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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1920
Page
11
The court commends U S Marines serving in Haiti for their conduct and efforts to establish security and order. It notes few offenses amid difficult conditions and lauds officers from the brigade commander to enlistees for their resolve and restraint. The inquiry ends with high recommendation and adjournment.
Columbus attorney and former Ohio attorney general Frank S. Monnett filed suit in Columbus seeking a receiver for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Akron and an accounting. Monnett, owner of 45 shares, alleges improper 2.5 percent dividends were paid last fall by borrowing against stock sales. Akron president F A Selberling, who died, said Goodyear is solvent and will seek dismissal.
In Jersey City two men seized eleven year old Neal Pecoraro near his home and stole $500 in cash from him after he had just cashed a check for his mother. The youths fled with the money.
London reports that the correspondence between Prime Minister Lloyd George and Father Michael O Flannagan, vice president of the Irish republic, to secure a Sinn Fein truce has ended. O Flannagan urged direct talks with President De Valera, but Lloyd George rejected that approach in his reply.
Dec 18 Wage reductions announced by knit goods manufacturers in Troy Cohoes and Waterford to take effect January 3. Ground cited as downward trend in living costs. About thirty mills affected.
A large bomb was recovered in Merrion square Dublin yesterday. A combined police and military raid on a rebel ammunition store at Templemore yielded revolvers ammunition gun powder and eighty eight sticks of gelignite.
A humorously framed note claims Mrs Grubem has become irritable this week after reading papers. It speculates the mood is aimed at pushing her boarders toward a hanger strike.
Ossining N Y Dec 18 Sing Sing convicts via the Sing Sing Bulletin praise their security noting the lock up at night brings a pleasant sensation and calm in the wake of a wider New York crime wave.
An editorial in the Christmas issue suggests building a wall around New York City to trap crooks there and stop them from being sent to Sing Sing, where they would contaminate inmates. The piece closes with a dreamlike query about drifting into sleep.
An auxiliary police officer testifies at a military court inquiry into the shooting of Canon Magner and Timothy Crowley at Dunman Way. The cadet Harte who fired the shots had been drinking steadily and was described as absolutely mad at the time.
Police report Joe White, chased for weeks on bogus checks and forgery, was captured at Cedar Bluff Virginia by A H Fullen. He faces a local forgery charge and a forged 76 dollar check case from Richlands First National Bank. Authorities plan to decide on further disposition and transport for trial.
A lorry carrying military and police was ambushed near Ennistimon in County Clare this morning. Fierce fighting lasted hours with four soldiers and two policemen wounded. An unrelated note estimated a mastodon’s weight at ten tons when living.
Dublin reports intensified warfare as police and military conduct raids and arrests while the Irish Republican Army increases attacks on crown forces. Peace negotiators hope for a truce, with martial law circular promising approval for necessary actions but warning against offenses, including breaking into homes or harming sentries, under threat of court martial and death.
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