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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1924
Page
1
Flames engulfed the Babb Switch schoolhouse in Hobart Oklahoma as a Christmas program sparked panic. Heavy wire netting blocked exits, trapping parents and children inside while a single door could notlong be reached. By nightfall 32 bodies were recovered with fears others remain beneath the ruins.
President Coolidge and the first lady watched as a 40 foot spruce from the Adirondacks was lit with hundreds of colored globes at a White House Christmas ceremony. The crowd gathered on the White House grounds celebrated the national observance of Christmas Eve marking peace and goodwill.
Coast guard crews arrested 19 prisoners and seized a British schooner Patara with 7 crew and 6,000 cases of liquor after a 40 mile chase by cutters Raritan and Seneca near Jones Inlet. The Dick motor boat carrying 6 prisoners and 132 cases was captured 19 miles off Jones Inlet. All prisoners held on $1,000 bail.
Five men are known dead and about two hundred are homeless after a muck dam broke at Parmartown Virginia on the Holston River last night. The village near Saltville and Abingdon suffered heavy damage with many injuries reported as the floodwaters surged. Officials say heavy rain and rising water pressured the dam leading to the break.
Paris December 24 The amnesty bill returned from the deputies to the senate and caused Premier Herriot's government to be defeated by 11 votes 154 to 143 in a non confidence vote. The government did not resign. The remaining clauses passed and the bill returns to the chamber for a second time.
Washington reports Justice McKenna plans to resign soon causing a potential vacancy in the Supreme Court. The senior jurist, nearly 82, has served 27 years on the bench and 5 years as a federal circuit judge, with health issues and the loss of his wife influencing the decision.
Pope Pius XI proclaimed the twenty third holy year from the Vatican and performed the opening of St Peter's Basilica door with a gold hammer. The ceremony signals a year of religious events expected to draw millions of pilgrims to Rome from around the world.
A December California storm drove strong northeast winds across the Los Angeles region causing small craft to overturn and strand near San Pedro. A U.S. Mississippi seaplane was wrecked on the beach, two Medusa barges tossed on the breakwater, and the Idaho motor sailer capsized in the channel. Traffic to Catalina Island ceased for the first time in years.
About 600 bulging sacks of parcel post stood ceiling high in the Butte post office yesterday afternoon as workers jammed every inch of floor space to catch up. Cold weather tardy trains and late mailing caused the greatest congestion ever, with staff fully employed but only first class matter and special deliveries being handled until closing time.
The Butte mayor said the city's improved finances should not dampen holiday spirits. He noted reduced bonded and floating debt and lower interest charges, arguing such gains preserve taxpayer confidence during the current administration.
Elsie Sweetin was found guilty of poisoning her husband Wilford Sweetin and sentenced to 36 years in prison. Co defendant Lawrence M Hight received a life sentence. She cried she would have hung him and blamed an older man on the stand as she was taken back to jail amid Christmas shoppers.
A Christmas Eve blaze on the third floor of the Stamford Inn in Stamford Texas killed two children, with flames driven by a NW wind ravaging five adjacent houses. Firefighters from Stamford's volunteer department contained the blaze after half an hour, the fire likely starting from a Christmas tree.
Nearly 500 children from low income families attended a Salvation Army Christmas event at the citadel. They received a toy and a bag of candy and apples from Santa, while more than 150 Butte families benefited from baskets and meals. The effort supported widowed mothers, illness, accidents, and lonely seniors, with many baskets delivered to homes across the community.
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