Frankfurter Named to Seat on Supreme Court
Harvard liberal Felix Frankfurter was named to the Supreme Court by President Roosevelt. The Senate signaled quick confirmation. Born in Vienna 56 years ago, he came to the United States 12 years after his birth and has risen as a renowned scholar and legal mind.
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Harvard
Felix Frankfurter
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Senate
Cambridge
Mass
Frankfurter
Vienna
Hapsburgs
Roosevelt proposes record defense and deficits for coming year
President Roosevelt unveiled an $8.995 billion budget for the next fiscal year forecasting a national debt peak near $44.458 billion. He urged moderate tax increases to finance a large armament program and farm subsidies, while Republicans and conservative Democrats criticized the deficit path. The defense request totals $1.609 billion, with $1.319 billion to be spent in the year on planes, naval construction, personnel, and Army and Navy expansion.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Byrd
Virginia
Navy
Water projects under way in Montana irrigation drive
The Montana water conservation board reports 136 completed irrigation and reclamation projects costing 5,728,217 have supplied 247,459 acre-feet of water for 196,367 acres. Twenty one projects costing 5,363,031 are under construction and will provide 289,326 acre-feet for 210,390 acres. Four underway will deliver 111,000 acre-feet to 92,300 acres in the 1939 growing season.
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Helena
Montana Water Conservation Board
Roy E. Ayers
Roosevelt outlines vast air force expansion plan
President Roosevelt presented Congress with a new 1.609 billion armaments package and outlined a 500 million supplemental request to bolster land sea and air defenses. He said modern warfare requires advance tasks and previewed thousands of warplanes bases munitions and training programs as part of the 1940 defense budget.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Ameri
Butte Chamber Launches One-Week Fund Drive For 1939 Growth
A 400-member crowd at the Finlen hotel heard Zenn Kaufman of New York urge ambitious plans for Butte in 1939. The Butte Better Business Builders campaign will fund a year of promotions, conventions, and events to raise the city's business and civic profile. Workers begin renewals and recruitment to extend Butte's supremacy.
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Zenn Kaufman
New York City
Butte
Chamber of Commerce
Finlen Hotel
Butte Better Business Builders
Chamber
Kaufman
Man Charged With Setting Fatal Blaze
An unemployed elevator operator was arrested in New York on homicidal arson charges after a Christmas tree torch fire killed four tenement residents. Joseph Malone, 27, named by witness Elizabeth Gelula, is held as a material witness along with several others. police plan further questioning.
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New York
Joseph Malone
Elizabeth Gelula
la Guardia
Jacob Rosenbloom
Malone
County to build highway serving farms near Buxton
County Surveyor Jack Healy announced that a 6 180 foot county road from the Butte Dillon road west to Buxton will start once railroad easement is received. Silver Bow secures 100 foot right of way. project under WPA road program with no curves and grades not exceeding 4 57 percent.
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Butte-Dillon
Buxton
Nis Sler
Jack Healy
Butte-Dillon Highway
Nissler
Feeley
Silver Bow County
Healy
Surveyor’s Department
Emergency communication plan study for national needs
The Federal Communications Commission told Congress it is studying methods to organize all communications facilities for efficient use in a national emergency. The plan covers radio, telephone and telegraph, and aims to aid defense and disasters such as floods fires and hurricanes. The commission also expects valuable findings from its radio monopoly probe and a final report on the telephone and telegraph system this session.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Congress
German Offer of Appeasement Foreseen in Nazi Chats
AP reports a so called generous appeasement offer to the United States was foreseen in Germany amid Nazi criticism and praise from Britain of President Roosevelt. A Berlin editor warned to watch Fuehrer technique as calm weeks follow violent language from Nazi papers and Ickes speech. Chamberlain praised Roosevelt a fresh sign American democracy advances world stability. Lloyd George echoed his view. Tokyo notes a Hiránuma led government may push back less against U S policy in China.
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Roosevelt
Fuehrer
Berlin
Ickes
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David Lloyd George
Tokyo
Japan
Kiichiro Hiranuma
China
Montana Senate hears work relief proposal for relief rolls
Helena January 5 The Montana Senate heard a recommendation from Park County officials for a work relief law to reduce direct relief. It would require an all able bodied labor force to seek employment with a 26 day month and wages capped by federal limits, aimed at boosting private industry and trimming relief rolls.
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Montana Senate
Board of County Commissioners
Park County
House of Representatives
Phil Goodwin
Silver Bow
House
Lamey to preside at state dinner in Great Falls
Arthur Lamey of Havre, state Democratic central committee chairman, will be toastmaster at the state wide Democratic and Jackson day dinner in Great Falls on Saturday evening, according to Dr. H. J. McGregor, director of the affair.
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Arthur Lamey
Havre
Democratic Central Committee
H. J. McGregor
Montana Weather Forecast Partly Cloudy With Snow
A forecast for Montana shows partly cloudy conditions Friday and Saturday. Snow is expected in the western portion Friday, with colder weather east of the divide.
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Montana
Divide
Butte Officer Recalls 1923 Assault Linked Suspect in Utah Case
Butte police recall the 1923 slaying of Grace station agent E R Collins by Slim Hayes as a near deaf trapper, with Jack Duggan noting a 16 year prior arrest with Sheriff Mangold near Butte. Hayes reportedly sought work then robbed Collins for funds to travel.
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Utah
Lofgreen
George Hayes
Jack Duggan
Hero
Sheriff Mangold
Virginia City
Slim Hayes
E. R. Collins
Grace
Hayes
Jefferson Valley
Collins
Budget comparison shows larger current-year deficit
The budget brief compares next year and this year. Next year expenditures total 8.995 billion with receipts 5.669 billion, leaving a 3.326 billion deficit and a public debt of 44.458 billion. This year expenditures are 9.492 billion with receipts 5.52 billion, a 3.972 billion deficit and a debt of 41.132 billion.
Roosevelt urges study and funds for relief program
President Roosevelt sent a twofold relief proposal to Congress. He asks for 875 million dollars to extend work relief through July and suggests no change in current fund distribution while studies and hearings are conducted for possible fiscal year 1940 reforms. He also urges laws penalizing political abuses in relief efforts.
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Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
WPA
Pope Nomination Spurs Debate Over TVA Dismissal Power
In Washington on January 5 the Senate debated the President’s power to oust a government official as James P. Pope, ex Idaho senator, was named to the TVA board to succeed Dr. Arthur Morgan. Critics argued no vacancy existed and challenged the President’s authority.
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Senate
James P. Pope
Idaho
TVA
Roosevelt
Pope
Arthur E. Morgan
Bridges
New Hampshire
Dr. Morgan
Hundred Youth Gather Here for Methodist Session
Dr. C. L. Clifford of Kalispell will arrive in Butte to act as dean of the mid year Methodist young people institute at Trinity M E church 969 North Main street this weekend. About 100 delegates from Butte and nearby towns including Anaconda Deer Lodge Whitehall and Boulder are expected to attend sessions today and Saturday focusing on youth problems for church officials.
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Kalispell
Mountain View
Methodist Church of Montana
Butte
Trinity M. E Church
North Main Street
Anaconda
Deer Lodge
Whitehall
Boulder
Public debt climbs to 44.458 billion in Roosevelts 1940 forecast
Roosevelt projects a 1940 public debt of 44.458 billion as WWI era levels loom. 1914 debt stood at 1.188 billion and 1919 reached 25.482 billion while 1939 sits at 41.132 billion. Congress set a 45 billion limit in 1917. Roosevelts plan asks to raise it for future emergencies.
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Roosevelt
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