Government to supply funds for state entry stations
Helena Jan 9 plans are under way by the state highway department to build 13 port of entry stations at Montana border points. Federal funding via the bureau of public roads under a nationwide planning survey will cover stone and log buildings. McKinnon said the rustic offices will house scales, a dial room, and living quarters for workers. Stations will be at Wibaux Baker Alzada Aberdeen Sweet Grass Balhville Laurel Gardiner W Yellowstone Monida Taft Noxon and Babb with costs pending design estimates and contracts to follow after bureau approval.
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Helena
State Highway Department
Montana
D. A. McKinnon
The
Highway Commission
Bureau of Public Roads
McKinnon
Wibaux
Baker
Alzada
Aberdeen
St .Sweet Grass
Balhville
Laurel
Gardiner W
Yellowstone
Monida
Taft
Noxon
Babb
O'Flynn Joins Inheritance Tax Division As Assistant Clerk
Helena January 9 Attorney James B. O'Flynn of Great Falls has been engaged by the state board of equalization as an assistant clerk in the inheritance tax division. He began his duties today after years as a Butte attorney and recent work with the state highway department. In Osaka Japan water police recently rounded up 36 ships in a raid on poaching fishermen.
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Helena
Jan
James B. O'Flynn
Great Falls
State Board of Equalization
O'Flynn
Butte
State Highway Department
Osaka
Japan
Wing funeral services set for Waterloo hall
The body of Richard W. Wing will be moved from Richards funeral home to Community hall at Waterloo tomorrow morning for a 2 p.m. service conducted by Rev. Mendland. Interment will follow in Fish Creek cemetery. William John Thomas aged 63 died in Anaconda. Body moved to Richards funeral home. funeral time and place to be announced.
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Thomas
William John Thomas
Anaconda
Mont
Richards
Obituary notices for LeClaire Worley and Luong
The Rose room at Duggan's Merrill mortuary hosts services for Delord LeClaire with mass at Sacred Heart Church and Holy Cross burial. Pearl Worley’s funeral in the Christian Science church circle will be at Duggan's and interred at Mountain View cemetery. Chung Sam Luong’s remains may be viewed in the state room awaiting funeral plans.
Balloon Cancelled After Naughty Boy's Prank
An unruly 10 year old in Petersburg disrupted a stage dance by popping a balloon with a foil ball and a rubber band. The dancer fled backstage while the audience reacted. the manager announced a $28 balloon cost to the boy’s parents who escorted him home.
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Petersburg
Fis
Alfred
Poker bids heat up race for Democratic convention
In Philadelphia and Chicago bidding over host city for the 1936 Democratic convention grew tense with McAdoo and Nash matching sums to San Francisco and Chicago dropping out as offers climbed. Roosevelt endorsement faced opposition from Georgia’s Talmadge amid warnings of a fierce campaign. Fingerprints to be taken from Japanese boys as they leave primary schools.
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California
San Francisco
Philadelphia
Chicago
Alfred M. Greenfield
Earle
Pennsylvania
McAdod
Californian
Roosevelt
National Committee
Talmadge
Georgia
White House
Tye
Macon
Gar
Farley
Brief filed in Montana chief justice case
W D Tipton of Helena filed a 189 page brief in the Montana supreme court challenging Chief Justice W B Sands in a contest over his election. Tipton accuses Sands of violating corrupt practices laws, seeks reversal of the lower court judgment, and calls for annulling and validating the contestee’s election. The brief brands Sands as using dubious campaign tactics and cites 45 alleged errors from the lower court ruling.
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Helena
W. B. Sands
Montana Supreme Court
W. D. Tipton
Jurist
State Supreme Court
Tipton
Sands
Se Lewis and Clark County District Court
Montana
Pontius Pilate
Tower Court
Westminster
ELAS TO INDUCT GLASS ON FEB
Elks Butter lodge No 240 will induct a class Feb 1 with Anaconda lodge officers presiding. A party for members and ladies will follow. The event draws visitors from western Montana as part of a series of lodge events in nearby towns. The Butte lodge marks its 77th anniversary with a Feb 13 stag party. A Helena relief benefit luncheon preceded by a program followed last night’s meeting. Harry S. B Joseph proposed an inter lodge visit from Pocatello and Idaho Falls on Washington’s Birthday, postponed to 1937 due to time. Longer daytime flying is noted in South American aviation progress.
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Anaconda Lodge
Butter Lodge No
Elks
Butte
Dillon
Anaconta
Deer Lodge
Montana
Butte Lodge
Fred Harvey
James Murphy
Leo McMullen
Ed Sebasky
T. H. Eslick
Leo Carter
James T. Finlen Jr
J. R. Kilberer
Butte Mines’ Band
Musicians’ Union
Helena
Harry
Joseph
Salt Lake City
Pocatello
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Washington
Protest Over WPA Finance Division Move From Butte
Petitions circulated in Butte protest transferring the WPA finance division to Helena after employees reported orders. About 40 workers in Butte would be affected, with roughly 30 facing unemployment if the move proceeds. Local officials and Washington protests oppose the change, seen as first step to leaving Butte.
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WPA
Butte
Helena
Tom Bogey
M. A. Berger
Fred Batant
Tom Merkle
Emmett O'Brien
Board of County Commissioners
Finance Department
Red Army Foils Japanese Airmen Attempt in Siberia
Soviet frontier troops captured a Japanese air crew after a pilot tried to coerce a Russian peasant to join the plane near Pokrava. Four other Japanese agents were reportedly seized in Siberia since Dec 26. Officials label the incident among sharp Russo Japanese border frictions.
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Habarovsk
Siberia
Manchukuo
Pokrava
Vladivostok
Nykalsk- Usserisk
Pograva
Tokyo
Kwantung Army
Siberian
Japan
1895 Domestic Gold Production Hits All Time Dollar Record
The Bureau of Mines reports 1935 domestic gold production at a dollar value of 124,115,915 with 3,546,169 ounces produced. Yearly high by value but not by ounce weight, trailing 1915’s 4,687,604 ounces when gold priced at 20.67. Silver output reached 44,824,629 ounces valued at 33,080,576.
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Washington
Bureau of Mines
Bureau
Treasury
Ethiopians halt Frogists amid rains and war reports
Reports from Addis Ababa say 60,000 Ethiopian troops under Ras Desta Demtu repelled 25,000 Somalis and 18,000 Italians west of Dolo while Italian forces retreated from the Makale area. Rain disrupted roads and hindered fascist operations as Rome claimed fleet maneuvers near the Mediterranean. A Rome release noted artillery actions near Gabat. Egypt reported an Italian bombing of an ambulance unit, with no casualties confirmed by Italy. French authorities shut a Paris university wing after pro-Italian students disrupted Ethiopias legal expert.
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Ras Desta Demtu
Haile Selassie
Dolo
Makale
Italy
Frauce
Britain
Mediterranean
Rome
Gabat
Egypt
Ethiopia
Lew
University of Paris
Gaston Jeze
Geneva
Four youths executed for New York policeman slaying
Four youths, Newman Raymond Jr age 21 Amerigo Angelini 20 Thomas Gilbride 20 and Ray Orley 21, were executed at Sing Sing after pleading no contest in relation to the lug gage store holdup that killed a New York police officer. They faced the electric chair calmly and offered no remarks.
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N. Y
Sing Sing
New York
Newman Raymond Jr
Amerigo Angelini
Thomas Gilbride
Ray Orley
Gandhi gravely ill with high blood pressure
In Wardha Gandhi, Indian nationalist leader revered by millions, is gravely ill with high blood pressure and complications. Doctors have forbidden any exertion and he remains under careful medical care in Bombay. MISSOULA reports wheat shipments totaling over 750000 bushels from this division of the Northern Pacific since last fall’s harvest.
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Bombay
Mahatma Gandhi
Wardha
Missoula
Northern Pacific
Liquor Control Arguments Filed in Helena Supreme Court
Peter Andre challenged the state liquor control act as unconstitutional, arguing delegation of legislative and judicial power to the liquor control board and that state liquor sales are not a police power or governmental function. He contends the act conflicts with the interstate commerce clause, while noting the board should secure revenue similar to a utility commission’s rate regulation.
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Helena
John J. Driscoll
Butte
State Supreme Court
Peter Andre
High Tribunal
Driscoll
Liquor Control Board
Anaconda Butte Native William J. Thomas Dies in St Ann
William John Thomas 63, longtime Anaconda and Butte resident, died at St. Ann's hospital after an illness dating back to September. Born in England, he worked as a locomotive engineer for Great Northern and Anaconda Reduction Works. Funeral services set for Monday at 2 PM in Butte Masonic temple, with Silver Bow lodge officers conducting. interment Mount Moriah. Survived by an appellant.
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Anaconda
William John Thomas
Butte
St. Ann’s Hospital
Thomas
East Fifth Street
England
Great Northern Railroad
Masonic Temple
Silver Bow Lodge
Mount Moriah Cemetery
Mountain States Telephone Adds Thousands of Phones in 1935
Denver report shows Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co added 18,878 telephones in 1935, up from 13,920 in 1934. The company runs lines and exchanges across Colorado Utah Montana Wyoming New Mexico Arizona Idaho and part of Texas.
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Denver
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
Colorado
Utah
Montana
Wyoming
New Mexico
Arizona
Idaho
Texas
Widow Florence Thomas Left Two Sons and Two Sisters
The obituary notes the death of Mrs. Florence Thomas widow, with her two sons William H. of Bremerton Washington and Richard J. of Anaconda, and two sisters Mrs. William J. Jennings of Canada and Mrs. James Jennings in England.
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Florence Thomas
William H
Bremerton
Wash
Richard J
Anaconda
William J. Jennings
Canada
James Jennings
England
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