Tito Pressuring Hungary for Payment of Debt
Belgrade reports Yugoslavia pressure on Hungary to pay 70 million dollars in World War II reparations. Information Minister Dedijer says a treaty clause will require Hungary to appoint representatives to negotiate with Yugoslavia. U S pressure and travel bans are linked to arrests of two Americans in Hungary.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Vladimir Dedijer
Marshal Tito
United States
Robert A. Vogeler
New York
Israel Jacobson
Chicago
Caminform
Tito
Dedijer
Britain
Soviet Russia
Easier Installment Credit Terms Likely Next Year
The Federal Reserve Board said on December 22 that easier installment credit terms are likely in the coming year. It forecast more money in circulation than in 1949 and noted that post June 30 government controls ending have already eased time payment terms, especially for new autos and household appliances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Believe Bomber Crashed in Flames Near Savannah
A large plane believed to be an Air Force bomber crashed in flames in a marsh near Savannah Georgia Thursday night. Reporter Dick McLaughlin of radio station WFRP said he was within two miles of the scene at midnight and that the wreckage was still burning though dying down.
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Savannah
Air Force
Here
Dick McLaughlin
WFRP
Britain Is Asked to Help Get Americans Freed
The United States asked Britain to assist in freeing two American service members held by Chinese Communists for over 14 months. British authorities said the pair, Navy Chief Electrician William C. Smith and Marine Corps M Sgt. Elmer C. Bender, are alive and held near the north China port of Tsingtao. Brig. Gen. Robert Soule, the American military attache in Nanking, was granted permission to leave after more than two months’ delay.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Tsingtao
North China Port
State Department
Navy
William C. Smith
Long Beach
Calif
Marine Corps
Elmer C. Bender
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Soule
Nanking
Soule
Toy Distribution Starts Today for 500 Butte Kids
Butte civic groups initiate a Christmas toy drive delivering gifts to 500 local children who might be overlooked. Boy Scouts assist with deliveries from city and Montana Power Company trucks as the project expands to collect and repair toys for Deer Lodge prison workshops and hospitals.
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Butte
Butte Active Club
Butte Professional Women’s Club
Old St. Nick
Don Kampschror
Santa
Montana Power Company
Harvey Console
Santa's Helpers, Inc
Montana State
Deer Lodge
Lou Boedecker
Safeway
Butte Weather Forecast Fri Turbulent Snow and Cold Snap
Partly cloudy with occasional snow flurries and little temperature change expected Friday. Maximums: airport 38 and 6 for minimum. School of Mines 33/13. west of divide 25 to 35 with light snow. east of divide a cold wave with scattered snow and lows near 0 to 5 in north and east, 15 to 25 elsewhere.
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School of Mines
Divide
Cut Bank
Great Falls
Lewistown
Crowd of Japs Besieges Soviet Embassy in Tokyo
About 500 Japanese protesters, largely women, besieged the Soviet embassy in Tokyo for five hours demanding the release of an estimated 376,000 prisoners held in the USSR since before VJ day. The crowd clashed with guards, threatened a sitdown, and later dispersed after a nightfall pledge of a reply by December 28.
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Tokyo
U.P
Soviet Union
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Kuzma M. Derevyanko
Allied Council
Derevyanko
United States
Arctic cold wave grips eastern Montana with record drops
Northern Montana shivered as Cut Bank fell 27 degrees in one hour and Great Falls 23 as a third cold wave swept the region. Temperatures near zero to five below were forecast east of the divide with lingering snow and strong winds from Helena to Livingston.
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Helena
Montana
Cut Bank
Great Falls
Continental Divide
United States Weather Bureau
Arctic
Lewistown
Divide
Mountain Barrier
Miles City
Glasgow
Superior
Mercury
Havre
West Yellowstone
Custer
Broadus
Billings
Belgrade
Butte
Dillon
Drummond
Livingston
Missoula
Whitehall
Heavily Loaded Truck Kills Two in Cherokee Main Street
A trailer carrying a seven ton bulldozer ran out of control on Cherokee Iowa's main street killing two men from the Cherokee Daily Times Jeffery Barry 40 and Ray Hansen 30. Three others were injured and about 20 cars damaged in the noon crash. The carcass was removed from a car crushed under the truck.
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Cherokee
Iowa
Cherokee Daily Times
Jeffrey Barry
Justin Barry
The
Times
Ray Hansen
Education Funds Case Heads to Montana Supreme Court
Arguments clarified that a $5,000,000 Montana university building funds dispute will move from district court to the state Supreme Court. Mrs. Clevse Overturf of Helena filed suit to block expenditure without approval, while the examiners board and Attorney General Olsen contest the board’s spending powers and allocation decisions across Havre Billings Missoula Bozeman and Dillon.
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Helena
Montana
State Supreme Court
Arnold H. Olsen
Clevse Overturf
State Examiners’ Board
State Education Board
George W. Padbury, Jr
Olsen
H. D. Carmichael
Carmichael
Board of Examiners
Board of Education
Overturf
Examiners Board
Education Board
Havre
Billings
Missoula
Bozeman
Dillon
Albert Angstman
Edward Alexander
Great Falls
Mysterious deaths in Mountain View shock family
Mrs Myrle Sutter, 40, and her daughter Joan Ruth, 9, were found dead in their beds in Mountain View California in what authorities called completely mystifying circumstances. Police found no signs of illness or foul play and noted no bruises or gas in the home.
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Mountain View
Calif
U.P
Myrle Sutter
Joan Ruth
Herschel M. Sutter
Art Nielsen
Officer and Prisoner Shot in Scuffle at Police HQ
Longview Washington, December 22 a young police officer and an ex convict were in serious condition after the prisoner James Goodman seized a service gun at the city police headquarters and fired on the officer. Goodman was wounded in the stomach and Burke in the spine during the struggle before officers arrived.
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Longview
Wash
James Goodman
Ralph Burke
Burke
Cowlitz County General Hospital
Poison mix-up ends as boy shown unharmed after hunt
A two day search for a California mother and her son ended with the discovery that the bottle she gave her 10 year old son was poison silver nitrate instead of a train sickness medicine. Doctors say the boy seemed unharmed after the dose.
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New Brunswick
Burbank
Calif
Chester V. Stalker
Donald
California
New York
Philadelphia
Army Reserve Halts Drill Pay for Six Months
The Army announces a six month stoppage of drill pay starting Jan 1 for 78,464 reserve personnel in training units due to funding limits. About 57,705 officers and 20,759 enlisted will be affected. those with definite M day assignments keep pay. The National Guard faces a similar budget ceiling and will limit recruiting and form no new units.
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Washington
National Guard
Guard
Congress
Army
Says Germans Through With Naziism Says Germans Through With Naziism
United States High Commissioner John J. McCloy said Germany will not return to Nazism and that militarism is abandoned. He cited a liberal political shift, Marshall Plan partnership, and German integration into international bodies as signs of progress in western Germany.
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Frankfurt
Germany
U.P
United States
John J. McCloy
McCloy
Konrad Adenauer
Montana crop value drops though totals higher than decade average
Montana farmers produced crops valued at 223 million dollars in 1949, down 82 million from 1948 but 53 percent above the decade average. Wheat, hay, barley, sugar beets and other crops are itemized with acreages and yields, noting drought reduced harvest and lower volumes.
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Helena
Montana
Agricultural Economics Bureau
Drouth
Truman to Outline Budget Cuts in January Messages
President Truman said he will address taxes and a balanced budget in January with a state of the union and budget messages to Congress. Postmaster General Donaldson expects budget cuts across the board for fiscal year starting July 1, 1950, with deficits projected this year. Congress opens January 3, and Truman will be away for Christmas before returning.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Donaldson
Mr. Truman
Tobin
Independence
Truman says Eisenhower not a candidate for president
President Truman stated he does not believe General Dwight D. Eisenhower will run for president though many have pressed him as a possible contender. He cited Eisenhower's disavowals and noted friends once suggested a White House bid during his Florida vacation.
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Washington
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Florida
Eisenhower
White House
Columbia University
Legion to Collect Toys for Europe
Butte Silver Bow post No. 1 plans a belated Santa act named Tide of Toys to aid European children in a national American Legion goodwill drive. Commander M. D. O Connell Jr names Jack Wulf as TOT chair. toy collection runs for one week starting Monday to help European youths after World War II.
Lifer Who Risked Death Pardoned by Gov Dewey
Gov Thomas E Dewey freed Louis Boy a Sing Sing lifer who risked death in a failed attempt to save an eight year old girl with leukemia blood cancer He had been sentenced to die in the electric chair for murder in New York City and will leave prison Friday
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Sing Sing
Louis Boy
New York City
Butte Woman Found Dead From Gas Fumes
Elizabeth Jannach about 68 was found asphyxiated in her home at 1860 Princeton Thursday afternoon. Coroner says death accidental due to a clogged chimney trapping burned gas fumes. Neighbors alerted authorities after finding the home filled with gas. Montana Power crew cleared fumes and located the blockage. a burning stove jets and pilot light remained. Jannach, a janitress for the school district, is survived by son John Jannach of Hamilton arriving Friday. body at Duggan's Merrill mortuary.
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Elizabeth Jannach
Princeton
R. E. Sayatovis
Montana Power Company
Jamnach
John Jannach
Butte
Hamilton
Duggan
Merrill Mortuary
Butte Building Trades Seek Eight Hour Day Pay Increase
A Build Butte committee member argues for raising craftsmen wages and returning to an eight hour day. He cites 1949 earnings of 15 hundred hours at 2.125 and 2,000 hours at 2.125 totaling 3187.50 and 4250 respectively, plus benefits of higher education and engineers, while labor groups push for a six hour day to curb the boom.
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Build
Montana
Butte
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U. S
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