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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-07
FLEETS TO CLASH
IN SHAM BATTLE
U. S. Warships Expect Real
istic Combat in South
ern Seas.

BY the Associated Press.
SANTIAGO. Chile. February 7.-Ad-
miral Hugh Rodnlan, commander-in-
chief of the United States Pacific
feet. which left Valparaiso on Satur-
day. had his vessels in battle forma-
ton today in preparation for it's sham
engagement with the United States
Atlantic squadron. The fleets We're
expected to meet somewhere off the
northern coast of Chile.
In a wireless dispatch to President
Alessandri Admiral Rodman has ex-
pressed his thanks to the Chilean
government and people for the recep-
ton given the ships and their per-
sonnet. and wishing the chief execu-
tive and administration marked by
national prosperity.
We leave your coast" read the
message. with renewed admiration
for the high qualities of your people
and conviction of the strong senti-
ment of friendship which they hold
toward people of the United States
EXPECT CLASH HOURLY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-07
FIND CAVE OF SKULLS.
Believed to Indicate Earlier Race
of FiHpinos.

MANILA. P. l.. February NEARLY
fifty skulls, believed to have belonged
to people who inhabited the Island Of
Masbate. one of the Philippine eroup.
Just south of the Island of Luzon, at a
much earlier period than the present
Filipino race. were found in a cave re-
Gently on that island by DR.. W. D.
Smith. chief of the mines division of
The bureau of science of the Philip-
pine government.
1t Is the belief of DR.. Smith that
the location of the cave was not
known to the natives of the island
being far from any habitation.
Besides the skulls many primitive
implements of carpentry and warfare
were collected and brought to Manila.
THESE consisted of stone hatchets,
axes. scrapers. pipes. pots and a
strange amulet Deer teeth and shells
were also found in the cave, leading
Or. Smith to the conclusion that the
primitive cave jewellers lived by hunt
ing and fishing.
Prof. II. o. Boyer of the anthrono-
ioglcal department of the University
OF the philippines. who has the skulls
ana other relics brought from the
cave, expressed the belief that thay
belonged to the early Indonesian nao,
pies VINO emlgrated to the Philin-
pines In prehistoric times. Some Of
the skulls also were found to he ar
tificially deformed, custom Of do.
forming the head artificalIy hav;no
prevailed in some parts of t,urnna =,
very early times. III
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-07
In to SlO.98 Mems Trousers, $4.7e

Odd lot of Mems Separate Trousers. tine qualtE
materials including blue and green hanneis ana
cashmere and worseds; sizes in the lot from )" 10
42.-FirSt Floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-07
TAKEN IN WATCH THEFT.
Three Men Accused of Particina+
ing in $4,000 Robbery

NEW YORK. February 7.-Three
men were arrested here by naval
intelligence agent on charges of hav-
ing received some of the 1900 gov
eminent stop watches valued at
$4,000 stolen from the New York
navy yard last summer. The prison.
ers gave their names as Joseph Nc
Cam, Henry AlIrich and Joseph w.
Freeman, all of this city. Mccain
was held in $1,000 bail, and that of
the other two was fixed at $4,000
each.
The other men, Nicolo Iorio and
Milton Smith, arrested on the same
charge two weeks ago, were held in
$4,000 bail each for further hearing,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-07
GUARDS HELD IN MURDER.
Thirty-Day Man Turns on Them
With Rake-Shot Kills.

ST AUGUSTINE. Fla, February
Frank Quigley and Raymond Pa
cetti, convict guards. are being EeId
on charges of murder as the result Of
the killing Of William Murphy of Will
mington, Del, who was serving q
thirty-day term.
1t is charged that Murphy was
beaten by the guards because of
slowness in performing q task, that
he turned upon them with a rake and
then a shot was fired which ended
his life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-07

Nassau-Take ~F1orida Speeialn
to Miami. Tfi-weeaiy sa0nss. Atlantic Ooast
Zine. l41s 81 st. a.w. Tsl. Main 7eoo.-Adver-
HSement,
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24
$1,000 FOR A NEW
FOUR MAST SCHOONER
That's What Roanoke Islanders Pay For
What's Left of Beautiful Ship 4

The big, four mast schooner Laura
\. Barnes which went ashore off Bo-
dies Island on the North Carolina Coast
two weeks ago, worth probably a half
million dollars before she stuck in the
sands of Currituck beach, has been sold
to group of Roanoke Island business
men for a paltry $1,000, according to
reports reaching this city. The pur-
chasers are said to be headed by Theo.
S. NIeekins, of NIanteo.
But the purchasers will not realize
anything like the worth of the ship. The
ship itself can not be saved. The pur-
chasers must content themselves with
salvaging the schooner's fittings. But
even at this they will recover a good
ly sup. The ships anchors and chains
alone represent handsome figure. The
ships boats, including one trim new
power launch with a Lathrop engine will
bring good money. And then there is
the ships wheel, compass, sails, rigging.
masts, interior woodwork and rafts of
other movable odds and ends that will
bring up the total.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24
MARKET DAY A
SUCCESS IN WASHINGTON
Housewives Carry Their Baskets To
Courthouse Lawn Every Satur-
day Morning

A farmers market day inaugurated in
Washington, N. c., on Saturday, April
p, and continued every Saturday since
that date has proven most successful,
according to the Washington IN. CO.
Daily News. Every Saturday morning
farmers of Beaufort county bring their
eggs, butter, poultry, vegetables and 9TH
er products of the farm, kitchen and
dairy to the courthouse square in Wash
ington and there the Washington house
wives come with their market baskets
and varied offering of the best the
farmers have to sell.
When it was first proposed to inaug-
urate a farmers market day in Wash
ington there were-many doubters who
declared the scheme wouldn't work be-
cause women who were used to phoning
their orders to the grocer wouldn't
bother to bring a market basket and
carry their own purchases. But the
women do and every Saturday morning
one may see scores of Washington wom-
en-, many from the best homes in the
town, shopping from the farmers
stocks on the courthouse lawn.
Elizabeth City could make even bet
ter provision for a farmers market day
than Washington has done, by utilizing
the open space around the city market.
The suggestion remains to be adopted
and worked out by the Farm Demon
stration Agent or some civic organiza-
ton.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24
FREE CONCERT BY
CHORAL SOCIETY
Public To Be Given a Rare Treat
at Courthouse Tonight

Elizabeth City will enjoy a rare free
musical treat tonight in a concert to
be given at the courthouse by the Eliz-
abeth City Choral Society. A picked
chorus of 25 voices will render num-
Der of selections and there will be sew
eral solos, duets and quartet numbers,
including the Rigoletto quartet number
to be sung by Mrs. Joe Greenleaf, Mrs.
W. P. Duff, L. E. Skinner and Frank
r. Hufty.
The purpose of the concert is to bring
together a large audience of Elizabeth
City people to tell them about the plans
of the Choral Society and enlist their
cooperation and support. AS the Choir
al Society isn't begging for anything, no
one need stay away thru fear of hav-
ing their bank accounts conscripted.
The Choral Society is a community
organization and will succeed or fail ac-
cording to the community interest i1
it. The meeting tonight will better ac-
quaint the public with the plans and
aspirations of the Choral Society and,
incidentally, the audience will receive a
great musical treat for which no admis
sion will be charged.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24
FIRST STEPS TAKEN IN
COUNTRY CLUB PROJECT
Committees Appointed to Canvass for
Members and Locate Available
Sites

Preliminary steps looking to the or
ganization of a Country Club in Eliza
beth City were taken Wednesday after
noon at a meeting of n dozen or more
country club enthusiasts in the lounge
of the Chamber of Commerce. 1t was
the sense of the meeting that no per-
manent organization be attempted until
the city has been canvassed for pros
pective membership and the largest
possible number of people interested.
Two committees were appointed at
Wednesdays meeting. One of these
committees will make a canvass for
memberships, to determine just how
many people are interested. The other
committee will locate available sites. An
other meeting to be called in few
days will determine future action.
Among those present at Wednesday S
meetings were W. A. Worth, G. o. Rob
inson, n Howard Smith, S. B. Parker,
DR.. VIM. Parker, Miles Clark, W. g..
Gather, W. P. Duff, Mrs. f. V. Scott,
Mrs. W. A. Worth and Mrs G. W. Hol-
lowell
W. A. Worth was elected chairman
and R. G. Job secretary of the tenn
porary organization.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24
LOST CHANCE TO
SELL THE BONDS
While Waiting For Aydletts
Orders, School Board Loses
One Chance To Sell

Failure of the Board of School
Trustees of Elizabeth, City to
meet on Friday.4Jape 10, 1921,
forfeited the one opportunity to
sell $4,000 of school bonds and
now there is no buyer for the
bonds. The trustees had a fair
1y attractive offer from a west
ern bond buyer, thru the First &
Citizens National Bank of this
city. But the school board would
not meet to consider the offer be-
cause E. F. Aydlett, chairman Of
the board, was out of town, and
he left no instructions for calling
meeting. There are sixteen
men on the school board and not
one of them seemed to dare to
make a move in the absence of
the chairman. In meantime the
bond market went to pieces and
taking advantage Of the tardlness
of the trustees, the St. Louis
bond buyers withdrew their offer
after June 10.
The indications are that no progress
will be made this year in the matter OF
carrying out the program for an ex-
penditure. of 100000 in the improve
ment of the city's public school system.
Nothing happens to discredit the charge
made by this newspaper that certain IN
terests in this town are not eager for
the expenditure of this money.
Additional school grounds can not be
ACQUIRED or contracts for buildings
awarded until bonds are sold No one
knows where to sell bonds now. The
conditions of former years
will continue in our present overcrowd-
ed school buildings another year at
least. In meantime the suppression OF
the facts and recommendations brought
out in the school survey made IN TINS
city last winter has succeeded to date.
Printed copies of that report were TO
have been made pubic months ago and
the public has been given first one ex-
cuse and then another as to why the
survey was not made public. And now
the public doesn't even get excuses.
The only facts given the public concern
ing this survey were published by this
newspaper and some in authority tried
70 .discredit the work of this newspaper
in that connection.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24
SAT DOWN WITH DEATH
BUT LIVES TO TELL 1T
78-Year Old Elizabeth City Man RecoV-
ers From Stroke of Paralysis


How it feels to sit face to \face with
death for days and resign ones self to
it has been the experience of M. B..
Culpepper, one of the oldest and best
known residents of Elizabeth City. Mr..
Culpepper suffered-a mild stroke of pa
ralysis several weeks ago. He was
speech1ess for several hours and for
days he couldn't use his limbs. Mr..
Culpepper is 79 years old and when one
is paralyzed at the age of 78 the
chances of recovery are not very en-
couraging. But Mr.. Culpepper has re-
covered and is again about the streets,
apparently as sound as ever.
'sBut I thought wouldn't get around
to see my friends anymore" Mr.. Gull
pepper told the reporter this week. 81
always had horror of paralysis and
when it struck me and left me sitting
there helpless though my time had
come But didn't feel a. bit alarmed
about it; I just figured that I had to
go some time anyway and one time
probably would be as good as another" :"
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24

ELIZABETH CITY has succeeded in
securing a director of Community Ser
vice to carry on the work here for the
months of July, August and September
and here is the man. He brings to
Elizabeth City training and experience
in athletics that should win the imme.
diate interest of every redbIooded youth
in town. His other qualifications are
youth, robust health, pep and enthusi-
asm. He is 20 years old, a native Of
Wake county, a graduate of the Uni
Versity of North Carolina, holds several
track records, has worked in athletics
in several schools, was ranking division
athletic OfIicsr at Camp WadsWorth, s.
C. and later General Athletic 0hicer at
Camp Jackson, where he directed the
training of men in wrestling, boxing and
He has coached basketball,
football, VoIley ball and almost every
other popular game. He has had train
ing In the Boy Scouts, dramatics, folk
dances, games, gymnasium, Industrial
work, story telling, pageaRtry, summer
camps and community singing. He is 20
years old and married.
Mr.. Upchurch is expected to arrive
in Elizabeth City Monday, June ~.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24
THIS GRAY BOY is
NOT KNOWN HERE
Elizabeth City Police Never Heard of
Young Desperate Held in
Virginia

No one in Elizabeth City seems to
know anything of Thomas William
Gray, a 19-year-old boy claiming Eliza
beth City as his home, who is in jail
in Charlottesville, Va, in connection
with the burning of a store, many rob-
berries ipe1iding the theft of an automo-
bile, and the murder of an aged man.
The boy giving his name as Gray was
arrested with two other boys at Char
lottesville,. Va. last week following the
murder of J. F. David, an aged watch
man at a garage at that place, and the
theft of a high priced automobile. Young
Gray told the police he was from Eliz-
abeth City, n. c., but the police here
never heard of him and inquiries in many
directions here have failed to identify
the youth. There are several boys miss
ing from Elizabeth City at this time,
but none by the name of Gray.
In a confession to the Charlottesville
police Gray admitted having fired a big
warehouse in Lynchburg, which previ=
ously was believed to have been fired
by stacking lime after a heavy storm. He
also confessed to robbing a cafe near
the fire during the progress of the fire,
making two visits to the cafe, once rob-
bing the cash register and the other
time taking money from the safe. An
other robbery, that of jenkins grocery
store in Lyhchburg, and another of
Hicks store, in Monroe, were con-
fessed, and stuff alleged to have been
taken from these places were recov-
cred.
Gray said he did not intend to fire
the Hutter place, at which fireman
lost his life, when he was electrocuted
by a falling electric wire. He broke
into the place and robbed the office. AS
he was leaving the building he said he
lost his f1ashlight 1t became necessary
for him to strike a match to find his
way out of the building, and this he
threw into a pile of hay. The hay
blazed up quickly, and the boy claims
that he attempted to put the fire out,
but it quickly got out of his control, and
he fled from the building. He went
across the street to the cafe, and when
railroad man came by and said the
Hutter building was on fire he rushed to
a fire alarm box and turned in the alrm.
After the fireman was electrocuted Gray
helped to keep people out Of the street,
managing during the confusion to slip
into the cafe twice to rob it.
Gray claims to have been alone in
the Hutter robbery, and signed a con-
fession, to which he made affidavit be-
fore a magistrate.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24
CROWLEY HAS NO
FEAR OF PIRATES
Coast Guard Superintendent
Scouts Theory of Pirates
Taking Ships Off Car
olina Coast

Theories that Russian pirates
operating with a craft Of the
German U-Boat type are respon-
sible for the mysterious disap-
pearance of several ships and the
wreck Of the schooner Carol A.
Deering on Cape Lookout are
secuted by Capt. R. T. Crowley,
superintendent of the Seventh
District Coast Guard with head
quarters in this city.
All sorts of wild rumors started after
the Deering went ashore several weeks
ago. The Deering, a big five mast
Schooner went ashore in one of the
worst storms of the year. The Coast
Guard could not get within half a mile
of her and revenue cutters could not
get so near, until the storm abated.
When the Coast Guard did reach the
Deering they found no one aboard. Her
small boats were gone, indicating that
the crew had tried to get away in the
storm and had been carried to watery
graves. Capt. Crowley thinks that is
just what did happen.
But few days later Christopher G.
Gray of the Cape Hatteras station
picked up a bottle containing a scrawled
message purporting to have been writ
ten by member of the Deering's
crew. The bottle message read as fol-
lows: "Deering captured by oilburning
boat something like chaser. Taking off
everything. Handwriting crew. Crew
hiding all over ship. No chance to make
escape. Finder please notify headquar-
ters of Deering"
Supt. Crowley who investigated the
wreck of the Deering has seen the mes
sage and the bottle in which it was
contained. He places no credence in it,
since no name was signed to it and it
bears all the ear marks of so many sim
liar bottle messages that are a common
trick of practical jokers and idle persons
who find pleasure in mystifying and ex-
citing the public with such things.
In meantime newspaper men with |
lively imaginations continue to write |
narrowing stories about pirates and |
on the Carolina Coast. Tues |
days News & Observer carried the fol-
lowing scare under a Washington, D. |
@. S1te line:
''Visions of Bolsheyik pirate crews
sailing Cape Hatteras waters in true,
swash-buckling, Spanish MAIN style,
are beginning to haunt the minds of
fisher folk dwelling along the shore. I
Secretary Hoover has been asked to !
take a hand in solving the mystery
of four coasting craft vanished COM
pletely in fine weather. A short time
ago a schooner rammed into the sand
bars at the cape with all sail set and
her people missing. No explanation
of the disappearance has been found.
Now, with three other craft mysteri-
ously gone, natives along the coast
hint darkly at crews of piratical Rus
SLAMS lowering at sea just over the
skyline to seize peaceful merchant
men,
Capt. Crowley says he knows nothing
# four coasting craft mysteriously dis
appearing. His Office keeps painstak-
ng records of every shipping disaster
between Cape Henry and Cape Lookout
The fate of the crew of the Carol A.
Oeering is easily explained in light of
he facts; their was in all probability
he fate of many another gallant crew
hat has tried to save itself in a storm
'efore the arrival of the Coast Guard
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24

Wallace L. Twiford, postmaster and
merchant at Mashoes, Dare county, died
Sunday morning, June 10, at Sarah
Leigh Hospital in Norfolk, where he
had gone for an operation following an
illness of several weeks. He is sur
vived by two sisters, Mrs. S. T. Pinner
and Miss Zanie Twiford, of East Lake :;
three brothers, William Twiford, of East
Lake, w. M. Twiford and Romie Twi-
ford, of Mashoes. Interment was made
at the Methodist burial ground at East
Lake, where Mr.. Twiford's boyhood
days were spent. He was 81 years of
age.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24
STRENGTHENING OUT
CITY'S BOOKKEEPING

A. Lee Rawlins & Co., expert public
accountants of Norfolk are making an
audit of the books of the city of Eliza
beth City for the purpose of unraveling
it's tangled finances and installing a
book keeping system that will enable a
CITY official of average intelligence to
ascertain at any time just where the
city sis at financially. 1t is admitted
that the city's bookkeeping system has
been altogether inadequate and the audi
tors are going back seven years to get
things straight.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24
A SUIT OF PAPER CLOTHES

A suit of paper clothes from Ger
many is attracting much attention II
the show windows-of Raulfs & Cox,
gents furnishers, of this city. Paper
clothing originated in Germany during
the war and is much worn il that coun-
try to-day. Paper twine, such as groc-
ers use in tying up bundles is woven
into fabric that looks like basket weave
cloth and the durability of it is such
that it can actually be. washed and
ironed, tho it is not guaranteed to stand
many washings. A suit of this material
retails for about 81.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24
Hathaway SAYS

If you wear glasses, have
your eyes and glasses both
examined from time to time,
and go to the place whereVou
can afford to pay a reason
able price for real professio-
nal work. Remember your
eyes are your bread-winners.
Take care of them.
You have your teeth ex-
amined twice a year. Why
not you eyes? They are
more important.
DR.. J. D. Hathaway
Optometrist
ohore ooo Bradford Bldg
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN

M. Leigh Sheep Co. announce their
annual Seven Day Wonder Sale else
where in this newspaper to-day This
sale opens Saturday, June 25 and con-
tinues for just seven days. The adver-
tisement is full of seasonable money
saving suggestions for women, sustain
ing the reputation of this popular wo-
mans wear store for sales of merit.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24

North Carolina ranks second in the
enlisted and commissioned strength of
the eight Southern States in the Fourth
CORPS area and only Georgia, with the
big city of Atlanta to draw from, is
ahead of North Carolina.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24

Walter Altman, young Burke coun-
ty man, was almost instantly killed in
an automobile accident near Bridge
water.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24

$1OO bill sent by mail at our risk
brings you THE INDEPENDENT for
eight months. It's your move.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-24

Read 'aThe Man For the Ages" be-
ginning in this issue of THE 1NDE-
PENDENT.
The broad ax., 1921-09-24

troduced by a Negro legislator from
Chicago, a bill denouneing the Khan IN
the Illinois Legislature. This bill was
passed. 1t made an appeal to the cit
izens of Illinois to refrain from join
ing or assoeiating in any manner with
the Ku Klux Khan.
This activity on the part OF the
Negro, in the judgment OF Clarke,
warranted prompt action, and II was
decided to set up a rival organization
to the Society for the Advancement
of CoIored People without delay
Clarke began with a Negro in his own
employ, a man Of unusual intelligence,
who was in charge Of the servants on
his farm on the outskirts of Atlanta
This servant enlisted the services OF
other Negroes as spies and they at
tended the meetings of the society and
reported everything that was said and
done. Also these spies sought to
create dissatisfaction and discord
among the members of the society.
This Negro phase Of the Klan's ae-
tivities l shall deal with in another
article"