Last Montana legislative session ends with budget balance
Helena March 6 The Montana Senate faced final action on a balanced budget for the next biennium as key appropriations bills were sent back for action. Senator Wass reported adjustments totaling $191,714 from the House and anticipated revenue alignment to prevent overspending with several measures advancing to action.
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Helena
Montana Legislative Assembly
Senate
L. M. A. Wass
Lewistown
Senate Committee On Ways and Means
Wass
House
H. B
Water Conservation Board
T. A. Snidow
Billings
University and Extension Department
Water Conservation Revolving Fund
Department of Labor and Industry
Department of Agriculture
Montana Senate kills highway patrol and license bills
Helena March 5 The Montana state senate killed H. B. 84 which would levy automobile drivers licenses and then killed H. B. 170, the last remaining bill in the series, ending the push for a state highway patrol.
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Helena
Montana
State Senate
H. B
President Roosevelt says prices still too low spurring market frenzy
In Washington on March 6 President Roosevelt declared that prices had risen but were not yet stabilized. His remarks to reporters caused a brief market surge and prompted a White House clarification after an erroneous report circulated.
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Washington
Administration
Roosevelt
Associated Press
White House
Montana Relief Funds Allocated for March Total 871505
Helena March 5 A grant of 871505 for Montana relief this month was approved by national relief administrator Harry L Hopkins per Gov F H Cooney The allocations include 200000 general relief 600000 breath relief 55000 transient relief 9500 education program and student aid program
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Helena
Montana
Harry L. Hopkins
F. H. Cooney
Smith to Learn Sentence After Guilty Plea Saturday
Herman Smith pled guilty to assault in the second degree for slashing Bert Gardner with a knife after a Grey Cliff dance. Judge B E Berg will sentence him Saturday morning. Defense called witnesses to attest to Smith's peaceable nature when sober and noted a prior Mann Act arrest in Georgia.
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Herman Smith
Bert Gardner
B. E. Berg
A. Ronald McDonnell
John Carney, Jr
J. F. McIntyre
John P. Hansen
George Smith
Georgia
Governor Cooney vetoes second bill in Montana session
Governor Frank H. Cooney used his veto power for the second time in the 24th Montana legislature. He refused to approve H. B. 191 by Rep. Lott of Madison requiring hearings for current leasees before state land disposal. Earlier he vetoed S. B. 1 restricting legislative appointments to state positions.
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Helena
Mont
Frank H. Cooney
Legislative Assembly
Montana
Rep. Lott
Madison
Legisature
Robinson and Long Clash in Senate Rumpus
In Washington on March 5 Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas and Huey Long of Louisiana traded vehement exchanges. Robinson warned the senate to curb the Long influence as Long threatened a 1934 campaign against the Democratic leader in Arkansas. The day featured shouting fits as Long stirred uproar and Robinson urged restraint.
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Washington
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Huey Long
Senate
Huey
Hattie Caraway
Long
Robinson
Northern Pacific Ordered to Halt Red Lodge Interference
Billings dispatch reports a federal order restrains interference as the Northern Pacific Railway curtails rail service between Billings and Laurel while the Northern Pacific Transport opens freight truck and passenger bus service between the two points. Local freight trains run Mon Wed Fri. buses run daily. train Nos. 205 and 206 are discontinued. The plan lasts until a Montana Public Service and Railway Commission license revocation legal action is resolved. Red Lodge residents resented train removal. Meehan was arrested amid related complications. An order restraining interference was signed by Federal District Judge Pray in Great Falls.
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Billings
Northern Pacific Raiway Company
Here
Laurel
Northern Pacific Transport Company
Transport Company
Red Lodge
Montana Public Service and Railway Commission
Meehan
Great Falls
Pray
Sekman Snyder Sales Room and Garage Destroyed by Fire
Morning fire gutted Sekman and Snyder sales room and garage starting about 4 40 a m leaving only stucco walls. Cause unknown likely a workshop stove. Six cars damaged parked on the street with one new Lafayette owned by Ed Howard. Loss estimated at 4000 with 1500 insured. Original building once a blacksmith shop erected by S P Harvey and his brother James.
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Sekman & Snyder
Lafayette
Ed Howard
Jacob Johnson
P. E. Sekman
S. P. Harvey
James
Crime Cost is 120 Dollars A Year To Every American
New York report cites Courtney Riley Cooper author of 10 000 Public Enemies blaming crime costs on racketeering higher taxes for the army and losses from robberies and embezzlement. He urges separating criminals from first offenders reforming parole and police promotion to curb crime nationwide.
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New York
United States
Courtney Riley Cooper
Cooper
Kreiner Drilling for Oil in Tensleep Field
Sheridan residents discuss the Ziesman Dome test well nine miles north of Tensleep led by I Kreier of Billings and J W Bales of Worland. Kreier, in charge of completion, expects drilling to resume soon with a 30 day finish. The field sits near the Hidden Dome producer with 17 oil fields in Big Horn basin nearby.
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Sheridan
Wyo
I. Kreiher
Billings
J. W. Bales
Worland
Ziesman Dome
Tensleep
Kreier
Ziesman
Hidden Dome
Big Horn Basin
Parker recounts early fire at Towne home depot
Glen M Parker, longtime resident, adds details from the Feb 24 1890 Billings Gazette account. Station Agent F W Towne lost his home to a fire as his wife and two children were trapped. Parker says he reached the living quarters at the end of the depot, rescued the family and some bedding, while Towne struggled with the ticket rack.
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Glen M. Parker
Pioneer
Billings
F. W. Towne
Parker
Kavanaugh’s
Big Bill Tilden loses twice to Lott and Vines in Billings
In Billings Montana on March 5 Big Bill Tilden was defeated by George H Lott in straight sets 6 4 and by Ellsworth Vines 6 3 6 3. About a thousand spectators saw the professional tourers at the Midland Empire fairground auditorium before the trio moved on toward the Twin Cities.
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Billings
Mont
Bill Tilden
George H. Lott
Ellsworth Vines
Tilden
Vines
Lott
Ne Ae
Midland Empire Fairground
Twin Cities
Livestock Prices Hit New Highs in Chicago Market
Chicago March 4 hog prices jumped 10 to 15 cents to a top of 9.65 a hundredweight, the highest since October 1930. Best steers rose to 14.00, the peak since December 1930, as the livestock grain trade again pushed prices to new four year highs.
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Chicago
Ranchers Spread More Magpie Poison Bait
Ben Slanger reports fifty more magpie poison baits were removed by ranchers and students last week. While totals killed are unclear, early reports show many magpies dying near bait stations. Slanger urges moving stations every three to four days and using meat lures under the poison bait to attract birds.
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Ben Slanger
Mr. Slanger
U S Chamber Of Commerce Opposes Agricultural Act Amendments
The U S chamber of commerce urged against new amendments to the agricultural adjustment act. It recommended no extra licensing power for distributors and processors and limited the secretary of agriculture to reviewing only relevant records of interested parties.
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Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Agriculture Committee
Chamber
Secretary of Agriculture
Congress
Harper Sibley
Rochester
N.Y
Billings Girl Dies After Selfless Grafting Operation
Miss Elsie Miller 18 offered skin from her legs for a grafting operation to save Miss Ida Dorothy Heilin 21 after a severe burn. Miller died today in Billings Montana after three weeks of complications including pneumonia from the surgery.
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Billings
Mont
Elsie Miller
Ida Dorothy Heilin
Samuel Insull Trial Opens in Chicago for 66000 Embezzlement Deal
A white collar jury in Chicago heard state and defense statements over a $66,000 embezzlement transaction involving Samuel Insull. The white-haired defendant watched debonairly as both sides presented opening assertions Tuesday.
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Chicago
Samuel Insull
Oliver Wendell Holmes Dies in Washington at 93
Oliver Wendell Holmes the noted jurist known as the Great Liberal died at 2 15 a.m. in Washington from bronchial pneumonia after a long public career including 29 years on the Supreme Court. Funeral services set for Friday March 8 at All Souls church and a private military burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Washington
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Mark Howe
Supreme Court
Holmes
Felix Frankfurter
Harvard
Justice Holmes
Professor Frankfurter
James G. Palfrey
Boston
I Street
Roosevelt
Hughes
Supreme Cour
Margaret Cottingham
Howe
Thomas A. Claytor
Edward J. Holmes
Frankfurter
James Rowe
Thomas Corcoran
Reconstruction Corporation
John G. Palfrey
Mary Donnellan
All Souls Church
Sixteenth
Harvard Streets
United States Supreme Court
Arlington National Cemetery
Grade School Board Elects Teachers
After a session lasting until 11 30 last night trustees of the public school adjourned with a partially new roster of teachers. Prof G A Berges resigned and is succeeded by M J Greenshields five years with the schools of Deer Lodge at a salary of 1850. Louise Ryan and Gilma Grosfield will replace Hazel Hilton and Mrs S G Webster in the second and third grades their placing left to the new superintendent. A successor to Mrs Signy Deeney will be chosen from the outside. Misses Boettcher Darsh and West and Andy McDonald were reelected. The board acted unanimously in the selections.
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G. A. Berges
M. J. Greenshields
Deer Lodge
Louise Ryan
Gilma Grosfield
Hazel Hilton
S. G. Webster
Signy Deeney
Boettcher
Darsh and
West
Andy McDonald
Plan offers substitute for present NRA code revival in congress
In Washington on March 6, Senator George says Roosevelt supports revising NRA to a voluntary industry self government. He forecasts no legislation to extend NRA, urges restoring antitrust laws with exceptions for gas, oil and coal, removing price fixing and possibly dropping Section 7 A. Local voluntary codes would govern hours, wages and child labor.
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Washington
Congress
George
Georgia
Roosevelt
Bonus Payment Sparks House Battle Over New Currency
In Washington on March 6 the House Ways and Means Committee narrowly voted 14 to 11 to favor Vinson of Kentucky over Patman of Texas in advancing a $2,000,000,000 currency issue as a bonus payment bill.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Vinson
Kentucky
Patman
Park hotel cafe manager Arthur Babbitt dies of heart attack
Arthur Babbitt, 65, Beloit native and UW law graduate, served as Park hotel cafe manager and brother of Ralph Babbitt. A former Milwaukee dining car conductor and hotel staffer, he died Saturday morning. Burial with Spanish American and World War veterans honors followed Tuesday afternoon.
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Arthur Babbitt
Park Hotel
Ralph Babbitt
Beloit
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Plankington
Milwaukee
Milwaukee Railway
Livingston
Northern Pacific
Red Lodge
Pollard Hotel
House committee backs repeal of pink slip tax return rule
Washington March 1 a house ways and means subcommittee voted unanimously to repeal the law requiring pink slip publicity for all income tax returns.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Supreme Court Invalidates Montana Phone Franchise Tax
The U S Supreme Court ruled Montana could not impose a annual franchise tax on telephones, with Chief Justice Hughes delivering the opinion. The 1933 tax targeted intrastate business while interstate phone traffic remained protected, affecting Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph.
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United States Supreme Court
Washington
Montana
Supreme Court
Hughes
Federal District Court
Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
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Cooney
Smith
GOV
Oklahoma Parole Board
W. H. Murray
Ma” Ferguson
Texas
Jacob G. Laubenheimer
Kreiner
Glen Parker
Big Bill Tilden
U. S. Chamber OF Commerce
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