Wheeler Wins Fight to Preserve Supreme Court Plan
Washington July 22 The senate handed the Roosevelt court bill to the judiciary committee after stripping the disputed provision to expand the Supreme Court. The roll call showed 70 to recommit and 20 against with administration leaders yielding to opponents. The move signals the bill’s demise on court expansion and hints at a broader constitutional effort.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt Court
Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Ickes
Logan
House
Barkley
Bilbo
Black
Bone
Bulkley
Caraway
Chavez
Ellender
Green
Gageey
Hatch
Hitchcock
Hughes
McKellar
Neely
Schwartz
Schwellenhbach
Smathers
Trumand
LaFollette
Lundeen
Norris
Nebraska
Widow of Robinson courted as Arkansas senatorial candidate
In Arkansas a Democratic dispute over a successor to the late Senate leader Joseph T. Robinson surfaced as his widow was urged to run as an independent candidate. The party nominated Gov. Carl E Bailey for the September special election, prompting talk Mrs. Robinson might oppose him. She declined to comment while being surrounded by close friends. Other possible contenders include Albert Walls and Congressman John L. McClellan.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Senate
Joseph T. Robinson
Robinson
Carl E Bailey
Democratic State Committee
Arkansas Democrat
Windstorm injures children at Fishing Bridge in Yellowstone Park
A brief windstorm at Fishing Bridge near Yellowstone Lake damaged cabins and toppled 150 to 200 pine trees. In Eden Idaho, James Lee Harding, 4, suffered a possible skull fracture and concussion when a tree fell on his tent. Doll Harding, 12, fractured leg and possible back injuries. Both were taken to Mammoth Hot Springs hospital.
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Yellowstone Park
Wyo
Eden
Idaho
Fishing Bridge
Yellowstone Lake
Joseph Joffe
James Lee Harding
L. W. Harding
Doll Harding
Joffe
Mammoth Hot Springs Hospital
Butte Mother and Son Die in Car Train Crash
Anaconda Mont July 23 A Butte mother Dorothy Krizan 23 and her 18 month old son John were killed when their small coupe collided with the Northern Pacific North Coast Limited at a grade crossing east of Crackerville. Curtis Bailey 17 of Butte critically injured was driver of another auto and Krizan’s brother.
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Anaconda
Mont
Butte
Northern Pacific
North Coast Limited
Crackerville
Dorothy Krizan
Washington Street
John
St. Ann Hospital
Curtis Bailey
Buttte
North
Montana Street
Krizan
Beir
Carroll of Billings Is New President of Elks
Charles J. Carroll of Billings was elected president of the Montana State Elks association for the coming year at the closing session of the annual convention in Red Lodge. Anaconda will host the 1938 convention. Other officers named include Ed Johnson of Anaconda as first vice president Frank Sicora of Red Lodge as second vice president Art Trenerry of Billings as secretary treasurer and trustees Leon Choquette Helena Manley Holbert Virginia City and Art Baker Lewistown. Lewistown’s band won first in the uniformed bodies contest and Glendive led drum corps with Great Falls second Anaconda third and Dillon fourth. A street parade and the president’s ball capped the event.
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RED Lodge
Charles J. Carroll
Billines
Montana State Elks Association
Anaconda
Ed Johnson
Frank Sicora
Art Trenerry
Billings
Art Baker
Lewistown
Leon Choquette
Helena
Manley Holbert
Virginia City
Great Falls
Glendive
Dillon
America Again Sells Wheat to World From Big US Crop
The United States with the largest exportable wheat backlog reenters the world market after two years. A billion dollar crop and the biggest six year wheat harvest drive shipments from Chicago, Houston, and Galveston toward Europe and Canada. Domestic prices lag Winnipeg, aiding farmers as drought hurts rivals in Canada Argentina and Australia.
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Chicago
United States
Canada
Europe
Montreal
Houston
Galveston
Winnipeg
Kansas City
Antwerp
Roterdam
Dominion
Argentina
Australia
Boedecker backs readable 1938 license plates
A Montana highway patrol supervisor letter to the Pioneer dated July 24 agrees with an editorial on license plate visibility. He states the Motor Vehicle Department selects plates, not the patrol, and predicts plates will be color changed in 1938 to improve readability.
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Lou Boedecker
L.gc. Boedecker
Montana Highway Patrol
Motor
New Crop Control Legislation Faces Senate Hurdles
Washington July 23 Senate leaders warned the administration's crop control plan faces delays as the agriculture committee plans prolonged regional hearings on the every normal granary proposal. Senator Barkley said no bill report this session. Senator Pope noted authorized hearings in major crop areas. Farm Bureau President O Neal pressed compulsory quotas and heavy penalties to curb the farm surplus.
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Washington
Congress
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate
Black
Pope
Agriculture Committee
Bankhead
House
Edward A. O’neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
O’neal
Aid To Drought Stricken Areas To Continue
Montana Senator James E Murray announced that emergency grants for subsistence to drought stricken residents will continue. Emergency loans will aid upkeep of subsistence animals on farm steads. Rural rehabilitation loans issued where rainfall supports crop repayment. Representatives O Connor and Wilson expect a new relief plan and possible legislation this session.
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Washington
James E. Murray
Montana
Milo Perkins
Murray
James F. O’connor
Livingston
M. L. Wilson
Agriculture
O Connor urges funds for Montana projects in deficit bill
Representative James F. O Connor of Livingston Montana asked the House appropriations committee to add 150000 for two Montana projects cut from the interior department bill He seeks 100000 for a pumping plant on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation near Wolf Point and Frazier and 50000 for a resurvey of the Poplar River reclamation project He also urged approval of an initial appropriation for the Gallatin dam project in western Montana and said funds could come from reclamation revolving funds without new authorizations.
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Washington
James F. O’connor
Livingston
Montana
House Appropriations Committee
Senate
House
Interior Department
Fort Peck
Wolf Point
Frazier
Poplar River
O’connor
John Page
Budget Bureau
Gallatin
Reclamation Bureau
Reclamation
Lightning bolt disrupts horseshoe contest in Riverton
In Alton Missouri on a Sunday morning a bolt of lightning struck near Riverton as mountaineers gathered to watch a horseshoe pitch. Eleven spectators were knocked unconscious and treated by a doctor after the strike, with a five year old boy reported not to be expected to live.
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Alton
Ozarks
Riverton
Death of Severt Brack at ranch home near Boulder
Severt Brack died at his ranch on the east side of the Boulder river after a heart attack endured while tending pest holes. Born February 22 1858 in Norway he immigrated at 17 and worked in Minnesota lumber camps before homesteading in Fish Creek and later Brack ranch. He leaves a widow Anna Fagerli and three children Mikkel Arnold and Gladys Miller. Funeral at Lutheran church Saturday 2 30 pm.
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Severt Brack
Boulder
Trondhjem
Norway
Minnesota
Miles City
Anna Fagerli
Fish Creek
Brack & Moon
Brack Ranch
William
Gladys) Miller
Sheridan
Wyo
Mikkel
Arnold
Black Senator Battles Wage Hour Bill on Senate Floor
Senator Black of Alabama fights to keep the wage hour bill focused on wages hours and child labor. He aims to block amendments expanding labor union responsibility and employer appeals to the labor board proposed by Senator Vandenberg of Michigan. The measure, linked to Black and the late Connery, would empower an adminstrative board to set a 40 hour work week and ban child labor in interstate commerce.
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Washington
Senator Black
Alabama
Senate
Vandenberg
Michigan
Labor Board
Labor Committee
Black
Representative Connery
Massachusetts
Law crackdown on transient laborers in Minnesota harvests
Relief authorities and police acted Saturday against transient workers refusing jobs as northwest fields report women and children laboring to meet the grain crop. State relief head L P Zimmerman said thousands were removed from relief rolls with a pledge that those taking private work lose WPA status after harvest ends.
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Minneapolis
Northwest
Bridge Square
Knights of the Road
L. P. Zimmerman
Minnesota
Miles City Hosts Water Conservation Celebration
Delegates from 37 eastern Montana counties gathered in Miles City for a state water conservation celebration with county, state and federal officials. The event spotlighted Tongue river and Buffalo Rapids projects, homestead irrigation plans, and land use to stabilize crops and livestock. Governor Ayers urged efficient land use and taxpayer savings alongside water conservation.
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Miles City
Plains
Montana
State Water Conservation Board
Tongue River
Custer County
Buffalo Rapids
Glendive
Rotary Boys Band
Billings
Roy E. Ayers
Water Conservation Board
Carl Gillan
Forsyth
Montana County Association
Rosebud
Ayers
Earthquake damages towns in old Mexico
In Vera Cruz and Puebla states workers sift debris to tally Sunday night earthquake damage. At least 30 bodies recovered and Maltrata in Vera Cruz reported 16 dead and over 70 injured, with many still missing as half of Maltrata’s 8000 residents were left homeless.
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Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Puebla
Maltrata
Three Lives Lost In Missoula Forest Fire
Three men burned to death and three others severely injured as the Miller Creek fire southeast of Missoula burned about 2090 acres. Winds fanned spot fires while crews, led by Supervisor E. H. Myrick, recovered the victims from a canyon amid fallen trees and rugged terrain.
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Missoula
Mont
Miller Creek
Weather Bureau
Lee Coy
Ray van Sickle
East Missoula
E. H. Myrick
Lolo National Forest
Guy Stucky
Federal loans may be harder to secure under new policy
Washington officials report Roosevelt may urge credit agencies to tighten lending and collection to balance the budget. Impoundment of 10 percent of appropriations already asked, with goal to slash the 418 million dollar deficit. RCC and similar bodies could curb lending, deny extensions, and liquidate assets amid already high loan repayments. Railroads now top RCC debtors at 354.32 million.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
R.F.C
Daly trust funds total over five million
An interim trustees accounting in the Marcus Daly estate shows three trusts totaled 5,564,652.74 from death to March 15, 1937. The will left the widow Lele H Daly and her son Marcus Daly III equal residuary interests totaling 5,383,177.11, with a real estate trust valued at 181,495.11. Gerard and Bankers Trust Co serve as trustees and executors.
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New York
Marcus Daly
Daly
James W. Gerard
Germany
Lele H. Daly
Park Avenue
Marcus Daly III
Gerard
Bankers Trust Company
Adjournment Rush Threatens Roosevelt Five Point Program
Washington July 24. A rush to adjourn threatened the Roosevelt five point program for this session. Senator Barkley and the president weigh salvage from the program while Woodrum warns against jamming measures through. Wage hour and housing bills loom but adjournment pressures may sideline reforms as Congress contemplates a court plan and hastens home.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
Potomac
Representative Woodrum
Virginia
House
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