Mortgage Moratorium Act Struck Down by Supreme Court
Washington May 27 The Supreme Court unanimously held the Frazier Lemke mortgage moratorium act unconstitutional. The decision bars a five year relief plan for farmers to retain lands at rent while promising to settle mortgages later. The ruling cites the fifth amendment and notes acts of Congress must address such issues. Figures on affected cases vary by bank.
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Washington
Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Louis Brandeis
Northwest
Congress
Frazier
North Dakota
Farm Credit Administration
Federal Land Banks
St. Paul Bank
Omaha
Denver
The
Land Bank
Louisville
McKinnon Named Chief Highway Engineer
D A McKinnon appointed chief engineer of the Montana highway commission succeeding R D Rader. He takes office June 1, with R H Walsh to succeed him as state PWA head. McKinnon, a World War veteran and former South Dakota highway engineer, helped raise Montana to third in federal projects with 81 works totaling over 9.2 million.
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Helena
D. A. McKinnon
Montana
Montana Highway Commission
R. D. Rader
Harry J. McGregor
Great Falls
PWA
R. H. Walsh
McKinnon
Rader
Highway Department
McGregor
South Dakota
Montana Pwa
University of South Dakota
Montana Supreme Court Finds Alien Employment Law Unconstitutional
The Montana Supreme Court struck down the 24th legislative assembly's rule barring aliens and non residents from state and public service positions. The ruling notes the act's ambiguity makes it unworkable and invalid, delaying decisions that would affect hiring of out of state teachers and nonresidents. The bill, introduced by Rep Eugene Burris of Anaconda, targeted contractors with broad changes over amendments.
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Helena
Twenty-Fourth
Montana Legislative Assembly
Montana Supreme Court
Montana
Eugene Burris
Anaconda
Mrs. C. H. Loud Dies Sudden in Miles City
Mrs. C. H. Loud of Miles City died suddenly Wednesday evening at the Hunter Tea Room on South Main. The Rev. and Mrs. Higbee hosted a Presbyterian Session dinner where Judge Loud and family were present. A daughter, Mrs. Margaret Stanley of Logan Utah, and another daughter Miss Katherine Loud of Pasadena California were notified and traveling to attend services.
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Yellowstone
Miles City
C. H. Loud
Loud
Hunter
South Main Street
Margaret Stanley
Logan
Utah
Katherine Loud
Pasadena
Cal
Senate Stands Pat On Patman Bonus Bill
Washington May 23 senators backed President Roosevelt against the Patman bonus plan. A 54 to 40 vote to override the veto failed to reach two thirds. The Patman bill failed to pass, losing strength from 55 to 33 on the currency measure in the same action.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Montana Stockgrowers Oppose New Deal Stock Plans
Montana stockgrowers at their fifty first annual convention in Great Falls on May 25 urged strong opposition to a proposed cattle processing tax and to tariffs on imported stock. They opposed new AAA grazing bureau and supported domestic fats in oleomargarine and labeling of leather content. They also backed Tweed bills for wider land use and asked Great Northern to ease livestock through rates, while reelecting the current slate led by Julian Terret of Brandenberg.
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Great Falls
AAA
Montana Stockgrowers’ Association
Kleberg
Taylor
Senate
House
Great Northern Railway
Havre
Laurel
Biblings
Montana Association
Julian Terret
Brandenberg
B. J. Metlen
Thomas A. Ross
Chinook
Well Known Flyer Al Lucas Dies in Wyoming Crash
Al Lucas, famed aviator known as a fine record flyer and coyote killer, is killed when his monoplane crashes on a sage hillside near Glendo Wyoming after his flight from Billings to Cheyenne went overdue. Debris scattered over rugged terrain and the body found with an inspector awaiting arrival.
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Glendo
Wyo
al Lucas
Here
Department of Commerce
Lucas
Billings
Mont-Cheyenne
Runaway Car in Missoula Echoes Livingston Nine Mile March
A Missoula incident recalls an 1893 Livingston coal car runaway. A brakeless coal car rolled nine miles from the Livingston switch toward Mission Creek, derailing and wrecking a locomotive after Italian laborers opened a switch. Engineer William T. Fields halted the risk and saved lives.
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Wilkinson
Missoula
Livingston
W. D. Brouse
Little Italy
Mission Creek
William T. Fields
Engineer Fields
Cleveland
Ohio
Montana
Great American Railway Union
Brouse
Engineer Brouse
City and Rural Eighth Grade Graduates
Graduation exercises for county eighth graders were held last night in the grade school auditorium. Attendee E O Overland gave the address while Supt G A Berges presented diplomas and E A Bieber, board chair, awarded them. Valedictorian Anna Surdal and salutatorian Mary Elizabeth Nye led the Rural and Big Timber lists, with Betty Jarrett named rd.
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E. O. Overland
G. A. Berges
E. A. Bieber
Big Timber School
Robert Bryan
Emmett Deegan
Oscar Drivdahl
John Hanson
Herbert McCauley
Clarence Jones
Lloyd Ronning
Jack Schiltz
Alice Cameron
Victoria O’leary
Harold Roe
County Board of
Carl Anderson
Joy Alen
Jaunita Bond
Vernita Bond
Edith Broughton
Ernest Bruffey
May Clark
Bliss Clark
Wilma Clayton
Everett Carter
Arthur Duffey
Harold Faw
Dale Gottlob
Kathleen Gottlob
Charles Hausscrman
Margit Hegdal
Betty Jarrett
Bobby Jarrett
Blanche Jones
Bernice Lavold
Guri Langhus
Sigrid Lien
George Lien
Evelyn Mosier
Edna Mosness
Clara McKelvey
Mary Elizabeth Nye
Tom Osen
Ethel Peterson
Burton Robinson
Kenneth Riveland
Betty Sharpe
Elaine Sluman
Anna Surdal
Telmar Terland
Harold Tjaaland
Herbert Tjaaland
Bill Walker
Clara Wagner
Mary Utermohle
Kathleen Wells
William Hughes
Great Falls Donates Site for Deaf and Blind Institution
The Montana state board of education accepted a 10 acre land gift from Great Falls businessmen for a new deaf and blind institution. Contracts totaling 13742689 dollars will fund the building with a 2250000 dollar PWA loan and grant, 50000 dollars for Boulder feebleminded improvements, and 175000 dollars for the new school. After construction, equipment funding is noted as required.
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Helena
State Board of Education
Great Falls
PWA
Boulder
Explosion wrecks Skillman Station on First Avenue
A gas explosion wrecked the Lacklen filling station on First Avenue near Ullman lumber yard Monday near 4 pm. Guy F. Skillman, lessee, was blown from the outside position. Loss estimated at 1000 to 2000 dollars, no insurance. A Laurel truck had just refilled its tanks. A similar blast occurred fifteen years ago at the same site.
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Lacklen
First Avenue
Ullman
Main Street
Laurel
Guy F. Skillman
Stenberg
N. E. Oliver
Runaway Flatcar Kill Two Railroad Workers
Missoula May 23 A flatcar loaded with steel rails broke from control on the west side of Evaro hill and raced down the mountainside at an estimated 70 to 90 mph. Conductor G F Wilkinson survived a harrowing ride that ended with the death of his two friends F A Lombardi of Missoula and Alfred Morkert of Arlee who were aboard or aboard the speeder at the time.
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Missoula
G. F. Wilkinson
F. A. Lombardi
Alfred Morkert
Arlee
Wilkinson
Evaro Hill
Morkert
Short Wool Buying Season Capsizes in Sweet Grass County
About 80 000 sheep in Sweet Grass county sold by contract in ten days. Wool yields expected lighter due to rains, about 9 pounds per fleece, with total around 1700000 pounds. Prices started at 20 cents, rose to 24 cents. Grasfield and Mrs Henry Stole had large early lots bought at 25 cents by Lester P Work for Silberman and Sons. Other buyers included Harvey Cort Yule B Rees for Cordingly and Co and Frank Mackey for Draper and Son.
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Sweet Grass County
Grasfield
Henry Stole
Lester P. Work
Silberman & Sons
West Boulder Ranch Co
Harvey Cort
Yule B. Rees
Cordingly & Co
Frank Mackey
Draper & Son
Supreme Court nixes Blue Eagle codes in unanimous ruling
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the codes of fair competition exceed constitutional authority and cannot be enforced. President Roosevelt and NRA administrator Donald Richberg pledged to suspend compulsory enforcement while contracts remain unaffected, as the court limits executive power in managing wartime codes.
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Supreme Court
Washington
NRA
High Court
Donald Richberg
Roosevelt
Richberg
Stone
Cardoza
Hughes
A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Company
Brooklyn
Congress
Army Officer Dismissed After Long Service
Colonel Alexander E. Williams, 60, after 37 years in the army including two wars, was sentenced by a court martial to dismissal from military service. His attorney immediately announced an appeal from the finding of guilt for soliciting and obtaining a $2,500 loan from a tube company representative with war department contract ties and for giving false testimony denying the loan before a house military affairs sub-committee.
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Washington
Alexander E. Williams
Williams
War Department
House
Ruffcorn of Glasgow Succeeds Dr Butler in Montana Relief
William Ruffcorn of Glasgow named administrator of emergency relief for Montana, replacing Dr. W J Butler of Helena. The appointment was confirmed by telegram from Aubrey Williams and approved by Hopkins staff in Washington. Ray M Hart of Billings remains administrator of works relief.
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Helena
Royal Mann
Missoula
Montana Relief Commission
William Ruffcorn
Glasgow
Montana
W. J. Butler
Aubrey Williams
Hopkins
Washington, D. C
Ruffcorn
Mann
Dr. Butler
Ray M. Hart
Billings
Washington
California hunts for extortionist gang
Pasadena, May 26. A manhunt for a desperate extortion gang began after a running gun battle left one suspect dead and another wounded. Authorities identified Jack Williams among the gang, shot with multiple wounds while the group sought $72,000 from Herbert D. Ivey, Pasadena bank president.
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Pasadena
Cal
Jack Williams
Herbert D. Ivey
Pasadena Clearing House Association
Headon collision claims two lives near Glasgow
Two men died and four were injured in a head-on crash of two coupes on the Glasgow Fort Peck highway three miles east of Glasgow last night. Arnold Hensler of Camerton died from a broken neck and skull fracture, while Arthur Person, 20, a Fort Peck government employee, died at a Glasgow hospital from a skull fracture.
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Glasgow
Mont
Fort Peck
Here
Arnold Hensler
Camerton
Arthur Person
Carl Person
Roosevelt Garner ticket eyed as middle of road plan
Washington report says a new deal strategy aims to fuse Roosevelt and Garner as a middle-of-the-road ticket for 1936. Administrations moves on labor wage scales inflation views and Wagner bill praise signal a shift toward centrist support amid party divisions.
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Washington
Wool prices surge in southeastern Montana market
Stimulus from a buying wave raises wool prices by up to ten cents per pound in two weeks. M F Trask of Ballantine confirms a 264 cent price for about 6 000 fleeces, highest in state. Other clips sold from 251/2 to 26 cents with big producers and associations across Montana and Wyoming.
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Billings
Montana
M. F. Trask
Ballantine
Snyder Sheep Company
Harry Snyder, Jr
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M’kinnon
Patman
Wyoming
Wyoming Air Service
Cottonwood Creek
Skillman
Ruffcorn OF
California
Headon
Antlers Sheep Company
Hardin
Big Horn County
Charles M. Barr
Martinsdale
Long & Clary Company
Warren Livestock Company
Star Valley Wool Pool of
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