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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1930
Page
1
A confused New York club tale links a drinking scene to congressional figures and a 1847 organized association. The exchange centers on prohibition tariff debates with Senator Brookhart, Senator Tydings, and others urging caution. The report hints at political entanglements and denials, with continuation noted.
Jenton Nob January 30 A local reporter notes a bank fire that destroyed the nearby safe and disrupted operations. W.T. Voss, banker, declines to reveal the location of a temporary funds facility. A bloated safe stands in the ruins, while authorities estimate substantial funds possibly lost.
Washington Jan 30 Ardent and Mrs Hoover were tonight to 1900 guests at a reception in honor of the United States Senate. The White House reception was the first of state in history to feature a single greeting card for both the house and senate.
Washington Jan 3 AP reports the Williamson bill moves toward transfer of dry enforcement from the secretary of Mellon to the attorney general amid HouseExpenditures Committee backing. Debates previewed on prohibition policy as Brookhart and Copeland press for stricter enforcement while Borah signals continued opposition. A separate Supreme Court angle involves Lem and Ophelia Matlow seeking review of a tax dispute over whiskey seizures tied to a St. Louis bonded warehouse.
Chicago mourns Most Rev Charles Pahnersson Anderson aged 64 longtime Chicago bishop and presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church died at 8 42 am after a heart attack nine days earlier and weeks of travel and duty. His death ends a 43 year church career and follows his November elevation to the church’s top post. He served as Chicago bishop for 25 years and died with his wife and daughters nearby after a period of angina and ill health.
Madrid reports the six year dictatorship of Primo de Rivera ends as Gen Pamano Berenguer takes power. The new premier and ministers assume offices after the king administers oaths in the kings apartment. Queen and royal children attend as the cabinet presents respects. Premier Borouguer declines comment onPolicy outlines.
London January 30 The London naval conference faced a crisis over how to measure naval strength for inter national treaties. A special committee was formed to tackle measurement by global tonnage or categorization tonnage and craft a compromise. Adams and GIsan Act Secretary of the Navy, Hugh Gibgon, and UK officials coordinate with Prime Minister MacDonald as First Lord of the Admiralty. The first committee meeting is set for 7 p.m. tomorrow.
Washington January testimony before the Senate lobby rem 'aiinder revealed the Silk Association of America spent more than 10000 dollars to advocate protective tariff on certain site products during tariff deliberations. Horace B. Cheney of South Manchester Conn, chairman of the association's legislative committee, testified he has been involved in tariff matters since 1898. He noted his first trip with his father, long active in tariff issues. Cheney contrasted his calm demeanor with earlier witnesses who quarreled with committee members. He said the association spent 8038 dollars on the pending tariff and he himself spent 11862 on fourteen trips to Washington. He described appearances before the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees and that briefs were filed with those panels.
Springfield, TM, 20. Former Governor Frank Lowden addressed the Mimola Agricultural Association urging a shift from property taxes to a general income tax to aid farmers. He noted agricultural workers are 26 percent of the population but pay only 1 percent of national income taxes while bearing 40 percent of the tax burdens, warning of disaster to agriculture if the imbalance continues.
A new map of South America from The Sotena Independent highlights Peru with its canper and vanadium deposits, high altitude railways, copper mines, fertile valleys, guano deposits, and rich history from early 16th century Lima. The map includes production, population and communication data and can be ordered for 1 cent in coins or stamps to cover postage.
Oklahoma City January 30. Assistant U S district attorney Herbert K Myde opened the government case against 82 defendants charged with a prohibition conspiracy in Pottawatomie County promising to show that the stream of justice from constables office to the state capitol was polluted by confessed participants aiding a liquor ring. Jury selected before Hyde spoke and the indictment named 102, with 25 pleading guilty and others dead or fugitives.
Quatha Nab dane 40 and women of the Presbyterian Missionary Church Union of Oniha faday voted 160 to 3 to endorse equal rights in all church branches. The proposal, understood, is being voted upon by Presbyterian women nationwide. If granted, it will give women the right to become ministers and elders in the church.
Chicago reports Mrs. Elizabeth Welgo, 61, an heiress to her late father Peter Britten, a wealthy romatinction merchant, was found dead in the kitchen of her cousin Mia Welgo’s home. Neighbors said all gas jets in the stove were turned on, suggesting suicide.
Grain and cotton rise while the Farm Board moves to act as price pressures ease. Reports cite Argentine harvest prospects and private shipments from the Black Sea, with wheat futures at Chicago weakening and cotton futures plunging to lows unseen since 1926 27. Prices drift lower across wheat and corn as bear factors dominate, while New York and other markets absorb the spillover. continued government and private actions loom as the market digests demand and supply signals.
Antoria Oregon January 10 emergency provisions for Brookfield Washington residents were deposited on a ten foot levee barrier by river steamer Efin. The barrier isolated the fishing village from communication except by telegraph and telephone. The Efin tried to reach docks through a channel bored by the Lighthouse tender Tose but failed. Supplies were then placed on the levee and Brookfield residents ferried them into the village.
Alexander Pantages, the multimillionaire showman, again had bail denied by Superior Court Justice Fricke. The court ruled that the defense evidence did not justify release on bail while awaiting appeal from his conviction for murdering 32 year old Eunice Peng, the theft and related charges not specified in the summary.
The U S Chamber of Commerce agricultural service committee recommended deferring judgment on the farm aid act for the time being. It advised no action on resolutions urging protest against the farm board activities, noting disagreement within the committee but urging caution as the act is interpreted. The chamber said officers support sympathetic aid to the farm board while shaping policy through this formative period.
Ottawa Ont Jan 10 A Methodist minister 61 year old Mendota Beramy A Wison was charged with attempted murder by State's Attorney Russell O Manson and jailed to await grand jury action after he shot Amos Elliott a church janitor and his wife during a struggle over a letter he had written to a woman member of his congregation. The minister then shot himself but received only light scalp injuries.
Withee Wisconsin January 30 A man named Carl Gorsenger was injured when a chore struck his face last April. Doctors later found a cancerous tumor in his eyeball that likely would have cost him his life if not for the eye injury and subsequent surgery at a Marshfield hospital.
Sacramento reports that Pablo Manlapit asked Governor C. C. Young to urge state inquiry into the causes of recent Filipino racial clashes. In Los Angeles a thousand Filipinos adopted a resolution demanding investigation and punishment for violence against unprotected Filipinos. A San Francisco letter urged restraint on publishing riot accounts. In Pajaro Valley near Watsonville, a white girl Carrie Nicutin, 16, is missing after a hunt by a Filipino bunkhouse raid.
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