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Monday, April 13, 2020

Recovery of Boy Lost at Age 8 Leads State and National News, April 13, 1920

From the front page of the Monroe Journal, Tuesday, April 13, 1920

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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