Price freeze proposal eyed to curb living costs in 30 days
Washington officials discussed a stopgap order to freeze most living costs for at least 30 days while price and wage controls are prepared. The plan would require manufacturers and retailers to give 30 days notice before raising prices, with food prices notably rising. The Wage Stabilization Board works on wage controls, and farm prices would remain largely exempt under the defense production act.
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Washington
Michael V. DiSalle
DiSalle
Defense Production Act
Wage Stabilization Board
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Economic Stabilization Administration
Demand for Federal Draft Law to Seize Hutterites
Four Montana county draft boards urge Congress to permit conscription of Hutterites and other conscientious objectors. Ed Walker of Lewis and Clark says boards will push for a federal law. Glacier Fergus Teton Pondera boards join, citing Hutterites deferring on religious grounds.
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Helena
Montana
Ed Walker
Lewis and Clark
Teton
Fergus
Glacier
Pondera
Canadian
Canada
Joseph J. Kleinsasser
Augusta
Associated Press
Traffic Accidents Rise in Butte Over Five-Year Span
Police records show 1007 accidents in 1950 up from 620 in 1946. There were 3 fatalities in 1950, 141 injuries, and 863 vehicle damages. The five-year table lists varied yearly totals with 1947 highest fatalities at four.
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Butte
City Election Registration Closes February 1
Voters are reminded that city primary registration for March 19 closes at 5 o clock February 1. Clerk William T. Duckham notes past totals include 15 572 eligible in 1949 and 14 075 in 1947. Books are open daily at the clerk’s office for re registration and transfers.
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William T. Duckham
Kremlin Agrees to Resume Lend Lease Talks
Washington reports Russia agreed to resume negotiations over its 11 billion dollar wartime lend lease balance. Talks set for January 15 in Washington to settle terms on remaining American supplies, after Moscow previously halted negotiations in 1948.
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Kremlin
Washington
Russia
United States
State Department
Moscow
Germany
Butte Weather Forecast Sees Light Snow Flurries
Variable cloudiness Saturday with occasional light snow flurries. Saturday temperatures range from 0 to 28 with a 0 to 10 North Dakota line note. West of Divide expect high 20 to 30 with foggy or cloudy conditions. east of Divide fair weather with highs 25 to 35. Data cover airports and Mines readings through Friday 5:30 pm.
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School of Mines
Montana
Divide
North Dakota
Draft age cut proposed in new defense bill
The Department of Defense outlines a bill to lower induction to 18, extend service to 27 or 30 months, and tighten deferments to reach a 3.5 million armed force. It aims to replace the 1948 act, with harsher penalties for delaying duty and a plan to end high school deferrals, starting with 18 year olds.
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Washington
Department of Defense
Felix Larkin
Department
Congress
Truman
Larkin
Defense Department
William Sheehan dies after roof fall in Butte
William Sheehan 42 of 18 East Copper street was fatally injured Friday when he slipped from a roof at 20 East Copper street while shoveling snow and fell about 12 feet to a concrete walk. Coroner says head injury and loss of blood led to death. no inquest. Survived by three sisters and an aunt. Funeral from Duggan's Merrill mortuary to Sacred Heart church, burial Holy Cross.
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William Sheehan
East Copper Street
Rudy E. Sayatovic
Sheehan
Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railroad
Butte
Veterans of Foreign Wars
BA and P Railroad
Mary Sheehan
Margaret Sheehan
Agnes Sheehan
Mary Byers
California
Ireland
Duggan
Merrill Mortuary
Sacred Heart Church
Holy Cross Cemetery
France to Name Meyrier as Postwar Ambassador to Spain
Paris reports Jacques Meyrier a senior Orient diplomat will become France’s first postwar ambassador to Franco Spain. The move follows UN diplomacy shifts and precedes potential Spain alignment in a North Atlantic defense framework. Other nations consider new envoys to Madrid as a recent UN boycott lifts.
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Paris
France
Jacques Meyrier
Orient
Spain
United States
Stanton Griffis
Argentina
Madrid
Britain
John Balfour
Rome
North Atlantic
United Nations
Franco
Hitler
Nine Bills Placed Before Legislators Before Weekend Recess
Montana lawmakers, in a three day weekend, considered nine bills including an income tax exemption for military pay up to 2400 dollars and a second injury clause for Workmen’s Compensation. The House and Senate adjourned to Monday to meet a constitutional 72 hour limit. The measures also covered mileage and per diem freezes and tax payments by the fish and game department, with sponsors led by Richard Nixon and Rep. Henry Loble.
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Helena
Montana
John W. Bonner
Richard Nixon
Blaine
Veterans Administration
Bonner
Henry Loble
Lewis and Clark
State Fish and Game Department
Senate
L. W. Busch
R-Fallon
Government lifts wheat and corn production restrictions
The Agriculture Secretary Brannan ends all production controls on wheat and corn for the year to safeguard grain reserves. Officials say the move aims to support expanded meat production and meet anticipated grain needs before new crops are harvested. Tobacco peanuts and rice remain under some controls.
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Washington
Brannan
Gamblers Will Face Contempt Charges
Senate crime investigators voted for contempt of Congress citations against Tony Accardo as Chicago underworld head. The panel also moved to cite Joe Adonis and several other witnesses who refused to testify about their personal affairs.
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Washington
Senate
Tony Accardo
Scarface
al Capone
Chicago
Joe Adonis
New York
Accardo
Adonis
Charges Remington as Red Recruiter in Dartmouth Era
A witness testified at the William W. Remington perjury trial that the former government economist recruited for the Young Communist League while a Dartmouth College student. The witness Roscoe C. Giles said he was recruited by Remington and two others during the 1937-38 school year.
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New York
William W. Remington
Young Communist League
Dartmouth College
Gregory F. Noonan
League
Communist Party
Remington
Roscoe C. Giles
Berkeley
Calif
YCL
Dartmouth
Auto Fatalities Set New Record in Montana 1950
The death of Anaconda man Charles Albert Roland, 47, on the last day of 1950 brings Montana automobile deaths to 204, a new record. Four others were injured in the four car crash near Anaconda. The state patrol in Helena notes 1950 as the highest annual total, surpassing 1941 and 162 in 1949. A record volume of cars used Montana highways, with traffic nine percent above 1949, and about 2,000,000 tourists visited the state in 1950.
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Anaconda
Montana
Charles Albert Roland
State Highway Patrol
Helena
Highway Patrol
Allen Shaver
Dodson
France Denies Red Charge of Broken Franco Soviet Treaty
France delivered a note to Russia in Moscow denying Soviet charges that the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance treaty was violated. Ambassador Yves Chataigneau handed the note to Andrei Vishinsky as Paris says France did not break the pact by backing West German rearmament and blames Russia for prompting Western rearmament. Britain also replies to similar Soviet charges.
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Paris
France
Russia
Yves Chataigneau
Andrei Vishinsky
Moscow
West Germany
Britain
119 Montanans Processed for Military Duty
Montana's main recruiting station processed 119 men for Army and Air Force entry. 68 were selective service inductees, the first Montana draft call for 1951, with 70 reporting in Butte and 2 failing to meet requirements. A weekly total swore in 240 men and three women, reaching a three day enlistment peak. the Friday group raises Montana totals to 358. Names by home counties include Vernon Cichosz and others across Blaine Valley Big Horn Custer Rosebud Gallatin Glacier Sanders counties. Continued on Page 3.
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Montana
Armed Forces
Army
Air Force
Butte
Blaine County
Vernon L. Cichosz
Benjamin B. Kirkaldie
Paul V. Nicholson
Larry M. Sheppard
Walter H. Fouts
Gordon L. Stewart
Valley County
Harland M. Hartley
John H. Long
Fletcher Clampitt
William M. Morehouse
Eugene R. Nicol
Marvin L. Cook
Robert L. Jimison
Big Horn County
Richard P. Williams
Herman R. Hamilton
Ted Little Light
George L. Littlewolf
Merle K. Havener
Custer County
Eugene C. O’brien
Robert J. Swanson
Charles G. Miller
Lacy E. McCraine
Rosebud
Duane R. Buell
Gallatin County
Harold F. Moss
Steven P. Cok
Phillip D. Westfall
David D. Hurst
William R. Blankenship
Thomas E. Barton
Martin J. Beckman
John D. Stephenson
Irvin L. Burke
A. Cooper
Clifford M. Hedger
Glacier County
Henry Bear
Robert C. Jensen
Man Hunted in Dillon Death
Albert Lawrence, 53, farm hand, died after a head wound from a blow. Coroner's jury finds unknown assailant caused the death. Police seek George Goodwin, 38, as a person of interest. fingerprints sent to Washington. Lawrence had been in the Dillon Idaho area for a decade and was found injured Sunday.
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Lawrence
Dillon
Goodwin
W. H. Stephan
Arthur van Sicklin
Washington, D. C
Idaho
Red forces press south of Seoul threatening UN retreat
Relentless Red troops attacked south of Seoul as they closed in on retreating United Nations forces. Air activity around Wonju and Suwon was curtailed with flights canceled to Wonju and Suwon. North Korean forces pushed near Wonju with hundreds of Chinese troops overrunning UN positions, while UN aircraft claimed thousands of enemy casualties in six days of January.
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Seoul
United Nations
NEA Telephoto
Tokyo
United Nations Air Force
Suwon
Tom Lambert
Wonju
Korea
Han River
Inchon
Han
United States Eighth Army
United States
Clite
Taft critiques Truman policy and urges Europe restraint
Senator Taft of Ohio challenged President Truman’s authority to deploy U S troops to Europe without Congress and urged a large buildup of air and sea power. He argued against extensive land forces overseas while affirming a world wide anti communist fight and urged caution on European commitments.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Truman
Europe
Congress
Russia
Senate
United States
Austin Appeals for Support Against Chinese Aggression in Korea
American Delegate Warren R Austin urged the free world to unite against Chinese aggression in Korea at the United Nations. He warned that a ceasefire seems unlikely and warned against allowing Red China to threaten UN forces, noting widespread talks with over 25 countries and concerns over enforcement action provoking war.
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London
United States
United Nations
Red China
Austin
United Nations Assembly
Korea
Free World
League of Nations
Court injunction halts Montana bond plan for veterans
A Montana district judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking $22 million in bonds to fund an honorarium for over 55 000 World War II veterans after a suit challenged the cigarette tax used to pay the program. James R Coyle, a former Japanese prisoner of war, seeks to join the case for veterans and argues the law is constitutional. The judge will rule later, with the matter headed to the state Supreme Court.
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Helena
Montana
A. J. Horsky
State Examiners Board
William F. Wilford
James R. Coyle
Horsky
Wilford
Montana Supreme Court
Mercury Drops to 20 Below at Glasgow
Helena Jan 5 Temperatures in Montana stayed below freezing with Glasgow recording 20 degrees below zero and Superior reporting 35 above at the weather bureau check station. Other lows included 17 below at Out Bank 8 below Miles City 5 below Lewistown and 3 below Great Falls as Glasgow remained furthest from rising above zero.
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Helena
Monetana
Glasgow
Superior
Weather Bureau
Out Bank
Miles City
Lewise Town
Great Pails
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