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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1924
Page
4
The article argues youth uplift through sport and urges full punishment for serious crimes. It cites Loeb and Leopold and calls for harsher penalties to deter gangsters, stating the rope is the end of their road and that criminals should face severe consequences.
The Pioneer offers season greetings to patrons wishing them a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and hopes each reader may live as long as the paper, a playful nod to Methuselah.
The Chicago Tribune argues that youths aged 16 to 32 implicated in rape and robbery must face punishment without leniency. It cites cases of Richard Fitzgerald and Nathan Berman, urges strict penalties, rejects juvenile school farm confinement, and warns that juvenile excuses breed further crime in metropolitan life.
In a sleet storm across southwest Missouri trains on Frisco lines faced frozen signals downed wires and blocked tracks. The Meteor and No 7 arrived Tulsa 32 hours late while No 403 was expected after midnight. Other Meteor and No 7 units remained running from St Louis as crews cleared wrecks and obstructions.
William Green elected president of the American Federation of Labor by the executive council in New York. James P. Noonan named eighth vice president, James Duncan resigns as first vice president. Green, 51, secretary treasurer of the United Mine Workers since 1912, will lead a new era in organized labor.
The will of Samuel Gompers filed for probate leaves most of his estate to his sons and granddaughters while directing that only the minimum allowed by law go to his widow Gertrude A. Gompers if she is his lawful wife at death. The document dated November 8, 1924 references a cancelled prior will from 1921. The note adds that December 21 was the year's shortest day.
Great Falls December 19. Judge Frank S. Dietrich of Idaho will preside in the Wheeler case at the opening of the February federal term in Great Falls. Wheeler faces a general demurrer to the indictment and possible transfer to Butte. The ruling will determine transfer, dismissal, or trial in Butte.
Charles F. Wis hart president of Wooster College Ohio and former moderator of the Presbyterian general assembly told the Presbyterian conference that the main atheism today is belief war cannot be abolished. He urged that war is not inevitable and warned of future weapons and the fading idea of defensive warfare. The conference also noted a 1925 budget of 15 million and Bryan’s resolution for stronger teachings on the sacredness of life.
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