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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1923
Page
2
The article outlines the presidential visit schedule for June 29 at 10 45 a m with two pilot cars and the Butte Mines band leading the parade. Scout Executive Ben Owen seeks teacher and community help to gather children at the ball park for a reception honoring the president.
Norman B. Holter of Helena, chair of the all state committee, announced the reception panel for Harding and his party. The committee will include state supreme court justices, state and federal officials, party leaders, and prominent men and women from across Montana, with three labor representatives still to be named.
Moscow June 26 The supreme court ordered the release of Archbishop Tikhon pending trial on charges of resisting Soviet authorities. The ruling follows a letter from the former patriarch from prison expressing regret and stating willingness to swear allegiance to the Soviet regime.
District Attorney Banton and United States Attorney Hayward formed an offensive alliance to pressure brokers operating bucket shops. They announced a joint working agreement where charges against every suspected broker would be considered by both officials and the officer with the strongest case would proceed.
The Associated Press reports that President Harding issued an executive order placing the government railroad of Alaska under Interior Department control. The move covers all lines and related telegraph and telephone connections after the final standard gauge track reached Fairbanks, completing main line pad engineering.
San Francisco June 26 A proposal to remove the restriction on physicians prescriptions for alcoholic stimulants as medicine was before the American Medical Association house of delegates. A resolution calling the current liquor prescription method an intolerable nuisance was submitted, while another asks for narcotic bureau regulation details to guide future medical prescriptions. About twenty diagnostic clinics and various branch meetings addressed radium heart disease prevention and other topics.
Telegraph instruments used inside the Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle for the first time in 61 years as Associated Press dispatches reached the nation during President Harding’s address. The AP wire connected San Francisco and Chicago with the tabernacle by church consent. Automobiles bringing attendees entered temple grounds for the first time in history.
Raleigh indicts a man on embezzling bank funds. Descriptions and photos circulated nationwide. Justice Department agents tracked him to Great Falls and Sun River canyon where he ran a fox farm. He was known as W. D. Simpson to locals. Eberstein located Sykes’ cabin and arrested him Monday night.
Harvey Co Mummert's air flivver, claimed to be smaller than Barbot's, crashed during a test flight on Long Island. Heavy wind and an approaching storm forced the groundward plunge. Pilot L (Jap) Pearson suffered a deep cut across the face after a 40 foot drop onto the aircraft.
The funeral of Earl Selway will be held this afternoon at the Methodist church in Dillon. Masonic lodge members will conduct services at the graveyard. Selway died last Sunday afternoon at his home in the city.
Eight year old Joseph Hillier, who lost two fingers Sunday to a dynamite cap, was pronounced dead after shooting himself at home. Son of widow Gertrude Hillier, he had recently passed the eighth grade and taught at a local community school near Stevenson Washington. A note of his first words, Thatll break mamma heart, is noted.
Franklin Park, a village near Trenton, New Jersey, and surrounding areas face a large forest fire that began late this afternoon. State police from Trenton and other regions, plus numerous fire crews, have been dispatched. Villagers flee in fear as several barns burn, with authorities warning immediate aid is essential to save the village.
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