Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-01-06

employed by the defense. Sinclair, ".
j. Burns and several others were cited
for contempt OF court.
There was a reorganization of the
machinery for enforcement of prohibit
tion In May. Seymour Loman succeed
ed L. @. Andrews as assistant secre-
tary Of the treasury In charge of that
job, and DR.. j. Nj. Doran replaced Roy
A. Haynes as commissioner of prohi-
bitten. The Anti-Saloon league lost
Its guiding hand when Wayne b.
Wheeler died In September. but under
other leaders 1t went ahead with plans
to raise millions for the defeat Of all
wet candidates for Office.
In April the President vetoed the
Philippines assembly act for a pleb-
iscite on independence for the Islands.
Later Governor General Wood came
home to report to Mr.. Coolidge at the
summer White House In the Black
Hills. The general was In poor health
then and on August 7 he died in Bos-
ton, universally lamented. In Deem
Der President Coolidge appointed
Henry L. Stimson to succeed General
Wood as governor general of the
Philippines.
The cases of Sacco and vanzetti,
italian Communists, stirred up their
fellow Reds all over the world, and
the so-called "pinks' as well. They
had been convicted of murder In
Massachusetts and sentenced TO death.
The fairness of the trial Judge was Mt
tackled and the execution of the men
was delayed for months by every
means in the power Of the defense.
The Supreme court and Governor Full
Ter declined to interfere and the men
were put to death on August %.
The annual convention Of the Amer
lean Legion, which was held In Paris,
was a great success and the former
doughboys thoroughly enjoyed their
return to the scenes that became ia
miliar to them during the World war.
After the convention adjourned most
Of the thousands Of delegates visited
the battle1elds and went to Belgium
and England. A large party j~ourneyed
to Rome. Edward e. Spaford of
New York was elected commander of
the Legion and San Antonio. Texas.
was awarded the 1923 convention.
What remains Of the Grand Army of
the Republic held the national en-
campment Of that organization in
Grand Rapids, Mich, In September.
e. L. Hawk of Sacramento, Calf,
was chosen commander In chic. I'D
Denver was selected for the enco1p-
ment Of 1928. =
When the Seventeen congress ~
sembled In December President Cool
idge sent in a message in which he
stood pat on q number of controversial
topics. He again called for the crea-
ton Of a federal farm board to ad-
minister a revolving fund to help CO.
operatives, and again urged the strict
est economy. He recommended a
moderate reduction In taxes on the
lines favored by Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon, adequate works on
the lower Mississippi to control
floods, legislation permitting the Pres
ident to act during coal mine strikes,
the turning over of the governments
merchant marine to private capital,
and the projection Of the Gulf-to-
Atlantic waterway through the st.
Lawrence.
The house ways and means commit
tee did not agree with Mr.. Coolidge
and MI. Mellon and submitted a bill
that would reduce taxes by about
S232, 600. Most of the Mellon rec
concentrations were ignored In Its
preparation. The house itself went
even further and before the holiday
recess passed a measure calling for
tax reductions aggregating $500, 00O,-
900, or S65, 100000 In excess of the
maximum set by the administration.
The government budget submitted
to congress by the President called
for appropriations totaling $3,556,-
957,031 and he gave his approval to
the Navy departments 20-year build
ing program requiring expenditures
Of $725.000.00 zoe in the first five years.