^ Leased Wire Auociatal Press Service The Wealher Probably *how?rs lonixht and Friday; moderate gouthwe?t winds. VOL. XVIL FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1927. SIX PAGES. NO. 184. Naval Conference Ends Without Results But Kellogg Still Has Hope Seven Week* of Di*eu*-< *ion Apparently (iel Three Nation* Nowhere in Mat ter of Naval Limitation THEY THANK GIBSON | British and Japanese Dele gation* Cardial; Gil>*on Make* Final Speeeh Ex plaining Disagreement I - '"Washington, Aug. i?(APV?*\ Hope of the Washington Govern ment that the efforts for further n^val limitations which failed to day at Geneva can be resumed at aft early date was indicated in a formal statement issued today, by Secretary Kellogg. 'Geneva. Switzerland, Auk. 4.? CAP)?The Tri-Partite Naval Con ference came to au unsuccessful end today. After nearly seven weeks of discussion the delegates of the United States, Great Brit ain and Japan found themselves unable to reach an agreement on the limitation of cruisers, destroy ers, and submarines which was the object of the conference. Tire end came after Hugh S. Gibson, chief of the American delegation had made the final address of tho session, the" confer ence adopting a joint declaration adjourning the conference sine die. Tho . immediate adjournment came after a vote of thanks had been adopted for Mr. Gibson, the motion being made by W. C. Bridgemau. chief of the British delegation, seconded by Admiral Viscount Ishll of Japan. In his final address to the con ference resulting the American position, Mr. Gibson head of the American delegation pointed out! that the invitation to the confer t ence by President Coolldge left no room fo>' doubt as to the na ture of the proposal the American delegation would make. Those proposals ho said had conformed strictly to the spirit of the invita tion and he recalled that the Jap anese had indicated willingness to negotiate on the basis of mini mum figures suggested by the Am erican delegation. "From the first however, we encountered a serious difficulty in the claim of the British gov ernment that it needed a consid erably larger number of cruiser^ than it now possessed." Mr. Glb i son said: He added that while the Brit ish claim had been defended on the ground of absolute naval needs of tho empire the American delegation nover had been ablo to reconcile "the concession of abso lute naval needs with the nego tiations of u treaty to fix limita tion on the basis of mutual con cession." "Further,'* he said, "wo have not yet been able to understand why, in a time of profound peace and at tho moment that we are seeking to reduce the burdens of naval expenditures, tho British governmehl considers a consider able program of naval expansion as an absolute and even a vital necessity. Calling attention to the British suggestion for strict limitation of the larger type of cruiser armed with eight inch guns and for llm IUuk all smaller craft to six Inch ? cans. Mr. Gibson said the emaller ?hips would be of relatively small use to the United States for lack I of cruising radius and protection.! ? "The Immediate and oovious reshlt of acquiescing In the*e Brlt-I ilh proposals," ho maintained, I "would have been that the British Umpire would have been able tol bplld exactly what It desired and that we, on the other hand, would 'be ?restrained from building what we considered we might need, and y?t the tonnage levels Insisted on by.tile British Kmpln would result In . a substantial Increase over present strength/* Workers'Party Has Meeting In Protest Fuller's Refusal Ni>w York. Am 4.?(AP)?a! aievtliill ?rr?n?M by the worker', jurty for this afternoon as an an tJ-war meeting has been changed Into one on behalf of Sacco and Vanxettl-, Bertram Wolfe of the l>arty"g executive committee an nounced after wort came of Gov ernor Fuller's refusal to Interfere I? the case. The change was made, Wolfe j said, "In view of the emergency Which gives these Innocent men only six days to live unless labor aaves them" the chance, he add j Is regarded "as only a prelim-1 ?cry to the development of trtg , v fer protest action," SHAWBORO SOON SHIPPING POINT FOR CURRITUCK Faster Service on Rotators Both Irinh and Sweet I# Seen in Truck Kail Transportation WOULD SAVE A DAY L..rr,i?ck Potatoes Now Snipped Via Klizal.eth ?-"?y l.y Boat l^nte Day on Boat in Truiixit Establishment of a now produce ! *? "n<1 ?l>lpptnK center al ! Shawboro. Currituck County. I 12 mile, east of here. I, foreseen oHiod'?>< - -h access tn <5h. K S *-Iv'hk ready iisis - ?! move NorVl, , Ua? "hn ?"1 menu. to tl.io city bv'ho., ?h'P" ! p"r.hBro:,n* i ?*utomob?nebUftr?m Eltof".?"? by"l be convenient fmm tu ^ouid of Ihe grower. JE Ih,> "?""Point reason of The e^.n bW the SI;.wb?ron5h.,he, "locate, of1 ?'issrffSsfsvsai addition to ,"" : " " rar"' ln I naum. who I, . nl,?U',nr"a Mr luck County and has h Cl,rr| Intercated in h A ?<-'lvely 'ihe farmer, of th,! T' U|.'?n *h,ch (mainly for their Income* , hi. con" Vet Ion'wit h'y !l" V>' White Con,r?y^h? ;? 1 | " as produce buyerwtfh ?>, ' lantle Commission r, ^l " At" nubBirffarv of ii?? /" Company, A I'aclflc Toa rlmn! Atlantic A stationed In Z ,'','nd wl" h" th. sprIni; and k,i?rf y durin* movements summer produce Comnertce^'LC^? of |?SH rS-Si I*l'h, l'?rd.,irf.ced ro.d"ri:?; uTlled"## S'ls"""! lof the n" 0pPru>d at *?"? l??t end 'J.J n,ov*'i?ont, jumped to 59 K?;Xdoub,e ,he raS'-r^'^"1?n-"'?ro^d: so mi track there, and I, spreading clndera on the annroLh of trucka? V,""" """ """"""'nt roll rl?a <**pected that the ,".'k?e 7'" '?> additional |InKd to Job*' '"'?n Rio Makes Protest; Embassy Guarded Iran L?. Janeiro and Amor "" culture and hviii?mh,? ?? against lhB e,ecu.ion of NIcJl Sarco and Rnrtolomoo Vanzettl i J" bf,,'n unanimously adopted by the municipal council. - Tho American KmbuM* Bn lo 17 a barrel on 'steels, with dealers and arowcrs antici pating a strengthening In t ie de mand next week a* growing fe Hons farther South finish moving their crop. The Currituck yield Is declared to he approximately normal, and thus d?eidedly better than last ytar a. which was re* duced by an unfavorably cold and dry growing season. ? CANAL PURCHASE IS STILL 'IN AIR' No (ionclusion on Title I* Iteurlied Yet, Chief En gineer Advice* i No change In the status of the .Government purchase of the DIs ,11ml Swamp Canal, authorized by Congress some two and a half ^>?-ar* ago. Is reflected In a letter I from RrUadler General Herbert [l^'ukyne, acting chief ol engineers jof the War Department, to ltep-1 {resentaflVo Lindsay C. Warren. ? The letter was In answer to an in jqiilry from Mr. Warren, wuo in Iturn had written In response to a! jquer> from the Chamber of Com-1 hnerce here. Itrlgadler General Deakyne wrote that the Attorney General ?till was considering the abstracts of title and other pa pern submit ted by the l?ake Drummond Canu! Company on September 15. last., but that he had reurhed no con- j elusion. Representative Warren I forwarded copies of the letter to] the Chamber of Commerce and The Dally Advance. It follow* Honorable Lindsay Warren. Representative In Congress. Washington. N. C. My dear Mi. Warren: 1. I have the honor to reply to your letter of the 25th Instant request lug information regarding I he Dismal Swamp Canal pur chase. 2. The I^ake Drummond Canal it Water Company, owner of the canal, agreed to Hell ai tlie prlc fixed by Congress, and In further ance of the sale furnished th- De partment abstracts of title, nnd plats nnd descriptions, covering Its rights of way and really hold ings In the States of North Caro lina and Virginia. These papers were transmitted to the Atlorixv General September 15. 192f>. for examination and for opinion whether the company can by I properly executed deeds convey to |the l ulled States good title to 1 the properties. The matter Is stud under consideration in th ? Depart ment of Justice, and It In under stood that a conclusion has not yet been reached. 3. The purchase of the canal cannot be consummated, of course, until a favorable opinion uti the title I* received from the Attor ney General and deeds of convey ance have been executed and de livered by the company. Very truly yours. HERBERT DEAK YNK. Ilrkadler General. Acting Chief of Engineers. Veterans Meet Next Year At Tarhoro In Re-Union lUlelgh. Ann 4?(AP)?After! a "Mrrlni! |il?? by col. H. 8. Nanh.l AaalMant Adjutant tiencral and* chief of staff, the North Carolina: division. United Confederate Vef-1 erans. today decided lo meet In: Tarhoro. Edgccome County, In* twenty-first annual reunion next. y?ar. The selection followed a good natured armament over the vlr-' toes of Tarhoro and dastonia. ex tolled by Congressman A. L llul winkle, Gftst)iila, and playful ref* erence as to arhlch p!ace had the prettiest girje. Congressman llulwlnkle said ? he hoped "In the lanrtinge of the. President of 'he (United Stale* you ^111 "choose" not to go anywhere j else" hut COl. Nidi, himself in line for the rommandershlp of the' division, made M long appeal,I backed by j Tarhoro delegation The vote was 47 to 47 amort? those remaining for the final; Jfind-up of the hualft?ui? 1 unanimous re-election rein stated al| officer* of the division LOSS ON MARKET DISTURBING CITY GOVERNING BODY Murkrtnien K<-i|ui-?l hum iliation of Zone in Srrond Ward, Claiming ( niiipi li lion Ih Ituining Them DEFICIT IN OPERATION Krntals Kan $2,2 U) Bt'luw 1 Exfiensrii Iji*! Fiscal War, I'onjjcr Declares; Outside Drain* Happed ! Confronted with a flat loss of ! |2.24? in tlie operation of the City ! Market last year, au.l with that I Iom steadily mounting, the City Council met y eater day In confer ence with a delegation of the inar [ ketmen to couslder the situation, I and flud a remedy. If remedy there was. Competition from the zone created in the Second Ward some [two years ago, in which markets I may be operated, but front which ' deliveries are prohibited, was 'blamed by the marketiiien tor , most of their troubles. They held ! also that rents were entirely too I high In the City Market, and ad ivanced the argument that if these (were reduced to what they termed I a reasonable figure, with ubolltlou ' of the zone, the outside market {operators would be forced Into tho I City Market, and it would return i lo a self aunnorHug status^ t'lurgr Jatw Violation ' Members of the delegation, not ably MIIlou Love aud Hob Davis, charged that deliveries were being | made from markets in the zone, I In vlolatlou of the law. Mr. Davis f mentioned litxvlug visited one uf (these markets recently, and said 'that duriug his visit, two orders I for meats were received over the telephone. While he did not see the deliveries made, lie declared ; he Was positive the orders were ?delivered. [ Tom and Marlon Love, Maurice | Pappeudlck und Thomas Crauk I were the other marketmen pres ent at tho meeting. They urged also that immediate steps be tak i en to correct conditions which they said were threatening to drive them out of busiuess. The market zoue is the north iwest part of the city lying wilhlu the angle formed by the intersec tion of Harney and Parsonage streets. While this zone, with its four markets, was the principal bone of contention, objection was voiced also to the operation of other markets on the outskirts of | the city, notably on Southern ave nue, extended, und In Euclid Heights. The marketmen de manded that these competitors of theirs tie prohibited from making deliveries within the city, clalm ng that they, too, were vlolatng the law In that reaped. f With reference to the fluauclul status of tho City Market, Couii-' cllman E. C. Conger, member of the market committee, reported that the cost of operating the market during the year ending Juue 3, with proper allowance for j depreciation, was |9,000. The ren tals totalled $6,760, ho staled, leaving a net loss of $2,240. Many Htalln Kmpty Miltou Love held out stronglyI for a reduction In rents in the, building. He declared that more' than half the stalls were unoccu pied. and describing his own ex porlence In undertaking to make a profit on operating several stalls ' ranging from $70 to $110 a mouth. He said he finally had to limit his space to one stall, though 1 most of the year lie needed more room. With the Second Ward i zone abolished and rentals re-1 duced, he predicted that the City : Market would return Immediately to the self sustaining basis oT 1024 and 102G. At the close of the discussion, Mayor Flora promised that a rem edy for the situation would be found. The Council voted to hold a second session some time in the next week or so, at which the marketmen in the zone would bo accorded a like privilege to be' heard. Nol To Join ( iuimlH'r I i ut! council uenieu it request | from the Merchant* Itureau of the Chamber of Commerce for an ap propriation of $300 to cover a year's membership In the Kastern ; Carolina Chamber of Commerce,' in order to give Kllxabeth City j participation In the publicity be in* broadcM?t by (hat organisa tion. Tht* bureau wan represent-' ed by Secretary Job and W. O. Saunders. The request wan turned down, on the twofold grounds that the MM was not available for the' purpoae, and that there wan insuf ficient time In which to procure, satisfactory pictures for u project-' tag machine to be taken to county fairs In this and other Htates dur Iiik the next few months. Mr. Maunders slated that the pictures must be reudy for ush within two weeks, and exprcsed strong doubt ' whether satisfactory ones could be obtained III so short a time. As the concluding net of the af tc.rnoop. the City Ifathore voted lo ? adopt the pit typ?* of sanitary toilet (or Installation at such) Byrd's Polar Expedition WiO Cost About Quarter Million Dollars He Says Miniature Modern Cily of Portable llou?e? Will (^mprisr <'omiiitinity for Scientist* and Worker* ALL CONVENIENCES Telephones, Heat, Kudio, Airdrome, Tractor* for Tawing I'lane* and Trans porting Supplies New York. Auk. 4.? (AP)? The New York Evening Post to day say* Commander Richard E. Ilyrd's scientific expedition Into the anarctlc promise* to lie one of the most stupendous undertakings In history and will cost about * quarter of a million dollars. Thl*. Commander Dyrd admit ted. Is an extraordinary lame sum. hut declared It really a very conservative one measured against the slxe of the expedition, the dis tance the supplies will have to be transported and the fact that two, and perhaps three, years will be required for Its completion. Commander nyrd said that Ed sel Ford will not be the sole back er of the expedition, lie said con ferences have been arranged with other men. w.ho have expressed a desire to back It financially. The commandt r declined to re veal the names of the projected backers. What la more Import ant. h? said. Is the extensive pre parations that must be made be fore the flight to the South Pole, which, In itself, will not take more than a dozen hours or ao. At the major base lu Discovery Hay a minlatura modern city of 30 persons will ho constructed, portable house* will be brought from Norway to serve as homes and workshops fur the scientist^ mechanics, und filers who will comprise the community. The houses will be provided with telephones and heat will be furnished by coal and oil. A ra dio station, operating on a short wave length is expected to main tain communication with tho Unlt j ed States. An airdrome will be erected at the edge of the city for the housing of thu two planes that will be used In the expedition. There will bo no automobiles In the expedition but thero will be several small tractors for towing the plane* to the runways and tor transportation of supplie*. A large amount of canned gooda will bo taken along but the party expects to depend for meat oa birds, polar bear* aud other *n arctlc animal life. Commander Byrd said he and Floyd Bennett, hie pilot on hie flight to the North Pole, have been working on the plana for the la*t three weeks and have made remarkable progress. Curtis Baum Joins Huge Produce Firm L. Curlls Ilaum. Jr., connected with the Huxton White Seed, Com pany, ban retired from partner ship In the compuny to accept a. position with ?h?- Atlantic Com mission Company, a subsidiary of the Great Atlantic and Faolllc Tea Company. ho annottnt*d Thursday. While Mr. Ilaum la si lent on the subject of hta remun eration In his new work. It !? *? 1 ported from apparently reliable source to be 95.000 a year. For some six months In the year, Mr. Itaum will be stationed 'in the Klisaheth City district, bur ling truck crops for the company, which maintains !?o offloee In 1 growing sections and marketing I centers throughout the United Slates. The company supplloa more than 1?,000 A A I'. Stores, and 'soils to other dealer besides. During t h<- cold weather months, Mr. Ilaum will malntalm headquarters In Orlando. Florida, where he will bo engaged In buy ing citrus rrults for the company. Mr. Ilaum was born and reared In Poplar Branch, Curituck Conn* ty, being a son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C Haum. Sr., of that community. He moved to Kllzabeth Ctly six years ago to become a partner la the lluxton White Seed Company, and has gained much popularity here, Ills wlfo is a daughter of State Senator I*. II. Williams, of this city. KNiM-ur? No Reason i to Believe That President Wan Trying to Be Myste I rioiis in Uix Statement Rapid Clly. s. D., Auitust 4? J (AIM The opinion that 1'resl .lent Coolldssa statement that I"' does m>t choose lo run for presi dent in 1"2H mlslil have more tl.un on.- meaning avtd White and W. M Itldonhour. Ap proximately 1,200 signatures will ho nore??ary before the recall election can be authorised. ? I scattered points In the city where newer romicrtIons could not he! made. A representative of th??| Htate Board of Health, present for a few minutes, had ntated that the pit type met the requirement* of the hoiird. except In certain lo calities. lie whs glv<*n authority1 to meet theno special conditions] as h# aaw fit. The pit variety of1 Inlfrt I* leant ot all'pef-"4 mltted by the Htate Board, he d**j clartd.