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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1922
Page
2
Edward Stinson and mechanic achieve an air record by remaining aloft for more than twenty six hours. The feat highlights endurance aviation and marks a milestone in early flight history.
In Mineola N Y Edward Stinson piloting the Larson monoplane descended after 26 hours 19 minutes 35 seconds aloft near 11 15 a m The flyer from San Antonio Texas retired in bitter cold with fingers frozen and his crew member Bertand deafened by engine roar The story notes his wartime role and family of pilots and describes technical mishaps during the endurance flight and the conditions endured by the crew.
Washington reports President Marding commuting Eugene V Debs sentence rather than granting a full pardon on Christmas in a war law clemency act. Attorney General Daugherty released the text of his recommendations noting the act remains an act of grace not condoning the offense. He said the administration aims to extend leniency to other war law violators with care.
President Harding expressed optimism that the national business situation would improve in 1922. The message, released by the Omaha Chamber of Commerce during an event for traveling salesmen, urged continued strong effort by salesmen in the new year. The note also called for a national conference to discuss practical improvements for the agriculture sector.
In Vologda province a punitive banishment was imposed on No M Kishkin and nine associates of the AIF Russian famine relief committee. Arrested three months ago as they prepared to depart for England to solicit foreign aid, they face exile to Totma and a warning against further activity.
John M. Gillette of the University of North Dakota spoke to the American Sociological Society on cooperative stores formed by farmer combinations threatening merchant trade. In Honolulu a report notes Hawaiian sugar production for 1920 21 fell to 539196 tons, the valley low of the decade.
Washington reports November spindle activity rising with 24 12 days used and an average of 26074 spindles operated that month. State figures show Georgia North Carolina and South Carolina listed with spring totals reaching 1 2 7 9 6 3 0.
French delegates and American participants at Tokyo Paris Washington discussions debated future war risks with Britain. Paris instructed limitation on submarine warships and auxiliaries while endorsing practical naval arms restraint and adherence to international law. Rockefeller’s daughter Edith McCormick seeks divorce from Harold McCormick in Chicago, with report of major agricultural value updates.
Postmaster Gomer Hays announces that new postmasters will attend schooling beginning January to learn public relations, mail handling, complaint resolution, and safeguarding the mails. Central and state offices will designate schools for second and third class postmasters under Ward, First Assistant Postmaster General, as superintendent.
Chicago reports a 1921 peak with 78,278,979 bushels of corn shipped abroad and over 3,000 vessels clearing from Chicago and Calumet river harbors. Imports yielded 9,426,210.48 dollars, slightly under the 1920 high. Billy Sunday meeting set to begin January 8 in Spartanburg with Fred W. Rapp arriving to lead through the campaign after a cold.
A high level plan outlines direct and indirect subsidies to support the American merchant marine. It envisions a $100 million revolving loan fund, tax relief to flag ships, and expanded financing via a shipping board program. Officials warn the plan is tentative and subject to changes before presentation to President Harding.
In a socialists message Debs asserted his Christmas release from Atlanta federal prison was secured by socialist support. He said his lips are sealed and his movements uncurtailed as an enemy of the capitalist class. Debs blamed the administration for his ten year sentence and noted Washington released him. Police reprimanded Debs at Union Station for speaking without a permit before departing for Terre Haute Indiana.
Mexican General Francisco Retna, who played a key role in revolutions in Mexico over the past decade, was executed by firing squad in Nogales Sonora across the border from Nogales, Arizona. He allegedly was found digging rifles saddles and ammunition near Canoga Sonora about 15 miles west of Nogales.
Tokyo reports in The Nippo Jiji that the Japanese interpretation of the four power Pacific treaty excludes the empire’s principal islands from external enforcement. The government states it will handle all internal disturbances on those islands without appeal to other signatory powers.
Washington reports American business houses exported $4.19 billion in merchandise in the first 11 months, while imports were $2.27 billion. For the similar period in 1920 exports were $7.51 billion and imports $5.01 billion, with November exports at $294.5 million against October $343.7 million and November 1920 $676.6 million.
Washington reports that Americans spend between 750 million and one billion dollars yearly on moving pictures. The Senate Finance Committee discussed a high tariff on foreign films during its hearing. The industry employs about 260,000 people, with only 4 percent earning significant profits and 96 percent earning a modest living wage.
Washington Senator Holse Penro ve died just before midnight from heart failure in his Wardman Park Hotel private apartment. He had a heavy cold but walked about earlier, and was found by his physician Dr Roy Adams beside the bed after slipping to the floor. The death was sudden and unexpected.
The Tuskegee Institute annual report shows 64 lynchings nationwide in 1921, with 62 in the South and 2 in Alabama. It records 4,096 mob victims over 36 years, notes 72 prevented lynchings, and details charges and regional totals by state.
C A Leon, serving two to three years for second degree forgery, allegedly forged his way to freedom from the Aldrich prison camp, according to the state convict department in Montgomery Alabama.
A blaze at Biddle University in Charlotte North Carolina caused about 100000 in damage to the Industrial building operated by the Northern Presbyterian church. The fire's origin and full extent were not immediately clear, but officials reported substantial loss to facilities and equipment.
The British auxiliary schooner Messenger of Peace ran aground on a shoal near Ocracoke inlet. Coast guard Captain Walter Yeoumans and crew seized 1 026 cases of whiskey from the vessel. Master A Coleman of Nassau claimed the voyage was from Nassau to St Pierre to replenish food water and oil.
Walterboro Colleton County agents and the Colleton Products association organized a record hog shipment from a 10 mile radius to Richmond markets. 254 hogs weighing 36 235 pounds across two cars show pure bred blood lines and meat surplus. farmers receive net proceeds with no commissions.
The Catawba Securities company of Rock Hill was chartered by the secretary of state with a total stock of $25,000. The firm will do a general stock, bond, mortgage and real estate business. Officers are John R. Shurley president and treasurer, W. B. Klugh vice president and secretary. Authority to increase its capital stock from $200,000 to $600,000 was to Norris Brothers of Greenville.
Dr W H Kelly in Spartanburg describes winter potato planting with straw beds to yield Irish potatoes by mid February. Greenwood reports a Dixie Land company plan to build a large peach packing plant to handle regional orchard output and aid boll weevil control. Anderson farmers plan a 25 000 bushel sweet potato curing house costing about 6100 with a stock company to fund it.
An 11 year old boy Grady Thomas son of Mr and Mrs James Thomas died after a stray 22 caliber gun fired while he cleaned it at home. He died two and a half hours after the shooting despite medical care.
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