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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1921
Page
2
Harding and advisors have not yet formulated a marine program for subsidy 16. The article notes ongoing uncertainty and lack of a defined plan, with officials awaiting further guidance before shaping policy.
Washington reports the push for a government ship subsidy grows as debates over Emergency Fleet Corporation revival gain pace. Harding advisors waver on a final policy while farmers in Congress seek subsidies, signaling a potential hundred million dollar agricultural financing precedent to bolster American merchant ships.
Potash users in the South protest the new tariff bill imposing a fifty dollar per ton duty. The tax aims to shield Utah potash mines. About ninety percent of potash used goes to Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida and Alabama.
London reports the Irish situation has reached a near deadlock between Premier Lloyd George and Ulster premier Sir James Craig. Craig has been granted a chance to visit Belfast to seek a way forward under the strained circumstanc es.
Six people were injured and ten factory buildings destroyed in a riot and fire at Western penitentiary in Pittsburgh. Police and deputy sheriffs aided prison guards in restraining inmates as firemen battled the flames to extinguish the blaze.
The record notes Britain owes the United States about 4.5 billion dollars in total indebtedness at the current time. It presents a snapshot of wartime or postwar financial relations and the scale of cross Atlantic borrowing and balances.
Washington reports the United States paid Britain 32 685 862 dollars to settle all war time transportation charges between the two countries. The payment, per Attorney General Daugherty's opinion, finalizes claims of either party against the other for transportation services arising from the war with Germany. Secretary Mellon questioned if the 1875 law requiring withholding on judgments applies, but Daugherty said sovereign nations settle such matters through diplomacy, not courts.
Reports from Leipaic Germany state Lt Ditt mar and Lt Boldt were each sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of first degree murder for firing on life boats following the torpedoing of the hospital ship Llandovery Castle in the summer of 1918. In Washington, Harding weighs horseback riding plans as officials discuss industry deals. Secretaries Weeks Hoover outline Ford offer to buy the nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals and related dams and leases to create a fertilizer plant with wartime production potential. Federal troops move in Mexico to quell uprisings in Tam, and a 13th child is born to Mrs Amanda Martin in San Luis Potosi. The Rainbow Division Veterans oppose immediate soldier bonuses, while Brazilian traders fret over a 15 percent tariff on hides.
Washington outline shows Harding seeking tax reform to curb corporate levies while spreading burden via broad use of revenue stamps. Proposed three cent rate would return. Also reports a fatal plane crash in Modesto and a crude oil and cotton substitution assault in Enid with Walter Billings targeted.
Washington reports indicate broad backing for President Harding’s armament conference idea. Britain Italy and China show favorable replies while France had expressed willingness to attend and Japan’s stance remains unclear. Admin officials expect Tokyo to accept as talks move forward.
James B. Jones of Youngstown has been named assistant federal prohibition commissioner to support Roy Haynes, the new head of the office, as enforcement efforts continue.
A compilation of assorted early 20th century dispatches reports tariff decisions in Washington, Greek military actions in Asia Minor, a major bombing in Buenos Aires blamed on communist agitators, a proposed duty removal from the Fordney tariff bill, a massive warehouse fire in New York, famine observations in drought-stricken Russia, rising prices on Sam Browne belts, illegal stills in Puerto Rico, a social note on a New York woman set to marry into British nobility, and ailing General McAndrew at Walter Reed Army Hospital.
A Lloyds dispatch from Kustendje Romania reports the British steamer General Turner bound from the Danube to Rotterdam with grain and cattle struck a mine off Caliabra and sank. The crew were saved.
Farm mortgage debts among American operators rose sharply from 1910 to 1920 by about 103 percent, reflecting a burden on farm owners. Meanwhile Kobe saw 200 armed guards join 9,000 police and infantry to protect Baral property during a dockyard workers strike.
Plan reported by Southern Power to regulate Bridgewater lakes fishing by banning boats, renting company canoes at low cost, wardens monitoring catches, and building a club house with designated camping sites. Hickory Kiwanis held frat picnic at James C. Shue ford's cabin on Little River Lake with swimming and boating. Rotarians dined with over 200 teachers at Lenoir College summer school. Farming, crime, and civic items follow in Hamlet, Hendersonville, Durham, and other towns.
A guard company faces a lawsuit filed in Alamance Superior Court seeking unspecified damages. The case notes a defendant identified as a security firm and a court record shows an action titled in the docket with no announced amount.
In Alamance County the widow of a man killed when a mob tried to storm the Alamance jail last fall files a damage suit naming Capt Marion B Fowler Lieut Luther Barber and former Lieuts George W Tandy and Victor Bryant among others. Governor Morrison reportedly offers state aid for defense if feasible. Other notes cover Rotary appeal to Morrison for extra session Hathorne dairy group formation and various county civic items.
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