Eight Prizes for Better Butte Parade Awards
Judges Joe L. Markham and J. H. Dickey Jr. awarded eight prizes during the Better Butte parade during Clean-up Week. Prizes included $10 cash for best looking team of horses and vehicle, a Columbia Gardens entry, and $10 for the most effective banner or poster displayed. Other honors covered clown attire, oldest automobile, largest organization in line, best float, best costume, and best division as a whole for groups such as United States mail wagon Ellis drum corps Fuller Pioneer and the American Legion.
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Joe L. Markham
J. H. Dickey Jr
United States Mail
Ellis’ Drum Corps
Butte
Fuller Pioneer
American Legion
Dawes Votes on Big Tax Reduction Bill in Senate
The Senate passed the tax cut without a record vote on May 21, cutting about 205 million dollars from taxpayers. Republicans blocked a Democrat proposal for a graduated rate scale for corporations earning 15 thousand dollars or less, narrowing the cut to around 200 million. The bill moves to conference with the House, which had approved a 290 million dollar reduction, with Smoot urging compromise. Corporations gain about 94 million directly from the bill.
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Associated Press
Washinton
Senate
Dawes
Coolidge
Mellon
Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
House
Body of Johns Taken From River Bend
Frank T. Johns socialist labor candidate for president drowned while trying to save a boy from the Deschutes river. He leaped in after 10 year old Jackie Rhodes who fell in during a political meeting in a Park. Johns shoved the boy toward shore but currents pulled him under and he disappeared.
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Associated Press
Bend
Ore
Frank T. Johns
United States
Deschutes River
Johns
Deschutes
Jackie Rhodes
Butte Parade Spurs Weeklong War on Dirt and Decay
A giant parade organized by the Better Butte association launches a week of anti dirt and grime campaigns. Businesses residents schools and officials join a onehour march through the city to spotlight shoddy housing fire hazards and untidiness.
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Butte
Better Butte Association
Congress considers bank tax law amendment in senate
Helena May 21 A bill amending the federal statute taxing national banks by states and now in the senate may reach the house before the session ends James H Stewart chairman of the state board of equalization said after a Washington D C hearing attended by twenty five states He noted supreme court rulings against discrimination against national banks and warned that if Congress fails to act Montana may need to modify its classification law or tax only on real estate Forty two states are affected by the current law
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Associated Press
Helena
United States Senate
House
Congress
James H. Stewart
State Board of Equalization
Washington, D. C
United States Supreme Court
Stewart
Minnesota
Interim
Tax Commission
Scofield dam collapse danger prompts Utah evacuations
About 12 000 residents in Castle Gate Helper and Price flee as Scofield dam nears failure. Volunteers use sandbags and hay bales to build a temporary barrier while engineers monitor seepage and imminent breach. A trainload of 200 men from Price is en route to reinforce efforts.
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Utah
Scofield
Salt Lake
Castle Rock
Helper
Price
Associated Press
Salt Lake City
Scofield Dam
Here
Salt Lake City Tribune
Castle Gate
Denver & Rio Grande Western
U S Troops To Be Used In China MacMurray Warns
London May 21 The Associated Press reports that John Van A MacMurray American minister told both sides in the Chinese civil conflict that United States troops would be deployed defensively if American lives are at risk near Peking and Tientsin. He noted assurances that Americans would be protected. Japanese plans to maintain the status quo in Manchuria continue.
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Associated Press
London
China
Orient
Peking
John van A. MacMurray
United States
Tientsin
Manchuria
Three Ocean Fliers Honored by New York Governor
In Albany on May 21 Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld Major James C. Fitzmaurice and Captain Hermann Koehl were welcomed with Governor Smith’s congratulations after their Bremen crossing of the Atlantic. The trio planned to depart by train for Montreal that night.
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Albany
N. Y
North Atlantic
Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld
James C. Fitzmaurice
Hermann Koehl
Smith
Atlantic
Bremen
Montreal
Butte to Begin Major Clean Up and Reconstruction
A large scale clean up starts this morning at Main and Granite with a crew led by Carl J. Nepper tearing down the Connell building. An ensuing two to three week demolition leads to a two story garage and three story alley structure designed by Walter Arnold at a total cost around $100,000 with completion expected by September 15. Howard Pierce owns the project.
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Butte
Main
Granite
Carl J. Nepper
Connell
Howard Pierce
Nepper
Walter Arnold
Main Street
Granite Street
Dr. Hall
Prohibition and crime calendar in Butte federal court
Judge George M. Bourquin set 105 prohibition cases 11 Harrison drug act cases two counterfeiting cases one white slavery and one mail theft case for trial in federal court at Butte. A jury of 100 was ordered with trials starting June 5 twenty cases daily. Civil matters follow criminal actions and equity trials after jurors are excused.
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United States
George M. Bourquin
Butte
Equity
Texas hailstorm kills three and injures fifty in Laredo area
A 70 mile hail and wind storm tore through Laredo and Webb county late today, killing Valentin Villa Lobo 14, and cowboys Sebastian Salinas and Ronald Rodriguez. About 50 people were injured including Villa Lobo’s mother and foreman G A Brewer.
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Laredo
Tex
Webb County
Valentin Villa Lobo
Sebastian Salinas
Ronald Rodriguez
Here
Villa Lobo
G. A. Brewer
Hope Dims for Survivors in Mather Mine Disaster
In Mather Pennsylvania 138 miners were entombed after a powerful blast. With 211 inside, 60 dead so far including 59 recovered bodies and one hospital death. Rescue teams pump fresh air and build air locks as they search butt 24 and butt 15 sections, mostly day shift workers.
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Associated Press
Mather
Butt 24
Butt 15
Nan
Japanese Scientist Hideyo Noguchi Dies in Africa Yellow Fever
In an Africa expedition aiming to link South American and African yellow fever, Dr Hideyo Noguchi of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research died in Accra, West Africa. He had reported illness from December 1927 to January 1928 and spent time in an African hospital.
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New York
Africa
Hideyo Hoguchi
Rockfeller Institute For Medical Research
Noguchi
Accra
West Africa
Rain dissipates Hamburg phosgene menace after deadly gas outbreak
A foglike phosgene cloud swept through Hamburg causing 11 deaths and 350 families to evacuate. Rain and wind dispersed the gas, with about 98 people poisoned in hospitals, 100 others in Wilhelmsburg and 30 in Harburg. Authorities lifted danger as residents returned.
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Associated Press
Hamburg
Germany
Wilhemsburg
Harburg
Texans Meet Today Much Is at Stake
In Dallas on May 21 40 Texas votes at the Democratic National Convention are at stake as lines form for the state convention in Beaumont. The outcome could influence Gov. Alfred Smith's presidential bid while Republicans in Dallas prepare for a 26 member delegation to Kansas City pledged for Herbert Hoover. A contest over this delegation's right to represent Texas will occur at the national convention.
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Associated Presse
Dallas
Texas
Beaumont
Alfred F. Smith
New York
Kansas City
Herbert Hoover
Smith Predicted to Carry Montana by 35000 Votes
Former Lieut. Gov. W. W. McDowell reports Al Smith as the Democratic nominee and predicting a Montana victory by not less than 35000 votes. He cites meetings with Smith, Olvaney, Walker and other leaders, and notes plans to carry New York New Jersey Massachusetts Connecticut and possibly Rhode Island.
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al Smith
Montana
W. W. McDowell
Oregon
District of Columbia
New York
Walsh
Houston
Smith
New Yorker
New Jersey
Massachusetts
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