G. I. Demonstrations Banned in Order by Eisenhower
General Eisenhower announced no further G I demonstrations and ordered inspectors to visit every camp and post to monitor demobilization progress. He urged soldiers to go through proper channels for complaints or requests and cited MacArthur’s plan to reduce Pacific troop strength from 1,168,000 to about 400,000 by July 1 with a 375,000 July target.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
G. I
Senate
Eisenhower
Inspector General's Department
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Pacific Ocean
Pacific
War Department
Department
Truman Proposes Steel Labor Settlement Plan
President Truman submitted an undisclosed plan to end the steel strike threat after direct talks with C I O and U S Steel’s Benjamin F Fairless failed. C I O President Murray summoned the six member strategy committee to Washington to review the proposal as negotiations continued in Detroit with the United Auto Workers. Murray and Fairless reported remaining at odds, and the President’s plan was to be discussed with their organizations.
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Associated Press
Truman
Philip Murray
C. I. O. United Auto Workers
Washington
Murray
Benjamin F. Fairless
U. S. Steel Corporation
White House
Charles G. Ross
Fairless
Strategy Committee
Detroit
General Motors
Auto Workers’ Committee
Ross
Credit for China Is Approved
The Export-Import Bank approved a 33 million dollar credit to China for raw cotton purchases. The 21 percent interest rate and 24 month repayment after cotton arrival reflect shipping and transport times. Chinese bank and government guarantees back the loans to support cloth manufacture and reduce reliance on aid.
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Washington
China
United States
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Jet Propelled Plane Sets Flight Record
Lt Claude L Wolford piloted a Lockheed Shooting Star jet fighter from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 42 minutes 33 seconds cutting the former record by over one third. The standard model flew at 16000 feet for most of the run into an 18 mile per hour headwind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
U.P
San Francisco
Claude L. Wolford
Belief Missouri Valley Authority Bill Dead in Session
Senate agriculture chair Thomas said Murray's Missouri Valley Authority bill is dead for this session after the Senate removed the March 15 deadline for hearings. Hearings may be held through year end, with a postponement on start and a possible field hearing decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas
D-Okla
Senate Agriculture Committee
Murray
Dmont
Missouri Valley Authority
Congress
Senate
C Ittee
Butte Soldier Among Montana Veterans Landing in the States
Sgt. Laverne E. Goldsmith of Butte was listed as arriving Friday in the United States after overseas service. The Associated Press list names Montana veterans returning from foreign theaters aboard ships Dauphine and Jonathan Edwards with arrival dates in San Francisco New York January 16 17 and home towns including Billings Westby Kalispell Conrad Bonner Ingomar Ronan Cut Bank.
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Laverne E. Goldsmith
Butte
United States
Goldsmith
Montana
Associated Press
Dauphine
San Francisco
Cecil P. Brim
Billings
Andrew Christofferson
Westby
David L. Snyder
Kalispell
Jonathan Edwards
Thirty-seven Hurt In Portland Bus Streetcar Collision
A head on crash between a crowded bus and a streetcar during Friday rush hour in Portland injured 37 people, with 20 in serious condition. Bus driver Harold R. Stanton, 43, faced questioned as witnesses cited a swerved path and rearward movement to avoid the trolley. Many victims were treated on scene. several were taken to St. Vincent's and police emergency hospital. Ambulances and a disaster car responded. neighborhood drug stores aided victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
U,pa
Harold R. Stanton
Stanton
St. Vincent's Hospital
Police Emergency
W H Cowles laid to rest in Spokane funeral services
Spokane mourns W H Cowles pioneer publisher and AP director for 33 years. He died Tuesday at 79 after shaping a family of papers including the Spokane Daily Chronicle Spokesman Review Washington Farmer Idaho Farmer and Oregon Farmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
W. H. Cowles
Associated Press
Cowles
Spokane Daily Chronicle
Spokesman-Review
Washington Farmer
Idaho Farmer
Oregon Farmer
Call Churchill Testimony Proposal Sparks Pearl Harbor Row
A proposal by Senator Ferguson to have former Prime Minister Churchill testify about Roosevelt era talks triggered a stormy Pearl Harbor committee session. Admiral Kimmel testified five Pacific fleet aides backed his claim of withheld information pointing to Japan's attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Churchill
Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
Ferguson
R-Mich
Husband E. Kimmel
Pacific Fleet
Kimmel
Japan
Florida
Britain
United States
Cooper
D-Tenn
Seth Richardson
President Steamship sale appeal set for Saturday
The U S Maritime Commission plans to sell the American President Steamship Lines to private owners and five stockholders of the President Line seek an injunction. The DC appellate court will hear the case on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.S. Maritime Commission
American President Steamship Lines
District of Columbia
President Line
Post-Mortem Finds Brain Disease in Ley-Hitler Henchman
Army pathologists report Dr Robert Ley a Nazi labor front leader suffered long standing brain disease likely impairing judgment and emotions. Ley hanged himself in October to avoid war crimes trial. his brain was sent from Germany for study in Washington.
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Robert Ley
Hitler
Washington
Army Institute of Pathology
Army Surgeon General's Office
Labor Front
Reich
Institute of Pathology
Ley
Nazi Party
Germany
Security Council Organized at Historic Meeting
The United Nations Security Council, tasked as custodian of global armament sites including atom bomb factories, formally opened in Church House Westminster. Eleven nations sat around a horseshoe table as Nasrulla Entezam of Iran and Jan Masaryk of Czechoslovakia urged global control of armaments to safeguard humanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
United Nations Security Council
Church House
Westminster
Nasrulla Entezam
Council
Soviet
Russia
Iran
General Assembly
Jan Masaryk
Czechoslovakia
Europe
United Nations
Masaryk
Russia Has Not Sought Loan Yet
The State Department said no formal request from Soviet Russia has been received for a multi billion dollar loan since its 1945 rejection of a six billion credit. It noted discussions on reconstruction credits occurred last August but produced no definite proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Russia
French Resistance Chief Demands Supreme Penalty for Nazis
In Germany on January 17, Francois de Menthon, former French justice minister, urged death sentences for 22 top Nazis at the International Military Tribunal. He named Fritz Sauckel, Wilhelm Frick, Wilhelm Keitel, and Alfred Jodl among those responsible for wartime crimes and forced labor. The opening act stressed re education of the German people and the need to punish organized brutality under Nazism.
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Germany
Muernberg
International Military Tribunal
France
Francois de Menthon
Nancy
Reichsmarshal Goering
de Menthon
Nazi Germany
Gestapo
Edgar Faure
Nazi Heirarchy
Fritz Sauckel
Wilhelm Frick
Interior
Occupied Territories
Wilhelm Keitel
Alfred Jodl
Five Point Program on Government Financing Proposed
Asheville North Carolina January 17 Comptroller General Lindsay C Warren outlined a five point plan to lift the government from a financial morass He urged trimming government sails curbing deficits and restoring balance between federal and state powers He pressed Congress to tighten purse strings and reassert budget authority and called for a rapid return to peacetime fiscal balance with states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
N. C
Lindsay C. Warren
Chamber of Commerce of
Warren
Executive Department
Congress
Filibuster Opens on FEPC Bill in Senate
A full filibuster breaks out in the Senate after a motions to take up the FEPC bill. Key reactions include Senator Walter George warning free men may resist administration support and Senator Eastland pledging to speak for two years. The FEPC bill would create a permanent commission to prevent race, color, or creed discrimination across industry, labor unions, and government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
FEPC
Walter George
Georgia
Eastland
D-Miss
Truman
Bilbo
Youth Admits He Started Fires
A 17-year-old Vincent W Hunt of Vanport City confessed to starting a series of fires near his home because his hair is red. He admitted setting the No 1 shopping center blaze causing 140000 in damages and the No 2 schoolhouse fire with 50000 in losses, bringing total damage above 200000. He said he enjoyed watching buildings burn and would hide after lighting them.
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Portland
Ore
Vincent W Hunt
Vanport City
No. 1
Benton asks AP to review info distribution abroad
Assistant Secretary of State William Benton on Thursday asked the Associated Press to probe how government information is distributed overseas to assess whether AP’s decision to stop supplying its news service to the state department was justified.
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Washington
William Benton
Associated Press
A. P
State Department
Specialist Dies in San Francisco Doctor Philip Pierson
Dr. Philip H. Pierson a 59 year old San Francisco lung specialist and vice president of the National Tuberculosis Association died Thursday. He was a prominent figure in public health and TB control in California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Philip H. Pierson
National Tuberculosis Association
Butte and Montana Friday Weather Overview
Butte region expects clear to partly cloudy conditions Friday and Friday evening with mild temperatures around the 40s. Montana areas west of the divide show partly cloudy to cloudy skies with light rain or snow possible, highs 30 to 40. East of the divide stays partly cloudy to cloudy, much colder with snow flurries in the northeast and extreme north, highs 15 to 25 northeast and extreme north, 30 to 40 elsewhere.
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Montana
Divide
Generals and Camp Guards Are Included
Tokyo reports Gen MacArthur ordered the arrest of 100 more suspected war criminals including seven generals and camp officers. Notable names include Takeji Wachi Kyotake Kawaguchi Takashi Sakai and Rensuke Isogaya. Kishiro Yasuda and others also named as arrests advance toward trials, with proof of individual guilt required.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Asia
Takeji Wachi
Kyotake Kawaguchi
Phillipines
Takashi Sakai
23Rd Army
Rensuke Isogaya
Shizuo Tani
Sadaki Kagesa
Saburo Watanabe
Singapore
Kishiro Yasu
James A. Reilly Dies in Helena
James Alfred Reilly 64 a Jefferson City miner died Thursday at St Peter hospital in Helena Funeral services set for Saturday at Opp and Conrad chapel burial in Jefferson City cemetery He was born December 26 1881 in Helena lived in Wickes and Jefferson City His wife Jane Reilly two sons Capt Thomas J Reilly and GM2 Seth M Reilly two daughters Doris Glass Ruth Reilly three brothers John Reilly Joseph Reilly Daniel Reilly a sister Mrs Bessie Crocker and many nieces and nephews survive
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Helena
James Alfred Reilly
Jefferson City
St. Peter Hospital
Opp
Conrad
Mr. Reilly
Wickes
Jane Reilly
Thomas J. Reilly
Medical Administrative Corps
Tokyo
Seth M
Pacific
Navy
Doris Glass
Boulder
Ruth Reilly
John Reilly
Joseph
Daniel Reilly
Martinez
Calif
Bessie Cr
Youngsters Explain Wild Speed Run No Ticket Given
Two deputies chased a carload of youngsters via lower Harrison avenue after they sped past the officers. The driver said they rushed back from Whitehall to reach a gas station before the tank ran dry. The deputies gave a stern talk and issued no ticket.
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al McLeod
Lower Harrison Avenue
Depo
Whitehall
P. S
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Library of Congress
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Security Council
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