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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1919
Page
1
Lawmakers consider a plan to authorize one hundred million dollars for educational work and disease combat through medical research. The aim is to aid millions of American children described as starving or malnourished and in need of improved welfare programs.
The Mexican feminist council adopted protest resolutions against the Reformed Childhood Conservation League of the United States. It accuses backers of aiming for intervention, urges Mexicans to handle their own reconstruction and to aid only through Mexican institutions.
Inmates at Elko county poor farm received a festive visit from the Butte lodge of Elks. A Christmas program featured songs by James Murphy and others, with a lighted tree and stockings distributed to male inmates and gifts to women. Children from the cold area attended the gathering.
John D. Rockefeller announced a Christmas gift totaling 100 million dollars. Half funds the general education board to raise college professors' salaries and half supports the Rockefeller Foundation to improve medical education public health and research. The combined gifts bring his estimated public gifts to about 450 million, with potential allocations including 5 million set aside to promote medical education in Canada.
Elihu Root filed a bill of complaint in federal court as chief counsel for Christian Feigenspan seeking an injunction to stop U S District Attorney Bodine and Internal Revenue Collector Duffy from enforcing the Prohibition law. The suit calls the Volstead Act and the eighteenth amendment unconstitutional. It argues the amendment exceeds congressional power, violates states’ rights, and is mere legislation.
Helena December 21 coal shipments slowly move in the state under state fuel administrator M. H. Gerry Jr. The warm weather aids handling and reduces demand, but overall conditions remain far from satisfactory.
Heavy rains flood northeastern France forcing Remiremont factories to close and lift water above Belfort bridges, damaging property and disabling wires. The Nancy Victory statue toppled by wind. Offshore storms wreck fishing vessels and drownings are reported. In Madrid and Barcelona, the labor lockout leaves thirty thousand masons unemployed.
Gen. John J. Pershing became a member of the American Legion at Lincoln Nebraska receiving card number one. He attended an automobile parade to a sister’s home and refused comment on a sign reading Pershing for President. He planned a quiet Christmas with relatives after the induction.
The burial for Rev. W. W. Van Orsdel D D pioneer Methodist Episcopal missionary who died last week in Great Falls took place in Helena with a large interfaith service. Clergy and public figures including Gov Stewart and pastors from Helena Bozeman Townsend Whitehall Thompson Falls and Chinook attended as pallbearers and honorary mourners.
In Middletown Connecticut nine patients unaccounted after a hospital blaze search found a single bone fragment but no remains of the others. Dr R L Leek said the missing patients were likely burned to ashes as investigators combed the ruins.
R. B. Russell a leading figure in Winnipeg's general strike was found guilty here today on all seven counts of seditious conspiracy in the Manitoba court.
Butte marks with free children’s show at Rialto at 9 30 am and special church services. W A Clark IT and American Legion Auxiliary fund gifts at Paul Clark home. National Catholic War Council feeds 50 ex service men and hosts feast. Broadway presents Oh Boy. Jashers club funds holiday feasts for families. Chinese mission holds 8 pm celebration. Curling at the Butte Curling Club. All stores offices and industries close for the day.
A wild car on Harrison avenue near the Englewood cafe flooded the block after crashing a fire hydrant and breaking a Cadillac's axle. The water main burst, trapping store occupants for over an hour while the vehicle rested on the water plug. John Peterson was arrested on disturbance charges.
In Newark New Jersey Mrs Mary Tolicaster 76 and her hospitalized husband bought coffins a year ago saying they planned for their deaths to avoid burdening others. Firemen found two empty coffins when they entered the couple's apartment to extinguish a small fire.
Gen Tasker H Bliss American representative on the supreme War council says Europe must aid in organizing and maintaining a stable German government. He spoke in Washington as world events align fate of Europe with Germany and urged cooperation among nations.
Major Armstrong testified he commanded 2,200 MPs in Le Mans from August 1918 to January 1919 and 1,000,000 Americans passed through. He cited 25 murders and numerous chateaux robbed as lawless elements used women as decoys in the killings and robberies.
Vienna reports Christmas gifts of one loaf per person. Officials promise slightly better bread quality this year despite physicians warning of an intestinal disease epidemic linked to the prior bad bread consumed recently.
Helena reports that five banks accepted 10,900 dollars in warrants for the veterans' welfare fund, while banks in Butte and Bozeman contributed 15,000 dollars more.
In Louisville Kentucky a shipment of about 30 000 barrels destined for Philadelphia began yesterday to move by solid trains. The whiskey valued at 7 060 600 dollars is described as likely the last export before the constitutional prohibition takes effect on January 16 1920.
Washington dispatch says Americans began Christmas celebrations in a pre war mood, embracing a peace de facto as the holiday arrives with wartime tensions easing in daily life.
A site of 16 acres near Dayton Montana on Flathead Lake was chosen for a Mary Grove Summer Home for the YWCA of America. Mary Grove of John Bay Oregon and Lucile Stoner of Washington DC led the site search. The home will be named Mary Grove in honor of the first board president and will serve as a regional playground for members across the United States.
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