Recovery Plans Promised To Spark Economic Return
Five lending agencies unveiled a plan for a sweeping 85.373 billion program to push business activity, with $1.425 billion from federal funds projected over eight months. Local governments would add about 300 million as WPA workers receive pay, aiming to flow money into trade and household needs. Wallace, Straus, and Hopkins stressed farm aid and parity payments as vital to U.S. recovery, signaling broad government spending to revive employment and markets.
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Mutual Broadcasting System
Harry Ll. Hopkins
Works Progress Administrator
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Aonet
Mnaresi
Wallace
Congress
United States
Nathan Straus
John Roosevelt Joins President at Island Mansion
John Roosevelt and his bride Anne Lindsay Clark arrived at Campobello Island Canada for an indefinite honeymoon stay. They were greeted on the shore by a committee of prominent locals and escorted to the president’s summer home.
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Campobella Island
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Jane
John Roosevelt
Chadian
Roosevelt
Anne Lindsay Clark
Gruesome railway wreck cleanup reported near Miles City
In the dawn following a brutal crash, responders and coroner Ralph Bray removed bodies and rescued injured from sunken cars. Water flooded the coaches as rescuers searched the wreckage of the Olympian, with passengers swept from the bridge and into the Wait.
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Miles City
Regenera Wes
San
Oreak
Custer County
Ralph Bray
Grasg Range Flood Damages Railways and Ranches
Floodwaters from the cloudburst area southwest of Grass Range caused extensive damage to Milwaukee railroad tracks, safety rails, and bridges. Ranch buildings sustained damage though no livestock losses were reported. the cloudburst occurred Saturday afternoon causing widespread destruction in upper MacDonald and Blacktail brooks region.
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Grass Range
Clouduurst
MacDoneld
Blacktail Breoks
Here
Milwaukee Railroad
Cabbage Purchases Stir Debate Over A A A Action
An article from June reports the A A A bought North Carolina cabbage, price movements on the Carteret county market, and Congressman Barden's swift reply. It contrasts local newspaper framing with the federal surplus commodities program disclosure, noting about 11 000 tons bought for 128 300 dollars and the push to raise prices.
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Sam
A.A.A
Gareliha
Twin City
Daily Times
Morehead
Geanfarl
Carteret County
Tony
Vounitrs
Branfort
Washington
Graham A. Barden
Barden
North Carolina
Surplus Commodities Corporation
Twin City Daily Times
AAA
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Wreck of Olympian Train After Mile City Cloudburst
Miles City reports a record rainfall along Custer Creek washing out the Milwaukee steel and concrete bridge. The Olympian passenger train, Milwaukee No. 13, struck the gap at full speed. Cars submerged, coaches toppled, and the stranded wreckage drew aid by rail as flood waters hampered rescue.
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Miles City
Custer Creek
Milwaukee Steel
Milwaukee No. 13
Olympian
Body of Dr Vidal Found In Auto Near Libby
Libby June 19 The body of Dr Charles W K Vidal 84 was found in his car along a main highway 47 metres south of Libby A bullet hole was found in his temple Coroner said the wound was personal safety related and from a .22 caliber rifle He had left Kalispell for a summer scene near Troy Survived by his widow and two sons Burial planned in Great Falls
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Charles WK. Vidal
Vidal
Montana
Galen
Kalipell
Troy
Lincoln County
Laura Dell Gompt
State
Aibertinists Hospital
Mee
Lawrence
Kalispell
Finerge
Chicago
Great Falls
Young New York Man Falls Dead at Altar
New York June 13 death met Harold Landy at the altar today during a Jewish ceremony to unite Landy and Miss Hyelyn Schoenfeld. The 11 year old assistant manager of an automotive company drew his throat and collapsed as attendants and physicians worked three hours without success. Autopsy later showed a heart attack caused his death.
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New York
Iarold Landy
Plane crashes kill eleven across nation and abroad
A week end of air disasters leaves multiple fatalities. An intercontinental airliner with four crew missing over South America. In Mississippi a private plane crash kills four. An army weather plane crashes in North Carolina killing an officer and observer. Two civilions die as a sport plane fails after takeoff near Detroit. A homemade midget monoplane crash in Milwaukee kills the flyer. A naval reserve plane crashes into San Francisco Bay near Oakland, seriously injuring another. A North Adams youth survives a crash in Massachusetts while a companion dies. A Pan American Grace airliner, carrying twenty one, is reported missing on the Santiago to Antofagasta leg with four crew aboard.
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Asheville
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Ives
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Milwaukee
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Naval Reserve
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San Francisco Bay
Adame
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Santiago
Antofagasta
Chile
Berlin stores defaced amid rising anti Semitism
Berlin reports paint daubing by masked squads alongside a nationwide anti-Semitism checkup ordered by the Gestapo. Jewish shops along Kurfuerstendamm and nearby streets were smeared with the word Jew and the six pointed star. No official action reported beyond the cursory check.
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Berlin
Kunstverstendamm
Milwaukees Olympian Plunges Into Creek in Montana Tragedy
The Olympian passenger train of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul line derailed after a bridge collapse in a flood near Saugus Montana. More than 30 dead and about 65 injured as seventeen bodies recovered that day with others still submerged. The eastbound train from Chicago to Tacoma was hit by a cloudburst in the Custer Creek valley.
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Milwaukee Railroad
Montana
Lou Grill
Miles City Star
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Milwaukee and St. Paul
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Wash
Saugus
Mont
Custer Creek
Missover Man Recalls Horrific Milwaukee Line Wreck
John Stabbers of Missoula Montana, a survivor, describes the Milwaukee railroad wreck near Miles City. He recalls darkness, chaos, survivors clinging to embankments, and the river, with neighbors helping and a night of fear as rescuers arrived.
Vice President Kelly Among Those Who Escape Death
Miles City reports a chaotic scene as a sudden surge of floodwaters swept away several men including V P Kelly of Anaconda Copper. Eyewitnesses describe the torrent’s force, the perilous river drift, and moments of life or death as rescuers searched for survivors.
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Kelly
Anaconda Company
Tentative list of those killed in rail disaster
Miles City June 19 The railroad says 17 bodies might be in the tourist sleeper still submerged in Custer Creek. Fourteen are from Seattle. Occupants named include Dorothy Peireer Harlowton Mont Neil Clancy Kate Clancy Marge Clancy Miss Conway Henry Schultz Mrs L Erickson Beattie an unidentified boy from Avury Idaho two Seattle men who did not give names Pi Schutte Dean Hanscom W H Range Seattle two unidentified elderly ladies one from Spokane one from Seattle Don Hanscom Seattle. The known dead Frank Merrifield engineer Miles City. Continue on page 2.
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Custer Creek
Seattle
Dorothy Peireer
Harlowton
Mont
Neil Clancy
Kate Clancy
Marge Clancy
Miss Conway
Henry Schultz
L. Erickson
Beattie
Avury
Idaho
Pi. Schutte
Dean Hanscom
W. H. Range
Spokane
Don Hanscom
Frank Merrifield
Mel City
Little Girl Loses Fight for Mamma in Wreck
Ten year old Ante Ladas died heroically trying to save her mother from drowning after a railroad wreck near Miles City. The girl held her mother's head above water while the father Thomas Ladas was missing and the rest of the family survived with injuries. The family had been returning from a vacation in Greece when the tragedy occurred.
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Ante Ladas
Bellingham
Wast
Joan
Georgi
Greece
Thomas Ladas
George
John
Little Anne
Body of Victim of Wreck Recovered Near Glendive
Pawson county sheriff reports the body of an unidentified woman recovered from the Yellowstone River near Glendive. He estimates she is 43 to 47 years old, about five feet three inches, 130 pounds, with brown eyes and dark grey hair. She wore false teeth and showed signs of a recent operation.
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Pawson
Cendive
Miles
Yellowstone River
Glene Dive
Negro Porter on Pullman Among Heroes of Wreck
Miles City reports a Pullman train crash east of town. Survivor Lew Williams aided passengers as the car submerged. Miles City hospital treated over 30 injured. four doctors and five nurses aided on an improvised hospital train. Officials could identify few victims. many presumed dead in the river.
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Ine
Lew Williams
Here
Williams
Woly Rosary Hospital
Miles
Pasengery
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