Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-01-07
Domestic

Wireless distress signals were pick.
ed up in New York City from the
freight steamer Dauperata, which left
Antewrp on December for Calves.
ton. The message said she was in
need of fuel, oil and water and made
request to be lowed to Norfolk
She belongs to the Barber Steamship
line.
Burning of the hostess house at
Camp Grant, Rockford, ILL.,, followed
by fires of undetermined origin in the
Liberty theater and in a garage camp,
resulted in a commission being ap-
pointed to investigate suspected in.
cendiarism.
Some mems shirts are to be cut in
twain to meet the user half way. This
is the decision on the part of ma.
tionally known shirt company to re-
duce prices of their skirts to the
trade so per cent, permitting of an
equal cut by retailers to consumers
and aiding in putting merchandise
prices down to normal basis.
Further raids on alleged wet spots
of the four central states around Chi
cago are contemplated by the dry en-.
forcement chief. The plans call for
the use of an airplane.
The dozen planes of the F5-L di.
vision of the navy's San Diego-Panama
aerial expedition berthed in San Ber-
toleme bay, 400 miles from their start.
ing point on December 30. The roar.
ing Of their motors disturbed the sea
fowl at the isolated Lower California
spot as the planes swooped down, the
last taking the water at 2:O5 p. m,
just five hours and forty-five minutes
after the leader had taken off at san
Diego.
/" | don't want to be an honor guest
at a party cost SIS ticket" said
Governor-elect Dixon Of Montana, in
reply to a plan to hold an inaugural
ball. The ball will not be held.
The belief that business readjust-
ment and deflation is more than half
completed and that the worst is over,
was expressed by the president of the
Philadelphia and Pennsylvania cham
Der OF commerce in an address in Bos-
ton before the chamber of commerce
of that city.
Armed guards frustrated an attempt
to burn the Junction house at Star
Junction, Pa, and drove off two men
who had fired a quantity of inflamma-
bles placed in a room on the first
floor. Hotel guests awakened by the
shots Joined in the chase, but the cul-
prits escaped. The fires in the re.
gion of Uniontown, Pa, have already
entailed a loss of more than a mil.
lion dollars.
The National Music Teachers AS
ISOLATION is in session in Chicago.
Leading delegates assert that the cur
tain has been rung down upon jazz
music, and that "jazz" is now in the
throes of the death pangs.
Fifty seven men arrested in the
raids by prohibition enforcement
agents at Burley were lodged in the
county Jail. They will be arraigned
before United States Commissioner
Cate at Ashland, Wis. The liquor seiz-
ed in the raids was brought in with
the prisoners. and 1t was opened in the
county jail to be used as evidence.
Enrico Caruso, the worlds greatest
tenor, and probably the greatest of
all time, who has been seriously Ill
in his apartment In New York City
for more than week, has developed
superlative pleurisy, attending physi-
clans assert, but insists that he is on
the road to recovery.
The Norwegian auxiliary schooner
Korsnaes sank in twelve feet Of water
and broke in threep ieces inside the
Charleston Is. CO. jetties after he
roic battle had been put up by
coast guard vessel to save the YES
sci from the flames which had gained
Roadway some hours previously.