********* ? THE W EATHER * Ires/ irinds ******* * * Fair tort is: lit and Tlutrs- * /ff "T|||| />li| . * CIRCL'HTIO\ ? iz* ztltsz. i ^?PPp JpHK 2/stx ; * * ? ********* VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EV EN INC, NOVEMBER 7. 1!>2:5. FOlk RACES. NO. 259. NEGRO TEACHER IS FOUND GUILTY Ca?e or Mall Who Staged Shooting; Affair On Koad Street During Fair Week Tried Wednesday. C.trrfty of assault with deadly | Wtaiion with intent to kill was the. v? rUict of the Jury Wednesday , afternoon in the cas?- against Frank W'.iitehurrft. Elizabeth City negro, who Ironi an automobile fired a; pistol at his wife in another car. J and would probably have killed her but for the protection of an Eliza beth City merchant. Occuring In broad daylight on one of the city's, principal streets, the affair was as lurid in ita climax as a moving pic ture serial, and attracted a large crowd which permitted the negro J with his smoking pistol to stalk off j 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 Shepard, In front of the store of -Mark Sawyer, grocer. Both White hurst and his wife had ibeen to the Fair. It is said that there hud bit a a conversation between them and he had endeavored to persuade lit! to return to live with him. Wheu she refused ne showed signs of be coming violent and the wife left the Fairgrouud by automobile seeking to evade him. But Whitehurst did not propose to be so easily disposed of. He hired a local negro jitneur to bring him to town and followed the car occupied by his wife. On South Koad street b* 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 was on the back si at of 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. ht fired at her head, but she drop ped her head In her knees and the bullet tore through the back of the side curtain near the corner of the car. The woman screamed and scram bled out. as by this time the other oc cupants w ere doing, over-the rear door on the left hand side of 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 tlie curb the woman stumh'.ed and fell, und without stop ping to rise went into the store on hands and knees. Whitehurst fol lowed hard behind her and at the door started to raiBe his gun as If to fire agi^in. A sharp order from Sawyer to "cut it out" halted the negro and he dropped his arm to his side. Sawyer sent the woman into the liall of the apartment hack of the store ami ordered Whltehurst out and the negro obeyed. Later, how ? vt r, Whitehurat returned to the ftor? atill brandishing his gun and, .Mr. Sawyer brought his own gun In to view before the negro gave up hla pursuit. When the police, who had been summoned Just after the shoot ing, arrived Whitehurat had di?.ip pi;?rod. Hn was arrested Thursday at his home on Speed street. Viola Whitehurst?_wife of the de fendant, lives in Perquimans County and is a schoolteacher. Frank is al so a teacher and both have the ac cent. and addresa, of the educated negro. Frank is black and dapper. Viola Is far lighter of hue and not unprepossessing in appearance. She has horn'- her husband three ch.il "drVn. hut wirifs ho more of him; while Frank, it would seem, would still have her faithful. Viola testified in the preliminary hearing before the recorder that ?when she dropped her head to her kn> es in the car she saw the bullet comine and dodged It. R. B. Lasslter, construction super-, lilt 'ub hi i? connection with the work of the State Highway Commis sion on the Tad more- Acorn Hill road, was found not guilty of carry ing concealed weapons -on a verdict brought In shortly after the opening of Tuesday afternoon'a session of rCOU't. A verdict of not guilt)' was dlrec' i ! by the Court In the case cliarg i J. W. Sellu. with violation of the f State railroad stop law. ???? ???? ? M.W WHEAT IMMUNE TO SMUT OEVEI.OPEI) Washington, NoV 7?Development of a new variety of winter wheat wlifch 1.4 resistant to bunt or smut la announced by the Depart meal, of Agriculture. It has been named Rid it" because It Is expected to rid wheat fields of smut. The va 1;. t v was developed -by Dr. K. F. Gal I)' "f the Washington agricultur al 4 riment station at Pullman, Rva-li . in cooperation with the De li nt of Agriculture. it waa I, igfl efonittfl Turkey and |fr),,i ? \ ?rletle?. t,he latter adapted for the in re humid' regions than for iemlarid alons. A few hundred fanners in astern Washington plant-, pd Rldlt this fall to give It a more) miplete trial than it has had In ex srimenta. Will Comply With Germany's Request ? nr T:i? Awcl?**d Paris'. Nov. 7. Ti ?- lt? parivllom Cmumis^ioii lias ?!< cided to comply with Hit tier:..an request for a hear ing on li ?* reparation* question as proposed in iterlinV note of October 2 1. if tli*' sey.j^^?governments in cluding tin States, are un able to au|^Mr^u;?^iti.L. tin* rolling up of an imvij*ory investigating com mittee. SAWYEK TESTIFIES REGARDING FOKBES Washington. Washington. Nov. 7 f?"President Harding called for the regisnatlon of Charles Forbes as di rector of the Veterans Bureau as the [result of the Perryville. Maryland.: surplus supply sale transaction." Bri-! ! gadler General Sawyer, physician to the late executive testified before the! ! Senate Veterans Committe today. THE STAFF IS NAMED FOR THE SPOTLIGHT ! Officers for the High School An nual "The Spotlight" have been elected and are as follows: Rachel Williams, editor in chief, Glennie , Morse, iniatlBt editor; Marion Seyffert. assistant editor; William , Kramer, 'business manager. Mem ; hers 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 and Margaret Hollo well compose the advertising com I mittee. The unnualstaff is making pre liminary plan's for this year's Spot 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,-Xovember 16, "Clarence", by Booth Tarklngton. BKOADWAY STOKE ROBBED AT MIDDAY New York, Nov. 7.?While hun dreds were passing the busy confer at Broadway and 47th street at mid day. three well dressed men entered the Jewelry store of Julius Jloward, forced the proprleter and rlerk Into a ' rear room, and rifled the show cases of Jewelry valued at $75,000. The -jandits escaped. -SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL INSURERS TO MEET Plnehurst. Nov. 7.?With repre ( Rontativea of industrial insurance companies from the entire South pre sent and others arriving here during the night, the Southern Industrial Insurers' Conference tomorrow will open Km fourteenth annual Hussion , hero. An elaborate program has boon i arranged for the throe days' moet I ing and many speakers of promi nence are on the program. Tomorrow, the first day of the conference will he given over to the meetings of special committes and 10 renews^ of friendships by the del egates. 'The first regular business session will be held. Thursday at nine o'clock. MORRISON INVITED SPEAK IN KENTUCKY Raleigh, Nov. 7.?Governor Cam eron Morrison haa been Invited to speak at Paduca b. KenTucTTv at an" Armistice Day celebration which will , be the Occasion of a good roads meeting, the celebration being spon sored by the Kentucky Good Roads' Association. Governor Kdwin I*. Morrow of Kentucky wlr?>d the ex ecutive of North Carolina, urpini; that be accept the Invitation but Governor Morrison, because of a pri or engagement will be unable to at tend. The invitation to the Governor .stated that a drive was on in Ken tucky for a r?0 million dollar bond j Issue for roads nnd that romeone [ was desired as n up* ak?-r who could ' tell of the practical benefits of such a bond issue by r< ason of experience and that no better man could be thouuht of than Governor Morrison. ' The letter referred in cohipllmon-; torv terms to the wonderful leader ship In road bulldiru and other ways v.hlch the State <:( North Carolina Is giving the South. HOI HKS U'lltKO roll *12 Those who wish to have wlrlnr; done will note In the advertl* "K ' in the copy when setting the ad vert rsorvnt Tuesday and called If "8," liiakInu thi mount l?v mastic to $12* Instead of fl2. vhich was certainly bard on Pellg Mldyott and his brother, who arc vorkiiiK days and sometime* nluhts. and are showing their protresplveness fur thermore by advertising In The Ad vance. OOOHK piftJIKH %T LI*DBX A Roast Goose Dinner will be served at the Linden Thursday from 12 to 2.30. adv CLAIM STATE HAS NOT KEPT TERMS I'aMgr il.iiiK llisliuay (loui iiii*Mon Mi'inlu'O Ami For mer Mi'iiilirr? (lull Oil C.om mi--: >in r l!urt Alton! II Pasi|U('liitk "Comity wants to re in on It* cunt met to pay sevi n itlMecndiK of the cost of paving tin State road to Woodvllle. The Pas q U o t -i 11 k Hlsli*?y Commission claims that the State uuthcrtties have not kept to the terms under which Pasquotank took over this ob ligation. The Pasquotank Highway Com mission's claim is based on the con tention that Pasquotank's agreement to pay seven-sixteenths of the pav ing cost of the Woodvllle road was made conditional upon the hardsur faclng of a lfi-foot road all the way from Edenton to Currituck Court house. The State has now a'xtndoned construction of the Camdt n-Currl tuck link of this highway and will j build a road only nine feet wide ' across Perquimans, according to the understanding here. i 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 can not be adjusted no that the Albemarle District may either get a lfi-foot road from Kdenton to Curri tuck or so that Pasquotank may/he relieved of its assessment of the cost of that part of this road running through this County. Th.\?o In the delegation were: J. ,J. M'.rrls. J. W. Foreman, A. II. Hunt.; and O. F. Gilbert. Mr. Gil bert ?nd Mr. Houtx are not now members of the Commission but I were on It when the contract as to I the \7ondvI!!c road wr.s .made. The Pasquotank Highway Com mission was in regular session Tues day and most of the time was jelven i 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. IK UK I'LANTK!) ON NEW SCHOOL GROUNDS The feature of Arbor Day , exercises ut the high school Friday i was the planting of a tree on the new school grounds by the senloj. class. The t>nk was given by Harold 1 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 by the recita tion, "Plant a Tree iby Miss Nellie Jnne*. and a xpnech on?the row won for Arbor IViy 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 by Prin cipal A. B. Combs. Miss Allen Ed wards. It. T. Ryland. and then each member of the senior class. The tree pledge was recited by the class. Speeches bv City Manager Hrav and Buxton White in the auditorium Thursday and Friday mornings on the planting and care of trees were also a part of Arbor Day observance. COTTON \l>\ \NCES III NDKKD POINTS N" w York. Nov. T.?A h? avy accu mulation of huyfttg orders over the' holiday inspired by the ik adv;*.net? !:i ;?:??*; * on New Orian* and I.i/er-j !?(???; ? \< haiitft's resulted today in an ed* :.?? ?'f :fSo;it 1im? points in I ho local cotton market. 5'KISONEIS PAKOLEI) TO \TTKNI) Fl'NEH VI.I Hab'ii 't. N ?v T. Governor C mi cron Morrison ban granted a parole to 1! Ui'iL. convicted from M rk-J lenbtir- County of manslaughter ind i wntfiiroil to dve year* in the pcnl- i iontiary. The parole was granted for ten da>s in order that the i ris oner mat attend the funernl of his father at Charlotte. DICK ISLAND CLUB IIEADQUAKTEIfS IIKKE The Duck Island Club is to pur chase 21 handsome yacht and e*?ab lisli headquarters In Elizabeth City, according to Oliver F. Gilbert, pro prietor "of Mitchell's Department Stor*. Members of the club from Pitts ;bur?li passed through the city Tuos dav on their way to Wanchese and were m. t j?t the train by Mr. Gil bert. "They have decided on the pur chase of a yacht." Mr. Gilbert said.I "in order that thev may make, ?rips' from Kli/.aheth City to Wanchese during the hunting season. "Their original plan was to :aake Norfolk their headquarters, but I succeeded in convincing thetu. I think, that Klizabeth City is the more logical place for headquarters as thev can make trips in much less time from here to Wanchese than from Norfolk to Wanchese, on ac count of slow time through the can al." Among the members of the club ' were: Grant McCargo. who is presi dent of the club; Col. C. C. Butler, I James It. Park. J. C. Wassom, sec retary. all of Pittsburgh. selling n\CK timber OF CONFISCATED land Stockholm. Nov. 6.?The resump tion on a large scale of the shipment of aspen wood from Russia to Swed Thn. Just reported on by Svensk Fin an?tiding (Swedish Financial Jour nal >, has aroused groat interest here. According to this authority. R.000.000 hoard feet of aspen Wood 'have -been Imported from Russia dur ing the first nine months of this ? year, as against less than half of that j quantity during last year. All of these shipments of aspen wood have been bought by the Swed jlflh Match Companv. which consumes nbout 12ft. 000.000 hr?a-jl feet per year in its domestic and foreign fac tories. and it Is an ironical fact that 1 much of this wood comes from the forest properties formerly owned In Russia /by the Swedish Match Com pany and confiscated by the Bolshe vists. Although no trade pact has as yet i 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 23 more days remain for -Sffttn'r.iThifnn Hapim* in the pay ment of pledge* mad*' to the 75 Mil lion Campaign for the fourth fiscal year. The total amount paid In by j North Carolina Baptists since lust December la $414.350.00. Their quota for the year Is $1,228,000.00. leav ing a balance of $813,650.00 to raised by December 1, 19 23. If the | full quota Is reached. It*-?. It. P. Hall, director of the I "Round-Up Campaign" for the Chow an Association, has written letters to all th?- pastors. Sunday school super I intendenla. church clerkv W. M. S. and It. Y. P. I*, leaders, urging them to rally their forces In th<- local church for the payment of their pledges. "At least $500,000.00 must bo raised by North Carolina IlapMsts within the neat three weeks or we face a serious and diftiatrous sit uation for our whole program Beit year." says Mr. Ilall "Tho last report of the U. S. Cen sus Bureau ?ave the average per capita Income for North Carolina, taking Into account women, childrt;.. nparoen. and everybody else, at *3*3.00 per capita. Certainly IVip tlsts. who doubtless have a large pro portion of adult members than any other denomination, will not claim that the c?tluvited per capita Income 1* too high for them. There are 326.06fi Maptlsts In North Carolina, and If they would give only a tenth of their Income to Ood they would place Into the I/ord's treasury this year $ 1 2.4RR.289 50. There are 11. 679 Haptl?t* 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 ao bountifully blessed this aectlon. at no other aectlon In the South, surely we ought to give God Ills '-55.793.4 4 to be raised by tier. 1, 1924. "We are now renpin? the most bountiful harvest that this section ha.; seen In many years. Clod han showered us with material blessings. Tlien let uj* ask and answer a* did the P?alml*t: "What shall I render unto the Lord for all Ills benefits ?o'ward n>?*?- I will pay my vows unto the Lord now In the presence of all Ills people." '"?Southern Baptists sp<-nt lost year $V per capita for non-essentials. unrh as candy, chewing gum. soda water, iiasehall. face paint md pow der. tobaccos, etc. While on the oth er hand we- snent les* than $4.00 per capita for the Lord's work. la H not enough to put us to shame? "For years we hove prayed to Ood to open the doors of the non-Christ ian world to Hln message. He has answered our prayers and torn the doors from their binges. That Is His response. What shsll be ours?" Jules Jusserand Calls On President Coolidge Leave- \fH?|ia|i;?r In W hat W as Said in Way of l>?ivi,ri',linn VII of riit in are liii-v Doiivi It ISow lt> II Will UWKKNCK ?lull's Jusserand, French ambassador to the I'nited States, presented to President Coolidge today the good wishes of the French government. It was the first time the French ambassador had had the oppoi tunity to do so as he was in Kurope when the new j President took the oath of] office. Mr. Jusserand's visit wan, however, ( more* than a formal rail to pay hi* respects. He was with Mr. Coolidxe for nearly a Jwilf hour and the dis cussion concerned the proposed com-1 mission of experts to determine the capacity of Germany to pay repar- I at ions. The French ambassador was in a J jovial mod** an.usual when he einer- ? |ged from the conference. He wan j | reminded that when he left the i I'nited States press reports from i 'abroad stated that he would not re ! t u rn. [ "I have btcti in the I'nited States' 21 years'* remarked Mr. Jusserand, J"and I think that report has been published twenty-one times.' The ambassador is the dean of the diplomatic corps here and has serv ed his country in the Roosevelt, ? Taft. Wilson, Harding and Coolidue ! administration. He was a favorite of the late President Itoosevelt, 'having been one of the famous ;"tennis cabinet" -which played on ;ilie courts that once occupied the ground taken up by the txecutlve ' offices. "When I made the voyage back Ithe other day." said the umbassa ' dor with a laugh, "I was afraid the | chip's captain bad heard about the 1 presa report* that I wasn't coming back. We were zigzagged all over Ithe Atlantic Ocean. First we.were told that we would land at New York. then it was changed to Bos ton and finally we were landed at Portland, Maine. When they told me they were going to dock at Portland, I asked the captain if he was sure it wouldn't be Portland, Oregon. "1 understand the ship was anx ious to land its immigrants so as to come within the November I REPUBLICANS GIVEN MAJOKITY OF SIX Washington. Nov. 7.?The Repub licans were given a majority of six in the Senate yesterday by the elec tion of Representative Dale of Ver ; mont to succeed the late Senator Dillingham. Incomplete returns Indicate the | election ?if Win. J. Fields. Democrat, sis governor of Kentucky, and give Governor Ritchie. Democrat. of Maryland, a lead for re-election. On the face of congressional re turns it I: indicated that the lineup in the next House of Representatives will be: Republicans 22ft, Demo crat 205. Socialist I. Independent 1, Farmer Laborite 1, making the Re publican majority 17. lltTNDKKI) INJlltFI) IN FOOD KIOTING Merlin. Nov. 7. More than 1.000 shops were wrecked and more than IPO p? rsons were Injured in food i riots here yesterday. PTmSTTTCrS nKH KIt FOR agreement illr Th* rr?it Pariji, Nov. 7?l'ro*pect* for agree ment between Franco and Groat Brit ain on the text of the Invitation to the United State* to join the confer ence of experts for examination the reparation* question arc regarded In diplomatir and French official circle* iin brighter. Mine Explosion Remains Mystery (?ren llogrr*. W. Vp.. Nov, 7. ? The bodies ?;f 27 miner* killed yes terday In th? explosion In the mine of the Itnli'lL'h Wyoming Coal Com pany lay nlde hy side In the under taking establishment In Mullln* to day where they were taken on p fj" - elal train r.oon n* recovered from son f#?et below the surface which had proved their tomb. Meantime the ptM* mining de partment la conducting an Investiga tion but It seemed Improbable today that the cause of the accumulation of gnu in the entry or how it became Ignited would ever he explained. rorrox MWtKKT New York, Nov. 7.? Spot cotton. Cloned steady. Middling 34.SO an ad vinoe of 125 point*. Futures, clos ing bid. Dec. 33 95, Jan. 33.65. March 33.82. May 33.88, July 33.30. New York. Nov. 7.?Cotton futu res opened today at the following levels: Dec. 33.75. Jan. S3.25. March 38 50, May 33.70. July SS.01.