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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1927
Page
3
Three Butte hospitals plan holiday programs for Christmas 1927 including trees gifts and meals for patients at St James Murray and Deaconess hospitals. Nurses homes will receive trees and festive activities with singing programs and patient access to relatives after events.
A miner, facing a hard year, stole about five dollars worth of toys and candy from a merchant to ensure his children could have a Christmas. The storekeeper paused an arrest, offering the goods back to help, hoping the gesture might spark belief in Santa Claus.
Miss Agnes Davis of Denver and Wilbur W. Evans of Philadelphia won the Atwater Kent audition contest sponsored by the Butte Radio club. They each receive 5000 dollars and two years of conservatory tuition. Davis becomes understudy to Louise Hunter in Golden Dawn, Evans becomes general male understudy in the same production.
Navy salvage operations battle rough seas to raise the submarine S-4 after a collision. Pontoons from New London and Brooklyn were delayed by wind. divers report a large hole in the forward torpedo section. Officials fear many crewmen perished while rescuers await calmer weather and additional pontoons.
The submarine S-4 rolled over and sank bow first after the destroyer Paulding struck it near Cape Cod on December 17. Ensign George Phannemiller described seeing the periscope and conning tower before the crash as the Paulding cornered the sub at full speed. The coast guard cutter Tampa issued a statement noting good visibility and weather with no sighting of any crew aboard the U. S. submarine during the incident.
Indications of life aboard the S-4 emerged when the S-8 reported the sub had answered oscillating signals. Divers were lowered from the Falcon Lark and Mallard to inspect the vessel as rescue efforts continued amid rough seas.
A set of questions asks who I am and what work made me known in Europe, my home state, and details from history. It covers the Battle of Tours leader, the Socrates-like figure executed by hemlock, the American diplomat behind a 1778 treaty, the first Atlantic steamboat, and a Bible verse location. Answers appear on page 4.
Chicago papers identify Lucky Kelly Calcott as Charles Beresford Calcott a 19 year old machinist mate aboard the S-4 wreck off Goat Island in the Pacific. New York reports describe an emergency signaling oscillator on the sunken submarine 8-4 a drumlike shell attachment vibrating a grating sound detectable about 200 yards via a microphone connected to another vessel.
Navy diver Thomas Eady reported life signs in the forward compartment of the submarine S14 near Provincetown Mass during a 90 minute inspection. He hammered the hull and received responses from within while noting a large hole amidships under the conning tower.
An unnamed driver crashed an enclosed car into a telegraph pole near the street car crossing in Anaconda late last night. The fleeing driver abandoned the scene after the wreck. The vehicle, registered to William Nagel of 2035 Florence, was towed to storage per police reports.
The Senate special investigating committee may seek papers from offices in Mexico City to verify documents alleging a $1,215,000 slush fund for four U.S. senators. Hearings were postponed to December 27 as the panel reviews the evidence and admits no conclusions yet.
Mrs Gustave A Meyers 58 of 724 North Excelsior died at 8 PM after a four year illness in a local hospital. Born in Freeport Illinois she came to Butte 23 years ago with her plumber husband. A Tirzah Temple Daughters of the Nile member she was active in fraternal and civic work. Surviving are her husband a sister in Freeport and a brother in Aurora Illinois. Body to White mortuary funeral arrangements incomplete.
Oklahoma City dec 18 guardsmen patrol the capitol while the self convened house meets away from the chambers. court decisions looming on a permanent injunction to block the governor from meeting and possible charges of moral turpitude against Governor Johnston.
The Terminal building and the Terminal drug store at Dakota and Park streets opened to hundreds over the weekend drawing crowds to the new showroom. Visitors receive pound boxes of Wilson's candy with Owl Drug Company purchases and can enjoy coffee and wafers. The complex includes a pharmacy luncheonette bus depot and rest rooms for all, and officials invite residents to make it a city meeting place while awaiting streetcars.
Many Butte radio listeners received descriptions of a man who killed Marian Parker in Los Angeles. The Far West network coordinated with other stations nationwide to aid police in locating the suspect. Reports came in from Oakland Los Angeles San Francisco Seattle Portland and Chicago.
In Quebec thousands stood outside the St. Roch church with heads bare during funeral services for 36 girls from Hospice St. Charles orphanage who died in a fire. Fire authorities continue investigations as mourners gathered, and officials sought to honor the young victims despite crowding outside.
In Dacula Georgia Jim Deni field a 55 year old farmer and his 9 year old son John were found hacked to death in their house. Police believe robbers killed them one or two days earlier. The farmer's body lay inside the door with a blood stained handprint on the doorpost noted by neighbors and police found the boy in an adjacent room. The farmer often carried money, and his pockets had been rifled.
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