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CIRCULATION Tl'KSDAY 2.58 3 Copies VOL. XV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, COUNCIL PASSES , ACT TO REQUIRE DRIVING PERMIT I Motorist* Living in City | Mil*! Stand Examination I I to Determine Fillies* to 'I Opfrate Car* bodgkt is approved Tax Rate Will be $1.22 per $lUO Property Valuation, f Same u* l.a*l Year; Poll I Tax Will be S3 Passage of an ordluance requir ing all automobile drivers living \ In the city to procure driving P?r* , mlts by September 1, and fixing ot the tax rate for the coming year at $1.22 per $100 property ^ valuation. were the principal acta j ) of the City Council In called aea ) alon Wednesday morning at 10 ' Q'clock. The poll tav was net at * U The tlx rate was established Vupon the basis of an estimated ? cost of $75,099 for running the J city for the coming year, and wan baaed upon an approximate prop erty valuation or $y, 700. 000. The rate la the aame as wan in effect for the past year, but la appor- ! Uoned differently, Ave cents being ' added to last year's assessment for school purposes, and that amount being deducted from the levy for geueral city expenaea. Last yeur's . levy for the schools was 50 cents. , Thin year It will be 56 cent*. The levy for general purposes will be reduced from 72 to 67 cents. E. F. Aydlett appeared before i the board with a petition signed by properly owners on North Wat er street asking that the Btreet be widened approximately eight feet frotu Main street to the Poindex- | ter Creek bridge, near the Eliza- ' belli City Iron Works. The addi tional widt li would be gained through reducing the Bldewalks i on each side of the street about i four feet. The request was re ferred to the city manager for in vestigation and report. The ordinance requiring all op / era tors of automobiles to obtain J driving permits carries a fee of r $1. Applicants for pennlta must pass an examination proving their ability to operate a car and their knowledge of city and State driv ing regulatlona. No person under 16 years will be grauted a permit, I through a State law to that efTect. Owners of automobiles will be granted city license tags thlB year without payment of additional fees. The ordinance becomes ef- , fectlve September 1, when the ^present city automobile licenses ?expire. It is expected to put $3,-; J00U additional into the city treas ury. ? In accorance with a request by ;Dr. A. L. Pendleton, chairman of | the Utilities Commission, the com aoiaalon was empowered to lay water pipes In various parts of the city in connection with the present program of Improving the utilities. Thv, Council decided also to make no additional charge agalnat prop erty ownera for excavations nee- I essary in laying aewers to their i ftfftDcrty lines from the street Bialhx The property owners, how ever. will have to pay the cost of the*piping used In the connections. The Council was advlaed that the utilities had earned a little ov?y? $17,000 In the last four months. in addition to paying the luterest on the utility bonda for a period of five months. City Audi tor. Snowden was authorised to transfer an unexpended balance of $2^(00 In the water fund to the general city fund, and was em* Powered to make reasonable ad justments* with property owners when the latter abandoned sur face toilets to connect with the Hfy water and sewer lines. Upon motion of Councilman .??ghes, Mayor McCabe was authorised to appoint an advertis ing committee to look Into the feasibility of the city publishing some 2,000 advertising booklets, N to he distributed largely through the Chamber of Commerce. This action was taken In response to a' request from Secretary Job. of the Chamber. Mr. Job estimated the Tost at $600. The committee will report to the hoard before definite action Is taken In the matter. I?. B. Twlford was appointed to All the vacancy on the condemna tion board occaaloned by the re cent realgnatlon of W. T. Love, ?r.. chairman of the Board of County Commlaaloners. , Upon motion of Councilman Morgan, the board directed City Manager Fcrebee to obtain Infor mation from the Elisabeth City Iron Worka aa to the type of gas mains which should be laid In con nection with extensions proposed and under way. City Auditor fnowden waa asked to write to towky Mount and Durham , and obtain copies of ordinances In ef fect In those cities with regard to the Installation of piping by ga? companies. It la proposed to en act a similar ordinance here. The Council endorsed the ac tion of the Chamber of Commerce in requesting the Federal Govern ment to remove the derelict j schooner Scotia, which lies on the ' I s?ge of the channel In Ellaabeth I I City harbor, off Machelhe Island, \ snd which Is regarded aa a aerloua menace to airlggtloa. Attacked Blaine Randall, actress, ~ who quit :he cam of "While Cargo" In 8an Francisco. had chsrgea of aaaault lied again*! W I. l,e Dloyt of New fork, 8h? iuM?eria he Imkixl her In ik rooni *nd al'arlf** btr. RIGID TRAFFIC SYSTEM MAY BE TRIED IN HARBOR Women mid (Hiildren oil Board Hospilal Ship When ll Wu? Struck Moil day Add Testimony SAVED BY MIKACLE And Harbor Men Say It Is Only hy Such Miracles That Many Are Not Hurt Every Day ll> KKNA MAltflllAI.I, KoorriCbt. X$U. tm tW ?<]????-?> New York. Aug. 5. ? A traffic system for boaja In New York Iiay. an .rigid aa.ltiut wUich pre vails on Broadway and Fifth Ave ' nue, may be New York's next In ; novation. Flft^ep ljuijdred wom en and sickly ch^drei), aboard tiio hoapltal nhlp IWlen-IC. Jullllard, , when it was ntruck amldshlp I Monday by the passenger liner | Vandyke, add their testimony to that of numerous harbormen. who nay that something drastic has ! got to be done for the busiest har . bor In the world. Floating traffic cops, a line of tall buoys HKe the city's traffic | towers clashing green "go" sig nals one minute and red "atop" [signs the next, and a network of smaller buoys like the "silent po . Ilcemon" most cities have planted In the middle of Intersecting ' streets ? have all been suggested. For many months now. harbor men. pilots of the eight hundred tugs, the hundred old ferry b<\ats [and numerous passenger . and j freight liners which spend most of I their time dodging each other in | their dally runs, have been aiming for a better traffic system In the | bay. The Idea was given Impetus | by Monday's accident and a pe tition signed by all this week Is expected to be Its culmination. It was a miracle that people were not hurt aboard the 8t. John's Guild Hospital barge, ac I cording to I?r. Virginia Travel, In charge, when Its tug pulled It In .front of the Vandyke as the lat ter backed from Its slip. It Is only a miracle, too, harbor men declare, that there are not dozens of similar accidents every day. An old tug boat man. for years captain of tho Alice told the story. "We get In the worst iJams." he said. "The ships don't jknow and don't watch where the I others are going. With the 800 i tugs all fighting for first chance I at a town Job cluttering up traf | flc while they yank freight I from Jersey City and Brooklyn or I bring In a passenger ship, plus . thd hundred odd terry boats, the ! railroad tugs, the coasting steam ers and lighters, liners and river j boats, they seem Impossible to ? straighten out. Our men are set. I think, to stand for most any of the new fangled traffic systems they laughed at when they were started out on land. For the sake of women and private cttl xens such as were In Monday'a ac cident something ought to be done." Captain R. a. Smith, another tug boat man, aald many of the harbor skippers already had reached a sort of "gentleman's agreement" on harbor traffic rules, supplementing the rules laid down by the government. But he agreed something more strin gent was needed. Fl'NRML FKAWOIB CADDY The funeral of Francis Rugnene1 Caddy, little 18 months old son of lir. and Mra. Vernon Caddy. ? 20 Parsonage street, who died , Tuesday afternoon at 1:10 o'clock, waa conducted at the I home by Rev A. H. Outlaw Wed-j jnesday afternoon nt four o'clock nnd burial made la Hollywood Cemetery. REPUBLICANS LAUGHING AT POOH TAMMANY I'lan to Draft Qurlm Kv aiiH llughrs for Mayor and < jirry New York C-it y in the Fall PLAN VISIONARY Hughes Would Almost Have to lie Handcuffed and Ih Wearing Hull nailed IIooIm for Committee 11) ItOllKItT MM ALL I?s Hi TV? New York. Aug. 6. ? Republi can leaders of thla city and stale who are laughing with ghoulish glee at Tammany's dilemma with Mayor Ilylan have a great scheme In the back of their heads. They j admit the scheme In exceedingly I visionary, but they Ilk* to cling to It .and they aay that as yet there Is no constitutional .amend ment against hoping. The big white hope of the Re publicans la that they can talk one Charles Evans Hughes Into being {their candidate for mayor thW fall. These leaders believe thai, Mr. Hughes could be elected at any time, but with the present irlft In the Democratic ranks. tlfsy Hay his race would tp what In technically known aa a "shoo/In." | The Republicans further fdmlt! 1 1 hut Mr. Hughes would have to be: i drafted, but thla Is one Instance1 | In which the former secretary of fctate would not mind the stigma of "draft dodger." Th* Gpnd Old Party tried to draft Mr. Hughes for mayor Juat 20 years ago. It I formally aud aolemuly nominated him at a city convention, but Mr. I Hughes politely but firmly de clined to run. The following year.1 however, he was drafted for gov ernor and was elected to two' terms. Within th* past 19 yeara there fore. Mr. Higbea has given four years of his [Ufa to the'atate, two 1 years to tha supreme bench, and four years io the nation as head f of the Hariflng and Coolldge cab inets. The/ public has received more than /a fifty-fifty spilt on Mr. Hughei and he is In no mood I at the moment further to sacrifice I himself evan to "save the city" ? , which Is tie way tho Republicans . are phraiing their anti-Hylan warfare. I Mr. Hughes la sixty three years; of age ani still has before him the task of accumulating a comfort- . able forttne for himself and hls| ' family. He waa not precisely a poor mat when he went Into Washington us Secretary of State, i He had had four yeara of lucra , tlve practice. But four yeara In ' the caplt4 aa premier of the cab-. : Inet tool a heavy toll of the, {Hughes financial reserve, and In quitting the State Department he frankly aUted It waa bla Intention to go out iund provide for himself as against the coming of "old age." Mr. Hughes la a type, how ever. like Ellhu Root and Chaun-j [cey Depew, who will not grow old. (and whos? later years are filled' with wlsdam rather than with , wistful reveries. | The Republican leadera have i received not gentle but rather forceful reminders that they need | not come knocking at the Hughes law office door when looking for, a Moses to lead them out of the ; municipal wilderness. The Job of mayor of Greater New York calls] for a term of four years. The governor's term Is but two. Mr.i Hylan has hsd two terms and tsj very frank to admit he would like, to have at least two more. Hei wants New York eventually to be known aa "Mayor Hylan's city."! He haa put bla name on every- j thing elae about the town. Even the "rough guy" atanding in mar ble In the City Hall Park is known aa "Mayor Hylan's civic | virtue." Mayor Hylan aeea no reason why he should not be the perpet-( ual mayor. He llkea the Job tre i mendously. Mr. Hughes, on the other hand. Iran think of nothing he would Ilk* so llttla. Aa a matter of fact j the chances are he would have to be handcuffed, blind folded and placed In solitary confinement on liread and water before even con sidering the propoaltlon. Nevertheless the Republicans [are keeping the Hughes thought i constantly In the foreground. Kv- i en If they can't Induce him to run | ? and thay can't ? his name la I good advertising for their com ing campaign. The Idea la to Impress tha public that the O. O p. Is looking for a man of the Hughes stature ? that's what they I think of the Importance of the mayor's office. Mr. Hughee smiles good natnredly at the per formance. but ha haa a pair of hob-nailed boota for the flrat member of the "nominating" committee with tamerlty enough to step Into hla office coram mahkkt New ork, Aug. ft. ? Spot cotton, cloaed quiet today, middling 24 60 aa advanea of 10 points. Fuiures j closing bid: Oct. If.ftT, Dm. 14 12 Jan. tt.ftl, Mch 21 90. May I4.il. Identify Men Who Held Up Hotel Enrpliyts Confront Two of Gang That Began Wild Pistol bight In Chicago Hostelry I Employe* of the exclusive Drake Hotel. Chicago, were quick 'to recognize and identify the two men who are held us pari of th? bandit Kant; that shut up the place during a holdup. KUya l^ovgren and Irene Uerftendahl. hotel Mferetarles. ar?* at the extreme left; seated are the prisoners, ^Tof Holmes (left), and Jack \Vilson, alias Woods. Assistant State's Attorney John Hharbaro, In u Rray suit, ?V stands hi-hilid them. One Milliotuiire Spends His Money On Relatives After Making II is Milium Selling Florida Heal Estate lie (Collects Hit Kin From Near anil Far anil Take s Them tm Sight Seeing Tri/> li.v IIK.\ ?. KI.INK . ' (CovrtfM IIM bv TH# ? ?>??*) . Ran Franclaco. Attguat Iforniana may have scoffed some what at I h*? Florida real estate boom In the pant, but Chartea. (Jrecn lthod?s of Fort Luuderdfcle.j baa been convincing all akeptlcfl that city Iota In the tx>??mli?n u lit- 1 gator atate are not being given away. Kliodcs la using a portion of 1 the million dollars he "cleaned up" ) from Florida . real tntate and la taking 02 brother*.- afotura. roua ina, aunts, uncle.**, nephewa and ! nieces on a r.ioutli'a tour of the' country; each an "ad" for Cal-i lfornia'a rival In the real estate and tourist trades. Rhodes went to Flprldu aa a touriat 17 yeara ago. nuw the pos aibllitles In the ntate. h ?* 1 1 1 * ? c 1 down uud began accumulating future city lota. Not ho very lour. f|0 he waa what early aettlera in a virgin coiAity call "land poor." meaning he waa heavily burdened with land and debta. Then came the boom; a city budded and bios-' aomed. Rhodes contributed to| the country c lub and aold lota, lot worrying becauae person* ti ; whom he aold resold at a 100 ?er cent profit. He made a milium and Ik aatlafled ? aaya he doean't care If he never makeB anotler dollar. "The Khodea gang waa acit tered all over the country." he aald here before he loaded kla party of. near and diatant reia tlvea Into motor cara for a tour nf the city, 'i thought It would be a darned good thing to aort of aaaemble them, let them get *c qualnted and take a little fling ? ? aeelng Amerlra." Ho he got busy aendlng telegrama und modeatly admlla the reault la "aa congen ial a gang of folka aa can be found." The Rhodea family home was formerly In Fair county, W?wt Virginia, but la scattered all over the Southland. Koine of tie members of the preaent party nev er aaw each other before th?y met for thla trip. They indue, policemen, rlcrgymen. doctora and lawyera. and were picked up til! through the Houthweat and loal-j ed Into the apeclal car for tie group vacation. JOHN TEMPLE GKAVES IS CRITICALLY III. Waahlngton, Aug. 6. ? John Tample Craves. widely known Southern writer, la In an extreme ly critical condition at hla hotiu her*. nad mombera of hla family ha* evlrtually abandoned all hope' for hla recovery. HKVISION OF KATES THROUGHOUT SOUTH aWshlngton. Aug. S.? Revision of all ratea on claaalfled freight shipment* In terrltorlea conatltut lug the aoutheaatern quarter of the United Hlatea waa ordered (?> day by the Interstate Commerce rommlaalon and the baala of rend Juatment nf achedulea waa lai?l down. effe<'tlve January 1. RATES ON PEANUTS ADMITTED TOO IIM. II Waahlngton. Aug. 15. ~ Rate* on peanuta moving from rtouth' rn territory to Chicago. Mllwaulc ? Olevand. and other northern <1 tlea were held today bf the I teratate Commerce Commission to be unreasonably high. Highway Contract To Be lit Sept. 1 The Pasquotank lllKhway Com-' kJbiMMioii will reeeive bids for ! lie hard.surfaciug of iho road from! Old Weekxvllle to Hlmoiida Crmk,1 a distance of approximately three milcH. at Hh regular meeting on Tnesday; September 1. This pnojcet will l>e the fourth for whlrh contract will have boeu let under the County 'h "feeder road" program. Initiated through au act by the lust (Jenerul Assein bly authorizing a bond Issue of a quarter million dollarH for the purpoae. Contracts have been let already for the Korku lload, liody and I'eartree ltouds All will be y feet wide .and of plain concrete construction. It la anticipated that the road from Old Weeks vllle to Hlmonds Creek will ho of the same type. After au Inspection vImII, the commission decided against a pro posal again to ehange the routing of Peartreo Itoad. PLENTY OF BASEBALL PROMISED FANS HERE The Kllzabeth City Iraseball nine In taking on a Htrenuous pro gram for the remainder of the week. Thin afternoon, Bouth Norfolk will play ken and to morrow the Norfolk Police team, which went down to Inglorious defeat on their last visit, will re turn for more puniHhment. A double header has been ar ranged between Elizabeth City and Hertford for Friday aftor noon. The first game will bo played here. beginning at 2 o'clock. When It closes, the play ers will be ruHhod In closed cars over to Hertford to begin a sec ond name there at & o'clock. On Saturday. Hertford probably will play attain here. Whether baseball will continue after this week in Klizabeth City will depend entirely upon the sup port accorded by the public In the remaining Ksmes ncheduled for the week, the baiMthali manage ment announced, explaining that thus far thin week the team ac tually has failed to break even, and the players cannot be expect ??d to remain here without any recom peine-. KICK \l!l) INSISTS HE Wil l BE IN CHARGE New York. Aug. 6. -Tex Itlck ard declan-d today that If Jack Itompsey fights Harry Wills for the world's hesvywHght title In Itttf the Im> nt will take place only undsr his direction and In the metropolitan dlvtrlrt probably Ju ly S or f?. BYRI) NOMINATED BY GOOD MAJORITY Norfolk Aug. 6.- Harry flood Oyrd. of Winchester, was nomi nated for (lovernor of Virginia ov ?r Q, Walter Mapp. of Accomae In the Democratic primary yeeter day by a majority which was es timated to range well above 20, dew. The iHrtory of Mr. Byrd ap P^nred nom hing In the nature of s landslide incomplete returns in dlcatlng that he hsd carried ev ?rjr dlstrb evcept the flrnt. the hom# of Mr Mapp, and posslbi Ike Sixth NEGROES STAGE BLOODY AFFRAY TUESDAY NIGHT Oliver (Jrcen Suffering Willi Knife Wound* S<> Serious Unable to Ap|>eur in Ijiui'l Wednesday HARDEN I'SKI) KNIFE Itul (lurrenl Keport I* to Effect Thai Duke Inn Bus Drivei* Was Attacked and Outnumbered Oliver OrcM, colored, White* ?tdrect. is In a serious condition an! u if suit of I; ii lf<> wounds, and . lirifce l>nrdi*ii, negro bun driver] for llii' Duke Inn, ('harmed with i IiuvIuk Infllctod the wounds. Ih un- . der bond fur appearance at a pre liminary hearing In recorder'* , court. Iti-ports of the affairs current j on tin* afreet an- that Dardeu I , lined Ills knife when attacked Tuesday night at the Norfolk' Southern pMMiger ilifloii by jlireeli and two or more Compan ions. I The cane could not be heard I Wednesday morning on account of the fact tliut Green's condition will not permit him lo leave his bed. 1 The attending physician says. ; however, that he will recover un- j less Infection or some other com plication develops. , Walking up Main street after' 'the light. bloody ah a hog that has been butchered, (ireen. seeing 1 Frank Selig's car parked In front i of his home, asked Mr. Sellg Co take h I in to a doctor. Mr. Sellg rushed I he wounded man down town and. finding no doctor at any of tho drug stores, look him to (lie hospital, but was unable to get him In unless he would stand for ' 'the hospital bill. The negro then | asked Mr. Sellg to take him to a! negro physician, and Mr. Sellg ' did so. This Is the second cutting affray among negroes at the Norfolk | Southern passenger station thin j week. liOnnle Heckstall. found I guilty In recorder's court Tuesday! of assault with deadly weapon on two yonng colored girls at the sta tion Sunday night, and who noted I an appeal when County Judge Sawyer sentenced him to alx i months on the roads of Wayoe | County, reconsidered Ills decision, to appeal Wednesday morning and decided to servo his sentence. He will probably be turned over to the Wayne County authority's, .some time thla week. F1I.ES SUIT AFTEH HIS IMPRISONMENT Salisbury. Ang ft. ? A suit has been Instituted In Kowan Superior court by J. W. Post Ian, aged man! near thla city against K .W Wool worth Company. incorporated, and T. D. Dunning, manager of he Salisbury branch, for 9&0.000 1 damages. The suit was an out growth of the arrest and lmprls-1 onment of the plaintiff following i rharges of theft of gooda from thei store. com. 8TMIKE NOW APPEAHS <3?KTAIN j Atlantic City. Aug. ft. ? Suspen i Ion of work on September first] by Iftt.O## inthrarlte miners In tlx- >'< nnsylvanU fields appears ? ??rtaln nnlee* outside Influences of Kedeml or Htate authorities brinr* together the (nine workers nd anthreclte ? oal operatora. N?-ic??t iatloni for a working con tract to Mfliri' the one experlng August 11 Were broken off here 1 last night. # Posses On Trail Three Assailants One White Man and Two Negroea Sought for At tacks on Whites Asheboro, AufC- 6. ? Posses, early today continued their search I for a white man and two negroes* wanted for two criminal ansaultsi alleged to have been committed! aear here and near Plnehurst yesterday. While one group of armed men scoured the woods for a white j , man alleged to have attacked a young girl another party followed, the baying of bloodhounds on the trail by the negroes. Kalelgh. Aug. 6. ? Sheriff It. C 1 ,Fry of Moore County early today lodged John McMillan, negro, In, I the Slate Prison for safekeeping ' The negro was wanted for an at tack on a white woman at Kagle I Sprlugs and was. captured at : Aberdeen. The negro admitted being at the scene of the crime but denied all knowledge of the affair. lie told the prison authorities he (heard a woman scream and with' another negro ran from the place.' DOZEN ARE HELD ! FOR US. COURT j Only Three of Entire Ag ICregalion Able to Kur ?iUIi Bond Required | Kleven white men arrested In a raid by Federal prohibition agents und Deputy Sheriff H. S. Seymour, of Cauiden County, Monday night on Crow Island aud on the nearby Caiudeu County mslnland, were given a hearlug before United | States Commissioner T. II. Wilson late Tuesday afternoon, and were placed uuder bonds ranging from ! $300 to $800 for their appearance jat the next term of Federal Court here. I J. R. Bennett, John W. Ren ' nett, C. C. Hudson and C. G. Corn well, all of Norfolk; Darrell A.. Slack, of Lynnhaven, and W. K. ? Smithson, of Csmden. were plsced I tinder $800 bond. None ws? ahl?> ) lo give It, and all were remanded [ to jail. ! Herbert' Tlsdafe, J D. Tlsdsle, [ Thomas Moms, W. S. Smithson snd (J. H. Tlsdsle, sit of Csmden, were j pluccd under $M00 bond each. J. 1 I). Tlsdale and W. S. Smithson ! gave theirs, and were released. I iTlie others were returned to Jail. I Peter fclggs, arrested Tuesday i In a second raid In the vicinity of ! South Mills by the same Federal \ squad, was placed under bond of $800 on chargiii of distilling and j possessing apparatus for muklnt; ' | liquor. He put up his bond snd | was freed, conditional upon hl? appearance at the next session of ' Federal Court. DEATH OF TEACHER PRONOUNCED SUICIDE, Mattoon. III., Aug. 6.? -Suicide | has been found by Investigators |fn be the most prohsbly cause of the death of Miss Cora Btallman 48 years old former Cincinnati! school teacher whose body was' foqnd In a cistern on her sister's, farm. Physicians who examined the body ssld her physical condi tion was auch that the violent shock from the cold water might ' have caused her desth. TREATIES BECAME EFFECTIVE TODAY Washington, Aug. 6 ? Two nine | power treaties relating to China,' j signed at the time of the Wash ington Arms Conference, became | effective today when formal rati flcat Ions were exchanged with the i State Department. DENY STORY ABOUT PEACE WITH KRIM j Parts, Aug. G. ? The foreign of . flee today denied the account- pub- 1 llshed In Parla this morning of, peace terms alleged to have been ordered Abd Rl Krlm. rebel Mo roccan chieftain, by France and Spain. A. T. THORNTON in: M? A. T. Thornton died Tuesday morning at 11:40 at his home. 16 Fleetwood street, at the age of 69. j He la survived by his widow, Mrs. j Mary K. Thornton: by aeven chll-, Idren, Lillian E.. and Herbert F.. of this city, Lewis H. whose ad-' dress Is unknown to his family, j Morrlsl O. of Wilmington, Dele | ware. Mrs. Lula Marner of Poco moke City. Maryland. Mrs. Clara Ollesky of Mappsvllle. Virginia.' i and Alford Thornton of Horsey, Virginia by seven grandchil dren and one great grandchild; by > | five brothers and one sister, Mrs. Pnrlle Wessels of Pocotnoke City., Maryland; Sam Thornton, and Frank Thornton of Haltwood. Vir ginia. Bud Thornton of Mearea. Virginia, and Henry Thornton ofi Norfolk The body was taken on the early morning train Wednesday to Bloxoli, Virginia, his old time. RETURN H FROM VACATION | Dr. John Bell haa returned from | a trip through Western North Car olina where be spent his vacation. SAYS VESSELS OBSOLETE AND MERELY JUNK Murine Arcliilfol Advise* Country l? Scrap Ship ping Hoard Heel A* Praotieully IWlm* thk timks c.ii\n<;e Hi? Adviee in in IJiip Willi The Moat Modern Poli ciea in Many l ine* of ItiiHineHh lit J. ?\ ItOYl.K k* Tti* Advantal New York, Aug.- & ? One of the leading murine architect* of the United StateH today advised this country to drop a uaeleaa hand In to the discard. William Francis tllbbs. active head of the firm which reconditioned the leviathan and which designed the largest vessel, the construction of which has been undertaken by American ship yards, declared that a part of the shipping board fleet now laid up In the harbor und estuaries of the country Is as obsolete as the clipper ahlps of the last century. The statement was made in con nection with controversy which followed the Ford bids for ship ping board vessels for scrapping. 'The majority of those idle ahlps" Mr. CJIhbs said, "arc use less for the maintenance and up building of our merchant marine as the percussion cap muskets of the Civil Wur era would be for equipping our army today. They represent one of the Industrial I tragedies of the great war. They were built when their building was a marvel of achievement. It I was almost a miracle that they could be built at all. It was like building a fire engine to put out I a fire after the blaze had broken out, but we did It. | 'Of course they look like effec tlve ships and It cost a lot of | gency 'money to build them In We 4 great emergency. But the eco nomic effectiveness of any nan1 chine cannot be Judged merely by Its appearance or cost of preserva tion lu Idleness. The efficiency I must be judged with mechanisms In service." i Mr. tJIbbs made plain that be did not Include all the shipping board vesels iu the category of those fit only t?? be cut up by the acetylene torch, the pieces plckcd up by electric magnets and carted | off to the furnace. IJut he made clear the tremendous develop ments which have taken place In j post war years In shipbuilding. In cluding the rotor and the motor | whip, the perfection and develop ment of the Dlessel engine and other factors. "1 believe too little informative emphasis has been placed on this | matter by the shipping industry. These ships in the scrapping bids are effective only for what can be recognized as scrap. There Is no doubt that the American public ts | rather suspicious and the whole-' . sale Junking of ships that can float and whose super structures look pretty much like those of other ships which sail the seas. If the public Is not Informed of the necessity that this fleet be scrapped, any constructive under- ] standing of American merchant marine will be hampered by the question of why shipping men did not buy ships when they were ge jlng a begging instead of allowing fchem to be scrapped. "I*et these ships be scrapped and let us face the problem of the future of American shipping. (These ships are essentially Junk from an economic standpoint, but until the truth of thlV Is convinc ingly manifest to the public, en terprise will be halted und con structive planning will be handl I capped und the shipping of the fu ture will be prejudiced to a point perlously close to a disaster. It Is a somewhat far cry from (ships to phonographs, but some of the same trends toward "scrap ping and building" Is evident In the musical Instrument trade. The Victor Talking Machine (Company has cut prices shsrply on Its products. This Is under stood to be a move to prepare the market for a new combined talk ing machine and radio Instrument on which the company Is now working and which Is Intended to fill the fall trade demand. i Most of the talking machine | manufacturers anticipate that they will cut the number of their models by at least 75 per cent In the next year. [fails bakely halt MILE SWIM CHANNEL Deal. England. Auk. B.? -Lieut Ool. Bernard O Freybar*. war veteran and holder of the Victor I. croM, fell ?hurl today by a want half mile In hla attempt to ewlm the KiiKliab Channal. Mile. Hlun, French ewlmmar. failed yeaierday by a mile and a quarter. {BAB HTOI.K CAR AT rmWH Washington. Aai. 6 Haaday ntcht during the aer.lrea held at the Flrat Prenbyterlan Cbarcb Lome one rtnle a Dodtfe car parked In front of the church, owned by Mr W. C. Dudley. The police and aherlff n office w?ra at r.nre notified and a warch mad*.