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VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NOUTII CAROLINA. FRIDAY EVI NING. JUNE 13. 1924. EIGHT PAGES. NO. 141.
Dawes Running Mate
Of Calvin Coolidge
Cutilious. Silent. Imperturbable (!al llookril I p Willi Cliar
lev Dawes of 1 loll and Maria and Expert Keparations
Commission Fame as G. O. P. Ticket for 1921
t Br Tlir <: I
Cleveland, 0., June 13.?The campaign to elect Calvin Cool
idge to succeed himself and Charles (J. Dawes of Illinois to la
Vice President got formally under way today with the organiza
tion of a new Republican National Committee.
William Hodges of Denver.l
Colorado, was elected treasurer
of the committee, and the Pres
ident's selection of William
ler of Massachusetts to be N^-,l
tional chairman was ratified. Se-|
lections for the other offices
were as forecost.
The nomination of General
Dawes came after Frank Low
den of Illinois had been elected
by an overwhelming vote and
had declined the nomination,
something that had never hap
pened before in the party's his
tory.
Dawes was named on the third,
ballot, piling up 682H ballots
against 234 for Herbert Hoover. |
whose name appeared for the nrst'
time In the voting when Alabama
cast Its votes for him on that ballot.
Following failure to .elect Kenyon,
the convention late Thursday after
noon nominated Frank C. Lowden,
former Governor of Illinois, but Mr.
Lowden immediately refused the
nomination, whereupon the conven
tion took a recess until nine o clock.
It was at this session that General
Dawes, whose picturesque language
has earned him the sobriquet of
Hell and Maria, was nominated. Fol
lowing his nomination the conven
tion immediately adjourned.
Calvin Coolidge, Republican nom
inee for the Presidency, associated
Ills Influence both as President and
as the leader of Ills party, in endors
ing Judge Willis in S. Kenyon. for
mer member of the United States
Senate and head of the farm bloc, as
the man to be his running mate.
Strong opposition from Secretary
Mellon. Senators Reed and Pepper of
Pennsylvania and members of other
Eastern delegations, cropped up al
most Immediately and when the con
vention recessed for luncheon a
movement w?i afoot to persuade the
White House to adopt a passive at
titude and permit tho convention to
nominate Representative Sanders or
Indiana or Senator Curtis of Kansas.
?>r anybody else. The Inevitable split
between the progressives and regu
lars had come. "It's ordered from
the White House." remarked one
member of Congress known as a con
servative. as he announced his Inten
tion of supporting Kenyon.
The New York and New Jersey
delegations were spilt. Rumors were
current that Wisconsin might sup
port Kenyon for the Vice Presidency
in this convention and might even
i ndorse him on the third party ticket
if ho failed to get the nomination
here. He certainly had bean accept
able to the radicals In the past; In
fact, that Is what was causing the
regulars so much concern.
The prevailing belief here Is that
Senator Borah of Idaho, who had
urged Judge Kenyon from the start,
persuaded Calvin Coolidge In Wash
ington that he could not hope to
stop the I^aFollette movement In the
West any other way.
OUESTION WHETHER
REYNOLDS WITHDRAW
Raleigh, June 13.?The total re
ported tonight failed to make any
material change In the standing of
the candidates In last Saturday ? pri
J Second primaries, unless there
are withdrawals, will be necessary
to name the party nominee for Com
missioner of Agriculture, for Com
missioner of Labor and Printing and
for Attorney General.
A second primary will alio be ne
cessary In the race for the nomina
tion for I.iuetenant Governor unless
an agreement between Robert K
Reynolds and J. Elmer Long^ for
the lower one to withdraw
tog upon Reynolds, who Is trailing
Long now by 10,000 votes.
BANDITS MAKE BIG
HAUL IN NEW YORK
New Tork. June IS.?Three armed
bandit* bound Samuel Hahn. Jewel
?? and his salesman today, forced
Hahn to open his safe, stripped the
safe of its
fl*d. with loot valued at |43,t00.
A CORRWTIOX.
By error an Item appeared In this
newspaper yesterday ??*????
Howard J. Comb* would out of his
office for ths n?t ''VTT!,!. .^d
rAmka la not lMVilf tlllfl ?t 9 Md
LAFOLLETTK FIKES
HIS OPENING GUN
I By The AiMclitrd I'rm l
Madison. Wisconsin. June 13
?The present National admin
istration has "literally turned
its back upon the farmer."
Senator LaFollette declared in
a statement Issued today.
The Senator further de
clared that responsibility for
the "failure of the Sixty-eighth
Congress to meet the righteous
demand from the farmer for
necessary and effective legisla
tion will rest upon President
Coolidge."
WHITE TIGER IS
SLAINBY RAJAH
Pelt of Cunning Mankiller
Excites Great Interest When
Displayed at Calcutta l>y
1 Native Hunter.
Calcutta. June 13.?Sportsmen all
,over India are greatly Interested fu
the skin of a white tiger recently
.shot by the Maharaja of Sirguja and
j which is now on display here.
Except for a few darker striplng? |
the pelt is almost pure white anil
measures nine feet eight inchft* from
nose to tall tip. The white tiger la
extremely ran*, but few specimens
.ever having been secured, and this
I one Is reported to have had a career
of depredation that included three
'human victims and innumerable cat
tle.
According to reports from the dis
trict in which it was killed, the beast
actually appeared to use its unusual
coloration as an aid to hunting. It
was continually mistaken for a steor
or cow as it lay quietly among the
herds waiting a chance to kill, and
j the natives assert that It mixed free
1 ly with the herds without exciting
| alarm.
Three instances are related of th?*
tiger having been seen lying quietly
In the jungle and being mistaken
by natives for a beast It had slain,
jand in each of these cases when the
;native approached, he was killed.
DETENTION HOME IS
NOT AN INSTITUTION
"The Detention Homo which (ho
| good people of Pasquotank County
Rre about to Inaugural* to help
| those children coming under the di
rection of the Juvenile Court I* to
I be, first of all, a home, not a doten
|tlon Institution.
j "The children will not be Insti
tutionalized In Pasquotank County's
| Detention Home. It Is to be a Home
spelled with a capital H. It is to
be a temporary home where chil
dren will be sent by tho Juvenile
Court to be studied and their needs
found and kept only until a better
private home can be found for them.
"Private homes fitted for children
are extremely hard to find. If pri
vate homes could be found Immed
iately the child needs It then the
Detention Home would be forever
unnecessary The Detention Home
(Is not to be an "Institution.' It is
to be a temporary home, and tem
porary only until the Ideal home can
, be found.
"If the Pasquotank county peo
ple will respond by taking the Ju
venile Court offenders Into their
homes, which Is the Ideal way of
I handing this problem, then the ex
' pense and work of a Dentlon Home
for our county will be wholly unne
cessary.
Will the people of the county
adopt the substitute Ideal?the De
tention Home, or the real Ideal
taking these children Into their
homes?
The foregoing statement waa Is
sued Friday by the board of con
trol of the Pasquotank Detention
Home to correct any misapprehen
sion that may exist in the minds of
the people of the County as to the
purpose of this Home, which It I*
planned to open In this County with
in the next few wevka.
NKW K*<JI.AXD mimx hkix
j 8POTH TO BI T Kt'TfltKS
t Boaton. June 1|.? (Special.)
|New Kngland mills have resumed
i cotton on (he ground that
curtailment Indicates little um for
Itfc? staple this year. They are pro
mtm buying future*.
Mobs Storm His Faith Healings
Rev. Robert H. Bell. Denver, whose f.uth healing meeting* In New
York attracted mieh niohs of nick niul dl*aMed that the police hnd to be
called out to disperse near riot it. Women Tainted and crowds {ought lor
a place. Several thousand were te|?orted healed.
TRAIN BANDITS
MAKE BIG HAUL
Quarter million Dollar Haul
of Mail Taken in Holdup
That Reads Like Moving
Picture Scenario.
Chicago, June 13. ? In one of thei
biggest and most daring train rob-;
beries recorded in railroad history,!
four automobile loads of bandits;
last night held up the Chicago. Mil
waukee and St. Paul mail and ex- J
press train and escaped with the reg
istered mail, valued at close to two
million dollars.
Two of the robbers, who had con
cealed themselves aboard the train
before it left Chicago, forced the!
crew to stop 30 miles out at a spot
where two automobiles were lined
up on each side of the track. Then
when the clerks and guards refused
to open the door of the mail car the
bandits hurled chlorine gas bombs
through the windows and wh-.?n the
doors were opened the leader or the
bandits entered the car wearing a
gas mask, and threw out between
40 and 45 sacks of registered mail.)
and sped away In the darkness. In-;
vestigation revealed that only reg
istered mall had been touched.
81(2AH MAY CJO VP
N?*w Orleans. June 1.1.?(Special. )
?The sugar market has suddenly
galvanized activity with a good de
mand for refined. Consumers are
placing orders for future delivery for
the first time in fiO days, owing to
hot weather and possibility of fur
ther price advances. Refiners* stocks
and reserves of raw sugnr are lower
than usual.
WARREN APPRECIATES
SUPPORT OF FRIENDS
Washington, June 13.?In a state
ment given to the press today, Lind
say C. Warren, Democratic nominee;
for Congress to represent the First
Congressional District, says:
"Mere words are Inadequate to'
properly express my appreciation of
the magnificent support accorded me
in the recent primary. No man could
have more loyal or truer friends, and
I wish them to feel that I also have
the virtue of loyalty. My victory Is
not personal. All credit belongs to
hundreds of men snd women who
worked day and night In my behalf.;
That I may In a small degree justify
the faith and confidence of my
friends Is my single wish."
JAZZ FINALLY APPIIOVKD ItY
GERMAN DANCING TKAfHKIiH
Cassel, Germany, June 13. J.izzj
has been finally approved by th?
German Dancing Teachers' Assocla-,
tlon despite efforts of the conserva
tives who have fought desperately J
for several years to prevent the old J
time waltz from being crowded out.!
The radicals within the ranks of.
the association have been clainorini:
slnce 1921 for official recognition of
Jazz, and at this year's congress of]
the teachers in Cassel the moderns:
and the radicals Joined forces and by.
a big majority gave Jasz the official
stamp of approval.
?GLANDS MAY SETTLE
LEOPOLD-LOEB FATE
Chicago. June 13.?The fate of
Nathan Leopold. Jr.. and Richard
Loeh. confessed kidnaper-slayers of
' Robert Pranks, may depend on opin
ions of gland experts, it is indicated,
j since the prosecution and defence
have retained experts to examine th<
1 VOdonin glands of the youths.
The glands have a direct effect on
mentality, behavior and personality.
1 medical authorities say.
JOE WHITK 1>KAI>
Joe White died at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Jim Morris, at
Delcross Thursday night. Mr. White
! was about eighty years old and had
been in failing health for some
time. The funeral will be conducted
at the home Saturday and interment
made In the family burying ground
in f'limiton r.nnnty.
Mr. White is survived by seven
children; Mrs. Jim Morris and Joe
White of Camden. Mrs. Maggie Par
ker. Mrs. Ida Benson and Will
White of Norfolk, Mrs. Lizzie Bur
cher of Woodvllle. and Jim White
' of this city.
CHAItACTRK RECORD HKLPH
YOUNG MJC.V 8TART IN MFK
Berkeley. Cal., Juno 13?Person
I allty records of graduates in engin
eering. declared / equally or more
valuable than scholastic achieve
ments, are now kept by the univer
sity or California and are made
available for manufacturers and
other employers of young engineers.
All Juniors and seniors are rated
both by members of the faculty and
by their fellow students as to char
acter, address, appearance, leader
ship, disposition, popularity, speed
in work, accuracy and attention to
detail.. A student committee Is
asked each year to rate the mem
It is of its class. These ratings are
compared with those of the faculty
and an average thus Is struck. The
students' rating has the weight of
o ie instructor's rating. and, accor
ding to the university authorities.
It has been found that the students
are more strict than the teachers.
Professor Blake E. Vanleer, In
discussing the system, points out
that employers do not select college
graduates primarily because of their
srholastle grading, hut put a high
value on personal recommendation.
The personality records are per
manent, so that the graduate is pro
tected, with the passing years,
against the death or resignation of
the professors who knew him best.
Professor Vanleer reports that
personnel officers from large cor
porations come regularly to the col
lege of mechanics to study the data
of those about to be graduated, and
to check the records by their o?
observation of candidates for em
ployment.
It Is explained that a man need
not rate high In every particular to
be acceptable. If. for instance, he
Is rated relatively low In precision
and detail, he may stand high
enough In other respects to make an
excellent salesman or executive;
while for research or technological
work, though diffidence Is no bar.
accuracy Is necessary.
Mrs. Hachel Halomonaky of Nor
folk, Virginia Is visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Helix at thei. home on
West Main street.
CHAUTAUQUA
Friday
Night: Comedy-Drama?"Their Honor the Mayor"?
A Special Feature.
Saturday
Morning: Junior Chautauqua.
Afternoon: Chamber Music Cpncert?Willero Durieux
and Marion Carley.
Lecture?"Life and Opportunity," George P. Bible.
Night: Recital?-Louiae Stalling*, The American Lyric
4 t Metto Soprano.
J KINKY OITIMT l\ri:K\s||? l\y
KI.Ki'TlJK' XI.I.Y IIIIM'KII \l'l \l!V
Cloilcpst.-r. l*nul;?lii!. Juv I
il?*iiy lisi-4 .1 l-? s i?:? ? - II
rduciuu an incr? :isi d ? u*put ? I < i.? *.
|according I" :>n anr?". ? rt ?<: 1h*
' i ;iouc?-st.rsliin- clianihi i of a--iif.il |
! UIM'.
A iiuinh>>r of In rlilv? s w. re ? r? ? 1 j
* <1 in an apiary hoih li;.hi*-jl .null
heat* d liy ?-l? ?*?> ?1m iiiu f?:?* win
I l* |* lllOlllllH, Willi 15l? l'Slllt tll.it |
Ulnuij; brood* of l?? . s starl-d In col-;
I lvd honey much earlier than usual
|and i obtained supplies from tie
| early blossoms of fruit trees. The
1 otil|?ut of cadi hive was thus greatly
increaM'd.
SAYS BELIEVES IN
THIS GENERATION
President Wright of Teach
ers ("ollejje Says Boys ami
Girls of Present Generation
are Finest Ever.
WoeksvUle, Juno 13?"I am tired
of hearing people Bay this genera
tion is going to the had. It isn't so.'1
So declared Dr. Robert H. Wright,
President of Hast Carolina Teachers
College, in his commencement ad
dress at Weeksvlllo High School
Thursday night.
"You are sending girls to Green
ville from this section every year
and each year they are better pre
pared and better girls.
"You say the girls are bobbing
their hair and bobbing their skirts.
1 had rather see a girl with her
skirt bobbed than one wearing a
frock trailing the dust as our moth
ers did.
"I can't blame a girl for bobbing
her hair. It must be a terribly tire
some job to take care of long hair1.
"You have heard people talk
about our boys of this generation?
you have heard thorn say that it was
a generation of weaklings, that they
would not measure up to a crisis as
did their fathers in the Civil war.
"You saw these same boys in arms
go to Europe and demonstrate that
this is the cleanest and bravest gen
eration that ever trod the globe.'
Dr. Wright referred to the fine
spirit of progress manifest In this
section by the splendid school build
ing.
"I didn't know that you had such
a rich country here. Heretofore my
only acquaintance with this section
has been on the Norfolk Southern
railroad and this roiul was built
through woods and swamps.
"This eastern section of North
Carolina is the garden spot of the
world. You look yonder for oppor
tunities?but none can compare
with those that you have here.
"I have been to the Pacific coast
and the much talked of California.
Those people have spent billions of
dollars to make that country Inhabi
table. Hut God has given you this
country which was already Inhabi
table."
Stressing the value of an educa
tion Dr. Wright pointed out that If
there was any calling that needed
an education most It was farming.
"Training In agriculture," lie said,
"will help this generation find its
place in farm life. An education
along agricultural lines leaches our
youth how to market his product as
well as how to develop It?teaches
the farmer how to mix brains with
dirt. It helps him to make farm
ing pay.
"The future of this country de
pends upon the rural development.
Kdnrated Intelligent farmers, co-op
eratlng with each othnr. will bring
this State to its rightful place among
the states of the Union in agricul
tural pursuits.
"There are still people who say
they 'can't afford to build schools.*
Yet these same people spend more
for luxuries than they do for schools.
We need to learn to sacrifice these
luxuries for things that are essen
lal religion and education.
"The backbone of this great re
public has come from the country
and leadership will continue to come
from thft rural schools.
"I have faith In this generation
and bellove that It will go forward
and make this country greater and
better."
DoiiitM-rpiie N?*w Prmidflit
T*? AmmiiI?4 er?w)
Versailles, Prance. June 13.- (Jn*
(on Doumergue wax plotted president
of France by tjie National Assembly
here today.
?Mil, roil 1HIHH M(M?HIIINKItH
Dublin. June 13.?Frw state mag
istrates ire beginning to Impose sen
tences of Imprisonment Instead of
flnen on the manufacturers of Illicit
spirits. The civic guard recently dis
covered a secret still on the top of
Carknedy mountain In Donegal and
captured four men. The place, they
Mid, wan a regular distillery. The
four defendants got six months each.
BUTT-O'NK.M,
Miss Elisabeth O'Neal and Mr.
Harvey ft. Butt, both of Norfolk, Vir
ginia. were married Thursday after
noon At 4 o'clock by Rev. K. P. Raw
yer In the Bee Hive Building.
Mrs. Joeiah Elliott returned to her
bone st Hertford Thursday after
v let ting her Mother. Mr*. W. L. Saw
NAVY HIT BY A
GREAT DISASTER
jl.i\r? <il l!> SiiiiIVciI Out |?v
i I'rematiiri* l.\plu-iou on
j ltallli'-lii|i i ? i-~i|>j>i l.ale
I liur.oilay VIIitiiooii.
mi tt. - a??n ?. a iv.-. i
San I'edro, Calif., June 13.?
1 lie lives of three of Heel's and
45 enlisted men were snuffed
out yesterday aboard t lie dread
naught Mississippi in the Navy's
greatest peace time disaster.
Aboard the hospital relief
ship today lay the dead, killed
by a premature explosion in the
Mississippi's number two tur
ret, and the injured, while
aboard the Mississippi officers
and men were watch in# the
shattered turrest when a 14- -
inch Kun with an unexploded
charge jammed in its breach
meant that the danger of anoth
er explosion had not yet passed.
All danger of another explo
sion aboard the Mississippi,
which dropped anchor outside
the harbor last night after a sec
ond explosion had occurred in
side the harbor, the projectile
from a shell barely missing e.
passenger vessel, was removed
today, it was announced, when
a third charge of Trenitoluol in
turret number two was taken
out, according to Captain Mor
gan, flag communication officer.
BOYS AND GIRLS
FLOCK TO STATE
| Winners of County Cham
pionship* to Attend Sum
mer School Short Courtte at
A. \ E. College.
Ilulelgh. June 13?Three hundred
boyR and 300 girls who have won
the championships in their home
counties In the various phases of
Boys' and Olrls' club work will come
lo the State College of Agriculture
on June 23 to attend the short
course for club members to be given
during the Summer School, accord
ing to nn announcement made public
here today at the college. A num
ber of these hoys and girls will have
a part or nil of their expenses paid
by some business organization which
Is Interested In promoting more and
better club work. A trip to the
short course Is a coveted rewnrd and
honor In the eyes of these young
folk nnil to some of them It will be
the first trip away from home. It
I was stated by H. J. Klrby, Assistant
State Agent In charge of boys' Club
work. Miss Maud Wallace, Assist
nnt Slate Agent In charge of girls'
club work. It was announced will be
In charge of the girls while they are
at the college.
According to these workers fond
mothers need not worry about what
will happen to her son during the
week that he Is away from home,
because every single hoy and girl
will be under the supervision of
members of the agricultural exten
sion division force both day and
night. The hoys will stay In groups
during the days and will sleep |n one
of the dormitories during the night.
The course for the girls will he un
der the direction of the home dem
onstration division and a separate
dormitory will be used to house
these young ladles while they attend
college, it was explained.
The hoys nnd girls selected to at
tend this course range In age from
18 to 19 years. Kach club member
who comes with his expense* paid
has been awarded the trip for excel
lence In club activity last year and
In the campaigns an far conducted
this year. According to Mr. Klrbv
the ream of the youth of North
Carolina will be seen on the college
campus during the week of June
23. Mornings will be spent in class
es and the afternoons will be given
over to field trips, demonstrations,
recreations nnd sightseeing about
the Capital City and connty.
rOTTOV MAIIKFT
New York, June IS.?Spot cotton
cloned ateady, Middling 30.10. an ad
unre of IS polnta. Fnturea, dot
ing hid July 2?.02. Oct. 21.13. D?c.
S6.8S. J?n It.16. March St.SI.
New York. March IS?Cotton fo
turea opened thla morning at the
following levelt: July 2*.75; Octo
ber 25.94: December St.20; Janu
ary St.01; March St.lt.
Mm. Thomaa Olllham of Wlndaor.
who haa been vlaltlng her mother.
Mra. K. It. Outlaw, Mrinlde
Drlvt, haa retained home. Bh* ntm
accompanied by Mlaa Martha Roaoaa
Oatlaw, who wilt make bar a ahort