House Backs Immediate Soldier Bonus in Historic Vote
The U S House passed the Patman bonus bill by 318 to 90 to fund a 2 000 000 000 cash payment and approved a currency expansion plan 207 to 204. The measure now goes to the Senate where veto chances loom amid Roosevelt opposition and recovery goals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Vinson- American Legion
Patman
Senate
House
Donald Richberg
Roosevelt
White House
Vinson
Frank N. Belgrano, Jr
American Legion
James E. Vanzandt
Prices of Emergency Feed Reduced by Montana MARC Stock
Roundup March 23. Notice of price cuts on large stocks of hay and concentrates held by the Montana rural rehabilitation commission. Government bought the feed in 1934 to hold prices during emergencies. Reductions align MARC feed prices with local asks for stockmen and farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana Rural Rehabilitation Commission
MARC
Water works construction gear arrives from Threet Bros
Two cars of equipment from Threet Bros Lovell contractors for the new water works were sent out yesterday. A trenching machine will likely begin work in the Cort ranch alfalfa field. Four operators are needed with no local men qualified, Helena applying for workers. Wages run 1.20 per hour or six per day for the trenching job and 0.50 per hour for five hour days for common laborers. No list of men has been filed with reemployment agent C A Bishop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Threet Bros
Lovell
Wyo
Cort Ranch
Old King Ranch
Helena
C. A. Bishop
Livingston Fire Driven By Sixty Five Mile Gale
A warehouse roof fire in Livingston spread in a 65 mph wind, burning four to the ground and forcing two women and one man to flee in night attire. Firemen quelled the blaze after four to five hours, with $10,000 estimated damage to dry lumber and ashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Livingston
Montana Planning Board Perfected
Helena March 27 The Montana planning board formed with the same members as the state water conservation board by an act of the 24th legislature The state is divided into 14 districts each directed planning supervision The board members named are R R Purcell I D O Donnell and D P Fabrick with Gov Frank H Cooney and State Engineer J S James as ex officio members.
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Helena
Montana Planning Board
State Water Conservation Board
Twentyfourth Legislative Assembly
Water Conservation Board
Planning Board
R. R. Purcell
I. D. O'Donnell
Billings
D. P. Fabrick
Chateau
Frank H. Cooney
J. S. James
Reconstruction starts on Babcock Theater in Billings
The Babcock theater reconstruction began Monday with an estimated cost of $60,000. Owner Hume Lipsker said the rebuilt playhouse will be fireproof and include an automatic water sprinkling system, aiming for occupancy in three months after it was gutted by fire on February 21.
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Billings Gazette
Babcock Theater
Hume Lipsker
Gov Cooney vetoes bills for infantile paralysis hospital
Governor Frank H. Cooney vetoed House Bills 507 and 508 proposing a Montana infantile paralysis sanitarium. He cited financial and practical concerns, noting 500 cases statewide last year with 65 needing long hospital care and that existing facilities in Great Falls Lewistown and Billings under the orthopedic commission could provide adequate treatment.
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Cooney
Helena
Frank H. Cooney
Montana
Washington
Great Falls
Lewistown
Billings
State Orthopedic Commission
Federal Housing Officials View Big Timber on Housing Efforts
Sydney C. Johnson of the Federal Housing Administration and Warren W. Moses of the Helena office met Friday with J. A. Lowry chairman of the Better Housing committee and local bank and building association officials. They praised local work led by Lowry and E. H. Ellingson on a modernization loan canvass paused by FERA funds, with plans to resume after April. The visitors then planned to attend the Better Housing show in Billings after a stop in Columbus.
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Sydney C. Johnson
Federal Housing Administration
Washington, D. C
Warren W. Moses
Helena
Big Timber
J. A. Lowry
Better Housing Committee
Citizens Bank & Trust Company
Building and Loan Association
Third Trick Operator at Depot Robbing U S Mails
Melvin Northrip, a U S postal inspector, filed charges against T W Cartwright third trick operator at a depot for robbing the U S mails from midnight to 8 am since July 1 1934. Cartwright confessed describing loot such as clothing fountain pens cigars pans some items burned in the depot stove while others kept in a locker. He signed a partial $1 000 bond with Mrs E O Busch as signer and is to recruit more signers in Townsend. case to be heard in federal court likely in Billings before Judge Pray.
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Melvin Northrip
U. S
T. W. Cartwright
Cartwright
Nordstrom
Mrs Roosevelt Criticized by UC Alumna in Public Remarks
Berkeley reports Miss Martha Ijams a 1901 UC alumna condemns Anna Eleanor Roosevelt as a cheap headline seeker. She also labeled Secretary Frances Perkins a mere politician during recent university events, criticizing both as presumptuous and ill informed.
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Berkeley
Cal
Martha Ijams
University of California
Roosevelt
Ijams
Frances Perkins
Secretary of Labor
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
California
Montana to Outfit Twelve Motor Cops with Uniforms and gear
Helena March 25 Uniforms arms motorcycles automobiles and other gear to equip two dozen state highway patrolmen are being sourced under a 24th Montana legislature act. State Purchasing Agent T J Collins seeks price lists due by April 2 with purchases expected after bids. The highway commission will likely wait for Gov Cooney to appoint new commissioners next month.
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Helena
Twenty
Montana Legislative Assembly
T. J. Collins
Montana Highway Commission
Frank H. Cooney
O. S. Warden
Great Falls
J. H. Rowe
Butte
Marquis, Authority on Indian History, Dead at 65
Dr. Thomas B. Marquis, 65, noted historian of Montana's Native peoples and authority on Custer’s Little Bighorn, died suddenly of a heart attack at his Custer battlefield museum in Hardin. Born October 1869 in Missouri, he practiced medicine in Ennis and Clyde Park and served as government physician at Lame Deer.
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Hardin
Mont
Thomas B. Marquis
Montana
Anaconda Standard
Ennis
Virginia City
Clyde Park
Livingston
Lame Deer
Cheyenne
Lodge Grass
Laurel
Sixty Cent Silver Boosts Mining Outlook World Wide
New York reports the return of sixty cent silver after seven years, sparking global economic and political expectations from Shanghai to London. Traders in Wall Street cite technical factors including a $1,000,000 U S sale to Mexico for silver and tighter global supply as key drivers of the move, amid inflation talk in the United States.
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New York
Shanghai
Wall Street
London
United States
Mexico
America
Nagle Uses Law to Target Helena Gambling Again
Montana Attorney General Raymond T. Nagle invoked a law from the 24th legislature to order prosecuting officers to act against gambling in Helena. In letters to Sheriff Brian OConnell and County Attorney Frances Elge he directed arrests and prosecutions of all gamblers and the closing of gambling dens in Helena and Lewis and Clark County.
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Helena
Montana
Raymond T. Nagle
Brian O’connell
Frances Elge
Lewis and Clark County
Senator Wheeler Presses Wheat Checks Delays
Senator Wheeler of Montana urged agricultural officials and the White House to speed the mailing of wheat allotment checks. He said farmers face hardship as checks arrive late, risking seed purchase for spring planting.
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Washington
Wheeler
Montana
Agriculture Department
White House
Eeler
Ayers Seeks Flax Production Boost Via New Bill
Rep Ayers Democrat Montana on March 25 introduced a bill to amend the agricultural adjustment act to liberalize flax regulations. The measure aims to establish desirable acreage and quota imports to protect domestic flax production and encourage U S planting.
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Washington
Ayers
Montana
United States
NRA Promoters Brace for Doubtful High Court Ruling
Washington reports a presidential order for vigorous NRA code enforcement aimed at avoiding the pending Supreme Court review of the Blue Eagle program. The Belcher lumber case was dismissed to test constitutionality with a different code, amid GOP opposition and looming expiration of NRA on June 16.
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Washington
NRA
Supreme Court
Blue Eagle Agency
Justice Department
Belcher
Department
Cummings
Reed
Blue Eagle
Mr. Roosevelt
Donald Richberg
William A. Belcher
Centerville
Ala
Alabama
Florida
Department of Justice
Richberg
Roosevelt
Annual Grazing Permits Set For Forest Lands
Mis soula March 25 Grazing on national forests will be by annual permits for the 1935 season says Chief Forester F A Silcox in a statement to the regional forester's office. He notes long term grazing contracts are undesirable until policies of the interior department grazing administration and forest service are coordinated. He cites Salt Lake City livestock conference urging policy coordination to safeguard the livestock credit structure and assures stockmen of support.
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Missoula
F. A. Silcox
Forest Service
Salt Lake City
Glasgow Woman Cleared of Murder Charge
Mrs. Paulina B. Stephens, 42, was acquitted by a district court jury in Glasgow of murdering her husband James R. Stephens at their Tampico ranch home three years earlier. He died Jan 27 1932 from three bullet wounds. coroner ruled death by own action. Jury deliberated about 110 minutes after 7 p m.
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Glasgow
Paulina B. Stephens
James R. Stephens
Tampico
Here
Stephens
Valley County
District Court
Dust Storm Strikes Kansas Area Paralyzing Day
A major dust storm swept across the midwest plains near Kansas City causing traffic paralysis and school closures. Business remained tied up as street lights glowed through heavy haze and threats to life and stock markets arose.
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Kansas City
Midwest Plains
Hopkins to help direct relief fund distribution
The House shaped the path for spending the 4 880 000 000 relief bill with Harry L. Hopkins at the center. Indications show Hopkins may serve on or chair a new administrative board alongside other prominent agency leaders as the plan for the fund crystallizes. The chamber, at the president’s request, voted 263 to 108 to block senate amendments and pursue either deletion or revision of Roosevelt opposed amendments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Harry L. Hopkins
Senate
Ex-Sheriff Brannin to Receive Compensation
Representative Claude C. Gray says Brannin, former sheriff shot and wounded when Under Sheriff Whitsel fell, will get compensation. The bill Brannin authored passed both houses and was signed by Governor Cooney, the only successful disabled officers compensation bill among seven introduced.
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Claude C. Gray
Ed Brannin
Whitsel
Cooney
House
Senate
Brannin
Senate Approves Historic 4.8 Billion Relief Bill
The Senate passed a sweeping relief package totaling 4.8 billion dollars after eight weeks of debate. A 375 million silver rider was included as a parliamentary move, expected to be removed in conference with the House. The measure aims to employ 3.5 million people on relief rolls once direct aid depletes.
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Washington
Senate
House
Thomas
Oklahoma
Senate House
Garner
Carter Glass
Virginia
Appropriations Committee
Robinson
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Cox
Sumners
Oliver
Babcock
Marquis
Nagle
Sen. Wheeler
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Kansas
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