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? ??***** * THE WEATHER * Partly cloudy tonight * and R ednesday. Cooler * R ednesday. Moderate ?*^?****?* * ? * CIRCULA TIO!S Monday * 2,000 Copies * * Westerly to Vth'ly winds * * TjpBfy * * *****#?*? , VOL. 'XIII. FINAL EDITION. ^ ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1923. EIGHT PAGES. NO 105 i VI "? " L _ ITALY READY TO LEAVE LEAGUE Premier Mussolini Insistent That the Geneva Conference Back Up His Stand on Gre cian Situation. l.ondon, Sept. 4.?Italy will make her terms for the evacuation of Cor fu more onerous if Greece delays ful filling; the terms of the ultimatum. Premier Mussolini is quoted by t'?e ?Daily Mall's correspondent as de claring Ronie, Sept. 4.?Premier Musso lini is ready to withdraw the* Italian delegate* from the League of Nations if the Geneva conference does not hack up his stand on the Greeclan situation. Internal Troubles Home, Sept. 4.?A counter revolu tionary Republican movement is un d- r way in Greece, says a dispatch received here. The movement Is gaining ground despite drastic meas ures taken by the government. Geneva. Sept. 4.?The member of the Italian delegation to the assem bly of the- League of Nations today | authorized the League secretary to deny that Italy had ever officially j repudiated the competency of the League to handle the Greco-Italian crisis. Billy Meehan Has Won Unique Place One Of Two Men Who Won The Referee's Decision Over .lack Defii|**ey Xew York, Sept. 4 ? While Mee haiii the pudgy heavyweight of San Francisco, occupies an unique place In the ring record of Jack Dempsey, the world's heavyweight champion. He Is one of the two men?Jack Downey is the other?who have won referee's decisions over Dempsey since the latter took up boxing. He Is the only man Dempsey has met more than once in the ring, who wa-< not eventually knocked out b> the Manassa Mauler. * Hilly Miske faced Dempsey* twice and was not knocked out. But the third time Dempsey stopped him in th.<?c rounds. Carl Morris lost a four-round de cision to Dempsey the first time he m. t the champion-to-be. Thff next time they met Dempsey_knocked him out in a round. Gunboat Smith's ad ventures with Dempsey were similar to those of Morris. The first time he lost a four round decision, the next time he was stopped In a few punches. Meehan boxed Dempsey four times, losing once, drawing twice, and tak ing a decision from him in 1018 af ter Dempsey had punched his way through a host of opponents in the East. Meehan Is no longer active In the boxing game. Downey, who won a decision from Dempsey, at the outset of the latter's career. Is now a trainer for one of the Pacific Coast League baseball clubs. Contrasted with Meehan's ability to evade Dempsey's knockout punch, is the fate of Hill Rrennan. who faced Dempsey twice and was stopped each time, once in six rounds, and the next time in 12, Rrennan, too. wa? stopped-In 12 founds by Luis Flrpo. He and Willard are the only men whom both Dempsey and his chal lenger from South America have met In the ring. m.HMM \TKI> HHOI'LDKIl David Straughan, 14 years old. Is able to be out. after spending Mon day night In the Conrnunlty Hospi tal with a dislocated shoulder. He was In bathing at Dawson's Reach Monday afternoon and Insisted upon dlvlnu after being warned by Mr. Dawson that the tide was too low j and the water too shallow. The con sequence was a dislocated shoulder. TWO MINOIt C\HKH IV l*OIJCK rot'ltT TIKSP.W Two minor caaea made up the grlat of police court Tuesday morning. Horace Owena wan fined 110 and roata for apeedlng and McKlnley Midaette wan fined $1 and coata for ildlng a bicycle at night without a light. VISIT BITXRVRY ri.t'll Mra. J. O. Fearing, dlatrlct preal dent of Woman'a Clubs; Mlaa LI I lie Orandy. prealdent Elizabeth City Wo man'a Club, and Mra. Ethel Lamb. \ lc<-president Elizabeth City Wo man* Club, were pbaaantly enter tained at giinbury Friday and after ward-* luldreaaed the Sunbury Wo man'* Club of about 30 membera, which wjii? organized by Mra. Fearing: Ta?t ? print and la now planning Ita fall work. Mrs. K. F. Corbell |* prealdent of i the Hunbiiry club and the organlza-1 tlon la divided Into three depart- | menf?: *he educational, the civic and the literary. < IIEVKOI FT I'RH FH MW ORRATI/Y HFOI iVJ) The I. H. Perry Motor Company ? In thla l*?ue of The Advance la 1 pouncing a reduction in the price Of Chevrolet cara and trucka. Thla an nouncement cornea at a time too when Mr. Perry la In a poaltlon to make delivery on practically every model of the Chevrolet cart. New License Taxes Raise Big Protest Monday Night's Session of Ci ty Council Largely Taken Up With Complaints With automobiles parked for more than a block east, west and south of the Community Building and with a [crowd that made necessary the op ening of both of the Chamber of Commerce assembly rooms. Monday , [night's meeting of the City Council resembled a mass meeting rather j than the usual prosy quiet of a regu-j ' lar Resslon of the City Council. Not a meeting of those in which! (the Council and representatives of .the utility companies were trying to get together on the question of the 'outright purchase of the physical properties of the corporations was so well attended as was that of Monday I night of this week. Indicating that human nature has changed but little since the day when a Greek states man complained that It was easy enough to stir a Greek mob to frenzy by talk of taking away or reducing , the three obols a day that every Athenian citizen drew from his gov-> eminent but that it was an impos-' sibility to arouse them to the dang*ri of the encroachments of Philip of Macedon. For the thing that brought out a crowd of 150 disturbed business men. j Monday night was the schedule of 11-' cense taxes on the privilege* of doini: .business in Elizabeth City thnt were j supposed to go into effect on Septem ber 1. Many businesses were aghav to find their license tax doubled or trebled and were before the Council to see If somethlnc could not be done ! about It. Three groups, the garage I men, the keepers of places of busi-1 iness just outside the city limits and :the pool room operators were repre-1 sented by counsel, C. E. Thompson1 representing the garages. J. K. Wil son the pool rooms, and John Hall the suburban business Interests, In cluding the meat packing firm of C. M. Whitley & Company, upon which I the new schedule Imposed a license 'of about $100. In the case of the suburban Inter ests. tTTe Council ImhW'fllfttPty took action relieving them of this tax, not only because members were im pressed with the force of Mr. Hall's argument that the city had no Jur i isdictlon on businesses outside the [city in the matter of raising its rev enues, but also because of the dis covery of the fact that such an In Idustry as that of Mr. Whitley had .been made the subject of such a tax as that imposed on him seemed to be |as bin a surprise to most ' of the members of the Council as it was to Mr. . Whitley and to the other in terests affected along with him. The petitions of others complain- ' ing on the grounds of discrimina tory rates or regulations are to be | Investigated and their petitions acted 'upon, according to the present pro-; |gram, next Monday night. The complaint of the pool rooms was not on the ground of the license j tax imposed on them but on the! ground of a regulation raising the age-limit of those permitted to play from 18 to 21 years. The operators of pool-rooms took the position that1 to take away their patrons 18 years i old and lesR than 21 would rob them of the greater part of their patron age. It was the ajitomoblle dealers and i garage men who were present in ! greatest force and who made the' strongest plea that they were being discriminated against. The licence taxes, It was paid, imposed with the) design of raising revenues to the amount of $5,000, had been so fixed, ns to schedules as to draw half of j the amount desired from dealers in J automobiles and related wares. Un-! der the new schedules, for instance,! one of the larger garages of the city 1 found Its license tax raised from $20 | a year to $230 a year, and had this garage had a filling station the j amount would have been $245 a' year. i COOLIDGE ANXIOUS TO SEND JAPAN AID Washington. Sept. 4.?President foolldge wan said nt the White House today to he determined that the United States should put all Ita re sources at the disposal of those en deavoring to afford relief to the Ja panese people. The President gave his personal attention to many fea tuten of the relief program ln# which the government has asked the peo ple of the country to cooperate to their fullest ability. SLEMP IS SWORN IN AS SECRETARY! Washington. Bept. 4?Former Re presentative fllemp of Virginia, wai, sworn In as secretary to the presl- . dent today and received his commis sion personally from Cool Id ge. It i was fllcmp's fifty third birthday. <WrOS MARKET New York. Sept. 4 ?flpot cotton, j closed quiet. Middling 2R.96, a de cline of 40 pojtotl. Futures, closing bid. Of. 24.70, Oec. 24 ?2. Jan 1 24 30. March 24.43. May 24 43 New York. flept. 4 ? Cotton fu tures opened today at the following levels: October 25.00?24 95; De cember 24.90???; January 24.70 ?ft; March 14.10?71; May 24.lt ??1. WEEVIL AND WORM PREY ON COTTON Powells Point Farmers Dis couraged and Many of Them Say Will Never Plant Cotton Again. Powells Point, September 4?Both the boll weevil and the array worm are prevalent in this section of Cur rituck County now. The weevil was first heard of In Currituck at Jarvisburg a few weeks ago, but it has now spread until In this immediate section the cotton patch that showa-uo sign of the weevil is the exception rather than the rule. It Is considered in this community an established fact that cotton raid ed from seed brought into Currituck from other counties or sections is in fested. while farmers who used home-grown seed say that they are not troubled with the weevil at all. The impression prevails that this is the last year any considerable number of Currtuck farmers will go In for cotton except to a very lim ited extent. However, this Is the weevil's first appearance in the County and as the pest did not ap pear this year until late in the sea son. only a few weeks before cotton began opening, a good yield Is look ed for this year. With a good yield at present prices Currituck's cotton erop, the largest in the County's his tory. will prove unusually profitable this year. NO TROUBLE TO GET THIS OFFER TAKEN Elizabeth City is to be provided by a Lillington gravel concern with two carloads or more of this gravel for demonstration purposes. The only expense to the city will .be the freight charges and the cost of unloading it from the freight cars and hauling it to the street upon which the demon stration is to be made. City Manager Bray notified the City Council Monday night of this ralher unusual offer with?the *ur, gestlon that It be accepted. And the Council snapped up the offer greedi ly, licking Its chops as though hun gry for similar offers from dealers in 'other street building materials. ASKED TO ATTEND ATHLETIC MEETING The new athletic association or ganized last Wednesday evening for the purpose of forming a local foot ball team and arranging for for oth er Indoor and outdoor athletic events meets at the Community Building to night at 7:30. The purposes of this meeting is to elect officers for the association, to arrange a line-up for the football team and to discuss such other ath letic events as may 'be, brought be fore the meeting. ' Many members of the association have expressed a desire to see the new club enter into a broad field of athletics, including arrangements for the building of tennis courts. Not only foot ball, tennis and vol ley bJLll enthusiasts but all who are Interested in athletics are asked to be at the meeting at the Community Building tonight. ANG1ER DUKE'S BODY IS SENT TO DURHAM i New York, Sept. 4.?The body of Angler Duke only son of Benjamin Duke, wealthy tobacco manufactur-: er. who was drowned early yesterday ! in Greenwich. Connecticut, was sent j an a special car to Durham, North Carolina, today for iburiul In the fam ily cemetery. Mrs. Duke was pros trated by news of her srtn's death. MOTH Kit* WILL LK.\ll\ AIIOIT 4KLLY MtKINCi Mlsa Marcle Albertson, home dom onatratlon agent. will give a demon stration In Jelly-making at the Moth em' Club meeting at 3:30"Wednes day afternoon at tin* Community House. The babies will be weighed, and there will be other Interesting features. The president of the elub. Mrs. Martin Jennings, urge* the members to be present in full number. Tin other officer* of the club are Mrs. Will Hunch, vice-president, and Mrs. W. A. Deals, secretary-treasurer. The club la making wonderful progress under their leadership and with the wholehearted support of the hi' mhcr shlp. RKVIVAL AT HKM ItOMS Belcross, Sept. 4.?Rev. J. T. Rfd-' dirk, paator of Park Avenue Baptist Church, Norfolk, will assist the pas tor, Rev, L. L. Johnson at Sawyer's Creek Baptlat Church. In a revival beginning Monday. Sept. 10. Services will be held a* 3 o'clock In the afternoon and at half past seven In the evening. Nightly prayer services by the pas tor are being conducted at Sawyer's ("reek now ?n preparation for the ap pronchlng revival. i:movkd pinh ritv About 75 guests enjo^d the de lightful Aah fry given at Cartr right s Beach Monday afternoon with Mra. J. P. Thompson and Mra. Oeorga Markham am host# Radical Change In Jitney Ordinances Believe Measure If Adopted Will Relieve Congestion At Station A radical change In the ordinate regulating the parking of jitneys at the Norfolk Southern passenger sta tion is in prospect for Monday night of next week when the City Council meets to adopt theflty ordinances as revised, recoded" and amended by the ordinance committee which nas been engaged in this work for th" last three months. 1'nder the provisions of this ordi nance "for hire" cars for white peo ple will be required to park on the I paving line to the north of the pas senger station and to the east of the station to a point coinciding with the southern wall of the waiting room for white people. "For hire" cars for colored people will be required to park along the paving line on tin* east of the passenger station between boundaries marked by the lines, re spectively. of the southern and north jern walls of the waiting room for (colored people. Private cars will be jrequired to park along the railroad track to the north of the station along the line and In the space now I used by the "for hire" cars. i The ordinance has been framed by j City Manager Ilray with the aid of City Attorney Leigh, following a con ference between Mr. Dray and the division superintendent of the Nor folk Southern railroad. | It is believed that the new ordi ;nanc? will help to relieve congestion at the passenger station, -that 4t will aid In controlling competition be tween local jltneurs and that it will I be for the convenience of the travel ling public, especially in wet weath ?er, as one will not have to get from |under the shelter of the station shed to take a jitney. The present jitney parking line stretches several hun Idred feet beyond the shed. NEW NEGRO SCHOOL HAS NO POWER WIRES f?A Macedonian run for tiPip from the board of school trustees fell on j deaf ears when presented to the City I Council Monday night -toy Superinten dent. s. I,. Sheep. No power wires, it has been dis covered now that power Is needed, are available at the new negro school I building on Body Road. The bond ing is near the city limits and the (local electric light company dees not feel that the amount of current that will be used in the new school build In--; will justify the rost of running their lines to it. They have made the trustees a proposition to pay for labor and poles if the trustees will I pay for the wire. Superintendent Sheep thought that Is view of the fact that the new building had been compelled, through lack of adequate public util ities in the city, to install Its own {private and Independent sewerage system that the city might go so far as to pay for the wire, but members {of the Council couldn't see it that way. | "The Hoard of Trustees," said City Manager Hray, "have the same power to obtain money to run their schools as has this body. The people would not have to meet this expense any less should this hill be paid by the City Council than if it were paid b/ the Hoard of School Trustees, as the money In each cas#> comes from the same source. This matter that they J brlnfc before us tonight Is their own and not our concern. I am willing to. co-operate with the Hoard of School Trustees .in the way of counsel and advice In any way possible and will If necessary work at night to do so. Hut this Is a request that. In my opinion, the trustees should not make of us." WIFE TURNS THE TABLE ON HUSBAND He wasn't had! He never drank! He stayed home at nights! Hut hi* wife made up for It. She did the thing* he didn't do. When Philip wan minding hahy. hi* wife was listening to Mattery and toasts In the cabarets; she rel ished a cocktail much more than she' did concocting food In the kitchen. The situation Is developed In ? Hra?s" the screen adaptation from Charles O. N'orrls' novel, a Warner j fir others' classic of the srr??en. to l?e shown at the Alkrama Theatre Jo day and Wednesday. It deals with ' the courtship, divorce and loves of Philip and Marjorle Baldwin. In writing the story. Mr. Sorrls alm^d ; at a vivid realistic study of mar riage. Monte Blue has the featured role ( of Philip. Ills supporting cast Is made up of Mary Prevost, Harry 1 Myers. V??ra I^wla. Irene Rich,' Frank Keenan. Mist Dupont, Marga ret Seldon. Helen Ferguaon, Ed ward .fohson, Harvey Clark. Cyril Chadwlck. Pat O'Mally. Oertrude Hennett and Kthel Oray Terry. It was directed >hy Sidney Franklin TWO YOUNG BANDITS IIOI.D IIP A TWAIN Sacramento. Rept. 4.?Two youth ful hamllta held up the WpRlfrn Hi Irlflc train near Stockton today, ac cording to report* to the aherlff'a of fice Iter*. A pom la out ?ft?r them. American Embassy At Tokio Not Injured t Ambassador W oods Semis Slate De|)artment First Message Since Disaster and Urges Thut Food lie Sent at Once from tlie I'hillipines to Stricken Japan CITY PLANNING TO BECOME A REALITY Personnel of (loinini^ion Will I'rolmldy he Named Next .Monday Niplit and Five Mem hers Chosen. Elizabeth City is to have a City Planning Commission in the near fu ture nnd the personnel of this Com mission will probably be decided up on next Monday night, the City Coun cil at its regular meeting on Mon day night of this week having ap proved City Manager Ilray's recom mendation that the Council under I authority from the last legislature, create such a commission. Council man Hughes. Ferebee and Cordon were named as a committee to rec ommend the new Commission's per sonnel. "The creation of this Commis sion." said Mr. IJra.v in making the recommendation for the taking of [this step on the part of the City !Council, "will euable you to control I the development of your city's real estate and to make intelligent prog ress toward the beaut iflcation of your town and toward its development along the lines of a well ordered plan. "The functioning of this Commis sion will prevent the erection of un sightly structures where they would .mar the appearance of a street or de tract from the value of adjacent ; property. It will prevent, for in stance. your neighbor from locating Ills Kami:* wo Hint if will he nn evo sore to a whole neighborhood. At the siimc time, no hardship need be ,brought on anybody. You can not do to your neighbor through this Commission anything that you as a gooJl citizen would not be willing to ! have your neighbor do to you. "I consider the creation of thin jCommission one of the greatest for ward strides,'from a standpoint of its future development, that your city could take." The City Manager's recommenda tion for the creation of the Commis sion was adopted unanimously' and the personnel committee was named forthwith. It was the sense of the [Council that members of the Com mission should be chosen with a .great deal of care and only after ma jtlire and thoughtful consideration. Hence the appointment of a person inel committee, instead of proceeding ,to the Immediate naming of the I members of the Commission. At least one member of the Com mission. it is believed, will be a wo man. I'nder the provisions of the law the Commission Is to consist of not more than five members, and City Manager Mra.v recommended that Ave be named to membership on the Commission. HTY WI1.I, T.AKK OVKR 1'1'KBHf* OF CUMKTKItlKtt The City of Klizabeth City Is In the near future to take over the up keep of the cemeteries of the town, thus relieving from that burden the I three ladles' cemetery societies' which, by a system, of dues and on a meager Income, have been attempt ing to carry it on. I The cMv Is now about to employ a full-time keeper; who Is lo be fur nished with the proper tools and equipment for the upkeep of the cem eteries and who is to be clothed with police pownrs In order to properly regulate aud preserve order in and around th/m. Included In the up keep will be such matters as keep ing?the grass mowed, hedges trimmed, nnd. with the assistance of, the street force, the maintaining of' all drives in good condition. The societies will continue to co operate with the city authorities for the heautiflcation of the cemeteries, but, relieved of the upkeep, will be able to give their time and attention to such matters as the planting of trees and shrubbery, and the erec tion of walls, gates and so on. One of the societies, through a small trust fund, will have a regulnr Income to devote to such objects, but it will be some time before this In come in large enough to be used to the accomplishment of a great deal. City Manager Hray, who made the recommendation that the city take over the upkeep of the cemeteries and who has appeared before the va rious societies to Inquire as to their attitude and resources, report* mem bers of the various societies as v? ry much gratified at being relieved of .the problem of the general upkeep of the cemeteries and at being given opportunity to devote their energies and efforts toward permanent Im provement and heautiflcation. HI'KXT MO\T?l AWAY Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Newbold have returned from a month's stay at flan ford and Rtatesvllle, where they vls llted their sons, Henry .and Herbert Newbold. They also stopped over at Charlotte, High Point, Salisbury and iTtaomAiTtlle. as the* SUil""/.0^ W;n?d!' to<lav ""'vised .>lat?? Dtpartnwnt in th*? ap.? srf.r,r.v?r sr arS ""'"I that the food situation was Rr :'?rdf*"kert ??ion. b? kohama. and Yoko*u|!? Ia5 " been completely wiped out." en . Casualties amoiiK foreigners were as* and hl?"w|f,1" TBU", \" Vol(ohania. nr^Tn"h'ul?':d?r^-^' Still iii Klnnifff rrom'o:^1:^^81'^' N,'w" *????* t|.|?enl |? America ^o,C!n?:^erd-ryptapp^.!1,7o,d,^ Ani?Tlran |x>op|<> to aid Japan Hiiffpr fund" COI"rit'ullons to the Red Cross 1 Tile inlri Par"'1<'ake and fire. 'mbas.ie?w|TrrdoP.rrS^dan<1 Ita"n" ... . , ?'arrle? Kooil Vvanhin>{lon. Sopt. 4.-_rri,p ?m , Sr? Onaka, Japan. Sopt -I ? Tin ,i?hti ' Iwei'n to heh lne? lil 0 an'1 200.(100 peoitte according- to latest " ?"" ? Terrible Scenes Osaka. Sept. 4.?Terrible wenes ma durC".' T"k'" """ V"k'"'a Tlfrt,. i *'ftpthqilal:e and Ore JZTcdlnz:;ibun'??', ?"'** I'ovulation Flrehui. VeuSnl,v "r* Xr"l> 'Strove,I here. ?rd'n* r'l""-ts received ?,... '?""""Itfes Half Million ,, "" I* ranclsco, Sept. 4. r.,?.i nr,?ni t,|p p?rthqunkp and ftro to" l.il half a million, and 300,000 hous hv l'S,V h"rn,'d' 'I Is estimated a courier" fron? f>T01""' ar<'o|',"n* to ' rro,? Oayama who reuort ?, r a;Vi To""?ka to the Rad,o Corporation of America. Demi In Toklo I.VI.IHH) I t'killK. Sopt. 4 In T/*Lrl? 1 >'<?'! from the eartwike*'^ the enMm?7" J60'000' ^cording "U ?'thnatc kIv?'ii todav to thp Jm? "^rwn8 m" Ur by rad'lS" Harbin Manchuria. Kept, 4 ?The n.. naceB ,?e des7ro"d Two hundred KorpAm /i-i from Toklo by soldiers enr^ T"" mart la I law. procured arm, 'SSl* Hon. accorrflnx to the Japanese News In K,!; ,"!'lrhh t h a ttherevolt Tok loTndjte-:re?""" W"" Th_ "I'XWH-HKIIlin i =w3F-=? .,/V Mr" William Henry Had and Mrs ?' ''arrhmont. and Mr. i ii, ?P?n?e are now on their home In 'ral J"** wl11 'heir nome in F3l|?beth City where Mr XT 2.?hp,oy*d ln ,h" Post-office" "? Is an Elk. and a most Vnla fel popular In hi. every day job ""ike"' Th|inr"h, B'k "hnw anil lie h? kni marriage children who are almo.t mnre hrni.P V hl" l,K,n" <?<" "lure bride, who. by the way waa !he0r"' Wnr,c ,n """ P??tofflce "when 'he romance began. She resinned P"s"lon there a few weeks ago. IM gi'lKT ?Y>I ||T Sunerl/*^/'''"'V . "'rm of C?"ltuck superior ( ourt is reported by thoae *ni??heth City who attended Monday a mmIoh. dar"?'ih". 'It""'*''?"' w" ,rle<1 Mon n y b#ln* Uken ?P with i?th .r. ' ch*r** 'o ,h? y and with coins oT*r th? calendar.