The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-07-10
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD over
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What 10 Taking Place In The South.
land Will Be Found tn
Brief Paragraphs
Domestic

| Domestic
The department of agriculture en-
phasizes that "Save Food" signs must
now be disregarded as to meat, espe-
cially beef, and wheat products. Faced
by the largest wheat crop on record
and with many cattle raised in re-
Spouse to the demand for meat pro-
duction for the army now maturing,
the American people must realize that
no such necessity for conservation OF
such foods any longer exists.
DR.. Anna Shaw, honorary president
of the National American Woman's
Suffrage Association, died at her
home in Moylan, Pa, near Philadel-
phia, at the age of II years. She
was chairman of the WOman's com
mittee of the council of national de-
tense and recently was awarded the
distinguished service medal for her
work during the war. She was taken
ill in Springfield, ILL, about a month
ago while oil a lecture tour.
Seated under a canopy of sun with
the mercury in the thermometer flirt-
ing with 12O degrees, 100000 fight fans
saw Jack Dempsey defeat Jess VIII
lard for the heavyweight title in the
monster stadium built by Tex Rick
ard in Toledo, Ohio.
Orders have just been placed by
the army quartermaster corps for
10000 yards-6O miles-of silk rib
bon, out of which will be made the
service stripes that men who served
in the war against Germany are en-
titled to wear.
|. Col. James Simons, one of the best
known men of South Carolina, died
in Charleston at the age of eighty
years. He was for many years vice
president general of the Society OF
the Cincinnati, was president OF the
News and Courier company, chairman
of two local school boards and a law
yer Of wide reputation.
Plans for a systematic campaign
in the cotton belt for organizing coun-
ties of the states for handling the an
nua1 crop were launched at New Or
leans at the second meeting of the
conference of directors of the Ameri-
can Cotton Association.
J. C. Wannamaker of Columbia, S.
c., president of the American Cot
ton Association, says that four hun
dred million dollars will be needed for
forming the planned corporation to
properly dispose Of one-fourth of the
crop.
A survey of the meat price situa-
ton by the department of agriculture
reveals that the excessive retail prices
now existing are not justified by the
wholesale quotations.
Explosion of the big navy dlrig1ble
C-8, at Camp Halobird, near Baltl-
more, Md, shook the countryside and
eastern Baltimore like an earthquake
and jeopardized the lives of two hun
dred persons, who had gathered to see
the monster flyer. According to the
commander, the explosion was due to
rapid expansion from heat. Several
persons were blown twenty or thirty
feet by the force of the explosion, and
houses a mile away were shaken and
windows broken. The air was filled
with gas fumes.
Exports from the United States dur
ing the month of May were valued at
5000, 500, the department OF COM
nerce announces, and on the basis of
estimates covering June exports, ex-
ports for the fiscal year ending June
80 have amounted to $6,8O6, 900,
by far the largest total in the history
Of the American foreign trade.
Engineer Clifford of the New York
CentraPs Westerner Express, tried, &C.
cording to his dying statement, to
avert the rear-end collision with train
No. IL, which caused the death of
twelve persons, the serious injury of
nineteen others and slight cuts and
bruises to as many more, at Dunkirk,
N. Y. The airbrakes failed to work,
the en2ineer declared