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NO. 128
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DEDICATE LINCOLN j
MEMORIAL TODAY!
President Harding In!
Person Accepts The
Work In Name Of
American Nation
Washington, May 30 (By The As
sociated Press) A nation's tribute
to its glorious dead reached its cli
max today at the dedication of the
memorial erected beside the Potomac
to Abraham Lincoln by his grateful
countrymen.
Chief Justice Taft headed the com
mission which has lavished endless
thought on making this stone em
blem of American gratitude worthy
of the man whoso memory it will per
ilunate for Americans always.
President Harding, in person, ac
cepted the work in the nation's name.
The Lincoln Memorial is one of the
world's most beautiful structures and
the greatest shrine of the man who
saved the union. Impressive in it?
simplicity, the memorial probably is
the masterpiece of all public build
ings and memorials in the United
States. It stands in Potomac Park
facing the Washington monument,
and its construction was begun on
Lincoln's birthday anniversary in
1914. The total cost has been ap
proximately $3,000,000.
This monument to Lincoln is a
large rectangular building of white
marble, designed by Henry Ilacon, a
New York architect. It has a beau
tiful setting on a direct east and west
line with the Washington monument
and the nation's capitol and rises 144
feet above the level of the park. It
v composed of four principal fea
tures a statue of the man, a mem
orial of his Gettysburg address, a
memorial of his second inaugural ad
dress and a symbol of the Union of
the States.
The most important object in the
memorial is the statue of Lincoln in
marble by Daniel Chester French,
New York sculptor, placed in t'
central halL where, by virtue of its
imposing position in the place of
honor, it predominates all else. The
statue is colossal in size and yet dis
tinctively personal. It represents
Lincoln, seated, in a thoughtful mood
and is the first thing that meets the
eye as one passes through the im
mense colonnaded entrance.
OFF ON MOTOR RACE
Indianapolis, May 30 (By The As
sociated Press) With the roar from
perfectly tuned motors twenty-seven
drivers, the pick of three nations,
fhot away at ten o'clock today start
ing the five hundred mile automo
bile race on the Indiianapolic speed
way for prizes totalling $85,000. A
hundred and thirty-five thousand j
spectators cheered" from the stands I
and in field when the starting bomb I
was fired. j
IX TROI BLK AGAIN
John Henry Ileckstall, a colored
character well known in police court
circles1 here, was, arrested Tuesday
morning by Officer George Twiddy on
a charge of breaking Into the home
of Annie Price, colored, on Green
street, and stealing a Victrola. Heck
stall was placed in jail and will be
, tried in recorder's court here Wed
nesday morning.
Big Kiwanian Spread
Here On Friday Night
A big Kiwnnis banquet, upon the
occasion of the presentation of the
charter of the local club, will be
held at the Junior Order Hall here
Friday uight. A special train will
bring a throng of merry .Kiwanians
from Norfolk and Portsmouth to at
tend the event, tand other delegations
are expected from Raleigh, Rocky
.Mount, Wilson. Kinston, GoldsborO,
New Bern and Washington.
Twenty prizes will be awarded in
the course of the banquet for signal
endeavors along certain lines not yet
stated by the KIwanis publicity com
mittee. Preliminary preparations
for the charter presentation banquet
indicate that It will be one of the big
gest events of the kind ever held at
this city.
A handsome electric KIwanis sign,
made of metal and attractively de
signed In gold, blue and white, Is now
being completed by William R. Prlt
chard, of Owens Shoe Company, in
collaboration with the metal work
ers employed at E. J. Column's tin
shop. The sign, which Is strictly
"Made In Elizabeth City," in a real
beauty, and will be used to adorn fu
ture KIwanis banquets and meetings.
The s'gn bears the words "KIwanis
Club, Elizabeth City, N. C." in gold
letters In a circular band surround
ing a huge white "K," which Is In
scribed on a field of blue.
Stale Will Build
Camden Ferry Road
Kditor The Advance:
At a meeting of the State
Highway Commission held in
Raleigh, N. C, May 23rd to
26th, 1 tried to let contract for
the Camden Kerry road and re
ceived bids for the surfacing
and bridge on the road for
something like $138,0011.00.
I promised the people of my
District when I was made Com
missioner that I would spend
their money as I would my own,
and as 1 would not even con
sider spending $138,000.00 of
my own money on that road I
decided to reject the bids.
1 succeeded, however, In get
ting Hie State to undertake the
building of the road them
selves, and we will proceed im
mediately to get material on
the ground and push the work
to its completion as rapidly as
possible, and I believe quicker
than any contractor we could
have given it to. In my Judg
ment we will save considerable
money by building it ourselves.
I trust you will pardon me
for the presumption of writing
this letter to you, but I feel it is
due the people of Camden
County to give them some rea
son why I rejected the bids, and
I thought the best medium
through which to do this was
your paper.
WILLIAM A. HART,
Commissioner.
Ty Cobb Suspended
St. Louis, May 30 (Ry The Associ-!
ated Press) Manager Ty Cobb and
Outfielder Heilman of the Detroit
Americans were Indefinitely sus
pended today before the morning
game, a holiday double-header with
the Urowns. Cobb stepped on Um
pire Wilson's toes during an argu
ment in yesterday's game and was
banished. The cause of the other's
suspension was not stated.
llartz Takes Lead
From Jimmy Murphy
Indianapolis, May 30 (By The As
sociated Press) Harry W. Hartz to
day took the lead from Jimmy Mur
phy at the 185 mile mark? after Mur
phy had captured $3,250 in lap
prizes. His average was ninety-three
and fifty-two hundredths miles per
hour.
PROCESS EVACUATION
HAS BEEN SUSPENDED
London, May 30 (By The Associ- j
ated Press) British troops are be- i
ing i.ept at Dublin not at the request
of the Irish Provisional government
but because the process of evacuation
has been temporarily suspended.
Winston Churchill, secretary of
colonies, announcd in the House of
Commons today.
Jury Trial Is Held
In Recorder's Court
Defendant Is Found Gnilly
Twenty Minutes Deliberations
Is Fined Fifty And Costs
After I
Anfl ,
The first trial by jury in the his
tory of recorder's court here was li"Kl
Tuesday morning In the case of I.-nn"
Fisher, of this city, charged w'th
driving an automobile while under
the influence of liquor. After
twenty minutes of deliberation, the
jury returned a verdict of guilty, and
Mr. Fisher was fined fifty dollars and
eots.
By a coincidence, the first lawyer
to ask for a jury in a recorder's
court case was .Martin B. Simpson,
who was largely Instrumental in get
ting the bill creating this type of jury
for Pasquotank County through the
li)21 special session of the General
Assembly. Six jurors were sum
moned from among the spectators In
the court room Tuesday morning by
Officer Charles Anderson, a member
' of the city police force.
1 The fee of jurors in a recorder's
I court jury trial Is fixed at 2 cents
leach. In the event of a conviction,
Ithis Is added to the defendant's hill
of costs. Mr. Fisher, therefore, was
i out Just $ 1 . r 0 additional by reason
( of his attorney's appeal for jury tria'.
i Mr. Fisher was also found guilty
on a charge of being drunk and dis-
; orderly, and was fined ten dollars
and costB. According to the evi
dence, while he was In the Busy Bee
Cafe Saturday night, the defendant
playfully hit E. E. Clark, typewriter
repair man, on the ear with
of ham sandwich.
a piece
MATHILDE GOES HOME
! Chicago, May 3 1) (By The Associ
ated Presv) Miss Mailiilde McCor
iinick instead of sailing for Switzer
land today supposedly to wed Max
Oser, Swiss horseman, returned to
Chicago unexpectedly. She refused
to make a statement about her
plans. Her return is supposed to re
late to guardianship proceedings in
which her mother, Mrs. Kd'th Rocke
feller McConuick, intervened yesterday.
. Germans Make Reply
I Paris, May HO (Ily The Associa
ted Press) The German reply to
the demands of the the Reparation
Commission says that Germany will
'undertake to meet them on the
hypothesis that it will be givn a for
eign loan within suitable time to
.maintain paper circulation within
limits readied by March 31 and in
general that they will comply with
the conditions lixed by the commiss
ion for partial moratorium.
HARDING ACCEPTS FLAG
i FROM JUSSERAND TODAY
j Washington, May 30 ( Hy The As-'
Isocla ted Press) As a souvenir of
this country's participation in the
World War, President Harding today
accepted the presentation by Ambas
sador Jusserand of Fi ance of an Ani-
jerican Hag which was displayed be
side the French tri-color on Eiffel
j Tower with the salute of a hundred
and one guns when the news came of
I America's entry into the struggle.
Meet At Atlanta, Ga., To
Confer On Freight Rates
Raleigh, May 30 (Special) Mr.
M R. Ileaman. Secretary of the North
Carolina Traffic Association, and Mr.
I. M. Porter, Secretary of the North
Carolina Wholesale Grocers Asso
ciation are leaving tonight for At
lanta to confer with the so called
Carolina Committee which is a repre
sentative, body of railroad executives
supposed to be working out commo
dity rates from Eastern states to
North -Carolina.
In addition to this Mr. Porter and
Mr. Ileaman, will be present at the
so-called Southeastern investigation
of freight rates when the question
as to increasing freight rates from
Western states to North Carolina.
This testimony, offered by the rail
roads, will begin Tuesday morning in
Atlanta, Ga.
This subject Is one of the most im
portant that has ever faced the bu
siness men of North Carolina. The
North Carolina Traffic Association
needs the moral and financial sup
port of every shipper in this effort to
protect your interest.
MANCHURIAN MUTINY
CONTINUES TO SPREAD
Peking. May .10 (By The Asso
ciated Press) The Manchtirian
mutiny against General Chang. Min
churian leader, is spreading, Harbin
garrison joining in declaring in favor
of General Wu, victor in the recent
Peking campaign.
YOUR BEST EFFORTS NEEDED TO
BUILD UP WINNING VOTE TOTAL
'Jt
Is
Easy Now To Procure Votes. But With a
Further Decrease In Vote Earning Power Of
Subscriptions It Will Be Hard To.K eep Pace
With Those Who Put In Work To Good Ad
vantage This Week
The great fiOO.onn bonus offer .
closed without any contestant's se
curing enough votes to forge 'nto a ,'il?('s' nn auspicious start. Von must
safe lead
; rates tin
Only a club or two sepa-
leading contestants from
one another; so it is perfectly obvious
that those who made good rpo-ts
last week should not heroine the vie-
tlms of overconlidence. ff: that
would spell defeat ill box-car letters.
This week will tell the tale so far as
stamina Is concerned. Those who
want to win will leave no stone un
turned to secure subscript Ions.
Wlille your competitors are slow-
Ing up or resting, get up and move
about after the subscriptions. That
Is the way winners are made. It takes
subscriptions to win, and if vou wait
until near the dlose of the race, your
subscription! will earn only a fraction
of what they will now. Your suc-ess
depends1 absolutely on vonr ablPtv to
stay In front.
There Is no such thing as standing
still. You either niovo forward or
you move backward. Moving for -
ward Is how you will win. Moving
backward Is exactly how so many peo-
pie lose after having made, In some!
Spring Carnival Will
Be Held Here Tonight!
Will Include Mmiy Novel iMitertain
liicnt Features, And Will Continue
From Kig;lit To I'.lcvon O'clock
Hright, colorful and entertaining,
with plenty of good music, and a
wide variety of novel amusement
features, will be the Spring Carnival
to be put on by the Young Woman's
Club, of this city, at Miss Lou Mor
gan's, on Road street, beginning at
'eight o'clock tonight. There will be
a trip around the world, candy
booths, plenty of dancing on one of
the best smaller dance doors in the
city, and, in short, according to
those who are promoting me event,
a genuine good time for all who at
tend. The admission at the door will bo
ten cents. The Spring Carnival will
close at eleven o'clock; and from
eight until that hour, the good genie
.of wholesome fun will lie the king
bee of the occasion. The Young Wo
man's Club positively guarantees an
evening of genuine entertainment for
all who are present.
COMMENCEMENT IS IN
PROGRESS AT ROANOKE
The twenty-fourth annual com
mencement exercises of Roanoke Col
legiate Institute are in progress tills
week.
The commencement sermon was
preached Sunday by Rev. P. P. Ka
ton of Greensboro. On Monday the
graduating class presented a clock to
the school, and that evening the ele
mentary grades gave their program.
The primary school had already giv
en their entertainment! on Friday
evening.
On Tuesday the trustees met and
planned for new buildings and im
provements; then a play was given on
the campus, and in the evening an
operetta will be given by the seventh
grade.
A debate on the question "Re
solved that municipalities should
control public utilities," is Wednes
day morning's feature, and on Wed
nesday evening the Y. M. C. and Y.
W. C. Associations will give a play.
Thursday evening come the annual
recital, class day exercises and pro
gram of first and second year high
school. On Friday morning there Is
an alumni meeting, also the exhibit
of domestic art, and the closing pro
gram that evening with an address
by Rev. G. O. Bullock of Washington,
D. C. Diplomas will be presented the
graduating class of fifteen members
by Rev. R. R. Cartwright of Del
cross, and there will be a very inter
esting musical program.
Seats are reserved for white peo
ple and they are cordially invited to
attend the exercises.
OFF TO CALIFORNIA
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Iloutz left
Monday for a month's vacation in
California. While there, Mr. Iloutz
will attend the International Rotary
Convention at. Los Angeles June 4th
10th, as a delegate from the Eliza
beth City Rotary Club.
''n,,'r e ' t lies.- classes. You are
'hor a winner or a loser. It's up to
J'011,
On each club of five yearly subserlp
lio"H' r $20 in cash, a bonus of
400,000 votes will be given up to nine
o'clock next Saturday night, June
3rd. It is einphat'oally guaranteed
that never after next Saturday night
will subscriptions earn so many votes
by thousands and thousands. Never
during the remainder of the contest
will such an offer appear again giving
this amount of votes. There will be
a big decrease. You can bank on
that. So get as many votes as you
ean before the big decrease comes.
A contestant may vote only enough
votes Issued on subscriptions to bring
the total vote to 95,000.
District Number One
Miss Gladys Adams 24,40n
.Miss Goldie Sanderlin ,16,800
, Miss Kstelle Sllverthorne ... 37.100
Miss Aurllla Strahl 178.200
Miss Edna Sanders 177,900
Continued on Page 2
COYS MUST TOE MARK
TC SEE GAMES FREE
After considerable perplexity,
Hie directors of the Twilight
League have hit upon a plan
whereby the gate keepers at the
baseball grounds may deter
mine whether or not a boy Is
eligible to enter without paying
admission. Heretofore, an age
limit was in force; but that
didn't work satisfactorily be
cause the gate man had no way
of checking up the boys' state
ments on their ages. Now, a
mark live feet high will be
made on the fence. Roys whose
height doesn't exceed the mark
will be admitted free, and all
others must pay the regular ad
mission price of fifteen cents.
Geo, but ain't (hat tough on the
youngster who is overgrown for
his age!
SHRINERS ADOPT GREAT
HUMANITARIAN PROGRAM
One million dollars a year is the,
amount set aside for the building and
maintenance of hospitals by the An
cient Order of the Mystic Shrine
hospitals for the care and treatment
of the crippled children of America.
Five of these are already under con - j
striiction and live more have been au-
thorized. Those now being built are
located at St. Louis, St. Paul, Mir
neapolis, Shreveport, La., San Fran
cisco and Montreal. Of the live oth-j
ers authorized, one will definitely be.
built at Portland, Ore., and the other,
four will be located somewhere in i
New Kngland, Pennsylvania, Vir
ginia and the Rocky Mountain States.
Under the plan adopted, more hos
pitals will be built as fast as money
is available until one is in reach of,
every little cripple in the United
States and Canada. Only two provi-,
sions govern admission to these ;
Shriner hospitals. One is that the'
child's parents are unable financially
to have the child treated in a private)
hospital. The other is that the child1
be susceptible to benefit and there)
are precious new suffering children .
for whom the surgeons can see no
ray of hope. The hospitals will be,
built upon the plan of the Scottish,
Rite Hospital for Crippled Children,!
near Atlanta. Every Shriner is as-1
sessed two dollars annually for the !
construction and support of the hos-1
pitals, and as the work grows, the!
members of the Order hope to make j
it a lasting monument to the branch
of Masonry to which they .belong.
CHILDREN DECORATE
GETTYSBURG GRAVES
Gettysburg, Pa., May 30 (By The,
Associated Press) School children
here joined today with veterans of
the Civil War In decorating the
graves of former Union soldiers
obsi rvance of Memorial Day.
SI' FF KKS STItOKK PARALYSIS
j George II.
of paralysis
Hear Woodv
seemed to b(
condition is
is a ii older
Wood suffered a stroke
Saturday at his home
ille. At last reports lie
growing weaker and his
regarded as critical, lie
brothei1 of John y. A.
Wood and of Mrs. Mary White, both
of tills city. Mrs. White is at his
bedside and J. Q. A. Wood motored
to the, home Monday and Tuesday.
Pays Own Way
Zu ' lint Chalug works an a
whiuvhs Hiid givm readings of 'Ma
diiiiie Huttertly ' to pay hvr way
through, f.warihmom College. Shw
kiv th money her father endi
jher for college expense to the Cb
iuee Famine Fund.
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LIVES OF BABIES
SAVED BY CLINIC
More Than One Eliza
beth City Infant Owes
Future Health To
Work Now Going On
More than one baby's life lias been
saved already by the Baby Clinic now
helm; held at the Community Build
ing; and, according to Dr. K. P. R.
Bonner, the State physician in
charge, the health of many more will
have been Improved by the work of
tlie ("l.uic. These good results are
due to the discovery, in the course
of examinations, of defects that had
not previously been found to exist,
and the giving of directions to the
I mothers as to the means by which the
'defects may be corrected.
During the first day and a half of
the clinic, up to noon Tuesday, eighty
babies were examined. More were
coming in right along, and Indications
were that the day's full quota would
be reached or exceeded at the after
noon session. The clinic will con
tinue through Wednesday. Sixty
babies were examined Monday.
A good-sized crowd was out to
bear Miss Kbrenfeld's lecture Mon
day night on the subject, "What
Public Health Nursing Means to ,
North Carolina." Dr. K. P. H. Bon
ner is scheduled to speak Tuesday
night at the Community Building at
eight o'clock on "The Aims and
Purposes of the Bureau of Maternity
and Infancy."
Many mothers have already ex
pressed their appreciation for the
work of the clinic, and the thorough
ly efficient and systematic manner In
which it is being conducted. Tues
day was tag day for the babies; and
the proceeds of the day's sale of tags
will he used for the purchase of milk
to be distributed through the local
Pa rent -Teachers Association.
Today Completing
Knobbs Creek
Fill
llngineer Wkkh Kiiyn I'rotqicctM Are
Now Tlml Xol,nn Road Will IW
Finished By July 1st
i "The Knobbs Creek fill on the
jNewIand road is being completed to
jday," stated County Engineer Higgs
I Tuesday morning, "and all the bricks
on the road will be laid within the
i .
next two weeks, barring unexpected
delays. If the structural steel for
the Knobbs (.'reek bridge reaches us
promptly, the entire road should be
finished by July 1st."
The Newland road, which has been
under construction since April, 1921,
is a nine-foot reinforced brick high-
way extending from this city to New
land Methodist church, approximate
ly a dozen miles north of Elizabeth
City. One authorized connecting
road to South Mills, In Camden
County, is already under construc
tion, iind when completed, it will give
this city direct connection w'th Nor
folk by improved highway, and by
what is declared to be the shortest
"isling route.
i Another will Join Newland town
ship .with Gates County by a road
which ultimately will he made a
lianlsurfaeeil Slate highway connect
ing Elizabeth City with Winton, on
the Chowan River, and incidentally
with the rest of North Carolina.
With the State Highway Commission
already at work on a dependable road
from Wilmington to Winton, the day
is not far off, it is declared, when an
automobile trip from Elizabeth City
to the southeastern corner of the
State in two da yd will not be ( xcep
t ional.
25 MILES OF LINCOLN
HIGHWAY DEDICATED
; !;, Pa.. Ala ( My 'I l,e Asso
ci; d Press ) - -Two: ty live m'les of
;the Lincoln Highway were dedicated
today as a road of remembrance and
: planted with memorial tree-:
Virtual Ultimatum By
i Federated Shop Crafts
Chicago. May :io (Hy The Associ
ated Press) A virtual ultimatum to
'the railroads through the I'nlted
i Stall's Railroad Labor Board was
I presented today by the Federated
!Sliop Crafts representing 400,000
! railway employes in a request for a
! conference with the Board Thursday
1 when the Board will be asked to take
! tiirlsdlet'on over all cases In which
the railroads are alleged to be ills
obeying the Board's orders. If the
i Board declines, a strike ballot will
! go out to shopmen all over the
country.
Vote for Georg.' J. Spence for
Trial Justice. He will appreciate
your support and vote. adr