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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1920
Page
18
California sends 15 delegates to Chicago with 60 bootleggers. Delegates elected by the people may be unseated en route to Denver. Half vote delegates may nominate the vice president. Southern states show mixed delegate loyalties. Some states restrict voting to ensure legitimate influence. Knox is proposed as a suitable American president candidate.
Washington reports that after Delaware legislature defeated suffrage ratification, National Women's party leaders plan to travel to Chicago to picket the Republican convention. They aim to press for women's voting rights amid the national political climate.
The Senate campaign expenditures committee located Horace Stebbins Eastern treasurer of the Wood organization and he said he would appear tomorrow. The panel also demanded sworn accounts from T A Huckmede of St Louis regarding expenditures linked to Lowdon representatives.
Senator Johnson of California warned here last night to beware European and Asiatic diplomacy and to avoid the League of Nations for fear it would Europeanize America rather than Americanize Europe.
Philadelphia reports that supporters of Senator Bob Penrose say he plans to attend the Republican National Convention in Chicago. They expect the senator to arrive by Sunday at the latest.
Philadelphia June 3 The state's 76 delegates will to Chicago go pledged to Gov William C Sproul as presidential candidate after a late caucus.
Prominent Republicans from across the state depart Seattle Friday at 9 45 on a special Olympian car to attend the national convention in Chicago arriving Monday at 1 15. Tickets arranged through Senator Poindexter and Palmer hotel accommodations are booked. After adjournment the party will return home by various routes.
Governor O. Lowden of Illinois, a Republican presidential hopeful, urged Congress to define the purpose and limit the amount of campaign contributions and to require accurate disclosure of sources, recipients, and spending with proper penalties. He said action should ensure transparency of funding.
The Johnson special carrying California's delegation passed burned snow sheds of the Southern Pacific in the Sierras at 4 20 am, 15 hours late. The fire likely started from a locomotive spark, destroying 1800 feet of snowshed and causing $40000 in damage. Officials expect the train to make up four to five hours of the trip as work crews clear the track.
The governor rejects claims that two Missouri delegates received 506000 from Lowden's fund in connection with the senate campaign investigation. The governor's statement blocks this assertion and maintains the commission's stance.
In Gary Indiana John Kelly killed his rival John Irier and Minnie Lee Worthy over a love triangle, then committed suicide. The incident links jealousy to a double homicide and self-inflicted death.
Police say Woo Sing, 40, sold lottery tickets at a city hotel room next to 315 Maynard Avenue. Patrolman John Kinney arrested him, seized a box of tickets and marking brushes as evidence. Five other men in the room were charged with gambling in a place where it was conducted.
In San Francisco on June 3 George H. Phillipe president of the Washington State Retail association argues that the “preferment hound” buyers of either sex help the community. He notes that the large profits from fastidious buyers allow retailers to offer lower prices to the public at the National Dry Goods Association convention.
Seattle moves toward a funded annual national advertising program of 100000 while sustaining local work. Promoters claim success is near as auto tourists from California and the East arrive, and Goodrich Rubber Co. representative L. Warford notes growing support. Dr. J. Ke Crichton elected president of King County Anti Tuberculosis League. The National Electric Association reports 150 members in Seattle. The Sagebrusher, a novel of the West, begins June 7 in The Star.
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