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ELIZABETH CITY - The Weather Generally fair tonight and Wed nesday. little change In tempera tire, gentle variable winds. VOL. XVIL FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY EVENING. JULY 26, 1927. SIX PAGES. NO. 176. SALISBURY BOY SHOOTS MOTHER AND THEN SELF Doable Tragedy, Enncted at Three O'clock in the Morning; Father Awakes Too Laic to Prevent ft IN ILL HEALTH Family Is Prominent One L Rowan County; Boy ' Was Only Child; Double I Funeral on Wednesday Ss tiibury, July If-L(AP)? | Paul E. Smith, Jr., 23 year? old, ?hot sad killed his mother this aoratag aa she slept snd then committed suicide by shooting himself la the right temple. The tragedy wis enacted st the Smith horns at 1706 north Lee street, this city. The husband and father awoke at 3 o'clock this morn In k to find the son attacking his mother, having dealt her blow on tho forehead with a hammer and before ho could Interfere suf flclantly to prevent assault the son fired a pistol ball Into the right temple of the woman who was 52 years old. Then rushing into his room, adjoining that of his parents. He jumped in bed and shot himself just below the light temple. Death for both mother and son was Instantaneous The asn had been In 111 health several years and about a year | ago underwent a serious opera-1 | tlon. However, he was sble to go | about and attended a plcturo show I last night. Returning home he re-1 tired and nothing further wasL, heard of him until ho entered tho J | room where the father and mother | ware sleeping. It is said the father on awaken-[ Ing called to the boy to know what he was doing and he replied that he was "going to kill mother and myaelf," and in an Instant, after' striking the blow with the ham mer. shot her. using a .32 calibre | pistol, the same one with which) he only a mlnnte later killed hlm I Mrs. Smith was a member of a ^prominent family of Oold Hill Township, this count), and was a sister of ?. E. Rufty. chairman of the board of county commissioners of Rowan. She leaves besides thej | husband, several brothers and sis ters and aa aged mother. Tho dead son waa the only child. Tho double funeral will take place at Oold Hill Methodist Church Wednesday morning at 10; o'clock and tho two bodies will be burled In the church cemetary. It Is very probable that a cor-' oaer's Inquest will bs held over the bodies of Paul E. Smith, Jr. J and his mother, Mrs. Rozle Smith, to determine aUthe facts in the af fair. Ho far a a can be learned the | young man's mind had not been affected, although he has been In | HI health. Officials have been con-| ferrlng this morning relative toi the advlaabillty of holding an ln | quest. COWARDS BUT NOT CRIMINALLY LIABLE ? FOR GIRL'S QEATH Seattle, July ?|.?(API???. Crlegh N?Imd. wealthy guttle clubman and broker and two oth er nee lut night were breaded by a coroner's Jary aa eowardi and held morally but not ermlnal ly responsible for tke death of Mies Violet Maude Payne, music and dancing teacher wko pre plmebly was drowsed when ?he II from Nelson's yacht here af -^r a liquor party early last Wednesdey. Althaagh Proeecntor Ewlng D. Colbln announced there woald be no further laveatlgatlan of the! tragedy nnleae additional evidence'I la aacorer.d, Nelaon was held un der a $10,000 bond. The other ??s were freed. BrMeace waa submitted Indi cating that the three men and Mrs. Winona Oorman. the fifth member of the party stood by wlthoat making any reel effort to reecue Mies Payne. The ooroaer'. jury found that ""J. *?' <>**th when she accidentally slipped aad fell Into L?ke Union whllo stepping from the boat at the Seattle Yacht Club 4ock sfter what was termed a t"wlld party" aboard the raaael. , SEARCH MOUNTAINS WHI BANK BANDITS ] Winchester. Vs., July if.? \ (AP)?Posses. officers of two j ststes aided by bloodhounds were' * tmblng the mountsln fasineaaea | ' the sparsely settled territory of "Tdy County, Wat Virginia to ' la search of men and two j who yeaterdsy held up i >bed the bank of Mt. Jack . Virginia, of fl.00 [e?rHjr armed mountain real ?la Joined with the affleera In 1 the hunt In the vicinity of Oreat Mountain where officer* 'S?r *?adlle "ere so gBTrounded Tho search began Caws.-iLwrsa; T w?" m ?H?od hounds RODE TO WORK BUT MAY HAVE TO WALK BACK New York'# Million* Fao iag Possibility of Strike on Elevated and Subway Line* Today EFFECTIVE AT ONCE Should Strike Vote Be Fa vorable Walkout Will Start Immediately i City Marshal* Forces New York. July J6.?(AP) ? New York's million* rode to work today facing the possibility that they may have to walk home. A strike affecting all the ele vated and subway lines In Man hattan and Brooklyn and surface car service in Brooklyn loomed as almost a certainty for late to day. The Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes, whose efforts to union ise the employes of the Interbor ouRh Rapid Transit Company, the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Company and the Brooklyn City Railroad caused the strike threat, has called a meeting of Its mem bers for 5 o'clock this afternoon when a strike vote will be taken. Should the vote be favorable the strike will become effective Imme diately. Meanwhile, the city continued marshalling its transportation forces to meet the expected tie-up of the city's two main travel ar teries. Arrangements hare been made for 1,300 extra buses to parallel the east and west side subways while municipal ferries will be run the length of Manhattan on the Hudson River. Large corporations have been asked to operate their own trucks to brlnK their employes to and from work. Surface car lines and bus companies are prepared to place all their equipment into ser vice and extend their routes. Tha Involved sempss*? ? ho*?? however, to keep their tines in operation through use of strike breakers. Fifteen hundred men. most of them said to bo skilled electric car men and others cor ralled from park benches have been examined and pronounced fit for service by the Interborough Company. A third sttempt by Msyor Walker to avert the threatened strike met with failure yesterdsy. Previously the company officisls refused to meet the mayor in con ference with the union leaders but yesterday both sides to the con troversy rejected the msyor's in vitations. A suggestion from Samuel Un terrayer, attorney, to the Interbor ough Company that a secret bal lot be cast by Its employes to de termine the question of their af filiations was refused by the com pany. Bean Convention To Be Held Largely By Automobile Raleigh, July 26.?(AP)?The American Soybean Association will be held largely by automo bile. The meeting August 9, 10, and 11, will be held "in Eastern North Carolina." Registration Is In Washington, N. C., and the next day the party leaves by suto for a tour of Deaufort and Hyde coun ties, holds a community picnic luncheon at 8wan Quarter, Hyde County, and returns to Washing ton for a sea rood dinner at Bay iHt, On Thursday, August 11, the party leaves Washington by auto for a tour of tobsceo, peanat and soybean growing sections with the tour ending at Elisabeth City at noon. A tour of the soybean fields In ( the section adjacent to Kllsabeth i City is one of the big treats of' the meeting. Hyde County is the orlginsi home of ths soybean In the Nation' and on this tour visitors will havei a view of one of ths most fertile' farming sections In Southeastern United Ststes. SPUDS AT OKISKO YIELD 100 TO ONE A yield 01 Irlah poUtoee that proh?hly la a record break er (or the aeaaoa Jnirt paet la reported by J. Waller Perrjr. ?retl known farmer llvlai la the Oktoko community Figured In terae of barrele, according to Mr. Perry, It foota up to a ra ti? of 10? to one planted. Mr Perry atalee that ha planted a pack of Bar/ Boee poialoea in March. He dnf them Monday, and obtained a yield of 16 hnahela If there la any farther In thb/aertloa who kaa done better, Mr Perry and The Dally Advance would like to hear froan Mm. SMITH-BRONTE PLANE CRASHES ON LEPER ISLAND Hopes of the Smith-Bronte Mora for a round trip flight from Oakland, California. to Honolulu, woro ahattrri-d In ? klaVe tree on the Inland of Uolokal. Hawaii. Their gasoline supply exhausted. I he flier* were forced down, but I natenii of landing In the ocean, aa they thought they would, they ca nr dowu In the famous lepar colony. Thla Brat photo of the era sh waa brought to Loa Angeles by ship and, aent to The^Advance by air of telephoto. No More Bobbed Hair for Themi The qneatlon of kef>plnc It cut or letting It prrow la dividing the rMhe of the femlnln* atyllata. Here ere throe ladlea of the norlea who have lined op with the "let-lt-irowa." At the top la Sally Rand, to the lower left la Eatelle Taylor (Mra. Jack Dempaey) and to the rlcht la Dorothy Dwao. How doea It look to youT Vidas Yacht Club Formed To Promote Recreational Life of Coastal Regions Formation of the Vldaa Yacht i Club to bring new (MMttt In the ?port of yachting into Northeast ern Carolina la announced as the outcome of a meeting held In the McAlpIn Hotel, In New York City, laat Friday, at which a con stltutlon and by-laws were adopt ed, and of floe ra elected. The officers of the club are: Captalu Prank Winch, of Waah Ington. and Bllsabeth City, com modore; Frank A. Tlchenor of New York, publlaber of the Aero Dl geet. vice-commodore; Paul II. Kluh. president ana general man ager of the Zenith Radio Corpora- < tlon. Chicago, rear commodore; Allen D. Hayman, Elizabeth City.' fleet captain; Samuel A. Hussell, Washington. secretary; and I)r. Jesse Rhoup. Waahlngton. treas urer. Mr. Russell Is esecutive sec retary to Senatqr William A. Xing, of irtah. ? Of Its authorised capitalisation of S100.000. Captain Winch re-; ports that $100,000 waa aub scribed at the Initial meeting. ,This Is to be applied upon f>. erection of a rnmmodlui etub house In KRty Hawk Bay, on Vlr jglnla Dare Shores. Plana call also, for the creation of a large basin la Kitty Hawk Bay. to accommo Ing to Captaia Winch. The founder in?moer*hlp of-the : club is limited to 100 pvrsons, di vided equally between yachtsmen living in the North and those liv- ' Ing in North Carolina. Captain Winch stati n. Much is planned In | the way of nodal Activities, and active control of the club will be, jln the hands of the yacht owners themselves. Officers 6f the new club are considering a propossl from Eric, H. Calmer, an officer In a sports-i men's club at Atlantic City, for a reciprocity arrangement whereby memberships In tho two orfranlta-1 lions would he Interchangeable, I Captain Winch declares. It Is ststed also Mist an ar rancemsnt will h* made with th'j recently launched Hayman ma rinn Morvlce stations company un-! der which the facilities of the proposed stations will be matfe, ipiiekly available to member* of, the Vldst Yacht Club. Hear Commodore Kluh. of the, new elub. Is expected to pay u visit to Northeastern Carolina wa ters ahosrd his yacht, the Rhnda, til feet long, .In Heptember for tto* drum flshlnic season. Or 8houp, treasurer of the club.: ?peat the week-end at Virginia! Dare Hhores as the guest of Cap-! Dairymen Probably! To Face Stricter Laws Later On Within a year after the new Standard Milk Ordinance goes In fo e fleet October 1, there ia a strong probability that dairymen fe?rviag the public in Elisabeth City will be reauired to sapply a A-?duci In physical par ity than grade B, according to L. L. Hedgtpeth, city chemist and milk .inspector. "FOr a grown person, a grade of milk below B Is unsatlalac tory," Mr. Hedgepeth explained. "Under no circumstances should, a baby be given anything butj grade A milk. Of course, the milk' ordinance as It stands now goeu1 no farther than to require the. dairymen to specify the quality of his prdduct; but several progres sive North Carolina cities have gone a stop farther by prohibiting the sale of milk under , grade B, and I am confident that* Elisabeth City will fall In line." The milk Inspector declured that dairymen serving Elisabeth City were making every effort, speaking generally, to bring their product up to the requirements of the State Board of Health, as em bodied In the ordinance. He ex presaed confidence that a major ity of them would be able tor meet the conditions of the two higher grades by October'!. To correct a general misunder standing of his own particular part In the program for pure milk, Mr.. Hedkepeth stated that he merely acted as a representative of the State,Board of Health and of the United. States Public Hefelth Service. Because of that, and to eliminate a possible basis for allegations of favoritism from disgruntled dairymen, he de clared all grades would be fixed by representatives of the State Board, who didn't know one dairy men from another, and didn't' give a whoop which wss which. | "Elizabeth City people should remember that they have avail able, at no lndlvidusl coet to themselves, as fine a laboratory as there is in the country," he com mented. "That Is the Isboratory of the State Board ot Health. The city, in common with others throaghout the State, pays $50 a year to haip keep It up, snd the people might as well niske use of It. You don't have to depend on what I know, or don't know, on the subject of chemistry. I am merely the representative of the State Board. "My main Job, of course, Is to ?ee that you get absolutely aatls factory water when the new plant Is In operation." he contla ued. "I am responsible directly to the State Bosrd for that, and If I fall down, I'll be qulelty re moved. You've got au absolutely Ideal plant for your conditions here-?built to deal with yonr particular problems. All the equipment necessary to produce floe water Is here, and If you don't get It, U will be my fault." <IOOD THIX. rr MAIMED HAYS MM \ lt It Kit A HHITK "H Is a - good thing It rained Saturday, the first day of our Fire Sale," declared a member of the firm of Sharber and White, to an Ad vane. reporter today. "We were ov*rwln im?d with customer* and If the westher hsd been fair I don't know what we would have done. Our advertise ment fn The Advance certainly brought reavlts. ' '? progress, by the way. as another advertIse Seventeen Barrels Currituck Sweets Pass This Way Seventeen barrel* of sweet po-1 tatoes jjrown by former Hlroriff I Bob of Harbinger arriving | today<are>b^niv?l-4o be CT*. flr?t I ahipmeni of early ?wecU from Lower Ourv*ttM%*> Elisabeth City sed tho^6ie?t shipment Trom any point tat tb? county made to date. Mr. Grlgga Is the potato | Rrower who had early Irish pota toes almost ready for diiglng when the March billiard bit this section last spring. These Irish potatoes, had tboy reached, matur ity, would have gone on the mar- I ket about nix welts ahead of the | regular crop. NEW PAVED ROAD OPEN TO TRAFFIC Motor Truck Freight Scr-I vice launched Between Here and Norfolk The Sllgo-Moyock Road. 16 feet j wide, wan opened to highway traf fic officially Tuesday morning. | Without ceremony. It provides highway hardsurfaced to a width I of 16 feet or more all the way from Norfolk Into Elisabeth City, and Whence to Hartford. 18 miles west of hero. The newly completed road link Is ten miles long, extending from .Bllgo, in Currituck County, to the State line at a point a mile north; of Moyock. There It connects with j alternative highway routes into Houth Norfolk and thence Into Norfolk, a distance of about S0| miles rroni the line. Simultaneously with the open-! lng of the road, announcement of a uew truck freight route serving j Moyock, Elisabeth City, Houth Mills and Intermediate points is made by the Hampton Koads Transportation Company, of Nor folk. Freight received at the offi ces of the company bcfofl 7 o'clock In the morning will be de livered the same day. That re ceived later will be delivered tha following day. On Mondays. Wednesdays'and I Fridays, the trucks will follow the eastern route south via Moyock to Elisabeth City, returning via Houth Mills. On Tueedays, Thursdays and ftaturdays, they will come south via Houth Mills, returning from Elisabeth City via Moyock.j cuahlotteTplans FOR EXTENSIVE I'AKK Charlotte, July M.?(API?! Possibilities for ah extensive park and playground system adequate for a city several times the ?lse of Charlotte are seen here by Dr. I Willi* Alia Parker of AshsvllleJ district representative of the nat ional playground association who began a survey of possible park sites wiUtln the city today. f I>r. nlrker, who will *p?nd s week surveying the city at the In-' vltatlon of the recently orasnlxcd ? psrks and recreation commission 1 said (hat parks and playgrounds j In cHch of the four main divisions ; of Chariot to would be his first re commendation to the commission. Stripe of land lying slong streams he added are usually un sulted for residents! use and well adapted for playgrounds. Four Deputies Added At South Mills For War On Moonshiners Kesidrnta of Village Fore mt Doom of Liquor Traf 6c in Energetic Activities of Squad Newly Formed SEVEN STILLS SEIZED Sub Chaser* Arrive in Manteo for Campaign Again*! Violator* of Law in East Lake District The doom of the moonshine li quor industry In the riclnltjr of 8outh Mills, Camden County, U seen by law abiding resident* of the community In the appoint ment of four now doputy sheriffs, sll thoroughly familiar with the topography of the dismal Swamp wilderness where many stills are known to have been located. The new deputy sheriffs, ap-i pointed by 8herlff Forbes, of Camden Couhty, last week, are "Bum" Cartwrlght. Rudolph Ja cobs. George McCoy and Judsoa Prltchsrd. As evidence of thetr activities. Prltchsrd reported Tuesday the deetructlon of seven stills Monday In a region near South Mills which he declared Federal agents explored recently. South Mills folk, generally, are Inclined to attribute this latest prohibition activity to factional warfare between two cliques en gaged tn the liquor business. They trace It to tho appointment of Charge Walt Taylor, of the South Mills section, as a Federal prohi bition agent recently. Taylor Is a reformed moonahlner, according to his own statement, made open ly at the last term of Federal Court here. According to re porta from Sontfc Mills, Taylor haa been exceeding* ly active In helping to break op the manufacture of liquor la that section since he became an offi cer of the law. The quartet of newly appointed deputy sheriffs have had troubles of their own. For Instance, it la reported that they had an arga ment with a squad of Federal agents the other night aa to whose authority was paramount, and while they were arguing by the roadside, a car laden with liquor passed safely by. unmoleeted and spparently unnoticed. It Is stated also that the new deputies stopped a party of Fed eral officers on a recent night, and searched them thoroughly for liquor. Finding none, they al lowed the IndlRnant Government agents to depart. South Mills people are watclv Jng the course of events with keenest Interest. These residents of the village aa a whole are de clared to be entirely out of syopg-. thy wkh the lawbreaklng element, and Intensely desirous of breaking Up tho liquor Industry that has flourished so long In that vlclnUy. In the first place, they point out, the village Itself has gained an entirely undeserved notoriety from ? the feet that It Is the nearest post office to the scene of liquor activ ities, and thus has come In for much discreditable publicity from the fact that raids throughout tho territory have been laid at Its door. They say that even whon stills have been seised a dosen mllea from South Mills, they have come In for undesirable publicity Inas much ss the rslds were reported J-hsvIng been msde "near South The probability of Intensified Federsl activity against mooo j shiners operstlng In the East Lake district of Dare County, on I the south shores of Albemarfe Sound. Is foreseen In the arrival I of a fleet of fast sub-chasers at Manteo a few days ago. Reports ! from Manteo Indicate that theae i boats ara for use In systematlo blockade of tho Alligator Rivar and other streams by which It Is believed that many thousand gal lons of liquor aro shipped by boat to ostslde points. YOUTH kllJ?S Ills PAL WITH 'UNIXMDKD GUN* Burlington, July Si.? (AP) ? A Burlington boy. still in hie middle 'teens, who played "hold up" robberies. today sought a $6. [000 bond while his companion, victim of the fatal outcome of the game, was being burled. Arthur Craven snspped a pistol ?he secured from his father's trunk I while pointing the weapon to wards Harvey Flint, 15. who died (with a shot In his body from the /'unloaded gun." The gun wan said |to hsve snspped three times be fore tho fatal firing, IIKKRICk IN I) KM MHOS SECOND OPERATION Cleveland. July s< (AH)?? Myron T. Herrlck. 73 year old I'nlted States Ambassador to Fnnee wss operated on again to day the second time within tea day*. Surgeons who attended him said he reacted well and that no complications nre (eared. 0 ? Chemist Discovers! Colon Bacilli In River Water Persona who bathe In Pasquo Unk Hirer In the vicinity of the hospital, bathe at their own risk ?add a decidedly real risk at that, accordlnx to L. L. Hedge peth. city chemist and milk In spector, who has conducted a two weeks' observation of tha water there. Even In quantities as small as hslf a drop, Mr. Hedgepeth an nounces, the wat?*r Is found to be contaminated with colon bacilli. In other words, he explains, It con tains fecal matter. The presence of colon bacilli! themselves is not particularly om-j lnous. These bacilli, according to the chemist, are not regarded as hsrmful oxcept In the case of In fants; but where there are colon bacilli, there are apt to be other disease germs that are decidedly to be avoided. The colon bacillus Is the hard-! lest of all the germs that multiply in the Intestinal tract, Mr. Hedge-1 peth declares, and that causes In testinal disorders, including ty phoid and dysentery. Therefore, the rautlous Individual who would avoid the whole kit and boOdla of them will stay out of the river at that point. Mr. Hedgepeth's Investigation of conditions existing at that point In Pasquotank River was prompt ed by a project of the Elisabeth City Ktwanis Club to establish a camp there for underprivileged children to oojoy this mmm Before ostabllafctag their camp, the Klwanlana wanted to make surethat the water was saff fc>r "batrlTTiK. Hence, the chemist was called upon to analyse It. Knobbs Creek, source of t city's water supply, also contains colon bacilli, but In such small quantities that they are not ob servable In quantities lesa than 10 cubic centimeters, the equivalent of a small tablespoonfal, accord ing to Mr. Hedgepeth. That Is re garded as satisfactory, he de clares, adding that theee stray bacilli are promptly deetroyed be foro the water reaches the city mains and the ultimate consumer. Mr. Hedgepeth reiterates bis parller declaration that the city water la entirely safe, though jfer haps a trifle objectionable to the taste, and containing a little or ganic coloring matter. It ts be ing given a quadruple dos* of chlorine, he points out. as a means of guaranteeing Us purity. The principal colorlnk element Is tsnnlc acid, obtained from various vegetable substances. This will be eliminated completely by the mod-L em methods and equipment to be employed at the new plant. Mr. Hedgepeth says. The plant will be given a preliminary tryont In the next week or so. snd should be ready to serve the city within s couple of months, according to those In charge of construction. State Fair Certain Returns Indicate Raleigh, July It.? (AP)? The State Fair for Raleigh I Roomed luirm on the face/>f un official return, thl. afternron. A majority of the 1(04 reg-j I.tored vote, were needed, under, the law, to rote the I7S.000 bond, to obtain the fair, and 11(1 af-j flrmatlve vote, needed. In the early afternoon, the af-, flrmatlve vote* waa approaching 1100 with only a Mattering nega tive votee. HURT WHEN HE HIT TORPEDO FOR BALL| Chicago. Jul) f*r-(AP> Hamuel DemoHa, 16, was seriously Injured yesterdsy wh?-n a railroad track torpedo substituted for the baseball In a scrub game exploded as he hit It with a hat. FIRST HAHHKL Of SWEET POTATOES FROM GREGORY (Jrrffory, Jaljr M.?What I* Wlwwl In hr the flrwt h?ml of nrrrt pot at ?aa from Cirtl tark thla ?rmmtm woni forwanl orrr the Norfolk Moathrra from (hla polat today. Thiar potatora wrrf growa bjr C. W. Roberta of thU arr tlo? And wrrr shipped through ihf lm?l firm of J. H. R"? wood A Hon. (Irffory haa had the dlatlar tlon of brlnf thr flrwt polat ?? the Norfolk Moalhrrn from potatom arr
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