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'A A X CIRCULATION Thursday 1,815 Copies )::, I. (.. f ti VOL. XII. FINAL EDITION ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1922 EIGHT PAGES NO. 291 v i i i.... Hala Ui'.t an I rit.r- clay. Warmer tcnight. CoUlr Saturday. Fresh shifting winJi, Administration Shows First Foreign Interest Message Sent Ambassador Child Thursday By President Harding And Secretary Hughes Va$t Along Same Line As The Twelfth Of President Wilson's Fourteen Points By DAVID LAWRENCE ' (Copyright 122 by The Advance) Washington, Dec. 7. American foreign policy under the Harding administration has developed its first concrete parti cipation in European affairs in nearly two years. And it is an interesting co-j .incidence that the announce ment should be made on the very day that former Premier Clemenceau of France and for mer President Wilson should he indulging in reminiscences over the famous fourteen points on which Germany ac cepted an armistice in the .great war. For the Instructions sent Ambas sador Richard Washburn Child by President Harding and Secretary Hughes to be read at the gathering of the powers at Lausanne to patch up the Near Eastern war are in con formity with- the twelfth of the Wil son fourteen points which read as follows: "The Dardanelles should be per manently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations, under international guar antees." ' Ambassador ' Child not only up held this policy but specifically pro mised American aid in guaranteeing the freedom of the straits. He said that "no nation would be readier (than the United States) to uphold the good sense of maintaining a suf ficient naval force to act as the po lice of the free seas, to protect Its citizens and their ships wherever they might be, to suppress piracy and other menaces and to act at times for the public good and give Telief to theanfferlng Just as the ships of war havB-jcntlydone in the Near East." """" This Is the first time since the "Wilson administration that any pro mises of naval help have been offer ed to European powers in the solu tion of problems over seas. The re jection of an American mandate in .Armenia, the gradual withdrawal of .American troops from the Rhine and jthe general policy of keeping out of European affairs have come to be re garded in some quarters aa a fixed determination to remain entirely out ot the politics of Europe. Te readiness of the Harding adminis tration to use its influence in the Near Eastern crisis will naturally be viewed as inconsistent by the ad vocates of strict Isolation but the Wllsonlan Democrats and those Re publicans who favored International co-operation are plainly enthusiastic ever the turn of the Harding policy. Unquestionably the pressure of American churches which have vast Interests In the Near East have had & telling effect here. Also It Is an open secret that Great Britain has been anxious for American support In the Near East and has succeeded in persuading the American Govern ment that a positive stand by the United States at this time would ( contribute materially toward the making of peace. . The demand of the United States that the Dardanelles be kept free of fortification goes further than anything that has been said on the subject by the American Govern ment under Its preceding administra tion. It has been suggested by some critics that the United State to some extent inconsistent in argu ing against fortifications in the Dar danelles when the Panama Canal Is so heavily fortified by Its owner, the United States Government. The answer made In official quarters bere Is that the Panama Canal is an artificial waterway whose usefulness could easily be destroyed for neu tral commerce by the acts of a bel ligerent while the Dardanelles are a natural waterway and could not be blocked by a single explosion or even by the sinking of a great num ber of ships. Ambassador Child's speech based on So far as consistency Is concerned, MpIlcIt caDi9 instructions from the pronouncement by Ambassador Washington Is being Interpreted to Child Is directly in line with prece-iday a ge(,Uei to the sentiment dents In American policy for genera-1 manifested at such gatherings as tlons. The United States has always the American Bankers Association. stood for freedom of navigation. The significance of Mr. Child's statement really is that precedents are being followed Instead of Ig nored on this subject and that the Harding administration has grown bold enough to speak out In the open about a European question. Iinrrtofore the so-called "lrreconcll !' proup who have managed to '1 i ; t'.. Brp'thitnunst of an Am- Sixteen Blocks Swept By Fire President Of Rank Drops Dead And Another Business Man Is Mitudng Astoria, Oregon, Dec. 8 (By The Associated Press) The business district here was laid in ruins by a lire which broke out shortly after two o'clock this morning and despite the efforts of the local fire depart ment and reinforcements from Port land, swept sixteen blocks, causing a loss estimated at between ten and fifteen, million dollars. Morris Staples, pres'dent of the Bank of Commerce, dropped dead, and Brennan Van Dusen, business man, is missing. TODAY'S COTTON MARKET New York, Dec. 8 (By The Asso ciated Press) Cotton opened steady at an advance of from four tcsevfafferers enteen points on higher Liverpool cables, better Manchestertrade re ports and more optjnilstic feeling over European affair, but met con siderable selling due to rather larg er ginning figures than was expected and January dropped from 24.82 to 24.61 right after call. New York Dec. 8 (By The Asso ciated Press) The market was less active and steady later on renewal of light covering and commission se buying, while there was a more lavorabie view pi me Euro pean situation and a steady southern spot market. WEEKSVILLE HAS BIBLE PICTURES Proceeds Will Be Given To Fand For New Bern Relief The The illustrated study of the life of Christ being held In Christ church each Sunday night will be given also on each Monday night at 7:30 In the Episcopal chapel at Weeksvllle. At this time the offering taken will go toward the New Bern fire sufferers. These same pictures and lecture will be given also in the Episcopal chapel at Camden on each Wednesday night and the offering this time will go toward the same cause. FIRE AT SPRAY Spray, N. C, Dec. 8 (By The As sociated Press) A three story building here was gutted by fire last night with about $75,000 loss. erican member to the Reparations Commission and the official attend ance of American representatives at European conferences constituted a political obstacle to the free expres sion of American views on many vital questions growing out of th Paris peace conference. Generali ties alone have been voiced with re spect to American co-operation. Former Premier Clemenceau came to America to persuade the United States to contribute its help toward maintaining the peace of Eu rope by guaranteeing France against German invasion. The proposal to internationalize the territory on the left bank of the RRhine has again and again been made as one way of -preventing French annexation of that territory and consequent fric tion with Germany. Many sugges tions that the United States Join in ternational commissions to police waterways and provide buffer stales have fallen on deaf ears heretofcre. namely that whether through the League or the Harding association of nations or through no rigid Insti tution but the normal methods of International Intercourse American power and Influence should be ex erted for the stabilization of Eu rope. It Is a departure of policy which the friends of International co-operation will hot hesitate to make the most of In the future. Four Executed In Kcsnt Joy Pri:a Dublin, Dec. 8 (By The Associ ated Press) Uory O'Connor and Llam Mellowes, with two other Irish rebels, were executed in Mount Joy prison today. t O'Connor and Mellowes were tak en prisoners after three days siege of the Fourcourts Building In June and their companions. Joseph Mc Kevely and Richard Barrett were executed as reprisal for the assassin ation yesterday of Sean Hales, dep uty speaker, the official report stated. Irish njpMMliSC!!a3 Issna f":nifc:to London, Dec. 8 (By The Associ ated Press) "Irish . Republicans," says a Dublin dispatch to the Even ing -Standard, "have issued a mani festo describing Timothy Healy, governor general, as a life-long enemy of the nation," and the dls patch adds, "The fight will go on aa long as there Is a man In Ireland. It is war to the death." i Pastors Endorse New Bern Relief Collection Will lie Taken In The Churches Sunday For Thlx Fund The following pastors heartily ap prove the splendid work being done In the city for the New Bern fire would like to an-, Sunday, December the morning and nounce tha 10th, at evening sem s opportunity will be given the regatjons to contri bute toward th Nw Bern fire suf ferers fund afl all the churches where theToTrawtng f clergymen are pastors: The Rev. Messrs. Banks, Hall, Hill, Myers, Stack, Temple man, Thayer and Wilson. ROB L"IL CUSttl ' St. Joseph, Mo., Dec. 8 (By The Associated Press) Three, unmask ed men armed with pistols and shot gun held up two mall clerks at the Union Station here today and es caped in a waiting automobile with7' a package of registered and five packages of trst class mall. There Is no estimate of the value of the loot. Pclico Aro Fuzzlsd ra FI:i Los Angeles, Dec. 8 (By The As sociated Press) Officials are quot ed today as admitting that they hardly knew In what direction to look for Clara Phillips, hammer murderer who sawed her way to freedom from the county Jail Tues day. So far scores of tips have proved worthless. PIIOVO RETURN'S WITHOUT NEW It 10 UN ROAD LABOR According to J. E. Provo, labor superintendent for the Pasquotank Highway Commission, who has Just returned from New Bern, there Is a new phase to the labor situation there that was surprise to him when he arrived and met It. Mr. Provo went to New Bern on the strength ef a report that the city of New Bern would pay transporta tion of all of those of Its unemploy ed as were given work In other lo calities. When he arrived, however, he found that things had changed so much since Just after the fire that it looked as though his trip had been for nothing. New Bern authorities are now dis posed to discourage Instead of to encourage the exodus of labor from that city, as it Is believed this labor will all be needed shortly. Mr. Provo thinks, however, that he has set agencies In motion through friends In New Bern that will result eventually In his obtain ing some of the labor he went after. AT ALKRAMA TONIGHT Spontanlty plays a big part I'l many motion picture productions, and Wesley Barry In his latest starring vehicle, Gus Edwards' "School Days" which comes to the Alkrama tonight gave a good exam ple of how to extract humor out of a given situation. Patrons are urged to see how he does It tonight. and ii on "Truth i cone Nm SLflSh. The New Bern relief fund con tinued to gain headway Friday and' prospects at thta time seem to iudi-l cate that Elizabeth City will make a generous contribution to the fund. Though the active canvass for subscriptions has not yet been be gun a number of voluntary contri butions have been reported and the total already Is swelling each day to larger proportions. Gratification that a New Bern Relief Commission had been organ ized here was expressed Friday by J. H. McWilliams, general agent of the Norfolk Southern, who was here directly 'from New Bern. . "New Bern Is needing every cent that she Is getting," said Mr. Mc Williams, "and the money being sent there Is being expended Judici ously and wisely. In the beginning, before the relief work was well or ganized, there were, of course, some instances of undeserved charity. But the undeserving are now being rap Idly weeded out. j "I have heard criticism of New Bern In some quarters tor making no effort to Induce the surplus labor now on Its hands to look elsewhere tor employment. But there will be no surplus long. The lumber mill that was burned" Is to be rebuilt, and the rebuilding is a task that will re quire considerable ' labor. Tempor ary houses are to be built over the devastated area in large numbers, and then gradually these temporary houses will be replaced by perma nent structures. All this will re quire labor. If New Bern now sends all Its common labor into other fields, tliere will come an aftermath to the fire worse than the calamity Itself." Mr. McWilliams also pointed out that the white population of New Bern is hardly In excess of 6,000 and that the task of feeding and cloth ing the multitude of destitute fire sufferers Is beyond their resources. Among subscriptions already made are the following: Junior Order I 25 Red Cross 100 p. P- O. Elks 100 A. B. Houtz 25 C. E. Kramer 10 Miss Sallle Stevens & Cash 3 Mm. Lucie Outlaw 10 Total 1278 Besides the cash contributions five boxes of clothing have already been forwarded to New Bern. It Is believed that numbers of contributions In addition to the foregoing have been paid In at the banks of the city or have been sent to New Bern direct. It i desired that all contributions sent direct be reported at once to Secretary Job, who Is treasurer of the fund. The total set forth in the forego ing paragraph will be carried for ward each day, and new subscrip tions added to the list published In this newspaper. In this way every contribution made to Secretary Job will be publicly acknowledged. Hired Gunmen To Kill Cor Husband Detroit, Dec. 8 (By The Associ ated Press) Mrs. May Blenn Ford solicited the services of a gunman to kill her wealthy husband, Ney J. Ford, offered the gunman $20,000 i understanding that the license was for the Job and gave him a photo- J to be revoked should Williams' con graph of her husband to make sure1 duct bring him Into trouble In po the right man was slain, according lice court or into disrepute in the to sworn statements of four detec-j eyes of the community. tives whose Investigation resulted In the woman's detention today on the charge of attempting to murder. Denying the charge, Mrs. Ford declared that she was the vic tim of a frameup that grew out of domestic difficulties. NEW PRESIDING ELDER STEAKS AT NEWBEGUN Presiding Elder C. B. Culbreth will preach at Newbegun Methodist church Saturday morning at eleven o'clock at the quarterly conference. Mr. Culbreth will also speak at Newbegun Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, at Union Sunday afternoon at 3 and at Epworth Sunday evening at 7:30. INTRODUCES FOR A RILL COTTON BUYERS Washington, Dec. 8 (By The As sociated Press) Representative Stevenson of South Carolina has In troduced a bill to enable contract buyers to demand the delivery of cotton grades they desire for manufacture. Harding Delivers His Message lo Congress Chief Subjects Were Prohibition, Farm Credits, Transportation, Child Labor And Immigra tion Co-operation Of State And National Forces For Prohibition Enforcement Urged Washington, Dec. 8 (By The Associated Press) Presi dent Harding in his annua1 message to Congress delivered in person today dealt with nearly a score of subjects, the chief among them being prohibition, farm credits, the transportation problem, child labor and immigration. Brownletj Held For Federal Court Hew H. A. Brownley, who left here on the 22nd of November for Allen town, Pennsylvania, to answer a charge of abandonment and non support of wife and child in that city, and who following settlement of the case there without trial, re- turned to Elizabeth City, was taken before United States Commissioner : T. B. Wilson Friday morning on a warrant charging violation of the Mann Act, and held for probable cause under bond of $400 to be tried at the April term of Federal Court. BOND-SMITH VERDICT r.aenton, Dec. 8. Frank M. Bond 1 transportation facilities .including and Harry Smith were convicted In! not only inland waterways but mo Superior Court here Thursday on tor trucks as well, both counts of the Indictment charg-j More extended credit fo rfarmers ing them with assault with Intent to j was strongly urged by the Execu commit criminal assault upon Mrs. I tive, who declared that the very Arthur Edwards and Miss Viola; proof of helpfulness already given White, In Bond's fish house on the j is the strongest personal argument night of October 18. j for permanent establishment of wid- Eath was fined $300 and assessed ; ened credits. the costs of court on the first count, and were ordered to appear before the court at the next term to pray Judgment on the second count. Refuse Sign Liccr.cc For Eto Yi'illkss The City license committee, con sisting of the Mayor, the County Welfare Officer and the City Attor ney, refused Friday .rooming to sign C. Edgar Williams' application for a license to .operate a Jitney iq the city. . The committee has refused to sign Williams' application for a license all along. Last year, when the fact that any Jitney driver's application for a license had to be signed by the officers named in the foregoing paragraph was brought to the atten tion of the City Council, after li cense had already been Issued, caus ing all licenses Issued to.be revoked, Williams was eventually voted per mission by the Council to operate until September without the signed application required by law, the: Council warning him, however, at the time, that It would be neces-' sary for him to obtain the endorse ment of the license committee If he sought a Jitney license In the fu ture. In September the committee still refused to sign Williams' applica tion; but eventually endorsed the application of Ed. Jackson, negro Jltneur, to drive Williams' car on the The negro driver, Jackson, has now left Williams' employ, and Wll- commitjllams was found guilty by Jury In police court Thursday of operating his car without license. Judgment In the case Is to be pronounced Mon day. Pending the Judgment Williams again appeared before the license committee Friday morning. In announcing that he would with hold pronouncement of sentence un til Monday morning, Trial Justice Spence said Thursday that he had made up his mind that this defend ant would have to be taught some respect for the courts and the law. KILLED IN SALISBURY IN Al'TO ACCIDENT I Dec. 8 (By The Assocl-j -Thomas Foster was Salisbury, ated Press) killed and Sadie Gantt Injured in1 an auto plunge here last night. YOUNG WOMAN'S (1.1R SERVES HI PPER SATURDAY The Young Woman's Club will serve supper In thplr club rooms Saturday evening from 5:30 to 8:30 for the convenience of down town shoppers. He announced his purpose to invite the Governors of the States to an early conference with Federal authorities with a view to adopting definite poUcies of national and state co-operation in administering prohibition, saying that the day is unlikely to come when the amendment will be repealed -..J tu. i: i 1 j l f"u "lB """ auum uapi its Course accordingly. He proposed that the Railroad Labor Board be abolished with a substitution of a labor division la the Interstate Commerce Commis sion with ample power to require its rulings to be accepted by both par ties of the disputed question. He urged the co-ordination of all Two constitutional amendments were proposed, one giving Congress authority over child labor, and the other would restrict Issues of tax exempt securities. Mass Meeting Sunday Mt. Lebanon Church Colored People Of Elizabeth WB1 Help New IWn Sufferers Cily The Colored Welfare Society and Charity Board is the organization named by the New Bern Relief Com mittee to receive funds from the col ored people of this city, and a mass meeting Is called for Sunday after noon, December 10th, at three o'clock at Mt. Lebanon church. "The purpose of this meeting is to receive contributions of money to assist he stricken city of New Bern. All churches, schools, fraternal or ders, social clubs and civic organiz ations are asked to send their rep resentatives. A special collection will be taken up In all the city ! churcnes and everyone Is asked to Prepared to give liberally," says tne "etary of the Colored Welfare Swcletv- TNSIDER HARDING FOR FEDERAL RESERVE Washington, Dec. 8 (By The As sociated Press) The Treasury has announced that W. P. G. Harding Is among those considered for the next governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Defend New Bern Fire Department New Bern, Dec. 8 (By The Asso ciated Press) Mayor Clark and Deputy Fire Insurance Commission er Canady are defending the city's fire department against the State' report of negligence. STATESVILLE CASHIER RETURNS TO MAKE GOOD Statesvllle, Dec. 8 (By The Asso ciated Press) A. W. White, miss ing Stony Point cashier, has return ed and will make good the alleged $9,000 shortage, It Is announced. PREMIER OK ULSTER LEAVES FOR LONDON . Belfast, Dee. 8 (By The Associ ated Press) Premier Craig of Uls ter has departed for London with an address to the King, contracting Ulster out of the Free State. Miss Bert Ganderson, of Washing ton, D. C. Is visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ganderson, on I Cherry street.