Dyer Antilynching Bill 15 Approved in Senate Move
Washington reports the Dyer antilynching bill advancing with amendments after a Senate judiciary committee vote of 8 to 6. The measure imposes federal penalties for mob violence and authorizes action against state officers failing to protect prisoners, with forfeit provisions for mob-related deaths and amended indictment standards.
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Nelson
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Colt
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Sterling
South Dakota
Ernest
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Shortridge
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Mina
Reed
Missouri
Shields
Tennessee
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Montana
North Carolina Briefs Paint Broad Picture Of May Activity
Wilmington receipts for May top half a million with yearly outlook above four million. Durham league directors set $100 penalties for managers and ineligible players. Statesville hosts farm agents July 18–20 at the new Vance hotel. Fruit Growers Express reports over two million cash value of Wilmington shipments. Elisabeth City installs a 10 000 organ for First Methodist Church dedication. High Point closes Methodist Protestant ministers conference after a strong address by Dr. T. H. Lewis. Mount Olive reports heavy potato and cucumber shipments despite poor weather. Greensboro notes local chiropodist Earnhardt faces 12 month road option or leaving town after narcotics case. Kinston finds fossils in a new artesian well. Rockingham opens four week revival led by Cyclone McLendon before 4500. Lamberton crops poorest in years due to wet weather. Charlotte man Herman Massey killed by elevator crusher. another accident claims more. Kinston boy James Hill and grandmother injured in truck crash with workers. Taylorsville awards high school contract to Mooresville Furniture Co for 37920. work begins July, completion next fall.
Irish Free State Troops Fire On Four Courts Stronghold
Michael Collins orders action against Rory O Connors insurgents in central Dublin. Free State forces attack with armored cars and artillery around the Four Courts. casualties include seven killed and several wounded. British troops remain absent. traffic mostly normal despite intermittent artillery and rifle fire.
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Dublin
Michael Collins
Irish Free State
Rory O'Connor
Dubin
Free State
Irish Labor Party
Provisional
Seaboard Air Line Splits Into Northern and Southern Districts
Norfolk Va Seaboard Air Line tailway will divide into northern and southern general districts. V Peyton becomes general superintendent northern district with Norfolk HQ. Virginia North Carolina Georgia divisions form the north. South Carolina East Carolina Alabama Florida form the south. C D Thornton succeeds as Virginia division superintendent. J C Wroton named transportation assistant of the staff.
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Seaboard Air Line
M. H. Cahill
V. Peyton
Virginia
North Carolina
Georgia
South Carolina
East Carolina
Alabama
Florida
Seaboard
Payton
C. D.thornton
J. C. Wroton
Cadets Die As Plane Crashes After Takeoff
Three aviation cadets died when a Brooks field plane fell from 200 feet after takeoff. Waldron Farrell 24 Philadelphia was the pilot killed instantly. William McCoy 22 Nashville and George Thompson West Philadelphia also perished. Thompson had arrived from Carlstrom field to Kelly field en route. A Southern Baptists drive in Nashville seeks 600000 converts this year as part of the Seventy Million campaign.
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San Antonio
Texas
Brooks Field
Waldron R. Farrell
Philadelphia
William C. McCoy
Nashville
Tenn
George C. Thompson
West Philadelphia
Farrell
McCoy
Kelly Field
Brooke Field
Thompson
Carlstrom Field
Florida
Southern Baptists
Conservation Commission
South
American held for ransom freed in Morelos
Mexico City reports A. Bruce Tetas, captured by bandits in Morelos, was delivered to friends at Chietla after a ransom of 10000 dollars in gold. Mr Bielaski and his party were said to travel by train to Mexico City with no untoward incident in the release.
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Mexico City
A. Bruce
Tetas
Morelos
Chietla
Bielaski
Marcon Awarded Medal For Invention Of Wireless Telegraphy
New York reports the John Frits medal, among the top honors in engineering, awarded for 1922 to Senator Guglielmo Marconi for the invention of wireless telegraphy.
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Marcon
New York
John Frits
Guglielmo Marcon
Cotton Condition Improves Portends Record Belt Yield
A government survey based on 1600 correspondents places cotton condition at 72.4 percent for mid June, up from last month and highest since 1918, with acreage estimated at 4,339,000 by the government. It notes later gains and compares potential bale production to recent years. Lynching denunciations rise at Atlanta as law enforcement criticism surfaces after multiple abuses and local incidents. The Senate favors buying Cape Cod canal and Dismal Swamp canal with $11 million cash and bond assumptions.
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Tor of Commerce
Bates
Atlanta
League For Enforcement of
Georgia
Jess Mercer
Prohibition
Hall County
Gainesville
Barrow County
Fitzgerald
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway
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County Commissioners
Columbus
Washington
Cape Cod
Dismal Swamp
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Senate Commerce Committee
Chesapeake Bay
Beaufort
N. C
Morrison Speaks at Meeting at Wrightsville Beach
Governor Cameron Morrison addressed the North Carolina Bar Association session at Wrightsville Beach urging lawyers to unite for the development and expansion of the state’s natural resources. The meeting also saw more than 100 new members admitted, and a resolution opposing a constitutional change allowing superior court judges to express opinions to juries.
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Wilmington
Cameron Morrison
North Carolina Bar Association
Wrightsville Beach
Heart and Soul
Stowaway Admits Plot Knowledge in Rathenau Assassination
Hoboken officers say Max Peterson a stowaway aboard the Steamer President Taft admitted he joined the Eberhardt brigade and claimed he knew all about the Rathenau plot. He was removed from the ship by Justice Department agents after docking.
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Hoboken
N. J
Max Peterson
Taft
Eberhardt Brigade
Walter Rathenau
Justice Department
North Carolina tax take easing. federal court recesses
North Carolina likely to report a smaller tax drop than other states for the year ending June 30 1922 with income taxes down about ten percent due to higher exemptions. Tobacco and estate taxes rise offset losses as the state nears last totals. The Raleigh court then recessed after a May term with 83 convictions. 17 sentenced to Atlanta prison and seven others jailed or fined.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
United States
Gilliam Grissom
United States Collector of Internal Revenue
Grissom
Colector Grissom
South
United States District Court
R. W Ward
Atlanta
Irvin B. Tucker
R. W .Ward
C. J. Kelly
Sanford
Eddie Brendle
J. R. Prince
Norfolk
H. C. Lee
Detroit
Forty Seized in Tampico Amid Oil Company Hostage
Washington reports 40 American Cortese Oil employees seized in Tampico Mexico as ransom security for 15000 pesos. The incident follows the kidnapping of Bruce Bielaski, ex DOJ official, near Cuernavaca. White House expects no US policy shift toward Obregon government pending fuller details.
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Washington
Cortese Oil Company
Tampico
Mexico
State Department
Obregon
White House
United States
Cuernavaca
Mexico City
Bruce Bielaski
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Duties on meat products weigh on consumers in tariff bill
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts warned in the senate that the pending tariff bill would impose duties on fresh meats and meat products, potentially increasing the national meat bill by 379,500,000 dollars. He said he would periodically present figures showing the burden on consumers.
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Washington
Walsh
Massachusetts
Senate
Twenty One Killed in Two Weeks Near Calexico
Official reports from CalexicoCalexico California tally twenty one men killed in wool ground Mexi cali over the last two weeks. The compilation follows the discovery of eight dead Mexicans two and a half miles east of Calexico, one body found in an irrigation ditch on the American side of the boundary.
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Calexico
Calif
Mexicali
Lowder California
Captain Hamilton Dies in Gettysburg Plane Crash
Captain George D. Hamilton, DSC recipient and famed Marine officer, was killed when his aircraft nosedived near the Gettysburg monument. Sergeant G A Martin of Buffalo, his mechanician, died later in hospital. the plane was part of an advance scouting group.
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Gettysburg
George D. Hamilton
Marine Corps
Big Monument
Sergt
G. A. Martin
Buffalo
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