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- , ',; . - ;. v . - . ' Nevo Without. ' 7 'p f " C "c , 1 . l- , ' ' Viewi Without )r ' Vii l'S ' V ; ' Prejudice . .'W:' ;- - K;;-;'7-: , Q-JJ . '-, Vy;:, V; ; : ' V-1 city - ' V , v 1 1 c v c z " c r VOL. 2. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY EVENING,' MAY 19, 1917 V no. 12 . v.- I- A 'DIIIES I'JIIL eo By H. C. HAMILTON XUnlted Press SUff Correspondent) -New York, May 18 Whon June 1 reaches the baseball season the un- 1 complaining tan will berln t dig In- TO ACTUALLY FIGHT IN THE nli jeanB foT an Mtra. two or three fREXCHES AND-BECACSK OP fl?e cenU wnon ever ne paBBe3 the SECTLMEXT 7XHATAttiaia, t - Hle, at a base ball park, That's ue MAGNATES UNTOUCHED BY WAR TAX BILL ARE "FIRST TO FIGHT" Washington. May 10 "The finest fcodyof troops in the world," that was what a foreign military observ er exclaimed as General Pershing's veterfos swung across the border four months ago. And these are the men who will make up Per shing's twenty tve thousand ex peditionary force to France. They will leave for the European war from at the earliest practicable date ' H A regiment of marines, about two thousand and six hundred men, un der the command of Col. Charles Doyden of Washington barracks will accompany the first army expe dition to France. This regiment is composed principally of organizations which have recently seen active service in Haiti, San Domingo, and Cuba, the Navy Department said today. I They will be armed, equipped and organized similarly to the army with which they will serve. Col. 'Doyden will be Under the com mand of General Pershing. The marines with him will eerve as sol ders in the trenches- of France . The regiment is sent principally to relieve the army from a too exten sive depletion of its ranKs, and jalso for sentimental reason that the marines are always "the first to fight." Reports to the Wa' Department today showed. tha Jwo ot the nine regiments of Engineers for French jjervice have been raised sfnd that 1 in the' Pittsburg district more men ' applied than could be accepted . Re cruiting elsewhere is going on sat isfactorily it Is said. 'the way the baseball magnates are going to. pay their war tax. The ef forts ot Gov. John K. Tcner, presi dent of the National League, and of Ban Johnson, president ot the 'American League, paved tfce mag nates the trouble ot handing out a percentage of their gross receipts, Go?, Tenor's clear knowledge of , the problem and his Influence undoubt edly saved what ? tbably would have been. bad day for base ball, Baseball is a little different from most businesses, . Abaseball club has to win a lot of ba3eball' sames to enjoy a really profitable season, Usually six clubs in rn eight-club wheel are far enough down tn the ELECT DIRECTORS FOR BEXT YEAR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE "MEM BERS HEAR REPORT OF BUSI NESS MANAGER ASD, CHOOSE LEADERS FOR NEW YEAR fhe memnera of the Elisabeth City Chamber of Commerce met Friday night in the Y M C A and after hear ing the report of their business man ager elected drectors for the ensuing rear. , . ' The newly elected directors are as follows: W O Galther, H G Kramer, M Leisrh Sheen. I T McCabe,-J. P IIEl'J GOKfflT FOR IIEl'J PLEDGES. NEW COALITION- CABINET WILL INSIST ON REVISION OF ALL EXISTING TREATIES PLEDGING NATION WITH ITS ALLIES . (By WILLIAM BHEPPARD) V Petrograd,,May 11. Russia's new coalition Government will insist on m revision of all existing treaties pledg ng the nitlon with it's allies and will demand fully publicity in the state ment of Its peace terms and war alms This platform became known 'to day when the Installation ot the new- '. A I a ' " a a' fi-oi-.f o V RllMt. S H Johnson. mimiirj was compieteo. J C Sawyer, T Delo. Crary. George . f ..Oj?mnt does not Insist A Twiddy, and C W Mellck. 1 The election of directors followed the reading of the Business Mana ger's annual report which reviewed the achievements of the past twelve months and ennumerated the under- race to be loslnj; ventures or be able takings which are now being pressed only to struggle through with an forwari. Among the latter special even break. One club in almoot any league isa'.most certain to have a losing season, rn-I the rule general ly workks for two cr three clubs, (Base ball doesn't nae fortunes for its backers, In its history there cannot be found che man who made a huge fortune directly from the in come he derived from baseball. There are several relatively wealthy men i the game, nad some of them "have made a great detl of the mon rich man in baoeball has accumulat ey from baseball,, but usually the rich man in basegal: has accumulat ed dollars in some other Venture. The tax will be levied by means of stamps, placed on the ticket by the fan. This is the plan that is wqr ing In Canada. GOVERNMENT WOULD SAVE SWEET POTATOES (By United Press) Washington, May 19. Urging in creased reduction of sweet potatoes, the Department of Agrilulture today new bins showed an average decay of 2.45 percent where nearly thirty per cent are lost under present methods. JAMES J. HILL PLAN PROFITABLE IN BRAZIL Rt() De Jancrlo, May 19 Follow ing an idea veiy slmlliar to that adopted by the James J. Hill in bis "empire building", the Brazil Kail way Company has established a number of "nucleus Colonies" along Its right of way through uninhabit ed sections of Brazil's interior. The colonists who settle 1 tirese townn are assisted by these towns are aa- ls offering farmws pians ior new Blgte(1 1)y botn the raiiroaa conipan methods of storing them. Tests of the and the government until they be come self suppoitlng. Thirteen col onies consisting of 641 families, a total of 1 539 persons, have been es tablished In the last year, and have proved that pioncerlg in Brazil is a prosperous aguslness. SPAIN DEMANDS SATISFACTION Madrid May 19 Immediate sat- fi.fact!nn for sinking the Spanish I Uteamer, Patricio, and guarantee of future exmemption of Spanleh ship ping .from submarines. these were the demands of the note sent Ber lin today by the KpanWh government. NEW WAR MINISTER URGES LOYALTY y IIOESt Bill PASSED INCREASE SALARY HO THAT KX- emphasls was placed on the project ot building a road across the Dismal Swamp, connecting the Tadmore sec tion of Pasquotank with Gates coun ty. An unusual and Interesting feature of the meeting was a concert "by the J H Zeigler Band, immediately pre ceding the formal session. The band played In front of the Y M C A until eight o'clock, and then preceded the membersMnto the hall where the re mainder o-the program was render ed. This concert was In graceful rec ognition, on the part of the band, of the tact that it was due to Business Manager Pugh's initiative and under his leadership that the band was organized. The meeting was called to order by President Osither-fw ttieHsswid out. In stating the object of the meet ing Mir. Gaither referred to the or ganization of the Chamber of Com merce a year ago and stated that; he believed that already the chamber had justied its organization. The story of achievement and ef fort, told 'of in the report of 'Busi ness Manager Pufih justified, flPthe eyes of the members, Mr. Gaither's statement. The Cood Will Day cele bration on the Fourth ct last July: the first observance in Elizabeth City of National Pay up Week; the foster ing of the Business Men's Credit As sociation, the enlistment of the wo men of thee 1ty In a system-ct borne gardening unexampled heretofore In this section; the .effort to stablish a packing plant here, so far unsuc cessful but not yet abandoned; ' a movement for a municipal play ground in which the interest of the Norfolk Southern railroad has al ready been enlisted, and the co-operation of the chamber with the effort to effect a permanent Fair Associa tion these are some of the matters touched upon in the report. THE GATKS COUNTY ROAD The section of the report referring to the promotion of a plan to build a road across the Dismal Swamp con- on' the publication of the present agreement oi Russia with her allies as these treaties were entered Into by th old regime in Russia. It does in slat, howtver, that these old agree ments be abrogated and that new compacts with the existing Govern' ment replace them. These new com pacts are to be made public AT full. It is stated that President Wilson's aid is lavok d to carry oat this pro gram. To-night At New Theatre N. (MJILITIA WILL - : v'-: . TRAIN FOR SERVICE v. 4Bv UnltM Pressi v jg , Washington! May !. The jfatti- bution of the National Guard ; an nounced by the War Department as signs troops 'of the twelve middle Western and Northern states to the Southern Department In camps along the border. Those of the New Eng land and. Atlantic state will train tor service in the European war; in the Southeastern Department f AUSTRIANS l6sE - TWELVE THOUSAND Rome. May 11 Austrian casual ties tedate in the Itat'sn olenslve are estimated at twelve thousand, dead,' wonndedond missing. ONE OF THE MOST ELABORATE' EVER ATTEMPTED AND ALTO GETHER THE BEST "POP" EI!.V , 5ETT EVER SERVED : . The banquet served at the South ern. Hotel .FrkUr, night celebrating' the first anniversary ot the Chamber ' of Commerce', was one of the most elaborate ever attempted 'here and it baa been pronounced as the best thai. Mr C T Bennett, the genial host at the Southern Hotel, has ever served, And that's certainly going some.for frank . Dixon, who baa spoken all over the country, said when he was .last, la . Elizabeth City that Mr. Bennett's ho tel was the best he had found In the South,, ... Vvv:-...?, - The feast of good thing to eat was matched by a feast of fellowship and wit and spirited IntercourseThe toaatmaater did not hnrln cillinf for (By United Press) LiDonMi until i kthw lit hAnrr Wnshington.NMny 1. President hxit thl, - hut,thi nort titn. for WUson calls upon all men in the Unl- th6 ,Me Md dliCUMlon nd In ted States between the ages or zi ana terchm of oplnlloil ancedot 4 80 to register on June fifth. From that eh to mrm.A on. fl. JUNE FIFTH IS REGISTRATION DAY these will be selected the first 600,-; 000 soldiers of the new army JEl'IISI HI "The Romantic Journey" is to night's attraction at the New Theatre. Peter, a social lion, suffering from enui and wanting thrills vis its a mysterious antique shop, con ducted by Ratoor, an East Indian, who has thorough hypnotism, en slaved Cynthia, a. . beautifulounj wrong In the shopkeepers conduct and de cldes to investigate. - The rcrft of the story needs to be seen at the New Theatre to be enjoyed . Saturday Charlie Chaplin will be at the New Tboatre again in "The Night Owle" in two reels presenting the $670,000 dollar Gloom chaser of millions. Charlie Chaplin the original laugh producer of the Universe. He will be seen on the street in some of his original stunts. Wrftch for him. In addition to the Chaplin-picture The Romance Journay will be sh'own a i'atne feature in nve pans, ino doubt the peopl of Elizabeth City have read this wonderful story and now have the opportunity of seeing it on the screen. MAY wan E ISRAEL ZANGWILL, HEBREW PA TRIOT 8VHGGESTS JEWISH HE- the tables Jolly and animated circle, MAY BUILD. SHIPBUILDING Vr PLANT Quite tie most startling Idea that pupped put at the banquet was the possibility that In the not toe distant foture Elisabeth .City may, have t, $100,000.00 shipbuilding piantChar les W. Harrson, president of the Vir ginia Carolina. Transportation - Com pany. In responding to the toast, 'Our Transportation Facilities,,, said that he would establish siich a plant here If Elisabeth City would contribute ' Capital BIOCK., t said Kit. Harri- 'heeds'liTHe empta- sized in this section ia the idea that (By LOWELL MELLKTT) I , bu,ld bo . . flt th . (United Press sun correspondent.) inM of buUd,ng r,Ver, tQ flt thft Loncton, April 25. (By Mall)- Hie b t . h b h conBtrMC. Republic of Judea or the Republic of t - . h '-nftkMe to the Israel, a home-ruled natlon-uuder the . . . ttatftrn fti . protectorate of the United States of m (,() much more tQ buU(, up America! Sit.-; the land of their futh- watflr transportation' facilities of your ers, Palestine; capital, Jerusalem. '... .. v111 an mpl.nmnu.W Petrograd May 19 The iHiiance of a powerful appeal to the army and navy to stand firm against the enemy was the first "official act of the new minister of war and ma rine, Kenensky. BRITISH CABINET APPROVES HOOVER London May 19 The plans for Herbert Hoover to become inter national food director have the ap proval of the British Cabinet, Lord Davenport.. British food con troller, asserted today. .u!nect ng Newland township and Gates MKTED MEN RECEIVE SAME AS 6 " Li i r,w " county set out that the Chamber pre- CONHCR1PTKI) Lared two bills providing for a ref- PRESBYTERIANS HAVE CHURCH BUILDING YEAR (By United ' Press) Dallas. Tex., May 19 More than a half million dollars has been spent In the test year by the Presbyterian Board of Church Erection in aidinj In the construction ot 202 new churches and 94 manses, the board ,-rsported to the ennual meeting of V " s Presbyterian General lAssembly' The report declared the year best In the board's history. Re- s for the yer.r ending March 31 "rthon of the "previous year WashlnUon, May 10 The H:use today approved the Conference re port on the bill increasing the Navy from 87,000 to 150,000 men and the marines from 17.400 men to 30,000. The bill also Increases tb salary so that the enlisted men will receive about thirty dollars a month, the same that Is to be paid conscripted men. The Senate has slso adopted the conference repoit and the bill has gone to the President for his nature. Tonight's Show r At Alkratna sig- jared two bills providing erendum to the people of the two townships to be most directly bene fitted of a bond issue for the main tenance of the propostd road. Both blls were defeated, but Senator E R Johnson, in co-operation with Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt and Colonel Cam- i eron, chairman of the Committee on roads and turn pikes, had lncorporat ed in the General Road Bill, after wards enacted into law, provisions amply covering the propostd plans for the construction of the Dismal Swamp road. WHERE BETSEY LAGS The report called attention to the fact Elizabeth City, during the year BRITISH MISSION AT CONFEDERATE CAPITAL' JU8t pa"' p wenue w VW1" amount of only $1,760.00 for its Richmond, May 19. Balfour and the other members of the British Mis- Chamber of Commerce, as compared with New Bern's $6,000.00, Wilson's $2,800.00,Charlotte's $16,000.00 and sion visitea me tomm vam. , AsheTnie's $20,000.00. Elizabeth today. - Southern hospitality -outdid itself in the entertainment of the distin imished auests.' Cheers from thou sands of throats were adde"d to . the military salute of nineteen guns fired in honor of visitors. Cadets' escorted thetiests to the Governor's' mansion., . Tht HrTtlBh placed waea'thes on the statues of Lee and Jackson.' L . ' . " , , '- THE WEATHER , ;. Fair toniftht and Ptinrtay moder- "Slns of Her Parents'" I will be shown at the Alkrania tonight. Gladys UrockweM fascinated a'l who saw her this afternoon in "Sins of Her Parents" The picture Is one of the few big pictures that lives up to its ad vertising. William Fox never achieved a greater triumph than when he gave this play to the pub lie. The last chance of seeing it is tonight. Musty Suffer in the "Pirate Bold" is aircni'.ar scream from start to finish. "Of course," says Mr Kramer. "Musty 8uffer is always good and orignnal, but he outcl'p ses all former mon ev ishlnee toi ghC. " Mr. Kramer has received another consignment of flag pins, and ' he wishes to adorn every child with one today. Monday at the Alkrnmrf Metro Pictures Company presents the lovely Beverly Bayne In "A Mil lion a Minute." "The Great Se cret Is also on the program and is t-ottln verv near the end and so more exciting with every chapter "Pavlow, at the Alkrama Wednei . . I l . .1 seems aoout to uriuH uu u.., ..,.. t()ns ,() d n waterways. '. Uiat has persisted through the cen- .., am prepared wlthout MktDg ftftf turles that the Jew has wandered the he,p from Ellzftbeth CUy t0 put on earth. He is about to have his own ,. . hna(a' . fhft rharat3nr i home back again to live there or visit ,n m(nd ply,nK between New Bern. - n security. That this security anouio d Baltlmore and .toxxlnsr St Ellz be maintained by America Is the idea both (,(ty Newport New fta otnef " , 01 izrael Aangwni. Mntermediat nolnts I HnwfTJi flrst "Such a protectorate. " he said, boat ,eaye BerQ Mon(1.. would be expected, of course, to en- gptr 3rd and t0 arrJv ftt Elu if dure only so long as was necessary to Ctjr on Xuegday 0,, 4. , see the Jewish nation firmly estab- Th rt . t ... . m t;.n .. llshed among the nations of the on the fpllowlng Thursday, arriTlng earth." . RliIRhnth Cltv on Fridiv. We Will This statement to the United Press .. hJ --mi.evi--.-ic. by the great leader of Jewish opinion and put Qn Qther .bomtg Jllrt t ' is signflcant for its indication of a . ffl dem.nds H. ! ' : meeting point between the efforts he( m u ,g my JdeR contlnued Mp . has led and the efforts, of the Zionists Harl((on ..tha eventually other water . of whom Louis D Brandels has been trftngpor(atlon Bhould ft . the most prominent In America. The tablBhed untu Elizabeth City Js con- I Zionists have maue raiesune mc.r . . . . Ytoanoka sole objective. Zangwlll's organlza- fver am, othef po,nts trlbutary ttf . City, Mr. Pugh stated, would' have in ralaA rvpnliA tn iha nmnunt nf 16.000.00 to nut it's Chamber c.f,dav Mat,nee and n,8ht ,8 tho mo8t Commerce In the flrsbclass among the; wonderfgul show ever offereito any v..ii ... r tu.'one for five and ten cents. This state. XOM IN ATldxS BY COMMflTTEE After the reading of the Business Manager's report Mr. Galther; on mo- plcture is in ; nine reel" and so startling, unique nd and thrilling are the scenes that the times fU5s like magic Nothln before, has ever been attempted, It, is the i sty PtTftlJf! IX PALESTINE UNDER ,iv.wi?,t .t Um oonvvince4," ' iMrnharVhat f The world war In the view of many by going to Congress for appropria tion has urged that It is more Import ant that the Jews should colonize somewhere at the earliest possible time than that they should return to their oWianclent land. Admitting the the Albemarle sound, as well as points on the sound. ' . "In this connection I will say also ' that I look toward the establishment nf n Tilnn4 liara tn nfwilr voiTofahlafl . strength of the tie that bonds them to ,Jit.iV " . . . ... . ., ... . This Is a matter that would havTeen v undertaken this year but for the fact that It is practically Impossible t6't- Palestine, he has urged that if this is not feasible they shondl settle else-. 11a haa In tile nnHt SOU ell t the ..iir.c. ..o r -.. 'secure cans " British Government's aid for a pro- uuncu Dciiicmv i . v. - . .. Canada or Australia. ' ulu" m , ; Now he agrees. Palestine Itself "aimer, jr.. wno responaea to tne r- seems within reach. "81 "l " w , : Th ve nf thirteen million Jews,'101 Ine Newspaper ana upmmun-, scattered throughout the world, are Bettrermtnt; Dr. John Sallba,1 to ' on General Murray's army now seek- the toast "Physical Performances; ing to drive the Turks out of the "ev. j u uunnmggim,io tne toast "Am . , eountry that the Jews once had. From x nreinw Meeri . .uiswres.., thls-thlrteen million, perhaps, should a e ow oou-; , be excluded the six hundred thousand 1 thern, to th toast, 'An OptlmUt;" Jews who are fighting in the various and C R Pugh, to, the toast 'Ouf .... armies;' they, by fate's irony, will be Growing FraternaHsm." Mr. R F Ayd last to know that the war may mean ' U was on the program for the res- something for their race. t PnM i0 h bnt ne There, is n strong belief In England tM the city. ; ' ; that restoration of Palestine to - the J jfl., Qalther's toast might have Jews would.be a profitable political .been "The Chamber of Commerce- ., undertaking tor the British. its Purpose." He spoke of the organ- "It is not expected," said Mr. Zapg- j Nation ot the Chamber a year Sgo -will, "that all the Jews of the world i and rPfCred to the late Horace Smith :' would flock there to make, their 'who played such an Important role tlon of J PSJreenleaf, appointed the m aeiCvement of the ' "silent nations to the Board of Drectors for tht ensung year. F"G Jacocks, II C I - , 1 tt r rv-'-. Tb" re port of the committee was adopted homes. It is my belief that the Jewish agriculturists who find living difficult elsewhere should be aided to reVuni and that they should form the basis of the new nation. Jerusalem's loca tion might make Jtythe site for great commercial or'trading city, but the important tMnB is not to draw C ... ... 1 p., T f " at the now organization's first ban quet. He said that from that begin-,, ning the Chamber of Commerce had gone forward with the constant aim not solely of building-up Elizabeth City but of promoting the develop ment of the entire section. . Mr. Pratt told why ho crime ti
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