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Butte Montana Standard (Newspaper) - March 31, 1940, Butte, Montana Metal prices Domestic Copper ________11.25� 11.50c Gold world Price ________________s33.85 foreign Silver u. S. Treasury 35.25c Zinc Lead East St. Louis. .5.�?o5c 4.90c Lead new York _________________5.05�5.10c Jhel o it tin Ciu St a j arb Home edition the Standard carries the most extensive Telegraph news service in Montana. Vol. Lxxv1i.�?no. 175. Established 1876 Butte. Montana sunday morning. March 31, 1040. A Price five cents new floods hit Northern California area pugnacious Winston Churchill warns that conflict is Likely to be intensified the Road backs their work is done in Mui results in Smith committee hint Given was for an a com to neutrals with allies says Britain cannot take As matter of course interpretations of neutrality aiding aggressor. By Drew Middleton. London. March 30.�? pugnacious Winston Churchill Britain a first lord of the admiralty. Coupled a new warning of intensification of the War tonight with the significant hint that Britain scarcely could be expected in the future a to take As a matter of course interpretations of neutrality which give All advantages to the the belligerent speech broadcast j to America and elsewhere recalled the first lords declaration of 20 in which he called on Europe a anxious neutrals to join the allies in a United action a to bring the War against Germany to a speedy end. It followed closely too. Upon continuing demands from various quarters in great Britain for a More vigorous prosecution of the War and the disclosure that the Allied navies Are determined to tighten their stranglehold on Germany by Way laying scandinavian Ore ships and by greater activity in the Pacific against shipments of raw materials from Mexico to Vladivostok from where they can find their Way to a Germany. See relation. Some quarters saw a distinct relation Between Churchill a assertion that a time has been on our Side but it is a changeable ally with the Treasury a annual statement showing a deficit of �767 685.000 about $3,071,720,000 for the first fiscal year of the War. Britain s expenditures for the fiscal year ending tonight totalled �1.816.873,000 about $7,267,392,000 against revenues of �1,049,188.000 about $4,196,852,000 despite a 35 per cent income tax and other heavy levies. The 1940-1941 War budget to be announced april 23 is expected to run around �1,250,000,000 about $5 -000,000,000. New and higher taxes Are anticipated. Churchill a assertion that a there is no need for Russia to be drawn into this struggle a unless she washes it so and that a a we a have no quarrel we Ith the italian or the japanese Peoples a reiterated the British wish to confine the War to a Hitler and the nazi German a it is no part of our policy to seek War with Russia a he said. Asserting. A fall is quiet on the Western front and today also thus far nothing has happened on the sea or in the air Quot he went on ready to strike. A but More than a million German soldiers including nearly All their Active division and armoured divisions Are drawn up ready to strike at an hours notice All along the frontiers of Luxembourg Holland and Belgium. A at any moment those Neutral countries May be subjected to an Avalanche of steel and fire and the continued on Page 2, col. 4. Naz officials weather forecast. Montana partly Cloudy sunday and monday colder East of Divide sunday. House is told that amendment is imperative to Correct wrongs now being perpetrated Washington March 30.�?<u.r a a majority of the Smith committee reporting on its investigation of the labor Board i told the House today that amendment of the Wagner act at this Congress session was a a imperative to Correct a wrongs that Are being perpetrated daily upon Industry labor and the Gen a Erat chairman Smith cd Vagt and representatives Halleck Rind and Routzohn a Ohio filed a 60.-000 word report recommending 17 revisions and accusing the present Board of Quot Over zealousness and a predatory encroachment on Basic rights. Submitted proposals. The majority previously had submitted. In the form of a Bill the proposed amendment we hich in Are Gleeful Over reaction eluded substitution of a new Board up. the present three Man Agency following i heir Liilo separation of the boards prosecute made Blitzkrieg Friday. A a oth Quot Berlin March 30.�? Pic German the report filed today summarized officialdom. 24 hours after unleash the testimony received at lengthy ing a diplomatic Blitzkrieg of 16 hearings and explained the a documents about alleged United Jority s reasons for recommending states pre War diplomacy leaned the amendments. Tire other two Back tonight in Gleeful Contemp members of the investigating com lation and promised even More sex Mittee a representatives Healey Plosive sensations j a mass and Murdock a Utah a a nobody need try to prove an i opposed the recommendations con Alibi to the effect he was Misun i tending that they would seriously de stood or that he was misquoted impair the act. By polish said one official at the outset of its report., How speaking of the documents to come Ever the majority said spokesmen would not commit a in suggesting these amendments themselves As to precisely what the committee reaffirms its belief statesmen would be named in the to Tho right of employees to Organ forthcoming release although one j and bargain collectively through hinted that the German government representatives of their own Choos is in Possession of direct commune lug and in the obligation of the cations by the United states am government to protect that Bassadore to Paris William c. Bul it. Asked Congress to study the pro Litt. Powals carefully and asserted yesterdays White Book made up a such impartial study will re continued on Page 2, col. 4 continued on Page 2, col. 8 y. M. Co a. Ready to open its $21,000 budget drive with banquet tomorrow evening workers to take Field in annual Campaign following dinner at which or. Baxter will speak. Everything is in readiness for the opening of the $21,000 y. M. C. A. Campaign which will Start with a banquet to be attended by More than 400 persons tomorrow evening it was reported yesterday. Or. Bruce r Baxter president of Williamette College Salem Ore. Knioum As one of the most dynamic speakers on the Pacific coast will arrive tomorrow afternoon to deliver the principal address at the opening banquet. His subject is following tomorrow nights dinner workers will take the Field under the direction of or. H h. James chief agent to raise the funds needed to operate the free play program for Butte Grade school youngsters and to maintain the popular Community Center during the next year. The drive is to end april la. An inspirational message for the opening of the drive was received in a Telegram yesterday from Eugene Carroll one of the Veteran Butte Quot a a workers who is in san Diego. District Benefit a the physical and moral development of Butte boys and girls is a result of the y. M c a. Recreation program is a distinct Community Benefit in that it lays an excellent foundation for tomorrow s citizens a the wire said. A i deeply regret that i will not be on hand for the opening dinner continued on Page 2, col. 1 reportedly agree to allow British French warships to pass through the narrow Dardanelles Bucharest. March 30 a a Turkey was represented in unusually Well informed Balkan diplomatic quarters tonight As having agreed to permit passage of British and French warships through the Dardanelles to choke off Germany a Supply line from Russia to the Black sea. The newspaper in moment regarded As close to the French embassy nere report j de moreover that Turkey had agreed to place her naval bases at Trebizond. Samson and sin Ope at the allies disposal for use As contraband control bases. Official circles in London professed no knowledge of the proposed agreement with Turkey. To was said. However that. If it is True it will be a Strong boost to the Allied diplomatic offensive in the Balkans and an important Aid to tightening the Allied blockade of Germany rear had at conference. Informants Here reported the turkish decision was reached at a British French Turkey military conference a few Days ago at Aleppo although such action is contrary to i the Mont Roux convention of 1936 to which Turkey was a party. That convention stipulated that i the Dardanelles we Ould be closed to warships of belligerent nations except when they were serving under league of nations mandate of helping a victim of aggression under a i Mutual assistance part concluded within the framework of the league to which Turkey was a party. A Way for Turkey to get around this however we As explained by Deputy Pytko Stainoff of the foreign affairs committee of the bulgarian chamber of deputies who told the i Sofia newspaper Slovon that Turkey we Ould a let herself be forced to fail to prevent British warships from crossing the strategic Dardanelle As a Black sea nation. Bulgaria is members of ski battalion. Finnish soldiers members of one of the ski battalions which made a Ballant stand against invading russian troops Are shown with their Reindeer As they took the Road Back to the new frontiers of Finland As defined in the soviet finnish peace part. Montana party greater purchasing Power improved business seen in Survey conducted in Butte i hits Roosevelt for his silence Stute meetings presidential election year Means 2 state Parley first probably in May. With two National political conventions in the offing this year. Montana politicians Are beginning to think of such matters As electing delegates to the big shows one at Chicago the other at Philadelphia. The republicans will hold their nominating convention at Philadelphia starting june 24. While the democrats will meet three weeks later at. Chicago Montana is allotted eight delegates in the democratic convention two for each senator and congressman dared tonight that president Roose because this is a National election Volt while keeping silent on the year two state conventions must third term Issue had a a Hon Joned be held in Montana one for the an torpedoed other potential reselection of convention delegates the other following state primary election for the naming of county and state chairmen and the adoption of platforms. W. T. Mccarthy democratic increases noted in postal receipts Bank deposits Utility customers and in school enrolment. Butter a Bank deposits postal receipts and school enrolment have increased in the agriculture again suffers damage Highway rail traffic crippled when Rivers overflow Banks. San Francisco March 30. A a floods hit rain soaked Northern California for the second time within a months tonight and routed hundreds of families from their Homes added new damage to agriculture ripped Highway and rail traffic and caused several deaths. E. H. Fletcher government meteorologist broadcast a warning that flood conditions May reach major proportions Over the weekend and surpass the 10-Day siege Early this month when wild we Ater inflicted $15,000,000 damage to property and farm lands. River break Banks. Tile Sacramento Feather san Joaquin. Nipa san Lorenzo and russian Rivers fed by a deluge of steady rain in the mountains and Foothills broke Over their Banks and inundated thousands of acres of i lowlands including several City residential sections. At Nevada City the body of an unidentified Man was seen floating Down swollen Deer Creek the Sec Jond mate of the freighter Charles l. Wheeler was washed overboard and several men were injured when mountainous seas swept Over the declares president a spooned other Poten ,.ship off the coast miss Marion g. Past year and a gain has hol 5f my Nuey. Elbert Vadnais been registered in the number 37 Oakland and James Rosenaur. Has i of Gas electric and water customers indicating a greater purchasing Power and More i Jal candidates in party Prosperity in the Community according to a Survey made last week. Tile Survey was taken following a by William b. A Hoek y. Washington March 30,-<>n-senator Johnson Cle re it from Quot the u. 8 census Bureau showing that Butte led Mon 57. Flan Francisco were killed in automobile accidents attributed to storm conditions and Slippery highways. Big crests of Muddy water surged Down the Sacramento River in the heart of one of the nations richest valleys. Fletcher predicted the River would reach a 30-foot level at red Bluff seven feet above flood stage. Vitally interested in this possibility county chairman in Silver Bow might file protest. Turkey might satisfy formalities other persons indicated by voicing a protest against passage of the Allied warships and having this protest a duly filed in the archives of the league of nations a be moment stated flatly that. Turkey would give the Green Light to the Allied warships a so that these ships can control the traffic of War supplies from russian ports county said the procedure for elect ing delegates is by Means of a state convention subject to the Call of the party s state chairman Arthur f. Barney of Havre f k Cheadle or of Shelby is the Republican state chairman. The stat conventions Are held some time during the month of May at least a month prior to the National convention usually at to Helena. A the Law requires the state chair identical candidates until the democratic party was a floundering in confusion a Hie coloradans who is supporting senator Wheeler a Mont for Ute j it error rat in no manat in added in a statement a if the president intends to go through with it and accept the nomination no one can Well com Una Cit a in february retail Aal. A a a a a a a a 10 increases with a 30 per cent. Jump. Piro1 jcvcp8-Montana was one of the eight West j pm states with sales of to per cent i or More above the average for february. 1939. In the stale the gain was More than 20 per cent. Bank deposits have gone up approximately half a million dollars j in Butte in the past year and in a similar fashion Bank clearings have increased. Deposit in the three Butte Banks at the close of business december 31, 1939, totalled $27,463, Heads Butte y. M. C. A. If the Black sea blockade be Man to set the Date for the it Onvan comes reality diplomats Here pre i lion a said county chairman mis dated Russia s non German Trade earthy. A was soon As i receive notify will be scrupulously respected. Cation of the Call i will Call a meet it for months the allies tried vain ing of the county Central committee continued on Page 2, col. I i continued on Page 2, col. 8. Ladies Catholic group to observe Golden Jubilee butter a four branches of benevolent association to join with rest of the nation in Observance. Buttes four branches of the a ladies Catholic benevolent association will join the rest of the country in the Observance of the organization s Golden Jubilee anniversary on sunday april 7, officials of the local units announced yesterday. In Observance of the 50th anniversary of the l. C. B. A local members will receive holy communion on april 7. Following mass the four branches will join for an anniversary breakfast at the cottage Tea room the four local branches of the l c b a Are in a Patricks Parish. Sacred heart Parish immaculate Conception Parish and St. Lawrence Parish. Butte members yesterday received the following proclamation n from kale Mahoney of brie supreme president of the l. C. B a Quot the year 1940 Marks t he 50th year of life of the Assoria on god has been Good to our a to citation and to the members theres of there is one a of thanksgiving we can make in grateful a teen owl Edgemont of our gratitude to our heavenly father and tha t is for each member to receive to y com Munion As a thanksgiving of f Erling for the blessings bestowed Hoofland a prayer for the Tutu Anet and Good of the association. A i appoint sunday april 7, As a Day on which each and every Mem Ber of the association will receive Alber Moog who was born in Silver Bow in 1866, is visiting Early Day friends n Plain because smart politics Are re 0 a. Rom it ared with $26,958,935 at played in that cold bloodied Way Man \ of 1938, the increase la but of at the eleventh hour he should More than $7,000,000 above the Low abandon the belittled democratic figure of $19 851,830 registered at the ship. He must accept the respond close of 1934. Nihi Lity for the disaster which is so Bank Clearing obviously and relentlessly bearing in 1939 Butte Bank clearings Down it it on her a totalled $36, 598 143 23 or a monthly Orun it a nominal. Of with a total of $34,934,056 06 and a Johnson said the president a is month Yvarra p of $2,911,17133 in certain to be nominated for a 103g# f w Point wan in 1933 third term unless he positively re when the volume was $17,763,562 80 fuses to accept the office a me an 1 monthly average was practical hard bottled politicians a $1,480,296 96 he added want the president to postal receipts frequently studied run a for the simple reason that by experts As an Index to business he ran win a and commercial trends in a com a a it ear ago the democratic party Trinity Abo show an increase in had a dozen attractive prospective Butte during 1939 the receipts Here candidates a Johnson continued 1 totalled $312,874.00 George d Short. He will open the Myca Campaign dinner tomorrow evening and present or h h James the holy communion go As individual or go As branches but each offer at least this one holy communion for the guidance of the ladles Catholic benevolent a and it a in or who has been e 1920. Of the As Leader of the Center. Rill pre Side resident of b a Char Roundup of the 1939 Community Albert Moog. Earliest native born living Silver Bow county White Man a no data on indians the first graduate of the College of Montana at Deer Lodge and the first native born Montana mining Engineer is a visitor to Butte from his Home in los Angeles where he removed in 1923. For the past several Days he has been drumming up members of the fast diminishing band of Early Dav Butte friends a the corporals guard who knew on another when. I p to last evening his list covered judge a b Ohen will Orton Bill Robbins Butte s first school boy Isam Sabolsky and Isadora Rosenstein. Or Moog was born in Silver Bow in 1868. There Wasny to much of a a town a in those Davs anywhere in Montana just groups of shacks Silver Bow had the distinction of being the county seat of Deer Lodge county later on Deer Lodge not Only deprived Silver Bow of it title but it also took the courthouse that served As a county seat Deer Lodge has built another and better courthouse sine those Day but the old one May be Stilt in the Little it continued on Page to col. In had political development been permitted to take their ensure Many of the a Able men would have grown in Public esteem we the months. A however the president perhaps with the Noble St of intent ions has do med democracy most dependable sounding Board the primaries and he has a spooned and torpedoed other candidates for the continued on Page 2, col 6 in 1938 they to tip increase is were $305,562 52 More than $7,000. Another encouraging sign of the times is the increase in the number of automobiles at the first of this continued on Page 2 col 7 j cover 14-Block area the Napa River covered a 14-Block area in the Low residential District of Northeast Napa. About 200 families were evacuated. One Hundred Homes were surrounded by water. Continued on Page 2, col. 8 mysterious blast rocks Butte Homes a mysterious explosion a few minutes after to of clock last night rocked Homes in the Northwest Section of the City. Telephone Calls to residences in that Quarter brought the answer that the Shock was severe but nothing could he Learned regarding the exact location of the blast. It was believed to have been somewhere Between the Montana school of mines Campus and the orphan girl mine. Index of butter a improved business conditions Home seekers the time to buy real estate in now real by Tate ownership a a aft Anchorage 0 the Windward of any or nemic storm the greatest investment on Earth i Earth itself flee the offering listed in the want and today for bargains in used car sport equipment pianos in fact anything turn to the classified pages Albert Moog an Index to butter a improved business condition. Follows Bank deposits Bank Clearing to Tai receipt Telephone. Cia. Customer electric customer water customers automobile registration 1940 1939 Silver Bow county passenger car truck.-, and trailers. 14.328 14 430 state driving permits la used in county 15,930 15 �?�83 building permit first 3 months first 3 month 1940 1939 new construction and repair $51,624 $27,300 1939 1938 increase. $27,463,900 $26,958,935 $504,96536,598.143 34,934 058 $1,664,067 312,874 305 ,.582 7,312 Utility customers 1940 1939 increase 9.370 9,220 350 10,023 9,367 656 15,414 15,360 54 11,093 11,073 25 achoo enrolment 1939-40 1938-39 increase ools and the it of mines. 9,261 9,102 150 increase 398 148 increase $24324

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