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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1920
Page
1
Unofficial returns at 3:30 this morning show the non partisan league and labor league gaining many county offices in Silver Bow. Legislative results are unclear due to sparse returns and divided regular Democratic support. Republicans admit a plan to boost radical candidates by voters crossing party lines.
J Howell of Oakland qualified for the final after finishing third in the semi finals. Norman Ross and I Kahlo led the 1500 meter free stroke semi finals with all Americans advancing to the final heat. Helen Meaney won the women's diving series while Duke Kahanamoku set a new 100 meter free stroke record but a protest forced a Sunday rematch.
Alice Paul, chairman of the National Woman's Party, toasts Tennessee's ratification of the suffrage amendment. In the Washington and state headquarters, women celebrate with a toast of grape juice, not alcohol, after certification of the thirty sixth state.
Berlin dispatch cites Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reporting a Russian northern army counter offensive in the corridor between Mlawa and Chozek. Poles reportedly forced back as Neidenburg area sees decisive battle. Lomza and Bialystok retaken by Poles. Bolshevik pressure across the Prussian frontier. Polish gains include 20,000 prisoners, including staffs of the Eighteenth and Fifty-fourth divisions.
Americans Edward Kegan of Yale, light heavyweight champion of the A. H. F., Samuel Mosberg of Pastime A. C., New York, light weight, and F. Degenero of Faulist A. C., New York, fly weight each won their finals tonight in the boxing championships linked to the Olympic games in Antweekp.
Madame Bassarabo the poetess slayer reenacts the murder of her husband, a Tampico oil magnate, for police in the Bassarabo apartment. She uses a life like dummy, reproduces the quarrel, fires blanks at point blank range, then places the body in a trunk. She then bowingly tells officers that is how she did it.
James R. Waters files suit in Miami Florida charging A J Townley former head of the non partisans league with owning the controlling interest in a sisal company. Waters seeks 5000 dollars claimed as promised annual salary for managing Townley interests. Townley testified in bankruptcy proceedings that he had no such interest.
The U S Sugar shortage scare is dismissed as a figment or manipulation. The Crop Estimates Bureau reports U S sugar stocks 17 percent higher than in three years, with surplus 1.23 billion pounds and potential retail price relief to 15 cents a pound or lower.
Tennessee's ratification certification was mailed to Washington tonight. Upon receipt by Secretary of State Colby, officials expect the proclamation making the amendment part of federal law, granting 22 million American women equal voting rights. Governor Roberts sent the certification after the attorney general’s opinion on legal steps. Continued on Page 2, Column 1.
San Antonio reports through a federal agent that Pancho Villa denounced the De la Huerta government and has men ready to march. Villa warns his wife not to enter Mexico until summoned. A courier from San Pedro, Chihuahua, in talks with Senora Villa, says Villa has 850 armed men ready in case of treachery.
Archie McMillan sixteen year old graduate of the 1920 Butte high class was drowned yesterday morning when a boat he and Edwin Buck were crossing the river in overturned in rapids two miles from Polson Buck escaped to shore but McMillan clung to the craft and was carried over the rapids his body not yet recovered by nightfall A search party located the overturned boat but no sign of the youth McMillan had worked for the Montana Power company since school ended and was active in football and theater at school with relatives and officials planning further search efforts.
Five Beaverhead precincts list Republican candidates for associate justice with a 46 year term: Arnold 12, Galen 51, Haskins 20, Holloway 29, Hurry 18, Stevens 24. 2 year term: Heynolds 61, Utter 20. Democratic six year term: Palmer 14, Pease 13, Stanton.
In two Blaine precincts voting results show for associate justice ballots Republicans Arnold Galen Maski Holloway Hurry Steve Reynolds Att and for Democrats Palmer Pease Stanton Wood with six year terms. Governor race lists Republican Cline. Continued on Page 2 Column 2.
Governor Cox the Democratic presidential nominee will speak in Butte on September 9 as part of a Montana tour that includes Billings Helena and Missoula. The telegram from Senator Pat Harrison lists dates and arrival times with plans for large receptions and delegations.
A. Eb. Coffman, a prominent Seattle businessman, and his daughter Louise Coffman were killed when their car went through a railing on the Fremont Bridge and fell ten feet to a lumber yard below. Investigators believe steering gear may have failed.
Washington dispatch analyzes Soviet advance toward Warsaw noting it mirrors the 1917 Byng corps setback in Ypres. It argues Poland’s strategic position hinges on guarding the corridor, withdrawing troops, and blocking a Polish front from German border as the conflict unfolds.
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