North Carolina Newspapers

* THE WEATHER * ^ Haiti tonight. Thnrs- 5(1 * day rain and tear liter. * Fresh taut, shifting tit v * south winds. * **-****?? VOL. XIV. FINAL" EDITION*. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, CHAUFFEUR TRIES TO RESCUE STAR Maliel Norman and F?!na Purvaitce, Scm'ii Actresses, Had Been Having Tart) at; Man*:* Apartment. Los Angeles. Jan. 2? Infauiatlon (or his film actress employer and1 jealousy of her wealthy Denver ac-i ? qualntance, according to the police, j ~waa the motive that prompted Kelly, ?chauffeur, to shoot Dines, a wealthy ?clubman. Los Angeles. Jan. 2. ? Courtland ( S. Dines, wealthy younj; clubman of Denver, was shot In the breast at hi* bungalow here last night by Joe Kelley. alias H. A. Greer, chauffeur ?of Mabel Norman, screen star. He used Miss Norman's small CHl iber revolver. Kelly says he shot in self defense when Dines rf|pmpted to graff a bottle and prevent him from taking Miss Normand hom?\ Mabel Normand and Edna Pur vauce, screen actresses, were spend ing the afternoon and evening at Dines" apartment when Kelly ap peared .and insisted that Miss Nor mand leave with him. It had been reported that Dine* and Miss Purvance were engaged. After questioning, both actresses ?were released. Kelly was booked on j a jail charge of assault with deadly weapon with intent to murder. Phy sicians say Dines will recover. Denver, - Jan. 2. ? Dines is widely known In business and social circles In Colorado and Wyoming. He is the son of Tyson Dines, one of the "best known lawyers of the Went, | and has been divorced twice. COINTY TAKKS OVKIt XKWKOAD IN' - The highway known as the "Sum , .Jones Lane" in New land township: was taken over by the County as a j public road by a vote of the Pasquo tank Highway Commission in regu lar session Tuesday, on the under standing that this would. serve to] give the Tadmore section more direct 1 access to the Pasquotank-Gates! State road and on the further under- I standing that the State be requested to build a bridge over the canal of I Pasquotank Drainage District Num ber One to connect this road with the State Highway. FINANCIAL REPORTS BE MADE THURSDAY An Important meeting of thei Woman's Club will be held Thurs-j day afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the' Chamber of Commerce rooms. Finan cial reports of the tea room and of | the carnival recently held will be1 given ?nd there will be a discussion of plans for forwarding the work of | the club during the coming >ear. , "Every member Is urged to be present." says the president, "as sue-, cess of the work depends upon the individual effort- and co-operation ! of all members." BLOODHOUNDS OUT AFTEll MASKED MAN Elon College, Jan. 2. ? A posse of i officers and citizens with blood bounds was today endeavoring to capture the man who early last night wa* alleged to have attack a young white woman on the college campus here. The man wore a mask and she could not te'll whether he was white or negro, she said. A young man was arrested near the campus on suspicion aud taken to Greensboro for safekeeping but ?the |Kisee continued its search. *H \ltK liOMKM HATTLK WITH I.AI NCH IX l'l.l I WATKIlK Suva. FIJI Islands. Jan. 2. ? An at- 1 tack on a launch by a giant shank Is described by Arthur Robinson. He said he was en route front Lnutoka to Yasawas, in Fiji waters, when his small launch struck heav ily against something. "f first thought we had bit a reef." be related, "but could not un- 1 derstand It. as we were In deep wat-f er. A minute afterwards came an-j other bank and a great thudding I under the stern. I looked over the side and saw a big shark with his , head and mouth in ribbons. H?* mu.-t t have gone for a feed off the propel- j ler. It killed him. He simply rolled ? round and round like a corkscrew ! and went straight down till out oT"j sight." INVESTIGATE RATE PAID ON NEWSPRINT j Washington. Jan. 2 ? Millions of dollars paid yearly by newspaper publishers In freight rates on news- 1 print -are Involved In an Investigation i by the Interstate Commerce Commis-j slon on the complaint of Washington and Baltimore newspapers. COTTON* MAItKKT New York. Jan. 2? Cotton closed quiet this afternoon, declining 130 1 points. Middling 36:40. Futures j closed as follows: Januerv 34: 3t; March 34:65; May 34:83; ' July 31:11; October 28:25. New York. J?jn. 2? Cotton futures opened this morning at the follow 1*1 Mvili: ? Jfuiry 21 .ait March* 25:50; May 35:90; July 34:50; Oc-| ttfber 28 : 62. ATTORNEY SCALES DIES AT GREENSBORO Givonsburo. Jan. 2 ? Junius 1 Sea Its. dgetl ?>?>. attorney, tiled at his Home here last night of paralysis. The funeral will he conducted Thurs day. H?'-wan*- brother of Admiral Ar chibald Scales THE IMPERIAL GIANT SENDS CALL TO KLAN Atlanta. JaJU-2 ? K. Y. Clarke. Im perial giant, today issued a call ror; a national congress of the Ku Klux Klan to ?neet at Atlanta on Febru ary 26 to "prayerfully consider- the methods of eliminating existing evils! or etee to follow the example of the; founder of the original Ku Klux, Klan and have the courage and man hood to devise ways and means of immediate disband men t of the organ ization.". , SUPREME COURT MEETS BUT DOES LITTLE WORK Washington. Jan. 2 ? Supreme Court reconvened todsiy after three weeks recess but handed down no opinions or orders. UNMASKED BANDITS GET EIGHT THOUSAND Pawhuska. Okla\ Jan 2 ? Two un masked bandits today held up the First National Bunk at Sldler and escaped with $8,100. SHORT COURSE FOR FARMERS NEXT WEEK Raleigh. January 2 ? North Caro Ina State College wll re-open on j "FMday, January ~4. after belup closed - since December 21 on account of the" holiday season. As the first term does not end until J*q.uary 26 tlje re-opening will be without the for malities of registration, each class, resuming its work where it was sua-, "pended before Christmas. The Short Course lit Hractical i Agriculture, planned for-"busy farm ers who are Unable to speml. a, longer time In study, will be held -d u ring the week. January 9 to 16". -Inten sive instruction will be jftven In cot ton. tobacco, small grains, dairying, livestock raising, fruit and vege table growing, and poultry husban dry. J. M. HILVKHTUORX Washington. N. C., Jan. 2. ? Fol lowing an illness of two weeks James M. Sllverthorn. a well known business man of this city died at hi." home on North Harvey street Tues day morning at 2: SO o'clock as si re sult of pneumonia, preceded by the flu. The funeral took place from the First Christian Church Wednes day morning at 1 1 o'clock, conduct ed by the Rev. Kichard Ragbv. Mr. Sllverthorn was taken with Influenza about two weeks ago. Just before Christmas he went to his store but had to return to his home later in the day. Since then he ha?l been confined to his bed. Pneumonia developed and while everything war done to relieve him Tuesday morn ing the end came peacefully. He was born in Middleton. Hyde County, 4 2 years ago and first cam" to this city and was employed by Spencer Rros. for about 10 y?"nrs Leaving here he went to Elizabeth City and connected himself wiili the furniture firm of R. E. Quinn & Co. When the firm decided to onen a branch store here about five >ears auo Mr. Sllverthorn moved back and at the time of his death was one of the proprietors of this growing and popular furniture firm. He is survived by his wife and four children, two daughters and two sons. He also leaves six broth ers and three sisters, among whom are R. S. and S. M. Sllverthorn and Mrs. Walter Jarvis of this city. COURT RECONVENES THURSDAY MOKMNG Superior Court lias !>??< n making slow - headway, {his week, the cabn dar being disrupted by the absence, on account of the sudden death of lils wife early- Monday morning, of R. P. Aydlett. There was no Fu sion at all Tuesday on account of the funeral and with no ca#?' before It for trial and with no other matter of husincHS to bp disposed of, court adjourned Wednesday morning at !*:?!<>. in ?'im\i'iie . aunln ? Th 11 rutin v mornlng*. pending which time the Cttltendar will be rearranged. Cases tried or otherwise disposed of on Mondny were: . M. N. Sawyer vs. O. W. Held. sut tied Out of court and stricken from the docket. O. Lyk)ardui>ulo vs. Rllzaheflt Oil v Shipyard Company, non-suit*d for th?' plaintiff. F.ldorn Sharher va. Trannle CranV. verdict for plaintiff who was award ed Immediate possession of premise* in question and given judgment for rent in the amount of $25. I.. S. Gordon vs. W. T Old. ver dict for plaintiff, who was award -d judgment for $25 with Interest frrrii date of claim. XKW HO AD SOt'TH MII.M OPKXH J.%X. IWTH. Klght years I have struggled with road to Norfolk. January' loth pre sents somethlna new ,aa to transpor tation. t'se .Kdgar's Bus Line. pd. America's Representatives This la the first picture to be taken of the Important American ?*omm!ttee to represent the United States when the Reparations Commission meets on Jan. 14 In Paris to de'rmine Germany *a capacity to pay. Left to right: Stukrt M. Crocker, secretary; Rufus C. Dawes, chief of stafT; Owen D. Young: and Charles O. Dawes, who head ttt'e committee. Photo taken in the 8tat? Department where the four men received final instructions l from Secretary Hughe*. %A Merry Mixup! ? This Is the home of Arthur J. Stobbart, Jr..- Morse avenue. East Bloomtleld ? or if you prefer East Orange. X. J. The dividing: line the two towns "cuts" the house in two. ? Th* ?*rr.ily cats In one town and sleeps in foiher NV?t* the two fire hydrants? on* is in each town MAKES REPORT FOR DECEMBER Field Secretary Slate Parent TeacheiV Association- Will Make Headquarter* in Eliz abeth <iily. C i The following report of work done In December by Miss Catherine Albertaon, field secretary for the North Carolina Parent-Teachers' As sociation. will he of especial interest in this section, for Miss Albertaon is now making her headquarters at her home here and organizing the work of Parent-Teachers' Associations in this section of the State: "When I closed my report for No vember I was on the eve of going to the old colonial towns of Hert ford and Edenton. to confer with the school authorities in those places. In regard to organizing branches of T\-T. Associations in their schools. "November 22 found me in Hert ford. where. In response to an invi tation from Supt. Joyner of the Hertford graded schools. I spoke at a joint meeting of the faculty and members of the Hertford Welfare, Club, explaining the purpose of the P.-T. A. "Several other women's organiza-1 tions were holding meetings that af-( ternoon and only a small audience" attended this meeting, but those present expressed 1 themselves as heartily In favor of organizing a I'.-T. \. In Hertford, and I shall vis it the town again during January, and hope to effect an organization. "In Edenton I found the city school already organized and affiliat ed; though few. if any of the coun ty schools in Chowan have taken up the I'.-T. A. work. At the request of pr./ Bachman. superintendent of CJrowan County schools. I s|Njke at a meeting of his county teachers on the morning of the 2 1th. and Mr. finch man has arranged for a series of meetings for the purpose of organ izing branches of our association in his schools during January. "Thanksgiving week I answered a call from Supt. Proctor of Craven County, and making New Bern my headquarters. I went with him to Ernhl, Jasper. Cove City and Bridge-; ton. ? "The continued rain prevented a large attendance at these meetings, but Supt. Proctor and his teachers assured me that no time would be lost In taking up the work of Organ izing and affiliating with Slate 1\-T. -X: ? "On Friday. November P.O. I went, on to Wilmington to attend the dis trict meeting of the Southeastern Educational Association, the last of the six district meetings of the teachers of North Carolina this fall "Supt. Graham had arranged a meeting of teachers and Parent - Teacher officers for that afternoon to whom 1 spoke, and "Friday night I addressed t lie audience at the gen eral meeting in Central high school building. "Saturday morning. I. spoke at a secMonal meeting of high school principals and teachers. ? "At the request of Supt. Graham. I remained In Wilmington to address meetings of teachers and Parent Tee cher workers Monday and Tues day afternoons, December and 4. ? "On Monday evening I accepted an Invitation from the Business Wo man * Clur> or Wilmington. 16 dilflhd a dinner given by the club, and to speak to the members in regard to SPEAKS AGAINST INVISIBLE EMPIRE Raleigh. Jan. 2. ? "An invisible government, by whatever name called, will not be tolerated as a law enforcing agency by the enlightened citizenship of this nation." declared Dr. James E. Shepherd, president of the Durham Negro Normal School, at the emancipation celebration here j yesterday, which- was attended by ! several hundred negroes, anions tl^em a score of former slaves. REVOLUTION TURNED OVER TO ASSEMBLY (F' *nie AiworlatiMl fir?0 Alliens, Jan. 2 ? Amid shouts from deputies and galleries "Long live the republic, down with the king." Greece's revolutionary government was today turned over to the newly .elected national assembly by Col. I'lastiaras, head of the revolutionary committee. ITALY IS OPPOSED TO IMMIGRATION REVISION Washington, Jan. 2 ? Italy ha* made representations through the State Department opposing the Im migration revisions now under con sideration by the House committee. our work. "Wednesday I responded to a call from Supt. 1 mpstead of the Mag nolia graded school, but on reaching the town found that the heavy down pour of rain, lasting all day, had pre vented th?' citizens from gathering for a meeting, so I was unabb* to do any work ,fn Magnolia. Supt. Cmpstead is most anxious to see a I'.-T. A. In 'his school, however, an 1 has promised to organize as soon a.-*' possible. "On Thursday I visited Hose HIM at the request of Mrs. Harvey Honey, principal of Charity School near t he town, where I organized an assocla Hon. In tin* evening I addressed the Hose Hill l\ T. \. and received their, promise !o affiliate with the Stj^i**"! branch at an early date. . ? "On Friday, December 7. I wi-nlr to Falson, where Mrs. Marshnll Wil liams. a member of the Falson school board, had arranged a meeting of teachers and citizens for the after noon. I found the --audience eager for .our association, nnd we organ ized a Parent -Teacher Association from whom w?- may expect fine work. "From Falson I went, to Lllllng ton, to work with the superlntendt*nt of public welfare. Miss Matnle F. Camp, In organizing the rural schools. ? f addressed th- LUIinal??M - I'.-T. A'., a live nnd faithful member of our Itmnrh. on Monday *v enlng, December and during the w.etk totalled with Miss Crimp th? Mltoolivt Christian Light, flute's Creek, Runnier* lr Oakdaie, Angler and Mafy Stuart; I organized asso ciations at Christian Light and lluie's Creek; and Angler, already organ ized. voted to affiliate with the Stat* j Association, and has already done so. Miss Csnip will organize at the oth'-r places we visited. "Friday, December ,14, I drove 128 ml!f ?*from Lllllngton to c,re?-ns horo. and*istve been busy with office work since my return. I have s??nt out KKt letters and 2ft sets of Na tional IV-T. A. leaflets and bulb-tins sine" ui\ IsSt r< -port. "I leave tomorrow for Elizabeth City, where I shall spend the holl-j |lays. and which f shsH make my iKwulhly f-Vhrimry. while I work In thP Albrtnnrlp and Sound rountlrn." . SHIPS LEAVING F0RXARRIBEAN Will Form Greatest Armada Ever Asseiiihled Under Am erican Klafr ? Admiral Holi er! (loom Commanding. Washington, Jan. 2 ? Front points on th?? Atlantic and Pacific coasts more than a hundred ships left today for the Carrihean Sea to form' the greatest armada ever as sembled under the American flu k in the Navy's winter maneuvers at Panama. With them were 8,000 marines from Quantico. and 87 airplanes. The fleet includes 15 battleships, I four light cruisers. 63 destroyers. 11 submarines, an airplane carrier, an airplane tender, four destroyer ten ; ders, three submarine tenders, five minelayers, two transports, and 2F3 train vessels. Admiral Robert E. Coonz is com manding the fleet. NINK KILLED IN FARM HOUSE FIltE Oil City. Pa.. Jan. 2. ? Nine per sons were killed ?ln a fire that de stroyed a farm house at Tylersburg, Clarion county, early today. The victims were James Met7.fr and eight grandchildren. Claude Kmminger succeeded .In rescuing his wife, who was ill, from the second floor of th?> burning house and at tempted to go back for the others but each time he tried to enter the house he was driven- back by the flames and smoke. TO .WNWKK FOIl HHOOTIXG DONE TIIKKK YKAIIM AM) A warrant for William Alexander Overton, wanted here for the shoot ing of Fred Moore, both colored, wai issued Wednesday. Overton has been found in Baltimore, wheTtT he is serving a term in a house of- cor rection, and he will be turned over to the Klizuheth City authorities as soon as his term expires in February. The shooting responsibility for which Is charged against Overton oc curred on September 2. 19 IS. IIOIISKSIIQK PIK IIKItS |\ A.AX. Wilmington. (>., Jan. 2. Horse shoe pitchers are now recognized as full-fledged ath'letes, the National Horseshoe Pitchers' Association hav ing ratified an agreement with the amateur athletic union to become part of that body. Announcement of the ratification was made by It. II, Howard, secre tary of the National Horseshoe Pitchers' Association. WANTS SOME ONK TO ADOPT FAMILY J Tin- welfare of finer of thin Coutaty in asking for help for a family con stating of i mother and throe child ren. The father and hiiHlmnd is a three months sentence on tin* roads and the family has no source of Income. The children flfc too syiall for the mother to Iwwre alone and ko to work. -Their jges ar?* respectively seven yearn, three year* and nine monthB. and they are boy*. - - The welfare officer would like for someone to adopt the family and look after them until the husband's sentence haft expired and the fam ily may get cm it* feet again. Those who wlnh to aid In (hit very pressing ta?' are a;;ked to ?ei? Mrs. Anna Lewis at the -Chamber of Commerce room*. I l\ E KILLED NEAH CHAIU.OTTK TUESDAY Charlotte, Jan. 2. Five n^gro la borers Were killed and two white men and eight negroes Were Injured, Home of them seriously, when a col I ltd on occurred between a shifting englnJ and a construction train on the Seaboard Air Line railroad In the outskirts of the city early last night. One of the Injured negroes wan not expected to live. IMKIIITM MKT 01*11* M New York, .lan.^2 ? N'lne men held up. bound and gagged five gunrdfe at Hrooklyn pier today at daybreak and escaped with ten case* of opltini valued i U $100,000. AL SMITH WANTS j BEER AND WINE lii to i\Yh \ <>rk Leg* i i>Ialurr l rp? Koproenlu* 1 liv?s to Wafgt* Fight ul W ;t*liill^toii. j Albany. N". V.. Jan. 2. ? Further ffTorls for modification of the Vol stead Act were suggested today in | Governor Ai Smith's message to the New York state legislature. He urged New York's representa tives in Congress to lay before Con gress tin- memorial adopted last l??g llslature to change "the narrow, .senseless definition of what consti ? tutes an intoxicating beverage set I forth in the Volstead Act to the end that the manufacture and sale of \ light wines and beer be permitted.' j He urged an amendment to:vthe state constitution so that the 'gov-' I ernor may be elected for a lour year | term in a year when no national election is due. saying that the com i lunation election of governor and | President is bad and should be sep ; united. | He asked that the commission for the regulation of motion pictures be -j abolished.* [NOTED HYMN WRITER AND THEOLOGIAN DEAD Lewtrenchard. Eng., Jan. 2. ? Rev. Sabine Hnrringgould. aged *90. nov elist and theologian, died here today. He was the author of many books, but was best known as the writer of the hymn "Onward Christian Sol diers." He also wrote "N?w the Day Is Over." and many others. Fl* NF.HAI, >II1S. K. F. AVttMfiTT The funeral of Mrs. E. F. Aydlett was conducted at Blackwell Memor ial Baptist Church Tuesday after ; noon. and. atter a short and simple service, witnessed by a congregatioa that filled the auditorium and over flowed Into the annex, interment wit.i made In Hollywood Cemetery. The service was conducted by Mrs. Aydlett's pastor, Or. J. H. ! Thayer, assisted by Or. Samuel H. .Templeman. pastor of the First Bap ' 1 1st Church. Following the singini; j of "How Firm a Foundation" by the choir. Or. Templeman offered pray er ?nd Larry Ennis Skinner sang "Home of the Soul." This was fol lowed by scripture reading and pray er by Or. Thayer and the casket was borne fo the hearse from its place in the flower-embowered chancel as the choir sang "Asleep in ~ Jesus.'* Each of the hymns sung was one of Mrs. Aydlett's favorites.' Mrs. E. F. Aydlett. Sr., who be j fore her marriage was Miss Ettle Brlggs of Kalelgh. died Monday morning at five minutes past two o'clock as a result of an attack of angina pectoris which came on Sun day night shortly after she had re tired after attending evening wor ship at her church. She was <>1 years old on December 17, and the .fortieth anniversary of her wedding day came two days later, on Wednes day, December 10. Active pallbearers at the funeral were: M. P. Gallop. .J M. Weeks, C. E. Thompson, Or. C. R. Williams. J. C. B. Ehrlnghaus, O. F. Gilbert, I*. li Williams ami W. H. Jennings. Honorary pallbearers were: C. A. Cooke,' A.' F. To.xey. Clias. Re, Id, J. fj. Fearing; T. B. Wilson. P. W. Mc Mullan. J It I*elgh, Or. S. W. Oreu ory. Or. J. H. White. M. N. Sawyer, (i. W. Brothers. C. W. Stevens. J. T. McCabe. W. T. Love, Sr., and S. L. Sheep. Attending the funeral from out of town wer.e: Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Brlggft, Mr. and Mrs. Willis llriggs of Raleigh. Fab Brlggs of Btchinond, Or. H. T. Aydlett of f^reensboro*. W. T. Minor of Durham. L. W. Norman of Hertford, and Judge W. A. Devln of Oxford. Mrs. Aydlett Ik survived l>y her husband. E. F. Aydlett. Sr.. and by four children, one son, E. F. Aydlett, Jr.. of Elizabeth City, and three daughters, Mrs. \V. T. Minor of Dur ham. Mrs. P. O. Sawyer and Mrs. H. L. Kendrlck, both of EllzaheHi City, with a number of grandchildren. There are also four surviving broth ers. T. II. Brlggs. J. A. Brlggs, nnd J. O. Brlggs. all of Raleigh, and Fab Brlggs of Richmond. Mrs. Evelyn Thomas Aydlett Is among the large number of nephews and neices sur viving. Superior Court, which In In ses sion iippc this week. adjourned Mon day ut the conclusion of the day's imsi'ies* in ord'T t hnt mehtbel'A "flf the bar riiltfht attend the ftffte riff. NO TUtAI?4 AMMH WKI>.\KMI>AY Cost* wore fmlfl by Dr. J. H. White for a submission In a cam* Involving; violation of the traffic ordinances In polee court Wednesday. There w?re no cas?-s for trial at Wednesday'* session -jot the recor der'* court-*/ COt'PIJC >IAI)K IIHAVK STAItT KAKI.V IX TMK N'KW VIC All Miss Nannie Loyse Smith of 'Richmond and Mr. Kllas Edward Guy of Norfolk wen- married at ^ | 12:05 New Year's mornln* Hy Dr. I .V. If. Thayer ?t hi* home on Kast Hurxess street, Mr. Guy and Miss . Smith , motored here from Richmond, leaving Richmond at 2 o'ctoefc MoS* * <Thv afternoon <?n<l reaching HMs* Iheth City ahout 11 o'clock that I nlirht.