Utah Train Crash Kills Dozens At Salt Lake Crossing
A freight train speeding through a snowstorm struck a Jordan District school bus near a Salt Lake City crossing killing at least 22 students and the bus driver. More than 40 onboard, 17 injured, six critically. Authorities investigated cause as conditions and visibility were cited.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City General Hospital
Jordan District High School
Midvale
Farrold Silcox
Utah
FE. L. Rehmer
Denver and Rio Grande Western
Daladier Takes Tough Stance After Failed General Strike
Paris reports Premier Daladier moving to enforce his three year plan of economic mobilization after quashing a general strike. Public service leaders were discharged and thousands of private sector workers dismissed for joining the movement. Sympathetic walkouts added new government problems.
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Paris
Daladier
France
Boy Pleads for Life of His Mother
Thirteen year old Oscar Hahn pleaded for five minutes for Gov. Martin L. Davey to spare his mother Anna Marie Hahn the electric chair scheduled for Dec. 7. The clemency hearing adjourned as Earhart said a report to the governor would likely be delayed. Oscar visited his mother in death row after asking to testify.
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Columbus
Ohio
W.P
Oscar Hahn
Martin L. Davey
Anna Marie Hahn
Cincinnati
Daniel E. Earhart
Davey
Joseph H. Wood
Jacob Wagner
Oscar
Dramatic Rescue at Sea Aboard Mormacson
The American liner Mormacson rescued the crew of the fire-ravaged schooner Allen F. Rose after 12 days adrift off Newfoundland. Captain and four crew were transferred at noon. the stern held by wire, vessel waterlogged but all aboard safe. The Mormacson sails toward Gothenburg, Sweden.
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New York
Atlantic
Allen F. Rose
Newfoundland
Mormacson
Cape Race
Benjamin Benedetti
Marmacsun
Radio Corporation of America
St. John’s Newfoundland
J. Keeping
Capain
O. K
St. John’s
Gothenburg
Sweden
Government Arranges Sale of 20 Million Bushels Wheat
The Agriculture Department announced the sale of 20,000,000 bushels of surplus U S wheat to flour millers in Great Britain under the export subsidy program. The push aims to place 100,000,000 bushels in foreign markets before next July with deliveries over several months and losses borne by the government.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Great Britain
Communists Active in Labor Questioned by Probers
Homer Martin president of the United Automobile Workers told the House un American activities committee that Communists seek control of labor. He said the number of Communists engaged has been over emphasized and condemned the committee as a political tool in reactionary hands. He appeared reluctantly after a subpoena.
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Washington
House Committee On un-American Activities
Homer Martin
United Automobile Workers
House Committee
Resignation rumors swirl around F D R cabinet
Washington dispatch reports a wave of rumors about possible resignations as President Roosevelt enters the second-term stretch. Speculation centers on Secretary Ickes possibly running for mayor of Chicago next year, leaving Hull Morgenthau and Wallace as the remaining untouched members.
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Kirke L. Simpson
Washington
Roosevelt
Ickes
Chicago
Hull
Morgenthau
Wallace
Death toll in U. S. to fall 73,000, life insurance group reports
Dr. Harold M. Frost reports at the 32nd annual convention that deaths among U. S. policyholders will drop from 794.3 to 747.9 per 100000 this year, saving 46.4 lives per 100000 and about 73,000 fewer deaths nation wide. He cites population growth and notes gains across 18 of 21 causes of death.
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New York
United States
Association of Life Insurance Presidents
Harold M. Frost
New England Mutual Life Insurance Company
Association
Frost
Walsh Eulogized in Address by Sen Wheeler
Sen. Burton Wheeler praised late Senator Walsh at Carroll College in Helena during the dedication of a life sized bust. He said Walsh should have been Attorney General, preventing direct and indirect attacks on the Constitution and reducing political strife had he served in that role. Wheeler noted the president had invited Walsh to join the cabinet before Walsh’s sudden death.
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Helena
U.P
Walsh
United States
Burton K. Wheeler
Carroll College
Wheeler
The
Respect for Constitution urged at Butte Elks meeting
James T. Finlen Jr. urged reverence for the U S Constitution as essential to civilization during Butte Elks Americanism night. He warned of ills facing the nation and praised lodge efforts such as the Bucks club campaign to buy an iron lung for a paralytic child, with the drum corps leading a citywide parade.
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United States
Elks
James T. Finlen Jr
Butte
Montana Elks
Butte Lodge of Elk
Bucks’ Club
Butte Lodge
Special venire called in Mayer murder hearing
Seattle reporters note a special venire of 50 was called as the fourth day of the Mayer and Smith trial passed without a jury seated. The defendants, charged with first degree murder in the 10 year old disappearance of James Baasett, await a tentative jury.
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Seattle
U.P
DeCasto Earl Mayer
Mary Eleanor Smith
Mayer
Salesman escapes death in canyon crash in Idaho
Piano salesman P E Freeman from Twin Falls Idaho survived a 150 100 drop from the Roosevelt highway near Idaho Falls after his light sedan with a piano strapped on the rear end rolled four times. He recalled breaking two trees and bouncing over large boulders and estimated the piano broke into thousands of pieces. He remained with minor injuries and mused it may not have been his time.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
E. B. Freeman
Twin Falls
Roosevelt Highway
Freeman
Butte Festively Decorates Business District for Christmas
Butte’s business district will buzz with shoppers over the next three weeks as stores offer Christmas bargains. The Chamber of Commerce plans the town’s most elaborate seasonal display with streams of colored lights, wreaths, and Christmas trees along major streets, ready for turning on Saturday night to create a fairyland downtown.
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Butte
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Freight train crash kills many at Jordan district school
In Salt Lake City a freight train plowed into a Jordan district school bus two miles south of Midvale, killing more than score of children and injuring others. Farmers and officials gathered bodies and debris as survivors described the chaotic scene and a nurse-led world of mourning in a gray-stone hospital.
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G. M. Kelley
Salt Lake City
Jordan
Midvale
Grant
Jordan School
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
Margie Groves
Romania Faces Uncertain Fate After Anti Fascist Purge
In Bucharest on December 1 authorities awaited the response of the outlawed Iron Guard after the killing of its leader Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and 13 followers. Officials said the guard is dead as King Carol II remains strong. police were ordered to shoot anyone involved in violence to prevent outbreaks.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Iron Guard
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Carol II
Europe
Codreanu
Montana Snow Flurries Forecast This Weekend
Snow flurries are forecast in Montana Friday and Saturday with colder conditions Friday. Weather officials urge residents to prepare for light snowfall and chilly temperatures across the state.
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Montana
Girl Kidnap Victim Freed Returns Home
Mary Brown an 18 year old schoolgirl abducted yesterday afternoon was found tonight in a hysterical state at her farm home in Oxon Hill Maryland. Lucy her sister reported two men in a truck offered a ride and after Mary was seized she was taken to Washington and later released near her home.
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Irene Brown
Aledo
Inl
Mercer
Chicago
Oxon Hill
Dee
Mary Brown
Brown
Mary
Washington
Margaret Brown
Lucy
Students From South Africa to Visit Here
Thirty students from the University of South Africa at Johannesburg, traveling over 9 000 miles, will arrive in Butte January 16 for a two day stay. They will be hosted by the Anderson Carlise Technical Society leaders with John Engstrom, president, noting the arrangement.
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Butte
Anaconda
University of South Africa
Johannesburg
Montana School of Mines
Anderson- Carlise Technical Society
John Engstrom
Butte Public Schools Attendance Rises Across Period
Attendance in Butte public schools for the six weeks ending November 25 totals 6,028 pupils. High school 1,928 and elementary 4,100 mark increases from the first period, though compared with last year’s numbers, high school and elementary figures show declines. Of high school attendees, 997 are boys and 931 girls.
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Butte Public
Rose Sekovich
Lowell W Johnson
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