The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-09-25

TO make one speech anu spent Cuc
rest of the day motoring and resting.
Domestic
Five thousand welI-to-do British
women determined to obtain Ameri-
can husbands soon will arrive in the
United States, according to a warn
ing issued to bachelors by Mrs. S.
c. Seymour of Camden, N. j., who
has just returned from Europe, where
she was employed by the military au-
thorities to supervise the transporta-
ton of the war brides of American
soldiers in different parts Of Europe.
Recovery of ninety-eight additional
bodies along the north shore of Nue.
ces bay brought the known dead as
a result of the gulf storm to nearly
four hundred and caused fears that
the total death roll might reach dou-
BILE that number. The message is from
Corpus Christi.
That the Spanish steamer Valhane-
ra, carrying three hundred passengers
and a crew of one hundred and fifty,
went down in the hurricane that swept
Key West, Fla, ten days ago, appear
ed to have been made certain by the
statement of Ensign L. B. Roberts,
commanding officer of the United
States sub-chaser 2O3, who stated that
he plainly saw the nameplate of that
steamer on the vessel found in forty
feet Of water near Key West.
An extract from a magazine article
written in 1914 by Theodore Roose-
welt was read by President Wilson
in an address at San Diego, Cal, in
favor of the league of nations. Il am
glad to align myself with such utter
ances. Here in concrete form is the
fulfillment of the plan they advocat-
ed" said the president.
The president in San Diego, Cal,
spoke from a glass-enclosed platform,
and his words carried out to the dis
tant rim of the stadium by means OF
an electrical device. Only part OF
those present could hear him. how
ever, and before he finished there
were many empty seats.
Notification that President Wilson
had selected them to act as repre-
sentatives of the public in the labor
conference he has decided upon to
meet in Washington, October 6, next,
are in the hands of twenty-five men
residing in all parts Of the country.
The notification was sent out en-
bodying an expression of the presl-
dents sincere hope" thai the recipi-
ent might find it possible to under
take this very important service.
Besides the representatives OF the pub
lie, twenty-five representatives OF Or
ganized labor and organized labor en-
blowers are to participate in the con-
ference.
A new worlds altitude record is be-
lieted to have been made at Mineola,
N. Y, when Rolan Rohlfs, test pilot
for the Curtiss Airplane company,
scared 1850 feet above sea level. |
Roosevelt field, his starting point, IS
10 feet above sea level. Rholts &C
tually climbed $4,000 feet, according
to the paragraph. His altimeter reg
istered 34,4OO feet.
The total grain crops Of the South
ern states for the present year Will
show a gain of about three hundred |
and twenty-six million bushels over |
the crops of last year, while in the |
rest of the country there will be a
decrease of about three hundred and |
million bushels.
A thorough survey Of the demolished
section of Corpus Christi by newspaper
showed block after
block of the beach residential section
without a vestige of the former beau
tifu1 homes.
Reports to the department of JUS
lice from twelve states indicate that
here has been a decline of 10 to Is per
cent in food prices since the time
the fair price committee began their
work.
Clothing is still high, and the fair
price committee, operating out OF
are hot on the trail of
he clothing ''privateers," both whole
sale and retail.
The engine of a nOrthbound freight
rain on the Louisville and Nashville
'ailroad blew up at Hygeia, Tenn, kill
ng the fireman, injuring the engineer
md setting fire to the station and
rain.
Rapid growth of the death list re-
,ulting from the hurricane and tidal
wave that swept Corpus Christi and
learby points caused the belief to
prevail among the relief workers and
Texas officials that the total dead
would approximate five hundred per-
ons.
Reaching it's climax in a scene in
he house chamber at Washington that
rev added dignity from the simplicity
f the setting the nations welcome
O General Pershing came to an end
vhen the thanks of congress and of
he American people were extended
O him and the army he commanded.
there were no military bands or
anks of soldiery, and but one flag,
hat draped on the wall back Of the
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