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ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1022
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ence witn ttoover
Are In Harmony
With Administration
Policy
Washington, July 24 (By
"The Associated Press) Oper
ators from producing districts
in six States in conference to
day with Secretary Hoover
agreed in principle with the ad
ministration plan for maintain
ing prices and insuring full dis
tribution during the strike
emergency. The' legal phases
were given approval of the De
partment of Justice in an opin
ion sent to Hoover by Daugh
erty while the conference was
in session.
Washington, July 24 (By The As-
'sociated Press) Bituminous
coal
operators representing the present
Jr,n H Tn lr states !
f v. -'o
gathered here today at the call of
Secretary Hoover, who sought their
co-operation ln the administration's
yjoal distribution scheme designed to
protect railroads, the public utilities
and other necessary Industries against i
shortage and to prevent profiteering. !
Hoover and Attorney General
Daugherty held a conference prior to j
the former's meeting with operators,
presumably on the legal phase of the .
coal distribution plan.
i
Breaks Left Am In
Fell Dcv;n Stairway
M. N. Sawyer Has Narrow Escape
From More Serious Injury Sun
day Night
M. N. Sawyer Is suffering with
a broken arm, two broken ribs, and a
number of bruises caused by a fall
.clown a stairway ot his home, on
North Rdad street Sunday night, and
his family and friends are consider
ably relieved that his Injuries are not
even more serious.
The door adjoining Mr. Sawyer's
"bedroom upstairs opens into a back
stairway. The.two doors are side by
ide and when Mr. Sawyer went up
atalrs after attending church Sunday
evening he turned out the hall light,
walked over toward his room, opened
th wrong door and etepped not in
to Tils room but down stairs. .
"Dr. C. B. Williams was quickly labor have risen several hundred
summoned and upon examination! per cent, and good mechanics now
found that Mr. Sawyer's left arm 'demand five dollars a day. The
-was broken at the wrist, two ribs j hours of labor used to be from sun
were broken, his right arm was ! rise till sun-set, but by the organlza
sprained, and there -were a number of j tion of labor unions they now have in
iml8es on his head and body. That I Jaffa an eight-hour day. Lack of
Tie did not break his shoulder or hip !
or suffer more serious hurt was little
short of marvellous. With his char
acteristic stoicism Mr. Sawyer walked
up the stairs to his bedroom, after his
fall, with the aid of members oi me
fsrn v instead oi allowing Dimseii 10 1
be carried, and reports from the sick
Toom Monday morning were that he
1s getting along well.
RIDDLED WITH BULLETS
Ellenton, Ga., July 24 (By The As
sociated Press) The bullet riddled
body of Will Anderson, negro,
charged with an attempted attack on
a fifteen-year-old white girl, was
found on the road near Reedy Creek
church this morning after Anderson
had been seized in Moultrie and driv
en away presumably to the scene of
the crime. tHe Is said-to have con
fessed. Inj
zrti h Cln:h:s
Viith Sltie Trccps
Buffalo, July 24 (By The Assoc!
-ated Press) One man with a broken
arm, another with a fractured skull
. are In a hospital today after clashes
jwlth State troopers guarding the
trolley lines of the company whose
employes have been striking since
July 2. The railway operated a lim
ited number of cars on all lines today.
TAUGHT FOUH REARS
, Noah McMurraln, who lives on J
C. Perry's farm near the city, re
cently caught four bears in steel
traps set In the woods near his house.
McMurraln killed three of the bears
but Is hoping to sell the fourth.
GREAT CHANGES
IN THE HOLY LAND
Prosperity And Modern
Improvements Tak
ing Place Of Old
' Turkish Regime
Jerusalem, July 24 (By The Asso
ciated Press) No one who knew the
LJI.. r 1.. (ha dava nf tha Tnrlluh
nu., u ... ...,
regime can iau 10 uoie uie preai
changes that have taken place thru-
out the country since the close of the
war.
The Turkish army stripped Pales
tine of Its animals to such a degree
that when the American Red Cross
arrived In June of 1918 there were
many villages without a single
ploughing animal, and neither sheep
nor goats were seen on the hillsides.
Today it is not uncommon for an
automobile to come to a standstill on
the principal street of Jerusalem to
allow a flock of hundreds of sheep
and goats to pass by, and out in the
country the grey hillsides are covered
with thousands of these animals.
Italy gets a large amount of her
glove material from the kids of Pal
estine. Whereas much still remains to be
done, a great Improvement already
has been made ln the character of the
wnrk .lm.i. Th rmv left behind
.
it tens of
of thousands of horses, mules
and donkeys,' but even better than
this the natives seem to have learned
valuable lessons in the care and feed-
ing of stock, so that today the horses ,,
of the public carriages in Jerusalem1
are far sleeker and finer than ever
they were before the war.
Farm .produce of all kinds brings a ,
much better price than formerly;
hence the villagers are prosperous
and Indulge in luxuries undreamed
of in pre-war days. The markets of,
Jerusalem were never before supplied '
j , . .
with such a wealth ami variety of
delectable articles, and venders of
lemonade anrt ice cream do a thriv- ' , ...u.. v..
lemonade ana ice cream ao a mnv lncomparable Aubrey McCabe behind
ing business. In tm dry-goods,!.. nMth'.aA nhort r,.i
clothing and shoe stores the most
, , , . . -
llsh and to a lesser degree American
goods, for which they did not even
look in pre-war days.
It Is interesting to note the i
changes in the villagers. Formerly '
they nearly all walked to Jerusalem,
even from a distance that took them j
four and Ave hours. Now public !
automobiles run out into the country '
for 10 miles and have largely monop-1
olized transportation. The charge I
for a ride is 60 cents, formerly the
price of a day's work. The roads are
now almost deserted by pedestrians, '
but American motor cars pass fre
quently. The reed pen and ink-horn
of the educated' villager have been
scrapped by the modern American
self-filling fountain pen.
Wages for skilled and unskilled
organization throughout the country j
. w.o ..6
uu ,u uerpii-c. tue quaiuyjSam GrB(;orV( "Claude" Williams,,
of workmanship has not kept pacei..,. Ay(llett Sr ..Joe.. Kramer!
with the rise in prices, and whereas j ..Plir.. M.' nPnr t ittio' i
i" ireiury mere are iounu some
hhjuubii;, mui ol me.
trades are carried on by very medi
ocre artisans.
A prominent educated Syrian Chris
tian recently expressed the view that
the Zionist movement was a good
thing for tne Syrians as it would
prove a spur to greater effort and Im
provement. Jb Rccd Confident
Of Rcr.c.r.ination
Says
He's Never lxmt And Doesn't
Expm To Lose This Time
' Either ,
St.
Louis, Mo., July 24 (By The
Associated Press)' United States
Senator James A. Reed expresses
confidence that he will be renomin
ated at the August 1 primary elec
tion, despite active opposition by for
mer President Wilson, a large num
ber of women voters, and t)ie dry
element, and ln spite of the fact that
he was read out of the party by the
1920 Democratic state convention.
because of his opposition to the
League ot Nations.
", have never lost a fight. a(id I
am confident I shall not lose this
one, he states In campaign speeches.
Breckinridge Long, his opponent,
third assistant secretary of state In
the Wilson administration, likewise
Is every bit as confident of victory.
and says that the Democrats of Mis
souri "will reassert their confidence
in the leadership of Woodrow Wilson
and his policies"
WEDNESDAY'S GAME
SURE TO BE THRILLER
Kiwanis-Koturinii Feat For Jloix-tM
Ambulance Fund To Feuture
Post Slurs
In many respects the most enter
taining baseball game of the 1922
season at this city will be played on
the West IMain street diamond Wed
nesday afternoou at 5:30 o'clock,
when Rotary and Kiwanis will cross
,n a C()ntest tQ decjde the lnter
club championship of Elizabeth City.
The game will be played for the ben
efit of the ambulance fund of the
Community Hospital, and many old
time stars who have not been seen in
a baseball uniform since the Spanish
American War will be discovered in
the opening lineups.
The Rotarians engaged in their
first practice Friday afternoon, under
the eagle eye of Oliver Gilbert, man-
ager of the club, and made what any
of them will modestly admit was an
excellent showing. A professional
Infield la In prospect for that club,i
with "Docs" Peters, Bulla and Sellg
starring, ana "torn Nelson, ot the
I Southern, putting up his usual fast
j fielding performance.
In the Rotary pitching staff are
Warren Pinner, Frank Kramer, and
unver uiiDeri, an 01 wnom, it is
' tttiD tori mnr nr losa nnthnrlfnHvolv
V
Would haV made the. major league8i
hnn nnt hunfnpflft rnnsirflprarimia kpnr
V" " " " :r.7; " k.,, ni
tnem out or professional baseball, ine
outfield Is made up of such speed
demons
as
'Doc" Zenas Fear-
ling, "Bill" Duff, and "Fred" Houtz.
Bluke" Ehrlnghaus,
who juggles
baseballs as skillfully as he does the undertow. Some of them were the tale told by Eliza Kiddick and
complicated legal propositions that barely able to save themselves, reach-1 Minnie Bowe, two colored women In
come his way, will catch for the rtot-iing the Bhore In an exhausted condi-! whose possession was found the $500
ary aggregation. tion and one of them at the point of in money lost by Baxter Bell, of Cur-
The regular Kiwanis baseball play- collapse. It looked as if the girl ! rltu k Countv, together with a $300
ers in the Twilight League, John Pin- wouirt (rown in sight of watchers on Vherk while he was in the city Thurs
ner, "Beans" Weatherly, "Whit" j the shore with all efforts to save her 'day afternoon. '
" k-i.,". ",,",
eliminated from the Kiwanis line-up
Rtlnillatlon wMph Uppnft Such
: r ,, t. ,'
v, .u juiimiK nanus in an aiieinpi 10 reacn
ter in left field, the graceful "Shel"!the distressed eirl. Konntz at the
Scott in right field, and the heavy
;ugglng CIaude BaUard at Becond
I base, the ICiwanians have a nucleus
around which they will build the
rest of their hard-hitting, fast-play-
ing team.
A. R. Nicholson, "the man who has
never missed one yet, will cover;ner to shore
short for the Klwanlans. 'Then there
will be the redoubtable "Cliff" Saw-
yer at nrsi Dase, a piayer into wnose
glove a baseball sipping across the
diamond will nestle as snugly and se
curely as a flapper's foot into a
i suede pump. Then there will be
'"Harry" Kramer, the unbeatable at
third, and "Whit" Woodley Sr., to
I cover with skill and perfection the ex
pensive outfield area included in cen
i ter field. The lineup concludes with
i "Phil" Sawyer, whose remarkable
pitching accomplishments will likely
prove the sensation of the game.
of the
Should the first team
Klwanlans prove too strong for thejthe club rooms and Its members are
Rotary, the latter club will make up
a team from their substitutes, and
give their opponents a chance to Win.
The 8ubstllutes
are: Noah Burfoot;
IJr ., Ray Toxey, "Pat" Williams,
!Gllrnpy Hood, Cam Melick. Post-
master Hooper, Clarence Pugh, Wal -
ter Wood, Robert R.
Garrett, Sid Etheridge,
and Curtis Baum.
Captures Chen Troops
Canton, July 24 (By The Assocl-i
aiaA Proust ?nn Vat Ctm rinnanrt !
president of the South China govern -
ment. Iuls announced that his forces
have captured several hundred : Knickerbocker Theater disaster in
troops of Chen Chlungamlng. sixty which 97 lost their lives was dismiss
miles nortu of Canton. At Chen's ed by Justice Siddons today,
headquarters, however, it is stated :
that the engagement was unimport
ant. Popen And Fanmen
Leaving In Protest
cities in the anthracite regions and
Bellalre, Ohio, July 24 (By The, several district presidents of the
Associated Press) Pumpmen and miners' union conferred here this af
fanmen on duty In the Idle coal nilne.t jtenioon on the proposed plan for
of this vicinity were reported leaving
their posts today as a protest against
bringing State troops Into the dls-
trlct. There are approximately 175
mines in this district.
MRS. OBEXCHAIX'S HE('OM
TRIAL I NOW UNDER WAY
Los Angeles, July 24 (By The As
oclated Press) Arguments to the
Jury were begun today In the serond
trl"l of Mrs. Madalynne Obenchaln
fr the murder of her sweetheart, J.
Helton Kennedy, broker.
GIRL IS RESCUED
FROM DROWNING
Leora Copeland, 16,
Has Narrow Escape
From Treacherous
Undertow Sunday
Had It not been for the heroic
work on the part of Frank Koontz,
employe of the Foreman-Blades Lum
ber Company, Leora Copeland, 16
year old daughter of Kennie Cope- coi ner of Southern Avenue and Park
land, of Edenton, who is spending j tr.et, and asked him for the loan of
some time with her uncle. W. II. j8 ,0 replace that part of Mr. BeU's
Bunch, on Parsonage street, would j money which she had spent at Pow
have been drowned at Nags Head ell's store. Towell let the woman
Sunday. lave $7 and she would have gone her
As it was the young lady had the;wav ln D,'ace ha "ot Powell' wife,
narrowest Rnrt f ownne nml w:i n.: Arminta Powell, arrived on the cene
conscious from the time she was res
Cued at a quarter past two o'clock in
the afternoon until five o'clock. She
was put aboard the Vansclver when
that gteamer left the Nags Head
wharf on a cot, but by about six
o'clock was able to sit up.
The tide was extremely low at
Nags Head Sunday, with almost no
breakers. Unaware of the strong
drift of the current xunder the low
swell, Miss Copeland and a number
0f boy friends, were riding the
1 i i
were being imperceptibly s wept
1 r
. .. uelUM; a."y
jn the party realized It she was be -
yond her depth.
The girl's boy companions tried to,a wallet lying upon the sidewalk on
rescue her hut with her could make Mai
no headway against the treacherous
u1 11
she had eone uni er for the first tim
! , ' If! "It 7 L. V. L !
" 'T ' ' "I " , " ' .' , :i
A any raie mose on snore nan
several times formed a life line bv
'e.' ,r0' "? ',ne.??
end of the line broke away from it
and swimming toward the shore
clasping her hand ilianaged to reach
j the life line. Then W. M. Sawyer,
Matthews street nool room oroDrie-
tor, generally known to his friends as
Mack, took her in charge and carried
(Miss Copeland collapsed when she
reached the shore and was taken to
the cottage of Mr. and Mrs. C. H
Robinson, where she was placed on
cot on the porch. She did not leave
the cot until she had been taken
aboard the steamer for the return
trip home. However, Monday after
noon she was reported none the
worse for her experience.
YOUNG WOMAN'S ' OI.l n
MKETS TUESDAY EVENING
The Young Woman's Club meets
Young Woman's Club meets
Tuesday evening at eight o'clock in
asked to be there on time and not to
let the warm weather or their per
sonal popularity keep them away.
Hatt Full Size Cotton Boll
claud Whitehurst of the Corinth
section brought a full-size cotton boll
1 lne 8tore or McUabe & Grice Sat
Iu,ua'
Mr. W'hitehurst la a bustling
Taylor, Cecil 1 i""6ressive rarmer or tne uor
Fatty Blades i'ntn Bect'on, and he anticipates a
i good yield from his cotton crop not-
'withstanding the heavy rains.
Knickerbocker case
DISMISSED BY JUDGE
Washington. Julv 24 fBv The As-
; sedated Press) Indictments against reason of the submission or every de-
'five nersons in connection with thp'fendant brought before the court.
Mayors And Miners
Confer At Scranton
Scranton, Pa., July 24 (By The
Associated Press) Mayors of five
! bringing about a settlement of the
anthracite wage controversy. Mayor
Durkan of 8cranton, who called the
meeting, said that the outlook for
quick adjustment is bright.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Williams and
children went to Nags Head Sunday
to Join a house party 'for the week.
JU'YINO WOMAN'S WEAK
M. Leigh Sheep left
Monday for
New York, where he will purchase regulars are reported to have burned ford successfully underwent the op
seasonable goods for the Woman's I their barracks at Clonmel and Tip-, eration of having her tonsils removed
Wear Store. jperary. I Monday.
'Tvas Unlucky Find
For Minnie And Eliza
Raster Hell's Money Proves UndoinK
Two Colored Women At First
Elated lly Sudden Wealth
A sequel to the recovery of $."00 in
currency, lost by Baxter Bell, of
Shawboro, Clerk of Superior Court
for Currituck County, in this city last
Thursday developed Saturday after
noun when Minnie Bowe, colored,
went to Walter Powell, colored pro
pr etor of a small grocery on the
with a razor Just as the transaction I
was being completed.
"Haven't I told you to keep away
from here," Arminta Is alleged to
hve remarked tn Minnie, hrandhihlnir
the razor meaningfully. Nobody
knows exactly what happened next;road managements over all
but before the women could be sepa
rated Minnie's left arm had been
slashed open, her face and head had
been cut and both participants were
drenched in blood. Arminta Is In jail
in default of a $500 bond and Mln-
' i,. : i ,r 1 4 it u.i
' 111 1 vu.i.iuunuj iphi.
i The case will be heard in police court
as soon as the Injured woman Is able
ito take the stand.
I That they had. found the money in
; worth Fivp nnH T,.n rout stnro wau
! The women were greallv elated a,t
., ,, . . ...'.
' the 8ma" fortune whlc(I 1('k ha(1
thrust into their hands; but
they
were puzzled as to how to divide
$500 in hundred dollar bills. Finally,
late Thursday afternoon, through the
Kiddick woman's husband, David,
they entrusted one of the bills to
Emmett Wesley, a colored man em-
ployed as night engineer at the elec -
trie light plant, and sent him down
town to get It changed.
Wesley found the banks closed,
and tried at first the Apothecary Shop
then D. Walter Harris', being turned
down at both places. Finally he went
to the postoffice, and there received
' change for the $100 bank note. The
ai. . . . . . .
iaci mat me coioreo man naa sucn
a large hill in his possession aroused
suspicion at the first two stores at
which he tried to have it changed,
and the police were notified,
David Rlddlck is an employe ot
the citv. and Saturday. Chief of Po
lice Holmes questioned him sharply
about his sudden accession of wealth,
huvini lonrnort from u'puIpv Wv ha
hurt imtten hni.i nf fhe hiir hill DM.i
had eotten hold of the hie bill. Rid -
1 dick flnallv told the whole storv. and,3:30 Monday afternoon by Rev. R. F.
it was not long before the chief had
the money In hand.
Warrants will be sworn out today
for the arrest of the negroes Involved j
:in the appropriation of the money,.
jwlth which was a check to llaxter B.
Bell Vhich It Is believed they de-
Istroyed, and the warrants will be
, served In due course. The case will
! probably be aired In police court
some time this week.
IV POLICE COUKT
Monday's session of
i was mostly taken up with violations
iof traffic and auto-light ordinances
and was without sensational develop-
ments. Witness was put on the
stand and there was no argument by
Jodie Bell was fined and costs
for speeding. T, V. Avent and Alex
Harris were taxed with costs for fall
ing to display proper lights; and
James White, colored, was fined $1
and costs for riding a bicycle on the
sidewalk.
R. D. Fleming was taxed with the
costs for passing a worthless check,
which, It appeared, he hud since made
good.
Johnny Gay was fined t" and costs
for being drunk.
IRISH IRREGULARS
ARE RETREATIG
London, July 24 (By The Assocl -
ated Press) Unconfirmed reports In
Iondon today said Irish Irregular
forces are retreating with all speed
Into the mountains harassed by Free
State troops, who are pressing them
hard, and preventing them from con-
centratlng for resistance. The Ir-
To StribG
President of Their Or
ganization Will Have
Committee Confer
With Labor Board
Chicago, July 24 (By The
Associated Press) The 10,000
unionized railroad station ag
ents will not be called out on a
strike, W. J. Noon, president of
the organization, announced to
day after a conference with W.
L. McMenimen, labor member
i of the Railroad Labor Board.
"I will instruct my men to re
main ai work and order that
committees confer with the
points at issue," he said.
Separate I'oac' Kflforts
Chicago, July 24 (By The Associ
ated Press) With Government offi
cials maintaining silence In regard to
the railroad strike except for the
announcement of Chairman Hooper
that the Labor Board will make no
further move at present, Interest to
day centered in the separate peace
efforts of officials of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad in their meeting at
Baltimore with representatives of
striking shopmen. B. M. Jewell, the
strikers' leader, refused to comment
on the Baltimore parley. Few dis
turbances were reported over Sunday.
Oldest Citizen Berea'
Community IsDead
Funeral Daniel Jcnnlng Conducted
lly lU-v. It. F. Hall Monday
Afternoon
Daniel Jennings died at his home
in the Berea community Sunday at
noon. He was in his eighty-fifth year
and was the oldest citizen ot that
1 community. He was a Civil War
veteran and was in action during the
hardest fighting ot the war, having
one leg so shot to pieces that he was
a cripple for lite and always walked
with the aid of a stout cane.
He was a good citizen, and a lead
ing member of Berea Baptist church.
For the last three years he had been
in declining health.
Mr. Jennings is survived by seven
children: Mrs. Susan E. Russell,
Mrs. Margaret E. Sawyer, Marshal
Jennings and Crowder Jennings of
Berea; Joseph M. Jennings and
Grover Jennings of Elizabeth City;.
ana uanlel Jennings, jr., of Norfolk;
I by 22 grandchildren and six great
! grandchildren.
i i ne runerai will
Tne funeral will be conducted at
Ha" and Interment wl be made in
the family burying ground.
MEN'S BIBLE CLASS
VISITS NEWBEGUN S. S.
1 j
The iMen's Bible class of the First
j. Methodist Sunday school, with the
! teacher. J. A. Hooper, visited the
(Newbegnn Sunday school Sunday af-
ternoon.
There were twelve automobile
loads of tfhe visitors and they found
a large Sunday school. Dr. It. B.
police Court""1' supei inieiioeni, fain me les-
:"' period over to Mr. Hooper, who
delivered an address on the Sunday
school lesson. The Men s Bible clam
invited the Sunday school to vUit the
I'''ra' Methodist Sunday school In a
body some time soon. Many of the
visitors remained to the preaching
service ami heard Presiding Elder R
11. Willis.
The class plans to visit other rural
Sunday schools In the section from
lime to time.
Burlington Is Making
Elaborate Preparations
Burlington, July 24. Elaborate
decorations make festive Burlington's
store, streets and business houses In
preparation for "Alamance Day" in
that city on August 17th. A profes
sional decorator is now on the
ground, and plans are being prepared
for the decoration of the entire city.
i0"?":',? of ?T,r pTTd t0
I attend the celebration which com-
jmemorates the battle of Alamance,
ithe first organized, armed resistance
'to British authority In the colonies.
At Community Hospital
Mrs. R. C. Job nnd young son, Al
fred Edward, are getting along well
at the Community Hospital.
Miss Elizabeth Chappel of Hert-