Nations celebrate Christmas in manifold tongues
Christmas observances span the globe from Bethlehem to Buenos Aires and Tokyo with prayers for peace from Pope Pius and holiday rituals. Roosevelt lights the White House tree as nations report gift exchanges, truces, and festive customs amid war and economic hardship.
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Chicago
Christ
Bethlehem
Jesus
Pope Pius
Buenos Aires
Paraguay
Bolivia
Tranger
Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Callander
Dionne
Jukkasjarvi
Sweden
Deer Lodge Prison Installs Christmas Dinner Menu
At Montana penitentiary in Deer Lodge on December 24, 552 inmates including nine women will receive a Christmas meal featuring breakfast items like shoe string potatoes loganberry sauce pork sausage and rolls and a 3 o'clock dinner of roast turkey with candied sweet potatoes sage dressing stewed tomatoes potato salad gravy and pies. A morning motion picture and an all day prison orchestra program accompany the meal.
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Deer Lodge
Mont
Montana Penitentiary
State Board Works On Budget Allotments In Helena
The Montana board of examiners began plotting budget appropriations for all state offices and institutions for the coming biennium. Budgets go to the 1935 legislature for approval. Last approved totals were $1,522,450 general fund and $701,277 millage fund with other special funds. Requests this year exceed prior funding, but the board is trimming where possible.
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Helena
Mont
Montana
Montana Quotas Set for CCC Replacement Program
Robert Fechner announced state quotas for the January replacement program with Montana allotted 283 men and Wyoming 251. He said the total corps strength will reach about 370,000 after all states are processed. The Montana relief commission meanwhile delivers 6,000 relief made mattresses to needy Treasure State homes as a Christmas gift amid 89,990 on relief.
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Washington
Montana
Wyoming
Robert Fechner
Citizens Conservation Corps
Fechner
Helena
Mont
Montana Relief Commission
Treasure State
Moodie Ready to Take North Dakota Governor Post
North Dakota supreme court allowed Moodie to receive a certificate of election while permitting quo warranto proceedings to test Moodie’s qualifications. The case involves alleged residence in Minnesota in 1930 and potential disqualification. Lieutenant Governor-elect Welford named party to the action with possible postponement of filing until after inauguration.
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Bismarck
N.D
North Dakota
Minnesota
Moodie
Walter Welford
Francis Murphy
New Bonus Data for Veterans Plans For Payment of Billion and a Fifth
Washington dispatch reports a new soldiers bonus proposal to pay 1.2 billion dollars in cash to veterans. The plan would amend law to base certificates from Armistice 1918 and mature them in 1935, reducing interest loss and saving the treasury about a billion dollars. It envisions 17 year maturities and shifts cash timing to avert immediate cash payments, with Rep Patman involved in discussions and veterans bureau cost estimates being finalized.
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Washington
Treasury
Veterans Bureau
Capitol
Congress
Patman
D. Tex
Perkins Critiques Townsend Pension Plan as Impractical
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins criticized the Townsend proposal for a $200 monthly pension to everyone over 60 as visionary and impractical. She urged states to push unemployment insurance and old age pension legislation this winter, emphasizing state action before federal measures.
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Washington
Townsend
Pecventy Perkins
Secretary of Labor
Miss Perkins
Montana Liquor Control Stores Net Over Half Million
Montana's liquor stores in 115 outlets sold $1,735,936.25 in the year ending November 1 with a net profit of $462,226.74 and a cash balance near $500,000. The system expanded from four stores in 1933 to 115 today, employing 200 to 250 people and contributing to relief and state funds.
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Helena
Mont
State General Fund
Montana Liquor Control
Great Falls
Butte
Missoula
Ray McLanahan
Control Board
Commission
Insull Cleared of Embezzlement Charge in Chicago Trial
Martin Insull was absolved of embezzlement charges after a six hour and forty five minute deliberation. Jurors found him not guilty of stealing 344000 from Middle West Utilities he led for private stock market dealings. The Acquittal followed earlier Insull victories in related cases.
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Chicago
Martin Insull
Insull Power
Middle West
Insull
Samuel
Samuel, Jr
Marshall E. Sampsell
Central Illinois Public Service Company
Insull Chieftains
Seven Hunters Killed in Deer Season Across States
An Associated Press survey reports about 75 hunters killed as deer seasons wind down nationwide. Many more were wounded, with roughly 230 injuries. fatalities occurred in Wyoming, Montana, and Michigan.
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New York
Associated Press
Division over next year public works spending hits six billion
Washington reports a six billion dollar split among presidential advisers on the proposed public works budget for next year. Estimates ranged from three to nine billion, with a likely fill-in in the president’s message to Congress within ten days. An official predicted a very low total as Roosevelt aims to spur a possible early summer business upturn.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Mrs Stephens Held on Murder Charge in Texas Valley
Mrs Pauline Stephens is jailed in Valley county on a murder charge for slain husband James R Stephens former Valley county sheriff. Arrested at her Tampico area ranch after a prolonged probe. Coroners jury previously ruled Stephens died from self inflicted wounds amid dispute over verdict.
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Glasgow
Mont
Pauline Stephens
Valley County
Stephens
Vanguard of a New Congress Piles Up Plans for Prosperity
Washington reports the 74th congress opening approaches with multiple proposed measures to ease depressions and fund relief. proposals include farm debt refinancing up to 3 billion dollars and cashing soldiers certificates with non interest bearing bonds. leaders foresee retrenchment by the administration while factions push for varied spending.
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Congress
Washington
Capitol
White House
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Thomas
Okla
Off Again on Again for Commissioner Carey
Thomas E. Carey state railroad and public service commissioners chairman was rearrested as he left the Helena court. He faced a new charge of a similar offense against another 16 year old boy with bond set at 1500 dollars. A petition for juvenile delinquency for the first boy was filed in district court.
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Helena
Sherman W. Smith
Thomas E. Carey
State Board of Railroad and Public Service Commissioners
Arthur C. Parsons
Carey
G. W. Padbury, Jr
Smith
Stanger Withdraws as Adminstratrix in Burke Estate Case
Mrs. Catherine Stanger of Chicago withdraws as executrix of Daniel J. Burke estate in Lewistown. She had been named to administer the will and kept seven $1,000 bills and two $10,000 government bonds found in Burke’s safe. An additional $7,000 in liberty bonds surfaced later. investigation ongoing.
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Lewistown
Catherine Stanger
Chicago
Daniel J. (Pickhandle) Burke
L. P. Donovan
Shelby
Bastic
State Representaive
Burke
Burke Hotel
Stanger
Laura Stingley
Montana
Billings Loses One of Earliest Citizens
Mrs. Edward B. Kennedy 81, widow of a pioneer sheepman, died of paralysis at her home on North Thirty second Street after 52 years in Billings. She arrived in summer 1882 before the railroad, traveling from the Black Hills by wagon. Her husband ran a ferry on the Yellowstone east of Billings and later homesteaded east of town when Indian land opened. he died December 22, 1903.
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Billings
Edward B. Kennedy
North Thirty-second Street
Black Hills
South Dakota
Yellowstone River
East Bridge
Here
Kennedy
Mrs Roosevelt Rejects Townsend Pension Plan as Impractical
Washington December 24 The article notes Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt an advocate of old age pensions condemns the Townsend plan as impractical and impossible to carry out She says it cannot be accomplished and critiques its requirement of $20 monthly for persons over 60 with spending stipulations and no work.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Townsend
Four Million Fish Stock Montana Streams From Big Timber Hatchery
Big Timber state hatchery furnished about 3,841,260 fish to lakes and streams in the region last year. Yellowstone county received 514,000 mainly for the Yellowstone River, with steelheads for experiment. Stillwater led with 904,500. Sweet Grass 761,060. Yellowstone county 428,000. Yellowstone National Park 350,000. other counties including Carbon and Gallatin. Loch Leven led species at 1,392,910, Rainbow 1,327,000, natives 682,500, brooks 284,000, steelheads 154,000. Monthly shipments topped 1,000,000 twice. Turn to Page 4.
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Billings Gazette
Big Timber
John Schofield
Montana Sportsmen’s Association
Schofield
Yellowstone County
Yellowstone River
Stillwater
Wheatland
Yellowstone National Park
Carbon County
Rock Creek
Clarks Fork River
Big Horn
Fergus
Meagher
Golden Valley
Porate Park
Gallatin
Loch Leven
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Tokyo
United States
Germany
London
King George
Sandringham
Paris
France
Thomas Moodie
Sec
Perkins
Mrs. Stephens
Mrs. Stanger
Joe
Big Timber Fish Hatchery
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