********* * THE WEATHER * Shoicers and thunder- * ^ * CIRCLLAT10\ * " "tortus tonight. Cooler * (in| II KSTfgjfej (fl]^r?^t^fllfTrf|f V1 111 III HIWrfll II 1(11 PI C^l Tuesday * * ty cloudy and cooler. * * ******** ? ?*?*???? ? ? * tonight. Thursday fxirt- 2.2.i0 C.o/iies * * ********* VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1921. FOlll PAGES. NO. 121. France Moves To Normalcy But Future Is Still Obscure Kesult IJecent Elections Apparently a Stop in Direction of European Settlement lint Complete Tranquil ity Has Not Vet Come in Sight By FRANK H. SIMOND8 i Washington. May 21.?To under stand the present confusion In the French political situation and the ? uncertainty as to the cliaracter of the next cabinet and the name of the j new Premier, it Is necessary to, glance for a moment at the chaotic: condition which has resulted from the recent election. And. above all. I it Is necessary to appreciate the fact that under the continental bloc ?ys-| tern our own party methods are quite impossible. 1 Thus in the new Chamber of Dep uties with 58 4 members no one par-! tv has anything like a majority. The liloc National, which supported I'oin i*inml wpiit to defeat, will have something like 233 members. This, is the official opposition and it Is a iairly homogeneous body at the mo ment. In addition the Royalists or! Conservatives elected upwards of 20 ! members and these would doubtless vote with the Bloc National against any extreme radical government. Thus, at the outset, It would be fair to assume that the opposition could count upon approximately 253 votes, leaving 331 for the groups which to gether must make the new govern ment. But of these 331 only 190. name ly the Radicals and the Republican Socialists with 151 an^ 39 seats re spectively. could easily coalesce. The Radicals are led by Herriot, Just now most frequently spoken ql as the next Premier while to the other group belong both Brland and Paln leve, the former many times Prime Minister, the latter once and disas trously during the World War. In addition there arc the Social ists, lid by Blum, who count 102 seats but are pledged against taking office. This Socialist party. In com bination with the Radicals and the Republican Socialists, constituted the Bloc of the Left, which united suc cessfully to defeat Polneare but which have absolutely nothing In common In the way of an affirmative program. Finally, there arc 29 out and out Communists, also oppoennts of I'olncare but similarly opponents of any other conceivable government. Now if Herriot, for example, formed a government, he would cer tainly be opposed by both the Royal ists and the Bloc National; that Is. the whole of the possible opposition. He could count on 151 votes from his own Radical party, but he could not even hope to form a cabinet unless he were assured the support of the Socialists, who count 102 members. But this combination alone would be approximately of the same strength as the opposition. In point of fact, it would be helpless unless support ed bv the Republican Socialists: that is. the Brland-Palnlcve Bloc, with J9 votes. Such a combination would almost certainly be opposed by the Commun ists and thus a three party coinb n ation of Radicals, Socialists and Re publican Socialists, counting at most 292 members, would face a minority combine of Royalists. Communists and the Bloc National of practically the same strength, namely 292. Her riot in practice, then, could only form a cabinet which would have any chance of lasting as he was able to draw strength from the Bloc Nation al And at best his majority would be precarious In the extreme. llriand's situation, on the con trary. is quite different. On the sur face' he would seem to have only 39 sure votes: but. once Polneare had disappeared. It Is almost certain that a very large part of the Bloc a I would, on terms, agree to support a Brland Cabinet, seeing In Brland a much more satisfactory premier. Moreover, what 1* most lik?'ly to hnp pen Is that Herriot will form a Cab inet. perhaps last for a few weeks or ev? n months, and then give wa> to j Brsince Polneare Is going into re-, ,In-m.nt the disintegration of the B or Na lon.l Is almost Inevitably But to replace It one may expect at !in distant date some combination of ^Xa^eleme^u'whlch 'so-j min the Communists, nl from" being radical"-"in The^exUeme American sense_ rM|Rnatlon of MUTie??d]follow^M|?^> Mm tatt actions more ?<reme than Sz lions but with amailng dexterity. rlemenceau's bitter characterisation S Polneare and Brland baa frequent ly ben recalled recently. The Tl? ALTO ACCIDENT ENDS IN AKKEST A Mr. and Mrs. Earl Fry were released under bond of $1,000 from Currituck Jail Tuesday night, according to telephone reports received in Klizabeth City, after having been lodged there on tho charge of transporting liquor. The couple were travelling by automobile through Shaw boro on their way to Norfolk Monday afternoon when the steering gear broke and the car turned over at Flora's I^ane about a mile from Shawboro. According to reports, both were under the influence of li quor, and the car was full of liquor. Their arrest .followed the accident, and their release from jail came Tuesday night when the bond had been ar ranged. Supposedly they are residents of Norfolk. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SPIED ON COMMITTEE Washington, May 21.?The Senate Daugherty committee today was told that representatives of the Depart ment of Justice not only had sought to "frame Senator Wheeler," Its | prosecutor, but had spied on its 1 members and its witnesses and had i spirited away the famous diaries of | Gaston Means, who was working with it as an Investigator. One of the witnesses was W. O. iDuckstein who said he knew about | the whole proceedings because his wife is a secret agent of the Depart ment and it was she who identified in his presence the records of Means i after they had been secured by a ruse. TICKETS ON SALE FOR SENIOR PLAY ! Tickets for the Senior play. "All of a Sudden Peggy," went on ! sale at Selig's Wednesday morning and indications are that the house I will be filled Friday evening. All !seats will be reserved, and it will lie | wlae to buy tickets and make reser vations early. '/All of a Sudden Peggy," it is pre dicted. will be the best senior play ever given at Elizabeth City High ; School, which is saying quite a lot. for this event never falls to draw an enthusiastic crowd. i " ? ? -? er" said: i "Polncare Is a man who knows ev erything and can do nothing; Briand is a man who knows nothing and can do everything." Briand's political manoeuver now Is obviously to win over to himself ,the larger part of the strength of the disintegrating Bloc National. He , would be far more moderate In tem per than Polncare but on the whole much more conservative lhan Her-' riot. In this way lie might create a new bloc, that Is a middle or mod-i erate group, corresponding to Lloyd George's old dreain of a center party In Britain. Meantime, since he in an admirable waiter, he may very well let Herrlot have his fling, which must be brief. Whether Herrlot or Driand conies. French foreign policy will now be more conciliatory In tone, although it may be doubted If there will be ,any sweeping modification of French demands. A combination Herrlot-1 Briand Ministry is even conceivable, with Driand In charge of foreign af fairs. But, In any event, what Ir* icertain Is that the next Kreneh Cab inet will proceed to a discussion of the Dawes report and seek a restor ation of the Anglo-French entente. !Should Herrlot come, ft Is also very ? likely that some conciliatory ges tures will b'* made in the direction ? of Germany. Herrlot's radical party Is the party I of Caiilaux. who always favored i Franco-German co-operation and I looked with something like hostility I at Great Britain. Briand. on the contrary, followed the Clemenceau |view of Anglo-French co-operation, while Polncare partly by reason of |the course of events, partly because lof personal views, aimed to give i France an Independent role, while jdrawing to her the minor states in lUie center of Europe which shared (French dangers on the German side. Accepting the fact, which has been 'generally noted, that the French 1 election represents a gain for the cause of European settlement. It must atltl be recognized that the character of party inea in the new [Chamber makea for much obscurity and not a little Insecurity. Once (more, as at Cannes when Briand fell I a change of government Is possible at almost any moment. Thli la un mistakably a French return to nor malcy, but hardly to the British counterpart, which Is tranquility. Worthless Check Is Poor Pay For Watch But It's What Preposessing Youth Left In Trail Through Elizabeth City H. C. HrltJit. local jeweler, has oil liis hands a worthless check for $40 land somewhere in the l\ S. A. a ! neatly dressed young man in nil .probability is wearing a $40 watch which lie obtained for the aforesaid check. Mr. llrlght would give more than $40 to know the young man's whereabouts. Something line two weeks ago a 'slim stranger not. apparently, more |than 25 years of age or exceeding1 1:15 pounds in weight stopped in Mr. iDriuht's store and wanted to buy a j watch. He represented himself to I be W. Norman House of the Weldon I Motor Company of Weldon. and pre-) sented a business card of that firm i with the name that he was claiming printed in the lower left hand cor ner. The younc man was of good address, Inquired as to the residence of a former Trinity student whom lie claimed to have known at college, exhibited his Ford coupe parked across the street from Mr. |Hrlght*8 store, asked questions about how to get to Plymouth, and [altogether made such a good impres [slon that Mr. llrlght accepted his check signed "W. Norman House, i Weldon Motor Company," In pay ment for the watch and thanked liim in the bargain, the favorable imprec ision "Mr. House" had made in the first place not being at all detracted from by discovery of the fact that the Weldon Motor Company had an excellent financial rating. A few days later, however. Mr. Tlright got a Jolt when his bank In formed him that the check, which had bei n duly deposited, had been returned unpaid. Accordingly Mr. Rrfcht made haste to write to W. Norman House, Weldon Motor Com pany. Weldon, North Carolina, to ask an explanation and that the check be made nood. By return mall he had a letter from Mr. House stat ing.that he had never given Mr. Hrlght a check and had only been In Elizabeth City but once in his life and that about three years ago. Fur thermore, Mr. House went on to say, ihe signs his name W. N. House, and I not W. Norman, as it appears on the j check. The card, however, was gen lulne. printed for him by the firm by which he Is employed with the mld fdle name spelled out because his friends call him Norman. 1 Mr. House says he. has no Idea who it was that forged his name here nor how he came into possession of the business card which he used so adroitly. He kindly offers, however, to co-operate with Mr. Bright In anv way possible to bring the offender to justice. Wh*n In Elizabeth City the ficti cious Mr. House wore a dark blue or black serge coat and n soft bat. He had dark hair and brown eyes. i TO CONSIDER ACTION ON THE WORLD COURT Washington. May 21.?The Sen ate foreign relation* committee was today called for tin1 first time to con sider at the present session of Con cress action on the proposals for Am erican membership In the World Court. The meeting was calhd at the re quest of Senator Swanson of Vir ginia. ranking Democratic member j of the committee. STATE LETS CONTRACT FOR CAMDEN PROJECT, The contract was let at Raleigh Tuesday, according to news received here Wednesday morning, for grad ing and structural work on the new i road by way of Belcross from Cam den to Rllgo. Work of grading and bridge building on this highway, then, will begin early In June. It would seem, as the contractor Is given about 2m dlft from the awarding of th contract to begin work. \RMY AVIATORS \RE I)FLAYED l?Y WEATHER (Bv TH? Attoclalrtf Pf?M) Toklo. May 21.?American Army aviators frying around the world are being delayed at Illttokappu Hay. Yetorofu Island, by bad weather. An official dispatch to the Japan-j ese navy department from a Japan-j esc destroyer on duty with the flier* said that the Americans were wait ing until the foggy weather clears. ; Says Hertford County Is Strong for Aydlett W. R John*on and W. W. Roger* of Ahoakle. Hertford County, weral I vloltor* In Rlltaheth City Wednea-' day. Mr. Johnaon waa formerly |representative from Bertie County land Mr. Rogera la a candidate for repreaentatlra from Hertford I County In the coming primary. Hertford County la atronf for Ay dlett for Congreaa, according to Mr. | Johnaon. who bellevaa he will carry the majority In that county In th* (primary. imtTMN SEEKING COTTON SUPREMACY Nrw York. May 21.?Ed ward llnrthtt. president of the Now York Cotton Kxcliaimo. said today iipou liis roturu from Kuropo that the I'nlted States was not fully alive to the efforts belnu made by ttreat llritaiti to uain the cot ton supremacy of the world. KmiOiiiHiziiifi tlio s? ri??iisui'ss of ih<- boll weevil in this coun try ttartlett advocated imnodi at?- attention not only by pri vate interest* but by the (lov ? rnmcnt to insure heavy pro duction. Should pricos continue blub. Great Itritiiin would do her own producing, lie asserted, and America would lose a val uable cotton consumer. SAYS LIQUOR LAW IS NOT ENFORCED llohhg Thinks Sheriff Should Try Enforce All Law Alike uiid Not Let One Law he i Dead Letter. At least one candidate for Blierlff i Is making the race on an unequivo cal platform of better enforcement of I |the law prohibiting the manufacture.' ; Hale and possession of Intoxicating ; liquor. ' That candidate is J. Walton Hobbs | of Salem Township, who makes no bom s of saying that he believes that 'the sheriff of Pusquotank County ! could if he would do a great deal to dry up some very moist spots in the .County. Mr. llobbs wants It understood, however, that the prohibition law en i force men t is not the only plank in lliis platform. "I favor law enforce ! ment," he says, "as a general propo sition and, as to the prohibition law, 11 believe it should be jell forced exact lly and precisely as any other law. i *4In other words, I think all laws (ought to be enforced alike. We see lour people haled into court, some for violation of the cattle-dipping law, |some for violation of city parking jordinances, and some for operating automobiles with defective lights, or I for other minor offenses, while vio lations of the prohibition law go on I with no visible effort on the part of j officials to bring the offenders to Jus i tic<?. "You people in town may not j know it," said Mr. Hobbs, "but vio lations of the liquor law are doing a | great deal more harm in rural Pas I quota nk than they are in Elizabeth! jClty, because people in the country I know more nhout what their neigh-, ? bora are doing, and the sale of liquor is a matter of such common occur rence in some of our rural commun ities that even little children are 'quite aware of what is going on. .Why 1 know to my own knowledge that purchasers are buying liquor! i that is being placed In their hands. In some instances, by any member of the family of the seller who happens | to be present when the sale Is made. I In such an atmosphere, how can j these children he expected to grow, up with anything except contempt for the prohibition law and so for all , law? "I have made up my mind that If I am elected sheriff I will do all In I my power to sjie that such practices as this are broken up. I do not be lieve that it would take a great deal of time or ? ffort to make Pasquotank 1 County clean. 1 believe that, the only thing necessary is a real desire to \ put a stop to the traffic and the de termination to stamp it out. As soon as the booth":trers realize that they, have in office a sheriff with that de sire and with that determination. If ho Is given nnv sort of co-operation . st all, 1 am fullv convinced that they, will quit the business or move Into; some other county. So far as I an ? concerned, for my own sake and for the sake of the adult cltlxenship cf the County I would not think this; tight worth while making, but when j 1 think of the Influence under which , the children of our dav are growing up and enp dally the children of the rural districts I am thoroughly per suaded that the matter i? one which deserves the hearty support of all our people who believe In law en forcement. If all who profess po to believe will give me their support 1 nm confident that I will he the next sheriff of Pasquotank County. "I have personally never been a strict prohibitionist, and as long ns It was possible to obtain liquor law fully did not see any objection to a young man's taking a drink occasion-' | ally If he could do so In moderation.; But since seeing for mvself the cor rupting results among the young peo-1 pie of the traffic as It Is carried on now, I am thoroughly convinced that It should he put a stop to, and for the sake of the boys and girls grow-1 Ing up In the County I am willing to undertake, if elected sheriff, to use all the power* of the office to that end." Men who know Mr. Hobbs have been heard to say that he Is one who can be depended upon to keep a pledge and who has the courage and determination when he undertakes anything to see It through to the fin ish. Roads On Dare Mainland Would Bring Trade Here Stumpy Pointer Thinks Itoad from Stumpy Point and East Likt' to Maun* Ihirlior Would Mt-au K?t:ililislinicnt of IVrrv from Manns llat'lior to Currituck COM KKKKS \<;i<KK ON TAX HEM'CTION Washington. May 21.? rnanlmous :agroeinent was ranched today by i conferees on the tax reduction bill. Hope was ixprosscd bv tin* Kcpubli-I can organization leaders that the bill as now framed would meet the n|? | proval of President Coolldge who I had declared bis opposition to both! Itb?? publiritv and corporation propo sals wbicb bave now been elimlnat K I BANK ACCOUNT WAS - -USED AS SliUSH?WhVD Washington, May 21.?An account 1 maintained by former Chairman Lob dell of the Farm Loan Hoard in a' 'local bank was used "at times" as a! slush fund. Senator Howell, Itc*l?uh-j lean, of Nebraska today charged in j i continuing his opposition to the con-j Urination of four pending nomina-j 'lions to the board. I j a I WKST 1XMAX ISLANDS 1 VKItV I.OVAL TO KXCiIjANl> Plymouth, England, May 21.?Sir , Eustace Klennes, governor of the j Leeward Islands, on a recent visit visit to England. told reporters that, I he was certain the nritish West Indian posesslon* would never be ceded to American for war debt. The sentiment of the people was I strongly against such a change of I flag and they were very loyal to (Creat Britain, the governor said. Sir Eustace said also that despite 1 the commercial loss occasioned by .the war and four successive years of | drought, the future outlook for the \ islands was excellent. I .1A PA X KX TKXII.4 I, A \VS TO < OVKIt SAfilf AL1KX I8LAXH Toklo, May 21.?To knit a Japa nese Saghulien more closely to the rest of the empire, the cabinet has decided to put Into force there scv leral laws which heretofore have not | applied to the northern posesslon. j These Include the conscription law, I which will make inhabitants of Bag halicn liable to service In the army. I .the nationality law and the census registration law, all calculated to | Insure the cohesion of the empire J land to increase the control of the i central glvernment. The southern half of Saghalicn. j which became a Japanese posesslon as a result of the Kusso-Japanesc j ? War, has made remarkable pro-, , gross in the development of adinin ; 1st rati ve organs and community life, according to Tbklo officials, and the ! time is considered ripe to administer | that territory an an integral part of the empire. Ill'SIVKSH DILL IUT .\TI,.\ \T.\ IS OPTIMISTIC Aflnntn, May 21.? Unfavorable wo?ib?r I* ro?pon*ir>if> fc.r some cf I In* sl*t' kt'tlltlK Of hUKillC'J In I ? i 't. ri.ig iht'lnesN Im reli ??fei l*i Ji-1 i-'nn .?*rrjtorn, n'thcu .!i tl.e dc ?11n * I.hh not boon urate. Tho oj> t?;:ilst!--? siftifitf??? of retail in?*i>'l. int* is cx< iiipllfi'*fl by tlin the nnnounce mont by Daniol Brothers, distribu tor* of men's furnishing*. that they will ??rect immediately a 12 fttory building lo bo orrupiod by tin in a rluKnvelyu Tho stnto is n?*urod of a bumper <-rop of peachen and apples. , ItKVIVAI. IN riUMJRKSH AT FltKKWIIJi ll.M'TIST Rev. J. C. Orlffin preached nn earne-u Hcrmon Tuesday night at lb" Freewill Baptist church. bin text being tak*n from the- thirty-flrsi verso of tho fortieth rhnpt'*r c?f the Hook of Ixalab. "But thejr that wait upon tho Lord shall renew their Mnnnth." "To my mind It was a great ser mon and worth whllo for every one i to hear." snld a laymen of another churrli who attended th* service. | Mr. Orlffin will preach tonight at eight o'clock and the public Is In vited to hoar him. HAMO AltTH LKH POH ALL i Tho Radio Magazine, given free with tho Sow York Sunday World. Is In demand with the radio public1 because of the many articles of In terest In each Issue. A partial list for next Sunday Is as follows: D? to-tlng Karthquakos by Uadlo Be fore Thep "Happen"; A I)X Reflex with Aodton Detector; Broadcasting without a carrier wave; An ampli fier that Gives Perfect Reception; Why Your Hecelver Tunes Broadly. To be sure of a copy order The Bun day World In advance. tdv "While Tile Advance is trying to create ami encourage sentiment III favor nf anm-vlnc Hyde and Tyrrell in Elza belli City's trade territory by melius of a road from Falrflfld to Columbia and fi rry service from Tvrrell Comity to Pasquotank, why permit your people In overlook the possibilities of establishing closer re lations with Pare County? This is a quest Ion asked a repre sentative of this newspaper by L,. W. Hooper of Stumpy l'oint, who was In the city this Week. Ills Idea is to build a road from Stumpy Point to Manns Harbor, with a spur leading oft from It to East l.ake. Manns Harbor is but 1? or .12 miles from Point Harbor In Currituck, and ferry service would seem easily practicable between these points, especially as It might bo easily possible to arrange a schedule that would also serve Man teo and Nacs Head. The State has now built a Rood dirt road to the Point In Currituck County and many people believe that a resort on Currituck Hench near the Point would Me In popularity with Nacs Head and would In Itself Justi fy the establishment of a bus line from here to the beach. With his famllv at Nucs Head, the Elizabeth City business man must leave hero HI "l:30 o'clock In the afternoon to arrive at Nans Head In lime for sup per In order to cot back to Eliza beth City the next day lie must leave Nacs Head at about fi o'clock In the morninc and does not cot In until to ward 11 o'clock, thus loslnc practi cally half a business day each way i n route. To spend Sunday at Nags Head he must leave Elizabeth City at R o'clock Sunday morning, arrlr Inc onlv In time for dinner, and must leave lii the late afternoon which la the best part of the day on the beach. In other words, to spend a whole day at the beach he must inpend a whole day on tbfi boat, counting a day In terms of work bourn. 1 With a resort at Currituck neach, : t he KlIzabet li City business man i con ill leave here any afternoon or 'evenlnc after the close of business, I motor to the beach in about two ! hours, and return the next morning. U)ii Saturday evening after the close ?of business lie could motor to the 1 beach and spend nil day Sunday, re turning Monday morning and reach inc town at the beclnnlng of the business day. Now If a ferry service could be es tablished between Point Harbor in Currituck and Nacs Head, this ser vice would make it possible to lop err a full hour each way from the time now required to reach Nags Head, and, IT tills ferry could be op erated on a sl\ or seven round trips a day schedule, by adding an hour to the time required to co lo the beach the Elizabeth City business man could co lo Nacs Head. Mr. Hooper's suggestion would, lr carried out, enable a bus line from Elizabeth City to Point Hnrbor in Currllnck to serve still an even larg er number of people. Something like 1 2(Ml people live on the Dare Coun ty mainland In the communities of Stuinpy Point. Manns Harbor and East Ijike. to say nothing of those who live ulonc the banks and could come in thill' own boats to the ter minal of the bus line at the beach for a trip to Elizabeth City. Inhabitants of Dare County prob- < ably send more money lo mall order houses per capita than those of any ; other county In the Stale. If these llnre Conntv people could cet to Elizabeth City In something like three hours a ml return the same day, a lan e proportion of the' money that ll.ej si nd I" in. il order houses no?f> would be rpont In Elizabeth CWy. That Dare County folk have money to spend, especially at the cml of tho Ihnd flshlnc season. Is Indicated by a report tlint an Insurance acent placed *"(1.000 In llf? Insurance In til, ! homes of Stumpy Point on one trip recently. ) Tnlk of establishment of a bus line from Elizabeth City lo Point Harbor has revived Interest- In the ? proposal Ill-Hated some years ago for op. utnc up a direct road from Elis abeth Cily to Colnjock which would eliminate the Currituck Courthouse elbow and shorten the distance to Colnjock about 12 miles. NOKIMS Itll.L SHOWS STRENGTH IN VOTE Waahlngton, May 21?The motion to report the Ford bid providing for the Icaalng of Muncle Shoala *u lout by the voir of 10 to 6 today In the Senate agriculture commutes. The atrenKlh of the Norrla bill waa ahown when lla advocatea oppoaed Immediately cloning the hearlnga and defeated auch a motion by 10 to ?. COTTON MARRBT New York, May 21.?Spot cotton cloaed ateady today with an advance of 62 polnta. Middling 32.50 Future* cloned at the following levela: May .12 13. July 29.37. October 25.tt. De cember 25.25, January 24.?7. New York, May 21?Cottbn fa turea openeil thin morning at th?; following level*: May tl.70; July ) 29.15; October 25.?5; ~~ 24 58; January 14.10.

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