Court upholds national recovery law in oil case
Justice Joseph Cox of the District of Columbia supreme court refused to grant an injunction against Ickes oil orders. He said he lacked power to intervene or would be reluctant even if empowered, noting Congress declared a national emergency and granted Roosevelt extraordinary authority. Continued on page 2.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Joseph Cox
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Texas
Ickes
Cox
Congress
F. W. Fischer
Tyler
Mr. Roosevelt
Today and Tomorrow in A Fragmented Recovery Policy
The article argues that movers of recovery lack a comprehensive plan and formal policy. It asserts no single Washington creed guides decisions, with outcomes shaped by circumstance, personality, factionalism, and improvisation rather than fixed theories.
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Washington
Japanese Plot Aimed to Provoke Anger With United States
Testimony at a naval court trial details an alleged plan by 10 officers to assassinate an American ambassador and consul to provoke friction between Japan and the United States. Lieut. Kijo Ito testified that he and Lieut. Haruo Oba considered further assassinations after Ito was wounded, but were arrested during Tokyo outbreaks preceding Premier Inukai's May 1932 murder.
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Tokyo
Suyoshi Inukai
Japan
United States
Kijo Ito
Ito
Inukai
Shanghai
Haruo Oba
Horishi Yamagishi
America
Government securities subscriptions hit five billion
Washington August 15 Nearly five billion dollars in subscriptions were received on two issues of government securities offered recently though only about one billion in securities were allotted Acting Secretary of the Treasury Acheson announced tonight.
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Washington
Treasury
Acheson
James H Rowe to Head Road Group at Economic Parley
James H. Rowe of Butte will lead the road groups of seven Intermountain states at a forthcoming intermountain economic conference in Colorado Springs in September 1923. The Montana meeting aims to discuss issues affecting Montana and western states with Montanan representatives in various sections. Murray Stebbins of Montana Wood Growers Association is to present a Livestock report and chairs the Livestock Group.
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James H. Rowe
Butte
Montana State Highway Commission
Colorado Springs
Montana
Poisoned watermelon linked deaths near Little Rock
An automobile carrying four dead family members and a surviving 4 year old boy was found nine miles north of Malvern Arkansas. Authorities suspect strychnine poisoning after a watermelon rind and bottle of whiskey were found in the car. A man fleeing the scene was captured and jailed for questioning.
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Malvern
Ark
Little Rock
Allen Cooley
Ethel
Clement
Clyde
Nashville
Tenn
Hot Springs
Cline Smith
Mark H. Shank
Akron
Ohio
Cooney urges state employees insured under workmen plans
Governor Cooney requests department heads to arrange industrial accident insurance for all state workers following the death of J. Frank Cone. Cone, a former secretary of the state senate and field worker for the state industrial accident board, died in an automobile accident and his widow will receive compensation from the accident fund.
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Helena
Cooney
J. Frank Cone
Hamilton
State Senate
Industrial Accident Fund
Cone
State Industrial Accident Board
Cooney Eyes Dam Projects With New State Engineer
Governor Frank H. Cooney plans early action on about 125 flood control dam projects after Donald A. McKinnon of Washington arrives as Montana state engineer. A meeting with the advisory board, Governor Cooney, and Congressman Roy Ayers will set the plan during McKinnon’s visit to Helena.
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Frank H. Cooney
Helena
Donald A. McKinnon
Washington
Montana
Butte
McKinnon
Cooney
Roy Ayers
James E. Murray
Raymond Hart
Billings
Peter Peterson
Glasgow
Ulric H. Ellerhusen
Ellerhusen
Florence Cooney
Byron Cooney
Montana Weather Outlook for Wednesday and Thursday
Montana forecast calls for generally fair conditions on Wednesday and Thursday with only small temperature changes. No precipitation indicated and skies expected to be mostly clear across the state.
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Montana
W E Harmon 77 former Montana official dies
Bozeman Mont Aug 15 W E Harmon 77 prominent Montanan died at his home after a series of paralytic strokes following pneumonia last winter An illness since December weakened him and after two heart strokes the last eight days ago he remained unconscious He is survived by Mrs Harmon a daughter Mrs James Cushman of Portland and a granddaughter Helen Louise Bolton Two daughters died in 1919 Funeral services expected in Bozeman Thursday Harmon held three major offices including state superintendent of public instruction and state treasurer with a reputation for steady service and state improvement
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Harmon
James
Ella May) Cushman
Portland
Ore
Helen Louise Bolton
Lewistown
David Bolton
Cora Alice Harmon
Bozeman
Eight Slain in Capital During Day's Rioting
In Havana on August 15 dispatches report eight more deaths as post Machado disorder continues. The De Cespedes government faces arrests for misappropriation and fraud linked to ex president Machado. Prison riots wounded inmates at Principe, guards and soldiers firing upon protesters.
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Havana
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
Gerardo Machado
Principe
de Cespedes
Martinez Saenz
the Treasury
Governor to Speak at Montana Press Convention Friday
Governor Frank H. Cooney will deliver the main address Friday afternoon at the Montana State Press association gathering in Bozeman. C. F. Kelley of Anaconda Copper Mining Company was to speak but cannot attend due to press of business. An impromptu talk is planned for the annual banquet Friday evening.
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C. F. Kelley
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Montana State Press Association
Bozeman
Frank H. Cooney
Ashes of Walter Carns to Be Tossed to Winds
Walter Carns longtime Butte Elks member will have his cremated remains scattered at Big Butte at dusk tomorrow. Fred I. Root of Richards mortuary says no ceremony is planned, and Elks officers have been asked to handle the arrangements.
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Walter Carns
Montana
Lodge of Elks
Big Butte
Fred I. Root
Richards Mortuary
Mr. Carns
Butte Lodge of Elks
Ryler
Root
Dis
Attractive Young Woman Questioned After Spokane Doctor Slaying
Spokane, Aug 15. An attractive young woman is questioned as a material witness in the death of Dr. J I Gaines 41 wealthy drugless healer and sportsman shot three times in his driveway after a Lake Coeur d Alene boating trip with the woman detained at a fashionable apartment. His wife Lily Gaines found him dying. police say a shooter waited in shrubbery or a cellar doorway.
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Spokane
J. I. Gaines
Arthur Aikman
Gaines
Lake Coeur d'Alene
Idaho
Aikman
Dr. Gaines
Lily Gaines
Forest Fires Near Butte Prompt Containment Efforts
Five forest fires attributed to human activity burned near Butte in the Deer Lodge area. The Dora Thorne ridge blaze covered three acres with 16 workers at the site, while the Dry Cottonwood gulch fire ten miles north spanned acres with 30 on patrol. Smaller blazes near Nez Perce lake, Sheep gulch, and McKennan meadows prompted limited crews and containment.
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Deer Lodge
R. T. Ferguson
Dora Thorne Ridge
Cottonwood Gulch
Butte
Nez Perce Lake
Little Whitetail
Mill Creek
McKennan Meadows
Night clubs shut doors amid fear of crime wave
In Kansas City an undetermined number of night clubs and gambling dens closed quietly tonight. The action was attributed by the Kansas City Star to fear within the democratic controlled city organization as a recent crime wave threatens unrest.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Star
Lamp Fire Burns Two Children in Creston Home
Fire caused by an overturned lamp injures two Bunyea children and destroys the Bunyea Buck home and furnishings in Creston. The victims, hospitalized, are expected to recover.
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Creston
Verne Bunyea
Infant Mortality Rate Declines in Montana
Helena Aug 15 The vital statistics division reports Montana’s infant mortality rate last year was 60.5 per 1000 live births the lowest in state history Four hundred sixty babies under one year died in 1932 Since 1910 the rate has dropped 43.4 per 1000 births across the period
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Helena
Montana
Vital Statistics Division
State Board of Health
Airplane gunner shoots girl near Sheerness
In Sheerness Kent on August 15 a Royal Air Force machine gunner fired on a rowboat killing 17 year old Jean Chesterton and injuring her sister. The gunner mistook the girls boat for a target while they retrieved a lost ball from the sea.
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Sheerness
Kent
England
Jean Chesterton
Royal Air Force
Jean
Police trap foils ransom gang in Chicago suburb
A Chicago police decoy ransom drop near La Grange ends gunfire as seven kidnap suspects flee in two cars. The setup involved a faux ransom package worth about 50 000 dollars linked to the Urschel and Factor cases, with hundreds of officers hidden nearby.
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Chicago
Charles Urschel
Oklahoma City
John Factor
la Grange
Picture Colony Fears Abductors
Mexican film actress Lupe Velez says her 4 year old niece Joan Del Valle Velez has been secretly taken to a convent in Mexico. Joan is the daughter of Velez's sister and was adopted by the actress a year ago.
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Los Angeles
Lupe Velez
Joan del Valle Velez
Mexico
Joan
Gunmen Menace Governor's Kin
Guards surround Mrs. Otis Seligman home after threats to kidnap Gov. Arthur Seligman's granddaughter Joan. A ransom demand accompanied the warning that the child would be taken if payment was not made.
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Santa FE
Arthur Seligman
Otis Seligman
Joan
Cotton farmers to receive $110 million in federal aid
Washington report says about $110,000,000 will be paid to American cotton farmers as a reward for destroying 25 to 50 percent of their crop as part of Roosevelt's recovery program. Checks likely to mail tomorrow. many farmers owe the government, and debts are being addressed. Attorney General Cummings reportedly ruled the 1875 law ineffective due to later amendments.
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Washington
America
White House
Roosevelt
United Press
Cummings
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Thomas B. Bush
Lawrence Hodges
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