U S shape cautious arms policy in UN talks
The United States slowly shapes a cautious arms policy focused on UN atomic energy control and avoiding a showdown vote with the Soviet Union. It plans to keep mass destruction weapons under the Atomic Energy Commission and postpone broader disarmament moves until Feb 4 if possible. Russia and Poland abstained on the Baruch plan in committee.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United States
United Nations Atomic Energy Control
Soviet Union
Security Council
Atomic Energy Commission
Atomic Commission
Council
Russia
State Department
Poland
Montana lawmakers push airport bill for small-town airfields
Legislation by Leo Graybill and David Domke proposes municipal airports on city edges with ample plane and auto parking to serve flying farmers and businessmen. The plan, aimed at faster business access, also funds municipal parking areas for future travel needs amid rising parking pressure. Other House actions include nepotism repeal push by Walter Kemmis and salary raise bills for city treasurers and needy blind benefits.
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Helena
Montana
House of Representatives
Leo Graybill
David Domke
Great Falls
Graybill
Cascade
Walter D. Kemmis
Richland
House
Judiciary Committee
Charles Scofield
House Committee On
C. J. Baldwin
Yellowstone
House Committee On Social Security
Elmer Clark
Silver Bow
Frenzied Child Dies in Fire in Washington State
In DATING Washington two year old Charles W England died after running back into his burning bedroom during a home fire. His mother Mrs. Charles P England awoke to find flames and helped two brothers and a sister escape to the front door. She was briefly burned while attempting to reach the child.
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Wash
Charles W. England
Charles P. England
Seven Die in Rail Wreck Near Bakersfield
A broken rail sent five Southern Pacific passenger cars into a ditch eleven miles northwest of Bakersfield early Friday. Seven people were killed and scores injured as 12 cars left the rails. coroner and officials differed on the death toll while rescuers searched debris.
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Bakersfield
Calif
Southern Pacific
Here
Norman Houze
Kern County General Hospital
Mercy Hospital
James Leroy Hall
Kansas City
Bessie Diles
Richmond
Joseph Bernavich
Erma Duvatt
Isla Street
Beaumont
Texas
Jack Bordeau
Marvin Stansberry
Moulton
Iowa
Orvis Humphrey
Kidd
J. M. Corbett
Houze
Corbett
Arnall Loses His Last Foothold in Georgia's Capitol
Atlanta January 17 Herman Talmadge completed his capture of Georgia’s governorship by dislodging Ellis Arnall from his final foothold in the capitol. Arnall pledged to fight on, appealing from his downtown law offices for democracy against dictatorship. He prepares to challenge Talmadge in Fulton county court on February 14 over a constitutional issue on gubernatorial succession.
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Atlanta
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Ellis Arnall
Arnall
America
Fulton County
Talmadge
Capitol
James Dykes
Rotunda
Herman
Plane crash near Bigfork claims Monatan veteran pilot
Wesley Barta, WWII veteran and new pilot with a Kalispell Flying Service charter, died when his small plane nosedived near Bigfork school. Passenger Harold Hanson sustained serious injuries as the aircraft flew at about 500 feet before the fatal turn. Coroner Harry H. Campbell reported the crash Friday night.
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Bigfork
Wesley Barta
Harold Hanson
Bigfork School
Flathead County
Harry H. Campbell
Barta
Kalispell
Byrd's Camp Is Found Intact at Little America
An advance scouting party entered Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Little America camp at the South Pole and found the buildings intact. They reported frozen food left behind by the previous expedition was not disturbed.
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New York
Alton L. Balkeslee
Associated Press
Antarctic
Richard E. Byrd
Little America
Man admits attempt to wreck a train near Salinas
In San Francisco on January 17 FBI announced Louis Leo Kominsky of Chicago confessed to placing tieplates and an angle iron on rails near Salinas California to derail the Southern Pacific Lark. The incident January 10 halted the train with no injuries and only damaged wheels. Kominsky waived arraignment and is held on $5,000 bond in a case charging rendering unsafe interstate property and attempting derailment.
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San Francisco
U.P
A. C. Baker
Kimball
Kominsky
United States
Salinas
United States Marshal
Five Killed in Crossing Crash at Greencastle
Five people died when the Spirit of St. Louis passenger train struck a car at a crossing in Greencastle Indiana. Victims include Mrs. Charles A. Poe and two children, Mrs. Martha L. Kennedy of Indianapolis, and driver Thomas A. Rainey of Inglewood California. The westbound train was about five hours late.
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Greencastle
Ind
U.P
Pennsylvania Railroad
Spirit of St. Louis
Charles A. Poe
King Christian X Shows Continued Improvement
King Christian X, after several days of lung infection, continued to improve Friday night per a physician bulletin. The monarch, based in Copenhagen, has been receiving treatment as his condition improves.
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Copenhagen
Christian X
Final Texts of Peace Pacts Are Published
The Big Four Foreign Ministers released the final texts of postwar peace treaties with Italy Romania Bulgaria Hungary and Finland. Byrnes will sign them next Monday in Paris with formal ceremonies February 10. The 781 pages cover three languages and include two unresolved issues Italy’s fleet disposition and colonial questions.
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Washington
U.P
Council of Foreign Ministers
Italy
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Finland
James F. Byrnes
Paris
London
United States Senate
United Nations Assembly
Butte Group Advances Plan for New Civic Recreation Center
A 14 member executive committee was chosen to study costs location and organization for a proposed Butte civic recreation center. Walter A. Barnard was elected permanent chairman with James O'Brien as vice chairman and Dave Reese as secretary. The group met at the Finlen hotel and will address financing and site selection next week.
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Butte
Walter A. Barnard
Finlen Hotel
James O'Brien
Dave Reese
Metals Bank
Butte Development Association
Barnard
Army Navy Merger Plans End Up With One Defense Secretary
The White House outlines a plan to unify the armed services under a single secretary of national defense who would oversee Army Navy and Air Force activities. Each service would remain a department with its own secretary who could appeal decisions, but the defense secretary would have final authority. Officials say potential long term efficiencies may arise though no specific budget cuts are pledged and the current $11.2 billion annual defense budget stands.
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Washington
Armed Services
Army
Navy
Air
Adm
Forrest P. Sherman
Naval Operations
Secretary of Defense
Air Force
Ross
Sherman
Waning Enthusiasm for Truman Armed Forces Merger Plan
Washington January 17 Enthusiasm for President Truman's plan to merge the armed services is easing as lawmakers anticipate lengthy hearings and possible months of work. White House may send formal recommendations within a week. Senate and House committees will shape legislation, with debate over whether the President should define service functions by decree or by law.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
House
White House
Congress
Capitol
Senate Armed Forces Committee
House Executive Expenditures Committee
Army
Navy
Air Force
Secretary of
Robert P. Patterson
Secretary of the Navy
James V. Forrestal
Edward V. Robertson
Revo
Butte Weather Forecast Saturday Outlook
Mostly cloudy skies with little temperature change for Saturday. School of Mines reports a high of 33 and a low of 20, while the Airport shows a high of 32 and a low of 10. West of the divide expect light snow and highs near 30 to 40, with north winds. East of the divide clouding up with snow in western mountains, highs 30 to 40 and up to 45 on eastern slopes.
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Butte
School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Continental Divide
Butte Skating Carnival Opens Today At Clark Park
Butte’s 28th annual municipal skating carnival, run by the parks and playgrounds committee, opens at Clark park this afternoon at 1 o clock with dozens of preliminary heats for about 310 public and parochial grade schoolers. Finals Sunday start at 1 30 pm as city programs culminate at 24 municipal free rinks. Medals and prizes are supplied by Anaconda Copper Mining Co, and ice construction aid comes from the Butte Water Co. City Engineer George W Tippett and his crews prepared the sheet. Alderman John Lindquist will start the events, with Mayor Barry O Leary as general chairman.
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Butte
Parks and Playgrounds Committee
Clark Park
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Butte Water Company
George W. Tippett
John Lindquist
Barry O'Leary
Lindquist
Walter Kinared
Frank Doherty
Eddie Gerry
Dr. C. §&. Renouard
Gerry
Truman proposes mammoth bookkeeping to release unspent funds
President Truman urged Congress to authorize a broad accounting plan to release about 1.4 billion dollars in unspent 1947 and other funds from lend lease Maritime Commission and Navy budgets. The move would free money for use in the next fiscal year with a total plan to spend around 37.5 billion in the coming year.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
Federal Treasury
Congress
Lend Lease
Maritime Commission
IAG
Treasury
United States Maritime Commission
Navy
War Department
Woolgrowers in Good Position at Montana Convention
Vice President Sylvan Pauly of the National Woolgrowers Association says woolgrowers are in better shape now than after World War I. He cites U S consumption of over a billion pounds in 1947 and a usable British empire stockpile as factors. He notes possible export disposal of domestic stockpile and widespread wartime clothing wear.
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Billings
Sylvan Pauly
National Woolgrowers Association
Montana Association
Pauly
Deer Lodge
United States
British Empire
J. M. Jones
Salt Lake City
National Association
Commodity Credit Corporation
Nominations Win Senate Approval
The Senate approved Willard L Thorp as assistant secretary of state and Warren R. Austin as US representative to the UN atomic energy commission. Also nominated were John D Goodloe to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation board, Raymond Foley as national housing administrator, Frank Creedon as housing expeditor, and Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt to the UN human rights commission.
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Washington
Senate
Willard L Thorp Friday
Warren R. Austin
United States
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Austin
Vermont
United Nations Security Council
John D. Goodloe
Kentucky
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
George E. Allen
Raymond Michael Foley
Michigan
Frank Creedon
Massachusetts
Eleanor Roosevelt
New York
United Nations Human Rights Commission
Federal Employee Indicted on Fraud Charge
Carl Aldo Marzani, 35, who worked on State Department intelligence, was indicted for fraud for falsely stating he had never been a Communist. The case comes as loyalty checks are being intensified for 53 1945 hires from wartime agencies.
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Washington
Carl Aldo Marzani
State Department
Department
Clark
Marzani
Marrani
Division of Research and Analysis
Office of Strategic Services
Office of Intelligence Collection
Communist Party
Tony Whales
New York
The
United
Search expands for Elizabeth Short killer across nation
Los Angeles authorities seek the mutilation slayer of 22 year old Elizabeth Short. Police identify her as The Black Dahlia in Long Beach where she lived. Investigators want to question several boyfriends and an unidentified tall handsome Army lieutenant.
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Los Angeles
Elizabeth Short
Loren Q. Martin
Long Beach
Black Dahlia
Miss Short
Martin
Los Anfor
Rence
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