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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1920
Page
2
A short notice outlines current events across the southern region, highlighting political, economic, and social developments. Local officials and organizations respond to changing conditions with statements and planned actions. Community responses and upcoming dates are noted in concise form.
Rumors in London claim Britain may call an early general election to settle an Irish policy amid disorder across Ireland, including attacks on barracks. Reports also note international tensions with Germany, Italy, and Russia, while U S conditions and war-related profiteering are examined by lawmakers.
Secretary Daniels presented President Wilson's wartime naval policy and messages to Admiral Sims to the Senate naval investigating committee. He argued Sims opposed and halted the bold plan to lay the North Sea mine barrage. In other items, Mexico reports claim Carranza forces were captured or slain, and the War Finance Corporation suspended further foreign loan advances at Secretary Houston's request. Freight congestion grows at major railroad terminals amid winter strain.
Raid by prohibition officers seizes hundreds of malt cages, hops barrels, and thousands of prescriptions said to instruct on high alcohol content home brew. Officers report the operation involves over ten thousand people along the Gulf Coast. Topks of Tropical Food Products Co recorded purchaser names. A Chicago tenants’ company formed to pay lower rent. Separate items include an auctioneer’s cash loss after a motorman’s clang spooked him and a spate of crimes across Chicago and Los Angeles with murders and robberies.
Senate votes 43 to 38 to adopt a Republican substitute ending the war with Germany and Austria Hungary. The measure mirrors a House peace resolution and will be sent to the president for signature, despite anticipated veto. Democratic leaders predicted Versailles would stay unratified.
New York scene reports Eugene V. Debs, no. 2253, a federal convict, nominated by acclamation for the presidency at the socialist party convention. The headline notes a wartime declaration affecting regional tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
From Chicago reports the national board of farm organizations will raise $1,000,000 to build a temple of agriculture in Washington. This comes after a recent meeting outlining the funding and construction plan.
Congress pressed a 15 year payback for advances from a 200 million revolving fund to ease railroad freight congestion. Railroad officials say 226000 cars are needed to return to normal while the Interstate Commerce Committee backs the plan as a step to lower living costs amid backlog at eastern and midwestern gateways. American Railroad Association reports some improvements across regions.
In a House Ways and Means Committee vote, Republican supporters of a 10 percent stock dividend levy to fund soldier relief legislation failed. The plan, retroactive to March 15, lost with one member absent and did not advance in this session.
The article reports that lent vetoes were used against executive legislative and judicial bills. It notes the actions affected by the vetoes and identifies the branches involved in the legislative process.
Levi P Moviment publications reports the former vice president and New York governor died at his Rhinebeck home on his 96th birthday anniversary. Maj H J P Thomas gains Milford Haven seaside resort ownership for 1 250 000 and the right to 1000 houses. Russian Reds agree to spare Denikin troops and other antisoviet prisoners in southern Russia.
New York shows greatest gains in registration of automobiles in the nation, with the Southern States leading. North Carolina tops states with a 51 percent increase, followed by South Carolina at 43 percent as reported by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce reviewing last year’s industry.
Rebel forces rapidly close on President Carranza, with his army entrenched in the hills between San Marcos and Apizaco, about 150 miles northwest of Vera Cruz. General Trevino has moved to Apizaco to protect Carranza’s life if he is captured.
Robert B. Glenn former governor of North Carolina and International Boundary Commission member was found dead in bed at the Royal Alexandria Hotel Winnipeg Heart disease listed as cause with a trained nurse sole attendant present at the time of death
Hythe England French ministers arrived at the conference with British colleagues to press two aims. They want no changes in the peace treaty that would favor Germany and seek immediate indemnity payments to revive industries in devastated regions.
Washington reports show Venustiano Carranza, Mexico's constitutional president, fleeing after Obregon forces expelled him from the capital. The fight near San Marcon involved solutionary forces clashing with small detachments loyal to Carranza. official details remain sparse.
In Boston Mr Wannamaker and B M McLeod, chairman of the American Cotton Association finance committee, will meet a delegation of English spinners now in the United States. The conference is seen as important as English spinners may seek to arrange direct cotton sales from the South to England.
Mexico City reports General Pablo Gonzales formally retires from the presidential race. General Alvaro Obregon remains the sole candidate unless Ygnacio Bonillas returns to Mexico, a prospect deemed unlikely. The move eases potential friction between Gonzales and Obregon as Mexico’s top military leaders.
Washington reports Dr J Love secretary of the foreign mission board urged Southern Baptists to seek an alliance with Baptists worldwide. He noted European missionary groups in London will discuss a European Baptist program during July. Chicago reports Northwestern University will abolish the honor system amid cheating concerns. Washington notes a peace resolution provision seeking a separate German treaty was struck out by unanimous consent after Lodge Underwood negotiations.
Former food administrator Herbert Hoover told a House committee the world sugar shortage could last two to three years and called for government action to control the supply through commercial means. He urged buying Cuban and Louisiana crops and limiting sugar to essential uses while grocers face FTC violations for bundling purchases.
Washington Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee decided to cap the maximum cash bonus at 500 dollars under the proposed soldier relief bill and set grant limits at 625 dollars for other provisions.
The German cabinet, after full discussion with state ministers, decided unanimously not to send representatives to Spa or Brussels conferences unless French troops withdraw from the Ruhr by May 16. Central News dispatch from Berlin reports this stance.
The Florida Supreme Court denied J. K. Merrill of Jacksonville a writ of quo warranto to oust Daniel T. Gerow from the Republican state executive chair. It held that the party polled less than five percent of the total vote in the last election and is not recognized under state law.
Richmond Virginia Vice President Thomas R. Marshall told the Virginia State Bar Association that political salvation lies in a speedy return to the Constitution. He argued the eighteenth amendment is opposed to local self government and states rights but is part of the nation's fundamental law and should be upheld.
Senator Oscar W. Underwood was nominated to succeed himself in the Alabama State primary. Official returns from 67 counties show Underwood with 4,797 seconds and 25,898 second. He polled one more first choice vote than the combined total of opponents. Henin was nominated.
White House officials said President Wilson fully approved recent Daniels disclosures including the war time address to the Atlantic fleet and a message to Rear Admiral Sims. Both documents were laid before the Senate Naval Investigating Committee with the president's consent. The British Admiralty faced criticism in the reports, and the president might reprimand Secretary Daniels.
The Weekly Press Association of Western North Carolina gathered at the Selwyn hotel to broaden scope and enlarge membership. The group that began with mountain papers toured the Western Newspaper Union plant on Graham.
Dr J B Gambrell of Fort Worth Texas is unanimously re elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Marshall addresses the meeting warning against church involvement in politics. Marshall jokes about water politics and notes the church state separation endures. A letter from Premier Lloyd George expressing regret to attend is read.
Attorney General Palmer fixes sugar trade margins at 1 cent per pound for wholesalers and 2 cents per pound at retail. President Wilson receives foreign diplomats awaiting health improvements to formally prevent their credentials.
Berlin reports that forty six Germans, from a corps commander to a private, named on the Allies first list of war criminals, will be arraigned in the Leipsic supreme court.
A giant fowil skeleton, 27 feet long, dating to about 3,000,000 years ago, was unearthed in the Alberta mountains by Prof. W. A. Park and presented to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto Ontario.
A resolution granting women equal privileges with men in Episcopal Church councils was lost by one vote in the South Carolina diocesan council meeting in Spartanburg. The decision affects church governance and gender roles within the diocese.
Washington report shows a House Post Office Committee favored bill to extend existing Second Class Mall rates until July 1, 1921. The move would postpone for one year each of the two authorized automatic rate increases and maintain current tariff levels pending new action.
The Socialist Party delegates with over 100 members delivered a petition calling for Eugene V. Debs and other political prisoners' release to Secretary Tumulty at the White House. In Warsaw, Polish and Ukrainian forces report a major strike against Soviet lines, reclaiming river crossings and inflicting heavy losses along a 420 mile front.
In Washington the Democratic attack on the peace resolution was launched by Senator Hitchcock who said the measure is futile inconsistent and inimical to the treaty The mountain box labored and brought forth a mouse he remarked asserting the resolution is weak and unsettled with a dubious future
Reporting from Veracruz, Carranza's 4,000-man force under Generals Hill and Trevino is nearly hemmed in by rebel units. The main contest raged from San Marcos to Puebla and Huamantla, Tlaxcala, with no clear dislodgement by late reports.
El Paso reports Salvadore Alvarado, provisional Mexican finance minister, says Mexico is a troublesome neighbor and urges world patience. He asserts good men suffer anguish as the world tires of disorders and stresses duty to protect nationals, debts, and interdependence amid global interconnection.
The French troops occupying Frankfort Darmstadt and other east bank Rhine cities have evacuated those locations. The withdrawal is announced here and affects Mayence and surrounding areas as part of the changing postwar position.
Chairman Johnson of the House immigration committee announced that no attempt to suspend immigration for a period of years will be made at this session of Congress. No formal action or bill is expected.
Reports from Hythe indicate the Anglo French conference agreed the German reparation payment would be fixed at 120000000000 marks in gold, roughly 30 billion dollars, signaling a heavy monetary settlement and shaping postwar financial obligations.
The Association of Railway Executives urged wage advances for many railroad workers to offset the high cost of living, declaring this in its opening statement before the railroad labor board.
Textile unions in New Bedford Mass except loom fixers vote to accept 15 percent wage rise offered by manufacturers. A mass meeting of operatives votes to continue the strike in 18 cotton mills in support of loom fixers, making the dispute a broader sympathetic action.
In Des Moines Iowa the report of the board of foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church to the general conference in session here shows an estimated expenditure of $10,500,000 in foreign missionary work of the year 1920.
Thirty publishers representing about eighty small newspapers east of the Mississippi gathered in Washington to form a temporary organization. W J Pape of Waterbury Connecticut Republican was named chairman and Joseph B Finan of Cumberland Maryland Evening Times was chosen secretary to assure an adequate print paper supply for their publications.
The Chicago Coliseum was turned over to the Republican National Committee and work began on alterations for the convention. Offices are nearly complete and will be ready May 31 when the committee starts hearings on contests. 104 contests have already been filed.
A temperance committee report to the Southern Bay convention blames mov ing pictures tax laws and intemperance for many U S divorces. Government statistics show 1016 118048 divorces reported nationally with quotes from official data.
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