Congress Moves to Fast-Track Bills in Early Session
Washington December 8 congressional leaders signal a quick, businesslike start to the new session aiming to pass a budget, a $335,000,000 tax cut bill, and a near one billion dollar supply measure. Senate reads the president's budget forecasting surpluses for the current and next year amid the death of Senator McKinley.
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Associated Press
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Gaines
Texas
Treasury
Post Office
Butte Treasurer to Call $150000 General Fund Warrants
Butte to redeem $150,000 in general fund warrants on December 15 using receipts from the first 1926 tax installment. Payments have reduced city obligations to about $20,000 of the $380,000 due, with taxes mailed November 30 contributing to the total. Regular monthly calls have saved interest versus annual calls, per the treasurer’s office.
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Butte
First appropriation bill faces delay over prohibition clash
The House began work on annual Treasury and Post Office appropriation bills but adjourned after an hour amid looming debate on prohibition. The draft includes 763 million for the postal service and 127 million for the treasury, with 1.99 million for the prohibition unit and 15.349 million for coast guard anti liquor enforcement. Three committee members opposed the enforcement funding, and two others reserved rights to vote against certain prohibition provisions.
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Washington
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Appropriations Committee
Postal Service
Treasury
Prohibition Unit
Gallivan
Massachusetts
Cullen and Griffin
New York
Coast Guard
Clemenceau Mourns Monet at Funeral Rites in France
Georges Clemenceau wept openly as Claude Monet was laid to rest in Giverny. The aging premier, famed as the Tiger, walked part of the way to the cemetery before riding in a car, recalling their long friendship that began from a misdelivered note in a Bohemian cafe in 1875.
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Associated Press
Giverny
France
Georges Clemenceau
Claude Monet
Monet
Clemenceau
Count Salm-Hoogstraeten recalls marriage details in divorce case
New York December 8 Count Ludwig Salm Hoogstraeten testified in his separation suit about financial benefits from his marriage to Millicent Rogers heiress and failed to recall the exact wedding date. Amid probing questions he spoke of a penniless nobleman supported by the American heiress and the couple’s volatile exchange with counsel.
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Associated Press
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Millicent Rogers
Standard Oil
Salim
Missouri Senators to vote wet despite dry majority
Chicago Dec. 8 The Associated Press reports Senator Reed and Senator-Elect Hawes of Missouri informed the W C T U they will vote wet despite Missouri’s record dry referendum. WCTU national headquarters cited other wet referendums in New York and Illinois as binding mandates.
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Chicago
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Hawes
Missouri
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New York
Illinois
Jardine to Attend National Wool Growers Convention in Butte
Secretary Jardine of the U S Department of Agriculture will attend the National Wool Growers association convention in Butte January 21 and 22. He will address the gathering the morning of January 22 and head to Salt Lake City January 23. An estimated 1 960 to 1 560 visitors are expected, with a special Northern Pacific train announced.
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National Wool Growers’ Association
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M.S. Eisenhower
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National Livestock Association
Salt Lake
Utah
Secretary of Agriculture
Northern Pacific
Glen
Treasury robbery probe widens in Plentywood
Suspect to be questioned about the November 9 robbery of the county treasurer's office Eng Tor stenson as Attorney General L. A. Foot and National Surety representatives review books and witness testimony in Plentywood. Assistant Attorney General Stanley Rh. Foot departs Helena for Minot as examinations continue.
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Associated Press
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National Surety Company
Eng Torstenson
Stanley Rh. Foot
Helena
Minot
World Will Care For Deserted Boy
Chicago authorities sheltered a four year old found wandering in Cicero with a note from his mother claiming she could no longer care for him. The note identifies him as Mitchell Micky born November 11, 192%. The message asks officials to take good care of the boy.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Cicero
Mitchell Micky
Grim West tales color risk in Lotta Crabtree suit
Boston dispatch reports in Suffolk probate court Mrs. Carlotta Cockburn of San Gabriel seeks kinship to the late Lotta Crabtree to share in her $4 million estate. Depositions recount frontier crime, stage robberies, and ties to Tombstone days, including Jack Crabtree and the Comstock mine era.
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Suffolk
Carlotta Cockburn
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Plorence Stillman
Brisbane
Welle Parco Express Company
Butte Juvenile Delinquency Falls With Supervised Play
The Butte juvenile court saw 67 boys before Judge J. d. Lynch in the last year, with five sent to Miles City and fourteen given sentences to the industrial school but only three violating parole. In 1919, 195 boys faced crimes from burglary to incorrigibility, with 49 convicted and numerous placements in reform schools or on suspended sentences. Probation Officer David O Connor cites supervised play and community support from the Y M C A Knights of Columbus and civic clubs as reducing delinquency, noting no box car thefts by juveniles in the past year as youths stay in sports.
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Silver County
Butte
J. d. Lynch
Miles City
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Putte
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Civic Clubs
Montana Congressman Proposes Highway Aid Based on 1916 Mileage
Washington Dec 8 The measure would base federal aid to states for highway construction on seven percent of the miles of road in each state as of December 41 1916 replacing the 1921 mileage rule. Republican Rep Teavin of Montana introduced the bill.
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Toprevent
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Montana
Beating Death Probe Opens as Inquest Hears Testimony
Coroner Pat Holland opened the probe into Jalmer Pantilla's death yesterday afternoon. Three hours of conflicting testimony were heard before a break at 5 pm, with morning continuation planned. Witnesses include Connie Boyle, dancer at Finn hall on North Wyoming, alleged to have fought Pantilla after a dance hosted by Violet Ranta of 44% East Park Street.
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Pat Holland
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East Park Street
Linwood Killing After Christmas Gift Request
Kimily Collins, 18, was struck and killed on a dark Linwood road near Chester by a Black man when she refused to hand over Christmas gifts she had bought for her father. Police investigations are ongoing.
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Kimily Collins
Linwood
By & Negro
Shocks Felt Across Mexicali And Calexico In Series Of Earthquakes
Multiple earthquakes rattled Mexicali and Calexico with light damage reported in places. Shocks began around 4 PM and recurred at intervals, accompanied by rain. No serious destruction noted as tremors also reached El Centro and Imperial Valley areas.
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Nature on Rampage in Southern California Storms
A freak storm lashed Southern California with water spouts thunder lightning hail and heavy rain. Santa Monica tides produced a funnel cloud four miles offshore while Long Beach and Catalina area sightings reported water spouts. Whittier saw a half inch of rain between noon and 1 pm as sewers flooded streets turned to rivers. Old residents recalled it as a rare event.
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Bay District
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Whittier
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Death Penalty for 16 Russian Bandits
The Soviet Supreme Court today sentenced 16 convicted bandits to be shot. The condemned belonged to a gang of about 80 men active in the Tartar republic, responsible for violence and pillage. The remainder received varying terms of imprisonment.
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Moscow
Soviet Supreme Court
Tartar Republic
ELOPER SEEKS AMICABLE ADJUSTMENT WITH HUSBAND
Mia Isabella Keyes Burch of Yonkers and Captain Arnaldo Marson, arrested on a Mann act charge after a cross country elopement, seek reconciliation with her husband. She left for the East after the grand jury declined indictments, aiming to return to San Francisco around January 1. Marson remains in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Mia Isabella Keyes Burch
Yonkers
N. Ha
Arnaldo Marson
Captain Marson
Federal Grand Jury
Enforcement chief served liquor witness testifies
In San Francisco on December 8, Colonel Ned M. Green the deposed prohibition administrator for Northern California and Nevada faced testimony in his embezzlement trial. Colonel Sam I. Johnson a former enforcement official described two dinners at Green's hotel apartment where intoxicants were consumed. Participants included Johnson's son Ivan Colonel Green Colonel Dodge a local businessman and two women Mrs Dodge and Miss Marme Crifith of Palo Alto. Johnson said Green drank several and later Ivan brought two bottles of wine.
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Ned M. Green
California
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United States District Court
Sam I. Johnson
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Prohibition Enforcement
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Colonel Green
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