Montana Launches Opportunity Bond Drive in Helena
The Helena dinner launched Montana's opportunity bond drive to sell 5.41 million dollars in United States savings bonds. May 16 to June The event honored minute men and women and included Acting Gov. Paul Cannon urging payroll savings and bond months participation to support country state and community. About 100 county bond chairmen volunteers and officials attended.
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Helena
Montana
United States Savings
Paul Cannon
John W. Bonner
President Urges Bond Buying in Savings Drive
President Truman urged buying savings bonds as security for individuals and the nation. He spoke at a bond drive dinner outlining the May 16 to June 30 drive, dubbed the opportunity bond drive, with a $1.04 billion goal and 3,000,000 volunteers honored.
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Washington
Truman
Baby on mercy flight faces rare skin malady
A Denver infant born to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lucero lacks skin on the lower legs. An Air Force mercy flight from Lowry Field to Durango returned with the child. Doctors at Colorado General Hospital warned survival is unlikely and skin grafts could not be performed. The only hope is a possible natural recovery without surgery.
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Denver
Air Force
Lowryfield
Durango
Colorado General Hospital
Joe Lucero
Lucero
Train and Truck Collision Kills Fourteen in Peru
In southern Peru a train traveling from Arequipa to Juliaca collided with a truck carrying 30 people at a crossing on a curved section of track, killing 14 aboard. Police and emergency crews attended the scene at Lima.
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Lima
Peru
Arequipa
Juliaca
Theater Ceiling Caves In Injuring 39 in Houma
A theater ceiling collapsed on an audience of 75 to 100 in Houma Louisiana injuring 39 with 32 treated and released. The most serious case was Mrs Amos Lapeyrouse wife of a theater owner who suffered a compound leg fracture. Six others were hospitalized for minor injuries as doctors and nurses rushed to the scene. The theater had opened last October in Terrebonne Parish.
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Houma
Ellender Memorial Hospital
Amos Lapeyrouse
Everett Talbot
L. J. Lapeyrouse
Amos and
Earl
Park Theater Company
New Orleans
Terrebohne Parish
U S Condemns Mindszenty Cases at UN Cautions on Probe
United States delegate Benjamin V. Cohen condemned Hungary and Bulgaria for churchmen prosecutions and warned the United Nations against appointing a 15 nation on the spot inquiry. He urged relying on peace treaty provisions and delaying debate until September.
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Lake Success
N. Y
U.P
United States
Hungary
Bulgaria
Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty
United Nations
Benjamin V. Cohen
United Nations General Assembly
Cuba
Balkan
Cohen
Mindszenty
General Assembly
Agriculture seeks restored funds for soil studies in Missouri basin
The Agriculture department urged the Senate on Tuesday to reverse a House cut reducing funding for soil investigations in the Missouri river basin by half.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Senate
House
Missouri River
Silenced Priest Denounces His Punishment
Boston April 19 A 52 year old Jesuit priest Fr Leonard Feeney attacked Archbishop Cushing for stripping him of priestly duties over his claim there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church. Cushing called the act a grave offense against church law. Feeney said the silencing is invalid and stems from his belief in salvation outside the church. The dispute follows a week of controversy at Boston College and related Catholic tensions in the area.
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Boston
Richard J. Cushing
Cushing
Leonard Feeney
S. J
Boston College
Boston College High School
Helena Dam contract awarded to Canyon Constructors
Rep Mike Mansfield said Canyon Ferry dam project east of Helena will go to the low bidder Canyon Constructors for 11.896 million dollars. The team includes Brown and Root Wunderlich Griffith and J C McGuire with four firms, to build a 172 foot high concrete gravity dam for irrigation and hydroelectric power.
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Helena
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Associated Press
Canyon Ferry Dam
Reclamation
Michael Straus
Canyon Constructors
Missouri River
Brown and Root Company
Houston
Texas
Wunderlich Contracting Company
Omaha
Griffith Company
Los Angeles
J. C. McGuire
Reclamation Bureau
Parents of Baby Left in Spokane Sought in Butte
Butte police seek a young couple thought to have visited Butte around March 28 for a relative’s funeral. They left a six week old baby with a Spokane woman for four to five days and later asked to care for another week. The Spokane caregiver wants contact with the parents and asks anyone with information to contact Chief Bart Riley.
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Butte
Spokane
Bart Riley
Peace congress opens as 69 nations meet in Paris
Communist and leftist leaders from 69 nations converge on Paris to launch a world peace congress aimed at challenging the North Atlantic treaty. Reports note Prague hosts a concurrent overflow congress behind the iron curtain with delegates from behind the curtain. Pietro Nenni, Joliot Curie, Mme Leclerc and others address the gathering as Picasso, DuBois and Ehrenburg are listed among participants.
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Paris
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Pietro Nenni
Frederick Joliot-Curie
Communist Party
French Atomic Energy Commission
Mme
Francoise Leclerc
France
Vincente Lombardo
Mexico
Latin American Workers Confederation
Pablo Picasso
William E. B. DuBois
Ilya Ehrenburg
Accord Reached on Columbia River Projects
Army engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation reach an agreement on dividing the Columbia river basin development. The plan assigns primary responsibility to Reclamation for irrigation and power and to the Army for flood control navigation and related power, with joint scheduling and pooling of power revenues to aid irrigation.
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Washington
Army Engineers
Bureau of Reclamation
Columbia River Basin
Interior Department
Columbia Basin
Pacific Northwest
Army Engineer
Reclamation Bureau
Truman
Two State Prison Escapees Nabbed
Warden Lou Boedecker reported the capture of Elwood McPherson and Robert Karlesle, escapees from a Montana prison last July. They were picked up in Tampa Florida with McPherson serving a life term for a Missoula county murder and Karlesle serving five years for a Toole county forgery. An FBI agent said both men were apprehended Monday in Tampa and will be returned after Florida custody.
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Cter Lodge
Lou Boedecker
Montana
Tampa
Fla
Elwood McPherson
Robert Karlesle
Boedecker
McPherson
Missoula
Karlesle
Toole
Florida
W. Guy Banister
Montana-Idaho
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Rapid City
S. D
Woman Who Saved Child Is Rescued Herself Heroic Des Moines Well Rescue
A 37-year-old mother, Mrs. Noriie Jamison, entered a 40-foot shaft to save four-year-old Betty Johnson who fell into water. Her line broke, another rescuer pulled Betty free, then Mrs. Jamison was hauled out. Betty sustained a head bump. both survived.
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Des Moines
Noriie Jamison
Betty Johnson
Mrs. Jamison
Betty
World-Renowned Jewish Leader Stephen Wise Dies
Dr. Stephen S Wise, prominent Jewish leader and advocate for Israel, dies at Lenox Hill Hospital at age 75 after an illness. He led the American Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress and criticized war moves while defending minority rights. Born in Budapest, he grew up in New York, and his wife Louise Waterman Wise died in 1947.
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New York
Stephen S. Wise
Lenox Hill Hospital
Israel
Dr. Wise
American Jewish Congress
World Jewish Congress
Roosevelt
Soviet Russia
Nazi Germany
Budapest
Hungary
Louise Waterman
Tractor Overturns Kill Farmhand Near Glacier County
Harold Augrie of Babb a 21 year old farmhand was killed when a tractor overturned near the Canadian border about 50 miles NW of Cut Bank. The accident was found eight hours later when Earl Stone went to relieve Augrie. He apparently lost control on a grade while working for Joe Stone. Coroner C Mur Beck will not hold an inquest. The body was taken to Browning.
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Cut Bank
Harold Augrie
Babb
Canadian
Here
Glacier County
Fred Ingram
Earl Stone
Augrie
Joe Stone
C. Mur Beck
Browning
Soviet plan aims to boost animal husbandry by 50 percent
Moscow reports a three year decree to raise meat, fat, milk, eggs, leather and wool output by 50 percent by 1951. It targets more cattle hogs sheep goats and poultry in collectivized herds and state farms with artificial insemination and new breeds. Prizes pensions and large barn construction accompany efforts to modernize animal culture after wartime losses.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Council of Ministers
Central Communist Party Committee
Russia
Statesman
United States
Bohunkus Day Parade Lights Butte High Seniors Friday
Butte high school seniors will observe Bohunkus day Friday with a downtown parade at noon followed by an afternoon auditorium show and an 8 o'clock vaudeville program for students and adults. Principal George Haney cautioned no autos trucks or horse drawn vehicles and no firearms in costumes as prizes for best costumes and impersonations are awarded.
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Butte High School
George Haney
Butte Weather Forecast With Scattered Showers
Partly cloudy and cooler with scattered showers Wednesday. Minimums expected near 35 and maximums around 64 for the next 24 hours. Local readings at School of Mines show 69/35, at the Airport 66/29, with 0.1 inch precipitation. West of divide remains cool with 45 to 55 highs. east of divide 55 to 65 with potential showers and thunderstorms.
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Butte
School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Amethyst Hit on Yangtze Forces Grounding Near Kouanchen
British sloop Amethyst was reported struck by shore fire on the Yangtze and forced aground between Shanghai and Nanking. Casualties were confirmed but not details. the ship reported heavy ground fire and later location about 10 miles southwest of Kouanchen. The incident occurs amid larger clashes as Communists threaten a full Yangtze crossing.
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Yangtze
Nanking
Yangtze River
Shanghai
Kouanchen
China
Communist Radio
Nanking-Shanghai
Tientsin
Lonely Hearts Letters Linked to Double Murder Plot
Dover police probe unfolds after Mrs Inez Brennan signs a statement confessing to plotting the killings of two elderly men and aiding by her three sons. Col Herbert Barnes says Brennan shot one man and ordered her 15 year old son Robert to shoot the other. He notes the family fled the scene, with evidence including $134 taken and stolen farm supplies.
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Dover
Del
Inez Brennan
Herbert Barnes
Robert
Wade N. Wooldridge
Bedford
Hugo Schultz
Epsom
N. H
Lonely Hearts Club
Wooldridge
Schultz
Barnes
Lonely Horsepond Road
Lonely Hearts
Wheat stockpile urged by Montana's wheat king
Hardin Montana April 19. Thomas D Campbell head of the Campbell Farming corporation urges the United States to stockpile grain to guard against shortages. He cites domestic use about 800 million bushels of wheat and Marshall Plan commitments plus Japan and the Far East as factors. He predicts no surplus without transport and paying buyers. One normal crop of 865 million would create a shortage.
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Hardin
Montana
United States
Thomas D. Campbell
Campbell Farming Corporation
Associated Press
Japan
Far East
Youths Steal Car Fire Shot at Motorcyclist
Four youths stole a 1949 model car in Missoula and fired a revolver shot at motorcyclist Douglas Sulier, 16, as a sedan with four youths approached. Sulier was struck in front of the chest but not seriously hurt. Police pursued but the youths fled after stopping a car matching the description.
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Missoula
Douglas Sulier
Sulier
Fatal injuries claim woman in Great Falls crash
Helen M. O'Connor, 25, of Great Falls, died Tuesday night at a local hospital from injuries sustained in an automobile accident on April 10. She was the daughter of W. G. O'Connor of the O'Connor funeral home.
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Great Falls
Helen M. O'Connor
W. G. O'Connor
The
O'Connor Funeral Home
Predict Russians to Lift Berlin Blockade Soon
Heinrich Rau, Communist chairman of the German economic commission, told a British-licensed paper at a Potsdam conference that the Russians will lift the Berlin blockade soon. The commission governs the Soviet occupation zone in Germany.
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Berlin
Heinrich Rau
German Economic Commission
der da Krat
Rau
Potsdam
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