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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1920
Page
1
Chin Sue Sing part owner of the Hong Kong cafe at 114 South Main street was found dead yesterday about 4 30 am. Police suspect robbery and seek two men seen fleeing the scene. Authorities ordered a general roundup of Butte’s underworld and broadcast warnings to nearby towns.
Reports from Dublin state twelve auxiliary cadets were wounded by bombs thrown from a lorry in Cork as assailants fled. In nearby Shankill a clerk named William Owens was shot dead during a raid as military moved on a local lab. A U.S. representative sent a cable to the League of Nations president seeking an Ireland inquiry. UK debates on Irish policy expected next week and martial law was announced in Southwestern Ireland by Prime Minister Lloyd George.
Northwest coal consumers face losses totaling millions as prices surge to as high as 20 dollars per ton. The report by McGee to a U S Senate reconstruction panel cites uncontracted coal flooding docks to relieve port congestion after order No 10, inflating costs by up to 11.50 dollars per ton in some areas and prompting a legal injunction by the national coal association in the Supreme Court.
The forecast calls for a cold spell with snow and strong northwest winds early this week in Montana. Ranchers are warned to secure livestock feed and shelter as temperatures drop and exposure on ranges risks animal loss. Several inches fell yesterday but thawed later as the system moves in.
Washington December 11 protracted debate blocked a vote on a new joint resolution to revive the War Finance Corporation as a relief measure for farmers. A noon Monday recess was agreed with a pledge that a vote would come by 9 o clock. Senators Smoot and Thomas argued over sections urging Liberal credits, while Pomerene Glass Grenna sparred over board criticism.
President C H Clapp of the State School of Mines is named by Herbert Hoover as chairman for the American relief administration in Silver Bow county. He will head the European relief council and oversee contributions from Butte to support starving European children this winter.
Herbert Hoover as chairman of the European relief council urges churches of all denominations to observe Sunday December 19 as national collection day. A campaign to raise 33 million dollars as America's Christmas gift to European children will extend through the holidays with collections in public places and via civic organizations.
More than a thousand boys and girls were weighed measured and examined at the administration building. Roco the Red Cross clown performed handstands and springs and displayed a toy basket of foods while teaching healthier eating and dental care to children and parents during the medical outreach.
Boston December 11 William J M Carthy prohibition enforcement director for New England refused to day to prosecute a sick man in whose home a bedside still and some moonshine whiskey were found The man a tuberculosis patient was too weak to move and told officers his finances could not cover whiskey on a medical prescription He said the stimulant was needed to keep him alive and he had installed the still at his bed side
Jerome G. Locke of Livingston accuses Interior Secretary John Buron Payne of commercialism in Yellowstone park and misrepresentation by magazines. He argues for a Yellowstone dam at the lake outlet to control floods and irrigate about 700000 acres, while criticizing park officials and administration plans.
Wisconsin congressmen and senators were sent a grand jury backed resolution asking repeal or modification of Prohibition laws. The group signed the resolution after a federal grand jury investigation that yielded more than eighty five indictments for Volstead Act violations and urged legislation permitting light wines and beer.
The jury convicts Assed Juhray of first degree murder in the death of Hugh J. Gibson at the Gibson home on Harvard Avenue. The verdict, reached after about an hour of deliberation, fixes the punishment at death by hanging and is read by Chief Deputy Clerk Emmoett McGrath.
Washington dispatch notes deported party members near a year back have attempted to bomb Russian Soviet officials. Marcus Oredowsky and Arthur Katjes allegedly planned to blast a building housing the general executive committee in Moscow.
The Wheeling district indicates operations will run at a much reduced scale next week. Corps plants are expected to operate at less than half capacity across the district.
Geneva report outlines a three stage approach to disarmament by the League of Nations. The first stage bars further armament increases, the second sets a basis for gradual reductions, and the third envisions general disarmament when feasible. Viscount Ishii notes Japan cannot cut armaments while the United States expands theirs. Propaganda is deemed essential for a radical solution.
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