Attacks on Miners in Butte Spark Fear and Damage
Mob violence hit Butte Montana during two nights of terror as bands of men women and youths attacked homes of miners not on strike. Authorities report hundreds of thousands in damages and several juvenile arrests while CIO Mine Mill and Smelting Workers union denies involvement. Government officials say the situation is under control.
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Associated Press
Butte
Mont
Bart Riley
Barry O'Leary
al McLeod
Anaconda
National and
American Sugar Refining Companies
National
American
AFL
CIO
Revere Refining Company
Boston
CIO Union
International Harvester Company
World tensions rise as Russia eyes new spheres of influence
The article discusses growing U S and British concern over Soviet expansion and Moscow's push to extend influence beyond security needs. It highlights two UN Security Council issues Russo Iranian ties and Poland Spain policy, and warns of a looming four power conference in Paris on peace treaties involving Italy Bulgaria Hungary Romania and Finland. Russia's Mediterranean aims threaten Britain's lifeline to the East.
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Russia
Britain
United States
Soviet Union
England
America
Moscow
John Bull
Uncle Sam
United Nations Security Council
Spain
Franco
France
Paris
Italy
Bulgaria
Hungary
Romania
Finland
Ean
Mediterranean
Middle East
Far East
Europe
Inflationary danger ending by end of 1946 Bowles says
Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles told senators that price controls could keep inflation in check and that by year end 1946 the danger may end if controls remain. He testified to the senate banking committee and urged extending the OPA for a year and allowing general lift of controls by June 30, 1947 in non shortage areas.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Senate Banking Committee
Bowles
Office of Price Administration
Wagner
D-Ny
John W. Snyder
OPA
Propaganda Drive Charged To The Army
Senator Robertson accuses the Army of an intensive lobbying and propaganda campaign for unification of the armed services. He urges President Truman to extend the navy muzzle order to all branches, warning the merger could place the navy in a subordinate position. He cites a Feb. meeting at Hamilton Field urging letters to senators in support of the merger.
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Washington
Robertson
R-Wye
Senate
Army
Wyoming
Naval Affairs Committed
Truman
Navy
Hamilton Field
Calif
Clark Orders FBI To Investigate Meat Packers
The April 15 report states wartime slaughter controls will be restored to curb meat black markets. A joint OPA and Agriculture Department plan introduces a slaughter quota to distribute the supply through established channels at ceiling prices. The move targets excess slaughter by certain firms and aims to boost live stock for established packers toward normal production.
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Washington
UPA
OPA
Agriculture Department
Nine Die Violently in North Carolina Incidents
At Scotland Neck jail four black inmates suffocated due to a mattress fire in their cell. In Charlotte two youths, 12 year old Robert Donaldson and 16 year old Mickey Platt of Concord, died when a racing motorcycle left a track and struck spectators. A marine flyer Lieut. Stanley F. Smith, 26, of Kinston and Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, was killed in a light plane crash near Kinston. An additional death occurred near Cramerton involving Mrs. Arthur J. Edycean, 29, of Gaston county.
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Scotland Neck
Charlotte
North Carolina
B. F. Turner
Halifax County
Robert Donaldson
Mickey Albert Platt
Concord
Pooners
Ray Putman
Imont
Mom Maes
Marine Flyer
Kinston
Stanley F. Smith
Sault Sainte Marie
Michigan
Cramerton
Arthur J. Edycean
Gaston County
Attorney General Tom Clark orders FBI probe into reports
Attorney General Tom Clark directs the FBI to investigate widespread reports of irregularities. Officials say agency moves aim to determine if illegal activity influenced events. Details remain scarce as the inquiry begins.
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Washington
Tom Clark
FBI
Martial Law Reported in Manchuria Capital
Changchun the capital of Manchuria was placed under martial law as tensions rose with Russian troops evacuating the city. A government central news dispatch notes the surrounding Communist forces and ongoing military action.
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Manchuria
Chungking
Changchun
Chiang Kai Shek seeks balance in Manchurian crisis
Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek uses his influence to ease mounting tensions in Manchuria. He returns from South China and names a three member Kuomintang committee to meet with the communists, the democratic league, and the China Youth Party to defuse the volatile civil conflict.
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Chungking
Chiang Kai- Shek
South China
Kuomintang
National Party
Communists
The
Democratic League
China Youth Party
City Garrison Commander Imposes Public Gathering Ban
Agency dispatch reports the government garrison commander in the city has issued strict rules including a ban on public gatherings. The dispatch also charged that further measures may follow.
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Agency Dispatch
Dispatch
Dixie Building Hits High Figure For Ist Quarter
Baltimore April 15. Building activity above the Mason Dixie line rose to 379 910 000 for the first quarter of 1946 from 318 689 000 a year earlier. March construction reached 148 911 000 the highest since June 1943. Industrial work totaled 58 551 000 in March, more than February and up about 3 percent from March last year as civilian orders limit industrial projects to fund veterans housing.
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Baltimore
Southern
Meat Shortage Strains New York Markets
An official of Wilson and Co. testified to the Senate agriculture committee that New York and Brooklyn customers will receive about two percent of their 1941 beef purchases next week. The plan ties quotas to local building costs with each retailer facing drastic cuts, signaling a broad shortage amid wartime controls.
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Washington
Wilson & Co., Inc
New York
Brooklyn
R. H. Haynie
Housing Boss Seeks Popular Priced Homes
Washington April 15 Housing administrator Wilson W Wyatt plans new construction controls to boost homes under 10000 dollars Officials say quotas will require a percentage of homes in each area to be built for sale at less than ten thousand dollars The move aims to broaden access to affordable housing nationwide.
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NHA
Washington
Wilson W. Wyatt
Senate Holds Line on Prevailing Wage in Housing Plan
A clash over a union demanded wage provision arose as the senate revisited long range housing legislation. AFL and CIO press for a clause to pay the local prevailing wage on all housing with government funds, beyond public housing and large apartment projects. The senate banking committee refused to extend the clause to individual FHA financed homes.
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Washington
Senate
AFL
CIO
Senate Banking Committee
Hirohito Considers Embracing Christianity
Des Moines April 15 Emperor Hirohito studies Christian doctrine and may embrace Christianity soon. A Japanese Christian minister from Osaka told a Methodist youth rally that thousands will follow the emperor, and that Shinto and Buddhism have failed.
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Des Moines
Hirohito
Bokko Wsuchiyama
Osaka
Tsuchiyama
House Advances Draft Bill With Recorded Vote
The House passed a bill extending the draft law from May 15 to February 15 next year while delaying inductions until after October 15. The measure, approved by a roll call of 290 to 108, was sent to the Senate.
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Washington
House
Senate
House members push for recorded vote after scare
Washington April 15 report says members recovered from a roll call fright and pressed for a recorded vote.
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Washington
House
Four Japanese Officers Sentenced in Doolittle Airmen Executions
An American military tribunal sentenced four Japanese army officers to five to nine years at hard labor for the kangaroo court trial and execution of three Doolittle airmen. The verdict pinpoints high officials responsible for enacting the enemy airmen law and issuing orders on prisoner treatment. The airmen were Lts. Dean E. Hallmark and William G. Farrow and Sgt. Harold A. Spatz, killed after the 1942 raid.
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Shanghalt
Doolittle
Dean E. Hallmark
Dallas
Tex
William G. Farrow
Darlington
D. C
Harold A. Spatz
Lebo
Kas
War Ministry
Edwin R. McReynolds
Washington, D. C
Fic
Shigeru Sawada
138Th Army
Sawada
Satojiro Tatsuta
Tatsuta
Commission
China
Three Nations Divided Over Iran Question
The United Nations Security Council faces a tense session as Russia presses to keep Iran on the agenda while the United States and Britain back efforts to remove Iran’s case. Poland also presses action against Franco’s Spain for harboring German scientists. Tehran says Iran may withdraw its complaint. The session opens at 3 p.m. EST at Hunter College.
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New York
Reunited Nations Security Council
Russia
World Peace Agency
Tehran
Iran
Hunter College
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Alexander Cadogan
Andrei A. Gromykov
Stettinius
Gan
Genera Francisco Franco
Spain
Poland
United Nations
Mozaffar Firouz
Panda
United States
Security Council
Moscow
Radio Station Stirs 20 000 Into Frenzy
In Knoxville Tennessee on April 15 a crowd estimated at 20 000 gathered five blocks of the main thoroughfare to protest WNOX cancellation of paid religious programs. Rev J Harold Smith urged a rally while WNOX said it offered free air time to all churches and preachers on a rotating basis. The crowd moved from the station to the News Sentinel which backed the station’s stance.
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Knoxville
Tenn
WNOX
J. Harold Smith
Kentucky
Georgia
Virginia
Carolinas
East Tennessee
R. B. Westergaard
Knoxville High School
Smith
Christendom
News-Sentinel
Scripps-Howard Chain
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