09 Mar 1931
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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1931
Page
1
A stirring call urges Butte residents to vote tomorrow to endorse public land transfer to states, arguing consolidation lowers costs and leads to orderly debt payment. The piece denounces consolidation opponents, defends the act as protecting rights and tax processes, and warns of fraud by anti consolidation forces.
Belgrade reports a string of earthquakes across Jugoslavia and nearby Balkan states killing about 80 people and injuring hundreds with hundreds more feared dead as 900 buildings collapsed. Shocks stretched from Belgrade to the Black Sea, and seismographs tracked today’s epicenter amid disrupted communications.
Buonego women of Butte join National Business Women's Week observance marked by public relations efforts, dinners, fashion shows, and adult education discussions. Governor Erickson praises the movement in a letter to Anna Schultz, noting America’s 1,250 local clubs and about 60,000 members across Alaska and Hawaii.
Prominent citizen J. K. Hesler says Tuesday will be the most momentous election in Butte s history and urges voters to focus on consolidation as the main issue. He downplays side issues and condemns anti consolidationists as bold liars while highlighting the public well being as the urgent goal. The article continues on Page 2 Col 4.
In Chicago a fireman hangs from an ice coated ladder three stories up and saves his buddy as flames erupt from windows. fireman Peter J. Kennedy braces, holds Richard A. Rooney as they swing and descend. Rooney suffers severe burns on hands and face. Kennedy, recently probationary, is recommended for a medal and promotion.
Washington dispatch reports Rep F H La Guardia demands a Republican National Committee meeting to address repeal and modificationist pressures. He predicts GOP loss if it ignores anti prohibitionism, notes southern dry voters may still back a Democratic ticket in 1932.
Citizens of leading naval powers await the Anglo Franco Italian agreement expected this week. Leaders hailed it as the crowning phase of a 1921 effort to reduce sea power. Paris announced the pact after Britain and the United States pressed Mediterranean powers toward terms.
Sam Mitchell of the Butte Clerks union described a consolidation proposal on KGIR, denouncing Walker Roscoe and Caplis bills as failing to safeguard union rights, care for the poor, or elect county officers. He said the current plan excluding those criticized sections would better protect workers and taxpayers.
Helena dispatches report that a dog barking at a hole in Lake Helena lured three year old Jimmy Marcum onto the ice. Harvey B. Marcum, the boy’s father, jumped in to try to save him and retrieved the body, but resuscitation failed.
A fierce March storm struck New York and New Jersey causing thousands in damage. Two people lost their lives and many were injured in auto accidents as rain and a 40 mile per hour gale flooded waterfronts, tore roofs, downed lines, and endangered about 200 Bronx church children as Staten Island streets flooded.
Tokyo March 9. More than 100 spectators were burned on hands and faces as chemicals released during army plane smoke screen maneuvers failed to vaporize. The chemicals rained down and burned clothing during air defense exercises at the Yoyogi parade grounds. casualties were not fully known until victims contacted the war department.
In Barrow Alaska on March 8 Pilot Joe Crosson flew anti-toxin from Fairbanks to the diphtheria ravaged village in five hours and 20 minutes, a dramatic contrast to the dog team relay that took five and a half days in 1925. Six lives were lost and many were sick during the outbreak.
Pershing tours service of supply with Harbord and new head. General Is Please by what he finds conditions at Bordeaux and Bassens unsatisfactory. Principal officers at base headquarters are replaced. A major who works is rewarded by the commander.
Chief Harry Shu-Pela, 55, sole keeper of Hopi snake dance secrets, has died of a stomach ailment at Walpi on the Hopi mesa in Northern Arizona. His death leaves the tribe’s snake clan without a leader ahead of August dances, risking the loss of traditions and the appointment of a new snake dance chief.
The forecast calls for snow or rain on Monday across Montana with the coldest conditions east of the divide. Tuesday includes more snow.
Two young doctors, W. L. Powling and L. H. Cline, were jailed on open charges after a nurse alleged she was drugged in a hotel room near L D S Hospital. Superintendent Pingree triggered the probe when a caller said the nurse would miss several days. Police recovered whisky and await chemical analysis before filing formal charges.
A Hoover appointed special committee led by James R. Garfield urged transferring most public lands to states with exceptions for areas national defense parks forests and reservoirs. The report calls for uniform state federal laws on mineral resources and warns federal retention if absent. It notes 178,979,446 acres of public land remain and fragments indicate continuation on page 2.
Edward E. Denison, after eight terms as a Republican representative from Illinois, goes on trial in the District of Columbia Supreme Court on liquor possession charges. Indicted in 1929 after agents found a leaky suitcase and a trunk with whisky in his office, he claims the items did not belong to him or his nephew Charles Lane. Denison, a known prohibitionist, voted for the Eighteenth Amendment, the Volstead Act, and the Jones Law during his House tenure.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes marked his 90th birthday at his I Street home in Washington. He gave his first radio address from home on the Columbia network while friends and colleagues, including Felix Frankfurter and President Hoover, sent greetings. Holmes, in unusually good health, has largely retired from social life since his wife’s death in 1929.
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