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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1939
Page
4
The Soviet government uses radio to distribute news to 3,245 government papers in Russia and to 170 million listeners in 62 languages. Programs are often split by agencies to broadcast official communications and instructions ahead of newspaper publication.
Montana and other western states confront a federal suit over Platte river waters in which the government seeks decrees to control unappropriated streams. If successful, federal rights could divert flood and normal flow water to distant users, jeopardizing Montana’s irrigation plans and flood storage programs.
The Senecas in New York State, about 3 000 people across five reservations, contest enforcement of state laws on reservations while remaining under federal oversight. They petition Albany officials and urge the council of chiefs to govern, citing past overreach by state authorities and noting Canadian mobility concerns.
A brief description explains Soviet radio as a simple, government owned system with a single broadcast wavelength and station. Listeners connect their sets to a wall plug, turn on, and hear government programming with no advertising.
The 1939 Hobo Yearbook from the Hoboes of America, edited by Jeff Davis, presents a tongue in cheek portrait of Hoboes as “gentlemen of the road.” It contrasts hobos with tramps and bums, cites a 1,000,000 hoboes population, and notes Davis’s Hollywood ties and quips about Liberty and radicalism.
The piece argues the collapse of effective restraint in Congress enabled a sweeping New Deal spending program. It links this shift to the Mead bill and Berle plan, notes opposition parties face political peril, and highlights Vandenberg’s stance and potential 1941 reversals.
More than 4,500 Butte children filled the Gardens for the first Children's day of the season as sunny weather graced the event. Berton Brasey, once a local newsman and now a New York author, addressed the National Electric Light association in Atlantic City. Jack Saunders of Walkerville was elected chancellor commander of Calanthe lodge No. 40, Knights of Pythias.
In Laurinburg North Carolina farmer Stewart found five motherless foxes in his tobacco barn. Neighbors had two dog puppies. Foxes and dogs lived together until a break in through a small window. Investigating officers blamed Mama Fox for stealing her young, but she entered the wrong room.
San Francisco police followed a train from a barber shop where a man traded a gold watch for a haircut to a room on Ellis street and arrested Andrew George for house burglaries in which $10,000 in valuables were taken. Murray Klein, 24, was seized on charges of receiving stolen goods.
Thomas J. Ince offers $50 000 to the first aviator to fly from California to Australia via Hawaii. I O Proctor becomes president of the School of Mines alumni association at the County Surveyor Loughrin office. Anaconda company donates three park sites in Meaderville Centerville and Harrison Ave to county commissioners to boost playgrounds. County road traffic counts 1608 vehicles in eight hours per the commissioners survey.
On June 6 1909 a dangerous fire in Garrison destroyed two downtown buildings before being controlled. C H Smith of Butte received a silver trophy for his work as a state trapshooting official. The Catholic Foresters prepare for their state convention in Butte tomorrow at a Carpenters Union hall. The Dillon semi pro team defeated Young Men's club ball 4 to 1 in Dillon. Boise Irrigators beat Butte Reds at the Gardens closing the Butte series as Boise heads to Salt Lake City to face the Mormons and Helena leading Senators in a league match.
The horoscope warns adverse aspects and strong fault finding toward others while noting potential violence and property damage. It predicts profitable business, rising secret activities, subversive groups, political maneuvering, and a promising year forGemini births with opportunities in speculation and social gains.
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