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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1925
Page
7
City officials debated bill adjustments and delinquent taxes in regular session. Martin Sunberg body shipped to Braham for funeral. Leonard Grossman sues for divorce and custody citing cruelty. Helena Scottish Rite reunion opened with secret master degrees postponed to tonight.
Governor Erickson’s communications to the house and senate review pardons granted by former Governor Dixon over the past two years. The document was filed after a motion by Representative Loble. The package includes a copy of a proposed constitutional amendment on labor and a notice to inspect WIAs before the next assembly. A Tillings normal school proposal moves through the house as a notice of intent to introduce a bill, mirroring a senate measure.
The funeral of August Twerlke of 1413 Lyndale Avenue, a Northern Pacific railroad employee, was held yesterday afternoon in Herrmann and Company’s chapel. Rev. H. W. Woods officiated. Burial followed at Forestvale. Mr. Twerlke died last Saturday.
O F Attention announces installation of O F Excelsior No 5 Montana No 1 on Tuesday January 13. All visiting members are cordially invited. A good time is assured.
Officers and directors of the Montana Development Association were re elected at the annual meeting held yesterday. W A Selvidge of Billings is president with John Lovelace Missoula Aubrey M Holter Helena W D B Symes Lewistown and W C Lang Havre as vice presidents and L C Babcock Billings as treasurer. Directors include Carl Hummer Kalispell Floren Giese James Humphrey Great Falls Niblock Dillon William Tuohy J E Woodard R H Ruble Butte Coy Anaconda Ben Briscoe Toston John Truscott Glasgow Wilford Johnson Lewistown T O Hammond Helena H Hi McLeod Missoula Rithengar Phinns Neal Leand Brown Miles City. The program supports Montana certified seed potatoes and crop diversification, marketing Montana potatoes in southern states, and cooperation with railroads and chambers of commerce to attract settlers.
Handcuffed editor Carl Tresca of the New York Italian paper il Ma reflo is driven to Atlanta federal prison to serve a one year sentence for publishing a birth control advertisement.
Washington high court declines to rule on Warren Worth Galley a Democratic candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania s 20th district seeking a recount of ballots. The decision leaves the electoral challenge unresolved and maintains the existing tally.
Rome police rounded up a group of 33 Communists after incendiary speeches and the display of a red hammer and sickle flag. Eleven women were among the detainees. Officials seized a flag planted on a pole in Corso Vittorio Emmanuele bearing the slogan Viva Anarchy.
Rev. F L Stockwell spoke at the Kiwanis luncheon on Christian education and Intermountain Union College, the joint venture of Methodists and Presbyterians. Others included George Snell and W D Kyle, with program chairs Spaulding and Weinstein. Stockwell described the college as a major experiment with economic, civic, and educational impact, stressing character building over wealth.
City health officer Dr Arthur Jordan reports that children with whooping cough are visiting public buildings. Parents should keep them at home. A weekly free clinic for babies is today at 1 30 P M in the court house basement. Dr Jordan will vaccinate for smallpox and offer diphtheria toxin antitoxin on Saturday mornings.
Private funeral was held last Saturday in Seattle for P. J. Clark who died Thursday. Daughters Mrs S T Hauser of Helena and Mrs A H Cox of Seattle accompanied the body to Helena for burial in the family plot amid relatives and intimate friends. Clark was a pioneer of Montana.
Mrs. Nathaniel Ford received notice of the death of her mother Mrs. Eliza Gitt Nottingham Md who died January 2 Heavy snowstorms disrupted telegraph lines and left roads impassable delaying the message. Mrs. Nottingham was 74 and survived by two children Mrs. Ford of Helena and Richard Johnson of Nottingham.
A large turnout at South Methodist Church in Chico under Ku Klux Klan auspices featured a piano number by a Black performer, which was well received by the audience.
Helena hosts the Montana League of Women Voters for its fourth annual convention, with sessions at 2 pm and a capstone event at the State Capitol tonight. Delegates will discuss world peace, child labor, jury service, and education, with Governor Hickerson and other officials attending and a public luncheon arranged for tomorrow.
Senators from the Silver Bow delegation discuss consolidation plans with at least three options under review. A bill to adopt the Revised Codes of 1921 23 is anticipated, while illness delays and absences shuffle attendance. Two young men who moved from North Dakota to Montana twenty years ago now hold state senate roles, with Shelver of Park County noted as the senior figure and an aging photograph of the upper house emerging.
The Federal Trade Commission will begin hearings March 13 in New York on charges that General Electric American Telephone and Telegraph Western Union Radio Corporation of America and others conspired to restrain trade and form a monopoly in radio and related electrical devices. Edward J. Smith will oversee testimony with company attorneys present.
The Montana Sheriffs association committee on legislation met here yesterday to work on bills to be submitted to the state assembly with support from the full group. Members include John Mountjoy Jefferson County Jim Barnes Lewis and Clark County and Undersheriff A S Robinson Silver Bow County.
A string of guests is listed at the Placer and Harvey hotels in Missoula Helena and Great Falls including Lualta Powers Esther Roth and J N Joffray with other visitors from Boulder Townsend Cascade and White Sulphur Springs. Also notes Dan Tillman clashes over liquor probing Congress while long time Montana politicians Muffly McCone Brownlee Schofield and Esp are mentioned amid a January Washington roundup.
The fourth annual Conference for the Prevention of Grain Rust urged continued appropriations to support anticarberry work. Minnesota Governor Thasdoré Christiansen was elected president as delegates from 24 states and Canada gathered with officials and researchers. Dean Freeman warned against optimism after a mild rust season, noting about 1.5 million barberry bushes were removed in 1924 and another million likely next year.
The Muscle Shoals bill moves through the Senate as Representative Hillman defends Congress amid liquor charge discussions. Vice Chairman Plummer testifies to the Shipping Board while Borah pushes farm legislation. Washington accepts a War claims settlement. The Supreme Court holds states cannot force a private carrier to carry for hire. Attorney General Stone's Supreme Court nomination cleared a sub committee, Charles B. Warren's nomination referred for review.
Two men died and three others were critically ill after a wedding in Gilbertsville near Pottsville. Police and doctors say a powerful poison contaminated the punch, initially thought to be poisoned alcohol. Several wedding guests and many in the Makosing valley were treated as investigations continued.
Associated Press reports in Melilla that new Spanish troop contingents have begun landing in Morocco. A punitive raid on Moorish tribesmen at Ineyasen used tanks armored cars and machine guns. A rebel convoy was ambushed. two rebels killed and several wounded.
Federal Judge Wilkerson upholds the rail labor board power to compel witnesses to appear and testify. J Maquire, Chicago and Northwestern engineer chapter leader, signals no appeal. Also noted is the death of Rev. E E Moran, former Princeton faculty member and Presbyterian leader, with brief reference to other notices in New York.
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