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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1922
Page
5
In a heated cross examination Frank Conley defends the propriety of store slips amid questions that T H MacDonald tampered with entries. Rankin presses on slips marked house while Conley claims the goods were bought under a Republican administration.
Associated Press reviews proceedings in the Monta penitentiary case where ex warden Frank Conley faces a state suit for accounting. On trial before Judge A J Horsky, the cross examination of Conley intensified as Attorney General Wellington Rankin pressed on alleged misuse of supplies charged to the state and at Conley residence.
Federal health authorities in San Francisco are asked to examine Hannah Chaplin to determine her fitness to return to England. Assistant Secretary of Labor Henning acts after Chaplin's lawyers report her condition has improved since admission for treatment, but a departure now could trigger a relapse. Mrs Chaplin entered the U S for medical care on a one year permit which has expired, requiring departure or longer stay approval. She suffers from shock received during a wartime air raid in England.
Washington June 7 The first official wedding of the Harding administration will take place June 10 at Bethlehem chapel Washington cathedral. Miss Catherine Hughes daughter of Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes will wed Chauncey Lock hard Waddell of New York in a ceremony attended by President Harding and diplomatic dignitaries. A Pan American building reception will follow.
Los Angeles June 7 three high Ku Klux Klan officials and 34 alleged members were indicted by the Los Angeles county grand jury on five felony counts tied to an Inglewood raid in April. Indicted officers include Willian Si Coburn G W Price and N A Baker with Baker under arrest. Charges include false imprisonment kidnapping and assault with intent to commit murder. Officials suspended yet reportedly active in Klan circles amid continuing questions.
Atlanta attorney William S. Coburn, a top Ku Klux Klan official, is reported to have resigned his Pacific domain role in Los Angeles and returned to Atlanta to resume his law practice. Local Klansmen said he will keep a local connection.
Washington June 7 Attorney General Daugherty was notified by long distance of the completed merger plans among Republic Lidvale and Farand Steel companies. The Justice Department will study the agreed merger, promised to report full details by May 24. New York June 7 The proposed merger terms of Midvate Steel and Ordnance Inland Steel and Republic Iron and Steel, with issued capital of 132,814,587, were public via a stockholders letter signed by W E Corey L Mock and John A Topping.
A dispatch to the Miner states Warm Springs lies threatened as Were Spring creek swells from melting snow and rain, washing over its banks near town. A fifty man crew from the town has been sent to assist in flood control efforts.
In Los Angeles on June 7 delegates at the thirteenth annual Rotary clubs convention discussed organization topics during a busy second day. The principal entertainment planned for tonight was the president's ball as part of the Rotary event.
Washington June 7 Secretary Fall personally submitted to President Flarding a report on the contract for Secretary Goohy with Harry F Sinclair to develop the Teapot Dome Wyoming naval oil reserves. The navy would obtain fuel and oils with above ground storage in exchange for the crude product. Fall also sent to the Senate copies of all contracts and documents on the nation s petroleum reserves as called for in resolution.
Washington June 7. The finance committee presses toward lower tariff rates but faces fierce criticism from both sides. Firearms duties were approved amid wider debate as Sen King Utah charges the bill raises prices, citing reports of Woolen Mills boosting costs and predicting further rises in shoes and heatables. He says fair rates based on domestic versus foreign costs would have allowed quick passage. He argues the measure enables American producers to raise prices.
The Associated Press reports a cautious view of Griffiths proposals amid Irish political maneuvering. Michael Collins is expected to define relations between the North and South, with attention to Pettigrew matter, while observers await coalition debates and the coming elections. The panel arrangement protests and the Dail’s future meet dates frame the election context as Britain’s treaty questions stir public sentiment.
Helena business men meet to organize a building and loan association with 1 million capital. Temporary directors elected for three months include W T Kueta Bart Brown Charles Jacoby and others. Name options Montana Titling and Loan Association or American if duplication found. Principal place Helena. stock offered statewide. no merger planned with Tate Building and Loan.
A foggy incident in San Francisco Bay tonight left the Matsonia and the oil tanker J A Moffett with only paint loss. No passengers were aboard either vessel and no injuries were reported an hour later.
Cincinnati June 7 The Associated Press reports three strike ballots were sent to about 400000 railway shopmen, with a request to return to Union headquarters in Chicago by June 25. This precedes a 360000000 wage cut ordered yesterday by the railroad labor board, to take effect July 1. A July 1 strike is anticipated if December ship approves a walkout. In Chicago six railroad presidents issue a joint denial of strike threats, saying union leaders are driving the scare while workers expect wage cuts and prepare to meet the new scale.
James O Connell head of the metal trades division of the American Federation of Labor denounced the government as an employer in his report to the department's annual meeting. He charged officials including President Harding with hostility to labor and said administration policy of curtailment and economy has pressed workers with a heavy hand.
Secretary Hoover told the Senate that the Hoover administration has informally pressed for talks between coal operators and miners to settle the strike. He noted agencies lack legal power to end the walkout but said informal conferences have helped curb potential price increases.
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