Equalization Board Attacks Olsen on Slot Machine Licenses
The Montana Equalization Board criticized Attorney General Arnold H. Olsen for attacking operators of licensed slot machines. The board defended its licensing process, noted prior legal guidance, and argued Olsen’s war on nonprofit clubs may be premature while a court case awaits argument.
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Equalization Board
Olsen
Helena
State Board of Equalization
Arnold H. Olsen
Board of Equalization
Supreme Court
Attorney General's Department
Legislative Assembly
Bolivian Troops Battle Strikers Over Tin Mines
Bolivia faces a civil war like crisis as troops clash with miners near Huanuni and Siglo Viente. The government mobilizes reserves and imposes martial law while foreigners are evacuated and deaths and injuries mount. Local and foreign engineers are among those killed or wounded as violence disrupts rail and telegraph links.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Patino Company
Huanuni
Howard Keller
United States
Chile
Andes
Ovidio Quiroga
Oruro
Siglo Viente
Patino
T. J. H. O'Connor
Pasadena
Calif
Albert Krefting
Aramayo
Oploca
Quechisla
Animas
Atocha
Corocora
American Smelting and Refining Company
Health plan warned could wreck treasury say expert
Dr. Paul R. Hawley testified before the Senate committee, calling Truman's compulsory health insurance a long leap into a welfare state that might wreck the U S treasury. He urged Congress to form a fact finding commission to study the health problem before acting, while stating he did not judge welfare state correctness.
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Washington
Paul R. Hawley
United States Treasury
Veterans Administration
Congress
Senate Labor and Public Welfare
Hopes of Settling Berlin Rail Strike Are Chilled
Berlin reports on May 31 describe a cooled effort to end an 11 day railway strike. Willy Kreikemeyer, head of the Soviet controlled railway administration, rejected Mayor Ernst Reuter of West Berlin as mediator. He affirmed recognition of only the Communist free German trade union as the legal bargaining agent for workers.
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Berlin
Willy Kreikemeyer
German Railway Administration
Ernst Reuter
West Berlin
Free German Trade Union
Alger Hiss Goes on Trial on Perjury Charges
Alger Hiss begins a federal trial on perjury for allegedly denying giving secret State department papers to Whittaker Chambers. Jury of 12 seated after hours of opening. potential penalties include $2,000 fine and five years per count. Chambers, once Times editor, had accused Hiss in the probe.
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New York
Alger Hiss
Hubert E. James
General Motors Acceptance Corporation
State Department
Whittaker Chambers
Hiss
Roosevelt
Tehran
United Nations Conference On International Organization
San Francisco
Lloyd Paul Stryker
United States
Thomas P. Murphy
Thomas Donegan
Chambers
Time Magazine
Maryland
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Question of Diverting Columbia Waters to California Aired
A Senate public works hearing explored diverting Columbia River water to California. Commissioner Straus said studies have begun butWon't be completed for years and that the plan faces economic feasibility questions. He declined to name potential diversion sites, calling the subject explosive.
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Columbia
California
Washington
Senate
Columbia River
Senate Public Works Committee
Columbia Valley Administration
Pacific Northwest
Cain
Wash
Michael W. Straus
Commissioner of Reclamation
Straus
House
Hickenlooper to Question Atomic Chief in Hearing
Senator Hickenlooper will confront David E. Lilienthal in a face to face session Wednesday under the Senate House atomic energy committee. McMahon said Hickenlooper would lead the questioning in a public hearing starting at 9 a.m. EST, with a multi day inquiry likely to exceed three weeks.
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Washington
Hickenlooper
Iowa
David E. Lilienthal
McMahon
D-Conn
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
Lilienthal
Chicago
FBI
United States
Truman
Atomic Energy Commission
Helena Rules Daylight Saving Illegal For City
Helena officials heard that daylight saving cannot be legally adopted by Montana municipalities. City Attorney David R. Smith told the council that only state legislation can authorize a time change, leaving the Helena proposal to adopt daylight saving in limbo.
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Helena
Montana
David R. Smith
Smith
J. R. Wine
Tom Finnegan
Hugh K. Potter
Wine
William A. Brown
American Consulate at Mukden Closed
Six months of Chinese Communist pressure prompts U S to close the Mukden consulate in Manchuria. Consul General Angus Ward and nine staff are recalled after being cut off from outside contact since November 18. The move does not affect U S officials in north China cities or Dairen under Soviet control.
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Washington
United States
Mukden
Manchuria
State Department
Angus Ward
North China
Manchurian
Dairen
Soviet Russia
Gen Lucius D. Clay formally retires from Army
Washington May 31 Gen Lucius D Clay commander in Germany who helped break the Berlin blockade formally retired from the Army on Tuesday his departure marks the end of a notable World War II era career.
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Washington
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Berlin
Deflation Winds Blow Hard in Nation's Markets
Deflation pressures hit U S markets with sharp drops in stocks bonds and commodities. New York stocks fell to near March lows while bonds slid and wheat corn and cotton declined across exchanges. Factors include falling production rising inventories unemployment and strained demand as 1949 unfolds.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Kansas City
Chicago
Battle Looms Near Changsha as Communists Drive South
Canton dispatch reports Chinese Communist forces closing on Changsha from north and east after resuming attacks from Hankow. The Nationalists reinforce west of Changsha as a big battle is predicted. Nearby, China's parliament rejects Chu Cheng for premier amid postwar political realignments.
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Canton
Changsha
Central
Hankow
Shanghai
Peiping
Tungcheng
Puchi
Associated Press
San Francisco
Legislative Yuan
China
Chu Cheng
Chu
Li Tsung-jen
Ho Ying-chin
United Nations
Russia
Nikolai V. Roschin
Nanking
Moscow
Fire levels oil yard as tanks explode in Omaha
A spectacular oil yard fire in Omaha on Tuesday night destroyed over 100000 gallons of oil. Ten of thirty three storage tanks exploded, sending orange flames and smoke high into the air while all workmen escaped unharmed.
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Omaha
Brannan seeks broad farm power expansion in draft program
Secretary Brannan asked Congress to extend marketing quotas to most farm products. He proposes penalties on excess sales and requires two thirds producer referendum approval, though lawmakers doubt passage this session. The plan covers livestock meat milk eggs poultry and many crops beyond current quotas.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan
Congress
Agriculture Department
Pace
D-Ga
House Agricultural Subcommittee
Power Shortage Claims Rapped at Private Power Convention
Atlantic City May 31 private power firms opened their 17th annual convention framing public power as creeping socialism and disputing alleged shortages. James H Polhemus of Portland GE argued domestic rates are lower than public utilities and warned public power would centralize control if adopted. He criticized Bonneville Dam contract limits hindering long term access to electricity.
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Atlantic City
N. J
James H. Polhemus
Portland
Ore
General Electric Company
Northwest
Bonneville Dam
Butte Weather Forecast Mostly Cloudy and Cooler
Butte area forecast calls for mostly cloudy with rain Wednesday and highs near 60 in the next 24 hours. Past 24 hours high and low were 54 and 41 at the School of Mines and 57 and 43 at the airport. West of the divide expect showers and thunderstorms with a high 55 to 65. east of the divide partly to mostly cloudy with showers and storms and a high 65 to 75.
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School of Mines
Divide
Aivide
Vishinsky's German Congress Delegation Blocked by West Powers
In Paris on May 31, the United States Britain and France refused Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky's bid to invite a 22 member delegation from the German people's congress to speak at the foreign ministers council. Acheson Bevin and Schuman said the move would force a two‑section debate and urged inviting Bonn representatives as well.
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Paris
Russia
United States
Britain
France
Andrei Vishinsky
German People’s Congress
Foreign Ministers’ Council
Vishinsky
West Germany
Bonn
Dean Acheson
Ernest Bevin
Robert Schuman
Germany
Berlin
People's Congress
People’s Congress
Ex-Ickes Aide Linked as Soviet Contact at Coplon Trial
An FBI memo tied Ursula Gruber former interior aide to Harold Ickes to a Soviet contact role. Gruber denied knowledge of Coplon and any secret access, while prosecutors hinge on 28 seized papers including a top secret FBI geophone note and Soviet espionage material.
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Washington
FBI
Secretary of the Interior
Harold Ickes
Judith Coplon
Miss Coplon
Justice Department
Russia
Ursula Wasserman
Ruth Gruber
Gruber
F. A. Germin
Interior
Interior Department
Miss Gruber
Ickes
New York
Department
United States
County Real Estate Tax Take Tops Six Hundred Thousand
The Man collection on the final installment of 1948 taxes reached 609003.41 dollars by 5 p.m. Tuesday, Miss Phemia McPhail announced after the delinquency deadline. The total tops May 1948 by 60245.11 dollars and more mail returns are expected before final tabulation.
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Phemia McPhail
Aged Judge Tillman Johnson of Utah Announces Retirement
United States Judge Tilman D. Johnson of Utah notified President Truman of his retirement effective May 28. Johnson, age 91 this year, informed Sen. Elbert D. Thomas who relayed the update to reporters.
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Washington
Elbert D. Thomas
Utah
United States
Tilman D. Johnson
Truman
Russia seeks cold peace under new line, says Gromyko plan
The magazine United Nations World reports Russia seeks a cold peace under a new line presented to Stalin by Andrei Gromyko. Gromyko, newly promoted, argues President Truman aims to preserve peace and that Russo American rapprochement is feasible.
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Russia
New York
United Nations World
Stalin
Andrei A. Gromyko
Gromyko
Truman
Grand Jury Called in Bridges Case
Attorney General Tom Clark ordered a grand jury probe into reports of witness tampering tied to the case against Harry Bridges. Bridges, head of the International Longshoremen's Union, was indicted in San Francisco for perjury and fraud over his 1945 naturalization papers claim of never being a Communist.
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Washington
Tom Clark
Harry Bridges
Bridges
International Longshoreman’s Union
San Francisco
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