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Net Circulation Thursday 1,217 Copies THE WEATHER Fair Tonight and Satur day; some colder, VOL. V. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1920 NO. 260 M SAYS NO MARKET orunm kin v KjliXfVU uviiio Superintendent Sheep Says Nothing to Gain by Haste In Calling Special Election on ' Bess City's Issue ' .'Members of the School Survey staff from Washington. D. C. spoke to the women of the Housewives League ( at the Moose Hall Thursday after-, noon at four o'clock. Prof. S. L. Sheep was also pres ent and showed the ladies some of thfi nlans for the new school build-1 ings. It was a most interesting . i v. ..... n m n r urn. I meeting. UIOUBU urn as iu; " men were present as was desired. To an Advance reporter Friday morning Superintendent Sheep ex plained that the plans were only ten-, tative and that already they have been sent back to the architect for the addition of a number of class ( rooms. Under the revised pini building will contain 19 recitation rooms and take care of 750 pupils. It is not believed there will be only 400 in the new building for the first year and that the erection of this new budding will meet the city's needs for live years to come. The new building Superintendent Sheep explains, will be used as a high school building. He plans to put Into it the present high school grades and the seventh grades besides, the nlan being to organize the seventh rraHpS as a Junior "high school-ae partment. The removal of the high ; (school and the seventh grade pupils from the present building will leave ( ample room In this building to meet . present requirements with some to spare, Superintendent Sheep believes, i "The plans for the new building." j r. Sheep continues, "have been sub-' Uted to and approved Dy mgu School Inspector J. Henry Highsmith. by Insurance Commissioner James R. Young and by' Building Inspector J. J. Blair. When they are back from the architect it is my plan to submit ,.., iha ovnprta con ducting the Lilt; iii iu " i - - survey for their approval and to give them opportunity to-.ma'ke any sug gestions that they may desire. "In my opinion the plans contem plated are adequate. The new build ing will be provided with a gymna sium equipped with shower baths and lockers. It will have labora tories for physics and chemistry. Thpre will be a science lecture room and also special rooms for the teach- j ing of language, manual training.' donrestlc science and commercial j courses, and also a special room for j a library. The domestic science de-, partment will include a sewing room, j and an outfit for teaching banking , will be included in the business de partment equipment. ' "Neither I nor the board of trus-, tees believe that the play and study j plan outlined by Commissioner Clax-, ton can be adopted here without mo-1 dincation. We could not get teach ers familiar with it to carry It out and it would not in my opinion be approved by the people. But the plans for the new building do include a supervised playground and we are looking for a site of not less than four or five acres to provide room for this playground. "Some arrangement will also have to be made about a teacherage. We j niHst provide somewhere for our , teachers to live. j "In considering the amount of the bond Issue it should be borne In mind j that the addition of this building and I this equipment, which are to be paid ) for from the proceeds of the sale of j bonds, will mean that we shall have to Increase our revenue In order to I meet our current expenses. Our In-1 - - . u-ifti ,.. i,. . ! and of course current expenses will I be considerably Increased If we make I proper use of oar new building and our new equipment. The supervised Playground Idea, for Instance, calls for t physical director. "Elizabeth City can well afford the additional expense, however, as we are now spending only $22.00 a year ou each child in our public schools, as compared with $43 for each child in the country as a whole." Questioned about the delay In the Issuing of bonds, as to which there has been some criticism. Superinten dent Sheep explained that nothing whatever has been lost by the delay. "If we had carried the election and Issued the bonds," he said, "in the present condition of the bond market we could not have sold them. There are a number of towns In the state right now that have their school londs on their hands with no market iur them." The Advance man also took the trouble to see members of the com mittee appointed to draft the bill Students Hoboed To See Big Game Raleigh, Nov. 12. Two hundred State College students hoboed to Nor folk to witness the football game with Virginia Tech yesterday. The score was 14 to 6 in favor of State College. TO PREVENT SALE MALT AND HOPS Prohibition Enforcement Of" ficers Ordered to Tighten Ban on Home Brew, But De tails Are Lacking Washington, Nov. 12. Prohibi tion enforcement officers throughout the country are instructed to prevent the sale. of malt and hops, thereby tightening the ban on home brewing, but details of the order are lacking. LOCALS WIN PRIZES AT WILSON POULTRY SHOW Elizabeth City poultry fanciers' birds entered at the Wilson Poultry Show this week held their own well in the keenest competition ever seen at Wilson. Tom Twlddy, on one entry won third prize, Partridge Wyandotte hen; Martin Jennings, one entry, second prize, White Leghorn cook ereirc7M.7Cooperr"three entries, first prize, White Wyandotte hen, second pullet, second cock. The first prize of C M. Cooper's is the first blue Gibbon ever won by an Elizabeth City exhibitor at tins quality show of the 'South. MRS. McSWINEY TO COME TO AMERICA Washington, Nov. 12. A com mittee of one hundred investigating the Irish question announced today the acceptance of the offer of Mrs. Muriel McSwiney, wife of the late mayor, to come to the United States to testify at the hearings. PERUVIANS PLOT TO ATTACK THEIR PRESIDENT Lima, Nov. 12. The arrest of 30 persons here today disclosed a Peru vian revolutionary plot to attack President Leguia. PRESIDENT HAITI TESTIFIES TODAY Tells Naval Board of Inquiry That United States Marines Have Been "Accused By Public Clamor" Port Au Prince Haiti, Nov. 12 (By the Associated Press) The President of Haiti today testifying before the Naval Board of Inquiry declared that he had no official knowledge of the charge of Indis criminate killing of natives by the United States Marines, adding "They have been accused by public clamor." CHORAL SOCIETY MEMBERS who have not paid their November membership dues of $1.00 are asked, to bring that amount to Choral' practice meeting Friday evening at' 7::!0. Those selling associate mem-; bership cards are asked to bring a list of the names to whom the tickets were sold. , j sent up to the last Legislature for passage. J. B. Leigh accepts respon sibility for drafting the bill, though It was passed upon by W. L. Small and J. K. Wilson, the other members of the committee. Judge Leigh ex plains that he took the old bill under which bonds were issued and sold for the erection of the present high srhool lurldlng and another bill un der which bonds had been Issued and sold in another city to go by and that If there was technical error as to how the election ballots should be marked the same error was made In the old bill. Superintendent Sheep and all the members of the school board Inter viewed are thoroughly convinced that there should be a special regis tration before this election Is held and that to hold this election under the present registration would Jeop ardize the success of the bond is sue, as every Indifferent vote on the registration books would be a vote against the measure. NOTICE TO LIGHT AND WATER CUSTOMERS On Sunday, November 14th, the Electrit Light and Water Plant will be entirely closed down, and there will be neither light nor water service on that day. All water customers will please take notice, and draw sufficient water for Sunday use, Saturday. This close down is made necessary in order to con nect the new boiler to the steam lines. Trusting that our customers will bear with us in this inconvenience, and assuring them of better service in the n'ear future, we beg to remain The Electric Light and Water Cos. of Elizabeth City USE ALL FORCES IN NEAR EAST And Immediately to Prevent Union of Bolshevik! With Turkish Nationalists In Or der to Avoid Wars Geneva, Nov. 12. The Immediate use of all forces In the near East to prevent the union of Bolshevik! with Turkish Nationalist forces was de clared necessary today for the anni hilation of the Armenian and other general wars. JTXERAL J. V. MORRISETTE j The funeral services of J. F. Mor risette, who died at the home of his son, M. G. Morrisette, on North Hoad street Tuesday night at nine-thirty, were conducted from the home Thursday afternoon at two-thirty, by, his pastor, Dr. G. W. Clarke. j The pallbearers were:' M. N. , Sawyer, X. G. Davis, W. K. Jones, It. J. Williams, Andrew Bray, C. J. ' Ward, L. S. Hooper and S. S. Leary. j Interment was made In Hollywood! cemetery. j Mr. Morrisette was sixty-three years old and had been seriously ill for three weeks. He was bom In Camden county but had been a res'-,, dent of this city for about thirty years. He is survived by his son, M. G. . Morrisette, of this city; by three grandchildren; by one sister, Mrs.' Hattie Banford, of Norfolk; and by one nephew, William II. Bright, of Washington, D. C. HERTFORD GIRLS DEFEAT BESTCITY The Hertford girls basketball team defeated the Elizabeth City girls at j Hertford Thursday afternoon, 12 to 3. The game was called at 4:30, but was called off at the end of the third quarter because of darkness. The Elizabeth City girls had neither roach nor referee and had not prac ticed sufficiently. They were chap eroned by Miss Lipscomb, of the high school faculty. The girls on the teem were Dorothy Jones, Harris Hull. Eva McMullan. Dorothy Zoel Ipt. Elizabeth Etheridge. Isobel Meeklns; subs, Eunice Goodwin and Elizabeth Hathaway. Thursday night the Hertford girls gave a dance In honor of the Eliza beth City girls. Music was furnish ed by a Norfolk band. HUNGER STRIKE CALLED OFF ' Cork. Nov. 12. The hunger strike of the nlno Irish prisoners has been called off. Cork, Nov. 12. The condition of the nine Irishhunger strikers on the 94th day of their strike Is described as shockingly low. 1 JACK XOI.AX HEAD Dublin. Nov. 12 Jack Nolan, onee a well known Dublin Natlonal M figure, has Just died here. In 1900 he was arrested In Canada with two others on a charge of attempt 'ng to blow up the lock on the Wel land Canal and was sentenced to nenal servitude for life. After serv lr 1 vears of his sentence he wss released snd later he returned to Ireland. American Firms Acquire Tin Mines Valparaiso, Nov12.r-AccordIng to an announcement here, American interests recently acquired three Bo livian tin mines located about 60 miles from the Eucalyptus station of the Bolivian railway between Oraro and La Paz. Preliminary construc tion work by American engineers al ready is under way, It is stated. Have University For the Peasants London, Nov. 12. Every party educated worker and peasant of either sex attaining the age of 18 has the right to be a student of the Sverdloff Communist University in Moscow, says a wireless message from that city. Persons with higher education are not accepted. The students are supplied with rooms, common dormitories, bed linen, writing materials, books, army ra tions and an allowance of 5,000 ruble a month. Boots and clot lies are not supplied. Leave of absence Is only given in rare cases, such as severe family conditions, and only when the stu dents are .summoned by a letter or telegram dispatched by the local soviet, or the party committee. Students have to take part in the school work such as wood cutting, looking after the cleanliness and hygiene of "the buildings, etc. SERVE DELICIOUS MEMS BEGINNING NEXT MONDAY The ladies of the First Methodist church will serve delicious things to eat, including salad, ice cream, cake, oysters, hot rolls, pies, coffee, tea. chocolate. Tills sale of good things begins Monday and continues each afternoon bi t ween the hours of twelve and six at No. 1 West Main street. IS GETTING OX WELL W. E. McCoy, who was hurt in an automobile accident Vednesday, is getting along as well as can be ex pected. His thigh was broken when he was thrown from his bicycle to Hie pavement by a Studebaker car. ATter an X-ray examination In Dr. Parker's office, the wound was dress ed, and he Is now at his home on Cypress street. TWO I IRES FRIDAY Two fire alurms called out the lire department Friday, hut In neither cas-e was the (Ire a serious one. The first was the residence of Mr. Stephenson on Southern avenue near Curtwrlght's bakery, where a roof fire was extinguished with chemicals before damage to amount to more than $100 was done. The second was a chimney lire at the residence of Isaac Ackers, col ored, on Ball street. There was no damage. WRANGEL DRIVEN RACK Paris, Nov. 12. General Wran gel's antl-llolshevlk forces have been driven back to the second line In Crimea before the fierce Bolshevik attack. CHORAL PRACTICE TONIGHT The Choral Society meets to night at 7.30 for practice. HARDING'S FISHING GETS INTERRUPTED Point Isobel, Tex.. Nov. 12. Harding's tarpon fishing was inter rupted today by wind that churned the fishing grounds into foam and temperature to the shivering point. He motored to Brownsville for a golf game. NOT OPPOSED TO NEWJIETHODS Samuel Gompers Speaking For Organized Labor Says There Is Rightful Suspicion of Cer tain Changes Washington, Nov. 12. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, declared today before the Industrial Research Con ference that organized labor wel comes whatever assistance research ur-1 science can offer to modern In dus! ry. 1 He said that labor Is not opposed i to increased production or improved ' methods, but is rightly suspicious of changes Introduced without explana tion and whose effect upon their well being is not considered. China Plans Aid Famine Sufferers Peking. Nov. 12. As a practical the Chinese government has elaborated a plan to construct high ways from Peking to Honan, to Shantung and to various parts of Chili province for the purpose of giving employment to the sufferers In those districts. It is estimated that part of the work to be started as soon as possible, will give em ployment, to 600,000 or 1,000,000 men. The necessary funds are to be raised by supplementary collections of salt tax and increases In post and telegraph rates. I TKST MALT RILING Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 12. A suit 'to test the recent ruling prohibiting ' the sale of malt extract and hops ex cept to confectioners and bakers will lie filed in the Federal Court here by a distributing company. SEARCH WELL FOR BODY ! Langdon, N. II., Nov. 12. An ab andoned well on the farm of William B. Whitney has been re-opened to search for the body of Whitney's ; second wife who the son said the ' lather murdered eight years ago. FOREIGN DEMAND A MINOR FACTOR In Creation High Prices All ! Over Country Says Report of j Interstate Commerce Com mission to Senate Washington, Nov. 12. Foreign demand for coal was an important factor for high domestic coal prices along the Atlantic Seaboard, but only a minor factor In the creation of high prices for the whole country, the Interstate Commerce Commis sion declared In its report to the Senate today. I To Protest Seizure 1 Of Diesel Motors i j Berlin, Nov. 12. -The alleged In ! tenlicn of the Council of Ambassa- dors to confiscate high speed Diesel motors In Germany, whether they are In a finished state and In use or in the process of construction, Is to bo made the subject of a diplomatic in quiry. This action follows the recent visit of an Entente commission to the big Augsburg Industrial plant for the purpose of requisitioning motors which are subsequently to be dis mantled or destroyed on the ground that they are suitable . for sub marines and therefore war material. A message from Munich staled that workers On these motors were coming to Berlin to protect against seizure, of the Diesel stationary mo tors not usable for U-boat purposes. A semi-official statement says that the Inhibition of tho manufacture of . the motors used for legitimate pur pon would mean a heavy loss to German Industry and result In a large number of workers being out: of employment. FRENCH WONT ADMITGERMANV Declare "Drastic Action" Will Be Consequence If League of Nations ' Lets Down the Bars Paris, Nov. 12 (By The Associated Press) The French government has unalterably opposed the admission of Germany to the League of Nations. It was stated at the foreign office today that some "drastic action" would be the consequence If the League voted to admit Germany. TUSTRIA WOULD ENTER LEAGUE Geneva, Nov. 12 (By The Associ ated Press) Formal application has been received from Austria for ad mission to the League of Nations. THIEF RETURNS LOOT Americus, Ga Nov. 12. A con science stricken thief has returned three thousand dollars In Liberty Bonds and two hundred dollars in war savings stolen from the resi dence of A. C. Crockett, who re ceived the securities In an anony mous letter from Kansas City. America Approves Adriatic Settlement Rome, Nov. 1 2. The Foreign -Minister has received from the Ital ian Embassy at Washington a state ment that the American Government has declared formally that It would approve any settlement of the Adri atic question reached by Italy and Jugo-Slavla. WARSAW MOURNS WOMANSOLDIER She Typified the Spirit of Po land and She and Her Com rades Exercised Wonderful Influence Warsaw, Oct. 21 - All Warsaw turned out for the funeral the other day of Sergeant Sophie Pouklpwlez,. a member of Poland's Women's Batallion, who was called here "the heroine of Block." She died from wounds inflicted with a Russian sword and the "Nahajka"" or Cos sack's whip which she received at Plock during the drive against War saw. As a final tribute the Amer ican nurses who attended her In the hospital and the entire personnel of the American Red Cross in Warsaw went to 1km' funeral. All Warsaw knew her story and there were many moist eyes that gazed at the plain white painted pine hoard collin containing the girl soldier us it was borne through the streets on tho shoulders of her fight ing comrades, all girls from the Women's Batallion which was form ed lato in 1918 for tho purpose of defending Lemherg against the L'k ranians. She was wounded three times, first at Lemherg, again at and last while leading her country against the Russians at Plock. She typified tho spirit of Poland today. There are six hundred like her in the Women's Batallion. Offi cers In the army from Pllsudskl admit that I he mere existence of this batallion exercised a wonderful 'ef fect upon the popular imagination, upon recruiting and even upon the soldiers in the recent heavy fight ing. The age limits for privates In the batallion are 17 and S3. Most of women who Joined are of humble origin, and come from the sem-stag-nant industrial centers such as Lodz. The economic problem has had something to do with their continued existence as soldiers but they have shown great enthtishism and brav ery. Theyrhave had many casual- ties. THREE KILLED IX DERAILMENT Winchester, Va., Nov. 12. Three were killed and three were Injured In the derailment of an electric motor car today near the old Chapel Bridge. WEEKS & SAWYER WILL I5E OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT For the convenience of working men In the city, Weeks & Sawyer will remain open Friday evening, the opening day of the Gigantic Unload ing Sale. lie on hand the first day before the bargains are picked over. Weeks & Sawyer. Adv.
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