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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1922
Page
2
Valley City paper columns discuss gasoline price rises and possible investigation, state twine plant pricing changes, and a Senate amnesty bill. It also critiques Genoa talks on reparations, praises Lisbon home location, and analyzes veterans welfare spending, with editorials on Senator Baker and North Dakota politics.
Tucson May 15 100 armed men on cow ponies chase seven bandits who held up the Golden State Limited near midnight. A train clerk fired when the bandits’ loot failed and four posses headed by deputy sheriffs pursued toward the Mexican border. The express car looting ended as the engine pulled the remaining cars toward Los Angeles. passengers remained unaware of the earlier raid.
Delegates from Chile and Peru began meetings shortly after noon in the American Hall to ease the forty year conflict over the Tadi na Africa territory. Secretary Hughes welcomed the delegates and urged settlement, while Chilean and Peruvian spokesmen expressed hope for a conciliatory accord amid high hopes across the American republics.
State department officials declined to say what the American reply will be to the Allied invitation for the United States to participate in the International conference at The Hague. The invitation note, forwarded by Ambassador Childs from Genoa, arrived at 10 this morning. The conference is expected to begin June 15 at The Hague.
Dublin reports eight dead in Belfast as street fighting in the Cuchli-On-Fir district signals a renewed rebellion against the Free State. Ireland appeals to Great Britain for peace aid. Sir James Craig Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith may meet Winston Churchill in London as talks continue. The Dail Eireann held a conference overnight and may adjourn after resuming this afternoon.
Washington May 15 republican senators pledged rapid passage of two bills to fund the attorney general’s prosecution efforts. One bill hires lawyers and the other provides 500000 dollars for special investigators and a district of Columbia grand jury. Daugherty plans an immediate grand jury and a “Fraud cabinet” of top lawyers, with salaries up to 10000 dollars a year for about 20 to 25 lawyers.
Lloyd George says Allies will meet Russians at The Hague on equal terms as Italy proposes adjournment of the Genoa Conference until June. The United States is invited to attend to help secure credit, with a joint expert committee to handle the Russian problem and all credits.
Washington May 15 An other international conference was convened by President Harding to advance talks aimed at settling a forty year dispute among South American republics. Delegates from several nations gather in the capital to pursue a peaceful settlement and define cooperative measures for regional stability.
In Stillwater Oklahoma a preliminary hearing for Earl Gordon 25 charged with murdering P Cobb 28 of Birmingham Alabama is set. Prosecutor John Hughes says the case will show the shooting was murder. Mrs Cobb a 13 year old widow with an 18 month old son will describe the insult to her. Gordon’s lawyers say he acted in self defense after Cobb allegedly tried to harm him near the Oklahoma College where both were vocational students.
Disturbances in Ulster resume hostilities with Irish republican mutineers and arson squads fire the largest naval wireless station on the Donegal coast. They eject guards, auction local furniture, and shooting resumes in Belfast with two killed as intense fighting continues in Marrowbone.
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