Panay bombing seen as deliberate by observers
Observers in Hankow report the Japanese aerial attack on the U S gunboat Panay was unmistakably deliberate, with planes bombarding the vessel four times despite American flags on awnings and masts. The Bee aided survivors, diplomats voiced outrage, and 54 Americans plus three Italians remained in danger upriver near Hohsien.
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China
A.P
United States
Panay
Bee
Standard Oil Company
Yangtze River
Hohsien
Nelson T. Johnson
Yangtze
Nanking
Senator George urges surplus-buying farm bill plan
Senator George of Georgia urges Democrats to buy surplus crops at production cost rather than curtail output. He argues government should guarantee producers the cost of surplus crops and allow farmers to grow freely, aiming for a farm bill as a model of policy. Senate leaders seek a midweek roll call vote.
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Senate
Heavy Snow Covers Eastern Rockies Belt
A steady snowfall spread from the continental divide into Colorado and Wyoming eastward across the Midwest farm belt and into New Mexico. The wet snow paralyzed highway traffic in some areas and halted air service between Denver Cheyenne and Chicago. Continental Air Lines and United Air Lines suspended flights as the storm moved east, with the heaviest fall reported in eastern and southeastern Colorado.
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Lander
Journalism Building Is Dedicated in Missoula
Montana’s 23 year old school of journalism received its own home as Gov Roy Ayers presented a $200000 modern plant and classrooms to the State University. Dean A L Stone praised, and S V Stewart spoke at a dedicatory banquet amid years of planning and delays.
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Dean A. L. Stone
S. V. Stewart
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Dean Stone
Wallace Brennan
Grizzly Band
Montanans Receive Warm Twin Cities Welcome
A Montana delegation from Montanans Inc visited St Paul and Minneapolis to outline state water conservation plans, irrigation needs, and resource development. They highlighted commerce links and Montana recreation and dude ranch tourism to Minnesota business, banking, and industrial leaders, and urged mutual understanding of irrigation needs.
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Repudiated Confession in Great Falls Killing Case
Mrs. Martha Foster, 60, retracted a prior signed confession claiming she slashed her 66 year old husband’s throat after he cut his wrists. City officials say her new account says he acted alone, with evidence suggesting she found him on the floor and he died after another razor wound.
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Great Falls
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Paul Murphy
Murphy
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Harold Mady
Big Business Seen As A Community Venture Not A Myth
William E. Hammond of Minneapolis spoke to the Butte Chamber of Commerce board at the Chequamegon cafe arguing that big business is a public misnomer created by politicians. He said business is built by everyone in the community working together in the nation's economic life.
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William E. Hammond
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United States Chamber of Commerce
Chequamegon Cafe
Montana Weather Forecast Fair Tuesday and Wednesday
Montana forecast calls for generally fair skies on Tuesday and Wednesday with little temperature change. Dry conditions expected across the state with light winds and no significant precipitation anticipated.
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Montana
U. S. Troops Confined to Avoid Fight
U S Marines guarding the embassy district in Peiping were restricted to their quarter to avoid clashes with Japanese forces after news of the Panay and three merchant ships destruction in the Yangtze valley. Similar measures were reported for the Fifteenth Infantry in Tientsin as tensions rose across north China.
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United States
U. S
Panay
Yangtze Valley
Tientsin
Keeling
China
Japanese announce Nanking occupation and new Chinese regime
A Tokyo communique says Japan plans to push into central China as Nanking burns with smoke. It reports a newly formed provisional government in north China opposing Chiang Kai-Shek, with former leaders and officials named.
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Nanking
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Peiping
Republic of China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Manchukuo
Panay Sinking Triggers Gravest U S Japan Crisis
Shanghai dispatch reports the Panay gunboat and three American merchant ships sunk by Japanese bombers on the Yangtze above Nanking. The incident raises the gravest U S Japan strains since 1863-65 as investigations proceed and reparations questions loom.
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Yangtse
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Shimonoseki
Chinese Named in Dope Warrant Identified
Proceedings to remove Albert Chinn and Howard Chinn from Butte to New York continue at 10 am before U.S. District Judge James H. Baldwin on a grand jury indictment for conspiracy to violate narcotic laws. The court delayed the petition for removal and ordered their attorney P. E. Geagan to show authority on a possible misnomer.
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Albert Chinn
Howard Chinn
Butte
New York
U.S
James H. Baldwin
Baldwin
P. E. Geagan
Woman Pleads Guilty After Abandoning Child in Hospital
In New York a 23 year old mother, Agatha Grove Midgley, faced a magistrate for abandoning her four year old Joyce Midgley at the hospital. The district attorney declined to prosecute after an officer offered her a job in a department store. A reporter found a $10 bill on the floor. The mother spoke of despair and suicide attempts, saying she could not feed her children. Her other child, 19 months old Richard, was placed in a Bronx children's home by court order. The father is named Frederick Van Nostrand Grove of San Francisco and the husband had abandoned her.
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New York
Joyce Midgley
Agatha Grove Midgley
New York Foundling Hospital
Richard
Bronx
Frederick van Nostrand Grove
San Francisco
Butte Art Center to Be Formed at Tonight Meeting
A mass meeting for promoting an art center in Butte will be held at 8 p.m. in the city council chambers. Organizers will form a permanent body, elect directors, and name a committee to draft a constitution and by laws following a visit by D B Deffenbacher, regional adviser for federal art projects.
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Butte
London Silver Pact Not Renewed After January
An official says the London silver stabilization treaty expires January 1 and will not be renewed. Signed by the United States and eight other nations, it aimed to boost silver prices by restricting supply, but the pact is viewed as a failure as world silver trades around 45 cents an ounce. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau confirms no renewal discussions.
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U.P
London
United States
China
India
Spain
Australia
Canada
Mexico
Peru
Congress
Treasury
the Treasury
Morgenthau
United States Demands Over Panay Incident to Japan
Washington sent three stern demands to Japan after the Panay attack and other ships sunk above Nanking. The requests call for full compensation, apologies, guarantees against a repeat attack, and a personal message to the emperor via Japanese ambassador. One sailor killed, six missing, fifteen wounded reported.
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United States
Japan
U.S
Panay
Nanking
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Senate
Navy Department
Hiroji Saito
Hull
Montana Bituminous Conference Urged to Meet in Biloxi
Helena reports an urgent request presented to the Montana Highway Department to hold the 1938 Montana National Bituminous Conference in Biloxi Mississippi. Governor Hugh L White and Mississippi highway officials praised past Montana meetings and urged the next gathering be in the South while noting the conference will retain its Montana name.
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Mississippi
Helena
Biloxi
Miss
State Highway Department
D. A. McKinnon
McKinnon
National Asphalt Institute
Memphis
Tenn
Hugh L. White
Highway Department
R R Purcell Former Helena Mayor Rites Held
Funeral services were held at St Helena pro cathedral for Richard R Purcell former Helena mayor three time Lewis and Clark county attorney and longtime state figure He was 78 buried in Resurrection cemetery He came to Helena 46 years ago from Wahpeton North Dakota where he practiced law with his brother Born August 11 1859 in Flemington New Jersey Surviving relatives include his widow and nephews James Slattery Helena and John Slattery Great Falls
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Richard R. Purcell
Lewis and Clark County
W. E. Purcell
United States
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Montana
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John Slattery
Great Falls
Resurrection Cemetery
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