Hour Shortening Plan May Go To Solons Congress Today
Washington notes a clash with President Roosevelt as congress prepares to vote on the $2.4 billion World War I bonus bill. House leaders aim to force a vote before adjournment, while Patman defends the plan to issue new treasury notes to fund the bonus. The Senate is expected to oppose ratification of the St Lawrence waterway treaty.
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Solons
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
Washington
White House
House
St. Lawrence
Independent Offices
Wright Patman
Texas
Treasury
Patman
Dillinger Threat in Lima Jail Challenge
Ohio National Guard head Gen. Harold Bush wires Toledo police to halt Dillinger’s Lima jail escape plan. Pierpont, Makley, and Clark face murder trials after Sheriff Larber’s death. Bush readied machine gun defense, suspending no regiments, with swift Ohio Indiana and Michigan alert.
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National Guard
Lima
Toledo
Ohio
Harold Bush
Ohio National Guard
John Dillinger
Mary Kinder
Indianapolis
Chicago
Dillinger
Tucson
Ariz
Harry Pierpont
Charles Makley
Russell Clark
Jess Larber
Bush
Army purchasing overhaul could shake Air Corps says Washington
Washington sources forecast a complete revision of army purchasing methods and possible Air Corps shakeup after a five week District of Columbia grand jury probe into army contract awards. President Roosevelt ordered curtailment of air mail flying citing dissatisfaction with the air corps.
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Washington
Army Air Corps
District of Columbia Grand Jury
Famed Aviator Ends Conference With War Secretary
Acting on Roosevelt orders Major General Foulois suspends army air mail flights to draft a safer curtailed schedule. Brigadier General Westover and post office officials begin outlining changes while Lindbergh departs Newark after two days in Washington.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Benjamin D. Foulois
Air Corps
Army Air Mail
Foulois
Oscar Westover
Post Office Department
Army Air Corps
Army
Trans-Con- Foulois
Charles A. Lindbergh
Newark
Reenter Dern
War Department
Stock Exchange Bill Revised in Congress
The Fletcher Rayburn stock exchange regulation bill has been redrafted for presentation Tuesday to the House Interstate Commerce Committee. It is understood to have tacit presidential approval, aims to curb exchange abuses, and would not interfere with private business or banking credit.
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Washington
Fletcher-Rayburn Stock Exchange
Rayburn
Texas
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Roosevelt
Stock Exchange
Fairbanks Pickford near reconciliation reported
The London Mail reports Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford are nearer reconciliation than widely thought and predicts an early US divorce proceeding withdrawal. It also says she cancelled plans to sell Pickfair in Los Angeles.
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London
The
Ly Mail
Douglas Fairbanks
Mary Pickford
Public drawing to discharge 150 CWA workers tonight
A public drawing to select 150 CWA workers to be discharged tonight will be held at 9 30 in the courthouse rotunda. The 150 will be drawn from 562 men on the rolls who have one dependent. An additional 150 single men will be released this evening.
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CWA
Midwest governors urge peg on farm prices
A four state governors conference ending in Des Moines voted to petition President Roosevelt to peg farm commodity prices. They also approved forming a permanent 15 state Midwest Governors association to tackle common agricultural problems. Governor Floyd B Olson of Minnesota will draft the letter detailing conclusions for the President, with contents to remain undisclosed until Roosevelt receives it.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Governors’ Conference of Agricultural Problems
Roosevelt
Midwest Governors’ Association
Carn Beir Commonwealths
Floyd B. Olson
Minnesota
President Roosevelt
Olson
Clyde L. Herring
A. G. Schmedeman
Wisconsin
Clifford Townsend
Mellon attacks tax case as crude politics
Former secretary of the treasury Andrew W. Mellon denounced Attorney General Cummings for ordering a grand jury probe into his income tax affairs as politics of the crudest sort. He said he is largely in the dark about any motive behind the action and expressed relief at the development.
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Washington
Andrew W. Mellon
Secretary of the Treasury
Cummings
Mellon
Voice of Caruso Again Resounds in Opera Halls
In New York on March 11 Enrico Caruso’s silver voice returned to the Metropolitan Opera during an operatic surprise party. A special recording aired as the auditorium filled to capacity with stars Lily Pons Lawrence Tibbett Rosa Ponselle Lucrezia Bori Giovanni Martinelli and more paying top prices for standing room.
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New York
Enrico Caruso
Metropolitan Opera
Caruso
Metropolitan Company
Lily Pons
Lawrence Tibbett
Rosa Ponselle
Lucrezia Bori
Giovanni Martinelli
Re Bonelli
Giuseppe Deucca
Woman on Visit to Graves of Kin Killed in Accident
Mrs Natalie Salzman 68 on a grave visit was fatally struck by two cars in a collision. The vehicles skidded into her while she stood in a pedestrian safety zone waiting for a street car.
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Los Angeles
Natalie Salzman
Convicts Shot In Escape Attempt At Idaho Penitentiary
Boise Idaho March 11 One convict was near death in St Alphonsus hospital and another held in solitary confinement after two trustees attempted to escape from the Idaho state penitentiary early today. Guards foiled the dash for liberty.
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Boise
Idaho
St. Alphonsus Hospital
Idaho State Penitentiary
Montana Forecast Says Fair Monday and Tuesday
The forecast calls for fair conditions across Montana on Monday and Tuesday with cooler temperatures to the east of the divide on Monday.
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Montana
Divide
Cuban government calms after labor crisis with dock strike ending
Havana dispatch says President Menéndez Mendietta's government breathed easier as port activities returned to normal after a dock workers strike ended yesterday. Unions persisted in striking despite a national order to return to posts by midnight.
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Havana
Carlos Mendietta
Mendietta
Administration weighs Congress step if NRA move fails
In Washington on March 11 the Roosevelt Johnson plan to shorten industrial hours without pay cuts faces resistance. A congressional 10 percent hours cut with full pay may gain broad support, while NRA leaders push voluntary compliance and code cooperation amid a potential debate over price fixing and open price associations.
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Washington
Congress
NRA
Hugh 8. Johnson
Roosevelt
Johnson
Arthur D. Whiteside
W. A. Harriman
Leon Henderson
Dickens Finds Montana Vigilantes Tale Most Interesting
Charles Dickens praised Dimsdale's Montana Vigilantes story as the most interesting work he had read, a discovery noted by Miss Elizabeth McDonald of the Butte Free Public Library. The Montana tale from 1866 drew Dickens’ attention due to Virginia City and Bannack’s birth history. his shelves also hold many of his own works and biographies of Dickens.
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Montana
Charles Dickens
Montana Standard
Dimsdale
Vigilantes
Elizabeth McDonald
Butte Free Public Library
Montana Vigilantes
Dickens
Virginia City
Bannack
David Copperfield
Public
Mamie Dickens
Public Library
Kate Douglass Wiggan
H. Ward
James L. Hughes
R. Shelton MacKenzie
British King and Queen of Islamstan Crowned in Asiatic State
London reports a British king and queen are to be crowned in Islamestan, the Chinese Sinkiang renamed by Dr. Khalid Sheldrake, a medical missionary. The doctor’s wife says they will attend with two sons. In Peiping authorities probe Central Asia arms flows fueling border raids and conflicts in Sinklang and Ninghsal.
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London
Islamstan
Daily Express
Islamestan
Sinkiang
Khalid Sheldrake
Sheldrake
Peiping
Central Asia
China
Sinklang
Ninghsal
Mrs Roosevelt to Tour Puerto Rico by Motor
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt will begin a 300 mile motor tour of Puerto Rico tomorrow visiting Nayaguez San German and other industrial areas. Her party includes Rexford Tugwell Rose Schneiderman Lorena Hickok and reporters. She spent Sunday meeting friends and dined with Governor Winship and cabinet.
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Caribbean
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Rex Ture
Neuvistas
Cuba
Roosevelt
West Indies
Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
Mrs. Roosevelt
San Juan
Nayaguez
San German
Rexford Tugwell
Rose Schneiderman
NRA Advisory Board
Lorena Hickok
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Blanton Winship
Government House
Scores Kill Troops in Manchukuo Village Clash
Dispatches from Hsinking report that scores of Japanese troops were killed and wounded in a battle at Dan village 200 miles east of Harbin with Manchurian and Korean farmers. The uprising followed a dispute over land policies of the new regime.
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Tokyo
U.P
Dan
Harbin
Hsinking
Manchukuo
Unrelated uprisings amid regional conflicts reported
The dispatch notes multiple uprisings across provinces, with conflicts in the south involving Moslem natives seeking independence and in Ninghsia where General Ma Hung-Kwei, aided by two Mohammedan relatives, faces General forces. The text suggests no interconnection among the uprisings.
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Sinkaing
Ninghsia
Ma Hung-Kwei
Mae West Film Banned in Vienna Amid Censorship Row
Mae West’s portrayal of Lady Lou in She Done Him Wrong was banned today in Vienna after newspaper attacks denouncing the film as uncouth and crude for appealing to basest instincts. The Vienna censorship move follows ongoing battles over morality in cinema.
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Vienna
Mae West
Lou
Local Nurses Honor WarTime Red Cross Leader Jane Delano
Butte nurses Red Cross members and the public honor Jane Delano on the anniversary of her birth. The service at the YMCA begins at 7 30 p m with full uniformed nurses and a program including an invocation, an overseas with the American National Red Cross talk, a Mines glee club selection, and vocal numbers.
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Jane Delano
Red Cross Nursing Service
Butte
Red Cross
Miss Delano
France
Thomas Ashworth
American National Red Cross
Harold Schwartz
School of Mines Glee Club
Fanny Fairbanks
Margaret Stanton
Western State Governors Open Conference
Governors of public land states in the West gather in Salt Lake City for a concise meeting under the national recovery program. The aim is a focused push, led by Governor Henry H. Blood, to secure a larger domestic sugar quota and avoid lengthy speeches.
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Salt Lake City
West
Henry H. Blood
Western Governors’ Conference
C. Ben Ross
Idaho
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