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THE WEATHER ' Cloudy weather with showers Tuesday. Iot much change in temper- ature. Moderate winds. CIRCULATION o r J ... 1 1 (J Saturday 1,8 17 Copies . VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 192: EIGHT PAGES. NO.112 All Prospects Indicate Record Vote Tuesday Keen Interest in Three-Cornered Mayoralty Contest and Sharp Fights and Close Vote Indicated in Some of Ward Contests for Aldermanic Seats Prospects continue to indicate a record vote In the municipal election Tuesday. Interest, of course, centers in the mayoralty contest, as this Is the only contest in which every voter may ex press his choice. The question of who is to sit on the next Board of Aldermen will be fought out In the respective wards. All candidates' are now aligning their forces for the final test of strength at the polls Tuesday. .Mayor Goodwin's friends are now leaving no stone unturned to insure Ills re-election. They admit that he made a mistake in announcing early in the campaign that he would not consider offering himself as a candi date in this campaign, but they point out that his reluctance to continue in harness for another two years was altogether natural and they declare that it would be a Bhame and a grave mistake to turn down a man who has put aside his personal preferences from a sense of duty and who Is un doubtedly In better position than any other candidate to carry out the city's plan of acquiring its own utilities, merely because of a tactical blunder on his part. At the same time the friends of Aubrey McCabe continue their ag gressive campaign, declaring that the affairs of the city would be as safe with McCabe as they have been with Goodwin, and that It Is unfair, when a young man has gone to the trouble and expense of entering the cam paign on the definite assurance that Goodwin would not be a candidate for re-election, to give him the cold shoulder as soon as Goodwin changes Ills mind. Dr. Fearing's campaign Is less ag gressive and spectacular than that of the other two candidates, but aside from his personal following he will have the advantage of appealing to those voters who In the heat of the fight between McCabe and Goodwin are unable to choose between them. He is out today with a program that will appeal to a large number of vot er8. . , M Following are the members of the present administration in addition to Mayor Goodwin who now offer them selves for re-election: First Ward L. R. Foreman. Second Ward L. W. Anderson, C. W. Stevens. Third Ward P. C. Cohoon, W. H. Jennette. Fourth Ward W. H. Weatherly, Elden M. Davis. Following are the new candidates: First Ward L. S. Gordon, J. C. Perry, C. N. Morgan, A. R. Nichol son and L. B Armstrong. Second Ward D. Ray Kramer, J. D. Fitchett, J. C. Modlin. Third Ward J. J. Hughes. Fourth Ward M. W. Ferebee and J. W. Ballance. Polls Tuesday morning open at 6:30 and close at 6:30 in the even ing. Particular attention Is called to the fact that polls are not open from sun to sun, as Is the case in State and Federal elections. The polling places are as follows: First Ward, Mann tc Gibbs' Store on Poindexter Street, between Burgess and Pearl. Second Ward: Store back of Wil liams' Store on Harney street. Third Ward: Whltehurst's Store, on Fearing street. Fourth Ward: City Market. The registrars In order named, are: Vernon Mann, J. B. Walston, "W. M. Hinton, W. D. Shepard. The poll holders for the First Ward are W. E. McCoy and J. B. Culpepper; Second Ward, E. M Stevens, and J. W. Wilcox; Third "Ward,- Gld Pendleton, and B. F. Spence; Fourth Ward, Mrs. Bessie ftewart and W. G. Pool. SHRINERS STUNTS ON TUESDAY NIGHT The Elizabeth City Shrine Club leaves here Tuesday night In special Pullmans to attend the spring cere monial of Sudan temple In Washing ton. Prior to their departure the lo cal Shrlners will meet in their club . rooms in the Robinson Building with the candidates and then will proceed in a body to the train. The march to the train will be in terrupted enroute on a prominent morner in order to put the candidates through a series of stunts which ll novitiates are required to go through. Inasmuch as the class is small this year, the stunts will be just a little more elaborate, and the public will, as usual, enjoy It all. MGU.UtAXTOKS WILL MKKT TOXKiHT AT N OVI-OCK Elizabeth City Chautauqua guar antors will meet this evening at 8 o'clock in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. The first advance represen tative, Miss Ruth Cann, will be pres ent. SCIENTISTS BACK WITH MENAGERIE Charleston, 8. C. May 14. The yacht Noma arrived yesterday from Oalnpnson Islands with scientists !.ird who have returned to Amer 1c wish a menaireHe. SIX KILLED IN AIRPLANE FALL (Bj The AsMclttftf l'rev) Amiens. France, May 14. Six persons, including a New Yorker named Schwab, were killed today in a fall from a passenger airplane at Conty, 13 miles Bouth of here. Pasquotank Girls Are Real leaders District Home Demonstration Agent is Greatly Pleased With Their Work "Nowhere have I seen finer mate rial for leadership than in these Pas quotank County Club girls," said Miss Pauline Smith, home demon stration district agent, Saturday, with enthusiasm, when the Biscuit Contest had closed and the prizes had been awarded. Each girl made and baked her bis cuits at the Gas Company's office, then with her handiwork displayed before her, she stood erect and fear less, and told the crowd Jusf how she did it. She was Judged then on the perfection of her biscuits, first of all, and also on her ability to explain how the work was done. The judges were Miss Smith, Miss Helen Gaither, Per quimans county agent, and Miss Eliza Knight, Chowan county agent. The winners, Jemima James of Sound Neck and Elizabeth Fletcher of Jen nings School, will have the advantage of the Girls Short Course in Raleigh this summer, or If they are unable to go Beulah Lowe of Small's School and Ina Brothers of Brothers School, will go as alternate's. No event In a long time has done so much to bring the interest of the town and the county together as did Saturday's Biscuit Contest. There was great enthusiasm in the Gas Com pany's office during the morning while the biscuits were being made and cooked. At noon the girls ate their lunch in the Chamber of Commerce Rest Rooms and enjoyed ice cream and cake as treat from the Chamber of Commerce. Then a number of the Elizabeth City girls came to the Community Building and put on a basketball game for the visitors. When this was over the girls went to the auditorium In the eame building where Miss Mar cle Albertson, Pasquotank County home demonstration agent, an nounced the two prize winners and the alternates, and also presented each girl with a measuring cup and measuring spoon. President Gurney P. Hood and Secretary R. C. Job of the Chamber of Commerce spoke to the girls in behalf of that organization. Cashier Marshall H. Jones of the First & Cit izens National Bank, as representa tive of the city's banks, made a short talk. Rev. S. H. Templeman, repre senting the Klwanlans, spoke, and Miss Anne Melick gave a delightful reading, "Diddy,- Dumps and Tot." The two prises were given by the banks and the Klwanlans, the meas uring cups by Woolworth's Store, and the measuring spoons by a friend. The home demonstration agent and the girls are appreciative of ev ery courtesy rendered. Manager Stalllngs of the Gas Company, the speakers on the afternoon program, C. W. Melick. Mrs. T. C. Jones, Mis3 Catherine Albertson, Mrs. Mae Sam ple, and a number of others were es pecially kind and thoughtful. FOUND HANDCUFFED AND UNCONSCIOUS Petersburg, May 14. James Grif fin, owner of a bathing resort here, who mysteriously disappeared last Monday night while driving along the road in an automobile, was found to day in a gravel pit, handcuffed and unconscious. Physicians at the hospital here said that he was suffering from fear and exposure and that his condition is se rious. Griffin had been threatened, sup posedly, by a gang of bootleggers whom he barred from his resort, and since the finding of his abandoned machine every available officer, scores of citizens and members of the Ku Klux Klan have been searching for him almost constantly. Griffin is said to be a member of the local Klan. WILLARD AND FIRPO TO FIGHT JUNE 11TH (Br Th Awlltfd Pr) New York, May 14. The proposed fight between Jess Wlllard and Luis Flrpo drew a step nearer today when Willard agreed to meet the South American on June 13, providing sat Ir.f.ictory terms were arranged. KNITTING CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST ON. ;"i i if '0 m ' It - - I i - Wf 1 w -.,jk k. ft-.- i. fyMy -i' I :':?-V-S: ' if , " :mmini -j ...i, M. ,,,1 , , , WVv,V X, , . Click! Click! Click! the needles go. The Insurance contest which opened at Atlantic City Included twenty-three women of h' ages, from eighteen to eighty. PIRATES SEIZE CHINESE SHIP European Passengers Among Those Terrorized and Kohhed When Crew Is. Ov erpowered. (K The AsMX'litnl Preis) Hongkong, May 14. European paasengers were among those terror ized and robbed when the Chinese steamer, Taishun, was seized near Swatow Saturday bjrpirates who dis guised as passengers overpowered the crew, sailed the ship for nearly 24 hours at night without lights, and Anally left her yesterday at the mouth of a small creek, transferring their loot which is valued at $60, 000. BENSON'S SHOWS TO OPEN TONIGHT Everything is Jn readiness on the grounds at Fourth end Walnut streeU for the opening of the Jaones M. Benson Shows who open their week's engagement here tonight. The erstwhile quiet plot of ground has ibeen turned into a ibusy city of bright new canvas theaters, large up to date richly painted riding and amusement devices and many fronts of electrical embellishments. "Under the capable eye of Mr. Beiuton everything has ibeen done possible, to assure patrons and espe cially ladles and children comfort and personal welfare,' says the management. "Dogs land goats, oodles of them, cute ponies Iboth for the pony show and the Coney 'Island Pony Track, the celebrated flsh lady, the old plantation comedians, singers, and dancers, the beautiful operetta elec trical show, "Tiny Tim" the small est horse alive nd all the other acts and showa are ready to present their wonderful and varied program. "For a thriller par excellence nothing better could be Imagined than Miss1 May Collier, world's champion lady high diver, the greatest dare devil1 stunt of the day. iMIss Collier twice dally after noon at three and nights at ten thirty, Tvlfl give a program of trick and 'fancy diving and then cllmibln a ladder ninety-seven feet high will dive to a Bhallow tank of water. "MuSIc of the outdoor circus na ture will ,be furnished for the var ious attractions 'by Nasca'g Concert Band, and twice dally free programs of excellent variety will be given down town." REVIVAL IV PIUMJKKSS AT PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS A revival meeting started Sunday, as announced, at the Pentecostal Ho liness mission on Oak street. The services will continue for two weeks with preaching each evening at 7:30 by Rev. H. T. Spence of Bridgevllle, Delaware, assisted by his sister, Mrs. Hattle Edge, who will arrive during the week. The subject Tuesday ev ening Is "A New Fashion," Text, Mark 2: 12. All are welcome. WILL MKKT TOXKiHT. The Euzellans. Mrs. J. D. Sykes' Sunday School class of the First Bap tist Sunday school, will meet this ev ening at 8 o'clock at Miss Edna Stokely's on North Road street All members are urged to be there. Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Ferehee. ac companied by Mrs. Homer Foreman of Buffalo, motored to Norfolk Sat urday and returned Sunday. MANY AHE DEAD IN COLORADO STORM Colorado City, Texas, May 14. Eight bodies of persons killed in a tornado near here early today were brought here and It was reported that sever al more bodies were on the way. Twelve persons have been counted dead and there is no official estimate of the num ber killed, relief workers re porting finding dead and in jured at almost every scattered farm house and ranch for miles southeast of here. J. H. Green, Red Cross chairman, said the dead would probably reach 50 APRIL COTTON SHOWS INCREASE OVER LAST Washington. D. C, May 14. Cot ton consumed during April amounted to 577,396 bales of lint and 52.192 lintera compared with 623,105 bales of lint and 49,287 linters in April of last year, the Census Bureau an nounced today. BASEBALL TODAY The Cnhs and Red Men .will open the Twilllght League Ibaseball season in a game this afternoon beginning at five-thirty. : With new players on each of (these teams and with good weather to practice In last 'week, prospects are good for a hard fought game I this afternoon. Ladies are admitted to the game free. The general admission 1s only fifteen cents. The second game of the series will toe played on Wednesday be- Itween the Elks and Cubs. FIRST TWINS BORN AT COMMUNITY HOSPITAL The first twins born In the Com munity Hospital arrived there Mon day morning. They are girls and they belong to Mr. and Mrs. W. I). Saunders of Weeksvllle. Their mother is doing well and their father Is exceedingly proud of them. Miss Aycock, superintendent, is to have the honor of naming the young la dies and is spending her spare time, which of course is limited, trying to think of names distinguished and dlst'nctlve enough for them. Mrs. Walter Jones, Route Three, City underwent an operation Sunday. George Rouighten of Columbia, re turned home Saturday after being at the hoHpltal for medical treat ment. J. C Spence of East Fearing street is Improving and ex,pects to return home in a few days. J. J. Jones of Parsonage street will go home In a few days. Mrs. L. S. Blades ft East Main street returned home Friday after having' her tonsils rem'oved. Mrs. F. C. Cuthrell of Cimden un derwent an operation Friday. Harry Gray of Hatteras returned home Friday after having his tonsils removed. " W. L. MoClease of Columbia is at the hospital for medical treatment. Mrs. E. W .Williams of South Mills Is Improving and will return home soon. George Pappendlck of Pearl street who has been operated on for appen dicitis will return home Tuesday. Mrs Claud Perry of Pennsylvania A ren us It improving. Mrs. Lula Hewitt of South Road street is getting long nicely after mn operation. Miss Bosele Gregory of Front I street is Improving. Shipping May Peas j Quite Rapidly Now! First Carload Went Saturday, Acreage is Large but CroF Short and Late Pasquotank May pea shipments arc expected to begin moving freely bv the last of the week. The crop is re ported very short, frost having done considerable damage early In the sea- nn nn.l K.t ,!.... ...L..r I low temperatures in May have fur- lrm atternoon ,300 feet from ther reduced the yield, with the 'where the remnants of his biggest acreage in the history of the , , . , . May pea industry here, shipments are! Ofiarred Clothing were found. not expected to reach last year's to tal. Not only is the crop short. It Is also the latest May pea crop on rec ord. I'p to Monday only one rarlot shipment had been made from Eliza beth City as compared with 40 car loads up to May 12 last year. The price so far is high, but not hih considering the very short crop. Many farmers have had their yields cut so short that they will make no profits on this year's peas. The first carload to move from Elizabeth City left here Saturday and sold on northern markets at an aver age price of $5.50 a basket. Tills car was shipped by R. C. Abbott, who is preparing to ship another car Tues day. Fifteen cars passed through here Saturday made up at Plymouth, Roper, Mackeys, Wesover and Eden ton. Brock & Scott made a small ship ment Saturday which sold on north ern markets at $fi. Spence and Hollowell also made a small shipment Saturday. Prices, they report, are from $5 to 6.25 a basket, the latter price for good stock, which is very hard to get. Many of the peas shipped now are immature and some that are well ma tured are not filled out. 'TWAS DEAR DAY FOR WASHINGTON DARKY To land in Elizabeth City with around 70 in his pocket and to find himself at night stripped to his last penny, and then to have fines aggre gating $60 Imposed on him !n record er's court was the fate of Greenleaf Purnell, Washington County darky, who was before Trial Justice Spence Monday morning on a charge of pros titution and of carrying concealed weapons. On the latter charge Pur nell was at first given a road sen tence which was lster changed to a fine of $50 and costs. On the pros titution charge he was fined $10 and costs along with the woman in the case, one Mahala Sessoms. Greenleaf says that he came to Elizabeth City and stopped at the house of Pattie Parker. There he met Mahala Sessoms In the after noon and In the evening went out In the country for some liquor. He went back to Pattie's, went to bed and when he woke up his money, which had been In his drawer leg under the garter was gone. He says he was awakened by some one's pulling off his shoe and that he opened his eyes to find a woman named Virgle in the room. "I grabbed my leg," says Greenleaf, "but that's all I grabbed. My money was gone." Vergle tear fully denied that she had been In the roosa and the court didn't think there was enough evidence to hold her. Mercer Chory, young white man. drew three months on the roads for possession and transporting, a fine of $10 for being drunk and disorderly and an additional fine In the same amount for resisting an officer. Chory was arrested while under the influence of liquor and staged a fight with Officer Roughton on the way to the police station. He was guilty of transporting and possesion on the evidence of a coca cola bottle of li quor found on him when arrested. Notlnf an appeal, Mr. Chory was held for Superior Court under a $200 bond. DEMONSTRATIONS IN LONDON ON SUNDAY London, May 14. Labor organiza tions yesterday staged demonstra tions here protesting against the Ilrltlfh ultimatum to Russia. SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE City Road Enrollment - - -340 Attendance 348 Percentage 102 Calvary Itaiitlst Enrollment - 223 i Attendance 14!) .Percentage 67 I - Corinth Baptist , Enrollment 28 1 Attendance 166 Percentage 5fl I lierea Baptist Enrollment 324 Attendance 176 Percentage 54 First Methodist Enrollment - 699 Attendance 570 Percentage 81 Halls Creek McthodM Enrollment 77 Attendance - 0 Percentage - - 52 Mt. HermoB Methodist Enrollment Attendance -120 87 72 558 442 79 Percentage First BM Enrollment Attendance I'ercentage FIND UNIFORM OF MISSING OFFICER Search (Joes on for Police man Crifiin, Missing Since Early Last Friday Morning When Kidnapped. Cleveland, May 14. The patrolman's body was found Cleveland, May 14 With the find-' ing today of burned pieces of a po liceman's uniform, club and revolver holster, Identified as the property of Patrolman Dennis Griffin, missing since early last Friday morning, ev ery available officer was sent out to hunt for a freshly dug grave. The finding of these articles de stroyed all hope that the policeman is alive. Eveiy road is being watched for a trace of John Whitfield who kid napped Grllfin while the latter was taking him to jail Friday. SIX DROWNED IN LEAP FROM TRESTLE Rocky Island, III., May 14. Three men and three women were drowned last night in the Mississippi river at Campbells Island, Just east of here, when they Jumped from the trestle to avoid being struck by a street car, control of which had been lost by the operator. The young persons were walking back to East Mollne after a dance at the Island. Only one body was re covered. KILLED WHEN AUTO COLLIDE WITH TRAIN Henderson, May 14. Mrs. W. G. Coleman and Miss Nannie Fleming of Macon, N. C, were killed here last night In a train and auto colli sion, and R. D. Fleming and Thomas Fleming were injured. AVIATORS' BODIES FOUND IN MOUNTAINS San Diego. May 14. The remain, of Col. Francis Marshall and Lieut. Charles Weber, aviators, missing since December 7, were found yester day in the mountain fastness where, their plane was wrecked. SOCIALISM ISSUE IN QUEENSLAND NOW Sydney. N. 9. W., May 14 Queensland, which has had labor government for eight years, has ibeen thrown, without a shadow of warning, Into what promises to be the bitterest campaign In its history by the action of Premier Theodore In caUimg a general election. The prime minister's latest move was a complete surprise to his sup porters and opponents, as the elections would not have ibeen due until October in the ordinary course of events. Among the reasons which have been advanced for this action by po litical observers Is that he has found that the strenuous nea-oihitinn j which have Ibeen In progress to es- taituisft unity in the opposition are not completed yet. Increased un eminlovment hehween nnw a n H fV. f n Iber is inevitable, and the Labor party would! stand a hetter chance of success now than In the autumn, other observers say. Events Immediately siicceeHlnf the Premier's announcement mnba it seem Hkelv that the eWtinn -wilt iHo fought along the Issue of Socialism anu anii-soclallsm. WINNERS IN IXM'AL CONTEST SPEAK IN GKKKNVILLK M,lss Dorothy Chappell and Elgin White, winners In the recent debat ing and recitation contests at the Elizabeth City High School, will be In Greenville on Wednesday, May 16, to compete In a declamation and recitation contest to Ibe held there. Among the schools represented In this contest are: Greenville, Wash ington, and New Bern. A prize of ten dollars will be given the wlqners In each contest. i.MIss Hollingsworth, with the Eliz abeth City contestants, it aves Eliza beth City Monday night. COVKRT-HOtMiK Miss Gladys Hogge and Mr. Clauds L. Covert, both of Norfolk, were mar ried Sunday morning t 9:30, at the home of the register of deeds, O. W. Brothers, by Rev. K. L. Sawyer. COTTON MARKET New York. -May 14. Spot cotton, closed steady, at 2C.45. Middling ,basl h 100 point increase over the osenlng. Futures, closing told, May 26.23, July 24.97, Oct 23.00, Dec. 22.68, Jan. 22.31, March 22.38. New York, May 14. Cotton fu tures opened here today at the fol lowing levels: May 25.42, July 24.34, October 22.60. December 22 34, January 22.00, March 22.03.
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