*?*?*?* THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight shoirers on coast. Mod erate N. E. winds. ******* ??*????# ? CIRCULATION ? Saturday * 1,885 Copies *? * VOL. XIIL FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1923. FOUR PAGES. NO. 104. Will Not Recognize Decision Of League Ilalian Government Serves Notice on Greece, Tells Repre sentative in League of Nations Not to Talk too Much Italians Occupy Santos and Cephalonia (By Th* l?HM Prml Athens, Sept. 3.?Signor Montana, Italian minister, last night informed the Greek foreign minister, Alexandris, that Italy will not recognize the decision of the League of Nations in the! present controversy. Athens, Sept. 3. ? Violent demonstrations took place today against Italy after the solemn funeral services had been held in the Catholic cathedral for the victims of Corfu bombardment. The crowds burned the Italian flag and attacked the Italian le gation. London, Sept. 3?A Reuter's dis patch says It understands that the Italian government has instructed its representatives on the League of Nations to abstain from further dls cutcion of the Greco-Italian dispute. Athens. Sept. 3.?The Italian gov ernment through Its minister here has served notice on Greece that Ita ly will refuse to recognize whatever decision the ^League of Nations makes In the present Greco-Italian crisis. Unconfirmed reports yesterday said that the Italians had occupied the islands of Samos and Cephalonla. RECORDER'S COItCt BACK TO NORMALCY Monday morning's session of police court was an old fashioned one with two liquor cases to be disposed of and a big- docket in general.-J But -most of the defendants were colored. Sallle Barnes, colored, for posses sion and receiving contrary to the statute, was sentenced to 30 days In jailand with Weldon Suttofv, colored was fined 110 and costs for prostl tutlon. Sallle showed a good repu tation as a cook, but the.court could not give credence to her statement of seeing a "tall stringy white man" drop a half pL.t of liquor on a trash pile In front of her yard without pre vious arrangement of any sort what ever. It seemed more probable that the liquor had been brought to Sal lie's home by Weldon Sutton, who was spending the night there, after having been seen In the earlier part of the day driving Lucius Holly'n horse and buggy. Lucius, a former bootlegger. Is suspected by the police of using others his agents to han dle liquor. JrelT "knowing that it will go lighter Jn court with those con -victed for the first time than In the case of an old offender like himself Evening according to Sallle's version of the affairs, however, the court de clared. she was guilty. Another ca$e involving liquor con cerned Alfred Stokes, colored, of the crew of the Virginia Dare, who testi fied that whenever the steamer dock ed in Elizabeth City she was met by a tall white man who sold liquor. Alfred was required to pay costs and a fine of $10 In both cases on a charge of prostitution In which the co-defendant was Mary Wallace, alias "Jelly Roll." Alfred was made to pay Mary's fine on the understanding that Mary would leave town. James Bennett and I^em Corbett, colored, were fined $5 and costs for participating in an affray. Jim and I/em each claimed the privilege of es corting the same girl home and the trouble ensued. Joe Jordan, colored, for operating a motor car with a defective muffler, wss fined $5 and costs. R. C. Webb, colored Jltneur, Tor defective lights, was required to pay the costs. Eddie Whaley for violating the flre-ptue parking law and Richard Evans for defective lights were each taxed with the costs. i*|{omihi\<; roi/mKn youth DIES AT AGK OK.wNINETEKX The funeral of James Ranks, col ored. was conducted at Mt. Lebanon Church Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock by the pastor. Rev. D. S. Blackwell. Ills death occurred at the home of Ills mother Friday night at 11 o'clock after six weeks' lllnrns. Although only 19 he gave promise of being a leader, and was preparing to be a physician, having been a med ical student at I'nlon University, Richmond. The choir sang "Shall ? We Meet Revond the River?" and "Through the tTnclouded Skies." The active liaUlM-arers were: James Miller. Cnhin^Palge, Wm. Hoggard, Julian Martin, Wesley Wing, James Epps; honorary. James McMurren, Sidney Smith. Willie Morgan. Joseph Wat son. Joyph SprullI, George Nixon, Oeork'e Bright, Warren Payton. |M>\'T APPROVE GAME LAW The Board of County Commission ers. in regular session Monday, had a quiet session and adjourned with out transacting anything of major '?Ml'ortance out 0f regular rou tine. Anion", the minor matters was the passage .of a resolution putting the Board on record as not favoring the .County game law sponsored during (Jthe last session of the legislature by Mf. F Oohoon and passed during the wVtetslon. mf i Pender County To Have Farmers Day ?? % Date Set For Thursday. Se|Ken>ber , 1, At Coastal K\|ieriniet?t Station Raleigh. Sept 3.?The annual! farmers' field day and picnic held j each year at the Coastal experiment station near Wlllard, Pender county, j has been set for Thursday. Septem-i jber 13, according to announcement) | here by Dr. Charles Dearing, assis tant director in charge of the station. Mr. Dearing said an interesting i program had been prepared for ^he occasion, with some of the leaders In ^agricultural " thought in the state speaking during the morning. At noon dinner will be served In picnic ;Btyle. j The entire afternoon will be de moted to visiting demonstration plots and inspecting experimental work be i ing conducted on the farm. These visits and inspections will be under the direction of specialists employed by North Carolina State College and the Department of Agriculture. The visitors will be given an opportunity to see the experimental work being done with dairying, poultry raising, soil fertility, seed improvement, cot ton boll weevil control, pecan grow ling and sweet potato cultivation. | The experiment station's large ; vineyard, where moBt of the experl ^~nn*nm> wVyTtr~w1th ^nrppa In NnrHr Carolina is done, also will be visited. I The United States Department of Ag riculture at Washington also uses .this vineyard for experiment work [with grapes, especially the muscadine Ivariety. According to Dr. Dearing, (this vineyard Contains the largest col lection of muscadine grapes to be ? found in the South. Duinrg the course of the- picnic grape juice pre pared by the agricultural experiment station's staff from grapes grown on the farm will be served. This picnic is one of several which are being held on the six branch ex Carolina during the summer months, perinient station farms in North 'Authorities of State College and the Department of Agriculture say these farms should become real communi ty centers, to which farmers in the : immediate sections can go to secure I the latest information about their , problems. At the recent picnic on the Pied mont branch station farm near [Statesvllle approximately 10,000 per (sons were present, It was reported. A large number also attended the an j nual picnic at the Mountain branch station, near Swannanoa, and at the [Edgecombe county far mnear Tar boro. About 5.000 farmers attend ed the picnic at the Coastal branch station last year, according to Dr. Dearing, the assistant director, who said he is looking forward to even a great attendance at this year's pic nic. Col. Fred Olds Is Given Ancient Wills Historical Commission Presented Probated Wills By Secretary Kverett Raleigh, Sept. 3.?Col. Fred A. Olds, collector for the North Caro lina Historical Commission. last week took into his custody about 2, 000 probated wills, many of them nearly two centuries old and none of them dated later than 1760. which .until presented to the Historical ? Commission were filed in archives of [the Secretary of State's office. Prior to 1760 all wills were filed jwlth the State, or rather colony of-1 jflcials, but in that year a law was {passed providing for the establish ment of county courts and thereafter all wills were filed with the clerks of !these courts. j Many of the old wills shows the effect of time to such a great extent , that It Is almost impossible to read them, the ink having faded and the j paper browned. The handwriting of Imany is practically Illegible. The ; wills are frequently referred to for Information sought by historians and geneologlsts. I Secretary of State W. N. Everett [In announcing that the old docu-| ments would be handed over to the1 historical Commission said that they were of no use In his nfflcr. but tfltl In the possession of the Historical Commission they could he used as references and probably be a source of historical Information. 1 CAMR HOMK OX MTKKTCIIRR | C. W. Overman and Mrs. Over man came up from Nafffe Head Sun-. day, after spending the aaftimer (there.* Mr. Overman, who has been j '111 fof some time, had to be brought 1 home on* a stretcher. Garrett Jurors Could Not Agree After Three Hours Delibera tion Mistrial Is Ordered By Judge White Cumberland Courthouse, Vs.. Sept. 3.?A Jury of 12 men from Amherst County, brought here sfter the court had decided it would not be possible to obtsin s fsir and impartial Jury in Cumberland County, were unable to agree Saturday as to the guilt or innocence of Robert O. Garrett, coun ty clerk, charged with the murder of Rer. E. S. Pierce laat June S. and were dismissed. Thus for the second time since the now famous case was called last July 26. legal battles that have made history in Virginia court | proceedings, have brought no results I and the case stands where it did be fore the weeks of battling over chan ges of venue, changes of venire and other technical points of law. R. O. Garrett's case will be called again when the next term of court convenes on September 25. but whe ther the trial will begin at that time Is undecided as the trial of I?arkin Garrett, brother of the man whose trial ended Saturday with a hung jury and jointly Indicted with him for first degree murder in connection with the killing of the Baptist min ister. also is set for that date and it is possible may get precedence. The' Jury deliberated (today three hours and one minute, but the fact that it was apparently hopelessly di vided early in the consideration be came evident after an hour and 4 7 minutes when the Jurors filed In and told Judge n. D. White that they could not agree. Jt is stated that at the outset one Juror stood for first i degree murder, seven for second de jgree murder, one for manslaughter, and three for acquittal. After the ' second period of deliberation. It was ? farther stated, the men who stood ! for some sort of punishment agreed | to consolidate on a manslaughter ver dict provided the others would come over. The three^for acquittal stood lout firmly, however, and further ef forts for unanimous agreement were abandoned. i^lme and it generally was believed a verdict had been reached, owing to the comparatively short time they J were out. Few people were in the ; room at the time, however, as all spectators had been kept at a safe distance from the courthouse as a precaution against any possible dem onstration. The defendant was the only one of the principal In the cane who remained In the courtroom and he Hat quietly, much of the time alone. He allowed plainly the great strain under which he wan laboring and wax deathly pale on both occa sions when the jurors reported. Judge White told the Jurors he regretted the six-day trial had been unproductive of a verdict, but that he had no wish to cause them to sur render their "conscientious opin ions." Several members of the jury supported Foreman H. G. Watts In a statement as to the hopeless dead lock. whereupon Judge White select ed on of the Jurors at random, re quested him to stand aside, and the others then were dismissed?thus formally declaring the case a mis trial. Whather J^4ge WhHr-will preside when the cam* In again called de pends upon Governor E. I*ee Trlnkle, as Judge White is assigned to this court for this term only. To preside he must be reassigned. The cost of bringing the Amherst Jury here was 'In excess of $1,500 and the total cost of the trial to the commonwealth alone, Clerk J. A. Tillman stated, was in excess of $2,500. HOLDS FIRST PLACE IN TAX INCREASE Washington. Sept. 3?Narih Car olina holds the first pla<*?; in the amount of tax increase paid, accor ding to the internal revenue depart ment. it being 15 per cent. AN'GIKK IHKK DROWNS Greenwich. Conn., Sept. 3?Angler Duke, son of Benjamin Duke, toba co manufacturer, was drowned here today when a small boat upset. ELEPHANT STARS IN THIS PICTURE With an elephant star to furnish novelty and a delightful human in terest plot for a story, "Soul of the Beast." the new Thomar H. Ince production at the Alkrama Theatre today is one of the most unusual pictures ever shown on the screen. "Oscar." the elephant, shows an intelligence in his performance throughout this metro picture that is uncanny and marks him for a place in the front rank of the screen's most popular animal stars. Madge Bellamy as the forlorn little ele phant girl outstrips even her flne emotional work In "L#orna Doone." The combination of the elephant, "The girl and some absolutely novel situations Is a knockout and carries a striking appeal for every member of the family. Coolidge Has Measured Up First Month As President Impresses His Associates Thai He Is Equal To New Re sponsibilities And Outlook Now For Safe And Sane Con servative As Candidate In Republican Campaign By DAVID 1AWRENCB Ca?rl?t Ittl Mr T?. 0?ll? AtaaM Washington, September 1?President Coolidge's first month in the White House has been so full of surprises that those who thought the Republican race in 1924 would be a free-for-all must defer judgment for the probabilities are that unless the coming session of Congress brings out a rational revolt there will be an old-fashioned conservative Republican campaign with the present chief executive as its leader. The new President has caught on to his job with an air of self 1 confidence that has raised his political stature considerably. | lie is by no means the reticent man described in the advance ! notices. ' Nor in he tho IloosevHtlan turn things-upside-down type of a Presi dent. Hp In the careful, methodical, hard working, thrifty, caution*, de liberative. Judicial, frank. |?l;iin si?<> ,ken. conservative man chat nior** nearly meet* the ancient Republican slogan of *afe-and-*ane than any thing eiae. j He la Arm, but not Inflexible. If?? If rympathetle and cordial In hla dealings with public olTiclaia and callers. He In trying to be affable and Rood na'ufd. H* known the value of exhibiting human trait* rather than mechanically minded at tltudea. He la new and ban made i.atural errors I ere and there in the t.ictics of his job, but anyoii" who Is unfamiliar with the temperament of officialdom would do th?- same. Above all, he shows an Inclination, to keep thing* fcolng as they have be fore. making i.uch change* an com mon sense wou'.d dlctat" and not a? tempting to give the Impression that he is about to accomplish miracle* in solving pending problem^. The'President's relation* with the prea* have been full of rtndnr. He has been explicit and Informative In his *? nil-weekly talk* with the cor resnondenta.. He ha* b'-?r. keenly nlert In hi* conferences wit*i public official* In digging Into Intricate problem*. Almost to a man tneae caller* have come away with word* of praise far the acquisitive mind and apperceptive faeultlea of thetr chief It has aeemed at time* a* If they were actually enthusiastic. This in significant becauae while Calvin Cool Idge has been Vlee President he hss suffered the neglect that other VlM president's have suffered. Ho ha* been an unknown quantity. ? Naturally one may credit Mr. Cool idge with a human ambition to suc o#?ed himself. While oschewlng pol itics 11 hp If, the new I'renldent has shown every disposition to make friends and to retain the friends President Hardin* had. Few men could have been an meticulous about preserving the Harding circle. The aim of Mr. Coolidge has hern to re store party harmony. He Is anxious for the country to know that he does not Intend to upset the Harding Ad ministration's personnel or Its poli cies. If he Is elected for a second term. Mr. Coolidge may feel differ ently. He may cotne to belief* that he alone Is responsible for the con tinuance of power In those who now hold office under him. He may ac cept resignations then that he would not dream of accepting now. He Isn't planning changes. He wants the whole Harding organization to re main intact. Divorcing Mr. Coolidge from any intentional thought of the effect of such a policy on his own political fortunes. It i*_s fact that the best way for the President to Inherit Mr Harding's political strength with the Republican party Is to act loyally to ward the Harding appointees. At the moment It would appear that he has not only won their sincere co-opera tion In administrative affairs but their political Influence, it has been a month without spectacnllie per formance but with plenty of achieve ment In the direction of the next Re publican # convention. Instead Af a free-for-all, the Republican .race at the moment centers on the man In the White House. His opponents will not be numerous and If he kltpi th?- par*- ho ha* begun and survives the next session of Congress as well as he has the first month In office, the next nominee of the Republican party will be Calvin Coolidge. Number Of Dead Mounts Higher Latest Estimate of (laauultim In More Than 100,000 in Yo kohoma Alone, Beside* Thousands in Tokyo and Oth er Cities Within a Radius of Fifty Miles Osaka, Sept. 3.?Lieutenant Ishida, who flew over the strick en district in an airplane yesterday, reported that the Imperial Palace was only partially destroyed. Tokyo itself was destroyed with the exception of Ushirome ward. Nearly all concrete and brick buildings collapsed. Fukagara ward was flooded by the tidal wave. ?' Nothing is known as to the safety of?fefeign diplomatic representatives and there is no news concerning the many for eign residents. The latest esti mate of casualties in Yokohoma alone exceeds 100,000. ? Another Quake Florence, Italy, Sept. 3.?Seismic instruments here today recorded an other strong and distant earthquake. America To ,\I<1 Washington. Sept. 3.?Admiral Anderson, commanding the American Asiatic .Meet, reported today to the Navy Department by wireless that seven American destroyers had left Port Arthur for Japan to assist in re lief work. This message was the first official report to reach the government from the Far East and contained no infor mation as to the situation there. Fire* Continue to Hhkc Shanghai, Sept. 3.?With the rem nant of Tokyo's stricken population still eRcapIng from certain wards of the city, the flres continued to rage in all sections at 1 o'clock this morn ing, according to a telegram from the ? police of Osaka. The soldiers were destroying {buildings In the path of the flames 'with bombs. 1 ?Humiimry ftl Unmade San Francisco. Sept. 3?The situa tion In Japan resulting from one of the greatest disasters in history a? |disclosed by advices from all source* jis as follows: Estimated that at least 100,000 persona are dead. One report ever gave that figure for Yokohomu's dead alone. ! Shocks believed to be "settling ,shocks" of the original trembler re J corded on American seismographs. I Tidal waves of great Intensity fol lowed the first shocks. Communication with Japan con tinues very paralyzed. Fears are en tertained for numerous Americans In .Japan or on ships either In Yokoho nia harbor or near It. J Numerous volcanoes are in erup tion. Eight wards in Tokyo are vir tually wiped out. An explosion In ? the arsenal killed several thousands. I It is estimated that 200,000 houses tare burned or shaken down. Food land water are lacking for refugees. The foreign and business sections of Yokohoma are wiped out largely by the fire. It Is estimated that 14, 000 houses In that city are burned. | The tidal wave wrecked many gov ernment vessels In Yokosura. Much damage was done in the town. Nayoya. with a population of ?20. 000, Is reported virtually destroyed. Six hundred are reported to have |perished In the collapse of a railway tunnel in Hasako. The railroad near Osakoa for 100 miles Is torn up. Many trains are wrecked with many casualties. More than 5,000 houses at Ito are washed away. Itfink Demolished Nagaskl, Sept. 3.?/Tokyo is still burning. The offices of the Hank of Japan are reported to have Im>en de molished. San Francisco, Sept. 3.- Tokyo, Yokohoma and neighboring cities to day were burning ruins, while more\ than 100.000 persons In the vicinity of thesp cities were reported dead as a result of Saturday's earthquake, ac cording to advices received in San Francisco by The Asswfated Press from Its Shanghai correspondent and by the Itadlo Corporation from Its, station at Tomloka. Death and destruction were spread over an area roughly comprised with-. In a radius of 50 miles of Tokyo. | How extensive casualties and the ma terial damaxe outside that zone Is, has not been determined, as all com munications with Japan are still in terrupted except for brief connec tions by radio with Tomloka and oc casional dispatches from Japan to Shanghai. The city of Nayoya Is virtually de stroyed. The Japanese naval station near Yokohoma was engullfed by a tidal wave and the Imperlol palace at Tokvo Is endangered by fire. Nayoya has a population of ?20. 000. It Is about !>0 miles east of Osaka and about 70 miles west of Tokyo, with railroad lines Inopern-j 1 iv" and with telephone wires ami all ofher means of communication and travel between Tokyo and the re mainder of Japan with the outside world cut off. Tokyo and the other cities on the eastern central sea coast on the Isl and of Hnndo are Isolated fn their desolation. The cities of Tokyo and Yokohoma were described by the su perintendent of the Japanese govern ment wireless station at Towloka,, which operates via Radio Corpora-, tlon.Vi "like hell." Rulldlngs were' falling. Are wirn apreadlng eVery where, the dead and dying were on all ald<>a, and there were exploalona and crlea of horror nnd fear by IM panic atrlcken population. What Are and quake did not de stroy on land, tidal wavea are report ed to have cruahed or sunk at aea. The fate of the ahlp* In Yokohoma harbor and what ahlpa were there, atlll remain to be determined. Th'j beat available report* received today aald hardly a atructure waa left atandlng In the Yanianote dlatrlct. which Includes the Tokyo warda of Hondo, Pukaitawa, Akuaaka, Shata ya. Nlhonbaahlo and Karuli Thouaanda are without ahelter, food and water and without meana of petting any at present. In Yoko homa tin* fire atarted In "The Flund" or foreign aectlon. apreadln* rapidly to the bualneaa dlatrlct. which waa wiped out. Tena of thouaanda of ftueata nt resorts In Hskone dlatrlct neHr Yokobonia In the mountalna were driven from their quartern by, quake* and flrea. They were panic ftrlcken The number of caaualtlea I* undertermined The town of Ata ina waa demolished. *lx or seven thouaand peraona being killed. At Ito, on the Iduxu Penlnaula mora > than R<>0 houaea were waahed away by tidal wavea. ftlx hundred peraona are reported to have perished when a railway tunnel at Raaako collapsed. Many Pharmacists Meet In Asheville Convention Of American l*barma ceutical Association At Moun tain City This Week Asheville, Sept. 3 ? Representing a total membership of 5.000, between 700 and 1,200 pharmacists of the na tion are expected to attend the 71st annual convention of the American Pharmacist - Association here Sep tember 3 to 9. Professional, practi cal, educational and ethical phases j of pharmacy will be taken up at the i convention In discussions and ad 1 dresses by leaders In the profession, according to announcements. Hi Hides the mass meetings of the entire attendance, separate meetings | will be held by the the eight sub-di visions of the Pharmaceutical Asso ciation created at the re-organiza tion of the association at Its meet ling last year at Cleveland, Ohio. The I sub-divisions are the house of dele 1 gates, council. American Conference 1 of Pharmaceutical faculties, Nation al Association of Boards of Pharma jcy. Section on Education and Legis lation, ScAftJUillc_ flection. Section on tPraciTeal~nnmTTa?y and DlRpenitmr 'and the Section on Commercial In Iterests. Among those who will participate jln the program of the convention are | Dr. II. H. Busy. dean of the .depart ment of pharmacy. Columbia Univer sity. New York City; I>r. Caswell A. Mayo, former editor and manager of American Druggist and now of the laboratory of William S. Merrill and Company; Julius A. Koch. Pittsburg. Pa., president of the association; Dr. Francis P. Venable. former presi dent of the University of North Caro lina and present dean of the univer sity's department of chemistry; Kvander F. Kelly, dean of the depart ment of pharmacy. University of Illi nois; Dr. Jacob Dinar, president of the board of pharmacy of the state of New York and clean of the New York College of Pharmacy; Charles College of Pharmacy; H. V. Howell, dean of the department of pharmacy, the University of North Carolina. I Extensive entertainments. Includ ing an all day trip to Mt 'Mitchell by automobile, atitomibile rides about | the city of Asheville and vicinity, a I reception for the president of the association, a music recital and oth er features, have been planned by a local committee headed 'by J. A. Goode. ? Present officers of the Aiflerlcan Pharmaceutical Association are Ju lius A. Koch. Pittsburg. Pa., presi dent; Thomas D. MflKlhenle. Brook lyn. N. Y . honorary president; E. N. Oathercoal. Chicago. III., first vice president; Lyman F. Kebler. Washington. D. C.. second vice presi dent. Clyde L. Eddy, New York City, third vice president; William B. Day, Chicago. III., general secretary; E. F. Kelly. Baltimore, treasurer. Officers-elect for 1923-1924 are II. V. Amy. New York City, presi dent; K, L. Neweombe, Minneapolis, Mln.. first vice president; W. It. Phillip. San Francisco, second vice president.