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VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 29, 1923. EIGHT TAGES. NO. 226.
THEY'RE OFF IN RACE FOR VELIE AND FORD
And Everybody Wins In This Race
Who Stays In To End Of Campaign
Automobiles ,Cash Prizes, and Com
mission Assure Every Candidate
Liberal Compensation For Five
Weeks Of Spare Time Effort
Today's issue. In which the names
of the candidates in The Advance's
"Everybody Wins" campaign first
appears, marks the real beginning of i
the most liberal automobile and cash '
prize campaign ever Inaugurated in [
this section.
Those whose names appear In this
list are expected to call at The Ad
vance office, if they liavo not already ]
* done so, to receive further Instruc
tions or any information that might
be required.
From time to time, the vote stand
ings \\lll be published, showing the
progress of the candidates. Every
candidate who has been nominated
will, of course, want to have just as
good a standing as possible each
time the votes are shown.
"Keep in mind." urges the cam
paign manager, "that 100,000 extra
/votes are given, in addition to the
regular votes, with the first subscrip
tion turned in by a candidate. For
example, if the first subscription
turned in by a candidate Is new and
for one year, 108.000 votes would be
given which, with .the nomination
votes (5,000), would make a total of
113,000 votes. A new two-year sub
scription to The Advance is worth
18,000 votes?a three-year subscrip
tion entitles a candidate to 28.500
vqtes and a 5-year new subscription
Is worth 50,000 votes.
"Votes are very easy to get If you
but make the effort to get them and
votes are all that Is necessary to
land either the $1,395 Velie or the
1 1319 Ford, or one of the many cash
* awards.
"Get your nomination In today
and have a big number of votes to
your credit when the list of the can
didates is again published. For the
convenience of those who cannot call
duriiig the day, campaign headquar
ters at The Advance office, will be
open each evening. You can win the
$1,395 Velie Touring Car?it is up
to you!"
Chemistry Now Is
Washing Clothes
Modern l.aunrtry ' Is llosoll of
Many of Scientific
Investigation
Detroit, Mich., Sept. 29.?Chemls- j
try and physics of the modern laun- '
dry will be discussed by recognized
' experts at the annual convention of
the National Laundry Owners' Asso
ciation here October 1-6, savs W. K.
Ftfeh, i?n?fil utnAger.
''Our scientific phases of laundry!
work," Mr. Fitch continues, "arc
planned to Interest every housewife
and every man who sends a shirt to
the laundry. Several years ago the
laundrymen established a fellowship
with the Mellon Institute of Indus
trial Research at Pittsburgh, where
Dr. A. F. Shupp has been engaged
in laboratory experiments in connec
tion with every problem involved In
the washing of clothes.
"The results of these Investiga
tions Into textile strength, dyes, and
the removal of dirt and stains ab-!
sorlx d Into the flb? r of fabrics, are
regularly bulletined to the associa-1
tlon members, and this service grad-,
uaily is placing laundering upon a
standardized scientific basis." The
association number.' 2,000 members
and represents 75 per cent of the to
tal capital invested In laundries In
the United States.
FKKKiHT WltWIi <\U SKS
passkm.ki: tiiain in-rroi it
The southbound passenger train
due at Elizabeth City at 11:15 flirt
. not arrive Saturday morning until 10
[. tnlautcs to 1 o'clock, duo 10 a wreck
a /| iarter of a mile this ylde of Mc
I Urlrte.M, Virginia, between here and
i Norfolk. I
The wreck occurred Friday night
, when three cars of Norfolk Southern
'freight train 81 were derailed and
a abort stretch of track torn up. The
morning southbound train nad to be
d< toured by Suffolk, but the after
noon northbound train i?a*x 1
through here routed for Norfolk ov
er the main line.
Announce Ordinance*
Have Been Annnllc!
IHt Tin AtMrtrtHI "
Berlin. Hept. 2#-?It wan official
I announrcri today that the ordlnanr* ?
L of Januarr la, impending dellreH? * i
| In kind on reparation! to Vraoea ar. X;
Belgium had been annulled.
UNABLE RECOVER
VICTIMS' BODIES
Fear They Ilavo Been Wash
ed Down Stream by Rapid*
ly Moving Waler of Big
Muddy Iliver.
Casper. Wyoming, Sept. 29.?
Thirty hours after the Chicago Bur
"nuton and Ouincy train Number SO
dropped through the bridge over
Cole Creek only two bodies of the
estimated 30 or more victims had
been recovered.
Rain and snow forced rescue par
ties to abandon their efforts to re
move any of the bodies from coach
es which still are submerged in the
charting current 75 feet wide.
It is feared thato*ome of the bod
ies havjc been washed down stream
by the rapidly moving waters of Big
Muddy river.
Casper, Wyoming. Sept. 29.?Rain
Mid Know r.r** preventing rescue work
for the train wreck victims. Or.1y
live bodies have been recovered and
it is believed that at least 4 0 are
dead.
Indianapolis Finds
Way Check Speeders
.fudge \Vilmeth Tries Jail Senten
ces, Fines and I/Okh ot Au
tomobiles
Indianapolis, Sept. 29.?Jail sen
tences, heavy fines and loss of their
automobiles are proving effective in
reducing the number of speeders in
Indianapolis. The plan. Introduced
a short time ago by Judge Delbert O.
Wilmeth. has resulted In a general
let down In speeding throughout the
city, according to police officers.
Judge Wilmeth works on a scale.
First offenders are fined a set
amount for whatever speed they are
convicted of having made, but do not
have to pay if they rellnguish their
machines for a certain number of
days. For example, a person con
victed of driving 25 miles an hour M
fined $5 and costs. On payment of
the costs and turning in his license
plates and driver's certificate, th?>
fine is suspended. In five days the
offender again may drive his car.
The faster a person drives, th??
heavier the fine and the longer he
must be without his car. There In
only one recourse from a state farm
sentence upon conviction for a sec
ond offense. That Is through the
higher courts, to which a number of
appeals already have beeir made.
HOLD CONVENTION
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
The Roanoke district convention Im
In session at the First Christian
Church of this city. The preachers
In attenadnc* are Dr. H. S. Hilley,
Rev. Oeo. H. Sullivan of Wilson,
Itev. C. E. Leigh of Washington,
Rev. W. O. Wlnfleld of IJath, Rev.
Ja?c O. rimer of Robinsvllle. The
first session began Saturday morn
ing at 10 o'clock.
RIOTING OCCURS
IN DEUSSE1.DOKF
<Pr T*i?- !*<*???.?
Peuwldorf. Sept. 29.?Rioting
lasting several hours occurred In th*?
suburb of this city last night. The
trouble started with an attack by j
men, believed to be Separatist sym
pathisers. on a small pollen station.
Reinforcements drove oT the at-,
tacking party, several lumbers of
which were severely wounded.
The Incident Ins Merited apprehen
sion over what i. ?v happen tomor
row when th" RMt "l:md Separatists
'.'ather here for a ???.??*<? demonstrn
lloti.
<;ood mi;i:ti\cj ih iikij)
AT OLD THAI* Cllt'lU If
The revival held at Old Trap
Methodist Church closed Wednesday
'.f.hf vr!:*i *^or-Ts'"*"' t * re*,i.(
inatiops during the meeting. The '
pastor. Rev. Mr. galyer, was assist-,
ed by Rev. E. L. Stack of Ellsabetn
City. . I
Troops Protect
Negro Laborers
? ?
Governor Will Sec That Work
Goes on at Spruce .Pine
Uninterruped
Ashevllle, Sept. 29.?Second Lieu
tenant Eugent Coston of the North ;
Carolina Cu-ard today came here at
noon from Spruce Pine for additional
'men and equipment to be taken to
that town where two companies are,
encamped for the protection of negro
I laborers.
Coston said the reports reaching.
Spruce Pine last night paid that Ed
Good, escaped negro convict wanted
for an alleged criminal attack on a
white woman, had been captured 30
i miles away.
Fifty citizens loft Spruce Pine
iibout midnight for the point but no
further word had been received up
to Coston's departure.
Spruce Pine. N. C.. Sept. 29. ?!
With two companies of State militia
on hand. Adjutant General Metts to
day stands ready to enforce the Gov
ernment's order that negroes return
to work without molestation from
whites.
Over 150 negroes were deported
In the la*t two days and road work
lias been halted.
Raleigh, Sept. 29.?Governor Mor
rison today stood firm in his declar
ation that the white people of Spruce)
Pine section will not b?* allowed to
'drive the negroes employed there
c./ay or:l? r< d tin* militia to pive
the negroes protection as they work,
j If necessary.
1 _Italeigh, Sept. 29?Governor Mor
rison announced last nluht that he
will take steps to abolish the trusty
system for State convicts, as the
j trusties nre committing many crimes
and taking advantage of their prlv
| ileges, as In the Spruce Pines case.
Carelessness Is
Chief Fire Cause
ft Is- Ksllnnloil That Seventy-five
I'er Out of Klic* Are
Avoidable
? Kalelgh, Sept. 29.?Carelessness
in the underlying caure of the ma
jority of Area In the l'nited States,
according to Information issu<d at
the office of State Insurance Com*
missioner Stacey W. Wade in con
nection with the announcement or
Fire Prevention Week September 8
13. It is estimated that 75 per cent
of the flres in this country are avoid
able, according to the information.
The national Are loss last year has
been officially estimated at $521,
860,000. Thus, if all avoidable flres
were prevented and if the estimate
that 7 5 per cent of tt>e flrfs are
avoidable Is correct, the country
would make an annual saving of ap
proximately $391,395,000.
The Ave leading direct Causes of
Are aro "l.iatcne* a.tU ...nuking,"
"spontaneous ignition." "defective
chimneys and flues," "stoves and fur
naces" and "electricity," all of which
direct causes are clashed In the pre
ventable or partially preventable
classes. It was stated at Mr. Wade's
office.
"Matches and smoking." It wan
stated, "caused a Are loss of $2tf.
000,000 in 1921, and this is Increas
ing. These flres could be prevented
If proper precautions were taken tn
disposing of burning matches, ashes
and butts.
"Proper disposal of oily rags,
waste and rubbish will prevent many
of the Ares can red by spontaneous
combustion, which coMs the nation
about $20,000,000 annually.
"Defective flues and chimneys de
stroy property valued at $15,000,000
yearly. This loss occurs chiefly in
dwellings. ,
"Stoves, furnaces and boilers,
when Improperly Installed and al
lowed to overheat, cause many seri
ous fires. The average annual loss
from this source Is $14,000,000.
"All electrical installation* should
be Inspected and approved before the
current Is turned on. The line of
Improper fuses and fuse *uh?tltutc*
such as pennies, and the Improper
care of electric pressing irons, are
leading sources of electrical flres,
which destroy $13,000,000 property
annually."
'OTlVflf MAItKKT
New Sept. 39?Cotton futures op
ened this morning at th<* following
levels: October 28.95; Decembrr
28.68; January 28.IS; March 28.12;
May 28.10,
New York. Sept. 29?Cotton closed
(jllcf. Jllf, i 4er|'f*e o'
??? joint . F'jtf""* 1 9+ fr'
lowa: October 11(2; December
18.30; January 17.71; March 17.11;
May t7.1t; J?ly 17.11. |
CRIPPLED UNITED STATES DESTROYER IN DRYDOCK.
?. _ *
Raim*.?-d by the dreadnought U. S. S. Arkansas, the destroyer
IfftKarUnd rests in drydock at the Charlestown Navy Yard for a
man sleet overhauling. This photo clearly shows how the port bow
of th? M.'P'arland was twisted, her bridge carried away and her
wireless dismantled lying upon the pilot house and main deck.
?AC1
City Ordinance
Are Being Revised
New Laws Probably Ready
For Formal Adoption by
Council Monday
The City Council nil ibis month
lias boon at work on the recodlng
and revising of tin- city ordinances,
and prospects now aro that these or
dinances will ho roady for the print- ,
or early next month. The now ordi
nance. In fact, will probably he in
shap<- to be formally adopted hy the
Council at Kb October mooting. *
Meantime the Council has o\?-r
clfced its prerogative of revising thn?.
section of the city charter relating to
the license on automobile dealer.* sc
as to make tlfo burden less onerous
on this line of business.
Firms handling nuto aeor?f.orios.
Including everything In the makeup
of an automobile, must pay a lbei.se
tax of $50 on a business up to $lo,
000, $30 on a buslnoHs of from ?10.
000 up to $20,000, and $1 on each
additional thousand dollars of busi-.
ness
Firms handling batteries and bat
tery service Mat ions muM pay h II
cenre of $20 on a business up to $5,
oOO, $^0 on a business of Irom $6,
000 to $10,000 and $1 on each ad
ditional thousand dollars of business
theresfter.
Firms handling tiros and tubes,
vulcanizing and so on are required
to pay a license tax of $2" on busi
ness up to $5,000, $40 on a business'
of from $5,000 to $10,000 and an
additional tax of $1 on each thous
and dollars' worth of business there
after.
(iaragoa for stora? .? and forhlre
oars and garages and repair shop!
are required to pay a license of $10.'
Some autoinoplle. dealers are li
able for more than one of theao il- j
cense taxes.
The police call attention to the
fact that all license laxog^are now
dhe. including tiie dog tux, and must
be paid at once.
( UKM1CAI. ANALYSIS
MAY SHOW POISON
|R* Th# A?%irl?r?<l hf?? J
N<-w York. Sep!. 29 -Mrs. Charles,
Webb who died Tuesday night at
West Cheater Blltniore Country Club,
was not necessarily poisoned, ro far
as the autopsy performed late yes-1
terday showed.
It ara.i stated, .however, that the
ch?*mlcal analysis mlfcht |rc*e H at
certain polsoni which wen- found In
the body had at least hastened. If not
caused, her death.
The result of the chemical analy
sis probably will not be known f6.*?
several days.
Five lJnivrr?iiy Buy* nrc
$n*|M-nd<*<l for Hazing
CuspI VA, .cSt t f ^ f4||
dents of th? I'Dbc-nit) ol North Car
olina wera yesterday suspended for
haslng and were put on probation, i
LAiiiES NIGHT WAS
A FESTIVE EVENT
Kotarian* and Kotaryannrs
Enjoy to Full Annual Occa
sion That Is Feast of Fun
and Fellowship.
Talks by district Rotary Governor
George Franklin Lenz, of Newport
Nowh, and John Hragaw, Washing
ton, N. C., Interest InK stunts by Ro
tarlans, music by tlx? Sunday Hcbool
orchestra of the First Mejhodist
Church directed by Mrs. Wesley
Foreman, the Sextette from Lucia
sung by S. (J. Scott. Mrs. Robert
Fearing, W. C. Sawyer, Harold Fore
man, Mm. Wesley Forman and Wos
iey Foreman, an elegant dinner and
an all-round good time featured La
dles' Night of the Kllzabelh City Ro
tary Club in the banquet ball of the1
First Methodist Church Friday eve
ning.
Ladies' Night Ih the blg night of
the year for RoiariaiiH and Rotary
aniies, the night when wives and
sw<*ethe?rts are the guests of the Ro
tarlanH and when the flow of fun
and fellowship, always running like
a silver thread through every Ro
tary meeting, is at its highest tide.
Friday night's meeting was no ex
ception, the dinner charmingly serv
ed by the First Methodist ladles in
the spacious hall which gave ample
room for the comfort of all. adding
no little to the pleasure of the occa
sion.
Credit for success of the program
rests in large measure with Frank
Seattergood, who was master of cere
monles. Sam Parker was to have
helped Frank with the program, but
Just prior thereto he went off 011 a
flshiiii. trip, during which lie was toq
busy flshint: and after Which hfl VM
too busy talking to earry his share of
the load. Kotarlan ftoattergood ad
mitted under cross-examination,;
however, that Sum had squared the
account with him by bringing back
as a present to the Rotarian preach
er a fine channel trout.
The address of welcome was de
livered by JrC. II. Khrlnghnus in his
usual happy style and the occasion
was one which will always be re
membered with pleasure by those!
Hiio a 1 tended it.
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Iioi.n CLINIC IIEIIE
FOK NINE COUNTIES
A clinic for crippled children of
t'.i quo* uk, Hare. Perquimans,
Galea, Chowan. Tyrrell. Camden and
Currituck and Hyde counties will be
id In BflSftbeth City on the 21st
day of November, In Miller of Uaa-t
tonla being In charge.
Ther" will be no operations that
day, only examinations. Children
iio. ? ? ..;<* s are found hopeful will
he reeommended to the orthopedic
hospital at Gastonla.
Any persons kne lug of children;
who need tne ben*-fit of this clinic,
are %*ked to report their names to
? " r-ntr-l C< nncll of Public Wei-,
Utr tl- P.ot-ry cr Klwanls Clubs,!
or to Mra. Anna I). Lewis at the
Chamber of Commerce office.
SEVENTEEN ARE
DEAD IN TORNADO
Three More Than a
Dozen Seriously Hurl, and
(?real Properly Damage
from Storm.
Omaha, NVb., Sept. 29?Seventeen
are known to bp dead, three aro
missing-, more than a dozen are se
riously Injured, and ^property dam
age is estimated at more than a half
million dollars as the toll of the tor
nado which visited western Iowa and
eastern Nebraska last night,/
Fire followed the tornado and sev
eral houses and warehouses were
burned.
Council IMuffo. Iowa. Sept. 29. ?
Six were killed and $250,000 dam
ago was done in a tornado that swept
this section last night.
Can't Add Question
To Election Ballot
Oklahoma Supreme ^ourt De
nies Application for Writ
of Mandamus
1 til* Tl.c Awn lain! J*tr?0
Oklahoma City, Sept. 20. ? The
Supreme Court today denied the ap
plication for a writ of inutidainus to
icompel'the Kate election board to
i place in initiated question on the
iballot for the special election next
Tuesday that would permit the leg
iro t<> convene itself to I^tnU*
gate the acts of officials.
Oklahoma City, Sept. 2 9.?Tin
fate of the proposed initiative bill,
which would permit the lower houso
of the legislature to convene wlth
. out call from the. governor, rests
(with the Oklahoma Supreme Court,
with the posHibllity of the proposed
measure going on the ballot for a
J special election October 2, depending
"upon tho "irrrton W.f the dominant
,body today.
t'pon the court's decision hinges
the tent of the strength at the polls
against the administration of Gover
nor Walton who has placed the en
tin* state under martial Jaw In his
declared war on masked bands, flog
gings, and the Ku Klux Klan.
Health Workers to
Meet inn Detroit
.Mmiy I'Iiiim'h of -VhlM Welfare
Will lie l>l?cimNei| on Oct
ober 15-17
New York, Sept. 29.?Many phas
es of clillil health work will be dis
cussed by national authorities when
the American Child Health Assocla
tlon lioios Its annual meeting at De
troit, October 15 to 17.
With Herbert Hoover, president of
the association, at their head, tho
delegates Will strive to make even
more effective tho effort* expended
?since the organization came Into be
jlng last winter, acrordiiiK to Court
Jenay iJlnwiddie, Ith general execu
tive. The association waa formed by
the merging of the American Child
Hygiene Association and the Child
Health Organisation of America.
| Among the subjects to be taken
up are "Problem* of State and City
'Child Health Officials," "Communi
ty Programs for Child Health," and
"Thf workers In Health Kducation;
What They Should Do." The efforts
of the doctor, the teacher, the nutri
tionist and the nurse will be dis
cussed by leaders in these respective
professions.
Or. Arnold Qerell, of Yale Univer
sity. will preside nt on* of the pec
ond-day sessions of the meeting,
when there will be an address on
"Ths l'sychologlcal background of
Health Teaching." Among other
discissions Under the general head
of "Practical Methods of Teaching
Health to Children" will be one deal
ing with habit formation, one on
teaching health to younger children,
and one on teaching health to older
children. The question of lowering
the present Infant mortality rate al/?o
will be discussed.
WARD'S FREEDOM
I IS BIRTHDAY CIIT
White Plains, N. Y., Sept. 29. ?
Walter S. Ward was yesterday ac
quitted of the murder of Clarence
Peters.
Ward was nt home with his wife
and children today a free man. The
Jury had found him not ..uiity of the
sinister charge that has hung orcr
him for K> months.
The verdict resembled an anni
versary gift for yesterday was
WaiM's thirty-second birthday.
t'IM> \ \PO|,?OOVK PKATII MASK
London. Sept. 29.?-A wax mask of
Napoleon, made a few hours after
the emperor's death by an Ensllsn
surgeon of the 20th regiment of Id
fantry, ban Just bsen found hidden
awsy In s house In a small French
town.