North Carolina Newspapers

? ;V ?*.: .... V ?'???***** * THE WEATHER * * Partly cloudy tonight * * and Wednesday. Prob- * * ably shouers in East * ?* portion. ' * CIRCULATION Monday VOL. 3(IV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1924. ' FOUR PAGES. 156 Political Battle Now Rages Between McAdoo And Smith i ? i * Wlyl" Sninr- Mav l>e Counted oil lo Turn to McAdoo Today, .Others W ill Shift to the Hunks ol Sihitti and as Yfl I? 1\p Indication of ^ hat ill Happen By DAVID I-AWRENCE , . (C?eyrl?*L 1934. B. Til* AMMII Madison S<iuare Garden, New York, June 1. ? William <Sibt?-McAdoo Jed jn the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination today with every indication that the smith forces would attempt to break his strength by throwing their votes eith er to Senator Underwood of Alabama or John \V. Davis of West Virginia. a victor)'' tor | Davis appear the brighter at the moment, as he has a strong following in both the McAdoo And Smith camps. But many things will happen be fore the break up of either the Mc Adoo or Smith groups. The strate-] j .gy being played today by the rival | generals is Intensely Interesting an it combines all the tricks of previoys conventions plus a certain amount of psychology that attends every break. No politician can predict ?with accuracy what will . be the r??- j suit of any particular move. The plan today was for the McAdoo gen erals to watch the Smith leaders to see how much of the reserve strength of the New York governor , la put Into the line. The Smith peo ple have from 40 to 60 more votes, | -while McAdoo has about 82 more! which he hopes to get before night- , fill mirl fhrn hnvtnn n mnij^rlty th" California candidate would stand be-i fore the convention just as did Clark j at Baltimore in 1912, hoping the delegates will in effect disregard the: ?-thirds rule by giving him the re maining VOtea. Some of the tMnnn which m ay he. expected before night appear to be : as follows: First, about 12 McAdoo delegates who have been voting for the former i ?Secretary of the Treasury are really 8mith men at heart and have been kept voting the way they have In or rto provide ^-demonstration Ja.tex , on when they leave "him and go to faith. | Second, although Mississippi Hani complimented Senators Harrison, i Robinson and Glass, her 20 votes are to go to McAdoo on later ballots. The Smith managers were trying early today to swing the votes to Da ?la and to hold them there so as to prevent McAdoo from getting a ma jority. Third, Tom Taggart is friendly i enough to McAdoo to give him Indl-1 ana's 30 votes as a compliment when McAdoo approaches the majority mark. Fourth, Virginia, hoping for a reciprocal compliment, from the Mc Adoo forces later, may switch her 24 votes to McAdoo during the day. ? All the strength In Ohio consti tutes the McAdoo reserve. So long as Ohio sticks to Cox, neither Mc Adoo nor Smith can benefit, as the residuary ~1rr~ Ohio would not assist the Smith strategy but would ^end to help McAdoo. In Illltiois, the 10 votes for Cox lean be counted on ultimately to |to Smith. Louisiana plans to stay with John Iw. Davis for several ballots. It was [the first state to Join West Virginia. fere and there are scattered votes Ifor Davis but his biggest opportun ity lies in the fact that he Is second ?choice of scores of delegates and Is Jlooked upon as a logical compro mise. The Smith managers are more or T "-'IfT obligation to Underwood and may give mm some 7JT~ tTTJTr* tes In the hope of giving him a ance before the convention but the Southern McAdoo states are not ln-! rllned to help I'nderwood because of his connection with the recent Klan contorversy, so ITnderwood Is not a probability. The outcome appears to dependent on. whether the antl MeAdoo forces can now break the former Secretary of the Treasury with Underwood or Davis or Both. The McAdoo people are showing friendliness to Glass of Virginia as their second choice but they are not yet In a mood to concede that their leader Is going to be out of it. HAWKINH-IIKCHAFT Miss Mary Louise Recraft and Mr. Robert Harrison Hawkins, both of HNorfolk were married Sunday after SB noon 1:30 o'clock by Rev. E. F. ? Sawyer, at his home, 208 Pearl I J NtM I). WIIAON DKAD D. Wilson died at his home > ?t Weeksville Monday night after I an Illness of several months. The funeral will be conducted Wednes m dav at Salem Baptist Church., Mr. Wilson Is survived by his wife and ttf^ee children, Mrs, Reatrlce Rrlght.> Mrs. Mary Stanley and Charley >yil-i ?on all of this County. MRS. SPRINGS FOR THE VICE PRESIDENCY ? Ill* Titk. July 1.? Th? 8omh I flaroltna <trl><K?tlon la?t night 1wid cJ to pl?w Mr, Laroy Spring* of l.?Maat?r. South Carolina. In nom ination far tlia Vlea PrMrtrtrnry and ?ha will ba Iha lint woman praaent <4hi national ticket. j VARIED VIEW? KLAN AND LEAGUE Editorial Opinion as Diverg ent as Views of the Dele gates at the Democratic Na tional Convention. Ity Ci. MARSHALL New York, July 1. ? Crystaliza (ion of editorial opinion of the New York newspapers on the debates on the League of Nations and the Ku Klux Klan planks in the Democratic National Convention Saturday and the ensoulng vote, finds the editor-l ial writers apparently as far apart J in their views us the delegates them selves. The referendum proposition on the League, adopted" by the conven tion. is denounced by the Times as ?? n |??nn1..n" ?"?)j|||pv which nt'V er can be put Into practical eFTe?l, " while the World which has been as ardent a champion of the League as the Times makes no comment as to whether the plan is workable and says the convention did not stand by candidates, at the moment did nut find a pronouncement for the League politically convenient." On the oth , er hand, the Republican Herald Trl I bune denouncefc the League plank as "an amazing product of cowardice and insincerity" which would op?-n the most perilous sort. I The World, which first exposed the Klan and has tied the ftght-for namlng the hooded organization in the Democratic platform, takes com fort in the defeat of its projectMn the fact that Klan has no defenders in the convention and that "its pur- I poses were denounced and ridiculed j as much by those who voted against naming It as by the other side." i The Tribune comments that "the ! men who prevented the Democ^tic party from openly Introducing the religious Issue Into the convention I have done the country an important ! service." But It adds that the In troduction of the rellgtyus Issue "in a party sense was portentious of dis organization." The Times says that the Klan issue Is "something that has got to be fought out; It Is some thing that cannot be camouflaged or compromised; the fight in the con v*nUtfh fT Sffry ttir beginning of n fight that will have to be carried on In state after state and congressional district after congressional district." The Woi Id says it Is too early to say now Just how the Klan and the League will figure In the campaign and challenges the Republican Party to exploit tlies<- IsKiies. "For the Is sues within the Democratic Party are also Issues within the Republi can Party," says the World, "and they will be exploited for factional ends by either party at their per A IS MAH. SERVICE ACROSS CONTINENT ?Br Tb? AMdilfd Prr-M ) San Francisco. July 1. ? Pilot Claire Vance hopped off on the first leg of a new day and night air mall service from here to New York at 5:57 this morning. , Mlneolu, N. Y., July 1. ? Two air planes ea^h with 550 poupds cargo took off at Hazelhurst shortly after 11 o'clock Eastern daylight time for San Fsancisco on their maiden west ward run of the day and night trans continental mall service which was formally Installed today. rONFKKKM'K IN HKHMION The Elizabeth City District Meth odist Conference Is In session at Stumpy Point this week from Tues day until Thursday. TRAIN KII.I.S THREE Ashevllle, July 1. ? The bodies of three negroes were found alonasld" the iLouthern Railway track near Shelby yesterday. evlflenfTy having b?en killed by the train early Mon day. / COTTO* MAKKUT New York. July 1. ? 8pot cotton, closed' quiet. Middling 30.90. an ad ??n*e of 70 points. Futures, closing bid, July 29 90. Oct. 26.18, Dec. 24 4*. Jan. 24.26, March 24 4.",, Aug. 17.10. Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Phlpps and daughter, Eleanor, hare returned from naltlmoje ind Oxford, Penn sylvania. after visiting friends. They were accompanied home by Miases Julia and Margaret Prince of Balti more. KEEPS AWAY FROM TOBACCO Col. 'Nicholas Bell, St. Louis, and hit historic "convention pipe" ? of good old corn cob variety. Col. Hell has been a delegate to seven conven tions and a secretary to five. Ills lu ng-stemmcd pipe always bring from him the good old gag that "the doct or ordered mo to keep away from tobacco." He is 82 ? the oldest visitiug delegate to the Democratic Con vention. MERIDIAN MAItREKS WILL BE EXAMINED Chapel Hill. July 1. ? Ensign John A. McCormlck, U. S. N.. who since April 1 has been at work In the state checking over, replacing or re-establishing the magnetic meri dian markers at all county seats, has thus far occupied about 3D to 69 stations to ho visited. He Is now in1 Winston-Salem and will later visit Raleigh. Smlthfield. Louisburg and other points in Eastern North Car-i olina. Magnetic meridian markers, es tablished in every county, it was said, have fallen into bad condition or have been rendered useless by obstructions. They are being checked over by the United States Coast eration with the North Carolina Geo logical and Economic Survey. Magnetic stations, itj was ex plained. are of great Wlue as es tablishing magnetic ?variation and enabling surveyors to compare their instrument _8;_ _ A _Nort h Carolina sta tute requires annual comparison of surveyors' Instruments to determine -thetr variation from Buch a? rang^, but it has been widely disregarded, it was pointed out. largely from Ig norance of tht> existence of the law and in some cases from the essen tials relating to magnetic variation. I Since Ensign McCormlck started his tour, the North Carolina Geologi cal and Economic Survey has been making an effort to have all survey ors informed of the time when he will arrive at their county seats, so that he might discuss with them the | principles of magnetic control. JAPANESE (UTS DOWN THE AMERICAN FI.AGi Toklo. July 1. ? An unidentified i Japanese early today cut down the! TVrffpricafl flag* from In front of the" embassy. I JAPANESE ASK AID OF THE GODS Nation-wide Demonstration Staged Today Against Am erican Exclusion Act as It Becomes Effective. <?y Tilt Aimliim Pr???) Toklo, July 4. ? A nation-wide demonstration against the American exclusion act which 'ntn offset today opened with -mass prayer meetings at all national Shinto shrines throughout the country. The crowds" petitioned the ancient deities to aid the people in this trou blous time when the Japanese race is being ''insulted"' by exclusion from America. Numerous details of cutting down the American flag in the United States embassy compound today have been brought to light by police in quiry although the identity of the 1 Japane^ - who slashed the halyards "and Ffvu a "lince T^TfinTmrffTy^rrTttovrd the ensign has not been uncovered. L Several hours after the affair when witnesses reported the affair to Charge d'Affalres Caffery he hur riedly called on Foreign Minister Shidehara. SECOND PRIMARY TO . BE HELD SATURDAY Vaeeond primary has been called foif Saturday. July 5. at all North Carolina polls to decide the nomina ting for Commissioner of Lnbor and Printing between M. L. Shlpman. in cumbent, and Frank Grist, who re ceived the next highest number of vnt?* to .Shlpman in the first pri mary. KILLED UN COLLISION Chicago, July 1. ? six were kljlod and 17 Injured early today when two trains cuHtdeff in a rear-end col lision here. Business Goes Like Stage Coach Of Long Ago Days Started Out With Keen Jump First of January and Will Probably End Year Same Way, but Just Now Is in the Mid>t of Journey and at Slow Steady Jog Ily J. f. ROVIiR fCaftyriaht. 1171. Br Th* Ad.inr#) New York. July 1. ? lluslness J started out on January 1, 1024. in the United States like an old-tlmo six horse stage coach polling out of | a boom milling camp in the morn-i ing. It waH always the custom of the- old drivers to start their horses) on the keen jump and- bring thepi in i at their destination the same way.1 When they reached the edge of town | at the start, they slowed down. That i Is what buslneaa haa done. j After three montha at a gallop, business commenced to atrlke tho tough grades and today It has set tled down to a steady Jog. It ham not stopped and the spepd In Mill! fully up to normal. Many ??Xpert*, including financiers of International! reputation predict that the pace will j Increaae from this time on and thatj the hualness vehicle will swing up at; th?? clone of 102 4 at as great a pact] aa at the start. In spite of thi fa^T TTnTT ftit* 1s a4 Presidential year and that the cam-; palgn usually can be counted on toi upset business somewhat) the wea-: ther baa been the most potent fac-j tor In the business. Industrial and trade alt nation In (Tie fifST "htftf~~nfl 10 2 1. It can hardjy bo aald that! there was any spring In some sta tions. Crops 'In nearly all geograph ical divisions are two w??eks or more late and aome have been damaged* by cold and storms; Demand for seasonal goods has held off. Consumers did not Jingle their money on the counter. Retail) buyers refrained from placing com-j mltmenta for future delivery. Job bers did likewise. Manufacturers! followed u similar system with re gard to raw materials. Producers of raw material;* moaned, cut down production in some Instances and sold what they could (no iii'-nn amount, by the way) to foreign man ufac.turers. The latter thereupon rushed cheaply produced goods Into American market*. liny 9m* Trend Misjudged Another Important factor In the situatirfn an It exists today has been mlsjudgment by many business men of the psychological trend of the buyers of the nation. Nowhere wan thin more apparent than in the auto mobile industry, which ha* such an Influence on other linen. The indus try started out at a tremendous pace nnd?r AC hcdulefl eiltlog for production of around S. 000, 000 cars for tho year. The theory was that sale^i had been cramped in previous Springs because dealers hsd difflcul ty In making deliveries. This year they had plenty of cars but few cus tpmfrs. Dealers discovered that buyer*, were hot for cars when they could imt but when there jkmk no difficulty In providing them, the prospects backed off Dealers com menced to- demand that factories re lieve them, of some of the burden of unsold stocks, factories cut down and today the volume of automobile production Is nearly 25 per cent off the February peak. ? It U estimated by some parts man ufacturers that there are a million new automobiles now In manufac Contlnusd on Paft 1 Second Day Of Balloting Fails Develop Candidate I . j McAtloo ami Sin il I ? ('milium- to Loud ami as "Xiimlur of { Uallol- AIoihiI- l li.-r.- Is- < .limine in Umih-and No Imlicalion of W'lial May llu]>]><-u VARIED PROGRAM FOR THE FOURTH Itai'ini; at Fair Ground*, Swimming and ('.alloc Ram ? at B? ahy and Powhle llrail it llasrluill on Diamond. A varied program of horse racing.; swimming and canoe racing, and a double header baseball game for the Fourth of July in Elizabeth City is promised home town people and vis itors. The racing begins at 2: DO o'clock at the Fair Grounds. A Fourth of July celebration with swimming and canoe races and fire works has been arranged at Daw son's Bathing Beach. The races will start at 2 o'clock with a 40-yurd race for boys under Hi years. At 2:110 there will be a free-for-all girls' race of 20 yards. At 3 o'clock boys und??r 12 yours will bo entered in a 20-yard dash. During an interval Jjotween the races and diving events ducks will be turned- loose in the water and will become the property of those who succeed in catching them. At 4 o'clock a canoe racc?La-.ttcliv duled. Following this, there will be a dlvinu competition for small boys and then a fancy diving event which will be free for all. At 5 o'clock the feature race of the afternoon will lie the free-for-all event of 100 yardt?. At night there will be fireworks at the bathing beach. A double header will be played here on July the Fourth with , the first game between South Mills and the Elizabeth City Cubs on the "Main street diamond at 3 o'clock and the second between South Mills and South Norfolk at 5. The Elizabet h CI ty. Cubs are fl g "ifiing on a "strong organization tills summer with this the only team at tlyj-fpreflrnt time organized in Eliza beth City. South Mills has always gone .strong on baseball and put up a strong team. FIFTEEN DAYS GRACE MOTOK CAR OWNERS Relief for the automobile owner* who have been standing in line for hours in order to register their cars at the Elizabeth City Branch office arrived Monday In the form of a tel egram from the Secretary of State which extends the time limit on new licenses to July 15. The telegram follows, Branch Office, Automobile Department, Elizabeth City, N. C. Due to rush and our inability to deliver license plates in time, the limit for registration Is extended from June 30 to July 15. Call up on all officers to co-operate iif ord*r to render this service to people, fiw id enforcement after 16th. Please post. W. N. EVERETT. Secretary of State. There has been for several *Jayn a throng of scores of automobile own ers all dny long at the Battery & Electric Company where the Eliza-1 i beth City office Is located. Two I clerks ar^ at work on the registra tion certificated but the work has -proirreiwtf nlmHy nn?f- many ? have * stood In line for hours. A reporter} for this paper asked some of those j In line how lonfi: they had been In line and learned that It taken about | three hours to move from the foot! of the column to the window. One| middle-aged farmer said he had been; In liii" Friday and Saturday, but luvd left aftrr standing for soni" time. He1 was back In his ce on Monday! still trying to get his license plate, j This Is the first year that license platen have hern obtainable in Eliza-, beth City and other centrally locat-j ed towns and while it was thought, that better service could be given! through the branch offices, consider- i able congestion has resulted from the. system. . CHECKING UP LIST OF STORM VICTIMS (By Tilt AHMMIti Pmmi Lorraine, O., July 1.- Despite the belief of city snd military officials that all Iy>rralne's storm victims are! not accounted Tor the number of dead remained today at 72. The Red Cross In checking the dead and Injured found 17 persons unaccounted for since the city was, struck by the tornado Saturday. The wortrfif cleaHrfg~T?ir the wreckage of the state theater under which offl- ! clals believe arr a number of bod-] lea has been halted because of the danger of the adjoining four story! brick wall falling. ARMY PLANES OFF | Calcutta, July 1. ? The Aim; plane* In the 'round the world flight, left here early today for Allahabad,, Ilrltlah India. I (By Th? Aiwctilrd Prrti) I Now York, July 1. ? On the twen liit.li ballot tills afternoon McAdoo lost 12 votes. Smith lost 4. white Davis of West VlrHnl.l ??l ,v Tilt! vote was McAdoo 4!!2. Smith 307 'H, Davis 122. Underwood 45 L, JJobinson 21. Ritchie 17 >4. Cox BO, pllryan 11. Davis of Kansas 10. Glass 25. Ralston 30. Saulsbury 6. Walsh 8. Hitchcock 1, Daker 1 and Dever The twenty-second ballot, unoffi cial, was as follows: Underwood, [Smith 307 V6 ; Cox 60,cmfwvps. a i 45 1-2, McAdoo 438_l-2, Robinson [22. Smith 307 1-2, Cox 60. Governor Davis 5, Glass 25, Ralston 32, Sauls I bury 12. Walsh 8 1-2, Richie 17 1-2. one absent. Hearing that the Mississippi dele i nation was planning to go to John | W. Davis, William Jennings Urvan launched an open tight on the floor during the taking of the nineteenth ballot. However, the delegation cast 1 its 20 votes ror Davis and the twoi. ? succeeding ballots. Missouri deserted the McAdoo camp on the twentieth ballot cast ing Its 3fi ror Davis. I Announcement of the Missouri f vote started a demonstration but It ' was short lived, the chairman bang* | ing ror order so that he might au ! nounce the result of the ballot, i There was another Davis cheer when | the result of the ballot was an | llounced at 122. j Only scattering liamlrlapping and [Some groans greeted the announce mem of McAdoo? nnd Smith ? votes showing their losses, other dele gations were reported to' lie waver ing. North Carolina, which had aup ! ported MrAdoo truill I he first, beuan I canvassing to determine whether ; McAdoo still could cumman a ma I Jorlty. | There were only slight changes on I the twenty-llrst ballot, McAdoo get ting 439. Smith 2*4 v.. Davis 14)> and I'ndcrwood 45 '4. J New York, July 1. ? The conven Tfion" reconvened at 0:30, Eastern I time, this morning to continue bal ! lotlng. J The sixteenth ballot gave McAdoo ,47*. Smith 305 'a, Davis fi3. Robin son 4?. Underwood 41 >4, Glass 25, II net loss of one for McAdoo and no change for Smith. i The seventeenth gave McAdoo 471^4. Smith ?' I 2 ''j , Underwood 42 | Robinson 2k, Davis H4, and Glass 44. The eighteenth developed 110 can-, didate and relatively little change In the voting. The vote was McAdoo 470 14. Smith 3121,4, Underwood [30 14, Robinson 22. John W. Davit Ififi, Ritchie Davis 10, Glass 3d, Saulsbury fi. Ralston 30, Wirtl 20. ! Walsh 2. | The nineteenth ballot gave Mc jAdoo 47 4. STTrith 311 ?fc, Davis 84''. ? Inderwood 29 >4. ftobinson 22, It'll - chle Cox f.0, Bryan. 10, Gov ernor Da vIh 9, GIhhb 30, Ilalaton 31, Satilsbnry 6, C6f>HafVd 1, WhTflrZT^ Monday'* IbilloiliiK First ? McAdoo 431 Smith 240,/a, others scattered. Second- McAdoo 431. Smith 251 >4, other little changed. I Third ? McAdoo 437. Hmlth 255 ?*. , others little Changed. Sweet removed from balloting. Fon??!;-~ -jjttle chnn^ In rrtafWo standing. Kendrick removed from balloting. Fifth, sixth, seventh ? No chanxe Indicative of rcf<ult? Eight!) ? McAdoo ? 44 4.0R,- Smith 273 Mr. - Ninitr^fatHle change: Tenth ? McAdoo 4 71.r?, Smith 299.5, John W. Davis gaining, with 57.5 votes. Eleventh ? McAdoo 47?.3, Hmlth 303.2, Davis 59. Twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth ? Little change. Fifteenth ? McAdoo 479, Smith . 306.5, John W. Da via 04.6. The convention adjourned early Tuesdav moTnlhg at !7>e end of the fifteenth ballot and after a long night a<>sslon that had failed to develop a candi date. McAdoo was still leading with Smith slowly Raining and John W.^ Davis of Went Virginia had gained third plarre with *4.5 votea. having ' started on the first ballot with only 21 votes. Favorite aona were still keeping scattered votes. CiRTH KKUIT MOVTHH (W TWO AHHAll/T CHAIUJF-l A long and tedious session of th* recorder h court waa occupied,- for the most part, with minor offenders Tuesday. There were two convictions agalnu one defendant on a charge of as sault. with deadly weapon, all prtrtie* to the affair being colored. The de fendant was Alex Armstrong and h" drew four months for each offense. Fred Harris, also colored, got off with $10 and coat* whn convicted on three separate cbargas. cllsordarly conduct, creating a disturbance and i trespass. Joshua Zachery. colored, prosecut ing witness against Jams K. King on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon, had a lapse of manor? and I was taxed with the coats.