22 Apr 1915
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1915
Page
1
Colonel Roosevelt gives an insider account of machine politics based on information from eighteen reliable sources. The narrative outlines how party machines influence elections, appointments, and policy in a detailed, though cautious, briefing.
Theodore Roosevelt spent five hours on the witness stand in a New York supreme court trial, detailing alleged machine politics and boss rule. He claimed an ironclad deal with Carroll Murphy of Tammany Hall to influence a United States senator, while clashing with Barnes and Loeb over primary and legislative actions. The colonel faced interruptions as he defended his accounts and pressed his case, signaling further examination to come the next day.
In Today’s Standard Page a reply to a German protest is noted as three quarters of a million Britons at front. Roosevelt finishes testimony. Yellowstone park to be opened to autos. Socialists working for peace. Caterno goes to penitentiary. New trial granted in suit against hos. Horoscope and classified ads featured. Wall street markets update. Butte news highlights.
Washington April 21 Mrs William Cumming Story of New York was tonight re elected president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution over Mrs George Thatcher Guernsey of Kansas by a vote of 695 total ballots. The election of national officers of the twenty fourth Annual continental congress extended late tonight with 1 203 members voting and long counting for the final tally.
Chicago April 21 Progress toward settlement of the labor war in which 16.0 percent of Carpenters are locked out was made today as Carpenter Contractors associations agreed to meet the union men. Representatives of 1400 street railway employes have formed demands to be submitted to traction companies May 1 when their contracts expire. The motormen and conductors now receive a maximum of 1 cent an hour. They will ask a maximum of 1 cent with a contract to run not longer than three years.
Connelieville, Pa. April 21 Miss Schultz, a 13 year old daughter of a local farmer, was attacked by two masked women last night in the outskirts. One woman struck her with a bottle neck and the other splashed acid on each cheek. The incident follows a threatening letter received weeks earlier offering $10 and a gold watch in a secluded spot, which she ignored.
Four 1.50 pending tanks on the Tos ten Pacific Oil Co lease at Taft burned this afternoon. The blaze threatens adjoining property valued at 100 dollars. There is no prospect of extinguishing the flames immediately.
London reports the British expeditionary force in France has grown to more than 36 divisions, about 700,000 men, with Lloyd George in Parliament stating troops filled fallen positions and ammunition output rising nineteenfold. He urged more supplies and warned liquor consumption hinders work. Front reports include German attempts near Ypres, French counterattacks, and Allied advances in Kamerun and German Southwest Africa. Air strikes and naval actions are noted, with the German airship harbor at Ghent claimed damaged.
Rabbi Wittenders of Temple Baal Taras speaks to about 200 bartenders in Butte urging balanced liquor regulation. He argues prohibitionists overstep, cites hospital statistics and public welfare, praises saloon regulation, and urges enforcement of midnight closing and anti gambling rules. Local sheriff calls for bar cooperation to curb prohibition tendencies.
Special dispatch reports Secretary Lane approved opening Yellowstone National Park to automobiles this summer after August 1. The plan limits entry to pleasure vehicles as stage travel remains heavy. Tourist service continues via horse drawn vehicles and transportation companies. Regular traffic will run in a single circuit with cars entering half an hour before stages at check in stations.
Paris reports William Thaw II, an American aviator serving with the French army, killed near Verdun though unconfirmed. Thaw, son of Benjamin Thaw of Pittsburgh and New York, joined the foreign volunteers at war start and had aviation and engineering experience. He previously did aviation work in the United States. Also noted is Jacob Scott, a U.S. mail carrier from Woodland, Cal, who died at 115 after 25 years in government service, and who had been enslaved for 56 years.
A wall collapse at the old Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co store in Birmingham, Alabama, killed and injured many shoppers. Rescue teams worked through the night as debris trapped people under collapsed roofs, with at least two more bodies recovered and the death toll rising as officials counted missing workers and customers.
At Ort creek mouth near Fort Seward sixteen railroad section crew members were swept away by flood when a dam broke. Five bodies and four others are missing, six injured, and five escaped. Names include Barney Carrigan and James Carrigan among the dead. In Trenton New Jersey Governor Fielder signed a bill calling a special election for October 19 to submit a woman suffrage amendment to voters.
The United States, in a formal note drafted at the State Department and finalized by President Wilson, counters Count von Bernstorff’s claim that Americans could halt arms imports to curb belligerents. The note asserts U.S. neutrality rights, rejects the ambassador’s impression, and reiterates that no belligerent can alter neutral rules at sea. It emphasizes friendship with Germany and invites clear understanding, noting the ongoing diplomatic exchange with the Allies.
The Hague dispatch reports German socialists pressing for peacemaking with Britain and France through contact with British and French socialist leaders. They favor terms with France and England and Belgian evacuation, viewing Alsace Lorraine as not belonging to either France or Germany. They foresee a united Europe and doubt Dardanelles neutralization before such a union.
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