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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
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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.