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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1923
Page
1
The report on the Committee on Committees outlines a shift away from immediate aggression toward Germany as the ROW develops. In the State Senate Carries by a narrow 27 to 25 vote.
Helena Jan 5 The Montana Senate opened with a clash as a move to segregate the report on taxation from the committee on taxation and judiciary failed 28 to 27. Senator Leuthold then renewed the motion to adopt the report and it passed, with Oliver signaling a forced reconsideration as the session adjourns. The fight resumes Monday with Senator Oliver promising further action.
The British debt funding commission will delay actual discussions with the American group until Monday after Secretary Mellon and Assistant Secretary Wadsworth met with Chancellor Baldwin and Montague Norman. The call to the treasury was deemed courtesy, though the visitors had spent a half hour with Mellon after a formal audience with President Harding.
The Associated Press reports Helena Montana will host a Distinguished Service Medal ceremony for Justice Albert Galen. General Graves and war department authorization set the torpedo ceremony at the Montana statehouse, with plans to decorate him on the capitol lawn if weather permits and otherwise in the capitol rotunda.
Special Dispatch to the Standard reports that if the omnibus public building bill passes this session it would include 450,000 for enlarging and remodeling the federal building at Butte due to space and congestion. The Interior relief bill fixes 555,000 for continuing the Flathead irrigation project, the largest since 1917, with other Montana reclamation funds listed for Sunriver Milk River Huntley and Lower Yellowstone. Senator Myers is cited for his role. Senator Walsh secures an amendment allowing construction split.
Five men face trial over the Herrin riots as thirteen defense witnesses testify they saw six prisoners driven to the cemetery and shot on June 22. Eyewitnesses from Herrin deny any of the defendants marching in the procession.
In Helena on January 5 the Democratic caucus announced an 11 member Legislative Committee to advise the minority on bill drafting. Senators Demel Stewart Peterson McQuitty and Representatives Carlson Pope Oker Lemmon Bosley Maury comprise the group, with Walter L. Pope named secretary. The panel will not sponsor or recommend bills, but aid in proper wording and form for measures.
First day of the probe into the Mer Rouge crime focuses on establishing the identities of two victims found in a lake. Police and investigators worked to confirm names, ages, and backgrounds as the case unfolded. Local officials urged patience while forensic work continued.
In Bastrop Louisiana the attorney general announces groundwork for a high profile inquiry into masked band outlays in Morehouse parish. Watt Daniels and T F Richards are identified from a wrist watch and clothing fragments recovered from Lake La Fourche after a dynamite explosion. Daniels's father testifies the watch was his keepsake from wartime and bears his name. A merchant, J J Mellwain, identifies trouser fragments matching material he sold to Daniels.
Five bandits, including Harry Dury of Sioux City, were caught after a bank vault robbery at the Sioux County Savings Bank in Maurice Iowa. A gunfight with a sheriff's posse left Dury seriously wounded and one bandit still at large. The captives are jailed in Orange City with earlier arrests of four others. A telegraph wire cut led train dispatcher J A Sherlock to summon help.
Helena January 5. Representative Lowndes Maury of Silver Bow introduces a measure to repeal the metropolitan police law and return police control to the mayor and city council. If favored, hiring and firing of officers would be handled locally. The move revives efforts from two years ago to abolish the law as affecting Butte more than other cities.
Federal Judge H Wilkerson denied a bid by 400000 federated shop crafts workers to dismiss the government conspiracy case tied to a strike that began July 1. The court granted a trial in open court for the injunction matter while reserving jury trial on the equity issue. The sweeping injunction bars shop crafts officers and strikers from interfering with railroad transportation across various cities.
After four names were struck from the list of victims in the kl bridge crash two new unaccounted men were added: Charles A Loyd and Harry Beat of Davenport Washington. Police continued a fruitless search along the river with eight patrolmen and several boats.
A fragment reports a car skid and a cautious overturn on a moving troop route in the Ruhr region. It notes no military movement into Westphalia until after January 15 and that all occupants are pinned beneath. Mrs. Lamey and Mrs. Wolverton free themselves to seek aid.
France Italy and Belgium shelve hasty Ruhr entry plans and await US view on a coercive move. Washington signals possible plan to avert full French action while Britain takes a wait-and-see stance. Debates about debt and military escort loom as officials weigh next steps.
Henry G. Boonstra of Lafayette Indiana a Western division airmail flyer survived two near fatal incidents within a month. Yesterday his plane fell 10000 feet while en route from Rock Springs Wyoming to Salt Lake City with mail, suffering only minor injuries. Three weeks earlier his aircraft wrecked on Porcupine Ridge near Coalville Utah, and he wandered in a blizzard for 36 hours before finding shelter.
The Irish Free State government plans a land measure to end landlordism and ease Ireland's land troubles. The bill, replacing the previous land act, would allow peasants and small farmers to become tenant owners if desired. It provides compulsory sale of land with purchase payments spread over 70 years in small annual installments.
A violent race confrontation in Florida left Black residents fleeing Rosewood as white posse members and local leaders, including P Wilkenson, Sumner, and Henry Andrews, were fatally wounded when they approached a Black house. Sylvester Carrier and his mother were killed. Lesty Gordon and Mingo Williams were injured as fires burned homes and shots rang out.
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