Congress weighs plan to tame midcontinent droughts and deserts
Washington officials study a Lemke plan costing about 4.42 billion dollars to create a mid continent reclamation commission. It envisions flood control reservoirs interlocking canals from Canada to Mexico, highways railroads and power projects, housing for 756000 farm families, and a program to seed reforestation. Local bond issues would finance most construction with federal backing, covering surveys and initial expenditures of 100 million dollars. The proposed project spans North Dakota through Texas, targeting droughts and dust storms endangering the plains.
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Agel
Congress
Mid-Continent
Rockies
Gulf
Canada
House Irrigation and Reclamation
Lemke
Mexico
Actial
Teme
Great Plains
North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
Wyoming
Nebraska
Colorado
Kansas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Texas
Railroads of Spain Seek Tax Relief Petitioned to Government
Spanish railroads have filed a petition asking the government for tax relief. The move targets lighter fiscal burdens aimed at stabilizing operations amid postwar economic adjustments.
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Railroads
Spain
Rellet
Elks Launch Easter Ball to Open Social Season
The Elks announce the Easter Ball to start their social season with a large committee list. Richard P. Harvek chairs officials including decorations, entertainment, athletics, auditing, bucks, refreshments, transportation, telephone, publicity, and subordinate forum judges.
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ELKS
A. Bimonich
Ed R. Lee
Leo E. Peletetler
L. A. Kilbever
Fracess A. Wakley
Whoows Z. Brown
James B. Baird
John Rolette
George B. Erickson
Troy Evans
Thomas 0. Roger
Mark P. Gleeson
Everett G. Marble
Ralph Butterworth
Henry J. Shaffer
William Feat
Bucks-Frank BH. Bayage
George J. Craig
Joseph H. Roberts
Ernest M. Sylvester
Frank L. Riley
Archia McTaggatt
Dron W. Phillips
Charles H. Schrage
Cecil R. Harris
Gatfield Harris
H. Don Christie
John P. S Madden
Carroll Fabian
Edwin 5. Fleming
Garrell Fabian
J. Howard Askins
Edward J. Mezzolini
Emmett Crotty
Herbert J. Hoenska
Professors hired to list New Deal ILS analysis
The Republican National Committee hires professors and experts to produce a complete analysis of the New Deal's three year effects. Dr. O. G. Saxon of Yale heads the new research division, stressing a nonpartisan, data driven study with documented statistics to guide national policy. In Montana, 500 orders for 115,009 trees are placed by farmers with the state university forestry nursery. Architects begin drawing plans for Great Falls stock yards with bids possible in 10 days.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Henry P. Pletcher
O. G. Saxon
Yale University
Felix Frankfurter
Harvard
Frankfurter
Brn Trust
Roosevelt
Fletcher
Miesoula
Forestry School Nursery
Montana State University
J. W. Cook
Forestry Department
Great F
Alos
Great False Lives Stock Commission Company
President Roosevelts Tornado Train Conference
President Roosevelt travels by rail for a special conference with Federal relief leaders and Major General Van Horn Moseley aboard a southbound train. A floodbelt survey and $2.5 million in emergency funds dominate the plans as Gainesville and Washington stops shape a cautious pace.
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van Horn Moseley
Fourth Corps
Bouth
Roosevelt
Washington
Frank Walker
New York
National Emergency Council
Walker
Farley
Democratic National Committee
Gainesville
Warm Springs
Montanans Visiting Montanans Visiting Card List
A roster of Montanans visiting various towns lists many names and places across Helena Livingston Whitehall Engleton Glendive Missoula Roundup Wisdom Great Falls Buttes Gardnell Dixon Cut Bank Helena and Billings. Names include Mr and Mrs, J L Coleburn, Mike Mullen, Otto Bee, Marjorie Wilson, Nora Lund, Rhoda Hoge, Lewis Johnson, Harry Wyman, W J Graham, and others.
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Glendive
T. A. Cowan
Missoula
Lee Stocker
Roundup
Arth Olsen
Wisdom
J. G. Hallberg
Harry B. Noel
Great Falls
W. J. Graham
Ben Leanger
Kalispelly
J. L. Coleburn
Billings
The
Buttes
F. E. Gruff
Twhy Bridges
J. 2. Sparrell
Gardwell
Mike Mullen
Dixon
Abby Finten
J. B. Hupp
H. G. Ewing
Cut Bank
Willard F. Fraser
J. R. Carmichaal
J. F. Planbery
Otto
Bee
G. D. Paxon
Helena
Marjorie Wilson
Frank Knight
G. R. Lowery
B. O. Holland
H. B. Alm
Morris
W. G. McKee
Will Steepe
Charles M. Saunders
Fort Missoula
and Mus
H. W. Gregory
C. H. Anderson
Nora Lund
Arizona
B Mebride
Atacania
R. C. Plumley
K. L Gray
Helens
Harry Wyman
Bilngs
Bombs Hit Spanish Churches and Convents Amid Holy Week Turmoil
Fresh anti church attacks erupt in three Spanish cities as a Valencia cathedral near worshipers is bombed. Extremists throw inflammable liquid at the Repartidores convent, and explosions rock a Barcelona convent. Nearby, road work along Flathead Lake proceeds as bids open May 8. A singing tour of ten days begins in the slums of England.
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Madrid
Valencia
Bantander
Reparadoras
Baterlona
Mirsoula
Flathead Lake
Flathead Indian Reservation
Kalispell
Bureau of Public Roads Engineers
Big Fork
Plathead Forest
Border clash claims 1 Japanese officer and 5 soldiers
Tokyo dispatch reports sustained border fighting between Soviet and Japanese forces. A Japanese lieutenant was killed and five soldiers listed as missing, according to Harbin based Harbisy Manchoukuo correspondent of the Comet news agency.
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Tokyo
Harbisy
Menchoukuo
Comet
Auto Production Jump In March From February
New York April 9 Automobiles built by members of the Automobile Manufacturers Association rose 47 percent in March from February and stood 15 percent above March 1935 the association reported today.
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New York
Automobie Manufacturesa Association
Senator Borah files in Virginia May primary bid
Senator Borah Republican candidate for President filed in Charleston West Virginia today for the May 12 Republican primary. Enrollment at Montana State University reached 9091 students on April 4 ending the second week of spring quarter. never before has registration been so large.
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Charleston
W. Va
Borah
Tda
West Virginia
Missoula
Montana State University
Dieting to Reduce Dangerous Fat Headline Fragment
Maryland Indy writes about cutting fat from diet and eating lean meats, fruit, and table foods in variety to feel younger and healthier. A reader notes relief after shedding bulky fat and happiness with changed health. References Krishon Salts and Krusphen as products with money back guarantees.
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Gali
Maryland
Indy
Montanan Benefit Clarified for Rural Cotton Contracts
The article explains a $6,000 benefit and notes a regulation from the old AAA cotton section. Cully A. Cobb, southern regional director, states that for two years contracts signed could contain terms binding other farmers in the same county under the regulation permit.
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Cully A. Cobb
Southern Regional
AAA
James Bushelle Dies at Glasgow in 1965
James Bushelle of Lewistown a member of the State University troupe died Tuesday in Glasgow. Funeral services will be held in Lewistown on Saturday. He was part of the quartet featured in the university show Birth of a Nation presented by the Junior Service Kovine at the Fes theater April 8 1965.
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J Ames Bushee
Lewistown
Butte
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