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VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING, Jl'LY 6. 1923. ' EIGHT PAGES. NO. 155.
WONT HESTIT ATE ]
TO USEVIOLENCE
New Federal?'<1 Furmer-Lal>or
Parly Would Wrest .Control j
of Government by Fair
Means or l>v Foul It Seems |
Chicago, July *?.?Any
may used in o ~ J
control " of the Government by the
m; Federated Farmer-Labor party,
cr. aled - here laRt niuhl. lt is "Indlcat
? d today in the tabling of a resolu-|
tlon bv the convention which would
have excluded any croup frnm its
platform which advocated force or
- violence -ftr- which in any _&-ay affil
iated with an organization that
sought iK)littcid?sttlisfaetjon ? e*e~H~
through the ballot.
The platform of the n?w party is
described as "too r?'d. communistic,
bolshevik, and radical for even the
radical state of Wisconsin" to ac
cept.
Chicago, July 6.?The Federated
Tarmer-I^abor i?arty with a platform
under the leadership of the Workers
Party of America, was born yestec=
, day, the Farmej--Labor party refus
ing to participate.
Gary Sees End Of
Twelve Hour Dav
tn> The AuarUlrti" l'rr*?.l
New York, July 6.?Entrance in
to the lrnlted States of a labor sup
ply from Mexico, the Phllliplneg.
Canada, and a few European coun
tries soon will make possible the
abolishment of the 12-hour day in
'the steel Industry. Elbert Gary,
chairman of the board of the t'nlted
States 'Sfeel Corporation announced
today. One of the most important
% factors In the increase of labor in
the steei industry seen by Gary was
the migration of negroes from the
South to manufacturing centers of
the North.
AUTO VOCABULARY
STRANGE ARltOAI)
Lansing. 'Michigan, July 6.?
Driving on the wrong aide of the
road, instead .of the right, isn't the
, only difficulty the American driver
will encounter if he goes motoring
abroad. After he has taken a few
,wda > to become accustomed to th?
?^ft-hand side of the highway, with
the perplexities of interesctlona,
- crossing* and -Uirn.s he will be ready
to undertake the study of the Euro
pean automobile -vocabulary, says
"H. S. Ix>rcf, Rales Director of the
Velie Motors Corporation at Molina,
Illinois.
"Flrlt he -will look about for a
filling station and the familiar ga*r
oline sign," says Mr. Lord. "But
Instead of 'gasoline' he'll buy 'petro'.'
in small cans of one and two gallon
capacity. He'll learn that tires are
spelled 'tyres' and that a casing Is
referred to as a 'cover.' Rear-seat
passengers are called 'back passen
gers' and a small touring car la
known as a 'Ave neater.' A truck
is a 'lory' and a windshield wiper, a
'screen cleaner.' A tonneau ahlel.l
la a 'rear wind screen.' Spark plugs
are 'sparking plugs' and a fender is
a 'wing.' The riding qualities of a
car are referred to as the 'springing'
and the starting crank is the 'han
dle. To "wind the handle' Is the
English manner of describing start
ing by hand.
"Just imagine an American ga
range mechanic, with his llnes?f me
chanical slang endeavoring to explain
*D automobile .ailment to one of his
British cousins."
SUSANNE LENGLEN
IS STILL CHAMPION
<n? The Aaaartatrd Pr*M.)
Wimbledon, July 6.?Ku^anne
? Lenglen of France today retained
her title as woman lawn tennis
champion of the world by -defeating
Mtaa Kathleen McKane. first ranking
English woman, In straight seta 6-2,
It.
EIGHT KILLER AND
THIRTY-EIGHT HURT
Wellington, Zetland. July S ?
Wight per?on? were killed ?nd 3* In
jured here yeaterday when the Auck
land-Wellington expreaa war derailed
near Taumaninua.
I NDERWOOD SEES
CAUSES FOR WAR
Washington, julr ?.?Senator Un
'derwnod declared here yeaterdav
that more cauaea exlat for war In
Ku'rope today than In January, 1114.
OUIET THIS WEEK
IN RUHR VALLEY
I London, July No freah derel
npmenn In the Ruhr ape expected be
fore next week.
DKMONHTIMTIO* KATITRIMY
Quite a number called at the M.
A O. Morrleette Furniture Company ou
Trldav morning to aee the demon
atratlon of the Chlmbera flreleaa gaa
range. The d'-ninnftratlon will al
io be glren on^Hatnrday from 1? a.
m till noon.
DANIELS DENIES
NO SABOTAGE TM.E
New York. July 6.?There
plenty of evidence of sa
botag" when the Leviathan
was taken over by the 1'nited
State, former Secretary of the
Navy Daniels informed the
New York Times today in a
t-i'"T:?ni from La junta. Ca 11 i
fornia.
COTTON fROP IS
UNUSUALLY GOO!)
(loibidrrinu Planting Seas
on*, Especially* Says Frank
ParUer of I In1 Slatp i>cparl
nient of Agriculture.
Haleiuh. Julv 6?"The cotton crop i
of North Carolina is unusually prom
ising considering the planting seas-I
ons and is the largest In its history." I
according to a statement issued here :
today by Frank I'arker. statistician!
of the co-operative crop report ser-j
vice of the 1'. S. and N. C. Depart-]
ments of Agriculture. The report is
based on information received from;
26 counties of the State^
-With the acreage at 103 perecnt." |
says the report "North Carolina
shows the least increase of any
state, ft is reported that the in
crease Would have been more had
the April report not been given pub
licity^ That re#ort showed the same
acrea'ge per cent according to the
planting intentions of several thou
sand cotton farmers. It is further
recognized that It was the specula
tor who suffered most by that 'In
tentions' report, _ which indicated
prospective planting.
"The present condition of 80 per
cent of a normal per full crop pros
pect for 256 pounds per acre, if ap
plied to the 1.7030460 pound acres
means that the crop might be ovri*
910.000 (bales if the state conditions
remain fiavorable. The boll weevil
and adverse weather conditions mu>*t
Ibe reckoned with before the early
frost gets its share. These figure.*
are based on conditions now and do
not include any but favorable In
fluences to follow. The last crop
made 250 pounds per acre and 851,
I 000 bains.
"There are estimated to have been
planted in the United States the
greatest acreage of any year. 38.287.
000 acres with a prospective yield of
,11.412.000 bales or 17 percent in
crease over the 19^2 production. The
presfirTTondltlon pfospeets are 1.3%
^below last year's report and s^x per
.cent below the ten yc^r average.
"The weather conditions ih North
(Carolina have ibeen unusually favor
'able for cotton during June. The re
cent rains have helped to relieve the
(drought that might soon have be
icome serious, even on cotton. The
! bool weevil has not become notice
ably bad but Its prpence and activi
ties are now cl&iitflng the attention
iof the southern cotton counties of
the state. The sands are pporest on
the stiff eastern soils and In the
northern Piedmont or clay belt. The
crop has grown and recuperated won
derfully during June."
DEMPSEY NEXT WILL
FIGHT HARRY WILIS
I Br Th?! AMhrlllrd PffM.)
Great Falls. Montana. July #?. ?,
Harry Wills, negro, probably will be
Jack Dempsey's next opponent. Jack
iKesrns. manager of the champion,
said today. Kearns will leave to
morrow for New York to clone nego
tiation* for the match probably on
TOabor Day.
THKY IIONT THINK MICH
OF VIRGINIA'S ROADS
Mrs. George J. Pitman of Delanro.
N. J. haa returned to her home after
a visit to Rev. and Mrs. Frank H.
Scattergood. Mra. Pitman went an
far aa Norfolk by automobile accom
panied by Mr. and Mm. Acattergood.
Mrs. C. W Melick. and Mrs. E. W.
Price, who returned Thuraday night
declaring that the worse road they
| had ever encountered was the
|stretch In Virginia from the Carolina
(line to Norfolk.
"Virginia does great boasting."
they said, "about her roads, but
there Is no road In the stste of Vir
ginia that Is as good ss those we've
got in North Carolina. Kven the
I roads they boast of are so bad that
they shake a car literally to piece*,
and their tbad ones are awful. A*
{for their boasts of roads soon to ex- 1
1st. we'll probably have passed on
,before they have them, at the pres-1
I ent rate. lt'a about time the pub
'lie realised how much talk there ;?
to Virginia's good roads and how
Uttle reality. We were rather proud i
of being North Carolinians when we
got home."
PLAN TO TRANSFER
EXTENSION WORK1
Raleigh, July %. - Recommenda
tions of the joint bosrd of State Col-1
lege and the State Department of
Agriculture for the transfer of the
extension work to the supervision of'
the college was approved yesterday
at a meeting of the State Board of
'Agriculture. ?
Dr. B. W. Kllgore, director of the,
work, and his Immediate staff will be
transferred soon. It was announced.'
and he will become dean of the I
School of Agriculture.
Hawaii's Tennis Star
William N. Eklund, single* ten
nis champion of Hawaii. wlio litis
won I he title seven limes and has
sixteen Hawaiian crowns In tennis
to his credit, lie la the United 1
States possession's best het for th?
Davis cup mutches.
THINK SOUTH IS
NOT INTERESTED
Negroes Leave Because They
_Bclieve White People Are
Not Concerned With Their
Welfare Says Dr. Alexander
Lake Junaluska, July ft.?Speak
Ins: before the Social Service Confer
ence of* the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, in session here. Dr.
Will L Alexander of Atlanta, secre
tary of the Commission on Inter-ra
cial Co-operation discussed the "Ne
gro Migration." Declaring that hark
of th? present ejj^dua aLlhe negroes
Ilea a dcfinitc^tffu widespread migra
tion phvschology, Dr. Alexander gave
what are in his opinion some of the
principal causes of the unrest among
negroes in the South. He states that
his facts were for the most part gath
ered in Georgia hut that similar con
ditionii existed in other Southern
states. North Carolina, Virginia.
Kentucky, and Tennessee, the states
Vhiclt^Jiavc done the most for the
rural education of the negro have
suffered less than the others from
the migration. Dr. Alexander assert
ed.
Commentlhg on the fact that In
the past^sj^e^-nmnths. approximately
500,00tf"' people have left the farms
of the South, the majority of whom
were negcocs. the speaker declared
that tlilft exodus was a continuation
of a movement which had been un
der way to some extent since the war
between the states. The last census,
lie said, showed a marked change In
negro population between 191o and
1920 a great drift away from the
rural-districts of the South. The cen
ter of negro population, he said has
drifted ID mttes north. -This drift.
accentuated during the period of in
dustrial expansion resulting from
the World War. ceased almost en
tirely during the post war period of
depression but with the revival of
business It has again set In and Is
now going forward with increasing
volume.
In the past. said Dr. Alexander, I
the movement has been from the ru-1
ral to the urban South and from
Southern to Northern cities, but the
present move In from Southern farms
to Northern Industrial centers. Deny-j
Ing that the preaent migratory move-,
ment In due for the moat part to la
bor recruiters. Dr. Alexander'attrlb-j
uted much of the unrest to a wide
spread discouragement among South
ern negroes. They can see little Im
provement In their present situation,
and they do not feel that Southern
people are Interested Irt them, he de
clared. And this state of mind Is sc-j
centuated by the present economic'
condition. Crop and market condi
tions ?lnce the World War have
brought a severe test to the South
ern farmers and the negro farmers
have, along with the others, fallen *
Into hard times. I,ate In 1922, said
the speaker. Northern Industries be
gan a program of expansion and by
early 1923 prosperity was announced
as at hand. The Southern negro was.
the only available supply of un-|
skilled labor necessary to Industrial
expansion and with the present stated
of negro psychology the migration
was Inevitable.
The desire smone negroes for ed
ucatlon for their children, according
to Dr. Alexander, has had a stronger
pull -than the lure of high wages and f
negroes who are going from the ruf-I
al South to the North are seeking'
better educational facilities and op-'
port unities for their chlfdrerf.
Nor do tbe negroes of the South
desire to aaaoclate socially with the
white people, asserted Dr. Alexander. '
Thfy d.0, boweyer. feel that the aeg
ragatlon laws often work an In/iks-'
tlce upon them In the matter of
street car seats and the like. As *i
matter-of (act. he said, the masses,
of the negroes In the North are as
far removed from the whites as they J
are ip the South. There are fewer
restriction* In travel, but negroes
live In negro neighborhoods, attend
negro churches and move In a negro
world. There la no evidence In the
North that the wiping out of color
lines Is even considered on the part!
of either the white or the negro
If negroes really feel that white
people hare lost Interest In them,
CURIOUS NOTIONS
ON BOI L WEEVIL
Some Folks Think They're
Eating 'Em Willi Their Snap
Beans and Their Blackber
ries Bhl They Aren't Bealiy
? Hjli'lkll. Jlllli1 6 fipM-i.i) iimuhiiM
n'Pt'lvpil by the State Board of
Health from widely separated sec
tions of ll><- StiiI?? indicate a fear of
the boll-weevil that is entirely tin
founded. Tin- SiiU'1 Hoard <*f
HeaTtfi |i a~d vising dial iKTiT pent
the cotton 4>laiXL_ia_ without danger
other than the damage which it does
to one of the State's leading farm
product*.
It does not infest fruits or berries,
ft or any of ihe .garden VrgrTaWr-s."
such as corn, beans, cabbage, let
' tuce. okra. tomatoes, or the like.
The only food that satisfies the ap
petite of this insect is the cQttoti
boll, and it eats this perfectly when
j young and tender, when the squares
; are Just forming.
Popular superstition has _en
J larged the field of activity of this i it -
[ sect which is causing a revolution
sin the agricultural - habits of the~
I entire South. In sopie sections the
i weevil is reported In ?the black
! berries. From another comes the
? report of having found It in the
Liiura. A far eastern "county attr
ibuted a serious illness to the weevil
,having been cooked along with some
snap beans. A Piedmont county
Uhought it was Infesting the cabbage.
In all instances a consuming fear
seems to huve taken* posession of
.some of the people leat the jboll
weevil t??e'their-lives.
In answering such inquiries
the State Board -of?Health, has en
? deavored to reassure those unduly
fearful with the definite -statement
that there Is nothing to fear from
the boll weevil except the partial
destruction of the cotton crop. The
insect Is not poisonous and Infests
only the cotton plant.
Central States Note
Increase In Travel
Chicago. July 6.?There hax been
approximately 14 per cent more
travel l?y touring automobiles
through the Central States, both east
and west hound, during the first five
months of this year than during the
correspond in u months of Ipat year,
according tq statistics compiled l?y
the Chicago...AilUunohlle Cluh.
During the-first five months in
1923_, 17,443 motorists registered at
the Chicago club, as compared with
15.J5.1 during the first five months
of 1923.
The answers to the call of the
road l?e>;an in January, when 1.960
tourists registered. This was 50 per
cent more than In 1922 when 1.308
tourists stopped at the cluh during
January. The travel continued hegVJ
during February, when 1.276 regis
tered as compared with 1.009 during
February. 1922. The March figures
were: 2,023 in 1923 and 1.594 In
1922. In April 3,916 registered as
compared with 3,862 In April, 1922.
The Increase Juni|ied again In May
when 8,268 tourists registered as
compared with 7.380 In May. 1922.
VETERANS WELCOME
HENRY FORD'S OFFER
;
Detroit. July 6. ? Disabled world
war veterans of (Michigan have wel
comed the offer recently made by the
Henry Ford Hospital and already
more than fifty are undergoing
treatment at the big Institution.
All of thf veterans are admitted
In the same manner as private pa
tients and are treated on exactly the
same basis. They are entitled to
and receive the tame quality of ser
vice and are distributed to the var
ious units In the hospital, according
to the availability of rooms.
The first thought was to open a
special unit for these men. but the
hospital officials on consideration
felt th*? men would 'be better satis
fied If they were distributed through
out the hospital with the other ps
tients and accordingly this plan was
carried out. I I
Arrangements for opening the
hospital services free of any charge
to all disabled veterans of Michigan
needing treatment were made a few
weeks ago at a meeting between Al- !
vln M. Owsley. National Comman
der of the American Legion. Henry
Ford. Bvtsel H. Ford, President of
the Ford Motoi* Car. and Df. Hark
ness. State Commander of the Amer- 1
lean Legion.
Another arrangement alao has
been effected between the Legion
and the Henry Ford Hoapltal where
by In extreme caaea of destitute fam
ilies of former service men thair
chlldrqp needing hoapltallxatlon will
He treated when designated by 4he
Legion offlrft
STTKMI < It % wroili) ( Ol Sl ll,
Ourney P. Hood. B. A. Sawyer. J.
? Corbet} and J. H. Hcarboro are at
tending the meeting of Crawford
Cotyfl, Junior Order^at ?*Mapl^.
said Dr. Alexander, only concrete ef
forts to Improve their condition will
restore their confidence and make
them believe that the Htiihtrn white
man Ir their boat friend.
^TWO KILLED IN
t PRESIDENT'S PARTY
I'OXALD t'ltAM.
Summer Curtis, representative
of the Republican Rational
Committee with the Presiden
tial touring party, and Thomas
French of Denver were killed
and Donald Craig, correspond
ent of the New York Heral*l(
and Thomas Dawson. Colorado
State historian and veteran
newspaper man, critically in
jured when an automobile
leaped an embankment near,
Denver. The victims were mak
ing a mountain tour and their
car plunged from the road into
Hoar Creek Canyon. _____
A Second Shutout
Handed ToFdenton
Another Game Today At Five
Woodhouse And Ballentine
To Battle On Mound
Hl/y.abeib City administered :i
second shutout to Kdenton Tliurs
Uav wtili .1 l to ?? aeora
' Cal Duvih tossed tlte hall most
effortively for Eli&aheth City. pur
mining only two hlu during tl???
nl?K' liming* of the game
Hollow.!i di'liverod the pill for
Kdi'titon in good style, allowing only
thi - ?? hit .
The two runa wen* made in tb?i
las' half or the ninth Inuiug. Sltfpp
kim< ken a iwo bagger after twodnen
wer?> out. Ciialkny fallowed li.in
with a krotiuiler too hot for Ilarrcli
on short ami Sliipp scored; !!???***
made (hi inliflil hit and advanced
Ch.ilkey to second. Truelilo<n|
drovi' one through Ifoitow. 11 and
Cbalkey sc?red while flo.ul went out
try.i;g to n::.ke the tlflrd tally at lb"
pli Tims ended one of the most
thi liing games of the season,
i Thnre has iho#-n a tvne of sports
manship in Kdeutun this year that
has seemed to think it great stuff
to win a game' with the umpire when
|It coilld not he done Otherwise. The
manager o^L-Uie Kdenton club Thurs
day however, said he didn't want
j victory that way when lie took his
own umpire out of the game follow
ing a bonehead decision during tb*?
beginning of the game.
When Manager Brockett's effort*
to get a Norfolk team here Friday
of this week failed, he arranged the
two extra games with Bdenton
i Nothing could havrf pleased Eliza
beth City fan* better and no rival
j team can boost attendance jab can
the Kdenton aggregation.
In the game at Ave o'clock today
I the tall and lean Woodhouse, with
his shining white teeth with which
he trie* to shatter the morale of
opposing 'batsmen, will shoot tlj?
ball over the pan for Edenton. Hal
lentlne, who proved himself one of i
the best twirlers seen on the mopnd
this season In the game of July
the fourth, will deliver the pill for
Elisabeth City. With the stores (
closing st 1 p. m. and with fans at |
Hertford and other nearby towns eg'
peeled In large numbers an unusu- I
ally large crowd wljl probably wit
ness what is expected to be another (
hard fought tight game. I
VOTE APPROiVAt OF
THE WORLD COURT,
Winona Lake, Ind.. July t? The
qualified approval of the World
Court was today unanimously voted
by the World Chrlstlsn Citizens con
ference h?-re, which sdopted a reso
lution urglnx American participation
In the court.
NO i KHKH TIMED
Two submissions made up the to
tal of police court docket cases dis
posed of by Trial Justice Hpence in
the recorder's court Friday morning.
Jesse Carlton for failure to stop and
E. ,M. Ferris* for operating a motor
car without license were each taxed
with the costs.
IMMIGRATION INdlKAllM
Ottawa. Ont., July t.?Immfcra
tlon Into Canada Increased 31 per
cent during the first four months of
1913 as compared with the same pe
riod a year ago. according to Jlgures
compiled by the Department of Im
migration and Colonisation
lvp to May 1, the figures show,
11,140 Immigrants entered the Do
minion to take up per man eat homes.
HARDING BEYOND
U. S. BOUNDARIES
Sail* on Marine Traiisport
Henderson for Alaska, Es
corted l>y Two American
Destroyers as Body (.aurds
tlti?Ttn1 H^?r tut t-tl fmtti)
Ship
July ??.? Hitriliut was beyond the
American lnuimlaries today '?njoyini:
Iif? ? at sim in comfortable cabins ami
on 11 of PlIi- marine transport
IfoTnt'Tunnv?
I'Ih- I'n-sldent Iff! Tacotua. Wash
iTTulon. > ? ? sf ? niay. accompanied by
Mrs Hardin-.: jtml members of his
Xlaskan pally timid (In1 salutes of
naval crat'l.
*?Knar lb** Henderson are two
officers who recently tna?l** charts of
tin* I'aciflc shore water depths. The
'attendance of the destroyers is due
merely to extraordinary precautions
.of the naval authorities to surround
the President with every possible
'safety during his voyaue.
,'Flames Wiping Out
Town bf Goldsfield
<loldsfleld. Nevada. July 6.?Fire
there today threatens to wipe out aev4f
l(HtHilockii of the town. Water and
'dynamite are being used to combat
t lie flames.
Reno. July 6.?All telephone and
telegraph lines are down ? and no
i communication has been had with
r.oldsfield since shortly after the Are
?Carted today. The last word re
el veil was to the effect that the
was spreading.
KHASSIN REMOVED
FROM DELEGATION
(IU Tti?- I'rrM. I,
T.oiidon. July II is officially an-*
nounced thai Leonid Krassln lias
lici'n removed uh h**ad (if the KuhhIhii
delegation In London. Hay* a Keuter
dlnpHlcl) from Moscow today.
WIDOW OF INVENTOR
GRAIN REAPER DEAD
C'licuuo. July r, Mr**. Nettle
Fowler McCormick, widow of the In
ventor of tli?* urain reaper and foun-. *
? der of tin* International Harvester
' Company, died here yesterday.
Germans expected
TO MAKE STATEMENT.
Jlerliu. Jul> ?j. The '*:? rin: n gov
ernment Is expected to issue a state
nient soon depreciating sabotage
and nil form of active re*lMtnnce In L
occupied areaa. ?
MAY USE HOSPITAL
FOR WHITE VETERANS
-Tuakeegee, July fi. The posslbll
Jity of -the Government hospital for
negro soldier* here being turned Into
a Hanitarluin for white veterans wan
expressed here yeaterday by Direc
tor Hlnes of the Veteran*' Bureau.
|)
Manufacturer* Would
AlM?li?h' 12-Hour Day
Tacoma. Washington. July 6. ?
Harding yesterday made public here
correspondence which shows that the
large majority of steel manufactur
ers of America are undertaking to
abolish the 12-hour day In the Am
erican steel Industry.
( I.KAItK.n TIDY HI M FOR
TMK i'O.MMlNITY HOIHK
The Ktwanis-Kotary baseball game
It wan announced Friday after care
ful checking of all receipts and dis
bursements. after paying all expens
es netted the tidy sum of $128.68 for
the Community House.
NO HF.TTLKMK.VT M\I)K OF
M. L PAVIH'H CLAIM
No settlement of the Miles Lowry
Davis claim against the Pasquotank
Highway Commission for the damage
done his farm and front lawn 6y the
Knobbs Creek detour was made at
the July meeting of the County
Highway Commission this week.
One member of the Commission
was absent and Mr. Davis was not
present and settlement was. there
fore, deferred. It In hoi?ed. howewr.
that all the members can meet with
Mr. Davis one day In the near future .
aod effect a settlement.
"TfJffrlTON MARKKT
New *YArk. July Spot cotton
closed steady today, middling 28.05.
Futures, closing bid: July 24.71. Oc
tober 23.AS, December J8.44,* Janu
ary 23.18, March 23.18.
New York. July 8.?At two o'clock
today cotton future* stood at tta* fal
lowing lavels: July 28.50, Oct*. 11.75,
Iw 23 28. Jan 22.97. March 22.81.
New York 8 ?Cotton futures op
ened this morning at the following
lavels: July 28.32; October 23.77;
December 23.30; January tl.lt;
March 22.82. '