Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-08-10
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A ruling issued by the postofflce de
lartinent shows that department off
Gals VIII make few requests for tn
exemption of postal employees from
military service.
The emergency fleet corporation has
requisitioned all merchant vessels o.
more than twenty-five hundred tons
now building in American shipyards
Double and triple labor shifts will be
put in The yards to speed up con
structinn.
After day Of comparative quiet in
the several counties of central Okla
homa, which for two days had been
the scene OF anti-dralt demonstra-
lions, the situation again assumed a
grave aspect as result of reported
clash between band Of malcontents
and a posse near Holdenyille, Okla,
in which Ed Blaylock, a member Of a
band of draft directors, was killed
and a posseman, Jack Paige, was
wounded in the leg and later carried
off by the DIRECTORS.
After quarrel over the custody of
a four-yearold child, John L. De-
Saulles, former United States minis.
ter to Uruguay was shot and killed
at his home at Roslyn, l.. l., by his
divorced wife, who was Miss Blanquit-
ia Errazuriz of Santiago, Chile.
Chairman Kitchin, congressman
from North Carolina, told the ways
and means committee that "intolerable
inequalities in favor of the more pros
porous have been written into the war
tax bill by the senate finance com.
mittee. He declared the poor are al.
ready taxed to the limit, and that the
rich must be forced to pay the fur.
Their burdens of the war.
Fighting between draft rioters and
officers is reported to be going on
twenty-five miles north of Ada, Okla
homa.
Governor Williams of Oklahoma
has received information at the Okla.
homa City, the capital city that bands
OF negroes, tenant farmers and Indians
have banded themselves together to
defeat the selective service law in Ok.
lahoma, and have spread a reign OF
terror in the central counties Of the
state.
The government is undecided what
course TO pursue in the Oklahoma re-
sistance to the operation of the con.
scription law, but 1t seems possible
that civilian companies, familiar with
the country, which is rugged and chok.
ed with underbrush, will be organized
and sent to settle the disturbance.
A Butte, Mont, telegram says that
Frank Little, member of the exec.
utive board of the / W. w, who refer
red to United States troops as I'm
Gle Sans scabs in uniform" was hang
ed to trestle in the outskirts of that
city, and so far 1t is not known who
the murderers are Little was an out.
spoken labor leader
America, great reservoir of fresh
strength-men, money and materials
will turn the war tide, is the graft.
flying news flashed from the allied
capitals to the big centers in the Unit
ed States.
Federal Judge F. A. Youmans. in a
decision at Fort Smith, Ark, held
that the present standard form of
contract used on the New York and |
New Orleans cotton exchanges does
not comply with the provisions of the
United States cotton futures act and,
therefor, is Illegal
An ingenious American must again
be given credit for another revolu-
ttonary invention, this time one which
is calculated to upset the whole the
DRY OF artillery battles The invention
must be kept secret for obvious mill.
tary reasons.