North Carolina Newspapers

THE U'EATHEll Cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Little change in temperature. Moderate IS. uinds. ; $ if: CIRCULATION Monday V j Y, (i f t', 'ILL-! u U U l), U ; :' 1,1165 Copies VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1923. )UR PAGES. NO. 91. WOMAN IS FOUND HANGED IN ATTIC . . . Mrs. Lloyd Halstead of Weeksville Takes Her Life While Husband Is Away at His Work. , Mrs. Lloyd Halstead, aged iibout 24, . hanged herself In the attic of her home Monday afternoon at about 2 o'clock. The Halstead home Is half a mile from Salem church In thia County. Monday at noon Mrs. Halstead kissed her husband good bye with more than ordinary devotion as he left for his work, but she seemed in her us ual health and he had no hint of the deed she contemplated. She was frail in body and highly nervous, but 4iad not been ill recently and on Sunday had attended church. When Mr. Halstead came homo for supper he could not find his wife, but still believed that she was just over at the home of a neighbor. He began asking about her and the search continued until 7 o'clock Monday night. when her lifeless body was found hanging in the, attic. Dr. R. 1$. Davis of Weeksvllle and Dr. Ike Fearing of Elizabeth City wore summoned and said that she had probably been dead five hours. Mrs. Halstead is survived by her husband; by a five-year-old son; by her mother, Mrs. Sarah Parsons of thls-County; by one sister, Mrs. John Berry, of Weeksvllle; by two broth ers, Tom Parsons of Weeksvllle, and Rufus Parsons of Asbury Park, N. J.'; and by four half sisters, Mrs. J. E. Corbett and Mrs. J. W. Stokely of this city, Mrs. Allie Coppersmith of Salem and Mrs. Gertie Jordan of Camden. LEANS TOO MUCH ON UNITED STATES Former Senator Townsend Reminds Folks That Money From Treasury Comes from Taxpayers Own Pocket. Greenville, S. C, April 17. An Increasing number of people are de pending on the National Government, former United States Senator Charles E. Townsend, of Michigan, declared in an address on the Federal aid law here today before Joint conventions of the United States Goods Roads As sociation and the Bankhead National Highway Association. The Importance of each local com munity feeling the necessity for econ omy and efficiency In the expenditure of money on highways was stressed by the former Senator. The Federal aid law, in the passage of which Mr. Townsend took a prominent part, was designed, he said, to eliminate as much as possible the "port" fea ture, which he asserted "menaced the river and harbor appropriations and is seriously threatening all Federal aid appropriations." Former Senator Townsend gave statistics relating to the plan of the Federal Government to aid in build ing, seven per cent of the most im- .portant road mileage in eacn state at affinal cost to the Government of " three billion dollars. The farmer, he said, once the enemy of the automo bile, now was the greatest automo bile owner and as a result was be coming an Vardent" advocate of good roads. "The auto truck is the most de structive agent of good roads," he continued. "Its weight and speed ' should be regulated by the states and its license fees materially increased. The taxpayers will not long endure the construction by taxation of roads costing on an average of 17,500 a mile if after they are built they are - allowed to be destroyed by negli gence or misuse. "An increasing number of people are depending too much upon the Federal Government. They seem to think that it can do what the state cannot do; that appropriations from the Federal treasury are gifts which cost them nothing and therefore ought to be encouraged and that the wasteful expenditure of these appro priations is to them a matter of in difference. Nothing could be more , erroneous. Every dollar which goes into the treasury of the United States belongs to the people and is paid by them. "Hence the importance of each lo cal community feeling the necessity for economy and efficiency in the ex penditure of money. .This they will not feel so long as they believe that one half the money comes from Washington, and, therefore costs them nothing. You must insist that the roads be built and maintained economically and according to the best scientific knowledge of the art bf road building; that they shall be located, not to serve politicians, but to serve best the industrial and com mercial needs of the whole country." The former Senator said the need of suitable highways to interstate commerce also was being increasing ly shown and the Federal Govern ment was especially charged with fa cillitating it by aiding to build trunk lines. "These trunk lines," he said, "con necting the states, furnish the back bone of a system of roads which will readily be connected, reaching Into every section of the country, and also will fnni' !i !l of the highways that wo- ' I l. r ' ! I i pry emergency State Fire Losses Continue Excessive Insurance Commissioner Wade (lvc Figures for March Far Above Last Year's Raleigh, April 17. The records for March show that not only, in this State but throughout the country and Canada, fire losses were excessive, according to a detailed report issuod here by Stacey W. Wade, commis sioner of insurance. The losses reached a total of 1674,671 in North Carolina, com pared with $476,452 for Aiarch last year, and $41,150,650 for the Unit ed States and Canada, as compared with 139,910,750 , for March. 1922, according to the report, These fig ures, said Mr. Wade, Co not include damage from forest fire.i, which ho asserted in North Carolina alone ior March will duplicate th lota on buildings and contents. The total loss for the flr.st quar ter of 1923 shows niouniir.fe losses as follows: North Carolina for 1.023: $2,174, 171; for 1922, 91.911.662. U. S. and Canada for 1923: $120,- 543,300; for 1922; $ 1 07 S7 8 ,050. "Of the 204 fires during March ia which the loss reached $5,000 or more," the report reads, "tltoro were 20 with a total of $544;135 leaving a loss for the entire other 184 of only $130,566. The largest single loss was that of a furniture plant at Lexington, $100,000. Other large single losses were at Raleigh, supply store, $63,000; Wadesboro, garage and-contents, $60,000; Charlotte, store, $53,000; Asheville, garage, $46,000; Greenville, planing mill and lumber, $40,000; Statesvllle, busi ness building, $23,000. "Of the total March loss for North Carolina, the property immediately at risk aggregated $3,775,251 with a total insurance of $2,669,125. "There were 125 dwelling fires, with a total damage of $187,546, val ued at $668,955 and Insured for $362,916." Defective flues and shingle roofs were the principal causes of fires. COMMUNIST PARTY IN U. S. DISSOLVES B The AjKUted Prenl New York, April 17. The Com munist party of America has dis solved itself and diverted its mem bers to the Workers party of Amer ica which it recognizes as the only affiliation of the Third International of Moscow in the United States, Sec retary Rutenberg of the central ex ecutive "Committee of the Workers' party said today. " PREPARE FOR GAME OF NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago April 17. The familiar sign "Baseball" came into view on street cars and busses today e play ers end fans In the four major league cities prepared for the opening games of the National League season. The time honored custom of band playing and flag raising and throw ing out the first ball were planned ifor various cities. President Ueydler of the league was the guest of the Chicago Cubs and Commissioner Lantlis was guest of Christy Mattheweon for the open ing at Boston. IRRECONCILABLE IS READY TO DIP CATTLE Opposition to cattle dipping for tick eradication in Pasquotank seems now to be wearing itself down al most to the vanishing point. O. A. McPherson, recently convict ed and fined for failure to dip as re quired, and who had been indicted for a second offense this season, had asked for a Jury trial and his case set for trial Tuesday morning. On Tuesday, however, through his attor ney the defendant stated that he had decided to comply with the law and asked the State to take a nol pros in this Instance. Trial Justice Spence continued the case for thirty days, indicating that if the defendant showed himself as complying with the law during that period the court would consent to nol pros the case. Jim Dance, colored, who obtained a divorce from his wife some time since on statutory grounds, was be fore Trial Justice Spence Tuesday morning on a charge of non support of his children by the divorces wife. It appeared that the mother had in sisted on keeping and supporting the children when Dance first divorced her but that now she wished to be rid of them, for the purpose, the court seemed Inclined to think, of getting married again. A father un der the law Is legally bound to sup port his children, but as it seemed that Dance had had good ground for divorce and that the woman's desire to put them off on Dance was rather sudden, Judge Spence said that she might send two of the children to Jim but that she would hare to take care of the other two herself. Ivy Hawkins, colored, for assault was fined $5 and costs. L. E. Jennings Monday for falling to park his car at the approach of a fire truck was fined $5 and costs. Howard Carlln and Frank Wood, New Yorkers now working on a State road construction force in this sec tion, found guilty of assault on Wal ter Johnson, were fined by Trial Jus tice Spence Monday, Carlln in the sum of $10 and Wood, $5, each de fendant bearing half the costs in ad f ) to t'o I 1 UEV. W. G. i ! ( j ; L J Evangelist of the Baptist State Mission Board who is assisting Rev. R. F. Hall in the revival at Calvary Baptist Church during the simultaneous evangelistic campaign now on in the city. UPHAM SPEAKS AT R0ADSMEETING Points With Pride to North Carolina Achievement in Koad Building as Example . of Modern Methods. Greenville, S. C, April 17. Road building now is reaching its rightful place in scientific development, Charles M. Upham, State highway en gineer of North Carolina, declared here today in outlining the plans fol lowed in Ms state's $65,000,000 pro gram of highway construction to the joint session of the United States Good Roads Association and the Bankhead National Highway Associ ation. "The solution of providing a means for traffic or the construction of a highway system in every state," said the engineer, "necessarily de pends upon the local conditions in that state, and consequently, the method of solution will be different in the different states, and depend on the economic, industrial and social conditions existing. "Practically every state in the Un ion has its cities and counties of high and intensive development, as well as its .sparsely developed sec tions. To build Immediately a sys tem of hard surface roads through out an entire state, when the demand for such roads is only within the highly developed sections, would be money wantonly wasted. "Within the highly developed sec tions, no doubt the construction of a hard surface pavement is the cor rect and only answer. In the urban and outlying districts, where the traffic is less Intense, a lighter and less expensive road may adequately serve the needs of traffic. This less expensive road should be located, graded and drained upon the same standards customary with hard sur face construction, so that when the country, through which the road passes, develops to the extent that traffic requires a heavy duty road, there will only be the necessity of adding the hard surface In order to adequately provide for the heavy traffic which may at some future time make demands on this high way." In sections farther from developed centers, graded roads, with proper drainage structures, constructed up on hard surface standards, will take care ot rural traffic, he said, adding that as demands increased the high way could be gradually raised in type. "North Carolina has three distinct geographical divisions," he contin ued. "The mountain section Is made up of farming and mining industries, with numerous resorts so located as to take advantage of the wonderful scenery; the Piedmont section, or foothills,, with its farms and other Industries highly developed; and the flat coastal plaln, with its excellent farms and Industries claiming great attention for their transportation needs. "These three great geographical divisions are divided Into one hun- dred counties, and many more cen-! ters of population. It Is the work of the state highway commission to con-j nect these centers with a highway, system, or a means of transportation; which will adequately provide for the J Class or iranic wnicn now exists anu Is expected In the near future." The progressive type of construc tion plan Is followed, he asserted, which ultimately will mean a com plete system of paved highways, de velopment proceeding as traffic de mands Increase. "North Carolina has constructed many progressive type roads," Mr. Upham stated. "It already has com pleted its cycle by placing hard sur faces on roads which were previous ly graded and stabilized with select ed soil material, although st present It lifli a r ii'ion aMo iiiiirti'-o ( prad- HUGHES Mwmuyf"""-" NEW NATIONAL INDOOR TENNIS CHAMP Mrs. B. C. Cole, 2nd, of North Andover, Mass., who has annexed the title of National Indoor tennis champion in the singles. 8he was also winner of the women's doublet with Mrs. Oodfrey. Her new honort wr won at the Tennis tourna ment held recently at Chestnut HDJ, Mass.. In which tome of the 9mot prominent start of the net world competed. RAILWAY EMPLOYES A ITER HIGHER WAGES Chicago, April 17. One railroad union haa started a movement among rail employes for higher wages that Is expected by United States railway labor board members to become gen eral by the middle of summer. This unoin, made up of railway and steamship clerks, freight, handlers, and express and station employes numbering about 200,000 and affect ing about 50,000 more, Is complet ing negotiations to ask the carriers for a return of rates of pay in effect prior to July 1921. LOOK INTO CHARGES MADE BY DUDDING Raleigh, April 17. The State Pri son Board In session today Is consid ering the charges of cruelty made by E. E. Duddlng of the Prisoners' Be lief Society of Washington, D. C. (UVKS A MILLION' TO PKVKLOI K.-VST KENTUCKY Frankfort, Ky., April 17. E. O. Robinson, capitalist, has given Jl, 000,000 and 16,000 acres of land for the educational and agricultural de velopment of the mountains of east ern Kentucky. ed roads in the newly developed lo calities. It ta maintaining as sub grade highways a large mileage of selected soils roads and thus afford ing a means of traffic to a great por tion of the state. "The completion of about 400 miles of construction tn 1922, many miles of which was hard surface, add ed to progressive road types, demon states the complete and satisfac tory manner in which the progressive type roads are caring for the traffic In North Carolina and shows that this method Is no longer in the expe rimental stage, but that this means of constructing highways Is econom ically jfnd practically sound and 1b highly recommended where the geo graphical. Industrial, social and eco nomic conditions are as found I North Cnff.!'"t." t ' C ' " - 1 ml ,. ' FORTY YEARS AS A DENTIST l)r. J. If. White lVrliaps Only Ifcn tist In Htato With Hucli lU-cord for Continoiis Service In One Town Dr. J. H. White of Elizabeth City holds a record for continuous ser vice in one town of which perhaps no other North Carolina dentist can boast. On Saturday night of last week he completed the fortieth year of his stay in Elizabeth City, to which town he came immediately after com pleting his course in dentistry and be.aan to practice his profession. To speak of Dr. White as a sue-, cess in the much overworked use of the term would be inadequate. The other members of the dental profes sion, however, voiced the sentiment of friends far and neaj-, when they tendered him a turkey dinner at the Southern Hot"! Saturday evening and with Dr. S. W. (trcgory as spokes man told him something of the re gard in which ha is held in the pro fession and as a man. Dr. White, to whom the dinner was entirely n surprise, was deeply appreciative of the tribute from his co-workers, said: "Gentlemen, this occasion touches mo very deeDlv. I reeard this the highest honor I ever had paid me. For a man to have evidence of es teem and high regard from his co laborers is certainly gratifying in the extreme. I do not use the word competitors, that Vs not the proper term in our relations with each other. I think co-laborers Is much more fitting. "The old adage "a prophet Is not without honor save in his own coun try," chows how unusual It is for a man to be honored by those who know him best and are thoroughly acquainted with all hia short com ings .and faults. "Of the forty years I have practic ed denistry since I left college every bit of that work has been done right here in this town. I believe I flin the only man In this state who has practiced denistry continously for forty years in one town, and has never practiced at all in any other place a day since graduation. "I could have ia great deal to say about the many changes that I have seen taken , place in the practice of denistry. In that time. Hut as they are so Insignificant In companion with the number that will doubtless take place in the next forty years, I wll not have a thing to say about that. "I have been so rash as to think the time will come when people will look to the dentist for health and longevity more than to the physi cian who will be resorted to then about as we do the preacher when there Is scarcely any hope left. This perhaps you will regard as a start ling statement. "But, gentlemen, think of the wonderful changes you have seen take place in the public regard and esteem for denistry In the last ten years, or would It be more correct to say, In the last five years. If we advance as much In the next twenty five years as we have in last few, who will undertake to say what place we will not occupy In the science of prevention of disease and the prolongaton of life. In the flor al garden of hope there grows a balm lor every woe. "While I do not propose to be through with the fight yet, this progress will have to be largely i through the efforts of the younger members of the profession. "Gentlemen, I wish It were In my power to express to you, as I would like to, my high appreciation of your kind thoughtfulness for me, and the high compliment and honor you have conferred upon me tonight. "It would not have been so re markable ior you to have laid flow ers upon my grave, but to have hand ed them to me while I can see and enjoy them, and experience such evi dence of your kindly feeling for me, indeed touches my heart." Besides Dr. White the dentists .present were: Dr. S. W. Gregory, Dr. M. M. Harris, Dr. H. S. Willey, and Dr. Wlliam Parker. GERMANS ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAINS (nv Th AMix-ltled 1'rMl Paris, April 17 A Havas dispatch from Essen reports two unsuccessful attempts last night to wreck trains conveying French and Belgian cabi net ministers who are inspecting the Ruhr. No Inujrles resulted. PRESIDENT AGREES WITH CHAIRMAN GRAY Washington. D. C, April 17. The President was said at the White House to believe that E. H. Gary, chairman of the board of the United States Steel Corporation, was quite correct in his statement to the cor poration's stockholders yesterday that serious labor shortage was threatened through operations of a restrictive Immigration law. BERLIN AUTHORITY ON RHINE ABOLISHED Cobleni April 17. "The Commls unrlnt of the emdre.. which Is the Berlin government's highest authorl-i ty In the Rhlneland ha been abolish ed by the Interallied Rl 'rf .md High C(nmil'hn. GOOD CROWDS AT FIRST SERVICES C o n g r e g u lions Monday Night Heard Aide and .In spiring Sermons by Visiting Ministers. Good congregations and bright prospects for a successful revival are Indicated in the reports from the va rious pimtors of the first services of the campaign. Every pastor gives a glowing re port of Monday night's services. The following from Rev. N. H. D. Wilson, pastor of the First Methodist Church is typical: "Quite a goodly congregation greeted rr. McLarty at his opening service at the First Methodist Church. Ho preached an excellent sermon on 'Seasons of Refreshing from the Presence of the Lord.' Be sides inspiring congregational sing ing, Mrs. J. W. Foreman sang a solo and the children of the interme diate department had a special num ber. At the !):30 hour Monday Dr. McLarty spoke very effectively on prayer." "I have never heard his equal as a missioner, and he Is one of the best speakers I have ever had the pleas ure of listening to," says Rev. O. F. Hill, lector of Christ Church, of Dr. John Hartley. "We had a good con gregation Monday night and the meetiirg at Christ Church Is steadily growing in interest." Dr. A. Paul Bagby won the hearts of his hearers at Illackwell Memor ial and the outlook for a successful meeting Is most encouraging, accord ing to Dr. James H. Thayer, pastor of the church. Rev. L. B. Padgett of Farmville, leading the old, fami liar songs, is making the music as much a part of the service as the sermon. Rev. L. B. Hayes and his singer, A. N. Fisher, are both on hand for the services at City Road and the service Monday night Is reported as having been greatly enjoyed by the large congregation attending. At the First Baptist Church the crowd that hoard Mr. Templeman Monday night was very nearly as large as that of Sunday, and mem bers of the church are expressing gratification at the opportunity the meeting gives them of hearing their pastor more often and of getting bet ter acquainted with him. At Calvary Baptist Church Rev. W. G. Hughes was heard by a good con gregation, and Mr. Hughes will con tinue to speak at Calvary every night throughout the campaign. Tuesday morning he spoke at the chapel ext ercises of the grammar school, first winning the undivided attention of his hearers, and then bringing them a message of real helpfulness and in spiration while their young minds were alert and keen. TWILIGHT SEASON TO OPEN ON TIL! Basehall Players and Fain Happy at News Thai Baxter Properly Again Available for Ballground. That Twilight League baseball will start on time in Elizabeth City this season seemed assured Tuesday when the news spread that W. M. Baxter, who has allowed baseball fans and players for a long period of years to use the Main street ball park with out one cent of payment in the way of rent, had again given his permis sion for such use of the grounds for at least the beginning of the season. This free use of the grounds, Mr. Baxter says, will be continued until such use Interferes with his plans to lay off the present ball park Into lots and streets. Mr. Baxter not only consents to such free use of the grounds, it is' stated, but does so freely and gladly,' with real pleasure In being able once more to make this contribution to the happpIneHs of Elizabeth City baseball fandom. Plans are accordingly under way to open the baseball season in Eliza beth City at an early date. It is hoped that by the time Mr. Baxter needs the present park plans for an adequate baseball park In the Com mander property recently acquired by the school board will have been worked out. DISCUSSES RAILWAYS WITH THE PRESIDENT U'a&hlnptnn Anrll 1 7 T .Atrial a tlon to make effective the plans be ing worked out by the Interstate Uommerc eConvmlselon for console tlu.ttnn Jinft rniHnnal tinorvlalnn rP the railroad systems of the country win oe unaertaten m tne nexi uon gress. Chairman Cummins of the senate Interstate commerce commit tee said today after a discussion of the railroad problem with the Pres- laem. fOTTON MARKET New York, April 17. Bpot cotton closed steady, middling, 28.76 Fu luTes, closing bid. May 2S.53,' July 27.77, October 24.(3, December 21. 40, January 24.18. New York April 17. Cotton fu tures opened this morning at the following levels: May 28.23; July 27. 48; October 24.87; Dec. 24.33; Jan. 24.05.