Amundsen and party greet by King's Bay in triumph
Amundsen and five companions arrive at King's Bay after rescue at North Cape. Riiser Larsen, Sjoeliv captain Wollan, and crews celebrate aboard the Hobby and Heimdal. Norway thanks Amundsen for the safe return and reports no land sighted despite flight over polar waters.
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Hobby
Heimdal
Norway
Amundsen
Ellsworth
Slowoken Aero Club
God
Riiser-Larsen
North Cape
King’s
Nils Wollan
Sjoeliv
King’s Bay
Wollan
Advent Bay
Associated Press
Oslo
Haakon
Roald Amundsen
North Pole
Storting
Lykke
Counar
Spitsbergen
Montacke
Yellowstone Trail Membership Day Highlights Montana Subscriptions
The article notes Montana towns' progress on the Yellowstone Trail membership drive with Butte as the sole 100 percent subscriber in the 100 percent class, St. Regis and Alberton also achieving 100 percent, and other towns like Saltese Missoula Bonita Deer Lodge Livingston and Reed Point in the 75 percent tier. Columbus Custer Hysham Ismay and Baker stand at 60 percent while many towns remain below 50 percent. The piece urges local support to finish the appeal.
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Butte
Montana
St. Regis
Alberton
Saltese
Missoula
Bonita
Deer Lodge
Livingston
Reed Point
Columbus
Custer
Hysham
Ismay
Baker
Governor Will Review Guardsmen On Monday
Helena June 19 Postponement until Monday of the governor s review of the regiment altered the Montana national guard encampment program at Ft Harrison The first regimental baseball semi finals were played eight teams competing Tomorrow riflemen will learn company outpost duties and defensive position selection Machine gun and howitzer units will conduct field inspections and drills The afternoon parade is canceled and an extended recreation period is planned.
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Associated Press
Helena
Montana National Guard
Ft. Harrison
Laundrymen Becomes Marquettes In Butte Baseball Debut
Butte team formerly known as the Laundrymen adopted the Marquettes name after Ernest Dazzie sponsors. They beat Meaderville 20 to 5 with Sokolich Sullivan and B Stodden on the batteries Harrington and Pascoe. The club lists multiple wins and three defeats including A C M and Jay Bees.
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Butte
Marquettes
Marquette Billard Hall
Ernest Dazzie
Meaderville Bunch
Sokolich
Sullivan
B Stodden
Harrington
Pascoe
East Side
Warm Springs
Blanchards
Dublin Gulch
Standard Motors
Whitehall
Meaderville
Centerville
Jay Bees
Dutch Queen Injured in Alpine Car Accident
A dispatch from The Hague reports Queen Wilhelmina of Holland was slightly injured at Champex France near Mount Blanc when her automobile slipped on a glacier.
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The
Associated Press
Ris
the Hague
Wilhelmina of
Holland
Chamonix
France
Mount Blanc
Teapot Dome lease upheld by court in ruling
Judge Kennedy absolved Roosevelt J K Robison EB Finney H Foster Bain and A W Ambrose of fraud in Teapot Dome oil lease negotiations. The ruling found no undue secrecy or improper motive and concluded the government’s fraud charges were unproven. The decision supports Secretary Fall’s actions as proper under the June 4 1920 act.
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Roosevelt
J. K. Robison
Navy Engineering
Denby
EB. C. Finney
Sinclair
Teapot Dome
Lame
Kennedy
Fall
Congress
United States
Executive Branch
Secretary of the Navy
Harding
Secretary of the Interior
Navy Department
Sinclair, Midwest
Pioneer
Humgareve
Umphreys
Continental Company
Fall Says Not Surprised No Statement Made
Albert B. Fall former secretary of the interior arrives in Three Rivers New Mexico on June 19 and offers no statement to reporters stating he has nothing to say about the matter at hand.
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Fall
Associated Press
Three Rivers
N. M
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
Sinclair lease decision pleased Pan American group
The Cheyenne federal ruling upheld Harry F. Sinclair's Teapot Dome lease, with Pan-American Petroleum and Edward J. Doheny expressing gratification. The decision found Navy Admiral Robinson, H Foster Bain, A W Andrews, E C Finney, and Secretary Denby acted in good faith and for the government, noting their roles in negotiating the contracts.
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Associated Vess
Los Angeles
Cheyenne
Harry F
Sinclair
Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve
Pan- American Petroleum
Edward J. Doheny
Paul J. McCormick
Eli Hills Naval Reserve
Kennedy
Sinclair Oil
United States
Frank J. Hogan
Pan-American Petroleum
Doheny
Pan-American
Admiral Robinson
Navy
H. Foster Bain
United States Bureau of Mines
A. W. Andrews
Petroleum
Interior Department
E. C. Finney
the Interior
Denby
Actress in Men's Garb Attends Cook County Hanging
Chicago June 19. A woman, Miss Katheryn Du Noule, an actress, witnessed the execution of Willie Sams, a negro convicted of two murders, by disguising as a man and entering the county jail receiving cell. Jail physician Dr. McNamara stopped her after she admitted her sex and showed a witness card. Sams had killed Meyer Openheim in a holdup and fatally wounded Cornelius Broderick.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Cook
Willie Sams
Katheryn du Noule
J. F. W. McNamara
Sama
Meyer Openheim
Cornelius Broderick
Lord Ordered Murder Says Gilchrist Confession
Thomas Gilchrist told police and the district attorney that, under commands of the Lord, he inflicted the wounds that killed his 19 year old stepdaughter Olive Morris. She died at receiving hospital after being found injured in a vacant lot near the Gilchrist home. England favors British-made films over American productions.
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Los Angeles
Thomas Gilchrist
District Attorney's Office
Olive Morris
Gilchrist
Dr Leavitts Widow Dies in Seattle
Word reached Butte yesterday of the death of Mrs. E. D. Leavitt widow of Dr. BE D Leavitt longtime Butte physician. Dr Leavitt and family are buried in Butte and both were prominent in local social circles. The death was conveyed to Dr T J Murray a longtime family friend.
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Butte
E. D. Leavitt
Seattle
Community Notes From Hamilton and Missoula Visits
Mrs. J H Veeder visits Missoula sister Mrs H A Wheeler. Mrs. William Dineen goes to La Grande Ore to join husband in lumber business. Verna and Ida Foley visit Hamilton mother Mrs J J Dockery. Susie Fischer returns from Bonner to Hamilton for vacation. Elizabeth Torrence sails from New York for extended abroad trip. Margaret and Faith Duncan enter St Patrick hospital nurses program in Missoula. Delmar and Susie Edwards visit Ted at Apgar Glacier Park joined by Myrtle Lee. Mrs Howard Dudley recovering after goiter operation.
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Hamilton
J. H. Veeder
Missoula
H. A. Wheeler
Bert Bentley
William Dineen
la Grande
Ore
Dineen
Verna
Ida Foley
Seattle
J. J. Dockery
Susie Fischer
Bonner
Emilton
Elizabeth Torrence
New York City
Corvallis News Notes Delighted Travelers Head West
Mrs T M Magee and daughters Alice Isabel and Olive visit relatives in Missouri and Kansas before continuing to Kansas City and other Missouri points. Mrs Frank Johnson and daughters head to Vancouver Washington for summer with relatives, joined by Mrs Ivan Edwards.
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Corvallis
T. M. Magee
Alice
Isabel
Olive
Missouri
Kansas
Goodland
Kas
Magee
J. H. Hevyner
Kansas City
Frank Johnson
Mary
Florence
Agnes
Vancouver
Wash
Johnson
Ivan Edwards
Margaret
Catherine Leibel
John Leibel
Helene Schminsky
Gladys Fleming
Ohio
Miss Fleming
Miss Schminsky
Missoula
John Silva
Roy Hull
John Fleming
Sleeping Child Springs
Young pleads not guilty in wife’s death
Dr. Thomas Young, calm and quiet, pleads not guilty to murder in the death of his wife Grace Grogan Young, former wife of olive millionaire Patrick Grogan. Trial set for August 17 in Los Angeles.
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Assocated Press
Los Angeles
Thomas Young
Grace Grogan Young
Olive
Patrick Grogan
Adams heads Rotary at convention in Cleveland
Donald A. Adams of New Haven Connecticut was elected president of Rotary International at the annual convention in Cleveland. Adams defeated Paul H. King of Detroit in balloting yesterday.
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Adams
Rotary
Associated Press
Cleveland
Donald A. Adams
New Haven
Conn
Rotary Internaemake
Paul Detroit
H. King
Witty Talks at Banquet Highlight Christian Endeavor
The banquet featured talks by Mr Bent Asa Gaylord Wilma Harris and a spirited member known as Per severence Peg Dr Groeneveld recalled Francis E Clark visit to Butte 16 years earlier and a burglarized room The program previewed the Portland Oregon convention with over 15000 expected attendees and various testimonies on leadership and youth outreach Delegates chose sight seeing trips including the Leonard shaft Anaconda smelter or Roosevelt drive and Harding way
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Mr. Bent
Asa Gaylord
Wilma Harris
Peg
Dr. Groeneveld
Francis E. Clark
Butte
Groeneveld
Paul C. Brown
International Christian Endeavor
Portland
Ore
Endeavorer Clark
Klemme
Mr. Johnson
Mel Clevett
Louise Shields
Social Service Bureau
Brown
C. E
Austin Worcester
A. L. Hulser
Jena
Los Angeles
Louise F. Shields
Oregon
H. G. Klemme
Bozeman
Archie McPhail
Anaconda
Christian Church
Asa K. Gaylord
State Organization
J. Floyd Ghormley
J. G. Knotter
H. P. Patterson
Charles Wolfe
Montana
Lester H. Bent
Little Basin Reservoir
Z. C. O'Farrell
First Baptist Church
Leonard Shaf
Anaconda Smelter
Roosevelt Drive
Harding Way
French Spanish blockade blocks arms to Abd El Krim coast
A joint French Spanish naval blockade of the Moroccan coast became effective at five this morning to stop arms and munitions reaching Abd El Krim the war leader of Moroccan tribes. Governments reached an agreement last night detailing the blockade.
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Paris
Abd-El-Krim
Ellsworth Tells of Life Struggle During Ice Flight
The account describes life on a high risk polar flight. Ellsworth recalls enduring harsh ice conditions and staying with the plane. Feucht urged cooperation with Amundsen while sharing food and leaving others to seek survival with the Dornier Wal.
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Ellsworth
Feucht
Amundsen
Ellsworth Hero of Expedition Saved Two Companions
Amundsen declares Lincoln Ellsworth the hero of the Amundsen Ellsworth polar flight for saving Dietrichson and Omdahl after they fell into a crevice in shifting ice. Ellsworth risked his life, reaching across a widening ice lead to pull both men to safety as Riiser Larsen and Amundsen faced drift ice.
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Amundsen
Ellsworth
Knudsen
James B. Wharton
King's’ Bay
Spit Tbergen
Lincoln Ellsworth
Standard
Dietrichson
Omdahl
Suhey
Riiser-Larsen
Widely known Montanan drowned at Gardiner
Walter Shaw, 46, proprietor of a Gardiner lodge and hotel, drowned while crossing the Gardiner River. His daughter watched from the air as his saddleless horse stumbled. Details on whether the horse trampled him or he struck his head are unclear. Shaw helped companions cross when the animal failed, body not recovered. He was a noted promoter of Grasshopper glacier and a winter speaker for Northern Pacific railway. Captain Amos Gardiner, his father, helped found earlier Yellowstone park camps.
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Associated Press
Livingston
Walter Shaw
Yellowstone Park
Gardiner River
Gardiner
Shaw
Pioneer Park County
Gardiner Hotel
Amos Gardiner
Powell
Park
Yellowstone National Park
Northern Pacific Railway
Rocky Mountain
Glacier County
Northwestern railroads urge freight rate increase
New York June 19. Receivers for the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway urge a freight rate rise and propose segregating and pooling the proceeds to distribute among western carriers in proportion to deficits below the 5 percent fair return. They cite 1924 western deficits totaling about 189 million dollars, with the St Paul deficit around 23 million.
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Associated Press
New York
Northwestern
Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul
Sogrammasory
Crops of Montana In Excellent Condition
Northwest crops survived recent abnormal weather and a telegraphic survey by Twin City newspapers reports generally good conditions across Minnesota North and South Dakota Wisconsin and Montana. Wheat in the Red River valley is in good to excellent condition with an average yield in sight.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Montana
Twin City
Red River Valley
Platinum Found Near Barstow in Ferry County Discovery Report
Spokane reports from Colville Washington claim discovery of platinum near Barstow on the Kettle River about 13 miles north of Marcus. Several hundred acres staked and 500 pounds of ore taken as platinum. No confirmation yet.
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Spokane
Colville
Wash
Barstow
Ferry County
Kettle River
Marcus
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Colonel Doheny
Hankow
Bund
England
DR. Leavitt
Bitter Root News
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Merchie
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Howard EB. Elliott and Sons
Cornell
Idaho
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C. E. Convention
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Morocco
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