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ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY EVEN I NO, JUNE 12, VXl'l
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FRISCO IS GREAT I p"2 Ranking pjrqulaans Spending
A 110k All 1 IIC .c..v-
OASIS OF TENTS ,n
olnts Ahead Of Next HiKl"K
Nearly 8400,000 low
City Is Looking Much Like A
Magnificent Oriental Cap
ital As The Shrine Jubilee
Approaches
'County In Livestock Product ion
In North Carolina
I Engineer Tom Hiugs, Formerly Em
i ployed In Pasquotank, Mill Super-
vise KoiulbuiMiiiK There '
Hertford, June 10 At the month -j
ly meeting of the Perquimans County
Pasquotank County, with a ratio of
62 per cent, was far in the lead in
North Carolina in livestock in 1920,
rAino- In ol II t lut Ira mtllDiled Oil
uv, ......f, lu IV,.,-. I C I.. I -., l... M....J..
!the basis of figures for 1920. and v.u..w..,-.- .,...-,
San Francisco, June 12 (By The pubii8hed in the latest Issue of the "rrangemen s were made for the ex
Associated Press) San Francisco is I University News Letter. It was uT- 'nditure f $350000 of road bonds
auu an auuiliouai
$39,000 remaining ;
turning Itself into a tented oasis for
the delegates and visitors to the
Golden Jubilee of the Ancient Arabic
Order,-Nobles of the Mystic Shrine,
June 13 to 16. For the convention
period the San Francisco bay district I vergent sections of the State, were
might Justly be termed the Caliphate : weu ahead of the average for the
of California, for It will be made to 'entire United States, which was 44
resemble a bit of the Old World Is-'per cent. Forty-nine counties were
lam as closely as man's ingenuity above the State average of 31 per
will permit. , cent. These are the counties that
The ordained procedure of the .have fairly well worked out the prob
real Islam to spread rugs far the i jem 0f balance In cash-crop, food
cajiphs and the lesser nobles on crop and food-stock farming, and are
state occasions will be reversed . fortified
lowed by Hyde, Camden. Perquimans,
u.h A,h onrt R.ineombe. In the,Bum of around
order named, with percentages rang-lfrom the 8alti of bonds for the roa(,s
ii.K from 52 to -47 per cent. built un1er contract last year.
These seven counties, in widely dl- EnKineer who ha8 p
uie employ oi rasquoiaiiK i ouniy
in
somewhat in the transplanted Islam. 1 against the
The rugs, or their replicas, will hang boll weevil,
-overhead on the streets, taking the; Twenty-seven counties are con
place of the usual bunting or fes- j spicuously below the livestock level
toons.
Market street, the main thorough
fare, is being turned into a lane
and has superintended the building
of the brick roads from Elizabeth
City to Weeksville and from Newland'
to Elizabeth City applied for the;
work to be undertaken by this county. I
The Hoard employed him by the
month at $351) per month. Mr.!
Higgs says he does not a,sk rfny
...lnn t J In... In,,,. 1 If I... A . .
the same proportion "m"c ul ""a"" "
ravages of the cotton give satisfaction; but will be ready to
.go within ten minutes notice.
It has not been decided whether
this county will build brick roads or
of the State, in ratios that range ! "'D "l "V" ""--
around 75 to 85 per cent below the! 11 18 eipeciea. nowever mat
level of a lightly stocked farm area.jtne work wil1 boln ,ln 3 and the
closely akin to the picturesque ar-Thl8 means that their meat-an-milk : ly',e ot 01K nnniteiy necmen upon.
teries that lead to the old woria animals could be Increased five or ten
mosques. The great Ferry Building, times in number and hey would still
San Francisco's "front door," will be be lightly stocked farm areas. Lack
recognizable only by a Bedouin tent 0f proper local market facilities of
and the blazing electroliers along the ' fering fair profits In ready cash, says
main thoroughfares will be softened; the News Letter, Is responsible for
with transparencies in which arej.this limited livestock production.
Chautauqua
For Tuesday
Morning
9 : HO Junior Chautauqua.
Afternoon
3:un Junior Pageant, 'Con
quests of Peace," by your own
boys and girls.
3:15 "Just Fun." Will H.
Lea, the double-Jointed clown.
For children from six to sixty
six. Night
8:00 "Joy Night," Ralph
Itingham America's foremost
platform humorist.
Bathers View Drowning
Unable to Render Help
Charles Aycock, Who lost Life At
llcllmveii Sunday, Is Ilrotlier or
"hs. W. II. Weather!) Jr.
3incay Was Hottest
Day Of Season Here
Also, It Whs Tlie Most Popular Yet
At Dawson's And The Oilier Ac
cessible Italhinn Itcuclics
Willi the thermometer flirting with
the 100 mark in the sun, and a ;
breeze that feebly vacillated and;
(lied. Sunday was the hottest dayj
that Klizabeth City has thus, far ex
perienced this summer. The heat;
was of the sticky, humid, sweltering
sort that one cannot escape, no mat-j
ter bow he tries. The glaring brick j
streets and concrete sidewalks re-i
fleeted the blazing rays of a coppery,!
dazzling-hot sun that shone uniu-!
terruptedly down all day upon saint;
and sinner alike, with never a cloud
to shut orr temporarily uie inmost,
overwhelming heat. !
Sunday also deserves a second
superlative. Itesides being the hot
test day, It was the most popular one;
STORM VICTIMS
More Than Fifty Lost
Lives And Many In
jured In New York
Tempest
New York, June 12 (By The Asso
ciated Press) Daybreak this morn
ing found hundreds of parents, chil
dren and relatives still keeping vigil
at the docks, awaiting the arrival ot
police boats which during the early
hours had searched the waters of
Long Island Sound for additional vic
tims from yesterday's storm. More
j than fifty persons are thought to have
lost their lives and upwards of a hun
dred were Injured in the tempe.-t.
which roared out on the hills of New
t. ......... Iw.nt tha Uiwluin Into foam
at Dawson's bathing beach near the Rwppt ncroM
Community Hospital Hundreds (,Uy ,,n,pprty damaKft
WtMll 11) IM Illllf IPSIMI, clllfl iuuiiu
Favorable Report On
Capper-Tmcher Bill
WaEhititrtrm 'Inno 19 fllir Tlio A u
Wended the red, green and gold of The farmers are not bookkeepers, but g()date(, ,,reM)Favorab,e report
the new Near East they know well enough whether a on ,he Capper.Tlncher biU to amend
Traversing the ' hot sands that j venture is profitable or not. : lhe future trading act to meet the
He between the bay and the civic In the final analysis, we run in-; recpnt ()f
(na nilffpim will nrrta nnnn lha n, In .1.. Int., M,n l.nn! ..ucb.it f....,l I '
v-mci uie )iiif,wiu ivnre ujmi u.muuij iinu me iuvoi uicinci i court was ordered today
jnaie 01 ine KiieKiuig tuiucia, anu prooiem a cuy prooiein, aim every
pleasing solace from the heat in the
Charles Aycock. brother of Mrs. cool, if somewhat dirty and colon
W. H. Weatherly Jr., . of this city j bacilli-Infested waters of Pasquotank1
and son, C. P. Aycock, of Pantego, lltiver. Other throngs went in cars to'
was drowned Sunday afternoon at Davis Bay, Monte Carlo, Meads's,;
Belhaven when he ventured too far j Lister's and James's pl'rs more re-,
land was caught in the underto.. Mr. !n.ote bathing beaches and enjoyed u
'and Mrs. Weatherly were there at the , refreshing swim. Those who stayed
! time. 'home all day, unless they were more.
Robert Piiddick and the drowned favored than the majority of folks,
man's brother, George Aycock, went simply sizzled, stewed and suffered,
to the rescue when they heard the
! cries for help, but they themselves j A X)ltK('TI()X !
would have drowned, in all proba-; Raleigh, June 10, 192. !
ability, had not a boat gone to their I The Dally Advance,
estimated at from a million dollars to
three times that much.
right beyond, the minarets, pavilions city's most important business neces
and obelisks of an Arabian village, sity in the days at hand and ahead.
In the background will be seen the If the bankers and merchants will
new City Hall, transformed into an: not help the farmer to solve this
great dome glowing at night with
red and amber lights and by day
with a riot of pennons, gorgeously
hued, snapping In the breeze.
Wednesday, the second day of the
convention, the United States Army
will put on an aviation program with'
confetti and American Beauty roses
as the bombing ammunition. On the
name day the 130 mile Golden Jubilee
national championship automobile
race for purses aggregating $25,000
will be run on the
House Agriculture
rescue and pick"d them up In a state
of unconsciousness and complete ex
haustion. It took some time to
revive the two.
I'nable to offer assistance on ac-
surf conditions,
hv thp
Committee. Tnei i -"-."..
measure is expected to be taken
in the House Thursday.
up
penalty In the next year or so.
ii i s
SUMMER SCHOOL BEGINS
WITH MANY ATTENDING
FKDKItATION OK I.AIMHt
IHHCl'KKKS ritOKLKMS
hundreds of bathers saw the drown
ing of young Aycock, yho was Just
22 years of age, and had but recently
returned from the I'niversity of
North .Carolina, where he was a stu-
Clncinatl, Ohio, June 12 "Open
Shop", unemployment, wage 'reduc
tions, recognition of Soviet Russia,
one big union, court decisions, and
Injunctions affecting labor, formed
Thirtv-one teachers "frorif Tiair a the main Issues that confronted the
dozen Northeastern North Carolina - American Federation, of Labor which
and Virginia counties were present . opened Its two weeks convention
for enrollment at the opening of the j here today. No debate as on the
Joint County Summer School for program of the, opening session.
San Francisco'; Teachers which opened at this city: . :
Elizabeth City, N. C.
Gentlemen :
It has Just been brought to the at
tention ot this Bureau that the Di
rector was quoted in your issue of
May 31st as stating that seventy-five
of the babies examined during the
Clinic held in your city were defec
tive out of 165. Inasmuch as no
such statement was made and the
statement is an Injustice both to your
dent this year. The body had not . people and this Bureau, we will thank
been recovered earl yMonday morn- you to make the necessary correction
peedway at San Carlos, south of
here. The following days the air
maneuvers will be continued and
other events will be land and sea
sham battles.
Regattas, excursions and visits to
yfthe great battleships and the lesser
craft of the Pacific fleet will be other
events.
The outstanding events from a
Monday morning at ten o clock.
Trains and steamers bringing other
teachers from Currituck, Camden
and Dare Counties had not arrived,
and Indications were that the open
ing day's enrollment would reach 40
to 50 teachers. The last day for ent
rance Into the Summer School is
Wednesday of this week. It is held
at the Elizabeth City High School
Washington Treaties
In Chcr.bcr Deputies
Paris, J.une 12 (By the Associated
Press) Bills ratifying the agree
ments reached at the Washington
arms conference are now in commit-
Miss Hattie Parrott, of the State! ' Chamber of Deputies, and
here reporieu soon.
Durelv spectacular nolnt of view will
... . ..... rnnn4wv.anf nl VAttnnUnn wa
De the nararleii. thre nf which have i i"11 l"lcu' "l t'uul-""uu' "
leen arranged for. t0 a8sist 'n the, work of organizing!
Hotel accommodations are said to the Summer School. Prof. A. B. ML,5
1e plentiful, but there Is one temple : l;om 08 aivea Saturday irom a snort
that will take no chances. That is Vacation, and was on hand Monday
Medina oLChlcago, which has arrang- morning to assume his duties as di
orl tn use its flvo .r.opini trin0 inr rector; and Miss Eleanor Huske, of
Tiotel pumoses. Telenhone connec-. Fayettevllle, whose work at two pre-! The
tion will be "hooked up
pullman.
OF TROLLEYS
IN SWITZERLAND NOW
Jng.
Harding Deprecates
Criticise Goldstein
;In your next issue. We did find many
j babies In need of medical supervision
'and care whose parents did not feel
needed such attention, until brought
to the Clinic for examination. In
I this manner it is possible for the ser-
Explosion Startles
Saturday Shoppers
Various Theories Advanced As T
Cause, Which Wns l'iiiiue, To
Say The Least
A loud explosion late Saturday af
ternoon, while the streets were
thronged with shoppers, and business
on a busy Saturday was at lt,s busies',
startled many people on South Water
street, shook to their foundations
numerous barrels of oil on the Texas
Company dock, on the East Fearing
street water front, and played havoc
generally with the peace of mind of
t hose who heard it.
Somebody made the startling an
nouncement that a war bomb, plantel
by some devilish alien during the
world conflict, had Just exploded.
Another believed that murder had
i been committed, and waited several
.minutes to heur the victim's dying
i shriek. A third, a visitor from Co
lumbia who hadn't been in town long
I enough to become acquainted with
the calendar In use here, decided that
; it was the Fourth of July In Elizabeth
City, and that somebody had Just pet
St. Louis, June 12 (By The Asso
ciated Press) President Harding
has written Nat Goldstein, that the
criticism produced by the nomination
of Goldstein for Internal revenue
collector here, caused by Goldstein's
acceptance of 12500 of Lowden cam
paign funds, was an "undeserving
character."
CONDITION OF
HHOWS
I .K NINE
IMPROVEMENT
vice or mis nureau 10 De ot value to 1 on a gant firecracker,
the public. This work to be of great-! Thoge who tracPd the explosion to
est service and good to the people ; ltg 80urce learned that Miles Clark
must have the follow-up work in or-;had p!acpd an empty woo,!en barrel
der to determine If those In need of! ln hIg gag boat at the Texas company
medical attention are acting upon the dockg and nad attached It to the ex
advlce and placing themselves under j nau8t p)pe to gerve ag a muffier. Ti1H
medical care that the conditions be i second hole In the barrel to permit
remedied. i the escape of the gases wasn't large
We wish to express to you and your enough, and the bung blew out. That
staff our appreciation of the hearty wag tne wnoe cauge ot lne PXCite.
support and co-operation given the m(in(
campaign and Clinic In the columns 1
of your paper. We trust that the re-
Moscow June 12 (By The Assoc,- , 7JpV.mt w.H ta! WILL MAKE STATEMENT
.... ' ... .even In greater .proportion-than if1
dition continues to show Improve-1 . ..,,, , .,, . , ... i
. .. , . . . j . . . , , measured by the good wishes of your
ment, it is stated In official circles and i
Very truly,
K. P. B. BONNER,
Director
TUESDAY OR THURSDAY
he is now able to walk in the gar
den and dictate letters.
Berne Switzerland, June 12 (By
Associated Press) Two hun-
wlth each eRd'niS summer schools here has oc- dred and fifty miles of electric moun
casioned much favorable comment. Is ta!n railways in the Canton of Grison
Subsidy Gets Nowhere
DEIJtfJATES TO It. Y. P. V.
CONVENTION AT NEW BERN
here to assist in conducting
Summer School.
Unlike some other years, there has and Pontresina with Daves and other
been no trouble this summer ln ob- points, including Goire, on the
Misses Kate Wood, Bernlce Twid- j taining boarding places for the teach- Rhine,
dy, Josle Gordon,- Annie Belle Ab-jers, according to County Superin- Switzerland has now a total of
bott. Marie Cooper, Golrile Stokes, tendent M. P. Jennings, under whose 1,500 miles of electric railways many
Mrs. Sam Williams, and Marion Love general supervision the Summer of which have been
nave been named as delegates to the School will "he conducted; and Mr. from steam railways.
B. Y. P. U. Convention at New Bern ; Jennings states that he will be glad
rrom the First Baptist cnurcn oi tnis to assist any attending teachers to
city; with Misses Ada Palmer, Mary secure hoard at reasonable rates.
Trueblootl, Nellie Hastings, -Mrs.:
fary McCoy, Allen Bell, Herseyj - .
Lamb, Brlghtie White and Joseph ONE MAN IN JAIL AND
Peele from Blackwell Memorial POLICE AFTER OTHERS
church. The delegates will leave at'
11:35 Tuesday morning and will re
Washington, June 12 (By The As
sociated Press) After a conference Dear Sir:
Dr. K. P. B. Bonner, Director,
'Bureau of Maternity and Infancy,
State Board of Health, Raleigh, N.
C,
thA ' hiivA rpppnMv hppn nnmiorl Tlioaa
lines connect the resorts of St. Moriul tHlajr w,,h thB 1,re8i,ie,lt- Represent In reply to your letter of the tenth
lauve .wonuen, uepunncan teauer, uskiiik ior a iuiusoeu iim;uuii m
hasiily called the Republican steer- a statement appearing recently in the
ing committee of the House to dis- com tuns of The Advance, to the ef
cuss probable action on the ship' feet that 75 babies were saved from
subsidy bill and Muscle Shoals, but death or permanent invalidism by the
transformed the 1,H,etln8. 11 wa 8ai(l "Kot no- work of the Baby Clinic here, we are
wnere. i more than glad to make me uesireii
London. June 12 (By The Associ
i ated Press) Colonial Secretary
Churchill announced In the House of
Commons this afternoon that It would
1 be more convenient and In general of
I greater public Interest If he deferred
; Ills statement on Ireland, expected
today, until Tuesday or possibly
Thursday.
DEFENDANT TOLD WHERE
HE OBTAINED WHISKEY
correction In this letter, which Is pub-
Otr Ciiinpllitr Tfln ! llshed In today's Issue of The Ad-
Charles, Francis and Marlon Seyf-Vance.
fert, Carlton Woodley, William Jen-i The Information referred to, which
nlngs and William' Overman are you describe as Incorrect, was given
of The Advance
Misses Hazel and Bessie Stafford
of South Mills passed through the
c!ty Monday en route to Raleigh
where they will attend the summer camping a few days at Arneuse Creek to representatives
school at State College.
this week.
turn Friday.
HEAVY (JIAKES RECORDED.,
Richmond, June 12--Herbert Buck
;ley, lumber worker, Is in Jail, and
warrants are out for a number of
(others who took part ln recent dis
turbances in Louisa County, Virginia,
tarred and
SLIGHT DECREASE IN VOTES
ANNOUNCED FOR THIS WEEK
and the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot on
Wednesday morning. May SI. by
Herbert King, who lives in tlio
Fork section, near Carter's Shop,
was tried In recorder's court Monday
on a charge of assault upon his
wife. He admitted that he had been
drinking, and told the court that he
obtained his liquor upon information
furnished by one Albert Stalllngs, of
the New Hope section, Perquimans
County. He explained that Stalling
told him where he had seen a two-
members of the special Baby Clinic gallon Jug hid in the bushes near the
WaRhinEton. June 12 (By The As
sociated Press) A heavy earthquake in whirh ck,ely was
shock was recorded at Georgetown feathered by a band of masked men
University Observatory last night ' Thursday night, and subsequently the
and a less severe tremor, probably : nme r lne Pacner named oienn
more distant, was recorded at about' w8 sh,,t UP- Glenn ls 8ald to rePrp-'
six o'clock this morning. j sent t,,p faction opposing Buckley and
Chicago. June 12 (By The Assocl-;his frlcndg-
ated Press) Two earthquake shocks' J !
were recorded by the University of
Chicago seismograph last night;
Publicity Committee of the Central
Council of Public Welfare, of this
city, appointed to keep the news
papers In touch with the Clinic. It
appeared In both newspapers, and
was published In good faith as com
J. R. Brite place, and that he himself
went and secured it shortly after
ward. King was placed under a
I hlrl y-day sentence on the assault
charge, hut Judgement was suspended
for two years upon payment of the
Virginia crois ;oon
MANAGER OF BAKERY
SHOT DEAD IN BELFAST
Belfast, June 12 (By The Associ
ated Press) Edward Devlne, man
aging director of a bakery concern In
Belfast, was shot dead today In his
office by three men who forced their
entrance into the place, shouted
"hands up," then fired.
ZOU,UUU VoteS Will JBe tllVen Un JLach And Jhvery.lng from an entirely reliable soirTce.i osts, and conditional upon the de
Pluk T,,-A I R., Minn n'.lrvl, MA4 C.. view of the circumstances. The fendant's future good behavior.
Club 1 urned ln By Mine U clock Next iatur-;A(lvan(.e B gltt(1 to CHrrect thn (irror i ardy Perry, cnai.Kd in rw.orAet-9
dav NiffHt. June The 17th - Onlv One Mnre though It came about through no rt here Monday morning with op-
11 1 nr n A TL' fault of this newspaper.
Week Of Race After 1 his Very tiy. ;
THE ADVANCE. I
The contest will close one week ' j
from Saturday night. Only a few' nma . ..... i NEW IRISH ARTICLES
come across is going to be the un-, '
more days In which to work for the doln(? of 8ome contes,ants in this! ARE HAPPILY REVISED,
ora sedan. All the time, votes are race. If people who have promised London, June 12 (By The Assocl-! S(,0 on, entered a plea of submission
decreasing, and every minute you de- you do not give you subscriptions, ated Press) The artlcleg of the new i 0n a charge of operating a motor ve-
erating an automobile without th
proper license, was found not guilty.
Mr. Perry, who Is connected with a
local garage, testified that the car
was one that he had for sale, and that
he was out Umbering it up.
Wilson Ferrell, of the Weeksville
Richmond, June 12 (By The Asso
ciated Press) Prospects for all Vir
ginia field crops are excellent, ao
anrtiiM tn tho limn rpnort of the Vlr.
glnla crop reporting service, inade!,ajr ,n Mnr,nf additional support is don't become discouraged, for there j Irish constitution are being revised , hide without the proper license, and
public today. The fruit crop, the re- l" muuie. une. woo are mousanas oi people in Kiiwiuein so satisiactoriiy, tne evening Htar as- was required to pay the costs of the
seeing me ugnt" are rorging city's trade territory that are not serts today, that Arthur. Griffith Is to ! raxe
the freeze last April.
are "seeing the
ahead ot you. subscribers, and who would become return to Dublin with them tonight. ;
11 is easier now to get votes than, so If they were Importuned. " The whole six points raised by the;
Your competitors are Make It a nolnt thin week tn rn In British Hlrnatorles to the Ans-ln-Irlsh i
i next week.
Dr. C. W. Sawyer left Monday for busy this week. What about you? every place ou can. and get as many treaty have been adjusted, the news
Nags Head to open up the Albemarle Are you willing to see a fine car go aubscrlbers as possible. A Donus of paper says.
. I cottage for a house party of young, from you fo rlack of a little effort on 250.000 votes will be given on each
Jesse Wilson of Woodvllle passed people who expect to leave her Tues- , your part? Someone Is going to win. I and every club of five vearlv sub-' Rev. and Mrs. J. H Hall and John
PRESIDENT RETURNS FROM
CRUSE WITH RAlTiHKRTY
through the city Saturday enroute to
his home at Woodvllle after a week
at Nags Head.
day with Mrs. W. W. Casey who will; That is certain.
be In charge of the Albemarle this winning?
season. , Waiting for
Washington, June 12 (By The As
sociated Press)-The President re
turned to Washington today after on
Are you certain of scrlptions this week. If tamed In by Gilbert and William, son's, left Mon-iover Sunday cruise In the Mayflower
nine o clock on the night ot Satur-iday to spend the aeason at Nags i with Daugherty, Mellon and Senator
the other fellow to day next.
Head.
land Mrs. Newberry as his guests.