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VOL. XVI. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1926. SIX PAGES. _ NO. 228 Women of Sixteenth Club District Holding Annual Meeting at Ahoskie Today Large Attendance From All Part* of District a* Visit ors Glad to Visit This Progressive Town . PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Mrs. EL F. Corbcll of Sun bnry Suras Up in Under i standing Manner the F Work of Past Vear / Aboskle, Sept. -S.? Mambers ofi the Woman's Clubs of the Six teenth District of the North Caro lina Federal ion turned their faces Ahoskle this morning and at 10 o clock the fifth annual Dis trict Meeting was under way. I Attendance was excellent, fori many of those coming had long been anxious to visit the progres sive town of Ahoskle and were doubly gla.l of today's opportuu-| Ity. Mrs. E. F. Corbel], District president, of Sunbury, welcomed 1 the honored guests and members of the club in the following mes-l iaVSp "Another year has passed. Have we as club women reached the ?oal that was set before us? | "when re-elected to office las'. I felt that the responsibility I was U>o great, but in servlug the district I have served myself. 1 h?te gained a deeper and broader I knowledge of the work and a fin 2? ?PPjeaiation of the responsibil-, Ity of being a club woman. | The clubs of this district show' achievement along all linos, from Renting of * flower to the building of club homes, from] sending funds to mine sufferers to equipping school buildings, from raising poultry to putting on a campaign for dedication of tu berculosis. from 'working for an election for a high school to rais ing money for school buildings, from weighing babies, and plan ning their nourishment to making! application to the Orthopedic Hos pital for a child, from studying) modern day literature to sponsor ing lyceum courses, from putting on music memory contests to ob ^ssrving National Music Week. and| ?aI might mention many other activ ities of the club of this district. "The clubs I have visited have Inspired me with a belief that fruat things are possible In the Sixteenth District because I find women with vision, seal, and en ?**y, who are willing to give of | their tlm?# and of themselves. '"The rural part of the district In Chowan. Pasquotank. Perquim ans. Currituck and Hertford coun ties. is being taken care of by the Home Bureuus. Thoy are devel oping the American Home Depart -| ment la a very wonderful manner. In establishing this department! Mrs. Sherman, our General Fed eration Director's object was to| turn Americans aside from their ?ud flight of irresponsible plea surs to the lasting satisfaction round in the peace and Joy of ideal family ||fe. "The Home Equipment Survey ?r?Ved by Mrs. Sherman has P!d more ,han a y*** of1 I, ' J*8 b?*n carried on by va rious departments, and has awak ened and intensified in the heartJ Ofcountless men and women a de *ree of respect for woman's clubs never before known. "DuNng the year our member htlli" Increased. Two clubJ sir w ? d? n?t m**n bat have affiliated with Rtste or f?2 nJ-0!' [*ni-Temchen, snd two new clubs havo been orgsn Ised. "Several clubs have contrlbut Sallle Kouthull Cotton BBr* '"od an<l ? hope that I' very I ?f,? *"1 ?"k* ?onic contribution l." ,un'1 lhe coming yt.ttr. I .onus I Were (ranted to 14 girls for the pssll year and In addition five girls were sent to summer school mak *? ? total of II tlrls receiving ??i_ i? la . source of gratification >o know that there are a number L . who' but ,or timely ?Id tlven them through this fund, y" be*n denied the prlv fj* of ? college education, .i.t ?,ad), of cltlienshlp In each '?""' ""he request of your pros "?"I' ?'??>? have put on "> what way can w? better prove our loyalty to our "?* ,h* b?' r L. . w ?" being urged by our State president to use the hsl-l '"'?i -'that It Is a aacred trust which must neither he neglected EI/ST".! "!" "hl,h m Hit he owed for the glory and advance ment of our 8tate.' - ^ of fl*e History! the Federation have been sold. Ish that this history might be Un?TrZ CLnb Mrs. Cot ten has put inlft it best self, her nisture Judg _ her wit and humor, snd of all. her keen sense of fslr deilghtful love snd nntir for a cause thst lies to her heart, snd I csll on to efface your leyaltr hy plac th is book among your trsas-] MILES OF WATER PIPES LAID HERE Installation* to be Com pleted in Two Month*; Why Lights Went Off A total of 89.000 feet of water ? pipe ranging from four to 12 Inch-! es In diameter have been laid In the course of the utility Improve- , ment program begun last October, according to J. C. Parker, super intendent of the power and water plants here. Added to this, 12, 4 00 feet of water pipe have been i taken up, making a total of 102, i 200 feet handled ? ju?t about 20 miles! There are still to be laid 16.125 i feet of water mains, according to ; Mr. Parker, who estimates the I work will be finished in about two months. This latter footage ! includes two 2.800 foot lines, one from the present pumping station I to the new plant, and the other as I an Intake from Knobbs Creek to | the new plant. Also, a line 1,900 feet long is to be laid from the site | of the plant to Creenleaf street, to 'supply that part of the city. Repairs are under way on a gen erator at the present plant which short circuited and burned out . yesterday morning at 11:30 o'clock. The failure of this gen erator caused the highly apparent i shortage of street lights last night. | Mr. Parker stated repairs probably .would be completed sometime to-, ? morrow. Alleged Purveyors Of Liquor Sought By City Police A police campaign against ne gro bootleggers operating ou the outskirts of the city was launched Tuesday morning as the outcome of a bearing in recorder's court ir. , which Manley Spellman, colored, was fined ?5 aud costs on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, 'and an additional |5 and costs for I participation in an alleged affray. I James Burnett, also colored, (the other participant In the en j counter, was let off upon payment of the court costs. It appearing jthat Speliman had been the ag gressor. Burnett admitted freely that he had become very drunk before the fracas began, failed to the stand under the prohibition statute, he told In response to questioning by | Prosecuting Attorney I^ltoy that I he had obalned his liquor from a Ismail store operated by one Mm ' ray, having bought two pints from a. girl named Sarah, who worked j In the store. He testified that he ihad bought liquor also from Mur ray himself, about two weeks be i fore. A colored girl, who also had ! been arrested on a charge of be ing drunk, but who was dismissed by Trial Justice Sawyer on the basis of evidence that she had not ; been out of doors while in that . , condition, told under threat of Jail that she had bought liquor [from one Alphonao Small, grur.d- ; [son of "Aunt" Cynthia Smith, who 1 Is employed as scrubwoman In [many downtown stores and [offices. ? Thus It wss that police went ' : out after court, bent on arresting! (Murray, the girl Sarah. Small, and | other bootlegging suspects. [EPIDEMIC DANGER IN FLOHIDA HAS PASSED West Palm Beach, Fla., Sept. ^ | 28. ? Belief that all danger from' | an epidemic in Florida's hurricane J area "has passed has been ex- ' i pressed by doctors, nurses and re-, illef workers In a score or more 'communities Jfe the path of the I gale. * I Timely warning by the press, ! [Ideal weather. Mtrfefle efforts of! | doctors and nurses and responses! [of the populaco to Immunization J efforts, has fast minimized tht? i danger of epidemic, according to j Doctor William R. Itedden, ni'dl I ral director of the fled Cross. | ! tired ones for your benefit and for j those who come after you. "Now, In closing, I wsnt to say I that every club woman with 1 whom I have come In contact has 1 ' given to her district her loyal ser- j | vice and to mo her wholehearted! I support. This fact has brought1 I me happiness In my work and. my j I friends, my heart Is yours In grat- . I Itude, and I beg of you to let your I hearts Inspire what your hands execute, for no truer words have I | been iipoken than that the hands I ean never reach higher than the! I heart. Whatever t is yours, putj 1 your Ideals Into It. "Lofty Ideals, hard work, and) | rigid honesty have never known ! failure.'' PROHIBITION IS I HARD MEASURE ! BY STATISTICS Keeords of Arrests Before' Prohibition in Effect Not Available Nor How Much Money Spent BUSINESS BETTEK Money Once Spent for Li quor Now Finds It* Way to Retail Merchants of the Nation By DAVID I.AWRKNC'K 1 m, s, T?. Hani WashinRton. Sept. 28. ? When' the never-ending argument 011 prohibition conies before Coignaa! again ? ax it inevitably will ? rhe ' question of what are ami what are' not convincing at a tint lea will be j debated. The latent reports Issued by the Moderation L?ague declaring that the Volstead Act has failed and J calling for a return to temporance . is based almost entirely on the the ory that arrests for drunkenness measure the effects of prohibition. Several sociological studies are in progress to determine other factors considered just as import ant. The unsettled questions are these: 1 ? Were all the arrests before I prohibition went Into effect tabu-, lated? , How many vagrants and 0 hers taken to station houses for: disorderly conduct were really due to intoxication? 1 2 How much money was spent! in saloons throughout the country I as compared with the amouuts ! now said to be expended in the purchase of Illicit -liquor? 3 ? How many Individual pur chases of Intoxicating liquor are i actually being made by different individuals as compared with the: number who bought intoxicants! before the Volstead law was passed? On these point, l, the determl- 1 nation of the advantages and dis advantages o( prohibition likely to "?made by Impartial tribunal. The government la In possession I of aome of the facta because the Internal revenue bureaus were, obliged to keep a record of Ihe taxes collected. There has been ] ST!?1" dr0p ln th0 '"venues from this source. A, yet no stalls have been produced showing the of liquor being iiATi d. vio 'allon of law. The withdrawals of liquor from bond ed w, rehouse, for legitimate pur posts some of which may hav? been unlawfully sold Is still grow ?" year "nd '? no evidence to ahow that consumption ! of liquor from this source com- 1 pares with pre-war consumption, I As for the Illicit Importation of I liquor through the Canadian and Mexican border, and from the rum running fleet, on the Atlantic 1 and Pacific Coaats. S?.rn ment has an approximate Idea or tno amount coming in. The total Imported Is considered relatively 1 "mail considering the number or persons ultimately consuming the I supply. j ,lere do not doubt that drinking has Increased with cer- J lain classes and that social evils j have arisen which are directly due Vol of enforcing the Volstead Act. But .here 1. no ev Idence a. yet that the total num- ! for ln,?J', W,ho """" n.oney Ia,. _ " b'',or*1 ">?' Volstead 1 compare, at all m.I.a ." "m"ller number now be '4,"d 1 b? consumlng ||quor ob. | ta nod for lawful as well as unlaw ful purpose., .,Jh" bure?us of the Gov ernment il.tere.ted In studying! I 'he growing prosperity 0f the r-'7 ""V moreover |? p???. ?Ion of much Inform. lion lending Jo ahow that retail .tores have a. - m.*n.)'.7"",lp"ed """r b"?lne?s by many times over their pre-vol.tead much of*?? " accumptlon I. that I,,?' '5? money which at one lime found Its way Into the .a vdr*w'r "ow '? (>elng n Purchase of all sorts of retail merchandise. BELIEVE MEN ARK STIIJ, AIJVE IN MINE Ironwood. Mich.. Sept. 28.? In dication of life, from the rock bound eighth level of Pabst Mine where 43 men were entombed by a aha ft cavern last Krlday. Im bued the rescue crews today with a do or die apirlt. The flrst Indication came with a distinct nlKnal on the water pipe In reply to staccato hammering*. HURT PASSENGERS EXPECTED RECOVER ttethlehem, Pa., Sept. td.? En couraglng reports came today as t<> condition of the two acore paa aeng??ra and trainmen Injured here yesterday In the craah of the Cen tral Railroad of the New Jersey Seranton flyer and the Lehigh Val ley midnight limited In which' nln* person* wrre killed. Thirty-four of the Injured re main In the hospital today. All were expected to recover. WHITE MEN ARE HELD GUILTY ON LIQUOR CHARGE Arrest of Three 011 Nuis aiiee Charge 1 .rails to Li quor Raid and Destruc tion Big Still Near Sligo ON POYNER'S ROAD There W an Home Paul IVu itt Where Defendants W rrt* Arrested and From Which Path I^ed to Still Currituck. Sept. 28. ? A "enss lug parly" at the home of Willi? Bank* on Poyner'i roail last Wed nesday night net In motion a train of events thai landed Paul Pruitt. Bruee Burgess, and Willie Denby in tho Currituck County jail In tpe wee small hours of Sunday mottl ing and brought them In recom er's court Monday as defendants before County Judge Newborn On charges of creating u nuisance and of manufacturing liquor. All were found guilty of the liquor charge; but 1'rultt only was found guilty on the nuisance charge. Though the court withheld Judgment In the cast; of two of the defendants charged with maktug liquor, every , defendant noted an appeal In each case in which he was found guilty and all the evldonce is due to be sifted at the next criminal term of Superior Court in Currituck Coun- i ly which convenes ou the first Monday In March. The arrest of these three defen dants on a uuisance charge and the subsequent raiding of Paul Prultt's premises which resulted In the discovery of a small quanti ty of liquor in various containers about the house and of a still In the woods back of the premises seems to have been a sort of se quel of the theft of a Ford road Bter, the property of 11. T. Temple, ifrom the yard of the home of Wil j lis Banks at Bllgo, un Monday night of last week. The automo [ bile was later found In the woods | north of Snowdon station stripped of Its front wheels and tires artRI burned to the chassis. How It Started No arrests were made In connec tion with the theft of the car; but a report current In the Sllgo com-j munity linked the three defen debts before the recorder Monday and Paul Prultt's brother. Prank Pruitt, with the alleged crimo. The car was discovered on Wed nesday morning and on Wednes day night Bruce Burgess and Wil lie Deuby went with Frank and Paul Pruitt to the Willis Bank's home, seemingly to have it out with Mr. Bauks and other mem bers of the household for spread- 1 lng a report that the four had stol en and burned the car. Frank and Paul did all the talking and. according to the evidence. sln-j gled out for most of their abuse Mrs. Jennie Hughes, sister of Paul Prultt's wife, using most profane and Indecent language In address-1 ing her aud keeping up a coutiti ual tirade of It for half au hour, more or less, though Temple, boarder at the home, and Burgess, and Denby all tried to get them to hush up and leave the home. Armed with a warrant sworn out by Willis Banks for the arrest of the two Prultts aud of Denby and Burgess on the nuisance charge, Sheriff Bob Flora went to 1 the home of Paul Pruitt shortly after midnight Saturday night and placed Paul Pruitt. Burgcs* and Denby under arrest. Pruitt and Denby were in the house, and ' Burgess had a bunk In the barn. Frauk Pruitt was not to be found and has not yet been arrested.1 With the sheriff when he made the arrest were his sous. W. C. Flora. 1). I. Flora nd H. B. Flora. Two of the party went to the back door when the sheriff knocked at the front and observed the strong odor of corn whiskey sbout the premis es and four sacks of sugar and one of meal on the kitchen floor. Aftor the arrests had been made and the three prisoners, unable to arrange bond, had been lodged In Jail Deputy Will Flora told his father of the evidences of liquor on the premises snd the party, ac? j companled by two more deputies, returned to the house to investl- ' gate. The RnIiI for Mquor They (Uncovered two five gallon hottlen containing small quuntltle* of liquor about the premise* and a pint bottle nearly full under the neat of Paul Prultt'a motor track. BnrmistnR thai Frank Prultt'* absence wan due to a trip to Norfolk or Home other point t'* dinpoNe of the lant run from a atlll, the sheriff* party waited for dawn (Continued on page 4) Mf*K4'Mlj MUTIM. T(?NI(iHT MKMRKKH JI'MOIt OHOf.lt The Junior Order will hold a apeclal meeting tonight at * o clock In the Junior Hall In tin Kramer Building. The Chanel lor, fleorce Water*, aakfl for a full attendance at thla meet Inn. a* mat ter* of much Importance nre to cone a p. "You'll Get What You Pay for" Engineer Jess Ford Declares, Discussing Clay-Gravel Roads "You'll get what you pay for; i and you can't expert :i $25,001).. road for $7,000 to $8,000." Thus did County Highway En gineer Jean Kurd summarize the! situation. wh<>n intcrvloiri'd. Tuea- [ day ax to the m?*r it?* of the clay g ravel roadbuilding material which the Pasquotank Highway ; Commission is considering tenia- I lively in an effort to give tl?e ? County a* many milts of autisfac torv roads as possible at the low eat practicable cost. While making it plain that he . wasn't advocating any particular ? type of road, and that he didn't intend to try to run the Highway i Commission, Mr. Ford expressed his opinion freely as to the clay gravel type of road which is un der consideration. 1 1 ?? explained that that type was still in an ex- J perlmental siat? . hut had be? n found to hold up very aatisfactor- 1 1 1 v for -three years. He explained that the clay srav- ? el was given a penetration sui fac ing of an asphalt substance, in the nature of an oil. and that when thus treated, the surfacing could be renewed. If necessary, at a cost of $f>00 to $K00 a mile, Ilg- . urcd on a width of 14 feet. "If for any reason this kh>d of road falls to prove satisfactory," ! FLORIDA NEEDS MORE MILLIONS Klizalx>lh Cily People Arc ? Urged Jo Give Generous ly to the Diittreaned An urgent appeal for aid from Elizabeth City folks for the strick en thousands in Florida Is voiced by John H. Hall, Jr., chairman of jthe local chapter of the American .lied Cross. Mr. Hall reports,' add ' Ins that more money Is critically needed in the storm swept area. I In presenting the appeal. Mr. Hall points to figures received .from Nation headquarters of the American Red Cross, setting forth 1 that whereas $.r?.000.000 is need ' ed for Florida relief work, only a ' Utile over $2,000,000 has been , subscribed thus far. Supplementing the plea of the Red Cross. President Cool Id ge has Issued a proclamation calling upon the people u I the United Stales to icome to the aid of Florida in her 'emergency, and the United Rtutes Chamber of Commerce has Issued a similar appeal to the business : men of the country. KIDNAPPING IS CHINESE REPLY (ihu'H (Jmrgr* Aiwwrretl Providentially Diploma!* Are Declaring By JOHN Cit' NTHF.lt (CopyrltM. IWI. By Th# AlMKf) i London. Sept. 2H. ? The kidnap ping of Freeman Davis, head of (he China Inland Mission, sta tioned at Chowlakow. by rctreat | Ing soldiers of Wu Pel Fu's disin tegrating army may prove more serious than the gunboat episode on the Yantse Itlver. British of ficials declared today. It appears, according to meager news, that the province of llonan has been the scene of the worst 1 pillaging of the whole revolution, culminating In an attack on C'how klakow, 230 miles from Hankow, the burning of the town and the wholesale massacre of Its inhab itants. It Is feared that Mr. Uavh and his wife may be killed. In the opinion of British off!- 1 clals this outrage Is ?? complete answer to the speech delivered at Oeneva Friday by the Chinese delegate. Chu, In which the Brit ish were held up as murdera of hundreds of Chinese In Yangtze frays. Chu'a charges were so outrag eous. in the opinion of diplomatic circles generally, that the Chow kiakow incident comes almost providentially from the Chinese themselves as a perfect and com plete answer. Cheklang officials are reported to be ready to dessert General Sun Chuan Fang, overlord of Cheklang and four other eastern provinces. 1 and Joins the Cantonese, thereby affording General Chiang Kai Fheh. tlv* Cantonese commander, easy access to Shanghai. Canton Is sending two hundred students here for the purpose of organizing resistance against Oeneral Hun. Many recrul'lng stations are al ready being on^rated In the native city by Cantonese. Authorities placed In office by the Cantonese in the captured area are pronouncedly anti-Brit ish afVtf antl-Chrlstlan They ar* doing their utmost to stir up the worst feellngw of the populace ' The military commanders have re celved atrlctest orders, however, to protect foreign life and prop- ] erty. | Mr. roril u tided, "you'll have a goo d foundation for any other Kintl <>f surfacing you may want to use lutt-r. And jrtin ran build IWrtlly miles ?r clay-gruvt 1 Hiat - al the rate of two and one-halt nill"s tii out* mill- of nine-loot con crete. from ll><* ntandtwlnt <?l C"ll',. explained lliat the Highway ' Commission had tinned to clay gravel :i> a l.tn-iilhlf itoliltloll "I the problem o( giving the County j the mileage dolled. on roatli. cti rylng relatively light traffic, while hi ill holding the cost to a mini mum. Tile Commission "?? ?"n mltted a tentative program t.l road construction ub ii basis fo: a possible request to the next tien eral Assembly for authority to is sue an addUioual quarter of mil lion dollars' worth of road bimd ItoiireHcntatlvc J Kenyon Wll son also Is studying "If road que* lion ai clout' range with a view to lb" practicability of day-travel " this County. Otherwise than to sav that he did not intftid to n?U Iho General Assembly to authoi the suggested bond Issue until it'* had become convinced of the art vlsablllty of building tho type of. road ? decided upon, be has inaut no public statement on the mat IMOYOCK FAIR | ON THURSDAY Animal Event I.acts Thru I Friday With Many New Features I Moyock. SeptT^*"- ? Tl-.e fourth 1 annual Community Fair at Mo rock will be held Thursday and 1 Friday, September SO and October ! i. . T E Browne, State director or I vocational education, will speak Friday morning at eleven o clock. .The entertainment committee a?K? that everyone gel their J*1 time to enter the "Hon and Chick en Calling Contests.'' to be Btagcd Ion Friday afternoon. All commlt i lees have been busy diirlnn Iho past week advertising the dlffer 'ent departments, and their re ports Indicate that all depart menls will he well represented this year In spite of the P?rcr crops in this section. The BM Iter Babies" contest will be held on Thursday this year. A regular dinner will be served i by the "Parent Teachers Associa tion" as on previous yoars. ! The officers of the fair Invite I visitors and assure them of a cor i dial welcome. I A special picture as part of the I entertainment for the fair will lie Shown Friday night, entitled The i Enchanted Hill." Youths Sentenced To Terms on Roads Camden. Sept. 28. ? Willie I Crock more and Jam"* i owers. youths who pleaded Utility In Su perior Court yesterday afternoon to a charge of having broken Into 'the smokehouse of J. bo*an Saw Iyer. prosperous farmer living in South M ill* township, and to hav ing stolen a quantity of meat val ued at $76. were sentenced to four months In Jail esch. to be worked Ion the roads. Evidence In the case was l hat Creekmore ami Powers took the meat to Norfolk and sold It. sus pecting what hud become of It. Mr. Sawyer traced the meat to Norfolk, and subsequently pro I cured warrants against the pair. Ab Sanderlln. colored, convict ed on a charge of reckless driving. I was fined S25 and costs and was required to pay a bill of for, repair* to another tar figuring In thn accident which resulted In hi* arrest. . , ! A divorce w*n granted one col ored couple, in an action brought by Joe Simmons against Lovle ; Simmons, on statutory grounds. ! Arguments were concluded late, 'in the afternoon In a case In which Willis Harris and ^ Williams both colored, were charged with having broken Into the garage of James Meggs. In Bolcross, and with having stolen four automo-j i bile tires. ? . ' Harris was found guilty, and jwas sentenced today to four months on the roads. Williams wan acquitted. This case was the Isst on the criminal docket. I The first civil case tried was an action In which W. ?. Berry. Bel cross merchant, sued Herman Newhern. prominent Camden County farmer, for $1#" alleged to b* due on s store account In curred In the operation of s farm Jointly by Mr. Newborn and lk* Fisher. Mr. Newhern contended that the bill was Incurred by Mr. Fisher, who Is said to be out of the Stats at present l.lk?* the criminal docket, the civil cases to be heard at this term of court In Otndeii Include little lor nothing of general puhllc Inter i est. VOTERS MAY GET OVERTON'S WILL CHANCE AT TWO IS CONTESTED IN LEADING ISSUES CAMDEN COURTS Interest in November Klee lion llri^lilninl by l'o??i hilily of Siil>mi*?ion of Two Krfcrrnduinti K KG I STK ATIOIN BECi I NS ( on nly (loiiimi^ioni'^ l?> U't People Deride ('ourt lioti*e Mailer; May Vole Alwi on Itouri Bon<]fc Tin* docks are being cleared f??r i lie November election. Despite I he fuel thai this In an "off year." when the four-year officeholders have nothing Immediate lo worry over, there are unusual elements of fntcr^'in the event. with some fireworks In prospect." In common with those In other count Ich. all qualified voters In ! Pasquotank County who are nut already on the registration hooks III their respective precincts are urged to register Saturday between 9 o'clock In the morning and auu Met. or on one of the three hiicc ced ing Saturdays between the hours stated. j (!. A. Cooke, ehairman of the County Hoard of Elections, au nouure.H that the registration hooks w 111 be open on the above dates nt the polling place* where the Democratic primaries were held In June. He designates qualified vo I lent as all who are 21 years old or over, and all who will beeome 21 on or before November 2, next. In order to be qualified to vote, the registrant must have lived In the State one year, lu the County ! six months, and In the voting pre 1 clnct four months. In the election to be held No , vemher 2, Pasquotank County vot ers will have one issue to decide, in addition to selecting their va rious County officers. That Issue is whether the County should build a new courthouse ut this ' time. After long deliberation prompt ed largely by a sharp remluder of their obligation In the matter from Judge Henry A. Crady. at the March term of Superior Court, the I County Commissioner*, having dis covered widespread sentiment un i favorable to the erection of a new 'courthouse, decided to leave the matter to a popular referendum. The general opinion is that an adverse vote will bo recorded on There has been some talk also of a referendum on the matter of j asking the next (ieneral Assembly to authorize an additional bond Is sue of $250,000 for improved highway construction. Thus far. I however, this talk has not gone ' beyond the stage of desultory spec j illation, and so far as has been | disclosed, the I'asquotank lllgh wuy Commission has not taken It I up 'seriously. Itecently the highway commis sion announced a lentutlve pro gram for Construction of twenty nillew of gravel roads in extension of the nine-foot concrete feeder highway system now Hearing com pletion. In general, the program as announced apparently has met with popular approval, though there has been expressed differ fence of opinion as to the advisa bility of building gravel roads, largely revolving about the ques tion of their permanence. In the event that this question, too, is submitted to the people In the November election, It Is re garded as a foregone conclusion that the two referendums would1 far overshadow in public Interest the election of the various candi dates. by reason of the overwhelm ing Democratic majority In Pas quotank. which practically assures the election of all the party's can didates. smith iuvVominatkd Syracuse, Sept. 2K. Democrats of New York State today unani mously and for the fifth time nom inated Alfred K. Smith of New York City for governor. The nom ination was accompanied by s demonstration of tremendous en* thuslasm. Ogden U Mills of New York City was nominated an candidate for governor of New York Stat" at the ftcpuhllran state Convention In New York City today. AMKM FOR HKAPhANKH Tsllahaafc, Fit., Sept. 2#. Ad vised by the pensneola Naval Air station that no seaplanes were available there, Governor John \V. Martin today nppll^d to Secretary of the Navy Wilbur for two sea planes from another station to as sist In the recovery of bodies In the Moorehaven hurricane section. Uncle Sam's soldiers lead the life of tourists at Kllauea Military Ileal Camp, the playground for the Hawaiian division of the army. Army men have ten day leaves that they may take advantage of higher altitude and cooler climate there. Sequel to he Wrillon to Li tigation Which Einbh ter?-?l l.u?t Years of Ec centric (Mil Farmer (;ham)I)aT(;mtek sues Mrs. Mary lthudni, Seeking to Break Will, Stand* Chance of Being Cut Off With Only 810 A sequel to the litigation which embittered the last years of the late Charles Overtou. wealthy and eccentric furm<-r living In a re mote scciloti of South Mills town nhlp. Camden County, la about to ho written in the Cumden Courts. | Mrs. Mary Rhodes, youthful and attractive granddaughter of the aged inau. In plaintiff In an actio? In which whe seeks to net aside his [will, whereby he stipulated that she was lo t?hare equally with Mr*. ; c. L. Albertson, who was reared in his family but Is no blood rela tion to him. in the division of the cxl ensive pkIuic which he left. The will expressly provided that If either heir undertook to break it. that heir was to receive OSUT the hiiiii of $10. \\J Alleging that her grandfather was being subjected to undue Ur ' fluence. and that he was lucapaWS of handling his affairs. Mis. Rhodes brought proceedings ne fore Clerk of the Court W. J. B?* Kess and a Camden County Jmry last year. In which she sought to 'have a guardian appointed Tor Ihlin. She won the action before the clerk, but Overton and Mrs. AlbertHon appealed to Superior Court, and succeeded iu Betting that Judgment aside. The case was heard before Su perior Court Judge Thomas H. |(!alvert at Camden Courthouas | last September, and attraciaA more attmilou than any other civil action lu Camden County ? a generation. The stuffy HttW courthouse auditorium was packed for several days, while the evi dence was undented, with crowdi ' outside vainly seeking admittance. Finally the defendant htmaelf took the stand, bending under the weight of his eighty-odd yeara. When direct examination had been concluded. he withstood calmly and equably a withering volley of questions fired at him in croae-? aminatlon by counsel for ths I plaintiffs. 0 Impressed with the lucidity of Overton's answers. Judge CalveTt threw the case out of tho court, ?expressing the opinion that the de fendant had Just about as good sense as anybody in tho court room. and appeared entirely oaf able of looking after his own at A few months after the trial, Overton died. Besides the proviso that tne 1 granddaughter and Mrs. AlbeTt son were 10 share equally In the aged man's estate, the will provid ed that the latter's husband ,*M ? to serve as executor without bond. In her action to break the will. Mrs. lihodes also Is alleging that this is evldenre of Incompetence on her grandfather's part. Bile claims further that the will la un just to her for the reason, she ?[ ileges. that Overton gave Mrs. Al bert son two of his farms before he " Ail Camden County Is awaiting 'expectantly this renewal of llttay i t Ion over Overton's property, whleh comprised some half a doi en valuable farms In the South Mills section, near the" Virginia line It had been thought lih**J I hat the cas.? would btf reached during the term which began 8 t i Camden Courthouse Monday, with Judge It. A Nuim, of New Bern, presiding. This appears Improb able now. however. Indications being that It will of necessity be postponed lo a subsequent term. CALL LAST WITNESS IN daiighehtt case New York. Sept. 18.?' Tha pros ecution culled its last and eigh teenth witness in the Oauahertf Miller conspiracy trial today. Richard Merlon. German metal magnate, who testified he John T Kin*, late K< publka* National Committeeman from Connecticut. $4 41,000 for the re lease of the $7,000,000, Impound-, ed enemy shares, was the last wit ness called. He also was the first. Merlon was recalled to give the def^ns'' opportunity to further cross examine him before he sa?w tomorrow for Oermany. COTTON MtHKKT ^ New York. Sept. 28. Cotton futures opened today at the fol lowing levels: October 14.10. De cember 1 4 . 4 *?, January 14.41. March 14 72. May 14.80. New York. Sept. 28. Spot rot Ion Closed quiet, middling 14.70, * decline of 10 points. Future* Ian. 14.42, Mar. 14.83, May 14 88. ...