Northwest Storm Toll Tops 34 in Worst Blizzard
The Northwest faced its worst storm, with 34 deaths nationwide including nine in the Northwest blizzard. Montana froze to minus 45, Minnesota and the Dakotas endured 50 mile winds, while roads iced over and snowdrifts blocked US 2. A milder Pacific wave followed, but cold persisted across the region and into the Midwest.
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Associated Press
Northwest
Great Lakes
Canada
Minnesota
Dakotas
Washington
Pacific
Weather Bureau
Montana
Chester
Glasgow
Havre
Nyack
Summit
Glacier Park
Midwest
Spokane
Wash
Seattle
Portland
Ore
Aberdeen
S. D
Auto Dives Into Creek In Near Freezing Night Rescue
Bernard Madden 18 of Basin drove off the Texas avenue overpass into Silver Bow creek and escaped the upside down car. He dragged companion Billy Bragg 19 of Butte from the water, tramped a half mile to a service station to call police, then both were taken to St. James hospital with shock and possible injuries.
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Bernard Madden
Basin
Texas Avenue
Silver Bow Creek
Madden
St. James Hospital
Billy Bragg
Butte
Bragg
Harrison Avenue
North Washington
Gen Hap Arnold Dies at His California Ranch Home
Gen Henry H. Hap Arnold died of a heart attack at his Sonoma California ranch early Sunday. The 63 year old wartime airman had attended a gala dinner the night before and had a history of heart problems. Arnold, Army Air Force founder and first four star general, retired to cattle ranch life in 1946 and later became a five star general before his 1949 transfer to the Air Force.
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Hap Arnold
California
Frank H. Bartholomew
United Press
Pacific Area
H. H
Hap) Arnold
Sonoma
Calif
U.P
Henry H
America
Valley of the Moon Ranch
Arnold
Hap
West Point
Stalin
Russia
Army Air Force
Air Force
Army
Stop Supplies to Russia Arnold Urged
Sonoma Calif Jan 15 Gen H H Hap Arnold urged stopping American supplies to Russia as a means to force Stalin to negotiate. He cited Berlin blockade as a result of cutting aid to eastern Germany and spoke on his last public stance before his death at 7:25 am PST. Adm Cooke and publisher Walter Murphy joined the Sonoma gathering honoring Murphy's birthday.
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Sonoma
Calif
U.P
Stalin
Russia
H. H
Hap
Arnold
Germany
Berlin
Marshal Stalin
Charles M. Cooke, Jr
Sonoma Valley
Cooke
United States Naval Forces
Western Pacific
United States
England
China
Adm
Walter L. Murphy
Unemployment Wanes or Grows in Postwar West Germany
In Frankfurt and Bonn, western Germany shows strong business and heavy housing needs yet 1.558 million jobless, a postwar peak. Officials cite rapid population growth, war displacement, and capital shortages as key factors while a 250000 new dwellings plan could create about 200400 jobs, though pessimism remains about solving unemployment this year.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Anton Storch
Bonn
Storch
Allied
West Germany
Russia
United States
March of Dimes Campaign Readied in Silver Bow County
The March of Dimes drive opens Monday with a local goal of 12000 and runs two weeks to January 31. E B Wainwright notes last year’s 8000 raised and raises the county goal to prepare for possible polio outbreaks. Junior League will distribute coin collectors, with Mrs David Cohen chairing the committee. Frank Panisko will kick off salutes atop Big Butte. Special events include bowling, carnival, and dances. In 1949 about 40000 polio cases were reported nationwide, with 80 percent receiving foundation aid and 17000 needing continued treatment costing 20000000 in 1950.
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National Foundation For
Butte
Silver Bow
Wainwright
David Cohen
Frank Panisko
Big Butte
Legion OKs reforms but guards veterans needs
Helena dispatch reports Montana American Legion leaders endorsed Hoover commission reforms but oppose any measures that harm disabled veterans or their dependents. J. B. C. Knight urged maintaining veterans benefits while supporting reform. Discussion covered veterans hospitalization, vacant hospitals, and regional veteran care. The two day midwinter conference featured state officials and university law enforcement honors, with Boys State plans announced for Dillon in August.
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Helena
National American Legion
Montana
Legion
Hoover Commission
J. B. C. Knight
Anaconda
Montana Legion
George A. Selke
University of Montana
America
Selke
V. O. Overcash
Cut Bank
Overcash
Eugene W. Savage
Butte
Boys State
Dillon
J. E. Martie
Reno
Nev
R. B. Downs
Veterans
S. H. Mitchell
E. A. King
Livingston
Department
Rescuers Save Coal Miner and Fear Brother Is Dead
In Mahano y City Pennsylvania rescuers tunneled through muck to lift 30 year old Joe Burda from a cave in a coal mine after 40 hours entombment Then they searched for his brother Eddie 25 feared crushed beneath coal at a lower level of the 68 degree stope Frank 19 reached the surface earlier as the collapse trapped the brothers The rescue team faced 48 hours of danger before confirmation of Eddie s fate remains uncertain
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Mahanoy City
Joe Burda
Eddie
Frank
Bell Company Strike Postponed by Union Officials
ST LOUIS January 15. A proposed strike against the Southwestern Bell Telephone company was postponed Sunday for at least one day, union officials announced.
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ST. Louis
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Miners Revolt Grows in Western Pennsylvania
In Pittsburgh on January 15, about 22,000 striking western Pennsylvania miners defied John L. Lewis and refused to return to work, while 31 locals in northern West Virginia resumed digging. The Fayette county group, many in captive pits, pressed for a five day week as the union leadership urged a three day week and compliance with Lewis.
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Pennsylvania
Lewis
Pittsburgh
United Mine Worker
Western Pennsylvania
John L. Lewis
West Virginia
United Mines Workers
William Hynes
UMW
Paul Terreta
Isabella
Weirton Coal Company
Terreta
Fayette County
District Four
Uniontown
United Mine Workers of America
John Busarello
UMW Pittsburgh District 5
Schuman Proposes Peace Approach on Saar to Adenauer
French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman after a private talk with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Bonn said France favors delaying any Saar settlement until a German peace treaty is signed. Adenauer warned against unilateral frontiers changes, while Schuman said talks sought to ease Franco German tensions and any agreement would be subject to the peace treaty.
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Bonn
Germany
Robert Schuman
Saar
Konrad Adenauer
Schuman
Adenauer
France
New Filter Saves Changing Oil in Cars
In Maryville Tennessee on January 15 an Alcoa engineer announced a new car filter that allows driving without changing motor oil. The device, called a treater, cleans oil to cut nine tenths of wear from sludge, with potential $300 savings over 40,000 miles per vehicle.
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Maryville
Tenn
J. E. Housley
Aluminum Company of America
Alcoa
New York
Housley
Houseley
Weather forecast for Butte and Divide regions
Partly cloudy to cloudy with light snow and a slight warming trend. Maximums around 15 with a 0 to 4 degree minimum noted at the School of Mines. Airport readings show 14 to -4. West of Divide stays cloudy with snow and little temperature change, high 5 to 15. East of Divide shows mixed cloudy and snow flurries, highs from minus 15 in the northeast to plus 15 in the southwest.
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School of Mines
Divide
Northcentral
Finns to vote for electoral college for president
In Helsinki 2.5 million Finns will vote Monday and Tuesday to choose a 300 member electoral college. The February ballot will decide Finland's next president with three candidates Paasikivi Kekkonen and Pekkala. Paasikivi leads the four party bloc with 108 of 200 parliament seats. The Soviet note on Russian war criminals is seen as largely irrelevant to the vote. Voters focus on internal issues such as farm price supports and higher wages for workers.
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Helsinki
Finland
Juho K. Paasikivi
Social Democrats
Veterans Insurance Checks Out Today
The first WWII veterans will receive refunds totaling 2.8 billion dollars as the Veterans Administration and Treasury begin mailing checks. Aiming to deliver up to 1,000,000 payments weekly, the program seeks to reach 16,000,000 veterans by June 30, with first-day mailings sent to post offices nationwide.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
The
Treasury
Fire destroys bunkhouse area near mushroom plant
Fire caused by an exploding stove disrupted 40 workers in a bunkhouse seven miles north of Denver on US 87 Sunday night. About 5000 dollars in damage occurred to buildings around the Great Western mushroom plant. One man Manuel Vigil was overcome by smoke. the blaze was halted before threatening the main plant.
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Denver
Great Western
Here
Julius Disner
Adams County
Manuel Vigil
Nationalists Air Force Gains Success
The Chinese Nationalists report increased air force effectiveness and rising optimism amid US Peiping tensions. They claim raids sunk Communist boats near Swatow and on the invasion coast opposite the Chusan islands, while recounting 1949 and early 1950 air force actions and casualties.
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Taipei
Formosa
United States
Peiping
Truman
Jessup
Air Force
Air Headquarters
Swatow
Chusan Islands
Nampa Island
Shanghai
Red Coast
Plane crash in Alabama kills two couples near Leeds
Four people, two couples from Chanute Kansas, died when their four seat private plane struck a rugged Alabama mountainside about 9 am. A search party reached the wreckage around noon after rugged terrain forced them to travel a half mile on foot. Pilot George Hanes of Southern Airways identified the dead as Mr and Mrs E L Collins and Mr and Mrs Bedford Miley.
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Birmingham
E. C. Knight
M. W. Jacks
George Hanes
Southern Airways
E. L. Collins
Bedford Miley
Chanute
Kan
Building crafts debate on eight hour workday stance
A local building expert argued craftsmen in the community are as healthy as any in the United States to support an eight hour schedule. Union members will be asked to vote on restoring the eight hour day once contractor employers and the Build Butte committee review reports after the vote.
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United States
Build Butte
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