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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1916
Page
1
Prime news item reports Ford returning attack on Allies while proposing new ideas at Saloniki camp. Piv anchor of peace claims orders issued to German and Austrian troops, signaling updated directives amid tensions.
Henry Ford arrived back after leading a peace expedition that left December 4 aboard the steamship Oscar to seek a neutral nations conference. He said progress would be slow and stressed that his aim remains to promote peace, not personal glory, amid ongoing European conflict and a broadened Russian campaign in Bessarabia.
In the page notes Teo warns for Persia while Justice Joseph KR Lamar is reported dead. Henry Ford arrives home as war coverage centers on Greece. Montana figures confess he worked there amid snowbound car failures and local housing demand rises in Butte. Congress plans to convene, war outlook widens, and censorship fears surface alongside theater and mining items.
A severe storm lashed San Francisco with winds near 72 mph off Point Reyes and 80 mph at Port Townsend, wrecking plate glass, sinking windows, and causing injuries and one fatality. A Los Angeles visitor, Henry Chilson, died after being struck by debris. Ferry traffic was disrupted as heavy seas threatened lower decks and prayers filled passenger areas.
London January 3 The Chronicle reports Sir John A Simon secretary of state for home affairs resigns from the cabinet ending a rapid and brilliant career after early service as solicitor general and attorney general He joined parliament in 1906 and chose a political path over high office during coalition era remaining home secretary after preferring politics to the post of chancellor of the exchequer
George Lee Thorne, alias multiple names, told Portland police of a decade as a forger, stock broker, and promoter netting 25 000 to 60 000 dollars. He claimed operations across multiple cities including Seattle, Los Angeles, Missoula, Cheyenne, and Chicago, and said he studied at the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons before a varied Army stint.
Justice Joseph Rucker Lamar, associate justice of the U S Supreme Court, died at his home in Washington after months of illness from heart failure and lung inflammation. Born October 14 1857 in Burkeville Georgia he was appointed by Taft in 1910 and had served five years on the bench. He was survived by his wife and two sons Philip and William.
An Athens dispatch says 9 percent large transports full of troops arrived in the Gulf of Oriano and began disembarking at once. The report is unconfirmed.
London January 2 1916 government and trades unions including the Amalgamated Society of Engineers announce after a Friday meeting with Premier Asquith and David Lloyd George that the government will concede to all union demands in exchange for immediate adoption of Lloyd Georges labor dilution scheme by munitions ministers and officials.
Paris reports Greece lodged a protest with the German minister at Athens against air attacks on Salonika. A Telegram from Athens to Reuters notes tensions with Entente allies over consular arrests and a cabinet meeting signaling a delicate situation as central powers weigh next moves.
Twenty persons are injured in a blaze at a vesuctins building in Philadelphia. Nine or more are said to be seriously hurt with two possibly dying and three missing believed to have fled or burned to death. The fire gutted the basement and damaged upper floors, with residents nearby aiding in evacuations as investigators probe a cigarette as the likely ignition source.
Unconfirmed reports from El Paso dated January 2 state Francisco Villa was killed yesterday by troops led by General Eduardo Ocarranza in the Bata Madres mountains near Casas Grandes. Carranza officials have not confirmed the rumor. The dispute between Ocarranza and Villa over the Agua Prieta attack is cited, with Ocarranza reportedly near Guaymas when Villa was defeated at Hermosillo.
Berlin reports Bulgaria arrested the French vice-consul at Sofia in retaliation for the Bulgarian consul's arrest at Saloniki. The vice-consul stayed in Sofia with government permission to assist the Dutch minister handling French interests.
London reports unofficial dispatches say the British steamer Persia, sunk in the Mediterranean Thursday, was torpedoed without warning and sank in five minutes. About 158 survivors landed at Alexandria, and American agent Robert N. McNeeley of Aden is believed drowned. Charles H. Grant of Boston survived.
Survivor accounts describe a rapid sinking in minutes after a surprise attack south of Crete. About 40 miles from land, the vessel went down with little warning as lifeboats were launched and men scrambled to abandon ship. A warship later rescued some survivors at around ten twenty hours.
A correspondent reports the ship was struck amidships on the port side at 1 10 p m surveillance shows most survived after a brief panic. the captain drowned and the liner disappeared beneath the waves. Reports place Mr Geant at Alexandria and the steamship company notes 90 50m of Mr McNeeley’s estate. Howard Reserve Denver left the Persia at Guralri as previously reported.
Washington officials voiced anxiety over the torpedoing of the steamship Persia with American citizens unaccounted for. Baron Zweldingk said Vienna would seek a satisfactory adjustment if an Austrian submarine violated orders. Consul McNeeley at Aden listed as missing and survivors reported, with calls for a careful, diplomatic response as officials weigh duty and possible German-Austrian involvement.
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