McCarthy Attacks GPO Security Amid Reds Gambling Ring Claim
Senator McCarthy alleges the Government Printing Office harbors Communists and a gambling ring threatening national security. Public Printer Blattenberger testifies security has improved, notes 15 employees with Communist ties moved to Library of Congress pending clearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Government Printing Office
Raymond C. Blattensberger
Eisenhower
Blattenberger
Library of Congress
McCarthy
GPO
Philip Cole
Cole
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Time Loser Balliet Suspected Of Bank Check Fraud In Butte
Police describe Steve Balliet as a seven time loser who staged a spending spree in Butte using counterfeit checks. He opened a savings account with a $350 out of state check then attempted a second bank account with a similar check, prompting bank suspicions and a police alert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Bastile
Steve Balliet
Ernett Sullivan
Balliet
Sullivan
Prison Toy Drive Aids Butte Montana State Prison
Montana State Prison toy shop is idle due to toy shortages. The Butte BPW with Maureen Connors and Hazel Mc Gee leads a drive to collect used toys and new gifts for Christmas for Montana children, with support from the Marine Reserve and Capt D R Jones. Toys are needed immediately including dolls outfits and gifts for girls 10 to 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana State
F. O. Burrell
Butte Busines and Professional Women’s Club
BPW
Montana
Butte Marine Corps Reserve
Burrell
Lucille O’leary
W. Broadway
Marine Training Center
Clark Park
D. R. Jones
Deer Lodge
Butte
Maureen Connors
Hazel McGee
St Ignatius Man Killed by Tractor Accident Near Big Sandy
A 44 year old St Ignatius resident Peter Mitchell died when his tractor pulling a combine overturned on him near Big Sandy Friday afternoon. He is survived by his mother five sisters two brothers and two children. Funeral arrangements pending.
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ST. IGNATIUS \P
St. Ignatius
Big Sandy
Peter Mitchell
Solon Sees Plan to Ditch GOP Promises
Washington Rep Hoff man of Michigan argues against critics like Rep Hugh Scott accusing GOP lawmakers of undermining Eisenhower era plans. He denounces a coalition of Dewey Republicans and New Dealers seeking to abandon Republican campaign pledges. He cites opposition to defense reorganization and to a labor program as aligned with Hoover era views.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hoffman
R-Mich
Congress
Hugh Scott
Michigan
Herbert Hoover
Rhee vows united stand against Communism in Korea
In Pusan Syngman Rhee declares the Korean army will fight communism anywhere, calling all nations to collective security. The rally marked arrival of the New Rochelle Victory with 8,000 tons of rice valued at about $1.8 million, part of a relief program. Also arriving were shipments of rice, cotton and barley as U.S. and South Korean officials welcomed aid at the pier.
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Pusan
Korea
Syngman Rhe
Indochina
Rhee
New Rochelle Victory
U.S. Senate
William F. Knowland
Calif
C. Tyler Wood
U.S
First Jack Dempsey Never Defeated
The text claims the first professional fighter named Jack Dempsey began in 1883 and fought 60 men over five years without a loss. It also discusses want ads as champion fighters and includes an example ad for an 8 piece dining set priced at 100 dollars in Utah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Dempsey
Utah
Reds Promise to Return All Prisoners
More prisoners were released Sunday in the Korean armistice exchange at Panmunjom. The day’s groups included Americans, British, and South Koreans with officers among the repatriates. The Reds pledged to return 400 captives that day and 10,618 total to date as the exchange nears its end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panmunjom
James D. Bacote
Philadelphia
Panmunjom Exchange Point
Ens
Roland G. Busch
Reds
Representative Heller seeks to bar Kinsey report from mails
Rep. Heller denounces the Kinsey report as an insult and urges withholding it from the mails until Congress investigates its salacious content. He plans a House inquiry in January to determine if the book Sexual Behavior in the Human Female is lewd. He cites press reports and notes Kinsey's Indiana University Institute of Sex Research funded by a medical grant.
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Washington
Rep
Heller
D-Ny
Summerfield
Mountain Climber Death Toll Soars Across Europe
Twenty one more climbers die this week across Germany Austria France Switzerland and Italy bringing the season total to 224. Austria records nine deaths this week raising its season total to 75. Switzerland reports four fatalities with a season total of 52. France reports five deaths toward the season tally.
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Rome
Germany
Austria
France
Switzerland
Italy
Negotiators Reach Agreement on Montana Mine Wages
Union negotiators for Butte Anaconda and Great Falls locals announced tentative wage contract settlements with Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The one year pact provides seven and a half cents per hour retroactive to June 30, 1953 plus 50 cents monthly per employee toward fringe benefits with hospital coverage. Members will vote on Sept 3 after Sunday meetings.
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Butte
Anaconda
Great Falls
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
William Mason
Iummsw
Charles McLean
Joint Negotiations Committee of
Montana
International Union
Butte Miners Union
Butte High School
Cambodia set for more fireworks over independence struggle
Cambodia presses France in a bitter bid for full independence while Paris wants troop rights to counter Viet Minh threats. Two days of talks yielded police and judiciary handover but failed to settle military questions. Premier Pen Nouth warns of Cambodian fury if negotiations fail. French residents fear for safety as tensions rise.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
France
Jean Risterrucci
Paris
Pen Nouth
Pravda Orders Crackdown on Soviet Publishers
Pravda denounces Soviet publishing houses for producing many worthless books and liberal manuscript appraisal. It cites 130 local houses releasing hundreds of millions of copies yearly with few on agriculture or industrial innovations, saying party committees must intervene to boost production of consumer goods.
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London
Pravda
Communist Party
Moscow Radio
Currency Salvaged From Flying Enterprise Wreck
A Banque de Bruxelles spokesman said large sums of currency salvaged from the sunken Flying Enterprise have been received for sorting and drying. A shipping source in Oostende cited about 90,000 dollars in U.S. and British money recovered from the wreck, which sank January 10, 1952 off the Cornish coast after a hurricane.
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Brussels
Belgium
Kurt Carlsen
Flying Enterprise
Banque de Bruxelles
Oostende
U.S
Rostro
Hamburg
Germany
Cornish
England
Italians Fear Yugoslavia May Use Force
Italian troops moved to the Yugoslav border amid a heated Trieste dispute. Rome warned allies Yugoslavia might seize Trieste’s Slav zone, while Belgrade claimed Trieste remains part of Yugoslavia.
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Yugoslavia
Rome
Italy
Trieste Free
Trieste
U.S
Clare Boothe Luce
Giuseppe Pella
Pella
Belgrade
Politika
Mass Polio Inoculation Planned in Miles City Montana
The second mass gamma globulin inoculation for children under 14 in Montana will be held in Miles City late next week. Dr. G D Carlyle Thompson said the program follows a request from M D Winter after conferring with local doctors. Thirteen polio cases in Custer county since Jan 1, one death, and 3 500 children under 14 in the county are noted.
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Miles City
Mont
Montana
G. D. Carlyle Thompson
Montana Board of Health
Custer County
M. D. Winter
Thompson
Park County
Refugees Hunger Strike in Patras Over Deportation Plan
About two thousand refugees from the earthquake shattered Ionian Islands began a hunger strike in Patras Greece on Saturday protesting government plans to send them home.
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Athens
Greece
U.P
Ionian Islands
Patras
Weather Summary for Montana and West East Divides
Fair and warmer Sunday with little temperature change Monday. Highs around 75 to 80 on Sunday west of Divide and 78 to 85 east of Divide. Saturday period shows two-day timings with a Saturday peak of 72 and a low of 39.
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Montana
Divide
Billings
Belgrade
Ee — Butte
Dillon
Superior
West Yellowstone
Communist Attempts to Influence German Elections Spark Crackdown
West Germany announced the capture of 700 suspects at border check points and five interzonal trains as authorities thwart a large scale Communist plan to smuggle Red agitators before the Sept six elections. East Germans crossing into the Bonn Republic exceed 250000 since summer. The interior ministry moved to ban the German Reich Party as unconstitutional, seeking court action before the election. The party campaigns on a one party national ideal, with many district candidates previously Nazi members.
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Helmstedt
Germany
West Germany
Bonn Republic
Bonn
Reich
Federal Interior Ministry
Supreme Court
German Reich Party
Free Democrats
Konrad Adenauer
Lower Saxony
Hitler
Interior Ministry
Adenauer
Constitutional Court
Socialist Reich
Johnson predicts next Congress will be pay-off test
Senate minority leader Lyndon B. Johnson said the 1954 session will serve as a pay-off test of Republican leadership after a 1953 session he called a shakedown cruise. He cited aims for the new session including a long term foreign trade policy and statehood for Hawaii and Alaska.
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Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Senate
Johnson
Hawaii
Alaska
U S to Support India's Pandit for U N General Assembly
The United States will vote for India's Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit to lead the next United Nations General Assembly in New York. Washington hopes this helps heal strains from earlier clashes over Indian membership in a Korea conference project.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
India
Madame Pandit
U.N. General Assembly
New York
United Nations
Korea
State Department
Asia
New Delhi
U.S
U.N
China
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Montana Airman Freed by Reds
Airman Second Class Charles F. Brekke of Harlem Montana is named among Americans freed Sunday at Panmunjom. Brekke served with the 17th Bomber Wing 34th Bomb Squadron and is the son of Mr and Mrs J K C Brekke of Harlem.
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Munsan
Panmunjom
Montana
Charles F. Brekke
Harlem
Brekke
17Th
34Th Bomb Squadron
JK. C. Brekke
Welcome Home POWs Disembark in San Francisco Parade
About 437 American prisoners of war returned from Korea aboard the transport Gen. W. F. Hase. A crowd of about 1,000 cheered as the ship docked at 3:45 p.m. colorful bands, water fountains, and a soprano provided a festive backdrop. One POW, Harry Borie of Philadelphia, was taken to Letterman Hospital with pleurisy.
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San Francisco
Korea
W.F. Hase
Piras
Harry Borie
Philadelphia
Letterman Nepital
Presidio
Nelson M
Hase
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Solon
Gop
Kinsey
Harry P. Snyder
Raymond E. Mills Jr
Janet Pudge
Lorraine Meyers
Chicago
Sgt. Mills
Brack Curry
Pandit
Yanks
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