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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1928
Page
1
Headlines report wartime shifts with Sanaa and Japan at odds with a Chinese faction. Carol faces expulsion from England amid a tense Romanian situation. Democrats rally strong for Smith while the GOP remains undecided. Delegates and alternates chosen for the state convention as Democrats hear program objections. Republicans seek decisive statewide representation.
In Shanghai on May 8 the Associated Press reports Japan has declared actual hostilities with China's nationalist government. An ultimatum to withdraw troops near the Shantung railway was refused, with fighting reported at Tsinan as Japanese reinforcements move from Tsingtao.
The Republican county convention last evening named 11 delegates and 11 alternates to the state convention at Helena on May 15. Delegates will have one vote each and the Silver Bow slate favors an uninstructed delegation to Kansas City.
Silver Bow county Republicans met at the courthouse for their first presidential delegate convention electing 11 delegates and 11 alternates to the Montana state convention in Helena next Tuesday. The meeting drew about 150 people and endorsed an uninstructed Montana delegation to Kansas City.
The county convention exceeded the state call by naming 22 delegates to the Helena state meeting, each with an alternate, effectively giving half a vote to each. The Silver Bow delegation is pledged to a Houston state delegation aligned with Smith. Delegates and alternates listed include J Bruce Kreme and W H Maloney among others.
Bonbright Company and National City company offer 20 million dollars of American Power and Light company $5 preferred stock at 95. The listed stock, tied to the Montana Power acquisition, carries a guaranteed until 1932 dividend and will be stamped with the 5 per year guarantee. unstamped shares pay graduated dividends.
Prince Carol father of Roumania's King Michael faces expulsion from Britain after authorities view his activities as threats to the current regime. He packs up in Surrey as J Ionnescu says the guest is surprised and unhappy at the forced departure with destination undisclosed. The home secretary states Carol must depart to avoid actions harmful to Roumania.
Al Smith was unanimously endorsed by Deer Lodge county Democrats at a precinct committeemen meeting in Anaconda city hall. Republicans offered no recommendations for presidential candidates. Democrats elected eight delegates and alternates with alternates to become delegates, all to vote as a unit at the Helena meeting.
William Edward Hickmans attorneys argued in the California Supreme Court on his appeal from a death sentence for the kidnapping and murder of 12 year old Marian Parker. The defense contends the conviction law was unconstitutional and that the trial was irregular. Hickman remains in the condemned row at San Quentin as the hanging awaits the appeal outcome.
Returns from Montana county conventions show many delegates to the state gathering uninstructed on presidential preferences. Where instructed, Lowden or Smith lead. Silver Bow Democratic delegates favored Smith while Republicans were uninstructed. Some counties backed Lowden in Republican rounds and Smith in Democratic ones.
The Bremen crew joined American air heroes in New York at a luncheon honoring Harry F. Guggenheim for promoting aeronautics and international harmony. The American Arbitration Association awarded him its medal. Charles Schwab is the only other recipient. Major Fitzmaurice Koehl and Baron von Huenefeld planned a 14 day tour. Richard Byrd praised Floyd Bennett and Guggenheim fund work.
Mrs Ella Crowley Rowland failed to win confirmation to the school board as trustees deadlocked 3 to 3 in a vote. Clerk Garfield Perier will notify county superintendent Agnes Hanratty of the result and the vacancy remains. Boyle Tutty supported Rowland while Ward Darsh and Wallace opposed.
The Albany jury in the case of Florence E. Knapp former secretary of state reported they could not agree and were discharged. Judge Stephen Gallaghan set May 21 for a new trial on the charge of grand larceny involving a 1925 census payroll check for 2875.06 drawn to Clara Blanche Knapp.
Indiana results show Watson leading with 60 366 votes and Hoover 57 325 as 1 167 of 3 610 precincts report while Robinson leads the Republican senatorial race with 28 866 in 547 precincts. In Alabama, three anti Smith delegates lead with one anti instruction candidate ahead as 160 of 1 324 precincts report.
In Little Rock Arkansas on May 8 fourteen teens were treated in hospitals after ptomaine poisoning from a downtown store lunch counter. Twelve were women and two were children. several others had milder symptoms. Doctors termed some cases serious.
Nine people from two families missing since Sunday after noon when they left Hammond Louisiana after an outing drowned when their car left the Hammond New Orleans highway and plunged into a canal near Ruddock Louisiana twenty five miles north of New Orleans State police investigated tracks from the highway to the canal and found the overturned car with the bodies imprisoned Search started at the request of Miss Rosario Sacausi a relative of one family.
President Coolidge is expected to sign the flood control bill after the House adopted the conference report smoothing Senate differences. The measure, approved after White House negotiations, faces Senate approval and a final White House action before becoming law.
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