Supreme Court Upholds Platte River Master Recommendation
The Supreme Court largely upholds a special master’s plan for allocating North Platte River waters among Nebraska Wyoming Colorado. The ruling sets a 75 25 split Nebraska to Wyoming with limits on Wyoming storage in Pathinder Guernsey Alcora and Seminoe reservoirs and denies a federal claim to unappropriated waters as largely academic. Justice Roberts dissents arguing the decision departs from interstate water principles.
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Washington
Supreme Court
North Platte River
Nebraska
Wyoming
Colorado
North Platte
Douglas
Whalen
Wyo
Tri-State Bend
Pathfinder
Guernsey
Alcora
Seminoe
Justice Roberts
Union
Roberts
Tri-State
Kendrick
Surplus Buffalo to Be Slaughtered in Montana
The National Bison Range plans to slaughter about 140 buffalo, yielding 85,000 pounds of dressed meat for fall sale ration free. George E. Mushbach, superintendent, said the surplus exceeds the range's carrying capacity and will be disposed of annually in this manner.
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Moiese
Mont
George E. Mushbach
Montana
Mushbach
OWI Appropriation Slashed by Half in House Vote
Washington June 8 The House voted to halve the Office of War Information appropriation for next year after defeating an effort to kill the Office of Economic Stabilization. The body approved a $752,764,850 war agencies bill and cut $17,000,000 from the $35,000,000 OWI fund recommended by the appropriations committee.
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Washington
House
Office of War Information
Office of Economic Stabilization
Appropriations Committee
BPW Clydehurst Board Meeting Aims At State Programs
In lieu of the annual convention 18 Business and Professional Women clubs gathered at Clydehurst on the Boulder for a weekend board meeting. Plans for the year's program were outlined. Miss Sally Butler of Indianapolis was guest speaker with numerous club representatives listed from cities including Anaconda Billings Bozeman Butte Forsyth Glasgow Glendive Great Falls Helena Havre Kalispell Lewistown Livingston Miles City Missoula Shelby and more.
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BPW
Clydehurst
Boulder
Clydehurst-on the-Boulder
Sally Butler
Indianapolis
Ind
National Federation
G. W. Holmes
Sally Bresnahan
Anaconda
Musa DeMouth
Billings
Truman pushes travel curbs to aid Pacific troop shifts
President Truman warned civilian train travel may be limited to free scarce freight and passenger space as plans require transferring troops to the Far Pacific within ten months. He said federal controls could be used if facilities strain, noting the new mobilization is more daunting than the four year European operation.
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Washington
Truman
Japan
Far Pacific
Europe
Churchill warns against a permanent system of control
London report says Prime Minister Churchill declares policy to safeguard people from a permanent system of control reeking of totalitarianism. He stresses Britons will not be serfs and outlines aims including a world organization to prevent future wars, in a 22 page pamphlet on domestic issues and ongoing political campaign.
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London
Churchill
Senate Extends Price Control with Farm Profit Provision
The Senate approved a one year extension of price controls with a Wherry farm profit amendment guaranteeing producers a return covering all costs plus a reasonable profit. The 37 to 30 vote drew Republican opposition from Taft and broader debate on inflationary impact as the measure moves to the House.
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Senate
Washington
Barkley
Wherry
Nebraska
Taft
Ohio
Lucas
Tllinois
House
Erry
Bowles
Thomas
Oklahoma
OPA
Army Seeks Quarter Reduction in War Funds for Next Year
President Truman submits the war department budget totaling 52.6 billion for 1946 with a 25 percent decrease from the prior year. The army’s authorized strength is set at 6,968,000, down from 8,320,000, and only about 21.96 billion is new money. The rest comes from unobligated balances and contract-term cutbacks.
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White House
Sweet Grass OKs $55,000 E bonds shortfall claim
The note states Sweet Grass is $55,000 short on its E bonds with June 30 as the deadline. Authorities urge completion of all possible actions and rally support to avoid failing the boys.
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Sweet Grass
Livingston Businessman Joe Brooks Dies After Illness
Joseph Brooks, a longtime Livingston resident of 50 years and prominent local figure, died last Thursday after a prolonged illness. Born in Wiggam England on August 4 1880 he later served Park County as treasurer police magistrate and state representative and was Livingston postmaster for 12 years. He returned from Arizona winters with his wife Wilma Perry Brooks and was active in the Brooks Realty firm and Masonic and musical circles. He is survived by his wife a sister and a brother.
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Joseph Brooks
Livingston
Mesa
Ariz
Brooks
Saint Andrews Church
Lewis D. Smith
Dillon
Mountain View Cemetery
Mr.Brooks
Wiggam
England
United States
Cokedale
Gene Confar
Park County
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Brooks Realty Company
Observance urged for Father’s Day in Montana
Governor Sam C. Ford urged Montanans to observe June 17 as Father’s Day and honor fathers for their wartime contributions. He highlighted fathers sending children to service and aiding in shipbuilding, aircraft construction, and munitions, as well as buying war bonds and adhering to rationing rules.
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Helena
Sam C. Ford
Overwhelming Vote For World Bank Ratification
The House approved by 345 to 18 a bill to ratify the Bretton Woods agreements creating a world bank and a monetary stabilization fund. 204 Democrats plus 138 Republicans supported the measure, while 18 Republicans opposed. The vote makes the U S the first nation to act on ratification. A small opposition bloc denounced the plan as a swindle and an international WPA.
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Washington
House
Senate
Bretton Woods
World Bank
Rayburn
United States
Sumner
Illinois
Smith
Ohio
Buffett
Nebraska
World Monetary Plan
World Banking Agency
Freight and passenger train crash injures 15 near Portland
A Sunday collision in suburbia Portland involved a Northern Pacific freight train and a Spokane Portland and Seattle passenger train bound for Astoria. Fifteen people were injured, three critically, with Emil Konut of Chicago and two Portland diner waiters Lee Shepard and Joseph I. Bland among the injured. A stove tore loose and steam burned the two waiters.
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Portland
Ore
Northern Pacific
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway
Astoria
Willbridge Station
St. John’s Bridge
Emil Konut
Chicago
Lee Shephard
Joseph I. Bland
Auction slated for Lupe Velez estate sale
Probate court ordered the private sale of the Lupe Velez estate in Hollywood. The June 21 and 22 auction at her two story mansion will include 2900 diamonds valued at 100000, a 25000 chinchilla coat, a 15000 sable coat, and a 20000 painting, with admission by invitation and a 20 deposit.
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Hollywood
Lupe Velez
Beulah Kinder
Callaway Elected to Head Masons Callaway Elected to Head Masons
Judge Lew L. Callaway of Helena was elected most illustrious grand master of the Montana grand council of royal and select masters at an assembly in Butte. New officers include Matthew A. Kay Armstead deputy grand master and Raymond V. Love Sher idan principal conductor of work.
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Butte
Lew L. Callaway
Helena
Montana
Matthew A. Kay
Armstead
Raymond V. Love
Sheridan
John Scott Harrison
Luther T. Hauberg
Edwin Grafton
W. F. Clutton
Great Falls
Herbert H. Hosfield
Somers
Sterley A. Miller
Glendive
A. E. Grumley
Shelby
George W. Padbury
First Officer in 41st Division Discharged
Warrant Officer Joe McGill, former staff sergeant of Montana's 163rd Regiment, Forty first division, returns to Helena as the first officer discharged under the army point system. He logged 36 months overseas with 24 months in combat, discharged May 15 at Fort Douglas Utah with 148 points. McGill rejoined his wife and three daughters and works as a lineman for Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph.
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Helena
Joe McGill
Montana
163Rd
McGill
Fort Douglas
Utah
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
China Raises Gold Price Amid Market Turbulence
In Chungking the finance ministry raised official gold to ten Chinese dollars an ounce, the second hike in 10 weeks after a March 28 jump from 20 000 to 35 000. The move boosted black market rates for American currency, with the yuan trading around 1 150 to 1 US dollar after earlier fluctuations.
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Chungking
Ministry of Finance
U. S
Cigaret Supply Expected to Rise 15 Percent
New York June 7 Joseph Calamia president of the Retail Tobacco Dealers of America Inc said civilian cigaret supply will rise at least 15 percent within the next two weeks based on surveys of manufacturers and wholesalers. He cited army order cutbacks and improved manufacturing conditions as factors.
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New York
Joseph Calamia
Retail Tobacco Dealers of America, Inc
Calamia
Yanks Press Okinawa Breakthrough After Bitter Nine Days
Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr. and forces of the Sixth Marine Division shattered a Japanese pocket on Oroku Peninsula after nine days of heavy fighting that left about 3,500 Japanese dead. American units pressed along the southern escarpment and central Ozato, with gains of hundreds of yards and intensified Japanese counterattacks.
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Guam
Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr
Sixth Marine
Okinawa
Oroku Peninsula
Yaeju
Tenth Army
Archibald V. Arnold
Seventh Infantry Division
Arnold
Hanagusuku
Appeal for Fair Use of Canning Sugar Seeks Honest Ration
Helena headquarters urges housewives to share sugar fairly as a greatly reduced stock aims to cover home canning. Local boards review applications to ensure sugar goes to actual canning use and not table use. June quota for Sweet Grass County is 3570 pounds with about 700 people issued five pound coupons to date. Applications should be dated and returned promptly before July 1. Merchants report dwindling stocks and deny speculation they have enough to meet orders.
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Helena
Sweet Grass County
Merchant Marine Losses Reported in World War II
The maritime commission reported 1,554 United States merchant ships and 6,066 merchant seamen dead missing or captured. UN and neutral fleets totaled 4,770 ships of 21,140,000 gross tons from Sept 1939 to May 1945. The Army notes 3,604 American soldiers lost aboard troop ships in 41 months of war. WWI loss rate was 7.2 per 10,000 embarked.
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Washington
United States
Maritime Commission
United Nations
Europe
Germany
Ribbentrop May Have Escaped in Captured Plane
Stockholm dispatch says Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop may have escaped in a captured American plane to a point outside Germany before Berlin fell. The plane reportedly landed near Berlin, was repaired, and prepared for a long trip.
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Stockholm
Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Germany
Berlin
Legation
Moscow
Australian Troops Tighten Grip on Brunei Area in Borneo Drive
Australian forces report an eight mile advance seizing Brunei airstrip and pushing within two miles of Brunei, capital of the British protectorate in northwest Borneo. A second landing on Borneo's west coast positions troops two miles east of Brunei, creating a pincer movement.
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Manila
Brunei
Borneo
Douglas MacArthur
Hearings Open On Wildlife Resources Proposals
Washington June 9 Hearings will open June 19 before the House special committee on wildlife resources chaired by Representative Robertson Democrat Virginia The proposals include enlarging the Fish and Wildlife Service jurisdiction over impounded waters amendments to the migratory bird act permits for regulated feeding of migratory birds establishment of management in refuges funded by duck stamp money and shooting regulations for the 1945 season.
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Washington
House
Special Committee On
Wild Life Resources
Representative Robertson
Democrat
Virginia
Fish and Wild Life Service
Navy reports four ships lost off Okinawa in night action
The navy announced Monday night the loss of four vessels off Okinawa during Japanese suicide plane attacks. Vessels Drexler Longshaw Bates and LSM 135 suffered 469 casualties with 179 aboard Longshaw 60 aboard Drexler 60 aboard Beet and 21 aboard LSM 135. Next of kin of the dead wounded and missing have been notified.
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Washington
Navy
Okinawa
Drexler
Longshaw
Bates
Beet
United States Navy
Legislation Introduced To Double Senate Salaries
Two senators introduced a bill to raise pay from 10 000 to 20 000 for Congress with副vice president from 15 000 to 25 000 and cabinet officers from 15 000 to 20 000. The move follows President Truman’s suggestion lawmakers are underpaid and his pledge to study wages.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Overton
D-La
Bridges
DN. H
House
Senate
Tuman
McKellar
D-Tenn
Cannon
Dmo
House Appropriations Committee
Congressional
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Joe Brooks
Lupe Velez Estate
Callaway
Masons
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Pedro A. del Valle
Kunishi
James L. Bradley
Ozato
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Merchant Marine
Ribbentrop
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