The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-07-01
Domestic


cial train en- route to the national con-
vention at San Francisco telegraphed
home for money. Thieves entered one
| OF the cars in the train at some place
between Grand Junction, Colo, and
Green River, Wyo., and stole about a
thousand dollars.
In an airplane crash at Paris Island,
near Savannah, Ga, Lieut. Frederick
Malthen, Lieut.. S. e. st. George and
Capt. Gustave Karow of Savannah
were killed.
The United States railroad labor
board will announce it's decision on
the new wage scales to be granted
four million railroad workers on July
20. Officials Of the railway brother
hoods, who waited anxiously for the
boards announcement, said that this
action had probably averted a wide
spread strike of railroad workers,
which, they said, outlaw organizations
had been planning to start June 26 at
midnight.
The Northern Baptist convention
voted after lengthy debate to termi-
nate relations with the Interchurch
World Movement.
volunteer construction program
corps for the making and whiting Of
planks in the Democratic party has
been busy at San Francisco for seve-
raj days, and it is believed their eff.
forts will relieve the tense situation
prevailing.
Several schools Of thought among
the anti-bone dry leaders at San Fran.
cisco have developed, and it will be
difficult matter to bring them to-
gether, in the opinion of many.
Gov. A. r. Roberts of Tennessee an
nounces that he will call special ses-
sion Of the Tennessee legislature for
action on the federal suffrage amend
ment in ample time for the women to
vote in the November, election. This
announcement was made after the gov
ernor was shown copy of a telegram
from President Wilson urging such
action.
Incensed by the action of more than
score of soldiers who invaded Col
lege Park, Ca, attacked and badly
damaged the jail and rescued COM
rade who had ben arrested for using
profane language in the presence of
women, it is stated that the war de-
partmeht will make thorough inves-
t1gation of the alleged lawlessness.
James e. Foye, former hotel clerk,
who was convicted of the theft Of
$35O,OOO worth of jewels from Mrs.
Regina V. G.. Millhiser of Richmond,
Va, a wealthy widow, was sentenced
to fifteen years in Sing Sing peniten-
tiary, New York.
Two men were shot during a riot
near the Scoville Manufacturing COM
pany's plant at Waterbury, Conn., The
trouble began with a gathering of
strikers, during the noon hour, induc-
ed, it is said, by the rumor that the
Scoville company had employed strike
breakers.
A search for knowledge that he
might beat the game of life" and
earn more money with which to care
for his mother, dying of tuberculosis,
caused the arrest in New York City,
of Benjamine Brines,, 20 years old,
machinist by day and New York uni
student by night. He was
with the theft Of book from
the New York public library.
Window cleaners and walters in
New York rated high above the ordi-
nary grade Of wage-earners when tes-
timony was given at the trial of Har-
~ Weiss, charged with keeping a
gambling house, that two of them had
lost $4,000 each in poker game there.
Suffrage leaders express complete
Senator Warren G. Harding, Republi-
can presidential candidate, ON suffrage
after a delegation, led by officers OF
the National Woman's party, had call
I'D ON him at his office and interview
ID him