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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1920
Page
1
A readable sports score snippet shows Ivingston defeating Columbus 62 to 7 in a basketball game. Names and exact team spellings appear uncertain due to OCR. the outcome favors Ivingston with a lopsided margin.
A boisterous basketball account from Bozeman and Big Timber shows a lopsided score with players and coaches praised, while a war lessons article cites Admiral Sims condemning early navy policy. The piece references leading names like Nepstad and Hopkins as it moves to page four.
Dispatches report a major clash on the northwestern front where Indian forces repelled British advances. Heavy fighting near Mahsud and Numa Dahingi left 385 casualties, with officers killed or missing and numerous soldiers wounded.
In Washington the Senate sub committee examined Rear Admiral William Sims as the sole witness on wartime naval conduct. Sims said directives were issued in London to be cautious with British promises while stressing equal resolve with Germany. Secretary Daniels indicated consideration of related communications and the board would review all letters.
The naval decoration award controversy dominates the Senate floor with bitter exchanges as the investigating subcommittee continues its inquiry. Major General George Barnett and Rear Admiral A W Grant testify in the session and Senator Walsh presses a resolution criticizing Rear Admiral William Sims.
Raymond B. Fosdick, under secretary general of the League of Nations and American representative, resigns. He cites America’s unclear course and says withdrawal does not reflect a lack of faith, despite the league’s growth into a continuing organization.
Paris dispatch reports the supreme council approves relief for interior Russia. Medicine machinery and other needed goods will be sent in exchange for grain and flax via cooperative societies to ensure peasants receive the aid. The policy toward soviet governments remains unchanged.
Former European relief chief Herbert Hoover said the removal of the blockade on Soviet Russia removes a major prop for the Bolsheviks. He argued the blockade fueled socialist failures and justified army mobilization to stave off famine, predicting collapse once relief is possible.
New York socialist assemblymen face a formal inquiry over allegiance to an alien empire as Martin W. Littleton argues the group may be plotting a Soviet style government. He demands charges not be dismissed and asserts the five members are agents of a hidden internationale.
Local investors in Big Timber and Sweet Grass County welcomed news of extensive Alkali Butte district development in Fremont County Wyoming. The article notes about 15000 dollars in local investments and a geologist predicting the property could be worth 50000000 dollars, with operations near Riverton. It details drilling history by H E Gilver and Inland Oil and Refining Company, and early wells by Cheno Oil Company showing commercial production with a 100 barrel producer at 866 feet and strong gas flow, oil grading high with 41 degrees Beaume and 20 percent lubricating oil content.
Congress marked thrift week as both houses trimmed spending. The House Public Buildings Committee dropped a public buildings bill this session, while the House Foreign Affairs panel reduced diplomatic and consular services to 28 813 038. The Senate eliminated 842 500 000 for the current year and cut Americanization funding, shifting 4 500 080 to the end of the 1921 fiscal year. Democrats and Republicans united to approve the pork reductions.
A Bolshevik and anarchist deportation party arrives at the Soviet Union frontier but the Kremlin will allow only three entrants Emma Goldman Alexander Berkman and Peter Bianski. A delegation including Maksim Gorky’s wife awaited arrivals as border officials halted other exiles.
The Masonic lodge of Big Timber will host a dinner dance in honor of Eastern Star members in the Masonic hall tomorrow night. A program is also planned.
W A Harrison 84 died Friday at Reed Point hotel after months of paralysis illness. Funeral Sunday at Congregational church with Rev. Wilbur Isley officiating. Interment at Mountain View Cemetery beside wife who died in 1918. Harrison born in Ontario and came to Montana in 1866. first Sweet Grass county assessor. later ran a logging camp and rail ties for Northern Pacific. survived by three sons Cecil Dell and Lee. brother Al Harrison attended.
Police say a plan to assassinate public figures by distributing bombs next May Day or July 4 was thwarted by two raids that arrested 18 extremists linked to the Union of Russian Workers. Evidence included pipe bombs and bomb materials. The group reportedly planned to target officials, DOJ agents, and police in multiple locations.
A new industrial establishment was added to the Big Timber area this week. H. J. Liek and B. Louidis opened the City Tire Shop just off the Duncan garage. The firm will specialize in vulcanizing and retreading auto tires.
Big Timber requires a certificate of gross tare and net weight for all bulk sales of coal grain wood hay and similar goods. Police may demand weight tests at delivery and scales. Violations punishable by fines from 25 to 300 dollars for dealers and 25 to 50 for drivers. Fire Chief Kirkwood warns of ordinance abuses.
In Louisville on January 20, leaders from both branches unanimously approved merger recommendations to form a single Methodist church. The unified church would be governed by a general council of 800 members chosen by regional conferences and meet every four years, reducing the general conference’s power.
Senator McNary of Oregon introduced a bill for a 250 million dollar federal reclamation bond to fund irrigation projects. The measure stems from western governors and irrigation committees talks, aiming to extend 32 reclamation projects to reclaim about 2,000,900 acres and help 30 to 50 thousand veteran servicemen obtain 50 acre farm lots on existing projects.
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