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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1924
Page
1
Former Illinois governor Frank O Lowden, en route home from Richmond, says he will consider any offer to be the Republican vice president nominee. The Lowden boom gains speed but White House officials reiterate the president has not endorsed him and remains hands off.
Berlin June 6. After two days of discussion the Reichstag approved the Marx Stresemann cabinet stance favoring acceptance of the Dawes report by a 247 to 183 vote. A motion of no confidence in the government was rejected 239 to 149. The Dawes resolution had support from the three middle parties and major groups including the Socialists Bavarian People's Party and Economic League, while opposed by the Nationalists General Ludendorff's NSFP and the Communists.
New York news recounts Prince Viggo of Denmark arriving on the Estonia with fiancée Miss Eleanore Green. A $2 loan from her covered the license fee after City Clerk Cruise requested two dollars. The prince repaid with currency from Copenhagen as his father watched. An American honeymoon was announced.
Washington June 6 President Coolidge says he will not dictate the Republican vice presidential nomination. He wants the convention to decide and favors a hands off policy. If Frank Lodwenl is nominated it will reflect delegate sentiment, not White House pressure.
H. P. Faris of Clinton Missouri won the first ballot at the prohibition national convention in Columbus Ohio with 82 votes while A P Couthie of Seattle received 40 and William S Varney of New York 2. The delegates voted to keep party machinery and campaign plans intact and rejected a plan for amalgamation with law and order forces despite Patton Illinois drawing applause for his argument.
Special Dispatch to the Standard from Washington reports the Pittman bill to buy 14 million ounces of silver at $1 per ounce, to fulfill the original Pittman act, has been taken from the coinage committee and placed with the banking and currency committee. Vote was 237 to 129. Front-line debate shows Wesk opposes, while McFadden seeks hearings to assess moral obligation. Madden accuses the bill of subsidizing silver miners.
Washington June 6 The senate killed a plan to appropriate 10 million dollars for German relief by voting against discharging the foreign relations committee from further consideration. The La Follette motion to discharge failed 23 to 5 while the measure would have funded purchase of foodstuffs in the United States for shipment to Germany. Ten Republicans, nine Democrats and two former labor senators backed the motion. 26 Democrats and 27 Republicans opposed.
Senator Glass charged Senator Gooding with actions expressly prohibited by federal law relating to the War Finance Corporation. He alleged a company in which Gooding was involved had received loans and demanded an investigation. The exchange followed Heflin questioning Stanfield about similar dealings with the War Finance Corporation.
Predictions of a painless adjournment for the current session were unsettled by a fresh Senate Agriculture Committee report backing a 35 cent per bushel export bounty on wheat and products. Delegations from the wheat belt in both chambers hope to act before adjournment, while Hoch resolution on agriculture as a basic industry passes the House and urges faster ICC rate reductions.
Washington June 6 members of the farm bloc strive for farm relief this session. They focus on the Bursum bill authorizing an export bounty of 85 cents a bushel on wheat and products. The measure has been favorably reported by Senate and House agricultural committees and is on the House calendar.
The American army around the world flyers left Shanghai at 6 45 this morning bound for Amoy. Lieut Lowell H Smith and mechanic Lieut Leslie P Arnold were delayed at Kagoshima by engine trouble but are together again for the first jump in the third division. From Amoy they will fly 300 miles to Hong Kong completing a 555 mile leg from Shanghai to Amoy.
Washington dispatch outlines Wisconsin senator La Follette's looming choices about the GOP convention next week. The piece questions whether he will bolt the convention or stay and possibly run as a third candidate, and notes the impact on his supporters and national politics.
Don Tyler of Los Angeles won the national secondary school orator contest at Memorial Continental Hall. Ruth Newburn of Washington DC and John M Dallam III of Philadelphia placed second and third. President Coolidge presided at the conclusion of the nationwide event.
TOKIO June 7 The Japanese cabinet is ready to resign within hours and may do so today or possibly Monday. The cabinet will meet in extra session this afternoon to wind up administrative business before Premier Kiyoura presents the ministers’ resignations to the prince regent at the palace.
A Bradleyford family of Adam Pittmann perished when their stalled car remained on tracks and was struck by an eastbound Big Four passenger train near Dawn Ohio. The incident occurred late today nine miles north of Greenville.
Ten men are dead and five seriously injured after a gas explosion at Loomis Colliery of the Glen Alden Coal Company near Wilkes Barre. Rescue teams have recovered the dead, including Thomas Phillips and Richard Wall of Nanticoke and John Helfrick of Hanover Green, with two Black miners among the deceased.
Billings businessmen in Butte for the Yegen trial report a telephone message about the Hepp well in Lake Basin breaking out with a rush and oil bursting to the derrick top. The discovery at Heppwell No 1 by Midwest is described as indicating a unusually big well and excitement spreads through Billings.
Milan dispatch reports the president of the Albanian national assembly allegedly murdered by insurgents at Tierna. The claim is unconfirmed and details are sparse, with authorities yet to verify the report.
Chicago, June 6 The Associated Press reports that Nathan F Leopold Jr and Albert H Loeb, fathers of the accused slayers of Robert Franks, announce a plan for a simple solemn investigation into their sons mental responsibility. They reject large defense expenditures and promise no outside counsel except possibly limited help, stating they will not use wealth to influence justice.
Mrs Margaret Willis was found guilty of first degree murder in Los Angeles for slaying Dr Benjamin Baldwin and stuffing his body in a trunk before dumping it on an embankment April 11. The jury recommended life imprisonment. Her 13 year old son Harold cried as the verdict was read. Prosecution said the motive was to obtain the physician's automobile.
Majority of Harrison avenue property holders back a paving campaign to extend from Harvard avenue southward. Petitions seek creation of a special improvement district for roadimite paving at about 12 000 per mile plus costs. Joseph Russell says his California firm is ready to pave at similar terms as the Rowe road project, with 60 front feet per lot for full-width paving.
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