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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24
Core Drill viii Check Builder.


Accurate knowledge of how well
road contractors have performed their
work has been made available through
core.drill mounted on three and
half ton truck by the State Highway
Commission. Five-inch cores will be
taken from every mile of hard-sur-
faced road in North Carolina, and sub
jected to the scrutiny of the testing
department Of the commission.
Although construction Is done under
close supervision of the commissions
inspectors, difficulty is always enc
countered in determining accurate
check of the thickness of the paving,
and the texture of the base. An inch
off the required thickness of the paw
ing may mean several thousand dollars
per mile of road and the inspector I'M
able to detect the deficiency.
The core-drill will bring out a Sec
ton of the road sufficient to indicate
its character. II it is not Of the speci-
fed thickness, or If cement or other in
gredient is efficient, 1t will show up
under the tests of the laboratory. This
department of the commission will be
able to calculate the total loss to the
state through careless construction.
Cores have been taken from the city
streets, short piece of paving on
Hillsboro street in front of the Fair
Grounds, on the Cary road, and on the
! Garner road Cores from the two
State roads indicate that they were
built according to specifications. Other
roads throughout the State will be
subjected othe same tests.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT coUN.
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE
0athsrsd From All Parts OF The
Globe And Told In Short
Paragraphs
Foreign

canon de Valera has issued a man.
ifesto, signing 1t himself, launching
a new Irish organization, republican
association, and asks financial and
moral support of 1t.
A full grown jackal ran wild through
the streets in the heart of Vienna re-
Gently, terrorizing the population The
beast pursued pedestrians charging
right and left and biting many persons
1t finally was killed. An examination
revealed 1t had been suffering from
rabies.
Lady Alice White, who was found
unconscious In her room in a London
hotel recently, died A burglar Is be-
lieved to have inflicted the fatal In.
jury, fracture Of the skull
Official announcement was made
from the vatican that Pope Plus had
extended to extended to fifteen days
the interval to elapse between the
death OF pope and the session of the
sacred college to elect his successor.
Spanish forces continue their sue
cesses against the Moroccan rebels
despite stiff resistance. The latest
official statement says: Three col.
umns commanded by General San
jurejo have occupied Ichti Side Salam
and other positions which dominate
Aroaf and Tikermin. The enemy
fought desperately along fifteen kilo-
meter front but was repulsed and pur-
sued. Tanks and armored trucks aid.
ed in the pursuit and defeat Of the
enemy, whose resistance was tena.
clous.
Prime Minister Lloyd George and
Marquis Curzon, secretary for foreign
affairs, will be among Great Britain's
delegates to the Genoa economic con-
ference, 1t was announced.
The proclamation of the sultan.
Ahmed Fuad Pasha as king Of Egypt,
was accompanied by the firing of
salvos OF 101 guns in Cairo. Alexan.
WI anu WV vi buhp
in all the other provincial capitals.
Party strife again threatens to
plunge Fiume into anarchy. Immedi
ately after the fall of the Zanella gov
eminent, partisan feeling subsidized, all
joining in choosing Major Giovanni
Giuriati as head Of the government
but now that he has refused the po
, sition, each party is again rivalling
the others for control Of the city.
Striking gold miners have practical
~ surrounded johannesburg, South
Africa, and are attacking desperately
in an attempt to seize the city before
the arrival of reinforcements which
are being rushed to the aid of the
beseiged government troops and volun
teers.
Reports sent out from johannesburg
South Africa, say that the rebellion is
practically over. The government
forces have about driven the mine reb
els into subsection.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24
State Building Contract Let.

Contract for the erection OF the new
building for the state department or
agriculture to occupy the present site
of the building, corner Edenton and
Halifax streets, has been awarded to
j. Il. Beaman, Raleigh contractor, for
$4,000, 1t was announced by II, A.
Underwood, engineer Of the joint
building committee. The contract was
approved by the counsel of state and
the board OF agriculture was author
lied to proceed with the work
No time will be lost in abandon
ing the ancient structure which came
into possession Of the state after a
historic career as high-class hos
telry. Work Of removing furniture
and equipment to the new wing OF
the old building will begin at once.
The wrecking of the old structure Will
begin in ten days, The wing with
Salisbury street entrance will not be
disturbed in the building operations.
1t is expected that the building will be
completed by February l, 1923.
There were twenty-four bidders and
the Beaman bid was $4,000 lower
than the next lowest The highest bid
was 1892, 1000 The new building, in adj
dition to quarters for the library de-
partment of agriculture and museum,
will provide much needed space for
legislative committee rooms, and will
also house the state library commits
sion. 1t will be five stories with a
basement.
First authority for the construction
of new building was given by the
legislature of 1919 which appropriated
$25O,O0O for the work Increase in
building prices made 1t impossible to
erect a suitable building for that price
and the legislature of 1921 added $75,.
900 to the appropriation.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24
Insurance Cancelled During 1921.

Despite the fact that the amount OF
life insurance cancelled and ceased
for one reason or another during the
past year was the greatest since the
state began keeping records OF this
kind, conditions in North Carolina are
better in this respect than in any 9TH
err southern state and better than the
nation as whole, in the opinion of
Insurance Coccissioner Stacey w.
Wade. Over s1O7 100000 worth OF in
surance was ceased by North Carolina
policy.holders up to the close of bust
ness for the year ending December 81,
1921. During the previous year the
ceased policies amounted to only 81
million.
That, however, does not tell the
whole story. for there is not such a
great amount of difference in the
amount OF new business written dur
ing the two years. The companies
wrote l21 900 million in new insur'
ance during the past year, whereas
the year before, considered one OF the
best insurance years, the new bust
ness amounted to only 1870 million.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24
Meetings For Superintendent

Dates for district meetings of the
county school superintendent in the
state have been announced for Ashe-
vile, April and 6; Greensboro, April
20 and 81 Goldsboro, April &c and q.
Meetings in each case will open at
200 o'clock for a discussion of county
summer schools, approved summer
schools and county high schools. The
night sessions, which will be public,
will include discussions Of school tax
alton program, illiteracy and efficient
elementary schools.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24
Washington

Sewage may solve the gas engine
tle ulproblem. Word has reached the
dc. partment of commerce that success
full experiments have been conducted
in BIZ mingham. England, with suldge
the M ID Of common drain pipes
Rates on grain and grain products
from st. Louis, and Cairo and Thebes
ILL.,, to little Rock, Pine Bluff and
Fort Smith, Ark. and Memphis, Tenn.
were held to be unduly discrimina-
tion against other cities in Arkansas
under a decision issued by the inter.
state commerce commission.
General Semenoff, anti.Bolshevist
leader. who has been permitted to land
at Vancouver, B. c., will be required
to appear before immigration inspec.
tors and satisfy them as to his eligi.
bility before he can enter this coun-
try.
Recently there have been just two
developments in the soldiers bonus
middle. One was the filing by the
chairman OF the ways and means com.
mittee of the majority report of the
compromise bill, which II was estimat.
ed would cost the government a TO-
tai of 4,09S,719,350. The other was
the circulation OF petition by Repre-.
sentative Lineberger Of California, q
former service man, for a conference
OF house republicans to discuss the
bonus legislation.
The retail price investigation OF the
department of justice is practically
completed. A few prosecutions are
anticipated but the benefits claimed
for the investigation have been large.
ly psychological officials said.
For every dollar per capita which
the United States is spending on her
army, France is spending seven and
Great Britain Is spending four, ac.
cording to figures made public by the
general staff.
Herbert Hoover has declined to &C
cept the director generalship Of the
Quicentennial exposition to be held in
Philadelphia In 1926.
The vote in the senate on the pro-
posed Robinson amendment to the
four-power Pacific treaty has confirm
cd belief that the decision on fatifi
cation will be extremely close. While
not conclusive the vote revealed the
extent OF the opposition to the pact
The amendment was rejected IS to 80
Since only a majority was required
the defeat Of the amendment was
overwhelming.
The Central OF Georgia railroad has
applied to the interstate commerce
commission for permission to issue
5000 In equipment trust certifi
Gates.
Secretary Mellon appeared before a
meeting Of the house banking com
mittee and voiced opposition to plac
ing a dirt" farmer on the federal re
earye board.
Passenger traffic of railroads In
1921 was 20 per cent less than In the
preceding year. according to report
filed with the interstate commerce
commission.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24
Would Limit Salary OF Collector.

Washington Especially. - A bill to
limit the salary OF the collector OF
customs in North Carolina was intro
duced by Representative Lyon. 1t pro
vides that the annual pay shall not
exceed $4,000
Representative Stedman introduced
a bill for an appropriation Of $l5O,00O
to build roadway "a feet wide from
Greensboro to Guilford battle-ground
national military park.
Warren G. Elliott has been nomi'
mated postmaster at Wilmington, and
James d. Andrews at Fairmont.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24

grad governmental districts and in the
west the cities of Minsk, Smolensk
Witebsk and in the north, vologda and
vicinity.
In Moscow itself the epidemic Is
rowing rapidly and the toll which 1t
exactlng from the Moscow popula-
don is already now seven or eight
times larger than that Of last season,
and 1t is feared that before the winter
months are over 1t might overgrow the
epidemic of 1919.
In December over 1000 cases of ty-
plus were registered in Moscow, while
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24

during the first three weeks of Janu-
ary. 47S3 cases were registered in
hospItals. But the real number of
cases is declared to be much higher
than this figure. d
To cope with the situation, the gov
eminent stopped passenger traffic on
the eastern railways for six weeks.
Baths have been organized in Moscow
railway terminals, and all refugees
and military detachments arriving here
are compelled to use them. In Moscow
itself, bathing facilities were afforded
In all districts.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24
HIGHWAY ENGINEERS.
HEAR NOTABLE MEN
DR.. HAITI, HEAD OF BUREAU OF
RESEARCH, AND DR.. ABRAMS,
ADDRESS MEETING.
PRAISE ROAD W0BK IN STATE
First Cost Not Economy Matter; Type
of Road Should be Determined
BY Service Required of 1t.

ndlClbH'
Economy in highway construction
is not measured by the initial cost
to build, but by the maintenance
cost and the service that it is called
upon to render, DR.. William r..
HIATT head of the road department
of the National Research Bureau
told North Carolina road engineers
gathered here for the regular monthly
conference with the central engineer
ing staff and Commissioner Frank
Page.
Types of road below the standard
required by the traffic demands
made upon it, though they cost lit
tie to build, are in the end more
EXPENSIVE than the finest types or
roads, he declared. Selection OF the
type of any road should be made
only after a most careful analysis
has been made Of what traffic Will
require of it, an In that, rather
than low first cost, is real economy.
DR.. HIATT was but one of the out
standing men in highway construc-
ton who addressed the engineers. Pro
lessor Duff Abrams, head of the re-
search department of the Lewis In
stitute at Chicago, and the recog-
nized authority on concrete in Ameri-
ca, outlined the more recent develop
ments in research work in cement.
Professor Crandall,. head of the re-
search department OF the Barrett Mfg.
Co.. and others, spoke briefly.
For the most part discussion was
technical, dealing directly with con-
struction problems that are met
with every day In building roads, Most
of the lectures were illustrated with
moving pictures, showing actual
construction of roads in many parts
of the country. Discussions by DR..
Abrams and DR.. Crandall were par
ticuarly interesting to the engineer
ing men.
The field developed by the Ma
tional Research Council is studying
traffic conditions in connection with
wear OF highways has been of keen
interest to highway commissioners
throughout the country. Work OF that
nature was instituted by Commits
sioner Page months ago, and no
road is built in the state now with
out first making exhaustive investi-
CATION Of the immediate and probable
demands of traffic.
Both DR.. HIATT and Dr. Abrams
spoke in highest praise Of the road
work in North Carolina, and were
particularly enthusiastic over the
work and organization Of Commits
sioner Page and Highway Engineer
Charles NJ Upham. Both declared
that Mr.. Upham's superior in the
knowledge of road building could not
be found in America, nor could Mr.
Pages genius for organization be bet
tered in the country.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24
TyPHUS SPREADS IN RUSSIA
Epidemic Is Now Raging In Many Big
Cities, With Death Rate Above
Forty Per Cent.

Moscow.-Sosiet Russia Is once
more under the shadow of an epidemic
wave of typhus fever and recurrent ty-
plus which has been spreading since
November last. The volga famine area
IA chiefly affected. In the center of
Russia the epidemic has invaded the
big towns of the Moscow and Petro-
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24
BUSY IssuIno Insurance Licenses.

Issuing license for 10000 insurance
agents representing 744 insurance
companies and building and loan as
sociations in North Carolina is keep
ing the clerical s-'ff of the State In.
surance Department busy. The state
collects $500 from each agent, and
from s25 to $3.50 from companies, the
fee being in proportion to the business
done In North Carolina.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24
New Charters Issued.

New charters issued as follows:
Carolina Homes & Investment Cor
poration, Charlotte, authorized CAPT
tai $265,OOO and s250,000 subscribed
by Charles w. Jones, w, H. Price and
]. Nelson Jones.
Eastern Carolina Cooperative Crow
ers, Inc, Wilmington; no capital
stock, with c. W. Trask and others
as incorporators.
Mitchell's River Orchard Co., Dob
son, authorized capital 100000 and
Sill 900 subscribed by B. H. Thompson
and others.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24
propose to suy New Fair Ground.

Proposal for the purchase OF 200
ceres of ground from the state prison
farm was presented to the directors OF
the prison at its monthly meeting by
Colonel Albert l.. Cox, representing
the directors of the State Fair Asso-
citation. A full membership Of the pris-
on board was not In attendance and
no action was taken. Removal Of the
state fair grounds from the present
cramped quarters to new location a
mile further out on the Hillsboro road,
is under contemplation by the direc-
tors of the fair association.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24
Two Paroles, One Pardon.

Pardon for one man, James P, Nixon
of Currituck, and paroles for two,
John l.. Adams of Harnett and j. M,
Jenkins of Northampton, were issued.
The serious illness of the child of
Nixon, convicted OF larceny in 1920,
who has only three more weeks to
serve caused the governor to grant
the pardon. He has refused to par
don this man before, but upon the rec
ommendation Of the solicitor, to-
gether with the illness Of his child,
caused the governor to grant the, par
dop
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24

ID EVISlON of the Republican sol
N der bonus bill was finished Tues
day by the ways and means committee,
which thereupon reported the measure
to the house by vote of 10 to .. The
program calls for prompt passage OF
the bin by the house. Report Is that
the senate will not accept the bill as 1t
comes from the house and that a long
delay In the senate finance committee
is inevitable. The bill provides cash
bonuses only for veterans entitled to
less than $50. Four options are given
to others: an adjusted service certifi.
cafe farm or home aid, land settle
ment aid, and vocational traiAing,
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24

no YOU remember London Punchs
~ famous cartoon depicting a fam
lily council of the British Lions rest
less brood during the World war?
Wen, the Union of South Afrcla Is sure
restless. Last week saw the climax
and suppression Of the strike Of miners
which has held South Africa in its grip
for more than two months. 1t had all
the hallmarks Of an attempt at revoil-
tion. The strikers captured half a
dSen towns and nearly got posses
sion Of Johannesburg. Gen. Jan Chris
tian SHUTS, the premier, proclaimed
martial law, called out all the govern
ment troops and took command In per-
son. Censored reports show the killing
of more than 1000 strikers, police and
soldiers. Grenades, bombs, machine
guns, alrplanes and tanks figured In
the fighting; cities were bombarded !;
thousands of strikers were captured.
1t was real war for week. The
South African Industrial federation
then declared the strike off and denied
completely In the rebellion. This man
SHUTS Is strong man. He has risen
from Dutch general In the Boer war
to one of the leading statesmen of the
British commonwealth of nations, as
he calls 1t. Many believe SHUTS to be
the logical successor to Lloyd George.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24
To Return Checks.

To Return Checks. 5i
Col. A. D. Watts, OF the department
OF revenue, will send back checks for
income taxes sent In by judges OF
the supreme and superior courts and
the six constitutional officers just as
soon as the returns are filed and Il Is
possible to find them. The commits
sioner of revenue Is refunding these
taxes in compliance with the decision
Of the supreme court on the injunction
suit brought by Judge Ben r. Long
against the department to prevent the
collection Of an income tax from menu
beers AZ the Judiciary.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24
TT LOOKS as If All Fools Day woul

TT LOOKS as If All Fools Day would
L be celebrated by strike of the coal
miners. Secretary of Labor Davis did
not succeed last week in getting the
operators and men for conference on
new wage agreement. Neither side
appears to care particularly whether
or not the strike comes. The only con-
ISOLATION for the public lies In the prob
ability that some of the mining dis
trlcts will keep at work.
Mary Garden, Chicago's arbiter OF
grand opera, says that some of the
hich.prlced stars must I'll the house or
take less pay or get out.
Uncle Sam Is reported to be consid-
ering the negotiation of treaties with
Great Britain and Cuba to put an end
TO Iiauor smuggling into the United
States.
Radio experts are predicting that the
presidential campaign of the future
will he conducted by wireless tele'
phone. What's that story about the
MAYOR who was elected because he
broke his leg and the voters never saw
him?
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24
NEW 'angles mark the complicated

NEW 'angles mark the complicated
' situation In India. The arrest of
Gandhi, leader Of the non-co-operation-
lists. was followed by widespread pro-
tests from all the Moslem world. Then
Britain was startled by the unauth0r-
lied publication by f. S. Montagu,
British secretary of state for India, or
telegram from the India government
making demands for the restoration OF
Turkey. This constitutes an appeal
to the world by a subordinate British
government over the head of the I'M
perial government. Lloyd George Gen.
sured Mr.. Montagu and demanded his
resignation. Mr.. MOntagu resigned,
but talked back, putting Lloyd George
and CurZ0n on the defensive. Lord
Derby was asked to take the secretary
ship for India and declined. This, COM
Ing upon the failure of the uni0nists'
meeting Tuesday to give Lloyd George
vote of confidence, has raised again
the possibility Of the resignation of the
premier. His political enemies hold II
impossible for him to retain the posi-
ton. Nevertheless. 1t has been an
nounced that Lloyd George and Curzon
will attend the Genoa conference
April 10.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-24

sooner? All of which lends emphasis to
me saying of the Man on the Street:
I'VE have all the real money In the
world and for that very reason not
single real friend" Evidently the new
funding commission to see what can be
done about the eleven billions Of allied
debts Is In for an adventure.
The Seward gateway., 1922-05-04
BUSINESS OFFICE FOURTH AVE.
 Telephone, Madison as
Subscription, SIPS per Month

THE UNITED STATES Government is negotiating loan with Czecho- Sloyakia. While we are full of sym pathy with the Slovakians and wish them an abundance of prosperity 1t rather grinds Alaskans to be neglected to the extent of having 70 petition for years for new cable to replace the old, worn out string that connects the business world of the Territory with the states. Would it not be better for the American people to use their cash to develop America. Thousands of men are out of work, many war veterans are suffering from the barest necessi- ties, and on every hand is there a de- mand for government help. Our peo- ple are taxed to a frazzle and the mon ey turned over to European nations to use in continuing their battles with other European nations. Is the Govern ment doing its duty by it's people in imposing heavy taxes and loaning our money without the consent of the gov erned? We think not Alaska has re- turned it's purchase price a hundred fold, and is doing so yearly. But when we ask a million or so in return we are turned down and it's is given to Czecho-S -Slovakia.
The Seward gateway., 1922-05-04
On March 23 Anderson went to call

On March 23 Anderson went to call on Holden at his cabin and when he got near he noticed that no mans tracks were visible and he concluded that Holden had left before the heavy snowfall of March 3. He later noticed however, that deceased's snowshoes and pack saddle were hanging on the outside wall of the cabin He then sus- pected that all was not right and on opening the flap of the tent, made the discovery.
 Frozen to Death.
 There was food in the cabin and 1t is believed by Anderson that Holden became sick and unable to move, was frozen to death. The god was evident ly alive some time after his master for tracks of the animal could be seen outside. Holden and Anderson were the only men in the country.