Last Kidnapper Robber Robison Arrested (Note)
Leonard McComb, 70, carpenter and cabinet maker, died in Anaconda after suffocation. He wrote a note saying Strangling and Please notify my brother Max McComb before collapsing. Born in St. Catherine, Ontario, he lived in Montana since 1889 with earlier spells in Butte and Spokane. Survived by brother Max.
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Anaconda
Leonard McComb
Park Place
St. Catherine
Ontario
Canada
West Commercial Street
Mr. McComb
Montana
Butte
Spokane
Wash
Max McComb
Ethiopian casualties rise as city ruins yield 800 bodies
The capital of Ethiopia reports more than 800 Ethiopians slain in the city s pillage and buried in ruins. Mussolini threatens to leave the League if Ethiopia remains a member and Wolde Mariam is recognized, amid a council clash with British and Italian delegates.
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Mussolini
League
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Asmara
Rome
U.P
Benito Mussolini
League of Nations
Italy
Wolde Mariani
Anthony Eden
Baron Pompeo Aloisi
Aloisi
Merchants in Butte Join Copper Keys Tour Campaign
Fifty Butte merchants joined the Copper Keys on the first day of the tourism group's membership drive led by Mrs. E H Reeder and Mrs. Thomas Featherly. They report strong response and broad support for boosting tourist traffic through Chamber of Commerce efforts. The campaign aims for 425 merchant members.
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Butte
Copper Keys
E. H. Reeder
Thomas Featherly
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Farm Debt Act debated as wheat crops fall on April weather
Washington May 11 The federal crop reporting board announced a winter wheat crop of 463 447 000 bushels down 6 from last year due to April weather. Area remaining for harvest 35 932 000 of 47 529 000 sown with 24 4 abandonment versus 30 4 a year earlier.
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Washington
Federal Crop Reporting Board
Great Plains
West
Texas
New Mexico
Colorado
Oklahoma
D J Charles dies after long illness in Butte
David J. Charles aged 73 a longtime Butte leader and banking figure died after a two week illness from heart trouble at his home 701 West Galena street He served as chairman of the Miners National Bank board and helped found Miners Savings Bank and Trust later Miners National Bank His civic and fraternal work marked his long residence in the West from Baltimore born just after Lincolns call for volunteers to quell the Southern rebellion
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Board of Miners Bank
David J. Charles
Miners’ National Bank
West Galena Street
Baltimore
Linc-In
Charles
Far West
Butte
Miners Savings Bank & Trust Company
Charlies
Composite plan eyed for Columbia river power policy
At a White House conference Senator McNary and Senators Bone and Schnellenbach announced a move to consolidate Columbia river power bills into a composite measure. The draft would guide federal dam policy, sale of surplus Bonneville and Grand Coulee power, and give public agencies a 50 percent prior claim for a 10 year option, with no commitment to specific rates or operating plans.
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Washington
White House
Columbia River
McNary
Oregon
Bone
Schnellenbach
Roosevelt
Power Commission
TVA
Rural Electrification
Army
Bonneville
Grand Coulee
Bones
McNary-Steiner
House votes to take up farm debt refinancing and currency expansion
Washington May 11 A tumultuous House voted to take up the Frazier Lemke farm debt refinancing bill and the first real currency expansion issue of the session. The Democrats failed by 67 to prevent consideration, authorizing issuance of 3 billion dollars in new currency. Lemke predicted stronger support on passage next week. The bill would refinance existing farm debt with 1 1/8 percent interest and 12 percent principal over 47 years.
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Washington
Democratic House
Democratic High Command
Lemke
North Dakota
House
Rules Committee
120 Men Employed On Highway Projects In Montana
Helena May 11 1200 men employed on highway projects in Montana were at work during the second half of April Chief Highway Engineer D A McKinnon told Governor Elmer Holt The total marked an increase of about 1500 from the first half of the month Most of the workers 653 98 2 percent were Montana residents Forty two of the 67 out of state employees held supervisory roles Ex service men with dependents numbered 327 All workers were registered with the national re employment service.
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Helena
Montana
D. A. McKinnon
Elmer Holt
National
Liquor Spending In Montana Tops 1.7 Million
Montana fiscal report shows $1,714,752.12 spent in four months of 1936 on liquor and permits. Chief accountant Martin G Hoffman told the state liquor control board that gross profit reached $625,898.52 and net profit was $422,422.29.
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Helena
Martin G Hoffman
State Liquor Control Board
Mortgage Moratorium Act Ruled Unconstitutional by Court
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the amended Frazier Lemke farm mortgage moratorium act as unconstitutional while Congress in Washington prepared to take up another relief measure. The ruling cites the act sponsored by Senator L. J. Frazier and Representative William Lemke.
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ST. Paul
United States Court of Appeals For
Eighth Circuit
L. J. Frazier
William Lemke
House
Washington
Frazier-Lemke
Quints Award Scholarships to Baylor From Keys Quadruplets
The Keys quadruplets from Waco Texas presented the Dionne quintuplets of Callander Ontario with four year scholarships to Baylor University. Baylor plans to reserve the same rooms the quadruplets occupy for the quints if they accept later. The visit occurred despite a minor incident when the smallest quint had a door related dispute leaving a black eye.
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Baylor University
Texas
Callander
Ont
the Keys
Waco
Oklahoma
Baylor
Marie Dionne
Keys
Leota
Mona
Mary
Roberta Keys
San Antonio
Roper appeals to business for aid in campaign
Secretary Roper urged business leaders to avoid vituperation and friction in the presidential campaign. In a White House approved radio speech he pressed for government-business cooperation and warned that full business backing one party could threaten democracy. His remarks followed Roosevelt's talks with Owens Young Baruch and Chrysler on reviving heavy industry and promoting affordable housing.
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Roper
Washington
White House
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Commerce Secretary
Roosevelt
Owen D. Young
Bernard M. Baruch
Walter P. Chrysler
Abductor Sought as Two-Year Kidnap Case Ends
Federal agents arrest Thomas H. Robinson Jr. in Glendale California for the kidnapping of Louisville socialite Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll. Hoover notes a two-year manhunt and that Robinson was armed but captured without a shot. Last major quarry removed from the list.
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Thomas Robinson JR
Alice Stoll
Louisville, Ky
Robinson
Glendale
Cal
Washington
Thomas H. Robinson Jr
Calif
J. Edgar Hoover
Bureau of Investigation
Alice Speed Stoll
Hoover
Burned child Cecelia Sullivan dies after painful night
Six year old Cecelia Sullivan died at St James hospital after a Sunday evening burn accident at 102 Mullins street. She was a first year pupil at St Lawrence parochial school and had just received her first holy communion a week earlier. The child wandered into the yard alone as flames engulfed her clothing and despite nurses efforts she passed away amid prayers and church bells.
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Cecelia Sullivan
St. James Hospital
Cecelia
St. Patrick's Church
Mullins Street
St. Lawrence Parochial School
Eugene Sullivan
Hindenburg Starts for New York in Farewell Flight
Thousands watch as the German airship Hindenburg lifts from Lakehurst at 7 27 p m local time, climbs toward New York under foggy Atlantic skies. Loaded with lubricating oil fuel mail and freight, 101 aboard including 47 passengers and 54 crew wave farewell amid searchlights and a starry night.
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Naval Air Station
Lakehurst
N. J
Germany
Atlantic
New York
Frankefurt-Am-Main
Hindenburg
Uncle Sam May Own Butte Home Foreclosure Suit
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation filed in district court seeking foreclosure on a promissory note secured by a mortgage on property in the Empire addition, totaling 5106.95. Flora M. and S. Damas Marquis and others named as defendants. LOAN Corp asks sale of the property to satisfy the claim after alleging term defaults.
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Sam
Butte
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
Empire Addition
Flora M
S. Damas Marquis
Drunken Drivers Lose Licenses Under New Montana Rule
Helena May 11 The state highway patrol adopted an extreme regulation to revoke driving licenses upon drunken driving conviction. Walter Beck said the measure mirrors steps in other states and will be enforced by local patrols reporting guilty drivers for license suspension action by the board.
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Helena
State Highway Patrol
Walter Beck
Highway Patrol
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