Bill proposed to place crippled children under state care
Sterling Wood spoke at the Billings Rotary club about adopting Ohio’s law to Montana. The measure would make crippled children a state issue and require Rotary clubs to help locate cases for government action. The law allows state intervention to remove a child from parents who refuse treatment and place them in an institution.
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Montana
Bill
Sterling Wood
Ohio
Billings
Wood
Rotary Clubs
Governor opposes special session on highway funds plan
Governor Erickson declares no call for a special session to craft a law to access federal aid for Montana road construction. He says he supports speedier highway work in principle, but believes the regular session in January should proceed first.
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Erickson
Montana
Montana County Projects and State Financial Updates
Cascade County led Montana in the fiscal year remittances ending June 30 with totals surpassing other counties. The Montana Fish and Game Commission trimmed daily duck limits to 15 and geese to 4 to align with federal law. Lamport & Co. of Billings received a $168 638 26 contract for gravel on the Red Lodge to Bearcreek road.
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Bearcreek
Lamport & Co
Billings
Cascade County
Montana
State Fish and Game Commission
C. W. Cross
Oil and Gas Division
Montana Public Service Commission
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Helena
Garrison
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
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Bozeman
State
Department of Agriculture
D. F. Clifford
Great Falls
Oscar Burkland
James la Fountain
Butte
Lincoln Gulch Placer Company
Cincinnati
W. C. Lewis
Montana Federation of Women’s Clubs
Minnie Tennis
F. F. Bossnet
Havre
R. E. Brown
J. H. Morrow
Moore
William Heinrich
Hardin
Ted Woodward
Fishtrap
C. E. Pew
W. B. Rhoades
Fergus County
Basin Construction Company
Brooks
Paradise
Plains
Wisconsin primary reshapes power with Kohler rival La Follette
In Wisconsin Philip La Follette defeats Walter Kohler for the Republican nomination amid labor and unemployment themes. Kohler’s record as a factory employer and Kohler's 1928 Hoover prosperity stance are contrasted with La Follette's campaigning. La Follette wins 63 of 72 counties as labor votes surge.
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Kohler
Wisconsin
la Mollette
Philip I
Robert
Badger
Walter J. Kohler
Young Philip
la Follette
Philip
Hoover and Prosperity
la Vollette
Charles B. Hammersley
Prohibition and primary results across states noted
Across several states the primary contests reflected economic strains and reactions to tariff policy and farm policies. Dry and wet factions split forecasts in Massachusetts Delaware and Connecticut while New York Republicans faced a split on liquor policy amid retirements and a possible anti Eighteenth Amendment shift.
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Federal Farm Board
Massachusetts
William M. Butler
Ken S. Draper
Marcus A. Coolidge
Senate
Delaware
Thomas JF. Bayard
Net
Daniel O. Mastings
Connecticut
J. E. Rogers
Empire State
Campaign committee ends hearings in Chicago over tapped telephone
Senator Nye's committee on campaign expenditures concluded hearings in Chicago after several hectic sessions. The chairman denied that the committee or its agents were responsible for tapping Ruth Hanna McCormick's telephone.
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Enator Nye
Chicago
Ruth
Hanna McCormick
Interior Secretary Inaugurates Boulder Dam Ceremony
Secretary Wilbur drives a silver spike at Boulder Dam dedication in Nevada to mark the start of the $165,000,000 project. He names the dam after the engineer who began the Hoover Dam scheme. Officials from Nevada California Colorado Utah New Mexico and Wyoming attend.
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Nevada
Boulder
Hoover Dam
Colorado River Basin
California
Colorado
Utah
New Mexico
Wyoming
Fascists win seats in German Reichstag reshaping coalition
The Fascists led by Adolf Hitler secure 107 of 576 seats in the new Reichstag, second to the Socialists with 148. Coalition possibilities with Alfred Hugenberg's Nationalists emerge while Chancellor Bruening remains in office to present his program. France fears Locarno pact implications as European disarmament talks may stall.
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Adolf Wither
Alfred Ifugenberg
Bruening
Reichstag
von Windenburg
France
Italy
Briand
Germany
Europe
Britain to return Weihaiwei to Chinese rule after lease
Britain announces that on October 1 the city and port of Weihaiwei will be returned to Chinese jurisdiction. Weihaiwei, in northeastern Shantung, covers Liukung island and surrounding mainland territory totaling 285 square miles. The area has a long history as a fortified naval port and was leased by Britain after Russia seized Port Arthur, with the return agreed by both nations.
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Weihaiwei
Shantung
Liukung Island
Russia
Port Arthur
Great Britain
Casada Government Imposes Broad Tariff Protections
Casada's new government enacts high tariff protections aimed at global trade and the United States to lift unemployment and buoy business morale. Immediate schedules cover farm machinery, auto parts, meats, butter, gasoline, boots and shoes, iron and steel, textiles, machinery, and paper with parliamentary approval expected later. Premier Bennett says this marks a shift from Liberal countervailing duties toward stronger upward tariff revision next session.
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Casada
United States
America
Bennett
Pacific nonstop flight attempt ends in fog and return
Seaton Harold L Bromley and Harold Gatty in City of Tacoma failed their fourth Pacific crossing attempt due to dense fog and high winds after an exhaust pipe broke. They landed safely at a northeast Japanese mainland village and abandon the project for this year. Coste and Bellonte begin a goodwill tour across the United States amid widespread honors.
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Harold, L. Bromley
Harold Gatty
Pacific
Filton Sills Dies After Tennis Stroke at Santa Monica
Filton Sills veteran screen and stage actor died at his Santa Monica home after a heart attack suffered while playing tennis. Captain Karl Boy-Ed, once naval attache to the German embassy in Washington at the war's start, was killed in Germany in a horse fall following his expulsion by the American government for propaganda activities.
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Filton Sills
Santa Monica
Karl Boy-Ed
Washington
Germany
Union
Bean quality and threshing progress in harvest regions
Bean threshing proceeds with favorable weather and generally good yields. Hail damage varies by district with an estimated 30 to 60 percent loss in some areas, while frost caused little harm this year. No. 1 prices fell from 5.50 to 5.00 and No. 2 from 5.25 to 4.75 as marketing expanded and quality declined due to water damage and blight.
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Billings
Clark’s Tork
Custer
Nineteen herd topped Chicago market and Montana crop notes
Nineteen head of horned Montana range steers raised and shipped by M. M. Jensen of Geraldine topped last week’s Chicago market at 9.75 per hundredweight with an average weight of 1880 pounds. Montana wheat production is estimated at 33,465,000 bushels while spring wheat yields about eight bushels per acre for an estimated 28,021,000 bushels. Commissioner A. H. Stafford lists feed suppliers and those willing to feed livestock on contract. June-August crop prospects improved with rainfall. Southern Montana Turkey Growers’ association formed in Columbus as part of a cooperative plan. Great Falls seed show Nov 14-? with about $4,000 in funds. Alfalfa seed harvest along the Missouri River near Roy exceeds expectations with yields near 80 percent of last year.
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M. M. Jensen
Geraldine
Chicago
Montana
Federal
Service Bulletin
A. H. Stafford
State Department of Agriculture, Labor and Industry
North
South Dakota
Helena
Turkey Growers’ Association
Columbus
R. B. McKee
Northwest Poultry Marketing Association
Federal Farm Board
Great Falls
R. E. Cameron
Missouri River
Roy
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