Compromise Talks Enter Rail Strike Crisis Under Truman
Washington May 21 Presidential adviser John R Steelman met separately with railway union and management reps amid rumors of a White House plan to avert the Thursday strike A wage boost of 148 a day is floated for trainmen and engineers The defense transportation office prepares embargo orders to prevent perishables from rail transport and the Association of American Railroads plans a nationwide embargo of perishable freight and livestock readied for delivery by noon Thursday
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Washington
John R. Steelman
White House
Truman
Office of Defence Transportation
Association of American Railroads
Chicago
A. F. Whitney
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Alvanley Johnston
Steelman
Whitney
Johnston
Edward J. Flynn
Brotherhoods
Flynn
Locomotive Engineers
Livingston Council Rejects Meter Petition
The Livingston city council tabled petitions to remove parking meters in the business district and voted to continue the meter company contract and enforce parking regulations. Mayor Walter C. House explained meters are needed to solve the city traffic problem after a lengthy discussion pro and con.
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Livingston Council
Livingston Enterprise
Livingston City Council
Meter Corporation
Walter C. House
Negro Struck By Lightning 10th Time
Kenton Ohio May 20 A 49 year old Negro truck operator Charles Brown survived a lightning strike at the public library his tenth strike to date He was stunned while reaching for a book from an assistant librarian Bella Ellis described a ball of fire flashing through a closed window Brown recovered three days later leaving with assistance
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Kenton
Ohio
Charles Brown
Monday
Brown
Bella Ellis
Greek youth thanks Hiller for coat from relief drive
A Greek teen from Rethymnon Crete sends a thank you note to A. H. Hiller for a coat given in a European relief drive. The letter expresses gratitude, mentions his father’s death, a mother and three brothers, and asks for correspondence and a photo. Translation was arranged through a Tacoma daughter after the Greek text was read.
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Greece
A. H. Hiller
Andrew Thompson
Tacoma
Mr. Hiller
James Kosikas
Rethymnon Crete
May Requisition Large Share Of Wheat Crop For Foreign Relief
Secretary Anderson indicated the government may requisition more than 25 percent of the 1946 wheat crop to speed famine relief. The plan would require farmers to sell 50 percent of 1946 wheat to country elevators, which must then sell half to the government. The shift accompanies tighter packer rules to boost meat and lard exports with deadlines and subsidy penalties for noncompliance.
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Washington
Clinton P. Anderson
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Agriculture Department
Group Recommends Game Reduction Near Yellowstone Park
Absaroka conservation committee at Mammoth recommends elk and antelope herd reductions near Yellowstone. A 2,800 elk cap is proposed for the coming season and 150 Gardiner area antelope to be reduced by hunting or transplanting. Elk targets to be reviewed in September. secretary George Kern of Livingston reported.
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Livingston
Yellowstone Park
Absaroka Conservation Committee
Mammoth
Gardiner
Park
George Kern
Stephen A Perrine Dies After Short Illness in Big Timber
Stephen A Perrine, 81, one of Big Timber’s oldest pioneers, died Friday morning after a paralytic stroke two days after his wife’s funeral. Masonic funeral held May 19 with Doric lodge members as pallbearers. Born October 6 1864 in Steubenville Ohio, Perrine lived in Big Timber for decades, ran the town’s first barber shop, and was a longtime Mason and Shriner. Survived by children Stephen Earl Perrine, Della Webb, Hal Perrine, Ardis Perrine, Virginia Barstad. grandchildren Mrs Sigurd Lavold Jr. and Mrs Jane Perrine Kersch. brothers and sisters in Ohio. numerous nieces and nephews.
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Stephen A. Perrine
Mr. Perrine
Clive Haas
Doric Lodge
Stuart H. Nicholson
Dorman Kellogg
Lloyd Severance
Karl Bryan
Percy Lavold
Harold Roe
Stephen Perrine
Steubenville
Ohio
Carrollton
Montana
T. K
Judge) Lee
Musselshell
Mr. Lee
Big Timber
Margaret Scott Bailey
Joseph W. Bailey
Stephen Earl Perrine
Oakland
Calif
Della Webb
Hal Perrine
Ardis Perrine
Minneapolis
Perrine
Masonic Lodge
Doric Lodge No. 53
Eastern Star Chapter
the Shrine
Rural Electrification Loans Approved for Beartooth and Park Co-ops
County Agent H M Oefstos reports new loans for rural electrification. Beartooth Electric Cooperative secures 145 000 for line construction across Carbon Stillwater and Sweet Grass counties from Reed Point to Grey Cliff. Park Electric Co-op receives 865 000 to extend 35.2 miles of line. work began last winter with poles set and crews operating above Mc Leod awaiting wiring.
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Park Electric Co-op, Inc
H. M. Oefstos
Pioneer
James E. Murray
Beartooth Electric Cooperative
Carbon
Stillwater
Sweet Grass
Reed Point
Grey Cliff
Sweet Grass County
East Boulder
Elk Creek
Main Boulder
Clydehurst
West Boulder
Foster Ranch
Swamp Creek
Cole Ranch
Big Timber Creek
Rudolph Hauge
McLeod
Set Aside Surplus For Vets Listed
100 percent set aside surplus for World War II veterans announced by Neill Teeters, commander of the local American Legion post. Items include vehicles, machinery, and typewriters with required proof of honorable discharge. Applications and certifications handled at the nearest War Assets Administration office in Montana, 310 Mayer Building, Butte.
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Neill Teeters
American Legion Post
International
Td6 International
War Assets Administration
Montana
Mayer Building
Butte
Pioneer
Auto Union Protests Car Price Increase
The CIO United Auto Workers filed a formal protest with the OPA over higher automobile prices. UAW-CIO president Walter P. Reuther urged OPA head Paul Porter to appoint a review board to examine claims that price hikes are not justified by wage gains and violate the president's wage-price policy order.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers Today
OPA
Walter P. Reuther
Uaw-Cio
Paul Porter
Dodge couple depart Big Timber for Chicago visit
Mr and Mrs Donald G Dodge left Big Timber Friday night for Chicago after spending two weeks visiting relatives and friends. They enjoy the Windy City where there is always something to do.
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Chicago
Donald G. Dodge
Big Timber
Windy City
Mae Duffey Weds Los Angeles Man
Miss Mae Duffey daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry E Duffey of Big Timber marries Daniel G Grant Jr son of Daniel G Grant of Los Angeles Calif The ceremony was a nuptial mass at St Brigid s church in San Francisco May 18 The couple will reside in Los Angeles after a wedding trip to Montana and other western states The groom served 36 months in the Marines in the South Pacific and attended Stanford University
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Montana
Mae Duffey
Harry E. Duffey
Big Timber
Daniel G. Grant, Jr
Daniel G. Grant
Los Angeles
Calif
St. Brigid’s Church
San Francisco
Cailif
Richard Prendeville
Isabel St. Germain
Helena
Joseph A. Ryan
L. J. McCarthy
Detroit
Mich
Butte
Fourth Air Force
R. L. Choquette
South Pacific
Stanford University
Peppy Day Poppy Day Set for Saturday May 25
The annual Poppy Day event is scheduled for Saturday May 25. Organizers urge community participation to support veterans programs and raise funds.
Government Seizes Soft Coal Mines as Strike Ends
The government took control of soft coal mines effective after midnight as a strike truce nears expiration. Secretary Krug said John L. Lewis refused to guarantee continued work, citing individual miners' decisions, with a new contract under government operation to be negotiated and wage policies to be observed.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Interior
Kreg
Lewis
Krup
Krug
United States
Moers-Keiser Marriage In Billings Tuesday
Miss Mae E. Moers daughter of Mr and Mrs Herman Moers married Ensign Robert W Keiser of Scranton Pennsylvania at the Lutheran church in Billings Tuesday evening. Attendants were Miss Inez Holland and Hilmar Cook. The bride a Sweet Grass county graduate of 1944 has worked in California. The couple plan a San Francisco dis charge and then return to Scranton where he will finish his education. Shirley Bryan and Vernon Moers attended.
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Mae E. Moers
Herman Moers
Robert W. Keiser
Scranton
Billings
Lutheran Church
Glenn
Inez Holland
Hilmar Cook
Sweet Grass County
California
San Francisco
Shirley Bryan
Vernon Moers
Killer of Railroader Found Insane
In Helena a Lewis and Clark district court jury found Jacob Reuther a 39 year old Russian insane after a hearing on the March shooting that killed railroad engineer August Zoeller and wounded a card dealer. Medical witnesses testified to a persecutory delusion. Reuther was arrested minutes after the saloon shooting.
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Helena
Lewis and Clark District Court
Jacob Reuther
Reuther
Gladys Holmes
State Hospital
Warm Springs
Ruether
August Zoeller
Idaho Fisherman Drowns in Hebgen Lake
Bozeman May 20 Julius Golden Edwards 42 of Pocatello Idaho drowned Sunday afternoon while fishing from a boat on Hebgen lake in southern Montana. He and four relatives/witnesses were aboard when the boat overturned during a shift in place. They rescued the others and later found Edwards beneath the overturned craft.
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Bozeman
Julius Golden Edwards
Pocatello
Idaho
Hebgen Lake
Montana
J. N. Pratt
Edwards
Henry J. West
Henry Henricksen
Tom Wilson
Charles Anderson
Pratt
Traffic Safety Program Aims to Curb Highway Fatalities
Police in the United States and Canada will run a traffic safety check from May 15 to July 7 under the Inter national Association of Chiefs of Police. Brakes lights tires and other obvious defects will be checked at accidents or violations and drivers urged to repair. The drive promotes safe driving and car condition amid rising 1945 46 fatalities and injuries, with 49 45 and 39 percent year over year increases.
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United States
Canada
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Robert E. Raleigh
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Two Brotherhoods
Auto Union
Hebgen
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