Montana Butte Standard (Newspaper) - July 23, 1935, Butte, Montana JAPANESE MACHINE GUNNERS FIRE ON MISSION METAL PR ES 8c 67 Lead New York HOME EDITION The Standard carries the most extensive telegraph news service In ESTABLISHED TUESDAY JULY PHONE PRICE FIVE ITALY DROPS GOLD STANDARD ON EVE OF WAR Senate Gag Rale Fails to Halt Scorching Debate on Reciprocal Tariff Policy HELD OVER Solons Table Amendment to Subject Trade Pacts to Approval of Congress Upper House Eastman Opposes New Railroad Pension Legis lation Borah Inflation Threat Meets July 22 administration ef fort to shove the AAA through the senate by shut ting off debate today ran into a snag that held the measure over until The senate then will resume a Soviet Flyer Delayed SIGMUND Unfavorable weather yesterday prevented a takeoff from Moscow on the Soviet aviators projected nonstop flight over the North pole to San MIDGET July The government tonight planned to mint midget money as an aid to state sales ta If congress grants permis which Secretary Morgan thau said will be sought with in the next day or the treasury will turn out and mill coins to help cor rect Inequities that have arisen In state sales tax said President Roosevelt had approved the plan and was quick to dis claim the action foretold a fed eral sales CHEER 15 scorching debate to decide the fate of the reciprocal tariff Earlier the senate had marched through most of the amendments ahead of voting to validate the AAAs crop benefit contrasts in the same stride in which it wiped out of the measure the last vestige of powers sought by the secretary of agriculture to bolster marketing Continued on Page ED PLEADS Gin OF MURDER IN SET IS Nazi Church Affairs Min ister Says Campaign Only Taste of What Is to Come July An appeal to Americans of all reli faiths to join in an economic boycott against Germany brought cheers in the house of representa tives Emanuel a said he was speaking not only in behalf of his own race but for the Catholic and Continued on Page Senate Provides 000 From Work Relief Fund for Purchase of Areas in Western Montana to Be Among the States to Benefit From Program Government Options Taken Up July of acres of land in the Rocky Mountain West are involved in a pro gram for purchase and re of submarginal lands for which funds were approved today by the senate through an amendment to the AAA act offered by Sen ator Mon The Montanan introduced an amendment setting aside for the work and explained it was to meet a ruling of Comptroller General McCarl that none of the works relief fund could be used for such purposes al though it had been so Montana Options have been taken on large tracts of land in Wyo Colorado and New Mexico but they have not bren taken up be cause of lack of funds resulting from McCarls It was Wheelers original inten tion to seek a new appropriation for the purchase and retirement of submarginal lands but he finally Continued on Page ARID LANDS FACE NEW FUTURE AS IRRIGATION WORK COONEY SAYS Cooney Returns From Washington Enthusiastic Over Projects Which Will Be Constructed in July Ralph Scott of Man former resident of South pleaded guilty here today to the first degree murder of James Earl in a sheep wagon near Gage the night of June The youth was arraigned before Justice of the Peace John Smith aro nut and waived preliminary He ana tance are put was bound over to without District William will hear testimony in the here July July arid and semi arid lands will soon take a turn for the better as irriga tion projects of various size district court i Governor Frank j Cooney said today on his Ford j return from case D c Governor Cooney was enthusiastic over the reception he received at the Emergency Relief Director Harry and several department were to the fullest The governor returned to Mon tana with one brief but encouraging menage Montana is going to be Scarcely in Helena half a the governor motored to Townsend to night to attend a meeting of ranch ers and farmers in connection with the proposed Missouri river dam near which he Continued on Page Sheriff Ralph Tail and Deputy Georse Rogers brought Scott from the Yellowstone county Jail at national capital in connection with lines for the arraignment and the state water conservation pro I He said President Continued on Page with whom he had a EXPLOSIONS AND FIRE WRECK HUGE DISTILLERY IN ILLINOIS Damages of as Flames StrOV Three Buildings at op rage house and then leaped to j rack Big Hiram alker two rack 3 virtually was Company July said the firm maintained ries of explosions followed by fire j a night but that no men were tonight three buildings o believed to have been av in DHOTI 1LS TO Fl i July Nineteen thousand heads oi were removed from Dakota relief lolls tonight in a drastic move i to force them to seek employment in j the harvest j Spurred by fanners that dole recipients had to i go to work gathering officials i ordered a suspension of ai state and Continued on Page 7j RETIRED BOZEMAN FIRE CHIEF DIES Hiram Walker caus ing which was mated at Two men were reported trapped in but officials were unable to confirm the j report the fire fighting w taxed the suddenness and tensity of the Continued on Page July Bilyi retired of tile died suddenly n He was the chief of the Bozeman fire a position hr had held 36 years when he retired in Americans Endangered by Fusillade School Buildings in Chi nese City Showered With Bullets From Nipponese Gunboat July ering of machine pun bullets from a Japanese gunboat upon the American missionary school of college at Y or Hunan was reported by an American missionary arriving here The incident occurred last the Edwin Beck of He refused to accept the suggestion that It was American consular authorities said they had eyewitness accounts of the incident hut had withheld It from publication for fear of harming re Every life in the college build ings and residences for foreigners was imperiled by the shower of machine gun the Beck Missionary headquarters of the Reformed Church of the United States at Philadelphia said five missionaries were at the of which the Beck is second in The director Is a The missionary wan skeptical of a suggestion that the still might have de from its course during tar get Hitherto target prac tice lias been held farther from Japanese embassy officials and Japanese naval authorities at Shanghai said they had no Infor mation concerning the reported The United States lega tion at likewise announced It had not been informed of IRISH RELIGIOUS BATTLE SPREADING Northern July fight that began with the Orange mens day celebration of July 12 definitely became a religious bat tle today as it spread southward into the Irish Free street fights and at least one strike were todays Murder in were Comedian Yelps for Help Crowd Enjoys a Laugh MONTE July lime Jack radios Baron wasnt The comedian was drowned today because his friends did not know he couldnt Pearl made comic dive Into the deep end of a Monte Carlo thinking it was the shallow The Vas you Sharlie star floundered around in the struggling and calling for But Pearls friends mistook his fries for comedy and lie went down for the third time before life guards pulled him They revived him after 30 minutes of resuscitation MONTANA POWER DOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETS IN BUTTE Again Heads Montana Power FRANK who was reelected president and general manager of the Montana Power company by the new board of directors at their Initial meeting in The board is composed of twelve members of whom eleven are Montana all distinguished by preeminent success in their various Stockholders nt annual meeting in June official recognition to longtime desire of President Kerr for a board of Montana men having closeup view of companys problems and in touch with its to meet him in JAPAN THREATENS MILITARY ACTION AGAINST MONGOLIA UNLESS DEMANDS ARE MET OUT OF TWELVE ARE MANS Frank Reelect ed President and Man Secures Local Long NOTED MONTANANS NOW IN CHARGE Action Is Taken as Re sult of Stockholders Vote Quarterly Divi dend Is Financial Circles See Ac tion as Beginning of Uncontrolled Inflation War Costs Are m MS JNI Tokyo Embassy Guarded Following Bitter Tirades in Fascist In spired by Race Statement July official dispatches from Urga fUlan capital of outer tonight said that a representative of the Japa nese army had j delivered an ultimatum k threatening military j action unless Mongolia meets j the Japanese demands of July The military j action would carrier in a I most ire if under i the official on SMS TO Weyerhaeuser Kidnap Fig ure Boards Train for Michigan Federal Tito first meeting of the board of directors of the Mon tana Power company ever held In this state took place at the offices of the company In Butte It was n chosen by the at their annual meeting on June and Is composed of 12 men of whom 10 are Montana j living and having their business In this Of the other two president of the Ana conda Is regarded as much a citizen of Butte as he Is of New though busi ness requirements cause him to live most of the time In New York The board transacted its organiza tion business yesterday and elected officers of the Frank for the last two years presi dent of the company and for many years Its vice president and genera was selected ns temporary chairman of the board and con ducted the Board The members of the board of di rectors of the company arc Norman of member of Montana pioneer fam ily and himself a one of the states earliest merchants and now a retired who was In In early electrical and for whom Holler clam in the Missouri is John Yates of presi dent and manager of the Malin Yates one of the states biggest wholesale grocery a man of large affairs in eastern Peter Pauly of Deer R Montana resident since the one j of the states largest sheep vice president of the Deer i Lodge Bank and Trust company July today in effect abandoned the gold A decree published In the official Gazette relieved the bank of Italy of Its obliga tion to maintain stocks of Rold not Inferior In value to 40 per cent of the notes in The announcement coincided with Italys largescale preparations for war against Officials stated that while tins gold backing for Italys notes has been the does mean Italy formally has abandoned the gold In financial circles Italys action was seen as the beginning of un controlled inflation such as that which wrecked the German cur rency after the World Expenditures Conditions In Italy are not yell comparable to those of postwar according to bub with the great expenditures to bo Continued on Page GREEK SOCIETIES Delegates From Three States in Attendance Meetings to Close With more than 300 delegates from all parts of Idaho and Wyoming in con of the Order of and Ladles Hellenic society got under way here yesterday for their an The busi ness meetings will conclude this af ter noon with election of To night Butte Lodge en and one of the best known men in i will be hosts to vis Hoover of Great prominent member of the on Page Air Trail Blazers Prepare for New Flights Post May Take Will Rogers to Russia LOS July Two trail blazers of the upper Oneeyed Okla globe and In society put their monoplanes through final tests ready lo hop off the first clear day Ihls on separate air takine Will Rae t ikp off in his new red Orphan plane for en route to and then Morrow over a path hr fol lowed tuo years ago when he flew around the world In eight about making Ul admitted had invited Post Kill hr by Post on tlir air who two weeks ago dynamiter her plane across Ihn nonstop flight from Nrw ever made ha u ill trv to Ihr rrr ord of I 7 30 held by Amelia on a flight back to July declaring that she will be glad when prison bars clang behind 19 yearold Margaret left J Tacoma tonight aboard Great j Northern Empire lor the fedj fr in j where was to i 20 years for part In the kidnap ing of 9yearold The young wife of Harmon nontenant to the William the city Jail ceil here in time to hoard a train for Chicago from she will chance cars for the in Sly tii Jail with United Stale make any comment their Chilly and a woman deputy make the it was be glad when I get back Continued on Page WEATHER Montana Generally fair Tuesday anil Wednesday warmer Tuesday east iting delegates and other guests a banquet and grand ball at the Finlen Achilles su preme president of the order will be the principal speaker and Davis will be master of Following registration of visitors yesterday morning the two groups assembled for an opening meeting Continued on Page BOY SCOUT TROOP SELECTED FOR WASHINGTON GATHERING Will Train at n in Irani at Lowlands for Feature at National Meeting Ana condan Is in Personnel of a provisional Boy Scout selected to represent Silver Bow council at a national Jamboree In next month was announced yesterday by The troop Is scheduled to leave Butte M and will return Sep tember according to a schedule mapped The group will make several visits in large Industrial ters In addition to the Before the trip the troop will assemble at Camp Lowlands for a outing during which they will perfect a program that Is to be their contribution at the na tional In leaving here the troop will under the leadership of veteral boy leader and scoutmaster of troop Hoover will also accompany ths The itinerary includes stopovers at New York and Continued on Page
