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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1928
Page
1
Montana progress piece argues economic issues drive primary choice, highlights agricultural industrialization. notes rise in farm power with tractors and combines, mortgage risk by farmers, and projected land under cultivation expanding to 7.5 million acres by 1928. ends with continued coverage.
Chilean ministry reports 291 dead when the transport Angamos sank in the Bay of Arauco off the southern coast. Eighty victims were passengers. only five crew saved. Captain reportedly killed himself. Ships Zenteno and Williams searched the area for wreckage. details scarce. The Tarapaca heard faint signals suggesting a storm and radio trouble. The Angamos, built in Scotland in 1890, 5975 tons, 14 knots, had 215 crew and 20 passengers aboard at sinking.
At Roosevelt Field Long Island crew of the Roma with Capt Cesare Sabelli gears up for a non stop flight to Rome. Fuel orders food prep and weather charts moved fast as observers say conditions favor an early morning departure from a Hartford base with a potential hop off in the pre dawn hours.
The Southwest bumper wheat harvest moves into Wichita as the week ends. Wheat is train loaded and diverted to markets and dealers. The Wichita Board of Trade reports 2,566 cars received for the week, with 513 today. Over a thousand cars sit on storage tracks awaiting buyers. New wheat placed in Wichita elevators totals a quarter million bushels, lifting storage to 710,383 bushels.
Mexico City reports new earthquake shocks felt last night in central and southern Mexico amid a sequence of tremors. No injuries or damages are yet confirmed. Authorities monitor aftershocks and urge calm as residents report continued ground movement.
In St Marys parish house the body of Rev Father M J Hannan lay in state as hundreds of Butte citizens filed by the casket. He died after an operation in Rochester Minnesota last Monday. Funeral plans call for solemn rites. the body will be sent to Ireland beside the River Shannon.
The Associated Press reports that Gov Alfred F Smith will set up campaign machinery next week. The national committee meets Wednesday to select a chair and finalize strategy, with Smith and Sen Joseph T Robinson attending. Smith is expected to dictate strategy while the committee handles finance and logistics. He has just returned from Delaware after attending William Raskob’s funeral and will discuss main features of the campaign with the committee, though public disclosure of decisions is uncertain.
Laborers from Great Northern Coal company report seeing a dark object drop into the sea near Bear Island on June 18 while en route to Advent Bay. The object may be related to Roald Amundsen and five companions in a French seaplane searching for missing Nobile expedition members. Captain Wisting of Quest warns of uncertainty amid Italian rescue efforts for Captain Sora and Alpine party.
German fliers Risticz and Zimmerman landed in Dessau after a record endurance flight of 65 hours and 21 minutes, surpassing the Italian mark. The one motor Junkers D-1231 carried the duo between Dessau and Leipzig, with Hugo Junkers watching.
Paris July 7 The French assembly has begun considering a bill drafted 45 years ago by the senate a record of legislative procrastination It would relieve witnesses from swearing on the Bible in criminal and civil courts Minister of Justice Barthou noted the document marked Passed by the Senate February 25 1343
Herbert Hoover bolstered his presidential bid by forming a unified campaign structure with an eastern advisory board and naming James W. Good as western campaign head. Good planned to open Chicago headquarters soon, citing a need for farm relief legislation and tariff protection to rally the Republican base in the West.
Twenty two of the twenty four planes in the National Reliability Air tour reached the San Antonio control field late today after a day from Fort Worth though two were forced down before arrival. Robert B. Cantwell in a Lockheed monoplane led the procession into San Antonio after winning the first half of the day to Waco. The planes will stay tomorrow, then fly to El Paso Monday morning.
Mimeographed telegrams from Minnie Kennedy accuse Aimee Semple McPherson of church mortgage schemes at Angelus Temple. Kennedy, in Seattle, signals possible return to Los Angeles with evidence to "clean up the matter." A second part, reportedly not received by McPherson, concerns alleged mortgage discussions.
A Spokane delegation of about fifty mining, manufacturing, banking, and other business leaders will depart July 23 for a five day tour of Montana. The group will travel in a special train to major Montana cities, returning to Washington, D C, July 28. The trip aims to promote business relations, survey the Montana market, and study mining operations through personal contacts with local merchants and executives.
Police say George Channing Lawrence, 40, son of a prominent Boston family, died by his own hand in an automobile near Glendale on July 4. The coroner’s office will not hold an inquest after the death was ruled self-inflicted. Lawrence had been despondent since his wife’s death and troubled over money matters, his brother-in-law Dr. O K Manhart reported.
Chicago hosts three meetings next week to nominate presidential candidates. The Jefferson Lincoln league opens July 9 with James A. Edgerton as president, while July 10 sees the Prohibition party and the Farmer-Labor group convene to pick candidates and craft platforms.
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