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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1920
Page
1
Aurora Borealis tonight danced across the sky disrupting telegraph wires and crippling Western Union instruments. AT T said its service stayed active though cables and wireless gear were hit. crowds watched the northern lights from the streets.
A packed court room heard Dr. J A Donovan and P Y Brophy nominate Dr A F Maginn and C V Fulton for two seats on the Butte school board to be elected April 3. The meeting named an executive campaign committee to back the ticket and handle vacancies.
A. H. Barth a Billings resident for 37 years and once one of the Northwest's leading sheep owners died in Rochester Minnesota after a major operation. A telegram to his son Arthur Barth confirmed the death. He had planned a 1 million dollar hotel in Billings before his passing.
Butte recorded one of its lightest primaries with only 2026 votes cast from 15331 registered. Wards show minimal opposition with several races uncontested. Alderman Lou Freudenstein led the Sixth ward ticket with 171 votes, edging past rivals as incumbent.
Chicago workers walk out in a possible citywide dispute as 500 chauffeurs and teamsters quit, halting garbage collection and street cleaning. They demand $2 more per day. chauffeurs earn $6 and teamsters $9. Clerks and stenographers threaten a Thursday strike without a $25 monthly raise.
A Warsaw submitted report to American and British authorities says Nikolai Lenine aims to become head of a continental communist state. He seeks to bring order to Russia and secure peace with Poland while building credits abroad, amid a famine with wheat and flax scarce and factories idle.
Senator France of Maryland announces in the Senate the potential formation of a new liberal party to fight Bourbon autocracy. He cites repeal of national prohibition and the espionage act as planks and urges restoration of state sovereignty and individual liberties. He calls for reconsideration of prohibition and local option for certain beverages.
An ice jam at Canyon Creek released a 15 foot wall of water overnight sweeping through Orchard farm dam and lowlands inundating corralled 600 to 700 sheep belonging to Snyder Sheep company of Billings. Property damage estimated at $20,000 as a long flume and bridge approaches were washed out and irrigation lines disrupted.
Thousands march through Cork as the body of lord mayor Thomas MacCurtain is carried from the cathedral to St Finn Barr cemetery. About 8 000 republican volunteers march in the procession with provincial mayors. A clash near Porto Bello bridge and rioting in Dublin follow the funeral day.
Representatives from Protestant churches in 20 eastern Montana counties gathered in Billings for a conference to plan a finance campaign for the inter church world movement. Rev. George Mecklenburg of Helena led the meeting and Frank G. Moran of Seattle attended as regional director. The day ended with a dinner and business session.
Winnett Montana erupts with oil boom as Frantz corporation and Ohio Oil announce plans to drill 40 to 50 tool strings and up to 100 wells on the Cat Creek anticline this summer. Freight trains surge from Lewistown with boilers, rig irons and machinery as workers rush in from multiple states to staff a rapid development program.
Helena March 22 In issuing a writ of mandate directing Fergus county to reconvene within 15 days and annul their order denying petitions for Judith Basin county the supreme court settles questions about creating counties and excluding areas from proposed counties. The court holds government by majority rule and that a whole block or tract could be mapped out irrespective of residents.
Formation of a joint railroad wage board was completed tonight by conference committees for the railroad corporations and 16 unions. E P Whitter of the Pennsylvania Railroad was named chairman. The bipartisan body will hear wage demands from about 2,000,000 workers and reexamine records gathered by the railroad administration.
Rear Admiral Sims testified that Read Admiral Benson ordered him to resist British deceit before the war, with further mentions during Paris visits and follow up talks. Sims named no officer but insisted on full disclosure under questioning. The exchange highlighted anti British sentiment and Naval tensions.
Berlin advices say the Ebert Bauer cabinet may resign amid opposition stirred by the trade union pact. Western industrial areas and upper Silesia remain tense, Breslau under strain, while the general population stays calm. Artillery in Ruhr near Allied zone. Bochum recaptured by Reichswehr. Breslau evacuated. fighting persists in Leipzig and Halle.
Anaconda residents will benefit as a shipside seafood sale offers fresh Puget Sound fish at 15 cents a pound, less than half the usual Butte price. Mayor W T Stodden arranged the distribution through Lutey stores and the public market, with fish sold by half or whole portions only. The car arrives via Oregon Short Line and sale runs while supplies last, with Copper City Commercial Union Anaconda Market handling in Anaconda.
Idaho Senator Borah called on Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood and his campaign managers for the names of subscribers the amounts given and the manner in which the funds are being used in response to published reports of large contributions.
Republican presidential endorsement battle rages across South Dakota as Gen. Leonard Wood and Gov. Frank O Lowden compete with Sen Hiram Johnson and Sen Miles Poindexter. Delegates to the GOP national convention will be chosen by plurality, with Democratic choices led by Wilson backers and third party options limited by absence of contest.
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