West Point Fires 90 Cadets for Cheating on Exams
Ninety West Point cadets including football stars are discharged for cheating on exams in a four to five year misconduct scandal. The action, announced by the Army, may cripple the Army gridiron team though football will continue this fall. A special board recommended the dismissals and the names were withheld to avoid individual criticism.
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Washington
West Point
Army
United States Military Academy
Byrd
D-Va
J. Lawton Collins
Collins
Frederick A. Irving
Academy
Irving
Black Knights of the Hudson
Learned Hand
United States Court of Appeals
New York
Troy H. Middleton
Louisiana State University
Robert 4. Danford
West Point Graduates Association
Army Pace
Selective Service Act
Annapolis
Coast Guard Academy
Scientist Kills Self With Snake Venom
World renowned scientist Dr. Malcolm H. Soule aged 54 killed himself with a dose of snake venom mixed with morphine after learning the University of Michigan would fire him for mishandling funds. The board of regents said the resignation would not be accepted. Only about 487 dollars was involved and restitution had been made.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
University of Michigan
Malcolm H. Soule
Alma
University
Board of Regents
Soule
Department of Bacteriology
Edwin C. Ganzhorn
University Board of Regents
Britain and Iran Agree To Roundtable Oil Talks
A British cabinet mission left London for Tehran to pursue a roundtable settlement of Iran's oil dispute. Rich ard R. Stokes said talks aim to restart negotiations with Premier Mossadegh, with Iran to control oil exploration and exploitation. Iran and Britain exchanged six notes outlining the negotiating basis and nationalization terms.
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Tehran
Iran
Britain
London
Richard R. Stokes
Mohammed Mossadegh
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
AIOC
Farm Boy Designs Best 4 H Dress in NY Fair
In Cooperstown New York 14 year old Elizabeth Ackerman won an excellence award for a light blue frosted organdie dress at the 4 H dress review. Her 16 year old brother Fred designed and made the outfit and aims to be a designer.
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Cooperstown
N. Y
Elizabeth Ackerman
West Burlington
Fred
New York
Bonner Pleads Against New Montana Tax Levy
Gov. John W. Bonner urged the Montana equalization board not to levy the two mill property tax for the general fund in the current biennium. He argued the state can operate with about 250000 in the general fund by June 30 1953 and proposed using surplus for building programs and school aid while seeking reductions in department expenses.
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Helena
John W. Bonner
State General Fund
Montana Equalization Board
State Tax Collecting Agency
Bonner
32Nd Legislative Assembly
General Fund
Home For the Aged
Veterans Pioneer Memorial
Montana Farmer Burned to Death Near Big Sandy
Lawrence Matthews 30 of Big Sandy was burned to death Friday while sitting in the front seat of his truck when a priming gas can exploded and a cigarette dropped nearby. The accident occurred 15 miles west of Big Sandy on Matthews farm. he left a wife and two young sons. He was a World War II veteran, son of Harold and … Matthews.
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Havre
U.P
Lawrence Matthews
Big Sandy
Matthews
Harold Matthews
Anaconda Pageant to Feature City History This Weekend
Anaconda hosts a seven episode pageant titled From Copper Camp to Copper City showing the town’s history. Performances at 9 30 p m Saturday and Sunday at Mitchell stadium with a parade Saturday at 4 p m under the Chamber of Commerce. Participants meet at 3 p m East Park. oldtimers at 3 30 p m at the Chamber. The cast includes Chief Paul Charlo and Horace Garrity as key figures.
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Anaconda
Copper Camp
Copper City
Mitchell Stadium
Chamber of Commerce
Marcus Daly
Horace Garrity
East Park
Park
Hickory
Main
Paul Charlo
Horace Gar
Atlantic Allies Plan Autumn NATO Meetings
Foreign defense and finance ministers from 12 NATO nations agreed to two high level meetings in Ottawa in mid September and Rome in late October to address Greek and Turkish NATO membership claims burden sharing of the arms program and the size and form of a new German army.
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London
North Atlantic
Europe
Russia
Black Sea
Pact
Ottawa
Rome
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Oatis Imprisonment Denounced by ANPA
The ANPA condemned the imprisonment of AP correspondent William N. Oatis in Czechoslovakia as a travesty of justice. Directors adopted a resolution calling the espionage trial a warning of Communist states' ruthlessness toward press freedom.
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New York
Associated Press
William N. Oatis
Czechoslovakia
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Oatis
Butte Weather Forecast Includes Thunderstorms and Warm Highs
Partly cloudy to cloudy Saturday afternoon and evening with frequent thunderstorms. Saturday highs near 85, lows around 56. Areas at the Airport and School of Mines report highs in the mid 80s and lows around 57 to 60. West of Divide expect highs 88 to 98 with scattered thunderstorms through Saturday night. The table notes 12 hour maximum and 18 hour minimum figures ending Friday at 5 30 p m.
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Butte
School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Associated Press
Butte and Billings Juniors Clash in State Meet First Round
Butte and Billings Junior Legion teams won opening games at Clark Park in the Montana state tournament. Billings defeated Lewistown 29 6, while Butte beat Fairfield 11 1 as both clubs advance in the double elimination format toward the regional at Lewiston Idaho.
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Billings
Butte
Clark Park
American Legion
Montana
Lewiston
Idaho
Lewistown
Fergus County
Helena
Great Falls
Fairfield
Ed Gerry
State Legion
Copper League
Federal theory worries West in water rights dispute
Senate hearing cited government claims of sovereign paramount rights to river waters. Representative Yorty warned the doctrine could block West Coast water users, citing the Santa Margarita river case tied to Camp Pendleton. He backed a McCarran bill to allow the United States as a defendant in water rights suits.
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Washington
Yorty
D-Calif
Senate Judiciary
Tidelands
Santa Margarita
California
Camp Pendleton
West
McCarran
D-Nev
United States
Big Three Reject Saar Protest From Adenauer
The United States, Britain, and France rejected West Germany’s protest over the Saar’s economic attachment to France. They told Chancellor Adenauer it would be best not to politicize the coal rich region and reaffirmed their unchanged position on the issue.
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Paris
France
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Senate Postpones Judgeship Probe
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee delayed for a week its confirmation review of Cornelius J. Harrington, Truman’s nominee for a Chicago federal judgeship, amid signals of a possible White House retreat from a confrontation with Senator Douglas.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Douglas
D-Nl
Justice Department
Senate Judiciary
Cornelius J. Harrington
Chicago
Harrington
McCarran
D-Ney
Judiciary Committee
White House
Employment Hits Its Highest Level
U S employment rose to 62 526 000 in July the Census Bureau reported. The gain of 700 000 from June reflects summer workers and students joining the labor force and leaves July 1960 jobs 1 312 000 above a year ago. The labor force reached 64 832 000 but not a record.
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Washington
U.P
United States
Census Bureau
Red Violation of Neutral Zone Reported Near UN House
United Nations armistice negotiators reported no progress at the 19th conference as Vice Admiral C Turner Joy noted a Red violation of the half mile neutral zone after armed Chinese troops passed within a few hundred yards of the UN house. Talks adjourned for the day with a Sunday resumption planned amid uncertain gains in the deadlocked buffer zone issue.
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Kaesong
Korea
United Nations
Adm
C. Turner Joy
Joy
Four Poles Seek Asylum After Escape to Sweden
Four young Poles escaped Communist Poland by stealing a plane near Poznan and landing in southern Sweden to seek political refugee status. They reported a chase by Polish guards and a pursuing warplane, then evaded capture in the skies near Malmo. The incident follows earlier unrest and a mutiny aboard a Polish minesweeper at Ystad.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Baltic
Pozman
Malmoc
Poland
Ystad
Malmoe
Iron Curtain
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Tito
V. M Molotov
Warsaw
Montana Lamb Crop Shows Gain as 1951 Output Rises
Montana reports a 1951 lamb crop of 1,184,000 head, up 18 percent from 1950 but still the second smallest on record. Breeding ewes totaled 1,330,000, 2 percent above 1950, with favorable lambing weather yielding 89 lambs per 100 ewes, a record high. Montana remains fourth in lamb crop size, behind Texas, Wyoming, and California.
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Helena
Montana
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Texas
Wyoming
California
Tropical Storm Lashes Atlantic Off Cape Canaveral
A small but growing tropical storm roared across the Atlantic with 60 mph winds about 1,260 miles east of Cape Canaveral. It poses no threat to the U S coast as it moves northwest at 18 mph toward Bermuda, expected Saturday.
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Miami
Fila
Atlantic
Cape Canaveral
Fla
United States Coast Line
Bermuda
Red China may split with Kremlin, says Allied briefing
General headquarters issued a strong background statement accusing Russian strategy of steering the Korean war while warning that China might abandon Moscow. The document said Peiping could break with Russia if China suffers further UN pressure and hinted Tito-like independence could reshape Sino Soviet ties.
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Tokyo
General Headquarters
Civil Information and Education
China
Peiping
Korea
Donald R. Nugent
Red China
Russia
United Nations
Yugoslavia
Tito
Matthew B. Ridgway
Campaign Fallout From Butler Tydings Race Widens
A Senate subcommittee denounced a back street campaign in the Butler Tydings race but found no evidence to unseat Butler. It criticized a tabloid “From the Record” for a misleading composite photo and for accusing Tydings of a whitewash on Communism and Korea policy.
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Washington
Senate
Priday
John Marshall Butler
Butler
Baltimore
Millard Tydings
Tydings
Butler Campaign
The
Record
Armed Services Committee
Korea
Earl Browder
Browder
Jon Jonkel
Chicago
Troop Rotation Plan Affects Far East Personnel
Brig. Gen. Bryan L. Milburn announces a Far East rotation plan effective Sept. 1 for all U S Army personnel in the command. The plan replaces the Korea only policy and credits four months per combat month, two months per non combat month, with adjustments for Japan personnel and married soldiers. Eligibility depends on replacements. further reductions in service time are hoped as the program proceeds.
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Tokyo
United States Army
Far East Command
Bryan L. Milburn
Korea
United States
Milburn
Far East
Japan
All But Four of 39 Bonded Aliens Are Accounted For
New York report says 35 of 39 aliens whose liberty was canceled by a Civil Rights congress ban were accounted for Friday. Authorities expect the four remaining to surrender by Saturday. Five surrenders posted acceptable substitute bail and were released. The Justice department also voided $100,000 in congress bail for the 39 who face deportation on communist or red association charges.
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New York
Civil Rights Congress
Justice Department
Congress
Communist Party
UN Forces Drive Reds From Hills In Korea Front
Allied limited attacks on August 4 pushed Chinese forces from two 1,000 foot hills overlooking the Hwachon Kumsong road. Eighth Army reports 156 enemy dead and wounded on one hill, with small clashes elsewhere. Fifth Air Force destroyed or damaged 160 Communist vehicles and used four F80 jets with jellied gasoline to assist ground troops near Kumhwa. B29s bombed supply centers and a total Red casualties figure rose to 1,228,854.
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United States
Eighth Army
Korea
Hwachon-Kumsong
Fifth Air Force
Pyongyang
Wonsan
Kumhwa
Chinnampo
Washington
United States Army
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