Set Date for Session to Consider Neutrality Act Review
An announcement is expected soon about calling Congress to consider plans to revise the Neutrality Act. The move aims to address whether changes are needed to U S policy amid growing debate.
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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1939
Page
1
Nazi Town Under Fire
Reports from Basel indicate the Moselle valley siege as one of history’s greatest artillery duels. The conflict pits German Siegfried line positions against French Maginot forts and Trassen defenses, with heavy shelling reported along the border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saar
Moselle
Luxemburg
Rhine
Rhineland
Vistula
Bug
Warsaw
Basel
Switzerland
Germany
France
Sierck
Trassen
Half Inch of Rain Falls in Butte Sector
A statewide storm drenched Butte yesterday with about 0.30 inch by 5:30 pm and 0.46 inch by 10 pm as rain continued into the night. Dispatches report telephone service interruptions, grounded air travel, and hazardous highway driving in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte Sector
Butte
Federal Weather Bureau
Man in Collapsible Kayak Starts on Long Colorado River Trip
GREEN RIVER Wyo Sept 12 A lone man in a collapsible canvas kayak left to navigate 1200 miles of the Green and Colorado rivers. Charles F Mann 29 of York Pa plans to reach Jensen Utah in nine days to two weeks then tackle the Grand Canyon segment to Boulder Lake if all goes well. Mann spent four years planning and has river experience on eastern streams and Ontario white waters. If successful he would be first to traverse the route in a light canoe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green River
Wyo
Green
Colorado
Charles F. Mann
York
Jensen
Utah
Mann
Lees Ferry
Arizona
Boulder Lake
Grand Canyon
Ontario
Buzz Holmstrom
Coquille
Ore
Restoration of Chancellor urged at Montana university
Montana state board of education adopts an investigating committee report urging restoration of the chancellor system for the Greater University of Montana and seeks additional funds for faculty salary increases. The panel recommends five faculty resignations and cites underpayment as a major source of discontent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
State Board of Education
University of Montana
C. D. Barton
Glasgow
George M. Gosman
Dillon
State University
H. G. Merriam
C Y O Champions to be Feted at Banquet Tonight
The Catholic Youth Organization honors 185 boys and girls from numerous parishes for a year of recreation leadership in football basketball field ball baseball boxing and track. Rev Father M M English toasts, with over 200 guests expected at the Knights of Columbus gymnasium. Russell Scheidler and John assist in trophy distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat MaceCarthy
Knights of Columbus
Father M. M. English
Elping
Thers
Russell Scheidler
John
Curfew Set to Ring at Eight This October First
Chief of Police W. H. Breen announced the curfew will ring at 8 o clock from October 1. In summer the hour is 9, but the law takes effect at 8 in winter and early spring. With the old bell removed last year fire sirens serve as the alert. All youths under 16 must be off the streets after the curfew sounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Breen
Thanksgiving Vacation For Butte Schools Moved Up
The Butte public school district votes to advance Thanksgiving break one week following a Roosevelt proclamation. Classes will pause Thursday and Friday November 23 and 24. Mary C. Pendergast resigns. Margaret Driscoll hired. Thula Rodes salary raised to the elementary principals level. A car- jitney plan is approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Roosevelt
Board of Trustees of School District No. 1
C. S. Renouard
N. Scott Lyle
I. D. Hadzor
Education Committee
Mary C. Pendergast
Margaret Driscoll
Thula Rodes
Anaconda Copper Wage Offer Not Yet Placed Before Unions
The Anaconda Copper Mining company has offered an immediate wage increase of 75 cents per day based on the current 12 cent copper price for day-pay employees in Butte Anaconda and Great Falls. The proposal has not yet been placed before union memberships and no date is set for voting. The contracts remain with the unions' general committees.
Montana Drier Weather Ahead For Midweek
Montana forecast calls for generally fair conditions Wednesday and Thursday. Cooler temperatures expected in the extreme southeast Wednesday with a warming trend on Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Roosevelt warns Germany against seizing Atlantic colonies
President Roosevelt restated the Monroe Doctrine and signaled U.S. readiness to resist any German seizure of British or French territories across the Atlantic for national protection. He also discussed an upcoming announcement on calling a special session of Congress to revise the neutrality act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Atlantic Ocean
Washington
Roosevelt
Atlantic
United States
Congress
Sabath
House Rules Committee
Kingston
Policy shifts in neutrality act proposals
Washington briefing outlines how the administration’s proposed neutrality statute changes would alter exports to belligerents and ship operations. It compares current policy with plans to end bans on arms shipments, require title transfer for all exports, bar American ships from combat zones, and tighten travel restrictions for U S travelers near Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U. S
North Atlantic
Europe
Banquet closes the annual Montana Pythian Parley
About 350 Knights of Pythias and affiliates gathered at the Golden Fan in Meadvill e to mark the end of the 55th grand lodge and 38th Pythian Sisters meeting. T. W. Midkiff presided as elections and a peace drive themed agenda closed the session. Leonard G. Marck won grand chancellor and Mrs. Lora Hurst became grand chief. officers were installed by noted grand lodge officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights of Pythias
Golden Fan
Meaderville
Pythian Sisters
T. W. Midkiff
Great Falls
United States
Pythian Castle
Leonard G. Marck
Miles City
Richard H. Thomas
Butte
Lora Hurst
Stanford
Alice R. Black
Sweetgrass
Mr. Marck
Hurst
Grand Lodge
Farley
Genzberger
Lewis Terwilliger
Livingston
William Fairful
Belt
Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge
N. Scott Lyle
Centerville
Mears L. Fagg
Billings
Dave B. Hopkins
William M. Johnson
Exchequer
J. Gordon Summerville
Anaconda
New Cancer Drug Reported at International Congress
Howard W. Blakeslee describes a new cancer drug that halts tumor growth for 12 to 24 hours by freezing cells at the mitosis frame. The pause enhances prospects for stronger X-ray therapy and may aid research into cancer origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard W. Blakeslee
Atlantic City
N. J
Third
International Cancer Congress
Butte Sets Enviable Mark With No Fatal Auto Mishaps Since Dec 19
Paris dispatch reports Chamberlain and Daladier met in France to form an allied supreme war council. Butte, by contrast, marks 267 deathless days without a fatal automobile accident, praised by Chief of Police Breen who urges continued caution, especially in school zones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Paris
Neville Chamberlain
France
Edouard Daladier
Supreme War Council
Germany
Maurice Gustave Gamelin
Lord Chatfield
Chamberlain
Chatfield
England
Daladier
Britain
Breen
Burning Car Listed as Cause of Forest Fire Near Butte
A burning automobile is recorded as the apparent cause of a Class A forest fire about 15 miles east of Butte last Sunday night. The blaze was controlled by Monday, confined to a fraction of an acre. Archie Gilligan of Butte owned the car. sheriff’s officers said a backfiring engine ignited the gasoline tank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Service
Butte
L. M. Stewart
Deer Lodge National Forest
Archie Gilligan
Gilligan
Deer Lodge Forest
Warsaw siege cyclists fighters push Germans from Warsaw
Martial music blasted from the Warsaw radio as nine German divisions were diverted from the four day siege to the western front. Officials said German pressure on Warsaw had decreased and they had been driven back about six miles. Reinforcements were being rushed to defend the capital from the southeast as the siege entered its fifth day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Budapest
Vistula
Europe
Poland
Lwow
Lemberg
Vaclav Lipinski
Butte Residents To Hear Fall Naturalization Examinations
Petitions of 65 residents seeking United States citizenship will be heard in U S district court in Butte on October 9. Federal Judge James H. Baldwin will preside in the federal building courtrooms with an examiner from the U S immigration service conducting the examinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
United States
U. S. District Court
Harold L. Allen
Federal Court
James H. Baldwin
Butte Federal Building
U. S. Im
Control of Metals Key to Prosperity Says Dr Thomson
Dr F A Thomson president of the Montana School of Mines told the Butte Exchange club that nations prosper in proportion to their control of metals. He noted the United States lacks nickel tin manganese chromium and Montana has resources but misses nitrates mica antimony tungsten and mercury, all vital war materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DR. Thomson
F. A. Thomson
Montana School of Mines
Butte Exchange Club
New Finlen
United States
Montana
Thomson
Germany
France
United Kingdom
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Maginot, Siegfried Lines
Tubfid
Verdun
Belgium
Belfort
Bonn
Areves
Erstein
Coblenz
Witze
Frankfort
Forres
Stuttgart
Baazttic Sea
Rlawnd
Slovakia
Hornbach
Charles Foltz JR
George F. Simmons
Simmons
C. Y
M. M. English
Anaconda Company
Weather Forecast
Richard L. Turner
U.S
Allied Supreme War Council
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