REGISTRATION BOOKS OPEN THURSDA Y, SEPTEMBER 30
VOL. V.
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1920
NO. 218
City In Line For
Barge Service
And Operation of Government Own
ed Barges From Baltimore to New
Bern to Start in Fortnight
(Thursday's News & Observer)
Washington, Sept. 22 With the
aid of Senator Sinniion3 and Secre
tary Daniels, Mr. li E. Barlow, sec
retary of the New Hern Chamber of
Commerce, backed by the city of
New Hern and other towns, put
through a deal here today with the
War Department that means new
millions in commerce to all Eastern
North Carolina. The War De
partment has agreed through the
Inland Coastwise Waterways Service
to operate nine barges on the inland
water route between Baltimore and
New Bern. In commercial Impor
tance the achievement, ranks with
the expected ultimate victory of the
State over the Virginia cities in the
freight rate discrimination case now
pending.
Through Colonel Ashburn of the
Inland coastwise Waterway Service
the contract was signed and the
barge service by tha government
Joining New Bern, Beaufort, More
head City. Elizabeth City, Plymouth
and other towns along the inland
water route directly with Baltimore
and Norfolk will commence within
a fortnight.
Iletain 1'iefeientiiil Kates
The New Bern Chamber of Com
merce was compelled by the Cum-uiins-Esch
railroad law to ask the,
government to put into operation this,
barge service to preserve the prefer
ential freight rates New Bern ami
other places along the water route
must have to live and prosper. Our
preferential freight rates are now
made secure," said Secretary Bar
low, " and it means that New Bern
as a market will be able to compete
with Norfolk and Richmond. 1:
gives New Bern the great advantage
.she requires as a lirst class tobacco
and cotton market."
It is understood that the govern
ment will operate the nine barges on
the route until a private corpora: ion
has lieej, organized to take oer and
opel a ' e
i hi' -i i vice. Mich a '''''' ' -
aMoIi i ll"
1 1) organ;' u a ;:n ' o
i; lie' gov l'i:
barges just a
1... , bo ii delin:'
Three ot tie
.elll Will sell I!!'
-non as l hi' sen ii
ly established,
nine barges will !
sill- prepe'Ied. "1
Two ot t hesH li.m
nil being the ! u I
already been coin
pleted in the gn, rnment ship yard
;,,! he other will He completed
.shortly. 'Np- tonnage of these barges
Wjl hi. each "ls- K;" h
these three barges will tow two stei .
barges of 4m tons each. The trip
from Baltimore to New Bern will
consume 4S to 60 hours. The dis
tance is ::s.r, miles. The service will
be conducted just as the government
is now oi- I't'ti'ifi ,,ill'K( service on
the lower Mississippi and on the in
land coast w:.- waterways of New
York and New Kngland. Mr. Bar
low said he expected the barges ul
timately to be displaced by light
draft ships.
Sniiill's Dream Comes True
The service, Mr Harlow said, will
soon Increase the commerce at New
Bern and. other ;etu in the terri
tory so that the government will be
compelled to deepen the route for
in,, ,iP,,a,i, iii een and twenty
feel, of water. Th- terminals at
Baltimore. Norfolk and New Bern
have been completed ami through Mr
C Morris, the agcn' of the Inland
Coastwise Waterway Service, the
tariff schedules are being worked
out
Mr. Barlow says the benefits of
barge freight service will be felt as
far west as Raleigh and that Wil
son, Goldsboro, and Kinston will be
greatly benefitted. Norfolk can no
longer grow and prosper at the ex
pense of Northeastern North Caroll
i .i one of the naturally richest agrl
ml'iiral regions of the United States,
p: i lentally Congressman John H.
Sniill of the First North Carolina
Ii;. Tiri seeg his great dream coming
in . fruition right at his door when
In re-ires from Congress.
Wi ll government dredges digging
and ihurnlng the waters of the
Neuse and the Sound, Young Barlow
ees New Bern outstrip Wilmington
TASHJIAN GUILTY
SIMPLE ASSAULT
Culpable Only In Pointing
Weapon at Paulos and
Shooting Was Accidental
Was Jury's Verdict
That the shooting of Harry (J.
Paulos by John Tashjian on the
night of July 30 was accidental was
the verdict of the jury which, after
having been out on the case since
Thursday afternoon about four
o'clock, on Friday morning re
turned a verdict of simple assault
on the ground that Tashjian was
culpable only in pointing the wea
pon at I'aulos. The Jurors were
permitted to spend the night at their
respective homes.
The sentence of the court was
that Tashjian pay a line of $1111 and
pay the prosecuting witness the sum
of $175 to reimburse him for doc
tor's fees ami for the expense of ex
tracting the bullet which is still
lodged in I'aulos' leg.
There was no eye witness of the
shooting, and the jury had to decide
be; ween the versions of the affair
given by I'aulos and Tashjian. The
oi.lv other person in the restaurant
at the time of the shooting was
llillv Hinton. and he testified that
the shooting occurred behind him
and before he looked round from his
sea '
I'aulos claimed that he called
down Tashjian for profanity in his
re aurant when there were ladies
at the tables, that Taslijian was
a:T. Ted. went out and got his gun
ai,d returned and shot him. The
lint bullet siruck I'aulos in the
Ii,:. K of "m hip a lid he s;iu : ha' be
whirled on Tashjian and catch'iig
hi- hand toned it downward, or lie
1 1 1 1 , he would have be, n kiib .1
'I i i, j . i a -ay- that he w . : ' n t
the res; a u ra u t to give I'a ulo lie
pi-i i .1 and some other valuable to
1., . p for him w hile be was away on
h ,,, a. a' ion. t hat on going in he
railed Hairy lo give linn the gun and
was told to keep (iiiet, that he went
oiii with Claude .eigler to his room
and returning a few minutes la'er
round no one in the restaurant but
J'aulos and Hinton, As I'aulos
passed him going toward the kit
rhi n wi'h his arms full of d.shes
Tashjian says the gun unaccount
ably want off. He claims 'hat
I'aulos continued on to the back of
the restaurant, put the dishes up ami
returned before he discovered he.
was shot
ITALIAN WORKERS
SEEM DIVIDED
Extremists Heading Soviet
Agitation Apparently With
out Support of the Popula
tion Who Destroy Posters
Home. Sep'. M Italian workers
appear to be divided about agree
ment of employers and workmen in
the metal trade.
Turin is the scene of disorder and
dispatches place the casualties at
seven dead with the situation under
control.
Extremists headed the agitation,
which was apparently without the
support of the population, with
"Viva Lenlne" and "Death to the
Kind" on placards on the street
ears. The population dragged the
carmen from the cars and de
stroyed the posters.
and become ultimately a rival of
Norfolk Itself. All that Is needed
Is cutting away of the mud In the
bottom of these rivers and bays aud
the barge service will bring the
dredges to do this cutting.
RED CROSS
CUTS BUDGET
Program FdV Relief Work This
Year 21 Million Less Than
For Last Year
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 24. The Am
erican Red Cross lias appropriated
$48,200,000 for its program of relief
and service for the fiscal year end
ing July 1, 1921, according to olliclal
announcement from national head
quarters. This is $21,000,000 less than the
similar appropriation of the Bed
Cross for the fiscal year recently
ended. Of last year's appropriation
$838,386.40 was spent in the south
ern division, the states of Georgia,
Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina
and South Carolina, although the
total receipts to the lied Cross from
the division were but $566,117.
The proportionately large amount
spent in the south is due to the num
ber of camps, military posts, and
United Slates public health hospi
tals located in this section, us well
as the great expansion of lts nursing
and social service program which Hie
Red Cross undertook in the south.
In the light of nearly a million
spent in the south last year, all of
which was exclusive of expenditures
by the individual chapters. It is be
lieved a proportionately large amount
of the l'J20-21 appropriation of the
Red Cross will also be spent in the
Bout h.
Important among t lie items of the
budget for the coming year, announ
ces national headciuurters, i3 $31,-
500,000 for relief to foreign lands,
which includes which Includes $11,
000,000 in purchased supplies on
hand, but not yet distributed.
This will enable the Red Cross to
continue it, humanitarian program
of aiding stricken peopW-s to re
establish themeselves. lighting the di
sease epidemics that threaten many
countries, effacing largely the re
maining traces of blight left by the
world war. Central Europe faces
another winter of famine, pestilence,
typhus, plagues and other honors.
The Red Cross will continue to light
them not only for Europe's sake,
but to keep such maladies from
American .shores.
Appropriations for domestic activ
ities of the Red Cross in Hi 20-21
total $ 1 li. 700. (Hiii. of which the larg
est item i $7. sou.'1"" for civilian re
lief w I.I
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l.lieis. sailors ami marines
total lor civilian relief.
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GEORGE LEGUES
FRENCHPREMIER
Was Minister of Marine In
Clemenceau's Cabinet Will
Also Act as Foreign Min
ister .iiris. 'Sept. 24 (Hv Associated
Press) George l.egues. minister of
marine in Clemencean's cabinet, has
accepted the call to Ihe premiership
under President Millerand's admin-
1st ra' ion
minister
The new
in-law of
He will act as loieign
premier is the father
Paul Rockwell. North
who solved wi'h 'he
Carolinian
Foreign 1-egi"" 'l"ri' lh" W!U
HAYS WON'T TALK
Now York. Sept. 1
,1,. clined today to
liiirt'es bv Governor
;4. Will Hays
coinment on
Cox that the
Republicans were sending scouts
ahead "f l","""'r;" "0""n,'('
and attempting to inlluetice ihe
press against him.
1 UIKVItSHIP WKSI.KY CLASS
Kl.VATH OKHCWW. M ANS WOltK
Friendship Wesley Hible
The
Class of Ihe Metlioilisi r,pisi''
Church South, held a called meeting
Tuesday evening at the home of the
teacher, Mrs M. U'igh Sheep, on
Main Street. Olneers were elected
for the coming year and plang for
winter work were discussed. The
regular monthly meeting will be
held at the home of the pVesldent,
Miss Katberlne Hinton, on Tuesday
evening. October Dtb. All members
are urged to attend.
Mrs. J. 8. Rodger, who was hurt
some time ago br a bicycle, is improving.
TURN OFF GAS
AFTERSUPPER
Consumers Asked to Carefully
Observe Request Company
Hopes to Complete Repairs
During Night
The Gas Company makes the fol
lowing important announcement to
all persons using gas:
"Due to our generating machines
being burned out, we are compelled
to close down for repairs.
"We have been trying for several
days to make repairs without clos
ing down but find that this is im
possible. "We hope that our present supply
of gas will last through the supper
hour.
"We will make every effort to
have gas on by eight o'clock Satur
day morning.
"All consumers are asked to turn
off all burners to appliances imme
diately after supper."
OFFER ARMISTICE
TO THE POLES
Soviet Peace Delegation Of
fers Terms, But Joffe Says
Must Be Accepted In Ten
Days
Riga, Sept. 24 (My The Associ
ated Press) Adolph Joffe, head of
I he Soviet peace delegation, pro
pined an armistice with the Poles,
today, which he said must be ac
cepted within ten (lays or the Rus
sian winter campaign would be in
augurated. Harbinger Plays
Cubs Here Saturday
The Harbinger baseball team and
the Elizabeth City Cubs will mix up
here Saturday at 3:15 on the Main
street diamond
It is Harbinger that has the
widely boosted 1 (i year old pitcher,
Summery, who has yet to meet his
l;l'."l defeat. The Cubs are hard
lighter.- and are del ertn iivd lo hr.'ak
.si.'iimery "s winning st pm1'.
Thp will probably be the last
baseball game of the season and llie
1 i. - aie iii v ;t ed I o be t here
Tide Immigration
Continues to Swell
W.
hlM-'t.ill. Sept, 2 1 TV
, , . i , ...n through C I I ,
. - w'. 1 1 . the Hunan
i ' , pu : ! sh 1 1 w i ii g a i
v . . e nding Septem her
I in in .
for '
of al
To
1 S
Penitentiary
Because Liked Jail
San Francisco, Sept. 21. --William
Smilli, '.HI years old, was today
sentenced to a year in the peniten
liaiy after h.s confession to passing
bad money in order lo gel to Jail
where lie said he was well treated.
COX IN COLORADO
Trinidad. Col . Sept. 24. Cox's
Colorado campaign began today with
s he. at Pueblo at noon and
Denver tonight.
II. .11 be the Stale Fair gue -'
ai I'm bio besides speaking in the
auditorium.
MAYOR McSWINEY IN
EXHAUSTED CONDITION
I. of. ion. Sept. 24 -Mayor M
Swiney is described in a bulletin is
sued today by the Irish Self-Deter
in i ii .i i ii League as in a very ex
hausle.l condition.
SAYS JAPS HAVE
CHANGED PLAN
Will Not Ask United States to
Appoint Commission to
Settle American - Japanese
Problems
Honolulu, Sept. 24. Toklo ad
vices to a Japanese newspaper here
nay that the plan to usk the United
Slates to nppohnt memberg of a
commission to effect a settlement of
the Japanese American problems
has been abandoned and that Japan
will Instruct the ambassador to pro
test vigorously If California passes
Japanese land laws.
British Miners
Will Not Strike
Post Notices That Strike Is
Postponed After Meeting
With Lloyd George
London, Sept. 24. Coal miners
of Great Britain will not strike
Monday us threatened.
Notices that the coal strike is
postponed for a week were posted
after the meeting between Lloyd
George and union representatives.
WILL BUILD
SHRINE CLUB
Local Shriners Subscribed
Twenty-seven Hundred Dol
lars as Starter at Thursday
Night's Meeting
The Elizabeth City Shrine Club
held its first fall meeting Thursday
night in I he Masonic Hall.
One of the most important ejiies
l ion. that came before the meeting
was the idea of building a Shrine
club lor : hi- city, a question which
met with ihe approval of all Shrin
ers present a' the meeting.
The amount of $2,7011 was raised
among those present and it is now
almost an assured thing that there
will be a Shriners' Club here within
the next twelve months.
The annual Shrine banquet and
dance will be held on the evening of
Friday, October 2!tth. Music will
be furnished by an orchestra from
Washington, I). C, and an effort will
be made to secure a vaudeville act
from Keith's Theatre in Norfolk.
PITCHER BENTON
NAMES GAMBLERS
Publishes Statement About
Fixing of 1919 World Series
Says White Sox Got
Good Pay
Chicago, Sept 24. Pitcher Hen
ton, of the New York Nationals, in
a statement published today named
Cicotie. William1-. Gandil and FeNh
of the Chicago Americans as Ihe
men i el'. rred I o by an alleged mem
ber of the gambling ring in a dis
ell ion n, the alleged lixjn- of the
mill world sioies.
lie -aid the gambler told him t li.it
" 1 en mi o was pa al to White So
players to ; h row ihe : .1 ,e .
EUROPE WANTS
U. S. COTTON
Europe's Cotton Manufactur
ing Industry Approaching
Pre-war Output Strong
Bidders For 1920 Crop
.Maplewood. N. II.. Sepl 2 1 Os
car K, Davis, necretary of the Na
tional Foreign Trade Council, today
told the National Association of
Col'i.,1 Manufacturer-; Ilia! the cot
lon manufacturing industry in Eu
rope is rapidly approaching the pre
war output and America will soon
be faced by liercc-t competition in
the colton buying markets.
WEST VIRGINIA CONFABS
WITH HARDING TODAY
Marion. Sepl 2 1 This is West
Virginia Dav on Harding's front
porch and delegations from Wheel
ing, Huntington and Parkers-burg
aie bringing their pledges lo sup
poll the Republican nominee.
FARMER LABOR PARTY
TO NAME CANDIDATES
Ki.'hinond. Va., Sept. 21 The
Fanner-Labor party will name n
candidate tomorrow to oppose Itcp-re-ciita'
ive Montague, George 1,
Wilcox, slate secretary of the party
announced today.
Sl'i: I.A I. MKKTINO S( OI TH
There will tie a special meeting of
Troop No. Three, lloy Scouts, ut Y.
M. C. A. headquarters tonight ut
7:30 o'clock. Mutters concerning
the future of thl8 troop will be
brought up. Registration an Troop
No. Three. Troop No. Five hus been
disbanded nnd Is now a part of
Troop No. Three. All scouts are re
quested to be present, as this meet
ing Is an important one.
CITY MERCHANTS
UP ONJMARKET
Have Bought Conservatively
And Believe They Can
Give Customers Better Val
ues Than Mail Order Houses
"Why don't you give your home
town merchant a news item on price
reductions as well as a mall order
house?" good naturedlv inauireri O-
F. Gilbert, proprietor of .Mitchell's,
this morning.
"Mitchell's leads aa usual," con
tinued Mr. Gilbert. "We had our
advertisement of price reductions of
thirty per cent and more in many
lines in type when your story of the
mail order houses action in price
cutting came in over the wires."
"The only trouble,'' he went on,
is that you gave the mail order
hou.ses a big news story on your
front page and said nothing about
what we had done at Mitchell's"
"Well, well try to remedy that
trouble forthwith," laughingly re
sponded The Advance man. Ilow'll
it do lo say 'Henry Ford, Sears Koe
btick and the rest haven't anything
oy Mitchell's?' "
"That's the idea exactly," said
Mr. Gilbert, "only you want to re
mind the folks not to glance at the
headlines of yesterday's news item
from Chicago aud run off with the
idea that these mull order houses
have reduced prices on their entire
stock by thirty per cent. In some
lines the reductions have been only
ten per cent, hi some other lines
there are no reductions at all."
M. Leigh Sheep of the Woman's
Wear Siore, also had to take a
crack at The Advance man for the
"free front page advertising given
lo a Chicago mail order house that
is a competitor of the homu town
merchant, hut who never advertises
in the home town paper." Mr.
Sheep alluded, as did Mr. Gilbert,
lo i bu false conclusions the reuder
might arrive at from a hasty read
ing of Hie news item and then went
on to say :
"There is another Ihing for the
buying public in Elizabeth City to
consider, and which is going to
cause some people io liml reductions
not so marked as they have expect
ed. Thai tiling is this: Retail
price, in Fliabi'i Ii City have never
leached the peak For the past
season, lor instance the M Leigh
Sheep Company have sold hose
al .i cell! . I hat were retailing
all i. v. r i he count ry lor a dollar a
pair and we have S'dd ho,. at fill
nt a pair win
ii lh.
; no
idling
We
do.ell
, e i bough;, ol i our . before I hoy
'a lit I o ; ha ; li g a i , The y hn
ii rnpped now . n ; i, a r bin not I o a
li ",ii I v that uii j u .1 1 1 y sel ling, them
be o ..v lift y cei. ' - t he price we ha ve
i 1 1 . 1 1 1' 1 1 all along."
' If FliZahi tb City merchants,"
continued .Mr. Sheep, "had advanced
I he . i i . i a .1 price , la -1 .season I o
e. i oi re-ponding with the whole
sale prices, we would now be able to
make reductions as large or larger
than those advertised by Ihe mail
order houses, lint we gave our cus
t ( i m i r the benefit of our early buy
ing and hope that thry will remem
ber Ibis when they come to price
good; for this season. Some folks
from what they ha seen in the
newspapers have jumped lo Hie con
clusion that prices this year will be
around t he 1 ll I 4 level ; w hich is out
of the question until labor, freight
and expres., return to their 1 !l 1 1
levels. Few people believe that
such a time is ever coming."
Elizabeth City merchants are sure
that their prices are as low as they
can be made consistent with good
business principle.) and Ihe present
cost of replacement and that they
can give Kliabet h City people as
good or hitler values I'ftr their
money as ire to be hail anywhere.
ALLEGED FRAUDS
OVER 20 MILLIONS
Obrien and Company, Low
Brothers And Samuel S.
Campbell & Company In
cluded In Indictment
New York, Sept. 24 OTlrien and
Company, Low Urol hers and Sam
uel S. CumpnYll and Company aro
Included In the supplementary In
dictment unsealed in federal court
here today ulleglng mall rrauda ex
ceeding 120,000,000 ln connection
with the sale of stock In the Tlx
pam Star Oil Corporation supposed
to hare Its wells at Tampico.