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VOTE FOR SCHOOL BONDS TOMORROW, FRIDAY, APRIL 8th ' THE WEATHER Unsettled weather to- night and Friday, prob- ably showers in East and Central portions. Circulation Wednesday 1,833 Copies VOL. XI. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1921 NO. 82. ) i FRIDAY IS DAY VOTE FOR SCHOOLS From 6:30 In Morning To 6:30 In Evening Men and Women May Cast Ballot Tomorrow, Friday, April 8, is the date of the school bond election of Elizabeth City. Men and women who regis tered for this election are urged to be sure to vote for schools and to assist in any way possible to get their,friends to the polls to vote. A great deal may be accomplished by the generosity of those who have automobiles at their disposal. The polls will be open from six-thirty in the morning until , six-thirty in the evening. Voting will be a simple mat ter. The ballots are marked "For School Bonds" and Against School Bonds." Sure ly everybody will choose the ballot "For School Bonds." Then it is an easy matter to drop it in the ballot box to help swell the majority. There are two poll holders at each polling place and one atleven higher this summer and that parh nlare i a woman This' the registration records will again be will makeit easier and more pleasant for the women voters and everybody knows that tle women stand for the education of their children. A.- Tn Polling Places Following are the polling places: First Ward Godfrey store. - Second Ward Store on Harney 1)ack of Williams' store on Parsonage street. Third Ward Whttehurst's store on Fearing Street. Fourth Ward City Market. The Poll Holders , Following are the poll holders: First Ward L. R. Foreman, Mrs. A. B. Houtz. Second Ward E. M. Stevens, Mrs. M. E. True-blood. Third Wafd John Wells, Miss Marcle Albertson. Fourth Ward J. C. Spence, Mrs, Bessie Stewart. Deny Permission To Reduce Wages v Chicago, April 7. The Railroad Labor Board today denied permis sion to the New York Central Rail road to make provisional reduction of wages of unskilled labor on Its lines. The dispute over a permanent re duction In wages will be heard April 18 in connection with similar dis putes filed by other railroads. SAYS LONDONERS ARE GETTING KUUINU HLAUtU of athletes than ever before. - I Already entries have been received London, April 7. 'Citizens of for the sixth annual inter-scholastic London are growing round headed, tennis tournament fro m Raeford, according to anthropologists, whojsand Hill, lllillsboro, Greensboro, say that the change is due to the in- charlotte. Chapel Hill, Durham, Wln cursion of middle European peoples. I gate and Wilson. For the track hey say the old Brlons were long eaded with supreme initiative tor governing' and colonizing, while round heads lack Initiative. Had No Dealings With Soviet Russia Mexico City, April 7. The foreign office declares relations have not been established with Soviet Russia nor a Mexican minister appointed to Moscow. Phila. Celebrates All American Day Philadelphia. April 7. All-Ameri-can Day was celebrated here today with Pershing, Benson and Governor Sproul as guests of honor at patri otic demonstrations. rnpciT r vii tr rmr v'T t, ri' j fresh In a few d:m. Good milker.' rr1 ?", n. n. ravls, 313 IT'nton Williams Takes The Stand Today Covington, April 7. The state neared the end of its case here today in the trial ot John S. Williams, charged with the murder of eleven negroes who met death after federal agents started investigation of al leged peonage conditions. The final testimony was devoted largely to efforts to corroborate yes terday's statements of Clyde Man ning, Jointly indicted with Williams, that on the planter's orders he helped drown and knock in the head eleven negroes. After Manning's wife testified sup porting her husband's statements, Sheriff Johnson told of finding the bodies. The state then rested its case and Williams took the stand on his own behalf and declared that he was absolutely innocent. The de fense then rested and arguments gan at the afternoon session. be- GO NEXT WEEK TO CHAPEL HILL Successful High School Debat ers Gather There Also In teresting Athletic Events Fine Prospects For Summer Chapel Hill, N. C, April 6. Present indications are that the at tendance figures at the 34th session of the University ot North Carolina; summer school, which were higher last year than ever before, will be broA:(lv more than 2no anniica- itions from teachers have been re ceived, a marked increase over me early applications last year. All of the space in some of te university dormitories has already been filled. Last year more than 400 teachers were denied hn1ssion because there I was no place forthem to sleep or eat, ana miss Liouiseuuinjy euieiaij ui the Bummer school, thinks it easily probable that not only the attend ance record of 1,147 in 1920 will be broken, but that even more teachers will be turned away. The summer school will begin June 21 and run for six weeks, end ing August 4r Prof. N. W. Walker will again be director. He has been at Harvard this winter on a leave of absence from the university, but will return to Chapel Hill in time to take up his duties in the summer school. While at Harvard he has obtained the services for the university sum mer school of many well known teachers connected with Harvard. Many members of the University of North Carolina faculty also will con tinue their work with the summer school. Plans are being made at the uni versity to entertain during high school week the largest number of high school students, boys and girls, that has ever been In this already crowded community. The final rounds and the championship con tests In debating, track, and tennis will be settled that week, April , 13, 14 15. Approximately 300 students and vis'tors are expected. Nearly half of them will be here for the de bates, but entries already pouring in for the tennis tournament and the raclr meet Indicate a lareer number moot, which for the past eight years 1 iia8 been won by Friendship high school, entries have been received from Oak Ridge, Greensboro. Bur lington,. Red Oak, Hfllsboro, Chapel Hill, Sand Hill, Durham, Aslieville, Friendship, Wingate and Laurinburg. More entries are expected for both these events. The high school baseball cham jjionsliip will be decided later in the spring. Plans for that contest fol- ' low in general the system used this year in both the football and basket- ball contests. Managers ot the en tering teams will arrange their own schedule for the elimination games. Eastern and western championships will be decided and the two sectional leaders will meet on Emerson Field some time in May for the state title. Greensboro won last year, with Bur - eaw. eastern champions, as runner- up Wilson high school won both the singles year. and doubles In tennis last C. D. Lampkln, who has. teen cbming to this city for the B. F. Bond Paper Company for twelve years and Is now a member of the firm, was ln the city on business for his com- fv "p .-.',,, DEMAND RETURN GROVEITBERGDOLL Hundreds of Letters and Tele grams Received at American Legion National Headquar ters, Officials Announce Indianapolis, April 7. Hundreds of telegrams and letters demanding the return of Grover Bergdoll, con victed draft evader now in Germany, have been received at American Le gion national headquarters, officials announced today. National Commander Galbreath is now in Washington bringing every argument to bear on government of ficials to hasten the demand for Bergdoll. DISCREPANCIES IN CONFESSION Buffalo, April 7. Although Roy Harris, alias Leonard, has not devi ated frofn tire original story of his alleged part In the murder of Joseph B. Elwell, wealthy New Yorker, the Buffalo police today after careful analysis of his signed confession pointed to certain discrepancies. New York detectives are expected here to question Harris today. WEEK OK PRAYER The Woman's Missionary Society of Blackwell Memorial church is ob- serving the wteek of prayer for for ( ejgh missions. Services are held at ' 3 30 d. m. On Friday afternoon Mrs. Mary McCoy will lead the service and the subject will be "The Indians." PLAN MEETING FOR GROWN-UPS And at This Meeting Serious Matters Will Be Discussed and Further Plans Will Be Made At the meeting of the W. C. T. U., the mothers and the ministers at the Y. M. C. A. Wednesday afternoon there was much serious discussion of njodern morals and particularly of the young people of the community. Not that the young people them selves are so much to blame, but that the responsibility rests upon older shoulders to help the young people and to save them from many hurtful tendencies of the day. It was then planned to have a mass meeting ot adults at the First Bap tist church on the night of Sunday, April 17. AH earnest serious minded men and women are urged to attend that meeting, at which further plans will be made for solving some of the important problems confronting the community. Meetings for the young people will be held elsewhere at the same hour. A TOWN'S HXERAL Following are the sentiments of Owens Shoe Company, as expressed on a card in their show window to day: "A town that never, has anything to do in a public way is on the way to the cemetery. Any citizen who will do nothing for his town is help ing to dig the grave. A man that 'cusses' the town furnishes the cof fin. The man who is so selfish as to have no time from his business to give affairs Is making the shroud. The man who will not advertise is driving the hearse. The man who is always pulling back from any public enterprise throws bouquets on the grave. The man who Is so stingy as to be howling hard times, preaches the funeral, sings the doxology. And thus the town lies buried from all sorrow and care." Downs (Kan.) News. Bodies Two Men Found In Canal Washington, N. C, April 6. Re ports from Hyde County tell of the finding of bodies of two negroes in a canal near Juniper swamp. The 1 men were employees of a company. A hand of one lumber of the corpses clutched $18 In money. The negro had had f 100 a little while be fore he was last seen alive, officials stated. The bodies were In bad con- ditlon, and It was Impossible to as- certain If there had been violence One theory is that they were held up and robbed and then slain ( another that they stumbled Into the canal -l5He drunk and drowned. FORK SCHOOL SANG AND SANG Secretary Job, J. Sterling Mo ran and G. W. Falls Made Splendid Talks at Com munity Meeting The community get-together meet ing and singing event held at Fork high school neur this city Wednes day night was a pronounced success, Roy L. Hoffmeistej community ser vice song director, led the audience in a number of old song favorites which everybody knows, and the re sponse to his leadership was very enthusiastic. Richard C. Job, secretary of the Elizabeth City Chamber of Com merce, spoke briefly upon the close parallel between the work of the civic organization which he repre sents and the community service work which J. Sterling Moran Is In troducing here. Mr. Job declared that, whereas the Chamber of Com merce assists in the business of the community and the development of its economic resources, community service develops the leisure time of the people. He also urged that everyone attend t he meetings of the North Carolina Drainage Convention which will be lii'ld at the Chamber of Commerce quarters here Tuesday and Wednesday, April 12 and 13. J. Sterling Moran, community ser vice organizer, then spoke upon the necessity for an intelligent use of leisure time. 11'' declared that It is not work that kills, but the never ending monotony of existence with out play, and he stressed the Import ance of keeping alive the play spirit in the Individual on through life. Community play, he asserted, tends to bring about community co-operation along other lines, and it is doubly valuable for that reason. At the conclusion of the addresses Mr. Hoffmeister directed the singing of other songsf and G. W. Falls, Pasquotank County farm demonstra tor, made the closing remarks, again urging that the people attend the coming sessions of the drainage con vention. The meeting was well at tended, and much enthusiasm was shown by those present. WAGE REDUCTIONS MAKE NO DIFFERENCE Chicago, April 7. Wage reduc tions haven't brought increased de mand for cheaper cuts of meat as had been expected, according to the meat packers. JAZZ MUSIC By Abe Martin "Let's all resolve t' do all in our power t' discourage Jazz music. There's somethln about saxaphone and trap drummln' that lures us on-t' recklessness and license. Somehow we don't seem t' care what becomes of us while a jazz orchestra is rattlin' and gruntin' and shriekln'. We fer git home-an' mother, unless mother happens t' be in th' crowd. But, anyhow, we fergit home. We feel tough an' bold. We dance with people we never heard of before an we lounge about like a sorceress on th' Nile. Jazz records are in ever' home. Th' modern parlor smells like a star's dressing room cigarette smoke, cosmetics, dandelion wine an' steam heat a combination "of fumes unknown in private life before the in troduction 0' Jazz. Once we stop Jazz, much 0' th' demoralization now so common '11 die out. Let'our moth ers resolve t' slow down an' set an example- for their growin' daughters oversee their drexsln' an' warn them against th' pitfalls o' jazz mu sic. The first impulse when a jazz orchestry begins t' mumble an' squeak an' rattle Is t' kick up, or hug some one, or shimmy, or, git fresh. What else is there t' do t' such mu sic? Nobuddy ever sit still an' lis tened t' a Jazz orchestry." Com munity Service Bulletin. CHORAL PRACTICE EVERY AFTERNOON' AT 4:43 The Elizabeth City Choral Society is practicing every afternoon at 4:45 at the Y for the coming opera which Is to be the biggest musical event in the life of Bestclty. The date will be announced soon so that everybody In the surrounding counties msy come to this really splendid affair. Mrs. G. W. Norrls nd daughter, Miss Lillian Trafton, and little ion( Celus. of South Mills, were in this city Saturflny. School Teacher ' Commits Suicide Greenville, April 6. Miss Neta Harris, who has been teaching school at House Station, near this city for the past several months committed suicide yesterday after noon, hanging herself from a tree the body found about 4:30 o'clock this morning and was still limp. The surmise is that ill health was the direct cause of her rash act. Said to Be Despondent For the past several weeks she had been despondent over her condition and last Monday she came to Green ville and consulted Superintendent S. B. Underwood and County Health Officer Dr. P. B. Chester. They both advised her to go to her home and rest up, which she said she would do. In consequence of hep decision a substitute teacher was placed at the school. Yesterday afternoon Miss Harris went to the store of W. L. Rico at House Station, and stated that she wanted to buy a piece of rope to tie around a trunk, saying she Intended to go to her home for a few days. After purchasing the rope . she went directly to the woods and found a tree bent over! Walking up the tree she tied the rope around her neck. After doing this she fastened the rope to the tree and Jumped off. Her neck was dislocated by the fall. Thinking it was about time for the substitute teacher to return to their home after the duties of the day, W. L. Rice and wife left for the school house' to bring back Miss Harris and the substitute teacher. On their way to the school house they met the sub stitute teacher. Miss Harris tyas not with her. They asked where sire was. The substitute teacher said she did not know. Search was then started, and with in a short time the body of Miss Harris was found hanging from a limb about two hundred yards fronn the road and between the school building and Rice's store. KNOCKOUT Charles Chaplin's New Feature To Be Sliown In Eliznboth City Next Week The most remarkable and unusual Dicture released within the past fix months is Charles Chaplin's six reel feature "The Kid," scheduled for ex hibition at the Alkrama Theater on Tuesday, April 12th. This Chaplin is a distinct departure a feature ith a story--written and directed by the star and marks Chaplin s debut in a,nlm more pretentious than a short slap stick comedy. "The Kid" is an artistic mixture of comedy and pathos a fine example of the kinship ot the emotions and the prox imity of laughter and tears. Chaplin never registered the path os, nor caused the chunks in your throat as he does in this. And he has rarely made you laugh more heartily. Once in a while he slips into slapstick stuff, but as a rule this is happily missing, and thereare some touches that make you forget it's a comedy. And this only accen tuates the laughs when they come. There are' a lot of them, too. The story is there with a wallop. A little waif, abandoned by its nother( Anally taken up by Charlie' because he can't loBe him, try as hard as he does. All the hok um is there showing how Charlie takes care of him, in the end the kid being returned to his mother, who is now a famous singer. How Charlie takes to the little one protects and raises him ind finally fights oft the county officials who would take the youngster to the county orphanage, and how, in the end, the youngster goes to his mother, only to be fol lowed by Charlie, makes up the plot. But this synopsis rannot begin to do Justice to the Innumerable bits of real humor, of real comedy, that, in terspersed as they are, contribute to nmklng th4s one of the greatest pic tures you ever had a chance to see. Little Jackie Coogaa is "The Kid." A newcomer with a real per sonality, he Is immense. Edna Pur viance has a mighty good part, and Charlie well, he is the same old Irresistible laugh make that he has always been. Daughtery Issues Warnings To Business Washington, April 7. A general warning to business that the Depart ment of Justice wlll'countenance no violations of the law-was sounded by 1 Attorney General Daughtery today. He pointed out that while tlys pro-, (iteerlng section of the Lever Act had , been declared unconstitutional, the j Department still could proceed un der the Sherman law. , Daughtery was discussing specific ally the situation in the bulldlnj materials industry which he declared ' intolerable. ' I HEARING IN MAY OFVITALINTEREST Question of Government Own ership of Dismal Swamp Canal to Be Re-opened Be fore Government Engineers W. K. King, first president of the Norfolk Southern railroad, and now president ot the Lake Drumraond Canal an6 Water Company, was in the city Thursday to confer with representative Elizaibeth City people about the hearing to be held some time In May by the government board of engineers relative to recommend ing that the government take over the Dismal Swamp Canal as a part of its inland waterways. The Rivers and Harbors Com mittee of the last Congress before adjournment passed a resolutlpn providing for the hearing, but It has beeu deferred until May in order to give those interested In having the government take over the canal time to compile facts and data to show the wisdom, the Justice and the expedi ency ot the proposed step. The date is not yet set. "The government," said Mr. King while in the city to a reporter for this newspaper, "encouraged the building of the Dismal Swamp Canal and it was recommended by the government engineer for this district at the time. "The wisdom of his recommenda tion is shown by the fact that after the canal was completed and up to the time tliat it was made to com pete with a free waterway 75 to 80 per cent of the tralllc between the Albemarle Sound and Chesapeake Bay passed through the Dismal Swamp Canal. "Including Elizabeth City 16 mil lion dollars In assessed taxable property and 25(000 people would be affected by the government's action in the matter. "The people on the canal are ab solutely dependent on it as a. high- way -ouiiiHictioit with the out side world. If the canal Is aban doned, as It appears it will have to be unless the government intervenes, Camden County officials estimate that the loss of population In the western part of the county will be so consid erable as seriously to hamper and cripple and perhaps cause discontinu ance of the schools in that section. "Elizabeth City Is not so apparent ly affected as the people along the canal proper, but the canal bat al ways been one of the most valuable assets and facilities of the townV "The Dismal Swamp Canal is the parent ot Elizabeth City. This was the point where all vessels from the Albemarle Sound enroute to and from Norfolk wouid stop to get ready to go through the canal. Little busi ness shacks went up to sell these ves sels supplies and that was the be ginning of Elizabeth City. "For forty years the Dismal Swamp Canal was the only outlet for Elizabeth City. It is still the short est waterway between Elizabeth City and Norfolk by 36 miles. Every loaded barge now coming into and going out from Elizabeth City adds 72 miles to the distance and f 150 to the cost It would be required If the Dismal Swamp Canal were a free waterway. Who pays the freight for this 72 miles? Why Elizabeth City. You have paid half of' it on every barge of brick that have come into your harbor for the construction ot your roads. The longer haul In creases the cost of fertilizer to the farmers and the list of items might be multiplied many times over. " "But not only the big shipper, but, indirectly, the small shipper as well will be benefitted by keeping open the Dismal Swamp Canal. With this canal operated as a free canal the daily boat line schedule to Norfolk will be restored, and it is reasonable to believe that a lower freight rate will be established which the rail road will have to meet. Certainly this canal would protect the city against any Increase In freight rates. "So it is clear that Elizabeth City has a very vital interest in restoring commerce by way of theDlsmal Swamp Canal." Greece Celebrates Freedom From Turks Athens, April 7. Greece today celebrated the one hundredth anni versary of her freedom from the Turkish yoke with great parades, mast meetings and patriotic speeches. Employers and i Miners Not Meeting London. April 7. Leaders of the Miners' Union who conferred with Lloyd George today, refused to order the pumpmen and engineers to re sume Work pending negotiations with owners. As a result miners and em r' :' will not meet todny,
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