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VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1923. EIGHT PAGES. NO. 231.
FACING TASK TO
FILLVACANCIES
Administration Must Supply
Successors to Ambassador
Harvey of England and Am
bassador Child of Italy.
Washington, Oct. 5.?The admin
istration faces the task of filling the
first important vacancies to occur in
the diplomatic service since Presi
dent Coolidge took ofTlce, in the res
ignation of Ambassador Harvey at
London, and Ambassador Child at
Home.
Harvey's resignation is to take ef
fect at once, and Child, who will
probably return to the United States
within a week or two, will not go
back.
Both are resigning ,lt was dis
closed today, after an agreement
?readied -with Harding -several,
months ago.
TRAINING SCHOOL
DATE IS CHANGED
The date of the Sunda'y School
Training School at Blackwell Mem
orial Baptist Church has been moved
forward to the week of October 22.
This has been done in order to meet
the convenience of most of those in
terested, as It was found that this
week was freer from interruption
than the one chosen.
Courses in methods, evangelism,
departmental work, and New Testa
ment will be offered.
Rev. W. J. Banks, pastor of River
side and Salem churches, will teach
the New Convention Normal Manual.
Two full hours will be given every
evening to the study of the course
with a short intermission for lunch.
The Sunday school board of the
Southern Baptist Convention re
quires ten full hours work on anv
of its books before a credit will be
granted, and the same amount of
work on any given half of the Nor
mal Manual.
Sunday school workers from any
of the other churches who are inter
ested In these courses are invited to
attend.
Stokes Indicted On
Conspiracy Charges
Chicago, Oct. 5.?W. E. D. Stokes,
millionaire hotel man of New York,
hl? attorney, Daniel Nugent of New
York, and five others were Indicted
today by the county grand Jury on
charges of conspiracy In connection
with the charges of Mrs. Helen
Stokes that her husbnnd and his ag
ents plotted to ruin her reputation
In connection with his divorce suit.
CHICAGO IS SHOKT
ON SUPPLY OF BABIES
Chicago, Oct. 5.?With a steadily
declining birth rate, Chicago Is
"short" 6,647 babies since 1916, ac
cording to statistics issued by the In
fant Welfare Society of Chicago.
In 1016, when the population of
the city was only 2,617,172. 56.417
babies were born. In 1922. when
the population figure was placed at
2,830,000, only 56,724 babies were
born. The rate during those years
had fallen from 22.4 a thousand to
20.02. Using these figures as a ba
sis, Orlo F. King, extension secre
tary of the Infant Welfare Society
declared that Chicago Is short 6,647
babies.
"The falling of the birth rate."
said Mr. King. "Is forcibly driving
home to the public spirited citizens
of Chicago the Increasing necessity
of guarding the human life that Is
given us each year even more seri
ously than In the past. It Is all the
****" tovportant that we exert every
possible means to preserve the infant
lives in thin community when we be
lieve. and with good reason, that the
birth rate will continue to drop as
It has since 1898."
Statistics of the society show that
last vrar, when it cared for approx
imately 12,000 babies, an actual sav
ing of 4 80 lives was credited to the
socie ty hccaune the death rate among
t>abies under 2 yoars of age cared
for at these utatlons was only 14 a
thousand, while throughout the city
generally it was four times as great.
HOMK UTKK \VKI)I)IN(1
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Jennings re
turned Thursday evening from Nor
folk where their wedding wan sol
. f?: ?z??d at the homo of Rev. Alonzo
KoIm rt liOVP, pastor of the Fourth
Street Daptlst Church of Porta
tnouth. Mr. I*ove officiating, and arc
at homo on Cherry street. Mr*.
Jennlnus was Mrs. Nora Stevenson
before her marriage to Mr. Jennings.
ATTKXDH MOTOCK KA1II
Secretary R. C. Job of the Kllza
beth City Chamber of Commerce at
tended the Community Fair at Mo
Friday and was one of the
akers on the day's proitram. Mr.
j.w nt by auto and was accom
panied by Joseph Peele of Ti)e Ad
vance staff.
HiFFIIRS Sl'RAINKO AMKLH
Miss Maud Munden. who lives on
Cedar street and Is bookkeeper for
W. H. Weatherly A Company, sprain
ed her ankle Thursday at noon while
walking across a vacant lot near her
home, and will be kept at home for
several day a by the accident.
LITTLE IS ELECTED
ACTING CASHIER
George R. Little was elected act- ,
ing cashier of the Carolina Hanking i
& Trust Company Thursday night j
when the directors met and formally |
acted upon the resignation of Gur
ney P. Hood, who has resigned in ]
order to give his entire time to in
troducing the Hood Weekly Loan
System into the banks of this.and
other states. Mr. Hood was present
at the meeting as vice president and
director of the bank, and plans tb
continue, in these capacities, to give
the bank the benefit of his counsel
in matters that may come before the
officers and directors from time to
time.
Legislature To
Try Meeting Again
(Br Bi? AwofUlfd IW)
Oklahoma City,"Oct." ~f>.?Tl"W&b In-"
dicated today that a call for a meet
ing of the lower house of the legis
lature was in progress and would
probably go out soon summoning
the body for an Impeachment ses
sion on October 17.
BRIGADIER GENERAL
EXPECTED TO RESIGN
Washington. Oct. 5.?Brigadier
General Smedley Butler of the Ma
rines is expected to resign his com
mission within the next few days to
accept a post with a Detroit manu
facturing concern.
ELECTED PRESIDENT
CHINESE REPUBLIC
(Br The AimrlKMi I*rr?? I
Peking, Oct. 5.?Marshal Tsao
Kun, chief of the northern militar
ists, has been elected president oT
China.
Optimism Keynote
of Cotton Report
Statistician Find* ('pop In North Car
olina UnnMnall) <iood at
TliIn Time
Raielgh, Oct. 5.?Optimism char
acterizes the monthly cotton report
for October issued here today by
[Frank Parker, agricultural statisti
cian of the Cooperative Crop Re
porting Service.
"The cotton crop in North Caroli
na Is unusually good, considering
I the various agencies that have
.worked towards its detriment, in
cluding the boll weevil, cotton oater
plllar and the weather." reads the
report. Nature seems to have been
pleased, particularly pleased, with
North Carolina in as much as she has
given us the earliest July crop in his
tory, thereby getting ahead of the
boll weevil. Bven though the weevil.
did hit the crop heavily after the
first of August, several sections, ev
en Ro-beson County, had quite a ?
sprinkling of bolls to set and devel
op after that time. Naturally, wkh
a rather heavy growth of foliage due
to heavy fertilization and a very
slight or entirely lacking evidence of
boils on the upper half of the plant,
the average farmer underestimated
his prospective yield.
! "In September the cotton cater
pillar did terrific damage by strip
ping foliage, Incidentally revealing
that the number of setting bolls on
jthe lower part of the plant was
greater than realized. The killing
'of the leaves will result in
earlier maturity and opening
of the bolls, as well as
easier and cleaner picking of the
crop. These condltons warrant the
I statement that North Carolina was
.particularly blessed In a cotton crop
under the boll weevil conditions that
; existed.
? "Our entomologists explain that
(the cotton caterpillar la not an army
worm, although Its habits would In
dicate it so. In fact, the moth of
I this peat winters in Mexico. Con
sequently, It takes all the summer
for them to reach us after their ap
ipearance in Texas In the early
spring.
"Concerning the conditions of the
[Crop. It Is found that the .beat area is
In the northern part of the belt, with
a favorable peninsular projecting
down even to Scotland and part of
i Robeson County through Hoke and
j Harnett and up to Durham County.
As Is generally known, the worst con
ditions prevail In the coastal coun
tries. The fifty to sixty per cent con
dition bolt extends from lower Robe
son northeastward to Albemarle
Round, panning through Hladen,
Sampson. Duplin. Lenoir, Pitt, Mar-j
.tin. Bertie counties.
I "With a forecasted production for'
.North Carolina of 877,000 bales!
'based on 64 per cent, we have one of I
the largest crops the state has ever |
grown. In fact It la 25,000 hale* more,
than last year's final production. The
United States crop of 11.015,000 |
bales la 12 per cent more than last j
jyear's crop. The condition of 49 5,
per cent for the cotton belt Is ap-1
proximately -the same as the condi
tion reported a year ago. Arizona, |
California, Oklahoma. Tesaa, South
Carolina and Virginia have made con
spicuously larger productions this
year than In 1911.M
I J. H<*Wllklns haa returned from a
[business trip to Norfolk.
.?
HEIRESS AND HER KIDNAPED CHILDREN.
Robert Howard Gamble, 2, and bis sister, Catherine Brace
Gamble, 3, are in Jacksonville, Fla., with their father, Robert H,
Gamble, who took them from their mother's home at Huntington,
L. I., Tuesday, according to George Gordon Battle, counsel for
Mrs. Gamble, who says he will take drastic action for the return
of the children to this State. Mrs. Gamble ,a survivor of the Lua
itania disaster, obtained a divorce from Mr. Gamble in Paris last
April, and received the custody of the two children, but the father
was allowed to visit them when he saw fit. Photo shows mother
and children*
Webb Heatedly
Denies The Story
New York, Oct. 5.?Charles Webb,
husband of Mrs.j Gertrude Gorman
Webb, who "died mysteriously last
week at Westchester-BUtmore Coun
try Club In Rye, in an Interview with
newspaper men today denied heated
ly that he told his wife she had only
30 days to live.
SPECIAL COURT FOR
MITCHELL COUNTY
Raleigh. Oct. 5.?Governor Morri
son announced yesterday that a spe
cial session of Mitchell County court
will be held October 22, to try John
Goss, charged with attacking a white
woman near Spruce Tine.
HIGH POINT SUFFERS
BIG FIRE THURSDAY
High Point, Oct. 5.?A $75,000
blaze here last night destroyed part
of the Ideal Furniture Company
plant and an adjacent residence.
COMMIXIOX KUItYICK AT
('ANN MEMORIAL St'XDAY
Sunday rooming at 11 o'clock the
regular communion service will be
held at Cann Memorial Presbyterian
Church and the minister desires that
all members of the church be pres
ent at this Important service.
MAY BE THE RICHEST
OF RACING CLASSICS J
Cincinnati. Oct. 5.?The undisput- I
rd champion thoroughbred of the |
American turf may be decided Satur- ;
day. October 6. with the second an- j
nuai running of the $50,000 added j
Latonia Special Handicap, at the La- i
tonia race course.
The race is for horses of all apes, ;
and it promises to be one of the
greatest, If not the greatest, in the I
history of the turf. The nomlna- !
tions for the great classic include
the best horses in America.
MltS. RUHIIA CHOIIY DKAD
Mrs. Ellsha Chory of this County
died Friday inorninc at 3 o'clock at
her home on the Nlxonton road In
the Four Forks community. She was
5 4 years old.
The funeral will t;e conducted at
the home Saturday afternoon by
j Rev. w. J. UankH, and Interment will
| be made In the family burying
ground.
Mrs. Chory is survived by her hus
! band and two children, a daughter.
1 Miss Alethia Chory. and a son. Jo
seph Chory. There are also a broth
er and a sister. O. A. Held and Mrs.
Itoburt Stevenson, all of this County.
CHARIiOTTK IU II.DS
Charlotte. Oct. 5.?Construction
work costing approximately $365,700
was authorized by the Charlotte
building Inspector during September,
according to the inspector's monthly
i report.
Big Increase Expected In
Number Active Contenders
Realization Content for VeUe Still Anybody'* liarr Cousin#
Many Who Have Hun# Hack to Try to Take at Its
Flood the Tide That Leads to Fortune
A marked Increase In the number
of entrants In The Advance "Every
body Wins" Auto and Cash Prize
Campaign Is expected during the
next few days, as a result of the fact
that contestants In the campaign are
only Just beginning their quest for
winning votes, leaving the door of
opportunity wide open for anyone '
who enters now. i
It la by no means too Iwte to enter
and to quickly assume a leadlnic imi
sltion In the race for the automobile*
and many other awnrds offered by
The Advance. So little progress ha*
ao far been made In the campaign :
that anyone with the ambition and j
determination to win, can be In a
leading poaltlon with only a few
daya of spare-time effort.
The Advance "Everybody Wins",
, content in based on the principle of
good fellowship?good fellowship to
wards the paper, good fellowship to
wards the contestants, nnd good fel
lowship towards subscribers. The
person who subscribes to the paper
Is getting his full newspaper value
and In return for his good fellowship
in paying for hi* subscription in ad
Ivance snd thus helping the contest
ant with votes, gets his paper at a
lower rptc than If he continued tak
ing it on a weekly basis.
An atmosphere abounding in good
fellowship is bound to tend toward
all-round satisfaction to all partici
pants In any undertaking and the )
campaign being carried on by The j
Advance will prove no exception to ;
the rule.
NOMINATION BLANK
? In The ?
Daily Atlranrc "Everybody Wilis" Campaign
I hereby enter and cast 5,000 free votes for
Mls? (Mr. or Mr?.)
Address ________
A* a candidate In the "Everybody Wins' Prlre Campaign Send
or bring this Nomination Klank to Campaign Manager at the
Dally Advance, Klliabeth City, N. C.
NOTE?Only one nomination blank accepted for each can
didate nominated.
To Elect Successor
To Claude Kitchen
' Eight North Carolina Counties
Will Go to Polls On Sat
urday
Klnston. Oct. 5?The machinery is
being oiled for the special primary
to be held in eight North Carolina
counties Saturday-''to select a succes
sor to Claude Kitchln, deceased, as
representative of the second district
in Congress. A vote of 15.000 to
IS,000 is anticipated. There are few
issues. The three candidates are:
N. James Rouse, of Kinston; Judge
John Kerr, of Warrenton. and Rich
ard Allsbrook, of Tarboro.
Registration, voters have been In
formed, can be attended to at the
polls In cases where ellgibles have
failed to qualify at previous elec
tions. Sick persons, or persons ab
sent- from their preclwrtH. rosy uwr
absentee blanks.
The primary. It Is understood
here, may be the first of the kind
to be held In the I'nlted States since
1 President Coolldge was inducted. It
will have no hearing on the national
political situation, since the election
to follow the primary balloting will
be n mere formality, probably with
out a Republican opponent to the
Democratic nominee.
AMERICAN OLYMPICS
PLANNED BY LEGION
San Francisco, Oct. 5.?Athletes j
from all parts of the I'nlted States
will compete in the American Ol.vm
ple games to be staged here October
15-19 as part of the athletic pro
gram of the American Legion 1923
national convention. The list of
events Include a national track and
field meet, basketball, golf heriea.
tennis tourn*>y, football and baseball,
swimming meet, rifle shoot, and ex
hibition of boxing and wrestling.
A. P. Lott, chairman of the Amer
ican Legion national athletic com
I mission,-who Is hep** to-assist |n_ the
preparation of the athletic program,
[announces that Charlie Paddock,
I Rrooklns, Jole Hay, Clarence l)e
.Mar, and other famous sprinters will
I compete In the olympiad.
IS SEEKING KING OF
THE HOUSE OF DAVID
Sydney, Xtisfralla, Oct. 5?Inspec
tor Fowler, superintendent of detec
tives here, said today-that he believ
ed King Henjamin I'urnell of the
(House of David colony In Michigan
| Is at Northryde, a small town near
hero.
LLOYD GEOKCE TELLS
WHAT TROUBLE IS
lllr Th? AnrliM l'r?< ?
Aboard the Mauritania, New York
Harbor, Oct. 5.?lTn happiness and .
I difficulties resulting from war have
boon caused by an lniKo|M-r or Inef- I
fectlve operation of the provlxions of
the Treaty of Vernal lie*, David Lloyd
George, former British premier, de
clared today on IiIh arrival In Amer
ica for a tour of the I'nlted State*
and Canada.
NEEDY COLLECTORS
SELL TO AMERICA
London, October 6?Art collector*
from America have *ent more treas
ures to America since the war than
were purchased by Americans dur
ing the 20 years prevlou* to 1914.
English collector* explain that
thl* I* the result of the need for
ca*h which I* being acutely felt In
England. Many formerly wealthy
art collectors are forced to *cll their
possessions in order to meet high
taxation and living costs. There
seems to be no such condition among
the American collectors, for their
English auents are everywhere and I
always ready to seize upon any trea*- ;
ures that are for sale. In fact, so
nnxlous are some of the agent* to
buy that they have adopted the .
method of calling on well known
collectors and making them offers
fpr viyrlou* objects:
Art objects to the value of $10,
000.000 were shipped to the I'nlted
Stifle* last year.
MUCK'S fX.MM TO FAMK
W.lN Tlllt \slllN(t K \ISKI(
London, Oct. 5.?The death oc
curred here recently of Alfred flus-1
sel Price, and passed almost unheed
ed. whereas It was worthy of special j
notice, for he succeeded In accom
plishing what thousands of Amerl-i
cans have Itched to do but could not. !
He gave the hoy who became Oer-!'
man emperor, a good, nound thrash-|
Ing.
It happened years ago when Wll- ;1
helm wa? the Crown Prince and wa* '
visiting llfracombe, an English sea
side resort, with hi* tutor. Wllhelm,
In a playfully destructive mood, be
gan to throw ston** at *oaie bathing
machines belonging to Mr. Price*.'
father. He was told to Mop, but took 4
exception to this Infringement of his .<
regal right*. Voung Price took off .1
his coat and began to belabor the |
royal youth so sucee**fully that he 11
had admlnl*tercd a black eye ind {<
several cut* and bruises before the',
tutor succeeded in calling off hoatll-1
Itles. .
D. Carpenter of Norfolk It la town .1
do business. |i
CONVICTS STILL
HOLD MESS HALL
KIoikIv murderers Slid Hold
at Bay Penitentiary Officers,
National Guardsmen and
Citizen Riflemen.
Eddyvllle, Oct. 6.?The siege of
Eddy vi I It' penitentiary today entered
Its third day with Monte Walters,
Waurence Griffith, and Harry Ger
land, convict murderers, their hand?
wet with the life blood of three pris
on guards, still lurking behind the
bullet riddled walls of the two-story
brick mess hall of the western Ken
tucky penitentiary.
For more than two days and
nights the desperadoes have held tho
Improvised fortress despite the com
bined efforts of prison guards, a
troop of National Guard machine
gunners, and volunteer citlseu rifle
men to dislodge them.
Twenty-flve additional Guardsmen
were ordered to the scene today
from Mavfleld and Warden Chlldon
announced tt was expected that the
siege would be ended today.
Kddysvlll*. Ky.. Oct. 5.?In splto
of an attack by a machine gune com
pany. three convicts are ntlll holding
the mess hall of the state penlten
I tlary against all authorities.
It Ih expected, however, that they
will be overcome today when the ma
chine Kuns P?t busy In earnest.
STRESEMANN WILL
NOT FORM CABINET
<11r Ttit AKiWitiffl T*rp*?.)
Ilerlln, Oct. 5.?The (Wman Dem
ocratic party In the ftelschtaK has
adopted a re8?lutlonv declaring that
the party could not support the rot
ernment which had no parliamentary
basis.
As a majority of the other parties
have already adopted the same view
It is not believed that Chjwiellor
Stresemann will try to forgi^ cabl- /_
net havlnK the support of the-parlia
mentary parties.
MISS MYRA A. HEM* I)K.\I)
News reached here Friday of the
death of MIssMyra A. llell at about
5 o'clock Friday morning at her
home In Norfolk.
The body will be brought to Eliz
abeth City for burial, and the fun
eral will be conducted Sunday af
ternoon at 1:30 at the home of Miss
Florence llell on North Road street.
MIhs Hell Is suivlved by Ave Mis
ters and two brothers: Misses Mary
and Florence llell, Mrs. Maggie Bell
Itlount. and Robert Hell of Eliza
beth City, John Dell of Camden,
Mrs. William J. Morgan of Oriental,
and Mrs. H. Marlon llehre of New
York; by two nieces, one nephew
and other relatives ln*thls sect Jon.
. She formerly lived' In Elizabeth
City and has many friends here.
SWKDEN HI'KVIW flMO.OOO.OOO
COXHTItlTTIVK KKMKK WORK
Stockholm. Oct. 6.?The balancing
of accounts at the end oT the worat
period of unemployment which Swe
den has ever weathered shows tho
following dttblt and credit: a total
public outlay of $30,000,000 to pro
vide work for tho jobless, about 1,
500 miles of new and Improved loadr,
many ned bridges, new telephone
lines, ir- P^w athletic fields, new a*'-'
iatlon fields, new bnrracks, extensive
forest Improvements, and reforesta
tion and opening up of large new
tracts of arable land.
This Information is the result of
researches made by two leading
Stockholm newspapers on the occa
sion of reporting the lowest amount
of unemployment during two and a
halm yearn, the figures now being
only 20,000 as against 163,000 In
February. 1022. Practically all of
the large funds expended have been
for constructive relief work, while
steadily decreasing sums have been
set aside for direct subvention. At
present only about 160 persons are
receiving unemployment doles.
HAITI < OXTItOI** OHIO TRAFFIC
Port-Au-Prlnce, Haiti. Oct 5.?
The Haitian Council of State has
passed a law to regulate and con
trol the exportation, importation,
possession, use or sale of narcotics,
volsons and hahlt-forming drugs In
Haiti.
The specific purpose of this legis
lation Is to prevent the possible use
of Haiti by Oerman Arms as a base
for the distribution of narcotics.
Previously there was no law of any
description bearing on the narcotic
problem and Germany, not being a
nlKnatory to the opium convention,
was steadily increasing its Imports
of such substance. The passage of
the act has made Haiti eligible as a
fianatory to this convention.
The new law Is based on that
which controls the use of narcotics
in the I'nlted States, with certain
modifications to fit local conditions.
fOTltW MAKKRT
New York, Oct. 5.?Spot cotton,
closed quiet, Middling 28.75 a drop
>f 45 points. Futures, closing bid.
Oct. 28.20, Dec. 27.85, Jan. 17.34,
Vtarch 27.35, May 27.37, July 28.7*.
New York. Oct. 5.?Cotton futures
opened today at the following lev
Ms: October 28.55. December 28.30.
January 27.68, March 27.Tl, May
17.70.
Mrs. Howard J. Co nab ? ha* re
urned? after raiting relatives at Col
imbla.