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? *????? rtv ^ - _ THE WEATHER. ? Fair tonight and Sat? * urday. Warmer Satur? * day. Gentle, variable * wind*. * ? CIRCULATION Thursday 1,683 Copies VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1923. FOUR PAGES. NO. 197. LAW WILL REDUCE1 THEFTS OF AUTOS Measure Requiring Registra tion Motor Vehicles and En pine Numbers Goes Into Ef fect October First. Raleigh. August 24.?What Is con sidered by many officials and officers of the State and also by thousands of automobile owners as one of the most important laws passed by the last General Assembly?the motor vehicle title registration act?goes into effect October 1. In view of this law, automobile theft insurance officials already have announced that they will reduce their rates 10 per cent, and accord ing to Secretary of State W. N. Ev erett, in whose hands rests the en forcement of the law, they have as sured that further automobile theft insurance rate reductions will be I made later in accordance with the ef-1 fectlveness of the new act. Registration of all automobiles and other motor vehicles, including trucks and motorcycles, by their manufacturers' and engine numbers, is required by the new law, which J also makes it unlawful for a person j to operate a car on or after October | 1 unless registration has been made' or applied for. An automobile nAist be registered Just like a piece of real property; the owner must have a title to it, said Mr. Everett in summarizing the law briefly. Provisions are made for transfer ring automobile titles in a much similar manner to the transferring of titles to realty holdings. Special pro visions are made for automobile deal ers, new and second hand. It was said at the time the act war presented In bill form to the Legis lature that out of the more than 20O.000 motor vehicles In North Carolina over 7,000 were stolen and that the majority of the operators of these automobiles were ignorant of the fact, they not knowing at the time of purchase that they were buy ing stolen property. The majority of these automobiles bear mo manufac turers' or engine numbers. It was said. This is a problem, says the Secretary Of State, for Which a solu tion must be found in the very near future. There is no way to And the rightful owners of these thousands of automobiles and yet clear titles cannot be given their present oper ators, he said. Mr. Everett said he thought he probably, would arrange to give temporary certificates of reg istration in such instances. However, he did not commit himself to this plan. Registration blanks soon will be mailed automobile owners accompan ied by copies of the new act. The reclstration blanks must be filled out and mailed to the Secretary of State with the nominal license fee re quired. The money derived from the fees will be deposited to a special fund, part of which may be used in maintaining a corps of deputies au thorized with police powers to en force the new act and other traffic regulations. Following are important excerpts from the automobile title registration law: "Sec. 2. Certificate or title for motor vehicles. After October first, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, no certificate of the registration of any vehicle or number plates there for. whether original issues or du plicates, shall be issued or furnished by the Secretary of Stnte, or any oth er officer with such duty, unless the applicant therefor shall at the same time make application for an official certificate of title of such motor ve hicle, or shall present satisfactory evidence that such a certificate cov ering such motor vehicle has been previously issued to the applicant. Said application shall he made upon a blank form to be furnished by the Secretary of State and shall contain a full description of the motoi vehl cle, which said description shall con tain the manufacturer's number, the motor number nntl any distinguish ing marks, together with a statement of the applicant's title and of any liens or otehr encumbrances upon said motor vehicle and such other In formation as the Secretary of State may require. "Hoc. 3. N#?w certificate required ?fter sale or transfer. In ?ho event of the sale or other transfer .:i this State after October first, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, of the ownership of a motor vehicle for which a certificate of title han been Issued as aforesaid, the holder of such certificate shall endorse or the back of same an assignment thereof, with warranty of title. In form prlnt ???! thereon, with n statement of all 1i? i! -'nd encumbrances on said mo tor v-hlde, and deliver the name to !!,?? purchaser or transferee at the tim of the delivery to him of such motor vehicle. The purchaser or transferee shall within ten days thereafter present such certificate, nssk-ix-d ns aforesaid, to the Secre tary of State, accompanied by a fee of 50 cents, whereupon a new certi ficate of title shall be Issued to the assignee "Sec. 4. Certificate or title re quired to operate motor vehicles. The owner, or any person without the consent of the owner first belna obtained, who shall operate a motor vehicle In this State under a regis tration number of thla State after October first, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, without first having made application for a certificate of LEVIATHAN MAKES TKIP ACROSS FIRST (Br n.t iMCUtrd l'm?i Southampton, Kngland, Aug. 2 4.?The Leviathan arrived here at 12:65 this morning. Greenwich time. At that hour the White Star Liner Olympic, which left New York about the same time as the Leviathan last Sunday had not TFt ' reached Cherbourg, her first port of call on this side, at which the Leviathau had ar rived at 5 o'clock this morning. Check Flasher Is On Way To Hertford After Operating in Three States it Caught at Greer, South Carolina A check flasher who has operated in three or more states under a mul titude of aliases, came to grief at Greer. South Carolina, this week and is to be tried at Hertford, where un der the name of H. B. Purser he is alleged to have fleeced both the banks of that town, at the next crim inal term of Superior Court. He now claims that his real name is Ward Hill. Sheriff Whit Wright of Per-', quimans County and W. H. HardcaR- < tie of the Hertford Banking Coin-1 Jpany are now on their way home I with the prisoner. Last Tuesday Cashier J. L. Tuck- i er of the Carolina Ranking & Trust | Company at Hertford received a tele gram from a bank In Greer asking | if a check on his bank given by L.I ? H. Barrow for $300 was good. Tuck [er wired that the check was not good < land asked that the maker be held asI I he believed him to be wanted in) Hertford. Hill's arrest and the trip 'Of the Perquimans County sheriff' J and of the bank official to the South' ;Ci..'*>:!ua town for tlieir prisoner fol-i lowed. This is probably the end of what 13 ; believed to be a long and brilliant career in swindling big and little banks of a large section of the coun-l try. Hill is known to have operated in thr?'p states, having worked his, {scheme for am'ounts running from' $100 to $500 on banks In this State land Virginia before he was heard of :in South Carolina. Some of the ali ases he has used aro Claude Hill, H. I). Moore, D. H. Moore, and D. R. Green. J Hill's plan of operation was very! ;simple. He is apparently about 4 0 years old with a pleasing personality land Is suld to be a former lawyer. .He goes Into a bank and represents {himself to be carrying on a consid erable enterprise for some l?ige cor poration with a number of men In his ? employ. He asks to open an account | in order that he may have funds con-i .venlent for the payment of tne men j junder him. He presents a check signed by himself on another bank in j ia distant town. This is placed to his! ? credit. He later deposits another | [check to he credited to his account! and asks to have a smaller check 'cashed to save the trouble of '-lining . | back to the bank at pay day.. The .first check has not been heard from j but usually the cashier has been ho' i favorably Impressed by his new de-! jpositor that he gives him the money tasked for. Later the first check is I | returned without payment and the ! | depositor has disappeared. The case is looked forward to wlih great Interest at Hertford and the I news of Hill's arrest affords satisfsc 'tion to n considerable number of Ibankers In Tidewater North darolina jand Virginia. GOVERNOR TRINKLE SAYS WILE NOT RUN Greensboro, August 24.?There In nothing to the reports that lie In f? nda to run 1n the Democratic pri mary next year In opposition to Unit ed State* Senator Carter OIlMi Gov ernor Trlnkle of Virginia said while here, according to a atory published In the Oreenahoro Record today. PREMIER KATO DIES Toklo. August 24.?Premier Kato of Japan died here last night. title as herein provided, shall he gulltv of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall he punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor moro than one thousand dollars; and from and after October first, nineteen hundred and twenty three. any j>erson who sells a motor [vehicle without complying with the requirements of section 3 hereof shall he guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined or Im prisoned in the discretion of the court. "Sec.'6. Old certificates to be re turned to the Secretary of Stat'1. Up on transfer of ownership of any mo tor vehicle or motorcycle, registered under this nrt. the person in whose name such motor vehicle or motor cycle Is registered shall forthwith d*> liver, or forward by registered ma'l. the receipt of registration to the Sec retary of State, with a statement of |the name and powtnfTlce address of the transferee, and the date of trans fer. For failure to comply with this | provision in ten davs after the date lof tranafer, the transferee, upon con viction. shall be fined not lest than five dollars nor more than fifty dol lara." LEARNING THEIR NATIVE TONGUE! When th?m Greek orphan children were brought out of Turkey by the Near East IMIef they could not speak a word of Greek, instruction In that language be In# forbidden by the Turkk Now they are safely housed In orphanage! la Gretdft and are slowly learning their own language. GERMANY STANDS BY (UNO'S OFFER Chancellor Stre*eniaiui Says His Country Will Make Sac rifice for Liberation of Ger man Soil. (Br Thi AiwUted PmO Berlin, August 24.?The present Gorman government stands by the offer made by the recent Cuno pov ernment for meeting Germany's rep aration obligations. Chancellor Stre seinann told the German Industrial Commerce Club in an address here today. "For the liberation of German soil, for the maintenance of our sov ereignty, and for the consolidation of our situation, it would not be too great a sacrifice to offer part of the German economic system as a pro ductive pledge for carrying out Ger many's reparation obligations," the chancellor declared. MOTHER AND SON KILLED IN ACCIDENT Staunton, Va., August 24.?Mrs. Nannie Pleasants and son, Michael, were killed here in an auto and train accident last night. Mrs. Pleasants' hufiband was killed in a similar man ner one year ago. XOIIT1I CAKOLIXIAXS HO TO CALL OX PIIES1DKXT Washington. August 24.?Pros! dent Coolldge received and took un? der consideration Thursday ah Invi tation tendered by a delegation from North Carolina to deliver an address at the dedication some time in Octo ber of the monument at Uentonvllle, near Durham, marking the spot whore the last detachment of Con federate soldiers surrendered. Members of the delegation, who were presented to the President by William Bramham, chairman of the Republican State Executive Commit tee in North Carolina, said Mr. Cool idne expressed a wish to be present at the dedication, but asked that he be allowed a few days to consider whether his duties would prevent him from leaving the capital at the time. The delegation included Colonel Benehan Cameron, of Hlllsboro; Ma yor Manning, of Durham; M. E. New son. president of the Durham cham ber of commerce; Speaker Dawson and Representative Everett, of the North Carolina House of Representa tives; General Julian S. Carr, former commander In chief of the Confed erate Veterans, and Professors Brown, of Trinity College, and Con nor, of the Tniverslty of North Car olina. Mrs. Newson, wife of the president of the Durham chamber of commerce, was presented by the President with a bouquet of roses. DIAMOND THIEVES BLOW OPEN SAFES Los Angeles. AiiKiist 24. ? One hundred thousand dollars' worth of diamonds and other gems were taken from two safes belonging to the man ufacturing Jewelry companies .today by thieves* who held up and bound the watchman and blew open the safes. MISSION Alt Y TO SPEAK AT BAPTIST Cllt'firHR* Belcross. August 24.? Rev. J. Car lyle Powell, returned Missionary from Africa, will preach at Sawyers Creek Baptist Church Sundav morn Intj at the 11 o'clock hour. It In ex pected that he will tell something of his work as missionary In Africa. Rev. Mr. Powell Is from Warsaw. N. C., and Is In his homeland on furlough. He will address the Bap tlst congregation at Moyock In the evening. Nowh was received here Friday of th#? birth of a son to Mr. and Mrf. | F. J. Tlmberlake at Youngsvllle, Thursday night. Mrs. Tlmberlake,! before her marriage, was Miss Kulaj Pappendlck of Elisabeth City. Moth- i er and baby are reported as doing well. DOUBLE DISASTER WHEN DAM BKEAKS Moscow, (Jewish Telegraph Agency) August 24.?More than 50 persons were killed and approximately 100 were Injured when the train pro ceeding from Vilna to Warsaw left the tracks near Lida and crashed Into n dam early yes terday. The Impact burst the dam and the ensuing rush of water helped to swell the cas ualty list. Jury Verdict Saves Farmer From Roads Judge Connor Lets Rum Ro^d Farmer off With Light Sentence In the case of Jon Swindell, charged with reck leas ilrlvlnu, which was tried Thursday the Jury railed tn .agree and the court accepted n plea of nolo contendere on the part of the I defendant on condition that he pay the costs. ! The case against Marshall Jen i nlnfis, on a charge of assault with deadly weapon, crowing out of his alleged shooting or young Marvin Itussell on the brick road to Newland on the night of Thucajiay. May 24th was continued to the November term of Court. An Important witness for the defendant had left the County a few days prior to the trial and the idefense had not had time to take his deposition. The State would not per mit a statement from counsel for the defendant as to what the missing wit ness would swear to go to the Jury as evidence, and accordingly Judge Connor ordered the case continued. Willis t.lvernmn, Rum Road farm er on the land of W. T. Hnrrls, rural mall carrier, indicted under the Tur lington Act. and found tulln' bv a Jury verdict, brought In Thursday af ter court had adjourned, of receiving and of possession, but not guilty or having apparatus for the manufac ture of liquor, though officers dug up ? still on his premises, was let off .with costs under continued Judg ment, provided that he give $500 bond for appearance at the Novem ber term to show good behavior. If he shows good conduct at tha* time It Is the recomin'-ndatlon of Judge Connor that he be discharged. Mr. I.lverman told officers when he was arrested that he had '.ought the liquor from Tim Sawyer, and then when Tim was arrested, refused to testify against Sawyer on the ground that he might Incriminate himself. "I am bound to accept the Jury's A tidings of fact In this case." said Judue Connor In imposing sentence, "and -on the Jury's flndlns of facts other than those upon which Judc i?V?nt was hased In the case before the recorder I can nqt affirm that court s Judgment." Then turnlnu to the defendant Judge Connor Maid: "You ouvht to b?> mighty urateful to that Jury for such a verdict and to the lawyers whose skill availed to se cure It." Llverman was represented oy Aydlett & Simpson. tn the case of State vs Robert Cooper, colored, the defendant was called and failed and a capias was Is sued. The case charging James Kdward Howell and William CrlfNn. both col ored. with the larcency of an auto mrthlle, the property of County Farm Agent O. W. Falls, was remanded to the Juvenile court. It appearing that the defendants, both of whom are col ored, sre under the legal aut for trial of the case In Superior Court. 'XtTrOS MAftKKT Vew York. August 24?Spot cot ton closed quiet, middling 2.1.4fi. a 2."i point advance over the opening Futures, closing hid, October 24 20. December 24.15, January 2.1.83, March 23.?0. May 23 90. New York, August 24.?Cotton fn 'nres opened toAay at the following levels: October 24.20-2*. December 2M2'!5*^*nu*ry March 23.??-?7r May 23.DS-S3. Miss Viola Pinner of Columbia la ??? *"?t of Miss Addle natcman on Pearl street 1 Quickly Dispose Of Only Murder Cas Judge Sentences Roberts To Minimum of Three or Max imum of Ten Years The one murder case on the docket I of this term of Superior Court was quickly disposed of Friday when, fol lowing a plea of guilty in the second degree, Judge Connor imposed a sen- i tence of a minimum of three years and a maximum of 10 years in State's prison on William Roberts, 46-year-old negro lumberjack, who on Saturday night, May 19, shot ami J killed "Ceachv" McGee, 30-year-old i negress. at a Richmond Cedar Works lumber camp in the Dismal Swamp 23 miles from Elizabeth City. Roberts, a 4 6-ycar-old ginger-cake negro somewhat above medium height and weight, told his story for the first time when he took the stand in his own behalf, tie testi fied that he had never intended to iKill "tJeachy," but that on the night |of her death she had picked Ills pock et of a purse containing, in addition to $138 of his own money $140 en trusted to him by a friend, and when she refused to admit that she had the money and he had left her it oc curred to him that he might scare her into giving it up. Accordingly lie took his single-barrel shotgun, whleh-had been loft loaded with bird shot. and went to the shanty where she had stopped for the night with Moses Jones, another lumberjack. It was between 12 and 1 o'clock and he called the man to the door. Mose came out on the porch In his night clothes and Roberts tohl him he wanted to see fieachy. tJeachy, who had been undressing, came to the door arrayed in a pair of silk stock ings and very little else; Roberts told Coachy ho wanted his money. IShe said she didn't have It. "I raised my KUn to scare her Into Igiving my money up," said Roberts, ("and almost before it touched my |shoulder It wont ofT. I wouldn't I have shot her for twice what I had lost by her." " / I In addition to creating tiib Itnpres jslon of telling the truth as nearly as a man may whoso lit*- is in Jeopardy |and who is testifying of what hap ! poned when his blood was hot. Rob jerts was able to show an excellent I character. Sheriff Reid testified that lie had never handled a more docllo negro 'and that when lie went to the luni i her camp to get on Roberts' trail h was to find that the negro had left tword that if the sheriff wanted him i ho would find him at his home at iCrcswell. That is where Roberts was [arrested. Employers of Roberts, white and (black, testified that he was In charge of a crew of man at the camp and j that he handled them without ever a I display of temper or Irritation; that l instead of being ordinarily of a quar relsome nature ho was a man of quiet habits and Inoffensive demeanor. Moreover there was the mute tes timony of the fact that Rosa Mltch i <11, negro cook and washerwoman at the camp, on leaving the camp for a j stay of si week or two, had left with (;i" i $140 to take care of for her. j Then again was the fact that when I $140 wait found in the dead woman's |stocking and taken to Roberts he re fused to take It, saying that that was Rota's money. Later when the body was shrouded $f)l in currency was |found in the dead woman's armpit, i and tills, in addition to some small j change found in (ieachy's pocket, was by verdict of the jury divlared jto he the property of Roberts and at Roberts' request turned over to his jwlfo and her two babies, the young est only 12 months old. | The only eyewitness of the shoot I int; was Moses Jones. The woman, j he testified, came to his camp where the slept alone at half past one o'clock i Sunday morning and wanted to spend I I the night. By the time she got her) I clothes off to come to bed there was. a knock at the door. "Who's there?" said Jones. "Jones, step to the door a min iute," was the response. | "I got up Immediately," said | Jones, "and throw the door open.; There was Roberts with his gun bar rel In my face." Jones went on to testify that he stopped outside, holding the door op-' en, and that the woman remained In-, aid*1, "landing in the door. "You got my money." said Rob erts to the woman, according to I Jones' testimony. "If you got Anything of hi*. give It to him," JoAea nay* he told the woman. Then ensued, according to Jone*' testimony. the following dialogue: "I haven't not your money," aald th< woman. "You better Rive mo my money, or 1 11 kill you." vowed Robert*. "If you kill mo I'll han't you," re turn<d the woman, probably think ing that Robert* wan Muffing. Hut Roberta wan In earneat. Hr had loat all hi* Having* of weeks of hard work In th<? lonely awanip*. and wni beside himself with raft*. H?' wonted no more word*, but thr**w Mm viiii to M* shoulder, according to Jonea, and fired without another word or nn In Mant'a pause, at a dlatanee of hardly three pacoa, the load entering the iwoman'a breant between the heart land neck. In front of the door. Jonea aaya, waa a three foot porch. Rob??rt*. the wltneaa declared, utood about seven I feot from the porch when he nr^<l I At the report of the gun the woman .dropped, death being apparently In ! atantaneoua. I Jones testified that when the shot MUST PREVENT . FLOODING MINES Operators Working on This Problem of Coal Situation at Conference With Miners in Atlantic Citv. Atlantic City. August 24.?The ne cessity for completing arrangements that will prevent the anthracite mines from permanent Injury throuKh flooding and cave-ins after |September the first In the event of a strike, was said to be the chief factor in the continued conference of rep resentatives of the anthracite miners and operators in Atlantic City today. | No Joint discussion of terms on [which the union would allow pump men, engineers and maintenance men <to continue 1n service has been en itered upon but both groups are I known to have the matter in mind, j Washington. August 24?The Fed eral (iovernment has decided to (stand pat in the coal strike situation and await some move from the op erators or miners, but in the mean time all preparations are going for ward to provide substitutes for coal in the event of the strike on Septera I ber the first. Coal Commission Issues Statement Requests Full Co-operation of Consumers in Event of Strike Washington. August 24.?The stoppage of anthracite mining would i constitute a public emergency,. _the | Coal Commission said In a formal statement today requesting, the full co-operation of consumers with solt coal operators and all agencies of distribution with all possible aid |through executive action by Federal land state governments. "If those who now control the min ting and distribution of anthracite continue to think only of their own demands and not at all of the pub lic's demand for coal the Coal Com mission feels that every measure should be taken to supply domestic ( fuel needed in the homes of the great mass ol consumers and especially of ^the industrial workers throughout the East." the statement said. ? S Commissioners Seek Amend Crossing Law I Ashevllle, August 24.?The coun ty commissioners of the State In con vention here yesterday adopted res olutions to have the Legislature [amend the "stop at crossing" law so as not to Include factory switches and unobstructed crossings. SAYS ()\I,Y Til ItKK MOItK ** SI \DAYS TO NAGS IfKAD "There are only three more Sun day trips to 'Nags Head this season," says C. H. Ilrock of the North River l?ine, "and I hope that the folks will (111 the Vnnsclver Sunday morning. The weather Is Just right, ar|l we'll see that everybody Is comfortable and has a good time." I. W. W. TO STAGE A HEIGN OF TKKItOK Sacramento, Cal., August 24?The I. W. W. organisation in planning to stage a "reign of terror" here, ac cording to state authorities who hare born making an Investigation. wa* fin d ho wm standing Just to one side of the door and not moi;e than two fi-et from the stain woman. The woman. It aeema. had been at the camp about a month. Jones de tcrlbi d her at the hearing before the recorder no a "low aot. portly built, hrnwn-nklnned woman" who had made herself at home In the cabin of at leant two loicgora before she eaine to hla house about an hour and a half paat midnight of the night In quoadon. "Some say ahe waa from the Weat Tndlea," he aald. There has never developed a clue aa to where ahe came from nor of her people If ahe had any. J. C. II. Khrlnghaua auguestod that her name, "(leachy," wan a corrupted abbrevia tion of Portugese.. Hardly a more Inaccessible apot In Pasquotank County could bo found I than the camp where the shooting Is alleged to have occurred. The camp is a center of logging operations of the Richmond Cedar Works and Just now la situated just this side of that part of the Dismal Swamp known as "Middle Swamp." It Is only a short distance from the Virginia line. Da, rearing aaya that to reach the camp when he went to vleW the body he drove hla car for a distance of 20 miles, walked a footlog about the slae of a stove-pipe' for a mile and a half, and then walked another mile nnd a half along a lumber railway. , The case against K. J. Ilrlght and i Mark Warden for violation of the 'Turlington Act both In the manufac ture and sale of liquor was In prog ress when court convened Friday af 'ternoon. Ilrlght and Warden run a ;store on the Simpson Ditch road. K Is also charged that they operated a 'still in the woods about throe quar ,tera of a mile from the store.
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