Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-05-24
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IMPORTANT NEWS OF STATE. MA.
TON AND THE WORLD
BRIEFLY TOLD
ROUND ABOUT The WORLD
A Condensed Record OF Happenings
or Interest From All Points
OF The World
Domestic.

Domestic.
Fifty-six men are known to be dea,
and ninetyfour injured and in hosp
tails and thrtyone employees Of IN,
Aetna Chemical company are missnl
as a result Of the mine explosion.
which wrecked this companys plan
at Oakdale sixteen miles from Pitts
burg.
President Wilson, in an address In
New York City, opening the Red
Cross drive, to raise one hundred mil
lion dollars pledged every man and
every dollar for the winning OF the
war
Decision OF the Shipping board 10
award contracts to southern yards for
200 wooden ships of the revised
Dougherty type with 1900 tons as the
minimum and TO increase the number
TO 400 il the speed in output warrants.
is based on report Of Shipbuilding
in the south by a naval architect
which has been made public in Wash.
ington
Almost a mutiny broke out among
the 1900 nternad Germans at Hot
Springs, n G., when they learned
OF the governments plan 10 move them
before July ! TO army posts at Forts
Oglethorpe and Mcpherson. Georgia.
Many OF the aliens had invested their
savings in improvements on their cot.
tages to make them more comfortable
and this is given as the reason for the
dissatisfaction
Porto Rcan labor is to be trans.
ported to the United States within
month for farms in the Southern
states, in shipyards and other war
industries along the Atlantic coast.
II is stated by the L'Homme Libre.
Paris, France, daily newspaper, that
The United States has promised 10 have
a million and a half fighting men In
France by the end Of 1918 There will
be with them at least two million spe- /
c!alists, workers. men in the quarter.
masters department and others
A dispatch from London. England
recites that American PREPARATION on
the western front IS amazing in its in.
'ensity, and that plans are being made
TO carry not less than FIVE million
Americans over there The report
goes on to say that If the Germans do
not give in the number Of Americans
will be increased to any amount nee.
essary.
All persons and firms engaged in
the importation manufacture storage
and distribution Of farm machinery
and equipment Of farm machinery and
equipment except those specifically ex. +
empted by the food control act. will BE-
placed under license next June 90 By
proclamation Of the president.
The shipping board ha, decided to
proceed Immediately on a large scale
with the building Of concrete ships.
It is announced that IS concrete YES.
sells will be ordered by the govern.
ment as soon as sites for the four new
government yards are chosen
Aerial mail service in the United
States is an accomplished fact pilot
ed by army aviators airplanes carried
consignments Of mail from New YORK
and Philadelphia 10 Washington AMI
from Philadelphia to New York
Plans had been made IN 1914 FOR a
revolution Of Germans in the United
States in case this country should BE-
drawn into the European war. accord
ing to testimony at the state attor.
ney generals investigation OF reports
Df hidden munitions in New York CITY.
Women Of the Southern Baptist De
nomination were granted fun and
equal rights with men in the conyen
ton of the churches by an oyerwhelm-
ing vote Of the sixtythird session Of
the Southern Baptist convention at
Hot Springs, Ark.
The body Of James Gordon Bennett.
of the New York Herald.
who died in France, where he had
lived for many years, viii be Inferred
n Paris, in accordance with his ex
pressed wish before he died.