Tornado Hits Plentywood Area Wounding Residents
A tornado ripped through northeastern Montana striking Plentywood and nearby areas. At least two people were seriously injured including George Holater, owner of Minnentation, who suffered a broken arm and internal injuries. Dozens of homes and outbuildings were damaged, utilities were knocked out, and widespread dust and debris filled the air as power and phone lines failed.
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Plentywood
Montana
Jarre
Alrent
Atdenalka
George Holater
Tooley
Gindosa Lavendure
World News in Brief Domestic and Foreign Dispatches
Domestic reports include Chicago funding struggles and a failed $260000 appeal, Roosevelt weighing silver nationalization, a Pittsburgh grand jury declining Mellon charges, a tense Senate tariff map fight, violent strike activity injuring five, and calls to investigate code authors. Foreign items note kidnapping suspects held, cabinet weapon issues, Paris embargoes on arms, a wheat policy maneuver, and Japan’s stance amid trade tensions.
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Wmittsburgh
Andrew W. Mellon
Washington
Wirmingham
Ala
Senate
NRA Rata
Mand
Vanante
Menteo
Robles
Tandon
Arma
Paris
Germany
Tondon
Japan
Butte Mines and Smelters Shut Down by Widespread Strike
In Butte, Montana, mining and processing halted as miners and hoisting engineers walked out. About 3,600 workers affected directly, with many more to feel the impact as unwatering and underground work cease. In Anaconda, mill and smelter workers also struck, forcing shutdowns at the smelter and related operations.
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Butte
Butte Hill
Anaconda
Fnd
Anaconda Street Railway Company
Cabinet Split on Disarmament Policy in Britain
London May 3 The national government cabinet remains divided over disarmament amid signs of a rift within the ministry headed by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and Brnley Baldwin. Some ministers push continued efforts toward an international accord while Foreign Secretary John Simon and War Secretary Anthony Eden favor strengthening national defenses. France pushes for a bilateral disarmament accord with Britain paired with a curb on German rearmament, a plan under discussion for months.
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London
Han Stool Wolidly
Prima
Ramnay MacDonald
Branley Baldwin
Perle, May
Arma
Harge
Germany
France
Great Britain
Colorado prohibition enforcment head Carl Jackson dies
Loveland Colorado May reports state official Carl Jackson former head of enforcement for Colorado and surrounding states died unexpectedly from a heart ailment. Jackson led enforcement across Colorado Wyoming Utah Arizona and New Mexico with the federal prohibition forces starting in 1921. Born in Red Oak Iowa he later served in Wyoming legislature and was sheriff of Laramie County Cheyenne.
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Carl Jackson
Colorado
Enforcement
Loveland
Colo
May
Carl Dachaon
Prohibition Service
Jackson
Prohibition
Denver
Wyoming
Utah
Arizona
New Mexico
Harmer Sheriff Jackson
Red Oak
Eheritf
Laroamla County
Cheyenne
Brooklyn Bank Aid Yields Sizable Sun
Five men armed with machine guns held up the Prudential Bank in Brooklyn Flatbush. They escaped with $22,938 as chaos erupted during the daytime robbery.
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Brooklyn Bank
Brooklyn
N Y
Maching Kane
Prudential Fay- Iage Bank
Flatbush
Carl Jackson
Toj
Helena
Monestergoontana
Afl
Sedea
Ohio offers reward for Dillinger and death threats loom
Ohio places a $1000 reward for the capture of John Dillinger dead or alive as Governor Norner of Illinois advocates shared payment by five states. Governor George White reports cooperation and warns of threats from Dillinger gang members in Illinois and Ohio, including men jailed here amid calls for release.
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Ohio
Dillinger
Norner
Illnois
State Emergency Board
America
George White
Horner
Mellon Cleared by Federal Grand Jury in Tax Evasion Case
Pittsburgh date May 8 An drew W Mellon, secretary of the treasury under three presidents, was cleared of charges of attempting to evade 714104.27 in income taxes for 1931. A jury of diverse trades found the government claims not proven after five hours of deliberation.
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Pittsburgh
Andrew W. Melion
Secretary of the Treasury
Roe
Mellon
Mellon Hanks
Mob of French royalists attack Mme Callaux in Louvre riot
In Paris May day rioters from royalist ranks assaulted Mme Joseph Callaux wife of former premier who shot Gaston Calmette, editor of Figaro, in 1908. The demonstration followed her speaking at a lecture on art. police dispersed the crowd and two royals were arrested.
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Paris
Mme
Joseph Callas
Premire
Gaston Talmene
Figaro
Louvre Museum
Sha Wan
Royal Lab
Mme. Califaux
Calmette
Republicans Clash Over Tariff Strategy In Senate
In Washington on May, twenty three of the Senate's 95 Republicans met to shape party strategy on pending tariff legislation but produced sharp differences. A decision was postponed to a later meeting as divisions emerged.
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Washington
Senate
Extortion Plot in Wolf Point Ends in Escape
Wolf Point May 8 Roosevelt county authorities disclosed an attempted extortion plot involving Margare Redkcher, hospital superintendent, who with an apparent accomplice demanded 1500 under threat of violence. The plan unraveled when the pair fled at an abandoned ferry on the Missouri river edge as officers closed in days after the first demand.
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Wolf Point
Margare Redkcher
Wolf Point General Hospital
Roosevelt County
Lemrned
Missouri River
Montana Baptists Convene Twenty Seventh Annual Conference
More than 100 delegates and visitors from across the state gathered in Billings for the opening of the Montana Baptists annual conference. R. Heat, pastor of First Baptist and convention president, presided as sessions focused on religious themes with officer elections and 1835 meeting site to be decided tomorrow.
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Rui Gs
Montana
Dillinger in Chicago Cops Sweep Englewood District
Nelson and two accomplices reportedly spotted near South Ashland Avenue as Sergeant Reynolds sends five police squads into Englewood after a tip about John Dillinger. An abandoned machine gun squad car is found and extra units watch the area for the outlaw gang’s return.
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Chicago
Frank Reynolds
Englewood
South Side
John Dillinger
Indiana
Bald
Montana Labor to Build Fort Peck Power Line
Montana labor furnished by state reemployment offices will be used exclusively in constructing the power line from Rainbow dam near Great Falls to Fort Peck. The 800 mile project will start next Monday with initial crews of about 120 men, under supervision, moving from eight hours to two shifts of six and a half hours.
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Great Falla
Montana
Rainbow Dam
Fort Peck
Fritz Zlebarth
Los Angeles
Zlebarth
Silver measure moved to nationalize stocks and back currency
Washington May 8 A silver measure to nationalize domestic stocks and back 25 percent of currency reserves with silver was moved onto the administration's legislative program. President and Senate leaders indicated progress and a principle agreement on the bill though language remains to be set.
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Washington
Wheeler
Mont
White House
Todey Mombera
Senate Aflyer Eroun
Herman Oliphant
Treasury
Morgenthau
Dien Hill
Thomas
Kodak
Fit
Clue To Robles Child In Mexico Reported
Mexican officials aided by U S authorities report a four person party, including a child resembling Janne Robles, was in Cananea within the last 36 hours. The group, described by a Mexican informant, included a Mexican man and his wife, an American man, and the girl. A hut used by the quartet was found empty and search efforts extended across the border region.
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Robles
Mexico
Tananen
Sonoran
Mex
May
Jnne Robles
United States
Cananea
Miners Escape Fire At Indiana Coal Pit Near Linton
Eight miners escaped after being trapped two hours by a fire at the Little Betty coal mine near Linton Indiana. Fire destroyed surface buildings but did not claim any lives.
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Linton, Ind
Little Betty
Clashes in Alabama mine war hurt and injure many
In Birmingham Alabama 3000 iron ore miners on strike faced violent clashes with explosions and shotgun fire. Three men were hospitalized with serious injuries, two others seriously hurt, and deputies reinforced police across the region as dynamite damaged a railway near Jefferson County and holes the Coal Valley area. Five towns suffered power outages from the blasts.
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Alabama
Birmingham
Jefferson County
Coal Valley
Walkler
A. N. Barrantine
Walker County
Salinas Wild West Rodeo Draws Packed Free Admission
In Pociss Aalinas a homegrown rodeo drew hundreds as spectators rode in free, arriving by horseback and across the countryside. The writer notes a broad shift in American life with rising debt and mortgages, predicting tougher times ahead while reflecting on long drives between ranches and land grants from Spain.
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Aalinas
Secretary Wallace Defends Farm Act Amendments
Secretary Wallace urged a senate committee to amend the farm act to strengthen it. He warned that Millers federation leaders in Chicago last week planned to block passage, saying the changes would grant the secretary broad, alarming power over farm product distributors processors and handlers.
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Washington
Wallace
Senate
Millers Federation
Chicago
Governor Addresses Willowton Chamber Banquet
Governor Frank H. Cooney spoke to the Willowton Chamber of Commerce at its annual banquet in Harlowton in May. He was accompanied by R. R. Peresl of Helena, vice chairman of the State Water Conservation board.
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Harlowton
Frank H. Cooney
R. R. Peresl
Helena
State Water Conservation Board
Insull Fails to Post Bond and Is Hospitalized Inside Jail
Jamael Sneatt, once dubbed a wizard of utilities, remains jailed in Chicago after failing to post a $200,000 bond to await federal trial on charges including using the mafia to defraud and fraudulent bankruptcy practices. Judge Barnen weighed the high bond as he waited in Cook County Jail, spending a first night in a hospital bed amid guarded confinement and legal wrangling.
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Insull
Bond
Chicago
Jamael Sneatt
Monganen
Tca
Bustnera
Ingust
Aula Non
Samuil Junior
Sneall
Jook P. Barnen
Annault
U. S
Cook County
Jair
Katharine Hepburn Divorce Granted in Merida
Katharine Hepburn was freed today from her marriage to Lydian Smith in Merida Yucatan Mexico and was given permission to wed again immediately. The marriage dated back to December 12 1828 before Hepburn became a star of the theatrical world.
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Merida
Yucatan
Mexico
Katharine Hepburn
Lydian Smith
Miss Hepburn
Smith
New York
Philadelphia
Elevator blast kills six and injures six in St Louis grain elevator
A grain elevator on the Mis Manipot riverfront in south St Louis exploded. Authorities say a static spark from a conveyor likely triggered the blast. Six men died, six were burned, two seriously. Victims include Stephen Goeal 48 Fred Laubacher 41 Edward Kelly 46 Earl Strange 24 John Kozycio 42 Albert Kuchera 47. Building damage pegged at 60 000 with contents losses also around 60 000.
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St. Louis, May
Stas
Mis- Manipot
South St. Louis
Stephen Goeal
Jame 1
Heapiels
Fred Laubacher
Edward Kelly
Earl Strange
John Koyacio
Imborer
Albert Kuchera
Oller
Favorite Desserts of Famous Women booklet offer
A 12 page collection features more than 100 dessert recipes by renowned American women. Includes pies cakes puddings and novelties suitable for display at official tables in Washington and cities nationwide. Presidents wives contribute material while instructions promise simple home use. Sent for six cents via the Western Independent Information Bureau Washington D C.
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Ideaa
Presidenta
Washingtee Information Bureau
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Robert M. Yoder
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