Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-04-29
Domestic

Selection of a jury to try Dewitt
Garrett. the first of thirty alleged
night riders to be placed on trial in
the criminal court at Jonesboro, Ark,
was resumed with three jurors accept.
ed, and the defense holding the right
to exercise only one more peremptory
challenge and the state eight.
Harry st. George Tucker of Lexing.
ton, Va, in statement at Lynchburg
Va, announced that he is willing to
meet State Senator E. Lee Trinkle of
Wytheyille, his opponent for the Dem.
ocratic nomination for governor, in a
foot race of two hundred yards and
let the winner of the race take the
nomination.
The annual convention OF the Biz.
mingham, New Orleans and Atlanta
districts of the American Society Of
Mechanical Engineers will convene at
Mobile, Ala, at an early date.
Mary Garden, prima donna and d.
rector OF the Chicago grand opera COM
pany, has been elected a member of
the French legion of honor, according
to advices received Harold f. McCor.
mick, one of the principal hackers of
Chicago grand opera.
Henry Anthony Marsh, son of Hen
ry Field of Chicago, and Peggy Marsh.
is not entitled to inheritance of tho
Marshall Field millions, the Supreme
court decided In ruling that Marshall
Fields will specifically exempts from
inheritance any illegitimate offspring.
Josephus Daniels, former secretary
OF the navy, in Nashville, Tenn, in
connection with the Methodist ednca.
ton campaign, says there should be
no temporizing with Japan over the
zap situation.
A well-dressed, blue-eyed, light.haired
Chicago girl Of seventeen has been ar.
rested and charged with being the girl
1.-THE "flapper bandit') who has par.
ticipated in several highway robberies
in Chicago recently.
The republics of North and South
America Joined hands across the Car.
ibbean April 10 in two notable histori.
cal events commemorating their he
roes who chowed each continent the
road to liberty. Amid the roar cf
and the plaudits of a distin.
guished gathering, President Harding.
at the bronze equestrian statue of 81.
mon Bolivar, unveiled in Central Park,
New York, proclaimed anew the fun.
Of the Monroe doctrine and
cited the desirability of standing firm.
y together Tor service both to the new
md the old world.
The trial Of nine Alabama national
charged with the murder
If William Baird, miner, will be held
n Marion county, according to decision
VI the Alabama supreme court. The
ynching of Baird occurred near Jas.
Yer, in Walker county, and efforts
we're made by the state to have the
rial held in the county where the
fime was committed.
Five youthful bandits in an auto
Mobile held up John Amberg, vice
resident of Chicago real estate firm.
nd escaped with $4,000 he was car.
wing to downtown bank.
On the verge Of collapse as a re-
llt of shock at her husbands suicide
Irs. Edna Cudahy Is under the care
{ corps Of physicians at her home
| Hollywood, near Los Angeles. Calf
With announcement from the state
ithorities Of Alabama that no funds
70 available for the aid of poverty.
ricken citizens, except in the aims.
buses of the various counties, relief
'mmittees in the coal fields of Ala.
ina are organizing to collect funds
an effort to help 10000 miners and
cir families who are reported in diro
'ed.