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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1920
Page
2
The railroad labor board will move from Washington to Chicago within two weeks. Hearings begin May 17 in the Kesney building after offices were obtained there. The move follows earlier war preparations and new agency organization.
Senator Reed Smoot was unanimously elected as a four delegate at large at the Utah Republican convention. Texas Republicans overwhelmingly endorsed Wilson. New Jersey primaries gave Wood a 1 207 lead over Johnson with totals Wood 52 608 Johnson 51 401. Arkansas GOP backs Governor Lowden as first choice. Ohio primary shows Harding defeating Wood by about 13 000 votes.
Mrs Louise Gregory aged 71 wife of the university's first president died in Lafayette Indiana from neuritis. She was the first woman on the University of Illinois faculty. Mrs Cora Neilsen 73 a longtime popular stage actress died at Hancock county home Findlay Ohio and was leading woman in Rip Van Winkle. George H Weaver Remington Typewriter VP killed in New York auto accident.
The Dublin city corporation adopts a resolution pledging to implement Dail Fireann decrees signaling the Irish capital's secession from British rule as British forces stand as the remaining nominal link. Revolutionary events in Suárez Mexico, Dutch ship alliance, the shah's Paris departure, and Lenine's birthday renamed Leningrad are noted amid other world dispatches including Tokyo’s buffer state idea and Berlin’s national assembly adjournment.
Edward W. Pickard reports on allied postwar talks shaping Turkey boundaries and a U S Armenian mandate. Germany faces a stiff note and Spa conference as reparations and peace terms dominate, while U S political moves and border tensions in Mexico and Europe color a volatile global scene.
Reports from Mexican revolutionary leaders claim progress as their army expands and more territory falls under control. They assert the federal district is nearly surrounded, with rumors of fighting reaching Mexico City.
Herbert Hoover’s bid as a compromise candidate gains attention as a California contest between Hoover and Senator Johnson for delegation seats draws keen interest. The Providence Journal retracts a prior claim that Hoover echoed Wilson policies and states its belief in Hoover’s sincerity and opposition to the president’s programs.
A faithful collie dog kept barking for help all day until Ernest Pernelet discovered the burned bungalow of Ernest Alleman on the outskirts of New Bedford Massachusetts. Pernelet borrowed a shovel and unearthed Alleman’s remains among the charred ruins.
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