Eight Montana Students Face Rhodes Interviews in Butte
Eight Montana students visit Butte next Wednesday for Rhodes scholarship interviews. Two will be chosen to advance to Spokane for final exams on December 20 among candidates from five states. four will win. This marks the 26th Montana Rhodes round, with 16 total winners to date, including two last year now at Oxford.
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Montana
Butte
Spokane
Oxford University
England
Montana Rhodes Scholarship Committee
Milton F. Chauner
Bozeman
Montana State College
Robert H. Clark
Missoula
Montana State University
John A. Evert Jr
Glendive
Haverford College
Haverford
William H. Giltner
Phoenix
Ariz
Charles Jelinek
Miles City
P. W. Payne
Leroy FE. Purvis
Great Falls
William F. Schallenberger
Francis A. Thomson
Montana School of Mines
J. R. Thomas
Montana Power Company
H. G. Merriam
Rhodes
Thomson
WPA to expand job rolls by 350000, Hopkins says
WPA administrator Harry Hopkins announced after a Roosevelt briefing that the Works Progress Administration will expand to cover 350000 more unemployed within the existing 1.5 billion appropriation. The move implies a 23 million monthly rise in WPA spending while not seeking new funds.
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Washington
Works Progress Administration
WPA
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
Hopkins
Works Progress
Johnson
Oklahoma
Democratic House
Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC
Dalhover to Die Last of Brady Gang
Indiana farm boy gangster James Dalhover, 31, was sentenced by a jury to die in the electric chair for the murder of State Trooper Paul Minneman. U S District Judge Thomas W. Flick set Monday at 2 p m for formal sentencing. Dalhover, last of the Al Brady gang, was captured in Bangor Maine after a gun battle that killed Brady and Schaffer.
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Hammond
Ind
James Dalhover
Indiana
Paul V. Minneman
U. S
Thomas W. Flick
Dalhover
al Brady
G-men
Bangor
Brady
Clarence Lee Schaffer
House Labor Committee approves wage hour bill plan
The House labor committee approved an amendment to the wage hour bill creating a single administrator in the Labor Department to set minimum wages and maximum hours. The panel voted nine to six to replace a five man board with an industry committee system, balancing employers and labor with three public members.
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Washington
House Labor Committee
Labor Department
Norton
New Jersey
Senate
U. S. Dancer Murdered in French Villa
In St. Cloud France police found the body of Jean de Koven a 22 year old American dancer killed by strangulation. German fugitive Eugene Weidmann led officers to a villa where the body lay buried beneath the porch as part of a murder spree he described to obtain money for food. A blonde woman described as part of the killings remained sought as investigators pursue the case.
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Jean de Koven
Paris
George Weidmann
ST. Cloud
France
Eugene Weidmann
St. Cloud Villa
Brooklyn, N. Y
de Koren
Weidmann
Montana Weather Forecast Partly Cloudy with Snow Flurries
Partly cloudy Montana forecast on Friday with east regions clear and west areas seeing snow flurries. Saturday is expected to bring rising temperatures across the state.
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Montana
Montana Braces for Warm Relief After Cold Wave
Montana residents awaken to rising temperatures as a deep cold spell eases. Readings fell to 16 below at Havre and Miles City and 20 below at Fort Peck, with 11 below at Billings, while Butte saw 22 above after a brief frosty retreat. The weather bureau forecast further relief today.
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Helena
Montana
Weather Bureau
Havre
Miles City
Fort Peck
Great Falls
Billings
John Span Dies After Saloon Shooting Near East Park
John Span a Great Northern car repairman died at St James hospital after firing three shots at Mrs Mary Holland at the Accordion Ace East Park street saloon. Holland wounded in hand arm and shoulder escaped after treatment. Span fled to a tool shed at Great Northern yards and died following a relapse.
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John Span
Great Northern
Mary Holland
One Dead One Hurt In Montana Crashes
Roscoe Kildow of Victor is in a Missoula hospital with probable fatal injuries after a crash on the Lolo grade when a passenger lit a cigarette and blinded the driver. Moose Paul, an Indian, was killed when struck by a car on the highway along Flathead Lake, about 80 miles north.
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Missoula
Roscoe Kildow
Victor
Lolo
Here
James Murphy
Moose Paul
Flathead Lake
Manufacturers Call for Wagner Act Revisions After Convention
The National Association of Manufacturers closed its annual convention with a demand to revise the Wagner labor relations act. Charles W. Fahy opposed revision during a closed session while Ernest T. Weir warned labor strife cost the nation five billion dollars in 1937. The board report urged rights to lawful strikes and to work, and urged government protection of the right to work.
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New York
National Association of Manufacturers
Charles W. Fahy
National Labor Relations Board
Ernest T. Weir
National Steel Corporation
America
Association
C I O Wins in Portland Vote at Inman-Poulsen Mill
In Portland Oregon the Committee for Industrial Organization won the jurisdictional election for Inman-Poulsen Lumber workers, polling 376 votes to 183 for the AFL. A total of 563 ballots were issued with three unused and one blank. no violence was reported.
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Portland
Ore
Committee For Industrial Organization
Inman-Poulsen Lumber Company
Charles H. Martin
American Federation of Labor
Glistening Yule Trees and Decorations Add to Butte Holiday Charm
Butte's streets glow with Christmas spirit as the Chamber of Commerce and local businesses deck the town. Two 30 foot trees at the Montana Power offices light up East Broadway while a traffic dead man decorates Park and Main. Living Christmas trees appear in Floral Park and at the Kerr home, with prizes awarded for best yard display. A yearlong tradition continues with continue reading on Page 15, Col. 6.
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Butte
Chamber of Commerce
Park and Main Streets
Montana Power Company
East Broadway
Park and Excelsior
F. M. Kerr
Floral Park
Mystery Cabin to Rise in Butte Business District
A Salvation Army hut will appear Saturday morning in central Butte’s business district to collect donations for Christmas baskets. No permit or contractor details were released. The Army aims to deliver 200 baskets the day before Christmas and seeks coffee, sugar, canned goods, butter, and other foods from the public.
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Butte
Mussolini Plans Withdrawal From League as Italy Prepares Defense
Rome reports Il Duce Benito Mussolini will formally withdraw Italy from the League of Nations after failing to reach an understanding with Britain. He plans a vast defense program for a possible Italo British conflict in the Mediterranean, with approval expected at an extraordinary Fas cist grand council session.
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Rome
Benito Mussolini
Great Britain
League of Nations
Mediterranean
Mussolini
League
Grand Council
Il Duce
Idaho Killer of Three Plunges From Gallows
Boise reports Douglas Van Vlack of Tacoma Washington attempted suicide tonight on the Idaho State Prison gallows before midnight. He leaped from a cell block after refusing to come down for an audience with his mother, landing on his head and shoulders. His condition was described as critical with pulse failing.
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Boise
Idaho
Douglas van Vliack
Tacoma
Wash
Douglas van Vlack
Idaho State
William H. Gess
Gess
G. H. Wahle
van Vinck
Mildred
Philippine Army Officials and U S Flyer Found Safe
Major General Paulino Santos, Lieut. William Lee, and Col. Fidel Segundo were found alive on a small island off Luzon after disappearing Monday when their plane encountered a typhoon while returning from Moro rebellion centers in the southern Archipelago. Local army air field notified Manila authorities of the rescue.
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Manila
Philippine Army
United States Army
Army Air Field
Pacific
Luzon
Paulino Santos
Phillipine Army
William Lee
Philippine Army Air Corps
Col
Fidel Segundo
Philippine Army Intelligence Corps
Bombardment Hits Nanking. Japanese Advance Reported
Radio from Wuhu says Japanese forces breached defenses and fight rages in the city as Nanking endures a heavy bombardment. From the river front, it is unclear if walls hold while planes dive toward the U S embassy area amid the assault.
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Shanghai
Wuhu
Weldon James
Nanking
U. S
Condition of Haskins in grave state after accident
Butte attorney and prominent state Mason Frank W. Haskins remained in grave condition after a car crash west of Laurel. He suffered a brain injury and required immediate surgery with a Seattle specialist en route to Billings to perform the operation. His wife and daughter Inez Haskins stayed at his bedside.
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Billings
Frank W. Haskins
Butte
Laurel
Haskins
Seattle
Wash
Irrigation Board Wraps Sessions in Billings
Members of the new reclamation repayment commission finished hearings in Billings with Indian service irrigation officials and planned to continue the state tour in Sidney. They discussed repayment problems of federal reclamation project water users.
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Billings
Reclamation Repayment Commission
Indian Service Irrigation
Sidney
Reclamation
Dr Gregg Discusses Heart Disease At City Clinic
Dr H W Gregg of the Murray clinic spoke to advanced first aid men and others at Butte High School on heart disease. The lecture was sponsored by the Bureau of Safety of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co and arranged by the Silver Bow Medical Society. W J McMahon, labor commissioner for Anaconda Copper, presided in John L Boardman’s absence and said December lectures are postponed until after the holidays.
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U.S
H. W. Gregg
Murray Clinic
Butte High School
The
Bureau of Safety
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Silver Bow Medical Society
W. J. McMahon
John L. Boardman
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van Vlack
Hangman
Kent
Sandwich
Ham
Embassy
International
Brady Gang
House Committee
Florida
Associated Press
Buge
United States
GELL
Man
Philippines
Irrigation Body
DR. Gregg
Health Clinic
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