Administration Shifts On Anti-Trust Legislation
Washington reports indicate the Roosevelt administration may delay new anti trust laws until next year. House Democratic leader Sam Rayburn said Congress will likely adjourn in about 60 days after a White House conference. He noted the 1890 act has seen only one revision and suggested a study first. Roosevelt plans a monopoly message to Congress before adjournment.
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Washington
Rayburn
Texas
Congress
White House
Roosevelt
Whitney Named in Grand Larceny Indictment
Richard Whitney former five time New York Stock Exchange president and Wall Street leader is indicted for grand larceny in the first degree. District Attorney Dewey secured the indictment within hours after state approval. Whitney surrendered with his attorney Charles H. Tuttle and is described as tall and stern with Harvard Groton background.
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New York
Richard Whitney
New York Stock Exchange
Wall Street
Thomas E. Dewey
John J. Bennett Jr
Dewey
Whitney
Harvard
Groton
Charles H. Tuttle
Rainer and Tracy Given Film Awards
Hollywood March 10. Luise Rainer and Spencer Tracy win Academy Awards for best motion picture performances of 1937. The Life of Emile Zola voted top film by 15000 voters. Leo McCarey named best director for The Awful Truth. Alice Brady and Joseph Schildkraut win supporting acting honors. Darryl Zanuck receives Thalberg Memorial Award. Edgar Bergen honored for Charley McCarthy.
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Spencer Tracy
Luise Rainer
Hollywood
Cal
Miss Rainer
Tracy
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Emile Zola
Leo McCarey
Alice Brady
Chicago
Joseph Schildkraut
Irving G. Thalberg
Darryl Zanuch
Twentieth Century-rox
Edgar Bergen
Charley McCarthy
Landscaping of grounds at high school planned
Tentative plans for beautifying the new Butte high school grounds are under consideration by the school trustees and may become a WPA project. Work could start within 10 days with three tennis courts at Main and Porphyry, a girls’ play field with volleyball courts, terracing, grass, shrubs, and rip-rapping work.
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New
Butte High School
O. R. Ash
Pledge of peace plea fuels Austrian plebiscite tension
London dispatch reports Lord Halifax pressed Ribbentrop for non intervention in Austria’s Sunday plebiscite. Ribbentrop reportedly refused pledges and hinted Germany might intervene to protect German minorities if trouble arose. Hughes of Berlin echoed concerns as crowds clashed with police outside the British Foreign Office.
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London
Daily Express
Lord Halifax
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Germany
Neville Henderson
Berlin
Ribbentrop
Austria
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
Kurt Schuschnigg
Viscount Halifax
Foreign Office
Ribben
Insurgents Capture Belchite After Aragon Drive
Belchite, Spain, March 10. Generalissimo Francisco Franco's infantry entered the Aragon town after a day of bombardment that forced government troops to withdraw eastward. The capture marked a 17 mile advance in two days under General Juan Yague with insurgents driving southward.
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Belchite
Spain
Francisco Franco
Aragon
Juan Yague
Montana Weekend Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy Friday with unsettled cooler conditions on Saturday. Likely rain in the western portions.
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Montana
West
Ickes-Willkie fight threatens peace efforts in TVA-utilities battle
A quarrel between Interior Secretary Ickes and Willkie, a private power executive, threatened to derail attempts to end the strife between the TVA and the electricity industry in the Tennessee Valley. Ickes accused Willkie of seeking a conspiracy to cut off PWA grants for municipal power projects. Willkie called the charge silly. It was unclear if peace talks among Willkie, Commonwealth and Southern Corp., and TVA would proceed amid the dispute.
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TVA
Utilities
Washington
Interior
Ickes
Wendell Willkie
Tennessee Valley
Willkie
Public Works Administration
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
Tennessee Valley Authority
Japanese River Crossing Report From Central China Fronts
Shanghai March 11 Japanese forces crossed the Yellow river on two central China fronts but Chinese troops said their guns blocked the vanguards. Both sides used air power as bitter cold swept the war zone.
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Shanghai
Yellow River
China
Roosevelt proposes $2.11 billion water program for six years
President Roosevelt tells Congress of a $2,111,091,000 six year water control and development program. Federal funding would cover about $891,091,000 with the rest raised by states and subdivisions. The National Resources Committee drafted the plan covering flood control navigation irrigation rural water supply and related issues.
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Congress
National Resources Committee
Washington
Roosevelt
Norway's Garbo Answer Revealed As American Wife
Hollywood report says Sigrid Game, touted as Norway's Garbo rival, is identified in a divorce case as Mrs. Thomas W. Stuart. Stuart reveals they wed in Cucamonga California on Oct 4 1935, in response to her divorce filing in Los Angeles.
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Norway
Garbo
Hollywood
Sam Goldwyn
Sweden
Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer
Thomas W. Stuart
Goldwyn
Stuart
Sigrid
Cucamonga
San Bernardino County
California
U.S. A
Los Angeles Superior Court
Sigrid G. Stuart
Montana water board studies Bitter Root storage bid
Montana water conservation board considered bids for the West Fork of the Bitter Root river storage project and postponed action to March 1 while outlining the 1938 construction program. The low bid came from Frank J. Haas of Great Falls at 396 996.45 dollars.
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Helena
Montana Water Conservation Board
West Fork
Bitter Root
Frank J. Haas
Great Falls
Ruby River
Tongue River
Ackley Lake
Big Dry
Columbus
Nevada Creek
Upper Musselshell
Sidney
Works Progress Administration
Soil Conservation Service
Montana Wool Grower Pioneer Jefferson Davis Doggett Dead
Townsend March 10. Jefferson Davis Doggett Montana's first native son died at his home. Born Oct 31, 1863 in Virginia City he was a leading wool grower and founder and longtime honorary president of the Montana Wool Growers' Association. Surviving are his widow Amelia B Doggett and son Howard Doggett. Funeral arrangements were pending.
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Townsend
Jefferson Davis Doggett
Montana
Doggett
Virginia City
Montana Wool Growers’ Association
Amelia 8. Doggett
Howard Doggett
Rioting Nazis and foes shake Austria over plebiscite
Bloodshed and terror spread across Austria as Nazis and Fatherland Front fighters clash in Linz and Vienna. Gunfire injures Nazis and storm troopers, while clashes in Graz and Leopoldstadt target Jews. Rumors swirl that Seyss-Inquart may resign amid martial-law talk as chaos grows.
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Vienna
Fatherland Front
Austria
Linz
Upper Austria
Fatherland
Engelburt Dollfuss
Kurt Schuschnigg
Graz
Leopoldstadt
Prater Street
Worker killed by circular saw at Butte Highland Gold Mine
Sam Johnson, 55, fell into a circular saw at the Butte Highland Gold Mining company mine 25 miles south of Butte. Death was instantaneous. Coroner Mike Duff said Johnson apparently fell against the saw ripping through his right hip and leg. He had worked at the camp months, came from Michigan. Surviving wife and daughter in Michigan. Body at White's funeral home.
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Sam Johnson
Butte Highland Gold Mining Company
Butte
Mike Duff
Johnson
Roosevelt Drive
Michigan
White
Hitler May Take Direct Action Against Austria
Berlin March 10. Adolf Hitler weighs direct action after Austria called a plebiscite on union with Germany. Nazis reject any vote against anschluss and consider German protest or broader actions as tensions rise in Vienna. Reuters report mentions Mussolini’s possible knowledge and potential consequences for Austrian politics.
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Berlin
U.P
Adolf Hitler
Austria
Third Reich
Germany
Kurt Schuschnigg
Rome
Benito Mussolini
Schuschnigg
Hiteler
Vienna
Derfuehrer
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Prominent Rail Official Dies After Illness
Seattle report states Leon idas H. Lon Cook died after a long heart illness. The 54 year old Milwaukee Railroad western division public relations representative for the last decade had earlier served as a railway telegrapher and as a boxing and wrestling promoter. Widowed Pauline and a sister survive.
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Seattle
Leonidas H
Lon) Cook
Western Division
Milwaukee Railroad
Pauline
Butte Anti Tuberculosis Clinic Examined 1 373 Persons
Approximately 1 373 people were examined at the Butte Anti Tuberculosis Society clinic from January 1 1937 to February 28 1938. The annual report read by Mrs Sadie O Reilly notes many were spared TB while others faced heart disease bronchitis stomach conditions and related ailments. The report covers doctors nurses secretary and field service and includes referrals for treatment of other diseases in children and adults.
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Butte Anti-Tuberculosis Society
Sadie O'Reilly
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Stock Exchange
Rainer and
Dai Ion
von Ribbentrop
Rome-Berlin
Goast
Power Executive
PWA
Jefferson
Treasure State
Seyss-Inquart
Arthur von Seyss- Inquart
Galen
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