Longest non stop mass flight lands six sea planes at Coco Solo
Six naval sea planes completed a 2059 mile nonstop flight from Norfolk to Coco Solo Canal Zone in 24 hours 55 minutes. Five ships landed at 6 25 p m after facing a gale while P 12 lagged due engine trouble then reached Coco Solo later. The fleet crossed Cuba near Havana during the morning under Lieut Com D M Carpenter leadership.
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New Cuba
U.S. Navy
Washington
Sept
Navy Department
Coco Solo
Canal Zone
Norfolk
Canal
P-12
W. H. Buracker
Winchester
Mass
Cuba
Havana
D. M. Carpenter
Montana sets dates for pheasant and partridge season
The Montana Fish and Game Commission fixed October 29 to November 5 as the open season for Chinese pheasants and Hungarian partridges with five birds per day and possession limits of ten. Counties open will be announced later while the commission plans a meeting in Great Falls on October 10.
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Helena
Montana Fish and Game Commission
Commission
Great Falls
Game Department
Crisis bridged in effort to fasten NRA code on coal
Washington says a near crisis over forcing NRA code on the bituminous coal industry was eased after a three hour conference. Hugh S. Johnson and mine owners’ spokesmen made concessions. Johnson pledged a general agreement next week and may delay Monday’s public hearing. He said union contract talks for Appalachian commercial unions would resume.
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Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
Johnson
Recovery Administration
United States
White House
Roosevelt
New Prognosticator From Southeast Missouri
POPLAR BLUFF Mo September 8 Times say improving times are noted by farmer Doc Elliott who explains he saw a rabbit cross the highway today while he was coming to town.
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Poplar Bluff
Missouri
Elliott
Lamson Defense Opens Criminology Case At Courthouse
At the San Jose courthouse the Lamson defense called criminologist Dr. E O Heinrich to the stand to challenge prosecution blood tests in the Allene Lamson case. Heinrich outlined methods for detecting blood and warned against errors, signaling a possible strike at the prosecutors findings. Defense expert George Weber also testified that he found no scratches indicating blood spots were removed from the evidence sites.
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San Jose
Cal
David A. Lamson
Allene
E. O. Heinrich
Heinrich
Frederick Proescher
Proescher
Lamson
Stanford University
Cooney Urges Support of NRA in Forsyth Address
Gov. F H Cooney delivered the Rosebud county fair address in Forsyth praising Rosebud county residents for their courage and urging full cooperation with the national recovery drive. He noted canceled fairs due to finance, stressed slow recovery, and highlighted public works and Montana road projects led by the highway commission.
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Cooney
NRA
Forsyth
Rosebud
Rosebud County
F. H. Cooney
Roosevelt
Montana
State Highway Commission
Golden Spike Event Remembers Northwest Rail Milestone
Fifty years ago on September 8, 1883, four trains from the east and one from the west arrived at a then remote stop now hard to locate on a map. The ceremony to drive a golden spike completed the Northern Pacific line linking east and west near Hell Gate canyon between Missoula and Helena. Participants included foreign representatives and federal officials, with President Grant among those who helped drive the spike.
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Gold Creek
Mississippi River
Northern Pacific Railroad
Hellgate Canyon
Missoula
Helena
Pierce
Northwest
President Grant
Brains Are Dying Out Warns Cambridge Expert
Dr J I J Hurst of Cambridge University told the British Association that brains are dying out due to declining birthrates among intelligent families. He warned the intelligence index is dropping rapidly and endangering civilization and proposed family allowances for higher grade intelligent parents.
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Leicester
England
J. I. J. Hurst
Cambridge University
British Association For the Advancement of Science
Montana Weekend Forecast Shows Fair Skies
The Montana forecast calls for fair weather on Saturday and Sunday with warmer conditions. Saturday will be warmer in eastern and southern portions of the state.
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Montana
Vatican Holds Back on Concordat as Vatican Nazi Rift Grows
Vatican officials reportedly withhold ratification of the July concordat with Berlin amid Pope Pius XI's displeasure with Nazi policies. Disputes cited include Catholic education limits, required military service for seminarians, hurdles to Catholic Action activities, and new Evangelical episcopates. The Vatican's Osservatore Romano has criticized Nazi sterilization of “deficients” and harsh Jewish treatment.
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United Press
Vatican City
Holy See
Nazi Germany
Vatican
Berlin
Pius XI
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Franz von Papen
Hitler
Lutheran Evangelical Church
Catholic Action Society
Lutheran
Prussia
Osservatore Romano
Butte Public School Teachers Assigned for 1933 34 Season
Supt J G Ragsdale announced assignments for Buttes 247 public school teachers for the 1933 34 year. Butte high will have 66 instructors plus principal and dean of girls. Twenty two schools reopen next week with about 7500 pupils. Washington junior high closes under economy measures, most staff moving to Butte high. Butte high niga will run two shifts with 2200 plus enrollment and a 7 40 a m start for seniors and shop students.
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Washington Junior High
Butte
Supt
J. G. Ragsdale
Butte High
Bute Niga
Witness of Early Road Agent Executions Passes in Sheridan
Samuel B. Wanderlee, an aged Montana pioneer, died at his Sheridan home after a weeklong illness. Survived by widow Mary, son James, and daughters Mrs. Axel Brunzel and Mrs. Bell Maloney, his funeral is set for Monday at the Catholic church in Laurin. Born in Ohio, he moved to Montana with his wife soon after gold discoveries near Virginia City.
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Sheridan
Samuel B. Wanderlee
Montana
Mary Wanderlee
James Wanderlee
Axel Brunzel
Bell Maloney
Laurin
Wanderlee
Ohio
Virginia City
Bullet Mistaken for Rivet Wounds Rancher Fixing Machine
Twin Bridges Montana September 8 Special Engaged in repairing a mowing machine Chris Kingsbury a Iron Rod rancher was wounded in the forehead by a .22 shell mistaken for a rivet The bullet embedded to the bone after Kingsbury dropped it into rivet box and aligned it with a hole He was treated at Sheridan by Dr R H Dyer before returning home.
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Chris Kingsbury
Kingsbury
Sheridan
R. H. Dyer
Babson Forecasts US Fascist Dictatorship After 1929 Stock Collapse
Roger W. Babson, statistician, predicts a fascist dictatorship in the United States following the 1929 stock crash. He argues the middle class will seize control amid battles over wealth redistribution, currency depreciation and high prices, forming a temporary fascist regime symbolized by the NRA blue eagle. The forecast came at Babson’s twentieth annual national business conference in Wellesley Hills.
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Wellesley Hills
Mass
United States
Roger W. Babson
NRA
Babson
George M Sunday Likely to Recover
George M Sunday the 40 year old son of evangelist Billy Sunday was seriously injured after a fall from his fourth story apartment window in San Francisco. Physicians said he is likely to recover and that Sunday told police the fall was accidental.
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San Francisco
George M. Sunday
Billy Sunday
Scientists announce monkey trial toward understanding plague spread
In St Louis on September 8, government and university researchers reported the apparent induction of epidemic encephalitis in monkeys as a step to uncover transmission methods and an immunizing agent. They cautioned the infection in monkeys was not yet definite and aim to transmit the disease between animals to determine transmission modes.
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ST. Louis
Metropolitan Health Council
Montana relief plans discussed in Miles City
T C Spaulding relief director for Montana and representatives from 10 southeastern counties met in Miles City to discuss relief work and planned to continue the conference the next day. A separate report from Quebec notes two fishermen sighting a balloon about 13 miles from Riviere a Pierre in Portneuf county, possibly one of the missing James Gordon Bennett race balloons.
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Miles City
T. C. Spaulding
Montana
Quebec
Que
Riviere A Pierre
Portneuf
James Gordon Bennett
Cuban officers ousted as Havana unrest grips capital
In Havana hundreds of Cuban army officers ousted by troops are held in the Hotel National with machine guns guarding access as ABC members and students riot nearby. In Washington President Roosevelt cancels a fishing trip to monitor Cuba’s government crisis and stability efforts continue.
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U. S
Richmond
Havana
de Cespedes
United States
Welles
Hull
Washington
National
Executive Commission
Cuba
Bedlam
ABC
Roosevelt
White House
State Department
CCC worker lauded for leading search of bodies in Montana storm
George Funk of the civilian conservation corps near Cascade Montana received a special citation from Major General Malin Craig after he and two companions faced a two day storm with no food or shelter. Funk led a rescue party to recover the bodies of his two companions who died from exposure though Funk survived. He is stationed at Basin CCC camp and aided by Lieut R S Gilmore and Harry Halverson.
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CCC
San Francisco
Malin Craig
Ninth Corps
George Funk
Civilian Conservation Corps
Cascade
Montana
Funk
George Funks
Basin CCC
R. 8. Gilmore
Harry Halverson
Discovery scene of human skeleton examined this morning
Deputy Sheriff Elmer Carruthers and rancher William Peterson will hike across the Continental divide to inspect the skeleton discovery along a Delmo lake trail. Medical examiners say the elderly victim died in the last few months. Authorities check missing persons in nearby counties as locals and distant readers seek details.
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Delmo Lake
Elmer Carruthers
William Peterson
Continental Divide
Larry Weir
Montana Standard
Sheriff's Office
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