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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1933
Page
2
San Francisco dispatch reports a jokey city editor receiving a call from a stranger asking to borrow a wife and children for Thanksgiving. The caller wanted a family to take out for dinner, claiming to be an orphan, prompting the editor to assemble a household via a cautious phone list for a brief, humorous misadventure.
Judge Charles N. Pray orders a federal grand jury to sit in Great Falls on December 6 as the fall term starts with arraignments and pleas in criminal cases. Judge Pray will hear motions and demurrers. trial dates will follow and a venire of 37 names has been drawn.
Walter Jones, a former Flint youth, faces execution for the 1912 murder in a freight car robbery near Grand Junction. A reprieve delayed the hanging to likely tomorrow night. Jones requested a Thanksgiving feast of strawberry soda and white meat turkey. He remains calm, unresponsive to spiritual counsel, and his fate hinges on a final decision by the governor after earlier appeals for clemency.
Stockton H Boon an amnesia victim who learned his identity in Pasadena after seeing his photo in a magazine vanished from Washington six weeks earlier. He had worked as an auditor for the Department of Agriculture for 16 years and could recite agricultural statistics but recalled nothing of his name or past.
Washington reports Henry Morgenthau Jr acting secretary in ten days has named an inner cabinet of advisers. The group includes Herbert Gaston Verman Oliphant Earle Rallle Tom K Smith William H Reynolds and Roswell Magill. Smith will allow bankers to appeal from currency rulings before Morgenthau decides in banking matters.
Decatur Alabama November 30 AP Twelve Morgan county citizens delayed verdicts in the Scottsboro case defendant Heywood Patterson is kept under guard for the night by Judge W W Callahan. A new jury is being qualified to judge Clarence Nortla in an alleged magi attack aboard a Southern Railway freight train in Jackson County March 25 1952. Crystal Falls Michigan hunt ends with three does and a fawn hanging from trees as game warden Gua Lithen and companions are charged with violations of the one-huck baw rule.
The nation marked Thanksgiving with pleasant weather coast to coast as President Roosevelt stayed with family at Warm Springs Georgia. Officials in Washington observed quietly, while hundreds of thousands attended football games. Dinners and services occurred in cities nationwide and abroad. Midwest wheat farmers celebrated government checks for production curtailment.
President Roosevelt poked fun at the gold standard and policy critics during the Warm Springs Thanksgiving dinner. He joked about future headlines naming Julian Bodin as treasury secretary and Gus Gennerich leading the Federal Reserve board while being photographed with trustees and child patients.
Montreal reports Sir Arthur Currie commander in chief of the Canadian corps in France during World War I and McGill University head since 1930 died aged 57. He was hospitalized November 7 for brain vessel blockage. Survived by Lady Currie, son Garner Currie and daughter Mrs Galt Durford.
Newton mass Nov 20 Federal Judge James A Lowell died today at his home at age 64. His death ends impeachment proceedings connected to his ruling in the George Crawford case. Crawford was sought in Virginia in a high profile gambling related matter involving Margaret Racing Maley and her maid Nina Buckner.
Governor Joseph E. Ely of Massachusetts granted extradition after Judge Lowell issued a writ of habeas corpus freeing Crawford. The judge argued juries barred African Americans made conviction unfair, while the sequeimy court overruled him and Crawford was taken to Virginia. An impeachment move followed.
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