The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-06-10
Domestic

Hiram Johnson and William Nc
Adoo are favorites in Wall street bet
ting for the nominations for president
of the Republican and Democratic par
ties, respectively.
A young lady, late to work, in Bir-
was reported by a policeman and
fined 81. She phoned the judge she
would mail him a check.
The question of what constitutes a
fair rental return on a residence prop
erty investment precipitated lively
discussion in the annual convention OF
the National Association of Real Els
tate Boards in session at Kansas City,
Mo-, when Charles Mayor of Cincin-
natl took issue with the reports of the
national housing commission that res
idence property owners should obtain
| 1916 per cent on their investemnt to
equal 6 per cent net. Mr.. Mayer de-
clared he had been building, owning
and renting two family houses in Gin
cinnati for IS years and had made
more than per cent net with gross
income of IL per cent on his invest
ments.,
A supreme court jury returned
verdict of guilty of murder in the Sec
ond degree against Pearl Beaver
ODell, charged with assisting her hus-
hand, James l.. O'Dell, who is waiting
execution at Sing Sing, in the MUIR
der of Edward ]. Kneip, on the night
OF January last. Immediately after
announcement of the verdict, Justice
Robert H. Thompson sentenced her to
twenty years Imprisonment at hard la
Dor in Auburn prison. The jury was
out seven hours and a half.
What was said to be tho first car
load of sugar ever imported through
the port of Brownsville, Texas, was
passed through the customs house
recently and was distributed in that
city. The sugar was produced in the
state of Vera Cruz. The importer an
nounced that when he receives three
more cars ordered he will sell it to
local retailers about $2.25 a hundred
pounds cheaper than the prices pre-
vailing in this country.
The Antwerp Diamond company,
which operates three credit jewelry
and clothing stores in Buffalo, was
found guilty in United States district
court of a violation of the Lever act
BY charging unjust and unreasonable
prices for clothing and was fined
$4,000. The jury found the compa-
ny guilty on sixty of the sixty-one
counts of the indictment and recon-
mended leniency in the case.
Establishment of regulated zone
in the pink boil worm infested area
in southwest Texas was recommend
ed by the house and senate commit
tees of Texas to the state legislature.
The committees, which conducted joint
Hearings, recommended an appropria'
ton of one million dollars to reim'
burse farmers for any cotton Destroy
ed under the proposed regulation for
enforcement of the law.
Thursday, June 8, being Jeff Davis
birthday, was a legal holiday in all
Southern states.
Resolutions urging the suppression
of lynching and an end to the Jim
crow law were passed at the closing
| session of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie, at Atlanta, Ga. Detroit, Mich,
was selected as the place for the next
meeting, because of its great import
ance as a negro center.
At least six men were killed by an
explosion in the coal shaft of the On
tario Gas Coal compars near Cokes-
burg, Pa. The men were buried I'M
der tons of earth, and the foreman
in charge of the work said he would
not be able to tell the exact number
of dead until the bodies had been
recovered.
H R. Crone, chief chemist at the
Old Hickory Powder plant in Nash
vile, Tenn, has beer arrested on :.
warrant sworn out by United States
Attorney Lee Douglass in connection
with thefts of platinum from the plant
which officials say may run into the
hundreds of thousands Of dollars.
Crone refused to say anything in con-
nection with the charges against him.
:. ]. E. Taylor, so, and his wife, A,
were found dead in their parlor at
Roanoke, Va, Immediately after seve-
raj pistol shots were heard. The po-
lice say the cause was the high cost
of living.