Mayor to Appoint Traffic Commission in Mining City
Prohibition debate and anti smuggling campaign dominate White House and congress as Detroit rum runners fire on customs men. Treasury official Lowman defends arming border patrols and confirms scaled up Detroit organization. No letup in the campaign to stop smuggling along the border.
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Raymond Clapper
United Press
Aerton
Prohibition
White House
Congress
Detroit
United States Customs
Treasury
Lowman
Customs Service
Girl freed after 21 years held in barn over leprosy fear
In Moscow the 27 year old peasant girl released from a barn in Tashkent district after 21 years confinement by her parents who feared she was leprous. Officials said she is now healing from a minor skin ailment. Her father Kabir Khadja resisted entry but authorities opened the barn and found her atop straw.
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Moscow
U.P
Tashkent
Tchuyya-Toba
Walfi
Kabir-Khadja
Congress Recesses After Tariff Revision Passes
Congress adjourns for vacation prep after passing one administration bill and postponing another. The France war debt payment date was moved if ratified, while Hoover's plan to study moving prohibition agencies between departments was set aside amid wet and dry debate. The Senate plans to resume August 19 awaiting the tariff bill from the House finance committee.
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Francis M. Stephenson
Associated Press
Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Hoover
France
United States
Jones
Congressional
Prohibition
Treasury
Justice Department
Great Britain opens first air taxi service from Manchester
Northern Air Lines launches air taxi operations from Manchester Municipal Airport. Wal lace E Moessner notes fleets for passengers and merchandise to Britain or the continent with variable rates from 10 to 30 cents per mile. One way charges apply mileage both ways and waiting time allowances vary by trip length.
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Alliance
Great Britain
Northern Air Lines, Ltd
Manchester
Wallace E. Moessner
United States
Eagles State Meet Program Announced in Butte
The Montana State convention of Eagles runs June 26 to 29 in Butte during Homecoming week. The three day program opens at 9 30 a m with state aerie officers and delegates registering at headquarters in the Lewisohn building.
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Montana
Eagles
Butte
Lewisohn Building
Beadle Proposes Traffic Commission and Lower Fine
Mayor M Kerr Beadle announced to Butte city council plans to appoint a traffic commission of two aldermen and three private citizens to regulate traffic. He urged redrafting the traffic code to insert a minimum $2 fine, saying the current $5 minimum is excessive and enforcement has grown lax.
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M. Kerr Beadle
Butte
Beadle
Traffic Commission
Lutheran Church Opposes Coddling Criminals at Lutheran Convention
Officials of the Evangelical Lutheran Missouri Synod declare no sympathy for coddling criminals or abolishing the death penalty. Dr. F Pfotenhauer of Chicago opens the 34th triennial convention urging aggressive church work and purity of teaching.
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F. Pfotenhauer
Chicago
Lutheran Church
Temperatures on West Coast soar past 100
June 19 Los Angeles reports 98 degrees as the Pacific Southwest endures heat. Yuma Arizona hits 110, Phoenix 108, Tucson 106, and Needles California 108. Fresno and etinner reach 92, San Francisco 84, Portland 68, Spokane 64, Reno 82.
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Los Angeles
Pacific Southwest
California
Arizona
Yuma
Ariz
Weather Bureau
Phoenix
Tucson
Needles
Cal
Fresno
Ectinner
San Francisco
Oregon
Portland
Spokane
Wash
Reno
Nev
Bullets in Pipe Endanger Nebraska Man
Alliance Nebraska June 193. As Art Shipley a retired rancher struck a pipe for a smoke an explosion followed a bullet flew through his hat and lodged in the ceiling He had been shooting rats and .22 caliber cartridges had mixed with tobacco in his pocket
Great Gathering At Gateway In Opening Of Gallatin Park Entry
A large crowd is expected at the Gallatin Gateway Inn for the 1929 opening of the Gallatin Gateway to Yellowstone Park. Milwaukee railway sponsors the event with dignitaries including Governors Erickson Emerson and Baldridge, Senator Jah, and a Glacier National Park Indian tribe providing wild west color. The Terry cow boy band is also part of the program.
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Montana
Gallatin Gateway Inn
Salesville
Gallatin Gateway
Yellowstone Park
Milwaukee Railway
Park
Erickson
Emerson
Wyoming
Baldridge
Idaho
Jah
Glacier National Park
Terry
Screen Star to Wed Banker in Hollywood Ceremony
Actress May McAvoy and investment banker Maurice G Cleary filed intent to wed today at the marriage license bureau. They plan to marry next Wednesday at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Hollywood with Rev Michael F Mullins officiating. Lois Wilson is maid of honor and Arnold Hanger of Richmond will be best man.
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Los Angeles
May McAvoy
Maurice G Cleary
Lcene Bureau
Minneapolis Pair Again Seek Record
Gene Shank and Owen I. Haugland departed Wold-Chamberlain at 2 55 p m for their second attempt to break the 172 hour world airplane refueling endurance record aboard Miss Minneapolis. They began with 100 gallons and plan a triangular route to Northfield and Hastings, after a prior forced landing.
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Minneapolis
Gene Shank
Owen I. Haugland
Wold-Chamberlain
Harrison Avenue Paving Drive Opens With Quick Support
Butte residents quickly back a Harrison avenue paving plan as chamber of commerce volunteers log 15 subscriptions in about three hours. Donors receive red and white windshield stickers proclaiming It did and Have you to publicize support and encourage others.
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Harrison Avenue
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
John D. Wilson
Fred Gamer
Harrison
Railroad Tunnel Collapse Kills 15 at Thague Worksite
Fifteen workers died and fifteen were injured when a railway tunnel under construction near Thague caved in. Italian engineers named Abel Pion and Luis Can among the dead. Two Polish workers were reported decapitated.
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Bogota
Colombia
Thague
Abel Pion
Luis Can
Heflin's Son Arrested for Driving While Intoxicated
James Thomas Heflin Jr., 28, son of the Alabama senator, was arrested in Washington for driving while intoxicated after a collision with a truck. He was examined at a hospital and released on $1,000 bond.
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Senator Heflin
Washington
James Thomas Heflin, Jr
Alabama
Young Heflin
Poese Cutter Ile Santiago Sunk In Portuguese Waters
A storm off De Oiseaux Caboverde caused the Poese cutter Ile Santiago to sink with 11 dead. The Sagres gunboat rescued nine survivors in the hours after the disaster.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Ile Santiago
de Oiseaux Caboverde
Council Acts on Butte District Improvements
The city council moved quickly on nine Butte improvement projects with total costs over 300000 dollars. Three projects opened bids, one called for bids, others in preliminary stages, and a new Porphyry street petition asked for ornamental lighting.
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Butte
Porphyry Street
Gas fatal to two in Texas refinery tragedy
At the Pasotex refinery near El Pago Texas two men died and 15 others were hospitalized after gas fumes circulated through the plant. Cattle sheep and chickens in the area also perished. The source of the fumes was unclear with one report citing a broken gas main. About 20 workers were affected but many recovered quickly.
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EL Pago
Texas
Pasotex
Lea County
Hoover May Get Change to VialT Favorite Stream
Washington June 19 Congress has ordered a recess giving President Hoover relief from the strain of his administration since it began and since the special session he called. Continued on page 2 column 7.
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Washington
Congress
Hoover
House
Senate
Poincare Calls Debt Accord Unfavorable to France
Premier Poincare told a joint foreign affairs and finance committee in Paris that the Mellon Berenger war debt accord was unfavorable to France and urged ratification of the Washington agreement reached in April 1926. He noted negotiators sought concessions but faced inflexible Washington resistance.
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Chamber of Deputies
Paris
Poincare
Foreign Affairs and Finance Committees
France
Washington
Hoover
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Bonnie Davis
Chester Woodward
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