* * * * * * 77 IE If'EAT HER (l,,?,iv lonilthl ' /PIII^-^V ,jj 1 II(0*1 %\ ? Sz- * (UU U. 1TIOX fttnre. Mtttli rntr triath * -^ ****** * VOL. XIII. FINAL KPITION. KLIZAUETH CITY. NORTH CAROLINA, ."'t?Ni>.\Y '.V 'N"\<:, !?.:< K.V'i I; |... I: . ;. LMIIT' 1'A<:i:s. NO. 2St the reported diHturbance, Mr. Harrison himself and Hrandon Davis, taking charge of the wounded man. W ill I K MAN GETS JAIL SENTENCE r.iitton l'nrkor. r?0 odd yoar c?lil vlilf.t innti. was tlven a JhII wn t. f? r assault In the r? -eordi-r's routt Monday morning. on PVldMire f|i:?( Im- hit Ills fl(l?:r brother. Tom r.-ii1 ? r. of Jnrvishurv. ovi?r the head Willi a stick of vtovrwood wlicn t!??? Inlt' r ordi?ro<| Mm nut of (In" yard of W. T. St or v on Second i. ??t. The defendant clnluw d that bis brother va? coming at him with a knlf? Mr*. Thomas Parker, it seems from the evidence,* hns fin d of coun try life* nnd had com** to town to work nnd to live, bonrdlnk'Tit tin* Stoi;. home on Second ftr?"t. P.rit ton Parker. h? r husband'* brother, liMrdfd sit (ho home *?f Henry Mann i m C* ntcr street. nnd the hark yards i t the two bnni<>? Join. Tom Parker v.-a* ovt r from JarvUhur for a ? IhU to hi* wife. l'.rltton Parker was passim: through the Story premises hy t'n hark yard path when hi* bro ther oMpmI If I ?*i out. whor'-upon t??e younger man hit tlie older on the brad with a knotty Mirk of stove WOOfl. This waS the oijly case tried In llif recorder's court Monday tuornlnr. nn the docket for trial was a case ? Inst Marvin HiImoII and hi* thr? >? - of Providence township for as nu t In Salem township last Thurs ?' t on K. M. Jennings; but this case w 11 rontlnuod to next Monday when th- ?!* fendants asked for a Jury trial. Mi If. L- Newbold and litt1*? ?on Herbert, of Btatesvllle are In the iitjr to spend the holidays with Mr. ind MrsJ 8. C. Newbold at their hom on West Fearing street. THIS STATE HAS REAL COAL FIELD Deep lliver ("oal Fields of Chatham, Lee. and Moore (iountirs Should Become (ircat Source Fuel Supply CbmiPl Hill. Dec. 1".?Th?' lv..|i River coal Hold, embracing portions of Chatham. Lee and Moore coun ties. is much more valuable tlian has been generally believed and should become a source of fuel not only for mills and railroads of Kast ern North Carolina but for domestic use in the form of coke, according t?> a survey of the reulon made public here last nitltt. The survey was made by M. II. Campbell and Kent W. Kimball of the I'nited States I oloKical Survey in co-ojm ration with the North Carolina Geological Sur vey. The investigators describe the coal as occurring in two benches known as the upper and the lower. It is only the upper bench, reads the report, where the coal varies from three to nearly four f??i In thick ness. that is'at present considered comnn rclal coal, although it is be lieved that under certain conditions, the lower bench might be mined and cleaned profitably. The evtent of the workable coal and available tonnaue is estimated by the ueolouists as approximately e.s millions of tons of recov# rahle coal in the district west of tin- Deep lliver faoult: and it is believed that minium ran .he profitably carried on to a depth of two thousand feet. The area, the report continue?, in which' this tonnaue Is included is about 2." square miles, and it Is considered reasonable to assume that the coal bed throughout this area averages at least three feet In thickness of re coverable coal. "The character and quality of the coal." the investigators reported, "have been very carefully studied and physical and chemical analyses are Liven of coal taken from various sections of the area. One interest ini> feature of the chemical composi tion is that the coal contains ap proximate ly two per cent of nitro gen. which could-he obtained in the form or ammonium sulphate as a by product- in cokin:: the coal, which would give approximately 2I? pounds per ton of coal. "The cokinu tost showed that tli< coal would make a coke of very food quality insofar as could be defer mined bv a laboratory test and Is fairly equal to either Free port or I'lttshurgh coke?. It is believ? <1 that one use of the free p. UIvj r coal that should be fclven careful considera fion Is to coke it. uslnu the coke ob tained as a domestic fuel, and the yield of uas for ceneratlng electric power for transmission. "The ammonium sulphate, obtain ed as a by-product, will he of Nrti value for agricultural purposes. There would also be obtained as an other by-product approximately 2 2 gallons of tar (dehydrated! per ton of coal." The Investlcafors in their report give an interesting account of the history of the discovery and devel opment of coal in the ,, uiver field. I? is evident, they state, that the tb-'iosits first v ? :? dlseov- red some Timo prior to 177T. and from that time to the pr?-sont there has hten considerable uncertain!v ns to the quality and quantity of the coal In the area. The geography of the field shows it to extend from a short tlM nee nortlien? t of Cape l-'ear IHver In a southwesterly direction to Carthai: and in the other direction from San-, ford the southwest to a few mile: h? - vond gulf on the northw- f ? nihme I?i*.? portions of Chatham. I.e. . and Moore counties. It Is known and dec lirnated as the I)e? p Hirer Coal l-"l? Id because almost all the pros pecf ill: and developing has been on or near that stream from near Olrndon to the point when the TVon ::nd ffnv. rivers unite to form Cape l*e.?r. Th? area In Which the pre . nr. ronf has been demonstrated l? on!- a small part of this district For about I r?0 years coal has been known to be in North Carol In :j and for main year* t'mre has been mor? or less Interest In the pox?jMi;r , < developing commercial fields. Coii'ld erable prospecting and sohie minim, has been done, according to tie re port. but most of the work was a failure, due to several causes, chb f of which jierhap* was lack of capital and having men unfamiliar with coal mining In charae of operations. "As a result." declares the report In conclusion, "the public began to consider either that the coal was so r.'. rri ii I ? u ' !? r. r.r -y. : f 1: :iiuiit lias d??or a? a r? - .? hui.et wmiinl i:i thi' ? ?n.? 11. - e||jed I' 1?i' sllaht ? :r Monday. it wan <1 afternoon ai i(immunity Hospital. I'KEMIEK BALDWIN NOT ^ ET DESIGNED lam of George jSnytli-r. contractor, twice repeated, led to the discovery of the hodieii of Hurry II. Proctor, real estate dealer. and Kdna Fulla K^r. 14 year old Kirl, buried in the mud of Grand river near the Proctor home. They had been missini: xinct1 Oct ober HO. Impressed hv his dream. Suvder sketched tin* place where the couple's automobile was found. The river was theji drafted anil the bodies were found. MAN KII.I.S TWO AND THEN SHOOTS SELF Dallas. Dec. 10.?Peyton Pierce today killed his wife and 13 year old daughter and probably fatally shot himself. KESTOKATION HUNGARY IS l'l? ItEI OItE LEAGUE Paris. Dec. in.? Restoration of liuiiKary's finances is the principle artlele in the 'jwnda for the t-wenty seventh session of the League of Na tions council which opened today here. Other questions include delinea tion of frontiers of recently estab lished states, resolutions passed hy the fourth assembly of the Leugue dfiUnu with armament reduction, re pression of \vhite slave traffic and drug sin - ggling. and the abolition of slavery. KAII. COMMUNICATION HAS KEEN SEYEKED Kl Paso. Dec. 10- Direct rail com niunlrntion between .Itinnz and Mex ico City has been seven d by revo lutionists. according to reports, KILLS HIS WIFE AND SHOOTS I I' FAMILY KoMville. N C\. Inc. 1 2*itvil)?? last niuht *hot and kill* <1 his wife at the limit* of III? father in law here, then tinned Ills min *iu hi* brother In law. John Prior, who wan fatally Injni* ?l. and then shot Mrs. John t'rlre in the !? ?-* He tried to shoot Ms mother in law. it 1.4 said, hnt the bullets in the revolver with exhausted. f'aiter tiin?ha his escape in an auto mobile. H?? Is said to have been drlnklnu prior to tin shoot hit:. A posse arrested Carter this morning and In* is lodged in Jail tit Duiivlfh . I . .1. WILSON AWMUIKI) IIIIOPKS SCIIOLMtSIIIP Swart hninre. I'a . I>?c. If'. Thorn as J. Wilson. Ill . of Ch.-ip* I Hill, graduate of the I'lilverslt* of V?Mh Carolina and assistant French ;>r? feasor there now. was y? t. i> awarded the Ithod* ' srholars!il|i a;? pointnient for North Carolina. ': tlflinu him' to three years at o> ford I'nlvr rsllv, Kim land. NINK AIJK KII.I.KI) IN KAIU/V Sl'NDAY WKKCK Fonvtho. N. v.. Dec. in, Nine person's were killed, seven Injured, two probably fatally, when the third section of the Twentieth Century Limit' *1 telescoped a s?ctlon in fron* near here earlv Sunday morning. Anionic the kIMed mas "Wild fill I" Donovan, manager r?f th?- N' W 11.? vn. fonnectlrut, Ibvehall Cfnb of th" Kastern l.'-aune, wfin wa? or. h' wav to the I??**?? ball convention a* C'tleaco. Disregard of s!unp|* by the engin eer Is aitid to have canned th? wtek, poor or the mlnlnv condition" so bad that n wa doubtful if coal mlnlnu could ever l.? made to pay. This wa* probably a natural sequence consld erinu what was known of the occur encn of some of the coal which, wa? In very thin seam* and obviously could not b^ worked profitably. Also considerable of the coal that was Aral uaed was weathered and did not have the heating properties ex pected of It." IfHfey; .. r ir-Vifinfea TWIDDY GOES AT ONCE rFO BRING BANDIT BACK SAP GETS BIGGER HAUL THIS TIME Bandit Sought liy I'ulicr Boldly Conliiim--. llis Work of Holding I'p ? ili zen?. Sta-ini: another hold-up in t)??? eai l> jmi*I of Sunday nlulit mi III** Mibtit h> of tli" city and hardly a quart* i of a mifrom wIhth In* iihot n C. Itray. perhaps fat;? Ily., Frlda* night. l^'Roy Wliit**. tiegro Kunm.iii and 1?andir wanted by tin* I'll/.i'm ill Cit>\ police on tialf a dozen charv.es, got away with tin* Idtruest haul 11? * lias yet made in th<> nroi-r of crime he embarked on last Friday niglii J. T Thompson, ofH-ralirr at tli* Kllzaheth City llosb ry Company* mill on tin' Norfolk Southern rail road. a quarter of a mile from the Norfolk Southern passenger station, was tin- Sunday niulit victim of the Kllsahith City had man and handit. Mr. Thompson does not know, l.'llov White, generally known as Sa|?. and the hold up occurred outside the city limits and where there were, irrf liulil^. hut his general description of the robber tallies exactly with that of Sup. Mr. Thompson I lost hv the holdup $21.75, more than Sap has got in all his previous holdups put together. f*** The holdup occurred between 8 and half past 8 o'clock. Sir. Thomp son, who. besides 1?? itig an operative at the hosiery mill, is :ih-o day watchman on Sundays and .holidays, after leaving the mill, had cone home and fed the hogs. which lie keeps near t!??? city limits and had collected two pails of swill for next day'# feeding with which In- was on liis way to his home at K Skinner av enite, walking along the Noifolk i Sou I lie rj| .railroad track about Jlfta yards from the passenger station, iretween the cotton uin or the Farm ers' ('.inning and Produce Company anil that of the Kastern Oil Com pany, hotli on the webt side of the railroad trark. tliete is a stretch of I tin yards or more of cultivated land fill hoth sides of the railroad. This is the k|w( where the holdup occurred. Mr. Thompson frankly admits that lie wan-so frightened lie has no ch ar idea of what happened, "Willi a pall ol swill in each hand I was walking alone the railroad trark with m> head down."'lie Kays, "and the negro was lit:lit on me with his uun almost touching my body before I raw him. 11 ?? told me to drop my buci<< ts and put up my hands and I obeyed. He said he wanted my money and I told hint all right. He ran his hands-over me and took my pocket hook out of my hip pocket. He then opened the pocket hook. saw the bills in it. and hacked off, sideways. After bad. ing for a dozen or so paces, he tnrn< d off the track on tin side toward town and disappear* <1 The reason Sir. Thompson hap pened to have thai niiiis of iuone> In hi* pocket was that he had cashed his Christmas savings check the week beforehand, and. after paving some hills, had saved the amount then in his pocket for Christmas spending. "Lucky for me I paid my doctor's hill and my hill at the furniture ? tore Saturday. j^iiiI some other sni.ill accounts." ?av? Mr. Thompson, "else the robber wiiulil have fot it all." ISI sOl.l TIONs TO KNTt'.lt into \voi(M> mi in WafOilnRton. !>oc. 10.? A resolu tion provldln* for entrant*** of th? l ii it .'I si Into tho world rourt j'Ji r it ha* h?on <11 v*?r<-**?l riiij?l? l? - ly* fro in tho UaKuc of Nation* w . introduced in Ih?* Hrnaio today by Jifii Knot. HnpuUllcaii of Wi.-O'in .ii WOMW In MJllf>IH? Milwaukee, Win., Her 1? Flor I'ti'o Wit mey? j wa?? tod. iy ;?rn-?t?d op charge* rIxlntr out of h?-r i*>ifi??n^ .with K. Ilay Thompson. wealthy r? il opinio doalor. rhafg'd with murd'r inx hi* vvifo. IHiiiiioimI Iti-|do\ Thursday With a di-play of over a half si'llilort dollar- *?f diamond* and platinum J"u?dry. John Abel or A hoi Uroih-ri. New York f ly. will !? and 10::50 at Kdenton, ac cord hiK t 1 ?* lon.'I distance telephone message received here Mon day short'y before noon. COOLiiJdE ASKS i i>ru REDUCTION Specifically Iti'i'iiiniiii'iiils 4int or rii!????' Huiiiirfii >1 ii lioiis lii National 'lax Kill Allil ()|I|H?SI'S IIoiiiis Washington. l)?*c. 10.? President i'lioliilK*' specifically recomiiieiiued to (.'iiUKrvxtf loduy a reduction ot i iiioro thin f 300,U0ii,ii0() in tin* na tional lax hill and at tjie same liuie presented views ill opposition lo a Koidier's bonus. Tin- Kxecutive. in a message trans iiii11 ;iik ili?' annual budget, said frankly lliat "any program of new expenditure oil a la.rge scale would make lax reduction impossible lor y?ars to come.'* Iadded that tax1 reduction "would certainly tend tu aiiKii tin- whole people ill support of economical aduiiiiintra!ion oi govem uieiH" which he declared Is becom ? inn "every day more and mure neees nary." ? I reccoiuuiend a revision of lax luws," Mr. Coolldge said...."along 1 in* s which wiH effect a reduction of income taxes hy taxing earned in - ?-ouie more lightly ihau income from busim-** or from investments; b> re dtlciiig ilie percentages of the normal lax. and hy reducing the suriux raten. with comineiicetneiii of their application at fio.linil instead of $U.- 1 imio.-' I alho recommend repeals of the tax on telegrams, telephones, and leased wires, and of the lax ou ad mission*. and revision of the miscel- ; laneous taxes which are a source of in onveiiiencc to taxpayers, and dif fit-Ill! lo rolled . (Ill tile' other hlllld. ?intendments which would cause oiio increase of revenue should ul-! so lie made to existing iucdtne tax ? law* relative to deductions y?f cap!-' tal looses; deductions from j^ross in-j come for interest paid ?md floubusi-i less lo^sis sustained# whoiVHi in-, come from tax-exempt securities in vol veil; and the manner of t.ixilig community incomes. The*e changes would reduce taxes hy more than MOO.I?00. which Is ?if? ly with in tie proliahle surplus. < llltlSTV M\TT4IKWnO\ ON V \TIO\ M. I.I \l,I K HO Mill Chicago, liec. lo. Christy Malh ew.toii of I'oston, was given a place on the national league hoard of ili rectors at the annual meeting !?? day Other new members are: Wil liam Veeck of Cliloigo, llnrney lirey fua of lBit I j- **ii i >rli. and Charles Hlone Iioiii of New York. < ooi.iik.i-: itKi ommi:\iin M\N\ \OMIN\IIO\s WiiHliiiiiclort. |?i?c. 1" Mor?- thiin two tti?Mrn<1 nomination*, Inclml in.- I tit-1 f- ??*? fi k It. K'IIo^k *>' Mln ii? -i?ru In- .irnbin-?ador I Ifi to (In S> iiaf" by ('oolldK" toifay. For !'? rallfoad labor board. I!??f ,i lliik? r of Ohio, inmti ihi"iit roup. ?!lid K. F. Ofablon (if Michigan labor group , I5\H I I 1,9. I III i:>|i \> Washington. I. 1 Tho ittfOKuro wont ovor to tomorfow. <\\i>lf)\o lOKMUI/S ANNOt V KI> Wafblntton, Imp 10, Announce iwnt of tho eandldacy of Prealdont Coolldiro for th* Republican nornln atlon for I'roaldent In 102 4 wan mado la-t nlicht by Frank W. Stearn* j of Hoaton, rloaral poraonal and poll-, tlcal friend of the I'realdent. Police Officer Twiddy was immediately dispatched to Kdenton to brint; White here and tlu> officer and his prisoner arrived Monday afternoon on the '?> :05 train for Norfolk. The negro is now lodged in the Pas quotank County jail. News of tli?' gunman's arrest got noised about tl)<> city and then* wuh a fair sized crowd at tin1 train to nee tli?' prisoner get off; tint then* was no iti'inonMrallon. According to the report received Ihtc. there if no question w to the prisoner's behiu the man wanted here for til*- shooting on last Kriday nluht of O.. C. Itray and for a Merles of holdup* that have terrorised the town. Acrordinu to Kdenton police, the man admits that his name is LeRoy White and that lie is generally called Sap. "You would have never got me if I liad had a chance," lie is quoted as havinu told a police officer in liis cell shortly after he , was locked up. The prisoner was also identified as l.e|!oy White hv Tom Wlllnughby, i now ch*rk at lia> View Hotel, Kden ton. hut formerly clerk at the Southern Hotel of Kli/aheth City, at which title Sap was employed at the Southern as a dishwasher, and was called Saphcad. or sometimes Sap ? for short. -?* Mr. Willouuhhy went with a po lice officer to the ileum's cell Mon , day morning. I "Hello. Sap/' lie said. "You know me?" "Vessuh." sahl Sap. "Tsed to work fo you at the Southern Hotel. Knowed you riulit off." "Vonr name's White,'* said Wil loughhy. I .el toy White, "hut we used to call you Sap or Saplread." "bat's riKht." responded Sap, "I hoc you remember me <111 right." Klixaheth f|ty*s negro gunman and bandit was not caught until he had. given I'ollce Officer W. Moore of tue Kdenton force, who made the ar rest an exciting cli'ise. "I saw Sap first on Main street/* said the policeman over tile long dis lanci telephone Monday afternoon, "?and hailed him. "As soon as I did so lie ran into what was formerly the Woodard ho tl?ut which Is now the Hay View annex. Out into the hack yard he went, nnd then dashed through the ladies entrain ? of the Hay View main building. I finally caught him In a hack yard negr the irmory." It i? reported that the police of ficer had to Hue his hlack j-ick free ly in order to club Sap into submis sion. I he ngro had pawned his 4."? call her g u n or he might have had more crimes to answer for. Sap took looms at a negro lodging house in Kdenton Sunday night af 1 ? r the arrivals the Night Express Horn Norfolk li is believed that he left Kli/.ahcth City on th It train, fol lowing his holdup of ('. T. Thompson on the Norfolk Southern track ahout iwo hpurii nnd a half earlier. There U a report, however, th'it Sap had h? < ti In Kdenton once before since he weni on li Is rampage last Friday night, and that he spent moat of the dey"Sunday there. I All II lt\s Tt ItTI.K Airnl'i' r t '-.tr <<> lionii accldcnt nc ?-iired Sunday iificrnnait, when the targe . iIki) driven l?y W. If. Wfath* erlv. turned turtle on thPa*qno l ink lllv?'r State Itrldfre road, tlio K round Klvinic nwiiy on the wide of tlu? ro.nl. throwing the car Into a ditch atid turning over. No one wail hurt and only a window w in broken. Mr. \Vi jftherljr anil party bad been to I'HWijtrt I'olnt and were returning home wh?-ii the accident happened, five milt* from the city. Thou** In lh?< ? ir m . r? .%?r and Mr*. Weather !< . Sr.. and Mr. and Mr*. W. H. Weatlierly. Jr.. Ml*- Annie Weather ly ami Mr#. A. W. (lard COTTON' M MIKKT N?-w York. December 11-- Cotton futures opened thin morning at th?* folio win g level*; December 34.30; January 33.1*0; March 33.70; May 34.OS; July 33.25; October 2710. SVw York. I)ec, 10.?flpot cotton. (Idofd quiet. Middling 33.70. a de cline of 130 point*. Futures, clot In k bid. I>ec. 33.20. Jan. 32.45 March 32.90. May 33.00. July 32.30, Oct. 27.02.