Northwestern bloc seeks extra WPA relief funds
A group of Northwestern congressmen from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, California and Wyoming urged increases of 40 million dollars per month for five months to boost WPA spending. They argued current Roosevelt budget plans reduce monthly WPA outlays from 170 million to 130 million, not meeting drought-affected states needs. Senator Homer T. Bone presided over the meeting.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
California
Wyoming
Appropriations Committees
Congress
Homer T. Bone
Hitler plan to seize Prague tests Franco Russian ties
W Stephen Bush reports from Prague that Hitler aims to drive the Prague government from its Franco Russian orbit. German agents have long targeted Prague conservatives to weaken the alliance, signaling a new move that could threaten world peace.
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Geneva
Spain
Hitler
France
Russia
Europe
Berlin
Czecho- Slovakia
Family Demands New Proof Kidnapped Boy Alive in Note
Tacoma reports a Seattle Times ad from the Mable Ann series asks for new proof the 10 year old Charles Mattson is alive before a $28,000 ransom. Dr. W W Mattson awaits word as weather and travel snags hinder a meeting with the kidnapper.
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Tacoma
Wash
Charles Mattson
Seattle Times
W. W. Mattson
Mable
Ann
Times
Mattson
Butte Warmed After Deep Freeze and Navy Spain Crisis
Butte reported milder weather with a shift toward normal temperatures after a frigid spell. The city logged an average January temperature near zero with sub-zero days, while autos and pedestrians returned to the streets as trains resumed normal schedules.
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Butte
Treasury paid 64.0 cents for silver in 1906 mint report
Washington report shows the Treasury paid an average 64.8 cents per fine ounce for silver in the last fiscal year, 9.5 cents above the New York open market. Total silver acquisitions reached 609,613,258 ounces costing 395,313,736 dollars, with most under the silver purchase act and domestic mining. Gold acquisitions totaled 1,451,011,081 dollars with a small act-related surrender component. States production figures list Montana and Wyoming annual outputs.
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Washington
Mint Bureau
Treasury
New York
Montana
Wyoming
Parade of Youth Challenges Lost Generation Image
A Montana Standard survey of nearly 8000 letters from youths across the country finds the post war generation more real istic, practical, and religion sustaining. They seek security over riches and question current customs while valuing family and faith.
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Standard
Parade of Youth
Butte
Sunday
Montana Standard
Failure to open strike talks halts GM UAW mediation
Detroit January 9. Attempts to start preliminary strike negotiations between General Motors and the United Automobile Workers collapsed with both sides blaming each other. About 100,000 workers are affected as GM’s production slows due to material shortages. Governor Murphy offered mediation as both sides said his work over three days failed. The dispute centers on whether sit down strikers at five plants will be removed.
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Detroit
U.P
General Motors
United Automobile Workers
Frank Murphy
Murphy
Union
Congress completes first week with broad month agenda
Congress closes a busy first week with a wide planned program for January. The Senate plans to start committee work next week on the Roosevelt administration proposals and other measures facing initial action.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Rocky Mountain Region Enjoy Milder Weather
Warmer weather eased sub zero conditions across the Rocky Mountain West with Havre Mont reaching 20 above and Helena at six above. Miles City recorded eight above and forecasts called for warmer unsettled conditions with snow in the western part.
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Denver
Jan
Rocky Mountain West
Havre
Mont
Helena
Miles City
Highwaymen Stage Wild West Hold Up on Anaconda Road
Two masked bandits held up miner John Valkovich on the Butte Anaconda highway near Rocker around 4 am. They stole his wallet with $40 and ordered him to drive west, but Valkovich could not describe the robbers. Police report by Officer Stephen Percin notes no suspect description.
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Anaconda
Montana
Butte- Anaconda
John Valkovich
Southern Cross District
Rocker
Stephen Percin
Valkovich
Plans Launch Conference on Constitutional Change
Washington January 9 criticism of the Supreme Court spurred plans for a conference on constitutional amendment chaired by Senator George Norris. Aimed to serve as a clearing house for proposals to expand federal powers and limit court jurisdiction by amendment or statute. Norris urged liberals to unite on a single plan and a small group of lawyers and economists had pushed the idea for months.
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Washington
Supreme Court
George Norris
Norris
Independent Legislative Bureau
Congress
Edwin S. Smith
Northwest Airliner Crash Hearing Held In Spokane
Spokane officials report a Bureau of Air Commerce hearing into a Northwest Airlines mail plane crash in north Idaho on December 18. It remains undetermined which of two pilots, Joe Livermore or Arthur Haid, was at the controls. Livermore may have flown visually rather than by instruments as the plane veered off course into a mountainside with Christmas mail.
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Charles Corbin
Eden
Mediterranean
Morocco
Idaho
Spokane
Wash
A. R. Mensing
Northwest Airlines
Bureau of Air Commerce
North
Joe Livermore
Arthur A. Haid
Seattle
Mensing
Livermore
John Moorhead
Missoula
GM backs AFL craft unions in Lewis drive
General Motors announced support for AFL craft unions in their campaign to curb John L. Lewis's industrial organizing drive amid ongoing strikes. Spokesman John P. Frey disclosed the stance to reporters as the company faces labor action.
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Washington
General Motors Corporation
American Federation of Labor Craft Unions
John L. Lewis
John P. Frey
General Motors
Montana Weather: Unsettled Weekend With Snow West
The Montana forecast warns of unsettled conditions Sunday and Monday with snow likely in the western portions. Warmer temperatures expected Sunday before system moves in.
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Montana
Snow West
First Twins of 1937 Arrive at Local Hospital
Twin boys born yesterday to Mr and Mrs George Bourne at Murray hospital in Butte. Both mother and babies are reported doing nicely. Attending physician Dr H A Tash noted the first baby arrived at 10 41 a m and the second at 11 04 a m weighing details to be announced. No names yet.
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Butte
George Bourne
Montana Street
Murray Hospital
H. A. Tash
Pair Fatally Hurt in Airplane Crash
In Birmingham Alabama two young men died when their plane crashed on a vacant residential lot. The victims were J. F. McCarty 24 the pilot and Edwin C. Grounds 28 who lived nearby.
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Birmingham
Ala
J. F. McCarty
Edwin C. Grounds
Stork Delivers Baby No. 15 to Couple in Mining City
The Hipp family of 1211 Taft street welcomed baby number fifteen, a son born at the county hospital to Mrs. Hipp at 39. The WPA worker father and large brood cap a 23 year span with 12 living children, six boys and six girls, including a set of twins. Three earlier newborns died, and one married daughter has two grandchildren while another has one.
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Stork
Mining
Benjamin Hipp
Taft Street
Land grant urged for Havre school
The Senate public lands committee considers a Wheeler bill to give the Northern Montana Agricultural and Manual Training school at Havre 500000 acres of public land. The grant would make the school a federal land grant college with access to government benefits enjoyed by Montana state colleges.
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Washington
Senate Public Lands Committee
Montana Agricultural and Manual ‘Training School
Havre
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Madrid under heaviest opell rain of siege
Bombardment reforges as Fascists push into Madrid from the northwest. Government lines absorb shellfire while planes raid, injuring two Britons and killing four. Civilians urged to evacuate under mission protection as authorities battle to hinder the insurgents near Casa de Campo and Aravaca.
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Madrid
Great Britain
Germany
Finland
Defense Administration
Casa de Campo Park
Manzanares River
Aravaca
36 Indicted in Vote Fraud Case in Kansas City
A federal grand jury indicted 36 people, mostly election officials, in a conspiracy case tied to major vote irregularities in November. U S Attorney Maurice M Milligan called the actions “just a start” in cleaning up the city’s election processes.
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Kansas City
United States
Maurice M. Milligan
Aviation officials plead for more ground facilities
Chicago January meeting of the Air Transport Association of America drew presidents of about twenty airlines. Fowler Barker, reappointed secretary treasurer, said airlines will spend 11 million dollars this year on new planes and ground equipment, while government construction funds for ground facilities total 872 thousand dollars. Col Edgar S Gorrell was reelected president and managing director, noting 1936 as aviation's biggest year with passenger business up 31 percent, express business up 10 percent, and mail mileage up one billion pound miles since July.
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Fowler Barker
Col
Edgar S. Gorrell
Chicago
Aviation
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