Engineers Oppose Norris Act at Western Conference
The Western States Engineers declare the seven TVA style projects oppose state sovereignty and congressional plans. They advocate cooperation with federal agencies while preserving states rights to use and control water resources. Enrollment in Butte schools is expected to rise above 9,000 as out of town students arrive and renovations continue.
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Helena
TVA
United States
Western States Engineers’ Association
Congress
George W. Norris
Nebraska
Arizona
Nevada
Secretary of the Interior
Department of Grazing
Butte
State Board of Health
Douglas Gold
Four Powers Aid China as Shanghai Battle Rages
Soviet Russia Britain the United States and France back China in the Shanghai fight against Japan. Moscow links Nanking to the Soviet air line while Western powers demand removal of ships from foreign settlements. Tokyo blames China as hostilities continue with uncertain peace prospects.
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Shanghai
Russia
Britain
United States
France
Nanking
Moscow
Peiping
Japan
China
Tokyo
Koki Hirota
Kalispell Man Heads State Press in Montana
Harry J. Kelley of Kalispell elected president of the Montana Press association at the annual convention. He succeeds Harry Howard of Bozeman with J. F. M. Travis Havre as first vice president, Dan Whetstone Cut Bank as second vice president, E. Harry Lay Lewistown as third vice president, and Henry O. Weare Helena re-elected secretary-treasurer. Awards announced for weekly newspapers and editors. The 1938 convention will be held in Missoula after an invitation from the University School of Journalism and Missoula papers.
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Glacier Park
Harry J. Kelley
Kalispell
Montana Press Association
Harry Howard
Bozeman
J. F. M. Travis
Havre
Dan Whetstone
Cut Bank
E. Harry Lay
Lewistown
Henry O. Weare
Helena
Pondera County News
Silver State Post
Laurel Outlook
Miles City Weekly Star
Plentywood Herald
Terry Tribune
Montana State University School of Journalism
Missoula
Prospectors Convene With Industry Leaders At Mining Congress
Salt Lake City hosts the Western Division Mining Congress September 7 to 10 drawing over 2,000 delegates including miners executives lawmakers and representatives such as Sen Rey Pittman and Marriner S Eccles. Discussions cover stream pollution gold and silver questions dust control mine ventilation and the impact of federal acts on the mining industry with figures from Homestake Mining joining the program committee.
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Salt Lake City
Western Division Mining
Marriner S. Eccles
Federal Reserve System
Sen
Rey Pittman
Nevada
Julian D. Conover
Western States
Lynn J. Frazier
North Dakota
Edward ©. Johnson
Colorado
Joseph ©. O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Francis Case
South Dakota
Fred Cummings
Edward T. Taylor
William Lemke
James F. O'Connor
Montana
Guy N. Bjorge
Homestake Mining Company of Lead, LS. D
European banks back China amid war pledges and loans
Paris dispatch reports Dr. H. H. Kung with Chinese Republic finance securing loans and credits from Europe. London bankers estimate nearly $100,000,000 in new lending as confidence grows China can resist Japan. Analysts note risk and timing influence investments even in wartime.
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Paris
China
H. H. Kung
Europe
Ethiopia
Spain
Japan
London
Kung
Montana Bar Association Elects Wuerthner President
Julius J. Wuerthner mayor of Great Falls was chosen as president of the Montana Bar Association by a 36 to 33 vote over Ernest A. Peterson of Bozeman. The result was made unanimous for Wuerthner. Lawrence E. Gaughan of Billings was re elected secretary treasurer. Seventeen vice presidents were elected, one from each judicial district, with officers named for Helena Butte Deer Lodge Missoula Whitehall Bozeman Sidney Great Falls Shelby Lewistown Kalispell Havre Billings Roundup Plentywood Miles City Glasgow.
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Yellowstone Park
Julius J. Wuerthner
Great Falls
The
Montana Bar Association Today
Ernest A. Peterson
Bozeman
Wuerthner
Lawrence E. Gaughan
Billings
Hugh Adair
Helena
John E. Corette, Jr
Butte
E. M. Keeley
Deer Lodge
Leon L. Buren
Missoula
Philip C. Duncan
Whitehall
S. F Bohart
Carl L. Bratt
Sidney
O. B. Katz
E. K. Cheadle, Jr
Shelby
Aaron A. Shull
Lewistown
Daniel J. Korn
Kalispell
A. F. Lamey
Havre
Henry Chapple
G. J. Jeffries
Roundup
Howard M. Lewis
Plentywood
George W. Farr
Miles City
Thomas Digman
Glasgow
Missionaries Safe in China Under U S Protection
Missionaries of the Methodist Protestant Church in China are reported safe and under United States protection. The Pittsburgh conference was advised by Secretary of State Cordell Hull that funds and communications should go through the State Department.
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China
United States
Pittsburgh
Cordell Hull
Hull
State Department
Speed Flyer in Comeback After Severe Crackup
Chicago dispatch reports Ben O Howard, famed racing flier and aircraft designer, resumed flying in his flying laboratory on the first anniversary of his deadly Bendix air race crash in New Mexico. He returned to the cockpit after months in hospital with his right foot amputated, saying it feels swell to fly again. He traveled from the west coast to Chicago.
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Chicago
Ben O. Howard
Bendix
Maxine
New Mexico
Howard
Victory
West Coast
Tax Measure Boosts Revenue Says Officials
Revenue officials credited administration efforts to close tax loopholes with adding several million dollars to the treasury. The law takes effect for 1937 returns, but already wealthier taxpayers have agreed to higher assessments or will apply the provisions to 1936 incomes as a matter of ethics. Officials estimate future annual collections could rise by about one hundred million dollars.
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Washington
Treasury
Internal Revenue Bureau
Bureau
Army to spend big in West huge Rocky Mountain budget plan
The War department estimates about 47.9 million dollars for its Rocky Mountain activities in the current fiscal year. Expenditures for the last year reached 55.9 million, with Fort Peckham in Montana carrying the largest single item at 13.8 million. Congress recently authorized a 23 million military housing program and nearly 3.9 million to establish an Army Air Corps technical school.
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Washington
War Department
Rocky Mountain States
Fort Peckham
Montana
Army Engineers
Congress
Army Air Corps Technical School
Butte Observes Labor Day With Double Holiday
Butte relaxes for a double holiday with Labor Day tomorrow. Many residents will leave the city while others attend a Columbia Gardens program staged by the Silver Bow Trades and Labor council. The event features 15 sports events at 11 am, prizes, music by the Butte Mines band, and a pavilion dance in the afternoon.
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Butte
Columbia Gardens
Silver Bow Trades and Labor Council
Leonard Ripper
William Palmer
A. J. Guenther
Butte Mines
Spud Marketing Plans Win Tentative Federal Approval
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration announced tentative approval of federal potato marketing agreements in nine states including Colorado Nebraska and Wyoming. The programs aim to raise returns to potato growers in late season areas by restricting interstate shipments of potatoes under one and a half inches and enforcing U S No 2 grade standards.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Colorado
Nebraska
Wyoming
U. S
Sailor Suspect Named in Tacoma Kidnap Slaying
Honolulu police said a sailor confessed that a shipmate admitted kidnapping and killing Charles Mattson of Tacoma Washington. The informant provided the suspect’s name and description matching eyewitness accounts. Authorities pursued the suspect with secrecy.
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Honolulu
T. H
U.P
Charles Mattson
Tacoma
Wash
Civil War Veterans Gather for Grand Army Encampment
About 200 Civil War soldiers and five affiliated GAR groups convened in Madison Wisconsin for the first national encampment. Officials expected 2000 to 3000 affiliated members. the oldest attendee was Dr N Patterson of East St Louis aged 99 and Ira Wildman of Danbury Connecticut aged 88 was among the younger registrants.
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Madison
Wis
Grand Army of the Republic
N. Patterson
East St. Louis
Ira Wildman
Danbury, Conn
Lightning Kills Four and Wounds Three at Golf Course
Lightning struck the Longue Vue Country Club course killing two golfers and two caddies and wounding three others, including two caddies. The deceased were A. R. Little linked to a construction firm, L. W. Hicks Jr. of Gulf Oil, and caddies Donald Whetmore and Michael Tuminella.
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Pittsburgh
Longue Vue Country Club
A. R. Little
L. W. Hicks Jr
Gulf Oil Corporation
Donald Whetmore
Michael Tuminella
Kidnapped Wisconsin Woman Reunites With Family
Olive Borcia, missing since Thursday night and reported kidnapped, returned to her mother’s summer home in Elkhorn Wisconsin. She described being forced into a car by two young men on a road by Lake Geneva and being blindfolded most of the time. details remain unclear.
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Elkhorn
Wis
Olive Borcia
James Goudie
Chicago
Borcia
Goudie
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America
MAN Heads State Press
Beaver Falls
Methodist
Speed Flyer
West
Spud
AAA
Sailor
Wisconsin
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