* * * ! EXTRA 5c ; iWltM JBpSgfflfflMr * EXTRA 5c ********* (9 ^ ********* VOL. XIII. . ^ ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1923. FOUR TAGES. NO. 101. TN.jV JAPAN Will Not Recognize Decision Of League (Br Wi* A?ocUt?d frml 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. London, September 1 ? Italy's action in bombarding and occupying Corfu in contravention of the neutrality of the island guaranteed by the Treaty of 1864 in which Great Britain ceded Corfu to Greece is considered in military and diplomatic quarters here as tantamount to a declaration of war upon Greece and as constituting a flagrant violation of international law. The gravest apprehension is1 felt over possible further moves by Italy. If Italy should ignore the intervention of the League of Nations and tKe independent efforts of the Allied Council of Ambassadors for an amicable solution of the military crisis, military experts here see danger of war spreading throughout southeastern Europe. In Full War Status Rome. Sept. 1.?Italian naval un its which had been stationed at Spe zia and Venjce now are steaming for southern Adriatic waters in full war statu* and eight trim port a ate held In readiness in case there are further eventualities. Hawaii Finds New Uses For Molasses Honolulu, Sept. 1.?New uses which have been found for molasses, mainly a waste product of the Ha waiian sugar plantations since the enactment of the prohibition act, ar? expected to exhaust the supply this year, according to an announcement by the Sugar Factors, which handle moat of the Hawilan crop. Prior to prohibition, the planta tions derived a considerable income from the molasses shipments to th.Q mainland which were used for the manufacture of alcohol. 8ince then the molasses^ which has a sugar con tent of one-fifth, has (been used as fuel or thrown into the ocean. A discovery that molasses may be used as a culture medium in the pro duction of yeast, has created a con siderably demand recently. It also has been found that molasses makes a valuable feed for stock, as. it Is said, It has about twice the energy value of any other feed tested. These two developments are expected to utilize most of the molasses produced by the plantations. The new demand es expected to add approximately $1,000,000 to the income of the Hawaiian plantations this year. HOLDS FIRST PLACE IN TAX INCREASE Washington. Sept. 3?North Car olina holds tha Drat plnro In the amount of tax Increase paid, accor ding to the Internal revenue depart ment, It being 15 per cent.. DEMOCRATIC NOMINKF FOR GOVERNOR DIES Louisville, Sept. 3 ? J. Campbell Cantlll. Democratic nominee for gov ernor, died here today. CHAPTER MEETING MONDAY Cherokee Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons will hold their regu lar convocation on Monday evening A full membership Is desired. STOCK WAMTK HTIRM PHILIPINOH Manila. Rept. 1.?A request by the emergency board for a statement from government office heads, list-1 ini tlielr unused equipment, haa dls clo..(I that aibout 11.000.000 In sup pll, . 'belonging to tha Insular gov ernment Is rotting from disuse InI warehouse!. Efforts will ba made to save the atock. NOTICE to PATRONH The rules of the City Reboot Board I require that all children who have not been succeaafully vaccinated for Small HO* shall be vaccinated befor? | entering school. Patrons will save time for their children by complying with this regulation. Se. 1,6,7 3. I.. SHEEP, Supt. ' Dr. and Mrs. I. Fearing and chil dren, Margaret and William, hava returned from Virginia B*aah, after spending aaraa time tb?r?. YEAR Federal Reserve District Re ports Good Prospects for Crops and for Business in the Coming Months. Richmond, Sept. 1.?The usual Ju ly dullness in business was less in evidence throughout the fifth Feder al Reserve Bank district this year :than any year since the post-war In ! nation pprind anri wiynw r>f atrangth : in the business structure are now more numerous than signs of weak ness, according to the monthly re view of business and agricultural conditions of the Federal Reserve Bank here which was made public today. North Carolina has good prospects for a full fair quality tobacco crop and a better prospect for cotton than other cotton growing sections, the report states. I The fifth district Federal Reserve review follows in summary form: "There is usually a seasonal de jcline In the volume of business in Ju ly, the summer needs of the people | have been provided and It being too j early for fall trade to open up, but on the whole the July dullness in [fifth district was less marked this 'year ihan any year since the post jwar inflation period. There are a; j few signs of weakness in the busi- j ^ess structure, but signs of strcmgth. are much more numerous. "Among the unfavorable factors j I operating against business at present. I Is the decline in forward orders be ing placed by retailers and whole-1 salers. Many manufacturers are finding difficulties In securing ! enough new business to keep their I plants running full time, especially ' , in the textile trade, but few of the ; ; orders placed earlier in the year have been canceled and consequently I the mills have not yet had to restrict! running time very much. The un certainty about the probable out turn of this year's cotton crop. Is another deterrent factor to normal business at present, the danger of the August migration of the boll weevil minimizing the Importance [attached to condition reports. La bor shortage In some agricultural sections Is % further handicap to be overcome. i "As previously stated, elements of strength In the business structures are far more numerous than the ele ments of weakness enumerated In the proceeding paragraph. The most striking feature of the present sit- ? uation Is the great purchasing pow er of the ultimate consumer, and the willingness of the public to buy what-' ever It wants justifies confidence for the near future. Signs of this large power to buy goods and of the dis position to supply needs are visible ! on every hand. The volume of de- j hits to customer's sccounts In the' hanks of reporting cities Is running' considerably above the volume re-1 ported a year ago. andtompares fav or?hly with earlier months of this! year, taking seasonal trends Into ac count. Reports- from retail stores show Increased sales In compsrlson with July 1922, and some of the1 stores that have put on special sales are getting remarkable results for this seaaon of the year. Consumers' are displaying none of the disregard ?for values that was so marked In Itll, 1911 and part of 1920, and af-1 tlcles In the striped silk shirt class do not sell readily, but the store* of- j ferlng good standard merchandise at fair prices are getting a very sat-j Isfactory amonnt of business Cred-? It Is available for all legitimate needs at reasonable rates, ffivlag* de posits In both savings and eoratner- , rial banks are high, and are steadily Increasing Business failures are) declining la number and Importance Hoaseholders aad Industries seem Little Folks Had Most Merry Time Kiwanians Gave Joy to Three Hundred and Forty-eight Kiddie* Friday The Elizabeth City Klwanis Club gave a picnic Friday afternoon (or 348 little guests, all of whom would be glad If the picnic were a weekly event instead of an annual affair. Mothers of some of the smaller chil dren attended. In fact all ages were represented from babes in arms to grandmothers. A committee made up of a lady from every church in the city and the County Welfare officer assisted G.~R. Little in distributing tickets. The guests assembled at the Com munity House, the high school build ing, and Calvary Baptist church, each going to the point nearest home. The time set for aiaembling waa 2:30 p. ra., but some were ready at 1:00 o'clock. The Klwanlans gathered them from the points in cars and trucks and took them to Dawson's Beach, where almost everyone of them donned a bathing suit and took to the water for an hour'-s fun. There were diving and swimming contests for which prizes were awarded. Five ducks were released, but a duck didn't have a chance in that crowd and lucky boys soon'captured them. The captors were awarded the ducks. At 4:00 p. m., the crowd moved to the Old Fairground, a delightful riTe -?4e s put. rney played games. Jumped ropes, and made the most of the see-saws and swings especially ^erected for the occasion. There I were running races for girls and (boys of different ages, and successful contestants received prizes. The [guests were served all kinds of Ice | cold pop, sandwiches, and block ice , cream. The Elizabeth City band [furnished music during the picnic. At 6:00 o'clock, the guests were all gathered into trucks and cars land returned to their homes. They had a delightful time and the three hours of merry making did not seem to make them tired. Nevertheless, it Is a safe .bet that many little bogs and girls went to bed earlier than usual Friday night, and probably some of them dreamed of giants with ice cream heads throwing huge bot tles of pop at them. Ht'YIXd IX NEW YORK O. F. Gilbert, proprietor of Mitch ell's Department Store, has returned from a buying trip to New York. "I have never seen so many buyers In New York In my life," Mr. Gilbert said Saturday. Mr. Gilbert has se cured the agency for the Vogue hat3 and will co-operate In local advertis ing with the manufacturers' adver tising in the Ladies' Home Journal. 'X>TTON MARKET New York. Sept. 1.?The cotton exchange is closed today and Monday on account of Labor Day. assured of an adequate supply of bl tunions coal during the coming win-, ter. Labor is fully employed at wages that are little 'below the high levelB of the war and post-war per iods, and the workers are using their money much more wisely now than then. The volume of building op erations for which permits are being issued appears to insure a continua tion of full employment for several : months at least." Finally the out look for farmers of the fifth district compares favorably with prospects in any other section. The three lead ing crops in the district are corn,! cotton and tobacco, with the growing | of fruit, grain, and truck as Impor tant subsidiaries. Corn prospects I are promising, with larger yields be ing Indicated by present condition i than last year. The outlook for cot-1 ton in Virginia and North Carolina Is far above the national average, with prospects in 8outh Carolina for a better yield than last year. To bacco in South Carolina is being : marketed at good prices, and the ? crop It 'better In both quantity and quality than last year. North Caro- ; Una prospects are good for a full I crop of fair quality, and Virginia's' crop has made excellent progress In | recent weeks. The first prospects are the best for the past three years I In quantity, and the quality of the apple crop In Virginia Is unusually good. Grain produced satisfactory yields this year, and truck crops are on the whote good." Debits to individual account In ! leading trade centers In North Caro lina are given In the review as fol lows: August 6 Julv 11 i Aphevllle *30.000 $ 1<>.#22.00t> Charlotte _ 31.270.000 40.*46.0001 Durham 16.1S4.000 16.456.00o; flre??nsboro_ It.tig.000 20.062.000 [ Raleigh _ *7,346.000 26,753.000; Wilmington lB.9f3.000 17,007,900 Winston Salem ft.31f.00fr 30,657,000 1 GERMANY MAY ASKTO ENTER Keparations and Whether Germany May Join League of Nations Are Questions to Come Up Next Week. Genera, Sept 1.?The reparations ! problem and the question whether I Germany is to be admitted to mem | bershlp In the League of Nations i are two matters, in the opinion of League assembly which opens in this ! city, Monday, September 3. In this connection an English del egate said recently: "I don't see how it will be possi ble to keep the reparation problem out of the discussion, unless it be settled beforehand." And another delegate from one of the northern Scandinavian lands, referring to the popular movement In Germany to ap ply for membership, said: "Certain ly Germany should come in. If she applies she would probably be elect ed easily." The first business on the agenda Is the election of a president and six vice-presidents who. with the presi dents of six committees later elected, form with the president a bureau re sponsible for the general conduct of the business of the assembly. The actual work of the session then begins with a discussion of the annual report of the secretary gen eral, Sir Eric Drummond, on the ac tivities nf the?council?during the past year and with a statement of what has been done to make effec tive the recommendations of the pre vious assembly. After u debate the assenvbly usually divides itself into six general committees. These in clude constitutional and legal ques tions, such as amendments to the covenant of the league; the work of the technical organizations on econ omics, finance, transit and health; : the question of reduction of arma ments; the budget and other matters of internal administration; social questions, such?its opium, the white slave traffic and refugee problems, ' and political questions such as the I admission of new states. These committees are virtually i small assemblies in themselves, for each country has the right to be re presented on all of thcim. As three committees sit simultaneously one day and three others the next, the work of the assembly Is greatly ex pedited. Newspaper correspondents are kept busy following all these meetings. When the committees make their final reports, usually jbrlef. the full assembly affords a I final debate on any point still at is {sue. The official languages of the as sembly are French and English. Speeches delivered in one are trans lated into the other tongue. The as sembly convention lasts from three to four weeks and generally marks, out broad policies whose detailed ex ecution Is left to the council, which, |is the cabinet of the League of Na ; tlons. In view of the late President Hard- j Ing's recommendation that the Unit ed States Join the International Court of Justice, of special Interest to Americans will be the election of a successor to Judge Kuy liar bona of] Brazil as a member of the court. ! This election is carried out by the ! concurrent majority action of the as-1 sembly and council. The American group of the old Hague arbitral court | exercised Its prerogatlvet his year,1 and nominated a candidate to suc ceed Judge Barbosa. RKNOWN*. WALKH* CRl'IMKR TO UK RITTKD FOR WAR London. Sept. 1?The battle cruls-j er Renown which carried the Prince of Waifs on his tours of Canada, j Australia and the Far East. Is to un dergo a refitting which will change I her from a floating palace Into a | first class fighting ship. This ship and her sister-ship, the! Repulse, were fl>ullt on the theo?ei that speed was above armament but after the performance of the similar ship, the Invincible, In the battle of Jutland, this theory has been put In the waste basket. The estimated cost of putting the Renown on a level with the best ship In her class will cost $4,000,000. She cost originally $15,000,000. M YKRH-DfCfMH KR Miss Daisy Dare Delsher and Mr. Frank C Myers, both of Ragle Hock. | Va., were married by Dr. fl. H. Tem plrman Friday afternoon at 2:30| o'clock, at his home on West Main i street. HHKKT ROCK Just received another carload of Sheet Rock. T1?e only plaster board that really takes the place of plaster. K. J. CoHroon 4 Co. YOKOHOMA AND TOKYO DURNING Bodies Of Dead Lie Heaped In Streets Of Populous Cities As Result of Tidal Earth quake, Fire And Flood Along Seven Hun dred Miles Of Eastern Coast Of Nippon It--. < '..in j i !i ]'; ; -u ?" i > i .f " i \ (li-iiZi (By The Associated Pre**) San Francisco, Sept. 3.?Tokyo, Yokohoma and neigh boring citie* today were burning ruin*, while more than 1 <J0,000 persons in tl?c vicinity of these cities were report ed dead as a result of Saturday1* earthquake, according to advice* received in San Francisco l?y The Associated Prew from it* Shanghai correspondent und liy the Radio Corpor ation from it* station at Tomioka. Death and destruction were spread over an area rough ly comprised within a radius of 50 mile* of Tokyo. How extensive casualties and the material damage outside that - 7.onr is has not heen determined, as all communication* with I Japan are still interrupted except for brief connections by radio with Tomioka and occasional di?patche* from Japan ; to Shanghai. The city of Nagoyu i* virtually destroyed. The Japan ese naval station near Yokohoma was engulfed by a tidal wave and the imperial palace at Tokyo is endangered by fire. Nagoya has a population of 620.0(H). It is ultout 90 miles east of Osaka und uliout 70 miles west of Tokyo, with railroad line* inoperative and with telephone wires und all other means of communication and travel between Tokyo Hud the remainder of Jupan with the outside world cut off. Tokyo and the other cities on the eastern centrul seu coust on the Island of Hondo are isolated in their desolation. The cities f Tokyo and Yokohomu were described by the superintendent of the Japanese government wireless station ut Tomioka, which operute via Kudio Corporation, as "like hell." Buildings were fulling, (ire was spreading every where, the dead und dying were on ull sides, und there were explosions und cries of horror und feur by the panic strick en population. Whut fire und quake did not destroy on lund, tidal waves are reported to have crushed or sunk at sea. The fate of the ship* in Yokohoma harltor uud wliut ships were there still remain to be determined. The Im-sI available report* received today *aid hardly a structure was left standing in the Ynmanote district, which includes the Tokyo ward* of llonjo, Fukugawa, Akusuku, Shutaya, INilionhuslii and Kauda. ?' Thousands are without shelter, food and water and without ineuns of getting uny ut present. In Yokohoma the fire started in "The Bund" or foreign section, spreading rapidly to the business district which was wiped out. Ten* of thousunds of guests at rewort in Hakone district near Yo kohoma in the mountains were driven from their quarter* by quakes and fires. They were panic stricken. The num ber of casualties i* undetermined. The town of Atama wa* demolished, six or seven thousand person* being killed. At Ito, on the Iduxu Peninsula more than 500 house* were wa*hed away by tidal wave*. Six hundred person* are r? ported In have perished when a railway tunnel at Sasa&o collapsed. Shanghai, Septemlier 2? Practically all citie* along 'he eastern coast of Japan lietween Tokyo and Oaaka have l?een virtually destroyed and 100,000 of the inhabitants of Tokyo and Yokohoma alone are dead as a result of the earthquake, followed by tidal wave and fire, which nhook the island Saturday, according to report* reaching here to night. ^ okohaina is still burning according to latest reports and the streets of Tokyo are heaped with dead. At Yoko hama the naval station i* reported virtually destroyed, and in Tokyo the imperial palace of the Mikado is said to be threatened. Death and destruction are spread over un urea of 50 miles around Tokyo, which is a city of more than two mil lion inhabitant*. Osaka, which seem* to mark the southern limits of the eatacly*niie destruction, i* a city of more than a million and quarter inhabitant*. Nagoya, half way lietween Tokyo and (>*aka, with a population of 300,000 i* reported practically wiped out. Isolated in their desolation, thousand* of the aurvirors are without shelter, food or even water, and there is no way of immediate relief for them.

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