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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1923
Page
2
General H M Lord budget director announces the US fiscal year closed June 30 1928 with a roughly 310 million surplus. He notes receipts rose by 767 million and total expenditures fell by 366 million compared with 1922 and 1923 projections.
Two men from Chicago James Bloomer and Alexander Duncan drowned when their automobile en route to the Tippecanoe river overturned in a ditch nine miles southeast of Hammond Indiana. They were pinned face down in about two feet of water.
Oklahoma City July 2 reports Governor Walton will use military force if needed to curb mob outrages. Aldrich Blake, its secretary, said the past year saw at least 2500 whipping parties across the state.
Washington July 2 A proposal by the American Farm Bureau federation urges American farmers to withdraw at least 200 million bushels of wheat from this year's visible supply to reduce the large domestic surplus and lift prices.
Shanghai reports a battle near Gensan Korea between rival Russian factions as a shipload of refugees arrives at Woosung. One general and 100 rank and file soldiers were killed in the clash.
Capt. L. D. Kearney, formerly an American army officer, leads the attempt to seize the Chinese government in Peking as head of the Confederate States of China, a movement formed amid current chaos.
Twin Falls Idaho July 2 Three brothers Cilen Tom and Lloyd Aken farm hands were electrocuted at their ranch home near Tuttle when a hay derrick they rode touched a 40 000 volt transmission line.
Governor Pinchot reduced his annual pay from $18,000 to $10,000 and cut $2,155,040 from the general appropriation bill as approved by the Senate in Harrisburg July 2.
The army transport Merritt arrived in San Francisco with 526 Russian refugees fleeing Bolshevik takeovers. Their destination or next steps were not fully disclosed in the report.
Attorney General Harry Daugherty moved to dismiss 127 coal operator and union official cases plus 99 corporations in Indianapolis. The indictments dated back to 1922 for the 1921 coal strike, with Daugherty noting many actions at a joint meeting of operators and miners were conspiratorial though convictions were deemed unlikely.
The Leviathan will sail on July 4 as a United States passenger vessel with a sizeable liquor stock in its medical cabinet. Dr. B K Sprague of the Public Health Service issued the permit, though the amount remains undisclosed. Other American flag ships have sought permits to run medicinal liquor stores.
In London on June 29 Great Britain said it would not agree to allowing the United States to search foreign ships for liquor within twelve miles of the American coast. Marquis Curzon, foreign secretary, stated this in the Lords during a debate on American seizures of ship liquor.
Secretary Andrew W Mellon denies reports that the United States will seize ships carrying liquor into American waters. He calls the claim a pure invention and offers no plan to nationalize seizures.
Freeport Illinois June 380. Clarence Frueh a Freeport police officer was shot and killed by an unidentified tramp he had arrested at the Illinois Central depot. The fleeing suspect rode away on the officer’s motorcycle, crashed into a curb, and broke his neck.
Washington reports a severe foreign ship liquor dispute reaching a critical stage with officials weighing a possible special session of Congress to avert looming international consequences.
Caracas reports Gen. Juan Go mez, Venezuela's first vice president and federal district governor, assassinated in bed. Official bulletin confirms death with details circulated locally.
Harry B. Mortimer of Milwaukee was chosen president by acclamation at the close of the fourth annual convention of the National Junior Association of Commerce in Milwaukee Wisconsin on July 2.
President Harding declared himself a staunch defender of organized labor during a Helena Montana address and tour stop. He warned capitalists seeking to break labor and urged religious sincerity, wage standards, and opposition to Bolshevism, noting I W W disruption and public support for labor.
London June 30. The Labour party congress rejected a resolution declaring the royal family unnecessary to Britain's constitution by an overwhelming majority. George Lansbury voiced the party stance saying it matters not if Britain has a king and comparing royals to ordinary people after dining with them.
Premier Poincare told the French senate in Rome that France would maintain coercive measures until Germany surrenders. The senate cheered and unanimously approved a 307,000,000 franc credit for the Ruhr occupation.
Mayence reports seven Germans were sentenced to death by a French court martial for sabotage in the Ruhr. One man received life penal servitude and another five years in prison. The condemned are Herren Sasse Maurer Gru ber Hannie Schneider Dryer and Frey.
French occupation in the Ruhr was extended along the eastern edge of the Mayence bridgehead to Langen on the Barnstadt Frankfort railroad line eight miles south of Frankfort and to Eschborn on the Frankfort Kromberg line seven and a half miles west of Frankfort.
In Duesseldorf on July 2 a time bomb exploded in a passenger car of a Belgian soldiers train returning from the Ruhr. Nine Belgian soldiers were killed and others injured in the attack.
July 2 Fort Worth Texas reports ten year old Donald Matheson son of a Paradise rancher was severely injured by a pack of wolves in a pasture before his father could intervene.
Live stock and farm product prices across Chicago markets for the week ending June 28. Hogs top at 7.80 with bulk 6.60 to 7.15. beef cattle 7.75 to 10.50. cows and heifers 3.55 to 9.85. veal calves 8.25 to 10.25. fat lambs 13 to 15.65. yearlings 10 to 14. Also fruits vegetables and grains including Florida watermelons 22-38 lb averages, Georgia melons, Carmans peaches, Mississippi tomatoes, potatoes, and hay and feed price snapshots. dairy and cheese prices listed by regional markets.
Fifteen year old Ivan Wooten confessed to the murder of Mary Seales a seventy five year old widow at Auburn nine miles south of Springfield according to police He said his motive was to leave home and earn money for himself He had lived at the Seales home three years
Secretary Weeks voiced flat opposition to using the army for prohibition enforcement at the Army War College graduation. He warned that advocates of such use have not seriously considered the possible consequences and dangers of employing the military in policing prohibition.
Three hundred employees of the Chicago South Bend and Northern Indiana railroad including city street car motormen and conductors receive a three cent an hour wage increase. City street car workers now earn 50 cents and interurban workers 52 cents.
In Lake Geneva Wisconsin on June 29 a bumble bee entered a car on Elkton road near Como and caused a crash that severely injured Mrs. Lillian Bally. A frightened child grabbed the driver Miss Pearl Marsden of Janesville, causing the vehicle to veer into a ditch.
H L Porterfield was appointed special assistant prohibition commissioner with headquarters in Washington. He had been divisional prohibition chief based in Toledo and will assist Haynes in Washington.
Springfield, June 80 Governor Small signed a bill authorizing a new one hundred million dollar hard roads bond issue. The proposal will go to voters at the November 1924 election in Illinois.
British 80 club journalists and advertisers paid tribute at Arlington National Cemetery laying a wreath on the unknown soldier’s tomb. John Cheshire led the group in a moment of silence before touring major D C landmarks and meeting President Harding. Hoover spoke at a New Willard luncheon as the visitors praised Washington hospitality.
The Supreme Court declined to rule on the constitutionality of the Sheppard-Towner maternity act, saying the cases raised political rather than judicial questions and that it lacked authority to decide abstract issues. Justice Sutherland emphasized no state action to protect citizens’ rights. federal oversight remains.
At Camp Mesde Maryland two Mark VI tanks and a fleet of Mark VIII and French six-ton tanks tore through woods for a staff college display. Officers watched as the armoured giants toppled trees, crossed ditches, and staged a miniature attack with roaring guns and smoke.
A 1920 department bulletin warns that lumber production has declined for 18 years across 37 eastern and southern states, with 86 showing decreases while Pacific coast states rise. The era of abundant softwood supply may end as forests near exhaustion shift the center of production westward and threaten reliance on foreign forests.
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