Shooting of Ole Hanson Rocks Park County
Ole Hanson, 55, died from a gunshot wound fired by Ed Durgan, a Park County rancher. The shooting occurred about 1 a.m. near Hanson’s car, which was later found in a ditch. Durgan reported the shooting at 8 a.m. Hanson, once a county employee, had recently left service and may have been drinking. The incident involved fears over a Thanksgiving turkey crop and unfolded with the Durgans recounting a night of shock and grief.
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Livingston Entese
Ole Hanson
Ed Durgan
Pioneer Park County
Che
Hanso
Taylor Darroch
Verne Meig
Durgan
Durgan Ranch
Hanson
George Allen
Durgans
Sweet Grass County
Park County
South Second Street
Mr. Durgan
Bozeman Police Chief Allen Sales Dies at 64
Allen H. Sales, 64, Bozeman chief of police since 1932, died Monday night from pneumonia after a brief illness. He previously served as Gallatin County sheriff, under sheriff, and state representative. A notable cattle breeder, he was active in Republican circles and Montana Stockgrowers association.
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Bozeman
Allen H. Sales
Sales
Gallatin County
Montana Stockgrowers Association
Senator Lewis Defends NRA At Chicago Recovery Talk
Senator J Hamilton Lewis praised Roosevelt's administration lifting the nation from despair and backing the national recovery act and reforestation and civil works programs at a Chicago theater. He attacked critics like Silas H Strawn while noting the Chamber of Commerce helped draft codes and rejected inflation claims.
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Chicago
James Hamilton Lewis
Roosevelt
Publc
Lewis
Silas H. Strawn
National Chamber of Commerce
NRA
Strawn
Federal Trade Commission
New York Crowd Fights to Hear Detroit Priest Coughlin
About fifteen thousand New Yorkers packed Sixth Avenue and the New York Hippodrome to hear Father Charles Coughlin of Detroit defend the Roosevelt monetary policy. Henry Morgenthau Jr. chaired the event with talks by former Senator Robert L. Owen and Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma. Alfred E. Smith was booed as Coughlin attacked a concurrent sound money meeting and rapped Matthew Woll of the AFL.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sixth Avenue
Charles Coughlan
Detroit
New York Hippodrome
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Robert L. Owen
Federal Reserve Banking Act
Elmer Thomas
Oklahoma
Alfred E. Smith
Owen
Father Coughlin
Sound Money Group
Soun Money
Matthew Woll
Amercian Federation of Labor
Thousands to gain federal work in eastern Montana
Nearly five thousand men will go back to work Friday morning under the Civil Works Administration banner in 21 eastern Montana counties. T C Spaulding, state relief and civil works director, announced after county delegation talks. About 750 workers from Yellowstone county will be employed on projects totaling around 150000 dollars.
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Billings Gazette
Montana
Civil Works Administration
T. C. Spaulding
State Relief and Civil Works
Yellowstone County
Montana Legislature Opens With Fast Start on Relief Plan
Montana's 1934 legislative session began with swift action on relief and government operation. Governor Cooney urged decisive action to secure federal funds, outlining a $4,000,000 relief need over 14 months, with state and counties sharing costs. HB 1 proposing auto registration cuts was referred to highways committee.
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Helena
Montana Legislative Assembly
Cooney
Joint Assembly
Montana
House Committee On Revenue and Taxation
Albert Besancon
Missoula
Committee On Highways
County and City Win Over $30 000 For Improvements
A Montana meeting led by T C Spaulding of the Civil Works Administration approved a Sweet Grass county and Big Timber project with a 32 000 to 35 000 budget. It will hire 178 workers for 60 days at wages up to 1 20 an hour, with 18 workers in the city and 160 in the county, including rock crushing donated to the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. A. Lamp
Sigurd T. Lavold
C. C. Nicholson
W. A. Conwell
A. P. O'Leary
T. ‘C. Busha
E. H. Ellingson
Billings
Montana
T. C. Spaulding
Civil Works Administration of Montana
Forestry Department
The
State University
Sweet Grass County
Big Timber
Boulder
Bridger Creek
Howie
Glasston
Wheeler Creek
Yellowstone River
Gibson
Melville
Otter Creek
White Beaver
Boulder Country
Early History of Big Timber Water Works Details
City officials present a history of the Big Timber water works from inception to 1913 14. Capital investments cited include 1897 bonds for gravity supply and 1907 improvement district warrants. The record shows up to 1913 city capital in water works about 54 996 25 with later additions totaling 84 553 35 by 1933.
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Opeeeen
Seventy-One Convicted On Conspiracy Charge
In Philadelphia on Friday seventy-one men were convicted in a federal conspiracy trial tied to a Delaware County liquor protection organization. The defendants were granted immediate appeals and a stay until higher court review is heard next March.
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Philadelphia
Delaware County
Rankin to resign as U S district attorney for Montana
Wellington D. Rankin, U S district attorney for Montana, resigns effective January 1. James H. Baldwin of Butte, long associated with Senator Burton K. Wheeler, is expected to succeed him. Baldwin has served as Wheeler's law partner since 1901 and was his first assistant when Wheeler was district attorney in 1917 and 1918.
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Helena
Wellington D. Rankin
United States
Montana
James H. Baldwin
Butte
Rankin
Baldwin
Roosevelt
Burton K. Wheeler
Sen. Wheeler
Missouri Mob Hangs Prisoner in Court House Yard
A 7,000 to 17,000 strong mob stormed Buchanan county jail in St. Joseph Missouri and dragged Lloyd Warner a 19 year old Negro from his cell. Police said he confessed to attacking a 22 year old white girl. He was hanged from a tree on the courthouse lawn as torches and flaming rags were applied by mob members. Sheriff Otto Theisen fought to protect him but was overpowered.
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ST. Joseph
Buchanan County
Lloyd Warner
Court House
Otto Theisen
Judge Henry Blake Dies at 95 in Boston Hospital
Judge Henry Nichols Blake 95 oldest Harvard Law School graduate and early Montana figure dies in Boston hospital. He served as Montana's first chief justice when statehood arrived and later sat in the territorial legislature.
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Henry Blake
Boston Hospital
Boston
Henry Nichols Blake
Harvard Law School
Montana
Blake
Supreme Court
Four acquitted in Hamm kidnapping case
In St Paul on November 28 the federal government’s major kidnapping prosecution faced a setback as four Chicago men were acquitted in the $100,000 abduction of William Hamm Jr. The verdict halted a string of McElroy Urschel Luer and Boettcher convictions with jurors exonerating Roger Touhy Eddie McFadden Gustav Schafer and Willie Sharkey.
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ST. Paul
Taxes Delinquent Next March First
Helena November 28 Immediate relief for Montana taxpayers moved forward as the house and senate sent a measure to Governor Cooney deferring the delinquent date on 1933 real estate taxes from November 30 to March 1, 1934. The bill passed the house 89 to 0 and the senate 51 to 2 with two dissents.
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Helena
Montana
House
Senate
Frank H. Cooney
House of Representatives
George A. Burr
Winnett
L. Ray Carroll
Roundup
Mrs. W. W. McDowell Dies in Chicago Hospital
Butte dispatch reports the wife of former Montana lieutenant governor and Irish Free State envoy dies Wednesday morning at Presbyterian hospital in Chicago. Mr. McDowell notified friends.
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Butte
W. W. McDowell
Montana
Mob in San Jose Hangs Kidnapper Slayers at Jail
In San Jose California on November 26 a mob overran the county jail and hanged two confessed kidnappers Thomas H Thurmond and John Holmes after storming the jail with battering rams. Sheriff William Emig was beaten and hospitalized as thousands watched the execution. The crowd dragged the men to St James Park where they hung. the crowd swelled beyond the scene as the bodies dangled about 10 feet high.
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San Jose
Calif
Brooke Hart
Thomas H. Thurmond
John Holmes
St. James Park
Thurmond
Holmes
William Emig
New
President Roosevelt Pushes Dollar Policy Amid Smith Criticism
In Warm Springs Georgia on Friday night President Roosevelt signaled continued support for his commodity dollar policy and avoided public replies to critics including Alfred E. Smith. Recovery administrator Hugh S. Johnson fired back at administration fees even before meeting Roosevelt while Morgen thr ury and General Johnson left details for nightfall.
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Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Alfred E. Smith
White House
Hugh S. Johnson
Henry Morgenthau
Henry Morgenthau, Acting Secretary of the Treasury
General Johnson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
O. M. W. Sprague
Treasury
Johnston named warden of new Alcatraz prison
William Stanley assistant attorney general announced James A Johnston former warden of Folsom and San Quentin prisons is appointed warden of the new federal prison on Alcatraz Island San Francisco Bay for the nations most dangerous felons. The job was offered to William T Fenton who refused after a visit to the site.
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San Francisco
William Stanley
United States
James A. Johnston
Folsom
San Quentin
California
Alcatraz Island
San Francisco Bay
Stanley
Hugh Cummings
Washington
William T. Fenton
Nebraska State Penitentiary
Judge Bourquin to resign from Montana bench in 1934
Judge George M. Bourquin announced he will resign March 9 1934 after a long career as Montana’s judiciary. He gave no reason for stepping down but said the move allows time to find a successor and that he will have surpassed the combined years of service of his three predecessors.
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Butte
George M. Bourquin
Bourquin
Montana
Wyoming Governor Ordered to Call Special Election
Wyoming governor Leslie A. Miller was commanded by the state supreme court to call a special election to fill the Kendrick vacancy or appear in court on December 9 to explain why such action was not taken. The writ of mandamus followed a hearing with multiple attorneys named on the petition. Miller pledged to act in accordance with the court’s decision and the law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wyo
Leslie A. Miller
State Supreme Court
John B. Kendrick
E. E. Enterline
Casper
Roy Bedford
Sheridan
Fred W. Wyckoff
Thermopolis
O. O. Natwick
R. E. McNally
William B. Cobb
E. Paul Bacheller
John D. Dawson
Douglas
Harry Henderson, Jr
Frank A. Barrett
Lusk
Erle H. Reid
Torrington
Miller
Supreme Court of Wyoming
Montana highway commission awards eleven contracts
The Montana highway commission awarded about 475000 dollars in road work across 11 counties. One project was withdrawn and bids on two were rejected. A December 15 letting and a December 28 setting will include some previously planned projects.
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Helena
Montana Highway Commission
O. S. Warden
Great Falls
Stanford North
Judith Basin
Pendray West
Teton County
Big Timber
Sweet Grass
City of
Laurel
Billings-Laurel
Yellowstone County
Montana
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J. Ham Lewis Okehs
Missouri
Hamm
Smith
Johnson
Alcatraz
State Highway Commission
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