Poland Receives 90 Million Export Import Credit
The United States approves a 90 million dollar credit to Poland in two parts for locomotives and coal cars and for surplus military materials. Assurances of free elections in Poland are required, with emphasis on adherence to Potsdam and Yalta pledges and non discriminatory economic relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
State Department
Poland
Potsdam
Yalta
Europe
Balkans
Department
Oscar Lange
Dean Acheson
United States
Kauf Trial Ends Its Third Day
The third day of Howard H. Kauf retrial concluded with the state testing its case and the defense opening. Defense witnesses John O Connell and Frank Puyear testified in the afternoon after morning testimony from Roy Owen W B Frame and Charles O Connell. The case concerns Kauf accused of fatally shooting his ex wife Hazel in a downtown night club on February 8, shortly after her uncontested divorce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard H. Kauf
Hazel
John O'Connell
Frank Puyear
Roy Owen
W. B. Frame
Charles O'Connell
Kauf
Overseas Veterans Returning Home
The Associated Press lists Montana veterans returning from overseas service aboard ships. On the Central Falls Victory in New York, Pfc. Bren G. Wandich of Anaconda and T/5 Harold H. Gabel of Hardin are named. On the Elgin Victory in New York, S/Sgt. John A. Sand of Forsyth and T/4 Robert E. Zanto of Fort Benton are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
United States
Associated Press
Central Falls
New York
Bren G. Wandich
Anaconda
Harold H. Gabel
Hardin
Elgin
John A. Sand
Forsyth
Robert E. Zanto
Fort Benton
Bestial Destruction Strikes Butte Family Home
Dejected family of six returns to a destroyed home after two nights of mob violence in Butte. Jack Scott, a longtime mine worker, and his wife and children faced vigilante vandalism beginning Thursday night with painted exteriors and escalating to rock attacks. Police and sheriffs offered no aid, urging the family to leave, while juveniles lingered in the neighborhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Jack Scott
West Pacific
Dwayne
United States
Mrs. Scott
United Nations weighs Spain inquiry and firetman committee
UN delegates in New York hotel rooms discussed an Australian proposal for a thorough Franco regime inquiry. They weighed the fireman committee’s subpoena power and the scope of access to member files with a May 17 deadline in view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United Nations
Security Council
Spain
Council
Madrid
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
United States
W. R. Hodgson
Australia
Poland
Russia
Naval Committee Will Study Merger Measure
The Senate naval committee moves to study the Army-Navy unification bill after it was approved by the military panel. Chairman Walsh and members worry about Navy cabinet representation, while Thomas Barkley and others expect smoother handling and minimal delay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Naval Committee
Military Committee
Thomas
Utah
Barkley
Austin
R-Vt
Hill
D-Ala
Naval Committee
Walsh
D-Mass
Express Strike Sidetracked Amid Labor Standoff
The nationwide 65 000 Railway Express Agency workers strike threat was sidetracked as President Truman set up an emergency wage board. John L. Lewis urged miners to push for demands similar to the soft coal dispute while unions weighed strike options and a Cleveland meeting eyed wage boosts and rule changes for 293 000 members. Pickets clashed with state police at the Stinson Aircraft plant near Detroit as tensions rose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. F. L. Railway Express Agency
John L. Lewis
Allied Industries
Truman
Railway Labor Act
Railway Express Agency, Inc
A. F. L. Brotherhood of Railway
Hazleton
A. F. L. United Mine Workers
Brotherhoods of Railroad
Cleveland
Stinson Aircraft
Detroit
Ceiling on Digs Boosted by OPA
The OPA authorized a two cent per pack ceiling increase on wholesale and retail cigarette prices to offset rising production costs mainly from domestic leaf tobacco. The hike affects multi pack sales only, not single packs, and takes effect Thursday after formal supplier notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
OPA
Bomb Threat Looms Over Buckingham Park As Explosive Set
In London a 1,000 pound German time bomb nicknamed Annie buried in St James Park near Buckingham Palace threatened detonation as bomb disposal squads waited. Queen Mary, accompanied by Lord and Lady Athlone, stayed at Marlborough House while King George VI and royal children remained at Windsor Castle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
St. James Park
Buckingham Palace
Marlborough House
Mary
Athlone
Windsor
George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Windsor Castle
Taft attacks British loan with gift alternative
Senator Taft denounces a 3.75 billion British loan as breeding international friction and proposes a direct 1.25 billion gift to Britain. Senator Bilbo launches a talkathon against the loan, hinting his speech will run into next week as Wiley seeks a statement for the Congressional Record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taft
Ohio
Bilbo
D-Miss
Wiley
Wis
Congressional Record
Senate
Great Britain
Treasury
Britain
Bretton Woods
Ex-Sgt Thompson Divorced. Plans to Marry English Barmaid
Pittsburgh dispatch reports ex Sergeant William Red Thompson’ s American wife Eleanor won a divorce after an eight minute hearing before Judge Thomas Marshall. Eleanor claimed humiliation and other indignities. Thompson then announced plans to marry Norah Carpenter the English barmaid who bore him quadruplets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
U.P
William
Red) Thompson
Norah Carpenter
Thompson
Eleanor
Thomas Marshall
France Demands Full Participation in All Peace Talks
Paris April 24 France pressed to join all peace negotiations as Byrnes Molotov arrive for a Big Four foreign ministers meeting drafting treaties with Hungary Romania Bulgaria and Finland. France seeks wider say beyond Italy treaty talks amid warnings of US Britain tough stance toward Soviet expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
U.P
France
James F. Byrnes
Viacheslav Molotov
Moscow
Italy
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Finland
Georges Bidault
Russia
United States
Great Britain
Washington
London
Byrnes
Tom Connally
D-Texas
Foreign Relations Committee
Arthur H. Vandenberg
R-Mich
Orly
James C. Dunn
Testimony on health bill supports compulsory insurance
Mrs Beatrice Jacobs of the League of Women Shoppers told Congress it is the government duty to provide adequate medical care and that compulsory health insurance is a right for every person to enjoy good health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Beatrice Jacobs
League of Women Shoppers, Inc
Congress
Jacobs
League
Parish Men Honor Veteran Sexton After 35 Years
Immaculate Conception Parish men will honor Patrick Joseph Kinsella the longtime sexton and maintenance man after the 10 o clock mass with a communion breakfast. Elmer Shea chairs the executive committee and Rev. M J Leonard will be the principal speaker recounting Father Barry and Pat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Immaculate Conception
Pat
Patrick Joseph Kinsella
Elmer Shea
M. J. Leonard
St. John
Patrick Kinsella
Barry
Paul
Wheat allocations boosted by food board for UNRRA
The combined food board increased UNRRA April wheat and cereals share from 363000 to 460000 tons while Fiorello LaGuardia criticized the allocation as below desperate needs. Weather reports warn western Kansas and neighboring areas need rain to prevent crop deterioration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Combined Food Board
U.N.A.R.A
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
United States
Great Britain
Canada
LaGuardia
Argentina
Australia
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Truman to attend funeral of Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone
President Truman will interrupt his Chesapeake Bay vacation cruise to attend the funeral of Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone. He will motor from Quantico to the Washington Cathedral for a 2 p.m. service, then return to his yacht Williamsburgh. Aides Admiral Leahy Brig. Gen. Vaughan and Capt. Clifford will accompany him, and he will be joined by Mrs. Truman and Margaret at the White House en route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
President Truman
Chesapeake Bay
Truman
Harlan F. Stone
Williamsburg
Quantico
Washington Cathedral
William D. Leahy
Harry M. Vaughan
Clark Clifford
White House
Mrs. Truman
Margaret
Planes collide in Rhode Island crash kills mother and child
Two Navy fighters collided over West Greenwich on Wednesday. One plane crashed burning into a small home killing Mrs. Eva Parenteau, 30, and her two-year-old son Raymond. Both pilots survived uninjured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Greenwich
R. I
U.P
Navy
Eva Parenteau
Raymond
One Killed Two Escape When Truck Overturns Near Helena
A dump truck plunged from the road at Landers Fork 55 miles northwest of Helena killing John McLearn age 48. Two Mike Horse mine workers Emil Larsen and Carl Fedje escaped with bruises while held for investigation. McLearn, a Hamilton Scotland native, leaves two daughters in Red Lodge and had recently joined the mine’s truck crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
F. R
Chub) Munger
John McLearn
Mike Horse Mine
Landers Fork
Emil Larsen
Carl Fedje
Mike Horse
Munger
Dwight Smith
Lincoln-Mike Horse
McLearn
Hamilton
Scotland
Agnes Ann
Catherine Rachel
Red Lodge
Washington State
Montana
Walks 14 Miles to Pay a Fine
In Missoula on April 24 City Police Judge Hugh B Campbell ordered two elderly men to pay 10 dollars each or face jail on defrauding an innkeeper charges after confessing to leaving a restaurant without paying a 40 cent bill. One defendant walked seven miles to Desmet and back to deliver the money within eight hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missoula
Hugh B. Campbell
Campbell
Desmet
Stolen Mussolini Body Sparks Fascist Plot In Italy
Italian police block roads from Milan amid indications Fascists aim to shrine Mussolini’s body as a symbol. In Rome extra guards brace Piazza Venezia after a manifesto from the Central Steering Committee claimed oppression and urged struggle against Red violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milan
U.P
Benito Mussolini
Rome
Ministry of Interior
Piazza Venezia
Fascist Democratic Party
Democratic Party
Contracts Let by Highway Board
The Montana state highway commission awarded six road and bridge projects totaling 511 467 06. The Big Timber Harlowton road received grading draining surfacing and bituminous treatment for 8.12 miles in Sweet Grass County to Big Horn Construction of Sheridan Wyoming for 174 564 55. A 184 foot steel and concrete bridge and 216 feet of treated timber structures on the Big Timber Harlowton project went to W P Roscoe Company of Billings for 62 121 99. Road mix oiling of 7138 miles on the Ulm Gore Hill section in Cascade County was awarded to S Birch & Sons Construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
State Highway Commission
Ulm-Clore Hill
Big Timber
Harlowton
W. P. Roscoe Company
Billings
Ulm
Gore Hill
Cascade County
S. Birch & Sons
Wondrous Ways of Government Very Confusing
Santa Monica notes reveal John F. Donovan, former actor and Casa Manana owner, faced a court order to demolish a 23 year old building in a single family zone while the Office of Price Administration blocked eviction of 24 tenants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Monica
Calif
John F. Donovan
Casa Manana
Superior Court
Office of Price Administration
Butte Weather Forecast Thursday Pleasant Warmth Continued
Partly cloudy Thursday and Thursday night with little temperature change. Expected maximum 73 at School of Mines and 73 at Airport. Temperatures in past 24 hours ranged 74 to 29 at the Mines site and 73 to 28 at the Airport. Few local thunderstorms southwest, high around 70 to 80.
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School of Mines and Airport
School of Mines
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