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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1925
Page
2
The story details a fatal blaze involving a wealthy broker who, after a car encounter with Parsons, fled a burning apartment wearing injuries. Neighbors dispute the sequence, as others recall the couple walking earlier, while firemen attempted rescue.
New York reports copper prices remaining stable at 13.55 to 13.60 amid weak demand and a holiday postponement. Lead shows weakness with 8.4 cents quoted by American Smelting and Refining, while European lead eases on ample Australian arrivals. Zinc closes weak with a $3 per ton weekly gain, though overall demand remains subdued.
Paris reports that only seven Americans among more than 3,000 foreigners admitted to French citizenship last year. The ministry of justice notes Russians, Belgians and Germans led in naturalizations with large numbers, while Americans remained a small minority despite several hundred thousand Americans living in France.
In Shanghai on May 31 a violent student strike spread, with five inch water streams from hoses deployed around Sousa station to disperse crowds. Ten people died and 12 were wounded after clashes that began last Saturday over convictions in a mixed court.
Police reveal a conspiracy to abduct Mary Pickford involving Pola Negri Jackie Coogan and an unidentified grandson of a retired millionaire. Claude Holcomb was to drive the kidnapping car and guard the improvised prison. The plan included seizing Pickford as she left a Hollywood studio en route to Beverly Hills and confining her in an unspecified house.
D. C. Welch president of the Oklahoma Cotton Ginners' association was killed when his automobile overturned two miles south of Chattanooga Oklahoma. His wife sustained injuries in the crash reported May 31.
Dwight Davis cites Memorial Day observances at the Hebrew cemetery in Washington as showing unity across faiths and races. He notes that heroes lie in official tombs and in congregational grounds, yet Americans of varied creeds serve the nation together. The piece also reports on urgent Geneva arms pact talks aiming for a June 8 League of Nations council meeting.
In Moscow Idaho the state board of education unanimously elected Miss Ethel Redfield as state commissioner of education. The office had been vacant since 1923 due to missing salary appropriations. Redfield has 18 years in Idaho education including Nez Perce County superintendent and three terms as state superintendent, and previously worked with the University of Idaho.
Fire began at 1 o'clock this morning in a furniture store and leveled a business block, with losses between 200000 and 300000 dollars. Spectator C V Barnes may have been fatally injured by a falling telephone pole. Cause of the blaze is unknown. An auto built by a 17 year old Western boy, driven by airplane propeller, shows promise.
President Calvin Coolidge will travel to Minnesota for an extended vacation using a private presidential train section. The trip will start Saturday afternoon from Washington with arrival in St. Paul expected about 10 p.m. and will include an observation car compartment car club car diner and a car for newspaper men.
The Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis quietly moved 175 million in money and securities from its old Broadway Pine site to a new Broadway Locust building between Friday night and today. Seven million in gold came in 5 000 bundles weighing 18% pounds, transported by armored truck with armed guards and three bank officials aboard.
On the 100th anniversary of Sing Sing prison's first building occupancy in Ossining New York it was reported that 50 prisoners have installed radio receivers with ear phones only no amplifiers are permitted.
The quake followed by fire left many homes intact on the mountain flank but devastated Siachow to the southwest. Shang remained largely intact. Officials report significant loss of life and call for immediate aid for affected residents.
William Stapleton, 65, of Billings, despondent over health, killed himself Sunday afternoon with a double barreled shotgun. The blast tore away the left side of his head from ear to shoulder.
Mrs R Lang of Lititz Pennsylvania testifies that the Vegetable Compound relieved her back and side pains and nervousness after factory work. She says 98 of 100 women taking it are helped and invites letters from readers for confirmation. Sold by druggists nationwide.
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