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The Weather Monily fair tonight and Sun Jay. Itislnjc temperature Sun day. VOL. XVII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1927. SIX PAGES. NO. 192. GLOOM follows: SWEET POTATOES MARKETREPORTS Price* Fall From 86.30 and S7 in Early Part of Week to $! a Barrel Early Sat urday Morning TOO MANY ON MARKET Crops of Alabama, Geor gia, and Tennennee, Al though of Inferior Grade, Are Wrecking Market ' A rather gloomy atmosphere! fettled about the heads of those! moBt Intimately interested in sweet potatoes Friday, when the New York market reports Indleat-J ed that sweets were selling from l f 4 to $4.50 a barrel. Early quo- j tatlons this morning cited sales at ' $4.00. Early in the week every-! body wan jubilant when New York quotations ranged from j $6.50 to $7.00. Shipments fori the week began Tuesday with four ; cars, and the pleasing price so | stimulated (he growers that the number of cars shipped climbed to', seven on Wednesday and main tained that gait until Friday, when j eight cars went out. Despite the) depressed market and tho general j spirit of pessimism not less than eight earn will move out today. I Frevlous to this week 15 cars had) been shipped, and with those ache-, doled to move today, the total Is* brought up to 49 carloads, or ap- j proximately 10,000 barrels. The crops of Alabama. Georgia and Tennessee are held to be chiefly responsible for the low prices prevailing. Although the potatoes grown In that section are' of a very Inferior grade, as com- j pared with the Currituck product,' they evidently find a ready sale on i Northern and Middle Western markets at a low price, and until * they are practically exhausted lit-, tie hope Is entertained for an ad-; vance in price on the Carollua, tuber. Some consolation is en-! Joyed through the knowing that j the supply of the Southern crop j is rapidly diminishing, while in! thli section the quality continues; to Improve and the yield to In-1 crease satisfactorily. Just at this time, however, shipping point sales are so few that It Is dlfricult to establish a market In Elisabeth City and there is very little activity evidenced In potato circles. Some trepidation is entertained by buyers and commission men on j account of the uncertainty of the) growers digging and marketing; their potatoes. Unless the qual-] Ity of the stock holds up to a fair average and the price offered is! sufficiently attractive to Interest the planters there is likelihood | that digging will be lax and little j Interest manifested by producers. | The demand for the sweet po tatoes of this seetlon is expected ; to Increase In a very few days nil account of the rapidly diminishing! Southern crop, and should such a condition develop there Is every] reason to believe that shipments I will begin to be heavy at least by thotmlddle of next week. we acreage of the Camden and Cumtuck potato crop Is about on an average with previous years, and from present Indications the yield Is considered slightly above normal. Ordinarily shipments through Elizabeth City aggregate from 60,000 to 75,000 barrels. U.N.C. Glee Club Is Dined In London I/O n don'. Auk. 13. ?(AP) ? The glre club.of the University of North Carolina was entertained at i a <tinner last night by the Amerl-: can Club here. They gave an ap preciated concert. Next week the American colleg lann will sing at the Shakespearo Theatre at Htraford-on-Avon be fore going on a tour o>f the con tinent. FKDICRAL OFFICERS GET ANOTHER STIIJ, Federal Agents J. J. London and C. T. Qrlffln on Friday selxed and destroyed 14 fermenters, one 10 h. p. boiler, a 200 gallon still complete with BO gallon doubter. 400 gallon flake stand, one large canva*. 1,500 gallons of beer, em power pump and one sack of rye flour. This still was located In Harvey Quarter. Newland Road, about 9 miles west of Houth Mills. The agents rould find no evidence of the still having been operated nrn\iln the last 24 hours. _ TORRENTIAL RAINS FLOOD KANSAS TOWNS Oreatband. KsnS.. Auk. 18.? (AP)?'Torrential rains here and at He/slngton near here, last night flooded sections of both towns and remitted in considerable dam age No Uvea were believed lost but passengers on a Union Pacific I train near Herslngton were oom ypalled to crawl to the roofa of the cars for safety due to tha high waters Ups and Downs of Theatre ? 1 T T\ ? A r. TTT Described by Chain Head Starting on a Shix-string, Edicard I). Turner, Now Pre# ident of Carolina Theatres Corporation, Triumplu il (}ver the Rivalry of the French Revue Houses Various are the experience* that have fallen to the lot of Ed ward I). Turner. 30-year-old pres ident of the Carolina Theatre* Corporation operating the hand some new $200,000 Carolina Theatre which will open here Monday niitht. with Lon Cheney in 'Tell It to the Marine*," and a Keith vaudeville act. with music by an out of town orchestra. Prices for the opening night will be 50 rents for adults and 25 cents for children, and they will be the same Tuesday night. For the Tuesday afternoon matinee, they will be 35 cents for grownups and 10 cents for children. The ad vance was necessitated by the high cost oif the Initial attractlona ob tained. Mr. Turner stated. As a general thing the admission will be 30 cents for adults at night and 25 cents In the afternoon, and 10 cents for children both mati nee and night. Mr. Turner served In the Am erican army In the World War. Shortly afterward, and before the American troops had returned home, he related yeaterday. he ran across a run-down theatre in Paris, and promptly leased It. though he hadn't, a dime to pay,' for the lease. He succeeded in selling cafe and barroom conces tilons for enough to meet the init ial payment, and then east about for a show. It happened that there were a couple of American troupers in London, one of whom was an old burlesque man. He cabled them to. come over at once, and together' they wr<fte the book for a musical ahow, to be entitled. "The Ameri can Follies." In one way and an other, he got together a chorus, taking some from the French theatres in Paris, and enlisting a number of American girl* who had been engaged in war work there. A French company bargained to furnish the costume*. Finally, ev-l erything was ready for the show.' The opening night came. With the crowd pouring in. somebody announced the news that the cos tumes had not arrived. Mr. Turner haHtily telephoned the costumiers, and was Informed that they were on their way. In trucks. Presently the trucks drove up, with a com pany representative In charge. He announced that he would not part with the costumes until they had been paid for; and that, besides, they would cost 3.000 francs more than the price agreed upon. The house was filling up by that time. As fast as the money came In. Mr. Turner counted It out, {Mid off the costumers. and brought them In?only to discover that there were only half ax many as he had bought and paid for. Mr. Turner walked to the front of Uie stage, to\jl what had hap pened. had assured his audience that the company was ready to go ahead with the show anyhow. He was cheered uproariously, and the production went across with a bang. Later, he learned that the two Tiding French revuc-hous?*?. tho Folles Bergere and Uie Folles Marlgny, had threatened never to spend another franc with the cos tume company If they kept their bargain wUh the American pro ducer. Mr. Turner's theatre pros pered, and before lie returned home he sold it to French Inter ests at a tidy profit. Later, while In Bridgeport. Connecticut, the young theatre manager happened on a run-down house In the Italian quarter. Bridgeport had fallen upon evil days, <wlth the closing down of many wartime industries, and the theatre, named th? Capitol, was open to lease upon payment of two months' rent in the sum of $760. It had been showing third class, third run pictures. Sensing that many people liked to go slumanlng now and then. Mr: Turner conceived the idea of showing first run pictures there. He took over the house and bonked "The Christian," against the ad vice of his friends In the busi ness. The picture diew a record breaking attendance for Bridge port. and ran for four weeks in Lent. "I felt like kicking myself afterwards for not booking it for the fifth week," Mr. Turner com mented, with a smile. The Capitol Theatre continued to proaper. Finally Mr. Turner sold out at a net profit of 915.000. This venture brought him to the attention of the Famous Play era-Lasky syndicate, which op erates some 600 moving picture houses. He was offered a position building up the company's "lem ons," as theatres which aro not making a profit are termed. H?> managed thirty-odd such houses for the syndicate and in that way came finally to Ashevlile. where he organized the Carolina Theat treu Corporation. Mr. Turner is immensely en thusiastic over the moving picture theatre possibilities In North Car olina. declaring them by far the best In the South. Flood Of Gold Pours Into Tobacco Towns Raleigh, Auk 13.?(AP) ? A writable flood of cold poured In tIris week from tobacco sales on the North Carolina border mar kets. South Carolina and Georgia. Farmers received about $16,600, 000. Total sales for the Fairmont, N. C.. market from Tuesday through Thursday of 926,786 pounds brought $179,202.83 or $19.34 per 100 pounds. "Over 75,000 pounds on open In* and better than half million since," he said. "Average price '$19.16 on opening market for medium grudes, stronger than last season and for brighter not set ! so good. Prices upward yester day on llg'ht Rale. Mostly primings j and second offered so far and I with fair weather prospects bright for next week." I R. W. McFarland, director of sales. Fairmont market, said far mer* should wait at least a week ? until the priming grades are well sold before putting on the market | tobacco high up the stock. Whltevllle reported about a half million pounds sold at satis factory prices. The 18 market of the bright belt in Bouth Carolina showed about 10,908,766 pounds sold At $20.70 average, bringing $12, 653,666.87 of new money from the fire counties. Georgia tales totalled 16,466, , 682 pounds, bringing $3,669, 706.17, or better than $22 aver age. POLICE SAY MIAMI MAN WAS KIIJ.EI) BY CUSTOMS OFFICERS 1 Miami, A tig. II.? (AP)?Ml ami Reach pollen Mid today that Harry Booth. 32. of Miami. ?ho?? body waa found floating off Bla cayna Point, Normandy Beach, ywiterday. waa shot and killed Thursday night by euatoma man who fired upon Booth .and Jam** Wlllla, alao of Miami, whan thay i??fla?>d the point In a boat an route to tha Bahamaa rum row for a cargo of liquor. Wlllla, who la now In ruatody. waa ihot through th? cheek. Ex-Army Officer Is Killed By A Negro Ilaeford, Aug. 13.? (AP) ? With Paul W. Johnson, former, Army officer and son of a lain State Senator, fatally wounded, the entire country tide wan being searched today by Sheriff Hall's posse-members and blood-hounds for his alleged assaultant, Hector Graham, negro. The shooting occurred, the As sociated Press learned, five mil*** out of town on the Fayettevllle highway yesterday, when the ne gro, with his child, stopped his car and called Johnson to the road, apparently for a short con versation. Thereupon, It Is al leged. Johnson was met by a bul la! from a .46 caliber gun square ly In the chest. He fell dying lat er. Graham was trailed by the posse to his home near the Fort Bragg Army post boundary. Graham's wife then told officers he left with a gun and pistol. Graham Is under 9900 bond for firing a pistol ^t random, officers ssld, near a negro church here recently, wounding two negro by* standers. Nurse Found Dead In Hospital Kitchen Florence, 8. C., Aug. 18?(AP) Her body found in the kitchen of a hospital at Lake City where she was undergraduate nurse, Mrs. Bradley Godwin, 2fl, native of Wilmington, N. C., late last night was believed by friends to have taken her life because of worry of domestic troubles. The body had a pistol wound wlileh penetrated the heart, phy sicians said. It was reported that she had been separated trom her husband about a year. Her hus band Uvea at Dunn, N. C., friends said. Reside the body was a pistol with one shell exploded. Surviving are the huabaad, a boy, #, and aa aunt. Miss Hmmi Innett, of Laka City, South Car?-, Una. COUNTY SCHOOLS READY FOR TERM OF BIGGER WORK Trurhiii^ Stuff* Oimpleted, With All Three Lant Year'a I'rineipul* Buck in Their Former Position* I MOKK TO <;itAI)IJATE Fifty Per (lent Increase in Enrollment in Senior (ilaHKff Over Term t?f 1926-27 I# (?oofl Sign Teaching staffs are complte (or tlw tliroa large -.insolldated hiKli schools which n??w nerve all ! rural i*usquotank In placc of the thirty-odd small schools which , formerly rnniprimal the County'*; educational equipment. from a material standpoint. M. I*. Jint! nincti. County superiiit? ndent o^ schools. announced today that? Wc?'k.svlll?' High School would* opi n on Monday. September 12.1 but that tin* opening date* fori Central and New land High Schools I had not been decided upon defln Itely. An increase of a little mop? than BO per cent In graduates, from the County high schools dur-' Ing thp term of 1927-2*. a* com pared with lf?2G-27. Is kid lea ted by the enrollment In the Junior classcs last term. Mr. Jennings Htated. The cradnates lnnt year totalled J:i. of whom 18 were from Weeksvllle nnd five from Newland. Central High School had no graduated, largely for the reanon that last year wan its first year. The huildini: wan complet ed in the early fall of 19-2fi. This term, the three County schools will have a total of 36 prospective graduate#, comprising the personnel of the senior class es. Of these. 1 9 are at Weeks vllle. 12 at Central and five at Newland. For the flrst time, the #whole County will have been organized definitely in three high school dis tricts this term, according In Mr. Jennings. Two small districts. Corinth and llerea. were Included In Central High School District last term on a trial hauls, with the understanding that they must vote themselves Into the district If they wished their children to continue to attend the high school. In an election held July 1!?, only one individual voted acnlnst the proposed merger, as against f?4 for It. indicating overwhelm ing popular sanction of the new high school and the work It Is doing. One small school Is maintained, however, as an advantage to amaller children living In a com munity distant from Wwkavtllf High School. This Is a Slmonds Creek, and only primary work Is carried on there. The teacher for the coming term will be Miss Wil ma Cartwrlcht. of Weeksvllle, who linn juat completeiMrcwo-year normal cotirae at Kant Carolina Tencher*' College. All thro*1 of laat year'a high achool principal** will be back on , their respective Jote thla tern.' They are R. T. Ilvland at Wifks ville, Italph W. Holmea at Cen tral. and B. L White at Newland. Mr. Ilyland has boon taking him1-' rial work all aummer at the Cnl veralty of North Carolina with tho degree of M. A. an his coal. Hp' holda the degree of bachelor of art* from Richmond College. A courae In home economic will be added at Central High School thla year, with Mlaa Maiile ltrlte, of thin County, aa teacher.) Mlaa nrlte Uvea In the Corinth Hfctlon Mir thla city, and In a graduate of North Carolina Col lege for Women. In her home economic* courao, alio will apeciai i/.e In food principle* and prepara tion. home furnlahliiR. and other related aubjecta. She will alao teach one aectlon In general aci-, enc" and one in biology. There will be many new face* In the facultlea of the throe Coun-' ty high nchooln thla term, Mr. Jen-' nlnga announcea. For Inatanc. at J Weekavllle there will be Newman Lewia. Mlaa E. Sherwood Jonea, I Mlaa I/orralne Sawyer. Mlaa Nan nie H. Madre, Mlaa Marguerite Brother* and Mlaa Vivian Jamr^.i Mr. Newman holda the degree of bachelor of aclence from Wake Foreat. claaa of '27. He will teach | science. Miss Portsmouth. graduated from Han-' dolph-Maron thla year with the ? A. II. degree, and will teach Hug-1 llah and civic*. Mlaa Sawyer la j 'from llelcroaa. She received her |A. II. degree at Meredith thla cummer. Mlaa Madre. who Uvea In fieri) ford, haa flnlahed the two year normal courae at F.aat Carolina1 Teachera* College. She will teach the fifth grade Ml*a Brother*' and Mlaa Jamea live at Weekavllle.' The former la a graduate from th*? two year teachers' cotirae at Fred-1 erickabnrg State Teschera* Col-' lege, and will teaeh the fourth i grade. Mlaa Jamea lacked one< quarter of a term of graduating { at Esat Carolina Teachera' Col-| ;lege. She will tench the third and fifth grade* i At Central, the new teachera are: II. M. Squires of Whltevllle. B Wake Foreat 1927. history land phyalca; Mlaa !.ola Eaaex. 1 (Continued on psgs S) iFOUR QUALIFY IN LOOIF, FLIGHT T(L START TUESDAY Drutli Again OokmmI Entry | From Lint Friday. I'll in | Tragedy Bringing: En I Irani* Killed to Tlircr NINE ARE ON HANI) Tho*e Who Qualify Today Will Obtain IMarr* in Starting Line in Order of Qualifieation Municipal Airport, Oakland. California. Auk. 13?(API?Nav igation tea's remained today as the main hurdle between five air planes entered In the James Dolo 135,000 prise flight and official approval as starters in the 2,400 nrlle aerial derby to the Isle <>f Oahu scheduled to start on Tues day noon. Four of nine entrants who have plans here have qual-. Lfied thus far. | Death crossed another entry from the list of starters yester day when Captain Arthur V. j Rogers, flying Ills tandem englnod i monoplane, was killed on a trial j flight at his home hangar near' ,!/>? Angeles. He jumped with a, parachute after his engine, stopped. The parachute failed to, open and Captain Rogers fell 150 f<*et to the ground, landing about 200 feet from the spot where hls^ plane nosed dived into the earth. Mrs. Rogers witnessed her hus-| baud's death. Rogers was known as an experienced pilot, but the! plane lie flow was of a new de sign. The tragedy brought, the total flight entrants killed to three. Lh'uteuantn George W. I). Covell.l and R. S. Waggt-ner having! crashed near San I)iego Tuesday.! With this spectre of death fac ing them, the remaining pilots and i navigators showed no inclination to quit the race. Instead, they complained about severity of tests! imposed by Department of Com merce Inspectors, who were in-J sislent that pilots display more] (Uan ordinary skill before being, certified. The San Francisco Chronicle,' said protests were lodged with Secretary Hoover, but that offl-j cluls refused to interfere. Individ ual plots and navigators denied j they had complained to the Com merce Secretary, said Clarence M.| Young, director of aeronautics of] the Department of Commerce,! who has been inspecting the Dole! flight entrants. Director Youngi is known to have favored a post-] ponement of the flight, with other j experts on the local starting com-; mittee. Only four have passed the test. They are: The Traveler mono-j plane "Oklahoma," Bennett H.j Griffin, pilot, and A. L. Henley, navigntor. The monoplane "Kl-Kncanto"? of San Diego. Norman A. Ooddard,1 pilot and Lieutenant J. C. Haw kins navigator. The Hreese monoplane "Pacific Filer" In which Livingston O. Irving, of Berkley, will hop off j without h navigator. The monoplane "Golden Ragle", entry of the San Francisco Exam iner, piloted by Jack Frost, wlthi Gordon Scott, navigator. The approved starters will hop off in the order named and thone who qualify today will obtain, places in the starling lino In tho. order of quallficaton. WII.KKSBOKO IIANk I'KOBE UNDEK WAY Winston-Salem. Auk. IS?(AD ?Representatives of New York flanking and Investment are In Wilkesboro with photostatic cop ies of Home of the Hpurlou* not en which Clem Wrenn, prenident of the defunct Hank of Wllkei, ha* taken full responsibility for. and were In confertnce with State's Solicitor June* and al*o with counsel for the Hoard of Kduca tlon and county Friday afternoon, according to a press report from North Wllkesboro to a local pa per. One of the notes wan the pur ported obligation from the board of county commissioner* for |2f?. 000, which was signed with the fictltous name of "J. 11. Walters." an secretary to the board of coun ty commUnlonem In all. would seem to account for $125,000 of the money which he takes respon sibility for. RKKIJN AVIATORS IIOP OFF ON FLIGHT llerlln, Aug. 13. ? (Al'l ? Lieutenant Otto Koenneckt. and Count Holms-I/aubach hopped off at 4:SO o'clock this afternoon for Cologne. where they will refuel the Caspar biplane for their at tempted transatlantic flight to the United State*. HI II l?IN(. \M> KIW AT KAI.KH.il CIjOSM) Ralegh. Aug 11 lAPl?The Mutual llulldlng and l?oan Asso ciations of Malrtgh. closed Its doors this Morning by order of the State In?aranc? Commission tr. Soup For A Century Soup for a hundred yearn and no mock turtle cither, probably | could bo made from thin mammoth sea tortolHc. After a lon?c atruK rIp. It wan harpooned and landed In the (Jreat South Hay off Hay Shore, Lone Inland, by Captain W. D. Hatch. Miami, Florida, Mword- , flHherman, shown here with Mr*. A. KuhM. OM of thos?? who were with him. Its 7'4-foot shelJ and 2-ton weight make It the larKcnt over captured, nccordinu to curators of the American Museum of Natural History in New York where It in to be made a permanent exhibit. Inset Is a close-up of the reptile's gigantic head, larger than a man's. No Race Problem and Other States Wonder at How Well North Carolina Solves It Institution* for faliirution I of lioth the Tit and tin* Unfit (iitnl an Kxain pic of Miiluul IJiKlrrKlundiiif! Hy J. f. HANKKIIVIM. (?oldslioro. Auk. J3.?There I* I no race problem In North Caro lina. There might have been at one time, but the negro problem haM already been solved in this Ktate, and other states, both In the North and South. attest tho faet, and wonder at It. For it Ik only necessary to nofe what tlie people of North Carolina have done for the negro rare, In 'he way of Institutions for both the education of the fit, and for the treatment and rare of the unfit, to understand why. In North Car olina. the white people under stand the colored people better, and the colored people under stand the white people belter, than in any other Stale. "Why. in North Carolina. If one of our chlldron does not have two or three little colored boy* to1 play with and grow up with, we feel thai it very important part of their education ha* been neg lected." said a prominent North Carolina woman, the other iluy. an an example of the friendly fe?41tig on the part of the peo ple In the State toward the col ored people. InNlltuflon nf <<otdNl?oro Perhaps the most concrete ex amples of the state's interema In. Its colored peopln In to be found In the Stale Hospital for the Ne gro Insane at (Joldsboro, which Is conceded by Governor Mel*can and others to be ono of the most efficiently administered institu tions In the State, and on which Is accomplishing untold results In bettering the condition of the col ored people. An Increasing num ber of patients are .being sent home cured each year as Lhe r?v sult of the application of modern medical and psychlartrlc science In the treatment of mental diftor ders. I)r. W. C. Linville Is super intendent of the hospital, and Captain Nathan O'llerry, of (Jolds boro. Is chairman <?f the board of directors. However, the scope of service of any institution cannot be great er than the amount of Interest tak en In It by board of directors. But the State Hospital at (Jolds boro hat continued to go forward each year In Hie amount of ser vice rendered, because of the in tense Interest of (b? director* In the hospital. But the principal story of the growth of the work being done by the hospital, dates from 1921, I when the Siate law was changed and Instead of having one board of directors for all the hospitals for the Insane, as had bsen the case prior to this Mme, each in situation was given Its Individual board of director*. And as chair man of Lhe new board. Captain (Continued on pftge 2) \ y Rev. J. L Carrick Accepts Pastorate Of Church Here | Rev. J. L Carrick of Newport News ha* formally accepted tho call of niackwell Memorial Church to become It* pastor. The acceptance ??f thp new pastor will' take effect on October 1, It la an nounced. Mr. Carrick'* acceptanco wax , received late Thursday by Itoland M. Hawyer, church clerk. It will be read at th?> morning service; Sunday at Illackwell Memorial! ' Church. The call to Mr. Carrick wan tendered at a conference of the | church held after the preachliiK service laat Sunday morning. ' Mr. Carrick preached to mem ber? of Illackwell Memorial Church at Wednesday night ?r vlce. M< -mbers of the pulpit com 1 mlttee visited hla congregation at Newport New* and he visited Kllzuheth City on one or two oth er occasion* looking over the field here. Preachers In thl* section of North Carolina who know Mr. Carrick are congratulating m<'m bera of Hlackwell Memorial Church on hla acceptance. I "Though * e la not yet the beat known he la one of the atrongeet | pmibiff In the aectlon of Vir ginia from which he comes." one mlnlater of this aectlon remarked | thla week. Two Hurt In Crash Near City Limits A youth from Washlngion, N. teaching an Kllr.aheth City girl how to drive a Hudson roach, brought sudden catastrophe upon Charlie Patrick, living on South ern avenue. and hid ion, Charlie Junior, itged 12, al about noon Hutu r day. According to Patrick, he wan 1 driving out the Kuclld Heights Km.1(1. at the city limits. when he met the Hudson with the girl at the wheel. The car wan swerving from Hide to Hide, and crashed hroadxlde Into hi* Ford roadster, he said, throwing him and hi* son out and virtually demolishing the smaller car. Charlie Patrick, Jr., wan ren dered unconscious by the blow, his father stated, and sustained two cuts on the head and bin right knee \ptlt open. Patrick. Henlor, suffered various bruises. He declared the youth In the Hud son declined to give his name. The larger car wan not badly dam-i aged, he declared. I Chief of Police llolmes Inves tigated the accident later, taking the license number of the llud-i son. MILL WORKERS HENDERSON^RE^ STILL ON STRIKE National Guurd?inen Vt ith druHii ami l>epulie? Are Named li> Keep Order; No Kviilriirr of Violence INSIST ON INCREASE Strikers Stand I'ut for More Wages, Eneonruged By Speeehe* Made Them By Ijilmr I.euder? Halelxh, Auk. 13. ?(AP)? The strike of textile worker* Reeking to recover a 12 1-2 per cent cut In their waxen, made In 1924, continued today. National Guurdsmen had been withdrawn after an order from Col. James W. Jenkins, acting for Adjutant General Van Metts. They had been on duty nine? Wednesday evening. Harriett Cotton Mill officials Irniued a formal statement In de fense of asking for military aid, irtating the strike situation had become threatemig and that civil authorties had said they were un able to handle the situation. The strikers Ha id the military force was unwarranted. Sheriff I). L. Kearney named some deputies to guurd the mill property. He said, however.iihe ex pected no trouble. No evidence of violence or disorder inurked tuaaa meetings. Very few workers have so far quit ' at the North Henderson Mills, and Harriett Mill officials reported today that 25 or 30 had gone back to work In their No. S mill. Four mills have been th# center of the strike, with about 600 workers affected. Striking employes, at a mass meetiiiR held in a pine grove near the mill properties, resolved to re ject proposals made by the mill di rectors and seem determined to ramuln Idle until their domauds of wage Increase had been met. . ? This action camo following committee reports last evening and speechos by labor organisers. Labor leaders present besides Mr. WIlBon included: Frank J. Torlajr, representing the central labor un ion of Wlnston-Saletn; Alfred Hoffman, Durham, southern rep resentative and organiser for the United Textllo Workers of Amer ica and G. E. Hayes. Durham, as sistant to Mr. Hoffman. "Stick like one big man and stay out until you get your 12 1-1 per cent; you ought to have struck for 100 per cent Increase," Mr. Hoftfinan told the employes, add ing that labor all ovor the State was watching the strike und "was In sympathy with them." The Rev. J. s. Hopkins, who at times, had been spokesman .for tho employes striking, exhibited to them the petition sent to the mill owners, and which. It is al leged, was lorn up before reach ing the latter. He said tho em ployes ought not to demand more than they were entitled to, but that "they should stick to that." Lacy McAde, spokesman for th? strikers' committee, reported lhat the mill owners wanted them to go bark to work as a matter of good faith. Mr Torlajr told the strikers that he thought the letter from the mill directors was an Insult tc< any United States cltlsenii and that the only way to answer It I "was to Join tho union." Ho prom ised financial assistance In "stick ing out the fight." STATE APPROACHES i PItKSCMBKI) LIMIT OF BONDKI) DEBT Raleigh. Auk. 13.- (Al?) -At the clone of business on July SI I ho Htate of Nort h Carolina itood I within approximately S47.000.000 of Ita constitutional rapacity to la 1 hiih bondi, accord in a to figures 'obtained from th?? office of the Rtate auditor and from the olflc* I of the Commissioner of Ilerenuo. Figure* from the auditor's of i flee fixed the total Htate debt on July 31 at SI63,676,100. The con stitutional limitation on the Rtatn debt Is approximately S209,87S,? 020. The Rtate debt Increased vir tually S20.OOO.OOO in the IS month period ending July 31. On July 31.1926. It wait only 8314. 675,600. On July .11 the Rtate general fund showed a credit balance of SI.693.<111 as agalnstx"a credit balance of SI.403.833 <4 July SI, 1926 The Rtate debt Is divided an follows: General funds notes, $9,038, I000 ? , General fund bonds, $12,704, 000. Highway bonds, S94.999.600. Rpeclal school huHdlng bonds, S14.836.100. ? ( HOWAN MltllH.K H< KM AT AI.KRAMA SKXT WKKI i fecrne* at the Chowan bridge celebration will be nhown on the screen at the Alkrama on Mon day. Tuesday and Wednesday, M. | Rhelby Rurg**?, manager, an nounced today.
The Daily Advance (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Aug. 13, 1927, edition 1
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