Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-03-26
Domestic

Agents under Maj. A. " Dalrymple,
prohibition commissioner for the six
central states, are relieved of all pow.
err except to locate contraband liquor.
by an order issued by John F. Kra.
mer national prohibition supervisor,
headquarters in Chicago
Alleged misleading of doctors
prescription resulted in the death of
Mrs. Bertha de Kara Of Brooklyn,
and arrest of Arthur c. Searls, a
pharmacist. on the charge of man.
slaughter.
The Davidson county, Tennessee,
grand jury returned indictments
against several city detectives charg.
ing them with the abduction on No.
vember 10 last, of ]. B. Lawson, a
visiting official of the street railway
employees association Three sets OF
indictments were returned.
The Maryland house of delegates,
without roll call, adopted the ia.
Horable report on the Jones three and
a half per cent liquor bill, after reach.
ing an understanding that the bill will
be open to amendment on the third
reading.
Rev. DR., p. A. Baker, general super
'intendent of the AntiSaloon League,
has issued statement announcing the
league will not support any candidate
for president who is not in favor OF
prohibition, and that eleventh hour"
conversions will not be considered.
Sheriff A. P. Warren of Warren
county. Tennessee, was arraigned in
the federal court at Nashville and
pleaded not guilty to distilIing
charge. He was indicted and his
trial will be held at the present term
of court.
Relatives Of American soldiers who
fell in France who wish the bodies
Of men to remain in France may have
them inferred either in an American
or French cemetery, states the graves
registration section of the war de.
payment.
The New York customs house has
been turned into a temple Of higher
mathematics as millionaire atd day
laborer with brows equally wrinkied
seek to compute their federal income
taxes in the final hours Of grace.
First degree murder was charged
in an indictment return against Stew.
art N. McMullin, a prohibition agent.
who recently shot and killed Harry
Carlton, a chauffeur. in an East Side.
New York, apartment house during
a raid.
Ratification Of the national suffrage
amendment by the West Virginia
state legislature will be carried to the
courts Immediately on the motion of
the National Association Opposed to
Woman Suffrage.
The Francisco Sugar company, "a
New Jersey corporation, admitted in
the court Of chaDcery at Newark, N.
J., that the company proposed to lease
its assets to Cuban corporation to
be known as the Compania Azucar
Francisco in order to escape payment
Of federal income and excess profits
taxes.
The Rev. A. M. johnson of Column
bus, Ohio, was arrested by the police
on complaint of the wife Of an at
torney who charges the minister with
the theft Of over seven thousand dol
lals' worth Of jewelry and securities.
Approximately one thousand persons
we're made homeless in Grand View.
Texas and seven Of the eight business
blocks were in ruins with an estimat-
"a loss Of from one and 4 half mil
ion to two million dollars, as the re-
'ut 81 4 Neutrality-suspicious. fire
Theft Of d 100000 diamond necklace
rom Mrs Emily Ladenburg. widow
il AdoIph Ladenburg, BY an elevator
,oy HI reported BY the New York po
iee The diamond has been recover
d. the boy arrested, jailed and the
|ecklace returned.