* Fair tonight and ilium- * f f^Tl L ^jT^jTSl * CIRCUL.iTIO\ : F-:? ^IZJZXLI HW$$B^ ; */?;&, ****** *? * ? * * * * * * * VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION*. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 7. 1923. FOl'K PAGES. NO. 259. NEGRO TEACHER IS FOUND GUILTY (!u?e Of Man W ho Staged Hiooliiij: Affair On Koad Slri'cl During Fair Week' Tried W ednesday. Guilty ??f assault with deadly I weapon with intent to kill wan the; L/y? rdlct of the Jury Wednesday afternoon in the cas<" against Frank I Whitehurst, Elizabeth City negro, wl.o Irolrt an?autumubih fired a ; pistol at his wife in another car. and would probably have killed her but for the protection of an Eliza beth City merchant. Occurlng in broad daylight on one of the city's principal streets, the affair was as lurid in its climax as a moving pic ture serial, ami attracted a large crowd which permitted the negro with Ills smoking pistol to stalk off unmolested in the direction of his home a few blocks away. The shooting occurred on Wednes day of Fair Week in Elizabeth City, October 10, on South Koad street,' near Sliepard, in front of the store of Mark Sawyer, grocer. Both Whlte liurst and his wife had ibeen to the' Fair. & It is said that there hud bteii a conversation between them and he had endeavored to persuade lui to return to live with him. When she refused ne showed signs of be coming violent and the wife left the Fairground by automobile seeking to evade him. Hut Whitehurst did not propose to be so easily disposed of. He hired a local negro Jitneur to bring him to town anil followed the car occupied by his wife. On South Road street he caught up with the car his wife was in, and the jitney driver swung his car to the left to pass the car ahead. Whitehurst waa on the back scat or the jitney leaning out on the right hand side. His wife was in the car just ahead on the right hand side. As Whitehurst came abreast of his wife he brandished a pistol. As the Jitney drew s ightly ahead of the car occupied by h,s wife, afford ing him unobstructed aim at her, hi fired at her head, but she drop-. ped her head to* her knees and the bullet tore through the back of the ii.i cartaln near the corner Of the car. The woman scrcamed and scram bled'out. as by this time the other oc cupants were doing, over the rear do.ir on the left hand slde-ol the car and started running toward Mr. Saw yer's store. Whitehurst, jumping out on the right hand side of his car, ran around it and started In pursuit of his wife. At the curb the woman stumbled and fell, und without stop plhg to rial* went Into thu Mum uu hands and knees. Whitehurst fol lowed hard behind lnr "find at the door started to raise his gun as If to fire again. A sharp order from SawyAk to "cut It out" halted the negro and he dropped his arm to his side. Sawyer Kent the woman into t!ie hall of the apartment back of the sto'-e and ordered Whltehurst out and the negro obeyed. Later, how ever, Whltehurst returned to the store still brandishing his gun and Mr. Sawyer brought his own gun in ro view ;?efore the negro gave up his pursuit. When the police, who hart been summoned Just after the shoot ing. arrived Whltehurst had disap peared. He was arrested Thursday at his home on Speed street. Viola Whltehurst, wife of the de fendant, lives iti Perquimans County and Is a schoolteacher. Frank is al so a teacher and both have the ac cent. and address, of the educated negro. Frank is black and dapper. Viola Is far lighter of hue and not fTmnri p<.'>n?mng tir gwmww. she has borne her husband three chil dren. but w-ints no more of him; while Frank. It would seem, would still have her faithful. Vio'i testified in the preliminary hearing before the recorder that when she dropped her head to her kn ' Will Comply With Germany's Request tit* T:i?? I'r-.O Paris. Nov. 7. Tie 11* paration? CoiillitlMiloii lias d? elded to comply with lli?* (i?T!i.an n tiiu M fur a lieur in? on II*? reparations question as propoj-eil in Berlin's note tif October 21. if tin* several governments in cluding the I*lilted States, are un able to agree resardiDK the letting up of an advisor? in\estimating com mittee. SAW VER TESTIFIES REGARDING FORBES Washington. Washington. Nov. 7 , ?"President Harding called for the regisnation of Charles Forbes as di rector of the Veterans Bureau as the1 result of the Perryville. Maryland.! surplus supply sale transaction." Brl-' gadier General Sawyer, physician to the late Senate p executive testified before the! Veterans Coiumitte today. THE STAFF IS NAMED FOK THE SPOTLIGHT Officers for the High School An nual "The Spotlight" have been elected and are as follows: Rachel Williams, editor in chief, Giennie Morse, assistant editor; Marion Seyffort, assistant editor; William Kramer, 'justness manager. Mem ber- from the Junior Class are: William Dudley, assistant business manager; Louise Outlaw, assistant editor. Wilmer Ballard Is athletic editor; Rebecca Miller, art editor; Mary Dozier, Dorothy Chappell; Ruth Bright und Margaret Hollo well compose the . advertising com mittee. The annual staff is making pre iiminary plans ror this year's Spdl liglit and the contract for the publi cation will be let on December 1. There Is no debt this year and to avoid having one the class is trying to get money ahead by giving a play, Friday. November 16. "Clarence",1 by Booth Tarklngton. I BROADWAY STORE ROBBEI) AT MIDDAY New York, Nov. 7.?While hun dreds were passing the busy corner at Broadway and 4 7th street at mid day. three well dressed men entered Hie Jewelry store of Julius toward, forced the proprieter and cicrk into a rear room, and rifled th?? show cases of jewelry valued at $75,000. The .jandits escaped. SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL INSURERS TO MEET Plnehurst. Nov. 7.--With repre sentatives of industrial insurance companies from the entire* South pre sent ami others arriving here during the night, the Southern Industrial Insurers' Conference tomorrow will open its fourteenth annual session here. An elaborate program has been nrranged for the three days' meet ing and many speakers of promi nence are on the program. Tomorrow, tli?* first day of the conference will be given over to the meetings of special committes and to renewal of friendships by th?* del egates. The first regular business session will be held. Thursday at nine o'clock. MOKIUSON INVITED - SPEAK IN KENTUCKY Raleigh, N6V. 7,-^iflV<'rnnr t:nni eron Morrison has been invited to speak at Paducah. Kentuckv at an Armistice Day celebration which will be the Occasion of a yood roads meeting, the celebration being spon sored by the Kentucky Good Roads' Association. Governor Kdwin I*. Morrow of Kentucky wired the ex ecutive of North Carolina. ur^'liiK that he accept the Invitation but Governor Morrison, because of a prl-. or engagement will be unable to at-1 tend. The invitation to the Governor stated that a drive was on In Ken tucky for a r.n million dollar bond Issue for roads and that someone was desired as n speaker who could' tell of the practical benefits of such a bond issue by r< ason of experience and that no better man could be thought of than Governor Morrison. ! The letter referred In compllnien-; lary terms to the wonderful leader ship In road bulldlnv and other ways Which the State rf North Carolina is giving the South. HOI'HKM %% IHKD FOII llfl Those who wish to have wiring done will note in the advertisement of Mldaett Hrother* today that *12 and up" Is the'proper prlc , Th" printer failed to Interpret the ' in the copy when setting the ad vertisement Tuesday and called It "8." niaklnu the price mount a" by manic to $12K Instead of *12. v lilch was certainly hard on Pcllu Mldirett and his brother, who are working days and sot letltnes nlchts, and are showing their procresplveness fur thermore by advertising In The Ad vance. GOOHK PIXXKH AT M\I?KV . A Roast Goose Dinner will be at the Linden Thursday from IS to 2.30. adv CLAIM STATE HAS NOT KEPT TERMS l\t?(|iil.tnK IligliKU) tliim iiii-?imi Member* And For mer Member* Tall On Com llli>.-:.tiler Hart About ll I'asii'it.i-mk 'County waul* lo n ihui- tii It* contract t" w-vt n sixteenth* of the co?t of paving llir State rmul to Woodville. Tlie Pas q u o t i it k Highway Commission claims that tin; Stat*' an 1 iie.rH les havp Tot kept to the terms iinair which Pasquotank took over this ob ligation. The Pasquotank Highway Coin mission's claim is based on the con tention that Pasquotank's agreement to pay seven-sixteenths of the pav ing cost of the Woodville road was made conditional upon the hardsur facing of a 16-foot road all the way from Edenton to ..Currituck Court house. The State has now aVondoned construction of the- Camden-Curri tuck link of this highway and will build a road only nine feet wide across Perquimans, according to the understanding here. A delegation from the Pasquotank Highway Commission left Tuesday night to call on District Commission er Hart at Tarboro to see if the mat ter enn not be adjust^ul- so that the Albemarle District may either get a 16-foot road from Kdenton to Curri tuck or so that Pasquotank may be relieved of its Assess men t of the cost of th.^t part of this road running through this County. Th 'se in the delegation were: J. ,J. M'.rrls, J. W. Foreman. A. II. Hout.: and O. P. Gilbert. Mr. Gil bert ind Mr. Houtx are not now members of the Commission but were on it when the contract a? to the \Vcod.i!Jc road wr.s r.mde. The Pasquotank Highway Com mlssion was in r?*i:ular session Tues day and most of tlie fTthe was given to discussion of the trip to Tarboro and to hearing of petitions from va rious sections of the County for re- ( lief from bad dirt roads. TKEE PLANTED ON NEW SCHOOL GROUNDS The feature of Arbor Day exercises at the high school Friday was the planting of a tree, on the new school grounds hy the senior class. ? The oik was given by Harold Foreman and was planted on the side of the grounds next to Pool btreet. The exercises began with the singing of the Arbor Day song by the seniors, followed hy the recita tion. "Plant a Tree iby .M1JW >ti llle Jones, and a speech on the reason for Arbor Duy by Miss Rachel Wil liams. president of the class. The first spade of dirt about the tree was thrown in by Superinten dent S. L. Sheep, followed bv Prin cipal A. B. Combs, Miss Allen Ed wards. R. T. Ryland. and th? n each mem her of the senior class. The tree pledge was recited by the clogs. Speeches by City Mimager Rray and IJuxton White In the uuditorium Thursday and Friday morttiJig* on the planting and care of trees were also a part of Arbor Day observance. COTTON Al>\ \NCES HUNDRED i'OINTSj N w York. Nov. T. ? A heavy accu mulation of buying orders owr (he liolulay lns|iimi by tho big adv:iico ::i t . on NV* Url .in? and Liver !?'? ' ? m hanirc* resulted today in an ?*ii' sa? of ahout punts in tin local rot ton market. PRISONER PAROLED TO VITEND H'NEI! VI. ( Raleir*;. \ iv T. Governor Cim eron Morrison has granted a parole! to I.. I*. Kivl. 'convicted from .V ck-J lenbur- i'"U.ily of manslaughter ind ) >T!lH'i]i *0. tn li n?? .pi-- in tlw> in'iil tentiary. The parole was urae.ted for ten days* in order that the i ris oner max attend the funeral of his father at Charlotte. DICK ISLAND CLUB HEADQUARTERS HERE The Duck Island Club is to pur chase a handsome yacht and estab lish headquarters in Elizabeth City, according to Oliver K. CiHbert. pro urietor of Mitchell's Department Store. MmuIh'ih of the club from Pitts burgh passed through the city Tues day on their wh*-j/? Wnnch?*se and were. m?t at the train by Mr. Oil-j bert. "They hnyp decided on the pur-. chase of a yacht." Mr. Gilbert ^ald.l "in order that thov may make 'rips' from Elizabeth City to Wanchese durinu the hunting season. "Their original plan was to Make Norfolk their headquarters, but I succeeded in convincing them, 1 think, that Kttaaheth City Is the! more logical place for headquarters as thev'can make trips In much less1 time from here to Wanchese than, from Norfolk to YVanchese, on ac-j count of slow time through the can Among th^^TneiolH^rH of the club passing through the city Tuesday were: Grant McCargo, who is presi- ' dent of the club; Col: C. C. ButlerJ .lamen r. Park. .1. C. Wassom, sec retary. all of Pittsburgh. SFLLINT. BACK TIMBER OF CONFISCATED LAND Stockholm. Nov. 6.?The renump i tlon on a large scale of the shipment of aspen wood from Russia to Swed en. Just reported on by Svensk Fln anstiding (Swedish Financial Jour nal), has aroused great Interest her<*. According to this authority, s.000.000 board feet of aspen Wood have >heen Imported from Russia dur ing the first nine months of this I year, as against less than half of that Quantity dnring last year. All of tnr-se sli 1 pfiu'tt?of-*M?pe? wood have been bought by the Swcd ; Ish Match Company, which consumes about 120.OflO.OOrt feet per year in its domestic and foreign fac tories. and St Is an ironical fact that much of this wood comes from the forest properties formerly owned in Russia by the Swedish Match Com pany and confiscated by the Holshe vl??t s. Although no trade pact has as yet [been successfully negotiated between Sweden and Soviet Russia, each coun try sends commercial commissioners to th'? other, and general foreign trade In both directions is picking up. Chowan Baptists Called Upon To Finish The Task Only 2Tt morp clays remain for ! North Carolina Baptists In the pay ment of pledge* made to the 7 5 Mil lion Campaign for the fourth flsc.il year. The total amount paid In by North Carolina Baptist* wince last December Is $414,850.00. Their quota for the year In $1,228,000,00. leav ing a balance of $813,650.00 to ralaed by December 1, 192^5. If the full quota In reached. Rev. It. F. Hall, director of the "Round-Up Campaign" for the Chow an Association, ha* written letter* to all th?- pastors. Sunday achool super Intendenta. church clerks, \V. M B, and II. Y. P. U. leaders, urging them to rally their forces In lh?- local church for the payment of their pledges. "At least $500,000.00 must bo raised by North Carolina ""^Mllllsts within the next three weeks or we faro a serious and dlitistrous sit uation for our whole program next year." says Mr. Ilall "The last report of the U. 8. Cen sus nureau gave the nvera* ? p? r capita Income for North Carolina, taking Into account women. childr? a. nearoes, and everybody else, at *3*3.00 per capita. Certainly IVip tlsts. who douhtleww have a large pro portion of adult members than any other denomination, will not claim that the estimated per capita Income I* too high for them. There are ?ft24,065 Baptists In-North Carolina, and If they would give only a tenth of their Income to Ood they would place Into the Lord's treasury this year $12.488.289 50. There are 11. 679 Baptists In the Chowan Associa tion. and If they would give a tenth of their Income to Ood they would give $447,305.70. Since Ood has so bountifully blessed this section, as no other section In the South, ^ surely we ought' to ETVF "Ood His mIi a re. "November 4-11 in Pay-Cp and Pay-ln-Week for the Itaptlstn of this Stale. The pastors and leading men and women In the local churches arc urged to lay this matter on the hearts of the people, and to call for ? i hearty response In the payment of pledges, and for a free-will cash of fering from all those who made no pledge In the original Campaign. It Is /hoped that the Maptist* of the Chowan Association will los j no time, spare no efforts, and make a worthy sacrifice to bring this As ruHMIon over the top," says Mr. Itall. "Four years ago our Association pledged $21A..1??.43 on the 7ft Mil lion Dollar Campaign. I'p to Aug. 2H. 1923. we had paid ? 1 5 1.* 7.V?!?. leivinc a balance of *fi.*i.TV3.44 to be raised by Dec. 1. 1 2 4 "Wo are now reaping the most bountiful harvest tlrat this sertlon has seen In many years. Ood has ?bowereil us with material blessings. Then l?'t us ask anil answer as did the P?alml*t: "What shall I render unto the Lord for all Ills benefits ?ow.ard m'??- I will pay my vow* unto the Lord now In the presence of all Ills people " "Southern Haptlsts spent lost year oh per capita for non-essential*, stih as candy, chewing gum. soda water. ??a^? ball, face paint ?and pow der. tobaccos, etc. While on the oth er hand we spent lea* than $4.00 per capita for the Lord's work. Is It not enough to put us to shame? "For years we have prayed to Ood to open the doors of the non-Christ Isn world to Ills message. He has answered our prayers and torn the doors from their hinges. That la Ilia response. What shall be ours?" Jules Jusserand Calls On President Coolidge j Leaves Men to What Was Said in Way of I :>?nl VII of Tliem are Iiti~* lioii'j; It Now lly lUVIII lJIWKKXfE ?'?S3. B? Th? Advanrr) Washington July <>?Jules Jusserand, French ambassador to the I'nited States, presented to President Coolidge today the K?"d wivhoK ffiees. -"When I made the voyage back i the other day," said the ambassa dor with a laugh, "I was afraid the ship's captain had heard about the ! press reports that I wasn't coming back. We were gjggauged all over | the Atlantic Ocean. First we were told that we would land at New York, then it was changed to Roa lon and finally we were landed at Portland, Maine. When they told me tlie.y were going to dock at Portland, I asked the captain if he was sure it wouldn't he Portland, Oregon. "I understand the ship was anx ious to land its Immigrants so as to rome within the November quota. What a change! Although Senator ; La Follette and I were on hoard, wo The ambassador was in high spir its nevertheless, mid said he wan glad to he back in Washington again, lb- declined, of course, to talk about his visit Jo the President. To a group of reporters who inquired a/bout It, ? he said: "Whether we talked about the weather or Kuropean politics, I leave it to your clever minds to guess." Tin- French ambassador had a long convf rvition with Secretary of State Hughes on Monday and presented the, suhftance of a cablegram he received I from Premier Poincare about the proposed Inquiry into German repa rations. Mr. Hughes' reply Is well known and the only points of dif ference that remain between tho French and American position are not now regarded as insuperable. An air of hope prevails that at last the r? pa nit ion deadlock will he brok It In. of course* within the range -Xil y.jhat premier Polnnire, will take an a bsofu toly Trn-fon <11-' t'>le stand hut If he does ho he for f??Hh the first opportunity in three year* to win American roo|M?ratlon j in Ruroticnn affairs. No hod y here1 In th?* government believes he will run that risk. In fart the Impression Is thiit compromise l?rms will be worked out In f^ondon and Paris within th<- n?-*t forty ?*lKht hotim and, th?-n a formal InvlMtlon will Ik* l? stted hy th<* British government which all *ho poworn ran accept. I.IQLOK IS SEIZED AT noc;rK INI.ET| N"W flern, Nov. 7. Thr? nirlllary schooner I'llot, Hailinu from Nassau with a rnri-'o of .'5ft hnrrelx and 261 case* of rye whiskey. wo* mlwd at llouue Inlet Conat Ouard station Irist' nlvht, according to a telephone re port roc? Ived hero. biggest lighthouse GOES INTO SEKVIGE ( hrlatiana. Nov. 7. TJip largest I'gMhouse hitherto erected a Ionic the Norwegian r the Simmons faction of (he organization, Solici tor Iloykin announced today. Tills announcement and the Is suance c?f Hie peace warrants against Imperial Wizard Evans and three of bis personal lieutenants today con stituted .the outstanding develop ments in thif situation resulting from the killing of Coburn. I)r. Fred Pohnson. chief of the staff | for Simmons, named In the warrant as complainant, charged that the Co burn slaying had caused him to fear bodily harm from the four Klan of Twenty Three Are Killed In Rioting ! - (Dt Th* AmnrUtrd I Warsaw, Nov. 7.?Twenty-three persons hnvcv~t*een killed and three ! score wounded In rioting and bomb i Inns growing out of the strike of ! railway workers here. Disorders oc Icurred despite the agreement of So cialists to call off the strike In re turn for the government's promise to withdraw the inllltln from the rall I roads. REPUBLICANS GIVEN MAJORITY OF SIX Wanhinuton. Nov. 7. Tin* Repub licans wore kIvou a majority of nix In tin* Sonate ycnlcrdny l?y (ho oloc tlot) of lioproHontatlve I)alo of Vor mont to MU-ccoi'd tho late Honator Dillinuham. Inconiploto rot uro h Indlcato the oli'ctlon of Win. J. Fio'rtH. Democrat, an Kovornor of Kontuck v, and jslvo (?ovornor Ritrliio, Domoorat. of Maryland, a load for ro-oloctfon. (Mi tin? fac?- of ronnn-HHlonal ro tunm It Ih Indicated that tho llnoup In tho next Ifouvo of Nepn-pontntlvon will ho: I(o|iuhl|ranH 22r?, Domo orat 205. Social!*! 1. Independent 1, Farmer-Lahorit?a 1. making tlie Re publican majority 17. IKTNOItEl) INJURED IN FOOI) RIOTING Ilorlin. Nov. 7. Moro than 1,000 nhopH wore wrecked and moro than IPO pTHona wen- Injured In food rlotn here yonte~day. PROSPECTS BETTER FOR AGREEMENT Jllr Th* rrr?i,? Paris. Nov. 7 Prospect* for a*reo mont between France and Great Brit ain on the text of tho Invitation to the United St at or to Join the confer ence of export* for oxamln>ition of ? ho ropa rat ions fjnostlon are regarded In dlplomatir and French official circles an brighter. Mine Explosion Remains Mystery Ore**! flow Tr. W. Vi?., Nov. 7. TIm1 bdill'K of 27 miner* killed yes i"i i In tin pj(ilngbfi in the tnliM of the l(al< h li Wyoming Coal Com pany lay sld?? T?y Mde In the* under (Al'lnp establishment In Mul!ln? to day where they were taken on e fpe - elal I rain a*? roon as recovered from 800 fe??t liclow (he Mir face which find proved their tomb. Meantime the rtnt" mining de partment Is conducting an Investiga tion hut It ?remed Improbable today that the cause of the accumulation of j-as in th# entry or how It became Ignited would ever he exnfalned. COTTON SIUIKKT New York, Nov. 7, Spot cotton, closed steady. Middling 34.50 an ad vance of 12ft points. Futureg, clos ing hid. Dec. 33.9ft, Jan. 33.6ft, March 33.82. May 33.88. July 33.30. New York, Nov. 7.?Cotton futu re* opened today at the following level*: Dec. 33.75, Jan. 33.25, March 33 50, May 33.70, July 33.01.