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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1920
Page
1
In Butte the industrial scene brightens as wages rise and efficiency increases. Officials praise workers abandoning Bolshevik agitators and alien leadership while branding IWW influence as harmful. Employers vow to sever links with radical leadership and fortify American institutions.
Senators King and Smoot urge the Federal Reserve to advance funds to support the Western wool clip. A Chicago wool firm warns Utah and surrounding states face severe cash shortages as banks strain under winter costs. If Western banks extend fair credit, wool producers hope for partial relief during shearing season.
Washington June 5 The Sixty sixth Congress ended its second session adjourning sine die at 4 p m. It will not meet again until December 6 unless a grave emergency requires a special session.
Washington June 5 The postal pay increase bill was signed by President Wilson providing post office employees with 33 million dollars in additional salaries next year and more thereafter.
The Raleigh News and Observer reported at midnight that estimates from its correspondents show Senator Johnson ahead of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood in today’s state-wide Republican preferential endorsement primary. Only scant returns had been received so far.
Hoover headquarters announced that no nominating speech would be delivered unless the convention fails to name a candidate by majority. If a speech occurs it would be by Judge Nathan L. Miller of Syracuse, one of New York's delegates, as Hoover aims to be placed in nomination at the proper moment without a formal address.
Washington reports that about 20,000 bills and resolutions were introduced in six months. The Senate approved around 315 and the House about 378, with roughly 230 Senate resolutions and a similar number unresolved by the other chamber. A major portion of the session dealt with an unsuccessful bid to settle a peace after the state of war continued.
The president used a pocket veto to kill the water power measure, the resolution repealing wartime legislation, and the Underwood pulp resolution, saying he lacked time for proper consideration. Several minor measures were also rejected, while major bills signed included naval and army appropriations, the sundry civil bill, the third deficiency, army reorganization, merchant marine, post office pay rise, and acts on aliens, pensions, Philippine insurrection, China relief, vocational rehabilitation, and trading with the enemy amendments.
Washington dispatch summarizes city and borough totals with major gains in Bronx Brooklyn and Queens. Details show New York City population 5 621 151 with significant rises across several boroughs and nearby cities including Buffalo Boston and Montclair.
Helena June 5 announcement offers a fare and one third from all Montana points to Portland Oregon and return for the forty sixth annual imperial council session of Shriners. Reduced fares apply to Shriners and their families, tickets sold on the identification certificate plan.
The Dalles Oregon June 5 D J Cooper 84 year old Oregon's oldest delegate to the Republican national convention has departed for Chicago He is likely the oldest attendee from anywhere though deaf and eager about his pilgrimage Cooper was an original Roosevelt progressive in 1912 and has long been active in Oregon politics.
Chicago reports new potato prices at the highest level in U.S. history. New potatoes sell for 11 to 12 a hundredweight, about 7.20 a bushel, with old stock around 9.25 per hundredweight. Previous peak was 3.50 to 4 a bushel in early 1917.
Chicago dispatch reports a tense contest among Republican aspirants over two platforms for the presidential nomination the League of Nations plank favored by Watson and the aggressively loaded industrial relations plank. Compromise appears inevitable as leaders in Congress and states clash over control and strategy ahead of the convention. Governors and state leaders signal they will demand a bigger say in decisions.
Cor corporal Osborne De Varila known as the red headed corporal who fired the first American shot in the war died yesterday at Saratoga of poison gas exposure. He was 21, born in Juneau and raised in San Francisco. He led a squad in France, later served with Pershing's veterans, was gassed twice, spent time in a Denver sanitarium, and will receive a military funeral Monday.
In Chicago on June 5, Senator Moses of New Hampshire accused the Republican National Committee of using steamroller methods in contest decisions. Several committeemen, including H. B. McCoy of the Philippines and Highland of West Virginia, denied the charges, asserting decisions were fair and based on rights and justice. They emphasized General Wood and Colonel Procter support, or rather do not support, Moses’s allegations, and noted harmony in committee proceedings amid seating outcomes in Georgia contests.
At a Dolly Madison breakfast in New York June 5, James W. Gerard, a presidential candidate, briefly spoke then left after an admonition against endorsing individuals. Louis Nixon was endorsed for the Democratic nomination. Gerard returned to be introduced as the first speaker before departing.
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania backed Governor Sproul for the Republican presidential nomination and said he would not attend the national convention. He stated his proxy would be held by Judge A R Reed of Pittsburgh due to private business.
Chicago June 5 Delegates contests wrapped up by the Republican national committee showing a clear tilt toward Governor Lowden. Of 137 contested delegates Wood received 12 but Lowden led with 116 uninstructed, while 125 delegates counted across distributions place Lowden at 65 and Wood at 18 with others scattering. Missouri seats rejected. Virginia Slemp faction seated. Negro contestants denied seats. anti-organization contests in Third and Eighth districts also in Slemp’s favor.
Washington June 5 The bill to exclude dangerous aliens from the United States was passed by the House and sent to the president. Mere membership in groups advocating overthrow of government or sabotage would be grounds for deportation or exclusion.
Washington June 5 the measure to establish a national budget system failed to pass in the Senate and automatically died when Congress adjourned at 4 p m.
Yellowstone county remains unsure who tainted bottles after Ed ward Westover sued City Attorney Calder City Treasurer Lettergren Chief of Police Keifer and contractor Hanna for destroying seized whiskey. Westover claimed tea had been added before bottle destruction. defendants denied theft or misuse while asserting their integrity and authority. The jury awarded Westover 2100 for whiskey and 5000 for exemplary damages.
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