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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1920
Page
3
In Raleigh a fortnight of activity with suffrage leaders in the city has yielded no public plans or statements. Officials familiar with the visit offered no details on future campaigns or announced events.
Reports from North Carolina indicate suffrage workers plan a major drive at the upcoming special legislative session. Pro and anti groups are elusive, with ratification seen as unlikely, while pro supporters prepare for a renewed effort at the regular session.
In federal court Judge H. G. Connor oversees condemnation actions to acquire 120 451 acres in Cumberland and Hoke counties for Camp Bragg. Original seizure began in 1918 with August 9 as the first meetings of three local commissioners to set fair values for government and landowners.
The enrollment lists 56 North Carolina boys for the Hampton Roads naval training station summer program. Eleven from the capital city join the first group, others hail from nearly every state section. North Carolina Wild Cat division members anticipate a Columbia D C reunion on September 20 with up to five thousand attendees for the July session. Imported suffrage workers reportedly left Washington for North Carolina as a campaign issue grows ahead of the January general assembly session. A mob incident at Alamance county jail ends in one death and two wounds after a masked group attacked the facility. Captain Fowler says the claim of no reason is false and that fire was returned with machine guns and side arms.
International focus centers on the Russo Polish conflict as Soviet forces push through Lithuania toward East Prussia. Poland resists direct peace talks with Moscow while Britain and France pledge support with arms. Feisal yields to French mandate over Syria, tensions rise in Thrace and Ireland, and U S railway wage dispute looms.
A Paris dispatch reports Emir Messal accepts the French Syria mandate terms. Germany rejects Allied troop movement through its territory for Poland aid. China hints at Peiping peace with Shipa. UK Zionists plan a Palestine meeting in 1921. Russia rejects a London armistice with Britain, seeks direct talks, and objects to Baltic delegates. Poland’s frontier is cited in Moscow’s reply. Mexico’s rail move avoids strikers. Gen. Chamberlain heads to Geneva to inspect relief bodies. A New York Presbyterian woman funds a rebuilt French Protestant church at Saint Quentin. Rail freight costs may rise 50 percent to cover wage hikes, while wholesale food prices fall. Meat packing losses persist, and the railroad wage award nears 50 to 60 percent of demand. National Guard training expands under the War Department.
Oklahoma City reports a $2,005,086 surplus in the state treasury, enabling no ad valorem tax on real and personal property in fiscal year 1921. The only levy will be a half mill for road and bridge maintenance. Auditor Frank O. Carter cites delinquent income and inheritance taxes, excess state receipts, and lapsing appropriations as reasons for the surplus.
Officials in Washington avoided formal opinion on Allied military aid to Poland as fears of a broad European war grow. State department messages from Pekin ease Chinese foreigner safety concerns amid Sino rivalries. Labor leaders urge state federations to convene August 7 to coordinate with national campaign.
The Prohibition party tapped William Jennings Bryan by acclamation as its presidential candidate at Lincoln Nebraska after a contested fight over the standard bearer position. Other items discuss Harding’s peace speech, whisky seizures, and GOP nominations.
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