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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1925
Page
1
Silver Bowl county again rejects the commission-manager consolidation plan. Total 12,116 votes: 5,741 for consolidation, 6,375 against, majority 634. Registration 21,465. turnout light. Hesler calls election orderly and fair and blames lack of public interest.
Fifty thousand miles of United States roads were designated as United States highways by the joint board on interstate highways. The system includes every federal aid highway and all state capitals with routes mapped across Montana and other states. Signs will bear the US shield, route number, and state, with warning signs added as needed.
Western Electric announces a method to harden lead by tempering. Engineers R. B. Dean and W. E. Hudson report a metal three times harder than untreated lead. Potential use includes telephone cable sheathing. details to be shared at the American Chemical Society meeting in Los Angeles.
Atlantic City reports the United Mine Workers subcommittee gained authority to call out 158000 coal miners if no agreement with operators is reached by midnight August 31. The full 40 member scale committee also empowered the subcommittee to arrange with mine owners on maintenance workers to prevent flooding or cave-ins during a shutdown.
The funeral for Edgar A Bancroft former American ambassador to Japan who died in Karuizawa on July 28 was held in Tokyo this morning. Foreign embassies and legations attended with most officials present including Premier Kato and imperial family representatives.
District No. 1 reports new fires in Koowenai and Clearwater forests as large fires across Western Montana and Northern Idaho spread under unfavorable weather. Tamarack creek fire surpasses 500 acres, with 107 crews in Coeur d'Alene and dozens more joining from Butte and Missoula. several blazes remain unsettled while others are brought under control.
The first Arctic radio interview was completed by Lieut. Commander B F McDonald Jr and the MacMillan Arctic expedition. Five questions were answered in eight minutes at 1 am EST, transmitting 16 words per minute over 3700 miles from Chicago to Etah.
A $75,000 insurance policy payout for Geoffrey A. Lauzier was mailed to the Lauzier-Wolcott receivers in Butte. The policy benefited the defunct Lauzier-Wolcott Company which ran brokerage offices in Butte Missoula Billings Spokane and Walla Walla. Lauzier was found dead after the firm closed its offices in June.
Recount by a senate committee of paper ballots in 33 counties of Iowa's senate race completed today shows Daniel F. Steck, Democrat, 126 397 votes and O W Brookhart, Republican, 130 ? . In the same counties 544 Steck ballots and 2 077 Brookhart ballots had been challenged.
In Chattanooga on August fifth defense counsel for John T. Scopes argues that the evolution theory conflicts with biblical creation and will be repeated in a taxpayers bill filed in federal court. The bill, by J. Robert Wilson, charges the law violates the U.S. Constitution by depriving parents and taxpayers of the right to teach or support the teaching of evolution.
In Chicago on August 5 Russell Scott sits stoically as seven guards of the death watch and four prosecutors argue his sanity in a high profile case. Closing arguments begin tomorrow and the jury will decide this afternoon whether he is sane for a potential March to the gallows. If found sane a date for execution is set. if not he will be committed to a state institution.
City council read a 53 property owner petition asking reconsideration of the June 2 decision to kill an ornamental lighting plan for Harrison Avenue from Grand to Harvard. The judiciary committee will report at the next meeting.
President Coolidge enters the seventh week of vacation in New England with hints of another month away from the White House. He limits callers, foregoes motor rides, and walks the rocky shore for exercise as he contemplates return around Labor Day. He may visit Plymouth, Vermont, before resuming duties in Washington, with no fixed departure date.
Richard F. Battles, an aviator and deputy constable from Overland, Missouri, drew weapons during a cashing attempt at a Mississippi Valley Trust Co. in St. Louis. He disarmed a bank watchman, wounded four people, and was killed after a running gun fight through downtown.
In Los Angeles a trial for three men accused in a Mary Pickford kidnapping plot heard evidence that Louis Geck a police informer was employed by the LAPD when he discussed the alleged scheme with the suspects. Charles R Moffett former police inspector testified with detective bureau records showing Geck had been paid by order of the police chief.
James A. Flaherty of Philadelphia was re elected to his ninth two year term as supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus at the 43rd annual supreme convention in Duluth. He defeated Edward Haggerty of Greenwich Conn 258 to 51 votes. Martin H. Carmody and William J. McGinley were re elected by acclamation.
Eleven American aviators who volunteered with French forces in Morocco left Paris today for the fighting front. Seven were to fly, but a broken propeller delayed Captain W. G. Graham Bullen and Captain Clausel, forcing a postponement to tomorrow. An embassy absence due to Moroccan command was noted, while a Parisian American colony sent off the flyers.
Byron PD former Provo Utah school principal Jones married teacher Miss Jexasco Whitehead in Butte on May 26 1925. He fled with a child desertion charge and possible extradition from Canada to Utah, with officials seeking immediate deportation to face bigamy and desertion charges.
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