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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1919
Page
9
A jury in Judge Lamb's court yesterday awarded L. V. Williams $1,886 against J. B. Hample for injuries from a vehicle owned by Mample. Williams sought $10,811 for injuries after being run over on Granite Street at Alaska during August 1918 while crossing. The accident occurred as the car and plaintiff were at the scene.
Official notice states William G. Stearns and Adolphus B. Keith have become stockholders and elected secretary and vice president of Lauzier-Wolcott. Other officers listed include Geoffrey Lauzier, Dr. Donald Campbell as vice president, and Paul Wolcott as treasurer.
The prior suit favored the husband as a judge awarded him custody. Property of the Costello household has been under receiver control since the dispute began. The judge recently refused to grant support for the child until the receiver submits a property report.
London dispatch says a bomb concealed in a basket of grapes was shown to Hussein Rushdi Pasha at Alexandria on Tuesday. The premier escaped injury. The assailant was identified as a theological student according to an Alexandria report.
Official pictures of Americas participation in the war, sketched at the front during active operations, will be published in the American Legion Weekly by permission of the War Department. Artists commissioned by the United States Army, including W K Aylward, Duncan, Harvey Dunn, George Harding, Wallace Morgan, Ernest Peixoto, Andre Stith and Harry Townsend, will depict troops on the march, in billets, under shell fire, and in combat. The works will later be preserved at the Smithsonian Institution for future generations.
Paris dispatch reports the peace conference supreme council granted Austria a two day delay to present its answer to the peace terms. Serbia and Romania may follow suit. Belgrade seeks amendments on minority protections seen as infringing sovereignty. Debates in France's chamber feature votes against ratification and criticism of apparent concessions.
Senator Underwood of Alabama urged a government commission with power to fix railroad wages and transportation rates to avert strikes. He said an impartial tribunal could determine fair values, then public sentiment would enforce the final verdict and protect workers, industry, and the public. The body would set wages and adjust transport costs accordingly.
Coblenz reports that Marshal Foch has decided the Rhine region area held permanently by American forces will be double the size previously under American jurisdiction. Americans will again control the Coblenz bridgehead on the east bank of the Rhine, matching the area occupied since December.
Washington reports house passage of a bill boosting annual wages by 150 for all post office employees, affecting about 250 000 workers and sent to the senate for action. Chicago clerks threaten a 500 bonus and possible walkouts Oct 1 if demands are not met, risking service interruptions in Illinois and Iowa.
Correspondence to the Associated Press notes wartime hardship in Poland with many poor lacking shoes or stockings. Five of the poor own stockings, others lack footwear, and wood-soled feet appear common. Women are barefoot in the countryside near Warsaw.
Eight men were jailed as authorities seized more than $100,000 in habit forming drugs in New York City in what lawmen called the district’s most important raid. Agents recovered $25,000 in cash and indicated the operation extended across the country, with gang members implicated.
In Tamma Washington on September 4 George Lilly, recently honorably discharged from Company E, Forty-fourth infantry, shot himself, dying from death by his own action. His brother Clarence died similarly four years earlier, and their mother had previously killed herself, all within the same family.
New York reports a successful European flight of a Caproni triplane fitted with Liberty motors, announced today by D. G. Cont, American representative.
An Av telegram from Me Conti Milan reports a Caproni triplane with Liberty engine and 18 passenger cabin flew from Milan over the Alps to Amsterdam Lyons Paris Brussels en route to London. The passage notes the route and destination as part of a pioneering aviator's journey.
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