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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1933
Page
1
Washington announces key provisions of a retail code affecting towns of 2 500 or more with an effective date of October 30. The measure details population based on the 1930 census, collective bargaining rights for employees, child labor limits, and varying basic store hours across Groups A B and C, with guidance on overtime and daily limits.
About 269 Montana veterans filed for review of reduced or stopped payments. More than 130 have been heard by October 19 at Fort Harrison. Dr. H. C. Watts said roughly 40 percent of those heard offered evidence supporting restoring benefits.
In Georgetown British Guiana Senora Carola Perez delivered seven sons in one birth. Physicians call the septet birth unique in medical history with the mother and all children reported doing well. The Bolivar department senate heard an appeal for a government grant to the Perez family and sent the matter to the public works department for consideration.
An inquiry at the New York Academy of Medicine reports there is not a single substantiated case of more than six births. Even six births is extremely rare, with only two well documented six birth records cited in the past century.
The Farm Administration announced loans on corn held in bonded warehouses or sealed bins on farms in states with warehouse acts. Loans at 45 cents per bushel for No 2 December corn to join the corn hog reduction program, similar to the cotton policy, with Iowa Illinois Minnesota South Dakota and Kansas cited as having warehouse acts.
Cleveland officials voted $12,000 to Joseph Weaver, a Black man who spent 22 months on Ohio penitentiary death row and faced electrocution five times before being acquitted of murder. Weaver was convicted in 1927 for killing a night watchman, received five gubernatorial reprieves, and was granted a new trial by the state supreme court, freeing him on April 5, 1929.
Secretary of State Sam W. Mitchell and Attorney General Raymond T. Nagle ruled there is no vacancy in Montana’s lieutenant governorship. Consequently no nominating petitions will be accepted for the 1934 general election. The ruling follows Governor Erickson’s resignation and Lt. Gov. Cooney’s ascent to the governorship.
Helena Oct 25 The Montana public works board has filed 15 supplemental loan applications totaling about 1 000 000 dollars They cover water systems schools colleges and a university building as well as irrigation districts Projects include Big Timber water system 140 000 Missoula University of Montana student union building 216 300 Kalispell Flathead county high school building 200 000 and Havre Northern Montana college 140 000 Other requests range from 12 040 to 734 45 for districts and ditches with a mix of public school building and reservoir upgrades.
Vernon P. Perry, 55, Stillwater county rancher, pleaded guilty to the September 23 murder of his stepdaughter Madge Teroy Perry, his wife Maude May Perry, and farm hand Ernest Vannice. He received a life sentence from District Judge O F Goddard in Columbus.
William N. Doak former secretary of labor under Hoover died at his Virginia home from heart disease aged 51. Funeral services planned as Masonic rites with temporary interment in a local mausoleum before burial at Rural Retreat Virginia. Doak was born in Rural Retreat and was the first U.S. born secretary of labor, following predecessors born in the British Isles.
Secretary Ickes issued a new order to limit gasoline and crude oil output by shutting wells if needed. He will divide the country into refining districts and authorize the industry planning committee to advise refiners on desirable production levels.
Montana’s state highway commission met in Helena to plan a rapid start on federal highway projects under the recovery program. A proposed all weather road from Glasgow to the Fort Peck site was approved for construction pending Bureau of Public Roads approval. Total Montana contracts under the recovery plan will near 1/2 of 7.35 million dollars in emergency funds after the $1,000,000 letting next Saturday. The commission aims to obligate the balance by January 1 and boost employment, with a November session likely for feeder roads.
Washington reports allocations from the 3.3 billion public works fund surpass two billion with about a quarter under contract. Federal projects total 1.802 billion, 397 other projects 247.6 million, leaving roughly 1.25 billion for future allotment. About 500 million under contract and 100 million in advertising, while withdrawals reach 82.34 million. The peak spending period is expected to come later.
Columbia, Oct. 19 Hertz Young a 77 year old Hallsville farmer is the father of newborn twins. The boys weighed eight pounds each at birth. Young also has three other children with the oldest being 12 years old.
Governor Cooney announced that Montana will convene a special legislature session in November to devise additional tax funding for relief measures. The talk centers on a sales tax, liquor stores under the liquor control act, and a state water conservation board to manage public works funds. The formal call is pending, with an early November meeting anticipated.
President Roosevelt announces a government market for newly mined gold and an easing of the gold embargo as part of his recovery program. He says policy aims to maintain government credit and a sound currency while guiding a managed dollar, with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation authorized to buy gold. He cautions the path will take time and stresses ongoing gains in employment and farmer income.
Montana State College wins the intercollegiate stock judging contest at the Pacific International Livestock exposition in Portland with 4280 points. Washington State 4220, Idaho 4169, Oregon State 3869. five divisions judged and Montana takes four trophies. Top individuals include Everett Keys and Lewis Leyner from Montana and Keith Jones, George Kirkwood, and Lloyd Farmer from Washington State.
Fire at the Milwaukee Railway company yard in Deer Lodge Montana caused an estimated $200,000 in damage. L. K. Sorenson of Butte, division superintendent, said the back shop building housing locomotive repair equipment was nearly destroyed, with a steam engine and a rotary snowplow ruined inside.
Glasgow Montana braces for rapid growth as Fort Peck dam plans trigger a housing and business boom. With 25 million dollars allocated, land clearing, power line work, and a railroad to the dam site near Glasgow are soon underway as Great Northern engineers plan a southward road from Nashua.
The relief administration seeks 15 million pounds of canned beef to feed the needy and bolster markets. It plans relief camps for penniless wanderers to guard against winter. Bids open November 6. The federal surplus relief corporation reports 6,800,500 bushels of wheat purchased, including 700,500 cash wheat.
In Lincoln Nebraska on October 19 insurgent Nebraska Democrats, led by Senator Norris and Governor Bryan, oppose Roosevelts NRA program urging inflation and warning farmers face unrest. Keith Neville resigns NRA chair in protest while calls for more federal relief grow. Norris cites rising prices for buyers strike and argues agriculture prices now lag.
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