* THE WEATHER * * Fair tonight and Fri- * * day. Slightly colder Fri ? * * day. Moderate to fresh * * north treat winds. * * *****?*? ? ? ? * W mm* i CIRCULATION W 'ednesday * 6.183 Copies * ? ? * ? ? ? VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. NO. 39 Denby To Resign If Leases Are Vacated Bui in Meantime Political Effect of Coolidge Refusal to Comply With Senate Resolution Calling fgr Den by's Resignation Is Topic of the Hour Br DAVID LAWRENCE C**yr All this, of course, Is predicated on the theory that Mr. Coolldge will retain Mr. Denby and defend the cdl ( leases. The Democrat* have cort-, pelled on the other hand certain Re publican Senators to go on record In defense of Mr. Denby and the vote; on the resolution will be a campaign I issue Just as wan the vote of the Senate on the seating of Truman H. j Newberry. United States Senator from Michigan, who It was alleged was elected, through the use of ex cossive sums of money. i Newberry was personally acquitted of wrong doing by President Hard- 1 Ing and the Republican group de ? cllned to help unseat him. Very lit tle was h?ard about the -Newberry case in the East hut It was a vital Issue In the West and It figured In the defeat of seve^l Senators. The Democrats who are angling I for Western support believe the Den by case will be even more compre hensible to the voters of the West where leases and public lands are a ?natter of every day discussion, than was the Newberry election contro versy. It Will be noted that the In surgent nepnhllcans and Farmer-lJi bor Senator who voted with the Dem-' ocrats In favor of the resolution re-, questing Mr. Denby's resignation, hall from West of the Mississippi At the moment the Coolldge sup porters feel confident that the Presi dent's course l)as gained prestige for htm and that h" will not lose by sus pending Judgment. That Is unques tionably the view In this atmosphere. Whether the West agree* or whetb- j er It wllj speak in odverso opinion at the polls n??xt autumn is the most Important political query that lias arisen out of the Teapot Drtme con troversy McADOO SirppORTERS c;ali.eh to meeting Chicago. February 14.? A na tional conference of McAdoo sup porter* has been called to meet here! February IS to decide whether he shall withdraw ai randldate lor the f residential nomination a* the re sult of havlnf been employed by Doheny In oil matter*. Th* confer J '? enoe la* held at Mr. Me Aden's sug gestion and h* say* he will abide: FORMAL OPENING FRIDAY EVENING New High School Building To Have House Warming With Gubernatorial Candi date McLean As Speaker The new high school auditorium will have Its formal opening on ; Friday evening with A. W. McLean Of' Lumberton, candidate for Gov ernor, as the principal speaker of the evening. ( The evening's exercises will open at eight o'clock with the singing of Amerioa by the Choral Club and the ; audience. The invocation will be pronounc ed by Rev. Q. F. Hill, rector of I Christ church, and then the Choral Club will sing "Safe in the Harbor.", Chairman E. F. Aydlett of the ; school board will speak for a few minutes on the significance of the occasion** and then Miss Catherine Albertson will speak on thfe work of the Parent Teachers Association. The Choral Club's next number will be "The Lost Chord, Mr. Mc Lean will speak, and then every body will sing "The Old North State," and the benediction will be pronc-unced by Rev. Q. F. Hill. Shocking as it may seem. It has been found that when Elizabeth City people get together to sing "The Old North State" they do not remem ber the words. To remedy this' the song is published in The Ad- j vance today. Director Urner Q. j Davis of the Choral Club will have 1 to take the responsibility for the1 tune, but it will help some If every- | body knows the words. J LEAVES MONEY FOR FUNERAL AND GAS, New Orleans, February 14. ? An ( unidentified girl in a rooming house , here left a note and >90 for her fun- 1 eral and two c)ollars ?or the gas she | would use and then suicided by turn ing on the gas. ) NEED LESS ORATORY AND MORE' ACTION Washington, February 14. ? Un less there Is a cassation of oratory and more passage of legislation there will be night sessions of the House, Republican Leader Long worth announced yesterday. MKAT I'll ICES liOWKIl Rural Retreat, Va., Feb'. 14.~r Farmers in this section of 8outhwest Virginia are getting but 11 cents a pound for young lu/gs . dressed, and seven for hogs on toot. Corn costs around a dollar a bushel, with the result that growers are not optimis tic. MRS. DANIEL I.ANL TALKS AT MOTHERS (M il MEETING The importance of forming good habits in childhood wan th?? point strongly emphasised In a talk made by Mrs. Daniel I>ane at the regular meeting of the Mother's Club held Wednesday afternoon at &<30 at the Community House on Fleet wood street. Mrs. Maggie Hlount gave a "story hour" to the children which they en Joyed very murh. Answering the roll call were 14 members, including one new mem ber, Mrs. J. M. Cartwrlght. There were 22 children present nnd of tKat number 12 were babies that we re weighed during the afternoon, with the gratifying results that all showed gain. A collection* of $1.16 was taken up to defray current expenses. Tne four visitors of thn afternoon were: Mrs. Daniel f?ane. Mr*. Mecgfe mount. Mrs. Brad Sanders and Mrs. J. J. Topping. The sick committee reported eight visit* made during the week. At the meeting neit week Mrs. Frank Scattergood will apeak to th? mothers. COTTON* MARKET New York, Feb. I4?? Spot cotton. Closed quiet, Mddllng 3 2. IS n de cline ot 105 pouts. Futures, closing bid. March 31.78. May 22 05, July 10. 52, Oct. 27.20, Dec. 2C.80. New York, Feb. 14. ? Cotton fu tures opened today at the following level*: Match *2. *5. May 33 27. Ja l?> ?? tK A.. t't an mn ia FALL CONSIDERED IT UNNECESSARY Secretary of Interior Saw No Reason Why He Should Consult Daugherty, Accord ' ing to Testimony. Washington, Feb. 14. ? E. F. Fin ney, assistant Secretary of the Inte rior, was today quoted before . the Senate oil committee as saying that Fall considered It unnecessary to have Attorney General Daugherty pass on the validity of the leases be fore they were made. The testimony was given by Oacar Sutro. counsel for the Standard Oil , Company of California. j He told the committee that he suggested to Finney that the Depart- j inent of Justice should be consulted. "Mr. Finney's reply," continued the witness "was that It was not the! wish of the Secretary of the Interi or." "No, I do not think that expresses I it," Ire said. "The Secretary of the Interior considers It unnecessary to have the opinion of the Attorney General." A letter to Fall from Director of Mines Bain transmitting the opinion by Sutro against the validity of the leasing policy put Into the record said "None of us want Mr. Doheny to get Into trouble and propose to do everything In our power to make It easy for him." The letter added that "objections tiad been raised and he would suggest that a formal opinion be obtained from Daugherty In accordance ^R-ith what he under stood had been "an informal and verbal opinion." Bain then added that he "realised the objections to ^sklng for such opinion." Daugherty and previously notified the committee that no opinion was rendered by him. As the result of the testimony the committee In structed its secretary to search the files of the Department of Justice. John Shaffer, publisher of the Chi cago Post and other newspapers, to day testified that Fall told him In March, 1921, the very month he en tered the cabinet, that he was goin^ to lease the Teapot to Sinclair. At that time the Teapot was not under Fall's Jurisdiction. Finney testified that the legality of the leases never was even referre?1 to the Interior Department's ..solicit tor, and declared that discussions were conducted "in "the manner of private negotiations," that Fall In structed him to formally deny that the leases had been signed the week after the Dome actually had been leased to Sinclair, and that the real [ reason was that the secretary want ed no publicity until the Doheny Cal ifornia lease, too, had been consum-' mated. I IK WIXXIXG Mollis SUTH ! DKAD THAN WIIKV ALIVE Cleon W. Brown, dead, Is winnins j more law suits than the negro, attor- ' ney ever did while he was alive. An other was added to the list Wednes- I day afternoon when the jury brought ? In a verdict for the defendant in the case of* Mar} E. Dixon, administra trix of M. O. K. Leigh vs. Cather ine W. Brown, administratrix of Cleon W. Brown. JAMA BY rOTTOX It K PORT WashlnK'On, Feb. 14 ? Cotton con- ( sumed during January amounted to: 576.604 bales of lint and 40,281 I bales linte-s as compared with 461,- j 560 lint and 40,892 llnters In JDe- j camber, the Census Bureau an- ; nounced, today. FOURTEEN MUTILATED BODIES RECOVERED 'By Th? AMOCIitrd Preu) rirmas??ns, Rnviftrian Palitinate. Feb. 14. ? Fourteen mutilated bodies have, been recov??r**d from the ruins of the government building and two of the wounded died last night, bringing the number of separatists known to be d??ad to 16. Forty separatists were in the building when it was attacked Tues day. Seven of the remaining 2 4 aro in the hospital, some seriously wounded, but the others are unac counted for WON'T PAY DEBTS UNTIL RECOGNIZED MoscoW, Feb. 14 ? The Soviet for eign minister here issued a state ment yesterday that Russia will not consider payment of the Czarlst re gime debts to other nations until those nations recognise Russia. The United States has all along with held recognition because the debts were not considered as such. HOPE FIND POTASH IN MICHIGAN MINES By I'HIU S. HANXA CnyrtikL 1114. by Th? Mwki Detroit, Feb. 14. ? Michigan state chemists have renewed their efTorts to find a soluble potash In or near the salt deposits located in consid erable numbers around this city. Samples taken from a deep shaft on Henry Ford's property are being an alyzed, as traces of free potash re cently were discovered while a salt test was being made of products from the shaft. Salt was discovered there at a depth of 3,000 feet, and insoluble potash made its appearance between that and the 3, GOO foot lev el. The Michigan salt basin is said by geologists closely to resemble the German salt district from which coinos nearly all the potash supply of the world. MELLON DECLARES -CHARGES UNFOUNDED Washington, Feb. 14. ? Mellon in a letter to Coolldge today declared (h*? charge by Charles Tlrower, Jus tice Department attorney, unfound ed, with regard to bond duplication in the nureau of EBgraviog, and at the name time announced that Wal lace Kir by of the Army Engineer TTorps had been detailed as director of the bureau. Mellon called the debt funding commission to meet Monday at which time the whole question of policy with rospect to future dealings with foreign debtors will be considered. FIVE NEGRO CHILDREN ARE BURNED TO DEATH Oranbe. Va., Feb. 14. ? Five ne gro children of Richmond Poindex ter were burned to death in their home herg last night. Polndexter and the sixth child escaped by Jumping from a window. MIDSHIPMEN FAIL Annapolis, February 14. ? -One hundred and three midshipmen were forced to resign yesterday frcin the Naval Academy when they failed to pass their mid year examinations. There were no seniors in the list. 1J2TT OPf WITH COHTS FOIl PAHSING HAD CHBCK Arthur Padgett, in the recorder*}* court Thursday for passing a worth less check, was let off with costs on payment of ' the check. Friends Of Warren Active In Behalf Of His Candidacy They Rrlirvr Hp Would Make Reputation in ('.oitRrciw Kqun! to Thai of Claud Kitchin and Will Leave Nothing Un done to Seenre lli* Nomination in Primary Ity J. A. OSIIOKNF Washington. Feb. 14. ? The an nouncement that Lindsay C. Warren In a candidate for Congreas while joccasi/nlng no real surprise, will at I once oe taken by hls'ho*t of friends In the First Congressional District fH tie signal to show their activity In hli behalf. It means that onk;cte4 to tft* Senate and mm chairman of the Committee oft rules and, 4:40 President Pro Tom pore of that body. fie was h mem ber ct the General Assembly In 1921, but in 1(28 becam" a member ol th'* House, nnd though serving his first term in chat body became the chairman of the powerful and im portant Commltte of Judiciary No. 1. It being one of the very few In stances where a man serving his first term was Accorded such an honor. He ( had no opponltlon In his party daring the three terms In the Genersl Assembly. It was due to his conspicuous service In the law , making body of the State that Mr. Warren obtained a State wide rep utatlon. As n parliamentarian and presiding officer he Is unexcelled, and along with Francis D. Winston a?d Walter Murphy ne Is regarded as one of the best wlelders of the gftvel that the .State has produced. As ?* floor leader In all the crest fight* hat cam* befc/re the General As sembly. his fighting qualities, tac tics and knowledge of the subjects, excited the admiration of all. Lind say Warren la one of the ablest and beat students of government In North Carolina today, and tb^se ? ?? -- - . u I. 1 -? . ll . ? ? Herrin Singing Swan Song Of The Illinois Frontier Singing It Hather Kattcously, It Is True, and Altogether Out of Time, but Capital of Bloody Williamson Is Singing Just the Same n>- J. I?. YODKIt ComUM. IM4. fcr Th? Advanc# v ' Herrin, Ills., Feb. 14.-?Bloody Williamson County will re tain its uneviable name just so long as the unorganized majority of merchants, bankers and merely home folks continue to exercise their right of franchise nonchalantly or not at all. AUTO PRICES ON UPWARD TREND But Advance Slight And Made To Cover Such Re finements as Balloon Tires And Four Wheel Brakes By J. C. KOYLE (Coyri?ht. IM4. By TM A5 f. o. b. JackBon. The new price of the roadster is $7fl5, of the coupe $1,075 and of the sedan $1,1 35. The volume of sales so far this year seem to have had dimparatlvQly little to do with the upward price tendency. The Olds works are a part of the General Mo tors Corporation and that company sold inoro than 66,\)00 cars of its various types in January As to the trend of sabs for the trade in general, nothing is more significant than the results of the Twin Cities automobile show which ended last week. Th(r-deal?*rs and buyers who were attracted to this exhibition covered the territory sup posed to have been most severely stricken by agricultural depression. Yet the winter and spring sales which were developed by this show are fixed by officials at $20,000,000 on a basis of retail orders and ag ency contracts. This total includes $2,000,000 worth of sales actually made on the show floor. The re mainder Is covered by orders given by Northwestern dealers. Total production of cars and trucks In January totalled 343,000, an increase of 41 per cent over Jan uary, 1923. There Is every indica tion this figure will rise well above 350,000 this month. The number of workers employed in the Detroit factories is at a record level. There still existii a feeling of un-! certainty In regard to the tire situa tion. Dealers have been waiting to see Just how the public would tak.? to balloon tlrea before stocking heavily. They have feared to lay in j heavy supplies of the old high pres sure tires for fear there would be a widespread trend* toward the bal loons, and* have been equally afrnld to stock the low pressure type for fear car owners would not go to the expense of changing tires all around when it came time for replacements. The announcement Just made by makers, however, that car owners will not have to discard their pres ent wheels and rims, to which th ? first balloon could not be attached, has had an Immediate and wide-; spread effect. Tire makers now have made It possible to equip present wheel? with balloon tires. Two large manufacturers now are offering two nets of these tires as standard, on > for use with the regular wheels and r>no for the aprvlal wheels being placed on th?? new cars. Fnder this system, the Ford, Chevrolet and Ov erland ulr.e wheel ? 30 by 3 ? will lake a balloon size 31 by 4 1-10 inches. while the ordinary 33 by 4'^ Inch wheel will take a 34 x 5 77-100 Inch low pressure tire. Shies of crude rubber have In creased this month, according to Fred II. Peterson, a large dealer here. The amount of rubber In the old snd new type? does not material ly differ, he explained today, but fac tories art busy turning out tlrea of both types. The activity of the automobile manufacturers Is having a stimulat ing effect on the ateel Industry, and operations In the Youngstown, Shar on and Valley district? were In creased thla week. However, mapv- steel m*n would fe?i far easlef when the age agroe fiicnt now under consideration by tfc operators and mine workera of the ' central competitive field at Jacksonville Is settled In spite of the conciliatory attitude shown by each ?1de at the opening meeting?. '? V. f , I)r Wfllto m Porlrer lafi Th..f?U. That fact is perfectly obvious to an observer after even a brief delving into a condition of af fairs that has twice in six weeks, and four times in some thing over a year, brought the state's armed forces down 'here to plant machine guns in win dows and on street cornets and to patrol the streets with bayo nets fixed. It lias been so long a case of "let George do it.'* that George, liring in a county that Is the Breathltt/Coun ty of Illinois, and that was Indeed founded chiefly from the better ele ment of that erstwhile gun toting Kentucky community, that Georgo began to swagger about with a gun on his hip and imagine himself im mune. Naturally trouble followed. The fact was discovered by Major General Foreman, In charge of the militia, before he had been here 24 hours and he is today holding con ferences with leaders of the hereto fore unorganized majority in tha hope of evolving a civil government that will be stable and effective un til an election can go to the root of the disease with a real cure. There is no question that C. Glenn Young, the young crusading raider, whose hobby of law enforcement aniountH to an obsession, did mucn toward alleviating a bad situation. But there was too much factional ism, prejudice and individual ag grandisement In the method of his fervid followers. True, the calling in of Young to clean up Williamson County was similar in many ways to Philadelphia's, drafting of General Smedley Butler, but In one essential particular it was different. The constituted authority of Phil adelphia employed Butler. Here, a faction of more or less direct action citizens, most of them Ku Klux Klansmen, took the government In their hands and set up Young as a sort of super-authority. Younglsm couldn't Inst, and Young said so to the writer in Chicago hock 1n Decem ber. Nor can military rule last, as General Foreman Is today telling prominent business inen throughout the country, at the charge of sK* thousand dollars a day for the coun ty. Because employment of Youn^c was really seizure of authority it was vulnerable to successful opposi tion and attack by the very elements against whom the better government efforts were directed. Dozens of bus iness and professional men frankly (Continued on page 2.) MINSTREL KEVUE If*\ " KEMAKKABLE SUCCESS. The S. R. O. sign could have been hung out at the high school auditor ium Wednesday night at the first performance of the Minstrel Revue The show was all that could be de sired In the way of harmonious mel ody. and the nt w songs made a de cided hit. each singer being applaud ed for an encore. Little Miss Rennlo Williams charmed the audience with her graceful and artistic dancing and the sketch that followed was very amus ing. A great deal of new talent was seen in the revue and the audlenco was surprised and pleased by the good VOlCer*. Miss Katherlne Skinner wan the first on the program, singing "Lov ey Came Back" In a very plefcslng manner. This was followed by "8a v It With ft UMlttl" by Mrn. J B. Venters. Gulrkln Cook, who Is a favorite with th" public, sang "It's a Man*' In his usual style. Mlfts liuth White bfouaht down the house with her rendition Of "I've Got a Cross- Eyed Papa" and had to respond to sftVeral ' ncores. "KchoolUme" sung by Miss Pauline Skinner and assisted by the Rompwr Girls was a'very pretty number and received appreciative applause. The next number was "Big Blond Mam ma of Mind" by Conrad Carl. "Some Day You'll Cry Orer Somebody Klse" was sweetly sung by MIm Mnry Louise Skinner. Bddl*? Paull was a scream In "Cla-W?nce." Aonther at arream In "Clr.-Wenc*\" Another at Wllllam*. "Hsnpy and Go Lucky In My Kentucky Home." Mary Fearing then saws: "It's Not the FIMt Time You Left Me." The audience showed their appreciation by much applause, The last and prettiest number was beautifully sung by Mrs. Mac McMul lan. As she sane "When the Light* are Low," four little a*rli In plght Ica and with HgMet! candles came on the frtaae and nurrounded her. All kneit as the chorus was sung.