Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-01-27
Domestic

| VIII II. Rays VIII become directing
head of the new National Association
OF Motion Picture Producers and Dis
tributors Immediately after March 4,
1t was announced recently at dinner
at which the postmaster general was
the guest of group Of motion picture
officials in New York. Mr.. Hays for
NAL resignation from President Har
ding's cabinet will be presented soon
1t was said
After an all-day Investigation, fed
eral officials at Mobile, Ala, probing
into liquor smuggling on the Gulf
coast, announce that the probe will
continue several days. Nine arrests
have been made. six on the Gulf coast
and three in Mobile. The investiga.
ton Of liquor smuggling will extend
from Miami to Mobile,
Beautiful, temperamental Geraldine
Farrar has put it up to New York to
guess why she has suddenly announced
her abdication Of the queen privileges
and prerogatiyes which she enjoyed
throughout the fifteen years of her
stardom with the Metropolitan Opera
company. Next year Miss Farrar will,
in the patter of the vaudevillian, "hit
the grit as lone trouper. in a con-
cert tour which may earn her a quar-
ter Of million dollars.
President Harding, 1t is learned in
Newark, N, j., has committed the pris.
on term imposed upon Frank II. Noble,
one of the group of men sentenced by
federal Judge in New York for vio-
lation Of the Sherman antitrust act
A good, warm cell in a penitentiary
is preferable to liberty these zero days
in Utah, according to Jim Wilson, alias
Martin, an escaped convict from the
south. Martin walked into the office
OF Chief of Police Burbridge at Salt
Lake City, Utah., and asked to be tax.
EN- back to the North Carolina state
prison.
The jury trying Arthur C. Burch, at
Los Angeles, Cal. for the murder OF
j. Bolton Kennedy reported itself un.
able to agree on verdict recently and
was discharged.
Severe earthshocks were felt in
many sections of Los Angeles, Cal,
recently, SCATTERING window glass in
some quarters and shaking frame
buildings.
Lillian Russell sailed on the steam
ship George Washington from New
York recently, determined to get at
the heart OF the American immigra.
ton question.
Unable to reach an agreement on
the railroad wage question, the man.
agement of the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis railway and the Order
Of Railway photographers will submit
Jointly their proposals to the railway
labor board for final action, 1t was an.
nounced recently by W. P. Bruce, gen.
sral manager of the road at Nashville,
Tenn.
Reports that a large store In Chi.
,ago had opened window display in
which living and unclad reproductions
II Helen Of Troy Venus and Cleo
,atra were the chief points of interest
Ittracted such crowds that traffic was
blocked, and police sergeant and five
Iides rushed forward "Come on, men
rs all right" he mumbled to his aides,
vho still were staring in the window.
Those are just wax figures, but way
Jack in the rear of the window that
way. they sure did look real.'
Daniel G. Buntin, AZ, OF Nashville.
'enn., real estate operator. at Nash.
lille and in Chicago, shot and killed |
imself recently at his home in West
md. the act being attributed to Ill. |
ealth.
This year of 1922 will be "a good
ear for remembering, above all, bust.
ess is business and not speculation"
Ierbert P. Howell, vice president of
he National Bank of Commerce. re.
emily told delegates to the convention
fsthe National Wholesale Dry Goods
ssociation. at New York.
Rev. W. E. Robb, sheriff OF Polk
,unty, Des Moines, Ia, has resigned
Is passionate at the Urbandale Fed.
'ated church, because, he said, he
)es not wish the church to be sub.
cted to criticism when he hangs two
urderers this spring.
Donation of 800 by Cordell Hull, of
chairman Of the Democrat.
national committee, to the Wilson
fund was received at Nash.
lie, Tenn, by the foundations chair.
an In this state.
A proposal by Mayor Ainslie OF
edmond, Va, that the controversy
tween the Virginia Railway and
'wer company and its employees be
bitrated, has been rejected by T. s.
heelwright, president Of the eompa-
/, upon the grounds that the plan
oes not include definite assur-
ce that the company's revenue will !
considered by the arbitrators." i