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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1930
Page
3
A Helena report notes state county debt fell from 27.7 million in 1923 to 16.9 million in 1930, with annual levies near 22 mills. The county budget system and overdraft avoidance contributed to the reduction, producing about 10.86 million dollars in revenue.
Reports from Belton keep highways open on No 2 over Marias pass with snowstorms in the region. Billings ships snow fence materials to begin installation along state highways. Whitefish enjoys ideal hunting weather as season opens. The Missoula office reports 1980 forest fire acreage is 5 percent of 1929 totals. Montana gains near 600000 from federal oil royalties split between school and highway funds. Eastern Montana Normal’s Rimrock yearbook earns all American honors. Helena reports Montana’s 1980 voter registration totals at 240086 with turnout lagging primary participation. Miles City notes population growth at the Montana State Industrial School. Colstrip completes high school building with expanding grades planned. Thompson Falls power lease provides 10000 bore power to farmers. 500 hp from Thompson Falls plant now supplied. Missoula Great Falls corridor road via Lincoln Ovando eyed, potentially linking with the Helena road. Kalispell and Missoula high schools win Quill and Scroll writing ratings. Billings Mamer Air Transport ends its east–west line between IPE and St Paul. last plane traced the route last week.
Edward W Pickard reviews the Hoover administration efforts to curb unemployment through a cabinet committee led by Lamont. Colonel Arthur Woods will coordinate local and federal work programs while cutting red tape and expanding public works as unemployment estimates range from 3.5 to 6 million. The piece covers naval funding debates, Palestine policy, and Zionist leadership resignations amid British mandates.
Representatives from major American industries gathered at the seventy conference at the University of Chicago. Lecturers forecast gradual improvement while noting high consumer demand, near bottom price levels for key goods, and limited government meddling. J Taber of the National Grange warned farmers face severe losses with postwar plant depreciation and incomes barely above 1913 levels.
Optimistic government briefings say the Brazilian revolt advances in multiple regions. Light cavalry at Timio Bahia reportedly joined the insurgents, boosting hopes rebels will seize Bahia city. President Hoover imposes an arms embargo, citing 1922 law and US elements accused of shipping arms. Ambassador Gurgel do Amaral notes efforts to arm rebels in the United States and the move marks a first for South American revolutions.
Civil war in China wanes but Communist bandits disrupt the government with large armed bands in Fukien Kiangsi Hunan Wapeh and Henan. They seized sixteen priests and nuns at the Catholic mission in Rianfu and released Bishop Atigniani to deliver a ransom demand of 10 million Mexican dollars for the hostages. The raid at the mission left about two thousand persons dead including three priests.
International Zionist groups react to a new British policy statement on Palestine issued by Lord Wassell, minister of colonies. They denounce the closure of the Holy Land to further Jewish immigration as a repudiation of the 1917 Balfour pledge of a Jewish national home. The policy also contemplates a sizeable military and air presence in Palestine to deter any repeat of disturbances.
United States and New Zealand researchers reached Ninafou in the South Pacific to observe and photograph a total eclipse. Weather favored the expedition, yielding successful images. Unexplained radio outages in Samoa and Honolulu prevented communications during the event.
APT. GEN. VALERIANO WEYLER, Spain's top military figure, dies in Madrid at ninety two. Once called the Butcher for his Cuban campaign, his name shaped U S intervention and the Cuban war. Also noted: Sherman L. Whipple, Otis Wingo, Ben H. Cheever, and Frank M. Wilmot.
In a simple ceremony at St Francis basilica Assisi Boris of Bulgaria married Princess Giovanna of Italy. The church was undecorated by mutual royal preference. The procession included King Victor Emmanuel Queen Helene and others. They traveled to Ancona then Varna to Sofia by train.
Kitan, hailed as hero of the war in Wig, assumed the Afghan throne a year after he was named king by troops and tribal chiefs following Buacha Sachao’s overthrow. No coronation occurred as Afghan kings lack crowns, yet Kabul’s scenes were colorful and the four day pageant drew tribesmen, soldiers, diplomats, and European visitors.
About 20 000 Montana feeder lambs, first wintered in North Dakota, are now field fed in and near Watertown Whapeton and show satisfactory gains. Richland county feeders report abundant feed and wide distribution of lambs in cornfields. After field feeding, lambs will receive shelled corn barley and alfalfa hay before finishing and market delivery in mid December. Farmers anticipate higher prices for feed crops and plan expanded facilities for the 1931 lamb crop.
Western Valley warns of deep potato losses from an unexpected freeze. Corvalis ships a honey carload to Spokane from Pile-Goodman apiaries. Hinsdale reports lamb prices rise 1 to 2.34 cents per pound. Roy sees a large cattle shipment to Chicago from Missouri river territory. Helena notes 300 cars of Bitterroot apples to New York in refrigerated cars.
Popular Mechanics reports that a 20 000 volt electric spark studied at the University of California with a camera exposing in one billionth of a second is about 50 percent hotter than the sun and 100 times brighter. The article notes the rapid shutter enables these measurements.
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