Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-01-16
Additional Information regardIn

Additional information regarding
the murder Of F. J. Roney and Earl
Boles, Americans, has been received
by the state department tending to
show that the men were killed by fed
eral soldiers and not by bandits as re,
ported by the Mexican government.
An appeal to the American people
to extend aid to seven million Aus.
TRANS threatened with anrchy and
death by starvation during the winter
has been forwarded to Washington by
Baron Eichoff, who is head of the
Austrian peace delegation. Baron FL.
choff says the representatives Of the
allied and associated powers in Paris
are fully aware of the terrible distress
by which Austria Is actually afflicted.
He says the United States is the only
country which can ameliorate the con.
dition.
Resolutions endorsing the treaty Of
Versailles and denouncing as unpatri.
otto the attitude Of senators who
would defeat 1t directly or by nullify-
ing reservations, were unanimously
adopted by the Democratic national
committee in session in Washington.
The Republican leadership of the SEN
ate was denounced. Reviewing the
legislative record of the two Wilson
administrations and the manner in
which the war was won, the resolu-
ton expressed qualification that the
president was regaining health after
a breakdown due to his efforts for
world peace"
Complete coordination of all gov.
ernmental agencies, together With an
awakened congress has given the
campaign to rid the nation of radicals
broader aspect. The attorney gen.
erals department is engaged in a hot
pursuit after all radicals all over the
United States.
Copies of plan for all American
industry, modelled after the Plumb
plan for the railroads, captioned IAN
Industrial Program by Glenn e.
Plumb" are being circulated in Wash.
ington, and some of them have been
received in government circles. Very
briefly the plan proposes for all
American industry the system of tri.
partite railroad control advanced some
time ago, with the backing of the great
railroad brotherhoods, and which, 1t
has been announced. will be made an
issue at the elections
Receipt by the state department Of
advices that two more American oil
men, F. j. Roney and Earl BowAs.
had been murdered by Mexicans in
the Tampico district of Mexico, has
been followed by instructions to the
American embassy in Mexico City to
urge the Mexican government to take
every possible step to bring about the
capture and punishment of the muir.
edrers.
No further deportation OF radical
aliens will be undertaken until the ex.
pertinent with the transport Buford,
the first Soviet ark. is completed. il
is stated by the cmmissioner.genera
By a margin of one vote the Su.
preme court has upheld the right of
congress to define intoxicating liquors,
in so far as applied to wartime prohi
bition. Validity Of the federal prohi.
bition constitutional amendment and
portions of the Volstead act affecting
its enforcement was not involved, but
the opinion was regarded as sweeping
and to leave little hope among the
wet adherepts."'
The state department has been In.
formed in report from the United
States consul at Mazatlan, Mexico,
that Harry V. Leonard and Harry o.
Martin, members of the crew of the
United States submarine tender Pc.
comoke, arrested in Mazatlan, Novem.
Der II, after street fight with a
Mexican, had been sentenced to two
months Imprisonment