Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-03-01
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try, U. s. A., has been sentenced t
dismissal from the service and con
finement at hard labor for 20 year,
by general court.martlal held a
Governors Island, in New York har
Dor He is OF German descent, anc
attempted to resign his commission
saying he did not care to fight against
relatives and friends
A price OF $220 bushel, the same
as for last years crop--was fixed by
President Wilson for the coming sea
sons wheat yield The price is for
No. ! northern spring wheat at chi
cago with a scale OF diferentials for
other markets The difierentals diff
fer TO slight extent from those now
operative and range from a minimum
of 81 TO a maximum of $2.2S
In fixing price for wheat, which
will not be harvested until June, the
president was believed to have had
two objects in view. The first is to
halt legislation pending in congress
to fix prices at from SEES to 50, and
the other is to stimulate spring plant
ing.
Four national army soldiers were
held in the guardhouse awaiting a
presidential warrant from Washington
which will mean their internment as
enemy aliens who plotted not only TO
shoot their officers the nrst time they
got into action in Europe, but also to
deliver all the American soldiers in
their organization to the German
army. The names OF the men under
arrest have been withheld by the au.
thorities in Washington. The men
were arrested at Camp Lewis, which
is located in Tacoma, Wash,
Coming generations OF Americans
are endangered by the indiscriminate
rush OF women into industry. Women
should enter only those lines of work
not injurious to their health and NOR
ais. This is the warning of Mrs. Hill
da Mulhause Richards, chief of the
woman's division of the national Ia
Dor department.
Alleged plots OF the Industrial
Workers of the World to poison cat
tie and burn grain, farm houses and
lumber mills along the Pacific coast
were revealed in confession at san
Francisco OF German who said he
had participated in some OF the &C
tons proposed He came to the Unit
ed States in 1910
E. B. Deming, salmon administra
tor for the federal government, has
announced that by order Of the food
administration. all Of the unsold sal
mon stock in the United States will
be requisitioned for the United States
army.
The full influence Of the national
admins tration will be used il neces
sary to prevent enactment of bills
pending in congress TO increase the
price OF wheat Wheat is now selling
on basis of s220 a bushel and the
price is maintained by heavy govern
ment purchases for the army and
navy and for the allies
Reorganization Of the quartermas
ter corps under Major General Goe
thals has been completed. Radical
changes are contemplated to insure
the food and clothing supply of the
army. particularly of the overseas
forces.
Fire, which is believed to have origi
mated from a defective fue, destroyed
the school house at North Boulevard
and Irwin street in Atlanta The loss
is $4,000.
Forres Bigelow, OF Columbus. Ohio
killed his wife and 7.year.old daughter
then went to the home of his mother
in-law and after woundng her killed
his ssterinlaw, after which he re.
turned to his own home and killed
himself
Secretary Baker issued statement
on his return to Washington from an
inspection tour of the army camps in
which he praised the conditions of
camps at Atlanta Augusta and Macon.