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? THE WEATHER * * fair tonight and Wed- * * nesday. Colder tonight. * Freth Morthtcest winds * * diminishing. * VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. SENATE AGAIN TURNS ON FALL After Demanding Without Avail Resignation of Denliy Turns Spotlight Back to Former Secretary Interior. Washington, Feb. 12 ? Having placed on file at the White House its unavailing demand for Imme diate resignation of Secretarry "Den by, the Senate today turned its iuquiEtoriai spotlight once more" *im the affairs of former Secretary Fall. Before the oil committee a suc cession of witnesses were questioned about financial transactions in the Southwest in the efforts by mem bers to delve further into Fall's connections and associations during that period of his career which recently has come so prominently under public scrutiny. The Indian affairs committee of the House also took a hand in the controversy revolving, about Fall's leasing policies by questionong the legality of his action In leasing un alloted Indian lands for mining of coal and other minerals. Inland Waterways Make For Progress United States Engineer Cites Pittsburg A* Typical Of What Can Be Done ' By J. C. ltOYLK. (CMyrl?ht. 1924. By Tht AtfvtMM) New York, Feb. 12. ? ItJi? Just beginning to becorme evident what progress has been made in the past year in inland water ways transpor tation in this country and the ef fect it is having and will have even on the most arid regions of the coun try. This as a result of this progress, Pittsburgh today is the second port in tills country if tonnage is the basie orf computation. This ?take ill en t has been confirmed by the chief engineer of the army, who saidji "Figures of the United States En gineers ^how that New York harbor . alone has exceeded Pittsburgh in water-borne tounage. The harbors of Philadelphia, New Orleans, Balti more and Boston each are reported ' as having moved from _tkr.ee mlllio.n to ten millions tons less freight than Pittsburgh in 1923." The case of Pittsburgh is em phasized by the writer not because the improvement in water transpor tation was confined to that section, but because progress there was typi cal of what Is being and can be done in other sections. Pittsburgh hand led 31,448,660 terns of freight by water last year. Of this amount 21,448.660 tons were moved in barges on the Monongahela River, 4,460,555 tons on the Ohio and 3,240,640 tons on tha Allegheny. A large portion of this tonnage was coal moved from the mines to the steel mills and coke ovens. Sand .and gravel also played a large part in this movement but for the last 3 years there has been a constantly increasing volume of steel products moving by the rivers. Now the oil industry has turned to Inland water way transportation, using tank barg es to- carry the crude and refined products. , This traffic from tile steel mills by water has had a tremendous bearing on the development of the South, West and Southwest. Prac tically all the big steel makers of the Pittsburgh and Wheeling dis tricts are making heavy deliveries of their products into that territory at a price which would be impossible were it not for use erf barges to St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans, and railroads from those points to cities in the interior. From Oulf ports the steel ls?tlvantageously re loaded piL ocean going steamers to Central and 8outh American coun tries and to the Pacific coast and orient via Panama. There are ninety steam towboats now In operation out of Pittsburgh and over 2.500 steel barges of 650 to 1,000 tons capacity each. These fleets are constantly being augment ed since the completion at locks and dams In the Ohio seems assured, thereby guaranteeing a through wa ter route from Pittsburgh to the gulf all the year round. And now the oil companies are taking steps which will permit California oil to compete on excellent terms with petrqleum prariucted fin Pennsylvania Itself. ? One large oil company Is build ing a fleet ef^G.OOO to 10,000 bar rel tank bargeA In Pittsburgh with the purpose of using them to trans port California oil and gasoline brought by tank steamer to New Orleans through the canal, up the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to the Smoky City. Several of the Pittsburgh barge companies have effected agreements by which the MIsslsslppl-^Tarrlor service, the big barge line operated by the government by which tows are delivered to the Federal line at Cairo for delivery to deetlaattoM GUESTS ESCAPE BY WINDOWS WITH SHEETS Wilsou, Feb. 12. ? Fire early to-| day gutted the Imperial Hotel hero) but guests escaped by jumping out' windows and letting themselves! down by sheets. There^s no esti mate of the loss yet. AUTO WHEELS AND TIRES MAY CHANGE! These Two Parts of Motor: Cars Now Attracting More' Attention Tlian Any Other: Feature By J. C. ROYLE Copjrrifhl. I >24. by Tilt A?mkm New York. Feb. 12 ? Wheels and tires are the two parts of an automo bile that now are attracting the ut most attention of the foremost tech nical experts in the automotive in dustry. \ "" nne of these men do not hesitate \ State that the greatest changes \ a the immediate future in motor car designing will t>e In those .two features. The possibilities of the low pres sure tire, some of the engineers as sert. have only been touched incl ! dentally, if mere easy riding quali fies are considered. They declare !the most wonderful possibilities e* ist in prolonging the life of the met als used in automobile manufacture obviating strains and cracks in bod lcal Joints intact. ! The complete figures on January production and sale by the larger Detroit makers wste even larger than preliminary estimates indicated. Chevrolet and Overland factories al-| most doubled their January < 1923, j records, and Ford turned out 60,000 more cars and trucks than a year I ago. The figures which have Just be-| come available at Detroit are almost' as indicative of the trend of design 1 as of actual factory out-turn. More ,than 10 per cent of all the automo-1 iblle makers have switched from four' 'cylinder to six cylinder engine con struction. Of 104 makers in business In this country this year. 65.4 per ??nt *ro making eh ?ylloil?r line? nn | against 54.8 per cent of all makers in *1'920, although there were 42 imore companies in existence in that 1 frear than in 1924. There are 24 j makers of four cyclinder cars and 12 makers of 8 cylinder cars but there | I are no longer any factories making 12 cylinder cars, although there werei i three In 1920. Equally significant is the analysis: of the recent sales of Paige-Detroit I j cars. These show surprising in- 1 creases of sales to farmers and wo-| men in January. The company sold .approximately 5,500 cars, the larg est January in Its history. The sales to farmers increased from 2 per icent in December\to 6.3 per cent l^t month. Sales to women in creased in the same period from 2.1 per cent to 5.9 per cent. Salesmen bought more Paige cars than men i.i any other employment, with shop workers second and merchants third. Farmers were fifth. Farmers, according to the Nation al Lumber Manufacturers' Associa tion. have to buy automobiles fast, j since avoidable deterioration to cars, 'trucks, tractors and other farm ma chinery is equal to one-half all tt?e j taxes paid by the agriculturists. En gineers of the association in an in vestigation through Illinois found that damage to farm machinery and implements left alongside roads amounted to $650 a square mile a I year, or about $1 an acre. In a dis tance of 126 miles, they observed 12 i , tractors absolutely without protec tion. These machines, built to give' 20 or more years' service, it was es timated. would be on the Junk heap( I within five years. If the Illinois es-] Itlmate holds good In other agricul-j iture sections, the anndal loss to the i ; country would approximate $370,-' 000,000. However, automobile man-' lufactnrers expect to be able to build cars and tractors as fast as the farm 'ers can buy them. , While tire manufacture In thlR country Is expected to Improve with1 Increased production of vehicles In 1924, figures for the last year do not1 Vindicate any surprising, advance In 'the capture of foreign trade. The ! forger portion of original tire equip 'ment on British cars, trucks, motor j cycles and bicycles continues to supplied by British manufacturers, with th*v Dunlop Company leading. Similarly Mlchelln and Pirelli supply the manufacturers of the French and Italian cars with most of their tires. American tire manufacturers, of course, have benefitted to the extent i to which sales of American cars of which their tires are attached hlive ; broadened In foreign countries. On the other hand. German prod ' ucts have become a serious factor in jthe British markets as the exchange i situation and other conditions have Enabled German makers to undersell 'the English. | It Is claimed btcycle tires from 'Germany are being retailed lr\ Eng land at prices which would not cover icost of material in Great Britain. ole of river transportation In the steel Industry, having secured Its coal supplies In that way since 1892 and starting river delivery of stsel In 1921. Other concerns now using the rivers are the Carnegie Steel. Proxy Bride 0. K. Manutl Oome# and bin bride (above) or PhlbidWptUM. wtn? married by proxy. 8be wa a In Portugal and married Oome* through a cousin by proxy. Immigration official* at Boston mid the niarriaKv waa all right with them, and of oouree it waa with the two principal* COOLIDGE SAYS wni. MANAGE OWN AFFAIRS Washington, Feb. 12 ? The Senate yesterday passed a resolution re questing President Coolldge to re quest the resignation of Secretary Denby and sent the resolution to the President. Mr. Coolldge in a statement re plied that the appointment and re moval of cabinet officers is the Exec utive's business and not that of the Senate and that no man will be turned out until guilt is proven against him and that he will handle his own affairs In this connection in justice to all parties. President Coolldge will take no I official recognition of the Senate's i resolution advising htm to demand [ tho resignation of Denby. The re ' solution passed the Senate late yes terday 47 to 34. VISIT NORFOLK KIWANIANS Dr. C B. William*, Harold Fore man, W. W. Wood ley. Jr.. J. E.i Blades and Harry ? Kramer were guests of the Norfolk Klwaniansj club Monday night at their annual "Ladles Night" dinner. A big feature of the night was thel entertainment by Jules Brasll of To ronto, Canada, an entertainer of in-! ternatlonnl fame. BODY OF KING TUT IS SEEN IN TOMB (By The Luxor, Egypt., Feb. 12. ? The lid | of Tutenkhamen's sarcophagus wasi raised today and it Is understood | that the body of the king was found ' within. When tho lid was raised there | was revealed the most splendid gild- [ ed mummy case ever found in < Eg/pt. The case bears the effigy of the king wearing the sacred head I dress and with hands crossed, one bearing the scepter and the other a flail. Secretary Mis* Rom Rosenberg, secretary to Ramsay MacDonald, British pre mier, la shown her* on th? ateps of the executive mansion on Downing Street She Is well known In her country aa an ardent worker tor woman suffrage. \ KXI'KtT MOHK CATTIK Fort Worth. Feb. 12 (By The Consolidated I'ress. ) ? Chicago pack ers haye made It plain to local live stock men that they expected to bay more killed stuTf this year than In 1923. They expect more cattle to be ralaed than for inftny years. Something Akin To Panic Gets Broadway Butterflies Bachelor Girl* of New YorkJMore and More the Prey of Predatory Criminals to Whom ? Murder More or Lew in a Day In a Matter of Small Moment I?y HOIIKRT T. HMAIJj i C*?v?1#M. IWI. by Th? A?v*nc# New York, Feb. 12. ? Something! akin to panic hu ?el?ed upon th.v girls ? and there are thousands of^ them ? who lire alone In their own bachelor apartment* li\ New York. They have become more and more the prey of a predatory nan* of criminal* ? blackmailer*, theft* and. maniac* ? who *top at nothing and' to whom cold blooded murder I* but a iheans to an end. The glaring of pretty 24-year-old Louise Lawaon, daughter o f the Tex-, a* prairie*, ha* awakened the bache- ! lor girl* ? *ome ln*l*t upon calling them the butterflies of {(roadway ? to fhelr conatant peril To thoae of the girl* who lioaat of "patron*" the danger I* more Immi nent than to the girl* who work for ! their livelihood or who have suffl clent If not ample meini to puran*' mime line of cho*en study. The girl with the patron almost I Invariably lives In what Is known as a "walkup" apartment. Of course,) there are many who Insist upon the prestige of living tn elevator apart-' ments. but as a rule the wealthy "patrons" prefer the "walk upsi"| wti?re there are no hall men or ele- ' vator boys to keep tabs on their go ings and romtnga with an eye to possible "hold up" at some tlma In 1 the future. la the walk upa the glrla have virtually no protection at all, aavs the lock on their own doors. . The downstair* (loor In generally op en and Ml the thieves and murderers have to do Is to cllmh the stairs, knock at a door and walk In. Another peril to the girls living alone la the fact that In New Yor* apartment houses persons aeldon) it ever eoneern themselves aa to what la going on next door. The night of a strange man enter ing or leaving nn apartment la not regarded aa tending to excite either ?uaptclon or crltlelam. It la a part of the New York Idea. A girl with aa apartment haa all the privileges of a private home and need not reg ulate the houra or the number of her vltltora. The "Dot" King and the I^oular l4w?in murder* have been the rooat spectacular of the pa*t year, bnt they have by no means been all. Olrls In more obsoure quarters In more obscure sections of the elt.v have llkewlw been attacked, robbed and killed. Bom* of the crime* hay* been all too evidently the deeds of degenerates and thla class of criminal la the moat difficult with which the polfne have to *leal. With the degenerate, robbery la not al ways a motive, but often Is commit ted to throw the police oS the scent. , As loaf as the oldest profession In the world continue*. so long will there be ? gang to prey upon the 111 zfotten gains of the women. WELL EQUIPPED FOK ROAD MAINTENANCE With two Fordsons for road dragging and with a 10 ton Holt cat erpillar tractor and an Adams grader, for road grading, it would appear that the Pasquotank High way Commission Is well equipped for dirt road maintenance at last, and that by spring Pasquotank may hope to see its dirt roads in as good condition as they were kept under the c?ain gang regime In the first' years of the incumbency of County Iioad Superintendent Provo. The Holt tractor and the Adams grftder have not yet been put to use. having been purchased only last Saturday. The two Fordsons were both purchased Within the past two months. ' RLAN LEADERS AGAIN UNITED _ Simmons and Evans Settle Differences For a Consider ation Is Report In Atlanta Journal Atlanta, Feb. 12 ? Settlement o( all [inferences between William Jo seph Simmons, emperor and found er of the Ku Klux Klan. and Hiram W e?ly Evans, Imperial wlaard ot the order, for a consideration ot $146, 000, was reported by close friends ot the parties involved. according to a story In the Atlanta Journal today. According to those close to Sim mons and Evans, the story says, the terms ot compromise are substan tially as follows: Simmons sold his contract with the Klan fcrr 196.000 ponstltutlng eight years at the rate ot $1,000 a month, and alio received $50,000 tor his rights In the Knights ot Ka tnelia. I MRS, ASA CANDLER MUST GO TO COURT Atlanta, Feb. 12.: ? Mr?. Aba G. | Candler will bave t 6 appear today in | police court to answer to charges of I being In a "dire," as the police judge ! refused to allow her to waive the I charge and forfeit the bond. The case against Mrs. Candler, W. J. Stoddard and G. W. Keeling, charged with violating the city code, was continued in police court today on account of the illness of Police Chief James Beavers who with Po lice Captain A. J. Hcrlcomh made the arrests Saturday. Mrs Candler and the other defen dants with their counsel were pre sent when the case was called and the lawyers indicated that they were prepared to fight the charges. ???????? / 1 Civil. TK11M StPKIHOH COUIIT IN HKKSIOX NOW The February term of Superior Court opened Monday with Judge W. A. Devin of Oxford presiding and up to the opening of the after noon session Tuesday the follow ing cases were disposed of: Blanche Ward vs. Enoch Ward, decree of absolute divorce on grounds of abandonment and five j years separation. John Newby vs. Gills Newby, plaintiff takes non suit. George Lister vs. Maggie Lister, plaintiff failed to appear and was non suited, on motion of George J. Spence, counsel for the defendant. A. L. Lee vs. J. A. McClmid plain tiff talles non suit. I. J. Williams vs. Louise Williams decree of absolute divorce on grounds of abandonment and five years separation. Knoch Ludford vs John Scott, set tled out of court and stricken from 'the docket. J. W. Markham vs. B. F. Mark han^, settled out of court and stricken from the docket. I FORMER BISHOP IS CHARGED WITH HERSEY Now York, Fob. 12 ? Chance* 'of oxtremo horoay have boon pre-, ferrod agalnat Rov. William Mont- 1 gomery Brown of Gallon, Ohio, ai former btahop of ArkaiiRnB and piom-j i ber of the Houbo of niahop* of tho ! Protesfant Eplacopal church, by ; Blthop A. C. Hall of Vermont. Bfsh-J op Joaoph Francla of Indiana polln, I and ftlahop William Oraratt of Wew Virginia. FEARED ANOTHER PRISON OUTBREAK! rittahurnh. Feb. It ? Fire alarm" nnd rlort calls were aent oat from Wsnlprn Pentltentlary* tofay when] (Ire ntartPil In tbe prlion laundry. Warden J. M. B*?n tald that there i waa no dlaorder and that the'blaie! of undetermined. origin canned alight (laraaae. County d<-teetlrea and city' police ware called to Knarri ' renewal of ><?t?r(f?y'i flKhtln. whan tvo fnardu war* killed. I COTTON KXCHAXOK ci/wim j I New York; Feb. II ? Tha cotton1 cu-hanf* waa cloaed bera today on . account of Llncoln'a birthday. I I I r Mra." C. W. Hollowall haa returned .from Norfolk. wh?re aha haa ? | vlaltlng frtanda. VANBUREN MARTIN ALSO IN THE RACE Plymouth IMun Announces Candidacy For Democratic Nomination To Congress From First District Plymouth. Feb. 12 ? -Yielding to the urg it desire of his friends and to his own ambition to serve the people of the First North Carolina District In Cor.'-.re^s, Van B. Martin, v of Plymouth, hua announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomi nation to Congress, following the withdrawal of the Hon. Hallet Ward. This announcement Mr. Martin hat* made after an enthus iastic meeting of his Washington County friends, called together to lay plans for a thorough campaign. Mr. Martin has had a great deal of legislative experience, which his followers believe has fitted him for a larger field of usefulness to which he now aspires. First elected to the State Senate in the yekr 1908, when he was yet a very young man. he has served In one branch or another of the State Legislature almost con tinuously ever since, having been a member of the House in 1923. His influence in this body has been state-wide, having been widely re cognized as one of the strongest men and most skillful debaters there. He has sponsored and strongly supported State-wide meas ures that have become the founda tion of North Carolina's present pre eminence. As author of the State wide Stock law he has laid the State under obligations to him. Washington County has repeated ly honored Mr. Martin, electing him to every office to which he aspired and to some which he accepted from a sense of duty. For four years he was county solicitor, for one year superintendent of schools, 1 and for several years mayor of the | town of Plymouth. That these, his | home people, are now supporting ; him for Congress Is an evidence of [ the service he has rendered. Mr. Martin, a native of North ampton County, this State, came to ? Plymouth as a young man In 190G to take up the practice of law, and has been for a number of yeam the leader o? the bar here. The people of Plymouth and Washington County, in offering Mr. Martin to the other counties of the District as a strong candidate, an i able debater, a proved legislator and* a staunch Democrat, believe that they are performing a real service in promoting nbljp govern ment. ITKDIOU8 HKHSIOX Tl'KSDAY j OF THK ItKCOHDKirH COURT* Details of breaking up of a school entertainment at the Moses Temple achoolhouse, colored, in Pasquotank County four miles from town oh Simpson Ditch road by the promls coua*. discharge of firearms on the school grounds occupied nearly three hours of a tedious session of police court Tuesday. The> firing seems to have been Into the air and desfgnel only to frighten those attending. No one was hurt and the only damage sustained was that suffered by" the two defendants. Caleb Shields and Booker T. Smith; the former of I whom was fined $50 and costs for carrying a concealed weapon while the latter, who, according to the State's evidence, was the one who flrqd the pistol, was Klven the same sentence for disturbing a public gathering. Shields, who claimed that a flashlight taken from his poc ket by Smith was mistaken for a pistol by the crowd, noted an appeal, R. \I. Tlnsdale, colored, who last week was given a six months road sentence for wife-beating, was let off under a suspended sentence of two years on the yroads when it was represented to the court that he was his wife's sole means of support and that she. with a baby hardly a month old. Is In destitute circumstances. It was the wife's "condition at the time of the alleged assault that mads 'the offense. In the eyes of the court, a serious one, and led to the Imposing of the road sentence. The court, [however, was Impressed with the plea, made in court bv counsel Tues day morning, that under the circum stances, the wife Is suffering more than would the husband on the roads. Jennie Cardln and Susan Kin*, both mature colored women and married, had a difficulty at the home of their father Jacob SHlmsn. 23 Speed street, In which 8nsan came r>ff decidedly second best, with n'eut wrist, a bruHed head, a sfiStQhed vaccination scar which proceeded to "take" all over again, and, a slight scratch over ths eye. Jennie was washing dishes when the trouble oc curred and broke up the crockery considerably, In using It as her heavy artillery. 8he was taxed with the costfl. George Held, colored, wss re quired to pay taxes and costs for failure to pey dog tax. MVttt HOt.lHW* OW* Sprlnoflold. fab. II ? (Bv thr ('ofc?nll<lnt<<d Pr<%? i ? ' The hum h?-T of horaoa orf Ullnolfi farm* nt promt In 1,111,000 compared Willi 1.193.000 \ year a (to. and the ?m aar valuation h $R7, aa compared >wlth 170 laat year. Th? ottttbar of mtilra la 17M00, th? aama a? laat |jrear.
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