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FALL FASHION NUMBER TIIE WEATHKK Fair tonlsht. Slight iy cooler alone t lie* cuust. W? din siluy fair J with nioil**rul'' North wlnda. VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23. 1924: SIX I'AGES. NO. 2 a? Fight On Walsh Feature . Of Campaign In Montana And Thin Fact *^"npl"d I yilmrm in National C-ampaigii and LaFollrttr Appeal to Itadical Vote Likelv Help Coolidge Bt DAVID LA\VKE\CS <C?nH]kt IW l? Th? AlitnMi Butte, Mont., Sept. 22. ? Several surprises are in store for the investigator of things political in Montana. Ftm, SetiatdT Thomas K. Walsh, Democrat of Teapot Dome fame, has a hard fi^ht for re-election. Second, Senator Burton K ^Wh-.-l..r. vice Pro.ldential nom inee with LaFollette. hasn't cre ated much of a atlr In hla home ?tale. Hla selection on the third Party ticket haa caused resent ment among the Democrats be cause he deserted the party. Third. President Coolldge has better than an even chance to car ry this state by about five to tin thousand plurality. Just why should a man like 8enator Walsh have a hurd time winning re-election? This quea one ?"<1 "en Montana "veterans In politics can not explain It. The Ku Klux Klan. - !=_? x?- -?f-'!v.'! Is uf eourae fight Ing Mr. Walsh. Among "his own ' followers are some who think lie ?hould have assailed the Klan at the Madison Square Garden con vention but the thing thai made Senator Walsh famoua this year' -?the XeaPot Dome disclosure ? doesn't seem to be talked about..! Senator Wheeler's connection , with the Investigation of Attor-' ney General Daugherty really ex cited more attention at the time. Montana finds herself with an Improved agricultural situation which means votes for Coolldge. After a drought of several yearn Montana will produce this year, GO, 000,000 bushels of wheat "and f the farmers will have for sale ac-j tual farm products, exclusive of their own feeding and seeding op erations, which may uet them about 9100,000,000. The yield In the Billings sugar i beet districts for Instance is ex- , ceptlonal. The bean crop Is phe- ! nomenal, while in moBt sections! iOf the state the yield of hay, oats,' *7 and barley Is very good. t So, after years of depression. Montana has been lifted to an at-: mosphere of hope and confidence once more. The state political situation of course is different. The opposition to the re-election of Governor Joseph Dixon, Repub- , lican, is so intense that his de feat would cause no surprise. The Democrats are active in their state fight but the national ticket ' k seems somewhat neglected here. ?This was McAdoo country. The Democratic national organization appears hardly to be functioning -wtth-reepeci to Montana. nor do? It appear that the Deniocmtv~ national organization ha? ever got started as far as the entire Northwest is concerned. This year of all years It was essential for the national managers to pay at tention to Western Democracy for most of the delegations from these states came home disap pointed that McAdoo wasn't nom inated. The McAdoo men are not sulk ing but they cannot understand why the national organization persists in Ignoring tn?rm and doesn't even ask their aid. Theqe may l>e a change when William Glbbs McAdoo returns from Europe for the West haa a sood'deal of faith In Mm, and if he fires the signal to his follow ers they will rlae to help the na tional ticket. It would seem to be I poor Democratic strategy to Ig nore a faction so strong as the Msdlson Square Garden conven- > tion. But this Is only one of a nutnlyr of things which Indicate that the Democrats not only are poorly organised this year but that they do not seem to have the ! money to wage an effective cam paign. The Republicans have been bu"* for weeks Their candidate for United 8tates Sen ator aff*l?st Mr Walsh; namely. Frank Llnderman, has never been much of ? factor In politics but If the Coolldge tide should run strong he may be swap* in as Sen ator Walah Is swept out. It |a a cloae race for Senator and a inlxad situation too. Senator Wheeler of Montana, who has hem one of Senator Walsh's poll. tlc.1 supporters for many rear, J." J*ud^ 10 ">? skle. by Walsh. The latter has not yet hamyered away at the UPol lettc snd Wheeler ticket, which some of his friends think h? mux! t-J", ' "> recover many Dem . 4u? be caat for J lj toilette. Senator Wheelers' '?? '? Montana may he wilf ta . never will Trf ?!,? party antn V?, Impression |. that he haa parmaiiratlr cast hla fortune, with the radical. and third party In America. fn Montana the radical vote Sta'JJS! ,h* D*">ocra kr Tl" ''??'ollatlc ticket *w?ld haw gotten tha .amu big wneeler had been nam^d Th?* IMrdpart, will tak. mora from tW? Democrat, than the Republi can* la thla a tate which la .,ae of DAIJGHEKTY MAY BK HKA1U) ACAIN Camp Perry. <).. Sept 23. ? Sen ator Itrnokhart. chairman of the Senate IhiUKherty Investigating committee. said today that ho hail wired Senator Anhurst, only mem | her of the committee in Washlng ton, that he might if he (lenlrcil I call the committee together to hear additional testimony. TAKE NO ACTION UPON UTILITIES On account of ihe ab*? nee of Counciliii.'in flordon who was out of the city, the City Council In executive session Tuesday morn 1 tt k took no uellou on Um t?;i?jrt ol tht! .Council Committee r?lalivu to the utilities plants. Another meet I at: will In* called by tlK? Mnyor as noon a* i4?e rlutk can assure him of a full at t enh ance of Ihe Council. the ri'&Mons wh> the viclojy of resident Ccolid^e by a plurality seems at Ihm writing ali-'osr u ccr'alnty. COTTON MARKET 1 VERY BULLISH (fovcrniiinii Report T?> day (iausi's Jump of $10 a I tali' tin- Timliup Limit for One Day. Washington, Sept. 23. ? Tito i cotton crop wan today forecast I?y j tin- Department of Agilculture as 1 1 .000 hales xmallci' tlinn ludl- 1 cated two w?*ek? a so with a tutu! J t production of lJS?&9firO00 eqnlya- ' }? nt ?-f r.no pmtnd bttUlr '-W- ,TT~aa It was indicated that of this crop 2,tiC2,^6 bairn counting . , round us half bales had been ! ginned prior to September 16, the' Census Uureau reported. ? New York. Sept. 23. ? The Gov ernment cotton report proved so I sensationally bullish today that a ! big buying movement set in on the market here uulckly advancing prices $9.50 a bale. New Orkaus. Sept. 23. ? Cotton ; jumped $10 a bale here, th?? trading limit for one day, upon , rcipt of the Government report today. EXAMINATION KHOWKD THAT DOCi WAS MAD Dr. C. R. Williams, city health officer, received a telegram from ILiU'lKh Tuesday morning that the h :n! of the dog *?'nt th?*re Sunday night haH been inspected and that ! tUi? examination disclosed the fact . that the dog was mad. This is the dog that bit five j year old James Davenport. 501 Hunter street on the right wrist Sunday at noon. The little boy will be given the I'asteur serum treatment for the next three weeks. Getting Out The Vote Is Regular Mania This Y ear Soldier in Hospital and Travelling Salomon 011 Itoad llolli Find Thenn>elve? Reminded That If Away from lionir dun Still Vote on November I Uy F.DXA MARSHAIX C?nrliM. 1*7*. k? Tki Washington, Sept. 23. ? Getting' out the veto has como to bo more , than a mov<anent. It la a mania. Every day sees the" g*;t out the' vote club handed by Bimon Mtch elet, the League of Women Vo ters and other organizations and individuals backing the attempt to increase if not to double the 19 20 vote this fall, cogitated some scheme whereby a now voter may be gained. <*an a poor soldier lie peaceably in IiIk bed in a Disabled Veterans Hospital to meditate on his woes of to try to recover hU health? i tie cannot. Ho rnuxt vote ? and TjeTWSBTr now? and - ?>?'ovi>ml>?E? 1m. must withstand a barrage of ques tions on whether he has arranged to register in his home state so that he may vote by mail. Can a hurried traveling sales man go about hi* work, expound ing the value of liis wares to pro spective customer? No, indeed, he must first discuss at costly length the possibilities of Con gress being called on to choose a President. And if ho Inadvert ently Implies he will not be home to vote, his doom in as good as sealed. "Oct out the vote by mail" Is the slogan which has supplement ed the old "g^t out the vote." Toting i? the on^rtiing from which , disability need not bar one. ac cording* to the Disabled American Veterans Bureau, which Is mak ing every effort to have all dls-' ubled soldiers take part in tRe fall election. There are about 23, K31 veterans in the country's hospitals and 54,000 scattered through the country working at trades that havo been taught them. Each of these whose homes Is in n ntate where the vote by mall in permitted Ik being urged to rcglsLer and vote. Of the 75,000 to 100,000 disabled veterans In the country, hospitalized or out Id the world, four fifths are expect ed to cast ballots. Millions of citizens will vote throughout the country without going to the polls. Absentee vot ing by mall now la provided for In the election laws of the vast majority of states. Twenty-six "fates grant absentee voting In all jjh;rtlonM to qualified voters tenv pornrlly n Intent on election day. They are. Alabama, California, Idaho, Illinois, i Indiana. Iowa. Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mlss i.ifllHflippi, Montana, Nebraska, Ne vada, North Carolina, North Da kota. Ohio. Oregon, Pennsylvania, uiont. Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyom ing. These eight additional state* authorize absentee voting by mail at the fall general elections: Ari zona, Delaware, Kentucky, Masna rhusetts, New Jersey, Texas and Utah. In Colorado. Florida, Kan Has, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mex ico. and Oklahoma, absentee vot ing Is allowed voters absent from their home precincts but within the state on election day. Arkan sas. Maryland, New Hampshire and Rhode Island restrict the ah lee vote to those In the military or naval service. Oeorgia allows :iny voter In the civil military ser vice of the United States to vote without going to the poll*. Connec ticut and South Carolina are the only two states which have made no provision for the shut-In vote. He Was Too Inquisitive! "Pirate Pete" hnd thin** pretty morh hi# own w?v fot -it? yvMra er? along Prten lit wuOiwcMtrti l/'ui!>uinH w??W htm arxiti up and kin ofl Ihrlt pip* flul the hty 62S |<>uiw1 ulllgut&t iiIwhv* *u< c?-e<lod Iri eluding thotn on the way Inn* to M? ihii Th?. other ?la> though. he grew rorloue t?hor. he h?-arri m lot of immk* iiruuiid Aim! (ok waa hm undoing When he ahot hi? head up through th** ?ml a I&mim | tightened around hia i*m Norn -peter making all th? fairs down auuth GERMANY TO TRY TO ENTEK LEAGUE <1lj Tta iiwiidrf l'm? I flerlln, Sept. 23 ? Germany will In the near future make au effort ? to enter the Iseague of Nations an ; an equal footinK with the great . powers, It wan officially an nounced today in a communique' Issued at the close of a cabinet meeting. TELEPHONE COMPANY TO ADI) PHOPERTIES Washington. Sept. 23. ? The Chesapeake and Potomac Tele phone Company of Virginia today was authorized by the Commerce | Commission to acquire certain properties of the Cumberland Val ley Telephone Company of IJalti-' mare. j GASTON MEANS NOT TALKING ANY MORE Concord, N. C., Sept. 23 ? Ou ton Means, who repudiated the i Ken national testimony given dur ing the Dougherty Investigation, today refused to discuss the caae. Mean* arrived here last night Joining his wife and child at the home of hla mother. LEAGUE INSTITUTE IS NEW MOVEMNT, fH? Tin A*mr|?t?4 rr??> Geneva, Sept. 23. ? The sssom- j bly of the League of (Nations to day authorised the foundation in , Paris of i n international Institute for Intellectual co-operation to be conducted under tho auspices of the League of Nations. , Autumn Is The Time For Gayest Of Dressing Up Benteity Merchant* Follow Kxample Sri hy Mother Na ture of Trying to Make the World a Brand New, Brighter and More Beautiful Place KAI.I. FASHION ADVERTISERS PI ISM. Ohpm 8lior> <'<?ni|Miny I). Waller lf?rrln Auto A linn KiiKine Work* . IfotllfH M C m* M. I.< it li s)i. ? |> (?nllop t To\py Marker 41 Sltcrljr Kowlfr M t'(Hii|M?nv T. T. Turner it <'n ftp mm WtBnr <???.. inc. (Jninn Pumlture Go. W~k* M Mawyrr simwr. !???? "''?'iHnir 9 Men's Hulta II %ut? Accnmorlcii .... 31 Mm'* Hull* 8 Woman'* Wear 4 Hhnea A Cnnli mnl |>rc?Ne? (I Draprrlm 5 Two I'nntM Kiilf* ? Mult* ami OrerroatA 0 Huk* . II M?i'? Hull* - ? Once upon a time In the good old days the Oardeu of Eden birthday suits were the very latest fashion. But "them days Is gone forev er" and with them have gone the | accompanying styles. The only proper nnd clvlll*ed think to do now Is to read the ! Autntnn Fashion Advertisements In The Pallr Advance and ko out and Ret dolled up accordingly. Those who don't will be Hated with the foolish, and Inatead of "being all dressed up and no -where t*r grr," wttt TttTfl fTrrmMlVMl ' with lots of things to go to and no proper raiment for the occa sion. | Why even the trees keep up, with the changing seasons and adorn themselves In harmony therewith. Nobody catches them WPtrlnK their old summer or ! snrlng clothes In the autumn time. Km th" caterpillar* and grars hoppers crawling and hopnlng around Ip the autumn sunahlne uowadavs are brown and dark red and olive green an If they, too, by' some magic process had fitted themaolve* Into the color acheme, J determined not to b? out of atyle. 1 A* for placea to go, there ire | plenty of them. There'a school , for the hoy* and glrla. partlee, and mlnalonary societies, and prayer j meetings, and church soclala, Par ent-Teacher and all aort* of club . meeting*. for the grown-up* nonlde*. the District Fair la coming, with a big crowd from all j oror the diatrict, and nobody 1 wanta to be out ?f the swim on thl* autumn holiday. Of courae, nobody would advo cate the wearing of clothe* ' to : ChOrfth J lilt be aeen but the fact remalna that on* ha* to wear 'em to ehufch. One Isn't allowed to go without 'em. and even hat* are required, not to mention all the other regular cloth** and acce*aorles. Well, the point to thla effualon la something like thla: Clothe* are a neceaaary and ar tistic Inatltutlon and the place to buy 'em la right here In Deatclty. the Old Horn# Town. In today * Advance the Beat city merchant* are calling atten tion to their Autumn style dls playa. - GAINED NOTHING IN TKIAl. BY JURY Asking for u trial by jury, when cited before the recorder'J J court for operating a pool loom after having been deni ?! license1 to do so bv the city, av*ill? ?! John j C. Dawson. proprietor nf the: ?swun?*?rn""Koret" pool mom iwrr Ins at all Tuesday morning whf ii . up^r Hie *vldence th? court di rected the 'ury to brln^ in u ver-j diet ?*f t ulltv. Mr. UVkon adinltt"*! ?? Mlnu Ini* t operation of It 4 ? pool! room though hta application for : llrt nae ha<l been turned down, but his couurel hoped to k?*?. the jurr to pa?* < n tltw-fact "Tir whether tte lict-n-e !iad been defied arbl-, trarily on tuarsay. Application for licence to op'?t-' Ate a pool room must under the ! clly charter be slgnr 1 by the , C< nifty Welfare Officer, the May- 1 or and the City Manner. Tliece official* denied licence on the. ground of alleged compi-ili.t-4 of gueets at the hotel as to the nni?e j In the pool room nnd on the fur ther Krouud of failure to observe the ordinance agaln*t the atliui*- ; t'.on of niiuors and ott?u?* rentrlc- ! tlons aa to the operation.* of pool | looms. Quite a number of Mr. Daw-j win'u patrons testified that hi* j place was among the most ordei-j ly and well <*>m'ueted of any pool room In town, so far a3 their ob-t serration wtnt. BOYS' BAND SEES PROBLEMS SOLVED ~~A "capacity" house -^rented ? ttrp-t Williams Stock Company In th" big tent on West Main street on* the opening night of a week's en- j gagement In this city under the j auspices of the Kllzabeth City I Hoys' Iland, and the management I believes that If the atteudgn'-e, keeps up the boyn* s'laro of th*? < receipts will solve th? llnanclal question of money to finance the! band for lta first year. The big tent la guaranteed , waterproof by the management and If the weather continues wet I for the week th? public in assured I that those who att>>i.'< may do no wlt'p the asaurance thnt the ah??l- i tci afforded by the bit; t *nt will be adequate And they ma/ so* ] the show In comfort. A JOHN liiNK COUNTY No lean than three John Lanea will have to attend the next sea- j alon of Superior Court In thlsi County aa witnesses against Ar chie Laydea, also of Perquimans,: who is held for probable cauae 0l\ two charges of forgery. The second charge agalnat Lay den. who la about 40 year* old ap parently, was heard by Trial Jus tice H pence Tuesday morning. Lay den Is alleged to hare cashed a ' check purporting to have been I ?igned by Bragg Perry and bear ing the endorsement of "Johnnie T. Lane" whom the bearer of the check represented himself to be. John Moore, colored, for viola tion of the city ordinance as to cutting down trees on the atreet, was let off wjth the coats In police court Tuesday. NO HriTCKIOK 4XMrRT IN GAMDBff Til IH WKKK Camden, Sept. 23. ? Superior court this week will not convene in Camden County, according to | Information . received hero from Solicitor Walter L. Small. Mr. ' Small In explanation said that I Judge Sinclair was sick and that 1 the Governor was unable to aup- 1 ply an emergency Judge for the ; fall term of court here. Judge! Lyon, here for Judge Sinclair last week, la In Pender county thla week. Though Sheriff Forbes gave out the information as far mn possible In the Coanty quite a number who had not heard that eonrt! would not convene gathered at the court house Monday morning. Dr. P. L. Gordon of Fairmont, Vir ginia rams all the way from that' state to attend court. Upon learn ing that court would not convene I)r. Gordon took the next north bound train for his home. L. G. Wright and hla son Wood row Wright are visiting Mr. Wright's brother. Dr. T. O. Wright of flumtor. South Carolina. RHVIVAL AT NIU1AM Shlloh, Sept. S3. ? Revival ser vices began at Nash Chapel at Mlldsm near here Monday night. Rev. A. B. Crumpler of the South Mills circuit Is assisting the pas tor Rev. fl. Salyer of Old Trap. The church was nearly fall on Monday night and It Is believed that the crowds will Increase throughout the week. Services sr# held each morning at 11a. m , and each evening at 7:00 p. m. LULL CONTINUES IN CHINESE WAR Shanghai. Sept S3. ? The loll In China's civil war was continued today with only the taking of further defense precautions and threatened labor troubles to break the monotony of the dragging hos tllltles. I'OTTON MARKKT Ntw York, Sept. 13. ? Spot cot ton closed steady. Middling 84.11 an advance of 17S points. Fu ture*, closing bid. Oct. 13.87. Dec. 33.88. Jan. 83.87, Mfcrch 33.68. May 83.78. She's Had Thrills Enough Gloria Fuure. a granddaughter of a former president of France, has changed her mind about entering tho rnoviea. She left her home In Mexico City for Hollywood, but got as far aa Vera Crua. There' aha bcrame mixed up In the de la Huerta revolution, serving aa secretary to one of the rebel load* a. Wi an the tnnurrectlon was broken up ahs wu forced to flee to the United Statea. But now she'a going home under un amnesty proclamation Issued by President Obr^gon. Says Advocates Port Bill " Attempting Blind People !? if n?' Senator P. H. W illiams Again I'riwntir 1 1 i* Arguments Aguiint IVleaHiire to l>r \ Hied t'Ooll h\ Nin th ? *?; ( Carolinian* in NovciiiIht Klrction lly IV II. WILLIAMS The advocator of state-o wned | ?hipi anil terminals, without con vincing and aubatanllve evidence and without Illustrations, cxam pT?*# " Aiuf parallel* fronV olltwr ' States, except certain gateway ci ties of Virginia, are attempting to blind the people and to blink -Lhe lnqulaltlvo .economic minds ; by mere assertions that the State has marvelously prospered, that the State and its prosperity is th^ victim of "the deadly Incubus of freight rate discrimination," that the rail lines are hostile to oar progress, thut we are living in a fool's paradise which lt?? in ? Im mediate danger of being dismem bered, and that our Increasing in dustries will In the near future languish and decay unless eman cipated by the running of state owned ships and the building of state-owned terminals costing mil-, lions. The statement that the railroads are hostile to our progress and development 1m too elementary of 1 truth and too abortive of faets to foo! any Intelligent citizen. For' were It true, the 8tate committed aPilaggerlng "blunder when It de-1 elded to appropriate $10,000,000 for Tam Bowie's Lost Provlncea* , railroad, the proponents and un wise scheme In agitating the pur chase of the C. F. & Y. U. and ex tending It to the coal fields and Middle West, and the General As sembly should see to It thati further rail development is pre-! vented. Every person knows, however, that the success of rail Hues is tied up with and depend-, ant upon the continual develop- i ment, growth and prosperity of tho^ Slate, and that It would he Just 1 as tenable to contend that a de partment store In a city Is hostile to Its prosperity as to contend that a railroad Is hostile to a j state's prosperity. The induatrlea about which1 the proponents are no much exer cised, are located for the most part In the Piedmont, one or two hundred mllec from the navigable waters of the State; tbelr custo mers are not alone the 2,600,000 people In "North Carolina, but the 110,000,000 in the United Slates and the multitudes of foreign na tions; they must think of trans portation, not with a provincial mind, but from a national and In ternational viewpoint; they have prospered and growu great with out shipa and termluals lu 'he Cape Fear basin or on the shallow streams; many northern Indus trial planta are moving to the State undeterred by the lack of state-owned ships and terminals. These lnduatriea are in the main the creators of our Increasing pop ulation, growing 46lhiberce;' ttiirt monntlng wealth. In a large measure pay directly and Indirect ly tho 8tato taxea through In comes and make It possible for the State not to levy an ndvalo rem tax upon farm property, oth er real estate and personal prop erty. They are Tlt'illv concerned with the financial policies of t.hr State, mast furnish the bulk of the tonnage for wate.* transporta tion, and are the one to be most benefitted. If any benefit accrue. Many of these Industrie* employ Industrial traffic men, learned land experienced by year*' ot study In transportation. who should have been consulted In a matter Jan- iUiil iu:rin;iii? n- o of the rproipcrity^of tli?' State and thPfr names and opinions disclosed. On the contrary tlioy scent to be neither plaintiffs or proponents in thin project, because they can disnrn no economy In exploiting tax money to run mime ships and tiu iiil Homo terminals. /' Aguin the people. of the State have elected three men of ability and experie nce to preside over the -tfosttny ? of the State in matters id transportation. have entrusted this highly expert subject to their special custody and guardianship, have re-elected th< m trom time to time expressive of their eonft^ dence in the ability and Intogrtty of the Commission to conduct the transportation affairs of the State, and these men have spent years in the study and In the ln vest (Ration of the State's traffic problems. The 'people should before them, before favorable ac tlon, a studied and candid ?P*? . ion of the Corporation Commto Plon. and the proponents are win dering Jar afield in au?K-ifctlng to the citizens that they tak<> this vi tal measure out of the hands Ot the State's constituted and ei perlonced authority without an opinion from them as to what re^ I lief may be reasonably expected from state-owned ships and termi nals. It is significant that these In dustrial traffic men, vitally con cerned, and the Corporation Com mission, the people's constituted forum of authority, are not in tensively ndvocating the adoption of tills proposition. We Inust at tempt to discover a reason why. The apulllng apathy of the in dustrial traffic men, the railroads and the Corporation Commission is dlscernahle in their knowing that a mere difference in some : freight rates does not prove a gen eral discrimination as alleged bj ot bo grave Importance to the wel I the proponents, and that the sin gle fact relied upon by the advo cutes to establish their conten tions. to-wlt. that certain cities of Virginia, formed gateway cities, enjoy more favorable rates for loss distance than North Carolfha cities. Is neither positive, nor pri ma facie proof of discrimination, because the icope of investigation ! is not sufficiently extensive. Dla, crlmlnation Is a general com* plaint, common to every school child, individual and to every. State in the Mutton, and the pro? llflc potirce of the rontlnuel pro* ceedlngs before the Interstate "Commerce Commission. Per ei? amples, tho Stato of Virginia Is 1 now contending In a proceeding that North Carolina intra-stat* rates are discriminatory against Virginia territory. North Carolina contending that Virginia inter state discriminatory against North Carolina territory, and Northeast ern North Carolina located wltbln r>0 in 1km of Norfolk, contending that the rate pf $1.14 Mi from New York Is discriminatory In the light of only 91.26 to Greensboro, a difference of only 11 for a dlf- ! Continued on page 4 , ] Brave Coast Guard Crew ! Be Honored At The Fair Awarding of MrdiU to < jipluin Joliu Allrn Miil^rll owl IIU Gallrnt Of* of Miiliii'tln itl CiiuhI (>uord Station 179 Feature l)i?trirl Kxponilion At the Inatanco of Secretary j Job of the Elisabeth City Cham ber of Cptnmorco the overnight of th#? Unlrod Stat** Government In falling to algnally honor membera , of tho crew of tho Coaat Guard | atatlon at Chlcomlcomlco for their daring feat In reaculng the crew of tho Ilrltlnh tanker Mlrlo, when , that veaaol had been encircled by a aoa of flamlnK oil after having been torpodood off tho American i coaat by a German aubmarlne In the World War, la to b?* atoned for. Captain John Allen Mldgett, In command at Chlcomlcomlco. tho official dealgnatlon of which in Coaat Guard Station No. 170. and hla crew conalatlng of Surfmen V.\ on * MMHl. SL Mid*-, ett, Arthur V. Mldgott. Clarence! E Mldiiett. and P. L O'Neal will bo proaented with gold modala In i recognition of their bravery nt 1 Kllcabeth City on October ?. and ' tho occaalon will bo made one of (he hi a evonta of the Albemarle Dlatrlct Pair. Tho reacuo waa effected on Auguat IS. 1921. and the Rrltlah ro^ornment honored Captain, Midgut t and hla crew with medala and the ownera of the tankera presented them n trophy: but Ithoup.h the exploit of cantntn and, crew Waa (Ires wMc publicity In, the press II wan not directed to the ntt'Titlon of (ho proper offl clula of the IT. H. Treasury D*. imrtiuent until Heerctary Job, wha hat* moved to Kllzabeth City since 1020. hearing the story of the res cue. and of the recognition of tne daring of the Americana by the llrltlsh government, directed the attention of Con^roMman Hal let H. Ward to the fact that the An crlcan Government had never taken anv cognizance of It. Th?M It wns that Mr. Ward, with tain 'usual dlapatch In matters of tftli Inort, got In touch with the profraft official* of the Traaaury Depart ! njent with ihe result that gdtd medal* arc now to be awarded mi th? date act. l'ti hups iii hh niiiifii urn tain Mlrigatt la to bo found th? explanation of tho tnrdy recogni tion < xtended him and hia or Mi by their Oorernmnftt fur* the thrilling rearuo. The eaptaln'a lo* reporting the afTalr la a a Id to have been almost aa brlof and la conlc aa the famous "On agalo? off again, gono again, Fina* gan." ATTKVIMNO VWKUAh Mrs. M ?M. tinrrla Is at fta|at^| to attend the hineral of her tiotfc er, Mrs. J. O. Guthrie. who died at her homo tharo flu ml ay moral?g.