********* - ^ ^ ********* * 77/E WEATHER * * \o change in temp. * ********* * * * Partly cloudy tonight * //ffil I (mI ^=1 r^*^i I* CIRCLL,tTIO\ : ?;!J!Zotr, z-x: ^|p^p J| p^^jn * * * * * *?******,(; ??VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1923. FOUR PAGES. NO 105 EIGHT COUNTIES ENTER EXHIBITS Ami S?<*ivtur\-Mujiager Glov er r. Harold Scurfleld at a Medical Association meeting recently. He advocated a more extensive use or the vegetable and said that the Greeks regarded* it as food for the mind, while to4ay It was regarded as .i stimulant for the body. This recalls n favorite experiment of Professor Vivian R. I*owes, explo sive export. When lecturing ho used to All a glass jar with water cross. take It to Greenwich hospital and leave it on the roof In the sun's rays. The next week It would be brought back to the lecture room, the cover removed, and a light plac ed near the opening with the result that a deafening explosion occurred. Thl ? proved, according to the pro f<>?of. that watercress was compos c<1 of pure oxygon and therefore very beneficial to the human system. \\\Ml \< I s oi l vim. OF HTt'lHO THlfUlDAr Finer G. Davis announces that his studio, corner Road and Fearing tf-ff ?, for Instrumental music In-i -iruction, will be open dally, begin ning Thursday. September 6, from 9 to 12 a. m. and from 2 to 5 p. in.-jj Mr. DJtvIs states that lie has room In his classes for a few more pupils In addition to those who have already j requestor! enrolment and If there be others who desire to enroll he will be at his studio during the above Stated hours, and will be glad to go| Into the matter with them. Visitors i are welcome. Classes will begin, work about September 1*. | AMERICANS RESPOND TO RED CROSS CALI. Washington. Se;?t. r?.? Ev??n l>?? for?- the npp'*al fur fund* had l :nl time to ^ain ??ii?ral circulation tin* American people l?*-tan pouriti^ tin ii offi-rinKf Into tki?' funii for tli?- ivln of .lapatu'vo toiflVrers. The first mail to reach K?d Cros: headquarter* lu re today brouuht ? hatch of cio-ck.H in ivh|M?mn* i?> tin for $3.ono,o??0 with which t? exund aid to the stricken |M'-o|?k*. Oft'ers Advice to Breeders of Hojjs ??|i? i?llst Deplore* Knrl 'Hint FafSh frs Often Sell Hoc* at Raleigh. Sept 5.?An agricultural! report made public this week by W.I W. Shay, swine extension specialist for North Carolina State College and the Department of Agriculture of advice to hog breeders concerning marketing their swine. "Year after year." the report reads, " during December and Jan uary. when the price of hogs Is at the lowest point, farmers of North Carolina and t'ae cotton belt gener ally sell their oily and undesirable hogs at a loss. The average of 20 ; years' prices for oily hogs tor these two months has >een below cost of production. The price of hv>gs at the |present time, even-in the face o.f a (surplus, will show a profit if the .hogs are of good quality and have jbeen intelligently fed. | "What are the indications of a bad break in hogs this fall and winter? The surplus hogs have eaten the sur | plus corn of the corn belt with the .result1 that the price of corn is about J20 cents a bushel higher than a year ago. ] According to the report of the United States Department of Ag riculture, the corn and hog ratio, dur ing July was 7.5 to 100. To explain: At the average farm price for the ,United States during July. 1923, the Iprino nt' whlrlr 1"U?pounds of?pnrk on foot was sold equaled the price of 7.5 bushels of corn. Only once dar ling the last 14 years has the ratio 'been as narrow and that was during July, 1917. when it was 7.4 bushels to 100 pounds. The average ratio from July 1910 to 1922 was 10.39 ' bushels. "Receipts of hogs for July were the heaviest for that month in the [history of the country. In fact, the previous high record* of July, 1918, was exceeded by over a million head. , GemfHyed with n year ago, July re ceipts showrrf an increase of more I than 40 per cent. "Indications of unrest In the in dustrial fields confirm the belief in I the wisdom of selling hogs intended for pork as soon as they can be made ready nnd fall pigs should also be ' i?r? pared to meet the early market. "North Carolina hogs of Quality I may now be sold nt ten cent*. They I will almost certainly drop later, even I though labor continues to be galn j fully employed. Should there occur In serious curtailment in production . in various llr.es of industry, with a (consequent decline In consumption In pork products, it is difficult to pre dict the extent to which hog prices ; may fa)!. It is always the part of wisdom to cash in on the hogs when ithey are ready nnd show a pro^'t. History has indicated the proper time to do It in this state, and this ttime is September. i "When the North Carolina farm ior fully understand* the seasonal 'price trend of hogs, and supplements j that information with a thorough knowledge of the best methods of [feeding, he will find a reasonable I number of hogs one of the most profitable and rapid sources of In come on the farm." XOTKI) (JKIIMANH IX MKXICO FOR HTUDY OF HOLAR WIJPftK Mexico City, Sept. 6.?A party of German scientists, headed by Prof. II. Ludendorff, director of the Pots dam Observatory and brother of the I field marshal, were the first of the foreign savants to arrive in Mexico I to observe the solar eclipse on Sept. j 10. After being welcomed by repre sentatives of the government and In specting the national observatory at TacUbays, the party left for Yer ' banlz. Durango. where they will In jstail their Instruments. In the party Is-Prof. R. Schorr, di rector of the Hamburg Observatory, who, at the outbreak of the world | war, was with Professor Ludendorff !ln the Crimen on the same mission | that finds them In Mexico. They I were forced to abandon all their In-' Istrumenis, according to Schorr, and flee to Germany to avoid interment. I Scireral months ago the professors to Odessa and managed to retrieve !thn outfit, which is now being sent to lYerbanlx for use In observing the jcomlng eolipse. HAM HARDING HTAMI'H i/ouls 8ellg has received the flr^t ITttUed States postal stamps seen In this city bearing the picture of the! late Warren O. Harding. The stamp", received .'>y Mr. Sellg are the sire of the rfKular two cent postal stimp and are colored black. Postmaster J. A. Hooper received a notice from postal authorities that the stamps would be on sale In Elizabeth City some time lfter September the first but they had not arrived at the post office at noon Wednesdsy. FAVOKS SCOIT WORK Tin* Ili v? r* nd Frank H. Scuthtuood v.as kind etnmgh :o hrin- to my attention the >tli? r tlay t!e fact that I am !?? inu quoted in current ftrwt as opposing th?* work b. in- done for ilu- boys of the town .throunh the Hoy Scont ruanization. especially as it ?'?al*-# to the establishing of a camp at Arm-use Creek n*ar this city. To those who have known my tru?* attitude. 110 explana tion will be needed in deallnu, with such a situation. BtrTT lest some may misunderstand, allow n*? to say that my posi tion as a citizen of the com munity would forbid anything other than a helpful attitude toward all efforts for the build ing of a flner manhood and womanhood through work with the boys and girls. And in ad dition to my citizenship In the community, my responsibility as a moral and religious work er makes me a loyal supporter of all work that looks to the building of worthy character. Scout work looks to such char acter building. I had thought my position clear on this matter. The pos sible existence of any doubt as to my support of the work I ?* Int, done for the boys moves me to assert again my sincere Interest and to pledge my sup port. II. K. MYERS. l*artor City Road Church. Air Development On Naval Program Willard Board Reccommends Annual Expenditures For Ten Years Period I Washington. Sefflra.-?Analysis of jthe report of the Willard Hoard, re lcently adopted by the Navy Depart ment as the offlciul program for d?? jvelopnu ni of naval air iitati^n.^, diows a determination to develop ! ment of tlu? western depots during the next ten yearn. It is believed by istudents of strategy that there in ;more than chance in the fact that this period coincides villi that dur ing which no construction will be In progress on battleship replacements. I'ndcr the Ave power naval treaty (these will beuln in 1931 when three vessels will be laid down to take the place of the Florida, I'tah and Wyo , mini:. The Willard Board recommended the expenditure of only $*20,000 in the 1925 budget for air stations, comprising $554,000 for the Canal Zone and $206,000 for Hawaii, but |successive annual increments as fol ; lows: 1926: Canal Zone. $325,000; Ha waii. $220,000; Alameda, $50,000; Sand Point, Wash ington. $130,000. '1927: Canal Zone. $210,000; Ha waii. $261,000; Sand Point, Washington. $150,000; San Diego, $150,000. 1928: aCnal Zone. $294,000; Ha waii, $85,000; Alameda. $175,000; Sand Point. $265, 000. 1929: Canal Zone. $300,000; Ha waii. $160,000: Alameda. $170,000; Sand Point. $145, ooo. 1930: Hawaii. $.'100,000; Alameda. $109,000; Han Diego. $100, 000. 1931: Hawaii. $346,000; Alameda. $355,000; Sand Point. $131, 000. 1932: Alameda. $74,000; Sand Point, $300,000; San Diego, $165,000. ! 1933: Canal Zone. $159,500; Ha waii. $150,000; San Dleeo, $150,000. 1934: Hawaii, $725,000; (to com plete). I'ndeV the approved schedule Hie Alameda project would be completed in 1936 with an appropriation of $370,000 and the Washington station In the following year with a similar appropriation. The r.uantanamo fleet base nlr station would be started in 1938 with an allowance of $570,000. to which would !>r a difficult trip. They left Virginia Heach Tuesday morning but were caught In the rain and storm Tuesday afternoon on the way and had to push their bicycles through the mud for a considerable distance. FORT BRAGG WILL FURNISH EXHIBIT \\ ill Also Scud Dctarhiiicn! I of I'icki'd Soldiers lo (.liur Ii'Hp for Week of * ! (^ii'iiliiu.'K\|Nwiiiun, riiarlnttP. S. pt. iuli. r S. ? HriK:i dlrr (icncral A. .1. Howlov, com mund.iug general at Fori Bragg. was | the honor guest at a luncheon served i Iat thi' Charlotte Chamber of Com merce recently to ahout 25 repre. | sentative business men of thin city. | when all arrangements were made for the bringing of an army exhibit | from Fort Bragg to the Made-In Carolina's Exposition here the two week* of September 24?October fi. The necessary money to bring the exhibit here was raised in live min utes from among the Charlotte busi ness men present. General Bowley, the guest of Mr. Morehead while he was In Charlotte, left here yesterday ufternoon for Cleveland Springs, where he attend ed the dinner given here by the , Shelby Kiwanis club at the Cleve land Springs Hotel last night, at I which several speakers told of the [purposes and plans of the Exposi tion. He goes to Kings Mountain today to confer with the Kings | Mountain chamber of commerce officials in regard to the Rattle of I Kings Mountain cehi'irntion on"Sep tember 0. Ii Ins he?n arranged for Fori .Bragg to send a detachment of Its . picked soldiers to Charlotte during (the two weeks of the Exposition. ? This detachment will he made up of ;D. Mattery of the 5th Field Artillery. I the oldest organization of the regu j lar-Army of the I'nited States. The Ibatjery was organized in January of |177?>; its first Captain was Alexan der Hamilton. it has fought in ??very war in which the I7nit?>d States |has participated since that date.. The lllattery will bring with it one 240 millimeter howitzer, the largest field Khh chrrH'd by The Army of (he I'ni ted States. This gun fires a pro jectile weighing 350 pounds a dis tance of ten miles. The gun and carriage weighs 20 1-2 tons. Not withstanding this big weight, it can I be taken through the countrv and set un on record ;'me Ttye 75 will he the same as the famous French 75'a that made such a record during the War. The Battle flags of the 5 Hi. 17th and 2nd Field Artillery with all the guidons of the?rr? three regiments will be on Exhibition in side of the exhibition building. The 5th Field Artillery was the heavy flel^ artillery of the First Di vision. The 17th Field Artillery , was the heavy field artillery regi ment of the Second Division.. The history of these two regular regi ments Is well known. The colors of both recipients wear the famous Fourregere of France. It will be j remembered, that Marshal Focli de corated these colors at Monroe, two years ago. Likewise, there will be machine guns, automatic rifles and many other parts of equipment pertaining to the army, on display. Exper ienced mm-com missioned officer * :will ben in attendance to explain 'everything pertaining to this equip jment and life In the army. A $30,000 radio truck, capable of ! reef ivlng message from a distance of 3.000 miles will be on exhibition. The full band of 32 pieces from Fort Bragg will be In attendance at the exposition. Wednesday. Octo l her 3rd. will ihe designated as Fort Bragg day. On that night a spe cial exhibition of soldiers will take place In the auditorium of the ex position building. Special drills, showing first aid to the wounded, physical exercise, manual of arms, training and boxing and other fea tures of army life will be shown There probably will be three offi cers and 150 men In the detachment. They will establish n modern camp, not far from the Exposition ground*. This camp will he open to the in spection of the public at all times. The coming of this detachment of froops with the famous Hamilton Bntfery and Its equipment ? will give a splendid opportunity for iho peo pie of this sectIwi of the country to realize what the Army Is doing for this State. As General Rowley stated; "Your Exposition Is one of Made-Tn-The-Carolina*. Fort Bragg Is in North Carolina. We make men and Americans and we make them In North Carolina." GERMANY ARRIVES AT ENI) OF TETIIER (IN Yfc# AiwIWM I'fMl > Berlin, Sept. 5. That Oermany ban arrived at the *nd of hop tether. *o far aa her further ability io fln nr?e?- paaafv rculatance, I* the cur rent opinion In hanklnu Hrcloa hi'P", whlcli expect that Germany In th? four** of the next f??w dnya will take tho In It lat I vr? In propo*lriK official dlartiaalona to b#? begun with France and !!? Iklum. I MM \l OI*l*OIIT1 Mn l\ PIIKTTY DI.WKTl MKT The H. C nplKht Company la*t wofk placed In their window a bean tlful 10O-pfeco dinner net and each day the price will be one dollar lew* until th?? I- Mold. Tho original price waa 960 and In thla laaue of The Advance the act la adrerttaed at Catastrophe Was Not Exaggerated \s Slorv of Japanese Disaster I- I i? l<>Ir<'M*ntutiv?' at Gen | ova TH1? CuimrU That Lriisur Has INo (loinpeliMiry in the Matter. O'v Tb? Aiwnrlniwd Pr??1 j fJi'nova, Sept. 5.?Italy's represen tative, Siunnr Salandra. today tol?i ' tho Council of tlu* l.t aum1 of Nations that Italy would regard 11m- Interven Ition of the League In the Greco-Ital I Ian crisis as unjustified. "The LoaKiio," Up nHsertod, "'-as no competency In the affair, which I belongs properly to the Inter-AUIed I Council of Ambassadors." Urtuiiiins With Kiiuhind (Joni'va, ? Sept. 5.?Jt In reported , that Paul Hymans, Belgian delegate, j has received orders from Hrussels to ; stand solidly with Kngland in assur : ing reapect for the I^aftue's pact, "V I en at the cost of Italy's withdrawal from the League. Barren Crimea Is Uefuge for Author Simferopol. Crimea, Sept. !?.?In a little hut high up In the mountains some no miles from Simferopol, S. Sergeyeff Zensky, one of Russia's most widely known authors, is to day living the life of a hermit. To an Associated Press correspon dent Zensky related recently the dif ficulties of being a hermit during a revolution, and spoke of his adven tures during the numerous chances of regimes and the famine year in (the Crimen. "The famine here was very acute," he said. "The land had been devas tated by civil war and numerous uprising*. It completed tin* ruination, 'and carried away a large portion of the population which was already1 ulfyiletqd by the upheaval and "by ter-j ' ror. "I lived here quite happily from 1013 until the beginning of 19IS. 1 ? Then the Germans raided my little farm, and later the Bolshevists. I had to take refuge in town, where, I lived in hMinn for a couple of I i months until I was able to secure J from the authorities a 'guarantee of ?afpty' paper. My live stock and cat-j tie, which w??re confiscated during, the period of my absence, were glv- ] in back to me on my return, but ' they were unfit for work. Other changes of regimes, coupled with In-1 numerable Tartar risings, have each had their interests, and now the re- j suit Is quite evident." Pointing to a pile of timber and j short beams in a corner of the room, Zensky said: "That, together with; this little hut and one cowl Is all that remains of my fnrnt; all I have to' leave to my family." J "Please tell the American people." ; continued Zensky. "that the Crimean population greatly admires the dis interested nnd self-sacrificing work ' of the American Hellef Administra tion. as well ??* the humanitarian feelings of the American people. We are Indeed grateful." S. s? g.-y ff Zensky i? one of the few Russian writers who stayed in Huisla all through the years of rev olution and civil war. lie lives to day the hard life of a poor man. and Is cut off from the world of culture. He writes a great deal, and has Just j completed a romance entitled "Trans ! figuration," which deals with the development of Russia. I.IGIITMNG STHIKE9 THE VIIWitNIA DANK Lightning struck the rear flagi pole of the Klixabeth City float Line's1 stenner. Virginia Pare, during the storm Wednesday afternoon smash ing the light and splitting the pole. | There wa? no other damage and no one waa injured. , ' OTTOS MAHHKT New York. Sept 5.?Spot cotton closed quiet, Middling 26.80, an In-j crease of 85 points. Futures, closing Md. Oct. 25.61, Dec. 25.48, Jan. 25.23. March 25.35. May 25.35. New York. Sept. 5.?Cotton fu tures opened at the following levels: Oct 24 55-?5. Dec. 24.81-82. Jan 14.52-54, March 24.?4-?2, Mav 24.62 ? 2. In only one dispatch has there been a suKKestion that the death list will not reach the propor tions already indicated. This was from the Radio Corporation of America in Japan, which said that Japanese home office esti mated the dead at Toliio at 10, 000, and in Yokohama' at 100, 000. On the other hand Admir al Kdwin Anderson, command ing the United States Asiatic fleet, says that the last unofficial reports nave the casualties in Tokio and Yokohama as 2-10,000 dead, and -150,000 injured. Another estimate. this by the East ?tii News Agency, says tlint :J20,000 have boon killed In the entire strick en district. t Krcsh calamity has overtaken I smitten Tokio and terror has strlck |eii the remnants of its population. Nearly in.(ton refugee;* were trapped in the yard of a military clothing , factory located in the suburbs and mmn ?i us anmr Food and water are scarce. Three hundred and fifty thousand house* have been destroyed. New York, Sept. 5.?Two official ; messages received at the Japanese consulate today estimated the casual ties in Tokio and vicinity at 160, ,'noo with one million homeless. Imperial I'niuih Dead London. Sept. 5.?The Japanese embassy here today received a tele phone mes.sam- from Princess Kltn jshirakawa in Paris saying that she 1 had received information that Dow ager Princess Yamnshina. Princess Kiroko K;inin. and Prince Moromasa, members of the imperial family, are dead in Toklo %h the result of the ea rthquake. Home, Sept. f?.?The Italian am bassador to Japan, (J. Demartlno, is r? ported to have perished in the carthq uake. Tokio Americans Sale Wn.-hlngion, Sept. f?. All Amer icans In Toklo are believed to be safe. Ambassador Woods reported to tho s i* Department today. He stated that coine Americans in Yokohama had b? i ii killed. Estimates of dead in Toklo \\? re placed by the ambas sador at 1*1.000. Osaka. Sept. ?. ? Reliable esti mate's plac the loss.of life at be tween J'TiO.OOO and 500.001) from the earthquake. Business Is I)ea$! In Southern Rn4sia John II. I.and c?f Seattle Says There Is Practically \o Trade on Black Sen London. September 6?South Rus sia at present offers .no golden op portunities for American business men. according to John H. Lang, of Seattle, who recently passed through ill hi city on his way home after 18 months In Odessa and other Black Hen i oris, where he was in charge of port operations for the American it lief Administration. "There Is practically no trade on the Black flea." said Mr. Lang. "Ev en (Ireek and Armenian traders have given up in despair, and everyone who knows the Black Sea realizes that when these traders find unsur mountable obstacles to commerce, there must be something serious tho matter. "The new economic policy of the Hovlet was heralded as a long expect ed loosening of government control, and when it was Inaugurated more than n year ago the people had great hopes that a new era was dawning In communistic Russia. But such hones were soon flashed. "After shopkeepers had opened their stores with what little stocks they could get. they found that the government officials were waiting rrnly for trade to be resinned to Im pose ruinous taxes. These taxes made business Impossible for shop keepers, for Importers and exporters alike." Harvest prospects In South Russia arc excellent, according to Mr. Lane, who said that nobody In Russia should go hungry this winter. JOMCrt-MMAIJj Miss Tola P. Small and Mr. James E Jones, both of flouth Mills, were married Wednesday at the district parsonage by Rev. C. B. Culbreth.