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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1919
Page
1
Officials say a startling story surrounds the death of Manos. A man who furnished a packing box similar to the one described by Mrs. Pallas is believed located, and a truck driver is being sought in connection with the case.
Butte police build case on Mrs. Margaret Pallas account of Gust Manos killing. Investigators seek a packing box and truck driver alleged to have transported the body from the East Park rooming house. County officials, led by County Attorney Rotering, say her statements are direct and potentially factual.
The Emma and East Colusa mines will resume operations Saturday morning as more mines open to meet a rising coal supply. Anaconda Copper Mining Company official William B. Daly said transportation will ramp up as coal shipments increase nationwide after a miner strike.
Amateur astronomer James Spencer explains there is no astronomical reason for a world end on December 17. He notes planetary alignments could cause disturbances, but points out such configurations have occurred before. The article discusses gravity, planetary positions, and the sun in a cautious, explanatory tone.
Special Dispatch to the Standard reports from Helena that I W W literature from Butte spread to Wyoming and Montana camps to deter miners from returning to work. Despite the campaign, more miners head back to the mines as the union’s global directive to resume is ignored by radicals. The aim is to stall coal output to affect other industries, yet dispatches show mines near Montana returning to normal production soon.
Lieut. Etienne Poulet the French aviator who yielded the Paris Australia air race to Capt. Ross Smith arrived in Moulmain Burma after a vulture damaged his right propeller forcing a mountain landing. He repaired the craft and pressed on toward Bangkok and Paris.
Chicago Dec 17 liquor interests plan to file suit in the court of claims at Washington seeking 400 million dollars against the United States. Levy Mayer, chief counsel for the distillers' national committee, says no halt in efforts to defeat constitutional prohibition despite wartime prohibition being upheld by the Supreme Court.
Expressions on the senate floor suggested a renewed push to reopen the peace treaty fight within weeks. The report notes anticipation and political maneuvering as December discussions unfold in Washington.
John L. Lewis says the exact date and location of the United Mine Workers general convention are undecided though called soon to consider the president's plan to end the strike. Officials say over 15 million dollars in strike benefit funds will be used to aid needy miners' families at Christmas.
The Rev. W. W. Van Orsdel, pioneer Methodist minister, is in a coma at Deaegness hospital in Great Falls after weeks of critical condition. Death is momentarily expected, with prognosis saying he cannot live through the night.
Washington Dec 17 Secretary Lane issued a statement denying reports that he had placed his resignation before President Wilson. He said he intends to leave the cabinet when he can without adding to the president s burdens or worries.
Myron A. Clark national Y M C A secretary in Brazil told the Butte Advertising Club that America can achieve commercial supremacy in South America as war shifts attitudes. He cited trade growth from 700 million to 1.7 billion dollars and praised publicity campaigns like Rio de Janeiro’s harbor cleanup as key public relations successes. O. C. Colton thanked the club for its help in the local campaign and invited members to an indoor Y M C A picnic two days before Christmas.
Representative Hoch of Kansas introduces a bill to limit newspaper paper use in the first half of 1920 to the level of the same period in 1919. Publishers lacking pledges to observe the limit would lose second class mailing status and face third class postage penalties.
Julius J. Binder announces permanent headquarters will be set up in New York to back Champ Clark for the Democratic presidential nomination. Similar committees will be formed nationwide to support the candidacy.
Rio de Janeiro reports that the peace conference has allotted Brazil six former German torpedo boats as part of wartime ship distribution.
Helena Dec 17 Montana’s financial resources of 27 state and eight private banks reach 127179020.21 dollars as of Nov 17 1919 by state bank examiner H S Magraw. The total surpasses the 1918 high by 3227436.27 with deposits rising since Sept 12 1919 and time deposits at 3819852.75 dollars.
Former food administrator Herbert Hoover warned December 17 that fifteen to twenty million people in Central Europe outside Germany face starvation unless relief is found. He said a government collapse could follow and proposed selling grain corporation surplus wheat and flour on credit to Finland Poland Austria and other Central European nations without new congressional appropriations.
Two shipments of machine guns and accessories from Germany bound for Mexico were halted by allied military authorities while in transit through Holland. Export of war material violates armistice terms and peace treaty. German government asked to explain and told not to export further arms.
London sources say Viscount Grey may not return as British ambassador to Washington. Speculation points to Lord Heading as a likely successor while former Canadian PM Sir Robert Borden is noted as a possible next ambassador after the peace conference reports.
President Wilson has not ruled on returning railroads to private control. Secretary Tumulty told a union labor and farmers delegation that the White House will consider delaying the action by two years. Meanwhile the Senate presses the Cummins railroad bill, likely to finish after Christmas, with road ownership to resume within 30 days of law passage.
Miners in Japan push for higher wages and shorter hours. Seven thousand copper workers at Ashio near Nikko walk out, with troops and police dispatched to the district. A separate strike emerges at an iron mine near Sendai as Japan records 421 strikes in 1919 through October.
Revised returns from mountain counties show Clyde R. Hoey Democrat and League of Nations advocate defeating John M. Morehead Republican by a majority around 1,070 to 1,470 with estimates ranging from 1,100 to 1,800 as tallying continues. Hoey succeeds Yates Webb who resigned.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Greenbaum ordered Ludwig K A Martens and Santeri Nuorteva to show cause why they should not be committed to New York County jail for contempt. They refused to answer questions and to produce books and papers demanded by a joint legislative committee probing radical activities.
In Berlin on Tuesday December 16, an explosion at the Mariensiel ammunition depot near Wilhelmshaven killed 43 people and injured over 100 as shells were being unloaded.
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