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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1921
Page
6
The Record is a local North Dakota publication printed in Linton and distributed across the southern half of Emmons County with general circulation in the north. It charges display rates and local ads, and requires advertising copy by Tuesday noon weekly.
The defeat of renegade socialist Thomas Van Lear last week in Minneapolis for mayor reflects the quality of citizens who rejected his bitter campaign. Van Lear’s mudslinging, led by Townley supporters, attacked Col. Leach as militaristic while promising questionable railway and jitney schemes.supports from Kate O’Hare and Shipstead highlighted a coalition behind Townley’s slate.
Nonpartisan support and Star backing buoyed Van Lear but he suffered the largest defeat ever for a Minneapolis mayoral candidate. The piece lauds Col. Leach as patriotic while condemning Van Lear for wartime disloyalty and absence during the war.
The piece warns that socialists and Bolshevik organizers are seeking power by infiltrating labor unions. It cites Sam Gompers and the AFL, accuses Haywood of theft and exile, and argues rank and file workers must resist radical control to protect national interests amid tensions seen in Minneapolis.
The piece notes labor unions resisting Haywood and Van Lear aligned leadership and reports rising recall petitions across precincts challenging O Connor and allied figures. It argues independents could speed up restoring financial stability and set new laws and officials to work by December or July 1 1923, depending on election timing.
The piece portrays George Webb of Ellendale as spending lavishly in New York while acting as an agent for the Bank of North Dakota. It comments on Webb’s recurring drift into leadership roles in financial affairs of the so called “New Day,” implying scrutiny or satire.
Doc Ladd acts as a Washington correspondence conduit for the league’s kept press like the Lemon across the state. The Lemon editor would struggle to fill his front page weekly without Ladd, the packing plant scrap, and boilerplate from the Publishers Service Bureau. Subscribe for the Record two dollars.
More than 500 modern machine guns with hundreds of spare parts were seized by U S customs officials aboard the steamship East Side. A search and seizure warrant sworn by Frank Williams, Hoboken resident, alleged the arms were stolen on June 11. The weapons, hidden in various ship parts, were to be shipped to Ireland, with investigations by customs, the Justice Department and the Shipping Board continuing.
Chicago bankers meeting at Secretary Mellon request recommended a $50 million pool to provide immediate relief to live stock dealers. United States bankers will participate. plan cited by John R. Mitchell and Eugene Meyer as a mechanism to aid distressed stock raisers through loans.
Washington lawmakers press immediate action on the Volstead anti beer bill as officials move to establish regulations for beer sales to the ill. Volstead seeks an expedited rule, but a committee delay persists while the drive intensifies. In other news a dynamite car blast in New Albany Mississippi kills one and injures several as two freight trains collide, destroying 14 freight cars. Representative Sigil of New York proposes a death penalty for kidnapping children.
Chicago labor leader Timothy D. Murphy and his lieutenant Vincenzo Cosmano were held on $100,000 and $75,000 bonds respectively in a $350,000 postal robbery case. Additional arrests included Edward Gelrum Peter and Frank Gusenburg George Hecker Ralph Teter and Paul Bolanti with $112,000 found at Murphy’s father in law home and $1,000 at Bolanti groceries. Murmur watched the heist while accomplices looted mail employees and fled in a car. major loot included bonds and cash shared among suspects.
Attorney General Daugherty announced a Washington investigation into all major war-time contracts with the government. President Harding approved the effort to uncover dishonesty and clear those whose dealings were fair, addressing public suspicions about wartime contracts.
The Porter Peace resolution was sent to conference by the Senate to adjust differences with the Knox resolution. Senate conferees named were Lodge, Knox, and Hitchcock. The Senate voted to disagree with the House amendment that struck out the Knox draft.
A local page lists St. Matthews Episcopal Ladies Guild and Ladies Aid Society meeting every other Wednesday and weekly, Clio Club Fridays, plus a Juvenile Court staff and city officials including Mayor, Auditor, police and fire chiefs, and ward representatives. Also notes German Evangelical Friedens Church services, St Matthews parish schedule, Epworth League, Catholic Wing Circle meetings, and church officers.
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