Mooney Pardoned by California Governor Olson
Thomas J. Mooney, long imprisoned symbol of class conflict, is freed by a gubernatorial pardon from California Governor Culbert L. Olson. Mooney vows to dedicate his life to democracy and a new social order as Olson collapses from stress after delivering the pardon at the state fairgrounds.
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Sacramento
Calif
Thomas J. Mooney
Labor
California
Culbert L. Olson
Mooney
San Francisco
Olson
Detective fatally shoots teen during extortion bust
In East St Louis a 14 year old boy was killed by Police Detective Sergeant Clifford Flood during an undercover extortion raid. Detectives waited at Kathryn Walsh home for a note demanding $50. The boy, approaching a milk bottle dummy, was shot after fleeing when Flood fired.
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East St. Louis
Clifford Flood
Kathryn Walsh
Walsh
Flood
Borah Opposes Economic Sanctions Against Aggressors
Senator William E. Borah Republican Idaho denounces U S proposals for economic sanctions stating he would rather see the nation engaged in shooting soldiers than starving women and children He warns that sanctions would be a step toward war and would not be a peace move.
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Washington
William E. Borah
Idaho
United States
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Committee Named to Investigate Appointees
The Montana House adopted a motion to investigate all elective and appointive state departments. A 15 member committee would be appointed by Speaker Manning to report by day 50. An amendment to probe the liquor control board failed 71 to 29. The Senate also moved to investigate liquor control and the highway department.
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Helena
Montana
House of Representatives
House
E. J. Byrne
Toole
Dave Manning
Sam Spiegel
Silver Bow
State Liquor Control Board
State Senate
State Liquor Control System
State Highway Department
Elk harvest tops two thousand in Park County hunt
Montana game officials report 2,317 elk killed in Park County near Yellowstone as the season remains open until March or until authorities close it on short notice. State Game Warden James A. Weaver noted a surge in the last two weeks after a slow fall start. Last year the area closed January 6 after 1,087 elk were killed on New Year’s Day.
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Bozeman
Montana
Park County
Yellowstone National Park
James A. Weaver
Weaver
Miles City Stockmen Oppose State Grazing Administrator Plan
Montana stockmen in Miles City oppose a proposed bill for a state grazing administrator. They formed a committee to draft compromise legislation arguing the plan would strip owners of cattle rights and place control in nonresident hands and an administrator and his committee.
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Miles City
Montana
Montana Senate Orders Probe Into Highway Department and Liquor Board
The Montana senate voted to investigate the state highway department and the state liquor control board. The highway probe, led by Senator Mahoney, cites overstaffing and misallocated funds, while 17 senators signed the liquor board inquiry petition without stated reasons. Committees named with Senators Foot, McQuitty, Armstrong, Lamp, Stark for highways and Kathan, Cotter, Chapman, Arnold, Calder for liquor.
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Helena
Montana Senate
State Highway Department
State Liquor Control Board
Highway Department
Mahoney
Garfield
Liquor Department
Senate
Foot
Roosevelt
McQuitty
Wheatland
Armstrong
Park
Lamp
Sweet Grass
Stark
Hill
Kathan
Pondera
Cotter
Broadwater
Chapman
Daniels
Arnold
Stillwater
Calder
Prairie
Billings man Lacey found dead in basement apartment
Ross Lacey 51 a long time Billings resident was found dead in his basement apartment at 15 South Twenty seventh street about 2 30 p m Saturday an empty tin cup and a bottle of poison beside him He had been out of work since last June and had threatened to kill himself for six months Violet Lester who lives below said the statements were not taken seriously The poison bottle bore a Columbus druggist label He drank the contents and Myrtle Moore an Buffalo bar employee found the body He is survived by a brother Claude Lacey of McLeod and sister Sadie Mae Stevenson of Pasadena Cal His father George Lacey was killed in 1930 and fought with Gen Custer in the Civil War finally serving as a G A R delegate in 1930 at Bozeman
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Mooney
Warren K. Billings
Folsom
Olson
Ben F. Lamborn
Alameda
Calif
Billings
Ross Lacey
South Twenty-seventh Street
Lacey
Buffalo Bar
Violet Lester
Harris Cattle Company
Columbus
Nebraska
Myrtle Moore
Buffalo
Claude Lacey
McLeod
Sadie Mae Stevenson
Pasadena
Cal
George Lacey
First Avenue North
George A. Custer
William McKinley
Department
Bozeman
Harvard Professor Frankfurter Named to Supreme Court
Washington January 5 Harvard liberal Felix Frankfurter a Harvard College professor was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Roosevelt. Senate quick to confirm with limited Democratic opposition noting his vast scholarship while some anti court bill stalwarts remained cautious. Frankfurter, born in Vienna sixty years ago and naturalized, will join the high court in a historic shift of its outlook.
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Washington
Harvard
Felix Frankfurter
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Senate
Frankfurter
Burke
Neb
O'Mahoney
Wyo
Cambridge
Mass
Vienna
Hapsburgs
Republicans Attack New Deal Fiscal Relief and Trade Pacts
Washington note details congressional Republicans denouncing the administrations fiscal relief and trade agreements. Senator McNary of Oregon and Representative Martin of Massachusetts criticized policy, with McNary urging elimination of relief programs to oust perceived political racketeers from relief administration.
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Washington
McNary
Oregon
Martin
Massachusetts
Great Falls Resident Donates Estate To Charity
Charles E. Heisey wholesale grocer died in Great Falls and left more than half a million dollars to charity and his firm. Company stock over 200000 goes to officers and employees, 100 shares to each local hospital, with the remainder forming the Heisey Foundation for Montana religious charitable and educational uses.
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Great Falls
Charles E. Heisey
Compa
Heisey Foundation
State of
Montana
Montana Stays On WPA Easy Money Pay
Washington reports that during the week ended December 24 WPA employment fell in most states while Kansas Mississippi and Montana rose. National WPA rolls totaled 3,112,322, down 62,711 from the prior week. Montana increased from 20,319 to 20,526 while Nebraska Wyoming and others showed declines.
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Washington
F C. Harrington
Works Progress
WPA
Kansas
Mississippi
Montana
Nebraska
Wyoming
Bozeman Plane Crash Brings Big Liability Suits
Two lawsuits totaling 125000 were filed against Lockheed Aircraft in Los Angeles court over the Bozeman Montana crash of January 10 1938. Plaintiffs include Andrew and Martha Anderson parents of Theodore W Anderson and Kathleen West widow of pilot Fred W West Jr. The complaints blame defective mechanism for the fatalities.
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Los Angeles
Superior
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Bozeman
Mont
Theodore W. Anderson
Andrew and
Martha Anderson
Kathleen West
Fred W. West, Jr
Wheeler Proposes Farm Relief Bill for Drought Areas
Senator Wheeler of Montana seeks to forgive 91.4 million dollars in government crop and feed loan obligations since 1921 for drought hit farmers. He argues debt forgiveness lets farmers cover harvesting costs and store crops rather than selling to repay loans while agencies push price support.
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Washington
Wheeler
Montana
Senate
Farm Credit Administration
Agriculture Department
Capper push reforms to tariff act and favored nation clause
Senator Capper of Kansas urged a Senate ratification requirement for future trade agreements and the removal of the favored nation clause. Other bills include Murray proposal to move the U S employment service to the Social Security Board and a $5 million plan for tuberculosis hospitals and operation.
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Washington
Capper
Kansas
Senate
Murray
Montana
United States Employment Service
Department of Labor
Social Security Board
Jackson Day Rally Highlights Democratic Unity in Capital
President Roosevelt appealed for unity at the Jackson Day dinner in the Mayflower hotel urging liberals and independents to support a liberal Democratic Party. He warned Republicans and conservative Democrats against splitting the party and touted allies across parties to sustain New Deal progress. Vice President Garner and Speaker Bankhead spoke as crowds hailed the president amid high-dye festivities.
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Treasury
Mr. Roosevelt
Mayflower Hotel
Garner
Bankhead
Senators Back on New Associate Justice
Washington January 10 The confirmation of Felix Frankfurter as an associate justice of the Supreme Court faced opposition at a Senate hearing from two witnesses who cited his Jewish birth and alien origin. A third urged that the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee question Frankfurter on constitutional law in a related court case recently lost.
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Washington
Felix Frankfurter
Supreme Court
Senate
Senate Judiciary
Frankfurter
Lyda Southard Denied Clemency By Idaho Board
Idaho’s new pardon board refused to grant clemency to Lyda Southard the woman known for poisoning her husbands. Governor Bottolfsen Secretary of State George Curtis and Attorney General J W Taylor all voted against a pardon keeping her 16 year sentence for second degree murder.
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Boise
Ida
Idaho
Lyda Southard
C. A. Bottolfsen
George Curtis
J. W. Taylor
Justices Attend Roosevelt Reception Amid Absentees
President and Mrs Roosevelt hosted a reception for the Supreme Court justices in Washington. Justice McReynolds did not attend, while Justice Brandeis and Justice Butler were otherwise occupied or unwell. Frank Murphy appeared for the cabinet line as attorney general. Secretary Hopkins did not attend due to workload.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Justice McReynolds
White House
Justice
Brandeis
Butler
Commerce Hopkins
States to Tighten Control of Relief Spending
Washington lawmakers moved to impose an iron clad distribution formula for federal relief funds. A House committee grilled WPA Administrator Harrington over an $875 million request to cover needs through July. Senate unemployment leaders backed earmarking funds to avoid discrimination among states, with Clark Murray and Hatch supporting a formula in the emergency bill if feasible.
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Washington
Congress
House
WPA
F. C Harrington
Senate Unemployment Committee
Clark
Murray
Mont
Hatch
N. M
Dad of ninety cares for boy sixty five
In Hammond Indiana a 65 year old man applying for work explains that his 90 year old father has supported him for six years amid tough times. The state employment service investigator questions the arrangement.
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Hammond
Ind
State Employment Service
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