Butte Mines End Strike As Union Ratifys Agreement
The nationwide mining strike in Butte mines and Anaconda plants is to end today if no issues arise. The general strike committee meets at 10 AM to finalize reports and signal Anaconda Copper to implement the new contracts. Craft unions led by James J discuss settlement steps.
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Butte
Anaconda
Great Falls
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
International Organization of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
New York Adopts Lottery Plan To Raise Relief Funds
New York officials under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia approve a municipal lottery to fund relief for the hungry and homeless. The plan creates Municipal Supplemental Relief Association with a 2.50 entry fee for six months and a drawn president paid about 20 000. Officers would claim 44 percent, relief fund 44 percent, and operating costs the rest.
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Municipal Supplemental Relief Association
Soviet Union Admitted To League Of Nations Membership
Maxim Litvinoff warned the world war remains a grave threat as the League of Nations voted 39 to 3 with seven abstentions to admit the Soviet Union. He condemned Germany and Japan’s actions and aerial rearmament while the assembly, meeting at 6 10 p m, ended 15 years of isolation. Switzerland Holland Portugal voted no. Argentina Belgium Cuba Luxembourg Nicaragua Peru Venezuela abstained. Panama and Siam absent nominally.
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Geneva
U.P
Maxim Litvinoff
League of Nations Assembly
Litvinoff
Germany
Japan
Soviet Union
Family of Nations
League Assembly
Russia
Switzerland
Holland
Portugal
Argentina
Belgium
Cuba
Luxembourg
Nicaragua
Peru
Venezuela
Panama
Siam
Veterans’ payments eyed at ninety million for 1935
The Veterans Administration plans to ask Congress for 90 million dollars to cover the first year of restored benefits approved over President Roosevelt’s veto. Budget director Sam M. Moore Jr. said expenditures are near the estimate, with a 90 million gap in the 1934 35 budget to be added to regular 1935 36 appropriations.
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Washington
Veterans’ Administration
Congress
Capitol
Roosevelt
Sam M. Moore Jr
Moore
Governor recommends life for Missoula slayer in hang case
Helena report states Governor Frank H. Cooney urged the Montana pardon board to commute William Clarence Cates’s death sentence for the slaying of federal prohibition investigator Paul Read to life imprisonment. A third reprieve sets execution dates from September 28 to October 29. board action due October 15.
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Helena
William Clarence Cates
Missoula
Paul Read
Montana Pardon Board
Frank H. Cooney
Cates
Read
Missoula County
Cooney
Pardon Board
Property Owners Seek Home Improvement Loans In Butte
In Butte, property owners visited the chamber of commerce information bureau on West Broadway to file applications for loans under the Silver Bow county better homes campaign. A majority of inspected applications met qualifications and were forwarded to local banks for loan consideration. some applicants were rejected for reasons such as poor credit or income, and referred to the home owners' program.
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Butte
Chamber of Commerce Clearing House
West Broadway
Silver Bow County Better Homes
Information Bureau
Farley Attacks Hoover Clan At Rockford Rally
Postmaster General Farley charged the Hoover old guard with being out of step with the New Deal and urged both parties to back Roosevelt. He labeled the G O P faction reckless pirates and engineers of ruin while addressing Illinois Democratic leaders in Rockford.
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Rockford
Farley
Herbert Hoover
National President of Rail Mail Group Speaks at Dinner
William M. Collins of Washington D C president of the Railway Mail Association spoke at a banquet at the Finlen hotel. Local members from Helena Spokane Missoula Harlowton and Anaconda joined along with Helena association president John Motchenbach Spokane division head L C McCumber of Missoula A Davis and Butte group president Charles McPherson.
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Rail Mail Group
William M. Collins
Washington, D. C
Railway Mail Association
Finlen Hotel
Helena
Spokane
Missoula
Harlowton
Anaconda
John Motchenbach
Helena Association
L. C. McCumber
Montana
A. Davis
Charles McPherson
Butte Group
Italian Boys Drop Marbles for Muskets
Rome reports Mussolini orders compulsory military training for all Italians aged eight to thirty three. The decree outlines three training stages from eight to 21, then a post military period, tying schooling and advancement to wartime readiness and fascist youth organizations.
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Benito Mussolini
Rome
Italy
Il Duce
Bologna
Mussolini
Balilla
Sleeping Gas Is Newest Weapon for Next War
Monticello New York September 18 1934 local inventor Philip Del Fungo Giera proprietor of a mystery laboratory in Sullivan County says he will offer the government sleeping gas when he testifies before the senate munitions committee in Washington next week. Giera described as an international spy by the Nye committee last Friday said he was hired by the Du Pont company in February 1933 to sell powder in Germany and Holland. He also claims a remote laboratory where he recently perfected a sleeping gas that can put an army to sleep within a minute.
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Monticella
N. Y
Philip del Fungo Giera
Sullivan County
Washington
Senate Munitions Committee
Giera
Nye Committee
du Pont Company
Germany
Holland
Montana Weather Outlook Fluctuates This Week
Montana sees unsettled cooler conditions on Wednesday with a change to generally fair weather by Thursday. No precipitation details provided.
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Montana
Weather change predicted today by bureau
Unsettled conditions were forecast with a possible weather change today. Yesterday’s temperatures ranged from 46 to 75 degrees with a low barometer reported at the airport by officials.
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Weather Bureau
Nome Stricken by Fire Faces Cold Weather and Hunger
Fire-ravaged Nome Alaska grapples with freezing conditions and hunger as most structures burn except key facilities. Federal officers and volunteers guard ruins to prevent looting while hundreds remain homeless and foodless from the disaster.
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Nome
Alaska
City of
Gold
Wisconsin Vote Tight as La Follette Last of Three
In Wisconsin the La Follette New Deal party finishes last in a split division as 100000 more textile workers are called out Monday joining 420000 already on strike. NRA denies silk code hearing while Saylesville Sayles mill reopens amid police actions nearby.
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LA Follette New Deal Party
Wisconsin
Silk Code Authority
NRA
New England
Rhode Island
Sayles Finishing Company
Saylesville
Connecticut
Wilbur L. Cross
National Guard
Joseph B. Ely
Massachusetts
Hugh G. Johnson
Passaic
N. J
Paterson
Schmedman Leads in Wisconsin Gubernatorial Primary
Milwaukee dispatch reports early returns show Gov Albert G Schmedman leading Democrats with 9246 of 11059 votes amid Republican gains after splitting from La Follette progressives. In GOP governor race How ard T Greene tops with 6788 votes. Fred R Zimmerman 5030. Philip La Follette's progressive total stands at 10480 of 10898. Continued on Page 2 Col 2.
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Milwaukee
U.P
la Follette
Wisconsin
New Deal
Howard T. Greene
Genessee Depot Dairy Farmer
Fred R. Zimmerman
Greene
Zimmerman
Albert G. Schmedman
William B. Rubin
Philip la Follette
Progressive Party
Robert M. la Follette Jr
Man Cleans Busy Chimney As Smoke Forces Fire Crew
Crowds gathered as three fire engines faced a cloud of black smoke near Driscoll's cigar store on North Main. Firemen found the stove fed by the chimney had paper burning, delaying lunch for a minute yesterday noon. Engines went out at 12 07 and returned at 12 08.
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Driscoll’s
North Main Street
New High School Construction Possible This Fall
Architect J Van Teylingen said bids could be issued and contracts awarded if court decisions favor the school board. Plans are 90 percent complete and excavation could start this fall with work continuing through winter, following a conference with trustees of school district No 1.
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Butte High School
J. van Teylingen
Great Falls
van Teylingen
Douglas Gold
Gold
Scott Fries
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Lila Alaih Lee de
Anaconda Co
Anaconda Company
James J
New York
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Fund For Caring
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Fiorello A. LaGuardia
Fusion Party
Board of Aldermen
Board of Estimate
Mark Rudich
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AGTO
League
Capitalistic League
Europe
Asia
Chamber of Commerce
Hoover Clan
G. O. P. Old Guard
Pirate Crew
Maine
Weather Forecast
Lindberghs
Homer Aitkens
Woodward
Okla
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Ella Vance
Aitkens
Lindhoven
Col. Lindbergh
Harrison Parsons
Council
The
Associated Press
Francis J. Gorman
Executive Council
United Textile Workers
Gorman
Albert G. Schmedeman
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