North Carolina Newspapers

****000 A- A *000*0*6 THE WEATHER. * "/<* irinds. * * * f'nir Friday. I nsvttlrd * ' /fill I /#ll i _ * CIRCLLiTIOM ::rf,'";.:::r.? : * VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THl/USIUY KV EN INC.. Jl'LV 19, 192:). FOl'R rAC.ES. NO. 160. Road Across Dismal Swamp Open To Traffic By Spring !ti'!irulioii.? arc llijlliway W liieli I* to I nile (?ate* and l\i? qiintank and Kestore Lost Provinces of Last, VI ill lie Keadv for Use ill Little .More Than Six Monlli Indications are that next spring will see connected by a well graded dirt State highway the Tadmore section of Pasquotank 11 nd the Acorn Hill section of Gates County. Separated from each oilier by an arm of the Dismal Swamp less than four miles wide, farm ers on the Pasquotank side of the swamp have been able to hear the roosters crow on a calm clear morning ill Gates tor generations, and yet during n all these years the two com-' munities have been strangers. Three and a half miles apart as a crow flies, they were 1(1 ' miles removed from each other as roads run, and much of the , road was exceedingly rough going at that, the matter of i traversing it requiring a drive of from several hours to half a day, according to the condition of the road and the means of locomotion used I Within n little more than nix months one may drive an automobile ? from Tad more to Acorn Hill over what promises to he as wide and as I smooth a dirt road as is to he found j in the two counties, and tJie ride will take hardly ten minutes. One may j drive from Klizaheth City to Sun-j bury at a saving of. 15 or 20 miles. The new road runs from Newland | Met lodist Church in Pasquotank to: Acorn Hill in Gates. For part of the way it follows an old road bed. Hut the section thn? ?? " >mii roa<l bed. But the section that crosses the swamp and a considerable part of the nee-, ti.rn through Tad more runs parallel to tly main drainage ditch of the Newland drainage district and is built of the dirt taken from the can al. Four miles of this 10-mile canal' has been due, and the dredge Is now! at work cutting a trench 30 feet! wide and nine feet deep through ! Cortez Temple's cornfield. Farther hack along the canal bank men with ? mule* and scoops are at work grad ing the dirt from the canal and turn-i it into a roadbed. Farther hack j still the work of grading is complete and thp road has been opened to traffic, giving one a very encourag ing Idea of how the entire road will look- when completed. Cutting Through Cornfield While th#' big dredge is cutting its' ii:sc mcerned way. working day and i.i-M. through Cortez Tanlpie's corn floM. from the Gates County side of the Dismal Swamp another gang Is J at work clearing the right of way! through the dense swamp to the) od*.- of the Ma mo cornfield. With thr? e and a half miles to go. two and a half miles have been cleared to date, and the gam. at work in the swamp where the foliage is so dense that the hoot oi owls may be heard I i t'.i daytime is expected to emerge n Temple's cornfield at the I'asquo taiw edue of the swamp about the"' time that the dredge now cutting through" the corn reached the swamp. In the Tadmore section of i?a? quotank is some of the richest land Jn the county and some of the finest corn-land to he found anywhere. I But Tadmore has been under a , dou'de handicap all these years by reason of lack of drainage and lark of transportation. With a hard sur faced road from Newland Methodist j Church to Klizaheth City linking up with the road across the Dlsmi:l j w.i in p. which Is to be paved by the At ate after It has be?>n given a year <,r two to settle. Tadmore will hate j a dependable outlet eastward to j Kllzabeth City and westward to the ra'lroad. And at the same time that the road is being built the canal | alongside the highway which makes the road possible also constitutes the main* drainage ditch of Nenr-, land Drainage district Number On* forming the nucleus of a drainage system which is eventually to cover the whole Tadmore area, embracing soMethlng like 7.0'>0 acres. Crfrtez T nple, through whose lands the IK i!n canal runs, will have to pay $10 a acre as his share of the dralnag* Co t; but he has 1 :i years to pay this ir* >unt and payments do not have to V jln until he has enjoyed the hen* tit? of drainage for three years. Mr. T. npie thinks that the ditch will he * rth all It costs him the first ye ?r It is in operation. Outlet to Norfolk Also Not only Is adequate drainage be I made possible in Tadmore and a transportation outlet being opened to Tadmore eastward and westward, hut also, at the same time, a depend able and shorter highway from Ted mote to Norfolk Is to he oper^d t!p by the constructIon of the State road from South Mills across the Pas quotank river connecting with the Klizaheth City Newland brick road a short distance above Hinton's Cor ner. Two of the four concrete abut ments of the bridge across the river are complete and prospects Indicate the completion of the bridge In Oc tober and the opening of thia road WILL TAKE MEALS STANDING AW HILE fllr T>1# As.or!?:?d PfYll) Steubenvllle, O.. July 19.? Twelve or I" negroes who par ticipated hi a dire game at La belle Iron Works here la*t ni^lit are in the mill hospital today suffering front burn*. A dozen were ranged along one aide of the table. While the thirteenth wielded the spotted Ivory gallopers one of the 12 grabbed the p6t In the center of the table. Number 13 reached for bis pistol As it flashed tit ? dozen sat down on a red hot fuel pipe. Twelve pairs of trousers wer<? ruined and their owners will taKe their meals standing for sever al days. LIEUT. MAUGHAN GETS OFF AGAIN On Dawn-to-Dusk, Loa?Mo '?w*l Flight, Arriving at Dayton. Ohio, at 8:35 on First Lop of Journey. IBf Th? Associated Pmil *" Sr. Joseph. Mo. July 19.?Lieut. Maughan landed here at J 1:25 Cen tral standard time, thus completing the second leg of his trans-continen tal flight. He departed at 12:03. Dayton. O.. JulylS?Lieut. Maug han arrived at McCook at 8:3.1. East ern time, on the first leg of his New York to Sun Francisco dawn to dusk flight. Mitchell Field, X. Y., July 19.? Lieut. Russell Maughan took off at 4:08 o'clock this morulng. Eastern standard time, on his second attempt to fly from coast to coait between dawn and dark. BOAT LINE COMMISSION SEEKS HULING I. C. C. Raleigh, July I9._xi?e Slate 11 oat Line Commission announced yester day that it will seek lb- Interstate Commerce Commission nil in v on the Jurisdiction over rail and water !in? if the boat line is established bv the State. I IKK S^ KEPS TOWN IN WEST VIRGINIA Him field. W. Va.. July 10.?Ten ?business, building* were among the structures destroyed by the fir<* which today swept throffgh KimhaU near here, doing damage estimat< I at half a million dollars.' Twenty families were rendered homeless 'but there were no casualties. SUBPOENAS ISSUED I OK KLAN OFEICEKS Lumberton. July 19.?The sfat?? sprung a surprise here late yester day Hfternoou when subpoenas w*re issued at the state's request compel ling grand officers of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina to bring their records Into court to reveal the mem bership in Fairmont Klavern and all records, if any. dealing with the I flogging of women, and with H. L. Talioferro, self-described detective of the Klan. who is Implicated In the sensational flogging case now on trial here for tampering with th?? witnesses. Lumberton. July 19.?Chief of Po lled Lawson at Fairmont Jofik the stand In his own behalf today a^id denied that he was present during the recent flogging of two white wo men near Proctorvllle. Jule Hrogden and Johnson Hedge peth. the other defendants, previous- ! ly denied any connection with the case. Lawson als? declared that he was a Klansman. [ to traffic in November. Thus both handicaps that have i hindered the development of the iTadniore?lack of drainage and lack of transportation facilities- will be : removed. At the same time, by means of the road across the Dismal Swamp, elates County will be brought within 511* abeth City's trading radius and the lost provinces to the north of the Albemarle Hound will be restored to North Carolina; and. bv means of the Newland-Houth Mill* road. I'pper Camden will be brought in closer proximity to Kllxabeth City. The Newland South Mills road, like the Tadmore-^eorn Hill ' road. | will be a dirt highway at first but will be hardsurfaced when the new road bed hat had sufficient time to settle. WHAT FRANCE IS GETTING OUT OF THE RUHR. French Cabinet Ministers M. Mtglnot. M. de Lasteryle (Minister of Finances) and M. Le Trocquer examining a huge pile of coke ready at a canal side for shipment over the border. GERMANS SEEK TO SWAY BRITISH Information IteaclicM Fn-ncli Through l'ii<|ue>lional>lc Source* tlu?< Germany Is Trjiiij: In Fi?nre in Itcpura lion* Nolo. , ? J (Br Tli* A^?ociat?*<l l'r.?? ) yParls, July ID?The Carman gov ernment through its London embas sy is striving -to have the forthcim-, ing British note on reparations con vey to France Germany's willing ness to cease passive resistance in the Ruhr suhjert to certain conci sions by France. This Information revhed the French today on what is rejgarde-1 an un<|ue*tlonaihle hut unofficial author ity. - Berlin, July 1ft.?German repre sentatives in London, .owe. Wash ington, and at the Vatican have been instructed to make representations against the prolongation of t!io traf fic blockade between occupjed and unoccupied Germany, according to semi-official statement made here today . i Drainage Canal Bridges arc Noariiifi Completion "Three of the five 'bridges of creo soted lumber, built at points where a public road crosse- (lie drainage canals of Newland Drainage District Number One, are complete and the other two are being pushed to com pletion as rapidly as possible, accord ing to W II. Thomas, superinten dent of operations. The drainage district must bear, the exp? nse of building a bridge where Its canals mis* a public ro. 1 but the expense of maintaining the ? ridges after they are built rests o.i the Couniy. When the Hoard of County Commissioners of Pasqun tank, therefore, early last spring dis covered that the drainage commis sioners had contracted for the cheap est type of bridge possible, the Coun ty Board voted to pay the extra cost of a bridge of creosoted lumber, guaranteed to last thirty year?, fig uring that in the long run the County would save money thereby. Two by fmir creosoted scantling laid edgewise and covered with a top dressing of asphalt constitute the driveway of these bridges and tho, appearance indicates that they will make good the guarantee to last 30 years. This Is the same tyoe of bridge as that crossing Glovers Cut on the Pas quotank Hlver State Bridge road of floating concrete. WILL GO AHEAD w ITH TUSKEECEE MATTER 'Vasblngton. July 1ft. -T>lr"Ctor Hines yesterday rintintinccd that un less his office and the Tuskeeuee citizens reach an agreement soon lie ? will go ahead and carry out his * wo policies about the n< tro personnel at the Veterans' IfosoMal Villi Kits INHTAIJiKD IN WORTH HAGI.KY IDlXCIIi State Treasurer G. P. Hood in-, stalled the following officers of Worth Bagley Council. No. 60, at th" Tuesdajf evening meeting: J. II. Scar borough. J. P. J. K. Corhett. ('., Andrew Sanders. W. *(\; Rev. K. F. Sawyer, chaplain; M. R. Prltchard. conductor; J. II. Gard. warden. J. T. West, inside sentinel; f#. c. Oneal. outside sentinel; J. W. Alexander, recording secretary; B. S. Sawyer, assistant recording secretary; Ken yon Bailey, financial secretary; W. S. Cartwright. treasurer; J. W. John son* W. 8 Swain, and J. Ij. Ball, trustees; J. W. Alexander, B. S. Saw yer. and Rev. E. L. Stack represenia tlvcs to State Council; R. L. Griffin, J. W. Johnson, a'nd J. II. Gard enter tainment committee. In the debute by four numbers Tuesday ewn'ng the prl*r? wan won by J. H. Seanboro. The entertain ment committee plans other enjoy able programs for the future. llKAItS WD Itl.th.ltCltltlKS Gathering huckleberries in the "Desert" the other day. a man suddenly glanced up and saw two young bear cubs play ing Joyously with each other like two kittens. He didn't tarry. however. to enjoy the pretty iIkIiI, because he floured that Ma H??ar and maybe Pa Hear might not ho far away. Hnck leberrles an* plentiful this year and they say that the "Dffw'rt." a cut-over timber section of Pasquotank. is Just like Sampson County with 'fin. They have helped out the menu. too. with |M?arhes ex ceed! nely scarce and apples hardly existing. Tile chief trouble In (own Is getting "??hi fresh and unspot ted hv Hint typhoid carrier, the fly. On** of the doctors passed a grocery store the other day and shooed the Hies away from a long row of berries and sighed "Oil. you typhoid." Typhoid hasn't hit here yet. but like the boll weevil, it Is Hupposid to be coming along about the last of Ibis month or tiie first of nevt. If everybody isn't evtra careful. Hut this story started out to be a bear story and got ofT the track. Confesses Attack On Stepmother Wausau, Wis.. July 1 !? Mary l.a wando, who was found in a swamp near h< r? y. sterday. niter an ? iglit day search, confessed today to the sheriff. \rtImr-Slewert, that she at ticked h<r stepmother on the niclit of July In, boating her over the h?*ad with a club. The tlrl, accord lilt to the sheriff, said that she had "trouble with the woman." 'TWAS EXPENSIVE JAC RUiJMI.l.AS IHEKMAN One hundred and five dollars and the costs in three cases was what two i'<i11 bottles of liquor given to Dallas Freeman cost that youfig man when before Trial Justice Hpence was done with him In the recorder's court Thursday morning. Freeman got $f>0 and costs for having liquor for purpose of sale, $50 and cost A for operating an automobile while under the Influence of liquor and $!? and costs for being plain drunk. Henry Divers, by operating a punch board, Invoked a supended sentence of 30 days In jail placed over him when he was found guilty of thr same Offense last March. Div ers noted an appeal from the Judg ment of guilty, but having admitted his guilt on the stand It did not ap pear how he was to gain anything thereby, tin court explaining that while he could appeal from the ver dict he could not appeal from the sentence which automatically became operative as soon ax he was found guilty. Stanley Meek Ins was fined $10 and costs for being drunk and disorderly,, the court reconslderinK a .10 day jail sentence for contempt of court invit ed by Mcckins' conduct and demean or on the witness stand. Winifred Owens, simple drunk, was fined 15 and costs. CHOWAN ASSOCIATION w. M. IJ. AT KDENTON The annual meeting of the W. M. C of Chowan Association will open at Hdenton Baptist'Church Thursday. July 2K, with an address by |)r. C. 1\ W-aver, president of Chowan Col lege, and will continue through Fri day. Mrs. W S. Jones, state pre<|. dent. Is on the program and also Miss Kunlce McDowell dean of Chow an College. It U hoped that a lar*o number of mi inborn will be |ire*ent. All who expect to no, whether member* or delegate., are nuked to not!(r Mra. I.. D. Itnnd at R4enton ao thai ^he mar aaalgn them homea. Will Await Return President Harding .Final Action Will Not Be Ta ken Now on Recent Inci dent in Manila ?|U n.?- A??m?U(r4 Prm? Washington. Jul* l!? Final ac tlion in rohii?M*tion with (he incident in Manila which resulted in the r??? 'lunation of the rhillipines cabinet 'and council of state in protect j against the policies of Governor [General Wood, will await the return of President Hardinu [nun his Alas kan trip. Tlie reports have reached Secre tary Wfoks from General \Von?l and ifrom Manuel Quezon settinu forth Iboth sides of the controversy. MHS. rhAllr.M h ItF.ASI.F.Y or KITTY II.WVK IHKH HKItF Mrs. Clarence Beasley, aged 14, !of Kitty Hawk. died at the Commun ity Hospital Wednesday afternoon at lone o'clock. She Is survived hv her' ihusband; by her mother. Mrs. Gran idy Beasley; and one ibrother. George | Beasley. all of Kitty Hawk . ? Mrs. Beasley whs taken to the hos pital Thursday for an operation fori . appendicitis. Following the opera It Ion. she seemed to be doing well. | but later coinpllc-i'ions set In which resulted In her death. On Tuesday her husband left her 'to brihg her mother, and when the ! young woman died the boats were running Irregularly and the wire* were down, so that on Thursday I morning her husband and mother I had not arrived and no word could be heard from them. At noon a [message came through, asking that the body be sent to Kitty Hawk oh ! the Jones Friday morning. Middle West Didn't Believe It Was So When North Carolina trained l-'outih Place for Total Value Im proved Crop* in Hie corrW' ichln?n Ilaleicli. July 19.?"Wlion North jCarolina gained fourth rank among j tlie T'nlted states In total value of 'improved crops," says a statement issued hy the I'nited States and North Caroliiui Department* of Agri |culture Co-o|ieratlve Crop Reporting Service, "the Middle Western states refused to believe It. savinc that we were not diversified and did not have ,the acreage. They thought that our crop was almost entirely rottonr j "The report of Prank I'arker. ag ricultural statistiican for the State and Federal Departments of Agricul ture, Issued recently, showed that corn occupied decidedly the largest acreage of anv crop and that there war- quite a larue diversification anions which were.cow peas, soy beans, |<eanuts. velvet beans, small urain and other crops especially for j hn\ *. "Soy benns and peanuts have put >North Carolina on the map In no Miiall sensi Only a short time ato wi- produced more so> bean seed than all other states combined and ioven now have a distinct lead ill , Ilieye. The July report or thl- year -hows that of our acreage, tlier?* is .planted the following: 47 per cent for seed; "1 per cent for bay and 22 per cent for '- razing and turning un der. "The same Information show< d that t.'i per cent is planted alone as solid a create while 57 per cent Is planted with corn and other crops. i The practice in the eastern counties Is to plan a row of soy beans In middle between wide planted This permit?? of a harvesting machine paaHng through for threshing out the seed. The July crop report indicates two per cent Increase compared with last year and the present crop con dition is per cent of normal. "Cow peas at one time made North Carolina famous, but due to the low \4elds and high costs of harvesting they are gradually being replaced by soy beans, which are nmrv produc tive and easier to handle both for seed and hay. It is found that the cow pea acreage Is Intended princi pally as follows: 30 per cent for pea*. 52 per cent for hay, and 18 per cent for grafting and turning under. "Current Information Indicates that the cow pea acreage Is reduced1 some three to six per cent as com pared with last year and five to eight Iter cent compared with the usual. The present condition of the crop Is M per cent as compared with what It should be If conditions had beer. > altogether favorable. "There Is a reduction of about three per cent as compared with last year In the acreage of peanuts. Sev enty seven per cent of the acreage in North Carolina Is found In a few northeastern counties of the State. The condition of th ecrop Is estimat ed at #?'. per cent of a full crop pros i jM'Ct. \hout Rf, percent of the crop was planted alone and 14- per cent with other crops. Twenty two ,>cr cent of the acrcage Is. estimated to' be planted In Spanish or small pea nuts. Port) three per cent In Vir ginia or large types and 4 5 per cent In the middle slxc nuts." 1MK Nrif'Kn TOMCJHT The Y. W. 11. cIbss of the First Christian Sunday jichool will have a pic snppsr this evening at eight o'clock on the church lawn. Be i sides good pie, Ice creain and horn* | made candles will <b? told. CAPTAIN OF "sAINE DIES IN m1 YORK Itrur \ilniii?:il Siiifj-ln-r l{i?-e In I'ami' Tliroiifili < tin- of (irratrM Naval l)ii.a?lcrs in History. \ iv York. July lit. Itrur Admlr ill Charles* Sigsboe, retired captain of Hi*' ill fal.tl hallleship Main**, died suddenly today at hit* home hero. Rear Admiral Slgab^fc rose to fame ilirouKli one of iIn* greatest naval dis asters in American history?the "blowing up of the Maine.** He was ?'<<! years old at the time; a captain, a veteran of the. Civil War. and an inventor of deep-sea exp.oring and pounding apparatus. Captain Sigsbce. commander of the Maine, was ordered to Havana 'harbor to protect American Uvea 'and property during the crisis of th>) ICii*han rebellion against Spain In I 1H9S. As the vi'iM'l was on a friend ly mission, she wan,received with the [customary courtesies from the forts and Spanish war ships, and the usual Iofficial visits. She was assigned to a special anchorage and placed there by the proper agents of the jSpanish government. Oh the evening of February 15 ?the big white battleship had !>een riding quietly at anchor for more jthan two weeks. Captain Sigsb??? went to his cabin shortly after 8 o'clock and wrote a long letter to his wife. By the time he had fin ished many of the 328 men and 2G officers were asleep. The Captain had Just enclosed the letter in an |envelope and started to seal It when a deafening roar, sounded through the ship. The great vessel began to list. (irpping his way through the ,dark. Slgsbee reached the deck. A !scene of horror greeted him. The Maine was sinking. [ "None can ever know,*' he said later, "the awful scene* of conster nation. despair and suffering dtnvu In the forward compartments of men : wounded, or drowning in the swirl ing water. It ,is_ comforting to be lieve, and It is probably true, also, that'jnost of those who were lost I were killed instantly." The tragedy cost the Uvea of 2'14 isailors. The news spread over th? world in a few hours, but not ibefore the entire American nation was i,roused to a pitch of frenzy, be lieving the Maim* had been blown up by hostile Spaniards. "Suspend Judgment." urged Slga bee in his first report. Ills calm wisdom did much to prevent the I'nited States fr*mi rushing Into war immediately. He accompanied the court of inquiry in Its investigation !of the wrerk. and his expert knowl edge helped it to arrive al a decision as to the cause of the disaster. "The question has been asked many limes." sild the Admiral years after the tragedy, "whether I be lieved then that liie Maine was blown up from the outside. My answer has been that my fir?t or^ler on reaching the dock was to post sen tries to repel hoarders." Admiral Slgsbee added laurels to lib fame in the war tfiat soon fol lowed lho disaster. As commander of the St I'attl. i trans-Atlantic lin er converted into an auxiliary cruis er. he captured tin Spanish collier Itestormol, carrying coal to Corvora, and thus sealed the f'lte of the Spau I h flout .tt Santiago. The cruiser, Is; ? l!a II and the destroyer. Terror both hauled down their flags and surrendered to him . SU< TIO.VS I'Kt'AX CHOI* NOT KIIXKD l!Y COM> Though pecans in the upper part of ih?? are reported killed by th?? late front* of this spring, it 1.4 helleved that there will be a fair yield in iIiIm section. Frank Scott, largest pecat) grower in Pasquotank, doe* not ibelieve that tlie cold thin year greatly damaged hi* ( nip, c. <). Iloblnson whoae Camden County farm yielded be tween two and three thousand dol- .. tarn worth of pecan* ia*t year. In not so lptlmHtlc. Me think* the yield will be light this year, ibttt he is confident that there will be *ome pe can*. MARKED DECREASE IN EXPORT OF HAW SILK Toklo. July 19.?There has been a marked decrease thin year in the ex port of raw Milk to America due. ac cording to a report of the Hoard of Agriculture, to Increased import du-* lien imposed by America and the ap |:reclatlon of quotation* on the Yo }tohamo market. There also has been a falling off In the export* to England, owing to the depression In the re-export trade of British silk manufacturer*. The same In true of the exports ?f silk textiles to Australia and tie* South Sea Islands, but there has been an Improvement In the Indian trade, recovery In the exchange marker, helping the business. I-OTTOX MAItliKT New York July 1ft.?Spot cotton, closed quiet, 'Middling 27.35. Fu tures, closing bid July 2i.SK, Oct. 23.80. I?ec 2.1.31, Jan 23.12 March 23.18. N'ew York. July If.- Spot cotton, opened today at the following lev els: July 2? 88-70. Oct. 23.80-83, Dec. 23 33. Jan. 23.06, March 23.02.