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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1928
Page
1
In Shelby New Jersey on January 1 authorities led by Mayor W N Dorsey force and police barricaded city hall after a New Year crowd used explosives. Eleven men arrested as officers threatened further action while fireworks raged and a fire hose was used to quell hostilities until the celebration ended.
New York reporting from Manhattan on New Year celebrations ends with an abrupt tally of fatalities and injuries amid a chaotic scene. Early details indicate multiple victims and a continuing investigation, with more information promised on Page 2.
William Edward Hickman defense appears to lean on insanity as the basis for the case. Jerome Walsh and Joseph Ryan met Hickman in Los Angeles with three strangers. Walsh denied the trio were alienists though one stranger was a physician. The visitors sought an independent inquiry. Ryan may join the defense team.
J Pierpont Morgan is named chairman of United States Steel Corporation with Myron C Taylor as finance committee head, forming a three member triumvirate to run the $2.5 billion firm. Morgan, 60, leads J P Morgan & Co and sits on multiple major companies. Taylor, longtime New York lawyer and textile consolidator, serves as director of several railroads and banks.
New Year 1928 brought milder air to Butte after days of extreme cold. A heavy snowstorm trapped traffic and icy streets as temperatures rose from 32 below to 18 above between 4 Saturday morning and 5 last night.
Four railroads announced a two hour reduction in trip times between Chicago and Tacoma Portland and Seattle effective May 6. The North Coast Limited on the Northern Pacific the Oriental Limited on the Great Northern the Olympian on the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul and Union Pacific transcontinental trains will all run in 68 hours. The plan follows a heads of four roads meeting in Chicago Saturday.
The seventieth Congress will start its first session on Wednesday resuming after a two week recess. It will tackle flood control on the Mississippi river farm relief Muscle Shoals tax revision and alien property issues while pursuing investigations including the S-4 disaster and other inquiries into public utilities the Continental Trading company and wartime finance programs. The Senate plans to consider Norris proposed constitutional amendment to end lame duck sessions.
A mother fleeing with her infant toward safety was attacked by wolves near Malety, Latvia. The horse fell exhausted just as villagers were alerted, and the wolves devoured the baby while the mother suffered severe injuries.
Bob Barclay aged 36 of East Mercury Street is in St James hospital with a punctured lung broken rib scalp and forehead lacerations and severe bruises after a car driven by John McCarthy struck him near Main and Mercury streets early yesterday. Dr Leo Crowley treated him and his condition was grave last night according to sheriff's officers. McCarthy 65 West Aluminum said he was driving west on Mercury and nearly...
Chairman Oldfield of the Democratic National Committee criticized Secretary Mellon’s 1927 review and 1928 outlook. He cited justice department data showing 48,758 bankruptcies totaling 885,557,006 dollars, up from 1926, with farmers, wage earners, merchants and others affected.
Charles A. Lindbergh arrived at Ilopango field near San Salvador at 9 15 am after leaving Belize. A vast crowd greeted the aviator as the Spirit of St Louis landed in the Central American republic and he was escorted into the city amid wild acclaim.
In London Ontario on Jan 1 two boys James Compton 15 and Ronald Compton 10 rode a crumbling Thames floe toward a dam. Police and firemen hauled them to safety with a rope from a bridge after a long chase downstream. Fellow boy Frank Rustin 14 was rescued when his footing broke away.
The United States employment service predicts prosperity and full employment in 1928. Francis I. Jones says industry will rise to new highs with growth in automotive, iron and steel, and construction. Agriculture should improve though automation may displace some labor.
The Associated Press reports Chicago area sees 19 cold related deaths in two days as temperatures drop to 10 to 15 below zero. Snow drifts close highways and train routes, delaying buses and interurban lines across the region from the Rockies to the Texas frontier. The subzero spell is expected to last at least two more days before a break.
A party of Boy Scouts marooned in the Sierras by heavy snow since last Thursday reached Modesto California with three automobiles believed to be stranded in the snowdrifts. Scout executive Vernon Baird reported all the boys in good health and spirits after their dramatic escape and return home to tell the tale.
Fred Coryell a 37 year old Jefferson Island native and former Anaconda resident, is believed wounded in Nicaragua while serving as a gunnery sergeant in the Marine Corps. He enlisted in 1917 and saw action in Nicaragua and Central America, discharged 1919, later living at 504 East Commercial in Anaconda. His father George K. Coryell lives in Cody Wyoming.
The frozen body of 78 year old John Collins was found in a dilapidated shack near Butte’s eastern railroad yards on New Year’s Day. A hungry black cat remained by the sight as authorities suspect death from exposure after several subzero days. Collins had prospected in the camp decades earlier and had not been seen since Friday.
Walla Walla officials say A L Bidwell was killed by poison in his breakfast. His wife Bessie Mae Bidwell and her alleged lover Preston Rae Clark were arrested after neighbors reported their close relationship. Bidwell, a former telephone company worker, died Friday morning and Mrs Bidwell accused Clark of lacing hog brains with poison. Clark denied the charge.
Five officers and 150 marine enlisted men are ordered to Nicaragua aboard the Chateau Thierry, sailing from New York within days. The move follows Friday’s clash near Quilali that left five marines dead and 23 wounded, as the Navy and Marine Department vow an unprecedented campaign against the outlaws led by General Sandino.
Five Marines were killed and 23 wounded in a Friday clash with Sandino rebels near Managua. The dead include First Sergt. John E. Hempill and Corp. Adolph Theilwart. injured officers and men are named with hometowns across Illinois, New York, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Louisiana. The engagement is described as one of the costliest since the Marines landed, amid suspected foreign aid to the rebels.
Three firemen died and Fire Chief Nix was seriously injured as a blaze destroyed the Montgomery Carria4 works early today. The fire threatened the downtown area and caused extensive damage in Montgomery Alabama.
The 1927 fire year in Butte shows 306 fires with total losses about 153000 dollars. For first 11 months 267 fires caused 3390224 dollars in property value and 151335 dollars in losses. December fires added under 2000 dollars in loss, with insurance covering roughly 62.5 percent.
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