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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1920
Page
3
The article reports that Secretary Daniels did not cut naval expenditures after elections. Congress failed to fund adequate naval strength and essential ships. Large aviation developments are delayed, with plans announced for December and a $830,060,000 budget item referenced.
Selection of American athletes for the Olympic teams is to be announced after trials. A nominating committee of about 30 members will present names to the team selection panel, which will finalize the coaches and officials for the United States squads. Names will be provided by committeemen from different regions. Monsignor John Hawley was named private chamberlain to the pope at the Vatican.
Miss Alice Richard of Associated Charities reports American housing shortages lowering living and moral standards for thousands. She urges doubling housing capacity, noting families with five people live in two rooms or less and many rely on boarders. Cost of relief has risen 25 percent in Cincinnati. future policy shifts from charity to constructive social service.
Mrs John Mick shows slight improvement after illness. The Pepper Pot fundraiser by Callahan Dramatic club at Yellowstone theater raised about 100 to aid parish home debt. Various locals visit Seattle relatives. Alumni society formed with officers Ernest Stanley as president and Mrs Dorothy Coghlan as vice. A Whitehall band engagement at Yellowstone hall on June 12. Numerous visits from Butte and Helena residents, births and employment changes noted, plus civil engineering work by George Baker and other community updates.
The War Department liquidation commission reports total settlements against the United States of 93,716,093 dollars and 822,929,235 dollars from surplus overseas materials. Settlements include France 748,392,004, Great Britain 112,996,912, Belgium 2,279,897, Italy 17a,[sic] and individuals 17.4. Sales abroad totaled 412,925,226 with bulk sales to France 40,000,000 and 872,000,000 worth returned to the United States.
Five people including a husband wife and two children along with a neighbor’s boy were killed when a southbound Michigan limited interurban car struck their automobile at a crossing near Grand Rapids. Bodies mangled beyond recognition. identification came hours later.
Walla Walla June A superior court jury found four Franklin county men guilty on charges of criminal syndicalism after a venue change. Defendants are George Chitwood Edward Plogaus Jack Battle and Jack Nelson accused of advocating the overthrow of the United States government.Germany election results show independents strong across regions with industrial areas leading. The German People's Party and German National Party also perform strongly as ballots counted.Mrs Bass visits Los Angeles en route to San Francisco to attend the national convention. She urges making the League of Nations a campaign issue and says suffragist vote will help choose the next president.
In Johnstown Pennsylvania Mayor Canfield mockingly told two Black men Frank Luce and Earl Schmidt they would be killed, then sentenced them to six months in jail prompting fear as the warden confirmed a planned execution had not occurred. The piece mixes local humor with a harsh, cautionary tack.
Dublin reports mark a surge of violence with several vacant police barracks burned over the weekend. A landowner, John Blake, was shot and gravely wounded near Tram thirty miles northeast of Galway while en route to church. A bicycle patrol of military police near a hill in County Cork was ambushed, forcing surrender of their arms. In Mexico, deputies and Senate members will vote August 1, with presidential elections set for September 5 following a conference led by provisional president Adolfo de la Huerta. Oregon secures part of a $50,000 forest patrol appropriation. $12,000 is allotted for observers and related costs, available July 2.
In San Francisco on June 6, Ray T. Baker, director of the mint, announced the birth of a girl to Mrs. Baker. The report states Mrs. Baker presented the child here, with Alfred G. Van listed as another related director.
Delegates from across the United States and several foreign countries gathered in Indianapolis for the sixteenth annual convention of the associated advertising clubs of the World. The opening session focused on practical matters as the keynote theme.
Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation announced tonight appropriations totaling 800 for general education purposes and for the development of medical schools in New York.
A mail plane piloted by J R Harris of Chicago and crewed by Cleymane sume 9 Mantis of Maywood Illinois crashed in nose dive from 200 feet, killing one mechanic and seriously injuring the Chicago pilot. The craft had departed for Chicago on its regular trip amid scenes. CorrbYville Kan June 9 two perfect scores in 100 target professional shooting were recorded by Phil R Miller Dallas Texas and James Head St Louis. Shooting continued until Head missed on the 126th shot while Miller made 129. Bozants fall to Turks near Constantinople June 21 reports say Turks captured Bozants north of Adana May 20 taking many French prisoners.
Massachusetts delegation members reported upon arrival that a single-handed raid by a Detroit district officer seized three bottles of tonic and two of brandy from the train baggage as it crossed the Canadian line. An order to return the bottles for medicinal use was issued, and the raider later found that three trophies from his search had vanished. The train continued with limited stores despite the incident.
Ed J Hartington announced his Democratic bid for county commissioner. A World War II veteran and American Legion member who was wounded in action, he seeks the seat under the party banner. In a separate report Lloyd Montgomery and Miss Eva Carr suffered injuries in a car accident near Ball's Crossing as Minnie Perrine steered from a slide off the road.
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