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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1921
Page
7
Raleigh reports the largest hazing outbreak in State College history with several freshmen rooms entered and heads shaved. No arrests made yet. grand jury convenes April 11 to consider charges under state statute.
Commissioner M L Shipman plans using a $10 000 state appropriation to expand employment work in North Carolina. He aims to establish local offices in major cities, funded by local support, with federal supervision and existing office equipment. Previously Wilmington Asheville and Charlotte offices placed many job seekers weekly.
A sprawling report covers German unrest led by communists in Prussian Saxony and Hamburg, the Kapp era echoes, and Polish German tensions in Upper Silesia. It notes U S League of Nations debates, British policy on oil rights, and looming prohibition challenges tied to Walworth decisions and a Supreme Court case.
Tokyo says Japan will take necessary steps to defend its rights if the Far East republic transfers Kamchatka. Viscount Uchida reports protests and five demands to Chita have not been accepted. The claim affects concessions to Washington Vanderlip and signals a shift in Bolshevik policy in Moscow.
Greek forces in Asia Minor push east of Smyrna hinterland as Turkish Nationalists face supply shortages. Athens fears Turkish collapse into Soviet hands while Premier Lloyd George urges readiness for a general election. Heavy postwar unrest spreads from Hamburg to German politics and relief efforts.
National Live Stock Exchange and Cleveland Provision Co file complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission over alleged failure to publish tariff rules and seeking 50000 dollars to cover costly charges. White House announces recess appointments John J Bol to ICC and Dwight Le Davis to War Finance Corporation as Congress set to convene April 11. Prohibition debates and wartime honors loom as Debs and Bergdoll cases surface.
Reports detail a Ringgold vault break in with dig through a brick wall and two masked robbers, a Denison post office messenger forced at gunpoint, a Brunswick murder conviction of George Washington Knight, and other crime notes. Also listed are railway labor board actions, a Lexington warehouse fire, a Pensacola balloon disappearance, and the death of Cardinal Gibbons.
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