Navy board affirms battleship as fleet backbone in future war
A Navy special board headed by Admiral Eberle finds battleships remain the ultimate force and aviation a valuable but not dominant element. It notes aircraft cannot operate without friendly territory, rooms for armor and interior subdivision can limit air damage, and planes aid gunnery observation. The plan urges an $80 million yearly modernization and carrier construction program for three years.
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William Mitchell
the Navy
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Admiral Eberle
Naval Operations
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Army
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Yangtze River
Navy squadron scores direct hits on tow target from 7200 feet
Lieutenant Commander J Strong reports Navy Bombing Squadron No 2 made 20 direct hits on a small sea target towed at one mile per hour from 7200 feet. He says air bombardment is effective on war vessels and that the bombers’ range and accuracy exceeded expectations despite cloud cover.
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Coolidge to discipline Mitchell over air service remarks
Washington dispatches report President Coolidge may remove or force resignation for General Mitchell after discrediting superiors. Army air officers told a House committee the nation is unprepared for air attack, while Frank B. Gorin mocked Secretary Wilbur on poison gas plans. Winter maneuvers at Selfridge Field test aircraft handling in extreme cold.
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Coolidge
Mitchell
War Department
Army Air Service
Army
Navy
House Committee On
Frank B. Gorin
Chemical Warfare Association
Committee On
Secretary of the Navy
Wilbur
Gorin
Washinton
Pittsburgh
Selfridge Field
Michigan
President Coolidge weighs naval disarmament conference
The administration is weighing the advisability of a new naval disarmament conference to extend Washington treaty limits to auxiliary craft. Ambassadors have held talks in London, Tokyo, and Rome with encouraging response. France's stance remains to be seen. Britain signals possible support via a message from Chamberlain. Tokyo demands preliminary talks to fix the agenda.
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Tokyo
Rome
France
Kellogg
Chamberlain
Great Britain
Shidehara
Germany's Actions Questioned by Allied Commission
The report to Marshal Foch’s Versailles committee accuses Germany of continued warlike preparations and claims Berlin acts in bad faith. It also notes France’s stance that evacuating the Rhineland would remove its last concrete security pledge, offering only vague promises in return.
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Berlin
Dnrermifed Control Commission
Marshal Foch
Versailles
Rhineland
France
Tragedy in Sand Cave Ends Floyd Collins Rescue
Miners sealing the shaft in Kentucky after Floyd Collins death determine the cave will become his tomb. Funeral rites occur atop the shaft as rock cairn to memorialize the brave rescuers and their long, perilous efforts.
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Sandcave
Kentucky
Floyd Collins
Arlington Memorial Bridge project approved to unite nation
Congress has authorized a long urged project linking the Lincoln Memorial on the Potomac north shore with Arlington National Cemetery and the home of Gen. Robert E. Lee on the south side. The bridge costs 14 760 000 dollars and aims to be the world's most beautiful of its kind, with completion within six years.
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Arlington Memorial Bridge
Lincoln Memorial
Potomac
Arlington National Cemetery
Robert E. Lee
Senate raises pay for members in legislative bill amendment
The senate approved a amendment raising salaries for senators and engineers from 7500 to 10000 and from 12000 to 15000 dollars respectively. The change passed without a record vote despite opposition from Senator Willis of Ohio and others and is expected to be adopted by conference and accepted by the house.
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Enginer
Willis
Ohio
House
Kansas State College President Nominated as Secretary of Agriculture
William M. Jardine president of Kansas State Agricultural College is named Secretary of Agriculture after March 4 from a field of about 200 candidates. President Coolidge chose him for his practical and theoretical farming background and knowledge of farm marketing.
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Kansas State Agricultural College
Coodridge
Department of Agriculture
Doctor Jardine
Montana
Leaders Mourn Four Notable Deaths in Politics and Education
R Marion Le Roy Burton the University of Michigan president died in Ann Arbor after months of illness at fifty. He previously led Smith College and the University of Minnesota. Also dying were Frederic Upham, ex Republican treasurer from Illinois, in Palm Beach. Mr De Young founder of the San Francisco Chronicle in Chicago. and Addison Proctor of St Joseph Michigan, last surviving 1860 Republican convention member.
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University of Michigan
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Iowa
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Smith College
University of Minnesota
Calvin Coolidge
Frederic W. Upham
Republican Party
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Palm Beach
Fla
Illinois
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Piuc- Fisher
San Francisco Chronicle
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Addison G. Proctor
St. Joseph
Mich
Abraham Lincoln
Montana Legislature Gossip and Fiscal Moves
P N Bernard of Kalispell promotes a $10 000 Montana resources display at a New York exhibition. Senate approves 8 B 94 Steinart to streamline constitutional question ads, saving about $22 000 annually. House Bill 4 by Ruffcorn on personal property taxes as a lien ahead of other claims gains Senate support.
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Kalispell
Montana Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries
Montana
New York
Senate
Steinart
Ruffcorn and
Measure to tax theater admissions draws protest statewide
A bill before the house would place a new tax on theater admissions up to HM cent. The measure has provoked strong opposition from theater managers and the public across the state. A separate bill by Oliver and 11 senators to end primary nomination methods and return to the convention system moves forward. Wireh’s bill, killed and revised, reappears in the senate with a committee report urging passage.
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Wireh
Committee On Privileges and Elections
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Legislature considers Maginnis County split from Fergus
A bill by Fergus representative Moulton would form Maginnis County from Fergus with a small Musselshell portion. It designates Moulton as sheriff and offers Roy Grass Range and Forest Grove as possible county seats.
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Fergus
Musselshell
Moulton
Roy
Grass Range
Forest Grove
Senate approves herd district bill amid rancher clash
The senate passed H. R. No. 38 by Hanson and Nelson, the herd district bill that ends a hard fought dispute between sheepmen and cowmen in the house. It fixes conditions for organizing a herd district within a county and sets required compliance during the process.
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Hanson
Nelson
Occupations of Montana Legislature Members
A complication shows the house listing 28 farmers as secondary occupation, six knechers, seven hyphenated ranchers. Lawyers number 14, merchants seven, real estate five, accountants five, bankers five, newspaper men three. Railroads include a superintendent a cashier a dispatcher and a conductor.
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WAI
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Mn Railroads
Bill to centralize state accounting system introduced
Wold of Yellowstone as chairman of the appropriations committee introduced a bill in the house to centralize the state bookkeeping system. The measure would authorize the governor to appoint a commission to study the state system, report findings to the governor, and for the governor to make recommendations to the next legislature.
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Wold
Yellowstone
Budget measure S B 2 killed. new substitute offered
At session start Senator Leuthald’s budget bill S B 2 was killed by an inverse committee report from finance and claims. The committee introduced a substitute based on Leuthald’s measure. officials say it is a more workable form.
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Committee On Finance and Claims
Senate Gaveling Ends Bills as House Totals Rise
The senate closed its introduction period with 182 bills, far fewer than the house’s 446. Among late measures are Pauline’s teachers pension plan and Greek’s bill to end duplicate state inspections, Oliver’s referendum to repay the school fund with interest, and Stewart’s proposal for a state Investment committee.
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House
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State Land Department
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Stewart
Senate Passes Local Parimutuel Bill Amid Hopes of Fate
Among measures passed by the senate last week is the local option parimutuel bill. Sponsors hope it will not meet the fate of the state wide parimutuel bill recently killed by the house.
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House
House backs SB 77 for 25000 bond to build vault
The house recommended passage of SB Nos 77 authorizing a 25000 dollar bond issue to construct a vault for the state treasurer and approved HB No 303 repealing the metropolitan police law.
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House
Montana Women Excluded From Jury Duty for Two Years
The Montana house struck the enacting clause of the Ainsworth bill and killed a measure said to be sponsored by 10,000 club women, barring women from jury service for the next two years.
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Montana
Senate Rejects Forsears Bank Deposit Guarantee Bill
In a 79 to 19 vote the senate defeated the measure titled A. B. 2 Killed Forsears bank deposit guarantee. Voting in favor were Beadle Berryman Fitzgerald Larsen Larson Merritt Mulholland Plumer Steeves and Throssel.
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Berryman
Fitzgerald
Silver Bow
A. T. Larsen
Robert Larson
Merritt
Mulholland
Plumer
Steeves
Throssel
Harlowton team wins Montana stock judging title
Montana young men’s vocational congress in Bozeman crowned the Harlowton high school stock judging team as champion. The roster includes J. J. Story Howard Stewart and Golden Retallie.
Queen City No 8 Well Produces From Ellis Sand
The Queen City No 8 well east of the Johnson gusher in the Kevin Linhirst field came into production from the Ellis sand with an estimated flush flow of 2,000 barrels.
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Queen City No. 8
Johnson Gusher
Kevin Linhirst
Ellis Sand
State labor reports show regional surplus and mining demand
County agent and employment offices report February figures to the state division of labor and publicity. The state has a surplus of common labor overall. There is a slight demand for smelter workers at Anaconda and East Helena, and for miners at Butte.
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State Division of Labor
Anaconda
East Helena
Butte
Secretary A Former Montanan Nominated Secretary of Agriculture
William M. Jardine, president of Kansas Agricultural College, chosen by President Coolidge as the next secretary of agriculture. He has deep Montana ties, including early cow punching on a Wisdom ranch and kinship with Mrs. George H. Stewart. Jardine rose from ranch work to higher education in Utah and Montana.
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Kansas Agricultural College
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Big Hole
George H. Stewart
Wisdom
Malad
Idaho
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Montana
Logan
Utah
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Stewart Ranch
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Dillon
Alfred Atkinson
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Joy Riding on Freight Ends in Custody for Three Girls
Three girls aged nine to fourteen were taken from a freight train at Bainville by authorities and held until the next night. Dan Mitchell, Indian police of Paptar, transported them to Havre under county authorization. The girls said they boarded the train in Havre aiming for Great Falls but ended up in Bainville. the youngest suffered frostbite on both feet and none had eaten for over two days while on the road.
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Havre
Dan Mitchell
Paptar
HHS
Great Falla
Federal official assesses pike stocking in Montana waters
May Plant Pike in Stream Don B Weist of the fisheries bureau is loaned to Montana to help the game department study stocking wall eyed pike. He visits Nelson reservoir near Malta to inspect pike captured in carp nets and evaluates moving them to Anaconda hatchery for potential stocking in the lower Yellowstone Missouri and shallow lakes.
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Fisheries Bureau
Montana
Game Department
Siate
Jairways
West
Nelson Reservoir
Malta
Anaconda
Yellowstone
Missouri
Auto Crashes Off Bridge Resulting in Three Drownings
An automobile carrying Mrs C BR Shranger 77 from Whitehall her son Jake Borden 50 and Mrs John Douglas 45 from Jefferson Island crashed off a bridge into a slough near Jefferson Island a few miles south of Whitehall. They were drowned in less than two feet of water while en route to Cardwell to attend high school basketball games. Search parties were launched after they failed to appear at the games.
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C. BR. Shranger
Whitehall
Jake Borden
John Douglas
Jefferson Island
Cardwell
Chicago Stockman Poole to Speak at Montana Stockgrowers Meet
Chicago stockman J. E. Poole a famed livestock marketing authority will speak at the Montana Stockgrowers association fortieth annual meeting in Great Falls April 7 and 8. Poole is among several prominent speakers for a convention expected to attract more stockmen than prior years with Ralph Rudd president of the Great Northern Railway also set to address.
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Chicago Livestock Exchange
Montana Stockgrowers'’ Association
Great Falls
Poole
Ralph Rudd
Great Northern Raalway
Great Northern Reports Progress on New Rockford Cut-off
G N May Build Line notes the Great Northern railroad may soon complete the New Rockford cut-off from Lewistown to Richey. President Ralph Budd declined a firm announcement but said the road was anxious to finish the project and that action could come soon. Immense farming land would be cultivated, and the east central state would gain greatly.
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Rockford
Lewistown
Richey
Ralph Budi
Great Northern
Ingomar Residents Back Purchase of Light Plant
May purchase plan gains support from Ingomar residents to buy the town’s electric light plant from the Ingomar Milling Co. which has sought to discontinue service. The plant’s operation losses, needed improvements, and rate hikes that patrons cannot afford were cited. A public utilities commission meeting has been called.
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Ingomar Milling Company
Public Utilities Commission
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