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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1927
Page
2
The legislature moved bills including tax delinquent publication, land lien relief, and farmer loans on nonharvested products. It also debated oil refining entry, reduced warrant interest, and motor vehicle list copying to save costs. Governor Erickson seeks restraint on mansion funding as sessions address gasoline pricing and school location bills.
United Press reports Navy plans to ship 1200 Marines from San Diego to Guam with orders soon to sail for Asia. The move aims to double U S presence in the area and prepare for action in China amid civil war and anti foreign sentiment. Five thousand Americans in Shanghai are to be protected as officials study a proposed neutral zone.
Washington January 28 The house irrigation committee will report Senator Johnsons Boulder dam bill in the first week of the seventieth congress next December if the house rules committee keeps stalling the measure this session Chairman Smith Idaho Republican said the action would ensure house action next session He noted the committee will not back Leatherwood amendments demanding a federal power commission over dam power or a government built power dam.
Rescuers uncovered the body of Joseph Heslin standing upright with hose nozzle in hand in the ruins of a seven story loft building. He and two fellow firefighters Edward Fox and John Gray died fighting the blaze along with six other firemen.
President Coolidge will likely press a button around February 10 to fire the last blast in the Moffatt tunnel on the Denver and Salt Lake railroad near Boulder, Colorado according to United Press dispatches from Washington.
United Press reports Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews condemns snooping by prohibition agents. He insists dry officers must be straight shooters and avoid unfair tactics to ensnare ordinary law violators.
American explorer Martin Johnson and his wife are critically ill with pneumonia at a mission station at Mount Kenya’s foot in British East Africa. A medical specialist and nurses have been dispatched for their relief.
London reports that the United States Great Britain France Italy and Japan may join naval and marine forces to defend Shanghai if anti foreign demonstrations flare again. The suggestion comes in a note from Miles W Lampson British minister to Beijing.
A great gale described as 103 miles an hour battered the British Isles, halting shipping and communications. The storm has already caused dozens of deaths and injuries with authorities reporting twenty five killed and over a hundred wounded.
The Union Pacific railroad supplied authentic sequences for the filming of Whispering Smith ensuring accuracy in railroad details including the gigantic freight operations integral to the scene.
Senator Borah warned that China may not safeguard foreign lives and property unless fleets and armies are dispatched there. He said he sympathizes with China in its greatest struggle.
A Mexican financial bulletin reports the Laredo chamber of commerce initiated a plan to bring U S President Coolidge and Mexican President Calles together at a Texas border location for conferences on the oil law dispute.
Indianapolis January 27 Police intervened to quell a disturbance at the United Mine Workers convention when radical leader Powers Hapgood tried to move his bid for a delegate seat to the floor.
Washington January 28 The senate approved a deficiency appropriation bill carrying 185 million dollars of which 175 million funds tax refunds issued by the treasury department.
Denver attorneys agreed today that the successor to Juvenile Ben B. Lindsay, the Denver jurist, must be chosen by a special election rather than by appointment by county commissioners after his fraudulent election this week.
Ray Arnold 28 of Sacramento was hanged at Folsom Prison for complicity in the killing of a Japanese woman in Pearyn California. The sentence was carried out today in the California state prison.
U P and Metropolitan Pictures cooperate with George Melford to reuse equipment from a major wreck scene. The West Coast’s largest wrecking crane and trained railroad crew are lent to the project. The Hartwig theater screens Whispering Smith on Feb 10 and 11 with H. B. Warner and co stars.
A fragment notes a cat as a symbol of liberty associated with ancient Rome. The short reference emphasizes the animal as emblematic without additional context.
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