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VOL. XVII. FINAL EDITION. . ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST SO, 1927. ' SIX PAGES. NO. 206. Old Time Fiddlers Will Play Tonight Before Microphone Stirring Strain* of Danrt Tune* of Another Genera tion lo Give Delightful Variation to Programs RADIO HOLDS FAVOK Decision lo Broadcast Sec ond Week From Station WKBG Acclaimed Here} Large Crowds Attending Old time fiddlers from Camden, Pasquotank and elsewhere in the . Albemarle counties will be on hand at The Dally Advance Sta tion \VKBG at the Alkrama The ? ater tonight, to broadcast old time melodies to which swift moving feet for generations have execut ed the intricate and graceful fi gure* of the old fashlonod square danoe. "Mississippi Sawyer" will come Into Ha own again, and a host of other tunes that were familiar to the grandfathers and grandmoth er* of the present generation. Sid ney Shepard, radio announcer, states also that he hopes t9 ar range a square dance on the stage, with the microphone broadcasting the music, the strident summons of the figure caller, and the mon otone of the dancers keeping time to the music. W. E. Whaley of Camden Coanty, one of Northeastern Carr ollna's best known and most ac complished fiddlers. Is in charge or arrangementa for the program. Others on hand will Include Dan Wataon, Henry Askew, and prob ably one or more of the Walston brothers, Joe, Ambrose and Du rant. whose skill with the fiddle long has been a byword In the counties lying In the favored land north of the Albemarle Sound. TIm fiddlers will broadcast at ? Mitt o'clock, and probably again at .It: SO. Remembering the en tertainment afforded by the fid dlers* conventions here last win ter, it Is expected that a large crovrd will be on hand for the dis tinctly new experience of seeing the fiddlers In action over the ra dio. fltatlon WKBG 1? broadcast ing on a wave length of 202 meters and a frequency of 1490 kilocycles. The second week of The Dally Advance broadcasting from the Alkrama opened auspiciously last night with a large crowd on hand and a particularly entertaining program, in spite of other strong attractions elsewhere, tending to prove that the Elisabeth City pub llo atlll Is immensely interested In hoarlng its own artists over the radio. The entertainers at the ? :30 program Included Miss Ida Katherlnn Nicholson, Mrs. R. F. Smith. Miss Emily Mann, Carl walston, and Smith's Jass Boys, a colored quartet. The audience proclaimed Its delight time and again by sustained applaase. Other rtumbers on the program for tonight will Include a piano ?olo by Mlaa Lois Baxter of New York City and an Instrumental duet by Miss Ruth Ssnderlln and Travis Turner. Jr., playing the banjo and guitar. additional entertainment, the Alkrama management announces a two day showing of "The Un known." with Ix?n Chancy, termed the world's greatest character ac Mor. To Divide Ashes Of Far Famed Radicals Bonos, Aug. Id.? (AP)?Th, s,hs, of Nlcolm flmoro sad Bsrto "??o Vssisul, elecatsd r?dl fk mUI ** dtrldsd Int., (asr part, ihs ?s?o-Vss,ettl defense com mute, announced today Hslf of .'J"*'" will be la la s Maiden cemetery. Mis, I.ulsla Vsnsettl. .Inter of B,,n wl" Kin hair ?' J'*. SSd UofMS of Sscco ?Jv ' BBd?T ",ta ??? "? "" ? *?*?**! ? ?? t await her r? ??**!*. ">? oollsps. ,h. .of fersd following the ordesl of Bun-' *sy'? fnnersl proossaloa. CoBf'ktls, rumor, s, to the dis position at the sshn which In eluded one to the effect that they were being held as aecurlty for the payment of the undertakers billi *nr? dissipated by Jo??ph Lan gone. the undertaker. > Langone brsnded th^ atory as Idiotic" and said that Gardner Jackson, of the defense commit-j ?iMid; hsd offered payment, JJt be hsd fold Jackson thai (here ?? i1"* t,ld the bM1 Mill be m7 '? doe course. ? ? .? course. hoM TfT** ?,*** h* P^fTr^d to IT? ??*??? ?*** ree< in two Mill he hsd be,n K k iii?^ 10 clea." I '"?? hy elthsf Mr, Ho,, s?cco l?r MIm Vnn.etlt. ^ r.po^ Two Young Negroes Nabbed iit Theft Of Hardware Air rifles, knives, scissors and flashlight batteries of a total ?alae of 81 & to 918, stolon from the temporary quarters of the Sharker * White Hardware Com pany,' North Water street early Tuesday morning,' resulted In the presence of two youhg colored boys In- recorder's court Tuesday on a charge of larceny, later changed to forcible trespass on account of the youth of the de fendants. The older boy, Octavius Brick houss. who had just reached the age of 16 in March and thus had come within the Jurisdiction of re corder's court, was sentenced to SO days In Jail. The younger, aged 13, wss placed in jail to await a hearing .before Clerk of the Court Ernest L. Sawyer in Juvenile court Wednesday afternoon at 8: SO o'clock. The boys were arrested by Offi cers Qhsnight and Seymour after the later had aeen them running from the rear of the store, and had tailed them across town to their homes. They had piled empty packing cases on end to a height sufficient to enable them to enter a second story window of the building, and had made away 'With the various small articles 'listed. The loot was recovered. Testimony given police by the iyonnger of the two boys enabled [the officers to obtain an admission of guilt of the elder defendant. Widow And Lover fed Then" Bog At Midnight Greenville, S. C.. Aug. SO.? (AF)?Mrs. Ethel Willis, and Henry Townsend the latter appar ently Intoxicated, were riding to gether ten days before Sheriff Sam D. Willis, was killed, W. A. Green testified today at their trial for the murder. Green said they drove up to his filling station. 11 miles from Greenville, on the Woodruff Road, and arter Mrs. Willis had bought gasoline, she asked the way to flpartanburg, and they left In that direction. Townsend he said was slumped down In their cloeed automobile and seemed to have been "drink ing hard." The Kev. J. A. Willie, preacher deputy, recalled aa a witness, told of seeing Mrs. Willis and Townsend together in a ^eml-dark room at the Willis home In 1884. They separated quickly he said when he cslled Mrs. Willis hsvlng a mes ssge for her from her husband who wss ill In bed. Townsend visited the Willis home frequently when the sheriff was absent, according to C. C. Cloud, automobile mechanic, who testified he occupied sn apartment In the Willis hpme in July and August of last year. The witness said the two often went to the | rear of the garage ostensibly to feed a dog whleh Townsend was keeping at the Willis home. One time he testified, they wsnt to feed the dog at midnight. Testimony that Mrs. Willis and Henry 8. Townsend, frequently visited s house next to his home In the site of Old Csmp Sevier, wan given by Arthur Coleman, of Brevard. N. C.. at the trial today of the widow and deputy for the murder of Sheriff Sam D. Willis Coleman, who said he moved to Brevard last January told the Jnry that the house was object ionable and that he had made complaints to 8herlff Willis, to Kenneth Townsend. brother of Henry who was said to have been the owner of the place and to a magistrate at the village of Taylor with the^ result that eventually his neighbors moved away. He testified that he ?sw the de fendants visit the home snd go In It as often ss three times s week In the latter part of 1928 and the first months of 1887. Levine Has Secured Pilot For Columbia Croydon. En? , A a*. St.?(AP) Char!*, A. L?Tlne announced hare thl? afternoon that .Captain W. 0. HlnthelHfe ha<f been d?rlnll"ly ?elected, to pilot the tranaaltantlc monoplane Columbia back lo the United fltatea with l?rlna a* hl? companion. Thar would hop orf. I<evlne ?ddM, aa nn aa the weather cleared. ON ROUND-WORLD FLIGHT PRESENT RECORD - 28 DAYS . 14. HOURS ? 36 MINUTES ' 7 ED"MM*D schlee Wt ft BROCK Pilot William 8. Brock and Navigator Edward Schlee are on I heir around-the-world fllnht hop ing to cut the old record to 15 days. The flrst leg of their Journ- v was from Harbor Orace, New foundland to Croydon,'England. Their monoplane la pictured above. On 4600-Mile Hop To Rio Paul Redfern, alonr In hia m onoplnne, like Lindbergh, begun 1 bis 4,600-mile air Jaunt from Brunswick, Georgia, to Hlo dr Ju neiro, Brasil. The 25-year-old flyer la pictured above in hi* plane juat before leaving. HI* fate la unknown. Four Face Court After Warm Fray A free-for-all mlxup early Bun day morning at the Intersection of Parsonage and Dyer streets, in which one participant was knocked cold and another received a "shin er"' whfeh still shows few signs of abatement, wan atred In re corder's court Tuesday morning In a case in which four young white men were chkrgeid with affray. The defendants,' were Luther Palmer. Raymond Rosemsn. Hen ry Lacy snd Jesse Peltoh?all boon companions under ordlnsry circumstances. A bit of disputa tion between Boseman were mix ing a few. Palmer came up as mediator. In the course of his kindly ministrations, he blscked Felton's left eye. Meanwhile. Lacy hsd gotten himself together, and hsd fsdsd quietly from the scene. In quest of a haven of safe ty. Pelton set oat In swift pursuit of Palmer, seeking vengeance for the darkened optic, bat failed to catch him. That ended the battle. All four defendants protested their friendship for one another in court Tuesday morning, blam ing Indulgence In "fighting 11 qaor" for their misbehavior. Boseman. Lacy and Pelton were fined |6 and costs each, and Palmer was required to pay the court costs, there being no contrs d lei Ion of his testimony that he was merely trying to separate Batsmen and Felton. Is Again President National W.C.T.U. Minneapolis, Aug. *?.? (AP)? Mrs. Ella Boole of Brooklya, was re-elected president of the Nation al W oven's ChrMtav Ttnipsraaee Union la snnusl convention today. American Fliers Land At Belgrade Belgrade. Jugoslavia. Aug. SO. ? <AP)?The round the world I monoplane Pride of Detroit pilot ed by William fl. Brdck, and Kd wafd' F. Bchlee. landed here at ! 12:01 o'clock thle afternoon from I Mnntdh, Germany. Ah Immense crowd Including the American consul and many prominent Jugoslavia officials Kre^tM the fliers after their per fect landing. cotopleflng the third lap of thetr world tour The Amerlcaha announced thnt they would take a few houra* rent, leaving for Constantinople later In the afternoon. Two Killed When Two Trucks Collide I Nownan, Oa.f Auk. SO?(AD ? Two were killed and five Injur* d I early today when a truck on whl?h 23 persona were enjoyliiK a atraw ride waa ald< -swiped by another truck. Tho dead: Melvln Sweat, IK. Knn Park. Atlanta. Georgia. William Bradshaw, St. Kuan Park. Atlanta. Georgia. Chief of Police W. E. Askew of Nownan, who made an Inveatl aatlon, declared the drlrera of both trucks at fault. No affestg had been made. IftMTAMJttO HTKAM PlI'KM ix i?\nk nriM?r*o mkiik Two brand new bollara and a Ihlrd of n mile of steam pip** will he installed In the Carolina Bank Bnfldlag in the course .of a general renovation of the heat In* system In the storee In th* building, it waa announced Toes dsy. Contract for the work haa been let to the Ideal Plumbing Company, J. I), ritchett. mana ger. coat of th?"tm prate men t* will be cloae to $4.00t. Two Swimmers Quit One Struggles On In Channel , Folkitppe, Eng.. Auk. 30.? I (AP)?*1* Mgna JMacLfrllan, Brt-fl tlsh woman phyulcian, abandoned her attempt t? switn the channel j Nsater and uuifeiM three-fourths I of tho distance from Cape Oris Nes, France. A freshening easter ly wind chopped up the waters so an to render further progress im-l possible. The others were forced out dur-1 Ing tho morning. Cap'.- (Iris, Nes. France. Aug. j 30.? (AI'I?Three aspirants for channel Bwimmlng honors plunged intjo the sea here last night, with the.Engliah coast an the objective, I but before dawn this morning two; of them had given Up the strug-1 gle. Miss Nona Macl>ellmi. Eng-! llsh physician. who made an un-1 successful attempt to swlin acronn 1 the treacherous waterway lant September wan still in the water j shortly before f? o'clock this morn-' Ing, forging ahead in the direc- j tlon of South Foreland. She atart Jed at 10:10 p. m. I ZD Miss Edith Jensen, of Denmark,! fault after four and one-half hours i and Mia* Hilda Harding. British I jawiinmer who started with Miss Jensen at 9:22 p. in., quit at 4:301 a. m. Miss Ivy Hawk, English swim-j mer, and Bene Dorla of Swltsor-i land, entered the water at 6:20 o'clock this morning, followed 25[ j minutes later by the German vet-, leran Dr. Schlff. Cut Off Film Supply Of Chicago Movies Chicago. Aug. i0.? (AP),?The( strike of a few motion picture ma- ] chlnn operators and the^lock out [ of virtually all the others, 'affect-I Ing 350 theatres In Chicago, was made more strongent today when j the Film Exchange tnanagera de-| elded to cut off all films to mo tion picture theatres In the Chi cago district. Mombers of the Exhibitors' As sociation met today with the aa aertlon that the difference with |the Operators' I'nlon would be fought to a finish. i The Musicians' Union, whose (contract with (he exhibitors ex : pi res next Sunday, also called a special meeting to dlacuss the sit uation. Lived Seven Weeks With Broken Neck Greenville, Aug. 30.?(AP) ? Elmer Hardee, in-year-old Green ville lad. after holding on to life for seven weeks suffering a brok |r>n neck, died In a local hospital last night. Hirdee, son of Mr. and Mrs. D, W. Harder, was Injured July 12. when he dived or fell Into shallow water from a pier at a bathing beach near Washington, N. C. He suffered a dislocated vertebra* which had cut the spinal cord al most through. I Except for abort periods of de lirium caused by high lempera tures. hp waa conscious through lout his long period of sufTnrlng. Funfrral service* will be held here tomorrow afternoon. JUDGE PARKER DIES SUDDENLY AT ASHEVILLE *?? Holding (Uiurt and Had Just Inaugurated Vife orous Campaign for Law and Order ONE OF YOUNGEST Only 38 Yearn of Age and Had Held Court for the Firm Time in July; Home in Foroythe County Aahevllle.. Aug. SO.?(AP)? The entire community of Aahevllle Tuesday was in mourning over the unexpected death of Judge Ray-| mond G. Parker, S8. of Wlnston Salem, who only Monday had ln-| augurated in Buncombe County, 8uporior Court one of the moat' vlgoros campaigns for law and or-' der this section haa ever seen. Funeral arrangements will not be completed until Tuesday night af ter the arrival of Judge Parker's only brother, Dr. Karl Parker, of Heaboad. Judge Parker .was atricken 111 J of a heart disease at 1:46 o'clock! Tuesday morning. He died a few mlnutea later after Dr. William D. Milliard had been aummoned to render medical attendance. Mrs. Parker was at his bedside. Solicitor Robert M. Wells, of this district the only person In Aahevllle with whom Mra. Parker had become acquainted during her abort stay here, waa announced by L. M. Clarert of Norfolk. Virginia brother otf Mrs. Parker arrived at. Ashevllle on an early morning i train on business. He waa In formed at the hotel of the death of hla brother-in-law, and went immediately to comfort hla aiater. Mrs. Parker was almost prostrat ed "by the unexpected death of her husband. l*he body of'Judge Parker haa been takeif to* thS funeral parlors i fof funwWiSrrlces and burial are Bid*. The body will probsbly be taken Wok trt Judgs Patker's home la Fareyth County for bur-, tel. Judge. Parker, one of the young est jurists on the Superior Court i bench, held court for the first | time In Aahevlffo In July. He succeeded Judges Thomas J. Shaw of Greensboro. After hold-! lng one term of court. Judge Par ker exchanged with Judge K. A. I Nunn. of New Bern, and went to the eastern part of the State to; hold court. He had returned to! Aahevllle Monday. Judge Parker has been known I since hli election to the Su|>erloi;| Court bench succeeding of Judgei Heury P. Lieiie, now of Ashe-I vllle, as oue of the most vigorous' Jurists in the State in behalf of law enforcement. Only Monday on Ills opening session of tho criminal court, he had charged Jurors to cooperate with him In stamping out crlms. "You and 1." he had told the Jurors, "as sworn officers of the court, must work together to cut out of society the cancer that Is gnawing at its vitals; the cancer crime. 1 want you to be vigilant both while you are In seaalon In this court house and while you are living your lives as private cltl sens." He was highly commended at the close of court Monday tor hla Just and rlgoroua enforcement of the law and his speed In dispos ing of cases. Judge Parker Is survived only by his widow, formerly Miss fJolly Calvert, of Jackson, and his brother. Dr. Parker. Judge and Mrs. Parker had no1 children. Cameron F. McCrae, police Judge for the City of Aahevllle, Vonnol (lodger and a third attor ney to be appointed at a apecial I meeting of the Buncombe Bar Asoclsatlon Tuesday later, . werei named as a coaimltiee |o escort the body of Judge Parker, to the ! place 04 burial. The Bar Association paased the resolutions lamenting the death' of Jadga Parker and offering ita assistance to Judge Parker's sur vivors. Winston-Salem. Aug. 10?Judge Raymond O. Parker, of this city, I who died suddenly early today la I Aahevllle where he had been co? tluctlng Superior Court bad been1 Judge of the Eleventh Superior Cogrt District since November l?l?. rtar two years prftir to, .that time lie wae judge of the rorayth County Court snd %adi practiced law In Winston-Salem' /or II ysara. Dispatcher for Ashevllle re ceived within an hour after death ?aid that Judge Parker, became suddenly ill at 1:?? o'clock tbla1 morning and died 10 minutes lat-j Judge Parker was educated at Wske Forest and .t the Ualver alty of North Csrollns. Hs served In the Army during the war. amending the latter part of his eu Hstment sa instructor In the field artillery officers' school. L ?MHty as a Jurist in the dispatch of bjr wh|ch tb# Fragment of News Renews Hope That Redfern Is Alive At Corinth Church Rev. C. C. Wheeler It assist ing Rev. R. W. Prevost In a re vival at Corinth Baptist Church thin week. Services are held dally at 3 p. ni. and 7:46 p. m. Mr. Wheeler received training (or the ministry In North Carolina, at Rule's Creek and Wake Forest, and in the Southern Baptist Theo logical Seminary. Louisville, Ky. Since leaving the Seminary, he has held paatoratea at Southport, Llncolnton, Benson, and has been actively engaged in evangelistic work for the past three or four years. In 1918 he was appointed & chaplain In the Navy. Living on a troopship for the greater part of hia Navy period, he made ten trips to France. He recorded 663 public professions of faith during hl? ministry afloat. As an evang elist, be it essentially a teacher. With the blackboard he presents the doctrines of grace. He keeps the entice program of the denom ination befere the people and hon ors the local chureb aftd )ts pftetor. I His address Is Hdfly Springs. I STRIKE AT HENDERSON IN ITS FOURTH WEEK Henderson, Aug. 30.? (AP) ? Eight hundred striking employes of the four Harriet Cotton Mills here continued Idle today In the fourth week after their walkout, after mill operators had refused acceptance of a proposal advanced by a strikers' committee that the operatives bo allowed to return to work under a compromise agree ment. Mill olflclala headed by 8. P. Cooper, president, flatly refused to accede to a request that the work ers be allowed to return to their Jobs, under condition that thoy be given pay for time lost, and that the adjustment of the wage scale be left to the owners. The employes. Walking out on August 4th, nought a 12ft per cent wago Increase, a return to the 1924 scale of pay. The scale, cut In 1924 because business con ditions were 1>ad, does not consti tute a fair living wage now, they contend; and conditions at the present Justify a return to the former pay. Today the situation remained quiet. -There haie befn no dem onstrations fn- the pert of work ers following Jhe refusal of their compromise agreement and no re Hinnption of the eerlep of -blsst Ings Which, have occur red' over the pant- two weeks: .Peace talk con tinues prevaltpt at the strikers' meetings, but there has been no word from th? owners following their brief statement of refusal yesterday. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES HAVE TAKEN A DROP Raleigh, Aug. 30.?(AP) ? A drop In contagious diseases re ported to the State Hoard of Health was noted In the report for the last seven days. A drop In scarlet fever, raeanles, whooping rough, diphtheria, small pox snd typhoid fever, was noted, compared with the previous week. Whooping cough alone dropped from 201 to 121 cases. docketn were cleared won much admiration for Judge Parker, on the part of the Forsjrth County bar and his record received the attention of attoneys throughout the State. His ability as a presid ing officer inspired his friends to present hm as a candidate for Judge of the Superior Court In the eleventh district ?ue*edlng Judge Henry P. Lane and In hla session* since election. November 1^27, he continued the name degree of effl clncy manifested in tho county court. Judge Parker was for some tltae teacher of the Men's flihle Class of First Baptist Church, snd an active Mason and Knights Templar. He was also a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Wl?r ston-Salem and of the Travelers Protective Association. Report Thai l'ni<lenU6e4 ? Plane Wan Seen Over th? Orinoco in Yrnzada (Irrni Two Continento SEARCH KEPT UP Gasoline Muwt Re Kxhaust edif Plane Ha* Been Run ning; Weather Rureau Un certain About Storm Brunswick, Ga., Aug. SO?(AP) A solitary fragment of news-? the report that an unidentified plane had been sighted over the delta of the Orttoco River la Venesuela?renewed hope In two oontlnents today that Paul Red fern missing Georgia aviator may. be found alive somewhere in' { South America. Advices yesterday from Caracas, stating that a mailman Saturday afternoon saw a plane flyln* 4 southward at an unnamed point along the Orinoco caused wide spread speculation that the craft may have been Redfern's "Port at Brunswick." The young flier charted hla Brunswtck-to-Rlo-De-Jsnelro route to carry him a hundred miles or more east of the Orinoco's moatli In winging his way from the Is- ? Isnd of Trinidad to a point aboat SO miles off Oeorgetown, British j Oulsns, where he intended head- H lng inland, Flight officials here i expressed the belief that If the plane sighted was Redfern's, the airmen probably hsd been blown off his course or else he had fol lowed the shore line to seek a landing place when his gasoline , supply was exhausted. If his plane had been running contin uously since he hopped orf from here Thrsdsy noon, his fuel woald have been running very low at that time. Advices from WashlactO* \ strengthened the possibility that Red fern may have reached South America. The Weather Bareatt : announced It had been unable lo verify reports of a storm along the route from Brunswick to Trinidad which It was feared might have ended the flight disas trously. A seaplane pilot returning (Continued on page 4) Urges Conservation Oil Resources Of United States , Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 30.?(AP) ?The Federal Government should ask the next Congress for legisla tion to conserve tlx* Nation's oM resources. Secretary of Interior Work today told the mlnerfcl law sections of the American Bar As sociation. Ho as to have "unity In thought, action and leglnlat!?n In the Inter ests of economic production and consumption of our Kreatest nat ural resource." the Interior Hocre tary proposed the constituting of a committee of three Wading law s. three petroleum engineers and throo Government representa tives to drsft a bill for the Fed eral Oil Conservation Hoard to In troduce In the Seventieth Con _ tss. The legislation should be Intended to protect the Natlon'a oil deposits against waste In pro duction, h? added, and the public against future high cost of oil products. Secretsry Work warned that the present over production of about a million barrels of oil dally amounts to Rambling with Naflon al safr-ty and appeal to the legal profession to formulate a "sane and positive course that will pro tect our National structure In the years to come." Food Is Stored In > Old Glory For Hop Rooaerelt Field. N. Y . Aug. 30. ? (AP)?Food win stored aboard* the monoplane Old Olory today and the pilot* retired for a two hour Bleep In In- early uftefj^^H preparatory to taklag off on their non-atop flight to Homo before ?undown. ? - Dedal on to leave waa reached when the runway waa Judged to hare hwn aufTlelently dried out by gaaollnn Are* from the paat thr?>e daya of rain and a 16-mtle aouthweat wind aprang up. Shortly after 1 o'clock IJoyd Dertaud and Jam'? I>. Hill, the pllota. derided for a hike-off on the atrength of the dally flying weather report rerehred from tho Weather Bureau. They aald they had been to!4 that the wind would veer aom#. what to we?t durtnir the afternoon aaaurlne them the lift they ae*d to foree them up In the air with their treat load. the larift a ?ln tU motor had ever bad to ralao.