.
THE WEATHER
Fair tonight and Thuri-
day. Cooler tonight, tyod
erate west winds
VQL y " ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 1, 1920 NO. 199
Championship To
Victorious Elks
v. 10 rwnlnrin MEET THIS WEEK
aptuic x AT WILmNGT0N
of Twilight League by t our
NEW DIRECTOR
PANAMERICA
Accepting Office Dr. Rowc
Pledges Himself to Mutual
Service of Nations Concern
ed In Thl-j Organization
New York Folks
Having More Babies
And This In Spite of H. C. L.,
Scarcity of Houses and
Everything, They Say
TWO AVIATORS
DIE IN FLAMES
Now York, Kept. I DeiMe the
high cih! of living, shortage of lions-
Straight Wins.
tTo
Mailbags Scattered In All Di
rections When Machine Ex
plodes Upon Reaching The
Ground
Adjutant Cale K. Burgess, cf
Raleigh, Announces Pro
gram of American Legioners
of North Carolina
Rods for the fourth time in succession, the
l"1.
POUND SAYS
IT ALL DEPENDS
Tells United States Strategic
Considerations Must Gove m
Poland's Keeping Within
Bounds
Washington. Sept. 1 (By The As
sociated Pre - -t Poland today an
swered the admonition of the I'n'ted
Stales that the Polish armies halt at
the Polish ethnographic frontier v.i'h
the statement 'hat strategy r-mid-orations
must govern Poland's
course.
Pi o f an t i r. c t ll e
. n i : v,; tVio Twilio-ht LcacUC
Elks took the r.tzu cnamiJiwnaiiii
a featurek., ,.au. yesterday afternoon.
The score was 8 to 3 when
the seventh inning finally drag
ged to an undramatic close,
and the good-sized crowd de
parted for home and supper
with little apparent inclination
to cheer the winners, who mod
estly refrained from crowing
over their rivals. The Red:-,
put up a game fight for the
series, but luck and the breaks
of the game seemed against
them from the start.
Davis, pitching for the Reds again
alter his splendid performance Mon
day, was decidedly out of form, wicie
Hinton. Elk pitcher, seemed master
of the situation throughout Ins four
innings in the box. being supplant nl
bv Evans at the beginning ol the
l,fth, while Davis turned the box
work over to Woodley in the sixth
The Cubs anil Beds will play an
exhibition game on the Main street
diamond at five o'clock Friday attei
noon. Admission, 'lb cents for adulis
and 15 cents for children.
The managers and other officials
of the Twilight Baseball Association
are making tentative plans foi a
banquet to be given the three teams
comprising the league, and it
probable that the silver loving cup.
the 1920 championship trophy new
hoing engraved with the name of the
victorious Klks. will he presented to
;hem then. A total of W '
war lax was rcalizeil m ga
triiiu the tour ctia m pion-a e
f which Sol -all went to the
Sixty per cent ol tie
,.j . or !I2.1, was award-1 1
10.1,-. ami 40 per ITli: ":
. , !',,. Reds. The man.i-' r;
i. W.
HKOTHKHS
TAKKS
IP Dl'TIKS
The new register of deeds, 0. V.
brothers, took up his duties We-'
nesday morning. He was -worn in
to office by the clerk of the court.
0. R. Little, at nine o'clock Mr.
Brothers finishes the term of J. W
Niunden, who resigned to go into
business and also fills the next term
f office. Mr. Brothers is so well
known for absolute faithfulness in
U,,. discharge of his duties and to.'
unfailing courtesy that the poop'j
fool and this they expressed by
their votes in the primary--that h.
,.. decidedly the man for the posi
tion Mrs. Mary .McCoy, who has
alio
:p
Kane
a --0,0.1'
remain'
to the
:;lil. 'J 1
Oi Ml'-
public
and 1 1
I.eag'i
ju.st
every
Vide '
Plans
ready
v tr.-'U- teams ox pre.-s i
their I hanks for the sii
i op'-r.it am given the Tw
, during the baseball
. and give assurance
l:c:it
n-oii
that
eflur: will be made to pro
,,,,, better baseball next year !
(, the season of ml are al
heing discussed. :
ame by innings:
First Inning '
Twiddy to lirst, error
11. veridge out, foul bum t
,.!nUo; Twiddy stole second;
wa ken; w . vtcauiiiij.
1() left, scoring Twiddy;
avis to Woodley, scor-
-, Raper out, Dennis to
Two runs, one hit. "lie.
out to Pinner; Hen
Dennis, one base hit
is singled to center;
second on l.owry's
d. No runs, two hit-..
Eil
Da.
third
Hughes
base hit
Hinton on
ing Hugh
Woodley
error.
Reds- Pevr
derson fanned
to center; l'.'
Davis out :i
irfnnn fit f 1 O K
5
no errors.
n,.,.e nil Inning
Elks Pinner out, fly to Luwry
m,iiB n,,t. t;.' iuiiJ-t to Woodley
.o.i . fiv :o Terry. No runs
1VCIU Ulli-i ' .
hits, no errors
Ke,li Sevmuur out. stellar run
ning catch by Kaper; McBee, one
base hit to center, Woodley. base On
balls; McBee out bet ween second and
third on Wynne s grounder, . with
Wynne safe at firs.; Woodley out at
plate on Perry's grounder to Hinton.
No runs, on hit, no errors.
Third lnninR
Elks Twiddy struck out; Bevor
idge out, Dennis to Woodley;
IltltltDD rttm Initio bit to left; W
I,,,,,,, ,,f such valuable help n tin
(,tlice for some time, will keep loo
;oi i1 "II there,
SMITH SIT IX LEADS
(.,;, 1 1 1 ; 1 i i, S. ('.. Kept. 1. S' lialor
Smith is still leading for the Sen
ai'cord'i'.' to ;he state, but la. ks
( neiioriiv neeessarv. and a -ero:iii
primary is predicted.
runs, no hits, two errors.
Fourth Inning
Elks Falls out, excellent catch
by Peny; Reid out, lly to Dav. ,
Twiddy out, Davis to Woodley. No
1 runs, no hits, no errors.
I Reds Woodley, two has- hit to
center; Wynne out, pop tly to Hiny
tier; Henderson fanned. No run-,
ton; Terry out, Ueveridge to Pin
in, liit, no errors.
Fifth Inning
Elks Ueveridge, one base 1,,'. :.
left; forced out at second on Hughes'
grounder; W. Weatherly struck out;
Hinton to first, error Woodley; Raper
singled to left, scoring Hughes; Pin
ner, one base hit to left; Hinton out
on steal to plate. One run, three
hits, one error.
n,.,i iTOvans in box for Elk.-
Dennis struck out; Davis out, 11 id
to Pinner; Dowry struck out. No
runs, no hits, no errors.
Sixth Inning
Klks (Woodley pitching lor neo -
T' .mi Tinnnis in l'errv: Keel
struck out; Twiddy struck out. No
nins. no hits, no errors.
Reds Seymour out, Evans to
Pinner; Tatem, one base hit to lef,,
Woodley out, Evans ,o P un ;
Wynne struck out. No runs, ohe h':
no errors.
Seventh InniiiK
E1.. -Ueveridge to first, error
Lowry; Hughes out, fly to avis; W.
Weatherly to first, Ueveridge to
third, on grounder; Hinton, base on
l.alla- lteer i ge inline on puswe'.i
Raleigli, Sept. 1 Arrangement-,
for the Second Annual Convention
of the North Carolina Depnrtmi in of
the American Legion have been
completed mid the Depaitinen Ad
jutant. Cale K Hurgess of Raleigh,
has announced the program that
will carry to Wilmington on Sep
tember Hrd and 4th, representatives
from 112 cities and towns in the
State.
Department Commander John
Heaslov of Monroe will call his com
rades together at one o'clock on Fri
day and ask Rev J. M. Roberson.
Department Chaplain, to pronounce
the Invocation. Thereupon Cyrus
Hogue of the Wilmington Post will
speak words of welcome to the Con
vention and Allen Adams of Greens
boro will make the response. Next
in line will be the address of Com
mader Iiea-ley. followed by brief ad
dresses by R. O. Cholmeley Jon. ,,
Director of War Risk Insurance,
and C. (i Schultz. Director of Voca
tional Training, Atlanta, Ga. Also
at the Friday afternoon Session, tie'
appointment and announcement of
all convention committees will he
made so that the interested parties
can have the entire evening and
ran have the entire evening and
night to scrap and wrangle before
, (v.,..,., it t e.iu make the r
tlie umeifui
Convention eary Saturday morning,
report to the Second Session of the
concerning the Fonlney Ad.' 'tie'V 1
Compensation bill which will in all
probability make its appearance in
the next session of Congre-s, rever
sal Military Training. Education.
Good Roads and many other vital
well a- riM'nm menila I ions
nent Officers. Depart
,.H to the Na'ional Con
i, u ill b held in
,,, Sep' 27. dale ana
Tli 1 1 .1 Annual Dopn'
proh1
for .
nient
von: a
j Clove
1. o.
an
f .
nienl I '
i--ues ci
gion in
address
made a'
rn n g i
Slate
he C
Sal up
lire '
I ie
ion by E l i
a uilin; of I'u
v II mien k on
American la v,' u
tv and Du'v in N
Adjutant Hurg"
lv urge that everv
no in. ' on " i'c
l.fe of the l.e-
The principi.
, nlion will be
v morning se---i'
S'Uiere
V.irl.ell. WK '
subject. "'I'll '
1 i. Oiipnrl iin:
!, Carilma
;-,ys: "I earne-'-oeal
Post send
Washington, Sept. 1 - Dr. L ,S.
Rowe tixlay assumed the directorship
of the Pan American 1'nion, succeed
ing John Parrel t, who retired after
fifteen years of service as directing
head of the I'nion. The transfer
of directorshop took place In the
presence of members of the Latin
American diplomat 1c corps. Secre
tary of State Colby and other high
ollicinls of tlie I Hited States govern
ment. The new director informally ac
cepting the office declared thai his
policy would be to foster a "smoothly
operating international organization
that makes for mutual confidence,
good will and above all for the main
tenance of peace."
"In entering upon the duties of
director general of the Pan Ameri
can I'nion," said Dr. Rowe. " desire
lo avail myself of the earliest op
portunity to say that my major pur-lo-e
will be to subserve the -ame
great international purposes that
have guided my distinguished pre
decessors. During the last lifteeen
years Mr. Rarrett has per formed
such conspicious seriee to the cause
of continental oiidar ty l hat the
Pan American I'nion has come to
oi cupy a high place in the est iniat ion
of all the nation of America. Throng1:
his efforts the unity of purpose n
the peoples of America has been
.: rt ngt hened and I hey all owe lo
him a very real dob' of gratitude.
"Mutlla! service is !hi very cor
nerstone of the Pan American move
ment and llus - :;ne i lea of service
permeates and v.talizes the work ol
the 1'nion. Everyone connected
wi; h t he organi.a' ion is con .ml iy
seeking new opportunities for ser
vice and u.sefu'iiie.s- This great in
ternational institution is the center
to which the governments and peoples
of the American republics turn for
in ti.rsn;:' ion . '1 h rough i; s agency,
the fog of distrust, due to lack of ac
i a n i n I a n e wilh one auielier. is ra
unity of purpose and unity of ideals
p dly being dispelled The essential
of i he Republics of Amer.ca are,
with each year, becoming more evi
dent In this unity of imrpo.se and
of ideals I here is involved a gp i
in ,-sion an :jm pie ol a
v operating international or
1 on i hiu make, tor in at no !
. good will and alioe ill.
n a i n tena lice of n ace
i ry ill g f or wa id : he w oik ol
m . i I will be n (.--!' t o
. Id i CO O le 1 i'I"!!. in 1 o
actual birth rate in New York City Is
going up at a rapid rate, according
to health authorities ;ssued here I
The figures show that Ihe birth 1
rate per thousand for the firs! seven
months of 11121) was 22.;14, against'
the rate of 21.00 in thf same period
laot year.
While the birth rate is on the in
crease, the health department sta
tistics show, that the death rate of
children in the city is on the decline
The rate of Infant mortalit y for
the past year on each one thousand
births was SII. while the proceeding
years a much higher figure is on the
rec ords.
The decline in death rale is at
iribu'ed by the ant liortt it's to he laws
of saiiit-ition and healthful living,
which are now better understood by
the mass of t he people.
Morristown, N. J. Sept. 1 Two
aviators, carrying mail were burned
to death when their plane fell here
today.
The machine was In flames as it,
neared the ground and an explosion
occurred when It landed, throwing
the mall bags in all directions.
Pilot Max Miller, known as an ex
pert, and his assistant, were the
men killed.
WHITE FAVORS
TWOMILLIONS
Democratic Chairman Names
This Sum For Campaign
Says No Budget Yet Estima
ted By His Party
Chicago, Sept. 1 . - Democrat ic f
Chairman White today told the Sen
ate Invest igal ing Committee that be
thought a two million dollar fund for
the national campaign would pro
vide adequate funds.
He said t hat no Democrat ic fund j
committee had yet been appoin edj
and no budget estimated He also
said that he knew nothing of the cvi-j
deuce showing a Republican attempt
to corrupt the electorate" and the
only place he knew where such evi-.j
deuce could be obtained was from
Governor Cox.
While said be talked with Gover
nor Cox and that the Governor told
1 1 j iii he was sure of his ground in
Two Big Nights
Of 1920 Jollies
Two big nights of unmitigated
laughter and thorogoing enjoyment
--that's what Elizabeth City is
looking forward to on September 9
and 10.
It's the Elks, of course, with their
big show. "Jollies of l!)2(l." There's
a big cast, a full program, elaborate
cosl umes and everything, and most
of all, there's quality in this big min
strel, vod-ville, home town stunt and
the advice given by those who know
is "Iluy your ticket from some Elk
quick. You won't want to miss it."
j AUCTION THURSDAY
' There's another big auction sale
! of land Thursday morning at 10:30
by llurion Brothers.
I Twiford and Twlford are the local
1 agents, and the land to be sold is the
Joshua Davis farm on Ehrlnghaus
street. The band will play so that
everybody may be on the lookout for
the big sale.
Poles Recover
East Galici
Warsaw, Sept 1. The greater
part of Eastern Galicia has been re
covered by the Poles and I'k ra n Ian ,,
according lo reports from l 'a i
eastern front
win
s III I
gall .i 1
' Ollh'l'
hi:
making hi- charge
told Cox "You an
run it
lie -aid he li
beralise he bad
1 1 e sa id lie d i
who had offered
Kionih! on ns iiin
and t hereu pon he
the boss, a,nd yon
lieved the rhino
confidence in l'o
barged Prof II ;
li is serv ices t o li"' a
1 leiiioorat s
Suspends Order
Coal Priority
Washington. Sept. 1 - The Inter
state Commerce Commission todiy
suspended for live days, hi ginning to
morrow, i he order giving coal prior
it y to New England
,. v I HAWAIIANS EXTINCT IN
' ,,.n i n- SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS
Killed Prisoners. .
high minded pat.i otie. lighting li
nrosenta'iv! s M, tic Convention, ami
, .00 that thes- delegates arrive ,n
YVilmington before -he "zero hour.
one o'clock, Eriday. September . .
; rale from "the jump n"'" minute on
i ,,i., ,.ii the lini -h on Saturday
afternoon, the firing will be rapid.
, p.,11 will be for many vig-
a no ui'- "
orous men with got"1
i,:,n and the courag'
vict ions.''
,lH, Legion has more than double the
In less Uuie than twelve months
,,,e Legion has more tnan doubled in
the number of posts in , hi. State and
,odv it has a pa.d up membership
. . . r soldiers
(1 ,11 O O t ll ui tiw .v..
heads, good
of their ron-
of
Iocs, marines
and Ai.ny auria'
no
i ' and -nppiil t of the leadiim nu n
,.!; 1 w . oio u of all I he republic .l
, e ' i:e at and 1 earne.,1 i hope
I ha ' I ia.iv be assured of I hi .ml
pen ible requisite for the solution of
the ma ny i in port a nt problems i on -IM
at ::"- the I'a" An'.' 'call I'nion."
ir Itiitr eifer,; u pon I lie dil'ie. of
di:ec lor g neral of the I'nion with
an inliina'e knowledge of Latin
American affairs, having served as
head of the State I lepar' ment ' ' di
vision of Dal in-American Affairs for
Mime tiie and previous to Met' hav
ing been a member. of various con
eic- ions for the study of Datin
Amoriean subjects. During Ihe
world war Dr. Rowe was as : t int
secretary of the Treasury. He wa
secretary of the second Pan m' r
lean Financial Conference, which
una in 1 !l 1 5 and the Intern;.' muni
High Commission an organizati
Latin-American republics
Rowe has received degrees fi
nii.ii' or of South American "
nit ies
o City, Sept 1 Lack r in
1',.. motion of Hie wIm'PmIiuh: - '
Sandy Gardiner. American, mil W
It John on. Ilr'i li w ho w ere kid
,,: by the h-' n. lit mi"'
, , to fears that both have be. n .".
ec ll 1 ed
of
Dr
",l " ' I aU9 l,eeii..h- --- .
Weatherly walked; Hinton singled baI1; w weatherly cauglt off third;
' right; Raper, one base hit to cen- napeTi onP base hit to copter, nring
scoring Hughes and Weatherly; ; ln ln ll;i,ton; Pinner to first, erroi
I' niier out, Davis to Wooiflcy. Two lyytine, scoring Raper; Kvaiia or.
uns, three hits, no errors. Terry. ' Three runs, two 1" t .
Keds Henderson to second, error errors.
Keal; Dennis out, Ueveridge to
Woodley; Davis hit by pitcher;
l Jv.ry safe on grounder, scoring
p,.ttv one hase hA to
AttTua 1 1 ' .'
right; Henderson out, tly to Held;
Detinis out, Evans to Pinner; Dav!3
i- nnl rtuvta orrnr Huihasl .u arnrlns Vo-rv. Lowrv
and Weatherly; Seymour out, fly t0 out. Weatherly to Pinner. One tun,
Ueveridge; McBee struck out. Twj two lilts, no errors. ....
Rout Sinn Feiners
With Armored Car
Belfast. Sept. 1 -Fighting was re
sumed today beteweon the National
ist and Unloniss. shipyard worki ra
and troops.
Heavy firing continued far an hour
and a half and it was feared that i'.i:
casuality list would be heavy.
Sinn Feiners were dislodged from
their position by an armored car.
H is 'definitely kuown that one was
killed In a North street encounter
m another bitter light at the
docks between union dock worker.-,
and shipyard employees in which pis
tols, sticks and stone were used,
troops ended the conlllct with ma
chine guns.
Two hundred and fourteen cerl
ous fires have occurred since last
Wednesday.
L. C. Baum, ot Poplar BrancS,
was ln the city Wednesday, w, ,
me
MAYOR SINKS RAPIDLY
London. Sept I Mover Ma"-
Sweenev is sinking rapidly say the
mm nil'" papers, having snffi red ;
change for the wor e during ilv
n'glr
l.li, yd George'-' erneary. replvlng
n ihe clemency plea, i-aul if King
C, o 'i reieased t'o niasor It would I
io a i-a: list the rahim ' s advice wil h I
in,. oin cable re ill' that it would
' ' . e
rc-ign. 4
kis( i ss krk i:s of
COTTON SUFI) AMI l l'AM IS
Montgomery. Ala . Sept 1 . Com
missionr rs of agriculure from fen
cotton grow;ng slates met lie;-., lo
day to confer about the pi ' ailine
i ,,w j 1 1 i f . , of re'ton vend and ea-llllts
INFORMAL STAG!
P- 'Jnderstood That Japanese
Here Will Be Naturalize 1
And Further Immigratio i
To United States Prevente !
COTTON FORECAST
Washington, Kept. 1 4''1"' n
production this year is fore'.ast
I .7,s:i.lMiO by the Kepvt t""nt ''
Agrlcult are, which plio e th cc
thin of the crop on August LT, it "."
per cent.
Honolulu. T 11.. Sep' I 11 i
waii'- irii i" race will be extinct la
, 7 ea r- if ihe ra tin of births and
deal Iih -e! bv the ollicia I fign re f if
I he fiscal vear I ll 1 h '-U is maintained.
Thi U indicated by the n te.rt of Dr.
. K K Trotter, preiien! of 1'ie 'er
! rilorial board of health which shows
j that during I he year t he de 'Mri .f
' pu re - blooded 1 1 a wa 1 i i " 1 ' 1 ' 1 I
I l.onrt. while there were f 7 f births
I There are a tiproxinia t ely .'i,iH
pure-blooded Hawaiians living on 'h"
Hawaiian Islands. aeconlMig la es't
mate s. Reports for pn-t years show
decreases in their numbers.
In marked contrast with 111 ev'
dence that the llawai'ans are mem
bers of a "dying race" are the vi' il
statistics dealing wilh those who rep
resent mixtures of Hawa'lan with
Cuiica-dali and Asiatic blood.
Of the Cauea i a n 1 1 a w a i ians, 249
died during t he 1 asi fiscal year, while
there weie ChH births in 'hat section
i f the territory's population. The
Asiatic Maw irian strain principally
Chinese Hawaiian recorded 103
deal lis. and 4!l 1 birt lis
The natural increase in the Jap
anese population of the territory
during the year was ".llfiC. During
the year there were Ofia" birth and
1 , a !( 7 deaths among Ihe Japanese.
V,: ihlivgton. Sept. 1 Reports of
an agreement between Japan and th
Fnited State3 on Immigration aie
apparently premature, Slate Depart
ment olhclals said today.
Disrusslons have not passed the
informal converatlon stage, a Tok o
dNpalch to a Honolulu newspaper
said, hut It in agreed that Japanese
here be naturallzed"and further lin
niigration to the United States pre
vented.
MAY imiCK IU'llilIN(i
FOR OU THAI' StUOOli
V. J. Burgess, of Siitloh, was In
the c.tyj Wednesday. ' .
A new $25,000 brick school build
ing Is now going up at Old Trap In
Camden County and is expected to
lie ready before the close of next
session.
WANTS NO ItF-AITOINTMKNT
Washington. Sept. 1 - Federal
Trade Commissioner W. R Colver in
formed the White House today thnt
he would seek no re-appointment as
he wished to engage in private business.
ctl.l'FI'FKIl COMPANY
MOVING IN Ni;V STORK
The Culpepper Hardwire Com
pary is moving Into their handsome
new alore on the corner of Matthews
and Polndexter streets.
ANTIH ARK OFIKT
Nashville, Tenn.. Sept. 1. Rati
fication opponents made no further
move today following the action of
expunging the Hiifl'rage resolution,
from the House records and said the
whole thing mu-t go to court for settlement.
FIU'IT JAUS
I have them. R. L. Garrett.
Phone 698. Corner Locust and
Cherry Sts.