24 Reported Dead in Plane Crash on Mt Tom
Holyoke Mass July 10 Lt Michael Smith said 24 bodies found at the site of a WWII B 17 converted passenger plane crash near Mt Tom summit after circling Holyoke for two hours The Westover Army air field bound aircraft carried Army Navy and Coast Guard personnel Debris scattered over a wide area with witnesses noting a flame burst and an ensuing explosion as fire crews moved in on the wooded crash site
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Holyoke
Mass
Michael Smith
The
Mt. Tom
Gander Bay
Newfoundland
Westover Army Air Field
Chicopee
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
Westover
Joseph
O’neil
Molotov Attacks U S Germany Policy at Paris Session
Russian Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov denounced the American 25 year plan to disarm Germany as inadequate and condemned U S British and French policy toward Germany. He spoke during a Big Four foreign ministers meeting as a 21 nation peace conference invite circulated and postponement of the U N General Assembly to Sept 23 was arranged.
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Paris
U.P
Molotov
Germany
Italy
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Finland
Big Four
United Nations General Assembly
New York
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Georges Bidault
Lie
China
Moscow
Wheeler Addresses Rally in Butte on Reelection Bid
Senator Burton Wheeler spoke to a capacity crowd at the Masonic temple in Butte winding up his campaign for renomination in the July 16 primary. Emmett Sullivan introduced Wheeler and praised his growing prestige as chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee. Wheeler attacked a smear campaign and read excerpts from circulating literature.
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Burton K. Wheeler
Masonic Temple
Butte
Montana
Emmett Sullivan
William T. McCarthy
Silver Bow County
Democratic Central Committee
Sen
Wheeler
Sullivan
Interstate Commerce Committee
Ontana
Meat prices seen easing by fall if controls lapse
The Agriculture Department warned that without reimposed price controls retail meat prices could settle 15 to 20 percent above former OPA ceilings by fall. Critics say black market prices ran as high as 50 percent over prior ceilings. Increased fall marketings of cattle and hogs expected to help ease prices.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
OPA
Department
Belgian coalition government falls after confidence vote
Brussels reports the three month old socialist led cabinet under Prime Minister Achille Van Acker lost a confidence vote by one ballot after a tense Senate debate over the justice minister and Belgian economic collaborators.
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Brussels
Belgium
Achille van Acker
Senate
Mother and British barmaid wed in Pittsburgh hotel room
William Red Thompson and Nora Carpenter, the British barmaid who bore his quadruplets, were married in a hotel room in Pittsburgh. Alderman F T Halloran officiated as two guards stood outside. their three surviving children, born 28 months earlier, remained with Thompson's mother during the ceremony.
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Pittsburgh
William
Red) Thompson
Nora Carpenter
F. T. Halloran
G. I
Heanor
Eng
Thompson
Alice Houlihan
Granger Leads in Utah Primary Race
Democratic congressman Walter Granger leads in Utah First district with 8 063 votes to 2 008 for Edward McPalin as returns from about half the precincts come in. Unopposed in the Senate and House races are J Will Robinson Abe Murdock and Arthur J Watkins leads in the Republican senatorial contest.
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Associated Press
Walter Granger
Utah
Minnesota
Shipstead
Ball
R-Minn
Schools Board Awards 34 Renovation Jobs in Special Session
The School District No. 1 board met in special session Tuesday night and awarded contracts for painting and halfe mining, plumbing repairs and carpentry at 11 elementary schools for the upcoming academic year. Low bids from Ellis Paint, Barker Paint, Rudy Endresse, Murphy Plumbing and Heating, Reardon Plumbing and Heating, and L W Ericson, Sam Neeley, Cahill Mooney, among others, were accepted. The board also rehired janitors and janitresses for the coming year, naming a list of personnel.
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Board of Trustees
Ellis Paint Company
Madison School
Blaine
Jefferson
Grant
Harrison
Longfellow
Barker Paint Company
Sherman
Monroe
Lester Brown
Whittier
Franklin
McKinley
Emerson
Rudy Endresse
Hawthorne
Murphy Plumbing and Heating Company
Madison
Reardon Plumbing and Heating Company
Lincoln
L. W. Ericson
Emerson School
Sam Neeley
Longfell
Butte Weather Forecast for July 9
Partly cloudy to cloudy in Butte with showers possible and a bit warmer. Daytime highs reach 70 to 72 across key locations. West of the divide expects 60 to 70, east of the divide 70 to 80 with clearing late. United States Weather Bureau report up to 6:30 p m July 9.
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Butte
School of Mines
Montana
United States Weather Bureau
Leaders Predict Approval of British Loan
Washington reports on July 9 show House leaders of both parties expecting passage of the 3.75 billion dollar British loan by a narrow margin. Debate centered on world ideologies and the stakes of Britain and America acting as partners against threats from Russia, with opposition warning the loan could provoke a third world war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Henrik Shipstead
Edward J. Thye
Minnesota
Representative Buffett
R-Neb
Britain
America
Russia
Eaton
New Jersey
Foreign Affairs Committee
England
Representative Woodruff
R-Mich
Great Britain
Montana Board Names Rush Jordan Acting President
The Montana board of education appointed Dr. Rush Jordan head of history at Montana State Normal College Dillon as acting president from Sept 1 to June 30 1947 with a 5500 annual salary succeeding Dr Sheldon E Davis who retires Sept 1 The board also named Dr Maurine Clow director of women's activities and associate professor of psychology at Montana University Missoula for 3600 a year Elimination of the dean of women post was noted and a football game discussion followed.
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Havre
Montana Board of Education
Rush Jordan
Montana State Normal College
Dillon
Sheldon E. Davis
Maurine Clow
Cavalier
N. D
Montana University
Missoula
Clow
Whitman College
Walla Walla
Wash
Stanford University
Crow
George A. Selke
Searchers Continue to Look for Missing Haney Boy
Searchers pressed on for Robert J. Haney Jr., 14, reported missing after a boating accident on Meadow Lake near Ennis. Volunteers and officers faced a large search area as they continued efforts after four days with no results.
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Haney Boy
Robert J. Haney, Jr
Jerry Joe Keane
Butte
Los Angeles
Meadow Lake
Ennis
Anti-inflationary plan offers 3B in veteran pay via bonds
A Senate backed substitute proposes about 3 billion dollars in staggered veteran payments for about 15 million personnel. Enlisted members receive cash up to 50 dollars, with remaining sums via five year Treasury bonds bearing 2 percent interest. Bonds target discharged personnel and those leaving service by July 1, 1947, while cash plans omit post July 1, 1947 leave.
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Washington
Senate
Military Committee
Truman
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Colo
Treasury Bonds
House
Ayers
White House
Budget Bureau
Armed Services
Polish Pogrom Trial Opens in Kielce
Eleven men and one woman stand trial for inciting mobs to attack Jewish homes and trigger the July 4 pogrom in Kielce that left 41 dead and 40 wounded. Government investigators say the tale of an eight year old boy was false, based on his confession.
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Kielce
Poland
Henryk Blaszczyk
Tobin to Seek Reprieve for Pittsfield Attorney
Gov Maurice J Tobin said he would ask the executive council to grant a reprieve for John W Noxon Jr of Pittsfield who faces execution in 30 days for killing his mentally deficient infant son.
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Boston
Maurice J. Tobin
Executive Council
John W. Noxon, Jr
Pittsfield
Tin Can Saves Engineer From Conveyor Trap
Maiden MA July 9 George Ross 46 year old engineer was trapped thigh deep by a conveyor rollers. He fired 30 throws with a tin can to hit a wall switch six feet away stopping the power and the rollers. Ross is reported comfortable at Malden hospital and may recover without amputation.
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Maiden
Mass
George Ross
Ross
Malden Hospital
Laura
George
William Butler
Potter Drug and Chemical Company
Butler
Golden Rule Proposed to Replace OPA Rules in Montana
Montanans Inc president James J. Flaherty urged Montana businessmen to use the Golden Rule as a substitute for the many OPA regulations. He argued free enterprise guided by ethical conduct can stabilize business better than lengthy rules. Flaherty warned that the nation’s economic course may be set in the coming days or weeks.
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Great Falls
James J. Flaherty
Montanans, Inc
State Chamber of Commerce
Montana
Flaherty
German Rocket Sets Altitude Record
A German V-2 rocket achieved a world altitude record of 8314 miles at White Sands Proving Grounds New Mexico. After six minutes 400 seconds aloft, it landed 63 miles north of the launch site. Instruments in the warhead will yield data on high altitude missile flight.
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White Sands Proving Grounds
N. M
U.P
Army Ordnance
Schools in Silver Bow Seek 816 883 Budget For 1946 47
Silver Bow county public grade and high schools request 816 883.45 for operation and maintenance for 1946 47, down from 820 669.49 in 1945 46. Only Butte and Rocker districts cut requests. others seek more for salary and plant costs. Final budgets set for July 22 in Miss Maybelle Hogan's office.
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Silver Bow County
Maybelle Hogan
Butte
Rocker
Ramsay
Divide
Melrose
Brown's Gulch
Feely
Board of Budget Supervisors
Miss Hogan
Butte the Butte
Senate votes to outlaw future meat price ceilings
The Senate, 49 to 26, outlawed price ceilings on meat poultry eggs and derived foods, undermining the OPA revival bill. Wherry’s amendment won support from Republicans and some Democrats, signaling possible presidential veto and future legislative pushback by administration. Eighteen Democrats backed the measure with 31 Republicans, while LaFollette and 25 Democrats opposed.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Wherry
Rneb
Elmer Thomas
Dokla
Thomas
House
LaFollette
Quadruplets Born in Tehran Report
Local press reports that 70 year old peasant Needy Isfahan has become the father of quadruplet girls in Tehran. The children were reported well.
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Tehran
Isfahan
Truman Letter Defending Wheeler Read at Montana Investigation
President Truman publicly endorses Senator B. K. Wheeler in Montana in a July primary after a congressional hearing read a letter from the President defending Wheeler against railroad labor charges. Elks elect Charles E. Broughton grand exalted ruler as head of the nationwide fraternal body.
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Truman
Wheeler
Montana
Helena
B. K. Wheeler
R. Batley Stortz
Charles E. Broughton
Sheboygan
Wis
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Order
Pearl Harbor
New York City
The
Elks
Broughton
Board of
Grand Trustees
Wade H. Kepner
Wheeling
W. Va
America
Henry J. Shaffer
Thomas Meager
Butte Ledze
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D-N. Y
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Palestine
Dillon Normal
Miguel Aleman
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Mexico City
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Beatriz Velasco de Aleman
Miguel
Beatriz
Senate Military Committee
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Ernest Immel
Senate Special Committee
Mathew J. Connelly
Lou Boedecker
Erickson-for-Senator
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Burt Wheeler
Harry 8
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Veterans Committee
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Kinsey
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