United States halts Mexican silver purchases
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau announced the United States will discontinue monthly silver purchases from Mexico until further notice. The move follows President Cardenas's claim that US purchases would be canceled effective April 1 as a reprisal for Mexico expropriating foreign oil interests.
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Washington
Morgenthau
United States
Mexico
Treasury
Lazaro Cardenas
Mexico City
Removing Dr Morgan Power of removal questioned by Jackson opinion
The acting attorney general Robert H. Jackson delivers an opinion cited by the President. The article notes Jackson’s confidence and that his reasoning rests on assumptions in dispute. It highlights his claim that removal power exists if any charges are proven and references the Tennessee Valley Authority as an executive agency.
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Dr. Morgan
Robert H. Jackson
Mr. Jackson
Jackson
Tennessee Valley Authority
Fune
Japan Agrees to Pay Full U S Indemnity
Tokyo report states Japan will pay the full indemnity demanded by the United States for the sinking of the gunboat Panay last December. The government’s reply to the U S note is expected to be sent within days.
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Tokyo
Domei
United States
Panay
Japanese threaten bombing of U.S. mission in Shantung
A Peiping report says Japanese commanders warned that Chinese forces near the U I Chow mission would trigger air attacks on the American Presbyterian mission in Shantung unless Chinese troops move away. The embassy noted Americans including Miss Winslett Miss Hand Dr. Benjamin Harding and Kenneth Wilson were present.
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Shanghai
I-Chow
Linyi
Shantung Province
United Press
Peiping
Juichi Terauchi
China
U. S
Margaret Winslett
Katherine Hand
Benjamin Harding
Kenneth Wilson
Lack of Serum Costs Life of Food Poisoning Victim
In Wenatchee Washington Robert Steele died after doctors with only three doses of antidotal serum could treat five severely ill family members. Lawrence Steele and Opal 15 received serum. Crystal 9 and Robert 18 were untreated initially. A later shipment from Portland aided others, but Robert could not be saved. Crystal showed improvement and Dr Miller remained hopeful for the remaining victims.
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Wenatchee
Wash
Robert Steele
Port
Jockeys Trainers and Officials to Meet Tonight for Instructions
In Silver Bow county 18 542 voters are eligible for the school election next Saturday. County clerk Addis A McGrath notes total registrations reach 19 602 with 18 495 eligible from district one. Over 19089 voter information cards were mailed with 230 returned for address corrections. Duplication since 1937 totals 234. Registration deadlines: school election Feb 15 primary June 3 general Sept 23.
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Silver Bow County
Addis A. McGrath
Silver Bow
McGrath
March Lions Near End of Month in Butte
March began in Butte with lamb weather and ends expected to roar as the month nears its close. The day reached a high of 53 and a low of 25 with sun in the morning and a forecast of cloudy skies with possible light rain or snow.
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Butte
Absent-minded Man Swallows Light Bulb In Naples
Petro Morandi, 45, reportedly swallowed a small electric light bulb while eating fruit and reading a newspaper in Naples. Doctors confirmed the bulb via X-ray and a surgical extraction followed. Morandi survived the peculiar incident and his case drew world attention.
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Naples
U.P
Petronio Morandi
Morandi
Montana Weather Outlook Unsettled Across State
The forecast calls for rain or snow on Monday across the west portion with colder conditions west of the divide. Tuesday brings more rain or snow with colder air expanding to the east as the divide region cools.
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Montana
Divide
Y M C A To Host Red Triangle Racing Meet Kickoff
A record 521 jockeys trainers and officials meet at the Y M C A at 7 30 pm to receive track instructions and start the Red Triangle racing meet first of three feature races. Managers and racing officials outline rules as the push begins toward a hoped for 22000 goal.
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Red Triangle
Alex Blewett
Girl Scouts Rescued After 20 Hours Lost in Woods
Ten Girl Scouts aged 10 to 13 and two leaders were found huddled around a campfire near Toledo Oregon after a 20 hour separation in a heavily wooded area. They were reported safe and uninjured.
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Toledo
Ore
U.P
Here
Barcelona Threatened as Nationalists Smash Ahead
Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Moroccan vanguard breached Catalonia via the Lenin Line and entered Fraga, a 7,500 population town on the Cinea river, as Loyalists fled under a mass aerial assault by 160 Franco planes. Eastward the route to Lerida remains exposed toward Barcelona.
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Barcelona
Catalonia
Spain
Francisco Franco
Lenin Line
Fraga
Cinea River
Franco
Saragossa
Lerida
Mediterranean
Mountain climber trapped in Mount Hood blizzard
Roy Varney, 47, of Portland, left with 19 Mazama club members from Timberline Lodge at 4 a.m. for a Mount Hood summit attempt. After eight hours the party retreated as a fierce storm hit, Varney becoming exhausted a mile above the lodge and unable to continue while companions, nearly frozen, could not assist.
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Varney
Portland
Mazama Club
Earthquake Rocks Kalnik Region in Croatia
A strong quake centered in Kalnik, 43 miles from Zagreb, caused heavy damage across Croatia and panic among thousands of villagers. No casualties reported.
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Zagrab
Yugoslavia
U.P
Kalnik
Croatia
Girl Watches Mother Leap From Window in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh on March 27 Mrs. Anna Unger a 40 year old housewife in view of about 100 spectators and her 10 year old daughter Margaret leaped from a third story window. Firemen and police used nets as she teetered on a narrow ledge before leaping. She was reported in serious condition at a hospital. Margaret said her father a watchman disappeared ten days ago after losing his job and that Mama has been worried.
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Pittsburgh
Anna Unger
Margaret
Mama
Nap in Secluded Corner of Library Leaves Man Locked In
John Doe awoke in darkness at the Butte free public library after 10 pm. Librarians had closed up, leaving him trapped until Officers Ed O Conner and Dick Mundy guided him to a window exit and fixed a stubborn bolt.
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KBPD
John Doe
Butte Free Public Library
John
William Whipple
Ed O’conner
Dick Mundy
O'Conner
Mundy
Senators Rally For Reorganization Bill Vote Today
Senate debate centers on the government reorganization bill with a test vote set for 1 p m and a possible passage vote at 3 p m If the measure fails to pass lawmakers expect shelving for the session Critics accuse opponents of propaganda while House actions push tax reform and a naval expansion plan and TVA investigations move forward.
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Washington
Senate
Byrnes
South Carolina
Schwellenbach
Wevelt
White House
House
Senate Finance Committee
Tennessee Valley Authority
War Department
TVA
House Rules Committee
Germans Demand Czech Elections Warily Quiet Demonstrations
In Prague and surrounding border areas, hundreds of German mass meetings pressed for new elections and autonomy for Czechoslovakia's 3.5 million German minority. Konrad Henlein stayed behind the scenes while his lieutenants led large crowds near the German frontier in a surge of Nazi support.
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Praha
Czechoslovakia
Konrad Henlein
German Front
Germany
Daly Returns From South on Health Break
W. B. Daly general manager of mines for the Anaconda company came back to Butte Saturday after months away in Phoenix and Los Angeles. Daly said he was feeling well and much improved in health.
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W. B. Daly
Anaconda Company
Butte
Phoenix
Ariz
Los Angeles
Daly
Italian warning to France over Spain intervention
An official Italian statement warned that any French intervention in Spain could jeopardize peace on the European continent. Informazione Diplomatica published the note saying Italy is closely watching what it calls the French Leftists campaign for intervention in Spain.
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Rome
France
Spain
Informazione Diplomatica
Italy
Fraga Falls After Nine Day Push Against Lenin Line
Loyalist commander General Sebastian Pozas retreated as Francoist forces advanced 70 miles in nine days after breaking the Lenin line. Moroccans and motorized units crossed the Cinca river and seized a Catalonian town.
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Sebastian Pozas
Fraga
France
Cinca River
Millionaire Tortured for His Jewelry
Charles Milgrim a Manhattan couturier was assaulted by four robbers at his Long Island home. They bound his household and looted $100,000 worth of jewelry including a Marquis diamond valued at $50,000 and a ring, bracelets, brooch and watch.
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Woodsburgh
N. Y
Charles Milgrim
Manhattan Couturier
Long Island
Milgrim
Butteman Gun Wound Fatality Baffles Police
Earl Fall a Spanish American War veteran and WPA worker died at St James hospital from a gunshot wound to the abdomen in his South Arizona street room. Police say it appeared a personal safety related shooting. Landlady Mrs Louise Walker and messenger boy Bill Henrikson found Fall slumped in a chair with a large caliber pistol nearby. He was taken to the hospital where he died minutes later. Fall had been despondent in recent weeks and received a daily letter from his mother in Livingston. Police could not locate her.
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Earl Fall
St. James Hospital
Tom Calpin
Eddie O'Connor
Fall
South Arizona Street
Louise Walker
Bill Henrickson
Calpin
O’connor
WPA
Missouri housewife wins $10000 prize for first novel
Elizabeth Seifert of Moberly Missouri won a $10000 prize for her first novel Young Doctor Gala. The author, wife of John Gasparotti, is a native Missourian who was born in Washington and educated in St. Louis and at Washington University. She writes about a young physician in a small town.
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New York
Missouri
Dodd, Mead & Co
Elizabeth Seifert
John Gasparotti
Moberly
Washington, Mo
St. Louis
Washington University
Washington University. Her Novel, “Young Doctor Galahad
Hoover Returns to U S Tuesday
Former President Herbert Hoover ends his European trip and will speak on the European situation at a Council on Foreign Relations dinner Thursday in New York.
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New York
U.P
Herbert Hoover
Council On Foreign Relations
Austria rushed into German economic campaign
Vienna March 27 Goering presented plans for Austro German industry amalgamation under the German four year plan He approved reopening the Wiener Neustadt airplane factory and backed expanded production in agriculture hydroelectricity mining armament chemistry and shipping and communications The aim is full employment for Austria and a seamless anschluss integration with Germany
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Vienna
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Adolf Hitler
Austria
Goering
Wiener Neustadt
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Dick Vaughn
Amarillo
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Mercury
Butte Y. M. C. A
Timberline Lodge
Mount
Trip South
Butteman
Hoover
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