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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1921
Page
4
Bootleg runs thrive as lawfully sanctioned liquor mixes with covert sales to bootleggers. Crude alcohol and ether form cheap drinks, with distilleries in rural areas and large stills in farms. Public exposure exists but citizens give little protest while the federal bureau strains to act with limited public backing.
Commercial day began about 15 years ago as a friendly settlement of disputes between business men and employees. It invites merchants clerks and friends to close shops and enjoy fishing golfing picnicking or motoring as a genuine holiday of rest recreation and frolic. The article notes the day is kept with optimism for a bright future and calls it an eight holiday in the true sense.
Federal Prohibition Bureau admits discouraging results in Pennsylvania as bootlegging spreads in several cities and anthracite regions with immigrant majorities. Officials blame public indifference and hostility. Philadelphia business interests offer no help. Gov. Brer Sproul supports the bureau. state police cooperate. mayor and city police attempt enforcement. In Philadelphia today 1,249 saloons operate openly, some selling whiskey to those known, while some sell only soft drinks or non intoxicating beer. Federal agents claim 63 seizures in six months. Wholesale dealers also violate, many operating under Permit B for non beverage uses.
Fifteen banks in Wayne County Oklahoma pledge to contribute 50 dollars each, totaling 750 dollars, for the capture alive or dead of any person robbing a member bank. They prefer killing robbers if necessary, deeming it safer for society and cheaper for the county. The plan amounts to a virtual extermination policy, risking retaliation from determined criminals.
In an interview Senator Johnson argues the U S should end the German occupation. He cites costs of about one million dollars monthly and Germany’s debt obligations as proof the war era entanglements are ending. The piece shifts to Soviet Russia and European politics, noting famine among Russians and critiques of socialism.
Reports from Dublin sketch Sinn Fein cabinet prompts to submit imperial terms to a popular vote in Ireland while Ulster may face increased pressure to join a dominion. Riots are avoided in the Dail Eireann with orderly proceedings as figures like de Valera and Collins attend. Military leave from Aldershot and Fernborough is halted amid national tension.
Former congressman Jenn M. Evans argues for global disarmament and a sharp reduction in wartime government spending. He cites budgets from 1818 to present, noting high military costs and proposing cuts to annual appropriations and officer ratios to move toward disarmament.
Mrs Mary Vidmar of Ashland Wis pleaded guilty in federal court to hiding and abetting in a Minneapolis mail car robbery. Her husband Antone Vidmar was sentenced to two months in Douglas County jail. The robbery left mail clerk Strong fatally wounded by Delbert Smith who received a 25 year term.
Hundreds of nuns attended the opening of the Catholic educational association session at Helena cathedral. Bishop John B. Carroll addressed the assembly, inaugurating the educational program with a lecture on Dante And His Age by Father Kitina from Mount St. Charles College. Benediction followed in the afternoon.
Los Angeles, Aug 16. A. Rosenthal, pawn shop proprietor, identified a gun component found near Santa Monica as part of a weapon sold to a customer entering his shop in July, amid the J. Belton Kennedy killing case. He viewed a youth named Arthur C. Bureh, co-indicted with Madalynne Obenchain, but could not confirm a purchase link. Deputy sheriff planning broader inquiries in Chicago as Ralph Obenchain faces new developments in the divorce and Kennedy case.
In Three Mile district residents lack city water while board debates forwarding students to Cleveland schools. The meeting also notes a lone bid for $300000 in school bonds from Bankers Trust of Denver, with a 6 percent rate and a 4 percent discounts for legal fees and printing, under advisement for tomorrow. Agnes Finnegan from Fresno seeks a leave. Payrolls totaling 796.80 for labor and 41.66 for teachers are approved along with 2071.44 in claims.
Report from Seattle Post Intelligencer says a 78 pound TNT charge placed behind a dam near Leavenworth Washington failed to detonate. Explosive was found in a heavy iron slab with detonator fuse burned to end, possibly saving lives and millions in property. Workmen covered the bomb during repairs. Price reductions announced for dining car meals on the Northern Pacific.
Mrs. Mary de Frito, famed beauty contest winner, died by suicide as she was mentally deranged by failing health. A coroner’s inquest was opened. relatives cited a controversial North Dakota magazine article about tarring and feathering a Beaumont Texas doctor as a trigger. A rubber tube was used in the act.
Butte readies a full day of events with sports and entertainment. races start at 9 am, boxing and wrestling free, baseball 50 cent admission, bucking broncho contest noon, Mines band concert all day, greased pig race finale, with ample streetcar service and police presence to maintain order.
Helena dispatch reports pardons under advisement related to Louis Fows for sedition during the War with Madison County cases involving Theodore and Rieve Rirne and Lut Towler noted. The notices reference convict status, bonds, and remarks from national committees amid unsettled dispositions.
The grand chapter honored Frank Haskin and named officers including RD. A mour Great Falls as grand master of the third veil and Frank Haskins Butte as grand master of the first veil Perc y J. Kent named grand sentinel A banquet followed the session with E C Day addressing the group Delegates and visitors from many Montana towns attended housing filled at Butte hotels The event featured installation of officers and a high priesthood degree as the chapter reported a flourishing year by David Craig grand high priest and Cornelius Hedges Jr grand secretary.
Judge Lew I Calloway travels from Virginia City to Butte to attend state bar association events and motor trips with Visiting Masons. AJ Hathaway from Glendive arrives to join Masonic meetings. Mayor Cocking to welcome grand lodge as Mystic Shrine plans big picnic and anniversary lodge events in Butte.
Seattle August 16 A judge ruled a medical commission must determine James Mahoney is sane before his murder trial proceeds for the death of his wealthy elderly wife Kate Mahoney. The case centers on a body found in a trunk from Lake Union last week and Mahoney’s degree murder charge.
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