News Events of the
Day in the State and Nation
Mourned for dead for many years, Howard Bell of Raleigh,
last week discovered the whereabouts of his mother and went to her. When Bell
was 8-years-old he drifted out into the Chesapeake Bay and was supposed to have
been drowned. It develops, however, that he was picked up by a party of North
Carolina fishermen and was unable to locate his parents as they moved away from
Norfolk. He fought with the 30th division overseas and is a graduate
of a Raleigh business college.
After 14 years absence, during which time he has been living
in security under an assumed name Richard Derrick walked into the Athens, Tenn.,
jail and surrendered. He was charged with the murder of Hugh Duggan. The killing
took place 14 years ago this month and had almost been forgotten. Derrick was
accused but escaped arrest. He stated to the sheriff that he had promised his
wife on her death bed to return to Athens and give his children their rightful
name, and in order to do tis he had to surrender.
Kenneth Gossett, young 17-year-old man of Abbeville, S.C.,
convicted of criminal assault, was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment. Just
before being placed in the prison at Columbia he stated that he was innocent of
the crime.
The first automobile truck in the world was manufactured in
Raleigh in 1903. The truck was built by the telephone company of that city to
use in hauling poles. The machine was manufactured at a total cost of $803.62.
Rather than serve a sentence on the county roads, Jim Shores
of Lenoir drank a one-ounce bottle of carbolic acid as he was being taken into
the county jail and died 10 minutes later. Shores was convicted at the November
term of court on the charge of immoral conduct.
Fourteen men were arrested in Columbus, Ohio, and jailed on
charges of selling lottery and more than $100,000 worth of lottery tickets were
seized. These tickets were offered for sale at from 50 cents to $10 each and
the prizes offered ran as high as $20,000.
Attorney General Palmer has ordered an investigation of the
railroad strikes around Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Chicago and Cleveland. The
strike, to all appearances, is spreading rapidly, especially in the middle
west, but administration officials believe that the authorized railroad union
leaders will be able to control the situation without government interference.
Raymond B. Fosdick who has resigned as under
secretary-general to the League of Nations returned to this country Sunday. He
says the failure of the United States to ratify the Peace Treaty has made us
regarded abroad as “a race of quitters” while “our professions of idealism and
disinterestedness are marked down for sham and hypocrisy. Our isolation is
complete and we face the rest of the world in alliance and the price of our
isolation will be armament,” he further stated.
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