ROANOKE RAPIDS HERALD. ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C.
IH0U510 LEADERS
OF DEIHAIliS
AROUND THE WORLD WITH HERALD PHOT
Through &n association with & number of other American newspapers The Roanoke Rapids Herald if represented
throughout the world bj tome two hundred photographers, more than one hundred of them being with the armies and navies
ef the rarious warring nations. A number of the best and most interesting of tha pictures taken by these photographers will
be reproduced on this page each week for the benefit of readers of The Herald.
INTERCHURCH WORLD SURVEY
CONFERENCE IN SESSION
AT ATLANTIC CITY.
FIGHTING A BURNING WELL IN NEW GAS DISTRICT
TEACHING COMMERCIAL AVIATION IN A COLLEGE
DELEGATES ALL PICKED KEN
Tht Conference Includes Many of the
Most Prominent and Widely Known
Churchmen in the Country.
OGRAPHERS
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Men fighting u gas well tire at Snake Hollow. Just outside JlcKecsport. I'm,, where vast quantities of natural
gas have been discovered recently. The men with the long pipe are trying to knock the cap off the wvll so the
lire can be extinguished with steam.
OPENING OF FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES
A scene in Ilourlxin palace, taken at tlie opening of the French chamber of depufles for the wnsion of 191S
1923. M. Kiegfiled, fhe eldest French deputy, muy be seen reading the opening speech, with I'aul Deschane
the president, presiding.
TO BRING BACK OUR
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Six officers and fcixty civilian employees have gone to Europe In conpec
tlon with the bringing back to the United State of the bodies of our soldiers
killed In France. This photograph ehows from left to right: Lieut G. S.
Wright of California; Capt. W. H. IlobertMin of South Dakota, In charge of
tlut party, and Lieut. F. Mcintosh of California.
AMERICAN TROOPSHIP DEKALB ON FIRE
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A iri!;il'g photograph of the l'uilJ Swtes troopship leKalu, formerly
tLe German raider Prince Eitel Frledrich, on fire in the Hudson river near
Kpuyten UuyviL AU of Uie members of the skeleton crew of 300 escaped
Uninjured. j
POSTSCRIPTS
Canada la nearly as targe la
area
as the whole of Europe.
Meilco has a tribe of Indians whose
language la limited to about 300 words
and wbo cannot count more than 10.
What la said to be the smallest prac
tical electric motor forms t new dental
tool bolder and weighs but four ounces.
About one-third of the world's gold
comes from a atrip of land In 'he
Transvaal sU miles long and 2fty wide.
DEAD FROM FRANCE
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Of the world's boots and shoes, more
thai) 47 per cent are made In Massa
chusetts. The miserable tenements of the Lon
don slums are being replaced by mod
ern buildings.
None of the Spanish railways la fit
ted with Mock signals, cor, in fact,
with any signal system.
Less expensive than a bristle brash,
a shaving brush made of a hemispher
ical piece of rubber sponge baa been
Invented,
NEW FIRE ALARM SYSTEM
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Atlantic City has installed a new fire
alarm system in which a born placed
above the fire alarm box automatically
starts immediately an alarm Is turned
In. The alann boxes have been placed
at every other corner along the main
avenue. When an alann Is sent in
not oly doe the particular alarm box
fn whi'h alarm was sounded release Its
horn, but every horn along the line of
route to the fire begins blowing, thus
rntti mil) vehicles.
Ants That Make Biscuits.
According to recent studies of the
common Mediterranean ant. the seeds
which are collected are kept for a time
dry and are eventually put out in the
rain so that they begin to renmnate.
This lias tlie advantage of bursting
the bard seed-floats, and In some cases
of tstartinir processes of fermentation.
At a certain stage, however, the ants
kill the embryo-plant by biting off the
radicle or other parts, and the seeds
are dried again in the eun.
According to Neger the dried seeds,
of some leguminous plants for In
stance, are then taken back Into the
nest and chewed Into dougn. This Is
dried once again In the sun In th
form of biscuits, which are eventually
put Into the cupboard. New York
Herald.
Simple Test of Cloth.
The department of commerce says
that the best tod simplest test of
cloth Is to burn a small piece of IL If
It la pure wool. It will char and roll
up with very little flame. If It It
cotton mixture. It will burn steadily
and leave little or no ashes. Another
test la to fray piece of the roods.
The cotton will break smoothly at tbt
ends; and the wool will present
ranwd a wears net.
I'emiKylvuniu Military college, at
cadets learning to operate a plune.
GAS WELLS AMONG HOUSES IN SNAKE
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Scene m Knuke Hollow, near McKeesport, l.'a, the newly discovered
drilled in the streets find among the houses.
SHE ELUDED D'ANNNZIO
Miss Jla.ie E. Clemens, special rep
resentative of the National Catholic
war council and noted writer, iis
guised herself as an Italian peasan
girl and managed to enter Hume In
defiance of D'Annunzio's "blockade or
der," She carried necessary food and
clothing In the bag ittid subsisted
mostly on grains.
His Poignant Resret
Two members of a certain well
known club dinetf for a fcumlier of
iil Slv.'Sy"!? ft f wll 1alil at the
far end of a dining r'"i. where one
chair 1od with back to the wjill. with
a vsfw towards the apartmmt, while
another set opposite. Tie uiemler
who md the claim of seniority to the
better position died and his friend, on
the d;jy of the funeral, was sitting
thoughtfully and alone In the chair
wilb the back to the wall.
"Pray forgive me." said a younger
member earnestly, but I must rea'ly
sir. venture to offer my profound sym
pa thy. You and he were such devoted
cronies that I can well Imagine the
feeling which Is yours now that your
companion "
True, true," quavered the surviving
friend with considerable emotion.
Thia Is, as you sugest, an Impressive
moment for me One of those occa
sions not likely to be forgotten. The
old scoundrel kept me, as a matter of
fact out of thli chair for well over a
uuater of a century." Flaneur" In
Indianapolis Star.
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W Have Met Such People.
"gome people's Ideas of heaven and
of politics," aald Senator Sorghum,
"are very much the same. They coo
sult their own Imaginations at to the
kind that would suit their personal
Uatet and then stand out for It till
Aoomsdar."
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Chester, I'a, has started a course In
THE TENNESSEE NEARING COMPLETION
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Bow view of the great superdreadnaiigbt U. S. S. Tennessee, which is
nearing completion at tlie Brooklyn navy yard. She was launched April 30,
191!, and when completed will be one of the largest and most powerful battle
ships afloat.
ROLLING STOCK DESTROYED BY THE REDS
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Boiling Mock on the Trans-Siberian railway which was destroyed by
bolsheviks. In many cases the wrecked cars were pushed from the track
and rolled down Into the nearest ditch so as to facilitate uninterrupted
passage of other trains.
CONDENSED INFORMATION
Cuba Is the greatest consumer of
raisins among Spanish-American na
tions. To lessen the noise of water falling
Into a bathtub an Inventor has pat
ented an extension rube for faucet.
In an English Inventor's belt-driven
automobile changes nf speed are made
by moving (he belt from one set of
millers to another.
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commercial aviation. The pl olo shows
HOLLOW, PA.
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natural gas district. The wells are
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The 00 books of the Bible
written by 40 men during period of
l. years.
There are 782 varieties of arctic
flower which have but two colon,
white and yellow.
What Is said to be the smallest elec
tric motor form a new dental tool
bolder and weighs but four ounces.
Electrically operated oilers for ma
chinery have been Invented that can b
controlled from oen'ml switch board,
if,
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Atlantic City, X. J. With a thous
and leaders of various denomination
of the I'rotestant church clergymen
and ijynii'n, men and women pres
ent, the World Survey Conference of
Iho Interchurch Worid Movement cf
North America was called to order in
the auditorium on the S'.et l Pier here.
T!ie delegates are all picked leaders
hi their denominations, and include
(.any of of the must widely known of
l!ie churchmen In the country.
Before the conference sessions be
;an the big exhibition room in the
Auditorium building was thrown open
to the delegates who bad presented
to them there In graphic form the
work being done by the various units
of the Interchurch organization. These
units were provided with separate
booths in which charts, maps, photo
graph'., etc., illustrated In convincing
and interesting style just what Is be
ing clone In each field.
KENTUCKY HAS RATIFIED THE
U. 8. SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT
rrankfort, Ky. The lower house of
the assembly voted 72 to 25, to ratify
the federal woman suffrage amend
ment. CANADIAN GOVERNOR GENERAL
SIGNS A NEWS PRINT ORDER.
Ottawa. The governor general sign
ed an order in council authorizing the
minister of customs to refuse export
Teenses to manufacturers of news
print paper who refuse to comply with
any order of the controller of paper.
HOPE THAT BOTH FIUME AND
ZARA WILL BE FREE CITIES.
Paris Optimism prevails at Lon
don as to the conferences being held
by Premiers Lloyd-George and NittI
and it is believed there will be a pre
liminary agreement by which Fiume
and Zara may be established as free
and Independent cities, says the Petit
Parisien.
UNITED MINE WORKERS HAVE
ACCEPTED PRESIDENT'S PLAN.
Columbus. O. The United Mine
Workers of America In convention
here ratified the action o the Inter
national officers In accepting Presi
dent Wilson's proposal to end the coal
strike on a 14 per cent increase bast
and a commission to draw up a new
wage agreement
TIAJUANA. MEXICO BUYS
DEMP8EY-CARPENTIER FIGHT
Los Angeles, Cal "Tiajuana. Mexi
co, will get the Dempsey-Carpentler
firht." said Jack Kearns. manager for
the world champion, when advised by
the Associated Press of Georges Car
pentier's conditional acceptance of
Promoter Coffroth's offer.
Kearns said he would prepare a fui
ther statement within a few hours.
THE SUM OF $761,000,000 IS
REALIZED FROM ARMY STOCKS
Antwerp Th sum of $760,000,009
was realized from the sale of Ameri
can army stocks remaining In Franco
after the departure of the American
army, said Brls:adier General W. D.
Connor, chief-of-etaff of the American
denartment of sunnly. who sailed for
America. He et!m?fed the value of
the stocks at Sl.700.000 0M) and de
clared it would have cost $75,000,000 to
take them back to America.
YOUNG WAN FORMERLY WORTH
FIFTY MILLIONS IS QEAD.
Miami, Fla. John Cooper Thomas,
ag-d 24. multSmilKonalre coal one-v-tor
ard manufacturer of Barnwell. W.
Va.. d'ed st his w!nter residence on .
Bel Isle, this city, of diabetes. He
was renuted to be worth JfiO 00 nno.
ti grater part of this snm havtn
be-n lf tr him bv his fuf'er. Wil
Vzm T'tomas, when the tetter died
(wo yearn aeo Young Thomas was an
irmn dur'rjg i war and served on
the Stars and Stripes.
ANOTHER AMERICAN MUROFRPO
BY A MEXICAN ARMY OFFICER.
Washington. G'.brlel Porter, an
American c't'zen in the employ of the
Pern Mex enmnany, was shot and
k'Ued by a Mexican federal army offi
cer at Tuxpam on December 21, ac
eordinr to advices received by the
state denartment.
This makes a total of 20 American
silled In the Tarn nico district by Mex
icans since Anril 7. 1917. Eighteen of
them were employes of American ofl
companies. " "
DEMAND FOR EXTRADITION OP .
KAISER EXPECTED AT HAGUE.
Amerongen. Allied demand for tb
extradition of former Emperor WH
lUm, of Germany, In which It Is kaowa
America will not participate, are
pected at the Hague January IS.
Recent press dispatches have stated
Count HohensoUera might atirrendet
rather than embarrass tha Netherlands
government, but it I authoritatively
reported he will rely on th pt oUtksi
of Holland and her refusal to hose
Ike ma 4ntA&4.