19 Aug 1933
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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1933
Page
1
Market report shows chaotic wheat conditions easing as exports decline. Farmers seek new crop outlets amid a global production rise from 1913 to 1928, highlighting a glut and shifting demand within the world market.
Cuban investigators report the remains of four prisoners found at a fortress under Altares, victims of torture after the bombing of the presidential palace. The men Margarito Iglesias Miguel Angel Hernandez Felix Ernesto Alpizar and Jose Domingo Machado were seized by Machadoist police and dead ends followed. Army officials fear many more skeletons lie hidden and may order arrests of the presidential guard.
In Clarendon Texas population under 3 000 residents in Donley County the town and rural areas weathered the 1930s downturn by relying on agriculture and barter Rather than outside aid locals filled home pantries with canned foods totaling 38000 in 1930 and 40000 in 1931 and merchants limited sales to Donley county produce An exchange system spread to 15 nearby communities with ads offering barter and goods to meet surplus demand
Bozeman Aug 18 Gov Frank H Cooney addressed Montana State Press Association urging editors to push recovery measures flood control highway work and Montana products to aid the jobless The governor praised the press for courage and vigor while O B Warden outlined highway progress and John Dexter explained the agricultural adjustment program. Continued on Page 6 Col 4.
After hours of wrangling the United Nations negotiates a path to open oil exploration. The deadlock threatened progress but the agreement secures a course of action with broad international backing.
Washington reports that dominant steel industry figures reached an agreement with Recovery Administrator Hugh Johnson on a steel code. The deal, approved by President Roosevelt, sets a 40 hour week over six months with a 48 hour cap, six day weeks, and an eight hour day after capacity hits 60 percent, with minimum wages estimated above 40 cents.
The article outlines how wheat prices fluctuated in 1904 with caps and limits, noting a global pattern. It highlights the four major producers United States Canada Australia and Argentina and explains wartime demand boosting exports then easing postwar.
The city council adopted two ordinances reducing license fees for many businesses by 12.5 to 50 percent and creating no parking zones in front of theaters. Alderman Fred Seubert presided in Mayor McTaggart’s absence. The body adjourned to Aug. 25 to consider contracts for extending the tax rolls and issuing tax receipts.
Washington reports July tax collections rose sharply from a year earlier aided by beer and wine receipts totaling 16.4 million. July revenues reached 131.1 million with alcohol taxes up from June and stock transfers contributing 7.7 million while income taxes fell from June levels.
Missouri voters expected to vote to repeal the eighteenth amendment making the state the 22nd wet. Officials and anti prohibition groups forecast landslide support though some urge members not to vote and legal challenges loom in the Supreme Court. In Colorado the anti saloon league seeks a rain of dry votes with a statewide day of prayer planned for September 12.
Montanas Saturday outlook calls for unsettled cooler weather with likely thunder showers in the western portion. Sunday is expected to be generally fair with improving conditions across the state.
A Montana public works board session Monday will hear arguments for a new high school in Butte. Delegation includes Superintendent J G Ragsdale and trustees Fred Root Fred Taylor Miles Cavanaugh and Willard Thompson. Architectural plans show a building under 300000 dollars, 360 feet frontage, three stories, no basement. Location to be decided later. district previously bought Gold and Wyoming street site for potential use.
A three week underground fire on George Harrison’s Grasshopper valley ranch in Dillon has scorched 300 yards of terrain, with no flames but continuous smoke from soil fissures. Harrison plans to flood the area by ditching Grasshopper creek to try to extinguish the mysterious blaze next week.
Leo pold Thomas a New York tree trooper wandered five days in central Idaho timber after losing his way Monday. Fear and hunger drove him toward madness as 200 searchers including civilian conservation corps workers scoured the area near Brokane. Bloodhounds were expected to arrive as relief parties pressed the hunt tonight.
In southwest Los Angeles three men ducked out of a doughnut shop after a special officer dropped his shotgun near a bank. The discharged weapon wounded Marshall Mendenhall, Al Shultz and Vernon St. John, with Shultz and St. John most seriously hurt. All underwent pellet removal surgery. The guard, F. F. Reid, was transporting cash for a grocery store employee.
In Chicago on August 18 Mrs. Alice Covelli, lying in a hospital bed, was remarried to the man she shot earlier. She died later, claiming she acted from insanely jealous rage over his attentions to another woman.
In San Jose California on August 18 authorities investigated Alfredo Vecchio a six year old described as mentally sub normal kept in a closet at home off and on for more than a year. His parents Felicia and Charles Vecchio said they worked and had to do something. Juvenile officers planned to place the boy in an institution and will review care of two other sons ages 10 and 3. The family was ordered to appear in police court and the father was arrested on a disturbing the peace charge.
In Livingston on Aug 18 Mrs. Robert Somerville 54 and her daughter Dorothy 19 were fatally burned when gasoline used to clean garments exploded in their basement. Dorothy fled outside while the mother, unaware, searched flames for her. The blast shattered windows and shook the house. Dorothy was a Montana State Normal College student. Jessie Somerville is county superintendent of schools.
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