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VOL. XI.
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ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1921
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CROATAN SOUND
BEMTDREDGED
Inland Waterway Improve
' xnent Project Costing Uncle
Sam $210,000 Is Directed by
a North Carolina Boy
For three months past, the work of
dredging out the channel In Croatan
Sound has been going on, under the
supervision of George M. Parker,
surveying engineer, who, by the way,
Is a North Carolina boy who gradu
ated from State College in 1919.
Croatan Sound is the relatively nar
tow body of water connecting Albe
marle and Pamlico Sounds, and 4s a
very important part of the Inland
Waterway. Heretofore its value has
lxen greatly reduced by the shallow
ness of the change), and now the
government is at work on a dredging
undertaking which, when completed,
will open this narrow sound to ves
sels drawing as much as twelve or
thirteen feet of water.
The work going on is over a
-stretch of eleven miles, and a chan
nel 200 feet wide and 13 feet deep
ls-1eing cut out, requiring the re
moval of 300.000 cubic yards of
sand. The estimated cost 'of the
4redging Is around $210,000. Par
ker, the surveying engineer in
charge, is using the dredge H. S.
Taber, built at Dubuque. Iowa, In
1914. The Taber cost $200,000, is
210 feet in length, 42 feet in width,
and is capable of a speed of 12 miles
n hour under the power of its twin
700-horsepower propelling engines.
It is equipped with a pumping plant
-developing close to 1,000 horse
power. Its crew of 64 men works
ti three eight-hour shifts a day.
Captain George O. Rogers, of St.
"Louis, is the commanding officer.
The H. S. Taber first saw service
in the shoal-infested waters of the
Arkansas and Mississippi rivers. It
was used in the cutting of a chan
nel 17 feet deep eighteen miles out
Into the Gulf of Mexico from the
mouth of the Mississippi a feat
-which many leading engineers of
America scouted at as impractical or
Impossible. However, the channel
was cut to a width of 250 feet, and
now makes navigation at the mouth
of the Father of Waters less of 8
nazard.
Among the difficulties now being
encountered in the Croatan Sound
undertaking,-perhaps the greatest is
the very rough water which greatly
hinders, and sometimes completely
stops the work. The sand at the
oottom of the sound is lifted by the
suction of a twelve-toot centrifugal
pump, and is forced through a 20
Inch pipe line, 750 feet long, which
puts It at a safe distance from the
channel.
Blockade Shoal, two miles west of
"Roanoke Island, is the present scene
of the dredging operations, and the
cut being made through it Is In order
that the Inland Waterway channel
may be straightened. This shoal ha
seen the peril of sailing masters
ver since the Civil War.
To"1862, when the North Caro
lina seaboard was attacked by a fed
eral fleet, there was a deep but nar
row channel at Blockade Shoal, and
this channel was the entrance way
to Albemarle Sound. An enemy con
trolling this water passage would
nave ready access to Edenton and
other thriving towns on the rivers of
Northeastern Carolina. In an ef
fort to block the invaders, Confed
erate forces defending the coast
towed a number of small vessels into
this narrow channel, and sank them
there. This was an effective block
ade until the Yankees captured the
nearby defending forts, and blasted
away enough of the sunken ships to
reopen the passage.
The powerful tidal currents rush
ing down Croatan Sound during the
years that followed fast piled sand
about the debris of the wrecks, and
in time Blockade Shoal was formed.
It became a ery profitable fishing
ground for fishermen with purse
nets, and many large catches have
been mads there. Among the
atraoKe and antiquated articles
brought to the surface during the
dredging operations of the past
month are wonderfully carved and
well-preserved rudders of distant
era. along with pieces of decks.
ttm. hatch coamings, anchors,
chain, blocks, and even a few old
cannon balls of solid iron. These
thing proved the greatest obstruc
tion to the dredging enterprise, but
It It believed that, barring accident,
the work on the shoal will be eom--pleted
in tDe neit all weeks.
This Is the only Important dredg
ing undertaking now under way In
North Carolina, It was begun In
Apr!!, and will go on sntti ships may
travel Croatan Bonnd in safety, un
hindered by the dangers of lurking
ehosts end shallow, wreck-strew
-wsfers.
FOUR MORE WITNESS
IN TRIAL MRS. KABER
Cleveland, Ohio, July 15. Fotrr
more witnesses are to be heard and
arguments of the attorneys before
the case of Mrs. Eva Catherine Kaber,
charged with murdering her husband,
goes to the Jury.
Mrs. Kaber was carried Into courtj
by two bailiffs. When seated, she
sobbed, clutched their arms and beg
ged them not to leave her.
INDIA TO COMBAT
SUPERSTITIONS
Methodist ' Episcopal Missionary
Tells of Progress In Government
and Church Schools on Ganges
Chicago, July 15. Courses in na
ture study- and physical geography
have been introduced into the native
government high schools of India to
combat superstitions which tend to
hinder the advancement of the peo
ple, according to information received
by the board of foreign missions of
, the Methodist Episcopal church.
These courses are to be instituted
at once in twenty high schools and
are to be taught oy native teachers
specially trained in the scientific ex-1
planation of the phenomena of India, j
i The Rev. Dr. L. A. Kenyon, acting
principal of the Methodist mlesion,
Industrial school at Allahabad on the
Ganges, has been chosen to train
these teachers.
His party has taken many ex
tended tours about India, notably to ,
the Himalaya Mountains and to the
Marble Rocks and Nirbada Falls of
Central India, , features of India
which have been especially revered .
by the various native religions.
This has been found quite suc
cessful in breaking the hold of super
stition on the native mind in the
j Methodist mission schools in India,
of which there are 1,170 in addition
to several universities.
Army Horses In
Mesopotamia Killed
London, July 15.-Horse lovers
throughout the country have been
shocked by Colonial Secretary Win
ston Churchill's announcement In the
House of Commons that 30,000 army
horses in Mesoptamia are to be killed
because it is too expensive to bring
them home.
It was explained that tliey are
mainly heavy draft horses for which
there is no local use, and that they
had to be fed on imported fodder. The
nearest possible markets are India or
Egypt, but the difficulties and cost
of transportation thence are said to
be prohibitive.
I Shipping men say it costs 40 to 60
pounds sterling to bring a horse from
the East to England, not counting
the horseman's wages.
The War Office view is that it is
better for the horses to be killed hu
manely and scientifically than to be
left in the hands of natives who would
not care for them properly, and no
one would suggest turning them ad
rift in the desert.
LIGHTNING PICTURES
CEDAR TREE ON MAN
Eastman, Ga., July 15. Struck by
a bolt of Hghtning, Travis Orlmsley
is carrying on his back today the
photograph of a cedar tree near
i which he was sitting at the time.
Greek Troops
Making Progress
Athene, July 15 The Greek of
ficial agency says that Greek troops
I engaged against Tnrks are making
progress at each end of the battle
line and are not encountering sharp
resistance.
GERMAN DESTROYER
ATTACKED BY GUNFIRE
Newport News, Vs., July 15. A
former German destroyer was tbe.ob
Ject of attacks today from the gunfire-of
American destroyers.
MUSIC HAS ARRIVED
Murh of the new music which the
Choral Society will use during the
romlng season has already arrived.
Director F. R. Hufty stated Friday
' morning. Rehearsals will begin at
an early date.
If Ashevllle Is able t0 raise 140,000
tin a single day to hilng Anna Case
i to that city for one evening, there are
J those who think that Ellisheth City
jihonld find no difficulty In handling
$1,000 In eon ticket for Choral
Society program through the winter
and spring.
The cases that drag through the
courts without getting anywhere are
thne pf the State vemin J0f, Dough,
GOVERNMENTAL!
SELL PICRIC ACID
Opportunity Offered to Farm-1
era of, This Section to Get
Explosive For Ditching and:
Blasting Operations j
The government is offering 12,
500,000 pounds of salvaged picric
acid to the landowners through the
U. S. Department of Agriculture for
the purpose of stimulating land
clearing activities.
Picric acid is a product eighteen
per cent stronger than dynamite and
is packed in double-dipped paraf
fined cartridges weighing six ounces.
The cartridges are packed in wooden
boxes each containing 100 pounds oft
picric acid, and in the division 6,720
boxes were alloted to the farmers of
North Carolina at a price of six
cents per pound, plus one cent per
pound for distributing, or a cost of
seven cents per pound plus the
freight charges which perhaps Will
range between one and six cents per
pound. This makes the total cost
per cartridge range between three
and seven cents. This low-priced
Qvnlnalvo nrtll crm tVta formaint In I
this section an opportunity to clear
their fields of a number of stumps
and open a number of swamp ditches
which have detracted from their
beauty and value.
Picric acid Is a comparatively safe
high explosive. It is more insensi
tive to shock or impact and to fric
tion than are the commercial explo
sives, but it is slightly more sensi
tive to shock than TNT. Picric acid
is a high explosive and should be
treated as such. It should not be
exposed to fire or flame and no met
als should be allowed to come in con
tact with it.
This product has no poisonous ef
fect. It can be used in any open air
blasting operations and will not
cause headaches or other ill effects,
and is not affected by the ordinary
temperatures encountered in agricul
tural blasting.
The insensitiveness of picric acid
requires the use of a No. 8 detonator
or cap, and can be fired by the safety
fuse or electric current. For blast
ing stumps picric acid can be used in
exactly, the same way as dynamite
Is used. The charges should be
placed in the same manner, and the
same number of cartridges should be
used in the charges as in the case of
dynamite. As has been stated, a
number 8 cap shguld be used for pic.
ric acid instead of the usual No. 6
for dynamite.
Farmers in Pasquotank County de
siring a portion of the allotment of
fered this State should see County
Agent G. W. Falls in the near fu
ture. TAKEN TO PETERSBURG
FOR SAFE KEEPING
iPetersburg, Va., July 16 Two
negroes suspected of killing a white
farmer in DInwIddie County were
brought here today for. safe keep
ing. RAINBOW VETS PARADE
Cleveland, Ohio, July 15. A busl.
ness session and parade featured the
program of the Rainbow Division vet
erans convention here today.
Old Log Building
To Be Preserved
Chehalis, Washington. July 15.
An old log building near here which
housed one of the first Federal courts
ever held In the Pacific Northwest
has been rehabilitated and presented
to the state.
-The building, erected in 1845.
housed General Phil Sheridan and
General George B, MeClellan when
they were in the Northwest before
the Civil War and had to travel be
tween Fort Vancouver, on the Colum
bia river, and Fort Stellacoon, on Pu
get Sound.
SURPRISE PARTY
A delightful surprise party was
given Miss Odell Long at her home
on Cypress street Thursday night.
Many games were played snd after
wards refreshments were served.
Thoe present were: Mioses Naomi
Aydlett. Eloise Aydlett. Rena Ward.
Wllma Culpepper, Kaiherlne Davis.
Clarlne Bright. Roa Bright. Mildred
Dorler, Odell Long, Messrs. Claude
Ward. ErneM Cornell, Elton Aydlett,
Wyatt Aydlett. Wilton Bunch, Mar
vin Williams. Marvin Owens. Alton
Owens. Vernon Davis. Larry Skinner.
If your boy doesn't iem very
bright don't depstr. Congressmen
gt pretty food ftj.
Fear New Outbreak
Pellagra In South
Washington, July 15.
The Public Health Service
fears a new outbreak of
pellagra in the South as
the result of the poorer
classes being forced back
to living principally on salt
pork and corn bread.
'
FORTUNE SEEKERS
FLOCK TO ALASKA
This Time It's Oil Instead of
Gold That Draws the Crowds
, , .
Northward By Steamboats
and Dog Sleds
Juneau, Alaska, July 15. First of
he fortune-seekers to make the round
trip this year to the new oil fields at
Fort Norman, in the McKenzie valley
of northern Canada, nine men pas
sed through Juneau recently en
route to Edmonton, Alberta, where
they wlill record their locations on oil
lands.
"I believe the district will be a
world beater," John McDonnel, one
of the "sourdough" leaders of the
party said. "One gusher at Norman
produced 1,500 barrels a day, accord
ing to reports which I believe are be
low correct figures."
Every member of the party said
the oil was of high grade and assert
ed it was used in the Fort Norman
country for lighting and heating and
even was used, without being chang
ed from its crude state, in gas eng
ines. The mine men "mushed" Into the
oil fields over a. 750-mile trail, part
of which was snow-covered, across
the .continental divide from'White
Horse. Yukon Territory. They made
the trip to Norman in -twenty-one
days, which is considered fast time,
and usefl thirty-five dogs to pull their
sleds.
Originally most of the men came
from Vancouver, B. C, which they
left March 5, of this year, coming
north to Snagway, Alaska, and cross
ing the White Pass trail to White
Horse by railroad. Leaving White
Horse March 13, they took the trail
to Carmacks, on the Yukon River,
and then struck out across the moun
tains for the big Canadian basin. At
Fort Norman they found themselves
among the first stampeders of the
year to get 'lnslde.,,
Hundreds of men from Canada and
the United States are planning to go
to the new fields this year over the
Canadian route, through Edmonton,
Fort McMurray and Peace River.
Most of this route Is by steamboat
down the Peace and Mackenzie riv
ers. Although fast time can be made
in summer overthis interior route,
the men who passed through here
declared the trail from White Horse
was the best winter way to Norman.
There Is plenty of game along the
route for food and the going Is easy,
they said.
Crops Bountiful
More Diversity
' Chicago, July 10. Crops this year
generally win " jhiiuiui mm in
i diversity greater man nerore, ac
cording to reports from presidents of
thirty leading railroads gathered by
standard farm papers.
Millions Will Go
To Indian Tribes
Muskegee, Okla., July 15. Dlstrl
button of a million and three hundred !
fifty thousand dollars by the govern-;
ment to members of the Choctaw and
Chfrkasaw Indian tribes will com -
mence August 15, It, Is announced I
here today.
i
Lloyd George And
De Valera Confer
London, July 15 (By The Aocl
ated PreniO -Prime Minister Lloyd
Ceorge and Irish Republican Leader!
De Valera held another conference
hre today in the effort to settle the
Irish problem. No others were
present
"See America First" Is the only
American slogan that hat ever been
adopted as a national policy by for
eign countries.
HOOVER STATES
HARDING PROGRAM
Chicago, July 15. Points in Presi
dent Harding's program for govern
mental assistance in the recovery of
commerce and industry as outlined
by Secretary Hoover before the con
vention, of the National Association
of Real Estate Boards here today in
clude the revision of the tax sys
tem, the reduction of governmental
expenditures, the settlement of tariff,
the upbuilding and safeguarding of
commerce, the reduction of arma
ments, the development of natural
resources, and the refunding of for
eign loans.
TROOPS QUELL
DOCKYARD RIOT
Kobe, Japan, July 15. Troops
were called out here after thousands
: of workers on the docks had charg-
'ed the DOlice cordon ln an attempt
i to take possession of the dockyards
and c t th . . , .
by the workers.
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VANSCIVER GOES TO
NAGS HEAD ON SUNDAY
"The Annie L. Vansciver, whiah has
recently been thoroughly overhauled,
will leave at eight o'clock Sunday for
Nags " Head, returning about nine
o'clock Sunday night.
I "The steamer will leave from the
foot of Burgess street at the North
River Line offices, instead of from
the foot of Main street as previously
announced.
"There will be refreshments on
board and every provision will be
made for a pleasant day,"' say the
managers.
STEAMER TRENTOX TO
NAGS HEAD ON SUNDAY
"The Steamer Trenton, of the East
ern Carolina Transportation Com
pany, at the request of some of the
cottage owners, at Nags Head, will
conduct Sunday excursions beginning
July 17th," says the manager. "The
Trenton will leave its dock at 7:30
o'clock Sunday morning, although ex
perience has taught that Sunday ex
cursions are not financially profitable
to this company, we are desirous of
'giving every consideration to our
patrons and inasmuch as we hold a
lease to the only wharf at Nags
(Head affording a landing for boats,
; we have decided to run these Sunday
excursions t he length of time de
pendent upon the patronage given.
jMr. Hollowell, the owner of the
I wharf at Nags Head, which he has
( leased to the Eastern Carolina Trans
portation Company, will not permit
any other steamers to make a land
ing except ln a storm or accident."
MAJOR GEN. McANDREW
IS SERIOUSLY ILL
Washington, July 15. Major Gen
eral McAndrew, president of the gen
eral staff college, and former chief
of staff under General Pershing ln
France, is seriously ill In the army
hospital here suffering from a geu
eral breakdown.
Mine Union Leaders
Given Over To Militia
Charleston. W. Va.. July 15. The
supreme court today ordered David
iRobb and eight other mine union
leaders turned over to the state
militia.
1 R. H. Klrkpatrlck, former Mingo
mine foreman for the Burrelt Com
pany, testified that the mine owners
of West Virginia had framed up false
shooting episodes to procure martial
,law proclamation so they could
break the strike.
RAID PEACE GROVE
SEARCHING FOR FUEL
El Paso. Tfias. July 15. Mexican
children gathering firewood are slow
ly wiping out a clump of Cottonwood
trees northwest of Juare. Mexico,
across the Rio Grande from here,
which has been known as "Peace
Grove" because It was there that
General Frsnclnco I. Madero agreed
(O a Series Of armlRtlrmt vhtrh nr..
ceded the end of his revolution.
Approiimsfely twenty-live trees
marked the historical spot In 1111,
Today, it la id. 1m than half this
number survh nfl raldi of the chil
dren sent to search for fuel.
The grove won Its name In lilt
when Madero M his troops against
th Juares federal gsrrlnon, which
remained loyal to Prepfdent Perflrlo
Dla. The eommndr of the garri
son snd Madero arranged vera!
armistices ander the trees of the
grots.
Mrs. W. i, Fkiles is visiting rela
t'vot In Norfolk.
CHARTER IS
N0WREADY
Big Drive to Sell Stock In Pas
quotank Hospital Association
Will Start Next Monday
Morning Shares $10 Each
The charter of the Pasquotank
Hospital Association has "been drawn
up, and is ready for submission to the
Secretary of State of North Carolina.
The work of raising funds for the
community hospital Is going on rap
idly, and general public interest in
the institution is apparently grow
ing daily.
One feature that Is of great as
sistance, to promoters of the hospital
plan in the selling of stock in the
public servicerintitutlon is that only
ten per cent of the stock allotment
of each individual has to be 'paid in
a lump sum at any time. The first
ten per cent payment is due August
first, and the balance at the rate of
ten per cent a month until the stock
is paid for. In this way, the salaried
man may obtain stock in the hos
pital, and pay for it without incon
venience. One dollar a month per share pays
for the stock, and one may take as
much or as little as he feels that he
can handle. The big drive for funds
will begin on Monday, July 18, and
it is believed that the total of $15,
000 will be raised without serious
difficulty by the easy-payment plan
adopted.
"No, I will not take a single share,"
said one leading business man of this
city yesterday afternoon, when asked
to subscribe to stock in the Pasquo
tank Hospital Association, "but
whenever you want it, I am going to
donate fifty dollars to the hospital."
Local fraternal organizations and
others have pledged their support to
the hospital plan, and every indica
tion points to the early success of the
move by the Chamber of Commerce
to establish It.
Miner Tells Why
Men Dissatisfied
Washington, July,15. W. E. Hut
chison, miner from Mingo, W. Va
told the Senate investigating com
mittee today that the men were dis
satisfied last year because "we didn't
get all the government grants made
to miners during the war and be
cause the company stores system re
quired them to pay higher prices than
independent stores."
LAUNCH WASHINGTON s
IN SEPTEMBER
Washington, July 15. The Wash,
ington, ithe third battleship with
electric drive installation, will b
launched In September, the Navy
Department announced today.
LOST BATTALION
HERO IS BURIED
Private Who Carried Message
Through German Line In
I Argonne Drive Dies On
Leave of Absence
New York, July 15. Full military
honors marked the funeral of Prl-
tvate John J. Monson, who died t
'the hospital here having been taken
!lll while on a leave of absence.
Monson Is said to have been the
man who carrlnd the message
through th GernTan lines which re
united the lot Battalion In the Ar
gonne Drive with Its division.
STILLMAN TRIAL IS
STILL IN PROGRESS
Poughkeepsle. N. Y.. July 15.
Attack snd defenne of the paternity
of Guy flilllman was resumed here to
day In the divorce suit of James
Stillman against Mrs, Anne t. gun
man. Mrs. Stillman's lawyers summoned
other wltnes to carry on her coun.
ter attack agalnut the banker who
she alleged violated his msrriag".
vows In his relations with other wo
mon. IX lOLKTJ X)URT
Mlte W. Scott. Horace Gregory. A.
J. Hartley, Rev. E. L. Cole and Mi
Marrle Albertson were fined $19 snd
costs each in city police court here
Friday morning for speeding.
C. T. Scott wst taxed with the
rests of th esse for vlois'lnn of the
city traffic ordinances. Len Wil
liams, colored, paid the tout of a
hearing on similar charge.
Mrs. Ada Borfoot Ir )frt Wed
Bt!ly for a vscsJJra at Cen View.