New Units at Veterans Hospital at Helena Planned
Helena Independent reports plans for two new Fort Harrison units to be ready for bidder June 10 with contracts let July 13. An infirmary and hospital building costing about 330000 plus a central heating plant over 100000 form the first modernization phase, with total program aimed at 800000 to 1200000 dollars.
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Helena Independent
Veterans’ Hospital
Fort Harrison
Herbert C. Watts
Watts
U. S. Veterans’ Hospital
Palo Alto
Calif
West Coast Construction Office
Fort Harrison Hospital
Veterans’ Bureau
Washington, D. C
Helena Hospital
Gas Line Construction Starts Near Cut Bank to Butte
Work on the Cut Bank to Butte gas system advances with trenching machines from Ohio and pipe from Milwaukee. About 250 workers will be employed across welding and laying operations over six weeks, with local labor preference and 26 carloads of pipe delivered so far.
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Cut Bank
Butte
Ohio
Milwaukee
Winston _ Bros
Glacier Implement Company
North Broadway
E. C. Clapper
Findley
A. O. Smith Company
Conges & O'Shea
Oakland
Calif
Omsberg Ranch
Great Northern
Headlight
Liner Harvard Sped Into Shoals Off Point Arguello
Federal inquiry details that the coastwise liner Harvard carrying 614 aboard struck the graveyard shoals near Point Arguello after the captain steered toward sea for safety. All 497 passengers and 117 crew were evacuated as salvage efforts failed and the ship was abandoned after days of heavy seas.
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Los Angeles
Harvard
Los Angeles Harbor
O. S. Anderson
George O. McGrath
Anderson
Point Arguello
San Francisco
Borah Pushes German Reparation Cut Amid War Burden
Senator Borah urged a reduction in Germanys war burden citing heavy armaments by European nations and Germanys payment failure. He tied armaments to the Versailles treaty breach while noting his talks with Hoover and Stimson on Europe. The administration kept silent as Stimson planned a summer European visit.
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Washington
Germany
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hoover
Stimson
International Chamber of Commerce
United States
America
Continent
British German leaders discuss relief for Germany
Four leaders from Britain and Germany met at Chequers to review Germanys economic plight. Chancellor Bruening sought MacDonalds help with creditors including the United States to postpone some heavy reparations payments under the Young Plan. The meeting followed rumors of cautious government lendership amid labor party tensions over unemployment dole reductions.
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Chequers
Eng
Germany
Heinrich Bruening
Ramsay MacDonald
United States
Julius Curtius
Arthur Henderson
Herr Bruening
Mr. MacDonald
MacDonald
Unemployment Commission
Government
Labor Party
Five of Larger Chicago Banks Now Merged Into 2 Concerns
Chicago banks merge four of the five largest institutions into two, forming the Central Republic Bank and Trust Company with about 350 million in deposits guaranteed by backing from the Clearing House and prominent sponsors. The merger elevates First National to Amer ica’s fifth largest bank with around 900 million in resources, while Foreman entities face closure by some neighborhood banks to avoid runs.
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Chicago
Bankers
Foreman State
First National
National Bank of the Republic
Central Trust Company
Melvin A. Traylor
George M. Reynolds
Clearing House Association
Foreman
Charles G. Dawes
Court of St. James
Central Trust
Central Republic Bank and Trust Company
Foreman Group
Foreman Bank
Traylor
First National Bank
Foreman State National Bank
Foreman State Trust and
First
First National Savings
Continental Illinois Bank
America
Albert D. Lasker
John D. Hertz
Phillip K. Wrigley
Four Members of Oregon Family Die in Headon Crash
Four members of an Astoria family were killed when their car collided head on with a truck three miles south of Oregon City. Two truck occupants were injured and hospitalized. The car burst into flames after the impact, and rescuers could not reach the victims before they were charred.
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Oregon
Headon
Oregon City
Ore
Here
Rose Johnson
Walter G. Johnson, Jr
A. G. Johnson
Earl Johnson
Astoria
Howard Magnusen
Woodburn
Joy Norton
Norton
Magnusen
Wal
Ter G. Johnson
Corvallis
Jim Petrie
Portland
Petrie
World's largest flying boat lands on Pontengy River in Natal
The DC X seaplane, big flying boat, completed a long Atlantic flight seven months after takeoff from Altenrhein. After a zigzag voyage via Amsterdam London Bordeaux Lisbon Canary Islands and Africa it touched down on the Pontengy River at Natal Brazil. Commander Christiansen will stay days for overhaul before a Rio de Janeiro leg, with American pilot Clarence Schildbauer rejoining at Natal.
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Natal
Brazil
Altenrhein
Switzerland
Pontengy River
Lake Geneva
New York
Amsterdam
London
Bordeaux
France
Lisbon
Canary Islands
South America
Las Palmas
Africa
Villa Cisneros
Rio de Oro
Bolama
Portugese
Porto Praia
Cape Verde Islands
Fernando de Noronha Island
United States
Germany Imposes $400 Million Tax Decrees
Berlin reports new taxes totaling about 400 million dollars as Chancellor Bruening departs for London. President Hindenburg publishes the measures and a manifesto urging relief of reparations, warning of inevitable sacrifices and insisting on a world economic recovery through modification of reparations.
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Berlin
Heinrich Bruening
London
Paul von Hindenburg
Memory Loss In Salt Lake Woman Is Identified
A woman found in silk pajamas on a downtown Salt Lake City street was identified as Mrs Myrtle Marlin of Warsaw New York. She recalled nothing since leaving a house a mile away and recognized her memory after a local acquaintance appeared.
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Salt Lake City
Myrtle Marlin
Warsaw
N. Y
Syracuse
Rochester
Burt Seeley
Rock Glen
Margaret Mary
Marlin
Clark Scholarship Awards Named in Missoula
Montana State University President Charles H. Clapp announces W A Clark scholarships to standout high school athletes Harold Duffy Kalispell William Hileman Whitefish Charles Stroup Billings Frank Besel Roundup and William Williams Libby Alternates are Donald Hamilton White Sulphur Springs and Charlies Bolin Harlowton Scholarships awarded annually to top high school athletes.
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CLARK
Missoula
Mont
Harold Duffy
Kalispell
William Hileman
Whitefish
Charles Stroup
Billings
Frank Besel
Roundup
William Williams
Libby
Charles H. Clapp
Montana State University
Chicago Banker May Get McKelvie Place
Spokane reporting that George C. Jewett of Congress Trust and Savings bank Chicago is pushed by Midwestern cooperatives to replace Samuel McKelvie as wheat member of the federal farm board. He has backing from the American farm bureau federation and the National Grange and has led regional wheat organizations in Spokane and the Northwest.
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Spokane
Wash
the Chronicle
George C. Jewett
Congress Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago
Samuel McKelvie
Federal Farm Board
Jewett
Pacific Northwest
Middle West
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Grange
Federal Land Bank of Spokane
Old Washington Wheat Growers’ Association
Northwest Wheat Growers’ Association
American Wheat Growers’ Association
Swiss Will Attempt To Climb Ten Miles High
Prof August Piccard announced from Ober Gurgl Austria that a 10 mile high balloon flight hopes to prove man can ascend into the stratosphere and live. He praised the balloon’s design and thanked rescuers, with assistant Charles Kipfer recounting the ascent.
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Ober Gurgl
Austria
August Piccard
Europe
Prof. Piccard
Charles Kipfer
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