PRICE: TWO CENTS
LEAK STILLS, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY. APRIL 23, 1924
Senator Wheeler
Gains Advantage
Today’s Hearing
(By Associated Press)
Washington, April 28.—In reopen
ing its inquiry into the indictment ol
Senator Wheeler, Demicrat, Montana
~ by a federal grand jury in that state,
the special senate committee question
ed L. V, Beaulieu, attorney for Gor
don Campbell, Montana oil man In*
dieted with • Wheeler. He waived im_
inanity and testified that Wheeler
had tola him specifically he had in
v “formed jCompbel! he could hove
nothing to'do with Campbell^ govtrn
ment land matters.
The charge in the Senator’s indict
ment is, that he accepted money for
appearing before the interior depart
ment in such cases.
MOORE'S SPH1NG
HOTEL OPENS
Friends in Leaksville and Spray are
receiving litters from the manager
of More’s Springs Hotel at Moore’s
Springs, N. C., inviting them to be
there at the opening of that popular
Summer Hotel, Saturday and Sunday.
J. G. Bradshaw is manager.
SOUTH CAROLINA
WOMEN DEMAND
REPRESENTATION
. Greenwood, S. C., April 28.—“It Is
^ hoped that a frit proportion of women
League of Women Voters in a state
ment today.
“We are urging also that a woman
be elected vice president by each club
and that a woman be made vice chair
man of the county executive com
mittees, being elected by the commit
tee or appointed by the chairman of
said committee,” continued Mrs. Wil
liams. .“The purpose of this plan
* is to insure having a key woman to
each county who will in turn have
key women at every precinct whose
duty it will be to see that the voters
of her community enroll and register
and vote at both the primary and the
general elections.”
ciency government, South Carolina
* MARK GUILTY OF *
* MISUSE OF MAILS *
* - *
* (By Asociated Press) *
* Texarkana, Arkansas. *
* April 23.—Patt Marr, oil *
* field promoter was found *
* guilty in the federal court ¥
* on one count and not *
* guilty on 19 other counts *
* of indictments charging *
* the misuse of mails. ¥
* W. T. Earnest, W. S. ♦
* Atkins and Geo. White *
* codefendants were found *
* not guilty on all counts. *
* ****** *
BANKER ROBBED
OF $24,000 AT WEST
TAMPA. FLORIDA
(By Associated Press)
Tampa Fla., April 28.—A. C. Clew
is, head of the board of director* of
the Exchange National Bank was
held up in West Tampa and robbed
of $24,000 according to a report to the
police today.
DANIELS “OBTURATE” WORN
ASKED ABOUT OIL RESERVES
Pro*)
April 23.—Josephus
Daniels M secretary of the navy was
l “very obturate” when it came te get
ting any lease for lands within the
naval oil mama. Commander H. A.
Stuart at the United States Navy
said in a letter read into the record
rorfka annate a-, committee, Stuart
in eiuUMtJf the reserves until
fir
ming with the eTapot Dome reserve
receivers.
VIRGINIA RAILROADS
CALLED BEFORE COMMISSION
(By Associated Press)
Richmond, Va. April 28.—Forty one
railroads and steamship lines opera
ting in Virginia were summoned to
appear before the State corporation
commission May 9th to show cause
why the commission should not aboligh
the fifty percent Pu'lman surcharge
on passenger traffic between points in
Vrginia. *
Why dont you speak for yourself Jo.in
‘We Had to Do It For Baby’
Says Mrs. Cooney in Talking
About Series of Robberies
Bobbed-Hadr Bandit *nd Her
“Tall Companion” Back
In New York
LOSE LEGAL FIGHT
(By Associated Press.)
New York. April 28.—Celia Coon
ey confessed’ bobbed bait bandit, to*
day lost her first legal battle in less
*K»t one hour after sht arrived here
from Jacksonville. Fla., where she
was eaptored.
With her when she arrived his cap
pulled down over his face to-escape
a battery of newspaper cameras, was
her “tall companion" and husband
Edward S. Cooney, ;
Several thousand person* who bat
a few miipstea before had cheered
President Coolidge on his departure
for Washington after bis address at
the annual luncheon of the Associated
Press jammed the corridors of the
Pennsylvania station for a glimpse
of the pair. ^
Mrs. Cooney, big-eyed, cheerful
and smiling on the tnOn had "dotted
up” loir the home_condng. With hsr
husband eh. admitted twelve robber
ies which netted them 91.1M.
•We had to do it for the baby that
was coming,” they aaid
Writ. of habeas corpus issued by
court ^-Justice Lory were
Attorneys Dris
of hope it might have kindled in th«
couple, whose baby died only 11 days
ago, wag toon dispelled when Supreme
court Justice Giegerich dismissed the
writs and remanded both -Af |
her husband to custody.
Rushed through a side exit of the
Pennsylvania station a pathway belht
cleared by the police Mr. and Mrs.
Cooney were hustled away in automo
biles to the court house immediately
after they arrived.
Assistant Dietr'
coll and Walsh foui,— —
nal granting of the writs by Justice
Giegerich. Samuel I. Liekowitz, of
counsel for the accused, declared he
sought to shield them, especially Mrs.
Cooney, from "sweating at the hands
of police."
Walsh challenged Llekowits’e au
thority to represent -the couple, as
both Insisted on the train they did not
want a lawyer.
Mrs. Cooney still refused services
of a lawyer. Her husband said “Pm
undecided." the court then dismissed
the writs. „ ■
Bustled out of the eourt room into
automoH'es again the Cooneys were
taken to the district attorney’s office
in Brooklyn to answer 14 count* in
connection with hohLui».*
CLAUDE KITCHEN’S
AMBITION TO SEE
McLEAN GOVERNOR
Mills Kitchen Makes Public
HisFather’s Unfinished
Notes
LATE CONGRESSMAN
ADMIRED McLEAN
(Special to The Gazette)
Raleigh, April 23.—The fondest
hope, cherished to his death, by
Claude Kitchen, of Scot'and Neck,
long famous in state and congregison.
at circles, was the nomination and el
ection of A. W. McLean to the gov
ernorship of North Carolina.
Thij, was revealed here today by
Mills Kitchen, son of the late Con
gressman, in an interview with a
representative' of the Gazette.
Mill* Kitchen Speak.
Mill. Kitchen had come here from
Washington, where he is now engaged
in the practice of law, and in the
course of a conversation with this
writer, the illustrious career of his
father was discussed. Mr. Kitchen
then told of some intimate conver
sations he has held with his father
shortly before the latters death, and
the conversations led to disclosures
of certain note* which the then con
gressman had left unfinished on his
desk.
“My father was not interested in
Mr. McLtan so much as a person,”
Mills Kitchen stated, “but more in
the light of a great man of ability
and skill in business and finance.
McLean’s Great Vision
“He often has spoken to me of
Mr. McLean’s great vigion and in.
sight into business affairs both pri-,
vate and state, and once he told me
that North Carolinians would never
realize the greatness of McLean be
cause the man’s modesty was of such
a degree as to withhold taking credit
for the rea'ly big things he did ac
complish.
"My father told me that Mr. Mc
Lean was regarded highly in Wash
ington's official circles and his fame
tration, Is known in Utah, California,
Oreads, Mane, Vermont, Minnesota,
TOxas, an* TSSiSTln *h*e
American republic, even to a greater
degree than it was relized in his home
state.”
Possess*. Unfinished Note*
Mr. Kitchen possesses the notes left
by his father unfinished when his ill
ness prevented him from carrying out
a proposed speech of introduction for
Mr. McLean who was tq speak in
Scotland Neck in the summer of 1922.
Claude KitchenNs fee'ing toward the
present candidate for governor may
be seen in the following which here
(Continued on Page Four)
ZEB VANCE S WIDOW
DIES IN 84TH YEAR
Funeral Service* Will. Be Held
at I V O’clock Thursday
Mamins in Asheville
AshevQle, April 23.—Mrs. Zebulon
Baird Vance, widow of North Caro
lina’s most distinguished statesman
and her* died' this afternoon at 3
oclock at her home near Black Moun
tain. She was in her 84th year.
Funeral services will be he'd at the
St. Lawrence Catholic church, Ashe
ville, Thursday morning at 11 oclock
'with thd Rev. L. J. Bour in charge.
Interment will be in Riverside ceme
tery. Mfs. Vance was married to the
late Senator Vance in 1880. At thai
time sKe was the widow of John S.
Martin of Louisville, Ky. She was
born September 24, 1840, in Oldham
county, .Ky., tht daughter of Samuel
Bledsoe Steel and Ann Brown Steel.
WILLIAM TILDEN DECLINES
TO ENTER CUP DISPUTE
4By Associated Press)
Philadelphia, April 23.—William
Tilden National Tennis Champion, de.
dined the invitation of Julian My
rick chairman of the American Davis
cup committee to discuss his recent
resignation from the Davis cup and
Olympfc teams at conference at New
York on Friday.
EDWARD BOSHART OF
CHICAGO COMES TO
STATE COLLEGE
Raleigh, April 23.u(Special).—
Edward W. Boshart, Professor of in
dustrial education in the University
of Chicago, who has been elected
professor of industrial education at
State College, will come to the local
institution at the beginning of the
summer term, June 10, to give the
professional courses in Industrial arts
and education.
Professor Boshart was educated at
Columbia University where he rt
ceived both the Bachelor’s and Mat
ter’s decree, and his experience since
competing his education hag been
varf^ tmJ'vw'uaMe.
was director of manual training in Ft.
Wayne, Indiana, and then served four
years as director of industrial arts
at Mount Vernor, New York. For V
years he acted as principal of high
schools in Binghampton, New York,
and Cleveland, Ohio, and then joined
the staff of the school of education
of Chicago University where he has
been in charge of the training of
teachers of industrial arts and indus
trial education.
Why dont you speak for yourself John
A TALE OF A TOWN
(Series No. 2)
To begin with, there are certain things essential to the
interest of every town that would grow and get any
where. A town must have things to do with. The powers
who can tax us to the limit, can’t spend one cent of that
tax money to help locate a new industry in the town.
There must be some other body active enough to see that
the town’s prosperity is not neglected. If one man should
undertake to do this sort of thing, he would soon be de
nounced as a Czar. There is therefore, certain work that
must be done by those who have already pitched tents
here.
•There are a number of Associations and Clubs that are
enjoyable things for men who can afford them. But over
and above the good these may contain or do, there is the
one which is better than all them, and that is the body
formed for that express purpose, and on the job every
day in the year, and that is a wide awake Chamber of
Commerce.
The question will be raised, did we not try this before.
Yes, we started one two years and made it a one man
affair and there has never been a meeting since. The
fact that it failed in the manner in which it did, should
hdpi now.
If the Chamber of Commerce had lived we would
probably have another railroad in Leaksville right now.
The agitation started at tjipt time by the Gazette re
sulted in reducing the rate to Leaksville for a consider
able amount of incoming freight.
But k'is possible that a Norfolk & Western connection
cap be secured without a Chamber of Commerce, but
who is going to dp the work. Will you do it?
We can certainly have a Chamber of Commerce and
ought to have it.
Blit unless every interest is invited into a body of this
’ ' * npt be much done. However, it is worth
[Harry K. Thaw
Declared Sane
.
_By Penn. Jury
COMMISSIONERS MEET
The County Commissioners *
met yesterday at the County seat *
for the purpose of issuing bonds *
to take up some six percent paper *
now due. *
P. W. Olidewell former county *
attorney under promise made to *
the present board when he resign- *
ed, was there to attend to the !e- *
gal end of the transaction. *
The County Board of Elections *
mety yesterday and appointed *
Judges and Registrars.
******** * *
KILLS PRISONER AS HE
LEAVES COURT ROOM
Father of Man Whom The
Prisoner Murdered Last
June Believed the Law
Faltered
Chicago, April 23.—A 55 year old
afhter who believed the law faltered,
today shot and killed a man who
was stepping from the criminal court
room in the county building after
again securing a delay of his trial
for the murder of the avenger’s son
nearly a year ago.
Patrick Sexton, the father, had
been to court three times to demand
trial of Jock Rose, a taxicab driver,
who last June shot and killed Sex
ton’s son Frank, also a taxicab driver
during a quarrel between two fac
•fibns of the taxicab company. Each
time the case had been continued.
Today the father again went to
court with his wife and widowed
daughter.in-’aw. When he heard the
t&H again, was to .be continued. Jie
rushed from the court room and as
Ros emerged into the corridor fired
twice.
Sexton readily admitted he killed
Rose and is being htld pending the
inquest.
MISS HEDRICK ENTERTAINS AT
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Dorothy Hedrick delightfully en
tertained 24 of her small friends on
Saturday afternoon, the occasion be,
ing her seventh birthday. The smalt
guests joined heartily in outdoor
games for an hour before being serv
ed de'icious lemonade. Mrs. Hedrick
had artfully concealed five dozen
egg« and an egg hunt was thoroughly
enjoyed by all. Then the guests were
invited into the dining room whert
the table with spring flowers and
Easter decorations held as its chiel
attraction a lovely birthday cake and
seven candles. Mrs. Hedrick served
ice cream and candy. Each guest pre
sented the little hostess with a gift,
and an original good wish for many
happy returns of the day.
Why dont you speak for yourself Jonn
I -
| (By Associated Press )
j Philadelphia, April 23.—Harry R.
I Thaw was declared sane tonight by
I the jury that had been hearing teati
I mony to determine his mental condi
tion. The jury declared him fully
capable of looking after his estate.
It deliberated for seven hours.
Thaw was not in court when the ver
dict was announced. He received the
news at the Ritz.Carlton hotel, where
he had taken dinner with his mother.
He declined to receive newspapermen,
but said he might have a statement
'ater regarding his plans for the fu
ture.
Only a fair-sized crowd was in the
courfr room when the jury led by Jo
seph Plunkett the aged foreman filed
in with the verdict. Judge Monaghan
had warned against any demonstra
tion and the spectators received the
verdict in silence. Thaw’s friends
however, showed elation over his
winning his freedom after having
been confined in Pennsylvania hospi
tal for mental and nervous diseases,
in West Philadelphia for seven years.
Attorney Gray, counsel for Evelyn
Nesbit, divorced wife of Thaw( an_
nounced definitely that he wou'd file
a motion for a new trial. Pending ac
tion on this motion which probably
will be made within four days, Thaw
will remain under bond.
Thaw was committed to the insti
tution after he had been indicted in
New York for the alleged whipping
of Frederick Gump, Jr., a high school
boy. New York police were searching
for him when he was found in a West
Philadelphia apartment house with
his throat cut. His family intervened
to have him dec'ared insane by a
Philadelphia court in which they Were
successful and he was. committed to
the asylum despite the efforts of the
New York authorities to extradite
Jum. -.- , . .
A PROCLAMATION
(By the President of the U. S. A.)
Whereas, it is essential to the con
tinued comfort, welfare and prosperi,
ty of the people of the United States
that abundant forests, widely distrib
uted and maintained in a condition
of high productiveness, be forever
wisely conserved as one if our great
est natural resources: and
Whereas, because of our constantly
increasing need of wood and other '
forest products, together with our
past fai'ure to provide for reforesta
tion, we are drawing upon our sup
plies of timber four times as fast as
they are renewed through growth;
and
Whereas, the most formidable
agency of forest destruction and pre
vention of reforestation is fire and,
of the fires which annually devastate
vast areas, four fifths are ascribed
in origin to human agencies and vir.
tually all may be controlled and made
innocuous through prudence, care
and vigilange;
Therefore, I Calvin Coolidge, Presi
(Continued on Page Pour)
Train Wrecks;
Thirty Persons
Reported Dead
FEAR DISASTER
HAS BEFALLEN
DIRIGIBLE TC 3
(By Associated Press)
San Antonio, April 23.—Official*
at Kel'y Field here fear some disaster
has overtaken the dirigible TC 3 from
Scott Fitld, Illinois which is more
than 12 hours overdue here.
Belleville, Illinois, April 23.—U. S.
nonrigid dirigible TC 3 arrived at
Scott Field shortly after eight oc’ock
this morning.
The TC 3 was forced to return be
cause of a severe electrical storm in
northern Texas Hie big ship was un_
damaged, but will not attempt an
other f ight to San Antonio at this
time. She carried six men.
(By Associated Press)
Berne, Switzerland, April 23.
Thirty persons are reported to have
been killed and fifty injured when the
Zurich and Milan expressts collided
near Bellinzona.
This morning twenty-one bodies
have been removed from the wreckagt
most of them so badly burned that
identification was impossible.
HONDURAS FACTIONS WILL
HOLD CONFERENCE TODAT
(By Associated Press)
Washington April 23—A peace eon.
ference to be attended by Revolution
ists and Defacto govtrnment repre
sentatives today at Amapala, Hondu
ras, has been arranged by Summet
Welles, acting as personal represen
tative of President Coolidgt In the
Honduras, * ' _* ■