Nome Diphtheria Relief and Kentucky Cave Trapping News
Edward W. Pickard reviews two dramatic events: the rescue of Nome from diphtheria via a dog relay delivering antitoxin led by Leonard Seppala and Balto, and Floyd Coling’s entrapment in Land Cave Kentucky with urgent rescue efforts. He also notes Chicago sanitation plans and probes into grain price manipulation by Wheat marketing groups.
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Nome
Floyd Coling
Land Cave
Kentucky
Alaska
Golomin
Olson
Bluff
Cape Nome
Umar Kasson
Balto
Kasson
Gunnar
Solomon
America
Seppala
Cameron
Arizona
Federal Trade Commission
Illinois
Grain Marketing Corporation
Extraordinary Kentucky cave rescue of Lloyd Collins
In Cave City Kentucky Lloyd Collins is trapped after a rock falls onto his foot in a narrow passage. Rescue efforts involve hundreds of men and officials from Chicago to the state militia as engineers and surgeons search for a way to reach him. A shaft from the hill is considered though likely fatal, and rescuers fear he may already be dead as the rock floor rises and the exit is sealed.
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Loyd Collins
Kentucky
Cave City
Collins
Chicago
Sanitary District seeks War Dept approval to draw water from Lake Michigan
Officials request authorization to withdraw 10 000 cubic feet per second from Lake Michigan via the drainage canal. The War Department will hold hearings on the matter soon. A Senate committee has formed to study construction and maintenance of a nine foot channel in the area.
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Chicago
Cairo
Lake Michigan
Niagara
CfEaco Sanitary District
Secretary of War
War Department
Senate
Mainerance
Senate Confirms Stone for Associate Justice Seat
The senate voted 71 to 6 to confirm Attorney General Stone as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Nays: Frazier Norris Heflin Trammell Johnson Shipstead. Wheeler Walsh abstained. Borah supported confirmation but opposed the policy of moving Wheeler’s case to a distant district.
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Ferce
Senate
Stone
United Sites Supreme Court
Frazier
Norris
Heflin
Trammel
Johson
Shipstead
Farmer
Ownbey
Borah
Wheeler
District of Columbia
Tie
Controversy Over Army Air Service Leadership Emerges in Washington
HPRE reports tension among army and navy officials over Brig. Gen. William Mitchell and Rear Admiral W. A. Moffatt as they testified to a House aircraft committee. Secretary Weeks denies muzzling critics while Weeks and Secretary of War Weeks seek explanations for Mitchell's remarks about discipline for dissent and a push for a separate aeronautics department. Mitchell argues air power cannot develop while subordinate to other services and tied to past precedents.
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HPRE
Army
Navy
Wilbur
War Weeks
Mitchell
House Reworks Revenue Bill Ahead of Senate Action
The house sent to the senate the postal pay and rate increase bill it had originated while also reviewing its own version. The house measure mirrors the senate bill but aims to raise more revenue to fund proposed raises for postal workers.
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House
Senate
Wheat Prices Surge Worldwide Triggering Famine Fears
Wet prices rise above 2 dollars a bushel in Chicago and similar levels elsewhere sparking alarm. Reports predict famine in several lands as bread costs climb. Critics charge traders and grain monopolies are cropping profits for farmers to reap none.
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Chicago
AROS
Secretary Hughes Defends Paris Reparations Pact
Secretary Hughes sent the Paris reparations agreement to the Senate and denied that the United States is unduly entangled in European affairs. He said the pact does not surrender US treaty rights and remains within Berlin treaty reservations. Senator Johnson condemned the pact as entangling America in European matters.
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Hughes
Senate
Paris
United States
Europe
Kellogg
Hiram Johnson
America
Forbes and Thompson Ordered Seven Years in Federal Prison
Col Charles R Forbes former veterans bureau head and John W Thompson face seven year terms and a $10 fine for conspiring to defraud the government on soldiers hospitals contracts. Judge Carpenter denied a new trial plea and noted war record not a justification for betrayal. Gaston B Means also drew the same sentence. T B Felder received a $10,000 fine.
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Charles R. Forbes
Veterans’ Bureau
John W. Thompson
St. Louis
Chicagolo
Carpenter
Forbes
Gaston B. Means
New York
Drew
Thompson
T. B. Felder
Means
Italian ambassador to United States named Martino
Celcom DI MARTINO is appointed Italian ambassador to the United States. Prince Caetani has left Washington. Martino is expected to present concrete proposals for settling Italy’s wartime debt to America.
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Celcom DI Martino
United States
Prince Caetani
Washington
Martino
Italy
America
Soviet extends amnesty to civil war anti soviet forces
Premier Rykoff announces amnesty for those allied with Denikin Wrangel and counter revolutionaries. He says the past must be buried and electoral rights restored for the entire population to ease burdens and forget past events.
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Russia
Rykoff
Deniken
Wrangell
Turkey expels patriarch as Greek church crisis intensifies
ITURKEY deports the Greek Catholic church patriarch of Constantinople and vows to remove other church officials. Greece protests angrily and calls for League of Nations action. Turkey insists the move is domestic and not Lausanne Treaty violation. Riots flare in Greek towns and the cabinet faces likely collapse.
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Iturkey
Constantinople
Greece
League of Nations
Turkey
Ahmed Zogu Elected President After Bloodless Albanian Rebellion
Lbania returns to calm as Ahmed Zogu the rebel leader who toppled Fan Noul is elected president of the republic confirming a peaceful settlement.
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Lbania
Ahmed Zogu
Fan Noul
Repulic
Montana Legislature Faces 243 Bills Introduced in House
At month end the Montana House reports 243 bills introduced far surpassing earlier assembly totals. Speaker Bricker notes the House is ten days ahead in bill consideration compared with 1923. Senate bills bring the count to 60 as concerns over new laws grow amid Governor Erickson’s proposals and agency transfers under debate.
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House of Representatives
Assembly
Bricker
House
Senate
House Journal
Erickson
Department of Agriculture
State College
Health Board
Livestock
State Senate
Governor Signs Three Montana Measures Approve Contracts
Governor J T W Erickson signs FH B No 1 Wold on legislative expense and SB No 1 by Speer authorizing a new contract for publication of the Montana supreme court reports. It is the third measure approved by the chief executive.
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J. T W. Erickson
Speer
Montana Supreme Court
Measures to Strengthen State Banking Department
Three bills from the state banking department aimed at boosting its ability to cope with banking difficulties have been introduced in the house. The measures were presented as notices of bits by the committee on banks and banking, signaling legislative intent to broaden regulatory capacity.
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State Banking Department
House
Committee On Banks and Banking
House Approves Creation of Seven Montana State Forests
The house in committee of the whole approved H. R. 96 by Moss and others to create seven state forests to administer Montana timber holdings. The measure was amended to set the state forester's salary at 3000 dollars annually.
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Montana
House
Moss
House Passes Bills on Primary Date Disarmament and Equality
The house passed a bill fixing the second Tuesday in July as the date of the primary election, a memorial to the federal senate urging participation in the disarmament congress at Geneva in June, and a memorial to congress seeking legislation granting agriculture equality with other industries. now awaiting senate action.
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Federal
Senate
United States
Geneva
Congress
House
Senate notice mirrors house on election reform with conventions
Beyond the house bill on amending the primary system the senate is also considering the same objective. It would extend to convention nominations for presidential electors U S senator congressmen and state officers.
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House
Senate
United States
Montana House Bill Proposes 4.5 Mill State Levy
The Ways and Means committee introduces a bill to set a total levy of four and a half mills for the next biennium, three tenths above the 1923 levy. The rise funds the interest and sinking of a $5,000,000 university bond issue, while the two mills remain for the general state fund and one and a half for university maintenance.
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Montana
House
Committee On Ways and Means
House floors’ lobbying ban during sessions approved
The body adopted a motion by Peat of Missoula County to bar lobbying on the floor while the House is in session. Active lobbyists will be restricted to recess or adjourned periods, limiting their activity during the busy days.
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Peat
Missoula County
Court House
Judith Basin County
Rob Theatre
Ansonia Theater
Butte
Montana Senate Weighs Higher Education Funding Study
Chancellor M. A. Brannon proposes a committee of hold-over senators and state board of education members to study higher education conditions and needs and report to the twentieth assembly. The move follows a resolution seeking information on the University of Montana’s request for a large general fund appropriation to supplement receipts from the mill levy.
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Senate
University of Montana
General Fund
M. A. Brannon
State Board of Education
Twentieth Assembly
Erickson appoints James H. Stewart to state board of equalization
The senate receives Governor Erickson's notice appointing James H. Stewart of Meagher county to the state board of equalization to succeed A. J. Violette. The senate confirms the nomination by roll call with a unanimous vote.
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Senate
Erickson
James H. Stewart
Meagher County
State Board of Equalization
A. J. Violette
Hazelba
Dividend Ordered For Geyser State Bank Depositors
The district court ordered an immediate 15 percent dividend to depositors of the Geyser State Bank. Also, a series of Montana news items covered incidents from fires and fatalities to legal actions and railroad rate injunctions.
Man Burned By Acid At Larch Products Plant
Eureka reports Gale McKain badly burned on head and face by acid when packing apparatus failed. Fred Mooney also exposed but spared due to prompt relief. McKain recovering. officials note eye sight saved and facial disfigurement avoided.
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Eureka
Gale McKain
Larch Products Company
Fred Mooney
Pool Hall Robbed of Cash by Masked Bandits
Two masked men staged a bold hold up at the Bearcreek pool hall in Carbon county. They robbed 14 or 15 players and onlookers of cash and currency totaling more than $1,000 before escaping. no arrests have been made. Sheriff and deputies arrived soon after, but the robbers had fled.
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Bearcreek
Carbon County
John Albert
George Headington
S. T. McCall
Baker Guardsmen in Line for Riflemens Medal
Montana national guard unit in Baker awaits War Department trophy based on 90 percent qualification in the outdoor shoot. Captain W. T. Cleough reports four experts, ten sharp shooters, and 87 marksmen. only two failed. If Colonel Williams approves, it would be Montana’s first.
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Montana National Guard
Baker
Williams
War Department
W. T. Cleough
Adjutant General
Tvo
Montana
Miner Hangs Self As Kostelle Boys Discover Body
In Klein near Roundup a miner and father of ten reportedly spoke of shooting himself if he had shells for his shotgun. John and Frank Kostelle aged 14 and 10 found their father hanging in the basement and, believing him alive, tried to revive him before fleeing to neighbors to report the death. The man had been dead for several hours amid financial and domestic troubles.
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Miner
John
Frank Kostelle
Klein
Kostelle
Hfe
Rum Runner Forfeits Bond in Butte Transport Case
John Elderkin, alleged rum runner from Butte, forfeited a $500 cash bond after failing to appear before Justice C J Lemley at Missoula. He appeared January 17, pled guilty to transporting intoxicating liquor, and was arrested by Sheriff Rice when his large touring car, intercepted on the Evaro bill, was found to carry a $4,300 load of bonded whiskey and vermouth.
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John Elderkin
Butte
Justice of the Peace
C. J. Lemley
Missoula
Elderkin
Sheriff Rice
Burglar Is Sentenced in Great Falls Case
Thomas Kelly pleaded guilty to wholesale robbery of homes and garages in Great Falls and was sentenced to not less than two and a half years and not more than five years in the state penitentiary. His alleged accomplice Marl Chatwood, with a Buhings record, denies involvement in the Kelly burglaries but admits clothesline theft.
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Chick McLean
Lloyd McLean
Hamilton
Deer Lodge
J. M. Self
McLean
Lockridge
W. A. Hill
Great Northern Railroad
Montana Railroad Commission
Dunkirk
Archer
Mondak
Thomas Kelly
Great Falls
Marl Chatwood
Kelly
Tragic Great Northern Crash Near Gateway Kills One
A speeder crash on the Great Northern near Gateway kills Richard Carrell and seriously injures two men while two others suffer bad bruises. The speed er carried a rock slide clearing crew. A special train transported the dead and injured to Kalispell.
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Richard Carrell
Great Northern
Gateway
Kalispell
Sheriff Seizes Cars for Federal Confiscation
Cascade county Sheriff Tom Norton reports all automobiles captured as home carriers will be turned over to the federal government. He says the action prevents recovery by owners or friends through third party claims, which have often succeeded in state courts.
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U. S
Tom Norton
Cascade County
Forecast Gain In Wheat Area For Montana Farmers
Figures from the Montana State College agronomy department estimate world acreage devoted to winter wheat will rise by about 2.5 million acres. The forecast comes from ten key northern hemisphere wheat regions and signals favorable wheat markets compared with last year’s crop.
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Bozeman
Agronomy Department
Montana State College
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