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WEATHER Fair and cooler tonij.t and Sunday. Strong north- west winds diminishing to night cmcuLATion Friday 1,C02 Copies VOL XII. FINAL EDITION ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1922 FOUR PAGES N0.78 v Coal Strike Will Be ' Fight To A Finish MERCHANTS PLAN SPECIAL STUNTS Will Hold Prize Con- Each Side Hoping To Gain Advantage Fromj tests And Give Away Strike and Neither, In Opinion of President i Numerous Artie 1 e s and Secretary of Labor, Will Be Ready To; During Dress Up Week Listen To Reason for Weeks to Come i The merchants of this city are I co-operating to 'provide special indi vidual features for Dress Up Week. jEizaibeth City's big spring opening and celebration which will begin at By DAVID LAWRENCE (Copyright 1922 by The Advance) Washington, March 31 The coal strike is to be a fight to i 7.30 ociock next Tuesday evening, the finish. Government officials feel that they are powerless I April 4, and win continue through to do anything effective at this time and believe it will be y' Morrtaette & Company month or two before either side will be willing to listen to , local furniture dealers, will give counsel. Both President Harding and Secre tary Davis have been trying for some time to g3t both sides together, but1 when each is convinced that it has' something to gain by a strike the ef-j forts of a mediator are bound to be j futile. Secretary or Labor Davis pointed out to this correspondent to day that twenty-three weeks elapsed hi 1902 before President Roosevelt -was able to bring the last big coal strike to an end. The strike in 1919 -was of six weeks duration and was really terminated by the use of a war time law involving the application of BELIEVES PUBLIC WELL PROTECTED Attitude of Administra tion Is That Non Un ion Mines Production Makes Surplus Ample Iff, w I iliai bill Washington. Apr. 1, The admin leach lady who visits their store dur ' ing Dress Up Week a white enameled broom holder, which Is described as a handy, practical, useful house hold convenience. The firm of McCabe & Grice on j the opening night of Dress Up Week . , flmo,t wm give away a siik umoreua ana aCamden brjd lev Wholesale Grocery Hext Business Venture A new wholesale grocery will open its doors in Elizabeth City within the next sixty days. The owner will be Ben L. Banks, a native of this city and well known here, who has been practicing law at Gatesville for the last ten years. The new estab lishment will be situated on North Water street In a commodious build ing now in process of construction next door to the Auto & Gas Engine Works. Recently Mr. Banks took in as a law partner John Hall, Jr., another Elizabeth City boy, and the law firm of Banks & Hall will continue at Gatesville. Mr. Banks says, how ever, that ho will devote most of his time to the new wholesale grocery venture. His wife was Miss Maud Kramer of this city, .before her mar riage. The wholesale plant will occupy a two-story ibrick building 50 by 80 directly opposite the Mr. Banks hones BESTCITY GOES TO CHAPEL HILL Debaters Won From Edenton at Hertford By Unanimous Decis ion of Judges t Tn-1 O 11 Ml U t u. ,1 . , ? ' .1 lto have the building completed In the umbrella going to a lady and the next ftlx wcekg Tne shirts to a gentleman. A guessing i H,,n t. na . J .. ... Weathorly Company, which will oc- contest will decide the winners. o ..... . ; ... T.mjn.. , : .. r ouuic lime mcouaj win, maijr w fh . h,ll1ln ... . ill rlollvor call W M I I' . " ' v" " land steel construct on. 80 bv number between one and one thous and steel construction, 80 by 100 feet. The contract on the latter building calls for its completion by itnnMmn Tho Govprnmpnt is in i t ration viewed the beginning of the:anl. which he will Immediately place tM flrst no mood to resort to such a process1 coal strike today with the protection j under lock and kev- The numoerj Wnen the twQ gtructures are com - m .1 1 ...Lit. . Exhaustion by one side or the oth-1 concern, and it believed that this er is inevitable in the opinion of gov-j was assured by the present coal sur ernment officials. There's a surplus ' plus and the production of non union of 65 million tons of bituminous and j mines. tea million tons of anthracite coal Indianapolis, April 1 (By The As just now. When that's used up by sociated Press) Confident that the crisis in h Btrikfi ' suspension of work beeun at mid- .i.i ,k Inigrht bv union coal miners would re- envelope. The lady and the gentle in'.iv in n,a nroconi suit in a comtylete tieun of the coun- man guessing the number correctly strike are fundamental. They are typ-j try's unionized fields, mine worker. I'" be declared prizewinners. ..fill K nHl tA UAM k.lt ' .m,re,w ipided the west side of Water in the store's employ or connected i frnm FoarlnD, tn p . with it will be allowed to compete a prize. Any other lady or gentle man entering the store Tuesday night will be asked to register and opposite his or her name write a guess as to the number in the sealed The will be built up solidly in business buildings. With the construction of an Improved road across Machelhe's Island Into Camden County, Water street firms are counting on a mark ed strategic advantage In their locations. Elizabeth City High School will be represented at Chapel Hill next week, 'for Larry Skinner and Mattie Spence, negative team, won over Edenton's affirmative team at Hert ford Friday night by the unani mous decision of the Judges. Annabelle Abbott and Ellen Me lick, Elizabeth City's affirmative team, had already won from Hert ford's negative team last week at Edenton. The Elizabeth City debaters will leave next Wednesday night for Chapel Hill. The preliminaries will take place there on Thursday and the Finals on Friday. The Eliz abeth City school trustees have made an appropriation for the' expense of the debaters. This is the second time that Eliza beth City debaters have won a place In finals at the University of North Carolina. The first was three ye'ars ago, when the winners were Nor man Trueblood, George Modlin, James Clifford, and Ina Mae LeRoy. Elizabeth City won, too, at base ball at Hertford Friday. The local Red Sox defeated Hertford by a score on 5 to 3. Out of 34 Hertford play ers at bat, Harris pitching for the j Sox, put out 26 before they reached flrst. The winning runs were scor ed in the fourth Inning when Harris and Ballard scored on Barco's clean double to deep center. Former Emperor Charles o f Austria Succumbs After Brief Illness of Pneumonia respects Helena, a much for they siriKe are iunuauieiuai. tney mo ijy- ..w-, ....... w.wD - nil A A P I ia Aiibmavm ica. of other labor troubles of the af- and officials awaited reports sbowing a wil to i RUSSELL'S CHARGES ter-the-war period, perhaps more ! the exact effectiveness 0f the shut .choice of any silk umbrella m tne -M.. HUI SUUSIAfJTIATtU rlooelr analogous to the difficulties 1 down. They expected six hundred nuse ana me genueman to seieci on the railroads than anything else. thousand men. including one nun- we oi two fcar & wuson . i Ann't rnii dred thousand nonunion wnrkeru in ! Khirts. If there are two ladles guess- IV LUC 1 a J 111 a 11 nnu uumu l ivnun the inside controversies of the coal miners, except when an acute situa tion presents itself, certain tacts are essential to an understanding of what is about to happen. There Is what in he included In he walkout. Prelim- "K lne correct nunmer eacn win re-. inary reports indicated that the fewicave an umbrella and If there are operators who conduct their mines 'two gentlemen each will receive a on a closed shop basis would attempt" "4 continued production. For the flrst Louis Selig will also put on a Jackson, Mississippi, Apr. 1. The legislative committee investigating Governor Russel's charges that tire insurance companies had inspired the $100,000 seduction suit against him coal parlance what Is known as theltime in (history, officials said, - .-! n, nnun. v,i.t onm.iboth anthracite and bituminous fields nrisen Illinois Indiana Ohio and re tied up and they estimated that0" the Pen'nK nl8ht ' Dss Up; investigation had failed to substantl- " !.. .... . Woalr .will Ahcafva An a f rrvn f ehnw o ra hVta MiMtiA' aU free prize contest Tuesday night of instituted 'by Miss Frances Birkhead Dress Up Week. Visitors to Selig's reported to the House today that the Was Blackest Month In Ireland's History Belfast, April 1 (By The Associa ted Press) Sixty-four persons were killed In Belfast during factional dis orders In March, the blackest month! in niBiory. , ! i a. i j . m 1 1 n Pennsylvania. For years It has been B1 i"uana oi me nations seveniy- the custom in the coal world to have; " Hundred mines are idle wages fixed in the central competi tlve field used as a ibasis for wage Murray Offers Cure New York, April 1. (By The Asso- scales fixed by mine operators and clated Press) Congressional action .. u- th.i to Drohlbit over-develoDment of the mine OHIieis uuwmc ui mai unu. Kroyailo wo)i The oDerators wrant to -break up t!hat!a industry was proposed by Philip at' , T system. They insist that every dis j Murray, vice president of the United trict should be free to make its own ! Mine Workers today as a cure for the ?J Vdak' and wage scales. The miners' union of Kr nas America in me i Week will observe iin a front show ate the governor's charge window a huge stack of kodak films, and each will be privileged to record a guess of the number in the pile. Four prizes are offered the best guessers in the contest, a $15 an $8 Eastman pocket kodak, an Eastman $2.50 a $2.50 ladies' TV0 KILLED III ELECTION PANIC Colored Laborer Hurt When Piling Splintered Buenos Aires, April 1. (By The Associated Press) Planlc seized a monster political demonstration par- ,i u r inre nana, k zanem i uva lat course opposes that and wants .. tpa. MnBM1, , , .; mMt adlng the streets here today when a ' v - . central system retained. The only tnew factor in the situation is that the Vice President Murray said the eM youngest men are required to live a year on the 1 .A. MAA - Illinois miners are ready to break ! earnings or worn u 10 zuu aays worn away from the central competitive 1 because of over-production, field and make their own agreements j V1 tor Government Operation with the operators. This situation has i Washington, April. 1 After a . n.. r. I conference with miners and mneratnra a reiauonsnip lnciueiiian; woi un-, wiviiom mniia u it I renresentat ves todav Senator Rnrah William Jennette, .ion ponuc. ln V said that Government onerflHon wV,1 Carter and Jack Jennette, Selden linols miners is Frank Farrington, a Jid that Mann and AuDrey Heatn. They bitter foe of John L Lewis Preent An v!!f -nmPtPtv J Promise to render something aston- or tne iniernaiionai mine wrn . Union. It is Farrington who is cred-1 ized. ine r irsr iuooisnea Benton, 111., April 1 Two police men were wounded at a shooting (bat tle with striking .miners here today. DerhaDs original assemblage of musicians. ! gave tne signal tor a will play in the balcony at the store I Iusllale from the demonstrators, of T. T. Turner k Company Tuesday! Two deaths were reported, while night, as a part of the Dress Up : over twentv were wounded, some se Week celebration. The members of , riously. Many were injured in the Finlbe' orcheatral comnanv are ! Panic resulting from the fusilade. Frank Benton, ited with having forced Lewis to de clare a strike in 1919, and on this occasion Farrington is ready to break away from the central competitive field, where the largest single 'block of votes for president of the miners' union is to be found. As for the amount of coal mined in the central compotitlve field, it used to be eighty per cent of the nation's totil, but now it is only forty per cent. The districts outside of the central competitive field are produc ing the greatest amount. The opera tors, therefore, want the right to make their own wage scales irrespec tive of what happens in the central field. The effort to break up that block has been at the bottom of Am erica's coal troubles for a generation. Naturally it is to the Interest of the -'ners union officials to keep the Mitral competitive field a unit. It means cohesion. Similarly it was to the ndvantnee of the railroad ibroth- Jim Mitchell, negro laborer 48 years old, was hurt Saturday morn ing at ten ociock when he was struck by a large sliver shattered from a piling iby a blow from a pile driver hammer at the new Weatherly build ing now under construction on North Water street. -: Mitchell was struck in the abdomen, and was rendered unconscious. R. E. Lewis, superintendent of construction on the new building, promptly applied first aid measures to the negro, and brought him back to consciousness In a few minutes. Mitchell was taken to the Community Hospital for an X-Ray examination to determine the extent of his injuries. BISHOP DARST AT CHRIST CHURCH SUNDAY At both services in Christ Church ishingly new in the musical line, , lu,llorrow u,sno v. uarst or wii and their performance is likely to be mington, will preach. Bishop Darst an Important feature of the night's is one of tne most Popular of all the celebration. Bishops of the Church. He is con- At 7:30 o'clock Tuesday night. tlnuaIlv receiving requests all over when Dress Up Week Is formally, tha United 9tate9 beqaude of his mwnl. visitors tn th f Wli popularity with the people, his Harris store will enroll their names !f,eat Christian heart and the help- upon a register, and will receive aful mesfages he brings. Also special! Only $60 damage by fire was re CATIim AC rfHTrnO sllp with a number upon it. This!'""810 nas Deen arranged ror both icorded here during iillla.il VI 1IHII.IIU SUB LEVEES HOLD SHALL FIRE DAMAGE HERE DUnillG MARCH : slip is to be deposited in a ballot 8frvices- Tne Senlor Choir will ; March, according I box, and at nine o'clock the box will Helena ,Ark., Apr. 1. Workmen. be given a thorough shake-up. Then returning from the levee at Oldtown, : some disinterested individual will where caving occurred last night, j draw a number from It. The holder said today that water from the swol- of that number will receive a $25 len Mississippi had gone through a ; suit. gap in the first levee, but that it! Should the winner wish a more was being held in check by sublevees ! expensive suit of clothes, Mr. Harris built of sandbags. Democratic Voters To Moot will credit him with $25 upon it, in stead of giving him the suit won. Everyone, except of course women The Democratic voters of Pasquo tank County are called upon by P. G. Sawyer, chairman of the County Democratic Executive Committee, to erhoods to keep the matter of wage! meet at their various voting places agreements on a national basis sojon baturday, April 8, to appoint del that one scale could be negotiated egates to the County Democratic for all while the railroad companies Convention to be held at Elizabeth wanted each railroad system to have! City on Saturday, April 15th, and the right to deal with its own em-; also to elect ward and precinct ex ployes and fix Its own rates of labor, j ecutive committees. The issue ia sttll tied up in the Unit-! d States Railroad Board, but the! WEEKS SKXDS ANOTHER railroad systems are gradually win- MUSCLE SHOALS OFFER ning their point. Washington, Secretary Weeks to- There Is no similar Government day sent Congress another Muscle Board to handle coal affairs. Com-! Shoals development offer today. mlttees of Congress are active trying 'this one from Charles L. Parsons of to find a solution and there always : Washington. h;ive been proposals to establish a - fiifl commission to supervl.se the coal . sistently dodged during recent weeks industry, but no sign of enthusiasm on the theory that It would be incon in favor of such a scheme Is forth elusive. A test of strength has been coining from either miners or opera-. Inevitable and the official impression tors. The chances are, therefore, I for the moment is something like that the coal strike will run on in- this: definitely until exhaustion forces the' "Let them ftfiht it out for a while, operators and miners Into a confer-! and we'll then step in and see what once, something which has been con-'cm lie done." the month of to Fire Chief sing in the morning and the Junior i Flora's report, which was made pub Choir will sing at the evening ser-nc Saturday morning. There were vtce. All seats are free in Christ ;ix .bell alarms. The causes were: Church and you will ibe welcome chimney fires 3; sparks from flue, 2; there at both the services, and you electrical fires, 2; unknown, 1; fa!e will be benefitted by going. alarm, one. The value of the 'buildings at risk Stock Market Reflects was $8,500. and of contents. $3,500. Improved Conitions ! making a total of $12,000 In proper- f jty endangered. The whole $60.00 New vrk A.nrii i i nv Th Aa. damage was to buildings. Fifty , - , ..j - !... ... ni i - 1.11 , . i ui i V2 incii nose was iaiu, iuu- Funchal, Maderla, April 1 (By The Associated Press) Former Emperor Charles of Austria Hungary died here today. Former Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary and his wife, Zlta, were sent Into exile by the Entente Allies after he had made two spectacular attempts to regain the thrones either of Austria or Hungary. Thereafter he was kept a political prisoner on the Portuguese Island of Madeira, 400 .miles off the African coast. Although his situation in exile there resembled in some that of Napoleon at St. Charles and Zlta occupied more comfortable position were given a pleasant home In the beautiful city of Funchal whose res idents treated them with friendly consideration. Ex-Empress Zlta had left her children in Switzerland and wihen one of them was taken ill the Allied governments permitted her to re turn to that country and visit them After the establishment of the Austrian republic on November 12, 1918, Charles, who was then in Austria, sought permission to remain in that country but he was asked to leave after it was found he wag plotting for his resumption of his power. He left with his family late in March, 1919 and rented a house on the banks of Lake Geneva at Prangins, where he resided for some months. Duting this time reports of hie alleged plotting leaked out and brought forth a categorical state ment from the Entente that the res toration of the House of Hapaburg would not be permitted. Charles had steadfastly refused to abdicate, aUUough-Jui w asjjem&led(i,to .a..) at various times. On March 29, 1921, he suddenly appeared in Vienna hut, his over tures being repulsed by the Austrian authorities, he went to Budapest, where he attempted to take over the Hungarian government from Admiral Horthy, Hungarian regent, but with out success. Although disappointed by lack of support, the former em peror refused to leave the country pleading illness. Later he offered to renounce all his titles, remaining as a simple citizen. Switzerland, meanwhile, incensed at his "violations of his agreement not to leave the country, was report ed as unwilling again to receive him. The members or the Little Entente, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Rumania, sent an ultimatum to Hungary demanding his ejection and on April 6 he reentered Swit zerland, which received him on the understanding that he would engage In no more Intrigues or propoganda. He was ordered to remove his resi dence from near the border to the central part of Switzerland and did so, locating near Weggls. The Swiss increased their guard over him but on October 22 he reached Raab, Hungary, having crossed the Swiss frontier In an airplane. He formed a "legitimate cabinet" at Raab and marched on Budapest with an army of 12,000 men. The Hungarian government sent loyal troops againt ihlm and he was finally captured with his wife near Komorn and confined In the castle at Tata Tovaros until the Entente Allies determined that he should not again have opportunity to at tempt a coup d'etat, sent them to Madeira. A few days later he and Zlta were ano cnniuren, is eilgmie lor eiury ( sociated PrewO Improvement In the contest. The only requirement industrial conditions as indicated by der8 were ra'8ed 188 feet and five i conveyed by a British warship to Is that the contestant come In person tne ma, increase In the output 0f j gallon of chemicals were used. The, Funchal where they arrived Novem- to tne store, enroll .bis name on tne.iron and fitee lbetter raiiroa(i re register, and get his number. Nojturn8 and eniarged buying of gen numbers are to be alloted by tele-lpra, merchandise for Spring requlre- phone. When the last ballot is cast at nine o'clock, the box will be pass ed around and all who wish may give It a thorough shaking. The actlvelv tn hieW 1ava1 winner may take his suit home that ( night, and. may make his choice from the entire D. Walter Harris PRO? H'lCNT iAI FF! stock. , " w A living model, the first ever used j In Elizabeth City, la on the way; from Chicago to appear in the win-! dow of D. Walter Harris on the. R. opening night of Dress Up Week. ments, were the main propelling fac tors in the stock market which moved this week Irregularly and less FARMER MISSING Department was In service two hours and 37 minutes. her 19,1921. Emperor Charles I of Austria, King of Hungary, was an unpromis ing major In an Austrian Infantry Launch Service Campaign (regiment when the shot of the as r tr r lassln who killed the Archduke Fran- On War Vote Anniversary j Ferdinand on June 28. 1914, 'made him the heir apparent to the Raleigh, April 1 (Special) The: throne in the "Hawk's Castle" on great service campaign of the Amer- the banks of the River Aar. lean Legion in North Carolina will Two hundred or more monarchs be launched on Thursday, April 6, of the historic house of Hamburg in commemoration of the declara-1 ruled for centuries the land of Mae- Ition of war with Germany five years yar, Slav and Teuton centuries of C. Lowry Jr., prominent young! ago. Final details In the big cam-1 bloodshed, tyranny and agression white farmer of the Salem section Mr. Harris is making special prepar-,of Pasquotank County, disappeared atlons to show the latest spring, from his home Friday night at ten styles In men's wear and will exhibit , o'clock and has not been seen since, a number of the latest. ' Searching nartleH scoured the woods i and nwatnps adjacent to his home IX)HT SATURDAY SUIT OF Saturday, and up to three clothes purchased at the Peoples had found no trace of him. Bargain Store. Placed In wrong car Unconfirmed rumors have It that at Auto & Gas Engine Works. Please . Mr. Lowry told his farm hands return to C. C. Walker or Peonies' Frldav that he was Eolne to do awav Bargain Store. ' apr l-7pd!wlth himself tlint nlRht., paLgn are being worked out by the and sleep their last sleep in the won- State membership committee, under , rierful crypt of the Capauchin Church whose supervision the campaign Is In Vienna, Emperor Frances Jo bnlng conducted. !sph, the nK"d predecessor of the It is the ambition of the Depart- youthful Charles, seeing "the hand ment of North Carolina to reach ! writing on the wall," had hoped to o'clock ! every former service man and woman ! unite the dlsordant elements among during this campaign, which lasts bis 50.000.000 subjects whose racial ten days. And in reaching these 1 antagonisms were complicated by former service people it Is the the absorption by Austria of the Legion's purpose to offer them every Serbian provinces of Bosnia and Her assistance within its power. zegovlna In 1908.