Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-06-10
Domestic

Brooks Morgan of Atlanta was re-
elected president Of the Biscuit and
Cracker Manufacturers association at
the annual convention of that body in
Atlantic City recently.
The body of |. c. Gross, leading mer.
chant and acting paymaster of Holly
Ridge, Miss, was found almost hacked
to pieces in his store recently. Three
negroes, one woman, have been ar.
rested charged with the crime, and the
sheriff says they have confessed their
completely.
Charges that fire insurance compa-
MES speculated extensively in the stock
market, using funds of the policy hold.
ers and accusations that the New York
IRE Insurance exchange used despotic
methods in dealing with sprinkler
firms not associated with the alleged
sprinkler combine, feated testimony AT
a hearing of the New York legislative
committee investigating the building
trust.
The first move in sensational rak-
UNCOVER of the shipping boards. its
methods and policies was taken when
resolution was introduced in the
United States senate recently calling
on the board for information concern.
ing its activities.
Mrs. Ethel H. Mott, on trial al
bridgeport, Conn, charged with the
murder OF her husband, pleaded guilty
10 murder in the second degree and
was sentenced to life Imprisonment
America is one of the nations in
the vanguard of civilization as regards
learning and discoveries, Jules J. Jus.
serand, the French ambassador, declar.
ed in responding to addresses of wei.
come at the formal opening of the OK.
ercises incidental to the centennial eel.
ebration of the founding of the Uni.
versity of Virginia at Charlottesville.
The Alabama Federation of Labor
has distributed 23,3OO pounds Of corn
meal and 5,S25 pounds of white meat
l,l65 destitute families in the
coal fields, according to a report nv
President William L. Harrison of the
federation.
Eleven hundred members of the Ro.
larry clubs in the United States and
Canada were passengers on the steam.
ers Cameronia and Caronia which be-
gan voyage from New York to Iiv.
'rpool. They will attend the twelfth
annual convention of the International
Association of Rotary clubs at Edin.
,urg Scotland June Is and 49,
Five men in an automobile held I'M
wo messengers recently of Mime
polls, Mimi, bank and escaped with
10000 in currency. The bank is 10.
ated just across the street from Do
Ice headquarters.
From fifty to sixty persons were in.
nred, two of them probably fatally.
nd several seriously, when a Penn.
ylvania freight train crashed into the
like Flyer train, carrying trailer
t track intersection at Edinburg.
Id.
There will be no attempt at strike.
reaking on the part of cotton manu-
lcturers whose plants are idle as a
ssult OF the strike of 10000 operatives
Charlotte, Concord and Kannapolis.
. c., according to statements issued
Charlotte.
The business depression of 1921 has
sfinitely passed an dthe financial con.
tion of the country is such now that
should inspire only optimism Cover
n Harding of the federal reserve
'ard declared in an address In New
1rk City, recently, before the annual
Getting of the national automobile
amber of commerce.
A new controversy In the coal fields
Birmingham (Ala.) district has arts.
as a result of request Of the gov.
nor to the coal operators seeking
learn whether certain operators had
duced wages according to reports
aching him in violation Of the agree
snt whereby the governor made an
Iard which ended the recent strike
that dictriet.
Engineer John Wlnnow OF the Lou
lille and Nashville railroad succumb.
to injuries sustained when pas
iger train of the l.. & N. which he
$ driving crashed into the rear end
freight train.