Government’s costly drive against Reds grows
Washington reports that the U.S. campaign to curb domestic Communism has already cost well over a million dollars and may rise many times higher. The Justice Department spent over $500,000 to jail 11 top Red leaders amid trials and appeals, with FBI and court costs not fully counted.
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Washington
U.P
Justice Department
Reds
United States
New York
Federal
Treasury
Red
Supreme Court
FBI
French cabinet member slain by wife in quarrel
Pierre Chevallier, 42, newly named secretary of state for technical education youth and sports, was shot to death by his wife Yvonne who confessed firing five shots. He was mayor of Orleans and a WWIIResistance hero. Police planned mental examination for the widow.
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Orleans
France
Pierre Chevallier
Rene Pleven
Yvonne
Chevallier
Pleven
Paris
Chatillon Sur-Loire
Ministry
Train derails near Four Oaks injuring nine of 500 aboard
A Miami to New York streamliner carrying over 500 passengers derailed sending three cars down a 20 foot embankment but there were no fatalities. Dr. Watson Wharton of Smithfield called it miraculous as steel cars saved the passengers. Nine were hospitalized and many treated for cuts and bruises while ambulances stood idle at the scene.
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Four Oaks
N. C
New York
Watson Wharton
Smithfield
Catholics Shaken as 19 Priests Jailed in Peiping Raids
Report from Hong Kong says on July 25 Communist police jailed 19 Catholic priests in Peiping, closed 12 of 17 parish centers, and placed remaining foreign missionaries under house arrest. The drive targets an independent church separate from the Vatican, with authorities tightening control over the city’s Catholic community. Father Harold Rigney, an American priest and former rector of Fujen university, was among those arrested and charged as an imperialist.
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Stanley Rich
Hong Kong
Peiping
China
Harold Rigney
Fujen University
Europe
Africa
United States Air Force
Pujen
Father Rigney
Iran’s Kashani Warns Britain of Death Threat Over Oil Nationalization
Iran’s top religious figure Seyed Abolghassem Kashani warned Britain that any Iranian leader who backs away from nationalizing British oil interests would be assassinated. He spoke to Lord Stokes amid stalled talks on compensating Britain and urged unconditional recognition of Iran’s oil laws. Kashani emphasized British imperialist policy as the cause of Iran’s woes.
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Tehran
Iran
U.P
Great Britain
Seyed Abolghassem Kashani
Mohammed Mossadegh
National Front
Richard Stokes
Stokes
Kashani
Mossadegh
Britain
Butte Weather Forecast Monday Night Outlook
Butte area expects clear to partly cloudy skies with little temperature change. Monday may see a high near 77 and a low around 40, with Monday night near 39. Regional readings cover Saturday night through Sunday afternoon.
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Divide
Woman in Iron Lung Has Baby in Pueblo Hospital
A 23-year-old Pueblo polio patient in an iron lung gave birth to a seven pound four ounce baby at Corwin hospital. The mother identified as Mrs Evan Jennings remains critically ill and is isolated. delivery lasted about an hour with four minute lung removals between sessions. Her husband John Jennings works for the state hospital. The newborn is described as perfect, and the mother has a two-year-old daughter.
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Pueblo
Colo
Corwin Hospital
Evan Jennings
John Jennings
Colorado State Hospital
Parkview Episcopal Hospital
Corwin
Denver
Jennings
Iuly
Taft Warns on Overspending War Costs and Possible Sales Tax
Senator Robert Taft warned Americans to face the limit of military spending at home and abroad and the possible need for a federal sales tax. Senate committees weigh how much of the economy can fund arms and foreign aid, with cuts debated but deep reductions seen as risky.
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Washington
U.P
Robert A. Taft
Rohio
Taft
Senate
Europe
Tom Connally
Dtexas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Walter F. George
D-Ga
Connally
Senate Finance Committee
Guy M. Gillette
Drowa
William F. Knowland
R-Calif
Columbia Broadcasting System
Knowland
Far East
Gillette
Middle East
United States
America
Ike Calls Free World Power Overwhelming
Senate subcommittee quotes General Dwight D. Eisenhower calling the free world overwhelming and ridiculing fright and hysteria. It notes western Europe lags in ground defense while NATO plans promise a 75 percent rise in divisions next year and cites unity forged by threat. The panel urges Spain and Yugoslavia inclusion and outlines aid needs estimated at 400 million dollars for Spain.
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Washington
Senate
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Free World
Eisenhower
Western Europe
Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Paris
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
United States
Spain
Yugoslavia
Alfred Greuather
Communists Build Up Forces As Kaesong Talks Near Break
United Nations dispatch from Korea reports a major Communist military build up with heavy truck movements toward the front and a more aggressive North Korean army. Allied officers remain unsure if the Red action is an offensive or a move to strengthen negotiating leverage.
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John Randolph
United Nations
Korea
Kaesong
Matthew B. Ridgway
North Korea
Trigger Happy Gunman Flees Hail of Bullets
Alonzo Rogers 35, ex convict sought in an attempted Millbrae motel robbery roamed San Francisco after firing at police and a bystander. He fled in a stolen 1947 green Chevrolet, last seen wounded with a shoulder injury, heading from two traps set by police.
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San Francisco
UPA
Bay Area
Alonzo Rogers
San Quentin
Millbrae
Butte Man Killed In Montana Idaho Border Crash
A Butte WWII veteran, Andrew W. Kalafatic Jr., 27, was killed when his car rear-ended a northbound logging truck on Highway 91 near the Montana Idaho line. Wayne Johnson, 22, of Pocatello, suffered a skull fracture and broken hip. The crash also involved a southbound truck from Ogden. Kalafatic attended MSU Missoula and WW II service. he is survived by parents, a brother-in-law, sister, and many relatives. The body lay at Sherman and Reed mortuary.
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Butte
Pocatello
Monida
Montana-Idaho Line
Beaverhead County
Raymond Schwartz
Andrew W. Kalafatic, Jr
A. W. Kalafatic
West Pacific
Wayne Taylor Johnson
Dillon
Barrett Hospital
Johnson
St. James Hospital
Kalafath
R. J. Anderson
Malta
Idaho
Floyd Albert Taylor
Ogden
Taylor
Mormon Crogin
Anderson
Kalafathc
Paul Temple
Larry Peterson
Lima
Robert G. Lawson
Idaho Falls
Keller
Kalafatic
Montgomery Ward Company
Lewistown
Blaine
Montana State College
Bozeman
Montana State University
Missoula
Kappa Sigma Fraternity
Kalsatic
Charles Poole
Helena
Vincel Kalafatic
St. Louis
Margaret Munkers
Mary Pipinich
Ralph Munkers
Alfred Heard
Mick O'Brien
Moore
Jim Klarr
Anchorage
Alaska
Tony Vanek
Brooks
Joseph de Bratonic
Santa Rosa
Calif
Katheryn Ruffine
Danvers
Esther Wilson
Billings
Sherman and Reed Mortuary
Russian Leader Snub Delayed Big Three Meeting
Mutual broadcaster William Hillman said Stalin stood up Roosevelt and Churchill in 1943 delaying the Tehran conference. Roosevelt and Churchill grew suspicious but waited as Stalin returned a day late citing front duties. Hillman thanked Stephen Early, Roosevelt's press secretary, who died shortly after.
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New York
William Hillman
Mutual Broadcasting System
Stalin
Winston Churchill
Roosevelt
Hillman
White House
Churchill
Tehran
Yalta
Moscow
West
Stephen T. Early
Dirksen Calls for Mandatory Prison Terms for Narcotics
Sen. Everett Dirksen said courts are too lenient on narcotics violations and urged quick Senate approval of a House-passed bill for mandatory prison terms from two to 20 years for addicts and peddlers. He joined Narcotics Commissioner Anslinger in condemning suspended sentences and cited teen narcotics trafficking as rising.
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Washington
Evertt M. Dirksen
Ill
Senate
House
Texas Quality Radio Network
Dirksen
United States
Harry J. Anslinger
J. M. Combs
Texas
Mexico
Westerns Flights Resume After Strike End
Western Air Lines planes cleared the hangar and resumed service Sunday after a strike ending agreement reached Saturday. The carrier plans a five day ramp up to 56 daily flights across 45 cities in 13 western states and Canada, with Monday morning schedules restored including Flight 26 from Salt Lake City to Great Falls.
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Western Air Lines
Western
Western States
Canada
Butte
Salt Lake City
Great Falls
Los Angeles
No Progress Reported After Parley
Allied and Communist truce delegates failed for the 13th straight session to agree on a buffer zone for Korea. The Kaesong talks, one hour and 20 minutes, yielded no apparent compromise as each side pressed its position along or near the 38th parallel.
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Munsan
Korea
Kaesong
Nam Ti
Red
United Nations
38Th
William P. Nuckols
Nuckols
UN Bombers Hit Rail Yards in North Korea
Allied bombers blasted railroad yards in North Korea on Sunday. U S B29s struck Hamhung and Sariwon while Far East Air Force jets flew 755 sorties targeting supply routes amid rain and mud. Ground action centered on a hill near Kansong as UN patrols conducted a limited assault and withdrew.
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United States Eighth Army
Korea
North Korea
United States
Hamhung
Sariwon
Kaesong
Pyongyang
Far East Air Force
PEAF
Kansong
Communist Campaign on Catholics Goes Into High
Pravda denounces American missionaries in China in a bitter Aug 12 report. It accuses Roman Catholic missionaries of three aims: mass killings of Chinese, sowing hatred toward Chinese, and broad espionage against the Chinese people.
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Moscow
Pravda
China
Ex Head of Jewish Women Dies at 86
Mrs. Rebekah Kohut, 86, former president of the World Congress of Jewish Women, died Saturday. A pioneer in unemployment insurance, she helped organize the first U.S. employment clearance service and after World War I chaired the reemployment council of the United States Employment Service.
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New York
Apg
Rebekah Kohut
World Congress of Jewish Women
United States
United States Employment Service
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