08 Feb 1928
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1928
Page
1
Manufacturers' representatives entertain dealers at a dinner as part of a buoy day event. Talks are delivered by several prominent men, highlighting the occasion and organizations involved.
A 14 officer federal narcotics team raided three Butte locations before 2 am arresting nine men including white, Chinese, and a negro. Names listed include Jew Joe, Frank Rivet, William Madden, H Morse, Pete Cochrane, W Chung, Hum Lee, Wes Maloney and Laurence Quan. Several face drug selling charges as raids continue.
The Department of Agriculture announced a 50 percent rise in grazing fees for national forest ranges. A quarter of the increase took effect January 1, 1928, with equal annual increments through 1931. Dan Casement, an appointed appraiser, helped set the new rates. Average fees will be 15.1 cents for cattle and 4.6 cents for sheep.
Joe Halloran of Halloran & Bennett Motor Co. braved smoke and collapsing walls to rescue Mr. and Mrs. J. Trevanic and their eight year old daughter Ethel from their Harvard Street residence before it burned to the ground. Neighbors aided as the house collapsed after the fire was detected around 2 am. The Trevanics were taken to a nearby location for medical attention.
Rumors of an epidemic in Butte and Silver Bow county were denied by health officials. There are five current cases with 17 since January and a total of ten city and seven county cases, with deaths six and four respectively. authorities saw no need to close schools and city physician Dr Joe Kane checked local schools and found health conditions very good.
Washington Feb 17 The senate debated a resolution by Senator La Follette to record the chamber against more than two terms for a president. He said the move aimed to thwart a Coolidge renomination amid party forces drafting the president. Administration forces led by Senator Bingham resisted as a political gesture to block renomination.
Morning program includes reports from special committees and addresses by R B Bowden and Nlew Soule with final discussions and new business. Afternoon session opens with president led business and includes selecting convention city for 1928 and a talk by G W Spahr. Evening banquet at New Hotel Finlen features music and a toast by Bowden.
The twentieth annual Montana Implement and Hardware Dealers association convention closes tonight at the New Finlen hotel with Ray Bowden as toastmaster and a banquet. Sessions today will hear officer recommendations adopt resolutions electing 1929 convention host city, and officers for the new year. Hamp Williams speaks again and G. W. Spahr discusses western beginnings. Delegates toured Anaconda’s smelter after a morning session.
Calexico, Feb. 7. Harry Bush celebrated his 104th birthday by driving his car into an irrigation canal and escaped injury. Before the judge he quipped that the first 100 years are the hardest. After a small fine from a roll of over $1,000 he was allowed to go on his way.
Governor J W Erickson told Butte lawyers he cannot remove J Burke Clements chair of the industrial accident board, urging amendment of the law instead. He said board discretion in settlements is legislative, not executive, and noted lump sum policy favors injured workers but can benefit lawyers too. The Silver Bow Bar urged Clements' resignation after two hours of argument.
In Washington the Senate and House paused after a flurry of bills. La Follette's resolution urged backing the tradition against a presidential third term and appealed to President Coolidge, as debate meandered across central political ground.
Beloved servants laid Field Marshal Earl Haig to rest at Dryburgh Abbey in Edinburgh Scotland after a solemn funeral procession from St Boswells. Thousands watched as the coffin draped in the Union Jack traveled five miles on a farm cart drawn by a single horse. Pallbearers were Haig estate workers gamekeeper butler gardeners and grooms. The graveside service was simple with the local choir singing Onward Christian Soldiers and Haig buried near Sir Walter Scott.
The Panama Canal drew the greatest international focus at the Pan American conference. Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher urged that the United States’ core interest is protecting the canal as a vital maritime artery. The aviation convention was adopted after his assertion that US aims include keeping the canal open to world shipping.
Reports from Mexico City detail a raid between Guadalajara and Manzanillo on Sunday. Fourteen Mexican rebels were killed and fourteen captured and executed, while five federal soldiers were severely wounded as a train car was blown up. Federal planes then bombed the attackers, who dispersed.
The annual Montana high school basketball tournament will be moved from Bozeman to Butte for one year. Games run March 7 to 10 in the Montana School of Mines gym with R B Bowden leading planning efforts. Next year the event returns to Bozeman under State College auspices.
Washington officials move reception schedule for French aviators Dieudonne Costes and Joseph Lebrix after weather delays their flight from Montgomery Alabama to Washington as part of their Paris to Washington Air Voyage A luncheon in their honor at the White House is planned for Friday with formal introduction to the president by French ambassador Paul Claudel on Thursday
Memorial services for 13 Butte Knights of Columbus council No 668 members who died in the past year were held at the lodge rooms on West Park street. Grand Knight John Cullerton led a brief session followed by Frank E Blair delivering a eulogy urging charity beyond race creed or color and pledging rededication to service. The deceased were M F GILLIGAN Martin J Cullerton John Q Gleason M J Walsh William Gleason B M Favero Harold Egan John G Holland Charles F OBrien Richard Pierce Francis E OToole Frank J Sennett and M J Roeder.
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