China unity conference nears final act in Chungking
In Chungking on January 29, the unity conference moved toward conclusion with optimism as the national assembly set May 5 to adopt a new constitution. A subcommittee remains deadlocked over representation, while the Kuomintang faces a major concession package and the defense council orders repeal of laws restricting basic freedoms.
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Kuomintang
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Democratic League
Associated Press
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Yenan
Mao Tse-tung
United States
Chiang Kai-shek
Supreme National Defense Council
Legislative Yuan
Council
League
Lo Lung-chi
Canadian official named as governor general choice for Malaya and Singapore
London dispatch reports Colonial Secretary George Hall informing the Commons that Malcolm Mac Donald, 45, son of the late Ramsay MacDonald, has been tentatively selected as governor-general of Malaya and Singapore under a new administrative setup.
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London
George Hall
Commons
Malcolm MacDonald
Canada
Malaya
Singapore
MacDonald
Ramsay MacDonald
Kidnap Story Was Hoax Stirs Fear Across New England
WEYMOUTH MA January 29 A 25 year old mother of three Mrs Betty Reader admitted to a neighbor that her Monday night telephone claim of kidnapping was a hoax She said she was afraid to return home because of the excitement and coverage she had stirred up The missing woman prompted a wide police search across New England Before returning she spoke with neighbor Mrs George L Ladd twice noting she was all right but would not say where she had been or why she left the house The neighbor reported the hoax as newspapers amplified the tale and readers learned of the apparent deception to a troubled household
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Weymouth
Mass
U.P
Betty Reader
George L. Ladd
U A W and GM to resume parley as steel price stance looms
General Motors and the United Auto Workers agreed to restart wage talks in Detroit amid steel strike tensions. U S Steel chair Irving S Olds warned that a 15 or 18 cent hourly raise would require a much larger price increase than $4 a ton. OPA favored a $2.50 a ton steel price rise to cover costs, while higher offers remained unofficial.
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Associated Press
General Motors
United Auto Workers
U. S. Steel Corporation
Washington
John W. Snyder
Irvings. Olds
U. S. Steel
OPA
James F. Dewey
Detroit
Red Cross Directors Lead Butte Campaign March 1 to 31
Butte American Red Cross directors plan the 1946 fund drive, running March 1 through March 31, with a $100 million national goal. Half stays local, funds used for armed forces families, home service, nurses aid, first aid, water safety, and Junior Red Cross. The campaign slogan is Your Red Cross Must Carry On.
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The
American Red Cross
Red Cross Central Committee
Red Cross
Weather Forecast for Butte and Montana West of Divide
Partly cloudy to cloudy and colder Wednesday and Wednesday night with scattered snow flurries. Wednesday highs around 25 at School of Mines and 22 at the airport. Tuesday highs 27 and 26 with lows 13 and 9. West of Divide mostly cloudy with snow. east portion partly cloudy and cold with scattered showers. highs 25 to 35 and from zero to 20 above north east to southwest.
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Butte
School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Norway's Lie Named for U N C Post
London dispatch reports United Nations Security Council secret ballot nominating Trygve Lie of Norway for secretary general. Lie, 50, a lawyer diplomat and foreign minister, was approved unanimously by the 11 nations. Assembly action is expected as a formality. site selection for the UN headquarters remains to be decided.
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London
United Nations Security Council
Trygve Lie
Norway
United Nations Organization
Security Council
Lie
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
General Assembly
Lee
United Nations Assembly
United States
World Peace Agency
Stettinius
Andrei Vi
Hitler sought Vatican seizure to obtain papal secrets
Minutes of German high command meetings disclosed at Nazi leaders trials reveal Adolf Hitler proposed breaking into the Vatican to seize secret papal documents after Italy's surrender. Field Marshal Kesselring suggested sealing off the Vatican, but Hitler rejected that and pressed for a forceful entry. He did not address Pope Pius XII or Vatican personnel.
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Mernberg
U.P
Adolf Hitler
Vatican
Holy City
Papal
Italy
Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Thefuehrer
Mussolini
Albert Kesselring
Pius XII
House Would Return USES to States
The House passed 263 to 113 a bill returning the United States Employment Service to the states by June 30, 1946, rebuffing President Truman who sought a full year extension for reconversion plans. Rep. Everett Dirksen warned Congress would override another veto if he vetoes again.
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Washington
U.P
House
Truman
Senate
United States Employment Service
Everett M. Dirksen
R-Ill
Japan sets first postwar general election for March 31
Tokyo dispatch reports Japan will hold its first postwar general election on March 31 under Gen. Douglas MacArthur. It marks the empire’s first vote by women and the first free election since militarists seized power in the early 1930s. MacArthur seeks new blood for a peaceful rebirth as eligibility rules and a lowered voting age to 20 are reviewed.
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Tokyo
Japan
MacArthur
Home Office
180000 Pounds of Surplus Butter Released
Helena January 29 A P surplus government butter sale frees about 180000 pounds to private dealers to ease Montana shortages. 1200 pounds go to two state institutions and the rest to the public. Tro more details including hospital and school allocations and prior government purchases for the Army.
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Helena
U.P
Montana
R. A. Shaw
Shaw
Galen
Thomas A. McMaster
State Department of Agriculture and Industry
Butte
Billings
Bozeman
R. V. Bottomly
McMaster
Housing Control Expansion Asked
Washington, Jan 29. Wilson Wyatt, national housing expeditor, urged broad expansion of price controls to fit veterans buying power. He cited a survey showing 84 percent of veterans can pay no more than 50 dollars monthly and 17.5 percent of building priorities for new homes at that price. Wyatt predicts a peak housing crisis next summer with 2.5 million more families than dwelling units by year end. He noted a House Banking Committee bill urged by President Truman to extend price control and wartime stabilization acts to June 30, 1947, as Capitol Hill darkened with OPA agency friction over price impacts on reconversion.
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Washington
Wilson Wyatt
National Housing Expeditor
Wyatt
House Banking Committee
Spence
D-Ky
Truman
Capitol Hill
OPA
Morgan Reinstated as UNRRA Central Germany Director
General Frederick Morgan, once accused of anti semitism while directing UNRRA in central Germany, is reinstated after Lehman meets in New York and Morgan apologizes for remarks. Lehman notes Morgan did not intend harm and restored him after reviewing his statements and motives.
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Germany
Herbert H. Lehman
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Frederick E. Morgan
Morgan
Frankfurt
Poland
Palestine
Lehman
Lehman Con
New York
Joseph T. McNarney
Europe
France in bleak view outlines cuts and tripartite aim
Interim President Felix Gouin warned of debt, hunger and inflation while pledging drastic cuts and nationalization. He urged a broad tripartite alliance among Russia Great Britain and France and proposed closer ties with the United States. The constituent assembly backed his program by a wide margin.
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Paris
Felix Gouin
France
Russia
Great Britain
Constituent Assembly
Gouin
Soviet Union
England
Secret secrecy for atomic test data kept in focus
Washington reports show the Truman administration and Congress debating secrecy rules for May Bikini atoll atomic tests. General Blandy says observers may watch the explosion from a distance while technical data remain secret, with possible U N atomic energy commission attendance.
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State Department
State Byrnes
Truman
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Bikini Atoll
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House Naval Committee
Adm
W. H. P. Blandy
United States
Blandy
Vinson de Ga
House Committee
Bikini
U. N. C. Atomic Commission
Pacific Isle
Robert A. Grant
R-Ind
Grant
Herbert
D-La
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U. N. O. Commission
Army
Navy
Russia
Britain
France
China
Australia
Poland
Mexico
Yugoslavia
Brazil
Netherlands
Egypt
Canada
Butte Veterans on Way Home From Foreign Service
The Associated Press reports two Butte veterans slated to return to the United States from foreign service. S Sgt. Michael E. Lowney lands Seattle on the Cape Perpetua. T Eugene N. Lane arrives New York aboard the USS Isaac Coles January 31. Additional Montanan veterans listed include Lance up to February 2 arrivals aboard the Timothy Dwight, Joseph Warren, and Cape Perpetua with names and home towns such as Kalispell Great Falls Billings Libby Dillon Fort Benton and more.
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Butte
United States
Associated Press
Michael E. Lowney
Seattle
Cape Perpetua
T . Eugene N. Lane
New York
Isaac Coles
Libby
Gordon W. Jorgenson
Gildford
Joseph Warren
Paavo P. Puumala
Great Falls
U.S. S
Virgil E. Stotts
Billings
Joel F. Overholser
Fort Benton
Corp
Byron J. Lebert
Greek Envoy Fired for Refusal to Oppose Russia
Athens reports Premier Sophoulis dismissed Foreign Minister John Sophianopoulos, UN General Assembly delegate, for declining to oppose Russia in the UN Security Council. Constantine Rendis named foreign minister and sworn in, to depart for London. Home Minister swap to Constantine Havinis as Public Works Minister.
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Athens
U.P
Themistocles Sophoulis
John Sophianopoulos
United Nations General Assembly
Russia
U. N. O. Security Council
Sophianopoulos
Constantine Rendis
London
Theodore Havinis
Army Plane Reported Down Near Formosa
Navy reports a seven crew Army C-47 transport crashed Monday off Formosa's eastern coast on the Taihoku Shanghai run. Search ships including two destroyer escorts and a patrol craft sweep the area.
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Pearl Harbor
Formosa
Taihoku
Shanghai
Navy
Argentine Mounted Police Break Up Anti-Peron Crowd
Buenos Aires January 29. Mounted police with sabers and tear gas dispersed a 25 000 strong crowd that welcomed anti-Peron candidate Jose Tamborini and running mate Enrique Mosca as the pair returned from a northern campaign tour. The demonstration, staged by Democratic Union leaders, followed three armed attacks on their special train last week leaving at least three dead and several injured.
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Buenos Aires
Jose P. Tamborini
Democratic Union
Tamborini
Enrique M. Mosca
Plaza San Martin
Foreign Office
Tamborino- Mosca
Father to Accept Medal for Son
First Lt. Francis E. Puhr Jr, killed in action over Germany on Sept 26, 1944 after flying 26 combat missions, will be posthumously honored with the Air Medal and three oak leaf clusters. His father, Francis E. Puhr, a World War I veteran and Silver Bow post No. 1 member, will receive the awards tonight at 8 in Legion hall.
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Francis E. Puhr
Germany
Puhr
Silver Bow Post No. 1
American Legion
Leggat Hotel
Standard Post
Post
Legion Hall
Maurice C Phillips
Montana
Harold C. McKnight
Induction Center
Puhl
E. B. Wainwright
Legion Post
Air Forces
Butte
Welfare Office Change Fought by County Board
Silver Bow county commissioners challenged state merit system rules on war duration appointments when they acted to oppose removing Veronica Smith from her post as supervisor of the county department of public welfare. They reported she met all qualifications and had been made permanent supervisor last October after a seven month probation. In December, two months after permanent status, she was informed to take a state merit exam and reportedly failed. The board quoted M. P. Martinson that she must be removed by February 1, though advocates including W. J. Fouse and Vivian Burr supported her, with other officials and union delegates present.
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Silver Bow
Joe F. O'Donnell
Board of Commissioners
M. P. Martinson
Merit System Council
Miss Smith
W. J. Fouse
Vivian A. Burr
Pearl Harbor Attack Prediction Denied by Navy Official
Vice Admiral William W. Smith testified before a Senate committee that Captain Ellis Zacharias' claim of predicting Pearl Harbor was mere clairvoyance reversed. He recalled Zacharias speaking with Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel early in 1941 and said nothing indicated an attack or seaplanes for a Sunday in December 1941.
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Washington
William W. Smith
Ellis M. Zacharias
Pearl Harbor
Smith
Senate House
Zacharias
Husband E. Kimmel
Pacific Fleet
Farm group launches nationwide protest against strikes
EDGAR Neb Jan 29 A nationwide farmers strike against strikes is planned as Clay county dairy and livestock farmers vote 271 to withhold products until disputes are settled. W Hubert Johnson 48 Edgar organizer says action could go statewide then national. Farmers blame labor for disputes and say sons returning from service support the move. Similar action occurred Saturday in Chickasha Okla with production halted until all strikes end.
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Edgar
Clay County
W. Hubert Johnson
Edgar Farmer
Johnson
Chickasha
Okla
Strike Control Bill Emerges
Washington January 29 A new strike control bill with broad bipartisan backing emerged as a potential House substitute for the presidents fact finding push The Case bill would create a labor management mediation board and require five day notice of strikes or lockouts It would ban strikes during a three day cooling off period and press for contract observance while outlawing supervisory unions and restricting reemployment for those using forceful tactics The measure seeks House committee action to clear the way for debate as a substitute for the labor panel bill.
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Washington
House
Truman
Representative Case
House Rules Committee
Labor Committee
Earthquake Shakes Tokyo Early Wednesday Morning
An earthquake lasting about 12 seconds struck Tokyo at 3 40 a m today causing no damage as reported. The tremor was noted at 11 40 a m MS. T. on Tuesday and prompted no evacuations or injuries.
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