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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1922
Page
4
The Herald surveys three figures at the Hes conference. Wilson dwells on the past and Armistice Day regrets. Lloyd George emphasizes the future, offering a positive to Britain while arguing for past lessons. Bent on memory, Clemenceau envisions a winter of mindset shaping future negotiations.
A dramatic 19th century vignette depicts a bride's gloom as she marries a man whose outward finery masks inner turmoil. The groom, armored in plume and helmet, wanders a desolate mood while a curious courtship of stares and flattery fails to warm his heart. In a castle setting, the shadow of doom lingers as whispers of tragedy haunt the bridegroom.
A fragmented report notes an American British push at the NNE conference with a plan to back rich oil concessions in Mosul and Bagdad. Mr. Child is described as maneuvering between competing claimants amid corporate exploitation and dispatches about a new American company.
Cable dispatches identify John Bennett and Col onel George Maitland Edwards as promoters of a British American company seeking Mosul and Baghdad oil concessions. The Winchester Virginia backed venture reportedly involves heirs of Sultan Abdul Hamid and a promised payment of 500 000 pounds within 91 days, with Bennett claiming American capital and backing by Samuel Untermyer and Will Hays. DeKay is reportedly sought by the United States government in connection with these oil projects.
Mr and Mrs Eldridge Luttrell of the Star restaurant welcome a daughter born yesterday at Memorial Hospital. Mrs Luttrell is Virginia Herrell, daughter of Mr and Mrs Bruce Herrell of this city.
Representative George H. Tinkham of Massachusetts sends a letter to President Harding urging enforcement of the fourteenth amendment's voting rights for Black citizens. He compares it to the failure to enforce Prohibition and warns that unaddressed disfranchisement taints congressional tenure and the presidency.
The council approved first and second readings creating a park commission of two unpaid citizens plus the city manager to define duties and regulate trees. They urged action on an electric alarm bell at Cork street crossing after Baltimore and Ohio delay and discussed speeding across city limits. Council rewrites an ordinance sharing curb and gutter costs with property owners. The Northern Virginia Power Company rule on meter deposits was reviewed and the water and street committees, city manager and solicitor were tasked to negotiate a four inch Harris Addition water main purchase. Final consideration of the bridge project was postponed to a special Friday meeting.
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