Midwest Snowstorm and Cold Wave Reach Wide Region
A swirling snowstorm moved east over the Midwest with six inches of snow in Chicago turning to slush. Snow covered Indiana Ohio southern Michigan Minnesota and most of Illinois while Wisconsin faced its heaviest snowfall of the season. Atlantic gales may merge with the storm and warnings stretched from Boston to Jacksonville with freezing temperatures reaching Dallas and frost to New Orleans.
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United Press
Middle West
Prairies
Atlantic Seaboard
Canadian Northwest
Chi
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Minnesota
Illinois
Wisconsin
Atlantic
Boston
Jacksonville
Fla
Dallas
New Orleans
Tax return destruction shocks wartime officials
Senate munitions probes show that income tax returns of Baruch and other industrial leaders were destroyed by the Internal Revenue Bureau. Evidence indicates some wartime procurement chiefs held stakes in suppliers. Treasury officials say destruction of old returns was legal and Baruch’s 1917 filing remains missing after later redactions.
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Washington
Senate
Internal Revenue Bureau
Bernard M. Baruch
War Industries Board
Treasury
Baruch
Baruch Slams Senate Testimony Action as Cheap and Unjust
Bernard Baruch called the handling of testimony before the senate munitions committee cheap and unjust. He criticized those responsible for the action and questioned the treatment of his income tax returns.
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Bernard Baruch
New York
Senate
Armaments and the Munitions Trade Dilemmas
The speaker admits no program fully addresses the main difficulties in armaments and munitions trade despite 20 years of concern. He notes the need to define the complex problems and continues the discussion on page 2.
106 Year Old Montanan Henderson Dies in Hardin
Funeral services were held in Hardin for Alexander C. Henderson who observed his 100th birthday on November 15 and died late Monday night. The body was sent to Postville, Iowa, for interment. Henderson lived through 22 presidential administrations and several wars and cast his first ballot for Abraham Lincoln while serving in the Civil War under General Ulysses S. Grant.
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Hardin
Alexander C. Henderson
Postville
Iowa
Henderson
Abraham Lincoln
U. S. Grant
Aldermen Tighten City Rules on Marathon Dance Exhibitions
Butte city leaders closed 1934 by passing ordinance 1984 to levy a daily $125 tax on endurance contests near the city and ban public patronage from midnight to 8 am. They also approved transfers among funds for special improvement districts and discussed city sinking fund investments. Mayor McTaggart urged timely petitions for district discontinuances ahead of 1935 sessions.
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Marathon
Butte
Archie McTaggart
Butte High declares 345 candidates for graduation
Principal Scott Fries announced 345 Butte high school students are candidates for graduation in 1935. He noted candidates must meet all requirements this semester and next. Four are two year commercial graduates with two aiming for February and two for June. Of the rest, 56 qualify for graduation at the end of the first semester February 1, though no commencement is held then.
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Butte High School
Scott Fries
Fries
Helen Edet
Yvonne Tibbetts
Patsy Duggan
Genevieve Elliott
Former Minnesota governor explains home-building plan
A. O. Eberhart former Minnesota governor outlined the federal housing act at the Butte Chamber of Commerce talk. He described two loan sections one for home repairs and another for new construction with government 100 percent loan insurance. He touted 200000 new homes projected for 1935 and noted Twelve thousand banks signed up for loans with 3807 active generating 145 million dollars in repair aid.
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A. O. Eberhart
Minnesota
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Kenneth Christie
Eberhart
Federal Housing Administration
Montana Weather Outlook Delivers Snow and Temperature Shifts
Unsettled weather spans Thursday and Friday across Montana with snow in the west and north central regions on Thursday and east of the divide on Friday. Warmer conditions expected in the extreme northeast Thursday followed by a cold plunge east of the divide Friday.
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Montana
Divide
Riots in Shelbyville After Courthouse Fire and Guard Shootout
A violent mob in Shelbyville Tennessee burned the county courthouse and attacked a negro hotel after two rioters were killed and two guardsmen wounded. Governor McAlister ordered 500 guardsmen to restore order as the crowd pursued Sheriff Tom Gant and a prisoner named E K Harris amid ongoing clashes and arrests.
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Shelbyville, Tenn
Bedford County
Tom Gant
R. E. Edwards
Shelbyville
Tenn
Dee
Hill McAlister
Nashville
E. K. Harris
National
World’s latest effort at arms limits ends in failure
London reports the break up of naval talks among Britain the United States and Japan. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald as host pledged continued effort for a solution while Britain backed Washington’s 5-5-3 naval ratio in spite of Tokyo’s denunciation of the 1922 treaty and Japan’s building program.
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London
Great Britain
United States
Japan
J. Ramsay McDonald
Britain
MacDonald
Washington
Tokyo
First night shopping draws large crowd in Butte
A big throng filled the main district last night as stores opened for night shopping during the pre Christmas period. Shoppers used lists to speed purchases while clerks assisted. Night hours continue this evening and on Friday and Saturday with food stores open. meat shops close at six. Weather aided by a brisk wind and above freezing temperatures. Santa Claus wandered the streets entertaining children.
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Santa Claus
Butte
Japanese envoy who ire d U S Senate dies
Masanao Hanihara age 57 former Japanese ambassador to the United States died at his Tokyo home at 8 30 am. His death followed months of despair after a diplomatic memorandum linked to the Japanese exclusion clause in the U S immigration law he felt misunderstood and bitterness followed his recall ending his diplomatic career.
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Tokyo
U.P
Masanao Hanihara
United States
Congress
Hanihara
Flood of mail sweeps through local post office
Christmas mailing rush begins with more than 60 000 pieces passed through the cancelling machine at the main post office. Several thousand packages handled beyond the machine tally as parcel post clerks work to move three lines of patrons. Postmaster Frank X. Monaghan urges mailing from the main post office to ease crowding.
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Frank X. Monaghan
Business leaders press balanced budget at parley
At White Sulphur Springs a three day business conference produced a plan to present to President Roosevelt. The group urged a balanced budget a fixed dollar value for the currency and a new NRA with minimum hours and wages and child labor bans while preserving labor's right to bargain freely.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
America
Roosevelt
White House
NRA
C. B. Ames
George Mead
NRAA
Industrial Advisory Board
Taxpayers Form Organization To Protect Rights
A large crowd of taxpayers organized The Property Owners' Association of Silver Bow County in Judge Riley's courtroom to defend property owners' rights and secure funds to pay taxes. Anthony McBride was elected president with over 250 attendees, with John Korn as vice president and others as officers and executive board members. The group aims to obtain relief funds to cover taxes and maintenance, support reducing government costs, and favors county consolidation.
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Frank L. Riley
Property Owners’ Association of
Silver Bow County
Montana
John 8. Wulf
Anthony McBride
John Korn
W. J. Kennedy
Charles Steele
John Wulf
Ella O'Connor
Harry Meyer
Youth Shot to Death in Tulsa Card Game Quarrel
In Tulsa Oklahoma a 17 year old, Carl Pulliam, was shot and died in a makeshift clubroom after a card game quarrel. Police investigated links to a youthful criminal gang connected to Philip Kennamer. Paul Lumary, 16, confessed to the fatal shot and will be charged with murder.
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Tulsa
Okla
Carl Pulliam
John F. Gorrell Jr
Sidney
Born Jr
Philip Kennamer
Pulliam
Kennamer
Paul Lumary
Lumary
Holly Anderson
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Walter Lippmann
Montanan
Butte High
Weather Forecast
National Guardsmen
Tennessee
Philadelphia
William Weiss
U. S
Weather Man
U. S. Senate
Organization
10 Protect
Oklahoma
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