Montana Power rate cuts lift service charges in Montana
The Montana Public Service Commission announced Friday that Montana Power will cut electrical and natural gas rates, eliminating the service charge and saving customers about 550000 dollars annually. Residential and commercial lighting rates are reduced, with residential bills roughly seven percent lower and commercial lighting cuts up to 35 percent.
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Helena
Montana Power Company
Montana
Jerry J. O’connell
Montana Public Service Commission
Commission
Missoula
O’connell
Butte
Bozeman
Deer Lodge
Ule
Interest Collections at Spokane Federal Land Bank Rise
Farm Credit administration reports for the year ended September 30 show Spokane Federal Land Bank collecting 4,091,000 in interest, about 86.2 percent of maturities. Maturities totaled 4,746,000 with little change from last year’s 85 percent in the Pacific Northwest.
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Washington
Farm Credit Administration
Spokane Federal Land Bank
Spokane Bank
Pacific Northwest
Helena Inches Toward World Quake Record
Helena reports five earthquakes in 24 hours as seismic activity nears a world record. The Helena weather bureau tallied 909 tremors since October 12, marking 29 straight days of quakes. Timed shocks at 1:35, 1:37, 2:04 and 11:20 p.m. noted moderate intensity while low temperatures hindered building work.
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Helena
Helena Weather Bureau
Grizzlies Tie Gonzaga In Cold Great Falls Clash
Montana Grizzlies upset Gonzaga on the Bulldogs streak with a hard fought tie before about 3500 fans in Great Falls.
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Grizzlies
Gonzaga
Great Falls
Montana Grizzlies
Gonzaga Bulldog
PWA project approvals rise with McCarl action
Washington ongoing federal relief updates show Comptroller General McCarl approving $117.97 million in additional PWA projects across 16 states. The WPA outlined Montana plans totaling $818,000 with $629,000 under contract, plus $695,000 for grade crossings, $470,000 contracted. Wyoming plans total $471,000 with none yet contracted and grade crossing funds of $60,000, $49,423 contracted. McCarl also released $5,685,955 in WPA allotments, lifting total approved projects to $3.371 billion and freeing $1,000 for expenditure. The Bureau of Public Roads added 1,249 highway projects costing $52.64 million under the $200 million work relief allotment, with 529 contracts worth $21.4 million awarded. Wednesday’s McCarl approval includes $246,304 for Wyoming.
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Washington
PWA
J. R. McCarl
WPA
Montana
Woming
McCarl
Bureau of Public Roads
Wyoming
Five Insane Patients Die In Montreal Fire
Five violent patients at the St. Jean de Dieu hospital for the insane perished in a night fire that ravaged one wing. Guards and firefighters had emptied the wing of about 100 occupants before the deaths occurred as the men fled back into the blaze. Names were withheld and property damage was estimated above $50 000.
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Montreal
St. Jean de Dieu Hospital
Colorado House votes to impeach Secretary of State Carr
The Colorado house of representatives votes 48 to 15 to impeach Secretary of State James H. Carr on 10 acts of malfeasance in license division administration. Gov. Ed C. Johnson's charge that he irregularly managed the liquor licensing department is upheld.
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Denver
Colorado House of Representatives
James H. Carr
Ed C. Johnson
Billy Sunday Receives Cheerful Funeral Like He Wanted
The Rev William A Billy Sunday was honored with a joyous service at Moody Memorial Church Chicago turning from sorrow to song The 4000 mourners joined in the Glory Song while Sunday urged converts to seek salvation through his Savior The casket lid passed by by 15000 to 20000 visitors and burial followed at Forest Home cemetery in Chicago
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Chicago
William A
Billy
Moody Memorial Church
John Timothy Stone
Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Evangelist
Tabernacle
Homer Rodeheaver
Forest Home Cemetery
John E Norman, Big Timber Rancher, Dies at Home
Rancher John E. Norman of the east fork of the Sweet Grass died Sunday November 10 at his home from a heart ailment. Funeral services were held at the Lutheran church with Rev. A A Holbeck officiating. He was born November 15 1867 in Dalarne Sweden and came to Big Timber in 1887. He married Johanna Berg in 1889 and purchased the ranch that year. Surviving are his wife eight children two daughters in law and 14 grandchildren.
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John E. Norman
Sweet Grass
Lutheran Church
A. A. Holbeck
Floyd C. Bailey
Ted C. Busha
Mountain View
Sivert Raisland
Bud Hanson
Pete Gottlob
Lars Birkeland
Norman
Dalarne
Sweden
Big Timber
Johanna Berg
Torger Birkeland
Peter Peterson
Carl
Gust Norman
Livingston
Simon
Albert
Anna
Tom Egeland
Reconstruction Finance Corporation to Back Helena Housing Plan
The RFC will buy a $200000 bond issue to fund 50 to 60 quake resistant homes in Helena. The move follows talks among Senator Murray, RFC head Jesse Jones, and Helena developers. Red Cross relief work totals $24693 for repairs on 31 homes with $9484.68 spent so far.
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Helena
Mont
Reconstruction Finance Corporation Today
Helena Development Corporation
United States
James E. Murray
Jesse Jones
RFC Board
Albert Evans
St. Louis
American Red Cross
Evans
E. S. Transute
Denver
Red Cross
Jury finds Mrs Nyhart not guilty by reason of insanity
Virginia City November 8 A Madison County district court jury acquitted Mrs Vina Nyhart 35 after deliberating 16 hours in the slaying case of John Basolo 32 at Twin Bridges September 9 The defendant fainted at the verdict and was released to return home to her two children.
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Virginia City
Madison County District Court
Vina Nyhart
John Basolo
Twin Bridges
Thirty Years Service Valued at $16000
Miss Josephine Evans, 46, of Oroville California, won a court order for 16000 from the estate of James Conroy a Durham rancher after thirty years of work without wages. She claimed 1.50 daily pay for 30 years dating from age 15 and said Conroy promised a generous reward on his death. he died intestate.
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Oroville
Cal
Josephine Evans
James Conroy
Durham
Miss Evans
Conroy
Willie Saunders Visits Home Folks at Bozeman
Willie Smokey Saunders the derby winning jockey, indicted as an accessory to murder in Louisville, is visiting Bozeman relatives. The former Bozeman boy, who rode Omaha in the Kentucky Derby, is free on a $5,000 bond and connected to the Evelyn Sliwinski slaying investigation.
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Bozeman
Mont
Willie
Smokey) Saunders
Louisville
Saunders
Omaha
Walter Shaeffer
Evelyn Sliwinski
Liberty
Baltimore Judge Rules Against Utilities Act
Federal Judge William C. Coleman ruled the 1935 holding company act invalid in its entirety. He said Congress exceeded its powers and described the measure as arbitrary and capricious, with no separable valid parts. The ruling directs trustees to treat the act as void and signals possible Supreme Court review.
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Baltimore
William C. Coleman
American States Public Service Company
New York
Supreme Court of the United States
Coleman
Congress
Cates Denied Clemency In Missoula Murder Case
William Cates, a Missoula bootlegger convicted of murdering federal Prohibition Agent Paul Read near the Missoula county courthouse, was again denied a sentence commutation by the state pardon board. He faces execution on Tuesday, November 26 unless executive clemency intervenes. The death sentence followed a July 21, 1933, verdict of first degree murder. the state supreme court upheld the judgment on appeal.
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Theodore Lentz
State Supreme Court
Food prices rise 5.6 percent in Rocky Mountain region
Labor department report shows Rocky Mountain food costs up 5.6 percent on Oct 22 from 1934, with a 0.3 percent drop in the prior two weeks. The yearly rise, 6.7 percent, exceeds the prior two weeks and Denver is noted as a city with a two-tenths percent decline in the two weeks.
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Washington
Rocky Mountain
Labor Department
United States
Denver
Freight traffic shows distinct upward trend in 1931 pace
Chicago November 7 Freight traffic for the year to date was heavier than any comparable period since 1931 the Association of American Railroads car service division reported. The division cited a distinct upward trend since August and predicted the improvement could continue through year end.
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Chicago
Association of American Railroads
Car Service Division
Trust fund payout ordered for Clark heirs in New Jersey
Vice Chancellor Vivian M. Lewis ordered Commercial Trust Company to pay Hughette M. Clark and her mother Anna E. Clark $500,324 from the William A. Clark trust. The fund includes 36,000 United Verde Copper shares valued at $55 each, with staged payments tied to the daughter's ages 28 33 and 38. The initial payment covers the first third, made after valuing the copper stake and other securities.
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Trenton
N. J
Vivian M. Lewis
Commercial Trust Company
Jersey City
United States
William A. Clark
Montana
United Verde Copper Company
Hughette M. Clark
Daring Scientists Reach 14 Miles Up In Balloon Flight
White Lake South Dakota November 11 14 the world s largest balloon made a gentle landing after eight hours thirteen minutes reaching an unofficial altitude of 74000 feet 14 miles Capts Albert W Stevens and Orvil A Anderson soared beyond previous records and returned to earth near Rapid City with scientific data and photos The flight sponsored by the National Geographic Society and the US Army Air Corps marked a new frontier in the stratosphere despite moments of peril and extreme cold conditions
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White Lake
S. D
Here
Albert W. Stevens
Orvil A. Anderson
America
Rapid City
Stevens
Anderson
National Geographic Society
United States Army Air Corps
Albert Solomon, Early Investigator in McKinley Assassin Case
Albert Solomon, 75, who first laid hands on Leon Czolgosz and helped secure the slayer’s confession, died in Duluth on November 7.
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Duluth
Minn
Albert Solomon
Leon Czolgosz
McKinley
President Roosevelt Birthday Ball Plans Announced
Plans for a nationwide birthday ball to aid the fight against infantile paralysis were announced. Henry L. Doherty chairs the committee and asks Roosevelt to lend his 54th birthday January 30. Funds split 70 percent local for after-treatment and hospitals, 30 percent to Roosevelt for the foundation.
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Washington
Henry L. Doherty
National Committee
Roosevelt
Georgia Warm Springs Foundation
Basil O’connor
Mr. Roosevelt
Foundation
Kingsford-Smith search ends as Melrose found safe
In Singapore on November 13 a flurry of concern over the missing Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith eased when C James Melrose was located safe on a beach near Parktao, Siam after an engine trouble forced a landing. No news of Kingsford-Smith remained.
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Singapore
Straits Settlement
C. James Melrose
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
Melrose
Kingsford-Smith
Siam
Parktao
First Aid Stations to Open 600 Along Highways by January
Red Cross announced plans to set up 600 first aid relief stations along U.S. highways by January 1. The initiative targets rapid medical aid for travelers and accident victims nationwide.
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Washington
The
Red Cross
Break in Townsend Banks Plan Sparks Santa Cruz Meeting
In Santa Cruz California on November 9 a large crowd of about two hundred men and women met in revolt against the Townsend old age pension plan. They gathered to map plans for the newly formed American recovery pension clubs.
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Santa Cruz
Cal
Townsend Old Age
Crane American Recovery Pension Clubs
Elderly Couple Killed on Vacation Trip
In Butte Idaho region, Mr. and Mrs. W A Farrell both 60 die after their car skids on an icy Idaho Falls stretch and overturns. The couple, from a Waterloo area ranch, had set out for California to enjoy rest after years of toil and land sales. Their bodies depart for Butte for burial at Holy Cross cemetery.
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Butte
W. A. Farrell
Waterloo
California
Idaho Falls
Farrell
Holy Cross Cemetery
Jean Batten Completes Solo South Atlantic Flight
Jean Batten, a 26 year old New Zealand aviator, landed at Natal Brazil after a solo crossing from Dakar. She becomes the first woman to fly solo across the South Atlantic joining prior female flyers like Anne Morrow Lindbergh in aviation history. Batten plans to proceed to Rio de Janeiro the next day.
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Pernambuco
Brazil
Jean Batten
New Zealand
Natal
South Atlantic
Dakar
Senegal
Miss Batten
Alhough
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Colonel Lindbergh
Africa
London
Prince of Wales
Rio de Janeiro
President Urges Lower Interest Rates to Aid Recovery
President Roosevelt urged bankers to favor lower interest rates to stimulate recovery. He said he preferred rates below 6 percent but did not specify a figure, citing easier money as key to leveraging large bank reserves for the recovery drive. He noted current rates from 3.5 to 5 percent in federal bodies and cautioned against remaining high real estate loan rates.
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Washington
Roosevelt
American Bankers’ Association
New Orleans
Reconstruction Corporation
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Federal Housing Administration
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Federal Bank
Okeh
M’carl
Colorado
Ranch Home
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Willie Saunders
Cates
Clark Trust Fund
Townsend
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