Tax Loophole Bill Advances As Session Nears End
Washington dispatch notes a swift House passage of tax legislation aimed at closing loopholes with a 173 to 0 vote. The measure moves to the Senate for rapid action and is expected to bring substantial revenue. Farm tenancy aid faced late hurdles as the House panel deferred its start to next year amid a $78.5 million deficiency bill.
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Washington
House
Senate
Treasury
House Appropriations Committee
Agriculture Department
Jones
Texas
Agriculture Committee
Hope
Kansas
Five Persons Hurt in Car Mishaps In Butte Area
Two separate crashes injure three girls and two adults in Butte. Virginia Clifford 10 and Helen Clifford 9, sisters, suffer facial and head injuries after a driverless car rolls from a hill and strikes them near Hornet and Alabama streets. The vehicle, driven by A E Miller, ran down the hill, hit the girls and plunged over a bank. Miller was found on a porch after the incident.
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Butte
Virginia Clifford
Timothy Clifford
North
Idaho Street
Helen
Hornet
Alabama
A. E. Miller
Miller
Fistfight erupts as Black confirmation argued in committee
In Washington on August 16 senators clashed as critics pressed to block Hugo L. Black’s Supreme Court confirmation. The Senate judiciary committee voted 13 to 4 to advance the nomination without public hearings.
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Washington
Hugo L. Black
Supreme Court
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
Congress
van Devanter
Federal Officer Shoots Self After Robbery in Portland
In Portland Oregon deputy U S marshal Neil C DeLong shot himself after police closed in on him over a robbery of Evergreen Finance in Vancouver Washington about $150 taken. He had left a note asking marshal J T Summerville to use his insurance money to pay debts and was gravely wounded.
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Dieterich
Ill
Burke
Black
Senate
Besmirch
Portland
Ore
UBP
Neil C. DeLong
United States
Evergreen Finance Company
Vancouver
Wash
Good Samaritan Hospital
DeLong
U. S
J. T. Summerville
Summerville
Lout
Federal Building
Portland Business District
Loyalists Admit Rebel Victory Near Cantande
Madrid dispatch reports the government acknowledging Franco’s northern army broke Loyalist lines south of Santander. Rebels used tanks, aviation, and artillery to seize Quintanapalla Torres de Abajo La Ermita Montoto Prada, with forty rebel tanks passing the lines toward Corconte amid bitter night battles. Government lines were adjusted in the Reinosa area as rebels pressed on Biscay Bay defenses.
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Madrid
U.P
Francisco Franco
Santander
Bay of Biscay
Quintanapalla
Torres de Abajo
la Ermita
Montoto
Prada
Corconte
Reinosa
Teruel
Butte Crippled Children To Attend Saturday Picnic
Crippled children of Butte are invited to the Basin Creek reservoir outing sponsored by the Butte Auxiliary for the Rehabilitation of Crippled Children. Those under the auxiliary or not should meet at St James hospital at 12 30 Saturday for transport.
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Butte
Butte Auxiliary
Basin Creek
St. James Hospital
Auxiliary Advisory Board
Frank E. Savage
W. B. Daly
W. J. Walsh
T. J. Walker
C. J. Ryan
George Nelson
Mary Simonson
Ray J. McDonald
George N. Short
Frank Venable
William Stussy
Louise Schrup
E. N. Sylvester
Sugar control measure goes to conference
The House ordered the sugar control bill sent to a conference committee for adjustment with the Senate and the administration. A Senate amendment proposing a one year freeze on refined sugar quotas for the domestic United States Hawaii and Puerto Rico may shape the compromise. The raw sugar quotas would run three years.
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Washington
House
Senate
Administration
Roosevelt
United States
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Conference
McCormack
Massachusets
Interior
Arctic airmen search halts as weather slows rescue
Jimmy Mattern arrived in Fairbanks after a 2600 mile non stop flight from Oakland to join a large search for six Russian transpolar flyers missing since a 4000 mile Moscow to North Pole attempt. Faint radio signals were reported by Soviet and American observers suggesting the crew may have survived a forced landing in Arctic wastes.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Arctic
Jimmy Mattern
Mattern
Oakland
Calif
A. Vartanian
Seattle
Moscow
Sigismund Levaneffsky
Polar Wastes
North Pole
Levaneffsky
Siberia
One Killed and Two Wounded in Bozeman Crash
A Sunday morning automobile crash near Bozeman left Patrick E. Nichols dead at 37. His brother William Nichols, 21, was critically injured with skull fracture and crushed chest. Alvin Cassidy, 43, of Ennis, suffered brain concussion but remained conscious. Coroner Ole L. Oleson said no inquest would be held and noted the car rolled at least five times after leaving the highway.
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Bozeman
Here
Patrick E. Nichols
William Nichols
Truck Mishap In Chatham Square Narrows Court Day
Interpreters prepare for a Thurdsay session as Wong Sin June a 24 year old Chinese truck driver faces assault passing a red light and defective brakes charges in Chatham Square. The incident left a peanut push cart toppled a fruit stand and injuring a diverse crowd including Silvio Ragzigion Pluton Panazatakos Joseph Shuss and Eng Joen. Officer Daniel McCarthy made the arrest.
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New York
Wong Sin
Wong
Chatham Square
Silvio Ragzgion
Brooklyn
Pluton Panazatakos
Joseph Shuss
Eng Joen
Daniel McCarthy
Refugees Flee Shanghai Under Fire on Yangtse Run
More than 1,000 American and British women and children set out in frail tenders from Shanghai down the Whangpoo toward the sea. About 337 Americans and 850 British sought safety as Japanese warships fired near the flotilla, despite prior pacts to avoid hostilities during their departure. The voyage passed within yards of smoking guns as consulates urged calm while the refugees head toward Woosung liners.
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Shanghai
Whangpoo River
Woosung
Yangtse
Transfers Put Ouutet Leaders in Death Danger
A series of unexpected transfers in the Soviet leadership prompts concern over possible toppling of key figures. Innokenti Khalepsky, once a telegraph operator and later commissar of posts and telegraphs, and G. T. are moved to "New York" in a reshuffle that hints at major political shifts.
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Moscow
New York
Innokenti Khalepsky
G. T
Atkinson Assumes Presidency of University of Arizona
Dr. Alfred Atkinson, former president of Montana State College, takes over as president of the University of Arizona in Tucson. He will spend weeks meeting students and reviewing policies while Dr. Burgess remains as dean of the college of agriculture.
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Tucson
Ariz
U.P
Alfred Atkinson
Montana State College
Bozeman
University of Arizona
Paul S. Burgess
Atkinson
Burgess
College of Agriculture
Roosevelt weighing reinforcements to China amid undeclared conflict
High officials discussed rushing American reinforcements to protect nationals in China after a Roosevelt conference with Army and Navy leaders. Shanghai hosts about 4,000 Americans, with 1,050 Marines and up to 7,000 service members in the wider troubled area. No comment on necessity was issued, and continuation is promised.
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Washington
China
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Malin Craig
Hull
Stanley K. Hornbeck
Far Eastern
State Department
Shanghai
Woman Surgeon Seeks Chance to Aid China in War Zone
Dr. Margaret Chung, American-born Chinese surgeon in San Francisco, urged the Nanking government to allow her to treat Chinese wounded in North China trenches. She offered to abandon her lucrative practice and depart at once to join the fight. She noted the shortage of trained doctors and the overwhelming workload for volunteers.
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San Francisco
U.P
Margaret Chung
Nanking
China
Chung
Montana Weather Forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday
Montana forecast shows generally fair conditions on Tuesday and Wednesday with warmer temperatures in the extreme east on Tuesday.
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Montana
Japan Prepares Grim War Effort Amid Public Reluctance
On board the President McKinley between Kobe and Shanghai, James A. Mills reports Japan plans to deploy up to 100,000 troops in China. He notes widespread public unease over taxation and the cost of living despite official propaganda pushing toward war.
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James A. Mills
Associated Press
McKinley
Japan
Shanghai
China
Kobe
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