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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1918
Page
2
The oasis in Butte attracts children and adults alike during hot days. Beneath shaded trees visitors find relief from heat and enjoy dances in the hall. While fares to the gardens remain excellent, many ride the roller coaster or Ferris wheel and others opt for milder amusements like concession row.
The western front remains quiet with patrol encounters and standard operations, while no new German drive is reported. American forces northwest of Chateau-Thierry push forward east of the city amid bombardments and continued activity. Russia’s Lenin reportedly resigns despite a confidence vote, and the Czecho-Slovak movement pressures east of the frontier as Romanov is sent to Moscow.
Italian Army dispatch reports Austrians unable to advance on the Piave front near Montello and San Dona di Piave after seven days of heavy fighting. Italian observers say the invaders cannot bring heavy artillery across and now hold only small, precarious gains.
War office updates from Paris and London describe intermittent artillery actions along the front with quit prevailing elsewhere. In the eastern theater small enemy raids near Vardar and Lake Ohrid were repulsed. French and American attacks northwest of Chateau Thierry repulsed with heavy losses. Italian and British actions near Monteiro and Amiens yielded prisoner gains and localized raids.
Five hundred girls and women marched in the South Meadow of Central Park New York City as members of the National League of Women Workers. It marked the first drill of the New York State branch with prior military instruction in Ethical Culture Society halls and Manhattan and Brooklyn high schools. Each participant wore a red white and blue sash.
War office reports repulse several local attacks around Montdidier with Austrians massing on mountain fronts. In France Washington notes improved American positions northwest of Chateau Thierry while fighting persists in the Woevre and Vosges. German attempts to assault with flame throwers are thwarted as the first battle phase ends and calls for a new offensive if aims remain unmet.
The German war ministry via the Spanish embassy in Berlin named Prof Henry C Emery economist and former official among captured Allied personnel. The State Department has sought to know if Emery and others may be released from Tuchel prison camp while other listed captives include Lieuts Abbot Jeffery Biraus Johnson Rollman Kin en and more. A separate vote in Congress urged Wilson to disclose fuel administration limits on coal for liquor makers amid Prohibition debate.
Kalamazoo June 22 The Wallace Hagenbeck circus train collides with an equipment train at Ivanhoe Ind killing 60. Alonzo Sargent engineer Gary Ind arrested for manslaughter. Fire consumes wreckage as rescuers pull survivors and bodies from the flaming cars. Clown Joe Coste recalls his wife and two babies crushed in the disaster.
Lawson Robert son, coach of the University of Pennsylvania track and field athletes, is offered a captain's commission in the Navy to oversee training of aviators. Walter Camp, Commissioner of Athletics in the Navy Department, has pursued this goal for over six months, aiming to prevent overtraining and reduce accidents due to physical or mental fatigue among flying men.
London reports serious street riots in Vienna with poles and military enforcing order. Vienna workers' council issues a manifesto urging higher food rations as a broad strike grows unknown scope. Paris telegrams note Austria Hungary conditions turning critical with fifty thousand workers at arsenal and airplane works on strike. Burgomaster warns potatoes may be undeliverable after week’s end.
The Most Rev. Joseph Keane former rector of the Catholic University of America and retired archbishop dies aged early today in Dubuque Iowa. Funeral is planned for early next week. Also reported Philadelphia women’s tennis title match and mixed doubles results from the United States championship at the Philadelphia Goicket club. A Kansas City police statement recounts a man’s claim that his wife was alive when he threw her body from a sleeping car window near Shelbina Missouri on June 1.
Washington on June 22 reports the senate appropriations committee added 28 million dollars to the emergency housing fund of the shipping board and 20 million for transportation of shipyard and other war needs to the 8 million sundry appropriation. An item for a war emergency fund for the labor department grew from 1.3 million to 5 million.
Washington reports that senate committee will resume consideration next Tuesday of arguments by Gilbert and Roe for Senator La Follette regarding his remarks in a Sept speech. The session will review loyalties and related statements as part of the inquiry. London dispatches note military activity with weather delaying operations yet reporting one enemy unit destroyed and two Allied aircraft missing. In theater news, actor changes occur as Bernard and Carr withdraw from a New York production, Yorke and Leonard to substitute for London cast in Chicago engagement.
City league schedules two afternoon games at Hebgen Park with Owens Montgomery facing Montana Hardware in the opener and Hennessys meeting the A C M in the second. The events feature swift pitchers and strong lineups. First pitch for the first game is at 1 30. Admission is 25 cents with proceeds after expenses benefiting the war effort.
Washington dispatches report Czech slavs disrupt Lenine Trotsky regime in Russia and threaten Germany. A movement breaking out in Siberia is cited as dangerous and attracting German aid to Bolsheviks.
Howard Parker son of Marshall C Parker and a Butte native who graduated from the school of mines drowned in Sun River near Great Falls late yesterday noon. Telegram received by his father provided the only details at press time with no further information available.
Washington June 22 Draft executives of all states were directed by Provost Marshal General Crowder to begin on June 25 and continue for three days then mail questionnaires to registrants of the class of 1916. Twenty five percent of registrants per board will be provided with question blanks until classification takes place likely in July.
Paris dispatch says fresh Austro Hungarian reinforcements are being brought up and German troops are nearing the Italian northeastern front. The Milan Temps correspondent reports renewed possible offensives as Allied fronts shift.
Butte residents plan weekend trips on a special train to Gregson Springs leaving Butte at 7 45 p m arriving 8 20 p m returning at 11 20 p m and midnight. Anaconda trains depart for the springs at 5 p m with a return at 12 46 a m. The resort reports strong patronage this year after recent repainting and improvements overseen by manager George Forsythe.
A Butte retailer advertises ladies wear including suits coats dresses waists skirts and sweaters available on weekly or monthly payments. Customers can open an account with a small down payment and pay the balance over time, with the Fourth of July as a possible target. The store is HOME SUPPLY CO located at 16 North Montana Street.
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