Truman Urges Miners Back to Pits Amid Mediation Push
President Truman urged soft coal miners and operators to resume production as negotiations continue. He proposed a fact finding board and warned that if talks fail, the Taft Hartley law could be invoked. A noon Saturday deadline was set for a miners’ reply on resuming work while a board investigates.
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Washington
John L
Truman
White House
Congress
Lewis
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
Five Men Rescued From Wreckage of Search Plane
Five men survived a crash and were pulled from the wreckage of a C-47 in the Yukon while more than 60 aircraft searched the frozen north for 44 missing aboard a C-54 five days earlier. Lt Charles Harden led the rescue trek six miles through deep snow after guiding victims into sleeping bags.
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Whitehorse
Y. T
United States Air Force
Charles Harden
Mount Loren
Harden
Jack Borges
KENI
Anchorage
Alaska
Ala
Montana
Sco
Yukon Pear
Great Falls
Mont
Joyce Espe
Air Force
Plight of Indians Grows Worse in Montana Blizzard
Indian families on Montana reservations face severe food and fuel shortages as blizzards and drifting snow strand hundreds. Snowplows clear roads near Browning but wind-driven snow closes U S highways 2 and 89. Fort Peck's 300 families suffer critical shortages with 25 marooned. officials warn supplies may run out within days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Glacier Park
Blackfeet Reservation
State and
Park Service
Browning
U. S. Highway 2
U. S. 89
Indian Agency
Cut Bank-Browning
Fort Peck Reservation
E. J. Diehl
Poplar
Diehl
Survivors recount brush with death after plane crash
Six crew members from a search plane recall the crash scene and rescue as they lay in hospitals in Whitehorse Yukon Territory on January 31. T/Sgt Forrest W. Hudson describes the moment of impact and escape from the aircraft while Sgt Bruno Przydzial, and radio man Jack Burgess, recount their injuries and narrow survival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitehorse
Yukon Territory
U.rp
Forrest W. Hudson
Three Rivers
Texas
Sgt
Cole
Centrahoma
Okla
Bruno Przydzial
Philadelphia
Hudson
Jack Burgess
Anchorage
Alaska
Army to assist in snowbound rescue ops in Dakotas
The Army released equipment for rescue missions in snowlocked sections of the Dakotas on Tuesday and studied whether another operation snowbound is needed. Meanwhile the coldest weather in over 50 years gripped the Pacific Northwest and temperatures fell below freezing in the southern citrus belt as parts of the Dakotas remained buried under 34 inches of snow.
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Army
Dakotas
Pacific Northwest
Citrus Belt
Army estimates snowbound relief as state of emergency debated
Isolated families in the Dakotas and North Dakota suffer in sub zero cold with up to 500 needing heating fuel and food. Red Cross designates disaster areas across four SD counties and a 150 by 50 mile stretch from Devils Lake to the SD border. Army to fly in eight weasels from Illinois and conduct an aerial survey to assess needs. President Truman may declare an emergency to resume Operation Snowbound, last run Jan to March, involving Wyoming Nebraska and the Dakotas.
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Edgely
N. D
Red Cross
South Dakota
North Dakota
Devils Lake
Fred Randahl
Army
Illinois
Fifth Army
Chicago
Truman
Wyoming
Nebraska
Dakotas
Butte Weather Forecast Predicts Record Cold
Montana forecasters warned of five more days of well below normal temperatures. Wednesday brings a slight rise with clear to partly cloudy skies, but lows may hit -20 at the airport and -25 in the eastern mountain region as the week continues.
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School of Mines
Butte
Helena
Jan
Missoula Toboggan Fatality Belnap Dies in Accident
Missoula reports Lowell H. Belnap aged 31 died from injuries after a toboggan mishap on a hill south of the city during a Latter day Saints church party. He married Mary L. Bills on Oct 14 and had moved from Hopper, Utah to Missoula last November. he was a soils specialist with Forest Service Region No. 1.
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Missoula
Lowell H. Belnap
Latterday Saints
Mary L. Bills
Salt Lake City
Hopper
Utah
Weather First: Partly Cloudy Snow Flurries Wednesday
Forecast calls for partly to mostly cloudy skies with light snow flurries on Wednesday. Airport readings show a low near minus twenty and a high near nine, with similar values at the School of Mines and broader Montana zones facing rising temperatures and windy conditions.
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School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Yellowstone Valley
President Discloses U S Work on Hydrogen Bomb
The article notes a U S president saying Washington is developing a hydrogen bomb. In Berlin, rail service fears and sabotage tensions rise as Soviet controlled German railways warn of possible freight reductions affecting interzonal traffic and Berlin supplies.
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U.S
Berlin
West Germany
Max Kellner
United States
West Berlin
Kellner
Helmstedt
France Warns Russia Over Indo China Action
Paris reports France sharply protested Moscow recognizing rebel Ho Chi Minh in Indo China. Officials fear Soviet support could spark a new east west war in Southeast Asia as French troops continue four years of fighting the nationalist movement led by Ho. A state spokesman warned that Maoist Chinese forces backing Ho would draw battlelines for another war.
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Paris
France
Russia
Moscow
Ho Chi-minh
Indo- China
Southeast Asia
Indo-China
Greece
Bao Dai
Foreign Office
Mao Tze-tung
Britain
Mrs. Mary Carey 93 Dies After 86 Years in Montana
Mrs. Mary Carey, 93, who arrived in Nevada City Montana in 1864, died at her ranch home northwest of Sheridan after two months illness. Funeral rites set at Laurin Catholic church with rosary at 8:30 p.m. and burial in Nevada City cemetery. Born January 23, 1857 in Omaha she moved with Emerson parents to Alderguich and Nevada City. She married Nicholas Carey of Adobetown in 1873. he died in 1905. She ran a pioneer store and post office until 1908.
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Sheridan
Mary Carey
Nevada City
Mont
Marsh Funeral
Laurin
Omaha
Neb
Carey
Alderguich
Frank
Bridget Emerson
Helena
Nicholas Carey
Adobetown
Alder Gulch
Civic Center bids exceed fund for complete project
Silver Bow county commissioners opened bids that total $1,448,034.75 for the civic center plan including auditorium stadium field and parking, well over the $946,236.93 available. Architect J G Link Jr said plans would be cut to fit the money, with focus on the auditorium first.
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Civic Center
Board of
Silver Bow County Commissioners
Civic Auditorium
Loretta L. Sullivan
Joe H. Sullivan
Emmett P. O’brien
Link
McKinnon- Decker
Helena
Reardon
Elis Paint
Military Leaders Land in Tokyo
United States joint chiefs of staff arrived in Tokyo to confer with General Douglas MacArthur on Far Eastern military issues. President Truman announced the hydrogen bomb would be built as top leaders discuss China, Formosa, and postwar alliances.
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Tokyo
U.P
United States Joint Chiefs of Staff
Douglas MacArthur
Truman
Washington
America
Asia
China
Japan
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Haneda
Misawa Air Force Base
Here
Misawa
United States
Omar N. Bradley
MacArthur
Formosa
Bradley
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Adm
Forrest P. Sherman
Navy
Russia Boycotts Tokyo Meeting
Russia boycotted the four power council on Japan over U S charges that Russia did not complete repatriation of Japanese war prisoners. Lt Gen Kuzma Derevyanko refused to attend as the council debated the fate of about 376000 Japanese unaccounted for since World War II.
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Tokyo
Russia
Council For
Japan
United States
Kuzma Derevyanko
MacArthur
Hydrogen bomb described as strictly killer would be devastating
United States already funds hydrogen bomb development under President Truman's order to rush work at the atomic energy commission. He warned Russia on global controls, stating the weapon could be the most horrific engine of destruction. Scientists discuss its potential power and contrast with peacetime atomic energy use.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
United States
Atomic Energy Commission
Russia
Mr. Truman
New York
Government Faces 100 Million Loss on Last Year Potato Crop
Government likely to discard about 50 million bushels of surplus potatoes bought under the farm price support program as losses total between 80 and 100 million dollars. Brannan testified before Congress noting disposal options include donations, livestock feed, or alcohol production, with potential field dumping or burning as possible methods.
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Washington
Jan
Congress
Brannan
Senate Agriculture Committee
Cooley
D-N. C
House Agriculture Committee
Brewster
Margaret Smith
Maine
Department of Agriculture
Anderson
D-N. M
Agriculture
Department
Helena Man Buys Butte Owsley Block in $125000 Deal
Paul L. Holenstein of Helena purchased the Owsley block, a five story office building at Park and Main in Butte. Revenue stamps on the deed show a sale price near $125,000. the Owsley Realty company once owned the property led by Andrew J. Davis Jr.
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Paul L. Holenstein
Helena
Owsley
Park and Main Streets
Butte
Owsley Realty Company
Andrew J. Davis, Jr
Increase in Farm Prices Reported
The Agriculture department reported a rise in farm prices of about 1 percent from mid December to mid January driven by higher truck crops and meat. Poultry eggs and dairy prices fell slightly while the prices farmers pay for family living and farm inputs rose a little over 1 percent.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Scientists Quickly Indorse Truman Hydrogen Bomb Decision
Atomic scientists in Chicago and elsewhere backed President Truman's move to pursue the hydrogen bomb. Harold C. Urey and Arthur Jaffee warned of the immense work ahead and potential Russian parity, while Irvin Stewart called the decision correct though troubling for democracy.
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Chicago
Truman
Harold C. Urey
University of Chicago
Urey
Arthur Jaffee
Argonne National Laboratories
Jaffee
Irvin Stewart
West Virginia University
Office of Scientific Research
John Swarthout
Oak Ridge, Tenn
Aerial guard planned around major atomic plants
The Air Force moves to establish an aerial guard line around major atomic plants in Tennessee New Mexico and Washington State and along the Atlantic coast from Norfolk to Maine. Planes within 100 miles of plants must file flight plans and those within 200 miles of the coast will be intercepted and identified by fighter planes under civil aviation rules.
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Washington
Air Force
Atlantic
Tennessee
New Mexico
Washington State
Norfolk
Maine
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Billings
Belgrade Broadus
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AEC
Paul F. Ellis
United Press Science
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