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VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1924. EIGHT PAGES. NO. 79.
Daugherty Retirement Is
In His Favor Politically
Evidence Is That Reaction of Sentiment in Ohio Will Make
Him Delegate at Large to Republican Convention
on Understanding He'll Support Coolidge
By RORKRT T. HMALL
(C??yrt?ht. 1824. By Th? Ad**r?c*>
Cleveland, 0., April 2.?Harry M. Daugherty's evident de
termination to continue as a candidate for delegate at large to
the Republican National Convention, on the Coolidge ticket in this
state has created a situation which is puzzling the politicians more
than any condition with which they have had to deal in a gen
erauon.
Odd as it may seem, the break
between the President and the
former Attorney General seems
to have strengthened Mr.
Daugherty's chance of election.
It was freely predicted two weeks
ago tliat Mr. Daugherty would be
"cut" on the primary ballots this
year Just as he wai in 1920 when
even as general \ manager of the
Harding Campaign for the nomina
tion he was defeated In his ambi
tion to represent the state at Chica
|- SO. ? ? I
Since he was forced out of the
Cabinet, there has been a reaction
which undeniably is favorable to
Mr. Daugherty, and many of those
who had announced they would vote
asainst him, say now that they will
give him this last honor which he
probably will ask from the party.
Mr. Daugherty's name appears on
the ballot and beneath it Is the
pledge to vote for Mr. Coolidge when
the convention meets in this city.
The former Attorney General recent
ly has stated that nothing has hap
pened td *nar his friendship and loy
alty to his former chief and that he
will serve hi.?f cause in Cleveland as
faithfully as if he were still a public
servant. Ohioans evidently believ<;
this to be a sincere statement and
they will support Mr. Daugherty ac
cordingly.
The Ohio primaries will be held
Tuesday. April 20, and the Coolidge
delegates are opposed by a Hiram
Johnson slate. The Johnson forcef
have not made a militant campaign
in the state as yet because Senator
Johnson, who is bearing the entire
brunt of the campaign himself, has
been too busy elsewhere. The Sena
tor probably will make a whirlwind
tour of Ohio just before the primary
date. His followers have been con
fidently predicting that they would
get at least one dclegate-at-large
from this" state and several district
delegates. Their prediction of one
delexate-at-larRe wan based on their
belief that Harry Daugherty would
be defeated.
The Coolidge campaign managers
are not a little worried over the
Daugherty situation for they have
sensed the populnr reaction which
seems to he based upon the belief
that having been permitted to enter
the investigation, the Attorney Gen
eral might have been permitted to
make some sort of defense before
* being ousted.
Yet the -action to Daugherty
does not ini? y the slightest reaction
against Pr .Ident Coolidge as a can
didate for the nomination. As a mat
ter of fact that will be no way in
which the friends of Daugherty
could show any resentment against
the President In the primary. A
vote for Daugherty will be a vote for
Coolidge. In order to vote against
Coolidge, it would be necessary for
a strictly Daugherty man to vote
against the latter.
Th*re is no doubt but that the
Coolidge managers would feel more
comfortable If Mr. Dadgherty were
off the ticket but they do not dare
openly to express the opinion that
he shouM resign, even if the brief
time before the primary permitted
such action on his part. The Cool
# id Re supporters were particularly
worried over the first reports from
Atlantic City that the former Attor
ney General was goin?r to deliver a
veritable broadsfde against his for
mer chief because of the unexpected
request for his resignation. Now that
the statement has appeared and has
Included a new pledge of loyalty to
Mr. Coolidge, much of the uneasiness
has disappeared. Harry Daugherty
Is a stormy petrel, however, In Ohio
politics, and the fear that something
may happen to cause him to erupt
aualn is an ever living one with the
Coolidge forces.
There is no doubt that Harry
Daugherty has become quite a local
hero and there Is also no doubt fhat
If elected a delegate to the Cleve
land convention he will he even tnor.
of a hero at the gathering which Is
to be held here in his home state
Mr. Daugherty 'ordinarily might re
tire from the rac*. but It has been
his life ambition to be elected a del
< -ratc-at-large to a national conven
tion. and It would seem that this
time he has hla beat chance, despite
the fact that he could not win the
honor four year* ago when he was
booming a favorite son for the nom
ination. '
There Is a disposition to regard
the primary race as Harry Daugh
erty's swan song and for that reason
some of his oldest enemies In state
politics are silent. Apparently they
are willing that he should have this
meed of comfort before passing Into
Political eclipse.
PILGRIM SHIP AFIRE
(Br The A??nrl?trd PrM.|,i
London, April 2.?The Brit
ish steamship Frangestan.
bound for Jeddah with 1,200
pilgrims on board. Is afire be
tween decks, according to a
Lloyd dispatch from Port Su
dan.
The fire. It is said, wjflch is
consuming the cargo of cotton
In thf hold, is serious and is
spreading.
The Frangestan is being ac
companied by other vessels
and is due at Tort .Sudafr to
morrow.
NEGOTIATIONS ON
FOR WHITE COAL
City Council Committer Ap
pointed Arrunge Conference
to Get Terms on Hydro
Electric Power Here.
Negotiations looking toward a
conference between th?* City Council
of Elizabeth City and representa
tives of the Vinglnia Railway & Pow
er Company,' producers of hydro
electric current for Norfolk. Ports
mouth and Sunolli. with a view to
ascertaining the possibility and ex
pediency of obtaining light and pow
er from this source rather than from
a municipally owned steam power
electric plant, were iuitiated this
week and are now under way.
The committee from the City
Council which is conducting the ne
gotiations consists of Mayor VV. Ben
C.oodwin, City Manager John Bray,
and Councllmen D. It. Kramer and
Miles W. Ferebee.
Credit for ,the Initiation of these
negotiations seems .to belong to
Councilman Ferebee, whose sugges
tion it was that a meeting of the
Council be called and the question
looked Into. Preliminary reports,
he says, have been most encourag
ing. There seems to be no reason
why Elizabeth City could not be tied
iup with the Virginia concern and
get current at a cheaper rate than
it could be produced at in a muni
cipally owned plant, to say nothing
of leaving for street paving and oth
er needed improvements money that
would he tied up in a steam power
plant In Elizabeth City.
For many weary months now Eliz
abeth City has sought to find a way
or make one to solve its utility prob
lems. The City Council has author
ized the Issue and sale of bonds to
this end. but the city's hands have
been tied by injunction suit after In
junction suit Instituted by the priv
ate corporation now supplying, after
a fashion, light, powyr and sewer
age to the city. The publltThns fret
ted at the delay rfi the erection of
municipal plants; but If it turns out1
that through the negotiations now;
on it is found that Elizabeth City'
can get dependable continuous elec
tric power service at a rate as low
as or lower 'than this power could
he produced in a municipally owned
plant, the d'.'lay would have redo-,levi
ed to the real advantage of th? city.
FlltE l>KHTIiOYH HOME
Harbinger, April 2 ? L. T. Hill
of this place had the misfortune to
lose his home and all his earthly
posesslons by fire here last Thurs
day night. Nothing at al! was
saved. Tlie people In the village
have responded very liberally In his
behalf.
lit TI.KIl IIOIXOWKM. !>K.\D
Winfall April 2. ? Butler Hol
lowell died Wednesday night,
March 2* after being sick for some\
time with Bright disease. Mr. Hol
lowed has lived In Perquimans
County nil of his life except about
two years In Virginia. He returned
here this year aijd his health has
been falling for some time. He
leaves a devoted wife, two children
hy second marriage and three by
his first wife. TTie funerar was at
his home and he was burled In the
Cedar Orove cemetery.
IKItlfiHT JfAYOIt ItlCHMO*!)
Richmond. April 2.?Dr. Fulmer
Bright was elected mayor of Rich
mond yesterday, defeatlna George
Alnslee. who had hekl the office
since 1912.
("Broadway's Ansel" on Honeymoon
J. Harold SomniT#. war vet of St. IVter?burg. Fin., and hi* bride,
who tt*a<Rh? ba Cr?*v V Salvation Armv captain known a* the "Angel
of Broadway." They ???re pholOKtapl.cd aiuons the palms at Or?non<I
Beach. Flo.
Harlan F. Stone Is
Attorney-General
Washington. April 2.?Harlan
Fiske Stone of New York has been
selected by President Coolidge as At
torney General.
Mr. Stone has served since 1910
as dean of Columbia University law
school and recently resigned to bo
come an active^ member of a New
York law firm. ' He is a Republican,
but has never taken an active part
In politics.
COOLIDGE SEEKS TO
SPEED LEGISLATION
Washington,c April 2.?Means of
speeding up legislation in the Senate
were considered at a White House
breakfast conference attended by a
dOten Republican Senators today. |
President Coolidge went over with
his guests the entire situation, and ]
an endeavor was uu^d&,Lp map out,
a program for the remainder of the
session similar to that agreed upon j
by the Executive and Republican
leaders of the House.
MEETS JHI KSDAY AFTERNOON' .
The Woman's Club meet* Thurs-|
day afternoon at tfce Linden Tea |
Room at 3:30.
FI.OHIDA SPECIAL
ENGINEER KILLED
Richmond, April 2.?Engin
eer Snedon was killed. Fire
man Gravatt was seriously in
jured. a dining car employe
suffered a% dislocated shoulder,
and several passengers were
badly shaken when the Atlan
tlc Coast Line Florida Special
was derailed near Woodford,
Virginia, today.
Snedon died almost instant
ly when the engine turned'
completely over and the eight
or ten coaches making up the
train left the tracks but re
mained upright. None of the
passengers were injured.
The cause of the derailment
is unknown. The Richmond,
Fredericksburg & Potomac
tracks over" which the train
was running were torn up for
several huhdred yards and
traffic was completely blocked
top many hours.
L. . ..
TOWN SWEPT BY FIKE
Taction. Arizona, April 2,?The
town of lienHon, near here, was afire
at midnight last night nnd several
buildings had been destroyed by fire
with the flames spreading rapidly
and the dentruction of the entire
town apparently imminent.
Wave Of Fanatacism Is
Responsible For Crime
UmiMiul Number of Ctwo of Murder or Self Mutilation in
South for I.u*t Few Months Can lie Traced to
Morbid Reactions to Kelijgiousi Apjx-ulH
ll> AltTIIt'lt PATTKItSON
(Copyright. 1934, By Tit* Atfvmct)
Atlanta. Ga., April 2.?Religious
fanaticism 1m believed responsible
for a number of murders and a caar
of aelf-mutllatlon which have oc
curred In the South recently. Quick
action of aurgeona and hla own
strong conatltutlon are all that saved
Herbert Tingle, a 17-year-old farm
er boy of Locust Grove, Georgia,
when ho obeyed literally the IJIbll
cal Injunction:
"If thy right hand offend thee, cut
It off." He laid hla hand on a chop
ping block and cut it off with an
axe, swinging the heavy blade nine
tinn'rt bofore he severed the bone
and the Arab.
Two we??ka before that. John Eva
Winchester, an 18-year-old virl liv
ing at SefTner. Florida, alew h'r alok
father by atamplng him upon the
faee and cheat until she had tram
pled tlie" life out of him. ? Th ? ?:lrl
acted at the command of her mot'i
er, who declared that "Jesus ordered
the death of Wlncheater because the
devil waa In him." Since then, both
have been tried. The mother
committed to an Insane a*ylum and
the daughter waa re)eaa<-d because
it waa ahown that ahe waa acting en
tirely under her mother'* directions
At tho time of the Wlncheate ?
tragedy, the crlmea of _ Frank Mc
Dowell, 19-year-old slayer of Ilia par
enta and of hla two alatera. Wer?
fresh In the public mind. He burned
hla two alatera to death at their
lip me In Decatur. Georgia, and a
year later to the day, killed hla par
ent* In St. Petersburg. Florida. by
shooting them a* they lay aaleep In
bed. He declared that ho committed
all tlieae murdera In an effort to
atone for the pin of curalng the Holy
Ghost when he waa a boy only 11
yeara old HI* weird atory waa that
as a child he blaaphemed agalnat the
Holy Ghoat becauae he found one
day that button* were miming from
a clean nhfrt he meant to put on.
Later, he heard a preacher declare
that *uch blaaphemy waa the unpar
donable aln and could be e&plsted
only through Are and blood. He In*
slated that In burning hla alatera and
shooting hi* parent*, he waa seeking
iHuoh atonement. McDowell Im In jail
[at Clwrwiter, Florida, awaiting trl
lal.
' Herbert Tingle, the eighth gradr
'student who chopped off his own
hand Is the Hon of a w?lll-to-do farm
or. The family had gone to bed nnd
I Herbert v.as auppos-d to be asleep.
I Instead of sleeping. however. h?
l crept silently through tin- backdoor
of the farm house to the woodshed.
[There he lit a lantern and hunt it
on a nail near the wood block. Then
ho picked up a heavy axe. placed Ms
right hand palm down on*the Mock.
and began to hack n' his wrist. He
struck ^nlne times, inflicting wounds
that ranged from his wrist to his el
bow.
With his hand hanging by m shred
of Bkln, he rnn Into the house, hold
ing up tho bleeding stump, and cried
to his father and mother:
"See, rVe done It. If thy right
hand offend thee, cut i: off."
Neither then nor while surgeons
d re sued his wound did be lose cons
clOuflnoas. Ho expressed no r? urot
and refused to say in wly*t wny his
H'^ht hand offended, for w- eks past
he had been in the habit of tnMij'x
bin llibje under bis arm and going
Into fhe woods to remain alone all
day. ?
The slaying of John Kdwin Win
chester by hlx daughter, who was wl
so named John. i? unparalleled in
the history of crime In Florida. The
mother told the police *h had been
attending a series of religious ser
vlcea held by a healer evangellit and
lad become conivnri-d that her hus
band was possessed of fh?? devil and
that It was Jesus' command thst he
he killed. 8b<* and her daughter
dragged the nick man out Into the
yard, and there he was trampled to
rfleath as though under the hoof* of
cattle. ?
"My daughter Is not to blr.ni". '
the mother Maid. "I commandod her
to do It. I stood over her while ah*
stamped my husband on the fice
and cheat for S# minute*. I Ukrent
ened her If she showed the leas? *lgn
of relenting before he'was dead. She
cried for mercy, but I was command
ed by Jeans to end hla lift.'*
CONDUCTOR KILLED
BY SPEEDING AUTO
Wilmington. N. C., April 2.
?Adrian Matthews, railroad
conductor, was killed last
night by a speeding automo
bile which, after knocking him
off his bicycle, sweptjon with
out a pause.
Later in the night. however.
H. A. Boyd and H. C. Spooner
were arrested, charged with
having been occupants of the
automobile when the conductor
was struck.
SAYS DAUGHERTY
SHOULDBE TRIED
Former Af{?*nt Department
Justice C.harjjes Criminal
Maladministration of Jus
tice Against Him.
Washington, April 2.?Continuing
his complaints about the failure of ,
the Department of Justice to prose-,
cute various wa# fraud cases. H. L.
|Scalfe, once an Investigator for th
Department, told the Senate Daugh
erty committee today that In h!s
opinion Harry Daugherty, S??cretary
Weeks and others ought to be in
dicted as a result of the conduct of
| the Wright-Martin air craft case,
i The witness came to the Weight
? Martin case after he had renewed
his charges regarding the sale of the
| Ilosch Magneto Company and had
j declared that on the very day that
: the air ship Iloma was destroyed he
i had tried to start oji inquiry of the
1 Department of Justice into that sub
ject Ihit had been blocked by W. J.
I Hums.
SMITH SLIGHTLY
INLEADMcADOO
But LuFollette in Own Stute
Gels Two Voles lo One for
(ioulidge in Presidential
| Primary.
J Milwaukee* April 2.?At midnight
the results of the Presidential prl
; mary in Wisconsin Indicated that
LaPolLette was leading Coolldge two
to one for Kepuhllcan delegates,
while A1 Smith and W. G. McAdoo
i were running a close race for Dem
ocratic delegates with Smith less
than 500 votes in- the lead.
x?
WC) FATALITIES IN
BANK CAR HOLDUP
Montreal. April 2.?Masked men
late yesterday opened fire on the;
money car of the Hank of Hochela
ga. and escaped with $125,000 in
cash, after a bnnk employe and onej
of- the bandits had been killed.
ONE MAN IS klLI.FI)
IN ELECTION FIGHT
Chicago, April 2. A municipal
| election In Chicago, a little town
1 within Chicago, look a toll of on?*
i life and resulted in the wounding of
, three others; while several were lmd
, ly beaten In general fluhtlng at the
polln.
BESS CITY TO SEND
DELEGATES SAVANNAH
>
The Elizabeth City Chamber of
f'omnterce. in co-operation with th?
Klliabeth City Merchant!*' AssocTa
tlon. got squarely behind tho pro
posal to send a delegation to the
nnetii"; of the South Atlantic Oois*
tal Highway AsHorlaflon In Savannah
on April at th<? CoaHtal Highway
meet In?* In the Chamber of Com
m< rcc rooms Tuisday night.
Th.-* purpose "f tit * delegation!
i^ to work primarily to iirlni; the
pinpo.-od blDbway by route .14
through Rlfft'ibeth City. Falling In,
th?it ihe EllcahiHli delegation will
stMid with the Ne,v!>'rn. Washing*
t"n and other Knt.?rn North Caro-j
IIti ? cities for Uo.n ? through
thl* 8taV" rather than Ttoutr 1ft.
which Is making a strenuous effor^l
to become a part of the highway.
A delegation from Kllr.nbeth City,
will present th*? matter to tho meet-}
ing-of the Chamber of Commerce a?
llerirord Wednesday nigh*, {-n 1 r l*j
hoped that both Kdenton md Hert-|
ford will have delegations at Savan-i
it a I*
FIVE DIE IN im;
(MIAMI KMMDS Mil!
(Irand Rapids, Michigan. April 2.i
?Five are dead and live others are;
Injured as a result of n Ore which j
destroyed the Livingstone hotel hern I
Isst night. Hovers I missing are alsoi
Included In thn casualties.
I
I'ObICK ?\ MILK WAtiONH I
Itoston. April 2 (Hpeclal) ?Throe
hundred police have bet?n detailed
to'ride milk wagons here to prevenl
any Interference from 'striking1
drivers.
ON TO RALEIGH
. ROTARY SLOGAN
Member* of Forty ('Julia in
Thin State and Virginia
March on Raleigh for Dis*- '
triet Meeting Thursday.
Raleigh. April 2. ? Rotarlans of
the Thirty-Seventh District, com
prising clubs In forty cities of North
I Carolina and Virginia began to pour
'into Raleigh today for the opening
session of the district conference
j which opens here to-morrow morn
ing at t?'n o'clock.
Conference committees worked
late last night and will work later
I tonight, they say. In preparation for
the reception of other delegates to
| the conference irfho will be arriving.
,G. Franklin Lenx. of Newport News.
Va.. District Oovenor Is on hand for
the opening meeting. Past District
Governor^ who are expected for the
meeting David L. Sites, Roanoke.
Va.. Th?7rias B. McAdams. Richmond
Va.t Howard B. Rondthaler, Rich
mond. Va.. Rogers \V. Davis, Char
lotte. N. C.. l^ewls Larrln, Spartan
burg, 8. C.. Joseph A. Turner. Hol
lin-s. \V. Roger Moore, Wilming
ton. N. C.
Henry M. London, Legislative re
ference Librarian for the State of
North Carolina, and secretary of the
Raleigh Club is Conference Secre
tary; Dwlght F. Belts is Conference
Treamrqr ami Joseph us Daniels. Jr..
is Conference Sergeant at arms.
John A. Park, of Raleigh, will/
call the confidence to order at ten
o'clock In the morning. More than
a thousand Rotarians including vis
itors and members of the Raleigh
Club, with ladies will be In atten
dance. Josephus Daniels, former
Secretary of the Navy, will deliver
the address of welcome. Governor
O. Franklin Lens will mafce the re
sponse.
ENGLAND IS BUYING
CALIFORNIA FRUIT
San Francisco, April 2? (Special)
England ultimately will beeoin*
the largest foreign purchaser of Cal
ifornia fruits and foodstuffs, accord
|lng to William Davles, head of a
i large export and import firm of Lon
don. who is here to arrange for tho
I direct shipment of a large tonnage
| of products of this state to Europe.
In commenting on the rapidly in
j creasing shipments of fresh,, dried
.and canned fruits to England, he de
'clared this tendency was due to the
ItrUlsh propensity to follow trade
marks in purchasing. California
products, he said, had been success
ful In popularlzl?g thone trade
marks and also in proving tlieir
quality.
TAX COLLKCTIOXH INTHRAME
Washington, April 2 ? Marcn
collections of income and profits
taxes, the bulk of the first quar
terly payment on last year's incomes
and profits. aggregated approx
imately $480,000,000 or $17,000,000
greater than collections In the same
period last year.
MKI.I.OX IlKVO^ VCK.S IIATKS
Washington, April 2?The In
crease in tin* estate tax rates made
In the revenue bill t?y the Houge
were denounced today by Secretary
M?ilon as "economic suicide."
TIRK MAXVFAITIRKIW III HY
Akron, April 2 ? The Goodrich
Company now Ih producing 22.000
tires a dny, the* Mohowk Company In
reported to have doubled Its output
and the Kelly Springfield Company
Umaklng 1.600 a diy. Between 5.
000 and 10.000 balloon tires a day
are beta* produced In the Akron
district alone.
MKS. MAIUiAHKT III I.I. I>K \l>
Mrs. Margaret Hill died Tuesday
nleht at 10:15 o'clock at her borne
201 1-2 a at Fearing street after MnK
In falling health for some time and
confined to* her bed for the Inst ten
i^eekrf.
.Mrs. Illll wis a native of Per
quImanH County and was born Octo
ber 16, 1X40 and wan In the milli
nery business In this city for 45
years. ? 8he Is survived by three
children Miss S. A. Perry and
James Illll of this city, and Mrs.
\V. J. Trafton of Norfolk. There
are six grand children: Margaret.
J-ini" . Hvelyn. Helen and David
lllil a lid William Trafton.
The funeral will be conducted at
the home Thurrfduy afternoon at
three o'clock by Dr. N. H D W11
*<in, imstor of the First Muthodlst
Church.
MIIM. MOIiUlK O'NKAIi DK.M>
Harbinger. April 2 ? - Mrs. Mollle
O'Neal died at her home Saturday
morning. March 29. She had been
and Invalid for the past five years
And was a great sufferer but seemed
to -bear her sufferings .^with much
patience. She leave* a mother, two
nisters and three brothers to mourn
her loss.
COTTON AfANKKT
t New York, April 2.?Spot cotton
closed steady; middling 29.10. Fu
tures closed at the following levels^
May 28.98. July 27.90, October
24.65, December 24.25, January
2n.#s.'
New York, April 2 ? Cotton fu
tures opened this morning at the
following levela: May 28.10; July
27.06; October 24.20; December
23.81; January 28.51.