Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-03
Domestic

The seven members Of the execu.
tive board of the Denver (Colo.) Tram.
way Union must serve out their 90-day
Jail sentence, the state supreme court
declining the application for a stay Of
execution.
The lumber producers lack cars to
ship lumber to the car builders so the
car builders cannot make cars to ship
the lumber in. AS a result building
costs are mounting higher. This is not
because production is slowing down,
but because enough freight cars can.
not be secured. ....
General Jarzon, the war mionister
of Belgium, had an interview with
King Albert at Brussels and announc.
ed his intention of resigning. General
lannon's resignation, following that
of Paul Hyman's, would precipitate
grave political situation which, it is
said here, would necessitate post
ponement Of the kings visit to Brazil.
Every man in the village OF Huerta
Pelayo. in the province of Guadala-
lara, Spain. has decided to emigrate
to the United States, according 10
Pedro Martinez Embil, the town clerk,
who appeared at the American con.
sulate with rs companions to secure
vises for passports. He declared the
mayor of the town would have decid
ed to 60 to America, had he not been
aged and infirm.
A manifesto declaring that the ltal
ian Socialist party favors Secognition
of Soviet Russia and announcing a
great demonstration August 20 to
protest against the "reactlonary atti.
tude of France, the instability Of Eng
land and the duplicity Of Italy, is pub.
lished by the newspaper Avanti, Of
Rome.
An amended order making w. M.
Carter and John Green. chief clerks,
of the Tennessee senate and house.
respectively, parties to the temporary
injunction restraining the governor.
secretary of state and speakers of the
senate and house from taking any ac-
ton with regard to certifying ratifica-
ton of the woman suffrage amend.
ment to Washington, Is the only inn
portant development in the contest
over Tennessee's ratification of the
measure. The original bill filed by cit
liens opposed to suffrage Is based
largely on the contention that action on
the amendment by this legislature was
inhibited by the state constitution.
Eugene Debs, Socialist candidate for
president, in statement to the vot-
ers OF the country, brands the league
of nations controversy dishonest Is
sue" and declares the livest question
before the American public is the coal
shortage.
Three men were instantly killed at
the varney aviation field at Redwood
City, Cal when their airplane crashed
to the ground from a height of 300
feet
Both freight and passenger revenues
of the railroads increased last March
as compared with the same month OF
1919. The increase is percepti5le and
move for a decrease in rates may
be made this fall.
Eugene Debs says that while short
age Of cars is making 1t impossible to
meet the United States own demands
for coal, President Wilson has made.
by special executive order. four thou.
sand cars of special design to aid
the aristocracy OF Poland crush the
only genuine democratic government
on the face of the earth.
Violent insanity developed in George
swenson, 10, five days after he was
bitten by rattlesnake, near Milford,
N. Y. The boy threw himself TO the
floor and crawled like reptile and
frothed at the mouth.
Nationwide search has been insti-
tuted for $4,000 worth OF liberty bonds
missing from the st. Louis, Mo-, vaults
OF the Mississippi Valley Trust com.
pany. The missing bonds are tho
property of one man. whose name -
not given.
The fire horse becomes but a men.
avg IN New York CITY. MotorizAd
equipment has formally displaced the
few animals remaining in the service.
San Antonio lTexas) dispatches say
that department Of justice agents al
that place are investigating the report
ed remittance OF Francisco villa into
the bandit realm.