Soviet Ambassador Denies Treason in Moscow Trial
In Moscow on March 2 Nicholas Krestinsky once Russia’s ambassador to Germany stood among 21 Bolshevik leaders on trial for treason. He denied being a traitor while others pleaded guilty to charges including murder sabotage and espionage. Prosecutor Vishinsky indicated Krestinsky would die by firing squad within 72 hours.
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Norman B. Deuel
Moscow
Soviet
Russia
Nicholas Krestinsky
Germany
Joseph V. Stalin
Krestinsky
Nicholas Grinko
S. A. Bessonov
Andrew Vishinsky
Leon Trotsky
Record rainstorm devastates Southern California
Los Angeles reports twenty six dead and thousands homeless as heaviest rainstorm on record floods Ventura to San Juan Capistrano, isolates cities, demolishes homes, swamps bridges, and halts rail lines and airports with widespread inundation. Many communities evacuated and streets flooded across Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Long Beach and more.
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Ventura
San Juan Capistrano
Sierra Madre Mountains
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Beverly Hills
Santa Monica
Long Beach
Compton
Glendale
Los An
Los Angeles River
Pacific Ocean
Today and Tomorrow Today and Tomorrow
There are better reasons now than at the start to think that the last fortnight’s events do not signal the collapse of the resistance to the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo alignment. In Japan, evidence shows the new American policy is making progress and hints that the President and Secretary Hull are guiding Japanese authorities toward recognizing expansion limits.
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Tokyo
Japan
Hull
Butte Hit by Snow Flurries and Drizzle
Snow flurries and drizzle swept through Butte yesterday as unsettled skies lingered. Temperatures ranged from 22 to 42 degrees with more precipitation forecast for today.
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Butte
Montana Weather Forecast Unsettled With Rain Snow Expected
Montana forecasters predict unsettled conditions Thursday and Friday with likely rain or snow in the west. Strong cold moves into the extreme west, bringing lower temperatures and possible wintry mix.
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Montana
Joint Civic Club Banquet Promises Large Butte Event
Major W H Drane Lester will address the Finlen hotel banquet on Crime Prevention hosted by the Joint Civic Club and Chamber of Commerce. The 6 45 pm event in the Finlen ballroom is expected to draw a capacity crowd with Lester’s talk on the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He spoke to Butte high and Montana School of Mines students yesterday.
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W. H. Drane Lester
FBI
Finlen Hotel
Civic Club
Chamber of Commerce
Butte
Finlen
Chamber
Lester
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Butte High School
Montana School of Mines
Interior supply bill advances with publicity agency plan
The House passed a $125,086,690 Interior Department supply bill for 1939, sending it to the Senate by voice vote after defeating a recommit motion 282 to 77. The measure trims current year spending by about $7.86 million and adds $85,860 for Ickes salaries to fund a new departmental publicity office.
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Interior Department
House
Washington
U.P
Senate
John Taber
Republican
New York
Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes
PWA
House rejects bid to cut Sun River project funds
The House defeated amendments by eastern and midwestern congressmen to remove funds from the Interior Department appropriations bill. The failed effort aimed to strike a 300000 dollar appropriation for the Sun River project in Montana, led by unspecified opponents.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Interior Department
Sun River
Montana
Door to Door Salesman Fined for Disturbance
Harry Rose a vacuum cleaner salesman was fined 10 dollars after witnesses testified he put his foot in the door to prevent a housekeeper on Florence Avenue from shutting it. He denied the charge saying business was bad.
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Harry Rose
Florence Avenue
Rose
Wheeler warns dictatorship risk in United States
U. S. Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana told the Welsh Society of Philadelphia that America could face a dictatorship masked as economic security. He cited Germany 170,000,000 citizens and warned that if it can happen there it could here, noting Americans can lose their heads like in World War I.
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Philadelphia
U. S
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
America
Germany
Welsh Society of Philadelphia
Polson Boy Killed by Car in Front of Lincoln School
Six year old Howard Commers, son of Mrs. Matilda Commers of Polson, was killed when struck by a car driven by Barton Armstrong in front of Lincoln school where he was a first grade pupil. No blame assigned. witnesses say he ran into the path of the vehicle.
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Polson
Howard Commers
Matilda Commers
Lincoln
Barton Armstrong
B. K. Armstrong
Polson Dam
Howard
City Denies Interest Claim Against It
City council rejects a county bid for 2095 22 dollars in six percent interest on election bills from 1933 to 1937. Finance chair Fred Seubert says bills paid and no city appropriation for interest. Addis McGrath filed the claim. county officials had impounded auto license plate funds pending settlement.
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Fred Seubert
Addis McGrath
Pershing Fails To Make Progress In Battle For Life
Tucson March 2 Gen John J Pershing remains in serious condition after a three day fight against death with doctors reporting no sign of actual retrogression.
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Tucson
Ariz
John J. Pershing
Mystery radio sighting halts search for missing air liner
Darkness and storm halted a nine passenger air liner search near a Sierra mountainside scar about 60 miles east of Fresno. Rescue teams, led by officials, expanded their operation as night fell with sighting reports of mystery lights and a white object in the area. Continued on page 2.
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Fresno
Calif
Here
High Sierra
Stern orders ease Nazi putsch fears in Austria
In Graz on March 2 the Austrian interior minister Arthur Seyss-Inquart imposed stern discipline on Styrian Nazis after talks with Nazi leaders. He said he did not believe there would be a Nazi putsch or a march on Vienna. Nazis demanded Austria modify relations with the Vatican.
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Graz
Austria
Styria
Arthur Seysz- Inquart
Adolf Hitler
Vienna
Vatican
Secret Police Hold Anti Nazi Pastor as His Trial Ends
Berlin reports say Rev. Martin Niemoeller, once a Nazi regime ally turned anti Nazi pastor, was found guilty of endangering public peace and sentenced to seven months in a fortress plus fines. He was described as released into police custody amid a storm of mixed statements about his status.
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Berlin
U.P
Martin Niemoeller
Dahlem
Ludwig Mueller
Niemueller
Alexanderplatz
Adolf Hitler
Moabit
Niemoeller
Hindenburg
Reichstag
Roosevelt never did a day's work sparks House debate
In Washington on March 2 a Republican asserted that President Roosevelt never worked a day, triggering a sharp exchange in the House during debate on the Interior Department appropriation bill. Representative Rich of Pennsylvania led the verbal clash as a vociferous advocate of government economy pressed the point.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Representative Rich
Pennsylvania
Interior Department
Butte Residents Reach Safety Amid Los Angeles Flood
First word of former Butte residents plight in the Los Angeles flood trickled in last night. Scores of Mining City people are in Southern California. Mrs. Frank LeSage received a telegram from her niece Mrs. Floyd Wolfsen of Los Angeles confirming safety. Wolfsen, a former Butte girl, Miss Madge Hennessy, and LeSage’s mother Mrs. Martha Haney live in Hollywood.
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Butte
Los Angeles
California
Frank LeSage
Floyd Wolfsen
Kidnapped Boy Pleads With Father for 60 000 Ransom
A 12 year old Peter Levine who has been abducted sends a handwritten plea to his father asking him to pay the 60 000 dollar ransom. The note was found on the back of a third ransom letter near a synagogue lot, as authorities search for the abductors.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Peter Levine
Peter
Abraham Nowak
February theft cases noted in Butte report
Chief W. I. Shay report to city council records forty two theft incidents in February in Butte. thieves prowled 18 rooms and houses. three purse snatchings occurred. twelve autos stolen with ten recovered, one burned, one missing. 76 automobile crashes reported with no fatalities. 26 involved cars from outside Butte.
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Butte
W. I. Shay
Shay
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