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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1924
Page
1
Army airmen remain missing after a Wednesday disappearance. Search parties and aircraft scoured the area but found no trace of the two flyers, their routes unknown and authorities continuing coordinated patrols.
President Coolidge returns the Bursum Fuller omnibus pension bill to the Senate without his approval citing unwarranted taxpayer money expenditures. Bursum seeks to table the measure while Republicans predict the veto will be sustained as debate continues in both chambers.
The Montana State School of Mines in Butte won a contract for a new gymnasium, seen as progress for physical education and athletics at state higher learning institutions. Three years ago Montana’s four university institutions lagged in gym facilities, with many lacking proper buildings. last year Montana State University and Montana State College gained modern gymnasiums.
Berlin May 3 Thirty five million Germans aged twenty and over may vote tomorrow in a pivotal postwar election. The campaign ended with limited interest as 23 parties appear on the ballot reflecting deep political schisms. The Dawes plan relief and reparation issue dominates concerns of government and leaders.
Sheriff Mountjoy reports evidence points to Roy Walsh alias Don Stewart, long sought after escaping a county jail death sentence in Boulder October 19. Missouri warden confirms description, with a stolen Montana Buick tied to the arrest and fingerprint classification due shortly. Extradition papers may depart Tuesday as the case nears closure.
Three United States army air cruisers attempting to circle the globe continued from Dutch Harbor and reached Atka Island at 3 15 this afternoon in good weather per wireless messages. They left Dutch Harbor at 11 a.m. today bound for Atka Island 350 miles southwestward while Maj. Frederick L. Martin remains missing.
Bremerton Washington May 3 An improvement in radio communications with the North was noted at the Puget sound naval station here today. Afternoon messages from the Alaska peninsula and the Aleutian chain reported that Maj. Frederick L. Martin Amer Continued on Page 10 Column 1
Justice Stafford of DC supreme court orders members of the senate Daugherty committee to show cause why an injunction should not block possession of telegrams related to Harry M. Daugherty. The suit for injunction was filed by Daugherty's counsel. William T. Chantland to defend the committee in ongoing suits.
Mrs. Bessie Wilson Smith wife of Claude H. Smith secretary and part owner of the Ithaca Gun company died today in Ithaca after an accidental poison taken at Potsor. She was a member of a prominent California family. Her mother Mrs. Alexander W. Wilson of San Francisco and her sister Mrs. Robert Shurman traveled from the Pacific coast after learning of her critical condition.
Washington May 3 The treasury department announced a major increase in enforcement to combat rum running from Canada. Prohibition customs coast guard agents will be doubled along the eastern seaboard toward the prairies of North Dakota with jurisdiction assigned to three agencies. Coast guard ships will target Great Lakes rum refining while customs agents oversee ports of entry and prohibition officers pursue land and small stream smuggling. The effort aims to close loopholes exploited by Canadian distillers and brewers, with Detroit highlighted as a major breach where a brewery paid an export tax on beer to Canada while its product flowed into the US.
Russian ambassador M. Krestinsky departed for Moscow after Berlin police searched the Russian trade delegation building for four hours. Russian officials protested as arrests were made and the mission halted its work, claiming extraterritorial rights were violated. Stresemann ordered the search stopped.
Billings May 3 A Crow Indian ceremony will adopt Kiwanis official George F E Snell as a member of the tribe Chief Plenty Coos will conduct the rites with four other Indians providing dance and song Snell is third vice president of Kiwanis International and the adoption follows the Crow chief being made an honorary Kiwanian last week at Billings luncheon scheduled at the Commercial Club cafe.
After an all day session conferees on the immigration bill adjourned without agreement on the Japanese exclusion provisions. Chairman Reed said the policy of exclusion is fixed and serves to avoid embarrassment to the president in foreign relations.
Monday evening at 8 in the administration building on North Montana street, the final organization meeting of the Silver Bow County Recreation Society will inaugurate a campaign for playgrounds and recreation areas for Butte children. Temporary officers will hand the meeting to delegates for permanent organization, with invites extended to all county clubs unions churches and organizations. Dr Peter Potter will call the meeting to order.
Senator Walsh of Montana urged contempt charges against Blair Doan, a star witness in the Wheeler investigation, after Doan allegedly claimed to have uncovered evidence warranting Walsh’s indictment. Doan denied making the claim in a telegram read by Walsh, who noted press reports of the statement. The Montana episode was described as a plain contempt aimed at intimidating senators and challenging the committee’s work.
State Senator B F Baker of Glenburn was killed in a car crash near Steele. Roy Frazier Crosby county clerk and league candidate Sorlie of Grand Forks were seriously injured. The trio had been en route from Bismarck to Carrington for a speaking engagement.
Dallas reports show William G. McAdoo leading among precinct conventions with many delegates instructed for the Democratic presidential nominee. Oscar Underwood lags with few endorsements as several delegates remain uninstructed. County conventions to select state delegates meet May 6, with Waso state convention set May 27.
The Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Arkansas coal miners strike ending today affects about 49000 workers who will return to work May 3. W L A Johnson of the Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators association announced a three year renewal of the 1923 basic wage scale in the new contract.
Two forest fires were reported to district No. 1 forest headquarters in Missoula on May 3. One blaze near St. Regis covered about 20 acres, likely from sparks from a Northern Pacific train ashpan. another similar fire along the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line started from slash burning. Both blazes burned private timber and were under control. Foresters warn conditions remain hazardous across the district. Anaconda Copper Mining halted slash burning due to dry forest conditions.
President Coolidge received the soldiers' bonus bill from the senate after Senate President Cummins attached his signature. The White House will study the measure and seek cost estimates from the Treasury and Secretary Mellon before any action.
Washington May 3 Republicans stood by the Mellon plan in the Senate fight on income tax rate reductions while Senator Simmons led the Democratic attack. Senator McLean conceded a losing battle as he noted much of the Mellon proposal had been repudiated and that the Simmons plan enjoys conference approval. Simmons called the Mellon rates unfair and discriminatory proposing a maximum surtax of 40 percent with broader relief than Mellon or the House. McLean argued a low surtax during full production yields greater gains than a high surtax that could be evaded and slow production. He cited 1916 and 1921 surtax outcomes to illustrate revenue implications.
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