Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-03-05
Domestic

Governor Robertson declared that
raliilcatlon OF the federal woman suf
rage amendment was completed in
Oklahoma, as far as the legislature is
concerned because the senate and the
mouse have adopted concurrent resolu
ions. There Is therefore no way for
the amendment to be submitted TO a
referendum.
An alrplane carrying Maj r. w.
schroeder, chief test pilot at McCook
held, fell over five miles after reach.
ing an altitude of 36.O20 feet, said to
be 1920 feet higher than the worlds
record. The major is in Dayton, O..
hospital suffering from shock and ten.
porary partial blindness. Instruments
on the machine indicate that it fell
more than five miles in two minutes
Mrs. Richard Doherty. wife of Judge
Doherty OF the court of common pleas
of Jersey City, n. j., gave birth TO
twins for the fifth time in their mar.
llVu NE VI ten years.
Five thousand dollars compensation
for twice facin gthe galows and for
serving two years in the pententiary.
although an innocent man. was voted
by the lower house of the Mississippi
legislature 10 VIII Puryis of Lamar
county, Miss.
Thirty.five federal agents and mem,
bers Of the Michigan state constab
ulary who arrived at Iron River Mich.
under the prohibition commissioner
for the central states to clean up"
Iron county, are en- route back home,
and the commissioner is bound fol-
Washington TO confer with the head
prohibition commissioner.
U. NJ Sum Kim, chief of the KAY
use Indians OF Umatilla county. ore
gon, en- route to Washington on bust
ness for his tribe was found asphyxi
ated in hotel in Chicago The po
lice are of the opinion that he had
blown out the gas.
Secretary Lane ordered the opening
to homestead entry Of more than 800,
700 acres of land, portion of which
is adapted to cultivation, in western
Oregon, formerly embraced in the Or.
egon and California railroad grant.
Miami, Fla, passersby who watch.
ed well-dressed man calmly taking
jewelry from the display window of
a jewelry store in the heart of the
business district early in the evening,
recently, thought that he was merely
a window trimmer taking out dis
play Instead it was a burglar. who
rifled the windows of $4,000 worth .
of jewelry, and pursued the even tenor
of his way and has not been appre .
hended, and there is no clue as tc .
his whereabouts.
The executive council of the Ameri-
can Federatio nof Labor, with Samuel
Gompers presiding, met in Jackson.
vile, Fla. and continued in session
for ten days. The session was deyot.
ed to discussing the problem of organ.
izing the American workingmen.
1t has been announced that prelimi.
nary conferences in connection with
the John D. Rockefeller gift of five
million dollars for the advancement
Of medical research in Canada. will
De held in Canada March 8, 10 and
II.
Americas future naval policy must
)e one of expansion and increased eff
iciency, Admiral William S. Benson,
'ecently retired from the navy and
present head of the shipping board,
declared in an address recently in New
FORK City.
The United States army transport
'uford, the Soviet ark, which carried
Emma Goldman, ct al. undesirable
liens to Russia, has arrived in New
'ork just two months and a day at.
er she started on her memorable voy.
&C.
Joe and Irving Gluck, brothers, and
Vail street, New York, messenger
oys, have confessed they turned over
0 Nicholas Arnstein, alleged head of
be $5,000,00O Wall street bond rob-
cry, at least $2,3OO,OOO in stolen Sc
urities. The boys made the confes.
ion because Arnstein held out" ON
hem.
Franklin Murphy, former governor
[ New Jersey, is dead at Palm Beach,
la. Former Governor Murphy left
Iewark, N. j., for the south month
go in an effort to regain his health.
lie was "A years old.
Allie Gone, aged 20, and Orbie Cone,
ged II, were instantly killed, and
ohm Brant, %, slightly injured in a
I'm battle in the parlor of the home
E. P. Phillips, prosperous farmer
wing near Allendale, s. c. John Brant
nd his brother, Earl, II, are under
rest charged with the double kill.
g. The slain Cone lads were first
,usins.