Auto chiefs pledge cooperation with Roosevelt on credit limits
Washington January 21 top leaders of the automobile industry pledged cooperation with President Roosevelt to curb high pressure installment sales and stabilize employment. Edsel Ford William S Knudsen and Alvan Macauley attended with K T Keller representing Walter Chrysler who sent regrets. They forecast better business in spring and said industry representatives met with the president to discuss problems.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Edsel Ford
William S. Knudsen
General Motors
Alvan Macauley
Packard
Walter P. Chrysler
K. T. Keller
Chrysler Motor Company
B. E
FBI Chief Calls Anders Most Ruthless Killer Yet
J Edgar Hoover labeled Peter Anders as the most cold blooded ruthless and atrocious killer faced by the FBI. Anders held for the Chicago kidnap murder of Charles Ross and accomplice James Atwood Gray was captured near Los Angeles after a shootout with agents. Hoover described Anders as volatile and driven by a savage impulse, detailing the pair’s plan to rob Chicago on September 25 and the discovery of the victims’ bodies in a Spooner Wisconsin dugout.
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ST. Paul
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Peter Anders
Charles S. Ross
Chicago
Bureau
Hoover Sald
Snariy
Los Angeles
Anders
James Atwood Gray
Ross
Hoover
Gray
Spooner
Wil
Emily
Minn
Today and Tomorrow by Walter Lippmann
A Washington observer notes puzzling detachment at the center of power as President Roosevelt minimizes the slump in business and questions the need to revise laws or change policies despite alarming figures and adviser concern.
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Walter Lippmann
Washington
Mr. Roosevelt
Federal court upholds TVA power program in Tennessee
A three judge federal court ruled the Tennessee Valley Authority power program legal and found no unlawful competition with private utilities. It ruled no conspiracy between TVA and the Public Works Administration to undermine complainants, 18 private utility firms mostly subsidiaries of Commonwealth and Southern. The companies said they would appeal to the U S Supreme Court. Judge Florence Allen announced the decision in Cincinnati.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Public Works Administration
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
New York
United States Supreme Court
Florence Allen
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
Butte Grade School Skating Carnival Opens At Clark Park
The nineteenth annual event brings about 500 students from 25 schools to Clark park rink for preliminaries this afternoon at 1 30. Finals and a Sunday grammar graduate race add to a keen schedule with about 3 000 spectators expected.
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Butte
Clark Park
John Lindquist
City Parks and Playgrounds Committee
Betty Huber
Greeley School
Ann Bukovich
Webster
Jean Gramey
Longfellow
Bernice Dennis
Emerson
Dona May Fanning
St Patrick
20000 Japanese Reinforcements Halt Japanese Front in China
Twenty thousand Japanese cavalry and artillery move to Shantung to bolster an offensive stalled by sleet snow and Chinese resistance. Reinforcements join 60,000 Japanese already pressing toward Lunghai railway as both sides clash northwest of Shanghai with about 400000 Chinese opposing them.
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Shanghai
Shantung Province
Peiping-Hankow
Shansi
Lunghai
China
Suchow
Kiangsu
Tientsin-Pukow
Sugar producers gain 39 million appropriation
The House passed a 39.75 million dollar appropriation to pay sugar producers by March 1 at 6 cents per hundredweight. The Agriculture Department touted readiness to distribute funds. an additional 32 million remains for next year’s crop loans. The appropriations committee projects about 53 million in sugar act taxes for the current year, with 44.15 million collected by July 1.
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HOUSE
Washington
Senate
Agriculture Department
Farm Credit Administration
House Appropriations Committee
State College President to Address Banquet Here
Dr. A L Strand Montana State College president will be principal speaker at the annual Silver Bow Area council Boy Scouts of America banquet. The event begins 6 30 p m at the Finlen hotel with reservations from courthouse offices. The area covers Silver Bow Deer Lodge Powell Jefferson Beaverhead and Madison counties.
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A. L. Strand
Silver Bow Area
Montana State College
Silver Bow
Banqnet
Finlen
F. L. Riley
Charles A. Joy
J. H. Frey
Ward Thompson
Deer Lodge
Powell, Jefferson
Beaverhead
Madison Counties
Montana Weekend Weather Outlook
Partly cloudy conditions expected in Montana Saturday and Sunday. Snow or rain likely in the extreme west, while areas east of the divide turn colder Saturday.
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Montana
Divide
Eight Children Hurt in Crash Near Lingle
Torrington Wyoming January 21 eight Torrington children were injured two seriously when a school bus carrying 43 pupils bound for a basketball game at Lusk Wyoming sideswiped a truck ten and one half miles north of Lingle Wyoming tonight authorities reported.
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Torrington
Wyo
Lusk
Lingle
Salt Lake City Police Chief Ousted in Corruption Probe
Salt Lake City officials discharged Police Chief Harry L. Finch amid a commission led investigation into alleged police fraud and collusion with the underworld. The shake up comes after a period of growing scrutiny of the department and its practices in Salt Lake City.
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Salt Lake
Salt Lake City
Harry L. Finch
City Commission
Underworld
Fasting Dean Nears Collapse in 20 Day Fast
Israel H. Noe, a priest without a pulpit in Memphis, Tenn, nears collapse after a 20 day fast to prove the spirit can sustain the body. Physicians warned he could slip into a coma at any hour.
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Memphis
Tenn
U.P
Israel H. Noe
Public hearing on Northwest crash ends in Bozeman
A federal board of investigation concluded a hearing into the probable causes of the Northwest Airlines plane crash near Bozeman on January 10. Chairman Miller C. Foster said no further sessions seem necessary at this time though additional sessions remain possible. Tests were reviewed as the panel wrapped up.
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Bozeman
Jan
Federal Board of Investigation
Northwest Airlines
Miller C. Foster
Bomb Plot Leads Seattle Police to Dismantled Liner Threat
A powerful bomb intended to strike the Japanese liner Higo Maru was found under a Seattle pier. The device held 369 sticks of dynamite and a time fuse. a water leak in the case stopped the mechanism moments from firing. The alleged plot involved a Canadian ex teacher Rolphe Forsyth who drowned while placing the device. In Montana a separate civic drive ended with 564 contributors totaling 24023.25 for the Butte Better Business Builders campaign, led by A F Rice and Ward Fanning with top giver George Benjamin at 205.
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Seattle
Rolphe Forsyth
Butte Better Business Builders
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber Board of Directors
A. F. Rice
Ward Fanning
Peter Potter
Chamber
George Benjamin
William M. Johnston Prominent Billings Attorney Dies
William M. Johnston 70 a leading Billings attorney and former Montana board of education member died of heart disease in Billings after a long illness. A Nebraskan by training he moved to Billings 45 years ago and helped establish the Eastern Montana Normal School. Johnston served Yellowstone County 1897 to 1901 Billings city attorney 1900 to 1903 and mayor 1917 to 1919.
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Billings
Jan
William M. Johnston
Tillings
Montana Board of Education
Eastern Montana Normal School
Law
University of Nebraska
Johnston
Yellowstone County
Compromise Farm Bill Nears Final Action Next Week
Washington reports a near finish to a farm program aimed at five major crops cotton wheat corn tobacco and rice. The plan would pay farmers for acreage and marketing compliance with crop loans and penalties for noncompliance, plus loans on stored crops to form a reserve against shortages and price drops.
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Washington
House
Senate
Congress
Reoe
Smith
South Carolina
Senate Agriculture Committee
Scholarship applications due February 1 in Butte AAUW drive
The Butte branch of the American Association of University Women invites loan scholarship applications due February 1. Applications go to Miss Burney Rice. The group, which aids seven Butte girls at University of Montana units, welcomes current Butte high school graduates and former graduates now at State University units. Loans cover one to four years based on need, with emphasis on character and scholarship.
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Butte
American Association of University Women
Bloodied air raids hit Spain cities in civil war
A government communique reports 47 killed by insurgent air raids in eastern Spain while government planes bomb Salamanca. In Reus and Castellon on the coast 40 died. Cuenca saw seven killed and 19 wounded. insurgents push toward Teruel along the Alhambra river frontier town of Hendaye notes a renewed offensive.
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Spain
Salamanca
Reus
Castellon
Cuenca
Madrid
Valencia
Hendaye
France
Alhambra
Teruel
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