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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1919
Page
1
Anti trust suit against big five packers compromised Dudler agreement to be made binding. All their holdings in stockyards, railroads and terminals to be sold. Preferably to the public.
In Washington the government enforces a federal injunction against the great meat packers to end associations that restricted competition. The decree binds Swift Armour Morris Wilson and Cudahy to limits on meat and provision business as part of a wartime cost of living drive. The agreement aims to curb monopolistic control and place operations under federal court oversight.
L K Devlin, nominated by Senators Myers and Walsh, is appointed Montana federal prohibition director. He will organize the office, begin operations by January 16, and focus on enforcement, raids, and public education while remaining administrative not a police officer. He will coordinate with Denver, report suspected violations, and promote public interest in the prohibitions through chambers, churches, Y M C A s and other groups. He joined the first trio of prohibition directors and faces duties to divest stockyard and distribution interests and sever ties with unrelated lines, including meat distribution and many consumer goods, while submitting to court supervision and injunctions to prevent monopolistic activity.
Chicago, Dec. 18. Segregation or disposal of commercial lines not allied with meat and provision business by the five great packers and the United States attorney general will trigger a massive industry reorganization with assets over 1 billion dollars. The plan marks an epoch as big business yields to public opinion. Armour & Co. Swift & Co. Morris & Co. Wilson & Co. and Cudahy Packing Co. may no longer sit on controlling boards of the new corporations.
In Los Angeles on December 18 twelve jurors, all but two well past middle age, were sworn to hear the New murder case. Mrs. Alice Lesser, mother of the slain woman, testified through tears about her daughter’s love for New and his insistence on marrying promptly. The courtroom heard of their automobile trips and a final ride the day after a critical conversation, with Mrs. Lesser noting New’s apparent affection while expressing her own doubts.
Five year old James Buddy Blake washed ashore at Ventnor last Sunday and was found dead. The coroner's jury ruled his death occurred at the hands of his mother while she was mentally aberrant. Mrs Blake was under police guard at the city hospital and could not appear. Dr L R Souder testified she was mentally irresponsible.
New York dispatch reports Capt. Kurl W. Detzer of lemans crimes unit being accused of brutality against American Expeditionary Forces prisoners. Key testimony from Murray F. Phillips describes Detzer’s men robbing him of 5100 francs while confined. Phillips identifies U. S. Madden as the sergeant who received funds. further charges link Sgt. Hoyt and private Garbett to coerced confessions and alleged abuse at Governor’s Island.
Washington report details vast spoilage of tires worth over 35 million dollars and hundreds of motorcycles and assorted vehicles left in weather at the Verneuil France base. Capt Robert Clendening testified to a House committee on war department expenditures while other witnesses named neglect and mismanagement at Bourge and Pourge camps and accused Col. Hegeman and Lt Col Viner of inefficiency.
The city fuel administration plans to revoke the order that customers must place coal through its office and allow direct orders from dealers. Dealers may deliver unrestricted quantities while stocked, with the fuel administration still serving briefly to aid needy families and ensure prompt delivery for those able to pay. Diamondville mines are expected to continue normal industrial shipments to Butte, and overall the crisis is deemed passed though large 48 hour orders may be limited.
Federal Judge John C. Pollock sentenced 27 members of the Industrial Workers of the World to three to nine years in Leavenworth for conspiracy against the government. Twenty-eight members were affected. four fugitives from justice. Lyons will be sentenced later. Trial followed arrests in 1917 in Kansas and Oklahoma oil and harvest fields.
Washington December 18 tentative plans name Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts as temporary and permanent chairman of the Republican national convention. Some leaders favor former Senator Elihu Root for temporary chair but the single-chair plan first used in 1908 will likely continue in 1920.
Powell county stockman and former legislator John R. Quigley announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor at the Billings primaries next year.
North Dakota and Montana bank checks will be cleared through the Ninth district federal reserve bank on a par basis. R A Young governor of the Ninth district federal reserve bank in Minneapolis announced today.
Rev. M O D Barry, returning from five months in Ireland, accuses England of suppressing Irish self government. He cites 42 newspapers closed, raids on homes, outlawed speech, and restricted markets as evidence of civil law being replaced by military control and escalating Irish suffering. Continued on Page 11.
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