North Carolina Newspapers

? ? * THE WEATHER -ot-bi ? nm\ i? * Partly cloudy tonight ? Efc^pSjSfcSSfew^^^ * CIRCULATION * * ednesday, becom- fil l ^JtrSlf^l^1(11^1(^11 ^^\)lRlClclV^lDlDlDlt>l^/ * Monday * ing unsettled. Mild lent- * 1^* 1,3 W Copies * perature; gentle winds. * - * ?????*** iS * * ? ********* VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1924. EIGHT PAGES. NO. 108. AGAIN WILL HAVE MOTORCYCLE COP County Commissioners* Take Action at Monday Meeting After Lively Discussion of Reckless Driving. Pasquotank County is again to have a motorcycle officer.* After a lively discussion at the regular session held at the couit house Monday the County Commip siqners voted to procure an officer whose duty it will be to ride the roads leading into Elizabeth City from all directions, restraining speeders and when occasion arises haling reckless drivers before a mag istrate. The motion was made by Commis sioner J. C. Thompson of Nixonton, who made a strong plea for a motor cycle officer. Mr. Thompson said he believes It the duty of the Com missioners to provide protection on the roads from reckless and intoxi cated drivers and warned that un less something was done to curb speeding that a serious accident per haps resulting in the loss of life, would be the Inevitable result. "Churches complain of the contin ual roar of speeding automobiles by their doors," said Mr. Thompson. "Most any Su.iday afternoon you can see from eight to 10 automobiles with every person in them drunk. They feel that they cannot get drunk in town so they go to the country to drink." Chairman Burfoot agreed with J Mr. Thompson that some protection I 1s needed but he deplored the inabil ity of the speed officers employed by the County in the past to make ar rests that resulted in fines. He also said that the State allows autolsts to "speed" when it Axes the limit of travel at 30 miles an hour. "What good does it do,' 'asked Mr. Burfoot to spend the County's money to have arrests made when they are brought up here convicted, then let off with the costs?" There was some discussion as to whether 30 miles an hour is fact. One commissioner thought on a straightaway road it is not so very fast, but another Interpolated the re mark that It Is as fast as the Nor folk Southern trains run. Many mo torists make much better than 30 miles an hour, however, as It was testified that a number have been going from Elizabeth City to Nor folk In one hour and 15 minutes, while on short stretches commission ers said they have seen automobiles going up to 70 miles an hour. Some one suggested that the board 1 send to Norfolk for a man who could I be recommended to them. This brought up the recent upsets in th^j Norfolk police force and there was some apprehension lest a similar ex perience with officers in league with the bootleggers be met with in this County. However, it Is belfevQfl that a man frbm out of town will In all probabllty be employed. There Was very little objection to the proposal on a trial basis and thej motion carried with but one dissent ing vote. An officer will be employed and if he proves satisfactory he wiil i be kept In the employ of the County until September 1, at which time his record and the results of his activ ity will be considered with a view to making it a permanent arrangement. "We are golnjfc to instruct this cop when he goes on duty." says Mr. Burfoot, "that he 1b to give his en tire attention to securing better ob servance of traffic regulations, and that he Is not to concern himself with enforcement of the dry laws or consider himself the guardian of puOllc morality save In the matter of speeding or other violations of the State's traffic laws." RELATIVES TO ERECT . MONUMENT TO PERRY, Permission was granted by the County Commissioners Monday to the relatives of Seth M. Perry. Pas quotank County soldier killed In Frunce as a member of the Amerl-1 can Expeditionary Forces, to erect1 a monument at his grave In the j Courthouse square. At one time It was planned to j erect a monument at the Perry grave i for the Pasquotank County soldiers. As this has apparently been neglect ed the relatives of the young man} wish to place a fitting marker at his grave. Bohhed Hair Rand it Is Sentcncrd to Prison 'Now York. May 6.?Cella Noon ay. New York's bobbed hair bandit.* and her husband were declared sane, yesterday and having pleaded guilty were sentenced today to between 10 and 20 years imprisonment. FIXBRAL MR*. LICK Richmond. May 6.? Funeral ser-l vice* for Mrs. Mary Tabb nolllnK i Lee. widow of Major General W. H. j F. Lee and daughter-in-law of Gen eral Robert E. Lee, will be held from ' St. Paul's Episcopal Church at four| o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The body will then be taken to Lexington where brief services will be conduct-! ed In Washington and Lee chapel and interment made in the mauso leum where the body of the Confed erate leader Is resting. Mrs. Lee was born In Petersburg August 20. 18474 She died la her suite at a ho tel last night, after a week's Illness. SERIOUS FIKE IN W ASHINGTON, N. C l<i?* K*tlmnte<! at HI50,(NN) In Wire Hum \Va>hlntfion l>i'|mrtmcnt To Loral I'ire C hief Fire was raging in Washington. N. C\, when the Norfolk Southern passenger train passed through that city between three and four o'clock this morning, according to passen gers arriving here Tuesday morning. At least one store was in flames and the hotel there was threatened, passengers said. The fire is reported to have got ten beyond the control of the Washington Fire Department and aid was asked from nearby cities. Jerome Flora dispatched a wire to the Washington Fire Department Tuesday morning offering the assis tance of the local Fire Department. Mr. Flora received a reply about noon Tuesday stating that the Are was brought under control at 5 a. m. and that damage done was estimat ed al $50,000. WEEKSVILLE HIGH ADDS EIGHT ROOMS Moses Palmer of Elisabeth City was awarded the contract Monday for constructing an addition to the Weeksville High School. Four bids were received by the County Board of Education at its monthly meeting Monday. Mr. Pal mer's bid was for (17.450. The oth ers were: W. T. Gregory of Norfolk $23,250, B. F. Went* of Norfolk $20,968.75. Pamfllls Contracting Company of Baltimore $18,800. Mr. Palmer expects to begin work' at once. Although the high school was only built last summer this ad-! dition Is already needed to take care of the Increase In attendance. The popularity of the new high school has exceeded the expectations of ev en its most optimistic advocates. The addition contemplat?d pro vides eight new class rooms with a new water system and other con veniences . J. M. LeRoy Is chairman and M. -P. Jennings Is secretary of the board of education under whose I guidance the new addition Is planned. SOUTH CAROLINA IS STRONG FOR McADOO Columbia. S. C., May 6,?While a number of counties sent unlnstruct ed delegations tb state conventions yesterday McAdoo sentiment pre vailed and he was endorsed by some counties and pledged to by others with the probability that the state j convention will endorse his candi dacy. MAJOR MARTIN IS SEEN IN AIRPLANE Cordova, Alaska, May 6?Reports received here last night indicated that Major Martin Vad been seen in his airplane in a deserted section of I the Behrlng Sea and additional, searching parties left at once for that territory. CHOWAN ASSOCIATION MEETING AT BETHEL The Chowan Baptist Association convened at Bethel Baptist Church In Perquimans County Tuesday morning with a number of people In attendance from Elizabeth City and from the rural churches near here. DOHENY'S SON IS REFORE GRAND JURY, Washington, May f>.? Edward L.I Doheny, Jr., son of th?> lessee of Na-( eal Reserve, No. 1 In California, was! today called before the grand Jury! investigating the charges oj fraud and corruption In connection with I the naval oil leasm. He was In the ( grand Jury Just eight minutes and | then was directed to remain within j call. FOIt KXI'KN'HKH IIKI.VTIVK TO I ITIM'HAKIC DISMAL HWAMP The City Council Monday night ap propriated $150 as expense money for the Chamber of Commerce In connection with noceasary work In' Washington before the House and! Senate relative to the purchase by the Oovernment of the Dismal' Swamp canal. I)r. 8. H. Templeman. J. T. Mc Cabe. P. H. Williams and J. C. B.J Khrlnghaus represented the Cham ber of Commerce In asking for the! appropriation which the council, granted. C OTTON MAMKKT New York, May 6?Cotton futures opened this morning at the follow ing levels: May 49.75; July 27.93;' October 24.35; December 23.72; January 23.40. At two p. m. futures were quoted as follows: May 29.78; July 28.04; October 24 35; December 23.75;. January 23.50. New York. May 6 ? Spot cotton closed steady this afternoon, ad vancing 20 points. Middling 30.25.' Futures closed at I the following levels: May 29.89; July 28.SS; October 24.60; December 23.89; January 23.?0. ISAYS AMENDMENTS ARE UNDESIRABLE (loolidge Lets It he Known That Hp Doesn't Like What Senate Has Done to the Ta%( Bill. Washington, May 6?Presidcnt'l Coolldge let it be known today that he regards as very undesirable some of the amendments made to the tax! bill in the Senate. The amendments viewed by him I as particularly undesirable are those relating to the taxation of corpora-' lions and to the publicity of income , tax returns. Washington, May 6.?Senate R*?- i publican organization leaders got toi work In earnest today in an attempt! to line up a majority on a compro-j mise for the Democratic income tax | schedule substituted In the revenue i bill yesterday for the Mellon rates. ! Chairman Smoot of the finance committee in charge of the bill de clared he would propose a compro-1 mlse on surtax rates when the meas ure is brought up for final passage.! He will offer a maximum rate of 30 { per cent, he said, and then If nec-. essary 32 per cent. * Washington. May 6.?WTlth the1 aid of some insurgent Republicans | the Simmons fncome tax rates and j surtax rates were Inserted Into the' revenue bill yesterday by the Senate . and the Mellon rates went down in defeat* I PEACE IS RESTORED IN HONDURAS AGAIN i Washington, May 6.?A treaty be tween warring factions in Honduras was signed yesterday, restoring, peace to that country. JURY I.I8T FOR JI NK Following is the Jury list for the June term of superior court for the trial of civil cases which couvenos June 9 and last two weeks: O. A. Flora. H. C. Palmer, M. G. Owens, J. H. Munden, W. L. John son. F. H. Venters, B. L. Stevens, T. M. Hollowell, G. F. Homer, Geo. C. Smith, Oscar Jackson. A. J. Scott, C. S. Amstrongs. E. . Sample. Alon zo Reld, J. W. Price, Jos. Connery, Charles Jennings, E. T. White, J. W. Edney. T. N. Commander, C. R. Ful cher. L. E. Hurdle, N. O. Morris, H. G. Reld, W. H. Jennings, J. L. Ran horti, Chas. Sawyer, M. B. Sawyer. Geo. Winslow, M. L. Britt, J. M. Pike, C. P. Harris, N. P. Jennings, J. A. Jennings. 'M. L. Palmer, H. M. James, W. 'P. Comstock, W. S. Brothers, J. E. Jones, C. P. White, V. E. Gregory. C. E. Ward, A. B. Price, G. M. Morris. C. A. Ownley, W. T. Carter. M. W. Lister. STORK Ml'BT NOT HAVE PORCHES OVER HII>EWALK A motion to permit C. J. Ward and L. W. Ballance to complete porches to their buildings which ex tend over the sidewalk waH lost at the regular meeting of the City Council Monday night. A new ordinance was passed the first of this year by the present ad ministration making 4t unlawful to erect porches to buildings which ex tend over the sidewalk. C. J. Ward had started the erect Ion of his store on North Road street and G. W. Ballance had planned a building on Riverside Drive when the* ordinance was passed. Both buildings are now under construc tion and Mr. Ward and Mr. Ballance asked for 'permission to complete their porches. While the council voted down the motion to complete the buildings with porches over the sidewnlk. It voted a reimbursement to both par ties for the expense already incurred. PLANET MEKOJRY TO PASS OVER SlIN Williams Hay. Wis., May 6?The planet Mercury will pass slowly ov i the sun on the afternoon of May 7, a',>p<aring as a small black dot on Its brilliant surface when viewed with a proper telescopp. but It will he Invisible to the naked eye. an nounces Kdwln B. Frost, director of Ynrkos Observatory here. Since 1910 mercury has crossed the I sun 40 times. On May 7 It will be rila8XO.OOO miles from the earth and Its angular diameter projort*?d up on the sun will be about one hun jdred and sixtieth that of th* sun. At 3:42.6 minutes, central time, the 'edge of the planet will touch the northeastern edge at a point of fi8 | degrees from the north point of the run's disk. It will occur within the IBams minute for the whole country, j but the hour will be 4 p. m.? for re i pious using Eastern time. 2 p. m. for Mountain time and 1 p. m. for Pa cific time. Three minutes later ! Mercury's Image will fafl wholly ujJ ? on thp sun. It will thereafter move ? southwesterly across the sun at the I rate of one diameter of Mercury In .every lhr*p minutes. The end of the transit will be observed In Alas ka that evening and In Asia early th*? next morning. Professor Frost explained that the planet Venus also makes such tran sits but have occurred but five times since th** Invention of the tel escope. The Isit two were In 1874 and 1882 and the next pair will be In 2004 and S012. EMERGENCIES AKE MUCH TCK) FREQUENTj Seven-seven-seven is the number of the Elizabeth City emergency P? lio- telephone. Perhaps because the number sticks easily in one's memory 7 77 has come to b?' the number that a good many people use when they call the police, whether there is any emergency or not. The result is that more than one member of the force has hot footed it a half block or more to the emer-i gency telephone nt the corner of I Main and Polndexter streets to pet a call to come out in some part of town on a trivial matter. Sometimes | the caller does not even say what is wanted and thinking, by reason ?f < the fact that the call has come in! over the emergency phone, that an J emergency really exists, a police of ficer rushes to a remote part of the| city to find that the only trouble is I that some resident wants a dead cat! removed from the sidewalk. Instances of this sort have come to happen so often that Chief Gregory is issuing an appeal to the public generally not to call the emergency phone except in case of an emergen cy. The number of police headquar-| ters is 778, and this is the number that should be called. BAILEY WILL SPEAK THURSDAY NIGHT J. W. Bailey of Raleigh, candidate for Governor, will be In the city Thursday and wii speak at the court house Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, j The public is cordially Invited. DEMAND LOCKWOOD MAKE EXPLANATIONS Washington, May 6?The demand that George Lockwood. secretary of tHe Republican National Committee, be called to explain his attacks "on | this body" was made in the Senate' today by Democratic Leader Robin son. FIGHT RESUMED ON SECRETARY MELLON Washington, May 6? The fight over the investigation of the Inter nal Revenue Bureau and Secretary ?Mellon was suddenly resumed on the Senate floor today with Republican organization leaders indicating that they are not disposed to further object to a continuation of the in quiry. COOLIDGE BELIEVES REPORTS UNFOUNDED Washington, May 6.?Allegations of serious deterioration of the Am-1 erican naval strength are regarded i as generally unfounded by President CooHdge. EL PASO BANK FAII.S TO OPEN ITS DOORS E! Paso, Texas. May 6.?The El Paso City National Rank, one of the Southwest's largest Institutions, failed today to open its doors. THINKS VETERANS' BUREAU ALL RIGHT Washington, May f>.?Coolidge Is not convinced that anything is radi cally wrong with the administration of the Veterans' Bureau despite the complaint made to the White House and the charges in the Senate by Od die Nevada, Republican member of the special committee investigating the bureau. JOB'S WORK Ui:< (HrM/KI) Secretary Job of the Chamber of Commercn was voted $150 by the' County Commissioners Monday for' his efforts in regard to the purchase of the Dismal Swamp canal by the Government. iMAY NOT AIIJOURN BEFORE CONVENTIONS I Washington. May 6?Democratic {leaders of the Senate today derided In conference that there Is too' | much Important legislation remain ing undisposed of to determine at i this time whether an adjournment, jof Congress before the national po ] 1ftleal conventions would he wls??. III SINKSS HI N M V. us HAND TO MOt'TH IIASIH 8t. Louis. May 6.? (Special) ?' production and consumption con tinue large in this district and un derlying conditions show little sign of change, but tii?* btislnffM situa tion Is uneven and buying Is hesi tant, particularly on goods for future delivery. There Is a growing dispo sition among merchants to ftll their requirement* from month to month owing to diminishing confidence and prlr?- unc< rtaintv. Msnufiirt ur? r ? are buying materials accordingly. Iron and ttccl nnd WH0 other com modities are tending downward In price. The International Shoe Com pany has cut prices 3 to 5 per cent, and excess of production may result In closing of some factories until ?ales Increase. PARKF.R APPOINTED Norfolk, May 8?Lout* R. Park er ?>? yeaterdar appointed Immigra tion Inapector (or Wilmington. North Carolina. Labor Seeking To Abolish U. S. Railroad Labor Board Han Lined U|> Solidly Behind the I low ell-BurUey Bill and Presidential Veto in ("awe Measure Passes Both Houses of ("ongress Seems Doubtful ny DAVID I.AWRF.NCE <C*pyrl?ht. 1*24. By The Advancr) Washington, May 5.?Organized labor has lined up solidly behind the IIowell-Barkley bill, which proposes to abolish the United States Railroad Labor Board and substitute for it a board of mediation and conciliation. Friends of President Coolidge have been saying- in the last few days that he would veto the bill, but there is a general misunder standing about its provisions and if it should pass both houses I of Congress a veto may be said! to be doubtful. The writer erruneously staled n few days ago that the Howell-Hark - ley plan would eliminate the repre sentatives of the public and leave railway disputes to be decided by the Interested parties. The truth Is the representatives of the employers and employes will alone constitute the membership of the four national ad justment boards which are to settle grievances and conflicts of Interpre tations on rules, llut the principal body, to be known as the board of mediation and conciliation, will con sist of five members, all of whom will represent the public. This is di rectly In line with the recommenda tion of the late 1'resldent Harding. For, at present, the Railroad Labor Hoard consists of three representa tives of the railways, three of labor and three of the public. This means that three men. representing the public, usually have the deciding vote as almost invariably the parties at Interest Influence the votes of their representatives. To cure this weakness, the representatives of the employers and employes will appear before the board of mediation as ad vocates and pleaders for their re spective causes and the judgment iwlll be rendered by five impartial Judges. The four nationrj adjustment boards are not to assume Jurisdic tion over disputes unless the ein I Ployers or employes make appllca I tlon. This means that If the so called company unions and the rail way employers can adjust working conditions and wages between them selves, the adjustment boards will not come Into the picture at all. There are certain company unions which are objecting to the Howell Barkley bill on the ground that it Is unnecessary, but the ndvocr.tes of the measure say that a long list of labor organizations do wan* sucli tribunals and the bill proposes to give them the machinery for adjust ment which they seek. The Ilowell-ltarkley hill combines many of the features of the N. .viand act. the Krdman net nnd the present transportation act. It has. however. Introduced one Important change which has been the basis oi c.pposl tl->n by railway employers. Ii pro hibits the employe from Interferr Inc In the selection of representa tives or from controlling the organ izations of employes so as to dictate the selection of employe representa tives. This has been Inserted to over come the embarrassments encoun tered by the present United States Railroad I.abor Hoard In determin ing exactly who actually represents the employes on certain railroad sys tems. It Is the outcropping of the old light as between the national la bor organizations like the American Federation of I,abor and such a un ion as has been fostered by the Penn sylvania Railroad for Its own em ployes. On the Pennsylvania nobody can represent the workmen In a dis pute except persons actually on the Pennsylvania's payroll. The principal weakness of the present transportation net has been the failure of the parties at Interest to form the local adjustment boards provided by law. These organisa tions were left to voluntary action by the employers and employes, ru der the Howell-IJarkley bill, the ad justment hoard* would he Oovern inent Institutions nnd therefore the minor grievances and disputes which have piled high the cases before the 1 nlted States Railroad Labor Hoard would be diminished because they would, so to speak, be settled hy the lower tribunals. One of the objections to the hill said to emanate from the White House Is the appropriation of $500. 000 for the expenses of the new ma chinery. The proponents of the bill point out that 1400,000 Is now being spent under the transportation act and that the additional 1100,000 Is good Insurance against another rail way strike, particularly since the last one is estimated to have cost the Ooverninent about 12,000,OOu, while the railroads are known to have spent many times that sum themselves In fighting It. The proposed hill provides nbo\K 1100.000 for the maintenance of the 1 board of mediation and conciliation thus saving between $250,000 and 1300,000 over the cost of the present labor board, which saving would* be expended In the expenses of the four national adjustment boards. Fullv 15,000,000 la appropriated annuallv by Congress for the Interstate Com MANY TO ATTEND ATLANTA MEETING From Every Section of Soutli and Southwest Baptists Will Gather on the Fourteenth of May Atlanta. Ga., May 6. ? From ?T ! pry section of the South and South west large delegations are planning to attend the Southern Baptist Con vention here on May 14, according to advices that have been received I by the local entertainment commit tee. Approximately a dozen trains and scores of special Pullmans havo ' been engaged to bring the messen gers. and the attendance is expected to reach at least 7,000, It was stated. One of the facts contributing to a large attendance is the wide spread interest among the consti tuents of the denominations gener ally in the important matters that will claim attention at this year's session, it was pointed out. The convention's first major busl- j ness will be the consideration of pluns for the completion of the "76,- J 000,000 Campaign." which will hold ?j right of way on the first afternoon, , following the organization and the ! convention sermon, which will be I preached by Dr. Flnley F. Gibson, of I Louisville, Ky., at the flTSt morning session. Dr. O. E. Bryan, stewardship and budget director, and Dr. L. R. Scar- , borough, general director, will pre sent reports showing what the cam paign has accomplished to date and then the convention will plan the most effective means for the com pletion of the task during the re maining months of 1924. As results of the Increased col lections this year it Is predicted that the heavy debts on the home and foreign mission boards will be ma terially reduced. If not wiped out. altogether, and the whole work of the denomination Is expected to be set forward considerably as a re sult of the convention's deliberation. A committee appointed a year ago | to recommend certain changes In the I activities of some of the general boards and agencies, looking to a closer correlation of the conven tion's activities Is planning to rec ommend the turning over to the Edu cation Board the system of 35 moun | tain mission schools heretofore op erated by the Home Mission Board In Atlanta, along with the work of the Intra-Board Comintjflion In stu dent activities and representation of the convention In ilic niwly estab lished theological seminary for ne groes at Nashville. The committee. It was said, will also recommend the establishment of a department of church finance by the Baptist Sunday School Board at Nashville with a view to a more vigorous prosecution of the doctrine 1 of stewardship and the installation by the churches of regular budgets. The next program In behalf of . missions, education, and benevo I lenco that will follow the comple tion of the $75,000,000 Campaign will claim large attention from the messengers. Is thought, and a large ! rem ni It tee Is now formulating defl , nite. recommendations for the j*res t a tat urn to I ho body. I It was announced that plans are t being ade to broadcast the services of the convention In order that many thousands of Baptists who do not at tend In person njay have the oppor tunity to listen In on the proceed i Ings. MORE MONEY FOR 1WKJH j Considerable moneV was voted to owners of poultry and she^yi killed j by dogs by the County Commissioners at their meeting Monday. A. W. Stanton received $45 for sheep; E. JJ. I*ayUen, $10.25 for turkeys; W. F. I Brlckhouse the value of three sheep; and John Moore $6.50 for poultry. merce Commission so. relatively speakln*. the amount needed to keep peace between railways and their employes Is not as large as the sum needed to regulate disputes between the railways and shippers. Several of the railroads are luke warm In their opposition to the bill but certain roads which have alway# fought the present labor board and Its decisions are working tooth an<! nail to bent the bill or force a Presi dential veto. It looks as If some ac tion will be taken on It before ad journment or a filibuster against ad-, Journment may be started, for the Democrats and Insurgent Republi cans sre In the main In sympathy with the proposal.