Congress Says Goodbye to FDR After Months of Endeavor
Washington, Aug. 21. A Congress with shifting loyalties adjourned after eight months, leaving a fractured Democratic majority and a stalled New Deal program. Conservative Democrats and Republicans blocked key votes, foretelling a partisan battle over party control and the 1940 presidential nomination. Roosevelt pressed a broad reform agenda and sought to pack the Supreme Court, triggering fierce opposition from the conservative wing.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Congress
Special Session Seen By All But President
Washington August 25 The Roosevelt administration appears to favor a full congressional session to take up farm and wage hour laws. Roosevelt weighs the issue after talks with Senate Leader Barkley and House Leader Rayburn. Barker and Rayburn declined comment while Speaker Bankhead and Senator Guffey predict a special session. A large group of Democrats opposes a late year return to Washington to let intra party dissension ease.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
Representative Rayburn
Senate
House
Barkley
Bankhead
Alabama
Guffey
Pennsylvania
Government predicts record farm income in 1937
Washington reports government economists forecast total farm income for 1937 at about 9.0 billion dollars, a jump of over a billion from 1936 and near the 1929 peak. They cite stronger crop marketings, federal payments rising to 400 to 450 million, and faster check payments as key factors. The gain also reflects improved demand for farm products amid general business recovery and drought-reduced supplies.
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Washington
A. G. Black
Bureau of Agriculture Economics
Black
PWA Grants and Loans Approved for Eight Montana Projects
Washington announces eight Montana public works grants and loans totaling 360000 for projects in Three Forks Helena Bigfork Scobey Conrad Ekalaka Plentywood Livingston. Wheeler and O Connor aides list commitments including hospital upgrades water mains schools and courthouses with specific grant and loan amounts.
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Washington
Montana
Public Works Administration
PWA
Monana
B. K. Wheeler
Three Forks
Helena
Bigfork
James F. O’connor
Scobey
Conrad
Ekalaka
Plentywood
Livingston
Pioneer Ben Stevens Dies After Heart Attack in County Board Session
Ben Stevens long-time Musselshell and Harlowton pioneer dies at Musselshell hospital after a heart attack during a Musselshell County Board of Commissioners meeting. Born October 28 1864 in Waldo Maine he spent years in White Sulphur Springs Martinsdale and Ubet before Alaska prospecting and later managing Winnecook Beach Co.
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Harlowton
Ben Stevens
Montana
Board of County Commissioners
Carl Ferrington
Carl
Musselshell Hospital
Benjamin T. Stevens
Waldo County
Maine
Shelito
Mary
Reckleiff
Stevens
Shelito Stevens
Ben
White Sulphur Springs
Martinsdale
Ubet
Alaska
Winnecook Beach Co
Varied 4-H Club Program At Big Timber Fair
A Sweet Grass county community fair will be held at Big Timber on Friday and Saturday August 27 and 28 at the old fair grounds one mile north of town. Gates open at 7 a.m. Activities include home economics and agriculture judging, exhibits, demonstrations, a convention report, a band concert, a Lions club carnival, athletic events, a championship ball game, and a dance.
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Sweet Grass County
Big Timber
George Hart
Livingston
Lillian Stone
Dillon
Billings Fair
Mayor Nordstrom Thanks Helpers for McLeod Street Oil Project
City leaders credit State Engineer Cardozo and state highway officials for supervising a treated section of McLeod Street. The effort used county machinery, with A. C. McGruder overseeing work, and the mayor urges public cooperation to keep the now-oiled street in good condition.
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Nordstrom
McLeod Street
Cardozo
State Highway Commission
A. C. McGruder
George Cardozo
Helena
Billings
E. A. Dexheimer
J. Baker
A. Clark
Ted Kepler
Caterpillar Auto Patrol
Citizens Committee
O. Nordstrom
Fire Destroys Grain Elevator at Kalispell
Blaze in Kalispell caused more than 25000 dollars in damage to Bjoreby Brothers Milling mill and elevator and damaged a California Oil warehouse. Fire started in the milling offices at 2:30 am and spread aided by wind, with explosions hindering firefighters and threatening oil tanks.
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Kalispell
Bjoreby Brothers Milling Company
California Oil Company
Milling Company
Oil Company
Mrs. Graves Becomes Senator Succeeding Black
Mrs. Dixie Bibb Graves of Alabama was sworn in as a U.S. senator, succeeding Hugo L. Black. Appointed by her husband Governor Bibb Graves, she will serve the remainder of Black's term, and is the fourth woman seated in the Senate.
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Washington
Dixie Bibb Graves
Alabama
Bibb Graves
Hugo L. Black
Supreme Court
Senate
Garner
Black
Graves
John H. Bankhead
Bankhead
Montana range cows fetch top price at Chicago sale
Aug 20 Helena Montana range cows sold at near record pricing on the Chicago Union Stockyards market. Tom Staunton owner of the Post and Rail Ranch Cascade led the sale with 20 head of 1134 pound cows bringing 10.75 dollars per cwt. Additional consignments averaged 9.75 and 8.50 per cwt for lighter weights. Fat cattle also hit high seasonal prices.
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Helena
Montana
Chicago
Union Stockyards
Tom Staunton
Post and Rail Ranch
Cascade
Bill to return Blackfeet lands awaits president's action
The Wheeler bill authorizing the interior secretary to relinquish certain lands to the Blackfeet Indians of Montana awaits the president's consideration. It passed the Senate and House with unanimous consent led by Representative James F. O'Connor. The measure allows up to $30,000 of Blackfeet funds to repay reclamation money spent on the land slated for restoration, which was bought for reclamation purposes and not used.
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Washington
Interior
Montana
House
James F. O’connor
Livingston
Senate
Pioneers Name Officials For Ensuring Year
Officials for the coming year were named by the Society of Montana pioneers and by the Sons and Daughters of Montana pioneers at the annual conventions in Great Falls. John H. Miller of Helmville will lead the pioneers, with Will Cave of Missoula as vice president and Mrs. Jennie Ennis Chowning of Ennis as treasurer. James E. Norris of Helena was re elected secretary for the seventh year. The junior group names E. W. Townsend of Great Falls as president, Roy Crismas of Great Falls as vice president, Mrs. Lottie Ram say Willett of Helena as secretary, Ross Deegan of Helena as treasurer, and Fred Scheuer of Butte as historian. Delegates were hosted at a picnic and will adjourn after the banquet tonight.
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Great Falls
Society of Montana Pioneers
Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers
John H. Miller
Helmville
Andrew E. Erick
Butte
Will Cave
Missoula
Jennie Ennis Chowning
Ennis
James E. Norris
Helena
E. W. Townsend
Will C. Orton, Jr
Roy Crismas
Lottie Ramsay Willett
Ross Deegan
Fred Scheuer
Drugist Pays Fine for Selling Below Cost
Billings report shows J. B. Mongro, manager of a local drug store, pled guilty to selling a package of soap flakes below the cost price. A $100 fine was imposed by District Judge Ben Harwood in district court, the first prosecution under the fair trades practices act since passage.
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Billings
S. Mongro
Ben Harwood
Wyoming forest fire claims fourteen lives in Shoshone blaze
Forest fire in the Shoshone National forest near Cody Wyoming killed fourteen firefighters and injured many more. About 500 men from five CCC camps fought to contain a blaze that burned about 2000 acres. John Sicker said bodies were recovered and the death toll was confirmed. An investigation was launched with officials noting likely lightning as the cause.
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Wyoming
Cody, Wryo
John Sicker
Shoshone National Forest
Sieker
CCC
Timberline
Here
Red Cross
Bill Munday
Cody
Lazelle Lowry
Western Drug Company
Associated Press
Roy Bevins
Smithville
Texas
Tensleep
Wyo
Forest Service
David Godwin
United States Forest Service
Fire destroys Lutheran church at Bridger in $10,000 loss
A fire of undetermined origin razed St. Pauls Lutheran church and the adjacent parsonage in Bridger on Monday morning. About 30 Bridger and Fromberg volunteers battled the blaze for over three hours, saving little furniture. Investigators suspect children playing in a rear garage started the fire. The church is about a decade old with a six year old parsonage. Rev. Martin Ludwig resided there.
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Bridger
St. Paul’s Lutheran
Fromberg
Martin Ludwig
Lawmakers seek $2000 for Bakers of Laredo in forest fire death
Representative James F. O'Connor of Livingston Montana introduced a bill to award $2000 to Mr and Mrs A M Baker of Laredo Montana whose son Cameron A Baker died in a forest fire in the Little Rockies northern Montana last summer.
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Washington
James F. O’connor
Livingston
Mont
A. M. Baker
Laredo
Cameron A. Baker
Little Rockies
Montana
Vast Estate Tempts Neglectful Relatives
New York heirs rush to surrogate court to claim a share of Ida E. Wood’s 877500 estate after five years since her death at the Herald Square hotel. Attorneys represent 1019 claimants in a sprawling contest spanning almost every state and several foreign lands as seventy four were eliminated Tuesday.
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New York
Herald Square
Ida E. Wood
Manhattan
Canada
Newfoundland
Ireland
England
Scotland
Wind fire toll rises in Absorka Mountains blaze
In Cody Wyoming on August 22 rescue teams counted 14 dead as a wind driven forest fire roared through the Absoraka mountains. Fire fighters were trapped and burned and six victims were identified by civil service and forest service officials just before midnight. The six names were released as the search continued for additional missing persons.
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Cody
Wyo
Absoraka Mountains
Civilian ‘Conservation Corps
Forest Service
John F Clark Named New State Liquor Vendor in McLeod
John F Clark of McLeod received notice from L M A Wass, administrator of the state liquor control board, that he has been named vendor of the state liquor store in this city to succeed Stuart H Nicholson who resigned. He will qualify after an auditor checks the present incumbent. Clark’s career included clerking at the Grand Hotel in 1900, service with the Northern Pacific Railway, a life in contracting at Billings, and ownership of the McLeod ranch. He and his wife have three sons, two in local high school, the eldest an invalid in hospital.
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John F. ‘Clark
McLeod
L. M. A. Wass
State Liquor Control Board
Stuart H. Nicholson
Clark
Big Timber
Grand Hotel
Northern Pacific Railway Co
Livingston
Billings
W. F. McLeod
Two youths killed when car hits horse near Hardin
Early Sunday morning a light sedan carrying three youths struck a horse on United States highway No. 87 one mile west of Hardin. Robert Shaffer 19 and Joe Greenwald about 20 died from internal injuries after the car flipped at least five times. Cooney Greenwald about 25 survived with minor injuries.
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Hardin
Here
Robert Shaffer
Joe Greenwald
Cooney Greenwald
J. W. Bullis
Big Horn County
Shaffer
Greenwald
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