Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-10-08
Domestic

October | marked the opening of tn
semi-annual price schedules OF earpe
and rug manufacturers and those o
Amsterdam, n. Y. one of the centeri
of the industry in the United States
announced a reduction of from 10 tt
Is per cent on various grades OF their
product
Unless there can be resumption OF
intercourse in the world comparable
to that which took place before the
war, the whole people in the world
cannot live, Frank A. Vanderlip OF
New York. declared in an address in
that city before the student body Of
the University OF Virginia
Charles Ponzi, the Boston financial
wizard" recently testified that he
settled for $4,000 a suit OF Joseph
Daniels. based on loan OF 5000, be.
cause Daniels was about to make it
hot for him
Price cutting has taken hold of the
wholesale trade TO an extent that soon
must be felt substantially In lower
prices to the consumer, according to
the monthly business review issued by
the federal reserve board at Wash.
ington.
A vagrant rooster and Cox luck
warned Governor Cox OF Ohio, Off.
Gals of the Democratic presidential
candidates party declared, from dan.
ger OF another wreck, this time at
Wichita kans.
The drop in the price OF sugar has
caused shrinkage in value of at least
$3.50, 000 il is estimated by leading
wholesalers.
Senator Hardings special train mar
rowly escaped serious wreck near
Millwood. W. Va. when the trucks OF
the Harding car broke down. No one
was hurt.
Confessions from Claude Williams
and Oscar Felsch admitting they were
bribed to throw last years world So.
rles have been made public in Chicago
ana. at the same time, the grand jury,
the baseball scandal took
its first action against gamblers who
are said to have engineered the deal
by indicting two men whose identity
has been only partly revealed.
Frank A. Vanderlip. at his home in
New York City, denies that he is in
Russia" to conduct negotiations for re.
lewing trade with the Soviet regime.
lie says furthermore that he has no
llans for going to Russia.
Fire, originated in kitchen, at the |
,orner OF Madison avenue and Sec.
md street, Memphis, Tenn, in the
downtown district, destroyed four
story structure, valued at approx.
nately $4,000.
Eight members of the White Sox |
(Chicago) team during the 1919
world series have been indicted by the
fook county, Illinois, grand jury on
,harges of conspiracy to do an Illegal
lct. The charge is that they threw"
he series to Cincinnati. The eight
,!ayers were suspended by President
of the Chicago team.
No international steel combine is to
,e attempted by the Uaited States
Steel corporations, it president, J. A.
farrell, stated at New Yo.k recently.
lie denied reports that the company
lac organized foreign subsidiary
. be known as. the A.nstea company.
eported to have sold 5000 ship plates
o Germany.
The vanguard OF former service men,
of the thirteenth (Old Hick.
'ry) division, are arriving at Ashe-
lille. N. c., for the second annual
'eunion of the division. which is
cheduled to open a two-day session
It that place.
Following the wishes of Mr.. Jacob
i. Schiff. millionaire, who died at
Jew York, no eulogies were spoken
unirg the funeral services. The SER
ices were conducted by DR.. Jacob
,iiyerman at the Temple Emanuel.
The sugar market, according to
oport from New York, is somewhat
weak. Three leading refiners reduc-
ID their prices half cent a pound
o fourteen cents for fine granualted.
his is in line with the unsettled feel
ng in other commodity markets and
he increased offerings in raws, where
t appeared as II holders were most
!nxious to make sales.
Reduction Of lumber prices 16 10 IS
Ter cent is announced by retail deal
rs Of Chicago, and 1t Is stahted that
he average wholesale reduction all
'ver the country is 81 pei cent.
A general reduction in food prices
5 predicted by the Chicago Retail
irocers' association, with the excep-
ion Of butter and eggs.
More than twenty-five steamships,
including the battleships of the At
antic fleet, were anchored in the out
r harbor at New York, unable to
rope their way through the dense
og that enyeloped that vicinity 70.
entity.