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SISTER OF LOCAL DENTIST SHOOTS SELF THRU HEAD Mrs. T. 1). Maness, of Con-; cord, Sister of Dr., Wil- 1 liani Parker, Inflicts, Probably Fatal Wound AT BROTHER'S HOME Act Attributed to Despond ency Over Death of Hus band Last Fall; Had Been jon Visit Here ^ Despondent over the death ol her husband, which oc curred last fall, Mrs. T. D.l Maness, of Concord,, shot her self through the head at the home of her brother, Dr. Wil liam Parker, dentist, on Riv erside avenue, this afternoon shortly before 2 o'clock. She; was still breathing at 2:30[ o'clock, but no hope was held forth for her recovery. Mrs. Maness, about 45 years of | aue, had been visiting Dr. Parker for about a week, together with a sister, Mrs. A. H. Wicks, of Rich mond. Mrs. Maness had been in | 111 health for several month*, and her brother and sister had hoped that the change of scene and sur- i rounding* would benefit her. Mrs. WickH had just gone into the front yard for a pitcher of water, when the report of the weapon, a German automatic Lu ger pistol, rang out. T. J. Mark ham, attorney, who llveg Just across the street, also heard it, and together they hastened Into the hotiae. They found Mrs. Man ess lying stretched out on the floor, the pistol beside her. Appar ently she had shot herself through tho mouth, the bullet Issuing through the top of her head, which wn? badly mangled. Physicians were summoned hastily, and Doctors F. Fearing, C. B. Williams, It. L. Kendrlck and Howard J. Combs arrived In a few minutes. Although Mrs. Maness apparently was beyond medical aid, they went to work at once In an effort to restore her to cons ajnusness. f Dr. Parker Is highly popular Ihrre, and the entire community ^as shocked and saddened as new* of the tragedy spread through the City this afternoon. ?? Look Happily Toward Tuesday Night Affair "GobIi. can wo really wear, knickers to the party? Say that'll be great! " Thus did a resident Country Club member express himself In regard to tho freedom and infor mality to be tho keynote of the Vacation Entertainment at tho club Tuesduy night. It Is a simple Idea but one that scorns to be uni versal In its appeal, ? that of suit ing the party to the guests Instead of the guests to the party. No suf fering males are expected to ap pear In the hot-weather martyr dom of "blled" shirts and the la dles are equally at liberty to be comfortable. Members of the club who do not dance have declared themselvos de lighted at the prospect of an even ing of entertainment In which thoy will have full part, while thoae who trip the light fantastic will have their utual opportunity to Indulge In this popular pastime. All kinds of fun to salt all kinds of people. ? and everyone In on the aecret predicts that the affair will be a bowing success. COMMUNITY REVIVAL . MAKES A FINE START ?The Community Revival at th<> ksvllle High School got off to1 aviood start last night. Several hundred people from all over the County wero present and every church south of the Klttbeth City Hertford Highway was represent ed by good delegations. Dan Mor-j gan is leading the choir which In a few days will be worth going many miles to hear. Rev. J. M. Everett, pastor of Salem Haptlst Church preached a splendid ser mon from the text "The fear of ( the Lord Is the beginning of wis- 1 dom." Rev. A. H. Crumpler. an evange- 1 list known far snd wide will ar- j tItc today and will preach tonight at the fl:00 o'clock service. Ileglnning Tuesday and thereaf ter he will preach at 10:00 a. m..i and st *:0? p. m "This Is a; I meeting for all denominations and ( i Wc crave the hearty co-operation j of ill the people of the oounty that 1 a splendid revival of religion may i [result s?ys Rev. W. T. Phlpp*. carton MAKKKt New York. July 2f. ? Cotton fu- " ?re* opened today at the follow-' Of level*: Oct. 17.M. Dec. 17.70, an. 17.77. Mar. 17.16. May 1 8.011. 1 N^w York. July 20. -Spot col Vflox' d Rteady. middling' 18.20, j ? Odranrr of 10 polnta. niluros! \mkut bid: October 17.8S. Dc ember 17.78, January 17.74, larch 17.84. May 11.10. Octet Of Devotees' Of Fickle Deity Land In Court I Klght admitted devotees of the | goddem of ehance, and one who j disclaimed interest in such, were , [haled before the bar In recorder's j I court Monday morning as the re- i I suit of a raid by police on a com bined poker, crap and "skin" | game In the woods back of the gas J j plant late Saturday afternoon. -j | The crowd included orte white man, Miller Taylor, who was lined j $10 and costs. The others were I colored. The negroes who pleaded guilty ; were John Davis Banks, Levy, Sprulll, Haywood Whltchurat, John Thomas Johnson, Willis j Whltchurat, Will Newby (alias Horse), and Isaac Brothers. Enoch , Williams, also colored, was arrest- j ed also, on the basis of an accu- ; nation that he had been in the \ game before the officers arrived, j but denied the charge. John Thomas Johnson was the j only one of the defendants who] claimed Williams was a partici pant. The others, when ques- j Itloued, answered evasively. I*ack- j | Ing support for Johnson's testi mony, Trial Justice Sawyer dis missed the charge against Wil liams. A case auainst Cardwell White- 1 hurst, colored. In which ill* de fendant was charged with itosses [slon and sale of liquor, was con tinued to Tuesday morning when the defendant demanded trial by ,a Jury. A quantity of liquor was 'alleged to have been seized by po ll ice in a raid on his home on' (Shepard street. I Will Overton and A1 Divers, charged with an affray resulting from an argument over money, were lined $5 and costs each. It ?appearing that neither had suf fered serious Injury in the cn I counter. A suspended sentence of four months in Jail was imposed on j Marvin Sample, charged with 'abandonment and nou support of jhls wife, the suspension being | made conditioned upon his paying her 17 a week for her support, with the case left open so that the amount might be Increased later. If that was found advisable. Will Horton, submitting to -a charge of simple drunkenness, was lined |C and costs. The docket was concluded with two tax cases, in which Itichard N'ixou and Nathaniel Drickhouse, both colored, were charged with failure to list their earthly posses sions with the constituted authori ties. They were let ofT upon pay I nient of the taxes and court costs. MOODY MAINTAINS HIS LEAD IN TEXAS I Dallas, July 26. ? Dan Moody, attorney general, maintained a I majority ot 1,145 over the Hold m the Democratic gubernatorial race when returns from 238 of the 250 counties in the state, including 56 complete, had been tabulated to day. He had a lead of approxi mately 110,000 votes over "Ma" Ferguson, his nearest rival. Dalas, July 26. ? Attorney Gen eral Dan Moody is leading all op poneut* in the Democratic primary and Indications arc that he will win the nomination. I^ate last night returned* gave him 338,957, and Mrs. Miriam Ferguson 230. 095. The three other candidates I were trailing in the background, and Moody led his total opposi tion with enough votea to win. j jTheso returns, however, are not | complete. I ' The primary In Texas Is equal to !an election and Mrs. Ferguson,; I had xald beforehand that she; would step out of the guberna torial at once If Moody won the (primary. | I'LULIC HKHK l.WITKD TO OPKNI.\(l OF HOTKI* I Every one in Elizabeth City is j Invited to attend the formal open- ( i InK of the new Garrett Hc?t?*l In | lAhoskle tomorrow, the Invitation ! having been tendered by J. Hay- ? I wood Duke, manager, who Ir a well known Ellaabeth City youngs- j Iter and the son of Mrs. Msmiei I Duke, who operate* the Duke Inn. | The festivities will begin early I In the morning. During the day, there will be muaic, and refresh-, inents will be served ail comers, j A dance will bo given at night. ' j Inasmuch as this Is his home (town, Mr. Duke Is especially de-[ slrous of welcoming all from Ell* 'abeth City who can possibly at - 1 | trnd the opening. The Garrett, i Hotel Is a #54 -room structure, and ! is described as one of the most j attractive In the Htate. j The office furniture for the Oar jrett Hotel was mado and Installed t>y the Grlggs-Forbos Furniture Company of this city. Mr Forbes t having just returned after com-' jpletlng the Jolt of Installing the j furniture. ri<A **?*<) FOR FAIR Plans for the District Fair to be held here In October wll be taken up at a meeting of the board of di rectors of the Albemarle District Pair Association, to be held at the Tharmber of Commerce Friday ?night at I o'clock. Mr?. J. Htuart Hopkins of Rich mond Is the gaest of Dr. and Mrs. : H. H. Templemaa on West Main ,street. SON OF LINCOLN DIESATSUMMER VERMONT HOME Robert Todd Lincoln Had Served ait War Secretary,1 Minister to Great Britain and President of Pullman OF RETIRING NATURE ! Death of Father Saddened Him, and He Feared Peo ple Might Think He Was (Capitalizing Kinship Manchester, Vermont. July 26.' Robert T. Lincoln, only surviving son of t'resideut Abraham Lincoln. , was found dead In bed at his sum- . mer home here today. Hi? death was discovered by ser- j vants who went to call him. Mr. ; Lincoln who had served as Secre tary of War, minister to Great llri- 1 tain, and for years as president of llhe Pullman Company, of late had been in feeble health. lie would have been eighty- three years old on August 1. Fate and circumstance so united that Robert Todd Lincoln, last of" itho Great Emancipator's Immed-; i iatc family to bear the name, was . present at the assassination of two 'American presidents and within | sound of the shots that mortally wounded a third. When young Lincoln wati grad uated from Harvard iu 1864, his father grautcd his request to en j tor the Army. As a captain and member of General Grant's staff, he witnessed the fall of Petersburg and the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox. Hurrying to Washington, the captain arrived there on April 14 and gave his father the first defi nite news of the surrender. On the evening of the same day, he w as in Ford's theater when John Wilkes Booth shot and fatally wounded the president. Later In life. Lincoln, although | adverse to holding public office, | became secretary of war in Presl , dent C'urfleld's cabinet. He was supposed to accompany the chief (executive on a trip to the New England states, July 2, 1881, but a lust minute development pre 1 vented. He went to the station to j explain Just as Gulleau shot Gar field. Lincoln wan among tbo many prominent men Invited to the Buf- ' falo exposition In 1901 and was nearby. September 6, when I/eon j Czoloaz. an anarchist fired twlco ' at President William McKlnloy from close range, one of the bul I let's causing the executive's death ! eight days later. After this, Lincoln avoided pub- 1 I lie association with presidents and, ?once, when a friend asked If he. would attend a presidential func -I i Hon. he replied: "No. I'm not going and they'd ' ! better not invite roe, because thero ( ,ls a certain fatality about presl- g dcntlal functions when I am pres ent." Hobert was Abraham Lincoln's first child, born August 1, 1843 In Springfield. Illinois. He not only was the eldest of five chil dren. but he outlived them all. Be ; i foro attending Harvard, he was a . student in the University of 1111 'nols and Philips Academy. Exeter, New Hampshire. inheriting virtually none of the I physical characteristics of his! father, Lincoln also was widely different In other respects. He pre- 1 ferred the practice of law to poll tics and the glamor of public of* 1 flee and finally became head of ; the Pullman Company after being ; > Its counsellor for many years. Besides sorrlng In Garfield's ; cabinet, however, Lincoln was mln-' later to Great Britain four years under President Harrison. Pre- j viously, he had been mentioned for l he presidency, but discouraged efforts In his behalf. His retiring nature sometimes ' made it appear to msny that he' was taciturn, but hla close friends j described him as a "warm-hearted, lovable, chsrmlug gentleman." He was a delightful conversationalist, a great reconteur and If he knew his companions well, he would talk without reserve. "I think that In his early days those who met him talked so much about his father and expected him to chat on the subject that he withdrew Into a shell of reticence. ( the protecting confines of which he was capitalising the fact he was the president's. ' On September 24, 1868. he mar-; rled Miss Mary Harlan, daughter of James Harlan, who served as senator from Iowa. Three chil dren were born to them, twn'glrls and a boy. Jack Lincoln, who died while attending school In France. Killed By Live Wire Hickory, July ii.?C. Hussell Pope, aged 28, lineman for the Southern Power Company, was Instantly killed today when he came In contact with a llvn wire. Her. M. F, Booe has returned after flatting relative* at Win ston Salem and Lonlsvllle. Ken tucky. He was accompanied to | Lou la villa by Mrs. Bo# who will Horrors of 1 jcike Denmark Catastrophe Pictured By Local Boy Who Was There Injured While Aiding in Rescue Work , II illiam Winsloic Heturns How II ilh lirii/tliic Account . of Terrible Uinatter in \cic Jerwy llill.s A TlvM Ami-hand aerouut or the I terrllle catanlrojihe hi Iji,,. iv... ' n7 j?>- ?n y 10. in which inore thau lou ! ssas SSSTSgftf wmcr. *'u?r : ?nd roll.-u ouu ' "" ;ro^::K.^rr;ur;' low. or thlH City A, h. .^Ar'v'T:. ?' Co?.|.a?> .. tnitcH from the fat?-d i' 14 annual .1 i^l .. ^"veruiuent . 141 l-akc Deiim j|L ?j kllOWU to IllM lr. . a,h- Mc 'S "Bill." "ItllUu IKTO us ?b,'u,,'cul,V,W"tlh "truck Kli? wh,!? nc,y.1^olr;"?, BMmm sFS sSrH?"? he "If 1 WI,t-n asked about It. dII I had. 1 would,. t b., here Kin BU"< *"*?'? t ill TNT Vk ^'"'"ark. loaded with I * ? the deadly iinunrfni " little dlsianct. " 0 i'l',r" ??or. he al.Ted.VhZ wa.T" U"; "."dd,n^^r ~^fuV7'r> -Matin. No.' l .Y.o^ad"*^ re.n"!?'."d l",1"Un,,M'r ?' "" others, ?*3 S-5 - h.Jrr/?^"n CltHt'C" '"U N- V"rk iiKim 1 .11 f?r Aw teerl for'^ "" ',,r *?lun ?trlcKen area'Tiid 'b|[|"'w" 1,10 tho.. wh? ' j'"!"' "he". "n^Z.'rH" """ g&mml MraSsR2S| Blaze of Decidedly Unusual Origin Occurs Here A blaze or <1r?ui<*dl> unuuunl origin i?r?? v ld<?d (In- occasion for a hurry-up visit of ltrem<-n to the hom? of Tom Williams. at _ 1*1 rat and Cyprog streets. yes t? rday luornin;; at 4:15 o'clock, in tlic midst ol a midsummer wind and rain storm. An electric ll^lit win- had rubbed auainst a h?h pip'- until the Insolation on I li?> wire li.nl h?en worn away. Then the heat ol the wire had melted the |d|ie ? iitflolently (or conwiderablr krm t?? etieape. The hot wire also I limited the cms. and It wai hurii , Iiik uierrlly when firemen ar I riv?>d. The lire w?h put out with Utile or no damage having i resulted. Assistant Fire ChP-f D. Cuy | Itrockctt stnt? d thin moiuiiii; I that In hla many years' experl I i tire In llrell^htini: here, lie had known or only one oilier 11 n* rauaed in that way. that being | in the kitchen of the home o( I W. C. Dawson, manager of the i Kliza belli City Coca Cola Ilott I ling Works, beveral months a?o. | STATU AGAIN M:\I>N ? IX TRAFFIC HKATIIS ' Atlanta, July 26. ? Traffic cx I acted a toll of 1 & 7 Uvea and lit jjnrcd 1,031 jhtsoiih in 11 Soutli ItTii States during Iho period from ' Juno 2K to July 25 Inclusive It wan revealed today in a survey of the South by the Aimoeiated l*re?H. ; North Carolina led all Southern Hi a to* In tho number killed with 22, cloKey followed by Floridu with 1 21. The Tarheel State however hfcd only 4 4 Injured. ? men, women ami children? ! were wandering about, shell aliocki'd, dazed and oul of their heads. The* sheila went olT a few at a time, not in a line, a * when ? fired froM a Kim. but spinning ov I er and over, and screaming lior j rlbly. The explosions lasted four and a half days. Haw Officer Killed I ?Tho worst thing I Haw was [ the death of Lieutenant Bd. : Ratchford. He whm with our party I when Magazine 108 went up. Juat 1 before tho explosion ho went to | the entrance of the magazine to look for another lieutenant who | waa missing, and had laat been Keen in the doorway. He heard tho f u*es sizzling, and turned to run, knowing the magazine was > about to explode. He fore lie had I gotten far. it went ofT. A shell caught him In tho back. All we ; ever found wag hi* legs." It wan that explosion which put in motion the atone that put Hill j out of the running. He wan taken to the Hrooklyn Navy Yard Hos pital, and wan released after bin injuries had been treated. He then returned to Dover, leaving there laat Thursday for home. There were many freak happen* lngs during the disaster, according to this Kilzabeth City boy. For Instance, a 16-Inch shell, hurled by one of the blasts, wan picked up In the streets of Uutler, New Jersey. 18 miles from I.ake Den insrk. A watcii Identified an hav ing belonged to one of the army officer* who lost bin life In tho catastrophe wan found fivo miles from his body. The dainake to Government property alone wan fixed by an of ficial board of Inquiry la*t Friday at $129,000,000. The catastrophe is without parallel In the peace* time history of the Nation. Here Is The Prize Winner For "THEY NEVER KNEW" Now You Try One What wa? it "They Never Know." Her* ah* dome of the anaw<ra aubmitted by Advance render* in anawer to Haturday'a otter of 91 for tho bout "They Never Knew." "They w ore klaalng each other Rood nl^ht, but H?ey Xever Knew the old man was watching." "They wlnlcd at her an ?h?- pAa*?>d. bill They Sever Knew that Hubby waa rlKht behind tli?m." Here la today'a prlsewlnner: "They put a tack In the b-ucher'a alio** but TTwy Knw Knew ahe had a cork leu" The 91 Roea to Mlaa Mille M Mellck. 102 Colonial Avenu". Now you try one before foinorrow'a Advance goea to preaa. "They N<?ver Knew" la the title of Tom Mima" uproarloualy fun ny atrial which beglna In Th?> Dully Advance next Mtaday, What waa It "They Never Knew"? Write il lo the "Th? y Never Knew" editor of The Addvance In one ahort aentence and win the |1 tomorrow. DARE FOLK BUSY PREPARING FOR HISTORIC EVENT I'irr .'JIM) IVrl Long Itoin^ ErrclfMl at I'oint Nrar < H<l I ml Kalci^li. for Landing <? I (irnwdn llAlt lBKOFITKKIIINC? Kiitriiaiimiciit I loitimil l?*r h'lH (loiM'fHhioii for I'imiI iiifi W illi I iHl(>i>laii(liii^ AImmii Prirro ltoanoke Island uii?l nil Dart' Counl.v arc astir with pre para I ions for Home Coming W'-ik, whirl) will bei;iii Monday. AiikiisI 10. ami whose principal event will he t !? ?? observance of Virginia Dare Hay on Wednesday. the ISth. reports D. Victor Mcokln*. of this city, publicity ehnirnian for the event. Mr. Meekins has jUHt returned from a trip to Manteo and otlier parts of the Inland. Work was In^un today on the erection of a pier 300 fe?'t long and 10 feet wide olf old Fort Ita lelgh, where tin Virginia Dare Day events will he Halted. Mr. Meekins Million net ?*. adding that the throiiUH of visitors expected there that day will land at that point, for the most part. Als:?, a speakers-Hand Is bHnc hnllt eln??? by the bite of tilt- illicit lit fort. The cn(ertalnmntit rum mil tee for Home Coming NVcek* headed hv Miss Mahel A. Kvans. of Man* teo. Is preparing to entertain -loo official visitors on Virginia Dare's anniversary. These will Inelude Sir Ksnie Howard, Ilritish ambas sador to the United Stales and principal speaker of the day. CSov ernor Mcl?ean and former Gover nor Morrison, of North Carolina, und many other notables. There will be no profiteering in ' eatables and drinkables ? at IpunI, of (ho legal sort ? on Iloa nokr iHlaiirl on I ho ilay of tho big celebration. the rommltto In charge having looked after that by letting the concession for fending the visitors to a Mauteo concern with a strict understanding as to tho prices to be charged fni* va rious Items. Sandwiches, for In- 1 stance, will go at 10 cents each, j and cold soda will be sold at the ' name figure. Ice cream cones will detnund a nickel only. in order to Mnn adeqnato fa cilities for those who decide to. Spend additional time in the hls-~ torlc and scenic lower sound coun- j try. hundreds of residents of tho ! Island have agreed to throw open, their homes to them, to supple ment Mauteo's limited hotel and boarding house facilities. Rea sonable rates are guaranteed by the committee on arrangements. Adequate boat transportation from this city to Roanoke Islnnd ' Is promised. Heverul strainers al- i ready been arranged for. these In cluding the Annie L. Vansclver, of the North River Line, the Trenton. ' of the Rklttrtl Carolina Transpor tation Company, and the O. J. Jones, of the Wancheso Line. Oth ers are being held in reserve, to lie speedily pressed. into service If they are needed. Arrangements have been com pleted with the assistance of Com mandant Coontz. of the Fifth Na val District, at Norfolk, for the 24 I piece Naval Rase Rand to supply melody for the celebration. The Kllzaheth City's Roy'g Hand Is ox- ' pected to attend also, though rath er In the capacity of youngsters on an outing than as musieul enter tainers. TESTIFIES ABOUT COST SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN Chicago, July 2?. Frank L. Smith testified toda> before the ; Senate campaign committee that bis successful fltylit for the Illinois Republican Senatorial nomination c#st approximately $250. 000 of which Samuel Insult, Chicago traction magnate, guv tlOO.OOO. Charges reported to the Senate by Senator Caraway, Democrats of Arkansas, were that Smith's cam paign bad cost 92,000,000 and that more than 11.000.000 had been spent on behalf of Senator! McKlnley, defeated. IMNOHOT AI>I)I(ESSES GOVEKNOHS' MEETING Cheyenne. Wyo., July 26. ? The United States Is faced with three outstanding problems, law i enforcements, conservation of nat ural resources, and control of na tion-wide monopolies, Governor i Clifford IMnchot of Pcnnsylvnltt told the Twentieth Annual Confer ence of (lovernors In an address to day. He classed law enforcement as the "moral problem of the nation" and conservation of nstnral re sources as the greatest economic problem of the United State*. j Sixteen governors snd their famlllea were present for the Ini tial session. Mm. R. L. Barnes of lllehmond and l)r. It. L. Iludftins of Karm Vllle, Virginia, have returned home after being the guests of l>r. and Mrs. ft. H. TM&jjJemsn. MeetNMr. Weed Tli la, gentle reader, Is Jlmpson , Weed, dashing stylist and inun aboiit-tnwn from Onieoiiiy, Ohio, j He la t !??? Iieru of one of tin- crr?t- i eat adventures ever recorded. H started wIk'H lie due ii|i a well for > doughnut hole# a nd f >*11 Into (he ' well while he wan carrying It. Then lie fell in love. Ihm. rally, ' you must rend "Tliey Never . Kin-w." It starts in The Advance 1 next Monday. Feminine Motorist Mixes Pedals And Crash Results A feminine driver who mistook 1 the low gear pedal for the brake' on her Ford sedan, crashed into the rear of a luuKy this ninriniiK I shortly after 11 o'clock, knocking! to the Krouiid two elderly gentle men. K. V. Davenport and J. J. White, and hreuktiiK one of the. hraccH beneath the body of the v? hicle. Neither o| the two men were liurt. The accident occurred on Mar- ; till atreet. Inside the M. I.cIkIi Sheep woman's wear stoic. Tli?' lady driver had driven up. Intend ing to park there, when shu no li eteil the wrong pedal. She wu?; accompanied b> another young woman, and each wan convoying a Hinall child. The two ladlea promptly accompanied Mesara. Davenport and White to 11 repair shop, and paid for the damaue to the buggy. Doth ladles declined to give 1 their names, saying they were , afraid their hiiHbands would beat them if ttiey learned of the acci dent. Not wlHhlng to he a party to anything like that, the repre sentative of The Daily Advance who covered the tuuashiip dropped the matter (lieu and there. The car waa from out of town. Messrs. Davenport and White were In the act of placing a hinall seeding implement In the buggy when the crash occurred, on*' be ing on each Hide of the vehicle. Itotli declared emphatically that they were DOt hurt. ? Nags Head Party Hits Rough Seas Kxcurslonlttls who Journeyed to Nag* Head aboard the Htoamer An nie L. Vaniclvrr y<*t?r<i?)r found It exceedingly rough going on the I rip down, whim they encountered "The Alligator," outside the mouth of I'aaquotank Hlver, they reported upon their return la*t nlRht. Whipped by n stiff wind, "The Alligator" wan a i?uh* of frothing waters aa the Vanaclver enaayerl the trip acroxn Albemarle Sound. It whkii'I long before parking apace at the d?rk rail wan at con- 1 nlderable premium; hut In the | inidat of tin; trip, a huge wave broke over the rail, drenching a number who had c? an? d to care, : for the tluie being, what happened next, and knocking over a number of othcrn who w? re Fitting In chair* on the deck. The rough weather Hubalded af ter "The Alligator" had been paMHi'd, and the remainder of the trip was serene enough. For the Information of thoae who are unfamiliar with the wat er* between here and Naga Henri, "The Alligator" In that troubled m pot In Albemarle Hound where rlnah the waters of I'anfjuotank Itlver, flowing south, and of Alli gator Hlver, IIOMr.ng northwardly out of th?> moonithinlng terrain of Hare County * mainland. CHAM OKI) I KIAL HAS HKMN THIIID MKKK Albcmarl?\ July 2*. - Delayed In opening for more than an hour thlft morning ln-caiiae of hi-av> rain, the trial of N. C. Cranford, charged with murder of two ron vlct*. began Its third we#?k at 1 I o'clock. Haywood Parker, former guard, t'-ntlfW'd that the <- barge* that Carl M? Hdown, whM?> priaoner, db d of Cruelty were untrue, Kour phyalclana were next sworn by the defenae. Parker told the Jury he came to testify i umtummori' d m he wan anxious | to refute the charge* aaainat Cran ford. ? COOLIDGE SAYS TREASURY SHOWS WHAT IS WHAT I'oinl* Significantly to Rec ord* A* Ik'nt Answer to Dinpiitc Between Mellon and Britinh C.haneellor WHY BOKBOWED? (irncral l^urimM* of Proa? ruling the War Wan Heal Kcumoii and U. S. Did Not Demand Accounting Ity l?AVII> I.AWItKNCK '* J ibtli'iKI l?.'? Br rii Paul Smith's N. Y.. July 2?.? ('resident Cool id ne rather Hignld ranlly points to the records In the Treasury Drpurtment us the beat answer to the dispute that baa arisen beween Secretary Mellon and the British chancellor of the exchequer over the manner la which the money lent by the Unit ed States to (ireat Britain during the war was spent. The qucittlon has become com plicated because In (ireat Britain a certain Impression has always been cultivated liy British officials to The effect (but borrow lugs from America were simply to cover ad vances made by the Brltlah to their allies. The fact that the ef fect of the transactions was to bot ster up British exchange may be a subject for debate merely as an academic matter. The truth la that the money was borrowed, from tlic I ' uited StatcK for the gen eral purpose of proaecutlng the war and certain Mtutemcnts were made to the Treasury officials at that time as to tho purpose of the borrowings. Some of these stats men t s were oral and soma In writing, but they all constitute a record to which Secretary Mellon has hud acceas and on which his public pronouncements are based. if the present British government discovers In Mr. Mellon's state ment various thliiKs that It I ( booses to term "Inuccuraclee," then the conclusion in Inescapable that the British records do not 'correspond with the statements made on this side of the Atlantic during the war. This Is not altogether surpris ing because, artcr all, the United States did not demand any ac counting from the Brltlah as to what was subsequently done with I the funds udvanccd. Much or the money was spent In America In connection with munitions and food purchases. Some of it may have been used to pay Intereet on I private loans previously floated by I the Britlnh In America. The point ' Im that il was possible for the funds to be trauferred from one I place to another In tho Intricate ' process of financing whlrh devel oped between (Jreat Britain and the United States on the one hand betwoen the British and their al? lies on the other. What the British officials desire to have their own people think was the statue of British credit during the war. is one thing and what actually happened to the money after American officiate wore told the general purposes of the loans may be quite anotber. . British officials now are saying .that but ror the loans thoy had to I make their allies the l*ondon gov ernment would havo been able to finance its own part In the war without borrowing from America. There Is no accusation against the British for presenting their own version of the loan transactions. ?Nor would any controversy have arisen If the British had not at this time desired to make It cleat that they are more generoes to ward the Allies. es|>cclally the f French, than Is tho United Statee ; Government. Tho upshot of the controversy will bo the publication of all the record*. Tho first thing that will happen when Congress rnrnnrPn? will bo tho adoption of a i '?solution < a! Unit for all communications and data on the subject. llad It not horn for thin dispute the Hocretgrf of tho Troasury would hare been compelled by International court csy to ssy that It waa not "com patible with the public Interest" to make known the detalla of the correspondence. Hlnce Great Bri tain ha* publicly (mentioned the American records, the Treaanrj Department will be compelled to make all the documents In Its poa session In deference to the wlab of Congress. Thoro Is (tome talk of making public the records now but th? dla ponition Is to aee how far action will he forced by the public ntato meots of the Mrltlsh Treasury. The w hole thing merely an > ? nmple of bow Kovornmente ara compelled for political reaiiona to toll tholr people one thing slid idora across th#? a*M sonio thin* else. an the true motive . for their acta. PHYSICIANS STUDY CIIIIJIKKN'S woes Halndit, July **. More tMII 75 phynklans from al'parts of thai South were here today attending the anntia aeealon of the Southern Pediatric Seminary held for th? pnrpoee of atudylng children's dis eases
The Daily Advance (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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July 26, 1926, edition 1
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