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VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 192:1,.
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NO. 67.
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Much Interest Manifest
In Auditorium Proposal
Small Crowd But Intense Interest at Meeting Monday Night
on Proposal to Erect New Auditorium or Larger Movie
Theater Here in Heart of Downtown District
Disagreeable weather and varied
social and fraternal functions
made Monday night's meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce rather poorly
attended. President Hood himself
leaving after looking In on the crowd
and deciding that it was tootfmall to
take any action.
' However, folks kept drifting in all
the way from eight to half past eight
o'clock until very nearly an average
Chamber of Commerce crowd was
present; and considerably more than
the average amount of interest vas
displayed in the topic in hand.
The meeting ended about nine
o'clock with a motion unanimously
passed that the president of the
Chamber be requested to appoint a
committee to look Into the matter of
available sites and if possible secure
options on such sites and report to a
subsequent meeting of the Chamber
to be held at the call of the presi
dent. So, despite the bad weather. Mon
day night's meeting did not tnn tho
movemenrfor an auditorium in Eliz
abeth City, but rather gave It added
impetus, revealing Jhat a number of
men who have heretofore brought
things to pass In the town are gHing
this very question serious considera
tion. It was clearly evident, how
ever, that if the auditorium is to be
built by private cappital it will have
, to be more than an auditorium very
probably a moving picture theater as
well. Legitimate drama and occa
sional concert, lecture, or mass meet
ing, it was pointed out, could rever
be relied upon to produce enough
revenue to justify the investment.
Raleigh was cited, where an audi
torium was built by a bond issue. The
need nf a new courthouse was men
tioned, with the idea that plans for
such a building could be made to cm
hndv an nmnle auditorium. Some
thought that Elizabeth City needs a
new hotel even more than u neeas
an auditorium, and thought that the
two might be combined. It was sug
gested that a good Idea might be to
follow a plan now being carried out
In a new building going up at Ra
leigh that of having stores on the
wings of a building with an arcade
entrance between the stores leading
to the theater in the rear, and the
Bradford property was mentioned as
ideal for euch a building, with office
rooms on the upper stories. Mr.
Burgess of Burgess ft Joyner, who
operate a chain of theaters In North
Carolina Including the Alkrama of
Elizabeth City, thought that this sit
uation would be ideal and that any
plan to build a moving picture house
with the idea of getting as cheap a
site as possible would be a mistake.
Nothing short of the best site avail
able. In Mr. Burgess's opinion, should
be considered.
The idea of more tores, however.
u a nninted nut. would hardly ap
peal to local mercantile Interests and
the Idea ieemlng to find most ravor
was that of a theater of about twice
the size of the Alkrama with a roof
garden. Hard surfaced roads from
every direction, It was pointed out.
are coming Into Elizabeth City, and
bigh class amusements are needed to
make the city attractive to the thous
ands of people who will be within a
pleasant drive of Elizabeth City when
these roads are completed.
KING WINTER'S REIGN
COMES TO END TODAY
Chicago, March 20 Winter,
which is theoretically ending three
months of absolute sway over the
weather, today surveyed the effects
of one of the worst March storms ev
r known to the Great Lakes region
and the Mississippi valley, and pre
pared to vacate its post to the new
monarch, spring, tomorrow.
The survey showed a death toll of
nine, and agricultural authorities es
timated crop damages as extending
Into millions of dollars.
DELIVERY OF COTTON
PRACTICALLY COMPLETED
Raleigh, March 20 Delivery of
cotton by members was practically
completed this week, and the North
Carolina Cotton Growers Co-Operative
Association will now concen
trate Its efforts on making settle
ment on the basis of making salf
made to date.
. The spring distribution will In?
made some time 1n April, and the
checks wll .be delivered to members
by representatives of the associa
tion Instead of being sent through
the malls, as was done last time.
It was found that distribution of
checks by mall was unsatisfactory.
Members will be notified of the ar
rangements. As toon as the next distribution U
made, the cotton co-operatives will
. put on a membership campaign.
This drive Is expected to double the
membership. Already appllcatlo- s
for membership are being received
from many sections.
Clly Manager J. B. Ferebee was
-f!!ff1 10 Andrews Sunday by the
! -''! rf Ms dannMer-ln-law, Mrs.
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PRESENT DAY CONDITIONS
One of America's great Bible
scholars recently made an in
vestigation and wrote the par
agraph given below. I am pass
ing It on to the people of Eliz
abeth City:
"The condition among young
people In the church of which
I have made a careful study for
years Is appalling. There Is a
form of godliness, but a reck
lessness concerning spiritual
life. The Inroads of amuse
ments; the superficiality
of many of the preachers and
leaders in church life, and the
violation of their church vows;
the appalling conditions exist
ing among young people In our
public schools and colleges
is enough to break one's
heart."
The foregoing description
how strangely Blmilar to the
description of the period that
immediately preceded the great
revival of 1800 (as told by C.
L. Thompson In "Times of Re
freshing"): "Death In the
churches, rottenness in public
morals, Infidelity coming In like
a flood upon the schools and
the thinkers of the young re
public." And also of the period
Immediately preceding the
sweeping revival of 1857 and
'58: "It was a time of reck
less expenditures, of unparal
led fever for riches without
consideration of how they were
obtained, of apathetic consci
ence and wakeful selfishness,
of coldness and deadness of the
church and alarming godless
ness outside of it. The nation
seemed drifting In the same di
rection in which it had gone be
fore the great revival of 1800.
Skepticism, both speculative
and practical, pervaded all
ranks of society. We were be
coming a people without God
in the world."
Your pastors are asking for
your co-operation that these
conditions may be changed.
Evangelistic Committee.
FLAYS CAPITALISM
IN HOUSE COMMONS
(Br Th Amocltttd Prn
London. March 20 SoclallsmJ
throws down the gauntlet to capital I
ism today In the House of Commons
when Philip Snowden, leader of the
Independent labor party, offers a mo
tion denouncing the "capitalist sys
tem" as a failure and proposing that
legislation be directed toward Its
gradual supercesslon "by an indus
trial and social order based upon
public ownership and democratic con
trol of instruments of production and
distribution."
The event Is regarded here as one
of the most significant happenings in
a long time.
KILLED IN POWDER
PLANT EXPLOSION
Scranton, Pa., March 20 Two em
ployes were killed today and a third
so badly hurt that he will die, and
buildings in towns 15 miles away
were shaken when the powder mill
at the Moostck plant of the Dupont
Powder Company near here blew up.
RESOLUTION OF WOMEN
BEFORE VIRGINIA SENATE
Richmond, March 20 The resolu
tion adopted by the legislative com
mittee of the Virginia League of Wo
men Voters favoring a state-wide ref
erendum on the method of financing
the state Titghway system was pre
sented to the senate today.
The resolution urged that an ex
plicit policy on road financing be sub
mitted to the voters.
The senate resumed the discussion
of amendments to the bill for repeal
of the Robertson act while the house
took up measures of local character.
The senate finance committee re
ported favorably the bill for the es
tablishment of a park at Manassas
to commemorate the Confederate vic
tory. URGES MODERN HIGHWAY
GOING THROUGH SOUTH
Raleigh, March 20 A. D. Wil
llapiB, president of the Southern Ap
palachian Good Roads Association,
has written Charles M. Upham, State
highway engineer, relative to the ad
visability of holding a conference to
start a campaign for a modern high
way from Cleveland to Pittsburg,
down through West Virginia, Vir
ginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Geor
gia to the Florida coast.
The official stated he favored such
a highway "so as to enable the per
son taking the drive to see both the
Industrial and scenic and tropic ad
vantages of this country and give op
portunity of visiting practically all
of the Important southern resorts on
the trip.'?
Porn To Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Holloman of Penrl Street, a son,
?.!onday March 19th.
Wife Held for Murder of Wealthy Texan
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Mrs. Hiram Knox, wife of millionaire Texas lumberman, was
held' for his death. Knox was found dead in his home at Hemphill,
Texas, bullet wounds Indicating the manner in which he died. Uut
a few days before his death, Knox is said to have deeded his en
tire property to Mrs. Knox. Photo shows, Knox, Mrs. Knox and
their two sons.
J. W. BAILEY WILL
DELIVER ADDRESS
Josiah William Bailey of Raleigh
will deliver the commencement ad
dress at the' "Elizabeth City Hit-h
School on. Thursday, May Si. Tue
chairman of the board of trustees has
Just received Mr. Bailey's acceptance
of the Invitation tendered him.
Mr. Bailey is prominent In the lit
erary, religious and political life of
the State, and is a speaker of excep
tional ability, and the trustees are
pleased in having been able to secure
him.
NEARLY TEN MILLION
BALES COTTON GINNED
Washington, March 20 The
American cotton crop for 122 was
today placed at 9,761,117 equivalent
to 500 pound bales by the Census
Bureau in the Anal ginning report of
the season. The Department of Ag-
l',C?A!!!;V?tlra.Rte- the Cfop l 9"!
964,000 bales las December.
GETS THREE MONTHS
FOR ASSAULTING WIFE
Joshua Relfe of Providence Town
ship was sentenced to three months
on the roads by Trial Justice Spence
in Recorder's Court Tuesday morn
ing for assault on his wife. It was
alleged that Relfe when drunk at
tacked his wife bruising ber head
and breaking the bones la her hand.
Relfe contended that his wife was
drunk and that when she while
drunk attacked him with a butcher
knife he pushed her off and that she
fell against the stove this causing
her Injuries.
Relfe took an appeal end the case
was tried in Superior Court today.
For Indulging in a game of skin
at Jim Spruill's pressing club, Wil
liam Sutton, Bruce Barnett, Frank
Harney and Eddie Etherldge; all col
ored, were found guilty and fined
$5 and costs. Thomas Brlckhouse
escaped by turning State's' evidence.
and Jim Sprulll, whose pressing club
Chief of Police Holmes regards as a
bluff, on a charge of operating a gam
bling Joint, for lack of evidence,
was found not guilty.
PLAN TO ADVERTISE
EASTERN CAROLINA
Raleigh, March 20 The Cotton
Co-operattves are represented this
week at the Eastern Carolina Expo
sition at Wilson with one of the
most complete exhibits of the advan
tages of growing Improved cotton
cotton and of taking care of it after
It ia grown that has ever been shown
in North Carolina. The exhibit was
prepared by Fred Haas, expert cot
ton grader for the Asoclatlon. "It
pays to grow good cotton when you
get paid for It" Is the slogan adopted
for the exhibit.
The co-operatives are co-operating
with the State Department of Agri
culture In Its campaign against the
boll weevil and this week are sending
out .14.000 copies of an address re
cently delivered In Congress by Hon.
Charles L. Abernethy. of New Rem.
In which he presented some valuable
data prepared by L. O. Howard, dis -
tlnguished Insect specialists of the
Federal Department of Agriculture
II I'M M.KHT IlKKATTA
I Philadelphia, March 20 Professor
Hluhland, N. J., March 20 While Hung of Peking University has sug
awaltlng favorable weather for liquor I geBted building a tunnel under Beh
running. the rum fleet Is hol,!!ng airing strait connecting America and
rer.aita to elect a queen for the fleet. 'Asia.
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Home Economics
Friday-Saturday
Aiiminl Meeting State Asmh'IhHoii to
- lie Held in Greensboro This
Week
Greensboro, March 20 The'annu
al meeting of the State Home Eco
nomic Association will be held here
next Friday and Saturday, following
a special session of vocational home
ecopomics Instructors Thursday.
Miss Mary Sweeney, executive sec
retary of the American , Home Eco
nomics Association; Miss Ray Bald
erston, professor of household arts.
Teachers Cellege, Columbia Univers
ity; Mrs. Jane S. McKlmmon, State
home demonstration agent, and Miss
Margaret Edwards, State supervisor
of home economics education, will be
among the principal speakers at the
conference.
Miss Katharine Moran, assistant
State supervisor of home economics
education, will preside at the session
of vocational home economics in
structors. A round table discussion
of special problems of Interest to vo
cational teachers will take up most
of the session.
The program for the association
meeting follows:
Friday, 9 to 12 o'clock: Section
al meeting; teachers section, Miss
Blanche Shaffer, chairman; Institu
tional section, Miss Hope Coollde;
home-makers and home demonstra
tion section, Mrs. Jane 8. McKlm
mon, chairman.
12:00 to 1:00 Commercial food
exhibit.
2:30 to 4:00 Business meeting,
Mrs. Warren H. Booker, Queens Col
lege, Charlotte, president, presiding.
4:30 Reception, practice home, N.
C. C. W Miss Blanche Shaffer, dean
of home economics, N. C. C. W. pre
siding. , 8:00 Mrs. Jane S. McKlmmon
presiding. . '
"The Work and Program of the
American Home Economics Associa
tion," Miss Mary Sweeney.
"Some New Aspects of Household
; Management," Miss Ray Ilalderston
professor of household arts, Teach
ers College, Columbia University.
Saturday, 9 to 12 o'clock Gener
al meeting. .
Budgets, Miss Helen Louise John
son, for a number of years editor of
the General Federation Club Maga
zine and more recently engaged In
research work.
Child Care and Training Miss
Mary Sweeney.
Household Management Miss Ray
Dalderston.
Recent Developments In Home Ec
onomics In North Carolina Mrs.
Jane S. McKlmmon, State home dem
onstration agent, and T. E. Brown,
director, vocational education.
. Miss Sweeney's appearance at the
conference will mark her first visit
to North Carolina. She Is the first
executive secretary of the national
organization and entered her new
work a short time ago. Miss Sween
ey g a former president of the na
tional organization and for a number
of years dean of home economics at
Michigan Agricultural College and
the University of Kentucky. During
the war, she served overseas.
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UNDER HEIIKING NTR.IIT
ITALIAN STEAMER IS
SlMvlMi OFF BOSTON
Norfolk. March 20 The Italian
freight steamship C.lullu, is sinking
560 miles east of lloston, according
to wireless messages to the coast
guard station here.
The messages said the American
steamer, William V. Herrln, which
was 60 miles from Oiulia when It
picked up the distress call, was rush
ing to her assistance as was also a
shipping board steamer, name un
known.
Officials believe the condition of
the Giulla Is dangerous. It was
caught In a heavy gale last night at
virtually the same spot where the
Italian steamer, Moncenslo, went
down with all hands several weeks
ago.
PLANNING NEW USES
FOR U. S. HOSPITALS
Washington, D. C, March 20 The
Immediate inauguration of continu
ous study to determine future eco
nomic uses for the Federal Govern
ment's vast hospitalization facilities
is urged by the board of consultants
on hospitalization In the report of
Secretary Mellon today.
The work of mapping out future
profitable uses for the great hospital
plants, the board suggests should be
centralized in some Government of
fice and the problems made the sub
ject of close scrutiny in order that
war and postwar expenditures may
not be wasted.
KII.LKI) BY AITOMOIHLK
Greensboro, March 20 Her hus
band killed by a train in 1911, her
son killed by a train in 1912, Mrs.
J. I). Hryson herself was killed by
an automobile lost night.
PREPARE MAKE PAYMENT
Washington, I). C, March 20 The
British government is preparing to
make the first payment on Its debt
under the refunding plan, the treas
ury is advised.
SAY THIEF KILLED
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New York, March 20 The pollcf
theory today Is that It was a thief
who Just as dawn was breaking last
Thursday chloroformed to death
Dorothy Keenan, artist's model, to
make a safe getaway with the jewel
ry and furs be stole from the apart
ment where her body was found the
following noon.
The police hinted that they have
a clue to their man and that it would
not be surprising If he were arrested
soon.
Cclcrcd Joyriders
Fl:s Frcn Delists
Happy Sunday Excursion In Currl
I nek It una Into Unexpected ,
Trouble
An exciting tale of a near tragic
ending of a Sunday joy ride Is told
by Rockefeller Ward,. Currituck ne
gro, who was In the city Tuesday af
ternoon. Rockefeller, who lives near the
courthouse, says that on last Sunday
he borrowed a Ford from Jerome
Baxter, Snowden negro, and with his
partner, William Henry Baxter, went
out to take some girls to ride. They
got them one apiece and drove to
ward Coin Jock, followed by two oth
er friends, Will Jones and Mark
Cherry, who had a girl between them
in Jones's Ford.
As they were driving by the Gld
Boswood farm about two miles from
Coinjock bridge on their way home
Rockefeller, whose car had stalled,
noticed two negroes walking down a
lane toward the road and before he
got started the pair had turned into
the road and stopped just beyond a
bridge ahead of him. Rockefeller
got started and both autos proceed
ed toward the bridge. Just when they
had crossed It and Rockefeller's car
was abreast of the waiting darkles,
one of the pair whipped out an au
tomatic and began firing at the car
Sure he was shot.
Rockefeller
stepped on the gas, and the Ford
plunged ahead. Then the man wlthklmos at Herschel Island
the gun began firing Into the other
car. One shot plugged a hole In the
gas tank and the bullet from another,
lodged In the fleshy part of Mark
Cherry's hip, Mark with the one girl
In the rear car occupying the back
seat. Both Fords were breaking the
soeed laws iiv this t hue nnil If wad
not until thpy had gone nearly two1"" under sentence for double mur
mlles from the scene of the shooting ! der.
that llorkereiier 8 ' lady friend was
"lady
ablf to convince him that he was not
shot. They then proceeded to Mo
yoek, where Dr. S. M. Mann removed
a 45 caliber bullet from Cherry's hip.
Rockefeller says that the shooting
was done by Jodie Walton, a "for
eign" darky, who works at the barrel
stave mill at Coinjock, and that Jo
dle's companion was a Coinjock dar
ky by the name of Johnnie Barrow.
Whether Jodie has resumed the even
tenor of his wav at the barrel fac-
tory Rockefeller has not Investigated,
The joyriders were all around 1H or
20 years of age.
Rockefeller says that he returned!
the Ford he was driving to Its own
er Sunday night in good condition
without a bullet scratch on It. He
thinks that after the first shot a bul
let would have had to be travelling
some to catch him.
C. II. Silencer returned from Ilel
rrons Tuesday where he has been
nreiuV" several days visiting S. E.
Over! y.
Alexander Swears
To Lay Off Booze
Takes Hedne of Total Abstinence for
Itt'iiiiiinder of Year llefore J mine
Connor In (teu Court
Standing In the courtroom Monday
afternoon before Judge G. W. Con
nor, Den Alexander, automobile me
chanic of this city, found guilty in
recorder's court last week of operat
ing an automobile while under the
Influence of liquor and having Just
heard that verdict affirmed by a Pas
quotank County jury, took an oath
totally to refrain from the use of in
toxicating liquor for the remainder
of 1923; and then the court, which
had been about to continue the pray
er for Judgment and put the defend
ant under bond for monthly appear
ance before Trial Justice Spence to
show that he had abstained from the
use of Intoxicants, let Alexander off
with a fine of $50 and costs the sen
tence Imposed by the lower court In
the first place.
The court took this course when It
appeared that Alexander was a good
workman of excellent reputation ex
cept In the matter of having a weak
ness for liquor which was continual
ly getting him Into trouble. Judge
Connor himself administered the
oath.
Edgar Williams, whose alleged op
en defiance of the city authorities In
operating a jitney bus for hire with
out license was the talk of the town
last autumn, but who has now been
granted the required license and is
operating his bus regularly as the
other jitneurs, won another court vic
tory Monday afternoon, when a Pas
quotank jury returned a verdict or
not guilty In a case In which Wil
liams was found guilty of the charge
against him In recorder's court. One
police officer swore that he repeated
ly saw Williams soliciting passengers
with the other Jltneurs at the Norfolk-Southern
passenger statlmi and
another was ready to do so; but the
State had only one passenger to
swear that during the period when
Williams had no license he paid hl3
"are 'or r'dlng in Williams' car and
.this once, the court charged the Jury,
was not alone enough to make Wil
liams guilty of operating without 11- '
ceuse. The case was taken up late
Monday afternoon and the court hur
ried the prosecution through with It, v
apparently inclining to the opinion
that the prosecution ought to have
been dropped when the defendant
obtained his license.
Tuesday morning a degree of ab
solute djvorce was granted J. C.
Brown vs. Lenora Brown. Both
were colored.
Dave Horton, appealing from tho
lower court on a charge of violation
of traffic ordinances, escaped penal
ty Tuesday when State antkdefend
ant agreed to accept a majorKy ver'
diet. The court and State knesthat
the jury was divided and from h
evidence supposed that the majority
was for conviction, but When the Jurjl
came In it brought a verdict for ac
quittal by a 9 to 3 vote.
White Man's Justice
Invades Northland
Dawson, Yukon Territory, March
20 Inspector Stuart Wood and Cor
poral Pastey, of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, have left Dawson for
Herschel Island, one of the most ar
duous Journeys that falls to the lot
of the "mountles." The party will
proceed to Fort Yukon, Alaska
thence to Rampart house. Here In
spector Wood and Corporal Pastey
will leave most of their equipment
and proceed on to Herschel, cross
ing the Arctic divide, then through
the timber limits to the Tundra,
reaching their destination about the
end of March, It Is the longest and
most dangerous of all northern trails.
At Herschel Island one of the In
cidents of the mounted police visit
will be the trial of several Eskimos
under the white man's law on a
charge of murder. Hitherto It has
been customary to bring natives un
der criminal charges out to civiliza
tion for trial, but a law recently
passed by the federal parllamnnt pro-
vldes for the trial of the accused Es-
APPEALS TO MOTHERS
Raleigh, March 20. Mrs. J. R.
Dalton In a letter last night to th
News and Observer appealed to all
mothers to help her save Jerry Dal
ton from the electric chair. He Is
CHARLOTTE MILL SUED
Charlotte, March 20. The Lowell
Cotton Mill here lias been sued by
two stockholders, aliening unlawful
handling of the company's atTulrs.
The suit Is for $792,SKS.9.
SCHOOL PARTLY HI ltKI
Winchester. Va.. March 20 The
John Handlev Foundation public
j school, under construction here, was
partly destroyed by lire last night. It,
I was valued at JfiOO.OOO.
COTTON MARKET
New York. .March 20. Spot cott' -today
closed quiet at S1.10. Futurrv,
closing hid: .Marrli 31, Hi, May 31.0, .
July .m.24, October 2J.75, Dece; -her
26. 1.
New York, March 20. Cotton fu
tures opened today at the following
levels: March 30.77. May 31. July
30.21. October 28. 5, December
26.15.