Taft Targets New Jersey Delegates In GOP Convention Push
Senator Robert A. Taft campaigns to swing New Jersey's 38 delegation from Eisenhower as the 1952 GOP race narrows. The Associated Press tally shows Taft leading Eisenhower with 464 to 391 of 1,193 Republican delegates chosen.
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Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Dwight D. Eisenhower
New Jersey
New York City
Jersey
Eisenhower
Associated Press
Taft
Kefauver
Russell
Harriman
Russell Territory
Tired of Nicknames Seeks Name Change in California
Robert W. Hershey of Los Angeles applied to the superior court for permission to alter his name to Lee S. Carrothers after 39 years of nicknames including Candy Kid Chocolate Kid and Hershey Bar Bob. He said he is tired of the monikers and wants a new identity.
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Los Angeles
Robert W. Hershey
Candy Kid
Superior Court
Lee S. Carrothers
Immigration bill passes Senate to White House
Congress completed action on a controversial immigration and naturalization code. The Senate approved the measure by voice vote and sent it to President Truman, who faced opposition hoping for a veto.
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Washington
Congress
United States
Senate
White House
Truman
Scandia Meeting Opens Today in Butte
The 30th biennial convention of district lodge No. 7 of the Scandinavian Fraternity of America opens Thursday at 9 a.m. at the Finish hotel with delegates from Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. Held through Saturday, events include officers election and installation, butte lodge initiations, and a banquet with Arnold Olsen as toastmaster.
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District Lodge No. 7
Scandinavian Fraternity of America
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
British Columbia
Thorsten Thorstenson
Rockford
Ill
Edward Seadin
Toledo
Ohio
John Lindquist
Butteridge
Mabelle Arndt
Thomas R. Morgan
Butte Lodge No
Capital City Lodge
Odin
Arnold Olsen
Silver Bow
Strike talk ends as AFL masters approve arbitration
NOT TO SPREAD STRIKE SAN FRANCISCO June 11. A threat to extend the West coast shipping strike to eastern and foreign ships visiting west ports vanished Wednesday. The AFL Masters Mates and Pilots voted six to one in favor of arbitrating their dispute with the Pacific Maritime association.
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San Francisco
AFL
Pacific Maritime Association
Boys Tell Fantastic Story Of Abduction To Escape Punishment
A 14 year old orphan and his 12 year old brother said a gunman forced them to take a car near Butte. The tale triggered highway block checks and patrols from multiple towns, but investigators later learned the older boy took the car to ride and the crash was accidental. A death near East Helena proved unrelated.
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Helena
Butte
Boulder
East Helena
John Williams
County Proposes Rural Fire Control in Silver Bow
A rural fire program and budget request totaling up to 2500 dollars per district were filed with County Commissioners by residents. Four districts are proposed Melrose Divide Gregson Ramsay Silver Bow Buxton Nine Mile Little Basin Basin Creek Roosevelt Drive Rocker Brown's Gulch.
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Joe H. Sullivan
Frank Gersh
Loretta L. Sullivan
Sullivan
Silver Bow County
O. M. Ueland
R. 0. Spangler
Carl W. Johnson
Jim Monforton
Melrose
Divide
Gregson
Ramsay
Silver Bow
Buxton
Nine Mile
Little Basin
Basin Creek
Roosevelt Drive
Rocker
Brown's Gulch
Butte
This Will Be Children's Day Again at Columbia Gardens
The second children's day of the summer will be observed at Columbia Gardens with free bus rides for children under 14 by Anaconda Copper Mining. Buses from Park and Main start at 9 a.m. every 20 minutes to 4 p.m. Supervising adults oversee activities while 3,000 plus children enjoyed the opening day last week.
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Columbia Gardens
Ted Beech
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Park and Main
House Votes to End President's Authority to Seize Railroads
Berlin dispatch reports Russia showing force without massed buildup on the Elbe as Western officials assess Moscow aims. No reinforcements appear in East Germany for Chuikov’s force, while jet fighters and bombers support a limited pressure strategy amid border incidents and debates over German rearmament.
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Berlin
Russia
Europe
Elbe
East Germany
Vasily Chuikov
Poland
Chuikov
West
West Germany
ADN
Soviet Zone
West Berlin
Free German Youth
FDJ
People's Police
Kurt Schumacher
Bonn
Red Patrol
Planes and Tanks Support Raid on Red Positions
Allied raiders backed by planes and tanks attacked Chinese positions on the western Korean front near Chorwon. The Fifth Air Force shifted fighters to front line support and reported heavy Reds casualties amid continued artillery exchanges. U.S. casualties in Korea rose to 109,712 for the week, with 64 killed. Sabre pilots shot down three MiGs near the Manchurian border as Panmunjom tensions linger.
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Seoul
Chorwon
Fifth Air Force
Eighth Army
U. S
Defense Department
Washington
Korea
Manchurian
Panmunjom
Brazil Argentine Tension Mounts
Brazil reinforces its border with Argentina amid raids by President Juan D Peron's forces. At least three Brazilians killed and others kidnapped across the frontier as tensions rise before a planned U S visit by Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Jaan Neves da Fontoura
Brazil
Argentina
Juan D. Peron
Buenos Aires
South America
U. S
Dean Acheson
Acheson
Peron
Chile
Girls Lived in Abandoned Car Caught in Shoplifting Spree
Two Missoula girls aged 14 and 18 were arrested in Butte after living in an abandoned car stocked with food and using it as a base for shoplifting. Officers seized over $75 of clothing from J C Penney Burrs Darling Woolworths and Hughes, and the pair admitted taking items. They confessed to travel with local boyfriends linked to the cases.
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Missoula
Butte
William Dalling
Elmer Rosellini
John T. Sheehan
R. D. MacLean
Rosellini
Clark Street
Community Memorial Hospital
Sheehan
J. C. Penney
Burr's
Darling Shop
Hughes
Woolworth’'s
State Industrial School
Miles City
Fourth Koje Island Camp Cleared
American infantrymen on Koje Island cleared 4,800 North Korean prisoners from compound 95 amid a search for more possible victims. They moved 150 prisoners first, with Brig. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner ordering bayonets down. Reds reportedly burned records and rationed stock during the transfer, the fourth compound cleared since Operation Breakup began.
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Koje Island
Korea
Haydon L. “Bull
Boatner
Boamer
Eisenhower says peace possible within years if West counters fear
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower told New York Republican delegates that peace could be preserved within two to three years if free nations boost economic and military strength and counter Soviet fear. He warned against deficit spending and inflation while Dewey predicted a Chicago nomination and November victory.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Free Nations
Soviet Union
United States
Thomas E. Dewey
Chicago
Dewey
Deadline Saturday for county post candidates filing
The deadline for filing petitions for party nominations for county offices is noon Saturday in the Clerk and Recorder William T. Duckham's office. So far 24 Silver Bow residents have filed for the July 15 primary. Voters will elect eight legislators, a sheriff for the remaining two years of Al McLeod’s term, a district three commissioner for six years, county attorney, auditor, clerk of court, two justices of the peace, and two constables from Silver Bow and South Butte townships for two-year terms.
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William T. Duckham
Silver Bow County
al McLeod
Silver Bow
South Butte
Senate Rejects Move To Grant Truman Emergency Powers
The House voted 284 to 69 to end the President's authority to seize railroads and to deny renewal of 11 other emergency powers. The measure goes to the Senate as it also kept in doubt Truman’s steel seizure push.
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Washington
House
Truman
White House
Senate
Armed Services
Selective Service
Judiciary Committee
Representative Davis
D-Ga
Representative Forand
D-R. 1
More
Chamber
Morse
House Committee Backs End to Credit Controls
The House banking committee voted to kill all controls on consumer and real estate credit by June 30 while extending wage, price, and rent controls for a full year. It also set price supports for six farm commodities at no less than 90 percent of parity and refused to restore live stock slaughter quotas.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
Senate
House
Highway Board Awards Contracts in Montana
Montana highway commission awarded contracts totaling 519,867 for Wolf Point North road work in Roosevelt County. Sidney and Great Falls bidders received 368,846 for 13.45 miles of grading gravel oil and drainage by August 31, 1953, and S Birch and Sons of Great Falls earned 151,021 for 12.7 miles of grading gravel drainage by July 1, 1953.
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Helena
Montana
Highway Commission
Wolf Point-North
Roosevelt County
Sidney
Great Falls
Albert Lalonde Company
S. Birch and Sons of
Butte Weather Forecast Promises A Chance Of Showers
Partly cloudy Thursday and Thursday night with widely scattered showers and cooler afternoon. Expected minimum Thursday 40 and maximum 68. Airport minimum 34 maximum 75. School of Mines minimum 34 maximum 76. West of Divide variable clouds with few showers and afternoon storms and little temperature change high 68 to 78. East of Divide increasing wind with showers and thunderstorms and warmer north high 75 to 85.
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School of Mines
Divide
UN Stands Firm on Concessions in Korean Armistice Talks
Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison Jr. told Communist negotiators at Panmunjom that the Allies would make no further concessions on Korea armistice terms. The stalemate centers on the fate of Communist POWs who refuse repatriation. Harrison asserted the April 28 proposal as final, while Nam I accused Rose Island stockade killings in a recent battle. Clark supported the stance in a formal NATO message.
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Munsan
Korea
William K. Harrison, Jr
Harrison
Nam I
Panmunjom
Nam
Big Hose Island
Mark Clark
United Nations
Puller Relieves Davies as Amphibious Training Commander
Marine Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Puller assumed command of the troop training unit at the amphibious training command based at the naval amphibious base, relieving Brig. Gen. William W. Davies on a Wednesday ceremony in San Diego.
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San Diego
Calif
Marine
Lewis B
Chesty) Puller
William W. Davies
Amphibious Training Command
Naval Amphibious Base
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