Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1920 — PARAGRAPHS FOR THE BUSY READER [ARTICLE]

PARAGRAPHS FOR THE BUSY READER

..Hanley May Support Harding— Governor J. Frank Hanley was the guest of Senator Harding at Marion Ohio, this week. Hanley was the prohibition nominee for president in 1916, but says he is opposed to that party placing a nominee in the field this year. Forecast For Heavy Harvests — Larger crops than last are forecast for spring wheat, oats, barley, white potatoes, tobacco, flax, rice, apples. The spring wheat crop is larger than last year’s by 82,000,000 bushels, but the winter wheat crop is 114,000,000 smaller. Made Race at Government Expense.—Questioning of a dozen witnesses at St. Louis Friday by the senate committee investigating campaign expenditures resulted .in charges that high cost of living bureaus established by the department of justice /‘were political enterprises” used primarily to bring about the nomination of Attorney

General A. Mitchell Palmer for president by the democratic national convention. Bolters Talk of Bolt.— The delegates gathering in Chicago at the call of the 48 to organize a new party are divided into many factions each threatening to bolt unless the other concede its demands. I Harding Cannot Attend- —Tremendous demands upon the Republican nominee make it impossible for him to attend the Indiana Republican Editorial meeting at Turkey Run on July 30. Woolen Mills Close. —Mills of the the American Woolen company throughout New England and New York have suspended operation indefinitely, the first great reaction from the wartimes has fallen upon American industry 40,000 are thrown out of employment.