Stockmen seek 50 million acres grazing lands
Washington April 27 Interior Department has received grazing district applications covering 50,000,000 acres from western stockmen ahead of the Taylor bill. Officials expect 100,000,000 acres in grazing districts within a year and say it would take 12 to 18 months to implement after passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interior Department
John F. Deeds
Senate Public Lands Committee
Deeds
Geological Survey
R. G. Poole
Department
Ickes
House Public Lands Committee
Representative Scrugham
D. Nev
Poole
Pittman
Death claims M Kinley prominent oil man
Great Falls Montana April 27 Horace G McKinley 65 a longtime royalty operator in northern Montana oil fields died of a heart attack a few hours after entering a hospital He was rated the state's largest individual royalty holder with interests mainly in the Kevin Sunburst field He came from Oregon in 1916 and made Great Falls his headquarters until four years ago when he retired from royalty dealing.
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Great Falls
Horace G. McKinley
Montana
McKinley
Oregon
Irate farmers plow up sugar beet fields near Scotts Bluff
A 600 to 700 strong mob with 15 trucks and farming gear uprooted over 300 acres of planted beet land in Mitchell valley near Scotts Bluff Nebraska. They damaged 200 acres on the Tanaka farm, 25 on the Schmunk place, and 100 on the Kuntz farm. The Tanakas are Japanese and farm land owned by Mrs. Haig, sister-in-law of Sir Douglas Haig.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotts Bluff
Neb
Mitchell Valley
Frank
Tony Tanaka
John Schmunk
Steve Kuntz
Tanakas
Congress Pays Tribute to Departed Members
Washington April 27 congress honors 15 lawmakers who died last year and this. The joint service paused legislative business as Rep John Young Brown Kentucky and Rep Treadway Massachusetts gave memorial tributes. Mrs Walsh widow of late Senator Thomas J Walsh of Montana attended, traveling from Cuba to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
John Young Brown
Kentucky
Representative Treadway
Massachusetts
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Body of Billings Boy Found in Yellowstone
The body of Herman Weidemann 17 was recovered from the Yellowstone river below the east bridge roughly 13 days after he supposedly fell in. Mike Smith island park caretaker sighted the body drifting near the river bank and Ray Coakley special deputy sheriff retrieved it with a 14 foot hooked iron rod.
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Billings
Herman Weidemann
Yellowstone River
East Bridge
Mike Smith
Island Park
Ray Coakley
Smith
Roundup man killed in Cushman accident
A coal truck taking a Cushman dance party from Camp 3 turned over near the railroad underpass east of Cushman at 4 a m Sunday. Jacob G Lissman 42 a Camp 3 miner died of a skull fracture. Inured were Mrs John Kein and Mrs Evelyn Kress both of Camp 3. Driver Melvin Christian of Camp 3 said steering gear locked as the truck neared the underpass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cushman
Jacob G. Lissman
Camp 3
John Kein
Evelyn Kress
Melvin Christian
Bishop Cannon Cleared In Campaign Funds Case
A District of Columbia jury acquitted Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Ada L. Burroughs on all counts after deliberating three hours. They were charged with concealing campaign contributions from Edwin C. Jameson for use in 1928 in Virginia and other southern states against Alfred E. Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
District of Columbia Supreme Court
James Cannon, Jr
Ada L. Burroughs
Miss Burroughs
Bishop Cannon
Edwin C. Jameson
New York
Virginia
Alfred E. Smith
American business nears peak of speculative boom
Washington reports March industrial output at 84 percent of the 1923 25 average with unemployment falling to 10 905 000. Fed data show broad gains in activity and employment, while government steps to spur economy are anticipated if a setback occurs. Foreign trade in March hits a three year high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
American Federation of Labor
Nine Highway Projects in Montana Valued at 529000
Montana highway commission awarded nine road projects totaling about 529000 as part of the national recovery program. A supplemental letting of 300000 to 400000 is planned for May 24. Two bids were rejected on today’s items including Bilings airport highway grading and surfacing and a 26.80 mile section of U S Highway 2 near Kalispell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McWiniger Slough
Belton
Kalispell
Flathead County
Bureau of Public Roads
Rosebud County
White House legislative hopes face early adjournment
Washington April 28 deep into Roosevelts agenda key measures may die with an early session adjournment. The eight administration proposals see at least two likely to pass this session while others linger with doubt amid tax and unemployment debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
Washington
Roosevelt
National Labor Board
Beet Growers Rejoice Over Price Settlement
Denver April 29 One of the bitterest controversies in the history of the Rocky mountain region's sugar beet industry ended Sunday. Through government intervention Saturday at Chicago processors reached an agreement for marketing the 1934 crop. Growers will receive about 6.50 dollars a ton with Great Western Sugar paying roughly 4.50 and parity payments made up by a processing tax. The Mountain States Marketing association estimated the region will gain about 20 million dollars if formalized, versus 14 million without an agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Rocky Mountain
Chicago
Great Western Sugar Company
Mountain States Marketing Association
Six year old girl kidnapped in Tucson case widens search
In Tucson Arizona on April 29 authorities extend the nationwide effort for six year old June Robles heiress to a cattle fortune. Her parents and grandfather wait anxiously as federal state and county officers join in the intensified search across southern Arizona amid fears she may not be returned alive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucson
Ariz
June Robles
Fernando Robles
Bernabde Robles
Arizona
Silver Bloc Presses Congress for Silver Re monetization Bill
In Washington on April 28 the Silver bloc vowed to push legislation this session to place silver firmly in the monetary system. Members predicted enactment and a mandatory re monetization of silver despite White House opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Congressional Silver Bloc
Bryan files for Democratic U S Senate nomination
Lincoln Neb April 28 Gov Charles W Bryan three times Nebraska governor filed Saturday as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States senator just before leaving by car for Washington to attend the unveiling of a statue of his late brother William Jennings Bryan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln, Neb
Charles W. Bryan
Nebraska
United States
Washington
William Jennings Bryan
Stimson backs Roosevelt tariff trading bill in signal show
Hoover secretary of state Henry L. Stimson urged that Congress promptly pass the Roosevelt tariff trading bill to meet the emergency. The measure, approved by the House, would let President Roosevelt negotiate trade deals to cut tariffs on specified goods to boost world trade and foreign markets for U S industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hoover
Senate
Henry L. Stimson
Intercollegiate Council On International Education
House
Roosevelt
United States
Bids Opened On Northwest Airmail Route Contracts
Five bids for four 90 day air mail contracts were opened at the post office department. Route No 1 runs from Fargo North Dakota to Seattle Washington via Jamestown Bismarck Mandan Dickinson Glendive Miles City Billings Butte Missoula Spokane Wenatchee and Wenatchee Washington. Northwest Airlines Inc bids 34 cents per mile. Northern Air Transport Inc bids 28.8 cents per mile. Maximum rate allowed is 45 cents per airplane mile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Post Office Department
Fargo
N. D
Seattle
Wash
Jamestown
Bismarck-Mandan
Dickinson
Glendive
Miles City
Billings
Butte
Missoula
Mont
Spokane
Wenatchee
Northwest Airlines, Inc
Northern Air Transport, Inc
Posse Sweep North Minnesota In Nelson Manhunt
Police mobilized posses and vigilantes with shotguns across northern Minnesota to trap George Baby Face Nelson after an auto theft at Moose Lake. Guides and lumberjacks joined as the car was sighted near Hinckley and Pine City.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Minnesota
George
Baby Face
Nelson
Moose Lake
Woodlands
Hinckley
Pine City
Noted Indian fighter Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott dies at 80
Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, 80, longtime Indian fighter and former Army chief of staff, died at Walter Reed hospital after a two month illness. A West Point graduate of 1876, he led in Sioux campaigns, served as chief of staff from 1914 to 1917, and shaped American participation in World War I. He later preserved his work on Indian sign languages with a Library of Congress commission and 13 tribal peers. He was known as a conciliator who preferred diplomacy to force in his long military career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hugh L. Scott
Army
Walter Reed
West Point
Scott
Germany
Plains
Library of Congress
Browning
Mont
Grasshopper Poisoning Campaigns Planned Across Montana
Across Montana counties an organized campaign to combat grasshopper outbreaks has been set. Communities appointed leaders to manage distribution of government free bait to farms, with point locations designated for delivery. Dr. A L Strand of Montana State College heads the state grasshopper control committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bozeman
Montana
A. L. Strand
Montana State College Entomology Department
Gov White of Ohio Targeted by Dillinger Gang
Columbus April 28 A report to Gov George White said Dillinger gang members set up headquar ters in Columbus and planned to kidnap the governor and his daughter Mary The governor would not reveal his source and said no extra guards would be placed at the mansion Two guards had been on duty since before the transfer of Harry Pierpont Charles Makley and Russel Clark to the Ohio penitentiary Pierpont and Makley face the electric chair July 13 for Sheriff Jesse L Larber s death in the Allen county jail raid Clark received a life term.
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Columbus
George White
John Dillinger
Mary
Executive Mansion
Harry Pierpont
Charles Makley
Russel Clark
Ohio Penitentiary
Pierpont
Makley
Jesse L. Larber
Allen County
Dillinger
Clark
Aged Man Dies in Blaze of Thistles near Chinook
Brief notice reports 78-year-old Henry Gillis of Great Falls dying after falling into a burning pile of thistles on Grover Goldhahn’s ranch 65 miles south of Chinook. Gillis had just arrived to visit his daughter Mrs Mary Goldhahn. Goldhahn noticed the blaze while tending tumbleweeds.
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Chinook
Henry Gillis
Great Falls
Grover Goldhahn
Gillis
Mary Goldhahn
Goldhahn
Coulee
Yellowtail Wins Large Support for Crow Agency Head
Crow Agency May 2 Proposed appointment of Robert Yellowtail as the first native superintendent of the Crow reservation won tribal endorsement by 501 to 199. The vote from about 700 of 900 eligible Indians across six precincts, led by Lodge Grass where 154 of 165 voted yes, clears the path for John Collier to decide.
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Crow Agency
Robert Yellowtail
Crow Reservation
Yellowtail
John Collier
Indian Affairs
Lodge Grass
Silver Adjustment Aims for Increased Use of Silver
April 27 lawmakers report President Roosevelt seeks long term monetary changes after a White House conference. He opposes mandatory silver laws but backs gradual reintroduction to reach about 30 percent silver backing and 70 percent gold, up from the current roughly 12 to 88 split.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
White House
Roosevelt
United States
Charles H. Williams Weds California Woman
Charles H. Williams of Deer Lodge Montana, former Montana Woolgrowers' president and state senator, married Alice M. Bailey of Marysville California in an Episcopal ceremony in Seattle. The couple planned a several day stay before returning to Deer Lodge.
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Seattle
Charles H. Williams
Deer Lodge
Mont
Montana Woolgrowers’ Association
Montana
Alice M. Bailey
Marysville
Calif
Williams
H. C Pound
Montana Farmers May Plant Less Than 54 Percent In Exemption Zone
The Wheat Adjustment Administration designates eastern Montana as an exemption zone from the 54 percent minimum plant rule due to drought surface moisture shortage and a potential grasshopper outbreak. Farmers may plant 0 to 85 percent, but any under 54 requires a county waiver. those with waivers receive benefit payments.
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Bozeman
Wheat Adjustment Administration
J. C. Taylor
Montana Extension Service
Continental Divide
Montana
Taylor
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