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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1922
Page
2
Reports reach Washington on Dempsey's formal challenge for the heavyweight title with Harry Wills as opponent. Across the globe, Mexican clashes near a rebel seizure at Cortez C W company property are tallied with bandits killed and captured. White House talks open a coal strike settlement while a Russian mail restriction eases.
Jean V. Parmentier leads the French financial mission and will confer with the war debt commission in the United States over France's obligations. In Dublin, Irish national troops win a battle with heavy fire, capturing rebel strongholds and about 400 prisoners. The inter allied council recognizes Lithuania as independent, a former part of the Russian empire, with no US delegation present. In Manila, Cheng Chiung-ming is said to be assassinated after his Canton coup. Berlin reports state the German foreign minister Walter Rathenau has been assassinated and Berlin presses strike amid printer closures.
The United rail labor strike affects 100000 shop workers and Pullman crews as wage cuts and a $400 million freight-rate reduction take effect. Managers expect limited disruption while ministers seek talks, and a possible arbitration panel looms. Meanwhile unrest grows in Ireland and Germany after high profile killings.
President Harding asserts coal will be mined in ample quantities to avert a fuel famine next winter. He warns that drastic action could follow if peaceful methods fail and invites miners and operators to a conference in the White House.
The AFL special policy committee, in its Cincinnati convention report, attacks Harding for proposing regulation of labor unions. The panel condemns his remarks as support for industrial feudalism and disapproval of workers' right to strike against industrial oppression.
Front page report says A Bruce Bielaski, former chief of the Justice Department bureau, was kidnapped and ransomed for 5000. He escaped after illness and beatings. Separately forty American oil workers were held, later released, then bandits seized 85 employees of a Dutch British outfit, including six Americans.
Russia’s Litvinoff led talks at The Tague with a defiant stance demanding credits or goods before any other proposal. He claimed cash was unnecessary yet desired foreign credits to buy abroad, then argued private property and debts after credits are settled.
Reports say General Chen Chiung-Ming, once key to Sun Yat Sen's Canton campaign, was assassinated during a meeting with commanders. Sun Yat Sen plans to retake Canton with troops from the north and reestablish his regime. Peking leaders back a United States of China.
The ISAFFECTED Republicans of North Dakota and the Nonpartisan League defeated Senator Porter J. McCumber for renomination and chose former governor Lynn J. Frazier, recalled, signaling a blow to the old guard. Wisconsin Democrats followed Minnesota by naming two women for the senate, including Mrs. Ren Hooper of Oshkosh.
A St Paul woman reports relief from fatigue and pelvic pains after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter promotes the medicine as especially suited to women's ailments and urges others to try it for similar symptoms.
A descendant of Fiji chieftains sailed from England back to his Pacific homeland. He is an Oxford graduate who served as a cook with the Royal Merchant Navy corps in 1909 and as a clerk with the Royal Scots Borderers in 1916, earning a bravery clasp and a king’s medal. He deserts civilization to live among Fiji islanders.
Advertisement asserts Red Cross Ball Blue bleaches laundry to white without harming fabric and recommends use by all households and grocers alike.
A chorus girl in reduced circumstances becomes a nurse maid for a millionaire's family. The Birmingham Age-Herald notes the hardship, contrasting it with broader breakups of homes in similar social strata.
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