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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1923
Page
1
Montana solicitors yesterday secured 1300 dollars for a road fund. Big subscriptions all in and workers announce. The item records reader support and the financial backing for the road project through local contributions.
Chairman James H. Rowe of the Montana way paying fund committee warned last night that $6,400 remains to be raised from Butte automobile owners for highway paving. He said if the sum is not forthcoming there will be no paving, noting major contributions from other interests are already counted.
A Montana campaign to raise funds for paving reached a fever pitch at a chamber meeting. Rowe directed a convoy of 100 solicitors to hit every auto owner on the west side until the full assessment is paid, with $1,330 added recenty and about $6,400 still needed to meet the goal. road agents will distribute lists of contributors and begin door-to-door canvassing.
Charges in convention circles claim backers of Henry Ford's presidential bid sought to gain control of the Motion Picture Theater Owners' Association of America, which represents about 12,000 exhibitors. The session, delayed by political tensions, postponed elections to the next day as state caucuses formed amid the controversy.
None of the captives held by Chinese bandits have been put to death yet, though the chief has threatened execution. The report notes morale among prisoners is deteriorating as danger rises and potential rescue attempts loom.
An official dispatch from Peking reports the morale of Chinese bandit captives is declining while no executions occurred despite threats. Sanitary conditions in the bandits’ stronghold are very bad as efforts continue to supply food and essentials. Officials note bandits show signs of negotiating and three gentry representatives urged terms. The legation cites retreats near Paotzuku with no fighting on May 22. The Shanghai page update notes Shan tung military governor Tien and Roy Anderson arriving in Peking with ministers Wu Yu Lin and Schurman pledging continued care for captives.
The district court of appeals upheld the January 4 conviction in superior court of 10 Industrial Workers of the World members on criminal syndicalism charges. Defendants named are Walter Smith Thomas Zangar Thomas O Mara Charles B Larue Peter Beazley William Rutherford John F Nash H B Edwards Andrew E Anderson and B Kyler. Indictments based on sworn I W W membership in April 1922 during trial of Casdorf and Firey.
The second trial of Charles Paulson for the murder of Ethel Vla hides resumes with new testimony from Undertaker Quirk, Jed Freund, and Dr Maillet. The state aims to distinguish this trial from the earlier one by presenting additional details about the shooting and the victim’s movements.
Crow scout Curly, sole survivor of the 1876 Custer massacre, died of a fever at Crow Agency aged 68 and was buried there. Government officials attended, and his estate exceeds 11 000 dollars with a government annuity. White Man Runs Him remains alive. Curly rode from Little Big Horn after the fight with Lieutenant Bradley in Gibbon's command.
A resolution by Ravenel Macbeth of the Idaho Mining Association protesting the Treasury Department plan to withdraw 14,500,000 ounces of silver for subsidiary coinage was adopted in committee and will be presented at the Northeast mining convention. Winners announced in ore display: Addison Copper company Keller Washington, Wisdom Silver Mining company Wisdom Montana, Lucille Lead Silver company Boundary Washington. Tomorrow’s session covers Montana topics with R M Gregg of Troy as chairman.
Ben W. Hooper the former Tennessee governor was re-elected chairman of the United States railroad labor board for 1923 in the first regular executive session after Harding appointments. G W W Hangar was re-elected vice chairman though he said he could not accept a candidacy to succeed Hooper.
A man who gave the name Buckley Lourie 28 formerly of Kirby Knob Ky confessed to police that he killed eight revenue officers in an April 1908 Kentucky mountains clash. He said he was 13 at the time and that after the slayings he and his brother Charles fled, wandering for years before reuniting two years ago after a sea faring life.
May 23 Mexicali mayor Juan Loera reports 30 dead after a fire destroyed a city section. Most bodies surfaced near Paris cafe and a motion picture theater. property loss pegged at 5 million dollars, later adjusted to about 3 million with insurance. Federal troops guard the district to deter looting as 1,500 homeless seek aid.
St Paul May 238 Governor J A O Preus announced he will file as a candidate for United States senator to succeed the late Knute Nelson. The move centers on entering the Minnesota race and aligning with party objectives as elections approach. Marquee support from party members and potential voters was noted, signaling a formal bid soon.
Victoria British Columbia May 23 Mrs Emma S Farnham of Butte Montana was elected supreme queen at the tenth annual convention of the supreme temple Daughter of the Nile. Elizabeth McCormack Tacoma Washington was named supreme princess royal and Winnifred Lea Portland Oregon supreme princess Jirzah. Alice McVay Spokane Washington supreme princess baduora Margaret Rant Seattle supreme princess banker Levelin K West Seattle supreme princess recorder.
In Indianapolis the Presbyterian General Assembly adopted a resolution directing the New York presbytery to require the First Church of New York to adhere to Presbyterian doctrine. Led by Bryan and two Philadelphia ministers, conservatives won 439 to 359 to replace a liberal report, tied to Fosdick’s controversial 1922 sermon on biblical authority. Fosdick, a Baptist pastor, was not a Presbyterian but occasionally preached at the New York church.
Salt Lake City May 23 The state board of pardons today denied the application for commutation of sentence of George Gardner condemned slayer who is to die before the firing squad at the Utah penitentiary next Friday morning Friends argued he was mentally unsound when he shot Deputy Sheriff Gordon Stewart at the Gardner ranch on April 15 1922 An eleventh hour appeal was expected to Gov Mabey tomorrow to Gardner's behalf
BELIEVES HUNDREDS KILLED ON BORDER. SAN ANTONIO Texas May 23 The murders of six Italians who paid for passage across the Rio Grande and were betrayed and shot by their guides are cited by Captain William Hanson immigrant inspector of the border district as part of a wider pattern of wholesale murders by bandit smugglers. Hanson, just back from the border, believes hundreds of unsuspecting Europeans have met similar fates.
Fifteen steamship lines in the intercoastal trade reached a pact to restore the rate conference ending a war that began last June. An expected 10 to 20 percent advance above existing levels will apply. Pastbound rates set in San Francisco become effective July 3, while Westbound rates fixed in New York take effect August 1.
Note signed by Krassin from the Soviet side offers Britain a convention granting fishing rights beyond the three mile limit to avert a breach. The move signals a diplomatic effort to ease postwar fishing disputes and maintain stability in North Atlantic waters.
London May 23. Russia in a Krassin note handed to Lord Curzon offers concessions to Britain in response to the British ultimatum. The note says the Soviet government seeks to avoid responsibility for any breach with England and warns such a breach could aid militarist factions. It proposes a convention granting Britain fishing rights beyond three miles but calls for an international conference to settle territorial limits. Krassin and Curzon discussed the note for about thirty minutes.
In Lausanne on May 23 the allies paused formal sessions to pursue a settlement of Greco Turkish reparations. Greece may cede territory in exchange for renunciation of indemnity. Britain released a long statement praising progress and proposing judicial safeguards for foreigners in Turkey, urging patience with a new Turkish government and its sovereign rights.
William R Allen former lieutenant governor of Montana and head of the Boston Montana corporation pleaded not guilty to larceny and conspiracy charges tied to the copper mining firm. After posting $10,000 bond he promised a full investigation would show no knowingly or deliberately broken laws.
A clash in Dortmund over rising living costs and stagnant wages leaves at least 80 wounded as protests flare. Authorities report street battles between demonstrators and security forces across city center.
Five killed including a woman and child in Dortmund as clashes between striking workers and police erupt. Thousands attend mass meetings in Dortmund and surrounding towns as 60,000 join the strike in the Ruhr and Rhine land. Strikers demand a 50 percent wage rise while authorities arm a citizen protection force and price controls cut store prices in Steele and Kay.
Special dispatch reports sharp fighting between police and communists in Dortmund last evening after a meeting. A procession formed and rushed the police station. Police reinforcements fired on, wounding four officers. The attackers suffered casualties, exact numbers unknown. Order has been restored.
Art O'Brien, Sean McGrath, Sean O Mahony and Michael Galvin, newly released in Ireland, faced Bow Street court in London on seditious conspiracy charges. Crown counsel Travers Humphreys said the case concerns conspiracy to compel by force change to the constitution of a self governing dominion and to establish a republic in part of the British empire, the Irish Free State. The magistrate adjourned for a week and rejected O'Brien's bid for half.
J D Schilling Jr aged 68 chief mine executive for the Utah Copper Co since 1919 died at his Bingham Utah home He was a veteran in mining and widely known across the West.
London May 28 Premier Baldwin works with colleagues and party leaders to form a new ministry. Expected appointments include Curzon foreign secretary Derby war Hoare air secretary and Wilson chief whip. He also invites Horne to be chancellor potentially enabling Chamberlain or Cecil to join the administration as key figures.
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