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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1919
Page
3
Roanoke Rapids Herald reveals weekly world pictorials from two hundred photographers. More than one hundred are embedded with armies and navies of warring nations, with the best and most interesting images reproduced each week for readers.
Sergt Alvin C York of the 328th Infantry, famed for a solitary wartime feat, returns from France to New York where the Tennessee Society hosts a Waldorf Astoria dinner in his honor and awards him 2000 dollars in Liberty bonds. The scene includes York holding a photo of his aged mother, while a discussion touches on Jacana birds and their famed dances in tropical regions.
Col Cornelius Vindertitt at Army HQ discusses a secretive plan to fund a large project. An Indiana barber insured his shop equipment for 900 dollars, then a fire destroyed the gear 25 days after coverage began. The insurer questioned the delay and possible arson, per Indianapolis News reporting.
Three YMCA secretaries wounded while serving with Marines in France received the Croix de Guerre from French military attaché Fen. J. Coliardet at the French embassy in Washington. Named were Ernest C. Butter of Skowhegan Be De Roy, Kt. Fonvilla Jon Ray, and Dr. William R. Harmer of the Western Theological Burl.
Prof Oliver T. Osborne of Yale School of Medicine writes in the New York Medical Journal that a cold never fully leaves a person. He explains recovery takes time and the illness leaves lasting effects on vitality and health.
A foreign representative of a large Welsh house stayed at Carmar and, with friends, debated drinks and temperance. He praised Scotch whisky and Welsh ale but warned that a certain other drink would be very bad tomorrow, hinting at temperance concerns and social talk.
Senate orders a probe into how a peace treaty ended up with outsiders in New York. Officials question process, demand accountability, and vow full disclosure of involved parties and timelines. Update outlines potential political impact and implications for state security.
The Senate passed two resolutions asking the State Department for the treaty text with Germany and directing the foreign relations committee to probe how unpublished copies reached private hands in New York. The Hitchcock investigation was urged by the White House and follows a climactic clash with Lodge before a largely empty chamber.
Republican leaders in the house urged strict review of all appropriation requests to cut army costs without harming essential activities and pressed similar reductions for other committees. The army bill of 1.1 billion dollars could drop by about 40 million, while the naval bill aimed for around 400 thousand, totaling savings over 100 million from the last Congress.
Washington, Director General Hines estimated a deficit of about $58 million in April, bringing the year’s first four months total to roughly $260 million. He warned conditions are too unsettled to justify rate increases yet, saying the administration will pursue economies instead.
Levine Ninsen a leading Bolshevik agitator in the Munich Soviet regime was executed at Esheim near Munich after Bavarian cabinet refused to commute the sentence. State officials held he sparked civil war in Bavaria and merited no mercy.
Atlanta report states President Newcomb Carlton of the Western Union Telegraph and Cable Company declares Morse and multiplex operators in the southeast who struck will not be rehired. J Konenkamp, president of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America, says a national strike call will be issued.
Washington reports North Carolinians sense a serious move to offer Secretary Daniels the presidency of the state university. Daniels last visited Goldsboro after returning from abroad, and locals believe he would accept if approved by the board of trustees.
Paris reports a sharp exchange among the Big Four as Britain presses for revised treaty financial terms. The discussions center on the Versailles settlement with the German delegation and broad concern over the future obligations. President Wilson remains firmly opposed to any immediate changes.
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