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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1935
Page
1
The proposed highway patrol would create a commission appointed force of 21 to 45 year old, state residents with tests and a three month probation. Offenses include reckless driving and drunk driving with escalating fines up to 5 000 and imprisonment. permits may be revoked with court appeal.
In Butte at the Montana Wool Growers association thirty fourth annual session leaders from Montana and Iowa outlined key sheep industry issues. W G Gilbert of Dillon presided as J N Horlacher of Des Moines spoke on contract lamb feeding and Dr Alfred Atkinson of Montana State College stressed Montana resource data and water resource planning.
Senators Cotter Eaton and Clifford introduced Senate Bill No 26 to create a Montana highway patrol. The measure would appoint the state highway commission chair as head, the state prison warden as secretary, and the attorney general as legal adviser, with minimal travel pay and per diem for the chair during sessions.
Washington January 23. A demand to divide President Roosevelts economic security program into four separate bills took shape amid developments signaling a dispute marked path through Congress. Administration spokesmen assailed the Townsend proposal of 200 dollars a month as fantastic and cockeyed.
Four people found dead in a south side Great Falls home after suspected poisoning or gas exposure. Investigators cite a possible love triangle involving Mrs. Donald Chisholm and Mrs. Bessie Bundtrock, with Chisholm's death prompting exhumation and toxic analysis. Authorities note Bundtrock lived at the residence for years and that Mrs. Chisholm warned of danger to herself.
Chicago stockyards report cattle prices at their highest since 1931 with a prime heavyweight steer load at 1287 pounds selling for 13.00 per hundredweight amid strong competition. Fat steers, cows, heifers and calves all higher. bulls up 10 to 15 cents. Kansas City sees a four year high for feed steers at 12.50 per hundred.
Local leaders including Dude ranchers sportsmen stockmen forest service and Park officials completed a set of recommendations for federal land use. They urge limits to forest land purchases near the park define elk cap at 10000 head protect grazing rights and maintain Montana state control of game, with safeguards for mining water shed development and domestic grazing restoration if needed.
Louis Lienemann, 83, longtime western figure and friend of General George Armstrong Custer, died in Butte after an operation. A Montana, Colorado, and South Dakota pioneer, he helped drive cattle to early settlements from about 1870 to 1880. He befriended Custer during that era.
John Barton Payne former secretary of the interior and American Red Cross chairman under four presidents died in Washington at 1:06 am Thursday of pneumonia after recent influenza treatment. He underwent an operation for appendicitis last Saturday and would have turned 80 on the 26th.
Five bandits in New England staged the largest postal robbery to date, stopping a United States mail truck in Fall River Massachusetts. They fled with about $129,000 in currency after armed hold up by machine guns and pistols.
Montana officials moved to allocate homesteads under a forthcoming act. The plan would reassign thousands of acres seized by counties for delinquent taxes, outlining a limited scope for the land disposition program.
Washington January 18 Secretary Dern ordered a stiff rough ride test for 1 228 pilots in the Army Air Corps to weed out swivel chair officers and create room for junior rugged personnel All flying officers must take the test by June 30 Those who pass will stay in the service.
Deaths and damages rise as a severe cold wave sweeps across the country. Freezing weather covers the deep south, with thousands of cattle perishing in Texas and other livestock succumbing to exposure in northern Louisiana. Rio Grande crops suffer severe damage as Brownsville records a temperature of 26 degrees.
Regional Agricultural Credit loans to Montana livestock men and farmers totaled 33 million dollars with about 74 percent repaid or refinanced. H. H. Pigott, manager at Helena, reports on the repayment progress.
Eleven miners were killed and two reported missing after an explosion at the Gilberton colliery of the Reading Coal and Iron Company in Pennsylvania. Seventy one were injured, with twenty five hospitalized and two in critical condition. Two hundred workers remained in the shaft during the blast.
Senator Wheeler of Montana said Public Works Administrator Ickes has sent an investigator to Montana to probe alleged violations of labor rules on public works programs. Wheeler reported numerous complaints about hours wages and housing not being followed and said Ickes agreed to investigate. The investigator is currently in Montana.
Washington battles over the $4.88 billion relief plan proceed in the House as lawmakers seek curtailment. The White House confirms Harold L. Ickes will not administer the relief job, narrowing administration control over the program before it goes to the Senate.
President Roosevelt outlines a five phased program to aid the unemployed, aged, mothers and children, and to broaden public health. Congress moves via Wagner and Lewis to push unemployment insurance, old age pensions up to 30 dollars monthly, and federal state cooperation with substantial initial funding and future annual appropriations. The plan aims for a self sustaining system with federal control and continued study of health insurance possibilities.
The Montana liquor control board reports a gross operating profit of 1 041 036 and a net profit of 722 214 for its first year ending December 31 1934. Liquor purchased 1 624 219 was sold for 2 613 390 with assets at 716 787 and 561 559 invested in stores and warehouse.
The United States Civil Service Commission announced in Billings that applications are due by February 12 for an unassembled competitive examination to fill the postmaster position. Applicants will be rated on education training business experience and fitness.
Anna Roosevelt Dall, daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, married journalist John Boettinger in a secret ceremony at the Roosevelt townhouse on East Sixty-fifth Street. The wedding, attended only by family, was conducted by General Sessions Judge Frederick Kernochan with no attendants or reception. It is the couple's second marriage for both, following Dall's 1940 divorce from Curtis B. Dall in Nevada.
The U S Supreme Court promised a ruling on the constitutionality of the national industrial recovery act and the timber code after reviewing a ruling by Federal Judge W H Grubb invalidating the act and code. The case of William E Belcher tests federal authority over labor hours and wages under the code structure.
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