Yangtze floods threaten central China as rains loom
Japanese engineers and hundreds of thousands of Chinese peasants monitor weather for the next 48 hours. The Yellow River, called The Ungovernable, surges toward dikes with 50,000 lives lost and about 300,000 displaced from 2,000 villages. Waters threaten Honan and Anhwei as they push toward the Tasha river.
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Shanghai
China
Yangtze
Yellow River
Honan Province
Chowkiakow
Honan
Anhwei
Highway Commission Members Testify on Rogers Pass Dispute
Montana highway commission members along with two highway department executives gave depositions in Helena to perpetuate testimony for a district court injunction. R. M. Mills of Helena seeks to block the Great Falls to Missoula Rogers Pass project. the case moves to the state Supreme Court with a hearing set for June 20. Witnesses included commissioners Ford Hague Wheeler and engineers McKinnon Poore.
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Helena
Montana Highway Commission
Highway Department
Rogers Pass
R. M. Mills
Highway Commission
Great Falls
Missoula
Montana Highway
Supreme Court
Lee M. Ford
Lloyd A. Hague
John Wheeler
Billings
D. A. McKinnon
P. G. Poore
Hague
Equipment Needed for WPA Jobs in Butte Area
Silver Bow county and the city of Butte need at least 50 000 dollars worth of trucks and road machines to employ 6 000 to 7 000 men on WPA projects. A citizens committee met to plan funding and equipment, exploring a potential RFC loan secured by city and county license funds to raise 300 000 dollars as sponsor ship funds.
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RFC
Butte
Silver Bow County
General Citizens’ Committee
Charles A. Hauswirth
Dan Sullivan
Board of County Commissioners
Joseph E. Parker
Million Dollar WPA Project To Start In Butte Within 10 Days
Butte prepares for a large WPA program with a total cost of 955000 funded by city 155000. The plan covers street improvements sewers and related work across 55 miles of dirt streets with 12000 man month labor scope and multiple subprojects approved in Washington.
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Montana
Butte
Washington
Frank Curran
Curran
Montana Weather Outlook Partial Clouds and Showers
A Montana forecast from Friday through Saturday calls for partial cloudiness with thundershowers and cooler conditions in the eastern portion. The west and central regions are expected to be warmer with generally fair conditions on Saturday.
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Montana
WPA Playground Summer Schedule Announced
WPA playground programs run Monday to Friday from June to August 14 at Blaine St Mary West Zar elda Grant and Clark parks. Activities include registration at 9, organized games, storytelling, crafts, contests, singing, and evening music and parade.
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WPA
Raymond Enyart
Butte Wpa
Blaine
St. Mary School
West Zarelda Street
Grant School
Clark Park
St. Mary
Butte Officials Seek State Aid to Match Federal Relief
Butte and Silver Bow county leaders urged Governor Ayers for state funds to leverage federal relief money. Mayor Charles Hauswirth said about 7,000 people in Butte could be on relief jobs within weeks and warned the region faces a growing, desperate relief crisis.
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Helena
Butte
Silver Bow County
Roy E. Ayers
Charles Hauswirth
Silver Bow
Joseph Parker
Peter Potter
Public Welfare Board
James Combe
Roosevelt Submits TVA Cost Allocation Details to Congress
President Roosevelt today submitted to Congress the TVA cost allocation figures for the Wilson Norris and Wheeler dams. He recommended charging 49 360 179 dollars of the total 94 125 671 dollars to power. The move aims to show actual power production costs amid private utility criticisms. Allocation: 52 percent to power, 28 percent to navigation, 20 percent to flood control.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Congress
Tennessee Valley Authority
Wilson
Norris
Wheeler
Tennessee Valley
TVA
David E. Lilienthal
Falls Couple Near Death From Poison in Vermin Extermination
In Great Falls on June 16 two local lodging managers George Baggs and his wife Edna were overcome by toxic fumes while using a deadly poison to exterminate vermin. Ruth Collins, a waitress, heard moaning and alerted others. the Baggs were revived on the street and rushed to a hospital, where their condition remained critical that evening.
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Great Falls
George Baggs
Edna
Ruth Collins
Baggs
Butte Man Reports $40 Holdup on East Park Street
Lou Mihelich told police shortly after midnight that two men robbed him of $40 on East Park street a few minutes earlier. One assailant was armed, according to the report.
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Lou Mihelich
East Park Street
Mihelich
Wisconsin Man To Head Doctors
Dr. Rock Sleyster a neuropsychiatrist from Wauwatosa Wisconsin was named president elect of the American Medical Association to succeed President Irvin Abell in Louisville next year as the association meets in St. Louis Missouri.
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San Francisco
U.P
Rock Sleyster
Wauwatosa
Wis
American Medical Association
Irvin Abell
Louisville
St. Louis
Divorced Twice Yesterday Heir to Oil Fortune Marries Third Bride
James McDonald II, 24 year old heir to a $12 million oil fortune, was divorced by Alecia McDonald on desertion grounds, quickly remarried Doris Marie Cunningham, then divorced her for cruelty. He announced plans to wed June C. Kerns in Carson City tomorrow.
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Reno
James McDonald, II
McDonald
Alecia McDonald
Doris Marie Cunningham
Florence M. Laden
San Mateo
Ben Curter
Cunningham McDonald
United Press
June C. Kerns
Cassel
Calif
Carson City
Missing CCC Youth Floyd Brownlee Feared Dead in Jefferson River
Four days into the search for 18 year old Floyd M Brownlee of the CCC program, authorities report no trace despite a large drag operation by 50 enrollees led by Lt L Hildebrecht. Brownlee disappeared after leaving Camp Cavern at Jefferson Island with a bucket and shovel. river currents and spring runoff hinder rescue efforts.
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Floyd M. Brownlee
CCC
Carollee
Jefferson River
Jefferson Island
John H. Williams
Cardwell
Bozeman
Williams
Dan Quinn
Whitehall
Jefferson
Brownlee
Eugene Willette Jr
Butte
Colorado
Portsmouth
Ohio
British Stand On Arms Set Forth
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the house of commons that Britain is always ready to cooperate with other nations on disarmament. He answered Laborite Arthur Henderson who pressed Britain’s view following Cordell Hull’s recent U.S. speech.
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London
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Arthur Henderson
Laborite
United States
Cordell Hull
Filibuster Threat In Upper Chamber Ends Lobby Funds Fight
The 75th Congress closes amid quarrels over Senator Minton's attempt to add 12 500 for his Senate lobby committee. Roosevelt praise and cross party backslapping follow as House leaders honor Snell and Bankhead. President Roosevelt notes progress on wage hour laws crop control and spending programs.
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Senator Minton
Minton
Indiana
Senate
Burke
Nebraska
Washington
Roosevelt
Exanna Af Mittah
O'Connor
New York
House Rules Committee
Snell
Bankhead
Adjourning Congress Sets Stage for Nationwide Clash Over FDR Policies
Congress adjourned leaving a national contest between Roosevelt administration advocates and conservative elements. The session featured battles over court reform, executive power, and policy directions, with outcomes shaping the 1940 elections and future legislative battles.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Democratic Party
Solons Take Interest in U S Policy
Washington lawmakers debated foreign policy at session end. They approved the largest naval program in U S history, rejected Ludlow’s popular referendum before war, and kept neutrality laws intact. Hull answered queries from Mc Reynolds and Garner with concise replies.
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U.S
Washington
Congress
House
Roosevelt
Hull
McReynolds
House Foreign Affairs Committee
County road program submitted for WPA approval
County Surveyor Jack Healy yesterday submitted for WPA review a 1 238 844 74 dollar general road improvement project for Silver Bow county. It would employ about 1 750 to 2 098 men, with county sponsorship of 175 048 76 dollars. The plan includes 10 to 15 miles of oiled curb to curb streets and 20 to 24 feet wide highways, plus culverts, grading, resurfacing and bridges. secondary roads to be upgraded to A 1 condition.
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Jack Healy
WPA
Silver Bow
Healy
Butte
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Richard L. Turner
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Garner
Navy Department
Chamber
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