WEATHER
Generally fair and cold-
er tonight. Wednesday
fair. Strong West and
Northwest winds.
CIRCULATION
Monday
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VOL. XII. FINAL EDITION
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 11)2:
FOUR FACES
NO. 5G
Economic Pressure May
Reduce Land Armaments
FLU WAS JINX AT She Wouldn't Have
CURRITUCK COURT Been 91iaid Now
Herbert Hoover Tells The World That American
Money Loaned To European Nations Must Not
Be Used To Bolster Credits And Support
Armies And Shows That There's A Reason
Mill
Judge Bond Disposed Of Docket
To Best A1 vantage Possible
In Single Hay
Alice Robertson Thinks Men
More Anient As Politicians
Than Iyovcrs
Are
With ono decree of absolute di
vorce granted and with one alleged
bootlegger convicted of aiding and
abetting in the illicit manufacture 0f jwompn ,,pr(
Kansas City, Mar. 7 (By The As
sociated Press) Miss Alice Robert
son, representative in Oklahoma,
speaking at a rally of Republican'
today, declared that
liquor, and with not another case
when she was first approached to
having gone to the Jury, the Spring ! n fo'- Congress she didn't think)
DAVIS TRACT IS
TO COST 825,000
Ry DAVID LAWRENCE
(Copyright 1922 by The Advance)
Washington, Mar. C. The United States Government is
taking steps to prevent American money from being used waste
fully in Europe and to compel foreign peoples who seek loans
here to promise to use capital for reproductive purposes only.
The full significance of what
the American Government in
sists is not a political but an
economic defensive measure is
just becoming apparent. With
the failure of European coun
tries to balance their budgets
because they are spending too
much money for the mainten
ance of armies, there has de
veloped a tendency on the part
of municipalities as well as
central governments abroad to
finance themselves loosely onj
the expectation that they can!
always make up their deficits
by borrowings through Ameri
can banking concerns.
This process will lie abruptly halt-
ed by the United States Government
through the use of its moral influence,
and its power of publicity. The views 1
of the administration are summed up
by Herbert Hoover as follows:
"America is today the remaining1
great reservoir of surplus capital, and
we must remain strong and conserve
the rightful use of this capital if the1
world is to recover. We will need;
much of it for the upbuilding of our
homes and public utilities, stagnated
today through inequalities in read
justment between industries. But our
surplus even then is greater than our
needs, and it would be disaster indeed
if it were dissipated in wasteful ex-
npnHttnrea nhrnflrl
"All loans to foreign nations which !tank car of the Kansas Cit Railwfly
Comnanv toon v.
are not employee in reproductive . -- --- -- -
wojk are a destruction of the capital.
It is vital that our bankers and invest
ors should scrutinize the loans to
which they are asked to eubsclbe that
they may be sure that they are em
ployed for reproductive purposes or
the refunding of outstanding obliga
tions. The furnishing of raw mate
rials the construction of transporta
tion facilities, public 'utilities and
work throughout the world is a use
for American capital that blesses both
the borrower and the lender. The up
building of the rest of the world and
its consuming power adds primarily
to world well-being, but it also adds
to the demand for our own labor, the
products of our own farmers, and the
services of our own merchants
The board of appraisers
appointed last week in con
junction with condemnation
proceedings brought last Thurs
day by the Hoard of Graded
School Trustees to acquire the
Davis property on North Road
street, assessed the property at
$25,000 at a meeting held Mon
day afternoon. Ry this action
they upheld the contention of
the heirs that the property is
worth more than the $20,000
offered by the Trustees, along
with the Davis homestead
which the Trustees, offered to
let the heirs dispose of as they
wished.
A part of the newly-added
school property on Parsonagt
street, which is owned by G
Falls, his wife and W. M
Jones, was a.sessed at $3,000.
term of Currituck Court adjourned
Monday after a one day session be-1
ginning at ten o'clock in the morning
and continuing until darkness came
in the evening. 1
The jinx was the flu. With fiuO
cases reported in the county, with
members of the bar looking askance
at every man who coughed or sneez
ed, with at least one defendant and
nobody knows bow many jurors and
witnesses ju.st up out of bed, and
with many other witnesses and par
ties to suits absent on account of
; illness, the machinery of court ap
i pea red so badly crippled that Judge
i Bond and the bar were agreed that
j the better course wa.s to dispose of
las many matters as possible Monday
and not to carry the term over into
another day.
i No less an authority than Dr. W.
t. Griggs said in the presence of a
i representative of this newspaper that
i t he scare that the flu-jinx threw
herself capable of running for dog!
catcher and that the man was so in
sistent that if the same tactics had I
been used in the matter of changing
COLON BACILLI
III CITY WATER
her name she
maid now.
would not be an old
Demand The Surrender Of
Limerick Police Barracks
Dublin. Mar. 7 (Ry The Associated
Press) Reports that the Republican
Mutineers have given t lie. free state
forces forty-eight hours notice to
surrender Limerick police barracks
are current here. This has intensi
fied the situation at Limerick and
caused genuine anxiety to free
staters.
The )ast official analysis of
the city water shows the pres
ence of colon bacilli, according
to the report of Dr. Zenas
Fearing, City Health Officer, to
the Council Monday night. Dr.
Fearing stated that these bacilli
could only get into the water
from human tilth, and that
their presence Indicates that
the water supply is polluted.
Superintendent Parker, of the
water company, represented to
the Council that the bacilli did
not show in an analysis of one
cubic centimeter of water, but
that they did appear in a
sample of ten cubic centi
meters. He admitted that the
test showed pollution, but was
inclined to minimizo the
danger.
Beseeches Bandits To
Pass Him By Awhile
LLOYD GEORGE HAS
DEFERRED ACTION
i Gives Colleagues No Pledge For
Future Will Retain Leader-
ship Till Irish Legislation Is
Completed
I London. Mar. 7 (liy The Assorl
jated Tress) Premier Lloyd George
has deferred his resignation without
giving his colleagues any pledge an
to his future action regarding the
Premiership, according to reliable
inforination reaching The Associated
Press. It is believed that he will re-
tain the leadership till Irish legis
lation is completed and possibly till
! the Genoa conference.
SIX ARE ARRESTED
AT HOME OF NEGRO
BORAH RESOLUTION TO
GET QUICK ANSWER
Tampa, Mar. 7 (Ry The Associ
ated Press) John Sutton, business
man whose home has been ransacked
four times recently, inserted an ad
vertisement in a newspaper here to-
Four White Men And Two Girls Hail
Keen Missing Since Sun
day Night
Discovered In a colored woman's
home on Rum Road, near the Carl
Commander placer four young white
men and two girls were arrested and
day, asking the marauders to please brought to this city at 2 : 0 Tuesday
(By The As-1 pass him by for a while as he is j afternoon by Sheriff Reid and Chief
Washington, Mar. 7
into the midst of the members of the sociated Press) Prompt response i nearly broke as a result of their ac
bar and into the face of the presid- i,y President Harding to the Rorah j tivities.
ing judge was a false alarm. Dr. resolution inquiring as to the status
Griggs did not deny that there had 0f the Lansing-Ishii agreement be-1 fffMrf, - nmn'
been something like 500 cases in tlie;tween the United States and Japan in SEUEll ARE DEAD
the event of ratification of the four, ,
power Pacific treaty ,was indicated; III TVlU GAKULIllAS
today after a conference between thej
President and Senator Lodge, chair-.!
man of the Foreign Relations Coin- Whole Towns Wiped Out
171 t- 1 l T l
in i 1 1 o . 1 wnen uayDreaK mrnauu
Air Tank Explodes
Five Workmen Killed
county, but the epidemic, he said,
jwas of very mild form and had been
restricted mainly to the Grandy cotn
i inanity and that in his opinion It
Iliad passed its zenith and had already
1 begun to .subside. Rut the doctor's
statement was not made in open
court but in the presence of a very
small group out on the courthouse
'ground, and the Jinx continued to
work and with such good effect that
i Solicitor Ehringhaus before the pass
ling of the morning session was be
I ginning to feel decided symptoms of
an attack and during the whole after
noon session, except when speaking,
though the day was sunny and warm
Swooped On States
SUBMIT FIRST
IRISH
DRAFT
Wilson, Mar. 7 (Itv The Associ-
CONSTITUTION ated Press) One person was killed
; and lillecn were injured and iroerl y
damage estimated at $IO,00(
was done in a wind storm sweeping;
the Hvunsdale seel inn today. The
storm was half a mile wide, and ex
tended for three miles, demolishiiiK
buildings. The injured have been
brought here.
Dublin, Mar. 7 (By The Associ
ated Press) The first draft of the
Irish constitution was submitted to
the provisional government today for
any changes deemed necessary.
of Police Holmes. The six are un
der arrest on a warrant charging
them witli entering a building for
purposes of prostitution. The men
are Otis Bland. Lee Overman, Charlie
Crank and Lloyd Crank. The girls
are Mamie and Essie Harris.
The six have been missing since
Sunday night, when W. C. Riggs's
automobile disappeared from the vi
cinity of the McAdams tent whili)
Mr. Riggs was attending services
there. Riggs and the local police
have been searching for two days
for the car, and it is believed that
the machine has been located stuck
in the mud two miles below Weeks
ville. Supposition here Is that the four
men and two girls left the city in
Riggs's automobile Sunday night,
though they have not been definitely
! connected with the theft of It. The
six will he tried In recorder's court
Augusta, Ga.. Mar. 7 (By The As
: sociated Press) Six are known to be hp,.p Wednesday morning. The Har
jdead and scores are injured as a re- rls K)ra wll0 nre twIiiH. have been
Tension Increases
In Irish Situation
Kansas City, Mar. 7 (By The As-;8at with his overcoat drawn over his
sociated Press) Five workmen are shoulders and spoke with a voice de- i Meets Tonight
reported killed and several injured ! cidedly husky and weak. I An important meeting of the Cen-
in the explosion of a compressed air j Definite Accomplishment ; tral Council of Public Welfare will
However, the day did not pass , be held in the Chamber of Commerce suit of high winds and Hooded . jiving at the home of their grand
without some definite accomplish- j rooms this evening at 7 : 30. streams in this section of Georgia j moti1Pr, Mrs . nonnie Harris, on Cedar
ment. j- ' and South Carolina. Langley, Stifle-1 street They bore an excellent repu-
The sensational case in which Tom j obtain (L-vorre for his client on the: ton, Granltevllle and Warrenville, tation untn IPW months 9go, since
Evans, charged with running off ; ground of separation under the sta-j s. C, were struck by a tornado at which time they have often been seen
with another man's wife, is defen- j tute passed at the last regular session I daybreak, and houses were swept jn (llp colp!lriy of the two Cranks
dant, for Instance, was again contin- or the uenerat Assemniy, inougn me : away, trees were uprooted ana teie-wll() were arre8ted with them.
Belfast, Mar. 7 (By The Associ-lued but with the provision that ; plaintiff, M. D. Etheridge, had lived ; graph poles felled leaving the section
ated Press) Gunmen were active in should the S'ate not be able to get apart from his wife, Susan Etheridge, , in darkness and without communl-j itONDSMKN Tl'KN Fit HUMAN
the early hours today, Increasing certain witnesses from Norfolk to , for forty-five years. After having cation. j OVKU TO POUCH OFFICKKS
the tension of the Irish situation. the trial at the next term, the de- picked flaws In the attorney's papers j The brunt of the storm hit War-1
.jfenbe would admit their depositions ; for ten or fifteen minutes, when Mr. 1 renville and Stifleton where six are. The bondsmen of William Free-
I into the evidence in lieu of their per-1 Halstead attempted to get the di-' dead. They are Fred Hoover, twelve; ! man, colored, surrendered hlm to tho
funding operations have gone or I roiiji! testimony. The State's in-! virce done with just before the noon 1 Mrs. L. Munday, forty; Mrs. Belle city Pole Tuesday morning, and
wnat is Known as non-reprouueuve , ..... . th witnesses in Sep-1 recess, Judge Bond ordered a recess Wood and children are expected to the negro, wno is cnargeu wun mini
1 " ...... ... . i i.i.. ...:r.,'.. u, ...... .... l .. :i .
purposes.
There have been loans on the other
tember was responsible for the con- insisting that he could not hurry
over a divorce proceeding even to ac-
tinuance of the case at that term.
hand like the recent Belgian loan or, Thp rase agalnHt Annie Rasnight. ; commodate his good friend, Attorney
$25,000,000 which was of the type Trannie Crankj anu Susie Crank was Halstead. When the case was taken
called and the defendants failed to up at the beginning of the afternoon
that the United States likes to en
courage. The money was lent to a
appear; but instead of being merely session. Judge Bond flatly refused to
die. The storm scattered parts of, MB ins wnes nonie on uauroau
buildings and furniture over the street, and with burglarizing the
fields and eleven house were razed home of Mrs. Lula Cherry, on West
at Warrenville and four at Stifleton. Main street, in January, will remain
Dirt roads and bridges are reported in jail until his cases are disposed of
washed out and train service at Mil- in Superior Court week after next,
ledgeville, Ga.. has beeu suspended. Freeman is alleged to havejnade
n... ,ho Hinnio,! tn Kro,1I) of manufacturers who ; continlIP(1 t0 tlie nPXt term it was let the case go to the jury on such
tit.rvevnen.liiorenrin unbalanced ,,0UK,,t raw matPria,s. .from the motion of the solicitor moved to evidence a
tinted States and paid for it witn , ,,.,.,,.,,,,, r,,..,,... where tlie lo- nresent. throuirh a brother of the wav Is renorted damaeed and Gen- were
fendants reside, when Mr. Ehring-, plaintiff, to show that the
military expenditure or in unbalanced
budgets in the bolstering up of in
flated currencies, are a double loss
to the world. They are not only a
loss in that they add nothing to the
increased productivity to the con
suming power of the world, but they
are a loss in that they entail the post
ponement of those measures which
are vital for th economic rehabilita
tion of the world."
This viewpoint, on which President
Harding and his cabinet are in unan
imous agreement, is in reality a se
quel to the failure of the Washington
is Mr Halstead was able to A nortion of tlie Aiiirnsta-Aiken rail- threats which alarmed those who
the Injured to Aiken and Augusta sons at a meeting
hospitals, but this report Is uncon
firmed.
Bank
Messenger Held
Bandit For Officers
on his bond. Fearing that he
the money that had 'been borrowed j ,,,,, rc;,ia i,Pn Mr Fhrlnir-: nbiintiff. to show' that the husband ernl Mnnaeer Hanirhar! is informed would leave, they turned hlm over
here. The raw materials were manu- h;uS pxnajI1P,i t0 the court how time was the aggrieved party in the sepa- that many houses have been blown ; to the police.
factured in Belgium into railway aftpr ,imp tnp raf,p ha(J 1)(P11 f0ntin-; ration, State papers have been fullblown in the vicinity of Warrenville
equipment which went 'o Roumania. J ue(, through tho fact that some of of the trouble lawyers in other dis-jand Langley and several killed. A MW MASON'M' OFFICIALS
Thus American factories were helped, tlp defendants claimed to be unable tricts have 'been having with their lineman sends in a report that nine The following officers for the en
Anierlcan investors applied their t() Rpl tQ t))e rourti,ol,se at Currituck I divorce cases before Judge Bond, but were killed and many houses destroy- suing year were elected by the Che
money usefully, and the Roumanian; h r()ci, ionK roads on ac- perhaps Mr. Halstead lives too near'ed and plans have been made to rush . rokee Chapter of Royal Arch Ma-
railways so vital to the upbuilding of p()unt ()f nlnpss or for SOme other , the Virginia line to keep up closely
Central Europe were directly bene-, gQoA rfcaf.on i with what Is printed In the North
",el- At the request of the Currituck j Carolina papers. The brother's tes-
But when a foreign group, es- Game Commission, the case of Ed.timony was to the effect that the wo
specially a municipality or govern-: Hrumley, charged with violation of ' man left without provocation, sup-
nient, seeks money simply to pay the game laws, was nol prossed. posedly on a visit to relatives, and.
..ranna n ,i,. onvihino nn ibills to munition contractors that type : it wns found in the trial of E. F. never came back any more. T1ie;
aims wuicmivc iw u uiijuiiiio u'i "
land armament. It is protested that!of 1an doesn't in the opinion of ourjEast for violation of the State pro-.court held that the brother, especial-j
i i . ! .infoa ni a, -1 officials heln to build un Europe, i i.n;iinn t-m-a that the defendant was lv as he did not live In the pair's i
! ,!.,.,!, Tim! to The United States Government ad-'n ho nt tlie t hue house at the time of the separation, " 1 n hH '
true but the whole economic prob-,mits that It "cannot require bankers 0f his discharge had developed tuber- was not in a position to say whether '"an and armed with a water pistol
..... ... i .... ,..,.!. .i, 1 to consult If nor will tho flennrt-..i..i.. .i i om nt ihl. firt nml tho woman w;im aL'trrleved or not . Mf'ded W It ll a mon la , a ba 11(1 It. li red ll is ,
Jem .11 r. UI Olie IS SO unci I -lUlll iu l lie l - - v . . , , , uJn, aim m , " mi.j i ... . - ,
question of expenditures for large ment ot state pass upon the merits, 0f the further fact Viat ,nP J"r'' did Judge Bond explained carefully, and
standing armies that the United o( foreign loans as a business pro- n()t rind him guilty of tlie actual i reiterated his explanation, that he
States is taking Its onw protective ! Positi(m or assume any responsibil- j manufacture of liquor but only of w-as not squeamish about granting
'measures and precautions so that whatever in connection with tlie e aicling and abetting in its maniifac- decrees of divorce when the party to
American nionev will not assist in-! Man proposition but the government ture, the court permitted him to go a suit was entitled to divorce under
flation hut will tend to reduce its here does believe that "in view of the j back to his family in Virginia under the law, but ho did insist, he said,
gC0pe . possible national Interests involved, i a suspended judgement. Hast when that a divorce was not a matter to
The nor.nri menf of Rtnto is the It should have the opportunity of ; arrested was living in a little alian- be hurried over and granted without
doned hut near Snowden, the home of a run investigation ot an uie kicis
a negro who had lately died, and a in the rase. And before he was done,
path led from a hut to a still in the casting aside for the woment Jndl
woods back of it and pretty conclu- rial air and tone and speaking with
sive evidence showed that Last's characteristic W. M. Bond intona-
Pittshurgh,
Mar. 7 (By The
-Dressed as a
As-wo-
weapon at Charles Lazaro, a hank
messenger carrying $15,000. The
messenger was bliirtled, but grappled
with his assailant, who was arrested.
agency through which the administra-; " MR io uie unoe, u,-. concerned,
tion hopes from time to time to tunc- 'Mufd it appear advisable to do so
tlon on this question. Just the other tli t there is or is not objection to
day a significant statement was is- any particular issue."
sued calling upon American bankers America's power in the recon-
to be more careful about committing struct ion of tlie world is to be
themselves to foreign loans. Most of exercised for the economic benefit
the larger banking syndicates, the of this country as well as Europe and
White House says, have been playing while it is denied there is any connec-
ball with the American Government tion between the policy just enuncl-ing the still and in
and submitting the loan proposals in ated and Europe's reluctance to pay! East about two wee
advance so that the Department of interest on her ten billion war debt! that time East has been lodged in
State could express object 'oils if It de- to the United States, the two are in- the Currituck County jail,
sired. But certain banking groups, evitably related. The constant warn-j Decree of absolute divorce was
the names of which for the present ing to Europe that sound finance , granted on statutory grounds in t lie
are withheld, have not been ro- alone will deserve American coopera-; case of Nina Collins against Gary
operating. Certain foreign bonds ' tion Is expected to bring results, slow i Collins, thp plaintiff 'being represen-
have been offered at attractive in- moving as some of the foreign na- ted by W. L. Small,
terest rates which apart from their tions may be to grasp the fart that) (io Xo Divorce
effect on America's own - interest America Is really trying to help her-
WILL PRESENT
BONUS TODAY
held at the Ma
sonic Hall Monday night: Thomas
A. Commander, high priest; W. T.
Culpepper, king; H. I'. Smith, scribe;
C. C. Illades, principal sojourner; R.
M. Wynn, royal arch captain; C. F.
Raulfs, captain of hosts; A. G. James,
secretary, and H G. Kramer, treas
u rer.
Fiircka LiHlje Meets Tonight
Eureka Lodge 317. A. F. A. M.,
will hold the regular monthly meet
ing tonight at 7:30 o'clock. A full
attendance is desired, as this Is the
fiftieth anniversary ot the lodge. The
Worthy Master will deliver a speech
befitting the occasion.
Robert Cotter lit
Robert Cotter underwent an op-
'oration for appendicitis at the Coin
Washington, Mar. 7 (By The As-.inanity Hospital Monday and is get
sociated Press) Final agreement on 'ting along nicely.
cart and horse had been used in
transporting the liquor made at the
still up to the house. Sheriff Flora
made the raid which resulted in lind-
the arrest of
s ago and mucc
tion, the judge was saying, "To tell
the truth. I don't believe that a man
who has lived apart from his wife
for forty-five years has gut any busi
ness trying to get a divorce at this
late day." His client was not able
to attend court at this time. Mr.
Halstead said, a'nd was clearly en
titled to divorce as ever a man rnnld
be under the terms of tlie statute.
Though few cases were tried the
calendar was gone over three times
and all matters on the docket given
fullest consideration and disposed of
the compromise bonus bill was reach-1
ed by House ways ami means Repub-!
Means today to authorize Chairman;
Fordney to present the bill before the
House today.
COST TWO THOUSAND
VISIT MUSCLE SHOALS
rates particularly In government re-, self.
W, I. Halstead of South Milts came; to the best advantage possible under
to grief, however, when sought to; the circumstances.
Washington, Mar. 7 (By Tlie As
sociated press) A resolution au
thorizing a $2. ("Hi appropriation to
defray the expenses of the Military
Committee's visit t'l Muscle Shoals
was Introduced by House Chairman
! Kahn today.
MM Thelma Sjkes Here
Miss Tlielma Sykes. daughter ot
Mr. and Mis. John Sykes, made a fly
ing trip from Norfolk to visit her
parenis here Monday night. Miss
Syks lias been kept busy on a seri
ous case for several weeks, and took
her llrst recent opportunity to come
home for a few days of rest. She
Is connected with Sarah Leigh Hos
pital, at Norfolk.
Register of Deeds George W.
Brothers is 111 with "flu" at his
home on North Road etreet.