Explorers Rescued After Antarctic Starvation Threat
Lincoln Ellsworth and co pilot Herbert Hollick Kenyon were saved by Discovery II near Little America after being missing since Nov 23. They had fuel and provisions to last until Friday and were reported alive and well. The rescue confirmed their historic air crossing of the South Polar wastes.
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London
Lincoln Ellsworth
Antarctic
Ellsworth
Herbert Hollick-Kenyon
Little
America
Weddell Sea
Hollick-Kenyon
South Polar
Colonial Office
L. G. Hill
Reclamation Officer to Guard State Interests in Capital
Helena January 17. National reclamation association leaders plan to press for maintaining policies and adequate funding. President O S Warden and Secretary L A Campbell will spend weeks in Washington with Western state representatives. They warn the AAA upset shifts land and water policies and Montana must safeguard reclamation programs and appropriations.
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Helena
National Reclamation Association
0. S. Warden
L. A. Campbell
Association
Washington
AAA
Washington, D. C
Campbell
Montana
Reclamation Service
Gasoline Tax Takes Off To Start 1936
Helena reports a strong start to Montana s 5 cent gasoline tax with 195 817 55 in receipts for the first 15 days of January 1936. State board of equalization notes slower than usual monthly inflow but expects higher totals by month s end. Last year 1935 set a record with 4 740 461 96 in gasoline receipts, surpassing prior year by 531 806 43.
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Helena
Montana
State Board of Equalization
Mae West Signs New Paramount Contract
Mae West signed a new contract with Paramount Studios in Hollywood on January 17. The move ends rumors she would leave the studio that brought her to the screen three years ago. No salary figure was disclosed.
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Hollywood
Mae West
Paramount Studios
Herriot to resign post in Laval cabinet shift
Paris January 17 Former Premier Edouard Herriot said tonight he would resign as minister of state a move seen as strengthening Premier Laval’s cabinet. Billings January 17 Government hunters killed 129 coyotes nine bobcats and two mountain lions in December district agent R E Bateman said today.
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Paris
Edouard Herriot
Laval
Billings
R. E. Bateman
Bureau of Biological Survey
State law scored at school board meet
Great Falls Montana January 17 1947 Ralph L Arnold Missoula president Montana School Boards Association checks a state law requiring 51 percent of taxpaying electors to ballot on school bond proposals during the association's tenth annual convention opening. E L Marvin Billings secretary notes growing interest with rising membership and attendance as J W Smith Great Falls superintendent says the group provides a common meeting ground for trustees clerks and teachers.
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Great Falls
Ralph L. Arnold
Missoula
Montana School Boards’ Association
Arnold
Association
E. L. Marvin
Billings
J. W. Smith
Montana
Kipling Dies After Operation At 70
Obituary notes Rudyard Kipling, famed imperial poet, dies after a lingering illness. King George, Queen Mary, and Prime Minister Baldwin are named among those who followed the news. tributes from John Masefield praise Kipling as a major voice of imperial Britain and a gifted storyteller whose work defined an era.
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Kipling
Westminster Abbey
Britain
King George
Sandringham
Queen Mary
Stanley Baldwin
Los Angeles
John Masefield
England
Rudyard Kipling
Queen Victoria
Belivee
Canada
Australia
India
Ladies' Auxiliary Plans Drill Team at Butte VFW
Gladys Weir named captain of the proposed drill team by the Butte Post 1448 Ladies' Auxiliary. Initial meeting set for Monday at the YMCA at 7 o clock. Hazel Gratton appointed membership captain replacing Ira Knowlton, who resigned to lead the national home committee. Gladys Weir also leads membership efforts. Grace Gill chairs hospital relief.
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Ladies’ Auxiliary
Butte
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Gladys Weir
Hazel Gratton
Ira Knowlton
National Home Committee
Grace Gill
Hospital Relief Committee
Reprieve Details Stir in Hauptmann Case Saga
The article recounts Governor Hoffman taking office amid the Flemington trial and his study of the Hauptmann case. It notes Pope’s defense of Hauptmann, Hoffman's private talks with Hauptmann, and the pushback from political rivals. Hoffman defends the reprieve decision, cites doubt about key witnesses, and mentions a possible $75,000 offer for a confession.
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Hauptmann Cace
Hoffman
Flemington
Hauptman
Pope
Edward J. Reilly
Lloyd Fisher
United Press
Somerville
N. J
Hauptmann
Lindberghs
Trenton State Prison
New Jersey
Lindbergh
Schwarzkopf
Sid Boehm
New York Evening Journal
Board of Sardons
John Matthieson
Mannfried
New York
Mark O. Kimberling
Robert Elliott
Trenton
Kimberling
Six Major Farm Unions Back Administration Program
The national agricultural conference approved the administration's farm program unanimously. Six major farm organizations including the National Grange joined, with the National Farmers' Union admitted to the conference. The group urged unity before Congress and endorsed revisions to monetary and credit systems to stabilize the dollar and contract equity between debtor and creditor.
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Washington
National Agricultural Conference
National Grange
National Farmers’ Union
The
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Co-operative Council
Farmers’ National Grain Corporation
Grange
Congress
Man Freed After Two Years for Another Man's Crime
In Mansfield Ohio Frank Basey walked from the Ohio reformatory after two years for a crime he did not commit. Willie Parrish, jailed for another robbery, confessed to Basey’s crime, clearing him as Governor Davey’s clemency petitions chief Charles Leasure reported. Hauptmann remains in death house awaiting further action.
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Mansfield
Ohio
Frank Basey
Ohio Reformatory
Charles Leasure
Davey
Willie Parrish
Basey
Patrol Official Pleads For Care On Montana Roads
Helena, Jan. 17. Walter Beck of the motor highway patrol urged motorists to use utmost care in 1935 after records show about 9 percent of all motor fatalities result from driver negligence. He stressed carry chains due to changing weather and warned speed for conditions is the chief driver fault, noting 99 percent of 1934 deaths were caused by drivers, not car failures.
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Helena
Motor Highway Patrol
Walter Beck
Montana
Beck
Slogan contest judges pick winners for Butte show
Judges at the Butte Manufacturers show review hundreds of slogan entries for prizes of 20 and 10 dollars to be announced today. The winning slogans will be displayed during the February 4 to 7 event at the Butte Chamber of Commerce with varied product displays from the mining city. Committee members include J T Dougherty Lucille Meinnecke John Musevie Anthony McBride on the entertainment side and J H Lehr Fred Ackerman Tom Kelly F B Price Ed Softley W H Stork. Boulder City, a fast growing new town created by Boulder Dam, becomes Nevada's third largest.
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Butte Manufacturers
Butte Chamber of Commerce
J. T. Dougherty
Lucille Meinnecke
John Musevie
Anthony McBride
J. H. Lehr
Fred Ackerman
Tom Kelly
F. B. Price
Ed Softley
W. H. Stork
Boston Mayor Faces $50,000 Libel Suit Over Ban on Play
Anne Revers star of The Children's Hour sues Mayor Mansfield of Boston and the city board alleging libel and slander after the play was banned as improper. Filed by Central Press.
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Mansfield
Boston
Board of
Tensors
Anne Revers
Children’s Hour
Central Press
Banquet enjoyed at Wool Session in Montana
A Fort Ellis sheep station banquet near Bozeman highlighted Montana sheep industry talks by F R Carpenter and state college experts. Sessions covered sheep aging by teeth, cross breeding for market lambs, winter nutrition, and range ownership patterns causing land misuse.
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Montana Agricultural Experiment Station
Frank Barnum
Animal Husbandry Department
The
College
Hampshire
Barnum
D. W. Chittenden
State College Animal Husbandry Department
R. R. Renne
Agricultural Economics Department
Montana State College
Sheepmen
California City of So1 Marooned by Floods
Colusa California January 17 The Sacramento river flood has stranded about 500 people in Butte City and drenched over 30 000 acres as levees failed along a 15 mile front Three east side breaks were reported by relief crews Princeton population about 600 on the river west of the stream near Butte City sought aid to shore up a threatened dam Only boats can reach Butte City where 500 residents are trapped in homes by three to five feet of water No immediate danger believed.
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Colusa
Calif
Sacramento
Butte City
Here
Princeton
Montana School Census Shows Attendance and Costs
Helena January report by state superintendent Elizabeth Ireland outlines 150,759 Montana children aged 6 to 21, with 116,728 in school. Last year’s per pupil cost was 93.75 dollars, total instructional spend 8,773,963 dollars, and capital and debt service 2,169,269 dollars. High school attendance reached 82,325 and elementary 34,403 in 1935, while 1928 totals were 117,918. The rise in high school attendance is linked to employment downturns. elementary declines reflect population drops.
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Helena
Montana
Elizabeth Ireland
State Leather Sale Postponed Indefinitely
The proposed state sale of 120000 dollars worth of leather, produced under the Montana relief commission, has been postponed indefinitely by Gov Elmer Holt after independent tanneries protested to Washington relief officials. The tanneries argued the leather amounts to state socialism and competes with private firms, as goods from a state prison.
Pioneer Matron of Miles City Passes
Miles City notes the death of Mrs Magdalen Tyrell Potter pioneer matron of the Miles City region and widow of H G Potter. She died at the home of her son Whitney G Potter in Seattle after a marriage at Oshkosh Wisconsin in 1890. Potter was a stockholder in the Miles City Star Printing Company and earlier ran the local job department.
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Miles City
Magdalen Tyrell Potter
H. G. Potter
Whitney G. Potter
Seattle
Oshkosh
Wis
Potter
Miles City Star Printing Company
Government aims to stabilize productivity with four grazing methods
Dr Renne lists four corrective methods in the state to improve productivity. They include consolidating abandoned ranches by strong operators, voluntary grouping into cooperative grazing districts, establishing Taylor grazing districts, and government purchase of numerous small private tracts. I M C Anderson explains how to judge a fat lamb by back and loin coverage.
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Renne
Taylor
I. M. C. Anderson
H. F. Wilkins
Ross Miller
Animal Husbandry Department
Four Stavisky trial defendants convicted in Paris
In Paris the Stavisky scandal closed with nine convictions from twenty defendants. Acquittals included Mme Arlette Simon Stavisky and ten others. Extenuating circumstances were noted for most convicts except Gustave Tissier, whose confession triggered the case. The riotous fallout and cabinet collapse followed, with Georges Hatot and others among the convicted.
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Paris
France
Stavisky
Mme
Arlette Simon Stavisky
Gustave Tissier
Bayonne
Montana Insurance Fund Act Goes Into Action
Helena Jan 17 Montana s Insurance fund act began operation today on two small fairground buildings. one appraised 175 dollars and the other 117 dollars under the new re insurance plan the structures will be insured at 1 40 per 100 for a three year period A state fire marshal examined the buildings and will report soon
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Helena
Montana
State Fairgrounds
Roosevelt to Dedicate Theodore Roosevelt Memorial in New York
President Roosevelt plans a northward trip to join the dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt memorial at the American Natural History Museum in New York. The itinerary marks one of two planned journeys to the north over the next month.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
American Natural History Museum
New York
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Chamber of Deputies
Henri Cohen
Raoul Desbrosses
Orleans
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