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rilUTI.ATION TIH It.MlAY Til H WRATUEH ^ _ _. _ Con?Mull> fair and continued 2.4JI! Copicu t(#BvI BlJMv" Kt* I?|u warm i t and Saturday, (inn Ik* lu moderate w?>Ht4>rly wluda. VOL. XV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENINC., JUNK 5, 1925. SIX I'ACES. NO. 133 BASEBALL TEAM SIGNED UP HERE; COMING MONDAY Six C.oll<f{<> Star* Will Play on hli/alx-tli City Tram;' Kir?l (.nine With Eden lon WmIidviIu; LEAGUE IS DISCUSSED Fan* of Three 4'itien Meet in Hertford to Dix-us Arrangements for Sea?? on'? Schedule The local baseball Reason will I open officially with a pme be tween Elizabeth City ami Eden ton on the new high school dia mond here Wednesday afternoon at an hour to be derided upon later. It was announced today by D. G. Brocket t, manager of the local team. The Elizuheth City Baseball Association has signed up bIx college players, five front the University of North Carolina and one from Wake Forest, and all have been ordered to report Monday. Negotiations for formation of a Trl City League, with Eliza beth City. Edenton and Hertford putting teams Into the field, will be taken up at a meeting of base ball backers of the three cities in Hertford tonight at 8 o'clock. In dications are that the league will be formed as soon as financial ar rangements now being discussed have been worked out satisfactor ily, according to officers of the lo cal association. After the opening game here, ?Elizabeth City will play Edenton on the latter's diamond Thursday afternoon, and will take on the fast Norfolk police team here Friday. The latter game la ex pected to be unusually Interest ing, as the visitors lineup is prob ably to include Lou Stanley. Cham pagne, Rhodes and possibly oth er former Virginia League stars. The college players signed up fire Poyner and Holshauser, pitchers, Stanton, pitcher and utility Infielder, sides. second baseman, and Thomas, third base. *11 oi Jhe Carolina team this season? apd Hood, Wake Forest aatcher. The remainder of the team will bo recruited Xrom local material. Among the prospects are Trueblood, Phelps. Hender son. Weatherly, Ballard and Jones, all of whom will bo given iryouts in practice games sched uled for Monday and Tuesday. The Elizabeth City Baseball Association Is going ahead with Its plans despite the fact that n considerable part of the.funds subscribed to underwrite the sea son here have not yet been col lected. In all. more than $1,000 was subscribed, but collections are several hundred dollars short of this amount, members of the association declare, adding that much of this is expected to be paid up in the next few days. Attractive uniforms for the lo cal team have been ordered, and will be placed on display In a downtown store window when they arrive, probably within the next duy or to. On Frldny, June 19, the Eliza beth City team will play the Nor folk & Western nine, declared to be one of the fastest amateur baseball aggregations in Tidewat er, Virginia. The lineup of the railroad team Includes Hood, who attracted attention by his work In center field for the Elizabeth JZIty team two years ago. Admission charges at the locnl diamond this season will be 2S cents at the gate for everybody, and 15 cents for the grandstand, with ladles admitted to the stands free. Members of the delegation go* / Ing to the mooting In Hertford f tonight are Dr. H. E. Nixon, Dr. k J W. Sollg. D. O. Brockett and probably other members of the local association. Both Edenton and Hertford are declnred to be going ahead rapidly with plans for the formation of teams on a par with that which Is contem plated here. PUTT RICH IflllHT MKTHOVHHT Moving pictures tonight at the First Methodist Church will be gin st 7:30 o'clock and the reels are to be: "Milk", "Adventures of Keenan Shorpe", "Pillars of the Sky" and "Andy Dump". The public and especially children are Invited. JIINIOK (KAUTVAQCAN MKKT A meeting of the Junior Chao tnqua Is to be held Saturday morning at 9:30 o'clock In the Grammar Sohool Building. All Juniors are asked to he present as plans are to be made for a pic nic. FOMD M K HTM FOND A Ford roadster driven by Eph ralm Twine and a Ford touring car operated by Lloyd Perry col lided at the Intersection of Main and McMorrlne streets Friday morning shortly before noon. Tli? radiators and fenders of both were badly damaged, but nobody Was jiort. Twine had Just rounded the corner when he met Perry, who was headed east down Main street, and both failed to f apply their brakes quickly enough to ???rt a crash. Potatoes Still Moving Slowly Potato shipments from Kllza both City Thursday showed some Incr^aso over the preceding day. 47 cars moving out us compared with 36 on Wednesday, but indi cations were that heavy ship ments would not begin until some time next week. The murket was lower, dealers attributing this to the extremely hot weath er. Offerings f. o. b . Elizabeth City centered ' around $3. with comparatively light demand. The Northern and Western markets ranged from $4 to $fi, commis sion men reported. Total shipinents throughout the the country Thursday w?re 966 cars as compared with !) 10 Wed-j m>sda>\ according to It. 1*. Sut ton, Federal market .'reporter now stationed here. Shipments from the Norfolk section and the Kast-' em Shore together aggregated 40 carloads Thursday, .Mr. Sutton stated. ? The Eastern Shore will proba bly begin to ship heavily next week, commission men here say, urging that local growers take greater care with their grading. Otherwise, they declare, the mar ket on iNorth Carolina spuds will suffer heavily. BRICK - CONCRETE CONTROVERSY IS GROWING HOTTER Prt i t ion? Cirriilatnl Mt-ni oriulizin^ Hi|jlmay Cum lili->ion to (Jivr Conrrrtr Tryout Thin Time WOMAN'S CLUB ACTS The fight between brick and concrete representatives for the contract for paving the Forks . road warmed tip today* as the ! hour for lettiug of a contract for ! the road approached. Tlio Pas quotank Highway Commission | will meet tonight at S o'clock to let a contract for construetIon of , the rond. Indications during the i day were that the concrete folks , were getting a little the better of I It, though it was impossible to ns 1 certain how a majority of the ? County Highway Commissioners I stood on the question. Petitions were bein;: circulated , in the city nuiorialWii the Highway Commission to use con crete In construction of the Forks Iload, running 2.3 miles west I wardly from the end of West Main street to Forks School, j These were being signed freely in the downtown section. In addi Itlon, the Woman's Club went on record Thursday afternoon as fa voring concrete, and sent notifica tion to Chairman S. U. Scott, of the Commission, to that effect. There was every Indication that the concrete and brick advocates would wago a fight to the finish at the night meeting. The ranks of the concrete forces were aug mented during the day by the ar rival of T. B. Bills, of Wilson, a representative of the l?ehlKh Port land Cement Company, declared to be the largest manufacturers of cement In the world. With referenco to wheth? r the County use brick or concrete In construction of Its "feeder roads." Highway Engineer J. II. Ford sta ted that the Commission would get exactly what it paid for. "The 'brick road on a concrete nase which has been considered," Mr. Ford said, "would cost about $3, 000 more than the concrete type advocated. If a brick road Is built, the County will Ret a rr*ad that Is-$3,000 better (ban the other road; but It would get less mileage for Its bond money. For that matter, either a brick or a concrete rond would 1m- a good road. I am not advocating either above the other." CHINESE SITUATION WOHSE AND WORSE Shanghai, June 6.?Means now I being used by the Chinese to car [ ry on lis antl-forelgn campaign i continued to spread with Increas ing rapidity today. The entire I Chinese police force will be out I tomorrow. Ono eighth of the 'force already has quit. Shops In I French concessions hitherto unaf fected were closing today. lili. < OMIIN IS HACK Dr. ?and M-rs. H. J. Combs and i little daughter .Ivy Joel, returned ; Friday from Philadelphia where they visited Mrs. Combs' mother. ; Mr*. Msrjorle Wahlhack and I?r. Combs attended a clasn reunion at Jefferson Medical College and also a medical convention at At lantic City. GEItALD CHAPMAN i GRANTED REPRIEVE ' Hartford. June 6 Herald Chap man. notorious bandit, has been granted a reprieve until Novem ber. NOTICK I The Public Utilities Commls slon requests Its patrons to use i water for sprinkling purposes as ! sparingly as possible. The plant 11s taxed to It? utmost and this re quest Is made in the Interest of (be public good. J. C. Parker, Supt. TESTIMONY ENDS IN CREECY WILL SUIT; NEAR OVER Lawyor* Regiti Argiimoiilo; Sid?-!* I.iinilrtl to Three Hours Karli in I'rt-si'nl | ill's Arguments i W il l. CI.OSK TONIGHT Jiuli;?- Oannier Issue Eiii phalir Ktliel As l.ong llruuii Trial Threaten* to r.nli-r Another Day Taking of teHtimonv in the, t Creecy will case. In which Prof, i It. II. PrtH'fy, a brother. and oih : ??r relative? are seeking to set | aside the will of the late Mina lleiinio I*. Creecy, in which she ! left her property to her sister. i ; Mrs. F. F. Cohoon. was conclud ed Friday morning nt 11:30 | o'clock when Mrs. K. H. Creecy, a witness for the caveator*, left I the stand. P. W. McMullan. of counsel for the caveators, was the j first attorney to speak. Judge E. H. Cranmer, presid ing over Superior Court, limited i the speakorx to three hours on each side. Early In the morning lie expressed a strong determina tion to end the case Friday, even j if It were necessary to hold a ; night session of court. This, It' I appeared at the close of the morn ! in? session, would be inevitable ; unless the Judge changed his mind. l)r .Zenas Fearing, recalled to the stand at the opening of the morning's proceedings. refused time und again to be drnwn into. ' positive statements as to Miss Creecy's business ability or her success financially. With refer-1 encje to her last illness, he testi fied that the only personal knowl edge of It was from conversations! , with Dr. W. A. Peters, who was I attending her. , Hqulrrel or Qtuvll Apparently in an effort to "trip up" tho witness, counsel for the J propounders manifested extreme curiosity asto whether the witness Intended to shoot squirrel or quail in a hunting trip which he had planned to take with Dr. Peters i .'during the period of Miss Creecy's i illness?o trip which was de* i ; ferred. Dr. Foarlng testified, on ( 'account of a (urn for the worse . in her condition. "We are going to end this thing; today. If it take a night session."! Judge Cranmer stated emphnti-j i cally, if a trifle wearily, as Dr.' Fearing left tho stand. Mrs. R. II. Creecy. the last wit-; , ness-. declared she became no-' qualnted with Miss Creecy after her marriage, and said their rela tions had never been unfriendly.' She testified to having visited] Miss Croccy on the Sunday night after she became III. nnd stated ; that at that time M.ls* Creecy was apparently tinablo to recognlzo anybody. Iler subsequent testl i mony related largely to details in cident to Miss Creecy's Illness,] and was mihstantlally In corro j boration of that of other witness es for the caveators along this . line. Mrs. Colioon concluded hpr tes timony Thursday afternoon, and the caveators put on two wltness <?*, A. 11. Chesaon and Dr. Z. Fear-i ing. Mr. Chesson testified to hav ing done enrpentry work for Miss. Creecy. and assorted he found great difficulty In pleasing her. Dr. Fearing. the last witness on the stand Thursday, testified somewhat In contradltlon of Dr. W. A. Peters' testimony for the I propounders Wednesday after-' j noon, (feclarlng that in the condi tion caused by Bell's palsy or pa ralysls. from which Mian Creecy1 wns said to have suffered, there1 ; usually was an Involvement of j tho mind. Dr. Peters had testi fied that leading medical authori ties agreed there was not. Mrs. F. F. Cohoon Is the daughter of the late Colonel It B. ' Creecy. long known as the Neator 1 of North Carolina Journalism, who died at the age of nearly 96 years. 16 years ago. A belle of the city In the eighties and early , nineties was his daughter, Miss Henrietta P. Creecy, and her con stant and devoted companion In her social pleasures was her sin ter. Miss Nancy B. Creecy. now Mrs. Cohoon. who were ? known among their friends In their own sotlal set as Miss Hennle and Mlns Hee. The Daughter's Task ! On the stand Thursday Mrs Cohoon recited the story of how when other members of Colonel Creecy's Inrge family had married or moved away she and her sls i ter. Miss Hennle. remained with him, keeping house for him and tending lo his need?. As age con tinued to make Inroads on his strength the duties of caring for him became more exacting and the daughters were compelled to give np practically all social life nnd devote themselves complete ly to the care of their father. When finally In the last three years of his life he became an al most helpless Invalid the daugh ters. who for some time had been supplementing the meager salary of their father's latter daya as edi tor, were compelled to finance I their household as well as aurse1 their father. Miss Hennle glvlAg Iioot Is Found In Cone v Island Sand New York, Juue 5.?Dlamoad-* and Jewelry at an estimated vul ue of $30,u0u were found buried today In the sands of Coney 1* 'aud by investigators searching for misning assets of the bsok rupt Jewelry firm Morris Sieger aud Son. which hilled for mor.? than $200,000 last month. Siefer i Jumped to hlH death from a 15 story bulldlnK In Times Squint shortly before the bunkruptey i lieeame known. MERCHANTS MAY Kt'N IIKKTIOKIJ HI'S LINK Possibility that the bus line operated here hv a corporation made ii|i of merchants ami other?, and run for the convenience of ttio traveling public from the Norfolk Southern station to the downtown section, may be diverted to run between Hertford and Elizabeth City, was expressed by members of the company Friday. The Ibie was suspended early this week inn account of lack of business. Merchants and others Interest - i ed In the bus line are tempted to , try out the Hertford-Elizabeth ; City rira, with a view to contin uing It If It apparently would be I come self supporting. No action j In the matter has been taken yet. I however. AltHKHl Kl? AT RiOQITRHT Kl.l/A linrtl CITY raurK (Norfolk, June 6.?-Tom Mann. | Center street. Elizabeth City, about 20 years old rode from Ellz abeth City to Norfolk a few days ago on a bicycle. The road I? CO miles long, and hot. He's gone back to Elizabeth City but not on J a bicycle, though It's along with him. Young Mann was arrested Wed I nesday by Sergeant Ilenton. De | tectlve OWeal and Norfolk Coun ty Officer Grimes on a dairy farm ! near Units Station. He wan tak ,en In custody upon request of the , Eliza be City police, who charge i him with theft of the bicycle on i which ho rode to Norfolk. The I bicycle, which Maun Is alleged to have sold to a person Iti the nelgli ' borhood of the dairy at which he worked, was confiscated by the police a? evidence against Maun JIM COLLINS DIES IN KLKCTHIC CHAIR ! Raleigh, June 5.?Smiling und unflinching Jim Collins, negro, of j Anson County, wont to his death In the olecttlc chair at the Stata prison today for the murder of C. ! A. Seilborry. merchant of An ton i County. Two shocks were re quired before Collins was pro nounced dead, music lessons and Miss Dee tak ing In sewing. A timely legacy from a rela tive in Raleigh shortly before j their father's death, after the two 1 had been schooled to rigid econ j omy by stern necessity, was the nucleus for th6 little fortune of about $25.000 left by Miss Hen nle Creecy to her sister under a will made a week beforo her : death which made that sinter tho ! sole executor of her estate. The ' daughters had owned the home with Hpaclous lot where they were | living when their father died. The I legacy, which amounted to about { $3.000 for each of the sisters. en abled Miss Hennle. when In l>e ; cember following her father's K. Cohoon, then a widower, to death, Miss Bee was married to F. buy her slnter'n share of the home. Wlttlln ten yearn she had divid ed the old home Into two residen ces and had built three more ren Idences to the back of It and had bought the old Overman store and lot on South Road street where she built another small store and was remodelling tho old store In to a two-family apartment at the time of her death. I*earne<1 flight Economy I To finance these operation?* on her comparatively slender VMOUr i cea. Miss Creecy, now left alone and living alone, accentuated and Intensified the regime of rigid economy to which she had grown accustomed during her father's last y??ar until she ceased to care1 for convention, fanhlons or ap pear ancen and. save for visits to a few old friends and her sis ter. she lived the life of a re-, cluso. As time wore on most of these old friends went out of the life of Elisabeth City. MJss llen nle knew almost no companionship save that of her sister. Mrs. Co hoon. A nervous affection re sembling liell's paralysis affect 1 Ing one eye and one side of her I fsce probably added to her Incll , nation to nvold human contacts save those of a strictly business < nature. In her last years she visited no ! daily only her sister and a very few of her old friends, i/ove for fctf sister and Interest In her bus Iness ventures become, these old friends say. her ruling passion?. It's Miss Creecy's manner of life together with the fact that, her will wan made one week be fore her death, after she had suf fered a paralytic pi roke and while Mrs. Cohoon was the onl;- p?r?.?n In the house beside? a lawyer and I the witnesses of the will that gave the caveator'a ground f??r their contention that Miss Creecy. jat the tlma when the will wan made, was actuated by the undue I Influence of her slstar,. who was j In chsrge of tha nick room snd | 'that at tha time abe lacked m sa ta! capacity to raallflt tfca clalma Nobby Jones and MacFarhme Tie Worcester. Ma?*.. June 5. ? Hubby Jopmi and Willi?1 Mai'Par lane weut Into a tie mi the eigh teenth hole of the National Open Golf I'linmi'luiinliip playoff today, necessitating another is hobs of pluv t h 1h afternoon. Tin* score f??r ihr IS holes tills morning was 7T? each. I'lUiKI) KCONOMIZK IN I'SK OK \\ ATKK Elizabeth City in t h rent ??noti by a water famine. so far a* t bo wa iter supply above the first floor ; level Is concerned. according t? Superintendent J. C. Parker. tin less patrons of t bo city water system exercise more care ancl caution In leaving spigots turned on and more economy of water In sprinkling tlielr lawns. Tbe protracted drouth lias bad a marked effect on tbe supply of water on the city's water-shed, anil unless tbere Is rain soon much Inconvenience may be suf fered. Mr. Parker says. The Utility Commission Is 1 therefore making an urgent ap . peal for co-operation on the part of all patrons of the city water ' system. FAMOUS SINGER BE HERE SUNDAY Mario Cappelli, world famous ? singer, often called tlic "Second Caruso." will sing at the First Methodist Church Sunday morn ing and night. The story of so great a musi cian coining to a small town to sing for its people without money ?I and without price is an Intercut ? \ ing one. Elizabeth City laymen visiting a Norfolk church recently heard Cappelli sing, met and talked with him. They asked how it came 1 about that he always sang In some church on Sunday after singing I all the week In concert or opera, j Slgnor Cappelli replied, "Why | not? 1 received my talent from the Lord. Shall I not render Ills church some service In return?" It wax at that psychological in stant thai tbe invitation was ex tended the great singer to come to Elizabeth City; and In; accepted. While in the city he will be the guAat of Mr. and Mrs. C. 15. Pugli. CABINET CUIS1S LOOMS IN I'AIIIS Pari?. June 5.?A cabinet cris is became a definite possibility this mornng. Finance Minister Calllaux stood his ground lu the "Peace Conference" with a dele gation of I he left block called by Premier Palnleve in hope of har monizing opposition to Caillaux's financial program. DAI (illTF.KM AHF.lt 1C A M KRT The Daughters of America will meet tonight In Mw Junior Order hall at 8 o'clock and all members are urged to be present. that her other relatives had up on her. | On the other band Mrs. Cohoon has been able to put on evidence! I to show that It had always been1 . Miss Hennie'a intention to leave J the property to her and that when i a lawyer and witnesses were sum moned and the will executed Miss( Creecy was so much herself that she insisted on paying the attorn-; ey who drew the will his fee on J the spot and asked him for a re ceipt. Additional Links This evidence was strengthened! by the attending physician and by j the witnesses of the will, all of| whom expressed the opinion that ( j Miss Creecy was u woman above j the average in Intelligence und j that at the time for the making! of the will she was In full |w?s-| session of all her mental facul-| ! ties. | The heirs of Colonel Creecy nr. scattered to the lour winds of thw, I country from Kl Paso to Boston ! and from Ne w York City to l?os i Angeles. Named in the suit as ' caveators are It. II. Creecy of Klisabeth City. Joshua Cre.-cy of St. Louis. Sarah U. Plummer of New York City. Frances Rltzer of lx>s Angeles. Duncan Winston Wales of Kdenton. and Thomas Nickels Winston of Boston. Sons of the daughter of Colonel Creecy, the late Mrs. K. F. Lamb of Kllra belh City, none of whom now M* ! side here, declined In become par ties to the suit and It. 1?. Creecy was tbe only one of the cavea tors appearing In court. Asked whether Ml?? Creecy couljl have been normal, or ap , proximately ?o. at any time dur ing her laxt sickness. Dr. Fearing (stated positively that sho could not. Inasmuch as she wan suffer ing from chronic nephrltu and cardlo-vancular complications, lie declared with equal posit Irenes* thnt he had no Interest, financial or otherwise. In the outcome of the case, and denied that be had prompted counsel for the cavea tors the day before in the ques tioning of a Norfolk physician who had treated Miss f'reecy In the last days of her Illness. On this point be declared that h" merely suggested to the lawyers | that thejr ask clearer definitions of certain medical terms employed hy tbe phyaklao Id hie testimony. EVERETT TELLS OF PHENOMENAL CAINS BY STATE ?North Carolina 1? I'ar from M:inkrii|>t. CITirial II, ? lariit in Ail<lrr?? lo lli^li Srliool S?'iiiiir? UIVKS MANY I II.I IIKS IV?i|il<> Won I Iver to Pro gram of I'nigres* anil (?iriliiif: Sflvm for Great er KfTorto. lie Say* . I>??|>I11- Knnli CamlliuTa |ir? ? K lam of advancement which has si.ml.-it the world, tin- Stan Is far 'r,"i< bankrupt ami is ulrding h. r ? If to continue the progrcaalve policies already under May ami to und.riaUe Mill others. according lo Secretary of Stat?* W. N. Ever ett. who uildrt'Hwd tin- !?? 2.1 Sen lor Class at t ho high school hist night in (ho course of th<- annual ???miuicncoineiit exercises. Mr. Kvi-n-H quoted a stagger ing array of facia and Agim-a ??? I'rwvf his contention thai the Stal?- was not only altogether sol . vent. hut nctualiy wan anions the richest of the South and the Na tion. lie prefaced his address with a brief historical survey of th?- events lending up to the launching of Norih Carolina's pro gram of progress. telling of the dose Of (he civil War. When the I soldiers c:iute home to n country i "so poor it had nothing, had noth i in? to get nothing with, and had 1 nothln? to put It In." The speaker was Introduced In j appropriate fashion by Stale Sen ator I'. li. Williams, whose guest lie was during his slay here, J're I coding tlie address, the Seniors , sang a song, and when Mr. Ever I el t had concluded, diplomas wer? | presented to the graduates l.y I Chairman E. F. Aydlett. of the School Hoard. Th? exercla ea closed with the Senior Claaa ;Song and a benediction by Hev. Daniel laine, of city Itoad Meth od lat Church. After referring to the genera lion after the Civil War In wlilch North Carolina "slootl like n lion In clinlns. aback led to her environ , aiont," Mr. Everett declared the rS^ate shook heraeif free and turned.lier face to a new day. Home Telling Figures Wfth fi.OOfl factories using an invested capital of one billion dol la rs." lie said, "she manufactures more cotton than she grown, and she grows more per acre than any oilier Stale, and grows more hajes than any other state except one. "At Knnnapolls she makes more towels than any place in the world. At W insloii Salein she manu factures more tobacco than any , Plae In the world; and levies tri bute on every nation for the en richment of her people. "At Koanoke Ifapids. she has ?he InrufMt damask mill In th" world, where she make* table j cloths 111 to deck the gold plate of a royal table, and to match the flttlni;s of an bumble cotter's home. "At Durham are centered the largest hosiery Interests in the world, where she make* hose to withstand the bucking school boy, and of such gossamer fineness I hey are Invisible to the naked eye. (Alas! with the chanviiig styles 'Them days are gone forever. ) "At High Point we have the largest medicinal herb Industry In the world. In whatever clime you wander, you will find In some drug stnre some 11 net lire mnde from bark or leave?. North Caro lina grown, which will make you flght or fondle. "Then she fame llnck" "As Oovernor Mlckett said What North Carolina doc*. ?),?? does with her might. She wis slow to leave the I nlo i. but when "he left She left A III. nil her might, and although she had only IITi.OOO voters In I he State, she sent 127.000 soldiers to the Stars and liars. And then she came back; hack with nil her might.* "One evidence that she has eonie back Into the I'nlon I* that at Winston-Salem 'she makes more union aults than any other place in the world.' "The people of North Carolina are bent unon building a great State on the, basis of imhllr edu cation. public highway and public health. "The people want belter nub lc school*. They are willing to be taxed for better schools. The proof ilea In the fact dial they have been willing to vote county ?" m?lty *f,,ool bonds oniounilin: to 120.000,000 during the IsH live years and to borrow from the State 'ircaaury another fio.oun 000 with which to hurry the ? r? c Hon of fit school building? for their children. The public school bonds for buildings at present In process of erection In North Car-' ollna reach the stupendous total of $25.000.?00. "Within another year flu total of our public *chool properly will be right around 165.000.000. II la Of. (line* the amount Invested In puhlic aehool prop, rty Jr. North Carolina 24 years a v I IV? Mlftc* Of Ibwid (Mil) "The people of the State want [ belter public Highways, and they are willing to pav the hill. At prenent wa are bulldiiK Ave miles of Improved highways aver/ work Coolidjje (ilatl to Call Conference (ionova. J mi?* Itepr?" ?Mitu 11 i v?* Tli>au<lurO' Iturtou. head of i h?* American delegation io ih?* | Anns Coiifcrt'nn' declared to tU** j conference today (hal Io* was au thorized lo announce thai Prei-i I?I?*iit Coolidge will In* glad to rail a special ??onfcroiice in Wash ington provided tin* question cun not be 'definitely h?'Iil?'il during lin* present conference. ICETUIINS TO II\\ \NA IN KAKI.V CART Jll|/\ Washington. Juno f?.?Major Ceneral Knoch II. Cri)?J<'ii. ani : hassador to Cuba, now In tin* C ii i t oil Slates for medical atleti lion. cxiifrlM to r?*titrii to hln |nmi in Havana early in July. SECRETARY WEEKS SKKMS IMPROVED lhiston. Juno ft.?Further clef-. Inlto Improve men I lu the condi tion of Secretary of War Week h , opei a t cd upon last week for nail stones. was reported today. RUSSIAN SOVIET BUSY IN CHINA Washington, .lune T*.? Infor-j mation has reached the Asxociat-j ed l*r?'SH pointing ti? dirert It us sian Soviet part Id pat ion *ln the! impending armed struggle for the! control of all Chua. ?San Francisco. June 5.?Willi! Shanghai quiet after disturban ces. advices to the State Depart ment today from Consul (leneral t'unniugham told of Ihc discov ery of further evidence of Holshe-1 vistic agitation in stirring up! strikes anil student deinou8tru-| lions. The reports followed on the ?heels of the deniul by the Soviet ( ambassador of Peking. AIRPLANE SURVEYS CUMHERI.AND CROPS' Raleigh, June 6.?The first of-j rlul airplane flight was made to-j day when the Government plane; furnished by ('amp itragg offl-l rial* co-operative with the De-I partment of Agriculture hopped! off Camp Itragg surveying the, j area around Payeltevllle. Photo-1 ! graphs were made for special I at tidy of the ^development of! crops and office roseurch. MORE ROI.I. WEEVILS THAN EVER IIEEOREj Aberdeen, June ft.?There ure| ( more holl weevils reported In | '?North Carolina than in any pre-, vlous year, according lo an an-1 noiincemonl of the Slate Depart-j Imeni of Agrlculturo made public i today. TRIBESMEN LAUNCH STRONG INTENSIVE Purs, June 5.?-Hlffian Trllies incn have launched the strongest ? and belt organized offensive since] their Invasion of French Morocco . with a drive against Taouat. JIIEAT DEATHS NOW TOTAL NINETY-SEVEN ? Washington. June ft.?Heaths? in Hie United Stales from the heat] wave now total 97 with no relief In sight, the Weather liureaii slates. TWO WEEKS ARE OVER A 1.1 .OWED EXIM.OI{EH ?New Vork. Juno G.?The two' weeks of grace for ftoald Annind-j sen. allowed before the search should hegin for him und his ex-j pedition, are over. Preparations > for patrolling Iho edge of the; Arctic Ice? pack are rapidly being brought lo completion. The Nor-.' at K lan explorer directed n sharp |ook<itll lo he established for Hie parly which left Spitzbergen for, iho North Pol? In I wo airplane? May 21. day of the week at an average cost of $20,000.000 a year. In round numbers. When th?? build ing program of !A2ft is completed w?- shall have hoiiio ft,000 mile? of Hi?1 Im st public roads In Iho world. No stale or country will have bet tor public highways than North Carolina. "The automobile owners alone . are creating the highway sinking } funds nnd paying the annual in-; , teres! charges In license f? ea and gasoline tuxes. Considerably more than one half of our total' hotel? d debt Is represented by State, county and municipal high way bonds. The people do not object to paying for roads with license fees and gasoline taxes. "But they have gone still for-! t her. They are paying f'>r better i roads, streets and bridges In d I r?'Ct taxes levied "n their proper ' ties. They have voted town and county bonds for si n ets, road?. i hrldr? s and other puhlic utilities amounting to $'i2.o00.000. The j principal and t h? Interest pay ment on these local highway bonds must come out ??f direct laxes on , their Hated properties. '"Die people of the State nrsj definitely dHei mined upon t h ?? most liberal polili?-* of health |>r<? motlon and disease prevention. The Slot*' I? *p? ndlhg $fi5?000 a y*ar In puhlic health work, and 28 counties are spending $217, ' Continued on page 4 NORTH POLE IS NOT THE PLACE FOR AIRPLANES I hi* Ik Opinion of A*ed Negro W ho Is Only Liv ing Man Kxrept K-kiino* W Iki IIuh Krt-ri There WAS W n il I'KAKY flunks if Ki.uld Aniund *en Is Slill Alive He Is Traveling on Foot Over llilloekn uiid I'innacle* <e?i>vri*lii. 1 V~y In Ttie Ad>iM| N.w York. Juno n.?The North I nlo Is no place for a?*roplanes, and if Itonlil Amundsen Ih still living, he Ik traveling on foot. TIH* Ih tli?, opinion of the only "vin? ii i mi, suvo four Kaklmos, who has ever been there Matthew I I**iinoii , aged negro, now em ploy? ?| uh a clerk in the customs office of N?*w York. Henson was witli Admiral l{<d??rt K lVary Id the tatter's allaiiiin. iii of the Polo III 1909. "Th?*r?? an- hummocks of sno# ami If?- ull nround the Tole," mM Henson. "Hon- an<l there, there are smooth spaces i?f Ice?lakfn we called them bul they are only about ?iu f?.? t In diameter, entire ly too small for a safe landing or a take-off. *'^n our* entlr?? Journey wo climbed ov. r gr?'at ridden of pree Kur?' Ice. xohi?' of tIh-iii 40 or 50 feet high. and w?* w??re continual* ly crawling over hummocks and plnuacl?>H of Ice. (Jreat l. ads wera constantly opening In the IcZ blocking our path. Some of them w?? bad to cross on cakes of lof. Others w?? toi ov?r by swinging ice blocks urrn?H mo that thar mad?'* a bridge. "It Hi-limn to tu?> that it an air plane land? d at tin- pol*? It would have about on?- chance "in a hun dred of returning. There ar? broken mound:* of lc?- all around the l'?>l?v if ih?' planes have been Huiunhed, or If they ara do?* and unable to ri?.-, they haven't one chance In a million of getting out alive? ' Our return Journey wan about the hardest part of the trln. We managed to survive it because we had :i7 dogs. ;in.| at that'#* had to ent some of th,. dofc*.'Having no dAgs, and I raveling over a wlda si retch of water, with treacher ous, y'uwniiiK l?-nds constantly op enlm; In th> in-, all the probabll Hies are against them. "We goi to the |?ol?> the morn ing of April H and stayed there 30 Iioiirs. it was too cloudy to take observation th?* llrst day, so wa waited. Afl? r we had made our olmervatiotiH. we lost no time In gelling back. We had a hard drive to mak?* It, fighting our way ov?*r the Ice (toes and pressure lidr;es. I Would hale to get caught up. I hut way in nn airplane. 1 don't b?'lb'V4a Amundsen Is wait? Ing around there. i know 1 wouldn't. I do not think Ataundaen and his e?impanlons can make their way back on foot. The nearest settlement Ih Utah, where thera are a f?iw Ksklinos. I don't see bow in the world they can make ll. We bit pretty good weather, but at that we hud our hands full. Of course It is possible that Amundsen was lucky and will get out somehow. I certainly hope so." Admiral Peary In his book, "The North Pole/* says of Hen hoii : He can handle a sled better and Is probably a better dog driv er than any other man living, ex cept some of the Ksklmo drivers." Peary died and Henson wss for gotten. In 1!?!3, President Taft appointed him to his present posi tion. Scarcely any on?' in the eu* tortis office knows of Hanson's great adventure. Unlike the Hrlt IhIi Tommy in Kipling's poem, "Trimmin' the Colonel's Hedges/' he does not lament the days of hardship and danger. He haa ac quired dignity and dome superflu ous flesh. In the passing of the ye* rs and he scemx flu lie content to have exchanged an Ice lance for a rusty Government pen. Henson "Joined up" with Peary on the 1? 11? r's second trip to Nle uragua In 1887. and remained Willi htm i? it 111 they found the top of the world. He Is now S3 years old. BOMB IS PLACED FOH KIM. AI.KONSO T/onden. Juno fi.?A dispatch to th" Kvening News from the Fratup-Sprinlsh border nays It If reported that a bomb was found in the llnrrelons Cathedral todnv JiiHt before King Alfonso attend ed map*. Four prieftt* have haaa arrested. I'lT OIT Tit ASM M It K Firemen were called out short ly before noon Friday to extin guish a blare In s pile of trsah on a vacant lot on Martin street, not far below Church The fire part ly destroyed a fence and wss en dangering nesrby dwellings. I# was put out quickly. g . IVITTO* MARKKT ?New York, June 5. Spot eat* ton closed steady MJddllng 24.70? J en advance of 315 point*. Put p res. closed at the following le+els: I Jsly 23.01, Oct. 13.3?. Dac. St 60. Jan. 23. IS. March 31.01. ^
The Daily Advance (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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