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* THE WEATHER * * Fair and not quite so * -* -cold tonight. Sunday fair * * and u-armer. Diminish' * * ing winds Sunday. * * **????? VOL. XIV. It! ? 1 * CIRCULATION * Friday * * 2.336 Copies '* * ? SATl'RDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 9. 1921. EIGHT PACKS. NO. 35. Ehringhaus Not In Race i But Will Support Aydiett Former Solicitor of This District [Sips in Bud Suggestion I That He Enter Congressional Kucc by Statement That He's Pledged to Former Law Partner J. C. B. Ehrlnghaus is not a can- j didate for Congress. Ho will sup port K. P. Aydlett. Probably no man In tills section ; elevated to a position of trust oy his ! fellow citizens has ever quit public * office with a larger following than | did Blucher Ehrlnghaus when he re tired from the office of Solicitor of j the First Judicial District. Since that time and before it Mr. ' Ehringhaus's friends have had it in j mind that he was one of the strong-' est candidates that Eastern Nortn ! ?Carolina could offer far any posltlou | of trust and honor within the gift of ? the people of North Carolina. A few weeks ago he was being | mentioned as a candidate for Cover- j nor, and nn sooner did new# of Con gressman Ilallet Ward's decision to retire from public office become known than a Washington, D. C..' newspaper man was mentioning Ehr inghaus as among the possibilities in way of a successor. But J. C. B. Ehrlnghaus. who will never seek any office until the office seeks him. not only does not seek to succeed Hallet Ward in Congress. -JuLt_dQ?a_ not even lend a willing ear. at this time, to suggestions that there is a strong demand that he an- 1 nounce himself. In a letter to the editor of tills newspaper dated Sat-, urday, February 9, he says: Mr. Herbert I'eele, Editor of The Advance, City. Dear Mr. Editor: - In your yesterday afternoon's is- i sue, mention is made of my name as among the possible entries in the r race for the Democratic nomination for Congress from this Distrfct. While I appreciate deeply the com pliment involved in tliese sugges- ; tions and the kind allusions which you and others have made to me, It seems to me proper that I make j prompt announcement that I cannot and will not be a candidate in the j approaching primary. I am commit- | ted to the candidacy of my friend and fellow-townsman, Hon. E. F. Aydlett, who has been in the service of the party much longer than I, and who Is well qualified by experience and training for the position. I be lieve that he will fill the vacancy with honor and credit to himself and ' the district, and 1 hope that he may be chosen. May I also take advantage of this opportunity to make public acknowl edgement of my gratitude for the many expressions of desire that I be- j come a candidate which have come [ to me. These evidences of confidence j and good-will are. a sufficient reward for whatever of service 1 may bo able to perform for my people. Sincerely, J. C. B. EH RING HA US. DAUGHERTY EXPEC.TEn OFFER RESIGNATION Washington, Feb. 9. ? Attorney General Daugherty yesterday rushed back to Washington from Florida a f- 1 ter having said that he would be awny for several weeks. j His department does not know why he returned, thought it Is re ported In Capitol circles that his res- 1 Ignation will be handed to President Coolidge. To Cancel leases Washington, Feb. 9. ? President! Coolidge yesterday signed a resolu tion looking toward the cancellation of the oil leases. NEW CHARGES MADE AGAINST SINCLAIR Washington, Feb. 9 ? The charge that Harry F. Sinclair, E, L. Doheny. and "the Standard Oil allied crm panles" conspired to assure the nwnrd of the Teapot Home lease to Sinclair wor?? mad" today before the Senate committee by Frederick Hon fils, publisher of th<- Denver Post. IJonfi Ik asserted that, hi addition to payments made to that group, th? Midwest and Pioneers Companies who also had interests In the di; - trlct received a million dollars in oil produced by the Sinclair Company from Teapot Dome. WILL PREACH SUNDAY AT THE COURT IIOIFSF "Black Hilly Sunday" will preach at the court house Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, his subject being "A Man Saved Without Prayer," and In the evening at 7:30 from the sub ject "Come Down and See Jesus." Evangelist Calvin P. Dixon is the real name of the preacher. Ho i* conducting services at the Christian Temple en West Boll afreet which will continue through next week. Special seat* will be reserved for white poonlM and they are cordially Invtied, says Rrv. J. Price, pastor. TEX AH < OTTOS KAHMKHM WORK J NO HAY AND SIGHT Houston, Feb. 9 ? Reports received here Indicate that tractors are working day and night In the Texas Pan Handle, breaking new ground for cotton. HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICE SUNDAY All the People Invited to Meet at 3:30 and Pay This Tribute to Memory of Woodrow Wilson. A memorial service for Woodrow Wilson will -be held Sunday after noon at 3:30 in the First Methodist Church. The ministers of the city met Fri day and made the arrangements for this service, which is for the people of the entire community regardless of dt nomination. J. C. II. Ehringhaus will make the address, and he will he introduced by Mayor W. Ben Goodwin. The service will be very simple, with prayers, scripture reading, and the sinning of the favorite hymns of Woodrow Wilson, and special music by the First Methodist Church choir. It Ia believed that everybody who possibly can will want to attend this service and pay this tribute of re spect and admiration to the great War President. FORD'S OFFER IS STRONGLY OPPOSED Washington, Feb. 9. ? The McKen -zle Bill authorizing acceptance of Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals was emphatically opposed in the minor ity report today submitted by mem bers of the House committee. Comparing Ford's offer with that of the Southern power companies but without specifically endorsing any of the four proposals which have been made for the operation of Muscle Shoals, the report declares that the acceptance of Ford's offer would amount to "the gift of an enormous, property and industrial advantage to a private citizen from the reaourcv-s of the United States. KLANSMEN ARE IN FULL CONTROL Nine Companiett Illinois Mil itia Ordered to llerrin Where One Officer Ih Dead and Another Dying. (By The Associated Pren) Marlon, III., Feb. D ? Th?? Ku Klux , Klan Is in full control of llerrin this morning, allowing no one in or out of the city who Is not a Klansman. They are parading the streets armed with firearms of all kinds and the city hall Is established as their headquarters. The agitation is said to be cen tered about the disappearance of the Herrln police forc?' who the Klansmen allege were spirited away by sheriff's officers. The trouble started last night when Justice of the Peace Caesar Caglc was shot and killed and Dep uty Sheriff John Layman was shot and placed in a Herrin hospital In serious condition. The hospital was fired on this morning and continued reports of shooting were received here. Nine companies of state militia were ordered out by Adjutant Gen*.* al Illack at the request of Herrln authorities who said the situation was beyond their control. State Troops Arrive Herrln, Feb. 9. Herrln. the scene of the miners riot of 1922. was to day taken over by state troops as the result of the riot Inst night be tween the wets and drys In which one man was .killed and another wounded seriously. The first guardsmen arrlvt d from Carhondle at 4 o'clock this moaning- j The trouble Is the result of whole sale dry raids which have been con ducted recently by reputed members of the Ku Klux Klan. A meeting of the Knights of the Flaming Circle. antl-Klan organization, was In ses sion when the crowd stormed th" hall and th?- shooting followed. I Marlon. 111.. Feb. 9. The out growth of a war on prohibition vlo i !r?tors Is that Constable Cattle, head of dor forces, was klll??l yesterday, and one .-Vputy wounded, while three policemcr. were kidnapped at 1 Herrln, Illinois. The governor ordered the ml I It la to handle the situation. DAWKS DOES NOT INTEND TO KESICN (Br The AtaorU'.ed frtM.1 | Paris, Feb. f). ? Charles o. Dawes has no Intention of resigning a.? i chairman of the first committee of experts Investigating Germany's eco nomic and financial condition, he de clared In a telephone conversatioi 'today from Rerlln with reperatlons 'headquarters here. In Deep Mourning Mrs. Wood row Wilson, In deepest mourning, left- the Wilson house on the arm of her brother, to attend chapel services in the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul on Mt. St. Albans. C. H. TWTODY TO CAROLINA BANK Elected Assistant ("asliier of That Institution to Succeed I Grulium Bell, lifhi^iicil, El ! fective March First. - Calvin 1 1 Tv.iddv lias been elect I pd to the position or assistant cash ier of the Carolina Han kin* & Trust Company to fill tin- \a?incy cau.ied by tin* resignation <>( flraham W. Bell, who has been elected cashier of th?- now Hood System Industrial Iliiiik. and will take charge of his new duties on March 1. Mr. Twiddy Is at present book ke? > r for \V. J. Woodley and has held his present position a year and a half. Ills previous l>anking experience wa u .lined in the Savings Dank & Trn^t Company. where he served for four yi ?? rs and a half. There he ber Kan as bookkeeper and forked his wav to the position of assistant cash ier. During the World War 7 T r. Twld ! dy was one of the first to enlist from Elizabeth City. He joined the Naval Reserve Corps one month after war was declared. During his three years of service he rose In the ranks to ' the rating of ensign. One year and 15 months after his; {enlistment he received his" coTnmis- j j si.on and served as paymaster on the ; Oun Doat Kwasind. during the re-, matador of his service. Mr. Twiddy attended (he Elizabeth ? City Hluii School hut stopped school ; j in February of his senior year. The following year he took a course in j bookkeeping from a private tutor' land at the end of the year entered, the Havings Bank & Trust Company. TRAIN BimiKI) BY AVALANCHE (Hv Thr ASWirlaiMl PrtMl Linz, rp'per Austria. l-'eK {>. | ? An avalanche swept (low. i upon the railway station ?l , Hh-flau last niuht. burying a ; imHKenger train and cariiatv j containing several person* Kail way me 11 and villa u?*rs are | hard at work rescuing the I passengers. i ? LAWKENCE CATLING HAS BEEN CAPTURED Jacksonville, Fob. ft. ? Kawrence j Catling, wanted in Raleigh for the I murder of IiIh wife and a man. was j captured here yesterday. While ad ' mitting his identity In- declared his 1 innocence of the double crime. Washington A Bit Sorry For German Ambassador Wridfrldts, Who Have Kitten from Middle Cliinx Germans, Have Trodden Palli of Thorns in Their l"ir?t Venture Into Walks of Diplomacy Ity ( \\l!OI,Y\ tIKIifj CoDyrifht. 1994. hv Th? Ad**nr? . Washington, Feb. 9. ? Washington feels a bit sorry for the German ambassador and his wife, Madame Weidfeldt. They have trodden n path of j thorns, politically and socially, [ since coming here two year* I ajto, the thorns being the point-! ed snubs that have pricked them ', ton every Ride. They have. be come so sensitive alxuit it that they rarely leave their own fire 'side, except for their compuls ory attendance at state func tions. Now that the recall of Ambassa dor Weldfeldt 1* intimidated becauw of the blunder in omitting to half I mast the embassy flay in honor of i Wood row Wilson, the capital Ik not mire* whether It was the ambassador himself or Merlin that was at fault. Certainly oificlal society here has done nothing to Inculcate a friendly feeling with th?> (KprawnUtivM of ' America's recent eneinleM. At the I White House reception the Weld-. Mdts HM av<- in and out of the 'crowds of smart people, looking rather hopelensly about for a amlH or a friendly word. Shoulders are turned coldly upon ^them. When they first Came to WashlAjc ton Madame Wcldfeldt designated ih? r days "at home" just aa the wives 'of other diplomats do. Great prep la rations Were made for serving the guestr, with refreshments. But the Hinart world did not conif! Only n few straggling nohodhs a? r rlved, out of curiosity to ?'??? what the; embassy was like, and to cram down as many snndwich<s and cake* us possible. AN'r ttiat Madam#' Weldfeldt gave up having days at homo. A certain faction In Prriln has Criticized the Wefdfeldt's severely because they have not entertained morn lavishly. Hut the ambassador felt that entertaining . on atfch \ grand scale would scarcely rr? ate the right Impression as to the poverty stricken condition of his country. And ho is still smarting under the snubbing hp received at the hand of the Haroncss t)e Cartl?*r, Wife of the Helglan amba?nadoi. who refused to attend the White House dinner In honor of the diplomatic corps, he cause she had been paired off with WeldMdt. Since the culminating incident of the half mnsting of the flag the Weldfeldts have recalled Invitation:-, to a dinner which they had planned. This has been the first experience the Weldfeldts have had in diplo macy. He wns formerly a director of the Krupp works, a self-mad" man. having risen from tlie ranks of the working class, while 'she, before her marriage, had been a school teacher, . | Jim Reed At Bottom Of Attack On McAdoo And IMc\doo Has \ inhili'd Ncillicr Moral (inilr Nor Profes sional Ethics ill Accepting Big IVc from Oil Interest ?, Bui His (lundiducy Weakened Nevertheless nv DAVID I.AHIIKVCK Copunght. 1924, by Thi Ad.jr.c Washington, Fob. 8. ? Developments in the Teapot Dome oi> I controversy have opened the way for. the proverbial "dark horses" j in presidential politics. Already there is an undercur rent of opinion among the pol iticians in the Democratic party that nobody who has been di rectly or indirectly connected with the oil mix-up should be nominated. This is accompan ied by the argument that unless both parties purge themselves the formation of a third politi cal party is not unlikely. William (Iil>lis McAdoo's statement j reciting th?? manifest injustice of dragging IiIh nam* into the contro versy made a good Impression be I cause everybody knows Mr. McAdoo iiad no more to do with the oil af fair now under discussion than di 1 the lat?' Secretary of the Interior, i Franklin l?ane, who became nil offi cial in Mr. Doheny's company. 1 Similarly the attack on McAdoo has been traced, acording to his sUp I porters, to the anti-Wilson animus of Senator James Heed of Missouri, ; who Is himself a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. It was Senator Heed who Insisted on recalling Mr. Doheny to the stand, which developed the fact that Mr. Doheny hail employed Mr. McAdoo as counsel in Mexican matters. The Issue on which Mr. McAdoo ! was employed was an International question and one in which the De partment of State through Republi can and Democratic administrations has taken the same position; name jly, that certain provisions of the I Mexican constitution were confisca tory of American property. Hut the part that Mr. McAdoo played in getting a fee for a legiti mate piece of advice is not really on trial. Mr. McAdoo violated neither the Federal statu ten nor the ethics .'of his profession nor the governmen tal code. To accept large fees from corporations,' however, has always .been known in Democratic politics as an obstacle to the candidacy of such a person, the theory being that to have been enveloped In the influence of big corporations stlfleH the passion of an individual for the people as a whole, whose theoretical enemy iti days gone by the corporations were supposed to be. Kxcept for the fact that John W. Davis of West Virginia, for instance. capable lawyer and an international figure, at one time was an attorney for J. I'. Morgan & Company, ho would today be in the lead for the Democratic nomination. If what Mr. Davis did as an attorney can disqual ify him, so may Mr. McAdoo's legal affiliations work to his disadvantage. The Democrats themselves will have to be the Judges of whether such a relationship is dimtdvantage ous. The Republicans never mak*? the light against corporation influ ence?they usually have been on the defensive when the Democrats have raised the cry. Hut inuide the Dem ocratic party there Ih a radical wing and the Influence of the radicals has been against Mr. Davis, for example, because of bis connection with large banking interests in the^Rast. Mr. .McAdoo's strength hns been the sup port of these radicals, especially those of the West. If they consider that in accepting fees from the Do heny companies be proved his Inca pacity to sympathize with the com mon people, Mr. McAdoo will lose out. If they consider that what ho did as director general of the rail roads In improving the wages of la bor is an Index of how he feels to ward the masses, they will Ignore the Doheny incident. The affair Is purely a question of practical politics and the opponent* of Mr. McAdo> will do thi-ir utmost to use it. as a means of preventing his nomination. On the other hand, one thing is certain. Senator James Heed has killed whatever chance he may have bad of nomination. More than one third of the votes of the next con vention will be In the hands of the McAdoo followers. If their chieftain i?? to be defeated by Jim Rfed of Missouri, they will see to it that Reed doesn't win either. Thus Is the Teapot Dome scandal paving the way for some "dark horse" and who he may he i?* too early to say; for It Is characteristic of "dark horses" |<j stay In the dark until the last moment. Chamber Commerce Busy Organization One Searching Records Finds Seemingly Never Ending Story Accomplishment One who undertakes to Investi gate .soon conies to the conclusion that there's no end to the activities of the Elizabeth City Chamber of Commerce. Whether one is a butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker, a far mer, an artisan, a business man,, a fisherman or a sailor, he can Kei a hearing from the Chamber of Com merce and if he brings it a proposal of general progress, development or welfare ne can get the Chamber's support. For instance, recently there was brought to the attention of the Chamber of Commerce the need of a light on Miller's Point. The Cham ber proceeded at once to get busy and within a few weeks a light was placed at the desired point by the Government. Few that had noth ing to do with navigation took j any particular note of this accom j plirlimenti but how it impressed the captain of one of the larger [ vessels plying these waters is indi cated in the following letter. Elizabeth City, N. C. February 7, 1924. i Chamber of Commerce, Elizabeth City, X. C. Gentlemen : I have been asked to express my j opinion as to- the value of the light placed on Miller's Point through the | efforts of the Chamber of Com I merce. As a navigator I can say ! that this Is of inestimable value to us who sail the waters of the Pas quotank River. Previous to the light being placed cm Miller's* Point, we liud 110 way of shaping our course, except by time, after leaving the Wade Point light. Miller's Point Shoal makes out a great dis tance from the shore. Several boats and barges have been aground on this point previous to the plac ing of the light? there. Some of tliein were piloted by local ship masters. I am stating this to show how much more dangerous the point is to strangers not thoroughly con versant with these waters. It is my firm belief that the Miller's Point Light will be valuable in the protection of both life and property, and wo who make our living on the wafer appreciate tho scrvlce render ed by the Elizabeth City Chamber of Commerce. Very truly yours, R. M. Simmons. Capt. S. S. Vansclver Norfolk-Carolina Line. roi \i> i\ u \i/rrMoiifc a\i> loim;i;i> in .i\il hi: me William Alexander Overton, col ored, wanted Tn Elizabeth City ever since Monday night, September 2, 1918, when he Is alleged to have shot Fred Moore, iflso colored. Is In Pasquotank County's jail and will be given a hearing In recorder's court before Trial Justice George J. Spence next week. Overton was found In Baltimore some weeks ago and was brought to Elizabeth City Friday by Police Of ficer Twlddy. Two bullets from Overton's pistol are said to have taken effect in Moor?*'s body, but none of the wound* proved fatal, and the charge against Overton Is assault with dead ly weapon with Intent to kill. What led up to tie- shoot lliv has never been told, so far as police court r? cords or newspaper reports show. One submission mr.de *up the solo conviction In the recorder's court Saturday morning. Jatnes O. Welsh of Perquimans County was the de fendant and he was let off for oper ating a motor ear without license on condition that he obtain the required license. ANDERSON GIVEN PHI SON SENTENCE New York, Feb. William II. Anderson, superintendent of the New York Anti-Saloon League, was yes terday sentenced to from one to two years In prison for forgery. Anderson Immediately resigned as head of the Anti-Saloon League. HUERTA RECAPTURES A M MBKH OF CITIES El Paso, Feb. f?. ? Vera Crtl* and ; several other Mexican cities were yesterday recaptured by rebel forcea i under T>e la Huerta. COTTON MAKKKT New York. Feb. 9 ? Spot cotton closed HtM.idy this ufbrnooQ. ad vancing IT. point*. Middling 15.85. Futures closed nt the following level* March .11.50; May 13.72; ! July 12.31! Oclobor 28.05; Decem jbor 27.61. New York, Feb. 9 ? Cotton fu jturon opened thin morning at the 'following IjveU: March 31.40; j May 81.75; July 32.46; October |28.20. f
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