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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1920
Page
3
Through an association with several American newspapers the Roanoke Rapids Herald features world pictures photographed by about two hundred photographers. More than one hundred are with armies and navies of warring nations, and top pictures will be reproduced weekly for Herald readers.
Medical laboratories nationwide shift from German dyes to American made dyes for tuberculosis studies. Henry Phipps Institute in Philadelphia reports good results with "Made in America" dyes, including Trypan red variants, as experiments show localization in tubercular tissue. Miss A Elizabeth Hall leads much of the dye production work at the institute.
Captain Victor Dibovsky, noted as the inventor of an advanced machine gun, is pictured upon arrival in New York. The invention would allow firing at 1,200 shots per minute, while Dibovsky served as an air pilot with Kolchak's forces.
Hoover explains the ongoing sugar shortage as prices reach sixteen and supplies at eighty remain inadequate, outlining factors behind limited availability and market stress. The report notes government stance and industry impact on consumers and merchants.
Former food administrator Herbert Hoover told a House committee the world sugar shortage may last two to three years and urged immediate government action to ration supply through commercial controls not legal means. He said the government should have bought the Cuban and Louisiana crops and that limiting supply to nonessential industries could help reduce high prices.
St Louis report says grocers in some locations require purchase of other commodities with each pound of sugar, violating the federal trade commission act. Instructions from Attorney General Palmer to the local department of justice outline the unlawful practice and enforcement stance.
Wirlington Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee moved to cap the cash soldier relief bonus at a fixed amount and set maximum grants for other provisions. The panel limited the bonus to a small sum and the related grants to five hundred twenty five dollars, signaling tighter relief funding.
Berlin reports the German cabinet after full discussion with state ministers voted unanimously that Germany will not send representatives to the Spa or Brussels conferences unless French troops are fully withdrawn from the Ruhr by May 16.
The Florida Supreme Court refused J B Merrill’s writ of quo warranto to remove Daniel T Gerow from chairmanship of the Republican State Executive Committee. It held the party is not recognized under state law after polling under five percent of the total vote in the last election.
Richmond Va Vice President Thomas R Marshall told the Virginia State Bar Association that political salvation lies in a speedy return to the constitution. He said the eighteenth amendment absolutely opposes local self government yet, as part of the fundamental law, should be upheld by all law abiding citizens.
In Birmingham Alabama Senator Oscar W Underwood was renominated to seek another term. Official county returns show Underwood with 6870 first choice votes and 2260 second, Musgrove 60503 first choice and 4797 second, Weakley 8640 first choice and 25898 second, with Underwood leading by 2668 votes over the combined totals of his rivals Heflin and others.
Washington officials say President Wilson fully approved recent disclosures by Secretary Daniels to the Senate Naval Inquiry. The British Admiralty faced criticism in several items, with reports suggesting the president might reprimand the naval secretary over wartime address details.
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