Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-07-11
IMPORTANT NEWS
The WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS or rhIo
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS or THE SOUTH
what 10 Taking Place In The South
land viii Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Domestic

The department Of agriculture EN-
phasizes that Save Food" signs mus
now be disregarded as to meat, espe
cially beef, and wheat products. Faced
by the largest wheat crop on recort
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 thai
no such necessity for conservation Of
such foods any longer exists.
DIR. Anna Shaw, honorary president
Of the National American Woman {
Suffrage Association, died at hel
home in Moylan, Pa, near Philadel
phia, at the age Of II years. She
was chairman Of the womans 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 Spr ngfield, ILL.,, about a month
ago while Oh a lecture tour
Seated under canopy Of sun with
the mercury in the thermometer flirt'
ing with 100 degrees, 10000 fight fans
saw Jack Dempsey defeat Jess Will
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
5000 yardc-60 miies-of silk rib
bon, out of which will be made the
,ervice stripes that men who served
m 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 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.
nual crop were launched at New Or.
teams at the second meeting of the |
conference of directors of the Ameri- /
can Cotton Association.
J. C. Wannamaker of Columbia, So
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 dirigible |
C-S. at Camp Halobird, near Balti- |
more. Md, shook the countryside and I
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
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 mile away we're 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
$500, 379,599, the department OF com.
merce announces, and on the basis OF
estimates covering June exports, ex.
ports for the fiscal year ending June
30 have amounted to $6,S06, 100000 ,
by far the largest total in the history
,f the American foreign trade.
Engineer Clifford of the New York |
Centrals Westerner Express, tried, ac-
.ording to his dying statement, to
lvert the rear-end collision with train
No. IL, which caused the death of {
welve persons, the serious injury OF t
nineteen others and slight cuts and 7
bruises to as many more, at Dunkirk,
Y. Y. The airbrakes failed to work, t
he engineer declared |