Fight to Finish Looms As Court Fight Heats Up
Senate Majority Leader Joe Robinson accuses the Supreme Court of forcing legislative problems through "unnatural" construction and promotes a substitute to permit three new justices in six months. President Roosevelt meets Sen. Wheeler as the fight heads to a confrontation with filibuster threats.
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Washington
Senate
Joe T. Robinson
Supreme Court
Robinson
Roosevelt
White House
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Congress
Wheeler
Earhart Signals Spark Hope In Hawaii Search
Radio signals reportedly from Amelia Earhart's missing plane revived searcher hopes. Howland Island station relayed bearings to the coast guard. The Itasca and Coolorado moved to expand the hunt believing survivors may be near an island or reef.
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Honolulu
T. H
U.P
Amelia Earhart
Howland Island
Howland
Coast Guard
Itasca
Coolorado
Winslow Bank
Navy
Miss Earhart
Frederick J. Noonan
Tension rises from new clashes along Soviet Japan border
Reports from Manchoukuo say three Soviet incursions into the Siberia Manchoukuo frontier left two Russian soldiers dead and a Japanese soldier wounded. Officials fear renewed large scale hostilities after Russo Japanese tensions over the Amur islands Seniuru and Bolshoi. Soviet forces were said to mass along the river bank facing the disputed islands while Japanese Manchoukuoan inhabitants feared a fresh outbreak. Last week Japanese guns sank a Russian gunboat and forced two others to flee after a Russian detail fired first.
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Amur
Seniuru
Bolshoi
Administration renews bid to pack the courts
The Administration faces a new scheme after failing to pack the federal courts in the first attempt. A compromise would allow the President to appoint three Supreme Court justices in six months, replacing Van Devanter and adding one judge for 1937 and one for 1938, with further details continued on page 3.
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Supreme Court
Justice van Devanter
Cleveland Steel Mills Opened In Peaceful Move
In Cleveland 3,000 workers returned to three Republic Steel plants after 41 days idle amid a seven state strike. Jeers and scab chants marked the reopening as National Guard guards kept peace. In Youngstown indictments were returned against 200+ including Burke and Stevens for riot and weapon charges linked to June battles. two deaths and many injuries reported.
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Cleveland
Republic Steel Corporation
National Guard
Cleveland Mills
Youngstown
Ohio
Mahoning County
Robert Burke
John Stevens
Stevenson
Ohio Steel Valley
Burke
Columbia University
Republic
Ohio National Guardsmen
Great Lakes
Johnstown
Indiana Harbor
Ind
Youngstowns Sheet & Tube’s
Kansas Suffering From Ice Bombardment Reported
Storm hits Lyons county with hailstones the size of baseballs. Mrs. W A Shawn reports damage to poultry near Americus. No injuries are listed but livestock sustain injuries from the ice o bom bardment.
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Emporia
Eas
Lyons County
W. A. Shawn
Americus
Weather forecast for Montana fair midweek
A Montana forecast predicts generally fair weather on Wednesday and Thursday. The eastern portion will be warmer on Wednesday.
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Montana
Early morning rain cools Mining City temperatures
Rain eased the heat across Mining City as Fourth of July readings fell from over 90 to a 48 to 73 degree range. Weather observers report .15 inch of precipitation along a strip from Butte to Helena, with forest fires near Butte now under control.
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Mon‘Lama
Continental Divide
Butte
Helena
Whitehall
Deer Lodge
Deer Lodge National Forest
Elkhorn Forest
Soviet Japanese clash on Vinogradka frontier reported heavy casualties
Moscow reports a clash between Soviet and Japanese Manchukuoan troops with heavy casualties on both sides. A Russian detachment saw Japanese Manchukuoan forces on Soviet soil and fired, then engaged in a second clash with an undetermined number killed and wounded. Both sides view no serious consequences expected. A protest was lodged with the Japanese embassy.
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Moscow
Hsinking
Vinogurka
Manchoukuo
Street Oiling 15 Under Way Amid Court Fight
Oiling of Butte streets has begun with over 50 workers across eight wards and an estimated cost of 34000. County surveyor Jack Healy says the county should supervise the project, while the city disputes funding control as the attorney general advised the county position. The city plans a restraining order as preliminary plowing and blading wrap up.
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Butte
Jack Healy
Healy
Anaconda Road
Copper Street
Quartz Street
Arizona Street
Quartz
France threatens frontier aid to Loyalists in Spain
Paris reports premier Camille Chautemps warned that France would open the Pyrenees frontier to allow men and munitions into Loyalist Spain unless Germany and Italy renew the neutral naval patrol off Spanish coasts. A motorized anti aircraft battery was sent to five miles from Hendaye toward Saint Jean de Luz, with two guns, 12 cannons, a searchlight and 32 men.
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Paris
Camille Chautemps
France
Pyrenees
Spain
Germany
Italy
Hendaye
Saint Jean de Luz
Franco fronts advance toward Santander in northern Spain
Franco's troops attacked Santander to trap Loyalist forces as Castro Urdiales fell after seizure of the Sierra Castro Heights. Italian volunteers in the Black Arrows brigade aided the assault, with another Nationalist force moving within ten miles of Riv.
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Hendaye
U.P
Francisco Franco
Santander
Franco
Burgos
Castro Urdiales
Biscay
Sierra Castro Heights
Black Arrows
Cantabrian Heights
Montana Man Dies After Knife Affray At Fair Grounds
Jiggs Moore aged 34 Belfry bartender died from a knife wound in the abdomen suffered during a near riot at Red Lodge fair grounds where a carnival was playing last night. Walter Sandine was bruised after a hammer blow. carnival employees were held by Sheriff J R McFate for witness identifications.
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Red Lodge
Jiggs Moore
Belfry
Fair Grounds
Walter Sandine
Carnival Company
J. R. McFate
Howland Island Search Efforts Continue for Earhart Plane
Efforts to locate Amelia Earhart's missing plane focus on Howland Island as investigators evaluate faint radio signals and possible wreckage sightings. Authorities and researchers pursue leads at the Pacific atoll in hopes of pinpointing the aircraft’s location.
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Pacific Ocean
Amelia Earhart
Putnam
Time for further bids on Longfellow school
School board requests more time to consider bids for construction of the Longfellow school after a fire. A July 13 meeting will review stage equipment bids and a $120000 bond fund is moved to construction with a state AG ruling on high school equipment bonds. Insurance payouts totaled $507,195.57 with $43953.43 on the building and $6842.04 on contents.
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Longfellow
Board of Trustees of
Fred Taylor
PWA
Montana Scouts Perform Historical Pageants at Jamboree
More than 4,000 Boy Scouts from Michigan Wisconsin Illinois Indiana Montana and the Dakotas joined in pageantry portraying the early days of their states at the National Scout jamboree in Washington. Regions seven and ten bands and Racine Wisconsin drum corps provided music for the show with the theme Scouting trails to high adventure. The program featured Paul Bunyan legends Indian dances a parade of states a block house fort and a model lumber logging camp.
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Washington
Michigan
Wisconsin
Illinois
Indiana
Montana
Dakotas
Racine
Wis
Paul Bunyan
Roosevelt aims to save 400 million by withholding funds
President Roosevelt announced he hopes to save about 400 million dollars in federal appropriations by impounding 10 percent of newly allotted funds. He said budget balance is the goal this year, with some activities curtailed. He noted fixed items like military pay and salaries cannot be cut and will send a letter to heads of departments.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Navy
Congress
Suspect in murder seen near Butte
Sheriff Larry Weir said a man matching the description of the suspected killer of George Thomas, a 45 year old bartender, was seen heading south or west from Butte. He was described as about 40, five seven, gray temples, with a brown shirt and two to three day beard. He stopped at several ranches and last contacted Brown's Gulch at 8:30.
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George Thomas
Phelan
Butte
Larry Weir
Elk Park
Brown's Gulch
Brown’s Gulch
Rocker
Fianna Fail Misses Majority in Free State Election
In Dublin the Fianna Fail party led by President Eamon de Valera fails to win a majority in Dail Eireann. Fianna Fail secures 6 seats, Cosgrave's party 48 seats, Labor 13, independents 8, with the constitution poll showing 599,635 in favor and 452,692 opposed.
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DE Valera
Free State
Dublin
Irish Free State
Eamon de Valera
Fianna Fail
Dail Eireann
William T. Cosgrave
Laborites
Old House
Cosgrave
CCC Camps Operated in Montana Reach 27
Helena July 6 The Civilian Conservation Corps reports 27 camps in Montana for the first quarter of the 1937 fiscal year beginning July 1. Fourteen camps protect and improve national forests, four work on reclamation, four on National Park projects, two on state parks, and one on a state forest project and Medicine Lake wildlife refuge. Training in fire suppression crews and expanding transportation and communication facilities are planned for the season.
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Helena
Civilian Conservation Corps
Montana
Robert Fechner
CCC
Medicine Lake Wildlife Refuge
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Chautemps
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Pacific
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