Griswold Concedes Butler Victory In Nebraska Senate Race
Gov. Dwight Griswold concedes Nebraska Republican senatorial nomination to Hugh A. Butler with only five percent of precincts reporting. Butler led Griswold as Griswold attacked his rival’s votes on British loan lend lease and U N A R A. In Idaho, Gossett trailed Donart for the Democratic nod as the day’s returns unfolded.
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Dwight Griswold
Nebraska
Hugh A. Butler
Griswold
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
Butler
Senate
Idaho
Charles C. Gossett
George E. Donart
Donart
Gossett
United States House
Omaha
U.N. A.R
Taylor
Singing Cowboy
United States Senate
Henry C. Dworshak
Richard H. Wells
Pocatello
Orrin E. Lee
Coeur d'Alene
North Idaho Junior College
Resolutions From Montana County Commissioners Meet
The Montana Association of County Commissioners at its 37th annual Butte meeting passed eight resolutions urging action on taxation and county finance. They call for a 10 year write off of uncollectible taxes, study of airline and airport tax burdens, new excise-style road taxes, review of county laws for employee vacation and sick leave, and re enactment of authority to levy additional property taxes.
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Montana Association of County Commissioners
Butte
State Board of Equalization
Legislative Assembly
Montana
Snowdrifts 15 Feet Deep Close Red Lodge Cooke City Route
Snow removal crews tackle 15 foot drifts on the Red Lodge-Cooke City highway to open the route to Yellowstone by the official Saturday opening date. Movements focus on clearing the two mile high pass as crews race to complete the winter weather task.
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Cooke City
Red Lodge
Yellowstone National Park
Truman veto of Case bill upheld by House defeat of override
The House narrowly sustained President Truman's veto of the Case anti strike bill by a 255 to 135 vote, five votes short of a two thirds margin. The outcome ends the bill in its present form and boosts organized labor. Leaders debated sending the measure back as a rider to the emergency labor powers bill, but party lines and tangled majorities clouded the path forward.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
House
Mr. Truman
White House
Senate
Sam Rayburn
Texas
House Rules Committee
Ranking Scholars Are Announced For 1946 Butte High Grads
The 1946 Butte high school graduating class names four top scholars and scholarship winners. Harry Dahlberg Jr. earns rank No 1 and will attend Montana State University. Clara Quinnell, Elsie Varcoe, and Mabel Tourikis, all daughters of local residents, also win scholarships to Montana State colleges or university. Principal Haney notes school closes June 15 and reopens Aug 12 and urges seniors to file transfer applications.
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Harry Dahlberg, Jr
Clara Quinnell
Elsie Varcoe
Mabel Tourikis
Butte High School
University of Montana
Dahlberg
Harry Dahlberg
Porphyry
Montana State University
Miss Quinnell
Fred C. Quinnell
Whitman
Montana State College
Miss Varcoe
Cyril Varcoe
Iowa
Miss Tourikis
John Tourikis
Monroe
George Haney
Havre Woman Dies in Auto Blaze
Florence Elizabeth Kessler 20 died Monday night from burns after an auto caught fire. Passenger Mike Super 25 of Great Falls is in critical condition. Driver Charles Andrews said a spare gasoline trick sparked the blaze. both victims burned when gasoline flashed. Survivors include Miss Kessler’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kessler of Martin.
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Havre
Florence Elizabeth Kessler
Mike Super
Great Falls
Charles Andrews
Miss Kessler
Super
Fred Kessler
Martin
Counterfeit $20 Bills Alarm West Coast Merchants
U S secret service regional officials warned that many twenty dollar notes circulating in western markets are counterfeit and urged citizens to inspect bills carefully before accepting them from customers.
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Seattle
U. S
Secret Service
Mihailovic Admits Contact With Germans During War
Belgrade June 11 Gen Draja Mihailovic acknowledged contact with German forces and the Yugoslav puppet government in 1941. He said he sought to lure Quislings to join his Chetniks and defended aiding Quisling gendarmes to entice them to switch sides. He claimed no guilt and lamented defense-material restrictions as a court trial continued.
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Belgrade
Draja Mihailovic
Mihailovic
Tito
Milan Nedic
Snyder Nomination Approved as Treasury Secretary
The Senate confirmed John W. Snyder to be secretary of the treasury without debate or a record vote in a Tuesday session.
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Washington
W.P
Senate
John W. Snyder
the Treasury
Feuding Court Justices Asked to Quit
Washington report on the Jackson Black feud grows with calls for resignations. Senator Lucas urges both justices to quit for the country’s good while Jackson says he will not leave. Eastland and Wherry seek congressional inquiry as the Senate weighs options.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Capitol
Justice Jackson
Justice Black
Lucas
D-Ill
Jackson
Nuernberg
Black
Eastland
D-Miss
Wherry
Judiciary Committee
Senate
House
Senate Committee
Fred L. Vinson
McCarran
D-New
Hatch
D-N. M
House Judiciary Committees
Rep. Celler
D-N. Y
House Committee
U S to Return Crown Jewels From German Trust
The Crown jewels of the House of Hesse will be returned to German owners, with the items used as evidence in the cases against three Army officers tied to their smuggling to the United States. An Army report notes 106 diamonds were recovered by customs after Col Durant’s return.
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Washington
House of Hesse
Kronberg Castle
Floyd Parks
War Department
Parks
J. W. Durant
WAC
Bride
Kathleen Nash Durant
Maj
Davids. Watson
Germany
Army
Durant
A. C. Miller
Provost Marshal’s Office
Shirley Stephens
Customs Enforcement
Chicago
Stephens
Three Die, One Injured in Denison Family Shooting
In Denison Texas on Tuesday three members of the Cuchener family are dead and another gravely wounded after a shooting. Coroner’s verdict indicates the gunfire was fired by the son George Cuchener, causing the deaths of Lena Cuchener his wife and Georgine Cuchener 24, who was shot through the head and is in critical condition.
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Denison
Texas
Lena Cuchener
George Cuchener
Georgine Cuchener
Justice of the Peace
E. A. Wright
Mystery Man in Murder Case Is Dead
Lester Smith, traffic manager for Great Northern Paper, identified a Westfield New Jersey man as the person who left William A Whitcomb’s office before Whitcomb was found shot. The man, George E Hardy, died in a Westfield apartment explosion Monday night. Smith recalled the man’s thick neck as he described seeing him with a gun near Whitcomb’s office.
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Boston
Lester Smith
Great Northern Paper Company
Westfield
N. J
William A. Whitcomb
Whitcomb
Matthew Egan
George E Hardy
Smith
Brookline
Hardy
Egan
Maritime Unions Reject Bid From Operators
Maritime unions rejected a bid by ship operators to pay for time ashore as a nationwide strike threat loomed. With a strike set for midnight Friday, a House labor subcommittee and government conciliators pursued a settlement, while optimism rested on possible compromises beyond management proposals. The subcommittee heard from Harry Bridges of the CIO Longshoremen, who said the government had ordered further talks.
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Washington
House
Harry Bridges
C. I. O. Longshoremen’s Union
Loans to Farmers on Wheat Crop Offered
The Agriculture department announced it will offer to make loans to farmers on 1946 crop wheat stored on farms at rates averaging 1.48 dollars per bushel nationally. Last year the rate averaged 1.38 dollars. The government plans to export 250 million bushels from the 1946 crop as the crop moves to market with ceiling prices expected to hold.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Weather Outlook for Butte and Montana Divides
Partly cloudy Wednesday for Butte with morning clearing and afternoon showers. Warm Wednesday night with little temperature change. highs near 72 at School of Mines and 75 at the Airport. Montana west of divide: partly cloudy Wednesday with highs 65 to 75. east of divide: partly cloudy with scattered showers.
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School of Mines
Montana
Senate reduces OPA powers in price control bill action
Senate moved to end discretionary OPA ceilings by adopting a Moore amendment that requires prompt removal of ceilings on manufactured items when supply is near balance with demand. The change could affect gasoline and petroleum pricing and comes amid debate over meat price controls and broader extensions of price regulation. Morris Verner warned of inevitable withholdings ahead of July 1 due to price control uncertainty.
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Washington
Senate
OPA
Chester Bowles
Moore
R-Okla
Senate Banking Committee
Wagner
D-N. Y
Banking Committee
United States
Vandenburg
R-Mich
Congress
Downey
Calif
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Wherry
R-Neb
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
House
Two Montanans to be ordained by Jesuits in San Francisco
Two native Montanans William J. Gill of Butte and Francis W. Callan of Anaconda will be ordained to the Catholic priesthood as Jesuits. Holy Orders will be conferred by Most Rev. John J. Mitty at St Mary cathedral San Francisco. Gill is son of William Gill and the late Mrs. Gill and studied at Immaculate Conception grade school Boys Central high school and Gonzaga.
Nobel Prize Winner Gerhart Hauptmann Dies at 83
Berlin reports the death of Gerhart Hauptmann, the Nobel prize winning dramatist, novelist and poet aged 83. He passed away Saturday at his home in Agnetendorf, in the Silesian mountains, the announcement came Tuesday.
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Berlin
Gerhart Hauptmann
Agnetendorf
Silesian Mountains
Engineer Maurice Koechlin Dies at 90 in Montreux
Maurice Koechlin, a 90 year old engineer who helped conceive the Eiffel Tower plans, died in Montreux France on Tuesday.
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Montreux
France
Maurice Koechlin
Eiffel Tower
Max Stanley Starts Taxi Tests On XB-35 Bomber
Hawthorne Calif June 11 Test Pilot Max Stanley begins intensive taxi tests on Northrop Aircrafts XB-35 flying wing bomber with first flight due in a few weeks.
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Hawthorne
Calif
Max Stanley
Northrop
Seven Killed in Naples Clash Between Monarchists and Police
In Naples a violent clash among Monarchist demonstrators, troops, and police left at least seven dead and about 50 wounded as battles raged through Via Medina. In Rome nearly 100,000 pro Republican protesters dispersed after marching on the Viminale, urging cabinet action against exile for King Umberto II.
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Rome
Naples
Viminale Palace
Umberto II
Giuseppe Romita
Umberto
Quirinale Palace
Alcide de Gasperi
Medina
Four Hurt In Highway Collision East Of Mining Area
Four Butte residents were injured when a car rear ended a large truck on Highway 10, one mile west of the Cactus Inn. Luella Lehti and James McNamee suffered fractures and were admitted, Leo Lehti and Harvey Howard had minor injuries and were treated and released. The crash left Howard’s car badly damaged. patrolmen cited the rear end collision as the cause.
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Butte
Cactus Inn
St. James Hospital
Luella Lehti
Hennessy Annex
James McNamee
Wharton
Howard
CMA Leather chief says shoe demand met after Thanksgiving
John W. Lake deputy director of the Civilian Production Administration leather division states stores should be able to meet shoe demands shortly after Thanksgiving. He comments on production plans and stock readiness as Christmas shopping approaches.
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Washington
John W. Lake
Civilian Production Administration
House panel OKs 20 percent increase in disability pay
The House veterans committee on Tuesday approved a bill to raise disability compensation for ex servicemen by 20 percent. The measure targets veterans nationwide including those from Oklahoma and beyond, with the proposal moving to the chamber for debate.
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Washington
House Veterans Committee
Ray
Marlow
Okla
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W. A. Young
Maritime Unions
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Dillon
Ll Drummond
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U. S. Weather Bureau
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