Naval Probe In Senate Over Navy Cooperation Charges
Senate naval subcommittee to probe Rear Admiral Sims charges that the navy department failed to aid allies during the war. The committee also to consider J R Rathams claim that Secretary Daniels knew seamen were used for vile practices to entrap innocent men.
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Sims
Wood
Senate
Washington
Navy Department
Naval Committee
J. R. Ratham
Providence
R. I
Daniels
Senator Lodge
Rathom
Navy
Naval Intelligence Department
Naval
Ratham
Roosevelt
Special Board of Inquiry
Judge Advocate of the Navy
Butte Man Held On IWW Teaching Destruction Charge
Nicholas Radivoeff secret ary of the Butte local IWW was arrested at Finlander hall by U S immigration inspector Phil Baldwin. He faces a federal charge of teaching and advocating unlawful destruction of property. He is jailed pending deportation action with $1000 cash or two $2000 sureties. Radiveeff, Bulgarian immigrant since 1913, has a Bulgarian wife and child in Bulgaria and has not completed naturalization. He has been secretary of the local IWW for a few months and claimed civil engineering work.
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Nicholas Radivoeff
Butte
Metal Mine Workers’ Union
The
W. W
Phil Baldwin
United States Immigration
Helena
Finlander Hall
Wyoming Street
Radivoeff
Secretary of Labor
Radiveeff
Bulgaria
New York
Kalispell
Department of Justice
Northwest
Woolgrowers urge probe of clothing misrepresentation
President F J Hagenbarth urged the Department of Commerce to investigate misrepresentation in clothing sales and prosecute offenders vigorously before 300 delegates at the National Woolgrowers convention in Salt Lake City Utah. The 55th annual meeting opened with a three day session.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Department of Commerce
F. J. Hagenbarth
National
Woolgrowers’ Association
Primary Law Fight Heard By Montana Supreme Court
The Montana Supreme Court heard three hours of oral arguments in the Sam Goodman versus C. T. Stewart case over the primary election law. Judge L. H. Poorman had earlier barred the secretary of state from accepting petitions to refer the primary bill, which moved Montana to a closed primary and set April as the date, and included an emergency clause to block popular referenda. The case centers on whether the emergency clause can stand.
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The
Standard
Helena
State Supreme Court
Sam Goodman
C. T. Stewart
L. H. Poorman
District Court
Poorman
Goodman
Secretary of State
Montana
W. D
Deportees Berkman and Goldman Enter Soviet Russia
Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, among undesired aliens exiled from the United States, crossed the frozen Systerbak river into Soviet Russia at 2 p m. They were greeted by cheering Reds in the war wrecked town of Bielo Ostrov as they unloaded boxes of food and cigarettes. Goldman said she would continue writing for American publications and hoped to return to the United States someday.
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Terijori
Associated Press
Alexander Berkman
Emma Goldman
United States
Soviet Russia
Systerbak
Bielo-Ostrov
Miss Goldman
Russia
America
Supreme Court to rule on federal prohibition validity
Washington January 19 The Supreme Court today decided to pass on the validity of both the federal prohibition amendment and the enforcement act. Rhode Island was given permission to file an original suit and will be heard. Solicitor General King said he would move to dismiss Rhode Island case on jurisdiction grounds.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Act of Congress
Rhode Island
King
Defeat of peace treaty dead sure
New York dispatch reports Senator Reed and Senator Johnson predicting defeat of the peace treaty either with or without reservations. Johnson defends the Lodge plan as irreducible minimum protection, while Reed supports Knox resolution to ratify with the league covenant removed. They urge no compromise on essential protections for the United States.
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New York
James A. Reed
Hiram W. Johnson
California
Johnson
Lodge
United States
Reed
Senate
Wilson
Disabled Powhatan Returns to Port in Storm
New York January 19. The army transport Powhatan, sailing Friday for Antwerp, drifts in a storm about 200 miles southeast of Halifax with engines dead from a boiler leak. On board are 271 passengers including 11 women and 8 children, plus a crew of over 200.
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New York
Powhatan
Antwerp
Halifax
How to Compute Your Income Tax
If you want to know how to compute your income tax look for the income tax table in next Sunday's Standard.
Arrests in Seattle raid target I W W radicals
On January 19 1940 federal deportation warrants led DOJ agents and Seattle police to arrest over 700 people described as I W W members or radicals. Many were released after immigration checks while about 200 were expected to face deportation hearings.
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Seattle
Department of Justice
Northwest
United States Immigration Detention Station
Delegates From 16 Counties Open Republican District Meet
Nine delegates from each of the 16 counties in the First district attend the Republican district convention at the Empress theater Butte to organize headquarters and elect a chairman. John A Tressler Montana state party chair presides. Archibald M Hall Indiana and Captain Victor Heintz Chicago speak at the 2 pm public meeting. No candidate endorsements will be made.
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Empress Theater
Butte
Thornton Hotel
John A. Tressler
Malta
Republican Party
Archibald M. Hall
Indiana
Capt
Victor Heintz
Chicago
Hall
State Board of Education
Captain Heints
Tressler
Coates Brothers Charged With Criminal Syndicalism
Ernest Coates 21 and Ralph Coates 18 were arrested in Vancouver Washington on charges of criminal syndicalism for acting as organizers for the Industrial Workers of the World. They pleaded guilty in circuit court and were sentenced to six months to 10 years in Monroe state reformatory.
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Vancouver
Wash
Ernest Coates
Ralph Coates
Industrial Workers of the World
Monroe State
First Real Hard Snag in the League Discussion
Washington January 19 Senators debating the peace treaty reached their first major dispute over voting power in the League of Nations assessing the British colonies and dominions. Democratic and Republican members of the bi partisan committee were said to be far apart on the reservation, the fourteenth in the Lodge program.
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Washington
League of Nations
Pan German panic over ex Kaiser extradition
Geneva Jan 19 Pan German circles in Germany are in profound anxiety and astonishment over the Allies demand for the extradition from Holland of the former German emperor. Basle dispatch confirms Munich advices. Pan Germans hoped such a far reaching step would be avoided, fearing safety for all if the ex ruler is handed over.
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Geneva
Germany
Holland
Basle
Munich
Mexican outrages against Americans narrated in detail
San Antonio dispatch reports testimony to a senate sub committee by Dr John Hunter an American physician from Nogales detailing Mexican attacks on Americans since 1910. He cites no Mexican has been punished for killing Americans and recounts Ward who killed three attackers in Texas. He also notes protection by a British consul and a German clerk and describes Mexican rumors of war inflaming border towns.
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San Antonio
Texas
John Hunter
Nogales
Senate
Mexico
Carranza
Dr. Hunter
Guadalajara
Vera Cruz
J. D. Ward
Ward
United States
Odia Jacks
Blalock
Col
Lopez le Lara
Villa
Jacks
Pine Bluff
Ark
Tampico
America
Hunter
Manzanilla
I Paso
Regent College Vote on Treaty
Washington progress report on the senate debate over the college vote on the peace treaty. Hitchcock says a large majority opposed Lodge reservations and Democrats back unqualified ratification, Edge notes two to one against, McCormick accuses League of helping, Brandegee cites China Society protest over Shantung award.
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Washington
Senate
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Edge
New Jersey
McCormick
Ilinois
League Tooinforce Peace
Brandegee
Connecticut
China Society of the United States
Yukon Railway Blocked By Heavy Storms Since Jan 6
Dawson Yukon dispatch says White Pass and Yukon railway remains blocked by heavy storms and snowdrifts since Jan 6. Mails received at Skagway are held at the coast. hope to clear with a snow plow by Wednesday. Thermometers read 40 below zero with a gale blowing.
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Dawson
Yukon Territory
White Pass
Yukon
Skagway
White Horse
Holland Advised On Exile In Allied Note
Paris reports an allied note to The Hague stating Holland will not fulfill its international duty if it refuses to join the Entente in punishing war crimes. The note demanding extradition of former Emperor William was made public today.
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Paris
Holland
William
Hague
Merchants Urge Co operation At State Meeting
Lewistown hosts the seventeenth annual State Retail Merchants association session with 150 delegates at Judith theater. Leaders urge get together to push cooperative action against high prices and restore public confidence amid profiteering suspicions. The program includes three assemblies tomorrow and a meeting of the Associated Industries of Montana on Wednesday.
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H. C. of
The
Standard
Lewistown
State Retail Merchants’ Association
Judith Theater
Gates
Associated Industries of
Montana
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Congressional Investigation
W. W. Taken
Nick Radivoeff
Naval Board
Butler
House Naval Committee
Portland
Mayo
Atlantic
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Leonard Wood
Boston
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Auoala
Goldman, Berkman and Company
High Court
Senator Reed
Oiateen
Pan-Germany
Regent College
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