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WEATHni Fair tonight and Friday, somewhat warmer Friday. Gentle to moderate north- erly winds. CIRCULATION Wednesday 1,701 Copies t (j y I y . s y ;. n U (1 I V.. d d f a ; VOL. XII. FINAL EDITION ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1922 FOUR PAGES NO. 142 ft . 4 3 Economic Conference Opens At Attended By Experts Only And It Is Hoped That Discussion May Be Held Down To Eco nomic Questions Without Political Entangle ments America Absent The Hague, June 15 (By The Asso ciated Press) All Europe centered its hopes today on the opening of the International conference which Is dedicated to the task of making practical arrangements for the re- vuuy ui nuHHia inio me concert oil nations. The first session of the con ference meets this afternoon. The new European economic con ference which .opens today In . the I'eace Palace at The Hague is c-uledj to consider questions relating to Rus sia In her economic relations with her neighbors. - It Is virtually an ad-! journment of the Genoa conference.? which came to an end the latter part of May without having reached any solution of Russian problems. The decision to postpone action concern ing Russia was Induced largely by the desire of the European powers to per-, uade the United States to particl-l pate. But the American Govern-1 ment Is not to be represented at The, Hague any more than it was at the! conference In Itay. f While the Gerioa conference, wasj nominally economic, It soon develop-j d animated political discussions.! The Hague gathering, composed ex- clusively of experts, Is designed to be confined solely to the consideration of economic questions. When the American Government declined on May 15 the Invitation to "be represented at The Hague, this de cision was received with expressions of regret In E.urope, particularly from Great Britain and France, for it was lelt abroad that nothing of a perma nent and International nature could fee undertaken for the restoration of Russia without the co-operation of the United States, whose wealth, re sources, and political power made Tier Indispensable to any great world restoration movement. The Washington Government in re fusing to go to The Hague, criticized the attitude of Russia, as a bar to any settlement and characterized the Soviet reply to the Allied terms as lacking1 any , deflnlteness as a basis lor a .parley. Nevertheless, Wash ington said, the American Govern ment always was ready to Join other governments In arranging for an in quiry by experts Into the economic situation In Russia, and the necessary remedies. "This Government," the American communication said, "is unable to conclude that it can helpfully parti cipate in the meeting of The Hague, as this would appear to be the con tinuance under a different nomencla ture of the Genoa conference and destined to encounter the same diffi culties if the attitude disclosed in the Russian memorandum of May 11 re mains unchanged. "The Inescapable and ultimate question," the note said also, "would appear to be the restoration of pro ductivity In Russia, the essential con ditions of which are still to be se cured and must In the nature of things toe provided -within Russia her self." Sfirntarf Hoover speaking In "Washington May 15 on the American refusal to attend The Hafeue gather ing, said the American Government "still maintained there could be no recognition of Soviet Russia unless the government of Moscow conform ed to the principles of safety of life, recognition, of firm guarantees of private property, the sanctity of a contract and the rights of free labor. Until these things were established and carried out, Mr. Hoover said he held with Secretary of State Hughes that there could be no productivity In Soviet Russia. France, early in June, in a mem orandum, to the powers concerned, demanded that the Soviet Russian government withdraw Its memoran dum presented at the Genoa confer ence May, 11 as a condition for French participation at The Hague. This note of May 11, presented to the pewers at Genoa, declared the So viet's repudiation of Russia's national debts and International obligations and refused to. establish the basis of security regarded as fundamentally necessary for the restoration of pro ductivity in Russia; It also claimed . Tieavy financial damages for the par ticipation of the Allies In military operations against the Soviet regime. The French government set forth certain arguments strikingly sim ilar to those which earlier had come out of Washington. Premier Poln care declared the reconstruction of Russia depended, upon the revival of agricultural production and this, he said, could not be obtained without a change In regime that would assure .the peasants the proceeds of their The Hague Eioiv A Big Org Agitation Against Li quor On American Ships May Wreck President's Subsidy Plan Washington, June 15 (By The Associated Press) Defin ite steps through legislation to stop the sale of liquor on Am erican ships was started today through' the presentation by Representative '.. Bankhead of Alabama of an amendment to the merchant marine bill which would cut off Government aid from any ship carrying intoxi cating liquor or beverages. Appeal To Daughtry Washington, June 15 (By The Associated Press) At torney General Daugherty will be asked for a new ruling on the question of the sale of liquor on Shipping Board ves sels, it was indicated by the Treasury today. WATER STREET BliAZE WAS CAUSE OF MUCH EXC ITEMENT A near-panic was ' precipitated among Water street business men Thursday shortly after noon when a quantity of oily waste and rubbish in the alley 'between the Auto & Gas Engine Works, Inc., and the B. L. Banks building, now under construc tion on North Water street, caught fire from an unknown cause, -and sent great clouds of black smoke boil ing out into the street. The Fire department was called to the scene of the excitement, and promptly put out the small blaze by the use Bof chemicals and water. There was no property damage. Banks flay Sfjck To Lower Discount Rate Washington, June 15 (By The As sociated Press) The Federal Re serve Bank of San Francisco has ask ed the Federal 'Reserve Board for Its ottltude upon the possible reduction of the California banks' rediscount rate from four and one-half to four per cent. Coal Crisis Threatens Springfield, 111., June 15 (By The Associated Press) The state of the coal supply above ground "demands conference of miners and operators in the very near future," John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, said today. lie declared that the nation faces a shortage of "unparalleled Intensity." Irish Constitution To Do Ihiz Puhlio Londdn, June 15 (By The Associ ated Press) Colonial Secretary Churchill announced In the House of Commons today that the constitution of the IrlBh Free State would be made public tomorrow, tye said that It conforms with the Anglo-Irish treaty. KK. Kramer, who has been at a Baltimore hospital for an operation, has returned home and Is able to be up. In addition to an operation Mr. Kramer also underwent radium treatment. His mother, Mrs. A." K. Kramer, was with him during his stay at Baltimore. labor. Mr. Polncare referred spe cifically to the attitude of the 8ovIet Continued on Page 3 Defendant Fined For Autcnebilo Cellisisn Recorder Kpcncc Tak'j Consideration Of Extenuating ClrcuniNtanccg In Case Of Jarvis Swley, Jr. Jarvls Seeley, Jr., was fined $25 and costs In recorder's court here Thursday morning on a group of charges which were the result of his running into Florence Case, colored, on South Road street last Friday evening, shortly before dark, while driving his Ford racer. The charges preferred were of operating a motor vehicle at a rate of speed greater than 20 miles an hour; operating a motor vehicle In a reckless and dan gerous manner, and assault with a deadly weapon, to wit, an automo bile. According to the evidence, Seeley, while driving out South Road street at a rate of speed variously estimat ed by onlookers at from 18 to 25 miles an hour, turned to the left of the street to avoid a wagon which had stopped in front of Overton's store. The Case woman, crossing the street, came out from behind the wagon just as Seeley approached. Each attempted to avoid the other, with the result that the woman was run into near the left-hand curb. Seeley did not stop his car, but in stead kept on going In the direction of Hollywood Cemetery. Trial Justice Spence accepted as an extenuating circumstance the fact that Seeley had provided medical as sistance for the Injured woman, and, besides paying all her medical bills, had agreed to furnish necessary food for her until she was able to work again. Hence the moderate fine of $25 and costs which he imposed upon the defendant. Walter Harris, known as "Monk," and Sarah Douglas, both colored, were found guilty of prostitution, and were fined five dollars and costs each. W. M. Blount, charged with op erating an automobile without li cense belonging to the Auto A Gas Engine Works, paid the costs of the case. Jess Villard Say V9 Deqsicy's Dodging Los Angeles, Cal., June 15 (By The Associated Press) Jess Wlllard, for mer world heavyweight pugilist chajjpion, In a statement ' published today by the Los Angeles Express, accused Jack Dempsey of "dodging" through his manager, Jack Kearns, a return match with Wlllard. Local sports followers consider Wlllard's statement an open challenge to Dempsey. Dank Of England . .j Lowers Discounts! .present session of the B. Y, P. U.be,gUn about the middle of Febru- London, June 15 (By The Assocl-' 1!'"'. MJ 7Vfi"J- In connectlon wlth ll' the Iron ated Press)-The Bank of EngIand Gld8b7. Boundpf the keynote In his , works & Supply Company has also today lowered the discount rate to fT.? "ight on Stephen, the erected a sixty-foot shear-leg derrick, three and one-half per cenv, a reduc- fTyal- . fePhen- al1 th speaker built of 8teei. and electrically oper ation of one-half per cent from the' W88 B,m,? y "n "rdl"ar-v man: who ated, with a lifting capacity of fifty figure established May 13 last. The perm,"?d t0uIlv etrardinary j tons. This is situated on the water bank took Lombard Street by sur-! Ume8' a",d y ,hf he'p, of theu ,Lord,' j front Just at the rear of the com prise In making the reduction. j Wa8 able t0 do "ordinary things." jpany's marine machine shop on Rlv- jerslde avenue, and Is used for lifting Mrs. Maurice Pappendlck returned; Little Charles Burgess Is lmprov-iboilers or machlnery from -boats, for home Tuesday after spending several iing at the home of his parents, Mr. I "gtepping" mnfts -placing them In days in Norfolk as the guest of Mrs. A. Pope. , The Grand Final Rush For Ford Sedan On In Earnest Fast Dwindling Time For Work Makes Con certed Action On Part of Your Friends A Necessity. Endeavor To Get As Many Clubs As Possible So Your Vote Total Will Stand The Test at the Last Minute Only. eight more days and someone will be riding around In a fine Ford Sedap. Will It be you? Answer It for yourself. The answer should be given this week In terms of clubs. If you will ride In a fine car. then you Vill put everything Into your work this week and next, for work is what counts. The race for the two cars and one hundred dollars cash Is between sev eral. Anyone In this group can win. You know whether or not you are In this group. If you are making an en- ergetlc effort this week will spell sue- 80 K'ven. cess for yon. Waiting and watching j Remember that 250,000 votes are have no place In this race. If you are j given on each and every club you to wait and watch, then you wilt hae turn In this week, up touilne o'clock the pleasure (?) of watching some! next Saturday night, June 17th. Four one ride away In a, handsome Ford clubs give you a million votes. It Sedan, another In a nifty Ford rosd-jwill take votes In the millions to ster, and the third with the cash. If i win. This Is your tip to success, you care to work, and work hard this Use it for all Its worth this week. P n1 TO 1G mm otg Break In Negotiations Between Mine Work ers And Anthracite Operators Seems Ir reparable New York, June 15 (By The Asso ciated Press) The break In the scale negotiations between the United Mine Workers and the anthracite coal operators appeared Irreparable today as the unjon members prepared to leave. That suspension of hear ings means a strike was the opinion on both sides of the controversy. Dig Dond Issue For Virginian Railroad Washington, June 15 (By The As sociated Press) The Virginia Ter minal Railway was today authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commis sion to issue $909,000 In fifty year five per cent bonds and to turn them over to the Virginian Railroad. Young People Hold Dest Meeting Yet New Bern, June 15 (Special) The Baptist Young People's Convention ! hand at the proper depth. ' which has been in session here since!.. One feature of the cradle that Is Tnesrlav nfelit. reached hieh tide this ! not found In drvdocks of an older morning with the thrilling address of ! type is that it Is so constructed that j Line for reconslgnment over the Nor Secretary T. C. Gardner of Texas on 'the vessel remains on a level keel af-foIk Southern from this city to the "The Blessings o! the B. Y. P. U." ter it has been hauled from the wa-i markets of the North and West; and and Dr. R. J. Bateman, Of Ashevllle, : ter, since the blocks upon which., the j It 'Is believed ' that the bulk of the a Time as This or Esther's Chal-'ghip rests are graduated In height, on "Coming to the Kingdom for Such j The old-style drydocks take the ship lenge." The convention will close! in a slanting position; and the former tonight following an address by Dr. ; arrangement facilitates repairs. A Chas". E. Maddrv on "What Is Your I flnnrml nlatform constructed on the Life?" This is by far the largest con-' cradle is of further advantage to theere Pavln8 3-00 l 3-50 or chlc vnntlnn the Rantist vnun'af nnnnle ofiwnrbmon rennlrlnir the hull of a V68- Btock f. 0. b. Elisabeth" City, but this State have ever held and It Is considered toy .many the best. Tb,e B. Y. P. U. work is coming Into Its own. Secretary Maddry has put on an extensive program for the summer months employing ten additional B. Y. P. U. workers and sending them to every section of the State. High Point will doubtless be chos en this afternoon as the next meeting place of the convention Few changes In the election of the offi cers this afternoon for another year Is anticipated. Leonard F. Gore, pf Wilmington, Is president; Miss Louise I Miller, of Greensboro, recording sec-1 retary; Perry Morgan, of Raleigh, I State secretary, and Miss Elma Leigh I Ferabow, ot Raleigh, secretary of; junior work. - "Loyalty" Is the key-word of the and Mrs. S. S. Burgess, an Cypress street, after a week's Illness. week, then you can be the one to ride away with the car. It's up to you. From now on, if subscriptions are ' condition. Simultaneously a small paid at the office, and the person pay- yacht owned by Richard Smith, an ing the subscription does not deslg-1 employe of the Iron Works, was tak nate any one to which credit for the!6" from the water for minor re- sutxicrlptlon should be" given, It will not benefit any one In the race, un less, the contestant who has been to see the person subscribing, calls e'ther In person or by telephone and 88,18 that credit for subscription be Modern Drydock Completed And First Used This Week Is Of Crandall Type, And Is Built On Same Plan As One At Norfolk Which Is Largest On At lantic Seaboard Only Other Of Type In The State Is At Wilmington Forty to fifty thousand dollars is the investment represented by the Crandall railway drydock, completed this week on Riverside avenue by the Elizabeth City Iron Works & Sup ply Company. The dock was built according to specifications drawn by the Crandall Engineering Company, of Boston, among the most famous drydock builders in the coun try. It Is thoroughly modern, and is a smaller replica of the 5,000-ton drydock built recently by Crandall for th. Pninnnn Marine Rallwav Coroor- (. vnrfniuthB irest drvdock on the Atlantic seaboard. The only other dock of the improved Crandall type In North Carolina is situated at Wilmington. The new drydock Is 191 feet long 4ft ft wide, and has a draft of'"op 01 rasquoians ouniy nas eleven feet. In other words, It Is . equipped to take a vessel drawing up! to eleven feet of water, a capacity that Is ample for local needs, since no vessel drawing more than ten feet of water can safely come up Pasquo tank River to this city. The "cradle" of the dock runs upon a track resting on piles driven deep into the bed of the river. After these were put in place, divers went below the surface of the water, and sawed them off by sel from the outside. I In Electrically Operated A fifty horsepower electric motor operates the hoisting machinery by which a ship to be repaired may be hauled upon the drydock; and the actual pull Is dependent upon a huge chain, each link of which weighs ap proximately 35 founds. The new drydock has a guaranteed capacity of 600 tons, or 1,200,000 pounds, and if necessary, can withstand a consid erably heavier weight. Just about 75,000 feet of lumber, mainly long leaf pine, were used In the building of It. Between seventy and eighty tons of rock ballast are used to weight down the cradle sufficiently to keep It from floating from the track when It Is In use under the water. Construction ot the drydock was j po81uon ,n ve88elB anu lor ol"Br i heavy lifting. Wim HMpti Arr DryriorkiHl For the Information of the uniniti ated, here Is the method by which a ship Is hoisted Into position on the drydock: First the cradle is released, and Is run on a track extending un der the water to a point where the depth is sufficient for It barely to clear the keel of the ship. Then the ship Is maneuvered Into position halfway between platforms at either side of the cradle, and Is tied secure-! :rk?ra' B,' M. Jewell said today, ad ly there. Everything Is then ,n ; dressing the Federation convention. readiness for the lift. The hoisting machinery is put Into action, and In five minutes the vessel Is high and dry upon the ways. The first Job on the new drydock was taken on Tuesday, when a barge belonging to D. E. Williams, promi- nent lumber man of South Mills, was hauled upon the ways in a leaking pairs. The completion of the Crandall drydock Is but one of a series of ad vances made by the Elizabeth CKy Iron Works & Supply Company In re- cent years. The company now owns a modern machine shop and foundry at the corner of Water and Pearl streets, where the original plant of the company was situated, and also Sj macnine inop specially ior marine work on Riverside avenue, closely adjacent to the drydock. The Elizabeth CKy Iron Works Supply Company was originally Hundred Thousand Darrcls Shipped More than 100,000 barrels of early Irish potatoes to 'be exact, 536 car loads of approximately 200 barrels each had been consigned to North ern market over the Norfolk South ern Railroad Trom this city up to nine o'clock Thursday morning, and i indications were that the potato rush of the last ten days would continue, gradually diminishing, through the coming week. Quotations Thursday morning ranged from $3.50 to $6.00. SixtyJflve per cent of the potato al- ready been dug, according to S. G. Scott, of the firm of Brock & Scott,, prominent brokers 'who keep in close touch with the local situation. Mr. Scott says that the probabilities are that heavy shipments from this County will continue day by day un til the crop Is cleaned up, unless dig ging operations are again hampered or suspended on account of bad weather. Brock & Scott had handled 125 carloads, or 25,000 barrels of potatoes, up to midnight Wednesday. Currituck County potatoes are still moving In bulk over the North River Currituck crop will be moved this week. Shipments over the line are now aggregating 7,000 barrels of po tatoes dally. Buyers here Thursday morning their purchases were comparatively light, growers In many Instances pre ferring to ship on their own account in the hope of obtaining larger pro fits. The New York market was quoted at $3.60 to $6.00, depending on the quality of the stock, with many North Carolina potatoes selling at around $5.00. Philadelphia prices were $3.75 to $5.25, depending on grade and condition of the stock. The Chicago market was $4.50 to $6.00. Asks Leaders Hurry Washington, June 15 (By The As sociated Press) An appeal to the Republican leaders In the House to bring In a speolal, rule by which prompt .and speedy action "may be had on fhe Ford offer 'for Muscle Shoals was made today In a brief speech by Representative Almon of Alabama. Radical Resolution Killed By Laser Cincinnati, June 15 (By The Asso ciated Press) Without opposition or debate the convention of the Ameri can Federation of iLabor today killed a resolution proposing a radical change In the form of the organized labor movement In the United States by the amalgamation of, all unions Into single organizations each cover ing an Industry. Officers of the railway unions will not Interfere to stop the strike of the shop craft and maintenance of way !e "al?, ne worKers ar.e Ior the test." Ward Is Indicted White Plains, The Associated N. Y June 15 (By Press) Walter S. i Ward, millionaire baker's son, was In- dieted today by the grand Jury on the charge of killing Clarence Peters last May. founded shortly after the Civil War as a shop for the manufacture and repair of buggies, by J. F, Sanders, father of the present owners. The elder Mr. Sanders conducted it for many years on that (basis, but gradu ally extended his activities as gas boats and other Vieehanlcal innova tions began to be generally used, throughout thla section. The Eliza- Detn cty Iron yvork s & Supply Com pany was incorporated In 1908. Brad Sanders Is (president and general manager, Andrew Sanders Is vice president, and II. W. Sanders la secretary-treasurer.