Eagles Conven tion Sets State Drill Winners Today
Four degree teams from Lewistown Billings Helena and Great Falls compete for Montana Eagles state honors at Legion hall. Judges planned to announce results this morning after a final day of events including a Great Falls women’s drill team exhibition. Delegates prepare to vote on measures to aid subordinate lodges.
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Montana Eagles
Lewistown
Billings
Helena
Great Falls
Legion Hall
Hawks lands at L A set transcontinental flight record
Captain Frank Hawks arrived at Metropolitan Airport in Los Angeles at 8 23 23 p m Pacific time, unofficially breaking the nonstop Los Angeles New York record with a 19 hour 10 minute 28 second flight from Roosevelt Field. Repairs were needed before a planned return to New York and possible round trip under 36 hours.
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New York
Los Angeles
Metropolitan Airport
Frank Hawks
Roosevelt Field
Hawks
Dairy magnate recalls banker's five minute talk turning tide
Chicago businessman Thomas H. McIneerny, now president of National Dairy Products, sought New York capital six years ago. After a reluctant banker finally listened, he secured five million dollars and built a national dairy empire selling milk and ice cream from Chicago to Tennessee and Nebraska.
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North American Newspaper Alliance
Chicago
Thomas H. McIneerny
National Dairy Products Company
New York
National Dairy Corporation
McIneerny
Tennessee
Nebraska
Mr. McIneerny
M David Elected Head Of Kiwanis Clubs Of World
Milwaukee dispatch reports Horace McDavid unanimously elected Kiwanis International president at the thirteenth annual convention. Atlantic City, N J, chosen for next year’s session as 5 000 delegates depart. New officers include William C Green and Dr C C Tatham as vice presidents and Grossman as treasurer.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Kiwanis International
Horace McDavid
Atlantic City
N. J
McDavid
William C. Green
St. Paul
C.C. Tatham
Edmonton
Neb
Grossman
William Harris
San Bernardino
Cal
E. E. van Diest
Colorado Springs
Harry Gowman
Seattle
Wash
Carl E. Endicott
Bloomington
Ind
Howard T. Hill
Manhattan
Kan
Herbert A. Moore
du Bois
Defeat of German pact sparks talk of temporary dictatorship
June 27. The Reichstag rejected a bill extending protection of the republic prompting the government to indicate readiness to use constitutional powers for temporary dictatorship if needed. The vote 263 for, 166 against, two abstentions failed to reach a two thirds majority.
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Reich
Perlin
U.P
Reichstag
Germany
Elks Prepare Trip to Los Angeles Convention
Butterodge No. 240 Elks finalize plans for attending the national convention in Los Angeles next week. Committees report arrangements are in hand and a special Union Pacific train will depart at 8 p m Saturday. Members who have not reserved should do so to ensure railroad accommodations.
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Les Sore
Comentahees
Montana Elks
Union Pacific
Transportation Committee
Four Die As Flying Boat Crashes Off Beach Haven
A Curtiss flying boat plunges into Barnegat Bay during a Beach Haven to New York air service test. Killed instantly were Beach Haven officer Frank Conklin and captain Harold Potts. skipper Leslie Broome, pilot Paul Micelli, and Allison Price were injured or missing as search efforts continue. The official opening of the air route to New York was scheduled for soon after.
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Beach Haven
N. J
Curtiss
New York Air Service
Barnegat Bay
Frank B. Conklin
Harold Potts
Leslie Broome
Miss Beach
Searchers drag canal for missing Billings girl
In Billings Montana searchers dragged the Billings Land and Irrigation Company's canal north of the city for the body of 12-year-old Virginia Stevens daughter of a local physician who disappeared during a morning walk. A ditch rider reported finding a pair of shoes and half-hose on the canal bank identified as hers.
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Billings
Mont
Billings Land and Irrigation Company
Virginia Stevens
A. W. Sheplar
France to Seek Postponement of War Stocks Debt
Paris reports the French government will negotiate with Washington to postpone the Aug. 1 maturity of 400 million dollars in war stocks sold to France as American troops joined the fight. The chamber of deputies adopted a resolution seeking more time to decide on ratifying the US debt settlement under the Mellon-Berenger terms before August 1.
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Paris
Washington
France
Chamber of Deputies
United States
Prance
Chicago Executive Offered Post Of Chairman Of Farm Board
Alexander H. Legge of Chicago chief executive of International Harvester was offered and likely to accept the chairmanship of the federal farm board, created to implement the administration's agricultural relief plan. President Hoover discussed the post with Legge at the White House. Legge previously served on the War Industries Board and is a close Hoover associate.
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Chicago
Farm Board
Hoover
Alexander H. Legge
International Harvester Company
Washington
U.P
Federal Farm Board
White House
Legge
War Industries Board
Roadhouse Entertainers Receive No Special Status
U S District Judge Bourquin ruled that entertainers in road houses where liquor is sold are equally guilty with proprietors under the prohibition act. The ruling, in the Charles and Effie Tyrus case, holds entertainers who facilitate the nuisance share responsibility with owners and others involved.
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Bourquin
Seattle
Wash
United States
George M. Bourquin
Montana
Anthony Savage
Charles
Effie Tyrus
John H. Hamilton
US tariff wall delays Great Lakes waterway treaty talks
Milwaukee June 27 Senator Thomas J Walsh said American tariffs on Canadian imports threaten talks on a Great Lakes St Lawrence waterway. Canadians are angry and negotiations are suspended though the Teapot Dome investigator expects a treaty eventually. He anticipates a fall revival of talks and a senate treaty could open negotiations.
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Milwaukee
Canada
Great Lakes St. Lawrence
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Dominion
Walsh
Senate
Niagara Falls
Church Refuses To Release Minister In Great Falls
In Havre on June 27 the Great Falls Presbyterian church unanimously refused to accept the resignation of Dr Ward F Boyd. He had been offered the Bethlehem church pastorate in Minneapolis for the third time. The congregation refused to release him and he referred the matter to the presbytery, which accepted their decision as final.
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Havre
Great Fallsee
Ward F. Boyd
Great Falls
Fund for paving hits over nine thousand dollars
The Harrison Avenue paving drive passes the five thousand mark as Dr J S McCarthy mails a ten dollar contribution. Fundraiser leader Gamer urges auto owners to mail or deliver gifts to the chamber of commerce to reach a twenty two thousand five hundred dollar goal to match county funds. windshield stickers will be issued to contributors.
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Harrison Avenue
J. S the . J. McCarthy
Chamber of Commerce
Spain ends search for lost aviators
Madrid June 31 The Spanish government says it has done all it can to locate Major Franco and three companions who went missing Friday after a round trip flight from S to New York and has given them up as lost.
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Madrid
Major Franco
New York
National Commander McNutt Opens Montana Legion Meet
The American Legion opened its Montana convention in Havre with National Commander Paul V. McNutt arriving by air from Poplar. He plans a Fargo talk Saturday and urged stronger veteran hospitalization, immigration limits, loyalty from foreign born residents, and universal draft until law.
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Havre
Paul V. McNutt
Poplar
American Legion
Fargo
N. D
Congress
McNutt
Legion
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