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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1920
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR notes refer to July offerings and alleged actions by several defendants. Names appear garbled but indicate a court proceeding in Denver with references to individuals such as George Gert and J Kip Colorado A1 S$ and a witness testimony about a murder related matter.
Washington April 30 Senator King Utah declares the Federal Reserve Act saved the nation from bankruptcy during war credit and money crises. He argues the act with accompanying legislation carried the country through the Great War and criticizes attempts to repeal or amend it while praising Wilson-era financial policy.
Washington April 30 The house ways and means committee nearly approved a soldier relief package adding a paid up insurance plan with value growing annually by compounded interest. Ex service men could choose among five options including a cash bonus, land or home purchases, education aid, or insurance with post office loans after three years. The plan would replace some aid levels with a daily rate of 1.75 for the four non cash options.
Detroit April 30 Hugh Finley a pawnshop clerk on Woodward Avenue was held up this morning by two armed thieves who stole $18,000 worth of new diamond rings and an undisclosed cash amount. The robbers fled, likely crossing the river into Canada.
The National Woman's party reports total costs for ratification of the federal suffrage amendment at 93 599 dollars. Contributions largely came from individual women with a March 1920 peak of 18 362 dollars.
The dispatch notes Turkish nationalists fanning war flames as Mustapha Kemal forms an independent Anatolian government. Izzet Pasha and General Alirza Pasha are reported arrested in Constantinople. Hamad Ferid Pasha, the present grand vizier, has taken charge of the war office.
Cheyenne residents cope with impassable roads and deep snowdrifts while Arbor Day closures affect city and county offices. The Cordillo trial draws crowds as banks close for holidays and the Cordillo jury patrols streets after lengthy court sessions. Weather prompts moonlit nights and a surge of joyriders as gardens seed and early flowers bloom beneath remaining snow.
About thirty boys guided by Miss Florence Flannigan and George Storey rehearse a ministrel show for May 7 at the high school gymnasium. The program includes group songs, stunts, solo numbers by James Storey Earnest Fitzgerald William Woolston Granville Ogburn Ferree Marks Jimmy Hall Charles Welsh and Earl Shoels plus a flute solo by Howard Briscon. Additional surprises are promised.
Eugenia Wallace of the YWCA outlines a plan to train girls as home assistants eight hour workers. They would be employed on a business basis with a day off paid vacation and a forty four hour week to attract more young women to domestic work.
Five people were killed and twelve injured in a head on collision near Lamberton Minnesota as two passenger trains on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad collided.
Atlanta April 30 The Oglesby Grocery Company wholesalers and W A Albright press describe a protest over a proposed 25 percent tariff The article notes organized opposition and calls for action by the involved firms and officials.
A federal grand jury here indicted the head of a local firm on profiteering charges for buying sugar at 16 cents per pound and selling at 20 cents. The case centers on alleged illegal profits from basic commodity sales.
Michael E Tracy, one of eight founders of the Knights of Columbus in New Haven in 1882, died last night at his home in Orange. Born in Ireland seventy years ago, he was a pioneering figure in the fraternal organization.
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