Britain Slashes Ration and Bans Foreign Travel
London reports sweeping austerity moves to cut Britain’s deficit, including cuts to meat and tea rations, fuel and gasoline reductions, hotel stay limits, and a ban on pleasure travel abroad effective Oct. 1. Officials say these measures aim to save about 228 million pounds next year and ease a 600 million pound deficit.
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London
Britain
No. 10
Downing Street
Attlee
Little Man
Cook
Eire
Channel Islands
Sterling
Canberra
Dominion
United States
Australia
Agree on Atomic Plan Principles
A majority of the United Nations atomic energy commission approved general principles for operating an international atomic control agency. The move advances the skeleton of the second report to the United Nations Security Council due by September 15. Russia abstained from drafting and delayed debate.
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Lake Success
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
United States
United Nations Security Council
Russia
Alvaro Alberto
Brazil
Andrei A. Gromyko
Frederick H. Osborn
Commission
China
Britain
France
Canada
Australia
Belgium
Boy Dies After Insect Sting At Home Near Memphis
Six year old Billy Fulkerson died after being stung by a swarm that attacked him about the head and body while his mother and he searched for a hen nest on their rural Tennessee property. His uncle, Bob Walke of Tyronza Arkansas, said hornets or bees or a related insect likely caused the attack.
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Memphis
Tenn
Billy Fulkerson
Bob Walke
Tyronza
Ark
Billy
Truman Board Urges Huge Program to Lead in Science
John R. Steelman chairman of President Truman's scientific board urged an eight point plan to expand research and double science spending by 1957. President Truman backed the plan saying the nation must enlarge scientific knowledge to sustain production employment and democracy. The report calls for a national policy and rapid growth of basic research with a target of at least 1 percent of national income on research by 1957.
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Truman Board
U.S
Washington
John R. Steelman
Truman
United States
Steelman
Unidentified Man in Alley Critical After Head Injuries
Police found a man identified only as John Doe unconscious in a downtown alley between Park and Galena near Wyoming. He was taken to St James hospital in critical condition with possible brain hemorrhage, but his identity remains unknown.
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John Doe
St. James Hospital
Park and
Galena Streets
Wyoming
Richard Kane
United Nations Near Decision on Egyptian Question
Security Council delegates met in private talks ahead of a Thursday vote on the Anglo Egyptian dispute as Russia and Colombia hold decisive leverage. Secretary-General Trygve Lie announced that two Egyptian demonstrators expelled from UN grounds will be barred from entry. guards were posted for the final voting session at 7 30 a m M S T.
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Lie
Ahmed Kemmel Kotb
Mustafa Momen
Frank Begley
United Nations Security Police
Plane lands off Marseille injuring seven aboard
A Corsica to Marseille flight ended with seven passengers, a pilot, and a radio operator sustaining bruises when the plane touched down about 15 miles off Marseille in the Mediterranean. They were rescued by a steamer.
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Marseille
France
Mediterranean
Montana forest range lands rated high in condition
Montana's forest range lands are described as in better condition than anywhere in the West by U.S. Forest Service chief Lyle F. Watts in Livingston. He cites aggressive stock reduction to prevent overgrazing and notes a likely large pulp mill near Flathead Lake. Recreation use on national forests is up sharply and timber sales may gross about 16 million dollars this year. Watts toured with state officials and was hosted by Gallatin National Forest Supervisor J. C. Urquhart.
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Livingston
U.P
Montana
West
Lyle F. Watts
Washington, D. C
Federal Forest Service
Treasure State
Watts
Northwest
Flathead Lake
National Forest
Forest Service
Charles L. Tebbé
Northern
Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station
P. D. Hanson
T. H. van Meter
the Missoulians
J. C. Urquhart
Gallatin National Forest
U S Presents ideas to limit veto in UN Security Council
The United States proposed ideas to abolish veto power on most issues in the UN Security Council, sparking debate and accusations of trying to revise the charter. The council sent the matter to its experts as Colombia, Poland, Russia and Australia abstained.
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United States
Security Council
Russia
United Nations
Council
General Assembly
Assembly
Herschel V. Johnson
Balkans
Faris el Khoury
Syria
Johnson
Committee of Experts
Committee of
Colombia
Poland
Australia
Autoists Advised to Be Careful This Labor Day
Helena dispatch notes Montana Highway Patrol official Charles L. Sheridan urges Labor Day drivers to take it easy and follow an eight point safety program. He cites 90 fatalities in Montana this year versus 106 at the same date in 1946 and warns heavy traffic as schools approach.
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Helena
Charles L. Sheridan
Montana Highway Patrol
Sheridan
Montana
Rankin enters race for Bilbo Senate seat in Mississippi
U.S. Representative John E. Rankin, a Mississippi Democrat, announced his candidacy for the Senate seat left by the late Theodore G. Bilbo. Rankin said he will enter the November 4 special election and will announce formally later, facing at least two other contenders.
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Tupelo
Miss
U.P
John E. Rankin
D-Miss
Bilbo
Theodore G. Bilbo
Senate
Rankin
Coalition government urged as Tsaldaris fails to form cabinet
In Athens Constantin Tsaldaris says a coalition will govern with a neutral premier after failing to secure Populist support. U S diplomats pressed for a broad cabinet while guerrilla activity grows in Mount Kaimaktsalan Thrace and Macedonia with clashes, raids, and casualties reported near Pierria and the Turkish frontier.
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Athens
U.P
Constantin Tsaldaris
Tsaldaris
United States
Lincoln McVeagh
Dwight Griswold
McVeagh
Griswold
Greece
Mount Kaimaktsalan
Thrace
Macedonia
Kissavos
Mesi- Milia
Pierria
Alvestades
American Legion Combats Communism Before Convention
The American Legion foreign relations committee calls Communism the greatest international menace and urges backing of the Marshall Plan, Balkan control, and stronger United Nations. Lt Gen J Lawton Collins says the Army is understaffed with only two and a third divisions ready, and the U S would need 1 750 000 ground and air personnel for mobilization day.
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New York
American Legion
America
Legion
Marshall Pan
Europe
Balkans
United Nations
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Legion National Defense Commission
United States
Collins
Weather Outlook For Butte And Montana Regions
Partly cloudy in Butte Thursday morning with increasing clouds and thunder showers by afternoon and evening. Expect a high near 85 for the next 24 hours. In Montana, fair Thursday with scattered light thundershowers mainly in the far south. highs 80 to 90.
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Butte
School of Mines
Montana
Boy Named Jimmy Hit by Auto Not Badly Injured
A 3-year-old boy named Jimmy was hit by a car at Broadway and Maintreset about 2 pm. He gave his name to officers and was identified at 204 North Main Street as his home. He suffered bruises on the right side of his head and was admitted for observation at St James hospital in good condition. The driver was John Rantio, 435 East Granite.
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Jimmy
Broadway
Maintreset
North Main Street
Roy Beadle
Albert Fowlkes
St. James Hospital
John ©. Rantio
East Granite
Montana Highway Board Rejects Three Road Bids
The Montana Highway Commission rejected three bids as too high for grading and surfacing on routes between Miles City and Garland Dillon and Wisdom and Deer Lodge. It accepted four bids including a $79 009 Zurich bridge bid subject to PRAs concurrence and two large bids for Miles City Terry road and Evaro hill road projects. Walter Macklin of Billings had the low Zurich bid.
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Montana Highway Commission
Federal Public Roads Administration
Miles City
Garland
Dillon
Wisdom
Deer Lodge
Butte
Zurich
Blaine County
Walter Macklin
Billings
Albert Lalonde
Sidney
Miles City-Terry Road
S. Birch and Sons of
Great Falls
Evaro Hill
Missoula
Cahill-Mooney Construction Company
Butte Highway Department
France Will Admit Jewish Refugees
Paris confirms it will take 4400 Jewish refugees from the Exodus only if they volunteer to come and their arrival in France does not trigger a mass influx. Britain had asked permission to move the refugees by train after they reach Hamburg next week. The refugees had been in Gibraltar after British transports halted for coal and supplies.
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Paris
Great Britain
France
Hamburg
Palestine
Port de Rouen
Diminishing U S Aid for Europe Under Paris Plan
State department officials urged a diminishing, realistic European recovery program under the Marshall plan. In Paris, Lovett and Kennan led a delegation to shape a yearly decline in American aid, with 16 nations assessing Europe’s self help and needed assistance. The latest estimate of total aid hovered around 29 billion dollars, with annual needs projected at five to six billion for the next three or four years.
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Washington
State Department
Europe
United States
Robert A. Lovett
Paris
George F. Kennan
Marshall
Ben Cohen
Russia
Kennan
Charles Bonesteel
War Department General Staff
Robert Lovett
House
Representative Herter
R-Mass
New York
Desperate Hunt for Woman in Rabies Case Across States
Police in three states hunted Wednesday for a teal-blue Packard sedan carrying Mrs Louise E Dubuque her husband and children on vacation. The Cincinnati health chief urged Pasteur treatment for Mrs Dubuque and family after a rabid cat bite was suspected. The Ohio license is 698 DX and the search spans Ohio West Virginia and Virginia.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
U.P
Louise E. Dubuque
West Virginia
Virginia
Carl Wilzbach
Eight Aggression Articles Win Approval at Rio Conference
The Inter-American conference endorsed eight aggression articles as the core of a hemisphere defense treaty. The US urged a pole to pole security zone from Arctic to Antarctic, with plans to sign in Rio de Janeiro and debate on Argentina Chile territorial claims and outlying islands.
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Quitandinha
Brazil
United States
Rio de Janiero
Ecuador
Hemisphere
South Pole
North Pole
Greenland
Alaska
Arctic
Antarctic
Richardo J. Alfaro
Panama
Panama, Chairman of the Committee On
Truman Plans Rio Trip for Inter American Conference
President Truman will leave Washington by special plane Sunday for Rio de Janeiro to address the inter American conference on Tuesday. He will be guest of the Brazilian government through the following Sunday aboard the battleship Missouri, with possible stop at San Juan Puerto Rico.
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Truman
Rio de Janeiro
United States
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Charles G. Ross
Mrs. Truman
Margaret
Carlos Martins
White House
Ross
Dutra
Brazil
Cuban DC-3 crash injures six crew on test flight
A Cuban International Airlines DC-3 crashed on a test flight after taking off from Rancho Boyeros airport in Havana. Six crew members were injured but none suffered serious injuries and were taken to Havana City Hospital.
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Cuba
U.P
Cuban International Airlines
Rancho Boyeros
Havana City
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