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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1920
Page
1
Bourbon candidate for president speaks in Ohio addressing Fair Crowes and criticising the Harding plan while outlining the party stance on the League of Nations. He emphasizes unity and national policy alignment with international affairs.
In Chicago on August 31 the senate investigating committee pressed Republican leaders over a 15 million dollar fundraising claim. Will Hays and Upham faced questions about state quotas and budgets totaling millions, with Upham stating he aimed for about three million, and revelations tracing allocations to counties cities and local units amid ongoing cross-examination. Continued on page 5.
United States troops armed with machine guns repulsed an attack on Thacker Coal and Coke company property at Thacker. Earlier a federal detachment routed 200 men who fired on Howard Colliers officials' homes at Chattarey. Over 2,000 shots exchanged. no casualties. Strike zone reports quiet. UMWA bulletin calls miners out at Ponderick next Monday.
Ohio Governor James M. Cox and Dr. Aaron S. Watkins with Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke at the Ohio State Fair. Cox backed the League of Nations and critiqued Harding’s plan, Watkins attacked both major parties over prohibition, Roosevelt noted Western agricultural progress, and Cox later rebutted Will Hays on Republican campaign contribution claims.
At a St. Paul meeting with business men and bankers, stockmen and dealers urged preferential credit for agriculture to curb forced marketing of young cattle in the Northwest. They argued many farmers liquidate loans and sell immature herds. KM. G. Quamme called for agrarian priority amid credit shortages and competition among industries.
Iowa report shows most small towns, except mining centers, are nearly coal free after state transportation committee questionnaire responses.
London reports the great American cocktail offensive failing as English saloons hold firm over a whiskey and soda barrage. Unemployed Manhattan bartenders landed with ample supplies but Scottish distilleries and English beer reserves secured a easy victory. Harry Craddock of the Savoy admits defeat and notes New York patrons dominate Savoy sales while the English prefer longer drinks.
The 1920 census puts Silver Bow County population at 60 313, up 6 5 percent since 1910, with Walkerville at 2 391 a drop of 100. Butte city totals reach 41 611, though officials say surrounding areas may push the real count well above 60 000 for the county.
A Deauville figure, Mme. Claras, arrived aboard the French liner Savoie in New York. She wore no stockings, showed bare neck and shoulders, a short skirt with rainbow ribbons, and applied henna powder as a substitute. She said the look was not to shock but to display French styles now in vogue.
Seattle, Aug 31 Joseph Randall a 48 year old machinist arrested by federal operatives on a charge of threatening the life of President Wilson was today adjudged insane in the superior court and committed to the state asylum at Madero
In Rome a banquet honoring Monsignor Cerretti drew about 300 American Knights of Columbus. He praised the United States, though noting it has “gone dry,” and presented the St. Gregory the Great insignia to Supreme Knight James A. Flaherty. The event paused briefly when electricity failed due to a strike, later restored by a private hotel plant.
Chicago August 31 speakers at the National Sheep and Wool Bureau of America convention say reworked rags replace virgin wool in cloth. The French Copper Truth in Fabric bill demanding yard by yard content stamping was indorsed by delegates.
Portland, Aug 31 Ed ward McKee 70 year old box maker told police his life savings of 990 dollars were stolen from his room yesterday Detectives found the suitcase he had pawned with 250 cents loaned They opened the sack and recovered the 990 dollars McKee fainted when the tobacco sack was opened The thief who pawned the case had included the tobacco bag in the deal
The Tennessee House of Representatives, with quorum present, voted to non-concur in the state Senate action regarding the expunging of the Je Suet measure.
In Nashville on August 31 the Tennessee House expunged from its journal the record of ratification of the federal suffrage amendment. The body then voted 47 to 24 with 20 not voting to non-concur with the Senate’s ratification. Governor Roberts declined to speak beyond saying the issue would be handled legally.
Polish forces advance on the northern front recapturing Augustowa west of Grodno and towns including Sokolka Grudek and Narew. Bolshevist pressure near Zamoso is met by counterattacks. Prabowic is retaken and Zaeworsze east of Lemberg repulsed with heavy losses. Quiet holds in Brest-Litovsk sector.
Reported rumor claims Terence MacSwiney is alive as Belfast erupts in flames after orders to move to Belfast. Dublin sources spread word of a blazing inferno and ongoing clashes involving forces in the city.
Aug. 31 London reports Terence MacSwiney lord mayor of Cork remains alive but visibly weaker while sister Mary who visited him warns the end may come at any moment. In Publin Cameron Highlander troops boarded special trains for Belfast as riots widen. Belfast tally shows 17 dead and 16 seriously hurt with many minor injuries as Shankill district suffers extensive fires and destruction.
Swiss report from Lucerne quotes Prince Latfullah stating King Fisal of Syria would accept a foreign mandate, preferring American or British control, as a path to stability and protection.
Frances Steele and Mike Warren Webbe deny involvement in the deaths of James MecAlena and Al Nerri Kerrigan on the morning of August 17. Goldie Davis, a key witness, claims confessions and details of a confrontation, meeting on South Main Street, drugging, and removal of the dying men, while the defendants dispute seeing the victims or being in Davis residence the night before the tragedy.
Dublin dispatch reports that visiting religious order members said the bleeding statues at Temple More in Ireland produced a miracle sign. A tubercular knee patient prayed before the statues and left with crutches and splints, apparently cured. Crowds traveled by train, local profiteers raised prices, Sinn Fein volunteers intervened to fix prices, and profiteers were fined. many Americans were seen in town.
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