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' Fair 'tonight and Fri- clay. !igl.tly warmer to- night MoJerate to fresh northeast winds. CIRCULATION Wednesday 1,838 Copies i VOL. XII. FINAL EDITION ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1922 FOUR PAGES NO. 249 OYD GEOR.G ITT CAM ET FALLS N iv. Resignations , Presented On Thursday Afternoon ; I Lloyd George Expected To Confer'ARE HIVESTIGATIOIi This Afternoon And Advise Him Summon Conservative Leader To Form New Government London, Oct 19 (By The Associated Press) The govern ment of Premier Lloyd George resigned, this afternoon. King 'George, who had been on a holiday at Sandringham, returned to London, and Lloyd George was received by the King late today. After a brief audience with the King, Lloyd George re turned to Downing Street, where he received a delegation of miners. According to the head of the delegation, the Premier said they could not consult him as Premier, since he had re signed and that the King had accepted his resignation. Austen Chamberlain and other cabinet members con ferred with the Premier immediately after the Unionist meeting. - ' ' ' London, Oct. 19 (By The As sociated Press) The Lloyd George coalition today receiv ed its death blow at the hands of the Conservative party when Conservative members of the House of Commons and government ministers voted 186 to 87 to appeal to the country as the Conservative party. This . creates situation of the greatest political confusion -and uncertainty the country has known in many years. ' The next move certain to be -made will be the resignation of Austen Chamberlain and his associates, Lords Balfour and Birkenhead, from the cabinet It is expected that Premier Lloyd George will then present his resignation to the King7 and advise His Majesty to sum mon a Conservative leader to form a new government. Conference A Bomb London t Oct. 19 (By The Asso ciated Press) Announcement that the National Unionist Association had issued a summons for an emerg ency conference dropped with a bang into the troubled political arena today and made everybody jump. None seems to have been more startled than the government min isters who gathered in Downing Street to discuss the sensational de velopment. TKRCIHG TP-ICRS ."!IEG FOR GPEED Milan, Oct. 19 (By The Associated pre89) The Italian system of tar ring' the surface of automobile rac ing tracks, invented in 1901 by a civil engineer, Guido Rlmlnl, has been described by Senator Silvio Crespl, president of the Itolian Auto mobile Club, as the best In existence from the point of view of the speed obtained. During the Grand Prix of the A"'omobile Club of Italy, run re cejtly at Monza, a driver reached an average speed of 0 miles -an hour in bad weather, while at Strasbourg similar cars did not surpass 80 miles an hour under perfect conditions. The Monza track had been treated In the Rlmlnl manner, while the other had not. Slgnor Rimini Ibuilds his roads of cement anfl then applies a thick layer of tar. STE::.:zn o:i fie Providence, R. I., Oct. 19 (By The Associated Press) The Colonial Line Bteamer, Concord, New York to Providence, was on Are off Watch Kill. Rhode Island, this morning. Tl.e ai r-T have been trans it.) a f- " "rr. MAY SOON SEE KING FROM UPPER WINDOWS Tokio, Oct. 19 (By The Associated Press) Instead of 2000 police be ing ordered out to line the streets and order people from upper win dows whenever an important mem ber of the Royal family makes an ap pearance, as has been the custom for centuries In Japan, the authorities have decided that the number shall be reduced and are considering a proposal to-llow the people to pay respects to their Emperor or Em press from upstairs. Should a mem ber of the Royalty decide to, drive across the city, a large force ( po lice was ordered outf street cars were stopped, traffic diverted, every person strictly scrutinized and upper windows ordered closed, no matter how hot it was. The patriotic Jap anese, however, considers it a grave offence to look down on his Emperor of divine origin. State Will I:.yc!cg Life Fcr Life Lav Los Angeles, ct. 19 (By The As sociated Press) Life for life lawf it was learned at the district attor ney's office today, will be the de mand of the state In the trial of Mrs. Clara Phillips, which opens here tomorrow. TURPENTINE PRODUCTION OFF Washington, Oct. 19 (By The As sociated Press) A slight decrease In the total production of turpentine, l anrl nn Increase In rosin production for the season ending March 31, compared with a year ago, was an nounced by the Census Bureau today. The leaping tuna has nothing on this gob. Amor Galloway snagged a forward pass and was brought down after a twenty-five yard gain In the curtain raiser be tween the U. S. S. "Mississippi" and the University of Southern California. The boy In the air is halfback of the sailors. The so-called second string varsity BOMB EXPLOSION I Gadulen, Ala, Oct. 19 (By Tin Associated Press) Authorities here I were today invest'gating the bomb j explosion which partly wrecked the ! home of John Garrard, employe of the Gadsden Car Works, who re , turned to work after the union hd i voted to remain on ttrlke Indefin itely. Arrest 350 l.lcn For Investigation Portland, Ore., Oct. 19 (By Thepecorded Associated Press) Declaring that Portland is threatened by an inva sion of thousands of members of the Industrial Workers of the World, coming here to participate. In the water front strike, Mayor Baker has caused the arrest of 350 men for an Investigation. Chautauqua Is Fifty Years Old Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 19 (By The Associated Press) Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the found ing of the Chautauqua Institution in New York, Lorado Taft, Chicago sculptor, has been authorised by the International Lyceum. and. Chautau qua Association to prepare suitable statue depicting the origin, growth and purpose of the organization. Supplementing this recognition of the movement founded in 1873 by Bishop John H. Vincent of the Meth odist church, and Lewis Miller, an Ohio manufacturer, Chautauqua lec turers next season will unite in de voting attention to observance of the semi-centennial. Chautauqua Institution, of which Arthur H. Bestor Ib president, has initiated three movements in the educational world, It is pointed out the summer assembly, the summer school and the home-reading circle. From the summ r assembly has come more than 10,000 circuit Chau tauquas. At the end of the first fifteen years, the reading circle enrollment was 100,000 students, among them being the late Elbert Hubbard and Thomas A. Edison. The latter, while studying at Lake Chautauqua, met and married Mr. Miller's daugh ter. The modern circuit Chautauqua was originated by Keith Vawter, Cedar Rapids la., in 1904. WILL PREACH AT 8ALEM j Rev. C. W. Hood of Fountain Inn, I South Carolina, will preach at both services at Salem Baptist church Sunday. A Flying Gob inen blanked the sailors 20-0. QUEST RETURNS TO HOME PORT Vessel That Carried Sir Ernest Shackleton On Last Voyage Glad To . Get Back I London, Oct. 19 (By The Associ ated Press) The explorers who ac companied the late Sir Ernest Sliuikleton to the Antarctic on his last voyage have recently returned to England in the Quest, and they read ily confess their delight at being home again. They have (been ab sent one year, and hardship and dis appoint in cut have been their por tion. Since the death of Shackleton in the Antarctic last January, the ex plorers have been led by Captain Frank Wilde. He believes important scientific results have been secured, ( and says these soon will be officially In sixty-nine eighteen, south, the party achieved a record for longi tude. They believe they were then near land. Judging from appearances" as the water was shallowing rapidly. The fault of the ship was that' she ! was not powerful enough to combat the ice. She was well equipped and had plenty of food, so that she could ! have carried on for some time had 'she had the necessary power. J. Q. Rowett, who financed the expedition, was the first to greet the survivors of the Quest on their re turn, and he congratulated the men on their efforts and the overcoming i of almost unsurmountable difficulties latter the death of Sir Ernest. Mob Rule Reigns . In VIzL'ivostock Tokio, Oct. 19 (By The Associated Press) Lawlessness reigns at Vladivostok as the result of the ap proach of the victorious "Red" army, official dispatches say. The French consulate was attack ed and foreigners have appealed to their governments for protection. Tells What Harding's Dene For The Farmer Washington Court House, Ohio, Oct. 18 (By The Associated Press) What the Harding administration and the Republican Congress have done for the farmer was. reviewed In a speech here tonight Iby Becretary Wallace of the Agriculture Depart ment, who declared that for the past eighteen months the energies of the Federal Government has been so di rected as to give the fullest possible measure of relief from the previous period of agritultural depression. Much remains to be done, the sec retary said, Including the attainment of higher prices and lower freight rates for farm products, but he as serted that the worst of the-farmer's hour of trial was over and that con ditions everywhere are bound to continue looking up. 5 ' 1 I. f : -1ft -., 4 t ll . . ' Robert J. Wifas Bead Robert J. Williams, aged 74, died at his home ut 223 North Road street Thursday morning at 9' o'clock after! an illness of only a few days. He! had been in gradually failing health, i however, for a number of years. Mr. Willlains had made his home in Elizabeth City for -more than a quarter of a century, coming here I from Camden about thirty years ago. ! Once or twice for a short period be moved back to the country, but al-; ways merely temporarily and con- tlnuing to regard Elizabeth City as his permanent residence. Robert J. Williams wa born in Camden County in 1849 and in 1871 married Miss Susie Burgess of Shllohf who survives him. There are four surviving children: ! Dr. C. B. Williams and Mrs. Walter W. Sawyer of this city, J. U. Williams of Shiloh, and Dean C. B. Williams of the faculty of the State College of Agriculture and Engineering at Ra leigh. P. H. Williams, of this city is L hal brother o( the dead man Mr. Williams was a member of City Road Methodist church and deeply interested In the work of his church wherever his home. The funeral will be conducted at City Road Methodist church at 3 o'clock Friday by Rev. H. E. Myers, assisted by Presiding Elder R. H. Willis. Interment will be made in Holly wood. , ' The active pallbearers are S. B. Parsons, E. T. Burgess, G. F. Seyf- fert, W. W. Woodley, W. S. White,! the winter without serious distress." E. L. Rogers, J. B. Ferebee and' The problem of transporting the J. N. Whiteliurst. , nation's farm crops, usually reaching The honorary palllbearers are G. j peak volume during the fall months, W. Parsons, M. N. Sawyer, N. G. ' is further handicapped this year by Davis, Jerry Whaley, L. S. Hooper, 1 the additional coal shipments neces S. S. Leary, John Godfrey, J. J. ; sltated by the strike which made Forbes, C. W. Stevens, Capt. George j shipments impossible during the Whitehurst and Dr. S. W. Gregory, slack summer months, he said. Mr. Williams' family is one otj "The 1921 farm crop was sown prominence In thTs section, his father, and brought to harvest at materially the late Robert Williams, be- reduced costs when compared with ing a farmer of considerable afflu-the last few years. This means that ence widely known throughout the Albemarle section. He also, for a time, made his home in Elizabeth City. Hazards Cut Corn Crop Half In Two Washington, Oct. 19 (By The As sociated Press) Of every 100 bush els of corn that farmer set out to grow, only 64 bushels are realized, according to figures compiled by the United States Department of Agri culture over a period of thirteen years. The difference between the potential crop and the quantity har vested is due to weather condition defective seed, plant diseases and! Insect and animal pests. For every: bushel of corn harvested aomewbat over one-half bushel fails to reach harvest. Were it not for the elements that tend to reduce the size of the crop, the average crop for the thirteen year period would have been about 4,374,000,000 bushels Instead of the 2,805,000 000 bushels actually har - . v. w u , I'.v.itiuu' ,no miiiiq cage ; had been planted. The department points out, how ever, that If these elements did not exist and corn growers were certain of 100 per cent results, the corn acreage probably would have been greatly reduced, so that the final out- turn might not have been a larger j crop than that actually harvested. It would mean simply that the farmer; i could get from two acres the crop i he now harvests from albout three, la report of the national rehabilita The largest potential corn crop tion committee which accepted the was one of about 500,000,000 "pledge of co-operation" given by bushels in 1317, although the actual General Sawyer, harvest of 3,065,000,000 bushels In Kpwli Cancellation Unexplained that year was exceeded In the three , Washington, Oct. 19 (By The As years 1912, 1920 and 1921, the larg- sociuted Press) The decision of DI-. est harvested crop being 3,20900,- rector Forbes, of the Veterans Bu 000 bushels In 1920. A large crop reau, to cancel his address to the of corn is due to a relatively low Legion convention at New Orlean prevention of production by the remained today without authorita many cause by which It Is limited, ; tlve explanation, bureau officials de but of courso production is alao re- cllnlng to discuss his return here, or lated to acreage, the department's the controversy which preceded it. records show. j During'the thirteen years the low-; est degree of prevention was 23.5 per. cent of a potential crop In 1920, and the highest was 44.5 per cent In 1913. Within the period covered, from about one-fourth to nearly one half of a potential production has failed to be realized. The average is a little more than one-third. Among those to leave yesterday for Raleigh to witness the football game fietwacn State College and the University were Julian Sellg, Aubrey G. McCabe and Edward A. Flora. SAYS RAILROADS BOON TO FARMER Play Vital Part In Wel fare Of Agricultural Industry Says Rail road President Chicago, Oct. 19 ated PreBs) The (By The Assocl vltal part that railroads play in. the welfare and prosperity of the farming Industry as well as the country at large was stressed by C. H. Markham, presi dent of the Illinois Central Railroad, who addressed the annual convention of the National Association of Farm Equipment Manufacturers here to day. "A few months ago railroads found it difficult to provide storage space for idle equipment and now they are hard pressed to supply cars needed for the transportation of coal, farm products, building and construction materials and many other commodities," Mr. Markham declared. '- "Business will continue to be good and railway traffic will be heavy this fall and winter, and there will be some unavoidable inconvenience to shippers. However, If the public will be patient, realizing the handi caps under which railroads are struggling will 'be liberal in support and co-operation, we can go through farmers bid fair to make profits that can be spent In the purchase of goods. "Industry generally has been get ting back to normal after the long depression, although its return" has been Interrupted by strikes. Now, knvAvftr tha InHiiatrlal atrtlrAa nrA clearing and we shall find the em ployment situation improving cotfV stantly." Mrs Hell ally 5 lluscr In Situ:ti:n Hammond, Ind., Oct. 19 (By The Associated Press) Apparently en joying the humorous aspects of the proceedings as much as the specta tors, Mrs. Hazel McNally today waited for the prosecution to pre sent Its star witness, her husband and accuser, who saya. that the twins she disposed of last spring were her I own fle8n and Wood, and not the saw- uu" nol,s "n" claIIr they were. ,' . . iVVf'M nf"! f" ' Brigadier Gen, Savycr New Orleans, Oct. 19 (By The As sociated Press) A resolution de manding the removal of Brigadier General Sawyer was today presented to the American Legion convention by Department Commander Barren, of Minnesota, because of "utter un- fitness. The attack was Inspired by Pershing Arrives New Orleans, Oct. 19 (By The As sociated Press) The fourth day of the national convention of the Amerl tan Legion was marked by the ar rival of the commander of the Expe ditionary Forces, General John J. Pershing, who reached here from Washington after a day iu Raleigh and Atlanta. Tomorrow the Legion will select a successor, to Hanford MacNIder. National Commander Alvln M. Ows ley, of Texas, appeared to be the outstanding candidate." f
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