North Carolina Newspapers

* THE WEATHER. * '* I ri settled tonight and * * Saturday. Local thun- * * dershotcers probably. No * * change in temperature * ?????? m ? ? CIRCULATION ? Thursday * 1,630 Copies * vol! XIII. , FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING. AUGUST 10, 1923. FOUR PAGES. NO. 185 Join World In Tribute To The Late President Elizabeth City People Gather in Reverent Spirit at Noontide Pausing from Everyday Tasks to Remember Example -f r-nmlmna Thein liv Chief Executive That President Harding was a conscientious, faithful and reverent member of the church was a fact in President Harding's life that seemed particularly worthy of being stressed to Dr. James H. Thayer, who tirade; the memorial address at the service on the courthouse green held Friday I at the noon hour in honor of the dead leader. The speaker also brought out the truth that American Presidents as a whole have set a standard of ruler ship in the HO years of American history that has never been equalled by any European nation, not even Englahd excepted, in any century and a lfalf of history. Hardly a more democratic Presi dent than Harding has occupied the White House in the history of the country, Dr. Thayer said, in compar ing the President with Wilson and Roosevelt, both of whom, he said, manifested certain qualities of im perialism. "We are not here to honor the of fice," Dr. Thayer said. "The office goes on. Hut we are here to honor a man. and we honor him because his public and private life was wor- j thy of emulation." The service was short, simple, and impressive. All business housf*, closed at 12 o'clock, and shortly thereafter, while the courthouse bell was tollinu, Elizabeth City people gathered on the courthouse green to pay tribute to the life of their late Chief Executive, Warren G. Harding. Flags hung at half mast and this quiet, sheltered little city on the Pasquotank river joined with the na tion and the world in grief for the ! passing of the President of the I'mit j i J States. As the people gathered about the Confederate monument, the strains of "Atnerlcfc" floated upon the air. and this patriotic, hymn was followed by prayer by Rev. Frank H. Scat tergood. pastor of Cann Memorial Presbyterian Church. Mrs. I. M. Meekins, organist and choir director of the First Haptist Church, was in charge of the music, and the First llaptist quartet sang "Lead, Kindly Light," the late President's favorite hymn, following which came Dr. Thayer's address, and the benedic tion by Dr. N. H. I). Wilson, pastor of the First Methodist Church. A spirit of reverence and solemn attention prevailed throughout the service such as had never been wit nessed at any previous exercises held outdoors in Elizabeth City, and the people dispersed almost as silently as they had assembled, so -deep was their sense of the solemnity of the occasion. From 3 o'clock to .1:15 the church bells of the city tolled to remind the people that the body of the dead President was being laid to rest in his home town of Marlon, Ohio. LAUNDRYOWNERS TO MEET AT ROCKY MOUNT Hock.v Mount, August 10.?The annual convention of the North Car olina division of the Carolina*. C.eor -gia and Florida Laundryowners* As sociation, will meet in this city on Aucust 27, according to announce ment just made by R. N. Bishop, vice pf< lldeat Of (ho organization. In sending out circulars announc ing the date of the convention, Mr. Bishop extended Invitations to both members and non-members of the as sociation, urging thorn to attend. J. W. Powell, Greenville, 8. C., presi dent of the four state organization,' will bet among the prominent speak-1 en at the convention. "It Is hoped that the getting to gether of a InrKO number of the! laundryowners of the State on this occasion will be productive of many | profitable suggestions and construe-! tlve ideas," nald Mr. Hishop, "not only valuable to larger laundries but to the smaller ones as well.' * Canle N. Drown, member of the executive committee of the Laundry-) owners' Nstional Association, has In dicated that he will attend the con vention. Mr. Bishop stated. BELIEVE TANKER WAS LOST AT SEA Panama, Aug. 10? Bhlpplng cir cles here fear that the American tanker. Swift Star, bound from San Pedro, California, to Fall River, Mass., with a cargo of Crude oil has n lost at sea with her crew of thirty men. M WWELI, WANTS A SPECIAL REPORT Ilal'Uh. Aug. 10.?CommlHRlnnrr Maxwrll yenterday laiuied a atate ment rirrlnrlng that the Governor should order a upeelal report of the Stati' ftnancea an on Auauat 1 to prove hi* claim that the deficit has been paid off with the taxea collected' alnce January 1. fOTTOX MAItKKT New York, Aug. 10.?Th? cotton exchange was rloaed today on ac count of the funeral of Prealdent Harding. A FIFTEEN NATIONS ASK INDEMNITIES Present (Communication to Chinese Government in Re gard to Capture of Foreign-; ers by Bandit* in May. IBr Til* AiNdl<?d rilAl Peking. Aug. 10?Indemnities tor the rapture and imprisonment of foreigners by Suchow train bandits last May were demanded of the Chinese government In a communi cation presented today over the sig natures of fifteen foreign ministers. Although nationals of only America, Great Britain. France and Italy wore victims of the bandits, other diplo matic representatives joined in the memorandum which endorsed de mands made seperately by the var ious legations at the time. ALLEN CASE GOES TO PENNSYLVANIA Los Angeles, California. August 10?Dr. H. B. Allen, former head of private schools in Virginia and North Carolina, who is under Indictment in Pittsburg on the Mann Act charge involving the transportation of one of his alleged fifty seven adopted daughters into Petyisylvania from Virginia, today was ordered held to The District Court of Pennsylvania, at the conclusion of the hearing be fore the Federal Commission here. Efforts of council to have bis ball reduced from fifteen thousand dol lars were unsuccessful. - TRYING STABILIZE ? PRICE OF GASOLINE f Raleigh.. Auk. 10.?In an effort to reduce and stabilize the price of gas jollne. Attorney General Manning yes terday summoned the heads of dis tributing companies for a conference on September 5 and intimated that if the conference was not successful i lie would prosecute tinder the Jus tice Anti-Trust Act. WADE LEAVES FOR WISCONSIN MEET Raleigh. August 10.?Starey ,W. Wade, insurance commissioner, will leave Raleich on Sunday night for Madison. Wis., where he will attend the national convention of the So jrurlties Commissioners (Blue Sky) ion August 15. Mr. Wade, who is |president of the nouthern group of Securities Commissioners, will make a report on the meeting recently ho!4 ,in Atlanta. , ! From Madison. Mr. Wade will go to Minneapolis. Minrrrytota, where he will be a speaker at tlfe^iational con vention of Insurance commissioners ito be held in that city on August 20. Leaving Minneapolis on August 25 the North Carolina Insurance com missioner will visit St. Paul, Minne sota; to attend the annual conven tion of the International Association jOf Fire Marshals, which opens on August 27. Mr. Wade Is a member I of the executive committee of this or ganization. Mr. Wade expects to return to Rat lelgh about the first of September. MORRISON INVITED ON BOOSTER TRIP Raleigh, August 10.?Governor Cameron Morrison haw been invited by the Roanoke ltoostcr Club to ac company a party of Roanoke business men on a tour of Western and Pied mont North Carolina on August 24. it was stated at the Governor's office today. Included In the party will be Governor E. Lee Trinkle, of Vir ginia. and four members of bin offi cial family; Mayor Flsbburne. Roan oke, and Congressman Clifton Wood rum. of Virginia. The party will leave Roanoke on the morning of August 22 and will visit a number of points in Southeast Vftl Inla ancf golnK as far In TtfiBM sr* as Johnson City. Prom Johnson City the boosters will travel through Western North Carolina and as far south an SpartanhurK. S. C. tolVfflg Spartanburg tho Virginians will visit Gafltonla. Charlotte, Concord. Salis bury. I^exlngton. Thomasvllle. High I'olnt, Greensboro and Winston-Sa lem. The pafty expect to reach Roanoke on the return trip on the night of August 24. HOODED FIGURES ATTEND REVIVAL Whltakera, Aug. 10?Four hooded flKtirea entered the Methodlat Trot eatanf Church laat Runday night and handed * letter to the paator. Rev. H. Freo Rurratt. The Utter ex preaaed unqualified approval of the revival to be conducted here next week by a Waahlnnlon mlnlater and contained a contribution of flS. ROTARY MOURNS FEIiMMEMBER Local Club Has Memorial Meeting, Paying Tribute to Warren G. Harding, Who Was Himself a Kotarian. I A tribute to the late President bv Blucher Ehrtnghaus, a trio. "Lead Kindly Light." sung by Bill Sawyer Albert Worth and Blucher Ehrlng haus, accompanied by I'rner G. Da vis at the piano, a reading of Presi dent Harding's recent message to Ro tary International. "Jesus. Savior Pilot Me." sung by the same trio as "Lead Kindly Light," and prayer bv! Frank Scattergood constituted the; memorial program to Warren Gama-i liel Harding, Rotarian. of the Eliza beth City Rotary Club at the week ly Rotary lunchon Friday. The Retting for the memorial pro-1 gram was unusually fitting. On the center of the table of Rotarian Pres ident Houtz notary's American Hag hung at half mast. Above the table framed in gold and draped with tlie white of lillles and the green of ivy was a recent picture of Warren G. I Harding. This picture has now been placed In the lobby of the Southern Hotel where it may be seen by those who walk by on the street. On the front page of the program printed especially for the occasion was a picture of President Harding with the following inscription be neath it: Warren f?. Harding. Chris tian gentleman, friend of man. Ro jtarian, twenty-ninth President of the I lTnited States.? born November 2, 1865, died August 3, 1923. On the left hand page, opposite i the prom am on the right. were the following quotations: I"Statesman, yet friend to truth of soul sincere, . _ In action fait_hfuj_and in honor clear; Who broke no promise, served no private end. Who gained no title, and who lost no friend." "Rut since he had The genius to be loved, why let lilni have The justice to Tie TTonoreiT "In his grave." Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him! ;Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears! Not for him who has died full of | ^ honor and years! Not for him who ascended fame's ladder so high From the round at the top he has | stepped to the sky." "As I have seen reflected in the .columns of the newspapers of the dav ?the grief of a nation, said the sj>eak jer, "the attitude of the American ? millions who contemplate In sadness 'the departure of their chief ev lecutlve, it has seemed to me, Is reflected in the words of Mer cutlo who, wounded In a good cause ,and askx'd If he was hurt, replied: ( " 'No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; hut lis enough, 'twill serve.' I "Our President is dead. In itseir it means a great deal to be the chos en chief of 100 million people. "Other nations have had their kings and their emperors some of whom they have retarded as good and some as bad, but good or bad to these people can not come the sense of loss that is ours when we lose him whom we ourselves have exalted to his place as head of our nation. Our ruler is marked above his f.-llows not oifly his station, but also by his capacity and his character. ! "There may be greater leaders among the Presidents of the I nlted States than Warren (J. Harding, though I do not say that there are. Only the future historian can esti mate his greatness. Hut of one thing |1 am sure. No President has entered I his grave more genuinely and gener 'ally loved and resjM-cted than he who so lately has fallen on sleep. | "The people of America loved iWarren O. Harding. They loved him for his achievement in rising with no prestige or backing save that of |a dauntless ambition and sterling ;character from a poor country boy to I the highest place In the gift of his people. There Is romance and in splration In the contemplation of jsuch a career. Rut Warren Harding was loved not merely because of his achievement. Cold intellectuality imay win lis reward, hut It can never In Itself claim the heart's affection. I Warren Harding possessed those qualities of mind and of heart which endeared him to his people. He knew the ache that labor gives and could {sympathise with the ho|>es And asplr-' ations of the working man. He knew the stress and strain and the tempta-I lions of achievement and was able to understand and comprehend and ap preciate the ambitions of his yCoun-, trvmen and was eager to strive to aP levlate the burdens of the less fortu nate among them. "The wisest of men, when he was asked to choose that which above all else he would ask, did not choose riches or renown, but prayed for an understanding heart that lie might know good from evil and be able to Judge his people. I am among those who think that no man can solve the problems of life with the mind alofte. Warren Harding. I think, had that understanding heart which was re-j sponalve to the needs of his country and which led him to hla own hard-! ship and physical discomfort to un dertake the floftl mission, the carry-! lag out of which snapped the thread I RALEIGH STORE IS DYNAMITED KalfUl). Auk. 10.?A small country store owned by Mr. and Mrs. Zack Jackson about 12 miles from here was wrecked by dynamite early to day. according to reports to the sheriff. The destruction of the store t" >??'<* followed the re ceipt of two letter signed "K. K. K.." warning Mrs. Jackson to move the store, which was a sort of community gathering place, away from there. The letters informed her that she was an undesirable resident. The objection to the woman, according to the let ter. dates back to a neighbor hood quarrel over the best way to Improve the community School. BIGGEST SALARY FORCITYMANAGER lAsliburiirr, Formerly of Nor folk, (iris II at Storkton, ' < al.?Was I ho First City . Manager in Ameriea. Lawrence, Kansas^ Aug. 10.? I When Charles Kdward Ashburner, I city maii.*n^*r?of Norfolk. Virginia. I assumes his new Job as city" manager |ot Stockton. California. September 1. at a salary of $20,000 a year, he will continue to be the highest paid city manager in the United States, according to John (!. Stui?. of this city, executive secretary of the Na tional City Managers' Association. His salary at Norfolk Is $16,000 a jyear. "An Interesting thing about Ash burner is that lie not only is the highest paid city manager in the II tilted Stati-s. hut he was the pioneer in the profession?-he was the first | city manager." said Secretary Stutx. "When lie accepted the Job of man ager of the city of Staunton. Virginia in 1908 h?- XOCfiixed only a nominal salary. it was lai^-ly through the successful demonstration he gave I there that other cities acccpted the Idea. When Ashburner was asked : by the city of Stockton to. tlx hi* sal ary. lie put the fiuuru so hliih he (lid J not Imagine a cltv of but 50,000 pop 1 ulation would accept. Although Nor folk, a city of 150.000, later met the rise in the effort to hold Ashburner. I of course he could not annul Stock ton's acceptance of his offer." , Ashburner went from Staunton to Springfield, Ohio, as pity manager in J 1914, and four years later to Nor folk. ; More than .100 cities In the Unit ed Slate* are operated under the city i manager plan, according to Mr. jStuts. TROOPS GUARD AS VOTES ARE COUNTED Charleston. Aug. 10.?Two com jpanles of militia will stand guard to day as the official count Is made of [votes ca<t In the mayoralty election last Tuesday. NOT MII/TY .\IIAMM>NMK\T Ceorge Palmer, brought into court Friday morning by his wife on a charge of abandonment, w:is ad judged not guilty when it appeared that Mr#. Palmer would not return to him, preferring to 11 v?? with her r 22 year old won. In that cane, the court told her. she would have to re ly on her son for support, there be ing no evidence that her husband's conduct had ever been such as to make her life burdensome. Fannie Rogers, colored, with her two Jury trials, one 0:1 a charge of Illegal possesion of liquor and the other on the charge of larceny, too* up a whole morning in court to get 60 days on the former and 30 days on the latter charge, a total of 90 days In Jail. ROMANS USED MODERN HEATING APPARATUS London, August 10.?A central heating apparatus used In a Unman villa about 17 centuries ago ban been unearthed In the course of excava tions at K' nynbani cein< t< ?>. BoQMf' setshlre The villa, which was about 120 fe'et long, was heated by a hypocaust or heating chamber, the best passing under the floors of various rooms by means of a series of passaged. Some rooms were reached by means of flues instead of the floor passages. o7 tils life. "When he was called to Washing-1 ton snd had to leave the newspaper ? hat he bad directed at the city of Marlon he gave to those whom he left In charge a code of Instructions which, to my mind, reflects more accurately than anything else the) character of the man. "'Above all/ these Instructions concluded, 'be clean, and never let a dirty word or suggestion get Into print. I want this paper to be one that can go Into any home without destroying the Innoccnce of any ?? "We lorea nlm for his splendid spirit of good will and for his under standing heart. Peace to his -ashe# lOod test hla spirit In that happy land ,tor which he by hla example would I lead us. " England Mourns As If Had Been Her Own While All America Pays Tribute to PGk|ioii*? Chief Executive Great Britain ExpreftRe<rSympathetie:?rief in State 1\ ?rrrnromat at WmiiiiiiwiyfAliLyy Craddock, Va. Vs. Best City Today The strong Craddock aggregation ? will play tin* Klizaheth City nine on the local diamond at Ave oMock this afternoon. Pans In Elizabeth City who are familiar with th ? record of the Craddock team say (that the visitors will give the local* a hard scrap. | | Edenton was to have played here j today hut on account of the Presl- j | dent's funeral, cancelled their en-i I gagement. Saturday afternoon at five the fast (Norfolk team that gave Elizabeth' jClty such a close race last week will j the here with even a stronger team {than the one that played Elizabeth ICity 3 to 4 on Saturday a week ago. Hallintine will deliver for Eliza beth City this afternoon and Cat. * I>av4*-may he used on the mound In Saturday's game. POSTOFFK'K uilDF.lt El? CliOSED It EST OF DAY ! The Elizabeth City PostofTice closed Friday at noon and will re main closed for the rent of the day, j by order of the Postmaster C.eneral received by Postmaster J. A. Hoopei ; at 0 a. in. Friday. ,NEARLY FORTY IS THIS TYPEWRITER Warrrnton. August 10.- J. \v. | White, well known insurance man <?f this city, owns and operates what Is thought to be one of the oldest type j writers in use in the Fnitcd States. H? baa been pecking on tliQ machine ifor :?7 years. - The old "mill" was bought by Mr. (White second-hand in 1S8f?. It is thought the machine bad been used about, two years when it came Into possession of the insurance man. Mr. White handles his personal corres pondence on the typewriter and it Is .said to be in remarkably good condi tioner the years it has been in ser vice. Scientists Caution About Deadly Gas Hydrogen Sulphide, Often Found in Industrial l*lau(??. Detected liy Odor Washington, Aug. 10?Thnt hydro Ron sulphide. a can often found In find about industrial plants, Ih ex tremely poisonous, although not (heretofore rerounlzud as such, Is dis closed hy the Itureau of Mines after a series of tests on men and animals. The investigation showed that acute poison inu ran he produced l?y low concentrate* of this h;im and mny re sult In respiratory pnrnlysls followed hy heart failure and death. The gas Is sometimes present In mines, railroad tunnels, sewers, and marshes, and Is found In varloua stav* of the manufacture of sul phuric arid. In the distillation of pe troleum, particularly those oils known as high-sulphur crudes, and also about some gas wlls. gas plants and smoltors. It Ih colorless and In low concentrate* has flic odor of rot ten okvs. In mines tills has given it the term "stink damp." | At the Pittsburgh experimental station of the hurenu a lnr*e cham ber was u*ed for making exposure's of men and various nnlmals. The study showed that complete Inhala tion causes almost Immediate uncon sciousness, an/1 dentli follows fre quently before rescue can be accom plished. DUELLING AGAIN GOES ON IN PARIS Paris, Ann 10.?<Parls has taken one more step back to pre-war con ditions hy reviving duelling. Two barristers who Insisted on settling a personal difference with duelling swords revived n procedure which, since the war. has appeared ridicu lous cvrn In the eyes of the French, who still maintain that there are some disputes that can only be decid ed 'on the field of honor.* Oenornl opinion, however, is still against duelling for anything short of the gravest reasons, rind one wri ter regretting Its revival has sugfe? ted that a new article In the duelling code should prescribe* that encount ers can only take place in the devas tated region*, close to a battlefield or In a military cemetery. Few are I the adversaries, he argues, who fac ing the wooden crosses of so many Frenchmen, killed In the most for ituldable duel In history, will not And I their own quarrel ludicrous and fall' I In each other's arms. (By Th# iaodtUd Pnh.) London, Aug. 10 ? While America paid her tributes to Warren G. Harding today, England mourned him as if he had been her own. Her chief expression of sympathetic grief was in a stately ceremonial service in Westminster Abbey, an official function at which high officials of state and American officials abroad sat side by side with American tourists in express ing their common sorrow. When Tin* l>uy In Done Marion, Ohio. Auk. 10.?Th* day when human eyes would look their last upon the face of Warren G. Har ding dawned with many who loved _ him still waiting-to pass slowly be ?lde the blur?misting In /his father's homo. ? Before the shallows of evening; steal across the yrlde peaceful fields ??f the valley wheir lie-was born, the ' gates of his tomb will have" closed behind him and fche long, long way of his funeral will have ended. In gracious kindness the sorrowful woman, who longed for the end of tlx* public ordeal, that has stretched into more (ban a week of ceremonial and pageant in order that the people of the nation and slate might testify to their grief, set aside her own wish I to ?be ahrne with her dead at the last. Throughout the hours of dark ness. the casket which held him lay open in the humble home and all were freely welcome to pass beside It. Acaln today tfie face of the dead Chief Kxecutlve was made visible for the last time. Friends File Past Marion. Ohio. Auk. 10.?From 2 o'elock .Thursday afternoon to past jmiduiuht friends of the late Presi dent tiled past IiIh bier to look for the last time on his %f ace. More than :t0 special trains were running to wards Marlon last night and all I roads for more than 4 0 miles were jammed with automobiles pouring into the city with those coming to pay a last tribute of respect. World 1'ay.s Tribute ' Washington, Aug. 10.?All wires will be Htilled for two minutes-over the nation and practically all Indus try will stop as the body of the late President Is lowered to Its last rest ing place. Trains will stop running, banks will be closed, ships*at sea will cut ofT their power and their crews will stand at attention. : Hritlsh ships In New York harbor will dip their I'nlon Jacks and over |the entire wo'rld the tribute of re ispect will be paid. At Marion, simplicity will reign nnd then- will be no ostentation as the nation's leader goes to his eter nal sleep. The larger city afternoon papers will suspend publication and the theaters and all places of pleasure Will be closed. Continues Calm Marlon. Ohio, Aug. 10.?After the last night of vigil near her husband's casket, Mrs. Harding today contin ued her watchful attention there, still brave and calm. MOKKISON CLAIMS ISSUES AKF. FALSE Ashevlllc. Auk. 10.?Governor Morrison vpHterday Issued a state ment declaring that Maxwell adher ents are raising a falae and unhusl nefcallke Issue and th?l,-the only* def icit that existed w?a One of neces#lty while taxes wore being collected which would cover the amount of the deficit. \o Tltt tii i\ ituroitr oi* n \<;s iii;m> dis\ktku Heports. which sprang up hero mysteriously Thursdav evening and gained ureal momentum In the tell ing, to the effect that Nags Head wa* Inundated and that a catastrophe aI in I In r to that of August 24. 191 H. had struck the reaort, with the wat er* of the sound sweeping over tho cottages and wrecking the piers, were vigorously denied by Capt. Mar tln L. Johnson when he brought tho Trenton In on schedule time Friday mornlmr. "Why, there's hardly been any rain there, and nothing In the way of a storm," Ca|?t. Johnson declared. "The tide was eight inchea below normal Friday morning and hasn't been eight Inches above normal late Iv. I don't see how such a report started, for It'n the blggeat lie I ever heard." (XWCOX HOOKS HKAOT Our Coupon Hooka are now on sale. They save you 15 per eent on your cleaning and pressing. Cooper Cleaning Worka, Mattlyrws atreet. Aug.9,10.np J j