Roosevelt Signs Industrial Recovery Act Into Law
President Roosevelt signs the Industrial Recovery Act described as historic and far reaching. Hugh S Johnson is named administrator of the act with Col Donald H Sawyer as temporary administrator of the 3.3 billion public works fund and Col George R Spading as assistant.
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Hugh S. Johnson
Bill
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Donald H. Sawyer
Federal Employment Stabilization Board
Public Works Fund
George R. Spanding
Mississippi River Commission
Back to Work Is Now Slogan of Roosevelt
President Roosevelt outlines the new industrial recovery act emphasizing job creation and living wages. He notes potential to hire many workers quickly and aims for up to a million new jobs by October 1, with broader gains later, while warning against monopolies and graft.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Roosevelt Uses Finesse and Might to Win Over Congress
Washington reports a calm, persuasive Roosevelt masterfully maneuvered Congress to back his veterans' program after a sharp House setback. He pressed from the White House with personal campaigning, leveraging favors, jobs, and political pressure to secure crucial votes and a decisive Senate breakthrough.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Congressional
House
Senate
White House
Charles L. McNary
Oregon
Charlie
McNary
George W. Norris
Nebraska
Norris
Muscle Shoals
Kidnappers Demand $100,000 for Hamm in Minnesota Abduction
William Hamm, 39, millionaire brewer, is believed kidnapped in St Paul. Verne Sankey is sought in connection with Hamm and other earlier abductions. Police report ransom demand of $100,000 delivered by telephone to Hamm’s business manager, with pursuit ordered.
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ST. Paul
Minn
William Hamm
United Press
Verne Sankey
Haskell Bohn
Charlies Boettcher, II
Denver
Sankey
William Dunn
Brewing Company
Hamm
Fern Sankey
Bohn
Dunn
Billy Hamm
New Chapter in Administration as Program Goes Into Effect
After a swift, wide sweeping program passed in less than 90 days, the administration moves from proposing to administering. With a strong congressional majority and broad public support, the president now selects executives and seeks favorable results. The era of sentiment yields to the task of execution.
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Congress
Bids Opened as School Board Handles Routine Business
The district No. 1 school board held a brief session to open bids from 45 bidders for school supplies for the coming year. All bids were referred to the building and purchasing and finance committees. The board adopted a condolence resolution for the death of the son of board member O R Ashford Jr, prepared by Trustees Fred Root William McCarthy and C H Gallagher. Committees heard from parents of students at Jefferson and Blaine schools.
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O. R. Ashford Jr
Fred Root
William McCarthy
C. H. Gallagher
Jefferson and
Blaine
Pastor and Wife Observe Double Anniversary at Fete
The Reverend Edward Smith and his wife celebrated 40 years of ordination and 40 years of marriage with an informal reception at Grace Methodist church parsonage. Gifts were given by congregants, a bridal shower for Mrs. Smith was held, and telegrams arrived from church leaders. The couple were wed in 1893 in Columbus Ohio and moved west that autumn to take a pastorate in Wilbur.
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Edward Smith
Smith
Grace Methodist Church
Flathead River Bursts Banks Near Polson
Flood reports from Lake County show the Flathead River overflowing in places southwest of Polson as Flathead Lake rises from melting mountain snows. Northern Pacific official J. H. Johnson surveyed the line paralleling the river in Sanders County as a continued report appeared on later pages.
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Missoula
Flathead River
Polson
Lake County
Flathead Lake
J. H. Johnson
Northern Pacific
Sanders County
Montana Weekend Weather Outlook
Unsettled weekend forecast for Montana with scattered thundershowers east of the divide. Cooler temperatures expected Saturday east of the divide and Sunday across the south central and extreme east regions.
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Montana
Divide
Wheat tax to fund farm acreage reductions in July
Secretary Wallace announced a 30 cent per bushel wheat tax on processors starting after July 1 to fund a $150 million payment to farmers for acreage reduction agreements. The program will distribute most bonuses by September 15, offering contracts for next two harvest years and treating summer payments as crop insurance for farmers hit by winter-kill and bad weather.
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Washington
Wallace
Germany seeks return of Africa colonies at world conference
At the world economic conference in London on June 16 Dr. Alfred Hugenberg urged restoring German colonies in Africa to boost repayment capacity. The proposal, presented by Germany's delegation, accompanied a call to open other territories for settlement. Hitler reportedly supported the bid despite tensions with Hugenberg.
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London
U.P
Africa
Alfred Hugenberg
Hugenberg
Berlin
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Dr. Hugenberg
Hitler
Hermit writer Richardson Dies by Own Hand at Clifton-by-the-Sea
A. L. Richardson, 62, once a newspaper man and dramatic critic, who fled society 25 years ago to live as a hermit near Galveston bay, died from a self-inflicted gunshot in his two room shack. His body was found by a carrier boy delivering his remaining newspaper. The incident occurred at Clifton-by-the-Sea on the shores of the bay.
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Dickinson
Texas
Upp
Clifton-by-the-Sea
Galveston Bay
Richardson
Butte Sees Third Day of Heat With 90 Degree Readings
Butte joined a national pattern with a third straight day of sweltering heat. Official readings hit 89 or 90 degrees at midday, followed by a rain shower that cooled air. Temperatures slipped to the 48s after nightfall as a cool wind from the Rockies arrived. Police in prowl cars wore warmish coats overnight.
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Butte
Rockies
Roosevelt Leaves Washington for New England Vacation
President Roosevelt traveled by special train from Union Station at 8 33 pm heading toward New England and New Brunswick for a vacation. He smiled to more than 200 well wishers despite rain as the crowd roared and he paused on the observation platform. He called the trip a new experience for him and wished luck to all.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
New England
New Brunswick
Union Station
Mr. Roosevelt
United States
Wesley McCall Pioneer Dies at Whitehall Home
William Wesley McCall 88 arrived with emigrants at Virginia City in 1866 and played a pivotal role in Montana's pioneer era. A Ohio native, he hauled timber for early Butte underground mining, served as Grace and Whitehall postmaster, and later engaged in stock raising and placer mining. He leaves seven children and numerous grandchildren. Funeral Sunday at 2 p.m. in Whitehall with Masonic rites.
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William Wesley McCall
Virginia City
Montana
Frank E. Houghton
Whitehall
McCall
Ohio
Butte
Grace
The
Masons
Bench Warrants Issued for Ignoring Traffic Summons
Judge L. A. Bushley announced bench warrants for 13 motorists who failed to respond to traffic summons. Ten additional traffic cases were set, with seven bonds of 1 dollars forfeited and one 5 dollar penalty for driving without proper license plates.
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L. A. Bushley
Barriers of Fog Hide Fate of Mattern
Nome Alaska reports the fate of Jimmie Mattern, missing on a round the world flight, remains unknown amid fog and overcast skies. Reports from wireless stations and aviation men say no news yet, while Jack Clark II speculates he may be held somewhere near the Bering region until weather improves.
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Nome
Alaska
Jimmie Mattern
Bering Sea
Asiatic
Khabarovsk
Siberia
New York
Jack Clark II
Jimmie
Clark
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