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4> ? ' ?' * * ' * * * * * * ? ? * * ? * 4i VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION. ' ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1923. EIGHT PAGES. NO. 221. RACE FOR VELIE WILL SOON BEGIN Nominations Coming in Briskly^ And Candidates Groom For Start Two Automobiles and Hundreds of Dollars in Cash Awards Await Distribution Among All Who Participate in Campaign to Increase Circulation of The Advance. NOW IS THE TIME TO ENTER Nominations Should he Made Promptly as Subscriptions Count More in Early Stages of Race, Giving Early Starter Big Advantage NOMINATION BLANK ? In The ? . 9 Daily Advance "Everybody Wins" Campaign I hereby enter and cast 5,000 free votes for Miss XMr. or Mrs.) - Address As a candidate In the "Everybody Wins" Prise Campaign. Send or bring this Nomination Blank to Campaign Manager at the Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N. C. NOTE?Only one nomination 'blank accepted for each can didate nominated. News that The Daily Advance Is going to distribute prizes aggregat-, ing thousands of dollars, including a J $1,395.00 Velie and a $319.00 Ford, first announced in this paper Satur day evening, has already awakened , considerable interest. What appears to this newspaper to be the most attractive prize dis- j trlbution ever inauguarated In the Albemarle district is fully explained in the page advertisement to ibe j found elsewhere in this issue. Votes and votes alone will be the deciding I factor In the distribution of these! costly awards. The votes necessary to win either of the two brand now automobiles. or a big cash prize are secured in two ways. First, by clipping out the 100 vote free coupons that appear in ev-' ery issue of The Advance. Each of these coupons is worth 100 votes when cast at Campaign Headquarters before the expiration date appearing thereon. But the faster way to accumulate ! the winning votes for Uie $1,395 Ve lie or the $319.00 Ford Is by getting1 your friends to subscribe or renew ' their subscript long to The Advance through you. Everyone has plenty of friends who will gladly help them I both by saving the free voting cou pons and by subscribing to The Ad-i vance. The Advance's "Everybody Wins"! campaign Is radically different from1 unything of Us kind that has hereto fore been conducted in this commun ity?extremely short in Its duration and extraordinarily liberal in the way It Is arranged. Every active participant will be rewarded and ! someone will make his or her spare ; time worth $225 a week during the I next few weeks. Surely that Js good j pay for anyone's Idle momenn. Particular attention Is called to! the fact that the number of votes glVen for each subscription will be | very materially reduced after the i first part of the campaign. For ex ample. n new yearly subscription to; The Advance is now worth 8,000 votes while such a subscription would 1 credit a candidate only 5,000 votes ! at the last of the campaign. The number of votes given for each sub-1 scrlptlon will soon decrease very rapidly. Ej-eryone must keep In mind, too, that no change whatever will be made in the vote schedule at i<ny time. No "extra" or "bonus", votes will ever be given. The vote, schedule will remain Just us It Is I from the beginning to the end of the ? campaign. The full page announce- 1 ment should be consulted for parti* < nlara, says tho circulation manager. "Now is the time to send In your wn nomination or that of some1 :i whom you would llk*? to see the owner of this dandy $1,305 Velle ! or tli'1 $319.00 Ford roadster. Any whit* man or woman, boy or girl has th. privilege of nominating himself or herself or candidates may be nom inated by their friends. In either ca<??. your nomination starts you off with 5,000 free votes right at the be-' ginning. The Important thing Is to that your nomination Is In right] av ty while the largest vote schedule' H in force. The campaign will soon I), starting and every candidate will! want to have the advantage of an 1 early start. "Remember that the campaign la exceptionally short?to be concluded in *? short weeks. Send or bring I your nomination today to The Ad vance office or phone 357. Start these two ear* which will aoon be' QUAKE DESTROYS I PERSIAN TOWNS Hundred and Twenty-throe Deaths Reported With Al most a Hundred People In jured, Say Dispatches. (Br The Aiaotlatrd Prrso.) Teheran, Persia, Sept. 24. ? Sev eral villages in the vicinity of BuJ nurd are reported to have been de stroyed with casualties. As far as is know 123 are dead and aibout 100 were injured in an earthquake \ which shook the region laftt Thurs-1 day, say dispatches reaching here to day. Shocks are continuing and . damage also is reported in the dis trict of Shirvan. Simla, British India, Sept. 24.?A severe earthquake was felt in Ker-i man, Persia, last night, much dam-] age being done to the buildings. The I first shock lasted two minutes, fol-| lowed by four additional tremors ov er a period of 90 minutes. AWAIT ACTION OF WAR DEPARTMENT Washington, Sept. 24?Action by the War Department before night on the question involved in the Govern-1 ment's Gorgas steam plant on land In Alabama owned by the Alabama Power Company was forecast today by Secretary of War Weeks after a conference with the President. DISTRICT MEETING AT CITY ROAD CHUKCH The District Meeting of Wom an! Missionary Society of Elllaheth City District will be held at City i lload Methodist Church Tlviritduy of this week. Beginning at 9.38 a. m. and continuing through the day till 4.30 p. m. A pageant. "The March of the Mltea," la to bo given Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock liy the Bright Jewels of City Road Church. Every one Is invited to nitend any or all the meetings and the pageant. FOUR KILLED WHEN TRAIN STRIKES AUTO Schenectady. N. Y., Sept. 2 4, ? Four were killed and two Injured here yeslerday when an Interurban train struck an auto. PEANUT GROWERS HAVE SETTLED CASE Norfolk, Sp?t. 24?The $3,625,000 suit of the Peanut Grower* Assor'a tlon against a nozen or more big cleaners of Virginia and North Car olina has been settled out of court. ? At the reconvening of the I'nlted States District Court here.todav. Lawrenci* Levy, chief of the grower*' council, asked that the case be dis missed. stating that It was the belief of both sides thet * continuance of the hearing would damage the Indus try as a whole. today toward ownership of one of awarded tog ther with hundreds }(: dollars in ciah prises." STUDY STATE'S HEALTH METHODS Raleigh, Sept. 24.?Eight foreign public health experts arrived here yesterday for the study of North Carolina public health methods. They repre sent the health division of the, league of Nations. EXPECTS EXPOSE KU KLUX KLAN Governor Walton of Oklaho ma Declares That He Wel comes the Test of His Au thority in the Courts. Oklahoma City. Sept. 24.?Gover nor Walton yesterday declared that he hoped the test of his autohrlty prohibiting a special session of the leglfllftlUre wop Id be made in the courts as that will be a chance to expose the Ku Klux Klan in the courts. He also declared that.the Ku Klux Klan was banned by the old national law of reconstruction days and Is un i lawful. Ilomlcvl Hand Activities i Tulsa, Okla., Sept. 24?Testimony describing the burning of three houses In Tulsn In one night by a party of masked men was heard by [Governor Walton's military commis sion Investigating hooded band ac tivities, the high officer of the com mission declared in an interview to day. I A wedding ceremony performed in the center of a fleld In Creek Coun jty while the bridegroom was chained to a gas engine with pistols levelled at his head was another case heard ; by the commission. GENERAL SITUATION IN BULGARIA BETTER IDr T?io A??oriatp<l Prr?.) Sofia, Sept. 24?The general situa tion In Bulgaria shows marked Im provement. A few Isolated case* of rebellion are still being reported but these are regarded as unimpor tant. Legion Prepares Armistice Program. 1'nrades and Oren*?>iiie? All Over .Natlor. to in Held ill November Indianapolis, Sept. 24.?American! Legion posts In all parts of the coun try are prepnrlng to observe Armis tice Day with parades and ceremo nies lu honor of those who died In 1 the World War. Garland W. Powell, director of I the Legion's national Americanism. commission, has suggested a general program. Observances will start at 10:30 a. m. with the Invocation fol lowed by music. Then the post com-! mander or presiding ofTlrer will de liver an address. At 11 a. m., the hour when the guns stopped firing on the western froht, the gavel of the presiding officer will fall and all will stand with bowed heads while a silent prayer Is offered for those whojuade the supreme sacrifice. At the end of 30 seconds the gavel will fall again and the program will bo resumed. Roll call of the men who went to war from the community will be read by the post adjutant. With the reading of each name. Legionnaires designated by the post commander win give a brief outline <>f the man's war record. Then will follow the re marks of the speaker of the day and the singing of the national anthem Veterans of the Civil and Spanish American wars will march In front of those who fought In the recent war. The co-operation of all frater nal, civic, pntrlotlc and other organi zations will be asked by the le gion for the event. "Armistice Day la truly a day of thanksgiving," Mr. Powell say?. "Brought about directly by the men who so ably defended their country, It Is a day of great rejoicing. It brought to an end the world's treat est conflict and spelled the defeat of autocracy, selfishness, greed and op pression. It carried forward Chris tianity, Justice and liberty." DECLINE TO PRESS WITHDRAWAL BOATS London, Sept. 24.?-An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Constanti nople quotes an An**ora m??a*i?g? as stating that th* Turkish government has declined to pfess for withdrawal, from The strait* of the flotilla of American torpedo boats stationed at. Constantinople. GETSINGEP. CASE TO JURY TUESDAY Throe Defendant* the I^ast Wiliirwes for Defense and Plaintiff* Evidence Now in Nature of Kehuttal. Th?? defense rested in the case of Mrs. Sabrah Getslnger vs. Dr. E. F. jCorbell. L. M. Koudtrees and N. A.I Getsinger shortly after court con-1 ,vened Monday afternoon and the j i plaintiff began rebuttal testimony 'with prospect that evidence would bei ! concluded before court adjourned | for the day, thus leaving all Tues-I I day for the Judge's charge and the I j amunent. The case began Thursday after noon of last week and, running overj jinto this week, has delayed the Cam* .den term of Superior Court sched uled to begin Monday to Wednes jday. It has taken the defense two I days to put on its evidence, the three defendants themselves being the last witnesses examined. The defense rests its case first on i the character of the defendants, (which, tt i* contended. Is such as to make the charge of conspiracy made by the plaintiff preposterous. Dr. Southgate Leigh, for Instance, Nor folk surgeon, was here only to tes tify to the high character of Dr. < Corbel), personally and professional ly. In the next place. It Is the con tention of the defense that the plain tiff Is of a very suspicious nature as jwell a:i that she was mentally unbal anced at the time of the alleged in quisition, and that the Idea of con spiracy is the fanciful creation of the plaintiff's brain. In corroboration of their contention that glieJjKAs men tally unbalanced they put on the stand Dr. P. W. Drnry, alienist, ?>r Petersburg, who observed the plain tiff when she went to a hospital fol lowing her flight from her husband's home, and who testified that at that time. In his opinion, she was men tally unbalanced. Following the evidence of the three defendants, all of whom testi fied that they sought to have Mrs. Getsinger committed to the State Hospital at Raleigh in good faith, believing her to be a fit subject of that Institution, documentary evi dence In support of their contention was produced. I TWO WHITE BOYS ARE FINED FOR ASSAULT Floyd Sawyer was fined $15 and costs and Johnnie Sawyer $5 and costs for assault on Louis Baker, j : Hell street, In recorder's court Mon day morning. j. John Harnett, colored, generally known n? "Stacklee." was flned $10 'and coats for prostitution. Milton Cartwrlght for defective; lights and Wallace Skinner, the lat 'ter colored, on tlie same charge, were J i each taxed with the costs. Hail Aviation as Aid Mail Service Postmaster \>? ami Others iireat Possibilities In A Irplnncs Stockholm, Sept. 24.? Avlntlon ; will soon bring about Immense im provemetns In postal nnd nnsseneer transportation, nnd will ultimately have revolutionary effects on socio I life gencrallv, according to four of the world's leaders In the fleld of communications. These ni?n?Sir Samuel Hoare, Hritlsh minister of aviation. Postmast* r Oeneral Harry S. New. of th#? I'nited Str.tes, Direc tor General Pongc. of tSu? German pn*'office, and Han Flro^troni, ex cabinet minister nnd one of Sweden's greatest shipping men- nav their views to the Handtls och SJofartstld-? ning, a leading Swedish Journal, In reply to a questionnaire. Sir Snmuel Hoare, In his reply, eftiphgelfed the need of International ro-operntlon. He fnvors official en couragement and support for private Initiative for the establishment of air lines. Aviation, however. In still j'Oling. Sir Samuel believes, and only a -Teat expenditure of thought, en-' erg/ nnd capital will brine It to Its due place in world developmeut. Perfection of night flying, accord ing to Postmaster New, Is one of the primary requisites to aerial progress. , This is a fundamental to develop-, nient of the postal aviation service, he said. Mr. New declared he saw unlimited possibilities for airplanes, In postal communications. A similar message came from Di rector itonge, of Berlin, who said the air might now be regarded as the most important road for progress In mail transportation. Mr, Prostro of Gothenburg said that It is only a question of n short time until aerial traffic across the continents and the oceana will offer the *ame commercial possiblllti** as the rMlroada and the shipping lines of today, and that aerial vehicles will then have at least as revolutionising; an effect In remodelling social life in general as the locomotives and. steamships daring the pest BO years. Seymour Charged With Assault Intent To Kill Alleged lo Have Knoeked Police Chief Gregory Oflf Run ning Board of Car at City Drug Store Corner Sat urday Night Gregory Out in Few Days BAD START MADE j IN BALLOON RACE Three Men Killed When Some Balloons Drop unci , Others Explode Few En trants Make Good Getaway. Brussels, Sept. 24.?The start on the International Balloon Race for the Gordon-Dennett Cup yesterday |was bad, and three men were killed when some of the balloons dropped 'and others exploded. Only a few of the entrants got [away to a good start. Stnirk by Lightning. Brussells, Sept. 24.?The I'nited States Army balloon, S-f?, competing in the Gordon-Bennett International 'Race, was struck by lightning last, evening and Lieutenants Olmstead and Choptaw, her occupants, weret killed. I This was the third balloon to be destroyed In the race, Ave aeronauts losing their lives. i The S-6 was destroyed near Nlstel rod. the Aero Club of Brussels of ficially announced today. Coolidge Speaks to the Red Cross Says Practical Idealism of Am ericana Have Made Or ganization Success ! Washington, Sept. 24 ? A deep faith in spiritual things, tempered by hard common sense adapted to the needs of the world, is the kind of practical idealism that Is represented in the history of America, President Coolidge said today in an address be ? fore the annual convention of the 'American Ited Cross. | "The American people*," he added, "are not. likely to adopt any other course." The President's address, his first i formal utterance, was devoted to the [praise of the?qualities which have 'made the Red Cross a success.- Chief [among these, he said, was its practi cal idealism. ! BIG LEAGUE STABS TO PLAY IN CANADA Cleveland, Sept. 24.?Manager iTrie Speaker of the Cleveland In dians and George Chle, the Indians' pitching ace, are amonu several play ers of the American League who will participate In exhibition games nt Peterboro, Canada. October lo, II and 12. The proceeds of the games' will be turned over to a fund for the benefit of returned Canadian soldiers. Others who are said to have aureed to take part In the games are Sam Rice and Ro^er I'ecklnpaugh of the Washington Nationals, and, I/eslle Nunamakcr, manager of the ChattanooKa Club of tin* Southern Association. FIND NO PLAN FOR MERCHANT FLEET Washington. Sept. 2 4.?The Pres ident. wru today advls< d by members of the SHipping Board that a thor ough canvas of the situation has failed to develop any suggested plan of operating the Ooverniiient's mer-1 chant flr-et which offers hope of es caping a definite and continued def icit. MRS. WALTER WABI) OX WITNESS STANI) WhUo Plain., N. Y.. flopt. 24. ? Mrs. Walter Ward was called lo the witness stand today by the prosecu tion as a wltncus In the rase in whfeh her husband Is charged with murder In the flr?t degree of Clar ence Peters. WrOX MAItKKT New York, Sopf. 24.- Spot cotton i closed cittlet wit ha '56 point decllne.4 Middling 29.75. Run res closed at the following levels: October 28.88, Dreemher 28. 48, January 28.00, Mtrch 27.02. May 17.83. New York. Kept. 24? Cotton fu-j tures opened this morning at the ( following levels: October 29.30 1 December 28.80; January 28.41; March 28.81; May 18.80. 1 I was on the point of trying to dismount from Seymour's car when jjiolnc at a fast clip It turned sharp ly at the Matthews and Water street |corner, and I fell to the pavement. |I do not know whether Seymour {struck me or not. but I do know that [before I fell he was striking at me continually." The foregoing statement was made by Chief of Police Charles A. Greg ory to visitors at his bedside Sun day. While Chief Gregory does not iknow whether he was hit or not it Is said that there fa at least one wit ness who will testify that, Seymour struck Gregory on the chin and It is a fact that there Is a blue bruise on the Chief'? chin such as might havo been inflicted by a blow from a flst. The bark of the Chief's head struck the pavement when he fell from the I car, and it hardly seems reasonable .he could have been injured on the chin in the fall. I Chief Gregory waft taken to the hlizabeth City hospital Saturday night shortly after 9 o'clock in an unconscious condition, and it was not ;until 1 o'clock Sunday morning that he regained consciousness. The man charged with assault in connection with the Chief'h Injury Is Horatio .Seymour of Camden, who is under a $2,000.00 bond for appearance be fore the recorder on a charge of as sault with Intent to kill next Mon day, October 1st. The bond was re '.turnable Monday of this week and Seymour was here Monday morning when the bond was continued and the dnte of trial set for next Mon day. Chief Gregory is expected to he out of the hospital in three or i four days. Chief Gregory says that Seymour .came to him Saturday niuht to com iplain that an automobile had been so parked on Matthews street that It was impossible for Seymour to get | his own automobile, parked near the-" J rear of D. M. Jones's store, out until the former automobile Was moved. Chief Gregory went with Seymour to help him extricate his car and from the latter* conversation ' saw that he was under the Influence of liquor. He told Seymour, theref^ ?, that he was In no condition to drive his car home and* Seymour replied that he had a man with him who could drive it for him. Accordingly with John Barnard, also of Camden, at the wheel. Seymour got In his au omoblle and started for home. As the enuine started up Chief Gregory says that Seymour began to curse him. The Chief ordered the Cam den man to shut up, and when he did not do so sprang on tie* runnlnu board nt the Culpepper Hardware store corner nnd ordered tho car stopped. Seymour, however, told Harnard to drive on and Parnard Obeyed the owner of the rar rather than the chief of polire. The automobile gained headway on t,he way to the City Drug Store corner and there It was that, accord ing to what Is said to be the testi mony of eye witnesses, Seymour's flst canxht Chief Gregory under the chin and the police officer crashed lo the pavement unconscious. examination at the hospital dls closed In nddltlon to the bruise on Chief Gregory's chin, a star shaped cut near the base of the skull where Ills head struck the pavement as he fell from tfie running board. Com mon report had It Sunday night that < hlef.,<.ret:or.v would not live until Sunday morning, but he regained consciousness about four hours after the occurrence, and has continued to Improve since that time. No se Hons consequences of his Injury are now looked for. Seymour wns found by Camden authorities and Kllxiibeth City polio nt his home about two mllea from .amdon Court House Sunday nlK??t and placed under arrest. He pro jected that he did not strike Chi. f Gregory, hut that the latter fell fro? i the running board as the car wr?? turning the corner of Water stree Sevniour aNo Is nald to have claimed that the Chief threw a nun In hN face hut when the Chief was picked up nh pistol was found In his pocket along with his flashllaht. Iloratlo Seymour Is a former dep uty sheriff of Camden County and was one of the posse headed by Po lice Offlc. r (Jeorte Twlddy. members "f which were charged with the snooting Of David Overton, colored, as Hi. nmro boy (led from the posse n escape arret. Three member* of (he posse were convicted at last Sep tember S term of Superior Court, but Seymour was found not Kiillty. GHEENBOHO IM M.TOM TAKES HIS OWN LIFE Baltimore. Sept. J4._nr. John Al exander Williams of Greensboro. N. C., yesterday committed suicide here by severing an artery In hla right leg and bleeding to death.