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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1920
Page
7
The subcommittee approved a plank on the subject but the full committee disapproved the action, returning the matter for further consideration. The record notes no question being taken and cites a decisive full committee stance against the prior subcommittee recommendation.
After a long debate the Democratic platform committee voted down a plank pledging diplomatic recognition of the Irish Republic and rejected a subcommittee proposal to leave the matter to the League of Nations. Frank P. Walsh urged recognition but was not allowed to present his case in closed session.
The article reports Germany's total debt announced as 65,000,000,000 marks. It also notes Georgia's Senate rejected a Woman Suffrage Amendment by 19 to 16 and mentions a parachute descent record by Sergeant Bottreville near Dayton, Ohio with 19,500 feet claimed. Congregationalists from many lands attend the decennial council.
1921 campaign notes describe Senator Harding recording a speech on Americanism and Governor Coolidge delivering on law and order. Harding emphasizes American duty, unity, and continental stewardship while Coolidge calls for deeper faith in the people and government endurance. Article closes with a note on Germany’s debt and Spanish tobacco monopoly.
In Mexico City the Carranza government reports that all persons charged with rebellion before May 7 have been liberated as the regime fell. The move comes amid a Decennial International Congregational council with nearly 3,000 delegates from 13,000 churches worldwide.
The city asserts control of the Omaha Gas Company plant and operations. A separate report notes a Marine Corps payroll of 59725 dollars was stolen from an express car on a Charleston and Western Carolina line near Augusta Georgia. A Denver report details a minister's marriage in Cincinnati.
Omaha Neb reports the city has seized control of the Omaha Gas Inspection and Collection plant and will operate a municipal facility in the future. The acquisition was funded by a five million dollar bond issue.
The 29th internation convention of the Baptist Young People’s Union of America opened in Toronto with over 1,800 delegates from every state and province present. The Texan Company was denied an injunction to stop Georgia’s inspection and fee collection on such acts by a federal district court ruling by three judges.
New York reports that in compliance with a long-standing request the ashes of Mrs. Sarah D. Brown, who died last week, were scattered over the statue of Liberty from a seaplane.
Washington Freight congestion and car shortages force the Shipping Board to seek coal and fuel from open markets as complications arise in the murder case of Frank Case near the Wyoming Nebraska boundary. General Peyton C. March and staff allegedly discuss board jurisdiction while New Jersey appoints a new highway commission.
A threatened strike on Richmond street car lines may not occur as the council committee on streets recommends 6 cent fares. The measure now goes to the city council for adoption.
ROTC cadets at camps this summer will be taught life saving and swimming by the American Red Cross first aid bureau in Washington. Fifteen formations reported by Secretary of War H. Conner outline underwriting marine ventures by three insurance syndicates to cover up to 2,500,000 dollars in risk. Courses will start July 25.
Five hundred iron puddiers failed to report for work at the A. M. By era and Brown Incorporated mills in Pittsburg. H. B. Rees, vice president of Amalgamated Associated Iron, Steel and The Workers, said they would stay out pending a wage dispute settlement at Columbus between union representatives and employers.
Chicago professor Stanley L. Ry pens of the committee of 48 again asserted that as a member of the military intelligence service he opened mail of a state official, despite denials. He said the official was not Breckenridge Long, though he refused to name the secretary involved.
In Trenton New Jersey the state highway commission saw its head and upper body removed from office leaving the rest of the mission in Nebraska. A new board was appointed by Governor Edwards after six actions, fulfilling one campaign pledge.
Aurora Nebraska Robert T Meyer found guilty in district court of violating state law regulating foreign language instruction in Nebraska schools. He was charged with teaching German during school hours. Meyer fined 26 dollars plus costs.
Cuban cane growers council votes with sugar mill owners and brokers to halt sales of 2,180,000 sacks of unsold sugar. Mayor Garner and Count Bajnotti’s will tie up a trust of 10 000 dollars at 24 cents a pound, directing none to be sold except through a committee acting on behalf of a 20 year old Providence heiress.
The U S Army hospital at Oteen will be known as O Reilly General Hospital in Asheville, honoring Major General Robert Maitland O Reilly, surgeon general from 1902 to 1909, per Washington advisories reflecting a war department policy.
Washington reports Wilson supporters study North Carolina’s available leadership to back the woman suffrage amendment. Letters are being sent to North Carolina Democrats to determine who is best suited to lead the president’s effort when the legislature convenes next month.
Berlin Chancellor Konstantin Fehrenbach, head of the new German government, declares in the Reichstag that Germany will honor the Versailles treaty but will seek modifications through external policy if former foes do not consent. He emphasizes fulfilling engagements while pursuing possible changes.
State health inspectors indict six Laurinburg residents for failing to comply with sanitary privy law aimed at preventing typhoid fever and summer complaints. John F. McNair, a major Laurinburg property owner, is among those resisting sanitation. six defendants were fined at Norwood as inspectors pursue complete observance statewide.
Stormy San Francisco committee session opens with fights over prohibition and the Irish question as Bryan allies clash with dry forces. W Bourke Cochran serves as chief spokesman for the Anti Saloon League while Bryan defends ties to the league amid heated charges and protests.
A public letter by William G. McAdoo appeals to labor groups to act energetically and unitedly against re-establishment of reaction. It responds to John J. Munholland of the metal trades council who said 145,000 wage earners endorsed McAdoo as the Democratic nominee. The letter stresses safeguarding the rights of humanity above property while protecting each right within limits.
The Tennessee Legislature will convene an extra session on August 9 to consider ratification of the federal suffrage amendment. Speaker and capitol officials announced the date and purpose for the special session.
A 72 hour strike order affects 18,900 workers across 30 mills in the federal district and State of Mexico. The Universal reports the labor action as a major disruption threatening regional textile production. Flour prices fall 30 to 50 cents per barrel in Minneapolis due to a wheat market drop.
A Helsingfors dispatch reports two thousand British Austrian German and Finnish prisoners of war were drowned when a Bolshevik steamer sank recently in the Neva River. A Reuters Stockholm report appears to confirm the incident.
New York delegates to the International Suffrage Alliance Congress in Geneva last month returned on the steamship Lafayette led by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, and Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of the secretary of the Navy.
Deputy United States Marshals guard gas and electric plants, car barns, and rolling stock of the New Orleans Railway and Light company as plans begin to offset a street car strike at midnight involving 3,000 men. Jackson barracks soldiers will be called if violence occurs beyond federal control.
Miss Laura Clay a Kentucky delegate and descendant of J Henry Clay interrupted a caucus of women delegates after Cum mings speech was endorsed. She attacked the league of nations portion prompting an uproar before order was restored and the speech praised.
Kingston reports bandits raided Port au Prince, Haitian capital, with several buildings set ablaze. Passengers arriving here quote a secret effort to overthrow the Haitian president being directed from abroad, while revolutionary sympathizers fear American vigilance on the island.
Gaston B Means and Mrs Mary Melvin renewed their legal battle over the late James C King estate. Melvin, sister of Mrs King, died after a bullet wound in Concord North Carolina. Means, her attorney, faced trial for her murder as the case hinged on an alleged will later deemed spurious by the county probate court.
Representative Lehr bach of New Jersey protests the Postmaster General Burleson ruling that Civil Service retirees must retire at age 70. Lehibach, a writer of the wet, argues the law allows employees aged 70 or older to remain in service.
Capital stock of 80 million is provided for in the charter of Liggetts International In Ited Inc, granted by the commissioner of corporations. The company is to engage in multiple lines from drugs to livestock, manufacturing and real estate, and is understood to be a holding company for the United Drug Company's foreign subsidiaries.
The War Department notified Senator Simmons that Lieutenant Frederick Manning, son of Attorney General James S Manning, is aboard a ship that sailed from Brest on June 2 and is due at Hoboken around July 15 or 16. Manning, attached to the Fourth Trench Mortar Battery, died of pneumonia after arriving in France.
The governor has not replied to President Wilson’s appeal on the equal suffrage amendment. He said he hopes the Tennessee legislature ratifies it but opposes woman suffrage for North Carolina, joking that taking his medicine will not taste good. Sir Auckland Geddes to address Southern Newspaper Publishers in Asheville on July 25.
A private disclosure shows a 26000 dollar fund for a girls building at Thomasville Baptist Orphanage. The Orphanage Day audience heard the annual address by Raymond Dunn and 21 girls plus one boy received diplomas. Trustees noted per capita costs of 16 dollars monthly, up from five years ago, and a 65000 dollar increase in the general fund. Mrs Haywood of Durham donated 10000 for a kindergarten, with a separate 25000 fund privately disclosed for a girl’s building. Kinston weighs a near million dollar school bond.
North Carolina counties Mecklenburg Cabarrus Catawba Iredell and Rowan report 33078 acres under organized drainage through December 31 1919 with nearly 500000 spent. Separate notes reveal federal allotments for vocational rehabilitation and public health work, a surge in army enlistments, and political moves shaping state education and tax plans.
The Mecklenburg county census by Hugh McAuley for the Department of Commerce shows more than 300 manufacturing plants within Charlotte city limits. Also noted is a notable saving of 28,573.20 over the department’s annual 20,000 appropriation in Dr. Perry Ahrons Waka County Health Board report.
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