Belfast in Terror as Curfew Breaks and Attacks Rise
Reports from Belfast dated May 19 describe incendiary fires starting before curfew ends and six buildings burning by 9 o clock. Armed men attacked a special constabulary barracks in Dock Street, with several attackers wounded and three cars used to remove the injured. Four Catholic men were dragged from beds and murdered in Desert Martin, half the village burned in reprisal fears. A southern mail train was held up with mail and letters seized, and a detective sergeant was fatally wounded in Belfast.
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Special Constabulary
Dock Street
Belfast
Desert Martin
County Derry
Constabulary
South Derry
Dublin
Sallin
Two Negroes to Be Hanged in Maryland Murder Case
Clarence Pinkett and Maurice Nokes, both Negroes, were sentenced to be hanged in Rockville after conviction for the murder of Frank Baker. Irene Baker, a Negro woman, received a life term in the Maryland penitentiary. Baker was killed when his skull was crushed by an axe blow at his home near Dickerson on December 5, 1921.
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Associated Press
Greenwood Services Announce Sunday Programs
Rev Walter Mark Depp announces services at Greenwood next Sunday. Sunday School at 2 30 p m and preaching at 3 30 p m.
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Walter Mark Depp
Greenwood
Blizzard case: motion overruled in treason charge
Judge J M Woods in Charles Town West Virginia on May 19 overruled a motion to dismiss a treason charge against Blizzard mine official William Blizzard. The ruling allowed the case to proceed based on evidence of armed marchers in Logan County and limited the state to the overt act of Blizzard's presence with the marchers.
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Associated Press
Charles Town
W. Va
J. M
Wilty
William Blizzard
Logan County
Woods ‘Eld
Woods
Genoa Economic Conference Ends After Six Weeks
The Genoa Economic Conference, gathering representatives from thirty four nations, adjourned at 1 15 pm after six weeks of work. Sessions urged European economic reconstruction and endorsed Lloyd George's non aggression pact as a step toward a permanent peace. The keynote stressed aiding Russia and a friendly stance toward that nation.
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Genoa
Europe
The
Hague
Economic Commission
Lloyd George
Russia
the Hague
Semenoff Granted Release In Appellate Court Ruling
General Gregory Semenoff, former Ataman of the Cossacks, is freed after the Appellate division of the Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision. He had been arrested on a civil warrant from the Youroyeta Home and Foreign Trade Company, a bankrupt New York firm, alleged to have stolen Siberian supplies.
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Associated Press
New York
Gregory Semenoff
Cossacks
Appellate Division
Supreme Court
Delehanty
Semenoff
Youroyeta Home and Foreign Trade Company
Siberia
Important Change in the Cooling Moth Occurs
A cold spell slowed codling moth development in Winchester Virginia. Early eggs will hatch early next week with a longer spraying period needed to control two moth waves. Frog-eye and scab reduce with immediate spraying. a later spray will be announced to combat late codling moth. Field laboratory W S Hough May 18 1922.
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Onice
Fieldaboratory
W. S. Hough
Winchester
Hatomologist
How the Georgia Peach Crop Was Saved
The April Cash Crops article details how a peach curculio crisis in 1920 threatened Georgia’s peach crop. Entomologists led by Prof. Oliver Irwin Snapp at Fort Valley employed drastic measures, boosting 1921 shipments and yielding at least $10,000,000 to save the industry. School children join Civic League clean‑up during May 22–27.
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New York City
Georgia
Oliver Irwin Snapp
G. C. Snapp
Winchester
Fort Valley
United States Department of Agriculture
Snapp
Civic
Kiddies
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Franck Baker& Son
J. F. Roystone Co
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N. Main St
Greenwood Services
W. C. Plundere Co
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League Shoe Store
H. K. Green & Bro
Jerseys
Haldeman
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