Landowners urged to form corporation for $390,000 water project
At Red Lodge the Montana state water conservation board told about 200 Rock Creek valley landowners that a proposed 30 000 acre foot storage system from Red Lodge to the Yellowstone must be funded by a landowner corporation. The plan aims to supply ditch irrigation water during dry years with four reservoirs. The board will approve only if the plan proves useful feasible and repayable. Further plans await a formal landowner application and federal funding recommendation.
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Billings Gazette
Carbon County
State Water Conservation Board
Red Lodge
J. S. James
Frank H. Cooney
R. R. Purcell
Helena
I. D. O'Donnell
Billings
D P. Fabrick
Chateau
R. H. Fifield
C. J. Douseman
Rock Creek Valley
Yellowstone River
Rock Creek
Clark Fork
James
Cooney
Mr. Douseman
Man Hangs Self After Confessing Butte Crime
Cambridge Ohio Feb 24 Marvin Carroll 25 of Denver Colo hanged himself in his jail cell with a blanket strip shortly after confessing to police that he shot a filling station attendant at Butte Montana on Aug 12 or 13 1932.
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Cambridge
Ohio
Marvin Carroll
Denver
Colo
Butte
Mont
Nine Dartmouth Students Die in Gas Poisoning Tragedy
Nine Theta Chi fraternity members at Dartmouth College in Hanover New Hampshire were found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning after an overnight in the fraternity house. The janitor Merton B Little discovered the scene noting a coal gas explosion had blown furnace doors, disconnected a pipe to the chimney, and the victims were sleeping when last seen alive by nonresident housemates who had been playing bridge.
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Hanover
N. H
Dartmouth
Theta Chi
Merton B. Little
Six Die as Bus Plunges From Detour in Rain
A Mormon church passenger bus carrying pilgrims to California crashed over an embankment near Aguila Arizona after a warning light failed in rain. Six people were killed and 27 injured as the California bound group from Home Gardens traveling to the Mesa temple.
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Wickenburg
Ariz
Aguila
Here
Home Gardens
Cal
Mesa
New Road Contracts Exceed Million Dollars in Montana
Montana highway board awarded more than 1.2 million dollars in contracts for 25 road and bridge projects across 20 counties and three cities, including the Hardin to Sarpy secondary highway in Big Horn county to J. J. Mills and S. M. Thornton for 22 757.60. The Leach Brothers of Billings bid 24 922.52 was the next low. The March 30 letting will follow, with work slated in Billings Havre Helena and in Glacier Pon dora Toole Valley Roosevelt Big Horn Sanders Cascade Judith Basin Meagher Missoula Golden Valley Stillwater Lewis and Clark Hill Liberty Blaine Gallatin Park and Lake counties.
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Helena
Montana
Highway Commission
Hardin-Sarpy
Big Horn County
J. J. Mills
S. M. Thornton
Billings
Leach Brothers of Billings
O. S. Warden
Great Falls
Havre
Glacier
Pondora
Toole
Valley
Roosevelt
Big Horn
Sanders
Cascade
Judith Basin
Meagher
Missoula
Golden Valley
Stillwater
Lewis and Clark Hill
Liberty
Blaine
Gallatin
Park and Lake
Death sentences for California kidnapers
In Los Angeles on February 28 a jury under California’s new capital kidnapping law sentenced Harry Brooks and William Tanner to death. They were convicted of kidnapping attorney Henry Brodkin and robbing him of 1700 dollars, in a case sparked by the Lindbergh era statute.
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Los Angeles
Harry Brooks
William Tanner
California
Lindberg
Brooks
Tanner
Henry Brodkin
Montana wheat storage tickets dip from January totals
Helena reports February 1 wheat storage tickets outstanding in Montana total 4,132,570 bushels, down by over 1,000,000 bushels from January 1. The monthly grain standards and marketing division release details.
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Helena
Montana
State Division of Grain Standards and Marketing
Montana Public Works Board to Disband After Final Session
The Montana Public Works Board will dissolve at the close of business Wednesday after its last meeting in Helena. Ray M. Hart said 95 of 101 applications have gone to Washington, with 20 projects totaling 4.5 million dollars approved locally. D A McKinnon will oversee continuing project construction as the board winds down.
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Billings
Montana Public Works Board
Helena
Ray M. Hart
Hart
Harold L. Ickes
Mr. Hart
PWA
D. A. McKinnon
Portland
Col. H. W. Waite
Council
Montana
Barbour Receives 25 Year Sentence in Kansas Court
J Ashton Barbour appeared before Judge C W Ryan in Hiawatha Kansas Tuesday for sentencing to 25 years in the state penitentiary. The Daily World notes Barbour is free on a $25000 bond and eligible for good time allowances reducing the term.
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J. Ashton Barbour
C. W. Ryan
Hiawatha
Kan
State Penitentiary
The
Pioneer
Daily World
Big Timber Pioneer
Big Timber
Mont
Barbour
Supreme Court
Kansas
Montana
Heirs of Late Senator Walsh Ordered to Cut Money
District Judge Poorman ordered Nieves Maria de Abreu y Chaumont Walsh to receive 30000 in cash or U S bonds as sole widow heir. Daughter Genevieve Walsh Gudger seeks 30000 in U S bonds 95 shares of Great Northern railway stock and 2500 cash. Mrs Walsh asks for further partial distribution of the estate.
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Scallon
Great Northern Railway
Badger Lumber Company
Interstate Realty Company
Montana Club
Knights of Columbus Home Association
Poorman
Walsh
Ernest Smoot High Priced Publicity Man
Ernest W. Smoot testified to a senate committee that in 1929 he was paid 13 000 for beet sugar tariff publicity while clerk of the senate finance committee his father chaired Hawley Smoot tariff bill He said total 1929 earnings from private interests reached 19750 from Vanderhoff Co and others for representing them
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ernest W. Smoot
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Smoot
Vanderhoff & Co
I“Haid
Administration moves on four agricultural ventures
Washington on Wednesday the administration pushed four agricultural proposals. Chairman Jones of the House agriculture committee prepared to introduce a bill to compel control of farm production. President Roosevelt advanced a plan to buy millions of acres of submarginal land to retire from production.
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Washington
Jones
House Agriculture Committee
Roosevelt
Ten More Montana Public Works Projects Approved
Washington February 26 The office of Senator Wheeler Montana announced ten Montana public works projects with total requests of 541200 approved by the public works board awaiting congressional funding. Projects include Big Timber water works 140000 Glendive water works 21000 Fairview school building 46800 Big Fork high school 5000 Missoula school construction 189400 Twin Bridges water works 28000 Townsend courthouse and jail 44000 Glasgow water system 32000. Approval is tentative pending full congressional appropriation and a final budget decision.
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Washington
Wheeler
Democrat
Montana
Montana Public Works
Public Works Board
Congress
Big Timber
Glendive
Fairview
Big Fork
Missoula
Townsend
Glasgow
Bureau of the Budget
Four Million Dollar Oil Plant Burned in Seminole
A Carter Oil gasoline refinery near Seminole, Oklahoma, valued at $4,000,000, was destroyed by a fire and series of explosions. Three people injured, including Mrs. Robert Hill who suffered third degree burns and was reported dying. her husband badly burned and daughter Jacqueline, 14, with minor burns.
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Seminole
Okla
Carter Oil Company
Robert Hill
Jacqueline
McGraw Dies in New Rochelle at 60 After Illness
John J McGraw famed baseball manager nicknamed little Napoleon died in New Rochelle hospital after a 10 day illness. He slipped into coma Saturday night and died Sunday morning at 11:50. Death blamed on intestinal hemorrhage with contributing cancer of the prostate and uremia. He would have turned 61 on April 7.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
John Joseph McGraw
Napoleon
Early tornadoes strike three southern states across region
Winter tornadoes cut erratic paths through Alabama Mississippi and Georgia Sunday night causing at least 23 deaths and many injuries. Communication with stricken towns is limited as details remain incomplete and fatalities tallied at 13 in Alabama 8 in Mississippi and 2 in Georgia.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Mississippi
Georgia
Three Thousand More CWA Employes Cut Off
Montana's CWA relief board reports a further 2000 to 3000 job cuts by March 2 under Hopkins orders. The reductions will affect drivers with teams and trucks but clerical staff must stay to finalize records. About 13 000 workers remain as state officials plan further action.
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Helena
Montana
CWA
F. J. Gies
CWA Relief Board
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
T. C. Spaulding
State Relief
Derailed Train Kills Five in Pittsburgh Yard Smash
A Pennsylvania passenger train derailed in Pittsburgh yards on Monday night. The engine and tank toppled 20 feet into the street, killing five and injuring about 40 as several coaches left the rails. Emergency crews searched snow for more bodies and a first aid station was set up at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
President Roosevelt outlines new emergency relief plan
The president proposed a broad program to address unemployment through targeted relief in rural areas cities and distressed populations. It links subsistence farming with relief funds and aims to shelter up to 10 million workers through specialized aid and community production projects.
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Congress
Relief Administration
Roosevelt
Wesley Jones Pleads Guilty To New Charge
Wesley Jones a Billings barber who won a new Montana Supreme Court trial pleaded guilty to grand larceny before District Judge Robert C Stong and received a three year sentence. He had been convicted earlier and sentenced to ten years for the Stillwater county treasury robbery in which $6000 was taken January 2 1932. O'Donnell and Kipp were involved with Miss Florence Raiff Stillwater county treasurer testifying two men looted the vault. Sheriff Jack Benjamin expects to return Jones and Kipp to Deer Lodge soon.
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Columbus
Wesley Jones
Billings
Montana Supreme Court
Stillwater County
Treasury
Robert C. Stong
Jones
State Supreme Court
Harry O’donnell
Smith
Florence Raiff
Stillwater
O'Donnell
Clyde Kipp
Kipp
Yellowstone County
Jack Benjamin
Deer Lodge
Two Nebraska Power Projects Get Water Rights
Lincoln Neb Feb 24 Two large Nebraska power and irrigation schemes secured water rights and moved toward early work. The Columbus project at 7.3 million dollars and the Sutherland project at 7.5 million dollars await first bids within 30 days and aims to have 1 000 workers on Columbus and 1 600 on Sutherland by summer with contracts ready by May 1.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska Power and Irrigation
Columbus
Sutherland Power
Charles W. Bryan
Roy Cochran
Sutherland
Tax Deeds Barred During Amortization Period in Montana
Helena Feb 28 Attorney General Raymond T Nagle said counties cannot legally take tax deeds or assign tax certificates between January 16 and January under the amortization tax act. The deferred Montana tax payment date remains March 1 with the Thursday deadline imminent.
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Helena
Montana
Raymond T. Nagle
Touhy and Two Pals Begin 99-Year Terms in Joliet
Roger Touhy and the gangsters Albert Kator and Gustav Schaefer were driven in handcuffs to Joliet prison to start 99-year sentences for the $70,000 kidnapping of John Factor. Police and deputies used heavy escort. Touhy appeared nervous and tearful at arrival.
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Chicago
Roger Touhy
Joliet
Touhy
Albert Kator
Gustav
Gus” Schaefer
John Factor
Railroads reject plan to purchase Northwest Airways
WENATCHEE Wash Feb 28 The Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads have rejected a proposal to buy Northwest Airways Cross Hunter vice president announced here Wednesday The airways directors will continue daily service on the northern air route from St Paul to Seattle while awaiting congressional action on air mail contracts
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Wenatchee
Wash
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Northwest Airways
Cross Hunter
Airways
St. Paul
Seatte
Congress
Government unlocks 40 million for crop reduction loans
Washington reports 40 million dollars available Saturday for farmers to obtain crop production loans. President Roosevelt calls the measure the last of its kind and favors cooperative production credit associations funded by government but requiring stock purchases. The administration aims to shift more lending to these associations as 587 of them could extend about 300 million dollars, with government aid to cover shortfalls. Mortgage refinancing by federal land banks shows 15,804 loans totaling 38 million in the week to Feb 21, part of a 438 million dollar program since last June.
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Washington
Roosevelt
William S. Myers
Farm Credit Administration
Federal
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Gus
Public Works Board For
Dr. Barbour
Ernest Smoot
Civil Works Administration
Nebraska
Pals
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