Dutch Troops Penetrate Rich Region in Sumatra Campaign
Dutch forces, aided by amphibious operations, pushed into Sumatra’s tobacco and rubber country from Medan, seizing Pematangsiantar, northern Sumatra’s Republican capital and home to a key radio station. Resistance was reported as the Dutch advanced 62 miles south of Medan with limited air miles remaining.
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Batavia
Java
Medan
Sumatra
Pematangsiantar
Toba
Tjilatjap
Tulatjap
Jogjakarta
Cerro Negro eruptions leave 8000 homeless in Nicaragua
The Nicaraguan Red Cross on Wednesday estimated that about 8,000 small farmers were made homeless by Monday night eruptions of Cerro Negro and preceding earthquakes. The volcano was quiet by daybreak.
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Managhda
Nicaragua
Nicaraguan Red Cross
Cerro Negro
Hanging Reports Enrage British Troops in Palestine
About 50 British troops enraged by reports of two kidnapped British soldiers being hanged surged through Pardes Hanna on Wednesday night firing at shop windows and wrecking furniture. Police said they fired into the air as they moved, with no casualties reported. Irgun claimed the men were hanged at dawn in a government forest on the Sharon coastal plain.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Pardes Hanna
Nathanya Diamond Center
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Irgun
Sharon
Haganah
Jewish Agency
Traitor Douglas Chandler Gets Life Term For Nazi Radio Betrayal
Douglas Chandler, 58, sentenced to life imprisonment and a $10,000 fine for betraying the United States by broadcasting Nazi propaganda from Berlin during World War II. Judge Francis J. Ford rejected death penalty amid defense claims of insanity and unjust arrest.
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Boston
Douglas Chandler
Berlin
Francis J. W. Ford
Paul Revere
Oscar R. Ewing
Chandler
Hitler
Germany
Patrick Henry
Ford
Claude B. Cross
Department of Justice
Big Butte Light Area Created
The Big Butte light district was created by unanimous county board vote after a public meeting with no protests. The district will levy nine mills to fund operation of a street lighting system with 18 arc lights, estimated at 634 dollars annually. 72 percent of property owners signed petitions. Residents represented at the meeting included George McVey and Ben Gannon among others. a large committee oversees project development.
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Big Butte
Board of County Commissioners
Loretta L. Sullivan
Emmett P. O'Brien
Joe Sullivan
George McVey
Ben Gannon
Clayton Maxwell
Joe Lester
Ernest Ham
Fred Green
Leo Noonan
Francis McGann
Marion Noonan
Margaret Pollard
Joe Lenz
Fred Stanaway
Ed Darragh
William Opie
John A. Thomas
Peter J. Curran
Dan Murphy
William Stanaway
John Brusati
John B. McClernan
William Stimson
Joseph Becky
James Todd
Harry Shaffer
Nellie Crowley
Bart Shea
Thomas Lester
Stassen Names Communism Top 1948 Republican Issue
Harold E. Stassen, the U S presidential hopeful from Minnesota, declares communism the major issue of the 1948 GOP campaign and says the Red menace is worst in New York, home state of rival Thomas E. Dewey. He opposes running on the Republican ticket and endorses Senator Robert A Taft, while urging clear positions on world troubles.
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Los Angeles
U.S
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Stassen
Attlee Signals Major Britain's Economy Austerity
British Prime Minister Attlee outlined drastic cuts in armed forces in Germany and immediate withdrawals from Italy and Greece. He urged longer hours in key industries and a tighter national budget to rescue the faltering economy, with a broadcast planned for August 10.
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London
Attlee
Britain
Germany
Italy
Greece
No. 10 Downing Street
Stock Exchange
United States
Labor M. P
Socialist Daily Mirror
Russia Threatens to Blackball U. N. Applicants
Russia said it would use its veto to block United Nations applications from Ireland Portugal and Trans Jordan. Soviet deputy Alexei Krasilnikov argued these states lack Moscow diplomatic ties and should be ineligible. The move targets Austria Italy Romania and Hungary as well, citing unratified peace treaties. The United States urged full discussion before a vote.
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Lake Success
Russia
United Nations
Ireland
Portugal
Trans-Jordan
Alexei N. Krasilnikov
Security Council
Moscow
Krasilnikov
Austria
Italy
Romania
Hungary
United Nation
United States
Britain
China
Belgium
Syria
France
Brazil
Colombia
Australia
Lltle
Poland
Albania
Outer Mongolia
Yemen
Mongolians Plan Early Attack
Outer Mongolian forces moved over 1000 infantry and cavalry into Sinkiang to prepare a new offensive on Chinese positions. A captured soldier testified to the plan amid prior harsh exchanges with Soviet Russia. Snow covers the front as temperatures fall below zero.
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Shanghai
U.P
Sinkiang
Central News
Peitashan
Russia
U S Must Keep Control of Air
General Carl Spaatz told a packed International Lions convention in San Francisco that America must retain air superiority to secure peace. He warned that the nation must assume responsibilities in a volatile world, stressing freedom through control of destiny and air power, and citing that a nation on wings backed by industry is a secure nation.
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San Francisco
Carl Spaatz
Army Air Forces
America
Civic Auditorium
Montana Sailor Edwin W. Coleman Found Dead in California
Edwin W. Coleman, 18, seaman first class from Belt Montana, was found dead Monday in a theater building at the Naval Air Station in San Diego. An unofficial Navy inquiry indicated he took his own life. Coleman had been absent on leave since last Wednesday. his next of kin is listed as his father Albert Coleman of Belt.
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Calif
Edwin W. Coleman
Belt
Mont
Naval Air Station
Here
11Th Naval District
Navy
Coleman
Albert Coleman
Salvation Army
Gust Johnson
Johnson
Green Lake
Hulda
Green Lake House
Fred H. Gay
Gay
Fire Kills Twenty-One Women in Paris Barracks
At least 21 women inmates died in a flash fire at Caserne Des Tourelles in Paris. Firefighters contained the blaze after midnight as guards barred journalists. about 500 prisoners were housed in the section. Most victims were believed to have perished from asphyxiation.
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Paris
Caserne Des Tourelles
Weather forecast for Butte and area with possible storms
Increasing cloudiness Thursday with possible thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs range 85 to 95 degrees. today at the School of Mines highs reached 85 and 46 lows, while at the airport highs near 84 and 42. Fair Thursday overall, but scattered thunderstorms likely in the west portion in the afternoon.
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School of Mines
UN Security Council orders urgent Indonesian hearing
Dr. Oscar Lange of Poland, as Security Council president, ordered an immediate hearing on the Indonesian question brought by Australia and India. The case will be added to the provisional agenda for Thursday, with priority to be decided by the council.
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Lake Success
Oscar Lange
Poland
United Nations Security Council
Australia
India
Lange
United Nations
Washington
Council
Egypt
Britain
V. K. Krishma Menon
General Assembly
London
Netherlands
Eelco van Kieffens
Security Council
van Kieffens
President Signs Five Appropriation Bills Totaling 16 Billion
President Truman signed five government appropriation bills totaling nearly 16 billion dollars to fund federal activities for the year starting July 1. The measures cover the War Department, Independent Offices including the Veterans Administration, Agriculture, Government Corporations, Foreign Aid, and related relief and administration programs. Also approved were pension increases of 20 percent for Civil War through Philippine insurrection veterans and their families.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Kansas City
Charles G. Ross
War Department
Veterans Administration
Agriculture Department
National Housing Agency
Tennessee Valley Authority
Jones Says Roosevelt Kept Hughes Flying Boat Contract Alive
Former Commerce Secretary Jesse H. Jones testified before the Senate war investigating committee that President Roosevelt in 1944 overrode cancellation of a $20 million Hughes flying boat contract. Jones said the Navy and Army opposed it yet the President renewed the project, which had cost about $13.5 million to date, while the RFC canceled it earlier that year.
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Washington
Jesse H. Jones
Roosevelt
Howard Hughes
Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senate War Investigating Committee
RFC
Big Texan
Army
Navy
War Production Board
Senate Committee
Hughes
Hollywood
Brewster
R-Me
Torch Blast Injures Man at Sullivan Roof Shop
Arthur Pankey suffered second degree burns on hands arms and legs when a blowtorch exploded at the Sullivan Roof company shop 304 South Montana He carried the flaming torch into the street preventing greater damage He was treated at St James hospital and released Damage to the front of the shop was severe with windows blown out Firefighters battled the blaze with one line from a nearby hydrant amid multiple Wednesday evening calls
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Arthur Pankey
Sullivan Roof Company
South Montana
Pankey
St. James Hospital
South Dakota
Singer Sewing Machine Company
West Park
Hennessy
Death of Australia’s 1913 14 Prime Minister Sir Joseph Cook
Sydney dispatch reports the death of Sir Joseph Cook at age 86. The former prime minister in 1913 and 1914 later served as high commissioner in London. His passing occurred on a Wednesday.
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Sydney
Sir Joseph Cook
Australia
London
United States protests Soviet asset seizures in Balkans
The United States protested to the Soviet Union over the seizure of German and Italian assets in Hungary Bulgaria and Romania. Washington warned transfers prior to peace treaty enforcement may be provisional and urged notification and consultation under the treaties. Officials doubted Soviet compliance.
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Balkans
United States
Washington
Russia
State Lovett
State Department
Security Council
United Nations
Constantine Tsaldaris
Associated Press
Soviet Union
Europe
Hungary
Bulgaria
Romania
Britain
France
Molotov
Balkan
Handwriting expert links Gollum to dynamite receipt in timebomb murder case
Santa Ana California July 30 A noted handwriting expert testified that George Bud Gollum signed receipts for 50 pounds of dynamite allegedly used to kill Mr and Mrs Walter E Overell The expert compared Gollums samples with the disputed receipt and asserted a positive conclusion that the same hand wrote both.
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Santa Ana
Calif
U.pa
George
Bud) Gollum
Walter E. Overell
J. Clark Sellers
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Lindberg
Gollum
R. L. Standish
Robi Constock
Sellers
James Musick
Orange County
Beulah Louise Overell
Firefighters Contain Wisconsin Blaze After Seven Hours
Weary crews fought 90 degree heat for seven hours to save Fond du Lac’s business district. The Hill Broth store and Ames Dress annex were gutted, and a three story brick shopping center was destroyed for a loss of at least 500000. Nearby stores flooded from hose water.
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Fond DU Lac
Wis
Wisconsin
Hill Brotht
Ames
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