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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1922
Page
1
President Harding asks railroads and unions to end the shop strike and let the railroad labor board decide seniority. Striking workers are urged to return to work, carriers to reemploy them, and leaders plan a Wednesday meeting to vote on the proposal.
The piece reports on union and railway executive views following a railroad labor board decision. It discusses seniority, potential layoffs, rehiring of former strikes, and the dilemma of loyal employees versus bringing back all workers. The President's optimism is noted as a factor in uniting factions.
State troops moved to Joliet as a deadly clash erupted between sheriff deputies railroad officers and striking workers. Sheriff James Newkirk and detective Philip Reitz died, with deputy Witt Newkirk gravely wounded as gunfire roared near Nelson Nelson Stockard's home during the Will County strike scene. One striker Frank Lavile also died.
The central executive committee denied appeals from multiple church leaders including the Petrograd metropolitan and Archbishop Shane who were condemned to die for interfering with the seizure of church treasures. The body noted they used the church to incite followers against soviet decrees.
Miss Eliana Beth Jones, seventeen, daughter of Princeton chemistry professor L W Jones, fell from a cliff into the Merced River near Vernal Falls bridge in Yosemite Valley. Her father, who tried to save her, narrowly escaped also. Rangers report the swift current will delay recovery. they had just arrived in Berkeley for UC summer sessions.
A special grand jury in Washington returns indictments against Ernest Maerse former sales director of the War department Everly M Davis president of EB M Davis Chemical Co New York and Alexander W Phillips for defrauding the government of more than a million dollars in the sale of the Old Hickory Powder plant near Nashville Tennessee
Richmond Virginia reports no action by Southern Railway officials to inform striking workers as foremen taunt the group with a water joke and a suggestion to build a sun shelter. The strikers proceed to construct a shack.
Washington reports Republican leaders clutch for protective tort legislation advance. Senate plans to abandon high rates in conference and revert to lower ones in the house bill to speed passage before the 1932 elections. Senator Smoot and other leaders urge a more moderate path while pressuring action on a sugar syndicate probe and related tariff issues.
Sheet charged and being cemponsible for war among othor producers listed the American Sugar Refining company W J MacNahan Refining and Molasses company the National Sugar Refining company the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining company the Revere Sugar Refining company the Warner Sugar Refining company and the Independent Producers of the United States Refining company.
Fragmentary OCR notes list gossiped titles and codes. The readable line mentions clubs and standings but no clear teams, scores, dates, or locations. Further readable details are insufficient to form a complete factual item.
Fragmentary sports notes show teams like Boston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York and Cleveland. Mentions rain delays and seedings with scattered scores and lineup fragments, leaving a partial league update without a clear outcome.
A federal grand jury indicted twenty three officers and directors of no corporation for alleged misuse of U S mails in connection with about half a million dollars in stock. The cases involve Crystal Glass Casket company and Birmingham Motors corporation. Birmingham Motors is headquartered in Syracuse New York.
Bandits forced entry to the largest department store in Muncie Indiana by picking an alley door lock. They opened three safes and escaped with about eight thousand dollars in currency. One safe was broken open and the other two opened with a burging tool.
A Rome dispatch reports another general strike possible in Italy as fascists burn buildings in Genoa and Bologna. Following a ministers’ council, a martial law cordon covers northwestern regions with troops massed in Milan Parma Genoa Ancona and Leghorn as industry and rail traffic suffer amid socialist and communist tensions.
Warren Stone issues call for meeting and invites all chiefs of brotherhoods to attend at Washington to discuss coalition issues and future plans.
Warren Stone president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers telegraphed sixteen divisions urging attendance at a Washington conference next Friday. The meeting aims to address the railroad situation and avert a transportation collapse cited after a Shopmen's unions telegram requesting the gathering.
Special to The Evening Journal. In Joilet Aug 1 troops from Chicago were deployed to stop rioting by shopmen strikers. They fired upon crowds and the mob quickly dispersed.
In Denver on August 8 state rangers escorted labor figure Willun Z Poster from a hotel to a town near the Kansas line after he arrived from Salt Lake City. Adjutant General Tamrock labeled Foster a radical and said he offered no resistance while being expelled claiming his mission was legitimate.
Capt George Shuler of the Marine Corps left Washington on orders from General Lejeune via Acting Secretary Roosevelt for Wyoming with four enlisted men. They carry orders to forcibly eject Mutual oil company representatives from the Teapot naval oil reserve if needed.
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