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Phone 357 For Space In The National Publicity Edition ********* * THE WEATHER * ? *?*****? : "VJJzr : ? >oi4//1 ami bout nicest * * frinds. * ??*****?* / / ( opivs * * VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 11. 1921. FOl'U PACES. NO 115 Washington Views Calmly Fall Of Briand Ministry Indeed. Feeling of Administration i-. That ('-tearing I p of International Situation Hastened Katlier Than lie tarded l>v liesidt French Flections Ry DAVID UWKKNCE (Copyright. 1924, By Th? A<t?ancr) Washington, May 1-4.?For more than a year. Washington las waited patiently for just what has happened in France in the ast twenty-four hours?a change from the uncompromising na .ionalism of Raymond Poincare to the flexibility of a new admin istration unembarrassed by the commitments of its predeces sors. The evacuation of the Ruhr, long advocated by the United States government, and now the big stumbling block to the effec tive operation of the Dawes Young reparation settlement may be agreed to by the new ad ministration in France as a means of getting funds immed iately. Tlie radicals came Into power In llie French elections on promises to obtain the money needed to recon struct the remainder of the devasta ted regions. An international loan together with the application of the bawes-Youug plan would give France a new financial start, not only raising the value of the franc but reducing the necessity of fur ther borrowings inside the country ami increases in the debt. It was inevitable a year ago that the Poincare administration would he wrecked on financial issues unless compromises were made. The gra dual drop in the franc helped ma terially to soften the 1'oincare at titude but the rise of a labor min istry in Great Britain together with the insistunce of all the allied ex perts that the Ituhr should be eva cuated to make Germany a single economic unit has brought about an iuiportaut change in the whole situa tion and it is fell here that a new premier In France will be able to deal with the other allies in a much r more accomodating way than would ^Kaymoud Poincare had he been con tinued iu power. Isolation has in a sense been de feated in France, and if, as reported, Artistide liriand, six times premier of France, takes hold once more, an international conference of the allies may be looked for. It was he who was overthrown just at the moment when an interallied agreement seemed possible. The policy he advocated then has been vindicated. He saw the need of making concess ions to the other allies in order to get an agreement on reparations, lie was not as intransigeant as hid successor, M. Poincare. In fact the deadlock of the last year has been attributed solely to the national istic conceptions and stubbornness of Poincare. The policy of Fdouard Herrlot, the radical leader, if chosen premier, would no doubt fol low the liriand policy. While no doubt internal political issues influenced the French result, there is no doubt that exter nally the situation is looked upon as having been greatly Improved by the change of ministry. The radi cals in France are probably as eager as the lahorltes In Great Droitain for a better understanding with Hup *1n as well as Germany. This does not mean that the French radicals are as friendly to the Germans as those in Knglatid; for the bitterness of feeling engendered by the war has not been erased. The questions at Issue are not sentimental but economic and there are evidences that the French radicals will ap prove a program such as the Dawes Young commission outlined tv n though it does involve economic and military evacuation of the Khur, On the whole the feoljng here l<* that the clearing up of the international situation has advanced rather than retarded by the French elec tions. BILLY SUNDAY IS NOW SERIOUSLY ILL Memr-hl*. May It?Hilly Sunday, seriously ill wan last night rushed In a special train to Rochester, Min nesota. for treatment by the Mayo brothers. OIWi.YNI/J \<J HOOD II.WK IN CITY OF OOI.DSIIOHO Ourney T. Hood Is In Qoldohorn thta week organizing a Hood System industrial hank In that city. Eliza beth City lias the (listinr ti?>n <lf hav ing tho first Hood system Industrial bank In the world. At l-'lr?t ('hrUtiiui Mrs. C. N. Downey will speak at the First Christian Church Thurs d.i;* ( ol*":" at S o'clock. Tlx* pub lic Is cordially Invited and her talk will be especially Interesting to young ladies. I FIXK DKVIIJCD CKA1W Deviled crabs $1 a dozen. Call Coney Island Cafe, phone 429. Open day and night. llpd HISTORIC JAMES BEGINS TO RECEDE Properly Damage of More i Than Two Millions Feared and Kpidemie of Typhoid | May Follow Flood Disaster. Richmond. May 14?The historic (James. last of virtually every river and stream in the piedmont and j Shenandoah Valley sections of Vlr i ginia is to remain turbulent 'as a result of heavy rains last week, jbegan to recede today at daybreak after reaching 21 feet above the normal-high tide stage. Anxiety still prevailed last night ! that the tide due during the after |noon would force it to back up. I Reports here today stated that the j other rivers continued the recession begun yesterday leaving in the wake of the wall of water property I damage estimated at more than two j million dollars. | Fear of an outbreak of typhoid fever and similar troubles caused I State Health Commissioner Wil | Hams to issue a warning to people to | take every precaution. LEAGUE INSTITUTE CONVENES TONIGHT The Elizabeth City District Ep Iworth League Institute begins Wed nesday evening at eight o'clock at City Road Church with devotional j exorcises by Rev. \V. T. Phipps, an I address. "All for Christ" by C. R. |R. Pugh, the play "To Vision Heights" by City Road Senior i League and a social hour, j Thursday morning's session will be opened by devotional exercises i by I)r. N. II. D. Wilson, and the ; speakers are Rev. X. C. Yearby of j Hertford, Mrs. Daniel L:<ne. Rev. J. j Knight of Edenton. Rev. H. E. .Myers of Durham and Rev. T. M. I Grant, conference league president. On the afternoon program are Rev. A. R. Crumpler of South Mills. Miss Rernice Dozler, Rev. W. <1. Lane of Plymouth, and Rev. Daniel i Lane. TH1KVKS liltKAK INTO SIX FRKKJHT CAM Freeport. Illinois. May 14 ? Thieves today broke Into six cars of Westbound merchandise on a train of the Chicago and Great Western railroad supposedly in search of a valuable silk cargo. The burglary gave rise to the report 1 that the Chicago and Northwestern I Passenger train had been held up. HKItlOt'SLY III ItT WIIKN thrown orr t)F CART W. W. Heals, r? Richards >n stre -t, driver of a sfrset cart, was , spriouftly injured Tuesday morning about 10.30 when the horse h?> was driving became frightened and thr?-v :him out of the cart across our? Khaft and then kicked him until h" f-II J through between tho shafts. Neigh bors saw the accident and icame to bis aid and rushed him !to the hospital where an X-Itay I was taken and it was found that his right leg, n^ar the hip. and his rl^ht arm was broken. At 10 o'clock (Wednesday morning Mr. Rials was put in a plaster cast and hi* bones were act. Afterwards an X-Ray will be taken of his stomach to s?-e what, if any, internal Injuries there are. Mr. Deals has been employed- by the city for two years ami has five |children, Mrs. J. H. Gibson of Rich mond. who has not tITb '1. W. A. | I!fa1s of Norfolk. J. W. R'-als of Co Jlumbia. II. R. Raker and Mrs, Fran cis Perry and one adopted ho:?. i Frank White of this city. GOVKIlXOIt MOIHIISOX IMSI'KH FINANCIAL HTATfcMKNT STATF. ! Rilelgh. May 14?Governor Mor? (rison today Issued a financial stnte ' ni?*nt of the State current fund | showing a balance )n the State treasury as of December III, 1023, [of $422,963.79. j Miss Elizabeth Ragley left Tues day for Goldsboro, where she will at tend the Methodist Missionary meet ing now in session. Hope (!?nj!rr>s May Adjourn Jimf Scvi'ii'.li Wu.-'iif.m .V...y : : - A:i ; .r nit ni was today rt'ai'h- d by I?*?::>?? era tic and Iti'iiuMk'an Houm- IciiiUts at a conference with Coo'i.lge I? ? vvt)ik for tli.- adjournnu'iit of l\?n , gros on June 7. NOT TIIKIK III SINKSS I SAYS mi: CONIKUHNCK Springfi* hi. Mass.. May 14?Tho charg" that the Methodist church I has boon brought into ill repute as a, supporter of Communion anil the Third lnt? matlonal today throw tho > 'Methodist Kpiscopal general confer-' j? nee into an uproar. < , It was finally vot? d that Harry | Ward, chairman of tho Civil Liber-' J t ios I'll ion ami oil it or of tho Met ho-j I dist Federation of Sociil Service. I was beyond the jurisdiction of the' I conference. | ALTON" SPKXU-: IIIItT \VKI?\HS|>\V M()K\IV(i Alton Ppence of Nowland. son of Mr. and Mrs. John K. Spence. was |painfully hurt Wednesday morning! | while at work for-tlio Hiuhway Con.-] | mission in tho Dismal Swamp. Ho wan operation a skidding machine j which pulls up stumps wli?*n I lie ac cident occurred. His riulit hand is said to l?o badly cut and his body and ? log bruised, hut no bones are broken and his condition is not considered "serious. Ho was brought to the Community Hospital shortly after ,ono o'clock Wednesday afternoon.1 Mr. Spence is a brother of Mrs. Karl Sawyer of Elizabeth City. I TO rOHTSMOlTH MONDAY Rev. A. W. Crawford. D. D.. super-! intendeiit of Home Missions in th,v' North Carolina Synod, left for. Portsmouth Monday, accompanied by Rev. I*. II. Scottercood and Horac** Wise. While in the city I)r. Craw-, ford filled the pulpit of Cann Mem- j orial Presbyterian Church Sunday] 'morning and evening. Mr. Scatter-! good and Horace Wise returned homo Monday afternoon. Mrs. George Smith returned Satur-, day from Marion, where she attend-1 ed the meeting of the C.reat Council jof Red Men and also visited friend.* at Ashoville. Traced v For 11 hours llelcn Duncan, a^cJ 3. ket?t frightened viqil beside the ?todies of her mother and father. In the presence of the child Karl Puman, Kansas City, Mo., mur dered his wife and then ended hl3 own life. Tho child was found huddled in a corncr when i?olic? arrived. AIMtIL COTTON UEPOKT Waxliiniilon, May 14. ?? Cotton coiiKunifd during April amount* d to 4X0,010 l?al?*8 of lint and 42,280 of Kilters," the Census P?ur<aii nn no timed today. Cotton spindP-a ac tive during April numbered U1.H71, 005. Baptists Have Made Great Gains Says Dr. Mullins In Aniiiuil Address Hcfnrc Southern Hnpli-I Convention President Calls Upon Oinrclics of the South to (ijitlier Up All Their Knerjjies for (ireat Victory Atlanta, (in., May 11.?"(ircnl gains Imvc nm?l?* in tlir* l.jiprivt S7."?,(MH?,oon |?i. Y. Mull in*, today. / "First, n IM'W koiino of miily. "Sfiouil, a now sense of power. "Tlilril, a now |x?siiioii of infliicnci1 in tin* world. "Foilrlli, we haw acliic%(*(l a new world vision." Atlanta. (Ja., May 14.?Making a J strong plea for successful culmina tion of the $75,000,000 campaign. ? President E. Y. Mulllns In his an nual addrexs before the Southern | Baptist Convention at its opening session hero today, called upon the churches of the South to "gather hip in the remaining months of the campaign all the energies in our ?power and go forth to a great vie | lory." "It Is a good time to consider the ' minion of the Southern Conven I t??>?!. In the Swnty-Klvp Million Campaign we have ?:*:??1 '? ?? a?r?t ?gains. Among them are the follow jlng: First, a new sense of unity.: ?Second, a new sense of power. I Someone says the most depressing ? expreKslon in the English language i is the phrase "I cannot" and 'lie most Inspiring phrase "I can." Wo ! have I' arn' d the meaning. In a j measure, of both. Hut the new j sense of power has come, beyond all ? 0 neurit* n. Third, a new position of i in flu nc" in the world. We have j challenged the attention of man j kind by a sublime undertaking, a. heroic venture, a challenging and: {daring comnltlal of faith. Fourth, I i we have achieved n new world vis-j j 1<?n. We have been like "some! j watcher of the skies, when a tiew plaint swims into IiIh krti." We, have com" r.lsO to a new epoch in! the organized expression of our life, 'and ?his has brought new hope and1 .complex problem a to be patiently I solved. | '"lli" mission ft tli'? Southern flaptM Convention can be defined, in the light of the spiritual need which gav.e It birth and which It was desient d to meet. in 1MI In Phil adelphia. under tin stimulus of the thrilling appeal of Luther Klee for missions, twenty-six ministers and seven laymen from eleven states and the District of Columbus formed the old Triennial Convention. In 1MB in Augusta. (Ja.. 31 m?*?senge?s from Maryland. Virginia, North and South Carolina. Georgia. Alabama. Isouls lana. Kentucky, and the District of Columbia organised the Southern Baptist Convention. Thus the Con vention was the lineal successor of the first general national Ra|itlst Convention in the Cult- <1 Stairs. It was founded %on the missionary motive. It established two boards, one for foreign and the other for domestic missions. It sent out an appeal to the liretlir?* 11 In the lTnlted States, to the congregations connec ted with the respective churches, and to all candid men. As thus or ganized and as tints spiritually Ini p< lied, this ('oiivi ntlon has had <i great history. Its mission today, as it confronts it? pre?? nt and future tasks, may he expressed lit five pro posit ions. "First, the mission of the South em HapiM Convention, is to he Hit organized embodiment of the major motive of the go j '? I for the largest single group of Ha pi lata ??n ?arlh. That motive Is expressed in the Great Commission of our Master: to preach th?? gospel t'i every ere.iture and teach the principles of the king dom which th" gospel brings to pays on earth. That motiv ? i-? r* dated in the preamble of th- constitution of this body tis "the purpose of car rying into effect th" benevolent in tention of our constituent 4 by or ganizing a plan for eliciting, com bining and directing tl?o energies of th*? denomination for the propaga tion of the gospel." The design i* further stated to be "to promote foreign and domestic mi:< i'*n.; and other import.tint obj <ts nuin'cted with the H^de'-ntcr's Kingdom." Thus it appears that the Conv* ntlon Is three-fold in function; First, to elicit, or draw f??rth or develop the1 energies of the denomination, se cond, to combine these energies In a unified plan to accomplish a given .object. Third, to direct th'se en icrgies towards their proper ends by the joint wisdom of .1 vast con stituency. So ;i 1 o i* this Convention 1 three fold In its its scope. It Is j Sott?h-wide in its constituency. It is Kingdom-wide in Its agencies and < 1 methods and it Is world-wide in Its i vision. "Second, the mission of this boefcr I is to be the demonstration of tho succets of religious democracy on I the largest scale known In Christian i (Continued on Page Three) r.M.i cowHT to its nn 1:21 ? ? -?? |. -'"ii. M.iv l | iKi'.ii. I ? M\ <*? ? i:; ? lav in iU n t!) ? w.ir Ail 15.' * 1' :.i ,1111.? V i. nry i; I t !) it I lit ?Ol 1> '!??? {' II . a ;| i .' fl V it ? 'o testify hi fori1 n S. v. ral wifn. <>.. s l.a\?- t? ? I.I iHo coniniittf.- that I;, urns immense whiskey opera tion* in prom-ess in Ohio fur ?-iinii'tiiiic involving a iiiim Im r of prominent p.opl.. n also has Im-.ii |?stifi?d that Ik has bi on uiven spi rial com forts at th?' pen lit miarv. SHIP FIRST CAR LOAD MAY PEAS Si-voral Hiokt'i? ( <i-ii|>i'rali' in IVlakr < .arlnad \\ Afternoon and Oilier* W ill *??? Furxard Thursday. A car was ordered icoil in pro !|>aralion for the open i til; ?f M.IV pea , shipments tIt rough Klizuhcth ciiv in jcariuad lots Wednesday. This'car I will pro ha lily In. made up by several ? brokers acting together if ii is 1 loaded Wednesday afternoon. | Ainu- of I ho lending brokers planned' |lo ship a i-ar on Wednesday morning and al that time Ihere was no plan i nil ft in t to co-d]iorstto In Rolling out! the first iar, j Hrock * Soon plan to load tholr first car on Thursday. X. Howard .Sniiih will have a car on Friday at | tho hill'"!, hi' says, and may load one I oil Ihiiisday. J. it. .Newborn bad "" peas in sight for Wednesday slilp I ment bin was making ready for a .car Ihursday. The Rpenco-llollo-! ; won Company did not have a car in sight Wednesday morning hni wore preparing to make up their first car j fold weather for the past two idaysj lias retarded growth of May peas to some extent and the develop ment Is very Utile ,W1) I days ago. Shipments this week will ; therefore lie few while the rush of l ie season will fall next week and tlio. week after. j riiirty cars of .May peas were in | ,'w York Tuesday from N'orlh C'nr . olina. A ho ii | lr-n cars jinked jlliroiiKh Klbaljelh City for New I i ork from tlio .Mack.ey's sort ion. The J price is uiiHctrlec!. I>H. IWCDANIEE heaijs BAPTIST CONVENTION IB* Thi? Auocl.it u PriN) Atlanta. May II- Dr. tieorge Me-j I>.11! 1. I Of Itlcbmoud, Virginia, was ?today elected president of the Souih"tt] H.iptiht Convention. SECIiETAItY lll'iaiKS DENIES <ll\K(a> Washington, Mny II. -Sicr. tan lluirliis today declined to he "aliso 'itely falsi " tile slalemeal that lie bad "anything to do with the sal ? ol the steamship Martha WasMn; toil to Its fiirnn r owners by tin-; ? hipping Hoard. In a formal state ment prompted bv the leading of correspond' nee before th. Ilnuso shipping Una i d Invi .titallon com mittee tin. Secretary declared that he I UK I not Ii In u to do with the sub ject since he entered the cabinet. IVII'll 101) IN COLLISION Milwauk-e, May If ? Twenty >?ven i><'i>on'H wem injured several HerioiiMly here yesterday in a rr>l 11 s ion hi iwh.'I) u l>iim mul a street car. Nioirr i:ii>i;ns in Illinois Sprln-ifh Id. Ills.. May 11 ? Nii-.lit ild?'i? ur-? mr< ring nJroni; ?)i?)?(i.4|(l.?ll l?? the hnpm-fnllon of in - linn s to work in tli?- cotton ft* I<1m of S?iilli<rn Illinois. LOOKS I IKK TIIIH IIAIIY |'|;i:i)Kstim;ii to ti:\vi:l Wiish'fltilon, May 14-?Just as the Wa'Illusion and Vundejn< re pas-n f,i r train reached I lie* "V" on t? rdjv of Ilu> city eurouto from Van-! Mr?. II. it. fluilford, of Aurora, fcave hiith to a baby' daiiKb-' tor. A* xoon as the little pi-I'm arrival; wji* <tulionn^t'd. Conductor llollinu KWirlh stopped 1i 1*4 train and phoned i|?f? Wa^liiiiKlon liOHpit:tI. Within a f"w in I vi <i t ?h the hospital ambulrtne arilvid. Ilolh Hi" mother and child were tak*-n to the howpil.il, where J both ar?' reported to !??? doing nicely. IIAI'TIST LA> MLS IlltV Atlanta, May 14 ? The laymen of th" Southern ltapti?i Convention in sesftion her" Inst night pawed a resolution urKinK ConureBH not to consider inodittcatIon of the Vol stead law or It* enforcement art. Six thousand delegate* an* In at tendance. fraternal delegations from the Northern llaptlnt Conven tion also are here. Mm. John Whaley left Monday for Baltimore where she will visit her niece, Miss Mabel Chappel. at Frank lin Square HoHpltal. She will also visit friends at Washington. DR. SUN VAT SEN \/t viii. ul 4 j 1) ' AEA? I ? i? r Nautili I'i r-idciil. M'n? < ;i 11?-<1 latlirr of I In- I {< -1 > 111 > lie ;m<l licnrp' Wa?liill?:l<>ll of llir I'ar Ku?t. 'B? Thr a n.%11 <S Prrn) llonu K"HiM;iy I I Dr. Sun Yrf Si'ii. pi evident of the South China govi.riiim in is dead. F? vv if any statesmen. past or I-ri-s. ni. ha-ve known more ups and dnwib, more victories ami defeats, in???? ? loyalty or more trcurhcry than Dr. Sun Vat Sen. the first provis ional president of China. frequently called **i !??' Father of tho Ilepubllc" and oft? 11 referred to as tho "(ieorgo Washington of the Far Kast." Tho name of Dr. Sun first began to :i|?p? ar in newspapers of the Wi'sicm World hack in the late 80'a \viii ii iiis vigorous pronouncements again-t li:s archenemies. tho dynas tic .Manchii Kmperors of China, at tract. <1 some slight attention. Ho was tIf ii living in tho Hawaiian Is lands with his widowed mother, who had migrated to Honolulu with h*r hushand. an agent of a Christian mission, when Sun Yat Son was an infant. Since 1S9S, however, when he essayed 1 li? > first of his many involutions, his name has become al most as well known to the Occi dent as it is to the 400 million Chi nese nationals on behalf of whom he spent a lifetime of unremitting hard ship and constant danger. Dr. Sun was twice named to tho highest constitutional office in Chi na the first time in tile fall of 1011. when lie was proclaimed tli? first provisional president of the Chi nese Kepuhlic, and again in May* 1!?21. when lie was elected President of all China. Preceding his first election the Chinese people, rising in their wrath against centuries of bad government under the monarch in I Manchu and previous dynasties, overthrew the ex isting government and set-up a re public. naming as president Dr. Sun, who was understood to have engi neered tlie uprising. All of South China and most of the Yang-tse prov inces were thus brought under a sin gle banner emblazoned with the principles of republicanism. | Dr. Sun, although few of his as sociates knew it. was a Christian. was born in Honolulu in lKf?2 and received bis medical education In the Hong Kong College. II.* was mar ried quite early in life and was the father of two children, n son and a daughter. PISTOI, ski.i.im; I.aw INVOKKI) MUST TIME The law requiring that before a sab- of a pistol can be made the buy er must present a permit to buy from tin* clerk of the court was invoked for the first time within the recollec tion of Trial Justice Spence during bis term of office Wednesday morn ing when Nathan Mann and V. ft. llnrrbf, the former the seller and the latter the buyer, were each fined $5 and costs for tlx- violation of this statute. This case aorven as a pointed re minder of the fact that one may not without violation of the law buy or sell a -pistol unless the buyer pre sents a permit from the clerk of the court stating that lie is a man of good character. Two colored boys. Wheeler Smith and Irving Wliitehurst wero held for store breaking on three separate rluirgoH and now must face trial In Superior Court on four: Ilreaking Into Zimmerman's mill, breaking in to the Kllzabelh City Milling Com pany's plant, breaking Into Aydlett K- ()w< ns need and feed store, and in to Will Williams store on Water street. For the last offense they were held for Superior Court Mon day. items which disappeared from the places mentioned are said to have been found in their possession. I'rndford frmdors was fined ind costs for speeding, and (leorge 14. Andrew wt?>: taxed with the costs Tor lie violation of the parking ordinance, SAYS I Kill I" MONTHS TKIIM IS I'll; M>\(i WAY OFF I'sil'iKli. May 14-?Ton counties* In ill* St;i?o now own more than one third of the totjil Krhool property nt?i| only n I no counties have an aver age term of eight month.';. according Jo it ^tulMiHUl Ifwtird by 8upt. A. T, All"ti of I lie Depart nient of IC<1 uca? Hon yesterday. lie nay*i that an eight months school for all I* far off. I OTTON M A It K OTP N't u York. May I I?Cotton fu ture* opened thU morning at the fol lowinK levels: May 31:40; July 2K.JI2; October 2 a 10; December 21.15; .lantmry 2t.e7. At two p. in. fill urea w??re quoted as follows: May 31.30; July 24.92; October 2V00; December 24 39; Junuary 2 4.06. New York. Mny 1 \ ? Spot cotton closed steady this afternoon, advan cing 1 *? point-* .Middling 31.7$. Futures closed nt the following levels: May 31.26; July 28.81; October 2 4 9 4; December 24.81; January 23.78.