President's Foreign Aid Program Approved by House
The House adopted a $3.2858 billion foreign aid program for the fiscal year, with 273 voting for and 128 against. Democrats led the approval with 159 of their party backing, while 114 Republicans supported it. 80 Republicans and 48 Democrats opposing. The measure sets ceilings, pending later appropriations, and trims 145 million in military funds from the Senate version while preserving substantial global military and economic aid. The vote also upheld a requirement that at least half of surplus food aid be shipped on American vessels and rejected halting aid to Yugoslavia.
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Washington
Eisenhower
House
Senate
Foreign Affairs Committee
Yugoslavia
Rayburn
D-Tex
Martin
Massachusetts
Bonn Daunts Soviet Bid to Chancellor Talks
Bonn accepted a Soviet proposal to discuss diplomatic, trade and cultural relations but sidestepped a rushed invitation for Adenauer to visit Moscow. The chancellor seeks to keep talks limited to relevant issues and demands the release of Germans held in Russia, while awaiting Moscow’s response to the German note.
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Bonn
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
West Germany
Russia
Kremlin
Adenauer
Moscow
Paris
Free World
Communist Party
Pravada
Adenater
Defense Funds Bill Passes Both Houses
A $31,882,815,726 defense appropriations bill cleared both chambers without debate and heads to President Eisenhower for a likely early signature. It funds the Defense Department for the coming year with a ten percent increase over last year, while trimming Army and Navy manpower but boosting Air Force and Marine Corps funds.
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House
Senate
Eisenhower
White House
Air Force
Marine Corps
Defense Department
Fisenhower
Senate House Conference Committee
Sen
Arnold Named Secretary of State strengthens governor position
In Helena Gov. J. Hugo Aronson gains leverage as Steve Arnold, 71 of Finley Point, becomes the first Republican secretary of state in 25 years. The Board of Examiners holds final say on state spending and Arnold’s swearing in likely by Chief Justice Adair boosts Aronson’s control. The pay is set at 7500 yearly, with Mitchell at 5500. The Aronson Arnold lineup could tilt the Board of Land Commissioners and revive the Commission on Reorganization of State Government amid past disputes over Hoover Commission funding.
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Helena
J. Hugo Aronson
Montana
S. C
Arnold
Finley Point
Flathead Lake
Hugh R. Adair
Mitchell
Aronson
Aronson-for-Governor Club
Board of Land Commissioners
Olsen
Mary M. Condon
Aronsol
Commission On
Little Hoover Commission
Dem
Hoover News Conference Shows Long Career Outlook
Washington reports on Herbert Hoover in a rare 3 p.m. briefing that drew about 50 journalists. Hoover, 81, read statistics with little flair, but engaged on future plans, denying retirement while signaling no more reorganization work. reminiscences about his days as secretary drew the best reaction.
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Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Probers Question NYT Reporter Over 1950 Korea Stories
Senate investigators accused New York Times reporter Charles Grutzner of filing two 1950 Korea dispatches that aided Communist aims. Grutzner denied intent to aid the Reds, insisting he was a dutiful journalist who broke with communism in 1940. The hearing probed alleged Communist activity among reporters as Eastland said the panel is hunting communism wherever found.
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Washington
Senate
New York Times
Korea
Charles Grutzner
United States
Grutzner
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Eastland
Victor Weingarten
Brooklyn Fagle
Weingarten
Pleasant
Burma's Prime Minister Walks Out on Benson
Prime Minister U Nu of Burma left Secretary Benson after being kept waiting in an anteroom for five minutes in a calm rebuke. State Department officials were startled by the lapse in diplomatic niceties. Benson later hurried to Blair House to apologize, though a typewritten statement to reporters seemed less contrite.
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Washington
U Nu
Burma
Benson
State Department
Blair House
Montana Weather Outlook for Friday and Weekend
Montana east region sees considerable cloudiness with showers and possible thundershowers and cool temperatures. West region remains mostly cloudy with showers, highs 50 to 60, up to 75 in the far east, then cool Friday night through Saturday. The table lists 12 hour maximums and 18 hour minimums ending at 5 30 p m Thursday.
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Dixon-Yates Pact May Be Scrapped
President Eisenhower opened the way to scrap the Dixon Yates contract after Memphis decided to build its own plant. A study will assess cancelation versus continuation, with TVA and AEC to cooperate. Budget Director Hughes signaled the Memphis action might render the Dixon Yates plant unnecessary.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Dixon-Yates
Memphis
Tenn
Dixon- Yates Power
Rowland Hughes
Dixon- Yates
Hughes
Atomic Energy Commission
Tennessee Valley Authority
Senate
Sen
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Subcommittee
White House
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
TVA
Mississippi River
Hoover says budget balance and tax cuts possible
Former President Herbert Hoover, aged 80, argued the budget can be balanced and taxes cut if Congress adopts second Hoover Commission reorganizations. He released the commission's secret water and power task force report urging sale or transfer of federally owned plants and town sites. Holifield criticized the document as private utility propaganda.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Congress
Hoover Commission
Commission
Hoover
Task Force
Holifield
R-Calif
Mining City Woman and Great Falls Man Die in Crash
Mrs Gloria Waybright a 25 year old Butte mother and Ly man E Jones 67 of Great Falls president of Hall Perry Machinery Co were killed instantly in a two car collision on U S Highway 91 eight miles north of Butte late Thursday afternoon Three others were injured seriously Joseph P Casey Jr 23 Linda Waybright 7 and Nancy Gloria Waybright 8 daughters of the dead woman were among the injured Mrs Waybright lived at 2910 Busch
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Butte
Lyman E. Jones
Great Falls
Hall-Perry Machinery Co
Joseph P. Casey Jr
S. Wyoming
Linda Waybright
Nancy Gloria Waybright
Jones
Waybright
Montana
John W. Bonner
Casey
Joseph P. Casey
al Vanek
Vanek
St. James Hospital
Chrysler
First Ave
Elk Park
Trask Railroad
Ten Die In Alaska Air Force C47 Crash
Sitkinak Island near Kodiak Alaska reports ten dead after an Air Force C47 transport crashed on a mountain during an air drop mission. Weather turbulence and a possible strong downdraft were blamed. Passengers included Western Electric representatives and a flight surgeon’s party reached the wreckage but rescue was hampered by gale force winds.
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Kodiak
Alaska
Lonely Sitkinak Island
Here
Western Electric Co
Kodiak Island
North Pacific
Sitkinak
5093Rd Air Transport Group
Elmendorf
Navy
Coast Guard
Trade ads offer cool cash for furnishings
Cooling tips note bed away from wall to improve air flow and feel cooler. If you want to trade a bed or other furniture for cash, call 5451 for an ad writer. An advertiser sold a bicycle this way, listing a girl’s 26 inch bike with phone 0000.
Faint Radio Signals Spark Hope in Marine Airmen Search
In the fifth day of the hunt for four missing Marine airmen off the Pacific, faint distress signals emerged from the fog. An international aircraft echo was heard early Thursday but offered no location. earlier signals were variably attributed to Capt. H. P. Montague or Lt. David Winton Bell, with Lt. Alan M. McAneny Jr. confirmed to have a radio. The fourth missing crewmember remains unnamed after a helicopter crash during the search.
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Tokyo
Air Force
H. P. Montague
Jackson
Miss
David Winton Bell
Minneapolis
Fury
Alan M. McAneny Jr
Yonkers
N. Y
Montague and
Bell
Montana Planes Search For Missing Tacoma Trio
Search planes landed at Kalispell and Missoula after a daylong hunt for three Tacoma men missing since Tuesday. The single engine Stinson monoplane 58769 was seen as they prospect uranium by air in the rugged South Fork Flathead area.
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Kalispell
Missoula
Tacoma
Wash
South Fork
Flathead River
Montana Aeronautics Commission
Helispell
Stinson
Phil Myers
Clarence Hebel
Harvey Preszler
Montana
Nehru Begins Seven Day State Visit to Tito Regime
Indian Prime Minister Nehru arrived in Belgrade by plane on Thursday for a seven day state visit to Yugoslavia. He is returning a visit Tito paid in New Delhi last winter and continues a tour that has carried him behind the Iron Curtain through the Soviet Union Czechoslovakia and Poland.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Nehru
Tito
New Delhi
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Anaconda Mines to Shut July 3 and 4 in 1955
The Anaconda Company will close all its mines and plants in Butte to observe the Fourth of July period. The shutdown will occur on Sunday July 3 and Monday July 4, 1955.
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Anaconda Company
Butte
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