"MI SON,
de with men
who advertise,
you will never
WEATHER
Fair and somewhat warmer to
night and probaly Tuesday. Light
varluble winds becoming south.
Iom by H.M
Benjamin Franklin.
VOL. V.
ELIZABETH CITY,, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1920
NO. 34
WILSON IS SILENT
AND SO IS HOOVER
' Rev. j. w. Bradley. Interment was
So Democratic Party Doesn't made In Hollywood.
Know Just What to do. RJ Mr Horton WM 43 old nd
n..ki:..n r...i f i. had u1ered from tuberculosis for
publican Contest Grow. Hot- some time. Last fall he returned
ter Week by Week from Sanatorium much Improved
. but recently grew worse. Last Frl-
(Copyrlght, by The Washington Star) day nInt ne became critically 111, and
Study of dispatches to The Star n,s deatn occurred Sunday afternoon
Jrora Its political correspondents In at four o'clock. He was a picture.
-Ml parts of the country, to be pub- ltrame' by trade but had been unable
llshed tomorrow, leads Irresistibly to to work Readily for a long time on
two major conclusions: 'account of 111 health.
One Is that the presidential boom He Is survived by his wife and five
of Herbert Hoover is not making any children, Mattle, Margaret, Howard,
such headway among republicans as James and Freddie. All of these are
to warrant belief that he will be se -
riously considered at Chicago as the
nominee of that party unless there
should develop a deadlock that no
other aspirant seemed able to break.
The second is that among demo
crats the Hoover boom Is laboring
unaer a double handicap. It sufTers
along with all other democratic can
didacies because of the lack of know
ledge of President, Wilson's wishes
and Intentions, and'the Hoover move
ment is held back by the further ob
stacle of his own silence.
That there is Hoover sentiment
among the rank and file of republi
can voters in many parts of the coun
try is undeniable, but it lacks organ
ization and does not at this time give
promise of making its weight felt in
the selection of delegates to the na
tional convention.
The republican party leaders ap
pear to have the situation much bet
ter in hand than is the case with
leaders in the opposition party, and
there is an absence of any consider
able Hoover sentiment among active
republican workers. Another thing
-which operates to hold back growth
of a republican Hoover movement Is
the number and activity of republi
can candidates. In several states the
contests between leading republican
aspirants already has grown so ex
citing that there is afforded ample
outlet for the partisanship of voters
and they are not tempted into strange
political byways in the search of
favorites.
Mure and more it is coming to ap
pear that if Mr. Hoover is to be the
nominee of either party it is at San
Francisco the tender will be made.
As a rule, active democratic party
workers do not seem to take any
more kindly to the Hoover notion
than do their democratic brethren,
but the situation in the democratic
party is much more favorable to the
development of Hoover sentiment.-
Nor is it true that active democra
tic workers everywhere are against
Hoover. In Wyoming during the
week fifty leading democrats met to
select a state chairman and to attend
to other party mutters. There was a
banquet at which inquiry was made
as to presidential candidates. With
one voice, says a dispatch from Chey
enne, those around the table shouted
"Hoover!" Now. Wyoming is a small
state and its delegation will not play
a conspicuous part at San Francisco,
but this may be a straw to show
which way the wind is beginning to
get in.
A peculiarity of the Hoover senti
ment among democrats is that it
seems to be both sporadic and spas
modic, which may be accounted for
by the lack of organization uacs. 01
' it. It forges ahead in one state,
while in a nearby state, without any
apparent dissimilarity in conditions,
it will be at a standstill or actually
slipping back. During the week it
burst forth in West Virginia in some
thing of a flame, prominent demo
cratic politicians and newspapers go
ing on record publicly as favorable to
Hoover's candidacy. Across the bord
er in Kentucky, according to a dis
patch from Louisville, there was a
decided lull In Hoover talk, attribu
ted to the continued flllence of the
4 former ioou ttuiumusuoiui. nwuo
Kentucky democrats Gov. Cox of Ohio
Is said to have made substantial pro-
l T)a1ma knnnt la AT
,r n i; l! anil i ii h i auiici uuuui id
. . .. ctedJo be given impetus when the
Attorney ucucmi - "
islature February 2B.
There was a state-wide conference
of democratic leaders in Wisconsin
during the week and agreement was
general that the delegation to San
Francisco should go instructed. Sen
timent at the conference, .according
to a Milwaukee dispatch, waa divided
among McAdoo, Dryan and Hoover.
A somewhat new note comes from
Iowa The democratic state organl
IZon, according to The Star's De.
Moines correspondent, is Pro-WJoj
in the extreme and favors
uninstructed delegation to San Fran.
. .clsco. prepared to do the President s
will, whatever it may be. In Geor
gia there is reported complete la
of crystallzatlon of democratic senti
ment, with strong disposition among
party leaders to hold back until tne,
.candidates hare had s chance to show
(Continued on Page Three)
FUNERAL FRED. T. HORTON
The funeral of Pred T. Horton waa
conducted from ' the home on Oak
Ann a v Q On kw
. i H.ttV VI
'Bick in bed with influenza
He also leaves three sisters, and
one brother. The sisters are Mrs.
Ada Upton and Mrs. Annie Alexan
der of Great Bridge, Va., and Mrs.
Pattie Cartwrlght of Nixonton. The
brother is William Horton of this
city.
THELEVERACT
IS INFUSING
Judge Connor Unwilling to say
That Three or Four Cents a
Pound is Unreasonable Profit
Raleigh, Feb. 9. With seven Ral
eigh merchants under Federal indict
ment for straight profiteering, two
of the number being also charged
with conspiring to exact an excessive
rate tor sugar, the question as to the
meaning of the word profiteering is
giving not a few local Jurists con
siderable concern.
Nobody seems to be able to say
what constitutes the charge. Judge
Connor, who presided over last weeks
term of Federal court, made it plain
that he was not satisfied as to the
meaning of the amended Lever cdn
trol act under which the merchants
are being indicted. The Judge was
not willing to say that he thought
a profit of four cents a pound on
sugar made the merchant a pro
fiteer. Reading from the act Judge Con
nor gave this interpretation: A mer
chant may buy sugar at fourteen
cents and sell it for fourteen and a
half cents per pound and be subject
to indictment under the' amended
Lever control act if it can be estab
lished that the rate charged was un
reasonable and unjust. Or sugar
bought, for example, at fourteen cents
and sold for twelve cents would con
stitute a violation of the act provid
ed twelve cents was considered an
unjust and an unreasonable charge.
That was his interpretation of the
act, although lie was not at all cer
tain that such an interpretation was I
the purpose of the act as drawn and
which has not, to anybody's know- j
lp1 en hppfi exnlainpd. I
The opinion of attorneys here is
that tha nnrnnup nf thf act Ik not t n
regulate the profit but rather the
price of necessities. And the only
tangible thing that can be worked
on is what is considered an unjust
and unreasonable charge. Nobody
here seems to know. It may be a
Jury's right to settle the question and
the belief is that while there is such
a scarcity of sugar it would be ex
tremely difficult to find twelve men
who would say that a merchant was
guilty so long as he did nothing
worse than make a profit of three or
four cents on a pound of sugar.
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.NORTHERN' KOREA 18
EVACUATED BY JAPANESE
(By Associated Press)
London, Feb. 9. Northern Korea
has been evacuated by the Japanese,
according to a Moscow wireless.
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PNEUMpNIA WEATHER
At the first sign of that bad cold
get a 30c. Jar of Rex Croup and
Cold Salve at .the City Drug Store
and rub your throat, chest and
neck well each night.
A small portion of Rex melted In
a spoon and, taken internally at
bed time will forestall that bother
some hacking cough. Be suro to
rub the baby good with the salve to
prevent dangerous complications
arising from a slight cold. The City
Drug Store will return your money
if this preparation fails to meet
every claim made for It by its
makers. It is certainly a meritor
ious formula and Is now belnj used
in large quantities by Elizabeth City
people with the most satisfactory re
sults. It contains Menthol, Eucaly
ptol and healing balsams which are
vaporized by the 1 eat of the body.
Phone the City Drug Store on
Water Street and get a Jar today.
adv. o
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FOR BEST ' CAR SERVICES
Phone 192. . J7-2tp
MUD TRIUMPHS
I OVER SUFFRAGE
Prisons And Mere Man Had
Never Feazed Miss Winsor
But Camden County Roads
They Did it
An Elizabeth City audience that
turned out to hear Miss Mary Winsor,
of Pennsylvania, discuss- the equal
suffrage question at the Alkrama on
Sunday afternoon, was treated to a
home talent program instead. Miss
Winsor didn't show up. She missed
her train out of Norfolk on Sunday
morning and tried to make the trip
to Elizabeth City by automobile. Not
.even a militant suffragette has any
terror for the roads between here
and Norfolk and mud triumphed over
suffrage. Three times her car was
stuck. The third time it went nose
down in a bog about four miles from
' Elizabeth City. Then and there Miss
Winsor hired an old negro to bring
I her into town with his mule and cart.
'She arrived in that backwoods Pull
man in front of the Southern Hotel
at about 5 o'clock.
I The audience that went out to hear
Miss Winsor might have gone away
a bit sore and disappointed, but a
'splendid program by local talent kept
the crowd in good humor. Mrs. Fred
Slmonds sang two delightful num
bers, accompanied by Mrs. I. M.
Meeklns at the piano. Lorenzo D.
Case, equal to any emergency, made
a 30 minute speech on the subject
of community betterment. The audi
ence was then dismissed with the
announcement that the lady who was
to have spoken was "suffering yet."
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YANKEE' SLANG
COR'UPTSENGLAND
British Song And Play Writers
Seek to Enliven Their Pro
ductions With American
Popular Phrases
London, Jan. 22. (By The Associ
ated Press.) England is apprehen
sive lest the vocabularies of her
youth become corrupted through in
cursions of American slang.
Trai.s-Atlantic tourists in England
note with Interest the frequency with
which resort is made to "Yankee
talk" by British song and play-writers
.seeking to enliven their product
ions. Hands and orchestras through
out the country, when playing pop
ular music, play Amer;can selections
almost exclusively. American songs
monopolize the English music-hall
ami musical comedy stage.
li is the sub-title of the American
moving-picture film which, it is
feared, constitutes the most nien-
a,;i,lf; threat 10 vaunted En8llsh I,ur'
'' ' Speech.
I i lie cnnu ui ine yiciurcH is pu;n-
i ii k up a new language from the
slangy American films" says a critic
in a contribution to the London
Daily News headed "The Vulgar
Tongue."
"1 visited two picture theaters to
day for' the express purpose of col
lecting slang phrases and of noticing
the effect of the new language on the
child as well as on the adult. What
the villain said to the hero when the
latter started to argue with him was
'Cut out that dope,' and a hundred
piping voices repeated the injunction.
The comic man announced his mar
riage to the Belle of Lumbertown by
saying, 'I'm hitched.'
"Of course, the American child
can comprehend these things much
better than the British child, who is
quite unfamiliar with such phrases.
Llmaglne a child going home to moth
er and asking the meaning of ny
cop.' We may admire the terseness
of the phrase 'Forget it' but does
the sub-title 'The Bun's gone daffy'
convey anything to a theater full of
cockneys?
"In another picture a man traf
flcing secretly with Indians, exchang
ing bottles of 'fire water' for beaver
skins was sub-titled 'The Bootleg
ger.' "
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TROTSKY CHANGES DUTIES
Helsingfors, Feb. 9. Trotsky,
Russian Bolshevikl Minister, of War
and Marine, will become Director and
High Commander of Food and trans
portation anil bis duties as Minister
of War. will be assumed by General
Polauoff, according to advices re
ceived here.;
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, - s
You will find no better value any
where than we are offering la our
$25.00 Elgin Man's Watch for $20.
Com In and see It today. .
ltnp , H. C. BRIGHT CO.
ONE LIFE LOST
IN HOTEL FIRE
San Francisco Apartment house
Found in Flames Shortly Af
ter Midnight. Many Are In
jured
San Francisco, Feb. 9. Only
one life is known definitely to
have been lost in the fire which
destroyed the fashionable
Berkshire Apartment Hotel.
Search of the ruined building
today revealed no additional
bodies.
San Francisco, Feb. 9. At least
25 are dead, some are Rtill missing,
thirty are injured, some seriously, as
the toll of the tire which early this
morning swept the iive-story Berk
shire Apartment Hotel.
Three bodies were recovered and
the firemen who searched the upper
floors said there were 25 more there.
Most of the injured who were taken
to hospitals were women. Some suf
fered, from severe burns while others
leaped from windows and fire-escape
ladders.
The first alarm came shortly after
midnight.
The police said when they arrived
most of the 150 persons Who lived on
the lower floors had rushed scream
ing into the street, many of them in
their night clothes, while scores of
persons on the upper floors were
clinging to the window ledges.
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LAY PLANS FOR
LANDING FIELDS
In Aerial Navigation Landing
Felds Are to Plane What
Harbor is to Ship.
New Kork, February 6. Plans
for the establishment of a
chain of airplane landing fields have
been worked out by officers of. the
Army air service and the Manufac
turers' Association, it was announced
here to-day.
Army flyers have covered more
than three hundred thousand miles
in an aerial survey of the country
and many exhaustive reports on the
facilities offered to cross-country fly
ers. Representatives of 32 large South
ern cities already have been invited
to establish landing fields under ar
my direction. Many others will re
ceive like invitations during the next
few months. These must be laid out
according to instructions and speci
fications given by the Army and in
return the Government gives free
at el hangars to the municipalities.
Since the armistice the, number of
army lields has been reduced from
50 to 16 and the naval air stations
from 17 to 9.
Operation of the landing field or
"air harbor," is assumed by the mu
nicipality. "The landing field." says the air
craft association, is to the airplane
what the harbor is to the ocean li
ner and the railroad terminal Is to
the train. It is not merely a flat piece
of land on which a flyer can bring
his craft to earth. Such a piece of
I ground bears the same relation to
a real landing field as an unimprov
ed water inlet bears to a harbor like
New York or Liverpool.
"A landing field should have,
first off all, dimensions which fit it
to handle all forms of aircraft. It
should have shelter and supplies for
flyers and their crafts and should be
accessible to the trade center It is
meant to serve. This feature is of
mercial aerial navigation will devel
op only in proportion to its commer
cial value. The field should be iden
tified with markings visible to great
hoights and with radio apparatus so
that flyers may be aided in finding
their way in spite of the fog or fail
ure to identify the country over
urhlrh thev nre DasSlnK. '
"Fields at frequent intervals
mean that cross-country flyers can
com eto earth for rest, replenish
ment of supplies and adjustments to
their machines without inconven
ience of unnecessary delay. In the
event of a mishap In the air, such as
a stalled motor, the nearby landing
field permits the pilot to glide to it
without damage to the machine or
to himself. i
RETURNS FROM RALEIGH
E. F. Aydlett has returned from
Putolch where hn warn hnav last vaalr
with his new duties as District At-i
torney in which capacity he made a' Elgin at this price Is a genuine bar
fine Impression npon those attending gain.
Federal Court. , ' unp H. C. BRIGHT CO.
SUPERIOR COURT IN SESSION
Superior Court convened Monday
morning, Judge Gulon presiding, for
the trial of civil cases only. Follow
ing verdict for the defendant In the
sum of 32.50 in the case of S. G
Wright vs. W. H. Games, court ad
journed until Tuesday morning.
TO GAIN FREEDOM
BY RESTITUTION
Man Serving Sentence For For
gery Pardoned by Governor
on This Condition
Ruleigh, Feb. 9. Upon condition
that he make good the amount lost
because of his crime, Ira Polansky
convicted in December, 1918, and
sentenced to three years for foreerv.
was Frlduy granted a pardon by Gov.
uickett.
Polansky must pay to the Wach
ovia Bank and Trust Company, of
Winston-Salem, the sum of $50 with
in thirty days from the date of his
pardon and the balance of $2,250 in
monthly installments of fifty dollars
until the full' amount has been paid.
He must also pay, upon completion
of the amount due the bank, the
balance of the loss sustained by the
bonding company. The governor
gives the following reasons for grant
ing the pardon:
, "The defendant has now served
about fourteen months and has made
a good prisoner. The loss Involved
in his forgery amounted to $2,300.
The prisoner, himself, and his friends
desire that he be given an oppor
tunity to reimburse the people who
lost money on" account of this forgery
svnTr" lh" to "
j "I think it would be better for the
prisoner's future for him to be re-
inaseu hi uiis time upon conailion
that he repay all losses sustained by
this misconduct than for him to serve
the balance of his term. Therefore
a pardon is granted upon the condi
tion that the prisoner, Ira Polansky,
shall, within thirty days after his dis
charge, pay to the Wachovia Bank
and Trust Company, the sum of $50
and an additional $50 every thirty
days thereafter until the full amount
of the loss sustained by the bank
shall have been paid in full. After
this Is paid In full, the balance of the
loss sustained by the bonding com
pany, shall be paid In installments
of $50 until the loss of the bonding
company is paid In full. Upon fail
ure to comply with these conditions,
the prisoner will be ordered back to
prison."
ex-chWpolice
federal prison
Man Who Had Done Effective
Work Against Blockading
Himself Found Guilty
Raleigh, Feb. 9. One of the three
men sentenced by Judge Henry (i.
Connor in Federal Court Friday to
two years in the penitentiary at At
lanta for illicit dealings in whiskey
was S. G. Swafford, former chief of
police of Aberdeen and one time
deputy sheriff who did some effective
work with revenue officers in East
ern North Carolina in rounding up
blockade distillers.
I The former officer was arrested
while the last December term of court
was in session on a charge of remov
ing and concealing, retailing and for
violation of the new national prohi
bition act, fifteen gallons of whiskey
having been found on the porcn or
his home. A plea of guilty was en
tered by Swafford.
Among the large number of wit
nesses testifying against Swafford
was Henry A. Page, State Chairman
o fthe fair price committees, who
of the fair price committees, who
with respect to liquor selling In Aber
deen.
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HOUSEWIVES MEET
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
The Housewives League will meet
Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 in the
Rest Rooms In the Hlnton Building.
Secretary L. D. Case will speak on
Community Work. New; officers will
be elected and matters of interest to
all public spirited women will be
taken up.
It' Is hoped that all women who
can do so will attend this meeting
whlch'had to be postponed from last
week on account of rain.
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120.00 tor a standard, reliable
time-piece is a value you are not go-
inr tn h able to find always. , Our
TR00PS0PEN
FIREON CROWD
Fifteen Wounded And Four
Reported Killed in Excite
ment Surrounding Trial of
Negro
(By Asmm'IuUhI Press)
Lexington, Feb. 9. Four
men were killed and fifteen per
sons were wounded, including
two women, when State troops
fired into the crowd surround
ing the courthouse here today.
Soldiers held off the mob
while officers managed to get
the negro to a safe place.
The jury found Lockett
guilty while the mob was try
ing to enter the courthouse.
Four hundred Federal troops
from Camp Taylor are en route
here to prevent further trouble.
Additional troops were re
quested as it was feared that
300 militia men could not
handle the situation.
Lexington, Feb. 9. Several per
sons were wounded and some are re
ported killed when troops opened fire
on the crowd surrounding the court
house here this morning during the
trial of William Lockett, negro, for
assault and murder of a ten year old
school girl.
The troops were on guard to pre
vent possible attempts to lynch the
negro.
It Is reported that fifty men
stormed the courthouse door carrying
a rope.
The negro was convicted and sen
tenced to electrocution on March the
eleventh.
DECISIONS
EXPECTED SOON
As to Whether German Nati
onal Assembly Will Consider
Germany's Answer To The
Allies' Demand
(tty .WooluU'd Press)
Berlin, Feb. 9. Decision as to
whether the Germany National As
sembly will be called to consider Ger
many's answer to the Allied demand
for extradition is expected soon.
In addition to the persons on the
exit adition list which was delivered
Saturday niht, the Allies demand
access to the archives and possession
of all German documentary evidence
so that prosecutions may be facili
tated. 1
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The Lee Union-Alls
King of N. C. in City
H. 8. Mason, Jr. is here represent
ing 11. D. Lee Mercantile Co., Tren
ton, N. J., says many of the biggest
and best known manufacturing en
terprises In the United States are
clothing all t heir employes with LEE
UNION-ALLS at their own expense,
or strongly urging their men to equip
themselves. The II. D. Lee Mercan
tile Company has been featuring Lee
UNION-ALLS as a "SAFETY FIRST"
GARMENT in their recent advertis
ing. Several full page advertisements
in "The Saturday Evening Post" have
dealt exclusively with the "SAFETY
FIRST" features of the GARMENT
and a large SAFETY-FIRST circular
was mailed to industrial plants and
factories of ull kinds.
Tim one-piece WORK-SUIT has
met with almost universal approval.
It is recognized as the modern, safety-first
WORK GARMENT, and LEE
UNION-ALLS, with their superior
quality of workmanship and cloth,
their special features and their com
fort, have fixed forever a higher
standard of quality for WORK
CLOTHING. They can be found at
any up-to-date stores in North Caro
lina as well as other states, adv It
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To the Shareholders of the Albemarle
Building and Loan Association:
The regular annual meeting 'of the
shareholders of the Albemarle Build
ing and Loan Association will be held
in the Y. M. C. A. Building, Corner
Main and Martin streets, Elizabeth
City, N. C, on Tuesday, February 10,
1920 at 7:30 p. m, You will take
notice and be governed accordingly.
W. BEN GOODWIN,
S.&M. 8ecty.-Treas.
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Do you need a reliable watch T See
the Elgin we are showing at $20.00.
The value Is all there, too.
ltnp , H. C. BRIGHT CO.