Montana Butte Standard (Newspaper) - April 12, 1935, Butte, Montana 23 CHILDREN KILLED IN BUSTRAIN CRASH METAL PRICES Copper Blue Eagle Silver Zinc Treasury price world price East We New fork taut aril HOME EDITION The Standard carries the most extensive telegraph news service In ESTABLISHED FRIDAY APRIL PHONE PRICE FIVE WHEAT SOARS AS DUST STORMS CONTINUE Mining Area Boom Seen in Silver Move EFFECT ON DOMESTIC SITUATION AS WHOLE IS NOT INFLATIONARY Encouraged to Renew Battle for 16 to 1 Coin Ratio TOWNS AROUSED TO HOPE SAN April lode areas took a new interest In life today un der the stimulus of the over night boost in the governments price for the newly mined white Ghost towns from the Sierra to the Rockies and from the Canadian border to the Mexican line stirred OldTime Miners danced with Some of the oldtime glint returned to the eyes of hardbitten silver In some saloons served drinks on the house to cele brate the Mining and metal stocks turned over with increased momentum on exchanges from New York to San Silver mine operators predicted a further rejuvenation of the already awakening Move Exponents of silver as a monetary factor hailed the move as heralding the broadening and strengthening of the nations credit In the practical sense the price increase to 71 cents a fine ounce meant for on the basis of 1934 production it would add only about to the value of silver mined I in the United States during that The real in view of the was that silver was on Its way toward its former level of value in comparison with and that the price increase would mean the difference between profit and loss in many mines now lying dor mant or being operated only on the thinnest of To Encourage I am highly said For mer Senator Tasker of Ne now head of the mining loan division of the PRO office I he that the increase will result in the broadening and strengthening of the credit structure because it will en courage an Increase of production along with A larger produc tion of gold and silver would have Continued on Page DIFFICULTIES FORESEEN ABROAD April fi Gauging the economic consequences of future gov silver Washington economists to night foresaw primarily an in creasing prosperity in the sec which mine that If treasury plans work out in com ming months as they have in the they thought the effect upon he domestic situation as a whole would be only slightly inflationary In the foreign thes iaw complications arising which made prediction Inflationists on the heels of the increase in the price of congressional infla ionists and were aged to rise again their ancient 16 and free coinage battle stand They rallied behind a by Sen ator which the agricultur committee approved during the day It would direct the treasury to buy at least ounces of silver month until the market price o silver reaches an ounce th real value of an ounce of pure gol equals that of 16 ounces of silver or until the monetary re serves contain 25 per cent silver 75 per cent Upon the attainment of any o these objectives free and coinage of silver would become ef 49 to The present ratio based upon th new coinage value of 71 cents ounce for silver and the statutory value of an ounce for gold B 49 to If and when silver reache in the markets and in coinage value its statutory value of an the ratio will be 27 to All the Wheeler provisions ex cept that of free coinage and th 161 feature were contained in las years silver purchase save tha it left the rate of purchase to Vat discretion of the Th Wheeler measure would make th monthly acquisition of ounces Despite the optimism of the si democratic leaders mini Continued on Page Bishop Cannon Praises Al Smith for Raps In a little frame church on Lowell 1 shipers made up for their lack avenue an internationally famous numbers in the absorbed intere Bishop James Cannon delivered a sermon to the mem bers of his Methodist Episco pal last The congregation is small but the at tendance was one of the largest in the history of the The wor which they showed in the bishop contrary established applauded hi at the The who was Continued on Page COVERED WAGONS DRAW NEAR PROSPECT GOAL Victims of Tragedy Are School Kids Returning to Their Homes From Uni versity Man gled by Terrific Collision April The Baltimore Ohio railway of ices here announced tonight 23 children had been killed in the school bustrain crash at Rock April At least fourteen high school pu pils died tonight in the crash of a speeding train Into their school A Rockville physician said short ly after midnight that the bodies of six boys and three girls about 14 to 15 years old were In one undertaking establishment He added that two boy and a died at George town hospital and still another child in the Montgomery county general The physician said the bodies were badly muti lated but that he believed all could be The Rockville rescue a volunteer fire took the Injured to and fire men from and Kensing ton aided in moving the bodies from the scene of the white faced and trembling and nearly all of them nursing cuts and were taken into Rockville homes until their parents could come for The whose age ranged down from 18 were accom by the principal of the high which they They were returning from a chemistry exhibition at the Uni sity of a lew miles north of The view of the crossing on outskirts of this village was de scribed by police as not Continued on Page V REQUIRED TO PICK FOR CRIP JOB Nagle Says Law of Last Legislature Covers Case April principals and superin of elementary and high schools of the state hereafter must be residents of Montana for a year before they can be Attorney General Raymond Nagle held oday in interpreting a measure enacted into law by the re cent The opinion answered a request of Miss Frances county attorney of Lewis and Clark The attorney general said that the In in the house of representatives by Representative Eugene Burris of Deer Lodge would make it mandatory tor the University of Montana at In selecting a foot ball to pick one from Montana If there were Montana applicants seeking the It would eliminate any pos bility of selecting an coach if trained coaches from this state were after the Attorney General Nagle recited part of the act which rends N state or other public corporation 0 including or state or public boards departments and other public bodies shall employ aliens or that this shall riot appl to the employment of technical educated and trained when persons of sue TRI POWERS WOULD FORCE PACT RESPECT April A new plan for protecting the peace of Europe appeared In pros tonight at conclusion of the first day of the Stresa The plan will be based upon forcing respect for Force would be exercised in April high for eign office official told the Asso elated Press Germany participate in an future for disarmament o security pacts on the basts o complete The declar ing his the absolute cial policy of Adolf j said n t quite simple we are willing to join con and help make such a treaty on the basis of full If the oth ers want heavy IS VISIONS BY Roosevelt Proceeds With Five Billion Plan to Break Back of April While President Roosevelt drafted details of his work program designed to break the back of administration said today they expected pub lic works to become a permanent part of the national Harry the relief ad said the work program by putting men to work would break the back of the relief bugaboo so far as the government was He added that he expected public works would con At about the same President Roosevelt and delegation of mayors got together in an effort to decide how much of the four billion dollars should be expended on city Among some of the mayors there had been the expressed fear that the where the bulk of the un employed would not receive enough money to put their men to Officials declined to talk about the matter or how it would be After the city officials lelt the Continued on Page classes cannot be secured among th citizens of the state of Term Allen The term alien or noncitizen is defined tinder the act as one wh Is not native or who has his intention to become a citizen and a resident of this state for a least one year preceding the date o Violations of the ac arc punishable as Continued on Page Hubby Sues Mary CROPS IN OKLAHOMA TEXAS AND KANSAS Pall Still Hangs Over Plains Area Many Desert Section WHEAT PRICES UP 4 CENTS BUSHEL ASTOR Announcement was made In Lo Angeles that Thorpe would flic stilt for divorce from Mary Astor above of the Disclosure of the martial rift sur prised FIREMEN DROWN 2YEAROLD GIRL April who drenched a house extinguish a fire here lost drowned a 2ycarold In th basement of the It was dis covered The body of Jane Elizabeth Woods daughter of and Prase was found in the basemen after a search made for her the MONTANA RELIEF COMMISSION REMAINS AT ODDS WITH S CHIEF OVER ADMINISTRATOR Appointment of Former Senator Erickson as Stat Head Announced Status of Butler Remains i Doubt Regional FERA Spokesman Expected to G to Washington for a Conference With Hopkins April newly relief now at odds with National Administrate Harry may remain adamant in Its demand tha Former United States Senator John Erickson be confirmee as state seemed likely Members of Expedition j Lunch With Rotary Club Camp Fire Girls we want heavy If the Hitler others want bomb Ing we want bombing If the others cut their we will Our demands for an army of 36 35 per cent i of Great Britains navy and equality STUDENT ANTI WAR STRIKES STIR TROUBLE April ing tension between the University of Chicago antiwar ard Advising of appointment on April the new commission headed by Larry Duggan of In its first pub lic announcement called at tention to the fact action on the confirmation had been withheld in When the Time From Royal Mann of commission came an In dication of the commissions atti tude in the matter when he Well tall about that when the time in response to an in as to the commissions prob able move should Hopkins continue to defer BUSINESS AND SOCIAL LIFE HALTED By thr Out of the choking clouds which still hung like a ence over thousands of square in the Southwest in the brewing spot of big dust storms reports emerged rapidly can groups tonight sent police In quartern there was evl to the campus when disturb the dilemma confronting the Continued on Page Continued on Pasce Serve Delicious closer to the goal they hope to attain by next Monday members of the Silver Bow Covered Wagon expedition of the lunched with the Rc club presented trophies to the m th are winners of the grade school basket ball league includ ing girls teams from Patrick and Joseph schools and boys teams from Joseph and Ram say Curtis Wilson was chairman i of the The speakers were I Sam secretary of the Suite Rotary club members and a i Peter and number of grade school champions j son yr Gunderson the at ihe Y yesterday j I c drive now noon 10 report that then has reached the total of Continued on Page these ways against an aggressor Threat of combined military action by the powers determined to uphold political moral pressure with provisions for the economic Isolation of any out law Birth of the new peace plan ap imminent as the statesmen Continued on Page 5j Scientists Replace Mans Severed Finger With Toe April mans toe been grafted to his scientists to a finger had been nrci The operation was performed by who described it to he Surgeons He said results of the were Ihe can bend hii new grated al The second toe of he foot was transplanted o right NEW April eral business may be suffering from a lack of the bulld im industry sinus of real activity for the first time during the Indications that from Maine to Texas are the adminis tration anl repair program were seen today in March construction volume of permits I for any month fine April According f Dun ami permits for new altera tions and repairs in March reached a total of a rise i of 63 PT cent February total of up per from thr figure f Friday anl Saturday warmer southeast portion Thursday night of mounting losses in the money Piece by piece the gloomy picture came from the area where the storm was concent southwestern northwestern Oklahoma and the Texas Some Good It was tempered in part by The big wheat of north central Kansas maintained a favorable Haln and snow raised hopes In Hie northwestern tier of the AAA rushed plans for full benefit payments to farmers who plant no In the grain wheat rose nearly four cents a Walter elevator estimated the wheat crop damage In the panhandle to range between and based on cur rent Bent Wheat Harry president of the Oklahoma board of de clared that most of best wheat Is Three states reported flights of families from stricken More than 100 families were on their way lo new homes from and Texas in the Oklahoma There a pall hung In eastern New farmers were leaving Union One estimate of those Involved In the exodus was 8 per In Hamilton county at the western edge of Harry a said a few families had left but that they wore not established farmers with money Invested In their Train Near Garden a combi nation freight and passenger train remained stalled for the third con Its locomotive de railed by drifted behind it a rescuing wrecker also was Texas stole senators wore sur on Page WARMER WEATHER TO CONTINUE HERE Fair and warmer much welcomed In was scheduled to continue the weather prophet caid last After hiding out for nearly two Old Sol wheeled across a cloudless sky For the firs time this year the Its too was heard In the after Temperatures climbed to their high st points of the At Park and Main the thermometer showed April The disaster of springtime dust storms was converted Into cash terms today as wheat prices bounded Spurred by a sensationally low government estimate of the pros winter wheat traders lid wheat futures contracts up to lew high Gains of nearly our cents a bushel were recorded shortly after the market and so spirited was the trading that on the blackboard lagged those In the Sell for Selling for profit sheared off some of the days but May wheat closed at to 98c a bushel and September at to May wheat missed the dollar mark at one time by Just Destruction of winter wheat and abandonment of western Kansas and Colorado was reflected In the department of agriculture forecast for a bushel 55 million bushels short of the latest estimates by private crop The released caught the trade by surprise after wheat prices had already risen 2Ho on the Wednesday Dust Still Today there was no cheerful to counteract the bullish The worst dust storm of the season was still blowing wheat right out of tha farmers front There was some but no appreciable precipita tion In the afflicted and the crop report left the Impression with the traders that wheat prospects In the belt west of the 100th meridian might as well be cut the days gain down to Hie to for While wheat was there were spreading sales of corn that brought a loss of Vie to Ic a although slightly higher at the MINNESOTA IN GOOD April wheat lands of the Southwest were choked in the grip of a new and Continued on Page April ern railroads are spending 000 to seal their trains against dust storms and summer Harry chairman of the Western Association of Railway announced today that through this expenditure trains car more than 75 per cent of tha western lines passengers will have been by May Efficacy of the new system had been conclusively he wnen recent travelers on air conditioned cars came unsullied through clouds of silt rolling over the great HIGHWAYS RECENTLY BLOCKED BY SNOW DRIFTS NOW OPEN T i I the April again are open Motorists Warned to Look and in Motorists are c TI in anA i warned to be on the lookout for Out for Frost Roils and frost Ms Chains Are Ad frost tion in general but the situa has Improved so noticeably that load restrictions on the road from Drummond to Mis in effect for more a probably will be lifted tana highway commission the Butte Chamber of Principal tome of which were blocked by the drifts left by to be opened is on the road from Missoula into ac Continued on Page
