(Hid Tuesday. Probably * * * crj. ,\o change temp. * ******* THE WEATHER. * . ^ Partly cloudy toniplit * f^lI K-rlICIRCLL.4TIOS Saturday * scattered thiindershou? * ><^25 ^ J ' 1.600 Copies * * ? ?******? VOL. XIH. " FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NOKlil CAKULINA. MONDAY EVRNINU, .H l.V 10, 19J:). mri? paci-h \n ir^. Sykes Now On Way Here Affectionate Meeting Between Mother and Son at Raleigh^Hotel Monday Morning. (By Tb* AMorUUd Vrtm.) Raleigh, July 16.?John D. Svkes, Jr., former city collection teller of The First and Citizen* National Bank of Elizabeth City. arrested two weeks ago in Montana on a charge of em bezzling about $25,000 of the bank's funds, today was released on $10. 000 bond fnrnished by friends in Elizabeth City. Young 8ykes was brought back to North Carolina by two 'Montana of ficers arriving here late Friday af ternoon. As soon as Sykes was released from Jail he hastened to a local ho tel to see his mother who was wait ing for hiQi. It was an affectionate meeting between mother and son. Neither desired to talk to a reporter declaring they would like to be left alone. It is understood that Sykes accom panied by his mother and a'fewl friends will leave for Elizabeth City i this afternoon. Sykes' surety for his appearance at the October term of Federal Court In Elizaibeth City for trial reached | Raleigh yesterday but assistant dis- i t^ic: attorney Briggs did not autli- j oriz?* the release of the prisoner until | he had time to examine the document 1 this morning. The bond was signed 1 by eight prominent citizens who qual- j ified with a total $42,000. Yachts Tested in Sail to Mackinac l.onu?*t Fre^ti Water Race In Ihe World ((cuius on <;reat ? Lakes. July 21 Chicago, July 16.? Yacht racing honors on the Great Lakes* will be at stake when the starting gun booms here July 21 for the C'hioogo-Mac kinac Island race, the longest fresh water race In the world. Competition this year for the Mac kinac eup, the most coveted Groat Lakes racing trophy, will be even more spirited than during the 19 years' history of the race, and will take on an international aspect with at least one and probably several Canadian entries From the 'break In the harbor at Chicago to the end of the 331 mile run at Mackinac Island, a course stretching almost the entire length of Lake 'Michigan, yachtnien concede that the winning of this race calls for the maximum in seamanship and puts to the test a, yaclit's best sailing qualities. One Canadian bottojn, the flagship of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club at Toronto, has Indicated it will start in the race, and others from the Do minion are expected to bo on the line. Preparations for this year's con test recalls to old yachtsmen the firm Mackinac race held In 1904 when the final winner was not decided until ihe last few minutes of the long sail. In that race the Vencedor, once de fender of the Columbia Yacht Club, -beat out the Vanenna by less than ?four minutes, the Vanenns losinar out when she lost her headsails after fighting'almost bow to bow with the Vencedor more than half the dis tance up Lake Michigan.The last day's run of this race was fought out between the two yachts in wind y-whlch frequently reached gale ftrength. FRANCE TO STAND EXACTLY BY TREATY (By Tti? Aunrlilnl I Pari*. July 16.?Premier Poin carc'* address at Senlis yesterday *a< rnado In reiteration of Francc'* policy and was not Intended a* a r?- I ply to the recent' reparation* speech of Prime Minister Baldwin of Or*>at Britain, It was explained in official circles today. The entire address with the ex&fT' lion of a few paragraphs was written Ik fore the British Premlor spoke, It was said. Senlls, Prance. July 16.?Premier Polncare made It plain In a apeech her* voMerday that It Is France's In tention to stand for absolute execu tion of the treaty of Versatile*, re lu?lnv to change her reparations pol icy. FAR A WAV HORN HO OFKKIU4 KAHY f NO < HKAP IJVIXCJ J,ondon. July 16.?British North' Borneo appears to be a* near pafu- j di*e es It i* possible for the tax bnr-1 d?>ned man of today to get. No Income tax is collected In the district. There Is ? only a nominal land tax. railway fare* have not been Increased sine*' 1911, tobacco Is cheaper thsn In any other place in.', the world, chickens sell for a shil ling apiece and whiskey for eight shillings a bottle. Mlaaes Larlnla Gray and Susan Mldgett of Salvo are rlaltlng Mlssl Kthel Pugh on Cherry street. Two Elevated ('.at> C.ra?-J> lntt> Subway New York. July 1??. ? Two wooden coaches of a crowded elevated tfain were telescoped and crushed todav. Injuring seven passengers. when It crashed Into the rear of an empty subway train In the Bronx. The collision occurred opposite the Interborough parking yards where the ele vated and subway both travel on an overhead structure. Boy Arrested For Trying Wreck Train And Tension Increases in Steel and Coal Strike in Nova Scotia Today Sydney. N\ S.. July 16.?Tension j in the.steel and coal strike area in creased today when the authorities revealed that a rail had been re moved on the Sydney and Loulsburg railway shortly before the passage of t an express and that a boy had been arrested while jamming the switch with a piece of Iron at a spot nearby. The tampering was discovered in i time to prevent an accident. SAM WAS LEERY ABOUT GRAVE DIGGING IN DARK Joe Harvey, colored, charged with being drunk on the streets, wanted . to submit without appearing in court! Monday morning, but County Prose-1 cutor Sawyer sent a police officer af?4 ter the defendant with Instruction* that the police take no more submis-l jslons in drunk cases, as It was the! policy of the County prosecuting of-j fleer to question the defendants in all | such_ cases as to where they got their liquor. Toe, accordingly. was brought into court and testifled that I he was given a couple of drinks by j a stranger who came into town on an ' early boat or the early train from Washington, N. C..?Joe was not cer tain which. He was let ofT with a fine of $5 and costs. Sam Dawson, who kicked a young colored girl who stuck out her lip at him, was let off with the costs on this previous good record and on a [promise to restrain himself In the fu ture. SJHfT seemed to be not .ill there Is the upper story and youngs jters on his street seemed to have a habit of teasing him. While warn inc Sam against taking the law Into his own hands aunin. Trial Justice Spence also served notice on the j youngsters of the neighborhood that he would fine any of them In the future caught tearing Sam. Sam is a grave-digger and the court put him on notice that If he waw^up again for a similar ofTense he wouTH-be put to jwork In the cemetery digging graves jat night. "You won't have no more jtrouble from me. Judge," Sam as sured the court. I Lonnie Heckstall and Joseph Wat son. colored youths up for assault, were found guilty and fined, Lonnie In the sum of $10 and costs, and Joseph, 15 and costs. Joe Is the ne gro manager of the Caletv thoat?T and he admitted striking Lonnif af; ter the latter had refused to get out | when ordered to do so and had knocked Joe's glasses off. Vann T). Thomas, colored, for fail ure to list taves. was required to pay and taxed with the costs, t Tells Housewives May Buy Sugar President of National House wives Lifts Boycott Tem porarily Now York. July 14.?Housewives who look part In the recent consum er* strike to force sugar price* down were ml vised today to lift the boy cott and buy sugar with reasonable freedom for canning and other pur poses in a letter from -Mrs. Julian Heath, president of the National Housewives League. CHINA TURNING TO INTENSIVE FARMING Washington. July II.?A remark able development of Intensive agri culture In China Is shown by a spe cial study of farming In that country,: just completed by the Department of Agriculture. | China ha* more than &9.000.000 farmers who. with their families, comprise;80 to 90 percent of the na tion's total population. Of a total area of more than 2,000.000.000 acres of land, about 212,000.000 acres are under cultivation. Including 43,000.000 acres of wet land* used chiefly for rice production, snd 16. 000,000 acres of garden* and fruit orchards. China ranks first among agricul tural countries In the production of rlie. tea. silk, soy .beans and grain sorghums, the report says, and Is sec ond only to the IJnltsd States In to bacco and possibly In wheat produc-. tlon slso. Oa the average China produces more cotton for commercial use thin Egypt and. Including pri>-. ductlon for locsl use. nearly as much ; ?a British India. MRS. CREIGHTON WITH TWO-WEEKS-OLD BABY. Interviewed for the first time since she and her husband were arretted Ave weeks ago. charged with the murder of her brother. Charles Huymond Avery. 19 Mrs Mary Frances Crelgbtou of Newark N J., s?aid she bad no time to think of anything else but ber son, John. Jr., born two weeks ago In the House of Detention. Newsrk. N. J., where this photograph was taken. John Creighton. her husbind. with whoru Hhe is alleged to have killed young Avery by slow poisoning. Is hel 1 lu the county lall directly across the *?reet. SVKES SAYS DICE CAUSED HIS FALL Hut the Tongue of the Wo man in the (laxe Was He sponsible for His Arrest, He Tells News and Observer. (Sunday's News and Obftprrer.) i Dice caused his downfall and (lie tongue of a woman le^ to his arrest. That Is the story told by John D. Sykes. Jr.. former collection teller of the First & Cttlzens National Hank, of Elizabeth City, who Is lodged In iWako County Jail pending receipt of jbond in the sum of $10,000. which has been given In Elizabeth City .and mailed here. He was arrested In the wilds of Montana, after eluding Fed-) era I officers and agents of the bond ing company which stood his surety for 10 months. There Is nothinu new about Sykes' story, but his manner is one seldom seen In a Jail. It would grace any drawing room. The confessed thief of $2.r?.H25.f>4 entrusted to him by the bank, there Is nothing cringing about Sykes. He looks visitors in the eye and talks to them man to man. Hut he Is Just as far from be ing surly or resentful. "The newspapers have had too much to say about me already; they ;tried to make me out a 'two gun man,' who-waoted to shoot somebody up and I won't say anything until I get In court," was Sykes' first reac tion to a request for an Interview. Hut he soon loosened up and told |his story, without any efTort to gloss over the raw spots and apparently without any thought of assigning the blame for what he had done to any other person or to society In gen eral. Dice Wonl?l Not IW?lia\e. | Two years ot gambling had made' Sykes about $6,0*00 short In his ac counts with the bank. "Look for your money where you lost It." the shibboleth by which suckers have al ways been lured on to repent their losses, had been worked to the limit and the dice would not "behave" for Sykes. He saw no way of making good his shortage. He decided to take some more, go off and try to get rich so he could come back and square up. A girl he had known In Elizabeth Cltv was In Great Falls. Montana. Sykes took $ 10.000 and Joined the girl. For 10 months everything went serenely. Sykes, who has always had a penchant for hunting and fishing, lived the kind of life he had dreamed of. and did It as the guest of the Government from which h" had fled. When he first went to Montana, he lived for several months In a surplus cottage built by a crew of the Reclamation Service. The first of this year he began going after that fortune. He purchased a 97 acre ranch In the Lewis and Clarke National Forest, began to raise a crop of grain and made preparations for a silver fox farm. He contracted to buy two pairs of foxes, which were to be delivered In October for $5,000 and hoped to get rich selling the off spring to a fur company at $800 each. About the first of June the girl tired and turned to her people In Elisabeth City. On June 25 Sykes volunteered to guide some tourists through the canyon, and when he returned to camp, he ran Into a "fishing party."? made up of Federal ofTlcers and an agent of the Fidelity ' A Deposit Co., of Baltimore, Sykea't RF.COJtl) ENTRY FOR HORSESHOE ?TC.HIN<; Cleveland. July 16.?Several hua ll WHITE ON VACATION Dr. J. II. White left Monday for a vacation trip of several weeks. bondsmen. Sykes had banker! over $10,000 In | the Stanton Trust if Savings Co., of ifJreat Fulls. Montana, which went defunct through the Glhbons-Deiup sey fight. However, his bank train ing stood him In sood stead and he smelled a rat In time to put bis money where It was safe. When arrented Sykes was able to turn over assets worth about $16,000 to the agent of the bondlna company. He bad $5,000 In the bank. $4,000 In bonds, a ranch that cost him $4,000, sporting goods worth $1,000, :i note for $500. cash amounting to $!?oo, a radio set costing $300. a $.100 ad vance payment on his foxes and $500 worth of food, having stored a huge supply In his mountain retreat. , Xo l>e?lre to Kill Sykes had a dozen guns, hut de nied that bis camp was an arsenal or that be ever had any thought of Hilling any one. He bad as much Invested In Ashing ta^le as he did In flrearma. | Sykos showed all the earmarks of a gentleman His first thought was of his mother and his principal de sire In telling his story seemed to be to shield the girl who shared bis' adventures In the wilds. When he left gllsabettl Cltjr he was careful' to take only money that wa#*1n bU! own cage so there would be no sus picion fastened on anyone else. He expressed relief, but not sur prise, when told that his bond bad b? nn reduced from $26,000 to a sum that his people could raise. His greatest show of emotion was when Informed that E. F. Aydlett bad been Secured to represent him "I thought he was still district attorney and I had been thinking all the time that he would prosecute me," he said. "I am going home and work on the farm until the trial comes off and then It will be up to the Judge,", la Sykes' future program. 1 Pasquotank Man May Share Western Fortune J. L. Baker, Tenant Farmer, Living Near This City, May In One of Six Nephews of Californian Who Left Fifty Million Dollar Estate LEVIATHAN CREW WERE DESERTERS IB* Hl? AtMrlitrd PtftL) Southampton. En*.. July Id. ?Twenty-five members of the crew of the American steam ?ship, leviathan, were sum moned in police court today on chances of desertion from oth er ships. Including the Iteren garla. Aquitanla. Olympic, MegUttic and Homeric. The prosecuting solicitor said the proceedings were not Institut ed to embarass the United State hut with a view to vin dicating the rights of the Itrlt ish shipping companies to maintain discipline aboard their own vessels. Ambassador Harvey Return To England i Definite Statement Made By State Department in Re sponse to Question | WasliinKTon, July IS.? George I Harvey will return In his |m?t as American Ambassador at London In a few weeks. I lie Stale Department (paid today. ' Kver since the ambassador can I celled his sailing on the Leviathan there have been reports that he might not return to Kngland but in | r? sponse to inquiries it was said to day definitely that he would do so. Premier' Popular With Journalists Stanley llaldwiii Is Approachable iunl t'ourteoiis anil .*-*e\\?pa l?er Men Like llim London, July 16.?Stanley Bald win. Britain's new pilot of the Ship I of State, has won the admiration and (goodwill of all classes by his simple, ) unostentatious manner and his out standing human qualities He is es j pec la I ly popular among the Hritisii ?and American newspaper men, who have found him approachable and unfailing courteous. He has none of lh?- aloolnesx, the superior maii |ner or severe pride of position which one Is apt to associate with prime I ministers. The journalists' fondness for the premier is reciprocated .by Mr. Bald I win, for he realizes that his sudden rise to fame Is due In no small meas ure to the sympathetic attitude adopted by them toward him. A a recent banquet given by the British newspaper nu n in his honor, Mr. Baldwin said, "'I am conscious imore than ever how the creation of a reputation realy is your preroga tive and your prerogative alone. Whatever reputation I may have to day I beg to thank you for It from Ithe bottom of my heart." [ The prime minister referred to 'some of the n-tnarkahle qualities at tributed to him by the British and Amertoan newspapers, which he said 'It was Impossible to live up to. "I have noticed In my brief career In public life," *atd he, "that some men like the limelight and some d> jnot. I have alwsys found that ; wherever the limelight Is brightest there Is always a corresponding black shadow close to It, and I have hither to .been able to step Into that 'fihad jow whenever the limelight wus I turned on. But I find wow that I cannot escape It. | f?>el very ijnich like a .small Insect under a mVro scope. Everything that 1 do or ? think or say Is laid bsre "I notice Istfly that certain pers ?. verlng papers have succeeded in (dragging from obscurity my father's !coachman and my old nurse. I am jthankful to say that the revelations they have succeeded In dragging from them are such as not to bias: my career yet. I have read the mov amazing things afbout myself, profi ciency In arts to which I hav* never, aspired, and Ignorance of some" things of which I thought I had aom** knowledge. The unklndest cut of all was in the Niatlon, where some one said my schoolmaster told me I had no brains." BALDWIN TO SENI> U. S. COPY OF NOTE tl?? T1?. A.?vi.?Mt rm.] l.nndon. July l??Prim* Mlnlmer I Haiti Win announced in the limine of Common* today th?t he would com municate to the United Htate. for Hi Information the draft of the reply he was preparing to the Oerman repara tions note. The statement was made In reply to a question by J. Ramaey McDoa-l laid, leader of the labor opposition. I I A I'uquotink tenant farmer m?y h''r farmer may also be heir to an equal share In the same estate. The i?o farmers to whom It seems possible that this good fortune may come are brother*. y eeneraliv **' i#1, nak,'r "f Pasquotank, generall> known throughout the County as Jack Maker. He lives at the Intersection of |i?dy Road and the Simpson Dltrh road, three and n" hi . 1** ,ron' ,own ?n C. O Robinson's farm. I The other Is Jim naker of Peroul mans. who lives In the Snow Hill section of Perquimans County. Another of the possible heirs Is ' Louisa (taker of Oales County near Sandy Cross, who Is now a be.I ye.r?noldnV Perh,,P' 90 According to the story current J,m "aker, uncle of the two Makers now claiming a share of hi* estate, left Robeson County, North Carolina, <0 years iiko for Callfor nla and made his fortune there. I Two sons born to him in Califor liwithout "!?..r"CC",,y t0 h,V? . This leaves the California estate, the story jjoes here," to he divided among six nephews or nelcns of the dead millionaire. 1-.. K. Aydlett. Kllsubeth city at !"rl'*y' "alcars old. lie had an uncle, Jim" .Maker, but does not remember him. i Indeed, he does not remember his own father, who died when he was hardly more than a baby. James II. Maker of Perquimans is 59 years old. lie* remembers as a boy in Gate* County a visit to his father'* home by Dr. Dick Maker, son of "Uncle" Jim linker. The Makers came to this country from England when trade in Juniper timber between England and Ameri ca whh brisk. The father of J M Maker and J. I,. Maker bought a farm in Gates County near Sandy Cro?* and in this both the sons own an un divided ItoroHt. The boys left Gate* in early youth, coming to Perquinv ana. and the elder has lived in Per quimans ever sine... J. u. Maker has lived in Pasquotank and in most of th?' other counties north of Alb** marie Sound. A newspaper clipping i0|||B? of the death without insue of two boih of a California millionaire by th? name of Jim Maker and of a 150. I00,0ni) estate which would go now '<> III.' nearest relatives who wero supposed to he somewhere In North < arollnn started investigation which may disclose that the California mil j louaire wai the same as the Jim Ba r who was uncle of J. I,. Unk-r and J. M. Maker. I hope you'll gel your share of the estate said an Advance reporter to J I. Jtaker as he was leaving the Maker home early Monday afternoon after having declined a cordial Invl tatlon to dinner "Well," replied Mr. Tlaker. " If we are the true heirs It Is only right for us to have It if We are not. I belongs to somebody tflse and I don't want any of It." TftOIWLE AT MANILA IS WAXINO WAiniKIt \? 'Mr T>'* A"?11"** ff'? Manila. July 1 ?.?Political de ference* In the PhlVpIn-^ v.?rf> reop ened yesterday With the resignation of Secretary of Interior laurel and waxed warmer today when .according to reports In official circles, all other departmental secretaries except Vlce ,c overnor Olltnore notified Oovrrnor 'quit*' Woo<' ?' lheir Intention to TWENTY-TWO NAMED IN WHISKEY CASE Chicago, July 1??Twenty two are named In Indictments returned by Ihe KedersI grand Jury here today charging conspiracy to transpoit ? l.nnii cases of whiskey from the aid Orand f>ad IHsilllery at Louisville, Kentucky, in September, l?20. tiirrov m MtKirr New York, July 1? ? Spot cotton, quiet. Middling 27.B5 with a 4/1 point decline. Kutures, closing bid. July 24.79, Oct 23.SS-K4, Dec '*n ?05-0?, March 23.00-02. **" *??; l* ?Spot cotton. ^ th* 'o"o?l?? level, July *3.00, Oct. IS.89, i>?c >1 40 j?n. 21.14, March ????.