Deep snows and ice threaten Michigan and Niagara bridge
An ice laden northern storm blankets the nation as Michigan mines and towns brace for isolation. Governors dispatch aid amid nine deaths. Niagara’s bridge battles ice jams and girders fail while crews clear highways, rail, and schools close across the Copper Country. Skiers ferry food to trapped high school students near Ironwood as tugs Bonnie and Edna are crushed in Charlevoix harbor.
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Associated Press
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Frank Murphy
Creat Lakes
Niagara
New England
Far West
Florida
Deep South
Gulf States
Upper Michigan
Ironwood
Calumet
Nestoria
Menominee
Margrette
Estapada
Bonnie
Edna
Charlevoix Harbor
Lewis Plans to End War in Labor Circles at UMWA News
John L. Lewis proposed that CIO unions join the AFL next week if accepted as is, or else AFL unions could join CIO with charters. He sought peace, urged a march of CIO members into AFL and vice versa, and urged a convention to resolve details. The UMWA convention also backed a five billion housing program, extended Social Security, energy controls, wage rules, and anti strike breaking laws.
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CLO
Af L
Ingo School Strike Ends As Superintendent Urges Return
Saco January 26. Harry M. Ross superintendent of the schools ended a walkout by 100 pupils over an unrenewed contract urging a return to classes. He said the effort served its purpose though the contract issue remains unsettled and pupils warned they will resume the strike if Ross is not rehired next year. In New York a separate note reports Anaconda Wire and Cable directors took no action on a planned dividend.
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Saco
Harry M. Ross
Acchools
Ross
New York
Anaconda Wire and Cable Company
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
On the Record By Dorothy Thompson commentary up front
Dorothy Thompson weighs two American souls within the New Deal era. One cherishes mass production, abundant goods, high wages, and convenient gadgets. The other longs for decentralization, small business, and breaking up economic empires, while the administration wavers between regulation and self regulation with Big Labor and Big Banking in view.
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Ite
Charlie McCarthy
Henry Wallace
Inj
Owen D. Young
Thomas Lamont
John Lewis
Helena merchants form trade area to curb unfair leaders
Helena merchants plan to form a trade area and follow a fair practices code to protect consumers from misleading leaders offered by some grocers. Fred Rarkanen of the Associated Merchants of Montana announced that 42 Helena merchants have signed on to operate under state law and set a minimum of 3 percent above wholesale cost on all goods. He says leaders cause unfair dealing and milking of consumers, and the plan aims to eliminate these practices.
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Helena
Fred Rarkanen
Associated Merchants of
Montana
State Fund
State Trade Commission
Legislative Assembly
Keerkanen
Iam
Harkanen
Rumania May Modify Its Cruel Stand Against Jews
Geneva reports indicate Rumania may ease anti Jewish policy under Foreign Minister Istrate Micescu. British and French spokesmen said Eden and Delbos discussed this with leaders as League deliberations proceed. Private talks followed by a public council session planned for tomorrow.
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Geneva
Istrate Micescu
Ruc Imania
Fremier Octasian Goga
Anthony Eden
Yvon Delbos
League of Nations
Itumania
Council
France and
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Boom
M.S.T
Wden and
Delbos
Mother and Daughter Drowned Together in Oregon River
Eugene Oregon January 26 A note explains Mrs WL Owl Whittall and her one year old daughter Marjoris were despondent over health. Coroner Poole says they walked into the Willamette River together, ending their lives after leaving a note.
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Eugene
Ore
Whittall
Marjoris
Wilamatte
Here
P. Poole
UAW Heads Seek Roosevelt Meeting on Auto Industry
Washington January 26 President Roosevelt agreed to receive U A W leaders near Tuesday to discuss problems in the automobile industry Homer Martin president of the U A W asked for the conference
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Washington
Roosevelt
United Automobile Workers
Homer Martin
U.aw
AF of L Leader Rejects Lewis Peace Plan Again
William Green of the American Federation of Labor denounced John L. Lewis’s new CIO peace proposal as the same old plan with objectionable features. He said the plan failed to secure peace and would shift conflict within the labor movement. Green noted possible talks with David Dubinsky to renew peace negotiations, but held little hope at present. An AP report says the AFL executive council moved to push labor act amendments to affirm bargaining representation in the industry.
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Miami
Fla
William Green
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
C.I.0
Washington
Green
Lewis
Barker Green
David Dubinsky
Committee For Industrial Organization
Cratte
Loyalist Armies Advance Near Teruel Fray at Frontier
Heavy fighting reported north of Teruel as government forces claim major advances along the Zaragoza highway near Teruel, backed by infantry armored cars tanks and artillery. Insurgents say they inflicted heavy losses and halted government efforts to threaten the Zaragoza road near Teruel. Continued on page 103.
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Hendaye
Fratca
Teruct
Waragoza
Teruel
Zaragoza
Three Supreme Court Justices Consider Retirements
Rumors in Washington indicate Chief Justice Cardozo and Justices Brandeis and Reynolds may retire. An informed source says Cardozo informed President Roosevelt that health concerns require his stepping down.
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Washington
Jao
Supreme Court
Cardozo
Brandeis
Ma Reynolds
Roosevelt
Woolgrowers fear clash over union shearers at convention
Sal Lake City January 26 delegates at the National Woolgrowers association three day convention hear president Joscoe C Rich Urley Idaho attack a proposed reciprocal trade treaty with Great Britain and oppose shifting the forest service to interior. Secretary Marshall notes a letter from Harry Bridges warning labor would not handle wool cargoes if sheep are not shorn by union shearers a potential floor topic likely to be avoided.
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Lake City
Committee For Industrial Organization
Marshall
National Woolgrowers’ Association
Harry Bridges
Wear Coast C.10
General Resolutions Committee
Ior
Labor
Joscoe C. Rich
Uurley
Idaho
Rich
Great Britain
Geo
Samuel O. Beneton
Utah
Grenade explosions kill fourteen in Paris suburb Villejuif
In Villejuif near Paris on January 26, two truckloads of grenades confiscated from a revolutionary group exploded during loading for removal to Versailles. Fourteen people died and ten injured including soldiers and civilians. Firemen aided by Parisian crews fought fires at the ruined Municipal Pyrotechnic laboratory and nearby homes as officials opened an inquiry into the disaster.
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Paris
Tc Revonutionary
G.S.A.R
Villejuif
Versailles
Gerard
Ibe
Many tax refunds listed for Montana firms and individuals
Washington January 6 The Treasury department told Congress it issued tax refunds in the 1937 fiscal year totaling over 500 to numerous Montana entities and persons. Names include Aero Club Butte 908 Andre and Franchino Philipsburg 1908 Peter Antoniol Butte 1098 Burns and Burns Butte 644 Kenneth Eagan Helena 2201 Iverson and Cortney Helena 2167 and many others across distilleries and individuals.
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Washington
Jan
Treasury Department
Congress
Montana
Aero Glub, Inc
Butte
Andre and
Franchino
Philipsburg
Peter Antoniol
Beaupre and Hale
Helena
Eugene Bonnet
Cut Bank
Poyle
Dower
O'Malley
Doyle and Mayling
Biilings
Kenneth Eagan
Bertha Olive Evans
Missoula
Fichtenau and
Whitcomb
John A. Francisco
Anaconda
Prosper Godin
Sig Good
Fergus School Bus and Truck Collision Injures Ten
Lewistown January 2 Five children and five WPA workers were injured in a head on crash between a school bus and a truck about 8:80 this morning. All were released by afternoon after treatment for cuts and lacerations. Two WPA workers were released quickly. others remained briefly at home. Patrolman Conwell cited a slippery turn. no fault assigned.
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Lewistown
Hanover
Eugene McLaughlin
Claude McLaughlin
Irene McLaughlin
Ann Turner
Evelyn Simpkin
Steve Swan
Alfred H. Dressen
Helmer Anderson
James Merryfield
Roy Moir
WPA
Moir
Merryfield
Larry Conwell
Silent partner of kidnap case ends in Wisconsin death
James Atwood Gray, 19, of Providence Kentucky, acted as silent partner in the abduction of Charles Rous, 72, of Chicago. Gray and Rosa were killed after Peter Anders, who confessed to the kidnapping, said he killed both captives after the $50,000 ransom was paid.
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James Atwood Gray
Providence
Charles Rous
Chicago
Wisconsin
Gray
Rosa
Peter Anders
Divorce Granted to Mrs Josephine Culbertson in Reno
Private trial ends in divorce for Mrs Josephine Culbertson noted bridge expert. Ely Culbertson denied charges but court approves property settlement and future support for two children Joyce Nadia ten and Bruce Ely nine.
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Reno
Nev
Josephine Culbertson
Ely
Joyce Nadia
Bruce Ely
Woman from Montana testifies of ring aiding disorderly houses
A 19 year old Great Falls girl, Jeanie Walters, says a network forced her into disorderly houses in Pismo Beach Stockton and San Francisco. Police identify a man, 26 year old MacGregor, as her alleged trafficker who denies the charges. Twenty one people have been arrested in California as raids continue.
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San Francisco
Great Falls
Mont
Stockton
Jeanie Mar-jorie Walters
Ray Heiney
Frank Murphy
MacGregor
Miss Walters
Pisme Beach
Katherine Sullivan
Pittsburgh
Berkeley
Walters
California
Red Cross Call for Chinese Civilians Fund
Hankow reports Chiang Kai-shek expressed everlasting gratitude for President Roosevelts appeal to the American Red Cross to fund Chinese civilians destitute by the war. The appeal aimed to raise up to one million dollars, a large response noted in the temporary capital.
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Hankow
Jeralissimo
Chiang
Attitude of Wheeler on Proposed Merger of Mercer Firms
Washington January 26 Chairman Wheeler Democrat of the Senate Interstate Commerce committee said he opposed any effort to effect by subterfuge a merger of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies. He reserved judgment on permitting the merger but noted a law preventing it would first need repeal.
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Washington, Jan
Wheeler
D., Mont
Tthe
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Western Union and
Postal Telegraph Companies
Japanese Invaders Stalled as Chinese Forces Hit Supply Lines
Chinese military leaders claim renewed air power and mobile troops harass Japanese advances across central China. They say Japanese overextension on vast fronts is breaking under raids targeting lines along Shanghai to Pukow and other rail crossings, slowing their drive near Suchow. Chinese reports cite stalled advances 90 miles north of a key point, with local missionaries noting efforts to disrupt logistics.
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China
Rites Sanghai
Thwatsin-Pukow
Suchow
Ican
Tonahobeli
Iho Noe
Japasensky
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