Million mill workers set to gain wage rise under recovery drive
Washington reported plans to mobilize public opinion behind a broad industrial recovery program as almost a million mill workers accepted higher pay under a new 40 hour week. High Johnson outlined a campaign modeled on wartime drives to unite citizens in boosting employment and wages across cotton, rayon, silk, and knitting mills. Authorities weighed 35 to 40 hour weeks and $12 plus wage targets, with state and local efforts, and extensive advertising to promote voluntary wage increases and hour reductions.
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Washington
Industrial Administration
High S.johnson
Cotton Textile
Indus
Indiana Limestone
Industrial Recovery Association of Clothing Manufacturers
Roosevelt
Recovery Administration
Johnson
Grain markets soar as wheat and barley lead gains
Chicago reports July 17 wheat for May delivery at 1.26 a bushel after a sharp run up to 5 1/8 cents intraday gains. Barley rose 12 cents in two hours with successive 1 4/4 and 1/2 cent steps, while oats rye and corn also advanced as speculators bought eagerly.
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Chicago
Fake scale inspectors target Montana merchants
Helena July 17. Commissioner A H Stafford warns that men posing as state scale inspectors are collecting fees for scale adjusting. They operated in eastern Montana near Terry and damaged several scales due to misinformed handling. Merchants should demand identification cards and credentials signed by the commissioner with the state seal.
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Helena
Mont
Montana
A. H. Stafford
Terry
Stafford
Public Warned Against Stock Tipsters
Washington July 16 Postmaster General Farley denounced stock market tipster sheets as fuels for speculation and hindrance to recovery. He said fraud orders will be issued against anyone involved in fraudulent market services and directed inspectors to report on all such frauds while noting the rise of tipsters with the market upturn. He cited the securities law requiring full publicity of financial facts behind new issues.
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Washington
Farley
Eo Ve
Post Office Department
Bartley Named Deputy Administrator in Helena
July 13 W H Bartley of Miles City a prominent Democrat and railroad man has been named acting deputy prohibition administrator the fifth to hold the post in under six weeks Bartley arrived in Helena to assume duties He was secretary of the Democratic state central committee in 1930 and was reelected in 1982 He has led the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen in state matters
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Helena
W. H. Bartley
Miles City
Bartley
Democratic State Central Committee
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Secretary Ickes rejects public works grab bag plan
Secretary Ickes said the $3.3 billion building program would be carefully reconsidered and pared to avoid pork. President Roosevelt’s board will study rivers and harbors and public buildings with strict efficiency to ensure social necessity and timely start while cutting recurring costs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Cabinet Board
Ickes
Public‘works
Alabama And Arkansas Favor Repeal But Tennessee Vote Looms
Chicago dispatch notes repeal supporters claim victory in Alabama and Arkansas with strong margins. Tennessee expected to swing in favor of repeal as Tuesday returns show Alabama with 96,801 for repeal 59,997 against and Arkansas with 58,602 for repeal 38,272 against.
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Chicago
Alabama
Arkansas
Tennessee
Deep South
Oliver P. Zortman Died After Long Mining Career
Oliver P. Zortman a Montana mining promoter born in Harrisburg Pennsylvania in 1865 died at Big Timber hospital after cancer and months as a county charges. Funeral services included Christian Science rites and a Masonic graveside ceremony with multiple mining associates present. He had worked in the Black Hills Bear Paw Sandusky Chateau County Neihart and a Zortman camp before years of hardship and penury. His brother Milton Zortman lives in Pittsburgh and his wife and two daughters reside in Hollywood.
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Oliver P. Zortman
Timber
Christian Science
Lowry Chapel
Signa Bailey
Friend Curtis
Ed Brannin
D. J
Harrisburg
Black Hills
Montana
Bear Paw Mountains
Sandusky
Chateau County
Neihart
Zortman
Big
Mountain View
Masonic Lodge
Chinook
Mont
Milton Zortman
Pittsburgh
Hollywood
Calif
Inga Halverson Freas Dies in Los Angeles
Mrs. Inga Halverson Freas, twin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Halverson longtime Sweet Grass residents, died in Los Angeles after Malta fever and a cerebral hemorrhage. She taught at Union Avenue School and left a husband and two sisters, with a funeral that drew a large crowd and a motorcycle police escort.
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Alex. J. Irvine
Los Angeles
Calif
Inga Halverson Freas
John Halverson
Sweet Grass
St. Paul
California
California Normal’school
Union
Avenue ‘School of
Malta
Sarah Haverson Olson
Lottie Mar‘berg
Ole Birkeland
Grey’ ‘Cliff
Billings Municipal Band to Tour Yellowstone and Midwest
Billings Director Denis H. O'Brien announced the Billings Municipal Band will tour Midland Empire towns and Yellowstone National Park for the Billings rodeo concert series next Sunday and Monday. Musicians perform without pay, travel about 500 miles, and concerts are planned in Fromberg Bridger Powell Cody Old Faithful Gardiner Livingston Big Timber Park City Columbus and Laurel. Two thirds of expenses are raised with pledges expected by Monday and as many as a dozen motorists have offered to escort the band bus.
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Billings
Abe
Midland Empire
Yellowstone National Park
Denis H. O’brien
Fromberg
Bridger
Powell, Cody
Wyo
Old Faithful
Yellowstone’National Park
Gardiner
Livingston
Big Timber
Park City
Columbus
Laurel
Attorney General issues tenth opinion on nepotism law
Helena July 15 The attorney general's tenth opinion on the 1933 nepotism law holds that a public officer may not appoint a relative to do only occasional work under the statute. Previous rulings state the law is not retroactive and applies to school trustees and officers, and to members of the legislature.
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Helena
Bank outlook grows hopeful in Detroit
Detroit reports a second large bank formed under Edsel Ford and associates and a distribution to 800,000 depositors in the city's two closed National banks seems assured. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation agrees to lend 75 million dollars more to receivers of the closed banks.
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Detroit
Edsel Ford and Associates
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Big Timber Volunteer Fire drills announced for July
The Big Timber Volunteer Fire Department will start annual drills next week. Captains and squads were named for July 26 and July 27 reports, with specific members listed for Squad 2 led by Wm Thornby and La Vern Duncan as first squad captain.
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Big Timber Volunteer Fire Department
Wm. Thornby
D. Severance
Cal Kepler
Jack Fjelde
Dick Mijelde
Horace Haas
Charles McDonnell
Ed Gunderson
E. A. Bieber
Guy F. Skillman
Ten States to Receive 75 Million for Roads
Public Works Administration approved plans to spend 75 million dollars on roads in ten states as part of President Roosevelt’s program to push the 3.3 billion dollar relief fund into trade. The administration also moved to expedite federal public works proposals and aimed to employ up to one million idle workers by October 1. The cabinet board approved an allotment of 90 million dollars for river and harbor and flood control projects to be considered by the president over the weekend.
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Treasury
Public Works Administration
yIckes
Budget Bureau
Washington
Roosevelt
Senators Oppose Civil Service for Postmasters
Washington July 13 Senators expect President Roosevelts bid to place all postmasters under civil service to fail as they seek to keep patronage. Capitol Hill debates focus on his executive order for exams and the motive to improve postal service and efficiency.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Capitol Hill
Civil Service
McKellar
Senate Post Office Committee
Civil Service Committee
Senate
Going to the Sun Highway Opens With Fine Program
The Going-to-the-Sun highway opened in Glacier National Park linking eastern and western Montana with a 5 mile route over Logan Pass. Delegations from Belton and Great Falls joined Canadian groups while Blackfeet and Flathead tribes observed a peace ceremony. The $1 250 000 project included the Mount Piegan tunnel and connected with routes to Canada and the Roosevelt Trail. Sponsors and officials praised the engineering feat and a telegram from the Interior Secretary signaled potential surfacing in the near future.
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Glacier Park
Logan Pass
Montana Rockies
Glacier ‘National Park
Montana
Belton
Greatoe
Canada
Toth
Mount Piegan
Pass
T. Scoven
Park
O., S. Warden
Great Falls
Stephen’ T. Mather
Park Service
Watertonhaere International
Portland
United States Bureau of Public Roads
Burton’ K. “Wheeler
Congress
Gov. Coonky
Blacket Aghway
National Park Service
Public Works
Last Man Not Attending Stillwater Banquet
Stillwater Minnesota July 14 The annual Last Man's club banquet will not be held this year due to the 90 year old last man Charles Lockwood unable to travel from Chamberlain South Carolina. The club formed in 1885 honors Civil War veterans of Company B first Minnesota volunteers and was to be held July 21 the anniversary of Bull Run.
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Stillwater
Minnh
Charles Lockwood
Chamberlain
S. C
Minnesota
Bull Run
IOWA LOSES GRAND OLD MAN IN REP G N HAUGEN
Gil bert N. Haugen 74 former congressman from Iowa died at his Norwood home after heart disease and complications from influenza. He served 34 years in the house the longest national congressional record. Haugen lost to Fred Biermann in November after a Republican nomination win a year earlier.
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Norwood
Iowa
Gilbert N. Haugen
Militant Farm Leader
House of Representatives
Haugen
C. A. Benson
Elkader
Fred Biermann
Decorah
Washington
Lars G. Haugen
National City Bank of New York
Joe Johnson
Northwood
Mrs. Sarah E. Bole of Bozeman Dies of Heart Attack
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Bole 70 widow of William M. Bole, longtime Montana newspaper publisher, died in Bozeman after a brief illness. Death followed a heart attack arising from influenza contracted during an auto trip taken after her husband’s death last October.
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Bozeman
Sarah Elizabeth Bole
William M. Bole
Montana
State beer taxes total $2900 in June
Helena report shows John J. Lewis of the state beer control board announcing that state beer taxes collected last month reached 2900 dollars, up from 2400 dollars in May.
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Helena
John J. Lewis
State Board of Beer Control
Billings Man Appointed to Indian Service
Kenneth R. L. Simmons is confirmed as district counsel for the irrigation division of the Indian service and will assume office Monday. The appointment comes from Charles Fahy and follows a nomination by Senator B. K. Wheeler. Simmons, a Montana native and Montana State University graduate 1925, is the second Montana patronage appointee under the Roosevelt era, joining Lewis Penwell who became internal revenue collector in Helena.
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Billings
Kenneth R. L. Simmons
Irrigation Division of the Indian Service
Charles Fahy
Interior
Mr. Simmons
Ben Harwood
Wag
Montana
Senate Committee On Indian Affairs
Simmons
Roosevelt
Lewis Penwell
Helena
Internal Revenue
Montana State University
Valley County Fair Called Off This Year
Glasgow July 17 The Valley county fair board announced the event will not be held this year.
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Glasgow
Cement shipments drive Montana highway work in record volumes
TRIDENT Montana July 13 Shipments from the cement plant here average 60 carloads a week. Railway traffic men call it the largest movement in several years. Much of the product is being used in Montana highway construction.
Purcell Named Montana Reemployment Director Under Wagner Kayser Act
Helena July 18 Richard R Purcell longtime Helena attorney and former county attorney will head Montana reemployment under the Wagner Kayser act Spaulding Montana relief director announced on return from Washington Purcell will help place the unemployed in public works projects and will work with state and county agencies to aid job seekers. He has held multiple public roles including Montana Stockgrowers association attorney and Democratic party positions.
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Helena
Richard R Purcell
Montana
Wagner-Kayser
Thomas C. Spaulding
Washington
Purcelly
W. Frank Persons
United States Employment Service
Purcell
Spaulding
Eie
Ena
Hélénia
Stockgrowers’’ Association
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