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S& ? XVL FINAL EDITION Council Lets Contract For Preliminary Work In Street Improvement Outlay of 886,783 In volved in Construction of Curbing, Guttering und Storm Drains in City ' CLOSE TO 13 MILES ?bill BuainrsH Handled in I, Afternoon, Night Set* /? ?lon Develops Into Di? Lgr posal of Routine Matter* volved ??r: W Council J /111. II. String disposed or the major . business on the program yester day Afternoon througn the letting or contract for nearly 13 mile* of tof?r*'te curbing and guttering. UNl the necessary storm drains.! the City Council last night net tle^ down to a seattion of pure ( routine, enlivened only by a few residents who had more or less j personal mailers to bring before j the board. 3 Contract for the curbing and guttering. 67.200 feet in all. was 1ft to Robert O. Lassiter, ot Ox- , ford, lowest bidder on the item* taken together. His figure was ,783. Thero were eight other bMtors, and although <>ne wan somewhat lower than Lassiter on i the single Item or curbing, LassI- ; ter'a figures on all totalled less, than any other combination of blda available. He refused to hid on the items separately. r Twenty-four Inch curb and gut ter. as recommended by City Kn-| gineer Olsen, were adopted. The ? Council also received a letter front W. O. Murfit, general manager of the Southern (.at* Improvement .Company, setting forth that the company could not afford to com ply With regulations demanding (bat gas pipes be installed in ?treeta included in the new paving: program Mr. Murfit slated In the Utter that the Council's mandates on the pip* question were tantamount to confiscation of his company's hold ings here, sluce the expense In volved In the pipe installation* aid not be justified by the liu dlute Increase In business which fht reasonsbly bo expected. The unctl turned the letter over to City Manager Ferebee with the re quest that he reply to It. Upon request of Dr. M. S. Bulla. In behalf or the County Welfare Board, the Council voted to con tinue the city's contribution of 9S0 a month toward the mainten ance of the Anna II. Lewis home for delinquent and unfortunate children at Nlxonton. l>r. J. D. Hathaway was grant ad a requeet for the rental of a email area of city property at the rear of his home on Matthews * street, ror erection or a garage. *n?e rent was fixed at $1 a jcar. with the understanding that Dr. Hathaway would remove the ga rage whenever the city happened to need the property. Annpuncerneiit that the latest analysis or the city water by the Htate Board of Health showed It to be pure, was made by Dr. fcenas Peering, city health officer. Dr. Fearing stated also that there had "been many cases of Influenza here in the past month,' but that the situation was Improving. the Iterv A. H. Outlaw, County welfare officer, reported having raliwd $4f? through various local charitable organisations toward the cost of sending su afflicted woman here to Norfolk to receive radium treatment, and asked that thb COU tell meet the remainder ot,,lfi*' cost Involved, estimating tY\q?|ota! at ?100. The Council granted the request. ' P/C. Cohoon. who presided ov _3thfl night meeting in the ah ce of Mayor McCabe, reported * <ei hJs recent ? rip to Raleigh, as b* member of s local delegation. t<> nsh State aid ror the paving or ICalh snd Rosd streets, and to obtain the opinion or engineers then* on this city's contemplated re-laying or atreets. He reported that Chairman Pag?' denied the request for aid In the paving, ?tatlng that It wasn't given to cltlee of more than 3.000 popula tion, and that Mr. Page also ex pressed the opinion that to re-lay the atreeta In the manner contem plated would be a waate of money. City Manager Ferebee an nounced that a new storm drain along Tiber Creek, from the South Road street crossing to Dyer snd Culpepper atreeta, had been fin A report on a survey of the city, with a view to aavlnx as many tree? aa poaalble, was submitted by C. W. Mengol. of Raleigh. fon I, aultlng engineer associated with ofeftr llfteMf Olsen. Mr. Mengel ! ? -gave In detail figures on all tli*? 1 ?r?et.H Included In the new pav program, mating the number trees that could be saved If ping widths of paving wrr-' A motion was passed dlroet : the city manager meet , i engineer and street com j to deelde what trees should removed, and report to the P. ?f of Police Holmes reported i?ta during the month, with Hetlons and three neqult _ the ??(sure of 6 1-2 gal ' whisky, together with Iho J of stolen property valued i_ Con tinned on paca 4 Gas Official Gives Main Objections To City Laws Following in a ropy of the letter . submitted to the City Council yes terday by W. G. Murflt, general manager of the Southern C.uh lm prov< ment Company, setting forth the company's objections to vsri ou? ordinance*. affecting their op erations here: Gentlemen : - We have received copies of four ordinance* which have been ap proved hy the municipality of Elizabeth City since December. | 1925, affecting our gas rranclilne*. plant, and pipe*. From the point of view of our company, we are obliged to con sider these ordinances as unJuM and unreasonable; and we are. com pi- 1 led to inform you that they ennnot be complied with without practically confiscating our prop erly. We have manifested at all time* j our desire to live in harmony with the community and ita govern- . ment. and to operate our plant on a reasonable basis, working with the general policies of the govern- 1 ment. We seriously protest against assertions which have been made in the public press that our plant ' Is not worth anything. W<? do not ' think that it Is fair or right for the members of your board to | authorize such statements when ' your board haH declined to have j an expert examine the plant and determine its value. We recognize that the capital which is invested In our company . has come to Elizabeth City from outside, hut we take It that the ' good people of the city are in fa vor of being as Just toward out- . side capital as they would be to- ' ward domestic capital. Otherwise, It would be difficult to secure out side capital for Investment In yotir 1 community. We believe, there fore. that your citizen* arc just as anxlotiH to deal fairly with us as 'if the plant were owned by your selves. We ask your attention to the following: First: No business can afford to place all of the lateral pipes and main pipes which these ordinances would require without a prospect of a fair return at the same time upon such expenditure. If we are required lo construct pipes in ad vance of the demand, then our other consumers must stand the cost, and thai, surely, would not | Ik* regarded as equitable. We will ; be glad to iusert main pipes and 'lateral pipes as hunlness demands; but beyond this, we cannot go. Second: I 'lea so understand, therefore, that If we lay or relay any pipes, in accordance with the terms of your ordinances, we do not waive our legal and constitu tional rights to attack these ordi nances in the courts; and any ac tion taken by our company under the ordinances Is without preju dice to our right to challenge the validity of the ordinances. Third: The ordinance which fixes a permit charge of f5 a square foot for opening the hard ; surface streets for the extension of pipea, or any other purpose, is unjust, unreasonable and confteca I lory. In all of our experience we have never met with a |>ermlt , charge of this severity. We do not want to engage In litigation with 'the city, but we are obliged to i state to you that If an attempt Ih made to enforce this ordinance, , we will be obliged to test its con stitutionality In the courts. Fourth: Your city needs n gas ! plant, and to be as progressive as vf.n are and plan to continue, you cannot afford lo be without a first i class gas plant. The experience of all first class municipalities is thst gas Is much cheaper for cooking and heating than electricity, and Ikto condition Is likely to continue permanently. If you handicap us so that we cannot furnish gas to l the people who need it and want It. you are handicapping the de velopment of your own city, flut i a progressive first class plant can only be developed in close har mony with the municipal govern ment. Anything which you do which handicaps the development of our plant will render us help less to provide for the future needs of your city, and to that ex tent. handicaps your own develop ment. Fifth: We ask the members of your board to consider our prob lem with the same degree of sym pathy and co-operation as la shown by our consumers. You want the beat service possible, and we want you to get It. But our I only aource of Income If from the , consuming public, and If you put upon ua burdensome requirements. I Inevitably, it la the consuming public which must stand that bur 'den. la that advantageous to the Uitrt Sixth: We ask your attention to the financial damage which the city Is now doing to us In pnttlnc down the sewer and water pipe* YOU have Interfered with our Continued on page 4 NOT WORRYING UNDULY ABOUT ! WETS AND DRYS National (Capital Scarcely i Expects Any Immediate | Effect Front the Hearing Now Underway WETS AGGRESSIVE They No l?ii)!rr Move Tim idly Hut Strike Out Bold ly for Modification of the Volstead Act lit II AVID I.IUUKM t: f?2t. ky TM Atfviaw) Washington, April C. ? 1 !??* Nil- J tlonal Capital in nut taking too se riously the hearings <>n the wet and ill j problem. llelng familiar with the motive which actuated t the sponsors of the whole pro ceeding* there is little concern here thui the teatlmony taken will have any Immediate effect. The wets concede that the moat they can uccompllsh is t?? keep the sub ject agitated, while the dry* know ; that uside frotu the publicity J which sooner 01 later affects pub- J lie opinion they have nothing to: fear in the way of legislation at' this session of Congress. l)ut he would be a prejudiced ' observer who did not se? In the 1 hearlugs a significance this Is in- ' I ??scapahlc; namely, the Increased ;i ucgre*Hiveness of the wets. They j I no longer move timidly. They are I striking out boldly for a modlflca- I tlou of the Volstead Act and In Meud of being uncertain about the sentiment In certain Kastern | communities, they give evidence of being more strongly fortified by their constituents than ever he fore. To a cortai/i extent, the failure of the authorities te enforce the law due to the Inadequacy of the Federal police force aud the In difference of state official*. ha? produced an entirely different aq uation than that which existed two year* ago. The argument no longer 1* whether exceealve drink ing i* a good or a bad thing or \theLher the saloona should or should uot be retained bul .wheth er social condition* have improved as a result of the methods of re straint imposed by law or wheth er these conditions are indirectly ! the result of the sentiment built I up to resist the law Itself. All the speeches that will be I made at the 12 days of testimony taking will be partisan In Ihf sense that the heatings are to give each side a chance to state Its case. There Is no neutral body to weigh the testimony Judicially I nor is there sufficient machinery 'to ascertain the facts and make a ! report thereon. But some day that is exactly what Congress will .be compelled to do. For the I wets are slowly but surely winning on the publicity side- -they are managing to stir up enough doubt on the facts and figures concern ing the operation of prohibition that ultimately either a national commission of non-political per sons or some other Judicial body will have to be authorized to make a nation-wide inventlgatlOn. Many of the men who are in terested In pushing the present hearings are themselves candi dates for re-election In Congres sional elections this year, atid some of those who are not up for re-election come from states where the wet vote i* considerable. As time goes on, the wet* ar? able to win more convert* lo their program because they themselves have no dellnlte program but ar? Interested merely In proving that the Volstead law i* unworkable Whether true or not, they will keep on Innistlng that everything , from the crime wave to flapperlsni ' is due to prohibition. Added to this Is the cumbersomeness of the law Itself which depends almost entirely on public sentiment to make It operate effectively. As between the two. the wet | side has more to talk about than the drya when social conditions are considered. The drys. on the Other hand, have maintained thai (prohibition has not been long 'enough on the statute books to ' allow a fair test and that In the years that have gone by since the Volstead law was passed. It has not been given any test to speak of in certain communities which now are demanding a modification To sum up, the entire purpose of the hearings going on this week, Is to get publicity for the cause of modification. To the ex tent that Congress Itself permits an agitation, the wets may be said 'to have gained a point Whether any considerable number of votes will be changed is another ques tion. Congress Itself has always been ready to note changes In pop ular sentiment as evidenced by local elections. But relatively few seats, however, will be affected this year by the prohibition con troversy. It is not a partisan question hut a local Issue. Thitn far the drya have not lost much of their overwhelming atrength in both houses of Congrsfts. The dry Democrats of the South and the dry Republicans of the West and Middle West hold a majority In the House and the flenste. The weta, however, are not trying to sffeet their own colleagues In Con 1 gress, but are driving hard to changa sentiment In the constat ii encles of their fellow members Ponzi a Piker Compared to Her Prominent New York huaineas men gave Mrs. Oram Ott Hnuge more ihan 1450.000 with which she Promised in liny telephone company stock at employpH' rat cm she uwkI to l?e h telephone girl. She an?l hor' clerk lumliauil. who earned $40 u week, spent li all living 'lie life c?r Mr. and Mrs. Ifiley. Here ?he and her husband are tdiown In court after all lint a few thousand had l?et-n apetit. CONTRACT LET FOR NEW ROAD l*U!M(ii4>taiik Ili^liHuy <!<>?? mission to Build 'I Mile .j Pasl NckIuikI <!!iur<*h Com ran fur cpn*t ruction of n hrirk hlRliwuy H f?ei wide from the termination of the present Now land paved highway 4 dl> tance of three miles -to u point noar Fred Brother*' More, in New 'land township. was let by I he Pas quotatik Highway Commission in ?regular session Tuesday after noon. The route tn be followed is that of the old Itiver (load, run ning to the right ,?f Newluud Methodist Church. The E. L. Williams road con - . struct Ion company, of thin city. ? wan the only bidder on this high way. offering price* on three types of hardxurfurljug plain concrete, asphalt, and brick on a sand base, . grouted In concrete. The last type was adopted, at a price of ? $4ft,!t.1H.l 5. It is the same type' of paving hb was used in the New land Highway, with which ii connects. The a?phalt road wan priced at I6.1.9HJI.4". sinrl the concrete pav ing al $56.80-1.40. In addition to the road, contract for a bridge at Newland Methodist Church was let to the K. I?. William* companv at $2,930. Lei Unit of theve contrac marks completion of the county's; feeder road program luaugurat- I last year on the basis of a $2!??' ??on bond Issue It. la nstlmm- I that the funds in the hand* of Hi commission, at pregeut totalling Noniethlng over 510(1.000. will ju about cover the coat of the con structinn undertaken, making < reasonable allowance for unfo. seen addlt lonal costs. In response to a petition aigie I by a number of Kll/.iheth Clly ? (dents, the commission agreed ?? install a three foot walkway ?? the south side oT Charles Cre k , bridge. at the junction of Hhepa I street and Nlverslde avenue I' is estimated that this will c. t about $100. MIIH. ('. %. (MNlRfS II A HTHOKK or |?.% It. \ V,YKlK j Mrs C. A. Cooke Is seriously ill at her home, 1 tteldon street, hav ing suffered a stroke of paralysis Monday morning about 11 o'clock "KFMPY" CAUSES SPASMS OF MIRTH Tlirri'-Arl Otnioiiv :il thi ll i>;h School Tliui'r <ia\ Nifjnt Clii-cr i' mil il y "Keinpy," flit* Mi if. sirr rom edy mt*? predated at ill*- HIkIi School Tliiiiiwluy li Ik tH Is a faiml. play in ii|oi?- aeuaefc than nue. In the tlr*t place it deals Wlli American lauiily life. More over, it* crrall'iii anil It* highly KUrppi<a(;il production on the New Yolk MUK'* *?'?V ulniOMf exclliwive ly family affair*. A writer in th. Ani'Ticnu MiiKiiziii*1 uiitli-r tbo till*'. "The Nit Kent Family Cmi I'tit on i> Show by Itaelf." explain;* a:i follows: "In the Kprinu or lf?22. a play called 'K-'Miipy' wan produced hi New York. It urn! Hk audiences Into spasms or mirth: and theae niiilh'no?-H. having wiped the fears of laughter from l heir eyea in order- to e\uniim tin* program, found (lint It f.ilrly brlsfl d with Nil K mi Is "They .mi* that the piny *vas written by a pair of Nmreuts - .1. C. and bin foil, Klliott. I hn I a trio of Nugent^- father, moii, hiuI daughter. Ruth -played three of the piim-lpal part*; that one N n - ^ent (be father wan eo produ cer Of the piece." Another noteworthy play pro duced by Ihi* unitNiial family I* "The 1'iHir Nut." wlileh haa been running in New Yorl; *lnce la*t April. While It ir? I rile ihat no Nugent* will appeal' In llie ran? when "Kempy" In pre*i nled here Thursday night, considerable doubt mnv lw? . -ntertained ok to whether even the*e noted profes *lonnl* could he any funnier than Andrew Hailey an "I'u" llence and Tom Whit*- mh Kemp Jaine*. not to mention other talent *d young people whore huniea Mill ap|*:ir on the program. TICKETS OS HII.K FOll IM 4YMAKKKM \\Hb\KSlHV Ticket* r<> on sale Wednesday morning at Sellg* for "The Klrat Year." which In to be represented Saturday nlitht at the Alkruina Theater by the Carolina I'layniak er*. II. I. WITH IVKM mi F. F. Cohoon. who has buen quite III with Influeu/a for the past week. Ih reported aotnewhat hel ler today. Plans for New Courthouse Discussed by County Board Plan* for count ruction of 'i handHome ihron mory courthouse at an entlmated rout of 923At0i-0. with an additional expena# of f ? - 000 were considered tentatively Monday afternoon by the hoard of County ( 'ommi^nloncm. In regu lar r?-?Iou. along with other ?p"' If (ration* for th?^ enlargement of the present building. The com missioners. winhlnx to to Into the matter thoroughly l?efore coti mlttlng thcnifeitrM, took no act >n In the milter. The plant were submitted by S. Hon' y. of Wilminvton. arc i tect who designed the new An tral High Hchool. now In proc?m of erection on the Hertford High way. t h ree mil"* from thin cbf. Mr Money HUftgeotrd fh?t If tue commit* toner* w|*hed to enlsr*e the old courthouse. they could that heat l?y building a a lag Mftii the r??r, (hereby firing the com plefed ulrufture the form of a "T.*\ Will* *uch nn addition, which Jio estimated Would root ?1 1 1 000. Mr. Honey <-x|?r>-??<-<i th?* opinion (hut i h?- m <1 .1 it Ioii :il room would he miff If l?* ii t to take rare ??f the County'* kccii* for ahoui ten yearn to mme Hp s'ated. hour erer. that It would prove ta?* ex pensive In the long run In huild a new ronrlhotiHr on ? right The plan* offered embodied room fnr jail quarter-* on lh?? third floor. ;iiid ?paHou:? (ifflrn ami rourt room* The gtrucfnre would he ad?-f|uat/> for the next 2 - year*. Mr. Iloncy predicted. Although the commit* toner* took no definite action, member*; of i he hoard freely expre*a?fl them nelve* a* favoring ef lift Ion of ? ! I new hulldlng. Chairman W. #T. | Love. Kr . wm particularly em phatic on the point. Says Senator Goff Does Look Like A Kewpie itx <ii\ki.i:h r. htrwart iCajt iiM. Ik* Wd"hliiRi(tn. April 6. ??? <'?>?? tri'MHiiifti vary By roitRre?*meu, I nu'au wn;il<ir? aiul represeuta tlves. both. I'uhlirtt \ i?* very valuable t < ? <* congressman. lie liken k i . if lie'* onto IiIm jnli M>hI of them are. a' leant lo I lie extent of knotting that it pay-* h politician to figure. Kumi! and plenty. in print One type enjoy* praise hut re iu-!itx ailvei'ne criticism The oilier type weleoltien anylllini; il tall Rel If il gets praise. good. If tint, it t\t. ?tills I lie glad hand In vilifit'il* lion, rlil it u lr. a ii. M hilt*;, as fat bet let t li it ii ii >* Ii I ii v. at all. Senator tiny |i (inff of Went VliK-in ut falls in el.iitnif irat um N'o I ? ?off has lira inn. lie makes a dandy speech. bui Iil-'h setis.ulve and evidently a thoroughly *?? rlous minded eliup In contrast with i ills mental slant. physically lie's n roly-poly guy. who makes von laugh when you look at lion ? not a disagreeable laitKli. a good Hat II red one. Well, t Stiff made a speech "tie day. whieh 1 hud occasion to refer ' to In one of them* letters i write.1 and. ho help me John Roger*. It \ wan a complimentary reference. ? hut I did remark thui <Joff looketi 1 like a kewpie. as lie Rot his oru- , lory off his chest. Helleve it or uot. In lens than no time I'd hatl a half a dozen r??p resentatloiiM matle to me. hv Cuy I) C.off's friends, that that wax a ' darned mean thing I'll said. Final ly an emissary called formally to find out why I hated the senator ?so. Mlgosh! 1 don't. Making due allowance for the fart that lie'* a "regular of reRulant." which Rome people,' consider . quite all right j! nd others, consider absolutely all wrong. I think he's' one of our lending senators, in character and ability ..But he looks like ti kew pie I *taiid by thai. BUOY or CHAPMAN IS BKHIKD AT SUNIUSK Hartford. Conn.; April 6.? -In a pint of ground in Mount- Saint lleiiodlrt'a cemetery ju*t over the llloomfield line lie* inday the body ot tie raid Chapman, mail liandlf. who wuk hanged at Weth emfield prison Just after midnight lor murdering a policeman. No prieat went with the body to lis final renting pluee. There a a* no nervice at the Itoman Catholic church The body wan claimed by lievereud Michael P. Harry. Ko man Catholic chaplain of the prinon. He, however. departed on a lengthy vacation today. The body wan hurried to the Mortuary chapel of .1. C. I >1 1 Inn who allowed no one to nee the face of the dead man The burial took plan Hhortly after ?unri*e on a apot of coQaecratod around It |* under Htood that thoBe prcxent besides Mr Dillon w??ro Mr. Ooehl. at torney. Kay M Wiley of Spring field. M.ia<tachUHeltii. and a aiater of Chapinun. whoae identity was not r<-v?*aled. So fur an priHon authorities knew Chapman had no property nave n few peritotinl ef fect*. Welherafleld PriHon. Conn . Ap ril ?. Herald CIlpMH, notorl oiim robl?er. who waged a hitler fight until the oud to escape the iiooac for the murder of a New Itrltaln policeman during a rob bery October in. 1 ?? 2 4 . died on Connect lent '* new hanging ma chine early today. The machine wan aprilng at 12:04 o'clock and Chapman wa* officially pro iiouncPd dead at 12:1?. Calm and unmoved to Ihe end. Chanman. whone career of crime had become aimed legendary, walked to bin death without even Ihe connotation of dying within alght of a crucifix chapman. whoae real namn wax Ceoik. Chartrea. the aon of a re *pecl a lile family, walked quietly lo hU place in the blue chalk cir rle on the floor where the nooae wa* nd Justed. A few moment* later IH* life which had encom paxM-d ??ome of the moat *en*a tlonal crime* of the pant decade, ended PAY HOMAGE TODAY TO AKMIKAI. PKARY Waahington. April ft With fhe Byrd expedition to the North Polar region* hardly out of alght from New York, admirer* of the MfMT of Hear Admiral Robert K J'ear> aw polar explorer gathered today to commemorate the *even teenth anniversary of hi* dlacov 'ery of the pole Ifaelf, The ceremonlei were ?o be held at hi* tomb Iti .Arlington ceme tery. t.lld. Aft XT MfMttS A young Kill victim of unfor tunate circumstances arretted in company with a married man in a police raid on a looming home on North I'olntfexter aired about a month ago, and confined In the County Jail here tdnce. wa* *ent horn** to art uncle In another part of the Slate Tu? nday, on fundn provided for the purpoae by the Count y. Th?* man In the ca*e atlll If In jail here. He waa given a term of a year after hit arreat. Probe Of Shooting Fails To Unearth Clue Leading To Solution Of Mystery HOTEL CAMPAIGN MAKES HEADWAY ( uuiplt-linii of Organiza tion a> a Wltolr hI in iVrxl Day or So Quietly Iiiii steadily. th ? cum pnign under way here in lln.ini-e ? rwllon ol a 1 n ii reproof lpo-room ho|f| 1* steudil) ^aliiim; momentum. Tli?* Initial commit ? Ih* u?>:? I of $ I Oil ,000 was piiMi'd laic Inst -week. and th ? total ha-. Itfi-ll rising hlnwly evei silica. Itl?*ll) t>f|*N of till' e\?CUllvi? llOllltl report, thon?:li no niltlilionnl liu ures woie available 'tor puhlica Hon today. Opening of III:* plM'inl stock sales campnUn still is a fen day* oil, pending completion of i li 1 sale* organization. \V. Gai'h or. manager of Division "A. io< I ho organization, announces the appoint nioiit of John It. 1 1 ray. \\ . C. Sawyer anil !?*. \V Kelig an . group managers. Malinger K S. ; Toxey, of Division promised early announcement ?l his three group heads. and this will com plete that part of the organiza tion. Division.-; "II" and "l>" hav ing been formed several days ago. The next business on tile hales i program it* the selection of ten stock salesmen hy each of the group managers. or 120 salesmen in all, to solicit stork suhscrlp tions. Completion of this last r phase of the sale* organization probably will be announced Wed nesday, members of the commit - Ire declare. Tho general hotel exccutlv** j committee is meeting each morn ing at 10 o'clock at campaign headquarters to discuss the prog ram of tin* work, and lo work out details of I he general stock drive just ahead. SAYS GAG Hl'I.E IN TARIFF COMMISSION Washington. April 6. Gag rule is being used hy Chairman Mar vin In conducting debates on the Tariff Commission. Commissioner I lend Is, Demon at . charged today before the Senate tariff Investi gating committee. Under the present procedure, he said, two fifth* of the time al ? lotted lo debate la consumed by, Commissioner (Hassle, one fifth hy Chairman Marvin and ono fifth by Commissioner Coatigan. leav ing only one rift h for the other three member*. "I protected to the commission er for ibis sllpshop method of conducting the debate." he said. "Mr. l>ennis declared he had I been criticised by Chairman Mar- ' vln for writing President Coolidge at Swampscott about the straw hat case, while at the same Hme Chairman Marvin wrote the I'res Ident about tariff ca .en without the commission being advised. GOVERNORS Wll.l. MEET IN WYOMING Ilalelgh. April K Th?? confer ence of governors will he held In Chayonne, Wyoming, July 2f.-2K, according lo a letter recelfed by Governor McLean Mondny from (lover nor Itslph (>. Itr? water of Maine, and tin- North Carolina (Jovernor hopes to attend. Governor McLean has been asked to speak fin two subjects: Stale nuances and statutory plans for the governors' conference The program will l?o devoted primarily to a consideration of the increasingly difficult problem ? as to the proper line of demarca-l tlon between the activities of j siato and Federal Governments In the complex life of the day, ac cording to the Maine governor'* 1 letter. HEAVIEST RAINSTORM VISITS MIS ANGELES Lo* Angele*. April* A. l<o* An-' (tele* and the surrounding district t.iday began checking up on the profit and los* of the heaviest April rainstorm in more than 20 years. Although the rainfall wan looked upon as having been high ly beneficial It was not without Its damages, for highways were rwaabed out and inundated, tylna up automohlln traffic In many flec tion*. Trains were delayed for many hours by earth slides. in I lot; rt Ms Algier*. April 6 --Spanish avia-> tors who are endeavoring to fly from Spain lo Manila hopped off today for Tunis. i or TON M Ml K I I New York. April fl -- Cot ton future* opened today at the fnl- ' lowing level?.: May lf.lt, July 18 1 5 Oct 17. fct. Dec. 17.1*. Jsn 17 Ift New York, April 1 Spot pot ton closed quiet today, points un changed. middling l!? 20 Kutur.**. cloning bids May IK 67. .Inly IK I*. Oct. 17.ir>. Dec. 17.14, Jan.' 17 07. 1 Condition o f I mnmif , Mann. Waylaid on ; I land Highway, ronlinoca ' (Vilicul at l^K*al Hospital THEOKIKS ADVANCED | l'o**il?ilily of Jt'ulous Rival , for <?irlV Affrctiomi DU rartltnl for I -ark of Sup? | |H>rliiifz Kvidencf I Despite n day ami night of il I painstaking Investigation, and the j following down ot every clue that j presented Itxelf. the shooting of I Tom hi Ic Maun, of ihls rlty. on | I Newlaud Highway near Uerea 1 Chun li lute Sunday night was as J completely Hiiro udod In myst iff | lioday as ii li;?d been yfHlerdty i [ morning. I Mann's condition this afternoon J I was practically unchanged from j yesterday. Dr. John Sallba, ear- J geon In charge at the hoapllnl. ^ stated shortly after 3 o'clock, ex- | rept for the Tact that a cough J had developed. Tlila wan a rath* 1 er disturbing aymptom. us It J d lea ted the poaalhlltty that pnaUV'J lunula wak developing. Thd In- .1 Jured man Ih being attended by j1 Dr. Sallba and Dr. Zenga Fearing. 4 in Sallba statod that conUaojlfl telephone Inquiries at the honM^cj tal with regard to Mann's condl I t Ion hail become a source of con- j sUlerable bother and annoyance to the hospital staff. Inter rnptlajl ihe work of the nuraea and oth [era at all hours of the day and ? | night. He reminded that the P?r | pera would carry full reports af j his condition each day. and asked that ihe general public klndlf de sHt from Inquiries. The finding of a .2f? caliber pl*vj I t ol yesterday afternoon In th# 1 elnlty of the spot where the shoot I lug occurred gave the sheriff adit ' police renewed hope. Two h?l- | I ieta had been fired, and a third wait discharged by the finder, a colored man. ahortly after he picked It up by the roadside. The weapon is now in the hands of po lice. and they are seeking to ss lahliah the Identity of the owner, - hoping thereby to solve the rtye tery. ,J J.ackiug a tangible motive for a the attuck. Sheriff Char leg Car- j mine and members of the city po lice force had made little pro gress toward solution of the myar i| Itery. Mann, who Is in serious A ditlon at ihe Kllsabelh City Hospl- j tal from a bullet which had ' pierced his stomach and a lung. | was utterly unable to assist tho of I fleers with any information tend- i in k to ihrow light on the affair. | All day long yesterday and faV Into the night, the Investigation I proceeded, the authorities quee- i Honing everybody who might pos sibly. In their opinion, give a clue which might lead to an ussallMt who. In the blackness of midnight. Is saltl to have shot down Totnitole I Mann an he worked on u flat tire j near Herea Sehoolbouse. Ht 111 No Motive The possible motives, or rea- j son*, for the shooting were devel oped in the course of the day*s in- I vest (gallon. The first was that vi >ii ii k Muitii had a rival In his at tentions to Miss Huth overman. Ilvltiu near Herea Church, whom | ho railed upon oil the night of the shooiltiK The girl, however, de clared that that was out of the , question, slating In response to re | (waled questioning that she had | no especial suitor, and w as qnlte ; sure that there was nobody who vwoild have attacked Mann over | his occasional calls at her home. ] The second theory was Ihet Mann was shot by mistake, his as- | salient, in Ihe deaae darkness, t a k I ii k him for someone elae. The recent attack on young Bone* Turner, living In the Herea nelch- j I bo r hood, waa cited In defease of ibis version of Ihe shooting. Tur- | I ner was strurk down at the road side, under circumstances nearly j Ls myaterlotis as those surronnd- j lug the attack on Mann. ... j I The fact that whoever shot Mann did not make knowp his identity, ao far as can be learned* Mm taken by some of ihe Inveetlga- 1 tors as lending probability to thla [ theory. So far as could Us -i learned, Mann didn't tyave an ??? J einy In the world. The third theory, too fantmiCllv ? perhaps, for aerlous consideration, lis that In the Her. -a rommUBlty there stalks at times some wnrpaa^l individual with a mania for de?4s J of violence. It may be a ,r ?; i -/?-?' I lot (j homicidal impulses I ?hieli he cannot control, perhapg ^ by reason of overindulgence Hi tl? 'a fir ry moonshine liquor which > (known to flow more or less freely In the woods and swamps ?MM| fringe the community. thaJ^H who Incline to this theory Sneh an individual. out In the blackness of the and striking down lnnoc?*?|^M sons to sate hU lust for vloletej* offers a picture out of ' ?'.named aa pa#s
The Daily Advance (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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April 6, 1926, edition 1
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