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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1921
Page
1
A fragmentary military era headline notes U9 15 and Wobblies in New York planning action. References a Soviet connection and a crackdown or political organizing, with limited readable details of events or individuals.
New York Dec 26 Steve Butcher New Jersey delegate chaired a noisy session where a police billy served as gavel. The convention adopted a constitution for a workers’ republic movement and heard Comrade Bill Dunn of Montana discuss the Russian revolution, capitalism’s waning influence, and calls to free insular lands and end troop presence.
Detroi t police say a gas heater fumes suffocated an entire Mal family of five and two adults in their home on Christmas Eve. Gaetanio Mal, his wife Josephine, and children Philip 14 and John 3 were found beneath a partly decorated tree while others slept in beds.
Gen Francisco Reyna long active in Mexican revolutions was executed by firing squad in Nogales Sonora after being caught digging rifles saddles and ammunition near Canosa He and his chauffeur were arrested by Mexican soldiers and Reyna allegedly planned a January 1 uprising with 200 followers and had ties to other revolution leaders captured weeks earlier in Nogales Sonora
The California storm death toll reached six with three men killed in wind accidents and another believed drowned off Oakland. A couple died in a gas-related incident as their range flame blew out. daños exceed $100,000 in this region, with 11 bridges washed out and San Diego severed from rail and road links. In Arizona, Cave Creek floodwaters reached the Arizona canal area, threatening the Salt River irrigation system near Phoenix.
Debs holds talks with President Harding and Attorney General Daugherty at the White House after release from prison. No formal statement was issued following the meeting.
Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs, freed from a ten year espionage sentence by Christmas commutation, arrived in Washington from Atlanta and urged President Harding and Attorney General Daugherty to support universal prisoner liberty. He vowed to devote himself to prisoner freedom and discussed his principles with the White House. He was met by relatives, labor figures, and reporters, and planned to stay through tomorrow for further talks.
James Bamber, who arrived in Virginia City in 1868 and later mined across the West, died after a long illness in Bozeman. Born in England in 1839, he traveled from the Yukon to Siberia, California, Arizona, Mexico, and the Middle West before settling in Gallatin County, Montana. The obituary notes his wide mining fame and long Western wanderings. In Chicago, Prohibition Director Roy Haynes plans to bring 100 experts to aid authorities in the new year with a strong bone-dry push.
An American viewpoint notes a Christmas festival held by the Christian Chinese in Butte at the Chinese Baptist mission on 24 West Mercury Street. The Little Mission, founded in 1891, was crowded with congregants and curious whites aiding in the event with limited English portions and occasional interpreters.
In Omaha Nebraska on December 26 striking packing plant workers openly defied police. Two men were arrested after assaulting officers and attempting to free prisoners. Police reported crowds threatened to release detainees and bayonets were used to clear streets for blocks.
On December 26 Mrs Loretta Thebald, 21, of Sioux, was killed and P. 1 Badly Injured when a car carrying Sheridan, his wife, and Mrs Thebald skidded seven miles north of here. Sheridan was thrown clear and unhurt. Mrs Thebald and Loretta were trapped beneath the vehicle.
In Waubon, Iowa, Dep. zs.-Jacie Throst confessed slaying Miss Mise trea Magnuson a Dorchester schoolteacher. Judge H E Taylor set March 9 1923 as the hanging date after a guilty plea to first degree murder. Throst claimed mental imbalance, and execution was postponed for mental expert review.
Civil unrest flared in Belfast as about a dozen shots rang out in Louis Street this afternoon. Soldiers were dispatched to the scene and restored order with no reported injuries.
Washington dispatch reports the naval committee delaying its next session to July 28 to secure further instructions from Paris and Tokyo on the American compromise for submarine limits. France and Japan oppose the plan though Britain and the United States see it as a major concession. A world submarine conference is favored for 1928 and would be covered in the treaty guiding naval decisions.
Life termer at Leavenworth, Marry Kincaid, once a sergeant in an engineer detachment, received Christmas clemency from the warden, commuted to 15 years after a murder conviction from a court martial overseas. The case involved a gun battle with a rival soldier linked to a Joliet murder, amid inmate and officer popularity for Kincaid. Immigration officials arrived to custody for other prisoners awaiting clemency and possible deportation.
Rome December 26 King Victor Emmanuel conferred the title 'Baron' during the war. The title will be hereditary and pass to the lives of each generation of General Dias' descendants.
Washington Dec. 26. Officials from leading marine transport firms and the shipping board's subsidy committee plan a final meeting on Jan. 8 to review a tentative subsidy plan. The proposal combines direct aid via 10 percent customs diversion to U S operators and indirect aid through a $10 million revolving loan, with a broader loan fund of about $100 million for American flag ships.
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