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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1928
Page
1
In South Carolina a factional convention backed by Smith adherents reports 603 votes while Hoover supporters tally 464 as an effort to bind the state to a presidential nominee is defeated in convention.
New Jersey primaries boosted political totals as Governor Smith held 603 delegates and Hoover reached 464 with 184 contested. Smith swept New Jersey's 28 delegates. Hoover won 29 with eight for Coolidge. Maryland's 19 awaits, Alabama adds 15 to Hoover. South Carolina seeks a dry plank.
Storms leave extensive property damage in the South and Texas Oklahoma areas. Wealthy Smith supporters pledge large contributions if needed. Zion City real estate fights flare as Voliva faces a federal challenge. Cloudburst and wind wreck two Texas dams and damage hundreds of buildings with losses mounting.
Allied forces begin summer training at Shanhaikwan and Chinwangtao must return to Tientsin as nationalist advances loom. Marines Italians and Japanese bolster defenses with sandbags and barricades in exposed points. Peking fears imminent fall as patrols and curfews increase and Japanese troops move to fortify the former Austrian legation.
Commander George M. Dyott reports arrival at Burite 50 miles northwest of Cuyabá Brazil. The party rests to restore strength but plans to resume search for explorer Fawcett soon. Burite lies near the source of the Xingu River a major Amazon tributary deep in Brazil.
In Chicago a large northwest side sand pile hid eight year old John Pyrek after an accident while playing. His friends Bruno Bodgon and Freddy Turczynowiz 8 and 6 respectively admitted burying him unintentionally and lied about kidnapping. Crews toil to reach the boy, the pile so massive it may take two days.
James Spachis aged 38 a Perrin block roomer at 224 South Main Street was found in his room with a .32 caliber revolver in his hand and two suicide wounds under his chin. Sheriff deputies believe he killed himself after a period of ill health and despondency. No note was found and friend Nick Zonis reported the death shortly after 5 pm yesterday. Spachis had just arrived from California three days earlier.
About 200000 people waited in vain in Detroit as the Bremen transatlantic fliers delayed landing, choosing to spend the night in Indianapolis and continue from St Louis to Detroit the next day. Rainfell intermittently while 30000 gathered at Ford airport and thousands lined the streets amid flag decorations.
Col. T. Harry Lantry says 1000 men are repairing bridges and laying spikes on the Northern Pacific in Montana to prepare for summer and fall traffic. The railroad plans 2.5 million more in labor and material along the Bitter Root and Glendive to Brockway corridors. A large freight engine will be used in Eastern Montana to the Missouri river, with plans for more if successful, as 1928 crop prospects improve.
Mayor M Kerr Beadle told the Butte city council that enforcing traffic regulations requires public cooperation. A standing traffic committee was proposed, while bids for posts signs and brackets were reviewed but not accepted. The item was referred to a committee for recommendation.
Eighty three students from the two divisions of Butte Central high school will graduate at term end. The graduates meet accredited credit requirements and can enter any American Association of Colleges and Universities member. programs for exercises are being prepared. The total is slightly less than last year, with trends similar to previous years.
John Gragietas, 70, was arrested after investigators found his wife, about 60, living in a shed by a chicken coop on their farm near Wallkegan Ill. for six months. She said she was banished last December after a quarrel and forced to stay, sleeping on a cot and eating scraps. Health authorities noted she was in tatters and weakened.
Dover, England May 16 Prince Carol departs seeking a hospitable spot in Belgian soil after a theatrical departure that marked his brief stay in Britain. He staged a dramatic ruse as reporters followed his movements during the final hours of his visit.
Owen Oberst a 17-year-old farmer boy was sentenced to life in Lansing for seven counts of first degree murder in the brutal slaying of his father mother and five siblings after pleading guilty in district court in El Dorado Kansas.
In Indianapolis on May 16 a 3-year-old named Marvis Barrick fell through cement into an abandoned well filled with five feet of water. He grabbed a ledge and survived after Curtis Houchen, 32, descended the pipe and held the child until police lowered a rope. He sustained only scratches, bruises, a head cut, and a cold ducking.
The portion of the Butte Woodville highway from Woodville hill to the McQueen addition is open to traffic. Concrete bridge work over Silver Bow creek begins today under W K Trippett supervision with foundations poured. Tim Lawlor's grading nears completion as Meaderville work continues. paving bid set for Friday in Helena and quoted at about 32000 dollars.
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