? ***???? * THE WEATHER * Partly cloudy tonight * and Sunday. Not much * change in temperature. * Moderate winds. ******** ******* m *? CIRCULATION Saturday 2,475 Copies ******* VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1924. EIGHT PAGES. NO. 130. President Coolidge Will Sign Democratic Tax Bill For Campaign Reasons?If for No Other?-Chief Execu tive Cannot Afford to Hold Up Bill That Immediately Reduces Income Taxes Twenty-five Per Cent n> DAVID LAWRENCE It2?. By TH? Advanc*) Washington, May 30.?President Coolidge will sign the new tax bill which has been passed by both houses of Congress. There is no longer any uncertainty about it. Effective at once?June 15 when the next payment on in come taxes is due?everybody will be permitted to deduct 25 per cent of taxes due. Also all transactions since January 1 of this year will come under the provisions of the new law when J taxpayers make out their re- J turns next March. The President will accompany the j new tax bill with a statement point ing out that the measure ta an lm- j provement over the present law In j that it reduces taxes lor all. On the I other hand, to be consistent, the ? President must express his dlsatis-1 taction, that the bill does not ac complish what the plan of Secretary o( the Treasury Mellon originally proposed. Some features of the new 1 bill he will particularly disapprove but again Mr. Coolidge will My what he did when he signed the Immigra tion bill that because there la no wa 1 to disapprove a particular sec tion without vetoing an entire bill he must accept the good with the bad. For campaign purposes, too Mr. Coolidge la obligated to profess great satisfaction over the" reduction In taxes which the measure grunts. Tax revision is tbe outstanding accom plishment of the legislative session this year. The Republican parly must be In u position to claim credit for the revision and that's why a statement by Mr. Coolidge pouring too much cold water on the new bill would not be politically effective. The Democrats are getting ready anyhow to claim that tbe bill la thelr'a since Its main provlalons were redrafted by 8enator Simmons and Representative Oarner. The I Democrats will point out that were I It not for tbem the tax reduction | for the greatest number of cltlxens' would not have been so great. The President by his statement will pave the way for further efforts to Improve the tax bill and be will be In a position to recommend a re peal of objectionable sections next December particularly and If he should be elected his recommenda tions would carry extra weight. To compute tbe tax reduction | which becomes Immediately avall-j able, the individual simply sub-'j tracta what he already has paid from j the sum that should have been duoj If the twenty-flve per cent decrease I had been effective last March when I Mr. Coolidge asked Congress to enact: a Joint resolution coveting 1128 ln-l comes. In other words if a taxpay er owed the government $1200 In tax originally, the twenty five per-; cent reduction would have made htsj . tax bill only $(00. But since he has paid a quarter of his taxes In March 1 ?namely $300?that sum is to be 1 deducted from the revised t*x total of $900 a balance of $$00 to be paid In the three remaining periods of the year. On June IS, therefore he would pay only $200 and on Sep tember 16 another $200 and finally j on December IS the last $200. Were| It not for the complications pro-| duced by the belated passage of the1 twenty-five percent redaction, this] tax bill would have been dlvlsable Into four instalments of $226 each. The politicians are counting con siderably on the fact that this re duction effect during campaign year.. The Republican perhaps are even j more optimistic. They feel that aa] soon as the tax bill Is signed and the1 country knowa what It's payments, this year and next year are to be a cloud of uncertainty will be removed from the whole business and econo mic situation and that In the case of budgets for the current year ma ny Individuals will find themselves with s fourth of their Income taxes virtually saved to them. This will load no doubt to expenditures of all kinds which should stlmnlat* the wBole mercantile world. < OIX>RBD BAAKRAIX GAME HKRB MWfDAT AFTKRJfOON _____ I The Cape Charles Olants , colored. I 1 Cape Charles, Va., one of the faat colored teama la the South will roes bats with th? R. City Olants londay afternoon at (our o'clock >n the Roanoke dlamoad. This team jraa defeated by Klliabeth City Fri day afternoon try the score of 7 to 1. m BODY GIRL IS FOUND IN LAFAYETTE RIVEK Norfolk. May 31.?The body of 1 the seventeen year old daughter. Vlr | ginla Jones, high school student, was recovered this afternoon from the Lafayette river. Father and friends said she threatened to jump into the ; river every time subject of her I bobbed hair was mentioned. Re cently they said she imagined It ; looked "terrible." CLARK BOUND OVER TO SUPERIOR COURT | E. E. Clark, 45-year-old bachelor. I was bound over to the Superior Court on four warrants charging se jrlous offenses under bond of $1,250 | in each case, Saturday morning. Clark made no statement other than | to request the bond be made $3,500 | Instead of the total of $5,000. Judge ! Spence denied the request. The court room was packed at the preliminary hearing. Two little girls testified against him, verifying state ments made to Mrs. Anna Lewis which ed to his arrest on Wednes day evening. The prosecution was conducted by W. L. Cohoon and T. J. Markham in addition to P. G. Sawyer, Coifnty prosecutor. Mrs. Lewis accompanied the little girls to court and sat near them dur ing the trial. Both girls are slight I ly built and are not developed be iyond their years. I It is not expected that Clark will be able to make bond. He appeared I at the preliminary hearing without counsel. MAL DAUGHERTY RKIiKAHED Washington, May 31. ? Federal Judge Cochran today granted the ap pllcal of Mai Daugherty of Washing ton Courthouse, Ohio for a writ of , habeos corpus releasing him from i the custody of an assistant sergeant [at arms of the United States Senate who had arrested him on a contempt i warrant. I AVE . J>4VIJi LIVINGSTONE DV PICTURES HERE SUNDAY On Sunday night at Christ Church there will be given by lecture and stereopticon views, the life of David Livingstone, together with special slides ordered of beautiful land and waterscapes all colored like the orig inal. Livingstone Is one of the world's great men, not only because of science but as a man among men and his example as such Is well worth following. Among the many pictures to be shown will be the fol lowing?Glasgow Cathedral, A Na tive Village In Darkest Africa, The ?Native Market, Mamasal Warriors, Ugumba Idols, Shipping Ivory, Branding Slaves. The Evening Mys tery, The Moon at Midnight, Every Cloud a Shop of Olory, The Curfew Tolls The Knell of Parting Day. The Junior Choir will have charge of the music. IS CRITICAIJiY ILL The family of J. P. Kramer of thin city have gone to Norfolk to be at his bedside at 8t. Vincents Hospital In that city. (News was received here (this morning that Mr. Kramer's con dition was critical. SCOUT CAMPAIGN STARTS MONDAY Citizens Inlrreitrd Asked to Attend Meeting at Chamber of Commerce Rooms Mon day Night at 8 O'clock. Elisabeth City people who are In terested In Scout work for the home town are aaked to be present at a meeting called by Scoutmaster Scat Itergood at the Chamber of Commerce rooms at 8 o'clock Monday night. I The purpose of the meeting Is to plan for putting on an active cam paign In Elisabeth City In tha Inter lest of Scout work. | The actWItlaa of Scout In Ellsa Ibeth City last summer and spring has created considerable local Inter I eat and pride In the organisation land Scout work thla atimmer la ex pected to be more extenalve than erer. I With Scoutmaster ScatteTgood a I group of. 10 Scouts took a rrulae .down tb? river Saturday afternoon i Dm " Scatter good.' Tornadoes Can't Stop Sunday School Tornadoes may sweep avray churches and houses, but 8unday school goes right*on Just the same?as witness this picture taken In Lawrence ville, Qa.. on the site of the Lite Baptist church. The organ was spared, and the youngsters with their goat and >)<>c go merrily ahead. LEOPOLD AND LOEB t CONFESS TO MURDER, Chief Justice Civerly IWUres "Thin. Morder I* Not Different from Any . Other" and C?*e Most be Tried Chicago, May 31.?State Attorney! Crowe today announced that Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb had j confessed that they kidnapped and j murdered 14-year-old Robert Franks,! son of Jacob Franks, retired million-1 aire manufacturer. They said they i planned a kidnapping last November, both through a spirit of adventure' and because they wanted $10,000. ransom they demanded, Crowe de-' clared. The youths said they deter-l mined upon no definite victim and that the kidnapping and murder of: Franks was merely Incidental. The, kidnapping was carried out In every, detail as planned, Including the vic-| tim's death, according to the attor-i ney general. Leopold and Loeb con fessed "the littl#* fellow was killed by a blow on the head and then strangled." Loeb Is the son of AUj bert Loeb. millionaire president of | Sears, Roebuck & Company. Leo pold's father is a wealthy box manu facturer. Crowe declared the youths said that they once had considered kid napping a son of Julius Rosenthal, internationally known philanthro pist, and head of Sears-Roebuck. Chief Justice Caverly of Criminal court speaking from Judicial stand point said "This murder is no dif ferent from any other. I shall urge that the case go to trial as speedily as possible. Within thirty days jus tice should be served." It was Leopold's spectacles found near the railroad culvert In which Prank's body was thrust that led to 1 the arrest of Leopold and Loeb. 11?KXXH\XVAMA HTATK COLLRGR MAY liK 8HORT A ItAIIJIOAD Oellefont, Penn., May 31.?(Spe cial)?The Pennsylvania 8tate Col lege may be cut off from railroad communication with the outride world as a result of a petition by the Bellolont Central Railroad for per mission to abandon its tracks from here to 8tate College, which cover a distance of 20 miles. On an air plane the college Is but 12 miles away. Free Million Dollar Home Is Without Single Occupant Andrew Freedman, Former Owner New York Ciantt, Said "Gentle-Folk Formerly Wealthy" Should Occupy Home and Director s Find Applicant* Mot Qualified By ROWLAND WOOD (C?firi|lit, 1*24. By TM A??m mixf 11.?"wanted: Impecunious gentle-folk, formerly wealthy; muat be willing to accept free maintenance In the atyle to which they have been accustomed." Directors of the Andrew Preed man Home have not yet got to the point of inserting this ad In the newspapers, but It begins to look as If they will have to before they suc ceed In filling the sumptuous cham bers of New York's newest and moat amazing benefaction. The Andrew Preedman Home, t erected at a cost of approximately a million and a quarter dollars .and j backed by an endowment fund of something like a million and a half more, formally opened its doora Men- \ day. Its larders are atocked with the rarest of delicacies. A high grade corps of servants waits, ready to movo In silent celerity at the beck and call of the Impecunious gentle folk. But so far, there Is not a qual-i If led gentleman or lady In the house. Now that there have not beeq ap plications In plenty. The directors' could have filled the 4S spacious bedrooui-and-bath suites a dozen times over with applications re ceived from New York rooming house land ladles?notorious as a I class for their stories of "better days." Thoiisanda upon thousand* of applications from every part of the country have piled up since the unique provision of Andrew Freed man's will, creating a l)ome for Im poverished gentlefolk, were broad cast to the world, back In 19It. But In all those seven years, not a corporal's guard of trnly gentle folk?at least, not In the eye* of the I directors?have put In their appli cations. It aeems that your trua| gentleman and your true lady take their pride with them, even when they descend to the most squalid of| slums, and cherish It as a never-to be-surrendered treaaure long after; they have parted with the laat of the family plat*. An active campaign now la ander way. however, to. locate deserving gentleUlk, aad the board of dlrdc ?I least ? --J who hare heard, or read ,of the An drew Freedinan Home, dismissed it as a fake. It sounds almost too good to be true. Others, perhaps, pictured It as a genteel "poorhouse," where the Inmates would be subjected to all kinds of restrictions. They were wrong In alther case. The honse Itself Is a mansion of gray limestones, done in pure French design. The Interiors were planned i>y one of New York's famous Inter ior decoratora. The 48 bedrooms are dona In 48 separate tonal effects and probably are as airy and comfortable as any their Intended occupants could boaat In their most opulent days. There la a push-button at ev ery bedside for the summoning of a servant. There are cardrooms, a li brary, a billiard room?everything that the moat perfectly appointed residence* of New York afford. There will be automobiles to take the guests for airings, to church?and to the opera if .they can find the means of obtaining tickets. There will bo mualoales and various enter tainments from time to time In the home. There will be aa few "rulea" as possible. Andrew Freedman's one Idea In leaving practically all his $5,000, 000 eatate aa he left It, was to pro vide comfort and happiness for "aged and indigent persons who have been In good circumstances, but by reaaon of adverse fortune, have be come poor and dependent." And tha directors, headed by Samuel Nnter myer. who waa a close friend of Mr. Freedman. are determined that his wishes shall be carried oat to the utmost. Why did Bluff Andrsw Freedman ?traction man, one-time owner of the New York Uianta and bacheior abont-town?make such s unique disposition of his fortune? That Is a question that sven his closest friends cannot answer satisfactorily. Rat Freed man seed to number many Wall Street speculators among his friends ,ln the daya when fort* it. LODGE DENIES CHARGES MADE BY GASTON MEANS Washington, May 31. ?,Sen,aloJ Lodge of Massachusetts today took the witness stand and made an ex plicit denial that he liad ever aided in the issue of expert liquor permits as indicated in the recent testimony of Oaston Means. The committee then heard A. L. Fink. the committee testimony with Roxio Stinson and he launched into a se ries which created a disturbance that had to be quieted by the police. K1WANIANS HOST TO SENIOR CLASS Forty-eight Seniors of High School Friday Join Kiwan iuns in Evening of Much Merry Making. The 48 members of the 1924 class of Elizabeth City High School were guests of the local Klwanls Club last night at a banquet given in the Red Men's Hall. The program opened with the en tire group sinning '"J* lowing which Kiwanian Daniel Lane pronounced the Invocation. Phil Sawyer, president of the Klwanls Club, then made a brief adJrf8? ? welcome to which Mlu Rachel WU Hams, president of the senior class, made an appropriate response. Ac cording to the Klwanls custom, the ladles of the Red Men's auxiliary or der began serving a delicious course dinner immediately following this formal opening. The seniors Joined heartily in the group singing which consisted principally of humorous parodies on some of the old favorite B? Tl'en began the funniest part of the program. The Klwanls president announced that some of the Klwan lans felt that the art of Putting on successful commencements had been lost and that therefore some of the members of the local club had de cided to stage a commencement mod pled along ancient and classic lines. First there was a declamation con test. Luther Cartwright made a brave effort, but the Judges decided that little Sammy Gregory was by far the best of the contestants Ki wanian Al Haley was then called up on to make a presentation speech In which he called to the attention of those present that because of his speech-making proclivities, Sammy Gregory Burely had "a great future behind him" and awarded him a beautiful floral tribute, which was a lovely head of cabbage. Then camo a debate, the chosen subject being, " -Tls Better to Have Loved and Lost Than Never to Have Loved at All. The affirmative side was composed of Patrick Henry Williams and Ern est Sawyer and the negative con tenders were Henry LeRoy, Sr., and Ed Burgess. The contestants were in dead earnest and in relating some personal reminiscences, Henry Le Roy made some mighty strong ap peals. He spoke with tears In his voice and his eloquence would have melted a heart of stone or penetrated a head of wood. The Judges unani mously declared King Henry I Le Roy to be the debater par excellenco and he was awarded the medal by Al Haley, who. In his speech of pre sentation. remarked that ^HenfTs long association with the '"J"'1" business had well qualified him to put out a "rich line." . ; Next came a speech by Claude WilllamH In which ho eulogized the | art of music and called to the atten tion of those present that "music | bath charms to soothe the beast." then rail*? iipon Daniel Lane, A. I). Combs, and Robert Cot ter to Join him In rendering "School Days" as a quartet selection In a manner that would make a tamo beast savage. After this. President Sawyer called upon J. K? nyon Wilson for a few words on the advisability of going to college n^xt yoar If posslbp. Dr. John Sallba then was called upon to ?peak about the doslrablUy of phy sical fitness. I)r. Samuel Templnnan then made a brief talk emphasizing the need of the world for Christian young men and women. The Havings Bank # Trust Com pany presented "silent boosts" to the seniors They consisted of vanity cases for the girls and clothes brush es for the boys. DKLIVKIIM JAPAXRMK I'llOTKMT WanhlnKlon, May 11.?Ambaaaa dor llanlhara, acting on Inatructlnna from his government, thin afternoon delivered to Secretary of State Hughea, the protent mad* by Toklo against the exclusion provision of the new Immigration aet. Neither the Ambaaaador or Secretary Hughea had any atatement to make. TWO-OA* MKKTIWI ri(IK