14 Jul 1922
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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1922
Page
1
Washington July 14 Secretary Weeks issues a formal notice with a table outlining a strike call. The document details actions and deadlines tied to a fiscal year, describing department changes and implied effects on operations.
Sheriff G White of Santa Cruz County and two guards pursued three convicts Manuel Martines Placido Silvas after an overturned car carrying them to Florence penitentiary. White was struck and knocked unconscious. Martines and Silvas remained at large as the murderers of Postmaster J Frank Pearson and spouse in Ruby last August.
Yakima will host 300 to 350 delegates for the United Spanish War Veterans department encampment July 20 21 and 22. John Alderson camp welcomes posts from Washington and Alaska with many returning committees. A caravan will tour Rimrock dam on the final day after sessions begin July 20.
Reports from Dallas to New York describe a growing railway labor dispute as 400,000 maintenance of way workers consider a walkout amid shop men pressure. President Harding seeks to keep mails moving while talks with labor leaders continue and regional tensions flare in Texas Oklahoma and Missouri.
In Los Angeles on July 14 the disputed killing of Alberta Meadows, 20, is linked to Clara Phillips after a key witness, Peggie Coffee, describes the murder during a car ride on a hillside road. Coffee says Phillips attacked Meadows, threatened her and fled with the car, while police pursue further details.
Senator Moses in Washington accuses the Chemical Foundation Inc. Du Pont De Nemours Co. and the Textile Alliance of orchestrating a vast fraud linked to embargo efforts and private propaganda. He maps a web from 1919 relations to alien property deals and dye interests intertwined with government agencies.
In an electrical storm over New York the Yankees pennant was ripped from its pole and tossed into the Harlem River. Pitcher Bob Shawkey was outside and narrowly escaped injury as debris struck a fence. The mishap adds to the team’s misfortune and superstition tally for the season.
Sofia Bulgaria July 14 AP reports Premier Stamboulisky sought an English wife for King Boris. UK PM Lloyd George joked that even the Prince of Wales remains unfitted for a bride, while Boris quips his throne may not support two. Boris says he admires American women and jokes about their prettiness.
Tacoma July 14 AP John OShaughnessy 89 a long time resident of Cowlitz County is now a naturalized citizen after a court ceremony. Born in Ireland he said he can die happy after living in the United States for more than 75 years.
The Utah state Republican convention opened in Salt Lake City on July 14 to nominate candidates for the U S Senate the state supreme court justice and the state superintendent of public instruction. Possible senatorial nominees include former Governor William Spry Ernest Bamberger of Salt Lake and William H Wattis of Ogden.
Gustave Bouvet an anarchist fired three shots at Prefect of Police Naudin as the presidential cortege passed Longchamps. None took effect. A second shooter, about 20 and demented in appearance, fired twice at Armand Naudin and was beaten by the crowd before arrest. The shots damaged a woman’s dress and caused panic along the Champs Elysees and Avenue Marigny.
Secretary Denby of the United States Navy and his party of the class of 1881 arrived at Nagasaki aboard the transport Henderson. They proceeded toward Chinwangtao China on the Gulf of Liao-tung near the Manchurian border, ahead of a truce between Peifu and Chang Tsolin.
President Harding and his advisers again focused a cabinet session on the rail and coal strikes. Postmaster General Work reported mail movement is largely on schedule with some delays at several points, as the executive conference with Senator Lodge was postponed today.
Sal tire 14 reports from AP with prices listed as sixty dollars for a sugary item.
Police guard the Good Shepherd girls detention home after a breakout by fourteen inmates. Juvenile court officials probe the uprising as reinforcements arrive to prevent further escapes. Walls were scaled and flooded sections, while guards attempted to subdue rioters amid bites and confusion.
AP dispatch reports at The Hague conference on Russia and non-Russian delegates failing to reach a firm accord. Soviet instructions to Krassin aim to avert a break, with hints of far reaching concessions on state railways and mediation efforts continuing despite deadlock.
The Interstate Commerce Commission cancelled railroad schedules that would raise grain rates from Sioux City Iowa to Texas and Louisiana points by five cents per hundred pounds compared with Omaha to the same points. The action follows protests by Kansas City shippers who argued the plan advantaged Iowa grain centers over Kansas City and Omaha.
In Braintree Massachusetts Albert Cowatt escaped death when a train struck two automobiles at a grade crossing. He was thrown to the locomotive where he clung to the smokestack until the train halted 150 yards away. He suffered only minor bruises while a woman was killed and another woman and a man were seriously injured.
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