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THE IT EAT II Ell llain tonight and prob- ably Saturday morning. Colder Saturday. Sunday fair and cold. CIRCULATION Thursday 1,1)6.) Copies VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH SO, 1923. FOUR PACES. NO. 7: CLEAN UP WEEK BEGINS MONDAY City Manager and Woman's CI lib Ready for Real Work and Ask Co-operalion of Everybody. Clean Up Week begins in Elizabeth City Monday morning at the break of dawn. City Manager Ferebee, who was called out of the city last week by the death of his son's wife at Andrews, is back again and is hard at worn get ting his forces ready to give the, streets a real spring "sucKing up. He will do his utmost, also, to have propertv owners, clean up vacant lots. The Civics Department of the Wo man's Club will endeavor to enlist the co-operation of every family in the task of cleaning up their prem ises.' Both the women and the city man anger will greatly appreciate the hearty response of the community in this really important matter. Saturday a committee from the Woman's Club will put some very at tractive Clean Up Week posters In down town windows. These posters were made by the third grade pupils of Mrs. T. B. Cooke, and the fine work of these little people toward making Clean Up Week a success, it is hoped, will inspire those who are growing old and getting careless to wake up and clean up. TELEPHONE COMPANY BUYS EXCHANGE SITE The Norfolk & Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company, which for some time has been looking for a centrally situated site for a new tele phone exchange, has decided on the Gulrkln property on South Road street, it has been announced. The present exchange on East Fearing street is not centrally situat ed and it is said that, with the in creasing number of subscribers being served by the local telephone com pany, economical operation from the present exchange is no longer pos sible. Another reason for a change is that the part of East Fearing street on which the exchange now stands Is paved with cobble stones and 1s therefore one of the nolsest streets In the city. " Titb Cc!iin Columbus, O., March 10. Six per sons are known to hare been killed and many were injured, some se riously, when the fast Big Poor pull man train en Toute from Boston to Cincinnati struck an automobile at s grade crossing at the city limits Cincinnati, 0., March 30 A re port received here today at Big Four headquarters said that eleven per sons were killed in the wreck of pas senger train- number eleven and that six unidentified bodies had been re covered. SAYS THREATENS PEACE OF WORLD New York, March 30 French oc cupation of the Ruhr threatens the peace of the world, L. B. Noyea. for mer United States Rhtneland com missioner, stated here yesterday. - MRS. COPELAND DKAD Mrs. G. W. Copaland, aged 40, died at her home on Fleetwood street Friday morning at 3:30 after several months illness of Bright disease. She is survived by her husband; by her mother, Mrs. R. E. Perry; by live children, Grover, Dewey, Tommy, Raleigh, land Fan nie; 'by four sisters, Mrs. W. X. Gregory, Mrs. W. M. Twlddy, Mrs. A O. Copeland, Miss Martha Perry; by three brothers, J T. Perry, I. P. Perry, Jeremiah Perry. The funeral will be conducted Sat urday afternoon at 3:30 t the home by Rev. H. E. Myers asslster by Rev. S. H. Templeman. The interment will be made In Hollywood. "CAKE MAKING SATURDAY AT GAS tX)MPAXY OFFICE A demonstration In cake making will be given by the Pasquotank County Home Demonstration Agent Saturday morning from 11 to 12 at the office of the Gas Company on Folndexter street. These demonstra tions will be held each Saturday until further notice and the women of the city are cordially invited to attend. TWO OYSTERMEV SCRAP AXD GET IXTO COURT No session of police court was held Friday morning. Kugone Pallln, for carrying con cealed weapons, was fined $50 and cots Thursday. Up for participating in an afTray, Captain Chafln Williams and Captain Telle Mldeett were found guilty. Captain Williams was fined $10 and half the routs and Captain Mldgett was let off with half the costs. Both men !i 1 1 at the foot of West Main ptrret I: 'i a Irml of oyster at shout t'e siimii f: 'f Bill a c'UTiruUv cn- BAILEY IN CITY Joslah William Bailey of Ra li'LUi, rt uardetl us certainly u candidate l'or Coventor oi North Carolina In the next Democratic primary, arrived In the city Friday morning and speaks to the Elizabeth City Klwanls Club Friday night. Congressman Hallet S. Ward '"S the KIwaols Club speaker two weeks ago, and it Is un derstood that other notables in the State are to be Invited to address the club in the near future. ENGINEER LEIGH NOT OUTDANGER Norfolk Man Now Threat ened With Pneumonia as Result of Exposure in Wreck of Ill-Fated Tug. Chief Engineer Enoch Leigh of the crew of the ill-fated tug Julian J. Fleetwood Is threatened with pneumonia as a result of his 5 hour exposure In wet clothing to a biting northeast gale following the cap sizing of the tug in Albemarle Sound at the mouth of North River, twenty miles ibelow Elizabeth City, shortly after one o'clock Thursday morning. Elbridge Mann of Norfolk, Leslie Barnes of Portsmouth, and Joseph Shawler of New Hope Kentucky, three of the crew who were taken to the hospital Thursday morning, had by Friday morning recovered from their numbness but were still too stiff and sore to be discharged from the hospital. E.' D. Elexander, whose home is i on Grady street, was not taken to the hospital but to his home. He was able to be up and out by Thurs day night. Mrs. Enoch Leigh, accompanied by her son, Elwood Leigh, arrived here Thursday on the night express from Norfolk to be at the .bedside of her husband and to take the body of her 21 year old son, Vernon Leigh to the old homestead near Edenton. Vernon Leigh was not a member of the crew but was accompanying his father on what was to have been for him a pleasure trip. They left with the-body for Edenton n the south bound train Friday. ric!:!.:oi:d PLf.ns FOn "CEOTEC3IAL To Be Held la December In Honor of Jaime Man roe, Author of Fa mous Monroe Doctrine Richmond, March 30 Plans for an international centennial celebra tion of the promulgation of the Mon roe Doctrine to be held here on De cember t-i were announced today by Governor Trinkle in a proclamation asking President Harding, Chief Jus tice Taft, cabinet members, govern ors of all states, and heads of all na tions to be present or send official delegations "to co-operate In a mem orial of dignity and honor" to James Monroe, whose doctrine "became a new declaration of America under whose magic power twenty republics to the south had their birth of free dom and their continuity of economic and political progress." All patriotic and civil organiza tions are also asked to co-operate. Goes to Ohio to Study Mother Aid Miss Tattle of State Welfare Deart ment Wants Data on Applica tion of New Law Raleigh, March 30 Miss Eraeth Tuttle, of the State Department of Public Welfare, will go to Ohio in April to stady the operation of the Mothers' Aid Law in th.it state in connection with the . supervision of a similar act in North Carolina. The 1923 Oeneral Assembly ap propriated $50,000 annually for mothers' aid. work la the State. Whenever aid, Is granted, tha county In which the mother resides must furnish an amount equal to that of the state, which would result, in case all of the state fund was used, In $100,000 being devoted to the work. iMIbb Tuttle stated tonight that ac cording to estimates hn has made It will be possible In some instances to aid as many as five mothers In a county, but that she expected the average to be three. She plans, she continued, to endeavor In each case to assist mothers in securing work and an Income so as to dis charge them from the aid as soon as possible. NEW COTTON MILLS FOR NORTII CAROLINA Duke, N. C, March 30 Announce ment was made here today by offi cials of the Erwln Cotton Mills of a new mill of 40,000 spindles soon to be erected here. Ralelch. Msrch 30 The Caldwell Cotton Mill Company of Hudson, cap italized at half a million dollars, was toihiv printed a charter by Secretary of : ;,-tt Lvcrctt. Japs at Home in Capital ' .'. H! II ! 8 f m; j p I, , v The photographer Just couldn't resist making a picture of these two dear little Jap children which he met In Connecticut Avenue in Wash ington. The one wheeling the carriage declared that they were playing "mother and child" and that she was the mother although the little one in the carriage was quite as large. They are Seiko and Hamako Nishio, children of Genichiro Nishio and his wife, prominent Japanese people re siding in the capital. STRICT ISOLATION FOR ARCHBISHOP Zeiplac Whose Sentence Was Recently Loininunted by So viets Allowed No Liberties By His Guards. Moscow, March 30 The death sentence recently Imposed on Arch bishop Zepliak, head of the Roman Catholic church Is Russia was to- nent under strict Isolation. The ap-1 1 n m T r t tt , . 1 . .. . ' iai 01 Yicnr ueuerai uuicnuavitcn for clemency was denied. The Archbishop and Vicar, together with fifteen other priests, were found guilty of opposing the Soviet Gov ernment, and the two named were sentenced to death. AIRPLANE TRIP FAILED TO SAVE WOMAN'S LIFE Mrs. Mary E. Mid get t of Buxton, who was rushed . to St. Vincent's hospital, Norfolk, by airplane last Wednesday, died at the hospital Thursday, It became known here Fri day when Mrs. Mldgett's body was brought out on the morning train and shipped to Buxton by way of Manteo for interment. Mrs. Mldgett is survived by her husband, W. E. Mldgett, and by a one month old baby. The plane that took her to Norfolk was dis patched to Buxton from the Naval Base at Norfolk. shoots v;;ie she fi::ds he's v;ed Girl Companion of Prominent Xew Yorker Kills Him and Herself At Discovery of Deception New York, March 30 Frederick W. Burngam, aged forty four, con tractor, socially financially and pro fessionally prominent, died here ear ly today, victim of a gun in the hands of Miss Helene Zlegler, aged twenty six, daughter of well to do Riverside Drive family, who killed herself after having mortally wounded Burnhaiu in his offices late yesterday. The tragedy is believed to have followed the girl's discovery after a ten year friendship with Burnham that the contractor was married. MALLOKY IS DEFEATED HY AX I XKXOWX STAR Cannes, March 30 Mrs. Nolla BJurstedt Mallory was yesterday de feated by Mile. Velasco, unknown star, In the women's tennis singles. REWARD IS OFFERED FOR ARSCOXDED CAPTAIN Baltimore, March 30 A reward of $1,000 Is offered here for the capture of Louis De Rooda, former marine captain, alleged to have absconded with $52,000 in securities. TO OPIOSE FIIIIH) New York, March 30 Jack Mc Aullffe, second Detroit heavyweight, has been chosen as opponent for Luis Flrpo at New York Stadium on May 18. WILL MEET MONDAY The Parsonage Society of City Road Church will meet Monday p. m. at S.30 at the home of Mrs. W. W. Sawyer on North Road street. Mrs. J. M. Whltehiwst will assist Mrs. Sawyer as huMeBg. -A full st- tPndKnra l d '"lire I. '4 it J Summer School Last Ten Weeks Wake Forest IengthenN Sessions to Meet Xeeds of Students Seek ing Credit for Degrees Wake Forest, March 30 The Wake Forest summer sc'iool session, originally planned to run only six weeks, will be lengthened to ten weeks for students working for de grees, according to an announcement Just Issued by the direror H. T. Hunter. "The longer session has been ar ranged to meet the needs of a class of students who wish to make their summer productive in the way of credit hours for degrees," says pro fessor Hunter, "and we feel that It Is our duty to assist these students who are willing to forgo their va cation for this very worthy end."' That the summer session will not be a dreary grind is Indicated by the large number of recreational fea tures being planned. Swimming, golf, story-hour, plays, ten sis and etc, will prove Inviting diversions for the host of students that will attend the summer courses. . The com mittees, one from the town and another from the faculty, are work ing Jointly on the receratlonal pro blem and a full quota Is assured those attending the coming summer session. CANCEL AGREEMENT BY MUTUAL CONSENT (Br Tb AMorllttd llfiil Washington, D. C, March 30 The Lanslng-Ishll agreement by which the United States In 1917 recognized Japan's "special Interests" In China has been cancelled by mutual agree ment of Washington and Toklo gov ernments. Diplomatic negotiations have re sulted In a new understanding based primarily on the provisions of the nine power pact written at the Wash ington armament conference and re garded as applying more effectually "the principles of the open door of equality of opportunity in China." LONE ROBBER KILLS PAYMASTER WALLACE New York, March 30. A lone rob ber shot and killed John Wallace, paymaster of the Duncan Construc tion Company, in Long Island City today, threw pepper in the eyes of Martin Cain, superintendent, and es caped In an automobile with $4,000. Four men were waiting In the car. HOW MANY WHITE PEOPLE HERE? The churches are planning a matter which ought to Inter est every man In Elizabeth City. They are planning to take a census of the entire white population on April 8th, to ascertain their religious leaning. The work Is to be done by more than one hundred men and women representing every church as far as possible. Now If you are a real boos ter for your town, this ought to Interest you. Here Is a fine chance for the Chamber of Commerce and all allied organ izations to help get an accur ate census of our white people. We can make It count If we pull for Elizabeth City. That' is what the churches are pulling for In this cam paign. Yours for a BIOCER and BETTER Elizabeth City. sr 1 'c CiniinilHi'P, W. M. U. Meeting Comes To Close Kt'Klstt tiilon Han ( lose lo I'AliU H mi ilreil, Ite-sidcM Visitors .Meet ing Next at ;oldlMro Ily Walter M. (JHniore Durham, March 29 The State Baptist Woman's Missionary. Union Convention, which has been in ses sion in the First Baptist church" of this city since Tuesday night, closed this evening one of the very best ses sions in its history. The registration ran up close to 800. This does not Include scores of visitors who did not register. Clear skies all the way through contributed to the large at tendance. Mrs. Wesley N. Jones, of Raleigh, heads the organization again for the Incoming year. The next session will be held in (loldsboro the first week In April, 1924. The other officers elected are: Vice-presidents Greens boro division, Mrs. M. W. Buck, Bur lington; Elizabeth City division, Mrs. F. C. Battle, New Hern; Wilmington division, Miss Macy Cox, Magnolia; Charlotte division, Mrs. T. B. Henry, Wadesboro; Ashevllle division, Mrs. C. A. Klutz, Ashevllle; corresponding secretary and mission study superin tendent, Miss Mary Warren, Raleigh; office secretary-treasurer, Miss Elsie K. Hunter, Raleigh r recording secre tary, Mrs. J. D. Boushall, Raleigh; secretary Young Woman's Auxiliaries Mrs. R. N. Simms, Raleigh; junior superintendent, Miss Elizabeth N. Brings, Raleigh. The following Is the new executive committee, all of whom live In Ra leigh: Mesdanies W. A. Cooper. J. S. Farmer, J. H. Wing, T. W. O'Kel ley, E. L. Mayfleld, W. C. Rlddlck, J. H. Weathers, J. A. Ellis, J. R. Berkley, Charles E. Maddry, C. E. Brewer, T. H. Brlg.es, N. B. Brough ton, J. W. Bunn, C. L. Oreaves, 55. M. Caveness. The hospitality of the Durham la dles has been unstinted and most cor dial. The visitors were given a trip to Chapel Hill Thursday afternoon. Many other courtesies have been ex tended. A very tender memorial Rorvlco was held in honor of members of the union who have died since the last session of the convention. Reautlful tributes were paid to two honored former officers of the convention, Dr. Blanche Josephine Barrus, for five years the corresponding secretary, who died Nov. 23, 1922, and Mrs. Mary Applewhite Ktlllan, for 16 years a member of the executive com mittee, who died at her home In New ton, Jan. 12, 1923. A beautiful wreath of flowers was presented by the Charlotte division, of which she was a member, and was sent to her husband, J. Y. KUIlan, to be placed on her grave. The pageant, "The Spirit of PhHaf " pIvi Kv ntnmnse ot the .v...v, O - ' J 1 nnlavlllo Tralnlne School as the closing scene of the W. M. U. con vention, was written by Miss Martha Slsemore, of Goldsboro. who took the leading part in the play, represent ing "the Spirit of Christ." The two other leading characters were Miss Mary Warren, Raleigh, representing America, ana Mrs. uarier, oi win-ston-Salem, representing the spirit of the missionaries. There are 69 Training School alumnae in the State, and 28 of them were present. Sub stitutes represented those that were absent. Mrs. Minnie Mlddleton An derson, of China, and Miss Cora Cau dle, of Africa, returned missionaries, took part In the play. One of the features of the evening session was the presentation of four returned missionaries, Mrs. Ander son. China; Miss Caudle, Africa; Mrs. D. W. Herring, China, who con ducted the opening exercises Thurs day morning, giving a very Inspiring talk on "Prayer," and Mrs. Milton L. Braun, China, who sang very effec tively "The Old Rugged cross." for eign Missions has a very large place In the work of the union. In her address Thursday morning Mrs. W. C. James of Birmingham, president of the W. M. U. of the Southern Baptist convention, empha sized the fact that the organised work of women was called Into be ing for the purpose primarily of fur thering the Interests of foreign mis sions. This was true also of the orig inal Baptist organization In America. And in proportion to their response to the foreign mission appeal, Mrs. James maintained, will and denomin ation have power and advance. Mrs. James spoke more particular ly about strengthening the home base. The three fold object of the W. M. lT, organization was to create a missionary spirit, to disseminate missionary Information among the women and young people and to col lect funds for carrying on the mis sionary enterprise. The alms of the organization, a outlined by the speaker, were: to en courage Individual and united prayer, Bible study, mission study, soul-winning and enlistment, systematic nnl proportionate glvlne, and nriranlJd personal service. The method use.l In reaching these alms are llios" civ en In the ten points of the standard of excellence, toward which nil the 20.000 societies In the Soiitln rn Bap tist convention are urged tn strive. In Introducing Mrs. James. Mrs. Jones called attention to the fact that for 17 years North Carolina had fur nished the president for the W. M. V. of the South In the person of Miss Fannie E. S. Herk, and that It was In North Carolina, when the conven tion met In Ashevllle seven years oko, that Mrs, James was elected to her honorable position, having been nom inated by a North Carolinian. Another feature of the morning p. .dull Flames Sweep Two Factories and Four Tenements Threat ens Bellevue Hospital New York, March 30 Two firemen are dead and sixteen were injured today while fighting the spectacular fire that swept two factories and four tenements on the East Side, for a time threatening Bellevue Hospital with its 2,000 patients. The dead firemen and most of the Injured were burled beneath a brick, wall which toppled Into the street after a gas explosion. The others were burned while rescuing occupants of the tenements. The fire was fought by one of the greatest arrays of apparatus ever assembled here and conquered after five hours battle. Debate Tonight At High School EllzAleth City People Urged to Show Courtesy to Visitors from Hert ford and Edenton Tonight at 7:30 in the high school auditorium Miss Elizabeth Tucker and Llnwood Skinner of Hertford will uphold the affirmative against Misses Ruth Rhea Holmes and Ruth Boyce of Edenton, negative team, while Elizabeth City's teams are de bating at Hertford and Edenton. The query Is "Resolved that Con gress should provide for the enforce ment of the decisions of the Railroad Labor Board." Elizabeth City people are urged to give these visitors a representative audience, remembering that such a courtesy on the part of the other towns, toward this city's own debaters would be appreciated. Music will be furnished by the. Elizabeth City orchestra. JACK JENNETTE IS CHOSEN ALTERNATE Jack Jennette has been chosen as alternate In the declamation on test at Trinity and Wake Forest neat week. In case ot illness ct Walter Cohoon, Jr.. he will repreccn: the Elisabeth City High School. session was the address by Miss Mar garet Frost, of Nashville, Tenn., who spoke on "A Mighty Movement and Its Growth," referring to the Bap tist Sunday School board, of which her father. Dr. J. M. Frost, was th.) honored head for many years. She pointed out the fact that this board was organized in 1891, many of the denominational leaders opposing it. It had no capital to start with. In the first 23 years of its history this board turned over to the denomina tional enterprises a half million dol lars. It is now turning Into denom inational channels annually a quar ter of a million dollars from its prof its. Another feature of the morning session was the presentation of th reports of the five vice-presidents, all of which were very gratifying, show ing marked growth along many lines. Mrs. Weston Bruner, who for sev eral years has been the vice-president of the Greensboro division, has moved out , of the State, and Mrs. Martin W. Buck, of Burlington, has been elected to fill her place. Mrs. Buck read Mrs. Bruner's report. Mrs. F. G. Battle, of New Bern, reported for the Elizabeth City division, which has made the greatest gain of any In contributions. Miss Macy Cox, of Magnolia, reported for the Wilming ton division; Mrs. J. J. Roddick, Wln-ston-Salem, reported for Mrs. T. U. Henry, of the Charlotte division; Mrs. C. A. Klutz, Ashevllle, reported for the Ashevllle division. The afternoon session was devot ed to the work of the Y. W. A. and O. A.'s, and was presided over by Mrs. R. N. Slmms, Raleigh, secre tary of these departments of young I people's activities. Miss Dorothy I flower, of Meredith College, Raleigh', (spoke on "The Y. W. A. and the I School Girl." Mrs. R. N. Slmme, who is the trustee from North Carolina of the Louisville Training School, gav her report, showing that there were I 22 girls from North Carolina at this 'school this year, that they were do ling a hlth grade of work. The W. Al. I'. f this t . 1 1 V (.Ives ten annual scholarships to t'.-.i' youiu" women i.t this Institution. Flv other scholnr fhips nrr vn ey Iirt'vkliinln pp! ' --c!at!i:u- !r Cie Stn!e. In addi tion to these scholarships 11,775 h:m leen given for current expenses and M.3R5 has been given to endowment the past year. Miss Mary Warren was In char? of the mission study hour. A fea ture of this hour was the presenta tion by the Ralelxh Tabernacle Y. W. A.'s the study courses by means of posters.
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