Post Office cost and profits for 1938 fiscal year
Postmaster General Farley reported a 1938 fiscal year deficit of 43.8 million dollars, noting free services and subsidies reduced net income by about 4.4 million. Receipts were 728.6 million with expenditures at 772.4 million, a shift from the prior year’s 46.6 million deficit. Mail planes set a record for air service.
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Farley
Washington
Roosevelt
Post Office
Philatelic Agency
Department
Noted Novelist Zona Gale Dies in Chicago
Zona Gale 65, Pulitzer prize author for Miss Lulu Bett, died of pneumonia in Passavant hospital Chicago after a week in an oxygen tent. Born August 26 1873 in Portage Wisconsin she wrote about small town life and considered Portage home.
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Zona Gale
Chicago
Passavant Memorial Hospital
Portage
Wis
W. L. Breese
Passavant Hospital
Lulu Bett
Widow Lived 27 Years Invalid in St James Hospital
Mrs. Nano Gates aged 74 died yesterday at St James hospital where she had resided in the same room since September 1919. She became bedridden after a broken leg and was famed as the hospital’s beloved patient. Survived by three nephews, two nieces, and a brother, funeral plans await arrival of a Springfield relative. Body at Daly-Shea mortuary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nano Gates
St. James Hospital
Julia O'Brien
O’brien
William Powers
Springfield
Daly-Shea Mortuary
Ex-Governor Holt Visits Butte and Montana Friends
Former governor Elmer W. Holt and Mrs. Holt visit Butte staying with daughter and son in law at 803 West Park. They plan to travel to Miles City then Seattle where Holt works in the Northern Pacific Land department. He praises Montana, recalls eastern range riding, and notes many Montanans in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer W. Holt
Mrs. Holt
Butte
Robert D. Corette
West Park Street
Seattle
Mr. Holt
Northern Pacific
Thermometers Plunge as Winter Blasts Eastward
A severe cold wave pushed from the West into the East and South with subzero readings reported in 10 states and 37 below in Warroad Minnesota. The blizzard caused at least a dozen deaths, widespread snow and ice, and disrupted traffic and communications from Michigan to Ohio and New York.
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Associated Press
Atlantic Seaboard
Warroad
Minn
Canadian
Michigan
Offlake
Marquette
Manistique
Coast Guard
Lake Michigan
Salt Ste. Marie
Petoskey
Straits of Mackinac
Lower Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Hudson
Mich
Round-up of Black Mailers Under Way in New York
New York dispatch reports the government has begun a roundup of suspected extortionists tied to the late F Donald Coster Musica former McKesson and Robbins president. Walter H Cragg a dis barred lawyer is jailed on charges of extortion mail fraud and conspiracy with another suspect unnamed. Cragg had a 1914 grand larceny conviction and a one to three year prison term. Coster Musica shot himself at his Connecticut estate amid disclosures about an $18 000 affair.
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New York
F. Donald Coster-Musica
McKesson and Robbins, Inc
Walter H. Cragg
U. S
Gregory Noonan
Cragg
Coster-Musica
Connecticut
Snowy Cold Front Forecast Over Montana Midweek
The forecast calls for snow flurries across Montana on Wednesday and Thursday with colder conditions in the southeast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Better Business Campaign to Complete 128 Workers Today
The Butte chamber of commerce seeks to recruit 128 civic minded people to staff the Better Business Builders campaign. Forty two seat buses are at issue for District No. 1 as bids open. Foremen name crews and aim for a January 5 field start and January 12 close.
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W. B. Elliott
J. J. Hermes
Butte Better Business Builders
R. M. Fields
Pred Grandpre
A. Gusdorf
Frank Hughes
Guy Bliss
L. M. Burdick
John E. Corette Jr
Henry Hirsh
Better Business Campaign
Board of Trustees
Chamber of Commerce
George Benjamin
John Newland
I. J. Knievel
Elmer Carkeek
R. E. Dodge
Ed G. Leipheimer
Ernest Lindsay
Charles W Cook
Henry Coulam
E. A. Schumacher
M. R. Leslie
A. W. Jacobson
F. A. Wakley
N. A
Congressional Leaders and President to Map Railroad Legislation
President Roosevelt will meet with congressional leaders and advisers to plan railroad relief legislation. Wheeler and Lea discussed a six member labor management panel's recommendations and a possible end week session with Reconstruction Finance Corp and other agencies. No decisions yet. a railroad advisory report to Congress is expected with possible further presidential recommendations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wheeler
Montana
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Montanan
Lea
California
House
Italy Masses Troops Near Rail Terminal
Friction with France centers on the railway to Ethiopia. Italian troops reportedly occupy oases on the French Somaliland frontier. France orders the dispatch boat D'Iberville from Beirut to Djibouti with other warships expected to follow. France seeks official confirmation about press reports.
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Associated Press
France
Italy
Europe
Africa
Oases
D'Iberville
Beirut
Syria
Djibouti
Mus
Hull Urges Vigilance Against Militaristic Spreads
Secretary Hull at the Pan American conference in Lima warns 21 nations to stay vigilant against militaristic ideologies spreading through the hemisphere. He endorses the Lima declaration and urges the quiet exchange of views to strengthen peaceful relations and defend liberty.
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Lima
Peru
Hull
Hull State Department
Aeewell
Famed Cartoonist Emil Flohm Dies in California
Funeral services for Emil Flohm age 69 were held in Los Angeles after his death at his Van Nuys home. The artist known for his "full dinner pail" cartoons helped elect William McKinley president.
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Los Angeles
Emil Flohm
William McKinley
van Nuys
Next Legislature Faces 2.5 Million in Additional Funds
Montana lawmakers convening in Helena will decide how to cover about 2.5 million dollars more than anticipated revenue for 1939 40. The Montana Taxpayer notes most agencies seek larger allocations, with only a few conserving. From 1937 38 appropriations of 5 77 million to 8 95 million requested for 39 40, the jump exceeds three million, risking heavy taxation.
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Montana
Helena
Department of State
University of Montana
Railroad and Public Service Commission
Dr Calvin Bridges Dies Noted Geneticist in Los Angeles
Los Angeles report says Dr Calvin B. Bridges aged 48, a leading geneticist, died after a four month illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Bridges
Los Angeles
Calvin B. Bridges
Pan American Conference Nears Close In Lima
The eighth Pan American Conference ends as Dr. Carlos Concha Peru foreign minister declares the gathering fulfilled expectations and emphasizes a new stage in American solidarity. Delegates sign a final act committing to defense, communications, and cultural ties amid calls for unity against foreign aggression.
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Andrue Berding
Lima
Carlos Concha
Dr. Concha
Concha
Oscar Benavides
Peru
Cordell Hull
United States
Callao
Santa Marie
Benavides
Hull
Over Half Million Pieces of Mail Handled in Butte
Butte post office processed 567 496 pieces of outgoing first class mail in the six days before Christmas, up 75 569 from last year. The total eclipses the 491 927 pieces of 1937, then a record, and the peak day reached 140 972 pieces.
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Butte
William C. Jackson
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N. Y
Toledo
Ohio
Maumee River
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W. M. Daniels
Peter J. McIntee
Maryland Avenue
James P. Gleason
West Woolman Street
James Sullivan
West Broadway
M. S. Galasso
Winger
Arizona Street
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