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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1917
Page
3
Through an association with several American newspapers The Roanoke Rapids Herald is represented worldwide by about two hundred photographers. More than one hundred are with the armies and navies of warring nations. The best and most interesting pictures taken by these photographers will be reproduced weekly for Herald readers.
Noted medalist Theodore Spleee-Sinson creates the World War I entry commemorative medal. Gold copies have been presented by Miss Anne Morgan to President Poincare of France, Premier Vivien, and Marshal Joffre, along with Sarah Hembardt. Government bronze replicas are being sold by the American Fund for French Wounded.
Spain exports about 90 percent of the cork it produces. A New York inventor's cleaning rod aims to navigate around tight bends in household plumbing. Four working railway construction crews across Australia stay connected by wireless telegraphy. Siamese fishermen use boats with low sloping white sides to frighten fish into leaping into casting nets.
French ecclesiastics formerly professors and scholars at the college in Rome receive War honors including the legion of honor and medals for service at the front. Rev Father Joan, a seminary professor, is noted among the honorees as a tall soldierly priest returning on leave after years of combat, seen on the Pincian steps in Rome.
Private Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr son of Col Cornelius Vanderbilt has enlisted in the ammunition train Sixth division United States Army New York National Guard division The item notes Sunlit dispatches and reports from Petrograd and describes hullabaloo around a patronal convention and the Nevski Prospekt as the Highway of Happiness It also covers heath hen declines on Martha s Vineyard and American gold coin re minting in Mexico with two Mexican ten peso pieces produced from a single ten dollar American piece
The paragraph compiles scattered notes on U S airplane production growth, Roman army size, a new electric switch, the brown rat origins and spread, Argentine aeronauts crossing the Andes, rising motorcycle and bicycle use in Siam, iron ore in Australia, sand soil value, Texas reclamation of overflow lands, the Levites in the Bible, global rat origins, nettles for war textiles in Germany, and rat tail muscle function.
Revised bill 18 reported to the Senate Bi Finance Committee in final form as the war tax measure moves toward a potential enactment. The measure outlines funding provisions and allocations for wartime needs with budgetary controls under Senate review.
The finance committee finalizes a war tax bill in Washington providing about $2,000,000,000 in taxes for war expenses and no new bond authorization. It raises $149,000,000 more than the prior total, with a $827,000,000 larger levy among corporate incomes, individual surtaxes, spirits, wines, bank checks, and various goods. Senators LaFollette Gore and Thomas push for a higher levy in a separate report. The corporate income tax rises to 6 percent, with additional surtaxes affecting individuals earning $15,000 and up.
Washington a ruling by the post office department shows that department officials will make few requests for exemption from military service. Postmasters are instructed not to ask for exemption for cartiers or laborers or for clerks in second class offices below the 1000 grade, clerks in first class offices below the 1100 grade, or any above these grades unless they are qualified distributors of mail. The ruling constitutes the first formal action by an executive department in compliance with President Wilson's order directing that department officials render exemptions and that the requirement of indispensability be rigidly enforced. The postal ruling aims to free valuable employes for war service. The civilian mail carrier force, numbering thousands, many within draft age, is excluded from exemption unless for physical reasons or dependency of families. Rural carriers are included. The department’s ruling in regard to clerks leaves railway mail clerks within the exemption class. Provost Marshal General Crowder moved to reduce exemptions due to dependent families. Instructions were sent to state governors noting that the minimum pay of soldiers is now $40 a month and local boards must consider whether a man’s dependents could be supported on that amount.
Washington announced that American soldiers at the front now receive malt without interruption due to a United States postal agency in France. A corps directed by Marcus H. Bunn handles mail at the base post office, Paris branches, training camps, and the American port of debarkation.
One hundred fifty men gathered at Rock Crossing on the South Canadian River on the Seminole Hughes county boundary to plan resistance to the draft. Roy Crane, a local agitator, was arrested at Yoldenaville while carrying a grip filled with ammunition.
Wellsburg West Virginia report says aviation student B Lambert of Welch was killed when the engine stopped and the plane fell three hundred feet. Instructor B L Frey, a Royal Flying Corps member, accompanied Lambert and was injured with likely serious injuries.
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