?**?*?*? * ? THE WEATHER * Fair and continued cold * with frost tonight. Fair * and tcarmer Thursday. * Moderate to fresh u>ind? ******** CIRCULATION ? Tuesday _ * 2,500 Copies - * VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITr, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING. APRIL 2, 1924. EIGHT PAGES. NO. 79. Daugherty Retirement Is In His Favor Politically Evidence Is Thai Reaction of Sentiment in Ohio Will Make Him Delegate at Ldrge to Republican Convention on Understanding He'll Support Coolidge ? ______ ' ? By RORRRT T. RMALL (C*?rvl?kt ml. Br Tut ahum) 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 thie state has created a situation which is puzzling the politicians more than any condition with which they have had to deal in a gen eration. Odd as it may seem, the break between the President and the former Attorney General seems to ha*e strengthened Mr. Daugherty's chance of election. ? was freely predicted two weeks *???? Mr' wou.d b, ,?1 th# prlm*r? ballots this Just as he was In 1920 when r",u ??>?r.lN manager of the Harding Campaign for the nomina tion he was defeated In his ambi tion to represent the state at Chlca S'ncf h? w?? forced out of the S ' there has b?en a reaction which undeniably Is farorahU ?? SSpSffiSr-*" -Mr. Daigherty? nam? the par,>' the bailiff K *me aPP?*rs on ^ and beneath it la the Pledge to vote for Mr. Coolldge when The^ f^me?r Auo?neTGeneric ^."wenSihfp and loyl win Ms former chief and that he SSFw^arfse this!!! 1 ?hloans evidently bellev.. &s-Mn&ssswj SF2 ??sss^S5? flden.ly .>r,d.c..?r'thar,ehebye",w0CCJ,d from thii ! . ?ne delegate-at-larKe sas?t3?^ be ^defeatVd Harr^*^auSherty "would* areT^tCa00,!?t?re To^ . ZTTo ^firsts mmm "?1l ? ?n"h'7 Wl" "b" R v?p 'or ?sait: uVo^nlT^Z :^zv?x;ny n,ari ,o v?i" CoolM?? ? "? doubt but thnt the he' ahouM %!!? Zn ?lf'".'h"" briSf Ju"ch action 0^'?? , Idge supporters were nartlenl.riJ Asm ?c.^T^e?r.r? x rir?L I '??u"c h,m 1? erupt CooMdie *or*e?.f llr,D? nne ?">? ?he There Is no doubt that Harrv Daugherty has become quite * jorM. iVilmirf. n0 'loubt ihat a delegate ,0 th"Clero of . Siiy?'1"? h" "HI bo ?ven more to I kl'l,h0 ??therlng which Is \fr n l| ^ I? hid home ntato Hre fronf t'ha3,r2>f^lnmr"'V hl? life amM,fc?? b^eleeted'sTl" tlln Hnd'u*^uldn,tlonal <*>nv.n time hVUhfCr lt!" th? fact that he could nTw1"1h; honor four year! ago when TL i KK,"' ? ?" ?.VS,i ?glR&'JrTizssg?, ortya swan song and for that rJ?^n?" ?ome of hi. oldest en*mlea polities are silent Apparent!* thlt *r* that he should hare thl? sassssr *'"? ?"?? PILGRIM SHIP AFIRE (Br Tb? AMorititd Prvm) ? ? London. April 2.?Tta? Brit ish steamship Krangestan. 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, w^lch Is consuming the cargo of cotton in tty hold, is serious and is spreading. The Frangestan is being ac companied by other vessels and Is due at Port .Sudafr to morrow. NEGOTIATIONS ON FOR WHITE COAL City Council Committee Ap pointed Arrange Conference to Get Terms on Hydro Electric Power Here. Negotiations looking toward a , conference between the City Council | of Elizabeth City and representa tive* of the Viiwlnia Railway 6 Pow er Company,- froducert of hydro I electric current for Norfolk, Ports mouth and Suffolk, with a view to ascertaining the possibility and ex pediency of obtaining light and pow er from this source rather thaa lrorn a munlolpally owned steam power | electric plant, were initiated this 'week and are now under way. The committee from the City j Council which is conducting the ne I gotlations consists of Mayor W. Ben ! Goodwin. City Manager John Dray, | and Councllmen D. R. 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 j looked into. Preliminary report4, I he says, have been most encourag I ln^. There seems to be no reason I why Elizabeth City could not be tied (up 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 be tied up In a steam power I plant In Elizabeth City. For many weary months now Elis abeth C4ty has sought to find a way or make one to solve Its uflllty prob lems. The City Council has author ised 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, pow^r and sewer age to the city. The publlChas fret ted at the delay ffi the erection of municipal plants; but If It turns out that through the negotiations now on It Is found that Elizabeth City can get dependable continuous elec tric power service at a rate as Inw as or lower than this power could be produced In a municipally owned plant, the d"liiy would have redound ed to the real advantage of the city. FIIIK DKHTROTH IIOMK Hnrblneer, April 2 ? L. T. Hill of tliln place had the misfortune to lose hlK home and all his earthly posesslons hy fire here last Thurs day night. Nothing at all *?? saved. The people In the Tillage hare responded very liberally tn hit behalf. HI TI.KII HOM.OWKI.I, l>K,\n ' Wlnfall. April !. ? Butler iflil lowell died Wednesday night, March 2? after being alck for lam^ time with Bright disease. Mr. Hol lo wol I has lived In Perquimans County all of hla life except about two years In Vlrglola. He returned here this year aijd hla health has been falling for some time. He leaves a devoted wife, two children by second marriage and three by hla flrat, wife. The funernr waa at his home and h* waa bulled In the Cedar Orore cemetery. lilt Hi HT M"A YOlt RICHMOND Richmond, April 1.?Dr. Fulmer Bright waa elected mayor of Rich mond yesterday, defeating George Alnalee. who had held the office ainee 1*11. "Broadway's Angel" on Honeymoon J. Harold war vet of St. Hftersbur*. Fl*.. and ht? bride, who wa<Rh?ba Onu. Salvation Armv captain known a* the "Angel of Broadway." They were photo*raided among the palms at Onnond Beach. Fla. Harlan F. Stone Is , Attorney-General Washington. April 2.?Harlan Fiske Stone of New York has been selected by President Coolldge as At torney General. , Mr. Stone has served since 1910 as dean~of Columbia University law school and recently resigned to be come an active, member of a New York law Arm. % He la a Republican, but has never taken an active part in politics. COOLIDGE SEEKS TO SPEED LEGISLATION Washington,a April 2.?Means of speeding up legislation in the Senate were considered at a White House breakfast conference attended by a dozen Republican Senators today. President Coolldge went over with his guests the entire situation, and an endeavor waa map out a program for* tne remainder of tne session similar to that agreed upon by the Executive and Republican leaders of the House. MEETH JHl'KHDAY AFTERNOON The Woman's Club meets Thurs day afternoon at t)ie Linden Tea Room at 3:30. FLORIDA SPECIAL ENGINEER KILLED Richmond. April 2.?Engin eer Snedon was killed. Fire man Gravatt was seriously in jured. a dining car employe suffered at dislocated shoulder, and several passengers were badly shaken when the Atlan tic 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 tc Potomac tracks over which the train was running were torn up for several huhdred yards and traffic was completely blocked foy mauy hours. M.i ? ? ii i ? TOWN SWEPT BY FIRE. Tuchon, ^.Arizona, April 2.?Th? town of Benson, near here, was afire at midnight last night and several buildings had been destroyed by Are with the flames spreading rapidly and the destruction of the entire town apparently imminent. Wave Of Fanatacism Is Responsible For Crime - ? Unusual Number of Cases of Murder or .Self Mutilation in South for Last Few Months Can lie Traced to Morhid Reactions to Religious Appeals i w f lly ARTHUR PATTKltKOX ? <Coyrl?M. IW4. By Th? Atfvanc*) Atlanta, Ga., April 2.?Religious fanaticism la believed responsible for a number of murders and a ease of self-mutilation which have oc curred In the South recently. Quick action of surgeons and Ms own strong constitution are all that saved Herbert Tingle, a 17-year-old fann er boy of Locust Grove. Georgia, when he obeyed literally the Bibli cal Injunction: "If thy right hand offend thee* cuf It off." He laid his hand on a chop ping block and cut It off w;lth an axe, swinging the heavy blade nine times before he severed the bone and the flesh. % Two weeks before that. John Eva Winchester, an 18-year-old ulrl liv ing at Seffner. Florida, slew her father by stamping him upon the face and chest until she had tram pled the life out of him. ? Th ? ;;lrl acted at the command of her uot'i-l or, who declared that "Jesus ordered the death of Winchester because the devil was in him." Mince then, both have been tried. The mother we* committed to an Insane asylum and the daughter was released because It was shown that she was nctlng en tirely under her mother's directions At the time of the Wlneheste tragedy, the crimes o< ? Frank Mc Dowell, 19-year-old slayer of tils par ents and of hie two sisters. wer? Freeh In the public mind. He burned his two sisters to death at their home In Decatur, Georgia, and a year later to the day, killed his par ents In 8t. Petersburg. Florida, by fthootlng them'as they lay asleep In l>ed. He declared that he committed all these murdera.ln an effort to stone for the sin of cursing the Holy fihosl when he was a boy only 11 fears old. His wnlrd story was that ft* a child he blasphemed against the Holy Ghost because he found one lay that buttons were mlaelhg frfctn ? clean shtrt he meant to put on. Later, he heard a preacher declare that auch blasphemy was the unpar donable sin and could be expiated only through fire and blood. He In sisted that In burning his enters gnd shooting hit parent*, he was seeking auoh atonement. McDowell la In Jail at 0U?rwater, Florida, awaiting tri Herbert Tingle, the eighth grade I student who chopped off his own hand Is the son of a w^ll-to-do farm er. The family had gone to bed and Herbert vas supposed to bp asleep. Instead of sleeping, however, he crept silently through the backdoor Of the farm house to the woodshed. There he lit a lantern and hung it on a nail near the wood block. Then he picked up a heavy axe, placed Ms right hand palm down on-the blocK, and began to hack at his wrist. He struckfplne times, inflicting wound* that ranged from hid wrist to his el bow. With his hand hanging by a shred of skin, he ran Into the house, hold ing up the bleeding stump, and cried to his father and mother: "See. I've done It. If thy right hand offend thee, cut It ofT." Neither then nor while surgeons dressed his wound did he lose cons ciousness. He expn-ftsed no regret and refurfed to nay In what way his Hght hand offended. For weeks past he had been In the habit of taklq1; his Rlhje under his arm and goln* Into fhe woods to remain alone all day. ? The slaying of John Edwin Win cheater by his daughter, who was al so named John, Is unparalleled in the history of crime In Florida. The mother told the police she had l>een attending a serle*. of religious ser vices held by a healer evangelist and had become conlvnced that her hus band was posseased of the devil and that It was Jesus' command that he be killed. She and her daughter dragged the tick man out Into the yard, and there he was trampled to death aa though under the hoofs of cattle. ? "My daughter Is not to blame, ' the mother said "I commanded her to do It. I stood over her while ah* stamped my husband on thf fnee and chest for 30 minutes. 1 threat ened her If she showed th* least Man of relenting before he'was dead. Hhe i^ted for mercy, but I waa command ed fry Jetua to end hta life." 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 hi? bicycle, swept on 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 SHOULD BE TRIED Fonner Agent Department /Justice Charges 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 Daugli erty committee today that In his opinion Harry Daugherty, Secretary Weeks and others ought to be In-] dlctfd as a result of the conduct of j the Wright-Martin air craft case. The witness came to the Wright Martin case after he had renewed his charges regarding the sale of the Hosch Magneto Company and had declared that on the very day that the air ship Roma was destroyed he had tried to start on Inquiry of the Department of Justice Into that sub ject %ut had been blocked by W. J. Burns. SMITH SLIGHTLY IN LEAD McADOO Bui LaFollette in Own Slate Gets Two Votes to One for j Coolidgc* in Presidential | Primary. . Milwaukee, Awril 2.?At midnight the results of the Presidential pri mary in Wisconsin Indicated that LaFollette was leading Coolldge two to one for Republican delegates, while A1 Smith and W. G. McAdoo were running a close race for Dem ocratic delegates with Smith loss than 500 votes in* the lead. X? TWO FATALITIES IN BANK CAR HOLDUP Montreal, April 2.?Masked men lato yesterday opened Are on the money car of the Hank of Hochela ga. and escaped with $125,000 in cash, after a bank employe and one of the banditn had been killed. ONE MAN IS KILLED IN ELECTION FIGHT Chicago, April 2.?A municipal election In Chicago, a little town within Chicago, took a toll of one life and reunited In the wounding of three otherii; while several were bad ly beaten in general fighting at the polls. BESS CITY TO SEND DELEGATES SAVANNAH \ _____ The Elizabeth City Chamber of rorapfrcn, in co-operation with the Elizabeth City Merchants' AssorTa tlon. got squarely behind (he pro posal to send a delegation to the meetlr-; of the South Atlintlc Cois tul Highway Atnoclatlon In Savannah on April % at tho Coaatal Highway meeting in the Chamber of Com merce rooma Tueaday night. The purpose of th ? delegation la to work primary to bring the proposed hlnhwuy by route M through Elizabeth City. F.illing In that the Elizabeth delegation will fttfrnd with the Nowlwm, Washing ton and other Eastern Nirth Caro lina rifle* for Uo.n? 20 tlironirli thla 8taV? rather than Koute 40,i which la making a strenuous efforii to become a part of the highway. A delegation from Elizabeth City will present the matter to the meet ing* of the Chamber of Commerce at Hertford Wednesday night, an 1 I* 1*1 hoped that both Edenton and Hert-I ford will have delegations at Savan-, nab FIVE DIE IN BIG GKAND ItAI'lDS FIRE (Jrand RapM*. l/lehlga#, April S.I ?Five are dead and five others are Injured as a result of a Are which destroyed the Livingstone hotel hern laat night. Several missing, are alao Included In the casualties. l*OM('K ON MILK WAtiONH Ronton. April 2 (Hpeclal) ?Three hundred police have been detailed to ride milk wagons here to prevent any Intcrfaranc* from - striking Jrlvert. ON TO RALEIGH . ROTARY SLOGAN Members of Forty Clubs in This State and Virginia March on Raleigh for Dis- ' trict Meeting Thursday. Raleigh. April 2. ? Rotarlans of the Thirty-Seventh District, com prising clubs in forty cities of North Carollns and Virginia began to pour Into Raleigh today for the opening session of the district conference which opens here to-morrow morn ing at ten o'clock. Conference committees worked late last night and will work later tonight, they ssy. In preparation for the reception of other delegates to the conference Who will be arriving. O. Franklin Lens, of Newport News. Va.. District Oovenor is on hand for the opening meeting. Past District Governor^ who are expected for the meeting are uavia l?. aues. noanoae. Va.. Th/mas B. McAdams, Richmond Va., Howard B. Rondthaler, Rich mond, Va., Rogers W. Davis, Char lotte. N. C., Lewis Lvrln. Spartan burg. 8. C.t Joseph A. Turner, Hol 11ns. VS., Roger Moore, Wilming ton, N. C. Henry M. London, Legislative re ference Librarian for the State or North Carolina, and secretary of the Raleigh Club is Conference Secre tary; Dwlght F. Hetts Is Conference Treasurer and Josephus Daniels, Jr., is Conference Sergeant at arms. John A. Park, of Raleigh, wllb call the confetence to order at tear o'clock in the morning. More than a thousand Rotarlans 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 Q. Franklin L??nz will mafee the re sponse. ENGLAND IS BUYING CALIFORNIA FRUIT San Francisco, April 2?(Special) ?England ultimately will become the largest foreign purchaser of Cal ifornia fruits and foodstuffs, accord ing to William Davles, head of a large export and Import firm of Lon don. who Is here to arrange for tho direct shipment of a largo tonnage of products of .this state to Europe,-, ' In commenting oi\ the rapidly in creasing shipment!* of frestr" dried and canned fruits to England, he de clared this tendency wa? due to the ririffflh propensity to follow trade* marks in purchasing. California products, he said, had been success ful In popularizl?g thene trade marks and also In proving their quality. TAX COLUSOnONH INCHRAAK Wnwhlngton, April 2 ? March 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 $17,000,0.00 greater than collections In the same period last year. MKI.I.ON l>KNO#N(*K8 ItATKH Washington. . April 2?The In crenne In the estate tax rates made In the revenue bill by the Hou#e were denounced today by Secretary Mellon as "economle Hulclde." TIMC MANIFA<TIRK1W IH'SY Akron. April 2 ? The Goodrich Company now Is producing 22.000 tires a day, the Mohowk Company la reported to have doubled Its output and the Kelly Springfield Company iHtnaklng 1.600 a day. Between 6, 000 and 10.000 balloon 1lrea a day are holne: produced In the Akron district alone. MRU. MAIUiARKT HIM. MEAD Mrs. Margaret Hill died Tuesday night at 10:15 o'clock at her home 201 East fearing street after being In falling health for some time and confined to* her bed for the last ten wfeekrf. Mrs. Hill wns a native of Per quImnnH County and was born Octo ber 16, 1840 and was In the mllll nory business In this city for 45 years. ? Sho Is survived by three children. Miss 3. A. Parry and Jnmcs Hill of this city, and Mra. W. II. Trafton of Norfolk. There am six grand children: Margaret. James. Bvelyn, Helen and David Hill and William Trafton. The funeral will be conducted at the home Thursday afternoon at three o'clock by Dr. N. H. D. Wil son. pastor of the First Methodist Church. " MIIS. MOLklK O'NEAL DEAD Harbinger, April 2 ?- Mra. Mollle O'Neal died at her home Saturday morning, March 29. She had been and Invalid for the past five year* and was a great sufferer but seemed to .boar her sufferings with much patience. She leaves a mother, two slaters and three brothera to mourn her loss. 4'OTTO\ MARKET New York, April 2.-r-SDOt cotton e'loaed steady; middling 29.10. Fu tures closed at th* following levela: May 2*.98. July 27.90, October 84.?5. December 24.15, January 23.88. New York. April 2 ? Cotton fu tures opened this morning at tfce following level*;* May It.If; July 27.09; October 34.19; December 23 81; January 22.11.

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