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nmtyve The Weather r Local thundershower* tonight and Tuesday; Moderate South west winds. VOL. XVIL FINAL EDITION. * ELIZABETH CITY. NORTH CAROLINA MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 1, 1927. SIX PAGES. NO. 181. BOARD TAKES UP BOOST IN SCHOOL TAX LEVIED HERE Commissioners Hoar Mrm boi of Board of Trustees and Other*, Bui Defer Ac tion on Request SCHEDULE HAPPED State Basis of Salaries Dp dared Inadequate; Ap . propriation of (400 | Granted for Convention Lengthy presentation of a re quest from the Board of Graded School Trustees for an additional lax levy of ten cents per $100 property valuation to finance the operation of the city schools for the approaching term took up moat of the morning session of the Board of County Commission ers Monday. The commissioners took no action on the request oth er than to agree to give It careful consideration. * The State schedule for teachers' salaries, adopted aa a basis for the distribution of the annual school equalisation fund, came in for severe criticism during the ses sion. Dr. 8. W. Gregory, chairman of the Board of Tnssteee. declared emphatically that the schools could not fee run effectively on that be ats. and othera concurred with him. The Increase requested would bring the annual levy for school purposes in the Graded School Tax District up to 55 cents per flOO property valuation. It was explained. Presentation of the^tt uaiion was opened by Attorney J. C. B. Ehringhaus, himself a mem ber of the Board of Trustees. In emphasising the need for the added assessment. Mr. Ehring haus cited the fact that $12,000 In bonds must be retired anuually now, the first Installment having fallen due last year. He and oth ers declared alao that 'it was im possible to employ effective teach ers on the basis of the State sched ule. The school administration ol Ashevllle was cited in the discus " sion. Mr. Khringhaus declaring that that school employed teach ers on a basis of three times the amounts prescribed in the State schedule. Others speaking In behalf of the proposed Increase included S. L?. ftheep. former superintendent of the graded schools; J. ?. Jones, present superintendent; M< P. Jennings, superintendent of the rural schools in Pasquotank; and Dr. C. B. Williams, a member of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Wil liams, who also Is county health officer, cited the fact that there were more than 600 cases of i measles and whooping cough in the county during the later part Of the past school year, and that that had a material effect in re ducing the average dally attend ance, one of the bases upon which the State schedule is worked out. Superintendent Jones and oth ers pointed out that tt was neces sary to provide facilities for the maximum number of pupils lu the acfcqols, and that therefore the av erage dally attendance Was got a fair basis tor the apportionment of Mtml lull Superintendent Jennlnga, of Ike rural KhooU. tendered statistics ?bowing tbat only II of North Carolina's 100 counties bad school taa lerle. aa low aa Pasquotank'.. Ho eipresesd donbt whether there w?? another city In the Stale com parable In slse with Klliabeth City tbat bad a rata aa low aa r tbat here. ,, At the close of the discussion, /lbs Commln,loners beard a dels gallon asking for aa appropria tion of 9400 to corsr the com oti entertaining too or more dele-| ?ates to tbs annual cobt.dlion of tbs Americas Sojr Bean Anocls-I tton, to rlalt Klliabntb CHjr and the toy bean farms la this rlclat 1 y on Thursday. August 11. Tha requested appropriation wai granted. The dstsgstlon. beaded by (tec-1 rstsry Job, of the Chsmber of Coainteroe. Inclsded 8. O. Scott,I Ullss Rrtte. W. C. Hons, Ell.bs Coppersmith, O. o. Markhsm and olbsr. wko sre Mathers of s fen-! sral commlttse on entertainment for tbs association. | VK K 1 HKMH'AI, (COMPANY INt'HKANKH DITIMMDf Oreenaboro, Am. 1,?(API ? ; The Vlck Ohemloal Company to day announced an Inerttw In Ita dividend of from ?J 00 to |4.?0 a ?kare The net profit* of tk? con , Ban; for tka year ended Jan* ?0. k 1927, vera com | pared whh IMil.m.M dnrlnc the prevloua year, the rompany'a annual auteaent ahowa. The company earned li.ll ? akare on IU capital ?tock of ???;-, ??? iharea. Tke dividend payment Of )4 a abare rapraeanta about 10 per cent on th* value nf the itoek when It waa aold an tke curb KMrtot eomn year. ?|o at 141 a [flare end la nb?M 7.It par cant B baaed on iha praaaat market val i?U6n of irTKCI fit ? there. Graphic Picture Of Lake Michigan Ship Disaster In Which More Than 40 Lost Their Lives This remarkable telephoto picture gives a graphic rlew of tho excursion steamer disaster In Lake Michigan, a mile off Chicago, which took ? death toll of 17 Utes. The Favorite, a small excursion boat, wu? carrying 76 peop le out In to the lake to escape the oppressive heat, when a sudden squall struck It. Most of the passengers ruahed to one side of the boat to escape the rain. This extra weight on one side and the strong wind caused the boat to tip over on Its side. The craft then righted Itself, but sank so that only Its smokestack and top deck were visible as shown In the picture. Ufe guards rushed to the scene of the disaster and were able to rescue some people who were clinging to the wreckage. The arrow paints to a group of the rescuers taking the body of a womsn out of the water. In this group Is Johnny Weissmuller, world famous swimmer, who aided in the rescue work. The picture was taken froo* a boat chartered by NBA Service, wh Ich reached the scene of the dlaa ater shortly after H occurred Chamberlin Takes Flight From Deck Of Leviathan Tetterboro. N. J.. Aug. 1.?i (AP)?Clarence Chamberlin. enV ed bis flight from ttati steamship Leviathan lo Tetterboro Air Port today at 10: SI Rastern Daylight I time. The flyer, who hopped off "the ? flying bridge/' on the Leviathan at 8:16 thta morning, off Fire Is jland, ftm landed at Cnrtla Field. Lonn Island, because of fog. After 'a short atop he took off again at ,10:30. i New York. Aug. 1.?(AP) ? The United States Line reported at 10 o'clock this morning that Clarence Chamberlin had alighted at Curtlaa Field after taking off , from the deck o( the tyner Levia than off Fire Island at 8:14. Chamberlin had Intended to fly | to Tettersboro, New Jersey, but fog cauaed him to change his mind and land at the Long Island Fly ing Field. He announced hia tn ! tentlon of taking the air shortly again to fly to Tetterboro. The United States Lines said I that as soon ax Chamberlin land ed at Curtiss Field he telephoned | the shipping office to report that the flight was a complete success. ' He said that he could have gone on to Tetterboro, but as there was considerable fog and as there was I no necessity for running any risk I he desired to come down at Cur tlas. | Chamberlin reported that the take-off rrom the speclsl runway on the Levlathlan was even better than he had hoped for. Raleigh Preparing Welcome Heroes Of The Gray Raleigh. Aug. 1.?(AP)?:Ra lolgh today prepared to receive with open arms the veteran wear trs of the gray, who tomorrow will come here 800 strong to hold their annual three-day State en campment and reunion. The van guard of the now feeble Confed erate battle forces was expected to begin arriving tonight. State College dormitories have been thrown open as quarters for the veterans snd Itslelgh clt (sens have cooperated to. make the reunion a pleasant one. A whirl of entertainment leaving! but short space for bresth-taklng and transaction of business, will i hold them until Thursdsy evening when the gstherlng ends. Convention badges, bearing the likeness of General Smith, will be worn by the veterans. Free trans portation will be provided for the mar oh-weary heroes of the loat cause. A historical pegegnt, "Wo men of North Carolina In the Con federacy," Wednesday will be a feature of the reunion. * FROM DROWSING Greensboro Aug 1?(AP)? Having gone down fo* the second time. Paul Wyrick. 83 year old young man who Uvea op Rout* 7, waa near drowning la Reedy Fork Sunday afternoon when he wasi rescued by R. F. Walters, of this ttl?. I This Will Spoil My Shape, But Here Goes! ??? to *bo?t twl?* tk* ala* Of Mortar* moth, bat ah* donn't car*. Shell Mt It whoV r* tardl*** of th* *H?t It will har* on h.r *)*nd*r aha**. Whan th* *(t <*ta aboat halt down Mil break anyhow, *o why b* (awr! Mortal Is a Dtlot soak* and harmlaaa They're Hiking to See Coolidge t?w Ik"* ??>*"' OB'r a.1" ? I?,. .t.rt.U * ??? w mn, .Mil to r!?bt Ih.r ?"> R,r"'k"?' "? "d SS ttmm Many Car Lights Found Defective Approximately 400 avtomobllM have been tested here for defec tive lighting etnce July 1, when the new State law on the subject became effective; and not more than two per cent of them all here been foand to comply with the law. It was learned here today. A fixed charge of 76 cent* Is made for teetlng automobile lights. This, of coarse. Is eaclu live of sir expense required for' additional equipment that may be found neceesarjr. Testing la being condactod both day and night at the plant of Harrison 4 McCoy Kast Colonial arert*e; Bailey'* Filling Station. Kast Church street; and at the Spence Motor Company. South Road atreet. Motorists traveling In other Darts of North Carolina In recent weeks report having been stopped by State offlcea bent on determin ing whether their lights were ad Twenty Casualties Naval Maneuvers' Tokyo, Auk i.--(AP)?Twen ty officer* and men were killed or wounded during aural maneu vers off Kluaht Inland this room Ing In tha explosion of three! mines and on the middle deck of the mine layer Taklwa, says a dis patch from Klufthlu. skikth mm cukahki} UUK MKN'.h THOt HKItH London. August 1. ? (At*) ? Trouser creases are the latest among the fair acx of Londons smart set. The creases are Ironed Into the j skirts of sray?flannel gaits now; popular with Mrltleh society wo-: men, and run from waist to h?m ' on each side. Despite the '"trous er creases," however, dressmaK#? rs about the suit A gray felt hat. worn with the outfit, baa a wide brim and to Of-1 pamented with a silver fcarpta, i Nashville Officers Search For Negro Who Escaped Naahvllle. Auk. 1.?(AP) ? Ntih County officer* and civilians today continued their search for Paul Bledaoe, 30, negro, alleged assailant of a 13-year-old girl Sunday. Tho negro, who was ar rested, escaped officers when he asked that the car In which he was being brought to Nashville, be stopped In order that he might bo allowed to "get oat and pray." He fled, and nas not been seen since. The negro waa near capture oarly this morning when members of a posse csme upon him not far from Bailey, In as abandoned shack. He was attempting to free himself from the handcuff* ap plied when he wss first captured. .Ha dashed for a #door, however, and, knocking down several men, 'eluded capture. I At noon today the posse had 1 been Increased to nearly 200 men. [heavily armed. Violence was ^feared If the negor wan captured. Illedsoe In described as being 'five feet, ten Inches In height; kald-headed; has a scar on his head, and knee haa been cut. He waa formerly employed by a farm er Hrlng near Bailey. Mt'ft-'PKRlt HTROKK Joseph Baker, sbout 10 years old. was anconsclons Monday af ternoon at his home on Sixth street after having fallen on tlie street In front of the store of 1>. It. Morgan * Company at II: IS o'clock. Pollca Officer Frank Wlnslow went to his asalstance, snd called I>r. C. B Williams, wfco stated after an examination that he had suffered a stroke of paralysis. HI* condition was re garded an serious. -Mf. Baker suffered a similar stroke sboat two ynars ago, aad Is declared to have been In poor healt* since. He formerly was a watch repairman SEVERE STORM HTTS RALEIGH ATNOONTODAY Electric Current IHerupted, Telt-yraph und Telephone Service Hindered for Sev eral Hours ALL OVEK STATE Cloud*, Kain and Murky Weather Generally Pre vail Throughout North State; Kelief From Heut Raleigh, Auk. J.? (AP)?A se vere electrical storm hit Ralelxh at noon today. The elcctrlc cur rent was disrupted and telegraph and telephone service hindered j for aeveral hours. Scudding clouds, more or less rainfall and an obacurtnK niurki neaa gripped the major portion or North Carolina, this morning, af- j fording relief from the sweltering heat of the past several days as ' the mercury dropped apprtclably while low-hanging clouds hovered . over head. Reports from widely scattered portions of thu Slate told of lead- [ en akiea and intermittent rains which were general uud Indica tions aoemed to point to little | prospect that Old Sol would put in an appearance for some hours i at lcaat. During the night virtually ev ery section of the Statu experi enced a decided change In temper- ! *ture as tha aides, threatening for ! the past 3t? hours gave forth rain-1 fall of varying degrees of intens- | ity. The populace awakened this j morning to find it cool, deapite the grim murklness. Saliabury, Hickory, Raleigh, High Point, Gaston la, Greenaboro and many other localities expe rienced rain with heavy skies which seemed to point to a day of Intermittent drizzling. Heavy showem fell at Gastonla yester day afternoon. Charlotte, whore tho sun and Jupe I'luviti* waged b*tte for s? premacy throughout the morning also was threatened with steady drlisllng, though Inconsequential rains. Two hard downpours yes terday sent water gushing down the water mains and gutters and threatened to extend Into the night. SEEK TO MINE GOLD IN HALOOLPH COUNTY Raleigh, Aug. l.-(AP)?Ap plication of a concern for KOld mining operation! In Raldolpb County la under conalderatlon by the State Corporation Commis sion, whose decision will be based, on the complete report of State, Geologist II. J. Dryson, according to I. M. Hal ley, assistant to the ; commission, today. The appllca-, tlon was filed July 27. IIryson's preliminary report Is! favorsblo to the enterprise. It Is loarned. It has long been known there are rich Kold deposits In Randolph County, showing a larg er gold content per ton than In the Alaskan fields, Bryson says. It Is the plan of the concern making application for a charter, to use modern machinery In place of the old hand methods formerly In use In North Carolina opera tions. It Ih understood here the! capitalisation of the oorporstlon Is' In the neighborhood of f300,000.! Leads Strike Whan I ha cm company la Wich ita. Ka?, decided to ralaa Iti rataa, the elty'e Federation el Women'a Ctuba, headed by lira. John Maltble (abora) called a ?" atrlke. A day waa aat aside to kaep tha ranges idle, and a Sur rey showed that It par aaat ol Wichita's 20,000 boffiee buroad no (as tor 14 honra. Nov koaaa wl?e? hare decided to make arory Tae*Ur tfcls sumaaar ? ?*t, ? - BEALL^ CONFESSES Franklin. La.. Aug. 1.?(AP) ?James llpadk, one of the three defendants In the Lebouef mur der trial today made a eonfesslon to Sheriff Charlee Pecot. the sher iff announced. Sheriff Pecot Bald Deadle ad mitted beinK prevent when Jamei L. Lebouef wai alleged to hare been Hlaln. The sheriff declined to give any more detail*, explain ing they would be related when ; he took the witness stand. Announcement of Beadles con fession followed a request by him j In open court for separate counael to represent him. Doth Mrs. Lebouef and Dr. Decher are alleged to have made statements accusing Desdle of firing the two shots which ended Lebouef's life. Nine Chickens Land Negro On Roads Four Months Found guilty of having stolen eight pullets and a rooster from a j neighbor, Eleanor Wlnalow, col ored. on Roanoke avenue, David Overton, also colored, was sen-, teneed to four months on the ?on-( vlct road force of Beaufort Coun ty after a hearing before Trial! Justice 8awyer In recorder'a court [ Monday. Overton,' who has como Into oc casional clashes with the law In the laat few* years on sccount of | various alleged pllferlngs, la re-| membered In court circles here as| the victim of a nearly fatal shoot lag episode seversl years ago, when he was shot down while being par-| sued by a party of police officers| who sought him on a charge of having stolon a bog. The wound nearly proved fatal. In the chicken matter, the Wlnslow woman testified to hav-| Ing Identified nine fowls In a coop; at the homo of Michael Payne, | Htorekeeper, on Southern avenue,! as the ones that strangely dlsap-J pearod from home last Tuesday, night. Payne, called to the stand as a State's wltneas, declined to Identl-1 fy Overton positively ss the negro J from whom he claimed to have bought the chickens, but said he "fsvored" him. Chief of Police Holmes testified Overton admlt tod having sold a number of chickens to Payne after having been arrested Saturday, claiming to have brought them from his own home. Overton, on the stand In his own defense, undertook to place the responsibility for the alleged theft on another negro, but failed to explain satisfactorily how he himself was so well Informed on the subject. Jacksonville does Aid Of Waycross Jacksonville, Pla., Aug. 1,?! (AP)?la reeponse to a telephone request from Waycroes, an englnf from the Jacksonville Fire De partment left here this morning at Ave o'clock to aid in combat ting flames reported to be threat ening the busineM section of the Georgia city, according to Acting Chief K. H. Zoller. The engine which was de spatched under the command of Captain A. A. Peacock, was ex pected to make the SO < mile run In Iosh than two hours. Waycroes. Oa., Aug. 1 (AP) ?Fir# starting la the kitchen of the tixchangp Hotel here at four o'clock this morning, destroyed seven business establishments In the heart of the city before It was brought under control. Fire fighting apparatus, hur ried here from Jacksonville. Wor lds, assisted In quenching the blase which threatened the whole buslnesa district. The lo*a was net estimated. SKWHPAPKII HOLD tliru,?Aag. 1.?<AP>?Thai Polk County News of Tryon today Cseed from the hands of I^ouls hman. formerly of Charlotte, UT%. D. Lyons Of Chicago. [CONFERNCE IS DOOMED UNLESS MIRACLE COMES Delegates May Quietly Agree to Separate or Thtre May Be Showdown Wednesday or Thursday JAPANESE SATISFIED Krenrh Who Are Observ ers and Not Participating Hope Tlut the Confer ence Disbands Quietly Geneva, Swltserland. Aug. 1.? (AP)?That nothing abort of a miracle can prevent a break-up ef the Three Power Naval Reduction , Conference before the week end*. 1 either by a quiet agreement among the delegates to separate or by a ahowdown In the plenary session called for Wednesday or Tharaday, was the gencrsl Impres- 1 ?ton prevailing In Geneva today. ,'-j The fact that the plenary ses- j alon, called for the "treaty at any I price," party, which haa adherents . i la all three delegationa but the postponement waa not to the Ilk j lng of the experts of the British ! and Amerlcin delegationa whe hold that there can be no recon | clllng of the Brltlah and Americas I viewpoints and to feel that notfc-. lng can be gained by delay. The Japanese seem satisfied. In their opinion If Great Britain and the United Statea separate without an accord on limitations and if the latter particularly atarta a big building program Japan would be hard put to follow ault. Amoni ? number of National* " of countries which are not parti cipating, the opinion Is expreMtff that the conference la being al lowed to drag on too long. French observer a feel It would be unfor tunate to permit the parley to col lapse In public aeaslon and that H would be Infinitely better In the Intereet of good international, re lations for the delegatea to ihm' League of Nations Preparatory Commission on disarmament, | when, earlier in tho year tfcaf^, failed to agree -on the text of a satisfactory draft treaty on a gen eral reduction of armaments. ? <i The week-end saw a qulckenlag of Individual efforts to effect a, compromise on the crucial cruiser problem, on which the fate of the conference hinges but nothing de veloped to warrant even the slightest optimism. It la maintained by the Ameri cana that they havo nothing to 'ear from a public aeaaion. Hugh 8. Gibson, head of tho American,, delegation haa let it be known that, unleaa a way to prevent s rupture la found in dlscusslOM that take place among the pleni potentiaries between now and the plenary session, he will set forth the American view point and then recommend that the conferences adjourn on the ground that no good could come of further ; nations. CLUB GROUP IS HOST TO COUNTY OFFICIALS Members of the Board of Coun ty Commissioner* and of the County Board of Edvcatlon. to gether with civic club officials and others, were guests at noon Monday at a luncheon glren At the Chamber of Commerce by 14 members of the Pasquotank Boys' and OlrJs 4H Clubs who took part In the recent short course at State College, Raleigh. The club members had pre^ pared a delicious luncheon under the direction of Miss Edna Evans. Pasquotank's home demonstra tion agent. Daring the luncheon, prises wpre awarded to the t< members who tendered the b<_ written reporta on the trip rtrst prise was won by W. Hni Held, City Route Two, and ond prise by Miss Elisabeth pie, of Newland township. Tl prises were ?> and 9*. respective ly. and were presented by County Farm Agent O. W. Falls. During the luncheon, membef# of the party, who went to Raleigh in two school trucks tendered W: the County Board of Education, described the trip and express*# the appreciation of the grodp to the County Board for making It possible for them to attend. The short course lasted from July 11 to II, Inclusive. AiMl'MKH NEW IX TIKM Halelgh, Aug. l.? (AP)??!*?$ j Morrison secretary or the WtdBi ly authorised tax commission, day opened offices on th# floor of the Htate Revenue Ru Ing, and prepared to actively sums his new duties. Assisting Morrison will be A. Lelnster, gtatesvilie, who secretary te U. 8- H#nator mons when the North Cfti Henator was chairman or the nance committee at Wash Mprrlson is from Greensboro. British newapapar* erge4 3 slgnment of Lord Balfour to Geneva disarmament confer* Mafle somebody over there trying to Boh peaCe.
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