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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1933
Page
1
President Roosevelt in a sweeping economy move announces an annual saving of 400 million dollars in veterans expenditures. Effective July 1, pensions for disabled veterans are cut 20 percent with new 8 to 80 dollar monthly rates, widows and dependents retaining present levels in many cases, and non service related pensions limited by income.
Wisconsin voters reaffirmed repeal of prohibition with 536,800 for and 111,971 against after 2,365 of 2,899 precincts reported. All 15 delegates chosen for the constitutional convention will back outright repeal.
Detroit April 5 Ninety nine ayes and a lone no will Michigan answer the repeal question when the constitutional convention meets next Monday The dry delegate from rural Barry county carried his margin 236 votes over 7062 cast
Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon Custer widow of Gen George A Custer died in her Park Avenue apartment New York of heart disease at age 91. She endured western campaigns after the Civil War and stayed near her husband through battles with Indians until the 1876 Little Bighorn massacre.
Washington March 31 The senate passed a model beer law with an amendment banning sale in any government building including the Capitol. The vote on the amendment was 44 to 28 as Roosevelt left West Point and Annapolis free of the prohibition. The bill now returns to the house for action.
Benjamin F. Herr and Merle Leroy Lowman were sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to the murder of Henry Shoop, a Montana rancher killed October 31. Lowman described self defense amid a conflict over a $4 debt, while Lieut. Erlanson testified to a claimed robbery plot and a glass struck blows. The pair fled Chicago after the slaying, with Herr captured in Ottsville, and Lowman in gering, Nebraska.
In Big Timber Dr. A. P. O'Leary wins the mayor's chair with a record 413 total votes, defeating Maj. H. Goosey by 51. O'Leary campaigned actively after agreeing to run, promising a swift result. Ward tallies show O'Leary leading in all wards, with council and treasurer races noted, while election officials delay release of results until canvass.
The Akron airship crash off the New Jersey coast Tuesday is judged the costliest aviation disaster yet with 73 lives lost and only 3 of 76 crew saved. Rescue efforts continue as vessels and planes sweep the Barnegat area for any sign of survivors.
A Winnipeg basketball tour group, the Winnipeg Toilers, were aboard a tri motor plane that forced landing in a plowed field near Neodosha Kansas. Six of fourteen aboard died, one died later, five survived. The group had been returning from Tulsa after games with the Tulsa Oilers. The misfortune followed motor trouble and a wing strike during the attempted landing.
The Minnesota Senate passed a repeal bill removing prohibition laws enacted since 1918 except four provisions. The House had approved earlier. The retained sections prohibit wholesale liquor sales by druggists, define liquor sale causing impairment as a felony, require manslaughter charges for deaths from liquor, and make selling liquor with poison a misdemeanor. The governor plans to sign. Beer at 3.2 percent alcohol is already legalized, effective April 7.
Ruth Bryan Owen appears close to appointment as minister to Denmark. She dined with Danish minister Otto Wadsted in Washington, meeting North Winship of the American legation. Observers say the dinner signaled nearing confirmation.
Bozeman Montana March 30. Coupes and roadsters switch to trucks to save five dollars under the new auto license law. Passenger autos pay ten dollars while light trucks license for five, and owners say the change is easy for single seaters.
In Lewistown on March 30 a Farmers' Holiday association is formed in Judith Basin County demanding a halt to foreclosures and withholding of farm products until cost of production is assured and agriculture stabilized. A committee will decide if livestock is banned. Arthur T. Harvey of Stanford is president.
Washington March 31 A V Dalrymple of California was appointed prohibition director to succeed Amos W W Woodcock. Attorney General Cummings announced the selection saying he has confidence in Dalrymple to meet the exacting requirements of the post. Dalrymple is a jovial man who played a prominent role in California in Vice President Garner's campaign last year and will assume duties Saturday.
Great Falls Mont March 29 The decision by the bureau of public roads to temporarily postpone new road construction projects involving federal aid until the Roosevelt building and unemployment relief program is completed is viewed as favorable for Montana by O S Warden chairman of the state highway commission.
In Arizona March 31 Winnie Ruth Judd faced death on the gallows as her lawyers planned a renewed clemency bid. The Arizona board of pardons and paroles denied mercy, setting April 21 for execution in the trunk murder case. Judd remained hopeful that the law might yet favor her.
Nile Cochran of Moville Iowa was sent to the South Dakota State Penitentiary for three years after being convicted of second degree manslaughter in the February 3 milk strike disturbance. The jury deliberated 21 hours. Markell, an Elk Point milk truck driver, was killed when his truck tried to breach a farmer blockade.
Illinois will enact a three percent sales tax starting tomorrow despite a statewide injunction. Officials say the levy will raise about 60 million dollars annually to aid 312,000 needy families and thousands of alumni with essential purchases.
Montana the state board of equalizations reports gasoline tax receipts for the first quarter of 1933 totaling 455 815 dollars, down 36 246 from the same period in 1932. March receipts were 128 547 dollars versus 141 939 dollars a year earlier.
The Huntley Sheep Association sends extra payments from the 1932 wool clip to members via letters dated Friday night. Kenneth P. Jones says checks totaling 235.74 dollars accompany 1933 marketing contracts. The association aids small growers and more details are at the county agent’s office in the courthouse. The pool had eight cents cash advance last year and about 10 percent of wool remains to be sold, with a possible further payment.
A front of March tornadoes pummeled east Texas to the Mississippi valley and beyond, killing at least 68 across Louisiana Arkansas and Mississippi. The storms devastated towns including Laurel Greenville Tupelo and Baton Rouge with dozens more injured and floods rising along swollen creeks.
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