Roosevelt Steps Into European Crisis
United States legation urges Americans in north China to evacuate immediately as Japanese forces press toward Peiping. Officials report martial law tightened and a mass exodus to the south grows, with Panicked civilians fleeing toward the ancient capital amid worsening war conditions.
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Roosevelt
China War Zone
Peiping
U.P
United States
Legation
North China War Zone
Tunghow
Pieping
Nelson T. Johnson
Frank Lockhart
Tientsin
China
San Francisco
State Department
Tungchow
Roosevelt to unveil new foreign policy pledge
President Roosevelt will announce a major new foreign policy declaration in Washington. The plan reportedly endorses American consultation with other nations when aggression threatens and may frame a Roosevelt doctrine for European relations. The move comes as the Geneva disarmament talks face a crisis and Hitler prepares to address the Reichstag on arms.
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Washington
Roosevelt
South America
Hitler
Roosevelt to propose taxes other than sales to fund works program
Washington lawmakers report growing opposition to a general sales tax for the vast public works bill. President Roosevelt will unveil several tax options in a Wednesday message to Congress to raise about 220 million dollars for the 3.3 billion program, with the sales tax unlikely to win approval.
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Capitol
White House
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Robinson
Rotarians elect Korn as Montana governor at Livingston meet
Dan Korn of Kalispell was elected district governor to succeed Enor K. Matson of Lewistown. The 1304 convention site will be chosen tomorrow. Governor-elect Korn spoke at the governor's banquet and ball as Rotary International director James Beatty, President Alfred Atkinson, Tom Davis, and Matson attended. Fd Catlin won the golf contest, Beatty second, C. Berrickman third. Several Butte club members and others left for the balance of the convention.
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Montana
Dan Korn
Kalispell
Enor K. Matson
Lewistown
Korn
James H. Beatty
Victoria
B. C
Rotary International
Alfred Atkinson
Montana State College
Tom Davis
Butte
Matson
Fd Catlin
Anaconda
Beatty
C. Berrickman
Havre
Sundberg Re elected Head Of Butte Library Board
Al J Sundberg of the Seventh ward was re elected president of the board of directors of the Butte city library. J J Haggerty was re elected vice president. Edmund Sullivan of the Third ward joins the board, replacing Alderman Christy. The reorganized board includes James Mountain J J Haggerty Sundberg Sullivan and J M Brown.
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al J. Sundberg
Butte
J. J. Haggerty
Edmund Sullivan
Fred Christy
James Mountain
Sundberg, Sullivan
J. M. Brown
City employees urge taxpayers to remit early
Butte officials press for April salaries as taxes trickle in. City workers, including women clerks, appeal to taxpayers by phone to speed payments. March salaries were covered from multiple funds but April needs rely on May remittances. Real estate encroachment and personal taxes lag. dog licenses not issued yesterday. Continued on Page 2 Col 8.
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Butte
Wyoming Votes Overwhelmingly Wet on Repeal
Wyoming elected delegates toward a state repeal convention with a strong wet plurality. Of 221 of 328 precincts reporting, 320 delegates were pledged for repeal and 36 opposed in 11 of 23 counties, with other counties still tallying. Delegates at county conventions May 18 will choose state convention delegates May 25, decisively settling whether Wyoming joins the move to repeal the 10th amendment.
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Cheyenne
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Wyoming
Mrs Roosevelt Plans U S Sky Trip This June
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt announced a cross country flight to visit her west coast son Elliot in Los Angeles. She said the trip will occur in the first days of June, probably the second or third, framing it as another weekend jaunt.
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Washington
Elliot
Los Angeles
Franklin D Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Weather Forecast for Montana Showers Likely
Montana forecast calls for occasional showers on Tuesday and Wednesday. Cooler temperatures expected Tuesday, with a shift eastward.
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Montana
Por
Butte High Names 25 National Honor Society Members
Twenty-five top students at Butte High School were chosen for National Honor Society based on four years of scholastic averages and criteria including leadership, service, and character. Eligible students held at least a 2.2 GPA and four years at the school. advisers are Miss Barney Rice and Miss Helen Laird.
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Butte High School
Butte High
Barney Rice
Helen Laird
Ruth Alexander
Jardine Anderson
Doris Binder
Robert Bonner
Itches Buried to Win $1000 Bet Stirs New York
Ray Richard a 22 year old sporting goods salesman says an enemy tortures his bid for a $1000 prize and immortality by asking if his feet itch He began the silly season by burying himself alive in a steel casket outside Joseph Greenberg’s hot dog stand in New York He spoke to United Press by long distance today and the story continues on page 2.
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New York
Sir— Ray Richard
United Press
Richard
Joseph Greenberg
Auto salesman robs by gun threat ends ride after gas runs out
Bill Corbett, a local auto salesman, says a gunman demanded he drive out of town during a car demonstration. The car stalled when the gasoline tank went dry, and the assailant fired a shot at Corbett before deputies searched railroad yards and highways for the suspect.
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Bill Corbett
Corbett
Larry Weir
Sheriff Weir
Flames Devastate Auburn Maine Two Mile Path
Fire swept through the Auburn section in Maine destroying at least 200 homes and businesses over about four blocks by two miles. A public school, synagogue, and parochial school burned while a Catholic church stood amid the flames. Arson rumors circulated but authorities offered no basis. Officials organized relief efforts and refused to estimate total losses.
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Auburn
Ellsworth
Arthur Pontbriant
Gamer Confectionery Receives Largest Building Permit This Month
The public works commissioner issued a $90,000 building permit to Gamer Confectionery for remodeling the ground floor of the Curtis block at the corner of the alley west of Main and north side of Park Street. The space previously housed Green Company, women’s wear dealers, with Gamer having occupied Adelaide block quarters earlier.
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Gamer Confectionary Company
Commissioner of Public Works
Curtis
Main
Park Street
Green Company
Gamer Company
Adelaide
Break Between Germany and Austria Deepens Over Frank Expulsion
Vienna reports a diplomatic rift as Austria orders Dr. Hans Frank, Nazi justice minister, to leave the country after a hostile reception and anti Nazi demonstrations. Premier Dollfuss convened a cabinet meeting, refused apology, and expelled Frank, citing insult over his Graz speech.
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Hans Frank
Adolf Hitler
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Hans Kerr
Salzburg
Gnigl
Gratz
Kerrl
Germany
United Press
Hitler
Englebert Dollfuss
Dolfuss
Berlin
Frank
Graz
Auto Victim Verdina Nordlee Resting Easy
Verdina Nordlee twelve year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Hans Nordlee of 2131 Princeton avenue was struck by a car Saturday and reported resting easy last night at St James hospital. She is suffering a fractured skull and underwent emergency operation by Dr C F Emery.
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Verdina Nordlee
Hans Nordlee
Princeton Avenue
St. James Hospital
C. FE. Emery
Lodge Convention Sets Election for District Officers
Neighbors of Woodcraft lodge holds district convention at Silver Bow park with about 250 delegates from 15 western Montana cities. Today plans include electing district officers and delegates to the grand circle meeting in Portland next month and a public installation tonight after a banquet and ritual work. May or Archie McTaggart delivers welcome. Claire Smith of Butte leads business. Agnes Karneise of Butte presides in morning program.
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Portland
Woodcraft Lodge
Silver Bow Park
Montana
Archie McTaggart
Claire Smith
Butte
Agnes Karneise
Guardian
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