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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1920
Page
14
Mexico City August 2. Gov Esteban Cantu of Lower California has declared rebellion, AP reports via General Garcia. The government can concentrate 60,000 troops where needed but aims to avoid clashes with U S authorities.
Revelations from Mexican regional politics report three provisional government representatives considering overtures to Governor Esteban Cantu of Lower California while Cantu pledges resistance to federal forces. Carranzists rally to his banner as Obregonists and De la Huerta factions wage a rebel stance and potential moves toward Chihuahua.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska named by Governor Cox to represent the Democrats in a joint debate on the League of Nations at Winona Lake Indiana on August 9. The Republican national committee will select a debater to oppose him, announced from Hitchcock's office.
Chicago august 2 a local airplane concern has designed a combination panel and war airplane that can convert in three hours from a passenger machine into a flying tank armed with 11 guns and 2000 pounds of dynamite bombs. Representatives will depart for Washington to seek government orders to build similar planes.
Five new fires broke out in the St Joe national forest of Northern Idaho in the last 24 hours but none threaten valuable timber and only one is not under control. The out of control blaze is near Avery and has burned over 2,000 acres in the old 1910 burn area.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered railroads to set reconsignment rules for all freight in open-top cars and for coal and coke in any cars. Additional demurrage charges of 10 dollars per car apply to lumber laden open-top cars and to coal or coke. The rules take effect after at least five days notice and allow only one reconsignment. The order excludes coal originally consigned to lake or tidewater ports for shipment to vessels and reconsignment to other ports or consignees at the same port.
Three United States Army aircraft reached Prince George Alberta after a flight from Jasper. Plane No 2 damaged a wheel on landing. Capt St Clair Street commanded the expedition and will stay overnight before continuing to Hazelton BC with the rest of the flight.
A Kansas City Negro bandit gang reportedly held up a roost Avenue tram car on August 2 escaping with about $50,000 in cash. Four suspects fled in a motorcar after the heist. investigators say the exact totals ranging from $40,000 to $50,000 were taken.
Washington reports a planned October jubilee in the Capitol rotunda signaling the final ratification by Tennessee or Vermont. The event will feature marble busts of Susan B. Anthony Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton with funds raised over decades. Militants who once occupied the rotunda for Inez Milholland will attend as honored guests.
Paris reports that the treaty of peace between the allies and Turkey will be signed Thursday, according to newspapers in the city.
In a police court in Alabama a man named George Oliver, described with striking hair, was arrested for wanting, not for a crime. He escaped conviction and even asked his lawyer for a quarter during session, while the judge and officers mocked class lines and suggested he seek work at an employment office. The attorney planned to plead guilty for a 30 day suspended sentence to help him find a job.
James Griffin, 60, remained in serious condition after lying 52 hours at the bottom of a well he was digging. He fell in Friday noon, but yesterday regained strength enough to climb out and walk to a neighbor’s home.
Twenty five woodsmen were recruited for the first batch of fifty to guard Deer Lodge national forest. The 25 completed their recruitment at Butte and were sent to Missoula to begin duties, with emphasis on American eligibility and self-reliance as dry weather heightens fire risk after a disastrous previous year.
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