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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1919
Page
8
Ite Simonson chaired the Silver aid of commissioners as they traveled to Helena to attend a meeting of the state organization of county commissioners. Members will remain seven days, aiming to promote desired legislation during the upcoming state legislature in the capital next week.
Vladivostok reports the Kolchako government lifts the vodka prohibition starting with the new year. The measure allows manufacture and sale of vodka, ending the prior ban and signaling a shift in policy. Local officials note economic relief and expected market normalization.
The czar declares a war financing scheme using high excise taxes to fund the new army. Private subscriptions totaled millions of rubles by Dec 31, 1918. Mobilization targets include boys aged 19 and 20 and officers, set for Jan 15, 1919.
In police court yesterday morning W H Shauft was fined 10 for a disturbance accused of assaulting Edith Carton who bears a black eye. Carton, his housekeeper, claimed she confronted him over a jug he hid as saloons closed. He refused to pay the fine and sought vagrancy charges against her, resulting in 10 days in jail for Carton.
The People's Congregational church held its annual business meeting amid post ban losses. A 1919 financial plan was adopted and a $300 yearly salary increase for the pastor was approved. Officers elected include Trustees James McCourt Walter F Gieffels Miss Eiga M Shearer and W S Swift clerk treasurer Prof Charl S Schilz pianist Miss Marguerite Morris deacons J W McLean and W S Swift. Sunday school to elect officers tomorrow and its offering will aid Armenian and Syrian relief.
Broadway hosts this week’s Pantages bill featuring Leroy, Talma and Bosco in Oriental Mysteries and several praised numbers. A furniture of fur hats and cabaret sketches like Last Drop add variety as critics hail the circuit’s strongest shows in years.
The Maid of Americ House starring Will Stanton offers humor and lifelike scenes. Gervais Leroy, Pierrot, Milo. Talma leads with The Vanishing Canary illusion. Amelia in three scenes and seven tableaux follows, plus The Magic Water. The Iron Test returns with new episodes and current events reels.
Deputies W E Splan and J B Tait of Great Falls traveled to Butte from Warm Springs after returning with patient Mike Seal from the state hospital. Splan has served under Sheriff Lou Kommers, a Republican, while Tait is a veteran railroad man. Both will continue in their posts as Sheriff Burns, a Democrat and former Great Northern conductor, readies to assume office next week.
The Ansonia presents Oh Johnny with Louis Bennison in the stellar role drawing strong Butte theatergoer praise and likely packed houses when the show returns, as Ira Lowry’s direction promises consistent laughs, amid wholesome fun and human interest in today’s final performances. In a separate dispatch from Lima, Peru, unrest against Peruvians continues per unofficial reports, with steamships arriving at Mollendo and Peruvian refugees arriving along the coast.
The Matsonia brought 207 officers and men mostly from the West to New York, with 140 wounded, 89 bedridden, sent to Camp Merritt New Jersey. Units included 694 men of the 1434 field artillery and 58 officers with 1,440 men of the 144th field artillery. The Fortieth and Fortleth depot divisions included troops from Colorado Utah Arizona New Mexico and California. The Siboney arrived shortly after with 3,264 officers and men, 325 wounded. Other units and details follow in transit summaries.
Paris reports note Italian observers urge consideration of Italian interests in Syria and Armenia as the peace conference weighs the eastern question. While debate over Asia Minor and allied powers continues, expectations vary on a general principle versus case by case decisions, with Syria's future central to discussions at Marseilles. Armenian support for an international protectorate contrasts with talks of a single power protectorate.
London reports from German and Scandinavian sources claim Britain pressed Germany to halt Bolshevik advances and retake Valk and Viendin or face Entente invasion, though no official confirmation exists. Separately, the Dutch steamer Tulwandar ran aground near Fort Delaware with 70 enlisted men and 18 officers aboard. all men relocated.
Secretary Daniels approves a New York Joan of Arc committee plan to fire a naval salute from a warship in New York harbor on January 6, marking the 507th anniversary of Joan of Arc's birth. The tribute follows committee wishes and official endorsement.
Washington on January 3 reports the War Department announces almost the entire Forty first Sunset Division is ordered home for convoy. The list includes the 161st, 164th, 1624 and other units totaling over 500 officers and 16,000 men from states Washington Oregon Montana Idaho and Wyoming. Also listed are brigades battery units trains squadrons and ambulance and water units.
Lord Jean deputy director of armies told a Montreal audience that educational work among British troops was the most astonishing feature of the war. He said it was the largest school in the world before the armistice and continued after, with 72,000 books sent to France and demands for 2,000,000 pencils weekly. Over 60 subjects are taught and many soldiers study technical subjects for post-war rehabilitation.
In Warsaw on Tuesday December 31 Premier Andr we Moraczewski voiced support for creating an international port at Danzig. He urged Polish renewal with ethnic autonomy for Jews but stressed Polish civic duties and ownership of territories ethnographically deemed theirs, including Lithuania, amid tensions with Russia and Germany.
Washington January 3 by unanimous vote the senate military committee rejected Secretary Bakers recommendations to validate informal war contracts and authorize their adjustment by the war department. The committee ordered Senator Hitchcock's bill reported favorably, legalizing such contracts but placing adjustments with a non interested commission.
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