Butte Welcomes New Year Amid Festive Plans and War Mobilization
Butte residents prepare a noisy New Year celebration with toasts and whistles while churches schedule services. Many will travel for the holiday as more than 400 men enter military service, with groups shipping to Fort Lewis, San Diego, and Lackland. The Finlen hotel hosts a dinner dance as public events dot the city.
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Butte
Elks and Eagles
Masonic Temple
Butte Country Club
Knights of Columbus
DeMolay Hall
West Galena
Finlen Hotel
Diamond Stanchotel
Boulder
Jackson
Butte Town Club
Navy
Fort Lewis
Wash
San Diego
Calif
Lackland Air Force Base
Texas
Legislature Convenes Monday for 60 Day Montana Session
Montana’s 32nd Legislature, Republican in both houses, opens Monday for a 60 day session as lawmakers tackle hundreds of issues. Budget readiness and how to fund state government dominate debate with projected requests totaling about 63.99 million dollars, far above 1949 levels and near double the expected income for the coming biennium.
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Helena
Montana
Legislative Assembly
House
Senate
State Examiners Board
Montana Taxpayers Association
State General Fund
General Fund
Association
Public Welfare Department
Taxpayers Association
Six New Officials to Take Office in Silver Bow County
Six new public officials begin terms in Silver Bow Tuesday morning: Frank Gerry Gersh district 2 commissioner William T Babe Duckham clerk and recorder George D McCarthy surveyor James C Jim Combe Silver Bow township constable Rudolph J Rudy Kline South Butte justice of the peace and Ed Lefty Winters South Butte constable. A seventh, Robert Maguire, becomes county treasurer the first Monday in March.
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Silver Bow
Frank
Gerry) Gersh
Emmett P. O’brien
Addis A. McGrath
Jack Healy
John B. McCaughey
Harold Konen
Justice of the Peace
Mary Gardner
Troy Evans
Helena
Legislative Assembly
Butte
Sam Babich
Alex Blewett
D. J. McCarthy
Mike Loughran
Robert G. Dwyer
Edward J. Foley
James A. Mountain
Walter Freshman
President Renner of Austria Dies
Dr. Karl Renner 80, head of Austria, dies after Christmas illness. Government press chief Meznik announced the death. Renner founded both Austrian republics and was a lifelong right wing socialist. He suffered paralysis and lung congestion before the final decline.
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Vienna
Karl Renner
Austria
Fritz Meznik
Renner
Meznik
New Year Reflections Quietly Mark 1951 Eve
Americans bid farewell to 1950 with prayers and sober thoughts on Korea and world affairs. Churches call for collective prayer while Catholics attend mass. New Year’s programs include bowls and limited nightlife as regulations vary by state. Times Square expects revelers as cities balance celebrations with Sunday liquor laws.
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Korea
Gene Leone
Mid
Manhattan
National Council of Churches of Christ
New York
Times Square
Pennsylvania
Boston
Denver
Definite target urged for mobilization by Truman advisers
The council of economic advisers urged clear goals for defense production with higher taxes and a pay as you go budget. They warned mandatory price and wage controls and possible rationing may be needed, as they foresee years of high defense spending and rallying public support through specific national targets. The report says mobilization requires knowing what the nation aims to achieve and why.
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Truman
Leon Keyserling
Congress
Sawyer
Franklin D. Roosevelt
FBI Probes Drafting of Hutterites as One County Board Quits
In Helena Montana federal investigators examine Hutterite draft interference after two colonists Sam Kleinsasser and Jacob Kleinsasser were moved to class 1 A O over religious objections. Pondera county board resignations followed and Montana officials praise board, while all Hutterites are urged to register if citizens.
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FBI
Helena
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Pondera County
Emmett Angland
Great Falls
United States
Montana
Sam P. Kleinsasser
Jacob B. Kleinsasser
Angland
S. H. Mitchell
Selective Service
W. A. Thanmum
David W. Jones
Louis E. Kane
Conrad
Mitchell
National
State Appeal Board
Scientists Develop What They Hope Is Powerful Weapon Against Cancer
Johns Hopkins researchers describe the citrovorum factor a compound that blocks cancer cells folic acid intake causing starvation while sparing healthy cells. The team Emanuel D Schoenbach Ezra M Greenspan and Jacob Colsky report in the Journal of the American Medical Association noting potential for long term use of this drug family despite past toxicity limits.
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Emanuel D. Schoenbach
Johns Hopkins
Schoenbach
Automobile License Plate Sale Starts Tuesday
Sale of 1951 automobile license plates and driving permits begins at 9 oclock Tuesday morning in the office of Miss Phemia McPhail treasurer. Motorists must bring car registration cards and stop first at Assessor Joe Lester to receive assessment slips. Two plates per automobile. Licenses use the yearly design with gold numerals on a blue background.
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Phemia McPhail
Joe Lester
Weather Forecast for Butte and Montana Regions
Butte expect cooler Sunday with decreasing clouds and scattered snow flurries. Sunday readings: low 18, high 32. Friday 12am to Saturday 5pm: Airport 23 to 40, School of Mines 26 to 41 with .03 inches precipitation. Montana west of Divide: decreasing clouds Sunday with scattered flurries, high 30 to 35. East of Divide: colder north and east Sunday, low 10-20, high 30-40 southwest.
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School of Mines
Montana
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Missoula
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Government bans copper use in civilian goods
A sweeping government order bans or sharply restricts copper in over 300 consumer items after March 1. Functions remain for essential uses like electrical conductors and bearings. Brass is also restricted, with exceptions for functional needs.
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Washington
National Production Authority
Crisis May Force Japan to Rearm
Gen Douglas MacArthur told the Japanese people that self defense against international lawlessness may require rearmament and a 1951 peace treaty. He said Japan could join free nations if pacifism ends and warned of enforcing peace with force if needed, though he hopes such a scenario never occurs. Premier Yoshida noted Japan need not scrap its no war clause now amid public opposition.
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Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Japan
United Nations
Asia
Pacific
Shigeru Yoshida
Majority
Liberal Party
Socialist Party
Light toll from violent deaths amid New Year holidays
The national safety council noted a hopeful start to the New Year with 79 violent deaths in 27 hours, 61 from traffic accidents and 18 from other causes. Two Long Island men died in a fog crash, a Chicago area woman was killed in a door to car crush, and officials expect 330 more traffic deaths by Monday night. If 35,000 traffic deaths for 1950 are reached, the year will be among the six worst in motor travel history.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Long Island
N. Y
Raritan Bay
Chicago
Safety Council
Typhoon Lashes Luzon Leaving Two Dead and Missing
A Philippine typhoon struck Luzon on Sunday causing two deaths and two missing along with more than 1 million dollars in property damage as it moved westward toward the China Sea.
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Luzon
Manila
China Sea
Red forces prepare western front attack near Seoul
Russian and Chinese Communist units tighten their strike setup in eastern Korea as field guns tanks and armored units move toward the 38th parallel near Kaesong and Yonchon. US Fifth Air Force reports disabling artillery and tanks while sabre jets clash with Red planes in the largest air battle to date. Front positions shift along a 150 mile line as UN forces hold center and monitor eastern and western sectors.
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Tokyo
Korea
Seoul
United States
United States Fifth Air Force
38Th Parallel
Kaesong
South Korea
Imijin River
Yonchon
MacArthur
Red
Eighth Army
United Nations
Inje
Taegok
Policy of Unity and Security to Be Continued
Secretary of State Dean Acheson outlined a six point plan to meet the 1951 emergency driven by Russia to gain ends through force. He urged bipartisan unity at home, pledged continued strong alliances, and called for a build up of strength with new weapons for the free world.
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Washington
Dean Aches
Russia
Acheson
Congress
United States
Free World
Kremlin
Europe
Congress to Meet New Year's Day in Final Session
The 81st Congress, formed two years earlier, will convene on New Year’s Day in a historic session as the Senate meets on Tuesday. Final action before the old Congress ends aims to send to President Truman a $3.3 billion tax on excess corporate profits, a civil defense plan creating an independent agency with a $3.1 billion three year program, and an emergency defense appropriation of about $20 billion plus possible expansion of war powers.
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Washington
81St
Congress
House
Senate
82Nd Congress
Truman
White House
Civil Defense Administration
Plane brings Lt General Walton Walker to Arlington burial
A three star Constellation plane bearing the body of Lt Gen Walton H Walker arrived at Allegheny county airport on Saturday night en route to Philadelphia and Washington. Gen Walker was killed December 23 in a jeep accident in Korea and will be buried in Arlington National cemetery.
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Pittsburgh
Constellation
Walton H. Walker
Allegheny County
Philadelphia
Washington
Walker
Korea
Arlington National Cemetery
French Assembly Backs Pleven Rearmament Plan Vote
The French National Assembly approved Premier Rene Pleven’s rearmament program with a 314 to 223 vote amid abstentions. Pleven sought authority to raise taxes by decree if revenue from new levies falls short, while the defense ministry outlined plans to expand seven divisions by 1951 and to 15 by 1952.
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Paris
French National Assembly
Rene Pleven
Charles de Gaulle
Republican Liberty Party
Catholic Popular Republican Party
MRP
Pleven
Defense Ministry
France
Children Return to School Tuesday
Butte school children will trudge reluctantly back to classes at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning. Pupils of public schools have been on vacation since Dec. 22 while those of parochial schools have played holiday since Dec. 20. Yale recesses classrooms have been cleaned and repairs completed for a new semester.
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Butte
Yale
Circulation Office Closes Early on Monday Morning
The Montana Standard circulation department will close at 10 o clock Monday morning instead of 11. Readers missing morning papers should call 5414 or 5415 before 10 to arrange deliveries.
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