pittsburgh, Feb. 12.—Fire alarms and riot calls were sent out from the Western penitentiary when fire start ed in the prison laundry. Warden J. M. Egan said there was no disorder and that the blaze of undetermined origin caused only slight damage. County detectives and city police were called to guard against a re newal of yesterday’s fighting, when two guards were killed, the warden said. SEISMOLOGISTS SAY QUAKES MAY BECOME MORE VIOLENT (By Associated Press) London, Feb. 12.—The earth is in a continual state of unrest, infernally as well as on the surface, says Pro fessor IT. IT. Turner of the London Training College. In a recent lecture he declared that almost every day an earthquake occurred somewhere, and often three or four took place. These quakes seemed to be getting more ♦eqwwti-wwi it-to.jJtiiL.jL. ftfestion with experts whether the worst fiat! been parsed or is still to come. Commenting on the accuracy in ! our times of the science of seismology, I the professor said that modern meth j ods of recording had proved that what has hitherto been written on the j seismographs as interior rumbling | rumbling? are in reality earthquakes j so far down in the earth that the 1 crust is not broken or disturbed. Late News (By Associated Prc'-' New York, Feb. 12.—Charges of extreme heresy “have been preferred against Rev. William Montgomry Brown, of Gabon, Ohio, a former bishop of Arkansas and a member of the House of Bishops of Protestant Episcopal Church by Bishops Achalt of Vermont; Joseph Francis, of In dianapolis, and William Gravatt, of West Virginia, it was revealed today. (By Associated Press) Washington, Feb. 12.—Having plac ed on file at the White House its un availing demand for the immediate resignation of Secreary Denby, the senate turned its inquisitorial spo* light once more on the affairs of former Secretary Fall. Before the oil committee, a succession of wit nesses were questioned^ about financin' transactions in the Southwest in ef fort by members to delve further into Fall’s connections and associations during that period of his career which recently has come so promin ently under public scrutiny. An In dian affairs subcommittee of th House also took a hand in the con troversy revolving about Fall’s leas ing policies by questioning the leg ality of his action in leasing unallot ted Indian lands for mining of coal and other minerals. BERLIN MAY BURN FAMOUS OAKf f Rv Associated P:-e?»> Potsdam, Feb. 11.—The royal oak' of Pot dam, which fringe various avenues often traveled in the past bv German rulers and their families, are threatened with destruction. The au thorities say the trees have outlived usefulness, that many of them municioal > By Associate Atlanta, Feb 12. differences 1 ■ o c, h Slmmo'i'' o' ■ rf Kn-Klr,-. V". Ev.ins i: • ! ‘ d ■r, for a cor.it . -SR) dement of vn William 1 n-d fouSnH m Wes- .,1 1 of the J of S146.000, i reported by do s friends of the I paitfer. intdvod, •' -• to. those ' e.l< se to Simr op ’ >ns... The story says term <: *’ mpromisie -e rub tnniially Simon: sold !r~ itt with the ’lan for $96,000 constituting eight '•ears at the rate of SI.000 a month, | and also, received P50.000 for his rights in the Knight? of Kamelia. SINFLOWT" FiCl n STOCK ON CO' O CMMATE FARMS 1 (By Associated Peers) Durham. Ji. If the I -Vmnte is too cod I :n. try sun- -d - c-—. 71tc .••crt-'-' • • ' e-rpertS et ♦ he tTrlvpr i .T '• T' mpshire ? hnvc receive p • n county agent I). A. O'Drr ■ unty, the northerr-vu.■ '■ '''-hire . ..rn'v. indent'1 ' substitU- .( ‘ ier vm'1:. y/,; : ' i1'- stand points of hot'-. ;end the . ■ i... c-. v':: v" ■ hi- county ■; >r , tlirirt '■ *’ e-oiful pro duction of ensihy : >:V e 1920 a number of farm. c h on ex- ■ perimenting with : . and Mr. O’Brien belie-- - ’ '■'HD hn'= proved worth while. The stalltd grow rapidly nn i r-. .i <• to frost. V i ■ i cut up for ■: storage in i’v: si! ■ ’> -■?- '1 cued c/ , s. .feed of ' dairy I The bni-'v r ■ ’ ■ ■ e'eh e.lso is ' • ic .. p ■ .'0 ill Coos L O r* L S "■> Parent-?' elation will hold its rejrti!! y meeting • . ,j Vy i:t 3 nt Leaksville graded rchou!. Ml» Susie H ' ve terady Cor Baltimore, ' ard Richmond, Va., toJAiy her spring miltinary goods. She will also v'si 1 ,-r parents while in Virginia. Mias FI or.i r "Titertained a 0 number of her ft ie nt a Valentine dinner, Saturday c Meters. Claude ' ■ ,,rf D. G. Huggins went to ! ’ '■ today on a business trip. Misses ElizaK .! ' and Mar taret Lee Miliner •' V -1 His, were gue-ts of Mis.=e- *V”- Marshall and Florence Hobbs last night. Miss Gracie K< : who has been sick for a few days j feeling much better today. Mr. and Mrs. V. id. Stocks, of Peklsville, were v i ; lr. Stock’* mother, Mrs. IV. P. ■ ’ bun, at the Colonnade Hotel la ' ting •ms. mop? • vsns MISSIONARY SOCIETY (By Associated Press) London, Feb, 11.— l arge c*nvj painled by old masters to hang u] ..'bo spacious walls of the rich, mi ’•'••.''ion rrt. 1- rd to. sell in these-d of apartments and tiuall bon Bond Street dealers for small pictu ,prices frequently We fit' vorae ratio to sire. if. t The Women':' *’: of the Leaksvil’c 5 net yesterday nftrr'n f 5i R. L. M<dr. Street. There was a y • 1 ■ interestir.fr pr; Mrs. H. P. Foflrd. wag lender for i'” 'cllectior Was JIB 1 ■ After the bnslnes Moir ser-’ed <le’: dan Chunk Washington ? esident, •moon. Thftl r.eetinj . ... (Vestments. (Those pre'er Gwynn, Sue Batt-hn. V H. McCollum, P. V. Godfrey, Paul 'Price, E. D. Mc Call, T., L. Smith, W. M. Mill tier, M. | F„ Murray. H. F. F ird cud MiM Catherine Gilley. 'yTjll NO ONE WILL IM PC*! \8E LARGE SIZE PAINTING*
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