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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1920
Page
1
Women arrive in New York bearing marks of torture and recount horror filled experiences. Their stories describe injuries to health and enduring trauma gathered from the perilous journey and famine they endured.
Varta Rousch Karagheustan, a 20 year old Armenian girl scarred by Turkish deportations, meets her brother John Hagheusian in Minneapolis after twelve years. She arrived with Near East relief worker Taguls Mays, having endured severe privations and a red thumb tattoo identifying her as a slave. The emotional reunion follows harrowing travel from home to Aleppo and back to America.
DoJ officials report mass arrests in Chicago and vicinity with about 609 suspects taken into custody over two days. Prosector Hoyne says 30 communists and labor party members are turned over to state authorities as raids target the W. W. and affiliated groups. Individuals include Donald Mt. Crocker editor Jack Russell and Anne Gallagher, all linked to communist or radical publications.
Chicago January 3. More than 300 retail coal dealers distributing fuel in Chicago and vicinity sent a telegram to President Wilson. They say the current margin of profit since June 191% is inadequate to meet higher costs and request a federal official be appointed to investigate retail conditions. They accuse Attorney General Palmer and Director Hines of refusing to consider their complaints.
The Department of Justice says raids against radicals are nationwide, not limited to select cities. E W Byrne warns that strong measures will extend to all regions as officials follow explicit instructions to uproot soviet and bolshevik elements while deportations of radicals continue in Butte and other centers.
Los Angeles January 3 Two alienists testified for the defense in the trial of Harry New accused of murdering a young woman last July. Dr W B Hoag and Dr B C Sawyer described New as constitutionally interior with suggestible traits, paranoid symptoms and feeble mindedness, while Hoag said feigning insanity is possible only if the man is very bright, brighter than the defendant.
In Columbus Ohio the United Mine Workers gathering begins Monday with officers arriving. Some expect the national executive committee to gain authority to sign a wage contract based on the president's investigation commission findings. Delegates weigh the president's settlement proposal amid radical opposition and renewed orders to return to work.
Paris gossip today centers on Premier Clemenceau potentially marrying untess d Aunay widow of a former French ambassador. Reports claim a recent marriage in England occurred but officials deny any foundation. The countess is said to come from an American family.
Federal agents report radical leaders planned to expand recent steel disturbances into a general strike and revolution to overthrow the government. The sweep targeted communist and communist labor groups, with a secret slush fund and immigration memos cited as evidence of a nationwide conspiracy among miners and urban workers.
Federal agents and police intensified a dragnet against radicals in greater New York with over 300 warrants and about 700 prisoners captured in 24 hours. Detainees were transported to Ellis Island as the immigration station operated at capacity, while ships carried radicals and other alleged undesirables from the area to ports.
Chicago January 3 Republican preparatory conferences open Monday for the national convention. Midwestern leaders and the arrangements committee will meet with Will Hays. A dinner by the Illinois state central committee to Hays is planned, with women’s advisory hosts. Two presidential hopefuls have accepted invitations.
Chicago January 8 Sheriff Peters announced another death show will be staged at the county jail next Friday. Within a month more than one inmate will be forced to witness an execution as Arthur Haensel, convicted of murder, is slated to hang. Critics rose after last Friday's hangings as about 200 prisoners cowered in their cells, but the sheriff called it a great moral lesson for the prisoners, claiming all but one promised to lead better lives.
Three youths from Chicago arrive in Butte on a supposed elk hunt and are jailed after a blanket theft attempt. They allegedly carried a revolver and cash registers checks, with George Brown acting as cashier and Michael Laskowsti admitting money taken from his father’s box. Chief Murphy intervened as the group prepared to leave for the mountains, while railway fare and $53.10 in checks are noted among the consigned items.
In a ruling by Superior Judge R M Webster the court issued a permanent injunction making it contempt to advocate or teach IWW principles. The order targets John Grady and about thirty others facing charges or already imprisoned for criminal syndicalism, prohibiting advising teaching or circulating propaganda for the IWW and barring any distribution of such material.
A rock slide at Alatka near Front Street in Juneau destroyed several buildings and a boarding house where Henry Fastirle Gale and others lived. Two were injured, one died within hours. The wreckage covered about 908 feet of terrain, with much of the area damaged by the landslide.
A correspondent describes the former emperor at Doorn as corpulent yet diminutive in stature, speaking slowly but lively when recalling old days. The writer notes visible spiritual distress and doubt he will resume public life, suggesting the Kaiser appears broken and has bought Doornhouse signifying no return.
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