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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1919
Page
5
Sparrow Robertson of New York representing Tex Rickard holds talks with M. Necoin to join Rickard in bidding for a Dempsey versus Carpentier world heavyweight title fight. He favors staging the bout in Paris, with Rickard ready to advance half the capital and share profits or losses.
London dispatch says John Oliver Arnold of Sheffield University has invented a new steel far ahead of existing high speed steel. The Daily Mail reports American interest and US efforts in molybdenum deposits, and notes restrictions under the defense act. Arnold allegedly holds patents in England and the U S while facing censorship on details.
In New York on December 17 merchants and sales managers from across the country endorsed a government proposal urging dry goods retailers to hold economy sales in January and February to ease the cost of living. the meeting was convened by the National Retail Dry Goods Association.
A French soldier posing as a Belgian captain demanded German police help to seize three officers and lock up a bank staff. He then looted one million marks from the vault before being pursued and captured by police.
In a morning nursery scene Yellow Tiger disappears stirring alarm among toys. Lady Jane Grey the rag doll questions the missing toy as the old rag lion laments its absence and insists proper toys belong in their places by sunrise.
A promotional piece by De. Valentine Mott Pierce urges busy men to use Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and Anuric to purge toxins from the intestines and kidneys. It links laxatives and anti uric acid therapy to relief from headaches, backache, lumbago, rheumatic pains and gout, promising renewed health.
At a three day meeting in Washington the American Legion urged Congress to act quickly on policies affecting veterans and the War Risk Insurance program. Delegates warned that inadequate laws backlog injustices and threaten future pension burdens on taxpayers.
New Haven Conn December 17 The Yale executive committee approved the 1920 football committee as appointed by Captain John T Callahan Three members were not reappointed Walter Camp 80 a longtime Yale football adviser and 1878 79 gridiron star Vance McCormick 1905 former Democratic National Committee chairman and one of Americas economic delegates at the peace conference and Joseph R Swan 1902 were not kept on the committee Brink Thorne 1896 of New York is named chairman of the new committee
Jack Dempsey plans to box Willie Meehan in San Francisco on December 11 as a buildup before facing Georges Carpentier. Meehan recently defeated Gunboat Smith per an announcement by Dempsey manager Jack Kearns.
Emma Goldman waives her right to appeal deportation to Russia with Alexander Berkman and about 80 other radicals. She told counsel she expects deportation within ten days and plans to organize a “Russian friends of American freedom” in Soviet Russia after arrival.
Washington dispatches report that the Mexican government has not sent a response to the second American note demanding the release of Consular Agent Jenkins. Officials say there is no word that the reply has been handed to George Summerlin, the American chargé d affaires in Mexico City.
The North Dakota democratic state central committee rejected a proposal to call a convention to select delegates. Delegates will be chosen at the state primary on March 16 where a presidential candidate will be indorsed.
The Sol in Madrid devotes a leading editorial to Spain's most dangerous position in history due to social unrest. It protests employer lockouts in building trades and a street car company refusal to grant higher pay and better working conditions as workers strike.
Thirteen individuals were arrested in St Nazaire on December 17 charged with large scale thefts from American army stocks. A clearing-house operated to dispose of the goods, with portions recovered from more than 50 homes. Jail space proved insufficient, sending some prisoners to Rennes.
A Bolshevist statement received from Moscow claims the capture of Kiev and the occupation of Kupiansk southeast of Kharkov. The report, dispatched by wireless, dates from December 17.
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