Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-03-28
Domestic

Domestic
Joseph r. Rutherford president OF
The international Bible Students As.
sociatiCn, which was founded by the
late Pastor" Russell. and seven 9TH
er members of the association who
were convicted recently in the federal
court in Brooklyn, on a charge Of vic.
lating the espionage act. have been
ordered released BY the United States
circuit court of appeals in ten thou
sand dollars bail each.
Casualties in the United States air
service personnel serving with the
American and allied armies al the
front. numbered 554
J A Gate and X. j. Hammond, stu
dent ayiators of the naval station al
Pensacola Fla, were killed when one
Of the hydro-arplanes fell into the
bay
The navy department at Washing
ton announces that preparations for
the attempted fight OF navy sea
plane across The Atlantic ocean area
going steadily forward
The state department has called the
attention Of the California-Mexico
Land company Of Los Angeles that
II is contrary to The wish of the Unit.
ed States that land be sold in Lower
California which might be used for
military or naval purposes against
the United States
Two hours after the First National
bank of Freepor. n. Y. had been rob
bed OF $3.1Sl by three masked ban
dts. two OF the robbers were lodged
in Jail one with a bullet wound re.
ceiyed while res ting arrest The
other bandit is expected to be caught
as il is thouhgl he is surrounded in
the woods.
improvement in building and con
stluction activities as shown by con
tracts let in February are reported in
statistical memorandum by the public |
works division OF the department of
labor,
The committee of distillers of the I
United States. representing the entire /
disllling industry. announces that /
steps are being taken to attack the con
stilutlonality of the federal prohibition |
amendment and the wartime prohbi- /
ton act.
Mrs George Greenwood. wife of the 4.
vice president of the Savings Union
Bank and Trust company Of San Fran
cisco. was killed by bomb explosion
in the family home al Oakland, Cal
According TO the police a letter de
manding five thousand dollars on pain
of trouble had been sent to Greenwood
several months ago
Secretary of War Newton d. Baker
says the cost of the war in money will
be one hundred and ninety-seyen bill
lion dollars, which is eleven billion dol.
lars more than the total value of all
the property of North America. .
1t is given out that the deaths in all
the armies in the great war totaled r
nine million men. 4
The war department announces that ! Z
thirty thousand more Of 'our boys"
are ,homeward bound This is the O
largest single homeward movement of d
troops since cessation of hostilities h
Maj Gen. Enoch H, Crowder, judge n
advocate general of the army, having I,
been invited TO Cuba to revise the
election laws, decided he would go a.
)ver in a hydroplane from Key West N
rhe trip was successfully made, and Of
he general Is loud in his praise of air N
'iding. ~
The American squadron under Ad.
niral Caperton which has been in II,
south American waters for some time, 70
\ on its way home. %
The war finance corporation has lent 80
director General Of Railroad Hines AZ. -
y million dollars for the railroad ad.
This was made neces. :.
AIRY by the failure Of congress to pro -,
tide for the railroad contingency. 9th. ~ u,
y loans viii follow as rapidly as they m q,
an be arranged ~
Governor Pleasant has issued cali | Z.
or ) general meeting Of cotton grow, VI,
ng interests Of the South 10 be held 4 ~
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