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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06
DENIES THAT BRITAIN
SEEKS FURTHER LOANS

Washington Positive assertion
mat the British government does not
plan to seek further loans in the
United States but on the contrary is
lesirous of reducing the obligations
4 already has incurred here is includ-
ed in statement from London trans
mitted to Secretary Glass through r.
c. Lindsay, British charge d'aifairs.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06
KoLcHAK MAKES HIS ESCAPE
FROM THE BOlSHEVIki HORDE

Honolulu, T. H.-Admiral Kolchak
is reported to have escaped from the
Nolsheyiki and to be in hiding in Man
'huria. according to Toxic dispatch
to the Japanese newspaper Nippi Jill
here.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06
At Limit of Resources.

1.-THE university has. must report
in all frankness, reached in every
direction the limit of its present re-
sources President H. w. Chase Of
the University Of North Carolina said
in his annual report to the board.
Nothing is more evident. than
that, II we are to care for even our
present numbers, we must enter upon
an extended building program. With
dormitories, dining hall, class rooms,
laboratories, chapel, administrative
puate, the need for relief Is plain
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06
ITALIAN MARRIAGE ANNULLED
BECAUSE IT WAS cHllDLESS

Milan.-The annnulment OF a mar
riage has been obtained here solely on
the grounds that II was childless. This
decision is expected to be followed by
numerous applications for the annul-
ment on similar grounds, for there Is.
no divorce in Italy.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06
GOVERNMENT OF JAMAICA MAY
TAKE LIQUOR UNDER CONTROL

Kingston, Jamaca.-The govern
ment is considering a proposal to put
the liquor traffic under state control
There are numerous American tour
lists in the island now, the rush being
said to be due partly to prohibition In
the United States.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06
1910 cron z87.z22 Bales.

The preliminary report OF Director
Sam L. Rogers, Of the bureau Of CEN
sus, shows that a total of 7S7,722
bales OF cotton we're ginned in North
Carolina in 1919, of the crop that year
and 1918, as compared with 76S,946
bales ginned in 1918. showing gain
of 1874 bales for 1919.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06

Charlotte, The total amount OF
taxable property In Meckleburg coun-
ty for the year 1919, including real and
personal property, corporation excess
and railroads, is s4G,522,5S3 according
to the figures complied by F. NJ. Ores
ham county auditor
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06
HERBERT HoovER'S NAME
ON DEMOCRATIC BALLOT

Lansing. Mich-Petitions to place
the name Of Herbert Hoover on the
democratic ballot at the presidential
preference primary April 5, were re-
ceived by the secretary Of state.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06
Government Officials Coming.

Washington. - Especially Through
Raleigh and other North Carolina
towns on the Bankhead National high
way is promised caravan of good
roads pilgrims and high government
officials on April IT, Colonel Bene-
han Cameron, Of Stagville, Raleigh
and Richmond, and a party Of direc-
tors, including several women of the
United States Good Roads association
completed the plans for the tour over
the highways of a dozen states.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06
CONTROL OF RAILROADS COST
GOVERNMENT 100000, 900.

Washington.-Op Operation OF the rail-
roads, Pullman lines, express com
panies and waterways. unified under
federal control has cost the nation ap.
proximately $7OOOOO,OOO, according to
official calculation since they were
taken over two years ago.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06

Shelby,-Thomas j. Ashley, Of
Cleveland county, convicted in March,
1918, OF manslaughter and sentenced
to term Of four years in the States
prison was pardoned by Governor
Beckett upon recommendation of the
solicitor. the Judge who tried the case,
and a large number OF representative
citizens Of Cleveland county.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06
COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE
4 SPECULATION IN RAW SILK.

New York.-A commission to seek
remedy for the excessive specula-
tion In raw silk" will sail from San
Francisco, February 81 for Japan and
China, 1t was learned
The commission was selected by
leading American silk manufacturers
who met In secret session here.
The present price Of $3.50 pound
is declared unprecedented and prohi.
bitive." The rate had been 1886 pes
opnud.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06
LAST OF MORMON PIONEERS
GATHERED TO HIS FATHERS

Salt Lake City.-William c, A.
Smoot, last of the band OF pioneers
which reached the valley of Salt Lake
July "a, lS47. with Brigham Young,
died here at the age of 80.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06

Raleigh,-Dr. A. b. Hawkins, one Of,
II not, Raleighs oldest citizen, %
years old. celebrated the event by
entertaining his friends. DR.. Hawkins
is today hale and hearty. He is the
oldest living alumnus OF the Univer.
sity OF North Carolina.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06

Asheville.-With all the theaters
and schools closed and public gather
fngs OF all kinds banned by the city
commissioners, and with 232 new
cases Of influenza reported here the
situation in Asheville has become
acute.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06
WAR RISK INSURANCE MAY BE
RENEWED BY DATE OF JULY Z

Washington. Former service men
may reinstate their war risk term in
surance at any time before July /, 1920
under new ruling OF the bureau OF
war risk insurance announced by d.
rector Cholmeley Jones.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06
PROVES FATAL
IN MANY CHICAGO CASES.

Chicago.-Deaths from influenza
and pneumonia since the outbreak OF
the epidemic January Is totalled l.
66S. During the same period 2G,SSS
cases of the disease were reported.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES H. II. Hartley,
one OF the most prominent and wealth
lest citizens OF Davidson county died
at his home at Tryo at the age OF so
years.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06
ACCOMMODATION is FATE
OF BOHEMIAN REFORMlST6

Rome The holy see has decided to
ex-communicate the Bohemian reform
ist priests who are separating from
the vatican and forming Czecho-
Slovak national church.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-06
ROOSEVELT TAKES PLACE ON
WOOD CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE.

Chicago, Theodore Roosevelt has
accepted a place on the Leonard Wood
national campaign committee, it was
announced at Wood headquarters,
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-22
What the Sun Gives Us.

The cost of light per ounce has re-
Gently been worked out by DR.. Charles
Davidson of Greenwich observatory,
says London Tit-Bits. It takes an
appalling amount Of light to weigh
an ounce, he says, and the cost, as
supplied by gas and electric light
companies, works out at something
like f1O,OOO,OOO. =
The sun showers down on us 100
tons Of this valuable stuff every day,
says the doctor, yet we often neglect
this free gift and prefer to pay f1O,-
100000 an ounce for a very much in
ferior orali-y. IT,,
If the n charged us for his mag
nificent light at the same rate as the
gas and electric light companies, we
should have to pay f57,344, 900, 000, 900
day, or about 21,0OO million pounds
q year; but the sun does not charge
he gives it to us all without money
and without price.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-22
Origin Of Nautical Terms.

. . job - 10 b.
What is the origin Of the nautical
term dead reckoning?" Perhaps the
general impression is that the prefix
dead" is so common in technical
terms related to the ship and It's rig
ging that it is merely the mariners
way of expressing himself. There are
"dead-eyes." Headlights" dead
wood" "dead-door," "dead-fat," and Z
host of others. and al SAVIOR more at
the ozone than. of genealogical neces
sity. But there Is q peculiar interest
in the origin Of "dead reckoning
which has always been regarded an
one of the most puzzling terms to
trace. The old-fashioned method Of
keeping the ships log. before the ad-
miralty supplied specially printed
books, was to use small, loose sheets
Of paper, ruled into several columnA
The latitude column being too narrow
to admit the words "deduced latitude
in full at the head, the words were alb
breviated to .'Ded. Lat" "Ded," easily
became corrupted into dead and
hence the singular phrase for descrfb-
ing the mariners "deduced" position
on the high seas.-Christian Science
Monitor. ~
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-22
LADEN WITH sPolLs OF WAR
ChInaman Who Worked With Allied
Forces In France 4 Wonderful
I Sight When He Returns.

Pick and spade heroes of the Chi
nese republic, who soldiered 50 hard in
France for an allied victory, are re-
turning to the homeland with the
choice pickings Of the salvage piles
Of Europe on their backs. The Home
Sector gives this picture of the re-
turning coolie sports There are two
obvious signs which make it plain
that great things are stirring in these
hitherto ,unstirred parts. One Of them
literally smites the eye as soon as the
returned warrior steps down the gang
plank Of the coolie transport at Using
tau or Shanghai. Dizzily arrayed in
the sart0rial pickings of all the earth,
they are fears0me wonder to behold.
American overseas caps and Scottish
kits, French shoes, swagger sticks, a
chasseur hat set raktshly on the ear
and a bird cage In, hand in the man
ner of the native teahouse, sometimes
even Sam Brown belt-it is a wild
cubist melange of the costumery and
appurtenances Of all the world and all
times. n la,sr s4.s
'The little children run before them
In terror, the aged resign themselves
to the coming of the long-forboded
evil spirits wreaking vengeance for
the joss stick left to go out before the
village god"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-22
TRIBUTE TO EX-SERVlCE MEN
National Commander D'oiler, In Let
ter for Memorial Service, compli.
merts Msn Who Served.

Listen, buddies, to what Franklin
D'Olier, your national commander,
said about you in a recent letter. A
Legion post at Westville, N. j.. asked
Rev. Howard e. Thompson OF Wood
bury, N. j., to conduct Memorial
service for them, and the minister
wrote the national commander for a
message which he could read publicly
on that occasion.
I'm very few years" Mr.. D'Olier
wrote, in part, "the ex-service men Of
this country will be the most promi-
nent in business, In the professions and
in politics, not merely because they
are ex-service men, but because, In
order to enter the service, they were
picked men, physically, mentally and
morally, and being thus selected and
having the advantage of great expert
ence in the army. navy and marine
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-22
Why SIGN BEFORE you READY
Too Many Seem Pleased to Affix Their
Signatures to Anything Put
Before Them. s.&

:, Judge Albion T. Wright said at a
lawyers banquet in Cincinnati:
!" Sign here, please Gentlemen, it's
astonishing how these three simple
words hypnotic thousands of people,
causing them t6 aftix their signatures
to contracts and agreements that they
will repent all their lives.
II signed the paper without read
Ing tia witness said to me one day.
Mr.. Blank told me what its contents
were and I, naturally, thought that !
could trust him. .,.., ,as.-
Eyes said I, but you should have
remembered that when a person asks
YOU to sign something he, for his part,
doesn't trust your word-he insists on
having it in black and white. Well,
then, why should you take his word
when he won't take yours?''
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-22
] Chinese Peanuts.

Shantung appears not only In peace
treaties. but in peanuts. It is the big
gest peanut raising district in China.
It is estimated that it raises about 500
100000 pounds of peanuts every year
and that it exports about 266,O GOO, 600
pounds Of shelled and unshelled nuts
Before the war some 60 per cent Of
the total export went to Europe. II
1918 the total expectations from China
Of peanut oil were 10000 tons, worth
$S,OOOOOO One-half Of this was sent
to America. The domestic consump-
ton by China of peanuts and oil II
enormous. In north and south China
the people use peanuts for food and
for cooking purposes. What Is sent
abroad is but small percentage Of
the aggregate product. Peanut cake.
which is the refuse after extracting
oil, is used mainly for the feeding Of
animals. II. q .l.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-22
CONGRESS RESPONDS 10 CALL
Legion 10 Successful In Obtaining Pas
sage Of TWO Measures Impor-
tant to Manned Heroes.

Appropriations of $46,OOO,OO0 for
disqualification Of disabled discharged
ex-service persons and $12O, OOO,0 900 for.
vocational training for MANNED heroes
OF the world war have been obtained
from congress to date through the ef-
forts of the American Legion, accord
! Ing to report recently received at
Legion national headquarters from
Thomas w. Miller chairman Of the
organizations national legislative COM
mittee in Washington.
'The sundry civil BILL" the report
reads, carried an appropriation Of
$90,0OO.00O to be expended by the fed
eral board for vocational education,
and it is the belief Of this committee
that the board will be able, In the near
future, to render more efficient d.
1ersified service to all Of our disabled
comrades
The committee previously had OBJ
tanned from congress $50, OOO,OO ap-
preparation, which, together with the
Legion's cooperative plan for round.
ing up eligibles and for assisting the
federal board In placing them In train
ing, had gone far toward remedying
conditions which induced the Legion
to institute a congressional investiga-
ton resulting in sweeping reforms.
The report Is summary Of recent
activities of the committee in it's ef-
forts to carry out the Legion's pro-
gram Of beneficial legislation as out
lined at the Minneapolis convention
last year. Among others, it cites the
following provisions embodied In vari-
Gus measures recently adopted:
All disabled personnel still in hos
pitfalls may continue to travel on fur
Tough at one-cent rate per mile
All men now in receipt Of hospital
ization from the United States public
health service will be entitled to pur-
chase quartermaster supplies from
the government at cost.
The compensation originally allowed
vocational board students was $40 a
month. The Legion induced congress
to increase this to $50 month, and
the recent passage Of the barrow bill
fixes their allowance at 500 month
during the period Of training. with ad-
ditional allowances for married men.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-22

drsr officers training camp at Langres,
France, but was detached before re-
ceNing commission and assigned to
duty on the Stars and Stripes when
that publication was started in Febru-
ary, 1918, and remained with it, most
Of the time as managing editor, until
its career came TO an end with the
homecoming of the A. E. F. He re-
ceived a citation from General Per-
shing and recently received medal
from the French government for orig
mating the plan which led to the
adoption OF 1857 war orphans by
American soldiers overseas.
AS editor Of the Weekly Mr.. Ross is
now conducting an active campaign
for the readoption of these same or
phans by the more than 5000 Ameri-
can Legion posts throughout the Uni
ted States and in many foreign coun-
tries.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-22
LOOKING BACKWARD
By WILLIAM r. SHIELDS

love to think Of days In camp, whom
early in the morn
family heard-and deeply cursed-4hs
bugler's raucous horn;
/ ut and dream of training days whom
would hike and drill,
And learn q thousand fancy ways tho
subtle boche to KILL
And often from the field ia trudge With
sweat upon my brow:
I love to lie In bed and think, needn't
do It now.
l love to think Of days-and nights-Whsn
in the snow and rain
I stood on guard and froze my feet and
almost went insane;
I love to think Of slushy days when ON
my sturdy back
I'd tote through Frances sticky mud
hefty army pack;
And oft at night I'd hunt . berth In
some chilly NOV;
I love to lie in bed and think. needn't
do 1t now.
All. well; ''the moving finger writes, and,
having writ, moves on;''
Those days (AlasD will ne'er return-&hey
are forever gone:
The time has passed when ! was wont
to stick the husky Hun;
5I,m Just a drab civilian, boil miss the
old-time fun,
But still don't feel very blue: kiss my
loving frau. N
And lie in bed. ana thank my stAfs I'm
not soldier NOW.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-22
Making Study Of Genetics.

In order to learn more about inner
itance in cattle and other animals, in
formation is wanted by L. j. Cole. of
the genetics department Of the Wis
consin college Of agriculture, about
the similarity of the duplicate parts
Of double monsters, such as double
headed calves, or calves with one head
and two bodies. This will help In a
study Of itwinhing and other related
phenomena.
This information can best be OBJ
tanned, says Mr.. Cole, from specimens
with white markings, where compar-
ison can be made of the extent and
shape of the two parts. These freaks
are often mounted or preserved and
the genetics department would appre-
ciate Information as to where photo
graphs or sketches can be obtained.
This material will help toward an I'M
Outstanding Of some problems in in
herltance in cattle and other animals.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-22
FURLOUGH At ATLANTIC CITY
Famous Resort Post Arranqes to Ae-
commodate Former Service Men
on Their Vacations.

The Atlantic City post Of the Ameri-
can Legion Is hooking up the A. E. F..
leave area idea to the possibilities Of
Americas summer resort. 1t. is invit-
ing Legionnaires from any part Of the
United States to spend furlough at
Atlantic City, and it is establishing for
them a tent camp at which the ex-
pense item Of quarters is reduced to a
minimum. So, even though our we'll
known former skipper, Uncle Sam,
isn't available to issue transportation
and communication of ratiOns and quar-
tiers, any Legionnaire may now spend
q vacation at Atlantic City without
going financially fiat in the process.
Bill Fisher, formerly top sergeant Of
Company C, Twenty-third engineers,
is the father of the Atlantic City leave
area plan. He put the scheme up to
the Atlantic City post and the post
voted to carry it out. A committee
was authorized to go ahead with the
scheme.
The conception Of the camp which
the committee had in mind when 1t
started work was tent town which
should be operated on the simplest
plan feasible. It should provide for
nominal sum living quarters under
canvas, thus saving the Legionnafres
{ the expensive hotel bills and at the
same time assuring them Of place to
stay in a city in which it Is sometimes
difficult to obtain hotel accommoda-
lions at any price. Living in the tent
town, the ex-service men should be
able to take advantage OF the bathing,
the boating, the dancing on the piers.
the shows in the theaters and the
many other diversions which the re-
sort offers. s5
The, committee has named the tent
town Camp D'Olier in honor Of the lie
Rion's national commander. It has
worked out all the details Of, the camp.
The city councilmen, led by the mayor,
granted the post the right to use
plot Of ground owned by the city and
the city engineer laid out the camp
streets and planned the sanitary facili-
ties.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-22
HE ADOPTS FRENCH ORPHAN
Leroy Tucker, Former Captain, Aids
Leo ion's Campaign in Memory
Of His Father.

Another contribution Of So for the
adoption Of French war orphan, in
the Legion's campaign to aid 5000 late
proteges of the A. f. F., making a to-
tai of four to date, was received at L.
gion national headquarters during the
week ending May 20. The adopter is
lie Roy Tucker, formerly captain,
Twenty-1ifth Engineer Service COM
pany, Twentieth Engineers, now living
at 1901 West Sixth street, Topeka,
Kan. .#." = III ~
I'm memory Of my father, James
Walter Tucker Of the One Hundred
and Thirty-fourth Indiana infantry Of
the Civil war;" the captain writes, II
want to adopt French orphan on this
Memorial day.
''As I spent most Of my time in
France in the Vosges mountains, do
ing forestry duty, would like little
girl from the department of the
Vosges, If possible. And II you have
any way Of knowing, select little
girl with brown eyes and hair.
.'P. S.-If the young lady will write
In French, will Improve my knowl-
edge Of French bit, and II she cares
to receive letters in English, will be
glad to write"
Mr.. fuckers request was forward
ed, with his contribution, to the Amer
lean Red Cross.
National headquarters Of the Ameri-
can Legion has adopted two Of the
orphans and another has been taken
under the paternal wing Of Karl Ross
most Stockton. Cal.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-22
.LUDLOFF ASSUMES new TASK
RESIGNS as Executive Secretary in
Headquarters Office to Take Up
Work In New York.

III. e. Ludloff, who was member
Of the national headquarters staff OF
the American Legion since May, 1919,
recently resigned as executive secre-
tary in the indianapolis Offices to take
up his duties with the Equitable Life
Assurance society, New York, as sec
rotary to the second vice president.
William J. Graham. " i
When Henry d. Lindsey, first ma:
tional commander of the Legion first
opened the national headquarters at
New York, Mr.. Ludloff became man
ager and helped in the early organi-
zation work. He served in this ca
pacity and also as secretary OF the
national executive committee until
after the national convention Of the