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???***??. ? THE WEATHER. * Generally fair tonight * and ff'edneaday. Gentle * variable irinds. ?*?*????? * CIRCULATION * Monday * 1,650 Co pie* * m m VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 14, 1923. EIGHT PAGES. NO. 188. RIOTING RAGES IN ALL GERMANY s Government Faces Another Anxious Day as Reports ('oiitinue to Give Accounts of Mob Disturbances. (Br Ttt? AaaorUt** Derlln, August 14.?With late re ports indicating an Increase In mob disturbances throughout the whole country the government faced an other anxious day. During the night reports came that 20 persons had been killed in Hanover and "15^In Zeltz. Rioting was also said to be in progress at Nefsse. So far disturbances lo Berlin have been of a minor nature. Howover. ( the growing dissatisfaction with food prices and the shortage of sta-l pies is noticeable. Merlin. August 14.?-Reports of tiers and strikes due to food shortage and the mark situation con tinue to be received from through out Germany and the situation is ad-, mitted to be serious. Twelve Person Killed. Alx La Chappelle. Aug. 14.? Twelve person* were killed and more than 80 wounded here last night when crowds attempted to storm po lice headquarters and rescue prison ers taken during the day when police broke up a food shortage demonstra tion. Bray Loses No Time In Getting to Work Six Thousand Dollars in Street Maintenance Equipment Already in Service City Manager John Bray lias lust no tfcn e in getting to work on the city's dirt streets with the Riding and maintenance-equipment, the pur chase of which was authorized by the City Council at its regular session on Monday, August 4. The new equipment was author ized Monday and City Manager Bray had 11 here hv the fnll?>wlnu^Frldav. and he is now busy putting the "dirt streets of the city in such shape as to best withstand the wet and cold of winter. Mr. Bray has promised the City Council that with this equip ment he will keep the city's dirt streets In fair condition all the year 'round. This equipment was purchased at a cost of $6,000, but if It will serve to get Elizabeth City even to some extent out of the mud through which residents in the unpaved sections of the city are accustomed to flounder when winter weather sets In Its pur-1 chase. In the opinion of memberR of the City Council, will have been abundantly Justified. The City Council met In special session Monday night to adopt a budget. The budget as adopted calls for total expenditures of $85,06:!, di vided as follows: Police department $10,581 Administrative dept. 1!?.45H -Street department ~ 4 5,075 Sanitary department ? 4.H86 Equipment ? 6.160 Ali the equipment provided for In the foregoing budget has already been purchased, with the exception of a horse and buggy for the use of the sanitary Inspector. Sweden Licenses Radio Receivers Hendinv Station* Ownwl and Htif?er vised by the State, How ever Stockholm, August 14.?Radio-! phono sending station* In Sweden nrei to be owned and supervised by the' state, while receiving pets may bo Installed and operated by virtually any person wbo noes through the for mality of obtaining a license. This Ih Indicated by the request which the Swedish government has Juat made to the I>epartment of Telegraphs to uhnilt formal application for the right to establish radiophone broad casting service. The request also in vites further proposal of plans and requires the department to consult with the proper military authorities, as well as with the Meteorological Institute. Mthough the state Is to Qwn and control the radiophone stations, the actual operation is to be a concession to on? or more private companies durin the first few years, according to i >? in-net a I plans. I2? v? inn's for the necessary ex pen . * operation am to be ob tain' d by taxing the owners oftve celvinu set*. A portion of these tax-1 es will go to the stato and the rest, will go the operating company. Ama* tours may manufacture their own re ceiving sots if they please, and there! are no strict limits to the wave lengths that may be used. Advertising material may not in the Immediate future be broadcast-; pd, according to the policy adopted by the Department of Communica-, tions. Partisanship In the selection of news broadcasted will pot he per mitted, and stress is laid on the Im portance of preventing unfair com petition with the press. DOUBLE HEADER ON WEDNESDAY The Tread Holler Co. base ball club of Norfolk will play a double-header here on Wed nesday. the first game begin ning at 3 and the second game at 5 p. in. Admission will be 40 and 50 cents for both games and 35. and 4 5 cents at the 5 o'clock game. % XMa afternoon Saunders will pitch against Allen in the game with the Norfolk All Stars. Evans and Ballentlne will be used In Wednesday's games. The Tread Boiler Company club is said to be one of the best teams in the Tidewater Virginia League and a real match for the-locals Is looked for in the first double-header of the season. LETTER FOLLOWS MACON WHIPPING I'olieeman Threatened by Gang That Beat Up Four White Men, One of Whom Is in Critical Condition. Macon, Ga.. August 14.?Receipt of a threatening letter by Lieuten ant of Police Griffin here today marks the latest development iri con nection with recent whippings of four) white men by a ga?g of masked men. No arrests have been made. Lieut. ? Griffin's reply to the letter was that ? he defied "the writer or his gang to face me." R. E. Robo and Gus Roberts, two of the men who were whipped and [ordered to leave town, have complied with the command, while Ollle Per ry Is still In a serious condition at his home here as the result of the i whipping. I ' Premier Poincare '' Courteous But Firm (By Th? AwN-iaitd Pf?u) Paris. August 14.?Premier Poln ^L'liiy luday Informed his collaborators at the foreign office that he. intends "in the most courteous manner poss ible" to reply point hy point to the British note on reparations. I Although Ills reply will be cour teous. it Is asserted. It will be a stout Ye-afflrmntlon of the French view ' point and a flat rejection of the Brit ish suggestion. ? PRICE FIXING HAS FAILED IN ROUMANIA Bucharest, August 14.?Ronm?a- i nia is facing an exceptional problem In dealing with the high cost of liv ing, which Is unusual In an agrlcul-! tural country, amply capable of sup plying Its own people and exporting large amounts of foodstuffs. It was hoped to solve this prob lem by iwo legislative measures, one llxfng TKe* "prlcCs or fiwsfl products, and the other forbidding exports, by i means of high duties which practi cally made exports Impossible. It Is now announced by M C.aro flld, former minister of agriculture, that the fixing of prices and the dis couragement of exports have result ed In a more serious situation than existed before these measures were applied. "Both the price-Axing and the practical prohibition of exports of food supplies needed at home have discouraged production to a notable extent," says the former minister of agriculture. 'Mloumanla. former-j ly one of the world's greatest wheat markets. has become a negtglble quantity In wheat exportation. In , addition, the amount of wheat avail able for home .consumption has been j diminished because of the fact that the prices fixed w#r*?. In some In stances, less than the prices that would have afforded a reasonable) margin of profit to producers." New legislation Is about to bo siib^ mltted to parliament to deal with the admittedly gravo question. economic: problems AT FRATERNAL MEET ?? Indianapolis, August 14. World problems In economic* will be dis cussed by many noted apeakers when the annual meeting of the National Fraternal Cohgress Is held at French , Lick. Indiana. August 27 to?30, ac cording to Harry Wade. IndlanaiK>-| lis, president of the concroas, Jam^s J. I>avl*. secretary of labor, who re-, cently returned from a trip abroad, will be one of the apoakera. Another will be Samuel M. Ralston. L\ S. Senator from Indiana. The meeting at French Lick will mark the first time In the 25 years i of the congresa' exlatencc that the) convention has been held outside of a large city. The congreas la com posed of fraternal Insurance soeletJc* of the United States and Canada which have a combined membership of more than alx million men and women, with life Insurance amount ing to more than ten billion dollara, Mr. Wade aaya. Says Labor Responsibility Necessary DR. CHARLES W. ELI01 Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, recently told the National Coal Association that monopoly of any Jcind in connection with 3uch a basic commodity would not be tolerated. As the bituminous coal industry, which the association represents, is composed of 9,000 in dependent operators and has been noted for the keenncs of its com petition, it was assumed that Dr. Eliot referred to the jawing power over the whole industry of the Unit ed Mine Workers of America, whose monopolistic ambitions and accom plishments have been stressed re peatedly in charges before the Uni ted States Coal Commission. President Eliot informed the Coal Association that "the American votes, their voluntary actions in emergencies, and through the pres3, that hereafter they will not have the supply of cual to the factories, households and carriers of the coun try abridged, much less stopped, by any monopolistic control whatever." Dr. Eliot also advocated the incor poration of all unions which- r?'lato to the coal industry and the indus tries that distribute coal, and the submission to arbitration of dis putes arising in the industry. In speaking of the unions he said: "In the public interest it is inex pedient that those secret societies, which collect large sums of money from their members, and use all their resources to support strikes, hot,*. >er violent, should continue to he exempt from the usual legal processus to prevent violations of damitfcps." COMMUNITY HOUSE IS MENTIONED AFAIt Elizabeth City's Community House | on Fleetwood street gets a word, In fact, several of them. In the August number of Welfare Progress, the of i flclal publication of the North Caro I Una State Hoard of Charities, and |\?**lftkrtv which goes into every cor ner of the State. ' Following is the clipping: 1 "Largely through the eftorts of the Mothers' Club organized by Mrs. An na Lewis, superintendent of public welfaie for Pasquotank Countv, and with the help of the social service department of the local Woman's Club. Elizabeth City now boasts of an attractive community house which was recently opened with a house 1 winning.? i "Mrs. Lewis, assisted by Miss Mar ! cie Albertson, the county home dem onstration stent. organized the Mothers' Club about a year ago. Since then the members have worked faithfully, studying how to take care of their. babies and feed their fnmV lies properly. A gathering place such as the community house came to be necessity, and it was brought about by the club members, helped by those of*the social service depart ment of the Woman's Club. Certain mills In Elizabeth City pay the rent for the house, but the women have done the rest. "This Community House Is consid ered merely a beginning. The club has an architect's drawing for one more to their notion, which they hope to see built eventually." DEDICATE LIBRARY OF BEE LITERATURE 9 Madison. Wisconsin. August 14.? A library of literature on the Indus trious bee will be dedicated at the Wisconsin College of Agriculture here, and beekeepers from every state In the I'nion. from Canada and from a number of f?&rJgJ> countries ? re here to Join in the l}J*torlc event." The library is knowfi'as the Mlllftf Memorial Library of flee LIU rature and was established in honor of the memory of Dr. C. C. Miller, of Ma rengo, Jll., who for more than 80 years advanced modern methods of honey production by his writings In bee Journals and talks at bee con ventions. Donations of books snd Journals and entire bee libraries have been deceived from many states. Coincident with the dedication of the library, the National Honey Pro ducers' Association will meet here and the two events glv?- promise of drawing the larvcMt congregation of hom v producers that hlV( tTVIf itfl ered toeqthef. The convention will continue for five days. . Miss Bert Oanderson of Washing ton. D. C. . has returned home after % visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. 0. Oanderson on Cfcnrry street. Methodist Workers To Meet At Manteo Delegates From Down-Sound Methodist Churches In Three Day Conference Hack from a meeting of the reli gions workers of Gates Connty Tues day. Pr? shlhiK Elder Culbreth of tho Ellr.abeth City District Meth odist Conference, was prpparlni; for a similar meeting at Mantes Fri day, Saturday and Sunday, when del egates of the down sound Methodist churches meet at that point for con ? feren**, ?? On the program are L. Go-bhel. superintendent of Sunday School work for the North Carolina Con ference, Miss Georgia Keene, super intendent of elementary work, and Rev. T. M. Grant, who Is president of the North Carolina Epworth League. I In Gates County conferences were held at 'Gatesvlllc Friday and Sntur-, day, the work of the Gates County Missionary Institute taking up*the program for Friday and that of the Sunday Schools being the topic for Saturday. On Sunday the pulpit of practically every church in the: Gates circuit wan filled by either Presiding Elder Culbreth. Mr. Gob bel or Rev. C. J. Harreli, a native of Gates County but now pastor of the First Methodist Church of At-' lanta. C WNIXIJ DEMONSTRATION at .motiieiw ri.i'ii mi:i:tinc; ?f /.-.'M \t the regtilpr meeting of the Mothers' Club In tM* Community Mouse on FlePtW^t'repI Wednes daV afternoon Miss Marele Albert-1 "on, home demonstration agent, will give a demonstration In canning It Im hoped that there will* br a full at tendance. A number oL^Tn^portant matter* will coin*' up at/this m? ?tlnu.* In addition to the canning demons- - lration uud the wlKhinRk?f the ba bies entered In the Better Hahl<sj contest. RECEIVES XKWH OK DKtTII | News was received here \tonday h\ Mrs. Fr? d Davis of the d<>ath of John Tiger at the home of his daugh ter. Mrs. Guyon Anderson, at East. Orange, N J. Mr. and Mrs. Tiger had recently returned from a visit! to their son. Smith Tiaer. of Tterk-j ley, Cal., where they spent some time on account of Mr. Tlger'a falling health.* Mr. and Mrs. Anderson were formerly of this elty, Mr. Anderson' being with the Southern Roller, Stave and Heading Company. Mrs. W. B. O'Neal. Morgan street.' hat returned from Sarah Leigh Hoi pitil, Norfolk, where she has been: for two weeks for treatment. I Berlin Strike Is Called Off i Br T*?? AMsrlti'd Prm) Ilerlin, August 14?Tho gen era! Mirilli1 in lU-rliu was called ofT by the Communists this morning, all transportation JlDi*a xe-Qpenlng. kiii.ru women AND HID BODIES Man Arrested in Mansachu-I I sells Town Following Find ] ins <>f Dismembered Bodies I of Women in a Field. t Mt'tUonj, Mass., A11bum 14.?Nu ?nlo Tsekos of Franklin. New Hamp shire. was arrested hero toduv charg ed wiMi murder, after twfr boxes con taining the dismembered bodies of jtwo women were found In a field ; n*?*T here. I The police said that Tsekos con fessed that he killed his wife, Nata lie. and her mother. Mrs. Katherine . Adams, last Saturday night. According to the alleged confes-1 slon. Tsekos quarreled with the wo-' I men at their home at Franklin over ? money matters, and he claimed that, they attacked him with a bat and a! I knife. I He said that he overpowered them, then slabbedaIiIh wife and rut Mre.l j Adams' throat. Sunday night he dismembered the 1 bodies, accordlnu to the alleged con-1 Tension, nailed them in wooden box es nu<! drove here, bringing the box | en along and leaving lh<m in the field. Cotton Prospects i i Surpass A!! Records Older Farmer! of County Say Have Never Seen Such Crop or Acreage What many older farmers believe to he tlw bl^uesl ;ip|| ?aauJ?Uu llneat crop of ccftoif ever grown ii the thre?> counties of Pasquotank Camden and Currituck Is thutjiow standing lit (he Heidi of these coun ties. ' Seasons hnve boon favorable, tlx boll weevil ha* not yet put In his ap pearance this year, and everything points to a record yield this fall. Cot ton farmers are looking forward hopefully toward a good profit on jthls year's cotton?if tliey can Ret It 1 picked. The shortage of negro la I hor, thou^l? somewhat less keenly I felt In this , section than Fn soni" j parts of North Carolina, Ih neverthe less pronounced, and may give cot ton grower* serious trouble, especlal i ly if the crop Is disposed to open rapidly. The boll weevil made Its appear ance north of tin- Albemarle Sound and west of the Dismal Swamp for the first time last year, and Pasquo tank farmers were figuring on a 10 per cent damage from the pest this 'year. Indications now are that the boll weevil damage In Pasquotank and the counties to the north of It will again Ih- negligible this year. Among the factors that aceount for the big acreage In cotton this year are the low prices for Irish and sweet potatoes last year, the high prices for cotton that prevailed In the planting season and the fact that it was felt by many growers that the fact that these counties are in the on? remaining and very limited area of the cotton belt still practically free from boll weevil Infestation. Women at Bottom of Serious Accident ISr Th? Anorlitrf Pr?H. I Lourdes, France, August 14. ? | Twenty-three persons were killed andi seven probably fatally Injured yeater-j day when a motor coach filled with excursionists plunged down a ravine , in the Pyrenees mountains near Saint $auveur. ..<? The driver In attempting to avoidi striking some women who stepped from the hushes swerved the ma-! chht?? sharply and the coach over-1 turned;--efashlng to the bottom. TWELVE I.IVES LOST IN IITAII STOHMS Salt I-nko City. Auk 14. Twrlv lives are believed to have been lost In northern I'tab during a series ofj cloudbursts last night and today, and property damage Is expected to total upwards of a million dollars. SEIZURE ALIEN CKAJT UPHELD IIY U. S. JUDGE New York. August 14.?(leisure, of alien crsft hovering shout the I three-mile limit, surreptitiously to land liquor either by themselves or, In co-operation with small rum run-' ners, vai upheld today by Federal. Jtfdge Woodrouth. CAMDEN FARMERS TO HAVE OWN GIN Subscribing Stock to (!(H)|v crativc Enterprise Which They Believe Will Mean Bet ter Prices for (Cotton. I'arim rs of Camden County are planninu for the operation of a co operative cotton Kin In this county tliIh fall and stock subscriptions for the building and operation of the proposed cin are now being solicited with what is reported a gratifying degree of snecess. The gin will be located at Camden tlation, where uroiind In now Iii-Iiik broken for the site. Fred t'pton and Herman Xewbern, prominent Camden County cotton growers, have "been active pro moting the project, and Tom Mun den one of the best known gin expert* in this section, is now away on a trip to close the deal ror the Kin's equipment. building and machinery are expected to require an initial Investment of $lo,000 and the enterprise expects to begin opera tions with a minimum current fund of 925.000. Trading credit Is belnx satisfactorily arranged for at Eliza beth City banks. The Idea in promoting th# project Is not to sell big blocks of stock to any Individual, Imt so far as possible to 1rave every cotton grower In the county a stockholder tn the enter prise. I M. Meek Ins of Elizabeth City and New York Is one of the at torneys for the concern and, owning a farm in Camden he Is also one of the stockholders. | I.ast year Alfred Sawyer operated a gin at llelcross and the Eastern IOil Company of Elizabeth City and Hertford operated a gin at Camden. 'Due to the competition between the it wo gins. Camden County farmers received top priceH for cotton and much cotton was lfauled from ad Joining counties to* the Camden gins. However, recently the Sawyer In terest* at llelcross have houuht out the Eastern Oil Company's gin at Camden, thus giving Alfred Sawyer of llelcross control of Jboth gins. Tills didn't look pood to a large number of Camden cotton growers and re sulted in the movement for a co-op (eratlve feln. Developments are now awaited with interest, and with pHWpect of home lonniititinn?tar their cotton Camden growers are again hoping to receive top prices for their cotton this year. With the abolition of the toll 4>rldire across the Pasquotank river since the Camden Perry rond has been taken over by the State, the idea prevails here that consider able I'asqtiotnnk cotton . may be hauled over the State Bridge, road to Camden this fall. Camden's cotton crop Is exception ally fine this year, the seasons hav ing been favorable and the acreage probably being the largest Iri the county's history. AH yet there hnfl been no sign of the boll weevil and the older farmers of the county free ly say that this year's crop Is the finest they have ever se? n In thfc. county and predict that the yield will Hiirpass all previous records for ' Ca mden. Sweet Potato Crop Is Below Average Vor III Carolina Yield Forwn.il a* 07 ltii?hel? IVr %rre, mill Arnv ats?' Itnlurcil Itnlr-lcli. A11 fcriiHl 14.?The North Carolina sweet potato crop Ih esti mated nl HI per cent of a full crop condition. forecasting a yield of 97 bushel* per acre. It wan announced 'today by the Stat#*-Federal Depart ment* of Agriculture Crop Reporting j Service. The white potato crop In 'th?* Stntr average* 77 per cent at this Jwa^on for the late crop. It was aa Isorted, ehlch Indicate! a yield of R1 I bushels per acre. "The white potato crop for the f'nltod States In slightly less than the a vera ?e for several year a and consld erahly lexa than lant year," It was stated. "Th?TT>rice of $1.23 per bu nhel la about 12 cents above lant year's quotation at thla season. The present condition of tne crop i* su.r, per cent on 10 per c ut rednoed mti< age. * "The North Carolina crop averages 77 per Cent a this season for the lat?' <crop? which Indicates xi bushels per acre. Of course, the early truck crop haa been harvested. "The sweet potato crop ahowa 16 per cent le*a product Ion than lant year, which In also lea* than the av erage for *lx year*. Tho averag* price quoted la $1.2.1, or slightly less than the quotation of a year ago. The North Carolina crop la estimated at Rl per'rent of a full crop condi tion, forecasting 97 buahels per acre. The acreage la aomewliht reduced. COTTON MAUKF.T New York. Aug 14.?Spot cotton closed at? ady. middling 25.65, an'ad vance of &o points over the opening. Cotton futures closed at the follow ing levels: October 24 38-42. De cember 24 40-42. January 24 12-16, March 24.21-23. May 24.14-22. New York, August 14?Cotton fu ture* opened today at ths following levels: October 24.16-10; Decem ber 24.10-07; January 2$.86.81 March 23.88.86; May 28.80.