Senator McMahon warns of mortal danger from atomic bombs
In Washington on Monday Senator McMahon urged immediate international control of atomic energy. He argued Russia may be building an atomic fission plant behind the Ural mountains and pressed for a treaty defining violations with penalties and automatic Security Council action. The plan calls for U S inspectors to gain access and swap atomic knowledge for control.
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Ural Mountains
Senate
McMahon
D-Conn
Russia
International Court
Security Council
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
United States
British Officials Issue Warning Over Kidnapings in Palestine
British officials warned Jewish leaders that military control could be imposed in parts of Palestine if two British subjects abducted within 18 hours are not released. Dov Bela Gruner, 33, awaiting execution for an attack on a police station, received a brief reprieve to seek privy council appeal. Police hunted two kidnap gangs in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as curfews and traffic bans were imposed in Jewish areas.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Dov Bela Gruner
Privy Council
Britain
Supreme Court
Gruner
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Holy Land
Tel Aviv
Ralph Windham
H. A. S. Collins
Haifa
Airliner Missing Near Chungking With 18 Aboard
A Chinese national aviation airliner missing since Saturday with 18 people on board was being searched in the rugged Szechewan hills near Chungking. The plane, reportedly piloted by Jack M. Blackmore of Los Angeles, last radioed from 15 minutes from Chungking on a Canton flight. Officials later corrected an erroneous translation that had claimed all aboard were dead.
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Nanking
Chinese National Aviation Corporation
Szechewan Province
Chungking
Jack M. Blackmore
Stimson Reveals Atomic Bombs Were U S Only Ready
Former Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson states in Harper's that the United States had only two atomic bombs prepared for use in 1945 and that military leaders believed war could end only with their use. He cites Roosevelt and Truman's positions and notes Japan's 1945 strength and dwindling navy.
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New York
Henry L. Stimson
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
United States
Stimson
Harper’s Magazine
Roosevelt
Truman
Japan
Russians Reject Peace Statute
London dispatch reports Russia rejected an American plan for a German peace statute at the deputy foreign ministers conference. Moscow insists a treaty be drafted by the Big Four and ratified by a future central German government. Poland seeks final Big Four approval of its frontier with Germany.
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London
U.P
Russia
Poland
Big Four
Germany
Tinghsien Garrison Is Hard Pressed by Rebels
Chinese government airlifted supplies to the Tinghsien garrison along the Peiping Hankow railway as a top general was dispatched to direct defense against Communist forces. Reports say Communists stormed Tinghsien streets and battles raged with defenders said to be outnumbered, with initial estimates noting up to 5,000 cavalry in the first assault.
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Peiping
Tinghsien
Peiping-Hankow
McCloy Named President of World Bank Post
John J. McCloy of New York former assistant secretary of war has agreed to accept the presidency of the World Bank, a $50,000 a year post funded by tax-free earnings. Formal election to the post was expected within days.
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Washington
U.P
John J. McCloy
New York
World Bank
McCloy
California Slayer Taunts Police
A taunting surrender note claiming to be the Black Dahlia killer was printed on a penny postcard sent to a Los Angeles newspaper. Police labeled the message apparently legitimate and tied it to the ongoing investigation into Elizabeth Short’s mutilated body.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Black Dahlia
Elizabeth Short
Black Dahlia Avenger
Jack Donahoe
Police Homicide Detail
Ray Pinker
Miss Short
Capt. Donahoe
William E. Simpson
Dahlia
Sonny
Greenwich Village
Cotton Club
Investige
U S France Agree on Plan to Release Prisoners
Washington January 27 France and the United States reach a plan to send home 620000 American captured German prisoners of war by next October unless they choose to stay in France as voluntary workers The Red Cross oversight is the remaining hurdle as officials await its reply to a government inquiry
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Washington, D. C
United States
Garsson Brothers
Empire” Fame
Andrew J. May
Kentucky
Henry Garsson
Murray Garsson
Alan Krouse
Joseph Freeman
the Fixer
May
the Garssons
Washington
France
John Hillbring
International Red Cross
Red Cross
Eleven Die as Army B 29 Crashes at Kirtland Field
An Army B 29 carrying restricted equipment crashed on takeoff from Kirtland field near Albuquerque on a routine mission. Eleven men were killed, two survived briefly, and names of most victims were withheld pending relatives’ notifications. Col. Perry M. Hoisington led the crash response and noted few witnesses and uncertain details. The plane reportedly struck an arroyo shortly after takeoff, with engines and fuselage scattered across the area.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Kirtland Field
Perry M. Hoisington
William A. Hatcher, Jr
Robert F. Bledsoe
el Paso
Texas
Hoisington
Sandia Air Base
Argentina Meets U. S. Demands
Ambassador George S. Messersmith returned to Argentina after meeting President Truman and said Argentina satisfied two of three U S demands for a hemispheric defense treaty. He cited removal of Nazi influences and German ownership, with the final issue the treatment of enemy aliens. A Rio conference was revived by these developments. In California a private plane crashed in fog near Madera killing two men, Harold Ellwood Frazee and James A. Wilson.
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Washington
George S. Messersmith
Argentina
Truman
United States
State Department
Madera
Calif
Here
Harold Ellwood Frazee
San Francisco
James A. Wilson
Oakland
Redwood City
MacArthur Subdues Carpenter at HQ Entrance
Gen Douglas MacArthur personally disarmed a Japanese carpenter who rushed him with a wooden sword near his headquarters. The assailant, carrying a petition letter, was handed to military police, and MacArthur kept the weapon as a keepsake for his son Arthur.
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Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Arthur
Egypt seeks UN action on British pullout and Nile union
Egypt demands evacuation of British troops and permanent union with the Sudan and will present these issues to the United Nations Security Council. Britain and Egypt say Anglo-Egyptian treaty talks collapsed as Tirana seeks a delay in a Corfu channel mine case before the council.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Egypt
Sudan
United Nations Security Council
Britain
Nekrashi Pasha
Chamber of Deputies
Cairo
Nile Valley
United Nations
Albania
Security Council
Corfu
Tirana
Alexander Cadogan
Roxas Reports Bright Philippine Outlook and U S Ties
President Manuel A. Roxas told Congress that USPhilippine relations must be preserved at all costs and that conditions with American troops have improved. He said the United States contemplates a less ambitious base schedule while preserving a security guarantee and optimism for trade and industry futures.
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Manila
Philippines
Manuel A. Roxas
Congress
United States
Roxas
Butte Weather Forecast Tuesday Snow Flurries
Partly cloudy to cloudy in Butte with occasional snow flurries, becoming partly cloudy Tuesday night and colder. Highs around 25 to 30 in central Montana, with east areas up to 30 and northeast around 10 to 15.
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School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Associated Press
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Broadus Enewenserconenne
Cut Bank
Dillon
Drummond
Somesees
Eee
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Great Falls
Havre
Helena Kalispell
Lewistown
Livingston
Ee Miles City Sermwaeseees
Wees
Prompt Action on President Question Seen Prompt Action on President Question Seen
Congressional leaders in Washington and Montana indicate swift moves to limit presidential terms to two four year spells. House Republicans Michener and Speaker Martin support sending a constitutional amendment to the states for ratification. Scofield in Helena proposes a constitutional convention to push the measure ahead.
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Washington
House
Michener
R - Mich
Judiciary Committee
Martin
R-Mass
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congress
Helena
Charles L. Scofield
Montana
House of Representatives
Scofield
Wisconsin
Rotary Founder Paul Harris Dies at 78 in Chicago
Paul P. Harris, 78, Chicago lawyer and founder of Rotary Clubs in 1910, died at his home. He led the first Rotary club in 1905 and served as first president of both Rotary International and its predecessor. His idea of service above self helped spread a global movement and business mottoes across the nation.
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Chicago
Paul P. Harris
National Association of Rotary Clubs
Rotary International
Rotary
Harris
Rotary Club
Association
Rotary Clubs
Jet-Propelled P-80 Crashes North of San Diego
An Army jet propelled P-80 Shooting Star fighter crashed on a routine mission from March Field Riverside and exploded, virtually obliterating itself and the pilot. Wreckage strewn over a quarter mile square two miles east of Carlsbad, authorities said.
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San Diego
Calif
Here
March Field
Riverside
Carlsbad
Chaffin to Offer Education Bill in Montana
Dean Chaffin announces a sweeping Montana school reorganization bill to centralize elementary and secondary schools under county units. The 133 page measure consolidates state laws on elementary, district high, and county high schools and creates a school reorganization commission with county redistricting committees.
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Helena
Montana
Dean Chaffin
R-Gallatin
House Education Committee
Chaffin
Little Red
Transportation Sys
Ball Bill Targets Strikes as Riskier for Unions
Senator Ball proposes a bill to outlaw certain strikes and impose penalties for refusal of back to work offers. Employers could replace striking workers who reject offers deemed substantially equivalent to prior pay and conditions. The measure would strip Wagner Act rights and aims to deter union-led actions.
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Washington
Senator Ball
R-Minn
Senate Labor Committee
Ball
Labor Committee
Obstruction on Track Tied to Walton Train Disaster
Six people were killed and about twenty injured when a Pennsylvania railroad passenger train from Cincinnati to Chicago derailed at Walton Indiana. Investigators traced the cause to fencing wire found beneath the locomotive pilot, with state police and railroad officials stating the wire caused the engine to jump the track. The wreck left multiple cars off the rails and scattered debris along the line. Two identified victims were Mrs. Kathryn Marie Kingery and Walter Pischke of Kokomo Indiana.
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A. F. McIntyre
Indianapolis
Art Keller
McIntyre
Ralph F. Gates
Kathryn Marie Kingery
Walter Pischke
Koko
Pred A. Franklin
Logansport
Walton
Portal Pay Bills Get Green Light
Washington lawmakers push to outlaw portal to portal pay suits amid warnings taxes may not fall this year. Rep Gwynne seeks quick anti portal pay bill limiting back pay to one year and banning payments where employers proved good faith. Treasury losses could reach four billion dollars threatening individual tax relief. Senators urge investigation of Justice Department for resisting cost control.
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Washington
House
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Judiciary Committee
John W. Gwynne
Iowa
Harold Knutson
Rminn
Treasury
Alexander Wiley
R-Wis
Senate Judiciary
United States
Department
Francis Biddle May Get U N Post
Former Attorney General Francis Biddle is likely to become the U N representative for the United States on the social and economic council. He would replace John G. Winant, the wartime ambassador to Great Britain.
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Washington
Francis Biddle
United States
United Nations Social and Economic Council
Biddle
John G. Winant
Great Britain
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