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CIRCULATION Wednesday 1,788 Copies Friday. Probably show- ers. VOL. XII. FINAL EDITION ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, ll)2'J FOUR PAGES NO. 189 WEATHER Cloudy tonight and WJim S)W 0 A V D tXm 0D 0 rang Capital And Labor Will Wage Battle In Congress With Autumn Elections To Face, Congressmen Are Up Against The Labor Vote And That Of Railroad Representatives, So That Response To Harding's Appeal May Be Slow By DAVID LAWRENCE (Copyright 1922 by The Advance) Washington, Aug. 9. Con gress may not respond as read ily to President Harding's re quest for legislation to prevent strikes and lockouts if the coal and rail situations are cleared up as would be the case if the crisis continues indefinitely. Already railroad representatives whose business it is .to see that Con gress does nothing that can be harm ful to their interests are on me joo ; Washington, Aug. 10 (By The anxious to corral their supporters j Associated Press) President Hard in both houses so that undesirable mg probabiy win reCeive next Mon moves may be blocked if not defeat-, day or Tuesday the formal answer ed. Labor, too, which successfully , .ho mllu-av Shnn CrAfts Federa- fought the inclusion of an anti-strike provision in me present irauspuna-1 tion act is getting ready to wage n kntltln 4m V a Id CT Ic 1 Q 1 1 VO ' ..,Ui..r. uat.t.c ... .cf.o. . . hall of the National Capital. With the autumn elections staring Congress In the face, the prospects of any legislation unfavorable to la-' doi uueiesia ui me iuuuuj : from likely. Congress backtracked , on tne anu-sinse provision once oe-i fore because of a fear of the voting! power of railroad employees for in ; legislating mere wouia ue uu spec ific cure for the shopmen which -would not apply equally to engi neers, trainmen, conductors and all other classes of workmen on the railroads of the country. Although the labor vote is a doubt-; ful quantity and politicians claim It never supports any one with ficient strength to change the result, a closer approximation of the truth Is that labor never voted solidly un less a concrete issue affecting them is up for consideration. Even the Republican politicians who were un able to agree on the real cause of the Hughes defeat in 1916 admitt ed that the railroad men contribut ed no small number of votes in ap preciation of the Wilson effort on the eight hour law known as the Adamson Act. Only an acute emergency will get legislation through Congress and in this alone lies danger to both labor and railroad management. Mr. Harding has not used his chief weapons publicity and an ap peal to the nation. He has not talk ed In alarming phrases publicly as lie is known to have done in private. The country would probably be aroused it It read Mr. Harding's pen picture of the grave conditions which lie ahead of the American people. If pnoiograpus oi aeuuoi.s ui uie nv the Industrial crisis Is not brought i erfront so skilfully joined together to an end now. tnat at first S'ance the picture seems , t, ,. , , ,i n,nito have been made at one exposure. The President is mostly concerned over the coal situation. He thinks i the country will surfer grievously next winter and he doesn't dare to say what damage will be to the al ready slowly improved business con ditions which had done so much to cure unemployment and bring the nation back to normalcy. He feels that at one fell swoop much of what Tias been accomplished to overcome the business depression which start ed two years ago may be lost unless the nation Is . adequately supplied wun iuei. The hub of the situation is, of course, fuel for industries. Mr. Harding listens to the railroad exe- cutives as they point out that train service Is not Interrupted and that' conditions approaching normal are being every day Drougnt nearer, tnat the Executlve wlll undoubtedly but he answers all that by pointing work Mr Harding, when a mem to the lack of cars to carry coal from ber of the Senate voted for tne ant, the fields now being operated. It's 8trike provlHion whjch waH passed bad enough, reasons Mr. Harding by the Senate but el,mlnatPd from not to be able to get coal from the;tne Ksch-Cummins Act when It was union fields, but it's even worse to, ,n final conferPnce between the have cars lacking to carry fuel fromiHon8e and Spnate basis for drastic action when the time comes ior .vir. naming 10 act. T emergency... .m . n.eni 'TI,e same political threats are be- t)ower even if Congress Is slow to act The President, therefore, in turn ing to Congress for help, Is not sure to get action soon enough to bring .the disputants in the present strikes nnder penalty of new laws, but i inuie imeiy 19 mai ooui sides will grow more tractable as they see the demand for legislation; accelerated by a Presidential mes - sage and a supporting public opln- ion. Mr. Harding Ttnows, of course, .I... ..ii. it , ...... inai mi 01 remedial legislation frequently brings a remedy without actually bringing a bill to a vote. Jo one can tetl nn the other hand, r.xe.ui.v .. - uwr eve,nK made today but there , ft crisis WILL RECEIVE A REPLY MONDAY President Harding Awaits Answer Of Shopmen Who Will Probably Reject . his proposal that the seniority i dispute be left to the Railroad La b Board tor decision. The execu . . . . . . . . 1 I Uve neaa or lne 8n0pnien s unions i ,are again engaged today In confer- j jences here preparatory to drafting ' the reply. Discussions yesterday ; 8trengthened the impression that j the President s new plan win ne re - Jected by the men. L RENKW KKKORTS TO VOTK OX MIWLK SHOAUS Washington, Aug. 10 (By The As-1 sociated Press) Democratic leaders i in the House intend when the House reassembles next Tuesday to renew their efforts to force an agreement on a date for the vote on Henry Ford-g pr0posal to lease or purchase suf-!Mugcle gnoai8i ' Makes Fine Picture Of The Water Front The most comprehensive picture of Elizabeth City's waterfront ever seen here, showing the shore line all the way from the Dare Lumber Company's plant to Cobb's Point, has Just been completed by R. C. Job, secretary of the Elizabeth City Chamber of Commerce, and Secre tary Job Is showing the picture now with altogether pardonable pride in his achievement. However, he is not quite satisfied and will under take to get even better results as soon as he can get a camera more to his liking than one with which the work just completed was done. Secretary Job's picture is a corn- posite one, made up of a Beries of what would be the mood of Congress if the coal famine is unrelieved and' the transportation is Impaired. All sorts of proposals and sugges-i tions will no doubt be made when 1 Congress reconvenes. Mr. Harding; will follow the recommendations of: his message to Congress last De-j cember when he stressed the neces-i sity of a code of principles which Qf unlon9 and thep ,ea(,ers wuu.u rii.K.mane n-gai jmu.my on a 'parity witn corporations and their i managerg. Decisions of the Federal court8 have since Droclalmed the: priCiple that labor unions could be';ma7e 'n Super n p. .den Sheen s : sued ju8t ft9 corporatloI18 can be.;, tiv . Zn UA H. Combs1 and It's along the line of establish - lng ct,ipability for concerted action The threat of political reprisals i cauaed the emlnatIon. n wa9 Just l11 tne congressional elections. i a u... i i- pending which wlll not make it o easy for Congress to dodge its re - sponslblllties. The President hasjc()l)b wiU take th plare f Miss And here are the primary leach shouldered them alone for the lastiMHrtha Klllott. while In the primary 'rn: Miss Sallie Beasley. suner- month and now will ask Congress to aid. If the President's political ionunes are to be affected so win be those of members of Congress. The truth Is, Congress would be j delighted if the strikers and eni - ployers would only make peace and I gave members of the House and Sen - 1 . ... ate rrom one more or tne many em barrassments which the reconstruc- pled. Tin total number of teacher." tion period In American history hasdi fnrtv.fnnr contributed to American politics. Wasn't Lynched But Left County Jacksonville, N. C, Aug. 10 (By The Associ ated Press) Sheriff Gur ganus of Onslow county stated today that investi- f ators from his office have ailed so far to confirm reports sent from New Bern Saturday that Jim Blackledge, negro, accus ed of instigating an at tack on Cy Jones, rural mail carrier, was lynched. He said that a crowd of men ordered Blackledge to leave the county and he had not been heard from since. Would Offset Tide Of Anti-Americanism ; Report To American Bar Association : Recommends Establishment Bu reau For Thin Purpose San Francisco, Aug. 10 (By The nlont nf a hl ' tn f,.thpi. AmpH- i can ideals and offset the growing 1 tide of anti-Americanism which is docared to 1)e arouslng great pre- jurtice agaill8t tne courts and con. 8titution. was recommended to the American Bar Association in annual j convention here today by Its com-j !mittpe on American ideals The re- j t denounced tlie propo8al t0 clothe legislative preme Authority. bodies with su- Lewis Says Miners Will Return To Work Cleceland, Aug. 10 (By The As sociated Press) The policy com mittee of the United Mine Workers Toted today to proceed with negotia tions of a wage scale agreement with operators In Ohio, Western Pennsyl vania, Indiana and Illinois here for a Joint conference called with a view to breaking the soft coal strike. President Lewis of the miners pre dicted that when the scale Is made 75 per cent of all bituminous ton nage onstrlke will sign the scale to return to work within the week. SKRVICKS TONIGHT "The Fairness of Christ" will be the subject of Rev. Louis A. Mayo's I sermon tonight at the First Chris- i tion church invited. The public is cordially School Days Six Weeks September 18 Is Set Few Changes In Personnel Of Faculty Buildings Are Being Put In Condition School days In Elizabeth City be-1 gin six weeks from Monday next. September 18th has been set as the j opening day of the 1922-23 session., Few changes will be made in the; faculties of the three departments. ', grammar all(l high school, th,g y,,ar only flve vacancies having tn hp filled In all Tpurbers for these i vacanrj,,s ' j have already been x-..' ... i,.,., u LnnHn,, ... thp ,.., n th hi school. .Miss Hattie Harney, of the grammar school, and Miss Beasley. of the primary school Three of the five changes made mis year are in the high school far- ulty. !.liss Bertha Hollingsworth of Mellen, Georgia, takes the place oi Miss Elizabeth Allen ns teacher of English; Miss Janles Wall of Eller ton, Georgia, takes the place of Miss Marv I'nderwood in the busi- npR (i,.I)artment; and Mrs. It. 1! Gav nf ,nrUsnn takp MlsB Eliza . . hfith Dlacp as tPach(.r of 1 EncliKh : In eram,ttr school Miss Sallle ; (,f.h()ol MlM inda I!Hrt,.tt of South j Mm Up vacan,.v Ina(,, iy th- resignation of Miss Grace Parker. j Vork ()f puuing the biiihlings In Kd Oonl it Ion by the opening day i8 now jn progress. I Tliere will be no Increase In the j number of teachers this year, as a!1 - : avaiiohio . iuss room are now niru- i,,re are t,P high school Inst rue - 1 HOOVER CALLS ! SPECIAL MEET Action Alabama Con I Openiois Re Kunlitl With Apprehension By OltWiuls Washington, Auk. 10 (l!y The As sociated rre'ss1) The action of Ala bama coal operators in breaking away from the voluntary fair price agreement resulted today in a spe cial meeting of the Federal control i distribution committee belli called by Secretary Hoover to discuss a situation which officials regarded with apprehension. POPLAR BRANCH TO PLAY FRIDAY IF ! t The Poplar Hranch baseball team is scheduled to play the Elizabeth I City All-Stars on Friday afternoon Ion th i West Main street diamond at 4:30 o'clock. These two team were to play a game Wednesday afternoon! but was cancelled on account of rain. Both teams are In the pink of condi- Hon and a good game can be looked for. "Snooks" Evans and Jones is booked to do the battery work for the locals and it Is expected that Poyner, the lanky twirler from Cur rituck will do the hurling for the visitors. Friday's game is the sixth one be scheduled since the closing of th Twilight League season and only two have been played. Rain in each Instance prevented the two teams from K"1"1 together, Letters Famous Author Sold For Large Amount London, Aug. 10 (By The Asso ciated Press) Fifteen unpublished autograph letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his cousin, R. A. M. Stevenson, have been sold to an American buyer for $3,500. The manuscript of Stevenson's unpub lished play, "Monmouth," consisting of 59 pages, sold for $1,200. Ac companying the manuscript was a letter written by the famous author when he was 23. "I recognize," It says, "that I shall never be a great man. I may set myself peacefully on a smaller Journey, not without hope of coming to the Inn before nightfall." A letter written by Stevenson the day before he left for America to be married brought $150, and an un published poem went to an American collector for $65. Miss Lula White left Thursday for a vacation at Atlantic Cottage, Virginia Beach. Begin Just From Monday For End Of Vacation tors: A. B. Combs, principal; R. T. Ryland, mathematics; Miss Minna Pickard, science; Miss Aleene It. Edwards, Latin; Miss Jane Johnson, . fenfh aml hllitl,r" Mra' H- B- G L. W. Jarman, mathe matics and science; Miss Lou Shine, English and history; George R. Sherlll, mathematics and civics; R. W. Holmes, mathematics; Miss Ber tha Hollingsworth, English; Miss Janie Wall, business department, and Miss Martha Martin, domestllc science. Here is the list for the grammar srhool: Miss Hattie Haruey, prln- a"'l seventh grade; Misses Sal Lnhl) " Linda DeLon, seventh Kra(I. Sixth Grade -Mrs. Elizabfth Pool, Misses Frances Purvis and Amber Holloman. Fifth Grade Mrs. H. O. Pearson and Misses Osle Kiser, Marie Leltoy and Ruth Cooke, Fourth Grade Misses Nettle White, Eoline (Monroe. Emma Cobb. Winnie Boseman and Alice Brock' well vlor; the Third Grade teachers will be Mrs. L. E. Skinner and Misses Uirille LeRoy, Dora Willi Jackson and Mrs. T. Second Grade Mrs. E. Blanchard. . B. Cooke. S. Ether- idge. Misses Florence Bell, Emma Willis, Margaret Sheep and Mar garet Harris. First Grade Mrs. Minnie Brooks, Mrs. SiiHle S. Morrl-ette and Misses Lucille Poag, Mary Nixon, India . Bartlett and Eula I'appcndlck liai teulani! Eloa Is PavGd At Last Brick Laid Thursday Afternoon And Road Will Probably Be Open For Traffic Within Two Weeks Unless In Meantime Work On Knobbs Creek Bridge Is Begun COMPLICATIONS IN RAIL STRIKE Threat Made By Unions That Hundred Simi lar Cases To That At Joliet Will Arise Chicago, Aug. 10 (By The Associated Press) Threats by- railroad brotherhood chief- tains that "there will be a hun dred similar cases" to the tie- ! up on the Elgin, Joliet & East- ern where engineers, firemen, : conductors and trainmen re- ""'' ii uiiiyic nine iu nave nuu 11 fused to work because of the; here before the road was completed presence of troops in Joliet so tliat the bridge would have , - r, 4V10i,)e,'n rea'y tor 'rathe along with yards further complicated thejthe road ,Jut the conci wth railway Strike situation today, j which the order was placed had to Leaders of the Big Four brother- j K't the State authorities to pass on hood who are to take part in the! the plans and specifications, and Washington conference of the rail i Raleigh is where the matter was and union heads tomorrow when all , nbases of the strike are due to come ! before the chiefs of sixteen stand aril unions, left to the train service i),., floht (,i iluMlu for them- llirn nil- iiftiii iw .... . selves whether working conditions at . 1.1.. terminals are oojecuoname. Seventeen Millions Tn Aid In Marketing " o Washington, Aug. 10 (By The As - sociated Press) Applications from cotton and wheat growers assocla - .tions aggregating $17,000,000 were . . i .i... ii-.. i,1 1 approved looay uy me wai rmouici Corporation. The application of the Staple Cot-j ton Growers' Co-operative Assocla- Hon of Mississippi was approved forj an advance not exceeding (,uuu,duu i nines or me road had been complet to assist in the orderly marketing ed and County Engineer Hlggs told of cotton, the remainder going to j the Highway Commission at that western wheat growers. ! Norfolk Man Madd Supreme Chancellor ipleted by winter to transfer the pav San Francisco, Aug. 10 (By The lnR operation to the Elizabeth City I Associated Press)-The formal elec-!Pnd of tne rofld go that J j tion of Supreme ice Chancellor , throURh Knobl )g Creek swamp a bad ! George ('. Cabbell of Norfolk. Va.,;p,ece of roa( , l? I to the supreme chancellorsh p of the,wonld not be ,eft wi anoth ; order led off the elect.on of officers wintel, ut tne Rn i o the higher chairs in the supreme . whch had to be con lodge sessions of the Knights ofpavn at th E,ahp.h r. . Pythias in convention here today. Hanged For Murder Field Marshal Wilson London. Aug. 10 (By The Asso- t 1 1 i nui.. in . ciaiPd rress; jost'im j ounivan and Reginald Dunn were hanged this n.omlnir In Vrlsworth nrinon .i. .....,.t.i f fii.i.i m.,. IUI llir innnniiiaill7ll I'l i' iv i.ltti- shal Wilson on June 22. Fifty Irish nu n and women assembled out Blde the Jail before the execution sang hymns and prayil for the souls of the condemned nu n. A. & P. Store n 1 t- . , Opens Branch rriday The Atlantic & Pacillc Tea Stores! will open their first hranch store In j Elizabeth City on Friday, August 11. f 1). I). A .vers of Newport News ar-j rived Wednesday mid will manage , i the local store. District Superln - tendent M. A. Hodgwood Is also In the city planning for the opening The store will carry a general line of staple groceries and will special ize in teas and coffee. GETTING ItKADV FOIt I lSIIING Wanchese, August 8 The net that has been ordered so long for the Billy White Fish Company has come and the entire crew Is busily engaged getting It rigged. They are thinking to move up the Beach near Whales Head and begin their fall work sometime this month. Lack The last brick on the Newland road was laid ut 3:17 o'clock Thurs- day afternoon. The last section completed will bo ready for tralllc within about two weeks. However, the fact that the road will lie ready does not necessarily mean that it will lie open for traffic. The Knobbs Creek bridge may hold up the opening of the road for an other month. Material for tho bridge has not yet arrived Should it not arrive in two weeks the road will probabiy be thrown open anyway and remain open, using the old bridge, until work on the new bridge can be begun This bridge is of fabricated steel and concrete. The fabricated ma terial is made to order and shinned vi . ic io iinmc lu UlUt-l BIIU BUlUHet to the Pasquotank Highway Com mi88lon ready to be put together. i ne oiuer lor 1111s material was ;.. i ti ... i. i i. held up, according to Charles Car- mine, secretary to the Highway Com This is but one Instance of the working of the jinx that has hung - ..,.q over the construction of the New- 'llltlll riliwl fp1,. tin 1.....I....I ... land road from Its beelnnln. M:i- Iterlal for this road was helnir nut on the right of way in February. 1921. The Highway Commission WHa hnnoful that fUU i gained In buiidn8 the brick road to Weeksvllle it would be possible to complete construction on this thir- ( teen mile stretch of nine foot road j by cold weather. j The first delay came when the j State took over the road in April, ... i, .. . i. .. , . mien me worn or paving had Just been begun. Changes in plans and specifications and in the method of work caused delay for a season. However, by the first of June five body's June meeting that the road would be completed by November of that year. By September the paving had pro jgressed no farther than -Berea ; church, and It was decided, for fear i that the work woiilrl n o icould begn cau8pd me idea was abandoned and the road was completed as originally planned, the section nearest town being the last paved. The Newland road Is the second paved road in Pasquotank County. It is nine feet wide except for that section from the city to the end of - v" Wl K" C Swamp, a distance of about 8 l,,lle' an'1 ls f brick on a 'concrete cushion. The road is much smoother but also considerably more expensive than a brick road of the same width oil the Weeksvllle type in which no concrete cushion is used except when the roadbed Is adjacent to swamp, Its completion gives Pasquotank about 22 miles of paved highway. "esim y i county and taken ver by, the State, the work on the -Newland road was done by the Pas- quo tarn k Highway Commission as contractors for the State. Figures an to its cost have not yet been made public but In view of Hie delay and other handicaps it Is hardly believed that the County, under the terms of lis contract, will get back from the State as much as the road has cost. FRENCH Cf.CI.'.'ET support Pci:;cnnE Paris. Aug. 10 (By The Associ ated Press) The French cabinet at a special meeting today presided over by President Mlllerand Is un j derstood to have voted entirely to Island by Premier Polncare at the London conference on reparations.
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