********* * THE WEATHER * * Generally fair and cold? * * er tonight. Wednesday * * fair and u-armer. Fresh * * to strong winds. ********* Attend Chamber of Commerce Coastal Highway Meeting Tonight ******** CIRCULATION ? Monday * 2.508 Copies * ? VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1924. EIGHT PAGES. NO. 78. New Attorney General To Come From Middle West And Present Indications Favor Former Senator Judge William Kenyon of Iowa, Though Tactics of Some of Friends Tend to Embarrass President By-DA\1D lilWRKXCB (Copyright. IM4. By Tk? Ad*?nce) Washington, March 31.?President Coolidjje will ch'oose an Attorney General from the Middle West or West?and not from the East. This much has been decided upon though the individual who will fill all the requirements of the present situation has not yet been selected. The President Is giving consider ation to the geographical questions which enter Into the make-up of cab inets. He already has a member from Massachusetts in the Secretary of War. The Democrats have been getting ready to raise the cry of New England domination in the Govern ment since the speaker of the House and the chairmen* of several Impor tant committors come from Massa chusetts as does the Republican leader of the Senate. To add another man from Massa chusetts would, it is recognized, sim ply add ammunition to Mr. Cool ldge's opponents. Coupled with thlaj is the fact that Chief Justice Rugg of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, who would be chosen if anyone from i New England were taken,, woul-J hardly wish to take the Attorney; General's task at this time unless he i could look forward to an appoint ment to the Supreme Court of the United States and there is no telling just when the next vacancy will oc cur. The outgoing Attorney General came from the Middle West and it is natural that his successor should be chosen from the region West of the Alleghnnles. The radicals in the Republican party as well as some conservatives are clamoring for the appointment of Judge William S. Kenyon of Io wa, former member of the United States Senate. Unfortunately, these radicals have given the impression that they are dictating to the Presi dent. Some reports significantly in dicated that if Mr. Kenyon were ap pointed, the investigation of the De partment of Justice under Mr. Dauuherty's regime would be slowed down. Mr. Coolldge doesn't want to be in the position of purchasing im munity for any department of his administration. Then there is the fact that Judge Kenyon declined recently the Pres ident's offer of the post of Secretary of the Navy. Some people think he should have responded to a call for service Irrespective of personal con venience, and his argument then was that he was not temperamentally fitted for the position. What Mr. Coolldge wanted was not someoue to worry about battleships but about the efficient administration of the oil reserves of the country. Judge Kenyon, however, has spent his life In the legal profession. He was an Assistant Attorney General under the Taft administration. It was natural for him to wish to re main on the bench rather than take the Navy portfolio. While the President may not like some of the tactics of those who are pressing for Mr. Kenyon s appoint ment, he cannot fall to note that the demand is a significant show of strength and that to disappoint the radicals and particularly the farm bloc over which Kenyon presided when he was In the Senate, would be a severe blow. Indeed, It might be the Indirect cause of a nomination of Kenyon to the Presidency If Sen ator Ln Follette should nappon 10 bo too 111 to run. Some of the friends of President Coolidgo, recognizing Mr. Kenyon's remarkable strength In the Wont, a j strength due to hla conscientious ap-; plication to duty while In tho Son-i ate, are talking of him for tho Vlco Presldontlal nomination. In fact, It would ho most pleasing to Mr. Cool-1 Idgo to have Konyon as a running mate. Would tho Coolidgo admlnlstra-, tlon bo In a hotter position to draft Konyon for tho Vlco Presidency af ter he has sorvod for a few months j as Attorney Oonoral? This la one of tho questions being discussed In the Inner circles. Certainly the same reasoning which prompted Mr. Cool-' Idgo to offor tho Secretaryship of tho Navy to Judge Konyon Is bolng ap plied now?for ho carrlos conviction i In the West. And Mr. Coolldgo's : principal attack has come from the1 West. It Is tho battle ground of tho next campaign. At the moment Judco Konyon's candidacy for tho portfolio of Attorney Ooneral has awakened the Interest of so many members of the United States Sen ate who have written to the Presi dent or communicated their thoughts. ft> his advisers that unless somA on* also with exactly hla qualifications can he found Wtio will satisfy both ' wings of the Republican party, tho chan< es are still In favor of the ap pointment of the former Senator from Iowa. WKKK-KM> DHKHH HI'K4 IA!X We have arranged a special lot of drtaasa composed of snappy models of dotlrabls material, extraordinary Former War Lord Acquitted Treason Munich, Bavaria. April 1.? General Erich Ludendorff, German field marshall, was ac quitted of the charge of treas on for his part in the unsuc cessful revolt here last No vember. Adolph Hitler and former Chief of Police Phocner were convicted and each sentenced to five years imprisonment and fined 200 gold marks each. New Tea Room Has Successful Opening Large Crowd Present Well Pleased With New Quarters And Good Service The new Linden tea room opened at the Community Building Mon day evening with a delightful turkey dinner for its patrons. Not only did the committee from tho Woman's Club succeed in mak ing the move fiom the Elks Club to the Community Building as was an nounced. but decorations of flowers and pine and attractive curtains had been arranged for the first meal in the new quarters. Quite a large number of visitors as well as regular patrons of the Linden took supper at the new home for the tea room and expressed themselves as well pleased with everything in general. Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock the Woman's club will hold a meeting at the Tea Room. Re freshments will be served and a large attendance is desired. AGED PRISONER'S PLAN ESCAPE IS FRUSTRATED Richmond, April 1.?Dr. Asa Chamberlain, 69, under sentence of life imprisonment for the murder of his brother. Judge Albert Chamber lain, at the latter's home in Gooch land County in 1917, planned to es cape from the Virginia Penitentiary here last week it became known to day. The authorities learned of the plot, however, in time to prevent the aged prisoner from even getting his plot under way. , DENIES DEMOCRATS PROLONGING PROBES Washington, April 1.?Any dispo sition on the part of .Senate Demo crats to unduly prolong the present round of investigations was dis claimed today In a formal statement from Democratic Loader Robinson. YKttltO RBXT TO HOAOH VOn RKTIUiRHH DRIVING Wiley n.rown. colored. who figured In an automobile accident on the Xewland road aome weeks agf# wan given a three montha road sen tence on n charge of recklesa driv ing In police court Tuesday morn ing, hut hj noted an Appeal. On n chnrge of operating nn automobile without license he paid license tax and costs. l^oula Whitehead and W. F. Jen nings. two defendants who submit t?>d without coming into court to a charge of operating motor vehicles with defective lights, wore each let off with the costs. MANY INDICTMENTS BY PROHIBITION AGENTS Washington, April 1 ? The grand Jury InvestlgatInn violator* of the liquor law In tho Capitol City Inclined three United Stales Deputy .Marshall", together with several police officers. Pullman porters, stenographers and go-hetwcena, here today. All are alleged to he mixed up In the rum smuggling deal*. txmON MAItKKT New York, April 1 ? Spot cotton closed quiet this afternoon, declln* ing 10 points. Middling 28.SO. Futurea closed at the following levels: May 28.3(1 Jnly 27.35; October 24.40; December 14.04; January 21.71. New York. April 1.?Cotton fu ture* opened at the following level*: May 21.E0. July 27.32. October I4.lt Decern her 1* tl 7.n,..r? Merry 1 ime Had by All?But One! Here Is the way they execute people during Mexican revolutions. The victim is backed againit a wall, and then xiven a drink of Tequila. After he has had a good drink he is shot. WILSON AND PREK! WITNESSES TODAY Daugherty Activities in Nom inating Harding and in Hin dering Justice Theme in Senate Investigation. Washington. April 1.?Resuming its inquiry Into the story of an oil deal at the Chicago Republican Con vention in 1D20, the oil committee was told today by R. H. Wilson of Oklahoma of the "deal" by Jake Hamon, who was serving at that time as national committeeman for that state, which had put "our nom-j inatlon" of Warren O. Harding over, j Hamon was quoted as saying he had given $25,000 to Harry Daugh-| erty for the Harding campaign fund. Daugherty"s part in stopping the trial of the "MilUr Brothers" Indian land froud case in Oklahoma in the spring of 1921 was described to the Senate Daugherty investigating com mittee today by H. M. Prek, former ? United States attorney of the wes tern Oklahoma district. The case involved 10,000 acres of land valued at $50 an acre and Prek declared that when he had the case ready for trial he received a "per sonal" letter from Attorney General Daugherty directing that a continu ance of the case be taken till the fall term of court. Mpuiih Warrant Vacated New York. April 1.?Judge flar vin vacated today the bench war rants issued yesterday for Gascon B. Means and hit secretary. Elmer Karnecke, when they failed to ap pear for trial on indictments of conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act, and also remitted the $15,000 bail each was ordered to forfeit yes terday. * SEABOARD ISSUES BONDS Washington, April 1.?The Inter state Commerce Commlsalop . today authorized the Southern railway to Issue $6.600,000 in equipment trust certificates to be sold at 97.25 per cent o' par. INDICATE REDUCTION OF INCOME TAX Washington, April 1 ? The Se nate committee unanimously adopt ed the Hoi!*,, .neasure providing a 25 per" cent reduction 4n income taxes for 1923. If the bill passes thn Senate it will probably it become a law because the President favors it. Aydlett Not Asking For GriflTin Vole? in Chowan Edenton. April 1?E. F. Aydlett. of Elizabeth City, one of the five candidates for Congress in the First District, spoke in the court house Monday morning for an hour prior to the opening of Superior Court, before a fairly good crowd. He especially stated that he was not attempting to turn voters from Dr. Griffin, but there are always some who will not vote 'for one man. and these he asked to support him; also in the second primary, should Dr. Griffin not be in the race then, he asked for the support ot the people of this county. In discussing the issues* Mr. Ay dlett reiterated his platform for lower taxes, good roads and the sol diers' bonus, and stated that he be lieved that he had a right to nsk the voters for their support as he had not applied for political office before and felt he could serve the FlrnL District acceptably. DOCTOR NOT TELLING WHERE CAUGHT FISH Washington. X. C. April 1 ? Dr. Rhodes T. Gallagher, Is not only one of North Carolina's best dentists but he oxcellB in other things, especially with rod and reel. Early Monday morning he broke the news gently to Pete Davenport and Burley Cozxens that he had Just bagged 57 large speckled perch. When Pete, told by his countenance he was from Missouri, the doctor promptly informd him who had seen the string, mentioning quite a num ber of citizens whose veracity Pete and Burely could not qu^tlon. Al though Dr. Rhodes brought back the fish Pete has not as yet been In formed from what creek or hole they were caught. For reasons best known to himself the doctor is keeping the ?; ot to himself. He's wise. Package Tacks May Clear Name Dead Story Writer (jreuinwtantial Kvidfiicr When Ilia Body Wu? Found Point ed to Jekyll and Hyde Existence, hut Friend* Believe in His Innocence and Say They Will Prove It ny i<. c. OWEN (Copyright. 1924. By Th? Advance) unk'ann, uu, April l.?Home time within lh*? next 24 hours, a 10 pound package of broad headed tacks. of a somewhat peculiar de sign, la expected to swoop away th?i cloud of suspicion that hover* over the body of Homer Oneon Flint, widely known abort story writer, which waa found beneath an over turned automobile on a lonely road near hero Thursday. Should the expected materialize, |? will save Flint from golnic down In police annals as a member of the ll(?ratl who mixed banditry and bank robbery with fiction writing. Also, It will serve once more to point the old adage that some unwitting blunder always proves the nemesis of every criminal. Almost simultaneously with the discovery of the body of Flint, a taxlcab driver notified the police by telephone from a farm house several miles distant, that he had been held up and robbed of his money and his automobile by a lone well-dressed passenger, who, had hired the cab for a trip to a country road house. The taxlcab driver later Identified the overturned car as hla, and the body of Flint as that of the man who had robbed hint. landing credence to his story was an automatic pistol In Flint's overcoat pocket. There also was found in the car the ten pound package of tacks but no sign! JCKeil-Hyde exlft< nee on fli?? part or the young author Then relatives came forward and declared that Flint had left hi* home with $400 In hla posesslon. Only 91.41 wan found In hla pockets. The police became suspicious. InvoHtlgntiiiK tlie taxi cab driver, tho found that ho had twice been arrested on robbery) charges, once im the driver of a bandit car. They then re membered that a few week* ago 21 band of robbers had successfully thwarted purxuit after a Fresno j county bank hold-up by scattering tacka along tho road as they fled. Theae larks wore similar to the ones found in the wrecked car. It also developed that the tacka had been in the car before Flint hired it for the roadhouae trip. Attaches of the robbed Fresno bank viewed Flint's body and de clared it was not that of one of the robbers. Then they looked at the chauffeur and aald he looked like one of the band. The chauffeur, however, offered an alibi which has not been overturned. So far tho authorities have been unable to ahake the chauffeur's story that Flint held him up and then aped away to hla death over the aide of the precipitous road. District At torney Decote of Alameda County, declares hla emphatic belief Id Frlnt's Innoeence. however, and de clares a hunt aOw ts on for a third Shad Arriving In Thousand Box Lots E. R. Daniels Says Fishing is Bert in Years and Ice Plant is Needed Shad fishing in the beat la years, according to E. R. Daniels of Wan chese. president of the Globe Fish Company of Elizabeth City who waa in the city Tuesday. The water is fine and clear with salt water extending well into the sound, according to Mr. Daniels and the shad are coming in in large numbers this week. The vessels of the Globe Fish Company arriving Monday night brought approximately 1.000 boxes of shad and herring. The Pompano and the K. R. Daniels brought in about 350 boxes each, the Hattlc ; ('reef close to 200 boxes, while tho ; Schooner Flossie M. Mulr swelled lout the total. ' Captain Daniels, reported that j Charlie Daniels caught 1.000 sha* In one day. while A. C. Daniel! caught 1,100. Both are Wanchesc fishermen. Several other catches ol , close to 1,000 shad were made. Shipments of shad to varlout | points on Saturday after the arrival of the -boats Friday night totaled 11.020 boxes. New York received the j largest consignment, 455 boxes and | Philadelphia the second largest. 240. The business is now considered to be normal and better In some respects ,than In former years. | Captain Daniels reported that 175 | boxes were shipped to Morehead Ci ty this week on account of the lack , of boxes. | The need for an Ice plant to pro | dtice about 25 tons of Ice a day has I be?*n felt by the fishermen Cap tain Daniels said there Is a plant, at ; Manteo which produces about eight tons a day but this Is inadequate, in Ibis opinion. When the fish start I the e*itlre output of this plant Is cx I hausted In an hour or two, ho said. BOCND TO FRDKIUli (Ol'RT R. W. Garrett and Heywood Gar rett have boon bound over to Fed eral Court by IT. 8. Commlas Rloner Wilson under bonds of $300 each for alleged posesalon and dls llllng of splrltoua liquor at Moyock. The same charges have been pre ferred against J. R. Saunders and J. II. Winston who have been bound over und'-r bonds of $500 each by Commissioner Wilson. The com plaints wore all filed by A. L. Ash bourne Federal prohibition agent, and th** arresta were made by U. S. Marshall J. W. Wilcox. near Moyock* CITIES ON HI S ItOt'TKH CAN'T IMI'OHK MCRNHK St. Paul. April 1. ? (fly Consoli dated Press) ? Motor bus corpora tions in this state have been relieved of payment of license fees to rill, s and villages! through which they pass, by a decision of the Federal District Court. The verdict was handed down In a test case brought by the Jefferson Highway Transpor tation Company against the Munlel pnIlly of St. Cloud, and Involved the law passed by the last legislature Increasing the state tax on such rompanics from 2 1-2 to 10 per cent. CHAXGK IN rorilT DATUM The datea for sessions of the United States Court of Appeal* at Richmond has been changed to the second Tuesday In April and the third Wednesday In October. The old date* were the first Tuesdaya in February, May and November. The date for the session In Aahevllla has been changed from the first Tues day In July to the second Tuesday in June. These change* will take place yter the May term thla year according to Deputy Clerk Thomp son. SIINCI.AIK GIVES BOND Waahlngton, April 1.?District At torn*? Peyton Oarden *u notified todny that Harry Hlnclalr would come to Washington late today to ?It? bond to anawer when he la called to trial on the charge of con tempt growing out of hla refuaal to NORTH CAROLINA LAND OF PROMISE So Says M. L. Shipman of | North State in Acldreas Be fore North Carolina Society i of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa.. April 1.?North Carolina is the I*and of Promise and (Opportunity, declared M. L. Ship man. CnmnilMloiwr of I*ahor an?l | Printing of that State, speaking here 1 at the annual banquet of the North Carolina Society of- Philadelphia. Mr. .Shlpuian arrived here Monday after 1 noon In response to the invitation Iof Jacob S. Allen, president of the society and expected to return to hU I native State Tuesday. The story of North Carolina's progress in the past decado was told by the speaker to his fellow Tar heels. He asserted that It might well be Imagined that North Caro Tnawiuf and- IM the Garden of Eden.y Declaring that "tt m'W not his Inten tion to weary his auditors ylth a^ mass of statistics, the North Cafo-^ Una ofTlclal recounted In every-dav terms the progress of the Old North State in every line of Industry, edu cation. and progress of all kinds. He assorted that the State which a scor-3 or more of years ago had oeen re ferred to as backward had awakened and that it now Was possible for a man wishing to settle In the State to build his home, furnish It com pletely, buy every necessity and lux ury of life for his wife and children and yet not uo out of the products manufactured within the borders of the State to get everything needed for such a program. Asserting that the Atlantic washed Eastern borders of the State paid a vast annual tri bute to the State In products of the sea and coast,. he added that the broad valleys-of the Interior had de veloped Into one of the wonderful agricultural sections of the country; that the Eastern Piedmont section was the home of a hydro-electrical development that had made the pro gress of manufacturies possible and that the most priceless pearl of all I I to man was found in Its mountain |ous Western section?Health. And then, asserted the speaker, God ("planted a race of men within the borders of that commonwealth who have huildcd *a white and shining i highway more than 000 miles In length, linking the sea and moun tains in close and abiding affection." "When God made- the world," said the speaker In parfe "He left North Carolina for the final and complete manifestation of His goodness to man. For He placed in that com monwealth all the essential resourc es of an empire." Paying tribute to Philadelphia,. Mr. Shlpman asserted that "it seems to me that man has left but little undone to make It the most beauti ful and charming In all the world. You men and women of North Caro lina have done, are doing today and every day, your full share toward making this the home of civic right eousness, an/abiding place of all vir tues such ns this Cradle of Liberty should be." Introducing then his theme the speaker said "but I know that your spirit nnd your soul cry aloud with in you for your home State and for your home people. With this thought in mind, let me tell you something I of the opportunities that will be af ; forded you when you do come back and build your home again with u?. I ? ? ? ? North Carolina Is to day the healthiest State In the tTn ion as well as being today, per capi ta, the richest State between the Po I toniac and the Rio Grande. You will | build a home there among a people f?D per cent biologically Anglo-Sax i on." Ho declared that the banks of the State had available for the use of the people resources of nearly half a billion and that the forests of the I mountains furnished ninny millions iof dollars to the prosperity of the i State, the lumber being used for i home buildlnc throughout the State. Mr. Shlpuhin declared that North ;Carolina's tax rate was the lowest In the United States and that, foi* elec trical and other purpose the State had developed flf?0,000 horse power and that there remained to be har nessed a maximum potential horse power of more than two million. He asserted that this potential horse power meant great things for the fu ture of the State as through It the (Continued on Page Four) FEM?*RTTA f'OMKM TO HEAD TAllXm DEPARTMENT Alexander Fellcetta has arrived In Elizabeth City to take charge of the tailoring and fitting deptrt ment of D Walter Harris. Mr. FelJ retta has been employed by Ru dolph! and Wallace of Norfolk un til his sorvlces were secured by Mr. Harris. He Is unmarried. Jtfr. Harris went to considerable twvble to find and employ a man of Mr. Vellcetta's type to plsce at the head of his tailoring department. He has known Mr. Fellcetta for ysars and has heard reports of him from others In the trade, all Indicating that | he Is a most capable designer and fitter of men's clothing. STROMBOIJ ACTIVE Rome, April 1.?A violent ?ton occurred In th? volcano Strom boll on i ellr OR March ??..?