Chamberlain Heads for Paris Talks With Mussolini
Prime Minister Chamberlain, joined by Viscount Halifax, departs London for Paris to meet French Premier Daladier before visiting Rome. They aim to steer Europe toward appeasement amid disputes over France Italy colonial issues the Spanish war and treatment of Jews in Germany.
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Associated Press
Chamberlain
Munich
Mussolini
London
Viscount Halifax
Paris
Daladier
Rome
Germany
Italy
Near East
Butte Killer’s Life Term Commuted to 20 Years
Roy Hendrickson, serving a life sentence for the 1930 murder of Sylvia Hill, had his term reduced to 20 years and six months after the Montana board of pardons and Gov. Roy E. Ayers approved the commutation. Transcript filed in district court. the change became binding after pardons board approval on January 6. Hendrickson has served about eight years.
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Butteman
State Penitentiary
Montana State Board of Pardons
Roy E. Ayers
Ayers
Butte
Pardons Board
Hendrickson
Sylvia Hill
Columbia Gardens
Chamber Campaign Crews Launch Intensive Effort
Butte Chamber of Commerce drive aims to top a $19,576.50 pledge total with 32 crews in four divisions, planning a final push by Thursday. About $2,000 remains to be raised from new sources to secure the campaign for Butte this year, with the Wiring Division led by O J Horrom and L H Graham reporting $806 in pledges.
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Butte Better Business Builders
Chamber of Commerce
Butte
Clergymen Seek Refugee Aid At White House
A coalition of Protestant and Catholic clergy delivered a petition at the White House urging the United States to admit German children forced from their homeland and in need of refuge.
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Washington
White House
United States
International Wheat Quota System To Be Discussed
London January 9 A proposal from major wheatExporting countries to create an international quota system is likely the main item at tomorrow’s International Wheat Advisory committee meeting. Australia Britain France and the United States asked to explore agreement in principle to halt price declines from bumper crops. Two ideas under review include limiting exports to set amounts and establishing an international wheat research institute.
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London
International Wheat Advisory Committee
Australia
Britain
France
United States
International Wheat Research Institute
Border tensions rise as troops string barbed wire in Hungary
Snow covered fields along the Carpatho Ukrainian border see soldiers erect barbed wire amid brisk troop movements on both sides. No shots near Munkacs or Ungvar though reports claim Czech and Ukrainian forces near Derczen. Hungary claims past shelling at Munkacs and Nagygepece with incendiaries.
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Budapest
Munkacs
Ungvar
Derczen
Nagygepece
Montana Weather Outlook Turns Partly Cloudy
Partly cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday across Montana with snow flurries probable in the extreme west. Colder conditions expected in the eastern portion of the state.
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Montana
Cat-o-nine tails urged for drunk drivers in senate bill
Quon proposes corporal punishment for convicted tipsy drivers. The bill calls for a cat o nine tails as the punishment for offenses, reflecting a strict approach discussed in the Senate.
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Senate
Five for First Offense Expected in Drunk Driving Bill
Helena January legislative session resumes with 13 standing committees announced. A bill by Senator Robert Pauline proposes lashes for first offenders of drunken driving five lashes, second offenders ten, third fifteen, to be applied by sheriffs at county whipping posts in 56 jails.
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Helena
Robert Pauline
Flathead County
Pauline
Demand for Return to Thrift Seen
Former Rep Bertrand Snell, New York Republican and house minority leader, urged a national shift toward thrift prudence and common sense in national affairs. He spoke to a Women’s National Republican club audience amid boos over Frankfurter Murphy and Hopkins appointments, noting 24 years in Congress and a muddled national posture.
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New York
Bertrand Snell
House
National Republican Club
Felix Frankfurter
Frank Murphy
Harry Hopkins
Sneil
Congress
Supreme Court to review NLRB jurisdiction case
The Supreme Court agreed to hear Somerset Manufacturing of Somerville New Jersey in a fight over whether its clothing contract with Lee Sportswear of New York and shipment across state lines put it in interstate commerce. A Philadelphia circuit ruling said it was local and outside NLRB reach.
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Somerset Manufacturing Company
Somerville
N. J
New Jersey
Lee Sportswear Company
New York
Federal
Philadelphia
Somerset Company
NLRB
Nations curb aircraft exports as moral sanctions bite
The National Munitions Control Board reports that moral sanctions by the State Department have largely halted Japan’s U S purchases of military aircraft. The annual review shows current, exact export data and reveals a July circular urging exporters to keep American planes from nations bombing civilians. All but one company have pledged to follow the policy.
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Congress
State Department
Japan
United States
National Munitions Control Board
Department
Munitions Board
Rescue Expedition Mounted on Horses Seeks Abandoned Autos
A mounted rescue force headed toward 14 apparently abandoned cars marooned south of Santa Fe after a storm that dumped snow and rain across New Mexico, Colorado, and southern Wyoming. Pilot Jack Catron found the vehicles. Gov. Miles ordered the expedition to check for stranded motorists.
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Associated Press
Santa Fe
N. M
New Mexico
Colorado
Wyoming
Jack Catron
John E. Miles
Catron
Springfield
Heart of Colorado
Assassination Plot Against King Carol Reported
The Daily Telegraph said fascist Iron Guard members plotted to kill King Carol II in the royal palace with inside help. A premature bomb explosion thwarted the attempt, ring leaders were arrested, and Carol’s regime has cracked down since the Codreanu death.
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London
The
Daily Telegraph Tonight
Romania
Iron Guard
Carol
Royal
Corneliu Zeelea Codreanu
Lima Meeting Principles Praised by Hull
Secretary of State Cordell Hull returned from the Pan American conference in Lima with praise for the principles adopted there. He said the Lima program offers a charter for international conduct based on equality, justice and freedom and is universally applicable to safeguard the rights of all nations, strong and weak.
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New York
Cordell Hull
Lima
Callao
Peru
Hull
Silicosis Eliminated in Butte Mines After Dust Controls
Helena Jan 9 Special The commission reports silicosis eliminated in the Butte mines and dust counts under dangerous limits. It favors a Department of Industrial Hygiene to study diseases and enforce sanitary working conditions with Social Security benefits for incapacitated workers.
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Helena
Butte
U. S. Department of Labor
Department of Industrial Hygiene
Commission
Galen
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Ambassadors Kennedy and Bullitt to brief Congress on European tensions
Joseph P. Kennedy and William Bullitt, returning from Florida, will testify before congressional military committees on the European political and military situation before, during, and after Munich peace. They may discuss Col. Lindbergh’s air strength report and the stance of the Roosevelt defense program.
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Charles A. Lindbergh
Germany
United States
Capitol Hill
Joseph P. Kennedy
London
William ©. Bullitt
Paris
Florida
White House
Congress
Kennedy
Bullitt
Munich
Europe
Lindbergh
Reich
Solon Warns Roosevelts Policies May Lead to War
Sen Robert Reynolds a staunch New Dealer says Roosevelt administration foreign policies alienate nations and threaten to embroil the United States in another war. In Providence he aimed to speak openly this week.
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Solon
Providence
R. I
Robert R. Reynolds
North Carolina
Roosevelt
United States
Forestry School Dean to Address Scout Gathering
Prof. T. C. Spaulding dean of the forestry school at Montana State University will speak at the Silver Bow area council Boy Scouts annual meeting at Finlen hotel Thursday January 19. Clark Veatch says the event includes election of officers and council members for 1939 and business matters.
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T. C. Spaulding
Silver Bow Area
Montana State University
Clark Veatch
Dean Spaulding
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