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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1932
Page
1
The piece discusses stock market dynamics with General Dawes and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. It covers views on short selling, market manipulation risks, and opinions from Matthew Brush before the Senate on stock exchange practices and future market trends.
The campaign committee on pledges for the Silver Bow County Emergency Relief fund must submit reports by noon today, announced at the Chamber of Commerce meeting last night. A three day drive completed by workers for renewal of subscriptions aims to sustain relief work in Silver Bow County.
Washington April 22 two bear raiders vanish before Senate probe into short sellers and their market impact. Counsel William Gray says Thomas E Bragg Bernard E Smith missing while M J Meehan also unserved but not suspected of fleeing. Prominent operators Matthew C Brush and Percy Rockefeller warn that short selling may push prices lower.
Reports that a halfbreed Indian named Smith found gold while dressing a moose near Scurvy Creek have spurred prospectors into Atlin British Columbia. Smith told the gold commissioner that he noticed a gold-bearing seam and the tale has revived belief the famed lost mine is nearby.
In Silver Bow county Roosevelt backers plan a large luncheon today at the en hotel. The event, sponsored by the Women Roosevelt-for-President group, invites the public and features guest speaker Mrs. W. J. Butler of Helena, head of the Lewis and Clark county women’s Roosevelt movement, with attendees from Butte Anaconda and Deer Lodge counties.
Berlin April 22 declaration by Finance Minister Herman Dietrich states Germany will not resume payments on political obligations to former allied nations when the Hoover moratorium ends July 1. He emphasized the nation will pay no more, contrasting with Bruening’s earlier “cannot pay” phrasing and signaling potential international tension.
The Evening Post prints side by side quotations from Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Hawley Smoot tariff. Smith cites consequences of lowered foreign trade and European tariff walls. Roosevelt echoes the same concerns with the bill’s schedules and international impact.
Butte merchants launch a three day festival named Butte Opportunity Days for June 2 to 4 featuring parades music sports and shopping deals. Ed Marans chairs the initial committee with fifty merchants at Chequamegon cafe.
St Paul Minnesota April 22 Magnus Johnson former United States Senator filed as a candidate for a farmer labor nomination for representative in congress in the June 20 primary He ends years of political retirement to seek a return to Washington in a state that has long relied on his name and past record.
Porto Alegre, Brazil April 22. A 28 year old woman Senora Espinosa de Antunes gave birth to ten infants eight girls and two boys all died. Doctors rushed to Bacacay to confirm. The Montana Standard team noted the novelty of decuplets and the lack of a common term in Greek and French.
Maj Chauncey L Berrien assistant manager of mines for the Anaconda company died at Mayo Hospital Rochester after illness of several weeks The death comes as a shock to his family and to Montana where he had risen from mucker to assistant general manager of mines He is survived by his widow Celia a brother Captain Frank Berrien US Navy and four sisters Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery Moline Illinois The funeral is expected Monday
A report claimed Alfred E. Smith sent a phonograph record of a speech to Boston for radio broadcast. A Democratic staffer confirmed the record’s arrival but a committee secretary later said they knew nothing of it. Smith denied plans to visit the Bay State as the final campaign drive intensified.
Saturday in Montana remains unsettled with showers in the western portion. Sunday should be generally fair with little change in temperature.
James R. Hobbins, vice president of the Anaconda Company, mourns the death of Chauncey L. Berrien after a brief illness. Berrien stood out as a mining engineer and devoted leader, loved by employees and many in Butte.
Rear Admiral Burrage said Colonel Lindbergh renewed his request for the trio to press on with the negotiations in the Lindbergh kidnapping case. John Hughes Curtis and the Very Rev. H. Dobson Peacock returned to Norfolk after trips related to the talks.
Honolulu April 22. Public Prosecutor John C. Kelley plans a heated closing in the Massie lynching trial. He sought alienists to counter defense psychologists and press for condemning Lieut Thomas H Massie and three others in the Kahahawai case.
Montana will open bids tomorrow in Helena for 750000 dollars in highway treasury anticipation debentures. The issue equals half of the 1932 authorization and is secured by the five cent gasoline tax proceeds. Road project contracts set for May 10 and road oil crews to work by May 1, with oil shipments due soon between Helena Montana City and East Helena Winston.
Mrs. Margaret Drout of 14 North Montana Street was struck near Park and Montana streets by a car allegedly driven by Jack Cooley. She suffered chest injuries, head and arm lacerations, and shock. Cooley is jailed on drunken driving charges with unlicensed plates.
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