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Unsettled weather to- night and Sunday, prob- ably showers. Little change in temperature. I CIRCULATION Friday 1,702 Copies D. fj f O VOL. XI. FINAL EDITION ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST C, 1921 FOUR PAGES NO. 182. '"h LIVELY CLAIMS SELF DEFENSE : Detective Makes Statement That His Life Had Been Threatened By Hatfield and Latter Shot First Welch, W. Vs., Aug. 6. -Self de fense Is the claim ot C. E. Lively, de tective, held in connection with the shooting to death of Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers, mountaineers. In a statement made today he eald that his life had been threatened by Hat field and when he approached the court house both drew their pistols ana startpa snooting, ana ne reimu- ed the fire. SPAIN'S WETNESS CAUSES ANXIETY : Threatens Boycott, Tariff Pres ', sure and Other Measures , Against Others, Especially Iceland and Finland Copenhagen, Aug. 6. Spain's anti-prohibition attitude is causing economic anxiety in more than one -dry" or partly dry country. Threats Ul lBllu i. - -other steps in behalf of the manu- facture and sale of Spanish wines are having their effect, notably in Ice- - -1 Jl T7111 Vnanrn n Inn A 1 inu ina r uiiuiu. seems impervious to 'foreign "wet" attacks. The Icelanders 'are worried, ac cording to the Polltiken, by the deci sion ot Spain to Increase customs duties on Icelandic fish unless the prohibition law is altered to allow the importation and consumption of Spanish wines below 21 per cent of alcohol. Spain's- decision spells ruin to the o'clock at a Norfolk hospital. . She Icelandic fish exporteays the Poll- was 72 years of age, and was well tlken's Iceland correspondent, who known here, especially on account of says he understands the government her active participation in the social of Ireland intends to introduce a and religious life of the city. An oill allowing the importation and operation was performed Tuesday in consumption of wine below the stipu- the hope of saving her life, but a re lated alcoholic content. Prohibition- lapse set in on Wednesday, and phy lsts have already started a political siclans in charge gave up all hope campaign in Iceland against such a for her recovery, policy. I Mrs. White is survived by four It is reported that the Helslngfors children, T. S. White, of Hertford; government intends shortly to Intro- Mrs. J. L. Abbltt, of Norfolk; Mrs. luce a bill which will greatly cur- j. h. Aydlett, and Mrs. James M. tail the powers of the present Fin- Weeks, of this city. She also leaves nish prohibition act. The Nor- a brother, J.' J. White, of Elizabeth weglan government, however, is tak-1 City. lng an exactly opposite attitude in j The funeral will be conducted at expediting their prohibition bill and ( Blackwell Memorial church by Dr. O. the government monopoly bill, in-,w. Clarke Sunday morning at ten dependent ot commercial treaty ne- o'clock, and the remains will be tak gotiations now going on with en to Hertford on the 11:34 train for France, Spain and Portugal. Spain has already closed her frontiers against Norwegian goods and Por tugal will take a similar step begin ning this month. YOU GET YOUR CHANGE A customer walked into the store of T. T. Turner & Company the other day and made a fifty cent purchase, But when he handed the clerk his half dollar he was surprised to get 13 cents in change. Mr. Turner of humanity but also from an Inter emllingly explained that "The Store national point of view. The diffl For Dad and the Boys" is now offer- culty requires not only International lng. one-third off on all furnishings, co-operation for Its solution, but and that you get your discount necessitates positive steps being tak whether you ask for it or not. . en by the Japanese Empire, which is ' 'destined to suffer most seriously (from the malcontrol of opium in fluerilla Warfare IKwantung Province. On Eight Fronts - Riga, Latvia; Aug. 6. Guerilla "warfare with small bands of irreg ular or peasant troops was "being waged by Bolshevik forces on eight 'fmnfa " nprnrriinr to an official Bolshevik report of recent military operations, a copy' of which has reached Riga. These irregulars, who interfere with collection of foodstuffs from the peasants and generally oppose the Bolshevik! whenever possible, are re- lerred to by Moscow as "bandits, The report, dated June 10, and de flcribing among Its operations a con- met wi n some tuu norsemen inir to "General'-' Antonoffs forces in . i . . ji the Tamboff government, was In dl - lect contradiction to Moscow's claim, made in May, that Antonoff's cam paigns had been liquidated. In these fights, most of them con sisting' of long, running skirmishes, scores of villages have been devastat ed or sacked and many hundred per sons killed. In the June report, for Instance, describing a fight on June 7, with this Antonoff detachment, the Bolshevik! claim to have killed 70 of their foe in one skirmish and to have caught 300 of another detachment. "part of whom were killed." Slmi - lar numbers of casualties were re- ported in the fighting, day by day, -with Moakno's bands in tbe Ukraine, McCAttE & GUICE CLERKS AliHO 100 PUB CENT ACROSS Announcement was nnulo Hut urduy morning that tlio em ployrs iu McCfabe & Grlce's store buve matched the 100 per cent Community Hospital stork sub scription record of Mitchell's Department Store. Every clerk in tills establishment, too, has stock in the Hospital. Other stores in the city are working along; the same line, and dally the opening of the Hospital, with adequate funds to finance the institution, becomes more clearly a certainty. The Hos pital Committee Saturday morn ing telegraphed the management of Jefferson Hospital, Phlladel phft and of Jo,ins Hopkln9 Hospital, Baltimore, for recom mendations as to a qualified lady superintendent for the Hospital here. Meanwhile, the sale of Hospital stock is pro gressing rapidly, and those who have not yet sent in their sub scription cards are again urged to do this as promptly as pos sible. PEOPLE URGED NOT TO CROWD THE WHARF Those expecting friends and rela Hvaa to nrrlvA hprA nn ttia Macro Heftd b u n arfl , requested not to crowd the wharf wher(J the teame dockgi becaugfl ,B ma manner paagengerg gettln off th boat ae gerl0UB, del d K , rennrtorf that ml noronn. iinnhla to push through the throng at the , wharf last Sunday night, missed the southbound train, greatly to their, inconvenience and annoyance. MRS. TRIM WHITE DEAD Mrs. Trim White, who has been critically ill for the past three weeks, died Friday night at 7:05 interment in ground there. the family burial OPIUM PROBLEM INTERNATIONAL Toklo. June 29 (Delayed) The Japan League of Nations Association yesterday adopted a resolution that the opium question claims serious at- tention not only from the standpoint . i Concerninc the labor Question, an other resolution said: "The govern- ment should be encouraged to enact labor laws based on the agreements passed by the Washington Labor Conference, with due regard to the ,r, f lnternatlonal co.0pePation . .. underlying tnose agreements. ( .VANSCIVER WILL RUN 1 jq flGS HEAD SUNDAY The Vansclver will make the trip to Nags Head Sunday, leaving from the foot of Burgess street as usual, at eight o'clock Sunday morning and vat i xn 1i r Cim A a V n f erh f Mania will be ierve refre8nmenU wln Dft Bold A1 . . . ana mere win db music, , Tfle . f fc enjoyed the trip' last Sunday. The management looks well after the comfort of those on board. Excellent order is maintained and everything ls done to make the trip a real benefit and pleasure to the working people who want to get away from the heat and discomfort of payed streets for one day In the week. LENINE WANTS TO GO TO SCOTLAND FOR VACATION j Copenhagen, Aug. 6. Nikolai Le- nine, Russian Bolshevik p rentier, is seeking British permission to spend his vacation in Scotland. SENT BY WIRELESS I Press) Japuu has agreed on No- Naval Radio Station Sends ber eleventh for the beginning of . the disarmament conference In Photo to Paris Newspaper as Washington a, suggested by the Test of Modern Scientific United States, according to news Discoveries j p"perg here" Annapolis, Aug. 6. Transmission of photographs and written docu ments in facsimile across the ocean by wireless was accomplished In re cent tests at the naval radio station. A photograph of the Dempsey-Car- pentier fight was sent to a Paris newspaper. Nurse. Shoots Her Common Law Husband r . . . .. .' . . snots at him in Brooklyn laat n ght, u u . said that he was her common law, t,..K j a uuDuauu aim ucbci icu ior 10 uiurry another woman. She swooned after! the shooting. ' I Museum Secures a Famous Collection More Than 2,000 Pieces Included In Exhibit of Firearms of Late Western Publisher Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 6. A col lection of arms of the late General Harrison Gray Otis, noted publisher of The Los Angeles Times, contain ing more than 2,000 pieces and said to be the most complete in the West, has been installed here as a perma nent exhibit at the museum of his tory, science and art at Exposition Park. Among the collection of knives, pistols, rifles an,d antique Ore-pieces are many weapons of historical sig nificance. A brace of "horse pis tols" In the collection once belonged, it is said, to General Lambert, of Na poleon's staff. Several highly orna mented pieces are Moorish and the exhibit includes a large number of Arabian rifles, with barrels seven feet long, covered with brass and silver. Other pieces include a gun from "Custer's Last Stand" fight, a cross bow from the Boxer rebellion, pieces used by frontiersmen of Kentucky, bowie knives, a pike from the time of the Crusaders, Chinese swords, Persian battle axes, American Indian battle axes and modern automatic re volvers. IRISH REFUGEES RUSH TO LONDON London, Aug. 6. Numbers ot Southern Irish loyalist refugees, in dire straits, are dally arriving in London. In many cases, they are women and children who have lost their bread-winners and frequently their sole possessions are the clothes they wear, their homes and other possessions having been destroyed. unuer me iviaiicious injury aci, all these people are entitled to com- pensatlon, leviable on the local ' rates, but although decrees have been granted for sums aggregating millions of pounds, very few, have been paid. It is said that in con- sequence of terrorism, lawyers in Southern Ireland are frequently un- able to prosecute claims gainst tho . " ov" UCBU threatened with death should they . . , , lv The London committee of the Irish Unionist Alliance is no.w taking up such claims, and is preparing an appeal to the Brlttar government asking that compensation, both in t0'"ta., made a first charge upon all moneys that may be handed over by the Brit. ish Exchequer to the Southern Irish parliament. WHAT NEXT? An interest - compelling adver- tlsement ls that of Weeks & Sawyer ln this issue, announcing window dls- 0id canal running from Road street, the hands of the carpet baggers, ' tory of the Massachusetts Bay colony plays of sensational bargains next south of the high school building, to which the original Ku Klux opposed. has been acquired by the city of Bos week to close up the "Whale of a the river, in order to determine the "One of the most obnoxious things ton for park purposes. It is the Scott Sale." "Don't be surprised at any- fall required and to make possible to me Is the claim that this commer- estate in Dorchester, where was thing you see," says Bill C. Sawyer. a general estimate of the cost of a clal thing Is a memorial to the origi-1 erected what ls said to have been the Such an announcement from the concrete basin to replace the present nal Ku Klux. and their use of that first free school, store "where the best clothes come openi insanitary and oftentimes vilely idea ls to get more money. Another On the plot of ground which marks from" means something really un- offensive ditch. . j of the claims ls that It Is working the Intersection of East Cottage, usual and startling ln the way of j hand in hand with the American Le-, Pleasant and Pond streets, Dorches- oargams, Advance reaaers nave learned. APPOINTED ARCHBISHOP Washington, Aug. 6. Official an- nouncement of the appointment of Bishop Michael J. Curler, of St. A -. mA In A T7M n n m A m rtli i I O f V t nu&uo-iiiu, i' ja.f no muutauvy us, Baltimore to succeed Cardinal Gib- bons was received here today. 'JAPAN AGREES on conference; Toklo, Aug. 6 (By The Associated ' OLDEST NEWSBOY GETS WATCH BACK David Swain, oldest newsboy In North Carolina, and perhaps in the South, this morning recovered a highly treasured silver watch that I was stolen from him last Wednesday; as her son, Edward. She said she afternoon. Mr. Swain hung his vest had known for many months that he on a nail in the front room of his was her son, but kept quiet for per home on Pool street on the day of sonal reasons. . the theft, and went out to get a' A few moments afterward. Mr Swain I j. . . .... L discovered that his vest had beenf . ,., , . . I robbed of his watch and a small sum 1" . . , . , . iiiu wuixii was , laier tten oy three small colored girls to Sellg's Jewelry store, where the children of fered It for sale. Suspicious of them, Frank iSelig took it temporarily In charge, jand Mr, Swain recovered it Saturday morning. The three small negroes will be arrested and tried !n Juvenjle court. TY COBB GAINING Chicago. Auif. 8. Tv Cobb lg creeping up on Harry Heilman, both , Detroit players, in the batting honors of the American League, with only twenty-five points separating them. KILLS THREE THEN HIMSELF Corbin, Ken., Aug. 6. Richard McHargue killed his mother, wife and step-daughter at his home here today and then committed suicide, WILL OPEN FRUIT STAND Morrisette & Raper, Hinton build ing grocery and Model Bakery, Eu gene Raper, proprietor, will add a fruit stand to their: equipment on follows: , September 15th, and buy fruit "I am the supreme head of the or wholesale from all the big markets. ( der in North Carolina, subject only ' to the imperial wizard; and I now Governor Small Is Jec,T th ?u K!,UX rp D , mm j Carolina disbanded and abandoned, lO Ketlim Monday every organized klan ended, and Chicago, Aug. Governor Small today announced that he would re-' turn to Springfield Tuesday. The sheriff holds a warrant there for the governor's arrest. Governor Small is charged with embezzlement. j Shot And Killed rt LilllCrCU aiWllIC Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 6. John li. Kennedy, agea twenty-six, w. shot and killed last night while tering his summer cottage with Mrs. Madeline Oberchaln, aged twenty, of Evanston, 111. The girl said he was shot from behind by two men who escaped In the bushes. She said she divorced her nusoana lor love ior Kennedy.' IS BUILDING A DITCH City Manager Ferebee now has un der construction a concrete ditch on Broad street, near the intersection of North Road, by which he hopes to drain off tne water that accumulates there after every neavy rain, me new ditch. three feet in breadth and ' depth, will be covered witn a Dnage n,. -if it the, Btreet. Running three-quarters of a ai L li o LUliit " v .i, v.vuovv mlle acrogg t0 Knobbs Creek, it is belleved that tni8 dltch wlll bo of materia, value lB dralnlng that part theclty. It will be completed ahnnt th'm ,Ma of next week. ac. CQrd Mr Ferebee SURVEYING OLD CANAL Of his own initiative, and to deter- mine for himself what will be neces- ,ary for adequate drainage, P. R. Hufty is now making a survey of the koPER A. JAMES DEAD WAS DEM(H,11ATIC L.KADKK Danvllle, Va., Aug. 6. Represen - tatlve Roper A. James, of the Fifth Congressional District, died here suddenly today at his home of.heart dleease while talking over the tele-1 phone. He was 62 years old and M- A m an nlnAtod tl ll tk TJM1 ma loaf XI tv as iuoicvicu tv iuc . v ihdi vember. He had been State leader. in Dmocratlc politics for years. INSISTS ON SIGNING OF TREATY OF AMITY Mexico City, Aug. 6. linked Churge f-jummerlJjB delivered to the foreign ofllce today a note from Washington. Newspapers here say that the note Insists upon the signa ture of a treaty ot amity and com merce, but the authorities here refuse to discuss It. WOMAN IDENTIFIES STRANGER AS SON Chicago, Aug, 6. The ragged stranger for whose murder Carl Wan derer is sentenced to be hanged was. Identified today by Mrs. Nellie Ryan KU KLUX is a FRAUD J il- I It iXVJMJ . R, Bruce Craven. Formerly Head . of Organization In State, Orders Klan Disbanded Klans Say Will Refuse . Greensboro. N. C Aua-. 8. Maior Bruce Craven, of Trinity, Friday de- clarerl thn Ku Kinx Klan in North (Carolina, "of which I am the su- preme head in this State, disbanded by Mrs. Anna E. Lewis, the local wel and abandoned; every organized fare officer. Because there Is so great 'Klan ended and every Klansman re-1 leased frora his connection, his re- sponsiDinty ana ODiigauons. Local officers of the Klan said they , would Ignore Major Craven's order. They explained that he had been court problems, enforcement of the head of the organization, but has no compulsory school law and many ap authority to disband it. cial problems that deal with delln- "The new organization of the Quency, immorality, health, unem Klan, as at present conducted in Ployment, family relationships and North Carolina, is an organization engaged exclusively in collecting lni- 'Nation fees under false pretence, (without any legal standing in the State, and is in my opinion, a failure and a fraud." The above Is the keynote of Major' Craven's remarks. But he says many other things, a part of which i every klansman released from his ennnrtnn. h) rAannnaihiHtv and hi obligations, I shall not violate the ohnHnn. nn t iriv nt no aecretg of any kind, and neither shall i use tne knowledge I possess of the membership and all other operations up to date, but because of those things all persons implicated in it in the State should realize that when I BnT ho thin la onilnrl it onrtnl T( makfl th,8 regu,t certa,n every ,n, corporated Cty and town ln the state en-'should M an ordinance prohibiting any pergon trom appearing on th9 8treetg or , bc ,ace wear. ,ng magk or Qther th, to con. eal ,n,a jdentity . ..Tnere ls n()thlng serious about it except tne protection it affords bad men and the money it takes out of the State. To accomplish these things the professions ot Americanism and law and order, common to all fra ternities, are rung ln for all they ar The ritual of the order is the tx,ai T vDtm or m(lt Tf like a compliation by a school boy's hlood and thunder socletv. The whole u, U868 whatever ,B necessary for tn8 cornmerclai purposes. In Georgia . i n'horo if 1 a inbA i atanna in Inn. port of peonage ;nd otner outrage9 Z Mt the neKroe In other place jj Jtt e JflZo 1 CaMt9 ' its appeal on jXtoMolSctoSSZ """v;": ' ' . -T. V,:": , - ' . tioa puts i JT lea,Tlng my v, a liio ii u I iu vai uii.ii a ui gauuauuui i I any should be left, largely ln control any should be left, of Catholic church influence. Except f0r myself there has not been one native North Carolinian active in the work in the State. The situation is in 1 glon and the Masonic fraternity, all of which is rank fraud." , w. J. Simmons, Imperial Wizard, of Atlanta, now says that Craven was never the Klan bead in North Carolina John Harney Is here frora Raleigh Mrs. T. 8. Harney on West Main . I r street, IS NOW ORGANIZED First Meeting Will Be Held on Monday Evening, August the Fifteenth, In the Chamber of Commerce Rooms At a meeting held In the Chamber of Commerce reception room Friday evening, with representatives of near- ly all the churches and a number ot other organizations present, steps were taken toward the organization of a Public Welfare Council to co ordinate the welfare work of the city and to assist the local welfare officer in her efforts to carry on the many phases of the work here. The organization of such a council wus begun after W. D. Sanders of the State Department of Public Welfare had expluined the work undertaken by the State in each county. Mr. Sanders spoke of the stages through which government has passed front the old idea of oppression, through the better plan of protection, tn thn ninrlprn thnncht nf rpnl dp nine. racy. The real democracy takes those wno t0T reasons for which they are often not to blame, are liabilities, and by kindly help wisely given, makes them assets to the community and lo the State. A number of persons nresent sDoke of the splendid work being done here need of a community nurse, this worn nas resiea upon Mrs. kewis shoulders so heavily that many thought this her only work, perhaps. , But there are also many Juvenile o " if e looiteu aner. Mrs. Lewis, 'always modest and retiring, a woman of deeds rather than words, stated very simply that she needed the co- operation oi me enure community iftnd funds to carry on the work. G- R- Little, juvenile court Judge, wafl unanimously acclaimed president or chairman of the Public Welfare Council, and Mrs. F. G. Jacocks was chosen secretary. Secretary Job will co-operate with and assist the Coun- oil and the Chamber of Commerce rooms will be used as the meeting place of the Council. - There will be a representative from each church and organization and a number of "-officio fnembers were named, ln- cIudln tn mayor, the chairman of ine Boara 01 county commissioners, president of the Chamber of Com merce, the farm and home demon strators and others. The next meeting will be held on Mnd?y August 15, at eight merce rooms, and at that time it is hoped that the representatives chos- u i""""' ' ei-omcio memDers- Tbe by-laws and general workln& Dlan w,n De presented, , n.ra. IN COL RT SATIRDAY I J- T. McPherson, C. A. McPherson and Joenua Relfe, all of the Berea Bm;uuu' werB iaeu W,U1 lue C08lB ol . iu an aula. Lucius Holly, colored, was fined $50 and costs for operating an auto mobile while intoxicated. He noted an appeal, and was placed under a bond of $75. J. W. Caulk was fined $10 and costs for BDeedlnK CROSS RUSSIAN BORDER MONDAY Lon(lon Aug" 6 By The A880C'at- ed Press)-All American prisoners in MoBCOW and Ptrograd will be sent l?"? day, according to a message from the Eurpean dlrectr f the AmeHcan Relief Administration. HISTORIC , SPOT WILL BE MADE INTO PARK Boston, i Aug. 6. Another spot closelv associated with the early hls- ter residents of 150 vears aeo held their town meetings. , Nearby, ac- cording to records, some of the first cplonlsts ln this vicinity pitched their tents after landing at what la now known as Savin Hill Beach. Later settlers deposited their valu ables on the lot each night, leaving them under protection of an armed colonial soldier, and returning for them early the next day.
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