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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1920
Page
1
W G Leer says an announcement will end all danger of strike while 207k Barton announces that awards will be made by July. The statement outlines a plan to resolve labor tensions and finalize compensation steps.
Chicago June 25 The railway labor board chaired by Judge R M Barton will announce by July 20 whether wages will rise, retroactive to May 1. W F Lee of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen says the delay threatened a nationwide strike and that an agreement on method to resolve wage issues was reached.
The Democratic national committee postponed Missouri and Georgia contest decisions until tomorrow morning after clearing preliminaries for the national convention. A full committee vote 26 to 20 decided to hear the cases, with Alabama to California among states voting yes. In Missouri the Reed affair centers on his reelection after state convention rejection. The panel also named Dr. Turner delegate at large from Oregon to fill a vacancy.
Hundreds of letters to the U S district attorney allege oil stock fraud after five indictments by a federal grand jury. Victims describe losing lifetime earnings with stories of a woman who saved $500 invested and now must wash for two children and an elderly couple facing charity unless $1,800 is recovered.
Samuel Gompers president of the AFL arrived in Vancouver BC en route to San Francisco to present labor's case at the Democratic National Convention. He left for Seattle with AFL vice president William Green and said he would press for a labor friendly platform.
Frank Vale, sixty years old and a native of Mexico, welcomed his thirty fifth child today when his second wife bore an eleven pound boy. He had married her in 1900 and this child is her seventeenth. Sixteen of Vale's children survive.
The Londonderry situation showed more improvement as civil warfare subsided and business reopened. A peace conference is in session to help refugees return home. California delegates plan a banquet for tomorrow night to meet delegates and national committeemen and discuss Western problems and unity of action.
At a Salt Lake City caucus the Texas delegation to the San Francisco convention unanimously backed William G. McAdoo and pledged all 400 Texas delegates to his nomination and support.
Kin Hubbard known as Abe Martin begins his convention sketches in The News with humor on the Democratic National Convention. Miss Jane Ragsdale will cover Texas delegates in San Francisco while AP and Newspaper Enterprise Association provide wire and features. The News promises top service and urges dealers to order extra copies. Abe Martin’s first piece runs Sunday morning.
Asenested Thorne testifies before the Interstate Commerce Commission that railroads demand a billion dollar rise but the shipper argues the need is about $386 million above the six percent return. He says book value used by roads is inflated and an 18 percent revenue rise would suffice. He warns full demands would burden the public with over $2 billion, double the wartime tax burden.
Seymour Stedman of Chicago, a Socialist vice presidential nominee, challenges Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts to a public debate on campaign issues. The request was acknowledged by Coolidge, who noted receipt of the letter but did not indicate acceptance.
An incident involving masked men and armed staffers amid a carriage near Lough led to a car being carried away by an unknown group. Police and locals report disruption during the afternoon hours.
New York, June 25. The hunt for the murder of Joseph Elwell centers on a single man under police scrutiny as an arrest may be near. The suspect, a friend of the deceased, had been questioned before and was watched closely after revelations about three sets of keys found after Elwell’s death, as the case proceeds with an unconfirmed report of progress.
Berlin reports three notes from the Allied powers on German disarmament and constitutional changes. The notes insist on keeping military limits, disbanding conscription, and halting war materials exports while outlining policing reforms and a pause on aeronautical production until post surrender material is delivered.
Exhumation of 489 American soldiers bodies washed ashore on Islay after the sinking of transports Tuscania and Otranto in 1918 will begin July 1. The local Scottish clan will guard the graves, but relatives requested return of the bodies and the Graves Registration Service will remove them.
Senator Pomerene of Ohio, a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, left Los Angeles tonight with other Ohio members. He said he would devote much energy in San Francisco to trying to prevent William J. Bryan from putting reported plans into effect.
Senator William G. Harding and Theodore Roosevelt joined discussions with William Boyce Thompson and other Republican leaders on strategy to gather Republican views for the campaign. A Boston conference was announced for next week with Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts as potential vice presidential nominee.
In New Orleans on June 25 Felix Biggbor 26 and Charles Zitka 19 were found guilty in the criminal district court of murdering Mrs Bertha Neason on April 23. State evidence shows they lured her from a naval transport duty location to Turtle Back road near the canal, shot her, looted diamonds, and dumped the body in a water pool.
A temporary platform at the Broadway auditorium collapsed after the morning session, injuring about 10 delegates during group photographs. Several suffered cuts and bruises while others escaped unscathed as the structure gave way near the end of the session.
June 25. Thomas W. Law von denies acquaintance or business links with Louis C. Van Diper indicted for using a dubious method to defraud investors in Worthless oil stocks. Van Diper is named in the indictment as formerly secretary to Law sone.
SAN FRANCISCO June 25 Oakland Mole arrival point for democratic national convention delegates who arrived by the hundreds today looked more like a lumber yard than a passenger depot. So many platform plank suggestions arrived with the delegates that the resolution committee would need a month of round the clock hearings to cover them. Delegates hacked and sawed language they thought would suit the party plank and carried home planks for the west.
Surface indications show Wilson allies in control of Democratic machinery as national convention preliminaries begin in San Francisco. Insurgent factions lack organization, while James A Reed and Hardwick appear to be kept out of the convention, and Bryan faces likely clashes over a league of nations plank. Prohibition remains unsettled with no clear platform stance.
In a rural exchange Miss Dame Moon voices a wary stance on marriage to a working man, joking that opportunity has shifted to using the mails. A playful trade of phrases about wine women and FP notes hints at social commentary and local banter.
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