The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-08-19
Domestic

the suffrage amendment by a vote OF
rs to 4. The bill now goes to the
house, and it is expecte dto pass that
body very shortly.
Declaring that women should have
"the first right to speak when the is
sue is whether or not the world shall
hencefOrth be ruled by reason and
righteousness, or by blood and iron,"
Governor Beckett, in a special message,
called upon the North Carolina legis-
lature to accept ''the inevitable and
ratify the federal woman suffrage
amendment"
An Infatuated crowd of investors
stormed the offices of the Old Col
ony Foreign Exchange company in Bos-
ton August 10 and sought to the pres
ident of the company, which he ad.
mitted was insolvent..
The tragic romance of wealthy man
and the world and country miss was
unfolded in Washington through the,
investigation of the deaths of J. Ford
Thompson and Mary Sneeringer. They
had been missing four days, and were
found in the woods near Emmitsburg,
by being found two revolvers.
J. Krowley, st. Paul, a passenger in
an airplane officiating in the welcome
of the first aerial mail plane, was Sc
riOusly injured when the plane fell 70
feet. Pat Malone, the pilot, escaped
with but slight injury.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic
candidate for vice president, opened
his campaign in Chicago before a
crowd of three thousand at the audi
forum theater, urging Republicans
and Independents to join the Demo-
Gratis in support of the platform adopt
ed at San Francisco, and tn eticket
nominated there, contending that the
present Republican regime is entirely
under the control Of the "old guard"
which beat Theodore Roosevelt.
1t is announced that of the steam
ship lines to be established by the Bra
lillian Lloyds between Brazil and the
United States, one line will consist of
three express steamers from Rio ia
metro to New York; the second will be
made up Of four steamers, which will
call at Buenos Aires, Montevideo,
Brazilian ports and New York, and the
ships of the third will play between
Brazilian ports and Havana and New
Orleans.
The railway labor boards decision
awarding an annual wage increase Of
thirty million dollars to employees Of
the American Express company, will
be submitted to the eighty thousand
men affected in a referendum with a
recommendation that the award be &C.
cepted, by the officials of the four
unions included in the decision. The
award amounts to an increase to 16
cents an hour for each employee. The
decision is retroactive to May 1, 1920.
Four unions are affected-the Brother.
hood of Railway and Steamship Clerks,
Freight Handlers, Express and Station
Employees; the International Brother
hood of Transfers; Chauffeurs Local
No. 72O of Chicago; the Order of Rail-
way Expressmen.
James O'Neill, who seven thousand
times proclaimed ''The world is mine!"
on a jagged stage rock in a stage sea.
is dead. He died in Lawrence Memo
rial hospital at New London, Conn.,,
surrounded by his wife and two sons.
Edward Gordon, u, appeared in re-
corder's court in Atlanta, Ca, on a
charge Of being drunk and disorderly.
He was fined SIS and costs. He was
well groomed, although he is pen
Gil peddler, and spoke with the perfec-
ton of a. college professor, quoting |
Shakespeare fluently. /
Rose Ponzi. pretty, dark-eyed Ita1-
ian girl wife of Charles Ponzi, proved |
her love and faith in her husband by |
the simple statement: "He is my hus.
band.' She is happy that the nerve.
straining of the past few weeks is over.
She says, he is the same to her, rich
or poor.