Montana Bar Elects DeKalb President At Fifty Fourth Meet
The Montana Bar association convened with calls to back a bond issue for Montana State College and a 34-mill levy to support university operations. Delegates discussed appointive judiciary reform, age and experience criteria for judges, and defense of democratic institutions during a tense era.
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Sheep herder killed by lightning near Chinook
Bruce Smith about 60 dies after a lightning bolt strikes him while herding sheep near the Canadian line north of Chinook. He was found at the scene, clothes torn from his body, and was alone at the time.
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FDR Names Patterson Assistant Secretary of War
President Roosevelt named Robert P. Patterson to succeed Louis Johnson as assistant secretary of war. Johnson resigned after offering his departure, while Secretary Stimson welcomed Patterson, a World War I veteran and federal judge, to the national preparedness effort.
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New York
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Henry L. Stimson
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Duke of Windsor sails for America with duchess
The Duke of Windsor and his American-born duchess will sail for the United States on an American export liner next Thursday en route to his post as governor of the Bahamas, announced by the British embassy on Monday night.
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Roosevelt weighs defense plans and export licenses
President Roosevelt stated no new defense recommendations to Congress soon and highlighted key bills including compulsory training and a $4.8 billion Army Navy request. Knudsen testified on industrial mobilization while noting no large scale conversion of auto plants. small arms and ammunition have no serious bottlenecks. He outlined defense related exports licensing for petroleum products and scrap metals, with no embargo and no protest from Japan.
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Body of Drowned Youth Recovered Near Glendive
The body of a boy believed to be Marvin Ballard, 12, who drowned June 15 at Forsyth, was found along the Yellowstone River bank about 16 miles west of Glendive. Sheriff G. O. Hitchcock reported the youth wearing trunks. Gomensindo Lopez, 15, discovered the body high on the bank. Forsyth officials planned to bring Ballard relatives for identification.
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Gomensindo Lopez
Ballard
Military draft vs restricted voting in a presidential year
Registration day outlines a compulsory military training system limited to men aged 21 to 30. The plan leverages 123000 election precincts and 200000 local officials with a national selective service HQ, state officials, and about 6500 local boards. Class 1-A registrants would be drawn for a national draft quota prorated by district.
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Wallace denies political charges on AAA funding
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace denies using AAA as a political machine and says he will resign from the cabinet to campaign for vice president. He asserts farm programs are run by county farmer committees and payments for 1940 are already set, with no change possible from his actions. Roosevelt had foreshadowed his own resignation timing.
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Wilson
Montana rancher enters insanity plea in radio murder case
Clarence Walters 47, former Montana rancher, pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to murder charges in the stabbing of Edwin Woolverton, a radio announcer, in 1934. He was ruled insane and confined to an insane hospital, waived a jury trial, and Judge Swain will decide largely on alienist reports. Radio officials had rejected a broadcasting request.
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Clarence Walters
Montana
Edwin Woolver
Walters
Frank G. Swain
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