North Carolina Newspapers

* * * ********* VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING, JI LY 20. 1923. FOI R PAGES. -NO. 167. Maxwell's Millions Are Considerably Reduced Lr^Malive Committee Appointed to Audit State's Finance* Finds Deficit S86,168.13, After Deducting a Note for School Expenditure* Funded from Year to Year Raleigh, July 20.?The special i legislative committee appointed to supervise and audit the State's fln-l """? reported to the Coventor and 1 Council or State yesterday afternoon T ie committee dim-red in its re port from the findings of the audi tor which It had emploved. the dlf caus"rt bv a" "em of! $.10 ooo.no represented in a note io? school expenditures during the! pa*t several years, which the audi-i lot* thought should be Included In! the report as a liability of current ' EllTveH ,.Ut, rLh,ch "" committee! i V u11" S|",clal "?"'on Of eh:?1 eH iU,i,h0rl7"'1 b>' ?" ?ct to bet Raised against the State's funded '* 6l,!)llar to bonds rem ? a bond iss"e, because It anrt an Hrcu,nulation or vears and the legislature had authorized Itul ?.m ,"nd"d, fro?> >e.r toyear and paid off gradually from the siir Plus of the general revenue when there was one. w nen T.ie committee found a deficit in Zr,'sVA", tv ?*or jun-!?m OI J86 4fi8 13. after deducting the not. of $710,000.00. The auditor! jrr,VeflC,,7,0 00n on plus JLi..'13 or *"96.468.13. The com So .*?ih* d. ,ha' ,h<> '""me duel 192? wn?Pl7 0d UP '? December 30. J^sVfiS ti h lJ'an 0,r,"', ?he' deficit au^iju, and w?uld leave a beIT"k|l"l<l" r?ndalon as ?f Decern ? i ' committee report Ma surplus of $232,805.25. whUe Wlitin r,?or,r.d ? Melt "!; th difference being tht same 1710.000.00. I As the matter now stands. It Is itHi???i5nAA <WI>,,0>> about wheth the t. 10.000 00 should be cliarced -Sr"t "e",ge';, '"nrllnt\ Program offl " , ,. general current revenue as to tS st,,","'1?' "r ?"'?"eit exists. wldch navs the Carolina,1 . . i the money, may take (to choice; but it isn't such a big differ deflcl, ot,'n,on' anyhow. Hereafter d-flcits are to be kept up with a's the recommendations of s 8S ',? ,he in the ? tat. s manrjor of accounting have al ?o,eoVr.?,oWn" Pr?mPtly PUt th"? "" iniWeeeveryt h1 ng els*, auditors. com iiiittee. Governor and Council are in harmony. Especially is the Govern or proud of this, the first real com prehensive audit of the State of North Carolina In its existence- the committee thinks it well worth the mp.-.ey. In accepting the-report of he committee and thanking It for Its services. Governor Morrison took occasion to pay high tribute to Trea surer lien I.acy. who through 23 years of office-holding has so kept his books?even though they arr not, ""I,*,rneeds now ? sc. well that receipts and disburse ments were checked to the dollar when scrutinized by auditors of rep utation second to none In the coun The Governor Isn't referring to the diliorence of opinion between him and Commissioner Maxwell except to tnod-naturertly say that the dispute was over a cash account and that no body could have known verv much about how the Stale reallv stood Chairman Long for the committee was appreciative of the attitude or the Council of state and thought North Carolina was to be congratu later on having officials who. though it might entail some temporary loss in reputation, were willing to accept suggestions as to how to improve their services to the State. The balance sheet Is dated July 7 1923 With this excess of obligations? that's better name than a deficit? out of the way. It is in order to take up the re|>ort of the committee to the Gov. rnor and the Council of State. First might come the talk of the Hindus. "We find." says the re port. "that on December 31, 1922. there was a surplus In the gen nd or operating account, of J232.805.25. "The condition of the Stale, as ^ shown by the auditor's report upon * revenue or accrual basis, on De Si?-hAf *!v V>22. shows s deflrit of In # 1 Mineral or oper ating fund account. e !", * n?,P Of 1710.000.00 n ITll. . ' ,h<> *Pneral fund or ? rating account, which, In our op I. i ..1 should he treated as a part of I" funded debt of the",.* and . Mid not be charRcd to this ar < iijit. although the auditors In pre wiring the report were Justified i? charging the note to the general funS 2T technical language used bv th" Legislature |n creatine thf obligation." creating 'f Declaring that the state treasur ! ris ra,,m.rt "howed a $5,000,000 def I i corporation com mltsloner. whose charges resulted In th? appointing of a special leslsla life committee to Investigate the Htatc's flnancial condition, also as serted that the adoption of the bud-j get commission's program, with In creases added through smendments ' would result In a larger deficit. I In presenting his ease to the pub-' Continued on page 4 JOHN D. BERRY. Grand Secretary. North Carolina Odd Fellows, an honor guest of Achoree I Lodge this evening. Fifteen Are Hurt And Bus Demolished New York, July 20.?Fifteen per sons were injured today when a crowded municipal bus was demol ished in a collision with a street car. All of the* injured scere in the bujpu which overturned* The street car motorman was arrested for assault, it being charged that hp failed to 'heed the stop siunal at the crossing. Plain Pigs Remedy When Weevil Nears North Carolina Forgot to Breed Knough Sows and to Save Knouuh Pigs Raleigh. July 30.?"With the cot jton crop threatened by that invisible I enemy?the boll weevil?the remedy Is of great importance." says a state ment issued by the United States and North Carolina Departments of | Agriculture Crop Reporting Service. '."Live stock is wisely suggested to re | place the cotton. The stock that is j best known is plain plus." "While the United States 'hoggish' j Intentions are 'filifiost unchanged in [the number saved this spring as com .pared with a year ago." the state I ment continued, "it is observed from ia compilation of thousands of re j ports from each state, that North Carolina intended in December to breed eight per cent more sows for ! spring pigs, but actually farrowed the saine number of sows and saved 1 f? per cent less pigs than last year. Tin* corn belt states average six per |cent more saved, while the sows (farrowed were 25 per cent more than a year auo. It seems that they ex ceeded their December Intentions by | 16 per cent while In this State, we i farrowed seven per cent fewer sows. [The national intentions averaged 17 I per cent Increased farm farrowings and exceeded the December breeding Intentions by four per cent. "The shows Intended for breeding | for fall farrowings as compared with [those actually farrowed last fall amount to 34 per cent Increase In INorth Carolina. 26 per cent In the corn belt, and 28 per cent more fof lthe I'nited States. The' December last results gave evidence of 10 per cent less actual fall farrowing than the previous fall for this State, while it was 28 per cent more In the corn belt, and 1 f) fx?r cent more over the entire United States. "The question is. what accounts for the 34 per cent present intentions of breeding for fall farrowing, which Is more than the main corn and pork belt, and a radical change from the fall and spring results. Will the far rowings this fall be far short of the Intentions or will the market prices and the present outlook have a dlf-( ferent effect? Th-? ft/erage bulk price [ of porkers on the main markets: ranged between six and seven cents' during June. PAII, WALKHK DKAD Paul Walker, 47 years old. horn and raised here, died at the State Hospital where he has spent the last 14 years. Friday morning at 5 o'clock. The funeral will be nt the home of his brother, Caleb Walker on Dyer street Saturday, but the hour has not yet been decided on. In terment will be made In Hollywood. iMr. Walker is survived hv three sisters. Miss Rmlly Walker. Mrs. Annie Ires and Mr*. C. B. Ives, two brotherA, Wilson Walker and Caleb Wslkerl all of this city, and a num ber of ttyece* and nephews. WAKD-KAYTOX I Miss Orace Kayton and Mr. Les-, He M. Ward both of Portsmouth, Vs.. | were married here Thursday by Jus- ' tice of the Peace T. B. Wilson 1 FAILS TO REACH r\( IMC COAST INirfc S|iriiiK>. Wyniuins. July 20.?Hauling unflinching ly to* the end of his second race to span the American contin ent "between dawn and dusk. Lieut. Itussell Maui: ban lost again before the odds of me chanical weakness which brought him down with a leak ing oil cooler here late yester day. After covering more than two-thirds of the 2.f?70 miles flight, the aviator was forced to descend with oil |>ourinu from the plane's tank in huck etfuls and nauseating fumes engulfing the machine and weakening its intrepid pilot. He landed at the air mail field here at 5:08 o'clock just 13 hours to the minute after he took off from Mitchell Field New York. BRITISH REPLY TO BE SENT TONIGHT Additional Alteration Made Tonight by British Cabinet | and Document Is* Apparent ly Completed. 'Br Th? Auoeiattd Prm.) London. July 20.?Additional al terations were made today In thc| text of the draft of the reply to Ger juanv s reparations memorandum by' the British cabinet, and unless it should seem expedient to make som'pj eleventh hour changes, the document will probably be dispatched to the' Allied and American governments to | night. i There is still some douht as to whether the much discussed supple mentary memorandum will be sent with the draft. Achoree Lodge Has Guests This Evening ? S. n. Currin, ('.rand Master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Greenville, and John I), nerry. [Grand Secretary of the Independent I Order of Odd Fellows, of Italeiuh. have returned from attending the Odd Fellows' District Convention at Trotvllle and are in the d^y. They will be the guests of Achoree Lodge this evening at H o'clock. Odd Fel lows are Invited to be present at this meeting. Saturday they will be the guests o? Bhlloh Lodge. NEW YORKERS LIKE CAROLINA HIGHWAYS W. L. Cohoon. general counsel of' the State Highway Commission, re turned Thursday morninu from V&heville and other points in West crn North Carolina. "The mountains." said Mr. Co hoon. "are literally thronged with summer tourists. You find automo biles there from almost every State of the Fnlon. There is an unusually large delegation from Texas and oth er Gulf states. The ltufTalo. New' York. Motor Club with about 100 automobiles, are touring the moun tains of Western North Carolina at this tftiie. The New Yorkers express themselves as delighted with our roads." Russia To Sign Pact ! At Constantinople (Br Th? AuorUted | Lausanne. July 20.*-Soviet Itus! sia todya notified the Near Fast Con ference that she accepts the conven tion for control of the Turkish straits negotiated here and will slyn. the pact nt Constantinople within the next three weeks. LEASED WIRE SERVICE GIVES MARKET NEWS Washington. July 20.?A loaned wire extending the market newnj service across the continent wait j opened lant Monday, It In announced | by the I'nlted States Department of Agriculture. The service connect* Kantian City with the Pacific Coast; and provlden regular conmiunlcatlon j for 12 hourn each hunlnens day to the new offlcen at Denver, Salt Lake jClty and San Franclnco. An extension of the nervlec to Soqtheantern states wan also opened on Monday hy the entahllnhinK of wire communication with the office j at Atlanta. Thin norvlce Is now being conducted hy commercial me*-1 ItfM, It wan ntated. hut it In aspect ed that by September 1 a leaned wire will be Inntalled connecting Wanii Ington with ftaielgh, N. C.. Clemnon,! S. C., Atlanta and Jacksonville, Fla. Thene new extcnnlons. It wn* annert ed. will enable the llureau of Agri cultural Kconomlcs to lBI-1 prove Itn market reporting service In the far Western and Southeastern! ! states. The telegraph wire which j In uned for the collection and*dlntrl ; button of market new* In nupple mented by radio broadcantlng by more than eight private ntatlonn throughout the United States, De partment announcement said. Perquimans Man In Jail For Assault WiUon Bateman Accused of Beating Up Frank Albertson, Sr., and Can't Give Bond Cou n ty? r in Ja 111'!'rq "J1a n!l a 4500 ..... J 1,1 default char J oTa,,ZTrrrrt.bond ?n ? ?<">. Sr. Fr'""< Albert, fault. is in bod it hi i a,,e#od as-1 ""<1 street with n hi ?, lm* on Soe" bruised face. broken leg and a ?-n.r o'u|h^'"hu ?" Wa" ?"? Ditch road Thur*rt? v"' ?n slmI?Hon that naT'.nLn / morri,?? H,> between in and 11 "I"''] . llls '''ace the actual difficulty i"or how "ays thai his lee w.. k ? : bu' fainted, and It u h?? b.rok,'n'and he and unable to defend hi Unc?n"lnus "'"all bone of his rlchr i T i. Th" at the ankl,. and '* broken the left eye ihl.l, t j a cut ?ver I up *h,(,h ''ad to be sewed .h.ar>'Nho?;Vhwh^n hbr",",,,, '""'h- 1a"'-1 o'clock In t|,e ""'"""d about 1 tlent's face h^???" . Thp Thursday. shnu.'.i .. a!ul "*<?l?n menl Friday nmrni ,'r Improve the eye and ?^n ' . Cul ab??e "II appearances ihe" "T h"'"K- to reporter was talklrh^ To T, le S5^r-j?-"ws ir: JOLLY GOOD TIMES AI BOY SCOUT CAMP Cjiinp Gen. Roliert Pin , Thuwda y"wUhfSI"y ,Wor" Indian rellos wern r? ! l',Ht some jigSHBSSS 1 leyHfiheen^h C"'"1 ?''a,.e. We, I of vviilor ji m .. pools Prominence wl,h?We,l?"m",g '?^Vtr>wV".?"*i!!enpTu,tn"fa tf&'iJisrsir' '':;? in* the vl'r'r fu" prepar f-'P "alley. uTway,,'"heern1,,h'lV'I"/"' X io.r,'?XedcHo^n "e Pi" " A" AhVh,2"E 'h"n asks tha""l"'y? w'hn " Sc''tt<TKn.id "?t week her* Saturday. notify hint on Two Men Are Killed When Airplane Falls Chanute Field, Kantoul, III.. July: 20.?Flrat Mrutcnint Harold MeNib! of Decatur. Illinois, and Kdward Kin ney c^f Chicago, were killed today I when ?the|jr airplane auddenly fell to 'the ground an they were making a landing. i. w. w. march is CALLED OFF THURSDAY Port Artuhr. Texaa. July 20. ? The I. W. W. march on thl* city way1 called off Tlmraday night by high of-i flclals of the ord?*r. and Mtrlke* of varlouK kind* will be aubfttltuted. COTTON MAIIKKT Xi'W York. July 20.- Spot cotton. clOMd quiet. Middling 27.26. with a 10 point decline Future*. clotting hid. July 26.47. Oct. 23 *0. Dec. 23.21. Jan. 22 93. March 22.9ft. New York, July . 20.?Cotton fu turea opened at 10 a. m. at the fol lowing lerela: July 26.35, October 23.75. .December 33.26, Japuarv 123 0^ March 23.04. s. n. Cl'RRIN Grand 'Mauler, North Carolina Odd j Fellow*. who apeak* at Achoree Lodge this evening at 8 o'clock. FAILURE EFFECTS ALL SOUTHEAST Frank II. Barrett of Atlanta Shorks Cotton (lirrlcs When He Says Must Sell His Seat on the Exchange. N?'w York. Jiily 20.?Frank H. t Marrett. cotton broker of Auguata. ' Georgia. today notified the New York Cotton Kxchanxe tliat he was unable' to meet hla obligations and request ed that his seat on the exchange bo sold. The announcement came as a com plete surprise in cotton circles where! Man-fit has been recognized as one of the most conservative- traders. ' His failure, it was said, will effect the entire Southeast where he ha.? targe cotton nnd bank holdings. I Traces Ancient Race on Pacific Islands ? Solenti*ts Think llliherto Cnknoun t'Jvilixatlon IIiin lleen |)lw?vfrf<l Honolulu. July 20.?Traces of a hitherto unknown civilization (hit may havo existed In the Pacific 2. ooo years ago hare been discover?d on tlie little islands of Necker and Nihoa In the Hawaiian bird reser vation, to the northwest of the Ha waiian group proper, according to the revelations made by returning members of a government scientific party which Is Investigating and surveying the islands aboard the IT. S. 8. Tanager. For centuries past these isolated 'spots have sheltered the secret of once powerful colonies that may have flourished prior to .the main Polynesian migration which resulted la the settlement of the Hawaiian {group, according to A. L. C. Atkin son. president of the territorial hoard of Mgriculture and forestry, who was one of the scientific party. j Time and elements have failed to obliterate the traces of the temples, houses, and the agricultural sys- , terns of long ago. and It Is expected that the discoveries of the scientist** may aid appreciably in the final so lution of the problem of the origin and migrations of the Polynesian , race. Howls wrought from solid stone,! a headless Idol, and a stone adz were among the many specimens thnt the , party brought back from the Island-*. The scientists told of fallen founda tions that once supported houses, scon s of stone monuments, the ruins of what were terraces upon which foodstuffs were grown. and the ruins of temples?evidence, it was said, that tended to show that Neck-, er and Nihoa were cradles of civil ization and the rendezvous of a peo ple who were skilled In crude hnndl- ' crafts and the art of navigation thousands of year ago. These speci-j mens, together with alt other* gath ered by the TannKcr party sre being studied by scientists here now. UNIVERSITY ALUMNI j ENJOV ANNUAL FEAST J. K. Wilson was toastmaster' Thursday night when the Rllza>beth City aluinnl of the Cnlverslty of North Carolina and the members of i the Cnlverslty Elizabeth City Club. I with the boys of the senior class of ', lk? Elizabeth City High School as guests, enjoyed their annual ban-' <|U<t at the Houthern Hotel. Among those called on to respond i to toasts were C. K. Thompson. Dr. Walter Sawyer. W. L Small. V. F. f Williams. Wyatt Aydlett, Ray Quinn j and (Maude Venus Jones The Klizabeth City Club at tli Cnlverslty plans next year lo have I permanent club rooms for the use of I visiting alumni and friends. LARGEST TOBACCO mots auk mkim;ei> New York. July 20.?-The early merger of tjp- World's largest tobac co concerns, the Tobacco Products} Corporation, and the ftrltlsh-Amerl-' can Tobacco Company. Into a new j company waa reported on Wall street I today. ? I Villa Shot And Killed Secretary Suddenly In censed, Kills Chieftain and Is Himself Killed in Battle Following. <BT Tht Atsoclktfd PrtM.) Chihuahua City, Me\., July 20.?General Franri* co Villa, commander of the rebel armies in Southern Mexico for ten yearn, was ^liot and killed today at bin big ranch at Canutille, Dur ation, hy Miguel Trillo, hi< secretary. The secretary is said to have become incensed at Villa and to have fired suddenly, the former bandit leader dying almost in stantly. In the battle which followed. Trillo was killed by men loyal to the slain chieftain, and latest advices say that the fight is still in progress. More than 200 casualties have occurred in sanguinary lighting. Villa. guerrilla chieftain and ban dit leader in Mexico for more than 1(? years. declared that he had end ed hln career of outlawry In August, 1020, when, at the head of 900 fol lowers, the remnant of what had once been hla army of -AS.000 men. he entered San Pedro. Coahuila. anil amid the checra of the populace, an nounced the Intention of himself and men of accepting amnesty and set tling down as farmers. A f.'W woekfi earlier, Villa had sur rendered to Federal forces at Sahln as. If** then declared his adherenco to Provisional President de la Huer ta and General Alvaro Ohregon, la ter elected President t<? succeed Car-? ranza. Before capitulating. VTTfcrvde jinanded and was granted by the Max lean government. ojifi vwitLr'a^a^^nid a small farm for eacli of his men. a grant equal to $2,000,000 gold. One of the most notable escapades of Villa was his raid on Columbus. N\ M.. on March f?. lMfi in which he and his followers killed 17 Amer icans. It resulted in a punitive American military expedition under General Pershing crossing the bor der and maintaining a "dead or alive" pprsult of Villa which lasted more than nine months and cost the I'nited States Government, according to a War Department estimate, near ly $100,000,000. In a battle at PaTfUI. American troopers were ambushed and a num ber of them killed. On March .'IT. however. the bandit's followers were defeated at Guerrero. The Am ericans were successful in a number of other skirmishes and penetrated so far south Into Mexico as to meet the Constitutionalist troops of Car ran/.a who. ostensibly, were also in. pursuit of the renegade Mexican leader. Villa, wounded but always eluding his pursuers, lived In a Chihuahua mountain cave for five weeks. It was l??caled in the center of a perpendi cular cliff which rose 1 50 feet from a brook on the level plain below and from this point Villa said he often watched the American troops. Many times he was reported dead. Upon the American army's withdrawal from Mexico Villa renewed Ills dep redations. On April 4. 1916. he was Indicted for first degree murder at I>emlng. N. M., on account of the Columbus raid. "They call in#1 a bandit and the worst man In Mexico," declared Vil la when he waa welcomed to San Pedro, Coahuila. "but I would pre nerve our nationality. I surrendered because further fighting in Mexico meant Intervention by the 1'nlted States It Is time for peace." In a manifesto he praised the "good faith, honor and patriotism" of Provisional President de la Huerta and declared it was his purpose to show the Mex ican nation that he snd his men could "build as well as destroy." ANTI-SAI/ION LKADKK ANDERSON INDICTED New York. July 20.?The grand fury today Iodic tod William H k deraon. auperintendent of the Anti Saloon league of New York, on 4*harRes of ftinn<l larceny and for gery. and then handed down a pre aentment' calling for legislative in veatigntion of the I<cagii<''a actlvl tlea atnce 191.1 when Anderaoo be came auperlntendent. TOM MIX IN TOWN Torn Mix In hack in town thrilling all of III* admirer* at th?? Alteram} Theater today In the latent William Fox picture. "Three Jump* Ahead." Several new and daring atunta never before attempted for the acreen are ahown In thin photoplay. Tom Jump* a canyon f?0 feet deep and twenty feet wide with' "Tony," hla atunt horae, and In addition rolla down a cliff while driving, a atage coach.