Hays Report Predicts GOP Rally Ahead of Battle
The dispatch claims strong confidence within the Republican Party nationwide as Republican leaders anticipate a epoch-making convention and a decisive battle looming on the political stage.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1920
Page
1
The dispatch claims strong confidence within the Republican Party nationwide as Republican leaders anticipate a epoch-making convention and a decisive battle looming on the political stage.
Chicago May 30 Chairman Will H Ways of the Republican National Committee said Republicans are confident of success but must recognize the national welfare task ahead. He asserted the party will direct a historic development in American policy and that all must join in accomplishing the work for the country. The coming years are described as of tremendous import.
Chicago May 30 The Republican National Committee will begin deciding contests at the convention with judicial rather than political rulings. Contests total 137 of 984 delegates, possibly rising to 148, and may be settled in about four days. Georgia's disputed slate centers on Weed and London factions with 15 of 17 seats in dispute.
The May business conditions report from the Federal Reserve Board says reductions in prices have not meaningfully lowered the cost of living. Production has risen only slightly and the public shows little inclination to economize. Freight jams hinder movement, hitting farmers and industry alike, and bankers report rising credit needs. The board notes potential shifts in business relationships but not a fundamental change in underlying conditions.
Greek forces moved into Dedegatech and Gumurjina in Turkish Thrace with minimal resistance. A trainload arrived opposite Adrianople as officials note surprise at pre treaty occupation. Bulgarian frontier covering troops dispatched. one Bulgarian soldier captured and another wounded, minor injuries to a subordinate.
New York May 30 Two hundred Dutch farmers arrived on the Totterdam from Rotterdam to assist harvests in Minnesota North and South Dakota and other wheat belt states. George W Rigby of Concordia Kansas says he can place 509 to 600 harvest workers at $5 to $7 daily. Kansas wheat crop is estimated at 110 million bushels this year versus 143 million in 1919.
Washington May 50 The senate committee probing pre election expenditures will not sit tomorrow but on Tuesday will hear statements from California campaign handlers for Herbert Hoover and probe funds used for Hiram Johnson and other candidates. Subpoenas issued as panel reviews Ohio and McAdoo matters and General Leonard Wood funding details. Sprague testified about a campaign fund of 1,180,000 with 721,000 from Col. William Cooper Procter.
Nat Goldstein and Robert E. Moore, Republican delegates from St Louis districts, traveled to Washington after being summoned to testify before the Senate committee investigating pre convention expenditures. They received 2500 dollars each to aid Governor Lowden’s Missouri campaign, though Moore denies and Goldstein claims the money supported a district effort.
New York May 31 Over 1200 permits to move liquor from bonded warehouses were found to be forgeries, yielding about 10 million dollars in two months. Charles R. O'Connor, state prohibition director, issued over 11,000 permits. bonds ranged from 1,000 to 100,000 dollars. Some traffickers, with bonds, bought and sold permits for profit and one man reportedly earned 200,000 dollars in two weeks.
London reports the Spa conference will go ahead on the planned June date. Premier Nitti's request to postpone to July was rejected. Paris says France and Britain agree to keep the original schedule.
Wireless calls from the British steamship Tregantle inside the Chesapeake Bay asked for police assistance and a surgeon. A Baltimore police boat with reserves will depart the harbor at dawn, while the battleship Pennsylvania off Annapolis also received the calls and offered help.
The jurors in the Michael Gill murder trial, charging Father Henry Greene, were discharged after eight hours of deliberation with no verdict. Judge Lynch found no chance of agreement and waived objections from both sides. Greene died from a gunshot at Northwest Coal yard on Dec 4, 1919.
Berlin May 30 Chancellor Mueller told a Munich crowd that on June 6 when Germany votes for president it will be Germanys business to prove it has had enough of war for all eternity and that no forces crowned or uncrowned will drag Germany into a war of revenge, the Tageblatt reports.
Paris May 30 Attending physicians say President Deschanel is entirely recovered from injuries from a train fall but require rest. He will depart Paris within a week for a nearby country place to recuperate.
Arlington plans Memorial day rites with graves of World War I dead visited for the first time. General Pershing to deliver the annual address. In Paris Marshal Petain told 10 000 mourners at Suresnes of French gratitude for American sacrifices in the war. Ambassador Wallace spoke of Memorial day meaning and wreaths were laid on the hill by dignitaries including Lord Derby and French officers.
In Paris on Memorial Day 1920, flags over American graves and services at 497 burial sites across Europe, from the channel to Switzerland and from the Rhine to the Atlantic. The American Legion and allied groups decorate graves with Marshal Petain and French officials addressing crowds. Local French women bring tokens of remembrance as ceremonies unite French and Allied participants.
New York May 40 The high out of living committee of the republican party advisory committee on Platform today announced a special attack on high prices. The report urged avoidance of inflation, contraction of currency, public economy and private thrift, plus increased production and revising taxes. It blamed depreciation of the dollar on currency expansion and credit, urged stricter immigrant tests and naturalization reforms for assimilation. It called humane, accurate procedures under limitations on anarchistic foreign citizens.
St. Quentin, N B residents, about 1250 of 2500 homeless after a forest fire swept Saturday. The blaze, driven by wind, leveled 65 dwellings three mills two hotels the CN station and many businesses with estimated damage of 750000 to 1000000 dollars. Relief trains from St. Leonards and Campbellton dispatched to evacuate. massive lumber losses reported.
Fire swept through Londonderry on May 30 damaging 41 structures including four churches a school and a public hall. No lives were lost though over 40 families become homeless as flames, likely sparked by Hardwood Hill forest fire, continued to rage that night under control efforts.
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