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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1922
Page
3
Brief dispatches from around the globe report on significant happenings across politics, science, culture, and society. Key leaders, institutions, and places appear as events unfold, offering quick insights into ongoing developments worldwide.
The report surveys multiple historic issues including Article 27 retroactivity in Mexico, upcoming June conferences in New York on finance and Russian policy, a Baltic peace prospect, British Palestine mandate, and a German reparations stance. It notes U S participation in a mixed commission, Ireland peace talks stalling, and U S Senate actions on alcohol duties and war fraud probes amid a looming cotton famine.
John Barton Payne chairman of the American Red Cross will preside over the second national conference of state parks at Bear Mountain Palisades Interstate Park New York May 22 to 25. The report notes FTC demand for merger details from Bethlehem Steel and seven other steel firms. Senate actions on Muscle Shoals nitrate and power projects include a Norris bill for a semi government corporation to operate the sites for fifty years. A bill granting amnesty to wartime espionage prisoners was introduced by Senators Bankhead and Ladd. Senator Bankhead dies after months of illness. Mumps outbreak challenges child crusaders appealing to President Harding for political prisoner fathers.
Reports list multiple fatal and near fatal incidents across cities. Domestico Vitodi di Giorgio of New Orleans and James Gascio of Buffalo were killed in a Chicago Italian quarter barber shop. A separate New York magistrate court case holds five defendants in $25,000 bail each for a $70,000 jewel theft. Other items include a deadly Buffalo to New York railroad wreck, bootlegger raids near York Pennsylvania, and various disasters and investigations spanning the U.S.
Alabama Senator Heflin urged the Senate to probe alleged price fixing on cotton futures through the New York Cotton Exchange Chicago Board of Trade and New Orleans Cotton Exchange. He warned the current crop could be exhausted by July 1 and growers faced ruin. He introduced a resolution for a Senate committee to hear evidence in New York New Orleans Chicago and Washington.
Geneva reports Germany and Poland have agreed to a Silesian settlement under League of Nations supervision. A mixed commission will govern the industrial district to end a long dispute and spur European recovery. Also notes Berry elected president of the Southern Wholesale Dry Goods Association and a riot at a South Carolina penitentiary left Nathan Rosen dead from injuries.
Brit Wood, 23, an employee of a Lawrenceville drug firm, shot himself after doctors said he must undergo an operation. Relatives say he had been ill for months and could not bear the thought of surgery, leading to his death.
The article explains mail delays at the Dead Letter Office due to missing street addresses. It recalls Ben Franklin’s era hunting old addresses and notes modern habit of omitting street numbers. It urges adding number and street to improve delivery and speed.
State banking records show Valle Crucis Bank at Valle Crucis North Carolina closing its books on May 5 1922 with cashier L M Farthina and directors H B Perry C D Taylor and D Mast. J P W H Mast certifies the document on May 12 1922.
An unsigned note from N. C. Greene announces candidacy for the Republican nomination for Sheriff of Watauga County subject to the May 22 convention. He pledges to serve as best as possible if nominated and elected.
Paris reports Premier Poincare calls the Russian reply utterly unacceptable and says the French delegation will be barred from further Genoa conference work. He denounces the note as ironical pompous hypocritical and unacceptable and warns of possible rupture in relations with Russia. France stays at Genoa only for practical economic talks.
Report notes a flight began in Lisbon over a month ago and intended to proceed to St Paul Rocks then Brasil. One person injured in the journey, with the aircraft not following the originally intended route to Portugal.
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