Northwest planners urge action on Grand Coulee and Columbia authority
In Seattle four Northwest states leaders convene a regional planning conference. Marshall N. Dana reads Roosevelt message urging duty. Dana supports rapid Grand Coulee dam completion and creating a Columbia valley authority akin to TVA. Hundreds attend with officials from Washington and Oregon.
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Seattle
Roosevelt
Northwest States
Marshall N. Dana
Portland
Pacific Northwest Regional Planning Conference
Dana
Grand Coulee
Columbia Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley Authority
Life of Nazi Ordeal Shared by American Spy Miss Steele
Miss Lillian Isobel Steele of Hollywood recounts four months in German prisons including Moabit and Berlin political jail where she faced death in a marked cell. She spoke aboard the President Harding on December 12 while on tour homeward, recalling night terrors, constant watchers, and attempts to signal others as she endured confinement and deprivation.
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President Harding
Lillian Isobel Steele
Hollywood
Miss Steele
Germany
Stern People's Court
Berlin
Harding
Moabite
Four Stranded Crew Rescued After Nine Days in Alaska Cabin
In a blizzard 150 miles from Anchorage a plane carrying Hazel McClung Oscar Winchell David Standberg and Werne Puntallo crashed in deep snow. They survived nine days by melting snow eating dried beans rice and grouse and signaling for help with a snow etched plea hungry need food and skis before a ski-equipped rescue plane found them.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Roy Dickson
Chuck McLean
Hazel McClung
Takoma
Oscar Winchell
David Standberg
Werne Puntallo
McGrath
McClun
Collapse at St Clments School Concert Kills, Injures Hundreds
In Liverpool, a concert hall floor at St Clements school gave way during a term end event. About 300 people were injured, many seriously, as hundreds fell 14 feet to the floor below amid collapsed desks and gas fears. Firemen and police worked through beams to reach those trapped.
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Liverpool
England
St. Clements
Budget Forecast Behind White House Budget Plan
The president has not yet announced his recommended program to Congress but faces clear issues. By January he must propose a budget for the coming year starting July 1, estimating government spending and income and using current figures as a starting point.
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Hile
Congress
Montana Forecast Mixed Clouds Rain Snow West
Generally fair conditions in eastern Montana with cloudier skies in the west. Occasional rain or snow expected in the extreme west Thursday and Friday. Temperatures likely to drop in the eastern portion on Thursday.
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Montana
Legion Auxiliary Sells Health Seals At Local Booths
Silver Bow Unit No 1 of the American Legion auxiliary led by Mrs. Ruth Pott operates health seal booths in local stores to support the Butte Anti Tuberculosis society free clinic. Booths run 10:30 to 5 daily through Christmas, with nurse volunteers and wives of Exchange Club members aiding.
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Silver Bow Unit No. 1
American Legion Auxiliary
Ruth Pott
Butte Anti-Tuberculosis Society
Ladies of Exchange Club
Symons
Grand Silver
Montana Hardware
Penny's
Hennessy’s
Montana Power Office
Mrs. Pott
Mary Kearfis
Betty Powers
Florence Burgess
Lillian Biden
Margaret Hansen
Marian Miler
W. L. Chapman
Celia Beery
Nellie Knuckey
Vivian Rand
Clara Cox
Frances Buttener
Myra Freeman
National Education Association Officer to Speak Here Jan 9
Miss Daisy Lord of Waterbury Connecticut, president of the NEA department of classroom teachers, will address Butte teachers at the high school auditorium on Wednesday Jan 9. She arrives Jan 7 aboard the Olympian from Spokane and will go to Helena Jan 9 afternoon before returning Jan 9 evening to depart for the East. Lord advocates teacher civic participation and chairs the city League of Women Voters education committee.
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Daisy Lord
Waterbury
Ship Proceeds With Fire In Hold At Sea
The Pan-Atlantic wirelessed the coast guard that she is moving toward Jacksonville at six knots with a fire in her hold. The coast guard is standing by for further advisories and expects arrival in 24 to 28 hours if the fire stays under control.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Pan-Atlantic
Coast Guard
Jacksonville
Women Police Ordered to Carry Revolvers and Train
New York policewomen must carry a revolver and take part in regular target practice under new rules issued by Commissioner Valente. The move aims to improve marksmanship in the war on gangsters and follows prior practices of infrequent training and discretionary armament.
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New York
Lewis J. Valentine
Roosevelt names Baruch to head profits-cut war panel
President Roosevelt picks Bernard Baruch to chair a new committee to study ways to reduce war profits. The plan centers on freezing prices at war outbreak and taxing profits, with a winter push for related legislation. Senate munitions committee members view the move as an attempt to sidestep their inquiry.
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Washington
Senate Munitions Committee
Roosevelt
Bernard M. Baruch
Old War Industries Board
Hugh 8. Johnson
Blue Eagle
Swifty
Schoolboy Hurt in Coasting Crash at Shields and Talbot
Amos Matheson a 12-year-old Grant school pupil broke a leg last night when his sled struck a car driven by Archie Webking of 609 West Mercury. Webking was charged with reckless driving after taking the boy to St. James hospital. The injury follows two prior serious coasting accidents, one fatal, prompting police to warn against street sledding. Webking’s home is 609 West Mercury street.
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Amos
Buddy) Matheson
Grant School
Shields
Talbot Streets
Archie Webking
Mercury Street
Webking
St. James Hospital
East Broadway
Tulsa Gang Leader Aims to Silence Witnesses in Death
Philip Kennamer 19, who confessed to killing John F. Gorrell Jr., tells United Press there are motives behind Sidney Born Jr.’s death, arguing Born knew too much of the gang’s alleged extortion plots led by well-born Tulsa youths.
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Tulsa
Okla
Philip Kennamer
John F. Gorrell Jr
United Press
Sidney Born Jr
Born
Kennamer
Gor
Power-Dive Pilot Completes Army Test at 50 Cents a Foot
Los Angeles flyer Vance Breese performed a 16 000 foot power dive at 50 cents per foot for the U S Army testing a Northrop attack plane. The test from 20 000 feet aimed to nose dive to 4 000 feet, then recover, with Breese taped head to toe to prevent injuries. He earned 8000 dollars for the procedure.
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U. S. Army
Los Angeles
Washington
United States Army
John K
Jack
Barnstormer
Breese
Northrop
Army
Cuba writers subjected to castor oil treatment raid
In Havana on December 12 armed men seized the editorial rooms of the anti government paper Accion forcing writers and editors to the outskirts and administering castor oil. The Mendieta government tightened control as rumors of revolt spread and Accion led the campaign against Batista.
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Havana
Accion Tonight
Carlos Mendieta
Cuba
Accion
ABC Society
Pulgencio Batista
Meteor Seen In Daytime Over Billings Area
A large flaming meteor with a comet like tail of smoke was seen in full daylight east of Billings at noon. Three witnesses reported the flash, including an air plane pilot who observed it from 7,500 feet near Bozeman Montana as it crossed the sky and vanished to the north.
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Billings
Bozeman
Mont
Burns Poised for House Speakership After Rayburn Withdrawal
Washington December 12 A shift in the race for speaker of the next house follows Rep. Sam Rayburn Texas withdrawal leaving Rep Joseph W Burns Tennessee in position to win. The sudden move ends Rayburns bid and boosts Burns ahead in the contest.
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Washington
Joseph W. Burns
Tennessee
Sam Rayburn
Texas
First Lady Named Most Valuable Woman in U S
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted a $1,000 award at a Philadelphia social event, pledged the fund to Walter Fox for Warm Springs treatment, and was hailed as the United States most valuable woman from a humanitarian view. Bernard Gimbel then awarded $1,000 to Mrs. Edward Bok for outstanding service among Philadelphia women.
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Philadelphia
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ellis Gimbel
United States
Roosevelt
Walter Fox
Warm Springs
Bernard Gimbel
New York
Edward Bok
Post fails to set altitude record in flight
Wiley Post was informed by the United States Bureau of Standards that he did not reach 48 086.35 feet required for a new world altitude record in his flight last week. The existing record of Lieut. Renato Donati of Italy at 47 352.02 feet remains.
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Bartlesville
Okla
Wiley Post
United States Bureau of Standards
Renato Donati
Italy
Post
Two and Half Million Lottery Swindle Nipped
New York police announced the arrest of Abner Fein Charles Fee and George Shayne in a 2.5 million bogus lottery ring. They raided a printing shop seizing 600 000 tickets tied to a Quebec hospital fund sweepstakes. hospital and Big Sisters denied knowledge of the lottery.
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New York
United States
Abner Fein
Charles Fee
George Shayne
Quebec Hospital Fund
Big Sisters
Hospital
Silver Bow County Balance Sets at 244 611 on Dec 1
A county report shows Silver Bow County held 244 611.11 in all funds as of December 1. The general fund totals 12 090.60, with large balances in Poor fund 52 264.52 and bond sinking fund 28 701.85 among others. Expenditures in November totaled 19 612.66. receipts for the month reached 220 583.81. The grand total across all funds and accounts stood at 685 988.46.
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Silver Bow
Mervin Dempsey
John Holland
Pension
County Free Library
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Northwest
Recourgeo
Parley
Planning Council
J. S. James
Oregon
Far North Reach Safety
Associated Press
Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Grand River
By Walter Lippmann
Weather Forecast
Legion Auxiliary
Wives and Ladies of Exchange Club
National Education Association
Society
Burns
The
Say Post
Silver Bow County
M. Dempsey
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