Madrid Night Air Raid Strikes British Embassy in Spain
Fascist war planes bombed the British embassy and its annex in Madrid, injuring Capt. E. C. Lance and Mrs. Angela Norris by flying glass. Incendiaries set the embassy roof afire but guards doused the flames. US embassy windows rattled as projectiles landed nearby. Government forces reportedly checked a fascist advance west of Madrid amid heavy fighting. France warned insurgents that German troops in Spanish Morocco would not be tolerated.
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Madrid
E. C. Lance
Angela Norris
Fernando el Santo
United States
Aravaca
el Planiio
France
Paris
Spanish
Morocco
Thawing Out a Frozen Car On Sebree Idaho Corner
In Dillon this morning a transient driver faced a stubborn frozen engine. He built a small wood fire under the automobile and periodically added wood as pedestrians kept a wide berth. The blaze warmed the engine and the car restarted, bringing relief to nearby occupants.
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Dillon
Jan
Sebree
Idaho
Legislators Take Weekend Recess After Relief Plea
Senate petitions federal government for funds to insure WPA functioning in the state and may request seed grain purchasing money. Bills proposed to change the liquor control system accompany the relief plea and weekend recess.
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Senate
Montana Girl Dies in California Auto Crash
Betty Ross Bryant 18, daughter of prominent Anaconda residents, was killed when her car struck a stalled truck near Artesia California while returning from Los Angeles. Grandmother and aunt injured. Bryant family long moved from Anaconda to California. Two Helena items describe broad state relief plans and possible new labor department.
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Anaconda
Betty Ross Bryant
J. Ross Bryant
Artesia
Cal
W. J. Johnson
Locust Street
Wallace Knox Smith
Wallace K. Smith
Bryant
Orange
Bryants
Los Angeles
Johnson
Smith
Bryant Is Cashier For the Anaconda
California
M. R. Hoyt
Jack LaSalle
Edward C. Johnson
Butte
Elizabeth
P. F. Fitzgerald
Northwestern solons plan joint move for relief in four states
Senator Homer T. Bone of Washington said Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Washington will meet tomorrow to consider joint action urging President Roosevelt to address serious relief needs. Washington's delegation voted to invite the other states to join a joint session amid W P A quota cuts and drought-driven needy families.
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Washington
Homer T. Bone
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Roosevelt
Works Progress Administration
Bone
Customs Agents Enforce War Embargo on Spain
Washington dispatch reports customs agents at borders enforcing the new embargo on war supplies to Spain after President Roosevelt signed the congressional resolution. Exporter Robert Case had partial shipments from New York to Spain but remaining licenses were cancelled. Richard L. Dineley also saw licenses cancelled as Spain contracts for airplanes guns and munitions were halted.
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Washington
Jan
Spain
Roosevelt
Robert Case
Jersey City
Mar Cantibrico
New York
Munitions Control Board
Richard L. Dineley
Unions Oppose GM UAW Recognition Bid
General Motors released telegrams from eight AFL unions opposing any agreement that would recognize the United Automobile Workers as the sole representative of GM employees. Governor Murphy and federal labor officials pressed conciliation as widespread GM plant shutdowns halted much production.
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New York
U.P
General Motors Corporation Tonight
American Federation of Labor
General Motors
United Automobile Workers of America
Detroit
Michigan
Murphy
Federal
Labor Department
General Motors Corporation
William 8. Knudsen
Fire damages garages near Rocker depot
Fire damaged one end of a string of garages west of the B A P rail depot in Rocker last night. No cars were damaged. The blaze, of unknown origin, started at 7 o clock. Residents sawmill workers and volunteers fought the flames for two hours with a hose line from the sawmill. The railroad station was unharmed. Workers rolled out the cars before the fire spread.
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Rocker
Parade of Youth surprises Butte youth winner
Lennart Karlson, a Butte high sophomore, won a Parade of Youth essay contest and received a one dollar prize. He moved from St. Paul last year with his family, is active in Y M C A programs, and plans to stay busy while deciding his future.
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Lennart Karlson
Butte High School
Montana Standard
Lennart
Butte
West Quartz Street
St. Paul
Hope for Boy Waning in Tacoma Kidnapping Case
A Seattle Times ad from the Mable-Ann sequence claims the kidnaper should provide clearer instructions while Charles Mattson remains missing. In Tacoma authorities and the boy’s parents press for ransom payment details after a dawn federal raid failed to locate the child.
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Seattle
W. W. Mattson
Tacoma
Charles
Seattle Times Today
Wash
Charles Mattson
G-men
William W. Mattson
Dr. Mattson
Butte Rate and Traffic Group to File Brief
The brief of the Butte Rate and Traffic association, intervener in hearings by the Great Falls Traffic association, is filed today with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Copies go to members and other interested parties.
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Butte Rate and Traffic Association
Great Falls Traffic Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
Weather Hobbyists Track Butte Snow Itinerary
Two Butte baggage clerks since 1910 have recorded daily temperatures and the first snowfall, keeping two daily logs at 6 am and 6 pm. They note an early cold wave this year and use their records to aid casual weather predictions while recalling how August snow bets spurred initial record keeping.
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Front Street
H. L, Slack
H. G. Strasser
Mercury
Butte
H. L. Slack
Northern Pacific
Strasser
Messers Slack
Roosevelt outlines balanced budget goal with relief cuts
President Roosevelt pledges a balanced budget for the coming years if business aids the reduction of relief costs to 1.5 billion dollars. He notes relief spending could drop from 180 million monthly to about 120 million, a one third cut, requiring employer action to hire those on government aid.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Ourgo
Ickes Appears Winner Of Fight To Put CCC In Interior
Secretary Ickes looks to have secured the Civilian Conservation Corps under the Interior Department as part of a federal reorganization. A high official says CCC will join Interior if conservation functions are grouped there. War Agriculture and Labor want CCC as well, following Roosevelt’s budget message calling for permanence of the unit.
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Ickes
CCC
Washington
Interior Department
Civilian Conservation Corps
Roosevelt
Interior
Departments of War, Agriculture and Labor
Ayers Approves Conservation Contracts in Montana
Gov. Roy E. Ayers, in his first act as state water conservation board chair, approves two contracts awarded to Tomlinson Arkwright Construction of Great Falls. The Ruby River dam in Madison county will store 40 000 acre feet for irrigation. $520 000 from Public Works Administration funds, with $234 000 grant and the rest loan. Ackley Lake intake canal in Judith Basin county will store 5 200 acre feet for nearby lands, with $98 000 allocated, $48 000 grant and the rest loan.
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Helena
Roy E. Ayers
Ruby River
Madison County
Ackley Lake
Judith Basin
State Water Conservation Board
Tomlinson-Arkwright Construction Company
Great Falls
Hobson
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