Meetings to discuss eight hour day in Butte planned
A dinner meeting of the Build Butte committee outlined a plan for tradesmen and employers to meet by trade, then join the committee to present a program to unions. Over 80 attendees discussed mutual benefits of a return to eight hours amid a $6,000,0000 building push and national data on construction.
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Butte
Build Butte Committee
Treasure State Room
Hotel Finlen
John Hample
Build Butte
Hample
United States
Department of Labor
Butte Community Memorial Hospital
Producers Unite in Fight With John Lewis
Almost all the soft coal industry urged the NLRB to seek a Taft-Hartley court injunction to force John L. Lewis and his miners to return to a full work week. President Truman said no plans to intervene in the United Mine Workers three day week. ICC Chair Johnson warned of possible further cuts in passenger service if coal shortages worsen. Denham could seek a court order to compel bargaining and end the three day week. he is studying the case and planning talks with Lewis.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Taft-Hartley
John L. Lewis
Truman
United Mine Workers
J. Monroe Johnson
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Johnson
NLRB
Robert N. Denham
Lewis
Illinois
Far West
Denham
Midwest
St. Louis
Citizens Committee
Montana Supreme Court Refuses Grand Jury Pay Case
Helena January 5 The Montana Supreme Court declined to assume jurisdiction in a suit to halt county grand jury funding. Roger Porter a garageman facing 16 indictments sought to block warrants for jury expenditures. The court said facts require district court testimony and dismissed without prejudice to later action. Porter previously obtained a temporary injunction blocking special jury appropriations.
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Helena
Montana Supreme Court
Roger Porter
Supreme Court
Porter
Farm Hand Pleads Guilty to Murder in Love Plot
Leo Cordy aged 18 admitted shooting Maurice Lippert aged 46 in Aldenville Pa last December to free Lippert’s wife to marry him. Cordy pleaded guilty to murder and faced sentencing.
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Honesdale
Leo Cordy
Maurice Lippert
Aldenville
Stockmen Press Free Enterprise at ANLA Session
The American National Livestock Association urged free enterprise and opposed socialism at its 53rd annual convention in Miami. Delegates from cattle states backed a resolution pledging to support competitive enterprise and resist welfare state doctrines, warning of a loss of freedom under a controlled state.
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Miami
Fla
American National Livestock Association
United States
Henry Boice
Tucson
Ariz
Blackbirds Freed by Ice Picks After Freezing in Oklahoma
About 100 blackbirds were trapped at Lake Overholser edge in Oklahoma City when a freezing mist froze them to the ground. Rangers used salt and ice picks to free 35 or 40 quickly, while the rest were chipped from the ice and moved to a nearby municipal garage to thaw. The birds recovered rapidly.
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Oklahoma City
Lake
Overholser
Red N. Smith
Smith
Bozeman Woman to Be 102 Today
Gallatin county’s oldest living resident Miss Lilla Bogert turns 102 Friday. She has lived in Bozeman and was a hospital patient in recent years. Her late brother J W Bogert was Bozeman’s first mayor and she was an artist craftswoman and poet. She helped found Sunset Hills cemetery and one recreation park bears the Bogert name.
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Bozeman
Gallatin County
Lilla Bogert
J. W. Bogert
Miss Bogert
Sunset Hills Cemetery
Truman to send mild economic message to Congress
Washington report notes President Truman will deliver a restrained annual economic message to Congress and details a tax reform plan. Advisers Leon Keyserling and John D. Clark expect cooperation from business to sustain a healthy economy with possible repeal of some wartime excise taxes.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
House
Senate
Council of Economic Advisers
Leon Keyserling
John D. Clark
Physician Pleads Innocent Freed Under Unusual Bail
Dr Herman N Sander a New Hampshire country physician pleaded not guilty to first degree murder after being charged with injecting air into a patient's veins to cause death. He was released on 25000 bail with strict conditions including refraining from practice until trial. The case drew national attention and led to questions about capital punishment in New Hampshire.
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Manchester
N. H
Liberty
New Hampshire
Herman N. Sander
Abbie Borreto
Sander
Borreto
Bar of Justice
William L. Phinney
Czech Says Party Purge Under Way
Bo humil Lausman, a former Czech minister and deputy premier, said at a news conference in Frankfurt that a major purge of the Communist party is underway in Czechoslovakia. He predicted upcoming trials against alleged enemies of the Czech Communist government.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Communist Party
Bohumil Lausman
Russian atomic second explosion predicted for Jan 7
London editor Kenneth De Courcy, of the Monthly Intelligence Digest, claims a second Russian atomic blast is set for midnight GMT Saturday January 7, with a postponement possible to January 10 if technical issues arise. He cites informants in several eastern countries and cites monitoring by scientists.
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London
Kenneth de Courcy
Greenwich
Moscow
de Courcy
Russia
Atomic Scientists Association of Britain
Japan
Truman
Washington
McMahon retires as A C M labor commissioner after 53 years
William J. McMahon, labor commissioner for the Anaconda Copper Mining company, retires after 53 years of service dating to 1896. Eugene Hogan succeeds him as assistant general superintendent of mines in a Thursday announcement from Anaconda officials.
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William J. McMahon
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Eugene Hogan
Anaconda Company
McMahon
E. S. McGlone
Virginia City
Nev
Butte
Flooding, Ice Slows Roads Across Wide Region
Floodwaters broke through Indiana levees at Attica and Clay City as rising Wabash floods Logansport isolating the city. Three drownings reported with hundreds displaced. Freezing rain coated highways across Texas to Ohio, delaying travel and halting air traffic.
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Texas
Ohio
Indiana
Arkansas
Missouri
Kentucky
Tennessee
Illinois
Pennsylvania
New York State
Attica
Clay City
Terre Haute
Logansport
California
Seaboard
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Mephis
Tenn
Weather for Butte and surrounds Friday
Mostly cloudy with a light snowfall expected in Butte area. Temperatures will rise slowly from single digits to a high near 10 to 20 degrees, with colder readings at specific locations and ongoing winds in the Yellowstone valley.
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Divide
Yellowstone Valley
Warmer Weather Seen for Today
Forecasters predicted a milder day with not more than 10 degrees above zero on Friday. Overnight low near zero could dip to minus 5 with possible changes, while daytime highs reached 9 at the airport and 7 at the School of Mines on Thursday.
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School of Mines
Butte
Montana
Great Falls
Helena
Boulder
Montana Power Company
Aircraft Plants Engage in Secret Postwar Research
In southern California nearly every aircraft plant joins a hush hush postwar study labeled push button warfare. The survey notes no disclosure of spending or personnel, but says missiles might fly 3,000 to 5,000 miles once developed. Dr William Boljay calls the effort as demanding as atomic bomb work.
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Los Angeles
California
William Boljay
North American Aviation Aerophysics Laboratory
Housing Shortage Strains Bonn Residents and Diplomats
Bonn report details a worsening housing shortage as thousands of civil servants and news staff seek homes in the bomb damaged city. Twelve foreign diplomatic missions are newly accredited to the allied high commission, competing for scarce houses and offices. Even Maj. Gen. George P. Hays awaits accommodation.
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Bonn
West Germany
Allied High Commission
George P. Hays
United States
Britain to Recognize Red China Within 24 Hours
President Truman rejected U S aid to Chinese Nationalists defending Formosa and urged evacuations as Britain prepared to recognize the Chinese Communist regime within 24 hours. Acheson said the move to normal relations was premature and not tied to congressional actions.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
United States
Formosa
Dean Acheson
United States Army
Navy
Japan
Philippines
China
State Department
Department
Acheson
Britain
Russia
Armi
Young War Vet May Be Identified Soon
In Alice Texas on January 5 authorities report a six foot one inch veteran, who believes FDR is president, is being helped by residents to learn his prewar life. Police Chief Bell Clegg says fingerprints were sent to FBI headquarters and a report should arrive within days, likely confirming his identity. Dr P Gordon Clare of Alice has been assisting the man’s efforts.
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Alice
Texas
U.P
Bell Clegg
Clegg
FBI
Washington
P. Gordon Clare
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Chinese Communists Prepare Invasion of Hainan Island
Government officials said two landing attempts on Hainan island by Chinese Communists failed and a large invasion force of about 3800 junks and small boats was expected from hour to hour.
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Hainan Island
MacArthur Pushes Clear Far East Policy Against Communism
General Douglas MacArthur seeks a definite US line in Asia beyond which Communism cannot spread. He plans to urge Dr. Philip Jessup in Tokyo that anti Communist policy in Asia be as clear as Europe. Officials note debate over Formosa’s strategic value and intervention risk.
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Tokyo
U.P
Douglas MacArthur
United States
MacArthur
Philip C. Jessup
Dean Achesor
Chie
Asia
Polic
Europe
Tha MacArthur
Jessup
Presiden
Truman
Formosa
Stat Department
Philippine
Philippines
East Indies
Japan
State Department
Builders urge joint effort to rebuild Butte from all sides
At a Build Butte banquet craftsmen and employer-contractors urged concerted action by labor, management, and the public to improve conditions in the local construction industry. One craftsman noted 350 unemployed workers and said weather alone does not explain it. The group discussed possibly returning eight hours for those now on six, stressing mutual faults and a need for inspection-based reform.
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Build Butte
Butte
Build
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