Roosevelt Praises Fort Peck Dam Visit in Montana
President Roosevelt touring Fort Peck and northern Montana lauds the 72 000 000 dam project as a job creator and agent of water development. He speaks on farm land suitability and government aid while detailing plans for smaller farms and national planning. The president is joined by Gov. Cooney and senators Wheeler and Erickson as the train moves toward North Dakota.
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Fort Peck
Fort Peck Dam
Roosevelt
Gulf of Mexico
Montana
Washington
Treasure State
North Dapta
Williston
Frank H. Cooney
Burton K. Wheeler
J. E. Erickson
Joseph P. Monaghan
Roy E. Ayers
Glacier Park Station
Wonder Playground
Blackfoot
Shelby
Havre
Cooney
Senator Erickson
Accident on New Street Injures Small Child
A light coupe driven by Mrs. Anderson of Livingston overturned on the new city highway near Fourth Avenue and Sixth Avenue. The 4-year-old daughter of Ray Beekman, also of Livingston, was thrown from the car and briefly seemed dead before recovering in hospital that night. The child sustained serious bruising but is not critically hurt. Mrs. Anderson escaped injury.
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Fourth Avenue
William Rhoads
Sixth Avenue
Boulder Bridge
Anderson
Livingston
Ray Beekman
New City
L. W. Baskett
Hitler Urges Remembering Hindenburg At Memorial
Berlin reports Hitler led a memorial at the Reichstag honoring the late President Hindenburg. He urged the nation to follow the old warrior’s patriotic spirit in death as in life and spoke little of future policy.
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Berlin
Hitler
Paul von Hindenburg
Reichstag
von Hindenbureg
Montana Pioneer Mrs. Toole Dies at 71
Mis soula Aug 3 Mrs John R Toole 71 a Montana pioneer who crossed the plains from Missouri to Montana in 1865 died suddenly at her home Thursday night She was the widow of John R Toole who for years managed important A C M company interests before his death in 1916.
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Missoula
John R. Toole
Montana
Missouri
A. C. M. Company
Conwell Case Set For Hearing September 12
Judge B E Berg from Livingston set the plea date in the State of Montana v W A Conwell for 10 a m September 12 after defense counsel sought a 10 day extension Reading of the information was waived Prosecutor E O Overland absent 16 days in the east Names listed on the information include Raymond Robbins William B Jones E O Overland Gilbert Gibertson John L Harris Roy Vaughn William C Spaulding Anealia Rostad The case likely won t be heard until late fall as ranchers are busy with farming and juries unlikely before then
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B. E. Berg
Livingston
State of
Montana
W. A. Conwell
Fred L. Gibson
Gibson
E. O. Overland
W. B. Jones
Helena
East
Berg
Raymond Robbins
William B. Jones
Gilbert Gibertson
John L. Harris
Roy Vaughn
William C. Spaulding
Anealia Rostad
Marie Dressler Will Bequeaths Maid Major Sum Estate
The leslie Dressler will probate in Los Angeles details a $300000 estate. Mamie Cox the longtime maid receives 35000 plus dresses and wardrobes while Jerry Cox her husband gets 15000 and cars. Alan Walker named executor with no bond. Frances Marion receives a diamond brooch and other bequests go to Georgia Caine Nella Webb Ida Sutcliff and Ida Duryea. The remainder goes to sister Monita Ganthony in England after sales of properties.
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Los Angeles
Marie Dressler
Mamie Cox
Miss Dressler
Jerry Cox
Whs
Alan P. Walker
Robert Morris Phillips
Georgia Caine
Nella Webb
Ida Sutcliff
Ray Duryea
Frances Marion
Marie
Monita Ganthony
England
Pilot and Companion Die After Airplane Crash Near Nashua
Glasgow dispatch reports a Nashua pair both died when a biplane crashed about 7:30 p.m. near Nashua. Passenger Lionel Carver fell from the plane upside down while pilot Francis Freizen perished in the wreck. Freizen reportedly looped the craft before the fall. Witnesses described the altitude as about 1000 feet. Freizen, a grocery store employee, had about 50 hours of flight time. The crash marked a second local air accident this summer.
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Glasgow
Nashua
Lionel Carver
Francis Freizen
Freizen
Carver
Frank Peterson
Vernon Dostert
Abe Nelson
Here
Frezien
Peterson
Riot Flares In Downtown Butte Over Miner Strike
A Butte riot erupts as strike pickets and sympathizers block Main and Granite streets. An Anaconda company car is overturned and set ablaze while Charles Staples narrowly escapes a mob with a revolver. Arthur Linforth is beaten near the Hennessy building as threats against company employees continue.
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Butte
Main
Granite
Anaconda Company
Charles Staples
Arthur Linforth
Hennesy
Women Post Office Appointments Underlines Faber Tragedy
Montana posts announce twenty one new offices with eight led by women as Lewistown and Cut Bank gain second class status. Bishop William Faber of Helena, found dead near Glacier Park, left a note suggesting he was lost and sought air search aid. friends say he wished to reassure family and diocese his death was accidental.
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Faber
Montana
Hammond
Charles Eccles
Sandusky
Esther Deniff
Polebridge
Martha Adair
Pryor
George Williams
Oilmont
Mary Mathews
Park City
Frank Stoltz
Lewistown
Cut Bank
Laurel
Scobey
Fort Benton
Big Timber
Helena
Mont
William F. Faber
Episcopal Diocese of
Paradise Creek
Glacier Park
Mounains
Bachman Wins Tennessee Democratic Short Term Senate Nomination
With about two thirds of precincts counted, Senator Nathan L. Bachman narrowly defeated Representative Gordon Browning for the Democratic short term nomination. Senator Kenneth McKellar led the long term race, easily beating John R. Neal, and Governor Hill McAlister secured re nomination over Lewis S. Pope. Bachman’s Memphis returns helped his late surge after Cordell Hull’s resignation.
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Nashville
Tenn
Nathan L. Bachman
Gordon Browning
United States Senate
Kenneth McKellar
John R. Neal
Hill McAlister
Lewis S. Pope
McAlister
Bachman
Senate
Cordell Hull
Memphis
Montana and Wyoming Wool Clips Rise in 1934
The U S Department of Agriculture reports 1934 wool production in Montana and Wyoming rose from 1933. Montana yielded 35,966,000 pounds and 33,276,000 in 1934 and 1933 respectively. Wyoming produced 30,732,000 pounds in 1934 and 29,080,000 in 1933 with fleeces heavier on average.
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Washington
Montana
Wyoming
United States Department, of Agriculture
Grain futures rise in Chicago with new price highs
A wave of speculative buying lifts grain and farm produce futures to new highs in Chicago trading. Wheat gains 5 to 8 cents, corn up over a cent, oats rye and barley about 2 cents, and grain storage contracts rise to 27 1/4 cents. Eggs hogs reach yearly peaks with hogs at 5.35 per cwt.
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Chicago
Montana highway bids set for September opening
Helena Aug 3. The Montana highway commission will not open bids for the next set of contracts until early September. Chief engineer R D Rader said the commission may hold a meeting in late August to prepare for the setting.
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Helena
Mont
Montana Highway Commission
R. D. Rader
Rader
Sheep Shearing Totals Rise in Montana and Wyoming
In Montana this year 3,670,000 sheep were shorn, up from 3,540,000 in 1933. In Wyoming the figures were 3,235,000 this year versus 3,240,000 last year.
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Wyoming
Montana
Repeal convention voted ratification of amendment Montana
Montana joined other states in ratifying the twenty first amendment. A delegate vote of 45 to 4 approved ratification at the capitol, in an uneventful session as the first such meeting since 1889.
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Helena
Montana
Capitol
R. A. O’hara
Ravalli County
Deane S. Jones
Missoula
Margaret Walsh
Anaconda
Enor K. Matson
L. L. Callaway
Fund permits only ten more miles northward
Helena officials and Lions Club representatives met with the state highway commission to seek the completion of the Big Timber Harlowton highway. The commission said five miles could be added at each end after Washington approval, with contracts let upon approval. An initial $7.5 million Montana appropriation was cut to $3.7 million, forcing project revisions and about 30 Montana projects to be abandoned.
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A. A. Lamp
C. C. Nicholson
Sigurd T. Lavold
Ross E. Shaver
Lions Club
Helena
State Highway Commission
Harlowton
Bureau of Public Roads
Washington
Commission
Montana
Four Firms Reply to NRA Complaints in FTC Case
About 300 NRA codes are charged as monopolisitc and oppressive in a federal trade commission inquiry. Phillips Baker Rubber Co of Providence Rhode Island La Crosse Rubber Co of La Crosse Wisconsin Goodyear Rubber Co of Middletown Connecticut and Purity Ice Co of Lakeland Florida are named. Rubber firms allegedly refused to file price lists and failed to seek permission to raise productive capacity.
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Washington
NRA
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Phillips-Baker Rubber Company
Providence
R. I
la Crosse
LaCrosse
Wis
Goodyear Rubber Company
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Middleton
Ten Millions Set Aside to Buy Sheep and Goats
Washington August 6 Comptroller General McCarl approved roughly 10 million dollars from drouth relief funds to buy sheep and goats in western drought areas. About 3 to 5 million animals are expected. purchases target one year old or older at two dollars each.
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Washington
McCarl
Drouth
Reifenrath of Helena Record-Herald Dies
Charles H. Reifenrath 55 longtime Montana Record-Herald business manager and Republican leader dies after prolonged illness. Funeral date not fixed. he guided the Helena paper in publishing and crusaded for party principles.
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Helena
Charles H. Reifenrath
Reisenrath
Montana Record- Herald
Treasure State
Montana Record-Herald
Minneapolis Truck Strike Battle Reaches Federal Court
A coalition of 10 business houses asks the U S district court for a federal writ to restrain Gov. Floyd B Olson from closing streets and imposing military rule on the truck strike. They allege loss of thousands of dollars and violation of civil rights, as 47 truck owners join the Haas Dunnigan plan to operate under permits.
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Minneapolis
Floyd B. Olson
United States
United States District Court
National Guard
Adj
E. A. Walsh
Employers Advisory Committee
Haas- Dunnigan
Gunnar H. Nordbye
Joseph Molyneaux
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Conwell
Eugene Garrett
Staples
Murray Hospital
Hennessy
Tennessee
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James J. Stafford
Silver Bow
James E. Fowler
Cascade
Daniel Moltzau
Fergus
C. A. Smithey
Ravalli
John Rowe
L. D. Carver
Broadwater
M. G. Carver
Chouteau
W. F. Allison
Glacier
F. J. Sherry
Sheridan
L. F. Greenup
Daniels
Fred .C. Burgevold
Blaine
Grover Dowen
Terry F. C. Browning
Beaverhead
Hans H. Larsen
W. S. Allen
McCone
F. M. Poindexter
James D. Law
Wheatland
M. E. McConkey
Mineral
S. Young
Golden Valley
F. C. McWilliams
J. L. Alexander
Petroleum
Jack McAusland
Rosebud
W. .G. Dunlap
Sanders
E. C. Harrington
D. E. Dougherty
Fallon
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