Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-04-23

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lions which have been in session in
Atlanta. selected Seattle, Wash, as
the meeting place for 1922.
Six men were killed in a gasoline
explosion at the bottom of a salt mine
near New Iberia, La. Careless light.
ing Of cigarette caused the. explosion.
Almost complete paralysis of the
Kansas coal industry is reported The
announcement at the headquarters of
the coal operators in Pittsburg, Kans.,
as to operations said that only four
steam shovels are working. No deep
mines are working. The suspension
of operations is in protest against the
sentencing to Jail Of Alexander M.
Howat, 1t is said.
Charges that liquor was used In
great quantities to influence votes
to unseat the five Socialist assembly.
men were made in the New York state
senate by Senator Thompson of Nj.
agara. Senator Thompson's accuse.
tons were voiced in the course of the
debate on the passage Of the bills rec
commended by the Lusk committee
which investigated radical activities.
The Birmingham Overall club. with
a membership of three thousand has
been formally organized, and April 16
set as the day on which every member
is to appear on the streets clad in
overalls and solemn pledge was
taken that the denims will be worn
until the price Of clothing hits the to-
boggan.'
The New York conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church has adopt.
I'd a resolution endorsing proposal
o amend church discipline by striking
tut specific prohibition of playing
ards, dancing and theatergoing.
Lieut.. Richard w. Wright of Cleve.
and, who jumped from a burning air.
,lane, 200 feet in the air. is dead in
,amden, N. j. Mark c. Hogue. pilot
Who stood by the burning plane, left
he hospital practically uninjured.
After fourteen years, during which
me he had been living in security
under assumed name, Rich.
I'd Derrick astonished Sheriff Lawson,
Athens, Tenn, by walking into the
Ill and surrendering for trial on the
large of having murdered Hugh Dug.
an near Englewood. The killing took '
ACE IA years ago this month. Derrick {
'omised his wife on her deathbed that ]
) would give his children their right G
ame, and that is the cause of the sur. c
nder.
A woman whose identity has not {
zen learned gave, Augusta, Richmond c
unity, Georgia, and federal authori. v
IS big sensation and they united
a raid on Greene street residence.
e most prominent street in the city. II
,e hundred and forty gallons of whis. Il
y and forty gallons of alcohol were o.
ptured.
In the interest of the state of Ne. Of
da, a suit asking that the decree !
divorce granted on March 2, 1920, =
District Judge Langden to Gladys n
More, more familiary known as
Try Pickford, from Owen e. More, be nc
aside, has been filed in the district
art at Minden by Leonard B. Fow, N
attorney general. In
lancaster Ohio, police are searh. n,
for five older boys who attacked on
lewsboy while he was carrying his ~
tie, bound him to a stake, piled kind. 49,
: and papers about him and, after r.,
rting fire, left him to his fate. -,
'hree persons are known to have ~,
N killed and a half dozen or more 90
ired. some of them seriously, in w. D,
,ado which swept portions of Union M NJ
nty, North Carolina. School -
SEES and churches were swept away
half dozen farm houses demol.
ID and much timber destroyed.
ZEE persons are reported killed and wi
seriously injured. ne
he use Of the rifle ard rope was SCI
ed at citizens meeting in the ap'
afly, N. j.. high school In dealing fer
| strikers through whose actions ma
rs and mails have halted and the ina
very Of food and fuel imperilled. the
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