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Newspaper

Helena Independent

Location

Helena, Montana, United States of America

Date

Jun 26, 1929

Page

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British to Resume Relations With Russ Soviet DARING DART PLANNED BY ARMY MAN

Alfred D Hulse a self described lieutenant in the Officers Reserve corps left Baltimore by plane for Detroit outlining plans and personnel for a round the world non stop refueling flight. The crew includes Lt Henry L Tillack Detroit chief pilot Lt Roy Miller San Francisco navigator Lt Edward Springer Edgewood alternat e pilot Lt Earl O Connell Lakehurst radio operator and Hulse as engineering officer and pilot backed by Tay Morley Nogales. Springer said he was not committed to the flight and that 18 Hulse had not.

Baltimore Alfred D. Hulse Detroit Hulse Henry L. Tlllack Roy Miller San! Francisco Edward Springer Edgewood Areana

Caterpillars Spread Across Pacific Coast in June

Portland reports June 25 as entomologists describe a Pacific coast march of Papilio asterias caterpillars. The swarm halted Seattle streetcar service, delayed the Shasta Limited near Weed, California, and stripped orchards and decorative trees in Oregon, leaving vehicles stalled by the sticky pests.

Portland Ore Pacific Coast States Pacific Slope Seattle Southern Pacific Railroad

Bitter Root Valley Wool Pool Sold for 31 Cents a Pound

One hundred thirty thousand pounds of Bitter Root valley wool were sold in Missoula for 31 cents per pound. Purchasers were Silverman & Som of Chicago. Last year’s top price reached 40 cents a pound, showing a lower market compared with the prior clip.

Missoula Bitter Root Valley Silverman & Som Chicago

Wool schedules engage long plea for higher tariff heard

Washington hearings on the tariff bill open with wool schedule debate. Texan sheep and goat raisers seek higher rates while woolen manufacturers push for steeper duties. Witnesses from Passaic, New Jersey, describe unemployment as mills press for protection. President Hoover tightens flaxseed oil duties under tariff provisions.

D. Harold Oliver Associated Press Washington Senate New Jersey PresidentToover J Western Farm Represen C. © Belcher Texas Ehren and Gort Ratsers’ Association Rae Basin Passaic N. J Botany Picas

Mrs Boone Stands By Husband In Bank Robbery Case

Mrs Isabel Boone, wife of Easton Boone of Helena, maintains her husband’s innocence in the Rowan State bank robbery of about $2,500. Easton Boone faced a Polson justice for a preliminary hearing as she and their two children await word on his fate.

Rowan State Tisabel Boone Easton Boone Helena H. M. Lambeth Polson Isabel Boone Boone Easton Pine Street Teller Pablo Granville Boone Butte Tfelena Lea Ala Rénan State Bank Missoula

Airplane telephone link between America and London tested

Three reporters in a plane over New Jersey spoke with London reporters, marking the first public test of transatlantic air to ground telephone communication. Weather chatter dominated the limited two way talk as static and cloud interference affected the link, yet the experiment was deemed a success as a test of advancing science.

W. W. Chaplin Hadley Field Orel Associated Press

Day and Sinclair Meet in Shared Jail

Washington June 25. Marry F Sinclair and his lieutenant Henry Mason Day, both linked to oil ventures and wealth and prison, begin a new breakfast reunion in the district jail after nearly a month. Day, just four months for jury shadowing, becomes assistant store keeper in the commissary. Sinclair serves for jury shadowing and for defying a senate investigation. They may mingle during recreation and meals if they choose.

Washington F. Sinclair Henry Mason Day Mason Sinclair Day Quartermaster Corps Pharmacy Senate

Anaconda Dividend Remains at 7 Percent

Directors of Anaconda Copper Mining Co declare a regular dividend of 1.75 dollars on increased capital stock, maintaining a seven dollar annual rate. Dividend payable August 19 to stock of record July 13. first since capitalization rose through rights offerings at 35 dollars for five shares.

New York Anaconda Copper Mining Company

Treasury to not use public schools for prohibition propaganda

Washington reports that the treasury department will not use public schools to spread prohibition propaganda. Prohibition Commissioner Doran announced this after a pamphlet promoting slogans to aid law enforcement surfaced. The pamphlet linked to Miss Sutter of the Prohibition Bureau and urged possible radio and newspaper dissemination pending funds.

Washington Treasury Department Prohibition Doran Enna B&b Sutter Ataliation’ and Protutation Bureau Mills Towman Ang Jackson Afiler Miss Suter Bureal Treasury

Britain to renew relations with Soviet Russia post Labor win

London June 25 AP One of the first acts of the new labor government is to cable Dominion governments that Britain intends to resume diplomatic and trade relations with the Soviet Union. Premier MacDonald seeks to define naval disarmament talks and has held talks with US and Belgian envoys, signaling a move toward international negotiations following the Forbes meeting.

London British Empire Great Britain Tepuug Abor Ronsrivatie Warliaiment Alogcon Labor Party Russia Arces House Bay Songon Mamaay MacDonal F Rendn Tusten Road Charles G. Dawes Great Briain Tugh Gibson United States Belgium Dawes Gibran

Frano Search Intensifies for Missing Spanish Flyer

Scant hope remains that Major Ramon Franco and his party may have escaped death as ships and airplanes from four nations joined the search. Franco left Cartagena Friday for the Azores on a round trip to New York and other destinations, with searching parties combing the area between the Iberian coast and the Azores by sea and air.

Franco Madrid Ramon Franco Cartagena Azores New York Spain Tialy England Portugal Moisitand Hope Rembins Mam

Barker's Shortage Revised by Accountants Again

State accountants and Helena officials report a growing shortage tied to J. T. Barker former city treasurer. Revisions by the examining team reveal additional oversights as deputies from prior administrations continue the audit, with taxpayers funding the ongoing effort.

State Accountant J. T. Barker Helena

Secret Societies Barred by Church

In Omaha Nebraska the Emmanuel Lutheran church was suspended by the Nebraska district for allowing members of secret fraternal organizations to partake of communion. The 34th triennial convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Missouri Synod reaffirmed its stand against permitting secret society members to be communicants for any length of time.

River Forest Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Omaha Neh Nebraska Evangelical Luthleran Missouri Synod Synod

Powder Blast Kills Four Men Near Rock Creek

A premature dynamite blast near Rock Creek in Marshfield Oregon killed four stump blasters. The victims are Charles Christian 32 Russell Yoakum 25 Floyd Skinner 40 and Ralph Thomas 34 all residents near Myrtle Point Oregon.

Marshfield Ore Rock Creek Charles Christian Russell Yoakum Floyd Skinner Ralph Thomas I Myrtle Point

Lindy and Bride on Air Tour of Nation

Colonel Charles Lindbergh back in the air with his bride as passenger on a survey flight for Trans continental Air Transport. They depart from Roosevelt Field to Columbus Ohio then to Los Angeles and back by July 7 with Mrs Lindbergh in the rear cockpit, marred only by fog and low ceilings.

Roosevelt Field New York Charles 4. Tinbergh Colurmbus Ohio Columbus Los Angeles Mfrs Lindbergh Apne Morrow Falcon

Boy of 14 Slays His Aged Father

Ping Bluff Ark June 25 AP A 14 year old farm boy Otis Hane kits was under charges of first degree murder for the slaying of his father near here. Under questioning he admitted firing a shotgun at Wes Hankins his father because he refused at me. Coroner Will Rowell and Hankins a sixth grade student wrote out his own confession. Neighbors said the boy and father lived alone on the farm and quarreled frequently with the boy having run away several times.

Ping Bluff Ark Otis Hanekits Here Wes Wi T Hankins Will Rowell Young Hankins Hawkins Hone

Kinne Kidnappers Identified as Bank Robbery Group

Des Moines reports three bandits linked to the Gilmore City Exchange bank raid that netted more than $5,000 after holding H S Van Alstine and his family overnight. Identified by fingerprints, suspects are August Becker 28 Sumner Iowa Donald Melavin 21 and Roy Salmon 21 Liver more Town. Harold Matt already sentenced to life for the crime.

Des Moines Iowa Gilmore City Exchange Bank H. S. van Alstine Ita W. B. Kinns Idaho H. Y. Yackey Yackey August Becker Sumner Donald Melavin Roy Salmon Livermore Town Abe Dervaut Pocahontas County Becker Waverly Gilmore City van Alstine bin Bank Harold Matt

Lad Held for Killing Father in Idaho Turmoil

Raymond Matthews twenty, says a rifle he was cleaning discharged a single bullet that fatally wounded his father Tec Matthews twenty eight, a Cavendish stock raiser. Raymond was brought to the county jail as coroner Brower and Sheriff Dent pursued theories of more than one bullet fired while visiting Cavendish.

Lewistown Idaho Raymond Matthews Tec Matthews Cavendish Countty Jail F E. M. Brower Marry Dent Cavendish Hame Raymond

Bootleggers Warned Good Times are Over in Thornton Hustler

A June issue ad signed Xat Mldson warns bootleggers in Thornton Texas to quit making or selling alcohol from July 1 as agents of justice will hand offenders to a grand jury. The message says Americans once drank in wars but now bootleggers should stay out of precinct No 8 while friends claim to help law enforcement.

Mexia Texas Thornton Nat Husson Thcace Justice Washington Fuly Tom Bors Grand England Mexico

Nice free ad for New York actress arrival in France

Madame Joan Assolant formerly Pauline Parker, a New York actress, prepares to enter Paris by air. She will join her husband, a trans Atlantic flyer, who intends to fly from Le Bourget to meet her aboard the French airship. The pair travel with a military aviator crew aboard the craft, aiming to tie together a dramatic entry into Paris.

le Bourget France Junoal Joan Assolant Pauline Parker New York Tiayre Assolant Hayre Wier He de France Monateur Madani Assolant Ata An

Broker Quietly Denies Role With Bishop Cannon

In a referee’s hearing on Kable and Company’s bankruptcy the head broker for Bishop James Cannon Jr. testifies that to the bishop he was only the office boy, yet identifies the bishop’s account as stock speculation. The proceedings reveal Kable and Harry L. Gomhurst face bankruptcy scrutiny as a bucket shop.

New York Wable and Company James Cannon, Jr Methodist Episcopal Church South Charles W. Wable Kable and Company Kable Harry L. Gomhurst

Crow Nation Adopts Boston Commander as Soaring Eagle

Civil war Spanish American Indian and World War veterans attend a three day state gathering. Eugene P. Carver of Boston accepts the name Soaring Eagle after being adopted into the Crow tribe by Chief Pletty Cons. The ceremony marks a principal event of the gathering’s second day as various veterans organizations discuss business for the meeting.

Eugene P. Carver Boston Veterans of Foreign Ware Soaring Eagle Pletty Cons Commander Carver Luther Yellowstone

Ex-Soldier Hurt In Stolen Car Rollover

Anaconda reports Joseph T. Causley, 26, a recent Army enlistee, injured in a car crash after a stolen vehicle overturned on the Butte Anaconda highway. Officers say license plates belonged to James Magon of Butte. Causley, born in Blind River, Canada, was rushed to a hospital with a broken back.

Anaconda Joseph T. Causley United States Army San Francisco Butte-Anaconda James Magon Butte Causley Blind River Canada

Race Issue Brought To Proxy's Attention

Mississippi senate adopted a resolution disapproving of the entertainment of Oscar de Priest's wife at the White House tea on June 24 and urged President Hoover to safeguard white racial integrity. Oscar de Priest told 1,500 attendees in Knoxville that equality under law requires political organization by Black people.

Jackson, Miss Mississippi State Senate Oscar de Priest Alliois White House Hoover Chicago de Priest

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