Soviet Union vetoes block multiple UN applicants
The Soviet Union used its veto to block Ireland Portugal and Transjordan from UN membership in the Security Council, while Albania and Outer Mongolia were rejected. Yemen and Pakistan won recommended admission. timing set for General Assembly approval in New York on Sept 16. Poland abstained on Ireland and Transjordan.
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Lake Success
Soviet Union
Security Council
Ireland
Portugal
Transjordan
United Nations
Albania
Outer Mongolia
Yemen
Pakistan
General Assembly
New York
Andrei A. Gromyko
Poland
Russia
United States
Britain
Syria
Austria
Italy
Indonesian Case Set for Hearing on Security Council
The U N Security Council called an emergency session for Tuesday over Indonesia as fighting resumes and questions arise about diplomatic pressure US policy. Dutch officials in The Hague consider capturing Jogjakarta to ease the cease fire breach in Batavia amid Indonesian 호출 compliance.
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Lake Success
United Nations Security Council
Russia
United States
Andrei A. Gromyko
Security Council
Gromyko
Col
W. R. Hodgson
Hague
Indonesia
Batavia
Java
Netherlands East Indies
Jogjakarta
United Nations
Man Who Shot at Bricker Found Insane
A federal court jury found William L. Kaiser insane after he fired two shots at Senator Bricker in the Senate subway on July 12. Kaiser, 49, former Capitol policeman, was ordered committed to a mental hospital by Justice Richmond B. Keech who presided over the lunacy hearing.
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Washington
William L. Kaiser
Capitol
Senator Bricker
Ohio
Senate
Richmond B. Keech
Kaiser
California Bank Bandit To Be Brought To Butte
Richard Lewis Mainhurst 28 a former Helena high student will be brought to Butte for transfer to San Francisco authorities on charges of attempted bank robbery assault with a deadly weapon theft of a government car and unlawful flight. Four injured in the downtown Bank of America holdup during a busy noon hour July 23.
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Richard Lewis Mainhurst
Helena
Butte
San Francisco
Bank of America
FBI
Mainhurst
Moose Jaw
Sask
Regina
Plentywood
Great Falls
W. G. Banister
Montana
Richard J. Wolf
Wolf
A. W. Harris
Harris
James Leftwick
Leftwick
Winfield D. Mead
Florence Yoshia
State rests case against Gollum and heiress Overell
In Santa Ana California the state finished its case against 21 year old pre medical student George Gollum and 18 year old heiress Louise Overell accused of killing her parents. The courtroom mood grew chilly as defense and prosecutors presented the final bits of testimony before the jury read their 15 love notes.
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Santa Ana
Calif
George Gollum
Louise Overell
Butte to End Daylight Saving Time on Sept 2
Butte residents will gain back one hour on Tuesday September 2 as standard time resumes. City council had set daylight saving to end on September 1 but, due to Labor Day, Mayor Barry O Leary proposed delaying the change to September 2. School bells will ring at the usual hour with an extra hour of sleep on the first day of the new term.
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Butte
Barry O'Leary
Eight Die in Montana Accidents Over Weekend
The weekend brought Montana eight traffic and accident deaths plus multiple injuries. Incidents included four highway fatalities raising 1947 totals, an airplane crash, a bucking drone death, and a tractor accident. Names tied to Miles City, Billings, Melstone, Lodge Grass, and Missoula appear among the victims and injured.
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Associated Press
Montana
Yellowstone County
Howard C. Smith
Hesper
A. J. Bishop
Fargo
N. D
Wayne Schrunk
Billings
Bishop
C. A. Schrunk
Gordon V. Stevens
Missoula
Missoula County
Patrick D. Fleming
Deer Lodge
Joseph E. la Fountain
Lewistown
Condition of King Remains Serious
Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King, wartime Chief of Naval Operations, remained in serious condition at the naval hospital on Monday. Doctors noted arterial hardening and signs of a mild stroke without paralysis, with no change in his status reported by the Navy. He was admitted to the hospital the previous Friday.
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Washington
Ernest J. King
Naval Operations
Navy
King
Naval Hospital
Britain and United States Open Talks on Past Spending
Washington August talks bring together Secretary Snyder and British officials to audit Britain's past expenditures and blueprint future policies. Delegates discuss production boosts and export plans while ruling out a new loan and signaling any future credit would align with the Marshall plan.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Snyder
England
Wilfrid Eady
Wilfrid
Sir Cameron
Attlee
Cobbold
France
Hugh Dalton
Signatures Sought for Civic Center Bond Vote
Petitions to call a special bond election to finance a civic recreational center were advanced at a Finlen hotel meeting led by General Chairman Walter Barnard. The drive targets 3,500 Silver Bow taxpayers with support from the American Legion Chamber of Commerce and local civic groups. The next committee meeting is scheduled for Tuesday night.
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Finlen Hotel
Walter Barnard
Northwest
Silver Bow County
American Legion
Chamber of Commerce
Young Men’s Committee
The
Chamber
South Side Businessmen’s Club
Parent-Teachers Association
Butte
Weather forecast for Butte and Montana regions
Butte expects clear to partly cloudy skies Tuesday and Tuesday night with continued warmth. Maximums near 85 to 86 across stations. Mines reports 85 high 42 low. Airport 86 high 36 low. In Montana west of Divide Tuesday shows partly to occasionally cloudy with scattered showers. northern areas cooler with highs around 60. east of Divide similar showers and cooler conditions with highs from 60 to 85 across the region.
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School of Mines
Divide
Cuba Sought Mutual Defense Treaty Economic Clause
Honolulu dispatch reports Cuba seeking a mutual defense treaty with an economic aggression clause as part of broader security discussions. The article also covers the B 17 crash near Pearl Harbor that killed Ambassador Atcheson and nine others, with survivor Captain Rider providing timing details and fuel concerns before the ditching.
Navigator Tells of Plane Crash
Captain Thomas L. Rider the B 17 navigator recounts surviving a crash with George C. Atcheson Jr aboard near Honolulu Aug 18. Rider suffered exposure and a broken arm while assisting passengers and Atcheson in a Mae West life jacket before the crash and during the night adrift.
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Honolulu
George Atcheson, Jr
Pearl Harbor
Atcheson
T. L. Rider
Ponca City
Okla
147Th General Hospital
Rider
K. R. Still
Kauai
Oahu
Barking Sands
Hickam
Kwajalein
Guam
Thomas L. Rider
George C. Atcheson, Jr
Mae West
Huglin
Harvey Huglin
Blast at Cadiz arsenal sparks deadly explosion
An explosion at the La Carraca arsenal in Cadiz Spain sparked a large fire and presumed deaths. Reports said the blast reached a torpedo factory area and 49 miles away. Cadiz officials appealed for ambulances doctors and nurses from nearby towns to assist.
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Sevilla
Spain
Cadiz
Bay of
Sevilla Radio
la Carraca
Francisco Franco
San Sebastian
Jerez de la Frontera
Activians to Fete National Chief in Butte
Butte Active club hosts Robert L. Moore of Active Clubs International Friday. District Gov. James McCarthy calls a special meeting at the Butte club with a dinner at Aro Cafe Meaderville at 9. The weekly meeting follows Wednesday at the Finlen hotel. Moore attends the World Council of Young Men's Clubs in Montreal and may report Friday. Missoula and Anaconda clubs plan to attend in groups.
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Butte
Montreal
Canada
Active International
Missoula
Anaconda
McCarthy
Argentine agriculture minister resigns amid cabinet shakeup
Buenos Aires reports indicate Agriculture Minister Juan Carlos Picazo Elordy has resigned on Monday. New papers say several other cabinet ministers are also expected to resign, signaling a broader shakeup in the government.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
U.P
Juan Carlos Picazo Elordy
Truman rejects single international airline plan
President Truman's air coordinating committee rejected a single airline for all American flights abroad. It argued competition drives development, prevented policy interference by a few, and found no national security need. The White House released the committee's aviation policy statement at Truman's request.
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Washington
Truman
Air Co-Ordinating
Senate Committee
Howard Hughes
Hughes
California
Brewster
Senate War Investigating Committee
Pan- American Airways
White House
Coordinating Committee
Temporary
Air Policy Commission
United States
Midwest Heat Wave Maintains Steamy Weekend
The Midwest endures a three week heat wave with unusually high humidity across the southern Great Plains, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, lower Michigan and Southern Wisconsin. Temperatures reach 95 to 100 degrees with no relief expected before midweek. The Pacific coast remains cooler with readings in the 60s and 70s inland slightly higher.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Great Plains
Iowa
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Pacific Coast
Cuba seeks economic defense clause at Inter-American talks
Cuba formally asks the Inter-American Conference to include an economic aggression ban in any mutual defense treaty. Dr Guillermo Belt argues sanctions and coercion threaten nations, as the U S pushes a hemispheric military agency plan. Cuba also protests the 1948 Sugar Act and quota withdrawals tied to foreign treatment.
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Quittandinha
Brazil
Cuba
Inter-American Conference
Guillermo Bell
United States
Dr. Belt
Secretary of Agriculture
Truman
Marshall Assert
Landslides Kill 12 in Central Mexico Toll
In Tamazunchale and surrounding areas a string of landslides triggered by hurricane rains left at least 12 dead and destroyed villages. Ten victims were in Tamalzun Dale area. Villa Cerrada buried a highway and several homes. Authorities noted heavy damage to Axtla and long highway blocks with tourists safely evacuated.
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Tamazunchale
Mexico
Tamal
Here
Tamazundale
Villa Cerrada
Francisco Maldonado
Axtla
Maldonado
Thomas and
Charley
United States
Laredo
Texas
Mexico City
Nationwide Loyalty Check Begins for Federal Workers
President Truman orders a national loyalty investigation of federal employees. About 1.9 million workers across all departments will complete forms and undergo fingerprinting plus disclosure of affiliations, excluding political or religious organizations.
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Washington
Truman
Forest Fire Battle In Reichswald Stopped By Troops
British troops and German firefighters fought exploding mines as they tried to contain a raging forest fire in the Reichswald near Duesseldorf. The blaze, tied to World War II battlefield terrain, prompted joint actions to halt its spread.
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Duesseldorf
Germany
Reichswald
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