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FOUR PA (IKS
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United States
Reparations
Harding Says Congress Should Authorize Am
erican Membership, And Will Publish Note To
Allies Asking That $241,000,000 Occupation
Expense Bill Be Considered
Ry DAVID
(Copyright 1922
Washington, March 22. The Uni
ted States will take its place at the
table of the reparations coniaiiission
before very long.
This conclusion is inescapable af
ter the developments of the last 24
hours here the expression from the
White House that Congress should
authorize American membership
and the decjion today to make pub
lic the full text of the American note
to Great Britain, France, Belgium,
Italy and Japan asking that the claim
for $241,000,000 for payment of the
expenses of the American army of oc
cupation on the Rhine be considered
by the allied powers who are dolnig
out the reparation money.
No less a person than the President
himself has told Congress that the
situation over the import of dyes
'from Germany for the textile Indus
try ie so serious that American parti-
cipation in the deliberations of the i
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reparations commission is absolutely
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essential. Mr. Hard ng now puts the'
issue squarely up to Congress and
says the responsibility for the ab
sence of an American member on the
reparations commission lies with
Congress.
Thi3 is a new tack for the execu
tive. Heretofore the initiative In
international co-operation has been
with the President or Secretary of
State, but so jealous has Congress
become over all dealings with Eu
rope that Mr. Harding is not apt to
project the question, especially at a
time when the treaties negotiated by
the arms conference are having such
liard sledding.
It is significant that both faenator Wednesday afternoon in Superior
Lodge and Senator Underwood, lead-1 court, but the Judge temporarily re
ers or the Republican and Democratic served sentence on the negro.
parties respectively in the Senate, are
crying aginst the allied neglect or the (,VE SUBSCRIPTION PARTY
American cla'm for $241,000 000;
and are insisting on its payment. The
executive is not saying that this
claim would not now be in question
if the United States had been rep
resented on the reparations com
mission but he 'has hinted as much
and the chances are that he will
permit the country to believe Con
gress rather than the executive is
responsible.
Incidentally, the pressure ror Am-
erlcan representation on the repara-
tions commission comes from many
different BKles. l ne lexuie maim-
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racturers wno say mey are u.aoe
tn nhtatn certain Hves not made in
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inlS country are insisting inav me
American Government exercise Its!
rights and .get those dyes from Ger-j
many through the reparations com-;
mittee which is in full charge or
what is done with Germany's dyes, j
It would be possible tor instance to '
take dyes in payment or a part or the
$241,000,000 owed America. These
dyes would then be sold to Ameri
can firms by the United States Gov
ernment Which would credit the Re
ceipts against the original sum ex
pended ror maintaining the army on
the Rhine.
Until last November the textile al
liance, an organization created by
the textile industry, was getting
German dyes by virtue or an agree
ment with the Department or State
which In turn was dealing directly
with the' reparations commission.
The department, however, termin
ated the arrangement immediately
upon the ratification or the Berlin
treaty and the adoption by the Am
erican Senate ot a reservation de-
clanng that the Lnited States Gov -
eminent shall not be represented on
the reparations commission without
the consent of Congress. The legal
experts of the Department of State
felt that any further dealings with
the reparation commission after that
reservation was effective would be
Illegal. This left the textile indus
try at a serious disadvantage and
appeal, after appeal has been made
to the President to urge Congress to
pass the neeesnary legislation to per
mit American representation on the
reparations commission. Mr, Hard
ing wrote Senator Frelinghuysen or
New Jersey expressing regret over
the situation and saying he was
powerless to act without help from
Congress.
And thus the situation has drifted ! the reparations commission in simply i reached here today after sacrificing a
until the Allies now have gone ahead! piling up legal troubles for the j large part of her cargo,
and apportioned German reparation ! United States anil the White House I Marseilles, Mar. 23 (By The Ax
money without considering America's ad Department of State are not soclated Press ) : The American
claims. They had invited Amerlra averse to having the country know . freighter West Caruth is sinking
again and again to be prefent but that Congress Is alone able to cure seventeen miles east of Cherbourg,
without result. The problem be- the situation and give them the au- according to a wireless appeal for
came so complex that it is believed; thorlty to safeguard and protect Am-'help Intercepted at Mediterranean
the first thing Secretar Hughes did'erican rights. 1 wireless stations.
To Join
Commission
LAWRENCE'
by The Advance)
Verdict of Guilty
Rendered In Hurry
(nse of NeRTo Chared
Jury In
With Forgery Took l!u( Eleven
Minnies To Decide
After ten minutes of deliberation,
a Superior Court jury here late
Wednesday afternoon returned a
verdict of guilty In the case of Abe
Sawyer, negro charged with com
mitting an assault upon two white
women here. The verdict took no
cognizance of the plea of insanity
offered by the attorneys representing
Sawyer. Judge Bond temporarily
postponed sentence in the case.
The assault charge against Abe
Sawyer, the negro who insulted two
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Barclift case had been concluded.
W. L. Cohoon and M. B. Simpson, the
attorneys representing Sawyer, based
their defense on the allegation that
their client was insane when he com
mitted the alleged act of assault,
and placed on the stand numerous
witnesses in support of their conten
tion to that effect. The case went
to the jury shortly before five o'clock
Wednesday afternoon.
The jury in the case of C. M.
Barclift, colored, charged with forg
ery, brought in a verdict of guilty
I within eleven minutes after Judge
1 Bond had concluded his charge
ON THURSDAY, MARCH 30
The ways and means committee of
the Parent-Teachers Association is
arranging for a subscription card
party in the Elks Hall, Thursday,
March 30. from 3 to 5:30 and from
S to 11. Tickets will be for sale be
diming Friday or this week. Auc
tion bridge, 500, and rook will be
played and the ladies may take their
choice and .make up their own par-
ties. The committee is made up or
Mrs. J. A. Spence, Mrs. Carl Blades,
Airs. j. m. weens, mis. ja.mes riauii-
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away, Mrs rrnw.
Harnev. Mrs. H. G. Kramer. Mrs. J.
K. .. , , ,, . 1
ixuruian vv iiueimi m, .ii 1 . nni 1 en j,
Mrs. L. E. Skinner. The music will
be under the direction of Mrs. I. M.
Meekins.
RACK FROM NEW YORK
M. Leigh Sheep is back rrom New
York, where he made purchases Tor.
the pre-Easter trade of the Wo-:
man's Wear Store. "Splendid values'
in dresses, coats and suits were c L x wif ord or this city was1
made," says Mr. Sheep, "so that our;flne(', flye dollars and costs in record-!
customers can effect a real saving er,g cmirt nere Thursday morning!
and be sura or latest style merchan- (fo failure t0" jug his automobile j
dise. No newer or better styles are: f t t the aDDroach or a
being shown in New York than
have brought to Elizabeth (Jity ror
our customers. ,
VII Ji SING AT TENT
m f t n , , 1 1 r thrx Pitvl
.Mia. uific l. ne. I, v,.v,
Road Methodist choir, will sing at
the McAdams tent meeting Thursday
night.
after President Harding's return
, For)da a. q advlse U)at R
would be increasingly difficult to
handle American questions touching
the reparations commission unless
America officially were represented
on the commission. It 'is beginning
to be apparent that the reparations
commission which is wholly separate
and distinct from the League of Na
tions is a most, powerful economic
body with tentacles reaching Into
American commerce. There are
those who believe Germany's exports
and imports eventually will be regu
lated by the reparations commission
and that tariffs may he imposed
which will affect America vitally
and against which Interminable legal
argument and diplomatic effort will
luive to be exerted. Absence from
SJllSJn!
nOAD STREET j
School Trustee J te verse Earlier
Killing That Would Have Kneed
Now Building On ( anal
i The Hoard of School Trustees has'
! reversed its decision to front the new ;
city high school on the canal, to-1
ward the foot or Elliott street, andj
w ill instead locate the building on i
Road street, opposite the present
high school building. The board
justifies the change with the state-;
ment that, were the new building to
face the canal, the depth of the lot,
would allow but 56 feet from the
! handsome structure to the proposed;
street, and that the building itself.
' would necessarily extend to within
Am feet ()f Uu, g . property line.1
These ifactors, declare members of
the Hoard, would spoil the symmetry
of building and lot.
School Board officials point out,
on the other hand, that the conform
ation of the Davis lot permits the
building, if fronted on Road street,
to he located 100 feet from the
street. Plans tentatively drawn,
however, allow a distance of eighty
feet, which the Board believes is suf
ficient to make the building show up
1 well. At present, it Is planned to
build a white hjgh school housing 21
classrooms, a library, gymnasium,
auditorium and special vocational
and business department.-. The
building will have a frontage of 208
feet on Road street, and 150 feet on
the canal, the latter in a handsome
wing with an entrance but slightly
less imposing than the main entrance
on Road street
The School Board feels that, with
(the new building 80 reet rrom the
! street, it will not dwarr into insig
nificance the existing high school,
since the latter is but 60 reet re
! moved from Road street. The pro
posed high school will, it is indicat-'
'ed, have two entrances on Pool street,
which will, however, be far less pre
itentious than those on Road street
and the canal.
A sixteen room colored high
school will be erected on property
bought by the trustees on Body
Road, some five hundred yards from
Roanoke Institute, and a six-room
colored primary school win oe uuiu
on Bank street, in what is Known as
Sawyertown. Plans call ror the ex-
?e?,d.i,tUre lilSltT 'I'Z
buildings
1 I1C IUIUICU 'lftll "" v'
lot nas a iromage i
depth or 1100 reet, and contains
. a O ft A fnn( n
proximately nine acres, affording al
most unlimited room for a baseball
field, football gridiron, tennis and
basketball courts. It cost the Board
$6,000. The Bank street lot has an
area or three acres, and the pur
chase price was $880.
No opposition is indicated thus
rar on the part of either the School
. A. . , ,,, n.,ia
'Moara or toe owue.o ui '!...,
Board or the
the price or $25,000 set
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for the tract recently oy a m.iu i
appraisers under condemnation Pro-impnt! refreshments were served
ceedings. The .tour or five acres, by the hoRtpRg
bought by the Board on Parsonage, presented a piece or
street ror $16,500 will not he built ailve tQ Mjss Mara Bau-hn who
upon ior me preseiu, a..u ..., -
converted temporarily into an auxil
iary athletic field.
"
( OST $5 NOT TO STOP
I,fire trUck on the way to answer an
alarnl
RANKER GETS MISTRIAL
Lancaster. S.
C, Mar. 23 (By fhe
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. . rt Press Hie jury 111 me
in me
rhar1p n jones. banker and
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merchant, charged with breach
trust and misappropriation or rumis,
was discharged this morning and a;
mistrial ordered. He will be tried
, (m olhpr indictments at the next term
of court.
ARMOIR MILL ONS ,, , , Wy thnn , f . .
(IUU,S UIKThur,day morning in a collar of the l" " giving rela-
m TTTm. The Vwl i vintage of 1914. He explained that 1VM "r deceasrvl members. It af
Chicago, Mar. 23 (By The A.-socl- 1 for( ,fe nallr;nu.0 t0 mPll wi10Hfi
i i r. n....,.ii,.r, Armniir the collar wassent him that year by.
ated Press) Gwendolvn Armour,. duties are so hazardous that regu-
. .. , ,,. p pi.nin n a relative, who did not l(now him , , ,
six year old daughter of I lnlip D. ' , , ; ar insurance enmpanies will not ac-
k -,.i ennti very well, and that lie had to wait , , ,
Armour, Third, died from septl- ''..., .,, Tllraf1nv ; enpt them as risk..
,.nml, ilo-nltQ tliu mill OHM Cl! tilt?
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Armour family, the skill of a
(loZelli
surgeons, a host of nurses and
sources of an entire city.
FREIGHTER
IACIIES PORT
Cherbourg, France, Mar.
I (By
Rhip-
The Associated Press) The
' nine Hoard freighter. We-t Caruth.:
F1NAL MTTLE IS I
m ,N SENATE1
i Administration Leaders Re-
ported Holding Lines Intact1
Against Onslaught Of Irre-;
concilables In Debates
Washington, Mar. 21! ( Hy The As
sociated l'ress) Final forensic bat
tle over the four power treaty be
gan in the Senate today with the ad
ministration leaders holding their
lines intact against the irreconcill-
ahles' onslaught, and predicting
ratification tomorrow without reserv-
ation except that
foreign relations
President Harding.
ipproved by the
committee and
j
Confesses Crime
Laid To Another
!
Mar. 23 (By The
Curtis R. Jenk-
Richmond, Va.,
1 Associated Press)
ins, of South Richmond,
i February 23rd, confessed
before his death that he
Walter R. Hines, killed policeman 1
1 Washington I. Curtis last August, ac-j
cording to a statement .made this
niorning by Mrs. Bessie Jenkins, a
sister-in-law or the dead man.
HOUSE DEMOCRATS LAUNCH j
FIGHT AGAINST GAG RULE
Washington, Mar. 23 (By The As-J
sociated Press) A fight against gag
rule was launched by House Detno-j
cratlc leaders today after majority ;
,ea(,ers na(1 P'Psented their program ;
for the passage of the soldiers bonus ;
1)111.
RJp' Tirlal Wave Ha
Inundated Venice
London, Mar. 23 (By The Assoc!
ated Press) A Central News
(IIS- t
patch from Venice says that a tidal
wave last night inundated the city,
the water rising over three reet in
the public squares.
TRY
TO HALT STRIKE
Yaw Vnrlr Mur
23 (By The As-
g()fiateil Pre8fi)
An eleventh hour
attempt to halt preparations ror
nation wide rnal Qtriko was mnrla hv
tlle arbitration committee of anthra-
c:te miners and operators who met
today behind closed doors. Upon the
P-'Con,ference depends whether 200,000
anthracite workers shall Join the
400,000 bituminous miners strike on
April 1.
M. R. CiaSS PRESENTS
(HFT TO MISS RAUGHN
The C. M. B. Class of Blackwell
Memorial Sunday school met with
iMr3 w
. u. uverman on cypress jeopardizing lives that they must!
Tuesday night. Dr. J. H.ave f r0TT1 the neril of Iurk'ne. shift-i
I" '
-iinayer mane
a helprul talk on the
book or leaiah.
At the rinse ofi the
,... the en(1 of .. month t()r
her home in Harlem, Georgia, after
a year and a halt as special Sunday
school worker Tor Blackwell Mem
orial. It is with great regret that
the Sunday school will say good hye
to Miss Baughn, tor she is liked by
every one, old and young.
Oklahoma Governor
Is To Face Trial
,
Okmulgee, Okla Mar. 23 (By The
Assoe'ated Press) Governor J. B.
A Unhertsnn nf Oklahoma and sev-
. -mi. nf nkmnlspe hanks are
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'!tfons involving two local banking in
Btitlltlonflt county Attorney Hep
,)urn announm, that Ulfi (late ()f Uie!
:(r,a, wi not ,)(J nxp(1 a wopk or
daB-
REWARDED AFTER 8 YEARS
! Pnnarqnt ITaarinff ulirtrt ford 111 flTl In
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'for the gift collar to fit hiln.
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OIL EXPORTS FALL OFF
Washington, Mar. 23 (By The As
sociated Press) Exports of cotton
seed oil during February fell off
sl'ghtly under 400 per cent ns rom-
pared with a year ago, commerce ro -
ports show.
GRANTED DIVORCE
A divorce was granted in Superior
Court here Thursday morning to
Llna Brothers, colored, from her
husband, Henry Brothers, on
grounds or Infidelity and brutal!
treatment.
Annual Surfmen's Meet
t Ro MM. A 1 F,
No Set Program This
nrnmntu Rarp And
Convention of Surfmen's Mutual Benefit
Association at Elizabeth City, April 18 and 19
The Annual Surfmen's Meet
will lie held at this city on Tuesday
and Wednesday, April IS and 19.
For .many years, the annual coming
.of the lift
Surfmen's
savers, members of the
Mutual Menelit Associa-
tion, to Elizabeth City has been a
fed-letter event, and the city has
turned out to welcome them. Usually
it is held in June, but this year it is
set .for an earlier date in order that
the men may more conveniently at
tend. Last year's program of water
sports, life saving drills, tourna-
ments and contests, which drew
who died thousands of people to this city, and
six ' days jfurnished a day of excellent enter
, and not ! talnment for all, will not be dupli-
cated at the
19 22 Surfmen's Meet..
But there will be, it is indicated,
numerous impromptu races, simial-
j ing competitions and other of the ' cutPj press) The seismologist of
j events that are usually pulled off! st' Louis University ascribed the
.during the days that the life savers lwp.,u . in her firmament as the
spend here. The revenue
CU t ter :
Pamlico is scheduled to be at the!
c;ty during the Meet, and it is likely
that the vessel will bo the center of j
the day's sports.
The business sessions of the;
Surfmen's Meet will be held at the
assembly rooms of the local Cham-
her of Commerce, and that organiza-
tion is planning to entertain the vis-
jiting Coast Guard men at an elab-
j orate banquet, and in automobile
excursions through the city and sur-j
rounding rural districts. Every j
effort will be made to show the vis- j
itors a good time, but as stated they I
u ill lint P riilltid mwii fnr u oArlua
or gruellm drills and races during
their brier vacation-time here.
Many of the old timers whose
races toave become ramiliar in the
city by reason or their attendance at
numerous Surfmen's Meets or other
years, wm
be here ror the event.
Captain Hannister B. Midgett. affec -
tionately known as "Cap'n Ban,"!
the daddy of the Coast Guard Ser-!
vice, will be right on hand as well
as Captain John Allen Midgett, pop
ularly conceded to be the best
looking Coast Guard Captain, and
who, with his crew or daredevil 1
Mldgetts, won international ramel TWO WOMEN WOUNDED
during the World War as the heroj Beirast. Mar. 23 (By The Associ
or the Mirlo disaster. ated Press) Two women were
Coast Guard .men rrom Cape wounded when three 'bombs were
Hatteras, "the Graveyard or Ships," thrown today, one on the porch of
will be here 'bronzed, fearless fel- st. Matthews Roman Catholic church.
lows wnose fateful Cape is even
nK Hhoals. Others niav come from
points all along the wide-Hug sea-
board or the United States, rrom
Maine along the
along the Atlantic and Guit
coasts to Texas, from the ('oast
Guard stations along the Pacific, and
likely even .from the shores of the-
Great Lakes.
The Surfmen's Mutual Benefit As
sociation, Tor whose business sess
ions the annual Surrmen's Meets are tered the Community Hospital
primarily held. Is essentially a fra-i Thursday Tor operation and treat
ternal .life Insurance organization, ment.
It was organized by eighty members, Andrew Wilson of Gregory, an old
of what was then the Life Saving colored man, was taken to the hos
Servlce, but is now known as the 1 (vital Wednesday to undergo an op
Coast Guard, at a meeting at the eratlon.
courthouse at Elizabeth City in Leroy Boyce of Powells Point 1111-
1 June, 1900. The Association was
. form(1(j larg(iy as the reHlllt of the
efTorts of 1he late Hodge Gallop, a
brother of M. P. and C. D. Gallop,
of this city, who long served as
J captain of Whale's Head station, on
the Currituck ibeach. 1
The Association
organized
was
purely for the .protection of the
widows and orphans of the then
! poorly paid life savers who might
!die in the .performance of ilielr dan
gerous duties. In 'the 22 years of Its
M. P. Hite, the present secretary-
treasurer of the organization, states
that the cost of operation of the
Siirfinen's Mutual Benefit Associa
tion It leva than tlml of :inv
similar benevolent association of
which he has heard. The cost has
never exceeded six per cent, he says,
i" averages around tour per
"',u "nni coiiecieu irom inn
ni em hers.
Ho lias completely re
earlier cumbersome
methods used In the
! volut ioijized
! book l;eep! tig
', Association, and has materially sim
P'Tied the record-keeping by care
;'"' systematizing It.
Elizabeth City will turn out this
year ns usual to welcome the life-
Year, But Many Im-
Cnnrpr Will Feature
SOLDIER BONUS
SURE TO PASS
Washington, Mar. 211 (By
The Associated l'ress) Pas
sage of the four billion dollar
bonus bill by t lie House before
adjournment was made certain
today with the adoption of a
resolution providing for the
consideration of the measure
under suspension rules.
: MOTHER EARTH SHIMMIES
i IN PARTS OF SIX STATES
St T.mils. Mar 23 f llv 'Dip Asso-
p., 11 s rif ttwttlipr mirth'a trimhllnr
in parts of six states yesterday,
shaking buildings and homes.
Restaurant Robbery
Carefully Planned
Burglar Took Nail From
Window Some Time Before
Broke. Into The Place
Above
He
A iH,rgiar entered the restaurant
of jjadrln & Bailey, rormerly known
afl Morr3- Cafe, on Matthews street,
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cush i,ox on the counter. The cash
register was undisturbed. The ma
rauder evidently planned the robbery
in advance, ror a nail over a window
opening into the livery stable or J. B.
Fearing, adjoining the restaurant.
was taken out, It is believed, some-
i tmie during the day or night when
the place was open. The burglar
crawled tinder the locked livery
stable door, raised the window and
entered without difficulty, leaving by
the same route. The police are in-
vestiKatlng.
SPECIALS AT TURNER'S
t t Tumor nnt rnmnanv la of.
i frimr uitr;n.tiv. aneriaia this wook
for men and boys. Mothers will be
1 especially interested In their boys'
Two-Pants suits, sizes 8 to 20, which
are selling at $7.45 to $15, and their
boys' shirts and blouses, with prices
ranging rrom 95 cents to $2.
AT COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
Miss Mary J. Cox of Old Trap en-
derwent a successful operation
Wednesday.
Dorsey Saunders of Weeksvllle,
the little boy who had been in the
hospital suffering with a broken Jaw,
was aide to go home on Wednesday
DIAMOND IMPORTER ARRESTED
New ork, Mar. 2.1 (By The As-
Hoclated Press) Diamonds valued
wholesale at over $100,000 were
seized today by customs officials.
Francisco Chamie, Brazil rubber
dealer, was arrested for illegal im
portation. British Submarine
Lost With Its Crew
London, Mar. 23 (By The Asso
ciated Press) The British sub
marine H-42 Is lost with all hands in
the Mediterranean, says an Ex
change Telegraph Gibraltar dis
patch. It collided with a destroyer
'luring maneuvers
saving members of 'he Coast Guard
wno rmll(, ,rp April 18 and 1. TUP
hospitality ot the city will be acconi-
ed to them In full measure, accor
ding to Secretary Job of the Cham
ber of Commerce, and the various
civic commercial organizations here
will work together to make their
Ktay at this city a pleasant reminder
or the Surfmen's
years.
Meets of other