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WEATHER Fair tonight. Sunday ' partly cloudy. Gentle to moderate southerly winds. CIRCULATION Friday 1,573 Copies VOL. XII. FINAL EDITION ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY EVEN I NO, APRIL S, l!)li'2 LOUR PACKS XO. X I iMiaoi hJ-mh.m hum t&mm a; ) Tornado Hits Texas And Oklahoma Towns Number Killed and Injured And Many Houses Blown Down , Fort Worth, Tex., April 8 (Ily The Associated Press) A tornado struck Cisco, Texas, today, wrecked the de pot and destroyed a number of resi dence. Communication with the town is impossible. Oklahoma City, April 8 (By The Associated Press) Five persons were killed and scores injured in a tornado which today struck Lawton, Oklahoma. Reports to the telephone company indicated that a number of buildings were destroyed. Half a mile of telephone poles were leveled outside of the town. Wichita Falls, Tex., April 8 (By The Associated Press) One was kilJed and several were injured in a tornado at Electra, Texas, today. Tv.'enty-five houses were destroyed. Six persons were killed and seven in jured, and six homes destroyed near Uowena. Little Sam Hood Hurt When Auto Struck Him Sam Hood, the four-year old sun of Mr. and Mrs. Gurney P. Hood, who live on Cedar street was run into Friday afternoon at three o'clock on Main street by a car driven by William Dailey, and was thrown upon the paved street sus taining a painful cut across the fore head but, it is believed, no serious injuries. The fender of the, car struck the child. The little fellow was accompany ing a neighbor's child on a visit to a playmate, and undertook to run across Main street in front of an ap proaching car when he was hurt. Young Palley picked up the child, and carried him in the car directly to the office of Dr. M. S. Bulla, in the Hinton Building where his hurts were promptly dressed. By a coincidence, the fathers of 'both Doys involved In the accident are connected with the Carolina Banking & Trust Company of this city, N. W. Dailey as manager of the insurance department of the In stitution, and Mr. Hood as vice president and cashier. Spectators at the scene of the accident declare that young Dailey was not to blame for it. Postoffice Clerks Like Action Stuff Seven Hundred Male Patrons Of Heading Itoom Want 1-ondon And Curwood Stories Chicago, April 7 (By The Associ ated Press) The lonely cow-puncher or sheep-herder reading a thumb marked novel of metropolitan society life beside his camp fire on the western plains might exchange jobs with a clerk in the Chicago post of fice to their mutual satisfaction, ac cording to the librarian at the post office "swing room." recreation cen ter of the clerks off duty. Seven hundred of the 11, not) post office employes In Chicago are regu lar patrons of the public library branch maintained at the postoffice. Their favorite fiction Include the books of Jack London, James Oliver Cur wood and other authors of wild west, far north and sea stories. "They want action stuff," the librar ian says. "And the girls like the love stories." Next to the red-blooded fiction, the strongest demand is for text books on a wide variety of subjects. Hundreds of the younger extra clerks are students in various schools and colleges in Chicago, working in the postoffice to pay their way through school. Between shifts they do their studying in the "swing room" li brary. The "swing room" itself occupies several thousand square feet of floor space, and at any hour of the day or night from 100 to 1,000 men and wo men are gathered there, resting, reading, playing cards or checkers, or patronizing the cafeteria which they themselves operate on a cost basis. GOAL MINERS GET LOST PAY TODAY Indianapolis, April 8 (By The As sociated Press) Idle coal miners marie and Chesapeake Canal to free pay, estimated at thirty million dol lars by union officials and regarded by them as strike funds. The big age distribution Is an Important factor In the miners ability to con tinue their suspension of work. O. E. Lane Killed Friday Afternoon 1 i ek ISrokcn Ami Skull I'mctim-d When Tractor II it m Root And Turns Over , News reached here Friday night of tin; death of O. W. Lane, formerly of Elizabeth City, at' his home at Ty ner, Gates County. Mr. Lane was operating a tractor. When the machine struck a root, he put on more gas, the tractor turned over, and Mr. Lane was instantly I killed, his neck being broken and 'his skull fractured. The accident occurred at 1:30 Friday afternoon. Mr. Lane was a brother-in-law of Mrs. Mae Sample of this city. He was at one time in the automobile business here. Besides his widow, he is survived I by five children, and a number of 1 brothers and sisters. The funeral will be conducted at the home at Tynerat eleven o'clock Sunday morning, and immediately afterward the body will be brought here and interment made in Holly Wood cemetery Sunday afternoon. Modern Mail Station Erected at Chicago ( Is Largest mid Most Modern In' World Will lie Opened This Summer Chicago. April 8 (By The Associ ated Press) The largest and most modern mail station in the worlds will be opened in Chicago this sum ; mer, barring accidents or unforseeii; delays. , The building 76 by 800 feet and seven stories high, counting a ibase-! i ment a ground level into which mail Cars will run direct from the railroad yards, marks a departure from the i usual postoffice practice of building ! along conventional lines or ornamen tal architecture. It has been design-i ed as a modern day-light industrial; building, and when completed will' i contain the last word in automatic , conveyors and other time and labor: j saving devices. Provision has been made for the I future growth of the airplane mail 'service by providing a clear roof space more than 600 feet long where small planes can land with mail transferred from the larger trans continental flyers at Checkerboard ! Field, Maywood. ! The station Is located in the yards of the Union Station and a short dis tance from Chicago and Northwest ern Station. Mail in carload lots I will be handled direct to the lines i entering these two stations, and can I be switched to other stations. The .basement level is on the same grade as the Union Station tracks, and is equipped with spurs for hand ling the mail cars. On the other side of the building, at the ground level, motor trucks with parcel post and other mail from the city will enter the building on a forty foot driveway and discharge their contents direct into automatic conveyors, which will lift the mail to the top floor and start it over downward path of conveyors, chutes and sorting belts, until it emerges, sorted, sacked and labeled, at the mail car level. On the main sorting floor for par cels post clerks working on either side of the main conveyors will di vide the packages among other con veyors, which in turn will carry them to the sections set aside for the mail 'to each part of the country. At the last stage the sacks and pouches will slide down spiral chutes i to circular platforms on the train jlevel in the basement. Backed up around each circular platform, the waiting hand trucks will take the load to the mail cars. Completion of the new station will remove the handling of all mail from and to the loop, or destined for it, will pass through the congested dis ; tricts. The terminal Is being erected by i the Union Station Interests and will 'lie leased to the Government. Be sides the advantage of direct access to the railroad tracks, the Govern ment will obtain much lower rental rate than it pays for loop property. Attacks Cardinal And Wounds Secretary Iondon, April 8 (By The Associ ated Press) A Central News Rome dispatch says "An American dressed as a priest" attempted to attack Cardinal Vicar Pompllj. Attendants took the revolver from him but he escaped after injuring the Cardinal's secretary. l'ASTORS EXCHANGE I'l LPITS Rev. H. R. Hlnes of Manteo was! In the city Saturday enroute to Shi loh to preach Sunday, having ex changed pulpits for the Sunday with the pastor. Rev. Joel S. Brown, in the Interest of the Redemption Rally, of the 75 million campaign. Magnate of U 4 C ft- F B R R e. j W. Cecil Gage owns and operates his own railroad. It la on his farm bX Flshkill, N. Y., which be has modernized to the Nth degree.-i , . jSistine Choir Prays to - The famous choir of the Sistine Chapel, Rome, kneecllng in prayer at the grave of the French Unknown Soldier In Paris. "Th choir Is on the way to the United States for public concerts. NORTH STATE LEGION LEADS WHOLE SOUTH ('ale K. Burgess The North Carolina Department of the American Legion is still leading the Southern States in membership. There are more Legionnaires in North Carolina than in any other State south of Pennsylvania and Kentucky and east of Texas. Ten nessee Is our nearest rival with a membership of over three hundred men less than that of North Caro lina. The Legionnaires of Robeson County have planned a revival to start this week. Charles A. Sloan, editor of the Oteen Echo, will he the evangelist. Sloan was formerly a patient at the Oteen Hospital; since his recovery he has devoted his time and talent to the cause of the dis abled. Last week Editor Sloan de livered his Legion Gospel at Salis bury, Concord, Albemarle and other towns in the Eighth Congressional District. This week he will carry his message concerning our disabled comrades and their hospitalization to the Legionnaires in Robeson County. The Fred Y. McConnell Post at Concord has recently experienced an awakening. A certain war-horse knows as John M. Oglesby is now commander and leader of the Legion naires in Concord, and what it takes to put things over, Oglesby and his gang have it. HEAVY TRADING ON STOCK MARKET New York, April S (By The Asso ciated Press) Daily transactions extending from a million to a million and six hundred thousand shares at extreme gains of from three to ten points in a wide variety of issues featured another eventful week on the stock market, the movement be ing reminiscent of the feverish war period. Trailing in bonds was pro portionately large and many issues, notably the underlying bonds of southern and southwestern railroads were at the highest quotations for periods of from one to three years. March Shows Nation Did Much Building New York, April 8 (By The Asso ciated Press) Building exenditures in a hundred and nine cities of the country during March totalled $194. f 661,000, the largest amount ever j known for one month In the nation's history, Bradstreet's says. NORFOLK HI S LINE Your attention with respect to the reliability of this line, ss to the promptness of my schedules will be unquestioned. lt-pd EDGAR WILLIAMS. Baby Railroad i t ' k:. for Unknown Hero ( Wanted For Giving j Worthless Checks! i O. A. llenulao, Formerly Janitor At Cliaiiiher Of Commerce, Missing Since Monday i The police are looking for O. A. Beaulac, formerly janitor at the Chamber of Commerce quarters here, who Is wanted on charges of passing worthless checks and of embezzling funds of the Chamber. Beaulac, it is alleged, gave a bad check in the amount of five dollars to Mrs. Cassie Morrlsette, of this city, In payment of a board bill, and another in the same sum to a Hert ford jitney driver. The alleged check-flasher reached this city without funds some weeks ago, and spent his first night at the station house after a policeman had bought him a meal. He declared that he, had gone from his home at Worchester. Mas. to Washington D. C. expecting to stand civil service ex aminations. Somehow his plans miscarried, and. without money, he made his way to Norfolk, and even tually to Elizabeth City, walking much of the latter distance. At tne time of Beaulac s arrival, i the local Chamber of Commerce was, in need of a Janitor. Believing him worthy of help. Secretary Job gave him the Job temporarily. His work was apparently quite satisfactory. and after a few weeks the Duff Piano I Company hired him as a solicitor, fit ted him out with clothing he need ed, and sent him to Hertford. Beau lac came back to this city Saturday nitrl'l, and his coiinerfion with the Duff Piano Company was terminated. Later the company was notified that Beaulac owed a week's hotel bill at Hertford. While lie was with the Chamber, of Commerce, Beaulac had dune some collecting; anil after his other al leged misdeeds became known, a complete Investigation of his reports, was madp, with the result that a shortage of eleven dollars was (lis-1 covered. ft is understood that he owns good-sized Jitney bills here, too. "e-ii-iac lias I m missing since Monday. He is of medium height, sl'ghtly built, of florid complexion, and has lost several fingers from one hand. When last seen he wore a light gray tweed sport suit. WIXXHHS IX PENNY CONTEST Miss Josephine Spence and Master Hubert Upton were the winners in the penny-guessing contest at the Savings Bank & Trust Company. Both guessed 2080. The correct number of pennies was 2079. Each i will receive $5 In gold. ( Hubert 1'pton Is the son of Frank I'pton. of Camden. Mrs. Frank l'p ton was the winner of the silk um brella offered for the best guess of the lucky nunvber Tuesday night at McCabe & Grlce's. I 110 POLITICS BY U. S. WIRELESS Washington, April S (By The Associated Press) Secretary Den by announced today that he had ordered naval radio sta tions closed to public use for broadcasting speeches, lectures or any form of unolllcial com munication except musical pro grams because of charges that Congressmen are addressing their constituents on political questions through the Govern ment stations. Will Take Inventory Of Government Plant Bureau of Engraving And Printing To Be Thoroughly Reorganized . will be no difficulty in getting the Washington, April 8 (By The As- Commerce Committee to amend the 'sociated Press) The divisions of the . ''"I lls the engineer's report is very Bureau of Engraving and Printing strong. If this report had been re engaged in the production of bank reived before the House bill was notes, bonds and postage stamps will drawn, Mr. Ward is conlident provl lie closed to night for an indelinite siou for purchase of the canal would period to take inventory of the plant from which James L. Wilmeth and twenty-eight chiefs, superintendents and formen were removed by Presi dential order a week ago. i Hints were also given that during the closing the bureau would be further reorganized or "Harding i.ed" as one official put it. The bu roau employs six thousand anil it is estimated that four thousand will be affected by the closing. Officials said the closing Is to enable the taking of inventory, repairing of machinery and to issue new steel plates such as are used in printing currency. The old plates are so worn that counter feiting is easy, they said. LINKS SKI TltOOPS I Washington, April 8 (By The As sociated Press) Secretary Weeks declined to send troops Into the New Mexico coal fields where martial law has been declared as a result of dls- orders. Denies Censorship ' Of Opening Prayer Washington, April 8 (By The As sociated Press) Secretary Hughes today denied charges of censorship of the opening prayer at the arms con ference, resulting In the deletion of the name of Christ from the prayer. Death Of Pilot Today Makes Victims Seven Paris, April S (My The Associated Press) R. E. Duke, pilot or the English plane which crashed into the French, Goliath, yesterday, died to day, bringing the number of victims to seven, FRANK LLOYD DIRECTS ANOTHER POWKRI'TL DRAMA Frank Lloyd, whose productions for Goldwyn have earned individual praise for (lie excellence of their di rection, has made from a story by Katharine Newlin Burt one of the most impressive dramas of Western life that hus ever been achieved in "The Man From Lost River," ac cording to press reports. "The Man From Lost River" will be shown at the Alkrama Theater to day, matinee and night. BORAH SEEKS TO DEPORT SEMEIIOFF Washington, April S (By Tho As sociated Press) Senator Borah to day declared he would make an ef fort to deport General Semenoff, anti Itolshev'k leader, because of charges that Americana wero butchered in .-..uerla by his forces. Personals L. S. Owens of Harbinger was In the city Saturday on business. Frank Wilson of Woodvllle was In the city on business Saturday. James Miller of Perquimans was In the city Saturday on business. j H. M. Prltchard of Safem was here j on 'business Saturday. ', T. C. Perry of Oklsko was In the I city Saturday on business. ! Mrs, Charles Lane entertained a nutmber of friends at her home on I Dyer street Friday evening. DRIJMMONI) CANAL Senator Simmons Will Be Aided By Con gressman Ward And John H. Small j Washington. April 8. -Senator Simmons will this week ask the Sen ate Commerce Committee of which he is a member to embody in the House rivers and harbors bill the .purchase by the Government of the Lake Druinmond Canal recommend ed by the chief engineer of the War Department. If Senator Simmons' request is adopted by the Senate Commerce Committee. Congressman Ward and former Congressman i Small will appear before the House Rivers ind Harbors Committee to ,urge its (indorsement of the action 'of the Senate Commerce Committee. ! Senator Simmons apprehends there have been carried therein but under House procedure It was well-nigh impossible to amend the hill al'ter it had reached the floor or recall the bill after it has passed. Mr. Ward says his strongest ar gumentif argument Is needed to convince the Rivers and Harbors Committee will be to point out that, the Government in opening the Albe marle and Chesapeae Canal to free commerce has literally destroyed not only a million and a half dollars in vestment of private individuals In thi' Lae Druinmond Canal but the productivity of thousands of acres of farming lands in the Dismal Swamp section of North Carolina. The canal when put out of business as an artery of commerce between Nor folk and Beaufort, N. C, by a free Government canal in competition has fallen into disuse and has therefore ceased to he a drainage canal' to these swamp lands. By Its action the Government has simply confiscated and destroyed millions of dollars worth of prop erty of Its own citizens. It Is morally if not legally bound to recompense them for this loss. The owners of the canal agree to sell It to the Gov ernment for $,riO,000 or less than one third of the investment they have made in the property. They have agreed to suffer this great loss In recognition of the paramount com- merclal and agricultural Interests of the territory contiguous to the canal. Mr. Ward will contend that the Government in opening the canal to free commerce will soon Increase the taxable property to such an extent in lvalue In that section as to retip a many fold return to the Federal treasury on its investment. The canal In operation by the Govern -'ment would reclaim much of the Dismal Swamp, one of the most fer tile and productive areas on the globe. DAY WILL PLEAD UNWRITTEN LAW Oklahoma City, April S (By The Associated Press )-- Pleading the un written law, Jean P. Day prepared to go before the coroner's Jury late to day to seek exoneration for killing Lieutenant Colonel Beck on the ground that he slew In self defense while attempting to keep his home inviolate. I lay and his wife are the t ii 1 v known witnesses. C. A. TASKER GETS THE STATE NORMAL CONTRACT C. A. Tasker of the city has been awarded the contract for the plumb ing for the new buildings of the Col ored State Normal School. HERTFORD TAKES HIG END FROM EL1.AHETII CITY H. S. In a gume of baseball Friday af ternoon on the Main street diamond the Hertford High School team de feated Elizabeth City High School by the score of f to 2. Both teams play ed well In the field, but the home boys showed lack of knowledge of base running. Sherlock in renter field made a very good running catch in the fourth Inning, while Elliott Ward made a great one handed stop of a line drive. Hertford played u steady game In the field and did ! more hitting than the .locals. One Hertford player ninde a clean home run and a two base hit. The home run hit went far out In right field, clearing an automobile parked out , side of the diamond.
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