Roosevelt drops 411 NRA wage and fair trade cases in dismissal
President Roosevelt dismissed four hundred eleven cases charging violations of blue eagle rules after the Supreme Court Schechter decision. Attorney General Cummings approved the action. The White House said further actions would not be pursued and many cases across states must be dropped. Roosevelt rode to Sequoia as Washington weighed the administration's next steps.
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Washington
NRA
Roosevelt
Chesapeake Bay
White House
Cummings
Dred
Ases
Supreme Court
Schechter
Mentary
Secretary of Labor
Federal Alcohol Control Administration
Electric Home and Farm Authority
Petroleum Administration Board
Central Statistical Board
House
Hoover speaks to Drake graduates in Des Moines
Former President Herbert Hoover returns to Iowa to address 178 Drake University graduates and receive an honorary degree. He warns against a growing political bureaucracy that could curb liberty and merit based opportunity, urging graduates to resist government overreach while acknowledging a need for protection for the elderly and the poor.
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Des Moines
Herbert Hoover
Drake University
Mr. Hoover
Iowa
Amerca
Bankers Convention in Clydehurst elects officers
The annual district seven bankers convention at Clydehurst on Memorial Day drew a capacity crowd. W. J. Soderlind of Columbus was elected president, E. L. Kelly Jr. of Hardin named vice president, and Alva L. Lamb of Big Timber tabbed secretary treasurer. Ex officio executive committee members include J. E. Voegel of Billings and Leonard Moritz of Manhattan. Jorgenson becomes executive committee member as retiring president.
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Clydehurst- On - the - Boulder
W. J. Soderlind
Columbus
E. L. Kelly
Big Horn County
Hardin
Soderlind
Alva L. Lamb
Citizens Bank & Trust Co
Big Timber
Kelly
J. E. Voegel
Montana National Bank
Billings
Leonard Moritz
Manhattan State Bank
Manhattan
Jorgenson
Montana Bankers’ Association
Volney Davis Admits Role in Bremer Kidnap Conspiracy
Volney Davis a noted Barker-Karpis mob member pleaded guilty in St. Paul to conspiring to kidnap Edward G. Bremer for 200000. He told Federal Judge M. M. Joyce he was glad to get it off his chest and faces life imprisonment at sentencing Friday.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Volney Davis
Department of Justice
Edward G. Bremer
Davis
M. M. Joyce
Man nailed to cross in High Point killing attempt
R J Riggs a 36 year old filling station operator was found nailed to a crude cross near his High Point North Carolina home. Officers called him a religious fanatic and said he claimed his young son would crucify him to win back his estranged wife. He suffered painful injuries but was hospitalized.
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High Point
N. C
R. J. Riggs
Riggs
Floods Sweep Across Kansas Missouri and California Areas
Floods continuing after heavy rainfall march across western regions causing extensive damage and loss of life. The disaster worsened with Missouri reaching a 1927 high water mark as waters inundated parts of Kansas and California.
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Mexico
Kansas
Missouri
California
Montana receives $3.68 million for highways and $2.72 million for crossings
Secretary Wallace allocated part of the $4 billion works program among the states. Montana was assigned $3,676,416 for highways, roads and streets and $2,722,327 for grade crossing elimination. The plan requires state programs to be reviewed before any construction begins, with Hopkins' division overseeing progress.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Hawaii
Wallace
Roosevelt
Bureau of Public Officials
Harry L. Hopkins
Work Progress Division
Montana
Kidnapped Tacoma Boy Released After Ransom Payment
George Weyerhaeuser, nine year old son of Tacoma lumberman, was freed after $200000 ransom was paid. He endured four days with masked captors who called themselves Harry Bill and Alvin. He traveled by car and trunk, was fed, and reassured he was too valuable to hurt. Authorities pursued the Alvin Karpus gang across the Pacific coast.
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George Weyerhaeuser
Tacoma
Wash
Harry
Bill
Alvin
Alvin Karp
Pacific Coast
Local Baldwin Radio stock salesman faces prison term
Nathaniel Baldwin and 14 others were convicted of using false pretenses to sell stock of Nathaniel Baldwin Inc. They conspired to use the mails and claimed large dividends while the company was in receivership. Sentences ranged from two years to five years with fines totaling 13 500 dollars. The U S Supreme Court refused review and the Ninth Circuit affirmed despite alleged trial bias.
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Washington
Nathaniel Baldwin
Helena, Mont
Nathaniel Baldwin, Inc
Salt Lake City
Utah
Supreme Court
United States
Ized
Frank Keller
Charles H. Barnett
Lorenzo Stohl
Harry M
Joseph H. Green
Henry H. Faulkner
George W. Reidman
N. M. Hansen
W. H. Haueter
A. A. Madison
Einer Brown
Floyd Dixon
John E. Martin
Harvey Penny
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
State Senator Colbo Dies of Tularemia in Baker
State Senator George A. Colbo, 44, died in a Baker hospital after a 16 day illness of typhus tularemia. He represented Fallon County in the twenty fourth legislative assembly in his first term. Survived by his widow and five children. Doctor suspects contact with a sheep or rabbit he skinned.
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Baker
George A. Colbo
Colbo
Fallon County
Twenty-Fourth
Legislative Assembly
Green and Others Must Serve Sentences
The U S Supreme Court refused a review of sentences for Nathaniel Baldwin Inc officers in Salt Lake City court. Harry M Green reportedly earned about 50 000 with Baldwin radio stock and said this is the softest pickin's I've struck. He faces two and a half years at McNeil's Island federal prison, noted as one of the harshest penal institutions.
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Associated Press
Supreme Court of the United States
Nathaniel Baldwin
McNeil’s Island
North Dakotans Form Nye for President Club
In Copperstown North Dakota farmers businessmen and civic leaders endorsed United States Senator Gerald P Nye for president. They organized a North Dakota Nye for President club yesterday building on support for the hometown candidate.
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Copperstown
N. D
Lindbergh Leaves TWA Adviser Role
New York June 4 Colon el Charles A Lindbergh reportedly retires from active connection as technical adviser to Transcontinental and Western Air though some officials say he remains in a advisory capacity Du Pont board chair says Lindbergh's four year service ends due to personal affairs and desire to avoid New York duties.
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New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Transcontinental
Western Air
Lindbergh
Henry B. du Pont
TWA
Wilmington
Del
du Pont
Polistics
Bonus Issue Drives 1936 Campaign Delay
Washington June 4 The inflationary bonus issue was thrust into the 1936 campaign by leaders of Patman aligned advocates who decided to postpone cash payments until the next session. They announced after a joint session they would push to the country for full payment in the next session rather than seek immediate action.
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Washington
Congress
Patman
House
Senate
Weyerhaeuser ransom money traced to Oregon
The trail of the Weyerhaeuser kidnapers leads to eastern Oregon for a second time. A $20 ransom bill paid to nine year old George Weyerhaeuser was spent Sunday night in Huntington to buy a railroad ticket to Salt Lake City. Huntington lies between Baker and the Idaho line, near reports of a speeding sedan and an unidentified aircraft seen over the area.
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Tacoma
Wash
Weyerhaeuser
Oregon
George Weyerhaeuser
Huntington
Ore
Salt Lake City
Associated Press
Baker
Oregon-Idaho Line
Umatilla County
Sparrenberg Plans Return for Annual Pioneer Picnic
Nell O. Lamb of Sweet Grass County Pioneer Society received a letter from Dr. F. H. Sparrenberg, a retired U S Army major on a world tour from Shanghai, asking when the society's annual picnic will be held and stating his intent to attend.
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Nell O. Lamb
Sweet Grass County Pioneer Society
F. H. Sparrenberg
U. S. Army
Shanghai
China
Hopkins Announces Relief Apportionment Details
Federal Emergency Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins announced June allocations totaling 79,040,959 to 41 states for general relief and 6,051,930 to 23 states for rural rehabilitation. States listed include Arizona Colorado Idaho Montana Nevada New Mexico Oregon Utah Washington Wyoming with California not yet applying. Rural funds were allocated to California Montana New Mexico Utah Washington Wyoming.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Arizona
Colorado
Idaho
Montama
Nevada
New Mexico
Oregon
Utah
Wyoming
California
Montana
President Roosevelt proposes skeleton NRA to let nation decide
Roosevelt outlines a fragmentary NRA stopgap a skeleton organization to keep business statistics and require contractors to meet minimum wage and maximum hour standards. He says the plan proves old NRA conditions were better and lists industrial statistics with and without codes while preparing new agency continuities.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
NRA
Senate
House
Frag
Colorado executes first pair of brothers in lethal gas chamber
Louis Pacheco aged 37 and his brother John 25 were executed in the lethal gas chamber at Colorado Penitentiary. The brothers died in adjoining chairs after inhaling the fumes. Their last request to see their mother was denied. They were sentenced for the February slaying of rancher Clifford Smith in Wellington Colp.
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Canon City
Colo
Louis Pacheco
John
Colorado Penitentiary
Pachecos
Colorado
Clifford Smith
Wellingham Colp
Hoover Addresses Colorado School of Mines Graduates
Ex president Herbert Hoover spoke to 86 graduating engineers at Golden Colorado, where the school conferred an honorary bachelor of engineering degree on him. He urged faith amid public intellectual confusion and said the world offers great opportunity despite a dark picture.
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Golden
Colo
Herbert Hoover
United States
Hoover
Colorado School of Mines
John Goering Admits Blame In Cort Hotel Corner Crash
John Goering of Hardin says he was just gawkin when his car collided with an oil truck at the Cort hotel corner on Memorial day morning. He and Mrs. Goering were driving west with a lady friend, and he accepts fault. The incident occurred near the hotel corner and would have happened even if First avenue had not been blocked.
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John Goering
Hardin
Cort Hotel
Pioneer
Hotel
First Avenue
Patterson Corner
Motorcycle crash kills 19 year old rider
Richard Ford of Great Falls died as the motorcycle he rode on rear seat crashed into guard rails near Lewistown. John Ferda of Great Falls drove the machine. Ford was killed instantly in the June incident.
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Lewistown
Richard Ford
Great Falls
John Ferda
Reed Point groom to marry Miss Spalding at Fort Belvoir
The wedding of Miss Alice Margaret Spalding daughter of Col and Mrs George Redfield Spalding Fort Belvoir and Lieut Louis Russell Wirak will take place June 8 in Fort Belvoir chapel. Spalding studied at St Hilda's Hall and Kentucky and belongs to Zeta Tau Alpha Mortar Board and theater groups. Wirak son of Louis L Wirak Salt Lake City nephew of Mrs Joseph Russell Butte Montana attended Montana University School of Mines Butte and graduated West Point 1931 later earned a civil engineering master's at Princeton 1934 and is at Fort Belvoir Engineer School.
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Evening Star
Washington, D. C
Fallon
McKeith
Reed and I
Louis Wirak
Alice Margaret Spalding
George Redfield Spalding
Fort Belvoir
Louis Russell Wirak
Miss Spalding
St. Hilda’s Hall
Charles Town
W. Va
University of Kentucky At
Lexington
Zeta Tau Alpha
Mortar Board
A. B Ruff
Washington
George Spalding
Congress
Michigan
Princeton
Engineer School
Wilson Defends AAA in Gallatin County Farm Bureau Address
M L Wilson assistant secretary of agriculture defended the agricultural adjustment administration and attacked its critics in an address before the Gallatin county farm bureau Tuesday afternoon.
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Bozeman
M. L. Wilson
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Gallatin County Farm Bureau
Failure of Fort Peck Dam Faces House Opposition
The Fort Peck flood control and irrigation project in Montana faces House opposition to a bill by Senator Johnson California to validate Ickes allocations for such works. The Senate passed it by unanimous consent after Johnson assured Senator Wheeler Montana the provisions cover Fort Peck.
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Fort Peck
House
Washington
Montana
Johnson
California
Ickes
Senate
Wheeler
Californian
Supreme Court
Parker
Arizona
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Alva Lamb
Harry M. Green
Baldwin
Green
Sparrenberg
School OF Mines Grads
Reed Point
Jane
Wilson
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