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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1920
Page
3
A fragmented OCR snippet mentions California coastal locales including Los Angeles Long Beach Arrowhead Ocean Park Santa Barbara San Diego. No events or actions documented.
Rep. Johnson charges Chicago and federal hospital officials with neglect and misallocation of funds, citing gassed soldiers in dark hallways and insufficient food at Fort Sheridan. He alleges $9.5 million set aside since 1919 was not spent to improve veteran facilities and calls for accountability.
Senate committee boosts the Flathead irrigation project appropriation from 100000 to 200000 after Senator Myers argued for the increase. The interior department had recommended 1000000. Myers expects a House clash but plans to fight to retain as much as possible.
Geneva reports nearly 375000 of 500000 Austro Hungarian prisoners taken by Russians have perished in Siberia from smallpox and typhus. The rest survive only thanks to doctors from Japan, the United States and Britain. Chinese physicians aid east of Lake Baikal, but Bolshevik invasion makes the work hard.
North Russian dispatch reports about a force of 2000 Finns armed with machine guns and a long caravan of reindeer transport concentrating on the border near Petchenga. The main body has crossed into Northern Finland toward Petchenen. Villagers flee to Norway amid fears of monastery looting.
London Jan 27 George Nicoll Barnes minister without portfolio resigns from the cabinet. His move completes labor's final withdrawal from the coalition government after the armistice. He stayed to permit peace ratification.
Washington January 21 anti sedition measures faced a new setback when the house rules committee refused legislative preference. No further hearings will be held and the judiciary committee is expected to report a new measure incorporating features of the Davey bill, favored by the department of justice.
Spokane Union stockyards saw a 23 percent rise in animal receipts in the last year. Total head received reached 250,450 with turnover around 10.5 million dollars, reported at the annual board meeting.
In SPOKANE Jan 27 the Spokane Grocers association urged a 2 cent profit margin on sugar handled in small lots. They said it would yield about 11 percent profit versus the 8 percent now permitted.
Detroit coroner ruled Maude Scott Richards died from an overdose of chloroform after her body was found in a city hotel room today. Coroner Walker concluded the investigation tonight.
Harbin dispatches report Siberian troops defeated revolutionary forces at Nimie Udinsk 360 miles northwest of Irkutsk and drove the soviet government from the town. The rebels were mostly local militiamen and multiowners.
In Glenwood Springs Colorado plans by Rev J P Carrigan to establish a national shrine and Carmelite monastery on Mount of the Holy Cross near Red Cliff are announced. A two mile burro trail with electric lights will lead to the site while a temporary shrine will precede a cathedral. Bishop Bhahan may attend the dedication with other clergy and laymen. The plateau is already designated as a transcontinental air line landing site with a white concrete arrow and a large Colorado letter C.
Twenty Postal Telegraph linemen in Washington Oregon and Idaho walked out to press for higher wages. The Spokane local said service between Spokane and the Coast slowed and much business was rerouted via San Francisco, disrupting regional communications.
The chamber of deputies postponed interpellations on general government policy until Friday citing procedural delays. The decision came during a Paris session reported by Havas.
William Wood, 55, former president of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, New York, collapsed and died of heart disease at the Union League Club in Chicago on January 27.
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