Twenty-Five Die in Air Tragedy Over Hangkow
Shanghai dispatch reports 25 of 26 aboard killed in sixth airliner crash in five weeks. Survivors include one seriously injured foreigner. Victims include Methodist Bishop Schuyler Garth and Mrs. Garth of Madison Wisconsin and mission families from Rochester New York and Vancouver British Columbia.
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Shanghai
Kina
Foreign Missions
Central
Chinese National Aviation Corporation
Hangkow
Schuyler Edward Garth
Madison
Wis
China
Chungking
Hankow
R. A. Vick
Rochester
N. Y
American Baptist (North) Mission
Cheshire
Auckland
N. Z
China Inland Mission
Chengtu
Millers
Vancouver
B. C
B. Kitchen
United Church of Canada
John Papajik
New York
President Denies Report on Rents
President Truman rejected CI O reports of a general 10 percent rent increase and said Congress will decide rents when the existing control law expires. White House secretary Ross stated the policy remains to permit increases only on an individual hardship basis.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
OPA
Office of Temporary Controls
U.P
Ross
White House
Soldiers Admit Armed Robbery at Siamese Legation
Six American soldiers confessed to the armed robbery of 245000 yen from the Siamese legation in Tokyo. The loot was partly recovered within 48 hours, and the six men are held at the Eighth Army stockade awaiting disciplinary action.
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Tokyo
U.P
Legation
Army Criminal Investigation Department
John C. Roemele
New York
Steve Broda
Cleveland
Ohio
Raymond Neeser
Waukesha
Wis
Gabriel Insalaco
South Branch Avenue
Glendale
Calif
Robert Pasco
Jerome Muldoon
Jersey City
N. J
Eighth Army
United States ends efforts to settle China strife
The United States halted a year of mediation between China's warring factions and began pulling out most Marines and Army forces. Secretary of State Marshall announced the move in Washington and Nanking, signaling China must resolve its civil conflict. The action ends the Marshall chaired committee and the Peiping truce headquarters, with over 9 000 American personnel affected and potential shifts in future policy.
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Washington
United States
China
Marshall
Nanking
Chiang Kai-shek
State Department
Peiping
Soviet
Russia
Senator Vandenberg Urges Fair Poland Elections Review
Senator Vandenberg called for a frank and immediate review of Polish elections by the United States with Russia and Britain. He backed the State department's claim that Poland’s government rigged the vote, violating Yalta and Potsdam pledges. He stressed unity behind the department’s stance while noting no break with Poland is planned.
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Washington
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate
Russia
Britain
United States
State Department
Poland
Byrnes
Yalta
Potsdam
Urge Action to Quell Disease
At the National Woolgrowers association session in San Francisco on January 29, members urged the government to stop hoof and mouth disease from spreading from Mexico. The resolution called the outbreak the era’s top livestock threat and urged all agencies and Congress to take vigorous steps to confine it within Mexico.
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San Francisco
Mexico
National
Woolgrowers Association
United States
Departments of State and Agriculture
Congress
Labor panel moves to speed strike control bill to floor
The House labor committee aims to push a strike-control bill to the floor by March 15 to preempt a coal walkout led by John L. Lewis. Chairman Hartley says it could pass over a Truman veto if needed and will start hearings next week with Senate cooperation unlikely. The Chamber of Commerce backs outlawing jurisdictional strikes and boycotts and limiting industry wide bargaining while opposing Truman’s joint study plan.
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Washington
U.P
House Labor Committee
John L. Lewis
House
Fred A. Hartley
RN. J
Truman
Senate
Senate Labor Committee
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Congress
Chamber
President lacks authority to transfer OPA powers
Federal Judge J. Frank McLaughlin ruled that the President lacks authority to transfer OPA powers to the new Office of Temporary Control. He dismissed OTC suits against three lumber dealers seeking 13 880 in triple damages for alleged OPA ceiling violations.
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Honolulu
J. Frank McLaughlin
OPA
Office of
McLaughlin
OTC
Tornado Hits Salem Arkansas. Several Injured and Homes Destroyed
A tornado struck Salem in Fulton County on Wednesday night injuring several people and destroying about a score of homes. Paul Morton of the Salem newspaper said no one was believed killed though many homes immediately caught fire after being smashed by the twister.
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Salem
Ark
Fulton County
Paul Morton
U S May Agree to Combine Two Questions
The United States may consider disarmament and atomic control together at the United Nations Security Council while keeping atomic control as the priority. Warren R. Austin, U S delegate, outlined a tentative concession to Soviet calls for a single, joint approach after talks with President Truman and Secretary of State Marshall.
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Washington
United States
United Nations Security Council
Russia
Warren R. Austin
United Nations
Austin
Truman
George C. Marshall
Security Council
New York
Marshall
Notice on Atomic Secrets Guarding by UN Commission
The United States served official notice to a UN human rights commission that atomic energy secrets must be guarded until adequate UN controls are in place. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt led the U.S. delegation in proposing a sub commission on freedom of information and the press with safeguards for atomic secrecy.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United States
United Nations Commission
United Nations
Eleanore Roosevelt
United Nations Commission On Human Rights
Freedom of Information
Russia
Australia
Atomic Energy Commission
Human Rights Commission
Sub-Commission
United Nations General Assembly
Weather Forecast for Butte and Surroundings
Increasing cloudiness with snow Thursday. Decreasing cloudiness and colder Thursday night. Next 24 hours highs around 15. School of Mines max 22 min 1. Airport max 19 min 12. Precipitation trace. West of divide light snow Thursday colder north. otherwise steady. East of divide increasing cloudiness Thursday with light snow west and north, colder northwest afternoon. highs 0 to 5 below extreme northwest, 20-30 elsewhere.
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School of Mines
Divide
Banker Held Prisoner by Underground Reaches Liberty
A 48 year old British banker, held by the Jewish underground in Jer uusalem for 78 hours, staggered into a clinic bleeding and told police he had fought his way to freedom. He was taken to a guarded government hospital with dangerous injuries as authorities discussed martial law and possible partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states.
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Jerusalem
Jerusalm
H. A. S. Collins
Hadassah
Zion Square
Palestine
Ralph Windham
Tel Aviv
Collins
Windham
Dov Bela Gruner
Gruner
Privy Council
London
Council
The
Hebeker
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Irgun
Holy Land
Committee Acts on Three Bills in Montana House
An appropriations bill to set aside 30000 for architect and supervision costs of a state office building faced minority opposition before a favorable committee report. Democrats also challenged a 100000 advertising bill and tried to amend the postwar construction appropriations measure. All three measures were approved and likely to advance in the House. Rep. Frank Tierney led the minority, aiming to require a Montanan architect and successfully limiting pay before an amendment nullified that limit.
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Helena
Appropriations Committee
Montana
House of Representatives
Frank Tierney
Silver Bow
Tierney
House
Congress urged to rename lake dam Hoover Boulder to Hoover
Sen. Hawkes of New Jersey introduced a resolution asking Congress to restore the Boulder Dam name to the Colorado River project to honor former President Herbert Hoover who opened the dam. The action targets replacing the naming given by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Washington
Congress
Winds Clear Fog in Antarctic Bay of Whales Reopens
Southerly winds off the polar continent cleared fog and snow at Little America after two days. One or more ships idle in the Ross Sea since Monday may re-enter the Bay of Whales later today. Vessels were coated with ice and snow and icicles formed along decks.
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Little America
Polar Continent
Ross Sea
Bay of Whales
House votes to continue wartime excise taxes indefinitely
The House approved 373 to 35 to extend high wartime excise levies on liquors furs jewelry and numerous items. The vote sharpens the tax battle as Republicans split over Knutson’s proposed 20 percent income tax cut while defending the excise freeze urged by President Truman.
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Washington
House
Senate
Rep
McCormack
Dmass
Truman
Engel
R-Mich
Knutson
Two Claim They Murdered Girl and the Dahlia Case
Two suspects told police they killed Elizabeth Short the Black Dahlia but investigators doubted both accounts. In San Diego a waitress Emily Williams was booked on murder suspicions after telephoning she killed Short, while Daniel Voorhees a restaurant porter also claimed responsibility. Detectives noted inconsistencies and support questions about Williams motives.
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Los Angeles
San Diego
Ed Dieckman
Emily E. Williams
Elizabeth Short
Daniel S. Voorhees
Ed Barrett
Dieckmann
Police Homicide Squad
Homicide
Smaller Allies Are Given Strong Support
The United States Britain and France backed smaller allies seeking a larger role in drafting the German peace treaty. No final decisions, but observers noted a shift in Soviet stance as March talks in Moscow approach. United States Roosevelt Murphy urged broader participation. Britain urged war participants join all treaty phases. France favored allies as consultants and negotiators.
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London
United States
Britain
France
Feodor T. Gousev
Moscow
Robert Murphy
Germany
William Strang
Maurice Cove de Murville
Paris
Austria
Britain expects Stalin to seek broad military alliance
A British official informant said Stalin will seek a general military alliance to replace the mutual assistance pact with Britain and Russia against Germany. He noted no reason to doubt acceptance and that such an alliance would not conflict with United Nations obligations.
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London
Britain
Stalin
Germany
Russia
United Nations
Close Scrutiny of Tariff Cuts Promised by Solon
Senators from 13 western states formed a bi partisan bloc to scrutinize administration tariff cut plans. Pat McCarran was elected chairman as western lawmakers express concern over revised tariff agreements with 18 nations. House Republicans renewed criticism of the reciprocal trade program.
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Washington
Pat McCarran
D-Ney
State Department
House
Boys Admit They Wrecked Train in Indiana
Loganport Indiana January 29 two boys aged 10 and 12 confessed to placing a 175 pound roll of bailing wire on a Pennsylvania railroad track to see what would happen derailing a Chicago bound train Monday night four people killed 36 injured Sheriff Harold Smith said the device caused the wreck.
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Logansport
Ind
U.P
Harold Smith
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