Ayers Vetos Tax and Insurance Bills in Montana
Governor Roy Ayers rejected measures to raise state income tax and create a separate insurance department. He signed 30 other bills, vetoed one, and left 97 to act on before the midnight deadline. He called the income tax bill unfair to lower brackets and the insurance department plan unnecessary and costly.
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Helena
Insurance Department
Legislative Assembly
Ayers
State Auditor’s Office
Department of Government
Twenty-Fifth Legislative Assembly
Father of Gov Ayers Dies of Heart Attack
George Washington Ayers 77 father of Governor Roy E. Ayers and longtime Montana resident died at the governor’s mansion after a heart attack. Born March 7 1860 in Iowa he moved west at age three and lived mainly in Fergus County and Lewistown where he ran a ranch. Funeral and burial are planned in Lewistown.
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Helena
George Washington Ayers
Roy E. Ayers
Montana
Capitol
Mr. Ayers
Iowa
Fergus County
Lewistown
Earhart Starts World Flight In Flying Lab Mission
Amelia Earhart began a 27000 mile round world flight from Oakland California. Her 80000 dollar flying laboratory left at 5 37 p m after a brief takeoff and headed toward Honolulu trailing the Pan American Clipper and the Hawaii Clipper which had left moments earlier.
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Oakland
Cal
Amelia Earhart
Orient
South Seas
Miss Earhart
Honolulu
Hawaii
Death of Sir Austen Chamberlain at 73 in London
London. Sir Austen Chamberlain former foreign secretary died Tuesday night in his London home at age 73. He held the post from 1924 to 1929 in Baldwin's second government and helped negotiate the Locarno pact. He was knighted to the Garter by King George V for this work.
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London
Austen Chamberlain
Austen
Stanley Baldwin
Locarno
George V
All Day Farm Program Planned for Big Timber
An all day farm meeting is set for Thursday March 25 at the courthouse Big Timber with sessions on farm management records and crops led by Clyde Howard Ralph Mercer and Margaret Tuller. The program includes a noon lunch break and a general crop management discussion for both men and women hosted by the Extension service Citizens Bank and Trust and federal rehabilitation businessmen of Big Timber.
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Court House
Big Timber
Extension Service
Citizens Bank and Trust Company
Federal Rehabilitation and Businessmen of
Clyde Howard
Hite Grain Croys
Ralph Mercer
Margaret Tuller
State Liquor Board Names Wass and Brett Head Montana
The Montana State Liquor Control Board named L. M. A. Wass administrator James J. Brett assistant administrator Thomas W. Marshall chief auditor and accountant and D. A. Batchoff chief of law enforcement The board includes Henry Good Edward Donlan and W B Vaughan as members Wass is from Roy Brett from Butte Marshall from Helena Batchoff from Butte The new officials begin Monday with salaries 416 350 and 216 a month
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Helena
Montana Liquor Control Board
L. M. A. Wass
Roy
James J. Brett
Butte
Thomas W. Marshall
D. A. Batchoff
Wass
Brett
Marshall
State Board of Examiners and Beer Licensing
State Board of Equalization
Henry Good
Kalispell
Edward Donlan
Missoula
W. B. Vaughan
Billings
Fergus County
State Senate
State Grazing Commission
Eee Bow County
Montana
Nebraska
Federal Housing Administration
State Banking Department
Batchoff
United States
Good Said
A. D. Raymond
Martin G. Hoffman
Rear Admiral Hobson, Spanish‑American War Hero, Dies at 66
Rear Admiral Richmond P. Hobson, 66, famed for the Merrimac raid at Santiago harbor, dies suddenly of heart disease in New York. A statesman and anti narcotics advocate, he was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Roosevelt and celebrated for his public work and world wide prohibition leadership.
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New York
Richmond P. Hobson
Santiago Harbor
Lexington Avenue
Hobson
Admiral Hobson
President Roosevelt
Congress
McKinley
Charles Ben Lamb Buried With Impressive Rites
Funeral for Charles Ben Lamb, a Big Timber native and former Montana state senate journal clerk, was held at St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Born 42 years ago, he died in Los Angeles after an appendicitis operation. He leaves a mother, sister, and brother in Big Timber and a Livingston sister.
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Charles Ben Lamb
Los Angeles
Calif
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
American Legion
Big Timber
Henry Lamb
Ted C. Busha
Clyde E. Davis
H. E. Mjelde
Arnold Sleveland
Arthur Zeleny
R. A. Bray
Seattle
Journal
State Senate
Yellowstone Hotels Co
Constance H. Sewell
Vancouver
B. C
Honolulu
Moana
United States
Mary Lamb
Nelle
Alva L
O. D. Olsen
Gertrude
Livingston
Sweet Grass High
Paul Kress
Montana
Albert Esp
Mike Hoyem
Ralph Pound
Ike Crawford
Bozeman
Missoula
Kalispell
Lewistown
Anaconda
Billings
Lamb
Kress
Esp
Three Fort Bentonites Die In Auto Speeding Crash
At Great Falls coroner jury finds excessive speed caused the Saturday morning crash near the city outskirts. Victims are Frank Spear 28 Emiline Fultz 21 and Ivar Rovreit 29 owner and presumed driver. Witnesses report a watch borrowing dare to measure speed with a 40 mile trip to Great Falls in 25 minutes.
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Great Falls
Fort Benton
Frank Spear
Emiline Fultz
Ivar Rovreit
William Sylvis
Coy Fultz
Rovrer
Fall Fatal to Billings Power Man
Thomas Purcell, 52, a Montana Power Company foreman, was instantly killed in Billings when he fell more than 30 feet in an underground reservoir under construction in the rimrocks north of the city. He reportedly entered the site alone to test a new motor and fell from a ladder between two tunnels in the subterranean chamber.
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Billings
Thomas Purcell
Montana Power Company
Rimrocks
Purcell
Rimrock
Dr Henry A Bolton Dies After Flu and Pneumonia
Warm Springs Montana March 17 Dr Henry A Bolton 54 superintendent of the Warm Springs state hospital died at 5 10 p m Wednesday after influenza two weeks earlier followed by pneumonia He had just been re appointed for a four year term by Gov Roy E Ayers and had led the hospital for eight years Born in New Hampshire in 1883 he came to Montana in 1911 after graduating from the College of Physicians and Surgeons Baltimore class of 1910
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Warm Springs
Henry A. Bolton
Warm Springs State Hospital
Helena
Bolton
Roy E. Ayers
New Hampshire
Montana
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Baltimore
Templeton Gets 3-Year Contract at Helena
Helena Independent reports Payne Templeton will renew as superintendent of Helena schools for three years. The contract starts August 1 and ends 1940, with salaries of 5000, 5150, and 5300 dollars. The new term follows executive session with trustees and Chairman Leon S. Hazard. He is praised for leading repairs after earthquakes.
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Helena Independent
Leon S. Hazard
Helena
Queen Marie in Serious Illness After Flu Attack
Queen Marie of Romania, 61, described as queen dowager and queen mother of the Balkans, is reported holding her own after a Thursday night illness at the opera. Doctors say influenza with intestinal inflammation caused partial paralysis.
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Bucharest
Romania
Marie
Rumania
Balkans
Balkan States
Eighteen Killed in West Virginia Mine Disaster
Logan West Virginia reports the Mackbeth mine disaster leaves eighteen dead after a devastating explosion. Rescue crews, exhausted and scarred, retrieved nine bodies and located the remaining victims as families gather in sorrow in the unpainted mining hamlet.
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West Virginia
Logan
W. Va
Macbeth
Wheeler Quotes Roosevelt Book to Attack Court Plan
Senator Wheeler uses an excerpt from Franklin D Roosevelt's Looking Forward to oppose enlarging the federal judiciary. He reads the 1933 president's words to argue that adding judges would worsen disease like congestion and burden taxpayers.
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Washington
Wheeler
Roosevelt Court
Montanan
Senate
Norris
Supreme Court
Senate Judiciary Committee
John P. Devaney
National Lawyers’ Guild
Postmaster at Warren Sentenced and Fined in Embezzlement Case
Wilbur A. Bowler postmaster at Warren near the Montana Wyoming line in Carbon county was sentenced in federal court to two and a half years in a penitentiary and fined 2785.51 the amount he pleaded guilty to embezzling from the Warren post office The money was taken between last April and January of this year through money orders cashed at banks in Billings Hardin and Powell Wyoming.
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Billings
Wilbur A. Bowler
Warren
Montana-Wyoming Line
Carbon County
Hardin
Powell
Wyo
St Patrick’s Day cab strike erupts in Chicago loop
A shouting mob of about 1200 cab drivers surged through the loop on March 17 overturning taxis and attacking vehicles. Police fought back as cabs were toppled and several sets afire following a 12 day strike for higher commissions.
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Chicago
Townsend Receives Light Sentence for Contempt
Dr. F. E. Townsend was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a $100 fine for walking out on a congressional committee investigating his old age pension movement. He appealed and was released on $1,000 bond amid his pledge to push a plan for pensions up to 200 dollars monthly.
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Washington
F. E. Townsend
Congressional Committee
Peyton Gordon
California
Townsend
Judge Matthews Gets Nice Appointment
John A. Matthews of Helena, a former Montana supreme court associate justice for 12 years, is appointed counsel for the state board of equalization and a special assistant attorney general. The appointment was made by Chairman Dye and Commissioners Greene and Goza and approved by Governor Ayers. Attorney General Freebourn named Matthews a special assistant attorney general in connection with the tax board post.
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Helena
Montana Supreme Court
John A. Matthews
State Board of Equalization
F E. A. Dye
John J. Greene
Sam D. Goza
Roy E. Ayers
H. J. Freebourn
Matthews
Tax Board
Million Workers Return to Jobs After Wage Hikes
Chicago March 15 nearly a million men and women returned to work in U S industrial centers with higher wages. Steel workers gain about 168 million dollars annually benefiting an estimated 925000 toilers.
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Chicago
United States
Dry Forces Form Montana Association to Oppose Saloon terug
Montana dry forces convened in Helena forming the Montana Association to Prevent the Return of the Saloon. They aim to invalidate two liquor bills via referendum by 1938, seeking 15 percent voter signatures in a majority of counties.
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Helena
Montana
Montana Association
Lucy T. McLemore
Montana Anti- Saloon League
Anti-Saloon League
Horace Turner
Billings
Great Falls
Butte
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Earhart
State Liquor Control Board
Wass and
Jimmy Brett
Richard P. Hobson
Fort Bentonites
DR. Bolton
Templeton
F.D.R
Judge Matthews
Yale
State Board of Equalizion
Ross Allen
J. L. McConaughey
Walterb. Spaulding
E. R. Saladen
Harvey Baty
Martin Ringstrom
C. E. Whittier
A. P. Aiten
McLemore
K. Dawes
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