Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-10-10

tions are splendid and getting better.
The whole South is beginning to wake
up to the fact that good sanitation -
the first requisite for good health
Washington
Bodies OF all American soldiers In
TERED in Germany, Belgium, Italy,
Great Britain and Luxembourg and in
northern Russia will be returned to
the United States as soon as neces'
sary transportation can be arranged
Secretary Baker announces that he
has issued instructions to the pnr'
chase. storage and traffic division Of
the general staff TO take charge OF
the matter and TO hasten il as much
as possible
Official information bearing on the
reported disappearance in lkrania OF
Brig. Gen Edgar Jadwin, represents
tive OF the American peace delega-
ton, had not been received in Wash
ington. Major General Churchill, the
chief Of military intelligence, cabled
the American military attache at War.
saw. Poland, to thoroughly investigate
the report.
President Wilson's condition is re-
ported improving slowly
Admiral Knapp. commanding the
American naval forcesin European wa
ters, says that Intervention by the
American naval forces at Trau, Dal-
malta prevented bloodshed which per
haps would have resulted in state
of actual war between Italy and Jugo
Slayia.
The Russian ambassador has inform
ed the state department that that the
superior Russian commander in Sibe.
ria has appologized 10 the commander
Of the American forces in Siberia for
the incident at Imam, Siberia, involv-
ing the arrest by cossacks Of an Amer
lean officer and enlisted men and the
floggng of the latter.
investigation has been started by
the bureau OF internal revenue OF the
complaints made by jewelry men that
articles taxable under the luxury
clause of the revenue act are being
sold in tobacco and stationery boxes
without collection ofthe tax.
American aid for Armenia soon will
be unnecessary. says James W. Gerard.
former United States ambassador to
Germany. He says there Will be no
Armenian problem because all the Ar.
menians will have starved to death
In a month.
Breaking three weeks deadlock,
senate and house conferees have At
last reached an agreement on the pro
hbition enforcement bill Quick ap.
proyal Of the conierees report is ex.
pected
AT last reaching the stage Of action
in its consideration OF the peace trea.
~ the senate has swept aside SO out
Of the 40 amendments which had been
written into the document by the for.
eign relations committee
In the absence Of definite agree
ment, senate leaders think that the
debate on the remaining amendments
to the peace treaty will run on for sew
eral days before another roll call vote
is taken
John w. Bennett Of Waycross has
been nominated by the president to
be United States attorney for the
southern district of Georgia
A dispatch from Il Paso, Texas, says
American aviators flying into Mex.
leo will be fired upon by Mexican
troops The dispatch states that Ig'
nacie Bonillas Mexican ambassador
at Washington, had been instructed to
convey this information to the state
department.
Ten thousand emergency officers are
to be relieved of their commissions
between now and the first OF No
vember, and warning is given that
men retained in the service, both reg
ulars and emergency officers, will un'
doubtedly suffer reduction in rank in
i
numerous cases.
Brand Whitlock Of Ohio, now min
lister to Belgium. has been nominal
ed by President Wilson to be ambas
sador to that country.
Southern states business interests
are to have immediate government
aid in fostering larger participation in
foreign trade and in the development
of their ports. Trade Commissioner
Garrard Harris of the department Of
commerce left Washington for Bir
mingham and later will go to Mobile
and New Orleans to inaugurate the
work. Temporary headquarters viii
be established first at Mobile
Secretary Lansing returned to Wash
ington after a vacation of severa
weeks at Henderson Harbor N. Y.
Shipping in American ports, so fal
as it concerns shipping board vessel.
with cargoes consigned to ports of The
United Kingdom, was at standstil
because of the strike of British rail
way workers, Suspension of the sail
ings of all vessels under its contro
to ports of England, Scotland, IRELAND
and Wales has been announced by thu
shipping board through the making
public of an order issued when the
railroad strike became known Ger
tainty.