Treasury to Continue Buying Domestic Silver at Current Price
Secretary Morgenthau indicated the Treasury will keep purchasing newly mined domestic silver at about 77.57 cents per ounce. He signaled a presidential proclamation will cover ongoing purchases until the current program expires January 1. Senators Pittman and King urged continuation of the domestic silver purchase price.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Treasury
Senate
Pittman
Nevada
King
Utah
Treasury hints on silver premium after four year control
Secretary Morgenthau suggested the Treasury would keep paying a premium on newly mined domestic silver to support prices after the four year international control treaty ends December 31. Investors debated whether President Roosevelt would issue a proclamation to maintain a higher domestic price than the world rate in London. The London market has seen a sharp fall amid the dispute.
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New York
Morgenthau
Treasury
London
Roosevelt
County Commissioners to Receive Bids on Garbage Jobs
The board of county commissioners invites bids for garbage collection and disposal in the county garbage district. Bids will be opened Thursday for removal from about 3,500 dwellings and county properties including jail, courthouse and hospital. One year contracts offered on weekly or ten day collection basis.
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Board of County Commissioners
Leonard Miners to Be Sued Identity Cards
Anaconda Copper Mining announces a policy of Butte jobs for Butte men. Men laid off at Leonard mine due to suspension will be replaced by workers with 1936 issued identification cards. Foreman at Leonard mine will issue new cards starting today, giving preference for employment at other mines. applicants should bring rustling cards.
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Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Butte
Leonard Mine
Disappearance of New Yorker lO Under Probe
Arthur Fried a 32 year old New York business executive vanished from his Westchester home after Saturday night plans with family. Police and detectives investigated with FBI involvement amid rumors of kidnapping for 100000 dollar ransom.
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New Yorker
White Plains
N. Y
Arthur Fried
New York
Westchester
Fried
Edward J. Hughes
Federal Bureau of Investigation
New York City
Harold Daniels
New York Post
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
G Man Wounded in Extortion Probe Extortion suspect shot FBI agent
Federal agents say H A Snow was shot and seriously wounded in Independence Missouri while an extortion trap was set. Snow, once stationed at the Butte office, remains in critical condition as the investigation continues.
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G-Man
Washington
Federal Bureau of Investigation
H. A. Snow
Independence
Snow
Butte
FBI
Traffic fines to rise by about half under proposal
Police committee proposes higher bonds and fines for traffic offenses in Butte. Over parking and double parking would require 2.50 bonds, speeding 25, drunken driving 100, hydrant parking 5, with broader fines. City seeks alignment with Missoula and Great Falls levels to curb leniency.
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W. I. Shay
Butte
Missoula
Great Falls
Britain protests Japanese air attacks on ships and siege of Nanking
British Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little protested Japanese bombing of two merchant ships and damage to a supply depot in Shanghai while Japanese forces closed in on Nanking. Reports said Chiang Kai-Shek remained inside the nearly encircled capital as the Yangtze front threat grew.
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Shanghai
Great Britain
Ulsshas
Charles Little
Britain
Nanking
Yangtze
Chiang Kai-Shek
Kulin
Kiangsi
Retreating Chinese fires darken horizon around Nanking
By C. Yates McDaniel from Nanking on December 6 reports smoke rising from a hundred villages as retreating Chinese forces set fires. The Chinese capital, abandoned two weeks earlier, is virtually cut off from the world while U S embassy officials decide Americans should depart if possible.
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Nanking
China
United States
Inquest Set For Nimmo Death Friday Morning
Coroner M. F. Duff announced an inquest into 17 year old Verne Nimmo’s death, shot near the Hansen packing plant Friday night, will be at 10 o clock Friday morning December 10. Charles Elmer Smith, 17, who confessed the shooting, remains jailed with county officials involved, while Nimmo’s stepfather and mother plan Idaho travel but will return for the inquest. Funeral services for Nimmo were held yesterday at the Daly Shea chapel.
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M. F. Duff
Verne John Nimmo
Hansen
Charles Elmer Smith
F. P. Kelly
Larry Weir
Nimmo Boy
L. H. O’rear
Idaho
Daly-Shea
George
Re-elected Crippled Kids Auxiliary Board Reports Cash
The Butte Auxiliary for the Rehabilitation of Crippled Children re elected its advisory board at a Chamber of Commerce meeting. Officers reported a cash balance of 12 942.71 12 cases awaiting investigation and 2 583 patients treated. Election of officers set for Monday December 20.
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Crippled Kids Auxiliary Board
Butte Auxiliary For the
Chamber of Commerce
Police Begin New Arrest Blotter in Mining City
City jail started a fresh arrest blotter yesterday to cover the next two years if crime stays steady. The old log dated back to December 1935 and records show more than 6,000 arrests in the past two years, an average of about 250 monthly.
Compulsory Crop Control in House Vote Fails
The House rejected the farm bill provision for compulsory wheat marketing quotas 85 to 176, with a 15 cent tax on wheat sold above quotas. Debate blamed the plan for price collapse and labeled it unconstitutional while administration leaders hoped for reversal before final action. Senate consideration of farm aid and seed loans followed, amid budget-balancing talk and questions about presidential approval.
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Washington
Jones
Texas
Agriculture Committee
Wadsworth
New York
Coffee
Nebraska
Chamber
Schwellenbach
Senate
Borah
Idaho
Roosevelt
Congress
Typhoon Lashes Central Philippines Causing Floods and Loss
A third typhoon this season hits the central Philippine archipelago flooding rivers and ripping out communications as Mindoro stalls southward toward the China Sea. Reports cite heavy crop losses and two deaths, with earlier storms killing at least 280 people and displacing 200,000.
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Manila
Philippine Archipelago
Mindoro
China Sea
Youth Who Fled Army Faces Prison in Court Martial
Paul Crawley the 20 year old son of Mrs Henry Rosenfeld Jr faced six months imprisonment and a dishonorable discharge after deserting the Army to seek his mother whom he had not seen since childhood His mother now a Hollywood star named Baby Wampus flew to join him for moral support before a decision by Maj Gen George S Simonds of the Ninth Army Corps area The case followed his six year search for his mother after she divorced his father and left him with relatives He later surrendered after returning to the Army without finding her and the court martial was convened
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San Francisco
Paul Crawley
Henry Rosenfeld Jr
United States Army
Crawley
George 8
Simonds
Ninth Army Corps
Henry L. Rosenfeld Jr
New York
Port
America
Hollywood
Senator Berry Says TVA Robbed Him Of Leases At Norris Dam
Tennessee Senator George L. Berry testified before a three member commission on December 6 accusing the Tennessee Valley Authority of taking mineral leases in the Norris dam reservoir. He said the dam may be less valuable than marble submerged by the project and criticized TVA attorney Alvin Ziegler for challenging his credibility as a witness.
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Knoxville
Tenn
George L. Berry
Tennesseee Valley Authority
Norris Dam
Tennessee
Berry
Alvin Ziegler
TVA
Ziegler
Oregon governor to back election to end lumber labor conflict
Governor Charles H. Martin announced a plan to restore peace in Portland’s lumber industry by sponsoring a Dec. 9 election for Inman Poulsen Lumber Co workers. He said he would step into the labor dispute if the national labor relations board failed to settle jurisdictional issues and offered the same path to other mills and employees.
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Portland
Ore
Charles H. Martin
Ortland
Inman- Poulsen Lumber Company
National Labor Relations Board
Montana Weather Forecast Flurries and Cold Snap
The Montana forecast calls for snow flurries Tuesday with cooler air east of the divide. Wednesday brings partly cloudy skies and continued chill across the state.
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Montana
Divide
Butte Shooting Involving Span And Holland At Accordion Ace
John Span 29 a Great Northern car repairman shot Mary Holland 34 then shot himself in the abdomen at the Accordion Ace saloon on East Park street. Holland survived with non life threatening wounds. Span died later after being found with a self inflicted wound in the Great Northern yards. Police reported prior altercations and a divorce filing.
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John Span
Great Northern
Mary Holland
Accordion Ace
East Park Street
Span
Holland
Butte
Seattle
Great Falls
O. K
Tom Nixon
Herb O'Neill
Jack Duggan
Huhtanen
Tompkins
Welles Warns on Alien Propaganda Under Monroe Doctrine
Undersecretary Sumner Welles told the Inter-American Center at George Washington University that non American powers attempting to extend political or material influence in the Americas would provoke grave concerns and likely joint action. He spoke of propaganda in Latino America and stressed the Monroe Doctrine's implied safeguards without naming it directly.
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Washington
Sumner Welles
American
United States
Inter - American Center
George Washington University
State Department
Welles
James Monroe
Europe
Americas
Shoppers Gear Up as 16 Days Remain Before Christmas
Butte sees brisk business with 16 shopping days left as merchants report stock depletion. Decorations from the Chamber of Commerce draw favorable attention and stores wrap several hundred gifts for preholiday delivery.
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Butte
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Buite
Tail End Of Storm Brings Snow To Montana Towns
A late storm moving from Canada dropped snow along the highline with Helena and Butte feeling the tail end. Snow began after 9 pm with cold temperatures in the 40s at day and subfreezing overnight. Great Falls saw 24 to 16 degree swings while Burke Idaho reported freezing conditions.
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Helena
Butte
Burke
Idaho
Trompson Falls
Great Falls
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William Meyer
Charles R. Leonard
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