Heavy Vote Seen In Butte-Silver Bow Primary Today
Heavy voter turnout is predicted in Silver Bow County as voters head to 63 precinct polling places to choose Democratic and Republican nominees for national state and county offices. Polls run 1 to 8 p m daylight time with many offices open as usual and liquor stores closed during voting hours.
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Butte
Silver Bow County
North Main
Walkerville
Sherman School
Centerville
Walkerville City Hall
St. Mary
Blaine
North Montana
Acoma
Empire
Washington Junior High School
Quartz Street
Arizona Street
Rear
East Park
West Copper
Grant School
Caledonia Street
New Butte
Immaculate Conception School
St. James
East Second
Jefferson School
North Crescent
Commercial Hotel
Lincoln School
St. Joseph School
Wheeler and Erickson Near Close Montana Senate Nomination
In Helena on July 15 veteran Sen. Burton Wheeler and challenger Leif Erickson wrapped up campaigns for Montana's primary. Wheeler's secretary predicted a tight result with Wheeler winning by about 15,000 votes while Erickson's campaign chief forecast a 20,000 vote Erickson victory. Observers note a closely fought ballot race ahead.
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Helena
Burton K. Wheeler
Wheeler
Leif Erickson
Montana Supreme Court
Montana
Lou Boedecker
Erickson
State postwar funds earmarked for institutions and irrigation
The Montana postwar planning and construction commission urged expenditure of 4.26 million dollars from a 5 million fund for state institutions buildings and irrigation projects. The plan includes hiring by the state board of examiners of architects and engineers and reinvestment of 35 thousand dollars plus a pending 2 million dollar Warm Springs bond approval. Funds require legislative appropriation and wartime emergency end before use.
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Helena
State
State Board of Examiners of Architects and Engineers
Sam C. Ford
United States
Warm Springs State Hospital
Boulder
Grandma, 80, Flies Small Monoplane
Anna Hartman aged 80 flew a small silver monoplane over a farm at Glen Shaw then piloted solo on a straight course. The moment drew cheers as a barnyard observer identified her famous grandma.
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Grandma
Pittsburgh
Glenshaw
Anna Hartman
Supreme Court Panel Probes Soviet Espionage Ties
Ottawa reporters detail a royal commission final report revealing Moscow sought top secret political information on U S and British policies, plus Canadian postwar defenses. The commission spent four months delivering a 250 900 word document with findings.
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Ottawa
Canada
Supreme Court
Moscow
United States
Congress Rejects Truman Housing Consolidation Plan
Congress voted 45 to 31 to disapprove the White House plan to create a single permanent national housing agency. House action had earlier defeated all three White House reorganization plans, while two others became law under the 1945 act. The Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill may still provide permanent housing agency status. Senator Taft opposed the president’s plan as broader than the approved measure.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
White House
Senate
House
Federal Security Agency
Wilson Wyatt
Taft
Ohio
Livestock Brings Record Prices Across Major Markets
A run away cattle market spiked prices to new highs across Chicago Denver Omaha St Louis and South St Paul with prime steers at 25 per hundredweight and hogs at 20.50 and 21 in Portland. Packers shown competitive bids while operations at Swift and Company claim higher prices to secure more livestock.
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Chicago
U.P
Denver
Omaha
Neb
South St. Paul
St. Louis
OPA
Milwaukee
Swift and Company
Portland
Ore
Seven American Marines Held in China
United States Marines were captured near Chinwangtao in Tianjin area while fighting raged across Manchuria and North China. Air and ground search efforts spread, with reports of Communist offensives around Tsimo, Tsinto, and Harbin region as Chiang Kai-shek traveled to Kuling.
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Tientsin
China
United States
Manchuria
Shanghai
Democratic League
Hsinanchuang
Chinwangtao
Mukden
Hopei
Tsingtao
Tsinan
Shantung Province
Tsimo
Chengyang
Chienchang
Hungfantzu
Sunghai
Harbin
Kalgan
Chahar
Inner Mongolia
Chiang Kai-shek
Nanking
Kuling
Heirens Denies Confessing to Chicago Murders
William Heirens, being questioned in the Suzanne Degnan kidnapping and other slayings, denied confessing after a radio report. Warden Sain recounted Heirens saying he heard a broadcast claiming a confession, but he insisted he did not confess to anyone. State and defense attorneys dismissed reports of imminent developments and said no new statements were expected.
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Chicago
William Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
Cook County
Criminal Courts
Degnan
William J. Tuohy
Heirens
Wilbert F. Crowley
Tuohy
Crowley
John
Mal Coghlan
Frank Sain
Sain
Coghlans
Malachy Coghlan
Russians Free U S Army Officer and Wife in Berlin
A United States Army warrant officer Samuel L. Harrison and his wife Helen were released unharmed after 15 days in Russian captivity in Berlin. They had entered the Soviet occupation zone without a permit to visit a dog kennel and were kept separately before being handed to Maj. Gen. Frank A. Keating. They said they were questioned about their presence and received passable food during detention.
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Berlin
United States Army
Samuel L. Harrison
Helen
Harrison
Frank A. Keating
United States
Army
Pravda accuses Britain of hiding war activity behind velvet curtain
Pravda charges Britain with hiding warlike actions behind a velvet curtain, citing Indonesia, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and the German occupation zone. It claims ongoing British troop presence and plans to delay evacuation despite calls at the UN and elections.
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Communist Party
Pravda
Great Britain
Pacific
Middle East
Russia
Europe
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Izakoff
Indonesia
Palestine
Ernest Bevin
United Nations Security Council
India
London
Egypt
Syria
Lebanon
Greece
Balkan
Germany
Survey of Housing in Butte Will Be Started Today
A housing survey of Butte will be started today by the Chamber of Commerce to determine space for single persons housekeeping rooms and families seeking apartments and houses. Staff workers ask callers with accommodations to name them by telephone 6535. A complete survey of the mining city is planned.
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Butte
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Teachers Receive Salary Increase
Teachers of school district No 1 gained a 270 dollar yearly raise at a special trustees meeting. The raise replaces the prior 270 dollar bonus and matches last year’s payment. The board said the saving from last year had been placed in a private bank to fund the bonus, now moved to the maintenance fund to cover the deficit.
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Arthur Lehwalder
Margaret Leary
Hughes Reported Slightly Improved in Critical Condition
Los Angeles July 15 Howard Hughes was described as slightly improved but still in a critical state as Army Air Force officers probe his July 6 crash. Officials abruptly halted disseminating information by classifying his XF ship as confidential. Hughes had told Dr. Verne Mason the crash stemmed from a rear four blade propeller reversing pitch in the twin engine plane.
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Los Angeles
Howard Hughes
Army Air Force
Hughes
Verne Mason
Buyers Strike Bill Seen as Price Control Legislation
Washington dispatch reports a House showdown looming over a Senate price control bill aimed at allowing buyers to strike on goods priced above OPA ceilings. CIO chief Philip Murray warns of unrest if controls lapse, while President Truman signals potential veto unless revisions curb overreach. Senate leaders hint at finality of the next bill if vetoed, as House Republicans debate strategy and possible conference with the Senate.
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Washington
Price
Philip Murray
C.I.O
Capitol Hill
Congressional
House
Senate
Truman
Barkley
Kentucky
Congress
OPA
White House
Republican High Command
Republican
Representative Martin
Massachusetts
House-Senate
Martin
Byrnes warns Soviets over peace plan delays and disarmament
Secretary of State Byrnes assails Soviet hostility to the German disarmament treaty and announces U S moves to break down German economic barriers with or without Moscow He says military and economic coordination in Berlin will be arranged to implement Potsdam or assign blame if violations occur He questions whether German militarism will be used as a pawn in East West tensions and notes Moscow’s aloof stance risks damaging friendships abroad with America
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Washington
Byrnes
Russia
United States
Germany
Moscow
Britain
France
Geremany
Joseph T. McNarney
Paris
Truman
Austria
Europe
America
Judge Will Not Seek Death Penalty If Redin Is Guilty
Federal Judge Lloyd L. Black said he would not seek the death sentence for Lt. Nico lai F. Redin even if the Russian spy suspect is found guilty on all five counts of espionage. He told the jury to weigh evidence carefully and avoid political prejudice, noting the war context but declining to broaden statutes.
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Seattle
U.P
Lloyd L. Black
Nicolai F. Redin
Black
Weather Outlook and Temperatures for Butte and Montana
Butte forecasts show partly cloudy skies Tuesday and Tuesday night with increasing afternoon cloudiness and thunder showers. Warm conditions with highs near 83 to 89 and scattered mountain showers in western Montana. East of Divide expect partly cloudy to few thunder showers with highs around 80 to 85.
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Butte
School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Mountains
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