House Passes Record Arms Budget In 1951 Defense Bill
The House approved a record peace time military spending bill totaling 56.06 billion dollars, rejecting a Coudert amendment to bar spending on more than six divisions for Europe. The measure, 348 to 2, heads to the Senate and funds Army Navy and Air Force with major allocations for weapons and equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
House
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Frederick R. Coudert, Jr
United States
Senate
Howard W. Buffett
R-Neb
Fred Marshall
D-Minn
John Phillips
Calif
Europe
James E. van Zandt
R-Pa
Th House
van Zandt
Armed Services
House Appropriations Committee
Coudert
Congress
Army
Navy
Air Force
President Orders Athletic Probe
President Truman ordered a full investigation of athletic programs at West Point and Annapolis to see if service academies overemphasize football and sports. The move follows a cheating scandal at West Point that led to 990 cadets being dismissed and Wenger Blaik retaining his job while most players were expelled.
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Washington
Truman
West Point
Annapolis
Army
Earl
Red) Blaik
Truman Nominates Taft for President
President Truman declares Sen. Robert A. Taft the Republican nominee for president while declining to name a Democratic candidate. He says Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is not a Democratic candidate and hints at his own plans. Taft comments that he does not wish to comment on the remark.
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Washington
Truman
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
White House
Eisenhower
Europe
Gen. Eisenhower
Senator Taft
Taft
Mining City Naval Reserve Honored as District Leader
Rear Adm. Allen E. Smith praised the Butte Organized Surface division 13-2 of the naval reserve for training and readiness. Lt. W. J. Waylett accepted plaques on behalf of the Butte reserve as the division earned two honors in ceremonies at the naval reserve armory. Governor John Bonner was noted as proud of the group’s achievements.
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Korea
Allen E. Smith
USN
13Th Naval District
Butte
Surface Division 13-2
Naval Reserve
Surface Division
Butte Naval Reserve Armory
Butte Reserve
W. J. Waylett
USNR
Adm. Smith
John Bonner
Butte Weather Forecast Shows Partly Cloudy To Thunder Showers
Partly cloudy conditions with scattered thundershowers in surrounding mountains. Little temperature change with Friday minimum near 40 and maximum near 72. Regional notes: Airport-Minimum 38, Maximum 71. School of Mines-Minimum 44, Maximum 69. West of Divide scattered thunderstorms Friday high 72 82. East of Divide showers west Friday high 70 80.
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School of Mines
Divide
Admiral Smith Discusses Korean Blockade in Montana Visit
Rear Adm. Allen E. Smith, commanding the 13th naval district, awarded the organized surface division trophy to the Butte unit of naval reservists who placed first in the district. He met Gov. Bonner in Helena and praised Montana as solvent during a Montana tour that included Clark Park training center and Seattle-based flights.
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13Th Naval District
Butte
Navy
People of
Naval Reserve Training Center
Clark Park
Adm
Smith
Helena
Capitol
John W. Bonner
Adm. Smith
House Group Slashes Foreign Aid Funds
The House foreign affairs committee cut 651 million dollars from the 1952 foreign aid program and urged placing the entire program under one independent administrator. It trimmed 550 million from the mutual security program aiding anti Communist Europe and backed a single agency for global aid plus Point Four. General Omar N. Bradley protested the cuts.
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Washington
U.P
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Europe
State Department
Department of Defense
Omar N. Bradley
Labor Funds Approved to Recruit Mexican Farm Labor
The House approved a 950000 dollar appropriation to the Labor Department to begin recruiting Mexican farm workers for the United States harvest.
Russia Knew Japan Pearl Harbor Plan Months in Advance
The hearing revealed Mitsusada Yoshikawa said Soviet intelligence learned of Japan’s 1941 plans two months before Pearl Harbor. He cited Sorge’s spy ring and claimed Moscow received secret messages about a potential U.S. compromise failure and Japan’s southward push. No postwar evidence confirmed Russian warning to the United States.
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Russia
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Washington
FBI
Congressional
United States
Great Britain
Tokyo
Pacific
Mitsusada Yoshikawa
Special
House un-American Activities Committee
Yoshikawa
Richard Sorge
Sorge
Moscow
America
Singapore
Sumatra
Borneo
Manila
Asia
Philippines
Laurel Man 29 Confesses Slaying 8-Year-Old Boy
Donald Frost 29 of Laurel signed a confession admitting he choked Stephen Jones and dumped his body in an irrigation ditch after injuring him in a perverted attack. Frost to be charged with first degree murder in district court. case closed after a year-long investigation. Stephen Jones was 8, disappeared July 16, 1950, near Billings.
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Billings
Charles FE. Maness
Donald Frost
Laurel
Frost
Stephen Jones
Maness
Ran Dal L. Wilson
Jerome Anderson
George A. Cunningham
Charles B. Sande
Stephen
Dale Jones
Rattlesnake Butte
Mel Boice
Smallpox Scare Hits Wisconsin
In Reedsburg Wisconsin a mass vaccination drive stalled when serum ran out leaving 5000 of 7000 residents treated. Mrs Earl Fry 55 near Reedburg diagnosed with smallpox prompted the effort with Chicago supplies due and six doctors operating a school clinic. Citizens faced store bans without vaccination tags and churches and a carnival shortened events.
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Reedsburg
Wis
Earl Fry
Chicago
Belit
Here
Boy Scouts
Otto Riggert
Riggert
Fry
Carl Neupert
Wisconn
B47 Sets Air Record For Nonstop Alaska to Kansas Flight
An Air Force B47 Stratojet flew 2,800 miles non stop from Fairbanks Alaska to Wichita Kansas in 5 hours 36 minutes. The mission tested the aircraft and gathered long range cruise control data.
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Washington
Air Force
Fairbanks
Alaska
Wichita
Kan
Iowa to be recommissioned for fleet service in August
The 45,000 ton battleship USS Iowa will be recommissioned for service with the fleet on August 25 according to a Navy announcement issued Thursday.
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Iowa
San Francisco
Navy
Anti-Red Germans Harass Festival of Commie Youth
Anti Communist underground workers distributed handouts at the Red World Youth festival in East Berlin. Leaflets spread to Rostock Ludwigslust Waldheim Dippoldiswalde Dresden Cottbus and Leipzig as thousands of Communist visitors arrive. The Kremlin backed event and a message from East Berlin mayor Fritz Ebert were among the day’s highlights.
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Thomas A. Reedy
Berlin
East Berlin
Rostock
Ludwigslust
Waldheim
Dippoldiswalde
Dresden
Cottbus
Leipzig
Fritz Ebert
Butte Highway Patrol Chief L E Black Retires
Montana's highway commission approved the retirement of Highway Patrol District Supervisor L E Black at Butte. The panel promoted Tom Cahill of Helena to captain and designated him to succeed Black, according to Commission Chairman Harry Soderberg.
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Helena
Montana
Highway Commission
Highway Patrol
L. E. Black
Butte
Tom Cahill
Black
Commission
Harry Soderberg
Havre
Serra President J R Martin Speaks in Butte
James R Martin international president of Serra International spoke to a Butte Serrans dinner at the Finlen hotel. He outlined the 4300 members in 67 clubs from Massachusetts to California and Minnesota to Texas, and honored guests included Mrs Martin and other Montana Serrans.
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Serra International
Seattle
Massachusetts
California
Minnesota
Texas
James R. Martin
Butte
Martin
Olney J. Steel Company
Illinois
Indiana
Mining City
International Organization
Montana
Father J. J. O'Connor
St. Ann Parish
Butte Club
Tim J. Sullivan
Butte Organization
William Ryan
Leo McMeel
Great Falls
International
William H. Mason
John McLaughlin
Great Falls Club
Leo Pauley
Missoula
Cooney
Serra
Butte Airman Returns Home After Year in Korean War
Sgt James E Flynn gunner on an attack bomber described his Korea service after more than a year overseas. He flew with UN airmen in the early war attacks on Seoul and followed a policy to avoid harming civilians when possible. Flynn had previously served in World War II and reenlisted after. He returns to Butte on rotation leave and will rejoin the Army Air Force at Rapid City, with family visiting before resuming duty.
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James E. Flynn
Korea
Flynn
United Nations
Japan
Butte
United States Air Force
Seoul
Army Air Force
Pacific
Turkey
Okinawa
James Flynn
Ilinois
Army Air Force Base
Rapid City
S. D
Sgt. Flynn
Boys Central High School
Montana State College
Aft
Red Jet Fighters Again Active in Korean War
In Korea, Communist MiG-15s attacked UN F80s near Chongju as Sa breaches and Sabre jets chased Reds to the Yalu with no hits. Allied ceasefire talks at Kaesong resume amid neutrality disputes and threats of renewed fighting.
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Red
Tokyo
U.P
United Nations
North Korea
Yalu
Manchuria
Seoul
Korea
Chongju
Sinuiju
United Press
Kaesong
United States
Matthew B. Ridgway
Adm
C. Turner Joy
Imjin
Bentastea
Ridgway
Joy
Maison
Nam Ll
Ridgeway
Nam I
Polish Information Office Closes as U S Retaliates
The State Department said Poland closed the United States Information Office in Warsaw the last in Eastern Europe and ordered the Polish Research and Information Service office in New York to shut within 24 hours. It condemned the move as unwarranted interference with free information exchange. Polish Foreign Minister Skrzeszewski summoned Ambassador Joseph Flack to demand immediate termination of all U S information activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Poland
United States
Warsaw
Europe
Skrzeszewski
Joseph Flack
Foreign Office
United States Information Service
Clemency Grants Stay for Dryman Appeal to State Supreme Court
Frank R. Dryman, 20, of Vallejo California, received a stay until Sept 15 to appeal his first degree murder conviction in the Four Corners hitchhiker case. The April 4 slaying of Clarence Pellett led to a death sentence earlier this year. appeal deadlines shifted after a new trial motion was denied by Toole County District Court in Shelby.
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Helena
U.P
Dryman
Frank R. Dryman
Vallejo
Calif
State Supreme Court
Four Corners
Clarence Pellett
California
Toole County
Shelby
Young Banker Tidwell Jailed After Bay City Theft
Guy Langdon Tidwell aged 23, an apprentice bank clerk who worked half a day for a San Francisco bank before vanishing with 3450 dollars intended as lunch money, remained jailed in Salt Lake City awaiting return to San Francisco.
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Salt Lake City
U.2
Guy Langdon Tidwell
San Francisco
Bay City
Bible Saves Life of Yank Soldier in Korea
Pfe. William Lepper of McCook Nebraska survived a Korean firefight after a paper bound New Testament in his pocket stopped an enemy bullet. He wrote his parents to report the bullet lodged in the center of the book and sent the testament and bullet home.
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Mccook
Neb
Pfe
William Lepper
Korea
Mother Beater Sentenced in Billings
Elbert Lewis aged 19 was jailed for six months and fined ten dollars after being found to have struck beat and injured his mother in Billings. Justice A N Bergen presided over the case.
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Billings
Elbert Lewis
A. N. Bergen
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