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!P! The Weather Local thund'-mhowera tonight and probably Thursday. VOL. XVIL FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1927. SIX PAGES. NO. 171 WELCOME HOME" SAYS STATE Mot he?' Counties Once More Admitted To Carolina Edenton Bay More Lovely Than Is Naples To Those Who Came Back Home J Jonephun Daniel*, Former* Secretary of the United S(atrt( Navy, Krjoirnt at Bridge Completion FOOTSTEPS TURN BACK Editor of New* and Observ er Recount* Gloriou* II i* ' tory of the Albemarle in the Pioneer Day* Bv JOHRPHl'M llANIKI-S Edenton. July 20.?U Ih good to come back home, to turn the j Bteps toward the beicinnlngB of a State's or an Individual's life. I Therefore those of us. living went of the beautiful Hay of Edenton., ??more beautiful than the Hay of ; Naples." as Bishop Lyman once, said, were glad when the comple tion of the notable piece of engln- j eerlng that spans the Chowan, af-11 forded the opportunity to come j bere where North Carolinians at, this early seat of St^te govern-] ment laid deep and broad the J foundations upon which the largerj Commonwealth structure of today securely rests. Whether our for bears settled on thin or the yon[ Bide of the Roanoke or the Cho-j wan, whether theac rivers or the i Btately Pasquotank or l'erqulmuns or the Pamlico or the Neusc or Cape Fear. In their meandering* and sweep to the sea made lulla bies for our Infant ears, all North Carolina owe* gratitude because tidewater North Carolina Is the i , mother of the State. The Virginia 1 Dare Trail beginning at the birth place of Virginia Dare, marks the first settlement on these shores. > If carried through all the ram-, Ideations of Its Influence, would atretch from the Island where , Mauteo greeted the whites to the; peak where Junaluska proved In-i dlan friendship to the whites. It would have spurs Into the Croatan | habitations and reaching out tojj Moore's Creek and Alamance and Guilford Court House and Meck lenburg and King's Mountain where Immortal history wan made. The (Jnnker Influence if any North Carolinians living west of the Chowan Urldge have wrought well In the days that have gone since Edenton was the capital Mid center of a State, re born since the World War cut the fetters of an attitude of humility and converted us overnight into ? people proud of ourselves and con-| fldent of our future, today the footsteps turn back to Durant's Neck and George Durant and the wholesome Influence of the Quak ers at the narrows of the Perqui mans. where the first religious meeting was ever held In North) Carolina. In spite of back-slid-j lugs, we were a religious people [ then and It still holds sway over j the hearts of North Carolinians., We come also. as we crossed the l magnificent bridge over the Cho-| wan and reach the Virginia Dare Trail, to travel over historic spots In Bertie, mother of men of dls rL tlnction; of Chowan prolific ?>e-| yond compare In great men whose j lustre nt111 gives light and leading; tn Pasquotank with Its inetropol-i Itan city rich In high tradition; to Camden which lately celebrated | the anniversary of sn old Baptist i church, typical of that militant, chnrch whose members kept the I faith and cheered the heart of Jefferaog; to Currituck, birthplace of Jarvls and a land where hunt ing attracts, from far and near; Hertford, pioneer In educational Institutions; Gates which, accord ing to Colonel Creecy, led thei State In ft?e high quality of rural Intelligence: and Dare famed as the birthplace of Virginia Dare and the home of the first conquest of the air when the Wrights won honor and gave Kitty Hawk world i fame. I Umi (IcmsM of a Htato [? If I his generation would kfcow I the Benefit of North Carolina In i the days when It was In the mak i tng, Ihe story of the land beyond the Chowan must be studied. Here L history glows with the courage of T Men winning homes after conflict \_ with Indians, after the strain of clearing forests, after the deblll tatlng effects of malaria before 4cl< rice stamped It out, after hard ships ft Ml travail The early Set tlor* found no rlehes of Cathay. Bone of the gold of Ophlr, nh land flowing with milk ind honey. Na ture yielded Its rewards to Indus ? fry. and the waters ssve susten ance to those who fallowed Isaac Walton. The men and women f Who early trekked Into the "Coun try east of the Chowan sought liberty?liberty to follow (Continued on page t) HEALTH DANGERS ARE DISCUSSED AT KIWANIS SUPPER Demand Grade A Milk, City Chemist Urges in Ad dress Pointing to Menace of Inferior Product LAW NO PROTECTION Dairymen Merely Required to Laliel Product, He Re minds; Health Officer Stresses Point I Unless Elizabeth City people j idemand grade A milk, an a safe-, guard against myriad ills In the I |walce of Impure milk, there la no! law to protect them, even though' jthe city has adopted the standard' milk ordinance recommended by; |the State Dourd of Health. Nearly one-half of the negroes who die in Elizabeth City annual ly. die from tuberculosis. These two seemingly unrelated facts, presented respectively by L. IL. Hedgepeth, city chemist and milk Inspector, aud by Dr. C. 11, | | Williams. County health officer, at |the weekly meeting of the Kiwanls [Club Tuesday night at the Parish House, nevertheless bore a very close relationship in addressee de livered by the chemist and health officer. For Instance, Mr. Hedgepeth declared that u dairyman here, whom he did not call by name, had covered th? city with adver tising matter to the effect that he was delivering absolutely pure milk?but up to the present had; failed to furnish a certificate set ting forth that his colored help-] ers were free frojn communicable diseases. Above all else. Mr. Hedgepeth urged that consumers of milk here demand a grade A product iftfter October 1, when the new law !go?'? Into effect requiring all dairymen to label their milk ac cording to quality. The fellow jwho buys lower Mrade uillk be cause. It is a cent a quart cheap er. hp declared, Is subjecting his family td serious hazards. Kmfitiajilii < leAnllnrm Dr. Williams, the first speaker, took "cleanliness" as the topic for his address. He reminded his hearers tnat cleanliness was es sential In abdominal surgical op erations, declaring that the famed Confederate general. Stonewall Jackson, had died from a minor wound because of the Inadequate sanitary facilities of his day. "We've got a clean city admin istration," he told the Klwanlans. "I^et's clean up our town. Dirt breeds disease, and In our su burbs, or 'rhubarbs' as one fellow has put It. we've got unlimited dirt. If each member of this club will clean up his own yard. It'll go far toward giving us a clean town." Dr. Williams also placed strong emphasis on the n<>ed for a clean wator supply, declaring Pasquo tank River was heavily Infocted with colon bacilli, a serloua men-1 ace to health. "No true Klwan ian, and no good citizen, will pat ronize a dairy under grade A," he declared, adding that most chil dren who die between the ages of on*' and three yoars are vic tim!* of impure milk. He urged also that housewives take extreme care to purchase foodstuffs from grocefymen who protect their wares from all sort of Infection. Declaring that nearly half the negroes who die in Elizabeth City each year, die from tuberculosis, I)r. William* u r^rd that thM Ml has a cook who begins to lose weight and develops a little cough, ho Immediately get rid of her. He declared the city nepded an anti-spit law. and deplored a situation that would permit tuber cular persons to walk the streets |?f Elisabeth City. J At the close of Dr. Williams' j address. Dr. 8. W. Gregory arose j to offer an humble suggestion that the city place cuspidors at con venient Intervals In the event a law against public expectoration I was passed. He explained thst I he hsd been accustomed to carry I a little "Gravel*" for s good many ;yc?ra. and really would appreciate (Continued on page 2) BYRD'S HOMECOMING ??Hello, homefolkn. waved Commander Uyrd and his MIow o4ean-ho|>pera from the deck of New YoBS'... , which had taken them off the liner Leviathan upon their return ?f'"u Europe. ??Hooray1" ahouted v,? v?rt Tn taken at tile Hartery. .how, (left t? rlttht > Ueut. OeorKe Novllle. Commander %"r?^Ctaren"Ch?n.S3rb1,11 "H,"1"' Aeoata about to leave the Mucom and atep aahort Into the >rm. of a r?ln-dampen. d but ncvertlieleaa .?nt'hu.li.tic cJ'ehratlom Americans Talking Naval Affairs With British Geneva, July 20.? (AP)?I "Business as usual," the British] motto In the early war days, was appropriated by Hugh 8. Gibson, today to describe the attitude and' Intentions of the American dele gation to the three power naval, reduction conference during the( lime the two British plenlpoten-i tarles are detained in London talk-I Ins with Premier Baldwin and thei rest of the cabinet. When It became known that W. C. Brldgeman and Lord Cecil, the chief British delegates were go ing to London, there was conjec-1 ture over what was In the offing.1 but the fears of pessimists wure allayed somewhat when It became known that they had merely been 1 Invited by the prime minister for a final discussion on the naval sltustlon before he leaven for Canada Saturday with the Prince of Wales. Mr. Gibson, ap chief American delegate subsequently asked that the departure of the tw# British leaders, be not looked upon as an, adjournment of the conference, but only as a temporary suspen-J slon of tho chief delegates' nego-1 tlatlons. As Admiral Sir Frederick and Field and Sir Aubrey Smith and most of the British technical eiperts remained behind the Am erlcana feel that considerable of what Mr. Gibson terms, "light house work," can be done In con junction with the Japanese tech nicians In order that the British plenipotentiaries can find minor matters fairly well cleared up by the time they return to resume the more arduoua, labors. Three Persons Dead In Fire At Chicago Chicago. July SO. ?(AP) Three persons wero burned to death and four others, one of whom Is not ecpected to live, se riously Injured In a fire which ?wept through the Uvea Hotel here today. PI-AY BAI.L THURSDAY Strengthened by two new play ers. an Inflelder and a catcher, the Kllabeth City baseball team Is ex peeled to show Improved form Thuraday In a game with the Portsmouth Red Ho* on the local diamond. Thlg is the first game of the week for the locals, a game scheduled with Hertford Tuesday having had to be postponed on ac count of th? wtathar. Heroes and Heroines Of Past On Hand For Ceremonies at Bridge Prominent Men and Fair l.adics of Nwrthruslrrn, Counties Kepresent Char-1 ueter* of Slalc'n History KIJGLEIt CUTS H1BBON I-ast Barrier Brlwrrn "IjmI i I'rovincm" and Slate Sev ered An Crowds Gather I Via Virginia Dare Trail Kdenton, July 20.? C A I* > ? j North Carolina's nationally out-; standing highway system today, hy virtue of formal opening of the Chowan Bridge, ushered Into ev eryday communication with lh?| rent of the ribboned rim region a, half dozen progressive Eastern; Carolina count lex. looting went | from Currituck County and from , Elizabeth City. Under a beatific sun. ceremon-j ilea at the bridge were climaxed by cutting a ribbon across the ] bridge hy Krank Kugler. highway eommlssioiier. Mian Virginia As jkew, representing Bertie County.' and Mr*. J. L. tlassetl, formerly jM 11 Elizabeth Wiggins, repre aenting Chowan County, jointly held the blue and white ribbon. Standing Just back of Mrs. Ila? I sell .and facing the west-were Ml*? i Margaret Hiiies. Impersonating Virginia f>are, for Dare Coun ty. II. Warner Evans. as Governor .Samuel Johnston, for Chowan (County. II M. Iliddlck. 8r., imper , sonating (ioneral Horatio Hates, - for Hate* County, W. r. Morgan, a* John Harvey, for Perquimans. J. K. Wilson an Oeneral Isaac1 Clregory for Pasquotank. W. H. ' Merry, an the Karl of Camden and1 C. It Morris as Hamuel Jarvls for^ ?Currituck, all rerpesentlng his toric characters and standinx a." ' present day Kastern Caollna folk ? being welcomed today by bill [ ?? nant OofirMV J. Klmer Lotg, In j behalf of Governor Mclean. at ;the other end of the bridge. wel I coined Into ihn rent of the Tar Heel Htale arttrfong year* r?f sep aration hy reaaiffi of the wide Cho wan IHver waters Hnd Albemarle Round. The union by virtue of building jof the great Chowan Bridge was then extolled. The ribbon cot. the laat harrier between theso "LobI Province*" (Continued on peg* 2) ST//,/. f/V WOODS CAUSE SIIOOTIW; SAlf'YEK THINKS "Don't uo Into them wood*. You'd bo liable to net shot." So, according to N. (1. Trafton and David (Jreeh, two Ellxabeth City negroes, they wero told by j Oeorge Held, 27. negro farm handj In the employ of Edward and. (?rahinn Moore on Pear tret road. Goorjce live* with bis father, who owns a farm near the Moore*! bouKht from II. Smith, filling stn- I (Ion operator In Elizabeth City. Disregarding the warning, Traf ton and (Jreen, out berry picking, enteard tlje forblddrti premises-1 Whereupon, according to their! tantimony, field loft bin plow and dlaappeared toward bin home. from the dlrectlou of which a mo ment later came reports of n pln tol and bullets whizzing by their head*. Th? Intruders retreated In bad order and took cover by an embankment near a mail box 200 yardn from lleld'x home. To that' point a few moment* later came Held. 32 automatic In band, and ?t about the name time came alno three white men In an automo bile, two of whom were Edward' and Graham Moore. "I told you you'd get shot If: you wen: In them woods." Held] told the berry pickers, an he hand ed the automatic to one of the Moorea, according to fifate's evi dence. Held unfolded a tale on the. stand shout being bothered by dogn and of borrowing a shotgun from the Moore'n to frighten them away. It wan till* nhotguu, and not an automatic pistol. he testl-j fled, which he Surrendered to, Moore at the mall box. Trial Juntice P- <1. Sawyer look no stock in tile evidence of the defense. Interpreting tho myster lottH warning against entering the woodn an Indicating the presence of a nt111 In the vicinity. lie promptly nentenn d th?. defendant to 90 day? on the roadn and fixed tho appoul bond. If the defendant wer? not satisfied with the ?en tenre. at $aOU. The alleged shooting look place o* Friday last at about 4 o'clock in the aftarnooa. i ' King Ferdinand Of Rumania Dies At Summer Home Bucharest, July 20.? (AP)?| King Ferdinand of Rumania, long) fulling In hoalth. died at 2: IS o'clock this tuorning. I The monarch's long and cou-J rageoiM battle with cancer cuine, to a i lose at the Chateau IK-1 I'elishnr at 81nial, the Hummer j re?ld? nee of the Rumanian royal 1 family. The end wan. peaceful, the klnic cloning his "eyes calmly as if fall ing asleep. Members of I he royal! family were at hla bedside. Queen: Marie and their daughter. Queen I Marie of Jugoslavia, having ar rived before death came. Former) King George of Ureeco and hli^ wife. Kliazheth, another daughter of the Itumanlan monareh also were present. Ferdinand'!# death long hud bten expected and even the dim ple country folk, who loved hliu more n* a kindly father than an a king, knew that the dinease which he wan mo courageously halt Una would be fatal. Recently rumors flaw thick and fa?t and for daya at a time reports would spread like wildfire that he had filially died. These would I meet official denial and thoo con flicting reports would follow/that the king was receiving mllori dally, that his condition was steadily Improving, that ho waa able to take part in councils of atate. Hut these favoruhlo reports failed to deceive and the blow that fell today waa long feared. 1 "Ferdinand the loyal." was ! what the alllea called him during the trying day* of the w*rld war and "Ferdinand the loyll," was, what lie remained to hi* own peo- j pie who. undisturbed by the dy-| nastlc politics that ttoiihlo the up-| 'per strata of Rumanian society, looked to the aging king to lead !thrm through the unhappy past ; war years to contentment and plenty. It was Ferdinand's strong will,| say thone who knew him, that put j death off to long. I |l?a*t year Just after Queen Ms-i rle'a hurried return from herj visit to the I'nlted State- his physicians gave him up. But the king wan firm In the hope that he might help to place his country j on a stable political basis denplte I factional disputes and conflict*' among powerful Interests and ' clung to life. Then too, say Jfilends, he hoped to see once more before death come, hla way-] ?ward son Carol, "the madcap of the Balkans," whom hla parental ] discipline hag sent into flxle. c Governor Sends Greeting To Bridge Celebration In Behalf of Entire State CRIPPLE CLINIC HERE THIS WEEK Thirteen IVrwinn lo Under go Opcratitinii Friday; Ex aiiiinatifiim Saturday Tin- second of a aeries of Ortho pedic clinics bcint; ronduclod at the Kllzabcth City Hospital each J month for a year will bo hold Frl day and Saturday. On Friday, Dr. I J. 8. Caul, of the staff of the ' Stair Orthopedic Hospital at Gas tonla. will perform operations on thirteen crippled Individuals ex amined when the first clinic was held a month ago. The cMuics are beinK held through the co-operation of the Rotary. KiwaniH and Woman's Clubs and other organizations here and elsewhere throughout the "Northeastern counties. Kxamlna tions are free, as also are the op erations performed by Dr. Gaul, but arrangements for hospital care will vary according to whether the patient Ib able to pay for It. Pasquotank. Perquimans and Chowan Counties have arranged to car?' for their Indigent rases. Persons from all the counties I north of Albemarle Sound, and from Dare, Tyrrell and Washing ton counties, to the south of the sound, are Hglble for examination iand treatment. The latter relates mainly to bone defects. I Dr. Gaul has directed that all ; patients to undergo operations IFrlday.be on hand Thursday after noon, prepared to spend the night jin the hoHpllal. Of the thirteen, | four are from Pasquotank, four I from Chowan, three from Per j<|tilinans and one each from Caui iden and Currituck. Captain Courtney To Start Thursday] | CaUhot, Kng., July 20.? (AP)| --Captain F. T. Courtney an nounced this afternoon that he. Intends to tako off at seven o'clock ? tomorrow morning for Valentla, Ireland, for his proposed transat lantic flight lo New York. Failures of the wireless appara tus to function properly In a last| minute test flight, caused Captaini F. T. Courtney, noted Brltiah air-! j man, to postpone the start of*his transatlantic flight to New York, , set for this morning. j The pilot took his flying boat, jthe "hale" Into tho air In rainy | weather, at about 7:30 this morn ing to test the engines and make a thorough try-out of the radio outfit. The motors functioned per fectly, but on alighting after an hour. It was learned that tho wire less failed to respond to all the calls made on It. After consulta ! Hon with Navigator Downer and Knginccr Little, and with his bus iness manager, Courtney an ? nounced he would postpone the I flight until tomorrow, when he hopes to hop off at dawn. FHINCK MICHAEL TO i BR PROCLAIMED KINC Bucharest. Itumanla, July 20. ? (AiP) ?Prince Michael. young soh of former Crown Prince Carol, will be proclaimed king of Itu j mania to succeed his grandfather | at four o'clock lhIn afternoon, it i was snnounced early todsy. Paris, July JO.?(AP)?For i mer Crown Princo Carol of Itu-, mania, who left his villa In Neull ! ly early this morning for a trip In | to the eounlry, returned shortly , befor^ noon and still was In his I home at two o'clock this ^ter DISTRICTS VOTE FOR CONSOLIDATION In a special school election held in Districts Two and Three, cov ering the Providence and Berea communities of Pasqnotank Coun ly Tuesday 39 persons voted for consolidation with Central High 1 Hchool district, one voted against It. Thirteen of the &3 registered ( failed to vole at all. | The pupils of these schools at-l [tended Central High Hchool last' | session by special petition after' I the regular vote had killed the on*olldation Address Made liy Lieuten ant Governor I^ong Be fore Crowd Gulitered at Edenton from Afar PROUD OF AiTbKMAKLS 1 MeUan Congratulate# Peo ple Not Only on IMiyxieal Strueture of Bridge But Spirit That Built It By Staff Correspondent Kdenton. July 20.?"Welcoma ; home." vui tho memm to ll? people ot the Northeastern coun ties ot the State today from Oov ernor A. W. Mol.ean. on the open ing o( the great Chowan btrldga here, for though unable to at tend In person, helm absent on his vacation In Wisconsin. Oover nor Mrt>e.n wm a Wrttt?l> sage to the throng that here today from all section! M Statu to wlincM the formal open i Inic and dedication of the joW* bridge In the State. across the Chowan Rltrer. "The enduring phys ments that hays been put together to form tht? bridge, whose dedication you are cel? bratlng. are but emblematic ot the mystic ties which bind ron to the rest of our great Stale. the Gov ernor said. "So I welcome yon home, Into physical fellowship, with the rest ot North Carolina.^ You have nover boon out of tou<jw * In sentiment, because It ?? ? ?, this section the cradle o[our western democratic cMllaitlim. that North Carolina received He atari. ? We read In history how the Jamestown settlement naturally expanded southward along tho rivers to tho Albemarle Sound. By 1663 there was a small settla ment at the mouth of the Chowan River. This little settlement, h^- . tory tolls us. became the nucleue around which tho province ?l North Carolina grew." Tho Governor then congrwi I lated the people and the Stata up on the completion of the bridge, not only because of the physical structure Itself, which he char acterlxd as "magnificent,' but because of Ihe greater slgnlfleaBca , lot what the bridge ? ?" ?? '? I spirit as well as In actuality. Th? i purposes It will serve amply jus tify the money, time and aaMRJ required to build It. the Gover nor declared Peculiar pride was felt In the tact that he had baaa among lha first to advoflgfc1Jj? bridge, and that he constantly worked tor It, the Ooveruor said Tho whole Stale, as well a? those sections Immediately In Ihe ineighborhood Of .he bridge, will Ibenoflt from It. In that It *111 at ? ford an opportunity f?? plo in the other sections of the State to visit a socllon that ??"? of them have wunted to !years, but have not been able t? because ot the physical ties Involved. But the cotnfllljtloli Of the Chowan bridge now make* the section as accessible as any other, the Oovornor P?ln1ufou.1 I Attention was called hy thy Governor to tho many advsntaaee Of Ihe Northeastern counties, and to tho big pari they have l>l?*J^ In the legislative history ot U>e Stale Me also called attenUap to the csceilenl Hlmate and soil, and to the fact that It I" one of IH biggest and richest agricultural tactions of the State. t J ? And you arc now bark howe. *o to apeak, and !? a* lho nor of the state. welcome yo?. in doing thin I speak Tor n-arly 1000,000 othefs who are today re jolcing with you and who VJ thankful for th?- facMhat y?? ?'? no longer inaccessible, hut a* close to our North Carolina c I Ilea you have been to Norfolk Ml other Virginia points. Your mora! Influence li.is always been felt North Carolina. Your hmort I would do credit to any ?????? our renubl?" . Ill your midst, at Kdenton. the Heat of government once reeled. You uphold the early 'traditions of our Anglo-Saxon civ- .1 lllsatlon while w. were atrugglinf % for Independence. You have mea* | nured up as true North lans and 1 rejoice with yott that the gate has been, opened t? and you are now free, with uttie effort, to travel to all parts or your native 8tat? I am -tire J apeak the aentlmcnt* of every er eectlon. ifl
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