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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1917
Page
1
Lawmakers must secure a two thirds majority to pass the Promibition measure today as House members decide on the controversial resolution. The outcome hinges on support from key factions and party leaders amid tight debate.
Washington reports a busy pre holiday session as congress advances domestic bills and probes war prep sugar and fuel shortages. Prohibition advocates press for a nationwide amendment while suffrage faces setback. The Walsh Titman coal and oil land bill moves, and a Newlands railroad inquiry resumes with witnesses from Nevada and other states.
Reported push for peace negotiations after an armistice with prohibition vote today. Seventeen engineers missing for Red Cross, memos from capture, a ship damaged, and Frank Goteh dead. Jubilee over mutilated children, Means acquitted of murder, Goldberg cartoon.
Washington dispatch reports seventeen enlisted men of the U S Army Engineer Corps listed MIA by General Pershing. They disappeared on November 20 during the Cambrai German turning movement while aiding an engineer contingent that helped the British halt the attack, with several named missing from New York City, Woodhaven Long Island, New Paltz and other locations.
London reports two German explosions. One at Friedrich Haven Zeppelin works caused many deaths or injuries. A second blast at a factory producing bombs for Zeppelins killed many workers. Zurich dispatches confirm widespread casualties.
Petrograd reports Bolsheviki indicate peace talks to begin after the armistice is signed. Leon Trotsky declares negotiations will start immediately, says the Russian formula satisfies allies. Trotsky stresses troop transfers as a core issue and notes coordinated moves with Brest Litovsk delegates.
Chairman Davison urges Red Cross workers to stand by the colors and predicts a 20,000,000 member national organization. He lauds the Red Cross as a modern miracle in its expanded war efforts, pledging unity across social lines and full support for soldiers and civilians affected by the war.
A Petrograd corr reports regiments including Ismail Tovsky and Petrogradsky demand the immediate removal of former Emperor Nicholas to confinement at Kronstadt or the Saint Peter and Saint Paul fortress. The move aims to cancel theater privileges as part of broader friction with the constituent assembly.
London December 16 an imperial decree establishes a new U boat department within the German imperial navy for the duration of the war. The unit will focus solely on U boat affairs, previously managed by the dock yards section of the navy department according to a Reuters Amsterdam dispatch.
Washington dispatch reports Montana will turn unsettled and colder Monday with possible rain or snow west of the divide and continued unsettled conditions Tuesday.
Dedham Massachusetts December A Varney asserts she will be freed of murdering Mrs Pauline Keyes after counsel and Judge Philip OConnell's charge to the jury. The defense contends the pistol was bought from a pawn broker by a former salesman for Keyes and identified by the broker as similar to the weapon used. The prosecution had offered evidence the gun came from a Providence pawn broker and matched a description linked to Miss Varney.
Ottawa December 16 The campaign centered on selective conscription as the key issue. Voters face whether Sir Robert Borden's union government remains in office or Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal opposition returns to power. The contest is described as the most bitter in Dominion history with about 2 million electors and 250 thousand soldiers among them.
General Pershing in France issues general orders declaring Christmas and New Year holidays for American troops. No nonessential work is to be performed on the two holidays, allowing soldiers time for festive observance.
Secretary Baker, in a weekly military review, says grim civilian effects in Germany as air raids depress the population and war conditions intensify. He notes no major Western change, reports massed German concentrations, and cites Jerusalem’s fall as boosting Allied prestige while German prospects dim. Negotiations for an eastern front peace and German demand for open trade with the USSR are also outlined.
In the lower PoV line near Venice, formidable improvised forts and white camouflaged floating batteries guard the lagoons and fortifications. Depths, trenches, and inundations create a vast waterland barrier that frustrates Austrian attempts to cross by pontoon while heavy guns lie concealed for nightly bombardment.
Petrograd dispatch reports the executive committee of the workers and soldiers' delegates voting to label the constitutional democrats enemies of the people. The peasants’ congress denounces arrests of the assembly members and vows to defend the delegates with all forces. Bolshevik foreign minister Trotzky warns that in a month terror will assume the form of the revolutionary terror.
German reports quote Grand Admiral von Tirpitz saying Britain has won so far in the war and that peace on the status quo ante is impossible. He rejects Calais yield rumors and argues for security through Flanders Antwerp Calais Boulogne. Also, Frank Annerer is acquitted of murdering his wife at the Ant ranch in Dryhead district. jury deliberated over four hours.
Patrolman Enos Nelson was killed by an unknown Mexican in Billings while attempting to arrest him. A posse returned fire, wounding the Mexican who died later in the hospital. Watorcycle Policeman Bakke was shot in the foot during the exchange.
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