THE WEATHER * * Fair tonight and Fri- * * -day. Rot much change * * in temperature. Moder - * * ate to fresh tcinds. * VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. * 1 CIRCULATION * Wednesday * 2,314 Copies * ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1924. EIGHT PAGES. NO. 33. HALLET WARD WILL RETIRE FROM CONGRESS Floating Concrete Road Is Slowly But Surely Sinking And If Present Kate of Sinking Continues Before End of Next Winter Depth of Water on Roadbed Will be Suffi cient to Stall Motor Cars and Block the Truffic Cap'n. I ? I ? I -just can't go to sea on no grindstone." explained a.i I ancient Ethiopian sea-cook when they wanted him to make the trip on the maiden voyage of the Atlan tis when they brought her up from i-?k"??Ville to Wilmington to be finished up several years ago. The Atlantis was the first of a serios of ?j.oOO-ton concrete steamers built during the war. "Inland editorial offices are not V1}! marlru' directories and off-hand It can't be stated just of hlr ?fa.me I', the A,lantl? Some of her sister ships cracked up In the water and settled down to rest with but (loiri"'*' SteeI floa,s a" risht, h L,? ?. . u " concrete ship is a pro w Uil V i188 not yet bppn adequate Thl J y n,arlnp engineers." Ilie foregoing 'paragraphs were used by Den Dixon MacNelll In way tloi n '.'h S ,0 8 clowln- descrlp- j tlon. In the News and Observer of Sunday. April 22, ?f Engineer George McNutt's feat in floating a concrete road across the three miles !h?'j"aK e on the Camden side of thlt as'[uota"k between the arms or tire ox bow bend of the river on which Elizabeth City is situated iiut roads," wrote Mr. MacNelll ' "are ?n entirely different matter since Prank Page sent George Mc coner?.?Wn 'j raEr',:ota"'? to build a concrete road aoross . . , three vef T2 .KTamV t0 whlch nobody has yet located a bottom. . T1,_ Pasquotank-Camden foljts Just had uone, and he s done it." Returning, for a moment, to th<? fhHtru 8hlp"' one m'K,lt P^nt out that it was no difficult Job to build a ?hlP that would float r ..... ,W!>8 launched. The difflcul 1,1 keeping It afloat under conditions of actual service. The question now Is, will the same thine road' "X ?{ a, fl?a,inK concrete n?r?. r 8Jowly "n" almost im perceptibly, but surely neverthe less. Mr. McNutt's ribbon of concrete across Machelhes Island and the rlv! sinking ?Dth,e Cam<Jen mainland !n? . S" .pcr,1aps It is undertak ing to see whether or not It can out do tile engineers whom Mr. MacNelll reported as unable to find a bottom to the quagmire. " Up-State folks, who never saw this win before paving was begun on It. will probably never understand the conditions under which It was built Hroni Illustrations In the News and v-Viir ran alo"K with Mr. MacNelll a story, th? Impression was most probably made that here was a road, Inundated for the most part the greater part of the time by wat er. which Engineer McNutt, after raising it above the water by cordu roy cross-logging, covered over with dirt and then paved. As a matter of fact, when the Mate took over this road, only one segmept of BOO or 700 feet was sub i t Jo Inundation by tide, and this inundation was a matter of compar atively recent development permitted because the State was about to take over the road and the private Inter ests which had owned and operated It naturally were slow to spend any largo amount of money on It under such circumstances. This Inunda tion. It should be understood, was not a periodic Inundation, occurring twice dally with the ebb and flow of the ocean tides, which arc not per ceptible this far up the I'asquotan* River; but a permanent Inundation, the depth and length of which varied with prevailing winds. The remain der of the road, except under exces five rainfall or record high t!dr<* was high and dry. Mr. McNutt cross-logged the Inun dated segment and .100 or <00 feet on each end of It. until he had raised the roadbed well above the high water level He then covered zzjxtfsf*?* ",rt ? "??> atantlal depth. The entire remaln l')p r?a<"w| was also raised with dirt by several Inches, more cross-logging being used in the low er'.L ."/""; b"i ,h" ' "tire additional cross-logging done probably was less than, and certainly did not exceed. *h" length of that placed over lh wii.lkil'.fc lJJ?rt,0.n of """I on the Elizabeth City side of Dlovers Cut 1 '.Xn:! *'ct. as matter of fact, despite election of the roadbed by Mr Mc Nutt. folks who have used this road continually, ever sine- It was first ? '".J V'il? mT ,h0n 20 yo"r" ago. ?a\ that there Is more water on it todav than they have ever seen In ! iT H VV?' "efore Mr. McNutt fin ished his job. that part of the con crete paving laid over the 1,400 foot segment which be had cross-logged had already sunk below the level or an ordinary tide and was Inundated to a depth of two or three Inches for a distance of something like mo feet Practically- all the time, hut today ' than a foot at the deepost point and the inundation has spread so a< to cover 900 feet of the roadway, i In addition to this segment which Is on Machelhes Island, or between Pasquotank River and Glovers Cut ? lor Stinking Out Creek as Mr. Mac Neill called it ? another portion of the road had sunk slightly before Mr. McNutt completed the job, and this also was inundated to a deptn of two or three inches for a distance, more or less, of 100 feet. This Inun dation has now spread to a distance ;of 700 feet, with water mope than a ? foot deep where this segment was first inundated. fn addition to this a third sink i has developed this winter and on this segment the water Is already fully as deep as on either of the oth er two and the length of road Inun dated 1s about 300 feet. Thus, in all 2.000 feet of this 2.7 miles roadway Is Inundated practl i rally all the time. More portentfous still, however, Is ; the fart that now when there Is a high tide water can be seen trlckl |lng up Along the roadbed at points where nobody remembers the 1 road as ever having been Inundated before. In fart on Wednesday of this week came a tide that brought the water almost to the level on the roadway for about half Its lensrth. and motor ear drivers passing over the sunken portions of the roadway which are Inundated all the time I found the water flushing their run ning boards. It would not take a record tide todav to *top all motor t r iff 1? between Fllzabnth City and Camden over thla road. Hefore the road was pave* It was used to a considerable extent by pe destrians from Camden coming Info. {Elizabeth City. Todav a pedestrian I would have to take off bis shoes an1 istocklnes and roll his trousers above his knee* to get acro?s the seg ments of the road most dceplv In ? tindafed. unless a passing motorist should give him a frlendlv lift. To remedy the situation as to pe destrians. the State Is preparing to build a footway along the Inundated segment* of the road. Hwt b ov* .State Is going to meet the situation | when the water on the Inundated portions rises, under normal tide 'condition*, to a height that will stall a motor car Is a question that Is In teresting the folks of thla section SENDS MESSAGE | TO THE FARMERS: President Coolidge Urges I That Every Encouragement he Given Co-operative Mar-! ' keting Movement. Washington. Feb. 7 ? Hope that! "every encouragement", will be; given the co-operative marketing movement was expressed today byi President Coolidge to the National i | Council of Farmers' Co-Operative | Associations, at the opening of the I three days meeting here. The President added that there was also need for organization of, | urban consumers "to glye like ben | efits" and declared that close work I ing arrangement between the two I groups Is the ideal toward which | present economic efforts should be (directed. i ABANDON EFFORTS TO QUESTION FALL Washington, Feb. 7 ? Further | efforts to question Albert 13. Fall, i central figure in the Senate oil in | vestigatlon, were abandoned today i by the committee. This decision was reached upon j advice of special Government ? counsel, Silas Strawn, and Atlee j Pomerene. They recommended against permitting Fall to testify unless he waived immunity. MacDONALD WHITES PREMIER POINCARE (Br The Auorla'.rd frrM.1 I Paris, February 7 ? Prime I Minister MacDonald of Great i Britain has written to Pre | mier Polneare expressing regret for the incident caused by the I Lloyd George interview asserting j the discovery of agreement at the j Paris peace Conference between i Woodrow Wilson and Premier Cle menceau regarding occupation erf ! the Rhineland, says a dispatch to j a semi-official Havas afttocy. A NEW STATION FOR BODY ISLAND Coast Guard Building Will lie of Most Modern Type,' VS ith Commodious Quarter* and Every Convenience. Bids hays' been asked for on the construction of a new up-to-datej Coast Guard station at Body Island.; The building will be constructed on j a new site which will include the present one but will extend from sea ! to sound. It will be of the most I modern design, four stories in height and of concrete and wood construc tion. Included in the contract will be the construction of a causeway from the sound to the station, designed to make for better efficiency in the op eration of the station. The building will be as complete as a city structure. It will have its own electric light plant, sewerage! system, plumbing, and water. The estimated cost is around $30,000. Commodious quarters for the crew are called for in the plans and bath rooms and every comfort of home will be provided. Construction will likely be started in the middle of April if a satisfac tory bid Is received and the building will, in that event, be completed by about September 15. HUERTA HAS MOVED CAPITAL TO TUXPAM Brownsville, Texas, Feb. 7. ? Gen eral Adolfo de la Huerta has moved the capital of the revolutionary gov ernment to Tuxpam, going to that port accompanied by his staff on an Agulla Oil Company boat, according I to a radiogram to the Associated i Press. All revolutionary forces left i Vera Cruz Monday going by way of-] the Isthmus railway. COUZENS WRITES TO SECRETARY MELLON Washington. Feb. 7 ? Lack of I enforcement and faulty admlnlstra-j , tivo provisions in the tax law were charged by Senator Conzens. Re-] publican, of Michigan today in a letter to Secretary Mellon, with the responsibility for cutting down Fed eral Government revenues. . JAPAN IS W ORRIED AT RESTRICTIONS <Br Thf Aiwlilfd IVu > Toklo, Feb. 7 ? Viewing with apparent anxiety "In creasing restrictions upon Ja panese residents in the United Stales and the proposal now before Congress for further ex clusion of the Japanese" For eign Minister Matsul in an exclusive statement to the Associated Press 4ody appeal ed to the Uuited States to heed Japan's cherished desire to be treated on the same footing with other indepen dent nations. BASKETBALL SERIES BEGINS FRIDAY NIGHT Friday night at 7:45 marks the | opening of the girls' and boys' pre- 1 championship basketball series. The local high school girls' baa- 1 ketball team will open the new sche dule with a battle on the new high school court Friday night. This will be followed by a game on Saturday night when the hlgli school boys' basketball team will play Winton high school team. Practice games have already start ed on the new court and the boys and girls have expressed themselves as being much pleased with what they believe to be the best basket- j ball court in Northeastern North Carolina. Announcement will bo made with in the next few days of future gamca that are now being arran^tw for with Hertford, Edenton, Plymouth . and Washington. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT ILL FROM OVERWORK Washington, Feb. 7. ? Chief Jus tice Taft who was prevented from attending the funeral of Woodrow Wilson by an attack of gastric indi gestion has been advised by his phy sicians to remain quietly at home for several days but Is not confined to his bed.* The reason for his Illness Is said to be overwork. I Tt was said at the Taft residence this morning that he was much lm-j proved and had passed a restful j night but decided as a matter of, precaution tor remain In bed during the day. Nation's Capital Now Has . Two Presidential Shrines Tomb of Wilson at Cathedral in Years to Cpme IMay lie Equally Honored With That of Father of llis Country at Mount Vernon II) JOHN* j. \v. XKVIX Coayrlgtit. IM4. ky Th. Advarrt Washington, Feb. 7. ? The capital which he loved so well has said farewell to Woodrow Wilson. Through a section of the city strange to ceremonial action his mortal remains were carried to their final resting place. Tlie broad roaches of Pennsylvania Avenue, which saw the passing of Harding. McKlnloy, Garfield,. Lin coln, Taylor and Harrison played no part In this last journey. Instead the funeral cortege passed slow'.y and solemnly through massed ranks of sorrowing fellow-citizens from the homo on S street, exclusively a resi dential section, along Massachusetts.! Avenue, likewise a roadway of homes, to the entrance to the cathe dral grounds on the latter thorough fare. From there the body was car-1 rled Into Bethlehem Chapel through 1 the door on the south of the crypt over which Is Inscribed "The Way of Peace." Thus the passing of the War Pres ident of the nation was In accordance with his last expressed with for the utmost simplicity. The days of pomp at home and abroad, of vast crowds and" stately ceremonies, nev-i er appealed to the Intimate nature of the man. So it was that he expressed his wish for the funeral of a simple American and the devoted wlf" who had cheered him In his long Illness, saw that this suggestion was carried through to the letter. While the leaders of state, diplo matic representatives and high and low officials all were represented at the flnal services a little group of In dividuals to whose names no title was attached were conspicuous among the mourners both at the house and the chapel. They were there because the man to whom they were 'devoted aides while he was In his official position had expressed th? hope that places should be found for them If they desired to come. These men probably knew the dead chief executive better than any of the others there outside of the immediate family.* There was Ru dolph Forster. permanent secretary In the executive office# whose knowl edge of detail haa made him tnval uablp to every President since Mr Klnloy; Edward W. Kmlthers, chief telegrapher; Nelson I). Webster, dis bursing official; Patrick E. McKen na, chief presidential doorkeeper; C. C. Wagner. personal secretary to President Wilson during n great deal j of the time he was abroad, and I. H. j Hoover, chief usher at the White House, who also was In charge of the temporary White House In Paris. , Two others, no longer In official life were on hand. Hllbert Close, former- 1 ly personal secretary to Mr. Wilson, who came from St. Tx)Uls to be pres ent. and Charles Swein of Chicago. | who was Mr. Wilson's personal sten ographer both at Trenton and Wash ington. This Is the first time In the history of the country thst a former Presi dent has been burled within the con fine* of the District of Columbia. When the cathedral lit complete a permanent tomb will be fixed to contain for all tlm" the remains of the War President and there will thus be two shrines available for all ! who visit hero; this one on the hill, and the resting place of the first of, all Presidents, the Immortal George I Washington, M Mount Vernon, Just below Washington. It was because of the wishes of Mrs. Wilson that thete was no na tional pageant or mourning, flutj the various Government departments! closed down at noon. Many of the employes and thousands of other cit izens then gathered In the natural amphitheater about the cathedral where they were able to follow the services inside of the structure as It was wafted to them over radio* ani "pllflers hnvlnc been located at vari ous points on the grounds. From sunrl.ie Wednesday morning half hourly guilfl Were fir^d at every Armv ??o*t nnd Naval station and at night a national salute jrill honor the memory of the late President. ThU was all that was possible under the i circumstances when It was deter mined by the relatives of the dead [that they could. not accept the Presi dent's tender of a state funeral. ? i in i mi Is Not A Candidate In The Next Primary Increase of Demands of Personal Matters on Time of I.aw "Partner and Pressing Necessity of His Personal Pres ence at Law Office Given as Reasons Congressman Ilallet S. Ward does not seek re-election ? member of the House of Representatives from the First North Carolina Congressional District and will not be a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the next primary. Chicago Is Going After Its Gunmen Sunday Shooting i? Bloody Cli max to Recent Reign Of Lawles*ne?* There lly J. P. VODKIt (Copyrlfht. 1924, By Tht Advance) Chicago, Feb. 7. ? Gunmen and killer thugs are to have short shrift hereafter in Cook County. That is the decision reached after a two-day conference which superior court Justices, police officials and the state's attorney held following the shooting up of a dance hall by three desperadoes early Sunday morning. I It appeared certain today that i Chief Justice Caverly's request, tor I two additional judges to try criminal 1 cases would I).- granted. The nine now sitting are literally Bwumped with murder and murderous assault cases that have been piled Up on" the calendar ih the past two or three : months. ' IX is the plan of the three binnch I es of the city government to rush all 1 cases to immediate Indictment and trial within 30 days at most after ; grand jury action. I The Sunday shooting was a bloody and flagrant climax to Chicago's re- j cent reign of lawlessness. Three no-1 torlous gunmen Invaded a dance hall i where the truck drivers' and chauf feurs* union was holding a ball. Two carried automatics and the other a j sawed-off shot gun. There were at! least 2,500 ?men, women and chil dren in the hall at the tinie. As the three nearcd a platform where sat j several dance officials, they be* an j shooting. One-man was killed in stantly and eight or more were wounded. 'I wo of the bandits escaped but I the third was caught and nearly , beaten to dc>ath before the police ar-l rived. He admitted his identity as j Anthony Kissane, a beer runner fori Terry Druggun, millionaire post-; Volstead dealer in breweries. There have been a dozen other shootings equally sensational, in the last few months, and the authorities: have decided that It Is time to call a halt. NEW REVENUE BILL REPORTEO TO HOUSE Washington, Feb 7 ? A new reve-, nue bill providing for a complete, revision of Federal taxes and for a 25 per cent reduction in 1923 In cline taxes was voted on favorably j today and rej?orted to the House by, the way* and means committee.! The vote was 15 to 3, eight of the 11 Democrats voting present. DOHENY REDUCES QUARTER MILLION Washington, Feb. 7 ? E. L. Doh-j eny, California oil operator, today notified the Senate oil committee that Instead of a quarter of a mil lion dollars which ho recently esti mated his Interests had paid WIJ-! Ham O. MoAdoo's law firm. the' amount actually paid so far Is $150,-1 ooo. including the annual fee of ? 25,000 to McAdoo himself. BRINGS CHARGES AGAINST TREASURY ????" -- i Washington, Feb 7- Charles! Brewer, Department of Justice Ag ent, In a report to Coolldge and At torney Central Daugherty, copy of! which was died today In the District! of Columbia Supremo Court, said he] expected to prove that knowledge of duplicated Government bonds had | been suppressed by th*> Treasury and i the evidence of duplication destroyed j there, I COTTON MARKKT New Yorft, Feh. 7 ? Spot cotton closed ' quiet today, declining 70 pointfl. Middling 33.65, New York, Feb. 7 ? Cottrm fu tures opened this morning at the following levels: March 33:99; May 34 : 20; July &*:7S; October ?i'i |"^c*?">er i This information reached Elizabeth City Thursday in th?> form of a statement signed by Mr. Ward announcing that h-? would not be a candidate in tho next primary. The fact that his law partner, Mr. Grimes, "ha* had an increase In* personal afTalrs that take much of his time from the office," and that .other -conditions have arisen that de mand return to exclusive attention, on Ills part, to duties at his law of fice that cannot he abandoned. Mr. Ward says, arc the reasons for his resignation. Mr. Ward expresses disappoint ment that he was not permitted to serve In a Democratic Congress, which would, of course, have opened up to him larger opportunities to serve his District, and warmly thanks his friends for the support which elevated him to his position of trust and honor. His statement fol llows: February 6, 1924. jljo the Democrats of the First Con gressional District of North Caro i Una : - I cannot be a candidate for Con | gress before the ntfxt primary. I i know I have friends In the District i that will he disappointed, and m t ? share the disappointment to the ex !tent of having hoped to he In a Dem ocratic Congress, guided by a Demo cratic administration, where larger I opportunities would be presented, to ' be of particular service to many of them and general service to their public Interests, but conditions, changed to a considerable extent since I left, compel me tp go home. My partner, Mr. Crimes, has an in crease of personal affairs that take much of his time from the office, and that and other conditions demand my return to exclusive attention to duties there that cannot be aban doned. * My inost Intense concern and de sire now. is to make everyone whos?> : preference and confidence promoted me to this position, believe that 1 sincerely thank them and hope that private life will afford Just as mucn opportunity as public life to give as su ranees and prove worthy "f that confidence In the future. Faithfully yours, H. S. WARD. WHEN HE GOT IIP HIS TIN LIZZIE WAS GONE When O. F. Itlggs of South Mills got up Thursday morning and went to his garage, left unlocked as was his eustom. his Ford touring car was missing. There wos no clue as to tho Identity of the thief or thieves nor was it even possible to tell which way the ear had gone on leaving the yard. "I bad the key to the car," said Mr. Klggs over long distance tele phone to an Advance reporter Thurs day morula?, "and there was evi dence that whoever tdok It had con siderable difficulty In getting the car off. But It was started In some way and I never had a suspicion of what had happened until I went out to the f.iira* e at about 6 o'clock this morn ing." Mr. Ttlggs's Ford was a 1921 mod el and when It left his garage had no cushion on the hock seat. The li cense number was 171 577, / DENBY AGAIN MAKES DEFENSE STATEMENT Washington, Feb. 7.- On the eve of the consideration bv the Senate of a resolution demanding his resigna tion, Secretary of the Navy Denbv lost night Issued a statement defend ing his course In leasing the naval oil reserves and declaring that he acted for the best Interests of the country and In response to the wish es of Congregs. BAD I.OANS MADE TO LASSITER AND COOPER Wilmington, Feb. 7.? The Cooper trial proceeded here yesterday wlti the State setting up evidence that moat of the bad loans wer? made to Clyde Lasslter apd T. E. Cooper and that tho Coopers were aware of the bank's poor condition when they sold the stock In U. the erldenco tending to show conspiracy

Page Text

This is the computer-generated OCR text representation of this newspaper page. It may be empty, if no text could be automatically recognized. This data is also available in Plain Text and XML formats.

Return to page view