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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1920
Page
3
The Roanoke Rapids Herald is represented worldwide by about two hundred photographers, over one hundred with armies and navies of warring nations. Selected pictures taken by these photographers will be reproduced weekly on this page for Herald readers.
Captain Claud Raimond Collins, president of the Aviators’ Club of Pennsylvania and captain of the Forklty: werial police, offers himself as a passenger in a rocket to be sent from Earth to Mars. He will go only if a rocket similar to his is landed successfully on the planet.
Global production and manufacture advance across regions. Britain churns 40 million bricks weekly while Canada faces a maple sugar and syrup shortfall of about 3 million pounds. Ecuador covers 120000 square miles with 1.5 million people. South Africa doubles coal output to exceed 10 million tons last year. Industrial purchases abroad top 1 million dollars daily for liberated French regions. Leather making grows to around 1,500 establishments in the United States. A compact portable electric water heater is pitched for travelers.
Miss Lourie Souley, daughter of Mr and Mrs J Howard Smiley of Pranklin Pa, receives a Carnegie Hero Fund bronze medal for saving four year old Kathryn Annis during a 1910 swimming incident in the Atlantic Ocean near Squirrel Island Maine. Souley was thirteen at the time of the rescue.
Limerick, famed for verse and medieval conquests, is claimed to have produced the finest Irish irks and the town swarms with bacon, yet 850,000 pigs are killed yearly in Limerick while neon ham and lovers of bacon fail to reach American tables.
Dried leaves and seeds of a wild plant reach Washington from Paraguay. The kanlee plant, identified as stevia rebaudia, is described as about 180 times sweeter than sugar. Also mentioned is the agbayun of southern Nigeria, its fruits only mildly sweet but capable of making sour substances taste intensely sweet when eaten with 12 hours.
A description from Dr Douglas H Stewart details a felon treatment using calomel in glycerin and other agents, wrapped in silver, creating a splint like support. He explains dissecting to drain the cavity, then applying nerve blocking injections with novocaine and quinine plus urea hydrochloride around the area before cutting.
In Venice the push to expand hydropower grows as coal shortages from the war drive interest in electricity for agriculture drainage irrigation traction and canal excavation. Steps are underway to maximize hydraulic resources and extend electrical use across sectors.
The paper used for Bank of England notes is so strong that twisting a note into rope can support 358 pounds. During the war Japanese matches opened new markets in the South seas, India, North America, and Peru sold sugar steadier than before.
An investigation into cotton mill profits accuses mill men of being the worst profiteers. The report highlights rising prices and tight labor conditions as evidence of exploitation and calls for scrutiny of management practices and wage policies.
Connecticut Representative Pilson denounces cotton mill profiteers as the worst sort and wins a favorable report directing the federal trade commission to study pries in the industry. He notes New England and Southern rails earned big profits, with the South showing larger net returns. Tilson cites bankers promoting cotton mill stock and high yarn costs, arguing raw cotton and labor rose little. A spinner in one month reportedly earned 550,000 on a 200.00 capitalization, said to be authoritatively advised.
New York reports the Antwerp shipping concern purchases ten standard 200 ton ete steamers from the United States Shipping Board. The deal, announced by the Lloyd Royal of Antwerp, joins European interests with American ship assets.
Columbia DC reports the South Carolina senate struck down a bill that would have allowed college fraternities in the state. The board of trustees had proposed enacting measures to permit fraternities, but the ban stands.
New York reports Titersational Parner Company contracts will rise from 4 1 2 cents to 5 cents per pound starting April 1. C W Lymon, vice president, announced the change.
Washington reports the discovery of the corn borer in broom corn shipped from Italy to New York. The agriculture department imposes a quarantine on importing raw broom corn Indian corn and related plants to prevent spread.
London reports that after a lone speech by Mr Bonar Law he said the Turkish problem risks wrecking the league of nations at the start. The subject was then dropped from debate as he warned against overburdening the coalition effort.
St. Louis district judge Faris sustained a demurrer and dismissed the case against L Cohen Grocery Co charged with unjust profit on sugar after declaring the Lever Act amendment unconstitutional.
Professor Emelie Od done, a noted seismologist, arrived here from Naples en route to Mexico. He has been sent by his government to study the causes and effects of recent earthquakes. Od done brought a new instrument for measuring energy and motion and used it to gauge ocean wave amplitude length and duration on the voyage.
In Berlin a group of prominent generals and admirals accused of war crimes issued a declaration saying they are willing to be tried before a German judge. They reaffirm their respect for appearing before a foreign court and express confidence in German fairness and law.
Bernard M Baruch, former War Industries Board chair, tells a House committee that iron production may have peaked unless Providence or government action alters the course. He notes a brief drop in worker enthusiasm but says it is being countered.
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