WEATHER
Cloudy tonight and Thursday, ris
ing temperature Thursday, moderate
northeast and east winds.
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, ftffiSA EVENING, MAY W; 1919.
No. 113
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AT a.
NO SOLUTION YET
OF FIUflffiPROBLEM
But Controversy A To Other
Italian Claims Seem Tending
Toward Adjustment
(By Associated Press)
Paris, May 14. Italian dele
gates to the Peace Conference
no longer are, insisting upon the
fulfillment of the secret treaty
of London and that part of the
controversy relative to the ter
ritory on the eastern shore of
the Adriatic is tending toward
adjustment, according to those
who have taken part in the re
cent conferences.
The status of Fiume is still
being discussed as the plan to
make it a free city similar to
Danzig has not proved accept
able. CONSIDER AUSTRIAN
TREATY
The Council of Four met
this morning, considering pro
blems relative to ports and
waterways and some details of
the Austrian treaty.
RECEIVED GERMAN NOTES
It is presumed that the Ger
man note, delivered yesterday,
was also taken up.
Three notes from the Ger
man delegation were delivered
to the Council this morning.
APPOINT SUBCOMMITTEES
The Council of Four today
appointed sub-committees,com
prising one member from each
,of the ftve great powers to
deal with the objections and
proposals from the German
peace plenipotentiaries.
BRITISH RENEW EFFORTS
Renewed efforts
are being
made by the British delegation
to secure an agreement calling
for the pooling of the former
German merchant vessels and
their distribution on a basis of
tonnaft loss during the war in-
. . 1 1 , , tt i i
oi-cau F.a.. m w.i.wvu
States for retaining those ships
interned in America prior to
that country's entering, the
war.
BY END OF WEEK
The belief that the treaty Ak)nzo Rollinson left on Tuesday
with Austria will be handed morning for Savannah to take a po
the Austrian delegates by the ' siti.-n with the Savannah Electric
end of the week was expressed 'company, of which his brother, John
. , .Rollinson, Is superintendent of ln-
today, . .,
It develops that the Allied J He ,8 maklI)K the trlp with hls
powerr to be represented in cousin. Capt. w. t. Willis of South
the negotiations with Austria erport. Capt. Willis was passing
will be less numerous than'"1 here froni Washington, D. c,
., . -I, tl : where he took eight surf boats for
those at Versailles. Those
. 'exhibition during the Victory Loan
powers will comprise the states drlve and lg on ,,, way down the
which declared war or broke coast as far as Texas to distribute
diplomatic relations with AUS- life saving boats to the stations. The
tl'ia- T'ngary. J route follows the inland waters as
POLAN DPRESENTS CLAIM far aB Wilmington, then goes out to
Poland is laying claim to
sorre frt the warships surren-
tiered by Germany. She pre
sent eel her claims to the Coun
cil of Foreign Ministers this af
ternoon. '
ECONOMIC SITUATION
Three of the German notes
delivered to the Council of
it
Four, says the Havas agency,
deal with the following:
The effect of the peace terms
upon Germany's economic sit
no firm
. ,
ine manner in wnicn rresi- prInted on The ,ndependent preMi
dent Wilson's points are ap- the work of taking down the old
plied which 18 protested, tho Babcock press and Installing the new
it is declared that Germany is M,ehI beln ,n pgres tin The Ad
prepared to subscribe to them. iT,nc 'bop'
Mr.. C. D. Gallop has returned
from a visit to Mrs. T. C. Jones at
Raleigh.
- Mrs. W. K. Raper and daughter,
Miss Ines Raper, of this city left oa
Thsfdy for Baltimore, New York
and Panama.
ORPHANS SING TONIGHT
Little singers from the Masonic
Orphanage at Oxford give a concert
tonight at the Alkrama. Tickets are
selling very fast and it will be hard
to get reserved seats at the door to
night. These may be had now at
Seligs if the effort is made to secure
them at once.
NAVY DIRIGIBLE
LEAVESMONTAUK
NC-4 Makes For Trepassey
Bay, But Weather Still holds
Up Start To Azores Across
Atlantic
(By Associated Press)
Montauk Point, N. Y., May 11.
Navy dirigible C-5 left today on its
flight to St. Johns, Newfoundland,
which may be followed, if the coastal
performance proves satisfactory, by
an attempt to fly across the Atlantic.
NC-4 IN FLIGHT
Chatham, Mass., May 14. Naval
seaplane NC-4 left here this morn
ing for Trepassey Bay, Newfound
land, the starting point of the trans
Atlantic flight. NC-4 today was to
fly to Ha'.ifax but if her motors
work 'd well might continue the
flight tonight to Trepassey.
HEADY TO LEAVE
St. Johns. May 14. -aviation
officers here in
with the possible trans-Atlantic flight j
of the navy dirigible C-5 stated to
day that the American seaplane fly
ers are prepared to leave Trepassey
at six oclock this afternoo nunless
unfavorable weather developed.
MAKING GOOD HPEEI)
Boston, May 14. NC-4 is report
ed by wireless that she is off the
Mains const before noon. The mes
sage said that the machine was
making 85 miles an hour.
8TOP AT HALIFAX
Washington, May 14. Lieut.
Commander Read plans to stop the
NC-4 at Halifax only a few minutes
.during the flight to Newfoundland.
!He so advised the cruiser Baltimore i
at Halifax by wireless which was in
tereepted and relayed to the Nav
department this afternoon
WEATHER UNSATISFACTORY
While weather conditions along
the route from Trepassey Bay to the
Azores improved today
experts say
. ... IInsa,isfaptorv for tnp
start of t lie seaplanes on their trans
Atlantic flight, according to dis
patches reecived here.
GOES TO SAVANNAH
sea.
GREGORY-
TMMIXGS
Mark Robert Gregory, Jr., of Nor
folk and Miss Essie Bee Cummlngs
of Kinston were married here on
j Wednesday morning.
The groom Js a nephew of Dr. S.
w Gregory of this city and the
we" accompanied here by
Mr. Mark Robert Gregory, Sr., father
of the groom
BY COURTESY OF
THE INDEPENDENT
Today's Issue of The Advance Is
PEARL STREET CHURCH
Dr. j. g. Burnett, of Chattanoo.a.
Tenn., will preach at Pearl 8treet
Methodist
tonight.
Church at 1:00 o'clock
MIX WANTED FOB LOG WOODS.
Sawyers, ropers, Iruk builders.
Apply to'jsoitor of H in ton Band
ing of to J. 11. Meggi, Gregory,
HONOR ROLL
The honor roll for the month end
ing May 2, follows:
HIGH SCHOOL
Eighth Grade Annabelle Abbott,
Leona Lewis, Mattie Spence, Clyde
Gregson, Bradley Forbes, George
Jackson, Henrietta Clark, Luther
Davis, Oleta Fowler, Larry Skinner,
Augusta Sample, Maggie Murden.
Ninth Grade Eva Sawyer, Kath-
erine Skinner, Alvah Waters, Chas.
Seyffert. Grafton Love, Mae White,
Mildred Brothers, Sophie Davis,
Ruth Fitchett, Dorothy Jones, Annie--
Pritchard, Gertrude Sample,
Claude Jones, Robert Kramer, Claude
Ward, Billy Houtz, Carroll Parker,
Wergman Munden.
Tenth Grade Lottie Blanchard,
Grade Davis, Minnie Godfrey, Mar
garet Hill, Elizabeth Kramer, Maude
Leigh. Ina Mae LeRoy, Ruth Mun
den, Elizabeth Nash, Mattie White,
Helen Williams, Eula Harris, Will
lam Jackson, William Jennings,
George Modlin, Francis Seyffert,
Roosevelt Stowe.
Eleventh Grade Eloise Cohoon,
Willie Fearing, Bertha Jenning?.
Annie Silverthorne, Wyona Spivey,
Rena Ward, Helen Welch, Marion
White.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Fourth Grades
Miss Brockwell, Teacher: Hazel
Long, Hazel Perry, Julia Salter, Os-
American cie Davis, Helen Bright. Edna Mor
connection risette, Naomi Spear, Effie Madrin,
Martha Arcbball, Maxine Shepperd,
Clarence Pritchard, Harry Rollinson.
Miss Egerton, Teacher: Katherine
Duff, Helen Kramer, Virginia LeRoy,
Martha Scott. Grace Sylvester, Ruth
Williams. Aelen Bell, Joseph Kra-
mer.
Miss Bumgardner, Teacher: Eliz
abeth Lowery, Nannye Mldgette.Reta
Smith, Mildred Tatum, Blackwell
Bnrkley, William Mettry.
Miss White, Teacher: Monterey
Cartwrlght, Ida Lasslter, Helen
Leigh, Mary G. Gregory. Lilian Twi
ford. Frances Lewis, Niona Wood
ward, Marcullus Corbett, Wilson
Panders, Russel Tasker, Lyle Forbes,
Paul Willey, Bennie Gendason, Ed
ward Gasklns, Edward Walker.
Fifth Grades
Miss Burns, Teacher: Elizabeth
Williams, Elizabeth Thompsno, An
nie Seeley, Margaret Sawyer, Mar
pa ret E. Sawyer, Josephine Lambert,
Mary L. James, Camille Jennett,
I i arl Spruill. Ambrose Fowler, Ray
Symons, Joseph Pool.
r.Ms. Pearson, Teacher: Mary But-
r. Mildred Dozier, Helen Lewis,
Annie Midgette, Lillian Wilkins,
Carroll Abbott, Laurana Aydlett,
( ; Ivin Curies, Edward Dunstan,
1 homas Jenkins, William Perry.
Sixth Grades
Miss Hedrlck, Teacher: Ruth
.',rit;ht, Sally Bright, Isla Butler,
Harold Cbesson.
Miss DeLotr: Teacher: Mary
Creecy. Emily Commander, Mary Do
zier. Ulennie Morse, Leona Munden,
Elizabeth West, Sadie Mae Wood,
Jessie Williams, Margaret Griffin.
Sybil Beaulleu. Thomas Johnson,
John McMullan. Dwlght Sylvester,
J Marvin Trueblood, Wiliner Ballard.
Mrs Pool, Teacher: Margaret
Nash. Mildred Perry, Mary Prlchard,
Nannie Mae Stokes, Rachel Williams,
Tonimie Gray. Willis Kramer. Mar
lon Seyffert.
Seventh Grade
Miss Elliott, Teacher: Margaret
Commander, Eunice Hayman, Ger
trude Harrell, Thelma Twiford. Mat
tie Tatum, Catherine White, Goldte
James, Grace Jenkins, Lorcena
Koontz, Mary Trueblood. Mary Twi
ford, William Dailey. Randall Hol
loman, Joseph Porter, Julian Ward,
Elliott Ward. Stuart Wood.
Miss Harney, Teacher: Mary Cor
bett. Maxine Fearing, Lillian Harris,
Evelyn Hooper, Ida Jones, Helen
Little, Glennle Lowery, Elixabeth
Mann, Elsie Pugh, Lorraine Sawyer.
Rosa Lee Wood. Harvey Dawson,
Constant Fearing, Bradford Bandera,
Joseph Spence, Clemart TwIford.Sam
Henderscn.
PRIMARY SCHOOL
Flrnt Grade
Miss Bradley. Teacher: Shirley
Bateman, Nellie Brlnson, Margaret
Horton, Augusta Mafherson, Thelma
Mldcett. Thelma Scott, Minnie
Whaley. Earl Baum, Robert Brlnson.
Earl Evans, Julius looker, Ray burn
Lowery, William Mldgett, Walter
Megs,-iDo unoin, tmirvu loorw.ims Daniels, Aubrey Oallop, John
ton, Luther Jernltan, Edward Rough
ton. Ernest White. - " (
Mrs. Brooks, Teacher: , Wilton
Barco, Shsltoa Cooperj James Gas
WHEN YOU LAY
YOUR PAPER ASIDE
Aftre you've read the news,
have you gotten all the valu
able information out of it? Not
until yon have read the adver
tisements. Reading the advertisements
should be just as much a part
of your day as reading the
news columns.
The advertisements in your
favorite -newspaper are a daily
record of what your local nier-
chants have laid in store to
meet your needs and add to your
comfprt.
They tell you what the man-
ufacturers of these goods, who
are constantly striving to please
the great American public, have
done to add to your advantages
and comforts. The news, while
always interesting, may often
concern you only in a general
way.
Tho advertisements are al-
most certain to tell you some-
thing that may mean a great
deal to your home life or your
business and social welfare.
SWINDELL SAWYER
Setb B. Swindell of Portsmouth
and Miss Annie Mae Sawyer of Bel
haven were married here Monday by
Rev. J. W. Bradley.
WANTED ISSUES OK THE AD-
vance of April 17th. 5 cents each
for first three copies brought to
The Advance office.
kins, John Johnson, Nellie G ')bs,
(Men Mattrey, Alice Rowland, C 1
uie Liverman. Isa Moi" n.
Miss Dew. Teacher: Uicile Brick
house, Tom Vernon ' Harris, Roy
Hurdle, Henry Sawyer, Marshall
Twiddy, Dock Twiford.
Miss Hinton, Teacher: Katherine
Berry. Mary Chick, Mavis Harris,
Bessie Sawyer, Howard Anderson,
Philip Davis, Newton Jones, Edward
Mldgett, Greenville Sawyer, William
Smith, Bernard Smith, William Saw
yer. Miss Stevens, Teacher: Edna Gen
dason. Selma Horner, Lyda Jennette,
Elsie Scott, Rosa Twiford, Horace
Jones, Thomas Norris, Jack Tasker,
John McKimmey.
Miss Zoeller, Teacher: Florence
Ballard. Martha Berry, Louise Car
ter, Gertrude Glover, Millicent Har
ris, Frances Pendleton. Mary Byrd
Saunders, 6orothy Twiford, Sallie
Davis, Bobble Lewis, George Little,
Kenneth Munden, Alton Poole, Fu
nis Ratiy, Clay Foreman, Brent
Wright.
Second Grades
Miss Bell, Teacher: Margaret But
ler, Mary Ferrell. lola Hathawiiv
Willie May Tatum. Harry Gendason.
Samuel Twiford. Roger Taylor.
Mrs. Ethorldge. Teacher: Eliza
beth Chappell, Elizabeth Creecy,
Cora McKimmey. Katherine Mann,
James Black. Allen Carmine, Robert
Cohoon. Fdwin Culpepper, Ralph
Curies. Tom Weeks.
Miss Sheep. Teacher: Katherine
Davenport. Laura Leiph Gray, Mabel
Gordon. Elizabeth Jambs, Jeanne
Houtz. Isahelle Munden. Hlen Wil
kens, Delbert Dudley. William Gor
don, lllmr West
Miss Willis. Tearher: Doris Abbott
Emily Hall Brock. Ruth Bray, Lessle
Carter, Katherine Cart wrlght. Evelyn
Cox, Evelyn Hill. Lavlnla Jones,
Eleanor Lane, Ruth Murden, Helen
Wells. Elizabeth White, Albert Kra
mer, Edgar Lambert, James LeRoy,
Carl Qulnn. Kelly Tasker, Ward
Thompson, Travis Turner, Holland
Williams.
Third Grades
Miss Whltehurst. Teacher: Dora
Bateman, Doris Cartwrlght, Inez
Hill,7 Evelyn Puckett, Edna Sander
lln, Elva Mae Swain. Luclle True
blood, Hester Twiford, Susie Willis,
Oscar Daum. Rufus Bradley, Thomas
Baum, Selby Stokes, Leslie Poole,
Bert rum White. Randolph Doiler.
Miss Blanchard, Teacher: Adrlen
j Davis, Neulah Raper, Leslie Morgan,
Addison Tarkenton, Hallet Williams,
Mrs. 8klnner, Teacher: Mary
Louise Bailey, Ruth Doiler, v Mar
garet Fearing, Ruth Fowler, Flora
Grlcrs. I.nrii. flrernr tout. ii.r.
'ru. Clara Pritchard. Psarl 8klles.
Rbecca Stevens. Vivian Turner,
(Julian Aydlett, WInfleld Baker, Rol-
Kramer, Hal Payne, Sephus Sawyer,
Julias Raper. Tyer Sawyer. Keith
Saunders, James Wood, Robert W0-
Hams.
BASEBALL TODAY
The Cubs will ptey the High school
team this afternoon at six o'clock on !
the high school grounds, the weath-
er permitting. !
-WORKING FOR
i
BETTER BABIES
Bi 'ies Welfare Week is being ob
serve 1 thruout the county under the
direction of Miss Marcle Albertson.
Horn Demonstrator. The campaign
will .-ontinue into next week until it
has ;. ached every part of the coun
ty. Miss Albertsou is being assisted in
the work by Mrs. J. G. Fearing, Safe
ty L.:ague worker, and by Mrs. V.
C. G.'lniore.
On .Monday afternoon Mrs. (iil
more and Miss Albertson met with
the .Wwbegun Woman's Club and
held ,i Better Babies meeting.
On Tuesday morning Miss "Albert
son met with the Body Road Wo
man's Club.
On Wednesday morning Mrs. Fear
ing a ul Mrs. Gilinore went with Miss
Albei'M)u to the meeting of the
Bere: Woman's Club; on Friday they
meet v. ith the Newland Club.
At '.nil meeting the care of bab
ies, ;reventio!i of sickness, prop
er fc'-iing. pine water, and other
essentials are stressed. Literature is
given out. It is urged that each
baby be weighed and measured, and
if the baby does not come up to the
standard for Better Babies, that he
be taken to a physician at once for
examination, in order to prevent
future ills.
Miss Albertson met with the Salem
Girls Club Tuesday afternoon, with
the Newland Girls Club Wednesday
afternoon, Thursday she meets with
the Mt. Hermon Girls Club; Friday
with the Riverside Girls Club. The
girls are studying gardening, sew
ing, hreadmaking and good house
keeping. ITALIANS LAND
LARGE FORCES
(By Associated Press) I
London, May 14. The Italians
are landing large military forces on
the Dalmatian coast, according to a 1
Renter dispatch from Belgrade. The
troops are moving eastward and
fortifying ridges and passes
DON'T Ol IT HEADING NEWS-
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1 or because you may be busy
1 with raising a now crop, Is no
' reason why you should cease to
' keep up with the great prob
' loins facing the world, and the
' Cnlted States.
The period of readjustment Is
at hand. New conditions are
coming to pass and new Issues
must be met. You must read a
dally newspaper to keep In
formed and to know wliut Is
happening and how decisions on
Important matters are reached.
The man who Is informed Is
the man who will keep ahead.
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Greensboro, N. C. '
JUST RECEIVED New Line of
georgette silk and crepe de chine
dresses. Beautiful colors. Reason
able prices. Also Summer Millinery.
Specially pretty line of Mllans and
Panamas. WALKER A CO., Poln-
Wrt.
Walker will r-oea the
boaralni botso; known as B. T.
Harris;. her store, on Mar Hth.
M.t.Utth.toJ.t. '
CITY GETS NEW
ADMINISTRATION
Parks And Cohoon Only Mem
j bers cf Oid 2 card Reflected
In Warm Contest Tuesday
Elizabeth City's next Board of Al- ,
dermen will be G. F. Derrickson, J.'
U. Bowden, J. B. Leigh, C. M. Cooper
i'. C. Cohoon, W. A. Worth, Bascon
tawyer and H. G. Parks.
P. C. Cohoon and H. G. Parks are
the only members of the present
;:oard who were re-elected.
Mathias Owens and J. B. Ferebee
candidates from the first ward and
i tembers of the retiring Board, were
i verwheliningly defeated by Bowden
; nd Derrickson.
With eight candidates in the Sec
i nd Ward Leigh and Cooper polled a
inrge plurality, Leigh receiving 149 -votes
and Cooper 118. C.W. Stevens
i anie next with 76.
In the Third Ward Cohoon and
Ward were re-elected without oppo
: ition. . J
Sawyer led the ticket in the Fourth
Ward. The other two candidates in
; his ward were Parks and Greenleaf.
Hie former receiving 106 votes and -the
latter 62.
The election was an overwhelming
efeat for the present city adminis
tration and a general shake-up in
the personnel of the city officials, all -of
whom, including the Mayor, are
elected by the Board of Aldermen, is
indicated. '
The vote by wards follows:
First Ward
Derrickson , . 1S5 i
Bowden 119 '
Owens 63 ,
Ferebee 70
Second Ward
Leigh .
Cooper
Stevens
Davis .
.149
.118
. 76
. 61
. 88
. 88
. 62
.106
.188
Third Ward
Cohoon
I Worth .
Fourth Ward
Greenleaf
Parks . . .
f-awyer . .
DUTCH GOVT.
. DENIES REPORT
(By Assoc Intci I Pre)
The Hague, May 14. The Dutch
government denies that it has de
cided to surrender William Hohen-
zollern.
The Question at present, it con
tends, concerns only Germany and
the entente.
PILLS
My friend, John Ebeneezer Squills,
was always dosing up on pills, to try
. land set his ills to right and keep'
4 'from having sleepless nights.
. I "There's not a day," said Ebenees,
, i "when I am fully at my ease; I al
, ! ways have a pain or ache and twenty
. kinds of pills to lake "
, "I cannot eat like other gents be
cause my stomach's full of rents;
, nor can I work or play or think for
. I am wholly on the blink."
, I One day I said. "Now listen Squills,
, lit seems you're always full of ills
.and though you eat of pills a peck
, 'you do not cease to be a wreck."
"Your doses must be worthless
Junk for you are ever feeling punk;
there is no virtue In the stuff and
long ago you had enough."
j "You need to losen up your fins
and move around and grease your
pins; you ought to exercise your
.shanks and air your lungs and use
your planks."
I "Just buckle down and be more
game and get some ginger in your
'frame; there's not a man in all the
sphere conld thrive on pills from
year to year."
, N. A. LfFBURROW.
REBECCAH MEET THUR8DAT
The Rebeccas meet oa Thursday
night in their hall. New members
will be initiated. All members are
urged to be present.
PAINFULLY INJURED
Bruce Carter was painfully Injured
when hit in the eye by a stkk of
wood while chopping wood la his
back yard early Uhi morslng. ,