Britain lifts blockade of Red Radio Station in Berlin
British authorities lift seven day armed blockade around the Soviet radio station in Berlin after talks with Western commanders. The move follows minor Soviet gestures of reconciliation and aims to ease pressure at Berlin’s border while preserving future leverage.
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Berlin
Russia
Radio
West Berlin
C. F. C. Coleman
Royal Scots
U. S
Griebnitz Lake
Vassily Chuikov
Steinstuecken
End of Line Wife Sues Over Two-Wife Plan
Mrs. Cecile Norton of Inglewood filed for separate support against truck driver Roy Hugh Norton alleging he kept a second wife at Phoenix Arizona and Blythe California and represented her as his wife while they lived apart since three days ago. She seeks reasonable support and half of their community property. The couple, who married in Tijuana in 1937, separated recently.
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Los Angeles
Cecile Norton
Roy Hugh Norton
Inglewood
Tijuana
Mexico
Norton
Fierce Rainstorm Cripples New York
A violent rainstorm with winds up to 84 mph struck the New York metropolitan area. It knocked out electricity for tens of thousands, toppled trees, caused a death from a 225 pound man on a Manhattan roof, and damaged traffic systems as Mitchell Air Force Base logged nearly an inch of rain in 23 minutes.
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New York
Manhattan
Long Beach
Long Island Lighting Comany
New York City
Mitchell Air Force Base
Long Island
Montana Express Hike Granted by Railroad Commission
Helena June 9 The Montana railroad commission granted a 27 cent per shipment express rate increase over 1951 levels by a two to one vote while blocking several intrastate raise requests. The panel authorized matching ICC orders for intrastate rates, excluding minimum class and commodity rate hikes and floral items, but allowed a 25 percent rise for returning empty containers and lifted a 20 cent per shipment charge from a year ago. Chairman Paul T. Smith and Commissioner Austin B. Middleton supported the order with Leonard C. Young opposing.
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Helena
Montana
Railroad Commission
Railway Express Agency
Interstate Commerce Commission
Paul T. Smith
Austin B. Middleton
Leonard C. Young
Navy test pilot sets new altitude record
Walter T. Bonney of NACA said Navy test pilot Bill Bridgeman flew a Douglas Skyrocket to a height better than 79 000 feet on August 15. The record surpasses the previous 72 394 feet set by Orvil Anderson and Albert Stevens in a balloon near Rapid City, South Dakota, in November 1935.
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Washington
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Navy
Walter T. Bonney
NACA
Bill Bridgeman
Bonney
Orvil Anderson
Albert Stevens
Rapid City
S. D
First Montana War Bonus Check Presentation Planned in Helena
Montana officials signed 21.7 million in World War II veterans bonus bonds. Gov. Bonner and Atty. Gen. Olsen return to Montana for a ceremony in Helena at the Montana Veterans of Foreign Wars convention Saturday night to present the first bonus check. About 65,000 veterans are eligible for monthly bonuses ranging from ten to fifteen dollars depending on duty. The bonds mature 1953 to 1982 and are financed by a two cent per package cigarette tax enacted in 1950. at the VFW event. The veteran’s name was not announced.
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New York
J. E. Henry
Montana
John W. Bonner
Arnold H. Olsen
Sam W. Mitchell
Mitchell
England
Bonner
Olsen
Smith, Barney and Company
Blythe and Company
J. F. Neely
Montana Veterans of Foreign Wars
Helena
Court Will Hear Segregation Issue This Fall
The Supreme Court will hear two appeals by Negro parents challenging segregation of white and Negro children in public schools. The cases from Topeka Kansas and Clarendon County South Carolina originated in the 1950s and may force states to choose between integrated schooling or private systems.
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Washington
Supreme Court
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
Alabama
Topeka
Kan
Clarendon County
S. C
Scandia to Hold Area Conclave in Butte
Nearly 500 members of the Scandinavian Fraternity of America district lodge No. 7 plan a four day biennial convention in Butte. Registration begins June 11 with events June 12 through 15 at the Finlen hotel. District spans Montana Idaho Washington Oregon and British Columbia with officers from Whitefish Helena Seattle Spokane and more.
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Scandinavian Fraternity of America
District Lodge No
Butte
Finlen Hotel
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
British Columbia
Mabelle Arndt
Whitefish
N. C. Simonsen
M. E. Anderson
Helena
Esther Moe
Clinton
Wash
Margaret Simonsen
Seattle
Ivan Pearson
Spokane
Magnus Freeman
Tacoma
John Lindquist
O. B. Hamry
R. A. Erickson
Phyllis Hamry
Ole L. Larsen
Ernie Neimi
Niels P. Knudsen
Otto M. Ronning
Winifred Erickson
Clella Larsen
Mabel Coon
Mari Fisher
Kristine Simonsen
Leola Anne Niemi
Treaty Signed Renewing India Japan Peace Ties
TOKYO reports a peace treaty concluded Monday renewing ancient ties between India and Japan. The document ends World War II hostilities between the two nations and leaves Soviet Russia as the only major belligerent still at war with Japan.
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Tokyo
India
Japan
Soviet
Russia
Frustrated Reds Still Want Hill
Frustrated Chinese Reds renewed an attack on a western Korea hill Tuesday, Allied infantrymen repelling the third straight day. Some 160 to 180 attackers surged up the slopes behind shelling and armor fire before fading into darkness. UN troops held the crest won Saturday near Chorwon as western front actions intensified with heavy artillery and air strikes on supply routes.
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Milo Farnets
Seoul
Korea
Chorwon
Punchbowl
Montanan Purchases Biggest Boat on Fort Peck Lake
Neil Cole of Terry buys a surplus army rubber boat for 60 dollars, paying 90 dollars freight. With friends he inflates and polishes the craft into a 8 by 24 foot pontoon rated to carry 13 tons, used in World War II bridge operations.
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Terry
Neil Cole
Fort Peck Lake
Terry Tribune
Cole
Bologna
Senate OKs reduced foreign aid bill despite ban defeat
The Senate approved a $6.43 billion foreign aid bill 59 11 sending it to President Truman. The measure funds direct arms and defense support totaling about 4.6 billion plus 1.8 billion in economic aid and technical assistance with 44 million for the international children's fund. A last-ditch bid to ban aid to nations trading with Communist countries failed.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
North Atlantic Command
Congress
House
Olin D. Johnston
South Carolina
Easure
Free Nations
International Children’s Fund
Sen
James P. Kem
R-Mo
Communist Truce Team Taunts Allies in Letter
In Munsan Korea on June 10 the Red high command taunted the Allies in a message broadcast from Peiping signed by Kim Il Sung and Peng Teh Huai. They warned that failure to resolve talks would mirror battlefield outcome and demanded resumed full-dress sessions at Panmunjom. UN officials remained noncommittal as fighting on Kose Island continued and a three day recess began after Red accusations of mistreatment of prisoners. Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison urged written proposals to break the deadlock before returning to Panmunjom.
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Munsan
Korea
Red High Command
Mark Clark
Peiping Radio
Kim Il Sung
North Korea
Peng-Teh-Huai
Panmun.com
James C. Murray
U. S
Kose Island
United Nations Command
William K. Harrison
Reds
Panmun Jom
Wheelchair Veteran Heads 430 Miles to Washington
Malcolm T. Preece Jr., a disabled veteran from Louisa Kentucky, departs in a wheelchair for a 430 mile hitchhiking trip to Washington. He aims to persuade a VA board to raise his disability rating from 80 to 100 percent and has a VA hearing scheduled.
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Louisa
Malcolm T. Preece, Jr
Washington
Preece
Camp Gruder
Ark
Veterans Administration
VA Board of Appeals
Paratroopers Destroy POW Compound in Bloody Koreas Clash
Angels from Hell paratroopers of the 187th Airborne RCC stormed Compound 76 on Koje Island freeing 6,400 prisoners and burning the site. Reds suffered 24 to 30 killed and 136 wounded. two Americans died and 13 were wounded. A tunnel to Compound 77 was found as 6,800 prisoners in 78 were moved.
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Koje Island
Korea
Angels From Hell
U. S
187Th Airborne
Taft Backers Battle Today Over Convention Machinery
Taft and Eisenhower factions clash in Chicago over control of Republican convention setup and MacArthur keynote. MacArthur appears likely to be chosen for speaking role, while Democratic prep lags with Connecticut Democrats set to deliver 16 Brien McMahon votes.
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Associated Press
Taft
Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Connecticut
Brien McMahon
Chicago
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pacific
Germans Tied Up to Halt Flights
East Germans suspected of fleeing to the West were tied to trees as families were forced into a 60 car freight train headed east. Villages on the Hesse Thuringia line, Asbach Sickenberg Wahlhausen Linden Werra, were involved. A shadowy transport and a wave of asylum requests followed, with police officers fleeing west for safety.
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Kassel
Germany
Asbach
Sickenberg
Wahlhausen
Lindenwerra
Hesse-Thuringia
Vacha
Thuringia
Smyth Acquitted In San Francisco Tax case
A federal court jury acquitted James G. Smyth former collector of internal revenue for northern California of defrauding the government of 402 by correcting his 1945 income tax return.
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San Francisco
James G. Smyth
California
Internal Revenue
Odd Fellow Past Master Is Dead
William D. Bennett 86 longtime Anaconda resident and former grand master of the Montana Odd Fellows died Monday at St. Ann hospital after an illness. He was born in Hirsh Beach England and came to Montana in 1889. He served the Anaconda school board for 24 years and worked as a stationary engineer at the Montana hotel for over 40 years. He re married his wife in 1947 and leaves a large family including son in Chile and daughters in the United States. The body lies at Kendrick funeral home.
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Anaconda
William D. Bennett
The
Montana Odd Fellows
St. Ann Hospital
West Third
Mr. Bennett
Montana Hotel
Hirsh Beach
England
Montana
Havre
Sand Coulee
Board of
Bennett
Sand Coulee Methodist Church
H. J. Bennett
Potrerillos
Chile
Inlaw
James McGoveney
Kansas City
Hundreds Bid Final Farewell to W H Hoover
Crowds from New York, Connecticut, Minnesota and elsewhere fill St. John Episcopal church in Butte to honor William Harold Hoover president of the Anaconda Copper Mining company who died Friday. The service is led by Rev James C Holt with organist Violet Laity and concludes with committal at Mount Moriah cemetery.
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New York
Connecticut
Minnesota
St. John Episcopal Church
William Harold Hoover
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Butte
White
Violet Laity
James C. Holt
Montana
Anaconda Company
Mr. Hoover
Holt
Mount Moriah
J. T. Fin
Co. E. Weed
Frederick Laist
R. H. Glover
E. S. McGlone
F. O. Case
E. O. Lowerwine
D. M. Kelly
W. K. Daly
C. E. Moran
R. B. Caples
Great Falls
W. E. Mitchell
C. A. Lemmon
K. B. Frazer
F. A. Linforth
J. H. Dickey, Jr
R. S. Newlin
John A. Coe
American Brass Company
Waterbury
Weather Forecast for Butte and Montana Regions
Considerable cloudiness with thundershowers Tuesday and Tuesday night cooler Tuesday afternoon. Highs upper 60s to 80s, lows mid 40s to upper 40s. Airport-Mini mum and School of Mines report 41 to 80 range. West of Divide mostly partly cloudy with scattered storms. little temp change. East of Divide mainly clear to partly cloudy with warmer conditions inland Tuesday.
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Butte
School of Mines
Montana
Divide
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Marietta College
Marietta
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