House seeks big cuts in Treasury and Post Office funds
Washington dispatch reports the House moves to trim 60.86 million dollars from Treasury and Post Office budgets for the next fiscal year leaving total appropriations at 1.516 billion dollars including 115 million for old age security. The Appropriations Committee adds 7.92 million in reductions amid cloakroom criticism of the item veto tactic pushed by Woodrum.
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Washington
House
Treasury and Post Office Department
Budget Bureau
House Appropriations Committee
Woodrum
Virginia
Appropriations Committee
Better Business Builders in Butte Nears Campaign Goal
The article notes the Butte Chamber of Commerce drive for Better Business Builders nears its $22,000 target with 286 firms pledging. Foremen and crews report progress, led by Carl Elvers and E F Gittens. Final promoter meeting set for 11 a.m. at the Chamber.
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Butte Better Business Builders
Chamber of Commerce
Better Business Builders
Carl Elvers
Butte
E. F. Gittens
Elvers
A. F. Rice
Dan Mooney
Jack Nemeck
Dan J. Mooney
Mooney
Chamber of Commerce Butte Better Business Builders
Legion Post Sets Record In Membership Campaign
Silver Bow post of the American Legion announced a membership drive milestone with 325 paid-up members reached, the first time the post hit the quota quickly. The drive runs through April 15 with a goal of 500 paid-up members, a figure not seen in years. The Silver Bow post, the first organized in the state, received a charter on August 5, 1919, with 15 charter members including D. G. Silvers and J. F. Emigh.
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Silver Bow
American Legion
Leo T. Morrisey
Department
Silver Bow Post
D. G. Silvers
J. F. Emigh
John L. Sullivan
Francis R. Silver
Edward F. Bassett
E. A. Rouleau
C. H. Berrien
Howard R
Norris warns anti lynching fight could hurt New Deal program
Senator Norris of Nebraska objects to continued debate on the anti lynching bill saying extended contention may wound Roosevelt's legislative agenda and slow federal civil rights efforts. Senator Caraway of Arkansas assails the measure as unconstitutional and denounces it as an insult to the South during lengthy floor reading.
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Washington
Norris
Independent
Nebraska
Roosevelt
Senate
Arkansas
Hattie Caraway
Caraway
Judiciary Subcommittee
Italian executioners hunted by Paris police in fascist murders
Paris authorities pursued a band of Italian killers led by a mysterious Monsieur X blamed for a series of political slayings. They suspect orders from fascist circles and connect the crimes to the May Paris subway killing of Mile Letitia Toureaux and the Roselli brothers.
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Paris
Surete Nationale
Monsieur X
Mondanel
Surete
Mile Letitia Toureaux
Carlo
Nello Roselli
Benito Mussolini
Dmitri Navachine
Josef V. Stalin
France
U S Cruisers to Visit Singapore Inaugurate Naval Docks
Three United States cruisers were ordered to proceed to Singapore to attend the inauguration of new naval docks at Great Britain's strategic far eastern base.
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Washington
United States
Singapore
Great Britain
Far Eastern
Robideau to be first man hanged in Stillwater county
Frank Robideau asks for fried chicken melon and cold mince pie as his last supper on Friday before being transported to Columbus for execution. He spends final hours with wife and two of four children in Yellowstone county jail, while other family members are quarantined with scarlet fever. The sheriff warns no cameras inside the death house and details timing between 1 am and 11 pm Saturday for the ride to Columbus.
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Billings
Frank Robideau
Columbus
Stillwater County
Robideau
Yellowstone County
Jack Benjamin
Roosevelt approves major diplomatic shakeup with confirmations
The Senate confirmed President Roosevelt's largest diplomatic reshuffle to date. Joseph P. Kennedy becomes ambassador to Great Britain, Hugh R. Wilson to Germany, and Norman Armour to Chile. They will depart after a month of instruction at the State Department.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Joseph P. Kennedy
Maritime Commission
Great Britain
Hugh R. Wilson
Germany
Norman Armour
Canada
Chile
State Department
Montana Weather Forecast for Friday and Saturday
Partly cloudy in Montana on Friday and Saturday with a chance of snow in the extreme west. Temperatures rise in the eastern portion on Friday.
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Montana
Senator details clerk’s dummy CCC camp fraud scheme
Senate investigators described how Eeno Stitely, a National Park Service clerk, created a fake CCC camp and forged vouchers to skim about 84 thousand dollars. The 29 year old, once earning 2300 annually, used proceeds to pay a mortgage, buy a car, gamble, invest, and entertain. He pleaded guilty to nine forgery counts. officials say he moved operations to dodge detection.
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Washington
Interior Department
Eeno Stitely
National Park Service
Stitely
Grade School Children Train On 10 Acres Of Ice
Thirty two city skating rinks totaling about 400000 square feet are used by youngsters citywide to practice for the nineteenth annual grade school skating carnival. The Parks and Playgrounds Committee meets at 7:30 pm in City Hall to select judges and plan the event set for January 22 and 23 at Clark Park, with Chairman John Lindquist presiding.
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Clark Park
Weatherman
City Parks and Playgrounds Committee
John Lindquist
Frank Curran
Ramsay
Glen Rice
Carnival
Chiang Kai-Shek Takes Command At Suchow Front
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek assumes personal command of Chinese armies on the Suchow front in a do or die defense. He orders the jail of Shantung governor Han Fu-Chu for retreats after Tsining loss, while his wife arrives in Hong Kong with sisters to support the war effort.
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Chiang Kai-Shek
Shantung Province
Han Fu-Chu
Li Tsung-Jen
Kwangel
Chiang
Tsining
China
Shantung
Buchaw
Central China
Tientsin-Nanking
Sunchai
Suchow
Hongkong
Mesdames H. H. Kung
Sun Yat-Sen
T. V. Boong
Cardozo’s Condition Improves Slightly Says Doctor
Washington reports that Associate Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo showed a slight improvement in condition today per his physician Dr J P Earnest Jr. The jurist had suffered heart attacks last week after grippe and shingles illness, marking the first encouraging report on his health.
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Washington
W.P
Supreme Court
Benjamin N. Cardozo
J. P. Earnest Jr
Paris cabinet crisis as Chautemps resigns amid Socialist walkout
France faces a new government crisis as Premier Camille Chautemps resigns after Socialist ministers quit their posts. Daladier announces the cabinet's resignation to Parliament amid a vote of confidence drama and mounting financial and labor tensions.
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Paris
Edouard Daladier
Camille Chautemps
People’s Front
Chamber of Deputies
Daladier
Albert Lebrun
Chautemps
People's Front
Leon Blum
Senate
France
Winter Thaw Hits Mining City As Snow Melts
Winter thawed out in the Mining city yesterday. Rising temperatures attacked snow depths brought by flurries early in the week. Minimum temperatures were above zero for the first time in several days. Thermometers rose from 11 to 31 degrees. Cloudy weather, warmer temperatures, and snow, were predicted for today.
National push for constitutional ban on drunkenness
William D. Upshaw former Georgia congressman and city leader announced at the Florida Baptist convention a national campaign to amend the U S Constitution to prohibit drunkenness in the United States.
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Jacksonille
Fla
William D. Upshaw
Georgia
Florida Baptist Convention
United States
Christmas Seal Sales Reach $3 552 In Butte
Christmas seal sales in Butte totaled 3552.84 in 1937 per Fred W. Rosselet treasurer of the Butte Anti-Tuberculosis Society. The meeting elected directors and heard committee reports as Dr Curtis L. Wilson noted the sales topped 1936. Officers to be elected February 10.
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Butte
Fred W. Rosselet
Butte Anti-Tuberculosis Society
Curtis L. Wilson
Alfred Karsted
Matt Christy
Pat Whalen
A. H. Heilbronner
James Leary
Veronica O'Sullivan
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