Britain reassures US on Greece troop presence
Washington officials say Britain will not pull out troops from Greece hastily though plans to withdraw by autumn were discussed. About 6,000 British forces remain a stabilizing factor as Greece faces political and financial strain amid Cold War tensions.
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Washington
Great Britain
United States
Greece
Britain
Athens
Dwight P. Griswold
Griswold
United Nations
Salvation Army Finance Drive Set for October 8 to 18
The Salvation Army in Butte announces its annual finance drive will run October 8 through 18. Volunteers will contact businesses and residents to raise funds for relief costs. A drive chairman will be named, with T. J. Davis as board chairman and George N. Short as vice chairman.
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Salvation Army Board of Advisers
Bram Glaeser
Butte Citadel
Salvation Army
Glaeser
Butte
T. J. Davis
George N. Short
Michigan Area Is Rocked by Quake
A 9:46 p m earthquake rocked Battle Creek and was felt in Ann Arbor and Coldwater. No injuries or major damage reported. Coldwater residents fled a movie theater in panic as tremors lasted about 30 seconds and rattled china and furniture. Similar tremors were also reported in Chicago where two mild quakes were felt near midnight.
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Battle Creek
Mich
U.P
Ann Arbor
Coldwater
Chicago
Abe Fultz
University of Chicago
Chicago Area
World Flyer Nearing Alaskan Base
Globe Girdler William P. Odom crossed Adak Island at 11 25 p m EST en route to a new around the world record The Army Alaska communications system reported a bombshell over Adak with a Chicago arrival target around 10 11 a m Chicago time The Elmendorf Field tower in Anchorage and Shemya station tracked Odom as he neared Alaska en route to Chicago and Anchorage with a nonstop Tokyo to Chicago flight in progress
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Anchorage
Alaska
Globe
William P. Odom
Adak Island
Aleutians
Army
Adak
Chicago
Anchitka
Northwest Airlines
Elmendorf Field
Odom
Wheeler Sees Costly World Rehab Challenge for U S
Former U S Senator Burton K Wheeler on a Montana swing says the United States faces billions in costs to rehabilitate Europe and Asia. He backs the Marshall Plan as the likely solution while noting Russia’s ongoing hostility and Argentina under Peron. Wheeler plans a Forsyth visit with Bailey Stortz after surgery.
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Miles City
United States
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Forsyth
Billings
Butte
Belton
Washington
Senate
South America
Peron
Argentina
Asia
Wheeler
Bailey Stortz
Lewistown Girl Drowns in City Park Pool
Janet Terry six-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Lowell Terry of near Forest Grove drowned in the City park swimming pool in Lewistown Saturday. Four siblings were in the pool when her body was found by Kenneth Byrne then 12 who summoned lifeguards. The child did not respond to artificial respiration. It was the first drowning in the pool since 1913.
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Lewistown
Janet Terry
Lowell Terry
Forest Grove
City Park
Janet
Kenneth Byrne
Lightning Ignites 34 New Forest Fires Across Montana Idaho
MISSOULA Aug 9 More than 700 firefighters battled 34 new lightning caused blazes across national forests in Montana and northern Idaho. The Kaniksu blaze near Naples Idaho reached 800 acres with Bitter Root forest fires in western Montana also out of control. Parachutists water bombers and heavy ground crews fought to contain the fires as rain eased some danger.
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Missoula
Montana
Idaho
United States Forest Service
Kaniksu National Forest
Naples
Bitter Root
Bitter Root National Forest
Forest Service
Fred Fite
Kaniksu
Plane Wreckage Sighted Off Dutch Harbor Alaska
A PBY planes wreckage 30 miles west of Dutch Harbor was sighted by 17th Naval district officials. They doubt it is the Navy craft missing Wednesday with 20 aboard. The weathered wreckage sits 900 feet above water. it bears a new insignia with a red stripe.
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Kodiak
Alaska
Dutch Harbor
17Th Naval District
Navy
Military Post
Annual Butte Rodeo Promises Bigger, Brighter Show
Butte’s annual rodeo drew crowds with ticket sales jumping after Al's Photo Corner opened as the ticket hub. About 1,750 reserved seats and 180 boxes were listed for each of three Aug 14 to 16 performances, with strong demand for the Saturday finals and shoppers in western attire showing city enthusiasm.
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Butte
Visi al
Lester G. Zeihen
Missoula
Helena
Boulder
Basin
Whitehall
Dillon
Madison River
Wise River
Anaconda
Deer Lodge
Zeihen
Butte Area Sends 52 to Boys State in Dillon Start
Fifty-two boys from the Butte area join youths from Montana communities in Dillon for Boys State, a 10 day model government program sponsored by the Montana American Legion. Registrations Sunday open the event at Montana State Normal College with a gala assembly and program featuring university and normal college talent.
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Butte
Montana
Dillon
Treasure State
American Legion Department
Montana State Normal College
General Assembly
Ralph McFadden
The
Normal College
Normal School
Montana State University
Montana State College
A. C. Cogswell
Lic Service Division
University Music School
Charles Luedke
Missoula
Tannisse Brown
Helen Sugrue
Marjorie Emery
Floyd Chapman
Great Falls
Ward Smith
Whitefish
Alan Fryberger
Lois Ibsen
Somers
Carol Chaffin
Corvallis
Eugene W. Savage
Boys’ State
State College Dramatists
Sanford Wheeler
R. E. Cameron
Edward R. Sterling
Cincinnati
Ohio
United States
Brick Breeden
State College Bobcats
George Dahlberg
University Grizzlies
the Legion
Charles J. Rodgers
Billings
Glenn Denton
Miles City
Silver Bow—Butte Kiwanis
Concinnea
Col
Weather Forecast for Montana Regions and Mines Area
West of Divide partly cloudy Sunday with scattered showers and cooler south portion. East of divide partly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Highs range from 65 to 80 across regions. Temperatures at the School of Mines and Airport show 82 max and 45 min in the last 24 hours.
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School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Verdi Fire Threatens Nevada Town as Winds Roar
A 30 mile per hour gale fans a major brush and timber fire near Verdi Nevada threatening the town and Reno. Ranchers evacuate as fire crews build breaks. hundreds fight a losing battle amid outbreaks in California Nevada Idaho and Montana.
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Verdi
Nev
Reno
Forest Service
Nevada
California
Idaho
Montana
Markleeville
Farah
Truckee
Naples
Cloudburst Delays Traffic Near Needles and Santa Fe Line
A desert cloudburst near Needles California caused embankments to wash onto the Santa Fe main line and wash out sections of U S Highway No 66. Rail traffic was halted with detours through Parker and Wickenburg blocked by a tunnel mouth slide and expected to resume only after clearance.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Needles
Here
Santa Fe
Parker and Wickenburg
Ariz
Burmese ex-Premier to face special tribunal for July assassinations
The Burmese government announced that former Premier U. Law will be tried before a special tribunal in the next few days on charges of assassinating seven Burmese executive council members and two attaches on July 19 in Rangoon.
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Rancoon
Burma
U. Law
Burma Executive Council
Engineer Named by Atomic Energy Board
The Atomic Energy Commission named Roger S. Warner Jr. its director of engineering and activated Chicago and Oak Ridge offices under its decentralized plan. New appointees include John C. Franklin Alfonso L. Tammaro and Phillip S. Fogg with roles in Chicago and Oak Ridge offices. Warner, longtime engineer on the Manhattan Project, directed Los Alamos field operations since January.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Roger S. Warner, Jr
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Chicago
Oak Ridge
Alfonso L. Tammaro
Provindence
R. I
Tammaro
Manhattan
Phillip S. Fogg
Altadena
Calif
Fogg
Consolidated Engineering Corporation
Scientific Instruments
Warner
Ipswich
Mass
Commission
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Army
Los Alamos
N. M
President Truman Spends Quiet Weekend at Camp David
President Truman enjoyed a very quiet day at the Catoctin mountain camp in Maryland. He hiked, swam, read, and napped with no telephone calls, as he and Mrs. Truman planned to return to Washington Monday after driving 65 miles from the capital.
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Thurmont
Truman
Catoctin Mountain
Washington
Mr. Truman
Cherry Harvest Is Completed in Flathead Lake Area
The 1947 sweet cherry crop in the Flathead lake region was harvested packed and shipped nationwide. Growers report a total of 1,225,000 pounds more than 1946 with 60 railway cars of cherries valued at about 3,900 dollars each shipped and roughly 2,000 gift packages mailed.
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Kalispell
Flathead Lake Area
Nate Boyd
Flathead Lake
Henry J. Pierce Dies, Noted International Financier
Rockport Mass August 9 Henry J Pierce 87 international financier and railroad organizer died here Thursday He formerly served as president of the Netherlands tramways and held other top posts in transportation finance
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Rockport
Mass
Henry J. Pierce
The
Netherlands Tramways
Former Hughes associate accuses Brewster of falsehoods in probe
Hugh Fulton former committee counsel told a Brewster subcommittee that chairman Owen Brewster deliberately stated and restated falsehoods in the war contracts feud. Hughes testified about lavish wartime entertainments for Army procurement officers and personal fears over the 40 million dollars in contracts.
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Washington
U.P
Howard Hughes
Owen Brewster
Senate War Investigating Committee
Hugh Fulton
Whe
Army
Patton
Senate
Hughes
Gromyko Replies to U S Charges on Atomic Controls
Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko answered American accusations of delaying UN atomic energy talks by alleging the United States aims to keep a monopoly in atomic energy. He criticized US refusal to discuss Russian proposals on inspection and research and said US talks have stalled for months under various pretexts.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Andrei Gromyko
United Nations
United States
Russia
Gromyko
United Press
Frederick H. Osborn
United States Atomic Deputy
United Nation
Osborn
Soviet Union
Atomic Energy Commission
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Missing Flyers Found After Plane Wreck Near Del Mar
U P Leslie Rogers and Frank Cameron, reported missing on a flight from El Centro to Del Mar, were found Saturday afternoon in a wrecked Cessna located on Mount Laguna near a CAA radio beam station. Maj Walter Markey and Army Air rescue personnel located and reached the craft after it was spotted earlier. Radio station staff recalled hearing a plane in distress during Friday’s thunderstorm.
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March Field
Calif
U.P
Leslie Rogers
Frank Cameron
el Centro
del Mar
Walter Markey
Army Air Rescue Service
Maj
Markey
Mount Laguna
CAA
Rogers
Heat Wave Grips Corn Belt Fueling Price Spikes
Heat scorching the Midwest corn fields pushes prices to new highs on the Chicago board of trade. Officials warn rain is needed as forecasts show continued high temperatures from Indiana to Nebraska, with maize development at a critical stage in Nebraska.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Weather Bureau
Indiana
Nebraska
Corn Belt
Macy
Neb
Center of
Midwest Endures 100 Degree Heat Wave
A heat wave expanded across the Midwest with readings over 100 degrees in South Dakota Missouri Nebraska and western Iowa. Kansas City reached 106 as forecasters predicted only brief relief Monday with temperatures rising again later in the week.
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Midwest
Montana
Great Plains
South Dakota
Missouri
Nebraska
Iowa
Great Lakes
Pierre
S. D
Kansas City
Dakotas
Minnesota
Canada
Goodwill Planes to Land Today
A squadron of 16 British RAF Lincoln bombers on a goodwill tour will land at Mather Field California on Sunday. The 617 squadron known as the dambusters travels with 230 ground crew and a full complement of officers and men.
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Mather Field
Calif
United States
Air Force
England
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Timothy Kelley
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Boys State
Sutte
Associated Press
Belgrade
Drummond
Glasgow
Atomic Energy Board
President Truman
By John L. Steele
Robert Manning
By William Ferris
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