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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1917
Page
3
Through an association with several American papers The Roanoke Rapids Herald is represented globally by about two hundred photographers. More than one hundred work with armies and navies of warring nations. This page will reproduce selected pictures weekly for Herald readers.
Robert Rimet statue unveiled in Washington with President Wilson and dignitaries. Jerome Connor sculptor. In a separate Cape Town case a man accused of housebreaking was found not guilty as judge notes the jury spared the law and justice.
Nellie the mascot of Belgium travels with Major Outerteth of the Belgian commission to America. Twice wounded in the trenches she remains in service as the carrier pigeon still delivers messages despite new inventions.
A man was exposed in a club cardroom and kicked from top to bottom by indignant members. He hobbled to the president’s residence to complain. The president advised him to play on the ground floor in the future.
A London Tit-Bits item tells of a parish vicar meeting a former parishioner. After a brief exchange, the vicar asks about the husband’s absence since the honeymoon. The reply notes the husband is dead, framing the remark as a sermon on truth.
Four crew members were lost when an American vessel sank after being torpedoed by a submarine. The incident prompted searches for survivors and formal notices of the ship’s loss.
The U S steamship Orleans was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine. Four crew members drowned while all members of the armed naval guard were saved. The State Department withheld the place and time of the attack. The Orleans left New York June 18 for France under Capt. Allen D. Tucker.
Officials silent on exact method but drawings likely this week. Plan would place a full set of serial numbers in Washington to draft one man from each exemption district as numbers are drawn. About 90 000 men would be drafted per draw and up to 1 200 000 called in first selection under possible system.
In Sioux Falls report, regular army officers claim IWW leaders in the attic have maps of agricultural districts and plan simultaneous crop destruction this season. Federal authorities approve the warning and pledge pursuit of those involved to protect farmers statewide.
Washington report on Lord Northcliffe head of the British mission discussing a confidential report on spies and censorship. He details spy activity in England and the leakage of critical military information via cables through neutral nations to Germany and warns against nontechnical censorship of the press.
New York denials by Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor state unions had no share in the Hat Street riots. Theodore Roosevelt denounced the murders prompting a tumultuous mass meeting at Carnegie Hall honoring the Russian mission to the United States.
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