Montana Plans Self Supported Highway Build With Debentures
Montana highway commission announces 16 projects funded by 1.25 million dollar debentures plus a 398 thousand dollar PWA grant. Projects cover 736.65 miles of road with reconstruction resurfacing and drainage. Bids include Great Falls crossing and several county road improvements. Between 1,600 and 2,000 workers expected.
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Helena
Mont
Montana Highway Commission
Public Works Administration
PWA
O. S. Warden
Jocko River
Ravalli
North Road
Sweet Grass
Harlowton
South Road
Wheatland County
Great Northern
Great Falls
Fred B. Dudley
Stanford North Road
Judith Basin
Threet Brothers
Lovell
Wyo
Wolf Creek
Stanford
W. P. Roscoe Company
Billings
Malta North Road
Phillips County
Milk River Bridge
Hall & Booth
Stanley
N. C
L. W. Lock
Wood
Glasgow
Harlowton South Road
L. W Lockwood
Teton County
Thomas Staunton
Birch Creek
Browning
Shelby
Dodson
Hinsdale
Wolf Point
Poplar-Culbertson
Glendive-Terry
Hardin
Wyoming State Line
Sappington
Yellowstone Park
Superior
Tarkio
Ravalli-Dixon
Vaughn
Gallatin Canyon
West Gateway
Roundup
Armington - Geyser
Kalispell-Belt
Federal Flood Control Urged With 36 Million Grant
A senatorial delegation asked President Roosevelt to approve a $36,000,000 federal grant for flood control and navigation in the Missouri river valley. The plan calls for $20,000,000 to finish the middle Missouri channel from St. Joseph Missouri to Sioux City Iowa and $16,000,000 for a dam on the Big Horn river near Hardin Montana to aid Missouri river flood control. The group includes Senators Norris Clark Nye Frazier Erickson Arthur Weaver and Rufus E. Lee and Missouri River Navigation Association head.
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Washington
Missouri River
Roosevelt
St. Joseph
Sioux City
Iowa
Wheeler
Montana
Big Horn River
Hardin
Mont
Norris
Nebraska
Clark
Missouri
Nye
Frazier
North Dakota
Erickson
Arthur Weaver
The
Missouri River Navigation Association
Rufus E. Lee
Omaha Chamber of Commerce
Efforts to Eliminate Double Taxation
Washington reports a treasury study aimed at uniting federal and state tax systems to end double taxation. Acting Secretary Morgenthau testified before the House Ways and Means Committee outlining the cooperative approach and the need for state agreement to reduce overlapping levies. N/A
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
House
Ways and Means Committee
Roosevelt
Greece orders Insull to leave by January 1
Athens reports the Greek premier said Insull must exit Greece when his police permit expires January 1. He asked for a renewal but the government has not decided how he will depart, only that he must leave by the first of the year.
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Athens
Greece
Samuel Insull
Insull
Circuit ruling voids pending Volstead act cases in nine states
The United States circuit court of appeals in San Francisco invalidated criminal cases under the Volstead act pending in California Oregon Washington Montana Idaho Arizona and Nevada after the eighteenth amendment repeal. The decision held Congress lost power and bars further proceedings unless a saving clause exists. The ruling affects James Green of Pocatello Idaho and outlines authority for the Ninth circuit which covers five states plus Idaho and Montana.
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San Francisco
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
James Green
Pocatello
Idaho
Green
Ninth Circuit
California
Oregon
Washington
Mon
Tana
Arizona
Nevada
Congress
Ninth District of the
Montana
John W Chapman of Carbon County Dies After Long Illness
Red Lodge Dec 18 John William Chapman 83 stock grower and early day livestock man died at Red Lodge after several weeks illness Born Springfield Illinois June 15 1850 He was the last direct descendant of a long line of Chapmans who settled in America since colonial times The obituary traces his life from Oregon migration to Nevada and Montana cattle trades and mining era adventures spanning decades across the West.
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Red Lodge
John William Chapman
William
Artenicia Anasa (Riddle) Chapman
Springfield
Ill
John Chapman
America
Chapman
Illinois
Iowa
Oregon Territory
John
Oregon
Douglas County
Umpqua River
Riddle and
Weaver, Ore
Middle West
William Harrison Merriman
Nevada
Nevada City
Nev
Virginia City
Bozeman
Tongue River
Miles City
Oklahoma Territory
Montana
Columbia and Stanford to mix in Rose Bowl
New York reports a highly excited send off for Columbia Lions football as Lou Little leads 30 players plus aides, wives and press from Pennsylvania Station on a special train bound for Pasadena for the Rose Bowl game against Stanford on New Year’s Day.
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New York
Lions of Columbia
Manhattan Island
Stanford
Pasadena
Hollywood
Lou Little
Pennsylvania Station
Christmas Observances Begin With Churches and Schools
Beginning with the street program and tree tonight, Christmas will be fittingly observed throughout the week by churches, and schools will close until Jan. 2, 1934.
Butte School of Mines Granted $320000 Loan
The Public Works Administration approved a $320,000 loan and land grant to the Montana state board of education for a dormitory and faculty residence at the State School of Mines in Butte. Officials estimate 120 jobs for seven months. about $255,000 of the cost is a direct grant with the rest financed by four percent revenue bonds.
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Washington
Public Works Administration
Montana State Board of Education
State School of Mines
Butte
Public Works
Gary Cooper Weds Veronica Balfe in Park Avenue Ceremony
Gary Cooper, famed screen idol, married Veronica Balfe at her Park Avenue apartment in New York. The bride, debutante and former Sandra Shaw, plans to retire from acting. the Rev George A Trowbridge conducted the ceremony omitting the word obey.
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New York
Gary Cooper
Park Avenue
Veronica Balfe
Chic
Sandra Shaw
Paul Shields
George A. Trowbridge
Gary
Jury acquits H. B. Lake in larceny case in Great Falls
A district court jury in Great Falls found H. B. Lake not guilty of larceny as bailee after under four hours of deliberation. Lake, former head of the H. B. Lake Brokerage firm, thanked jurors and planned Christmas with family in Tacoma. Several additional larceny counts remain, but none will be tried this term.
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Great Falls
H. B. Lake
Lake
Tacoma
Wash
H. L. Gouge
Gouge
Lake Company
CWA Funds Used to Recover License Plates
San Francisco report shows over 1,400 license plates returned to relief recipients since CWA began. Frederick W. Ely of the citizens' emergency relief committee presented the figures, noting the needy are issued plates when joining relief rolls.
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CWA
San Francisco
Calif
Frederick W. Ely
Citizen’s Emergency Relief Committee
President Roosevelt reviews silver status with Wheeler
Washington Dec 19 President Roosevelt discussed silver with Senator Wheeler an advocate of the Bryan plan A concerted effort to provide for free coinage of silver is underway with unofficial predictions that Roosevelt would take early action to improve the metal status
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wheeler
Bryan
State liquor stores start tomorrow in some cities
Helena Independent reports the Montana state liquor control board will open Helena store at noon Friday December 22 with limited stock. First 8,000 quarts arrive tonight, then allocated to Butte Great Falls and Missoula. Purchases capped at two quarts each until more liquor arrives. Prices set for blends bonded whiskeys gin brandy and more with Albert Adair and George Crispin presiding in Helena.
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Helena
Montana
State Liquor Control Board
North Main Street
Butte
Great Falls
Missoula
You
Uncle Dandy
Liquor Control Board
Kentucky Beauty
Black Thorn
Old Thompson
Old McBrayer
Old Taylor
Sunny Brook
Susquehanna
Income Tax Reforms Proposed to Congress
Treasury officials urged Congress to simplify laws, curb evasion, and aid small earners. Recommendations include lower rates for earned income under 25,000, a single normal rate, a new surtax schedule, joint returns, and higher tax on undistributed personal holding company income. Estimated revenue effects range from 100 million to 270 million dollars.
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Washington
Congress
The
Treasury
Morgenthau
Department
House
Ways and Means Committee
Ways and Means
Subcommittee
Bravery Awarded 14 Years After World War I
Uncle Sam recognizes Thomas Fosvedt for valiant action at the front fourteen years after the war ended. A former Stillwater county sheep herder, Fosvedt enlisted early at Red Lodge and fought in major French battles, surviving a cave-in and shell explosions, saving his regiment and receiving two injuries.
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Billings
Sam
Thomas_ Fosvedt
Fosvedt
Stillwater
Red Lodge
France
St. Mihiel
Montana Senate backs wage cut bill for liquor board staff
A legislative measure S B 22 was introduced to reduce wages for Montana Liquor Control Board employees by about half and limit county vending store staff to two, with monthly pay scales set for counties by population and one vendor per county.
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Helena
Montana Senate
State Liquor Control Board
Senate
John W. Coburn
Glacier County
John L. Campbell
Missoula
E. F. Galt
Judith Basin
T. O. Larson
Sweet Grass
Four States Get Increased CWA Funds in 1930s drought relief
Civil Works Administration grants extra funds to Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota and Montana totaling 50 000 due to drought snow distress. South Dakota gains 25000 bringing its total to 47000 North Dakota 20000 to 37000 Minnesota 5000 to 79000 and Montana adds 4000 raising its quota to 21000 creating about four thousand more jobs.
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Washington
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
Harry, L. Hopkins
Hopkins claims success in work to employ 4 million
Washington reports that Civil Works administration chief Harry L. Hopkins announced success in a program to provide work for 4,000,000 people on public projects. He noted cooperation from state and local boards, with a deadline looming, and outlined plans for relief purchases and cattle programs under federal funds.
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Washington
Civil Works Administration
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation
United States Unemployment Service
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Santa Claus
Roosevelt Santa Claus
Carbon County
Columbia
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