Fire destroys officer's home in Butte arson probe
State fire marshal investigates an early Thursday blaze that destroyed policeman Michael Sullivan's one story home at 748 Evans St in Butte. The fire was reported at 2:25 a.m by neighbor Don Sayers. The Sullivans were away on a camping trip and their daughter Joanne Elizabeth was born March 29. Authorities noted possible multiple ignition points and a foreign scent. a young woman was questioned but no arrests made. The family lost everything, briefly staying with relatives while others fished at Rock Creek Dam.
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Butte
Michael Sullivan
Evans St
Don Sayers
Yale
Quartz Street
Harrison Avenue
Rock Creek
Georgetown Lake
Mickey
Pat
Ennis
Helena
Joe Keller
Larry Connors
Sullivans
Rock Creek Dam
Death inquiry widens after man found shot in annex
Louis Quinn Aultmann, 61, was found dead face down in Room 22 at 40 E. Granite Hennessy Annex. A revolver lay under a window near Room 47 occupied by Harold Henry, 53, who is in custody. Police report Henry bought a .38 revolver the day of the death and a gun matching that type was found nearby. The case remains under investigation.
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Louis Quinn Aultmann
Hennessy Annex
Granite
Betty Fitzgerald
Harold Henry
Aultmann’s
Manila Murphy
Annex
Aultmann
Henry
Silver Bow General Hospital
Joe Keller
Maurice Mulcahy
del LaBreche
Charles Case
Olice
Smith & Wesson
Senator Ellender Dies After Heart Attack in Bethesda
Sen. Allen J. Ellender dean of the Senate and chairman of the Appropriations committee died at Bethesda Naval Hospital at 7 15 p m He was 81 and had just returned from Louisiana where he campaigned for a seventh term He was stricken with chest pains at the Capitol and died of cardiac arrest after a day of travel and a planned vote on the agriculture appropriations bill.
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Washington
Allen J. Ellender
Senate
Louisiana
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Ellender
Appropriations Committee
Russell B. Long
Capitol
Long
Butte Man Bound Over in Motorcycle Collision Death
Aril Mander Haugen aged 52 was bound over to district court on a manslaughter charge for the July 9 death of Elizabeth Cox Degner 32 who died after a collision on the Texas Avenue overpass between her motorcycle and Haugen s car Justice of the Peace Georgia Moran ordered the bound over with Detective Sgt Maurice Mulcahy as the complaining witness.
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Aril Mander Haugen
Elizabeth Cox Degner
Prisoners brew home liquor at Montana State Prison
Inmates at Montana State Prison reportedly use tomato puree and other vegetable substances to make home brew. Deputy Warden James Blodgett says it is common for inmates to attempt brewing liquor and do so in about eight hours if conditions allow. Last Friday three inmates fought after being found intoxicated and were placed in maximum security cells, subdued by multiple officers.
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Deer Lodge
Montana State Prison
James Blodgett
Father pleads for leniency in fatal hit-and-run case
In Miami a bereaved father pleads with Criminal Court Judge Alfonso Sepe to spare truck driver Willie Reath from jail after a bicycle collision killed 13 year old Robert Williams. Williams compares tragedies and urges mercy as Reath, already a father of eight, receives probation.
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Miami
Fla
Willie Reath
William F. Williams
Reath
Robert Williams
Criminal Court
Alfonso C. Sepe
Williams
America
Paul Pollack
Nixon defends Vietnam policy denouncing enemy propaganda
President Nixon warned against claims U.S. bombed civilian targets in North Vietnam and accused UN Secretary General Waldheim of echoing enemy propaganda. He argued negotiations offer the best path to end the war and said the end‑the‑war resolution could prolong fighting while criticizing double standards in reporting.
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Washington
Nixon
United States
North Vietnam
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
U.S
Vietnam
Oval Office
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Waldheim
Paris
Paris peace talks stall as cease fire rejected by North Vietnam
In Paris, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong rejected a renewed U S call for a cease-fire. They demanded simultaneous settlement of political and military questions including Saigon's fate. Xuan Thuy urged halting mining and bombing, while Porter pressed ending killing to enable political talks. They warned Thieu’s regime is a U S backed neocolonial instrument.
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Paris
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Saigon
Hanoi
Xuan Thuy
Nixon
United States
Nguyen van Thieu
South
Thieu
Eagleton denies drunk driving report to stay on ticket
Sen Thomas F Eagleton dismissed a columnist Anderson report alleging a history of drunk driving as a lie and said he is doubly determined to remain on the McGovern ticket. He spoke to a Retail Clerks convention crowd endorsing the Democratic ticket and urged support for McGovern.
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Eagleton
Retail Clerks International Association
Missouri
Jack Anderson
George McGovern
Harry Truman
Anderson
United States
Britain Sends 4000 More Troops to Northern Ireland amid Bombings
Britain orders 4000 additional troops to Northern Ireland in response to Bloody Friday violence in Belfast. A $732 million economic aid package is set to aid farming industry businesses and urban relief as security forces intensify raids on suspected IRA hideouts.
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Belfast
Britain
Northern Ireland
London
Defense Ministry
William Whitelaw
Irish Republican Army
Rhine
Albert Memorial
David Howell
Parole Board Grants and Denies Sentences across Several Figures
The U S Board of Parole freed Ralph Ginzburg and Alben W Truitt while denying Carmine DeSapio parole. Other actions included parole for John Pyne and for Richmond Flowers and Oscar Hyde continuing for August 1973 reviews.
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Washington
U.S. Board of Parole
Ralph Ginzburg
Alben W. B. Truitt
Alben Barkley
New York
Carmine DeSapio
Maurice H. Sigler
Richmond M. Flowers
Alabama
Oscar E. Hyde
Sigler
John Pyne
Chicago
Ginzburg
Eros Magazine
Passenger screening to begin at Billings and Great Falls
USS marshal Louis Aleksich says air passenger screening with metal detectors will start at Billings and Great Falls airports within six months to a year as equipment and personnel arrive. The sky marshal program will be phased out and inflight security shifted to FBI and US Marshals, with ground screening planned for 125 major airports.
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Billings
USS
Great Falls
Louis Aleksich
Aleksich
U.S. Marshals Service
FBI
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Betty Button
Sen
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le Duc Tho
William J. Porter
Honolulu
Thomas F
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Montana Collegians
Gregson
Butte Weather
Ireland
Truitt
DeSapio
Flowers
Montgomery
Ala
Federal Correctional Institution
Texarkana
Tex
Parole Board
Lurleen Wallace
Hyde
Texarkana Institution
Pyne
Montana
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