15 Aug 1923
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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1923
Page
1
A chaotic scene at a political meeting in Meath Ireland ends with Eamon de Valera reportedly wounded after gunfire erupts on the platform. Troops seize assailants and escort the leader to safety as crowds flee and cheers turn to alarm amid the chaos.
Floods across Utah cut a wide swath through farming valleys and small towns including Farming, El Monte, Willard, and Farmington. Rescue teams search for nearly two dozen missing as water and mud wreck farm buildings and settlements. Men and women reported dead as authorities tally property loss well above one million dollars.
In Kemmerer Wyoming rescue teams recovered eight more bodies from the Kemmerer Coal Company mine after an explosion. About 100 miners were entombed, thirty seven survivors reported. the cause remained under study as crowds gathered and mourners awaited more news.
Washington August 15 Officials confirm that A P Davis will retire as director of the reclamation service. Secretary Work cites shift from engineering focus to business efficiency and continued construction plans to prevent abandonment of projects by settlers. He says consulting with Davis was declined and emphasizes faster, better management to recover funds and accelerate works.
Senator Brookhart accused Secretary of Agriculture of aiding the panic in prices during an Aug. 15 farm bureau banquet at Radcliffe Iowa. He said the secretary “sat in the Wall Street game” and contributed to what he called the greatest panic in agricultural prices in history.
A New York banking syndicate led by Sea Board National Bank and Goldman Bache and Company arranged a major loan to the Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Association to aid orderly marketing of Texas cotton. The loan size is not fixed but expected to be at least 20 million dollars, possibly more depending on crop size and prices.
Mary Miles Minter, noted motion picture actress, says she was not formally engaged to director William Desmond Taylor, who was shot dead in his Los Angeles apartment on February 1. She explains they never wore rings or announced an engagement and recounts memories from their relationship and her plans to support her family.
Teams clashed across a busy slate with New York, Brooklyn, Chicago and Detroit posting close scores. Batteries and pitchers named include Lugee Wingo McQuillen Jonnard Barnes Snyder Riney Ment Hargrave Ryan Gowdy Pfeiffer North Ain smith Reether DeBerry Mogridge Charrity Robertson Thurston Schalk Zahniser Ruel Fa ber Graham Fullerton Ferguson Coveleskie Morton Bed ONeill Myatt.
In Kemmerer a mine disaster draws mourners to the town as relatives gather for burials and the removal of entombed workers. United States barons ofustace Car No 3 arrives to oversee the effort, with speculation that an explosion caused the blast.
The Standard Oil of New Jersey leads a price reduction spreading across New England New York New Jersey North and South Carolina Virginia Maryland District of Columbia and West Virginia. Wholesale price drops to 19 12 cents per gallon and retail to 23 cents. Prewar 15 cent levels not yet reached, but further declines expected if crude oil drops as predicted.
The government will keep its policy against seizing rum runners beyond the three mile limit despite Judge Woodrough's Brooklyn decision. Treasury officials indicated this stance today.
Bt. Cloud farmer B. M. Case proposes dividing the United States into five zones and varying fixed wheat prices by harvest period. The plan will be submitted to the wheat price fixing conference in Minneapolis next month.
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