Winter Renews Its Grip on Treasure State
Montana shivers as Old Man Winter brings a bitter cold wave sweeping south from Canada. Forecasters warn of 25 below readings by Thursday with more snow and plummeting temperatures across Lewistown Great Falls Helena Drummond Billings Clinton Georgetown Lake and Anaconda as wind chills rise and conditions worsen.
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Canadian Plains
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Silver Lake
Andrew Johnson
Georgetown Lake
Lake
Anaconda
Butte Residents End Gala Holiday Season
Butte residents on Wednesday night wrapped up a festive Yuletide season in mining city history and prepared to return to ordinary life. Adults enjoyed the break while younger people still had vacation days for continued winter celebrations before school resumes.
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Yuletide
Bomb Blasts Injure Eight in Madrid New Year Event
Two small bombs exploded on New Year’s Eve in Madrid. One bomb damaged the fence around the Hotel Ritz injuring eight passersby. A second blast near a small bar near the city center injured eight more people.
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Hotel Ritz
Plane Crashes Into House After Emergency Landing Attempt
A chartered DC-3 with 17 aboard including magician John Calvert crashed into a house on Nashville outskirts during an emergency landing. Two women in the home were severely injured. no fatalities. Plane left Richmond at 3 30 p m in bad weather with passengers bruised but expected to recover.
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Nashville
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U P
John Calvert
Richmond
Brooklyn Beach Swimmer Tied to Bizarre Camera Shooting
Police link a sunken shooter case to Alphonse Rocco 30 missing husband of Olga Rocco after a man in underwear and gloves waded from Brighton Beach and swam offshore. A witness, Pearl Lusk, identified the shooter as Allan LaRue while detailing the plan to photograph Mrs. Rocco for an insurance case.
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New York
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Brighton Beach
Bizzarre
Alphonse Rocco
Olga Rocco
Roosevelt Hospital
Pearl Lusk
Times Square
Rocco
Harry Leventhal
Leventhal
Harry Strauss
New York City
Butte Weather Forecast Clear to Colder Thursday Night
Butte forecasts clear to partly cloudy and colder Thursday and night. Readings near 21 to 25 degrees at School of Mines and Airport with lows around 12. Snowfall near 0.4 inches and precipitation about 0.02 inches. West of Divide mostly fair with possible snow flurries later.
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United States Weather Bureau
Butte
School of Mines
Divide
Party Peace Prevails on Capitol Hill
On Capitol Hill harmony marked the approach to the 80th Congress opening. House Democrats and Republicans planned caucuses while a leadership dispute for the Senate Commerce Committee lingered for Senator Reed. President Truman will outline a state of the union Monday with budget and economy messages expected midweek. Speaker Rayburn plans to hand over to Joseph Martin Jr. amid ongoing leadership tensions.
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Texas
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Massachusetts
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Ohio
Thomas A. Jenkins
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Halleck
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Train Passenger Killed by Bullet on Missouri-Kansas-Texas Train
In Muskogee Oklahoma Oscar Gill 24 of Durant attacked conductor Walter Plunkard on a Texas special train from St Louis to Dallas. Plunkard fired once in self defense as Gill roamed the dark Pullman cars near Wagoner Oklahoma. Gill died at the scene with a wounded finger bite described by witnesses.
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Durant
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Walter C. Plunkard
Oklahoma City
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St. Louis
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Oklahoma
Newport News
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Prunkard
Wagoner
Plunkard
New Year Opens With Relatively Small Cost in Human Lives
The New Year toll reached 79 violent deaths from 58 highway fatalities in the period starting 6 p m New Year Eve. California led in traffic deaths with 14, 12 on highways. Five died in a freighter crash near Charleston South Carolina and two couples were killed in a car train collision near Madison South Carolina. States reported traffic deaths first with details by state. The National Safety Council had warned 130 would die in traffic over the period. Weather and caution limited fatalities.
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New York
Ohio
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South Dakota
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Virginia
West Virginia
Wyoming
District of Columbia
John S. Benjamin Summoned in Helena
John S. Benjamin, 67, former state secretary of the Republican central committee and ex-assistant administrator of the Montana liquor control board, died at Fort Harrison Veterans Hospital after long illness. He had lived in Stillwater and Helena, served as Stillwater sheriff, and was a WWII veteran. Survived by wife Meda, daughters Dorothy and Alena, a sister, and a Melan family home listed. burial planned in Manhattan, Kansas.
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Republican Central Committee
Montana Liquor Control Board
Veterans’ Hospital
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Mich
Broken Bow Neb
Jolly Dolly Pringle
Andrew McPhee
Montana
Rapelje
Stillwater County
Stillwater
Congress
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Liquor Control Board
North Benton
Meda Benjamin
Dorothy Benjamin
Alena Benjamin
George Harker
Columbia Falls
Masonic Order
Episcopal Church
Opp-Conrad- Retz
Manhattan
Kan
Prisoners Were Well Fed When War Ended
Lt. John Charles Van Nooten testified at the international war crimes tribunal that American and Australian POWs on Amboina island were inundated with food medicines and clothing after the war ended. The testimony came as the trial of 27 wartime Japanese leaders resumed in Tokyo.
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Amboina Island
Netherlands East Indies
International War Crimes Tribunal
John Charles van Nooten
French Quell Rebellion in Indo China Battambang clashes end
Paris dispatch reports French forces crushed a rebel force in western Cambodia near Battambang. The Issarks a 2000 to 3000 strong group armed from Siam and trained by Viet Namese led raids, burned villages and killed over 100 in a pro French Catholic village as reinforcements arrived at Cape St. Jacques Saigon.
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Cambodia
Strifetorn Tonkin
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Siam
Issarks
Marius Moutet
Saigon
France
Europe
Cape St. Jacquies
Pasteur
Senate finds Bilbo misused office for personal gain
The Senate war investigating committee said Senator Theodore G Bilbo of Mississippi misused his high office for personal gain and violated federal statutes. Chairman Kilgore stated the report and evidence were sent to the attorney general for action and noted final judgment rests with the Senate as a body. The report hints at possible bipartisan support to remove Bilbo.
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Washington
Jan
Senate War Investigating Committee
Theodore G. Bilgo
D-Miss
Senate
Kilgore
D-W. Va
Bilbo
United States
Pilot tops amputation to save life after crash
Capt. Herbert Tansey of the Trans-World airliner near Erie, after a crash last Saturday, allowed doctors to amputate his right leg on Wednesday night following his wife's pleas to save his life.
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Erie
U.P
Herbert Tansey
Here
Fire Drives Guests From Cadiz Hotel
A $35,000 blaze at an ice plant in Cadiz Kentucky spread to the nearby hotel early Wednesday forcing 20 pajama-clad guests to flee into heavy snowfall and sub freezing air. All evacuees were rescued including 80 year old invalid Mrs. Clara Miller taken from the second floor to the city clinic.
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U.P
Cadiz Hotel
Clara Miller
City Clinic
Parliamentary Move To Block Bilbo From Senate Seat
Republican Senate leaders study a tactic to prevent Sen. Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi from taking his oath Friday. The policy committee favors stopping him at the door and forcing an immediate vote on his fitness, leveraging Democratic votes to block his oath. Bilbo vows possible Southern filibuster if blocked.
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U.P
Senate
Theodore G. Bilbo
D-Miss
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
G. O. P. Senate
Elbo
Taft
Bilbo
Ohioan
Search Continues for Bank Robbers in Battle Ground
A joint federal state and city police search for three armed men who robbed the Battle Ground State bank of $18,000 Tuesday led to an abandoned car about 12 miles away. A bullet hole in the car’s window marked the escape as investigators sought the robbers 29 hours after the holdup.
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Battle Ground
Wash
United States
Ed Bannon
Tragic Arkansas Police Chiefs Die In Murder Suicide
In Little Rock the detective chief O N Martin and detective Lieut Jack Deubler were found shot near a police squad car in Lakewood. Coroner labeled death murder and death by own action as both officers had been up for promotions following yesterday's retirement. Martin survived by a widow and daughter. Deubler by a widow and daughter.
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Ark
O. N. Martin
O. F
Jack) Deubler
Lakewood
Howard A. Dishough de
Martin
Detective Story
Deubler
Dishondh
J. I. Steed
J. A. Pitcock
Steed
Dishough
Detective Bureau
Federal Bureau of Investigation
National Police Academy
Police Department
O. W. Lechner
Fort Wayne
Ind
Disarmament Question Is at Issue in UN Debate
United Nations Security Council moves toward a critical disarmament debate as the United States and Russia clash over procedure. Delegates seek instructions from their governments while the council mulls starting talks that could last months and focuses on atomic control and a broad ban on weapons of mass destruction.
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N. Y
U.P
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United Nations Security Council
United States
Russia
Council
Herschel Johnson
Security Council
Andrei Gromyko
Johnson
Gromyko
Revelry and Resolve Mark New Year Across Nations
A postwar world greeted 1947 with hope and warnings as Britain celebrates a shift to coal nationalization, London hosts a wild New Year, and the United States records costly U S year-end revelry. Truman returns to the White House while Russia Trumpets peace hopes. Franco and Yoshida issue defiant, cautious Year messages.
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Greece
Spain
Francisco Franco
Yoshida
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