Wood Measure Approved In Holiday Congress Activity
Washington reports Congress near adjournment as the House passes the drought relief bill at 30 million while conferees raise to 45 million in the middle of the Senate's 60 million goal. The Senate restores the president's power to apportion relief funds and moves to conference. The Wood bill adds 150 million for the farm board. Heflin tax report on NYSE. immigration policy debated. Doak and visiting rules discussed.
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Illinois
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Tennessee
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Mc Kellar
Farm Board
Heflin
New York Stock Exchange and Exchange
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Doak
French deputies back new cabinet by seven vote margin
Paris December 18 Premier Theodore Steeg and his six day old cabinet won a confidence vote in a hostile chamber by 291 to 284. Opponents pledged to overthrow the ministry after the New Year recess.
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Theodore Steeg
Chamber of Deputies
Janet Gaynor Recovers Nicely After Appendicitis Operation
Honolulu report says Janet Gaynor, film actress, underwent an appendicitis operation at Queen's hospital early today and was "doing very nicely" as of late today, according to her physician Dr. Joseph E. Strode.
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Janet Gaynor
Queen's Hospital
Joseph E. Strode
Y. M. C. A. Architect to Visit Butte for Plans
W. L. Rayburn of New York City, architect of the Seattle Y.M.C.A. buildings, will visit Butte on January 7 to confer with the local Y.M.C.A. board on upcoming construction plans for the new facility.
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New York City
Seattle
Butte
President Hoover to deliver 40 talks by radio on Lincoln day
President Hoover will give 40 Lincoln day speeches via radio from the White House Lincoln study on February 12. He will address invitations from as many locations, using the broadcast to reach a nationwide audience from the historic room where Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation.
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White House
Traffic Violations Surge As Police Enforce Rules
Traffic violations remain a steady revenue source for the police court as eight motorists paid $2 bonds after municipal court sessions for traffic ordinance breaches. An additional seven violators were cited and will appear or forfeit $2. Traffic officers report drivers are improving and warn against parking in no parking zones on the west side of Hamilton and Dakota streets between Granite and Galena.
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Traffic Viletele
Spanish Legion Meant to quell Alicante unrest after guard killed
A regiment of the Spanish Foreign Legion patrolled the Alicante region as disorders persisted near Elda where a civil guard died in revolutionary rioting. Disturbances spread to nearby towns as civil guards seized motor trucks and prepared to move units. A troop train stood ready at the Southern railway station as Elda rail hub remained a focal point of agitation.
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William H. Lander
Madrid
Spanish Foreign Legion
Alicante
Elda
Mediterranean
Mendieta
Mrs Dam E Davis Elected President of War Mothers Chapter
Mrs Sam Ef Davis was elected president of the Silver Bow chapter American War Mothers at a Y M C A session. Plans to send candy boxes and bedside kit bags to Fort Harrison hospital veterans were set. Installation will occur in January with officers named including Mary McGovern and Anna Wilcox among others.
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Sam EF. Davis
Silver Bow
American War Mothers
Veterans of
Montana Weekend Forecast Sees Light Snow in West
A Montana forecast calls for Friday and Saturday fair conditions in the east with light snow likely in the west. Temperatures are expected to show little change across the state.
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Montana
Mussolini Blames U S For Italian Economic Crisis
Rome dispatch reports Mussolini telling the senate that the 1929 American stock crash caused Italy’s financial ills. He cited a 12 percent salary cut for state workers and warned that US turmoil turned a lire surplus into a massive deficit.
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Rome
Italy
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United States
First Eve Pre Christmas Shopping Bright on Butte Streets
Butte enjoyed the first evening pre Christmas shopping with jewelry and gift shops open until 9 pm and textiles remaining open. clerks brace for the holiday rush as business was reported good with people visiting the stores.
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Butte
Road Board Awaits Congress Action On Highway Bill
Montana highway commission met in Helena for routine business and said no steps could advance the road program until Congress approves the state emergency construction bill or the legislature authorizes gasoline tax anticipation warrants.
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Helena
Montana
Highway Commission
Cradle of Light Dark Neighbor of Edison Cites Poor Lighting
Terence A. Mulvey, president of West Orange's board of trade, called the town the most poorly lighted he knew. He said strangers are shocked by the badly lit streets and a committee will be formed to urge the town commission to remedy the situation.
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N. J
Thomas A. Edison
Terence A. Mulvey
Board of Trade
USC official Warren Bovard dies by suicide in Los Angeles
Warren Bovard 45 vice president and comptroller of the University of Southern California killed himself in his home. He had been unwell recently and was found with a pistol in his hand in pajamas, after a night with two friends who found him missing at breakfast. His death shocks students alumni and local leaders. Mrs. Hazel Bovard wife of Bovard was visiting relatives in Kansas when she learned of the tragedy. Bovard had championed football over rugby in California.
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Warren
Bovard
University of Southern California
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McWhirter
Hazel Jackman Bovard
Wichita
Kansas
California
J R Hobbins Returns From Eastern Business Trip
James Ft Hobbins vice president of the Anaconda company returned to his office yesterday after athree week trip to New York on business arrangements and company affairs.
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Anaconda Company
New York
Le Duc Returned to County Jail Awaiting Release
Bert Le Duc a 63 year old ex peace officer sentenced to 25 years for second degree murder was brought back to Silver Bow county jail on a certificate of probable cause from the Montana Supreme Court. He has served five months of his sentence and may be released on bail Saturday guided by his counsel J A Poore.
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Bert le Duc
Silver Bow
State Supreme Court
Helena
le Duc
John F. Snyder
Butte
J. A. Poore
Killing by police praised as method to curb bandits
Chicago dispatch reports Acting Police Commissioner John Alcock endorses killing bandits as an effective crime reduction after five robbers were slain in the past 24 hours. He notes each was killed while attempting a hold up and argues such action will suppress crime more than any prior measure.
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John Alcock
Alcock
Adverse Day Law Ruling Reaches Supreme Court
In Newark on December 18, U P reported Judge William Clark’s ruling that the Eighteenth Amendment was invalid is being appealed. Phi Forman filed a petition for appeal asserting three reversible errors including the indictment quash, the defense motion, and the invalidity of the national prohibition act.
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Newark
N. J
United States Supreme Court
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Clark
Phi Forman
U. S
Forman
William Sprague
Rescue effort after boat capsizes near Tomales Bay
Five women and a man are feared drowned after a 14 foot pleasure launch capsized at Tomales Bay entrance. Grant Cray and his brother Ornburn tried to help but the Gray boat also overturned. Coast guards and other boats searched as the pair, exhausted, clung to rocks seeking aid.
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Ornburn
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Saas
British Aviatrix Lands in Seattle on World Tour
Mrs. Victor Bruce daughter of a British peer began a world plane tour with her first American landing in Seattle Washington greeting officials and members of a women flyers society and the daughters of the British Empire after arriving from Victoria British Columbia.
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Wash
Victor Bruce
United States
Victoria
B. C
Actress confesses fatal call linked to Buckley killing
Detroit News reports actress Margaret Owen admitted making a telephone call to radio announcer Jerry Buckley in the LaSalle hotel lobby where he was shot by three gunmen on July 23. Owen says the call was innocent and aimed at arranging a party for Bowles recall.
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Detroit News
Margaret Owen
Jerry Buckley
LaSalle Hotel
Poincare Out Of Danger After Illness
Paris reports the wartime president Raymond Poincare is out of danger after earlier headlines said he was gravely ill. The Dec 18 update states he has recovered enough to avoid imminent death.
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Paris
Parisian
Raymond Poincare
Merapi Volcano Eruption Claims Fifteen Lives
In Batavia Java, a sudden violent eruption of Merapi in Central Java kills fifteen people. The volcano had been active for two weeks and erupted today causing multiple fatalities.
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