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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1917
Page
9
London dispatch reports Cossacks and infantry capturing Rostov on Monday with rear guards surrendering General Kaldenins. Hetman Kaldenins proposes Don territory independence and non intervention by the Maximalists to end civil strife.
London reports ten killed and seventy injured in last night's air raid with five additional injuries outside the city. The War Office confirmed one German plane was brought down and another believed destroyed after raiders, numbering 16 to 20 in six groups, attempted to reach London and dropped bombs on the capital.
Secretary Daniels testifies to Congress detailing naval assets and funding. He cites 424 ships in build, including battleships and destroyers, plus 850 submarine chasers and small craft. He notes 1,000 ships in commission, 250,000 personnel, and a request for 86 million dollars in additional funds for the next fiscal year.
Mr Pollen argues Whitehall must embrace a new order as American destroyers bolster British operations in the war theater. He cites three distinguished American officers Sims Mayo and Benson and praises American professional input shaping command methods. He notes North Sea raids reveal rarity rather than frequency of German successes.
Washington December 19 The war service committee to promote economical operation of selling agencies and garages was decided upon at a conference between A W Shaw chairman of the commercial economy board and representatives of retail distributor organizations. The committee will be one of the service bodies of the United States Chamber of Commerce and will represent 0,000 dealers and garage owners.
New York dispatch quotes Police Inspector Dillon on 800 city draft slackers rounded up nationwide as a psychological study. He defines a slacker as a coward who does not resist arrest, while those who resist would not be slackers. Washington reports Czchs and Slovacs from the United States join a Czech Slovac legion fighting with the Allies.
Ely McIntyre held by federal authorities in Silver Bow Jail for 49 days faces deportation to Canada this afternoon. Immigration Inspector Thomas Topping says McIntyre was convicted of stealing a Mont and taking it into Canada where it was disposed of. He received an indeterminate penitentiary sentence and was later arrested on a departmental warrant. An order for deportation was issued after a hearing and records were reviewed in Washington. Grounds cite offenses prior to reentry and recent internment lists in New York harbor.
Following a Dec 13 ruling, Butte health boards require all school personnel and attendees to show vaccination certificates proving three doses of smallpox vaccine with no adverse reaction. The requirement applies when schools resume after Christmas holidays, per notices from W F Coxswell, secretary of the state board of health, to school authorities.
Henry Schneider a German jeweler has been interned at Eilts Inland as an alien enemy and Henry Heuer a German grocer is under guard at his home. Ill with pneumonia and federal agents found a wireless outfit in Heller's barn with government seals broken. Slips of paper alleged to show movements of transports and troops. The wireless outfit was confiscated.
Butte Council ends a rigid smallpox quarantine under a 10 to 2 vote. Health officials explain vaccination is the key and after Jan 1 1918 no child can attend school without vaccination or an immunity certificate. Aldermen Fletcher Corey and Brendenstein to work with the state board on eradication. Fire department captain salaries raised to 2740 dollars annually.
Pierre December 19 United States Commissioner Whitcher set bonds at 5000 dollars for George Isenhuth a prominent Huron SD businessman after he was charged with seditional utterances authorities said the case awaits further action in federal court.
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