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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1922
Page
7
As the second week of the rail strike begins, shopmen resist conciliatory talks urged by the labor board. Violent incidents rage in Chicago and Texas, with beatings of strikebreakers and arson at several boxcars.
Adolfo de la Huerta and American oil executives failed to reach agreement on developing wildcat oil territory in Mexico. De la Huerta said the mission was only to hear proposals, while company reps claimed reasonable progress had been made.
London reports claim Turks secretly murdered Americans in Asia Minor. Civil engineer J. Herbert Knapp, who studied the Turk interior, says affidavits and his inquiry indicate executions by shooting were hidden as typhus or disease deaths. He cites deaths of his brother George Knapp and others including Annie Allen and Charlotte Aly.
James W. Gerard former American ambassador to Germany arrives back in New York from a European trip. He says assassination threats from Rathenau’s killers group would have fired at him if he had stayed in Germany. He notes clippings claimed he should be barred but Rathenau advised they were only newspaper utterances and he would be welcome.
In Manitou T July 8 four men fled the outskirts after Night Marshal Martin Frederick was found dead on a sidewalk near a restaurant. The marshal’s gun remained holstered and police believe he was shot during a surprise encounter with robbers targeting local stores. Posses scoured the countryside this morning for the suspected robbers.
Fire broke out today on the Atlantic liner Nieuw Ametercam at the Holland American Line docks in Hoboken. The blaze caused damage but stirred considerable excitement among passengers who were due to sail.
Berlin reports two German experts will travel to Paris to ask the reparations commission for a moratorium that would allow Germany to spread its cash payments over a longer period.
Associated Press report from Macon Georgia says Dr Eugene Scheibner was kidnapped last week by several men and later charged with abandonment and desertion of a minor child. He faces trial after arrest.
The Katy railroad announced the discontinuance of 47 trains in Missouri Oklahoma Kansas and Texas due to locomotives being unavailable and fear of unrest if nonunion workers were used. Division superintendent Marquette said the Slater division point may be abandoned with repair facilities moved to Glasgow Illinois.
Sedalla Missouri July 8 local Katy trains formed here did not go out early today due to a strike of workers at the roundhouse. No fires had been started in the engines.
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