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* THE WEATHER. * "* Partly cloudy tonight * * and W ednesday. Prob- * * ably local thundershott- * * ffi Wednesday. * *****'***? M CIRCULATION * Monday * 1,635 Copies * * 0*000000 VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 7, 1923. FOUR PAGES. NO. 782. City Council BacKs^Up The New City Manager Practically Every Recommendation Made by Mr. Bray in His First Formal Report Receives Endorsement 6f City Governing Body The purchase of $6,000 worth of I dirt street maintenance equipment and the adoption by the city of a | plan of financing sidewalk paving by bond Issues were the outstanding recommendations of the first formal I report of City Manager Bray which! was made to the City Council In reg ular session Monday night. The Council adopted both recom mendations without a dissenting vote' and with only a few gurgles of ex postulation from Councilman Gor-i don. The City Manager also asked the Council to take a recess to meet within ten days subject to the call of the Mayor to act on the budget for the current year which Is now| being made up. And the Council' . aur?-ed to It. / In fact the only rec-: ommendation made by the City Man acer that was not acted upon favor-1 ably was a suggestion that a Mat-; thews street ilrm be permitted to re pair its post shed over the sidewalk on the condition that the shed be re-! placed In the near future with the regulation type of sidewalk shelter.' The construction of post sheds over the sidewalk has been prohibited by law for 12 years or more, hut in cases where such sheds had already been constructed they have been per mitted to remain until in need of re pair. In addition to the budget. It Is possible that the new city ordinances may be ready to submit to the Coun cil at the recess meeting to be called in the near future. The new ordi nances are now in such shape as to be ready for transcription and the City Manager and City Attorney were directed to employ n stenographer to pre pari' typewritten copies of the proposed ordinances in order that they may be presented to the board f.u amendment or endorsement be fore they are put in the hands of a printer. ? Petitions for street paving were pr? seated and heard in number Mon day night, particularly with refer ence to making it possible to get to the negro schools and the white pri mary school in wet weather without wading. These matters were re ferred to the City Manager for rec ommendations. A petition from the Chamber of Commerce, presented by Secretary Job, for an appropriation for the Chamber under an enabling act passed by the last General Assembly was referred to the finance commit tee which is now at work on the bud get for the current year. The new parking ordinances will prohibit ttve"?parking of automobiles on the Kast side of South Water street between Main and the State bridge. A no-parking sign has al ready been placed at the east curb of this section of Water street.-great ly relieving the congestion that has prevailed there since the opening of the State Bridge roa<l. In addition to being forbidden to park its cars within f?0 feet of the North Road street railroad crossing, it is quite likely that the Norfolk Southern will be put under a similar prohibition as to the Main strert croasinu. Another matter that Is being in vestigated as to its practicability Is that of parking Jitneys along the north and east walks of the Norfolk Southern passenger station Instead of on a line along the track as at present. It was argued Monday night that If such n scheme could be worked out It would make practicable the separation of Jitney drivers carrying white and those carrying colored pas senuers and would also make It pos sible for passengers getting off the train In wet weather to take a Jitnev without getting off the paving or In the rain. The purchase of a horse and buggy at a cost not to exceed $17 5 for the use of Sanitary Officer Simmons was authorized A McCnrmlck mower will also be purchased for the use of the city In cleaning ?p vacant iota? at the expense of the owners. Whether he can continue to hold It or not. It Is at least certain that City Manager Bray has begun his work with the wholehearted support of the City Council. Pasquotank Adopts Mothers Aid Law Tho now Mother*' Aid Law became operative In Pasquotank Monday when tho County Commlaeloners In r< - ular so**|on gave the measure their endorsement by putting two mother* In thin County on the aid list The Commissioner* a1*o voted to send two member* of their body to| Attend the meeting of t"he State asso ciation of county commissioner* at j Alheiillt In August. Otherwise only routine matters were transacted by the Commission* crs at their August meeting. MTTI.K SHKRIKK BACK Clarence Rold. son of Sheriff Chas Reld. and familiarly known In his home town as "the little sheriff" Is now manager of the local A. & P., Stor4 having bee* transferred here from Goldaboro. PASSENGER TRAIN VICTIM OF BANDITS Indianapolis. Aug. 7.?Four men bound and gagged the ex press messenger on a Big Four passenger train and escaped with Ave sealed packages and a number of railroad remit tances valued at $15,000 last night at I'eoria, Illinois, ac cording to word to officials of the railroad here today. MAXWELL RIGHT SAY AUDITORS Corporation Commissioner Hears from Price, Water house & Co., Who Sustain His Statements. Raleigh. Aug. 7.?Admission that the deficit of approximately $5,000. 000 claimed by Corporation Commis sioner A. J. Maxwell to exist In the finances figured on a cash basis as of December 31. 1922. actually ex isted was contained In a letter re ceived here hv Mr. Maxwell from Price, Waterhouse and Company; au ditors of Now York City employed by the State to make an audit of the State's financial condition. The letter further stated that the auditors had summarized schedule F. page !? of the audit "unfortunately, without sufficient consideration" of the misunderstanding which might rls* in the public mind as a result. In a statment Issued shortly after the letter was received Mr. Maxwell declared that "the confessions In the letter leave little more?to be said, and no room whatever for further controversy as to the Ave million dol lar deficit on December 31, 1022T**~' 1 Another statement is soon to come I from Capitol Hill in connection with !the financial statement and the hopes | that the controversy was at an end 'are apparently blasted. This much became known Monday tthrourff statements made by njeni-. I hers of the Council of State, yet un-< 'willing to get into the argument. There was no more than an Intima tion of the name of the author who will, according to the discussions, un-j dertake to present the position of the Budget Commission and justify , the conclusions of the auditors. j I Treasurer I,aev is having his force I start work on a balance sheet as of j June 30, the end of the State's fiscal , year, which, when completed. Is ex-, pected to show whether the deficit of five millions Is increasing or wheth er, in view of the "fat" revenue pe |rlod of the six months ending June r!0, the deficit has been decreased. Copies of the complete report of the auditors are In the hands of the several members of tlie Council of \ State. Governor It. A. Doughton.; commissioner of revenue, is also un derstood to be studying the report In ' detail. No announcement of when the next statement Is to issue could be made Monday, but it will prob ably wait on the return of Governor Morrison from Ashevlile. Rifle Shoot Draws Many Famous Guns Chicago. Auguat 7.?Enough cn trlea already have been received to uuarantee the aucceaa of the North American Trapahootlng Champlon alilpa of 192 3. according to an an nouncement by Secretary Starr Mat thew*. of the Amatour Trapahootln/ Aaaoclatlon of America. The Grand American Handicap, which will b^ j contested In thla city, August 20-25, j will be the flrat~Wfir held under am ateur control. Kntrlea cloae Auguat 11. and It la predicted that the high-water mark for grand American attendance will be reached by that date. Thla eatl mato la baaed on the lar** number of entrlea already received by Mr. Mat thewa. The Grand American Handl cap la the moat widely known event on the week'a program. There are eleven amateur cham plonahlpa to be competed for during tlio tournament. Theae Include the double* championship, featured the aecond day. the Junior champlonahlp and the zone live man team cham plonahlp acheduled for the third day; the flve-claaa championships on the fourth day, and the all-round cham plonahlp. which la competed on the 1,000 targeta which make up the week'a program. SENO MORE TKOOPS TO CHARLESTON, S. C. Columbia a. C.. Auciint 7.?Two fdmpanlva of 8011th Carolina Nation al Ouard?m<>n were today ordered to Charlraton to auitnirnt thr two Ouard rompanlp* mobilised there laat nlKht In eonnertlon with the mu nicipal primary today. It waa learned at Oorernor McLoed'i office. COUNCIL WEARY I OF LAW'S DELAY Disposition to Resume Nego tiations With Utility Com panies Shown by Four Mem bers of City Governing Body Signs are not lacking that a con siderable body of sentiment Is devel oping In the City Council which Is very restive at the tedious delays of the law in the matter of the suits against the city of the privately owned public utility corporations. The proposal was made at Monday night's meeting of the Council that the officers of the utility companies be approached with a view to seeing If they had any new ofTer to make the city for Its plants and properties. Dy the narrow margin of one vote the proposal was voted down, on the ground that It would be Interpreted as a weakening on the part of the cltv In Its Aght with the utility com panies. Proponents of the proposal signified, however, that the motion did not obligate the city to accept any new proposal that the companies might offer and that the attitude of the proponents was not to buy the utilities on any previous offer made by the companies, but only to see if thefre might develop an offer more favorable than any yet mad**. Deflated Mark Induces Gambling People Stumble Over Karh Other Trying to Itearli Met ting Mar hilt cm | TVrlin. August 7.?In the wnke of I the mark's depreciation and the rom jmonplace use of many-ciphered sums, gambling hu become a veritable f? jver among Germans. The infection is particularly evident at the rare courses. Crowds swarm about the grounds like ants every day, and the people literally stumble over earh other trying to reach the betting ma 'chines before the horses are sent [away in tin- various events, Iiooktitakers flourish, and the bet Ting machines do a huge business. ? The lowest bet areepted is 5,000 marks, and the highest is an open question. At the Gruenewald track the other day a bookmaker was heard refusing a bet of 100,000,000 marks at even money. Many of the foreigners in Germ any patronize the German tracks, but foreigners and Germans also fol low closely the French races. The results from Paris are distributed about Merlin every night on sports agency leaflets at subscription or sin gle copy prices. Yet much "loose" money appears |to be about for other hinds of specu lation. Lotteries, rard-playlng, and the stoekmarket each rial ma ronsld lerahle following. One lottery Involv ing a total of 19,500,000,000 marks Is prominently advertised in Tlcrlln. Th" police swoop down almost every night on private houses or clubs where unauthorized games of chance are under way. Many people not on the llourse flnd means of acquiring stork shares whlrh they have been 4<tlpped" to buy. only to sell In a day or so when, they hope, the quota tions will be higher. WHITK MAX CftWMTKI) OK HK\Tl\(i HIS WIFti Hiram Eason. white, convicted of assault on his wife, in recorder's court Tuesday morning, was put un der suspended sentence of six months on the roads, the judgment to take effect upon his failure to keep the p?'ae<- and to provide for the support of liis wife and five children. Kason formerly lived in thlsfity and Is now farming In Pasquotank County on Cale Whltehurst's farm. The alleged assault took place last Friday. There was a bruise on Mrs. Eason's face which she said was inflicted hy her husband. Jerry Johnson, colored, was fined ! $S and costs for using profane lan guage on the street. The court let Jerry off with one-half the usual pen- j alty because of previous good roputa-j tion and because. In the court's opln-1 loni-b? was itinler strong provoca-1 tion. BIM.KETEKKS MAKE FULL CONFESSION I New York, Aug. 7.?Stork buck eting cases, including that of Kdward . M. Fuller and William McOee, eon fessed bucketeers, probably will be presented to the new Federal grand Jury which will be sworn in today.; ft was learned, following the an nouncement by the Fnlted States District Attorney Hay ward that Ful ler and McfJee had made a full con-! fession. FMMHt AT IIKKTFOKO A young flood between Hertford and Woodvllle and also between Hertford and Edenton Is reported by motorists who had occasion Monday to travel in either of the foregoing directions from Hertford. \V^ter up to the running board of automobiles' Is said to have been on the road In i a number of places, while drivers of horse and buggy are said to have found water In one or two places up! to the horse's belly. Journeay Aydlett and Bradford Gallop l*ft Tuesday to visit friends, at Harbinger. PETITIONS MANY |, AT TUESDAY MEET But These Were Filed With | Clerk Because Sufficient! , Funds Not Available for ( Highway Building Now. Petitions for road paving were the main feature of the August meeting; Tuesday of the Pasquotank Highway I ICommlssion. but all such petitions J .were merely filed with the clerk, as |the funds of the Commission at this time are not sufficient to justify the; ? undertaking of any new construction j project of any considerable niagni ' tude. j The only paving project to be un dertaken In the Immediate future by ithe Commission will be that of ex tending the paving on West Church .street to connect with the State Road to Hertford, now being paved with [concrete. The question of what ma terial Is to be used to Join the iChurch. street brick with the State road concrete has not yet been deter mined and was not taken up at this meeting on account of the absence of Chairman Morris. ? However, the Commission did promise early action on the grading and widening of a number of dirt I roads In the County, the most not-| !able of which, perhaps, were the ; Weymouth road from the Parsonage, .street crossing a distance of about a half a mile and the Perkins Line <road, this latter to be widened and ? graded provided that the County be i given a free right of way for a 20 j foot road. Among the paving petitions pre sented was one for the paving of the , road from the Main street crossing of the Norfolk Southern schoolhouse. This is a distance of about two miles and is asked In view of the move ment now on foot to make Forks a ) standard State High School with Itrucks for the transportation of pu : piU living some distance from the 'school house. Many complaints came to the Com I mission of bridges badly in need of repair and the Commission is pre paring to take over all bridges on County roads as provided under art of the last Legislature. I?iit the nuin ? her of bridges to be looked after 's -so 'great that?doubtless many ..cjX. them will have to be patched up ami put up with In rather unsatisfactory condition for some time before the Commission can get around to all of them. A larger culvert is to be pat I In at an early date draining the Co j boon and Cop|?ersmith forms where a j 24-inch culvert put In when the road i was paved has proved entirely inad equate. This will necessitate the taking up of the brick paving at that I point. . The Commission Is preparing to : put into effect not only the general bridge maintenance policy provided . for under recent legislative enact ment hut also the progrnm of letting road maintenance contracts by town 'ships to the lowest Inkier. ! Nobody was present to present the petition for the extension of the Mt. Hermon road from its present term inus to the Perquimans County line, f though this was a mattec on which one of the largest delegations was looked for. At least one Perquimans j County man had driven all the way ifrom Chapanoke to hear this petition i presented. * \ -. Need More Wool and Less Burrs Fanner* Would Itecelve Hotter Price for Product. Hny* Sliwp Field Audit Raleiuh. August 7.-?If North Car ollnn wool contained less burr.* nnd was put up In better shape, farmers would receive a better price for It than they are now receiving, accord ing to O. P. Williams, ftheep fleld an-, ent for the State College and Depart-; men! of Agriculture. Mr. Williams has Just returned to the college after spending several weeks In the fleld aldlnu farmers and county agents to, hold their wool pools. He said he found that the average prices offered were not so good, due largely to the Inferior way In which the fleeces had been handled. "It Is much better off In these qualities than the wool received from states farther South." said Mr. Wil liams In discussing North Carolina , grown wool. "Our wool has a satis factory oil content and a strong fiber. If North Carolina farmers will put their clear wool In standard fleeces and then pack It In standard hag*, the product will pass muster on the! fleefie wool markets and will then at tract many bidders who will not look at It now. The wool that Is prepared to meet the buyer's approval and which can be sent by him to the high class mills is the word that will al-1 ways move the easiest." Mr. Williams said he found much' wool that had been "crammed loose- j ly Into all kinds of old hairs and the buyers would not look with favor on such stuff." Its very appearance, | said Mr. Williams, was a serious han dicap In moving It at a profit to the farmer. "Heavy hurry wool Is extremely hard to move," he continued, "be-1 cause most of the mills demand clear, staple. Cutting down our present heavy proportion of heavy hurry woofs and marketing the fleeces In the well recognised way will remove practically all the wool marketing! troubles that confront the North Car olina sheep grower at present." Washington Sorrowing Awaits Funeral Train Trans-continental Trip Cops Slowly Because of Throngs Who Gather All Along the Way to Pay Tribute to Memory of Their I -ate -President BLOODHOUNDS USED IN POSSE'S SEARCH Carthage. Intl., August 7;? A posse made up of farmer* and official* estimated to num ber about 600 persons in searching today for negroes who are alleged to have at tacked a 1 ?>-year-old white girl at Sexton last night. Blood hounds are being used in the search. GOVERNOR ISSUES A PROCLAMATION A?k* Pro pie to Observe Pe riod of Prayer Wednenlu) and Period of Mourning During President** Funeral. Ashevllle/ Auk. 7.?Governor Mor : rlson last night issued a proclnma IttOh calling on the people of North Carolina to observe a period of pray er for 15 minutes after the noon 1 hour Wednesday when the funeral rites for the late President are held ! at Washington. Business houses are (asked to close their doors for this time. The proclamation nlso calls upon | the people to observe a period of mourning ami prayer for one hour during thi' funeral services at Ton,' Ohio, on Friday. falls on Merchant* l Sta?o?vlll<\ Auk. 7.?Tlio lilonl of tin- North Carolina Morrli ants' Aiwoclatlon rails upon tli? m?*r rliants of tin- Stain to snsiuml l>usl Uwm<k diiriiiK Wio -?UMMal wrvlccs ul I'rfHlili iit Hardlnc at Marlon, Ohio, i Friday. Labor Meeting to Be at Greensboro Seventeenth Annual Convention of Federal k>n I leu Iiih on August 111 I Greensboro, August 7.? W. L. Hutcherson, General President of th * I t'nlted Brotherhood of Carpenters; and Joiners of America, Indianapolis, hid., and J. I~ Bradford, General Or ' ganlzer of tlx* same organization, will he among the principal speakers at the 17th annual convention or the North Carolina State Federation <>f Labor, which opens here next Mon day, August 13, wUh sessions that will continue through Wednesday, August 1 s?. Invitations have been extended lo Samuel Goinpers and Frank Morri son. President and Secretary, respec tively, of tli" American Federation of Uihor. to deliver addresses. but theft acceptances have not yet been i received. The convention will open at 10 o'clock on the morning of August 13, at the Spring Street School building. The visitors will be welcomed to I Greensboro In an address by Mayor Claud Klser. J. II Kills, president of the Federation, will deliver the re sponse. The remainder of the Init ial session will he devoted to organ ization. On Monday evening the visiting labor men will be the gu?'st* of th?' Greensboro Chamber of Commerce on a ?lght-scc|ng tour In and nbou. the city. Resolutions and reports will oc cu py the attention of the convention on Tuesday morning. The af'ernoon meeting Tti'-sday will bo featured with addresses by W. I?. Htitchsrson | and J. L. Bradford. Others on the program for addresses Include J. F. Mr.Mnhon. Ralelsh;' Jame? F. liar-i reft. Charlotte; Itev. Tom P. Jlmls on, SpeiH?*r; W. F. Moody. ItAlelgh; and It. W. II. Stone, president of the Farmers State organization. On Tuesday evening the delegate# will attend an athletic exhibition. Reports of committees, the elect-; ion of officers and the selection of the 1924 meeting place will be the prin cipal business before the convention , on Wednesday morning. Following , this, the convention will adjourn. On Wednesday evening the entire delegation will *o to Guilford Battle Ground where they will be guests of the Greensboro Central Labor Union at a barbecue. I sc. an TO MKKT WKDXKsPAY Members of the new section of Hollywood Cemetery Society will meet with Mrs. B. M. Jones on West Main street Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. A large attendance Is de sired. The old section will meet with : Mrs. O. M. Scott on North Road street at 4 o'clock Wednesday after-, noon and It Is hoped that all mem bers will attend. (Br 11i? iaorUM Pratl WaHhinKton, Aug. 7.?(12 o'clock noon).?Brooding akle? heavy with portends of storm but broken occa sionally by hot. hazy sunlight, hung ;over WaHhlnizton through the laat hours of waiting today for the funer al train that In bearing the dead President Harding back to the ulti mate honors his sorrowing country men can pay him. IMans for the reception of the dead [were unchanged except the alow hours of waiting wore dragged out j longer and longer as each Ohio and Pennsylvania town through which the train crawled lavished its voice less acclaim at the hler of the dead . i Ohian. I At#whatever hour It comes, Wash ington will be waiting, hushed, rev erent, sorrowful. It May lie Midnight Baltimore, August 7. The Presi dential funeral train will not reach < Washington much before midnight at 1 its present rate of progress, in the < opinion of operating officials of the ? Baltimore & Ohio at the executive ? offices here at noon today. This statement is based on the sumption that in deference to the i wishes of Mrs. Harding the train 'would continue to run slowly ;through the communities desiring to | pay I heir tribute of respect to the memory of the dead President. I'lisMt* Through Ohio On Hoard the Funeral Train, Aug. ? 7. Speeding across the country, the Presidential funeral train shortly af ter midniuht reached Ohio, the Prea- ?! Ident's native stnte. Mrs. Harding issued a request that ? the train slow down to ten milen an hour so that citizens along the road , might honor their dead chieftain. ICIiirnuo Honors Dead Chicago. Auk. 7.?A throng eatl- ] mated at P.Sfl.OOO here honored the j dead President as the train passed j through here. The crowds were ; ^'gathered nil along the way as the I train passed through the city limits. To I in 11? | Mausoleum I Marion. Ohio. August 7.?Presi dent Harding will not he buried by i his mother and sister in Marlon cem \ etery. His body, after the funeral ser Ivices here Friday afternoon, will be 1 placed in a receiving vault at tho cemetery and held there pending the cnction of a mausoleum to receive lit. Tin' plans are approved by Mrs. Hardihg. but are contingent upon the condition of the body on its ar rival from Washington. The coffin. It Is said .has not been opened dur ilim the trip across Jl)e continent and will not he until it reaches Washing . ton. Theater* May Clone New York. August 7. Steps were taken here today to have all the mo tion picture, vaudeville, and leglti I mate theaters of the nation remain closed on Friday, th* day of the fun eral of the late President Harding In Marlon, Ohio. BUDDHISTS WO ItK FOR CONVERTS IN HAWAII Honolulu. August 7.? An active drive for converts to Iluddhlsm among the Kngllsh speaking peoples of the Hawaiian territory In forecast as !Im> result of action taken by IluddhlMt leaders In deciding to or ganize a Ituddhlnt 'evangellran asso ciation In Hawaii with headquarters here. The principal aim of the society will he to spread the-1 teaching of the pert in Kngllsh, nnd present plans call for the training of Kngllsh speaking priest* of IJuddha. the pub lication of canonical hooks In Kngllsh nnd the circulation of other publica tions In Kngllsh regarding Buddh Isni. ? FIFTY 1MOROS AUK KII.I.KI) IN BATTLE (B? Th? AMirliod Prm) Manila. August 7. -Fifty Mo rot were killed and a number wounded, and three members of the constabu lary were wounded In a battle near Lake Lanao on the Island of Minda nao yesterday, It was reported to tho Governor-General's office here today. SLAUGHTER BANDITS BY TIIE HUNDREDS (Rf Tti? AaNdiltd Pm) Peking. August 7. - Dispatcher, From Tsltslhar. Manchnrla. today an nounced that 7 BO handlts wero ? lauKhtered by soldiers In barracks there by command of the military governor. UOTTDN MAHKKT New York, Aug. 7. .Spot cotton \ rlosed steady, with a 15 point ad vance. Middling 2B.75. Future* closed at the following levels: Octo ber 23.88-90. December 23 86 89, January 23.6C, March 23.71-76. May 2 *?. t?6-7 4. New York, Aug. 7.?Cottbn fu ures opened today at the following eretsr October 23.85-75, December 23.73-67. January 23.48-44, March 13.52-53, May 22.65-61. ,1
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