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Newspaper
Casper Daily Tribune
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1920
Page
1
The senate ordered an investigation into presidential campaign finances including contributions and expenditures for both parties. The inquiry aims to examine use of influence and campaign costs as the nation faces a financial crisis.
The president aims to keep Congress in session through summer to revise revenue laws. Additional taxes may be needed to meet regular treasury needs. A strong message to Republicans will indict the failure to revise tax laws for unsettled financial conditions, low Liberty bond market, and high living costs.
The Treasury Department urged newspapers nationwide to publish a clear statement of Liberty bond values and current prices. It explained reasons for the present prices and proposed methods to improve the market.
Chicago bankers advised merchants to liquidate stocks and curtail borrowing. They said credit needs, agricultural interests, and other necessities will have first call amid price reductions. Retailers advertise 15 to 23 percent cuts.
Denver's 1920 census count stands at 256 369, up 42 988 or 20.1 percent from 1910. The city moves from twenty eighth to ahead of Louisville and St Paul, which were twenty fourth and twenty sixth ten years ago, while Louisville is 24 801 and St Paul 234 596.
Albany May 20 The governor vetoed a bill to repeal the daylight saving law. The act would have changed clock times but is now kept in effect by gubernatorial decision.
London reports on May 20 state that the Anglo Persian treaty imposes no obligations on Great Britain regarding the Bolshevik invasion of Persia. Andrew Bonar Law, parliamentary leader, clarified this in the House of Commons.
Prices for food and clothing slide in the United States with a 10 percent stock dividend tax retroactive to March 15 approved by the House Ways and Means Committee as part of soldier relief funding. The report signals a broad downward trend with exports down and merchants urged to reduce inventories amid tightening credit.
The National Preservers and Fruit Products association says members will stay out of the sugar market until prices drop. In Utah, canners will curtail fruit packing to meet orders due to high sugar costs.
The Commerce Department reports April exports fell by 195 million dollars and imports dropped 30 million compared with March figures. The report highlights a shrinking trade balance amid broader industry shifts as the automobile sector continues high consumption.
A two year contract retroactive to April 1 1920 raises southern field coal to 1.01 per ton and northern to .84 per ton with a 24 cent increase per ton. The deal follows Wilson coal strike commission terms and honors John P. White who helped finalize the agreement.
Vice President Marshall urged equal and exact justice for all at the Indiana Democratic convention in Indianapolis on May 20. He called for jail terms for profiteering and increased production to curb the cost of living, defending the League of Nations and war spending amid claims of extravagance.
As the Republican National Convention nears, 678 uninstructed delegates from 47 states and territories threaten to deny a clear front runn er. Maj. Gen. Wood leads on the first ballot among pledged or expressed preferences, carrying Vermont and commanding 110 such delegates. Senator Johnson holds 100 votes, London 78, and Harding 39.
Washington May 80. Attorney General Palmer and Garvan meet with sugar importers as part of new DOJ talks. Officials withheld topics for the conference. A separate note mentions a new electric cloth cutting device with a circular knife rotating at high speed.
Delegates from across Wyoming attend the 19th annual Baptist state convention opening Friday evening in Casper. The event runs through Sunday with sessions at the Gantz Memorial Methodist church and, for Sunday, the district courtroom. The program includes devotional services, committee reports, and the $100,000,000 campaign update by State Director B. Booker.
May 20. Ten dead and many wounded as state constabulary arrive in Matewan after a night battle between miners and Baldwin-Fells Agency operatives. Deaths include seven detectives, Mayor Racel Testenhan, and Albert Fella, mine guard superintendent. Sheriff Blankenship says the clash began when Felta shot Mayor Testeman during evictions.
In Matewan West Virginia on May 20, 100 deputy sheriffs and state troopers crowded streets as Baldwin-Felts detectives clashed with residents and the Matewan police after detectives evicted miners from Stone Mountain Coal Company houses. Mayor Cabell Teaterman was killed after a Felts detective fired. Sid Hatfield, Matewan chief, was accused of killing Felts as shooting spread through the town.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels told a Senate committee that criticisms of his prewar personnel effort were abortive. He argued his 1914 policies followed precedents set by his predecessors and that any error was due to adherence to those lines.
The Senate voted to modify provisions for a national guard plan and returned the army reorganization bill to conference for further talks. The Associated Press reports Washington action dated May 20.
Washington May 80 Chairman Porter of the house foreign relations committee will ask the house to adopt the Knox peace resolution instead of the one already passed. If approved the resolution goes to President Wilson immediately for action.
Moscow wireless reports Soviet troops began a general advance along a fifty mile front in the Polotsky Lepel area. Polish forces retreated after fierce fighting and a panicky withdrawal in parts, with the offensive continuing through May 20 per official Soviet statements.
A. A. Slade of Cheyenne state commissioner of education is chosen as Casper district schools superintendent by the high school and grade school boards and county superintendent Miss May Hamilton. Slade, a University of Town graduate, has led Wyoming schools from Cody to statewide work and will begin after state budget matters are settled. He will visit Casper to deliver the commencement address and plans to move his family here by August 1.
Crowds in Casper recall a dramatic 6000 foot leap as M F Henson jumped from a Wyoming Eagle air craft while it nose-dived and then deployed his parachute. Pilot Hert Cole’s stunt earned applause from the cheering crowd.
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