24 Aug 1922
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1922
Page
1
Honolulu August 24 Mrs Walter Candler says her divorce plans are unsettled and she cannot discuss future domestic relations with her husband. The Candler case involves an Atlanta millionaire sued for a hundred thousand dollars over an alleged attack on Clyd Byfield’s wife, an automobile dealer.
Dayton Aug 24 Governor Hardee delays execution of Lee Nichols by ruling that yesterday's writ of error application acts as a writ of supersedas Nichols convicted of criminal assault and facing a new review by the governor and sheriff authorities.
Durant North Carolina August 24 Col James Wilson his wife and sister of Montgomery were instantly killed when their car was struck by a Southern train at a crossing near town.
Washington reports Secretary Mellon stated that Britain's four billion one hundred thirty five million dollar debt to the United States is a British American transaction and has no link to other British debts or German reparations.
The Illinois Attorney General informed Department of Justice officials that a special grand jury will convene in Herrin on Monday to investigate the massacre of strike breaking miners.
Washington August 24 The proposed government investigation of the coal industry urged by President Harding is expected to begin within a month after the Winslow Bill creating a Federal Commission passed the House and goes to the Senate.
Washington August 24 The Harding Lasker ship subsidy bill is laid aside as President withdraws demand for consideration in this session. Senate leaders postpone action until after the November elections.
New York Aug 24 The conference on the rail strike ends as 148 executives withdraw from talks and reject the railway brotherhoods' proposal to restore striker seniority rights. They return home and indicate a final stance.
Philadelphia, Aug 24. Union officials and operators failed to reach an agreement in the anthracite coal dispute. Operators have left the city while unions begin dissolving and preparing to depart.
Oxford dispatch reports Joe Owens shot during a Attala county still raid near Kosciusko died en route to Jackson. Brother Harry Owens confirms wounds not fatal and says Owens has a fighting chance. Deputies patrol Attala to quell moonshine tensions after raid recovered a fully equipped still.
Washington reports the administration plans to introduce a bill creating a Federal Coal Selling Agency to control coal prices this winter. Representative Mondell, Republican floor leader, announced the measure, with a similar Senate bill already filed today.
Washington August 24. Representative Garrett Tennessee began a filibuster to stop adjournment of the House until all Muscle Shoals offers are acted on. Mondell Republican floor leader moved to adjourn until Monday, and other Democrats were expected to join in delaying adjournment while bids remain undecided.
Dublin reports that Eamon de Valera and Erskine Childers along with Mary McSwiney are surrounded near Cork by a small group of followers in a tense developing situation with no further details available.
A posse led by Deputy U S Marshal C E Aldridge arrested four men this afternoon in connection with the shooting of Mr Owens. One of the four is alleged to have fired the shot that wounded him.
Topeka Kansas August 24 The Rock Island Railroad on the Herrington Division is completely tied up due to a general strike after railroad detectives killed a fireman.
Mr and Mrs L P Strout and child of Memphis plan to live in Oxford after Strout accepts a Davis and Mize Wholesale House position. Mrs D M Ragland hosts Miss Edna Jones and Misses Laura and Hattie Crowell of Oxford. Hon Walter Boyett on a business trip to Ackerman this week. Mrs M L Duncan and daughter Georgia return to Oxford after a summer in West Point as mediation talks continue among five railroad brotherhoods. Mrs George Morgan of Lula visits her sister Mrs E E Temple.
Federal officials vow an effort to stamp out profiteering as coal prices spike after mine reopenings under the Cleveland agreement. Washington reports ministers and families visit Oxford and Flora while local households host guests amid the price surge.
New Orleans reports say a local woman and a socially prominent man are suspected as authors of the Poison Pen letters sent to Atlanta to thwart the marriage of Onezama DeBouciille and Asa Cardler. Detectives reportedly located the supposed parties who then disclosed their names to Mrs DeBoucchelle’s attorneys. In Chicago, Emil Rouse and James Morrow were killed in a car collision today.
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