Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-11-12
Domestic

Domestic
Making his first speech as president
elect, Warren G. Harding declared at
an election celebration Of homefolks
at Marion, Ohio, the little white
house." that the Versailles league Of
nations was now deceased although
the new administration intended to
see that the nation played its part in
a new international association found
ed on peace and justice.
Farley P. Christensen, presidential
nominee Of the Farmer-Labor party,
sees in the victory of Senator Harding
the elimination of the Democratic par.
ty as factor in national politics.
Limitation on the export of coal to
insure an adequate supply for home
industries and to direct the trade to
countries that are natural markets for
American coal and to those to which
American ships sail in ballast is ad.
vocated by Secretary of Commerce AL
exander in discussing the natitt.al
coal export policy at Washington re-
Gently.
Judge Ebert H. Gary of the Unit.
ed States Steel corporation, predicted
eight years Of Republican rule, with
proper appointments and strong
cabinet, with record of achieve
ments that will have a decided in.
fluence on the welfare of the people.
The upper South Carolina confer
ence of the NJ e. church, oSuth, con-
vened at Union, S. G. Two hundred
and seventy.five delegates are in at
tendance.
The Moore Haven and Clewiston
railroad of Florida has applied to
the interstate commerce commission
at Washington, for authority to issue
$50 900 in bonds.
]. w. Patterson reported to be the
tallest man in the world, 7 feet, s
inches, is dead in Bloomburg, Texas.
Nome, Alaska, which during the
gold rush of 1900 had population
of $4,000, has only 200 inhabitants
now.
President Wilson's home district,
the seventh New Jersey election dis.
trict, went for aHrding.
Miss Helen A. Smith OF Denver, COL,
has sued Joseph Kojuh for $4,000
damages sustained in an automobile
accident. She states that her attrac.
tiveness has been spoiled.
A Seattle bootblack charged $1S.15
for a shine" and was arrested and
incarcerated.
Election returns show that Califor.
mia is carrying out the anti-Japanese
program.
Virgil Henshaw, head of the nation.
al prohibition party, says no believes
prohibition will spread rapidly In the
British Isles as the result of the &C.
ton in Scotland in which II areas
went dry.
Miss Alice Robertson, a candidate
on the Republican ticket from the
second Oklahoma district, won, and
will sit In the next congress. President
Wilson appointed her postmistress of
Muskogee.
Laban ]. jenkins, Republican, de-
feated candidate for congress from
the tenth North Carolina district, may
contest the election He charges whole
sale fraud, particularly in the cast.
ing of votes of people who were not
in the district at the time Of the cleo
ton.
Warren G. Harding spent his first
day as president elect resting from
the tension of election and reviewing
late returns, with particular attention
to the makeup of the Sixty-seventh
congress.
A marriage license has been issued
in New York to Henry White, former
United States ambassador To Italy
and France and delegate to the peace
conference, and Mrs. Emily Vanderbilt
Sloane, widow Of William Douglas
Sloane and sister of Cornelius Van.
derbilt of New York and Lenox, Mass.
Senator Lodge says the election Of
November 2 was distinctly an Ameri-
can victory. zone Of the first duties
Of the new administration" he says,
will be to draw up an agreement look
ing to the preservation Of the peace
OF the world"
1t is definitely known that Tennes-
see has swung into the Republican
column. Taylor wins for governor,
and Harding carries the state by q
substantial majority.
Victor Berger, twice elected to con.
gress from the fifth Wisconsin dis
trict, and subsequently unseated, was
defeated by his Republican opponent
by 100 majority.
Ernest White, his wife and two chill.
dren, we're drowned in the Tennessee
river near Whitesburg, Ala
DR.. Grayson says Wilson apparently
shows no III effects as result OF
Democratic defeat.