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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1920
Page
3
A compact digest highlights key events across nations. Highlights include diplomatic talks, economic updates, and notable policy shifts affecting multiple regions. Readers are briefed on developments shaping global affairs and future agendas.
Cuba elects Dr Alfredo Zayas president as a coalition victory beams through, while in Ireland Granard endures destruction and Chinese famine relief reaches beyond borders. Reports cite Zeppelin moves, Mexican disorder, Argentine trade talks, and a cautious view of British Bolshevik threats. Armistice Day to mark two minutes of silence in England.
After federal railroad control ends, six months cost the federal government 666 million dollars. Treasury data show public debt at 24,062,509,672. President Wilson has not commented on election results. The U S government released its first statement on talks with Japan regarding California anti alien law, saying any outcome must align with law and national justice. A Mexican murder case summary trial and execution were reported to the state department. Democratic losses included Clark defeat in Missouri and a Texas Republican win. Oklahoma and Tennessee shifts favored Harding. Prohibition victory cited by Deeta Pickett as sweeping. DOJ to press on anti trust laws, despite the dissolution of price controls.
Exporting of cotton grown in Ila Paso county Texas under regulation through the port of New Orleans and the Interstate movement of Louisiana cotton waterw which have been a stor age will be permitted under modification of the existing quarantine against the pink boll weevil in Louisiana and Texas announced by the department of agriculture. Hog Island cost the government $70,000,000. When put up for sale the highest bid was little over four million dollars. The government rejected all bids. The American steamer Rambler reported helpless and adrift off the Cuban coast reached Santiago. The treasury reports banks earned a record $1,109,000,000 in profits on capital. The presidential campaign eclipsed all others in interest though senate races draw attention. Soft coal production surpassed twelve million tons for the third week in a row. The year’s coal output trails 1917 by eight and a half million tons.
Warren G. Harding, newly elected president, told a Marion Ohio audience that the Versailles league of nations is now deceased while plans for a peace based international association remain. The report covers reactions, political speculation, and related tidbits from across the nation.
Dozens of auto racing entries expect participants from Eastern Carolina and Virginia for a Thanksgiving speed test at the halftune track near the fairgrounds. Dr. James M. Parrott will speak at Armistice Day events led by the local American Legion post with veterans singing campaign songs.
Gaston County Farm Bureau directors meet at the secretary treasurer’s office in the courthouse to chart an educational campaign starting November 17 with a mass meeting in the courthouse and another in Cherryville that night. Two more meetings follow the next day in South Point and Dallas townships.
Public dancing in Raleigh once a source of civic worry is halted by Mayor T B Eldridge who rules the city Auditorium will not be open for subscription dances. The move ends years of agitation to close the doors on such events and bars all future subscription dances.
The 1921 state wide high school debating contest will feature the capital and labor topic. Secretary E R Rankin sent notices to over 260 schools with last year’s 260 entrants a record. Final debates at Chapel Hill in early April with winners to the Ayeors Me moral Cup. Previous winners include Asheville Durham Waynesville Graham Wilson Winston-Salem and Pleasant Garden.
United States Department of Agriculture estimates for 1920 crop show North Carolina close to Kentucky in yield with NC production around 424,625,000 pounds and Kentucky at 442,431,000 pounds. Virginia follows with 177,986,000 pounds. Also, two highway projects complete in Cabarrus and Forsyth counties, and Florence Macbeth to perform at North Carolina College for Women on November 10 in a lyceum recital.
A telegram from John B Wannamaker, president of the American Cotton Association, urged Governor Bickett to convene a special session of the General Assembly to enact a law reducing North Carolina cotton acreage by 3.13 percent and fixing penalties for violators. No reply yet, governors in the South have declined similar requests.
At the Aulander fair Judge Francis D. Winston spoke on agricultural thrift and weathered cotton contrasts while President H. W. Chase urged NC youth development. In Asheville a fatal collision near Morrison's Crossing left one dead and several injured. Raleigh reports YWCA thrift cooperation with the federal treasury, and Asheville notes the forming of the North Carolina Horticultural Society. Mount Airy saw a resigning secretary, and Washington questions Brantley’s disappearance. Charlotte announces Casey Crandall’s move to Durham Sun. Chapel Hill notes a $10,000 NC loan fund gift. Albemarle reports the Pannill suicide. Winston-Salem mentions rural school closures, and a centenarian visitor. Belmont construction projects include a $100,000 total and a planned $10,000 theater.
The American delegation of 301 Boy Scouts of America dominated the London Jamboree. They won the principal display prize the tortoise of perseverance and the fish of endeavor, the tribal display prize for Genesis of scouting, the Denver Boy Scout Band prize for marching, and first prize in boxing contests.
Walter A. Helebig, 16, a Morris High School senior and Bronx Scout of Troop 140, won the army district prize for an essay submitted by boy scouts. His piece was chosen as district and Bronx Borough winner. The district prize is an Austrian flag. the borough prize is a silk American flag for his school.
The boy scout troop of Flandreau South Dakota names and places guiding sign boards on local roads. Beonte of Bellingham Washington fought an unceasing war with the outer pillar during the past hour. In Portland Oregon more than 2000 scouts participated in a cleanup campaign. 24 joined from the army mobilization.
A Waterbury Connecticut scout named A.3 aided a woman who had taken chloride of mercury by mistake. He alerted a nurse for a doctor, led the way to the patient, and supplied the initial aid taught to scouts until medical help arrived.
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