?1 JT._ _ ^ VTfl^ * * * * * ? ?' a ??????? ? ? VOL. Xni. FINTAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY EVENING, Jl'LY 9, 192:?. FOUR PAGES. NO. 157. FindBodies Of Airmen Remains of Roth in Bas ket of Airship and Null in Waters of Lake Erie. Port Stanley, Ont., July 9. ?The body of Lieut. L. J. Rotli, pilot of the ill-fated iJ. S. Navy balloon, which was one of the .13 contestants in the national elimination race that started from Indianapo lis Wednesday, was today found in the basket of the airship, 14 miles Southwest of here. Evidence that Roth died of exposure was seen in the fact that his head and shoul ders were hanging over the ?dge of the basket. Windsor, Ont., July 9. ? A body believed to be that of Lieut. T. B. Null, who dis api>eared with Lieut. Roth, found today in Lake Erie near Leamington. The body apparently had been in the ?water a day and a half. HARDING STUDIES PROBLEMS AMSKA Investigating Complaint of Natives That SlthtrMi Cair neries are Consuming their Food Supply. (Br The Aiwlated Prm.1 \'?oard the Henderson with the "President. July 9.?The Henderson carrying President Harding and his patty steamed northward along the Alaskan coast after making their firsf acquaintance with the territory yesterday at Metlakahtia and Ketch ikan. * An all night sail broifsht the trans port off W ran gel I this morning, where the party will go ashore for a brief visit before proceeding to Jancau. A study of the problems of the na tives who have complained at Mek lakahtia that the salmon canneries wore consuming their food supply has been Inaugurated by the Presi dent. LOWER BUS FARES ARE PROMISED SOON The movement on the part of Elizabeth City merchants to provide lower bun fares from the passenuer station to the shopping district elves promise of coming to early fruition with the arrival of the first bus of the Elizabeth City Bus Line. Inc.. n company chartered by the merchants with the Idea of brinslng about low er bus fares and not primarily of _ making*any money. Residents of Camden and. In some ?cases, of Currituck, coming to Eliz abeth City on the train, find the Jit ney fare frdm the passenger station to the shopping district as high as or actually higher than the railroad fare to the city. Feeling that this toixlitinn was keeping numerotiK hoppers away from the city the merchants some time ago decided to aro into the bus business In an ef fort to remedy this condition. if the first bus is successful. It Is said, others will be added from time to time and eventually interurban bus lines, operated for the conveni ence of the public and not for profit, may come Into existence. The first bus. however, is to be used mainly within the city. TO AMEND CHARTER OF COMMUNITY HOSPITAL Dr. John ftallba, owner of the Pasquotank Manlclpal Hospital prop erty, having withdrawn hi* offer to take over the lease and assume the outstanding obligations of the hospit al company and the doctor's rent on the property having beeo underwrit ten by t^e community for a period of two years, plans are now on foot to so amend the charter that a board of directors othev than the board of di rectors of the Chamber of Commerce shall direct the affairs of the Insti tution. This action, It la hoped, will ifeark the end of the recent agitation about the continuation of the hospital as a community project. STEAMER ON ROCKS (Br tU AMftrtst* Trtm.) Hamilton. Bermuda. July ft ?The steamship. Vauban, from Buenos ? Aires to New* York, went on the rocks In Rormuda Channel today, but It la not believed that ahe la dam aged and It Is expected that she will be floated witb the afternoon tide. HUNDRK1) PICKETS i.om;F.n i\ i\n. It rock ton. July ??. - One hundred picket* w? re ar rested today a? the result of the opinion of the city solicitor that plcketiug durintc the shoe strike now in progress here is illegal. Every cell in the po lice station is filled. There was no disorder during the arrests. SPECIAL SERVICE FOR BOY SCOUTS Troops Snrpri-t- their Leader| and Attend Service* at Cann Memorial Church in a Body j Sunday. Impressive services were held at Cann Memorial Presbyterian Church Sunday night, when the Boy Scouts surprised their scoutmaster. Rev. F. H. Scattergood. who is the pastor of the church, and marched to the ser vice in a body. Though the bo>s didn't notify Mr. Scattergood that they were coming, he preached a spe cial sermon to tbem that waa also helpful to the entire congregation. The local Scouts have been organ ized into three troops with three pa trols each. Following are the troop officers and the patrol personnel: | Troop One: Edward Old. scout master; John Kramer, assistant' scoutmaster. Flying Eagle patrol personnel: Merrill Griggs, patrol leader; Blacknall Cook?, William Perry. Carroll Abbott, Walter Co hoon. Edward -Dunstan. Ton.mle Winslow, Kenneth Holloman. Fox personnel: Kennedy Houtz, patrol leader; VernOTi Chappell. Jesse Hughes, Frank Homer, Lin wood Hughes, William Mettrey. Ernest iProvo, George Skinner. Lion patrol (personnel: Ward Thompson, patrol [leader; Francis Jacocks, Keith L. Saunders. Harry Johnson, Jr., Ed ward Culpepper. James Miller, Palm er .Stowe. Nathan White. Troop Two?Lemuel Blades, scout i master; Roy Symons and Addisrtn Stanton, assistant scoutmaster^* Eagle patrol personnel: Horace (Wise, patrol leader;. Russell Tasker, < Leroy Lewis, Gilbert Doby. William jKeaton, Aaher Rcott. Christmas Met trey, Ravford Provo. Kangaroo pa itrol personnel: Arthur. Wood, patrol 'leader; Randolph Dozler, Tom Wttki, Edward Ball. William Mldu ett. Howard Johnson, James Bell, I William Britton. Raven patrol per sonnel: Tyre Sawyer, patrol leader; , James LeRoy, Julian Aydlett, Hallett Williams. Edgar Lambert, Richard 'Job, Fred Stanton. William Morris, j Troop Three?Edwin Chambers and Marlon Seyffert. scoutmasters; Andrew Bailey and Lester Markliam. assistant scoutmasters. Buffalo pa trol personnel: Wesley Sheep, pa trol leader; William Perry. Elmer Evans. Joseph Ferebee. Charles Hol lowell. Jpmes Jackson. Oscar Meigs, I Ralph Wilcox. Racoon patrol per sonnel: Wilborne Smith, patrol header; Mahlon Raper, John Shaw, Tom West. Nathan Forbes. Elijah ! Harrell. Melvll Wood. Earl Evans. jOwl patrol personnel: Frank Hollo |well. patrol leader; Earl Dean. Rob ert Williams, James Moran,- Clay Bright. Claud West. Paul Wllley, ! William I^ewls. I Other Scouts have Joined who have not been assigned. Scoutmas ter Scattercood Is conducting a spe cial class also for scoutmasters and assistants.^ American Charged Smuggling Arms (By Th- AuorUttd Ytfw.) j Shanghai. July 9?A warrant w.is j issued here today for the arrest of 'i^awrence Kearney, an American, j charged with being the head of a i plot for the wholesale smuggling of I arms Into China from Russian and 'Japanese sources. (REPORT NKT EARNINGS OF II HI,ROADS IN MAY Washington. July 9.-?The net 'earnings of class one railroads, op erating 90 per cent of the country's |rail mileage, amounted to $69,999. 1600 In May. according to the report Iof the Bureau of Railway Economics. lUROIUJIA MODKVjM LAW APT BR NORTH CAROLINA Atlanta. Ga.. July 9.?Bill de fining. roKiilatlne and encouraging local mutual or co-operative building and loan associations In Georgia has been Introduced In the general as sembly here. The measure, which has been referred to committee would make the state law very sim ilar to that of North Carolina. At the last session, building and loan asnoclatlons were placed under the supervision of the securities commission but no defining powers of regulation were provided The new bill. If passed. It Is said, will remedy this condition and will also make several provisions with refer ence to the taxation of the concerns. KKVIVAIi AT OAK KIDGE Rev. R. F. Hall la assisting Rev. W. J. Byrum la a revival this week at Oak Ridge Baptist Chnrch In Cam den County. JUDGE WK. DAY DIES IN MICHIGAN Nen* of Dentil ?>f Former Associate Justice of I nit?-?l Staler Supreme (1 o 11 r t Reaches Cleveland. Cleveland. July 9.?William R. Day, former associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. dl?*d today at his home at Mackinac Isl and. Michigan, according to word re ceived here. The name of William R. Day Is In delibly linked with that of WUflam McKtnley. When the latter was elected President. Justice Day was, little known outside of Ohio, where he was born In 1849. He had grad-; uated from the University of Mlchl-J gan. studied law In a law office. tak-J en a few law lectures, and began tho-j practlce of his profession. He had been elected Judge of the common pleas court In Stark County, Ohio. I when 37 years of age and in 1889. President Harrison had offered him \ the position of Judge of the district, court for the northern district of i Ohio, but Ill-health forbade his ac cepting. Shortly after the election In 1897, President McKlnley let It be known that he would make John Sherman, then old and near the end of his ca-1 reer. Secretary of State, and that toe would name his fellow-townsman. William R. Day. as Assistant Secre tary of State. It Is doubtful If the new Assist ant Secretary of State had ever met' a foreign ambassador until he came : to Washington In 1897. Sherman could not carry many of the burdens of his office. The untrained diplo mat In the second position in the j department had to shoulder the re-j sponslblllty of the department In' such a tactful way as not to offend his superior. How well he filled the office, and a year later the ofTlce ;that Sherman occupied as Secretary of State was expressed later bj Mc Klnley when he said: "Day abso lutely never made a B{kUM," 'It fell to Secretary of State Pay attempt to avoid the crash with j Spain'over Cuba. The shrewd moves J to avert war were his. To him, lat ter, *came the work of restoring .peace. President McKlnley selected i him as chairman of the comtnlftaUm of the United States to meet the com missioners of Spain in drafting a treaty to end the war. The treaty of Paris is a -monument to him. With this duty over. President Mc Klnley named him a circuit Judge of the United States for the Sixth Cir cuit. Here he served, until Presi dent Roosevelt appointed him to the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1903. A man of slight build with a thin face. Justice Day never enjoyed ro bust health. Once he had to give up his work for half a year in order to peek health In the pines of Northern Michigan. A great ...sludent. this Ohio man was extremely reticent. Probably the only Intimate man he allowed to share his inner thoughts, was President McKlnley. So reticent was he In public life in Washington before he was elevated to the bench that he became known generally as "The Silent Man." I The Day family was not fond of ,social life. Unlike some of Ills as sociates In official life. Day. when in the State Department did not spend several times his salary In rent for a mansion, but lived In an unpreten tious residence, trusting to his abil ity and demeanor to bring the re 'qufsite dignity to the position he j held. Justice Day had one hobby. It was baseball. Few games he missed, when business would permit his at tending. Portsmouth Team To Play Here Tuesday Strong Virginia Team Expect ed to Draw a Big Crowd No Game Today Portsmouth will play Elizabeth Ci ty here Tuesday afternoon at five o'clock. It wan announced .Monday morning. The Portsmouth line up in said to he one of the strongest tcaniM that have been here thi* season and a very good game of hall Is expected. Edenton this week will play here on Friday instead of Wednesday as usual, this change having he?-n made on account of the Friday afternoon holiday In Elisabeth City. Th- j te*m will play on Edenton on Thurs-j day as usual. Tyner will not plaf here this af ternoon, as previously scheduled. | Arrangrm-nts will be made _ for a . game with Tyner next week. tui SHOW ROOM Oeo C. Culpepper, distributor of | Dodge and Cadillac cars for North-1 eaatefn North Carolina, has Just op> ensd a show room on Road street he-, twaen Main and Fearing street*. Charles Edward Kramer Dies Suddenly At Home Scizod Shortly After Hour With Heart Attack Which Lasted Hardly More Than Three Minutes He Was at Once Revoud Iteach of Medical Aid SHOULD PICK UP FALLING SQUARES Cotton Farmers Can Destroy, Many Boll Weevils if Fall-i ing Squares are Gathered! and Burned. ?>, Aberdeen, July 9.?The first brood of cotton boll weevils to be bred In the over-wintering squares this year Is now making Its appear ance. according to Dr. R. W. Lei by of the boll weevil laboratory here which la maintained by the Depart ment of Agriculture entomology dl-, vision of the Agricultural Expert-j mental Station. "The first specimen van bred on June 27, ' says Dr. Lelby "and at the present time the. weevils are) emerging In number from squares collected In tke fields In the South e Southern counties of the State." Dr. Lelby sttaes, "I found a number of fields very heavily Infested with the j weevil. An average of five "to six I per cent, or perhaps less, of the squar* s was found to l>e punctured in tui|hy fields; although a few fields showed ' ifhi to lo per cent of the squ ties punctured. Cotton plants in the Southern M*efl^?a> of the Slate, are in full bloom with a small number i of holts already set and some of I these bolls are punctured b> !' ? ! weevil." According to Dr. Lelby, cotton farmers are not picking up (lie squares as thoroughly and as regu larly as they should.. Fallen squares art* to be found in numbers in most i of the cotton fields of Robeson, Scot land, Richmond, Hoke and Moure ICountleM. Tli?*se squares should be picked up Just before the cotton is cultivated and should not he plowed j under. They should then be burned so that the weevils which would de velop In them ran not re-Infest the 'cotton. He adds that wlieye labor Is [available boll weevil contTol meas f ur?-*-?Hrmld* he prosecuted vigorously early In the season. Babies Contest To Begin Wednesday All Babies of Elizabeth City Invited To Be At Com munity House A Better Bibles Content will be Inaugurated Wednesday afternoon a: the Community House on Fleetwood street, and all mother* In Kllzabeih City are nuked to be there with their ?T>a1)les at 5.flo.~ C>nre upon <1 time when folks knew much less ahotil babies than they do now , there used to be Baby Shows with prizes for the baby who looked most ornately dressed and the most artificial and unhappy. Hut "them days are gone forever.' and when It comes to babies nobody any longer believes that "when you save the mirface you save all." 80 Better Babies Contests ore utterly different from the old fashioned Bmby Show. . ? For Instance, on Wednesday after noon each baby registered In the Better Babies Contest will he weigh ed and examined and Its record will , be placed on a Better Babies ncore card. From time to time the babies will be weighed and examined again and at the end of the three month* the content will close, three prize* being giv?-n as follows: For th?* greatest Improvement in babies from one month to. six month* old. For the greatest Improvement In babies from one year to two year* ojd. For the greatest Improvemnt In tables from six months to one year old. I>r. Zenas Fearing, city health officer, will assist the welfare officer and the social service department of the Woman's Club In this work. He will be present Wednesday after noon to examine the babies and to ad vise the mothers. The contest M for all the babies of Kllxabeth City and is Inaugurated for the good of 1hese little people who deserve to g*t a good start In life. K. CITY.N'OHFOI.K I.IXK !>t your friends know my bus leaves evenings 5: HO for Norfolk.! Edgar Williams. It-adv' Charles Edward Kramer, 65 yearn old. died suddenly at his home. 205 East Main street, Monday aTlernoon at 20 minutes to 1 o'clock. The heart attack which resulted in Mr. Kramer's deattr lasted hardly more than three minutes. He wan standing in the h?ll of his houio when it came on. and his daughter. Mrs. B. L. Banks, hearing him fall, rushed to his side. lie seemed con scious. but ne^er spoke again. A physician, hastily summoned, found him still breathing, and a second doctor arrived an instant later, but the stricken man was beyond tho reach of medical aid. Charles Edward Kramer was the son of the late D. R. Kramer, roun der of Kramer Bros. 6 Company,' who gioved to Elisabeth City from Watsontown, Pennsylvania, when the boy Edward was 13 years of age. C. E. Kramer (became Identi fied with Kramer Brothers ? Com pany In early manhood and was actively connected with it until It liquadated In 1917, part of Its hold ings being purchased by Kramer Brothers & Company, Inc., with which Mr. C. E. Kramer was never connected. Subsequent to the liqui dation of Kramer Brothers ft Com pany. he became secretary-treasurer of the Kramer-iMoss Company. At * the time of his death he was presi dent of this company. s At the time of h!s death Mr. Kra mer was chairman of the board of stewards of the First Methodist Church and had. during tho long life of service in the church. held almost every position on Its official board. Rlcct' I to the chairmanship of tho hoard of steward* at the lffst confer* ??ne'e, he \\a.< serving uMcftst his cond term in that.capacity. The work of the church he always seem ed to place ahead Qt business Inter ? ? t-=. Mr. Kramer had known that he had a weak lieajt for sone- time, but tlu iV was no varnfnjr-thttt-the end was ?!o near at hand. Sunday his* dauuhtf r. Mrs. H l>. Walker, her Itii :t>nnd, Dr. Walker, with their children; left'for t li?*?w a.son at Nags H?'ad and Mr. and Mrs. Kramer (were planning to follow them soon. Prep arations for their departure were be ing fliade wheji the end came. C f-T" Kramer Is survived by a widow who. hefor?- her marriage, was Sallle Holmes: two children. Mrs. H. D Walker and Mrs. iRonlaniln L. Banks: by one brother. J. P. Kramer: and by three sisters. Mrs. Alex T. Davis. Mrs. Annie Hanks, and Mrs. P. H. Williams. Two brothers. John A. Kramer and Allel ic, Kramer, have died within recent years. Prospect Good For TBest Fair This Fall "Prospects are good for the best Fair this year that we've ever had," V Howard Smith said Monday morn ing In announcing a meeting of the directors and stockholders of the [Fair Association to be held at the of fice of the Carolina Potato Exchange on Tuesday evening at K o'clock. The meeting will he held for the purpose of making plans for the Fair to be held here this fall. jPKOSPECTlNO FQR * OIL AT STONY POINT Halelxh. July 9.?For the pur poae of proapeetlng for oil and deal ing In tltlea for landa for auch pur Irfww find conducting a hualneaa auph ?in would I*, conducted by an oil proa pertlng concern. the aecretary of atate haa chartered the Hlony Point Oil Company or stony Point, N C.. with an authorized capital atock li aue of $100,000. Incorporator* aro named aa N. F. ? Steele, M. I.. Watta, and W. W. Watt of Stony Point and C. R. Stlmpaon of State* vlltp. REFUSES DIRECT JURY MORSE NOT fclJII.TY Washington, July 9 ? Justice Stafford today refused to direct a verdict of acquittal In the cas?? of Charles W. Morse, his three sons and four others, on trial on Indict ments charging conspiracy to defraud the Government in connection with wartime ship construction and oper ating contracts. UNANIMOUSLY APPROVI WASHINGTON TREATIES <*' T?. I natl I ar|a, July 9.?The Chamber of I >e pu t lea today unanlmoualv ap proved the Waahlnaton treatlea r? latlnic to the PapHle. COTTON M WIKKT New York, July ?.?Spot cotton, cliraed quiet. Middling 17.(5 a '(0 point decline. Puturea, cloalng bid, J?ir ??.io. o?t. is.ii, dm. id.ot. Jan. 12.72. March tt.tl.