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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1918
Page
6
A concise digest covers major global developments across seven days. Leaders, economies, conflicts, and diplomacy are highlighted with emphasis on key actions, meetings, and shifts affecting international relations and markets.
A sweeping look at national wartime measures and Southern upheaval. Delegates push for packing plant control led by John Pitrick amid labor federation activity. Reports of drownings in Tampa and a $62,000 bank robbery case at Camp Funston surface. Fuel, fertilizer, and coal restrictions hit industry as government orders close plants and shift production. Draft and registration moves stir policy debate as Britain urges end to annexation.
Mr McAdoo and Wartime officials push drastic measures to streamline rail and shipping networks. The fuel order aims to move food and war matériel to Allied forces abroad. munition plants face closure while prioritizing essential cargo and continued operations at key yards. Renewed focus on rail and logistics, with public figures urging speed and efficiency amid strategic shortages.
The Herald's Review compiles a record of important state events at Raleigh and across North Carolina, detailing legislative actions, civic milestones, and notable occurrences reported for Herald readers. The article emphasizes political developments, public notices, and key moments shaping the state's progress.
Dispatches describe state actions to curb hoarding of food supplies and enforce Food Administration rules. Officials warn of penalties for excess purchases and urge distribution of surplus, with Hoover calling on graduates to aid in production and distribution. The piece notes sugar pricing limits, per capita school fund apportionments, and anti hoarding campaigns amid wartime shortages.
State Food Administration officials urge universal savings and substitution to boost exportable supplies for Allied forces. Governor Page and colleagues tout daily rationing steps, bakery cereal rules, and individual duty in sustaining European civilians and soldiers. A North Carolina base hospital plan, a burn victim in Kinston, and a large eagle sighting in Lenoir follow in the same regional notice.
A historic political crisis in Austria sees half the cabinet resign as the nation faces shortages of food and rising tensions. Retailers limit outlets to drug and food stores while the public calls for peace amid the upheaval.
Amid war weariness and food shortages, Hungary and Austria face mass unrest. Count Czernin’s resignation highlights a broader push for peace without annexations as workers protest and government reshuffles loom. In the United States, fuel restrictions shift as officials seek to move coal, clear freight, and prevent outages during wartime.
Senator Stone delivers a sweeping attack in the Senate as Republicans challenge the administration’s war conduct. Amid warnings of political blowback, discussion turns to food price controls with a draft bill granting the President power to fix essential goods for war and domestic needs. House Agriculture Committee members led by Representative Lever hear the plan, with Lee of Georgia, Haugen of Iowa, and McLaughlin of Michigan also present.
The Constituent Assembly is dissolved by the council of national commissioners and the central committee of the works and soldiers deputies. Bolsheviks and left social revolutionaries left the hall after voting against the declaration. A decree dissolving the assembly will be published. Tauride Palace to be closed to members and reporters.
A general strike across Austria reported from Paris via Telegraph dispatch, with 190000 workers in Vienna and Nowytad quitting and closing war factories. The movement is described as openly anti German and aims at peace, with public demonstrations reported in many places.
An Atlantic Port reports MP Murphy, formerly head of the organization abroad, arriving and declaring that American soldiers in France will lack nothing when real fighting starts, noting a line of warehouses behind the front to be seized by the troops.
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