Roosevelt asks Congress for 950 million in relief funds
President Roosevelt sent a terse message to Speaker Rainey asking for 950 million dollars to continue the emergency relief program. He cited allocations above earlier plans and did not detail divisions while signaling civil works employment should move to public works payrolls by late spring and continue through the fiscal year.
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Butte
Montana
Roosevelt
Solons
CWA
Washington
Congress
Rainey
Civil Works
White House
House
Senate
Rioters Clash With Police in Paris After Chautemps Resigns
In central Paris royalists clashed with massed police amid the cabinet’s resignation over the Sta visky pawnshop scandal. Boatsmen and guards helped, chairs were used as weapons, and blood flowed near the Opera and Café de la Paix as Premier Chautemps relinquished his post.
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Paris
Camille Chautemps
Place de L'Opera
Cafe de la Paix
Palace
M. Chautemps
Chamber of Deputies
Edouard Herriot
Elysee Palace
Lebrun
Chamber
Senate
Chautemps
Montana highway program bids total about 1 million dollars
Montana's highway commission opened bids for approximately 1 million dollars in NRA financed projects. The state has obligated over 75 percent of its 7.44 million dollar relief grant to road work and job creation. More lettings planned for February 24 and March, with all funds in use by July.
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Helena
Jan
Montana
State Highway Commission
NRA
O. S. Warden
Great Falls
National Association of State Highway Officials
Warden
Washington
Roosevelt monetary bill advances amid silver battle
The administration won a late push on Roosevelt's monetary bill as Sivertives failed to load the measure with the old 16 to 1 silver issue. The bill passed the Senate 66 to 23 and heads for the House Monday for quick action and Roosevelt's signature. A devaluation plan and a $2 billion foreign value safeguard are outlined, with Morgenthau overseeing the stabilization fund.
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House
Roosevelt
Federal Reserve Banks
Treasury
Morgenthau
Senate
White House
Remonetizing Supporters Near Victory
Washington January 27. Senate nearly approved silver remonetization as an amendment by Senator Wheeler failed 43 to 45. Wheeler sought treasury buys of 750 million ounces of silver with certificates to back currency, challenging the presidents policy and the gold standard plan to devalue and stabilize the dollar. Democratic and Republican votes split, with 28 Democrats for the measure and 14 Republicans against, plus one farmer-labor. Leader Robinson warned wait for London conference results.
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Washington
Senate
Wheeler
Montana
Treasury
Robinson
Congress
Farmer-Laborite
Stalin Warns Allies on War Plots at Communist Congress
Moscow reports Stalin told the all union Communist party congress that war mongers threaten the Soviet state. He warned adversaries including Japan and Germany against plotting aggression and urged readiness to fight if needed while noting a global revolutionary potential.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Asia
Europe
Joseph Stalin
All-Union
Communist Party Congress
Russia
Japan
Germany
10000 Drowned or Frozen in China Flood Reported
Unofficial reports from Shanghai indicate about 10,000 people were drowned or frozen in the Yellow river flood in the Changchen district of Hopei province, received today.
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China
Shanghai
Yellow River
Changchen
Hopei Province
Veterans' bill introduced by Montana representative
Washington January 27 A bill embodying the four point veterans program of the American Legion is introduced by Representative Ayers Democrat Montana He says the measure aligns with administration aims The bill restores disability payments widows and orphans aid hospital benefits and dependent parents payments for service connected deaths or injuries
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American Legion
Washington
Jan
Ayers
Democrat
Montana
Veterans’ Administration
Montana relief costs to exceed 3 million this year
Montana state and county poor relief expenditures, excluding federal funds, are estimated to surpass 3 million dollars in 1934. The Montana Board of Equalization notes about 10 percent of property taxes and 15 percent of special license taxes fund relief, with county levies rising and state appropriations totaling 750 thousand dollars.
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Helena
Montana
State Board of Equalization
John J. Greene
Green
Washington
Greene
State Board
Montana Weather: Snow Flurries and Cold WaveForecast
Snow flurries in Montana with a colder Sunday and a moderate cold wave east of the Divide. Monday looks generally fair with rising temperatures across the region.
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Montana
Divide
Nations push naval arms as treaty deadlines loom
Global leaders forecast a naval arms race as the United States Britain Japan and France expand fleets toward treaty limits. Italy weighs 70 000 ton first line ships under the Washington pact while distrust of Japan grows in Fascist Italy ahead of the 1936 expiry.
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New York
United States
Great Britain
Japan
France
Italy
Chamber of Deputies
England
Britain
Arrest at Grand Silver shop prompts shoplifting charge
A storekeeper shouted arrest that man as four pairs of shoe laces three garters eight fountain pens a box of men s neckties two pairs of gloves and a bottle of perfume were taken from the Grand Silver store. Burns, seen giving away items, was later jailed on a shoplifting charge.
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John Haley
Grand Silver
John Lyden
Park
Main Streets
Burns
Haley
Ex-Butte Miner Slays Massive Sea Lion in British Columbia
Ex-Butte miner Thomas Jalland shot a huge Arctic Beach sea lion near Avalon after his wife spotted the creature surfacing at Cordova bay. The 11 foot by 9 foot behemoth weighed about three quarters of a ton, killed after 11 high powered rifle shots as tide went out.
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Butte
British Columbia
Thomas Jalland
Arctic Beach
Avalon
Jalland
A. L. Houston
East Center Street
Penda
Mary Pickford Reports Kidnap Plot In Boston Ritz-Carlton
Mary Pickford told United Press she fears a kidnap plot against her possibly aided by hypnotism. The attempted plan prompted her overnight police escorted ride from Boston to a friend's home in Falmouth Massachusetts after a late night event in the Ritz-Carlton Boston suite on the 16th floor. She discussed the ordeal and speculated on the motives and methods behind the alleged plot.
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Falmouth
Mass
Mary Pickford
United Press
Miss Pickford
Ritz-Carlton
Boston
Back Bay
Charles Fulton Oursler
Montana Sees 73 Public Works Loan Applications
Montana has filed 73 applications for public works loans and grants totaling 13.85 million dollars since the public works board began. Twenty five percent of Montana applications have been approved for about 22 percent of the total requested, with Gallatin County leading the year’s requests at 300 thousand dollars.
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Helena
Washington, D. C
Independent
Public Works Board
Montana
Washington
Gallatin
Applications for 1934 car licenses rise to 1375
A total of 1,375 applications for automobile license plates have been filed at the county treasurer's office to date, Mervin Dempsey reported. Only three days remain for motorists to register and evade arrest under the new state law.
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Mervin Dempsey
Archbishop Murray praises Butte spirit of pioneers
Archbishop John G. Murray of St. Paul visited Butte, calling it the most interesting city in America. A close friend of the late Joan D. Ryan, he embarked on a Far Western trip and made Butte his main stop en route, praising its western Montana background and copper-city history.
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John G. Murray
Diocese of
St. Paul
Butte
America
Joan D. Ryan
Murray
West Coast
Panama Canal
Montana
West
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