Truman denounces Balkan regimes amid peace treaty moves
President Truman accuses Hungary Bulgaria and Romania of oppressing their majorities as Balkan peace treaties gain Senate ratification. He also signs the Italian peace pact and praises Italy’s future democracy while officials weigh options against Soviet aggression in Eastern Europe.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
Hungary
Bulgaria
Romania
Senate
Italy
Balkan
United States
Europe
United Nations
Soviet Union
Fifty Die When Plane Crashes on Blue Ridge Peak
The four engine DC-4 of Pennsylvania Central Airways crashed Friday night in a driving rain, killing all 50 aboard. Searchers reached the wreckage on Blue Ridge Mountain at dawn and began cutting a way down the slope to recover bodies. The disaster, the second worst in U.S. commercial aviation, followed a warning from the pilot that all was well at 5 000 feet moments before the crash.
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Leesburg
Blue Ridge
United States
Chicago-Washington
Washington
Sea
Officials Inspect Fort Peck Dam
Federal and state officials toured the Fort Peck dam in Montana a $125 million earth-fill project on the Missouri River. The visit included Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, Governors Sam C. Ford and Phil M. Donnelly, and showcased the dam’s four mile span, 240 foot height, spillway, diversion tunnel and power plant. The event highlighted the project as a model for future Missouri River works as part of a broader program to spend $1.5 billion on more than 100 projects. Built by over 10,000 workers in six years, it remains the world’s largest earth-fill river barrier with substantial earth, gravel, and rock volumes.
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Fort Peck
Montana
Missouri Basin Interagency Committee
Lewis A. Pick
Sam C. Ford
Phil M. Donnelly
Missouri
Army Engineer-Reclamation Bureau
Palestine Probe Commission Arrives in Jerusalem
The United Nations Palestine inquiry panel led by Justice Emil Sandstroem arrived in Jerusalem to begin work amid Arab boycott threats. The four-member group plans a Palestine tour before a Monday plenary session to gain a full view of Arab and Jewish areas.
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Jerusalem
United Nations Special Commission On
Palestine
Holy Land
Emil Sandstroem
Sweden
Commission
Lydda Airdrome
Sandstroem
United Nations
Lake Success
Nasrollah Entezam
Iran
Ivan Cleveland Rand
Canada
Enrique Rodriguez Fabregat
Uruguay
Converted Planes May Be Grounded
A government official said the administration is considering grounding all former Army C-54 planes converted to commercial use. Officials discussed safety after three DC-4 crashes, including the Eastern Airlines flight near Bainbridge, Maryland, and the Pennsylvania Central disaster near Leesburg, Virginia.
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Washington
U.P
John R. Steelman
James M. Landis
Civil Aeronautics Board
Leesburg
Eastern Airlines
Bainbridge
United States
Nazi Underground Report Says Global Nazi Network Active
The International Committee for Study of European Questions reports a vast Nazi underground operates on three continents Europe South America and Africa directing sabotage of German occupation efforts. Center of activity据 Argentina with 90 000 Germans involved. The group includes Lords Vansittart Frabazon and ex Danish Foreign Minister Christmas Moeller.
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London
International Committee For Study of European Questions
Argentina
Britain
France
Denmark
Netherlands
Belgium
Norway
Vansittart and Frabazon
Christmas Moeller
Germany
Reich
Switzerland
Sweden
South Africa
Italy
United Nations
Extortion Plot Is Frustrated in Detroit Case
Detroit police say George Bruce Coapman admitted trying to extort 8 000 dollars from Marie Schweitzer 48 mother of his missing friend Richard 19. Coapman was captured in a trap at Mt Olivet cemetery after posing as street workers and balloon sellers. He confessed after questioning and a polygraph.
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Detroit
Joseph Krug
George Bruce Coapman
Marie Schweitzer
Schweitzer
Richard
Coapman
Mt. Olivet
Truck Fire Burns Two Youths in Circle
Two 15 year olds were badly burned when a can of gasoline ignited while they attempted to start a truck motor. Aubrey Larson suffered severe burns to face and body and Kenneth Youquist was burned while trying to extinguish the flames. They were flown to Glendive hospital for treatment.
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Circle
Aubrey Larson
Kenneth Younquist
Larson
Glendive
Many Applications Received for Buttes New Homes
More than 100 applications are on file for purchase of 37 low cost homes to be built in Butte under the Butte Development association. Tim J. Sullivan says the project has attracted city wide and out of state interest after a test home was begun in the Grand avenue addition.
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Butte
Butte Development Association
Tim J. Sullivan
Development Association
Grand Avenue
Kenwood Realty Company
Mr. Sullivan
FHA
Sullivan
Ousted Hungarian Premier Nagy Reaches U S
Ferenc Nagy former Hungarian premier arrived in the United States after a Geneva flight. He urged a United Nations investigation of Hungary's May coup and said action by the UN is needed to protect sovereignty and liberty. Nagy traveled with his wife and two children.
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New York
U.P
Ferenc Nagy
Hungary
Switzerland
United Nations
Nagy
Geneva
United Nations General Assembly
Security Council
Julia
Laszlo
Trans-World Airlines
Ae Bes
Methodist Church Conference Set in Butte Montana
The 70th Montana conference of the Methodist church will meet at Mountain View Methodist church from Wednesday through Sunday. Bishop Wilbur Hammaker of Denver will preside. About 200 attendees are expected including pastors and lay members. Dr. George E. Fowler of Chicago will lecture and preach in three evening addresses. The opening includes a communion service and a Welcome to Butte program with local church leaders participating. A reception follows hosted by Butte women’s societies.
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Montana
Fowler
Women's Societies
Butte Methodist Churches
Relief Officials Strive to Cut Flood Damage
Ottumwa Iowa faces rising Des Moines River levels with 8,000 to 9,000 residents expected homeless by midnight. Authorities rush sandbags and supplies as Eddyville and Tracy report flood crests and Red Cross estimates 7,000 to 10,000 homeless locally, 16,000 previously.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
Des Moines
Weather Bureau
Eddyville
Tracy
Rollo H. McCall
Red Cross
St. Louis
Gandhi Warns Indian Princes to Change Or Lose Power
In New Delhi on June 14 Gandhi told rulers at a prayer meeting that they must reform or be swept from power by rising nationalism ahead of British withdrawal. He condemned princes planning to break away to form separate Hindu and Muslim states after transfer of power.
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New Delhi
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gandhi
Junkers transport crashes near Djining in storm
Paris dispatch from Saigon reports a Junkers transport crashed in a storm near Djining French Indochina. The number of passengers aboard was not disclosed.
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Paris
Saigon
Indo- China
Junkers
Djining
Russian Commander Rejects U S Tripartite Hungary Inquiry
Lt. Gen. V. P. Sviridov in Budapest rejects a third U S proposal for a three power investigation into Hungarian internal affairs. He denounces the move as interference and cites constitutional procedure and non involvement of Soviet forces. He notes captured documents from Bela Kovacs are not for Allied control.
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Budapest
V. P. Sviridov
Republic
George H. Weems
United States
Hungary
Smallholders
Allied Control Council For
Ferenc Nagy
Sviridov
Weems
Bela Kovacs
Smallholders Party
Attlee Asked to Arrange Big Three Atom Control Meet
A new Commonwealth society led by Winston Churchill asks Prime Minister Attlee to arrange an early summit of President Truman and Marshal Stalin. The aim is a high level plan for international atomic control with a time limit and an international authority with inspection powers. Attlee backs a UN negotiated comprehensive plan for banning atomic weapons and an international control timetable.
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London
New Commonwealth Society
Winston Churchill
Attlee
Truman
Stalin
United Nations Atomic Commission
Society
Marshal Stalin
Attee
United Nations
Order of Ahepa Convenes In Mining City District Meeting
Delegates from Montana and Northern Wyoming gather in Butte for the annual Order of Ahepa district convention. About 150 visitors stay at Butteridge No 206 with a full entertainment program prepared by a committee led by Gus Marinos. Early registrants include J K Valenas Great Falls district governor Gus Carkulis Missoula and Sam Ladas Billings.
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Montana
Wyoming
Mining
Order of Ahepa
Finlen
Gus Marinos
J. K Valenas
Great Falls
Gus Carkulis
Missoula
Butte
Mr. Marinos
Sam Ladas
Billings
Weather Outlook for Butte and Montana Areas
Butte expects clear to partly cloudy skies Sunday and Sunday night with continued warmth. Montane region shows partly cloudy skies with scattered showers or thunderstorms and cooler conditions in the east. highs Sunday range from 62 to 72 degrees.
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Montana
Brig Gen Lewis A Pick Re-elected Missouri Basin Chair
Brig Gen Lewis A Pick Missouri river division chief of the Army corps of engineers was re elected chair man of the Missouri basin inter agency committee for a second year The federal and state officials group coordinates planning construction and administration of the Missouri river development program under the 1944 flood control act Pick co author of the Pick Sloan plan also built the Ledo road and is known for guiding river navigation flood control irrigation and hydro electric projects with the committee comprising corps of engineers War Interior and other federal and state representatives.
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Glasgow
Lewis A. Pick
Army Corps of Engineers
Missouri Basin Interagency Committee
Missouri River
Pick-Sloan
Ledo Road
Burma
China
Corps of Engineers
War Interior
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George A. Fowler
Des Moines River
Towa
Church Street
South Ottumwa
Herschel Loveless
Tila
G. H. Weems
U.S
By Jack Guinn
School of Mines
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Belgrade
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Dillon
Drummond Cone
Havre
Helena
Kalispell
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Seraceere
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West Yellowstone
Whitehall
Gen. Pick
Missouri Basin
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