Charter for Tribunal Is Approved by MacArthur
Gen. MacArthur approves a charter creating an international war crimes tribunal to try top Japanese, with an American member who will be a civilian and a noted lawyer chosen. Indictments of Tojo and 15 to 20 others likely by mid February as the court prepares to convene.
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Tokyo
Gen. MacArthur
Hideki Tojo
Allied
MacArthur
Russia
Sugamo
Tojo
Sotaro Ishiwata
Imperial Household
Ishiwata
Viscount Yoshitami Matsuadaira
Peerage Bureau
Koichi Kido
Keefier
Privy Seal
Dillon Man Died in Action
Official confirmation that Lt. Paul Frank Fidler U S N R is dead was received by his Dillon parents from Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal. The PT 307 swimmered from base to base in Italy when storm damage caused equipment loss and the crew could not locate him. He was to receive the Silver Star and had the Purple Heart. he leaves a wife Rhoda Fidler and a son Robert in Callaway Nebraska.
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Dillon
Paul Frank Fidler
Frank Clark Fidler
James Forrestal
U.S. S
Italy
Leghorn
Fidler
Rhoda Fidler
Callaway
Neb
Robert
Bodies of Aerial Hunters Found Near Jordan Montana
In Jordan Montana on January 16 two aerial hunters were found dead after their plane crashed 18 miles west of town while chasing coyotes. Pilot Larry Dow 28 sat at the controls and gunner Bob Curtis 33 had a loaded rifle in his lap. the wreckage did not burn.
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Jordan
Montana
Larry Dow
Bob Curtis
Phillip J. Fellman
Dow
Curtis
Fourteen Die in Krasnystow Red Cross Dance Hall Blast
In Krasnystow Poland unidentified attackers threw hand grenades into a Polish Red Cross dancing party killing fourteen people and wounding thirty. Police said the incident occurred tonight in the building where the gathering was underway.
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Lublin
Poland
Red Cross
Krasnystow
Truman Demands Settlement of Wage Dispute
President Truman urged C. I. O. leader Philip Murray and Benjamin F. Fairless to settle the wage dispute by Thursday afternoon or face a public interest proposal. Government talks aim to end a nationwide packinghouse strike that has halted meat supplies, with 268000 workers out and a Washington conference scheduled.
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Truman
Washington
Philip Murray
United States Steel Corporation
Benjamin F. Fairless
Charles G. Ross
Schwellenbach
Lewis J. Clark
C. I. O. United Packinghouse Workers
A. F. L. Amalgamated Meat Cutters
Butte Montana Area Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy to cloudy conditions across Butte and western Montana Thursday and Thursday evening. Slight warming with highs 30 to 50 depending on area. Wednesday temperatures reach a high near 37 with a low around 0. East of Divide expect 40 to 50 high, 35 in northeast portion. West of Divide similar cloudy outlook with highs 30 to 40.
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Butte
Montana
Divide
Auto Breaks Up Street Fight Kills Participant
In Portland on January 16 a street clash between two brothers ended when a car struck and killed Lloyd Deucher, 37, as the brothers grappled in the road. Robert Deucher, 42, was injured but survived. Traffic officers noted both men failed to notice the oncoming vehicle amid the brawl.
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Portland
Ore
Paul E. Lippold
G. W. Morgan
Robert Deucher
Lloyd
Robert
Butte Streets to Be Marked
Butte city council authorized buying 500 street name signs for 375 dollars and assigned city engineer George Tippett to place them. City Clerk Beryl Wilson will handle purchase following Mayor Barry O Leary's recommendation to aid residents and visitors in navigation, addressing long standing confusion for deliveries, transport, mail, and care services.
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Butte
Beryl Wilson
George Tippett
Barry O'Leary
Jail Pinch Hits in Florida Housing Shortage
In St Petersburg Florida three retired men vacationing in town slept in a vacant jail cell while a well dressed woman with a poodle asked for a room. The sergeant phoned hotel and apartment offices and offered the jail as a last resort, with the woman spending the night on a bench beside headquarters.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Grain reserves may fall below 200 million bushels in 1946
The Agriculture Department warned U S wheat reserves could drop below 200 million bushels by July 1 1946 due to record world demand and high exports The department estimated January June exports could equal or exceed last July December shipments and noted inland stocks in Kansas North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Montana and the Pacific Northwest would be drawn down to meet export needs
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Kansas
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Montana
Pacific Northwest
Kilgore touts 3 million housing units a year target
Senator Kilgore argues that by mobilizing U S capacity and resources the nation could build 1,000,000 housing units this year and 2,000,000 the next. He envisions 3,000,000 annual production by mid 1948 and urges new techniques and materials. He backs an emergency housing bill to aid producers centralize purchasing and create a 500 million revolving loan fund.
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Washington
Kilgore
D-W. Va
Senate Banking Committee
German Gas Experts Arrested for War Crimes
In Herford three German gas experts Dr Brunn Tesch and Oesch directors Karl Weinbacher and Joachim Drossh n were seized by British authorities and held for trial on charges of supplying Zyklon B to concentration camps. Berlin police were armed under a limited rearming program to combat the crime wave.
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Herford
Germany
Brunn Tesch
Oesch and
Stebenow
Hamburg
Karl Weinbacher
Joachim Drosshn
Berlin
Plan to jail Japanese spies blocked by War Secrecy
Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel testified that Secretary of War Stimson blocked a pre Pearl Harbor plan to arrest Japanese consular officials spying on naval installations in Hawaii. He said the recommendation came from Adm. C C Bloch in 1941 and that the Army opposed the arrests. Kimmel said the fleet was on alert before the December 7 1941 attack and defended his actions as careful.
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Washington
Husband E. Kimmel
Stimson
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Kimmel
Pacific Fleet
C. C. Bloch
14Th
Hawaiian) Naval District
Bloch
Seth Richardson
Navy Department
Postal Station Burglary At Butte Substation
A burglary at Butte post office substation No 1 at 1718 Harrison saw burglars smash a rear storm door window and steal a booklet with 59 money order forms a circular rubber stamp and five rolls of pennies totaling 2 50 while postmistress Mrs Mayme Lenehan left for about 20 minutes Police report the burglars ignored cash in the drawer and safe and the incident is continued on page 3 col 4.
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Butte
Harrison
Mayme Lenehan
Bart J. Riley
Lenehan
Riley
del Rodda
Elmer Powell
Butte Veterans Return From Foreign Service
Pfc. Stanley J. Benney and T/Sgt. Robert W. Tippett arrive January 15 on the Howell Lykes at Tacoma. Montanan service members listed include Kenneth Hemstad Clarence Nybo Barney Alien Robert Evenson Philip Knaub Jr. James Perry Charles Wilson George Bearskin Robert Pritchard Elmer Likes Edwin Thomas Allen Talifson Alvin Unverzag t Clayton Haughanout William Erickson George Root Charles Kodis Emil Saltz Maurice Simonson Ernest Vandall.
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Stanley J. Benney
Clayton
Robert W. Tippett
Busch
Howell Lykes
Tacoma
Associated Press
Philip Knaub
Statehood Bid Faces House Committee Action
Hawaii’s bid to become the 49th state advances to the House territories subcommittee after testimony from more than 70 witnesses. Support cited Hawaii’s strategic military and economic position in the Pacific.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Union
House Territories
Pacific
Arab rulers declare Palestine an Arab country
Cairo dispatch reports Egyptian King Farouk and Saudi King Ibn Saud issued a joint statement affirming Palestine as an Arab country and vowing to keep it Arab, aligning with broader Arab and Muslim unity.
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Cairo
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Palestine
Draft plan uses single men to 45 and 4-Fs for replacements
Senator Johnson proposed drafting single men up to 45 and large groups of 4-Fs to provide overseas Army replacements. The War Department said Eisenhower will address the nation by radio on demobilization. Royall estimated $14 billion in Army property worldwide with $1.8 billion declared surplus.
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Washington
Johnson
D-Colo
War Department
Dwight D. Eisenhower
C.B.S
Royall
Revercomb
R-W. Va
Janitor Quizzed Again in Kidnap Slaying
Chicago January 16 U P Desere Smet a 35 year old janitor was taken into custody for a second time for questioning about the kidnapping and slaying of six year old Suzanne Degnan Police cited information from a Chicago girl arrested on a vagrancy charge Gloria Williams alias Patricia Johnson claimed she overheard remarks by Smet in a tavern suggesting possible involvement Smet denied the accusations and said he knew nothing of the case
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Chicago
U.P
Desere Smet
Suzanne Degnan
Smet
Sheboygan
Wis
Walter Storms
G. P. Garvey
Gloria Williams
Patricia Johnson
Mr. Five
Williams
Degnan
Walter
Death learned for Lt. Thomas H. Wilkinson of Scamp
Naval officer Lt. Thomas Harold Wilkinson of Butte and executive officer of the submarine Scamp is presumed dead after the vessel failed to return from a war patrol in November 1944. A 1943 Naval Academy graduate, he taught at the submarine school in New London before sea duty and survived by his wife and son, and four brothers in the service.
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Thomas Harold Wilkinson
Butte
Scamp
Navy Department
Adele Wilkinson
Dewey Boulevard
Wilkinson
Butte High School
Montana School of Mines
Butte Business College
Iran seeks UN protection against Soviet interference
Iran informed the United Nations Security Council it would seek protection from Russian interference in northern Iran where a self government movement has seen armed clashes. The move comes as the UN opens its first meetings amid other international disputes including a Dutch Indonesian conflict and Polish protests over British and Italian troop presence.
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London
United Nations Security Council
Iran
General Assembly
United Nations
Hilversum
Netherlands
E. N. van Kleffens
Poland
Security Council
Great Britain
Italy
James F. Byrnes
Middle East
Russia
Nasrullah Entezam
U S and Soviet Start Talks On Korean Trusteeship
The U S-Soviet commission began discussions in Seoul to shape Korea’s five year trusteeship and independence. Lt Gen John R Hodge and Col Gen Terenty Shukov opened talks aimed at coordinating administrative and economic policies to end Japanese oppression and restore normal life in Korea.
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Seoul
Korea
United States - Russian Commission
John R. Hodge
United States
Terentyi Shukov
Hodge
Shukov
A. V. Arnold
Sugar for Navy replenishes stocks to ease civilian scarcity
The Navy announced on Wednesday that over 21,000,000 pounds of surplus sugar from Pacific Ocean areas are en route to the United States to stock naval reserves. It is expected this move will indirectly alleviate civilian sugar shortages.
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Pearl Harbor
Navy
Pacific Ocean
United States
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