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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1917
Page
2
A concise roundup highlights notable state national and world happenings. Brief items cover politics economics disasters and social developments with an emphasis on timely events and key figures shaping the week.
European fronts loom large with German advances toward Riga and Baltic assets at risk. Reports from Berlin and Petrograd frame a tense global picture with air raids, political upheaval, conscription shifts, and liberty loan plans. Western fronts show heavy losses while diplomacy and finance reshape wartime strategy and public life.
The Heralds Review of North Carolina compiles key events at the Capitol and across the state for Herald readers. It surveys political developments, lawmaking notes, and notable happenings shaping public life in the region.
Germans evacuated from Riga as defenders flee eastward in disorder after Russian port capture. The chaotic retreat underscores ongoing push by Russian forces to seize Baltic strongholds.
Riga, the Gulf of Riga port, is in German hands with its garrison and civilians retreating eastward. German forces crossed the Divina and advance along both river banks toward Riga while Russian defenses withdraw, burning villages behind them.
Dispatches from Raleigh report James R. Young urging strict observance of Fire Prevention Day on October 5 to inspect premises and remove fire hazards. Governor Bickett promotes Red Cross war relief funding via tobacco growers, with named market representatives and chairmen. Also notes about draft eligibility for physicians under 32, cotton anthracnose control, and peanut hog utilizing in East North Carolina.
Raleigh private secretary Santford Martin says Judge Frank Carter of Asheville turned his Yadkin Superior Court charge into a wartime appeal. He drew crowded, then nearly empty courthouses, exposed broad antiwar sentiment, and urged clear civilian duty and the Council of Defense to explain the war’s purpose to all counties.
About 600 boys and girls attended the Short Course at College of Agriculture and Engineering, underscoring the value of the Agricultural Extension Service run by the college and State Department of Agriculture. Woman's Day is planned for October 17 with a likely keynote by Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin of Montana. Poultry clubs show strong gains as Oliver notes improved handling, care, and feeding across farm flocks and club projects.
Miss Naomi Tomlinson and her mother Mia Skeen escaped injury when a heavy five passenger car veered toward a tree on the national highway near Spencer. The women leapt to safety as the vehicle crashed, the car badly torn. In Washington, a mobilization camp may be set up at Morehead City if sleeping facilities are found, with hopes an aviation camp could lead to an aviation training school.
In Newport News on Labor Day a large crowd heard Secretary of War Newton D Baker declare the war with Germany will end only when victory is won. He praised Samuel Gompers and labor, called Newport News a major center of war prep, and contrasted democracy with autocracy. He urged full effort to achieve victory and unity.
The Associated Press, led by GM Melville E. Stone, complains to Attorney General Wiley E. Jones and US District Attorney Thomas A. Flynn about censorship by Phelps Dodge officials in Bisbee. The issue concerns the deportation of Industrial Workers of the World on July 1 and the Western Union office there.
In Waco at Camp MacArthur five of the six Negro soldiers from the Twenty fourth infantry were found guilty of violating article ninety three of war. They clashed with civil police and troops on July 29 night. Five were sentenced to five years hard labor at Leavenworth Penitentiary.
The food administration will run a nationwide consumer campaign to promote apple consumption to help save wheat and meat for allies. A crop of about 190 million bushels is forecast, with good prices for first quality and certain second grade apples. Emphasis on careful grading, packing, and storage to curb market instability and support home consumption during war.
Stockholm authorities offer 20 cents for every dead rat to curb the plague and stock fat for soap making. The process involves rendering fat from carcasses and converting remains into poultry foot products, with fats skimmed from waste in sewers of hotels and restaurants in South Sweden.
A quotation contrasts views on heredity within a family, with a mother denying any hereditary influence and a speaker urging consideration of inherited traits, referencing a Boston Transcript line. The exchange hints at social attitudes toward heredity in the era.
The speaker contends a poem was not written by a gush of gurgles but by a fountain pen. The exchange suggests a playful dispute over authorship and method, with affirmations that the pen influenced the writing.
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