Trades Act Debate Ends as Labor Wins Commons Battle
The Ramsay MacDonald government secures second reading of the Trades Act by 277 to 250 after a two day Commons clash. Winston Churchill warns the bill will legalize general strikes and provoke trouble, while Sir Stafford Cripps argues it remedies injustices in the 1927 act and reduces unrest.
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London
J. Ramsay MacDonald
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
Stafford Cripps
Russia a menace to world wheat market says Legge
Alexander Legge, chairman of the federal farm board, told the Traffic club in Chicago that Russia uses forced labor and lies about crops to depress world wheat prices. He cited exports rising from 20 million to 80 million bushels and warned of a 19 percent wheat acre increase in 1931 as Russia seeks to control global supplies. He urged American farmers to lower domestic production to avoid ongoing surplus and said the board will see its wheat price pegging program through.
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Chicago
U.P
Russia
Alexander Legge
Federal Farm Board
Legge
Farm Board
Embargo Proposals Reported By Ways and Means
Assistant Secretary Lowman told the house ways and means committee that proposed embargoes on Russian goods were under consideration. The disclosure was made during a Washington hearing with further details to be continued on page 2 column 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marguerite Young Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Lowman
Zion Ills smoker defies law in fist fight verdict
Paul Stewart, a truck driver, defeated Justice of the Peace Larose in a street duel to win the right to smoke in Zion where smoking is banned. Larose will honor the decision but fears explaining it to Wilbur Voliva, Zion leader still touring the world claiming the earth is flat.
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Zion
Ill
Paul Stewart
Stewart
Justice of the Peace Eat Larose
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
Larotte
Voliva
Banquet Opens The10th Night School Of Religion In Butte
One hundred places were set for tonight’s banquet at the Y M C A to start the tenth annual night school of religion in Butte. Sponsored by Mountain View Methodist church, Dr. Sheldon E. Davis of Montana State Normal College will preside. J G Ragsdale, city superintendent of schools, outlines a series of lectures on An Analysis of the Personality during the 10 week term alongside talks by Rev. Charles G. Cole and other city church workers.
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Butte
Mountain View Methodist Church
Sheldon E. Davis
Montana State Normal College
Dillon
Margaret Manning
J. G. Ragsdale
Ragsdale
Charles G. Cole
Two Robbers Attack Busy Chicago Fashion Store
Chicago on Michigan Avenue saw a bold hold up as two men and their victims fled in a chase through crowds. Clarence Hughes and Isadore Watkins, both 19, stole 150 dollars from six employees and two customers before being captured after a truck driver rammed one bandit. Francis Stanton, traffic officer, and Mounted Patrolman Edward Marek engaged the suspects, firing during the pursuit.
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Chicago
U.P
Michigan Boulevard
Clarence Hughes
Isadore Watkins
Baskin
Francis Stanton
Link Bridge
Tribune
Wrigley Building
Edward Marek
Booze Question Enters Chicago Mayoralty Race
Three Chicago mayoralty candidates urged repeal of the state prohibition enforcement act before the Illinois House. Mayor William Hale Thompson Judge John H. Lyle and Anton J. Cermiak spoke for repeal while others urged retention. Cermiak warned that repeal could leave Illinois outside federal modification of the Volstead Act.
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Springfield
Chicago
House of Representatives
William Hale Thompson
John H. Lyle
Anton J. Cermak
House
Cerniak
Assembly
Illinois
Thompson
Weather Forecast for Montana Thursday Friday
Montana mainly fair in the east while the west remains unsettled. Cooler conditions are expected Thursday east of the divide with modest cooling across the state into Friday.
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Montana
Divide
Spring Like Weather Grips Butte and Nation
Butte records 52 above temperature amid one of Januarys warmest days as sunlit streets erase snow and ice. Weather observer says steady barometer predicts clear skies while ice rinks shrink to pools and children play marbles. Chicago notes robins tulips and blossoms in full array across the country as citizens enjoy springlike conditions.
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Butte
Leo McMullen
Aphein
Chicago
United States
Montana Senate Rejects Chancellors Plan At Statehouse
In Helena on January 28 the Montana Senate defeated Senator Garber’s bill to replace the chancellor with a business manager for the six state university units by a 32 to 22 vote. The chamber also tabled a bill aimed at higher prices for Montana goods, with supporters arguing it targeted gasoline and sugar manufacturers. Committees reported favorably on measures for air crash prosecutions, a federal weather bureau for Missoula, oleomargarine import regulation, and veterans’ legislation, while farm aid bills moved to improve market access and price fairness.
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Helena
Montana
Senate
Garber
Crawford of McCone
Congress
Missoula
House
Salyerds of
Fergus
Mellon criticizes veteran bonus plan as without merit
Secretary Mellon told the Senate Finance Committee that cashing World War I veteran bonus certificates lacks economic merit and would worsen the depression. He warned of a $75,000,000 treasury deficit and said the plan would have serious consequences for public credit and disturb world equilibrium.
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Washington
Mellon
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Harrison Hold Up Investigation Shifts To Butte
Investigators broaden the Harrison State bank robbery probe after a sheriff’s death in the incident. Assistant Attorney General Torrance MacDonald says hearings in Butte and Virginia City will lead to interviews with local officials and other witnesses to shed light on the bandits who fled the robbed bank.
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Harrison
Butte
U.P
Harrison State
Frank Metzel
Virginia City
Torrance MacDonald
Snowstorm batters Alps as 21 Italian troops buried
A severe storm rages across southeastern France amid heavy snowfall and gales. In the Alps 21 Italian Alpine troops were buried by avalanches, while Moutiers and Aix En Provence report the fiercest conditions. A Charolles storehouse collapsed and poles toppled. shipping faced disruption in the English Channel.
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Alps
Slide
Paris
France
Moutiers
Aix En Provence
Charolles
English Channel
Havre
Trouville
Boulogne-sur- Mer
Pentchaten
Brest
Pershing Visits Front and Italian Setback Highlight War Report
The dispatch notes Pershing visiting the French front and observing a successful Aisne drive while reporting Italian morale sagging after Caporetto. It cites German offensive methods as effective, questioning Allied efficiency with too many independent bureaus.
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Pershing
Aisne
Caporetto
Women Join Butte Painters Union First Female Member
Mrs. Margaret Ke. Fisher becomes the first and only woman in the Butte Painters Union while decorating the Merrill mortuary. She specializes in interior decoration and freehand painting, expressing pride in women being in every field.
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Margaret KE. Fisher
Butte Painters’ Union
Merrill Mortuary
Wreckage Found of Missing Mail Plane 13
Walter E. Case, mail pilot missing since Thursday, is believed aboard. Pilot Al Davis located the wreck 16 miles north of Washougal near Bluff Mountain. Officials say no life signs were seen and a ground search would start at dawn.
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Seattle
Wash
Walter E. Case
al Davis
Washougal
Varney Air Lines
Wrec
Case
Walter Case
Va, Air Lines
Portland
Davis
Bluff Mountain
Cape Horn
Five Girl Scouts to Receive Golden Eaglet Honor
Five Butte girls will receive the Golden Eaglet, the highest Girl Scout award, at a Friday ceremony in the Butte High School auditorium. The event will be led by Mrs. Morgan Wright, with Miss Julia Greiner announcing. Recipients are Eleanor Frederickson Catherine Rand Margaret Herman Mary Jane Roberts Jane Jaccard.
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Butte High
Golden Eaglet
Butte
Butte High School
Morgan Wright
Julia Greiner
Eleanor Frederickson
Catherine Rand
Margaret Herman
Mary Jane Roberts
Jane Jaccard
Roberts
Montana State College
Bozeman
Miss Frederickson
Montana State University
Missoula
FP. C. Jaccard
Girl Scout Council
Jaccard
Extra Session Looms Over Relief Fund Fight
Washington. Democratic leader Robinson urged Congress to find its own relief agencies if the Red Cross refuses to administer the $25 million emergency fund. He said the Red Cross resolution, before the House, would spur an extra session if needed to compel action and criticized President Hoover’s stance as incomprehensible to his allies.
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Washington
Congress
Red Cross
Senate
Robinson
John Barton Payne
House Appropriations Committee
Payne
Red Cross Central Committee
Arkansas
Shakespeare Is Popular in Rum Row
In a county jail ward for federal prisoners, eighty one men sit with radios phonographs and magazines while awaiting sentences over the last two days. Many receive home cooked meals and small comforts as some inmates prep for months behind bars. One man vows to read all of Shakespeare during his four month term.
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Labor
Keith Jones
Mercy Organization
Fist Fight Fixes
Zion Fag Rights
Solons’ Wives
Middle West
North
Smith W. Brookhart
Iowa
McCumber
Elmer Thomas
Oklahoma
L. Townsend
Townsend
Delaware
M. Sheppard
Texas
G. H. Moses
New Hampshire
Senate Ladies’ Committee
Boyl’ Mich
Solons
Nathan Robertson
Metzel
Gen
John J. Pershing
Painters’ Union
Senator Robinson
Hoover
Robinson Asks
Ald
Rum Row
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