Red Air Force Takes One of Its Worst Lickings
Allied jets scored a major air victory over northwest Korea with 64 Sabres facing 145 MIGs. The Fifth Air Force reported 13 MIGs destroyed and several more damaged in a 25 minute dogfight over MIG Alley. One Sabre was lost to fuel exhaustion.
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Seoul
Fifth Air Force
Korea
United States
Air Force
Red Air Force
America
Wonsan
Sydney
Korangpo
Oliphant Ties With Mystery Man in Tax Probe
Charles Oliphant former chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Bureau testified he is a close friend of Henry Gruenwald the so called mystery man in a House committee tax investigation Gruenwald advised Oliphant to stay silent about their talk Oliphant named Gruenwald as a source of information on tax fraud charges against Abraham Teitelbaum The hearing involves Rep King and other lawmakers who have pursued Gruenwald amid questions about a Washington clique Teitelbaum said he was offered help for 500000 but others named in the report deny the allegations
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Washington
Charles Oliphant
Internal Revenue Bureau
Henry Gruenwald
House Committee
Oliphant
Gruenwald
Abraham Teitelbaum
House
Ways and Means
Representative King
D-Calif
The
King
Georgetown Hospital
Chicago
Bert K. Naster
Frank Nathan
Naster
Teitelbaum
Nathan
T. Lamar Caudle
Caudle
Justice Department
Truman
France Backs Plan for European Coal and Steel Community
The national assembly approved the treaty creating the European Coal and Steel Community for 50 years. The vote totals reached 377 to 235 and 377 to 233, backing Premier Rene Pleven as France joins a new Western European economic and potential military framework.
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Paris
National Assembly
France
European Coal and Steel Community
Rene Pleven
Butte High Grid Team Honored at Banquet
Butte high school football co champions in 1951 were honored Thursday night at a Finlen hotel banquet. The event, sponsored by the Butte Chamber of Commerce athletic committee, hosted Boys Central high guests. Toastmaster John Good kept the evening lively as speakers were brief and food plentiful.
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Butte
Flathead County Braves
Kalispell
Finlen Hotel
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Boys Central High School
John Good
Alex Blewett
Chamber of Commerce
Turkey
D. C. Mahoney
Boys Central High
Boys Suspected in Missing Aspirin Tablets Case
In Spokane on December 13 Arthur Bland age 3 and his 19 month old brother Frank were identified as early suspects in the disappearance of 65 aspirin tablets from their family medicine chest. Hospital stewards performed stomach washes on the children to confirm the suspicion.
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Spokane
Arthur Bland
Frank
Truman Plans Special House Cleaning
President Truman announced a forthcoming special agency to root out corruption in government and remove wrongdoers, regardless of status. He said he will not dismiss Attorney General McGrath or Frank McKinney and urged patience as he prepares an investigating group in his own style.
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Washington
Truman
McGrath
Frank McKinney
Democratic National Committee
Senate
United States
Justice Department
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Tax Bureau
John B. Dunlap
Huge Water Tank Burst Kills Four in Tucumcari
In Tucumcari New Mexico a 3 million gallon water storage tank exploded or burst at 4 10 am causing four deaths, three injuries and destruction of 15 buildings including eight residences. City officials suspect sabotage and FBI and insurers will investigate.
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Tucumcari
N. M
U.P
Bert Riddling
Steve Gallegos
Deal Elliott
Eva San Miguel Elliott
Tony
Elliotts
8. Gallegos
Jim Fleming
Federal Bureau of Investigation and Insurance Company
Riddling
Cold Snap Forecast to Endure Three More Days
Butte residents face frigid temperatures as readings at 10 45 Thursday night showed seven below zero and forecasters expect Friday morning lows from minus ten to minus fifteen. The cold snap, blamed on a Canadian air mass, will persist about three days with little sign of a quick warmup.
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Butte
Montana
A C M Co Authorized to Build Kalispell Aluminum Plant
Defense Production Administrator Manly Fleischmann authorized Anaconda Copper Mining Co to begin large scale aluminum production. The move, opposed by the Justice and Interior departments, clears the way for a multi million dollar aluminum reduction plant at Kalispell, Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Defense
Manly Fleischmann
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Justice and Interior Departments
Kalispell
Mont
Letter Approving Aluminum Plant Plans in Kalispell
Full text of a letter to Secretary Chapman requests negotiations to supply power from Hungry Horse dam for a planned 72,000 ton aluminum plant in Kalispell Montana by Anaconda Copper Mining and Harvey Machine. The Defense Production Administration sees large aluminum expansion with tax relief for investments and potential October 1952 power availability.
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Manly Fleischmann
Secretary of the Interior
Oscar L. Chapman
Kalispell
Department of Interior
Hungry Horse
Montana
Fleischmann
Washington
D. C
Mr. Chapman
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Harvey Machine Company
California
Department of Justice
Defense Production Administration
Defense Minerals Administration
Defense Materials Procurement Agency
DPA
Anaconda
Air Force
Chapman
Charles F. Wilson
Interior
Hungry Horse Dam
Richard D. Searles
Bonneville Power Administration
Anaconda-Harvey
The
Justice
Mystery of 100000 Allied POWs Grows in Korean War Talks
An Allied spokesman said the Communists stall on prisoner exchange and armistice supervision, delaying Panmunjom talks. U N negotiators fear a sinister pattern as names and locations of prisoners remain undisclosed. Officials note about 85 000 South Korean, 12 000 American, and 3 000 other units missing, with camps possibly near Hungnam.
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Munsan
Panmunjom
Korea
United Nations
Howard A. Levie
Panmunjom Priday
Levie
Hungnam
Bataan
Germany
Red Stockades
R. E. Libby
Peiping
Pyongyang
Boulder school contracts let for 170 bed hospital project
The Montana examiners board awarded contracts totaling 544,762 to build a 170 bed hospital and infirmary at the Boulder state training school. McKinnon Decker of Helena won the general contract for 316,922. Reardon Plumbing of Butte 159,063. Lester Brown of Butte 4,797 for painting. C P Electric of Butte 33,900. architects’ fees 30,080.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Montana Examiners Board
Boulder State Training School
McKinnon-Decker
Reardon Plumbing
Butte
Lester Brown
C. P. Electric Company of
Kelley Party Arrives for Butte Hospital Dedication
C F Kelley chairman of Anaconda Copper Mining arrives with Mrs Kelley in Butte for the Butte Community Memorial hospital dedication Sunday. Included are their daughter Frances, son-in-law Nils Flor man, Roy H Glover Anaconda VP and general counsel and Mrs Glover, plus Mrs George Hepburn of Los Angeles, a Kelley daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co. F. Kelley
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Kelley
Butte
Butte Community Memorial Hospital
New York
Frances Kelley Keresey
Nils Florman
Roy H. Glover
Anaconda Company
Glover
George Hepburn
Los Angeles
Bootlegger John R Fat Hardy Sentenced To Life
Atlanta December 13 bootlegger John R Fat Hardy was convicted of murder and sentenced to life for the death of John W Blunt after drinking methyl alcohol laced whiskey. Jury found murder with mercy recommendation making life term mandatory. The case follows 350 ill victims in October at City Hospital with 38 poison liquor deaths including four fatalities and four blinded.
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Atlanta
John R
Fat) Hardy
J. B. McCurdy
Hardy
John W. Blunt
Georgia
Montana Woman Killed in Accident north of Absarokee
Mrs Emila Coop about 65 was killed instantly and her husband Wade Coop seriously injured in a head on crash between their sedan and a truck on a snow covered curve two miles north of Absarokee. The collision occurred about 12 45 p m Thursday the truck driver Alex Shepovalof of Billings escaped serious injury after leaping from the vehicle which plunged over a 30 foot embankment. This marked the 182nd Montana highway fatality of the year.
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Columbus
Dean
Absarokee
Emila Coop
Wade H. Coop
Huntley
Gene Brown
Coop
Alex Shepovalof
Billings
Brown
Shepovalos
Montana
Butte Weather Forecast Frigid Cold Friday Across Regions
The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies and much colder conditions in Butte on Friday with a low around minus ten to minus fifteen and a high near twelve. Temperatures from midnight Wednesday to 5 30 pm Thursday show a airport minimum of four and maximum of thirty two and School of Mines maximum of thirty two. West of Divide expects partly cloudy skies Friday with continued cold high twenty to twenty five, east of Divide cloudy with possible snow flurries Friday and cold highs from five to twenty. Clearing and colder Friday night.
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Butte
School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Official Discharged on Basis of Loyalty Review Board Verdict
Washington December 13 The State department fired veteran diplomat John S Service on a loyalty board finding of reasonable doubt about his loyalty. The board cited his disclosures to Philip Jaffe of Amerasia magazine and ruled his conduct could not be judged loyal. Service called the action shocking and unjust, noting he has been cleared previously and served 18 years in government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
John S. Service
McCarthy
R-Wis
Truman
Amerasia Magazine
Conection
Par East Affairs
State Department Service
Service
Ree View Board
Civil Service Comemission
Philip Jaffe
West Powers Propose Changes in Disarmament Talks
Western nations revised their arms reduction plan in UN talks to address Russian objections while sticking to atomic control and staged arms cuts. US Britain and France reaffirmed preferences for a UN atomic control framework and a balanced, phased reduction amid ongoing East-West deadlock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
United States
Britain
France
UN Assembly
West
Russia
Philip C. Jessup
Economic Committee
Mike Mansfield
Greece
Security Council
Yugoslavia
General Assembly
South Africa
Africa
Morocco
Sweden
Germany
Egypt Recalls Its Envoy to Britain Over Suez Crisis
Egypt recalls Ambassador Abdel Fattah Amr Pasha from London in protest of British actions in the Suez canal zone. The cabinet moves to shift the Egyptian communications ministry office from London to Switzerland while keeping diplomatic relations intact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Egypt
Abdel Fattah Amr Pasha
London
Suez Canal Zone
Switzerland
Interior Ministry
Foreign Office
Britain
Sid Ralph Stevenson
United States
Jefferson Caffery
Ibrahim Farag Pasha
Suez City
Warns Civilian Pinch Coming From Metal Cutbacks
Mobilization chiefs warned of reduced civilian production next year as manufacturers receive about 50 percent of usual metals in early 1945. Officials cited auto, refrigerator, and washer output cuts hitting jobs locally, with Detroit and New England named as examples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
National Press Club
Manly Fleischmann
Fleischmann
Detroit
New England
Actor's Agent Shot by Movie Producer in Parking Lot
Beverly Hills, Calif. December 13 A movie producer Walter Wanger shot the agent of actor Jen nings Lang in a parking lot near the Beverly Hills police station after accusing Lang of pursuing his wife Joan Bennett Wanger Lang, 40, denied romantic ties but said Wanger had warned in January he would shoot anyone who broke up his home Wanger 55 was taken into custody after the incident in which Miss Bennett's green convertible and Lang were seen together
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Bollewood
Calif
Walter Waneger
Wanger
Joan Bennett Wanger
Jennings Lang
Miss Bennett
Lang
New
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Thomas
Bobby
Raleigh
Butte High Grid
John Service
A.c.m.co
Allied
Boulder
C. F. Kelley
Hopp' Raye
Associated Press
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